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7 Best Christmas Tree Stands in 2022

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Believe it or not, a Christmas tree won't stay upright on its own. Instead, you need a stable Christmas tree stand that can accommodate the type and size of tree you have. We researched dozens of the best Christmas tree stands to help you find the right one for your needs, whether you have a real tree, an artificial tree, a small tree, or a behemoth. The stands in our guide have a track record of durability, performance, and easy setup. We also outline the size and type of tree each stand is meant for. Check out our guide to the best Christmas tree skirts once you've chosen the right stand for your tree. The best Christmas tree stands in 2022 Best Christmas tree stand overall: Krinner Tree Genie Christmas Tree Stand, available at Amazon, $82.79 The German-engineered Krinner Tree Genie Christmas Tree Stand is easy to set up in a couple of minutes and keeps trees up to 12 f...
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Cleanup of Keystone oil pipeline spill expected to last weeks, officials say

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Emergency crews work to clean up a spill from the Keystone pipeline, in Washington County, Kan., on Dec. 9. DRONE BASE/Reuters Cleanup of the biggest U.S. oil spill in nearly a decade will take at least weeks more, local officials in Kansas said on Tuesday, citing a recent meeting with Keystone pipeline owner TC Energy Corp TRP-T. TC closed the pipeline after the spill of roughly 14,000 barrels of crude was discovered on Wednesday in Washington County in Kansas. There is still no official timeline for a restart of the line, which will need approval from regulators. TC and county officials met briefly on Monday. “They told us they expected to be here for several more weeks,” said Randy Hubbard, Washington County’s emergency management co-ordinator. “They didn’t qualify what that is.” TC did not respond to questions, and the company and regulators have not yet identified a cause for the leak. Sabotage has been ruled out, Kansas State Representative Lisa Moser said in a post online Mond...
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U.S. EPA says Keystone pipeline rupture spilled diluted bitumen, complicating cleanup

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Emergency crews work to clean up a leak from the Keystone pipeline, in Washington County, Kan., on Dec. 9. DRONE BASE/Reuters The oil spilled from TC Energy Corp’s ruptured Keystone pipeline was diluted bitumen, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday, adding complications to the cleanup. The 622,000 barrels per day (bpd) pipeline was shut since last week after it spilled 14,000 barrels of oil in rural Kansas, including into a creek. The parts of the pipeline carrying oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Illinois opened on Wednesday, leaving the ruptured part that extends from south of Steele City, Nebraska to a storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma closed. Bitumen from Canada’s oil sands is a dense, thick form of oil that shippers dilute with lighter oils so it can move through pipelines. The resulting product is called dilbit for short. A 2016 National Academy of Sciences study for the U.S. Department of Transportation examined whether transporting dilbit c...
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Cleanup of Keystone oil pipeline spill expected to last weeks, officials say

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Emergency crews work to clean up a spill from the Keystone pipeline, in Washington County, Kan., on Dec. 9. DRONE BASE/Reuters Cleanup of the biggest U.S. oil spill in nearly a decade will take at least weeks more, local officials in Kansas said on Tuesday, citing a recent meeting with Keystone pipeline owner TC Energy Corp TRP-T. TC closed the pipeline after the spill of roughly 14,000 barrels of crude was discovered on Wednesday in Washington County in Kansas. There is still no official timeline for a restart of the line, which will need approval from regulators. TC and county officials met briefly on Monday. “They told us they expected to be here for several more weeks,” said Randy Hubbard, Washington County’s emergency management co-ordinator. “They didn’t qualify what that is.” TC did not respond to questions, and the company and regulators have not yet identified a cause for the leak. Sabotage has been ruled out, Kansas State Representative Lisa Moser said in a post online Mond...
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7 Best Christmas Tree Stands in 2022

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Believe it or not, a Christmas tree won't stay upright on its own. Instead, you need a stable Christmas tree stand that can accommodate the type and size of tree you have. We researched dozens of the best Christmas tree stands to help you find the right one for your needs, whether you have a real tree, an artificial tree, a small tree, or a behemoth. The stands in our guide have a track record of durability, performance, and easy setup. We also outline the size and type of tree each stand is meant for. Check out our guide to the best Christmas tree skirts once you've chosen the right stand for your tree. The best Christmas tree stands in 2022 Best Christmas tree stand overall: Krinner Tree Genie Christmas Tree Stand, available at Amazon, $82.79 The German-engineered Krinner Tree Genie Christmas Tree Stand is easy to set up in a couple of minutes and keeps trees up to 12 f...
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What Are SQL Stored Procedures and How Do You Create Them?

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Stored procedures: like functions for your SQL. A stored procedure is a batch of SQL statements created and stored on a database. You can reuse a stored procedure over and over again. A stored procedure can accept parameters, run a query, and return results. Many users can call a stored procedure and different applications can call it with different parameter values. What Are the Benefits of Using Stored Procedures? Apart from allowing multiple users and applications to reuse it, a stored procedure has other benefits. It is easy to modify. You can change a stored procedure when necessary and these updates will be reflected for all users. Furthermore, you don’t need to redeploy your application when you modify the stored procedure. It reduces network traffic because the server only passes the procedure’s name over the network and not the entire query. It improves database security since users don’t have direct access to tables. To make...
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An Existentialist Guide to Feeling Nothing

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I recently watched “ the greatest film of all time ,” and the most boring one. In retrospect, the title alone should have been a sufficient warning: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles . Alas, I’m old enough to be a bit nostalgic about massive telephone address books. And massive it is. Clocking over 200 minutes, Chantal Akerman's 1975 dreary drama follows three days in the monotonous routine of Jeanne, a widow, a mother, and a prostitute. I watched Jeanne’s autopilot existence, until, staring at her back as she washes dishes, I decided to fast-forward a couple of minutes, only to discover she was still at it. And Jeanne is equally thorough when she’s busy baking, cleaning, folding laundry, or shining her son’s shoes. She speaks so scarcely and mechanically, that it’s impossible to detect any emotion or volition beyond her carefully controlled chores . Watching Jeanne Dielman is what the word “painstaking” was invented for. Chantal...
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