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18. KEEP MAINE GREEN SLOGANS ° The Keep Main Green program started in 1948, but the first record of slogans began in 1955. It was initiated by Joel Marsh, Supervisor of Infor- mation & Education of the Maine Forest Service 1955 Keep Maine Green in 1955 1956 Be Sure Our Program Clicks, Keep Maine Green in '56 1957 In 1957 So As You Say Keep Maine Green Every Day 1958 Let's Make It A Date Keep Maine Green in '58 1959 The Responsibility Is Yours ind Mine To Keep Maine Green in 1959 1960 Woodland Fires Are Very Risky So Keep Maine Green in '60 1961 Make Sure You are The One to Keep Maine Green in '61 1962 There is Something You Can Do, Keep Maine Green in '62 1963 We'll Have The Forests to Use & Sights to See, If We Keep Maine Green in '63 1964 The Forests For Evermore: eep Maine Green in 6 1965 1966 eep Maine Green in 196 Fire and Forests Do Not Mix So Keep Maine Green in '66 1967 In '67 Do As You Say Keep Maine Green Every Day 1968 Let's Make a Date Keep Maine Green in '68 1969 The Responsibility is Yours and Mine To Keep Maine Green in '69 1970 Now that '70 Is On The Scene Get Together and 1971 Keep Maine Green Make Sure You Are The One To Keep Maine Green In '71 1972 There is Something You Can Do Keep Maine Green in '72 * Although these are state-wide fire prevention slogans, the message was spread to French-speaking pulp and lumber camps, sportsmen and fire personnel in the Maine Forestry District.

in case you were wondering the origins of the phrase “keep maine green” (from Ten Million Acres of Timber)

“Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention—an argument culture.” –Deborah Tannen (1999)

in 2023, a judge overseeing lawsuits claiming tylenol caused autism excluded each and every one of the plaintiff's scientific experts storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.

“Paula Soldner, who leads the food inspectors union at the Department of Agriculture, says she now tries to get her meat butchered by people she knows personally, because the agency’s oversight of meatpacking plants has been compromised by this year’s buyouts.”

“firearms identification has not been shown to reach reliable results linking a particular unknown bullet to a particular known firearm” www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinion...

Did a Brooklyn Couple Kill a Neighbor’s Trees for a Better View in Maine?

Delicious story about jerks who (allegedly) kill their neighbors' trees to score better views. Come for the shade hate, stay for the zingers

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?

“researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may be behind the trend”

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

“The real thrill is in having a license to ask, as directly as possible, about the thing you really want to know.”

What If Bicycles Don't Get Much Better Than This?

orange skies summer

Criminal Investigation A famous dog-handler who helps with missing person investigations nationwide has been accused of planting evidence at crime scenes. Peter Payette from Interlochen Public Radio reports.

still one of the most incredible stories worth a listen if you have never heard it before (and even if you have!)

Vermont feels like the frontier of climate change in the Northeast. Farmers in the bottomlands, who previously planted wheat and barley, are beginning to plant rice, which can be underwater for two days without damage to the crop. The old roads that early Vermont settlers hacked out on hilltops, which lasted for more than two hundred years, are melting back into the forest. Extreme-rain events scour the roads down to bedrock ledges, rendering them impassable, and, because no one then uses them, any blown-down trees don't get cleared. The next storm brings more blowdowns. A road that I went mountain biking on ten years ago, when it was a distinct pathway with old-growth trees on each side, lined by aged stone walls, is now such a tangle of fallen trees, branches, and rocks that it's hard to tell a road was ever there.

roads are melting back into the forest but I do wonder if old-growth trees are commonly found along roads (in and around south woodstock) that are lined with stone walls

who here would like me to investigate, by bicycle, how the intensity of rainfall floods towns, topples trees, and messes with the maintenance of public rights of way on 8,534 miles of dirt roads in vermont?

“favorable plea deals that sidestep terrible facts—especially when it comes to crimes involving sexual abuse—are the rule, not the exception” –Carissa Byrne Hessick

The end of June and the beginning of July were the times when "wobbling" began. Last winter's rubber boots were cut off and thus became "wobbling boots". An old pair of pants became a swimsuit. Wobbling was a youngster, running through the water, his legs hammering like pistons, driving spray high in the sunlight.

'tis wobbling season in newfoundland

“I don’t know how you build infrastructure for rain events like this.” bostonglobe.com/2025/07/10/m...

and still have zero responsive records to suggest how common or uncommon the alford plea is in federal court at resolving (or not resolving) cases

The Alford Plea Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 06/28/2024 · 54m

this came out almost exactly one year ago today podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Nobody ever learned how to ride a bike by reading a manual”

Can anyone find a Berman MF et al. Neurotoxicology 2008; 29(5), 914–922 ?

This is a fake citation.
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur...

in this essay, I will explore human credulity by comparing canine handlers with people who uncritically mistake large quantities of linear algebra for intelligence

people have very strange conversations with dogs. it sends them into delusional spirals. one way I use dogs is for fact-checking.

Sunny Jacobs, a Celebrity After Freed From Death Row, Dies at 77

who prevails on appeal, and then pleads guilty? the NYT obit does not mention the plea by name but I knew she must have taken an alford plea

its an easy cool
laying on the quiet suburban lawn grass
“in tune with the universe”

[insert swirling gif of the smoky haze blanketing the northern hemisphere that is so much larger than 1MB and won't uploads to the skies]

“I don’t know about you, but I’m not feeling so sanguine about massive surveillance efforts by the government these days, or ever, really”

gilded tombs do worms enfold 𓆑

Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76

“I look at my reporter’s credentials as a passport to talk to anyone … Showing up, listening closely and finding the people burning with intensity to tell their story, those are the three most important qualities of the job.”

RIP to a journalism legend www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

“Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.”

Technologies in the twilight zone: early lie detectors, machine learning and reformist legal realism Contemporary discussions and disagreements about the deployment of machine learning, especially in criminal justice contexts, have no foreseeable end. Developers, practitioners and regulators could...

“The lie detector experience shows us that, despite a ban on its use in some contexts, it will continue to be deployed in others due to a belief in its utility, whether or not it ‘works’” – Marion Oswald

In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible In its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible.

"In a way, the paper was a record of what had been lost, of what might not happen if a food product were poisoning kids right now."

www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/c...