Tom Fitton: "Netflix Doubles down in support of Obama Corruption"
Source: Fox News
Former national security adviser and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice now has a new role on Netflix's board of directors, appearing to follow her former boss who is in reported "advanced negotiations" to create a series of shows with the streaming giant. The company made the announcement on Wednesday, with Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings praising her prior work on intelligence issues for former President Barack Obama.
USDA Expands Focus on Program Integrity Across All Nutrition Programs
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2018 – As part of Agriculture Secretary Perdue’s strategic goal of ensuring that our programs are delivered efficiently, effectively and with integrity, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced an enhanced focus on program integrity today, that will include renewed attention on transparency, payment accuracy, fraud and waste prevention, and improved quality control.
“Where protection of taxpayer dollars is concerned – the job is never done,” said Acting Deputy Under Secretary for USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, Brandon Lipps. “Today we are renewing our commitment to ensuring that our nutrition programs are run as effectively and efficiently as possible; increasing program integrity while maintaining the nutrition safety net for those truly in need.”
To kick-off this renewed commitment, Acting Deputy Under Secretary Lipps announced today his intention to create a new position of Chief Integrity Officer to manage oversight, improvements, and overall integrity strategy. This position will be located in the Office of the Administrator at FNS and will be tasked with overseeing integrity initiatives in all 15 federal feeding programs administered by FNS.
In addition, FNS has initiated an independent, third-party review of its integrity efforts across the agency’s nutrition programs. This comprehensive review will support the identification of improvements to the process currently in place, as well as explore the implementation of promising practices across government and the private sector.
“Integrity is essential to meeting the mission of all FNS nutrition programs, now and into the future. we will continue to improve operations and outcomes in close collaboration with its state and local partners to combat waste, fraud, and abuse and best serve our participants and American taxpayers,” said Lipps.
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers 15 nutrition assistance programs, including the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, the Summer Food Service Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which together comprise America's nutrition safety net.
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March 2018
Breathing Stories: Words, Art, and Story for Clean Air
Friday March 30, 7:00 p.m.
Join Torrey House Press and local clean air groups (including Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, SLC Air Protectors, and HEAL Utah) for an evening of public readings, storytelling, and art-making. Contributors to the recently released art-as-advocacy book, Breathing Stories: Utah Voices for Clean Air, will read their short personal essays about Salt Lake’s air quality. Participants will have the opportunity to get creative with Casey Clifford, a local artist who will provide screen-printed banners and patches that attendees can paint and use for their own clean air advocacy. (In case you missed it, hear more about Breathing Stories and the event on the March 28 KRCL RadioActive!)
March 30, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. | Impact Hub Salt Lake, 150 State St. Salt Lake City, UT 84111
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Essays and poems on the Breathing Stories blog continue to demonstrate the wide and multifaceted impacts poor air quality has had on Utahns. Ella Mendoza's essay "Disproportionate Burden" exposes the fact that people of color, in poverty, or who are undocumented disproportionately bear the burden of poor air quality and related poor health: "The clean air movement claims we all breathe the same air. However, some of us have the right to recover, while others do not." Michael McLane contributes a set of poems and short essays in "Postcards From Air." And award-winning Utah author Larry Menlove shares his stark reflections in "With Regrets to Yeats, Cecil B. DeMille, and to a Lesser Degree Charlton Heston."
Want to share your breathing story? Submissions remain open.
Get your hands on the physical chapbook by attending the March 30 event or ordering here.
March 30, 7:00 p.m.: Join us to share Breathing Stories with readings and songs, followed by activist art-making and light refreshments at Impact Hub (Salt Lake City, UT)
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April 12, 7:00 p.m.: Jacqueline Keeler presents Sewall Lecture "Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff" at First Unitarian Portland (Portland, OR)
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April 16, 5:00 p.m.: Panel discussion with editor Jacqueline Keeler and contributor Klee Benally at Northern Arizona University's Native American Cultural Center (Flagstaff, AZ)
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April 27, 7:00 p.m.: Reading and signing with editor Tom Fleischner at Village Books (Bellingham, WA)
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April 29, 3:00 p.m.: Reading and signing with editor Tom Fleischner at Elliot Bay Books (Seattle, WA)
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April 2, 6:00 p.m.: Reading and signing, with guest Dr. Alice Mulder of Weber State's Sustainability Practices and Research Center, at Booked on 25th (Ogden, UT)
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April 3, 7:00 p.m.: Reading and signing, with guest Zach Frankel of the Utah Rivers Council, at The King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
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April 5, 7:00 p.m.: Reading and signing, with guest Sarah Fields of Uranium Watch, at Back of Beyond Books (Moab, UT)
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April 11, 12:00 p.m.: San Juan Citizens Alliance Green Business Roundtable presentation at Henry Strater Theater (Durango, CO)
April 11, 6:30 p.m.: Reading and signing, with drinks and Maria's Bookshop and the San Juan Citizens Alliance, at the Durango Public Library (Durango, CO)
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April 14, 7:00 p.m.: Reading and signing at BookBar (Denver, CO)
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April 17, 6:00 p.m.: Free dinner, presentation, and discussion, with Dr. Karletta Chief of the University of Arizona, at the Navajo Nation Shiprock Chapter House (Shiprock, NM)
April 18, 6:00 p.m.: Reading and signing at Bookworks (Albuquerque, NM)
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MARCH NEWS AND EVENTS
Left: Chip Ward and the cover of his novel Stony Mesa Sagas. Center: Charlie Quimby reads from Inhabited at The Printed Garden on March 14. Right: (l-r) Cynthia Maher, Susan Cushman, Charlie Quimby, Marcy Rizzi, and Chase with a table of Monument Road and Inhabited at The Aquinas Instititute.
March events kicked off with a lunch and lecture by Stony Mesa Sagas author Chip Ward on March 8, as part of the Wallace Stegner Center Lecture series at the University of Utah.
In mid-March, Charlie Quimby, author of Monument Road and Inabited, was in Utah for a reading at The Printed Garden on March 14 and a day of discussions and presenting "Oh, Give Me a Home!" at The Aquinas Institute's social justic series on March 15.
Jacqueline Keeler, editor of Edge of Morning, also hosted a reading and signing at Paulina Springs Books in Oregon on March 17, and made a speaking appearance at the Women Outside Adventure Forum on March 27.
We're proud to announce that Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner is a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in the nature category!
Throughout this illuminating collection, a diverse array of people—psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, a Buddhist teacher—share personal stories that reveal a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity.
Get your copy of this INDIES finalist at the Torrey House store or from IndieBound!
March was a great month for newly-released River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster by Jonathan P. Thompson.
Read an excerpt of the book in the inaugural issue of The Gulch magazine.
Listen to an interview on Utah Public Radio, "River of Lost Souls with Author Jonathan Thompson on Tuesday's Access Utah."
Read a review in The Durango Herald, "The Animas River’s long ribbon of stories from Silverton to New Mexico."
And check out this list from The Revelator of "18 Great New Books About Climate Change, Sustainability and Pioneering Women Environmentalists."
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