This is my running theory. The value is in the network of cameras to track movement, no? The more data points they can potentially offer someone makes that data more useful/valuable.

Tragic news. Another article from CNN said she had worked with these leopards for the last 8 years.

The leopards are being treated as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, which I’d think would be what this person would have wanted, since she spent almost all her adult life working with animals. Just because they are familiar with human doesn’t make these animals any less wild. It is a shame they couldn’t save her in the end.

I don’t work with anything that could kill me directly, but I have to put my body parts near animals that could definitely mess me up a good bit. I’ve also talked to the people in the sanctuary near my job where they kept wolves, and the wolves would only tolerate, I think, one specific staff member being in their enclosure. It’s impossible to ignore the risks involved when working with wildlife, but we do it because of a love for animals. Bless her for giving near 40 years to their care and safety.

I found a photo of some people putting a GPS collar on a Persian leopard to give us an example of the size of these cats.

The fruit wrinkles by the same company were the best fruit snacks for me!

Getting together with other like-minded individuals and actually doing something with immediate results like this has been such a huge help for me personally.

Just achieving something, no matter how small, and doing it with others that have a similar vision of what a better future is I feel is such a great mood booster.

I got involved with wild animal rescue 2 years ago, and being around such cool people is awesome, and each life we save is undeniably making our local ecosystem healthier and stronger.

Samantha the Barred Owl is burrito-wrapped so her carers can trim her beak and talons. She was an ambassador owl at a bat clinic (Save the Bats) which is fitting because today begins Bat Conservation Week.

Ambassador for Save the Bats?! 🤨

Samantha: “I love bats, they’re delicious!”

Wow, she’s had a crazy life.

Sam (short for Samantha) was found in April of 2010 in Alabama as an orphaned nestling with injuries to her right wing and wounds on her lower back. It is believed that she fell out of her nest and was attacked by a dog.

She began her rehabilitation journey at the Alabama Wildlife Center for a short time until she was transferred to the Southeastern Raptor Center at Auburn University. Sam had surgery to place pins in her wing to align the fracture. After removing the pins and going through physical therapy, it was determined that she was unable to move her right wing well enough to fly and could not be released back to the wild. She was transferred to the Organization for Bat Conservation on July 10, 2010, and then to the Stage Nature Center in February 2018. Because Sam was raised by people from a very young age, she is considered an “imprint”.

Imprints like her often identify with people more than they do other members of their species, which is why she will sometimes greet people by calling out when she hears or sees them.

I feel they tried to make it blend in, as it doesn’t look like their regular logo:

They should have at least put Rust Eze on the side though.

I thought it was actually a smashed car being towed at first and I was looking at how the trunk would have gotten smashed like that until I noticed the overall theme 😄

I used to see a Jetta parked near my spot with a Nazi eagle gripping a VW logo. I think that’s a different type of Supreme logo though. Was always very tempted to interact with that particular vehicle. 🤨

I think it must have just been someone’s “friend” and not someone who lived here, and thankfully I haven’t seen it in a few months.

Looks like there is a Lemons event in West Virginia this weekend, so quite possible. This sighting is in eastern Pennsylvania, but right by the turnpike entrance.

Perhaps a friend told him to invest in Pokemon cards and he misheard?

I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn’t know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆

The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.

I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.

I still don’t watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the “why” of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I’ve seen.

The other stuff in the movie didn’t bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don’t recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.

My brother and I both did the homemade laundry detergent for years with good success. We got everything off the shelf at Walmart, but Canada Walmart and Amazon sites make washing soda look much more expensive up there. That and the borax are about $7 each here.

Zote and Fels Naptha soaps worked equally well, but I usually grabbed the FN.

We added baking soda to the mix as well for deodorizing.

Made both liquid and powder versions, and both worked and all the soap dissolved for us in both forms.

This was in old top loader washers. I don’t know if I’d try this in modern front loaders as they seem more specific about what they want to work with due to using so much less water.

For wool, it’s naturally more odor fighting if you let it air out, so you shouldn’t have to wash it as much as cotton or other fibers. I tend to get wool dry cleaned because my wife’s family ran a cleaners, but if you’re going all natural fibers and homemade soap, I’m assuming that answer isn’t helpful for you.

That’s perfectly fine to like it but like whatever you want. It’s one of the few childhood dreams adulthood actually allows us! 😄

I’ve cooked for people that thought regular black pepper was borderline too spicy, and that’s their prerogative.

They’re all how hot most average hot wings are, if that helps. If you wouldn’t eat Buffalo wings, you won’t like any of these sauces.

Toasted bagel (sesame or poppy preferred) if I’m more hungry, English muffin if less hungry

Scrambled egg for even texture

Pork roll/Taylor Ham if available, or either bacon or sausage, whichever is better at the place I’m at.

American or cheddar based on my mood

A good cracking of black pepper

Hash brown on top of I’m feeling extra

Cholula

A Tabasco-like hot sauce, pleasant enough to go well on nearly anything.

I’m a Franks Red Hot or maybe Crystal kinda guy myself in this department, but they are ubiquitous North American red pepper sauces.

They are investments for the sake of all parties involved.

The Colorado department of transportation said before the overpass system was built, there was an average of one wildlife-vehicle crash a day in this corridor.

Such wildlife crossings are popping up across the country as a way to protect wildlife habitat and reduce collisions, which can result in injuries and deaths in humans and animals. Research has shown that overpass systems are successful in “nearly eliminating” these accidents and that such infrastructure buildouts often “pay for themselves” by preventing costly crashes.

Awesome to see some numbers on one of these projects. It often takes so little to accommodate nature with little to no inconvenience to us. Glad to see there are near 2 dozen more being built, with hopefully many more to come.

My brother one day asked me to go run some errands with him. I had wanted to go to the toilet before going and he said screw it and left without me.

I know it would have changed the timeline and all that had I gone with him, but a lady ran a stop sign on his way home and they got in a wreck.

My brother broke his arm and had to be cut from the car, but the engine and transmission was shoved through the passenger seat, so had I been there, I would have been crushed or cut in half or something along those lines.

I always think about how my ass may have saved my ass that day. 😅