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A wolf can eat twenty-two pounds of meat in a single sitting, but their preferred food is not human but elk and deer, and also melons, figs, grains, grass; in North America, they feast on blueberries, and raspberries when they can get them. So wolves are formidably hungry, yes, just not for us.

The street names in Columbia, Maryland, were drawn from art and literature.“Satan Wood Drive,” however, was the result of a typo. It was supposed to be named “satin wood” for a line from an Amy Lowell poem.

Residents have adopted a variety of coping mechanisms. A priest who lives on the street sprinkles holy water around his house each year. Another man obscures the name by giving it a French pronunciation. Others simply call it S Street.

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Their biggest obstacle has been getting people to take the problem seriously: At a recent town budget hearing, as the residents made their case, the meeting erupted in guffaws. “They wouldn’t think it was so funny if they had to live on the street,” muttered Barbara Chapman, who has lived there for four years.

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The name change, she was told, would cost the community a total of $2,581.20, and it would require signatures from 19 of the street’s 21 homeowners. In December, all but one family signed the petition.

Despite this hobby [board games] essentially centring around competition, it is highly non-competitive. These gamers can quickly deduce optimal strategy and tactics, but they know that many good games feature chance, and that unpredictability can make them more fun. They revel in the experience irrespective of outcome, so long as it is elegantly balanced and designed. Their pleasure comes from the way a game makes them interact or think in ways they ordinarily wouldn’t or didn’t know they could. To a Gen Con gamer, games are akin to something like art — the experience of it is subjective and kind of the whole deal.

Video footage shows Rivas and others berating the officers for complicity in what they called a “kidnapping.” Local news channels later reported that the vehicles had chased the man after a raid at a nearby car wash.

“I know half of you guys know this is fucked up,” Rivas was recorded telling the officers.

Moments later, the scene took a turn. As suddenly as they’d arrived, the officers returned to their vehicles and left, with no apology and no explanation to the distraught man they left on the sidewalk.

Through a mask, one of them said, “Have a good day.”

In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring cooperating with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.