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Acorn Woodpeckers Turn Vacation Rental into Nutty Storage Unit

Deseret News

Pest control specialist Nick Castro discovered roughly 700 pounds of acorns that acorn woodpeckers had cached inside the chimney and walls of a rental home in Glen Ellen, California, north of San Francisco. The birds had pecked holes in the chimney stack, and the hoard piled up about 20 feet high inside the chimney over an estimated two to five years.

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Acorn Woodpeckers Turn Vacation Rental into Nutty Storage Unit
NATIONS

Leaked Assessment Reveals Stalemate in Ukraine-Russia Conflict

CNN

A trove of leaked U.S. Pentagon intelligence documents that surfaced in April 2023 painted a pessimistic picture of the war in Ukraine, with one assessment explicitly predicting that fighting in the Donbas region was heading toward a stalemate throughout the year. The documents indicated that Russia was unlikely to achieve its goal of capturing the entire Donbas, while Ukrainian forces also lacked the troop strength and supplies needed for decisive breakthroughs.

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SPORTS

NCAA's Cannabis Testing Changes Await Approval

NPR

An NCAA medical committee formally recommended removing cannabis from the organization's list of banned substances in June 2023, arguing that marijuana does not enhance athletic performance and that disciplinary enforcement belongs at the school level rather than through national testing. The Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports called for a harm-reduction approach emphasizing education and support over punitive suspensions for student-athletes who use cannabis.

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