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This coming Tuesday, 21st June, marks Litha or Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere. The ancient festival celebrates the longest day and shortest night as the Earth tilts closest to the sun and the evenings seem endless here in Scotland. The Summer Solstice marks the beginning of astronomical Summer, and - as at all these transition points - certainly feels like a fresh start to me. This time of year in the Celtic Wheel traditionally celebrates light, sun, growth, fire, fertility, warmth and abundance.

Beyond Reese Witherspoon. Beyond Oprah and Jenna and former President Obama, I recently discovered that it’s incredibly hard to find a celebrity whose social media feed features books. Fiction, non-fiction, mysteries or romance. You don’t see actors post about what they’re reading between takes. You don’t even see actresses on a beach snapping photos of themselves holding a novel. I realized this when I was researching a recent issue of Dear Fiction focused on celebrity book picks.

MOULTON TOWNSHIP — A Celina teen died and his passenger suffered serious injuries after their vehicle struck a turning tanker truck early Thursday morning. Ethan Brunswick, 18, of Celina, died from injuries suffered in the crash, according to a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Wapakoneta post. His passenger, Gage Stein, 19, of Celina, was transported by CareFlight Air & Mobile Services to a local hospital with serious injuries.

Gastro World Digest offers free weekly recipes that have been curated and tested by Tway, a chef and content creator. Recipes will always be free, along with useful tips and links to help you master the recipe. If you’re down for free recipes, why not subscribe? (: This is my Mom’s favorite Chè (Vietnamese dessert drink/soup/ pudding) to make and I didn’t know why she liked it so much until she showed me how to make it and I realized that it was so easy to make, making it ideal for parties.

Chaat has got to be my favorite thing from my culture. We are a people who know how to snack. For the unfamiliar, chaat is a group of salty, sweet, sour, spicy snacks found throughout South Asia. (You can read all about it in this article I wrote a while back.) There are traditional chaats, like papri chaat and samosa chaat, but I firmly believe that anything can be chaat if you try hard enough.

Today’s top AI Highlights: Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI ChatGPT‘s new Memory feature Run GPT models offline on your documents Cohere releases new multilingual model for 101 languages Your AI assistant for building personal relationships & so much more! Read time: 3 mins “Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday. First of all nothing "happened" and it’s not a result of any particular event, issue or drama (but please keep the conspiracy theories coming as they are highly entertaining :)).

I am for sure Luca Guadagnino pilled, but after watching Challengers, I felt reborn. There is so many things I would like to say right now, but my awareness of a digital footprint is telling me to pull it together. Instead, we’re going to get to the job at hand and discuss the costumes. As you all know, this is a Jonathan Anderson stan account, so when I found out he was doing the costumes for the movie, I knew we’d be in for a treat— and a treat it was!

The Frontier Psychiatrists is thrilled to bring you the late-breaking news in the ongoing Change Healthcare—BUT IN WHICH DIRECTION?—saga. This article has a pay wall, there is original reporting therein, and it's a whole to do. In our prior installment, we covered the fact that Change Healthcare—acquired by UnitedHealthgroups’s Optum Sub-division—had a cyber attack that led to an SEC filing about the attack being ransomware. This is sort of hilarious, because if anyone is holding American health data hostage…it’s American healthcare.

This week, I would like to pay tribute to the amazing, pioneering brigade of women – the force of Catholic teaching nuns – generous and totally dedicated educators who travelled from Europe to set up their Convent schools all over the world. The date of 1852 is particularly important since on this date 170 years ago, some brave nuns from the religious order of the Dames of St. Maur or the Holy Infant Jesus took the perilous sea journey halfway across the world to open the first school in Penang, Malaya.