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Uniform resource locator
A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL (also known as web address, particularly when used with HTTP), is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is displayed on top inside an address bar. An example of a typical URL would be "http://en.example.org/wiki/Main_Page". A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI), but in many technical documents and verbal discussions, URL is often used as a synonym for URI, and this is not considered a problem.[1] URLs are commonly used for web pages (http:), but can also be used for file transfer (ftp:), email (mailto:), telephone numbers (tel:) and many other applications (see URI scheme for list).
The Uniform Resource Locator was standardized in 1994[2] by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents "Birds of a Feather" session in 1992.[3][4] The format combines the pre-existing system of domain names (created in 1985) with file path syntax, where slashes are used to separate directory and file names. Conventions already existed where server names could be prepended to complete file paths, preceded by a double-slash (//).[5]
Berners-Lee later regretted the use of dots to separate the parts of the domain name within URIs, wishing he had used slashes throughout.[5] For example, http://www.example.com/path/to/name would have been written http:com/example/www/path/to/name. Berners-Lee has also said that, given the colon following the URI scheme, the two slashes before the domain name were also unnecessary.[6]
Every HTTP URL consists of the following, in the given order. Several schemes other than HTTP also share this general format, with some variation.
- the scheme name (commonly called protocol)
- a colon, two slashes,[note 1]
- a host, normally given as a domain name[note 2] but sometimes as a literal IP address
- optionally a port number
- the full path of the resource
The scheme says how to connect, the host specifies where to connect, and the remainder specifies what to ask for.
For programs such as Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts, this is followed by a query string,[7][8] and an optional fragment identifier.[9]
The syntax is:
Component details:
- The domain name or literal numeric IP address gives the destination location for the URL. A literal numeric IPv6 address may be given, but must be enclosed in [ ] e.g. [db8:0cec::99:123a].
- The domain google.com, or its numeric IP address 22.214.171.124, is the address of Google's website.
- The domain name portion of a URL is not case sensitive since DNS ignores case:
- http://en.example.org/ and HTTP://EN.EXAMPLE.ORG/ both open the same page.
- The port number, given in decimal, is optional; if omitted, the default for the scheme is used.
- For example, http://vnc.example.com:5800 connects to port 5800 of vnc.example.com, which may be appropriate for a VNC remote control session. If the port number is omitted for an http: URL, the browser will connect on port 80, the default HTTP port. The default port for an https: request is 443.
- The path is used to specify and perhaps find the resource requested. It is case-sensitive,[10] though it may be treated as case-insensitive by some servers, especially those based on Microsoft Windows.
- If the server is case sensitive and http://en.example.org/wiki/URL is correct, then http://en.example.org/WIKI/URL or http://en.example.org/wiki/url will display an HTTP 404 error page, unless these URLs point to valid resources themselves.
- The query string contains data to be passed to software running on the server. It may contain name/value pairs separated by ampersands, for example
- ?first_name=John&last_name=Doe.
- The fragment identifier, if present, specifies a part or a position within the overall resource or document.
- When used with HTML, it usually specifies a section or location within the page, and used in combination with Anchor Tags the browser is scrolled to display that part of the page.
The scheme name defines the namespace, purpose, and the syntax of the remaining part of the URL. Software will try to process a URL according to its scheme and context. For example, a web browser will usually dereference the URL http://example.org:80 by performing an HTTP request to the host at example.org, using port number 80.
Other examples of scheme names include https, gopher, wais, ftp. URLs with https as a scheme (such as https://example.com/) require that requests and responses will be made over a secure connection to the website. Some schemes that require authentication allow a username, and perhaps a password too, to be embedded in the URL, for example ftp://email@example.com. Passwords embedded in this way are not conducive to security, but the full possible syntax is
Other schemes do not follow the HTTP pattern. For example, the mailto: scheme only uses valid email addresses. When clicked on in an application, the URL mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com may start an e-mail composer with the address email@example.com in the To field. The "tel" scheme is even more different; it uses the public switched telephone network for addressing, instead of domain names representing Internet hosts.
List of allowed URL characters[edit]
- Unreserved
May be encoded but it is not necessary
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - _ . ~
- Reserved
Have to be encoded sometimes
! * ' ( ) ; : @ & = + $ , / ? % # [ ]
Further details can for example be found in RFC 3986 and http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html.
Relationship to URI[edit]
A URL is a URI that, in addition to identifying a web resource, provides a means of locating the resource by describing its "primary access mechanism (e.g., its network location)".[11]
Internet hostnames[edit]
On the Internet, a hostname is a domain name assigned to a host computer. This is usually a combination of the host's local name with its parent domain's name. For example, en.example.org consists of a local hostname (en) and the domain name example.org. The hostname is translated into an IP address via the local hosts file, or the domain name system (DNS) resolver. It is possible for a single host computer to have several hostnames; but generally the operating system of the host prefers to have one hostname that the host uses for itself.
Any domain name can also be a hostname, as long as the restrictions mentioned below are followed. For example, both "en.example.org" and "example.org" can be hostnames if they both have IP addresses assigned to them. The domain name "xyz.example.org" may not be a hostname if it does not have an IP address, but "aa.xyz.example.org" may still be a hostname. All hostnames are domain names, but not all domain names are hostnames.
Modern usage[edit]
Major computer manufacturers such as Apple have begun to deprecate APIs that take local paths as parameters, in favour of using URLs.[12] This is because remote and local resources (via the file:// scheme) may both be represented using a URL, but may additionally provide a protocol (particularly useful for remote items) and credentials.
See also[edit]
- CURIE (Compact URI)
- Forwardslash
- Fragment identifier
- Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI)
- URL normalization
- Clean URL
- ^ Berners-Lee has said that, given the colon following the URI scheme, the two slashes before the domain name were unnecessary.[6]
- ^ Berners-Lee also later regretted the use of dots to separate the parts of the domain name, wishing he had used slashes throughout. For example, http://www.example.com/path/to/name would have been written http:com/example/www/path/to/name[5]
- ^ RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL). This RFC is now obselete. It has been superseded by a newer RFC (see the RFC Index)
- ^ "Living Documents BoF Minutes". W3.org. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ "URL Specification". Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ a b c Berners-Lee, Tim. "Frequently asked questions by the press". Retrieved 2010-02-03.
- ^ a b "Technology | Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes". BBC News. 2009-10-14. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ^ "PHP parse_url() Function". Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ "URL Syntax". Pangea.stanford.edu. 2004-07-20. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ "RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax". Network Working group of the IETF. 2005-01. p. 40. Retrieved 2013-04-24. "[...] the scheme and host are case-insensitive [...] The other generic syntax components are assumed to be case-sensitive unless specifically defined otherwise by the scheme [...]"
- ^ Tim Berners-Lee, Roy T. Fielding, Larry Masinter. (January 2005). "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax". Internet Society. RFC 3986; STD 66.
- ^ "Deprecated NSOPenPanel Methods". Apple Inc. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
External links[edit]
- RFC 3986 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax (ASCII version)
- FGA: Making "http://example.com./" work like "http://www.example.com./"


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This was the Camp home, owned by the family which operated the Camp Corset Company. They were world travelers, and kept a trunk on a landing in the stairway to their second floor. It was filled with objects which they had picked up during their travels. From that trunk they would produce prizes for the winners of bridge parties which they would host for friends.
Posted by tlhallatty on 10/31/13 23:57:04
Yes I think It's Amy Firth. I went there.
Posted by catdogbird1127 on 03/16/13 21:35:08
Jackson Corset Co. was located in the building on the corner of Washington and Mechanic, which later grew into the S.H. Camp Co., then Camp International. The building is still there and was made into condo apts. The parking lot is actually on the corner, while the building faces Washington.
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My brother and I were there together for almost eight years in the years 1956 to 1964. My name is Tim Toney and Bill is my brother. We were there with some other brothers; the Brooks, Fred, Joe, and Harry also the Eva brothers with Ron and Roger one ball. I remember a boy named Yost, Fields, Sister Rita (she choked me), Sister Arcadia (she beat me good in the dining room in front of all the other boys), Sister Jean (Mean, she might have been the one that beat me).
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There use to be two or three more floors to this building. It had a mansard roof. Somewhere in the 50's or 60's they took the upper floors off. Not sure why they would do that?
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Isn't this the city home of Ella Sharp at the corner of Michigan and First Street?
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Farm property purchased by Ella's maternal grandfather, Abraham Wing. Her parents Dwight and Mary Wing Merriman added on to the original 3 room house ca. 1845 in both 1858 and 1863. Ella Merriman and her husband John Sharp living in the home after their marriage. This photo was taken after Ella's death when the park superintendent lived in the home.
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Farm property owned by her maternal grandfather, Abraham Wing. Additions to the original 3 room house ca. 1845, were made in 1858 and 1863 by her parents Dwight and Mary Wing Merriman. Later lived in by daughter Ella Merriman, and her husband John Sharp.
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Looks to be the railroad building that burned down around the mid 70's. It was located on page ave south of the railroad tracks behind now the Blue Moon Resturant (the old junction resturant or papa ray's).
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Posted 03 May 2013 - 03:07 AM
It seems I was wrong with the moving of items from the AddOns(Extras) release to the Admin Tool Pack and so will revert back to before the Admin Pack was created.
This will be done over the weekend when time permits, so hopefully be ready early next week.
IMO most of the AddOns should be included in the relevant OS releases, in this case most would be in Windows XP x86.(tried that and didn't pan out too well).
Posted 03 May 2013 - 06:16 AM
Whatacrock, on 03 May 2013 - 03:07 AM, said:
You're not sayin' your imperfect are you, this could be a deal-breaker
Also, I partially rebuilt the MS Redistributables release, all but the executables, ran Sweeper /test /verbose wanting to see if the log would mention 'vsto05se_enu.apm' - as expected the only files missing were the executables. I would say 'vsto05se_enu.apm' is an extra, as far as the C++ runtime script is concerned.
What I did notice is Sweeper (127) deletes empty folders even in TEST MODE despite saying it "wont delete things" in this mode. I would hope Sweeper could run in at least one mode where it only reports and does nothing else. I like the idea of reporting empty folders but if you're building or troubleshooting a script having to go back and add folders gets a bit long in the tooth.
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:29 AM
Corrected the Visual Studio apms and have placed them in their rightful home. ..OfficeAddons as posted by DesertJerry in the Office threads
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 02:57 AM
Found it and fixed it, also fixed a few other hidden bugs that might pop up from time to time under certain situations(one of them being no modules folder). Built in a manifest list too so its looking sexy and demands admin rights from us Vista and up users.
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Posted 24 May 2013 - 07:34 AM
Script date is 23 May 2013
Please remember that in the order to see the release and download it is required that you are running APUP v1.4.14 !!!!
Posted 24 May 2013 - 07:54 PM
Posted 17 June 2013 - 10:44 AM
Please remember that in order to see and download the release you need apup v1.4.14
Script is dated 17 June
Edited by Whatacrock, 17 June 2013 - 10:46 AM.
Posted 19 June 2013 - 10:36 PM
When running AutoPatcher, I'm also getting the "no compatible items found" thing I reported in the Windows 7 forum.
Also shows Unofficial/Unsupported Release in the upper right hand corner once it gets to the no compatible items part.
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Posted 22 June 2013 - 03:31 AM
WindowsXP-KB2481109-x86-ENU.exe has been moved to Critical
To fix the size mismatch of KB940157 please rerun apup to correct the error
Posted 25 June 2013 - 02:41 AM
Posted 25 June 2013 - 06:06 AM
Whatacrock, on 22 June 2013 - 03:31 AM, said:
WindowsXP-KB2481109-x86-ENU.exe has been moved to Critical
To fix the size mismatch of KB940157 please rerun apup to correct the error
I think the question being asked is, if the files are safe to delete why were they signed as part of the release and being flagged as missing, including the location - maybe the wrong rti was uploaded?
\modules\Windows XP x86\Components\KB940157_xp_x86_enu.apm' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') size mismatch! \modules\Windows XP x86\Non Critical\WindowsXP-KB2779562-x86-ENU.apm' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') does not exist! \modules\Windows XP x86\Non Critical\Non Critical_files\WindowsXP-KB2481109-x86-ENU.exe' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') does not exist! \modules\Windows XP x86\Non Critical\Non Critical_files\WindowsXP-KB2661254-v2-x86-ENU.exe' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') does not exist! \modules\Windows XP x86\Non Critical\Non Critical_files\WindowsXP-KB2779562-x86-ENU.exe' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') does not exist!
Posted 25 June 2013 - 08:40 AM
Will keep all informed when it is right
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Posted 15 July 2013 - 05:24 PM
Just tried to update xpsp3 file got a verification failed for Security Update for Windows XP (KB2813347) it is now on version 2
from http://download.micr...-v2-x86-ENU.exe
Hope this helps
Posted 16 July 2013 - 02:24 AM
Posted 18 July 2013 - 02:19 PM
UNOFFICIAL: File 'Z:\Autopatcher\Test\modules\AddOns\fontprop_enu.apm' (mentioned by RTI 'extras.rtiz') size mismatch! UNOFFICIAL: File 'Z:\Autopatcher\Test\modules\Windows XP x86\Critical\WindowsXP-KB2483614-x86-ENU.apm' (mentioned by RTI 'xp_sp3_enu.rtiz') does not exist!
KB2483614 was replaced by KB2813347-v2
Edited by click-click, 18 July 2013 - 02:21 PM.
Posted 18 July 2013 - 02:31 PM
Thanks for the info click-click
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The dollar strengthened against the euro as U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast last month and the unemployment rate dropped to an almost four-year low.
The 17-nation euro fell to a two-week low versus the greenback after a report that the majority of European Central Bank members indicated support for an interest-rate cut if the economy doesn't pick up and Germany's economic outlook was downgraded. Canada's currency rallied to its strongest in a month versus the dollar as the nation's employers added almost six times as many jobs as forecast in November. The Federal Reserve is weighing whether to expand the third round of asset purchases known as quantitative easing, or QE3, this month.
"The euro is not our preferred currency and we like to buy dips in the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian dollar," said Vassili Serebriakov, a currency strategist at BNP Paribas SA in New York. "We still expect the dollar to weaken over time. The Fed is still looking for a sustained improvement in the labor markets and it will take at least six months to see that."
The dollar rose 0.4 percent to $1.2914 per euro at 10:36 a.m. in New York, reaching $1.2877 the highest since Nov. 23. It was little changed at 82.45 per yen after gaining as much as 0.5 percent. The euro fell 0.3 percent to 106.48 yen.
Mexico, Canada
Mexico's peso was the second-best performer against the dollar, after Canada, as the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in the U.S., both nations' largest trading partner.
The gains in the peso were limited after the nation's inflation rate fell for a second month, bolstering projections the central bank won't raise interest rates.
The peso rose 0.2 percent to 12.8477 per U.S. dollar. The currency has strengthened 8.3 percent this year through yesterday, the best performance among 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The Canadian dollar rose 0.3 percent to 98.82 cents per U.S. dollar after declining as much as 0.2 percent. It touched the strongest level since Nov. 7.
"If we can close lower on the day here and extend below 98.90, the downside opens up quite a bit more," Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, said in a telephone interview. "We're still probably going to touch 97 or 98 over the course of the next few weeks."
Canadian employment increased 59,300 and lowered the unemployment rate to 7.2 percent from 7.4 percent, the first decline in five months, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa.
The euro has lost 2.6 percent this year, the second-worst performer among the 10 developed-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The yen slid 9.7 percent and the dollar fell 2.1 percent.
A majority of ECB policy makers were open to cutting the benchmark rate yesterday and there is a possibility of a reduction early next year, three officials with knowledge of the Governing Council's deliberations said.
The central bank held its benchmark at a record low of 0.75 percent yesterday and kept the deposit rate at zero.
The Frankfurt-based Bundesbank cut its growth projection for 2013 to 0.4 percent from the 1.6 percent predicted in June and said the economy.
Sweden's krona fell against all its major counterparts, weakening 0.1 percent against the euro to 8.6111, and falling 0.5 percent versus the dollar to 6.6678.
Dollar Index
The Dollar Index, which IntercontinentalExchange Inc. uses to track the greenback against currencies of six U.S. trading partners, rose 0.3 percent to 80.525, touching the strongest since Nov. 23.
U.S. employment climbed by 146,000 following a revised 138,000 gain in October that was less than initially estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate of 91 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a gain of 85,000. The jobless rate fell to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent.
The Fed is working to boost the economy and reduce unemployment by continuing purchases of housing debt that have helped drive borrowing costs to an all-time low. The policy- setting Federal Open Market Committee's last meeting of this year is scheduled for Dec. 11-12 in Washington.
The yen strengthened earlier against the dollar after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Japan, mirroring movements in the currency after a record temblor in March 2011. The Japanese currency gained as much as 0.3 percent to 82.18.
In 2011 the yen surged to a record level in the days following the quake and the tsunami that led to meltdowns at a nuclear plant in Fukushima. A tsunami alert was issued for northeast Japan after the quake shook buildings in Tokyo today.


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My update on the revenge of the whales last week reminded me that the 'animals' file is bulging so follow along as we enter the wild and sometimes wacky world of animals.
Our first story concerns the insect known as the froghopper. They are also called spittlebugs because they encase their young in a frothy white foam that protects them against predators.
We all know that fleas are often considered the champion leapers of the world but fleas can't hold a candle to froghoppers. These little guys can jump more than 100 times their own body length. If I could do that, I could soar over the length of a football field and come down considerably farther out than the opposite goal post. And if I did it straight up, I could jump over most of the hotels in Tumon.
So, what's the froghopper's secret? New research reveals that they achieve their prowess by flexing bow-like structures between their hind legs and wings and releasing the energy in a catapult-like action.
The researchers have discovered that a froghopper stores energy by bending a paired bow-shaped part of its internal skeleton called a 'pleural arch'. This structure is made from layers of hard cuticle and a rubbery protein called resilin. When the froghopper contracts its muscles to jump, these arches flex like a composite archery bow, and then spring back to catapult the froghopper forward with a force that can be over 400 times its body mass.
There are other similarities between the froghopper's jumping mechanism and the design of composite bows used in archery. Pairing a rigid and an elastic material means that the skeleton of a froghopper, or an archery bow, can resist damage even if they're bent for a long time. Froghoppers can hold their pleural arch in a bent 'ready position', ready to jump at a moment's notice, and can jump repeatedly without damaging their bodies.
More often than not, we discover that Mother Nature has beaten us to the punch in our designs and inventions. Here's to the froghopper, the champion jumper on old Mother Earth!
An adult froghopper. (Credit: Burrows et al, BMC Biology 2008)
I'm not sure if we have froghoppers here in the Marianas, but I think I've seen their spittle nests. We certainly don't have the next animal subject here, but we do have a close relative which makes this story all the more interesting.
An international team of scientists led by Dr Bryan Fry from the University of Melbourne have used sophisticated medical imaging techniques to reveal that the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis) has the most complex venom glands yet described for any reptile (including snakes), and that its close extinct relative Megalania was the largest venomous animal to have lived.
"These large carnivorous reptiles are known to bite prey and release them, leaving the prey to bleed to death from the horrific wounds inflicted. We have now shown that it is the combined arsenal of the Komodo Dragon's teeth and venom that account for their hunting prowess. The combination of this specialized bite and venom seem to minimize the dragon's contact with its prey and this allows it to take large animals," said Dr Fry from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
This is in direct contrast to most information, which holds that Dragon victims die from septicemia caused by toxic bacteria living in the Dragon's mouth. Komodo Dragons are native to Indonesia, and adult males can weigh up to 250 pounds and grow to 10 feet long. They have around 60 highly serrated teeth that are frequently replaced during their lifetime.
The researchers conducted a comprehensive study of the Komodo Dragon bite, that included using computer techniques to analyze stress in a dragon's jaws and compare their bite strength to crocodiles. The dragons were found to have much weaker bites than crocodiles, but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a preserved dragon head revealed complex venom glands and specialized serrated teeth which create deep lacerations for entry of the venom.
The researchers located and surgically removed the venom glands from a terminally ill Komodo Dragon at the Singapore Zoo, and used mass spectrometry to obtain a profile of the venom molecules. The team also analyzed which toxin genes were expressed in the dragon's venom gland.
The venom was found to be similar to that of the Gila monster and many snakes. Its primary effect is that it's a vasodilator. The venom causes a severe loss in blood pressure by widening blood vessels, thereby inducing shock in the victim. These findings may explain many observations that Komodo Dragon prey become still and unusually quiet soon after being bitten. The bite wounds also bleed profusely, consistent with the discovery that the venom is also rich in toxins that prolong bleeding.
The researchers also examined fossils of the Dragon's giant extinct relative Megalania (Varanus priscus). From similarities in skull anatomy, they determined that this twenty-five foot long lizard apparently had a similar venom and bite system, making it the largest venomous animal to have ever lived.
Komodo dragons are the largest lizards in the world. (Credit: iStockphoto/Anna Yu)
And of course, we have our very own Varanus species here in the Marianas. Varanus indicus is more commonly known as the hilatai or monitor lizard. They're also called iguanas, but these bad boys aren't even closely related to the iguanas of the eastern Pacific. They are, however, close first cousins of the Komodo Dragon. We all know how they got their spots, but I wonder if anyone has ever looked to see if they also have venom glands?
And now a story about animals in unexpected places.
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of the disappearance of the world's second largest fish. No, it didn't go extinct, it was just gone for six months of the year. Read on!
Researchers have recently discovered where basking sharks – the world's second largest fish – hide out for half of every year. The discovery revises scientists' understanding of this iconic species and highlights just how little we still know about even the largest of marine animals.
Basking sharks are commonly sighted in surface waters during summer and autumn months, but their disappearance during winter has been a great source of debate ever since an article in 1954 suggested that they hibernate on the ocean floor during this time. The researchers from Massachusetts Marine Fisheries have helped solve the mystery and completely re-defined the known distribution of this species.
They used new satellite-based tagging technology to discover that basking sharks make ocean-scale migrations through tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean during the winter, traveling at depths of 600 to 3,000 feet. Their data show that the sharks sometimes stay at those depths for weeks or even months at a time and thus have avoided detection by humans for millennia. Basking sharks are hard to hide. They can be over 30 feet long a
nd weigh as much as seven tons.
The researchers said they were "absolutely surprised" when they first received a signal from the tagged sharks coming from the tropical waters of the western Atlantic, near the Caribbean and the Bahamas. After all, basking sharks have always been considered to be cool-water sharks, restricted to temperate regions.
Several factors make basking sharks a challenge to study. Not only do they disappear for long periods of time, they also feed exclusively on plankton. That means they aren't at all interested in traditional fishing methods (unlike the whales of last week's story). And even when the sharks are found closer to the ocean surface, they spend their time in the cool-temperature, plankton-rich waters that limit underwater visibility and make diving difficult.
The findings could have important implications for the conservation of basking sharks, which have shown some signs of dramatic decline in the last half century and are listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The researchers also say that their discoveries indicate the Atlantic population – and perhaps the world population – are connected and may constitute a single population. Therefore the global population of basking sharks may be even smaller than previously thought. Efforts to boost basking sharks' numbers will therefore need to be coordinated on a global scale.
Basking shark. (Credit: Photo by Chris Gotschalk [http://www.piscoweb.org/who/techs/cgotschalk.html], courtesy of Wikimedia
And apparently the answer to "Where does the basking shark go in the winter?" is "Anywhere it wants to!" Do they hide out on the ocean bottom? No, silly, they vacation in the Bahamas! And of course, this also serves as another reminder that there is no Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean. There is the World Ocean and humans would be a lot better off if we started thinking of it in that way!


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During the 1960s the post-World War II agricultural trends of larger farms and fewer farmers accelerated. Over the course of the decade nine hundred thousand farms disappeared, largely because of consolidation. This meant that the average size of farms increased from 297 acres in 1960 to 374 acres by 1970. Although it was true that corporations and conglomerates were moving into agriculture, the familyImage Pop-Up
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The Big Three and the Auto Industry
Challenge of the Imports.
By 1960 the American automobile industry had been consolidated into the Big Three (General Motors [GM], Ford, and Chrysler) and American Motors. These firms not only dominated the domestic market, they were supreme globally. In 1960 American companies built 93 percent of the autos sold in the United States and 48 percent of world sales. In the mid 1950s, however, led by Volkswagen and soon followed by Fiat, Renault, Datsun, and Hillman, imports began to nibble their way into the rich American market. The growing presence of imports disturbed Detroit, and the Big Three responded with their own small cars—GM produced the Corvair, Ford the Falcon, and Chrysler the Valiant. They then introduced the so-called muscle cars, powerful, sleek sports models such as the Mustang. The tactic worked: Americans, dazzled by the horsepower and the style, turned away from the boxy, utilitarian imports. By 1965 American firms appeared to have beaten back the challenge, and import sales, which had risen to 668,000 in 1959, dropped to 540,000. Given the American love affair with the automobile, the country's growing affluence, and the fact that the two-car family was fast becoming the badge of the middle class, there was no reason to doubt that the Big Three's prosperity and success would continue.
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Unsafe at any Speed
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Concern over automobile safety was heightened by Ralph Nader's 1965 book alleging that unsafe automobile design (particularly the Chevrolet Corvair) was the major contributor to highway accidents. This led to the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1965 and the Highway Safety Act the following year. Together they required safety features (seat belts, for example) installed in all motor vehicles and the development of comprehensive traffic safety pro-grams. Much like the government's regulation of air quality, these new safety standards made auto travel safer and led to a decline in highway fatalities.
End of an Era.
By the late 1960s foreign manufacturers—largely Volkswagen, Toyota, and Datsun—were once again putting pressure on Detroit. While the recession at decade's end hurt American auto firms because people delayed purchasing new domestic cars, it helped the foreign companies as many opted to buy less-expensive models, which often turned out to be imports. By 1970 imports had captured 11 percent of the U.S. market, and with two oil crises over the next ten years, smaller, more-fuel-efficient foreign automobiles continued to increase their share of the market. As of 1987 imports made up 31 percent of all vehicles sold in the United States.
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The Volkswagen Beetle
The first serious overseas challenge to the U.S. automakers came from a small, rather odd-looking, four-cylinder import from Germany called the Volkswagen (VW). It was originally designed in the 1930s as the answer to Adolf Hitler's dream of producing a car for the German masses (Volkswagen translates as people's car). World War II intervened, however, and the car was never built. At war's end American and British firms considered buying Volkswagen, but with the factory destroyed and only one model plan, they declined. The German government picked up the pieces and began production slowly. Over the next few years, the awkward "Bug," as it would affectionately be called later, became a common sight on German roads.
Volkswagen's entry into the United States went largely unnoticed until company executives realized that to break into the American market, VW had to guarantee good service and support for their auto. With a national sales and service organization stretching across the country, sales began to climb. Unexpectedly, the car's lack of style caught on, and it tapped into an antisnob appeal. In 1955 VW sold 28,000 cars in the United States accounting for nearly half of all imports. This leading role among imports continued through the 1960s, peaking in 1968, when VW accounted for 68 percent of all imports sold in the United States. Like the Model T, the VW did not have annual model changes, it...
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The Boom on Wall Street
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Ever since mid 1949, when the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 161, the stock market had been rising. By 1959, despite the recession, the Dow Jones average was 685. In 1960, however, the market seemed to stall, and in 1962 it suffered its worst year since 1931: in June, when the market hit bottom, the Dow had lost 27 percent of its value since December. But from that point on to 1966, the market shot up, with the Dow Jones gaining 460 points, inching above the 1,000 mark in January. Although it would drop from that peak, in the years 1962 through 1968 the market increase was greater than the famous bull market of the 1920s.
Mutual Funds.
Although nearly thirty million Americans held stock, few knew much about the market. This limited knowledge led many to play the stock market through mutual funds. Although they had existed since the 1920s, mutual funds did not become popular until the 1950s, In essence, mutual funds were diversified stock portfolios managed by professionals. For a fee investors could put their money into one of these funds. Fund managers then bought and sold large blocks of desirable stocks in an effort to increase the fund's value. By 1965 such funds were so popular they accounted for one quarter of all transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. Three years later new ones were being started at...
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Credit Cards
"Ill Just Charge It."
Ubiquitous words and phrases generally associated with the 1960s—"Don't trust anyone over thirty," "the Generation Gap," "the Establishment," "peace/' and "groovy"—capture only part of the decade. One important change during these years might best be depicted by the expression that revolutionized the way Americans bought things: "I'll just charge it." The burgeoning use of credit cards simplified the idea of buying now and paying later, thereby adding fuel to the economic boom already under way. Although various kinds of charge cards had been available for nearly fifty years, the credit-card industry took off in the 1960s.
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Dow Chemical and Student Activists
Student Protests.
For many, student protests are remembered as synonymous with the 1960s. At first associated with the civil rights movement, protests spread as college students soon found other reasons for demanding change in the status quo: at Berkeley, California, for example, the 1964 free-speech movement led students around the country to attack their universities as huge impersonal places, with largely irrelevant curricula. By 1965 and 1966 the more-radical students found another cause—"the illegal war in Vietnam." Starting out as teach-ins at colleges and universities across the country in 1965, the protests against the war grew to huge marches and rallies by decade's end.
Dow and the Vietnam War.
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The EPA.
With preservation now clearly on the national agenda, the capstone event for the environmental movement of the 1960s was the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The passage of this law committed Congress to protecting the environment. Signed by President Richard Nixon on 1 January 1970, the legislation also created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which soon became, in terms of both staff and budget, the country's largest governmental regulatory body.
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Franchising initially became popular in the 1920s, especially with automobile manufacturers, oil companies, and restaurants setting up outlets, but the major franchise boom took place after World War II. In the mid to late 1940s thousands of veterans returned home to the United States with the notion of being their own boss. Although big business dominated major sectors of the economy, the tradition of small-business ownership remained very strong. Franchising, in effect, combined the benefits of both large and small business. Under the terms of an agreement the franchisee was a legally independent business (most often a small business) separate from the franchising company. The contract generally specified that the individual acquiring the franchise pay an initial fee, sell only specific products, conduct business in a certain manner, and often cede the franchiser a certain percentage of gross sales. For the small-business owner there were several advantages: a smaller initial investment was needed; training and advertising were provided by the parent company; and usually one was selling a product with a national, or at least regional, reputation. The strong desire to be an independent businessperson, combined with large companies' desires to distribute their products as cheaply as possible, led to a rapid expansion of franchises. By 1967 sales from franchise outlets...
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An Wang and High-Tech Electronics
The career of An Wang and the rise of high-technology electronics went hand in hand. A Chinese national, Wang completed his doctorate in applied physics at Harvard University in 1948 and remained there as a research assistant, where he was fortunate to work with Howard Aiken, a pioneer in the development of computers. Wang created, and then in 1949 patented, the pulse transfer controlling device, an invention that advanced computer core memory. In 1951, thinking the infant computer industry showed enormous potential, he left Harvard and set up his own firm, Wang Laboratories.
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Wang Laboratories became known as an aggressive firm on the cutting edge of electronics technology; it was Wang, for example, that installed the first electronic Scoreboard at Shea Stadium. The firm's first major product line was in the desktop-calculator business: in 1965 it introduced LOCI, an electronic desktop calculator. The following year Wang came out with a less expensive, more user-friendly model, and by decade's end it was the leader in this market.
Then, in a move that at first appeared puzzling, Wang suddenly stopped producing calculators in 1970 to pursue the computer business more aggressively. The strategy was successful: as Wang had correctly believed, the price of calculators tumbled, and many firms such as Bowmar Instruments went bankrupt. In 1971...
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IBM and the Computer Industry
By the mid 1960s IBM so dominated the computer industry that business insiders often spoke of "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs," which referred to IBM and the other major computer manufacturers. Its supremacy had been established in the early 1950s when it surpassed computer pioneer Remington Rand (later merged into Sperry Rand). IBM continued to eat up the market share, as the industry went through several generations. The first computers were giant machines using vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes gave way to transistors in the second generation
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Kennedy versus Big Steel
During his first year in office President John F.
Kennedy and his administration were involved in negotiations between the major steel firms and their workers. By the end of March 1962 a deal was cut whereby workers received no wage increase but expanded fringe benefits. With this settlement worked out, Kennedy assumed steel companies would not raise their prices. Two weeks later, however, Roger M. Blough, president of U.S. Steel, went to the White House and handed Kennedy a press release announcing a price hike of six dollars a ton. The other major steel firms immediately followed suit.
Kennedy felt betrayed: he had intervened in talks between Big Steel and labor to keep industry costs down, and now the companies raised prices. He responded by attacking the action of steel executives on television and initiated a grand jury investigation on price-fixing in the steel industry. The Pentagon threatened to shift procurement to companies that had not raised prices, and Congress was encouraged to investigate the industry as well. Three days after the price increases were announced, several firms backed down, and the following day, 14 April, Blough rescinded U.S. Steel's new price.
Although on the one hand a victory for Kennedy, the incident damaged government business relationships. During his first year in office the president had worked hard to...
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Labor in the 1960s
Labor at High Tide.
By the mid 1960s, labor's future appeared bright. Real wages were rising, union numbers were strong, and during the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson organized labor felt it had friends in the White House. With the advent of the Great Society the AFLCIO leadership believed the administration was picking up where the New Deal had left off in providing benefits such as health care to the lower classes. Working hard for passage of Johnson's progressive domestic program, the AFL-CIO won plaudits from many liberals.
Changing Work Patterns.
Organized labor's apparent strength, however, was fleeting. During the 1960s the percentage of blue-collar workers (those generally in the manufacturing sector) as a proportion of the total work-force declined so that by 1970 the typical American worker was a white-collar employee. Fewer relatively high-paying industrial jobs were available for unskilled workers. Although the burgeoning service sector created millions of jobs, they either were low paying—clerical or fast-food positions, for example—or, because of the expansion of science and technology, required a higher level of education. Concurrently, many companies lowered their costs by moving their manufacturing plants out of the heavily unionized Northeast and Midwest (where labor costs were higher) and relocated in southern...
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Rise of Conglomerates
Third Merger Wave.
Beginning in the late 1950s and running through the 1960s, a third period of rapid corporate expansion enveloped the nation. Unlike the first two (in the 1890s and the 1920s), when companies either combined horizontally with firms involved in the same business or vertically with suppliers or customers, conglomerates combined companies in completely unrelated industries. This new corporate strategy was based on the the assumption that the firm would be protected by diversification during times of economic fluctuation—if the market was down for one product, it may not be for another. Such mergers accounted for 60 percent of all corporate combinations in the 1960s.
International Telephone and Telegraph.
International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) conglomerate strategy was fairly typical of the decade. Originally a telecommunications firm operating in foreign countries, ITT's chief executive officer, Harold Geneen, became concerned about the possibilities of growth overseas. To protect the company, he instituted a policy of expanding the firm's domestic holdings through acquisition. Between 1961 and 1968 ITT purchased fifty-two companies with combined assets of $1.5 billion. Firms added to the ITT family included Avis (rental cars), Continental Baking (Wonder Bread, Twinkies), Canteen Corporation (food sales), Levitt and...
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Trading Stamps
Trading stamps originated in the 1890s, but it was the expansion of supermarkets and gas stations in the 1950s that led to their soaring popularity. A marketing gimmick, colored stamps were given out by many retail establishments. Patrons collected the stamps, pasted them in blank books, and redeemed the filled stamp booklets for a wide variety of prizes: the most popular redemptions were sheets and blankets, furniture, appliances, and sporting goods. Trading stamp companies such as Sperry and Hutchinson (S&H Green Stamps) sold their stamps to retailers who used them as inducements for customer purchases. A 1966 survey reported that 49.3 million American households—83 percent of the national total—saved stamps. By the mid 1960s there were over three hundred stamp companies nationwide employing seventeen thousand with a payroll of $68 million. The industry peaked in 1969 with sales of $825 million. For much of the decade trading stamps were part of the American landscape: parents gave them to babysitters, corporations presented them to employees as rewards, and families often gathered around the kitchen table to glue trading stamps into booklets. In the early 1970s trading stamps fell by the wayside. Gas stations had accounted for 25 percent of stamp sales. With the oil crisis gas stations were assured of customers, and they stopped offering stamps. In the midst of the recession many supermarkets, figuring that...
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Women and Work
Prior to the 1960s.
An ever-increasing number of women had entered the workforce since the 1870s, but over a 120-year period, the identity of the woman worker changed. From the 1820s, with the onset of industrialization in the United States, until 1940, the average female employee was young and single, and, if married, the woman working outside the home was likely poor and African-American. From the 1940s to the 1970s, however,
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Headline Makers
Ash, Mary Kay 1915?-
Early Career.
The founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Mary Kay Ash began her business career out of necessity. Divorced during World War II and raising three small children on her own, she soon moved from a secretarial position into sales with Stanley Home Products. In this new job she demonstrated Stanley's wares in people's homes. Although she enjoyed the work, she was not very successful. With the hope of improving her sales technique she attended the company's annual convention. At the meeting's awards ceremony, she saw the year's top saleswoman crowned queen of sales. Motivated by this coronation, Ash was the top seller the following year, but she was disappointed to discover her prize was an underwater flashlight. She remained among Stanley's best salespeople until she left in 1953 to take a better job at World Gift Company. She moved up rapidly in the home-accessory company to become an area manager and later the national training director. By 1963 she was making twenty-five thousand dollars per year and was happily remarried. But sexism within the company and an efficiency expert who told management that Ash had too much power led to her being transferred to a less important position. Unhappy with the new job, she retired.
Establishing the "Dream Company."
Retirement did not suit her, and...
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Chavez, Cesar 1927-1993
Migrant Years.
The son of Mexican immigrants, Cesar Chavez saw his parents lose their small farm in Yuma, Arizona, in the late 1930s. With no other possibilities, the family headed for California and joined the ranks of migrant workers traveling throughout the state picking such crops as apricots, figs, grapes, lettuce, peas, or tomatoes. But once knowing the independence of owning a farm, the Chavez family was not as docile as many other field laborers. Chavez remembered: "We were probably one of the strikingest families in California, the first ones to leave the fields if anyone shouted Huelga (Spanish for strike)!" The migratory life was hard on the young Chavez; constant travel made education difficult, and many of the Anglo teachers openly disdained such children. Together, these factors forced Chavez to drop out of school after the end of the eighth grade. Wishing to get off the land, he joined the navy during World War II, but racism kept him in menial jobs. Out of the service in 1946, Chavez returned to the only life he knew—migrant farm work in Delano, California...
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Hughes, Howard 1905-1976
The Eccentric Eclectic.
Over his lifetime billionaire Howard Hughes pursued a variety of interests: he was a test pilot, a manufacturer of aircraft, a longtime majority owner of Trans-World Airlines (TWA), a movie producer, a hotelier, and a real-estate developer. He is best remembered, however, for his increasingly bizarre behavior beginning in the mid 1950s, when he completely dropped out of society. His desire to avoid all publicity and his proclivity for seclusion only heightened the public's interest in Hughes, his whereabouts, and his activities.
Of Tools and Movies.
Howard Hughes was born in Houston in 1905. His father had pioneered drilling equipment for the oil industry and built up a successful firm, Hughes Tool Company. When his father died in 1924, Hughes, a freshman at California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), dropped out of school to run the inherited tool firm. After soon discovering that Hughes Tool did not seem to need his leadership, the twenty-one-year-old Hughes moved to Hollywood to make movies. In the 1930s and 1940s he made such notable films as Hell's Angels (the most expensive movie made until 1941), Scarf ace (which featured Hughes's discovery Jean Harlow as the female lead), and The Outlaw (which Hughes also directed and which introduced Jane Russell)....
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Ling, James 1922-
Growth Stock of the Go-Go Sixties.
James Ling built one of the most exciting, widely diversified conglomerates of the 1960s—Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). In 1965 Fortune magazine hailed LTV the fastest-growing company in the United States from 1955 to 1965. Three years later it was the country's fourteenth largest industrial concern with sales of $2.8 billion. Ling's assault on the business world and LTVs meteoric rise were nothing short of amazing.
Business Beginnings.
A high-school dropout from a working-class background, Ling held a spate of odd jobs before becoming an electrician in Dallas, Texas. After serving in the navy, where he studied electrical engineering, Ling returned to Dallas in 1946. He then sold his house and used the proceeds to set up Ling Electric Company. The small firm originally specialized in residential wiring but soon expanded into larger commercial projects. By 1955 the company was earning $1.5 million annually, and Ling chose to incorporate. However, he soon realized that electronics had greater growth potential than the electrical business, and the following year he bought a small electronics firm that manufactured testing equipment for the aerospace industry. In 1958 he merged the two companies forming Ling...
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Nader, Ralph 1934-
The Consumers' Watchdog.
Progressive magazine once hailed him as "Citizen of the Republic" because of his crusading efforts to protect the public; others, less sympathetic to his causes, have referred to him as the nation's nag. But whether regarded as a hero or a villain, Ralph Nader has been the country's leading consumer advocate since the mid 1960s. Yet, in an ironic twist, this defender of consumer rights is in many ways a nonconsumer. He does not own a car, lives in an inexpensive rooming house, avoids all junk food, and dresses plainly. In fact, as of 1983, he was still wearing the same pair of shoes he purchased in 1959.
Unsafe at Any Speed.
Nader graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and then attended Harvard Law School, where he became interested in automobile safety. After practicing law in Connecticut for several years, he headed to Washington, D.C., became a consultant to the Department of Labor, and returned to his research on auto safety. In 1965...
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Perot, H. Ross 1930-
The Stuff of Fiction.
The life story of H. Ross Perot seems more like a good novel than reality. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Perot joined IBM and soon became one of its top salesmen. But Perot wanted more challenges, and choosing to go out on his own, he formed Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Six years later he took it public, and the thirty-nine-year-old Perot was a billionaire. Perot later made headlines for his failed efforts to bring American prisoners of war (POWs) home from Vietnam, and then, ten years later, he was back on the front pages for his successful covert operation that rescued EDS employees being held in an Iranian jail by the Ayatollah Khomeini. He returned to the limelight when he became the largest stockholder of General Motors. In 1992 he ran for president.
Perot and EDS.
From his days with IBM, this man from Texarkana, Texas, came to believe there was a market for someone who could design, install, and operate data-processing systems for clients. In 1962, with one thousand dollars in savings, Perot founded EDS, a computer-services company, to fill this niche. By attracting major clients, mostly large insurance companies such as Blue Cross, the company was profitable, but with revenues of $7.7 million in 1968, Fortune magazine referred to it as an industry "pip-squeak." That...
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Wurf, Jerry 1919-1981
Unionization of Public Employees.
The spreading of public-sector unionism accounted for much of the labor movement's vitality in the 1960s. Public-employee union membership rose from less than 400,000 in 1955 to over 4 million by the early 1970s. This rapid in-crease can be explained in several ways. As the government assumed a larger social and economic role in post-World War II America, the number of public workers skyrocketed—by the mid 1960s one out of every eight Americans was employed by local, state, or federal government. This growth lured union leaders to mount major organizing efforts. Such unionization campaigns benefited from the steady inflation over the period that encouraged workers to worry about their salaries, but they were also aided by the federal government. In 1962 President John Kennedy signed executive order 10988, granting federal employees the right to join unions and bargain collectively. While all of these factors were important, one labor leader, Jerry Wurf, and his union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), took center stage and led the organization effort.
Early Career.
Jerry Wurf's union career began in 1940, soon after...
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People in the News
In December 1965 Harold S. Geneen, CEO of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), announced plans to acquire the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Justice Department did not allow the merger.
On 4 March 1964 James ("Jimmy") Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted of tampering with a federal jury in 1962; in July he was also convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges. Fined ten thousand dollars and sentenced to eight years in prison, he was pardoned by President Richard Nixon in 1971.
In his January 1966 budget message President Lyndon Johnson gave his famous "guns and butter" speech, explaining that the United States could fight a war and expand social-welfare programs simultaneously. He said, "We are a rich nation and can afford to make progress at home while meeting our obligations abroad—in fact, we can afford no other course if we are to remain strong. For this reason, I have not halted progress in the new and vital Great Society programs in order to finance the costs of our efforts in Southeast Asia."
In 1962 Royal Little, CEO of Textron, retired. A pioneer in the conglomerate wave of the 1950s and 1960s, he built a midsized textile company into a huge diversified firm making everything from bathroom accessories to helicopters.
In 1963 George...
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Benjamin Abrams, 74, founder of Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, 23 June 1967.
Avery C. Adams, 65, head of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1956-1963) and Pittsburgh Steel Company (1950-1956), 11 December 1963.
Cyril Ainsworth, 71, engineer and expert on industrial and safety standards, 13 December 1964.
Frank A. D. Andrea, 77, pioneer radio manufacturer, 22 December 1965.
Elizabeth Arden, 81, founder, president, and chairman of the board of Elizabeth Arden (now owned by Eli Lilly and Company), an international organization of beauty resorts, beauty salons, and retail cosmetics, 18 October 1966.
George Arents, 85, founder of American Machine and Foundry Company and International Cigar Machinery Company, 13 December 1960.
Sewell L. Avery, 86, business executive; president (1905-1937) and chairman of the board (1937-1951) of U.S. Gypsum; in 1931 he was named chairman of Montgomery Ward and would later serve as its president, 31 October 1960.
Roger Babson, 92, stock analyst who predicted the stock-market crash of 1929, 5 March 1967.
Harold Bache, 73, president of Bache and Company, 15 March 1968.
Hugh Baillie, 75, president...
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Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (New York: Basic Books, 1973);
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1962);
Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (New York: Knopf, 1971);
Richard Easterlin, The American Baby Boom in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1962);
Paul Ehrich, The Population Bomb (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1968);
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Dell, 1963);
Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963);
John K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967);
Mitchell Gordon, Sick Cities (Baltimore: Penguin, 1965);
Frank Graham, Jr., Since "Silent Spring" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970);
Michael Harrington, The Other America (New York: Macmillan, 1962);
Walter W. Heller, New Dimensions in Political Economy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966);
Scott G....
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Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1960-1969
- The American farm population is 15.6 million or 8.7 percent of the total U.S. population.
- Defense spending and veterans' benefits account for nearly $50 billion or 56 percent of the federal budget and 10 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP).
- Lillian Vernon publishes their first mail-order catalogue.
- The median family income (in 1971 dollars) is $7,688.
- The per-capita national debt stands at $1,582.
- The U.S. automobile industry begins to shift to compact cars in response to falling sales and increased foreign imports.
- U.S. businesses spend $1 billion on computers.
- U.S. advertisers spend $1.6 billion on television commercials.
- In January, African Americans are ¼ of United Auto Workers members.
- On January 1, U.S. consumer debt totals $56 billion.
- On January 1, women make only 60 percent the income of men.
- On January 4, the longest steel strike in U.S. history ends when steel companies and the United Steel Workers agree on a wage increase.
- On May 15, taxes reach 25 percent of earnings, according to a Tax Foundation report that combines federal, state, and local taxes.
- On July 30, Congress...
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Source: American Decades: 1960-1969, ©1994 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The Augustana community is mourning the loss of Kirk Dean, a member of the Board of Trustees. Dean died on Saturday, May 4, at his home in Fargo, N.D. He was 65. A memorial service is planned for Sunday, June 2, at Atonement Lutheran Church in Fargo.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Senior art major Sarah Schoepf has been awarded the prestigious Harold Spitznagel Medal for Achievement in Art, the highest award presented by the Augustana Art Department to student-artists who demonstrate the highest standards of excellence in all their artistic endeavors. View photos.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Rick Tupper, Augustana's director of campus safety, has been named one of three national Directors-at-Large for the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA). His three-year term will begin in June.
Dr. Russell Svenningsen, assistant professor of music and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, is the recipient of the Augustana Student Association (ASA) 2012-2013 Faculty Recognition Award. The award recognizes outstanding teaching and contributions to the Augustana community by a faculty member.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Dr. Lindsay Twa, assistant professor of Art and director of the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, is one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to participate in a special, week-long seminar on teaching European art in context.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Dr. Glenda Sehested, a longtime faculty member of the Sociology department, passed away today following a battle with advanced pancreatic cancer. A memorial service is set for 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3, in Augustana's Chapel of Reconciliation.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Associate Athletic Director Jeff Holm received the "Augie Pride" award at the Augustana Service Awards Presentation and Celebration on Wednesday. The event also honored members of the Augustana community who are retiring and those who have achieved milestone service anniversaries.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Seven Augustana students were recently inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society dedicated to promoting the study of history through research, teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
On Saturday, more than 100 Augustana students worked with students from the University of Sioux Falls to pack 32,184 meals for Kids Against Hunger, a nonprofit dedicated to providing healthy meals to children in need. Learn more from KDLT-TV reporter Laura Monteverdi.
Following last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon, more than 70 runners and walkers participated in today's "Joy Run," an event organized by Augustana's Dr. David O'Hara to promote the idea that "because we exist, we should not forget to live." Watch video from KSFY-TV reporter Mark Roper.


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Holeb Public Reserved Land
Known for fantastic moose sightings, it's no surprise Maine's Kennebec and Moose River Valley is a popular area for moose hunting. And Holeb Public Reserved Land north of Freeport provides a 20,000-acre wilderness in which hunting and trapping are allowed (with restrictions, of course).
Hunting isn't the only moose-themed activity at this public reserved land, however. Moose River itself has long been the scene of an exciting three-day canoe adventure known as the "Moose River Bow Trip." This water journey includes class I and II rapids—and a glorious waterfall!
Boating and fishing are also especially popular with visitors to Holeb Public Reserved Land. A trailered boat launch is available. Attean Pond features day-use areas, mostly accessible by boat, with picnic tables. Many visitors to this public land also enjoy the opportunity to swim and camp against the stunning backdrop of Attean and Sally Mountains.
Hiking trails meander through the area, although trekkers should note that trails on Sally and Burnt Jackson Mountains continue off the public reserved land onto private property (where they are not maintained by Maine's Bureau of Parks & Lands). And when you head out, don't forget the camera! With moose, loons, and more than 200 other animal species in the area, wildlife watchers and nature photographers are kept busy while exploring this beautiful and diverse region known as "The Switzerland of Maine!"
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