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For most of us who host an annual Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving dinner, getting the biggest meal of the year on the table in one crowd-pleasing piece is a matter of turning to old favorites. Don't get me wrong — I've added several "new classics" to my Thanksgiving rotation over the past few years, but for the rest of my menu, I want my tried-and-true, nostalgic faves. That's why I feel all kinds of chaotic trying to turn you and your taste buds on to my all-time MVP, kind of nontraditional, but wildly delicious Thanksgiving side for your celebrations this year.
(Just let me say my piece before you think to yourself, Nah, I'll stick to mac 'n' cheese again and click out of this post, alright?)
My love affair with Ina Garten's saffron risotto with butternut squash began back in my college days. Fresh off a traumatic (but 200% necessary) breakup, I did what any normal partygoing college student would do to heal: googled "best comfort food recipes." Since I'm a lifelong Ina Garten enthusiast, it felt fitting that I landed on this specific risotto recipe. I took a screenshot (peep the concerningly late timestamp), made a batch to share with my roommate, and proceeded to take the most gorgeously composed food photo the world has ever known to share on Facebook.
How it didn't go viral, I'll never know.
One day later, I demanded to serve it at our upcoming Thanksgiving in a text to my mom, who shares my deep, unrelenting love of Ina and every recipe she touches. If you don't believe me, for whatever reason, this is her cookbook shelf...
That Thanksgiving, we risotto-ed, we ate until we couldn't breathe, and we even made arancini (or fried risotto balls) in lieu of our traditional leftover sandwiches, and they have secretly become my favorite part of this holiday tradition.
I can proudly say that I've cooked Ina's risotto as a Thanksgiving side dish every year since. Fun fact: I've made it so often for basically everyone that it's become colloquially known in my circles as...ross-otto. Don't worry, I cringed as I wrote that too. It's also become the mac 'n' cheese replacement I never knew I needed, as wild as that is to say. It hits all the same savory, creamy, cheesy notes that a good mac 'n' cheese would, but it doesn't turn into pasta mush when made ahead; it's innately fall-forward (squash!), and it's just way more interesting, flavor-wise, IMO.
After nearly 10 years of trying new tweaks and techniques, this is my exact process for how I like to serve Ina's saffron risotto with butternut squash, which is also how I've turned my friends and family on to this unexpected but showstopping side dish at every Thanksgiving table.
First, here's absolutely everything you'll need for a single batch:
STEP 1: Roast the butternut squash. Preheat your oven to 400ºF and toss your cubed squash with 2 tablespoons olive oil, a generous amount of kosher salt (about 2 teaspoons), and a few cranks of cracked black pepper. Lay it all out on a parchment-lined sheet pan for easy cleanup and roast for 25–30 minutes.
Toss them around once or twice if you remember to, but as evidenced here, they'll be just fine even if you forget.
Most importantly, enjoy a cube (or five) as your chef's snack.
STEP 2: While the squash roasts, start the risotto. Bring your stock (or bouillon plus water) to a simmer in a medium saucepan. For the risotto itself, you'll want to use a large pot or high-walled skillet; a heavy-bottom vessel like a Dutch oven is best. Melt your butter over medium heat, then add your diced pancetta (or bacon!) and minced shallot and sauté for about 10 minutes, until the shallot is translucent and softened.
STEP 3: Add the arborio rice to the pot and stir it around to get it nicely coated in all that buttery goodness. Then carefully pour in the white wine. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook it for about two minutes, or until the rice appears mostly dry.
STEP 4: Add a pinch of saffron threads, along with about 1 teaspoon of kosher salt and a few more cranks of cracked black pepper. This is one of those spots where my version slightly differs from Ina's; she calls for a full teaspoon of saffron threads, which is very East Hampton of her, but I only use about a pinch. I actually busted out my scale to show you exactly how much, and it didn't even register as 0.1 grams.
STEP 5: This is when you'll start the one very involved (but ultimately simple) process of risotto-making — adding stock and stirring. Two or three ladlefuls at a time, add enough hot stock to just barely cover the top of the rice. Stir pretty frequently — every minute or so, as annoying as it sounds — until the mixture looks nearly dry. Here's what it'll look like when you first add stock...
...and this is what it'll look like when it's time to add more. Timing between each addition of stock can vary, but aim for 5–10 minutes. You'll repeat this process, stirring very frequently to prevent any rice sticking to the bottom of your pot, until the rice is cooked al dente. Overall cooking time depends on your stove, your cooking vessel, and even the brand of rice you use, but budget for anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes.
When it's done, it'll look something like this: creamy, starchy, and basically tripled in volume compared with where you started. It'll also have that signature, saffron-infused yellow tint, which will slowly become more and more apparent with each ladle of added stock.
STEP 6: Off the heat, add the roasted butternut squash and 1 cup of grated Parmesan cheese. Fold everything together delicately; ideally, you'll still have nice chunks of squash throughout instead of having them break up into tiny pieces.
And that, my friends, is it! If you're making the dish on Thanksgiving day, pop a lid on top and reheat it over low heat just before dinner, with a generous splash of stock to loosen it to your desired consistency. For a non-Thanksgiving dinner party, a soupier consistency is ideal, but for the holiday, where it'll need to play nice on a plate with other sides, I aim for a "thick porridge" consistency.
To make this risotto a day or two ahead, here's what you'll need to do:
You'll follow every step to a T until you hit the end of step 5. Instead of cooking the risotto until al dente, you actually want to go just shy of al dente: When you take a bite, it should still feel the teeniest bit dry in the middle of each grain of rice.
Take it off the heat, mix in your butternut squash and Parmesan cheese, and then spread it out on a sheet pan to quickly cool to room temperature. Once it's cooled, package it in the plastic container of your choosing and chill in the fridge for no more than 48 hours.
When it's time to serve, spoon the risotto into whatever vessel you originally cooked it in with about 1 cup of chicken stock mixed in to start. You'll reheat it over low heat, adding splashes of stock as needed to loosen it, until hot. Then add salt and pepper as needed until it tastes just right.
If you're out of stove top space, you can also reheat this in the microwave in a microwave-safe bowl, as I've successfully done. Mix 1 cup of chicken stock into the cold risotto, then microwave for three minutes. Check and stir every three minutes, adding splashes of stock each time, until it's hot. In my experience, it usually takes around four microwave cycles.
If you make Ina Garten's saffron risotto with butternut squash this Thanksgiving, I want to hear about it! Shoot me a DM on Instagram with your photos, or tell me what you thought about it in the comments below. If you love it — and I really think you will — I hope you'll join me in thanking the guy who broke my poor lil' heart all those years ago, gave me a hankering for comfort food, and ended up leading me straight toward my signature Thanksgiving side dish forever.
Gotta love life — and gotta love Ina Garten. ❤


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On their first visit to Australia, Canadian folk group Les Poules a Colin have spent the past six weeks on the road.
The Quebecois quintet are playing their own shows and major festivals, including Brunswick, Port Fairy, Blue Mountains and our own Fairbridge. It’s a rare treat for a touring band to be able to soak up the sights.
“It’s so much fun to finally be here and to have this much time to see and explore all the different parts of Australia,” singer Beatrix Methe says from Melbourne. “We’re covering a big part of the country, so we feel very lucky.”
All five members of Les Poules a Colin grew up in Quebec’s cultural region of Lanaudieere, surrounded by music and seemingly destined to play it. “We are all very close childhood friends and our parents played music together in different bands,” Methe explains. “So it was sort of a natural thing to combine as teenagers to do this music ourselves. We definitely grew up in this world of going to festivals, sessions and parties and falling asleep at the end of the night. Our playground was the traditional folk scene.”
Since 2009, the band have released two albums, Hebertisme Nocturne and Ste-Waves, with songs sung both in French and English, covering traditional music and original material.
Their multi-instrumentality extends to fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, banjo, mandolin, piano, bass and foot percussion and an open ear to contemporary influences. A third album is already in the pipeline, which Methe says will move even closer to the band’s own sound.
“We haven’t recorded anything yet but are just composing and arranging,” she reveals.
“So it’s in that process at the moment, but it’s getting closer to what we really feel is our music. We’re writing it on tour right now, so for us it’ll be like an Australian album, created in your beautiful country.”
Les Poules a Colin perform at the Fairbridge Folk Festival, which runs from April 21-24 at Fairbridge Village, Pinjarra. Tickets available via Moshtix.

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On Tuesday evening, roughly ten hours after his program was referenced in an FBI complaint that resulted in the arrest of four assistant coaches, two Adidas executives, an employee for an agent, an AAU coach and a financial advisor, Pitino released a state.
Rick Pitino provides a high-profile link between ACC basketball and a wide-ranging corruption investigation of coaches, agents and players ... the basketball assistants charged Tuesday is a financial advisor named Marty Blazer. Tar Heel players Robert.
Last year, tennis great Venus Williams made news by becoming one of the financial backers of Ellevest, a new robo-advisor aimed at women ... among them, work-life balance and informing children about how to handle their expected inheritance.
I've done that my whole life ... advisor to the organization. In the spring, Stanford was part of a group considered frontrunners to own the franchise, but no deal was struck. Trevor Murphy will handle day-to-day operations. Mark Spencer will handle.
including expensive daily lattes or time with a career coach. As with all important life decisions, the ideal-world scenario is rarely an option. Considering future career moves is no different. But being mindful of the reasons it makes financial sense to.
Scott says he made some bad financial decisions in his life because he “tried to do too much too fast ... I didn’t really consider it until my high school coach told me I could make a career out of it. Truthfully, I wanted to be a businessman.
Coach-2 is named in relation to the charges against Adidas executive Jim Gatto, Adidas associate Merl Code Jr., Adidas AAU employee Brad Augustine, Atlanta sports agent Christian Dawkins and New Jersey financial advisor Munish Sood. The crux of the case.
But they likely don’t know everything about your life goals, your family finances or financial planning in general. If you have close friends, you might share everything with them, including personal details about your money. But that doesn’t mean they.
George was a great coach and a great teacher. He had the ability to motivate young men and women to truly believe that they could accomplish anything in life. Coach Dales was ... Dales served as an advisor in both Greece and Mexico and in the latter.
A key witness in an NCAA basketball bribery scandal is fallen investment advisor Louis Martin ... said the Oklahoma State assistant coach Evans solicited at least $22,000 from Blazer and Munish Sood, head of a financial advisory firm called Princeton.

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- Now it hopes to carve out an even wider sphere of protected religious expression with cases involving abortion and gay marriage.
Elements that foreshadowed steep losses for Democrats eight years ago are in place for Republicans today, our columnist writes.
Small companies, which have increasingly turned to the internet, worry that a pay-for-play system online could price them out of doing business.
Officials in several states say the $1.5 trillion tax cut moving through Congress would raise taxes on residents and force tough decisions at the local level.
To some, the posts directed at sports figures, many of them black, suggest that the president is trying to send a message of solidarity to many supporters.
The turkey is the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving meal, and there are plenty of techniques for cooking one.
Battered by e-commerce competition, Macy’s real estate is now worth more than its market value. And the company has been selling off parts or all of its most distinctive buildings.
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I’ve always loved the little bird dashboard bobble head that Nux has in Mad Max: Fury Road. I just got a 3D printer and on searching for files for this one, found there was nothing (at least that I could find). So I decided to make my own version!
It’s not 100% movie accurate but it’s close enough for me to look at and go “YEAH! That’s rad!” haha.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!


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By Steve Brown
Halloween 2011 is coming, and pumpkins are most involved to be creatively carved as a result of carved pumpkins are thought-about to be the soul of Halloween season. It is so marvelous that underneath the skillful fingers of artist and sculptor Ray Villafane, strange pumpkins turn out to be authentic with scariest shapes hitting Halloween 2011. These easy pumpkins are carved to a different greater degree with gothic gargoyles providing the favored however distinctive themes for Halloween vacation. Ray Villafane, now 41 years outdated, resides in a village of Bellaire, Michigan, United States. His works have gotten a lot consideration and admiration from locals and other people round the US. It can’t be denied that Ray’s works are masterpieces serving to him turn out to be a two-time winner of the Meals Community’s Problem: Outrageous Pumpkins. Let’s take a look on the most spectacular photos of carved pumpkins by Ray Villafane as follows and see what’s shifting on these fascinating faces.
What an anxious face!
A wrinkling and offended face is carved out of a pumpkin
Ray Villafane, the 41-year-old pumpkin carver, has gained the Meals Community’s Problem: Outrageous Pumpkins twice. At current, he’s an artwork instructor at a college in Michigan, and carving is taken into account as his huge curiosity. In the future, on the event of upcoming Halloween, Ray Villafane needed to alter one thing humorous on such regular pumpkins by carving. Since then, Ray Villafane has been eager on carving on pumpkins with horrific faces, or gothic gargoyles nicely becoming the theme of the favored Halloween vacation.
An outdated witch‘s a horrific face
Whether or not or not the pumpkin was completed its carving. The face appears to be crying
A horrific Halloween face with scary snakes
The burden of a pumpkin is crucial standards to be carved. With a purpose to have an exquisite carved Halloween pumpkin, it’s best to select thick ones, it implies that they’re very heavy for its measurement. Utilizing various kinds of sharp knives to carve a Three-D face onto a shallow flat floor.
Two totally different half-faces are matched into one making a satan face
An enormous pumpkin is carved in to the face of a strong tribe chief
It was a human face coated by the shell of a giant pumpkin
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HARTFORD -- Republican and Democratic leaders gathered for another meeting in Gov. Dan Malloy’s office Monday. It lasted about 20 minutes. After, he told FOX 61's Jenn Bernstein that layoff notices went out to certain agencies today.
FOX 61 has now learned that approximately 165 employees got layoff notices--both unionized and non-unionized workers. Of those employees, 106 worked for the Department of Children and Families and 59 worked for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
"The process has been underway for a long time," Malloy said. "As plans are approved by department they are progressing."
When asked what he would say to a state employee today, Malloy said: "Listen, I’ve said from day one, they’re not the fault of this. We have to realign our expenditures with our revenue to the tune of about $921 million for the next fiscal year, and some portion of that will be reflected in that expenditure but it will also be reflected in in many other expenditures across the board.”
He also mentioned that they're moving as fast as possible with notifications. "They are being done on an orderly basis with the hopes of getting people who are on pins and needles the answer about their status as quickly as possible."
However, others disagree. Sal Luciano, the executive director for Council 4 AFSCME, the union that represents DCF workers, doesn't think the process has been handled well. "The layoffs at [Connecticut Juvenile Training School] are not being handled humanely at all. The administration’s actions today have not only violated our members’ contractual rights, but have placed the safety and security of staff and residents at even greater risk."
Stephen Anderson, president of the CSEA, another union that represents DCF and Department of Corrections workers, agreed with Luciano. "Contrary to the governor’s claims that these layoffs are being conducted in an orderly fashion, many staff are being walked off of the job site at the same time as they receive their layoff notice in violation of their contract's layoff provisions, leaving remaining staff shorthanded and at greater risk in what at times can be a dangerous environment."
On Friday, Gov. Malloy reaffirmed what he's been saying for weeks: layoffs are coming. Malloy said he expects about 1,000 to 2,000 layoffs of state employees. The layoffs are part of a budget negotiation for the fiscal year 2017 budget, which begins July 1.
On Friday, the Department of Corrections announced that it would be laying off 147 employees, though no notices have been sent to specific employees yet.


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I've always been interested in play, and now that the weather is getting warmer it’s on my mind more and more. Science doesn't explain it very well, or it's explained as something young animals do to practice future skills. But that definition doesn't cover every kind of play, and it doesn't explain why it's so Read More
Playing is an important part of your dog’s life. Beyond the daily walk, playing with your dog has a number of positive benefits. Here's why you should play more with your dog in 2016.
There's a new kind of nanny in town, and he walks on four legs. An Australian Shepherd named Blakely is a special part of the Cincinnati Zoo's nursery. When baby animals at the zoo need extra attention or can't be properly cared for by their mother, they come to the nursery to grow, play, and Read More
Playing games with your dog is beneficial to his physical and mental stimulation, and it's also a great way to connect with your dog and enrich a meaningful relationship even further. It is important, however, to ensure that you don't inadvertently exacerbate potentially hidden kernels of behavior issues, so be sure to follow the tips Read More
All too often, dog owners misread the language of dogs interacting with one another. Whether it's incorrectly defining innocent play as dangerous fighting or taking too lightly what is actually aggressive behavior, it is important to learn what dogs are saying to each other through their play. Dog-to-dog play is a series of active and Read More
Just as I think that humans as a society who love dogs are progressing into a more modern knowledge mindset, I get my placidity kicked right out from under me by witnessing so vile a hatred against a certain type of dog, that I struggle to breathe normally. So many cities that once enforced Read More
When presented with something new or slightly unusual, does your dog respond positively, presuming it to be good (optimism), or negatively, presuming it to be a bad thing (pessimism)?
In the competition sport of agility, there are many variables to manage. When I created a behavior modification program for my own dog, here were some of the things I considered to help set him up for success.
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The "pack leader" label just won’t seem to die a natural death. Instead of analyzing why people are so attached to being pack leaders, I decided it would be easier for me to uncover why I dislike it so much. Here is my interview with myself.
This was not the kind of behavior that our beloved Steeler organization would support. This is not the value system that we expect from the Rooney family.
The internet is full of simple recipes to follow to help people change their dog’s behavior. However, as the great trainer Bob Bailey says, “Simple is not easy.” “No plan survives an audience.” When you accurately follow instructions with technology it usually performs as expected. Living creatures aren’t like that. You know what ‘should’ work Read More
I know I don’t always hit the mark for my dogs, but where enrichment is concerned, I do my best to make sure they have as many outlets as they need. That is why I waited so long before I had dogs of my own, because I wanted to give them the best life possible. Sure, my dogs complete me and make my life better, but I work as hard as I can to do the same for them.
Drop the “obey” and replace it with "COME PLAY." I think part of the problem with many dogs today is that they don’t get to really play enough. Having a dog in your life should be more about having a friend and companion and less about obeying and commands (I don’t care for either of Read More
In a few days Lennox is scheduled to be destroyed. More and more people are calling for his release and we can only hope that somehow this might happen. There have been numerous legitimate offers from sanctuaries in Southern Ireland and the United States willing to take Lennox, with the knowledge and funding to do Read More
Dog/dog Aggression: There’s nothing pet parents like better than socializing with their dog in the summer sun. There are, however, two important questions to ask: “Is it safe?” and “Is my dog really having fun?” Your dog speaks to you through body language--ear and tail carriage, stance, behavior and vocalizations. Perhaps your dog is telling Read More

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With the festive holiday just around the corner many people will be thinking back to Christmases gone by with a nostalgic longing. Now a new study, involving researchers at the University of Southampton, has shown that charities and not for profit organisations can benefit from people’s nostalgic feelings, because it encourages them to donate more.
The study investigated whether nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, can increase donor intentions and donations to charity as well as evaluating whether charities should incorporate nostalgia into appeals.
Researchers instructed participants, who were from two universities in China, to bring to mind a nostalgic autobiographical event before presenting them with a variety of charity appeals.
The participants’ reactions and intentions were measured towards young earthquake victims or children in relatively deprived rural area of China.
Within the study there were five separate measurements. The first was participants’ concrete intentions to volunteer and donate. The second, third and fourth measurements assessed nostalgia mediated by empathy, whether the findings could be generalised to all charities and whether people of different ages and from different backgrounds reacted in the same way. The fifth measurement evaluated nostalgia in charitable appeals and subsequent tangible charitable behaviour.
Results showed that nostalgia boosted participants’ intentions to donate and increased how much they were willing to donate.
Dr Tim Wildschut, senior lecturer at the University of Southampton, comments: “For several hundred years, nostalgia has been regarded as negative emotion and has even been labelled as a medical disease. But actually, nostalgia is predominantly, albeit not exclusively, a positive emotion that serves vital psychological functions. One of these functions is to facilitate socially beneficial reactions.
“Nostalgia increases empathy- based charitable intentions and behaviours. It is encouraging to learn that people can mine their nostalgic memories and derive from this a feeling of empathy for the suffering of others.”


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Disney’s Wish Experience at Astra Lumina
MARCH 8-9, 2024
In celebration of Disney’s Wish on Digital and Blu-ray, Disney will offer Astra Lumina guests an exclusive celebration of the new animated adventure.
Upon completing the enchanting journey among the stars, attendees are invited to sing-along to the captivating songs from Disney’s Wish, participate in wondrous themed activities and giveaway opportunities, capture memorable moments with immersive photo ops, and make a wish with Asha at a special wishing well.
The Wish activation will take place over the final weekend of the Astra Lumina experience in Los Angeles, and tickets can be purchased HERE. All guests with a ticket are welcome to participate in the Wish activities.
In this animated musical-comedy, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist in the kingdom of Rosas, makes a powerful wish that’s answered by Star, a ball of boundless energy. Soon, Ashaand Star must face a formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas—to save her community and prove that when one brave human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things happen.
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Astra Lumina returns to Los Angeles for an enchanted night walk at South Coast Botanic Garden that invites visitors to discover the wonder of visiting stars. Set off across mysterious grounds to discover a celestial pathway of lustrous light, cosmic visions, and astral song. Created by the visionary minds at Moment Factory and presented in collaboration with Fever, Astra Lumina LA is the 17th experience in the Lumina Night Walk series. You won’t want to miss this!
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Government Employees Definitely Did NOT Expect This To Happen At Work Today
We know how hard Sunday mornings can be!
But some have it harder than the rest of us. People in mention: the government employees.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum paid a surprise visit to government offices this morning. The empty desks indicated officials were absent on the first day of the week. It definitely wasn't a good day to call in sick.
The purpose of his visit was...
Mona Al-Marri, director general of the government of Dubai’s media office, told Bloomberg, "He certainly wanted to send a message. Timeliness starts at the top and we won’t go after employees when their bosses aren’t there.’’
The departments included Dubai Municipality, Department of Land and Property and Department of Economic Development
Khalifa Saeed who heads government protocol shared this Instagram video stating directors and senior officials were not present in the offices.


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Keynes and the Russian Revolution
In the popular view two economists are accepted as having had an outstanding influence on events of the last half-century- Marx and Keynes. Marx is supposed to have guided the aims and policies of the Russian government since the Communist Party came to power in 1917 and Keynes’ preaching of full employment and the way to achieve it has been more or less closely followed by most of the political partis in the Western world, including all the Tory and Labour governments in Britain since the end of the war.
Here, of course, is one of the issues on which Marx and Keynes came into conflict. Marx held that unemployment is a necessary feature of capitalism, while Keynes held that it should and could be reduced almost to the point of disappearance. It is nit our purpose to deal with that aspect except to say that there is nothing in the post-war rises and falls of unemployment to justify the claims of Keynes’ admirers, which does not deter them from claiming that his discoveries have revolutionised economics and politics.
There is, however, a striking difference between the relationship of Marxism to Russia and that of Keynesian to Britain and other countries. It is that British politicians and their advisers have indeed been trying to apply Keynes’ theories in their conduct of affairs, but Russian governments have been acting in complete disregard to Marx’s theories.
Marx saw that the overthrow of Tzarist autocracy would clear the way for the development of capitalism. This has indeed happened, but while the Communist Party rulers in Russia had presided over the building up of a great capitalist power they have chosen to pretend that it is Socialism.
What did Keynes make of all this? It happens that he set out what he thought in a series of articles in the NEW STATESMAN republished in a booklet A Short View of Russia published by the Hogarth Press in 1925. This was some years earlier than Keynes’ book THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY but after he had made a name for himself with his ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE and his TRACT ON MONETARY REFORM. He was already regarded as a major figure in the world of economics.
Keynes had nothing but contempt for Marx but we can now compare the maturity and accuracy of Marx’s views of developments in Russia with the superficiality of Keynes’ judgements.
For Keynes the Russian revolution was not a stage in the development of capitalism, but the emergence of a new world religion; not based on changes in the real world but engendered in the minds of the leaders, Lenin and his associates. Keynes had something in common with the Russian leaders; he shared their belief that progress comes from the “intellectual minority”. Here are two typical passages:
“Like other new religions, Leninism derives its power not from the multitude but from a small minority of enthusiastic converts whose zeal and intolerance make each one the equal in strength of a hundred indifferentists”.
But quite apart from other factors, it was the indifferent multitude – indifferent that is, to Socialism -who, as the Socialist Party of Great Britain said at the time, made nonsense of the Utopian dreams of introducing Socialism in Russia in 1917.
The second quotation is an attack on Marx’s Capital, chiefly revealing for what it tells us about the smug intellectual superiority of Keynes:-
“How can I accept a doctrine which sets up as its bible, above and beyond criticism, an obsolete textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world? How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above bourgeois and intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement? Even if we need a religion, how can we find it in the turbid rubbish of the red bookshop? It is hard for an educated, decent, intelligent son of Western Europe to find his ideals here, unless he has first suffered some strange and horrid process of conversion which has changed all his values”.
Keynes had no sense of the historical development of society and showed little appreciation of the problem which faced Russia, as it does all countries in the early stages of capitalism, of accumulating capital to build up large-scale industry. His advice to the Russian government was to lower the wages of town workers, and “get itself into a sufficiently strong financial position to be able to pay the peasant more nearly the real value of his produce”. As the town workers were a small minority and the peasants the vast majority of the population, it certainly wouldn’t have solved the problem. It was about as useful as telling a starving man that what he ought to do is to get rid of a large sum of money without telling him how.
Although, for Keynes, Leninism was a religion he did not wholly approve of it, but he did believe that it would create a society in which money making and love of money would lose their hold, especially among the new generation -though not to the extent of making “Jews less avaricious or Russians less extravagant”.
But although this might be right for the Russians it was not congenial to “an educated decent, intelligent son of Western Europe”. (Who incidentally made a fortune by financial speculations). He disliked the “mood of oppression” in Russia, for which he had a simple explanation:
“In part, no doubt, it is the fruit of Red Revolution…In part, perhaps, it is the fruit of some beastliness in the Russian nature – or in the Russian or Jewish natures when, as now, they are allied together”.
What can one say of such a shallow interpretation of history except that if Keynes had troubled to understand Marx, he might have known what was really taking place in Russia.
Object and Declaration of Principles
The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
Declaration of Principles
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN HOLDS:
1. That society as at present constituted is based upon the ownership of the means of living (ie land, factories, railways, etc.) by the capitalist or master class, and the consequent enslavement of the working class, by whose labour alone wealth is produced.
2. That in society, therefore, there is an antagonism of interests, manifesting itself as a class struggle, between those who possess but do not produce and those who produce but do not possess.
3.That this antagonism can be abolished only by the emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master class, by the conversion into common property of society of the means of production and distribution, and their democratic control by the whole people.
4. That as in the order of social evolution the working class is the last class to achieve its freedom, the emancipation of the working class will involve the emancipation of all mankind without distinction of race or sex.
5. That this emancipation must be the work of the working class itself.
6. That as the machinery of government, including the armed forces of the nation, exists only to conserve the monopoly by the capitalist class of the wealth taken from the workers, the working class must organise consciously and politically for the conquest of the powers of government, national and local, in order that this machinery, including these forces, may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the overthrow of privilege, aristocratic and plutocratic.
7. That as all political parties are but the expression of class interests, and as the interest of the working class is diametrically opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party.
8. The Socialist Party of Great Britain, therefore, enters the field of political action determined to wage war against all other political parties, whether alleged labour or avowedly capitalist, and calls upon the members of the working class of this country to muster under its banner to the end that a speedy termination may be wrought to the system which deprives them of the fruits of their labour, and that poverty may give place to comfort, privilege to equality, and slavery to freedom.

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It's official—Selena Gomez is still the queen of Instagram. On Wednesday, Instagram released its year in review data, confirming that for another year Selena the most followed celeb on the social media platform according to Instagram's official calculations, boasting over 130 million followers.
Not even some recent Insta-drama could tarnish Selena's crown. After breaking up with her boyfriend The Weekend, she lost a follower when her ex not only unfollowed her account but even removed photos of her from his own account. But even with that photo purge major moments of Selena's 2017 remain on Instagram, including the photo featuring the artist and her bestie Francia Raísa holding hands from their hospital beds which she used to tell her fans she had received a kidney from Francia over the summer.
Selena has been an Instagram rock star for a long time. Last September, she became the first user to have gain over 100 million followers (a benchmark she was able to reach through her dedicated fanbase and their rallying hashtag #SelenaBreakTheInternet).
Ariana Grande earned the silver medal in Instagram fame, with over 115 million followers. Grande continues to chronicle her love affair with cute animal filters through her feed, as well as share her customized Harry Potter accessories with her fanbase.
Third place in the celeb Instagram wars goes to Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo (though by the time the ranking was released, Cristiano had racked up 116 million followers, technically unseating Ariana). Cristiano keeps his loyal followers happy with an endless parade of cute family pics.
This year's list is pretty similar to 2016's chartings, with one major difference: Taylor Swift dropped several spots, likely because of an entire social media revamp which included killing the old Taylor and deleting some A-list heavy photos in place of reputation promotional pics. Justin Bieber is also new to the list, edging out Nicki Minaj. (Welcome to the club, Biebs.)
If you're looking for the secret to building up your own collection of followers, the tricks might be hidden in the posts of these celebrities who seem to truly get Instagram. Of course, it's possible the secret is to live the lifestyle of the rich and the famous, but either way, these feeds are fun to watch.
10. Kendall Jenner (@kendalljenner) - 84.8M+ Followers
9. Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) - 93.9M+ Followers
8. Dwayne Johnson (@therock) - 96M+ Followers
- Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) - 99.5M+ Followers
- Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) - 104M+ Followers
- Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) - 104M+ Followers
- Beyoncé (@beyonce) - 108M+ Followers
- Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) – 115M+ Followers
- Ariana Grande (@arianagrande) - 115M+ Followers
- Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) - 130M+ Followers

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I've been using Ubuntu exclusively for several years. Recently I've started playing with torrents via Transmission. After anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours, my internet connection freezes up. Rebooting the router doesn't help but rebooting the modem does. I've tried changing various settings with little effect. Some websites suggest the modem may be dying (it is a pretty old ActionTec). I use Qwest ISP and Glasnost says there is no traffic shaping. My Ubuntu box is connected via ethernet and there are two wireless computers. I was hoping for recommendations for a DSL modem or modem/router - reliable, stable, bulletproof, handles torrents well. Zoom explicitly says it is Linux compatible. Motorola? Intel? What do people have good luck with?


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Ongoing Health Inequality in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population in Australia:Stressful Event, Resilience, and Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Difficulties
International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
This study aims to examine psychosocial factors associated with mental health and emotional well-being difficulties in a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. A self-reported survey was administered to 155 participants aged 18-80 from five Indigenous communities, who were recruited through local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. Stress, resilience, mental health and emotional well-being were measured. Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyse the
... nalyse the association of stress and resilience with mental health and emotional well-being difficulties. Seventy-eight participants had no mental health or emotional well-being difficulties but 77 participants were at risk. Low levels of resilience emerged as a key psychosocial factor associated with mental health and emotional well-being difficulties while high levels of resilience were associated with a reduced risk. High levels of stress was related to an increased risk of experiencing mental health and emotional well-being difficulties. Improving our understanding of psychological characteristics associated with resilience in the face of stress can inform prevention and treatment interventions for stress-exposed individuals.

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Norman Kahn, MD, executive vice president and CEO of CMSS, says that if the rule applies to its members, it "would substantially drain the financial resources of physicians, particularly those whose support systems are limited."
Also, groups opposing the rule claim it is not appropriate for certain practices.
"A plan for a physician who serves in a rural area in which patients are well-known will be different from one for a physician in a large group in an urban area," the CMSS said in its statement. Time required to comply with the rule will "necessarily detract from the attention physicians are able to give their patients."
In the latest postponement, the FTC said the delay will allow Congress to consider legislation that would affect the scope of entities covered by the rule."
In a statement in June, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said, "Congress needs to fix the unintended consequences of the legislation establishing the Red Flags Rule—and to fix this problem quickly." He added, "As an agency we're charged with enforcing the law, and endless extensions delay enforcement."

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Study: Babies Born To Mothers Living In Areas Of Very High Pesticide Exposure See Problems
Applying large amounts of pesticides to farm fields can have negative effects on babies born to mothers living nearby, according to new research.
The data-crunchingstudypublished inNature Communicationslooked at the farm-heavy San Joaquin Valley in California, where a variety of pesticides get applied to dozens of different crops including fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Researchers matched birth records for more than a half-million babies born between 1997-2011 to pesticide application rates for a one-square-mile region including the mother’s address.
Most babies were fine. In fact, researchers had to look at the five percent exposed to the highest amount of pesticides to find meaningful impacts, and it was the top one percent--those presumably exposed to the most pesticides--that showed lower birth weights, shorter gestation lengths and adverse birth outcomes.
“We see these important effects, but just for a small subset of the population living in this agriculturally dominated region,” says study author Ashley Larsen, an assistant professor in theBren School of Environmental Science & Managementat the University of California, Santa Barbara. “We’re working on trying to understand what’s behind these hotspots of pesticide use and when they occur.”
Larsen and her colleagues drew upon California’s database of pesticide application, which correlates the amount of pesticide active ingredients applied to a specific geographic area. Larsen says California regulations are unique in requiring this degree of public information on pesticide use.
Still, this research is not able to pinpoint any individual problem chemical. The study looks only at aggregate active ingredients. In California, insecticides and fungicides are very widely used, while herbicides are less dominant.
In the Midwest, herbicides are the dominant pesticide used on row crops such as corn and soybeans. Still, Alan Kolok, director of the Nebraska Watershed Network, says there are some lessons for the Midwest.
“Overall, the population is safe,” Kolok says. “The risk of pesticides, even in the San Joaquin Valley to the Californians, is not really an issue for 95 percent of the population. However, there is a tail of the population, 5 percent or 1 percent or 1/10 of 1 percent, those individuals that are getting really high loads of chemical in their local environments, that are experiencing adverse impacts.”
Kolok says there is no way to directly compare the exposure that group faced to any region or population in the Midwest. But people concerned about pesticide exposure here can still learn from the results.
“The takehome message for out here is, when would there be periods in Iowa and Nebraska when you, you personally, might fall into that tail?” he asked, referring to the sliver of the population adversely affected. “And one time might be spring, as opposed to winter or summer or fall, because that’s when herbicides in Iowa and Nebraska are applied.”
He says pregnant women living close to farm fields in the Midwest might decide to limit their exposure to the spring application of pesticides.
Kolok and Larsen both say the results from the California study could also help agriculture and public health officials design ways to mitigate the risk in the regions where the largest exposures occur.
“The real shining ray of hope is this isn’t Rachel Carson withSilent Springand DDT,” Kolok says, referring to the 1962 book widely credited with raising alarm bells about the risks of pesticide use, “where birds are falling out of the sky and bald eagles are on the verge of extinction.”
Rather, Kolok sees this study saying almost the opposite.
“Our environment is comparatively clean,” he says, “the only issue is not that we’re all contaminated with pesticides. The issue is that there are spots that are contaminated.”
That’s a manageable-sized problem to approach, he says.
“You can identify really significant sources [of exposure], and by identifying those significant sources and taking steps to remediate them, you could actually have a noticeable, significant impact on the health of a small percentage of the public,” Kolok says.
In the Midwest today, though, Kolok says such fine-resolution data on pesticide application is not available.
Larsen says she’s hopeful the study will lead to proactive efforts to reduce risk.
“Particularly where we have this pesticide-use data,” she says, “that policy makers, or (medical) practitioners even, could interact with individuals who are at the highest risk at prenatal care visits or something of the sort.”
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Markel American Insurance Company has introduced new Excess Flood insurance program for residential and non-residential properties in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.
The Markel American Insurance Company (MAIC) Excess Flood program will provide property owners with coverage in excess of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The new MAIC program will be offered through Advanced Insurance Coverages, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Flood Services, and is designed to provide additional protection for the tens of thousands of property owners who are affected by flooding each year.
Timberlee Grove, president and COO of Markel American Insurance Company, said: Since most standard homeowner insurance policies don’t provide coverage against flood damage, homeowners have traditionally turned to the NFIP for flood protection. However, the NFIP doesn’t offer enough protection for many homeowners, given the maximum $250,000 available for dwelling coverage. MAIC’s Excess Flood insurance allows property owners to more fully protect against flood damage.


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From Libya to Iraq to Syria and now Ukraine. What's the next stop? Sending troops to the Punjab to aid the Sikhs? Maybe to Cuba, to protect Canadian tourists from having fun? How about the USA to get the pipeline built? This is not merely crazy but very dangerous.
Canada was once respected and admired for our peace-keeping missions from Kashmir to the Golan Heights to Cyprus to the Congo; for our foreign aid to Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia and for working with the United Nations in areas of health, education and agriculture, but no more.
We have given up on peacemaking and instead rushing in to make war; we have significantly reduced our foreign aid and we have moved away from working with the United Nations to working with Canadian corporations to despoil the land, pollute the rivers and increasing poverty, illiteracy and illness amongst the indigenous populations from Bolivia to Peru to wherever our mining companies are operating.
This fall, started with Mulroney, when he dragged us into the OAS and signed the Rio treaty, which committed us to help the USA in its Latin American adventures from Peru to Chile to Nicaragua to El Salvador and Columbia. Chretien tried to return us to the multilateral approach, working with the UN and resisted Bush, by refusing to join up against Iraq. The Afghanistan mission was UN-sanctioned, so he joined in
Under Harper, we have toed he American line, quick to join in its wars and so our troops have been on bombing runs in Libya, Iraq and Syria and we have also sent "advisers and trainers" to Iraq and Syria. Now he is sending troops to Ukraine. What is their mission? What is to be gained militarily? Nothing. The Russians are not going to turn and run. Harper and his defence minister, Kenny tried on two occasions to accuse the Russians of buzzing Canadian planes and even coming close to our ships in the Black sea and twice NATO had to reject those claims and so Harper has decided to up the ante and send troops in harm's way... in the killing fields of Ukraine. Demented.


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How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound should be elevated to demigod-like status by the public.
This is the first book to go inside the rehearsal rooms of some of the most inspirational orchestral partnerships in the world - how Simon Rattle works at the Berlin Philharmonic, how Mariss Jansons deals with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and how Claudio Abbado creates the world's most luxurious pick-up band every year with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, great orchestral concerts are recreated as a collection of countless human and musical stories.


Distance from Japan to Vatican
Distance from Japan to Vatican is 9,755 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 6,061 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Japan and Vatican is 9,755 km= 6,061 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Japan to Vatican, It takes 10.82 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||36° 12´ 17.3520'' N |
138° 15´ 10.5480'' E
Map of Japan
Japan Distances to Countries
|Distance from Czech Republic to Japan||8,923 km|
|Distance from Japan to Sierra Leone||14,143 km|
|Distance from Guyana to Japan||15,111 km|
|GPS Coordinates||41° 54´ 10.5120'' N |
12° 27´ 12.2040'' E
Map of Vatican
Vatican Distances to Countries
|Distance from Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba to Vatican||8,341 km|
|Distance from Finland to Vatican||2,395 km|
|Distance from Tajikistan to Vatican||4,895 km|


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American River Bankshares, parent company of American River Bank, earned $1 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from earning $77,000 in the same period in 2010.
The earnings in the fourth quarter represents the second quarter in a row where the bank earned more than $1 million.
The Rancho Cordova-based bank holding company earned $2.5 million through all of 2011, up from $476,000 earned in 2010.
American River has assets of $581.5 million at the end of 2011, up from assets of $578.9 million the year earlier.
American River (NASDAQ: AMRB) also announced Thursday that its board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan for up to 5 percent of the company’s outstanding stock.
“The positive profitability numbers our company reported for 2011, coupled with the fact that our common stock is currently trading at approximately 60 percent of tangible book value, prompted our board of directors to initiate a repurchase program,” said David Taber, chief executive officer of American River Bankshares. “We believe that the current market value of the company’s stock is not reflective of the company’s value and this program provides an excellent tool for optimizing our use of capital with the goal of providing value to our shareholders.”
The stock repurchases will be made as conditions allow, he said.
The bank has about $9.9 million outstanding shares, so 5 percent represents about 495,500 shares.
Founded in 1983, the bank has offices in Sacramento, Placer, Sonoma and Amador counties.
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Management of Rectitude International Mission in collaboration with World Diplomatic Federation (WODIF) have congratulated Nana Agyenim Boating I, Amoamanhene for successful 11 years as he ascended on the throne as the chief of Amoaman.
Amoaman, is a community in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District in the Ashanti Region.
Management of Rectitude International Mission and World Diplomatic Federation are much grateful to the almighty God for granting the chief more years as a successful traditional ruler.
“Over 11 years as a traditional leader, God has done a lot for him, especially given him long life, wisdom and above all exposing him to the world as one of the greatest traditional rulers .”They told this online portal.
Nana Agyenim Boating I, by the grace of God received an International Honorary Fellowship Award at The School Of Business Auditorium , Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology by George Fox University,USA,kind courtesy, Rectitude International Mission and World Diplomatic Federation.
Nana Agyenim Boateng I, is also the Managing Director of Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) in Ghana.
The traditional leader, who without doubt is development-oriented person, has over the years as the chief of Amoaman resourced and constructed the New Amoaman DA School at the cost of a whopping GH¢ 1 million during his first year on the throne.
NANA Agyenim Boating I, stated at the first year on his throne that developing Amoaman is his utmost priority of which he has delivered on alot of his promises.
His eleventh year on the thrown has seen to the construction of a modern infusion plant, valued at a staggering $ 11million at Amoaman to help provide jobs for the unemployed and energetic youth.
To serve the northern sector of the country after its completion, Nana Agyenim Boateng made it known that the company which would be christened ‘Northern Ghana Infusion Company’ would open the area to the rest of the country.
It is evident that,the construction works have also started for the construction of a modern police station, a spacious market and hospital at Amoaman, to help make living comfortable and enjoyable for his people.
Nana Agyenim Boateng has been encouraging people in responsible positions like chiefs, to lead the crusade to ensure the smooth development of their areas to make their people, including women and children benefit.
He has always been saying,government, cannot develop the country alone, hence the strongest need for influential people like chiefs and other affluent people in society to play roles to transform the society.


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Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster Is A Mere Symptom Of The Deeper GOP Pathology
INSIDE: Patrick McHenry ... Donald Trump ... Rudy G
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
It’s Systemic Not Personal
Between the comedic value, the schadenfreude, the story-telling appeal, and voyeuristic frisson, there’s a lot to love about the downfall of Kevin McCarthy. He deserved everything he got. The House GOP is a colossal mess. If you like spectacles that reinforce your priors and expose the foibles of the incompetent and cruel, this is a glorious time.
“At the start, his speakership was effectively an optical illusion,” John Harris writes. “At the end, it was an exercise in self-abasement.” Indeed.
But this is not really about Kevin McCarthy. He’s a stand-in. Before him were the chronically debased Paul Ryan and John Boehner. The House GOP has been on this merry-go-round for more than a decade.
McCarthy’s downfall is another symptom of the same underlying pathologies: a cultish GOP in thrall to a would-be autocrat, anti-majoritarian structural impediments, a surge in right-wing extremism, white resentments and grievances channeled into a burn-it-all-down fever.
It’s why spending even a moment purporting to analyze whether Democrats “joined” the MAGA right to depose McCarthy is foolishness. This is about right-wing politics in America. But more importantly, there was nothing cathartic about McCarthy’s ouster. It doesn’t change the underlying systemic problems.
It also makes the glut of analysis that focuses on tactical tricks or 3D-chess moves seem so trite and ill-conceived. You can’t “tactics” your way out of deeply rooted systemic problems, no matter how clever you may be.
I’m a firm believer in the credo that things can always get worse, not as a lament, or a throwing up of the hands, but as a cold-eyed assessment of the road ahead. With McCarthy out, things can definitely get worse.
Let’s preface this with the observation that no one really knows what’s next. This is uncharted territory. The House GOP is a rolling clown show and that makes predictions foolhardy.
In the vacuum of certainty, everyone tries to find some semblance of order. So it was that Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) sketched out a “schedule” for electing McCarthy’s successor:
Next Tuesday: a candidate “forum” of some kind
Next Wednesday: vote on a new speaker.
That sounds like a structured, planned approach. But it’s really not. They’re winging it.
Most of the coverage of the succession question is focused on Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, with a little noise around Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern (R-OK).
Did I mention that things could get worse before they better?
Does It Even Matter?
I’m not even sure the succession question is the right question. Will the House GOP change the rule that McCarthy agreed to as a price of winning the speakership that leaves a motion to vacate hanging over the head of any speaker like a sword of Damocles?
If not, then the next speaker may not have a real majority anymore than McCarthy did.
Again, this is systemic. Not personal.
That Poor Gavel
For The Record
The eight House GOP mutineers who ousted McCarthy:
Matt Gaetz (FL)
Andy Biggs (AZ)
Tim Burchett (TN) t
Eli Crane (AZ)
Nancy Mace (SC)
Matt Rosendale (MT)
Bob Good (VA)
Ken Buck (CO)
Don’t Feel Sorry For McCarthy
McHenry Boots Pelosi From Her Capitol Hideaway
Pelosi, who missed the McCarthy ouster to be back home for the series of memorial events for the late Sen. Dianna Feinstein (D-CA), being vaguely retaliated against while she’s away is extra galling – but exactly the kind of bullying we’ve come to expect.
What’s Happening Here?
Taken together, McCarthy’s lashing out at Dems after his own party dumped him, McHenry inflicting pain on former Dem leaders, and inane analysis egged on by Republicans, is sooo symptomatic of the current GOP.
Cruelty remains its most vital currency, the thing that unites them despite all their other divisions. Lashing out, exacting “revenge” for perceived slights, framing the world in a binary friend v. foe way is the quickest way to reestablish internally something that vaguely looks like unity. It’s also a flex for a new albeit temporary leader like McHenry.
There’s also an element of bullying rolling downhill, with the bullied and abused taking out their frustrations and acting out their damaged psyches by bullying and abusing others.
Trump Slapped With Gag Order
A lot has happened since yesterday’s Morning Memo on Trump’s attacks against the New York court hearing his civil fraud trial. The attacks continued, with a Truth Social post by Trump targeting the court clerk and Trump’s campaign doing an oppo research dump on the judge. TPM’s Hunter Walker reports on the crazy day in court.
Chutkan Calls Trump’s Bluff On Security Clearances
A play in three parts:
Act I: As part of its delay strategy, Trump’s legal team told the U.S. District Judge TanyaChutkan it needed more time to obtain the necessary security clearances.
Act II: Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team responded that some of Trump’s lawyers still hadn’t turned in the necessary paperwork.
Act III: Chutkan ordered Trump’s legal team to get its shit together on security clearances by next week.
Rudy G’s Long Descent
The NYT goes deep on Rudy Giuliani’s drinking:
Yet to almost anyone in proximity, friends say, Mr. Giuliani’s drinking has been the pulsing drumbeat punctuating his descent — not the cause of his reputational collapse but the ubiquitous evidence, well before Election Day in 2020, that something was not right with the former president’s most incautious lieutenant.
Tim Miller: Those Crazy Plans for Trump 2.0? Take Them Seriously.
SCOTUS May Spare The CFPB
In oral arguments Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority was less open to gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau than legal observers had expected.
Fifth Circuit Is Gonna Fifth Circuit
A Good Point On SCOTUS And The Fifth Circuit
With the Fifth Circuit serving as a steady pipeline of crazy-ass conservative legal theories, keep this in mind:
Leonard Leo is refusing to cooperate with the DC attorney general’s investigation into his tangled web of dark money outfits and conservative legal advocacy.
Physics Don’t Care Who The Speaker Of The House Is
More on September’s record-shattering heat here.
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Farm: Finca Lerida
Altitude: 1,600 to 1,835 metres above sea level
Owner: Ronella Enterprises, S.A
Town / City: Jaramillo Los Naranjos, Boquete
Overall: Raspberry, super floral, sweet
Lerida Amelia Geisha Natural - Panama
This extraordinary geisha hails from the world-famous Finca Lérida – the very first coffee plantation ever established in Panama and still renowned today as producing some of the best and most desirable coffees in the world. With its idyllic setting and fascinating origin story, it’s no wonder that the finca is so well-known. But the true secret of its reputation lies in the cup. This coffee is the total package: it’s got the provenance AND the unique, delectable profile. Intensely floral (think bergamont and jasmine) with a delicate acidity and rounded mouthfeel, we are proud to offer this amazing treat that isn’t available just anywhere.
Finca Lérida was established in 1917 by Tollef Boche Mönniche, a Norwegian engineer and graduate of the Royal College of Dresden, Germany.
After participating in the design and construction of the Panama Canal locks’ emergency hatches and the gigantic docks in Colon, Toleff Bache travelled to the High Lands of Chiriqui in 1911. He was looking for a place with clean, fresh air to rest and recover from his fourth attack of malaria, contracted in the hot and humid lands of the Panama Canal. After sailing seven days in a little boat along the Pacific shore and riding a horse for many hours, he arrived in a unique spot: Finca Lerida. Nestled on the high ridges of the Central Range and 10 km from Boquete, the property was, at the time, half grasslands and half tropical forest.
In 1924, Mönniche retired from the Panama Canal and along with his wife Julia, moved to Finca Lerida. Here he built the house, completely by hand, in a Norwegian style and planted the first coffee plantation in Panama. Alongside this, he also designed and patented the siphon, a device made to separate good beans from the bad. Coffee plantations worldwide now use this device, including Finca Lerida, where it is still used to select the best cherries for export.
The farm is currently managed by the Chiari Family who co-ordinated the coffee growing, protect the virgin rainforest surrounding the farm and run Boutique Finca Lérida which offers visitor the opportunity to stay on the farm. Finca Lérida’s reputation dates as far back as the first shipment of coffee that Panama exported to Germany in 1929, when the high quality of the coffee produced at this plantation made its international buyers realise that there was more to Panama that just its Canal.
This exquisite lot was processed using the natural method.


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A campus-wide notification system intended to keep the UWindsor community safe and informed in an emergency while providing real-time information sharing with public safety agencies won accolades at a recent Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Toronto.
In a first for an educational institution, the Microsoft Technology Innovation 2012 Award was presented to Sgt. Chris Zelezney and Campus Police director Mike MacKinnon for a project that was lauded as providing “new ideas demonstrating creativity and innovation in using technology to help in the advancement of policing, specifically for front-line service providers.”
Zelezney, the University’s emergency management coordinator, and his team worked with software consultant Cynthia Weeden, FutureShield Inc. and UWindsor’s IT department, to combine mass notification, emergency operations, mapping and situational awareness software to provide a seamless emergency protocol for the campus in the University’s Emergency Operations Centre and corresponding regional, provincial and federal first-responders.
“We wanted to put together a program that was multi-dimensional,” Zelezney says. “Not only do we provide instant mass emergency notification to all registered users in the UWindsor community through text messaging, e-mail, cell and home phone messaging, but the system has cameras that can monitor the progress of pre-determined evacuation routes and medical triage sites. We also have the ability to provide a common operating picture for emergency responders that includes GIS mapping, plume modelling software, and information sharing that can be accessed by authorized users from anywhere in the world.”
Zelezney says that a live international public safety exercise in February 2011 allowed public safety partners like the Windsor Police Service, the Detroit Department of Homeland Security, the OPP and various Windsor-Essex County emergency operations centres to test regional communications among their agencies for the first time.
“We had a vision that our campus implements a comprehensive safety and notification program,” Zelezney says. “And it was through this vision that we developed a tool that has grown in scope to be a model for national and international public safety efforts and the first of its kind for an educational institution. We were honoured to receive the MTIA award and doubly honoured to work with first-line emergency agencies in providing service to our community.”


With harsh cold and snow forecast for much of the state in the next few days, officials in Ohio’s Department of Aging are urging precautions for older people who could be at increased risk of weather-related problems.
Rick Dodge Takes Over Swaco as Ron Mills Departs
After nearly six years leading the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio, Executive Director Ron Mills is officially out.
Spokeswoman Jodi Andes says after meeting in executive session this afternoon, SWACO’s Board of Directors officially accepted Mills resignation effective today.
Earlier this year Mills inadvertently sent an e-mail to Franklin County Commissioner John O’Grady, criticizing O’Grady and likened him to a “village idiot.”
The SWACO Board named current chief of operations Rick Dodge to take over Mill’s duties on an interim basis.


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1714 W Randol Mill Rd, Arlington
Restaurant was clean staff was friendly and helpful. Our 1st experience with Mediterranean and it was wonderful. Took home leftovers portions were big.
I love Greek food and this did not disappoint. The photos are very accurate as far as plating and presentation. I had the Salmon paired with rice and a Greek salad. Also a large order of stuffed grape leaves. I was very pleased with the taste. The smoky flavor of the rice was a awesome combination with the perfectly seared salmon. The service very prompt and courteous. Highly recommended???
Nice place. Good food. Love their lamb chops. Wish had wider veggie menu.
Don't know what my girlfriend ordered but the salmon, shrimp and rice were excellent! Much healthier options than McDonald's lol. We will definitely be back.
I have been there so many times and never disappointed!! The food is amazing the atmosphere is superb and staff are super friendly...Definitely a 5 star rating!
Come here for delicious food!!! What a hidden gem! I wish them nothing but success. Food will keep u coming back for more. I get the chicken sandwich with a Greek salad. U will not regret it! Come now!
Loveky ambience and great service from our server Jasmine. I ordered Pastitsio and it was delicious. However rice was disappointing. It had no flavor. Moreover prices are high in this restaurant including appetizers and kids meal.
A wonderful place for the Greek experience. Small family operated restaurant. Fast and friendly service, and the food is amazing.
I was charged $8 for a small babaganoush. I think I'm more upset that I paid it. Go to prince Lebanese.
We were elated to hear today that Olives had reopened after making necessary repairs caused by damage from our recent "snowmaggedon". This is our favorite local spot for a quiet dinner. BYOB is a plus! This was a perfect way to celebrate my birthday, made complete by the complimentary baklava! Thank you Ali!!
Fantastic food and service, Absolutely high quality and clean restaurant and great atmosphere.
Olive's is back open! Food is wonderful service pleasant and helpful. Lamb dishes are exceptional .
Every single dish the chef prepares is awesome. The attention to freshness & the quality of the ingredients is tops. We order takeout because of Covid but we love the dinning room.My favorites are the Lamb Chops and the Lentil Soup, but the Chicken Potato Salad is the best I've had. Their house salad is also incredibly good. What can I say? I could eat there three times a week.Also, we love the chef. Nice guy.
The best and it’s not even close! The hummus, gyro sandwich, beef souvlaki, and rice are so good it makes me angry. I’ve tried many Mediterranean joints in the metroplex and I have to say, Olives takes it. Ali, the owner, is a great guy. Come and show your support for delicious local food. Do it! You won’t regret it. Oooh btw you in a rush?? Well now they have a drive thru window open! You will not find better food when you’re in a crunch, that I guarantee you. Thank me later.
Food is Great Service isFanominal..
1714 W Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, TX 76012


McLaughlin wins fifth race of WCS-Attica LM Series
It was another action-filled night at NAPA/Wayne County Speedway on Malcuit Tavern night with the Twin State Auto Racing Club in attendance.
For the Lias Tire Late Models, it was also the fifth race of the WCS-Attica Raceway Park Late Model Series and 2012 track champion Shane McLoughlin and 2013 track champion Corey Conley would bring the 21-car field to the green flag. Conley would jump into the lead over McLoughlin, who would give up second to Charlie Duncan on lap three. McLoughlin would reclaim second on lap 8 as Ryan Markham slid past Mike Bores, who was chasing after the $1,000 bonus after winning on Friday at Attica, for fourth.
Doug Drown would drop Bores another spot at the 10-lap mark. Then with 11 laps to go, McLoughlin would shoot out of turn two in the low groove and power past Conley for the lead, while Drown took fourth from Markham.
On lap 19, Duncan would slide high in turn two and that allowed both Drown and Markham to edge past him. With the final laps clicking off, Conley made one last run on McLoughlin but could not get by as the Nashport driver held on for the win. McLoughlin also won the American Racer Award for racing on their tires and also collected awards from the Contingency Connection, as did all the winners as they award over $2,000 a night for the drivers. Conley won the Hoosier Tire Award for finishing second, while Drown finished third and received the VP Fuels Hard Charger Award after starting ninth.
Markham, who is leading in both NAPA/WCS points and the two track series points, was fourth, while Duncan held on to fifth.
Two-time defending track champion Andrew Palker (Lodi), who has been running with the UNOH All Stars this season, came to WCS on an off night for the traveling series and led all the way for the Fisher Performance Sprint win. Jason Dolick secured second place on lap 18 ahead of Kirk Jeffires. Bob Lime finished fourth and Troy Kingan finished fifth.
Points leader and four-time winner Brad Haudenschild pulled off on the second lap of the feature with mechanical issues.
Tony Cline set the pace for the opening lap of the Thrifty Muffler Super Stock feature, but after that it was all Larry Baldwin as he drove into victory lane for the fifth time this year. Tyler Thompson would run second until the halfway mark when 10th-starting Bob Daugherty would take over. Thompson would hold on to third with JR Gentry, driving Mitch Caskey's No. 43, would finish fourth and Tyler Nicely fifth.
Doug Hensel led the opening seven circuits of the WQKT Mini Stock main with Jordan James of Loudonville hounding him every inch of the track and finally took the lead on lap eight. Hensel came right back on lap nine. James then grabbed the lead for good on the next lap and kept it until the checkered flag flew for his first win in his first time at WCS this season. Moose Workman edged past Hensel, the heat winner, on the last lap for second with Adam Kern and Elvis Conkle rounding out the top five.
After finishing second three times this year, Matthew Moore led all but the opening two laps in the NAPA Mini Wedge feature. Tanner McLoughlin tried everything he could to pass Moore after leading the first two circuits but came up short. Billy Dawson and Robbie Ledger battled back and forth for third and also challenged McLoughlin for second several times before finishing in that order. Caitlin Johnson wrapped up the top five.
Racing continues Saturday with the Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association coming in for a $2,500-to-win feature. The Thrifty Muffler Super Stock, the WQKT Mini Stocks and the NAPA Mini Wedges are on the racing card as the Lias Tire Late Models have the night off.