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International Waters: Silver. "Big Stretch". Location: Antarctica by Sam Blount. //The winners and runners-up from the the Underwater Awards Australasia 2026. The results of the photographic competition were announced Saturday (5/9). Nine category winners were chosen from hundreds of photo and video entries. By Dean Murray A seal close-up and a juvenile whale shark surrounded by divers feature among winners and runners-up in the Underwater Awards Australasia 2026.

The Food Lab is not a recipe book. Okay, sure, there are recipes in it. But it’s so much more than that. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a James Beard Award-winning chef and food journalist who poured his collective knowledge of cooking into this massive, 958-page handbook for home chefs. I was gifted my copy years ago and, upon opening it, spent the next several weeks pouring over Lopez-Alt’s tips, tricks, hardware lists and finely honed techniques.

By Lauren Wilkin New research has uncovered ancient wildfires that raged through prehistoric rainforests in Antarctica - shaping our landscape. The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, found clear evidence of recurring wildfires in South Pole rainforests, the southernmost ever recorded on Earth.

The Food Lab is not a recipe book. Okay, sure, there are recipes in it. But it’s so much more than that. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is a James Beard Award-winning chef and food journalist who poured his collective knowledge of cooking into this massive, 958-page handbook for home chefs. I was gifted my copy years ago and, upon opening it, spent the next several weeks pouring over Lopez-Alt’s tips, tricks, hardware lists and finely honed techniques.

Harrisburg, Pa. — At the request of county officials, the Shapiro Administration will support a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) to assist individuals and families that sustained losses from damages caused by severe storms and heavy rain Sept. 2 and 3. The MARC is open to residents and business owners in Centre, Clinton, and Lycoming counties who were affected by the recent severe storms. kAm“%@CC6?E:2= C2:? 2?5 DEC@?8 H:?5 42FD65 52>286 E@ 9@>6D[ 3FD:?6DD6D 2?5 :?7C2DECF4EFC6 :?

Someone recommended a Facebook group for Southern Baptist pastors. He forewarned it would give thoughtful opinion, good humor and genuine frustration. And he’s correct. Some responders are dogmatic about things, seeming not to realize that the nation’s largest evangelical body has leaders with different opinions. And speaking of dogmatic, a pastor wrote recently about a unique situation.

If I could have a conversation with one person from the Bible, other than Jesus, I would choose Hagar whose story is told in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis, in New International Version Chapter 16:1-16 and Chapter 21:9-21. In the first two verses of Chapter 16, we learn that Sara, Abram’s wife had born him no children. But Sara had an Egyptian slave named Hagar, so she told Abram to sleep with her that perhaps through her she could have a family.

Francesco Cirillo was a college student in Rome in the late 1980s, timing his work with a kitchen timer shaped like a tomato. Pomodoro, in Italian. Twenty-five minutes of work, five minutes of rest. He was just trying to finish his homework. I came across it while I was in ministry in Muncie, Indiana. My mentor there, Wade Allen, pastored First Baptist Church, and he taught me to work on purpose — David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and this little tomato timer.

GADSDEN — The Gadsden Public Library’s main branch reopened on Tuesday, eight days after employees arrived to an ocean of water, not knowledge. Water began flowing from a damaged line at some point after the facility at 254 College St. closed for the weekend at 2 p.m. on Aug. 29, flooding a big portion of the floor in the front of the building and the entire basement. Fortunately, none of the library’s thousands of books were damaged.

Many challenges will remain, including the animosity among members and myriad global challenges, from ongoing wars and economic shocks to the worsening effects of climate change. But the next U.N. chief faces the additional woes of an international body starved of cash and at odds with its most powerful member: the United States. The second Trump administration has proved itself no fan of multilateralism and sees the U.N. as a bloated organization doing little to serve U.S. interests.