A beef on weck is a sandwich found primarily in Western New York State, particularly in the city of Buffalo.  It is made with roast beef on a kummelweck roll, a roll that is topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds.  The meat on the sandwich is traditionally served rare, thin cut, with the top bun getting a dip in jus and spread with horseradish.  The sandwich, along with Buffalo wings and sponge candy, is one of the three best-known food specialties of Buffalo.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_on_weck  

Rockville is a town in Adams Township, Parke County, Indiana. The population was 2,607 at the 2010 census.  The town is the county seat of Parke County.  It is known as "The Covered Bridge Capital of the World".  Rockville was laid out in 1824, three years after the county was founded, and became the county seat.  In 1825, its population was between 500 and 600.  The residents voted to incorporate the town in July 1854.  The Rockville Chautauqua Pavilion and Rockville Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville,_Indiana  

Parke County covered bridge festival in Rockville.  Indiana's largest annual festival is headquartered in Rockville with activities in other towns throughout the county.  Oct. 13-22, 2023:  hours and activities vary each day.  See web site in this listing or call 765-569-5226.  parke county covered bridge festival, county wide, rockville, parke county.  Always verify event listings to be certain they will still be held as originally scheduled.  There are 31 historic covered bridges in Parke County.  Held over ten days in October, the event started in 1957.  https://aroundindy.com/ws_parke_county_covered_bridge_festival_in_rockville.php    

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead     

Naomi Novik (born 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction.  She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022).  Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Novik    

rapscallion  from an alteration of rascallion, a fanciful elaboration of rascal (“someone who is naughty”).

Noun  rapscallion (plural rapscallions)

(archaic) A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel. quotations ▼

Adjective  rapscallion (comparative more rapscallion, superlative most rapscallion)  

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Get ready to say goodbye to the incandescent light bulb, pioneered by Thomas Edison more than a century ago.  You can thank—or blame—new federal energy efficiency regulations that went into full effect August 2, 2023.  The Energy Department rules, which date back to the Obama administration, have been whipsawed in the political process for years.  Some conservatives and Republican lawmakers long denounced them for interfering with consumer choice and placing undue burdens on business.  Under former President Donald Trump, the Energy Department scrapped them in 2019; the Biden administration subsequently revived them.    The rules establish strict new efficiency standards for bulbs used in homes and businesses and bans the manufacture and sale of those that don't meet those requirements.  Practical incandescent bulbs, which trace their origin to an 1880 Edison patent, can't meet those standards.  Neither can halogen bulbs.  The rules also ban imports of less efficient bulbs.  The rules don’t affect bulbs that you already own; they also exempt special purpose incandescents such as those used inside ovens.  But suppose you discard—or give away—your halogen and incandescent bulbs.  Odds are good that replacing them with LED bulbs could save you a fair amount of money.  As the rules reinforce existing market changes, the Energy Department believes that U.S. consumers can save almost $3 billion annually on their utility bills.   Similarly, it projects that the rules could cut carbon emissions by 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years.  Incandescent bulbs create illumination by running an electric current through a filament that heats it until it glows.  Edison's first practical light bulb used a carbonized cotton thread for that purpose; modern bulbs use tungsten filaments in an inert gas.  But incandescents are not very efficient.  Only roughly 5 percent of the energy used by an incandescent bulb produces light; the remaining 95 percent or so is lost as heat. This is why you let an incandescent bulb cool off before unscrewing it.  They also burn out frequently, requiring replacement roughly every year.  The light-emitting components in LED bulbs, by contrast, are manufactured via the same process used to make computer chips, which makes them extremely efficient.  They generate almost no heat and use up to 90 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs while lasting up to 25 times longer, according to the Energy Department.  https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/incandescent-bulbs-banned-new-us-rules-take-effect-rcna97762    

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