Ironworks

• These elegant surfaces epitomize warmth, sophistication, and unparalleled style, catering to the evolving needs and trends in modern home design.
• "Cambria's new designs represent a seamless fusion of style and innovation, capturing the essence of contemporary living spaces," said Summer Kath, EVP of Design at Cambria.
• True to its innovative DNA, Cambria also introduces two new finishes, Cambria Luxe™ and Cambria Satin™, elevating the brand's trademark luxurious designs to extraordinary levels.
• Cambria Luxe offers a breathtaking degree of brilliance with an unparalleled shine and high polish finish, redefining surface design.

• Linde De-captivates Air Separation Unit and Extends Agreement with China South Steel, Member of China Baowu Steel Group
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• Linde De-captivates Air Separation Unit and Extends Agreement with China South Steel, Member of China Baowu Steel Group
  Woking, UK, April 23, 2024 – Linde (Nasdaq: LIN) announced today it has signed two agreements with China South Steel, a member of the China Baowu Steel Group Corporation, one of the world's largest steel enterprises.
• Linde has signed an agreement to de-captivate an air separation unit (ASU) at China South Steel’s plant in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province.
• We are proud to deepen our existing long-standing relationship between Linde and China South Steel,” said Will Li, President Greater China, Linde.

• ThunderCat Technology was recently named as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Virginia.
• The annual list of the Best Places to Work in Virginia was created by Virginia Business Magazine and Best Companies Group
  RESTON, Va., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ThunderCat Technology was recently named as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Virginia.
• The annual list of the Best Places to Work in Virginia was created by Virginia Business Magazine and Best Companies Group.
• The 2024 Best Places to Work in Virginia list is made up of 100 companies.

• The Drummond Puddle, as it was grandly known, was a watery hazard placed perfectly where converging footpaths funnelled a daily stream of victims to their doom.
• To the wonderment of the world, their fate was livestreamed over the internet to more than half a million viewers.
• We can all, surely, remember the joy of splashing in a puddle – a universal example of creative play and getting to know the environment.

Your own private pool

• The isolation and brief life of many of these mini-ponds keeps long-lived, larger predators and competitors at bay, opening up opportunities for more “live fast, die young” life.
• In the UK, the most famous examples are the fairy shrimps of puddles on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
• When rain fills a track in the dried mud, fairy shrimp eggs hatch almost immediately.

• The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall supports a network of trackways that date back to pre-historic times.
• The clam shrimp had only previously been identified in a handful of sites in the north-eastern US.

Puddle problems

• As soon as the new build is started, however, these ponds are buried and lost.
• But research in urban areas of south-east Poland shows that single-celled algae such as diatoms and desmids thrive in these puddle environments.
• Studies in Brazil have also credited deforestation in the Xingu basin with driving “lentification” – creating water bodies that include puddles.
• Puddles are, however, not a positive substitute for the problems caused by urbanisation and habitat loss.

Planet puddle

• While we might be most familiar with the puddles of pavements and streets, there are natural puddle habitats too – and these are very widespread all over the planet.
• Puddles on ice sheets and glaciers called cryoconite holes are home to a cosmopolitan fauna of nematode worms, mites and the famously tough tardigrades.

• But in all cases, there is much more to puddles than meets the eye – not just tiny shrimps or marooned worms.
• Video coverage of the Drummond Pond in Newcastle in 2016 even captured some two-legged inhabitants that appeared to be large, mammalian and naked …

Mike Jeffries does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.