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October 8, 2020
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-mexican-candy
Esteban Castillo knows Mexican candy. There are the lollipops covered in chili powder he dearly loves, salty canisters full of citric acid that burn both the tongue and the heart, tamarind pulp candies reminiscent of fruit leather but with amplified flavours. Castillo, who has written a cookbook and authors his celebrated Mexican food blog, Chicano Eats, recognizes that the intense flavours he grew up craving in candies have actually shaped the way he looks and thinks about food.
“It’s definitely formed my palate in the sense that I gravitate towards more spicy food. Also because a lot of these candies are sour, I love sour things,” he explained, laughing, over a recent video call. “Whenever I go out for drinks, I have to ask for extra lime juice. If my drink is a little too sweet, I just can’t.” That being said, Mexican candies can’t be pinned down to a single note or flavour profile. “There’s so many different layers to Mexican candy. It’s hard to describe them with just a single word,” Castillo said. “You can expect to taste a lot of spice, different tropical fruits, and just have a lot of things going on with your candy.”
Just like American candies, not all of the options are satisfactory (I’m looking at you, Whoppers). “Whenever we went to birthday parties, there was always a piñata so we could always expect to leave with a goodie bag. And one of those candies that were in there that I always thought were so disgusting were these little 7-up packets [of] like, citric acid and salt,” Castillo reminisced, cracking up. “It was not good -- those were a choice.” To make sure you don’t make any mistakes purchasing Mexican candy -- like immediately eroding your tastebuds with citric acid -- here are all of Castillo’s favourites and recommendations you should try in one handy list:
Rebanaditas
Rebanaditas are watermelon-flavoured lollipops covered in chili powder. Though the centre is sweet and tastes like the artificial watermelon flavour we know and love in candies, to get to it, you’ll have to lick through an acidic and mildly spicy layer of chili powder. “As a kid, I hated having to lick through the chili powder coating so we would dunk them in water for 10 minutes until that dissolved,” Castillo said with a laugh. “It’s just so raspy!”
Buy Rebanaditas here.
Vero Mango....................
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For Tongue-Tingling Flavors, Reach for These Mexican Candies
Expert Esteban Castillo will help you select the best spicy, sweet, and salty candies to expand your horizon.https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-mexican-candy
Esteban Castillo knows Mexican candy. There are the lollipops covered in chili powder he dearly loves, salty canisters full of citric acid that burn both the tongue and the heart, tamarind pulp candies reminiscent of fruit leather but with amplified flavours. Castillo, who has written a cookbook and authors his celebrated Mexican food blog, Chicano Eats, recognizes that the intense flavours he grew up craving in candies have actually shaped the way he looks and thinks about food.
“It’s definitely formed my palate in the sense that I gravitate towards more spicy food. Also because a lot of these candies are sour, I love sour things,” he explained, laughing, over a recent video call. “Whenever I go out for drinks, I have to ask for extra lime juice. If my drink is a little too sweet, I just can’t.” That being said, Mexican candies can’t be pinned down to a single note or flavour profile. “There’s so many different layers to Mexican candy. It’s hard to describe them with just a single word,” Castillo said. “You can expect to taste a lot of spice, different tropical fruits, and just have a lot of things going on with your candy.”
Just like American candies, not all of the options are satisfactory (I’m looking at you, Whoppers). “Whenever we went to birthday parties, there was always a piñata so we could always expect to leave with a goodie bag. And one of those candies that were in there that I always thought were so disgusting were these little 7-up packets [of] like, citric acid and salt,” Castillo reminisced, cracking up. “It was not good -- those were a choice.” To make sure you don’t make any mistakes purchasing Mexican candy -- like immediately eroding your tastebuds with citric acid -- here are all of Castillo’s favourites and recommendations you should try in one handy list:
Rebanaditas
Rebanaditas are watermelon-flavoured lollipops covered in chili powder. Though the centre is sweet and tastes like the artificial watermelon flavour we know and love in candies, to get to it, you’ll have to lick through an acidic and mildly spicy layer of chili powder. “As a kid, I hated having to lick through the chili powder coating so we would dunk them in water for 10 minutes until that dissolved,” Castillo said with a laugh. “It’s just so raspy!”
Buy Rebanaditas here.
Vero Mango....................
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October 8, 2020
Karen Pence is a true piece of dogshit for tearing off her mask when she went up on stage
fuck that fundie rotter
Karen Pence removes mask before joining husband Mike on stage at VP debate
Vice president’s wife had been wearing one during debate but pulled it off to join her husband
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/karen-pence-face-mask-mike-wife-vp-debate-coronavirus-harris-b876393.html
October 8, 2020
Fact-Checking the Vice-Presidential Debate
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/07/us/fact-check-harris-pence-debate
October 8, 2020
(CNN)Wildfires have gotten so extreme in recent years that experts have had to coin new terms to describe their increasingly massive scale. Enter the "gigafire" -- a term for a blaze that burns at least a million acres of land and a level above the "megafire," which burns more than 100,000 acres.
California recorded its first gigafire in modern history on Monday, after the expansive August Complex in the northern part of the state scorched more than a million acres. The August Complex is now the largest fire in California's history, according to Cal Fire.
The fire, which is now burning across several counties, began as a series of separate fires sparked by lightning strikes in August. Those smaller fires later morphed into the larger complex that firefighters are now battling. The blaze is 58% contained as of Tuesday morning. The record set by the August Complex comes during an already record-setting year in California.
Blazes across the state have burned four million acres so far, more than double the previous record set in 2018, the state's fire agency said Sunday. This fire season has also produced five of the six largest wildfires in California's history.
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California fire's now a gigafire, a rare designation for a blaze that burns at least a million acres
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/us/gigafire-california-august-complex-trnd/index.html(CNN)Wildfires have gotten so extreme in recent years that experts have had to coin new terms to describe their increasingly massive scale. Enter the "gigafire" -- a term for a blaze that burns at least a million acres of land and a level above the "megafire," which burns more than 100,000 acres.
California recorded its first gigafire in modern history on Monday, after the expansive August Complex in the northern part of the state scorched more than a million acres. The August Complex is now the largest fire in California's history, according to Cal Fire.
The fire, which is now burning across several counties, began as a series of separate fires sparked by lightning strikes in August. Those smaller fires later morphed into the larger complex that firefighters are now battling. The blaze is 58% contained as of Tuesday morning. The record set by the August Complex comes during an already record-setting year in California.
Blazes across the state have burned four million acres so far, more than double the previous record set in 2018, the state's fire agency said Sunday. This fire season has also produced five of the six largest wildfires in California's history.
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October 8, 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/why-kamala-harris-debating-mike-pence-person/616645/
Watching Kamala Harris take the stage tonight for her debate with Mike Pence, many Democrats may be wondering the same thing: Why would she agree to appear in person, just a few feet away from the vice president, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has ravaged the White House and infected President Donald Trump? The answer, above all, is that the Biden campaign does not want to shift the public’s focus away from Trump’s unsteady handling of the COVID-19 crisis—not even to a debate about whether to debate. In that way, the campaign’s decision for Harris to participate reflects the same messaging discipline that’s led Joe Biden to brush off questions about, say, whether he supports packing the Supreme Court: He doesn’t want to provide any opportunity for the GOP to talk about anything but Trump’s performance. Multiple sources inside the Biden campaign told me officials never seriously explored withdrawing from tonight’s debate or demanding that the Commission on Presidential Debates stage a virtual contest instead.
Nor is the campaign, at this point, pushing either of those options ahead of the second Trump-Biden face-off next week. “Our point in this campaign is not about Donald Trump’s personal health; it’s about how he has handled the pandemic that’s killed 200,000 people,” said one Biden-campaign senior adviser, who, like others I talked with, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the team’s internal deliberations. “We’re not going to let this become a debate on what’s going to happen on the 15th.” Yet even with the Biden campaign’s clear preference for in-person debating, there are no guarantees beyond tonight’s session. Biden acknowledged yesterday that he will debate next week only if Trump is no longer contagious with the coronavirus. And in an interview last night, Frank J. Fahrenkopf, a co-chair of the debate commission, said the debate will happen as planned only if the Cleveland Clinic, the commission’s health adviser, certifies that it’s safe. “What we’re going to do is say to the Cleveland Clinic, ‘Is it safe to do it?’” Fahrenkopf told me from Salt Lake City, the site of tonight’s debate. “If they say ‘yes,’ we can do it. If they say ‘no,’ we have to make some other plans.”
Even the surge of cases at the White House this week did not cause serious second thoughts within the Biden campaign about Harris participating tonight, officials said. “Everybody was operating under the idea that debates happen in person, debates should be happening,” another top campaign official told me. “I think we were always, and have been, operating under the instruction that it would go forward pending the advice of health experts and the commission itself.” Pence threw a last-minute curveball into the plans when he balked at a key element of the commission’s safety precautions. The commission and the Cleveland Clinic had originally intended to install plexiglass shields adjacent to both Pence and Harris, because a single divider between them would have interfered with the television shots, said Fahrenkopf, who served as the chair of the Republican National Committee during the 1980s. However, Pence’s team pushed back on that idea earlier this week: Although they didn’t object to Harris appearing beside a shield, they saw no need for such a barrier next to the vice president.
But plans changed again at yesterday’s walk-through: Pence’s team agreed he would accept a shield if doing so would make Harris feel safer; when her campaign indicated that it would, Pence’s team dropped its objection, Fahrenkopf told me. “It will be there,” he said. Both the commission and the Cleveland Clinic are facing substantial skepticism from Democrats after the first debate between Trump and Biden, last week. Many Democrats were frustrated and angry that the two institutions did not enforce their own safety rules, and allowed Trump’s entourage to sit in the hall without masks. Frustration turned into serious worry when Trump announced he had tested positive for the virus two days after the debate. With the White House refusing to reveal when he received his last negative test, many observers have questioned whether he might have been contagious while onstage with Biden, even though Trump’s team certified to the Cleveland Clinic that he had tested negative before the encounter. (One source familiar with the discussions said that, contrary to popular belief, the candidates were not required to be tested on-site; instead, they were mandated to tell the Cleveland Clinic that they had tested negative within 72 hours of the debate.)
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Why Kamala Harris Is Still Showing Up Tonight
The Biden campaign doesn’t want to shift any focus away from President Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/why-kamala-harris-debating-mike-pence-person/616645/
Watching Kamala Harris take the stage tonight for her debate with Mike Pence, many Democrats may be wondering the same thing: Why would she agree to appear in person, just a few feet away from the vice president, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has ravaged the White House and infected President Donald Trump? The answer, above all, is that the Biden campaign does not want to shift the public’s focus away from Trump’s unsteady handling of the COVID-19 crisis—not even to a debate about whether to debate. In that way, the campaign’s decision for Harris to participate reflects the same messaging discipline that’s led Joe Biden to brush off questions about, say, whether he supports packing the Supreme Court: He doesn’t want to provide any opportunity for the GOP to talk about anything but Trump’s performance. Multiple sources inside the Biden campaign told me officials never seriously explored withdrawing from tonight’s debate or demanding that the Commission on Presidential Debates stage a virtual contest instead.
Nor is the campaign, at this point, pushing either of those options ahead of the second Trump-Biden face-off next week. “Our point in this campaign is not about Donald Trump’s personal health; it’s about how he has handled the pandemic that’s killed 200,000 people,” said one Biden-campaign senior adviser, who, like others I talked with, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the team’s internal deliberations. “We’re not going to let this become a debate on what’s going to happen on the 15th.” Yet even with the Biden campaign’s clear preference for in-person debating, there are no guarantees beyond tonight’s session. Biden acknowledged yesterday that he will debate next week only if Trump is no longer contagious with the coronavirus. And in an interview last night, Frank J. Fahrenkopf, a co-chair of the debate commission, said the debate will happen as planned only if the Cleveland Clinic, the commission’s health adviser, certifies that it’s safe. “What we’re going to do is say to the Cleveland Clinic, ‘Is it safe to do it?’” Fahrenkopf told me from Salt Lake City, the site of tonight’s debate. “If they say ‘yes,’ we can do it. If they say ‘no,’ we have to make some other plans.”
Even the surge of cases at the White House this week did not cause serious second thoughts within the Biden campaign about Harris participating tonight, officials said. “Everybody was operating under the idea that debates happen in person, debates should be happening,” another top campaign official told me. “I think we were always, and have been, operating under the instruction that it would go forward pending the advice of health experts and the commission itself.” Pence threw a last-minute curveball into the plans when he balked at a key element of the commission’s safety precautions. The commission and the Cleveland Clinic had originally intended to install plexiglass shields adjacent to both Pence and Harris, because a single divider between them would have interfered with the television shots, said Fahrenkopf, who served as the chair of the Republican National Committee during the 1980s. However, Pence’s team pushed back on that idea earlier this week: Although they didn’t object to Harris appearing beside a shield, they saw no need for such a barrier next to the vice president.
But plans changed again at yesterday’s walk-through: Pence’s team agreed he would accept a shield if doing so would make Harris feel safer; when her campaign indicated that it would, Pence’s team dropped its objection, Fahrenkopf told me. “It will be there,” he said. Both the commission and the Cleveland Clinic are facing substantial skepticism from Democrats after the first debate between Trump and Biden, last week. Many Democrats were frustrated and angry that the two institutions did not enforce their own safety rules, and allowed Trump’s entourage to sit in the hall without masks. Frustration turned into serious worry when Trump announced he had tested positive for the virus two days after the debate. With the White House refusing to reveal when he received his last negative test, many observers have questioned whether he might have been contagious while onstage with Biden, even though Trump’s team certified to the Cleveland Clinic that he had tested negative before the encounter. (One source familiar with the discussions said that, contrary to popular belief, the candidates were not required to be tested on-site; instead, they were mandated to tell the Cleveland Clinic that they had tested negative within 72 hours of the debate.)
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October 7, 2020
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/house-of-the-dragon-release-date-cast-news
Well before Game of Thrones wrapped up its eight-year run with that controversial final season in spring of 2019, there was talk dating back to 2017 that HBO was planning on releasing not one, but several spinoff and prequel series set in A Song of Fire and Ice author George R. R. Martin's fantastical universe. While one show that was supposed to take place thousands of years before the events of GoT and star Naomi Watts got the go-ahead to film a pilot before the network ultimately decided to pull the plug on it, other optioned shows are still in the works.
One of them could be on the way relatively soon, actually. House of the Dragon, which was already given a full season order back in fall 2019, is the first of the spinoffs coming down the pipeline. Little is known about the series right now, but anyone who's read the books or seen the original should be able to recognize based on the title alone that the upcoming show is about the Targaryen family, or the clan from which Daenerys and Jon Snow are descendants. While HBO and George R. R. Martin start to light the embers on their latest collaboration, here's everything we know about House of the Dragon so far.
When will House of the Dragon be released?
Since House of the Dragon is still in the early development stage of casting, it might be quite awhile until the series is ready to hit the air. Plus, if the series is able to start filming in the near future, that means it'll have to navigate safe and socially distanced filming, as it's very likely the cast and crew will be moving into production before the coronavirus pandemic lets up. With all of that in mind, it's seems likely that House of the Dragon won't premiere until sometime in 2022 at the earliest.
https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/1313237340379320320
Who is in the cast?
HBO announced the first big casting news of House of the Dragon in October 2020. Deadline reported English actor Paddy Considine (The Outsider, The Third Day) is one of the leads on the show, playing King Viserys Targaryen. According to Deadline, Viserys was "chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal." The publication noted he's said to be a "warm, kind and decent man" who "only wishes to carry forward his grandfather's legacy," but his goodness doesn't necessarily make him a strong ruler. Considine is the only casting announcement made right now, but more are sure to come as the series continues to move into production.
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Everything We Know About the 'Game of Thrones' Spinoff 'House of the Dragon'
A Targaryen family prequel is coming sooner than you think.https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/house-of-the-dragon-release-date-cast-news
Well before Game of Thrones wrapped up its eight-year run with that controversial final season in spring of 2019, there was talk dating back to 2017 that HBO was planning on releasing not one, but several spinoff and prequel series set in A Song of Fire and Ice author George R. R. Martin's fantastical universe. While one show that was supposed to take place thousands of years before the events of GoT and star Naomi Watts got the go-ahead to film a pilot before the network ultimately decided to pull the plug on it, other optioned shows are still in the works.
One of them could be on the way relatively soon, actually. House of the Dragon, which was already given a full season order back in fall 2019, is the first of the spinoffs coming down the pipeline. Little is known about the series right now, but anyone who's read the books or seen the original should be able to recognize based on the title alone that the upcoming show is about the Targaryen family, or the clan from which Daenerys and Jon Snow are descendants. While HBO and George R. R. Martin start to light the embers on their latest collaboration, here's everything we know about House of the Dragon so far.
When will House of the Dragon be released?
Since House of the Dragon is still in the early development stage of casting, it might be quite awhile until the series is ready to hit the air. Plus, if the series is able to start filming in the near future, that means it'll have to navigate safe and socially distanced filming, as it's very likely the cast and crew will be moving into production before the coronavirus pandemic lets up. With all of that in mind, it's seems likely that House of the Dragon won't premiere until sometime in 2022 at the earliest.
https://twitter.com/GameOfThrones/status/1313237340379320320
Who is in the cast?
HBO announced the first big casting news of House of the Dragon in October 2020. Deadline reported English actor Paddy Considine (The Outsider, The Third Day) is one of the leads on the show, playing King Viserys Targaryen. According to Deadline, Viserys was "chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal." The publication noted he's said to be a "warm, kind and decent man" who "only wishes to carry forward his grandfather's legacy," but his goodness doesn't necessarily make him a strong ruler. Considine is the only casting announcement made right now, but more are sure to come as the series continues to move into production.
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October 7, 2020
Constantin Film has set in motion a new adaptation to add to the ever-expanding Resident Evil movie franchise. Constantin and writer-director Johannes Roberts said Tuesday that have conceived an official origin story adaptation with faithful ties to Capcom’s classic survival horror games. This story is set in 1998 on a fateful night in Raccoon City.
Starring in the roles of the iconic game characters will be Maze Runner‘s Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield alongside Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin.
“With this movie, I really wanted to go back to the original first two games and re-create the terrifying visceral experience I had when I first played them whilst at the same time telling a grounded human story about a small dying American town that feels both relatable and relevant to today’s audiences, said Roberts, the filmmaker behind shark thriller 47 Meters Down and its sequel.
Franchise producer Robert Kulzer will produce again on behalf of Constantin with James Harris from Tea Shop Productions and Hartley Gorenstein. Said Kulzer, “After a dozen games, six live-action movies and hundreds of pages of fan fiction, we felt compelled to return to the year 1998, to explore the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser Mansion and Raccoon City.
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related
Someone Put ‘Animal Crossing’s Isabelle in ‘Resident Evil 3’ & It’s Disturbing AF
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/resident-evil-3-isabelle-animal-crossing-mod/
The Resident Evil 3 remake has only been out a few days, and somebody has already merged the survival horror game with Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing secretary Isabelle has been brought into the zombie apocalypse courtesy of a mod by Nexus Mods user, Crazy Potato.
“Jill is a fan,” said Crazy Potato of his somewhat disturbing mod that puts Isabelle’s head on the body of Resident Evil protagonist Jill Valentine. So, as opposed to altering the entire character, which is generally the case with mods, it’s simply Isabelle from the neck up, and all Jill from the shoulders down. Creepy.
Crazy Potato’s Isabelle mod arrives as Resident Evil 3 released this past Friday, April 3, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC, while Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched March 20 on Nintendo Switch. You can download the skin now here.
'Resident Evil' Reboot: Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen To Star In Origin Story
https://deadline.com/2020/10/resident-evil-reboot-kaya-scodelario-robbie-amell-hannah-john-kamen-origin-story-1234591729/Constantin Film has set in motion a new adaptation to add to the ever-expanding Resident Evil movie franchise. Constantin and writer-director Johannes Roberts said Tuesday that have conceived an official origin story adaptation with faithful ties to Capcom’s classic survival horror games. This story is set in 1998 on a fateful night in Raccoon City.
Starring in the roles of the iconic game characters will be Maze Runner‘s Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield alongside Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp) as Jill Valentine, Robbie Amell (Upload) as Chris Redfield, Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy) as Albert Wesker, Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) as Leon S. Kennedy, and Neal McDonough (Yellowstone) as William Birkin.
“With this movie, I really wanted to go back to the original first two games and re-create the terrifying visceral experience I had when I first played them whilst at the same time telling a grounded human story about a small dying American town that feels both relatable and relevant to today’s audiences, said Roberts, the filmmaker behind shark thriller 47 Meters Down and its sequel.
Franchise producer Robert Kulzer will produce again on behalf of Constantin with James Harris from Tea Shop Productions and Hartley Gorenstein. Said Kulzer, “After a dozen games, six live-action movies and hundreds of pages of fan fiction, we felt compelled to return to the year 1998, to explore the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser Mansion and Raccoon City.
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related
Someone Put ‘Animal Crossing’s Isabelle in ‘Resident Evil 3’ & It’s Disturbing AF
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/resident-evil-3-isabelle-animal-crossing-mod/
The Resident Evil 3 remake has only been out a few days, and somebody has already merged the survival horror game with Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing secretary Isabelle has been brought into the zombie apocalypse courtesy of a mod by Nexus Mods user, Crazy Potato.
“Jill is a fan,” said Crazy Potato of his somewhat disturbing mod that puts Isabelle’s head on the body of Resident Evil protagonist Jill Valentine. So, as opposed to altering the entire character, which is generally the case with mods, it’s simply Isabelle from the neck up, and all Jill from the shoulders down. Creepy.
Crazy Potato’s Isabelle mod arrives as Resident Evil 3 released this past Friday, April 3, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC, while Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched March 20 on Nintendo Switch. You can download the skin now here.
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