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The Daisy Moon by Phil Greenwood June’s full moon - 4th June 4.42am* *This is obviously very early in the morning. To view it at its fullest during normal evening hours look out tonight, the 3rd, but it will still look pretty full on the evening of the 4th. June’s full moon has a couple of beautiful old Medieval names. The one that chimes most at the moment is Rose Moon, because well…there are so very many roses now blooming in midnight gardens that are going to be lit up by this full moon.

Every year, plenty of new faces join each organization in the aftermath of the MLB Draft. In 2019, the New York Yankees selected lefty TJ Sikkema from the University of Missouri with their first-round pick. I caught up with Sikkema this past week and he recalled his best memory from the draft was “celebrating the new job with family and friends'“. Three years following his first-round selection, Sikkema was traded to the Kansas City Royals as part of a package in the Andrew Benintendi trade at the 2022 trade deadline.

The Pine Barrens came into national notice when it was to be bulldozed for the futuristic dream of a Supersonic JetPort City with a fleet of Concordes. The closest that came to fruition was the Warren Grove bombing range, but other small airports had short lives in the Pinelands, and if you explore Google Maps near the popular hiking area known as the Black Run Preserve, you’ll see a strange marker in a wooded area, simply called AeroHaven.

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MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa – When a well-established Iowa college closes – and a half-dozen or more of them have done that in my lifetime – I always feel a little shame.  We all should. It’s like our society is breaking faith with young people of the past, and denying opportunity to young people of the future.  And we all know that when a college fails, its town or city is going to get clobbered.

The Sahm rule is simple: When the three-month moving average of the national unemployment rate is 0.5 percentage point or more above its low over the prior twelve months, we are in the early months of recession. Share The Sahm rule was born for a specific purpose: a tool for better policy. I created the Sahm rule to send out stimulus checks automatically. The idea was to act fast to make the recession less severe and help families.

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I was serving as a sensitivity reader for a company in the UK, and part of the job was to look at some Buddhist content in a children’s book. One of the activities for the kids was to make a mandala, which for Buddhists is an image for meditation and is said to be a portrait of the universe. The next few days, I was thinking about this amazing thing I got to witness long ago in Savannah, Georgia.

Before we begin, two important notes! Woot! I made it to the final round of Goodreads Choice Awards in Non-Fiction for On Our Best Behavior! I’m in some crazy company! Please vote for me! Voting ends in a week! If you want personalized or signed copies of On Our Best Behavior as holiday gifts, I can do this for you via Diesel. (They ship!) Last August, I was on vacation with some friends, and by the end of the week we all christened each other with nicknames.