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How to use acrylics to build a forest atmosphere and paint a girl within it

This video teaches how to draw and paint a girl standing in a forest using olive green acrylics to create a soft atmospheric effect. The tutorial demonstrates how to layer background tones, add depth ...

How to create an automated Budget in Excel

We show you how to create a budget or personal finance dashboard in Excel to keep your expenses in sync with reality. Useful ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Flooded a Forest to Catch a Ghost Forest in the Making. Here’s What They Found

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for coastal woodlands ...
Yahoo

Watch: Powell plots to murder relatives in 'How to Make a Killing' trailer

Glen Powell's "How to Make a Killing" got a trailer Tuesday. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Nov. 25 (UPI) --A24 released a new trailer for Glen Powell's How to Make a Killing on Tuesday. "Disowned at ...
UPI

Powell plots to murder relatives in 'How to Make a Killing' trailer

Nov. 25 (UPI) --A24 released a new trailer for Glen Powell's How to Make a Killing on Tuesday. "Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) will stop ...
New York Post

Texas creeps indicted in wild plot to invade tiny island to kill the men and use women and children as ‘their sex slaves’: feds

Two twisted Texans allegedly planned to invade a small Haitian island with an army of homeless people — to kill all the men so they could enslave the women and kids as “their sex slaves,” according to ...
Modesto Bee

Families can again cut Christmas trees in Stanislaus forest. Where and how tall?

The family of Benjamin Cossel, public affairs officer for the Stanislaus National Forest, cut its own Christmas tree off Highway 4 in a previous year. Permits for 2025 were announced in mid-November.
ZDNet

Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...
Reuters

To make progress on deforestation at COP30, countries must be paid to keep forests standing

November 17 - More than 30 years after the world first came together in Brazil to tackle climate change, global temperatures are still rising and so is impatience with talk over action. Citizens ...
The New York Times

North Carolina falls to Wake Forest, needs wins in final 2 to make bowl game

Wake Forest held UNC without a touchdown and ran for more than 200 yards. David Jensen / Getty Images North Carolina is on to rival Duke next week. And it has painted itself into a corner with regard ...
Morningstar

Stora Enso completes strategic review and intends to create the largest listed pure play forest company in Europe (Inside information)

On 18 June 2025, Stora Enso Oyj (the "Company" or "Stora Enso") announced the initiation of a strategic review of its Swedish forest assets as part of its stronger focus on renewable materials and ...
The Conversation

A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it better

Jason Gray is the Project Director of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force, a project of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law. The GCF Task Force ...