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Offices are tightly enclosed, relatively self-contained structures. That’s why one little food mishap is more than enough to fill any workplace with a cornucopia of smells your fellow co-workers don’t want to smell.
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If you’re not sure which foods are likely to produce such aromas, we’ve compiled a list of some of the worst offenders. Be a good corporate citizen, and avoid these foods when you’re reheating your lunch in the office.
You might be thinking to yourself, “Wait… Popcorn smells good!” It sure does! The mere scent is enough to drive most mortals mad if they can’t have some. So bring enough to share with anyone who gets a whiff, or leave it at home. Also, burnt popcorn is one of the worst smells. Ever.
2. Indian food
Indian food is delicious, but the smell can be overpowering to those not used to it. That’s why unless you’re sure your co-workers are OK with it, leave the curries at home.
First, don’t reheat steak in the microwave anyway! Second, if you do reheat it (or worse, use a stove at your office), your co-workers will be overpowered with the smell of mouthwatering meat or eye-watering char.
4. Ridiculously spicy food
Ever heard of pepper spray? Good! Don’t make your own at work.
The more-hot spices (think cayenne, ghost pepper, etc.) are delicious if you like that sort of thing, and sheer agony if you don’t. If the spice gets airborne, it can mix with the liquid in your eyes and produce a nasty burning sensation. You might love spice of all kinds, but in most offices, there’s someone who just doesn’t want to deal with it.
Gumbo’s issues lie between popcorn and spicy food. Despite being mighty good (we guarantee!), gumbo smells very strong. This can lead to more people wanting to devour it. However, it can also be very spicy and therefore upsetting to people’s eyes, noses and stomachs.
6. Smoky ribs
Yeah, you’d think everyone loves the smell of good barbecue. Heck, it’s almost better than the taste. However, when you throw on your bib and nuke your leftover ribs, you’re going to waft that odor back into the air. Next thing, your workplace starts to smell like a smokehouse, which you might love, but others probably don’t care to get that smoke into their clothes, hair, even skin.
7. Frozen fish
If you want to reheat catfish, tilapia, etc., you’re probably OK. On the other hand, really fatty fish, like salmon or whole trout, can release some funk when they hit the microwave. Besides, who wants to eat a whole fish at work anyway? It’s even worse when the fish is frozen. So stay away from fish in general, and go with a less-stinky chicken.
Ever hear the expression “cut the cheese”? It applies to reheating too.
9. Fermented vegetables
Kimchee is tangy, spicy, delicious and odoriferous. It’s probably OK to eat cold, since there’s nothing to waft the smell into the air. Once you nuke kimchee or other fermented veggies, get ready for some grumpy, grumpy co-workers.
Yes, you love bacon. We get it. But when you cook it at work, it reminds us how much we love bacon too. Please, please stop cooking it so we can get back to our bagged salad?
11. Heavily garlicky foods
Garlic is an aromatic for a reason. Its smell will seek out every nook and cranny of your office and not stop stinking for days. Some people just don’t like that sort of thing.
12. Any “borderline” foods
If you suspect your food has expired, is deceased or is now home to a colony of something you don’t want to think about, then throw it out. Chances are you’re right, and you’re about to throw a whole lot of foul smell all over your co-workers’ nostrils.
13. Apple pie
Nothing smells as warm and inviting as apple pie. Unfortunately someone around you is on a diet or just really, really wants a bite, and you probably don’t have enough to share.
Durian smells so bad you’re not allowed to carry it on buses in Asia. Why would you subject your co-workers to that smell?
15. Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts have enough of a bad rep without constantly reminding everyone that when cooked, they release a nice bouquet of sulfur. Leave the Brussels sprouts at home, and go with something innocuous like green beans.


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On December 6, The House Financial Services Committee’s Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence will hold a hearing regarding the effects that AI will have on jobs in the financial services industry.
The Taskforce has not released its list of witnesses it plans to call, but what their responses are already well known on Wall Street.
Depending on the employee’s role within the organization, the technology’s impact will range from significant disruption to an extinction-level event for some.
I’m not sure why the Taskforce is spending time on the issue. Given that all AI is just automated calculations, it seems a waste of time. Industrial automation replaced a host of blue-collar jobs since the invention of the steam engine; AI has the same effect on white-collar positions today, tomorrow, and for the years to come.
Many internal teams, vendors, and consultants have spun AI’s role as one of augmentation rather than replacement. It might be valid for the lucky few employees who will have post-automation positions, but the culling will continue.
In a study published by the McKinsey Global Institute, entitled Skill Shift Automation and the Future of the Workforce, the authors estimate that hours spent on basic cognitive skills, such as basic data processing and input as well as basic literacy, numeracy, and communication will drop by 15% by 2030. On the bright side, the authors also noted that the hours spent on high cognitive tasks that entail creativity, complex information processing, and data interpretation, will increase by 24%.
There is not a single individual on a firm’s organization chart who will be left unaffected. Those employed in cost centers will bear the brunt of AI’s impact. Middle and back offices will the double whammy of AI and outsourcing as financial institutions sharpen their focus on their core competencies.
However, profit centers are not immune. Many portfolio managers have already started their second or third careers as asset managers adopt more AI-developed active and passive investment models.
Even those in the corner offices will feel the pressure as their performance will be measured against the gains their teams have reaped through implementing AI.
There is a reason AI is called a disruptive technology.
What Congress can do about increasing AI adoption is unclear. There is no precise legal definition for AI, which makes any legislative approach difficult and dangerous. Any definition developed by Congress certainly would have unintended consequences, and that is the last thing anyone wants when regulating Wall Street.

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This car is in the perfect specification being a UK-Supplied Right Hand Drive Car fitted with an automatic gearbox and power steering. Presented in its factory colour scheme of Silver with Black MB-Tex trim.
A very late production W113, this car was first registered in February 1971, whilst little is known of its early history, the car was certainly used to its full potential having racked up a little over 65,000 miles in the first 7 years. They’re incredibly usable cars even today, but back in 1971, they were miles ahead of the competition. The car was restored by an engineering company over 11 years from 1979 to 1990, the work was clearly carried out to a very high standard, and is now in the condition you see it today. Since its completion in 1990 it has only covered nearly 1,000 miles with two owners, it looks and performs excellently and has now covered just 67,700 miles from new.
The exterior of the car presents beautifully in its original colour of 180G Silver, the quality of the paintwork is very high, with just the odd age related mark. The chromework is in great shape. The car has its matching silver Hardtop which has been trimmed black inside. The car is fitted with a black soft top, in line with the data card, which was replaced in 2017, it fits beautifully and is still in perfect condition. Fitted with period correct Michelin MXV-P Tyres which greatly improve the ride quality.
Inside the the seats, door cars and dash are still in the original Black MB-Tex and present wonderfully with minimal wear anywhere. The black nylon carpets are in great condition. The woodwork is in good original condition with lovely patina. Recently a modern retro radio with Bluetooth phone and audio has been fitted.
The engine bay of the car us very clean and tidy, as one would expect with all correct hoses and fitting, it even has it original firewall pad. Being a very late car, unusual features such as an opaque plastic coolant expansion tank, are present and correct! In the boot, the spare wheel is covered by its original cover, with the original boot matt covering the boot floor.
Purchased by ourselves in 2016, before being sold to the previous owner. Sadly, a lack of use now forces sale and the car is now back with us and looking for its next custodian.


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If Bucky Fuller designed a bike, it might look something like this idea from Romanian industrial designer Ionut Predescu. He calls it a Tensegrity frame, a term invented by Bucky and a portmanteau of Tensional Integrity. Cables are incredibly strong in tension and useless in compression, so Predescu has replaced tubes and welded connections with far lighter wires. There doesn't even have to be a rigid connection between the seat post and the horizontal element, the wires do it all.
High strength tensegrity frame made of carbon fiber and kevlar cables. A balance between compression and tension elements is able to offer a lighter alternative to traditional bike frames by producing a stiff structure where elements seem to float one against the other.


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Making Origami Science Experiments
by Michael LaFosse
Michael LaFosse does a good job of explaining the scientific method: all science experiments start with a question or a hypothesis, experiments are designed to test the hypothesis, and then finally, analysis of the data to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Of course, this is delivered in an easy, kid-friendly, and fun way.
If you stand a piece of paper on end, it will fall over. but if you fold the paper, even once, it will stand upright by itself. Why is that? If you pleat 3 or sheets of paper and arrange them as pillars, how many books can you balance on top? What gives paper its strength and rigidity?
The classic dart airplane is used to ask questions about air pressure, gravity, and balance.
Dish Soap Racing Boat studies the interaction of soap and water: soap breaks the surface tension of water causing the boat-like origami model to race across the water. It’s an interesting game even if your child is too young to understand the attractive forces between water molecules.
The Water Lily Buds (pink) is used to study water absorption and expansion. LaFosse describes expansion of the model in water as “blossoming”. Further experiments are encouraged with other papers such as wax paper or aluminum foil.
A few paper boats and a pitcher filled to the brim with water can be used to measure mass. How much water is displaced from the pitcher when you place different objects into the boat? Heavier objects displace more water than light objects. The amount of water spilled can be used to measure the object’s mass.
The classic masu box is used to measure volume. How many jelly beans can fit inside? How much stuff can the box hold? What is its volume?
Summary of Making Origami Science Experiments
This book features very simple origami models, indeed, one might ask “Why bother?” Well, the strength in this book is the way it connects simple paper art with complex scientific concepts. Depending on your child’s age, you can simplify or elaborate the scientific aspects of the models. This book works well as a stand-alone volume and as a member of the 12-volume “Kid’s Guide to Origami” set.
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Representatives of the Ingush Teips reacted to the head of Chechnya’s call for the Ingush side to make official claims against him.
The elders have repeatedly expressed the Ingush people’s position on the territorial dispute with the Chechen side and their vision of a just resolution. Nevertheless, in recent days there has been widespread discussion on the Internet of the Chechen leadership’s appeal to the Ingush people to voice our grievances against the Chechen authorities once again, the Teip Council said.
The elders are convinced that this is yet another attempt to mislead the general public using the power of information technology.
«The Ingush people have no animosity toward Chechens. We are fraternal peoples who have lived in the neighborhood for many centuries, who share the same faith, language, and traditions. Throughout history, the Ingush have provided fraternal support and assistance to the Chechen people. And today there are tens of thousands of Chechens living and working in our republic, and we have no conflicts or quarrels with them.
All the claims of the Ingush people to the authorities of the two republics, which in 2018 signed an agreement on the border between us,» they said.
The Teip Council stressed that the agreement to approve the borders between Ingushetia and Chechnya was signed secretly from the people, in blatant violation of the constitution and laws of Ingushetia, as well as centuries-old Vainakh customs and traditions.
«Yunus-Bek Yevkurov [the former head of Ingushetia and his henchmen, who participated in this lawlessness, have been dismissed, excommunicated from the Ingush people and are unruly in Ingush society. Moreover, the Teypov Council summoned all those involved on the part of Ingushetia in establishing the border to a Sharia court, which concluded that the actions of those who signed the 2018 Border Agreement on our part were in flagrant violation of the basic principles and norms of Islam and Sharia and infringed on the rights and interests of the Ingush people,» the Council said in a statement.
Despite the fact that all sorts of legal and moral norms are being flagrantly violated with regard to the Ingush people, the Ingush people are unwavering in their determination to resolve this situation within the framework of existing law, Sharia law, and the traditions of our peoples, they added.
«That is why the World Congress of the Ingush people on October 30, 2018, established a nationwide commission to consider issues related to the definition of the territory and borders of Ingushetia. On July 7, 2021 the mentioned commission presented its report in which on the basis of historical, ethnographic, cartographic, archival materials, norms of Russian legislation and Shariah it is convincingly proved that the lands,
transferred to the Chechen Republic in 2018 are native Ingush, and the border established by this agreement is unjust and illegal,» the elders said.
The commission’s report was sent to the Chechen side on August 4, 2021, with a proposal to create a bilateral public commission to resolve the issue of the border between the two regions. On August 30, a commission of 30 members representing the Ingush people was approved, composed of well-known public and religious figures, historians, lawyers and other experts. However, the Ingush people have yet to receive any real response or intelligible answer to their proposal.
«Once again we hear from the Chechen authorities that they do not understand what the claims of the Ingush people are about, and we also see their attempt to take the dispute to the level of insults, threats, and blackmail. We consider these attempts dangerous and counterproductive, and we reiterate that any attempt to talk to us from the position of force looks foolish and is doomed to failure. We are fully aware of our responsibility for the future of our people, and we hope that the Chechen authorities take the same approach to this question. Under no circumstances should we allow our relations to deteriorate further,» they said.
The Ingush Council of the Teips reaffirms its commitment to resolve the territorial conflict between the republics on the principles of good-neighborliness and respect for one another by carrying out conciliation procedures within the framework of the existing legislation. The Council is ready to work in this direction for as long as it takes.
The elders suggest that the Chechen authorities abandon their policy of threats and insults, transfer dialogue with the Ingush people from the Internet to a business and working format, and await proposals for the report and materials sent to them, as well as for the composition of the Chechen Republic Commission to discuss and fairly resolve the issue of the border between the two regions.
«We consider this to be the only acceptable way to resolve the territorial dispute and strengthen brotherly relations between us,» they concluded.
Fortanga earlier reported that the head of Chechnya recorded a video address to the Ingush people. Ramzan Kadyrov said that he was waiting for official complaints to be made to him by the public in Ingushetia. The leader of Chechnya gave exactly three days for the official accusations to be brought against the Ingush side.
Ilez Barakhoyev, son of political prisoner Akhmed Barakhoyev, was the first to respond to Kadyrov’s video appeal. He asked the head of Chechnya to recognize the words said to his father as «unnecessary. Ilez Barakhoyev, son of Ingush political prisoner Akhmed Barakhoyev, later said that the issue with the head of Chechnya was «very respectfully and beautifully» resolved after a telephone conversation.
Sarazhdin Sultygov, co-chairman of the public organization Mekh-Khel, also responded to Ramzan Kadyrov’s demand for substantiated claims from the Ingush people. He made three main claims against the head of Chechnya. The first deals with the territorial issue, the second with unflattering comments made by high-ranking officials towards the Ingush people, and the third with abusive acts against refugees from Ingushetia who were registered as living in Grozny during the military campaign.


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Nicola Sturgeon has been told to take her head out of the sand after one of Scotland’s most high-profile entrepreneurs questioned her why education reforms that have closed the attainment gap in England have not been adopted in Scotland.
Sir Tom Hunter praised the freedom to innovate and academic success at academy schools south of the Border, which are outside local authority control, and asked the First Minister “why we wouldn’t give our kids a chance to have this?”
Speaking during a programme broadcast by BBC Scotland tonight, Mr Sturgeon repeated her insistence that her drive to close the gulf between the best and worst state schools was not limited by political ideology.
But the First Minister has previously said she is not convinced that freeing schools from the control of Scotland’s 32 local authorities would help and she has instead focused on directing more public money to the councils with the worst-performing schools.
The businessman concluded at the end of the programme, which is titled BBC Scotland Investigates: Educating Sir Tom, that one model of schooling “doesn’t fit all” and questioned whether Scotland’s political leaders were “afraid” of taking the steps required.
He added: “I would say we’d be doing Scotland’s children a disservice if we were afraid.” The programme sees the businessman visit King Solomon Academy in London, which serves a poor area but has achieved the best GCSE results of any non-selective school in England.
One in five state-funded schools south of the Border is now outside local authority control. Academies receive direct funding from Whitehall and have power over their curriculum, budget and staffing.
The key is one model doesn’t work for all. You wouldn’t want every school to be a charter school, but for mant students they offer the best chance in life for them to get ahead.


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Playing a board game with Joel Embiid is exactly how you’d imagine it.
In a Players' Tribune article written by T.J. McConnell, the Sixers' point guard recounts a story from last season when his wife, Valerie, got into an intense battle over a board game while both players were out with injuries.
Here’s the excerpt:
"We ended up having the greatest night.
And by “we ended up having the greatest night,” do I mean, “I had a nice, relaxing evening watching the game on Joel’s huge projector screen, while Joel and my lovely wife FOUGHT ALMOST TO THE DEATH over a board game??” Yeah, that’s what I mean.
I think the last words spoken before we left his apartment were Joel — with my wife standing there, just fuming — yelling out, ‘Nah, you lost. You lost fair and square. Fair AND square. Ask around. I’ve never lost. NEVAAAA.’"
McConnell also told stories about how he air-balled a jump shot while the 2015-16 Sixers were losing by 40-something to the Spurs, how Allen Iverson put his arm around the young point guard and assured him everything would be alright, and about the time JJ Redick suggested that we’re living in a simulation.
“Like how do you explain that we’ve never run into aliens?? We’re hanging around with all these millions of stars…. millions of solar systems…. and we’ve never crossed up with an alien even one time?? So this theory goes, maybe it’s because an alien is running our simulation.”
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RED COUNTY BLUE COUNTY: In the final run-up to the 2020 election, KCRW is taking a look at a pair of neighbors that couldn’t be more different — at least on the surface. Listen to more installments of KCRW’s series exploring life and politics in California’s Central Valley.
California’s Central Valley is often called the “breadbasket” of the nation, but it’s also the country’s engine. Kern County is one of the most oil-rich counties in the U.S. and is the state’s top petroleum producer. For more than a century, its oil fields have turned out thousands of barrels of crude a day.
Los Angeles is no stranger to oil production: at one time oil derricks dotted Venice Beach, and pumps are still tapping the Inglewood oil field near Culver City and Baldwin Hills. But all sorts of lucrative industries have exploded around LA – including green tech. The state of California has set aggressive climate goals, and if it hopes to meet them, big oil producers like Kern will need to be brought along. Although the pumps are still running and oil remains the biggest industrial driver in the county, it’s looking to build a new energy foundation in the years ahead.
At the bottom of the San Joaquin Valley, along State Route 33, which is officially called the Petroleum Highway in Kern County, is the small community of Taft. You might not know the name, but odds are good you’re at least slightly familiar with its history.
The small town on the west side of the county was reimagined as Little Boston in the film “There Will Be Blood.” During the movie, Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview visits the rural community in 1911 and proselytizes oil, telling the townsfolk that growth and prosperity will follow if he strikes black gold.
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On a hot September day, Les Clark comes across as the modern-day version. He says that while technology may have changed, some things haven’t.
“Taft is an oil town, period,” Clark says. “That’s our backbone. Bakersfield is a big town with a few oilfield workers. This is an oil town. Most everybody in this town has something to do with the oil industry.”
At 77, Clark is Taft’s elder statesman of oil. His family moved here in the early 1950s, and about a decade later, after graduating from Taft High and completing classes at both Taft College and Fresno State, he started in the industry.
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For much of his career, and even in semi-retirement, Clark hasn’t served the big companies like ExxonMobil or Shell but independent producers — the really little guys.
“I represent, I think, 24, 25 properties – mom and pops,” says Clark. “I have a couple larger members. I mean, they produce probably anywhere from five – maybe 20 barrels a day. In comparison, we produce in Kern County around 450,000 barrels a day. So, you see, we’re spit in the ocean.”
Clark represents those small players with his Independent Oil Producers Alliance, a trade group for people with a handful of leases. Meanwhile, Chevron and Aera Energy have large footprints in the oil fields surrounding Taft. As time marches on, Clark says those large companies are getting better at plumbing the depths.
“When we first started in this, in ‘65 we were only able to get about 25% of the oil out of the ground,” Clark remembers as he sits in his office near the entrance to town. “Now, the majors are saying that they can probably get 60 - 65% of the oil out of ground. So that means you’ve still got 35, 40% of your oil down there.”
As long as there’s demand, there’s still plenty of supply to tap in the Midway Sunset oil field. Some 20 miles long and a few miles wide, it surrounds Taft and is California’s biggest oil field. Over more than a century, it has produced billions of barrels of oil.
Like the industry it relies on, Taft is boom or bust. At one point, thousands of workers called the town home and Standard Oil of California had its headquarters here. Those days are long gone, says Clark. Rather than describe its glory days, the oilman says he’ll show me.
“We’re going to go right down the middle of Taft; I’m gonna throw you out there in the middle of the road and see if anybody runs over you,” Clark declares with a wry smile. “I mean, they won’t because we don’t have that much traffic — nothing going on up there. I don’t know about you reporters, Jiminy Christmas.”
We step out of Clark’s office, which is located in an old dental practice, and climb aboard his big pickup truck.
The air conditioner is blasting as we drive through the heart of Taft, population 9,200. After a cruise along the main drag, we turn towards the hills and pause at the Oilworkers Monument. Unveiled in 2010, the large bronze sculpture shows several oilmen at work on a towering derrick from the early 20 th century.
While we’re there, talk of “Oildorado” comes up. Every five years the city hosts the multi-day celebration featuring facial hair contests and a beauty pageant showcasing the “Maids of Petroleum.” Like so many events, this year’s “Oildorado” is canceled because of the pandemic.
We head back to the main road and start driving north out of town along Highway 33.
“We’re just going through some of the supply houses for the oil industry,” says Clark as we pass by numerous businesses showing no signs of life. “See this is all vacant. We used to have a lot of equipment in there, but it’s vacant. Some of those were in hurt because of the regs that the oil industry faced. Very restrictive on our ability to stay in business.”
Eventually, we leave the highway and pull onto what looks like a service road. As we go along, it becomes clear we’re in the thick of the Midway Sunset oil field. The ground is essentially naked, and oil pumps extend as far as the eye can see. We pull over, and I get out of the truck. Instead of some loud or shrill industrial sound coming from the thousands of oil pumps in every direction, there’s a stillness — a droning background noise that lightly clanks as the pumps rhythmically cycle up and down.
When I get back in the truck, I tell Clark he’s probably going to laugh at what I’m about to say. As we sit in the middle of California’s biggest oil field, surrounded by pumps, I tell him with genuine surprise that it even smells like oil. He says it does, and then without missing a beat: “Smells like money to me!”
The Tide of Black Gold
In Kern County, the scent of crude is what $15 billion smells like. A county report found the assessed value of everything tied to fossil fuels – land, mineral assets, all of it – to be more than $15.6 billion. After all, 80% of the oil produced in California is extracted from Kern.
“Right now, oil stands at about 11-12% of our total economic activity and property tax base,” says Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner.
He says oil is integral to keeping Kern operating smoothly. More than $100 million of oil tax revenue goes to Kern schools, and over $80 million goes to funding the county itself.
Scrivner says the sector is one of the few remaining where someone with only a high school diploma can climb the ladder and earn six-figures.
“The upward social mobility of our county, when you compare it to other parts of the country, we’re always number one or number two or number three on that list,” Scrivener says with pride. “And it’s just because that a person who comes out of either true or relative poverty, with very few opportunities, can get a job in this industry and can make very good money, and they can live the American Dream by buying a home and having a family.”
The tide of black gold may lift all boats in Kern County, but the state of California is trying to move away from fossil fuels, as the effects of climate change bear down. In 2018, then Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill setting 2045 as the target for all of the state’s electricity being generated by renewable sources. For his part, current Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2019-2020 budget included $1.5 million for a study looking at “ environmental and economic programs and policies to dramatically reduce fossil fuel demand by 2050, in line with the state’s overall climate goals.”
In early September, while addressing climate change and the wildfires burning throughout the state, Newsom reaffirmed his energy plans.
“California leads in low-carbon green growth,” Newsom said. “We will accelerate those efforts, but we will be mindful in that transition of making sure we do it effectively and reliably and safely.”
That doesn’t sit well with Scrivner.
“The governor has made it clear that he wants no petroleum production in the state of California by the year 2050,” the county supervisor says vehemently. “How do you, as an industry, operate in an environment, where the governor has stated he wants you out of business? How do you, as a county like Kern County, that depends so much on oil, try to plan for the future when such a major part of your economy is under attack by the governor and radical liberals in Sacramento?”
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Talk of Newsom gets a lot of people like Scrivner hot under the collar here. That’s not a surprise; many see LA and the Bay Area setting the state’s agenda on things like energy without input from regions directly affected – and while still depending on dirty energy to run their economies.
But then Scrivner pivots with something unexpected.
“Renewable energy is actually the second biggest economic driver in the county,” Scrivener says. “It surpassed ag about five years ago, I’d say. So, oil number one, renewable number two, ag number three.”
Agriculture and renewables trade second place back and forth, but a region that’s been known for gushers for more than a century is increasingly on the map for its wind and solar farms. Kern’s planning and natural resources director, Lorelei Oviatt, says customers from near and far are lining up – and spending big.
“If you live in Santa Monica, your green electrons come from Kern County,” says Oviatt. “If you live in the city of Los Angeles, your green electrons come from us. The city of Los Angeles’ largest renewable energy projects are in Kern. You know, San Diego, Northern California, Amazon – they come to Kern. That is $56 billion of private investment money from around the world. EDF from France, EDP from Portugal, Abengoa from Spain.”
Gordon Nipp, the vice-chair of the Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club, says that while the county’s efforts with renewables are a good thing, he knows Kern’s move away from petroleum is going to be a blow to the region.
“It’s clear that losing the oil industry is going to cause a financial strain, and that’s where the state has to come in,” says Nipp.
According to Nipp, Kern is still doing business the way it’s been done for a century – full steam ahead with oil. When talking about the region’s future, he believes it’ll likely fall to the state to find a way to wind down the oil drilling – what he calls a “just transition,” including a path forward for oil workers.
“We ought to be planning for a just transition – a transition which comes up with means to address the loss of those thousands of oilfield jobs,” says Nipp. “In Kern County, we ought to be finding places for those folks who are working in the oilfields now to work elsewhere.”
And along with the jobs, oil brings in nearly $200 million in property tax revenue annually. How do you replace that? Actually, Lorelei Oviatt, Kern’s planning director, has an answer.
“I calculated on the back of an envelope that I would have to build 66 Amazon fulfillment centers every year to replace that,” Oviatt says.
While her department courts and approves renewable projects, Oviatt is also eager to welcome the logistics sector to Kern. With plenty of land, I-5 and Highway 99, and established environmental mitigation policies in place, she says bring on the warehouses.
“If there’s too many in Ontario, come to Kern,” Oviatt exclaims. “Those are good jobs. People just with a high school diploma can go to work in a logistics center; they can get paid education. They can learn how to repair the robots, not just wait for the robots to show up.”
For now, oil is still king in Kern, but the twilight of its reign might be here. With renewables on the upswing, county supervisor Zack Scrivner is appealing to the state to let this historically oil-rich place tap the resource it has.
“As we are transitioning to cleaner forms of energy, my plea is ‘Don’t shut us down here in Kern,’” says Scrivner. “‘Let us pump every last drop of oil. Let us collect the tax revenue. Let us provide the jobs. Let us provide the supply that the state of California needs.’”
But a reckoning for energy production in Kern County is looming. And environmentalists like Gordon Nipp say the time is now. So while towns like Taft continue to celebrate their heritage by way of “Oildorado,” California’s ambitious climate goals could prevent them from scraping the bottom of the proverbial oil barrel.
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.


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- Is Kale a natural plant?
- Is Kale genetically modified?
- Which fruits are genetically modified?
- Is Kale man made?
- Which vegetables are genetically modified?
- Where does the vegetable kale come from?
- Are bananas genetically modified?
- What vitamin is kale?
- Can you eat kale raw?
- Is spinach genetically modified?
- What is the best way to eat kale?
- Why Kale is bad for you?
- Is Rice genetically modified?
- Is celery man made?
- Which vegetables are not genetically modified?
Is Kale a natural plant?
All these veggies descend from Brassica oleracea, a wild cabbage.
Some of these cabbages had a mutation for longer, curlier leaves, and plants with the desired genetic traits were bred together until they became a new subspecies, kale..
Is Kale genetically modified?
Kale Isn’t So Natural After All… Bad news for natural food lovers: kale is actually a genetically modified food. Yep. According to Smithsonian Magazine, we’ve been genetically modifying a majority of our food staples, including kale, for centuries (technically speaking).
Which fruits are genetically modified?
The five: genetically modified fruitBananas. The beloved banana is in peril. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters. … Strawberries. Soon to be sweeter still? Photograph: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters. … Apples. Browning-resistant Arctic apples. Photograph: Arctic-apples. … Papaya. The newly disease-resistant papaya. Photograph: See D Jan/Getty Images/iStockphoto.
Is Kale man made?
Collard Greens Such As Kale And Cabbage Were All Man-Made The Greeks and Romans focused on planting mustard with larger leaves, which eventually created kale and collard greens. … All of these vegetables grew from wild mustard, which makes them part of the same species, Brassica oleracea.
Which vegetables are genetically modified?
What GMO crops are grown and sold in the United States?Corn: Corn is the most commonly grown crop in the United States, and most of it is GMO. … Soybean: Most soy grown in the United States is GMO soy. … Cotton: … Potato: … Papaya: … Summer Squash: … Canola: … Alfalfa:More items…•
Where does the vegetable kale come from?
Kale originated in the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, where it was cultivated for food beginning by 2000 BCE at the latest. Curly-leaved varieties of cabbage already existed along with flat-leaved varieties in Greece in the 4th century BC.
Are bananas genetically modified?
Domestic bananas have long since lost the seeds that allowed their wild ancestors to reproduce – if you eat a banana today, you’re eating a clone. Each banana plant is a genetic clone of a previous generation.
What vitamin is kale?
Kale is a nutrition superstar due to the amounts of vitamins A, K, B6 and C, calcium, potassium, copper and manganese it contains.
Can you eat kale raw?
Often labeled as a superfood, kale is one of the healthiest and most nutrient-dense foods you can eat. This leafy green comes in a variety of colors, shapes, and textures. It’s often eaten raw in salads and smoothies but can also be enjoyed steamed, sautéed, boiled, or baked.
Is spinach genetically modified?
High-risk GMO vegetables, according to Non-GMO Project, include corn, soybeans, sugar beets, yellow summer squash, zucchini and potatoes. Low-risk vegetables are spinach, tomatoes and avocados, while monitored-risk vegetables include mushrooms.
What is the best way to eat kale?
10 Ways to Love Kale Mor MoreMassage it in a salad. … Make kale chips. … Pair it with nuts. … Try dinosaur kale. … Throw it in the soup. … Make it the green in “a grain, a green, and a bean.” … Put kale in a burger. … Put it in a green smoothie.More items…•
Why Kale is bad for you?
But in some cases, eating kale might not be as healthy as you think. For example, it can interact with thyroid function if it’s eaten in very high amounts. It contains something called progoitrin, which can interfere with thyroid hormone synthesis and essentially block the iodine your thyroid needs to function.
Is Rice genetically modified?
Golden rice is a genetically modified, biofortified crop. Biofortification increases the nutritional value in crops. Golden rice is genetically modified in order to produce beta carotene, which is not normally produced in rice.
Is celery man made?
L. Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity.
Which vegetables are not genetically modified?
Most fresh produce is non-GMO, says Smith, but zucchini, yellow summer squash, edamame, sweet corn and papaya from Hawaii or China are considered high risk and are best avoided.

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The answer to that depends on whether the globe is able to contain the virus spread, says Samie Modak.
Indian markets dropped three per cent on Friday amid a global sell-off in equities due to the economic uncertainty triggered by spread of the coronavirus.
Indian markets have dropped seven per cent in the past one week.
Some global markets have slipped into correction territory.
The big question facing investors right now is how much the market could slide further.
The answer to that depends on whether the globe is able to contain the virus spread. Global brokerage Morgan Stanley has listed out three scenarios on how corona disease 2019 (Covid-19) impact the economy. We assess how it will play out on the markets:
Scenario 1: Containment by March: The virus outbreak is contained by March end and production activity in China normalises around mid to late March, limiting the disruption to 1Q20 (March quarter). Global growth dips to 2.5%Y in 1Q20 (from 2.9%Y in 4Q19), but recovers meaningfully from 2Q20.
Market impact: The recent sell-off will prove to be a good buying opportunity. Stocks around the globe could rebound.
Scenario 2: Escalation in new geographies, disruption extends into 2Q20 (June quarter): New cases continue to rise in other parts of the world, before peaking by May end. The disruption extends into 2Q20. Global growth averages just 2.4%Y in 1H20, but picks up from 3Q20.
Market impact: The markets recovery will get prolonged. Stocks may not bounce back in a hurry.
Scenario 3: Persisting into 3Q20 (Sep quarter), escalating recession risks: The virus continues to spread into 3Q20, encompassing all the large economies. China faces a renewed rise in new cases as it restarts production. Disruption continues into 3Q20. Global growth stays weak between 1Q-3Q20.
Market impact: This will prove to be damaging to the corporate profitability. It could increase the corporate default risks. Global central banks and policy makers will have to take 2008-like measures to shore up global growth. Stock market correction will be long lasting.
Morgan Stanley believe the second scenario is the most likely and Covid-19 will only make a temporary dent to the economy and the markets.
“From the perspective of evaluating the global business cycle, we view Covid-19 as a transitory, exogenous shock as opposed to an economic slowdown which is caused by endogenous pulls and pressures of an economy that is overheating and fundamentally challenged. We remain of the view that the recovery is being delayed but not derailed,” the brokerage wrote in a note on Friday.


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Roberto, Domenico, Mario and Olivier are men united by the desire to build a future in which the male figure moves away from prevarication and power and is instead guided more by inner emotions. A future that as kids they couldn’t even imagine. At the Height of the Heart tells their stories and the ones of the men they meet thanks to their activities like the gender and stereotypes workshops for school-aged children (run by the Circle of Men of Turin) and the laboratory and show of the Theater of the Oppressed that Olivier organizes with men from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
A common thread runs through all of these experiences: the need to have meaningful relationships with others from which develops an uncertain, but promising, unprecedented search for awareness and freedom, a new idea of what being a man means.
Italy, 2022, 90 min., color and b / w
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After graduating in History and Criticism of Cinema at the Sapienza University of Rome, Paola Sangiovanni (Roma 1965) started working as an assistant director and script supervisor for films and TV productions. In the same years, she started working as a film director.
She was also one of the founders and now sits on the academic board at the Gian Maria Volonté School of Film Art in Rome, a free and public film program financed by Regione Lazio.
Her research has primarily been focused on the themes of memory and the construction of gender models. Amongst her documentaries are “Ragazze, la vita trema” (Italy, 2009, 83′, color and b/w) and “La linea sottile (Ita-HR, 2015, 90′, color), co-directed with Croatian director Nina Mimica.

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One of the most annoying and empty phrases in the IR biz, especially when it comes to intervention, is "political will." X didn't happen because there was no political will. What does that mean? Well, I guess it means that x didn't happen because people/countries/whovians didn't want something to happen or did not want it enough to make it happen, right? Why no intervention in Syria yet? No political will.
But the problem with this is that it really does not answer any question at all. If the problem is that countries didn't want to do it, this raises two questions: why not? and if you want something, does it always happen?
Ok, first: if countries are not sufficiently motivated to overcome the various obstacles to cooperate to do something of significance (which is probably costly and/or risky), then saying so really sheds no light. To shed some light, one ought to focus on the motivations and their absence/competing interests AND the obstacles, as motivations, competing interests, AND the possible costs all may vary systematically (or not). Those are the things we need to understand: why intervention? Because of oil, because of ethnic affinity (see my first book), because of fears of immigration (see my second book), because of security concerns, because of the interconnections between commitment in place A and commitment in more important place B (that last one not only covers Vietnam/West Europe but also Bosnia/Europe. If intervention does not occur, the answer is not the lack of political will, but perhaps the economic costs, the likely response of public opinion, the fear of using up scarce resources, the difficult of the task, because of the consequences of uneven burden-sharing (see my next book when it exists)and so on.
Second, I invoke the Rolling Stones rule of International Cooperation: You Can't Always Get What You Want. There have been many efforts made in human history to cooperate, but these efforts sometimes fail because the tasks are really hard or because the solution was not the right one. Piracy still exists, right? Somalia is still a failed state. Afghanistan is still a mess. The idea that if you work really hard, you get what you want reminds me of the students who insist that they worked really hard, but didn't get an A. Well, sometimes trying really hard is simply not enough. Sometimes you need the right idea with perfect oversight over well-designed execution. How is that Egyptian democracy working out? Containment of the Soviet Union required more than just political will--it required creativity, it required insight, it required patience, it required tolerance of failure and of overreaction, and so on.
Not only you can't always get what you want, you don't always get what you need. But sometimes, if you try real hard (and get lucky), you get what you need. To conclude, political will is not the end of an answer or explanation--it is, at best, a start, but mostly it is the step two in the underwear gnomes' plan--a shoulder shrug.
I don't know about the history of the term, but I suspect that "political will" is a relic of the Vietnam debacle. One American political tribe's explanation of why the US failed in Vietnam was, "we didn't try hard enough". If only we had put in more troops/dropped more bombs/nuked the buggers, we would have won. A LOT of people desperately wanted to believe this in the 1970s (some still believe it today), and the only reason they could come up with for why we hadn't won was "political will". It wasn't that we COULDN'T win - we (our cowardly leaders) just didn't want to enough.
That this explanation sounds suspiciously like Hitler's explanation for the German loss of WWI is an irony totally lost on these folks. It's always been a crappy explanation, dredged up by people to filled with nationalist fervor to face the truth. Unfortunately, the rest of us are stuck with this "idea" floating around in the soup as a consequence.
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4.Branson Upholstered Dining Chair (Set of 2) By Sunpan Modern
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6.Scullin Armchair By Orren Ellis
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Usually now used in homes with a living room or open floor plan, they are usually big designs that seat lots of visitors. In smaller sized areas, they can be useful for seating in an region which has an odd corner or other room restriction. The ability to mix corner units, finish units and lying areas according to space and individual choice makes this couch design super versatile. Sectional sofas also come in a wide variety of styles, from extremely modern or extremely luxe, to much more family-pleasant modern designs.
7.Baldwin Swivel Armchair By GabBy
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The word here is the comfort and ease and sophisticated appear. This established has a tufted backrest and nail head highlight that provides the subtle look. Its grey colour contributes to its impressive look. It can match up to 8 inches bed mattress. That on your own tells you how comfortable the set could be. Notably, it doesn't include a mattress. So you may want to buy one. The trundle includes a castor to allow easy access. You may also pull the trundle for people to take a seat on. Simply to point out, it should take assembling, however its very easy to assemble.
8.Northwood Club Chair By Ophelia & Co.
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9.Casanovia Armchair By Willa Arlo Interiors
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When the Chesterfield may be the graceful man amongst sofas, the Cabriole may be the grande dame. Noted for its exposed wood and elegant thighs, reminiscent of the Louis XV time period, the cabriole also offers a unique outline. It was additionally a popular form in the work of Casanovia Armchair maker Jones Chippendale. Typically, the rear is 1 constant piece without cushions and has a stylish curving line. This particular cabriole version consists of gems in the tufts for added allure. It is a sofa design that can be as simple or opulent as you desire. Padded with a luxury materials like purple velvet produces a much different style sensation than whether it were padded in a much more muted, textural neutral. The main aura of style derives from its overall form and lithe thighs meaning it'll always lend a refined atmosphere to a room.
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In a recent article in the Tailwheeler’s journal, I described with my tongue just a little bit in my cheek, how I’d established a new tradition, that of a CFI peeing on the windsock pole when a student solos. Well, it may be that sometimes I crack myself up… and it may be that I was giggling to myself a bit when I wrote that article, but I have to admit that it was only halfway in jest. I’m a believer in the traditions of aviation, and that’s probably why a fairly insignificant comment really upset me.
It seems that a CFI recently made an entry to a Taylorcraft forum in which he declared that he no longer cut the shirt tails off of newly soloed student pilots. I guess that he felt that tradition was no longer important.
Here’s why I found that comment really upsetting. You see, aviation has a few wonderful traditions. In skydiving, as in other pursuits, the first time you do damned near anything, it’s going to cost you a case of beer. And with airplanes and gliders, as well as other categories of aircraft, it’s traditional to cut a shirt tail. Without getting into where the tradition comes from, why is it so important? I think it’s because it’s a touchstone. It’s something that every student pilot can aspire to. Don’t you remember the day that your shirttail was cut and maybe you still have that shirt tail, languishing in a drawer somewhere. When I instructed for Outlaw Aviation, we took a picture of each shirt tail, drew a cartoon on it and framed the photo for hanging on the wall in our office. Shirt tails at Carol Walker’s FBO in Texas become works of art.
And just as the CFI is not supposed to care about how valuable that shirt was, its value is nothing compared to what the student “paid” in sweat and concentration, not to mention cash for the moment that it was cut off. If we stop cutting shirt tails, we might as well say that it’s really not worth much that you soloed, certainly not as much as the shirt you were wearing when you did solo.
So now you see why I think that this tradition is so important? Thanks. I feel better, getting that off my chest!


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I arrived to the airport with printed confirmation of my flight from Expeda. I was told by China Eastern Airlines that I was not on the flight, that Expedia had made a mistake with the booking. They would not assist by putting me on another flight, insisting that I would need to pay for a new flight. My only option was for the agency to sort it out according to them.
I ended up waiting for 3 days at the airport while speaking for hours with Expedia trying to resolve the issue. On day 3 I booked my own flight home at a cost of USD$1,200+. The issue is still unresolved by Expedia, who are apparently in touch with the airline but never call back when they say they will.
Expedia have the worst customer service I have ever encountered. I have been on hold for periods of over an hour for days on end, to no avail. In addition, continuously being disconnected when transferred (nobody calls back).
Impossible to communicate with the agents who never seem to understand the issue, cannot be transferred to the same person again so I am continuously explaining the whole issue from start to finish.
The list goes on, basically I have spent three times what this flight cost me initially and still no resolution.
Never use this company, when something goes wrong they will not can not, and do not seem to want to resolve issues.
China Eastern Airlines are equally as bad, since they would not assist I ended up booking my own flight to Europe.
Monetary Loss: $3000.


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'You see their soul': Images of fallen Illinois service members on display at Arlington Heights library
Those who walked into the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Thursday morning saw the faces of some 320 Illinois service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries since Sept. 11, 2001.
Four of the hand-drawn images in the Portrait of a Soldier exhibit are of their neighbors in Arlington Heights.
Katie Stack took a moment to pause by the drawing of her husband, Marine Lance Cpl. James Bray Stack, who was killed in action on Nov. 10, 2010, in Afghanistan.
"Every face that they see is somebody who gave their life for their freedom, and knowing that I think really allows them to understand why they have the freedoms that they do," said Stack, who was 19 when a sniper's bullet killed her 20-year-old husband.
The collection of images is on display in the first floor lobby through Sept. 30 -- the library's first exhibit since the onset of the pandemic. The library brought the traveling display to Arlington Heights with the help of the veterans support organization Salute Inc., the Veterans Memorial Committee of Arlington Heights and the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, among other groups.
A related 9/11 remembrance ceremony -- where the names of all Illinois' fallen heroes will be read aloud -- is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church, 302 N. Dunton Ave. The formal public opening of the exhibit will follow at the library from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
Artist Cameron Schilling, who drew the first portrait after the funeral of Army Spc. Charles Neeley in 2004 in Mattoon, went on to complete 290 others. Donald and Kiana Jeremiah have done another 20 recent drawings as part of the exhibit.
Former Gov. Pat Quinn, an early supporter of the project, helped introduce Schilling to the Gold Star families and turn the project into a traveling exhibition. Quinn, who has attended the wakes, funerals or memorials for all the fallen service members from Illinois, gazed at the photos in the library lobby Thursday as he recalled some of their individual stories.
"If you look at the portraits, you look into the eyes of the men and women -- you kind of see their personality. You see their soul," Quinn said.
The former governor visited with Stack and two other Gold Star families who were there for the exhibit opening preview.
Army Maj. Paul Syverson III's portrait was among the first to be drawn. He was killed during a mortar attack in Iraq in 2004. His parents, Paul and Joy, say they've seen the exhibit throughout the state, and how it's grown since then.
"This is a beautiful tribute," Joy said. "He did many a book report in this library."
Kaki Newgard, mother of Army Pfc. William Newgard, also looked forward to the exhibit's arrival in Arlington Heights. Her 20-year-old son was newly enlisted when a vehicle he was traveling in ran over a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006.
"You walk in and see all these faces," she said. "The more this happens, we're not going to forget. We're not going to forget."


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while there are cat owners who don't vaccinate their cats, the cats are prey to diseases which can kill them or cause problems for other animals in their neighborhood.
The usual kitty shots are called FVRCP and the P in this series Panleukopenia, can be a cat killer. The other frequently given shot is Rabies, which is a serious disease transmissible to all mammals including humans, and subject to local ordinances how and when to be given.
Cats like humans need regular maintenance.
You may be able to find through on line or library research, less expensive vets or programs which will buy the vaccine for you and allow you to vaccinate your own animal (I have volunteered for a local organization where i live that did that in the past. ) You may also be able to work out a payment plan with the one you saw last year so the bite is not so huge at one time.
Anyway, For the longest time I have giving him Fancy Feast pate, only pate, no grilled, flaked morsels well, you get the picture. I used many other brands that were more expensive but he likes Fancy Feast. I wanted to buy something else besides his other food. I go two loafs of "Fresh Pet" for cats. Two times i gave him, and he disappointed me, he didn't eat it. I put one tube in freezer. They say that you can only keep it for 7 days for the fridge one.. Did you hear about "Fresh Pet" or anyone that you know gives their pet on Fresh Pet. Any help from would be so appreciated. So, I don't know, should I warm it a bit, or keep the serving out to room temperature. I was very wrong buying that.
First of all, let me congratualate you on getting him his shots and physical update. He will be around a lot longer for you and have a healthy life and you have done well, we know it isn't easy especially in the finances department.
every cat is different just like every human is different. Fancy Feast is a nutritionally complete food for cats, if you read the label you will see that it passes the inspections of the AAFCO which is a company which makes its business to check on animal nutrition. This is the best thing you can do for your cat is feed him something he likes that is also Complete and balanced for all life stages of cats, which is what AAFCO is saying it is. There are many foods on the market and many of them meet this requirement.
If he likes Fancy Feast pates, he is doing fine.
I have heard of Fresh Pet and seen it given as a treat only in the shelter. I have little knowledge of its nutritional value. Thinking that it is probably an incomplete food since we use it as a treat or to get appetite in cats that aren't eating anything. It doesn't have much shelf life. If your cat doesn't like it that is no great loss.
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MISSOULA – Thanksgiving is next week, but Southgate Mall in Missoula is gearing up for Christmas early.
Lights are strung over the entrance, Christmas music fills the halls and Santa even dropped by on Friday for a visit.
Hundreds gathered to welcome Chris Cringle and watch a performance by On Center Performing Arts.
They welcomed Santa with a song and dance and staff handed out cookies and a surprise gift to kids.
Click here to check out Santa’s schedule at the mall.
-Katie Miller reporting for MTN News


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Otters spotted at Croome
A regular visitor to a Croome has spotted the often elusive otter during his walks, as a regular walker around Croome, John Hubble had noticed fresh water mussel shells (known as swan mussels) scattered along the river and even a dead pike. He was fascinated to know what might be feeding on them.
Otters spotted at Croome
John approached Katherine Alker, Croome’s Garden and Outdoors Manager, and was given permission to erect a hidden camera. After filming at a few locations, but with no success, he was lucky enough to spot and photograph an otter during an early morning stroll with his dog Christie. He relocated the camera trap and was finally rewarded with footage of not just a single otter but what appeared to be an adult with a juvenile.
Otters are one of the UK’s best conservation success stories of recent years. Improved water quality, the banning of pesticides and increased protection enabled them to bounce back from near extinction in some areas between the 1950s and 1970s.
Listen to John being interviewed on BBC radio Hereford and Worcester, accompanied by photographs of Croome taken by John.
Update January 2019
From Brian Trott, one of our volunteer photographers. "This was my very first view of a wild Otter. A magical moment (well, more than a moment - 11 minutes actually). As you can see from one of these photos, this otter wasn't very far from the Chinese Bridge, but no doubt could be seen anywhere along the river, it was hunting for fish and I saw it catch (and eat) two fish in this time.
The first indication was a rustling noise in the reeds, then the reeds were moving, then there were tiny bubbles moving around in the water before the otter finally surfaced. It was my Christmas and Birthday all rolled into one!"
The Croome ‘river’
The river at Croome is not a natural river; it was dug out by hand in the 1750s and 1760s to create a water feature as part of ‘Capability’ Brown’s grand design for the landscape and is almost a mile and a half long. As there is no natural spring or stream to keep the river topped up, many underground drains were built to carry the water into the river from miles around and also to help drain the parkland which at one time had been extremely boggy.
Improving our lake and river
Staff and volunteers at Croome have carried out work over the past 21 years to restore the man-made lake and river, which has created more wetland habitat resulting in better water quality and an increased abundance of fish and other aquatic food sources which in turn has encouraged otters to use the area.
“Since dredging 50,000 tonnes of silt from the river from 2003 to 2005 to restore the waterway we’ve seen an influx of a great variety of wildlife. We are delighted to see otters in the park now.” said Katherine Alker, Croome’s Garden and Outdoors Manager.
Along the river there is a varied amount of bankside vegetation with overhanging trees and shrubs which is perfect cover for when otters want to move around unseen. The cover also allows opportunities for underground holts (an otter home) between roots, as well as above ground areas called ‘couches’ where otters rest during the day.
In addition to these natural features, the Croome Ranger team have built a new couch and installed a purpose built holt which was built by our volunteer maintenance team. In due course these and some other carefully selected areas of riverside scrub on both sides of the Croome River will be fenced off to exclude dogs and create some safe havens for our resident otters.
In addition to the lake and river we have also created and managed several other areas of wetland around the parkland which are helping us to improve the habitat and attract different species of wildlife.
In addition to the otters we now regularly also see cormorants, kingfishers, common frogs and toads, a variety of ducks, widgeon and geese all of which are feeding in the wet areas of the parkland.


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I’m not sure why I’m wearing so many florals this week. It must be spring trying to get hold on me or something. But I’m not sorry because I love wearing florals :D I’ve started this one with OPI – My Vampire is Buff which gives the manicure a light look, yet not a bright white one. Put together with IsaDora Urban and IsaDora Weekend I get a vintage feeling out of this manicure! The green (Wet’nWild Miami Spirit) is also adding a little bit to that feeling. I added the flowers here and there without a clear purpose but I think they look good spread around like this.
Have you done any florals this month?


Jot Polished Chrome Touch Lamp Jot4050
Q1: Do you you sell the replacement shade part for this model?
A1: Unfortunately not sorry
Q2: Is it non-electrical so are batteries required
A2: No, this needs to be plugged into a mains voltage supply via a wall socket
Q3: Is there different levels you can dim this product?
A3: This fitting will have a three stage touch dimmer. The first level is dim, the second level is medium brightness and the third level is maximum brightness. The fourth touch will turn the fitting off
Q4: Is the bulb for this product halogen or led
A4: The recommended bulb for this is a 40w SES Incandescent Candle Bulb
Q5: What colour is the cable?
A5: It comes with a translucent cable
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Compact Jot touch table lamp.
This has a smooth white opal column shaped glass, which rests on top of a solid polished chrome base.
This has a built-in touch dimmer with three different light options.
The lamp is suitable for use in most rooms, especially where space is limited.
Requires 1 x 40 watt SES (small Edison screw)candle bulb, which is not included.
This is part of the Jot Touch Lamp Range.
Class 2 Double Insulated. No Earth Required..
Light Source: SES-E14 Incandescent.Size:
- Height: 190mm
- Width: 80mm


Having effective features of noise cancellation and comfort fittings, the Alpatronix Active In-Ear Bluetooth Headphones is a beautiful wireless setup made for your outdoor music hours. You can connect it wirelessly upto 30 feet with any Bluetooth compatible device for effortless audio streaming or for answering phone calls while you’re on the go. To keep its weight off your ears and make the device more comfortable, there’s a flexible band which keeps the headphone secure on your head. From smartphones to tablets and desktops, the headphones are compatible with all your everyday gadgets thus making the process of audio listening a lot easier and bulk-free than before.
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Council to discuss amending bylaw to allow domestic ducks
A special request to house domestic ducks has Town council looking at possibly amending the Animal Control Bylaw.
The director of development services (Randy Houle) will present a report on Monday outlining a request by a property owner to permit domestic ducks within town boundaries.
Currently, the bylaw prohibits anyone from feeding or setting our food for ducks, geese and other waterfowl.
The bylaw also prohibits anyone from owning or harbouring any animal other than dogs, cats, fish, caged birds, rodents, reptiles and chickens.
Houle said the property owner’s request in this case speaks to the importance of duck eggs for food security, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He admitted that staff are hesitant about permitting ducks given the “lack of knowledge of impacts on the urban environment and because they are not permitted by any of the nearby municipalities.”
In a letter to council, the property owner (family of six) stated they consume five to six dozen eggs per month but are subjected to grocery store restrictions due to the pandemic.
The property owner noted that duck eggs are larger than chicken eggs and provide more “lift” in baked goods.
She noted that many small duck breeds are quieter than chickens and don’t scratch up your garden. In addition, duck poop can be put directly on the garden for fertilizer without harming plants.
“We decided that ducks would be a better fit (than chickens) for our family and hopefully more considerate to our neighbours.”
Houle said if council does permit domestic ducks, guidelines should be in place to address the maximum number allowed per property, and requiring the coop to be located a minimum of 10 feet from the neighbouring property.


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New Soldiers’ Home Gains Momentum
Make no mistake about it, when it comes to the tragic COVID-related deaths at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke almost a year ago, there are no silver linings. There is nothing that can fill the void left by lost loved ones, and nothing that can relieve the anguish visited upon staff members who had to endure that catastrophic sequence of events that led to the deaths of at least 76 veterans.
But sometimes, such tragedies eventually lead to progress, to improvements, to new and better ways of doing things. And it appears that this may well be the case with the Soldiers’ Home.
Indeed, out of the ashes of the calamity of last spring have emerged plans for a new, eight-story Holyoke Soldiers’ Home that will replace the 70-year-old facility that is, in many ways, inadequate and obsolete. Last week, the Baker-Polito administration filed a $400 million bond bill to move forward with the construction of the new home, the next big step in the process of making a new facility reality.
While the need for a new Soldiers’ Home has long been understood and embraced, there is no doubt that the events of last spring — when the virus overran the facility amid a series of questionable decisions that ultimately led to resignations and, later, indictments for criminal neglect — have helped pave the way for a proper, modern, 235-bed facility that will serve veterans for generations to come.
This project still has a long way to go before it becomes reality. There are stern deadlines to meet and more important votes to take place in the state Legislature. But there certainly appears to be sufficient momentum to see this initiative to the finish line. It has been generated by caring people who want to do right by future generations of veterans — but also, we believe, by a deep desire to “make things right” for the families of those who died last spring and the for the staff members who have long endured inadequate facilities, said the chairman of a coalition of former Soldiers’ Home administrators, families, and veterans advocates who have embraced plans for a new home.
Truthfully, nothing will really make things right. But this is huge step in the right direction.


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We’re definitely in the holiday spirit by now! And Dora is sure not one to be left behind. Check out this super cute video of our favorite animated Latina singing about La Noche Buena. Great way to introduce to your younger children this phrase that means Christmas Eve in Spanish.
The video is part of Nickelodeon’s new Dora the Explorer prime time special “Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure” which premieres this Sunday, Dec. 6th at 8pm (ET/PT).
The song itself is also available for download and/or purchase via major online and retail venues. The CD, from Nickelodeon and Sony Music, includes 16 new holiday songs performed by Dora, featuring classic carols with a Latin twist, including “Deck the Halls,” “Jingle Bells,” and “Santa Claus Is Coming Aquí!” Of course, we suggest you get it via La Tiendita (and support us in the process) or try your chance at winning both the DVD and CD at our sister site, SpanglishBabyFinds.

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