the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

I wasn’t going to post this chick cause I don’t believe she’s going to survive long. She works for CNN. The Taliban is tolerating her for the moment for one reason. They think they will get fair coverage. Why? Because they view CNN as Anti American news. Go figure.

Crowd control.

Crowed control.

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[HEADING=2]Woman comes face-to-face with snake in Australia supermarket[/HEADING]
ROD McGUIRK
Wed, August 18, 2021, 3:02 AM

*CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came face-to-face with a huge snake.

The head of the 3-meter-long (10-foot-long) non-venomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.

“I was in the spice aisle just looking for something to put on my chicken that night so I didn’t initially see it because it was curled up way back behind the little jars of spices,” Alati said Wednesday. “I kind of turned to my right and it poked its head out.”

Alati, who coincidently is a trained snake catcher, said the snake's head came to within 20 centimeters (8 inches) of her own.

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Joey Chestnut's in trouble.............

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[HEADING=2]61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020, Tax Policy Center says[/HEADING]
PUBLISHED WED, AUG 18 20215:21 PM EDTUPDATED WED, AUG 18 20216:48 PM EDT

**AP NEWS/Taliban declares all they want is to...overthrow the government...guns....pick up trucks to fly flags on.....impose religion....and women to abuse.......in other words they want to be American right wingers

**

[HEADING=2]It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before.[/HEADING]
The showers are another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on Earth.

It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before.

[IMG alt="The Summit research station, which sits two miles above sea level on the Greenland ice sheet, in 2015. "]
The Summit research station, which sits two miles above sea level on the Greenland ice sheet, in 2015. Credit...Josh Haner/The New York Times

Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.

The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several hours, as temperatures rose slightly above freezing — is yet another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on the planet.

“It’s incredible, because it does write a new chapter in the book of Greenland,” said Marco Tedesco, a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. “This is really new.”

At the station, which is called Summit and is occupied year-round under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, there is no record of rain since observations began in the 1980s. And computer simulations show no evidence going back even further, said Thomas Mote, a climate scientist at the University of Georgia.

Above-freezing conditions at Summit are nearly as rare. Before this century, ice cores showed they had occurred only six times in the past 2,000 years, Martin Stendel, a senior researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute, wrote in an email message.

But above-freezing temperatures have now occurred at Summit in 2012, 2019 and this year — three times in fewer than 10 years.

The Greenland ice sheet, which is up to two miles thick and covers about 650,000 square miles, has been losing more ice and contributing more to sea-level rise in recent decades as the Earth has warmed from human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

The surface of the ice sheet gains mass every year, because accumulation of snowfall is greater than surface melting. But overall, the sheet loses more ice through melting where it meets the ocean, and through the breaking-off of icebergs. On average over the past two decades, Greenland has lost more than 300 billion tons of ice each year.

This year will likely be an average one for surface accumulation, said Dr. Stendel, who is also coordinator of [Polar Portal]('http://polarportal.dk/en/home/'), a website that disseminates the results of Danish Arctic research. Heavy snowfall early in the year suggested it might be an above-average year for accumulation, but two periods of warming in July and another in early August changed that by causing widespread surface melting.

Meltwater carved a canal into the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier in 2019.Credit...Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The warming that accompanied the rain last Saturday also caused melting over more than 50 percent of the ice sheet surface.

Dr. Mote said that these melting episodes were each “one-off” events. “But these events seem to be happening more and more frequently,” he said. “And that tells the story that we are seeing real evidence of climate change in Greenland.”

Last Saturday marked the first time since satellite monitoring began in 1979 that melting has occurred over more than half of the surface in mid-August, Dr. Mote said. Normally peak melting occurs in mid-July, as it did in 2012, when there was a huge melting event.

“By the time you get to the middle of August, you’re usually seeing a rapid retreat of melt activity and a decline of temperature,” he said.

Dr. Tedesco said the rain at Summit would not contribute directly to sea-level rise, because the water drains into the ice rather than to the ocean. “But if this is happening at Summit, the effect at lower elevations will be more violent,” he said. “And that ice is actually going to the ocean.”

Dr. Tedesco described the rain at Summit as “worrisome,” because it shows that even a little warming can have an effect in the region.

“Half a degree of warming can really change the state of the Arctic because you can go from frozen to liquid,” he said. “This is exactly what we’re seeing.”

The rain and melting last Saturday occurred when the jet stream, rather than flowing in its normal pattern from west to east, dipped southward over northeastern Canada. That brought low-pressure air over warmer waters, where it picked up heat and moisture.

The jet stream then looped back northward, bringing that air to southwestern Greenland from where it swept over the ice sheet. The warm air and even the moisture-laden clouds themselves caused temperatures to rise at Summit and the precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow, Dr. Mote said.

Some scientists have linked jet stream disruptions such as this, often referred to as “waviness,” to climate change in the Arctic, although that is still a subject of debate. But they are occurring, and are also creating so-called blocking patterns that can stall high-pressure air over a region.

That’s what occurred in the earlier melting episodes this summer. High-pressure air that stalled over the ice sheet led to clear skies that allowed more sunlight to reach the surface, melting more snow.

[HEADING=2]It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before.[/HEADING]
The showers are another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on Earth.

[It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before.]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/climate/greenland-rain-ice-sheet.html')

[IMG alt="The Summit research station, which sits two miles above sea level on the Greenland ice sheet, in 2015. "]
The Summit research station, which sits two miles above sea level on the Greenland ice sheet, in 2015. Credit...Josh Haner/The New York Times

Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.

The rain at a research station — not just a few drops or a drizzle but a stream for several hours, as temperatures rose slightly above freezing — is yet another troubling sign of a changing Arctic, which is warming faster than any other region on the planet.

“It’s incredible, because it does write a new chapter in the book of Greenland,” said Marco Tedesco, a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. “This is really new.”

At the station, which is called Summit and is occupied year-round under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, there is no record of rain since observations began in the 1980s. And computer simulations show no evidence going back even further, said Thomas Mote, a climate scientist at the University of Georgia.

Above-freezing conditions at Summit are nearly as rare. Before this century, ice cores showed they had occurred only six times in the past 2,000 years, Martin Stendel, a senior researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute, wrote in an email message.

But above-freezing temperatures have now occurred at Summit in 2012, 2019 and this year — three times in fewer than 10 years.

The Greenland ice sheet, which is up to two miles thick and covers about 650,000 square miles, has been losing more ice and contributing more to sea-level rise in recent decades as the Earth has warmed from human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

The surface of the ice sheet gains mass every year, because accumulation of snowfall is greater than surface melting. But overall, the sheet loses more ice through melting where it meets the ocean, and through the breaking-off of icebergs. On average over the past two decades, Greenland has lost more than 300 billion tons of ice each year.

This year will likely be an average one for surface accumulation, said Dr. Stendel, who is also coordinator of [Polar Portal]('http://polarportal.dk/en/home/'), a website that disseminates the results of Danish Arctic research. Heavy snowfall early in the year suggested it might be an above-average year for accumulation, but two periods of warming in July and another in early August changed that by causing widespread surface melting.

Meltwater carved a canal into the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleq glacier in 2019.Credit...Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The warming that accompanied the rain last Saturday also caused melting over more than 50 percent of the ice sheet surface.

Dr. Mote said that these melting episodes were each “one-off” events. “But these events seem to be happening more and more frequently,” he said. “And that tells the story that we are seeing real evidence of climate change in Greenland.”

Last Saturday marked the first time since satellite monitoring began in 1979 that melting has occurred over more than half of the surface in mid-August, Dr. Mote said. Normally peak melting occurs in mid-July, as it did in 2012, when there was a huge melting event.

“By the time you get to the middle of August, you’re usually seeing a rapid retreat of melt activity and a decline of temperature,” he said.

Dr. Tedesco said the rain at Summit would not contribute directly to sea-level rise, because the water drains into the ice rather than to the ocean. “But if this is happening at Summit, the effect at lower elevations will be more violent,” he said. “And that ice is actually going to the ocean.”

Dr. Tedesco described the rain at Summit as “worrisome,” because it shows that even a little warming can have an effect in the region.

“Half a degree of warming can really change the state of the Arctic because you can go from frozen to liquid,” he said. “This is exactly what we’re seeing.”

The rain and melting last Saturday occurred when the jet stream, rather than flowing in its normal pattern from west to east, dipped southward over northeastern Canada. That brought low-pressure air over warmer waters, where it picked up heat and moisture.

The jet stream then looped back northward, bringing that air to southwestern Greenland from where it swept over the ice sheet. The warm air and even the moisture-laden clouds themselves caused temperatures to rise at Summit and the precipitation to fall as rain rather than snow, Dr. Mote said.

Some scientists have linked jet stream disruptions such as this, often referred to as “waviness,” to climate change in the Arctic, although that is still a subject of debate. But they are occurring, and are also creating so-called blocking patterns that can stall high-pressure air over a region.

That’s what occurred in the earlier melting episodes this summer. High-pressure air that stalled over the ice sheet led to clear skies that allowed more sunlight to reach the surface, melting more snow.

read that yesterday - scary

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[]Two children steered their vehicle off a freeway after their dad was fatally shot while driving. *
[]The boys, 6 and 8, steered the SUV to a nearby parking lot to get help, according to reports. *
[]Police said the boys did not suffer injuries, but their father died on the scene.*
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*
A spokesperson for the Houston Police Department, John Cannon, [told CNN]('https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/texas-boys-steer-car-dad-shot-killed/index.html') the incident happened around 11 p.m. Police said the father, 29, was driving in an SUV with his sons on Interstate 10 in Houston, Texas, when a bullet struck him.*

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A kinder, gentler, and more discriminating T. rex???

[HEADING=2]T. Rex Was Fearsome but May Have Been a Picky Eater[/HEADING]
The jaw of the Tyrannosaurus Rex had sensitive nerves that may have allowed it to differentiate between parts of its prey, a new study found.

The T. Rex likely did not eat blindly, according to a study. It had keen senses that may have allowed it to recognize different parts of its prey. Credit...Sven Kaestner/Associated Press

Was the Tyrannosaurus Rex a foodie?

The dinosaur, [fixed in the popular imagination as a ruthless predator that chomped on whatever unfortunate creature crossed its path]('

While it might not have been a truly discerning gastronome, the T. Rex had a sophisticated mandible comparable to the jaws of modern-day crocodiles and tactile-foraging birds, like ducks, according to the scientists from the Institute of Dinosaur Research at Fukui Prefectural University, who conducted the study.

In other words, T. Rex very likely did not eat blindly, according to the study. It had keen senses that might have allowed it to recognize different parts of its prey and to chew on them differently depending on what it was munching on.

“The jaws of Tyrannosaurus were powerful enough to crush bones,” Soichiro Kawabe, one of the authors of the [study]('https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2021.1965137') and a paleontologist at the institute, said in an email. “However, in situations where food was plentiful, they may have used their sensitive snouts to eat the more nutritious parts of their prey selectively. The diet of Tyrannosaurus may not have been as crude as we imagine.”

The study does not say how discriminating the T. Rex was or whether it could recognize the difference between bone and flesh.

“These speculations are pretty imaginary and not within the scope of what we can scientifically derive from our research results,” Dr. Kawabe said.

The significance of the study is that it reveals the complex development of nerves within the mandible of the Tyrannosaurus, he said.

“Based on the morphology of the mandibular nerve of Tyrannosaurus, we were able to clarify that the jaw tip of Tyrannosaurus was most likely a pretty capable sensor,” Dr. Kawabe said.

Dr. Kawabe and another scientist, Soki Hattori, an assistant professor at the institute, used computed tomography, or CT scanning, to analyze and reconstruct the canal structure of the jawbone through which nerves and blood vessels would have passed. They studied the fossil of a T. Rex found in the [Hell Creek Formation in Montana]('https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/travel/digging-up-dinosaur-bones-in-the-fossilrich-badlands.html').

The study used CT scanning to analyze the canal structure of the jawbone.Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The fossil was well preserved, allowing the researchers to study the canal structure, he said.

The sensitive jaw tips also give clues to how the Tyrannosaurus may have parented.

Crocodiles have sensitive snouts, which help them detect prey in water but also give them such a finely tuned sense of touch that they can carry their young in their mouths without crushing them with their powerful jaws.

“Tyrannosaurus may have done the same,” Dr. Kawabe said.

The study underscores “the sensitive side of the T. Rex,” said Jack Tseng, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who read the report.

“We’ve been really obsessed with the forces that the T. Rex could possess rather than its finesse,” he said. “This gives us a sense of its finesse.”

The report gives “another dimension” to a creature that the general public has obsessed over but rarely perceived as anything more than a monster, said Dr. Tseng, [who has analyzed the bite of teenage Tyrannosaurus]('

“They were not blockheads that were chomping down on anything they saw moving,” he said.

Still, Dr. Tseng said the study’s findings underscore the need for more fossil evidence to show how the dinosaur’s sensitive mandible was used. Analyzing coprolites, or fossilized feces, “could be another way to understand how sensitive their palate was,” he said.

The authors of the report acknowledged that their findings are limited: They did not analyze the full mandible area of the dinosaur or use other dinosaur fossils for comparison.

“Ideally, this study can be continued with a variety of additional types of dinosaurs, to see if Tyrannosaurus was truly exceptional, or just a run-of-the-mill carnivorous dinosaur,” said Thomas R. Holtz, a paleontologist at the University of Maryland who read the study. “But even this smaller scale study helps us better understand dinosaurs as living, feeling animals.”

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[HEADING=2]US hits back at ISIS-K days after Kabul attack, 'kills' terrorist planner in drone strike in Afghanistan[/HEADING]
A spokesperson for the US Central Command said the unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar province of Afghanistan, adding that the initial indications hint that the ISIS-K target has been killed and there have been no civilian casualties.
Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Meenakshi Ray, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 28, 2021 09:17 AM IST
The US struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday as it bombed a member of the ISIS-K in eastern Afghanistan in a retaliatory airstrike less than 48 hours after a fatal suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members, news agencies reported. According to the Pentagon, the drone strikes by the US military targeted a 'planner' of the ISIS outfit.

From the "A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted" files, but with some of the money that many have, it might take a bit longer...

[HEADING=2]Truffles, gold leaf and triple-digit prices: Status dishes are back[/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2021/08/29/truffles-gold-leaf-and-triple-digit-prices-status-dishes-are-back/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/29/truffles-gold-leaf-and-triple-digit-prices-status-dishes-are-back/')

By Emily Heil August 29, 2021

Restaurant owners and chefs have been obsessing over how the pandemic might permanently change what diners want. In the past 18 months, so much fine dining has given way to simpler fare – even Noma, the Denmark restaurant known for serving moss garnishes and triple-digit checks, morphed into a burger joint. Perhaps this swing toward familiar comfort foods is here to stay?

No blinging way, at least not for some luxury-seekers. In the latest sign that nature is, in fact, healing, the status dish is making its flashy, made-for-Instagram return. Such menu items – usually eye-poppingly expensive, often flecked with edible gilding and incorporating famously pricey ingredients such as caviar or truffles – have long been with us. They have occasionally made headlines (as they’re designed to do) and sometimes get compiled into world’s-most-expensive lists. But they had been put on mute, like that colleague on Zoom with the ringing phone, as the pandemic shut down restaurants and made takeout our biggest dining splurge.

“There’s a bit of novelty-seeking as people are finally getting out this summer,” says Joe Nunes, a professor of marketing at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business who studies the luxury market. “If you want to do things you haven’t done in a year or more, how far away can you get from the mundane than a gold-leaf-covered tomahawk steak?”

Nunes notes such conspicuous consumption went up after the Great Recession, too. “There are some people who are saying now that they’re taking joy in simpler things,” he says. “But there’s a much larger group saying, ‘I’ve lived an austere life, and now I’m going to go out and live a little by spending a lot.'”

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Conspicuous consumption dining is back. Steak in gold leaf is among the sort of status foods that are again gaining popularity. Smeilov Serge/Shutterstock

In Atlanta, the three-level, 200-seat Steak Market opens next month, aiming to offer a luxe experience straight out of a hedge funder’s fantasy, with a members-only cigar bar, 300 types of whiskey, a raw bar and … several cuts of premium steak completely encased in gold leaf. The beef will include cuts from Georgia farms, “gold-grade American Wagyu, certified Australian Wagyu, and certified Japanese Kobe,” according to Eater Atlanta, and the prices have not yet been made public.

Serendipity 3, the restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side that already holds Guinness world records for most expensive milkshake and sandwich, last month announced it had clinched the title for the planet’s priciest french fries. The $200 “Crème de la Crème Pommes Frites” are as pedigreed as a bichon at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: Chipperbec potatoes are blanched in Dom Pérignon champagne and triple-cooked in the fat of geese that were raised, cage free, in southwest France, then sprinkled with truffle-infused sel gris from Guérande, France, and black truffles from Umbria, Italy, all served with a Mornay sauce. As anyone who’s ever watched a late-1980s episode of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” should expect, the whole thing is presented on Baccarat crystal and showered with “23K edible gold dust.”

The dish isn’t a novelty act, Serendipity 3 chef Joe Calderone insists. “They warrant the price – these are not just a bunch of expensive ingredients thrown together,” he says. “They really are the best french fries in the world.”

And diners are flocking, with a 10-week wait list for the celebrated dish. Calderone says that rather than being out of step with the current state of the world, his $200 fries might be just what people need. “It’s the right time for indulgence given what’s transpired in the last year and a half,” he says. “People deserve to be spoiled a little bit.”

Not everyone is in the eat-like-the-rich mood. In San Francisco, chef Rob Lam at Lily axed the most expensive item on his menu, a $72 fried rice dish he had invented as a sort of joke to appeal to people looking for something “over-the-top and bougie,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. For Lam, the novelty wore off after the item became hugely popular, and preparing the intricate dish became a chore.
Others are giving the genre a philanthropic twist. A Dutch restaurant last month began offering a $6,000 burger containing Wagyu beef, beluga caviar, Alaskan king crab and white truffle, with the proceeds going to food banks in the Netherlands.

Nunes notes that such dishes appeal more to a newly wealthy diner or someone merely aspiring to that status, not to people with no need to broadcast their affluence. Dishes decked in edible gold are more for people who are compensating, he says, while the superwealthy use more subtle signifiers to communicate their wealth. “If you have enough money that you are always feeling abundance, there’s no need for those things,” he says.

Whatever the motivation, after months of takeout, social media feeds are again filled with over-the-top meals for us proles to envy. A TikTok foodie named Lors last month racked up 2.1 million likes for a video in which she documented a meal under the sparkling chandeliers at Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas’s MGM Grand hotel that cost $445 per person. She captioned it as the “most expensive dinner in the world,” which is probably not accurate, but the multicourse extravaganza was still a study in status dining, with appearances by rich-people staples such as caviar, foie gras, frog legs and lobster.

Lors gave the foie gras dish a seven out of 10 score, docking points for the “tomato candy” incorporated in it. “I don’t like tomato,” she says.

And celebrities are back to using food as a flex. In what might be the most perfect execution of this move, singer and cosmetics tycoon Rihanna celebrated her official entry into the rarefied air of the billionaire’s club this week with an Instagram post of herself enjoying breakfast in bed. The meal was simple – just a massive tin of caviar, perched on a glass bowl of ice – but it spoke loudly. Rihanna, wearing shades and a sweatshirt, surrounded by a sea of (surely high thread-count) white bedding, wielded a single spoon.

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[HEADING=2]13 beers, an empty table: A quiet but powerful way restaurants honor those killed in Kabul[/HEADING]

Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY
Sat, August 28, 2021, 5:38 PM

Restaurants and businesses across the country are choosing to reserve a table and 13 beers to honor the service members who died during [Thursday's bombing]('https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/08/26/images-kabul-suicide-bombings-show-how-attack-took-place/5599824001/') near Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.

[Ironwood Cafe]('https://www.facebook.com/ironwoodcafewestlake/photos/pb.114354627786.-2207520000../10158966461472787/?type=3&theater') in Ohio said the news hit close to home – Maxton "Max" Soviak is a native of Milan, Ohio and was among the fallen.

"My husband, grandfather and many in my family served. So, when I read that one of Ohio's own died, I knew I wanted to make a small gesture to honor Max and the 12 other soldiers," Shannon Vasquez, general manager of the cafe told USA TODAY.

Vasquez said one of her regular customers saw the 13 beers, gave her a big hug and said "this reminds me of my grandpa who died in the line of duty."

Also in Ohio, Niko Moulagianis said he felt compelled to do something, too. He called his bar's general manager and told her about reserving an entire table for 13 beers to honor the service members.

"She told me, 'You do realize it's a Friday night right?' I said, 'Yeah, but do you do realize these people are not coming back to the families?'" Moulagianis, owner of [Niko's Bar & Gyros]('https://www.facebook.com/nikosbarandgyros/') told USA TODAY.

He didn't stop there. Until September 11, Moulagianis will donate a dollar for every beer they sell. The proceeds will go to military charities, or specifically to the families of the 13 who died.

On top of beer sales, he said they've received cash donations from local customers. Moulagianis hopes veterans, affected and military families see the 13 beers and feel "supported and seen."

"A father came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, 'My son is a Marine. So I thank you.' I told him, 'There's no reason to thank me. I thank you and your son," Moulagianis said.

Michael Maiorana, co-owner of [=AZWq9XMqUdy-i9_05c9och3CnHqDv0ouhjqsCcLUiHqoA73frqoiCQexhGl19BTNGPn5JrwESiFqPCflm2p4S07i57zukMw18khZTwr_1gEjUJPfsW3Ptzc3kFGOXxbgEpD85XZIsvuC9XUNe_XEKhGW&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R']First Line Brewery]('https://www.facebook.com/firstlinebrewing/posts/832998587205233?__cft__[0) in New York has also been displaying 13 beers inside the brewery. Staff refresh the pints throughout the night so the beers remain cold. Maiorana said a portion of the proceeds from this weekend will be donated to military-run charities for fallen service members. Customers have donated about $2,000 in cash since Friday, he said.

Other local businesses and bars in the area have followed the brewery's lead. One flower shop placed 13 roses outside their shop, Maiorana said.

"It's great to see our community showing up to support the soldiers and their affected families. We want them to know that at least we are here for them in any small or big way they need," Maiorana told USA TODAY.

A barbershop in Delaware decided to reserve a single chair in the shop and set out 13 beers as well. The owner of [Amstel Barbershop]('https://www.amstelbarbershop.com/'), Robert Allen, placed a folded U.S. flag on top of the chair in hopes customers take a few minutes to honor the lost soldiers. Allen said almost everyone in the city of Middletown knows a veteran or someone currently serving and are heartbroken by the Kabul attack.

On a busy Saturday, Allen said he wanted people to stop and remember the "true sacrifices and heroes."

"Somebody lost a piece of their family they'll never get back. Putting out 13 beers to honor the lives of those soldiers is the least any American can do right now," Allen told USA TODAY.

Hannah Nielson, a kitchen manager at [AJOBrady's ]('https://www.facebook.com/ajobradys/')restaurant in Wisconsin, heard from a former employee who left to become a Marine that some men in her unit died in the Kabul attack. Nielson told restaurant owner Bruce Russell they had to do something.

Nielson saw other businesses and bars setting out 13 beers for the fallen soldiers, so AJOBrady's staff did the same. Except its customers went one step further. Since Friday, dozens have offered to pay for the beer or meal of any veteran or military family who comes into the restaurant.

"We wanted to make sure everyone in our restaurant felt this loss and honor the soldiers. We're active in the community and wanted to shed a light on what's happened," Nielson told USA TODAY.

Russell said the community reaction has been overwhelming, customers have seen the 13 beers and asked where and how they can help other military families. Some have offered donations, while others have thanked and hugged local veterans.

"These families, the sacrifices and those soldiers who died deserve to be seen. So in our small way, we put our 13 beers to honor them, which isn't half of what they deserve. But it's something," Russell told USA TODAY.

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