November 7, 2022

Champions League draw

RB Leipzig v Manchester City

Club Bruges v Benfica

Liverpool v Real Madrid

AC Milan v Tottenham

Eintracht Frankfurt v Napoli

Borussia Dortmund v Chelsea

Inter Milan v Porto

PSG v Bayern Munich

November 6, 2022

What is lesbian culture? 5 things that are peak lesbianism.

November 5, 2022

Alla Helgons Dag (All Saints' Day in Sweden)

All Saints Day is a quiet holiday rather than a day of celebration, as its origins are about remembering the dead. We've collected some locations in Sweden's three largest cities where you can mark the holiday.

https://www.thelocal.se/20221031/where-can-i-experience-all-saints-day-in-sweden/



Many people in Sweden use All Saints Day – which falls on November 5th this year – to visit family members’ or friends’ graves, care for the burial site, and bring extra decorations such as wreaths and, in particular, candles.



A fairly recent way of marking All Saints in Sweden is to light candles and place them on relatives’ graves. Make sure that if you do visit a graveyard to take in the atmosphere this weekend that you keep mourners in mind and show respect both to the graves and to those visiting to pay their respects.



Stockholm

The biggest Alla helgons dag commemorations in the country take place at Stockholm’s Woodland Cemetery, Skogskyrkogården. As always, it’s free to enter this Unesco World Heritage Site, which takes on a special atmosphere as thousands of people visit to pay their respects to the dead, with lanterns lighting the way. If you don’t feel comfortable visiting a graveyard or you want to use the holiday to pay respects to loved ones who are buried outside of Sweden, you may want to visit a church instead.



For those in Stockholm, the Storkyrkan Cathedral will be holding a Musik för Alla helgons dag (Music for All Saints) concert on Saturday November 5th between 2pm and 3pm, featuring music by Franz Schubert, Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke. Filip Graden will be playing the cello and Matilda Lindholm the piano.

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November 5, 2022

Grappling with power imbalances

In a world of interlocking crises, Jayati Ghosh finds an antidote to despair in the potential of popular mobilisation for a new eco-social contract.

https://socialeurope.eu/grappling-with-power-imbalances



We are living in a world fractured in many ways, facing varied but inter-related and increasingly severe crises which are now reinforcing one another. Yet serious global leadership is lacking: most governments seem obsessed with short-term measures to deal with very specific national concerns, rather than co-operation and engaging with substantive strategies to tackle the looming existential threats to humanity.

The inertia, clunkiness and simple inability to cope of the multilateral institutions set up in the mid-20th century (after another period of global crisis) is now painfully apparent. Even more recent international initiatives to deal with global problems, such as the Conference of Parties (COP) addressing climate change, which is about to have its 27th meeting in Egypt, seem to be failing to deliver any significant decisions or breakthroughs—despite the urgency and the necessity that they do so.

All this is enough to reduce many to despair. But instead we need to think about why governments persist in clearly disastrous policy choices and whose interests those choices serve. In particular, we need to recognise the power imbalances, globally and within countries, which are reinforcing what may otherwise appear to be socially irrational and unjust policies. Only then will it be possible to force any real change.

Important recognition

There is some evidence that this is now more widely recognised, even in international policy discussions. A recent report from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development makes this critical question—the need to address power imbalances—clear in its very title, Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-social Contract. The analysis begins with the important recognition that the current explosion of extreme inequalities, environmental destruction and associated increased vulnerability to crises of different kinds are not the result of ‘flaws’ in our economic system—but stem directly from it.

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November 5, 2022

Carlita at Cinecitta, in Rome, Italy for Cercle

This artistic performance has been recorded live.

Tracklist:

00:00 - 03:12 Astra Club - Landing ft Julietta (unreleased)
03:13 - 08:26 Jasper James & Wallace - Tatacha (unreleased)
08:27 - 11:42 Mochakk, Joni - Da Fonk (feat. Joni) - [Dub]
11:43 - 14:54 Radio Slave - Wait A Minute
14:55 - 19:17 Makree - Came To Groove (Extended Mix)
19:18 - 23:08 Axel Boman - Nokturn (Grand Finale)
23:09 - 29:26 The Heartists - Belo Horizonti
29:27 - 33:33 Sean Finn & DJ Wady & Moondark - Pasilda (CASSIMM Remix)
33:34 - 38:26 Arno Cost, Norman Doray - Show Luv (Extended Mix)
38:27 - 41:40 Bertani, Tognarelli - Voulez Vous (Original Mix)
41:41 - 47:10 DJ Chus - Underwater
47:11 - 52:19 YouANDme - Ppppp (Diva Mix)
52:20 - 57:12 Tiga - Mind Dimension (Ben Sterling Remix)
57:13 - 1:01:53 LP Giobbi - Georgia (Extended) (unreleased)
1:01:54 - 1:06:29 andhim & Carlita - Nation (unreleased)
1:06:30 - 1:11:48 Carlita - Bon Trip
1:11:49 - 1:16:07 Carlita - Cash for Love (unreleased)
1:16:08 - 1:21:51 Mind Against - ID
1:21:52 - 1:27:32 Andhim - Nice to meet you
1:27:33 - 1:34:33 Carlita, DJ Tennis, Alex Metric - Cinecittà (unreleased)
1:34:34 Interview
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November 5, 2022

Lecso, a Hungarian pepper stew, is a treasured taste of tradition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/11/02/lecso-recipe-hungarian-pepper-stew/

https://archive.ph/Pdu2C



Erzsébet Etl was laughing on the phone as we discussed lecsó (leh-tcho), the beloved pepper stew of her native Hungary. A Hungarian language teacher who lives in Reston, Va., Etl didn’t want me to print a compromise she makes if the right peppers aren’t available. “I don’t want to start a lecsó war,” she cautioned, and neither do I. Packed with flavorful peak-season produce, lecsó is, at its core, a simple and delightful dish of lightly simmered peppers, tomatoes and onions. But its preparation and potential variations inspire strongly held beliefs.

My lecsó journey began over a decade ago, when my college housemate Jason returned from a semester abroad in Budapest with a recipe. Lecsó was one of his favorite Hungarian dishes, and it became part of our rotation at school. We both still make it, and photos of peppers populate my texts with Jason each year as summer turns to fall. I learned to make lecsó with red bell peppers, tomatoes and onions, garnished with sour cream and served with bread. I assumed, incorrectly, that this was how everyone made it.

Zsófi Mautner, a Budapest-based food writer and cookbook author, set the record straight. “Lecsó is one of those dishes that everybody makes differently,” she told me. “It’s really a reason for family fights,” she added, “and I mean it literally.” There are several things to fight over: How to slice the peppers (strips vs. rings); the proportion of peppers to tomatoes; whether to use paprika; and whether to treat it as a condiment or a meal in and of itself.

As a side or condiment, the dish usually remains vegetarian (unless cooked in bacon fat). Otherwise, sausage, sliced hot dogs, bacon, sour cream, cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms, beaten eggs, rice, tarhonya (Hungarian egg barley) and nokedli (Hungarian spaetzle) are all popular mix-ins. In the diaspora, there’s an even more important issue. “The biggest challenge when you do lecsó abroad is the type of pepper,” said Mautner. I asked sheepishly if people in Hungary ever use bell peppers. “Never.” I posed the same question to Steve Szekeres, a Hungarian living in Wayne, Pa., and the father of Jason’s study-abroad friend, Peter. “Forget it,” he said. “It’s not your best choice. At all. Wrong choice.”

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November 5, 2022

Salt and Pepper Brick Mushrooms: Sear mushrooms under a skillet for a dish with steakhouse appeal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/10/30/brick-mushrooms-recipe/

https://archive.ph/Al1s9



Andrea Gentl spent much of her childhood looking down. As she put it, “I preferred seeing what was under my feet as opposed to looking up.” She lived on a family farm in a small town in Western Massachusetts. She spent most of her time outside, much of it in the woods, and what were often under her feet were the things she was most interested in contemplating, drawing, and later in her life, cooking and photographing: mushrooms.

Is any food in the plant kingdom more beautiful? “They’re so sculptural, and I studied sculpture in college, too, so I just love their form,” she tells me in a Zoom call from London, where she and her husband, fellow photographer Martin Hyers, were on a shoot. Her aesthetic appreciation eventually led to a culinary one. Now Gentl has a cookbook out, “Cooking With Mushrooms,” that celebrates an ingredient she lauds for its versatility, flavor, health-boosting qualities and general deliciousness in the kitchen. More than anything, her book displays a dedication to treating mushrooms with respect and a knack for getting the absolute most out of them by paying careful attention to technique.

To Gentl, the secret to cooking mushrooms well has to do with moisture management. They have a lot of water, and you want to get rid of it. That means that one of the biggest mistakes you can make when cooking them is to be too timid with the heat — and the time. “You want that high heat,” she says. “I also think people don’t cook them long enough. If you don’t get rid of enough water, they’re going to end up just being kind of slippery and not what you really want.” (Her one concession to the beauties of lower heat is drying, when you use super-low heat — and a lot of time — to dehydrate mushrooms, concentrating their umami and turning them into potent seasoning powders.)

Her one-page explanation of five mushroom-cooking techniques is one of the best, most succinct I’ve seen, and that alone is worth the price of her book. She includes instruction for sauteing (with fat), dry sauteing (without), roasting, searing and grilling. For the most part, she cautions, you want to make sure you don’t salt the mushrooms too early in the process, which can turn them rubbery.

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November 5, 2022

Turkey warns Finland, Sweden must 'take steps' before NATO approval

Turkey will not formally approve Finland and Sweden's membership of NATO until the two countries take the necessary "steps", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg Friday.

https://www.thelocal.se/20221105/turkey-warns-finland-sweden-must-take-steps-before-nato-approval/



Turkey will not formally approve Finland and Sweden’s membership of NATO until the two countries take the necessary “steps”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg Friday. Ankara has accused the two Nordic nations of providing a safe haven for outlawed Kurdish militants it deems “terrorists” and held back on ratifying their NATO membership despite an agreement in June. “President Erdogan noted that the steps to be taken by Sweden and Finland would determine how fast the approval process… would go and when it would be concluded,” the Turkish presidency said.

Erdogan and Stoltenberg held a private meeting in Istanbul that was closed to the media. Finland and Sweden dropped decades of military non-alignment and scrambled to become NATO members in May, after Russia invaded Ukraine. But Erdogan threatened to block their bids and sought concessions, leading to a deal in June between Turkey, Finland and Sweden that included provisions on extraditions and sharing information.

New Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will visit Ankara on Tuesday to meet with Erdogan in a trip that Stockholm hopes will lead to Turkey’s approval. Stoltenberg “welcomed the major, concrete steps already taken by both countries to put the memorandum into practice, and stressed that their accession will make NATO stronger”, the alliance said in a statement on Friday.

On Thursday, the NATO secretary general said Finland and Sweden’s accession was important “to send a clear message to Russia” during a press conference with the Turkish foreign minister. All 30 NATO member states except Turkey and Hungary have ratified the accession of Sweden and Finland. New members to the alliance require unanimous approval.

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November 5, 2022

ADAM BEYER (Stockholm, Sweden) at Loveland Festival - Amsterdam - 2022 💥 AMAZING 2-HR CLOSING SET

November 5, 2022

Tensal - K EP (just dropped)

RELEASE DATE 2022-11-04
LABEL Tensal
CATALOG TENSAL011