Guzman attended Schurr High School in Montebello, CA and graduated in 1988. Guzman earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In April 2019, she was the director of California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate. She was also the deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration in the Obama administration. Guzman was also the director of strategic initiatives at ProAmerica Bank in Los Angeles.
On January 7, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden nominated Guzman to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration under his cabinet. Her nomination was confirmed on March 16, 2021 in a 81–17 vote of the United States Senate.
Daniel McKee
Daniel J. McKee (born June 16, 1951) is an American politician. In 2021, he became the 76th Governor of Rhode Island.
McKee was the 69th Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island from 2015 until 2021. He was mayor of Cumberland, Rhode Island and member of the Cumberland Town Council.
Lisa's Sax
"Lisa's Sax" is the 3rd episode of the 9th season of "The Simpsons". It was first shown on the Fox network on October 19, 1997. The episode is about how Lisa Simpson got a saxophone.
Homer and Bart try to watch television. They can not hear it because they think Lisa's saxophone is too loud. Bart goes to her room and tries to take it from her. Bart accidentally throws it out of the window. The saxophone gets hit by a car. Lisa gets very sad and does not remember how she got a saxophone. Homer tells her by using a flashback on how she got it.
In the flashback, Bart goes to his first day of school. He is sad because school is not going well for him. Homer and Marge go to the school's psychologist. While they are talking about Bart, the psychologist learns that Lisa is very smart. He tells them that they should care for Lisa's smart intelligence. They try to put Lisa in a private school, but it costs too much money. Their town then gets a very big heat wave. Homer tries to save some money to buy an air conditioner. Marge does not want Homer to buy one until they know how to help Lisa. At the school, Bart becomes friends with Milhouse Van Houten and other students because he is humorous.
Homer learns that musical instruments are great for a smart child. He uses the money he saved to buy a saxophone for Lisa. After the flashback, Homer buys a new saxophone for Lisa.
"Lisa's Sax" is the first episode to be written by Al Jean without someone else. Before this, he would write with Mike Reiss. Jean, Reiss, and David Stern made small changes to the screenplay. This is the 6th episode to be about flashbacks. The first episode that does this is "The Way We Was". In that episode, Homer graduates from high school in 1974. This made it not easy to write the time of "Lisa's Sax" because the episode is in 1990. Jean thought that the episode was short, so they made Lisa play her new saxophone at the end of the episode.
Dominic Polcino is the director of the episode. He thought that the epsiode was easy to direct. At the start of the episode, Policno made a pastel drawing of Krusty the Clown. He said that it is the only drawing he has made for the show all done by him. This is the last episode that has Doris Grau as the voice actor for Lunchlady Doris. She died two years before the episode was first shown on television. Tress MacNeille became the new voice actor for Doris in 2006.
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood (authors of "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide") said that it is "a terrific episode". They thought it was nice to see Bart younger. Robert Canning from IGN said that the episode is "very funny" and that it is "loaded with "Simpson" heart." Stephen Becker from "The Dallas Morning News" thought that the 9th season has a "special affinity for Lisa". He thought this after seeing this episode, "Das Bus", and "Lisa the Simpson". "The San Diego Union-Tribune" said that this episode, "All Singing, All Dancing", and "Trash of the Titans" are memorable episodes of the show.
Donovan Richards
Donovan Richards is an American politician. In December 2020, he became the Borough President of Queens. He was a New York City Council member representing the 31st District of the New York City Council. He is a Democrat.
Standardization
In order to be able to work together, people and companies need to agree on a common set of rules, and units. These agreements are called standards. The process of agreeing is called standardization or standardisation.
Companies that have products which follow these rules can make their products work together. One example of a standard is the two pin plug. It provides electricity. It is commonly found in household appliances. Many countries have adopted it. However, this is not the case for three-pin plugs: they are different in each country.
Agreements do not need to be technical. Lawyers can agree on a standard way to solve a problem, linguists can agree on what the "standard language" is, and bookkeepers can agree on rules how to evaluate a company.
2020 United States Senate special election in Arizona
A special election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Arizona. It happened because the last senator, John McCain, died in 2018. Primary elections happened on August 4, 2020 to choose who would run for the election from each party. The Republican Party chose Martha McSally. She beat Daniel McCarthy to be the Republican candidate. Only one person, Mark Kelly, ran for the Democratic Party.
Kelly won the election and got 51.2% of the votes, so he became the junior senator from Arizona. This meant both Senators from Arizona were now from the Democratic Party. He officially became a senator on December 2, 2020 when he was sworn in.
None of the Libertarian Party candidates got enough votes in the primary to be in the Senate election.
Reset button
A reset button or reset switch is a part of an electronic machine that makes it start again. It turns the machine off and turns it back on, very fast.
Real reset buttons are on machines, but "reset button" is also a metaphor for other things. It means "thing that makes everything start over" or "thing that puts things back the way they were in the beginning."
In fiction, especially serialized fiction, like television shows, the writers often use a reset button. No matter what happened during the episode, things always go back to the beginning for the next episode.
Jamie O'Hara (singer)
James Paul O'Hara (August 8, 1950 – January 7, 2021) was an American country singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was a member of the The O'Kanes. He was known for his number one single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You". He was also known for his 1986 hit "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)" which won him a Grammy Award.
O'Hara died in Nashville, Tennessee on January 7, 2021 from cancer at the age of 70.
Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone
A Medicane is a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone. It is a storm in the Mediterranean Sea. These storms are similar to tropical storms and subtropical storms.
Weather scientists say there are about one or two medicanes each year. Most of them happen in September and October, when the water in the Mediterranean sea. Sometimes they happen at other times. Scientists say global climate change could make medicanes stronger.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.
Bateson published many monographs. A well-known book she wrote is "With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson". In it, she tells what is is like, to have parents that are famous.
She taught at Harvard, Amherst, and George Mason University, among others. Bateson was a fellow of the International Leadership Forum and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York until 2010."