Scientists Discover Marine Fungus That Can Eat Plastic
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Scitech Daily ^
| June 12, 2024 | By ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH
Researchers have found that the marine fungus Parengyodontium album can break down polyethylene in the ocean when exposed to UV light, suggesting the presence of more plastic-degrading fungi in deeper waters. A
plastic particle (red) is colonized by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album. Credit: Annika Vaksmaa/NIOZ Researchers found that the fungus Parengyodontium album degrades UV-exposed polyethylene in the ocean, suggesting that similar fungi might also break down plastics in deeper waters. Researchers, including those from NIOZ, have discovered that a marine fungus can decompose the plastic polyethylene after it has been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Their findings, published...
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ICE Confirms Jordanian Who Tried to Enter Marine Corps Base Entered U.S. Illegally Through Southern Border
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Breitbart ^
| 05/25/2024 | Kristina Wong
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Thursday that one of two Jordanian nationals who tried to sneak onto a Marine Corps base in Virginia this month had entered the U.S. illegally across the southern border in April. ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) confirmed in a statement to Fox5DC that the
Jordanian national, referred to as “noncitizen 2” had entered the U.S. illegally less than a month prior: On April 8, 2024, the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) arrested Jordanian noncitizen 2 near San Ysidro, California, following his unlawful entry into the United States. On April 9, 2024, the USBP...
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Fincantieri Marinette Marine receives $1 billion contract to build 2 Constellation-class frigates
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Green Bay Press-Gazette via Yahoo ^
| May 24th, 2024 | Ariel Perez, Green Bay Press-Gazette
The Department of Defense has awarded Fincantieri Marinette Marine a contract to build two U.S. Navy frigates, according to the daily Pentagon contract announcements.The contract, valued at more than $1 billion, is for two Constellation-class Frigates, FFG 66 and FFG 67. The
Navy selected the company to build the Constellation-class frigate in 2020.“The team at Fincantieri Marine Group is committed to support the U.S. Navy, and the Constellation program will be the centerpiece of our portfolio for decades,” said Marco Galbiati, CEO of Ficantieri Marinette Marine, in a news release.The company received the contract for the lead ship of the...
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Did terrorists just do a dry run at a Marine base? Team Biden needs to fill the nation in
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NY Post ^
| 05/23/2024 | Post Editorial Board
Did terrorists just scout out a US Marine base? Amazingly,
Americans have no idea one way or the other — despite a troubling incident this month suggesting that’s exactly what happened. In fact, it took nearly two weeks for top brass at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia just to alert its own rank-and-file about an attempt by two Jordanians to drive their box truck onto the base before being blocked by guards. That’s outrageous enough, yet the story still remains far from clear. Indeed, a mountain of questions need answers.
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One of the two Jordanian nationals involved in the attempted breach at Marine Corps Base Quantico on May 3rd illegally crossed the border last month
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X ^
BREAKING: FOX confirms thru multiple DHS sources... One of the two Jordanian nationals involved in the attempted breach at Marine Corps Base Quantico on May 3rd illegally crossed the border last month (April) in the San Diego sector and was released on an NTA (notice to appear) because there was no initial
derogatory information found. The other Jordanian national was an F1 Student Visa Overstay
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Marine corporal earns prestigious medal for saving military $140M
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yahoo ^
| May 16, 2024 | Irene Loewenson
A Marine truck mechanic received a medal typically awarded to more senior service members for saving the Defense Department more than $140 million through work he began as a teenage lance corporal. Cpl.
Gage Barbieri, now 21, received the Meritorious Service Medal on Friday from Col. Damon Burrows, commanding officer of 2nd Marine Division’s Headquarters Battalion. Barbieri is only the second Marine corporal to receive the Meritorious Service Medal since at least 2008, Burrows wrote on LinkedIn
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Dying Marine vet, 98, finally gets high school diploma while receiving hospice care after dropping out of school to fight in World War Two
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Daily Mail ^
| 5/18/24 | Noa Halff
A dying Marine veteran was finally handed his high school diploma while receiving hospice care after dropping out to fight in World War Two over eight decades ago. Richard
Remp, a 98-year-old marine veteran in hospice care, left school at 17 years of age to serve in World War II, before later continuing his service in Korea and Vietnam. But on Friday he was finally handed the high school diploma he had longed for all these years but never received. Remp told local San Antonio NBC affiliate NEWS4SA: 'On behalf of myself and the Marine Corps, I thank you very...
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Did a Jordanian Border-Crosser Just Attempt a Terror Attack on a Marine Corps Base Near D.C.?...Cone of silence falls over local media report of a breaching attempt at Quantico
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Center for Immigration Studies ^
| May 14, 2024 | Todd Bensman
The Potomac Local News, founded in 2010 “to help people understand what is happening in their local communities in Northern Virginia”, practices what it calls local “conservative journalistic standards” and almost prides itself on a fact of life about today’s politically bifurcated media landscape. As
the online outlet explains on its “About” page” "Often overlooked by the Washington, D.C. legacy media, we’ve remained true to our community by providing local, can’t-get-it anywhere-else coverage of local government, business, and charitable organizations." But on May 3, the little online newspaper’s Kelly Sienkowski broke a major national story with serious policy and electoral...
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JIHAD FOILED: Illegal Foreign Nationals On Terror Watch List in ICE Custody after Attempting to Breach Virginia Marine Base
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https://gellerreport.com ^
| 5/15/2024 | pamela geller
A Jordanian national who had recently crossed the southern border into the United States was on the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list….. It’s only a matter of time. A
better headline, "Biden's Open Border Policies enable attempted terrorist attack on Quantico".https://t.co/NprDD99ugb — William Joseph Hellmann (@w_j_hellmann) May 15, 2024 2 people in ICE custody after attempting to breach Virginia Marine base By: Marine Times, May 15, 2024; https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/yo The Marine Corps prevented two people from breaking onto a Marine installation in Virginia on May 3 and turned them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The two people drove up...
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U.S. Marine Special Operations Testing Armed Robotic Canines: The New Vanguard of Battlefield Technology
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Trendy Digests ^
| 05 09 2024 | Emma Taylor
In an era where technology increasingly interweaves with the fabric of modern warfare, the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) has embarked on testing a new frontier of combat capabilities: armed robotic dogs. These
quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (Q-UGVs), developed by Ghost Robotics and equipped with weapon systems by Onyx Industries, represent a remarkable leap in military robotics. MARSOC’s current evaluation of these Q-UGVs, as disclosed by Onyx Industries, includes testing two variants equipped with the company’s SENTRY Remote Weapon System (RWS). This system, which is AI-assisted and features advanced digital imaging for target acquisition, maintains a crucial...
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Rand Paul: The amount of money going to Ukraine is more than we spend on the entire Marine Corps.
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Twitter/X ^
| May 8 | Sen. Rand Paul
Rand Paul: "The amount of money going to Ukraine in this Bill is more than we spend on the entire Marine Corps." Insane
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Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years Prison, Fined $200,000 for Jan. 6
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Julie Kelly on Twitter X ^
| May 3, 2024 | Julie Kelly
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years Prison, Fined $200,000 for Jan. 6 | The Epoch Times
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Skanska inks $861M contract to convert Brooklyn marine terminal into wind hub
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X via Crain's ^
| April 29, 2024 04:41 PM | CAROLINE SPIVACK
New York’s embattled offshore wind industry has suffered a series of blows to projects and infrastructure, but one effort enjoying a tailwind is a city-backed plan to convert a Brooklyn marine terminal into a sprawling manufacturing hub.
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Report: Joe Biden, 81, Walks with Aides to Marine One to ‘Draw Less Attention’ to Awkward Stride
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Breitbart ^
| 04/26/2024 | WENDELL HUSEBØ
President Joe Biden, 81, implemented a new strategy of walking to and from Marine One with multiple aides to “draw less attention” to his physical ailments, Axios’ Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson reported Friday. Biden has neuropathy in his feet and a stiffened gait, White House physician Kevin O’Connor found after the
president’s annual physical in February. The health challenges might explain why he struggles to remain upright. Biden has tripped, tumbled, and stumbled at least five times during his presidency.
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Biden changes walking routine to Marine One
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axios.com ^
| Hans Nichols , Alex Thompson
President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead
of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides. Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait. Zoom in: Some Biden advisers have told Axios they're concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone — especially across the grass — have highlighted his age. Weeks ago the president told aides...
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Biden Admin To Spend Over $2 Million To Diversify Marine Biology, Climate Science
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The Daily Wire ^
| April 20, 2024 | Spencer Lindquist
The Biden administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) is dumping more than $2 million in taxpayer funds to back efforts aimed at diversifying marine biology and climate science, deriding the fields as “some of the least diverse STEM disciplines.” The
NSF, which controls $9.9 billion of federal money and exists to “promote the progress of science,” “advance the national health,” and “secure the national defense,” is backing four different universities engaged in the study aimed at diversifying the two scientific disciplines. “The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science,...
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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California ~ 23 April 2024
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Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe
~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, CaliforniaMarine Corps Air Station Miramar, formerly Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Miramar and Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of
the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. It is located in Miramar, San Diego, California, about 14 miles north of Downtown San Diego. The airfield is named Foss Field after Joe Foss. The air station is the former location of Pacific Fleet fighter and Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft...
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Twitter: Female Australian Soldier vs. Male U. S. Marine
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Twitter ^
Australian soldier vs US marine Vanity post for fun. She
could probably drink him under the table as well.
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Greece ‘First in Europe’ to Ban Bottom Trawling in All Marine Protected Areas
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Greek Reporter ^
| April 17, 2024 | Tasos Kokkinidis
Greece will ban bottom trawling in all of its marine protected areas by 2030, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday making the the country the first in Europe to announce such a ban. Speaking
at the Our Ocean Conference in Athens, he said the country would become the first to bring an end to the damaging fishing practice in these protected areas. It will be banned in Greece’s three national marine parks – one of which is the largest in the East Mediterranean Sea – by 2026 with the rest following before the end of the decade. Bottom...
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FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ~ 16 April 2024
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Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | laurenmarlowe
~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, CaliforniaMarine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego is a United States Marine Corps military installation in San Diego, California. It lies between San Diego Bay and Interstate 5, adjacent to San Diego International Airport and the former Naval Training
Center San Diego. MCRD San Diego's main mission is the initial training of enlisted recruits living west of the Mississippi River. Over 21,000 recruits are trained each year. The Depot also is the home to the Marine Corps' Recruiter School and Western Recruiting Region's Drill Instructors School.The mission...
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