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Actor’s Strike: SAG-AFTRA Releases List of Proposals and Studios’ Counterproposals – Rolling Stone
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Berkshire shareholders reject climate, diversity proposals – Reuters
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Wall Street lines up against SEC chair Gary Gensler on one of his most controversial proposals – CNBC
- Wall Street lines up against SEC chair Gary Gensler on one of his most controversial proposals CNBC
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Russia’s Lavrov: Either Ukraine fulfils Moscow’s proposals or our army will decide
Dec 27 (Reuters) – Moscow’s proposals for settlement in Ukraine are well known to Kyiv and either Ukraine fulfils them for their own good or the Russian army will decide the issue, TASS agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying.
“Our proposals for the demilitarization and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia’s security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy,” the state news agency quoted Lavrov as saying late on Monday.
“The point is simple: Fulfil them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.”
Moscow has been calling its invasion in Ukraine a “special military operation” to “demilitarise” and “denazify” its neighbour. Kyiv and its Western allies call it an imperial-style aggression to grab land.
In September, Moscow proclaimed it had annexed four provinces of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – after holding so-called referendums that were rejected as bogus and illegal by Kyiv and its allies.
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was open to negotiations and blamed Kyiv and its Western backers for a lack of talks, a stance Washington has previously dismissed as posturing amid persistent Russian attacks.
Lavrov told TASS that when it comes to how long the conflict will last, “the ball is in the regime’s court and Washington behind it.”
There is no end in sight to the war, which has entered its 11th month and which has killed thousands, displaced millions and turned cities into rubble.
Kyiv has ruled out conceding any land to Russia in return for peace, and publicly demands Russia relinquish all territory. Moscow has insisted it is pursing “demilitarisation” and “denazification” but in reality its aims have not been fully defined.
Additional reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly and Ron Popeski; Editing by Sandra Maler
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NASA requests proposals for second Artemis crewed lunar lander
PARIS — NASA has released a request for proposals for a second human lunar lander for the Artemis program to join the Starship lander under development by SpaceX.
NASA released the call for proposals Sept. 16, nearly six months after announcing plans for the Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) project and releasing a draft call for proposals for industry feedback. The agency set a deadline of Nov. 15 for receiving proposals with an award expected in May 2023.
The selected company would develop a lander that would support missions after Artemis 3, the first crewed landing of the Artemis campaign that will be done by SpaceX no earlier than 2025. The winning company would carry out an uncrewed landing followed by a crewed landing no earlier than the Artemis 5 mission in the late 2020s, then be eligible, along with SpaceX, to complete for lunar landing service contracts for later missions.
“Work done under this solicitation, in addition to current lander development and studies taking place, will help build the foundation for long-term deep space exploration,” Lisa Watson-Morgan, manager of the Human Landing System (HLS) program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, said in a statement about the release of the call for proposals.
In March, NASA billed Sustaining Lunar Development as fulfilling a commitment to Congress that it will have competition in the overall HLS program. “I promised competition, so here it is,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the March announcement of the project.
The winning company will have to demonstrate its lander can meet the requirements for a notional lunar lander mission called a Polar Sortie Mission. That mission would carry two astronauts to the lunar surface for a stay of up to 6.25 days and support four planned and one contingency moonwalk.
A later Polar Excursion Mission would require the lander to transport four astronauts to the lunar surface and stay there for 33 days. That mission would assume there are other assets at the landing site, like a habitat where astronauts would stay during the mission, and thus require only one roundtrip moonwalk from the lander to the habitat and back. Companies can also show how their landers could support short-stay missions to regions other than the south pole of the moon as well as be used to transport cargo.
The original HLS competition, won by SpaceX in April 2021, also included bids from teams led by Blue Origin and Dynetics. Those companies protested the award to the Government Accountability Office, which rejected the protests three months later. Blue Origin then filed suit in federal court, which ruled against the company, allowing NASA to proceed with SpaceX.
Neither Blue Origin nor Dynetics have formally announced their intent to bid on the Sustaining Lunar Development program, although Blue Origin does have an “Artemis Lander” placeholder page on its website.
It’s also unclear if Blue Origin’s partners on its “National Team” that bid on HLS, including Draper, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, will join Blue Origin again on the new competition. Officials with Lockheed and Northrop were noncommittal shortly after the announcement of the project in March, saying at the time they were studying options.
“We’re looking at SLD. Obviously, it’s an opportunity for us,” Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space, said in an Aug. 28 interview before the first Artemis 1 launch attempt. He said the company had decided what companies it would work with on the proposal but wasn’t ready to disclose them.
NASA requests proposals for 2nd Artemis moon lander
NASA is asking private industry to come up with ideas for another astronaut moon lander.
The space agency is working to establish a long-term human presence on and around the moon by the end of the 2020s, via a program called Artemis. In 2021, NASA announced that it had selected SpaceX’s Starship as the lander for the program’s first crewed surface mission, Artemis 3, which is scheduled to touch down near the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026.
In March of this year, agency officials said that they planned to encourage the development of a second crewed lander for Artemis, to provide redundancy and resilience for the program. That plan became official today (Sept. 16), when NASA issued a call for proposals from private companies.
Related: NASA’s Artemis program of moon exploration
“Work done under this solicitation, in addition to current lander development and studies taking place, will help build the foundation for long-term deep space exploration,” Lisa Watson-Morgan, program manager for the Human Landing System Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said in a statement today (opens in new tab).
“Partnering with American companies to do that work now allows us to leverage NASA’s knowledge and expertise to encourage technological innovations for a sustained presence at the moon,” Watson-Morgan said.
NASA issued a draft of the new solicitation on March 31 and held a virtual “industry day” about it in April before releasing the final call today, agency officials said. Proposals are due by Nov. 15 of this year. Companies that are selected under the contract will be required to perform two demonstration flights to the lunar surface, one uncrewed and one crewed.
The contract that SpaceX already holds with NASA has a similar requirement; the crewed test flight is part of the Artemis 3 mission.
Though SpaceX apparently won’t be allowed to bid for the new contract, NASA wants Starship to be part of the Artemis program over the long haul. NASA officials said in today’s statement that they plan to exercise an option in SpaceX’s existing contract, asking the company to evolve its Artemis 3 Starship design “to meet an extended set of requirements for sustaining missions at the moon and conduct another crewed demonstration landing.”
The Artemis program could pick up serious steam in a matter of days. NASA is gearing up for the program’s first-ever test flight, Artemis 1, which will use a Space Launch System rocket to send an Orion capsule on an uncrewed journey to lunar orbit and back.
Artemis 1 was originally supposed to launch on Aug. 29, but technical glitches pushed the liftoff attempt back several times. The agency is currently targeting Sept. 27 for the launch.
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Cardano Creator Charles Hoskinson Warns That the White House’s New Crypto Proposals Pose Grave Threat to Bitcoin
Cardano (ADA) creator Charles Hoskinson is warning that new recommendations by the US government do not bode well for Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets.
Taking issue with the recommendations of a new White House Office of Science and Technology Policy report that calls for the involvement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to create evidence-based environmental standards for the responsible design of digital assets, Hoskinson says the proposals could result in an outright ban of Bitcoin.
“[The] EPA and DoE are going to start talking to crypto companies to basically tell them to change the way that their cryptocurrencies work.
And which way? Well, these should include, ‘Standards for very low energy intensities, low water usage, low noise generation, clean energy usage by operators and standards that strengthen over time for additional carbon-free generation to match and exceed additional electricity load of their facilities.
Should these measures prove ineffective at reducing impacts, the administration should explore executive actions and Congress might consider legislation to limit or eliminate the use of high energy intensity consensus mechanisms for crypto-asset mining.’
In other words, Bitcoin should be banned. That’s how you read that.”
The report is a response to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in March calling for “responsible digital asset innovation.”
According to Hoskinson, the US government can employ various strategies to achieve its objectives that could spell bad news for proof-of-work crypto assets.
“The White House is now basically hiding in page seven a report no one will ever see or read: ‘Hey Mia, nice thing you got there with proof of work but, you know, global warming bad. So we should ban it.’
And we will soft ban it by having the EPA and DoE come in and basically create standards that you can’t adhere to.
And then when you can’t, create some form of executive order or legislation to basically prevent you from being able to do it.
Or destroy your profit margins so it’s no longer profitable for the American mining industry.”
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NASA Selects Mission Proposals to Study Stellar Explosions, Galaxies & Stars
Animation showing the formation of a supernova remnant.
Four mission proposals submitted to
“NASA’s Explorers Program has a proud tradition of supporting innovative approaches to exceptional science, and these selections hold that same promise,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “From studying the evolution of galaxies to explosive, high-energy events, these proposals are inspiring in their scope and creativity to explore the unknown in our universe.”
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk (Markarian) 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.
NASA Explorer missions conduct focused scientific investigations and develop instruments that fill scientific gaps between the agency’s larger space science missions. The proposals were competitively selected based on the potential science value and feasibility of development plans.
Each of the two Medium Explorer teams selected at this stage will receive $3 million to conduct a nine-month mission concept study. Astrophysics Medium Explorer mission costs are capped at $300 million each, excluding the launch vehicle. The selected proposals are:
UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX)
- UVEX would conduct a deep survey of the whole sky in two bands of ultraviolet light, providing new insights into galaxy evolution and the lifecycle of stars. The spacecraft would have the ability to repoint rapidly to capture ultraviolet light from the explosion that follows a burst of
Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM)
- In its orbit between Earth and the Moon, MoonBEAM would see almost the whole sky at any time, watching for bursts of gamma rays from distant cosmic explosions and rapidly alerting other telescopes to study the source. MoonBEAM would see gamma rays earlier or later than telescopes on Earth or in low orbit, and astronomers could use that time difference to pinpoint the gamma-ray source in the sky.
- Principal investigator: Chiumun Michelle Hui at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
A LargE Area burst Polarimeter (LEAP)
- Mounted on the International Space Station, LEAP would study gamma-ray bursts from the energetic jets launched during the formation of a
The program is managed by NASA Goddard for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, which conducts a wide variety of research and scientific exploration programs for Earth studies, space weather, the solar system, and the universe.
Tesla investors pave way for stock split, vote with company on most proposals
Tesla Inc. shareholders on Thursday approved a proposal expected to lead to a 3-for-1 stock split and sided with the company on most of the proposals up for a vote.
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announced preliminary vote results at its gigafactory in Austin, its new corporate headquarters, at the end of an official shareholder meeting that was followed by a speech and question-and-answer session with Chief Executive Elon Musk.
The electric-car maker said the stock split, its second in two years, would provide its employees with more flexibility and make the stock more accessible to retail investors. Tesla performed a 5-for-1 stock split in August 2020, and its shares have increased 31% since then. They closed Thursday at $925.90, up 0.4%.
See: Tesla files for 3-for-1 stock split
With a goal of producing 20 million vehicles a year, Musk said an announcement about a new factory location could come later this year, and said Tesla could ultimately have 10 to 12 factories around the world. It currently has four, in Fremont, Calif.; Austin, Texas; Shanghai and Berlin.
Shareholders also approved the re-election of two board members despite being urged against it by proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services.
Martin Viecha, head of investor relations for Tesla, announced that the company proposals to reduce director terms to two years from three years, and to remove the supermajority voting requirement for proposals, had been approved by investors but failed to hit the two-thirds threshold of total shares outstanding needed to make the votes official. In addition, a shareholder proposal for shareholder proxy access passed, he said. It would give shareholders the ability to nominate board members.
See: Influential proxy advisory firms urge against voting for Tesla board members, for most shareholder proposals
Seven other shareholder proposals failed, according to the preliminary results. They included calls for reports on antiharassment and discrimination efforts, and on mandatory arbitration. Shareholders had also urged Tesla to adopt a policy on freedom of association and collective bargaining.
The company expects to file a final tally of the shareholder votes within four business days, as required, Viecha said.