Tuesday, 21 October 2025

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, it is another bright sunny morning 🌄 here at the Tree House 🌳🏡 Newsroom. 📰 Cool, but nice for this late in the fall. It is supposed to be intermittent sun and in the upper 60s °F next week, beginning on Friday. So it appears we get another kick at the can for nice, early summer-like weather.

I enjoy sitting here at the kitchen table, looking out through the sliding glass doors onto my green space 🌳🍃🪷🌺 and that beautiful blue sky. 🏞 It's just like living in a tree house with the tops of the trees all around us. 🧚‍♀️😉 Now where's my unicorn?🦄🤣

I love the early morning sheen on everything and the stillness; it's magical. The brilliant sun makes the trees, which are beginning to turn color, appear greener and pristine. Today's is probably the cleanest air we've had all summer. Now I pray we get a normal winter this year, which is, on average, about 20°F at its coldest here on the peninsula.

A Little More About My Creature Habits

I only do Fahrenheit. I was born with the English scale. I could never memorize math conversions because I have a short-term memory problem, which also causes a little difficulty with spelling. I do equations and mathematical problem-solving well enough, just hand me a piece of paper and an HB pencil, and I'll get the answer faster than the person next to me could with a calculator or a slide rule. Now they use computers to compute mathematical data. I still keep my HB pencil and a pad of paper next to my keyboard. I can solve an equation as long as I know how the equation operates, even if I don't see the equation itself. It becomes a concept for me.

Actually, I need to distract myself for fear of where my premonitions or intuitions might take me, especially if I allow my intuitions to drift like sensory tentacles loose in the world at large during the End Times when destruction and suffering of "biblical" proportions are inflicted upon Earth in this movie called the insanity of Planet 3-TARA-HBE 32 RIP. The third planet from Sol has been reduced to a red-hot cinder.

If the ways of our world don't change, prove me wrong.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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MINDFUL INTUITION

What are the three types of intuition?

How does mindfulness help with intuition?

Intuition is obtained or honed through the brain's processing patterns from earlier experiences or observations. Mindfulness and intuition may have a symbiotic relationship where a mindful person is able to read more cues. The process of intuition is honed by carefully attuning to or being mindful of the cues around us.

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INTUITION:

immediate apprehension or cognition without reasoning or inferring. 2. : knowledge or conviction gained by intuition. 3. : the power or faculty of gaining direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference.

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MINDFULNESS:

Mindful means being aware of the present moment—including your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings—without judgment. It is a practice of paying attention to "what is" in the here and now, rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. Mindfulness can be cultivated through formal meditation or informal daily activities and is a way to respond to situations more calmly and less reactively.

THINK, FEEL, ACT:

About Concepts

Once I have a concept, I have two parallel equations. Which should I follow? I have come learned to follow my instincts. But what about the greater chance of the result of following one equation compared to the other one? Picking the wrong one usually leads to catastrophic results. Often, the sticking point is that I didn't follow my instinct to begin with. I THOUGHT I had the right equation and THOUGHT I was right, but I persisted in choosing the wrong, parallel equation. Brushing off my inner feelings, I took the shortcut in favor of redoing the math.

That's what old folks do a lot of, thinking, twitching in their clothes instead of jumping out of the way of the double-decker bus coming at them.

Don't just think. Make a decision based on what you are feeling from within and give that tiny, nagging little voice your ear

That's my preach for the day. Thank you for reading the Tree House News.

They dreamed of studying in the US. Trump’s visa policies have forced them to look elsewhere

New Delhi

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For decades, families in India have dedicated years and much of their finances toward a singular goal: getting their children a degree from a US university. Despite the hefty cost – often bore in staggering loans – the risk was palatable because the reward was likely a career launchpad that no other country in the world could offer.

But seismic policy shifts under President Donald Trump – from his recently announced $100,000 fee for H-1B work visas to his administration’s tightening scrutiny on international students and immigration crackdown – have many of those students and their families questioning that longstanding thinking. Avi, an 18-year-old from India’s Bihar state, said he had a nearly full scholarship lined up to study anthropology at Trinity College in Connecticut, but his US visa application was denied because he failed to demonstrate “ties that will compel you to return to your home country,” a letter from the US Embassy in New Delhi said.

“I will not apply to the United States anymore. The process feels very scary now, humiliating even,” said Avi, who asked to go by a nickname over fears of jeopardizing his future prospects...

Plummeting Indian student arrivals:
Declining interest:
H-1B concerns loom large:

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2025, 12:00 AM ET - 11 hr ago

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Trump scored a legal victory over National Guard troop deployment to Portland. Here’s what we know

The Trump administration has been given the green light to send the Oregon National Guard into Portland after a federal appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court’s order to bar the deployment – but there’s at least one more legal hurdle to clear before there will be boots on the ground.

“After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority,” the 2-1 ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday said. The ruling, supported by two judges appointed by President Donald Trump, overturns a temporary restraining order issued by US District Judge Karin Immergut, who last week extended two orders blocking the mobilization of federal troops to Portland.

It also marks a big win for the administration as it continues to battle other Democrat-led cities over troop deployment – efforts that local and state leaders say are a disproportionate response to protests against the administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown...

When will troops be deployed?:
Will the state or city appeal?:
What this means for other states:

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2025, 4:06 AM ET - 7 hr ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

In scathing report, AG finds CRA call centres are slow to answer and often inaccurate

In test calls, CRA agents gave accurate answers only 17% of the time when asked about individual taxes

In a scathing new report released Tuesday, the auditor general found Canada Revenue Agency contact centres are repeatedly failing to answer calls in a timely manner — and when agents do connect to a customer, they are often providing inaccurate responses. While the CRA has committed to answering 65 per cent of calls within 15 minutes a standard that is already much lower than it was in the past Auditor General Karen Hogan found that just 18 per cent were answered in that time frame in 2024-25. In June, the service offered was even worse: fewer than five per cent of calls were answered within 15 minutes.

The AG's office placed 167 test calls to the CRA between February and May of this year to assess the agency's promised response time — the average wait time to reach an agent was nearly 33 minutes. Between time on hold and spent with an agent, the report said it took analysts about 50 minutes on average to get an answer to a query...

Information from CRA often inaccurate:
Military recruiting, water advisories also highlighted:

Posted: Oct 21, 2025 10:07 AM EDT | Last Updated: 35 minutes ago

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GM to end electric van production at CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

'It's simply a demand and a market-driven response,' GM Canada's president says

General Motors has confirmed it is ending production of its BrightDrop electric delivery vans at the CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, leaving the future of the southwestern Ontario facility uncertain. Production at the plant was paused in May when GM cited slowing demand in the commercial EV market. The company said that as part of today's decision, BrightDrop vehicles won't be made elsewhere, marking an end to the line that was pegged to be a cornerstone of Ontario's electric-vehicle ambitions.

"These Bright Drop vans are a specialized electric delivery van for commercial customers and, quite simply, we just have not seen demand for these vehicles climb to the levels that we initially anticipated," said Kristian Aquilina, GM Canada's president and managing director, who was in Ingersoll for the announcement. "This has nothing to do with tariffs or trade. It's simply a demand and a market-driven response." ...