Proposed Lakota-area battery storage facility faces setback

The future of a proposed 27-acre battery storage facility north of Lakota is now in question after it was denied a county permit. Officials say the Kossuth County Board of Adjustment unanimously, 3-0, to deny Interstate Power & Light’s special use permit seeking to build a 75-MW battery storage facility on agricultural land between Lakota and Buffalo Center in Hebron [.] The post Proposed Lakota-area battery storage facility faces setback first appeared on Enterprise Media.

Thankful Thanksgiving Cats For Hungry Wholesome Hoomans Who Just Want to Eat

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and we all love the food. It’s pretty much the food holiday: turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, and moms apple pie. We don’t know about you, but we’re more that excited to be around the dinner table, even if our weird aunt and angsty cousin are there too. Cats love thanksgiving too. They love the family getting together, they love the smell of turkey in the air, and more than anything they love that they get the leftovers. And even though the food is delicious, there’s a limit to how much you can eat. Cats, of course, do not recognize limits. Oh no. Thanksgiving to them is an Olympic-level eating event, and they will absolutely go for gold. The moment the table is cleared, they materialize like tiny, furry vacuum cleaners ready to “help” with the scraps. One paw on the edge of the counter, whiskers twitching, pupils dilated like they’ve just invented hunger for the first time in history. Your aunt’s casserole? They want it. The gravy boat? They need it. The turkey carcass? They would fight a pilgrim for it. And let’s be honest-they’re not subtle about it. Cats will stare directly into your soul as you attempt to pack leftovers, as if sheer eye contact will convince you to “accidentally” drop some turkey on the floor.

‘A dorm-wide conspiracy to hide the kittens’: Students save strays despite no-pet policy on college campus, nurturing them for adoption while avoiding monthly inspections

Have you ever heard about a college student heist to save a litter of abandoned stray kittens who were found outside their dorms, malnourished, scared, and alone? Yeah, we neither. But guess what? You’re about to hear this story, just like we did. All is courtesy of the Cat Distribution System, of course the great rearranger of fate for feral felines to become spoiled house floofs. Just as nature intended. Every cat deserves a home. This is just a universal truth. We didn’t invent it, but the CDS is the one mysterious organisation helping it stay as true as day one adoption at a time. But these brave student souls? They didn’t take care of only one adoption. We’re talking about four little floofy babies. They were abandoned by their feral cat mama (she’s fine and taken care of, by the way so don’t worry), left malnourished on campus grounds, looking for the one who would help them. but there were way more than one person involved. With a strict no-pet policy on campus, and monthly dorm inspections, a whole group of students were involved in heisting these smol kitties to safety until they’re healthy and happy to be adopted. It’s a story about bravery, initiative, wit, and a whole lot of fluffy kittens.

Profit-Taking Hits BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF While BTC Recovers

The post Profit-Taking Hits BlackRock’s Bitcocom. Bitcoin For most of 2024, BlackRock’s IBIT has acted like a black hole inside the Bitcoin ETF universe money went in and rarely came back out. Key Takeaways: IBIT outflows show institutions taking profit during the rebound. Money is rotating between Bitcoin ETFs, not exiting the asset class. Sustained IBIT redemptions during a BTC rise could hint at distribution. That dynamic is now showing cracks. While Bitcoin has bounced sharply off last week’s lows, the largest issuer in the category is no longer the one capturing the recovery. Market data shows that some of the biggest allocators used the recent price rebound not to increase exposure but to lighten their positions. IBIT posted one of its largest single-day redemptions of the quarter on November 24 and only partially made up for it the following session. The two-day ledger still finished negative by more than $66 million. A recovery without renewed accumulation In previous rallies toward the $90,000 region, IBIT was almost automatically the recipient of fresh institutional capital. This time, the pullback has been met with rebalancing instead of reinforcement. The message from those flows is less about fear and more about discipline. Large investors appear willing to defend performance gains rather than chase upside. Nothing about that behavior means institutions are abandoning Bitcoin. Other issuers have benefited from the rotation. Fidelity’s FBTC once a distant runner-up recorded nearly $171 million in inflows during the same window that IBIT was shrinking. ARK’s ARKB and Bitwise’s BITB, meanwhile, sat on the opposite side of that equation with withdrawals. What the shift could mean for the wider market ETF analysts have long used BlackRock’s ledger as a proxy for risk appetite because IBIT is the first stop for allocators with conviction. When that fund is no longer the automatic.

UK Budget: Watch the Key Moments From Reeves’ Speech

These are the highlights of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ budget speech, including her reaction to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s mistaken early release of its analysis, plans for a higher tax on expensive properties, and an announcement that there will be no increase to income tax, VAT and National Insurance rates. She spoke in the House of Commons in London.

Wirex and Crossmint expand stablecoin payments to Stellar

The post Wirex and Crossmint expand stablecoin payments to Stellar appeared com. London, [Nov. 25, 2025] Wirex, the global leader in stablecoin-based payment infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with Crossmint, enabling Wirex to extend its on-chain stablecoin payments, card settlement, and banking connectivity to non-EVM chains, starting with Stellar. This collaboration marks a major step toward unlocking true multichain stablecoin payments, bringing Wirex’s award-winning non-custodial architecture to ecosystems traditionally underserved by Web3 payment infrastructure. Through Crossmint’s unified smart account infrastructure, Wirex will introduce seamless, native stablecoin payment capabilities on non-EVM chains. This integration allows Wirex to deploy its full suite of stablecoin payment technologies on networks like Stellar maintaining the same high standards of programmability, compliance, and security available on EVM-based chains. Wirex selected Crossmint for its advanced ability to streamline blockchain interoperability and enterprise-grade deployment. Crossmint’s infrastructure allows Wirex to: • Orchestrate smart accounts across multiple non-EVM chains through one SDK• Provide flexible governance models, multi-sig, and smart automation• Offer seamless key management, rotation, and updating without user friction• Integrate Wirex’s APIs directly into Crossmint’s SDK giving Crossmint’s partners instant access to Wirex’s stablecoin rails This allows Wirex to launch new chain integrations in weeks rather than months, with enterprise-grade compliance baked in. Daniel Rowlands, General Manager at Wirex Pay, said: “Partnering with Crossmint allows Wirex to bring our stablecoin infrastructure to non-EVM chains at scale. This is a major milestone in our mission to make stablecoin payments truly multichain, programmable, and ready for the next generation of Web3 banking.” With this expansion, Wirex becomes the first global payments provider to deliver banking-grade stablecoin settlement, including on-chain card payments, broad merchant acceptance, and real-time, programmable value transfer, across non-EVM environments at scale. The partnership accelerates the adoption of Wirex’s stablecoin infrastructure, which provides: • Fully on-chain, non-custodial stablecoin accounts• Global card acceptance at 80M+ Visa merchants• 1: 1 fiat.