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“Rocco is realistic about how Generation X in retirement will look vastly different from how our parents retired. We’re making different choices and have different opportunities available to us, financially. He offers personal insights and practical advice for how to plan for a future that doesn’t include a big pile of retirement funds waiting for us at 65.” ncG1vNJzZmiqn5iwsLzEp5uopJFjwLau0q2YnKNemLyuew%3D%3D

On a recent episode of Splendid Table (not the one I was just on, which you can stream here), a listener called in asking what ingredients are essential to chili crisp. Apparently, he had seen my 17-ingredient recipe for chili crisp on Serious Eats. It includes 3 types of chilies (which make no damn sense together), red or black cardamom (what’s my problem with good ole green cardamom?), and porcini powder (do you know how expensive porcinis are?

Welcome to It’s A Shanda, one Northeastern Jew’s quest to find a decent bagel in Seattle (and beyond). Along with free bagel reviews every Sunday, we also offer bonus posts (like this one) each week. If you’re already subscribed, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription! Thank you for reading. A lot is going on in the Seattle-area bagel scene. I bet that’s a sentence you never thought you’d read.

This newsletter sponsored by Citizens Fuel Co., a family-owned Asheville company. A new rock climbing gym focused on bouldering is planned for a 13,000-square-foot warehouse (formerly RAD Skatepark) at Foundation Asheville, a collection of local shops and restaurants on Lyman Street. Devin deHoll, co-owner/founder of Asheville Adventure Company and co-owner of Cultivate Climbing, a rock climbing gym focused on climbing with ropes, says the bouldering gym fits a straightforward vision - to get more people in Asheville into rock climbing.

On April 4, 2024, ConvergeOne Holdings (d/b/a “C1”) and sixteen affiliates (collectively, the “debtors”) filed prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the Southern District of Texas (Judge Lopez). C1 is a global IT services company with more than 6,000 private and public sector customers. Think data center, cyber security, networking etc. Founded in 1… ncG1vNJzZmiolam2tbXOp2WsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyvsdZmmqGZoKmys3mQamSbmZ6gv7a805ywZpufo8Omvsaepqed

When I engraved the Romanian cupboard with spells, I first needed to devise a spell that stops a person from shitting their pants repeatedly. Engraving a few sample boards is one thing. Engraving a finished piece of wood that is going on the front of a cupboard is another. I was so cautious and scared and constantly Kegeling as I engraved the cupboard’s … ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tMDOqZ%2BeqqOYtbit0bNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8r7HWZpqhmaCpsrN50qmcpaRdpa6vscus

Do you go to college? Do you like watching or streaming movies and television shows? Have you ever wanted to sign up for Disney Plus but were afraid to spend too much money? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, then you may be eligible for a really cool, yet largely under-the-radar student discount for the Hulu and Disney Plus bundle, which reduces the total price of both platforms with ads to $3.

What’s new:  Beginning from today, July 13, 2023, "photography crime," or satsueizai (撮影罪) in Japanese, will be enforced. The new law will punish all acts of secretly filming sexual postures (voyeurism), providing such filming to third parties, and publicizing or storing such filming on the internet, video distribution, etc. Voyeurism will result in up to three years in jail or a maximum fine of 3 million yen (approximately US $21,600), and providing such filming to an unspecified person will result in an even heavier maximum of five years in jail or a maximum fine of 5 million yen ($36,100).

The New England Patriots host the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 15, but now on Sunday, instead of on Monday Night Football. The game has been flexed to 1 P.M. on December 16th, the NFL will move the Philadelphia Eagles and the Seattle Seahawks to Monday Night Football. Starting this season the NFL built in the possibility to flex games in and out of MNF any time between Week 12-17. This marks the first time that a game has been flexed out of Monday night.