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 PHOENIX  AP  鈥?Entrances to national parks will be blocked and thousands of park rangers will be furloughed if Congress doesnt reach a聽budget agreement聽this weekend, the Department of Interior said Friday.The stance is a reversal from five years ago, when the Trump administration kept some parks open in a move that was聽lambasted as illegal聽by the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog.This time around, the majority of more than 420 national park units will be off-limits to the public starting Monday, Interior officials said. The聽governor stanley cup s of Arizona and Utah聽vowed to keep some of the most iconic parks, including Grand Canyon and Zion, open with state funding.Whether tourists can access other national parks will depend  stanley cup on size, location and other factors. Generally, if a site is closed or locked during non-business hours, it will remain that way, Interior officials said. Places like the National Mall will stay open, but there are no guarantees that restrooms or trash will be maintained.About 13,000 of the 19,000 National Park Service workers are expected to be furloughed, the agency said in a contingency plan posted online Friday.READ MORE: A last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutd stanley cup own almost a certainty The public will be encouraged not to visit sites during the period of lapse in appropriations out of consideration for protection of natural and cultural resources, as well as visitor safety,  the Interior Department said in a Mgul Serbian President Wins Re-election, Vows Pro-Western Course
 There   no question that the 23 people crowned MacArthur geniuses today are insanely talented. But how have they managed to take that raw talent and turn it into something real and tangible  how have they turned their talent into su stanley cup ccess  We reached out to all of them with that very question. Eighteen responded.Many of this years grant recipients spoke about working to counteract injustices in the world: violence against African-Americans, the refugee crisis, climate change and the trauma of war, for example. For some, its about choosing the right colleagues, listening to and absorbing the outside world and reflecting that back to their work. For others, it   a sense of destiny that makes  stanley cup them return to their work day after day. Their responses have been lightly edited.This years class of MacArthur Foundation fellows include a human rights lawyer, a video artist, a geobiologist and a jew salomon elry maker/sculptor.Ahilan Arulanantham, Human Rights LawyerArulanantham, 43, is working to change the immigration laws in the United States  laws that he believes are  stuck in the 19th century. Photos courtesy of the John D.  Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.I was born here, but my family is all Sri Lankan Tamil, and most of my extended family had to flee Sri Lanka in the 80s in what became a civil war. A lot of them came and stayed with us in our house for a long period of time, so I was very exposed in a direct and personal way to the difficulties tha

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 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Tuesday the U.S. central bank is prepared to raise interest rates more quickly if inflation suddenly worsens.Delivering his midyear economic outlook to Congress, Greenspan said that economic conditions  have generally been quite favorable in 2004  with stronger growth finally producing some significant gains in employment.He noted that inflation has risen as well, but he repeated the belief that much of the increase in prices this year could be blamed on transitory factors such as a jump in oil prices.As long as price pressures ease in comi stanley flask ng months and don t threaten to become embedded in wages, Greenspan said the Fed feels it can continue to raise interest rates  at a pace that is likely to be measured. But he cautioned that if inflation pressures do worsen, the Fed is prepared to act decisively to keep prices from getting out of control. The Federal Reserve will pay close attention to incoming data, especially on costs and prices,   stanley kubek Greenspan told the Senate Banking stanley cup  Committee.        The Fed raised interest rates for the first time in four years on June 30 by quarter-point, pushing its benchmark federal funds rate, the interest on overnight bank loans, from a 46-year low of 1 percent up to 1 percent.The Fed raised interest rates for the first time in four years on June 30, pushing its benchmark fedeeral funds rate, the interest on overnight bank loans, up by a quarter-point from a 46-year low of 1 percent up to 1.25 percent.Most  Aohg Haha, watch Portugal launch a drone and immediately fail by crashing it
 Sometimes taking two genres and putting them together just makes everything that much more wonderful. And sometimes 8230; it   just they clash, like stripes and plaid. What   the absolute best, or very worst, combination of two genres that you ;ve ever witnessed      Please include a picture, clip, poster, comics panel, book cover or othe stanley cup r representation of your best or worst ma stanley quencher sh-up. And please mention the name and why it was a great  or terrible  combination of two genres. Thanks! Top image: Firefly and Cowboys and Aliens. They both combined West stanley quencher ern with  8220 cience fiction, only one of them was a lot more successful than the other.                                                        BooksComicsFireflyMoviesTelevision