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In a significant achievement the 8.5-ton Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”) -1 was launched on a Long March rocket in September 2011.\n\nAt 34 feet long and 11 feet in diameter, it includes a lab big enough for three astronauts to live and work, and both manned and unmanned vessels have docked with it.\n\nESA explained that the Chinese were originally planning a “controlled re-entry” at the end of its lifespan, with ground controllers guiding its fall towards the surface, typically in a large, unpopulated area of the South Pacific.\n\n“However, in March 2016 the Tiangong-1 space station ceased functioning but maintained its structural integrity. In so far as can be fully confirmed, ground teams lost control with the craft, and it can no longer be commanded to fire its engines. It is, therefore, expected to make an ‘uncontrolled re-entry.’”\n\nThe Aerospace Corporation similarly said that “it is unlikely that this is a controlled re-entry. Although not declared officially, it is suspected that control of Tiangong-1 was lost and will not be regained before re-entry.”\n\nThe Chinese, however, have disputed this.\n\nIn January, a senior scientist at the China Academy of Space Technology, which built the space lab, told a Beijing publication affiliated with the science and technology ministry that Western media reports saying the space lab was “out of control” were wrong.\n\nThe state-run China Daily quoted Zhu Zongpeng as saying Chinese scientists were monitoring Tiangong I and would “make it fall back to the Earth” in the coming months.\n\nThose parts of the object that did not burn out during re-entry, Zhu said, would land in a designated area of the ocean.\n\nThe Communist Party organ Global Times said unnamed aerospace experts had told it that Tiangong-1 “will splash down under control in the Pacific Ocean, denying Western media reports that it will hit Earth.”\n\n“Spacecraft that return under controlled conditions will not threaten the Earth when they fall, he [an anonymous aerospace expert] said, noting that large low-Earth orbit spacecraft usually fall at a designated area in the southern Pacific.”\n\n“Tiangong-1 will reach a proper speed and orbit with several breaks in space and return to the atmosphere, during which time most of its parts will be burned out, and the rest will fall in the southern Pacific,” it quoted the expert as saying. “No large remains nor toxic substance will be produced during the fall.”\n\nIn 2016, China launched the successor, the Tiangong-2. 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The artists were generally painting powerful old men, who tended to be a bit ugly.  To make up for what lacked in the sitter's physical beauty, the artist would emphasize the internal.  A great painting of a king or pope tells you something about the subject's inner thoughts, his psyche.  The image is more about what's going on inside his head rather than the outer trappings of his position or status.  Great paintings by Titian and Velázquez show us the most powerful men in their world, but we feel we know them intimately.  This is what a great artist can do with simple paint and canvas – no copying photographs, no assembly line of assistants doing most of the work, and no gimmicks to hide their lack of ability. \n\n\nPortrait of Pope Innocent X by Diego Velázquez.\n\nThe Obama portraits are kind of shocking – not only because the paintings are so clichéd and amateurish, but because Barack and Michelle would choose artists primarily by virtue of their skin color and radical views instead of whether they could actually pull off an official portrait.  With no budget limitations, you choose these two?  These substandard paintings will hang in the National Gallery for all time.  I assume that the Obamas wanted to prove a point.  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      "title": "Gale force winds batter Gibraltar",
      "body": "Gale force winds batter Gibraltar\nAleesha Hansel\nGibraltar Olive Press (blog) ... http://www.gibraltarolivepress.com/2018/01/29/ocean-village-damaged-storm-wreaks-havoc-gibraltar/ ...\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUFjbiVewzjDW4ixhHqFTeF4AzEex9QzjUEsGv4xBao4h/Storm_Damage.jpg)\nStorm damage in Gibralta\nGale force winds have battered Gibraltar, closing schools, bringing down trees and diverting flights.\n\nOcean Village saw its upper floor cover torn apart in the early hours of the morning, with steel bolts and scaffolding poles ripped off and bent.\n\nThe winds of more than 100km/h also meant that some flights from the Rock were diverted, with passengers transported by coach to Malaga.\n\nSeveral schools have also been closed following safety concerns, with the playground roof of Notre Dame School partially collapsing, in addition to scaffolding falling on top of St. Anne's gymnasium. \nhttps://youtu.be/--HOHl_imR0",
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