As winter moisture rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and makes snow on the Sierra Nevada range, it also can create blankets of white across the Central Valley below. Known as Tule (too-lee), this opaque fog spread across California in time for the 2020 winter solstice.  Though it can look pretty from above, the dense fog can be hazardous for people on the ground.  With more frequent rain and lighter winds during winter, moist coastal air masses moving in through the lowlands, and cooler air slipping down from the mountains, the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys are fertile territory for fog formation.  Daytime sunlight warms the soil and causes evaporation, while nighttime cooling can cause that moisture to saturate the air.  If winds are calm, the water droplets accumulate until fog clouds form near the ground.  Tule fog tends to form after sunset and becomes thickest just before dawn. It slowly thins as the air warms in daytime sunlight.  The name is derived from its formation over reedy, wetland vegetation—Los Tules or tullin.  https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147712/cool-yule-tule    

Arch Mission Foundation is a non-profit organization whose goal is to create multiple redundant repositories of human knowledge around the Solar System, including on Earth.  The organization was founded by Nova Spivack and Nick Slavin in 2015 and incorporated in 2016.  The Arch Mission plans to deliver multiple backups of civilization to locations around the Solar System as part of a distributed backup strategy.  The foundation plans "multiple . . . Arch libraries intended to preserve and disseminate humanity's knowledge across time and space for the benefit of future generations".  The foundation is technology agnostic and will use whichever storage technology is best for its purposes including multiple technologies.  The first method used is "5D laser optical data storage in quartz", which will reportedly remain readable for up to 14 billion years, resist cosmic radiation, and can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C.  The foundation also plans on spinning off companies based on patents from research groups involved with the technologies it uses to fund itself in the future.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Mission_Foundation    

This salad is a make-ahead marvel!  The salad needs to chill for a couple of hours anyway, but you can safely make it a full day ahead if needed.  The flavor gets better as it sits!  The key to make Seven Layer Salad in advance is to ensure all of the layers are totally dry.  Spin that lettuce in a salad spinner or blot with clean kitchen towels.  Your peas should go in thawed, not frozen.  Celery and onion aren’t water-logged anyway, so you’ll be good to go there.  And the mayonnaise layer provides a nice moisture barrier for the cheese and bacon.  

Lettuce:  Iceberg, crispy head lettuce, or Romaine.

Red onion:  I love the color of this one, but you can substitute white, yellow, or sweet onion if you prefer.  Tame harsh raw onions by soaking in ice water for 10 minutes, then draining well.

Celery:  A few ribs for extra crunch.

Peas:  Run frozen peas under cold water until thawed and drain well.

Mayonnaise:  Plain, good quality mayo like Hellman’s or Best Foods is perfect.

Sugar:  A little sugar transforms your mayo into salad dressing, but you can leave it out if you want to.

Cheddar cheese:  Or change the cheese to the one you love like smoked provolone, blue cheese, or feta cheese.

Bacon:  You could layer in some turkey or ham instead of the bacon. 

Meggan Hill  https://www.culinaryhill.com/seven-layer-salad/#h-7-layer-salad-ingredients    

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Are you are old enough to remember hearing the words, “Meet me at the Eagle”?  It was quite common for people who were shopping at the John Wanamaker Department Store in Philadelphia to arrange to do so with their family or friends.  Moreover, if one were to become lost or even separated from their loved one while shopping, then this phrase took on real significance and became very sound advice!  The Eagle was the centerpiece of the Grand Court in the John Wanamaker Main Store located in Philadelphia.  This prominent symbol would become the meeting place for thousands of Philadelphians since Mr. Wanamaker brought it to the store from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis.  Separately made parts form the heavy plates of the inner structure and the outer features and other surface parts.  The Eagle contains some 6,600 bronze feathers and each individual feather was made and painstakingly placed by hand.  Created by the noted German sculptor August Gaul, the dimensions of his creation measured 6’6” in height, 3’3” wide and 9’10” in length.  In 2001, the Philadelphia Historical Commission designated the Eagle an historic object.  The original Eagle is currently located at what is now Macy’s Department Store at 13th and Market Streets in Philadelphia.  See pictures at https://rivertonhistory.com/2019/06/meet-me-at-the-eagle/    

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.  The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division.  The team plays its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.  The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets when a group led by Bert Bell secured the rights to an NFL franchise in Philadelphia.  After more than a year of searching for a suitable replacement for the Yellow Jackets in the lucrative Philadelphia market, the National Football League granted an expansion franchise to an ownership group headed by Bert Bell and Lud Wray, who were also awarded the liquidated assets of the defunct Yellow Jackets organization.  Drawing inspiration from the Blue Eagle logo of the National Recovery Administration, a centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies, Bert Bell and Lud Wray named their new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles   

Samuel Maverick (c.1602—c. 1670) was one of the first colonists to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Arriving ahead of the Winthrop Fleet, Maverick became one of the earliest settlers, one of the largest landowners and one of the first slave-owners in Massachusetts.  He signed his name as "Mavericke".  He is the ancestor of rancher Samuel Maverick, from whom the term maverick for "independently minded" and an unbranded animal derives.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maverick_(colonist)#  For the Texas politician and landowner (1803–1870), see Samuel Maverick.  For the Texas soldier and businessman (1837–1936), see Samuel Maverick Jr.    

Debating in various forms has a long history that can be traced back to the philosophical and political debates of Ancient Greece, such as Athenian Democracy or the Shastrartha in Ancient India.  In Imperial China's Han Dynasty, debate amongst scholars was most famously portrayed in a series of debates known as the Discourses on Salt and Iron, held in 81 BCE.  Named by Emperor Zhao for its two most famous debates, those debates focused on the reformation of the economic policies implemented by Zhao's predecessor, Emperor Wu.  Modern forms of debating and the establishment of debating societies in the Western world occurred during the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate   

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