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Hello, I was recently gifted some Dartagnon foie gras (2 2oz portions), and was seeking some good recipes / dishes for how to best utilize it.
I am a reasonably proficient home cook and open to any suggestions.
Really appreciate any input. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Over the last four years, Elon Musk seems to have changed his tune about being a private company.
In more than one instance during Tesla's AI Day event on Friday, Musk touted the benefits of Tesla being a publicly traded company, a very different stance than he has held in the past.
"Tesla... being a single class of stock owned by the public is very important and should not be overlooked. I think this is essential because if the public does not like what Tesla is doing ... the public could buy shares in Tesla and vote differently," Musk said.
"This is a big deal. It's very important that I can't just do what I want. Sometimes people think that, but it's not true," he added when discussing Tesla's plans to develop its humanoid AI robot.
Just over four years ago, the Tesla CEO made waves when he tweeted that he was considering taking the company private.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2018
One month after sending that tweet, Musk settled fraud charges with the SEC for allegedly "false and misleading statements." Musk neither admitted nor denied the allegations, but he resigned as Tesla's chairman and paid a $20 million fine.
Musk is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Twitter over whether he will buy the social media company for $44 billion. Musk's initial takeover bid was financed by a huge loan against his Tesla shares. Tesla's shares are down more than 30% this year, which puts him in a potentially shakier financial position should his agreement to buy Twitter be ruled legally binding.
Tesla AI Day 2022
Elon Musk has lofty goals for his company's planned humanoid AI robot product.
A rough prototype of the bot, which is called Optimus, made its official debut on Friday night at Tesla's annual AI Day by dancing and waving to a crowd.
But Elon Musk predicted that as the bot's technology improves, it could have widespread ramifications for all of civilization.
"The potential for Optimus is, I would say, appreciated by very few people," Musk said.
He went on to say that the current economy is limited by people and productivity, but that an AI bot like Tesla's could change the calculation.
If Tesla's Optimus could handle manual labor, "an economy becomes quasi-infinite," Musk predicted.
"This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty, where you could have whatever you want in terms of products and services. It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it," he said.
Last year, when Musk unveiled plans for the bot, he said it would be designed to do "boring, repetitious" work.
While the AI robot appears to be in the extremely early stages, with Tesla's engineers debuting only a "rough prototype," Musk told the crowd he plans to make the robot at high volume and low cost as quickly as possible.
"Optimus is designed to be a very capable robot but made in very high volume, probably ultimately millions of units, and it is expected to cost much less than a car," Musk said.
"I would say probably less than $20,000 would be my guess."
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Got a beef heart stew going. Set it on 2, assuming it'd simmer. No bubbles, nothing, yet. Can I just leave it like this and wait 4-6h for it to be done, or do I have to bring it to a boil & then bring it back down? Also, does "bring up to a simmer" mean to do what I did (leave it at a low temp), or does it mean, "bring to a boil and simmer?"
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A manure-covered statue of Sen. Ron Johnson is making its rounds around Milwaukee, a city in his home state of Wisconsin.
Progressive activist groups NextGen PAC and MoveOn unveiled the statue — which they call a "scatue," per Associated Press journalist Scott Bauer — in Milwaukee on Thursday.
According to NextGen PAC, it is part of an attempt to get "climate-motivated voters" to have Johnson voted out at the upcoming midterm elections.
The statue is meant to call out Johnson for the comments he made at a GOP luncheon in 2021. At the event, he downplayed the effects of climate change while citing Lord Christopher Monckton — a British conservative pundit and climate change denier.
"I don't know about you guys, but I think climate change is — as Lord Monckton said — bullshit," Johnson was seen saying at the time. In a video obtained by CNN, Johson can be seen silently mouthing the word "bullshit" but not saying it out loud.
"By the way, it is," Johnson quipped in the video.
The activists have taken the poop-covered statue of Johnson to his home state to protest his remarks.
"Ron Johnson thinks the climate change devastating communities across the country is 'bullshit.' We disagree, and think he's actually projecting," MoveOn wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
Ron Johnson thinks the climate change devastating communities across the country is “bullshit.”
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) September 29, 2022
We disagree, and think he’s actually projecting. https://t.co/BbhSQ986Ju pic.twitter.com/vR6CvNsjLE
In a separate tweet that day, MoveOn posted photos of climate activists gathered around the dung-plastered statue, demanding that Wisconsinites "deserve a senator who will act on climate change."
Today in Milwaukee, we rallied with @nextgenpaction and MoveOn members to expose climate denier Ron Johnson. Wisconsinites deserve a senator who will act on climate change. #RojoMustGo!
— MoveOn (@MoveOn) September 29, 2022
Join us in defeating Johnson: https://t.co/vMc1BX40q5 pic.twitter.com/fd73pGhtTJ
NextGen also posted some snaps of the "scatue," saying that the group was joining MoveOn to "call out Ron Johnson's bullsh*t... literally."
The people in Wisconsin deserve a senator who believes in climate change and won’t take money from the fossil fuel industry to get richer himself.
— NextGen PAC (@nextgenpaction) September 29, 2022
That’s why we joined @MoveOn in Milwaukee today to call out Ron Johnson's bullsh*t... literally. 💩
Say it with us: #RoJoMustGo! pic.twitter.com/VQO2AVN2Iv
Representatives for NextGen, MoveOn, and Johnson did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.
I made a Monterrey Jack cheese sauce, just half onion, butter, flour, milk into roux and add jalapeño and Monterey Jack cheese.
I felt like the sauce had no flavor at all. What is lacking from the cheese?
Hello, not sure if this is the right subreddit. But I recently discovered a Dominican restaurant nearby my place and I never tried Dominican food before. I ordered Empanadas and Cubano sandwich and WOW it was so good. But I wanna try something else.
What do you guys recommend that's a must-have?
Looking for low temp pasteurized milk, as opposed to the ultra-high temp (UHT) pasteurized milk product which are found in most supermarkets.
Can anyone name a common brand and retailer who carry LT milk?
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Thursday recognizing the independence of two Ukrainian regions — Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — and laying the groundwork for their expected annexation by Russia.
The decrees come ahead of Putin's expected announcement of Russia's annexation of the two territories, along with Donetsk and Luhansk, per Reuters.
The documents unilaterally declare both territories as being independent of Ukraine, a step required before they can be made a part of Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia would hold a signing ceremony in Moscow on Friday afternoon to declare the eastern Ukrainian regions as part of Russia, Reuters reported.
Per the outlet, Peskov said the ceremony would address "agreements on the accession of new territories into the Russian Federation."
The regions to be annexed make up around 15% of Ukraine's total territorial area, per Reuters.
Sham referendums that run counter to international law were recently held in the four Russian-occupied regions. The polls were organized by pro-Russian separatists and involved armed soldiers going house-to-house to collect votes, threatening Ukrainian families with violence if they refused to participate.
The illegal polls resembled a tactic used by Russia when it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. At the time, election officials in the region announced an overwhelming vote in favor of unifying with Russia, which Moscow then used to justify its annexation.
According to the Associated Press, Russian troops currently have control of most of the Luhansk region and around two-thirds of the Donetsk region. The referendums may also be part of Russia's plan to force Ukraine to accept the annexation of these regions and to hold off a fierce Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson.
UN secretary general António Guterres has slammed Russia's actions.
"Any annexation of a State's territory by another State resulting from the threat or use of force is a violation of the Principles of the UN Charter and international law," Guterres said Thursday.
"The Russian Federation, as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, shares a particular responsibility to respect the Charter. Any decision to proceed with the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine would have no legal value and deserves to be condemned," he added.
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My father was reading Kenji Lopez book, The Food Lab, and quoted it saying that steak houses get a better cuts than most consumers are able to purchase at most supermarkets.
I've not read the book, and I don't live in the US, but the beef I get at my local supermarket are all AAA. (Canadian)
I'm wondering how much truth there is to this.
Anyone know more on this claim?
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Elon Musk's smartphone has been bombarded by billionaires, executives, bankers, and other notable figures from tech, finance, and media, all hoping to get a piece of his wild and wayward $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
Hundreds of his private text conversations were just released as part of Twitter's lawsuit against Musk, who is trying back out of the deal. Among those who showed up are fellow tech billionaires like former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was also interested in buying Twitter and offered Musk $5 billion to get in on his eventual deal, text logs show.
Then there are the likes of TV personality Gayle King, who wanted Musk for a sit-down interview, podcaster Joe Rogan, Justin Roiland, co-creator of "Rick and Morty," and Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Insider parent company Axel Springer. James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn Murdoch make individual appearances, too.
Musk also had extensive back and forth with Twitter executives, including board chair and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. Talk between Musk and Agrawal went south quickly, prompting Musk to reveal that he'd decided to buy Twitter instead of join its board because a board seat was "a waste of time." Brother Kimball Musk was a frequent confidant on Musk's ideas for Twitter, or a possible competing platform.
Also notable in Musk's texts are the various people he solicited for either financing for the $44 billion deal or advice on running the company. Many others reached out to him to offer their help, thoughts, or sometimes money. David Sacks was invited to invest. Reid Hoffman, too, eventually suggesting he could put $2 billion toward a deal. Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce, shows up to talk about a new operating system for Twitter. Musk friends Jason Calacanis and Tim Urban offer to help, along with VC's Joe Lonsdale, Adeo Russi and Riot Games founder Marc Merrill. Sean Parker texted once to say he was doing Twitter due diligence from his mother's apartment.
The log makes clear that, at least at one point, Musk was serious about acquiring Twitter. Not until early May did Musk begin to discuss any concerns about the platform. That began with an exchange with Morgan Stanley tech banker Michael Grimes in which Musk asks him to "slow down" on the deal. The majority of the texts shown in the log span between March and mid-June, a few weeks before Musk sent Twitter a letter attempting to cancel the deal altogether. Now Musk is locked in a legal battle with the company, which is trying to force him to acquire it.
See below for highlights of the juiciest exchanges between Musk and other Twitterati:
Jack Dorsey
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Dorsey and Musk exchanged many texts in the days before Musk's involvement in Twitter became public. Eventually, Musk pointed to phone conversations he'd had with Dorsey as supportive of his decision to take the company private. In one text to board chair Bret Taylor from April 10, two days after he told Agrawal he intended to buy the company and not sit on its board, Musk wrote:
"It's better in my opinion to take Twitter private, restructure and return to the public markets one that is done. That was also Jack's view when I spoke to him."
Joe Rogan
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Musk has spoken to Rogan on his podcast twice, in one 2018 interview infamously smoking weed, leading to some corporate headaches for the Tesla CEO. Rogan first texted Musk about Twitter April 4, the day Musk's stake in Twitter became public, asking "Are you going to liberate twitter from the censorship happy mob?"
"I will provide advice, which they may or may not choose to follow," Musk replied.
A few weeks later, after Musk had offered to acquire Twitter, Rogan on April 25 texted again. "I REALLY hope you get Twitter. If you do, we should throw one hell of a party," Rogan said. Musk replied with the "100" emoji.
Parag Agrawal
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Things appear to have started off friendly between Musk and Parag Agrawal, who took over from Dorsey as Twitter CEO less than a year ago. They texted about meeting in person with Taylor, the text log shows, as well as other video meetings. They touched on things that needed to improve on Twitter and Agrawal said April 3, a few days before Musk's decision to join the board became public, he was "super excited about the opportunity and look forward to working closely and finding ways to use your time as effectively as possible."
The mood shifted quickly after Agrawal texted Musk on April 9, regarding Musk's asking on Twitter "Is Twitter dying?"
Agrawal told Musk he was free to Tweet anything he wanted about Twitter, "But it's my responsibility to tell you that it's not helping me make Twitter better in the current context. Next time we speak, I'd like to provide you perspective on the level of internal distraction right now and how its hurting our ability to do work."
Musk responded about 30 minutes later asking "What did you get done this week?" He immediately followed up with, "I'm not joining the board. This is a waste of time" and added, "Will make an offer to take Twitter private."
Agrawal asked to get on the phone with Musk, who appears to have refused, as Taylor followed up a few minutes later, saying Agrawal had informed him of "your text conversation." Taylor asked to speak on the phone, too. Musk simply said "Please expect a take private offer." Taylor tried again to speak by phone, wanting to "understand the context."
"Fixing Twitter by chatting with Parag won't work," Musk wrote back. "Drastic action is needed."
"This is hard to do as a public company, as purging fake users will make the numbers look terrible, so restructuring should be done as a private company. This is Jack's opinion too."
Musk again refused to get on the phone with Taylor, saying he was "about to take off" but could talk the following day.
Larry Ellison
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Musk and Ellison also texted a number of times, with Ellison expressing support for Musk's effort to buy Twitter from the outset. On March 27, Ellison texted Musk to set up a call: "I do think we need another Twitter."
When Musk on April 20 asked the Oracle founder if he wanted to take part in financing the deal, Ellison wrote: "Yes, of course." He offered to put up "A billion… or whatever you recommend." Musk recommend $2 billion, but Ellison only ended up putting in the $1 billion he initially offered.
"This has very high potential and I'd rather have you than anyone else," Musk wrote to Ellison.
"I agree that it has huge potential… and it would be lots of fun," Ellison replied.
Sam Bankman-Fried
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Will MacAskill, an advisor to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, texted Musk on March 29 in hopes of connecting the two about Twitter, about two weeks before Musk moved to take over the company. It's unclear whether Musk knew immediately who Bankman-Fried was, as he asked MacAskill "you vouch for him?" after MacAskill suggested Bankman-Fried had been interested in buying Twitter "for a while" and was open to working with Musk "about a possible joint effort in that direction."
To that Musk replied, "Does he have huge amounts of money?" MacAskill said he was worth $24 billion and that he'd already mentioned contributing $1 billion to $8 billion into any deal for Twitter, a number that could potentially have gone up to $15 billion with financing.
Musk did not appear very interested. Bankman-Fried texted Musk directly April 1, saying he was "happy to chat about Twitter (or other things) whenever!" Musk responded "Hi!" adding that he was currently in Germany. Bankman-Fried offered to call at a time that worked for Musk's time zone, but there are no texts in the log showing that Musk responded. Bankman-Fried texted again about two weeks later, after Musk's offer to acquire Twitter was in full swing, saying he would "love to talk about Twitter." Musk does not appear to have responded.
Morgan Stanley's Grimes then tried to connect Musk with Bankman-Fried on April 25, saying he could put $5 billion into Musk's deal to buy Twitter. Musk disliked Grimes' text explaining briefly who Bankman-Fried is and suggesting a meeting. But wrote of a meeting, "So long as I don't have to have a laborious blockchain debate."
Joe Lonsdale
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Before Musk's stake in Twitter became public, he began posting questions and polls to his many millions of followers on the platform about what its future should look like. Joe Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir and an outspoken political conservative, texted Musk in response to a March 24 post he made asking "Should Twitter be an open source?"
Lonsdale wrote to Musk saying he loved the question and he was going to bring it up at a "GOP policy retreat" he was heading to the next day. "Now I can cite you so I'll sound less crazy myself :). Our public squares need to not have arbitrary sketchy censorship."
"Absolutely," Musk replied. "What we have now is hidden corruption!"
Gayle King
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King texted Musk a few times in an attempt to get him to do a sit-down interview with her. The first was on April 6, when King wrote: "Have you missed me. Are you ready to do a proper sit down with me? so much to discuss! Especially with your Twitter play... what do I need to do???"
Musk responded by downplaying his involvement at the time, saying, "The whole Twitter thing is getting blown out of proportion" and "Owning ~9% is not quite control."
Gayle texted Musk again about two weeks later, after Musk offered to buy Twitter outright.
"ELON! You buying Twitter or offering to buy Twitter wow! Now don't you think we should sit down together face to face this is as the kids say a 'gangsta move' I dont know how shareholders turn this down... like I said you are not like the other kids in the class."
Musk responded a few days later suggesting only that Oprah Winfrey would make a good addition to Twitter's board under his ownership. "Wisdom about humanity and knowing what is right are more important than so called 'board governance' skills, which mean pretty much nothing in my experience," he wrote.
Reid Hoffman
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Musk invited Reid Hoffman to take part in financing the Twitter deal on April 27. At first, Hoffman politely declined, saying "It's way beyond my resources. I presume you are not interested in venture $."
Musk said VC money "is fine if you want."
"There is plenty of financial support, but you're a friend, so just letting you know you'd get priority," he added.
Hoffman proceeded to ask what "the largest $ that would be ok?" Musk suggested $2 billion, and Hoffman said "Great. Probably doable -- let me see." Musk then connected Hoffman to Morgan Stanley.
The text log does not show why Hoffman eventually decided against putting up money for the deal, but he claimed earlier this month to be skeptical of it.
Egon Durban
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Musk first texted Egon Durban, a director at Silver Lake Capital and a Twitter board member and investor, on March 26, before his stake in the company was made public.
"This is Elon. Please call when you have a moment. It is regarding the Twitter board," Musk texted.
The next day, Durban connected Musk via text with Agrawal, Taylor and Martha Lane Fox, another member of Twitter's board.
"Elon – everyone is excited about prospect of you being involved and on board. Next step is for you to chat so we can move this forward quickly. Maybe we can get this done in the next few days," Durban wrote.
On April 5, Agrawal announced that Musk was joining the board.
At some point, Durban and Musk may have had some kind of falling out. Their last text that appears on the log is from Musk on April 17, so after Musk offered to acquire Twitter.
"You're calling Morgan Stanley to speak poorly of me…" Musk wrote. A reply from Durban does not appear in the log.
James Murdoch
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On April 26, James Murdoch texted Musk about a connection that is not referenced elsewhere in the text log, saying "Thank you. I will link you up."
Murdoch added, "Also, will call when some of the dust settles. Hope all is ok."
Murdoch's wife, Kathryn, texted in the same thread to ask only, "Will you bring Jack back?"
Musk replied, "Jack doesn't want to come back. He is focused on Bitcoin."
David Sacks
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Sacks and Musk texted several times casually about Twitter and exchanging links to posts on the platform. On April 26, Sacks asked Musk if he'd be interested in connecting with Justin Amash, a libertarian politician who asked Sacks for an introduction in order to be "helpful to Twitter." Musk replied, "I don't own Twitter yet."
Two days later, Musk asked Sacks if he wanted to "invest in the take private?" Sacks replied "Yes but I don't have a vehicle for it (Craft is a venture) so either I need to set up and SPV or just do it personally. If the latter, my amount would be mice-nuts in relative terms but I would be happy to participate to support the cause."
"Up to you," Musk said.
"I'm in personally, and will raise an SPV too if that works for you," Sacks wrote.
"Sure," Musk said.
Sacks has tried to fight being part of Twitter's case against Musk, arguing he never committed to investing in the deal.
Justin Roiland
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Roiland, co-creator of popular adult cartoon "Rick and Morty," texted Musk on April 6, the day after Musk agreed to join Twitter's board.
"I fucking love that you're the majority owner of Twitter," Roiland said.
He proceeded to suggest that Musk meet friends of his who had created a program to verify people's identities, "As in, if people choose to use it, it could verify that they are a real person and not a troll farm."
Musk corrected him two days later, saying "I just own 9% of Twitter, so don't control the company." He said he would "raise the identity issue with Parag (CEO)."
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I’ve tried a lot of recipes but the breading on my chicken always comes out flat. What’s the secret to getting the super flaky chicken you see at chicken joints?
So I read these recipes that say put one tablespoon of oil in frypan and cook all these ingredients! A tablespoon? This gets sucked up pretty quick, now cooking on dry pan. What am I missing here?
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Meta on Tuesday said it took down a China-based disinformation network which sought to influence the US midterms, although it was largely ineffective due to the time difference between the two countries and the propaganda workers' regular working hours.
The network, which Meta described as "small" originated in China and ran across multiple social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, according to a Tuesday blogpost by Ben Nimmo, Meta's global threat intelligence lead and David Agranovich, the company's director of threat disruption.
Meta did not have enough evidence to identify who was behind the China-based operation, Reuters reported, citing a company executive at a press conference on Tuesday.
The network used tactics including fake accounts and political hashtags, said Meta in its report. Specifically, two clusters under the network "targeted both sides of the political spectrum in the US" in the English language.
Meta showed two memes featuring President Joe Biden and Republican senator Marco Rubio as examples of what the network disseminated. The meme with a photo of Biden included the words "One year in: Nothing is built, nothing is back, nothing is better." The other meme showed a photo of Rubio and the words "$1.3 million from Russia, $3.3 million from NRA, Democracy for sale."
However, the influence operation was a failure, as the US-focused clusters attracted only "minimal reactions" to their posts.
This was partly because propaganda workers were working regular nine-to-five shifts in China during weekdays and took long lunches, Meta wrote. "They appear to have had a substantial lunch break, and a much lower level of posting during weekends. This meant that the operation was mostly posting when Americans were sleeping," per Meta.
Some of the accounts posting the propaganda messages posted too sporadically and used bad English. Some accounts shared the same post into a few groups on one day, but then didn't post for a week. "What they did post included linguistic errors: "I can't live in an America on regression!"" per Meta.
Even though the China-based influence operation didn't work, it is significant because it is the first Chinese network Meta "disrupted" which targeted US domestic politics ahead of the midterm elections, the tech company said. "Chinese influence operations that we've disrupted before typically focused on criticizing the United States to international audiences, rather than primarily targeting domestic audiences in the US," according to Meta.
Meta also took down a Russia disinformation network that targeted Europe, it said in the same Tuesday blogpost. This network faked over 60 websites of real European news organizations and posted original articles supporting Russia in the war with Ukraine.
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Embattled Ohio GOP candidate J.R. Majewski's military record has once again come under scrutiny as new records revealed a more belligerent reason behind his demotion in the US military.
According to records reviewed by The Associated Press, Majewski was not demoted and unable to re-enlist due to a brawl, which he has previously said. Instead, he was caught drunk driving in an Okinawa, Japan Air Base, the records showed.
The records stated that on Sept. 8, 2001, Majewski was demoted to one position below his role – a role he stayed in through four years of service.
"You did, at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, on or about 8 September 2001, gate 2, physically control a vehicle, to wit: passenger car, while drunk," the record said, later adding, "When you decided to get behind the wheel of a vehicle after indulging in intoxicating liquor you brought discredit upon yourself, 733rd Air Mobility Squadron, and the Air Force."
Majewski's campaign did not immediately return Insider's request for comment. His campaign told the AP last week that he had been demoted for a brawl with a fellow servicemember.
"This mistake is now more than 20 years old. I'm sure we've all done something as young adults that we look back on and wonder 'what was I thinking?' and I'm sure our parents and grandparents share these sentiments," Majewski told the AP on Wednesday.
He did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In August, Insider first reported that Majewski had violated a federal law by disclosing his personal finances late in his race. And at a rally last Friday, Majewski responded to an Associated Press report which showed that he had lied about serving with the US Air Force in Afghanistan, saying that top-secret documents that only he has access to tell a different story.
"The orders and military records that I have been able to obtain from my personal files shows that all of my deployments are listed as classified," Majewski told his supporters.
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Fast Company's Apple News account sent out offensive messages to users in a hack on Tuesday evening.
The messages included a racial slur and an explicit sexual message, according to the Apple News notification seen by Insider.
Fast Company confirmed the hack. In a tweet, the business magazine wrote that its Apple News account sent "two obscene and racist push notifications" about a minute apart.
—Fast Company (@FastCompany) September 28, 2022
The hackers posted similar content on Fast Company's website, according to The Verge. The publisher's website also contained a post detailing how the hack was carried out, per The Verge.
Fast Company's website is now offline, showing a "404" error message.
Fast Company said it is investigating the situation. It has suspended its Apple News feed and shut down its company website.
—Fast Company (@FastCompany) September 28, 2022
Apple News said it has disabled Fast Company's channel after "an incredibly offensive alert" was sent.
—Apple News (@AppleNews) September 28, 2022
Insider was not immediately able to contact Fast Company for comment.
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I made a batch of shrimp Ceviche but forgot to cure the shrimp in lime juice. It’s mixed with everything, including lime juice and Clamato. If it marinated overnight in the fridge would it be safe to eat, or is the whole batch ruined? I thought it all marinated together but I was told the shrimp marinates alone before being mixed. Have I ruined my ceviche?
Would it work to make an aioli using a flavoured oil (leftover oil after frying up garlic, shallots, etc)?
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been one of President Joe Biden's loudest critics. He's attacked Biden's pandemic strategy, his immigration policy, and encouraged congressional Republicans to go after his administration if they take the US House in November's midterms.
But as Hurricane Ian gains strength to strike Florida's Gulf Coast, DeSantis may need to put politics on pause as he leans on the federal government for disaster support.
DeSantis has rejected federal aid before: In 2021, The Associated Press reported the governor vetoed funding from the American Rescue Plan, which included $1 billion for an Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund. The governor claimed the funding had strings attached — such as parts of it only being accessible through grants — that made it unusable, per the outlet.
Ian — which could become a Category 4 storm — will be DeSantis' first major hurricane as governor, just six weeks before Election Day.
Earlier Tuesday, Biden called the mayors of Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, Florida, to discuss preparations for Ian including evacuation efforts — but not DeSantis.
However, on Tuesday evening, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted that Biden and DeSantis had spoken to discuss steps the federal government is taking to help Florida. "The President and the Governor committed to continued close coordination," she said.
During emergencies, The White House can engage the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the agency responsible for preparing and recovering from the impacts of natural disasters.
It can also invoke The Stafford Act, which allows a state governor to authorize the use of the military for disaster relief operations. The act authorizes the president to make federal aid available to states undergoing a natural or man-made disaster.
Here's how the last three presidents worked with governors in their disaster relief efforts.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana, claiming at least 1,800 lives, displacing nearly one million people, and causing property damage that totaled over $125 billion. More than 20,000 residents took shelter in the Superdome, the city's NFL stadium, where they were stranded for weeks.
Days after Katrina hit, Michael D. Brown, the head of FEMA, admitted on live television that his agency had just learned of the thousands of people at the Superdome without food or water.
In the days that followed, the Bush administration drew intense criticism for its slow response.
Instead of being on the ground to support the relief effort, then-President George W. Bush chose to fly over the region on Air Force One. "It's devastating," he said as he looked down, according to The Washington Post. "It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground."
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New Orleans Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the White House, saying: "They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn — excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed," he said.
Democratic Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said the state's despair was made worse by a Republican-led White House eager to blame someone else for its failed disaster response: "I just thought I could shout more loudly than the noise around me, but in the end I couldn't. There was just too much pain," she said.
Former President Barack Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was swift. The day before the storm hit New Jersey, Obama signed emergency declarations for Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
The declarations allowed FEMA to transfer resources directly to state, local, and tribal organizations to make preparations in advance of the storm. More than $1.2 billion was dedicated to housing assistance, including costs for temporary housing, and repairing damaged property.
The hurricane killed 285 people and caused $70 billion in damage. During a visit to the coast to assess the destruction, Obama and New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie formed an unlikely bond.
Photos from that day show the two side-by-side. Christie said, "I want to thank the president for coming here today. It's really important to have the president of the United States acknowledge all the suffering that's going on here in New Jersey and I appreciate it very much."
The New York Times reported Christie's praise of Obama didn't sit well with Republican leaders who were offended at how closely he worked with the president.
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According to a White House pool report, Obama told survivors at a shelter in Brigantine, "I want to just let you know that your governor is working overtime to make sure that as soon as possible everybody can get back to normal."
In 2017, three major hurricanes occurred over the span of two months during former President Donald Trump's tenure: Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Hurricane Irma in Florida, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Harvey was one of the costliest disasters in the US and one of the first serious crises of his presidency. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa called out Trump on Twitter to "keep on top of" the hurricane and warned him not to "make the same mistake President Bush made with Katrina."
Questions were raised as to whether Trump would handle the situation appropriately, given he had "zero disaster-response experience," according to Matt Mackowiak, a Texas-based Republican strategist.
While Trump received flak for downplaying how climate change contributed to the intensity of Harvey and Irma, it was nothing compared to the criticism he earned for how his White House handled Hurricane Maria.
The White House made few preparations in the days leading up to the storm, and it took weeks before FEMA committed its full resources to the island.
Despite nearly 3,000 people dying, the former president referred to his administration's handling of the disaster as "incredibly successful."
He also tossed paper towels to crowds of survivors during a visit to the territory.
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Mayor Carmen YulÃn Cruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who led her city's response during Maria, blasted Trump's claim, saying: "The president keeps adding insult to injury and I think his words are despicable. They really do not have any connection with reality."
During Hurricane Dorian in 2019, Trump altered a map from the National Hurricane Center to support his false claim that Alabama was in the path of Dorian. The incident was referred to as Sharpiegate and the Category 5 storm ravaged the Bahamas instead.
President Joe Biden has already had to deal with a number of hurricanes such as Hurricanes Ida and Nicholas in 2021, far but appears to be taking the necessary steps to actively prepare for the impending damage of Ian.
On Sept, 18, Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, causing an island-wide blackout and mass flooding. Biden declared a state of emergency as the storm approached, ordering federal assistance to supplement disaster response efforts.
As of Monday, an estimated 746,000 homes and businesses were still without power, according to Reuters. The White House has provided additional support, approving 100% retroactive federal funding to cover debris removal, emergency protective measures, and direct federal assistance for 30 days.
As Hurricane Ian inches toward Florida, FEMA announced federal emergency aid would be made available to supplement the state, tribal, and local response efforts.
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The recipe:
2 Kobe beef short ribs (about 8 ounces) Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon Chinese five-spice powder 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 (750 milliliters) bottle sake 3 cups mirin 3 1/4 cups orange juice 1 cup sugar 1 bunch scallions, chopped 2 ounces ginger, peeled and sliced 2 ounces garlic, sliced 1 cup soy sauce
I’m only able to source salted mirin so I’m looking to replace that, but I do not have much experience with the flavour profile for it so I’m not sure how much the final product will be affected. If there are no suitable replacements I could probably reduce the soy sauce or perhaps reduce and replace with a mixture of light and dark soy sauce.
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Russia may be in the thick of war now — but investing in it may "surprise on the upside" after the conflict with Ukraine ends, a Hong Kong-based fund manager said at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore on Monday.
"All these vast lands they have in Siberia will be the biggest, most productive farmlands in the world in the next three decades. They will be a food superpower," said Cheah Cheng Hye, co-chief investment officer of Value Partners Group, an asset management firm that manages about $7 billion in assets.
Climate change has been negatively impacting crop yields, nutritional quality of major cereals, and livestock productivity. But Siberia is home to some of the world's largest reserves of idle cropland with potential for huge farms, wrote agriculture experts Maarten Elferink and Florian Schierhorn in The Diplomat in 2019.
"Russia could be the key winner of global warming," Cheah said. Over two-thirds of Value Partners' clients are based in China and Hong Kong.
Cheah was speaking about unexpected investing opportunities that could "surprise on the upside."
"Right now, Russia is not good news for investors but look longer-term out," Cheah said.
While Cheah's recommendation may seem like an extreme contrarian trade, Siberia is a huge resource play for investors.
Siberia is a vast region — accounting for about three-quarters of Russia's land area — and home to wide swathes of oil and gas fields and farmlands.
Even before the war, investments from China were pouring into Siberia, with at least 865,000 acres of farmland — or 16% of Siberian land used for farming — sold to or leased as of November 2019 by Chinese citizens, BBC's Russian service reported, using state land register data.
Moreover, China has not condemned Moscow over the Ukraine war. In February, China approved wheat imports from all regions in Russia, presenting an alternative market for the major exporter of the grain. Trade between China and Russia has surged 31% in the first eight months of 2022.
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Howdy, I’m planning on adding shrimp to a pizza for a special but I don’t want them to overcook. They’ll be in the oven for about 3-6 minutes cooking on the actual pizza, should I precook and what would be recommended, or just marinate and toss them on raw? Thanks in advance. It was a request so I’m a little out of my element but gotta make the bosses happy.
Edit to add: it’s gonna be a spicy vodka sauce base with squid ink linguini (horror themed menu this will be The Thing pizza)
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The Kremlin on Monday continued to defend its recent mobilization order while acknowledging that the draft thus far has been plagued with problems.
Last week, more than seven months into Russia's war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization in an effort to address Russia's manpower problem amid a spate of recent Ukrainian victories.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov on Monday acknowledged disarray within the draft process thus far, but evaded responsibility, instead blaming local authorities who have been tasked with implementing mobilization among rebellious civilians, according to The New York Times.
The conscription hammered home the realities of war to the Russian people, the majority of whom have been largely unaffected by the conflict until now. The country's mobilization will see up to 300,000 reservists called upon to join the fight, many on the frontlines.
Tens of thousands of draft orders have already been issued – the Russian public isn't happy.
In the days since Putin announced the draft, the country experienced mass protests, displays of violence, and reports of hundreds of thousands of fleeing Russian men. On Monday, satellite images showed lines of cars waiting to cross into Georgia and Mongolia from Russia.
The country's mounting defiance culminated in a shocking incident on Monday, when a man frustrated by the mobilization order shot and injured a recruitment officer at a Siberian enlistment office. The suspected gunman's mother told a local news outlet that her son was infuriated after one of his friends received a draft summons despite having no previous Russian military experience, according to The Times.
There have also been reports that men who are unfit to fight are being conscripted, and several regional governors have acknowledged as much.
In a call with reporters, Peskov said there have been incidents of people violating the decree, but added that regional governors are working to address such occurrences.
He also said that the government is eliminating any cases of "noncompliance" with military requirements among conscripts.
But as Russia endures mounting military losses thanks to depleted personnel, it's clear that the country is prioritizing soldiers of any skill.
It's a late-in-the-game adjustment that is unlikely to make a dent in Russia's military performance anytime soon, experts previously told Insider. The country's weakened military infrastructure poses significant problems for training and arming conscripts.
"It's one thing to call up reservists, but to make them combat effective, you need to run them through a training process of some sort that takes several weeks at least," Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations, told Insider last week. "But the Russians have basically cannibalized their capacity to do that."
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