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Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland
Bookmark:https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb152-dwr
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
GB 152 DWR
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Executive Council minutes, 1900-1910, 1921; minutes of Delegate Meetings, 1890-1921; Finance Committee minutes, 1920-1922; Emergency Committee minutes, 1900-1922; annual reports, 1890-1919; 'The Dockers' Record', 1901-1921; minutes and report of Inquiry into Draft Regulations Affecting Docks made under the Factory and Workshop Act 1901, 1904; minutes of Court of Inquiry into Wages, Rates and Conditions of Men Engaged in Dock and Waterside Labour, 1920.
The Tea Operatives' and General Labourers' Association was founded in 1887 after a wage reduction was imposed on the tea workers employed by the East and West India Dock Company at their warehouse in Cutler Street, London. After the great dock strike of 1889 it was renamed the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland. It was renamed the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899. It was often known simply as the Dockers' Union, although by 1922 it was far more of a general union. It initiated the fourteen union amalgamation which resulted in the formation of the Transport and General Workers' Union on 1 January 1922.
Prior written permission to consult unpublished records in this archive is required. Details are given in the full catalogue. Subject to permission being granted, the archive is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/
Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/DWR
The collection was deposited in the Centre by the TGWU, which inherited it from the creating union.
The Labour History Archive and Study Centre, Manchester, and the TUC Library at London Metropolitan University also hold printed material.
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland; 1889-1899
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland; 1899-1922


Conference Date: 2017, Vol. 14, Pages 186-188.
Synthetic Biology follows a Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle for the construction of novel biocircuits with a predefined behavior. Recently, a few simulation and bioCAD tools to assist synthetic biologists in the biocircuit engineering process have started to appear. One of these simulators is gro, a 2D Individual based Model (IbM). The objectives of our work on gro was to: Implement an IbM platform that can quickly simulate a large amount of E. Coli cells and to extend the array of functions that a cell executes. Our goal is to provide a fast and easy to use IbM simulator for synthetic circuits. We developed multiple extensions for gro as external modules programmed in C/C++. We improved the simulator speed through a new physics engine called CellEngine. It implements a ring-based algorithm for cell shoving. A "binary protein" module that directs intracellular regulation along with a new biocircuit language specification layer were added to the simulator as well. We also improved the existing signal capabilities in the simulator. Finally, bacterial conjugation (transmission of plasmids between neighbor bacteria) was implemented into gro as a new intercellular communication mechanism. Our new gro version enables the simulation of growing colonies having up to 105 bacteria in minutes; while the previous version took over five days to reach the same number. The new specification layer and the underlying regulatory module offer a new structure-oriented paradigm where cell behavior emerges from the specification. All of the new features extend gro to be a fast and versatile tool for prototyping multicellular biocircuits in microbial populations.


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SSANGYONG'S SUPERIOR PULLING POWER PARTNERS WITH BAILEY OF BRISTOL
SsangYong Motors UK is delighted to supply three SsangYong vehicles to support one of the UK's largest caravan manufacturers, Bailey of Bristol, for its latest overseas roadtrip adventure. Bailey of Bristol, in association with the Caravan and Motorhome Club, is embarking on a new and inspiring 3,500-mile intercontinental caravan adventure this week to Morocco, named the 'Sahara Challenge'.
The challenge will commence from the Bailey production facility in Bristol, travel through Spain and Portugal and across the Strait of Gibraltar into Morocco, then over the Atlas Mountains and as far south as the edge of the Sahara Desert – the birthplace of the original caravans – before returning home. The marathon journey will take 20 days to complete with the team experiencing a range of potentially extreme road and weather conditions along the way.
A new Bailey Discovery D4-4 caravan will be towed by a SsangYong Korando Pioneer, a car designed with the caravanning market in mind, and another Discovery D4-4 by SsangYong's flagship SUV, Rexton[1] 4x4. The support team for the challenge will drive the award-winning[2] Musso Saracen pick-up that will carry crew and vital equipment. All three models represent SsangYong values to the core – a comprehensively equipped, value for money package, with a surprising level of interior refinement and infotainment, as well as an impressive 7-year/150,000-mile warranty.
Nick Laird, managing director at SsangYong Motors UK, said: "We are delighted to be supporting the Sahara Challenge. The crew will endure challenging terrain and weather, but our vehicles will be right at home demonstrating how they tackle real-world conditions, doing what they do best – rugged terrain, and towing!" Laird continued; "This is a perfect challenge for us - the caravan market has been and still is extremely important for SsangYong in the UK and we can't wait to see the output so we can share it with our customers and our followers. It's great to support real people, in real conditions, going back to the roots and origin of caravanning."
The Sahara Challenge vehicles will be driven by representatives from Bailey of Bristol, the Caravan and Motorhome Club and media guests. Throughout the journey, the core team will be also joined by a wide range of guests including media representatives from both inside and outside the industry.
Talking about the forthcoming trip, Simon Howard, marketing director at Bailey of Bristol, said: "The 20-day Sahara Challenge will demonstrate just where a caravan and a SsangYong tow car can take you. We are delighted to have SsangYong's support with three superb and capable vehicles and are very excited about the trip – watch this space!"
As they travel towards the Sahara, the team will post regular blogs/vlogs and social media updates via the Bailey of Bristol, the Caravan and Motorhome Club and the SsangYong Motors UK social media channels using the hashtag, #SaharaChallenge.
SsangYong Korando Pioneer
The Korando Pioneer, is available the 1.6 diesel engine with automatic transmission, in 2WD and 4WD. Aimed at the caravan and towing market, the Pioneer has a 2-tonne towing capacity, a full-size spare wheel, and a whole host of safety equipment and infotainment, including an 8" touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Auto Android. Korando's newly developed Euro 6D-T compliant 1.6 litre diesel engine produces 136PS max power and 324Nm max torque delivering a smooth, progressive and powerful driving experience. It's durable and fuel efficient, so the 1.6 diesel engine is the perfect choice when peak torque performance and fuel economy are a priority.
SsangYong Musso Saracen
Designed to carry passengers in comfort and transport loads securely, the SUV-based Musso combines a five-seat crew-cab body style with a workman-like load. It carries a payload of over 1-tonne and tows trailers of up to 3.5-tonnes concurrently to give the highest total load capacity in the segment. This combination of utility pick-up and SUV means Musso offers the perfect blend of functionality, versatility, practicality, performance and comfort to the driver and passengers. With an Aisin 6-speed automatic transmission, Musso is powered by the same e-XDi220 engine found in the Rexton and delivers a maximum power of 181ps at 4,000 rpm and a maximum torque of 420Nm at 1,400 to 2,800rpm.
SsangYong Rexton ELX
The Rexton powertrain employs an uprated e-XDi220 engine 2.2 litre turbo diesel engine manufactured by SsangYong, which delivers maximum power of 181PS and maximum torque of 420Nm. Its' highly efficient, extremely quiet delivers progressive acceleration from a standing start, and strong low-end torque, typical of a SsangYong power unit. The powertrain has been proven to deliver outstanding output in the low to mid-range and is ideal for those wishing to tow a double horsebox, large caravan or commercial trailer. Rexton has strong ladder chassis providing a substantial towing platform of 3,500kg, and a kerb weight of between 2,095 - 2,233kg, which is particularly important for anyone towing a heavy caravan.
SsangYong cars are manufactured in South Korea by SsangYong Motor, which is 75 per cent owned by the Indian engineering conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra and imported into the UK by SsangYong Motor UK. Established in 1954, SsangYong is Korea's oldest vehicle manufacturer and only 4x4 and SUV specialist producer. There are currently some 65 SsangYong dealers covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with new locations being added to the network all the time. To download hi res images via the SsangYong online press office visit: https://media.ssangyonggb.co.uk/
About Bailey of Bristol
The Bailey of Bristol website contains full details of its caravan and motorhome ranges as well as all the latest company news and information: baileyofbristol.co.uk.
Founded in 1948, Bailey of Bristol is the longest established UK independent manufacturer with over 70 years' experience in leisure vehicle production and design. During this period our family-owned business has grown to become not only the manufacturer of the UK's most popular caravan brand, but also one of the largest in Europe. In 2011, the company brought this same level of expertise to the motorhome world, as well as expanding to new export markets in Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.
With more Bailey leisure vehicles on the road in the UK than any other, our company has earned its place as The Nation's Favourite. The signature build quality, comprehensive specification and superb value for money combine to set us apart from the competition and will ensure people will continue to 'Go Bailey' for many years' to come.
Ten years' ago, the company introduced the Alu-Tech body shell construction system, which is seen by most observers as the most significant development in leisure vehicle production technology for three decades. Providing genuine design innovation, this fully patented technology means that Bailey leisure vehicles are now some of the best engineered and most technically advanced on the market, keeping owners comfortable, safe and secure, no matter how tough the conditions.
freedomtogo.co.uk: As a leading UK manufacturer, Bailey of Bristol is a keen supporter of the 'Freedom to Go' campaign developed by the caravan and motorhome industry to help people discover and plan their next adventure or relaxing escape. It offers inspiring ideas on where to go on holiday, and what to do when you get there, plus helpful advice, such as comparing whether a caravan or motorhome is the right and affordable choice.
About the Caravan and Motorhome Club
Champions of the great outdoors – from glamping to touring – the Caravan and Motorhome Club represents the interests of around one million caravan, motorhome, campervan and trailer tent owners across the UK. Founded in 1907, the Caravan and Motorhome Club has a wealth of experience and prides itself on offering great value and high-quality campsites for tourers and glampers.
Caravan and Motorhome Club membership is just £54 per year and provides members with access to 2700 quality campsites in the UK and overseas. The Club offers over 340 campsites across Europe including France, Spain and Germany amongst other destinations. All members can take advantage of expert advice, overseas travel services, great ferry offers, cover and insurance and exclusive member offers and discounts.
The Club offers a choice of glamping accommodation, motorhome hire and tent camping through its Experience Freedom operation, all of which are available to non-members. Caravan and Motorhome Club members receive a 10% discount on glamping and 15% discount on motorhome hire. To find out more about Experience Freedom, visit www.experiencefreedom.co.uk
For further information about becoming a member of the Caravan and Motorhome Club, please visit www.camc.com or call 01342 318 813.
[1] 4x4 Magazine 4x4 of the Year 2018, 2019, 2020
[2] WhatCar? Best Value Pick-up 2019 and 2020 4x4 Magazine Best Value Pick-up 2019 Diesel Car Best Pick-Up 2019
SSANGYONG'S SUPERIOR PULLING POWER PARTNERS WITH BAILEY OF BRISTOL
SsangYong partners with Bailey of Bristol
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1. Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, HRC 005
Description: - ff. i + 174 + i - s. XVI gold tooled leather over boards with later metal frames. - Edward A. Parsons (1878-1962). - De Ricci, p. 748.
Description: - ff. ii + 117 + ii - s. XIX french brown calf. - Purchased by UT from the estate of John Henry Wrenn, 1918. Acquired by Wrenn from Bowden. - De Ricci, p. 2157.
Description: - ff. iii + 257 + iii - Later cream-colored leather over thick boards with clasps. - Belleville family.
Description: - ff. 149 - s. XVII red morocco, marked on spine with armorie of Louis XIV. - A French owner, 1740 (inscription on front pastedown). Castle-Freke Library (armorial bookplate of the family Evans-Freke, Barons Carbery). William Targ (1907-1999; bookplate).
Description: - ff. i + 160 + i; i + 224 + i - Previous binding (retained, housed separately) was one volume with oak boards covered in (now threadbare) brown velvet, sheepskin back, 5 large brass bosses on each board. Rebound in 1988 in two volumes, in full vellum over boards with clasps. - Monastery of St. Martin of Tournai; Augustins Déchaussées de la Croix-Rousse; Thomas Hobart (d.1728); Sir Roger Mostyn (1675-1739); John Barrymore; Elliot Nugent; Edward A. Parsons (1878-1962). See Regine Reynolds Cornell, UT Library Chronicle n.s. no. 22.
6. Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, INCUN 1478 N549c
Description: - ff. 2 - Edward A. Parsons (1878-1962).
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Description: - ff. I + 145 + I - T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 5; Bond and Faye, p.194
Description: - ff. I + 56 + II - Robert Hoe; Alice Warder <Garrett> (1913). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 6; Bond and Faye, p.194
Description: - ff. I + 168 + 2 - T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 7; Bond and Faye, p. 194
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Description: - ff. I + 106 + I - ARE; T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 8; Bond and Faye, p. 194
Description: - ff. II + 82 + II - T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 9; Bond and Faye, p. 194
Description: - ff. III + 170 + I - Susanne Delyon (s. XVI); T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888). - De Ricci, p. 863 as MS 10; Bond and Faye, p. 194
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15. Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 031
Description: - ff. ii + 202 + ii - Modern blind-stamped morocco by Chambolle-Duru. - Gedoyn de Graville; Rushton M. Dorman, sale (April 1886, n. 8); Chester sale (December 1890, n. 387); gift of Phoebe A. Hearst to the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley ca. 1890. Previous call numbers MAR 7, 2MS BX2080 1460. - De Ricci p. 5, n. 12.
Description: - ff. 297 - Contemporary ledger binding with highly deformed, concave spine; pasteboard covered with blind-stamped calf, which is partly lacking; tudor rose design on spine. - Previous call number f2MS DC3 F9.
Description: - ff. i + 41 + 1 - Tawed leather over wooden boards, early 15th century; manuscript title label on back cover; evidence of two clasps and catches. - Jean, duc de Berry (1340-1416); Jean du Pré (?); bought of Payne by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1824), his n. 236; acquired by UC Berkeley from Sotheby's (25 November 1969, lot 462). Previous call number 2MS PQ1529 P48E6.
Description: - ff. ii + ii + 169 + ii - Straight-grained red morocco with gilt decoration, 19th century. - Robert Lang; his sale, Evans, (17 November 1828, lot 2337), to Payne; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 3636; acquired by the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley from Sotheby's (25 November 1969, lot 468). Previous call number f2MS PQ1533 T57.
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Description: - ff. iv + 210 + i - French red velvet, 19th century; gilt, gauffered edges with H/D emblem of Henri II and entwined crescents of Diane de Poitiers. - King Henri II of France (*); Joseph Lilly, English bookseller (1850); Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his n. 13496; acquired by the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley from H. P. Kraus (1987).
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Missourians are growing more likely to vote on a transportation sales tax later this year. But it won't be as much as has been discussed for the last few years.
Backers have talked about a one-percent sales tax increase for more than three years. But Jefferson City Senator Mike Kehoe knew he'd face another filibuster this year–as he did last year when the bill was talked to death–if the bill continued calling for a full one percent. He says cutting the increase to three-fourths of a percent has kept opposing Senators in their seats and also has pleased some local officials who need room for their own sales taxes.
He figures the tax will raise six billion dollars in the next ten years for the transportation department. He also points to predictions that the funding will create 270,000 jobs.
But opposing Senator John Lamping of St. Louis says voter approval of the largest tax increase in Missouri history will leave Missouri with the nation's ninth highest state and local sales tax burden.
The House had approved a one-cent increase. But Kehoe thinks the House will accept the lower figure and send the proposal to the voters.


Guys, this one HAS multi-touch!
when i first saw this phone i knew i was going to buy this phone. But after knowing that this has fixed focus camera , i changed my decision. This is a very bad move from nokia , 8mp camera with no auto focus. I will buy any other touch phone with focusing capabilities and even 5mp will do. Nokia you have really let us fanboys down.
Nice feature but ugly design, its like my old 5800. C6-01 have better design,but smaller screen.
just a day after its launch it is available to buy.
You can own this phone for €429 as per Nokia German website.
It costly then expected but as this is pre-order price,we can expect it to fall.
You can own this phone for €429 as per Nokia German website. It costly then expected but as this is pre-order price,we can expect it to fall.
though i so wish it was cheaper..
Now, the handset,they are coming with, Nokia will regain its lost glory.
Pawan, 15 Sep 2010No multitouch, No scratch resistant glass surface. WTF. GOOD features- usb on the go, 32gb car... moreHi Pawan. It HAS multi-touch and scratch resistant glass. It's made of stainless steel. But has no Clear Black Display (CBD).
Dan, 14 Sep 2010According to the nokia website, this phone has full focus, not autofocus. Is this true? (Hope ... moreHi, the camera IS full focus. I have seen some sample images, and assuming you're not trying to photographs something that's really close, like a business card, the photos really are good. They're doing something quite clever with their image processing.
Why no ClearBlack technology on this one? Or I miss it? Why Why Why!!!


20.6" x 20.4" stitched on 14 count.
16.0" x 15.8" stitched on 18 count.
Dragonfly Painting (No Background) cross stitch pattern... This counted cross stitch pattern of a Dragonfly was created from the beautiful Artwork of Laura Zollar. www.laurazollar.com (THIS IS THE VERSION WITH THE BACKGROUND REMOVED) Only full cross stitches are used in this pattern.


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JuiCI is a CI server that has a notion of queuing and priority.

It's designed to work well with [agent99](https://github.com/99designs/agent99)
but will play nicely with most frontends to CI.

## Features

* Callbacks are created as builds are requested
* Builds are executed in parallel, with one concurrent build per workspace
* Queues can be dynamically created
* Build status visualised

## Important but Miscellaneous

If you create child processes in modules/plugins then you need to register your
disinterest or JuiCI will think they're builds and that would be bad.

## Setup

JuiCI is deliberately very light on the setup front.

```bash
bundle install
bundle exec bin/juici
```

is all you need to have a working instance (provided that you have mongo installed).

### Gotchas

Make sure you don't do something innocuous like

```bash
bundle install --path .bundle
```

this might look sane (and it is, kinda) but owing to a quirk in bundler, it
will break any ruby code you try to build.

I'm working on a workaround, but in the meantime the fix is to not do it!

## Usage

JuiCI is very focused on minimal configuration; meaning that beyond starting
the server and pointing it at a MongoDB instance, you do not need to do
anything special to build a new project. Just request a build; however this
means that on your first build you will need to send the commands to create
your test environment)

There is a sample implementation of a JuiCI client bundled with the JuiCI source
code, or exposed in the `juici-interface` gem.

Example:

```bash
juicic build --host $hostname --command - --title "test build" \
             --project "some project" <<EOF
if [ ! -d .git ]; then
  git init .
  git remote add origin git://github.com/richo/twat.git
fi

git fetch
git checkout -fq origin/master

set -e

bundle install
bundle exec rake spec"
EOF
```

Using a convention like `script/cibuild` as in janky/hubot etc is advisable,
although bear in mind that the logic to checkout the repo will need to be
seperate.

## Priority

JuiCI supports the notion of priority. Builds given without a priority will be
assigned priority 1 (to allow for marking a build as less important with
priority 0).

If juici receives a new build with priority higher than any currently
unfinished, it will pause whatever it's doing and build the new project. If
there is a tie for priority, a FIFO queue is assumed.

JuiCI uses `SIGSTOP` and `SIGCONT` internally for job control.

## Hooks

You may specify one or more callbacks when you request a build. They will be
called with an (as yet unformalised) json body as the body if/when the build
reaches that state. Alternately you may specify "any" as the callback state and
it will be called on all state changes.

## Integration

Apps written in ruby wanting to interact with Juici can include the
`juici-interface` gem, which presently exposes a few constants to line up with
JuiCI's internal state.
Over time this will be expanded, but for now they are:

```ruby
Juici::BuildStatus::PASS
Juici::BuildStatus::FAIL
Juici::BuildStatus::START
Juici::BuildStatus::WAIT
```

## Security

JuiCI poses some interesting security concerns. First off, it will allow
anyone with access to run arbitrary commands on your server. I have
deliberately not implemented any kind of security inside JuiCI, it plays nicely
as a Rack application, and middlewares are much better suited to this task.

It should go without saying, but any builds started by JuiCI will inherit its
environment. This means that if you run it in dev mode and forward your ssh
agent, builds can ssh to other machines as you!

When running in production you should take steps to ensure that the user JuiCI
runs as is no more privileged than it needs to be, and sanitise its
environment before execution.

## A note on subprocesses

JuiCI by default invokes everything in a subshell - indeed this is the only way
to approach this if you want to execute more than one command.

What this means to you as the user though is that unless you go to lengths to
specifically implement it, your process won't see any of the signal handling
madness. The shell(`/bin/sh`) will see everything, and if killed, your
processes will become orphaned, but carry on.

## Authors

* [Richo Healey](https://github.com/rcho)
* [Alec Sloman](https://github.com/alecsloman)

## Contact

JuiCI's code lives on [Github](https://github.com/richo/juici)
and the [author](mailto:richo@psych0tik.net) can be contacted on
 [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rich0H)

## Legalese

(c) Richo Healey 2012, richo@psych0tik.net

Released under the terms of the MIT license.

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24 published items with the word (s) or phrase Aditya Birla in News, Trends, Videos, Photo galleries, Agenda and sorted by "date descending".
India's Birla to invest 8 billion rupees in Pantaloon
India's Pantaloon Retail, the country's largest listed retailer, plans to spin-off its branded apparel business under the Pantaloons brand into a separate company.
India retail reform unravels after backlash
India suspended plans to open its $450 billion supermarket sector to foreign firms such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc, backtracking from one of the government's boldest reforms in years in the face of a huge political backlash.
India's Grasim to cut viscose staple fibre output
India's Grasim Industries Ltd , part of the Aditya Birla Group, said late on Saturday it would curtail its production of viscose staple fibre (VSF) by 30 percent.
Ultra-rich consumers are India's new maharajas
Grand extravagance is back under a new Raj of ultra-rich Indians who are splurging more and more as the world's top luxury brands rush for a piece of the huge Indian market.


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Sunday Line-up
CBS News January 26, 2014, 11:17 AM
Transcript: Bob Schieffer's interview with Rep. Michael McCaul
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BOB SCHIEFFER: And good morning, again. As you probably know by now, there has been another mall shooting. Yesterday, a 19-year-old that police have now identified as Darien Marcus Aguilar, of College Park, Maryland, took a shotgun and two homemade explosive devices into a suburban mall in Maryland, shot and killed two people, then apparently turned the gun on himself.
Plus, there is a new threat against the Sochi Olympics that has surfaced this morning, from the same group that claimed responsibility for the bombings in Volgograd, Russia last month. Those bombings killed at least 34 people. For the latest on both of these stories, we're going to go now to the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, Michael McCaul. He is just back from Sochi. And I want to get to your trip, Mr. Chairman.
But first I want to know if you know anything more about the shooting at the Columbia mall yesterday. We're told that police call it an isolated incident. I take that to mean this was not a terrorist thing.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: No, that's correct. This is not a terrorist threat at all. It's probably more a domestic squabble. But it does highlight the vulnerability of shopping malls. Two shootings of soft targets like we saw in the Kenya shopping mall case. Now that's the kind of scenario we do not want to see happen in the United States.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, what do we do? More security at the malls? What do you do to combat that?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, you can't have a security lockdown at our malls, but things like canines, a heavier canine presence are very good at detecting explosives. I know this individual had a backpack of explosives. But the fact is, Bob, it's very difficult to stop a lone gunman who may have mental issues that wants to kill people. I mean, you can only do so much to stop that.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right, well, let's turn to Sochi. I know you're just back. I know when you were there, you said you wanted to come back and get more intelligence before you decided whether you would recommend that your own family go to Sochi for the games. Where does that stand right now in light of now, yet another terrorist threat to the games?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, that's a difficult question to answer. I would say we should not scare people from attending the Olympics. It's a time honored tradition. If we do not support our team and show up, I think the terrorists are winning and that's what they're trying to do here.
Having said that, I would say that the security threat to this particular Olympics are the greatest I think I've ever seen because of the proximity of the terrorists to the Olympic village. And just recently, Bob, most significantly now we have the leader of Al Qaeda, Zawahiri, from Pakistan, Afghanistan, now calling for a global jihad against these Olympics. As a Homeland Security chairman, that is very disturbing to me in terms of the security at the Olympics.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Let's talk about that a little. I mean, is this something-- should we just cancel this whole thing? Should we not put our athletes in harm's way? I mean, when he's talking about a worldwide jihad, that sounds like pretty serious stuff here.
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: It's concerning. It's a little spooky, combined with these so-called black widows we know are seeking revenge for their husbands' death in the Caucus region. And we know one of these black widows penetrated the ring of steel, if you will, that Putin has put up.
I don't think it's a time to be an alarmist and cancel. If this thing gets worse, maybe we would consider that. But remember, this ring of steel has got 100,000 security officials. I saw them down there, the Cossacks. You had the special forces, the military. This is quite a fortified event. Putin is putting everything he has from a security standpoint down there.
We have also added our diplomatic security corps, FBI agents and others to help with the security. The perimeter itself I think is secure, the Olympic village. I think the real threat lies outside this ring of steel, where soft targets can be hit quite easily.
And I think you're probably going to see more of those, like you just saw with that train bombing you had on the program earlier by a suicide bomber (UNINTEL) and they're calling for more of these attacks just as of yesterday. So I think you're going to see more of these attacks, but outside the perimeter.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Congressman, do you think we are getting the kind of cooperation that we need from Putin himself? I know for a while there he wasn't talking to the outside agents (UNINTEL). He said, "We'll handle all this." Is that situation changed at all?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Well, the one sense you get over there in Russia is a sense of national pride. They do not want the United States to come in and tell them how to secure their Olympic games. We have a delicate balance to deal with. I would say the area of cooperation that could be most effective but is not happening right now would be the intelligence sharing and also military sharing with respect to these IEDs being the weapon of choice for these terrorists. We have these jamming devices that could stop IEDs from going off. We've offered that to the Russians. And so far they have not accepted that offer. I would implore them to work with us on that.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right, just tell us where we are right now. Where does this stand? How dangerous is this? What has to happen here? What needs to be done?
REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: I think what brings this home, Bob, is, I remember appearing on the show talking about the Boston bombers and trying to explain why this area is so important. This is the Chechen rebels. This is, you know, the Dagestan area that's been at war with Russia for 150 years.
And now it's spun off into a radical Islamic (UNINTEL). And so again, the concern-- you know, my job is to look at threat assessments and to protect Americans. We're going to have 10,000 to 15,000 Americans at these Olympics. So this latest development with the leader of Al Qaeda, there's never been this connection between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechen rebels before. Although, some would argue there's been support. But for the first time, Zawahiri coming out and endorsing, blessing and calling for this global jihad against the Olympics, wow, that gives me great pause.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right, well, very disturbing news this morning. But thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I hope you'll keep us informed.
**END OF TRANSCRIPT**
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I lean toward minimalism, but didn't want the stark, unwelcoming atmosphere that total minimalism can create. This book is the perfect balance! My favorite part is that the focus is on people and not things. A wonderful, practical guide on how to create a cozy, minimalist home! Thank you Myquillyn!!
I love the heart of this book. Down to earth, relatable, yet it challenged me to go farther. that's what I like and need, and that's why I read books - to grow as a person. This book pushes me, but gives me the tools I need. I enjoyed it very much, and now I have all kinds of ideas I want to try.
The narration was not my favorite. A little too much inflection for a self-help book in my opinion. It was distracting at first, but it got easier to listen to.


Sts. Peter and Paul School first opened in a log building in 1857. Lay teachers taught the students in German. One of the first teachers was Mr. Silbersack, a member of the parish.
In the early years, teachers changed rapidly. The only teacher who remained for 8 years was Miss Mary Haeusler. In addition to teaching, her duties included playing the organ, decorating the altar, and ringing the bell. When she left Twelve Mile, she moved to Illinois to become a private teacher.
Between 1877 and 1881, a new clapboard schoolhouse was built where the rectory now stands. Between the church and the school was the shelter. Built with bricks from the church, this building was open on both ends. It had brick walls and a brick floor with a tin roof. The students could walk out of school, through the shelter and into the church without being exposed to the weather for very long.
In 1888, records show the debt on the school was $250. Unfortunately, school closed early that year because in March, the teacher "ran off into the night" with $100 of the $134 received from the Public School Class. In August, the Young Men's Society paid off the $250 debt on the school.
During the school year of 1890-1891, the teacher was Miss M. Hansler. She held classes gratuitously for the young men of the parish. The classes were held 3 times a week, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Records show that in 1894, an addition was added to the school. A folding wall was installed that remained until the school was demolished. When one teacher was not able to teach due to illness or whatever, the wall was opened and one teacher taught all 8 grades.
In 1895, Miss Ann Enzweiler taught school for the first time in the new annex.
Lay teachers continued to teach until November 2, 1916. The school was then blessed with the Sisters of Divine Providence taking charge of the school. These Sisters continued to teach at the schoo until 1948. Sister Mary of the Cross Bertran taught from 1916 to 1918 and then returned to teach again from 1945 to 1948.
The Sisters lived under the school, sharing these rough quarters with a cook. There were not any inside steps to these rooms. The Sisters had to walk around the outside and down a set of steps to their door. The students were frequently told during an indoor lunch period, perhaps jest, not to jump too hard because it made the plaster fall in the Sisters' soup.
The outhouse, separate ones for boys and girls, was further down the hill. There was an outside pump for drinking water. Each room had a blue and white crock with a spicket for drinking water. Each child kept a cup in his or her desk.
In 1948, the Sister of St. Benedict replaced the Sisters of Divine Providence. They taught at our school for 8 years, leaving in the spring of 1956.
In 1951, Fr. Lou's rectory, the white house at the top of the hill, was remodeled into a school. 2 classrooms were on the main floor with the Sisters' living quarters upstairs. The classrooms were smaller and more crowded. The desks were very close together. The room closest to the cemetery was occupied by the upper grades and thus became known as the "big" room.


ROCHESTER, Minn. — A new Mayo Clinic study (http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/2008/12/03/brain-tumors-best-treatments-for-long-term-survival/) found that children with low-grade brain tumors (gliomas) (http://www.mayoclinic.org/brain-tumors/) who undergo aggressive surgery to completely remove the tumor have an increased chance of overall survival. If complete removal is not possible, adding radiation therapy to a less complete surgery provides patients with the same outcomes as a complete removal. This study was presented at the Society for NeuroOncology Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day in Montreal on Nov. 21.
As part of an ongoing study, Dr. Laack and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers identified 127 consecutive pediatric patients with World Health Organization Grade I and Grade II low-grade gliomas treated at Mayo Clinic between 1990 and 2005. Of those, 90 patients had complete removal of their tumor and 20 patients had subtotal resections with added radiation therapy. Results showed that greater than 89 percent of the patients are surviving more than 10 years later.
When combined with results from a previous Mayo Clinic study, this is the largest group of patients reported and was conducted through long-term follow-up by the Mayo Clinic team.
"This is great news for families because it shows that even if a complete surgery isn't possible, adding radiation to a less than complete surgery reduces their chances of tumor progression to yield the same outcome as if there was a complete removal," says Dr. Laack.
Other members of the research team included Shariq Khwaja, Nicholas Wetjen, M.D., and Paul D. Brown.
Mayo Clinic is a non-profit worldwide leader in medical care, research, and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit www.mayoclinic.org/about/ and www.mayoclinic.org/news.


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Chef Boy Logro and Ms. Bettina Carlos of Idol sa Kusina prepared these yummy dishes of Paksiw na Pata, Seafood Kare-Kare and Lengua Estofado for guest Ms. Regine Velasquez during the taping of its episode- "Akala Mo Lang Mahirap Gawin," which will air on July 12.
So I went to the set without knowing that I'll be part of the audience- oh no! Too late to back out already. Luckily, I've already seen Chef Boy in action during one of the cooking events that I've attended so I know that the Chef is a good host. Also, I'm joining two other bloggers from MBP.
Here's what the set of Idol sa Kusina look like before the taping. I really fell in love with the set/kitchen. The colors and decors are both homey and relaxing to look at.
There's Chef Boy and Bettina being given last minute instruction before the camera starts rolling.
So during the duration of the taping, they were able to cook kare-kare, paksiw and lengua estofado. Really, we all have these idea that these dishes are hard to cook but seeing Chef Boy and Bettina in action makes me confident to try them on my own. Then Ms. Regine Velasquez help them prepare the dessert- maruya with butterscotch sauce. Will be posting the recipes soon so stay tuned.
Can't resist not having a photo taken with Chef Boy Logro.
And here's us- with Joy, Donna, and Chef Boy.
Idol Sa Kusina airs every Sunday at 7:15pm in GMA TV Channel 11.
Nice! I'd be starstruck if I see him. I love the way he cooks, reminds me of older cooking shows that were so exciting and fun to watch.
I love Chef Boy Logro! He is such an inspiring personality.
Chef Logro is such a nice person and its great to watch how he makes cooking fun and enjoyable.
Oh you're so lucky! I'm such a fan of both Chef Boy Logro and Bettina Carlos!
How fortunate that you were able to be part of the audience during the taping of this show. I have always been curious what goes on behind the cameras.
Too bad I missed this! Looks like it was a lot of fun. Love Kare Kare!
Wow you get to watch the show live naks!
Hoping that I can watch Chef Boy in action, too!
Chef Boy Logro is really a funny person, and I love watching him cook and host a show.


"The State of Alaska has collected more than $160 billion from oil & gas since 1959."
William Egan (D) elected Governor (1970-1974).
State petroleum revenues leap to 88% of unrestricted general fund.
Cook Inlet oil production peaks at 225,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) passed by Congress; clears way for authorization of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
Vice President Agnew casts tie-breaking vote, authorizing construction of the 800-mile pipeline.
Arab oil embargo reduces America's oil supply causing gasoline shortages.
Jay Hammond (R) elected Governor (1974–1978).
Construction begins on TAPS; estimated cost $900 million.
TAPS 50% complete, employing a peak work force of 28,072.
Wellhead price of U.S. crude oil more than doubles in three years to $7.56 per barrel.
Alaskans pass constitutional amendment creating the Permanent Fund.
First federal offshore lease sale (OCS) held in Alaska (Gulf of Alaska).
TAPS complete; largest project ever constructed with total workforce of 70,000, final costs of $8 billion.
Prudhoe Bay production begins; projected 9.6 billion total recoverable reserves.
Earth Resources Co. (now Flint Hills) refinery comes on-line in North Pole.
Governor Hammond (R) re-elected (1978-1982).
Endicott discovered; first offshore oil field in the U.S. Arctic (production begins 1987).
Iranian revolution causes second oil embargo and oil supply shortage.
Wellhead price of U.S. crude oil exceeds $10 per barrel.
Joint Federal/State Beaufort Sea lease sale receives bids totaling more than $1 billion.
Petroleum revenue doubles in one year ($821 million); 73% of unrestricted general fund, which exceeds $1 billion for first time.


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#### Published in
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#### Original name
Polyporus juniperinus H. Schrenk, 1900

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I could really go on for hours about this mattress and the impact its had on our snoring, pains, sleeping habits, etc. However, I'll spare you that and instead just say that I recommend Luma Mattresses in a manner bordering on fanatical.
After a month we found the mattress to be really hard and were noticing hip and lower back pain on waking.
Waking up refreshed without any soreness.
we immediately felt the comfort layer was not a plush but more a medium.
Overall the mattress quality seems very good.
High quality and personal touch!
It works exactly as promised, with the individually-encased coils giving soft local compliance for sleeping on my side and the overall firmness holding great for sleeping on my back or stomach. My sleep became more restful.
It's extremely well constructed and is similar in appearance and comfort to a Tempurpedic, but at a much better value.
after several months I noticed some tears on the topper.
The mattress is great! The delivery process and communication was not.
It is an excellent value with responsive customer service.
From the beginning I had a great feeling as while making my mattress, Luma sent me thoughtful updates on the progress. Few companies can give such a personal touch while delivering extraordinary quality directly to the consumer.
The delivery and sales teams were professional and courteous.
Company communicated while mattress was being made and being delivered. Been sleeping on the mattress for three weeks so far, and it is great. Much better mattress and experience than going to the shop.
I simply cannot say enough good things about the customer service we received from Luma Sleep. It totally blew me away. Today it seems so rare to find a company that truly cares about their customers, wants to make things right even if the issue is not the company's fault, and where a real, live person answers the phone rather than an endless frustrating computerized phone tree.
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Their customer service was spot on and gave us the confidence to order from them.
Shipping took slightly longer than expected due to some issues with UPS (about 2 weeks).
I had the mattress delivered with their white-glove delivery service within two weeks after the purchase.
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New York Castle That Inspired 'The Wizard of Oz' Just Sold For $3.6 Million
The 10,518 square foot castle hit the market in October 2020 for $3.45 million and has sold for $3.6 million.
Syracuse Celebrates 80 Years of The Wizard of Oz
There's no place like home and no movie like the one that taught us that. The Wizard of Oz is turning 80 this year, and you can celebrate by watching it in the theatre this Sunday!
Actor Bronson Pinchot Restoring Historic Home in Syracuse
Bronson Pinchot has a passion for acting, and also for bringing old homes back to life. He loves the "Wizard of Oz," so he felt compelled to lead a restoration project with connections to the famous creator, L. Frank Baum.
Matt Hubbell
Do You Remember The Wizard Of OZ FedEx Super Bowl Commercial?
Do you remember the FedEx Super Bowl commercial that did a spoof on the Wizard Of OZ from 2000? It's pretty funny, and may be one you'll remember for trips to OZ and beyond.
Wizard Of Oz This Weekend
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the classic film, "The Wizard Of Oz", and this weekend you can be a part of a special two-day event in Syracuse. Here's more about the "Wizard Of Oz Spectacular".
The 'Wizard Of Oz' Observes 75th Anniversary [VIDEO]
One of my all-time favorite movies "The Wizard Of Oz", made its debut at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood 75 years ago today, August 15, 1939. My daughter is an expert on "The Wizard Of Oz", with all sorts of movie memorabilia from her favorite film.
Watch 'The Wizard Of Oz' In Rome This Weekend [VIDEO]
This year marks the 75th anniversary of "The Wizard Of Oz". I remember when I first saw it as a kid in the gym at Miller School in Utica. The Wicked Witch of The West is still the scariest witch of all time. The Rome Capitol Theater is showing this classic film (which is my daughter's favorite film, and she's an expert on the subject) this weekend.
CBS Developing 'Wizard of Oz' TV Series 'Dorothy,' as a Medical Drama?
Iconic cinema classic 'The Wizard of Oz' has spawned numerous TV attempts, everything from the Sci-Fi channel's 'Tin Man,' to Syfy's 'Warriors of Oz,' to a 'Game of Thrones'-style 'Red Brick Road' and even 'Once Upon A Time,' so what's next? Why, CBS medical drama 'Dorothy' of course! It makes perfect sense! Summon the TV-maker people, guys, we're serial!
Syfy is Updating 'The Wizard of Oz' With Help From the Director of 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
The Syfy channel wants to get in on the recent resurgence of 'The Wizard of Oz'-related material with their own revised and rebooted Oz. The plan is to move the story to a post-apocalyptic future, and have 'Abraham LIncoln: Vampire Hunter' director Timur Bekmambetov at the helm of their version, which is titled 'Warriors of Oz.'
Damon Houx
Backflip With Chip – Aug 17, 1939, Wizard Of Oz Opens
Aug 17, 1939, The movie "Wizard of Oz" opened. One of the most beloved movies of all time.


Donald Trump loves golf. It's the one thing about his personal interests that's readily apparent. You could argue it's one of the most presidential things about him, really: presidents love to play golf, no matter what political party.
But the author of a new book about Trump and golf argues he doesn't play golf at all. He brutalizes it, and finds every way possible to win. That includes, of course, cheating. We've already seen parts of this book earlier in the year, which went into detail about how Trump 'won' a golf tournament he didn't even play in. There was also the anecdote about how Trump once hit himself in the head with a golf club when he slammed it down in frustration, then blamed his fiercely loyal caddie for hitting him.
But in the piece for The Atlantic, Reilly goes into greater detail about all the other ways in which he cheats, including manipulating the rules and golf balls while he's on the course.
But Reilly makes it clear that cheating and just being rude are all connected here. Hitting first and taking off before his opponents have hit means he can find his ball and improve his lie before anyone else sees it.


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Keeping a Finger on the Pulse of Coastal Birds
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Tufted puffins are one of many species affected by recent die-offs in coastal Alaska. NPS/J. Pfeiffenberger
Dead murres line the beach in Prince William Sound, in January 2016, during Alaska's largest seabird die-off on record. Photo: D. Irons
An Uncommon Die-off
They are known as "beach casts," that is, dead seabirds found on the beach. It seems a fitting name for something the ocean has tossed aside, like so much detritus. And they are landing on the beaches throughout the northern Pacific at alarming numbers. Since 2014, North Pacific and Arctic coastlines of the US have witnessed six massive seabird die-offs, the highest rate ever recorded.
Three occurred in Alaska and were evident in at least five coastal parks.
The first transpired in the winter of 2015-2016, when hundreds of thousands of dead and dying common murres washed ashore. It is thought to be Alaska's largest seabird die-off on record. The following summer, many of the state's largest murre colonies failed to produce young, a phenomenon that hasn't been witnessed in 30 years. A mass mortality of tufted puffins occurred off of the Pribilof Islands in the fall of 2016 and a third die-off hit the Bering and Chukchi seas in 2017. This time short-tailed shearwaters and northern fulmars took the brunt of the impact. The year 2018 continued this trend, with a fourth die-off underway. Researchers, citizen scientists and coastal communities from the northern Gulf of Alaska to the Chukchi Sea have encountered hundreds of dead seabirds across multiple species.
In all, these incidents represent an unprecedented seabird mortality event in duration, geographic extent and magnitude. As the climate changes, biologists expect these die-offs to continue into the foreseeable future. And, while one such event is generally survivable in healthy populations, repeated mass die-offs could be devastating.
Water temperatures off the coast of Alaska in April 2018 were as much as 3 ° C (7.2 ° F) above normal. Map prepared by COASST.
While researchers scramble to understand what is behind this multi-year trend, a few factors remain constant. In every event, the birds died of starvation, and each occurred during a period of warmer ocean temperatures. Though the mass of warm water, commonly called the "Blob," has dissipated, abnormally high ocean temperatures have persisted all along Alaska's coast.
NPS Biotech Sara Germain examines a dead glaucus gull as part of a multi-agency effort to document the 2018 die-off. Accessing carcasses quickly after beach deposition is critical to determining body condition and cause of death. NPS/S. Backensto
Consistent Data Collection Matters
The National Park Service, along with COASST, a volunteer survey team, is part of a multi-agency effort to enhance the baseline knowledge of Alaska's coastal birds and better understand these die-offs. Efforts include conducting annual or semi-annual surveys in Alaska's coastal national parks and dispatching research teams to affected coastlines to document mortality events.
Well-timed responses to die-offs are critical for gathering details, such as weather irregularities, sea conditions and prey distribution, which are often lost after the fact. Bird carcasses begin deteriorating or disappear in a matter of days.
However, data collection in Alaska's remote coastlines is fraught with challenges. Erratic and often severe weather, logistically complicated and costly travel, and uncertain last-minute funding all create obstacles to reliable data collection. Thus, even when NPS Inventory and Monitoring teams are able to respond to mortality events, they often arrive too late to detect potential causal factors and determine their severity.
This graph demonstrates a correlation between abnormally high counts of live common murres (blue lines) observed by ASLC researchers in Resurrection Bay and the start of two major die-offs. Prepared by ASLC.
Alaska's Only Monthly Seabird Survey
Understanding the mechanisms behind ecological trends and behavioral anomalies requires long-term, dependable, and frequent data collection. Such detail provides a solid baseline and a deeper understanding of bird habits and distribution year-round. It enables researchers to detect abnormal behaviors and trends in progress, and respond quickly.
The Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC), funded by the National Park Service and the Ocean Alaska Science and Learning Center, has conducted monthly seabird surveys in Resurrection Bay from 2011 to 2016. While many of Alaska's national park beaches are too remote to be actively monitored, Resurrection Bay is readily accessible on a year-round basis. Its protected setting and proximity allow crews to mobilize on the spur of the moment, eliminating the need for extended stretches of good weather, costly excursions and long travel times. In fact, Resurrection Bay is the only location in the state where year-round surveys are conducted.
ASLC's monthly effort has generated the first ever year-round data set for marine bird populations in the region. This high-resolution detail provides insight that annual counts do not. For example, during the winters of 2012 and 2015 researchers noted unusually high numbers of common murres, crested auklets and fork-tailed storm petrels in Resurrection Bay, when the birds are typically absent. It later became clear that such behavioral anomalies were the precursors to significant die-offs. Later, teams were able to monitor breeding timing and productivity, and fledgling success. Their findings have provided a valuable tool to understanding species recovery after major events.
COASST prepares tufted puffin carcasses for later examination during the 2016 die-off. COASST
Alaska's marine environment is in the midst of rapid change, with mass mortality events predicted to continue into the foreseeable future. Beyond the spectacle of beaches strewn with bird carcasses, seabird die-offs offer a window into the conditions of this complex coastal ecosystem. And, because they respond quickly to environmental changes, seabirds are often the harbinger of other ecological shifts that take longer to manifest. As climate change, increased shipping and other stressors intensify, it becomes increasingly important for resource managers to have a finger on the pulse of coastal bird communities.
Learn more about efforts of the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program and COASST to monitor Alaska's coastal bird communities and document recent die-offs:
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/aknatureandscience/alaskaseabirddieoffs.htm
https://www.nps.gov/im/swan/marinebirds.htm
http://depts.washington.edu/coasst/
oaslc
resource brief
marine ecosystems
arctic science
southwest alaska network
ocean alaska science and learning center


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Geographical discovery & exploration
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More books by Ranulph Fiennes
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France
The Ranulph Fiennes Collection: Captain Scott; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know & Mad, Dogs and Englishmen
The Sett
The Secret Hunters
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year
An Evening with Ranulph Fiennes
Captain Scott
Beyond The Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime's Adventures
Funny Anecdotes (digital download)
Various, Alan Titchmarsh, Henry Blofeld, Ranulph Fiennes, Donald Sinden, Brian Johnston
Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to reach both poles by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported. In the 1960s he was removed from the SAS Regiment for misuse of explosives but, joining the army of the Sultan of Oman, received that country's Bravery Medal on active service in 1971. He is the only person yet to have been awarded two clasps to the Polar medal for both Antarctic and the Arctic regions. Fiennes has led over 30 expeditions including the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth, and in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
In 1993 Her Majesty the Queen awarded Fiennes the Order of the British Empire (OBE) because, on the way to breaking records, he has raised over 14 million for charity. He was named Best Sportsman in the 2007 ITV Great Briton Awards and in 2009 he became the oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest.
Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet
John All, John Balzar
Mind of a Survivor: What the wild has taught me about survival and success
Megan Hine
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst: Now Filmed As The Mercy
Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall
Travelling Wild: Journey Along the Nile
Sonya Newland
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Robert Macklin
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
James Evans
The Explorer's Eye: First-hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration
The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys
Jon E. Lewis
Amanda Mitchison
Lost City of the Incas
Hiram Bingham


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Producing Plutonium
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Scaling Up a Billion Times
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Nobel Prize-winning chemist Glenn Seaborg and physicist John Wheeler discuss the challenge and accomplishment of producing plutonium on a massive scale.
Narrator: In 1940 in a small laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, chemists Glenn Seaborg, Joseph Kennedy and Arthur Wahl discovered microscopic quantities of a new element: plutonium. Glenn Seaborg worked on scaling up from micro-quantities of plutonium produced at Berkeley to Hanford's huge reactors, capable of producing a billion times more plutonium for an atomic bomb.
Glenn Seaborg: There was a scale up from these micro test tubes under the microscope to the actual plant at Hanford, Washington of about a billion—a billion fold from what you might call the pilot plant to the final plant. This is the biggest scale up in the history of chemical engineering.
A lot was at stake. There were those in the laboratory who just said that this would be a huge boondoggle and would probably be Seaborg's folly or something like this as a monument after the war. But, we stuck to our guns and insisted that the work would be valid.
John Wheeler: I never felt it [the B Reactor] as simply a massive plutonium factory. There was a sense of adventure about it that I don't associate with any normal project. I associate it with pioneering rather than with a steady factory. The phrase "factory" conveys this sense of something that's going on and on. "Ever wert, art, and evermore shall be."
I would think it's more like the early days of the first steamship. That must have been exciting. The first airplane was exciting. The first locomotive was exciting. I think of it in that category.
Ray Genereaux, a Design Engineer for DuPont, had to be creative when it came to designing a massive, first-of-a-kind chemical separations building in Hanford, Washington.
Narrator: The T Plant at Hanford was the first chemical processing and separations plant of its kind in the world. When construction began in 1943, Project leaders still had not decided what chemical process they would use to separate plutonium from the irradiated uranium. Ray Genereaux, the chief engineer tasked with designing the massive separations facility, devised an innovative solution that would accommodate multiple processes.
Ray Genereaux: They didn't know what chemical process they would use, wet, dry, you name it. We realized immediately that we had to design flexibility into this thing if we were going to move ahead and get designs done before we knew what the hell we were doing, before we knew what the process would be. It's quite different to design something for a wet process than it is for a dry process.
We soon realized that we had to design something that could take any kind of a process. What this meant was that we had to standardize it on the setting for equipment, which we then called a cell. Eventually, these buildings had something like forty cells in each one, and they are all designed exactly the same. There were all different kinds of connections for liquids, for electricity, for steam, for air or lubrication or instruments. That was one of the keys of the whole thing, was the standardization of the cells, so that we could put any kind of a pot or pan in them to do a job.
DuPont engineer Crawford Greenewalt and physicist Leona Woods Marshall discuss the challenge of creating water-tight aluminum cans to encapsulate fuel rods that would be inserted into the nuclear reactor.
Narrator: A little recognized problem was fitting an aluminum jacket around the fuel rods that would be absolutely water and air tight. Earl Swensson, a production manager, who took a statistical approach to finding a solution.
Crawford Greenewalt: This was very troublesome. You had thousands of these things to put in cans. The process had to be perfect enough so that you could put a thousand of them into cans and not have to reject more than a small percentage. In the first place uranium is scarce and very expensive and you couldn't have any imperfections. It was a very big problem and it actually was not solved until we were actually out there. It was solved just in the nick of time.
Leona Woods Marshall: Nothing was going to work if those slugs didn't work. It was one of the technicians and they, I must say, did not get enough credit. It was a clever person and I hope he got a bonus, but I doubt it.
Narrator: Earl Swensson was this clever hero. He took a statistical approach to solving the problem. The first day he made one thousand cans and they all failed the test. But ten were better than the rest and they became the models for the next day's attempt. And so it continued until three weeks, they had 20,000 cans. Behold, there was one perfect can among them; a purely statistical process and result. After a while out of every thousand there would be 500 or 600 a day that were acceptable. And that's how they did it.
The discovery of Plutonium in 1941 created unique opportunities and challenges for scientists and corporate partners of the Manhattan Project.


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By Senior Airman Haley Stevens, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs / Published October 10, 2019
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A member of the Mission Defense Team at the 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron explains to his partner how he is responding to a network attack during a cyber-defense training exercise at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 21, 2017. MDTs are the result of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I), which is a plan to move communications squadrons away from Information Technology (IT) service and toward a mission set that involves the cyberspace side of their wing's operational mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
A Mission Defense Team sign hangs inside the 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron building at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, April 29, 2019. MDTs are the result of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I), which is a plan to move communications squadrons away from Information Technology (IT) service and toward a mission set that involves the cyberspace side of their wing's operational mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
Members of the Mission Defense Team at the 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron discuss a simulated cyber-attack during a cyber-defense training exercise at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 21, 2017. The Air Combat Command selected the 432nd ACMS to test the possibilities of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I) by defending the Remotely Piloted Aircraft network. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
2nd Lt. Eric, 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron Mission Defense Team assistant officer in charge, checks communications equipment at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, April 29, 2019. To increase the defense of the Remotely Piloted Aircraft cyber network, the Air Combat Command selected the 432nd ACMS at Creech to be the first squadron to test the possibilities of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I). (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
A member of the Mission Defense Team at the 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron responds to a cyber-hack during a cyber-defense training exercise at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 21, 2017. This team has created operational-level guidance that has been disseminated across the Air Combat Command, and designed and built a simulator that allows operational training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
1st Lt. Vaughn, 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron Mission Defense Team officer in charge, and 2nd Lt. Eric, 432nd ACMS MDT Assistant officer in charge, go over computer code at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, April 29, 2019. The 432nd Wing's MDT is tasked with assuring the integrity of the MQ-9 Reaper's cyber networks and protecting the support equipment that connect the aircraft to the cockpits on the ground. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley Stevens)
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Mission Defense Teams are the result of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I), which is a plan to move communications squadrons away from Information Technology (IT) service and toward a mission set that involves the cyberspace side of their wing's operational mission.
The 432nd Wing's MDT is tasked with assuring the integrity of the MQ-9 Reaper's cyber networks and protecting the support equipment that connect the aircraft to the cockpits on the ground.
To increase the defense of the Remotely Piloted Aircraft cyber network, Air Combat Command selected the 432nd Aircraft Communications Maintenance Squadron at Creech to be one of the first squadrons to test the possibilities of the CS-I.
"Cyberspace operations are key to the success of RPA operations," said 1st Lt. Vaughn, 432nd ACMS MDT officer in charge. "The MDT is a logical extension of the existing mission assurance efforts for other components of the system."
RPA aircrews contributed more than 300 GBU Joint Direct Attack Munition strikes in 2017 and almost 200 strikes in 2018 alone, taking hundreds of enemies off the battlefield and saving countless lives of civilians, allies and coalition forces.
This platform has become a valuable asset in the overseas war on terrorism and as the enterprise has grown, so have its defense systems.
"The RPA enterprise is rapidly growing," Vaughn said. "It is arguably one of the most network-centric weapons system in the Air Force. The MDT will provide capabilities that will enable the 432nd Wing's core missions and protect its assets from cyber threats."
This team has completed numerous initiatives including Initial Qualification, Mission Assurance Decision Support System (MADSS) training, as well as, in-house training on various aspects of network security to prepare for any RPA network conditions.
To increase the awareness of the team's responsibilities, members of the 432nd ACMS MDT have had the opportunity to brief senior leaders including Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David Goldfein.
"Here at Creech, we're looking to protect the MQ-9 enterprise by way of cyber," explained Vaughn. "Now what we're trying to do is get ahead of those cyber threats before they can seriously impact our mission."
The team created operational-level guidance that has been disseminated across ACC, and also designed and built a simulator that allows cyber defense training.
Mission success has proven highly dependent on the innovation and determination of the Airmen dedicated to it. The Airmen of the MDT work every day to protect the integrity of ground control systems, aircraft, the links between them, and with them, the reliability of the RPA enterprise.
"Cyber mission assurance is the future of all mature weapon systems," said Vaughn. "By ensuring the cyber-centric piece of the MQ-9 mission is reliable and protected, we do our part to make sure that our mission is not hindered by emerging threats."
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EconVue Spotlight: The State of the State
posted by Lyric Hughes Hale on April 15, 2018 - 12:00am
The modern nation state has been the subject of countless books and essays, and is the foundation for almost all political economic theory from Kant to Keynes. Since 2008, economists have been struggling. Is there something about the post-crisis world we are still not understanding? As missiles flew over Damascus this weekend, and US-China trade tensions spill over to competition, technology, and security issues, it is worthwhile examining our basic assumptions. In spite of globalization, Kant's Perpetual Peace has certainly not arrived.
New thinking is tackling this foundational topic. In his personal blog China analyst Andrew Batson reviews Timothy Snyder's book Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. "The main 'warning' of the title" he says, "is that the collapse of the state creates the conditions in which humanitarian disasters and mass killing are possible. If this was the lesson that had been learned from the Holocaust, perhaps it would have been easier to see how foreign interventions that destroyed functioning states without replacing them (Iraq, Libya) would lead to evil consequences for their people."
It is also well worth listening to China Power's podcast with Evan Feigenbaum of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago. He's an Asianist who avoids the siloed approach, and provides an illuminating construct: Asia is not driven by ideology but by history and nationalism. He says there are two Asias, "Security Asia" driven by those forces, and "Economic Asia" focused on trade & growth. Are Asian nations fundamentally different from Western states?
My conclusion is that although there might be different archetypes, we should not hope for a weak state anywhere. In a surprise move, the US is set to back a $13B capital raise for the World Bank in order to make it self-sustaining. This does not support the narrative that the US is turning inwards and eschews global organizations, and should add a fillip to the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings this coming week.
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July 4, 2019 18:47 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin
Arsenal in for Marcelo?
Arsenal have emerged as one of the contenders to secure the signature of Real Madrid defender Marcelo during this summer's transfer window.
The left-sided defender has been with Los Blancos for the past 12 years and during this period, he has made close to 500 appearances for the team across all competitions.
Despite this, his future remains doubtful beyond the summer following the recent arrival of Ferland Mendy from Lyon and Sport claims that he is free to part ways with the club.
The same outlet reveals that the Gunners have made contact with the left-back's representatives but they are set to competition from the likes of Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan.
Marcelo made just 23 appearances in the Spanish La Liga last season with young defender Sergio Reguilon getting the opportunity to impress under ex-boss Santiago Solari.
The Spaniard appears on the verge of joining Sevilla on loan for the forthcoming campaign but Marcelo may yet consider a fresh challenge with a starting role unlikely to be assured under Zinedine Zidane.
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Aesthetic Categories and Changing Ideas of "Design" in Korea
Bum Choi
Encyclopedia of Asian Design Volume 1 : Encyclopedia of East Asian Design
...The process of developing aesthetic consciousness, of bringing it to a conceptual level, and of establishing an aesthetic category has been a difficult one for Koreans. Early writing offers little guidance. Over the past 140 years the task...
Drawing and Painting in Pre-Modern Korea
Young-soo Kim
...Korean painting and drawing throughout the pre-modern period displayed a recurring openness to the natural world, a subtle mastery of color, and an often vigorous and expressive style. Caught between two powerful neighbors, China and Japan,...
Society, Tradition, and Modern History in North Korea
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...The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was established in 1948. From its founding, social relations, daily life, politics, and culture were claimed to be ordered as a complete break from the dynastic and colonial past, but many...
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Jae-Joon Han
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Wendy Siuyi Wong
...The Encyclopedia of East Asian Design is the first English-language encyclopedia dedicated to the study of Asian design in all its rich diversity. It provides a reference work for professionals, scholars, students, and general readers who...
Architecture and City Planning in Korea
Mi-kyung Choi
...For Koreans, site took precedence over construction. The natural properties of a site were carefully studied for their suitability for a particular settlement or building. This task was guided by the theories of pungsu (Chinese: fengshui...
The Natural and Social Environment and Historical Background of Korea
Kay Jun
...The Korean peninsula is located between 33 and 43 degrees north latitude, 124 and 132 degrees east longitude, and shares the Yellow Sea with China to the west and the East Sea (also known as the Sea of Japan) with Japan to the east. Despite...
Traditional Forms, Colors, and Patterns of Korea
Hyun-taek Park
...We live among various man-made objects and artworks such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, furniture, machines, household items, clothes, and accessories. Undoubtedly, it was possible for all these objects, or goods, around us...
Design and Culture in Modern North Korea
...The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a highly mobilized society since its establishment in 1948. The Korean Workers' Party (KWP) is the official ruling body, dominating the production of visual and material culture...
Calligraphy in Pre-Modern Korea
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Religious and Traditional Ideas of Korea in Design
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International neighbors in the Western Hemisphere are beginning to indicate their willingness to act on their disapproval of President Danny Ortega's administration in Nicaragua, which many observers liken to a 21st century dictatorship. Interestingly though, the nation's Foreign Minister, Denis Moncada (pictured), has written to Marcelo Ebrard, his Mexican counterpart, for assistance.
The Nicaraguan government has said it will resist "coup-mongering" efforts to eject Mr Ortega from power before his third consecutive term in office ends in 2021.
Mr Ortega long allied himself with the business community but corporate leaders broke with him last year over the crackdown on protests. Maximiliano Reyes, the Latin America undersecretary in the new Mexican government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said during a confirmation hearing this week that the country was "willing to participate, at Nicaragua's invitation, in any mechanism to facilitate and mediate dialogue".
No formal mediation mechanism has yet been set up but the López Obrador administration has also offered itself as "a bridge of dialogue" in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has begun a widely repudiated second term with the country in meltdown.
Any mediation in Nicaragua will be difficult. Efforts by the Catholic Church to broker talks between students, business leaders and other protesters on the one side, and the government on the other, swiftly collapsed year. Notwithstanding Mexico's offer of trying to help resolve Nicaragua's crisis, Mr Ortega — a former revolutionary— looks increasingly lonely at the start of 2019.
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People from all walks of life love to gamble and given the money that they earn, it's not surprising that celebrities and high profile athletes have some very amazing gambling tales to tell. Out of all athletes however, basketball legend Michael Jordan probably has some of the wildest stories of all which have made him as much of a pro in the gambling world as he is on the court. Let's take a look at some of these now.
Who needs sleep when you're in Barcelona, even if it is for the Olympics?
In 1992 Jordan was part of Team USA's Olympic Basketball team in Barcelona. The team unleashed its prowess on whomever they played beating most of their opponents by an average of 44 point per game. This kind of advantage meant that Jordan and his teammates didn't have to only have their head in one game but also spent a great deal of time playing poker. Jordan along with Magic Johnson, Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley reportedly spend most nights playing poker until the early hours of each morning for days in a row. On an extreme binge Jordan played until 6am, slept for just an hour and then went about preparing for his afternoon game. All in all it didn't do anyone any harm with the USA crushing Croatia in the final 117 points to 85.
Making Prop bets in the airport luggage line
One would think that after an entire Olympic tournament spent playing poker Jordan would have had his fill of gambling but that was not the case. On a return flight Jordan once again showed his penchant for making prop bets on just about anything while waiting for his luggage at the Portland airport with his teammates by pulling out $100 and betting them that his bags would come out first. His teammates had obviously caught betting fever because 9 of them accepted the bet, giving him 9:1 odds. Of course there was both shock and awe as Jordan's bags emerged ahead of everyone else's on the conveyor.
Sound too good to be true? It was! Jordan had in fact bribed a baggage handler before the time to ensure that he won, a fact that was probably only revealed once everyone had paid up.
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Jordan takes Atlantic City by storm during NBA Playoffs
If you know anything about basketball at all, you'll know that the NBA Playoffs are some of the most highly contested games of the entire season with 16 teams vying for the championship title. This means that during these playoffs most players are highly focused on one thing and one thing only...playing basketball. We say most because back in 1993 Michael Jordan had something else on his mind and ended up playing blackjack at Bally's Casino in Atlantic City until 2:30am before heading back to New York to sleep before his big game. He took a lot of heat for that decision, especially because his team lost in the next day's game. They did however turn it around by winning all of their subsequent games and earning their third NBA championship title in a row.
Jordan takes a $5 million hit at a Las Vegas Casino
According to Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, Michael Jordan obsessively played craps at a Las Vegas Casino during the 2007 NBA All-Star weekend. According to Jones, Jordon was so into his game that he wouldn't let anyone else roll the dice but that was obviously not the best idea as he reportedly lost over $5 million that night. What makes the story even more interesting is that Jones claims to have won $1 million playing craps before Jordan took over. He later took $50k of that and went to a strip club where he and his friends got into a fight which led to a shooting and saw him suspended for the rest of the season that year but at least he can tell a great Michael Jordan story.
Jordan's $1.25 million Golf debt inspires a book
You know you're famous when someone can write a best-selling book about playing golf with you. Jordan was former San Diego Sports Arena manager Richard Esquinas muse for a book entitled Michael & Me: Our Gambling Addiction... My Cry for Help! According to his memoirs, Esquinas was a regular golfing buddy of Jordan's and during one 10 day golf tournament Jordan lost $1.25 million in bets on matches to him, but Jordan then made a comeback lowering the gambling debt to $902k in subsequent games. Jordan was however apparently very slot to pay the debt as he didn't want his wife to find out about it and so Esquinas reduced the amount to $300k which he finally received.
These are just a few stand out stories in the gambling life and time of Michael Jordan and we're sure we'll be adding to this section often!
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