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SUPERVISORY MUSEUM CURATOR job with USAJobs

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Duties You will assign work to subordinates based on priorities, difficulty of assignments and the capabilities of employees. You will take disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands and identify developmental and training needs of employees and provide and/or arrange for the needed development and training. You will oversee the development of the interpretive and exhibits plan for the new National Museum of the U.S. Navy campus and oversee interpretation in the current museum. Read More...

Video shows San Fran cop shoot driver who crashed into consulate

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Explore More Newly released bodycam video captured the moment police shot dead a knife-wielding man who crashed a car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. Zhanyuan Yang, 31, crashed into the consulate’s visa office on Oct. 9 and was heard shouting, “Where is the CCP?” — an apparent reference to the Chinese Communist Party, the San Francisco Standard reported. ​Video recorded by a bystander showed the Chinese national scuffling with security guards and trying to remove an object from the blue Honda before cops arrived. Read More...

Bisons relocation to Native lands reconnects Indigenous people to tradition

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BULL HOLLOW, Okla. (AP) — Ryan Mackey quietly sang a sacred Cherokee verse as he pulled a handful of tobacco out of a zip-close bag. Reaching over a barbed wire fence, he scattered the leaves onto the pasture where a growing herd of bison — popularly known as American buffalo — grazed in northeastern Oklahoma. The offering represented a reverent act of thanksgiving, the 45-year-old explained, and a desire to forge a divine connection with the animals, his ancestors and the Creator. Read More...