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Kwame Alexander Wins Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book
Kwame Alexander's coming-of-age novel, "The Crossover," has just been awarded the most prestigious prize in children's literature.
By Jolie A. Doggett	· Updated October 27, 2020
"The court is SIZZLING
My sweat is DRIZZLING
Stop all that quivering
Cuz tonight I'm delivering."
That's how Kwame Alexander sets the scene in her new book, "The Crossover," which has just won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best children's book, the Washington Post reports.
"The Crossover" is a young adult novel in verse about a 12-year-old Black boy who not only has skills on the basketball court, but also in rap and rhyme.
"I knew basketball would be the hook, and then I could take them to some places, to some magical places," Alexander said.
"The Crossover" is about more than just basketball and hip-hop. Through the eyes of 12-year-old Josh and his twin brother, "The Crossover" tells a story about family, growing up, and learning some hard lessons about life.
The Newbery Medal is one of the highest honors any children's author can receive and Alexander's recognition is well deserved. He's written more than a dozen novels including the best-selling "He Said, She Said" in 2013. Even with so many titles under his belt, Alexander is still in shock about his Newbery Medal win.
"I had a feeling that if I won I would be taken to a very different place than I was before," he said. "No, I know that I will be no good for the next couple of weeks or even months. I will be over the moon."
Congratulations to the award-winning author!

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NSS welcomes new assistant principal
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 —
The Geneva City School District welcomed a new North Street School assistant principal in January.
Julie Ricciuto was appointed to the post at the December board of education meeting. Ms. Ricciuto was an assistant principal in the Rochester City School District and holds a School Building Leader certification and a Certificate in Educational Leadership from the Warner School of Education in Rochester. She replaces Luke Wilson, who left the district in November.
"We look forward to welcoming Ms. Riccuto to our team in the New Year," said Superintendent Bo Wright.
Ms. Ricciuto has 10 years' experience as an elementary school teacher at schools in Rochester. She is also certified in childhood education and literacy education and holds a Master of Science in Literacy Education, a Bachelor of Science in Childhood Education, and a Bachelor of Science in Special Education, all from St. John Fisher College, Rochester. She also was a New York State Master Teacher, Finger Lakes Region.


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July 3 Links! Accept No Substitutes!
(an addendum)
* CFP for ICFA 2020: Expanding the Archive.
* Forgot to link this yesterday: If The Democratic Primary Field Was a University History Department.
* Cory Doctorow: What is it that makes some people vulnerable to anti-vax messages?
I think it's the trauma of living in a world where there is ample evidence that our truth-seeking exercises can't be trusted. That's a genuinely scary idea, because if the truth is open to the highest bidder, then we are facing a future of chaos and terror, where you can't trust the food on your plate, the roof over your head, or the school your child attends.
Fake news is an instrument for measuring trauma, and the epistemological incoherence that trauma creates – the justifiable mistrust of the establishment that has nearly murdered our planet and that insists that making the richest among us much, much richer will benefit everyone, eventually.
* 'They Set Us Up to Fail': Black Directors of the '90s Speak Out.
* Medievalism goes to war with itself.
* Milwaukee County absolutely determined to destroy itself.
* In the world's northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning? Welcome to the fastest-heating place on Earth.
* Amazon destruction accelerates 60% to one and a half soccer fields every minute. Bolsonaro is the greatest crisis on the planet right now and everyone has agreed to just let it happen.
* 'Families belong together': Hundreds gather in Milwaukee to protest migrant detention centers.
* Watchdog Slams 'Overcrowding' At DHS Detention Centers.
* Trump's Apparent Decision to Drop the Citizenship Question Is the Biggest Legal Defeat of His Presidency.
* Another ICE detainee has died in custody.
* Whatever the merits of her criticism, when those in power are caught abusing that power in ways that are morally indefensible and politically unpopular, they will always seek to turn an argument about oppression into a dispute about manners.
* 'Unprecedented in Our History': One State Is on the Verge of Slashing Higher-Ed Funding, Leaving Public Colleges in a Panic. Alaska Governor's "Unprecedented" Higher Education Cuts Could Shutter Entire Departments.
* Will Donald Trump's Fourth of July Parade Break the Law?
* Must have absolutely broken their hearts: FBI claims it lost file on neo-Nazi website Stormfront 'after a reasonable search.'
* The Single Most Reliable Recession Indicator of the Past 50 Years Has Officially Started Blaring.
* The madness of factchecking. The hits against Sanders this week are especially incredible even by factchecking's already low standards.
* Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He's From a 'Good Family,' Judge Says.
This is completely infuriating. This boy filmed himself raping her, called it rape in a text to friends, and the judge *still* decided it wasn't rape. https://t.co/WlLudz2t85
— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) July 3, 2019
It's an underdiscussed problem in America that some huge percentage of its judges are bug-nuts irrational and irresponsible, just wholly abusing their position to make up rules on the fly.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 3, 2019
* The Democrats Aren't a Left-Wing Party — They Just Play One on TV. And a truly evergreen tweet.
The Democratic Party is essentially an elaborate set of psychological defense mechanisms for the American bourgeoisie
— Roger Bellin (@rogerbellin) July 13, 2016
At some point people will have to begin acknowledging that the role of Democrats is to keep the rabble from impeding the lucrative and murderous actions of the elite. This self-pleasing pretense that our leaders are forced to do nothing is pathetic.
— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) July 2, 2019
* We had our time. The world belongs to the humanzees now.
* Sympathy for the devil.
* Why did octopuses become smart?
* Couldn't hurt.
* They say time is the fire in which we burn.
* At least Discovery season three starts filming in two weeks, which means I should be good and disappointed by the end of the year.
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1001 Sunday Links
* Penn Gillette on three-card monty and graduate school in the humanities.
* Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera.
* "Use Tatooine sparingly" and other rules from the Star Wars style guide. io9 has a few other highlights.
* A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.
* Inside Disney's America, the doomed '90s project that almost sunk the company.
* "The Contemporary" by the numbers.
* From a work in progress: Nomic and net.culture.
* Podcasts and disposability.
* Vice science faction: After the Big One.
* Alumnae vowed to save Sweet Briar from closing last year. And they did.
* Radical notion: College Presidents Should Come from Academia.
* Simon Newman, the college leader whose metaphor about drowning bunnies made him infamous in higher education, announced late Monday that he has resigned, effective immediately, as president of Mount St. Mary's University. The Mount St. Mary's Presidency Was a Corporate Test Case. It Failed Miserably..
* The only MFA program in the US that focuses on African American literature could close.
* UW slips out of top 10 in new public university ranking. Amid rough seas for UW System, wave of challenges hits UWM.
* UC Davis chancellor received $420,000 on book publisher's board. The University of California paid hedge fund managers about $1 billion in fees over the last 12 years, according to a white paper study released by the university system's largest employee union.
* A Field Test for Identifying Appropriate Sexual Partners in Academia. She Wanted to Do Her Research. He Wanted to Talk 'Feelings.'
* "The GRE is like taking a cancer test that was invented in the 1940s."
* Putting on a "Brave" Face: On Ableism and Appropriation in the Film Industry.
* Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server. What you need to know about Hillary Clinton's emails. Did Clinton and Petraeus do the same thing? Clinton, on her private server, wrote 104 emails the government says are classified.
* The Libya Gamble: Inside Hillary Clinton's Push for War & the Making of a Failed State.
* Clinton insiders are eager to begin recruiting Republicans turned off by the prospect of Donald Trump to their cause — and the threat of Sanders sticking it out until June makes the general election pivot more difficult. Inside the Clinton Team's Plan to Defeat Donald Trump. Smart to announce it now!
* But, look, it's not all Clinton negativity: Hillary Clinton promises to 'get to the bottom of UFO mystery' if elected, and 'maybe send a task force' to alleged alien prison Area 51.
* The Official Head Of The Democratic Party Joins GOP Effort To Protect Payday Lenders. Bernie Versus the Earthquake Industry.
* Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices. 1927 flashback. Kasich May Have Cut Off Rubio's Path To The Nomination. Trump gives supporters permission to be violent with protesters: If you hurt them I'll defend you in court. Researchers have found strong evidence that racism helps the GOP win. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out. Is this a realignment? The rise of American authoritarianism. Awkward.
Just curious: is there anyone who still doubts that the U.S. is well into late-stage imperial collapse?
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 4, 2016
In all seriousness, functioning democracies rely more on norms than laws and those norms are being degraded with terrifying abandon.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2016
* The car century was a mistake. It's time to move on.
* 2°C.
* Another piece on the end of Louisiana.
* I don't know that the Melissa Click case is really the best example here, but there's every reason to think body cameras will be used to serve police interests, not citizen interests.
* Lab tech allegedly faked result in drug case; 7,827 criminal cases now in question.
* Georgia Police Chief and Officer Accused of Arresting People on False Charges in Order to Extort Them.
* Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so. Please watch my show Three Year Old Immigration Lawyer next fall on ABC.
* Did the Spanish Empire Change Earth's Climate?
* The Flint Next Time: Fears About Water Supply Grip Village That Made Teflon Products. Flint is in the news, but lead poisoning is even worse in Cleveland.
* This Guy Spent Four Years Creating an Imaginary Reddit for 3016.
* Sci-Fi Hero Samuel Delany's Outsider Art.
* Marquette in the news! Oh.
Sweetin's autobiography begins with a very different two-word phrase. The first line ofUnSweetined, which Sweetin wrote (or rather told in bits to a ghostwriter) in 2009, is "fuck it." She is referring to her attitude right before smoking meth and doing a plateful of cocaine, the night before she was scheduled to give a speech at Marquette University about her commitment to sobriety (she did give that speech in 2007, and she was high the entire time she was on stage).
* Over at Slate friend of the show Eric "The Red" Hittinger explains clearly and succinctly why rooftop solar power probably won't ever challenge big utility companies.
* When People With Schizophrenia Hear Voices, They're Really Hearing Their Own Subvocal Speech.
* Bob Dylan's Secret Archive.
* This video shows what ancient Rome actually looked like.
* Steph Curry Is On Pace To Hit 102 Home Runs.
* Mysterious Chimpanzee Behaviour May Be Evidence Of "Sacred" Rituals.
* Here's a silly thing I watched: "Great Minds with Dan Harmon," 1, 2.
* Sports corner: Ivy League Considers Banning Tackling During Practice.
* A Believer interview with the great Andy Daly.
* A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World. Professional Bridge Has a Cheating Problem.
* The Enigmatic Art of America's Secret Societies.
* Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming.
* The astonishment that such things are "still" possible.
* The Retirement Crisis Is Getting Truly Scary.
* The Fact That None Of The 2016 Presidential Candidates Have A Space Policy Is Tragic.
* From the start, in 1967, "Trader Joe" Coulombe devised his "low-priced gourmet-cum-health-food store" with an "unemployed PhD student" in mind as the ideal customer.
* Reading from a statement while speaking with analysts, Chief Executive Officer Joel Manby said SeaWorld's board of directors has "directed management to end the practice in which certain employees posed as animal-welfare activists. This activity was undertaken in connection with efforts to maintain the safety and security of employees, customers and animals in the face of credible threats."
* The color thesaurus.
* What Mars Would Look Like Mapped by Medieval Cartographers.
* New York City Is in the Throes of a Häagen-Dazs Heist Epidemic.
* Thus, I conclude that in fact, Gygax's strength scoring system is actually…pretty good! But only good for fighters, in a system like AD&D where we can reasonably assume that all fighter PCs have been training for 10+ years and are genetically super-gifted. However, if you're Raistlin Majere from the Dragonlance Chronicles and are in all probability an underweight untrained or novice lifter of average height, then you are probably looking at a STR score of around 6-7. If you are a woman of my current weight and untrained, you are looking at a STR score of around 3-4. If you're my current weight and train consistently for a couple of years, you can expect to have a score of around 8-9. Men and/or individuals with higher testosterone levels will have somewhat higher scores, but it is definitely out of the question that a 10-11 can represent an average strength in our society, though it may be in a farmer-dominant society where everyone lifts a lot of hay bales.
Warren: L. Good
HRC: L. N.
Cruz: L. Evil
Bernie: N. Good
Obama: True N
Rubio: N. Evil#BLM: C. Good
Trump: C. N
Trump supporters: C. Evil
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 6, 2016
* Every Bryan Fuller Star Trek episode, ranked.
* Secrets of my success: Narcissistic Students Get Better Grades from Narcissistic Professors.
* The dialectic never stops turning: Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change. Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change.
* We are the second best girls.
* 20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions.
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* Well, it certainly doesn't sound very jubilant: A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river pageant.
* The Wire: The Musical.
* The Watchmen sequel gets meta right off the bat.
* André & Maria Jacquemetton talk to Slate about "Commissions & Fees," while Jared Harris talks to the New York Times. Big spoilers for the most recent episode, naturally.
* My case illustrates how success is always rationalized. People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either.
* Adam Kotsko reviews one of the next books in my increasingly long "free time" reading queue, Red Plenty.
* From the too-good-to-check files:
A Dutch company has launched a reality television-type project to establish a human settlement on Mars by 2023.
Mars One, as the project is called, aims to bring a total of 40 astronauts to Mars between 2023 and 2033. Organizers say the astronauts will be expected to remain there permanently – "living and working on Mars the rest of their lives."
Where do we sign up?
* Which Wisconsin? Lorrie Moore in the NYRoB.
* On Friday, the Michigan Supreme Court cleared the way for Detroit voters to determine whether or not marijuana should be legal.
* A new study shows "Women earn 91 cents for every dollar men earn—if you control for life choices." The whole idea of "life choices" is itself essentially an argument-from-privilege, taking male experiences as neutral and unmarked and female experiences as a deviation from the norm—but women earn ten percent less even when you buy that line.
* 'No surprise at all: 'stand your ground' defendants more likely to prevail if the victim is black.' No one could have predicted!
* You already know how a bill becomes a law. Now let's take a look at how a secret memo becomes a kill list.
* Pittsburgh, before smoke control.
* "Right of conscience" watch: NJ Doctor Would Reportedly Rather Let Patient Die Than Treat Him For 'Gay Disease.'
* Special pleading watch: I can't wait to find out why Minnesota's big shift towards marriage equality doesn't count as evidence for the bully pulpit, either.
* What happens when psychiatric hospitals disappear.
* And Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal takes an old-school sci-fi glimpse at the future of human evolution.
Tagged with austerity, Barack Obama, books, cognitive biases, Detroit, diamond jubilee, drones, ecology, elections, evolution, feminism, Funny or Die, gay rights, homelessness, kill list, luck, Mad Men, marijuana, marriage equality, Mars, medicine, metafiction, Michigan, Minnesota, misogyny, monarchy, musicals, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, politics, polls, psychiatry, race, reality TV, recalls, Red Plenty, right of conscience, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Schoolhouse Rock, science fiction, smog, stand your ground, success, Terror Tuesdays, The Wire, This Morning World, time travel, Tom Tomorrow, unemployment, United Kingdom, war on drugs, war on terror, Watchmen, Wisconsin
More on Japan
The news from Japan continues to be terrible, with Judit Kawaguchi reporting 10,000 people missing from just a single town in Miyagi prefecture.
Much of the Internet attention—probably too much—is now focused on the Fukushima nuclear reactor that has been poised on the brink of meltdown. A scary-looking explosion happened on-site early in the morning EST, but it appears to have been in another part of the complex and not affected core containment. One of the inspectors from Three Mile Island says all eleven of the shutdown nuclear power plants will likely be total losses, reducing Japan's electricity-generating capacity by 20%.
Nonetheless, nuclear experts are still assuring us that the ongoing release of radiation will not be catastrophic. Typing those words reminds me that I feel about nuclear experts more or less exactly the way that Tea Party People feel about climate scientists—with the caveat that the lopsided financial incentives and structural/institutional biases that denialists imagine exist in climate science really do exist with respect to nuclear research, where spending from pro-nuclear industry and governmental sources dwarfs everything spent in the other direction. Japan's nuclear industry in particular has not given the population much reason to trust it:
Over the decades, the Japanese public has been reassured by the Tokyo Electric Power Company that its nuclear reactors are prepared for any eventuality. Yet the mystery in Fukushima is not the first unreported problem with nuclear power, only the most recent. Back in 1996, amid a reactor accident in Ibaraki province, the government never admitted that radioactive fallout had drifted over the northeastern suburbs of Tokyo. Reporters obtained confirmation from monitoring stations, but the press was under a blanket order not to run any alarming news, facts be damned. For a nation that has lived under the atomic cloud of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, total denial becomes possible because the finger on the button is our own.
Hopefully, though, despite my distrust, the nuclear scientists are right on this, and injury to the people and environment surrounding Fukushima will remain at a minimum.
Tagged with capitalism, catastrophe, cognitive biases, denialism, earthquakes, Fukushima, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, Japan, natural disasters, nuclear energy, nuclearity, tsunamis, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
Sunday Night Links with Yoda, Clark Kent, and Banksy
* George Lucas, saved from himself: Yoda was very nearly played by a monkey in a mask.
* Christopher Cokinos argues in The American Scholar that geo-engineering is, as the saying goes, a terrible idea whose time has come.
* Self-serving egocentric rosy retrospection: How Republicans remember the 1990s.
* Bill and Steve's GOTV video has gone viral with 45,000 views.
* Clark Kent vs. Facebook.
* And Banksy vs. The Simpsons.
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Three More
* Stupid people saying stupid things: Glenn Beck explains how excessive government regulation created slavery, while Jim DeMint argues that sexually active single women (and homosexuals) should be banned from teaching in public schools. In 2010.
* The Scope-Severity Paradox is the cognitive bias that explains why our empathy doesn't work: we feel worse for smaller numbers of victims than for larger numbers. Via MetaFilter.
* And Zack Snyder will screw up Superman next.
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You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart is a blog slowly making its way through all your cognitive biases, with good posts on memory, Dunbar's Number, Dunning-Kruger, and fines. Via Kottke.
Tagged with blogs, cognitive biases, our brains don't work, you are not so smart
Links for an Epic Post
* The Great Game: an experiment in interactive fiction. Looks pretty promising; I voted for "Lovecraftian/cosmic horror."
* Secrets of pinball economics. Via Boing Boing.
* Fox News is totally going to get serious about not lying all the time.
* How to start reading comics. (Late-breaking addendum.)
* Characters for an epic tale.
* Frightening time-lapse map of unemployment in America.
* There's a wonderful(ly destructive) cognitive bias at work in this pair of stories, the first on climate change and the second on unemployment: what looks at first like apocalyptic pessimism easily becomes the "new normal" once it comes to pass.
* The Henry Ford of heart surgery. Via Kevin Drum.
* Also from Kevin Drum: "At least it's something": U.S. to announce carbon-reduction benchmarks.
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Friday Friday Megalinkdump
It's Friday, and I've been saving some special links to mark the occasion.
* A 3-D exploration of Picasso's Guernica. Via MeFi.
* 7 reasons why sci-fi book series outstay their welcome.
* The top twenty-five Batman stories of all time. That Dark Knight Returns only clocked in at #25 may surprise you, but once you know that it's no real shock that Alan Moore takes the #1 slot for The Killing Joke, the story that saw Batgirl shot in the back by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair for life.
* The L.A. Times has an interview with Joss Whedon about Dollhouse. There's been a lot of hype about this show lately—the news that it's been given the post-24 timeslot, the news that there will only be five minutes of commercials per hour, a teaser clip at io9.com—so much hype, in fact, that I almost believe Fox isn't planning to air the episodes out of order and then cancel it after 7 episodes. Almost.
* The physics of anime.
#12 – Law of Phlogistatic Emission
Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds.
#18 – Law of Hemoglobin Capacity
The human body contains over 12 gallons of blood, sometimes more, under high pressure.
#41 – Law of Xylolaceration
Wooden or bamboo swords are just as sharp as metal swords, if not sharper.
* Here's part of the reason Americans have gotten and are getting so much fatter: portion sizes keep increasing and unit bias induces us to eat everything we're given.
* Of course, the obesity epidemic affects more than just a single person's quality of life.
* And via Matt Yglesias, David Brooks explores our Buddhist future. And yet my guess is that the atheism debate is going to be a sideshow. The cognitive revolution is not going to end up undermining faith in God, it's going to end up challenging faith in the Bible.
Over the past several years, the momentum has shifted away from hard-core materialism. The brain seems less like a cold machine. It does not operate like a computer. Instead, meaning, belief and consciousness seem to emerge mysteriously from idiosyncratic networks of neural firings. Those squishy things called emotions play a gigantic role in all forms of thinking. Love is vital to brain development. Matt makes the smart point the increased concentration of capital (economic, cultural, and otherwise) in China and India will likely accelerate this process greatly.
Tagged with Alan Moore, anime, art, Batgirl, Batman, Buddhism, climate change, cognitive biases, comics, Dollhouse, Firefly, food, Guernica, Joss Whedon, neuroscience, Picasso, portion sizes, religion, science, science fiction
Twenty-six cognitive biases, at HealthBolt. To my mind a crucial cognitive bias was left off the list: the just world hypothesis (more here) which (as I've written before) is at the core of conservative politics in this country.
Tagged with cognitive biases, politics, Republicans


Brennan Investment Group, headquartered in Rosemont, IL, seeks a full-time Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our expanding team in our Rosemont, IL office. This is an exciting opportunity to work in the real estate industry for one of the top 20 global industrial real estate owners: In both 2017 and 2018 we executed over $1.1B in transactions. Our current portfolio spans 28 states and encompasses nearly 40 million square feet with 10 offices nationwide and our organization demonstrates a proven track record as well as an entrepreneurial spirit and vision for the future.
The AR Specialist is responsible for supporting the property/asset management team with all aspects of accounts receivable. Additionally, the AR Specialist will handle bank reconciliations and assist with our management company's corporate accounting.
Accounting software proficiency required; experience with MRI or other real estate accounting software preferred.
We're seeking seeking a full-time Marketing Coordinator to join our expanding team in our Rosemont, IL office. This is an exciting opportunity to work in the real estate industry for one of the top 20 global industrial real estate owners: In both 2017 and 2018 we executed over $1.1B in transactions. Our current portfolio spans 28 states and encompasses nearly 40 million square feet with 10 offices nationwide and our organization demonstrates a proven track record as well as an entrepreneurial spirit and vision for the future.
The Marketing Coordinator will play an integral role supporting the marketing and public relations efforts of the firm. We're seeking a enthusiastic professional with initiative to create successful marketing programs aligned with our firm's high standard of excellence.
Maintain the look, feel, and tone of the Brennan brand internally across the company and as well as publicly. Proactively review, revise, and improve marketing materials as needed to ensure brand compliance.


The Cityline Mars Hydrangea is an ornamental plant with spectacular blooms. It would make an outstanding boarder plant, and would also be quite stunning as a container or patio plant as well.
Your Cityline Mars Hydraqngea is a small plant that produces glorious six inch blooms atop strong stems. The blooms are bi-colored, with either a rose-white accent or blue-white (depending upon the pH of your soil). You can adjust the color of your flower by making additions to the soil pH as necessary.
As it ages, the bloom will transform to a lovely, soft green. It's a compact plant so it's easy to plant several in close quarters.
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Phosphatidylserine is a phospholipid found in all cells, but is most concentrated in brain cells. This familiarly-called "brain nutrient" supports cognitive function, emotional well-being and behavioral performance by restoring cell membrane composition. It has also been shown to support memory. In a double blind placebo controlled multicenter study of 425 individuals, daily supplementation of phosphatidylserine over six months resulted in statistically significant support of behavioral and cognitive parameters. In another six-month study of 40 individuals, phosphatidylserine supplementation enhanced cerebral metabolism and outcomes of cognitive training. These findings are consistent with earlier studies. In a placebo- controlled investigation of 149 subjects, the group receiving phosphatidylserine scored higher than placebo in performance tests related to memory tasks of daily life. In a trial of 35 subjects, those receiving phosphatidylserine exhibited behavioral support after six months. Pure Encapsulations unique formula contains 95-98% phosphatidylserine, the highest concentration available.
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Clarence Francis (December 1, 1888 - December 22, 1985) was a business executive and internationally recognized expert on food.

Early life
He was born in Staten Island in 1888. Upon graduating from Amherst College in 1910 he went to New York City intending to apply for work at Standard Oil. By mistake, Francis went to the wrong office and soon found himself working for the Corn Products Refining Company, a small food manufacturing firm. This inauspicious beginning led to a lifelong interest in the food industry. By the time Francis retired from the General Foods Corporation in 1954 he had risen to become Chairman of the Board of Directors. After absorbing an initial $17 million loss in the frozen foods sector, Francis was able to turn a profit for General Foods in this very important market.

Career
After working for Corn Products and Ralston Purina, Francis joined the Postum Company (later General Foods) in 1924. He became executive vice president in 1931, president in 1935,and then chairman of the board in 1943.

In addition to his work in the food industry, Francis also served as a government consultant. By 1933 he was recognized as an expert on food production and distribution. When the National Recovery Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agencies, was created to establish codes to regulate business operations, Francis was hired as a consultant to help draft codes for the food industry. The successful conclusion of this task led to further demands for his services. Between 1940 and 1943 he assisted in defense mobilization; from 1943 to 1945 he led a committee that studied the food services at several naval bases in the United States; he studied manpower training and utilization in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1951-52; and he evaluated the Mutual Security Program in 1953.

In 1949, Francis was appointed by Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug to chair an official United States Citizens Committee for the United Nations Scientific Conference on Conservation and Utilization of Resources, held in August of that year at Lake Success, New York.

Francis' consultant work required taking extended leaves from his work at the General Foods Corporation. After his retirement in 1954 he was able to devote most of his time to government service. He became a special consultant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower with the responsibility of disposing of the vast agricultural surpluses which the federal government had accumulated. At the same time he served as chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report, and was the American representative on the European Productivity Agency.

At the end of the Eisenhower administration Francis left government services and returned to private business. His last major activity was with the Economic Development Council of New York City.
He remained a Director Emeritus of General Foods until his death.

References

External links
 Papers and Records of Clarence Francis, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

1888 births
1985 deaths
American business executives
Amherst College alumni
Henry Laurence Gantt Medal recipients

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I have been trying to find references on how IssueInstant of the SAML request and validity period of the assertion are synchronized, given that the 2 are generated in 2 different environments. I understand that the SP and IDP clocks need to be synchronized for security reasons as reuse of stolen assertions etc.
However, I wanted to ask a more specific question. Given a SAML request, does the IDP generate the validity period relative to the IssueInstant provided to it by the SP or is it based on its own system clock?
It would be great if someone could point me to documentation/specs on the above.


Discounted early-bird tickets for the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart, which will run from July 7 to 10, are available until April 10.
Adult open day tickets cost £25, or £15 for the over-60s.
Prices will rise to £30 and £20 respectively for tickets purchased on the day.
Tickets for the full tournament, including the practice and pro-am day, on July 6, can be purchased now for £55, increasing to £75 at the gate.
The same tickets are available for over-60s for £35 or £60 on the gate.
Tickets for the practice day only cost £6 now or £10 on the day.
This year's tournament has attracted players at the top of their game, including Scotland's golf champions Martin Laird and Aberdonian Paul Lawrie. The 2010 US Open champion, Graeme McDowell, and last year's Scottish Open winner, Edoardo Molinari, are also due to take part. Organisers have not ruled out the possibility of an appearance from arguably the best-known player in the world, Tiger Woods, who usually plays in Ireland during the week of the Scottish Open, in preparation for the British Open a week later.


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Q: Google places autocomplete is not returning correct places I followed the following tutorial:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete-addressform
And, the resulting code I wrote has the following instantiation for the google places autocomplete (I'm using Node.js with browserify so it looks a little different):
enableAutoCompleteForElement: function(aDomElement) {
    var self = this;

    // The geocode type restricts the search to geographical location types.
    GoogleMapsLoader.KEY = ArbitratorConfig.google_api_key;
    GoogleMapsLoader.LIBRARIES = ['places'];
    GoogleMapsLoader.SENSOR = false;

    console.log("Google client id: " + ArbitratorConfig.google_client_id);

    GoogleMapsLoader.load(function(google) {
      self.autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(aDomElement,
                                                              { types: ['geocode'] });
      google.maps.event.addListener(self.autocomplete, 'place_changed', function() {
        // When the user selects an address from the dropdown, this will fire.
        var place = self.autocomplete.getPlace();
      });
    });
  }

This works quite well, for most applications. However, I've noticed that it's not quite as accurate as the places autocomplete bundled with Google Calendar. For example, if I create an event in Google Calendar and do a search in the location input for 'Bloomington Ice Garden', it will (probably depending on your location to start with) return a result of 'Bloomington Ice Garden, West 98th Street, Minneapolis, MN, United States'. However, if I perform the same search with my client, it doesn't bring up this result. The closest I can get is 'Bloomington, MN, United States'.
I feel like I'm missing part of the library, or I'm incorrectly telling it to do something that it shouldn't be doing. I'd like to be able to retrieve any type of place that's registered with Google Places - not just cities, states, or countries (which appears to be what it's autocompleting currently).

A: Remove the types: ['geocode'] option from your Autocomplete.  That's what's causing Google Places Autocomplete to exclude places like 'Bloomington Ice Garden', which is an establishment and not a geocode.

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UN Sec-Gen: Make Fossil Polluters Pay for Climate Damages
To support those crushed by energy costs, and reparations for those nations reeling from climate disasters.
Events of recent months continue to make clear that those who have done least to create the climate crisis will pay the heaviest cost. It is a moral imperative that some mechanism be worked out to allow the global south to adapt to the severe climate threats that are rapidly evolving over their heads.
Below, economist Ammar Habib Khan further elucidates how rising energy prices in the wake of European conflict are creating knock-on effects in Pakistan and other developing countries.
NEW: Denmark just became the first wealthy nation in the world to offer to pay for the "loss and damage" developing countries experience from climate change, offering $13 million, @sarahkaplan48 writes https://t.co/u5O0pZjLOD #ClimateWeek2022
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) September 20, 2022
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Rich energy companies should be forced to fork over some windfall profits to aid victims of climate change and offset rising fuel and food costs, the U.N. Secretary-General told world leaders Tuesday.
The fossil fuel industry, which is responsible for a large share of planet-warming gases, is "feasting on hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and windfall profits while household budgets shrink and our planet burns," said Antonio Guterres in his opening remarks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
He urged richer countries to tax the profits of energy companies and redirect the funds to both "countries suffering loss and damage caused by the climate crisis" and those struggling with the rising cost of living.
As countries gear up for international climate talks in November, money is an increasingly important issue, but one that threatens to split rich and poor nations even further. So Guterres is suggesting fossil fuel companies as the common enemy for a world he called "in peril and paralyzed."
Oil companies in July reported unprecedented profits of billions of dollars per month. Exxon Mobil posted three months profits of $17.85 billion Chevron of $11.62 billion and Shell of $11.5 billion.
"It is high time to put fossil fuel producers, investors and enablers on notice. Polluters must pay," Guterres said, chastising them for massive public relations campaigns.
The idea of a windfall tax has already gained traction in Europe, where energy companies are enjoying extraordinary profits as a result of supply shortages due to the Russia-Ukraine war. The proposal seeks to raise about $140 billion to help people with the soaring cost of energy.
The Secretary-General's comments were labeled as "misguided and counterproductive" by Frank Maisano, an energy lobbyist. He claimed many fossil fuel companies are "at the forefront of the clean energy revolution and in most cases driving the innovation needed to make an energy transition."
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar's ruling emir, faulted "decades of pressure to halt investments in fossil energy before preparing sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives," saying the world still needs some carbon energy and touting his country's expansion of a gas field.
But University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck called the effort to hold polluters accountable "a great idea."
"Many fossil fuel companies have made immense profits generating the global climate crisis and it makes sense that some of these profits go to helping those who are suffering the most from the growing number of climate disasters," Overpeck said.
But even though he is the boss of the United Nations, the only power Guterres has is that of moral persuasion, according to climate scientist Bill Hare, the Australia-based director of Climate Analytics.
Guterres also called for developed nations to pay for the loss and damage happening in poorer nations, which do little to contribute to climate change but suffer the worst effects. That includes Pakistan, which is still reeling from devastating floods in the south last month caused in part by warming temperatures.
"Loss and damage are happening now, hurting people and economies now, and must be addressed now," Guterres said, adding that 80% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the 20 largest economies.
Great idea: Fossil fuel firms need to share their immense profits with the growing number of poor, marginalized people around the world getting hammered by climate change they played no role in causing https://t.co/aG4Zz2QTTH
— Jonathan Overpeck (@GreatLakesPeck) September 21, 2022
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Here are the top 5 best camps in North America for every camp lover. You should visit these places once in life if you really like camping.
Come mid-June, when the snow has receded to distant peaks, you can camp anywhere in this 1.6-million-acre roadless Alaskan wilderness spliced by 12 major lakes. But the park's sole ranger recommends the west end of 21-mile-long Lake Kulik, the entry point for the kayak-friendly Wood River chain of six lakes connected by rivers. Pitch your tent on the gravelly shoreline at the base of the Wood River Mountains, which rise steeply from grassy hills and tundra to snowy valleys and pencil-sharp spires.
Kayak eastward to a 1,000-foot waterfall that each summer carves a giant ice cave through avalanche debris on Kulik's south shore. Then run the gentle Class II rapids of the Wind River, which flows into Mikchalk Lake. From here, a 2.5-mile river leads to Lake Beverley, another good place to overnight. If you have at least a week, continue paddling 20 miles to the Agulukpak River, which hosts as many as 2,000 rainbow trout per mile. (They're catch-and-release only, but you can keep the even more plentiful sockeye salmon.) For fishing permits ($10-$100, depending on the number of days), call the Alaska Department of Fish and Game at 907-465-6085. Tikchik State Park Tours offers six-day guided trips (about $1,500 per person, including airfare from Anchorage; 888-345-2445).
To get from Anchorage to Lake Kulik, 300 miles west, fly to Dillingham on Pen Air ($400 round-trip; 800-448-4226) and hook up with charter operator Bay Air (907-842-2570), which will drop your party at Lake Kulik and retrieve you in Aleknagik, at the end of the Wood River chain, for about $525 per person. For more information, call the park ranger (907-269-8698 from October to May 15, 907-842-2375 from May 16 to September 30).
The two-day hike to the summit of El Cap is admittedly less glamorous than free-climbing the Nose, but the payoff's quite the same: views of Yosemite Valley's granite walls, Half Dome, and the meandering Merced River.
Bed down in this 5,062-foot-high meadow and you'll be treated to panoramic views of the Great Smokies and sunrises over 2,000-foot-deep Nantahala River Gorge. The sites are just ten paces from the Appalachian Trail and eight miles via the same route from the renowned Nantahala Outdoor Center.
Flat Tops is a blissful 80 miles away from anything resembling Summit County sprawl. The site sits high atop the glacier-formed plateaus of a set of strikingly atypical Rocky Mountains, in a pond-dotted expanse of tundra and meadows, with pockets of 60-foot spruce firs. Above you looms the basalt summit of 12,000-foot Trappers Peak; down the trail lies the concave-faced Amphitheater, Trappers Lake, Scotts Lake, and four campgrounds crowded with recreators who can't manage the four-hour hike in.
Since 235,230-acre Flat Tops is designated wilderness, low-tech pursuits reign, namely fishing, hiking, and napping. Skip Trappers Lake's regulated cutthroat fishery in favor of Wall Lake or several smaller lakes grouped a half-mile north of your camp. Or try the White River's south fork, a half-mile south. You can keep up to six trout and grill them, since fires are allowed. Before you hike in, stop at Trappers Lake Lodge (970-878-3336) to buy a five-day fishing permit ($18). For a great hike from the site (and expansive views of the jagged Gore Range), follow Trail 1842 for 3.5 miles to the Island Lakes, perched at the plateau's edge.
Trappers Notch is 150 miles northeast of Grand Junction. Drive east on I-70, and then north on Colorado 13. Two miles past the town of Meeker, turn east on Rio Blanco County Road 8 and follow it for 39 miles to Forest Road 205. Drive ten miles on FR 205, and park at the Wall Lake trailhead. You'll hike 5.5 miles and gain 1,300 feet in elevation before reaching the lake. Continue another half-mile to pitch your tent near the ponds beside Trappers Peak. For more information, call the White River National Forest's Blanco Ranger District at 970-878-4039.
A mile below the summit of 9,127-foot Mount Shuksan, thickets of mountain hemlock and Pacific silver fir encircle Lake Ann's six frigid acres. Dip your toe and pitch your tent at the west end.
The 12.8-mile trek to Davis is so arduous that rangers insist you overnight midway. Your terminus, however, is worth it: a glacial-cirque pond with hundred-foot waterfalls.
Sawmill Lake offers hike-in privacy, waterfront property, and the best part, it's less than 60 miles from the Times Square IRT station. While admittedly not deep wilderness, High Point comes surprisingly close. It offers 14,218 acres of dense hardwood forest, easy access to the Appalachian Trail, and the tallest peak in New Jersey (though, granted, it's only 1,803 feet high). And quiet reigns, even on holiday weekends, thanks to strict noise-regulation enforcement. Of Sawmill Lake's 50 sites, numbers 24-26 and 34-41 are the most coveted, the former for their prime north-shore location and the latter for their seclusion. Always use fanny packs to keep your important documents, money and other things safe and secure with you.
To get the complete To get the complete I-can't-believe-this-is-Jersey effect, hike from the visitor center to High Point Monument, a 220-foot war veterans' memorial with the following 360-degree view: Poconos to the west, Catskills to the north, Delaware Water Gap to the southwest. A peaceful 7.5-mile loop starts east of the visitor center on the AT and winds south through the forest to Iris Trail, which overlooks Lake Rutherford. (Iris is also open to bikes, as are several well-maintained paths in the park's 18-mile network.) You can cast for trout in stocked Sawmill or for a natural selection of bass and catfish in Lakes Marcia and Steenykill. Pick up a fishing license at the Wal-Mart in Franklin (route 23 about 15 miles south of High Point) and rent a canoe at Silver Canoe for a float down the Delaware.
Kettle Moraine's 25-mile network of mountain-bike trails, rife with namesake glacial obstacles and accessible from Whitewater, make this a top destination for urbanites looking for a Windy City reprieve. There is, after all, a reason that its fans call it the Moab of the Midwest.
Alcatraz views, minus the claustrophobia. For the lights of Fisherman's Wharf, request a site on the south side; to catch sunrise over the Berkeley hills, grab the east side. And to forget city life entirely, stick with the island's three shaded interior sites.
Think of a remote perch atop a wind-scoured rib of igneous rock that's five miles long, a quarter-mile wide, and a stone's throw from southern California's busy coast. From the drop-off point at Landing Cove, the seven-pad campground (the only place you're allowed to sleep on Anacapa's three islets) is 154 stair steps up and a half-mile hike in. And while the view from your tent is sure to please, East Anacapa's panoramic piece de resistance is the sunset, viewed from Inspiration Point, a 15-minute walk to the west.
Prowl the islet's 1.5-mile loop trail to scope out the local residents Anacapa hosts the world's largest colony of endangered California brown pelicans, not to mention amorous sea lions, harbor seals, and, from April to August, migrating blue whales. From Landing Cove, don a mask and fins to navigate the Channel Islands' famous kelp forests; add scuba gear to explore the Winfield Scott, a steamer that went down in 1853. Circumnavigation via kayak is the best way to check out the island's arches, lava tubes, and sea caves (but don't enter the caves unless you have appropriate experience, as the currents are quite tricky). Ventura-based OAARS (805-642-2912) rents kayaks by the day, along with full-day guide services.
Anacapa Island is 60 miles west of Los Angeles. Head north on U.S. 101 to Ventura, and then take a 77-minute Island Packers ferry ride ($48 round-trip; 805-642-1393). To reserve a site (about $10), call the National Park Reservation Service (800-365-2267) at least a month in advance. For park information, call 805-658-5730.
Avoid the mucky salt-marsh interior of this 7,700-acre isle, pitching your tent instead beneath the wind-bent cabbage palms along its empty sands. Bring your binoculars for glimpses of buntings, tanagers, and northern parulas.
Paddle ashore and head for the central clearing in this conifer-forested nubbin of rock off Isle Royale's southeast coast. Settle down in either of its shelters before striking out to explore the waters of nearby Raspberry and Caribou Islands.
Prime real estate so prime, in fact, that wilderness buffs who normally scoff at camping within sight of their Subarus make reservations in February to secure relatively bug-free, breezy August nights around a Gooseberry campfire. Sheltered by a Minnesota evergreen forest 100 yards west of Lake Superior's basalt-cliff-lined north shore, this 70-site, restroom-equipped campground hugs the pebbly mouth of Gooseberry River. There's also a riverside site for kayak-borne campers.
Cool off in the spray of the five-story-high, three-tiered lower falls, located about a mile's walk upstream. A few hundred yards farther, past the 30-foot upper falls, you'll find a footbridge that links up with the Superior Hiking Trail. Follow its 3.5-mile traverse of the 1,641-acre park and continue as far as feasible along its 220-mile route. From the campground, bikers should follow the road to Minnesota 61 and cross the bridge; the trails north of the river furnish short yet steep hills aplenty. Along the Superior shoreline you can kayak, cast for trout, and jump right in (though the 40-degree summer water will have you scrambling ashore awfully fast).
Gooseberry Falls is 200 miles north of Minneapolis. Take I-35 through Duluth and then follow Minnesota 61 north through Two Harbors. Thirteen miles farther you'll find the park entrance; follow signs to the campground. Sites cost $7 per night, plus $8.50 reservation fee and $7 for a vehicle permit per day. Call the Minnesota State Parks reservation line (866-857-2757) at least 90 days in advance. For general information, call park headquarters at 218-834-3855.
The tent-only area near the lake's southeast shore fills up by 9 a.m. in summer months. So arrive early and be pushy. Then hop a ferry across the lake and pick up the Paintbrush CanyonTrail loop, where for 19.5 miles it'll be just you, 2,000-foot granite canyon walls, and a black bear here and there.
A welcome diversion from U.S. 50 (aka the Loneliest Road in America) is Site 23. At 9,950 feet, it's nestled on the edge of a meadow with 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak, Nevada's second highest, looming just 4.5 miles away and stands of 4,000-year-old bristlecone pine nearby.
A black-sand oasis on the south coast of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Apua Point is a mere ten miles from Kilauea, the world's most active volcano and thus one of the only campgrounds in the country where you're likely to see bona fide eruption activity. Limited to 12 campers, the primitive site requires a three-hour hike over undulating pahoehoe lava and is lapped by a swim-nixing undercurrent. But after a hot day of climbing around Ma Nature's version of asphalt, the ocean breezes offer restoration and the regular crash of waves encourages deep sleep, reason enough, apparently, for green turtles to crawl ashore and nap on the beach with you.
Lace up your day hikers for the ultimate geological field trip. Three hundred yards from the end of Chain of Craters Road is the ranger-approved spot for viewing the fireworks. To get closer to the action but not too close set out early, bring sunscreen and water, and hike 3.5 miles farther, to where Kilauea pumps 130,000 gallons of lava per minute into the Pacific via an underground tube. When the liquid-hot magma hits the sea, steam billows and toaster-size rocks explode skyward. Give the eruption zone a wide berth and always stay a quarter-mile inland—newly formed land can collapse without warning. (The kayaking here is also for the brave and/or foolhardy.) To explore more of the 218,000-acre park's otherworldly landscape, hike the half-mile Pu'u Loa Trail, which leads to 25,000 petroglyphs, or the Pu'u Huluhulu, an hour's walk to the summit of a prehistoric cinder cone.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is 30 miles southwest of Hilo on the Big Island. Take Hawaii 11 to the visitor center near the park entrance, where you can pick up a seven-day vehicle permit ($10) and backcountry permit (free, available no more than one day in advance). Then follow Crater Rim Drive to Chain of Craters Road and the Pu'u Loa parking lot. From there the Puna Coast Trail winds 6.6 miles to Apua Point. For more information, call park headquarters at 808-985-6000.
Claim a site in the secluded far west corner of the park amid stands of cottonwood and green ash. Come equipped with earmuffs, both for warmth and to muffle the racket of hundreds of thousands of honking sandhill cranes launching from the banks of the Platte River at sunrise, no less.
Why risk frostbite to view the aurora borealis when you can see it, atmospheric conditions willing, from relatively balmy climes at 53 degrees north latitude? Namely this spruce-sheltered site on the fjordlike shore of Lanezi Lake, three days' paddle from the park visitor center.


Love or hate them, everyone knows these two favourites, even PC users as both cross-platform 'safe'. Introduced later (1982) Arial is more widely-used (arguably simply due to 'PC' market dominance) but with Apple finally moving away from Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue this unfussy and timeless font is back in vogue (as if ever left!). What's the story behind these two polarising typeface designs? Here's the scoop. What's your favourite?


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Satire from The Borowitz Report
Fox: Obama Seeks Advice on Establishing Monarchy
By Andy Borowitz
Photograph by Olivier Douliery/PA Wire via AP
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Barack Obama spent several hours on Monday in a closed-door Oval Office meeting seeking advice on how to establish a monarchy, Fox News reports.
According to Fox, the President peppered his Oval Office guest with detailed questions about the mechanics of setting up a monarchy and was curious about the perks and powers that go along with it.
Obama's guest advised him that establishing a monarchy would probably require rewriting or even replacing the Constitution, an option that Obama reportedly said would be "difficult, but doable."
Introducing a note of caution, the guest urged the President to alter the Constitution so that it vested the monarch with genuine power, adding, "You don't want to wind up being a figurehead who just goes around visiting foreign dignitaries and so forth."
According to the Fox report, the President came away "intrigued" by the meeting and said he would explore the idea further next week when Congress is on vacation.
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Republicans Question Obama's Motives for Fixing Economy
Appearing on Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused the President of "cynically fixing the economy to distract the American people."
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Border Wall Could Destroy Wildlife Habitat at National Monument in Southern Arizona, Sierra Club Says — KTLA
There are four endangered species found in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a 515-square-mile federal natural reserve in southwest Arizona, which is marked by 200-year-old majestic saguaro cacti. This part of the Sonoran desert is vast and desolate – and it's an area where the National Park Service is trying to promote the growth of…
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by R.T. Fitch ~ President and Co-Founder of Wild Horse Freedom Federation "We STILL speak for the voiceless…" My apologies, I have been silent the past 48 hours as I attempted to digest the tornado of misinformation and lawlessness that has a death grip on the throat of our, obviously, inept federal government. The paralyzing, […]
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Feds Finalize Plan to Open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Drilling — KTLA
The Trump administration announced Thursday its final plan to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, giving the petroleum industry access to the pristine wildland for the first time. The plan would allow oil leasing on 1.56 million acres of the 19-million-acre refuge. The proposal — which would open the entire coastal plain…
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California Lawmakers Vote to Block Trump's Environmental Rollbacks, Defying Newsom — KTLA
California lawmakers, over Gov. Gavin Newsom's objections, passed sweeping legislation early Saturday allowing the state to impose strict endangered species protections and water pumping restrictions for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The governor must now decide whether to veto the bill and raise the ire of California environmentalists, who will surely accuse him of sidling…
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Trump Administration is moving 49 BLM staffers to Reno. Nevada lawmakers don't know why — Straight from the Horse's Heart
by James DeHaven, Reno Gazette Journal Lawmakers feel White House left them out of the loop Is it a reorganization or a dismantling? That's the question increasingly puzzling western congressional delegates as President Donald Trump pushes ahead with an extensive shakeup at the Bureau of Land Management. The administration's plan, first debuted in July, would […]
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Trump Administration Approved Importation of Lion Trophy From Tanzania, Documents Show — KTLA
A lion trophy from Tanzania has been approved for import to the US, the first such case since lions began receiving protections in January 2016 as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, a conservation group says. Documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity via a Freedom of Information Act Request and shared…
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Trump Administration Opens Door To Dropping Florida's Key Deer From Endangered List — News : NPR
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials recommended that Key Deer be "delisted due to recovery," but advocates say the Key Deer population was hard hit by Hurricane Irma and its aftermath. (Image credit: Greg Allen/NPR)
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Top Dem Puts Hold On Trump Interior Nominee, Requests DOJ Perjury Probe — Straight from the Horse's Heart
Source: Huffington Post Daniel Jorjani, the nominee to serve as the Interior Department's top lawyer, appears before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on May 2. Sen. Ron Wyden said Daniel Jorjani, who has been nominated to be the agency's top lawyer, may have lied to Congress. By Chris D'Angelo Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) […]
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Trump Admin Calls for Major Expansion of Hunting, Fishing in Wildlife Refuges, Including 7 in California — KTLA
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed opening up more federally protected land for hunting and fishing in what it called a major expansion of those activities in the nation's wildlife refuges. The plan affects 1.4 million acres (5,666 square kilometers) on federal public lands, including 74 national wildlife refuges, U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said…
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Source: The Center of Biological Diversity "Here at SFTHH our main concerns lie with the future safety and welfare of Equines be they domestic or wild but with that said, our love for all creatures great and small is not diminished by our hooved focus. So many times you will see articles, here, regarding the […]
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Al Manshiya is a central quarter of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. This is a preferred residential area in Khartoum so during the past years a lot of high quality housing areas have developed.
In 2005 we were asked by a Sudanese investor to carry out a study for a residential tower. On site in Khartoum we studied the local conditions, analysed referential projects and caught up on Khartoum's building regulations and laws. We visited local companies in the building industry and got to know applied technologies.
For us it was the first examination of the rules and functions of Arab living. It is still impressive how complexly and in what detail these flats are organised and how much attention is paid to the reception and accommodation of guests. At the same time our understanding for the Arab world increased and our relationship to it became closer. Al Manshiya is the beginning of a continuous collaboration with our partners in Sudan.


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He's also no dummy; he's accumulated a lot of information and has some strong opinions about what he's gathered. Earlier editions of the handbook included the place of publication and required different punctuation such as journal editions in parentheses and colons after issue numbers.
In conclusion, Seife presented the following advice: It was hard to hear, and many of our interactions ended with tears, but it gave me the push that I needed to right my ship before it sank. No serious errors were noted in Wikipedia articles, whereas serious errors were noted in one Encarta and one Britannica article.
Researchers and academics contend that while Wikipedia may not be used as a percent accurate source for final papers, it is a valuable jumping off point for research that can lead to many possibilities if approached critically.
Depending on how exactly the data are interpreted, either one third or one half of the inaccuracies were corrected within 48 hours. Only because of the prestigious Lilly grant, which required seminary support of Dr. In perhaps the most surprising finding in the entire study, all these national media outlets [U.
Jones notes the importance of a valediction in proper email etiquette, even if it's just a quick statement like "Thanks for your help! I've created this business, The Professor Is In, to guide graduate students and junior faculty through grad school, the job search, and tenure.
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The Syilx of the Okanagan Nation, live in eight communities in the interior of British Columbia and Washington. Over 400 band members live and work on the Osoyoos Indian Reserve which stretches from Oliver to Osoyoos.
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Okanagan First Nations once travelled widely to fishing, gathering and hunting areas. Each year, the first harvests of roots, berries, fish and game were celebrated by ceremonies honouring the food chiefs who provided for the people. During the winter, people returned to permanent winter villages. The names of many of the settlements in the Okanagan Valley–Osoyoos, Keremeos, Penticton and Kelowna–come from aboriginal words for these settled areas and attest to the long history of the Syilx people on this land.
"OIB culture is not just our traditional culture. We are Business People, we have always been business people." Says Chief Clarence Louie, "Archeological evidence proves that we traded with tribes from thousands of miles away. Today we're probably the only band in Canada that has the number of businesses and joint ventures that we have on a per capita basis."
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The Moroccan national team received a hero's welcome(Video).
O.J Alikali Published December 21, 2022
Morocco national team was given a resounding heroes welcome following their return from a historic campaign at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The Atlas Lions arrived back in Morocco on Tuesday evening after finishing fourth at the just-ended World Cup, becoming the first and only African team to reach that far in history.
Morocco broke the hoodoo of no African country ever reaching the last four of the global showpiece as they reached the semi-finals in Qatar.
Morocco toppled a Group which had second-ranked in the World, Belgium, last edition's runners-up Croatia and Canada.
They beat Belgium and Canada and drew with Croatia which was the fourth time an African side has finished top of their group at the World Cup.
The North Africans faced Spain in the Round of 16 and saw off the European giants by beating them in post-match penalty shootouts after a goalless stalemate after extra time.
Morocco then faced Portugal in the quarter-finals and was able to beat them 1-0 to advance to the semi-finals, becoming the first African nation to be able to get to that stage.
They lost 2-0 to France in the semi-finals and subsequently lost 2-1 to Croatia in the third-place playoff last Saturday.
The massive welcome by the players and the technical staff on their return from Qatar clearly shows how the people of Morocco appreciate and cherish the performance of the entire team during the World Cup.
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Uber driver charged with kidnapping, forcible confinement
Sukhbaj Singh, of Belleville, has been charged with forcible confinement, kidnapping and assault in an incident that happened on May 21, 2017. HANDOUT/Toronto Police Service
A 24-year-old Uber driver is facing charges after a woman was allegedly abducted over the long weekend.
Police were called to the Eglinton Avenue East and Dunfienld Avenue area near Yonge Street just after 4 p.m. on Sunday.
It was reported that an 18-year-old woman had ordered an Uber and during the ride the driver engaged her in "inappropriate conversation."
He then allegedly made unwanted advances toward the woman.
According to police, she refused his advances and asked to be let out of the car but the driver refused. He then tried to take her to a private location.
The woman escaped and called police.
On Monday morning, Sukhbaj Singh, of Belleville, was arrested and has been charged with forcible confinement, kidnapping and assault.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5300.
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