Dolly Parton, a veritable national treasure, has done yet another great thing for America: The parent company of her Tennessee theme park, Dollywood Parks & Resorts, announced Tuesday that it would cover 100 percent tuition, fees and books for employees enrolling in high school degrees and equivalents and post-high school degrees and certifications starting Feb. 24. Source: Dolly Parton Is… Doing More for the Working Class Than Anyone Else?
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Critter Vids + B. Christopher’s Vet Trip + Pod20: A. Renaud’s Inspo
Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Click H-E-R-E for my new podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s audio show is the audio version of “Novelist Alice Renaud’s COVID-19 Inspo: Animals + Publishing” that you can read the text version of H-E-R-E.
At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.
It started with witnessing utter joy between an orangutan and a hound dog. Youtube videos are pleasant distractions when one is slogging through writing a novel, no? (A bit about the ones I’m working on H-E-R-E.) As you can guess, my fave videos involve dogs, preferably ones that look like mine. Dogs…
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Violent clashes over hijab ban in southern India force schools to close | India | The Guardian
West Virginia students to stage walkout over Christian revival at high school | West Virginia | The Guardian
Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly.
When students arrived at the event in the school’s auditorium, they were instructed to close their eyes and raise their arms in prayer, Mays said. The teens were asked to give their lives over to Jesus to find purpose and salvation. Those who did not follow the Bible would go to hell when they died, they were told.
The Huntington high school junior sent a text to his father.
“Is this legal?” he asked.

Boris Johnson’s leadership past point of no return, says big Tory donor – BBC News
“Politicians should go into politics to do good for their country,” Mr Armitage added. “That is the overwhelming reason to be in politics. I don’t think it’s about your own personal sense of getting to the top of a snakes-and-ladders game.
“And I feel that, if you lose moral authority, and if you do things which the average person – your mother, someone you try to explain to, someone who you admire – if you do something or say something, which on the front page of the Sunday Times looks terrible, and you do that consistently, and you betray a sense of not really caring, I think you should leave
“And I find the lack of honour inherent in modern politics, incredibly distressing.”
Asked if Mr Johnson was “past the point of no return”, he replied: “Well, personally yes.”
Source: Boris Johnson’s leadership past point of no return, says big Tory donor – BBC News
Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out – BBC News
Archaeologists found fossil evidence from several layers at the site. The lower they dug, the further back in time they were able to see. The lowest layers showed the remains of Neanderthals who occupied the area for about 20,000 years.
But to their complete surprise, the team found a modern human child’s tooth in a layer dating back to about 54,000 years ago, along with some stone tools made in a way that was not associated with Neanderthals.
The evidence suggests that this early group of humans lived at the site for a relatively brief period, of perhaps about 2,000 years after which the site was unoccupied. The Neanderthals then return, occupying the site for several more thousand years, until modern humans come back about 44,000 years ago.
Source: Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out – BBC News
Indian government bows to pressure, repeals farm laws
The laws evoked strong protests from farmers and farmer organisations, particularly from the states of Punjab, Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh, on three major grounds. First, the farmers feared that increased private sector participation in agriculture trade would result in the withdrawal of the minimum support prices offered by the government for agricultural commodities. Second, they feared that the law would lead to the corporate takeover of the Indian agriculture sector. Third, the farmers contended that they were not consulted at the drafting stage of the laws. Source: Indian government bows to pressure, repeals farm laws
Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls To Generate True Random Numbers – Slashdot
Pastelería Ideal, un recinto con tradición, historia y sabor
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Con mucha amabilidad, una persona me regaló una caja con galletas. En cuanto la recibí, de inmediato reconocí el dibujo de la tapa -un horno con tres hombres elaborando pan y la inscripción “Alemania, 1794”- y los detalles laterales e inconfundibles -cuadros de talavera- de Pastelería Ideal, establecimiento fundado por don Adolfo Fernández Cetina, en los días de 1927, en la Ciudad de México.
Mientras saboreo una taza con café y deleito mi paladar con el inigualable sabor de las galletas de Pastelería Ideal, acuden a mi memoria imágenes de mi niñez, cuando acompañaba a mi padre al centro de la Ciudad de México, donde realizaba una multiplicidad de actividades y trámites relacionados con sus funciones y responsabilidades; pero también recuerdo las conversaciones amenas de mi madre, quien solía relatarme historias de personajes y negocios de épocas pasadas.

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