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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Did You Know-Ingredient Substitution

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Did You Know-Ingredient Substitution

Private firefighters in place to protect Rick Caruso’s Palisades home… – Los Angeles Times (Me: Why isn’t he helping LA firefighters? Who listens to this guy?)

“A firetruck, non-potable-water trucks and about a dozen private firefighters were stationed outside Rick Caruso’s home in Pacific Palisades on Sunday afternoon.

The firefighters said they represented five different private firefighting outfits and were hired by the Los Angeles real estate developer to protect his property and the surrounding neighborhood.”

Source: Private firefighters in place to protect Rick Caruso’s Palisades home and neighborhood – Los Angeles Times

LA fires live updates: California death toll rises to 24 as Los Angeles fire chief says ready for strong winds

…The Oregon State Fire Marshal, Mariana Ruiz-Temple, flatly denied on Sunday that any of the 75 engines the state dispatched to Los Angeles to help fight the wildfires this week had been held up in Sacramento for emissions testing.

“There is misinformation spreading on social media and from some news outlets claiming our equipment had to pass emissions tests and our equipment and firefighters were turned away or delayed. TO BE CLEAR: THIS IS FALSE,” the Oregon fire official wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.

On a website dedicated to knocking back viral misinformation about the fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office wrote that “out-of-state fire trucks take part in 15 minute safety & equipment inspection to ensure no issues with the vehicle.” When the rumor about emissions testing first surfaced in an unsourced post on X on Friday, the governor’s office noted, “the Oregon firefighting teams were already in the Los Angeles area battling the blazes.”

The false report had been amplified by the conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that was viewed more than 1 million times…

Source: LA fires live updates: California death toll rises to 24 as Los Angeles fire chief says ready for strong winds

Eaton fire: Electrical tower area is investigated as origin of fire – Los Angeles Times

…Early photos and videos taken by residents captured what appeared to be the first flames of the deadly Eaton fire, burning at the base of a Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower before racing down the canyon toward homes. Howerton confirmed to The Times that the area had become a focus of their inquiry, but it is unclear what investigators have discovered. It is also unclear what other potential sources and locations are being studied.

Southern California Edison officials have so far said they do not believe their electrical equipment was responsible.

Video and images from four residents and obtained by the The Times appeared to show that before the Eaton fire exploded — scorching more than 14,100 acres, damaging and destroying more than 7,000 structures and killing five people — the first flames of the fire burned behind Pasadena homes, at the base of a nearby electrical tower…

Source: Eaton fire: Electrical tower area is investigated as origin of fire – Los Angeles Times

Vin la Porto cu grăbire – ore de drum

Porto, 2020

Animația întreținută de bacanale îl antrenează pe călătorul curios pe străduțe, pe cheiuri, pe maluri, pe poduri, în piațete și parcuri.

Mă bucur de aerul blând de sfârșit de iarnă însuflețită de fiorul de a mă afla pe acel țărm îndepărtat de margine de lume.

Comerțul, traficul portuar, antrenul, plimbarea de-a lungul fluviului Douro intrat în legendă prin celebrarea licorii dionisiace, au atras necontenit valuri de vizitatori entuziaști.

Remarc o abundență turistică greu de egalat, însă gazdele stăpânesc arta primirii, nici nu se poate altfel, ținând cont de tradiția statornicită de englezii care au debarcat aici primii.

Totul a pornit în secolul 13, când vinul produs pe valea fluviului Douro începe să fie transportat în butoaie la Porto pe niște ambarcațiuni speciale, plate, unde era preluat de amatorii de viță nobilă.

În secolele 14-15, în șantierele navale din port se pune umărul la edificarea flotei portugheze, iar ambițiosului oraș i se duce vestea.

Mai târziu, în 1700, datorită unui acord comercial semnat între portughezi și englezi, vinul de Porto debarcă în Anglia unde cunoaște un succes fulminant, argument care-i convinge pe englezi să preia controlul total al producției și să purceadă la diversificarea soiurilor de prelucrare. Tot ei îl îmbuteliază și-l expediază acasă și în colonii.

Țărmurile fluviului Douro sunt legate prin șase poduri de o remarcabilă ingeniozitate.

Însă cel mai celebru, inclus în Patrimonul Mondial UNESCO ca și întregul centru vechi, este podul metalic rutier Dom Luis, simbolul orașului, inaugurat în 1886…

Source: Vin la Porto cu grăbire – ore de drum

Log 2025-2 Floating sea tree – Frits Ahlefeldt, Walking philosopher

My 2. week of 2025. I watched the stormy ocean, and the sand and waves hitting the rocky shore, from my family tree this week

Floating

Logbook note 2. week 2025, 6-12 January – Text and watercolors by Frits Ahlefeldt

I was with my brothers this week, in so many ways I lost count of them. And it was stormy winter days, and too quiet at the same time.

Trees are bound to places, but could there be trees in the sea? Floating with the currents and moving with the wind and waves… Would they look like this?

Square Illustration of floating sea tree. Watercolor by Frits Ahlefeldt
The floating sea tree

Back at my studio I sat for hours in front of my watercolors, researching and sketching grey herons to learn to know them better. It is one of the birds that stays here in Copenhagen through the cold winter, I worked to get the watercolor sketches right, but it was a challenge, my thoughts seemed to move away, out of the paper and back to my family tree.

I couldn’t hold the image still, so I sketched the herons while they moved.

Copenhagen ZOO

Finally I shook my head and put my brushes down, felt like I was in the wrong place, so packed my watercolor gear, and a thermos down in my backpack with the attached camping chair. Then I headed out to the Copenhagen Zoo, checked in with my year-pass, and walked over to where they have designed a tiny bit of what they hope the penguins will see as the Atlantic ocean and the South pole.

The penguins seemed happy in the cold Scandinavian January temperatures, They were jumping in and out of the water after the herrings that the zoo-keepers had given them… And I watched as a grey heron landed…

Video of Herons on the way:

Four watercolors of Grey Herons from this week:

 

Source: Log 2025-2 Floating sea tree – Frits Ahlefeldt, Walking philosopher

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