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borismann · 2 years ago

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Trial run of Chefs Plate

My first delivery of Chefs Plate meals arrived today.1

My company sent everyone SnackMagic boxes with treats for the holidays, and the box also came with a discount code for Chefs Plate, a meal delivery service.2

I decided to try it even though I’m not really the target market for it. We live close by to grocery stores and I enjoy cooking things from raw ingredients.

But, it was steeply discounted, and I’ve always been curious about these services. I don’t know how long this one has been available or what others there are in Canada / are live in Vancouver.

I picked the meals ahead of time with Rachael. This order included:

Herby Panko-Crusted Chicken

Creamy Butternut Squash Orzo

Loaded Beef Burrito Bowls

Usual price $60CAD, discounted price $27CAD. For 2 people for 3 meals that’s pretty good.

Unboxing

You can pick different days of the week for delivery and they leave it at your door.

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There is a glossy double sided print out of meal prep and cooking instructions. My first reaction was that this is a lot of packaging and paper and inks and it’s definitely wrecking the planet.

The kits are in a big cardboard box, each meal’s ingredients in a bag. The bags are compostable so you can use them for your bucket liner (as it says in the explainer).

There’s a compartment in the bottom with an ice pack and things that need to be kept cold. This week, chicken breasts and some ground beef. There was also a loose whole bulb of garlic.

The kit bags aren’t full to the brim, so the tops could be folded down. But I still had to find room in my apartment sized fridge to stick them.

Making Herby Panko-Crusted Chicken

We decided to make the chicken for dinner.

Here’s everything from the kit laid out on the counter. The sticker on the bag has a full ingredient list for everything like the slide blend and they mayo, plus the nutrition info for the whole meal.

The double sided instructions are good. Tells you the equipment and other stuff you need (basics like salt, pepper, oil, honey). And the instructions are laid out in time it takes to cook. So preheat the oven right away and get the potato wedges started.

And now we’ll teleport all the way to the plated meal. Chicken breast covered in mayo and panko-crusted, potato wedges baked in the oven with Montreal Steak Spice, and honey glazed carrots.

It was good! We added our own salt and pepper to everything as instructed and it was nice and flavourful.

It called for parchment paper for both the potato wedges and the final bake of the chicken. That was a nice tip for me to save on clean up and keep things crisp.

It definitely reminded me that potato wedges are something we can make any time!

The carrots are pretty much how I make them anyway - finished with a little butter and honey. Dill if you like, or I’ll add cumin seeds sometimes.

The mayo-instead-of-egg was another nice tip that I’ll be using.

All in all, a good, tasty first experience.

On Meal Kits Generally

The discounts to get me on a subscription is very much an investment driven business.

The packaging feels like a lot. But: no plastic other than on the meat.

There is an app, so maybe I can opt out of the printed meal instructions.

Are the ingredients local? Could one check a box and have 80% local ingredients?

Could one apply this to community supported agriculture?

This meal was ~$9CAD with discount, ~$20CAD without. For 2 people, that’s reasonable. The chicken breasts alone would cost me $5-6. Everything else low cost: 2 carrots, 3 potatoes, mayo, steak spice. Maybe another $1.

We used to do zero take out. And then the pandemic. Now we’re at 1-2 take out meals per week. This would be cheaper.

I’m interested in perhaps doing some food sharing with people, where everyone cooks a larger quantity and then shares with the group. Don’t know if I’ll get to it as a habit this year, but it’s the sort of thing I’d like to see more of.

And bulk buying!

I have done zero research on this in Vancouver. If you have thoughts on meal kits or on fun community food locally, let me know!

Yes, I’m going to use a referral code when linking to Chefs Plate. You get $80 in discounts, I get $40 in credit. [return]

I assume that Chefs Plate pays SnackMagic to get it into the hands of people who are already getting food delivered to their homes. [return]

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coineagle · 3 months ago

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Bitcoin ETF Flows: Is Another Negative Turn Looming Amidst Market Uncertainty?

Key Points

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs experienced brief inflows followed by significant outflows.

The U.S. CPI data influenced these ETF flows, with cryptocurrencies rebounding despite initial declines.

After a period of continuous outflows, Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs saw a temporary resurgence with inflows on the 9th and 10th of September. However, this increase was fleeting.

Bitcoin ETF Experiences Outflow

On the 11th of September, the trend reversed dramatically with net outflows amounting to $43.9 million, as reported by Farside Investors. This sudden change ended a two-day streak of positive inflows, emphasizing the unstable nature of BTC ETF investments in the present market.

Interestingly, BlackRock’s IBIT has been idle with zero flows since the 26th of August, except for a significant outflow of $9.1 million recorded on the 9th of September. Only Fidelity’s FBTC and Invesco’s BTCO have shown positive movement, with inflows of $12.6 million and $2.6 million, respectively, as of the 11th of September.

Ethereum ETF Analysis

In a similar vein, Ethereum (ETH) ETFs reflected the recent fluctuations seen in BTC ETFs. After a period of outflows, ETH ETFs experienced a brief surge with $11.4 million in inflows on 10th September. However, this positive trend was short-lived, as the following day saw a cumulative outflow of $0.5 million.

On the pricing front, both Bitcoin and Ethereum saw declines on 11th September. However, by the 12th of September, both cryptocurrencies rebounded, with BTC gaining 3.3% and ETH rising by 1.58% within a day.

The sudden shift in ETF flows and cryptocurrency prices may be attributed to the recently released U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. The CPI for August revealed a modest 0.2% increase in consumer prices, bringing the 12-month inflation rate down to 2.5%—the lowest level since February 2021.

Despite this anticipated adjustment, Citi’s analysis highlights that core PCE inflation, a critical factor for Fed policy, remains steady, suggesting a balanced approach to monetary policy in the near term. As noted by Rachael Lucas, a crypto analyst of BTCMarkets, outflows from Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs are largely a reaction to stronger U.S. economic data and should be seen as a normal part of ETF evolution.

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leupagus · 4 years ago

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“Police Response Slowed. The Community Stepped In.”

In Minneapolis this summer, 911 response times increased as officers left the force. Instead of asking for more police, some residents reimagined public safety for themselves.

By Sarah Holder, Rachael Dottle, and Marie Patino,

October 30, 2020, 11:14 AM EDT; Updated on October 30, 2020, 1:17 PM EDT

Every night for the past several months, pairs of bicyclists in high-visibility vests fanned across Minneapolis’s Powderhorn neighborhood after sunset, and stayed out until 2 or 3 in the morning. They were there to keep watch over the neighborhood, but they don’t have any affiliation with the police or city government. Instead they’re residents of the community, there to de-escalate or monitor incidents they hear about by scanning their social media and group chats.

The team, which calls itself the Powderhorn Safety Collective, is one of a handful of ad hoc community safety groups that have emerged in the city’s south side after a police officer killed George Floyd in May. They’re taking an unconventional approach to answering the question echoing in cities across the country: What would a community that was less reliant on police look like?

Minneapolis City Council members started asking that question in earnest this June, pledging to dismantle the existing police department and start from the ground up. Activists, reformers and abolitionists have been exploring the path to a police-free future for decades. But in the Ninth Ward, says Pouya Najmaie, an environmental lobbyist and a founding member of the Powderhorn Safety Collective, creating an alternative to traditional law enforcement wasn’t a thought experiment. It was a necessity.

For many Black and brown Minneapolitans, calling 911 had never been an impulse, and watching Floyd die under the knee of an Minneapolis Police Department officer further eroded trust in the institution. This summer, however, residents also observed that even for those who did call 911, the police were responding more slowly. In some cases, it seemed they might not be responding at all. “People are very distrustful that [police] can actually do their job, and they're just not doing their job,” said Oluchi Omeoga, an organizer with Minnesota’s Black Visions Collective, a queer-led group that’s become a leading voice in the movement to remake policing in Minneapolis. “It's both, and.” A Bloomberg CityLab analysis puts numbers to that emerging dynamic. In June, the average time it took for the police to assign a unit to 911 calls — the first step to dispatching officers — had slowed by 88% across all five precincts compared to the average from 2019 to early 2020. By August, it was still about 40% slower than before May. A previous CityLab report found that traffic stops were down 80% from the period before May 25, the day of George Floyd’s death. Not all these trends appear destined to stick. As protests die down, the colder winter months arrive, and the calls to disband the police department soften, response times have begun recalibrating back to pre-May levels. But the department may end the year with at least one longer-term change in resources: There are about 130 fewer officers than there were a year ago, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo told MPR News. Many of them are retiring early, and more are likely in the process of leaving; hundreds have reportedly applied for medical leave, citing post-traumatic stress disorder. An MPD spokesperson said there were 830 sworn officers as of Oct. 15, but didn’t respond to any other requests for comment. Locals have debated any number of reasons why such a slowdown in 911 response time might be happening, from an act of political retaliation in the face of scrutiny, to a reflection of depleted morale, to the aforementioned lack of personnel. Whatever the reasons, with rates for some violent crimes spiking in the city amid economic devastation from Covid-19, the trend illuminates another dimension of police accountability: Just as over-policing can have disproportionate adverse consequences for Black people, the impacts of withholding police response from communities can be harmful, too. “Despite our name, we have always considered lack of police service to be the flip side of police brutality, and sometimes just as damaging,” says Dave Bicking, an organizer with Minneapolis’s Communities United Against Police Brutality.

A Minneapolis Star-Tribune analysis of rising crime rates found that while the trend has been observed citywide, “in terms of raw numbers, the increase in violence that intensified after the unrest over the police killing of George Floyd is exacting a heavier toll on neighborhoods already suffering the effects of trauma, poverty and lack of access to adequate health care.” Slowed response times have happened before; so have crime spikes that disproportionately affect already-burdened neighborhoods. What’s different this year, in this city, is how the community and the reform-minded council have reacted to the reports of insufficient police service. The mayor has released a proposal for next year’s budget ahead of a December vote, and demands to substantially reduce funding for the department are not reflected. Several members of the city council have walked back earlier sweeping pledges to disband the department. But as calls grow to divert some non-violent incidents from the police to crisis intervention teams or mental health responders, the department’s disengagement has also been taken as more evidence that the public safety models that exist aren’t working — and as motivation to create new ones, faster. “Previously, I would get really angry calls that say, hey, why aren't you funding the police more?” said Steve Fletcher, a Minneapolis Council member who represents the city’s Third Ward and has proposed reforms unpopular with the police department in the past. “And now the calls I'm getting are much more reflective of the moment we’re in, I think, where they’re saying: ‘What are we paying them for at all? They’re saying they can’t help, they’re saying they don’t have a strategy. Why the hell do we have them?’”

For some residents, the city’s response hasn’t been fast enough. And they’re starting to fill what they see as a void on their own.

‘The phones could ring forever’

In January, before the pandemic threw a wrench in daily activities, Minneapolis police would take an average of 23 minutes to arrive at the scene after responding to the average 911 call. Priority 1 calls, which concern the most urgent issues — shots fired, threats to life or assaults, along with suspicious vehicles or domestic disturbances — took the shortest, at 10 minutes, and Priority 3 calls, like parking problems, road hazards, loud music and thefts reported after the fact took the longest on average, at 40 minutes.

On May 25, it took one minute for the call about Floyd’s alleged forged bill to be assigned to a unit, and four minutes for the officers to arrive at the scene. After that day, police started taking a lot longer to arrive when called.

CityLab data shows that average response times this summer went up about 40% from January to more than 14 minutes for the most urgent calls, Priority 1. They also went up 43% for Priority 2, and 28%, to about a 51-minute response time, for Priority 3.

This slowdown was especially apparent in the city’s 3rd Precinct, where Floyd was killed.

Source: Minneapolis Police Department

During the same period, the volume of 911 calls has risen only marginally, and doesn’t match the spike in response times Minneapolis saw in June and July. That suggests that the police were not experiencing an increase in demand for their services commensurate to their more sluggish response. Aside from volumes of calls, there were other factors: The precinct's headquarters, which serves several wards including 8 and 9, was burned down completely and relocated to a downtown convention center farther away from the neighborhoods it was meant to serve. With potentially hundreds of fewer officers and a frayed relationship with citizens, the department was under greater strain.

“They’re getting worn out. They’ve been working non-stop with limited resources,” Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll told the Minnesota Reformer this summer.

“My own sense is that this isn’t retaliation as much as it is just everybody’s humanity in this moment,” said council member Linea Palmisano, who represents Ward 13, the southwest corner of Minneapolis. She’s advocated for more mental health support and coaching for police officers who she says have experienced trauma. As the head of the city’s budget committee, Palmisano will also have a say in department funding this winter and has said that more resources, not fewer, will be needed for reform.

Some say changed policing in the zone was intentional. Reports from residents and local news have described the area around the Floyd memorial as a “no-go zone,” where police appear to be unwilling to engage — and unwelcome by many residents.

Especially in cases of enforcing minor infractions, “not every decision to not engage in something is a bad decision,” said council member Fletcher. But even in dangerous instances, residents say something changed.

“In the period directly after George Floyd was killed, during the uprising, the service from 911 was essentially nonexistent,” said Bicking. “People had the feeling that everybody must have just gone home. The phones could ring forever, you could call 20 times and never get an answer.”

‘No Man’s Land’

Minneapolis’s Eighth and Ninth Wards have been ground zero for the city’s season of change. Their border is marked by the corner of 38th and Chicago, where a clerk working at a store called in a forged $20 bill, and where then-Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on May 25. Now a memorial to Floyd, the intersection draws visitors from across the city and country, who come to pay tribute to his memory.

Over the summer, the area felt like “a disaster zone,” said Alondra Cano, the city council member who represents the Ninth Ward. Lake Street, a thoroughfare that bisects the district, was overtaken by peaceful protesters marching for Black lives, but also by fire and chaos. New reporting from the Minneapolis Star Tribune indicates that some of the destruction was caused by far-right agitators, like the Boogaloo Boys. Residents felt abandoned. “There weren't any firefighters that were readily available. And there weren't any police that were readily available,” said Cano. “A lot of residents took it upon themselves to put out fires and to engage with folks who might be doing some harm out on the street.”

Members of Agape in downtown Minneapolis, after they were called to help respond to looting. Steve Floyd

It was out of that “no-man’s land” that five resident-led safety groups were born, she said, each covering different Ninth Ward neighborhoods, none of them officially designated by the city. In the months following the height of the protests, the groups got more organized and centralized. There’s the Little Earth Protectors, a group of American Indians who patrol the neighborhood around their federally-subsidized housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood, and the Rock Steady Alliance, which Najmaie describes as a citywide coalition of racial justice activists and harm reduction workers who emerged to provide aid at protests. Agape, a group of 25 to 30 men, many of whom are former gang members, post up near the George Floyd memorial and respond to issues in the 40-block radius around it; they sometimes combine efforts with the Brown Berets, a group of Hispanic and Latino residents. The Powderhorn Safety Collective is run by a loose group of neighbors living in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood, a diverse but majority-white enclave historically home to leftists, artists and working class folks. They patrol the Powderhorn neighborhood by bike and on foot.

The demographics, tactics and territories of each collective vary, but a shared mission appears to unite them: to take elements of public safety out of the hands of the police, and into the hands of the community.

The Powderhorn neighborhood was profiled in the New York Times in June for its residents’ pledge to “check their privilege” after Floyd’s killing. Part of their reckoning was choosing not to call 911 for incidents large and small, out of a fear that the police would inflict more violence on the communities they pledged to protect. When unhoused residents started building a tent encampment down the street, the community resisted the city’s initial push to evict them, instead assigning volunteers to offer food, support and security. Later, when several volunteers pulled out of the area, Najmaie and a few other neighbors decided to start informal patrols that became the Safety Collective, to “make the housed people feel safe, so that they will hopefully not be calling 911 on the unhoused,” he said. (At the end of July, the city removed the encampment.)

The homeless encampment at Powderhorn Park in July, which was later cleared by the city. Photographer: Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Since they started patrolling in July, Powderhorn volunteers receive reports of incidents through the app Discord, where their neighborhood group chat has had between 1,000 and 1,300 active members. They also proactively monitor activity through the Citizen app, which culls 911 logs for geo-located crimes-in-action, and another older-fashioned tool: the police scanner. Often, what they’re responding to is the sound of gunshots. Their intervention is “full-service,” Najmaie says: they arrive at the scene of the incident, assist in whatever way they can, and report back with updates.

Agape, another one of the patrol groups, formed after young men who lived near 38th and Chicago observed what they saw as opportunistic vendors and gang violence take over the George Floyd memorial, says Steve Floyd, who’s lived in the area for 40 years and acts as an adviser to Agape. “What happened when George Floyd was killed, it made them change their lives and find a different direction,” says Steve Floyd. The group members put up barricades, and started a security patrol.

They aim to “let people understand that we have to protect our own community even if police are not going to be here,” says Floyd, “and then how it would look if we didn’t have police.”

The group has gone through several trainings on mental health, mediation and de-escalation training, and by now they’ve become a visible presence in the neighborhood, there to break up assaults and relieve tension on the street. “A lot of us don’t wear bulletproof vests, and so it just has to depend on the situation,” said Floyd. “Most of the time we can intervene with our voice.”

The groups often work together. For altercations that Powderhorn residents feel unequipped to handle, they seek out other groups like Agape for reinforcement. But even for incidents when neighbors might want to call 911, Najmaie says it hasn’t always felt like a viable option. “During the uprisings, you probably had a 30% chance to 20% chance of any kind of police answering to anything,” said Najmaie. “By mid-summer, it was up to a 50% to 60% chance, if I was to guess, and then slowly rising. Now, we're at a much higher percent chance.”

Because the Powderhorn Safety Collective is embedded within the community, the collective will often show up before police squad cars do, Najmaie says. “Other times when they do show up, what we've noticed is a very quick drive by and if you're lucky, you'll get a searchlight,” he said. “And then that's it.”

A New Playbook

Fletcher believes that some individual officers have actually exaggerated the impression among residents that police are unresponsive. “I have a lot of instances of officers telling businesses, telling residents, ‘I don’t know if we’d be able to get to you if you called and something happened,’” Fletcher said. “That kind of building cynicism and building doubt and building fear has a political impact.” The MPD did not respond to requests for comment on this allegation.

The time it takes for the police to answer Priority 1 calls did not slow as much as the total average did this summer, indicating that the most urgent calls continued to be answered in a timely fashion. This could be partially thanks to actions by the police department to recalibrate its work: After complaints, the department has triaged its depleted number of officers to prioritize answering 911 calls and pursue investigations of serious incidents.

“In these very challenging times of COVID, budget cuts and retirements, the MPD continues to evaluate and reallocate the resources that we currently have to best serve the City of Minneapolis, focusing on the core responsibilities of a police department; responding to 911 calls and investigations,” the MPD told CBS Minnesota in a statement.

Using fears about unanswered 911 calls as a justification for increasing police resources has been a familiar playbook in Minneapolis in the lead-up to budget processes, said Fletcher and Bicking, the community activist. “It works to the advantage of the police department, as propaganda: you need us, and there aren't enough of us,” said Bicking. In fact, it’s a familiar playbook in many American cities.

This time, it’s not having the same effect as it used to in Minneapolis, says Fletcher.

“The answer used to be we need 200 more cops and now people are like, we need a whole new division that handles this a different way that’s a non-police approach, if policing is not solving the problem,” he said. “That’s a really important political shift and it’s a potentially really generative moment, because I think people are thinking more critically than they have.”

Andrea Jenkins, vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, during a meeting in which council members declared they would disband the police. Rhetoric on that plan has softened since. Photographer: Star Tribune via Getty Images/Star Tribune

The mayor’s proposed budget includes a suggested $2.5 million in funding for alternative violence prevention programs, and a 7.4% cut to the police — far smaller than proposed cuts to other departments. Many of the city council members who once vowed to abolish the police have since clarified that they’ll focus on systemic reforms — though not all of them agree on what those should look like.

But there are signs that the community safety monitors and the city's efforts may start to converge as both groups explore what future policing might look like.

As of September, there’s yet another group of community members patrolling some of the same neighborhoods in South Minneapolis, but these individuals are paid by a new city “violence interrupter” program with $1.1 million in funding. Participants and leadership in the Office of Violence Prevention program are clear that they do not want to replace police, but instead focus on long-term relationship building. In many cases, they use their community connections to try to defuse tensions before they turn violent.

“We don't want to wait for it to get worse to address it, when we can see the writing on the wall,” said Sasha Cotton, the director of the Office of Violence Prevention, referring to concerns about gun violence. Agape recently started conducting regular nighttime patrols alongside the violence interrupters.

At a meeting with the Office of Violence Prevention and city council members, several of the community safety groups gathered to discuss how they could support each other, and whether they could receive city resources to buy tools like walkie talkies. Cano has given Agape members access to an office on 37th and Chicago, which they use as a “safe house and hotspot,” says Floyd. Cotton, of the city’s Office of Violence Prevention, says “there’s more than enough work” to keep both city and civilian efforts busy so long as gun violence remains a top concern.

Still, there’s debate about whether the community groups that coalesced in the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s death are sustainable in their current form. “Nobody’s getting paid, there’s not a lot of structure, accountability,” said Fletcher. In one indication of potential safety risks, Cano said a member of the Little Earth Collective had been shot while out on patrol, bringing up questions of liability and insurance. (The group was not available for an interview before publication.)

Kaitlin Wolfgram-Gunderson of the Powderhorn Collective hangs signs in the neighborhood about a meeting to seek community feedback on the group’s model. Photographer: Emilie Richardson/Bloomberg

In the Powderhorn neighborhood, Najmaie says that even as the upheaval of the summer dissipates, and the group stops its nightly patrols for the coldest winter months, he wants the collective to live on. They’re readying for Election Day and night, and for potential protests in the lead-up to Inauguration Day. There’s a trial for Derek Chauvin coming up next year. Unrest aside, the mission statement of the Powderhorn Collective describes its end goal as something broader than safety or security: "strengthening the social fabric of the neighborhood."

“People need to be involved in their communities,” said Najmaie. “People need to feel like they have a stake in things, and that they can change things.”

(Corrects the date of Floyd’s death in paragraph 16. )

#posting both for my own reference and because #this is what the abolitionist movement can look like #I still have SO MANY QUESTIONS about what police abolition is #but articles like this about communities like this are hugely HUGELY helpful #politics!

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skyshipper · 3 years ago

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HI HELLO! its been a million years but I am messaging to see how you're doing - and to see how Walter's first christmas went!?!?

Hey Rachael! How kind of you to check in on me! Gosh, I really miss fandom life....chatting with all of you, drooling over gifs of Pedro and reading fanfic. Walter's first Christmas was good! Very lowkey which was fine. Puppy parenting is still exhausting the hell out of me and I have had ZERO time for fandom life. I barely have time to eat and shower. No one told me raising a puppy was like raising a baby......I'm perpetually exhausted! 😂 Thank goodness he's cute as hell or would have lost my mind already. We're making progress though, slowly but surely. There is just so much training and constant monitoring that my brain hurts. I spend any free time I have these days on puppy forums trying to better understand my dog and how to raise a good boy. Hopefully, in a few months, he'll be a little more chill so Mom and Dad can have some free time again. I miss you! Please tell me how you are doing when you have some time. I hope you had a very lovely holiday season! 💛

#inbox 💌#gosh it's been ages since i've even been on tumblr #i miss this space so much #sending hugs to all of you and hope you are well!!#i hope to get back here some time soon #i am 85% sure i don't even remember how to make a gif anymore #hopefully it will come back to me!!

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abrasife · 3 years ago

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" let’s talk about it. " - Ophelia @ Keith

MEME┊accepting.

He had recalled phrasing things badly the last time he had brought up the topic. He had asked in past tense, whether Ophelia had liked someone or not. It was only after talking with Rachael that Keith realized how it could be misinterpreted. Of course, he didn’t mean for her to get the wrong idea, but that was his poor communication as usual. If she thought he was going to ask for advice to pursue someone else... he definitely had to fix it.

In order to do that, he’d need to get some privacy when talking to her, and because it was a hot summer day, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go grab some frozen yogurt or something. Keith, of all people, actually considering getting frozen yogurt?! Although part of him was conflicted, it was better to have a little bit of the thing than get another lecture from the people at home. Thankfully, he was able to surpass the urge to not go for the sweet dessert and got the courage to phone her with the invitation.

❝ Are you free to talk over frozen yogurt? It’s kind of... not really important. ❞

❝ Sure! ❞ she accepted cheerfully as she usually would, ❝ let’s talk about it. ❞

It didn’t take them long to meet up outside their homes and head over to the frozen yogurt parlor on foot. But because of the heat and the fact they were walking, the destination probably seemed to be a desirable one. Who wouldn’t want something cold after walking even just a few minutes in a temperature that wasn’t relatively comfortable? By the time they stepped into the cool, air conditioned place, Keith couldn’t help but fan himself in relief. The heat finally wasn’t killing him.

After picking out their respective flavors of yogurt and taking their seats at the table, the boy couldn’t help but start to get nervous. How exactly was he supposed to bring it up? Avoiding his neighbor’s gaze, he kept his gaze fixed on his tart-flavored yogurt topped with mango slices, blueberries, and strawberries pieces. Mixing the toppings into the yogurt with his spoon, Keith tried to calm himself down. It won’t be that hard. Just say it! It’s an apology regardless!

❝ You know... that time I asked if you liked someone before? ❞ he hesitantly began. Now that he was here addressing the mistake he made, the boy finally realized how embarrassing it was to even talk about this sort of thing. Lately, he had been mellow about talking of these feelings with Shane and Rachael, but talking about romance and love with Ophelia was a different story entirely. It was probably because he harbored special feelings for her, but who knew it would lead to feeling like he would burn from the inside just by bringing up the topic? ❝ I didn’t mean to make you misunderstand me. ❞

Hold up, if he said any more, wouldn’t it—no this was already a borderline confession! He couldn’t confess now! There was zero chance he could even handle a relationship at his maturity level! Plus with him still struggling to eat properly at times, he didn’t want to burden Ophelia with that more than she already was burdened with because of him.

❝ T-That was just me being bad at communicating my intentions again! So, don’t worry about it! ❞

#* ✶ ❪❪ asks ❫.#shadyinfo #ophelia┊ѕнα∂уιиfσ ✶ *#* ✶ ❪ you’re too important to me so don’t leave my side┊❛ кєιтн ✖ σρнєℓια ❜ ❫#* ✶ ❪❪ in character ❫.#* ✶ ❪ a world set in the time and world of the present┊❛ мσ∂єяи νєяѕє ❜ ❫#;; for the life of me i can't find the ask with keith asking ophelia if she had ever liked someone #;; but i know it happened!#;; esp since there was dash comm you wrote referencing it at one point

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codenamebooks · 3 years ago

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Five Feet Apart Book Review

by Rachael Lippincott

2/5 stars | CW: dead family, death, terminal illness, divorce

Stella and Will meet in the hospital because they both have Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a terminal lung disease. At first, Stella thinks Will is arrogant and rude, and Will thinks Stella is overbearing and a goody two shoes. But as they work through their differences, they realize they’re following into dangerous territory because people with CF can’t get within six feet of each other.

This novel is adapted from the screenplay by Tobias Iaconic and Mikki Daughtry. If I would’ve known this before hand, instead of during the acknowledgements, my expectations going in would have been different. A lot of my complaints and dislikes fall largely on the fact that movies/screenplays move a lot faster, with a lot less depth than books do. Although I’ve tweaked how I look at this book, all of my comments still apply.

From the first 25 pages, it felt cliché and predictable. Certain things that were supposed to be a shock weren’t eluded to subtly. Will as a character, when we first meet him, is also an over exaggerated cliché of the sarcastic boy who doesn’t care about safety. He’s just rude, rather than seductive. About more cliché characters, Poe is uncomfortably stereotyped. A Colombian gay jock who’s Catholic parents were deported and his catchphrases(?) felt like they just modeled him after what they think a gay Hispanic is like. There’s even something to be said about the notion of minority side/best friend character dying to further the plot of the white main character. Poe didn’t have to be Will’s friend. He didn’t have to be okay with Stella risking her life to be with Will. The fact that he died the night of Will’s birthday party that Stella set up doesn’t sit right with me. It was very predictable that somebody was going to die. I thought it’d be Will or Stella so this was only a slight plot twist from the cliché I was expecting. It reads very much like a 2013 John Green novel. I would have adored this when I was in 7th grade. Now, it just seems childish and limp.

If you hate fast paced relationships, especially ones that are “hate-to-love” but just feel like insta-love, this book is not for you. It makes no sense for Stella to keep thinking about Will after she definitively decides she hates him and vice versa. Why would she go check on him instead of telling someone it looked like he was about to fall off the roof? Why would she go into his room if she’s scared of a disease he could possibly give her? There’s no reason given for either of these. His POV started with absolutely zero depth. Despite being in his head, I felt like I was watching him from an outsiders perspective: all actions, no thoughts. That’s how this entire novel is, all telling and no showing, one of the first things I was told not to do in my writing workshop courses. Will tells the reader he could talk about drawing for days but I’d rather see him just gushing about it longer than one sentence. The characters are only an idea of what they are supposed to be.

I finally began to like the novel when the stakes started getting higher. Stella having to get surgery with her dead sister’s traditions looming in the back of her head along with her divorced parents and high risk of death actually made me feel something! I became invested enough to care about the outcome. This was probably because it began to stray from what I expected as Stella became more rebellious, making the scenes more fun. It was still very fast paced with nothing to fill the time. The actions done didn’t line up with the time that was supposed to be moving. An hour would supposedly pass with 15 minutes worth of dialogue instead of just moving throughout the day. To combat that, I took in as much as I could from the funny lines and second-hand-embarrasment inducing scenes that are cute, or at least supposed to be.

If you like really corny and cliché young adult romance novels, this one is for you. If you like romances that aren’t supposed to work and the characters try their hardest to defy the odds, this one is for you. If you like fast paced, hate-to-love romances, this one is for you.

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In France, steak frites, which translates "steak and fries" in English, may be a prolific dish throughout the country's brasseries. cheese fries restaurant While the sort of steak and sauce utilized in the preparation has changed over time and between countries, the quintessential French fry is an everlasting factor.

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The French fry's meteoric rise from a humble fish-substitute to the world's quintessential culinary accompaniment has been an extended time within the making. Thus, we encourage you to celebrate (and, of course, eat) the world's greatest and most venerated entremots .The Quora recipe took 3 days but mostly zero effort. The post was short on details, so I invented them as I went by . the primary thing I noticed was that they discolored while drying within the fridge. After frying, they recolored themselves but appeared to be the smallest amount crispy, and thus , most disappointing of the bunch. As I ate more and more of them however, it ended up that that they had the simplest , most potatoey flavor and satisfying crisp (as against the boom-in-your-face crunch of the opposite two). I felt like I could eat endless amounts of those guys, which made them the winner for meKenji’s fries take 2 days and are specified to be shoestring sized, so I followed his recipe to a tee. His came out more intact than Heston’s but still broken, I’m unsure how he managed to avoid the broken ones on a high heat boil, but i think that’s why his lead photo is merely of 12 intact french-fried potatoes . within the end, the recipe was about twice as involved as Heston’s, with vinegar and agitation needed, but looked and tasted better with more intact fries (marginally more intact).

The easiest thanks to make homemade french-fried potatoes - www.iamafoodblog.com Random Quora Dude’s Method

The Quora recipe took 3 days but mostly zero effort. The post was short on details, so I invented them as I went by . the primary thing I noticed was that they discolored while drying within the fridge. After frying, they recolored themselves but appeared to be the smallest amount crispy, and thus , most disappointing of the bunch. As I ate more and more of them however, it ended up that that they had the simplest , most potatoey flavor and satisfying crisp (as against the boom-in-your-face crunch of the opposite two). I felt like I could eat endless amounts of those guys, which made them the winner on behalf of me .

Thinking that I could optimize on this recipe, i attempted condensing the method into one long day. By 10pm that night, I ended up with soggy fries that couldn’t hold a candle to their 3 day brethren. Something magical seems to happen on the third day.

Was this easier than simply throwing some Ore-Ida or McCains fries within the oven? No, but it had been far, much more satisfying, and I’m guessing either (or both) Steph or i will be able to be improving this recipe as time goes by, until at some point we’ll just effortlessly be ready to throw together a simple batch of french-fried potatoes which will rival the simplest french restaurants, or McDonalds.

Do you guys have an honest french fry recipe? I’m all ears.

Potato love -Mike

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HOW TO MAKE french-fried potatoes reception 1 POTATO PER PERSONPREP TIME: 3 DAYSCOOK TIME: 3 MINUTESTOTAL TIME: 3 DAYS and three MINUTES Large russet potatoes, dig 1/4″ shoestrings Oil for frying Salt

Soak your potatoes for 30 mins to 1hr. Blot dry with a towel and arrange on rack. Dry in refrigerator overnight.

The next day, heat your oil to 375°F. Ensure your potatoes are completely dry (dry with paper towels if needed). Fry your potatoes for exactly 1 minute. Drain and place back on rack, and dry in fridge overnight.

On the ultimate day, heat your oil copy to 375°F. Blot dry any excess oil on your potatoes with a towel , then fry for exactly two minutes. Drain on a rack, salt immediately, and luxuriate in as soon as possible.

5 COMMENTS Peppermint Dolly says: June 8, 2017 at 12:44 am I don’t know if it’d be a weekly occurrence with such a lot prep involved, but still, I’m intrigued to offer it a go!!

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Reply Rachael @Rachael's Foodie Life says: June 8, 2017 at 1:49 am It seems like you're making my dreams come true. I even have had numerous fakes attempts at french-fried potatoes reception that I had given up hope. But I can’t wait to undertake these!!

Reply irene says: June 8, 2017 at 6:49 am This is very informative. Are the potatoes soaked in warm or cold water for the 30 -1hr period? How are they dried overnight within the refridgerator, in an open plastic container or left open?

Reply Ruby says: June 10, 2017 at 8:30 pm oh no – the very easiest method (and delicious too) is that the America’s Test Kitchen way of putting shoestrings in room temp oil and bringing it up to boil on high heat. It never sputters or spits and you simply stir them once. Hey presto – perfect fries

Reply gary says: June 11, 2017 at 8:34 pm These make me insane they're so good (use peanut oil), we make them once every week probably: https://smittenkitchen.com/2017/03/easiest-french-fries/

In addition to being the simplest fries ever to return out of my kitchen, included triple fried,etc., they're far and away the simplest . I even have been telling everyone i do know to form these!

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