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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
JBanks90: I always thought it was a shame that CVS, who are headquartered there, never seriously invested in Woonsocket. CVS is the 5th largest business in America and many employees come from Woonsocket, yet there is no Corporate investment. Woonsocket High School is among the worst in the state. I realized this when visiting Bentonville Arkansas, home of Walmart. Bentonville has the best schools, nice homes and businesses. Shame on CVS. 19
“The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to [the government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds.”—U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai of Oregon, in a sweeping rebuke of the Trump DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls
Social media ‘addicting the brains of children,’ plaintiff’s lawyer argues in landmark trial Parents from the United Kingdom, Mariano Janin and George Nicolaou, hold photos of their children outside the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, on Feb. 9. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google’s YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products.
Delicious Simple Supper
I used an ice-cream scoop to make balls of leftover buttermilk cheddar red-skinned mashed potatoes. I topped them with with homemade cilantro pistou and cottage cheese. Delicious.
14 Loaves of Multigrain Bread
On Sunday I mixed flour oats, rye, cornmeal, water and salt. The sourdough is a creature alive in a bucket. Cold lava bubbling and bumpy. On Monday I shaped it and dropped it into greased loaf pans. I placed them in the cold empty oven to proof. I walked my dogs on the snowy windy cemetery hill and came back home and and turned on the oven. The house smelled good and the loaves were beautiful. When baked, I tapped their bottoms for hollow beats and good eats.
Monday, February 09, 2026
cognitively stimulating activities in midlife
Two years ago, the Lancet Commission, a group of experts in brain health and aging, published a landmark dementia prevention analysis that noted, “The potential for prevention is high and, overall, nearly half of dementias could theoretically be prevented by eliminating ... 14 risk factors.”
Their list includes addressing vision and hearing loss, as well as reducing high cholesterol, blood pressure, and obesity, and encouraging exercise and “cognitively stimulating activities in midlife.” source
Carl Jung: The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.
Pistou again
Our Price Rite sells bunches (I call them bouquets) of cilantro and I turn them into pistou. Pistou is like pesto but there is no added nuts or cheese. Pistou is French.
ingredients: olive oil salt (vinegar or lemon juice) garlic and cilantro
rinse and dry the leaves on a towel first
https://themadscientistskitchen.com/fresh-pistou-a-pesto-with-a-difference/
It's fabulous on vegetables, home cooked chick peas, pasta, toast, meat, fish, chicken, hard boiled egg, you name it.