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Worf
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Worf, son of Mogh is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. Worf is the first Klingon main character to appear in Star Trek and he is played by the actor Michael Dorn. Initially, Worf was not intended to be a regular character, accordingly, the June 1,1987 cast portrait did not include Worf. Several tall, slim, black actors auditioned for Worf before Michael Dorn came along, walking into the audition in character, the House of Mogh was a family of high social and political rank which was for a time represented on the Klingon High Council. In Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, Colonel Worf appears as the advocate of Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy after they are accused of killing Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council and he was also a member of the Klingon delegation at Camp Khitomer. Although not explicitly stated, he was intended to be Worfs grandfather, Worf was born in 2340 on QonoS as the son of Mogh. Five years later, his parents moved to the Khitomer colony, Worfs parents were killed during a surprise attack by the Romulans on the Khitomer outpost. The colonys distress call was answered by the Federation starship USS Intrepid, Chief Petty Officer Sergey Rozhenko found Worf in the rubble and took him in after failing to find any living relatives. Rozhenko and his wife Helena raised him on a farm colony on the planet Gault. Worf also has a brother, Nikolai, with whom he often quarreled. He also spent time on Earth in his parents native city of Minsk, Worf did not take the Rozhenkos last name, preferring to be addressed by the Klingon designation Worf, son of Mogh. However, his son Alexander Rozhenko, who was raised by the Rozhenkos after his mother KEhleyr died, although Worf was raised by humans, he considered himself a Klingon at heart and studied the ways of his people. As an adult, his mannerisms and personality, as well as his sense of honor. Worfs brother Kurn, barely a year old at the time of the Khitomer attack, had left behind on the Klingon homeworld QonoS by his parents. Lorgh, a friend to House of Mogh, was charged with the care of the younger son, lorgh adopted Kurn after the attack, but informed Klingon authorities that he had died with the rest of the family. Kurn was not revealed as being alive until both brothers were adults, in 2357, Worf entered Starfleet Academy. He graduated in 2361 and was commissioned with the rank of Ensign, although Worf took immense pride and a sense of honor from serving in Starfleet, most other Klingons shunned and belittled his choice of vocation
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Long Wharf (Boston)
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Long Wharf is a historic pier in Boston, Massachusetts which once extended from State Street nearly a half-mile into Boston Harbor. Today, the much-shortened wharf functions as a dock for passenger ferries, construction of the wharf began around 1710. Constructed by Captain Oliver Noyes, it was lined with warehouses, over time the water areas surrounding the landward end of the wharf were reclaimed, including the areas now occupied by Quincy Market and the Customs House. At the wharfs head in the 18th century was the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern, the painter John Singleton Copley spent his childhood on the wharf, where his mother had a tobacco shop. The 1760s Gardiner Building, once home to John Hancocks counting house, among several similar structures, a grand granite warehouse known as the Custom House Block was built in 1848 atop the wharf, it has survived into the 21st century. The mid-19th century was the height of Bostons importance as a shipping center, Long Wharf was the central focus of much of this economic activity. The construction of the elevated Central Artery along Atlantic Avenue in the 1950s separated Long Wharf from Bostons business district, the Big Dig put the Central Artery below ground level, which partially restored the original close relationship between Long Wharf and downtown. Since ca.1990, Long Wharf has been transformed from a failing commercial waterfront area into a recreational and cultural center, today, Long Wharf is adjacent to the New England Aquarium, and is served by the Aquarium station on MBTAs Blue Line subway. MBTA boat services link the wharf to the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, Logan International Airport, Hull, other passenger ferry services operate to the islands of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and to the cities of Salem and Provincetown. Cruise boats operate cruises around the harbour. The wharf itself is occupied by a hotel, several restaurants, at the seaward end, there is a large plaza with extensive views of the harbor. Now much shortened by land reclamation at its end, today it serves as the principal terminus for cruise boats. Proprietors of the Boston Pier, or Long Wharf records, 1762-1903
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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Boston Harbor
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Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614, Boston Harbor has been an important port in American history and it was the site of the Boston Tea Party as well as almost continuous backfilling of the harbor until the 19th century. By 1660 almost all came to the greater Boston area. A rapid influx of people transformed Boston into a booming city, the health of the harbor quickly decreased as the population of Boston increased. As early as the late 19th century Boston citizens were advised not to swim in any portion of the Harbor, in the 19th century two of the first steam sewage stations were built. With these mandates the harbor was seeing small improvements, but raw sewage was still continuously pumped into the harbor, in 1919 the Metropolitan District Commission was created to oversee and regulate the quality of harbor water. However, not much improvement was seen and general awareness of the poor quality of water was very low. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed in order to promote increased national water quality. Boston did not receive a clean water act waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, since the mid-1970s organizations within the Boston community have battled for a cleaner Boston Harbor. More recently, the harbor was the site of the $4.5 billion Boston Harbor Project, failures at the Nut Island sewage treatment plant in Quincy and the companion Deer Island plant adjacent to Winthrop had far-reaching environmental and political effects. Fecal coliform bacteria levels forced frequent swimming prohibitions along the harbor beaches and that suit was followed by one by the Conservation Law Foundation and finally by the United States government, resulting in the landmark court-ordered cleanup of Boston Harbor. The court ordered cleanup continued throughout the two decades and is still ongoing. Before the cleanup projects, the water was so polluted that The Standells released a song in 1966 called Dirty Water about the state of the Charles River. The song is popular with Red Sox fans and is played regularly at Fenway Park whenever the Red Sox win a game. Neal Stephenson, who attended Boston University from 1977 to 1981, based his novel, Zodiac. Boston Harbor is a harbor which constitutes the western extremity of Massachusetts Bay. The harbor is often described as being split into an inner harbor, the harbor itself comprises fifty square miles with 180 miles of shoreline and 34 harbor islands
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Barbours Cut Terminal
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The Barbours Cut Container Terminal, or simply the Barbours Cut Terminal, is a major deep water port in the Greater Houston area in the U. S. state of Texas. It is part of one of the worlds busiest ports by cargo tonnage, Barbours Cut is situated along the Barbours Cut Ship Channel, between La Porte and Morgans Point, Texas. This channel, located at the mouth of Buffalo Bayou on Galveston Bay, is itself a tributary to the larger Houston Ship Channel and it is located approximately 27 miles from downtown Houston. The terminal is located near the Battleground Industrial District, an industrial complex in the jurisdiction of La Porte. Opened in 1977, the Barbours Cut Terminal was built at a cost of US$53 million, the new terminal had a distinct geographical advantage over the old Turning Basin terminal. Whereas Turning Basin, situated upriver at the head of Buffalo Bayou, is 6 hours or more from the Gulf. In 2007 the terminal handled 15.4 million short tons of cargo including more than one million cargo containers, the terminal both directly and indirectly contributes thousands of jobs to the Galveston Bay Area and is a key factor in the economy of Greater Houston. Part of the larger Port of Houston complex, Barbours Cut is the largest of the terminals, the terminal has six berths with 6,000 feet of continuous wharfs. The loading area covers 230 acres, with 255,000 square feet of warehouse/storage space, the channel depth is 40 feet at low tide. The facilities at Barbours Cut include a ship terminal. Until 2007 Norwegian Cruise Line ran cruises from this terminal but currently there are no cruise lines operating from the terminal. Barbours Cut was the first port in the United States to implement the ISO14001 environmental management standard, bayport Terminal Port of Galveston Port of Houston Port of Texas City Appleton, John D, ed. Lloyds ports of the world. Port of Houston, Barbours Cut Terminal
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Port of Houston
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The Port of Houston is a port in Houston, Texas, the fourth-largest city in the United States. The port is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities located a few hours sailing time from the Gulf of Mexico. It is the busiest port in the United States in terms of tonnage, second-busiest in the United States in terms of overall tonnage. In particular the ports busiest terminal, the Barbours Cut Terminal, is located in Morgans Point, many petroleum corporations have built refineries along the channel where they are partially protected from the threat of major storms in the Gulf of Mexico. The petrochemical complex associated with the Port of Houston is one of the largest in the world, the original Port of Houston was located at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou in downtown Houston by the University of Houston–Downtown. This area is called Allens Landing and is now a park and it is the birthplace of the City of Houston. Shipping points grew at multiple locations on the Buffalo Bayou including the port of Harrisburg, by the end of the 19th century Buffalo Bayou had become a major shipping channel with traffic beginning to rival Galveston. The citizens of Harris County approved creation of the port in 1909. President Woodrow Wilson officially opened the port to traffic as the World Port of Houston, early supporters would prove to be correct, the port has grown to be one of the worlds largest, overtaking the nearby Port of Galveston in significance. In 1977 the Port of Houston opened the Barbours Cut Terminal, Texas first cargo container terminal and this new terminal, in the Bay Area, quickly became the ports most important terminal. The opening of the Bayport Terminal in 2006 further extended the port authoritys reach outside the city of Houston, approximately 215 million tons of cargo moved through the Port in 2005, most of which is petroleum related. The Port has two separate terminals dedicated to the handling of containers, Barbours Cut, and Bayport. The Barbours Cut terminal was, in fact, the ports first terminal specifically designed for these shipments, additional general cargo terminals include Turning Basin, Jacintoport, Woodhouse, and Care. The Port Authority offers a 90-minute free cruise aboard the M/V Sam Houston, since the Houston Ship Channel is closed to recreational traffic, this is the only means by which the general public can view port operations, and thus the tours are highly popular. Most Volkswagen automobiles sold in North America pass through the port of Houston, the Port is operated by the Port of Houston Authority, an independent political subdivision of the State of Texas governed by a seven-member commission. The City of Houston and the Harris County Commissioners Court each appoint two commissioners, these two governmental entities also jointly appoint the chairman of the Port Commission, the Harris County Mayors and Councils Association and the City of Pasadena each appoint one commissioner. Daily operations are overseen by an Executive Director who serves at the will of the Commission, a renovation project for the Ports Turning Basin Terminal began in 2010 and is expected to take 10 years. The Turning Basin Terminal is a complex with open wharves and 37 docks that are used for direct discharge and loading of breakbulk, containerized
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Harbor
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A harbor or harbour, or haven, is a body of water where ships, boats and barges seek shelter from stormy weather, or are stored for future use. Ports are often located in harbors, harbors can be natural or artificial. An artificial harbor can have deliberately constructed breakwaters, sea walls, or jettys, or they can be constructed by dredging, in contrast, a natural harbor is surrounded on several sides by prominences of land. Examples of natural harbors include Sydney Harbour, Australia and Trincomalee Harbour in Sri Lanka, artificial harbors are frequently built for use as ports. The oldest artificial harbor known is the Ancient Egyptian site at Wadi al-Jarf, on the Red Sea coast, the largest artificially created harbor is Jebel Ali in Dubai. The Ancient Carthaginians constructed fortified, artificial harbors called cothons, a natural harbor is a landform where a part of a body of water is protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage. Natural harbors have long been of great strategic naval and economic importance, having a protected harbor reduces or eliminates the need for breakwaters as it will result in calmer waves inside the harbor. For harbors near the North and South Poles, being ice-free is an important advantage, the worlds southmost harbor, located at Antarcticas Winter Quarters Bay, is potentially ice-free, depending on the summertime pack ice conditions. Although the worlds busiest port is a hotly contested title, in 2006 the worlds busiest harbor by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai
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Berth (moorings)
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A berth is a designated location in a port or harbour used for mooring vessels when they are not at sea. Berths provide a front which allows safe and secure mooring that can then facilitate the unloading or loading of cargo or people from vessels. Berth is the used in ports and harbors for a designated location where a vessel may be moored. Berths are designated by the management of a facility, vessels are assigned to berths by these authorities. Most berths are alongside a quay or a jetty or a floating dock, berths are either general or specific to the types of vessel that use them. The size of the berths varies from 5–10 m for a boat in a marina to over 400 m for the largest tankers. The general rule of thumb is that the length of a berth should be roughly 10% longer than the longest vessel to be moored at the berth. Open Structure Berth Open berths feature structures supported by piles set slightly off shore from the extent of the land or the farthest extent of fill dirt. The following is a list of berth types based on the method of geometry, Finger piers are often used for small to medium vessels associated with passenger travel. Finger piers can also be used for dangerous cargoes such as military munitions that can not be used with offshore berths because of the weight, in these instances long finger piers allow for far reach far off shore with access for rail or other cargo moving methods on the pier. Offshore Berth Used when cargo handling/storage can be hazardous, often offshore berths are created for berthing of oil and gas vessels. They contain stand alone structures called dolphins which have fenders and bollards located to based on the geometry of the vessels which would call the berth. The following is a list of berth types based on cargo of the ships calling, vessels are loaded using either excavators, conveyor belts, and/or pipelines. Storage facilities for the cargo are often alongside the berth – e. g. silos or stockpiles. Container Berth Used to handle standard intermodal containers, vessels are loaded and unloaded by container cranes, designed specifically for the task. These berths will feature large areas of land for container handling near the berth and will also have significant equipment on dock to facilitate movement of containers on. Alongside the quay there is often a flat area used to store both the imported and exported containers. General Berth Used to handle shipments of general cargo
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