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Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1958)
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A classic version of the song, imo...
@#2
Found this ...
Secret Service Angry With FBI Director Kash Patel for Discussing Potential Threat' to UFC 250 Event (June 17, 2026)
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... Kash Patel has reportedly angered the United States Secret Service.
On Tuesday, June 16, the FBI director, 46, shared a post on X revealing, "On June 10, FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event in Washington, D.C. involving individuals outside of the National Capital Region " and thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of e operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold."
As Globe previously reported, the UFC Freedom 250 event took place on the White House South Lawn on Sunday, June 14, and also served as President Donald Trump's 80th birthday celebration.
Following Patel's announcement, USSS Deputy Director Matt Quinn made a cryptic statement during a press conference about the situation, but did not name Patel.
"I'll tell you a phrase I learned early in my career in the New York field office, and that's don't choke on your own smoke," Quinn said, per CNN. "Anyone that believes that case was worked in a bubble is naive. The Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I'll tell you that case is ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it."
An anonymous USSS official told CNN, "To put it out and just selfishly tweet it is just poor form," referring to Patel. The official also said those on the case were astounded by Patel's social media post. ...
Questions swirl over Trump-linked firm given $1.7M no-bid contract to clean Reflecting Pool water before algae returned
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... Earlier this year, a firm tied to President Donald Trump secured a no-bid contract to install a water purification system at the Reflecting Pool next to the Lincoln Memorial. Now, the deal is raising questions after algae overtook the basin just days after a multi-million-dollar refurbishment was completed, according to a new report.
The National Park Service in April sidestepped the usual competitive bidding process, awarding a $1.7 million cleaning contract to Ohio-based Greenwater Services, which had only ever been given one other federal contract.
The firm is owned by the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust, headed by John J. Cafaro, who has contributed over $300,000 to Trump-linked political committees, The New York Times reported. He also resides next to the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In 2016, Trump described Cafaro, who once found himself at the center of a bribery scandal, as a "fantastic man." ...
Reflecting Pool Is Now Under Siege by a Different and More Aggressive' Form of Algae: Report
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... President Donald Trump's $14 million renovation project at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not going well. In fact, the efforts to kill off the algae are apparently helping foster a new, even more aggressive algae, according to tests conducted by a reporter for The Atlantic.
The Atlantic decided to run its own tests on the water. Viser gathered samples from multiple areas of the Reflecting Pool, and brought them to two different scientists for testing.
"Testing reveals that efforts to suppress one algal bloom seem to be fueling another," wrote Viser, and the "workers battling against nature" in "the country's most high-profile science experiment" may actually be making things worse.
"After a week of combat," wrote Viser, "they have essentially killed off one type of algae infesting the pool, only to create the conditions for a new type to take over. And Scenedesmus, a genus of green algae nicknamed Skinny Dead Mouse' by scientists, is now flourishing," according to the tests they ran.
The original algae that showed up in the Reflecting Pool "appeared to be a blue-green cyanobacterial bloom," wrote Viser, and that type can sometimes produce neurotoxins that are dangerous for humans and animals.
One of the scientists who tested the samples was Hans W. Paerl, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paerl examined the samples under a microscope and found "remnants of the previous bloom" of the blue-green algae, "but they were too degraded to identify," wrote Viser, and he believed this was caused, at least in part, by the hydrogen peroxide.
"The guys dealing with peroxide treatment can pat themselves on the back," said Paerl. "But it doesn't really solve the overall problem."
"What's happened is they've just switched the players. And the green algae are just taking over," Paerl explained, and this new green algae "is a pretty aggressive grower." ...
The Reflecting Pool itself was already an ideal environment for algae, Boyer said.
"If I was going to design a facility to grow algae," Boyer explained, "I would probably design a facility that had a lot of surface area and was very shallow, so you have sunlight down to the bottom. And put a lot of nutrients in it. And that's pretty much what the Reflecting Pool is. It's just a perfect facility for growing algae."
The deep blue paint that Trump had added only made it worse, wrote Viser, because it "raised the water temperature and accelerated the growth." ...
@#2 ... That rent is still too damn high! ...
At one point in my career, a three or four decades ago, I was offered a quite lucrative job in Manhattan.
I told the recruiter that I did not want to spend three hours a day sitting on trains, commuting.
The recruiter told me to find some landlord who would offer me an apartment with a bed, a refrigerator with microwave, and a bathroom for a low monthly rental, and that I should spend my weeknights there (the agent called it an aerie apartment). And not commute to my home in CT during the week.
Needless to say, I did not accept that job, which would have doubled my salary.