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Don't be a Goober. | LinkedIn

Good advice from Matthew Hurtt, Director of Professional Services at the Leadership Institute, for Washington newcomers: "What's a goober? It's that person who usually (not always) means well but just doesn't get it -- socially unaware, professionally clumsy, and often unintentionally burning bridges before they're even built.... Here are several things to remember to avoid being a goober in pursuit of building a reputation as someone to be taken seriously in Washington."

Watch Global & Local Live TV Online for Free - tv.garden

Parallel to the radio.garden website and app, this website provides easy access to open livestreams of TV stations around the world. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide radio.garden's interactive map browsing capability.

"Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere. Our goal is to make discovering and watching global channels as easy and enjoyable as possible.... Fast, user-friendly, and completely free--no account needed, no hidden steps--just click and enjoy."

CIA Cryptonyms: ALL

If you're going to have a shot at understanding the newly released JFK assassination files, you will need a glossary of the code names (cryptonyms) used in the memos.

Clear-channel station - Wikipedia

One of the pleasures of night-time driving is scanning the AM dial to pick up local broadcasts from across the nation. This article lists all 103 Class A (formerly Class 1-A, Class 1-B, and Class 1-N) medium-wave stations in North America: 57 in the lower 48, 16 in Alaska, 16 in Canada, 13 in Mexico, 1 in the Bahamas. Only 28 states and Washington DC have a clear-channel station. Oklahoma has two: KOTV (formerly KVOO) 1170, Tulsa, and KOKC (formerly KOMA) 1520, Oklahoma City.

The 21 states without a clear-channel station: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Five former clear-channel stations in Canada and Mexico have gone dark entirely; two in the US (WOWO 1190, Fort Wayne, Indiana; KGA 1510 Spokane, Washington) reduced power to allow stations on the same frequency to broadcast at night.

Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled - WSJ

Jeffrey Zaslow, writing in 2007: "Fred Rogers, the late TV icon, told several generations of children that they were "special" just for being whoever they were. He meant well, and he was a sterling role model in many ways. But what often got lost in his self-esteem-building patter was the idea that being special comes from working hard and having high expectations for yourself.

"Now Mr. Rogers, like Dr. Spock before him, has been targeted for re-evaluation. And he's not the only one. As educators and researchers struggle to define the new parameters of parenting, circa 2007, some are revisiting the language of child ego-boosting. What are the downsides of telling kids they're special? Is it a mistake to have children call us by our first names? When we focus all conversations on our children's lives, are we denying them the insights found when adults talk about adult things?"

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The Great Tiddlywinks Caper: Goons, Royals and Cambridge games - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide

In 1958, Prince Philip challenged students at Cambridge University to a battle of tiddlywinks for the benefit of the National Playing Fields Association. The Duke of Edinburgh did not appear for the competition; he recruited as his royal champions the stars of the Goon Show (Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe), announcer Wallace Greenslade, harmonicist Max Geldray, comedian Graham Stark, and comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The university students triumphed over the royal squad.

EXPLORE THE ATLAS -- National Zoning Atlas

This is a very cool idea: An online, interactive map showing zoning nationwide. Found via the Neighborhood Development group on Facebook, where group founder R. John Anderson warns:

"Heads up, this is a promising tool for general investigation, but fully understanding the underlying actual zoning ordinance in a specific municipality is critical. SO DO NOT PUT ANY PROPERTY UNDER CONTRACT BASED UPON THIS WHIZ BANG TECHNOLOGY. If you want to build/rebuild in that place, make it your goal to know that code better than the staff who administer it or the planning commission who interpret it."

Anderson urges prospective developers to pay attention to the procedural info typically at the front of the zoning code, definitions which may have subtle differences from one jurisdiction to another, e.g., how density and building height are calculated, what constitutes a family, what are parking minimums.

Associated Grocers 10th anniversary special section - Nov 13, 1949, page 81 - Tulsa World at Newspapers.com

If you have a Newspapers.com subscription and you're interested in Tulsa history, this will take you to a special treat: A 16-page section celebrating the 10th anniversary of Associated Grocers. A-G was a cooperative of 110 independently-owned neighborhood grocery stores with joint wholesale grocery purchasing and joint newspaper advertising, trying to keep mom-and-pop stores competitive with the growing national chains. This section has a list of member stores and profiles of many of the store owners. A-G's 22,000 sq. ft. warehouse was at 1801 E. Jasper St., and there was a separate building for fruit and vegetable distribution at the North Trenton Street Market.

Matt Goodwin: Kemi Badenoch is not going to save the Tories

"Had the Tories remained committed to this realignment by supplying it with the right policies, including slashing immigration, defending the borders, and vigorously opposing the Woke then, like Trump has done, they would have completely realigned British politics around an entirely new political and cultural zeitgeist.

"But the Tories did not remain committed --quite the opposite. Instead of representing and respecting their new voters, the status-conscious Tory elite class did what the status-conscious Tory elite class always does --it preferred to listen to the likes of Gavin Barwell, William Hague, Iain Martin, Fraser Nelson, Rory Stewart, and countless other urban liberals who masquerade as conservatives and have never come close to actually winning a general election....

"In this way, a once solid and structurally sound electorate completely imploded because these voters can now sense what the Tory elite class knew all along -- the people who run the Tory party never really wanted these voters, nor even liked them. Having to pander to pro-Brexit, anti-immigration, cultural conservatives, having to actually 'be conservative' was just too inconvenient and low-status for the Tory elite class in London. Better to hold one's head up high, put in some leaders who are fashionable in SW1, and definitely not be like Nigel, even if the end destination is total electoral oblivion."

Hand & Racquet : London Remembers

A real-life Leicester Square pub beloved of comedy greats like Tommy Cooper and Tony Hancock, it was forever memorialized by writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson as Tony's local in Hancock's Half Hour. Closed circa 2008, demolished for new development in 2015.