# data[].attributes.body
Something I have enjoyed online recently is looking at the Newest Met gala looks!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
Photography by Hunter Abrams and Poupay Jutharat

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Met Gala 2024: Celebrities, Red Carpet, Theme & More

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Affectionately referred to as "fashion's biggest night out," the Met Gala 2024 is a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City that is held every year on the first Monday in May. The event welcomes stars, young creatives, and industry paragons.

# data[].attributes.headline
Something I have been enjoying lately...

# data[].attributes.subject
Something I have been enjoying lately...

# data[].attributes.body
Something I've been enjoying lately is taking advantage of the warm weather by going to the beach.

http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc72433.php

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Carpinteria, CA : Carpinteria City Beach

# data[].attributes.body
This is a picture i took while i was kayaing in the south of Chile. From the picture we are able to visualize the Villarrica volcano and the beautiful nature. I really enjoyed doing this trip, this country has so much to appreciate and endless adventures to experience.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

# data[].attributes.body
Here’s a photo of my dog the other day!

# data[].attributes.body
I just recently found out that singer-songwriter Jack Johnson performed in Isla Vista a few years ago. I have always been into his music so I did some more research and found out he graduated from UCSB and lived in IV!

# data[].attributes.body
this is when I saw mavericks last year. I live 30 mins from this world known wave and i finally caught it in action. I ditched my zoom class and got to see some of the best big wave surfers conquer this beast.

# data[].attributes.headline
Time lapse I took of a Monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis

# data[].attributes.subject
Time lapse I took of a Monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis

# data[].attributes.body
Over the last two years I stumbled upon a monarch caterpillar on one of my plants stems leading me to buy a milkweed plant for it. This then turned into a nursery of several plants (with dozens of caterpillar eggs and caterpillars) which turned into a new found purpose/hobby of planting milkweed and do my part in the conservation of these beautiful butterflies.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Monarch butterfly emerging from chrysalis

# data[].attributes.body
Over the summer i went on a road trip through the west coast. One location included that of crater lake. I had a blast and i recently came across of a photo that shows what it looks like during winter. The photo i provided above shows what it looks like in the summer and i will link a site that shows that it looks like during the winter. Both are amazing.
https://www.snowshoemag.com/2021/02/09/snowshoeing-oregons-crater-lake-national-park-winter/

# data[].attributes.body
I'm getting ready for my interview and Amazon is very big with its leadership principles.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Customer Obsession

Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

Ownership

Leaders are owners. They think long term and don't sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say "that's not my job."

Invent and Simplify

Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by "not invented here." As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Are Right, A Lot

Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.

Learn and Be Curious

Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them.

Hire and Develop the Best

Leaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others. We work on behalf of our people to invent mechanisms for development like Career Choice.

Insist on the Highest Standards

Leaders have relentlessly high standards - many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and drive their teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes. Leaders ensure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.

Think Big

Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.

Bias for Action

Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.

Frugality

Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense.

Earn Trust

Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team's body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.

Dive Deep

Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.

Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit

Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.

Deliver Results

Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.

Strive to be Earth's Best Employer

Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what's next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees' personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility

We started in a garage, but we're not there anymore. We are big, we impact the world, and we are far from perfect. We must be humble and thoughtful about even the secondary effects of our actions. Our local communities, planet, and future generations need us to be better every day. We must begin each day with a determination to make better, do better, and be better for our customers, our employees, our partners, and the world at large. And we must end every day knowing we can do even more tomorrow. Leaders create more than they consume and always leave things better than how they found them.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
We're a company of pioneers. It's our job to make bold bets, and we get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers. Success is measured against the possible, not the probable. For today's pioneers, that's exactly why there's no place on Earth they'd rather build than Amazon.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
High in the Russian Arctic, at a remote field station on the shores of the White Sea, biologist Vera Emelianenko set out for a walk on a frigid December night. With her were Mikhail Neretin, the son of the station's molecular biologist, and a couple dogs: a giant schnauzer and soft-coated Wheaten terrier.

Trudging along the icy embankments of the tidal zone in fierce Arctic winds, Neretin spotted a blue illumination in a snowbank. Had Emelianenko dropped her phone?

As they walked over to investigate, their footsteps created streaks of ethereal blue. "They were like blue Christmas lights in the snow," Emelianenko says.

She bent down to scoop up a handful. With a gentle squeeze, the snowball glowed brighter. The dogs left a glowing trail as they raced ahead, as though the Northern Lights had seeped from sky to snow.

After a flurry of phone calls and texted photographs, the station's biologists and a group of marine scientists across Russia were buzzing over the find. Emelianenko and Neretin took the station photographer, Alexander Semenov, out to document the lights. "We stomped the ground all together for maybe two hours" to get the spots to shine, Semenov says.

The next day, Emelianenko slipped a glowing snowball under a stereo microscope to try to identify the bioluminescent culprit. As she waited for the ice to melt away, she prodded miniscule detritus with a needle to no avail. But then Emelianenko spotted some copepods, tiny aquatic crustaceans, in the slushy petri dish. When she poked them, they shone a faint blue.

This may be the first documented explanation for glowing snow in the Arctic, which has been observed occasionally by researchers over the years but not been rigorously tested.

Copepod life history

Copepods are miniscule crustaceans just a few millimeters long, about the size of several grains of sand in a row. "They're the bugs of the sea," explains Steven Haddock, a marine biologist studying deep-sea zooplankton at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "They're small and numerous, they're eaten by a lot of things."

While they don't exactly get a lot of press or cultural representation (with the notable exception of Plankton, a copepod in SpongeBob SquarePants), copepods make up the plurality of biomass in the ocean, according to some estimates. They're passive swimmers, meaning they can't resist the currents. This particular species of copepod- Metridia longa -is tossed around the oceans from Canada's Hudson Strait to the waters of Maine and all across the Arctic.

Even so, Metridia have no business on the shores of the White Sea, says Ksenia Kosobokova, an expert on Arctic marine zooplankton at Russia's Academy of Science in Moscow. They're usually found farther out in the ocean, migrating to depths of 80 to 300 feet during the day and ascending to a few feet from the surface during the darkness of night (which, in the winter, is most of the time), Kosobokova explains.

What must have occurred, Kosobokova says, is that the copepods were caught in a powerful current. Twice a day when the White Sea's rising tide sweeps ashore, the frigid water and everything in it is sluiced through cracks in the ice and snow. For weak swimmers like copepods, there's no escape.

It could be that tides were particularly strong on the day of the first sighting, December 1-the moon was almost new and three days away from 2021's closest perigee, the time when the moon is nearest to the earth. Both conditions make for stronger tides. But a second round of sightings on December 16 suggest that it may not take a once-in-a-year lunar cycle to create conditions for the glowing snow.

How the copepod got its glow

Most bioluminescence is produced when a small energy-storing molecule called luciferin is oxidized. On its own, luciferin produces a very faint, steady glow. But combined with the enzyme luciferase, the reaction is sped up, and that glow becomes a dramatic burst.

"So we have these two molecules inside of them, a light emitter and an accelerator," Haddock explains. For some copepods, the luciferin and luciferase react internally, but Metridia longa has glands on its head and body to secrete its incandescence into the world. "They'll shoot out those two molecules at the same time and form a little puff of light in the water." (Learn more: How bioluminescence works in nature.)

Scientists believe Metridia and other copepods use bioluminescence as a defense. "One idea is that the light could startle predators and cause them to spit out the copepod" or distract them long enough for the copepod to escape, says Todd Oakley, a professor of evolutionary ecology and marine biology at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Ghostly lights

Kosobokova figures the copepods nestled in the snow were fading but alive-after all, Arctic plankton are no strangers to freezing temperatures. But bioluminescence experts say they may well have been dead-making their blue glow somewhat ghostly.

As many ham-handed children are sad to learn, fireflies still glow if you accidentally squish them.

"It happens for us with our scientific specimens," Haddock adds. "You collect an organism and you put it in the freezer for later study. And then when you pull it out, it will slowly start to glow-the chemicals that are inside of their bodies are still perfectly capable of reacting."

Emily Lau, a graduate student at UCSB, studies the biochemistry of bioluminescence in fishes and the copepod's crustacean cousin the ostracod. They look like sesame seeds with eyeballs. "People can dry them, and then you can still crush them in the water after they're dead and they will produce bioluminescence," she explains.

"As long as that small molecule luciferin is present, then the bioluminescence is going to occur," Lau says.

Jørgen Berge, a professor at the Arctic University of Norway who studies polar night and arctic marine ecosystems, says it may be too early to give copepods credit for the light show. Berge has observed similar deposits in the snow on the shores of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, which he believes are better explained by clumps of dinoflagellates, single-celled algae that also bioluminesce (although he hasn't tested the spots to identify their composition.)

Dinoflagellates are behind many spectacular marine displays of bioluminescence-like the "phosphorescent bays" of Puerto Rico, where bathers can splash each other with light, or the dolphins that leave ethereal glowing trails off the coast of California. (Related: This deep-sea shark is one of the world's largest glowing animals.)

"It's very easy to direct your attention to the larger organisms [in a sample]," Berge explains. But identifying a creature capable of bioluminescence in the sample doesn't mean another, less obvious creature isn't responsible. However, Berge agrees that the lights are particularly bright, even for dinoflagellates.

Perhaps what's most surprising is that glowing snow had not been seen before at a biological station that's been active for over 80 years-only to be spotted by Emelianenko, 24, and Neretin, 18. That could be because most folks don't go for leisurely December strolls in the Arctic night, Kosobokova says. It's not very hospitable. "We also get bears and wolves up here," Semenov adds.

But the young biologists' keen eyes and tolerance for cold was rewarded. "There's so many mysteries out there if you're willing to have a childlike curiosity," Haddock says.

Semenov agrees. "You never expect that there will be beauty right under your nose that you haven't realized can exist."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Snow is glowing in the Russian Arctic. The culprit? Tiny sea creatures.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
High in the Russian Arctic, at a remote field station on the shores of the White Sea, biologist Vera Emelianenko set out for a walk on a frigid December night. With her were Mikhail Neretin, the son of the station's molecular biologist, and a couple dogs: a giant schnauzer and soft-coated Wheaten terrier.

# data[].attributes.body
This is one of my favorite pictures that I took on my most recent trip to Yosemite over the winter break! I just thought that the sky looked amazing, especially right over half dome :)

# data[].attributes.body
Inspired by a painting and painstakingly handmade! I can't imagine the effort and time dedication that this must take!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Helene Hawthorne (@helenehawthorne)

# data[].attributes.body
This video reminded me of this class, so I decided to share it. Recommended to everyone

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
When Time Became History - The Human Era

# data[].attributes.body
There are only about 25 active blimps in the world and I happened to take a picture of one not to long ago.

# data[].attributes.body
There’s a new exhibit at the Santa Barbara zoo with Kangaroos, Emus, and Wallaby’s that are free range with the human visitors. I went there this week while working!

# data[].attributes.body
Pretty cool frog

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
New Species of Rainfrog Discovered in Panama and Named in Honor of Global Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg – Rainforest Trust

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
James Deutsch, Ph.D., CEO of Rainforest Trust, publicly committed to a transformative investment to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

# data[].attributes.body
Such a wonderful thing to potentially happen... this would protect 140+ miles of ocean coastline from oil pollution!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Chumash Heritage Marine Sanctuary: Road to 30 Postcard

# data[].attributes.body
This was a festival that came out of nowhere that I was ecstatic about, but I won't be able to attend because the website would not let me purchase tickets before it sold out within the hour. The lineup is insane, I'm still questioning whether or not it is real

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
UPDATE (1/21): On Friday, LiveNation announced that the When We Were Young Festival will now feature a second date with the exact same stacked lineup on Sunday, Oct. 23.

Headliners My Chemical Romance and Paramore will perform at the same time on both days, according to a spokesperson. Featuring multiple stages across festival grounds, earlier acts will perform 20- to 30-minute sets while top-billed acts will perform sets that are 45 minutes or longer.

"We have seen a lot of excitement around this festival and we look forward to putting on an incredible event for all of the fans this October," festival organizers said in a statement, adding that the event is "thoroughly planned."
***
Paramore might not be interested in rehashing the past for their upcoming album, but when the three-piece group gets back on stage, it'll be part of the most mid-2000s meets early-2010s lineups since Warped Tour wrapped in 2019.

The band is slated to headline the emo and rock event When We Were Young Festival on Oct. 22 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds. General sales for When We Were Young Festival begin on Jan. 21 via the official festival website.

Paramore share the headlining bill with My Chemical Romance and are joined front and center on the Hot Topic-core lineup poster by Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes, and Jimmy Eat World.

Scattered throughout the rest of the lineup are some of the genre's long-dormant, once-hit-making acts, including Pierce The Veil, All American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, the Ready Set, 3OH!3, and We the Kings.

Veteran bands are also joined by a number of acts currently setting the pace for the future of pop-punk, including Fueled By Ramen signees Meet Me @ the Altar and TikTokers turned punk-rockers Jxdn, Lil Huddy, and Nessa Barrett.

Earlier this month, Hayley Williams told Rolling Stone that Paramore's forthcoming album - their first since 2017's After Laughter - isn't a "comeback 'emo' record," but it will have a particular emphasis on guitars. By the time they step on stage in Vegas, their ever-evolving sound will set them apart once more.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
When We Were Young Festival Gives Warped Tour a Run for Its Money With Bonkers Lineup

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
UPDATE (1/21): On Friday, LiveNation announced that the When We Were Young Festival will now feature a second date with the exact same stacked lineup on Sunday, Oct. 23. Headliners My Chemical Romance and Paramore will perform at the same time on both days, according to a spokesperson.

# data[].attributes.body
This is my dog Finn when I took him on a walk in Arroyo Grande, CA. This is my favorite thing ever-- dogs, walks, green grass, ocean nearby-- so I hope you enjoy it too!

# data[].attributes.body
This is me and my girlfriend’s bald dog. He is such a character, and has an addiction to playing fetch. He will literally cry if you don’t throw the ball. He has grown to be one of my best pals.

# data[].attributes.body
Although I did not play baseball at our school, I was deeply saddened to learn about our loved baseball coach's passing due to Covid-19. He was kind to both me and everyone that knew him whether they played the sport or not. You will be missed greatly Coach Jeff Sears.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The most successful baseball coach in the sport's 84-year history at Laguna Beach High School died at Providence Mission Hospital on Sunday. Jeff Sears was 55 years old.

Sears had a number of lingering health issues over the years but the shock has hit the high school sports community hard. Sears was a beloved member of the staff and helped all sports including running the scoreboard at Football.

"His family was his baseball kids and students and he taught them how to play the sport right and act right. He was a stickler for it and had a smile for everybody," said Lance Stewart, Sears' upstairs neighbor and friend of 16 years.

Sears mentioned he was being treated for COVID-19 and Pneumonia in the ICU, Stewart said. He had arrived at the hospital on Jan. 11.

The Laguna baseball program was started in 1938 (no team in 1944) and had very limited success with titles in 1954, 1957, and 1963. After nearly 50 years and over a dozen coaches, Sears was just another hire in 2008 hoping to change the non-competitive culture in local baseball. His squads finished 14-15, 14-14, and 16-14 in his first three seasons - a successful turnaround for Laguna.

The team's breakout year was 2011, sweeping the Orange Coast League (15-0) for Laguna's first league title in 48 years. In the playoffs, the team advanced to the Division 4 quarterfinals before losing at 6-3 at Oaks Christian. Jeff left to take over the Servite program and teach at the all-boys Catholic high school in Anaheim. His assistant, Thurston Middle School teacher Mike Bair took over the program winning four additional league titles over five seasons culminating in the 2016 Division 4 CIF Title.

Following that victory, Bair resigned so he could help coach his three sons in youth baseball. Not missing a beat, Sears returned to continue the momentum from his initial hire. Under Sears, Laguna won the Orange Coast League in 2017 and 2018 then made the transition to the Sunset Wave League in 2019 going 15-13. In 2020, the team was 8-1, ranked No. 1 in Division 3 when the pandemic shut down the high school sports programs in California ending what should have been the school's highest-rated team in 80 years of play. This spring would have been Sears' 10th season with the Breakers.

Sears was 143-95 (.601) in nine seasons as head coach. In league play, he won three titles going 69-30 (.697) all - best in Laguna history. Overall his teams went 5-5 in the CIF playoffs, won four in-season tournaments taking the Newport Elks title in 2011, 2019, and 2020. His squad also won the Ryan Lemmon tournament in 2019.

Bouquets of flowers and a baseball were placed on the pitcher's mound at Skipper Carrillo Field after news of Sears' death on Sunday.
Daniel Langhorne contributed reporting to this story.
View Our User Comment Policy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
In shock to Laguna sports community, beloved baseball coach Jeff Sears dies at 55 - Laguna Beach Local News

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The most successful baseball coach in the sport's 84-year history at Laguna Beach High School died at Providence Mission Hospital on Sunday. Jeff Sears was 55 years old. Sears had a number of lingering health issues over the years but the shock has hit the high school sports community hard.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
This is a picture I took of a nice sunset over the mountain and I really enjoy it because it is really pretty and peaceful.

# data[].attributes.body
enjoy one of my cats sitting in a box :)

# data[].attributes.body
This is my favorite picture of her <3

# data[].attributes.headline
Beautiful coral reef discovered, completely unaffected by climate change 

# data[].attributes.subject
Beautiful coral reef discovered, completely unaffected by climate change 

# data[].attributes.body
Scientists dove for a total of 200 hours to make the discovery of a coral reef untouched by climate change off Tahiti. The reef has amazing rose shaped corals, and it stretches about 2 miles across the ocean floor.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by VICE World News (@viceworldnews)

# data[].attributes.body
I have played and watched tennis my whole life, and it is always super fun to keep track of. Tsitsipas is one of my favorite new and upcoming players.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Benoit Paire vs Stefanos Tsitsipas - MS312 | AO

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Tennis Australia acknowledges that the AO is held on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country and we extend our respects to Elders past and present and to all First Nations People.

# data[].attributes.body
This is me and my nephew he is funny, and very curious about stuff

# data[].attributes.body
This post suggests that a human-driven mass extinction is bound to happen. It would be the 6th mass extinction in the world. Scientists recommend that we start putting endangered species in museums before they become extinct so they will never be forgotten.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by VICE World News (@viceworldnews)

# data[].attributes.body
Came across this art page on my instagram.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Selynn Lee 쉬시턴 (@selynndraws)

# data[].attributes.body
Really cool documentry talked about the creators of burnside.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Thrasher Magazine's "Grindland" - Full Movie

# data[].attributes.body
I found this adorable (and educational!) video of a baby weasel the other day. I hope you guys enjoy it!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Baby Weasel Playtime | Weasels: Feisty & Fearless | BBC Earth

# data[].attributes.body
A great message and even better song.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Don't Be A Lawyer - feat. Burl Moseley - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

# data[].attributes.body
I love going to the beach and today I came across pictures of palm beach! I've never been to Florida in general but I hope to one day go to a beach there!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Milperthusky (@milperthusky)

# data[].attributes.body
Microsoft buys ACTIVISION for 68.7 Billon

# data[].attributes.body
Microsoft bought activation for 68.7 Billion

# data[].attributes.body
This is the link for the my season this year. As I stated in the above post, this one is a big deal and I would love to see all my ANTH friends in the stands.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Official Home for Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros

# data[].attributes.body
This is a photo of Gabe and I. We both play for SBCC and we both lost out season last year because of Covid. I haven't been able to play a full season of baseball since my senior year of high school. This year means a lot to my teammates and I. I am beyond excited to get rolling and have fun.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Burton Snowboards (@burtonsnowboards)

# data[].attributes.body
This whistle was recently sold on tesla's website made from machined stainless steel which was made to represent the upcoming tesla truck. It was sold for 300 dogecoin, the whistle sold out instantly and made a dent in dogecoin's value.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Cyberwhistle

You must be a Tesla vehicle owner in order to be eligible to purchase this product. Please confirm that you are logged into your Tesla account that is associated with your vehicle, or contact support for assistance.

Inspired by Cybertruck, the limited-edition Cyberwhistle is a premium collectible made from medical-grade stainless steel with a polished finish. The whistle includes an integrated attachment feature for added versatility.

Cyberwhistle

You must be a Tesla vehicle owner in order to be eligible to purchase this product. Please confirm that you are logged into your Tesla account that is associated with your vehicle, or contact support for assistance.

Inspired by Cybertruck, the limited-edition Cyberwhistle is a premium collectible made from medical-grade stainless steel with a polished finish. The whistle includes an integrated attachment feature for added versatility.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Cyberwhistle You must be a Tesla vehicle owner in order to be eligible to purchase this product. Please confirm that you are logged into your Tesla account that is associated with your vehicle, or contact support for assistance. Inspired by Cybertruck, the limited-edition Cyberwhistle is a premium collectible made from medical-grade stainless steel with a polished finish.

# data[].attributes.body
I absolutely love this movie! I've watched it so many times and it was the first movie that made me cry. I've been following up with the news on this movie and I'm hoping that it gets a sequel or tv series!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Encanto’s We Don’t Talk About Bruno becomes first Disney song to reach UK No 1

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Ensemble song written by Lin-Manuel Miranda has benefited from going viral on TikTok

# data[].attributes.body
I don't eat healthy and I barely know to cook but I do enjoy eating and cooking.

# data[].attributes.body
I chose a picture of a sunset because they are amazing. One of my favorite things to do is watch the sunset/rise.

# data[].attributes.body
Pure ecstasy. Highly recommend getting nerfgunz and hiding them around your house. I, unfortunately, got shot in the eye so be careful.

# data[].attributes.body
When I transfer next fall, I plan to major in fashion and become a fashion trend predictor so this article was just very interesting to me.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
New Year, New Trends-WWW Readers Weigh in on What's Worthwhile RN

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Not sure which 2022 fashion trends are worth adopting? We reaching out to fashion influencers to have them share what they're wearing in the new year.

# data[].attributes.body
I have started to recreate these recipes that I have seen online and making these interesting recipes have become a huge hobby of mine!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Hank (@salt_hank)

# data[].attributes.body
This is a video of a new guitar pedal I have been trying out. It makes these beautiful textural reverb tones and has a feature that allows for infinite sustain. Its been pretty fun to mess around with so I wanted to share and recommend to everyone.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Walrus Audio SLÖ Multi-Texture Reverb | Reverb Tone Report

# data[].attributes.body
Interesting to think there are such forward thinking people, he wasn't a anthropologist but I'm sure he used it and many other disciplines to predict were we would be in the future.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Today is tomorrow. The future is the present.

Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to ponder what life would be like in 2022. Some of their predictions fell amusingly short, but others have proved to be eerily accurate.

Join us now as we gaze into that crystal ball from 1922.

Life in the future

English author W.L. George (1882-1926) was nothing short of visionary when he imagined the amazing, remarkable world of 2022.

In a full-page article in the New York Herald, he made some startling prognostications - and it's kind of spooky how many he got right.
More: Businesses we lost in 2021: Goodbye to West Hill Hardware, Highland Shoe Repair, The Devil Strip, West Hill Marathon and more
Here are some of George's prophecies from a century ago:

* "I suspect that commercial flying will have become entirely commonplace. The passenger steamer will survive on the coasts, but it will have disappeared on the main routes, and will have been replaced by flying convoys, which should cover the distance between London and New York in about 12 hours."

* "The people of the year 2022 will probably never see a wire outlined against the sky: it is practically certain that wireless telegraphy and wireless telephones will have crushed the cable system long before the century is done."

* "Coal will not be exhausted, but our reserves will be seriously depleted, and so will those of oil. One of the world dangers a century hence will be a shortage of fuel, but it is likely that by that time a great deal of power will be obtained from tides, from the sun, probably from radium and other forms of radial energy, while it may also be that atomic energy will be harnessed."

* "The movies will be more attractive, as long before 2022 they will have been replaced by the kinephone, which now exists only in the laboratory. That is the figures on the screen will not only move, but they will have their natural colors and speak with ordinary voices."

* "Many buildings now standing will be preserved. It is conceivable that the Capitol at Washington, many of the universities and churches will be standing a hundred years hence, and that they will, almost unaltered, be preserved by tradition."

* "Naturally the work of the household, which is being reduced day by day, will in 2022 be a great deal lighter. I believe that most of the cleaning required today in a house will have been done away with. In the first place, through the disappearance of coal in all places where electricity is not made there will be no more smoke, perhaps not even that of tobacco."

* "In the second place I have a vision of walls, furniture and hangings made of more or less compressed papier-mache, bound with brass or taping along the edges. Thus instead of scrubbing its floors, the year 2022 will unscrew the brass edges or unstitch the tapes and peel off the dirty surface of the floor or curtains."

* "It is conceivable, though not certain, that in 2022 a complete meal may be taken in the shape of four pills. This is not entirely visionary; I am convinced that corned beef hash and pumpkin pie will still exist."

* "The child is likely to be taken over by the state, not only schooled but fed and clad, and at the end of its training placed in a post suitable to its abilities."

* "It is practically certain that in 2022 nearly all women will have discarded the idea that they are primarily 'makers of men.' Most fit women will then be following an individual career. All positions will be open to them and a great many women will have risen high."

* "The year 2022 will probably see a large number of women in Congress, a great many on the judicial bench, many in civil service posts and perhaps some in the president's Cabinet. But it is unlikely that women will have achieved equality with men."

* "Marriage will still exist much as it is today, for mankind has an inveterate taste for the institution, but divorce will probably be as easy everywhere as it is in Nevada."

* "I suspect that those wars to come will be made horrible beyond my conception by new poison gases, inextinguishable flames and lightproof smoke clouds. In those wars the airplane bomb will seem as out of date at is today the hatchet."

* "As regards the United States in particular, it is likely that the country will have come to a complete settlement, with a population of about 240,000,000. The idea of North and South, East and West will have almost disappeared."

* "In 2022, American literature will be a literature of culture. The battle will be over and the muzzle off. There will be no more things one can't say, and things one can't think. No doubt there will be in 2022 people who think as they would have thought in 1922, or even a little earlier, but a great liberalism of mind will prevail."

* "Americans will be less enterprising and much more pleasure loving. They will have rebelled against long hours; the chances are that in 2022 few people will work more than seven hours a day, if as much. The effect of this, which I am sure sounds regrettable to many of my readers, will, in my opinion, be good."

New York in 2022

New York professor Ferdinand Shuler imagined Manhattan as a Utopian metropolis of skyscrapers, moving sidewalks and canals instead of streets.

Here are some of the fantastic things he predicted for New York City by 2022:

* Buildings would be 60 to 80 stories high, composed of glass, steel and concrete. They would be enclosed in double walls of glass.

* Enormous bridges would connect the gigantic buildings at different levels and help hold them up, turning the entire city into one great structure.

* People working and living in the buildings would bask in scientifically diffused light, contributing to their well being.

* Rolling sidewalks operated by electromagnetic power would connect buildings.

* Canals would replace streets, providing a place for bathing, canoeing and power boating.

* Trains would travel on glass plates and reach speeds of 200 mph.

* Anti-gravity screens would prevent airplanes from falling out of the sky.

* Luxury airships would have elevators, rolling floors, swimming pools and "practically every convenience."

* Food would be selected on "a scientific basis with regard to its curative properties," so that "the ills of the flesh" will be reduced to a minimum and few medicines taken.

* Restaurants would offer self-serving tables with meals rising from kitchens one floor below.

Cleaner and brighter

New York scientist Charles P. Steinmetz, a proponent of electrical power, imagined a cleaner future after society adopted the "chimneyless house" by 2022.

"It is reasonable to expect that all the domestic and industrial work of the city, all locomotion and transportation, will some time be done by electricity, and that in a not very distant future, fires and combustion will be altogether forbidden by law within city limits and dangerous and unsanitary," he noted.

He also predicted that humans would harness the sun's energy.

"At present, I could imagine a great structure under glass of magnifying power which could concentrate the sun's rays" he said. "But how the power which they would generate and which they contain could be stored, I am not ready to say."

Can you read this?

We should all be wearing spectacles by now.

Edward M. Van Cline, managing director of the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, spoke at the group's 1922 meeting in Manhattan.

Van Cline told the gathering: "An English scientist prognosticates that within one hundred years every man, woman and child in the United States will be wearing glasses. He declares that the American obsession for glory, haste and the pace that kills is responsible; that our skyscrapers shut out nature's light, destroying the space necessary to vision; that our brilliant lights are a menace to sight; that the American spirit is impatient of darkness, and that lack of time prevents the health exercise of walking which keeps the body in good condition."

Far from the city

Chicago futurist R.F. Kellum anticipated many changes by 2022, including a dramatic shift from city to suburb:

* "Almost anybody able to pay the rent will own an automobile - cars will be that common."

* "There is no reason why people should be cooped up in the heart of a city when they can live out where the ozone whisks."

* "The suburbs will extend as far away as 100 miles from the center of the city."

* "Office buildings will take the place of residences and everybody will live out of town."

The worm and the turtle

Wilbur E. Sutton, managing editor of the Muncie Evening Press in Indiana, lamented that "a multiplicity of laws" had led to paralyzing bureaucracy.

"The American people, who long have boasted of their freedom, some day will have to begin tearing down some of their statutes and abolishing a few thousand commission boards, and systems, or the individual American in the year 2022 will be as spineless as an angleworm and will have about as much initiative and resourcefulness as the slow-going turtle," he wrote in 1922.

Vive la France?

No one would be left to appreciate the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe.

French scientists were concerned about the nation's birth rate 100 year ago. In 1860, there had been 1 million births in the country. In 1922, the number had fallen to 450,000.

As one observer noted: "At the rate of decline in number of children born in that country, in the year 2022 - 100 years hence - there will be nobody left in France, except as they drift in from other sections of Europe. The figures show, unerringly, that the present rate of decrease, maintained for 100 years, would reduce the birthrate to zero."

Life in the country

The people of 2022 would reside in "airship-houses" and enjoy a life of leisure.

An opinion piece titled "Big Laughs Coming" appeared in dozens of U.S. newspapers in 1922. The unknown author's conclusion:

"In the future, automatic machinery and inventions will free men from industrial slavery. Cheap and fast-flying airplanes will enable all to live in the country. Cities, at night, will be deserted groups of factory buildings.

"We, voluntarily imprisoned in cramped apartments or small houses, will seem queer to our descendants. Daily we go to work in our prison cells, to pound typewriter keys, push a pen or perform monotonous operations with machinery - when we might all be free in the outdoors of farmland.

"Will the future consider us laughable, pathetic or crazy?"

The future newspaper

Charles H. Taylor Jr., manager of the Boston Globe, had no worries about journalism 100 years hence.

"We newspaper men should not get pessimistic about the future newspaper," he told an interviewer in 1922. "It will be all right. The radio-phone is not going to take the place of it any more than the wireless has taken the place of the telephone.
Mark J. Price can be reached at mprice@thebeaconjournal.com. More: More: More: Staff profile: Meet the Beacon Journal's Mark J. Price Local history: Munchkin from 'Wizard of Oz' found true love in Akron Local history: Clarkins was king in Akron area before Kmart and Walmart
"The printed word, that one can read and digest, will always be popular. The newspaper is on the earth to stay. What it will be no one can say, but this you may swear by: It will be just what the public demands, and the publisher who is wise will meet the demand."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The future is now: 100-year-old predictions about 2022

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Today is tomorrow. The future is the present. Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to ponder what life would be like in 2022. Some of their predictions fell amusingly short, but others have proved to be eerily accurate. Join us now as we gaze into that crystal ball from 1922.

# data[].attributes.body
I'm really happy that Paramore is releasing another album after 5 years. I've loved them since I was about 7, so they are special to me

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Paramore look set to release their first album together in almost five years.

Hayley Williams has opened up about the future of Paramore and teased that the band will be back with new music in 2022.

Ever since the After Laughter era officially ended in 2018, Paramore fans have been eager for the pop-punk band to release another album. However, at the time, Hayley Williams, Zac Farro and Taylor York decided to take a break and enjoy being just friends instead of co-workers. In the following years, Hayley has released two critically-acclaimed solo albums.

The hiatus is finally over though. Hayley has just revealed that Paramore will return next year and P6 is finally coming.
READ MORE: Hayley Williams has quit social media
When will Paramore release their sixth album?

Hayley Williams confirms Paramore will release new music in 2022. Picture: MTV via Getty Images, Fueled by Ramen

In a new newsletter, Hayley thanked fans for embracing her solo projects and hinted at what's to come. She wrote: "Before I go, thank y'all so much for the incredible support these last couple years. I know we didn't get to properly come together to sing and vent and sweat it all out but I do think that Petals and descansos lived exactly the lives they were meant to."

Hayley then let slip the news that we've all been waiting for. The 32-year-old said: "Besides, Paramore can't be ​'on a break' forever now can we?" If that weren't exciting enough, Hayley added: "I love y'all," and "See you sometime next year?" In other words, Paramore will be back in 2022 and it sounds like their long-awaited sixth album is coming then too.

New message from Hayley sent in a newsletter about the release of Petals For Armor + Flowers for Vases/descansos deluxe.

"It is a summary of all the lessons and beautiful moments I don't ever want to forget, in one place. [...] Paramore can't be "on a break" forever now can we?" pic.twitter.com/1k9uoe0usv
- Paramore-Music.com (@paramoremusicom) November 26, 2021

When a fan asked Hayley if she would release more solo music earlier this year, Hayley confirmed: "I'm not planning on another solo album." She then teased: "I'm ready for the next Paramore album. Let's go."

With pop-punk back in full force, what better time for Paramore to return.

What are you all wearing to the Paramore is the back party?

This week on the Coming Out Chats podcast, trans activist Charlie Craggs and TikTok superstar NoseBleedFitz open up about their coming out journeys, their experiences accessing health care in the UK, staying in touch with teachers, and drawing strength from the trans community.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Hayley Williams confirms Paramore will be back next year

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Paramore look set to release their first album together in almost five years. Hayley Williams has opened up about the future of Paramore and teased that the band will be back with new music in 2022. Ever since the After Laughter era officially ended in 2018, Paramore fans have been eager for the pop-punk band to release another album.

# data[].attributes.body
Here is a picture of my cat being caught red handed after chewing my blanket basket

# data[].attributes.body
I chose this cause I think its funny seeing our team photos and I'm happy for the start of of season

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Official Home for Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros

# data[].attributes.body
Excited to see him perform live in April.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Hi, I'm Scott | Scott Mescudi | TEDxSHHS

# data[].attributes.body
For about two years now, I have been obsessed with this youtube channel called softwhiteunderbelly that is recoded and edited by Mark Laita. His goal is to record and interview homeless, pimps, prostitutes, and a bunch of other people on how their life is and what has happened to them to lead them to where they are now. It is a very interesting channel and watch this on on my free time or when I get ready for work.

# data[].attributes.headline
Judge Sides with Britney Spears in ongoing court battle with her father over finances

# data[].attributes.subject
Judge Sides with Britney Spears in ongoing court battle with her father over finances

# data[].attributes.body
Because I was invested in the #FreeBritney movement, I find it astonishing that even when her conservatorship has ended, her father still wants her money to pay for court fees he has incurred fighting against the end of her conservatorship.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
britney spears' legal battle with her father continues - cnn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Judge sides with Britney Spears in ongoing court battle with her father over finances

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Although Britney Spears' 13-year conservatorship has ended, the legal battle over her finances is still going on.

# data[].attributes.body
Is Baboon taking the revenge?

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it were its own, said safari operator Kurt Schultz, who in 20 years had never seen such behavior.

"The baboon was grooming the lion cub as if it was a baby baboon," Schultz said in an email to The Associated Press. "Male baboons do a lot of grooming but the care given to this lion cub was the same care given by a female baboon to one of her own young."

Schultz said when he first saw the baboons early Saturday, the troop of baboons was excited and animated. It is possible they had discovered the lion cub, he said.

A video posted to Instagram shows the baboon clutching the cub and jumping from one tree branch to another.

The baboons had gathered in an area with granite hills and boulders where lions and leopards have been known to hide their cubs while they go hunting, he said, and that's likely how the baboons found the cub.

Baboons "are really strong animals and when they were all excited and fighting over the baby in the beginning, it could have been injured internally," Schultz said. It was a hot morning and the cub was also showing signs of dehydration, he said.

While the rest of the baboon troop settled down, the male "moved from branch to branch, grooming and carrying the cub for a long period of time," Schultz said. "The cub seemed very exhausted."

Schultz and others on safaris in the park watched the rare sight and took photographs.

"I don't see a chance of this poor cub surviving. The troop of baboons was large and a lion would not be able to get the young back," Schultz said. "Nature is cruel at most times and the survival of a young predator cub is not easy. The lion cub would pose a threat to the baboons when it gets older. I have witnessed baboons viciously killing leopard cubs and have heard of baboons killing lion cubs."

Trending News

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Baboon seen carrying little lion cub in South Africa: "Nature is cruel"

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it were its own, said safari operator Kurt Schultz, who in 20 years had never seen such behavior.

# data[].attributes.body
This song just makes me feel a lot.

# data[].attributes.body
I didn't know they went through the channel here.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A pod of killer whales was spotted in the Santa Barbara Channel over the weekend.

Santa Barbara resident and local boat owner Tyler Reynolds saw the pod about seven miles from the harbor on Saturday, Oct. 30, while he and his wife were returning from Santa Cruz Island.

Reynolds captured video of the whales, which can be seen splashing and jumping near the water's surface.

"It's such a rare event to see these animals in our channel, so I'm excited to share this with people," Reynolds said.

Experts with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Region said the killer whales can be seen in the area occasionally. They say the whales are known to hunt sea lions and sometimes dolphins.

In the video the group of five killer whales can be seen playing with a dolphin they have caught.

The whales are Biggs transient killer whales, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Lead Research Biologist for the California Killer Whale Project, told KSBY. She identified the whales as the CA140Bs, which include Louise and her three offspring. Swimming with the family is a whale known as female CA23A2.

Schulman-Janiger says the group is among the more commonly seen pods in the area.

Andrea Mills, Education Coordinator with Island Packers Cruises, which offers whale watching tours around the Channel Islands, said the cruises average only six sightings of killer whales per year.

Other whales that can be seen in channel throughout the year include gray, blue, humpback and fin whales.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Pod of killer whales spotted in Santa Barbara Channel

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A pod of killer whales was spotted in the Santa Barbara Channel over the weekend. Santa Barbara resident and local boat owner Tyler Reynolds saw the pod about seven miles from the harbor on Saturday, Oct. 30, while he and his wife were returning from Santa Cruz Island.

# data[].attributes.body
Nothing makes me happier then a small dog with a massive stick. Also how sweet is that old man!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Looking to hire this man as my personal motivator 👏 #boscoandhisbigstick #dogvideos #funnyvideos

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
@boscoandhisbigstick
Looking to hire this man as my personal motivator 👏 #boscoandhisbigstick #dogvideos #funnyvideos
♬ original sound - user8410852696609

# data[].attributes.body
One of my friends recently suggested watching this documentary. Two nights ago I sat down and put it on and was instantly into it. It was crazy to watch, and it had a lot of memorable moments to say the least. For sure worth a watch.

# data[].attributes.body
This is a video that I love to watch to give me a bit of inspiration. I love acting and these guys are actors that I really look up to.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Actors Roundtable: Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Jamie Foxx | Close Up

# data[].attributes.body
One of my friends has this music playing in his house 24/7 and shared this playlist with me. It’s perfect for slow mornings outside with coffee!

# data[].attributes.body
I wanted to share this picture of my kitten because I did not care for cats until I got my own and totally fell in love.

# data[].attributes.body
Speaking about perfect surf conditions in Southern California, the links picture was also something that caught my eye and I enjoyed.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Earlier this week, Maverick's saw its latest opening day in years. Not XXL or terrifying, but insanely good conditions and solid surf all day long. That same swell started filtering down the rest of the West Coast Tuesday-Thursday, providing a much needed respite for SoCal surfers who've been enduring one of the worst winters in quite some time.
Check the C-Street Cam
Surfline's ace West Coast forecaster Schaler Perry chimes in: "When you think of pumping Southern California surf, you think El Nino," he said. "During most La Nina winters, outside of the anomaly that was last winter, it's generally feast or famine. We spend long stretches of the winter in an unfavorable pattern with high pressure keeping storms further away and north than preferred for pumping or even respectable surf. Just about the entire month of December was a wash in terms of quality surf - but a subtle shift in the pattern over the North Pacific in early January set the stage for a first-rate week of waves across California."
View: San Diego Forecast
"High pressure, which had been parked below the Gulf of Alaska, shifted over the West Coast through the first week in January as impressive, complex low pressure entrenched the western through central North Pacific. A series of stout, lower latitude storms pushed east through the central North Pacific the week of January 3rd. The low setting up our strongest surf peaked in intensity January 8th-9th, packing a broad fetch of 40-45 knot winds and seas in excess of 35 feet."
View: El Porto Cam
"While it wasn't as close to the West Coast as we'd traditionally like to see for strong NPAC surf, it was quite low in latitude and took a great track for swell production keeping the strongest winds over the developing seas. Pair the resulting healthy, westerly, WNW swell with high pressure and glassy all-day conditions and you've got a winner."
Check the live Ocean Beach cam
Damien Hobgood. Vid: Billy Watts
View: Ocean Beach Forecast
Josh Kerr. Vid: Billy Watts

Tristan Sully, San Diego. Vid: Sean Evans
View: Live HB Cam SWELL SIGNATURE
Storm Location and Movement: Area of low pressure pushes off Japan and merges with a complex storm system over the central North Pacific, strengthening on track toward the West Coast January 8-9th.

Peak Storm Wind/Seas: Fetch of 40-45 knot wind with a small pocket reaching 50 knots. Satellite-confirmed seas in excess of 35 feet.

Peak Storm Intensity: 972 millibar low pressure north of Hawaii in the lower latitudes of the central North Pacific.

Swell Travel Time: 3-4 days

Peak of Swell: 10-11' @ 15-16 seconds from the WNW (280-295) on the Harvest Buoy (46218).

Local Conditions: Glassy for days on end with high pressure over the region.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
West Coast: Better Late Than Never, Take Two

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Earlier this week, Maverick's saw its latest opening day in years. Not XXL or terrifying, but insanely good conditions and solid surf all day long. That same swell started filtering down the rest of the West Coast Tuesday-Thursday, providing a much needed respite for SoCal surfers who've been enduring one of the worst winters in quite some time.

# data[].attributes.body
This is one of my favorite pictured that I've ever taken. It's taken from the top of Inspiration Point in Santa Barbara - one of my favorite hikes - at sunrise. I think everyone should experience an early morning hike in their life. It was freezing and pitch black when we started but the view was so worth it.

# data[].attributes.body
these look like they would slap

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
These thick pancakes are like little souffles: custardy on the inside and golden and crispy on the outside.

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook's Note)

3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1 1/4 cups milk

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more for serving

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 large egg yolk plus 3 large egg whites

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

Nonstick cooking spray

Maple syrup, for serving

Special equipment: four 3-inch-wide-by-2 1/2-inch-high ring molds

1. Whisk together the flour, confectioners' sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.

2. Whisk together the milk, melted butter, vanilla and egg yolk in a medium bowl until combined.

3. Beat the egg whites and cream of tartar in another large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes.

4. Stir the milk mixture into the flour mixture until just combined (it's OK if there are a few lumps). Stir one-third of the beaten egg whites into the flour-milk mixture. Then gently fold in the remaining egg whites until just combined (take care not to overmix).

5. Lightly spray the inside of four 3-inch-wide-by-2 1/2-inch-high ring molds with nonstick cooking spray

6. Coat a large nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray and heat over medium-low heat. Put the prepared ring molds in the middle of the skillet and fill each with 1/2 cup of batter (it should fill each ring mold about halfway). Cover the skillet with the lid and cook until the batter rises to the tops of the ring molds and is golden on the bottom, about 5 minutes. Release the bottom of the pancakes with a spatula. Grasp the sides of the ring molds with tongs to stabilize them and then carefully flip. Cover and cook until golden on the other side, about 5 minutes more. Transfer to a plate and remove the mold. Serve with butter and maple syrup. The pancakes should be eaten before they deflate.

7. Lightly spray the ring molds and coat the skillet with nonstick cooking spray and repeat the cooking method with the remaining batter.

When measuring flour, we spoon it into a dry measuring cup and level off excess. (Scooping directly from the bag compacts the flour, resulting in dry baked goods.)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
These thick pancakes are like little souffles: custardy on the inside and golden and crispy on the outside.

# data[].attributes.body
This is my service dog Walter. He's my favorite companion for any and all adventures.

# data[].attributes.body
I thought this was a little extreme but I guess there a real nuisance.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Sunnyvale, California, where about 1,000 crows currently roost, is so riddled with bird "poo" that one resident won't go outside unless "under an umbrella." Shutterstock

A suburban California town has become the site of a bizarre phenomenon in which Alfred Hitchcock would delight - and would revile ornithophobia sufferers.

Over the past decades, Sunnyvale, a Silicon Valley town in northern California, has become the top destination for crows to roost - and it's got to stop, Mayor Larry Klein has said.

"The streets are basically riddled with crow poo," he told the New York Times. The 23-square-mile community of Sunnyvale sees its roughly 1,000 crow residents wreak havoc nightly, only to disappear in daylight.

"I'll go inside unless I'm under an umbrella," local Frank Hampton told CNN. "The city has tried everything to get the birds to find a new spot, but all success has been short lived."

In a plan loosely based on science, three city workers are being charged with nightly crow watch, in which they spend an hour beaming lasers and blaring sounds into the skies in hopes of disorienting and discouraging the birds from nesting.

"The biggest thing is to harass them enough so a large percentage of them find new homes," Klein explained. The cost of the operation includes the $20 price tag for the lasers - cheaper than hiring a falconer to fend off their crow population.

It was just suggested to me that if we can't actually make the crows leave, that Sunnyvale start having an annual crow festival. Would you come?
- Vice Mayor Alysa Cisneros (@AlysaCisneros) January 17, 2022

"We have had a falcon previously, a hawk, but it has had limited success, and the crows return," the mayor continued. "It's a health problem we've had to deal with, and at the cost of the city, so if we have a cheap solution, there's no reason to not try it, right?"

Rochester, New York, tried a similar approach between 2017 and 2018 in hopes of displacing some 20,000 to 30,000 birds - to some success.

Vice Mayor Alysa Cisneros suggested in a poll on Twitter that the town launch a "crow festival" if their efforts fail and the birds remain neighbors. More than 87% of the 452 voters responded "Yes I would come."

But they'd probably show up anywhere - just like the crows, according to ornithologist Kevin J. McGowan, who is dubious of the laser method. "They're like teenagers and COVID," he told the Times. "You can't stop them getting together."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
California town resorts to lasers to stop 1,000 pooping crows

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A suburban California town has become the site of a bizarre phenomenon in which Alfred Hitchcock would delight - and would revile ornithophobia sufferers. Over the past decades, Sunnyvale, a Silicon Valley town in northern California, has become the top destination for crows to roost - and it's got to stop, Mayor Larry Klein has said.

# data[].attributes.body
This is a video I took from my balcony the other night. Sunsets are definitely my favorite part of the day. My whole life I have always wanted to live by the beach and now I am and it feels surreal. I still cannot believe the beach is in my backyard.

# data[].attributes.body
This is my friend's dog and every time I see this picture it brings me joy. I also think that his tongue in this picture is so cute!

# data[].attributes.body
I have always been a football fan my entire life and every year this is my favorite time of the year.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Top Plays from Super Wild Card Weekend | NFL 2021 Highlights

# data[].attributes.body
I love to snowboard especially at the Palisades in Tahoe. There was just a huge storm so there is so much snow!!!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Skip To Main Content

From unique experiences on the mountain to new signature logo wear and stocking stuffers, there's something for everyone in the Palisades Tahoe Gift Guide this holiday season.

Holiday Gift Guide

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Best Ski Resort Lake Tahoe | Palisades Tahoe

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Skip To Main Content From unique experiences on the mountain to new signature logo wear and stocking stuffers, there's something for everyone in the Palisades Tahoe Gift Guide this holiday season. Holiday Gift Guide

# data[].attributes.body
One thing online I have recently enjoyed is the show Euphoria on HBO max. I usually get on a call with my best friend from high school and we watch the show together.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Stream Euphoria on HBO Max. Sign up to experience exclusive Max Originals and an epic library with over 13,000 hours of hit movies and series.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
San Francisco 49ers Highlights vs. Dallas Cowboys | 2021 Playoffs Wild Card

# data[].attributes.headline
Why Fast Fashion is Destroying our Planet

# data[].attributes.subject
Why Fast Fashion is Destroying our Planet

# data[].attributes.body
I had to watch this youtube video for my Human Geography class and it really opened my eyes to the fast fashion industry. Hassan Minhaj is a comedian who addresses global issues and I'm glad I found him through my class. He draws attention especially to companies such as Zara and H&M. Definitely a must watch is your a shopping addict like me. Keep thrifting!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Ugly Truth Of Fast Fashion | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix

# data[].attributes.body
Saw this on tiktok and thought it was so so sooo beautiful!! Would love to one day experience this myself

# data[].attributes.body
I am a total nerd when it comes to this game and I watched this the other night and was just in awe

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
osu! HITTING 10.2⭐JUMPS on HAPPY SONG +HR | WhiteCat

# data[].attributes.body
This is Kelly Slater who has won 11 surfing world championships and recently built the "perfect wave."

# data[].attributes.body
A video to help you relax

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
4K HDR Nature Timelapse: Relaxation for your Soul

# data[].attributes.body
Maia Knight is a tiktoker I enjoy watching. She posts a couple videos a day of her two little girls and the videos are just so adorable I can’t stop watching.

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
Beautiful art that I saw in Tequila, Mexico. 

# data[].attributes.body
I was not expecting a cat to move this fast up stairs. Enjoy!

# data[].attributes.body
This is my dog settling for some pillows she found since she knows she’s not allowed to sleep on the bed or the couch. She usually waits until everyone is asleep and the sneakily jumps on the couch for the night.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The foot and ankle is a complex joint involved in movement and providing stability and balance to the body. The foot and ankle consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, and many muscles, tendons and ligaments.

Bones of the Ankle.

The ankle joint connects the leg with the foot, and is composed of three bones: tibia, fibula and talus. The tibia or shin bone and fibula or calf bone are bones of the lower leg which articulate with the talus or ankle bone, enabling up and down movement of the foot.

Three bony bumps present on the ends of the tibia and fibula form parts of the ankle joint:

The Medial malleolus, formed by the tibia, is found on the inside of the ankle;

Posterior malleolus, also formed by the tibia, is found at the back of the ankle and the

Lateral malleolus, formed by the fibula, is found on the outer aspect of the ankle.

Bones of the Feet.

The foot acts as a single functional unit, but can be divided into three parts: the hindfoot, midfoot and forefoot.

The hindfoot forms the ankle and heel and is made up of the talus bone and calcaneus or heel bone. The heel bone is the largest bone in the foot.

The midfoot connects the hindfoot to the forefoot, and consists of one navicular bone, one cuboid bone, and three cuneiform bones. The navicular bone is found in front of the heel bone, and the cuneiform and cuboid bones are arranged in front of the navicular bone.

These bones are connected to five metatarsal bones of the forefoot, which form the arch of the foot for shock absorption while walking or running. The forefoot is also made up of the toes or digits, formed by phalanges, three in each toe, except the big toe, which has only two phalanges. The big two has two additional tiny round sesamoid bones in the ball of the foot, which help in upward and downward movement of the toe.

Ankle and Foot Joints.

There are 33 joints in the ankle and foot. They include the

Hinge joints in the ankle, which allow flexion (bending) and extension.

Gliding joints found in the hindfoot, which allow gliding movements.

Condyloid joints found in the forefoot and toes, which allow the flexion (bending) and extension, adduction and abduction (sideward movement).

The joints of the foot and ankle provide stability and support the weight of the body, helping you to walk or run, and to adapt to uneven ground.

The joint surface of all bones of the ankle and foot are lined by a thin, tough, flexible, and slippery surface called articular cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber and cushion to reduce friction between the bones. The cartilage is lubricated by synovial fluid, which further enables smooth movement of the bones.

Soft Tissues of the Ankle and Foot.

Our feet and ankle bones are held in place and supported by various soft tissues such as cartilage, ligaments, muscles, tendons and bursae.

Cartilage is the flexible, shiny, smooth tissue on the ends of bones that meet to form a joint. Cartilage provides cushioning between the bones allowing smooth movement.

Ligaments are tough rope-like tissue that connect bones to other bones, and holds them in place providing stability to the joints. The Plantar fascia is the largest ligament in the foot, originating from the heel bone to the forefoot, it extends along the bottom surface of the foot and is involved in maintaining the arch of the foot. The plantar fascia ligament stretches and contracts to provide balance and strength to the foot. Lateral ligaments on the outside of the foot and medial ligaments on the inside of the foot provide stability and allow up and down movement of the foot.

The foot is made up of 20 muscles, which help in movement. The main muscles include:

Anterior tibial muscle: allows up and down movement of the foot.

Posterior tibial muscle: supports the arch.

Peroneal tibial muscle: controls movement on the outside of the ankle.

Extensors: enable the ankle to raise the toes just before stepping forward.

Flexors: stabilize the toes against the floor.

Smaller muscles are also present to help the toes lift up and curl.

Tendons are soft tissues that connect muscles to bones. The largest and strongest tendon in the foot is the Achilles tendon, present at the back of the lower leg around the heel bone. Other tendons include peroneals and anterior and posterior tibialis.

Bursae.

Bursae are small fluid filled sacs that decrease friction between tendons and bone or skin. Bursae contain special cells called synovial cells that secrete a lubricating fluid.

The ankle and foot have a complex anatomy which functions together to help us run and walk. Any condition or injury that disrupts the way these tissues work greatly impacts the normal functioning of the foot and ankle.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The foot and ankle is a complex joint involved in movement and providing stability and balance to the body. The foot and ankle consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, and many muscles, tendons and ligaments. Our feet and ankle bones are held in place and supported by various soft tissues such as cartilage, ligaments, muscles, tendons and bursae.

# data[].attributes.body
Feeling so thankful for being able to live here.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Visit Santa Barbara (@visitsantabarbara)

# data[].attributes.body
Michelle Choi is my favorite Youtuber and she basically uploads a video a week about her New York lifestyle. Her video is chill and funny. I love her so much. Highly recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/user/michellechoii

# data[].attributes.body
This is my dog luna being calm for once. She’s 8 months old. As of now she’s into destroying shoes!

# data[].attributes.body
This is the app I've been using recently, it's called Tiktok. This is a dog who is sad because his owner forgot to take him for a walk. Be sure to see it to the end. So cute!!

# data[].attributes.body
I find that Alice (Astrologer, Writer) uses astrology or perhaps their experiences with readings to somehow map culture. I enjoy reading their articles and would love to study with them someday!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Jan. 19, 2022, 10:17 a.m.

Recently, I've been really interested in stories that don't deliver. Well, to rephrase, I've always been interested in stories that don't deliver-love stories where no one "gets together," adventures where heroes become wretched, and puzzles that are never solved. But, recently, I've become more interested in villains who aren't redeemed and dystopias that aren't fixed.

There's a tendency to write moralistically. In the fanfiction world, we call this type of writing issue fic.

Writing a story with a trans character? Make it all about trans rights. Writing a story about sexual violence? Make sure that the wrongness of violence becomes evidence in the plot itself even violence doesn't always reveal itself in lived reality. Writing a story about an evil assassin? Make sure they don't end up a killer at the end of the plot.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is also porn without plot. This is nihilistic enjoyment. It's pure sensation. It's very hard to write porn without plot because it is hard to write senselessly.

I've been thinking about what it means to use a language that has been shaped by cruelty and to use it for your own means. Astrology looks and feels Greco-Roman. It's gendered. It's been shaped by conservatism. And, still, people try to make sense and nonsense with each other using it.

When Audre Lorde said that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," she also said that "survival is not an academic skill." She was speaking to an academic conference of predominantly white wealthy women. She was cautioning the room to which she spoke that replicating the same hierarchies that are used to exclude white women will never help women survive.

What are the master's tools that Lorde was talking about? Hierarchy and exclusion. Not education. Lorde advocates for education later in the same speech, pointing out a gap in white women's education about Black women, and asks them why they have not educated themselves.

Education does not belong to the elite. In fact, it is the elite who do not know, who do not educate themselves. Education has existed for a long time. There have always been temples, schools, houses, and libraries where people did their learning.

Sometimes, the entire world feels toxic. You can't feed yourself without also feeding capitalism. Astrology feels toxic to me often. In our close friends, we talk about who amongst ourselves are toxic as if avoiding some kind of radioactivity will make us more pure. Leftists, in particular, engage in constant self critique as if we believe ourselves to be toxic.

During the so-called Enlightenment, Europeans appropriated everything. Their political structures were based on Asian governing principles, they appropriated freedom from the Wendat, naturalism from Tibet, dialecticism from West Africa, and so on. Almost everything that we know of as the West today were not built by western people but by people who were exploited by the West.

To act as if the world is toxic, to pretend that we cannot imagine ethics unless we seclude ourselves from everyone and everything, is basically letting the West get away with its theft. It's saying, "this is your world and we have to go build our own." No. This was never a world that is only defined by power. This has always been a world that creatively negotiated and changed power relations experimentally.

Feeling like it is possible to seclude yourself away from everything and everyone who is toxic is a kind of alienation. In the Book of Revelations, the rich hide themselves inside the earth and inside the mountains away from everyone else. Well, the rich today are building underground bunkers, aren't they? They assume they can do so because they've lived in their gated communities for too long.

I think about this and salvaging waste material. Writing stories while trying to avoid toxic waste is like writing while avoiding tropes. You can't do it because your imagination lives in this world-not a pure world where everything is moralistic and good and pure. It lives in this world and you get to use the things that you have seen and remember to convey it.

There's a Christian idea around salvaging, around salvation. You're supposed to purify things before they're useful again, acting like the world is more toxic than you are. But what if that isn't quite true?

I think that it is okay to write a story in which an evil person is redeemed as long as you enjoy it and you don't write it that way simply because you feel that you ought to or because you think that those are the only stories worth telling. I think that it is okay to write senselessly when you want to, to write chaotically, and to write to create more questions than you try to answer. I think that it is okay to write something that confuses and bewilders, stories where there is absolutely no moral outcome and in which no one learns a lesson.

I think that we need those stories because we actually have no idea what it means to be moral or ethical. We shouldn't. It's always something that we make up again and again, in order to accept change. The reason we make stories is not because we are trying to teach lessons but because we live. Living is not always perfectly meaningful, well purposed, and suitably motivated. Often, you find yourself living without a purpose trying your best to accept a world that seems toxic only because it has survived alongside you.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Jan. 19, 2022, 10:17 a.m. Recently, I've been really interested in stories that don't deliver. Well, to rephrase, I've always been interested in stories that don't deliver-love stories where no one "gets together," adventures where heroes become wretched, and puzzles that are never solved.

# data[].attributes.body
This is the playlist that I've been shuffling non-stop, 10/10 would recommend :)

# data[].attributes.body
This is my fur baby and best friend Tigerlily!

# data[].attributes.body
Check this video out for a source of positivity and a form of achievement into your goals!

# data[].attributes.body
this is my golden retriever she is 1 year old now

# data[].attributes.body
Such a patient little popsicle thief.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by golden retriever (@thatgoldenvibes)

# data[].attributes.body
Mobile technology has come so far since the first iPhone!

# data[].attributes.body
I've seen this video around 20 times and it's still one of the cutest things I've ever watched.