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  • ✇MyFitnessPal Blog
  • Pressure Cooker White Bean Chili MyFitnessPal’s Recipes
    This recipe is a great source of fiber and gives you about 40% of your Vitamin A for the day. Vitamin A is important for immune system function, proper vision and growth and development (1). Poblano chilies are a glossy dark green, with a grassy flavor and meaty texture that makes this chili especially complex. Look for them where other hot peppers are sold. Substitute with 2 light green Anaheim peppers if you can’t find poblanos. Active time: 20 minutes | Total time: 45 minutes Pressure Cooker
     

Pressure Cooker White Bean Chili

Instant Pot Butternut Squash and White Bean Chili

This recipe is a great source of fiber and gives you about 40% of your Vitamin A for the day. Vitamin A is important for immune system function, proper vision and growth and development (1).

Poblano chilies are a glossy dark green, with a grassy flavor and meaty texture that makes this chili especially complex. Look for them where other hot peppers are sold. Substitute with 2 light green Anaheim peppers if you can’t find poblanos.

Active time: 20 minutes | Total time: 45 minutes

Pressure Cooker White Bean Chili

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium yellow onion, diced
  • 1 poblano pepper, seeded and diced
  • 3 medium cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tbsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp ground coriander
  • 2 tsp Mexican oregano
  • 3 cups butternut squash, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
  • 2 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1/2 cup frozen corn
  • 2 15-oz. cans no salt added cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
  • 1 lime, cut into wedges
  • 1/2 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt, for garnish

Directions:

Select the sauté function on the Instant Pot and heat the olive oil. Add the onion and poblano chili and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until the onion is softened. Add the garlic, cumin, coriander, and oregano and cook for about 45 seconds, or until fragrant. Press cancel.

Add the butternut squash, broth, corn, beans, salt, and black pepper to the pot and stir to combine. Lock the lid, set the valve to sealing, and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.

When the cooking time is complete, allow the pressure to release naturally for 5–10 minutes, then carefully quick-release any remaining pressure. Stir in the cilantro.

Serve hot with lime wedges and Greek yogurt on top.

Serves: 4 | Serving Size: 2 cups chili + 2 tbsp Greek yogurt

Nutrition (per serving): Calories: 398; Total Fat: 9g; Saturated Fat: 1g; Monounsaturated Fat: 5g; Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g; Cholesterol: 2mg; Sodium: 560mg; Carbohydrate: 57g; Dietary Fiber: 16g; Sugar: 7g; Protein: 17g

Nutrition Bonus: Calcium: 24%; Potassium: 1139mg; Vitamin A: 41%; Vitamin C: 75%, Iron: 34%

Originally published: January 2020; Updated March 2026

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  • ✇Business Matters
  • Goodbye 11.35pm: Why linear TV’s biggest names are all fleeing to YouTube Richard Alvin
    There was a moment, somewhere around 1990, when I sincerely believed that the most important thing my mother did each evening was sit down at 9.00pm sharp to watch the news. Not 9.01pm. Not 8.59pm. Nine, on the dot, because that was when the news began, because Sir Alastair Burnet had decided it was so, and because the rest of the United Kingdom, including, by the look of it, the entire cabinet, appeared to be doing exactly the same thing. The country ran on a single national rhythm, like a grea
     

Goodbye 11.35pm: Why linear TV’s biggest names are all fleeing to YouTube

28 May 2026 at 11:05
There was a moment, somewhere around 1990, when I sincerely believed that the most important thing my mother did each evening was sit down at 9.00pm sharp to watch the news.

There was a moment, somewhere around 1990, when I sincerely believed that the most important thing my mother did each evening was sit down at 9.00pm sharp to watch the news.

Not 9.01pm. Not 8.59pm. Nine, on the dot, because that was when the news began, because Sir Alastair Burnet had decided it was so, and because the rest of the United Kingdom, including, by the look of it, the entire cabinet, appeared to be doing exactly the same thing. The country ran on a single national rhythm, like a great wheezing grandfather clock, and the people who set the time wore tailored suits and lived in a place called Wood Lane.

That rhythm is now thoroughly, demonstrably, embarrassingly dead. And the people doing the burying are not bedroom-bound teenagers in TikTok-stained pyjamas. They are the very figures who built the broadcast schedule in the first place.

Take Stephen Colbert. Forty-eight hours after CBS finally smothered The Late Show with a corporate pillow, the network insists this had nothing to do with the lawsuit, the Skydance merger or the present occupant of the Oval Office, and we are of course expected to accept that assertion at the value of a Liz Truss lettuce, Colbert popped up on a public-access channel called Monroe Community Media. Then he popped up, rather more pointedly, on his shiny new YouTube channel, with Eminem and Jeff Daniels in tow, gathering 120,000 subscribers in a single weekend. No 11.35pm slot. No commercial break. No procession of Affiliate Sales stations of the cross. Just Stephen, a camera, and the most generous tip jar in the history of broadcasting.

A few months earlier, Piers Morgan walked off the Murdoch reservation entirely, to which I would normally raise a single languid eyebrow, but the man left a reported £50 million on the table to do it. He has called the TalkTV slot a “straitjacket”. He has 3.6 million YouTube subscribers and a four-year arrangement that hands him ownership of his own brand. Trump, Zelensky, Peterson, Ronaldo: all interviewed not for the dignified British 10 o’clock viewer but for a global congregation that watches him in Brisbane, Boston and bed.

And while the talent is bolting for the exits, the institutions are quietly digging tunnels under the perimeter fence. The BBC, that great, lumbering, well-meaning monument to the licence fee, is putting the finishing touches on a landmark deal to produce original shows for YouTube. Why? Because, mortifyingly, YouTube has overtaken BBC One on monthly reach in this country. The corporation that gave us Reith, Attenborough and Bake Off is now obliged to commission content for the same platform that hosts cats falling off skirting boards. The licence fee, it turns out, doesn’t beat free.

The numbers, for those of us who still pretend to be grown-ups, are devastating. Per Ofcom’s Media Nations 2025 report, Britons aged 16 to 24 now watch a startling 33 minutes of broadcast television a day, of which barely 20 minutes is live; they spend an hour and a half on YouTube and TikTok. For someone over 75, broadcast still hoovers up 90 per cent of in-home viewing. For a 16-year-old, it is 19 per cent. We are not, as is so often claimed, watching the gradual decline of an industry. We are watching its will being read.

Across the Atlantic, Nielsen’s Gauge confirms YouTube has now spent six consecutive months as the single largest distributor of television in America, larger than Disney, larger than NBCUniversal, larger than the entire stricken cable bundle put together. YouTube earned $36 billion in ad revenue in 2024, more than all four American broadcast networks combined. The schedule, to put it baldly, has been replaced by the search bar. The time slot has been replaced by the thumbnail.

The business lesson here is not “everyone should start a YouTube channel”. Please don’t. You’ll fail, embarrass your spouse and spend Saturdays editing in your shed. The lesson, for those of us building businesses outside the M25 commentary bubble, is rather more important than that. Ownership, distribution and audience relationship are now the three things that actually count, and the platform that delivers all three at once is winning. Witness Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Ventures putting capital into creator-led media businesses precisely because the old playbook, make show, hand to broadcaster, hope, is demonstrably worse than the new one. The talent keeps the IP. The talent keeps the audience. The talent, increasingly, is the broadcaster.

The slot, that great totem of the 20th-century media baron, was never about the viewer. It was about logistics, advert breaks, satellite uplinks, union breaks, Carol Vorderman’s hairdresser. The viewer wanted the show. They never wanted nine o’clock. And now, at last, they don’t have to take both.

Sir Alastair Burnet, sleep well.

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Goodbye 11.35pm: Why linear TV’s biggest names are all fleeing to YouTube

  • ✇The Crochet Crowd
  • NEW Bean Stitch Corner to Corner C2C Stitch Mikey
    Looking for a stitch that looks like a bubble wrap? The Bean Stitch Corner to Corner feels just like it. The stitch that Mikey has developed creates thick beans between the gridwork of the corner-to-corner concept. The bean stitch used has 5 steps, but you can reduce your bean stitch that is talked about in […] The post NEW Bean Stitch Corner to Corner C2C Stitch appeared first on The Crochet Crowd.
     
  • ✇Malay Mail - All
  • Taiwan opposition chief heads to US after Beijing visit, pledges peace role
     TAIPEI, June 1 — Taiwan’s main opposition leader said today she hopes to “gain deeper trust” from the United States, before departing for the country where she is expected to be grilled over her party’s stance on China and defence spending.Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s trip comes two months after her “peace” visit to Beijing, where she met Chinese President Xi Jinping—the first such meeting in a decade—and weeks after US President Donald Trump’s summit wi
     

Taiwan opposition chief heads to US after Beijing visit, pledges peace role

1 June 2026 at 07:59

Malay Mail

 

TAIPEI, June 1 — Taiwan’s main opposition leader said today she hopes to “gain deeper trust” from the United States, before departing for the country where she is expected to be grilled over her party’s stance on China and defence spending.

Kuomintang chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s trip comes two months after her “peace” visit to Beijing, where she met Chinese President Xi Jinping—the first such meeting in a decade—and weeks after US President Donald Trump’s summit with Xi in the Chinese capital.

It also comes after the KMT recently thwarted the Taiwanese government’s plan to spend nearly $40 billion on critical weapons, including US arms and domestically produced drones.

Speaking to reporters before departing for the United States, Cheng said she hopes her party can play a key role in regional peace efforts and “gain deeper trust from the US”.

“Only the KMT is truly serious and responsible in taking on the most important role of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” Cheng told a press conference.

Cheng has rocked Taiwanese politics since her unexpected rise to the top of the party last year and drawn criticism for being too pro-China.

The KMT has long advocated closer relations with China, which claims Taiwan is part of its territory and has threatened to use force to seize it.

But Cheng’s cross-strait rhetoric has gone beyond the comfort zone of many people in her own party and caused unease among foreign partners, including Washington. — AFP

 

  • ✇The Independent SG
  • ManU fan Pritam Singh congratulates Singapore’s Arsenal fans Anna Maria Romero
    SINGAPORE: After the Arsenal Football Club ended a 22-year drought and finally won the Premier League last month, Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh, although a longtime Manchester United fan, congratulated Arsenal fans in Singapore. Mr Singh posted a video of himself being confronted with a long line of Arenal fans within the WP, which ended with him doing a version of ManU’s Mattheus Cunha’s famous and gif-worthy celebratory dance move.  The short clip, posted on June 2 (Tuesday), has been view
     

ManU fan Pritam Singh congratulates Singapore’s Arsenal fans

4 June 2026 at 19:36

SINGAPORE: After the Arsenal Football Club ended a 22-year drought and finally won the Premier League last month, Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh, although a longtime Manchester United fan, congratulated Arsenal fans in Singapore.

Mr Singh posted a video of himself being confronted with a long line of Arenal fans within the WP, which ended with him doing a version of ManU’s Mattheus Cunha’s famous and gif-worthy celebratory dance move

The short clip, posted on June 2 (Tuesday), has been viewed nearly 720,000 times and has gotten hundreds of comments from Instagram users.

Mr Singh even engaged with some of the commenters, thanking one who advised him “Watch your knees ah…” and replying “Up the Hammers!” to a Westham fan.

And when WP Non-constituency Member of Parliament Andre Low posted a gif of Bryan Mbeumo celebrating a goal against Tottenham Hotspur from earlier this year, as if suggesting that the WP chief could also copy his moves, Mr Singh joked back that “Any mimicking of Mbeumo’s celebration must include beard length.”

Several fellow ManU fans simply wrote “GGMU,” which stands for “Glory, Glory Manchester United,” a popular rallying cry, chant, and acronym used by the club’s fans.

Meanwhile, a fellow football fan wrote, “You gave me another reason to list you as my fav politician.”

Singaporeans perhaps first learned of Mr Singh’s love for ManU in 2012, the year after he was first elected into Parliament.

“Tough being a Manchester United fan today……..a performance unworthy of champions. Advantage Man City, it seems,” he wrote in a Facebook post on April 22, 2012, and when commenters discussed the match, he also added commentary.

In February 2022, after house visits at Eunos, the ward he has been representing in Parliament over the past 15 years, he posted about touching a “This is Anfield” sign outside a resident’s home for the first time in his life.

Later that year, also during house visits, he was happy to have found a fellow ManU supporter at one household, posting a photo with a resident who had hung an Old Trafford M16 sign on his gate.

“There are a rather large number of Liverpool fans in the Eunos ward of Aljunied GRC. I have seen my fair share of ‘This is Anfield’ signs, wrought-iron gates in the shape of the liverbird….you name it. 

So it was nice to see Hamdan and family last night during house visits, playing their part to bring some balance to the Force!”” he wrote. /TISG

Read also: Man U fan Pritam Singh happy to see Old Trafford sign at Eunos amid ‘a rather large number of Liverpool’ supporters

This article (ManU fan Pritam Singh congratulates Singapore’s Arsenal fans) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News.

  • ✇TheHill - Just In
  • Trump attacks CNN's Collins: 'Hatred in her eyes' Ryan Mancini
    President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, accusing her of having "hatred in her eyes," while he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. The president was answering a question about the recently defunct "anti-weaponization" fund, which he called "a beautiful thing." He then attacked CNN, calling the network "crooked as hell" and...
     

Trump attacks CNN's Collins: 'Hatred in her eyes'

3 June 2026 at 21:53
President Trump on Wednesday attacked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, accusing her of having "hatred in her eyes," while he took questions from reporters in the Oval Office. The president was answering a question about the recently defunct "anti-weaponization" fund, which he called "a beautiful thing." He then attacked CNN, calling the network "crooked as hell" and...

  • ✇Inkspill
  • Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of June 8, 2026 michael
    The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbies. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active contributor in the issue is this cartoonist (I began contributing in 1977). This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow) This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest (Avi Steinberg provides this week’s contest drawing) The Rea Irvin Talk W
     

Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of June 8, 2026

1 June 2026 at 10:42

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker

The Cartoonists and Cartoons

Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbies. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active contributor in the issue is this cartoonist (I began contributing in 1977).

This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow)

This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest (Avi Steinberg provides this week’s contest drawing)

The Rea Irvin Talk Watch

Once again, Rea Irvin’s perfect Talk design (shown here) has not returned to the magazine. Every Monday morning, since May of 2017, when a redrawn(!) version by a contemporary illustrator replaced Mr. Irvin’s work, I’ve opened up the newest issue hoping to see the original, but alas…

Read more here.

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Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art and only art supervisor (some refer to him as its first art editor) holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title of art editor. Irvin then became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn officially succeeded Harold Ross in early 1952. Irvin’s last original work for the magazine was the magazine’s cover of July 12, 1958. The February 21, 1925 Eustace Tilley cover had been reproduced every year on the magazine’s anniversary until 1994, when R. Crumb’s Tilley-inspired cover appeared. Tilley has since reappeared, with other artists substituting from time-to-time. Number of New Yorker covers (not including the repeat appearances of the first cover every anniversary up to 1991): 179. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.

 

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11 June 2026 at 16:02

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A cartoon illustration of a man made of mud writing in his journal in a swamp. Caption reads "Diary of a mudman."
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