Locator: 48774WAR.
Twelve key figures in the situation room:
- VP: JD Vance
- SecState: Rubio
- CIA Director: John Ratcliffe
- Chairman, JCOS: General Dan Caine
- Military planning: General Erik Kurilla, Commander, US Central Command, since 2022 (CENTCOM)
- SecDef: Pete Hegseth
- Director, National Intel: Tulsi Gabbard -- present, but influence reportedly diminished
- Special Envoy to the Middle East: Steve Witkoff; made name for himself inside and outside of government; area of expertise: Mideast
- Principal Deputy National Security Advisor: Alex Wong; made name for himself inside and outside of government; area of expertise: North Korea
- NSC Chief of Staff: Brian McCormack; bureaucrat with long history inside previous administrations; loyal to a fault to Trump
- Mike Waltz: National Security Advisor
- John Ratcliffe: already listed above; Director of CIA / National Intelligence
Weakest link: Tulsi Gabbard. At odds with the president on Iran's nuclear program. On her way out?
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The Book Page
Tamba: one of the six ancient pottery-making centers known as Japan's "Six Kilns," along with Seto, Tokoname, Shigaraki, Bizen, and Echizen. Tachikui Pottery Village, located at the hub of Tambayaki potter production, has a brick-built "climbing kiln" (Heiseigama) built on the slope of a mountain.
For over 800 years, this area has been producing pottery, with a history deeply intertwined with daily life and evolving alongside changing lifestyles.
At Amazon: Japanese Porcelain 1800 - 1950 (A Schiffer Book for Collectors), Nancy Schiffer, illustrated, October 8, 1999.
The spiral periodic table, Christopher Benfey, 2009; a historical narrative of deriving the table in 1964. Link here. [https://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/v34-2/v34-2%20p141-145.pdf]
Silly Putty.
Carbon.
Silicon.