Netflix’s $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery reshapes Hollywood, uniting HBO, DC, and major film libraries under one streaming giant.
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The Justice Department recently resolved several investigations into federal contractors’ cybersecurity requirements as part of the federal government’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative. The initiative, first announced in 2021, ushered in the DOJ’s efforts to pursue cybersecurity-related fraud by government contractors and grant recipients pursuant to the False Claims Act. Since then, the DOJ has publicly announced approximately 15 settlements against federal contractors, with the DOJ undoubtedly conducting even more investigations outside of the public’s view.
As an initial matter, these latest settlements signal that the new administration has every intention of continuing to prioritize government contractors’ cybersecurity practices and combating new and emerging cyber threats to the security of sensitive government information and critical systems. These settlements also coincide with the lead up to the Nov. 10 effective date of the Defense Department’s final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, which incorporates the standards of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.
The first of these four recent DOJ settlements was announced in July 2025, and resulted in Hill Associates agreeing to pay the United States a minimum of $14.75 million. In this case, Hill Associates provided certain IT services to the General Services Administration. According to the DOJ’s allegations, Hill Associates had not passed the technical evaluations required by GSA for a contractor to offer certain highly adaptive cybersecurity services to government customers. Nevertheless, the contractor submitted claims charging the government for such cybersecurity services, which the DOJ alleged violated the FCA.
The second settlement, United States ex. rel. Lenore v. Illumina Inc., was announced later in July 2025, and resulted in Illumina agreeing to pay $9.8 million — albeit with Illumina denying the DOJ’s allegations. According to the DOJ, Illumina violated the FCA by selling federal agencies, including the departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and Agriculture, certain genomic sequencing systems that contained cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Specifically, the DOJ alleged that with respect to the cybersecurity of its product, Illumina: (1) falsely represented that its software and systems adhered to cybersecurity standards, including standards of the International Organization for Standardization and National Institute of Standards and Technology; (2) knowingly failed to incorporate product cybersecurity in its software design, development, installation and on-market monitoring; (3) failed to properly support and resource personnel, systems and processes tasked with product security; and (4) failed to adequately correct design features that introduced cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
That same day, the DOJ announced its third settlement, which was with Aero Turbine Inc., and Gallant Capital Partners, LLC (collectively, “Aero”), and resulted in a $1.75 million settlement. This settlement resolved the DOJ’s allegations that Aero violated the FCA by knowingly failing to comply with the cybersecurity requirements of its contract with the Department of the Air Force. Pursuant to the contract, Aero was required to implement the security requirements outlined by NIST Special Publication 800-171, “Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations,” but failed to fully do so. This included failing to control the flow of and limit unauthorized access to sensitive defense information when it provided an unauthorized Egypt-based software company and its personnel with files containing sensitive Defense information.
The fourth and latest DOJ settlement was announced in Sept. 2025, and resolved the DOJ’s FCA lawsuit against the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. As part of the settlement, GRTC agreed to pay $875,000 to resolve allegations resulting from a whistleblower complaint that it failed to meet the cybersecurity requirements in its DoD contracts. Specifically, the DOJ alleged that until December 2021, the contractor failed to install, update or run anti-virus or anti-malware tools on desktops, laptops, servers and networks while conducting sensitive cyber-defense research for the DoD. The DOJ further alleged that the contractor did not have a system security plan setting out cybersecurity controls, as required by the government contract. Lastly, the DOJ alleged that the contractor submitted a false summary level cybersecurity assessment score of 98 to the DoD, with the score being premised on a “fictitious” environment, and did not apply to any system being used to process, store or transmit sensitive Defense information.
These recent enforcement actions provide valuable guidance for federal contractors.
Joshua Mullen, Luke Cass, Christopher Lockwood and Tyler Bridegan are partners at Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP.
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Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Invest, reiterated a bold forecast that Bitcoin could reach $1.5 million by 2030.
According to a recent webinar, she argued that the current downturn is a pause rather than the end of the cycle and said Bitcoin is only halfway through its four-year rhythm. Her stance comes as market swings have erased large sums and pushed out many investors.
Reports have disclosed that roughly $70 billion has already returned to financial markets since a brief US government funding gap ended, and ARK estimates as much as $300 billion could follow as the Treasury General Account is refilled.
Wood tied that potential return of cash to moves in central bank policy, noting that the Federal Reserve is expected to end its quantitative tightening program on December 1. She said that easing liquidity could lift both Bitcoin and stocks tied to artificial intelligence.
In this recent webinar, I discuss why the liquidity squeeze that has hit #AI and #crypto will reverse in the next few weeks, something the markets seemed to buy, and why AI is not in a bubble. The 123% increase noted below was in Palantir’s US commercial business last qtr.
Watch… https://t.co/GdBZtEQcxM
— Cathie Wood (@CathieDWood) November 26, 2025
Palantir’s US commercial revenue was highlighted during the talk, with a reported 123% increase last quarter used as an example of real business gains backing some market bets. Based on reports, Wood rejects the idea that gains in the AI sector are purely speculative, and she expects renewed money flows to help risk assets rebound.
According to ARK analysts, stablecoins have captured some of the transactional demand that once favored Bitcoin. At the same time, gold has shown solid returns this year, which the team says offsets part of the shift away from crypto for certain uses. That mix, they argue, changes how capital might move when liquidity returns.
Broader Bullish Views From Market Names
Several well-known investors continue to project high price targets for Bitcoin. According to public statements, Tom Lee of Fundstrat has said Bitcoin could hit $250,000 by 2025, pointing to supply limits and demand patterns.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has floated targets in the range of $500,000 to $1,000,000, citing Bitcoin as a shelter in turbulent times.
Raoul Pal, the former Wall Street executive and founder of Real Vision, has also advocated for similar six-figure ranges driven by adoption and institutional interest. These voices are included to show the range of long-term expectations among prominent market watchers.
Cathie Wood thinks that Bitcoin could reach $1.5 million by 2030, while arguing the current dip is temporary and that the cycle has more to run. Returning liquidity and growing adoption could drive prices sharply higher, according to ARK Invest’s analysis.
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It’s clock time again on Hackaday, this time with a lovely laser-cut biretrograde clock by [PaulH175] over on Instructables. If you’ve never heard of a ‘biretrograde clock,’ well, we hadn’t either. This is clearly a form of retrograde clock, which unlike the name implies doesn’t spin backwards but oscillates in its motion– the hands ‘go retrograde’ the same way the planets do.
The oscillating movement is achieved via a pair of cams mounted on the hour and minute shafts of a common clock mechanism. As the shafts (and thus cams) turn, the minute and hour arms are raised and drop. While that could itself be enough to tell the time, [Paul] goes one further and has the actual hands on pivots driven by a gear mechanism on the cam-controlled arms. You might think that that extra reversal is what makes this a ‘biretrograde clock’ but in the clockmaker’s world that’s just saying it’s a retrograde clock with two indicators: in this case, minute and hour.
It’s a fairly rare way to make a clock, but we’ve seen one before. That older project was 3D printed, which might be more your speed; if you prefer laser-cutting, though, [Paul]’s Instructable includes SVG files. Alternatively, you could take a different approach and use voltmeters to get the same effect.
According to the tabloids, celebrities are just like us. They run errands, they wait in lines and they also know which strains of cannabis they love best. In the past few years, many of the world’s most iconic stoners have embraced the legalized industry by launching branded pot products. Willie Nelson has Willie’s Reserve, Snoop Dogg has Leafs By Snoop, and more famous faces are getting in on the action every day. But what is Nelson smoking when he hangs up his guitar after a long day? What’s in the blunts that Snoop allegedly smokes up to 80 of a day? With so many different strains now available — bred to highlight various terpenes and capable of inducing a wide array of physical and mental sensations — what are celebrities reaching for when it’s time to toke up?
In the case of the most famous pothead on the planet, country legend Willie Nelson claims he has no preference. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Nelson suggested that cannabis was like sex — “It’s all good, some is great.” Later in the same article, Nelson’s wife, Annie D’Angelo, did note that Nelson prefers sativas (“He’s already funny, so it just makes him funnier.”) For the “On the Road Again” musician, a practice of smoking what you’ve got does feel rather fitting. Nelson recently made news for admitting he’s no longer smoking, but hasn’t stopped enjoying cannabis.
The superstar pop singer has made no secret of her love affair with weed — a stance that likely shocked some fans who best knew her as a squeaky-clean Disney star. Yes, even Hannah Montana is riding the green rush. During a 2013 trip to Amsterdam, a member of Cyrus’s entourage revealed that Miley’s strain of choice was Super Lemon Haze, a sativa-dominant hybrid known for sparking energy and joy. Given the sunny vibes of her most 2017 album, ‘Younger Now,’ it appears to have done the trick.
For some of us, the challenge of performing live comedy may seem daunting, but seasoned comic and podcaster Doug Benson is always at ease when he hits the stage. His secret? Being really, really high, of course. Like Nelson, Benson isn’t too picky when it comes to strains, but in a 2013 interview with Cannabis Now, he did express a fondness for the delightfully named Chocolope. A cross of Chocolate Thai and Cannalope Haze, this strain has notes of coffee and is recognized for its ability to induce a happier mindset.
The legendary West Coast rapper has been hyping cannabis since the day he first hit the studio. One could make the argument that Snoop has done more to bring weed to the mainstream than any other celebrity out there. When it comes to what he likes to burn, he’s given a number of different answers over the years. One that Snoop’s mentioned several times is Herijuana. According to Leafly, this hybrid of Petrolia Headstash (a variety of Humboldt County Afghan) and Killer New Haven “was worked by breeders for 15 generations.” The result is a powerful high that is likely best enjoyed by heavyweight consumers like the D-O-double-G.
While Seth Rogen has not officially confirmed his favorite strain, there’s reason to believe it might just be Pineapple Express. After all, the strain didn’t actually exist before he and co-writer Evan Goldberg invented the name for their 2008 stoner comedy. Borrowing the name from a weather phenomenon (an atmospheric river that begins in the islands of Hawaii and moves up towards the West Coast), Pineapple Express is now a bona fide strain the combines Trainwreck and Hawaiian for a sativa-forward blend that will get you up and moving if the afternoon starts to drag.
TELL US, what’s your favorite strain?
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In 2016, the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was shown a bizarre AI-generated video of a misshapen human body crawling across a floor.
Miyazaki declared himself “utterly disgusted” by the technology demo, which he considered an “insult to life itself.”
“If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it,” Miyazaki said. “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
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Reports emerged Wednesday that the White House is preparing an executive order directing federal agencies to challenge or block state-level AI regulations.
Seattle entrepreneur Joe Braidwood sees the news as a major opportunity.
Braidwood is CEO and co-founder of Glacis, a new startup backed by the AI2 Incubator that is building software to help companies prove that their AI safety measures are executed as intended. Glacis creates tamper-proof “receipts” for every AI decision, allowing companies to prove their safety systems actually ran.
“Think of it as a flight recorder for enterprise AI,” Braidwood said.
Braidwood said the potential White House order to block state AI laws transforms Glacis from a startup just getting off the ground into “infrastructure necessity.” In an environment where the Justice Department would sue states that pass AI rules, a neutral, platform-agnostic trust layer could become increasingly relevant.
Glacis’ origins are rooted in regulatory complexity.
Braidwood, a longtime tech marketing leader, recently shuttered Yara, his year-old startup that aimed to use AI to improve mental wellness. He cited Illinois regulations that made AI therapy “effectively uninsurable.”
In a LinkedIn post that has since gone viral, Braidwood explained the decision to close Yara and open-source a set of safety prompts he had developed.
He wrote that Yara closed after he realized AI became “dangerous” when interacting with people facing deep trauma or suicidal ideation — not just inadequate. The experience, he said, showed “where the boundaries need to be,” and demonstrated how startups working in high-risk AI categories face unmanageable liability and regulatory pressure.
After the post, regulators, clinicians, engineers, founders and insurance executives reached out — many pointing the same problem: when AI systems make decisions, no one can independently verify whether safety policies actually fired.
That clarity became the seed for Glacis.
Every time an AI model answers a question or takes an action, Glacis creates a signed record showing the input, the safety checks that ran, and the final decision. The record can’t be altered and takes less than 50 milliseconds to generate. Regulators and insurers can verify these receipts without seeing any personal data, and Braidwood said insurers believe this could finally make it possible to insure AI systems that can prove they followed the rules.
Braidwood co-founded Glacis with Dr. Jennifer Shannon, a psychiatrist and adjunct professor at the University of Washington.
The company is currently in private beta with digital health customers, including nVoq, and is targeting healthcare, fintech, and insurance sectors. It’s also part of Cloudflare’s Launchpad program.
Braidwood was previously chief strategy officer of Vektor Medical. He also co-founded social TV platform Scener and was chief marketing officer at SwiftKey.
Shannon has been a psychiatrist for nearly two decades. She was also a medical director at Cognoa and serves on the AI Resource Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful TPU, for the age of inference, and Axion Arm VMs promising up to 2× better price-performance for AI workloads.
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Interview transcript:
Terry Gerton: Melwood has been a leader in disability employment for nearly six decades. How would you describe the mission today and how has it changed over that time?
Larysa Kautz: Well, today Terry, Melwood is actually a family of companies with a shared vision of a world in which people with disabilities are fully included. For about six decades, we were one nonprofit entity and recently we restructured in a way so that we can serve more people, have a greater impact and grow the number of individuals that we serve.
Terry Gerton: Tell us about that restructuring and what it looks like today.
Larysa Kautz: So today it looks like Melwood Inc. is our parent holding company, where we have all of our shared services, which we then flow down to our subsidiary companies, one of which is a federal contractor, a social enterprise through which we employ nearly 900 individuals with disabilities on 60-plus federal contracts around the D.C. region. And we have Melwood Community Services, which provides license services to individuals like day programs. We have a camp for children with and without disabilities. We do after-school programs. We’re working on affordable housing now. So we have a number of companies with different missions, but all basically united by this vision that people with disabilities will have every opportunity that they’d like to be included in the community.
Terry Gerton: It sounds like it’s more a life cycle of care.
Larysa Kautz: Absolutely. We started doing a lot of workforce development and employment. That was the goal that began our nonprofit. But the more you work with that one pillar of the stool that makes up anyone’s life, the more you see the need for health care, housing, community and other aspects of what helps any person reach their full potential and live a life in the community that they choose.
Terry Gerton: Let’s go back to the specific vocational support services that you offer. What are some unique capabilities that you provide to help individuals with disabilities really succeed and grow?
Larysa Kautz: Absolutely. So we start from the pre-work world, which is workforce development, and we have done boot camps and trainings in a variety of different industries, including IT and tech, cybersecurity, AI. The construction trades, including as well as custodial, landscaping, mail room, will help train anybody with a disability in any field that they would choose to enter. Then we help them find a job, either with Melwood or with an employer in the community. And then we stay with them as a job coach, as someone that helps them integrate into the workforce, have hard conversations with your supervisor. How do you write an email when you’re angry and frustrated and work with transportation needs, housing needs, other things that arise that really do throw barriers and pitfalls in your road as you try to continue your career.
Terry Gerton: That sounds like training all of us could use a little bit of a refresher on.
Larysa Kautz: I think that’s right. I mean, I think the needs of every person with a disability are not unique. I think a lot of the needs are the things that we see. And we do a lot of training for employers as well and individuals who do not have disabilities on how to help accommodate, be inclusive and really listen to the needs of their employers and colleagues.
Terry Gerton: So as you bring these folks into the federal contractor space at Melwood, what are the toughest adaptations that they go through and how then do you work with government agencies to make sure that they’re effectively using the talents of these individuals?
Larysa Kautz: So one of the hardest barriers to overcome is taking yourself from your home environment, which you have managed to accommodate to your comfort level, to your sensory needs, to accommodate any physical needs, and to then find yourself in a job, 9 to 5, every day of the week that wasn’t necessarily crafted or created for a variety of different disabilities. And so we certainly work in our buildings as well as in government buildings to create opportunities to have a quiet space, to have a space where you can go kind of decompress if that’s something that’s needed during the day or to be able to go run around and get out some of the stimming type of behavior that someone might need to be able to re-regulate and just continue doing their work. I think remote work and hybrid work has helped quite a bit. A lot of our employees and other employees that we see out in the working world to be able to have some days where you can focus without colleagues around, without a lot of noise on the work that you’re doing. And it makes it easier to make it through the days that you do have to go in and have some of that social interaction, especially if you’re not necessarily an extrovert by nature.
Terry Gerton: I’m speaking with Larysa Kautz. She’s the president and CEO of Melwood. Larysa, I want to go back a couple of years because Melwood partnered with MITRE and the University of Washington to launch a neurodiversity at work playbook and pilot with some federal government agencies. Can you tell us what you learned from that pilot and how it’s playing out in the work that Melwood is doing now?
Larysa Kautz: Absolutely. So we created a training program called abilIT about seven years ago to teach neurodivergent individuals the skills they need to get a certificate in a cybersecurity field and then to be able to enter that field. And we worked with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help them fill openings that they had for cybersecurity specialists and worked with them to understand the value of having someone who looks at things a little bit differently, is neurodivergent and found that the skills that they bring to the table are unlike other skills that organization had seen where they can catch mistakes, they can see patterns, they can really catch issues that weren’t being caught. So it worked wonderfully and we were able to adapt kind of the autism-at-work playbook for neurodiversity in the federal government playbook, which we hope to continue to do in the future. Right now, we’re taking our abilIT program nationwide and teaching other nonprofits around the country to do the training so that we can help fill the labor needs of national companies that are looking for cybersecurity, as well as now, AI technicians and individuals that can get certificates in those fields. And I think the neurodivergent population is perfect for the job.
Terry Gerton: It seems like such a crucial enabler because so many times folks who are neurodivergent have a difficult time getting through the hiring process, right?
Larysa Kautz: Absolutely, and that’s part of the program. It’s a 14-week program. A lot of it is on the substantive IT skills to get your certificate, but half of the time is spent on developing the skills that you need to get through an interview, to get though orientation, and then to grow your career and to be able to communicate with supervisors.
Terry Gerton: I want to also point out a recent study with Virginia Tech showed that Melwood’s model outperforms other employment mechanisms in both quality and cost effectiveness. What is it about the Melwood model, maybe the key ingredient to your soup, that makes it work so well?
Larysa Kautz: A lot of it is the wraparound supports and the professional development supports that we offer, not just to our students, but also to the employers. So having employers at the front end that have needs for the workforce really helps make sure we have the pipeline of workforce development training all the way through the job and then we stay with the individuals and we will coach them and if they don’t make it in the first job, we will help them find a second job. And maybe find a different line of IT tech to go into if the first one that they chose didn’t work.
Terry Gerton: I know you’ve been in this space for a while, but I’m wondering, are there still things that surprise you in encounters with employers as they encounter this population?
Larysa Kautz: Well, one of the employers that we’ve worked with, Enabled Intelligence in Falls Church, they do data annotation and labeling for computer vision models, teaching AI, essentially, to recognize what is on a picture or on a map. And they have both higher quality and speed in the work that they’re able to do. As a for-profit company, they’re recognizing the return on investment that they have by making their hiring practices inclusive of the neurodivergent population. So there really is an economic reason to do this.
Terry Gerton: And what would you recommend as best practices for other employers, public or private, who want to build more inclusive workforces?
Larysa Kautz: I would encourage them to not be afraid of the word disability and to include a conversation about inclusion and accommodations right up front in their job descriptions, in their hiring practices, in their orientation and create space for people to feel comfortable asking for accommodations, which frankly usually cost less than $400 per employee, often are free and will create an inclusive culture for all of your employees.
Terry Gerton: And find a workforce that’s liable to stick with them for a long time, right?
Larysa Kautz: Absolutely. You’ll find loyal employees that will not job hop, but will stay in a place where they feel welcome.
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Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa) is a hardy native shrub that produces clusters of white spring flowers followed by white berries on red stems. This adaptable plant tolerates various soil conditions and provides excellent wildlife value, attracting birds and pollinators. Learn how to grow gray dogwood in this guide.
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As anyone who has eaten real-deal Jamaican jerk can tell you, it hurts. Smoke gets in your eyes and Scotch bonnet chiles scorch your gullet.
“You need to sweat while you’re eating jerk,” says my friend, Gary Feblowitz (we met on the set of Project Smoke).
An Emmy award-winning videographer (you’ve seen his work on the Discovery Channel and PBS), Feblowitz is one of jerk’s most zealous evangelists. The license plate on his SUV reads “JRKMSTR.” (I’m guessing that would play well in Kingston, but might be misinterpreted in Gary’s home state of Minnesota.)
Gary’s jerk epiphany occurred when a vacation to Jamaica was extended two weeks by a medical emergency that prohibited air travel. He knew the key to authentic jerk was the pimento (allspice) tree—its fruit (allspice berries), leaves, and especially, its fragrant wood. He wanted to import these ingredients into the U.S., but the Jamaican government had banned pimento exports in the early 1900s after demand for the dense, beautiful wood nearly wiped out the supply. (At the time, it was popular for umbrella handles.) Gary proposed to use only trim or felled trees and plant three for every one he imported. The Jamaican officials agreed.
Gary Feblowitz (left), owner of Exotic Wood Chips, LLC, with Steven Raichlen on the set of Project Smoke. In addition to being a jerkmaster, Gary is an Emmy award-winning videographer. Photo by Rob Baas.
Like North American barbecue, Jamaican jerk is simultaneously a dish, a cooking method, and a way of life—a noun and a verb.
Historically, jerk is associated with the Maroons, runaway slaves who settled in the mountains when the British defeated their Spanish owners in 1655. The Maroons hunted wild boar, which they rubbed with a fiery paste of salt, spices, onions, ginger, and chiles, and cooked it slowly over smoldering pimento or laurel wood fires in earthen pits. The method tenderized and preserved the meat, and more importantly, produced little smoke, which would have given away their positions. (Cuba’s lechon asado and Hawaii’s kālua pig are similar.)
Today, Jamaica’s “jerkmen” are more likely to cook in modified steel drums or shallow trough-like grills covered with sheets of corrugated tin. Once you master the basics, you can jerk almost any protein on your gas or charcoal grill or smoker. Chicken and pork are the most popular meats, but I’ve also encountered jerk snapper, lobster, shrimp, and even tofu. Gary confided one of his favorite preparations is jerk brisket. We can’t wait to try that!
Most jerk ingredients are available at any supermarket.
Use fresh ingredients whenever possible: Fresh scallions, thyme, and Scotch bonnet peppers make a huge difference in flavor compared to dried or bottled substitutes.
Marinate overnight: Let your chicken soak in the jerk marinade for at least 8 hours, preferably overnight, to deeply infuse those bold, spicy flavors.
Get your grill ready for indirect heat: Jamaican jerk is traditionally cooked low and slow over indirect heat, often with pimento wood smoke if you can find it. This helps develop that smoky crust without burning the spices.
Don’t rush the cooking: Keep the grill temperature around 275-300°F (135-150°C) and cook the chicken slowly. This locks in moisture and allows the spices to caramelize nicely.
Use a meat thermometer: Cook chicken to an internal temperature of 165°F (74°C) for safe, juicy results.
Add smoke for extra flavor: If you have a smoker or pellet grill, adding a bit of wood smoke (hickory, apple, or preferably pimento wood) enhances that authentic jerk aroma.
Baste occasionally: Spoon or brush reserved marinade or a bit of oil on the chicken during cooking to keep it moist and flavorful.
Rest before serving: Let the chicken rest for 5-10 minutes after cooking. This helps the juices redistribute for a tender bite.
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Traeger is launching a fully reimagined Ironwood and Ironwood XL. The grills encompass outdoor cooking through new features, advancements, and upgrades.
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Winter Ornamentals – Bark Book Excerpt by Dan Hinkley Like the last and messy hours of a party gone on too long, the soggy, cool days of late autumn cast about the garden a mood of the season’s demise. Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy […]
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