#Germany Food Service Market

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Vegan and Vegetarian Food Trends in Germany's Restaurants: A Focus on the Germany Food Service Market

Introduction

Germany's food service market is experiencing a notable shift as vegan and vegetarian trends gain traction. This change is not merely a dietary preference but a significant transformation influencing restaurant menus, market growth, and consumer expectations. In this blog, we’ll delve into the current state of vegan and vegetarian food trends within the German food service market sector, examining statistical data, benefits, challenges, and future growth prospects.

Current Trends and Market Statistics

The Germany Food service Market size is estimated at 132.04 billion USD in 2024, and is expected to reach $223.25 billion USD by 2034,growing at a CAGR of 6% during the forecast period (2024-2034).

Recent data from Nielsen highlights that nearly 40% of German consumers actively seek out vegan or vegetarian dishes when dining out, a significant increase from previous years. The rise in plant-based dining options has been driven by various factors, including environmental concerns, health consciousness, and ethical considerations.

Benefits to the Food Service Market

Growing Consumer Demand: The increasing interest in vegan and vegetarian cuisine offers a lucrative opportunity for restaurants. A diverse menu catering to these preferences can attract a broader customer base, including flexitarians, who occasionally adopt a plant-based diet.

Brand Differentiation: Restaurants that offer innovative and high-quality plant-based dishes can distinguish themselves in a competitive market. This differentiation not only appeals to health-conscious consumers but also enhances the brand's reputation for sustainability and innovation.

Reduced Environmental Impact: Incorporating more plant-based options can align with global sustainability goals. Plant-based diets are associated with lower carbon footprints, reduced water usage, and less land degradation compared to meat-based diets. Restaurants can capitalise on this trend by promoting their commitment to environmental responsibility.

Challenges in the Germany Food Service Market

Ingredient Sourcing and Costs: High-quality plant-based ingredients can be expensive and less readily available than traditional ones. Restaurants may face challenges in sourcing these ingredients at competitive prices, which can impact their profitability.

Consumer Education: While the demand for vegan and vegetarian options is rising, some consumers remain sceptical about the taste and quality of plant-based dishes. Restaurants need to invest in educating their staff and customers about the benefits and flavours of plant-based foods.

Menu Development: Creating a menu that balances traditional and plant-based options can be complex. Chefs must develop recipes that are both appealing and nutritionally balanced, which requires time, creativity, and culinary expertise.

Future Growth Prospects

The future of vegan and vegetarian food trends in Germany's food service market looks promising. The growing emphasis on health and sustainability is expected to continue driving demand for plant-based options. The market for plant-based foods is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 6.5% from 2024 to 2030, according to Grand View Research.

Restaurants that embrace this trend can benefit from increased consumer loyalty and market share. Additionally, advancements in food technology, such as improved plant-based meat alternatives and dairy-free products, are likely to enhance the appeal and affordability of vegan and vegetarian options.

Conclusion

Germany's food service market is at the forefront of a significant transformation driven by vegan and vegetarian food trends. As consumer preferences evolve, restaurants that adapt to these changes can capture new opportunities and foster growth. While challenges such as ingredient sourcing and consumer education exist, the benefits of aligning with these trends—ranging from increased demand to reduced environmental impact—present compelling reasons for restaurants to invest in plant-based offerings. With a positive outlook for future growth, the time is ripe for food service operators to innovate and thrive in this dynamic market.

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 Unveiling Growth Trends in the German Food Service Industry

Introduction:

Germany’s food service industry is a vibrant and dynamic sector, reflecting the nation's rich culinary heritage and diverse dining preferences. From traditional Bavarian beer gardens to trendy urban cafes, the German food service market offers a plethora of options catering to various tastes and preferences. In this blog, we delve into the growth trends shaping the landscape of the Germany Food Service Market.

Market Expansion:

The German food service industry has witnessed significant expansion in recent years, fueled by factors such as changing consumer lifestyles, increasing disposable incomes, and a growing preference for dining out. According to market research reports, the Germany Food Service Market is projected to continue its growth trajectory, driven by rising demand for convenience, quality, and diverse culinary experiences.

Emphasis on Health and Sustainability:

In line with global trends, health and sustainability have emerged as key drivers influencing consumer choices in the German food service market. Restaurants and food service providers are increasingly offering healthier menu options, incorporating organic and locally sourced ingredients, and implementing sustainable practices such as waste reduction and eco-friendly packaging. This shift reflects a growing awareness among consumers regarding the impact of their food choices on personal health and the environment.

Digital Transformation:

The digital revolution has revolutionised the way food service businesses operate in Germany. From online food ordering and delivery platforms to digital menu displays and mobile payment systems, technology has become integral to enhancing customer experience and streamlining operations. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital solutions, with many restaurants pivoting to online ordering and delivery services to survive amidst lockdowns and social distancing measures.

Rise of Casual Dining and Food Trends:

Casual dining concepts, characterised by relaxed atmospheres and affordable menus, have gained popularity in the German food service industry. This trend reflects changing consumer preferences for informal dining experiences that offer high-quality food at reasonable prices. Additionally, the industry has witnessed the emergence of new food trends and concepts, including plant-based cuisine, street food-inspired menus, and fusion dishes that blend culinary influences from around the world.

Focus on Innovation and Customization:

To stay competitive in a crowded market, food service operators in Germany are increasingly focusing on innovation and customization. This includes menu diversification, incorporating seasonal ingredients, and offering personalised dining experiences tailored to individual preferences. Moreover, investments in restaurant design and ambiance play a crucial role in attracting and retaining customers, with many establishments emphasising aesthetics and atmosphere to enhance the overall dining experience.

Conclusion:

The German food service industry continues to evolve, driven by changing consumer preferences, technological advancements, and a growing emphasis on health, sustainability, and innovation. As the market expands and diversifies, food service operators must adapt to emerging trends, leverage digital solutions, and prioritise customer satisfaction to thrive in an increasingly competitive landscape. With its rich culinary heritage and penchant for quality and diversity, the Germany Food Service Market remains ripe with opportunities for growth and innovation.

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How the Neocons Subverted Russia’s Financial Stabilization in the Early 1990s

by Jeffrey Sachs

In 1989 I served as an advisor to the first post-communist government of Poland, and helped to devise a strategy of financial stabilization and economic transformation.  My recommendations in 1989 called for large-scale Western financial support for Poland’s economy in order to prevent a runaway inflation, enable a convertible Polish currency at a stable exchange rate, and an opening of trade and investment with the countries of the European Community (now the European Union).  These recommendations were heeded by the US Government, the G7, and the International Monetary Fund.  

Based on my advice, a $1 billion Zloty stabilization fund was established that served as the backing of Poland’s newly convertible currency.  Poland was granted a standstill on debt servicing on the Soviet-era debt, and then a partial cancellation of that debt.  Poland was granted significant development assistance in the form of grants and loans by the official international community.  

Poland’s subsequent economic and social performance speaks for itself.  Despite Poland’s economy having experienced a decade of collapse in the 1980s, Poland began a period of rapid economic growth in the early 1990s.  The currency remained stable and inflation low.  In 1990, Poland’s GDP per capita (measured in purchasing-power terms) was 33% of neighboring Germany.  By 2024, it had reached 68% of Germany’s GDP per capita, following decades of rapid economic growth. 

On the basis of Poland’s economic success, I was contacted in 1990 by Mr. Grigory Yavlinsky, economic advisor to President Mikhail Gorbachev, to offer similar advice to the Soviet Union, and in particular to help mobilize financial support for the economic stabilization and transformation of the Soviet Union. One outcome of that work was a 1991 project undertaken at the Harvard Kennedy School with Professors Graham Allison, Stanley Fisher, and Robert Blackwill. We jointly proposed a “Grand Bargain” to the US, G7, and Soviet Union, in which we advocated large-scale financial support by the US and G7 countries for Gorbachev’s ongoing economic and political reforms. The report was published as Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union (1 October 1991).

The proposal for large-scale Western support for the Soviet Union was flatly rejected by the Cold Warriors in the White House.  Gorbachev came to the G7 Summit in London in July 1991 asking for financial assistance, but left empty-handed.  Upon his return to Moscow, he was abducted in the coup attempt of August 1991.  At that point, Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, assumed effective leadership of the crisis-ridden Soviet Union.  By December, under the weight of decisions by Russia and other Soviet republics, the Soviet Union was dissolved with the emergence of 15 newly independent nations.  

In September 1991, I was contacted by Yegor Gaidar, economic advisor to Yeltsin, and soon to be acting Prime Minister of newly independent Russian Federation as of December 1991. He requested that I come to Moscow to discuss the economic crisis and ways to stabilize the Russian economy. At that stage, Russia was on the verge of hyperinflation, financial default to the West, the collapse of international trade with the other republics and with the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, and intense shortages of food in Russian cities resulting from the collapse of food deliveries from the farmlands and the pervasive black marketing of foodstuffs and other essential commodities.  

I recommended that Russia reiterate the call for large-scale Western financial assistance, including an immediate standstill on debt servicing, longer-term debt relief, a currency stabilization fund for the ruble (as for the Zloty in Poland), large-scale grants of dollars and European currencies to support urgently needed food and medical imports and other essential commodity flows, and immediate financing by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to protect Russia’s social services (healthcare, education, and others).

In November 1991, Gaidar met with the G7 Deputies (the deputy finance ministers of the G7 countries) and requested a standstill on debt servicing.  This request was flatly denied.  To the contrary, Gaidar was told that unless Russia continued to service every last dollar as it came due, emergency food aid on the high seas heading to Russia would be immediately turned around and sent back to the home ports.  I met with an ashen-faced Gaidar immediately after the G7 Deputies meeting.  

In December 1991, I met with Yeltsin in the Kremlin to brief him on Russia’s financial crisis and on my continued hope and advocacy for emergency Western assistance, especially as Russia was now emerging as an independent, democratic nation after the end of the Soviet Union.  He requested that I serve as an advisor to his economic team, with a focus on attempting to mobilize the needed large-scale financial support.  I accepted that challenge and the advisory position on a strictly unpaid basis.    

Upon returning from Moscow, I went to Washington to reiterate my call for a debt standstill, a currency stabilization fund, and emergency financial support.  In my meeting with Mr. Richard Erb, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF in charge of overall relations with Russia, I learned that the US did not support this kind of financial package.  I once again pleaded the economic and financial case, and was determined to change US policy.  It had been my experience in other advisory contexts that it might require several months to sway Washington on its policy approach.  

Indeed, during 1991-94 I would advocate non-stop but without success for large-scale Western support for Russia’s crisis-ridden economy, and support for the other 14 newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. I made these appeals in countless speeches, meetings, conferences, op-eds, and academic articles. Mine was a lonely voice in the US in calling for such support.  I had learned from economic history — most importantly the crucial writings of John Maynard Keynes (especially Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919) — and from my own advisory experiences in Latin America and Eastern Europe, that external financial support for Russia could well be the make or break of Russia’s urgently needed stabilization effort.  

It is worth quoting at length here from my article in the Washington Post in November 1991 to present the gist of my argument at the time:  

This is the third time in this century in which the West must address the vanquished. When the German and Hapsburg Empires collapsed after World War I, the result was financial chaos and social dislocation. Keynes predicted in 1919 that this utter collapse in Germany and Austria, combined with a lack of vision from the victors, would conspire to produce a furious backlash towards military dictatorship in Central Europe. Even as brilliant a finance minister as Joseph Schumpeter in Austria could not stanch the torrent towards hyperinflation and hyper-nationalism, and the United States descended into the isolationism of the 1920s under the "leadership" of Warren G. Harding and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge. After World War II, the victors were smarter. Harry Truman called for U.S. financial support to Germany and Japan, as well as the rest of Western Europe. The sums involved in the Marshall Plan, equal to a few percent of the recipient countries' GNPs, was not enough to actually rebuild Europe. It was, though, a political lifeline to the visionary builders of democratic capitalism in postwar Europe. Now the Cold War and the collapse of communism have left Russia as prostrate, frightened and unstable as was Germany after World War I and World War II. Inside Russia, Western aid would have the galvanizing psychological and political effect that the Marshall Plan had for Western Europe. Russia's psyche has been tormented by 1,000 years of brutal invasions, stretching from Genghis Khan to Napoleon and Hitler. Churchill judged that the Marshall Plan was history's "most unsordid act," and his view was shared by millions of Europeans for whom the aid was the first glimpse of hope in a collapsed world. In a collapsed Soviet Union, we have a remarkable opportunity to raise the hopes of the Russian people through an act of international understanding. The West can now inspire the Russian people with another unsordid act.

This advice went unheeded, but that did not deter me from continuing my advocacy.  In early 1992, I was invited to make the case on the PBS news show The McNeil-Lehrer Report.  I was on air with acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.  After the show, he asked me to ride with him from the PBS studio in Arlington, Virginia back to Washington, D.C.  Our conversation was the following.  “Jeffrey, please let me explain to you that your request for large-scale aid is not going to happen.  Even assuming that I agree with your arguments — and Poland’s finance minister [Leszek Balcerowicz] made the same points to me just last week — it’s not going to happen.  Do you want to know why?  Do you know what this year is?”  “1992,” I answered.  “Do you know that this means?”  “An election year?” I replied.  “Yes, this is an election year.  It’s not going to happen.”

Russia’s economic crisis worsened rapidly in 1992.  Gaidar lifted price controls at the start of 1992, not as some purported miracle cure but because the Soviet-era official fixed prices were irrelevant under the pressures of the black markets, the repressed inflation (that is, rapid inflation in the black-market prices and therefore the rising the gap with the official prices), the complete breakdown of the Soviet-era planning mechanism, and the massive corruption engendered by the few goods still being exchanged at the official prices far below the black-market prices.  

Russia urgently needed a stabilization plan of the kind that Poland had undertaken, but such a plan was out of reach financially (because of the lack of external support) and politically (because the lack of external support also meant the lack of any internal consensus on what to do).  The crisis was compounded by the collapse of trade among the newly independent post-Soviet nations and the collapse of trade between the former Soviet Union and its former satellite nations in Central and Eastern Europe, which were now receiving Western aid and were reorienting trade towards Western Europe and away from the former Soviet Union.  

During 1992 I continued without any success to try to mobilize the large-scale Western financing that I believed to be ever-more urgent.  I pinned my hopes on the newly elected Presidency of Bill Clinton. These hopes too were quickly dashed. Clinton’s key advisor on Russia, Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum, told me privately in November 1992 that the incoming Clinton team had rejected the concept of large-scale assistance for Russia. Mandelbaum soon announced publicly that he would not serve in the new administration. I met with Clinton’s new Russia advisor, Strobe Talbott, but discovered that he was largely unaware of the pressing economic realities. He asked me to send him some materials about hyperinflations, which I duly did.

At the end of 1992, after one year of trying to help Russia, I told Gaidar that I would step aside as my recommendations were not heeded in Washington or the European capitals.  Yet around Christmas Day I received a phone call from Russia’s incoming financing minister, Mr. Boris Fyodorov. He asked me to meet him in Washington in the very first days of 1993.  We met at the World Bank. Fyodorov, a gentleman and highly intelligent expert who tragically died young a few years later, implored me to remain as an advisor to him during 1993.  I agreed to do so, and spent one more year attempting to help Russia implement a stabilization plan. I resigned in December 1993, and publicly announced my departure as advisor in the first days of 1994.  

My continued advocacy in Washington once again fell on deaf ears in the first year of the Clinton Administration, and my own forebodings became greater.  I repeatedly invoked the warnings of history in my public speaking and writing, as in this piece in the New Republic in January 1994, soon after I had stepped aside from the advisory role.      

Above all, Clinton should not console himself with the thought that nothing too serious can happen in Russia. Many Western policymakers have confidently predicted that if the reformers leave now, they will be back in a year, after the Communists once again prove themselves unable to govern. This might happen, but chances are it will not. History has probably given the Clinton administration one chance for bringing Russia back from the brink; and it reveals an alarmingly simple pattern. The moderate Girondists did not follow Robespierre back into power. With rampant inflation, social disarray and falling living standards, revolutionary France opted for Napoleon instead. In revolutionary Russia, Aleksandr Kerensky did not return to power after Lenin's policies and civil war had led to hyperinflation. The disarray of the early 1920s opened the way for Stalin's rise to power. Nor was Bruning'sgovernment given another chance in Germany once Hitler came to power in 1933.

It is worth clarifying that my advisory role in Russia was limited to macroeconomic stabilization and international financing.  I was not involved in Russia’s privatization program which took shape during 1993-4, nor in the various measures and programs (such as the notorious “shares-for-loans” scheme in 1996) that gave rise to the new Russian oligarchs.  On the contrary, I opposed the various kinds of measures that Russia was undertaking, believing them to be rife with unfairness and corruption.  I said as much in both the public and in private to Clinton officials, but they were not listening to me on that account either.  Colleagues of mine at Harvard were involved in the privatization work, but they assiduously kept me far away from their work. Two were later charged by the US government with insider dealing in activities in Russia which I had absolutely no foreknowledge or involvement of any kind.  My only role in that matter was to dismiss them from the Harvard Institute for International Development for violating the internal HIID rules against conflicts of interest in countries that HIID advised.  

The failure of the West to provide large-scale and timely financial support to Russia and the other newly independent nations of the former Soviet Union definitely exacerbated the serious economic and financial crisis that faced those countries in the early 1990s.  Inflation remained very high for several years.  Trade and hence economic recovery were seriously impeded.  Corruption flourished under the policies of parceling out valuable state assets to private hands.  

All of these dislocations gravely weakened the public trust in the new governments of the region and the West. This collapse in social trust brought to my mind at the time the adage of Keynes in 1919, following the disaster Versailles settlement and the hyperinflations that followed: “There is no subtler, no surer means of over- turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” 

During the tumultuous decade of the 1990s, Russia’s social services fell into decline.  When this decline was coupled with the greatly increased stresses on society, the result was a sharp rise in Russia’s alcohol-related deaths.  Whereas in Poland, the economic reforms were accompanied by a rise in life expectancy and public health, the very opposite occurred in crisis-riven Russia.  

Even with all of these economic debacles, and with Russia’s default in 1998, the grave economic crisis and lack of Western support were not the definitive breaking points of US-Russian relations.  In 1999, when Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister and in 2000 when he became President, Putin sought friendly and mutually supportive international relations between Russia and the West.  Many European leaders, for example, Italy’s Romano Prodi, have spoken extensively about Putin’s goodwill and positive intentions towards strong Russia-EU relations in the first years of his presidency.  

It was in military affairs rather than in economics that the Russian – Western relations ended up falling apart in the 2000s.  As with finance, the West was militarily dominant in the 1990s, and certainly had the means to promote strong and positive relations with Russia.  Yet the US was far more interested in Russia’s subservience to NATO that it was in stable relations with Russia.  

At the time of German reunification, both the US and Germany repeatedly promised Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that the West would not take advantage of German reunification and the end of the Warsaw Pact by expanding the NATO military alliance eastward.  Both Gorbachev and Yeltsin reiterated the importance of this US-NATO pledge.  Yet within just a few years, Clinton completely reneged on the Western commitment, and began the process of NATO enlargement.  Leading US diplomats, led by the great statesman-scholar George Kennan, warned at the time that the NATO enlargement would lead to disaster: “The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.” So, it has proved.

Here is not the place to revisit all of the foreign policy disasters that have resulted from US arrogance towards Russia, but it suffices here to mention a brief and partial chronology of key events.  In 1999, NATO bombed Belgrade for 78 days with the goal of breaking Serbia apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans.  In 2002, the US unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections.  In 2003, the US and NATO allies repudiated the UN Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false pretenses.  In 2004, the US continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic States and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and Romania) and the Balkans.  In 2008, over Russia’s urgent and strenuous objections, the US pledged to expand NATO to Georgia and Ukraine.  

In 2011, the US tasked the CIA to overthrow Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia.  In 2011, NATO bombed Libya in order to overthrow Moammar Qaddafi.  In 2014, the US conspired with Ukrainian nationalist forces to overthrow Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych.  In 2015, the US began to place Aegis anti-ballistic missiles in Eastern Europe(Romania), a short distance from Russia. In 2016-2020, the US supported Ukraine in undermining the Minsk II agreement, despite its unanimous backing by the UN Security Council.  In 2021, the new Biden Administration refused to negotiate with Russia over the question of NATO enlargement to Ukraine.  In April 2022, the US called on Ukraine to withdraw from peace negotiations with Russia.  

Looking back on the events around 1991-93, and to the events that followed, it is clear that the US was determined to say no to Russia’s aspirations for peaceful and mutually respectful integration of Russia and the West.  The end of the Soviet period and the beginning of the Yeltsin Presidency occasioned the rise of the neoconservatives (neocons) to power in the United States. The neocons did not and do not want a mutually respectful relationship with Russia.  They sought and until today seek a unipolar world led by a hegemonic US, in which Russia and other nations will be subservient.  

In this US-led world order, the neocons envisioned that the US and the US alone will determine the utilization of the dollar-based banking system, the placement of overseas US military bases, the extent of NATO membership, and the deployment of US missile systems, without any veto or say by other countries, certainly including Russia.  That arrogant foreign policy has led to several wars and to a widening rupture of relations between the US-led bloc of nations and the rest of the world.  As an advisor to Russia during two years, late-1991 to late-93, I experienced first-hand the early days of neoconservatism applied to Russia, though it would take many years of events afterwards to recognize the full extent of the new and dangerous turn in US foreign policy that began in the early 1990s.    

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Netflix seems to release much more feoreign and mire unknown movies (atleast here for me in germany) do you think thats strike related or is it to early to assume streaming services are trying to release non american movies due to big budget american production having been brought to a halt?

It's been a long time coming that Netflix (and other streaming services such as Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV, Paramount, etc.) are making more and more in non-US markets, though the stuff coming out right now was largely written & filmed pre-strike. Still, Netflix and other studios definitely saw the strike coming and invested more in non-US content to help themselves weather the strike, so you're absolutely right on that count! (source).

It's worth noting as well that many other countries do not have strong unions like the USA's WGA and SAG-AFTRA to protect the rights of writers and actors. See the example of Netflix's South Korean breakout hit Squid Game: "In his contract, [Squid Game creator & writer Hwang Dong-hyuk] had forfeited all intellectual property rights and received no residuals — royalty payments that writers, directors and actors normally receive when their work is reused after an initial broadcast. He said in an interview that “Squid Game” had earned him “enough to put food on the table.”'

For a show that won awards and boasted millions of views, it's absurd that Hwang didn't get some kind of success-based residual payment—but Netflix essentially cheated it out of him and made all the profits without paying Hwang commensurate to his value.

On the other hand, Netflix must pay viewership-based residuals to writers in Germany and Sweden (news story from 2020) because of differing legal requirements, which is great—it proves that it's very possible for Netflix to afford this and make it happen. And the success-based residual is one thing the WGA is fighting for in its current negotiations: if a show does well, the residuals ought to reflect that success. (There's currently just a flat rate paid to writers—imagine the writers of Stranger Things getting paid the exact same as a show that got only a few thousand views. It's just nonsensical.)

At the same time as all this is true, we want to caution strongly against placing any blame on writers/actors in non-US territories for continuing to work right now. There's no contract that protects non-WGA/SAG-AFTRA creatives legally if they walk out in solidarity, or a strike fund that supports them if they stop working. We do hope to see other countries' entertainment industries following suit and unionizing soon as a direct result of the 2023 strikes (and the way the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are effectively communicating their value and demands!)

(As a brief tangent, even countries with preexisting industry unions, such as the British actors' equity union and Writers' Guild of Great Britain, simply don't have the institutional strength to combat some of the exploitative practices that are so common. We want to see these unions get stronger as a result of this hot labor summer & everything that's happening so visibly with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA—but we also don't blame their members for continuing to work right now because there's no promised guild protection if they walk out.)

Thanks for your question, and please let us know if you'd like clarification on anything here!

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 17, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 18, 2024

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) met for their fiftieth summit in Italy from June 13 to June 15. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed the G7 in 1975 as a forum for democracies with advanced economies to talk about political and economic issues. The European Union is also part of the forum, and this June, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky also attended.

This summit was a particularly fraught one. When it took office, the Biden-Harris administration, along with the State Department under Secretary of State Antony Blinken, set out to reshape global power structures not only in light of Trump’s attempt to abandon international alliances and replace them with transactional deals, but also in light of a larger change in international affairs. 

In a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in September 2023, Blinken explained that the end of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had promised a new era of peace and stability, with more international cooperation and political freedom. But while that period did, in fact, lift more than a billion people out of poverty, eradicate deadly diseases, and create historic lows in conflicts between state actors, it also gave rise to authoritarians determined to overthrow the international rules-based order. 

At the same time, non-state actors—international corporations; non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, that provide services to hundreds of millions of people across the globe; terrorists who can inflict catastrophic harm; and transnational criminal organizations that traffic illegal drugs, weapons, and human beings—have growing influence.

Forging international cooperation has become more and more complex, Blinken explained, at the same time that global problems are growing: the climate crisis, food insecurity, mass migration and mass displacement of populations, as well as the potential for new pandemics. In the midst of all this pressure, “many countries are hedging their bets.” 

They have lost faith in the international economic order, as a handful of governments have distorted the markets to gain unfair advantage while technology and globalization have hollowed out communities and inequality has skyrocketed. “Between 1980 and 2020,” Blinken noted, “the richest .1 percent accumulated the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent.” Those who feel the system is unfair are exacerbating the other drivers of political polarization. 

These developments have undermined the post–Cold War political order, Blinken said. “One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come.”

In his inaugural address on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden vowed to “repair our alliances and engage with the world once again.” Saying that “America’s alliances are our greatest asset” just weeks later at the State Department, the president and officers in the administration set out to rebuild alliances that had fallen into disrepair under Trump. They reinforced the international bodies that upheld a rules-based international order, bodies like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) organized in 1947 to stand against Soviet aggression and now a bulwark against Russian aggression. They began the process of rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, both of which Trump had abandoned. 

Officials also worked to make international bodies more representative by, for example, welcoming into partnerships the African Union and Indonesia. They also broadened cooperation, as Blinken said, to “work with any country—including those with whom we disagree on important issues—so long as they want to deliver for their citizens, contribute to solving shared challenges, and uphold the international norms that we built together.”

At home, they worked to erase the “bright line” between foreign and domestic policy, investing in policies to bring jobs back to the U.S. both to restore the economic fairness they identified as important to democracy and to stabilize the supply chains that the pandemic had revealed to be a big national security threat. 

On April 28, 2021, in his first address to a joint session of Congress,  President Biden said he had told world leaders that “America is back.” But they responded: “[F]or how long?”  

That question was the backdrop to the G7 summit. Trump has said he will abandon international alliances, including NATO, in favor of a transactional foreign policy. He supports Russian president Vladimir Putin’s attempt to replace the rules-based international order with the idea that might makes right and that any strong country can grab the land of weaker states. 

Earlier this month, Biden used the occasion of the commemoration ceremonies around the 80th anniversary of D-Day to reinforce the international rules-based order and U.S. leadership in that system. On June 4, before Biden left for France, Massimo Calabresi published an interview with Biden in Time magazine in which Calabresi noted that the past 40 months have tested Biden’s vision. Russia reinvaded Ukraine in February 2022, and Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Putin is trying to create “an axis of autocrats,” as Calabresi puts it, including the leaders of China and Iran, the state that is backing the non-state actors Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis of Yemen, and Hezbollah in Lebanon in order to destabilize Israel and the Arab states. China is threatening Taiwan. 

Calabresi pointed out that Biden has responded to these threats by shoring up NATO and welcoming to it Finland and Sweden, with their powerful militaries. His support has enabled Ukraine to decimate the Russian military, which has lost at least 87% of the 360,000 troops it had when it attacked Ukraine in February 2022, thus dramatically weakening a nation seen as a key foe in 2021. He has kept the war in Gaza from spreading into a regional conflict and has forced Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, although the Palestinian death toll has continued to mount as Netanyahu has backed devastating attacks on Gaza. Biden’s comprehensive deal in the Middle East—an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, a big increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and an enduring end to the crisis with the security of both Israelis and Palestinians assured—has yet to materialize.

In Italy the leaders at the G7 summit stood firm behind Biden’s articulated vision, saying that the G7 “is grounded in a shared commitment to respect the U.N. Charter, promote international peace and security, and uphold the free and open rules-based international order.” On hot-button issues, the G7 backed Biden’s Middle East deal and support for Ukraine, agreeing to transfer $50 billion to Ukraine from the interest earned on Russian assets frozen in the European Union and elsewhere. 

The Biden administration announced additional economic sanctions to isolate Russia even more from the international financial system. At the summit, on June 13, 2024, Presidents Biden and Zelensky signed a ten-year bilateral security agreement that commits the U.S. to supporting Ukraine with a wide range of military assistance but, unlike the NATO membership Ukraine wants, does not require that the U.S. send troops. The agreement is legally binding, but it is not a treaty ratified by the Senate. If he is reelected, Trump could end the agreement.

Immediately after the G7 summit, world leaders met in Switzerland for the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, held on June 15 and 16. Ukraine called the summit in hopes of persuading major countries from the global south to join and isolate Russia, but the group had to be content with demonstrating their own support for Ukraine. Vice President Kamala Harris, who attended the summit, today posted: “The more than 90 nations that gathered at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine hold a diverse range of views on global challenges and opportunities. We don’t always agree. But when it comes to Putin’s unprovoked, unjustified war—there is unity and solidarity in support of Ukraine and international rules and norms.”

Earlier this month, Finnish software and methodologies company Check First released a report exposing “a large-scale, cross-country, multi-platform disinformation campaign designed to spread pro-Russian propaganda in the West, with clear indicators of foreign interference and information manipulation.” The primary goal of “Operation Overload” is to overwhelm newsrooms and fact-checkers and spread “the Kremlin’s political agenda.” 

Foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum told Bill Kristol of The Bulwark that China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea do not share an ideology, but “they do share a common interest, and the common interest is undermining…America, Europe, the liberal world, the democratic world.” They do this, she said, because the oppositions in their own countries are inspired by and use the democratic language of freedom and liberty and rights and rule of law, and leaders need to undermine that language to hold onto power. They also recognize that chaos and uncertainty give them business opportunities in the West. Disrupting democracies by feeding radicalism makes the democratic world lose its sense of community and solidarity.

When it does that, Applebaum notes, it loses its ability to stand up to autocrats. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[athena5898]

(PrR)One Month of Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide Carried Out by the Occupation Army in North Gaza:

Over 1,800 Martyrs, 4,000 Injured, the Destruction of Hospitals & Infrastructure

Government Media Office: For an entire month, the occupation army has waged an intense, multi-pronged attack by land, air, and sea on northern Gaza, targeting areas such as Jabalia Camp, Jabalia Al-Balad, Jabalia Nazla, Beit Lahia, Beit Lahia Project, Beit Hanoun, and surrounding areas. This ongoing attack has claimed the lives of over 1,800 martyrs, injured 4,000, and left hundreds missing. All hospitals in northern Gaza have been destroyed and rendered inoperative, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/66019) civil defense teams have been targeted and some detained, and essential services, including water, sewage systems, roads, and streets, have been devastated, turning North Gaza into a disaster zone in every sense.

This brutal and savage attack (https://t.me/PalestineResist/57132) by the occupation has targeted civilians, residential neighborhoods, and safe shelters, killing and injuring hundreds of displaced persons, forcing thousands to flee their homes, and driving them into forced displacement. The ongoing killing, destruction, and forced eviction by the "israeli" occupation army are clear signs of a plan to uproot and displace our great Palestinian people once again, in a repetition of the events of 1948, with US backing and approval to commit more massacres and killings.

The aggression goes further, as the occupation has committed additional crimes against humanity, including using starvation and deprivation tactics. The occupation has blocked the entry of 3,800 aid and supply trucks into northern Gaza, deliberately starving nearly 400,000 people, including over 100,000 children, denying them food, water, medicine, and infant formula. The occupation has also destroyed dozens of shelters housing tens of thousands of displaced people who fled their homes seeking safety, only to encounter killing in every form used by the occupation—from fighter jets and drones to snipers, field executions, tank and vehicle attacks, explosive barrels, the demolition of homes, mosques, institutions, neighborhoods, and the bombardment of hospitals. Markets have been targeted, with massacres committed that resulted in the cold-blooded killing of hundreds. Humanitarian services have been completely prevented, medical teams deprived of food, detained, and tortured, and even polio vaccination campaigns have been blocked.

The atrocities facing our Palestinian people are beyond control and logic. Even the strongest nations would collapse within weeks under such conditions. In light of this, we emphasize the following:

We strongly condemn the occupation’s perpetration of crimes against humanity, massacres, and genocide, targeting tens of thousands of civilians, children, and women in North Gaza with deliberate and intentional brutality. We call upon all countries worldwide to condemn these horrific massacres against residential neighborhoods, civilians, hospitals, medical teams, mosques, and various civil institutions.

We hold the occupation, along with the US, UK, Germany, France, and other countries complicit in this genocide, fully responsible for the ongoing war and crime of genocide against our Palestinian people, particularly in North Gaza, which is being subjected to genocide systematic killing.

We call on the international community and all UN and international organizations to fulfill their mandated roles and adhere to international and humanitarian law by providing humanitarian, health, and relief services, as well as civilian protection to hospitals, institutions, and residential areas. We further urge them to exert all available pressure on the occupation to end its heinous and inhumane crimes against humanity and to halt the genocide against unarmed civilians in Gaza, with special urgency for North Gaza.

Glory and eternity to our righteous martyrs. Complete recovery for our heroic wounded. Full freedom for our courageous prisoners in the occupation’s prisons. Salute, all salute to the great Palestinian people.

[eaglesnick]

“To put political power in the hands of men embittered and degraded by poverty is to tie firebrands to foxes and turn them loose amid the standing corn; it is to put out the eyes of a Samson and to twine his arms around the pillars of national life.” – Henry George

The underlying cause of the current civil unrest on British streets can be summed up in one word – POVERTY.

Poverty and inequality in Britain has been rising since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. In an article in The English Historical Review titled, ‘Poverty, Inequality Statistics and Knowledge Politics Under Thatcher', 08/04/22, the author argues:

“Under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, economic inequality and poverty in the United Kingdom rose dramatically to high levels that have remained one of the lasting legacies of Thatcherism, with far-reaching implications for social cohesion and political culture in Britain.”

Tony Blair, a man who embraced Thatcher’s neo-liberal free-market philosophy claimed that while he was prime minister New Labour

 “...made the UK more equal, more fair and more socially mobile”  (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, 14/07/2019)

This is not true for the population as a whole. It is true that more was spent on public services, and on pensioners and those poorer working age adults with dependent children, both groups seeing their economic position improve. However:

“By contrast, the incomes of poorer working-age adults without dependent children - the major demographic group not emphasised by Labour as a priority - changed very little over the period. As a result they fell behind the rest of the population and relative poverty levels rose.( Institute For Fiscal Studies: Labours Record on poverty and inequality’, 06/06/2013)

Not only that, but income inequality also continued to rise under Blair as the already wealthy saw ’their incomes increase very substantially.’ (ibid)

We all know that the last 14 years of Tory government have only made matters worse: homelessness up; NHS waiting lists up; income inequality up; public services starved of cash; benefits cut; rents up, mortgages up. I could go on

Ordinary working people are suffering a cost of living crisis. The already poor have been pushed over the brink, especially in the North where the promised “levelling up” was just an empty election slogan to get Boris Johnson elected to power. Describing the neglected North one commentator said:

“Other countries have poor bits. Britain has a poor half”. (The Economist, ‘Why Britain is more geographically unequal than any  other rich country’ , 30/06/20

Poverty led to the UK Food Riots of 1766. Poverty led to the French revolution in 1789. The Swing Riots, caused by rural poverty swept southern England in 1830. Poverty led to the Russian Revolution in 1917.  Poll Tax riots hit the streets of Britain in 1990 and a report on the London riots of 2011 blamed “deprivation".

The point is, poverty causes feelings of hopelessness, abandonment, anger and resentment.  Sometimes the victims of poverty correctly identify the people or class responsible for their plight, sometimes they don’t. The poverty and inequality experienced in  Britain today is not directly the fault of immigrants. It is the result of deliberate policies by previous Conservative and Labour governments, but mass immigration does exacerbate already existing conditions of inequality and poverty.

There are not enough houses, the health system cannot cope with demand, there are not enough teachers or schools, and unemployment is rising, as is the day-to-day cost of living, while the already wealthy become richer still.

The far-right channel the anger that ordinary working people justifiably feel about this situation towards an easily identifiable target – immigrants and the children of immigrants, especially non-whites.

The most obvious example of this cynical political strategy in recent history is Hitler’s rise to power in Germany during the economic crisis of the early 1930’s, which saw runaway inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis. Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats, playing on existing prejudices and turning them into hatred, not only of Jews but of homosexuals, gypsies, black people, those with disabilities, Poles and even some Christian groups.

Our fathers and grandfathers fought against such racial tyranny and we should do the same but we will not be successful in that fight until our governments subscribe to the goal of a fairer and more equal society, a society where poverty is falling rather than rising.

There is a conversation to be had about acceptable immigration levels in relation to the economy and social cohesion, but that cannot be conducted in isolation to the need to raise the general standard of living for ALL our citizens and not just the few at the top. Martin Lewis warned politicians of this in 2022.

“We need to keep people fed. We need to keep them warm. If we get this wrong right now, then we get to the point where we start to risk civil unrest. When breadwinners cannot provide, anger brews and civil unrest brews – and I do not think we are very far off,”  (independent: 10/04/22)

No one listened and now that day has arrived.

[herrlindemann]

Heavy Rock - January 2002

So close and so far at the same time. The capital of Portugal is today without a doubt the best place in all of Europe to see and listen to rock. Good venues for concerts, friendly people, excellent business professionals in a market five times smaller than ours, affordable prices and a most attractive and scoundrel city that keeps that old flavor under a galloping modernity that every day makes it more equal to the Europe of the euro. On top of the brilliant and fatalistic Pessoa in every corner of old Lisbon that he portrayed so well in his books. Good food, a lot to see and it’s next door.

Fool who misses it. I promise to cover many concerts in English, among other things because the films were never subtitled. Some say that if it had not been for those idiot kings that we have been suffering from century after century, the Iberian peninsula would be only one and as powerful as Germany. Can be.

The sports hall of Os Belenense (the third football team in Lisbon after Sporting and Benfica) is a privileged venue for five thousand people, located on top of a hill that has the Jerónimos Monastery under its feet, in whose pantheon is buried Fernando Pessoa and the navigator Vasco de Gama, who set off to discover half the world from the also nearby Torre de Belen, right on the Lisbon pier.

The place is full on the first of the two nights of the Germans, with Clawfinger as opening act, old acquaintances who have had to cancel their concert in Spain, scheduled for the following day, because the first date scheduled in principle, which was sold in a few days, a second had to be added, which caused them to cancel their scheduled show in Madrid. When I find out that they are going to open the concert I am very happy and a few minutes before leaving I chat with the singer and guitarist, the same thing that I had done a little earlier with Rammstein at the hotel. These interviews will be included in the next issue of Kerrang!

In the forty-five minutes that they have been on stage, the Swedes show great professionalism and the new face of their music, more polished, direct, and less 'rapper' with a lineup just like the stars of the night: two guitars, keys, bass, drums and voice. Techno also emerges without losing the gray that put them on the map of the best European rap-metal.

Their latest album 'A Whole Lot of Nothing' is proof that they have brought their message very close to Rammstein, which a few times in the past opened for them when they climbed the charts. They must have treated them very well because now the Germans take them on tour whenever they can, and they are also generous in leaving them all the sound display that they later used. Of course not the pyrotechnic and light display; and therein lies the problem for the Clawfingers.

Because the most Rammstein staging teaches anyone. Good intentions, direct songs and the ordeal is clear is that they do not shrink and continue to make war.

Rammstein is the never seen. With one, if not the best, of the records of the year in their baggage and a lot of imagination, the sextet is a magnificent and impressive show both musically and visually. A lot of money and creativity at the service of a structure that is frightening due to the militaristic connotations of its clothes and postures. Together with the theatricality copied from the Catalans of the Fura del Baus, they create an explosive show where fire, a lot of fire, is also another great protagonist with distressing moments such as when in the first encore, with the theme 'Rammstein', the singer Till Lindemann remains in his burning suit for almost four minutes. The mastery of fire that these people have is incredible, forcing them to demonstrate all the fireworks to the government technicians before each performance. Seen and lived on stage, as I did, it scares a lot. As soon as the minutes allotted to the photographers were up, I ran off the stage as if the devil was chasing me, resembling a scene from 'Apocalypse Now'.

Eighteen songs as checkered as the hackneyed German mentality. It joins infernal industrial machinery that starts with 'Mein Herz brennt' from 'Mutter' to end with the version of Depeche Mode's 'Stripped'. Pure adrenaline that nails you to the ground while from all corners of the stage the fire is projected in a thousand ways (Valencians would have to wear them as stars of the next Fallas festivities) and they look like mutant beings out of a science-fiction movie to make an army of corpses dance. Nightmarish. Wagnerian music, in the classical sense, is like a single score with messianic choruses that tremble in the German language, giving that sinister theatricality that at times brings to mind the 'hail, Hitler' of the most sinister times in history, for course alien to the intentions of the group. The show could not be more heavy. They all form a mass in which no one goes off script and the solos are conspicuous by their absence, inheriting the old legacy of those pioneering German industrial metal bands such as Kraftwerk. Aware that they have made a great record with 'Mutter', they play a lot of it: 'Links 2, 3, 4', 'Feuer frei', 'Mutter', 'Ich will', 'Adios', 'Rein raus', ' Zwitter'… Almost the entire record falls. Moment of maximum intensity that is experienced when they download their great commercial hymn 'Du hast' and the staff bouncing like possessed. They connect with 'Buck dich' which includes the singer's little number hitting the keys from behind for a long time with a giant phallus that generously sprays liquid on those in the front rows. In the end, the drummer's ride in a rubber boat over the heads and arms of grief takes us back to the past because they copy it from what the American David Lee Roth did on his tours with a boat and a surfboard. The six say goodbye toasting with Champagne to the success of a party as brilliant as it is original. For the cretins who preach that rock is dying or that it has no way out, this is heaven open to a great future. The important thing is to squeeze the coconut to stand up to the owners of the circus, the Anglo-Saxons, who with projects like this it is not surprising that they feel threatened.

When a stewardess falls to the ground on a short-haul flight due to the violent shaking of the once imposing and now defenseless iron bird in whose stomach we defy gravity, it is to frown to say the least. They had warned that coinciding with the arrival to the peninsula of the men of the north also came the cruel winter of those of the plane, the snow, or the power cuts in Catalonia.

The storm had its vortex in the Palau Olympic de Badalona, a venue that was filled with, evil eye, nine thousand people eager to see one of the European monsters of metal.

If the capital had enjoyed the privilege of a concert presentation last spring for a limited number of people, this time in Madrid they were left with the desire, perhaps because there are no suitable venues to host this type of event. I know that we get very heavy with this matter, but it is so serious that it requires immediate solutions.

The fact is that Rammstein presented irrefutable arguments about why so different types of audiences like them beyond the gestation of him in the gothic scene. Thousands of people hypnotized by the grotesque, bloody, frightening and at the same time romantic show of the group despite the fact that they sing in German and 99% of the attendees do not even understand, it makes you think.

His repertoire unfolds with the perfection of a recently oiled industrial machine, it is a mechanical tune, reticent, a uniform whole supported by his risky bet on impact theater.

I'm still wondering how the hell do they not get burned by the continuous flames on the stage if I'm fifteen meters away and I feel in my retinas and complexion a burst of that infernal heat that contrasts with the icy outside environment.

By the account that brings you, for your safety and ours, almost everything in your show is perfectly calculated, but that does not prevent that when Oliver Riedel takes a boat ride through a sea of arms, he ends up taking a 'dip' in the masses when losing stability. It takes a second, but it's enough for my head to come up with the phrase: "don't try to do this at home".

[rabbitcruiser]

Fresh Veggies Day

Head to a farmer’s market, U-Pick veggie field, or even your own backyard garden and see what delicious and nutritious meals you can make with fresh veggies.

How many portions of fresh veggies does it take to keep a person healthy? Five portions a day? Seven? Ten? And what makes up a portion?

Nutritionists agree, when it comes to fresh fruit and vegetables, the average person simply is not getting enough in their regular diet. An increase in daily consumption of vegetables (and fruits) is the entire point of the day.

Get ready to make a healthy change on Fresh Veggies Day! This is the ideal opportunity to invite family, friends, and neighbors around for a fun and surprising meat-free feast!

History of Fresh Veggies Day

Fresh Veggies Day is celebrated in early summer when the tastiest new-season vegetables started to become plentiful. It’s a great kickoff to the rest of the summer, acting as a reminder to look out for fresh, local vegetables to add to the table all throughout the season. In fact, the entire month of June is known by some as Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month, so that gives plenty of time to create new habits!

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), individuals should eat at a minimum of 400 grams of vegetables and fruit each day (this doesn’t count as super-starchy tubers like potatoes). This has turned into a 5-a-Day program that has gone through various versions in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries.

Farmers and growers are certainly happy to get on board with Fresh Veggies Day, offering the best of everything they have in season at the moment. But don’t stop there! Be sure to get into the spirit of the day by eating fresh veggies all throughout the year as the growing season permits. Plus, extras can be frozen to make it through the winter!

How to Celebrate Fresh Veggies Day

Getting into the celebration of Fresh Veggies Day is a pretty simple idea that might take a little planning but is totally worth it. Do something enjoyable, delicious, and extremely healthy for the family, like these activities:

Head Out to a Farmers’ Market

While keeping at least one eye on the weather, take a trip to a local farmers’ market or specialist food store and stock up on whatever happens to be ripe – along with some free recipe ideas. Also, it’s super fun to actually speak to the person who grew those vegetables! There will also likely be other local businesses represented at a farmers’ market, such as bakers, honey harvesters, jam makers, local coffee roasters and much more. It’s a fun way to support local businesses and be healthy in the process.

Go to a U-Pick Veggies Farm

For some early crops, it may even be possible to go to a farm and pick your own. Why not get some friends together and plan a day out? Depending on the particular location, you-pick farms may have seasonal offerings that include fresh foods such as asparagus, peas, tomatoes and more. Fruit is a very popular U-pick food as well, often offering apples, strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb and much more.

Not sure where to find a U-pick farm in a nearby location? Make use of this little online tool to see if it provides options that are easily accessible and local.

Get Fresh Veggies Delivered

Going to a local farmers’ market or U-Pick Farm can be a lot of fun, but if it’s hard to access, then consider having fresh fruits and vegetables delivered right to your door. Most cities and towns offer produce delivery services which are great for the health as well as for the earth.

Some of them pick out less-than-perfect-looking vegetables that arrive at the door looking less than beautiful but saving the earth by avoiding a ton of waste. Imperfect Foods, Misfit Market, The Chef’s Garden, and Farmbox Direct are just a few of the range of produce delivery services that have become popular in recent years. Check online to see what’s available based on location.

Grow a Garden in the Backyard

Of course, most gardeners will confess that nothing beats the pride, satisfaction and taste of home-grown vegetables. Seed clubs and gardening forums make it easy, and affordable for a person to cultivate their own weird and wonderful varieties of fresh vegetables.

People who want to lengthen the growing season and get a jumpstart can begin earlier in the spring by sowing seeds in small containers inside. Then, when the weather warms in the local area, these little seedlings can be moved outside.

There is hardly anything tastier than eating a vegetable or fruit from a garden that you have personally grown!

Eat a Selection of Fresh Veggies

Keeping a variety of fresh veggies around the house is the best way to make sure enough are eaten each day. After bringing them home from the store, it might be helpful to cut or chop them right away so they’re simple to grab as a snack without much preparation. Some of the healthiest veggies on the planet are:

Spinach. This superfood is packed with nutrients. One cup of raw, fresh spinach provides more than half of the daily allowance of Vitamin A, and 100% of the daily requirement for Vitamin K. It’s also high in beta carotene and lutein, which are super useful antioxidants.

Carrots. With more than 400% of the daily allowance of Vitamin A, carrots are pretty far at the top of the list, healthwise. Plus, they’re easy to grow, simple to store, and last a long time. There are even some studies that show people who eat carrots regularly may reduce their risk of cancer!

Broccoli. Fresh, dark greens are so healthy for the human body, and broccoli is no exception. It’s filled with Vitamin K, Vitamin C, manganese, folic acid and potassium.

Check out the My Plate Website and App

For more information on which vegetables offer the best nutrition and health benefits, visit the My Plate website. The program offers information on how much a ‘serving’ of vegetable contains, what the suggestions are for a person from different age groups, and even how to count beans and lentils!

To make things even simpler, there’s even an app that can be downloaded to help track healthy eating habits on the go with a smartphone or smartwatch.

Try Out Some New Recipes

If it’s hard to imagine adding veggies to meals, perhaps, look for inspiration by sharing new recipes. The Mediterranean Diet is considered to be one of the most healthy on earth, and many recipes can be found that include unprocessed fresh veggies. The meal plan often includes grilling vegetables, such as tomatoes, broccoli, cucumber, kale, spinach, onions, and more in olive oil and pairing with healthy meats such as fresh fish or even putting them on sandwiches.

When it comes to Fresh Veggies Day, there’s no end to the way vegetables can be included in meals–not just on this day but every day!

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Frankfurt Morning

Thursday 28th

Late September in Frankfurt and it is still warm and sunny.  It’s cooler now than it has been over the summer: things got very hot this year in late July and early August but it’s still t-shirt, shorts and sandals weather and will be for a while (even for Him Indoors).  Germany has trouble letting the summer go.  Still, our favourite Italian eis café will close for the winter in a couple of weeks and then we’ll be headed into the winter season and Christmas.  The street fairs have already started with the approach of Oktoberfest and will go on every now and again till the Christmas markets begin in mid-December.  I think sometimes outsiders imagine the Christmas markets are an isolated thing, just for Christmas and typical of German towns but in reality they act as a sort of culmination of a season of street fairs in the autumn starting with Oktoberfest.  The Germans like their street markets.  You always have to plan to have your lunch or evening meal when you go: you’ve never seen so much food and it’s all pretty good.  I love the roasted almonds in particular.  We’re thinking of going to Weisbaden this year: all the markets are different and we have been told it’s good and fun to try out different towns.  Weisbaden is the capital of Hessen and at the other end of the S-Bahn line from home.

I came into Frankfurt today, getting off the S-Bahn at Konstablerwache (in the centre of the city) and setting off down towards the river through some of the back streets off the Ziel.  I visited my favourite city centre café on Hasengasse.  Casa Nostra is an Italian café that does arancini and canoli as well as delicious coffee and all these little pastries with crème anglais and fruit.  At the weekends they do lasagne which Him Indoors loves.  I’m tempted by the truffle arancini (truffles are also in season) but I’m going to have lunch later so settle with my creamy cappuccino as the bells of St Bartholomaus start ringing for a morning service.  I can see the tower from where I’m sitting under the trees outside the café.  It’s a very European sound.

I set off again and go through the Kleinmarkt.  Today is Thursday and so market day in Frankfurt.  Konstablerwache was filled with stalls but they don’t quite match the exoticism of the Kleinmarkt which is a permanent indoor market and is open all days in the week.   It’s a glory hole (e.g. the Persian ingredients stall) and I spend a happy 15 minutes looking at all the strange ingredients (I come here if I want to make something unusual) and consider the array of mushrooms available including, once more, a variety I’ve never seen for sale before.  A frilly thing: large but mostly made of air as far I can see.  I don’t even know what it is.  Like most things in the Kleinmarkt, it’s a bit pricey but I’m tempted just for the fun of using an ingredient I’ve never used before.  With the autumn comes soup-making season and I’ve made some of the best mushroom soups I’ve ever made since I came here. 

Then I cross Liebfrauenberg Platz and trip through back streets and arcades, going west towards Hauptwache to find Hoogen Boogle (It’s actually Hoogendubel but I can never remember the name properly) to buy some cards so I can write some letters home and browse their extensive collection of books.  I settle in for a while in one of their substantial seating areas to people watch as eccentric little women in shabby but quirky clothes (pants that have shrunk up their legs and exposed their colourful knitted socks which have crumpled round their ankles for example) and untidy bookish old men fossick about the books and make their choices. 

The place where I planned on having my lunch is closed today so I decide to head back towards Konstablerwache but by a circuitous route heading south towards the river and past my second favourite café (Wackers).  The towers of Frankfurt’s financial district loom to the west.  It’s like a bit of Manhattan got broken off and just plunked there; they loom up out of nowhere.  Huge, and there are also many cranes about too hefting new walls and windows into the air as Frankfurt’s financial boom drives more development.  I think about heading into Wackers for a second cappuccino and something to eat but they really only do chocolate and kuchen and I want lunch not something sweet.  It’s a fascinating little place though and has been going for over a century.  The interior is packed with coffee- and tea-related comestibles and lots of chocolate in various forms all stacked on dark oak shelving and with attractive glittery displays that tempt you to buy.  There’s usually a queue out the door, there is today, but the service at the coffee counter is quick and efficient and you usually don’t wait too long. 

The Main is glittering in an alluring fashion at the bottom of the hill but I turn back towards Liebfrauenberg Platz.  I’d come through earlier but kept on going instead of visiting the Leibfrauen church or at least its precincts.  Leibfrauen Kirche is actually the church for a monastic community right here in the centre of Frankfurt.  They have a little courtyard behind the church between the monastic buildings which contain a seating area and a votive stand which anyone can visit for contemplation and, presumably, prayer.  It’s a surprisingly restful place in the midst of Frankfurt’s commercial bustle.  I sometimes come here on very busy days when I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and sit for 10 minutes in the peace and quiet.  It can be incredibly refreshing.  People are naturally respectful and only talk in whispers if they talk at all.  They light candles and spend 10 minutes in the quiet and peace like me.  I leave a small donation as I usually do – I’m not particularly religious but I do think preserving places of solace like this is important.

I walk back along Töngesgasse which is filled with little and sometimes distinctly odd shops (there’s one dedicated to brushes – I kid you not).  There are a lot of eye-catching trinket and jewellery shops to look at because we’re not that far from the main tourist centre which is just down towards the river from here.  You overhear a lot of different languages.  There’s one shop that does carvings in malachite and other semi-precious stones.  The window display is a wondrous arrangement of swirling greens set in gold (or gold-looking) metal frames.  I pass the flower shop with the huge amaryllis bulbs ready for Christmas planting and look into a rug shop with some very luscious bright autumnal designs in wool pile: red, green, copper colours.  Very attractive.  Then past the kitchenware shop (good quality pans) and the BDSM shop (I told you there were some oddities) and to a quirky little café next to the speciality tea shop.  They do what they call health food though it actually sells burgers and chips (fries).  They call them high protein meals or some such.  To be fair they also sell avocado platters too.  Anyway, they have the distinction of serving fairly tasty food, veggie and vegan options, some nice fruit juice-based drinks and a lunchtime offer which is not expensive compared to much else of central Frankfurt.  I settle down for half an hour in the bright interior, painted a cheerful light sky blue and read.  Then I head off back to Konstablerwache to catch the S-Bahn home.  It only takes 20 minutes.

[digiroadsabhisheksaini]

Opportunities for Foreign Investors in the German Food Service Market

Germany, the largest economy in Europe, presents a robust and dynamic food service market with significant opportunities for foreign investors. The "Germany Food Service Market" is valued at approximately €90 billion as of 2023, with a projected growth rate of 3.2% annually through 2028. This growth is fueled by shifting consumer preferences, a strong economy, and increased tourism, making it an attractive destination for international investment.

Market Overview and Key Segments

The German food service market is diverse, encompassing everything from quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and casual dining to fine dining establishments and catering services. Quick-service restaurants hold the largest market share, driven by the fast-paced lifestyle of urban consumers. The casual dining sector is also expanding, with a growing demand for international cuisines, especially from the younger population.

As of 2023, approximately 60% of the market revenue is generated by restaurants, with catering services and other food outlets accounting for the remaining 40%. The takeaway and delivery segment has seen explosive growth, contributing over 15% to the total market revenue, reflecting a shift in consumer behaviour towards convenience.

Opportunities for Foreign Investors

Rising Demand for International Cuisine: Germany's diverse population, coupled with an increasing interest in global food trends, has led to a surge in demand for international cuisines. Foreign investors can capitalise on this by introducing new flavours and dining concepts. For instance, the Japanese and Middle Eastern food segments have grown by over 10% in the last five years.

Technology Integration: The digital transformation of the food service industry in Germany is well underway, with significant investments in online ordering platforms, delivery services, and automated kitchen technologies. Foreign investors with expertise in food tech can find lucrative opportunities here. The market for online food delivery is expected to grow by 8% annually, reaching €15 billion by 2028.

Sustainability and Health-Conscious Consumption: German consumers are increasingly prioritising sustainability and health, leading to a rise in demand for organic, locally sourced, and plant-based foods. The organic food market alone is projected to grow by 7% annually. Foreign companies offering sustainable food solutions or innovative health-focused products can tap into this growing niche.

Tourism and Hospitality: With over 39 million international tourists visiting Germany in 2023, the hospitality sector presents a fertile ground for investment. The demand for high-quality food services in hotels and resorts offers opportunities for foreign investors to introduce premium food service brands and concepts.

Challenges and Considerations

Regulatory Landscape: The German food service market is highly regulated, with stringent standards for food safety, hygiene, and labour laws. Foreign investors must navigate these regulations carefully to avoid legal pitfalls. Understanding and complying with local regulations is essential for smooth market entry.

High Competition: The market is highly competitive, with well-established domestic players and a strong preference for traditional German cuisine among the older population. New entrants must differentiate themselves through unique value propositions, such as innovative menus, superior customer service, or competitive pricing strategies.

Cultural Adaptation: Success in the German market requires a deep understanding of local tastes and preferences. Foreign investors must be willing to adapt their offerings to suit the German palate and cultural norms, which can be significantly different from other European markets.

Future Growth Scope

The future of the German food service market looks promising, with several growth drivers on the horizon. The ongoing urbanisation, coupled with a rise in disposable income, will continue to boost demand for food services. Additionally, the trend towards digitalization and sustainable consumption will create new opportunities for innovation.

Investors can expect the market to become increasingly segmented, with niche markets such as vegan restaurants, organic cafes, and tech-driven dining experiences gaining traction. Furthermore, as Germany continues to attract international tourists and expatriates, the demand for diverse food services will likely expand, offering foreign investors ample room for growth.

Conclusion

The Germany food service market offers a wealth of opportunities for foreign investors willing to navigate its complexities. With a growing appetite for international cuisines, a push towards digitalization, and a focus on sustainability, the market is ripe for innovation and expansion. However, success will require careful market research, cultural adaptation, and a commitment to quality and compliance. As the market continues to evolve, those who can anticipate and respond to these changes will find themselves well-positioned to reap substantial rewards.

[spiremire]

6 months in Interior Alaska

In August I moved 3500 miles north from Los Angeles-ish to Interior Alaska for a PhD program. This was the most nerve wracking thing I’ve ever done and also one of the most exciting. When I talk to friends and family about having moved up here, it’s pretty clear they’re picturing me living in a cabin in the woods, fending off bears and somehow a university fits in there, somewhere. Like Alaskan Bush People, with a random college campus thrown in.

Sometimes, they’ve got the right idea. But never for the reasons they think. There’s lots of stuff that’s hard to get up here. That means everything purchased in the state of Alaska comes with a hidden shipping cost built into the market price of the item. When you’re paying nearly twice as much for fresh meat and produce in the stores than the folks living in the lower 48, it’s no question why so many locals turn to hunting and foraging to stock their pantries. Yes, even the ‘city folk’. (I live in the largest urban center in Interior Alaska, but there’s only like 33,000 people living in the city limits. I think that’s what most people would qualify as a small town.)

In terms of hunting and foraging, I wouldn’t even know where to start. No one is ever willing to share where their berry spots or mushroom spots are, and I can’t eat fish and have no interest in getting a hunting license for something bigger. I don’t even have hunting experience to make something larger feasible.

Regardless of price, there’s still some things that I just can’t get up here. Furniture stores like Ikea and Wayfair make no selfsame effort to get their products up here, not even for exorbitant shipping costs. (Usually you have to pay exorbitant shipping costs to a third party package forwarding service, or something similar, instead.) There’s a Target in Anchorage, but Anchorage is 7 hours away on a good (not icy) day. I’ve been making do with Wal-Mart, but it’s not the same and I’m not thrilled about it. Amazon usually charges extra for shipping, because I never buy anything on Amazon I can get in a store, and that usually ends up being weird, bulky items because I am perpetually unlucky.

Speaking of big grocery chains, we only have 4. We have Wal-Mart, Fred Meyer, Safeway, and Costco. These are all the biggest single stores I’ve ever seen in my life and have enough departments they’re almost individual mini-malls. Except the Costco. Costco is the same everywhere. I think I’ve already mentioned being afraid to go into the Wal-Mart and that I just use online order pick-up instead? Yeah. Yikes.

A related aside: Over spring break, which was a couple weeks ago now, we had a few researchers from Portugal visit us so they could get samples at a few of the thermokarst lakes nearby, and they had a pretty miserable mishap with their luggage where all their clothes got lost in Frankfurt, Germany (their first connection), but all their sampling materials arrived just fine. So we ended up taking them to Wal-Mart to get them a few basics, and they’d never been in a Wal-Mart. They also found it entirely overwhelming and I feel vindicated. Anyway.

The familiar-national-chain pickings are slim, whether I’m looking for groceries, fast-food, or another specialty store. This isn’t to say that everything I need isn’t available. Because it is. If you can’t get it for closer-to-lower-48 prices at a national chain store, you can definitely get it from some local supplier. Only problem is, the local suppliers can charge whatever they want, because there’s no competition. Is that good for them? Yes! Absolutely. I love small businesses, and I love that this area allows them to thrive. Is it good for me? Hell no. I don’t make enough as a student to justify going out to eat more than once a month, or once every two months if I’m going to a sit-down restaurant, where the cheapest plate is somewhere between $20-25. Which is rough.

But I don’t only have complaints! There’s so many things I love about here, so far, and in the big picture, I feel like my complaints don’t even begin to outweigh the benefits. I’ve gotten a million opportunities I’d never have gotten anywhere else to do cool stuff. I got to go ice climbing, touch three million year old dirt at the bottom of a permafrost tunnel, see so many excellent showings of aurora borealis, dodge moose and bears and caribou with my car, feel -45F, or experience a full 24 hours of darkness.

I’m having a blast, but sometimes the little things make me feel more like I’m living in the woods. (Don’t get me started on the dry cabin situation up here.)

A lot of it can be mitigated by simply going to these places while I’m visiting my family in the lower 48, but I only see them once a year because I’m so busy and flights are so expensive.

[cody-apexart]

Day 22

uuuuuh i think y’all sent me four hours away to a mission trip to pick up cigarette butts at a zoo. also i’m sharing a twin sized bed with one pillow and one blanket with a stranger. and it’s the hardest bed i’ve ever felt, like i’m scared to sleep on this slab.

so i had to meet everyone at the link cafe, the cafe is run by 3 german people and one vietnamese person. they crowdfund these service trips, often proposed by folks within the link community, by way of people paying extra for beverages and choosing which project they donate the extra money to.

i’m at a loss with this one rly. i’ve learned a lot about the diversity of religion present here in vietnam, but this crowd funded trash and travel trip has ~everyone~ praying over the food and saying amen. also most people are 21 and under from what i gather, so they’re all calling me auntie.

i was smoking the last of my 5gs of weed that lasted me 12 days (!!) talking to one of the cofounders of the cafe and he was telling me how god (christian god) speaks to him, etc. talking about what the community at the link has done for people, how he prayed for four hours and this dude that hadn’t spoken in 12 years started speaking. he’s from germany and has been here for 12 years, with the link community being permanently housed at the link cafe for five years. it’s a coffee shop downstairs and has a couple apartments upstairs. anyway, i was smiling thru it as hard as i could, and then some folks from the trip came by saying they were gonna go look for crabs in the river, sooo i went to look for crabs in the river. yoooo some of these people were good af at catching fish and crabs with their hands in the dark.

i don't want to forget that having to be up and out of the house before 6am was nice though, it was great to see everyone out along the canal at dawn and watching the market get setup.

[historyherstory]

Chapter Five Notes

Now-familiar D-day sources remain present (Dick Winters’ books are basically the gold standard for dates and troop movement/engagement, which along with Ambrose & the regimental unit study continues to contribute to most of the specific framework of timing). 

What this chapter brings up in a way that is narratively, important (but somewhat understated in conversation - many of these points come back later, so.) is the discussion of wartime France.

A few notes: This was my primary source to learn about rationing in France during WW2. A few key takeaways: Even if you were eligible for ration tickets, that didn’t guarantee you’d get the allotted quantity, and the very highest caloric intake possible was right around 1,200 cal/day which is generally not going to be enough to sustain working/physical adults (which in wartime France, seemed to basically be a majority of the adult population).

Food scarcity was less a problem in the countryside where produce and livestock were individually owned, but they had more difficulty accessing the manufactured products (boots, coats, et cetera) that were far more common in the cities. Subsequently, the black market thrived. 

Reading about la Milice (wiki is a good place to start) was pretty eye opening. For the sake of my story, not especially relevant (as they operated more in conjunction with the Vichy government in the south of France) but it brought up the interesting point that to the French Resistance, they considered the Milice more of a threat rather than the SS or Gestapo as it was the local Frenchmen of the Milice that would be more able to identify fake stories, inauthentic accents, and the like. 

The STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire) is frequently written about as a huge point of contention for the French (and in some instances, even presented as a bit of ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back,’ so to speak). The invasion and the occupation of France were atrocities, but it was Germany passing these compulsory work edicts (which shipped able bodied young people to Germany) was a point of no return. Nazi Germany promised to return one French prisoner of war (captured military man) for every 3 French citizens who enlisted in the STO. When they didn’t have as many volunteers as they needed, the program escalated into compulsory work (men aged 18-50 and single women 21-35).

Shockingly (surprised pikachu face here..) these were staggeringly unpopular. It’s estimated that the STO edict led to approximately 200,000 people going undercover to evade service (and a whole 1/4th of those ultimately joining some form of resistance to the German occupation). 

Very much a “you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it” moment. 

A hat-tip again to the French Resistance here: The diversity of individuals involved really cannot be overstated. On a personal level, I have always found the stories of the young women, and the students, particularly compelling. Organizing and printing resistance newspapers, smuggling information, smuggling weapons, spying on occupying Germans or the Vichy government, performing acts of domestic terrorism to disrupt the Vichy and/or the Germans - the tenacity of the Resistance has always been compelling. If you’re interested, I’d recommend Sisters in the Resistance as a book that delves more deeply into women in the French Resistance.

All references for His·Story: History, hiding hers, chapter 5.

[brookston]

Holidays 11.9

Holidays

Allama Iqbal Day (Pakistan)

Berlin Wall Day

Brian Holland Legacy Day

Chaos Never Dies Day

Couch Beachcombing Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (Ukraine)

Day of Ukrainian Literature & Language (Ukraine)

Dia de los Natitas (Day of the Skulls; Bolivia)

Eleven09 Day

Emergency Number Day / 119 Day (Japan)

Fall of the Wall Day (Germany)

Flag Day (Azerbaijan)

Fluffy Towel Appreciation Day

Geriatric Toothfairy Day

Global Leasing Day

Good Armpit Day (Japan)

Go To An Art Museum Today Day

Heir to the Throne Day (Tuvalu)

Icculus Day

International Day Against Fascism & Antisemitism

International Pathology Day

International Reflux Day

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass; Austria, Germany)

La Almudena (Madrid City, Spain)

Legal Services Day (India)

Lord Mayor’s Day (London, UK) [Traditional Date]

Microtia Awareness Day

National Alejandro Day

National Child Safety Council Day

National Diabetes Heart Connection Day

National Firefighting Day (China)

National Grace Day

National Hunter Day

National Inventor’s Day

National Louisiana Day

National Microtia Awareness Day

National Nibble Day

Neon Sign Day

No Cookies Day

November Nine (Word Series of Poker)

Paul is Dead Day (1966)

Peacemaker’s Day (Turks & Caicos Islands)

Pomegranate Day (French Republic)

Remembrance Day (Cayman Islands)

Rolling Stone Day

Sagan Day (a.k.a. Carl Sagan Day)

Schicksalstag (Day of Fate; Germany)

Special Rapid Response Unit Day (Russia)

Sprat Day (UK)

Tag der Erfinder (Inventor's Day; Austria, Germany, Switzerland)

Tori No Ichi

Tree Festival Day (Tunisia)

Uttarakhand Day (India)

Valerian and Laureline Day

World Adoption Day

World Freedom Day

World Inventor Day (EU)

World Orphans Day

World Satire Day

World Social Media Kindness Day

World Urdu Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

British Pudding Day (UK)

Condensed Milk Day

Cranberry Cheesecake Day

National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day

National Greek Yogurt Day

National Scrapple Day

Independence & Related Days

Bavarian Republic (Proclaimed; 1918)

Cambodia (from France, 1953)

Federal Republic of InfinityLand (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

2nd Saturday in November

All American Day [2nd Saturday]

Carl Sagan Day [2nd Saturday]

International CCHS Day [2nd Saturday]

International Dorothy Dunnett Day [2nd Saturday]

Lord Mayor’s Day (London, UK) [2nd Saturday]

National Family Volunteer Day [2nd Saturday]

National Saddle Hunting Day [2nd Saturday]

Neighborhood Toy Store Day [2nd Saturday]

Poppy Day (South Africa) [Saturday nearest 11.11]

Sadie Hawkins Day [Saturday after 11.9; also 11.13, 11.15]

Salad Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Satirical Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Tasman Beerfest [2nd Saturday]

Wine Tourism Day [2nd Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 9 (1st Full Week of November)

Krisallnacht Weekend (thru 11.10)

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week (thru 11.17) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

National Nurse Practitioner Week [2nd Full Week]

World Antibiotic Awareness Week (thru 11.15) [Begins 2nd Saturday]

Festivals Beginning November 9, 2024

Arkansas Cornbread Festival (Little Rock, Arkansas)

Beer and Wine Festival Weekend (Ellicottville, New York)

Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival (Boca Raton, Florida)

Cheese & Meat Festival (Seattle, Washington)

Chili, Booze & Brews (Denver, Colorado)

Chili Cook-Off (Moosehaven, Mississippi)

CiderFeast East Coast Tour (Boston, Massachusetts)

Coastal Alabama Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Gulf Shores, Alabama) [thru 11.10]

GeekGirlCon (Seattle, Washington) [thru 11.10]

Glasgow Christmas Market (Glasgow, United Kingdom) [thru 12.29]

Gobble Up Portland (Portland, Oregon)

Heritage Syrup Festival (Henderson, Texas)

Holiday Food & Gift Festival (Billings, Montana) [thru 11.10]

Holiday Wine Festival at Spring Brook (Spring Brook, Pennsylvania)

Holy Smokes Lowcountry Barbecue Festival (North Charleston, South Carolina)

Homosassa Arts, Crafts and Seafood Festival (Homosassa, Florida) [thru 11.10]

Jungle Jim's International Wine Festival (Fairfield, Ohio)

Miami Rum Fest Rum Renaissance Tasting Event (Coral Gables, Florida)

Newport Cocktail & Spirits Event (Newport Beach, California)

Old-Fashioneds Up North (Eagle River, Wisconsin)

Oyster Roast (Reedville, Virginia)

Oyster Roast, BBQ & Music Festival (Port Wentworth, Georgia)

Plate by Plate Annual Tasting Benefit (Brooklyn, New York)

Pushkar Camel Fair (Pushkar, India) [thru 11.15]

Ricefest Rice Cook-Off (Riceboro, Georgia)

Scallop Fair in Normandy (Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, France) [thru 11.10]

Snohomish BrewFest (Snohomish, Washington)

Torrone Festival (Cremona, Italy) [thru 11.17]

Truffle Feast (Barboursville, Virginia)

Whiskies of the World (Seattle, Washington)

The WhiskyX (Houston, Texas)

Feast Days

André François (Artology)

Anne Sexton (Writerism)

Benignus of Armagh (Christian; Saint)

Carl Sagan (Humanism; Writerism)

Change Your Underwear Day (Pastafarian)

Charles V (Positivist; Saint)

Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (Christian; Memorial Feast Day)

Divine Justice Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Enlightenment of Rubber Duckie

Feast of the Virgin of Almudena (Madrid, Spain)

Gigo Gabashvili (Artology)

Harold “Doc” Edgerton Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Imre Kertész (Writerism)

Llyn Tepid at Bala(Celtic Book of Days)

Lotus Leaf Banana Boast Wish-Magick Day (Thailand; Everyday Wicca)

Lynn-Lynn (Muppetism)

Margery Kempe (Church of England)

Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)

Media Autumnus I (Pagan)

Memorial Feast Day of the Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (Roman Catholic)

Nectarios of Aegina (Christian; Saint)

Night of Nicnevin (Gyre-Carling), Daughter of Frenzy, Banshee; Scots Pagan)

Old Socks Day Day (Pastafarian)

Robert Frank (Artology)

Theodore of Amasea (a.k.a. Theodore the General; Roman Catholic Church)

Virgin of Almudena (Madrid; Christian; Saint)

Vitonus (a.k.a. Vanne; Christian; Saint)

Wish-Granting Championships (Sprites; Shamanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 313 [65 of 72]

Schicksalstag (Fateful Day; Germany)

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [53 of 57]

Premieres

Bridge Over Troubled Water, recorded by Simon and Garfunkel (Song; 1969)

Bunny and Claude [We Rob Carrot Patches] (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)

Cat Tamale (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)

Claws in the Lease (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Concerto de Aranjuez, by Joaquin Rodrigo (Concerto for Classical Guitar; 1940)

Dances with Wolves (Film; 1990)

Death Comes for the Archbishop,by Willa Cather (Novel; 1927)

Enter the Wu-Tang, by the Wu-Tang Clan (Album; 1993)

Flower Drum Song (Film; 1961)

Four For the Show or Two Pairs of Plants (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 318; 1964)

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Film; 2018)

Joyeux Noël (Film; 2005)

Life as a House (Film; 2001)

Lincoln (Film; 2012)

Mask-A-Raid (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1931)

Merry Christmas Baby, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1973)

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (Disney Animated Film; 1999)

Mighty Mouse Meets Big Bad Bunion (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1945)

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach (Literary Criticism; 1942)

My Fair Lady (Film; 1964)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Film; 1984)

No Dice, by Badfinger (Album; 1970)

The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Novel; 1939)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major, by Johannes Brahms (Piano Concerto; 1881)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto; 1901)

Piano Man, by Billy Joel (Album; 1973)

Pottsylvania Creeper, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 317; 1964)

Rolling Stone (Magazine; 1967)

Skyfall (US Film; 2012) [James Bond #23]

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (WB Animated Film; 2010)

Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood (Novel; 1972)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, by Tom Petty (Album; 1976)

Unsafe and Seine (The Inspector Cartoon; 1966)

When the Pawn…, by Fiona Apple (Album; 1999)

Without You, by Badfinger (Song; 1970)

The Young Ones (UK TV Series; 1982)

You’re My Home, by Billy Joel (Song; 1973)

You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, by The Miracles (Song; 1962)

Zootopia+ (Disney Animated TV Series; 20022)

Today’s Name Days

Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Austria)

Božo, Erpo, Ivan, Milostislav, Teodor, Ursin (Croatia)

Bohdan (Czech Republic)

Theodor (Denmark)

Teo, Teodor, Tuudor (Estonia)

Teo, Teuvo (Finland)

Maturin, Théodore (France)

Gregor, Herfried, Roland, Theodor (Germany)

Elladios, Mavra, Nektarios, Theoktisti (Greece)

Tivadar (Hungary)

Oreste, Teodoro (Italy)

Teodors (Latvia)

Dargintas, Estela, Skirtautė, Teodoras (Lithuania)

Teodor, Tordis (Norway)

Bogudar, Genowefa, Nestor, Teodor, Ursyn (Poland)

Nectarie (Romania)

Teodor (Slovakia)

Almudena (Spain)

Teodor, Teodora (Sweden)

Orestes, Sullivan, Vaughan, Vaughn (USA)

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Day of Year: Day 314 of 2024; 52 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 9 (Ding-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 8 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 7 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 14 Wood; Sixthday [14 of 30]

Julian: 27 October 2024

Moon: 60%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 6 Frederic (12th Month) [Henry IV]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 48 of 90)

Week: 2nd Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 17 of 30)