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America is the first country to reach Pluto, and this is the closest image we’ve ever seen. It took a decade to fly our New Horizons spacecraft through the solar system to send back this love note from the dwarf planet. Congrats on a successful Pluto fly-by, NASA.
Pretty neat.
National Lighthouse Day is August 7 and to celebrate, we’re highlighting some architectural drawings and maps relating to lighthouses from our holdings of the Records of the United States Coast Guard, Record Group 26.
One of the more famous lighthouses in the United States, and also the tallest, is the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, NC. Its cylindrical shape with the lantern at the top and spiral stripes painted down its sides provide an iconic look at the architecture of many coastal beacons. The stripes are unique to the lighthouse and act as a daymark for ships to identify it along the coast. Keepers, and visitors today, had to take 257 steps to reach the balcony, which is similar to a 12-story building.
The lighthouse plans within our holdings also give us a closer look into the lives of lighthouse keepers. In the days before automation, the keepers most well known duty, was to manage the lantern. They not only had to light the lamps, but they needed to tend to basic cleaning and maintenance using the proper tools.
More Lighthouses at Lighthouse Drawings in celebration of National Lighthouse Day | The Unwritten Record
Maps, charts and other visual stories, from the National Mall to Rio de Janeiro.
“These plans are so divided up into all these different fiefdoms,“he says, "they’re not getting the type of discounts on drugs they would be getting if they were using the entire Medicare population.” Adcock makes the comparison with the Veterans’ Administration and Medicaid, which negotiate for all of their members at once.
via Market Place.
By comparison, Social Security is about 70 percent of the income of a typical retiree. Since President Obama’s proposal would lead to a 3 percent cut in Social Security benefits, it would reduce the income of the typical retiree by more than 2.0 percent, more than three times the size of the hit from the tax increase to the wealthy.
It appears that the Chained CPI is in the President’s budget.
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