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How the Pentagon Is Struggling to Stay out of Politics

 Gen. Mark. A. Milley’s job is to provide sound military advice to the president. But at a deeper level, his responsibility is to safeguard the independence and integrity of the armed forces. The last thing the country needs is a military leadership that’s trying to curry favor with any commander in chief, particularly one who’s hungry for affirmation.




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Breaking Down the Huawei v. Pentagon Dispute

If nothing else, the long-running Huawei situation shows the importance of considering the supply chain when it comes to cybersecurity. Huawei being the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker basically banned by the federal government. Bruce Schneier joins Host Tom Temin on Federal Drive.




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Breaking Down the Huawei v. Pentagon Dispute

If nothing else, the long-running Huawei situation shows the importance of considering the supply chain when it comes to cybersecurity. Huawei being the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker basically banned by the federal government. Bruce Schneier joins Host Tom Temin on Federal Drive.




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How the Pentagon Is Struggling to Stay out of Politics

 Gen. Mark. A. Milley’s job is to provide sound military advice to the president. But at a deeper level, his responsibility is to safeguard the independence and integrity of the armed forces. The last thing the country needs is a military leadership that’s trying to curry favor with any commander in chief, particularly one who’s hungry for affirmation.




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Breaking Down the Huawei v. Pentagon Dispute

If nothing else, the long-running Huawei situation shows the importance of considering the supply chain when it comes to cybersecurity. Huawei being the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker basically banned by the federal government. Bruce Schneier joins Host Tom Temin on Federal Drive.




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How the Pentagon Is Struggling to Stay out of Politics

 Gen. Mark. A. Milley’s job is to provide sound military advice to the president. But at a deeper level, his responsibility is to safeguard the independence and integrity of the armed forces. The last thing the country needs is a military leadership that’s trying to curry favor with any commander in chief, particularly one who’s hungry for affirmation.




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Breaking Down the Huawei v. Pentagon Dispute

If nothing else, the long-running Huawei situation shows the importance of considering the supply chain when it comes to cybersecurity. Huawei being the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker basically banned by the federal government. Bruce Schneier joins Host Tom Temin on Federal Drive.




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How the Pentagon Is Struggling to Stay out of Politics

 Gen. Mark. A. Milley’s job is to provide sound military advice to the president. But at a deeper level, his responsibility is to safeguard the independence and integrity of the armed forces. The last thing the country needs is a military leadership that’s trying to curry favor with any commander in chief, particularly one who’s hungry for affirmation.




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Pentagon 'Discovers' Huge Lithium Deposit in Afganistan

From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.




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House of Representatives tells Pentagon to ignore climate change and Agenda 21

Just when you think it can't get any crazier in US politics, it does.




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Pentagon spends hundreds of millions of dollars in the fight against coronavirus

The Defense Logistics Agency, which manages the Pentagon's global supply chain, has executed 6,036 contract actions with $667.3 million in obligations for the coronavirus effort.




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Pentagon ordered to halt work on $10bn 'war cloud' project after Amazon protest

Amazon requested the injunction after alleging that bias from Donald Trump caused the contract to be awarded to Microsoft

A federal court has ordered a temporary halt in Microsoft’s work on a $10bn military cloud contract that Amazon was initially expected to win. Amazon sued in December to revisit that decision, alleging that Donald Trump’s bias against the company hurt its chances to win the project.

Amazon requested the court injunction last month. The documents requesting the block and the judge’s decision to issue the temporary injunction are sealed by the court.

Related: From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America

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Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]




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Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]




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Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]




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Microsoft and AWS exchange poisoned pen blog posts in latest Pentagon JEDI contract spat

Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues. In a recent series of increasingly acerbic pronouncements, the two companies continue their ongoing spat over the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI contract spoils. As you may recall (or not), last fall in a surprise move, the DoD selected […]




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Morgan Lake sets her sights on challenging Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill in pentathlon

Few of the athletes competing at the European Indoor Championships will have had to factor in room for textbooks in their luggage but Morgan Lake is making sure her school grades don’t suffer.




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Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins pentathlon gold at European Indoor Championships

Katarina Johnson-Thompson broke Jessica Ennis-Hill's British record, but fell agonisingly short of the world record as she claimed pentathlon gold at the European Indoor Championships.




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Katarina Johnson-Thompson suggests she will forego defence of world indoor pentathlon title

There are three significant events in the 2021 athletics calendar, with the European Indoors on March 5-7 joined by the rescheduled World Indoors on March 19-21 and the Tokyo Olympics.




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Man is arrested at the Pentagon after driving there with a loaded shotgun and ammo bought at Walmart

Charles Lawson of Pineville, Kentucky, was diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia after driving to the Pentagon with multiple weapons in his truck on Tuesday.




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New confusion over Conan the hero Army dog's sex after Pentagon says the animal is female

Conan 'is in fact a GIRL,' according to a Defense Department official Tuesday, just a day after the most recent word out of the White House was that Conan was as male as his masculine name.




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Victoria Beckham unrepentant for spending taxpayer cash on furloughed staff and thinks she's victim

Last Sunday was the third and final day of Victoria Beckham's extended 46th birthday celebrations. Already she had enjoyed a 'virtual' party hosted by a celebrity DJ friend and broadcast on Instagram.




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Unrepentant Nigel Farage breaks lockdown to watch migrants arriving at Dover

Mr Farage delivered a letter to Kent Police headquarters in Maidstone in which he said he was 'certain' the visit to his home was 'a very unwise use of officers' time and of public money'.




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State Department and Pentagon abruptly cancel lawmakers' classified briefings on Iran

The administration has canceled three classified briefings for lawmakers on the situation with Iran - a move that comes after officials faced criticism for their lack of candor in their last round of briefings.




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Pentagon provides first detailed account of Baghdadi raid

The Pentagon on Wednesday released the first photos and video clips of the nighttime raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdad's Syrian compound that ended with his death.




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Pentagon releases video of raid on ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's Syrian compound 

Marine Corps General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, commander of U.S. Central Command, released the footage at a press conference on Wednesday at the Pentagon.




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Donald Trump's nominee for top Pentagon job 'withdraws' after co-writing controversial article

J. David Patterson penned the op-ed in 2017, days after an ISIS inspired attack. 'Multiculturalism is the antithesis of what the United States stands for', he wrote.




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Katarina Johnson-Thompson suggests she will forego defence of world indoor pentathlon title

There are three significant events in the 2021 athletics calendar, with the European Indoors on March 5-7 joined by the rescheduled World Indoors on March 19-21 and the Tokyo Olympics.




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Japan's Defense Ministry to ramp up UFO encounter protocols after Pentagon releases footage

The three videos show what was encountered by pilots during training flights in 2004 and 2015.




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[ASAP] U<sub>2</sub>O@C<sub>76</sub>: Non-Isolated-Pentagon-Rule Cages Prevail with the U<sub>2</sub>O Configuration Determined by Cage Shape and Dominated by Multicenter Bonds

Inorganic Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00518




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Well-controlled polymerization of tri-vinyl dynamic covalent boroxine monomer: one dynamic covalent boroxine moiety toward a tunable penta-responsive polymer

Polym. Chem., 2020, 11,2914-2922
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00401D, Paper
Shun-Shun Li, Xin-Hu Lv, Xiao-Li Sun, Wen-Ming Wan, Hongli Bao
Attributed to dynamic characteristics of dynamic covalent boroxine, well-controlled polymerization of tri-vinyl monomer and molecular design of penta-responsive polymer with only one functional moiety are achieved.
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Synthesis of conjugated polymers via cyclopentannulation reaction: promising materials for iodine adsorption

Polym. Chem., 2020, 11,3066-3074
DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00286K, Paper
Open Access
Noorullah Baig, Suchetha Shetty, Saleh Al-Mousawi, Bassam Alameddine
A new class of conjugated polymers is prepared by means of a versatile palladium-catalyzed cyclopentannulation reaction using a series of specially designed diethynyl aryl synthons with the commercially available 9,10-dibromoanthracene DBA monomer.
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[ASAP] Regiodivergent Synthesis of Penta-Substituted Pyrroles through a Cascade [3 + 2] Cyclization of C-Acylimines with Activated Alkynes and Aromatic Nucleophiles

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00712




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Role of Surface Phenomena on the Reaction of Molecular Solids: the Diels-Alder Reaction on Pentacene

CrystEngComm, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00269K, Paper
Selma Piranej, Michael A. W. Shelhart Sayers, Gregory J. Deye, Sergey N. Maximoff, Jonathan P. Hopwood, Haejun Park, Jean G. Slavsky, Jacob Ciszek
Reactivity trends for molecular solids cannot be explained exclusively through topochemical phenomenon (i.e. diffusivity, reaction cavities) or electronic structure of the molecules. As an example of this class, Diels-Alder reactions...
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New identity for Esprit by Pentagram

Refresh of one of world’s most iconic fashion brands. Born in the 1960s, Esprit is one of the most iconic brands in the world, with an effortless style that empowers people to feel good and embraces positivity as a force for change. Esprit is launching a refreshed brand identity by Pentagram that draws on the […]




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[ASAP] Measurements and Correlation of Isobaric Vapor–Liquid Equilibria for the Binary Systems of Cyclohexanol + Cyclohexyl Formate and Cyclopentanol + Cyclopentyl Formate under Various Pressures

Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jced.9b00746




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[ASAP] Binary Mixtures of Aromatic Compounds (<italic toggle="yes">n</italic>-Propylbenzene, 1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene, and 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene) with 2,2,4,6,6-Pentamethylheptane: Densities, Viscosities, Speeds of Sound, Bulk Moduli,

Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jced.0c00020




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Synthesis and properties of hypervalent electron-rich pentacoordinate nitrogen compounds

Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC00002G, Edge Article
Open Access
Chenting Yan, Masato Takeshita, Jun-ya Nakatsuji, Akihiro Kurosaki, Kaoko Sato, Rong Shang, Masaaki Nakamoto, Yohsuke Yamamoto, Yohei Adachi, Ko Furukawa, Ryohei Kishi, Masayoshi Nakano
Structural characterization of hypervalent electron-rich pentacoordinate nitrogen species has long been a synthetic challenge. Here we report the first nitrogen cationic radical (11-N-5) species featuring a weak hypervalent 3c-5e interaction.
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[ASAP] Gold(I)-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective [4 + 2]-Annulations of Cyclopentadienes with Nitrosoarenes via Nitroso-Povarov versus Oxidative Nitroso-Povarov Reactions

ACS Catalysis
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01293




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[ASAP] The Conformational Landscape, Internal Rotation, and Structure of 1,3,5-Trisilapentane using Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Calculations

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01100




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Enhancing the energy barrier by replacing the counterions in two holmium(III)-pentagonal bipyramidal single-ion magnets

Dalton Trans., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00905A, Paper
Lei-Lei Li, Hong-Dan Su, Shuang Liu, Wen-Zhen Wang
Upon changing the employed halide ions as counterions, Ueff increases from 290 K to 320 K in two HoIII-SIMs with pentagonal-bipyramidal structures.
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[ASAP] Eicosapentaenoic Acid-Enriched Phosphoethanolamine Plasmalogens Alleviated Atherosclerosis by Remodeling Gut Microbiota to Regulate Bile Acid Metabolism in LDLR<sup>–/–</sup> Mice

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b08296




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Pentachlorophenol is on its way out as a utility pole preservative. Here's what might take its place

Phaseout is pushing a slow-to-change industry to look at alternatives




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Jiaogulan tea (Gpostemma pentaphyllum) potentiates the antidiabetic effect of white tea via the AMPK and PI3K pathways in C57BL/6 mice

Food Funct., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0FO00395F, Paper
Xiaoyan Xia, Jing Xu, Xude Wang, Hua Wang, Zhenchuan Lin, Keping Shao, LinLin Fang, Chenning Zhang, Yuqing Zhao
The use of plant-based beverages to interfere with the onset of diabetes may be a promising approach towards type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
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Risk of Intussusception Following Administration of a Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in US Infants

Interview with Irene M. Shui, ScD, author of Risk of Intussusception Following Administration of a Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine in US Infants




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[ASAP] Photo-oxidation of Cyclopentadiene Using Continuous Processing: Application to the Synthesis of (1<italic toggle="yes">R</italic>,4<italic toggle="yes">S</italic>)-4-Hydroxycyclopent-2-en-1-yl Acetate

Organic Process Research & Development
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00066




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Deactivation and regeneration of carbon supported Pt and Ru catalysts in aqueous phase hydrogenation of 2-pentanone

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CY00163E, Paper
Jiajie Huo, Hien N. Pham, Yan Cheng, Hsi-Hsin Lin, Luke T. Roling, Abhaya K. Datye, Brent H. Shanks
Aqueous phase conversion of biomass-derived molecules requires development of catalysts and operating strategies that create viable operation for extended performance as necessitated for industrial applications.
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Naturalization record of Pentan, Juan R




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Apocalypth pentagram




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Caryophyllus spurius inodorus &c.; Convolvulus minor Pentaphyllos &c.; Phalæna ingens, The Great Moth