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There Are Bad Ideas and Then There is This Bad Idea
By CDRSalamander
There are some things that should stop everyone in their tracks. At the top of that list should be an apparent lack of risk awareness concerning nuclear weapons.
This line from Patrick Tucker's article in last month's The Atlantic stopped me cold;
Future nuclear missiles may be siloed but, unlike their predecessors, they'll exhibit "some level of connectivity to the rest of the warfighting system," according to Werner J.A. Dahm, the chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. That opens up new potential for nuclear mishaps that, until now, have never been a part of Pentagon planning. In 2017, the board will undertake a study to see how to meet those concerns. "Obviously the Air Force doesn't conceptualize systems like that without ideas for how they would address those surety concerns," said Dahm.
Stop. Stop right there.
If this reporting is accurate, the work of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board needs to be halted immediately and a thorough review of the members and leadership of the board conducted by an outside party.
Our nuclear weapons themselves must in no way be part of any IP connectivity or network enabled in any way. Full stop.
"We have formal Air Force documents that detail the formal certification process for nuclear weapons. To what extent do the current models for certifying nuclear systems carry over into these modern, network enabled systems and how would you re-conceptualize certification for systems that are likely to come out of these recap programs?" asked Dahm.
Some support systems? Sure, but command, control, mission loading, arming, and launch must be contained in a robust, hardened, isolated & closed system. Simple, almost primitive, with multiple physical human interfaces required. To be even thinking of network access to the weapons systems themselves is the height of irresponsibility; even more irresponsible than a reliance on GPS or satellite systems as a point of failure between authorization, launch, and "servicing the target." Ahem.
This is the same kind of thinking that leads otherwise smart people to think "smart gun" technology is a good idea. It simply assumes away all risk, and places everything in the unstable hands of hubris-centered hope ungrounded by operational experience.
The fact that future nuclear weapons will be far more networked (though not necessarily to the open Internet) will create better safety and oversight, and allow for more coordinated operations. But more connectivity also introduces new potential vulnerabilities and dangers.
"You have to be able to certify that an adversary can't take control of that weapon, that the weapon will be able to do what it's supposed to do when you call on it," said Dahm. "It isn't just cyber. That's definitely the biggest piece, but … When was the last time we built a new nuclear system? Designed and built one? It's been several decades now. We, as an Air Force, haven't done certification of new nuclear systems in a long time. These systems are different … What are the surety vulnerabilities for such a system, so to speak? How would you address them? How would you certify that the system will work when you need it to work and will do what it's supposed to do?"
That's what the study will cover.
The entire entering argument is wrong.
The only thing worse than the accidental launch of a nuclear weapon would be for our deterrent to be unable to perform when tasked – or worse – a hostile power thinks they can prevent its use.
Eric Schlosser's book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, is required reading for those not up to speed on how lucky we have been when it comes to nuclear weapons in case you are overconfident.
Opening additional paths for benign or malicious human malpractice?
No. Just no.
Tags: nuclear weapons, Strategic nuclear forces, strategic nuclear weapons
Craddock, Harvey, Burke, and the Path not Taken
By CDRSalamander
There is a habit in the military of holding one's tongue for the future, when the present would profit most by speaking now.
Some keep their thoughts to themselves when they see problems, or keep them firmly behind closed doors. Others see the requirement to step from the shadows to confront in the open what others are keeping silent about.
Why are so many people in the profession of arms so quiet? The reasons are many and varied; loyalty to ones chain of command, deference to authority, orders, propriety, fear, passivity, verve, desire to retain professional viability, or just a lack of confidence in ones opinions.
When is the supported institution best served by silence, and when by open and contentious discourse? Is this a time for silence, or a time for those at the highest levels of leadership to dare to read, think, speak, and write?
Not put their name to something a person on their staff wrote; not some "It takes a village to write 3,000 words" safety-in-numbers collaboration. No – something in their own words either in their personnel by-line, or by a properly vetted "Federalist Papers" format.
At its best though; Sims, Mitchell and Connolly – there is the benchmark that we need right now.
What do those three General Officers/Flag Officers (GOFO) have in common? Well, at different stages in their careers, they were highly influential due to their very public outspokenness about what was not being done correctly in order to, in their minds, address the critical shortfall in weapons development, procurement and strategy in order to have an effective fighting force.
They put their reputations and careers on the line – while on active duty and planning to stay on active duty – in order to elevate the discussion in the open. The did this for one reason – in order to bring about a better American military.
Sims was sending letters directly to the President, used rather colorful terms to identify critical shortfalls, and was an aggressive publisher of anti-establishmentarian ideas. Mitchell beat the drum and edged across a few lines to pronounce to an unlistening and ossified parochial bureaucracy the future influence of air power upon history. Connolly had no problem aggressively explaining Newtonian physics against the Joint-fetishists of his day. Sims was rewarded, Mitchell was Court Martialed, and Connolly found himself a terminal 3-Star.
They chose the risky path – and rewarded or punished individually; their nation's military were the better for it collectively.
There is another path – it is an honorable one as well – one that has a mixed record of success. While it is true that the higher one goes up the chain, the more perceived "power" one has and as a result has the ability to affect change, most of the time that remains just-beyond reach. That power lever is a mirage. It is a trick. It is the triumph of hope against experience.
Good people who are truly trying to do the right thing often find they have waited too long. That magic set of PCS orders, that enabling rank – it never comes. All of a sudden, they find themselves scheduled for Executive TAP, yet realize their work is incomplete.
And so we find the parting shot. Look at one of General Craddock's final speeches as SACEUR. Look at Admiral Harvey's parting gift, and finally, we have this.
Does the United States need a 300-ship Navy or will it over the next 70 years need seven strategic nuclear submarines on patrol in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans? Each would have 24 intercontinental ballistic missiles, all of which could carry up to five nuclear warheads.
That was the choice Vice Adm. William Burke, deputy chief of Naval Operations Warfare Systems, described Tuesday at the Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series.
Burke, who is set to retire in the next few weeks, spoke frankly about the undersea portion of the U.S. strategic nuclear triad "and its intersection with our shipbuilding plan."
His conclusion: "If we buy the SSBN [the planned 12 replacement strategic submarines for the current 14 Ohio class now in service] within existing funds, we will not reach 300 ships. In fact, we'll find ourselves closer to 250. At these numbers, our global presence will be reduced such that we'll only be able to visit some areas of the world episodically."
This topic of the impact of SSBN recapitalization in the face of a perfect storm of macro-budgetary crisis and the delayed effects of the procurement Lost Decade from poor programmatic decisions that will be the 2020's is not new. Indeed, many of us have been writing and speaking about the need to address the coming "Terrible '20s" for years.
Why is it a GOFO scheduled to "retire in the next few weeks" is the one who is talking about this? On this and many other issues; you can have all the "Disruptive Thinker" JOs and sharp enlisted you can jam in a conference room, you can have scores of retired Field Grade officers pounding away at their dinner table each evening, and you can have the pundit-pondering think-tankers of the Potomac chattering until Judgement Day and it won't have the impact of serving GOFO standing up and speaking without guile or hedge about what everyone sees, but few openly say. As long as they do not, then you will get the B-team working the creative friction.
What impact can a GOFO have as he is heading out the door? Not really that much. Like a lame-duck politician – his professional capital is spent. The cynic and critic will simply dismiss his comments as sour grapes. His natural allies will just set their jaws and mumble "too-little-too-late." If the only issues he raise are related sequester, then he will be looked at as just a political hack.
Are these professional death-bed conversions helpful? While the decision to be silent and work behind the closed door is a valid and honorable one, in the end is it really a false economy of delayed revelation? Better late than never, or just another lost opportunity?
Sure, comments heading out the door can be helpful, important, and impactful in a fashion, but they have but a shadow of the impact they could be have had if these actions took place in the open, in high profile, years before while the GOFO were still in uniform and intended to stay as such for another tour or two.
As our Fleet shrinks and is balanced out with either sub-optimal platforms such as LCS or expensive Tiffany porcelain dolls; as our carrier decks are full of short-legged strike fighters and underarmed expensive F-35s (TBD), our deployed Sailors are burdened by a bloated, demanding, and ineffective Shore/Staff fonctionnaire cadre, and a money-sponge of a SSBN recapitalization requirement is squatting right in front of us – where are our Sims, Mitchells, and Connellys?
Do we need them? Do we have them? What do they need to do?
Tags: Defense Budget, Leadership, Strategic nuclear forces
Catching Up: Russia, The PAK-FA and Bulava SLBM
By SteelJaw
Have been a bit sparing of late on posting here and at homeplate, in large part because the day job(s) have been demanding their pound (more like tens of pounds) of flesh. And developments appear to promise a major surge on one front in the next few weeks, so we'll take advantage of the relative calm afforded during the next day or two to catch up on some previously reported events. Today — Russia and some updates on the PAK-FA and Bulava SLBM…
Russia: Putin Pledges 30 Billion Rubles for Fine-tuning PAK-FA
(Source: Свободная Пресса, 18 June 2010 (translated))
Russia's fifth generation fighter program began roughly the same time as the US' effort that yielded the F-22A, according to Russian sources. Delays stemming from defense and industry reform and economic slowdown in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union drew out the program. Cul-de-sacs beginning with the Berkut and later the MiG 1-44 added further delay until Sukhoi was back in charge of the project with the PAK-FA proposal. Taking the occasion during a recent demonstration/test flight (16th since first flight in January?), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin identified about 90B rubles (руб) (~ US$ 3.3B ) in development funding for the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), the Aircraft Construction Center at Zhukovsky and the PAK-FA. 60B руб is to go for building three additional tunnels at TsAGI and another 11B руб to the new center to be constructed at Zhukovsky. The former will be spread out in installments over the next several years, the new center is slated for completion around the end of 2012.
As for the PAK-FA — I think the expression in the photo above bespeaks volumes. As the US has discovered in the prolonged gestation periods for the F-22 and now the F-35 with commensurate rising production costs, the ticket for entry into the 5th generation fighter program is indeed an expensive one. Despite happy-talk about the PAK-FA being "two and a half and three times less than of its foreign counterparts" it is still too expensive for the Russian economy. Over 30B руб has been expended thus far on PAK-FA development and it is still sans the 5th gen engines necessary for all aspect stealth and a good bit of development remains on the weapons system. Even with the promise of another 30B руб forthcoming, much like the F-35, the PAK-FA will be heavily reliant on outside funding to come close to meeting any kind of production numbers. India has stepped to the plate, offering cash but also demanding a healthy portion of the early production, demanding 250 aircraft by 2017. And those are to be two-seaters.
Despite the acclaim the PAK-FA has received, as an expensive sink-hole in the Russian re-armament program, it has garnered its fair share of domestic criticisms:
Independent analysts give an overall negative forecast for the national rearmament program. The country has virtually wasted the 20 years which have passed since the break-up of the Soviet Union, said Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Moscow-based Center for Military Forecasts.
Not a single new tank or fixed-wing aircraft has been developed since 1991, with only one helicopter being developed and used. "Fifth-generation planes are very expensive. Comparing total costs, Russia and the United States spend approximately the same amounts on their development and production," Tsyganok told the paper. (Nezavisimaya Gazeta – translated)
Calvin Coolidge once waspishly commented on the high price of aircraft by asking why not buy one airplane and let pilots take turns flying it. With the advent of triple-digit million dollar fighters, we may be reaching such a point and it is evident that the US isn't the only nation happening upon this circumstance. But, as far as the Russian leadership is concerned, for now at least the PAK-FA is flying, the same cannot be said about an even more vital element in the national defense plan, the Bulava SLBM…
Bulava SLBM to Resume Test Flights in August 2010
(Source: Свободная Пресса, 18 June 2010 (translated))
A recent interview with the former commander of the Soviet and Russian Navies, Admiral Vladimir Chernavin (translated), was revealing on several fronts insofar as the much troubled Bulava is concerned. Of first note was the fact that it appears testing of the Bulava will resume earlier (August 2010) than previously reported (November 2010 at earliest). At the time of the previous announcement in May, it was stated that a production run of three identical missiles was required before the next round of tests began – whether the earlier date is a reflection of that requirement being dropped or discovery of the root cause of the series of failures (particularly with the liquid-fueled third stage*) remains to be seen. Perhaps after having seen the head of the Strategic Missile Forces get sacked after less than a year on the job over probable readiness issues, Navy and industry found renewed enthusiasm for a more aggressive schedule.
The Bulava and its development trials and travails have served as a poster child for a larger view of a Russian defense industry that increasingly is finding it difficult to meet the demands for new forces while adjusting to the post-Soviet era. Consolidation has struck the industry as hard, if not harder, than its US counterpart. In his interview, ADM Chernavin pointed to the need for a replacement for the Sineva SLBM (ed: R-29RMU/RSM-54 Sineva/SS-N-23 SKIFF). The Sineva, while an exceptional missile in service (duration and capability — the last test launch was to its full 11,547 km range) is also a completely liquid-fueled missile, utilizing exceptionally dangerous hypergolics, which present a hazard to the boat and crew as well as demanding special care in materials selection and construction to avoid/contain any leakage. The drawbacks of hypergolics (ed. research and work on, I would note, have been part of the reason behind the paucity of posts – SJS) are the chief reason all US ICBMs and SLBMs as well as all new Russian ICBMs are solid-fuel. An earlier attempt at a solid-fuel SLBM, the R-39 (NATO: SS-N-20 Sturgeon) brought forth a 10-warhead missile, but one that was exceptionally heavy, with a launch weight of 90 tons. A follow-on to the R-39, the R-39UTTH "Bark" suffered three consecutive failures in its first stage in early testing and was canceled. The Bulava followed in part, because the institute building it was also building the Topol-M land mobile ICBM and figured to gain efficiencies in development and production by emphasizing commonality between the two.
Chernavin points to the beginning of problems when the Bulava designers learned that, surprise, submarines move whereas the Topol, while a mobile missile, is fixed in place for launch. Compounding the flawed foundation decision-making was a series of cost- and schedule decisions to speed up the development process and shaving tests. The lead designer of the missile, Yury Solomonov, points the finger at Russia's defense industry in general:
"I can say in earnest that none of the design solutions have been changed as a result of the tests. The problems occur in the links of the design-technology-production chain," Solomonov said in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published on Tuesday.
"Sometimes [the problem] is poor-quality materials, sometimes it is the lack of necessary equipment to exclude the 'human' factor in production, sometimes it is inefficient quality control," he said.
The designer complained that the Russian industry is unable to provide Bulava manufacturers with at least 50 of the necessary components for production of the weapon. This forces designers to search for alternative solutions, seriously complicating the testing process.
That and evident quality control problems have led to a test program with between 1 to 5 (depending on whom you are talking to) successes in 12 launch attempts. However, with nothing else even on the drawing boards and a new class of SSBNs designed such that the Bulava is the only missile they can take, the die has been cast. Chernavin underscores this state of affairs with a verbal shrug and dose of fatalism, noting so much effort has already been spent that eventually "they will force it to fly" ("Но, уверен, «Булаву» все-таки заставят летать").
* Why a liquid third stage? That is the post-boost vehicle (PBV) that carries the MIRVs — a liquid-fuel engine allows controlled start/stops to precisely maneuver the PBV as it releases the MIRV payload.
(crossposted at steeljawscribe.com)
Tags: 5th generation fighters, Bulava, PAK-FA, Russia, SLBM, Strategic nuclear forces
The Prague Treaty: A Quick Overview
By SteelJaw
Well — they aren't calling it the Prague Treaty per se — yet. But the post-START Treaty is scheduled to be signed in Prague later this spring and represents some pretty major changes in the arms control world and respective stockpiles of the US and Russia:
The White House
Office of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate Release March 26, 2010
Key Facts about the New START Treaty
Treaty Structure: The New START Treaty is organized in three tiers of increasing level of detail. The first tier is the Treaty text itself. The second tier consists of a Protocol to the Treaty, which contains additional rights and obligations associated with Treaty provisions. The basic rights and obligations are contained in these two documents. The third tier consists of Technical Annexes to the Protocol. All three tiers will be legally binding. The Protocol and Annexes will be integral parts of the Treaty and thus submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.
Strategic Offensive Reductions: Under the Treaty, the U.S. and Russia will be limited to significantly fewer strategic arms within seven years from the date the Treaty enters into force. Each Party has the flexibility to determine for itself the structure of its strategic forces within the aggregate limits of the Treaty. These limits are based on a rigorous analysis conducted by Department of Defense planners in support of the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review.
Aggregate limits:
- 1,550 warheads. Warheads on deployed ICBMs and deployed SLBMs count toward this limit and each deployed heavy bomber equipped for nuclear armaments counts as one warhead toward this limit.
- This limit is 74% lower than the limit of the 1991 START Treaty and 30% lower than the deployed strategic warhead limit of the 2002 Moscow Treaty.
- A combined limit of 800 deployed and non-deployed ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments.
- A separate limit of 700 deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs, and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments.
- This limit is less than half the corresponding strategic nuclear delivery vehicle limit of the START Treaty.
Verification and Transparency: The Treaty has a verification regime that combines the appropriate elements of the 1991 START Treaty with new elements tailored to the limitations of the Treaty. Measures under the Treaty include on-site inspections and exhibitions, data exchanges and notifications related to strategic offensive arms and facilities covered by the Treaty, and provisions to facilitate the use of national technical means for treaty monitoring. To increase confidence and transparency, the Treaty also provides for the exchange of telemetry.
Treaty Terms: The Treaty's duration will be ten years, unless superseded by a subsequent agreement. The Parties may agree to extend the Treaty for a period of no more than five years. The Treaty includes a withdrawal clause that is standard in arms control agreements. The 2002 Moscow Treaty terminates upon entry into force of the New START Treaty. The U.S. Senate and the Russian legislature must approve the Treaty before it can enter into force.
No Constraints on Missile Defense and Conventional Strike: The Treaty does not contain any constraints on testing, development or deployment of current or planned U.S. missile defense programs or current or planned United States long-range conventional strike capabilities.
I will be the first to admit (along with many others it seems in the arms control community) to still trying to intuitively puzzle out the "separate" and "combined" limits, but bigger picture see somethings of interest:
a) This is a "build-down" treaty, not one designed to forestall future developments (e.g., throw weight breakouts, air launched ballistic missiles, etc.) which speaks volumes to the current and future states of the strategic programs of the US and Russia.
b) For the US — B-1's, SSGNs , conventional ballistic missiles (aka Prompt Global Strike) and missile defenses (both the ground-based BMDS and the forthcoming PAA) are off the books. Russia ends up with a less obtrusive inspection/verification regime and a requirement for only 5 telemetry exchanges per year (per SECDEF Gates at the press briefing).
c) Empty launchers apparently won't be counted – unlike START. Bombers weight in the overall equation is lessened (as some commentators have pointed out, almost Reagan-esque as his assertion was the slower bombers weren't as much of a threat as the missiles).
d) Though each bomber counts as one warhead — each bomber also counts as one delivery vehicle, which acts to limit temptation to build a large fleet of bombers armed with cruise missiles (that and the current state of air defenses). On the future of the bomber force as an element of the traditional nuclear deterrent triad, an interesting and recent paper by the Mitchell Air Power Institute on what shape the deterrent force should take (Triad, Dyad, Monad?) asserts that:
(The) US Department of Defense should pursue an ICBM/SLBM Dyad as it moves to reshape its nuclear force posture at lower warhead levels. Essentially, the US is already moving in this direction: the ICBMs and SLBMs remain robust, with modernization scheduled and funded, but the aging ALCM calls into question the value of the B-52 fleet, while the modernized but very small B-2 force is assuming a niche role. In short, the United States will soon field a de facto nuclear Dyad.
and that for the near term the United States should
leverage the strengths of the ICBM and SLBM forces while minimizing the weaknesses of the nuclear-capable bomber as that leg of the Triad is phased out. Prudent decisions about nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles for the future—under arms control ceilings limiting deployed weapons and launchers—demand deliberation within a framework of deterrent attributes and stabilizing outcomes such as offered here. We believe a Dyad of modernized ICBMs and SLBMs will provide for strategic nuclear deterrence and stability in the years ahead, while allowing and encouraging needed investments in long-range conventional strike.
All of which, along with the release of the NPR and expected forthcoming debate over PGS, should provide interesting fodder for deliberations over the size and shape of the US strategic deterrent force in the coming years.
I'll continue turning over the whole numerical relationships — and hopefully we'll have the actual treaty text to review and add insight in the near future. In the meantime, it is a good sign that Sen Lugar (R-Ind.) has voiced his approval on the treaty which I hope will be subject to a through, dispassionate review as it goes to ratification this summer More, definitely more, to follow.
(crossposted at steeljawscribe.com)
Tags: Russia, START, Strategic nuclear forces
Russian Strategic Forces – Bulava SLBM Update
By SteelJaw
According to press reports, the star-crossed Bulava SLBM will go into serial production "soon" – most probably after the next test flight. There is one more test shot scheduled for sometime later this month (after 21 Dec) after which it is anticipated that the new SLBM will be declared operational. Nine tests of the SS-27 derived, solid-fueled SLBM have been attempted with between 4-6 failures in the test series. Tentatively given the NATO designation SS-NX-30, the Bulava, as we have documented here previously, along with the a new-class SSBN (led by the Yuri Dogoruky) are the replacements for the Typhoon and its R-39 missiles. Shorter and wider than the R-39, the Bulava would not be able to be backfitted to earlier SSBNs (save one highly modified Typhoon used as a test bed) and further failures would put the Russian sea-based missile leg at risk as there were no other missiles in development.
17 December update: If open press from Russia is to be believed, 2009 will see an even more ambitious testing program with 13 strategic missile launches planned – five of which are test launches of new missiles. Besides the Bulava IOC noted above, early next year will also see the first operational deployment of the RS-24, a MIRV'd land-mobile missile derived fromt he Topol-M and set to replace the SS-18 and SS-19 silo-based missiles. Some sources have linked the Bulava's guidance/payload section to use on the RS-24 to enable up to palcement of 10 MIRVs onboard.
Tags: Russia, SLBM, Strategic nuclear forces
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Adding video sources
| The basic steps for adding
videos to the library:
2. Adding video sources
|Video library
|Adding video sources
A video source is a kind of media source. Media sources are the links that tell Kodi where your content is stored and what type of content is contained within each one.
You can have multiple sources for each media type.
You can use local media, file shares, removable USB drives, etc.
Note: UPnP won't work with the library features (scanning data in like summaries and movie covers) in Kodi, but just about all the other options should be fine.
1 Adding sources
Step 3: The "Add Video Source" screen will be displayed. Then select the "Browse" button. Note: You can also type a local or network file path directly into this box, if you already know the address/path. For example,
smb://18.104.22.168could be typed in directly and saved, which will skip the "browsing" step.
Step 4: Now browse to where you keep your videos stored. Once you have found the folder you keep your videos in, select the "OK" button. If you keep them shared on a network drive, read the Configuring PC Shares article for more information about setting up a share on your computer first.
Step 7: There are a number of options underneath, see Setting content and scanning to check what options to enable. Then select "OK"
2 Adding Remote sources
For details on the supported protocols and configuration
- See: File sharing
Follow the steps (above) for adding a source, but when you get to the 'browse' section (step 4), you need to do one of the following:
If your remote device is visible from one of the existing choices (e.g 'Network File system' , 'UPnP Devices' etc)
- Select a remote location, and you should be able to browse to the remote server.
If the device is not visible, or
- It is a remote NAS
- It is an SMB server
You will need to add a new network location:
3 Making one source from multiple locations
You might notice that Kodi has an "ADD" button in addition to a "BROWSE" button when you are adding a source. After you add your first location, you can add a second location (network or local. you can even mix them) and Kodi will show both folders as a single folder/source.
Kodi will also combine the subfolders within the source/locations. For example, if you had a hard drive for TV shows, but ran out of space, you could make a second hard drive with the same folder paths and Kodi would merge them together to a single directory path. Such as
Hard drive 1/TV shows/
- Hard drive 2/TV shows/
and the same is true for an additional nested folder with the same way:
Hard drive 1/TV shows/American Dad/
- Hard drive 2/TV shows/American Dad/
You could have half of a show on one hard drive, half on another, and Kodi will show it to you as if it was in a single location by using multiple locations in a single source.
Note: This only impacts the basic "Files view". The default Library nodes will combine things by show even if their files are spread across multiple drives. Most users will not really benefit from using multiple paths in a single source.

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Robert Stone comes lauded with praise by his contemporary Philip Roth who compares him to the French Nobel Laureate François Mauriac. That's quite some introduction. Whether readers of Stone's eighth novel agree might well depend on their empathy with – or even tolerance for – the sometimes over-wrought religious backdrop to a story that begins with every suggestion of being Fatal Attraction in academia.
Steven Brookman, a former crab fisherman and one-time (unfairly convicted) jailbird turned travel writer and academic, is determined to end his affair with the brilliant hothead student of the title, Maud Stack. She is a striking, infuriating, though compulsively memorable character who any actress would want to play in the film adaptation.
At the centre of this ostensible whodunnit is the storm of outrage she provokes with a verbose attack in the student newspaper on the anti-abortion protesters at the local hospital. As is clearly signposted, this is never going to end well, though it is still a surprise when the death arrives comparatively early.
This leaves a string of red herrings to play out as we are asked to ponder whether she has been targeted by one of the ridiculed protesters, or by the deranged ex of her filmstar flatmate or – in a particularly complicated twist – avenging relatives of victims of 9/11 who have discovered that, thanks to dodgy coppers, Maud is actually having her path through college subsidised by the appropriated lost wealth of the Twin Towers dead.
There is also the suggestion that Brookman is culpable himself, heightening the jeopardy for a man who has already realised far too late that infidelity does not pay.
The thriller stretches credulity, not least because everyone has an implausibly dramatic back story. Jo Carr, the college counsellor, was once a nun swept up in the revolutionary politics of South America. Mary Pick, the dean's English wife, is a Catholic art historian whose first husband was blown in half by an IRA bomb. Brookman's own long-suffering wife, Ellie, is a Mennonite who tells him: "I love you next to God."
Brookman quotes Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus: "Why this is hell, nor am I out of it." But Stone's own linguistic flourishes fall short of the heights of Christopher Marlowe – which would matter less if the publishers had not hailed it a literary thriller. And while it is unfair to judge a novel on its amorous passages, Brookman is rendered commonplace in his meeting with Maud: "He felt as if he could drain her, overwhelm and consume her, all her scents and silky turns, the firm athlete's body."
Maud's florid hyperbole in her Gazette attack could be seen as an illustration of her youthful excess. "They say that the Assembly of God, assembled by God... treats us to the spectacle of eternal punishment in a kind of haunted house acted out by whooped-up teenagers called Hell House," she writes in her fearless indictment of the anti-abortionists. But asked whether the article is any good, Pick asserts, "A writer lost to us there," with an authority that made me wonder whether this was possibly the view of Stone himself or whether everyone in the story is partly deluded.
Many will find the twists and turns engrossing and the unfaithful man humbled is a narrative that never entirely palls. The clash of warm-hearted wisdom and impetuosity as Jo urges Maud to "learn a little compassion" is one of several touching moments. But on this evidence, read Roth's novels, not his recommendations.Reuse content


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heavenly light in old Berlin School nearby Friedrichshain
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Floor No.2
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Welcome to this lovely bright room with a nice view on the garden (first Floor).
It is in my apartment in a recently restored and re-designed old school building, a nice brick construction with high ceilings (3,50 meters)
You will feel at ease in this loft, with white floor, high ceilings, exposed brick, floor heating.
East-facing windows the spacious room in the morning sun with a relaxing view on 80-year-old trees in the large park-like courtyard.
The new bathroom with natural stone and floor-level rain shower and floor heating is also comfortable.
Artist ambiance, film/photo studio in the neighborhood.
Cook together in the new fully equipped kitchen, enjoy a delicious and cheap lunch or a coffee under a tree in the courtyard.
We are located in Friedrichshain, close to supermarkets (Super 24 / 7 accessibility), metro U and S Bahn, Night Bus, Airport shuttle. Very nice roommate.
Free Internet access (WLAN or LAN), double bed, linen included.
We look forward to new guests :-)
Please be aware, this is a room in a shared flat. It can happen, that you meet me or flatmates in the flat:-). The fllt itself has more than 100sqm..
But actually in my house people enjoy having a chat and cook together.
If there are any other problems:
I have an open ear, talk to me while you are here, dont wait with it, till things are over.
Welcome and have a great stay in Berlin :-)
House rulesPlease help to keep the kitchen clean. We also have a dishwasher, which makes it easier.
This is a non smoking flat. Thanks for your understanding.
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War alles bestens, haben ein sehr schönes Zimmer gehabt, sind jeden morgen von der Sonne geweckt worden. im Hinterhof gute Möglichkeit die Fahrräder abzustellen. Der Vermieter wahr sehr nett. Zwei U-Bahn Stationen weiter hat man sehr gute Möglichkeiten zu essen. In der näh findet man ALDI, LIDL, 24 hr. geöffnetes Kiosk.
Sehr liebevoll eingerichtetes Zimmer. Kontakt besonders freundlich und hilfreich bei diversen Fragen meinerseits !
War alles Super :-) Schöne Idee mit der alten Schule und das Zimmer war auch sehr hübsch. Klar an manchen Stellen noch ein bisschen Ausbaufähig aber ansonsten waren wir sehr zufrieden. Danke
Liebe Leute, wir haben 4 Nächte hier verbracht. Der Gastgeber Marin ist wirklich ein sehr netter Mann. Das Zimmer ist raum und sauber. Die Küche und das Badezimmer sind gross und ganz OK. Wir haben uns sehr gefreut an diesem besonderen Ort. Wir werden ganz sicher und mindestens noch einmal zurück kommen. Liebe Grüsse, Albert & Monique
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my wife and i stayed for three nights. both being railway staff was surprised to find out was a old training school for DR employees. house very well set up for visitors with clear marking on what can/cannot be used. good access to U-bah and S-bahn with also local knowledge passed on by martin during welcome chat.
Nice and clean room.. Recommended!
Spacious and cosy room close the underground station that guarantees fast and comfortable connection with the city centre. There are also cafes and Lidl in the neighbourhood. The whole flat was clean and silent, full privacy was guaranteed in the room. Fflexible check in/out time is a plus. Additionally Martin is very nice and helpful. I really recommend this location. Thank you!
It was my first and my husbands second visit to Berlin. We enjoyed ourselves very much. So much to see and so much to do in Berlin.
Our host Marin was very very friendly. His studio was very cosy and I particularly liked the rain shower. Eventhough there were other guests next to us we could not hear them. So we had plenty of privacy. We can highly reccommend the studio and would choose it again in a next visit.
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1. Move one of Adobe InDesign's panels in front of a Firefox window.
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Confirmed, this patch fixes the problem for me. Thanks for the very speedy service!
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Does this apply also to any other windows that are dragged in front of Firefox, or does it only apply to Adobe InDesign's panels. I am asking this because I would like to verify this but I don't have Adobe InDesign installed.
This is not specific to Adobe InDesign, but I think you will have a tough time finding non-Adobe applications that exhibit this. Theoretically anything that uses kCGFloatingWindowLevel windows will see it. (Perhaps Markus knows of some others?)
Note that you can download and install a 30-day free trial of InDesign from http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=indesign
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PC FormatMore an evolution than a revolution, but it certainly has enough new features to drag you back in. [Christmas 2007, p.62]
PC GamerExpect many sessions of "just one more click/match/deal". [Apr 2008, p.64]
Without doubt, it is the most realistic, rewarding and compelling football title around, so we can only hope that this prosaic update is a blip, rather than a sign of serious stagnation.
Sports Interactive have definitely returned the Football Manager franchise to where it belongs and created the best management sim on the market, although to be honest, there's not much competition.
If you take FM2008 at face value, you're left standing eyeball to eyeball with the finest football management game ever made. But just like Aliens: Special Edition was fleetingly more engaging than the cinema release, this year's FM feels like a game that further polishes an already highly buffed formula but fails to take it to a genuinely higher level.
It's another year and another Football Manager. When good things are this consistent we often forget how lucky we are to have them. That said, this year's game is particularly thin on new features, but it's still the same great package that's been re-jigged slightly to keep us interested.
PC PowerPlayFM 2008 proves that sometimes a minor tune-up is really all you need. [Mar 2008, p.65]
Football Manager joins the rest of the sports titles this year in flogging a dead and diseased corpse to milk yet more cash from its demanding fanbase.
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User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 3 out of 6
Mixed: 2 out of 6
Negative: 1 out of 6
LeeK.Dec 26, 2007An excellent Game, well planned out fantastic reality.
AliO.Oct 22, 2007The best football-sim there is, but still needs alot of work. Implementing lots of little pointless features, whilst negating improving The best football-sim there is, but still needs alot of work. Implementing lots of little pointless features, whilst negating improving exisiting features should be something SI look to reverse in the future.… Full Review »
PaulE.Oct 21, 2007Well, my score explains the only missing part of an other way quite good game: no match simulation. as 2 d cannot these days be accepted as Well, my score explains the only missing part of an other way quite good game: no match simulation. as 2 d cannot these days be accepted as quality simulation. I just imagine real world managers finding out the result of their work watching text descriptions of the games or buttons simulations.when we talk about any kind of simulation games (and football managers are simulations) real simulation is a must. a clear example: why should I train dribling or technique or long passes if I only see the effects of simple passing or shooting?it`s like eating plastic after you cooked real food. I`LL NEVER COOK FM AGAIN. EVER!!!… Full Review »


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PITTSBURGH-Junior Joanna Budzis eclipsed a school record in the 400 IM and is one of 11 members of the University of Pittsburgh women's swim team that advanced to the finals on the third day of the Big East Championship held at Trees Pool on Friday.
Budzis enters the finals of the 400 IM as the No. 1 seed. She touched the wall at 4:17.28, shattering the previous school record of 4:18.70, held by Agnes Mago (2008).
Three others will swim in the consolation final ahead of Budzis. Sophomore Julie Harrison finished 11th overall in the prelims of the 400 IM, while sophomore Lauren Matevish and freshman Tatyanna Sarjeant rounded out the top 16.
In another record-breaking performance, freshman Cam Dixon captured a sixth-place finish in the prelims of the 100 breast at 1:02.53. Her time broke both the previous school record (Laura Barnes – 1:02.64) and the rookie standard (Cookie McIntyre – 1:03.07).
In the 100 back, sophomore Renee Deschenes placed fourth (55.16). Swimming in the consolation final will be freshman Brooke Waugaman, who placed ninth in the event.
Junior Kelsey Herbst advanced to the finals of the 200 free with a season-best 1:48.84. She is seeded fifth overall tonight. Freshman Dani des Tombe and sophomore Kate Dunseith will swim in the consolation final of the 200 free. des Tombe placed 14th in the prelims and Dunseith rounded out the top 16.
Senior Tamara Lelli won her heat of the 100 fly and will swim in the consolation final of the event. She posted a season-best of 55.65 in the race, just shy of the school record (55.00).
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DSL — which stands for digital subscriber line — provides broadband internet speeds over a phone line. Unlike what happens with a dial-up connection, where the line is engaged and it is not possible to use the phone line for making and receiving calls when online, DSL technology effectively splits a single line into different frequencies. This allows the subscriber to be talking on the phone and surfing the Net, at the same time, using a single phone line. Several DSL ISPs in Washington include CenturyLink, Qwest, and Verizon.
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Cable internet is delivered over the existing cable television coax. However, the existing cable line terminates at a cable modem, which connects the user's computer to the internet. Most homes and apartments are now wired for cable, so those consumers should also have access to cable internet. Adelphia, Comcast, Charter Communications, and Wave Broadband all deliver cable internet connections to the state.
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Using a satellite dish and a specialized satellite modem that connects to the consumer's computer, satellite internet is the broadband answer for rural or remote residents of Washington State. Satellite internet is available anywhere that there is a clear view to the southern skies, so that the dish can be aligned to the orbiting satellites. The four major satellite internet ISPs are HughesNet, WildBlue, SkyWay USA, and StarBand.
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Many businesses, small to large, use T1 or bonded T1 lines to get all of their employees online, at the same time, all at broadband speeds. T1 lines are able to handle large volumes of data, from multiple users, simultaneously. AT&T, MegaPath, and TelePacific all provide T1 access to Washington State.