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Here's the LA Times article. Archive link here.

Looks like it could have baked just a little bit longer, but it still looks good. I'm gonna have to go make one now too.

I like them with a spritz of lemon juice and powdered sugar. A little lemon zest in the batter is nice too.

How did you come to be interested in Mayan languages? And how did you go about learning them?

You get told it's just pneumonia, but it keeps coming back for years.

Eventually someone figures it out and says you have mesothelioma. You travel the country for a few years, looking for treatment wherever you can. It costs everything you have.

Somewhere along the way, you have to put down $120,000 in cash for a surgery that gives you a few more years. But your last years are still mostly pain and exhaustion.

I wish my uncle hadn't died the way he did.

For me, it would have to be something nice, but not so interesting that I want to stay awake (Ariadne auf Naxos). Or something I've heard a million times (The Magic Flute).

Beethoven has always been calming for me, so maybe Fidelio too.

If you're looking for beautiful music, maybe Tosca or Rusalka.

There are others that I wouldn't necessarily fall asleep to, like Don Carlo, Pagliacci, Rigoletto, or La Traviata. This is a pretty good list of some of the best known operas.

They have been for a while now. It started before the API thing with subreddits that were basically mirrors of English ones. But (badly) auto translated into German.

A few weeks ago, the Google results got flooded with auto translations. You can still find stuff that was written in German, but you have to limit the search to German subs (site:reddit.com/r/de, for example).

Or check the sub name in the search results. If it's in German, you should be good. If it's in English, or if it doesn't show up at all, it's usually a machine translation.

Three months isn't a lot of time, so I would talk to a lawyer sooner rather than later. Google employment lawyers in your area, or "attorney referral service [your state]." You should be able to get a free consultation.

Some lawyers may be able to tell you right away if they'll take your case, but it may take a little time. And you may want to get more than one opinion. If you have any documents, round those up and hang onto them.

Both ways can work. Looking up words, and trying to guess the meaning from context. I use both, depending on my mood and the situation.

I like trying to guess the meaning because you have to think things through. That helps you remember the answer. Doesn't matter if you got it right or wrong. It's not always easy, but it gets better with practice.

You can usually look at the situation and narrow it down to a few possibilities. If my guess seems decent enough to get the gist, I keep going. Usually, you'll find something that helps you figure out if you were right.

If I see a word several times, I usually look it up. Otherwise, it's probably not that important (unless I happen to be curious).

And if I look up a word and forget it, no big deal. Happens all the time. I'll either come across it again, or it wasn't that important.

It can be slow going, no matter what option you choose. But if you keep at it, you can get to a point where you rarely have to look things up.

Some kids have died at camps like this. The link is the story of a 16 year old who died in Arizona in 1994.

He had to hike for miles a day and sleep with no blanket or sleeping bag in temperatures below freezing. He had no food for 11 days out of 20, partly as a punishment for being sick.

He complained about being sick for weeks - stomach pain, falling down, hallucinations. On the day he died, it took him an hour to crawl 20 feet to the fire. He died from an infection from a perforated ulcer. The staff were standing around making fun of him when he collapsed for the last time.

The owners of the camp pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. One of the counselors was convicted of felony neglect.

Earlier this year, a 12 year old suffocated to death at a wilderness camp in North Carolina. His death was found to be a homicide.

How do you tell if an insect is sleeping? I guess they just stay still for a while?

Anyway, great picture of a pretty little critter!

Fascinating! So oxygen from the air (or wherever) + hydrogen from food = water.

Plants can make their own food, and birds can make their own water :)

That's what I thought too, but bones are about 1/3 protein with a lot of fat and minerals. Kind of like tonkotsu broth.

They also store well. If the vultures find more than they need, they'll keep the extra bones in a storage place really high up. The fat content drops a lot when the bones dry out, but the protein is still there.

The downside is bones don't have a lot of water, so bearded vultures need a source of fresh water in their territory.