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Why is my beef Wellington splitting and shrinking? I’m following Gordon Ramsay’s recipe
I've made a rice pudding and it is far too sweet. Standard recipe; milk, cream, sugar, egg, rice, vanilla. Made yesterday and refrigerated overnight.
I'm thinking chocolate may help cut the sweetness and make this mess edible. I have a bar of baking chocolate, as well as the tub of powder baking cocoa.
Is it too late to add chocolate? Which one and how? My guess is to bloom the powder (if that's the right word) and then reheat the whole mess to marry the two.
All suggestions welcome. This is just for me and mine to snack on, no party emergencies. Willing to experiment in the name of science.
Hello all,
Do you know if i could perhaps make the dusting powder for homemade marshmallows with anything besides cornstarch? I have wheat flour, baking cocoa, almond flour, and cocomut flour. I do also have baking soda/baking powder.
Hi all! Right now I make a dog product that is not shelf stable, I advise all customers to refrigerate or freeze their items. My current recipe is oat flour, peanut butter, banana, and honey. How would you determine shelf life and is there anything that can be done to extend the shelf life naturally?
I’m making Roberta’s Pizza dough recipe from the NYTimes. Usually I put the yeast in lukewarm water before mixing it with the dry ingredients but yesterday I forgot to and used room temperature water. I’m doing a cold rise in the fridge and usually after 24 hours the dough has risen to about its full size.
Today however after 24 hours it’s risen about half as much as usual. Can I expect it to rise more? Or do you think that’s it? Do you think leaving it out at room temperature for x number of hours before baking would help it rise more?
The last time I made pulled pork I put a pork shoulder in a dutch oven and baked it for a few hours. I pulled the meat out and it was great, and I left all the juices/liquid that came out in the dutch oven to cool. Once it was cooled there was a pretty thick layer of fat on top of the cooking liquid. I ended up just throwing it away, but I am wondering if there is something I could use it for. Is this essentially lard? Can I scoop it off and use it to cook with or is it better to just trash it?
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Hey Team!
I got my wife a Zoji Neuro Fuzzy for Christmas, and we've already put it to good use. We were both stoked to try out the "Sweet Rice" setting as Larb is one of our favorite meals to make, but soaking and steaming sticky rice is a pain in the ass.
Just tried it out tonight on the prescribed setting and it was palatable but overcooked almost to mush. Have any of y'all tried this? Any tips?
Thanks!
Jade Rodriguez
A family from Arizona was "in shock" and "devastated" after a last-minute Southwest flight cancellation caused them to miss their trip to Japan and left them out thousands of dollars.
Jade Rodriguez told Insider she, her husband, and their two children planned a "surreal" trip to Tokyo, Japan, because her 20-year-old said that was where he wanted to go to celebrate his 21st birthday on January 2. They were going to visit Tokyo Disney and the Pokemon Cafe in Tokyo, take a train to Kyoto and go sightseeing at historic temples.
They planned to take off from Tucson on Christmas Day for Los Angeles, where they'd catch their flight across the Pacific. They say they were notified their flight was slightly delayed but had no indication it was in serious jeopardy of not taking off at all, and were unaware of the ongoing disruptions Southwest was already experiencing.
But when they arrived at the airport in Tucson, they were met with confusion and miscommunication from the airline.
Southwest employees said were still working on assembling a crew, but told passengers they should check in their luggage anyway. "It was just a lot of miscommunication. One attendant was saying, 'We're not getting to LAX,' another was saying to check in our bags," Rodriguez said. "It was utter confusion."
After all the conflicting information the flight was finally canceled altogether about seven hours before their American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo was scheduled to take off. The drive from Tucson to Los Angeles was about seven and a half hours.
"Had we just been notified sooner, we would've driven and made it," Rodriguez said, adding they tried everything they could to get on another flight but could not make it work.
Their flight could only be rebooked on Wednesday at the earliest, but it would be 20 hours of travel and would include covering the difference in flight cost. It would also only leave them about five days in Japan, upending their 8-day travel plan.
"We were just devastated. We're just in shock," Rodriguez said, adding that as of Friday they had yet to unpack all of their luggage because they were still struggling to process the situation.
Now they are trying to get as much of the trip refunded as they can, including from Southwest, American Airlines, the hotel in Japan, and Tokyo Disney, where they had already purchased tickets, among other expenses.
Rodriguez said they have received conflicting information from Southwest, with one email saying they would be getting a full refund and another saying they'd only be getting flight credits to be used in the future.
They did purchase travel insurance for the American Airlines flight to Japan and are hoping that means the full price will be covered. But Tokyo Disney, which is not owned by The Walt Disney Company, generally does not issue refunds.
Altogether, Rodriguez said they are out around $7,000.
They are still hoping to reschedule a trip for next year, depending on how much they can get refunded or rescheduled, but are unsure when they will be able to make a trip work for the whole family.
Rodriguez is a teacher, so she had this time off work, but would likely have to try to get work off in the spring because her break does not align with her son's. Her husband, who is a retired member of the military but still teaches classes on the base, took off work for this trip and would have to try to do so again if the vacation is rescheduled.
Rodriguez said her older son is a college student who is "dedicated" to ROTC, a program that trains university students for military service, so he has limited time in which he can take a trip. He is also a big fan of Disney and Pokemon, which would've been the big highlights of the trip for him, so when they offered to take him somewhere else at the last minute, he just said "no."
Rodriguez said that in the future she may consider getting travel insurance for the entire trip, rather than just the big international flights, even though they already have travel medical insurance through the military. She also said she knew some others may have had even more challenging experiences with the chaotic flight cancelations.
"I'm grateful we lived close and were with family," she said. "But it was devastating really."
The family was among thousands of Americans who experienced flight cancellations this week after Southwest had an operational meltdown. The airline canceled more than 2,900 flights on Monday, accounting for around half of all canceled flights across the world that day. The disruptions rippled through the travel industry, leading to rental-car shortages and higher flight prices.
When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Southwest said: "We apologize to all of our Customers who were affected by this disruption. Customers whose flights were canceled are eligible for a refund and are encouraged to submit requests for reasonable reimbursements for incidental expenses. Those will be processed on a case-by-case basis."
The spokesperson also said impacted passengers can get assistance through a travel-disruptions portal on their site.
Tokyo Disney, which is owned by The Oriental Land Company, could not immediately be reached for comment. The Walt Disney Company, which licenses intellectual property to Tokyo Disney, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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I'm looking for a hot drink that isn't the standard tea, hot chocolate, coffee, or cider that we see in the US to try something new these winter nights. Preferably non-alcoholic. Are there any yummy options in other countries?
So I’ve made pastrami from scratch a few times now and the flavor is excellent but I can never seem to get the super tender texture I’m looking for. I’m trying to replicate the meltingly tender texture of the pastrami from places like Katz’s deli in NYC or Langer’s in LA.
My usual recipe is 7-14 days of wet brine (water, salt, pink salt, sugar, spices), smoke for 6 hours at 200F over cherry and oak in an offset smoker, then either steam for an hour or sous vide at 165F for 12 hours.
The results are quite delicious and better than most pastrami I’ve had at restaurants but not quite as good as the top name delis. What’s their secret?
So, I'm in the habit of always blooming yeast any time I use it regardless of the type. I've done this because I have had dead yeast before and nothing sucks more than finding your dough hasn't risen. I mostly use instant yeast because that is what my wife buys and I haven't felt like I want to go there in asking her to buy something different. I am aware that I don't have to bloom instant, but it's just a habit at this point. Am I negatively affecting my final rise by blooming the instant yeast?
I feel dumb. I was blending up my peppers with an onion, garlic, black pepper, oregano, cumin, etc - then added 5 tablespoons of WWV instead of WV.
I’ve never had Birria before… how different is this going to taste? Do I start over?
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Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's historic visit to the US last week, Congress passed a provision to give Ukraine the assets that were seized from sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
The approval of the measure may have had something to do with a secret phone call between Zelenskyy and Sen. Mitch McConnell, according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The outlet reported Thursday that the Ukrainian president called the Senate minority leader one day before his White House visit and address to Congress.
Three unnamed sources told the Post-Gazette about the call, in which Zelenskyy attempted to persuade McConnell that proceeds from the oligarchs' seized assets, including superyachts and mansions, should be used to help Ukraine rebuild from the devastation of the war.
The provision ultimately passed as an amendment to the $1.7 trillion bipartisan spending bill that passed the Senate in a 68-29 vote on December 22, and passed the House the following day. The bill also included $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine.
President Joe Biden signed the bill into law Thursday evening.
During Zelenskyy's visit the US also announced an additional $1.85 billion in military assistance to Ukraine.
The US has frozen or seized billions of dollars worth of assets belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarchs since the invasion was launched in February. The US was limited in how it could use those assets, though President Joe Biden as early as April floated a plan to sell those assets to help Ukraine.
Representatives for McConnell and Zelenskyy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
I'm short 25 ramekins for creme brulee on Saturday.. any tips or tricks to unmold and hold them them for individual plating..
What is the quick and simplest way to reduce the acidity in spaghetti sauce?
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Two teachers from Wisconsin were all set to take off for their dream honeymoon cruise the day after Christmas, but after Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights, the couple found themselves back at home the following day and out $4,000.
Marcus and Andrea Grasenick of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, told local outlet TMJ4 that they flew to Nashville on Monday where they waited for word on their connecting Southwest flight. After hours passed without knowing whether or not the flight would depart, they were told it was canceled and their luggage could not immediately be retrieved and returned to them.
They made it home to Wisconsin a day later, without their luggage, after flying home on a different airline.
"This is the only break we have in common, so we can't even go a different time and make it up, because this is the only one. This is the one shot we had," Andrea Grasenick told TMJ4.
"It's time, and you can't give that time back," she said, adding it would be great if they could get back the $4,000 spent on the cruise.
"If you could do that, great. But, the memories that we were going to make with each other and with our friends, that's not something that you can put a price tag on," she said.
The couple also told the outlet they had been met with "radio silence" from Southwest and that they would hesitate before choosing the airline in the future.
The Grasenicks were among thousands of Americans who experienced flight cancellations after Southwest had an operational meltdown this week. Thousands of flights across airlines were canceled after severe winter storms struck over Christmas weekend, but Southwest passengers saw the worst of it.
Southwest canceled more than 2,900 flights on Monday, accounting for around half of all canceled flights throughout the world that day. The cancellations accounted for 70% of Southwest's total trips planned for that day, according to FlightAware. The disruptions rippled throughout the travel industry, causing rental car shortages and higher flight prices.
When reached for comment, a Southwest spokesperson directed Insider to their latest updates page and noted that the company plans to return to normal operations on Friday. The spokesperson also said Southwest customers can rebook travel, request a refund, and report missing luggage through a travel disruptions portal on their site.
Other travelers also reported missing their cruise ship departures after canceled flights. One cruise ship, the Carnival Celebration, even delayed its departure slightly on Tuesday to give some passengers more time to make it, according to the blog Cruise Hive. Hundreds of guests still missed the boat.
Have a news tip or a travel story to share? Contact this reporter at kvlamis@insider.com.
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Southwest Airlines's ongoing cancelation chaos has reverberated throughout the entire travel industry, indirectly impacting scores of passengers beyond the thousands of already-displaced Southwest travelers, many of whom remain stranded in airports across the US following a wave of flight cancelations.
Of the more than 3,000 flight cancellations in the US on Wednesday, Southwest was responsible for more than 80%, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. The company announced Tuesday that affected passengers won't be able to rebook their flights until Saturday, December 31.
The deadly winter storm that whipped through the country over the weekend ruined plans for hordes of holiday travelers, but Southwest's antiquated and atypical systems left the airline uniquely vulnerable to fallout from the conditions, airline experts said Tuesday.
While many airlines seemed to be returning to normal operations as the week began, Southwest's struggles have now seeped into the travel ecosystem at large, forcing other domestic airlines and rental car companies to try and meet skyrocketing demand.
Waleska Rivera, 43, isn't even a Southwest ticket holder, but she blames the airline for her travel mishaps even still, she told Insider on Wednesday.
The Colorado woman and her family were booked on a JetBlue flight from Denver to San Juan, Puerto Rico, scheduled to depart late Tuesday evening with a connection through New York, she said. On Tuesday afternoon, JetBlue announced that the first leg of their trip had been delayed, rendering any chance of making their New York connection fruitless, Rivera said.
Anxious to reach her injured mother in Puerto Rico, Rivera hopped on the phone looking to rebook as soon as possible.
"The first thing JetBlue tells me is to cancel my travel," Rivera said. "Don't travel," she said the airline representative told her.
Rivera explained that she was desperate to reach her elderly mother who took a tumble earlier this month, asking for rebookings, refunds, anything to assuage her frustration. The airline, she said, didn't offer to rebook the family on a different airline, nor did JetBlue provide compensation, Rivera said, initially blaming the delay on weather conditions.
The soonest Rivera could be rebooked to Puerto Rico was this coming Friday, she said. The JetBlue representative told her that displaced Southwest passengers have been snatching up available tickets, inadvertently displacing JetBlue passengers who need to rebook after their own delays or cancellations.
A spokesperson for JetBlue did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
With Southwest's operations essentially stalled, thousands of stranded passengers have turned to other airlines, leading to a spike in demand for tickets during what is already one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
Twitter users have shared screenshots of outrageous ticket prices across several different airlines amid the pandemonium, with costs climbing upwards of $2,000 for a single domestic ticket in some instances, prompting accusations of price-gouging.
American Airlines and Delta both said they would cap fares for select cities, but ticket prices continued to climb Wednesday amid increasing demand. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told NexstarDC on Wednesday that he was talking with airlines to try and keep them from taking advantage of passengers.
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Stranded Southwest passengers have increasingly turned to other forms of travel as they search for solutions, leading to rental car shortages at airports across the country.
Several rental companies at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport were completely out of rental cars on Tuesday, even as desperate passengers stood in line for hours hoping to secure transportation, according to WBALTV-1.
Travelers in St. Louis faced a similar struggle. Passengers who weren't lucky enough to secure a car before the supply ran out, spent the night on the floor of Midway Airport, while others sought strangers with which to carpool, KTVI reported.
An Enterprise Rent-A-Car manager in Houston told KRIV that desperate people shelled out $1,000 to $2,000 to get a car before the store ran out of vehicles.
A spokesperson with Enterprise Holdings, which oversees Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, and Alamo, told Insider on Wednesday that the companies have seen a "significant increase" for rental requests in recent days at both airport and neighborhood locations, including a "large jump" in one-way rental requests.
A Hertz representative offered similar sentiments in a statement to Insider, saying the company was dealing with increased demand for new bookings, reservation modifications, and one-way rentals.
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I got a decorative pale pumpkin looking gourd from the market around fall and am wondering if there are recipes involving pumpkin looking gourds for pies
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I recently learned to cook duck breast using pan and oven. I usually only cook for 1 or 2 portion and I want to make bigger portion for 4-6 people and the problem is I only have small pant for 2 duck breast. can I prepare ahead by searing the meat separately and put it in the oven at same time? how long the time I need to get best result?
I purchased 800 g of ‘Venison stewing meat’ which was packaged in cubes. I seared the meat, then cooked onions, carrots, celery and garlic in the fat. I added tomato purée, cooked it briefly then deglazed with half a can of stout, cooked it down and then added 0.5 litres of homemade stock. After seasoning, I simmered the stew for 3 hours and served with mash potato and parsley garnish.
I have never tried venison before but after eating, we all agreed that it tasted no different from beef. Personally I felt it tasted like generic cheap ‘stewing beef’ from a supermarket. It was chewy like cheap beef stewed and had no ‘gamey’ flavour that I noticed. Is this normal for venison or is there any chance I was sold beef as venison?
Thanks for any replies.
I made a duck for Christmas and I'm now the proud owner of liquid gold. I do often make roasted potatoes or even duck fat flour tortillas when I'm in this spot but if people have other suggestions, please send them my way.
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A former Trump White House official said that she observed a revolving door of Trump allies and intelligence staff visiting the Situation Room in the last weeks of Trump's presidency, delivering boxes full of potentially classified documents days before the violent insurrection.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, told the January 6 committee that she helped coordinate the delivery of documents from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to the White House. In a transcript released Tuesday by the January 6 committee, Hutchinson said she liaised with former Rep. Devin Nunes and that the documents were delivered in the final weeks of December 2020, in a dolly of boxes.
"On December 31st — or December 30th — we got all the documents, Hutchinson told the committee in a May 17, 2022 interview. "They came up on a dolly in a few boxes and I had to sign for them. And then he called White House counsel down."
Hutchinson had previously testified that she witnessed Meadows burning documents in a fireplace after meeting with Rep. Scott Perry. She told the committee in May that Meadows also made multiple copies of documents.
She added that HPSCI staffers met with former Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone, Meadows, and Nunes and that she did not personally review the content of the documents. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy was also involved in the conversations around the documents, she testified.
"I don't know if it was the Situation Room that brought them or if it was somebody, a staffer from -- I don't know -- because they came from the Hill, I don't know how, like what the protocol is for releasing them," Hutchinson said, per the transcript, adding that a member of the Situation Room staff delivered the boxes. "I don't know if they have to go through the FBI or the CIA, or if it was something they could have sent to the Situation Room to print and bind there."
In the interview with the committee, Hutchinson said she didn't know why the documents were being lugged from the Hill to the White House.
"HPSCI had seen these documents at some point and had these documents at some point and were aware of the contents of these documents," she said. "I am not sure if it's something that the Republican HPSCI staffers had deeply looked into or if it was more the intention to bring them to the White House to look into them."
"And why would they need to bring them to the White House to look into them?" Rep. Liz Cheney asked Hutchinson in the interview.
"I don't know," she answered, maintaining that she never took part in the meetings between the White House officials and Republican allies, despite her top security clearance.
Meadows did not respond to Insider's request for comment.
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If I make carnitas with lard, can I separate, freeze, and save that lard to make carnitas again later? If so, is there a limit to how many times I can re-use the lard?
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Holiday travel mayhem continued to worsen this week as a wave of flight cancellations pummeled passengers across the country following a brutal winter storm.
Photos and videos of abandoned luggage, cranky customers, and exhausted employees consumed Twitter amid the nearly 5,000 canceled flights within the US on Tuesday.
The deadly winter storm that whipped through the country over the weekend ruined holiday plans for scores of travelers, but no airline was more impacted than Southwest, which canceled more than 60% of its flights on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
The company's cancellations accounted for more than 50% of all domestic cancellations on Tuesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, resulting in a growing number of furiously-stranded patrons.
Airline analysts and industry experts told Insider and other outlets that Southwest's outdated scheduling system and atypical approach to mapping its flight network were partially responsible for the crisis.
Nearly every major airline uses a "hub and spoke" network, in which the company's planes are concentrated in a central location and fly out to one or two locations before returning to their main airport, said Helane Becker, an airline analyst at the investment bank and financial services company Cowen. For example, Delta has major hubs in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles, while United Airlines' planes are often flying into and out of Newark and Chicago-O'Hare, she told Insider.
Becker compared the approach to a bicycle tire, with a hub in the middle and several spokes leading out and away from the middle.
The "hub and spoke" approach allows airlines to halt individual travel routes amid poor weather, Henry Harteveldt told The New York Times, impacting as few people as possible.
But Southwest operates a "point to point" network, its aircrafts rarely returning to a central location, instead flying from one location to the next, Becker said.
David Vernon, an airline analyst at the financial firm Sanford C. Bernstein, told The Times that the point-to-point system allows for a higher level of plane usage during normal operations, but can lead to widespread chaos amid winter weather. When dangerous conditions ground "point to point" planes in multiple regions, it can have a cascading effect on the airline's future flights all across the country, evidenced by the near nationwide distribution of Southwest cancellations throughout the US this week.
Airlines operating on a "hub and spokes" model also have the advantage of calling upon their reservist crews, employees who are typically concentrated near the hub, when extra help is needed, Becker said.
A spokesperson for Southwest in a statement to Insider acknowledged the company's unique approach.
"Southwest stands alone in the industry as the largest carrier in 23 of the top 25 travel markets in the U.S," Chris Perry said. "We are not a hub and spoke carrier; we have 30+ airports with high flight volume so our solution to normalize the operation looks very different from other carriers."
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The crisis comes amid heightened tensions between Southwest management and employees over staffing shortages, Robert W. Mann Jr., a former airline executive, told The Times. Pilots can only fly up to eight hours per 24-hour period or up to 10 hours if a second pilot is aboard, while flight attendants are guaranteed a 10-hour rest period in between flights.
The time regulations for airline crew, while necessary for safety, have exacerbated the current crisis at Southwest, Becker said: "People are running out of time" and ending up stranded in cities and airports where they aren't scheduled to work.
The problem has been further inflamed by Southwest's scheduling system. Becker suggested that Southwest has underinvested in its information technology in recent years and is now reaping the consequences.
Whereas most other airlines use an automated employee app to track staffers' locations in real time, Southwest's scheduling system assumes where employees are located based on their flight assignments. As delays and cancellations piled up, more and more Southwest staffers found themselves fighting to get to their destinations.
"They can't get through" on the phones for reassignment or rescheduling, Becker said.
A Southwest spokesperson said the company is focused on investing in technology upgrades to avoid problems like this in the future.
"Our technology struggled to align our resources due to the magnitude and scale of the disruptions," Perry told Insider. "In our desired state, we will have automation that can handle Crew reassignments quickly and efficiently."
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As Southwest continues to cancel flights days in advance, Becker predicted the crisis is likely to be ongoing through the end of the week. The company announced Tuesday that stranded passengers won't be able to rebook their flights until Saturday, December 31.
"The fact that they're not taking any reservations until next year, at this point, means the impact is going to last until next year," Becker said.
She said it's possible that the airline will have to fly empty planes around the country picking up stranded crew members and bringing them to where they need to be before they can restart normal operations.
There are significant financial implications for Southwest as the company prepares to reimburse and rebook passengers with rescheduled flights, meal, hotel, and travel vouchers, and refunds.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that his office never called South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham back in November 2020 after he said the lawmaker tried to insert himself in Georgia's recount of 2020 election results.
Additional transcripts were made public by the January 6 committee on Tuesday, following the release of the committee's 845-page final report last week.
In the transcript of the committee's interview with Raffensperger, he testified that Graham called his office on November 13, 2020, as a vote recount by hand was underway in Georgia, with an odd request. Raffensperger said that he was rubbed the wrong way by Graham's ask and that he gave the senator the cold shoulder.
Raffensperger's office did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
"He mentioned about credit card companies," Raffensperger told the committee in a November 30, 2021, interview. "He says, they get millions of signatures every day and they run that through their machines."
In the transcript, Raffensperger explained that his staff member Gabe Sterling handled the talking on the call where Graham tried to pitch an alternate signature matching process to the hand recount and audit, which was underway at the time.
In December 2020, after Raffensperger's office and Georgia ballot workers had endured weeks of harassment and election conspiracies from Trump's camp, Sterling received a noose at his home.
During the call with Graham, Raffensperger said that there hadn't been an outright ask to find additional votes like Trump requested in January 2021 but maintained the conversation was ominous.
"He was talking about a process of using companies, and I didn't know exactly where he was going," Raffensperger said. "I just didn't want to go where he was — where I thought he might want to go. I just thought it best not to call him back."
Graham's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
"And so I told him — we finished up the call, and I said, 'Well, let me talk to our general counsel,' who wasn't on the call, 'and we'll get back to you,'" Raffensperger said in his November interview with the committee, of the conversation with Graham. "And we just never got back to him."
In January 2021, Raffensperger was asked by former President Donald Trump to "find" 11,780 votes to overturn the state's 2020 election results, a move which Raffensperger said led to months of death threats to him and his family. In an interview with Insider, Raffensperger maintained that election misinformation was the biggest threat to democracy in the US.
My aunt gave me a fairly expensive bottle of oregon olive oil for the holidays. It is bright green and extremely bitter. What should I use it for? I made a dipping oil tonight and I couldn’t get past the bitterness. Is there anything to do to cut the bitterness? I don’t want to just use it for sautéing but actually find a way to truly enjoy it
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I remember watching a video where the guy used this technique and mentioned its name, but I can't remember.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation tweeted on Monday night that it will look into whether Southwest Airlines is abiding by its customer service policy after the Dallas-based airline cancelled nearly 3,000 flights on the day after Christmas.
The DOT is "concerned by South Southwest's unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays & reports of lack of prompt customer service," the tweet read.
—TransportationGov (@USDOT) December 27, 2022
The tweet also linked to Southwest's customer service plan.
As of 9:45 p.m. EST on Monday night, Southwest had canceled 2,893 flights, more than any other U.S.-based airline. Delta had the second-most number of cancellations, 267.
Travelers in airports across the country complained of long lines to re-book flights and retrieve baggage and unanswered phone calls to customer service.
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The key to a small, four-winged dinosaur species' survival was not being fussy about what it ate, the examination of a rare fossil revealed.
Paleontologist Hans Larsson, a professor at McGill University, was the first to notice a small mammal foot lodged in between the bones of a fossilized Microraptor, a carnivorous dino with birdish wings. The discovery shows the dino ate a long list of animals, including mammals, fish, birds, and lizards, the university announced in a December 21 press release.
"These finds are the only solid evidence we have about the food consumption of these long-extinct animals – and they are exceptionally rare," Larsson said in the release. The revelation that the animal was an "opportunistic" eater "puts a new perspective on how ancient ecosystems may have worked," he added.
Only 20 other fossils have been found with the fossilized bones of their meals inside, according to McGill, and this is the first time a fossil has shown that any dinosaur ate mammals, the Economic Times reported.
Microraptor fossils were first discovered in the early 2000s in Liaoning, China, located in the northeast part of the country along the Yellow Sea. Scientists have speculated that the species likely died out because it had four wings, and the two additional wings created drag when it moved.
Its ability to make a snack out of all kinds of animals may not have been enough for make up for two too many wings.
When making chicken noodle soup, my mom always used to hold the whole, raw chicken under the faucet and rinse the inside and outside with cool water before adding it to a pot of water to make stock. Is it standard procedure to ‘rinse’ chicken before cooking it? If so- is this typically done with all cuts of chicken, or just the whole bird?
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Hello my culinary friends,
I am a culinary beginner, and would like to learn how to cook a large variety of healthy dishes. Could you advise me on some good resources (recipe books, Youtube channels, shows, etc...) when it comes to preparing healthy meals, but based on my three preferences listed below? I have searched the internet for days and couldn't find anything that would suite me. If anyone has some helpful advice, please leave me your suggestions, and thank you very much in advance.
Here are my preferences (in order of descending priority):
Please help! ;)
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A Harvard law professor has suggested that former President Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes on trial.
In a tweet on December 25, Laurence Tribe, an expert on constitutional law, shared his comments about Trump's new video message to the January 6 panel.
"If this is the 'defense' at Trump's forthcoming trial, I don't envy the lawyers who agree to represent him," Tribe tweeted.
"They'd better be psychiatrists expert at reflexive projection and capable of getting their client to plead insanity," Tribe added.
—Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) December 25, 2022
The video Tribe was referring to was Trump's rambling rebuttal to the January 6 committee, which Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday, the day after the House panel released its final report on the Capitol riot. The 845-page report contained revelations about the former president's role before and during the Capitol riot.
In the video, Trump called the committee members "very bad people" while repeating baseless voter fraud conspiracy theories. Trump also claimed the panel "did not produce a single shred of evidence" that he "in any way intended or wanted violence at our Capitol."
Tribe is not the first person to suggest that Trump consider an insanity defense. In October, Neal Katyal, a former Justice Department official, made a similar comment when weighing in on Trump's 14-page response — which contained multiple baseless claims of election fraud — to the House select committee's intention to subpoena him.
"I can't see it in any legal way helping him unless he is trying to go for the insanity defense, of which this paper seems, you know, to be some evidence of," Katyal told MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart.
Separately, on December 19, the House panel investigating the Capitol riot asked the Justice Department to prosecute Trump on four charges. These included conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to make false statements obstruction of an official proceeding, and inciting an insurrection. In response, Trump said in a Truth Social post on December 19 that he felt the move made him "stronger."
Tribe and a spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.
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