#Block I Command Module and Service Module

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 6 Saturn V (CSM-020/LTA-2R/SA-502) on LC-39A, possibly during a Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT).

Date: March 31, 1968.

Mike Acs's Collection: link

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Latest moon mission carries a new reflection on history

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute instruction to a noteworthy pupil: an Apollo 11 astronaut about to become one of the first humans to set foot beyond Earth.

Just days later, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin would be following mission commander Neil Armstrong onto the moon's surface to deploy a UMD-led experiment. The suitcase-size array of retroreflectors—painstakingly crafted hunks of glass able to reflect light directly back to its source from any angle—would serve as a target for powerful lasers on Earth and provide the first accurate measurements of the distance between the planet and its satellite. In a meeting with Aldrin, then-Assistant Professor Douglas Currie, an expert in laser light, asked if the former fighter pilot with a Ph.D. in astronautics had any questions.

At a later lunar workshop, Currie recalls, Aldrin scoffed about the procedural instructions, "Ahh, it was so easy I decided I could give it to Armstrong."

But the wisecracking astronaut had done his homework, and for the last 55 years, that array and two more placed by successive Apollo missions have yielded a wealth of data for NASA's Lunar Laser Ranging experiment, helping scientists detect our moon's liquid core, bolstering Einstein's theory of general relativity and providing a better understanding of the evolution of the Earth-moon system, among other discoveries.

Now the university has done it again with the launch early Wednesday of the Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector as part of a mission scheduled to touch down on the moon on March 2. This time, Currie is principal investigator for the retroreflector project, a position held on the Apollo 11 project by the late physics Professor Carroll Alley.

There are no astronauts to train for this mission; the chunky "corner cube" retroreflector will arrive aboard an uncrewed craft launched by the company Firefly Aerospace as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and remain atop the lander for its operational life. (Subsequent reflectors to be developed by NASA with UMD's help, based on Currie's general design, are expected to be set up by astronauts in NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return to the moon later this decade.)

"When NASA announced back in 2004 they were going back to the moon, I said that instead of an array of 100, we need to have one big one, and I've been playing with that since then," says Currie, now a professor emeritus and senior research scientist in the Department of Physics.

He and NASA hope the next-gen device boosts precision in distance measurements by perhaps a factor of 30, from several centimeters of uncertainty to less than one millimeter.

The imprecision of the current device stems from the fact that observers watching from the ground don't know if a laser pulse bounces back from a reflector on the near corner or the far corner of the array, which are at slightly different and constantly changing distances from the ground because of the moon's slight back-and-forth movement relative to Earth. Having just one mirror removes uncertainty, Currie says.

The new setup will also have the advantage of being shiny and new. Though still functional, evidence suggests the Apollo 11 mission array is significantly blocked by lunar dust; calculations suggest the new device will be 10 times as bright as the current arrays, says Stephen Merkowitz, who's overseeing lunar laser ranging as Space Geodesy Project manager at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Solving these problems will contribute to another one, however. The hefty chunk of glass making up the new single retroreflector mirror soaks up and sheds more heat during frigid lunar nights and blazing days, creating a greater possibility for temperature gradients and distorted reflections. Currie and his partners at the National Laboratories of Frascati in Italy worked to minimize that with the retroreflector's housing design.

"A lot of what we're looking to do today builds directly on what was done more than 50 years ago, so Doug's experience working on Apollo is valuable in the present," Merkowitz says.

Currie chuckles looking at a photo he keeps in his office in the Physics Building: It shows Aldrin strolling across the moon, swinging the original UMD mirror array in one hand and another priceless experiment in another. Times have changed.

"Now we're told the astronauts have to carry it in both hands, even though it weighs only a fraction of what Buzz was carrying," he says. "They want you to do one thing at a time, I guess."

TOP IMAGE: Currie’s modern mirror design awaits thermal testing in a chamber at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: University of Maryland

LOWER IMAGE: During the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Buzz Aldrin carries experiments including a lunar reflector designed by Douglas Currie and other UMD faculty. Credit: Douglas Currie

[lilithskully]

First post! | Tryhackme #1 "Blue". | EternalBlue

Hello friends, for my first writeup I have decided to complete the "Blue" room from Tryhackme.

This room covers basic reconnaissance and compromising a Windows 7 machine that is vulnerable to Eternalblue (MS17-010 / CVE-2017-0144). Eternalblue is a vulnerability in Microsofts implementation of Server Message Block (SMB) version 1, the exploit utilises a buffer overflow to allow the execution of remote code.

To begin with we will perform a scan of the machine to get an idea of what ports are open and also the target OS.

We know the machines IP is 10.10.7.17 which is all the information we have to work off, with the exception of information provided by the lab.

We will start with a Nmap scan using the following command "sudo nmap 10.10.7.17 -A -sC -sV", the break down of this command is as follows; -A specifies OS detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute which provides us more information from the scan. -sC runs default scripts from nmap which can give us more insight depending on the scripts that run. -sV will provide us the version numbers of any software running on the port which is important for us, as we may be able to identify vulnerable versions of software and get an idea of how frequently the device is updated and maintained.

Our scan has come back and we can see the target device is running Windows 7 Professional service pack 1 (which means it should be vulnerable to Eternalblue which we will confirm shortly) we also get a lot more information about the target.

From our initial scan we now have the following information;

Operating system and version (Win 7 Pro SP1) Hostname is Jon-PC Device is in a workgroup and not a domain Ports 135,139,445,3389 are open. 

Of interest to us currently is ports 445 and 3389. 445 is SMB which is what Eternalblue targets and 3389 which is Remote Desktop Protocol which allows remote connection and control on a Windows device.

With this being an easy room with a known exploit lets move on to gaining access to the machine, first we will start up Metasploit which is a framework that contains modules which we can use to interact with and eventually gain control of our target device using.

Metasploit has a built in search function, using this I have searched for Eternalblue and loaded the first result (exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblue).

With the exploit selected I now open up the options for the payload and module and configure the following;

RHOSTS (remote host / target) RPORT (remote port, automatically filled with 445 as this is an SMB exploit) VERIFY_TARGET (doesn`t need to be configured but by default it is enabled, this will check if the target is vulnerable before commiting the exploit) LPORT (local port to use on my machine) LHOST (local address or interface) in my case I will set this to the tun0 interface on my machine as I am connected over a VPN, as identified by running "ifconfig".

The only change I make is to set the payload to payload/windows/shell_reverse_tcp to provide a non-meterpreter reverse shell as I find this gives me better results.

With these set we run the exploit and after less than a minute I get a success message and a reverse shell, as we can see our terminal is now displaying "C:\Windows\system32" and running a "whoami" command it returns "nt authority\system".

We now have a reverse shell on the target with the highest permissions possible as we are running as the system, from here we can move around the system and gather the "flags" for the lab and complete the rest of the questions so lets do that!

First of we need to upgrade our shell to a meterpreter shell, we will background our current shell with ctrl+z and make a note of the session number which is 6 (we`ll need this later).

To upgrade our shell we will need another module from metasploit, in this case a "post" module. These are post exploitation modules to help with various tasks, in our case we want to upgrade our regular reverse shell to a meterpreter shell which will provide us more options, some are shown below to give you an idea!

The module for this is post/multi/manage/shell_to_meterpreter

The only option we need to set is the session number of our existing shell, which was 6, once we run this we can confirm that our meterpreter shell is now created by running "sessions" which will list our current sessions.

From here we can run "sessions -i 7" to swap to session 7 in our terminal. Now we are in our meterpreter shell, we can use "help" to list what extra commands we have, but more importantly we need to migrate our shell to a stable process with system privileges still. We will list all running proccesses using the "ps" command, identify a process such as "spoolsv.exe". We will migrate to this using its Process ID, so we will enter "migrate 1224" to migrate to this process.

Next we need to dump the SAM database which will provide us all the hashed passwords on the computer so we can crack them.

We will use the convenient command "hashdump" from our meterpreter shell to achieve this for us, this provides us the following password hashes;

Administrator:500:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0::: Guest:501:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0::: Jon:1000:aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee:ffb43f0de35be4d9917ac0cc8ad57f8d:::

The question wants us to crack the password for Jon, for ease of use and to keep this writeup on the short side we will use crackstation.net, we take the last part of the Jon hash "ffb43f0de35be4d9917ac0cc8ad57f8d" and enter it into the website, this will match the hash against a database as this is a weak password.

We could have used Hashcat or John the Ripper to crack the password, which we will do in the future as this website can only manage a few hash types.

The final step is finding the flags to complete the lab so we will hunt these down, however with this being a writeup I will obfuscate the flags.

The first is at C:\ and is "flag{********_the_machine}".

The second is where the SAM database resides C:\Windows\system32\config and is "flag{*******_database_elevated_access}".

The third is a good place to check for valuable information, which is user directorieis especially if they hold a technical position or a elevated position at the target site. The flag is located in C:\Users\Jon\Documents and is "flag{admin_****_can_be_valuable}".

I hope you found this helpful or interesting at least! I aim to upload writeups slowly as I get myself back into the swing of things again!

Until next time

Lilith

[nasa]

Remember the Women Who Made #Apollo50th Possible

As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic Moon landing, we remember some of the women whose hard work and ingenuity made it possible. The women featured here represent just a small fraction of the enormous contributions made by women during the Apollo era. 

Margaret Hamilton, Computer Programmer

Margaret Hamilton led the team that developed the building blocks of software engineering — a term that she coined herself. Her systems approach to the Apollo software development and insistence on rigorous testing was critical to the success of Apollo. In fact, the Apollo guidance software was so robust that no software bugs were found on any crewed Apollo missions, and it was adapted for use in Skylab, the Space Shuttle and the first digital fly-by-wire systems in aircraft.

In this photo, Hamilton stands next to a stack of Apollo Guidance Computer source code. As she noted, “There was no second chance. We all knew that.”

Katherine Johnson, Aerospace Technologist

As a very young girl, Katherine Johnson loved to count things. She counted everything, from the number of steps she took to get to the road to the number of forks and plates she washed when doing the dishes.

As an adult, Johnson became a “human computer” for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958, became NASA. Her calculations were crucial to syncing Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the Moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. “I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work."

Judy Sullivan, Biomedical Engineer

This fabulous flip belongs to biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan, who monitored the vital signs of the Apollo 11 astronauts throughout their spaceflight training via small sensors attached to their bodies. On July 16, 1969, she was the only woman in the suit lab as the team helped Neil Armstrong suit up for launch.

Sullivan appeared on the game show “To Tell the Truth,” in which a celebrity panel had to guess which of the female contestants was a biomedical engineer. Her choice to wear a short, ruffled skirt stumped everyone and won her a $500 prize. In this photo, Sullivan monitors a console during a training exercise for the first lunar landing mission.

Billie Robertson, Mathematician

Billie Robertson, pictured here in 1972 running a real-time go-no-go simulation for the Apollo 17 mission, originally intended to become a math teacher. Instead, she worked with the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, which later became rolled into NASA. She created the manual for running computer models that were used to simulate launches for the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo Soyuz Test Project programs. 

Robertson regularly visited local schools over the course of her career, empowering young women to pursue careers in STEM and aerospace.

Mary Jackson, Aeronautical Engineer

In 1958, Mary Jackson became NASA’s first African-American female engineer. Her engineering specialty was the extremely complex field of boundary layer effects on aerospace vehicles at supersonic speeds.

In the 1970s, Jackson helped the students at Hampton’s King Street Community center build their own wind tunnel and use it to conduct experiments. “We have to do something like this to get them interested in science," she said for the local newspaper. "Sometimes they are not aware of the number of black scientists, and don't even know of the career opportunities until it is too late."

Ethel Heinecke Bauer, Aerospace Engineer

After watching the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, Ethel Heinecke Bauer changed her major to mathematics. Over her 32 years at NASA, she worked at two different centers in mathematics, aerospace engineering, development and more. 

Bauer planned the lunar trajectories for the Apollo program including the ‘free return’ trajectory which allowed for a safe return in the event of a systems failure  — a trajectory used on Apollo 13, as well as the first three Apollo flights to the Moon. In the above photo, Bauer works on trajectories with the help of an orbital model.

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[tagsecretsanta]

From @hedwigstalons

to @lenle-g

Secret Santa does not own this work, full credit to the author above!

“Merry Christmas, John.”

"Merry Christmas, Eos."

Eos’ camera unit tracked his progress through the gravity ring towards the small section that passed as a kitchen module.  He could tell just from the way her servos whirred that she wasn’t finished and the length of the pause gave a good indicator that she was puzzled.

"John?"

"Yes, Eos?"

"You sound...sad."

"I'm not sad, Eos, but I'm not really happy either."

"You sounded happy when you spoke to your family."

"That's good.  I don't want them worrying about me."

"Should they be worried about you?  You seem well.  All your vitals are registering in the normal range."

There was something touching about her gentle curiosity and John couldn't help but smile at how far she had come in terms of displaying sensitivity, but it was at times like these that the AI showed just how inhuman she was.  Much as he would like to brush it off and forget the whole situation he owed her an explanation, if only to further her education into the nuances of people.

"No, I'm fine, Eos.  But it would spoil their day if they thought I was missing them.  Just because I'm stuck up here doesn't mean they should hold back on the holiday spirit on my account."

"So you lied to them."

"I didn't lie, I just didn't tell the whole truth."

"This is one of those human things, isn't it."

"Yes, Eos, it's a human thing."

It had taken a lot of effort to plaster on a smile and give a convincing act that, yes, he really was fine about spending Christmas up on Thunderbird 5.  If everything had gone to plan he would have been in the thick of it.  Calls would have been diverted to the island and global rescue agencies reminded the International Rescue was first and foremost a family unit.  Of course they would still respond to a request for help but courtesy dictated that for this one day only the direst of calls got sent their way.

John might grumble about the paper crowns, claim tinsel made him itchy or threaten to head back to the office when the inevitable pillow fight broke out between Alan and Gordon but they were his family and he would much rather be spending Christmas surrounded by the noise and chaos than alone.  Unfortunately, this year, alone was exactly how he was going to spend the holiday season.

"Eos, give me another readout on the coronal mass ejecta and electromagnetic radiation levels."

"The solar flare is continuing.  It is still inadvisable to use the space elevator."

It hadn't answered his request but she had given him the information he needed.  Eos really was getting better at understanding people and reading the subtext, he couldn’t help but feel a little proud of her.

“Thank you, Eos.”  There was a whirr as she dipped her lens in a nod of understanding.  “Well, it looks like the emergency Christmas meal is going to come into play.”

By this point he had reached the kitchen module and he extracted from storage a small silver tray that looked just like all the other silver trays that provided the bulk of his nutrition up on the space station.  A small label proclaimed it to contain roast turkey and all the trimmings but he didn’t hold out much hope of it being any more appetizing than his usual bland fare, there was something about the preserving process along with the high levels of vitamin fortification in each meal that gave his food a unique, if not wholly pleasant, flavour.  The meals weren’t bad as such, but they weren’t good either.  Normally he appreciated being spared good ol’ home cookin’ with Grandma at the helm but you could guarantee that Christmas, along with Thanksgiving which he had also missed this year, was one of the occasions that everyone pulled together to make a meal worth eating.

Three minutes in the warmer and the meal was ready to eat.  He carried it through to his sleeping quarters and perched on the bunk before peeling off the lid that had so far kept all food smells sealed inside.  As soon as the seal was broken rich aromas filled the cabin.  If the smell was anything to go by then maybe it wouldn’t be too bad.  Unfortunately it still had the same greyish tinge and odd consistency as his usual staples but he’d survived on space rations for long enough to know that looks didn’t matter as long as it was edible.

Despite the tantalising smell it was with some trepidation that he picked up the first forkful.  Recreating the holiday meal was a challenge and one that Brains had only recently applied himself to.  If everything had gone to plan he wouldn’t even be having this meal now, he would be back on Earth with his brothers tucking in to the real thing and this, whatever it was, would have become just another food tray to grab when he fancied something different.

He gave the lump of grey a tentative nibble, paused to assess the flavour, then shoved the whole forkful in with enthusiasm.  It was delicious.  Okay, he would have preferred to be eating the real thing and to not have all the component flavors all jumbled together but if he concentrated he could tasted the turkey, the mashed potatoes, the gravy and all the other parts deemed essential to a Christmas roast.  Once again he was happy to declare that Brains was a genius.  He carried on eating until every single scrap had been scraped out of the tray, even going so far as to wipe a finger round the edges to get every last bit, before slotting the tray and lid into the disposal unit for recycling.

The rest of the afternoon was passed with an open comm link.  It was bittersweet being both there but not there as the family laughed and joked around his hologram but with calls still being set to extreme emergency only it wasn’t like he had much else to do, especially since Scott had commanded Eos to block any activities that might be construed as work.  Reports, inventories, maintenance, even reading for anything other than pure pleasure, of it was off limits.

Time ticked on and one by one the residents of Tracy Island drifted off to bed until only Scott was left having chivvied everyone along  with the reminder that they would all be back on standard duty in just a few short hours.  With that the guardian down on Earth flopped down on the couch for a few moments of quiet and turned to the guardian in the sky with a sigh.

“Well, we made it through the whole day.  Even that mudslide in Chile didn’t need our attention.”

“No.  Local rescue services managed it with zero fatalities.”

There was a shared look as though each dared the other to comment on their knowledge of the situation in Chile even though they technically weren’t meant to be working.  They both knew there would be no admonishment though, however much they might tell the others to step away from the day (and night) job, for the Commander and Space Monitor of International Rescue a ‘day off’ would always follow a different definition.

“That’s good to hear.  Are you sure you’re okay up there?”

“I’m absolutely fine Scott, the flare isn’t producing anything that would trouble Thunderbird Five.”

“That’s not what I meant and you know it.”  Blue eyes held turquoise until, safe in the knowledge that this was just between the two of them, the lithe form in the hologram slumped a little.

“Of course I would have preferred to be there with you all.”

“I know, buddy,” there was a nod of understanding, “but we’ll get you down here as soon as we can.”

Both of them knew it wouldn’t quite be the same.  Neither of them realised quite how quickly they would get their wish to have John planetside.

***

It was around 3am Tracy Island time when John first realised something wasn’t quite right.  Scratch that, ‘wasn’t quite right’ did not do justice to the roiling, churning feeling in his stomach, the waves of nausea or the chilled sweat that had broken out all over him with accompanying shivers to round off the experience.

“Eos, increase the gravity to 1G,” he rasped out for as much as he he normally enjoyed keeping the living areas of Thunderbird Five at lower than Earth’s gravity, if his predictions of what the next few hours were going to entail proved true then low gravity was not the best environment to experience it in.  

There was a feeling of pressure as he settled slightly heavier against his bunk and the change did nothing to quell the feeling in this stomach.  A lurch and swoop inside him told him that the inevitable was about to happen.  Ordinarily John was the tidiest brother but he was incredibly glad that for once he hadn’t gotten around to stowing away the fresh uniforms that had been sent up on the last supply run.  It was the work of a moment to extract the box from under his bunk, unceremoniously tip the neatly folded stack of blue suits onto the floor and clutch the box to him.  He’d much rather deal with cleaning up the now rumpled pile of uniforms than his stomach contents.

Minutes ticked into hours and the feeling didn’t abate.  He huddled on his bunk, hunched over the box, his blankets pulled close over his shoulders.  Another spasm wracked his body and he added to the contents of the box.

“John, shall I alert your family?”

It was the third time Eos had asked that and for the third time John refused.  Alan had barely made it back in time for Christmas himself and while the young astronaut was technically cleared to fly again John would much rather his youngest brother racked up a few more hours of sleep.  Anyway, he wasn’t sure he could face a trip in Thunderbird Three just yet.

“Conditions are such that the space elevator is now operational.”

If such a thing were possible John could have kissed the AI at that moment but he settled for a weak nod instead.  There was a good reason why astronauts used to quarantine before every trip, illness in space was hard to deal with and while the advances in space travel meant that time and distance were no longer the barriers to medical aid that they used to be, a space station was still not a comfortable environment in which to ride out a sickness bug.

“In which case please tell them I’m on my way home.”

John left Eos to handle the necessary communications.  He really didn’t feel up to answering a stream of worried questions from his brothers, or worse, Grandma, and knew she would relay all the required information.  Instead he concentrated on hauling himself along to the space elevator, a journey that felt a thousand miles long to his weak and ravaged body.  The chills as he left the blankets behind made his body ache but he couldn’t manage both the blankets and the box and the box was still definitely needed.  Anyway, there was no way he could leave that up there to fester.

The space elevator posed it’s own challenges.  The reclined seat, normally so comfortable for dealing with the rapid transit back to Earth and designed for optimal safety, was not an appealing prospect for someone still prone to bouts of vomiting which, while abating, hadn’t finished completely.  He hoped he could make it through the journey unscathed but he kept a few bags in his hands just in case, knowing that the restraints would stop him from using his now well-loved box.

***

The docking clamps engaged with their usual reassuring thuds and John breathed out a slight sigh of relief, his stomach had behaved for the duration of the journey and for that he gave thanks to any deity that might be listening.  

Ordinarily he would be out of the seat the moment the harness disengaged but hauling himself upright felt too much effort.  He wasn't left in peace for long though before strong and comforting arms were scooping him up, one set on either side.

"Come on, let's get you to the infirmary and check you over."

He turned a weak smile on Virgil, for once agreeing that the infirmary was the best place for him.  

As he was led away by Scott and Virgil he vaguely registered Alan and Gordon hovering by the doors of the space elevator, mops and buckets at the ready, and he wondered quite how bad a picture Eos had painted of the situation.  That was a conversation for another day though, for now he just wanted bed, fluids and probably a clean box.

***

Four days he was stuck in infirmary.  Four long and tortuous days punctuated by rehydrating fluids that only tasted marginally better on the way down compared to their inevitable journey back up.  It was no comfort, when he was finally allowed out into the wider villa to continue his convalescence on the couch, that Virgil explained he had got away with a mild dose.  A mild dose of what, he wondered.

Salmonella, it turned out.  It was a very sheepish Brains who confessed that something in the new flavourings had compromised the preserving process and the tastiest space meal he had eaten in a long time was actually the case of all this trouble.

Despite now being able to keep down plain toast (as long as it wasn’t cremated by Grandma) he was still feeling as weak and washed out as a kitten.  He didn’t even put up a fight when Virgil said he was going to be kept Earth side until at least the new year.  He was quite happy to stay on the island even if life had returned to its usual frenetic whirl of rescues, there was something incredibly restorative about being in the midst of it all with his family around him and within a week of his return he was back running dispatch from his cocoon of blankets in the lounge.  It would be a little while before he would be fit to return to normal duties, salmonella poisoning had done a number on him despite the main physical symptoms passing in a matter of days, but he was getting there.

***

Over three weeks had passed since John’s rapid and unplanned reunion with his family and he was starting to feel the call of space.  John loved his family, he really did, but he’d just about reached his limit of unexpected noises, stolen snacks and impromptu hugs.  Unfortunately his plans to make an escape seemed to be thwarted at every turn.

“Look Virgil, I’m fine.”  There was a non-committal grunt as Virgil checked his temperature and heart rate for what felt like the 400th time.  “Take me out to Gran Rocha if you must and put me through my paces, there is nothing wrong with me now.”

Evidently the medical evidence was on John’s side because the engineer come medic stopped running tests and instead trotted out one of the many other excuses he’d heard more than once.  “We still need to restock Five.  There is a chance that other meals in that batch were contaminated and we cannot risk a repeat event.”

John was in full agreement on that one.  “I know and the new batch has been ready for at least the last three days,” Virgil opened his mouth as though he were about to interrupt, “I asked Brains.”  Virgil’s mouth closed again.  “I’ve also spoken to Alan and the next time he’s racked enough downtime he’s happy to take me and the food up in Three.  And if that doesn’t happen any time soon I’ll just take whatever I can fit in the elevator and you can send the rest on later.”

Virgil knew he was beaten.  Unless John had a fairly firm date for his return (barring rescues of course and there was no way he was going to stage a fake emergency to occupy Thunderbird Three) Virgil estimated they had maybe three days before John made good on his promise to just hop in the elevator with whatever food he could cram into a bag.

As soon as John had left the infirmary and Virgil was confident he was out of earshot he activated his comm, sending out an Island wide broadcast that excluded one grumpy astronaut.

“How are we doing guys?  John’s about ready to bust out of here.  Any chance of us being ready for tomorrow?”

“Well, we’re still missing some of the fresh stuff…” there was a note of concern in Scott’s voice.  He hated to admit it but a flurry of rescues meant they were behind schedule.

“I’m on it,” cut in Kayo, “just tell me what we need.  He won’t even notice I’m gone.”

Safe in the knowledge that the sneakiest Thunderbird would take care of the missing items the island residents each gave the affirmative that all other aspects were taken care of, or would be as long as John was kept out of certain areas.  A final itinerary was cobbled together and everyone kept their fingers crossed that the plan would be carried off without a hitch.

***

John woke a little later than usual, possibly due to the gaming session Alan had dragged him into that seemed to have lasted for hours.  He’d only ventured into his youngest brother’s bedroom to confirm his ride back to the office but by the time he got to leave, slightly stiff from being sat glued to a controller for so long, the only place he was going was back to his own bed.  He’d tried to escape a few times but every time he'd checked in with Eos she had just confirmed that all was quiet and there was no need to stop his game, prompting Alan to load another level.  He made a mental note to have a word to her about interpreting tone and teaching her the cues so she could distinguish a request for information from a plea for a cover story.

Barring the usual disclaimer that rescues would take priority, Alan was booked to take him back to Five the following day.  Now he knew where he stood he felt a lot better about the whole situation and wondered how best to use his last day on the island.  His plan was to grab a light breakfast, maybe recheck the supplies list of what he would be taking back up, then have a quick swim provided Gordon had vacated the pool and the risk of a ducking was ruled out.

His plans didn’t quite work out.

As soon as he entered the kitchen he was greeted with a maelstrom of sounds and smells.  Warm sugar and cinnamon competed with roasting turkey, Christmas carols assaulted his ears and he scratched futilely at his neck as it became adorned by a swathe of tinsel draped gleefully there by Gordon.  Everyone had clearly been waiting for his arrival and much as he might have objected to the idea had he known about it, it left him with a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that his family were prepared to go to such lengths for him.

“Merry Christmas, John,” Scott greeted him, shoving a plate of warm cookies under his nose.  “Seeing as you got such a rough deal we decided to have a rerun.”

“With minimal risk of food poisoning,” Gordon chimed in before adding in a stage whisper, “it’s okay, we kept Grandma out of the kitchen.”

It looked like everything had been thought of to ensure he didn’t miss out on a proper Tracy family Christmas.  Once breakfast had been completed and the gathering had moved upstairs he found that even the lounge had been festooned in decorations that he knew had been put back into storage; evidently Eos did know how to provide a cover story after all.

It might seem slightly nuts to try and eat a full turkey roast in tropical heat, it was probably a misappropriation of International Rescue resources to take an unnecessary trip to Norway just to make sure John could have the real tree he’d always loved but hadn’t had for years, but to see the smile on John’s face it was definitely worth it.

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For decades, American men over the age of 18 have gone through the ritual of registering with the government in case of a military draft. In recent years, this action has felt more like going through the motions, simply checking a box.

But on Friday, after a United States drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s top security and intelligence commander, prompting concerns about the possibility of a new war in the Middle East, that oft-forgotten paperwork became a reason for spiking anxiety among many Americans.

“World War III” started trending on social media. Young men suddenly recalled registering after their 18th birthdays, many having done so while applying for college financial aid. One Twitter user posted that he had blocked the account of the United States Army, with the (faulty) reasoning that: “They can’t draft you if they can’t see you.”

Interest was so high that it apparently crashed the website for the Selective Service System, the independent government agency that maintains a database of Americans eligible for a potential draft. “Due to the spread of misinformation, our website is experiencing high traffic volumes at this time,” the agency said on Twitter, adding, “We appreciate your patience.”

Here is an explanation of the current military system and what it would take to enact a draft in modern times.

The United States first conscripted soldiers during the Civil War, and continued to use the draft in some form on and off through the Vietnam War, said Jennifer Mittelstadt, a professor of history at Rutgers University who has studied the military.

But there has been no conscription since 1973, when the draft was abolished after opposition to fighting in Vietnam. “There was huge support for ending the draft across the political spectrum,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.

The modern-day military is now an all-volunteer force, with about 1.2 million active-duty troops.

To change that, Congress would have to pass a law reinstating the draft, and the president would have to sign it, actions that would likely require broad political support.

What is the draft age?

All men from 18 to 25 years old are required to register with the Selective Service System. Many young men check a box to register when getting a driver’s license. Others sign up when applying for federal student aid to attend college.

But just because you have registered does not mean you will be drafted. “Right now, registering for selective service really means nothing about the likelihood of you serving in the current military,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.

Joe Heck, the chairman of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service, a committee created by Congress to evaluate the Selective Service System, put it this way: “Registration is ongoing. A draft would require an act of Congress.”

What are the consequences if you don’t register?

If you do not register for Selective Service as a young man, you can be subject to lifetime penalties. For example, men who did not register cannot receive federal financial aid, and they cannot work for the federal government, Dr. Heck said.

To check if you have registered, visit the Selective Service System’s website (once it is up and running again).

Can women be drafted?

No.

Historically, only men have been eligible for the draft. But the question of whether to register women has gained traction in recent years, as women have taken on broader roles within the military.

In 2015, the Pentagon opened up all combat jobs to women. Last year, a federal judge in Houston ruled that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional.

As part of its work, the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service is considering whether to expand the registration requirement to include women. The group’s final report, on that and other issues, is expected to be released in March.

Are there arguments for reinstating the draft?

In the 1860s, mobs of mostly foreign-born white workers took to the streets in New York City to protest conscription during the Civil War, burning down buildings and inciting violent attacks against black residents.

A century later, burning draft cards became a symbol of protest against the war in Vietnam.

“I think it’s fair to say that the draft has never been wildly popular,” Dr. Mittelstadt said.

But she said there were arguments in favor of a modern-day draft, including the potential to make the military more representative of society. The current all-volunteer force is more likely to recruit people from the working class, she said, with higher percentages of nonwhite Americans serving in uniform.

“I don’t know what it means in a democracy that you let some people fight your wars and everybody is not responsible,” she said. “American citizens are not implicated in the consequences — bodily human life, economically — of war, and they should be.”

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Apollo 6 Saturn V (CSM-020/SA-502) on LC-39A at sunset.

Date: February 6, 1968

NASA ID: AP6-68-HC-102

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Today in 1966, AS-201 launched on the first unpiloted, suborbital flight of a Block I Apollo Command/Service Module on a Saturn IB launch vehicle.

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There’s a first time for everything! AS-201 blasts off as the 1st unmanned test flight of the Saturn 1B rocket with the Block I Apollo Command & Service Module, Feb 1966. The 37-minute suborbital flight was a successful demonstration of the CM’s heat shield ability during re-entry. The mission occurred before NASA had decided upon the Lunar Module rendezvous method in space; hence the CSM on this flight lacked the ability to dock with a LM.

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300+ TOP SAP ABAP Objective Questions and Answers

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1. This data type has a default length of one and a blank default value. A: I B: N C: C D: D Ans:C 2. A DATA statement may appear only at the top of a program, before START-OFSELECTION. A: True B: False Ans:B 3. If a field, NAME1, is declared as a global data object, what will be output by the following code? report zabaprg. DATA: name1 like KNA1-NAME1 value 'ABAP programmer'. name1 = 'Customer name'. CLEAR name1. perform write_name. FORM write_name. name1 = 'Material number'. WRITE name1. ENDFORM. A: Customer name B: ABAP programmer C: Material number D: None of the above Ans:C 4. All of these allow you to step through the flow of a program line-by-line except: A: Enter /h then execute B: Execute in debug mode C: Enter /i then execute D: Set a breakpoint Ans: C 5. Which of the following may NOT be modified using the ABAP Dictionary transaction? A: Type groups B: Search help C: Lock objects D: Function groups Ans:D 6. In a line of code, text-100, is an example of which type of text element? A: Text symbol B: Selection text C: Text title D: Text identifier Ans:A 7. The editor function that formats and indents the lines of code automatically is called ____. A: Auto align B: Pretty printer C: Generate version D: Syntax check Ans:B 8. A DO loop increments the system field ____. A: SY-LOOPI B: SY-TABIX C: SY-LSIND D: SY-INDEX Ans: D 9. The event that is processed after all data has been read but before the list is displayed is: A: END-OF-PAGE. B: START-OF-SELECTION. C: END-OF-SELECTION. D: AT LINE-SELECTION. Ans:A ? C 10. The field declared below is of what data type? DATA: new_fld(25). A: P B: N C: I D: C Ans: D

SAP ABAP MCQs 11. In regard to the INITIALIZATION event, which of the following is NOT a true statement? A: Executed before the selection screen is displayed. B: You should use SET PF-STATUS here. C: You can assign different values to PARAMETERS and SELECT-OPTIONS here. D: Executed one time when you start the report. Ans: B 12. The event AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT. occurs before the selection screen is displayed and is the best event for assigning default values to selection criteria. A: True B: False Ans: B 13. The business (non-technical) definition of a table field is determined by the field's ____. A: domain B: field name C: data type D: data element Ans: D 14. In regard to the three-tier client/server architecture, which of the following is a true statement? A: The presentation server processes the SAP program logic. B: An application server is responsible for updating database tables. C: Typically, there is a one-to-one ratio of database servers to presentation servers. D: The application server layer is the level between a presentation server and a database server. Ans: D,B 15. What will be output by the code below? DATA: alph type I value 3. write: alph. WHILE alph > 2. write: alph. alph = alph - 1. ENDWHILE. A: 3 B: 3 2 C: 3 3 2 D: 3 3 Ans: D 16. To allow the user to enter a single value on a selection screen, use the ABAP keyword ____. A: SELECT-OPTIONS. B: PARAMETERS. C: RANGES. D: DATA. Ans: B 17. What will be output by the following code? DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 0, fval type i, END OF itab. itab-fval = 1. APPEND itab. itab-fval = 2. APPEND itab. REFRESH itab. WRITE: /1 itab-fval. A: 1 B: 2 C: blank D: 0 Ans: B 18. You can define your own key fields when declaring an internal table. A: True B: False Ans: A 19. When modifying an internal table within LOOP AT itab. _ ENDLOOP. you must include an index number. A: True B: False Ans : B 20. If itab contains 20 rows, what will SY-TABIX equal when the program reaches the WRITE statement below? SY-TABIX = 10. LOOP AT itab. count_field = count_field + 1. ENDLOOP. WRITE: /1 count_field. A: 0 B: 10 C: 20 D: 30 Ans: C 21. Adding a COMMIT WORK statement between SELECT_ENDSELECT is a good method for improving performance. A: True B: False Ans:B 22. To select one record for a matching primary key, use ____. A: SELECT B: SELECT INTO C: SELECT SINGLE D: SELECT ENTRY Ans: C 23. In regard to MOVE-CORRESPONDING, which of the following is NOT a true statement? A: Moves the values of components with identical names. B: Fields without a match are unchanged. C: Corresponds to one or more MOVE statements. D: Moves the values of components according to their location. Ans: D 24. The ABAP keyword for adding authorizations to a program is ____. A: AUTH-CHECK B: AUTHORITY-CHECK C: AUTHORIZATION-CHECK D: AUTHORITY-OBJECT Ans:B 25. To read an exact row number of an internal table, use this parameter of the READ TABLE statement. A: INDEX B: TABIX C: ROW D: WHERE Ans: B ? A 26. To remove lines from a database table, use ____. A: UPDATE B: MODIFY C: ERASE D: DELETE Ans: D 27. Which table type would be most appropriate for accessing table rows using an index. A: Hashed table B: Standard table C: Sorted table D: None of these may be accessed using an index. Ans: C 28. The following code indicates: SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK B1. PARAMETERS: myparam(10) type C, Myparam2(10) type N, SELECTION-SCREEN END OF BLOCK. A: Draw a box around myparam and myparam2 on the selection screen. B: Allow myparam and myparam2 to be ready for input during an error dialog. C: Do not display myparam and myparam2 on the selection screen. D: Display myparam and myparam2 only if both fields have default values. Ans: A 29. The following code reorders the rows so that: DATA: itab LIKE kna1 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE. itab-name1 = 'Smith'. itab-ort01 = 'Miami'. APPEND itab. itab-name1 = 'Jones'. itab-ort01 = 'Chicago'. APPEND itab. itab-name1 = 'Brown'. itab-ort01 = 'New York'. APPEND itab. SORT itab BY name1 ort01. A: Smith appears before Jones B: Jones appears before Brown C: Brown appears before Jones D: Miami appears before New York Ans: C 30. If a table contains many duplicate values for a field, minimize the number of records returned by using this SELECT statement addition. A: MIN B: ORDER BY C: DISTINCT D: DELETE Ans:C 31. When writing a SELECT statement, you should place as much load as possible on the database server and minimize the load on the application server. A: True B: False Ans: B 32. All of the following pertain to interactive reporting in ABAP except: A: Call transactions and other programs from a list. B: Secondary list shows detail data. C: Good for processing lists in background. D: AT USER-COMMAND Ans:C 33. In regard to a function group, which of the following is NOT a true statement? A: Combines similar function modules. B: Shares global data with all its function modules. C: Exists within the ABAP workbench as an include program. D: Shares subroutines with all its function modules. Ans: D 34. Errors to be handled by the calling program are defined in a function module's ____. A: exceptions interface B: source code C: exporting interface D: main program Ans :A 35. In regard to the START-OF-SELECTION event, which of the following is a true statement? A: Executed before the selection screen is displayed. B: This is the only event in which a SELECT statement may be coded. C: Executed when the user double-clicks a list row. D: Automatically started by the REPORT statement. Ans:D 36. The order in which an event appears in the ABAP code determines when the event is processed. A: True B: False Ans: B 37. The SAP service that ensures data integrity by handling locking is called: A: Update B: Dialog C: Enqueue/Dequeue D: Spool Ans: C 38. What standard data type is the following user-defined type? TYPES: user_type. A: N B: C C: I D: Undefined Ans: B 39. Which ABAP program attribute provides access protection? A: Status B: Application C: Development class D: Authorization group Ans:D 40. Page headers for a secondary list should be coded in which event? A: TOP-OF-PAGE. B: START-OF-SELECTION. C: TOP-OF-PAGE DURING LINE-SELECTION. D: AT USER-COMMAND. Ans: C 41. Given: PERFORM subroutine USING var. The var field is known as what type of parameter? A: Formal B: Actual C: Static D: Value Ans:B 42. The following statement will result in a syntax error.DATA: price(3) type p decimals 2 value '100.23'. A: True B: False Ans: B 43. The following code indicates:CALL SCREEN 300. A: Start the PAI processing of screen 300. B: Jump to screen 300 without coming back. C: Temporarily branch to screen 300. * D: Exit screen 300. Ans:C 44. Which of the following would be stored in a table as master data? A: Customer name and address B: Sales order items C: Accounting invoice header D: Vendor credit memo Ans: A 45. In relation to an internal table as a formal parameter, because of the STRUCTURE syntax, it is possible to: A: Use the DESCRIBE statement within a subroutine. B: Loop through the internal table within a subroutine. C: Access the internal table fields within a subroutine. D: Add rows to the internal table within a subroutine. Ans: C 46. This data type has a default length of one and a default value = '0'. A: P B: C C: N D: I Ans: C 47. To prevent duplicate accesses to a master data field: A: Create an index on the master data field. B: Remove nested SELECT statements. C: Use SELECT SINGLE. D: Buffer the data in an internal table. Ans: A ? C 48. In regard to the code below, which of the following is not a true statement? TABLES: KNA1. GET KNA1. Write: /1 kna1-kunnr. END-OF-SELECTION. A: The GET event is processed while a logical database is running. B: All the fields from table KNA1 may be used in the GET event. C: You can code the GET event elsewhere in the same program. D: None of the above. Ans: D 49. The following code indicates: SELECT fld1 FROM tab1 INTO TABLE itab UP TO 100 ROWS WHERE fld7 = pfld7. A: Itab will contain 100 rows. B: Only the first 100 records of tab1 are read. C: If itab has less than 100 rows before the SELECT, SY-SUBRC will be set to 4. D: None of the above. Ans: D 50. To place a checkbox on a list, use A: WRITE CHECKBOX. B: FORMAT CHECKBOX ON. C: WRITE fld AS CHECKBOX. D: MODIFY LINE WITH CHECKBOX. Ans:C 51. Which of the following is NOT a true statement in regard to a sorted internal table type? A: May only be accessed by its key. B: Its key may be UNIQUE or NON-UNIQUE. C: Entries are sorted according to its key when added. D: A binary search is used when accessing rows by its key. Ans: A 52. The following code indicates: CALL SCREEN 9000 STARTING AT 10 5 ENDING AT 60 20 A: Screen 9000 is called with the cursor at coordinates (10,5)(60,20). B: Screen 9000 must be of type "Modal dialog box." C: Display screen 9000 in a full window. D: Screen 9000 may only contain an ABAP list. Ans:A 53. After a DESCRIBE TABLE statement SY-TFILL will contain A: The number of rows in the internal table. B: The current OCCURS value. C: Zero, if the table contains one or more rows. D: The length of the internal table row structure. Ans:A 54. Function module source code may not call a subroutine. A: True B: False Ans: B 55. This data type has a default length of eight and a default value = '00000000'. A: P B: D C: N D: C Ans: B 56. Within the source code of a function module, errors are handled via the keyword: A: EXCEPTION B: RAISE C: STOP D: ABEND Ans:B 57. Which of these is NOT a valid type of function module? A: Normal B: Update C: RFC D: Dialog Ans:D 58. To call a local subroutine named calculate answer, use this line of code: A: PERFORM calculate answer. B: CALL calculate answer. C: USING calculate answer. D: SUB calculate answer. Ans:A 59. Given: DO. Write: /1 'E equals MC squared.'. ENDDO. This will result in ____. A: output of 'E equals MC squared.' on a new line one time B: an endless loop that results in an abend error C: output of 'E equals MC squared.' on a new line many times D: a loop that will end when the user presses ESC Ans.B 60. The following code indicates write: /5 'I Love ABAP'. A: Output 'I Lov' on the current line B: Output 'I Love ABAP' starting at column 5 on the current line C: Output 'I Lov' on a new line D: Output 'I Love ABAP' starting at column 5 on a new line Ans: D 61. Which of the following is NOT a component of the default standard ABAP report header? A: Date and Time B: List title C: Page number D: Underline Ans: A 62. A select statement has built-in authorization checks. A: True B: False Ans:B 63. A BDC program is used for all of the following except: A: Downloading data to a local file B: Data interfaces between SAP and external systems C: Initial data transfer D: Entering a large amount of data Ans:B 64. Page footers are coded in the event: A: TOP-OF-PAGE. B: END-OF-SELECTION. C: NEW-PAGE. D: END-OF-PAGE. Ans:D 65. Page headers for a secondary/details list can be coded in the event: A: GET. B: INITIALIZATION. C: TOP-OF-PAGE DURING LINE-SELECTION. D: NEW-PAGE. Ans:C 66. To both add or change lines of a database table, use ____. A: INSERT B: UPDATE C: APPEND D: MODIFY Ans:D 67. To select one record for a matching primary key, use ____. A: SELECT B: SELECT INTO C: SELECT SINGLE D: SELECT ENTRY Ans:C 68. After adding rows to an internal table with COLLECT, you should avoid adding More rows with APPEND. A: True B: False Ans:A 69. The output for the following code will be report zabaprg. DATA: my_field type I value 99. my_field = my_field + 1. clear my_field. WRITE: 'The value is', my_field left-justified. A: The value is 99 B: The value is 100 C: The value is 0 D: None of the above Ans: C 70. If this code results in an error, the remedy is SELECT * FROM tab1 WHERE fld3 = pfld3. WRITE: /1 tab1-fld1, tab1-fld2. ENDSELECT. A: Add a SY-SUBRC check. B: Change the * to fld1 fld2. C: Add INTO (tab1-fld1, tab1-fld2). D: There is no error. Ans: C,D 71. To summarize the contents of several matching lines into a single line, use this SELECT statement clause. A: INTO B: WHERE C: FROM D: GROUP BY Ans:D 72. What is output by the following code? DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 0, letter type c, END OF itab. itab-letter = 'A'. APPEND itab. itab-letter = 'B'. APPEND itab. itab-letter = 'C'. APPEND itab. itab-letter = 'D'. APPEND itab. LOOP AT itab. SY-TABIX = 2. WRITE itab-letter. EXIT. ENDLOOP. A: A B: A B C D C: B D: B C D Ans: A 73. All of the following are considered to be valid ABAP modularization techniques except: A: Subroutine B: External subroutine C: Field-group D: Function module Ans:C 74. To create a list of the top 25 customers, you should use A: DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATES B: READ TABLE itab INDEX 25 C: LOOP AT itab FROM 25 D: APPEND SORTED BY Ans:D 75. Which of these sentences most accurately describes the GET VBAK LATE. event? A: This event is processed before the second time the GET VBAK event is processed. B: This event is processed after all occurrences of the GET VBAK event are completed. C: This event will only be processed after the user has selected a basic list row. D: This event is only processed if no records are selected from table VBAK. Ans:B 76. In an R/3 environment, where is the work of a dialog program performed? A: On the application server using a dialog work process service. B: On the presentation server using a dialog work process service. C: On the database server using a dialog work process service. D: None of the above. Ans: A 77. In regard to Native SQL, which of the following is NOT a true statement? A: A CONNECT to the database is done automatically. B: You must specify the SAP client. C: The tables that you address do not have to exist in the ABAP Dictionary. D: Will run under different database systems. Ans:D 78. To change one or more lines of a database table, use ____. A: UPDATE B: INSERT C: INTO D: MOD Ans:A 79. Which is the correct sequence of events? A: AT SELECTION-SCREEN, TOP-OF-PAGE, INITIALIZATION B: START-OF-SELECTION, AT USER-COMMAND, GET dbtab C: INITIALIZATION, END-OF-SELECTION, AT LINE-SELECTION D: GET dbtab, GET dbtab LATE, START-OF-SELECTION Ans:B 80. Which of the following is NOT a numeric data type? A: I B: N C: P D: F Ans: B SAP ABAP Questions and Answers pdf Download Read the full article

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Codes of Consciousness

The attitudes you develop and the actions you take create frequencies that broadcast your essence everywhere. Cover-ups and pretence are forms of delusion, you are who you are. You can fool yourself, but you can’t fool your frequency signature! You are always transmitting who and what you are; this is true for everyone. Your body is loyally mirroring your beliefs to you.

The cells of your body continuously replace themselves, and in general you do not even think about this process, yet the vital new cells dutifully focus their attention on fulfilling your beliefs and commands. Even though the cells are new, they will keep replicating the same old you, if you keep giving them the same old commands. Your cells, molecules, atoms and subatomic particles are all intelligent; they communicate with one another because their collective job is to respond to your input. You choose the codes of consciousness that best express your life aims, based on the degree of awareness that you have developed.

Self Love

When you love yourself and Earth, and you know that you are here to redefine, redesign, and break the boundaries of humanity, you broadcast this. You live your life committed to this. If you ask us how much time you need to devote to this, we will say, “It is very simple: all of your time.” All of it. It is not some­thing you worry about, it is something you simply are. You live it – it is your divinity. You will find that when you live your light, you will draw to yourself others who are very interested in living their lives in the same manner, and your numbers will grow and grow.

When you are in service to yourself and are committed to personally evolving and changing, you uplift everyone around you. That is service. Service is not going out and martyring yourself and saying, “I’m going to save you.” Service is doing the work yourself and living in such a way that everyone you touch is affected by your journey.

Breath & Awareness

Awareness and the control of breath are the essential keys for understanding and developing the higher mind, because they form a very powerful and natural way to connect with both inner and outer sources of vital life-force energy. By focusing your attention, you can use your breath to stabilize yourself, to have more energy and enhance your immune system, to create beneficial brain wave patterns, and to travel to the interior of your being to acquire transcendent knowledge and information beyond your linear view of the world.

You must learn to pay attention to where the breath takes you, for it is a very powerful tool for activating and using your physical form to its greatest extent. Breathing exercises create a strong foundation within the body for those seeking higher consciousness, and we highly recommend that you adopt the discipline of always returning your attention to conscious breathing. Breathing is an exchange of energy between the outer world and the inner domain of your body. No matter what you are doing; tucking the children into bed, driving the car, making supper, making love, or dashing to the office, modulating your breathing patterns is a way of staying centered, expanding the use of your mind, and enhancing your physical prowess.

Emotions & Beliefs

Everyone at one time or another, must deal with buried emotions that are tied to unexamined beliefs, which block the flow of energy in the body. A person who can feel and know soul-wrenching pain also has the capability to transcend difficulty and experience pure states of joy and ecstasy.

Acknowledging your feelings can lead to deeper self-realization, because your feelings are the key to figuring out your beliefs. Remember, feelings take you back to the beliefs, so find the feeling and really feel it. Once you have identified the belief behind the feeling, acknowledge the role of the belief, then release it and replace it with a more empowered outlook.

Primarily pain is a strong signal from deep inside the body’s intelligence centers, indicating that your emotional health is out of balance. Stored and stuffed emotions take a great toll on the body, and eventually old built-up energy will be released in the form of painful physical manifestations. When you carry pain and do not release and let go of the past, your body will faithfully show you the results of your repressed feelings.

Your Thoughts Form Your World

Clarity and recognition of your own power are the bottom line. Your thoughts form your world all of the time. But you are bombarded with so many frequency-control vibrations that attempt to keep you from being clear, you fluctuate. You must, as a species, make it your intention to stay very clear, to stay centered, and always to bring yourself into the moment. Stop living in the future or living in the past, and always live in your now. Say to yourself, “What do I want? I want to accelerate my personal evolution. I want Spirit to assist me in a greater capacity. I want my body to regenerate itself. I want to emanate health. I am willing to give up difficulty so that I can be a living example of what humanitv can be.” It is this line of thinking – this commanding from your being and calling out what you want, with clarity, that brings you everything in acceleration.

The new pathways of consciousness create new realities, new options, and new ways of living and being. That is why the collapse of your society is inevitable: It does not hold light; it does not hold the multidimensional possibilities; it holds you in limitation, and you are tired of that. Beliefs create reality. They are magical constructs created in your mind, energised in your imagination, and fueled by your feelings. How you see and interpret the events of your times will determine the version of the world in which you find yourself.

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Npm install from github tree

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You can develop numerous projects with Node.js like single-page applications (SPA), social media applications, static sites, online payment systems, hardware projects, blogs, mobile apps, real-time chat apps, APIs, eCommerce apps, and many more. You don't need to assemble these building blocks from scratch and instead, you can focus on the core of your application.ĭue to other features like Node's efficient caching ability, multiple hosting providers, and cross-platform availability, it's no surprise that it's so popular among developers.

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If you want to add any feature or building blocks to your application, there's a high probability that an open-source, free library is already available to you. Node.js has one of the largest ecosystems of open source libraries available. Node applications use JavaScript-if you're a frontend developer and know JavaScript, you can reuse those skills and transition to a Full-Stack Developer.

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PS C:UsersshutezDocumentsSimple EmotionCodesedemo.tk> npm install git+ssh://:SimpleEmotion/node-call -analytics.git0.4. It's used in production by large companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, PayPal, Trello, Uber, eBay, NASA, etc. The other 3 repositories have the same format for the install command. It can also be used for building super-fast, highly scalable services. It's easy to get started with Node, and it's great for prototyping and agile development. You can build standalone applications with Node.js, but it's most often used to build back-end services. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. What Is Node.js and Why Is it So Popular? Luckily, it's compatible with nearly all operating systems-Windows included.įollow this step-by-step guide to install Node.js and start building your first applications on Windows.

If is provided, it will be used to clone exactly that commit. Authentication module written in TypeScript providing authentication utilities and JWT methods. I am getting following error on npm installġ8 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined 18 verbose stack at tarballToVersion (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:87:20) 18 verbose stack at inflatableChild (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:99:22) 18 verbose stack at /home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:55:12 18 verbose stack at tr圜atcher (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) 18 verbose stack at Object.gotValue (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:155:18) 18 verbose stack at Object.gotAccum (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:144:25) 18 verbose stack at 圜atcher (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) 18 verbose stack at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:517:31) 18 verbose stack at Promise._settlePromise (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:574:18) 18 verbose stack at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:619:10) 18 verbose stack at Promise._settlePromises (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:699:18) 18 verbose stack at _drainQueueStep (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:138:12) 18 verbose stack at _drainQueue (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:131:9) 18 verbose stack at Async._drainQueues (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:147:5) 18 verbose stack at (/home/rahul/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.It may seem obvious, but installing Node.js is the first step to building cool Node.js applications. npm install /: npm install github:/: Install the package at by attempting to clone it using git.

[managernahas]

Collabora code nextcloud

Collabora code nextcloud install#

Collabora code nextcloud code#

My docker-compose. I can also access the admin page at /loleaflet/dist/admin/admin.html When I point my browser at I see the OK message. I have the following subdomains all pointing at my server:Ĭ Īs I mentioned, the Nginx and Nextcloud setups are great. There are multiple bits that I might have got wrong so I'll dump as much info as I can here.

Collabora code nextcloud code#

My issue is that I cannot get my Collabora CODE instance to link to Nextcloud. So far I have Nginx and Nextcloud working really nicely with persistent volumes so that my configs survive kill & rm. # This module is currently not supported.I am trying to get a docker-compose.yaml together to run Nextcloud and Collabora CODE via Nginx Proxy Manager. # Uncomment if your server is build with the ngx_pagespeed module Gzip_types application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/ text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy Gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private no_last_modified no_etag auth # Enable gzip but do not remove ETag headers Return 301 $scheme://$host/remote.php/dav #rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta.json /public.php?service=host-meta-json #rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta /public.php?service=host-meta last # Uncomment it if you’re planning to use this app. # The following 2 rules are only needed for the user_webfinger app. Ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live//privkey.pem Īdd_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff Īdd_header X-XSS-Protection “1 mode=block” Īdd_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies none Īdd_header Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000 includeSubDomains” When trying to open a document handled by Collabora, the browser tries to directly access the nextcloud server (with http) which is blocked (because of mixed content) Nextcloud 21.0.2 with Collabora Online 4.1.1 and built-in CODE 6.4. Ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live//fullchain.pem PHP module pcntl (enables command interruption by pressing ctrl-c)Īccess_log /var/log/nginx/ Įrror_log /var/log/nginx/ error.PHP module redis (>= 2.2.6, required for Transactional File Locking).PHP module exif (for image rotation in pictures app).

Collabora code nextcloud install#

I used the instructions here to install Collabora CODE and the instructions here to setup reverse proxy for Apache2 with SSL using letsencrypt. PHP module imap (for external user authentication).PHP module ftp (for FTP storage / external user authentication).PHP module smbclient (SMB/CIFS integration).If you are using another Ubuntu version, you can install Collobaora Online with Docker. Note: This tutorial works on Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 and 16.04. All of the Collabora Online codes will be eventually included in LibreOffice. PHP module openssl (required for accessing HTTPS resources) Collabora is a big contributor to the LibreOffice project.PHP module mcrypt (increases file encryption performance).PHP module intl (increases language translation performance and fixes sorting of non-ASCII characters).PHP module bz2 (recommended, required for extraction of apps).PHP module fileinfo (highly recommended, enhances file analysis performance).HTTP user authentication, depends on this) PHP module curl (highly recommended, some functionality, e.g.PHP module pgsql (requires PostgreSQL >= 9.0).PHP module sqlite (>= 3, usually not recommended for performance reasons).PHP module libxml (Linux package libxml2 must be >=2.7.0).

[piritskenyer]

Human vengeance - By observations of K. X”. Khruil

We thought we had figured out the Humans by the time the attack on their homeworld happened some 200 years after the Aaraken War.  We thought they had calmed down and had put aside their destructive tendecies, but we came to realise that they just is no stopping their anger given a strong enough catalyst. That catalyst came, as mentioned, 202 years after the end of the Aaraken wars. By this point, the Humans have secured the Garsen Alliance’s territories andwere solely in charge of the Alliance’s military, as they were the only warlike species out of the four of us. They have been pushing in the Alliance Council for closer integration into a sort of empire and expansion. They were arguing for it bringing logic and reason and offered some valid arguments, and the debate was still open. Until the Horic attack happened. The Horic attack (originally named the “Destruction of South-East Asia”) was an event in which an atmospheric bomb entered Earth’s atmosphere roughly over the island of Hainan and scorched the atmosphere in a radius of 1200km, and if not for the rapid response of the humans, it would have slowly burned the entire Earth atmosphere. Some 3 billion humans died in the strike. 

At first, there was much confusion over what had happened; Some speculated Human extremists, some a freak accident of a capital ship exploding in high atmosphere, but it was rapidly determined that what caused the death of billions was a single-shot device launched from a far world. Using only telemetry data and deduction, the Humans reconstructed the main features of the weapon (which was travelling at such a high velocity that the quite advanced Human defensive systems could hardy track it and had no hope of intercepting it), and also reconstructed it’s trajectory, pinpointing its exact origin on the other end of the galaxy. They named it “Atmospheric Deprivation Device, Single Use” or ADDSU, and immediately got to work working out a procedure to defend against it. This consisted by putting a blocking force in the trajectory of the weapon, corrected by the rotation of the galaxy since it has been launched.

I was on a human ship (a cruiser - see technical report n°538 by SO M1. C. Kort, appendix (f)) when the news broke about the attack, and the reaction I saw made me realise that humans, despite their advancements were still very much driven by instinct. Every single human crewmember that day was enraged, all of them losing their self control to a certain extent. They described that to me as being “upset” or in “emotional distress” afterwards, but the brainwaves I captured that day were most similar to a wounded predator’s rage reaction. 

We (Garsen, Thikiid and Rowdan) initially did not appreciate just what the reaction of the Humans was going to be like. We knew that military action was unavoidable at that point, but we expected something similar to the Aaraken War where the Humans subdued the Aaraken without exterminating them.  We should have listened to History Research Officer Werred who was trying to warn us that the retaliation was going to be much more gruesome. He had looked into Human history (his mission was to log Human history in an unbiased way from the past all the way to the present) and has predicted that a genocide of this magnitude would repercussions way more gruesome that any of our three species could ever dream of in our worse nightmares. 

The first indication of him being right came when Force M, the outermost of the extended ADDSU defensive screen intercepted a convoy of 15 huge colony ships on a trajectory pointing towards earth.  Force M consisted of a medium cruiser (GAS Amsterdam), two general purpose destroyers (GAS Allen and Quinet), 5 multipurpose frigates (GAS Job, Odin, Quinlan, Roffa and Popeye) and 24 corvettes (10 heavy and 24 beam) (see relevant entries in Garsen Alliance Navy Public Technical Database) under the command of Commodore Marcus N’Gaye. Force M stopped the convoy, hailing them and asking for their purpose and their destination. For description of the events that followed I am copying the log entry of Ensign Jacques Coter serving as fleet log officer on board Amsterdam.

 Hostile challenge: “Attention unknown vessels, this is the Garsen Alliance cruiser Amsterdam. Stop immediately or we will fire upon you. I repeat, stop immediately or we will fire upon you.”  Hail signal recieved, positive response, vessels compliant, engaged reverse thrusters to bring speed to zero.  Commanding officer (CO): Engineering, initiate telemetry scan of the ships [engineering response: Aye sir], Communications Officer! Open a channel. Communications officer (ComO): Open channel, aye sir!  Communications channel established, translator module engaged. CO: Attention unknown vessels, this is Commodore N’Gaye of the Garsen Alliance Navy, please state your destination and purpose on this trajectory. Unknown vessel (UV): Greetings N’Gaye of Garsen, we are Goulf from Hoor, leader to this colony convoy bound for W20SC438 [coordinates set in another reference frame]. CO: Greetings. Terribly sorry, can you transmit your coordinates with a reference point, as these coordinates are not readable cleanly. UV: Of course, we are sending you a transmission now.  Incoming transmission. Recieved by navigation station. Decoding in progress Navigating Officer (NavO): 7 minutes, sir. CO: Understood. Goulf from Hoor, please stand by while we read your data. UV: Please, take your time.  Decoding finished, data projected on known database NavO (in a low voice): Communications, please mute outbound. ComO: Roger, muted. NavO (voice breaking): Sir, you will... You will want to take a look at this. CO: What the fuck is going on Mr Thompson? NavO (voice still breaking): Sir, their reference point... [takes two deep breaths, composes self, resumes in calm and professional manner] Sir, their reference point is the origin point of the ADDSU, and their target point is Earth. CO (slight shaking in his voice): Are you absolutely sure, Mr Thompson? NavO: Aye sir. Positive.  CO: Engineering! Chief Engineer (CE): Engineering. CO: Scan status? CE: Almost ready. CO: How long?  CE: 25 seconds give or take. CO: You heard navigation? CE: I did. CO: Are they armed? CE: Negative, no energy or mass signature suggesting weaponry. CE: Scan complete, transmitting to your screen now. CO: Recieved, checking.  CO: Comms, open fleet channel. Open to the 1MC as well. Also transmit the scan readouts to the fleet, Sec5 encoding. ComO: Transmitting, aye sir, channel open. CO: Attention all hands. We have encountered vessels that originate from the same point as the weapon destroying most of South-East Asia originated from. We are transmitting scan readings to all ships now. Engagement plan is as follows: On my mark corvettes and frigates will engage the enemy’s engine modules and immobilise them. On my second mark Joachim and Mark [CO’s of Allen and Quinet respectively] will close to point defence range and puncture the enemy hulls without outright destroying them. Target their bridge and life support systems. Acknowledge!  Acknowledgement signal from all 31 ships Operations officer (Also executive officer - O/XO): Sir? CO: Go ahead. O/XO: Should we check for escape pods? CO: Point. Engineering! CE: Engineering. CO: Scan indicates lifepods. Are they mechanically launched, self-propelled or what? CE: Hold on. CE: They are self-launching, electrically powered from their own power source. CO: Are the enemy ships susceptible to EMP? CE: They are unshielded beyond basic radiation shielding. CO: Comms! Reopen to fleet. ComO: Open sir. CO: Frigates and Destroyers, on my third mark hit them with EMP also, how copy.  Acknowledgement signals received. CO: Action stations across the fleet!  Ship to action stations. CO: Comms, keep fleetwide channel open, mute all incoming from it, unmute outgoing to... them. ComO: Go ahead sir. CO: Goulf from Hoor, may I ask weather you have a communications array to contact your homeworld?  UV: Yes, we do, why? CO: Mark!  First part of engagement plan execute. Corvettes and Frigates reporting targets serviced. UV: [indiscernible] You are firing on us! [indiscernible] CO: Goulf of Hoor, we have a problem. Or rather, you have a problem. Quite a serious one in fact. You belong to the race that attacked our planet and wiped out 20% of our race. That is not your problem. Your problem is that you haven’t confirmed the kill on our planet and haven’t confirmed that all of us are dead. Your problem is that you are unescorted, and your biggest problem is that you are about to die. I know you have power even if your propulsion is out, so transmit a message for me to your homeworld: Message begins: We are coming for all of you. We are inhabitants of W20SC438. Message ends. You can also tell them what happened to you. Comms! ComO: Comms. CO: Monitor for transmissions. ComO: Monitoring for transmissions. ComO: High-power outgoing from lead vessel. ComO: Outgoing finished. CO: Roger. Mark!  Second part of engagement plan execute. Frigates and Destroyers report good hits. UV: You are condemning us to death!  CO: I know. I know. Mark!  Third part of engagement plan execute. Frigates and Destroyers report good hits. CO: Ops, recall Corvettes, strafing is authorised.

Personal notes of Ensign Coter revealed the mood of hatred that came upon the entire bridge crew (and safe to assume the entirety of the humans present) upon the revelation that the ships they were facing were from the world that almost wiped out their own. Our later investigation found that there were around 12 million colonists on the 15 colony ships. Our three species tried talking the Humans down from what was about to happen, but all we achieved in doing was to spare the Horics total extermination like the Humans originally wanted. 

Still, the Humans were true to N’Gaye’s word, wiping out half of the total Horic population, making Hoor (the Horic homeworld) uninhabitable for the Horics (the GAN bombarded Hoor incessantly for a third of the planet’s cycle around its star, turning the planet’s surface into an inferno) and condemning them to live on their colonies under Garsen rule. As a final spit on the grave of the Horic Empire, they terraformed Hoor ever so slightly and settled on the planet. HRO Werred later pointed out that this pattern of behaviour was perfectly in line with what he had predicted based on his research, but even he couldn’T have predicted the scale of the carnage. This wasn’t the measured, surgical and professional warfare without any deep emotion the humans were very much capable of, this was bloody vengeance where they just wanted to make others suffer. Originally we wanted to expel the Humans from the Alliance for this, but they came to the Alliance Council and very calmly argued that they would never do such a thing to us because we were allies and friends, but if something similar to what has happened to them was to happen to any of our three species, their reaction would be similarly horrific. This made most of use feel relieved, and strangely comfortable, knowing that the most cruel of species in the Galaxy was affectionately watching over us. 

[phroyd]

WASHINGTON — Congressional efforts to reach a border security deal ahead of another government shutdown broke down on Sunday over Democratic demands to limit the detention of undocumented immigrants, as President Trump moved more troops to the border and prepared to rally supporters in Texas on Monday.

The 17 House and Senate negotiators had hoped to finalize a border security agreement on Monday, but hours before that deadline, communications had stopped, lawmakers and aides said.

Meantime, the Trump administration was moving on its own to fortify the southwestern border with thousands of active-duty military troops. The number of deployed troops on the Mexican border was set to exceed the high of 5,900 reached around the November elections, as nearly 4,000 active-duty troops were being sent to assist with the Department of Homeland Security’s border patrol efforts.

Senior officers are voicing greater worries that the deployed troops are not conducting the missions and training needed for their regular missions, while other military units must now pick up the routine duties on behalf of their deployed colleagues.

But efforts to reach a broader, bipartisan deal on border security bogged down, days before much of the government is set to run out of funds at midnight Friday, with memories of the 35-day partial government shutdown — the nation’s longest in history — still fresh.

“I’ll say 50-50 we get a deal,” Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the Republican chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The specter of a shutdown is always out there.”

The impasse appears to center on Democratic demands for a limit on the number of unauthorized immigrants already in the country who could be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to aides familiar with the talks. Democrats say a cap of 16,500 beds in ICE detention centers would force the Trump administration to focus on detaining undocumented immigrants with criminal records instead of using indiscriminate sweeps that drag in otherwise law-abiding residents.

“For far too long, the Trump administration has been tearing communities apart with its cruel immigration policies,” Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, Democrat of California and one of the negotiators, said on Sunday. “A cap on ICE detention beds will force the Trump administration to prioritize deportation for criminals and people who pose real security threats, not law-abiding immigrants who are contributing to our country.”

Republicans demanded an exception to the cap for criminals, according to an aide familiar with the negotiations. Democrats declined, saying their 16,500-bed cap left more than enough room for real criminals.

But just days after he used his State of the Union address to take an uncompromising line on a border wall, Mr. Trump was being challenged on a new front in the immigration wars. The president took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon to say Democratic negotiators “are behaving, all of a sudden, irrationally.”

“They don’t even want to take muderers into custody! What’s going on?” he said, a charge that Democrats called categorically false.

The looming deadline is exposing fissures in both parties. The more liberal members of the Democratic caucus, many of whom ran on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement altogether, have been lobbying their colleagues on the committee to resist any increases in ICE funding.

Democratic negotiators held a conference call on Sunday morning to discuss options, according to a Democratic aide, but did not settle on a final decision on how to move forward. Another short-term spending bill could prevent a lapse in funding on Friday, though lawmakers have expressed reluctance at punting again on a final agreement.

Still, Mr. Shelby and Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana and a member of the negotiating committee, said on Sunday that they had not given up.

A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.

President Trump says construction for the wall is underway. We mapped the current fencing and what his administration has done so far.

Other sticking points remain, including how much money to allocate for barriers at the border. Lawmakers were eyeing between $1.3 billion and $2 billion, far less than the $5.7 billion that the president demanded for his signature campaign promise — and shut down the government over in December.

Mr. Trump, who has vacillated between publicly condemning the talks as a “waste of time” and privately showing flexibility, blamed Democratic leadership for the breakdown.

“I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to make a deal,” he wrote on Twitter. “They are offering very little money for the desperately needed Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on convicted violent felons to be held in detention!”

Pentagon and administration officials spent the weekend preparing for another partial government shutdown — and for the possibility that the president will fulfill his threat to declare a national emergency and fund the wall without Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have expressed extreme discomfort with the prospect of a national emergency declaration, and there is almost universal aversion to another shutdown.

One proposal circulating among some White House officials in an attempt to fend off legal challenges to an emergency declaration is to claim that the wall would be built to protect the more than 5,000 active-duty troops now operating near the southwestern border or deploying there soon.

“The Wall will get built one way or the other!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday afternoon.

During the last lapse in funding, hundreds of thousands of workers were either furloughed or worked without pay, and it cost the United States economy $11 billion. Another shutdown would hit some agencies at an even worse time. The Internal Revenue Service, for instance, is just entering tax season.

Lawmakers held out the possibility that Mr. Trump could find some face-saving way to fortify border security and build some structures without resorting to a precedent-setting emergency declaration. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, said the president had asked him to “comb through the law” and “go find money in any place we could” to fully fund a wall.

“There’s pots of money where presidents, all presidents, have access to without a national emergency,” Mr. Mulvaney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Senior Republican aides said Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and his leadership team were frustrated with the Democrats because they believed they had persuaded Mr. Trump to agree to a package for border security improvements that consisted mostly of repairs and extensions to existing barriers. Their major concern now, people close to the process said, is that Stephen Miller, the president’s hard-line adviser on immigration, would convince him that accepting a compromise on detention beds would be a humiliation that would cost him with his base.In what one Defense Department official described as a surreal scramble, Pentagon officials met on Friday and over the weekend to identify which Army Corps of Engineers construction projects would be tapped for money to help build Mr. Trump’s wall if the president declared a national emergency.

Officials scoured the language of multiple draft declarations that Mr. Trump might invoke if a deal is not reached or he rejects what lawmakers agree upon. Mr. Trump’s top national security aides are scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the matter. Mr. Trump is then to convene a full National Security Council meeting on Tuesday, officials said.

If Mr. Trump declares a national emergency to build the wall, Democrats are expected to sue to block construction and halt any shifting of funds. House Democrats are preparing legislation that would limit the president’s ability to unilaterally commandeer wall funding.

Mr. Trump is set to hold a rally in El Paso on Monday night, using the border city as evidence for his exaggerated claim that a wall would reduce crime.

Prominent Democrats from the area, including Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic presidential candidate and former representative for most of the city, and his freshman successor, Representative Veronica Escobar, have denounced Mr. Trump’s claims that El Paso became a safe city only after a physical barrier was built there. Ms. Escobar called the president a liar.

Ms. Escobar was one of a group of lawmakers, including Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, who visited the area before Mr. Trump’s rally.

“It’s frustrating to know that he is still unwilling to acknowledge the truth about immigrants, the truth about the border,” said Ms. Escobar, speaking earlier this week after growing visibly angry as the president made similar claims during his State of the Union address. “He has failed to set out any kind of real plan and real solution.”

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[lonestarflight]

"Apollo Command Module CSM-007A near NASA's MV Retriever in the Gulf of Mexico, during a manned 48-hour Apollo Block II Command Module postlanding systems qualification test."

CM-007 was delivered to NASA in 1966. After serving as a ground test vehicle, CM-007 was modified in 1967 for use in water-survival training as CM-007A. As part of their training, the astronauts inside the capsule were dropped into the Gulf of Mexico by a crane from an aircraft carrier to simulate the force of splashdown. Apollo crews also trained for extended recovery by remaining at sea for several days at a time in the Command Module. Such training prepared astronauts for the possibility of a splashdown far from the planned recovery site.

Date: April 5, 1968

NASA ID: S68-30160