Others could follow Washington's example to justify tough trade restrictions, it says.
Reads
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
📖 Read Murilla Gorilla, Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd
Murilla Gorilla, the jungle detective, is woken up by a new case: Ms. Chimpanzee’s muffins were stolen. But who did it? It’s up to Murilla to find out... as long as she can find her badge first! Murilla may seem like a hopeless detective—disorganized, messy and always thinking about her next snack—but out of her mess come some pretty good ideas, and some pretty funny moments too.
Simple but entertaining. Great illustrations with a lovely pallette. I’d read others in the series.
It’s a pseudo chapter book with incredibly short chapters for kids on the border of moving from short story books to chapter books.
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
It’s a pseudo chapter book with incredibly short chapters for kids on the border of moving from short story books to chapter books.
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
👓 The Academy Awards Scandal That First Got PwC Its Job Counting Oscars Votes | Time
Years before PricewaterhouseCoopers caused a scandal for mixing up Oscars envelopes, another controversy got the firm that gig.
👓 Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director | New York Times
Ms. Hicks, who had been considering a departure for several months, did not indicate what her next job would be, but she said that she plans to leave the White House in the next few weeks.
Clickbait headline: No more Hope in the White House
Great article here with some reasonable background and history.
👓 Hope Hicks to resign as White House communications director | Axios
"I will miss having her by my side," said Trump
👓 US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut | The Guardian
Spending is in addition to $31,000 dining set for Ben Carson’s office, even asproposed budget cuts would affect poor and homeless Americans
How are there not better checks on this kind of waste before they even happen?
👓 Teacher Fired Gun in Classroom, Barricaded Himself: Police | Time
Police in Georgia say officers have responded to reports of shots fired at a Dalton high school and a teacher is now in custody
Saddened to hear about this school shooting incident at the neighboring high school just 23 miles from Calhoun High School, which I attended in Georgia. I remember driving to Dalton High School to take my S.A.T.s and frequently attend football and soccer games.
It’s potentially proof that arming teachers isn’t the great idea many thought it might have been just a week ago.
This now makes three school shootings in communities that I’ve either been directly touched by or been in close proximity to following two others: a shooting at Johns Hopkins in April 1996 involving a friend who was staying in my apartment at the time and the Heath High School Shooting in Paducah, KY in 1997 in the town where I’d lived briefly in 1996.
This has long since ceased to be a political issue and is a pressing public health issue that needs to be addressed on multiple levels.
👓 Three ways we can improve Drupal’s evaluator experience | Dries Buytaert
It’s time to improve Drupal's download process and end-user documentation. I believe we can improve Drupal's evaluator experience with these three steps.
👓 Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence | Politico
A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances, barring them from top-secret information.
📖 Read Arthur’s Loose Tooth by Lillian Hoban
Arthur, afraid of pulling his loose tooth, and his little sister, Violet, learn something about being brave in the seventh adventure about two favorite chimps.
Not as solid as the Francis series, though this did have one or two nice moments. The illustrations were a bit too simplistic and much less realistic than they could have been.
How does a kid with only one tooth manage to loose it before he has more?!
I’m not sure which book I liked less, this or The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist. Though that one did have an entertaining set of pages which included an instrument that was colloquially called the “Yankers!”
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Favorite quote:
“What!” said Arthur. “I am not scared to go upstairs in the dark!”
“I know,” said the baby-sitter. “But sometimes I think you are scared of a little soap and water.”
📖 Read Arthur’s Birthday Party by Lillian Hoban
Arthur is having a gymnastics party for his birthday, with prizes for balancing, tumbling, and rope climbing. Arthur is sure that he will win the prize for best all--around gymnast. But his little sister, Violet, and her friend Wilma have been practicing-and they may have a surprise in store....
Simple to read and a vaguely interesting plot. Not as good as the Francis series though. Nothing funny here.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
👓 Meet Vero: Why a billionaire’s Instagram alternative is suddenly so popular | Mashable
What you need to know about Vero.
It looks like a very slick app that could replace way more than just Instagram. It’s got bookmarks/links, music, watches for movie/tv, read related posts for books, location, and photos as post kinds in addition to a variety of audiences. If it had broad based status updates and articles…
Of course it’s still early days for it, and all platforms change drastically as they grow without the customer’s real control of them. #justanothersilo
👓 Posting my phone’s battery status to my site | Dries Buytaert
Working towards being able to publish notes and photos from my phone
This functionality seemed eerily familiar to me as I began to read, but the really interesting part is the reason he did it.
👓 Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn’t Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files | Slate
Pro tip: If you’re going to falsify documents, it’s probably a good idea to learn how computers work.
👓 The forgotten art of squatting is a revelation for bodies ruined by sitting | Quartzy
Westerners have forgotten how to squat, and it's causing health problems.
I’m curious how long it takes for someone to invent the “squatting” desk as the next evolution of the standing desk?
There’s also a cultural mention of both Yoga and “grounding”, though not quite specific, and this is the third reference to the idea of “grounding” that I’ve heard in the past two weeks. I suspect that is becoming a “thing” now too.
I’d love to read some of the evolutionary and physiological studies about this phenomenon. This particular quote was about as close to a scientific reference as there was:
Every joint in our body has synovial fluid in it. This is the oil in our body that provides nutrition to the cartilage,” Jam says. “Two things are required to produce that fluid: movement and compression. So if a joint doesn’t go through its full range—if the hips and knees never go past 90 degrees—the body says ‘I’m not being used’ and starts to degenerate and stops the production of synovial fluid.