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Replacing Deck Light?
I'm a new sailboat owner with a boat already in the water, and I need to replace the deck light. Are there any neat sailboat tricks to getting 14' up the mast to replace the bulb?
Bosun's chair is probably the simplest and safest. I've seen people use an extension ladder with a loose strap wrapped around the mast and one side of the ladder, but this wouldn't be my first choice.
1- Use the Force
2- Trampoline
3- Sink the boat, fix the light, float the boat (I hear pingpong balls work)
4- Bosun's Chair
Bosun's chair is probably the most likely to suit your needs
OK, perfect. I think I will try #2 with a Velcro suit, if that does not work I will try a Bosun's chair and if that does not work I will sink the boat and replace the bulb from the dock.
Bosun's chair
Unless you want your buns squeezed together so tight that you'll be constipated for a week, get (or make) a chair with a solid seat, not one of those that are all fabric.
Thanks for the suggestion and the visual. I weigh 165 lbs is that too much weight for the rigging?
Depends on the boat.... for a 14' O'Day Javelin, yeah, it is... for a Gunboat 62 catamaran... three or four of you could go aloft and it wouldn't matter... for boats in-between....it depends. :)
165 weight is nothing to sailboat rigging.
if you only need to get up 14 feet how about tying it to the pier and using a halyard to pull the boat over so the mast is over the pier. then you can use a normal step ladder on the pier, by the time its over far enough you might only need an 8 foot ladder
This depends on the sailboat...
The boat is a Catalina 25, it sounds like hoisting me up there shouldn't be a problem then.
I like the idea of leaning the boat over the pier too, my dock is well suited for that, thank you.
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George Osborne intends to become Foreign Secretary next year, according to The Spectator's normally plugged-in political editor, James Forsyth. The assumption is that William Hague will pull out of frontline politics in May 2015.
He will be 54, too young to retire, but he has been around a very long time, having become an MP at the age of 28, a cabinet minister at 34, and leader of the Tory party at 36. Osborne and David Cameron have formed the most successful political partnership in recent Conservative history, and Osborne reportedly will want to be where the action is. The main action, if there is a Conservative government, will be the referendum on whether to stay in or leave the EU.
There is, of course, the formality of a general election to get through first. If leading figures such as Osborne are already mentally bagging their seats in a future Cabinet, they must think that election is as good as won. A lot of Tories thought the same in 2010.
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Cheltenham Ladies' College has many illustrious products. I suspect that the 77-year-old actress, Tsai Chin, who played Madame Lu in the 2006 version of Casino Royale, may have been a sixth-former there around the year 1953 – because she wrote a song, vividly describing the life these ladies led. I quote:
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"Our reading, writing, arithmetic was positively mediocre, but we got pretty slick at the three-card trick and we played a pretty hand of poker…
"Our marks at French and algebra were a series of disasters, but at forging cheques and S-E-X, we were absolute past masters…"
If that is the sort of education Ms Mactaggart had, no wonder she gets out of hand during Prime Minister's Questions.
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An "Exquisitely Designed" Enzyme that Maintains DNA Building Blocks
It's molecular machine time, and today we'll be looking at a particularly amazing one. It's essential, it's "evolutionarily ancient," and it's unique. This machine, named ribonucleotide reductase, or RNR for short, is a beauty. News from MIT explains why your life depends on this machine:
Cell survival depends on having a plentiful and balanced pool of the four chemical building blocks that make up DNA -- the deoxyribonucleosides deoxyadenosine, deoxyguanosine, deoxycytidine, and thymidine, often abbreviated as A, G, C, and T. However, if too many of these components pile up, or if their usual ratio is disrupted, that can be deadly for the cell.
A new study from MIT chemists sheds light on a longstanding puzzle: how a single enzyme known as ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) generates all four of these building blocks and maintains the correct balance among them. [Emphasis added.]
The image shows the complex machine with active sites that precisely fit the four different building blocks. Its job is to take the ribonucleotides that make up RNA and turn them into the deoxyribonucleotides that make up DNA.
"There's no other enzyme that really can do that chemistry," she says. "It's the only one, and it's very different than most enzymes and has a lot of really unusual features."
In order for the machine's moving parts to work, one of several "effector molecules" has to fit into its special spot, like a key that opens a latch. This causes the enzyme to open up a "distant" active site and let the appropriate RNA building block in. Then, the enzyme latches it into place for its operation.
Depending on which of these effectors is bound to the distant regulatory site, the active site can accommodate one of the four ribounucleotide substrates. Effector binding promotes closing of part of the protein over the active site like a latch to lock in the substrate. If the wrong base is in the active site, the latch can't close and the substrate will diffuse out.
"It's exquisitely designed so that if you have the wrong substrate in there, you can't close up the active site," Drennan says. "It's a really elegant set of movements that allows for this kind of molecular screening process."
This four-in-one machine takes on four different shapes depending on whether the RNA nucleotide is A, G, C, or U. It sends out DNA's four, A, G, C, and T with the appropriate sugar deoxyribose instead of ribose (replacing an OH radical with a hydrogen atom, a "reduction" reaction). But that's not all this amazing machine does:
The effectors can also shut off production completely, by binding to a completely different site on the enzyme, if the pool of building blocks is getting too big.
RNR is a multi-tool if there ever was one. The effectors, the substrates and the active sites are all closely matched to the operation at hand, whether generating more DNA building blocks or regulating their supply in the cell. A paper from the Annual Review of Biochemistry (2007) puts it this way:
An intricate interplay between gene activation, enzyme inhibition, and protein degradation regulates, together with the allosteric effects, enzyme activity and provides the appropriate amount of deoxynucleotides for DNA replication and repair.
A lot of new building blocks are needed for repair and replication. You can see why this enzyme is essential for a cell when it divides or suffers stress.
The news item mentioned a latch, but another paper from 2015 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry speaks of a switch mechanism:
Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the reduction of ribonucleotides to the corresponding deoxyribonucleotides, which are used as building blocks for DNA replication and repair. This process is tightly regulated via two allosteric sites, the specificity site (s-site) and the overall activity site (a-site). The a-site resides in an N-terminal ATP cone domain that binds dATP or ATP and functions as an on/off switch, whereas the composite s-site binds ATP, dATP, dTTP, or dGTP and determines which substrate to reduce.
It's like a surgical robot that has a clamp with an on-off switch. The switch (the effector) turns the machine on, opening up the distant active site and letting the appropriate substrate in. The enzyme then clamps down on the substrate and "reduces" it by replacing the oxygen radical with a hydrogen. When released, the DNA building block is ready for use, the effector switches the machine off, and the enzyme is ready for the next operation.
Somehow, when there are too many building blocks floating around in the cell, an effector binds to a different active site, disabling the machine. It's uncanny how each part seems to know what's needed and how to provide it. This involves feedback from the nucleus, where genes respond to the supply by either locking the RNR enzymes or making more of them.
Catherine Drennan on the MIT team calls this enzyme "evolutionarily ancient" and speculates about its origin.
Deoxyribonucleotides are generated from ribonucleotides, which are the building blocks for RNAs -- molecules that perform many important roles in gene expression. RNR, which catalyzes the conversion of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides, is an evolutionarily ancient enzyme that may have been responsible for the conversion of the earliest life forms, which were based on RNA, into DNA-based organisms, Drennan says.
She buys into the "RNA World" scenario for the origin of life, a view that is loaded with problems. RNR is an enzyme made of protein. Did a world of floating RNA fragments somehow build this complex, multi-part protein machine before DNA-based organisms existed? That makes no sense. A ribozyme with enough "code" for RNR would itself be impossibly complex to imagine forming by chance. It would have no way to translate that code into a polypeptide without a ribosome, also made of RNA and protein. Finally, even if by multiple miracles a primitive RNR appeared with its effectors and started cranking out product, the "RNA world" would have no idea what to do with a bunch of DNA building blocks floating around. Notably, Drennan's paper in eLife says nothing about any of this. Instead, it praises the "elegant set of protein rearrangements" performed by RNR.
RNR is one of a multitude of complex, highly-specific, multi-component machines with moving parts. Found in the simplest bacteria and archaea all the way up to human beings, it deserves better than to be treated like hopeful junk that arose by chance and found a job by accident. It deserves to be honored as an "exquisitely designed" molecular machine that performs an "intricate interplay" of functions vital to life, just like an intelligent designer would envision, plan, and create.
Image credit: Christina Zimanyi, Percival Yang-Ting Chen, and Catherine Drennan via MIT News.


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Austin Reed's summer just got a bit busier.
Reed, a Legend car driver and part-time resident of Coto de Caza, competed at the Battle on the Bayou at Revolution Park in Monroe, La., earlier this month, and will race in the 19th Jack in the Box Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the next two months.
The Jack in the Box Summer Shootout began last week and will run every Tuesday evening through Aug. 21. The summer classic brings together the best Legend car drivers from around the globe.
"I am really stoked about the shootout this year," Reed said in a press release. "I learned a lot last year and I feel I am much more prepared for what it is going to take to be one of the top cars here."
Reed is coming off a solid performance at Revolution Park where he had finishes of 8th, 6th, 3rd, and 6th on consecutive nights of racing.
"The Battle on Bayou was fun as we had to be on our game each night," Reed said. "And while we felt good about our car, the track and racing at Charlotte is so much different; we have a whole different set up and mindset. There are literally hundreds of competitors here so you have to be really good every moment or you miss the show. We feel really good."
Reed will work at Fluidyne in Charlotte during the summer handling social media marketing for the company as well as working in the Legend car shop at Beattie Racing.
Reed drives the No. 14 K&N Filters/Approved Memory Legend car in the USLCI Legend Car Series in regional and national events, and will make select starts in Late Model Stock car competition throughout the rest of the year.
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Button Side Table, by Fredrik Wærnes
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Keel Table, by Form Us With Love, for De Padova
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Marionet, by Simon Busse, for Mox, Interior Innovation Award, 2012, (German Design Council)
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Adhoc, by Bruno Fattorini and Partners, for Zanotta
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FK04 CALVERT & FK05 CHARLOTTE, by Ferdinand Kramer, Re-edition for e15
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Traverso Table, by Francesco Faccin, for Valsecchi1918
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Medici Chair, by Konstantin Grcic, for Mattiazzi
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Japan Creative: Peter Marigold & Hinoki Kogei, April 17 – 22, at Museo Minguzzi, Via Palermo, 11, Milan, Photography © Daily Icon
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Shiloh National Military Park and National Cemetery are located on the west bank of the Tennessee River in Hardin County Tennessee. The county population stands at 24,000 with roughly a third of the residents residing in and around Savannah, the county seat located 12-road miles northeast of the park. The second oldest national military park, Shiloh is considered one of the best preserved of the nation's Civil War battlefields. Located within a pastoral setting of fields and forest, the 4,000-acre park is inhabited by a healthy diversity of native flora and fauna. The park administers a second detached unit in Corinth, Mississippi,25 miles southwest. Both Savannah and Corinth provide a full range of community services: public schools, shopping,restaurants, theaters, sports, as well as medical and dental facilities. The relative cost of living is moderate. Several colleges are located within a 50-100 mile radius at Jackson, Henderson, and Memphis, Tennessee; Florence, Alabama;and Bonneville, Mississippi. The lower Tennessee Valley offers abundant recreational opportunities with numerous ways to make use of and enjoy public land. The summers are warm and humid, with averaged ay temperatures ranging from the middle 80's to low 90's. The relative short winter, with occasional snow and ice, offers relative few consecutive days where the average temperature remains below freezing.
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Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. From there it moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself—the battles, the strategic maneuvering by each side, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict. The South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
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The Kiwanis Club of Elm Grove raised money that provided 43 iPads for children with autism this year. This is a record-setting performance for Kiwanis clubs in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
All iPads have been presented to students in Wauwatosa, Elm Grove, Brookfield, New Berlin, Menomonee Falls, West Allis and Waukesha with students, parents, teachers and staff members sharing in the experience. The iPads are furnished with apps for learning language and math, for communicating wants and needs, for iTunes, and for calming behavior, especially selected for each student by their special education teacher.
Autism is a complex, life-long, neurological disorder that inhibits a person's ability to communicate and develop social relationships and is diagnosed in one out of 88 children. Communicating, interacting and learning through normal methods are challenges for these children. The iPads with special apps help children with autism.
An example is Mitchell, one of the recipients of an iPad. His grandmother said to the club, "I can't begin to explain my gratitude. I wonder if you realize just how impactful your gift will be on his future. You've opened up a whole world to a child you don't even know. I find that amazing."
Funds have come from a range of individuals and organizations in the community. The latest major contribution was received from the Greek Ladies Philoptochos Society, which is accredited by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
The President of the Annunciation Philoptochos Society, Patricia Galanis, presented a $1,500 check to Elm Grove Golden K Kiwanis in support of the iPad Program. The presentation was made at the annual Elm Grove Kiwanis December luncheon with about 100 attendees.
Galanis said: "Compassion is a heartfelt emotion that delivers loving kindness. Nothing else we do will likely have the profound, long-lasting effect of these iPads for students and all the people they touch in their lifetime."
The Elm Grove Golden K Kiwanis Club has about 100 senior members committed to service to the community and the nation.
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Trimble County Judge-Executive Randy Stevens entered a guilty plea in Jefferson County Ind. Superior Court on April 27 on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class A misdemeanor. As a result of the plea agreement other charges against Stevens were dropped. Stevens was arrested Jan. 7, on drunken-driving charges in Madison, Ind., according to a report in the Jan. 12, 2011 issue of The Trimble Banner.
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All day: Bedford Loan & Deposit Bank will have a bake sale with proceeds going to their Trimble County Relay for Life Team.
8:00 a.m.: "SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE KICK CANCER TO THE PAST" we will be having a yard sale at Signature Healthcare of Trimble County it will be at the facility in the front parking lot. Lots of various items, all money from the sale will go towards the Signature Healthcare Relay for Life Fund.
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Trimble voters will see some changes in this year's elections. Instead of seven polling places as in past years the voting will be held in two locations, effective with the May 17 Primary, according to Trimble County Clerk Jerry Powell. Voters will also be introduced to new voting machines after Trimble County Fiscal Court approved the purchase in December.
A meeting to determine the future of the Trimble County Apple Festival will be held at 7 p.m. on Thurs., May 12 at the county judge-executive's office.
The festival committee is in desperate need of volunteers and committee chairpersons to help organize and produce the event, according to Deborah Crawford, a member of the festival committee.
A former Trimble County High School teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 26, on one count of child seduction, a Class D felony, in Jefferson County, Ind., Superior Court.
Kirk G. Chism, 41, of Madison, Ind., was indicted in Indiana on three counts of child seduction and in Kentucky on three counts of first-degree sexual assault in 2009. The indictments stemmed from an illicit sexual relationship he had with a TCHS student, who was then 17.
Whew, has it ever been raining the past few days. As of this writing, we have received more than 10 inches of rain in April.
So, it follows that the planting season is upon us and the fields are saturated with water. Field work and home gardening is way behind.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing recommendations to those affected by tornadoes and severe weather.
USDA officials are hopeful this information will help minimize the potential for foodborne illnesses due to food spoilage from power outages and other problems often associated with severe weather events.
Milton city officials agreed Thursday, April 14, to dismiss the item from future discussion. The commission determined the proposal unnecessary after city attorney Genon Hensley informed them that a county ordinance is already in place.
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Upon arrival at Fresno-Yosemite International Airport, I called the Courtyard from the airport to have the shuttle pick me up. I discovered soon after that one of my bags did not arrive (airline staff thought a bag that arrived earlier was mine and I waited at the counter for them to retrieve it only to find out that it was not mine). The Courtyard shuttle driver patiently waited for me as I sorted things with USAir to deliver my bag to the hotel when it arrived. When my bag still did not arrive the following day and I had depleted my emergency supply of toiletries, the front desk staff generously gave me a bag with the necessary toiletries. When I tried to return these after my bag finally arrived, they graciously said I did not need to.
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GAO studied several leading companies in the private sector that have made dramatic changes to their process for acquiring services. GAO found that these changes generally began with a corporate decision to pursue a more strategic approach to acquiring services--from developing a better picture of what the company was actually spending on services to developing new ways of doing business. The Defense Department (DOD), the government's largest purchaser of services, already has some elements in place that are essential to such a strategic approach, such as a commitment by top management to adopting best practices. However, DOD has yet to conduct a comprehensive analysis of its spending on services or thoroughly assess it's current structure, processes, and roles. DOD's size, the range and complexity of the services that it acquires, the capacity of its information and financial systems, and the unique requirements of the federal government are among the factors that DOD will need to consider as it tailors a strategic approach to its diverse needs.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2004, DOD assessed its current and planned financial and management information systems and determined that they could not provide the type of spending data that commercial companies believe are critical to identifying opportunities to leverage services acquisition buying power, reduce costs, and provide better management and oversight of DOD services suppliers. As a result, in December 2003, DOD launched an 11-month project to build a spend analysis system that will pull data from disparate databases for analysis by DOD buying teams. Specifically, DOD initiated the Spend Analysis Pilot-Technical Solution to implement a tool that aggregates spend data from multiple DOD procurement systems. According to DOD, pilot objectives include (1) developing an enterprise spend analysis capability that can be scalable across the DOD, (2) proving that it is possible, from a DOD-wide perspective, to reduce the complexity of data integration, (3) increasing the amount of information used to support DOD's second pilot effort to define how, from an operational perspective, a commodity group will be analyzed for strategic sourcing opportunities, and (4) demonstrating the network-centric attributes in DOD's acquisition information system domain. DOD's vision for the future spend environment is to have a spend analysis tool that provides a complete view of spend data, real-time analysis; standard, repeatable process; and common definition of spend across DOD components.
Recommendation: To achieve significant improvements across the range of services DOD purchases, the Secretary of Defense should evaluate how a strategic reengineering approach, such as that employed by the leading companies GAO visited, could be used as a framework to guide DOD's reengineering efforts. Specifically, the Secretary of Defense should assess whether current or planned financial or management information systems can provide the type of spending data that DOD needs to identify opportunities to leverage its buying power, reduce costs, and provide better management and oversight of its suppliers. Such data would include what types of services are being acquired; how many suppliers are being used for specific services; and how much DOD is spending on specific services, in total and with each supplier.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2003, DOD completed efforts to assess the current, tactical and decentralized approach to procurement, processes, and roles and found them to be inadequate to support a more strategic approach to purchasing services. As a result of this assessment, DOD launched a pilot now underway that will operationally test the use of cross-functional teams to coordinate and manage services purchases, along the very same lines of commercial best practices identified by GAO and recommended for consideration by DOD. Specifically, in 2003, DOD launched the Services Acquisition Spend Analysis Pilot-Operational Solution to define how, from an operational perspective, a commodity group will be analyzed for identifying strategic sourcing opportunities. The pilot will initially focus on analyzing the Administrative Services commodity, which represents about $1 billion in procurement spending across DOD organizations. According to DOD, the objectives of the pilot are to (1) develop a repeatable, operational process for analyzing commodity groups for sourcing opportunities, (2) baseline the current procurement data quality and identify data quality improvement opportunities, and (3) identify a strategic sourcing strategy for the Administrative Services category. With this pilot, DOD intends to use the type of disciplined, strategic sourcing approach based on commercial best practices recommended by GAO. DOD's pilot of a strategic sourcing approach to services acquisitions includes analyzing historical spend patterns and forecasting future requirements to identify sourcing opportunities to more efficiently manage the supply chain in support of the warfighter. Key tenets of DOD's strategic sourcing approach include (1) thorough analysis of historical spend by organization, dollar value, volume, and source, (2) collaborative planning across weapon systems and organizational boundaries with a focus on commodity requirements with similar characteristics, budgets, and needs, and (3) examination of total cost of ownership--not price alone. DOD's vision for its future services acquisition environment similarly mirrors the best practices of leading companies identified by GAO, including training procurement staff to be strategic buyers with an enterprise perspective, increasing the efficiency of acquisition process, achieving better relationship management and partnership with suppliers, forging strategic sourcing relationships with the right number of suppliers and socioeconomic mix, and better leveraging budgeted dollars for the procurement of services.
Recommendation: To achieve significant improvements across the range of services DOD purchases, the Secretary of Defense should evaluate how a strategic reengineering approach, such as that employed by the leading companies GAO visited, could be used as a framework to guide DOD's reengineering efforts. Specifically, the Secretary of Defense should assess whether DOD's current organizational structure, processes, and roles are adequate to support a more strategic approach to acquiring services; for example, whether cross-functional teams would improve the coordination and management of service acquisitions and whether it would be beneficial to establish full-time dedicated commodity/service managers to provide more effective management of key services.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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Defense Civil Support:DOD, HHS, and DHS Should Use Existing Coordination Mechanisms to Improve Their Pandemic PreparednessGAO-17-150: Published: Feb 10, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2017.
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Depot Maintenance:Executed Workload and Maintenance Operations at DOD DepotsGAO-17-82R: Published: Feb 3, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 3, 2017.
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Unmanned Aerial Systems:Air Force and Army Should Improve Strategic Human Capital Planning for Pilot WorkforcesGAO-17-53: Published: Jan 31, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2017.
Defense Infrastructure:DOD Needs Clearer Guidance on Notifying Congress of Privately Financed Construction Projects [Reissued on January 31, 2017]GAO-17-76: Published: Jan 19, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 19, 2017.
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Military Personnel:DOD and the Coast Guard Need to Screen for Gambling Disorder Addiction and Update GuidanceGAO-17-114: Published: Jan 30, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 30, 2017.
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Military Personnel:DOD Has Processes for Operating and Managing Its Sexual Assault Incident DatabaseGAO-17-99: Published: Jan 10, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 10, 2017.
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Littoral Combat Ship and Frigate:Slowing Planned Frigate Acquisition Would Enable Better-Informed DecisionsGAO-17-279T: Published: Dec 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 8, 2016.
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Defense Business Transformation:DOD Should Improve Its Planning with and Performance Monitoring of the Military DepartmentsGAO-17-9: Published: Dec 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 7, 2016.
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JULIE COOK takes you into the interior world of Las Vegas striptease. With the lights up and empty of people the photographs allow you to engage with a varied and often surprising architecture. They also invite your own fantasies of what might take place when the lights are down and the venues come alive. The work represents over six years of work on this subject.
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JULIE COOK is a Lecturer on Photography at the University of East London. Other publications include 'Baby Oil and Ice, Striptease in East London' (Do-Not Press 2002), 'Zeropolis, The Experience of Las Vegas (Reaktion 2003), the Las Vegas Diaries (Back in Black Publishing 2005). The work continues Julie Cook's interest in sexuality and voyeurism and our desire for fantasy and escape in western culture.
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