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October 1

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Capsule

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
The first, and best documented, of the Babi Yar massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews.

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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Babi Jar, ravijn. Eigen foto Mark Voorendt april 2003 Markv

Babi Jar, ravijn. Eigen foto Mark Voorendt april 2003
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Commentary
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

This is an ode to sucking-finger good meals that must be eaten with abandon to be fully enjoyed.

We’re eating a whole chicken cut up into at least 18 pieces by my butcher, seared in goose or duck fat (or olive oil) and braised with shallots, fresh and jarred artichokes, and carrots and then simmered in a broth of white wine and our own chicken stock, may be one of the most succulent (saporito is an appropriate Italian adjective) meals I put on my table.

With a warning:
To extract the optimate pleasure from this dish requires worrying the bones (sucking the fat and herbs and seasonings and sauce until only dried bones are left.)
Requires respecting the fresh artichokes by scraping off of the flesh from the leaf, leaf after leaf. And to relish the sauce with a hunk of crusty French or Italian bread ripped into bite-sized pieces to be dragged against the plate, lifting the married grease and liquids and crunching that outrageously good bread.

Why is this a warning?
Because the person (s) you’re eating this with must accept the impossibility of gentility at this dinner with all the sucking, scraping, chewing, dragging.
All the while, sitting on the table with us, within arm’s reach, a bowl of detritus: chicken bones and artichoke leaves, growing as the meal progresses.

And this suspension of etiquette can only be effective if we get joy from the enjoyment of our dinner mates.
Being subjected to the prolonged devour and accompanying guttural sounds of someone we really don’t care for is torture.

Or perhaps eat it alone.
Which I did on Saturday.

And an ugly thing it was, too.

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Sunday’s Dinner posted on
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Butterflied leg of lamb is one of the most delicious and easiest to prepare cuts of meat.
I slow-roasted this 2 ¼ lb piece for 45 minutes and then seared it to great color, slathered it with pesto sauce, added salt and pepper, let it sit for 15 minutes and served it. It was delicious.

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Chuckle of the day:
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A man walks into the front door of a bar. He is obviously drunk, and staggers up to the bar, seats himself on a stool and, with a belch, asks the bartender for a drink. The bartender politely informs the man that it appears that he has already had plenty to drink, he could not be served additional liquor at this bar, and could a cab be called for him?  

The drunk is briefly surprised, then softly scoffs, grumbles, climbs down off the bar stool and staggers out the front door. A few minutes later, the same drunk stumbles in the SIDE door of the bar. He wobbles up to the bar and hollers for a drink. The bartender comes over and, still politely - but more firmly, refuses service to the man due to his inebriation, and again offers to call a cab. The drunk looks at the bartender for a moment angrily, curses, and shows himself out the side door, all the while grumbling and shaking his head.  

A few minutes later, the same drunk bursts in through the back door of the bar. He plops himself up on a bar stool, gathers his wits and belligerently orders a drink. The bartender comes over and emphatically reminds the man that he is clearly drunk, will be served no drinks, and either a cab or the police will be called immediately.  

The surprised drunk looks at the bartender, and in hopeless anguish, cries "Man! How many bars do you work at?"

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A “Hey, Dom!” video.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Mentoring: Extra Benefit:
When we help others find their way we discover that the process we use to help our proteges can be turned inwards to help ourselves. 
Length: 1.49

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Today’s Thumbnail
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

The first, and best documented, of the Babi Yar massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews.

The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. Sonderkommando 4a soldiers, along with the aid of the SD and SS Police Battalions with the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police backed by the Wehrmacht carried out the orders.

The massacre was the largest mass killing under the auspices of the Nazi regime and its collaborators during its campaign against the Soviet Union and has been called "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust" to that particular date, and surpassed overall only by the later 1941 Odessa massacre of more than 50,000 Jews in October 1941 (committed by German and Romanian troops) and by
Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland with 42,000–43,000 victims.

Victims of other massacres at the site included Soviet prisoners of war, communists, Ukrainian nationalists and Roma.
It is estimated that between 100,000 and 150,000 people were killed at Babi Yar during the German occupation.

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Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center is an educational institution that documents, explains and commemorates the Babi Yar shootings of September 1941 and aims to broaden and sustain the memory of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, taking into account geopolitical changes during the 20th century.

In 2016 the discussion of the Memorial project began. The Memorial Center is planned to be created in Kyiv, Ukraine, by 2023

A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924

A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924

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Acknowledgements
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Thanks to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.

Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.

Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.

 

 

_______________________________________________________ Good Morning Tuesday, October 1, 2019 I keep a small prayer in here for all the souls of the Holocaust, the Roma, the freedom fighters, the Poles, the Jews: we are one and the same. Extinguish …

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Good Morning
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
I keep a small prayer in here for all the souls of the Holocaust, the Roma, the freedom fighters, the Poles, the Jews: we are one and the same. Extinguish one; extinguish all.

And now? Gotta go.

Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon

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