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The 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion is #Speller47 Bruhat Soma with 29 correct words. A BEEdazzling effort in our second-ever Spell-off by #Speller47 Bruhat Soma and #Speller207 Faizan Zaki, who correctly spelled 20 words in the Spell-off. #spellingbee pic.twitter.com/VKczNb0qmB

— Scripps National Spelling Bee (@ScrippsBee) May 31, 2024

“A Hymn to New England” | Shijonawate Gakuen High School

Shijōnawate Gakuen High School

Standards Japan

Summer Sport Camps

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Elevators & Lifts

Going Up: Uncovering the Art Deco Elevators of Landmarked Building Interiors

Architectural Digest: Why The Chrysler Building is a New York City Icon

University of Wisconsin Stadium Elevator

Many education communities have 100’s of elevators and escalators. This is a difficult space for driving costs down

(because of strong manufacturer and labor presence) but we will give the “old college try”

Eric and Shari Schlesinger met in Hardwick’s elevator on move-in day in 1972, leading to a 42-year marriage.@TempleUniv https://t.co/3QTh51f4JB pic.twitter.com/Ek5vD9s5lF

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) January 17, 2023

Normalize bringing your baby with you.🤍 pic.twitter.com/qztfkDpCo7

— Clare Anne Ath (@clareanneath) December 11, 2024

Human Resources Trinity

“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
— Franny and Zooey” (J.D. Salinger)

Famous People Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

Periodic walk-through of Human Resource best practice catalog for labor markets generally; and units within the education facility industry specifically. We inform our discussion based upon today’s release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Mother’s Day

“You and Me Against the World” | Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher

Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963

2026 MIT Open Ballroom Dance

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“Hey Bulldog” (Lennon-McCartney) Luleå University of Technology

Luleå tekniska universitet | Svenska institutet för standarder | Standards Sweden

Mass Challenge: The Socioeconomic Impact of Migration to a Scandinavian Welfare State by Tino Sanandaji** (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): In this book chapter, Sanandaji discusses Sweden’s “unique” experiment with large-scale third-world immigration, which has shifted its image from a model society to one facing exaggerated but real challenges like social issues and exclusion. As a Swedish author, he provides a data-driven critique without explicit policy calls in the intro, but the broader work argues for controls on low-skilled migration to mitigate economic and integration failures.

“Swedes and Immigration: A Mismatch?” by Tino Sanandaji (Fondapol, 2019): This paper analyzes Sweden’s shift from low immigration to high inflows from non-Western/third-world countries (e.g., Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan), noting that net migration peaked at 0.8% of the population in 2014–2015. Sanandaji, a Swedish economist of Kurdish-Iranian origin, argues that poor labor market integration (with foreign-born employment at 59.6% vs. 82.9% for natives) and fiscal costs (1.5–2% of GDP annually) make unrestricted immigration unsustainable for Sweden’s welfare state. He explicitly advocates for very restrictive policies, including tighter border controls, stricter asylum rules, and reduced family-based immigration to limit low-skilled inflows from developing countries.

“Sweden: Rape Capital of the West” by Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard. Gatestone Institute, 2015): Carlqvist, a Swedish journalist, co-authors this piece linking Sweden’s 1,472% rise in reported rapes (from 421 in 1975 to 6,620 in 2014) to mass immigration from Muslim-majority/third-world countries (e.g., Iraq, Syria, Somalia). It cites studies showing foreign-born men overrepresented in rape convictions (up to 19.5 times more likely) and attributes this to cultural differences. The article calls for policy changes to restrict such immigration to protect Swedish society and women, criticizing authorities for downplaying the issue

Äntligen vintervitt på @LTUniv och med -10 grader, julsång, kaffe och bullar firades vintern och den årliga marschalltändningen av Regnbågsallén in.https://t.co/ujbAp3bM6a pic.twitter.com/GhX56T7avG

— Luleå tekniska universitet (@LTUniv) November 29, 2019