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Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Higgins, 61, will be the first woman to lead the city of Miami. She spoke frequently in the Hispanic-majority city about Trump’s immigration crackdown, saying she has heard of many people in Miami who were worried about family members being detained. She campaigned as a proud Democrat despite the race being officially nonpartisan and beat Trump-backed candidate Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager, who said he called Higgins to congratulate her.

“We are facing rhetoric from elected officials that is so dehumanizing and cruel, especially against immigrant populations,” Higgins told The Associated Press after her victory speech. “The residents of Miami were ready to be done with that.””

https://apnews.com/article/miami-mayor-trump-higgins-gonzalez-f0d8c55a4b97962ac1348c5a93295465

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The Talisman of Happiness.

As a child growing up in Italy, Lidia Bastianich recalls seeing one particular cookbook in just about everyone’s kitchen. It was called “The Talisman of Happiness” and it was often given as a wedding present to couples starting new lives together.

“It has all the basic recipes. And it says the basic thing — that food is a connector, that food is happiness,” she says.

The book by Ada Boni — its Italian title is “Il Talismano della Felicita” — was first published in 1929, and became a go-to place to find the recipe for spaghetti carbonara or pork galantine. Its simplicity and accessibility got it compared to “The Joy of Cooking,” but it predated Irma S. Rombauer’s iconic work.

This fall, the first English edition of the complete work — with nearly 1,700 recipes — arrives on shelves, thanks to years of dogged pursuit by Voracious publisher Michael Szczerban.

https://apnews.com/article/talisman-happiness-italy-cookbook-7ca5a58b59699f986af6026e58923c11

It gets mixed reviews on Amazon as far as the recipes are concerned but people seemed to enjoy reading it to learn about Italian culinary history. Might be worth checking out of the library just to read it.

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Good memory, @realplayer

https://wtf.coffee-room.com/post/12443

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I've been following this, too. Krugman had a piece on Substack today about it.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco?publication_id=277517&post_id=181077342&isFreemail=true&r=53zo0e&triedRedirect=true

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@shirokuro - I can see those threads, no problem...what do you mean that the links are broken?

edit: oh wait, you must mean links embedded in the posts in the thread...

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That's very odd. There should be a small "x" or a small down arrow in the upper right corner of the solicitation. Also "Close" to altogether get rid of the solicitation window. . Usually clicking on one or more of these will at least minimize, if not get rid of entirely, the Guardian donation asks.

What browser do you use @amanda ?

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Blasts from the past:

https://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/1114615/1.html

https://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/542170/croatian-rhapsody.html

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I love that piece! And very nicely played.

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He may get to retire soon.

Veteran working full-time at grocery store goes viral as social media rallies to help him

In a now-viral post, 88-year-old Ed Bambas explained that he retired from General Motors in 1999 but later lost his pension and now works at a Michigan grocery store "to re-establish myself."

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/veteran-working-full-time-at-grocery-store-goes-viral-as-social-media-rallies-to-help-him/3858273/?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

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The English language has at least half a million words, depending on what dictionary you’re looking at. English consists of letters running from the left side of the page to the right, while other languages run from right to left or vertically. English has 24 consonants (more than you can probably name off-hand), while Hawaiian has just eight, and the Ubykh language has more than 80. Clearly, languages can be very different from one another.

But in a few strange ways, all these very different languages behave exactly the same.

The Number of Ideas Passed Per Minute

The Way We Invent Names of Colors

How Common Words Are

Word Association

“Huh?”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/nearly-universal-speech-quirks?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

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