United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.
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👓 Push notifications with Indigenous | realize.be
swentel (realize.be)Indigenous for Android has a new home. To celebrate, a new release is out which allows you to receive and send Push notifications! #indieweb https://realize.be/blog/push-notifications-indigenous
This is awesome!
👓 Logos in Slide Decks and WordCamp Videos | Make WordPress Communities
A while ago, there was a discussion about the use of logos in slide decks and WordCamp videos. A consensus was reached as to what the permitted guidelines should be, but this was never documented i…
I did notice few presentations at Camp this weekend that were overly busy and had too much corporate logo splayed all over them. I can definitely be a bit too much.
👓 Right Here, in Santa Clarita | WordCamp Santa Clarita
Thank You. You’ll never realize how much April 5 and April 6 meant to our fledgling WordPress Community here in Santa Clarita. Imagine, having your best friends AND the WordPress world descending on our north Los Angeles County valley, sharing twenty-four informative and entertaining sessions, gre...
Thank you Joe!
👓 In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash | New York Times
In a city swollen by the wealth of the tech industry, the rich and poor live very separate lives. But sometimes they connect through the garbage.
👓 Pet Sematary Ruined a Generation’s Ability to Spell Cemetery | Slate
It started with Stephen King’s book. With the new movie, the curse is poised to go international.
🎧 Salvador Dalí Meets The Marx Brothers In ‘Giraffes On Horseback Salad’ | NPR
Peter Breslow from NPRThis is a story about something that didn't happen. A movie that was never made. It was supposed to be a collaboration between the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and the Marx Brothers.
🎧 A Math Teacher’s Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He Mentored | NPR
Joe Palca from NPR.orgA biologist at Harvard was chatting with a colleague about a mentor who pushed him to do harder math problems. It turns out the colleague had the same mentor — and so did many others.
George Berzsenyi is a retired math professor living in Milwaukee County. Most people have never heard of him.
But Berzsenyi has had a remarkable impact on American science and mathematics. He has mentored thousands of high school students, including some who became among the best mathematicians and scientists in the country.
What a great little story…
I also find myself thinking, yet again, what was it about the early 1900’s in Hungary that they turned out, not even so many great scientists, but so many fantastic mathematicians? What were they doing right that we seem to be missing now? Can it be replicated? Was it cultural? Was it a certain type of teaching method? Simple expectations?
👓 Attorneys General Sue Trump Administration Over School Nutrition Rollbacks | The Salt | NPR
Allison Aubrey (The Salt | NPR )A coalition of state attorneys general is suing the Trump administration for weakening the federal nutrition standards for school meals that are fed to about 30 million children across the country.
"Over a million children in New York — especially those in low-income communities and communities of color — depend on the meals served daily by their schools to be healthy, nutritious, and prepare them for learning," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. Joining James in the lawsuit are the attorneys general of California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont.
👓 2 Students Allegedly Cheated Apple Out Of Nearly $900,000 In Fake iPhone Scheme | NPR
Prosecutors say it was an elaborate deception that involved roping in friends and family, while using nonsensical pseudonyms and a slew of mailing addresses. The plot seems to have come from China.
🎧 Chef’s Memoir Tackles What It’s Like To Be Young, Gifted And Black In Fine Dining | NPR
It was the morning after the election of America's first black president, and Kwame Onwuachi was hungover. He'd been partying all night. He was dealing drugs to survive after he dropped out of college. He was, he says, lost.
But when he saw President Obama, something clicked. "I thought, I can do anything. And I immediately flushed everything that I had down the toilet and was like, I need to find myself," Onwuachi recalls.
He went to the grocery store and bought ingredients to cook a chicken curry. "I didn't know that I wanted to cook, but it was like, here's something that I'm familiar with," he says. "Here's something that brings back these fond memories. And here's something that grounds me. And I want to explore this a little bit more."
We do need more variety in our general cuisines and even in our fine dining cuisine.
I’ve even noticed that Christopher Kimball is doing a lot more international and less-focused on food in his Milk Street television show. Sadly it only seems to be filling a massive hole left by Anthony Bourdain’s coverage. I’ve noticed that Martha Stewart has a show with some international cuisine like this, but it seems to be heavily influenced by a massive funder for PR purposes and she’s often watering down the authenticity of the dishes a bit excessively.
🎧 Economic Ripples: Hospital Closure Hurts A Town’s Ability To Attract Retirees | NPR
When a rural community loses its hospital, health care becomes harder to come by in an instant. But a hospital closure also shocks a small town's economy. It shuts down one of its largest employers. It scares off heavy industry that needs an emergency room nearby. And in one Tennessee town, a lost hospital means lost hope of attracting more retirees.
Here’s a great example of why pure capitalist competition doesn’t work in areas like health care and education in large swathes of America. Small communities like this one often have only one option of a hospital to go to, and often they don’t even have that. And many health care issues don’t allow for direct competition and choice because they are emergent and one can only go to the closest provider with their fingers crossed.
🎧 The Daily: Prosecuting R. Kelly | New York Times
The singer, trailed by allegations for years, has now been charged with sexual abuse. We hear from the Chicago prosecutor on the other side of the case.
🎧 The Daily: Israel’s Indispensable Prime Minister? | New York Times
If re-elected, Benjamin Netanyahu could become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister — and the first to be indicted while in office.
🎧 The Daily: Why Didn’t Mueller Decide on Obstruction? | New York Times
The special counsel came to no conclusion on whether President Trump illegally obstructed justice. The attorney general, a recent political appointee, stepped in.