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X-Cellent Egg Salad Sliders

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Food Whisperer: X-cellent Egg Salad Sliders! Have you noticed more and more farm-to-table cafés are featuring egg salad sandwiches on the menu? I get crazy happy when I discover it, as someone who loves home-cooking. Not only are there a dozen variations on egg salad, but each seems to add a unique twist. This recipe is pretty basic so you can get creative from here. Think avocado, dill, bacon, or red pepper flakes. Looks like I need to buy more eggs. Happy Boiling!

X-CELLENT EGG SALAD SLIDERS

Ingredients:

8 eggs, hard boiled and peeled

1/4 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup dill pickle relish

1 tablespoon red onion, diced

1 tablespoon yellow mustard

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

8 slider buns

4 romaine lettuce leaves

2 tomatoes, sliced

1 tablespoon Everything But Bagel seasoning

Instructions:

In a medium bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, dill pickle relish, red onion…

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Obala Dorseta i Istočnog Devona, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo – Coast of Dorset and East Devon, United Kingdom

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Meri Ening je imala samo dvanaest godina kada je otkrila prvi fosilni ostatak ihtiosaura dok je šetala duž litica obalskog gradića Lajm Ridžisa. U to vrijeme – početkom XIX vijeka – skupljanje fosila bilo je pomodna zanimacija u Londonu, a taj dragocjeni raritet dospio je do doma vojvode od Bakingama, prije nego što je završio u glavnoj dvorani Prirodnjačkog muzeja u Londonu. Meri Ening je i narednih godina doprinosila nauci – našla je prvi fosilni ostatak pleziosaura (džinovskog morskog gmizavca) i pterodaktila (pretka ptica), koje je poklonila Oksfordskom univerzitetu. Zarađivala je za život tako što je prodavala fosile i, u izvjesnom smislu, iz korijena je promijenila tok paleontologije.

Obilje fosila na obali Dorseta i istočnog Devona već je bio zapazio Džo Rej 1673. godine i od tada je taj dio južne Engleske središte ključnih napredaka u istoriji geologije. Ovu oblast uspješno su posjećivali naučnici takvog kalibra kao što je Vilijam…

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Pipeline Company Sentenced for Largest-Ever Inland Oil Spill | OPA | Department of Justice

The pipeline company responsible for the discharge of 29 million gallons of oil-contaminated “produced water” – a waste product of hydraulic fracturing – was sentenced to pay a $15 million criminal fine and serve a three year period of probation today by U.S. District Court Judge Daniel M. Traynor in Williston, North Dakota.

Summit Midstream Partners LLC pleaded guilty to criminal charges that it violated the Clean Water Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, by negligently causing the discharge into U.S. waters in 2014, and deliberately failing to immediately report the spill to federal authorities as required. More than 700,000 barrels were discharged thereby contaminating Blacktail Creek and nearby land and groundwater. By law, the federal fines in this case will go to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund used to respond and clean up future oil spills.

“Summit is being held criminally accountable for its crimes of negligently discharging more than 29 million gallons over more than 4 months and then knowingly failing to report the discharge,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Source: Pipeline Company Sentenced for Largest-Ever Inland Oil Spill | OPA | Department of Justice

Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Delivers Remarks Announcing Lawsuit Against the State of Texas to Challenge Statewide Redistricting Plan | OPA | Department of Justice

Our complaint today alleges that the redistricting plans approved by the Texas state legislature and signed into law by the Governor will deny Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process and to elect representatives of their choice, in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Our complaint also alleges that several of those districts were drawn with discriminatory intent.

Texas’ 2021 redistricting plans were enacted through a rushed process, with minimal opportunity for public comment, without any expert testimony, and with an overall disregard for the massive minority population growth in Texas over the last decade. Texas’ population grew by 4 million people from 2010 to 2020, and 95% of that growth came from minority populations. Despite this significant increase in the number and proportion of eligible Latino and Black voters in Texas, the newly enacted redistricting plans will not allow minority voters an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. Instead, our investigation determined that Texas’ redistricting plans will dilute the increased minority voting strength that should have developed from these significant demographic shifts.

For example, Texas will gain two new Congressional seats because of its population growth, almost all of which is due to growth in the state’s minority population. However, Texas has designed both of those new seats to have white voting majorities.

The congressional plan also deliberately reconfigured a West Texas district to eliminate the opportunity for Latino voters to elect a representative of their choice. This is the third time in three decades where Texas has eliminated a Latino electoral opportunity in this same district, despite previous court determinations that this violates the law.

And the State House plan eliminated Latino electoral opportunities by manipulating or eliminating districts where Latino communities previously had elected their preferred candidates.

These redistricting plans will diminish the opportunities for Latino and Black voters in Texas to elect their preferred representatives. And that is prohibited by federal law.

The complaint asks the court to prohibit Texas from conducting elections under the challenged plans and asks the court to order Texas to devise and implement new redistricting plans that comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The complaint also asks the court to establish interim plans pending a lawful state redistricting.

Source: Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Delivers Remarks Announcing Lawsuit Against the State of Texas to Challenge Statewide Redistricting Plan | OPA | Department of Justice

Bored Rich Folk as Wrecking Balls

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Marc Cendella has a remarkable column this morning, well worth reading. (Frankly, he usually is and you might consider subscribing.)

Nobody every said that all rich people are intelligent, nor that all large corporations are efficient. Far from it. However, they can make messes for everyone else — an interesting variant of the von Manstein typology of officers.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis
New name, new look from the Facebook founder.
Marc Cenedella
Dec 6

The midlife crisis happens to people. After almost two decades, things begin to get predictable.  Successful, but also stale. Maybe a bit boring.So the time comes to spice it up.  If it were you, you might buy a fancy car, go crazy for a new designer, or take the leap with a bold startup (that writes professional resumes for free).

When you’re Mark Zuckerberg, running the world’s 7th most valuable company, you think on a…

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beauty doth reside in the heart… Published at MasticadoresUSA — Develop. Inspire. Transform.

I am so pleased to announce that my poem, beauty doth reside in the heart… is now available at MasticadoresUSA. A big thank you to, Gabriela Marie Milton, and the team at MasticadoresUSA for their continued support, and for publishing this piece. beauty doth reside in the heart… I sit atop a tree, taking in […]

beauty doth reside in the heart… Published at MasticadoresUSA — Develop. Inspire. Transform.

Michelin-starred chef serves mock lamb — Darcy Hitchcock

The supermarkets carry vegan ground beef patties and soy chorizo. But it’s quite something when famous chefs serve a large cut of vegan meat. Chef Marco Pierre White—known as the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars—just added whole-cut vegan lamb and beef to the menu of his 22 steakhouses in the United […]

Michelin-starred chef serves mock lamb — Darcy Hitchcock