<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Running The New Leaf Journal takes me interesting places. For example, it has taken me to Grenada over the last few days. Not literally, mind you. I am not much of a traveling guy (nor am I a big fan of planes or other vehicles). I am researching Thanksgiving in Grenada for what promises to […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last year, I published a history of Thanksgiving proclamations in the Philippines from the U.S. colonial era through the first President Marcos's significantly changed take on the holiday.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have written a number of articles about hair color in Japanese anime, manga, novels, and games (usually visual novels) -- because why not become the internet's leading resource in something? I finally got around to creating a collection page for this very important 2D anthropology project.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It has been a rough year for search engines I reviewed. Peekier went offline and turned into a Kagi redirect last February. But again, my review lives on.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Elephind, a newspaper search engine that I used for a number of projects, has been taken offline. For those who are curious about what it looked like, my review lives on.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have published a growing collection of articles on hair color in Japanese anime, manga, and games (usually visual novels). My […]]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[On Coach Jimbo Fisher’s Buyout]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Texas A&M's decision to pay Coach Jimbo Fisher $76.8 million to not coach the school's football team raises questions about its priorities as an institution.
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College Football Coach Salaries and Buyouts and…
Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?
The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters
1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft
Sega of Japan's Yukawa Dreamcast Commercials
Brown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again!
Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue
Playing Through Cancer in Silence: Shawn Respert's NBA Story
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 60th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. After a brief unplanned hiatus, we returned to our ordinary publishing pace last week. Below, I share our newest articles, links from around the web, and news and notes about The New Leaf Journal.
Leaves from the week that was
I published five new articles since mailing the previous newsletter.
October 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
No one said these months in review had to be published in the month of review.
Planning and Angel Next Door Season 2
The anticipated results of good article planning.
Upgrading Pixel 3a XL …]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[7-Eleven Embraces Open Source (Food)]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[SoraNews24 published an entire article about making a recipe released by 7-Eleven in Japan. I think the recipe looks good (“to die for” is probably excessive, however). But regardless of whether you think 7-Eleven’s sausage-butter-rice dish looks appetizing, I am sure you can join me in praising the convenience store chain for fully embracing open […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Re-printing the first U.S. Veterans Day Proclamation, written and issued by then-President (and prominent veteran) Dwight D. Eisenhower 69 years to the day:
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On October 11, 2023, Nintendo Life cited to reports that Disney is looking to purchase a video game company. This sounds very ominous so I am crossing my fingers that they do not buy a company that makes good games. Go for one of the companies that makes those terrible free-to-start mobile games!]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use a low-end Beelink mini-PC as a TV box (this will be a New Leaf Journal article eventually). I run Fedora on the mini PC and switch between GNOME and Kodi sessions depending on what I am doing. Yesterday, I upgraded from Fedora 39 to Fedora 40. The upgrade went smoothly. Everything appeared to […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A friendly Halloween ghost scarecrow seen in America's first suburb, the New York City neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Mr. Heinrik Karlsson’s “A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox” Having idiosyncratic interests that grow in complexity means thatif you pursuethem too far you will end up obsessed with things that no one else around you cares […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Russian government is appropriating Soviet humor. (I dare say that this is a better example of Russia’s questionable Iran-coddling commentary than the one I used for an October 14 article at The New Leaf Journal.)]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The original Mario Party for Nintendo 64 had some poorly-conceived mini games that required players to rapidly spin the delicate Nintendo 64 joystick. I remember them for destroying joysticks. Others claimed terrible injuries. This is the story of Nintendo's offer of gloves as a result of a settlement with New York State (I note the gloves would not have saved any controllers from harm).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I return from a brief and unplanned publishing break with an important story (“important” is the operative word here). I use a MikroTik hAP ac3 internet router. However, I disabled its wi-fi functionality and use a low-end tp-link access point for wireless. The access point is right in front of my computer. I turned on […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I would say that the announcement of a second season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten was a surprise... but I expected it when I wrote my review of what is now season one.
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ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review
Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?
The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations
The Best Anime Series of 2021
Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)]]></summary>
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[October 2023 at The New Leaf Journal]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We ended up only publishing nine articles in October 2023 due to some unexpected events, but our month-in-review structure is very aesthetic.
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A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…
The story of our Bing blacklisting
Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the…
The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 159th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
As always? I should say except for last week.
Two factors caused a lapse in New Leaf Journal publishing. Firstly, middling health commencing on October 24. Secondly, I had a decent amount of work for my law job to do while I was feeling sluggish. As a result, I did not publish any articles. Because I had no articles to share and I still had work to do last weekend, I let October 28 pass without a newsletter. While I have a few article drafts in the pipeline, I still have not published a new piece since October …]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 158th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal (the previous one had a Roman numeral title typo -- sad!), the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. I am a bit pressed for time this week, so this newsletter will only cover our most recent posts, links from around the web, and our most-read articles of the week. Let us get straight into the content.
Leaves from the week that was
I published two new articles.
On Russia’s and China’s Self-Awareness
Russia's and China's statements about restraint and justice ring just a bit hollow.
Analyzing BIA Decision in Matter of Salama
An in-depth study of an interesting 1966 U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision with my original legal analysis. I wrote it in a way that should be acc…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wrote a detailed analysis of a 1966 Board of Immigration Appeals decision in Matter of Salama, 11 I&N Dec. 536 (BIA 1966). In that post, I worked through the decision and examined the small number of citations to it in precedent decisions. I opined that although I first came across the decision while researching […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I study a 1966 Board of Immigration Appeals precedent decision wherein the BIA held a Jewish man from Egypt would face persecution on account of his religion.
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Citizenship Rules for Running for President of Egypt
Matter of Man, 12 I&N Dec. 305 (BIA 1967) - BIA Hong Kong…
Noncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners
Golf and Immigration: Matter of Masters
"A Strange Admixture of Contentions" - Study of a Phrase
Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ
The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho
The Hang Glider Citizenship Provision
Immigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case]]></summary>
