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One second he’s a brave little soldier, the next he’s auditioning for a superhero movie! 🦸♂️�
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“And I (Jesus) say unto you My friends be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear Him that after He hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear Him!
Luke 12:4-6
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A reported mountain lion sighting triggered an emergency lockdown at a Washington elementary school, though the formidable predator was ultimately revealed to be nothing more than an exceptionally large, domestic orange cat.
The incident unfolded in November 2023 at Groff Elementary School, located in Moses Lake, Washington. School administrators placed the campus on a strict lockdown after an individual reported seeing what closely resembled a wild cougar prowling near the school grounds. For safety reasons, students and faculty were secured indoors while law enforcement and school officials thoroughly swept the surrounding property to evaluate the potential threat.
The tense situation dissolved into relief when authorities finally located the suspected apex predator. Rather than a dangerous wild animal, the creature turned out to be an oversized orange house cat, which was casually spotted eating a rat near the campus boundary.
Fortunately, the entire event concluded without injury, and regular school operations resumed promptly once officials confirmed that no mountain lion was present in the area. Subsequent community updates shed more light on the situation, with neighborhood residents identifying the chunky orange feline as a local outdoor pet named George.
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Seed oils were sold as paint for a century before they were sold as food, and they do in you what they do on a window frame.
Linseed oil hardens on a fence post in a few days. Chemists call it a drying oil.
Soybean oil hardens too. So does sunflower, so does safflower. They were sold to the paint trade before they were sold to the kitchen.
Linoleum was invented in 1860 and it is named after linseed oil, because that is what it is, oxidised and pressed into a floor.
The oil does not dry by evaporating. It dries by oxygen attacking the double bonds in its fats and welding them into a hard skin.
The oil in your chip pan and the oil in your body carry the same double bonds, so the same attack runs there, with aldehydes thrown off as it goes.
A painter calls that curing. A biochemist calls it lipid peroxidation. A doctor calls it inflammation and prescribes something for it.
Once the oil is in your fat, it stays about two years, drying from the inside, every time it meets oxygen or sunlight.
Butter never dried a fence post. Tallow never varnished a boat. Saturated fat has no double bond for oxygen to attack, which is why it sits in the pan for a week and why it sat in your great-grandmother's cells for a lifetime.
A fat that sets hard in the air was never a candidate for the inside of an artery.
The flooring industry understood the chemistry in 1860. The heart charity recommended it in April.
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While hiking along the Skyline Trail near Paradise, I stopped for this view of Mount Rainier.
What caught my eye was the light in the clouds around the summit, while the ridges below remained in shadow.
What catches your eye first, the light or the layers?
ALT Mount Rainier and a neighboring peak rise beyond overlapping mountain ridges photographed from the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park. A pale snowfield fills part of the foreground, with cooler blue-gray shadows along the ridges and warm golden light in clouds near the summit. The hazy scene feels peaceful and expansive.
