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(Troy’s 1875 City Hall building. Photo: Hart Cluett Museum) Just across the Hudson River from Troy’s Lansingburgh neighborhood is the city of Cohoes. (For those not familiar with the region, the accent is on the second syllable.) Troy is called the Collar City because of the enormous detachable collar and cuff industry that centered here, beginning in the mid-19th century. Like Troy, Cohoes has its own textile industry connections. It is called the Spindle City primarily because of Harmony Mills, which was once the largest cotton mill in the United States.

Dang, girl! I started a Whole30 today and need to get crafty and write my prescription on a poster board, hang it up right across from my spot at the table, and take this drug as seriously as my others! I’m going with Strength training- 30 minutes MWF and Wheelchair Cardio- Minimum 30 minutes Weekdays I’ve totally slacked off on this and needed you to kick me in the butt. Thank you~♥️♥️♥️

Sometimes when my clients realize that they’ve been in a scenario that’s not good for them they say, “I don’t want to stop doing it because I feel like I will have lost time.” When they say this, I share with them that I don’t believe time is lost until we’re aware of a situation that isn’t working for us. That’s when the clock starts.  When we’re in a bad job or a relationship that we want to end, we don’t need to put so much focus on how much time we lost.

“My mom was obsessed with her appearance,” says Anastasia Selby, writer of the newsletter , in a new guest piece for The Unpublishable. “I understood that beauty was the most powerful currency she had.” Their essay, below, discusses beauty as control and love, as protection and harm, as prize and consolation — as a force of life and a force for death. I’m so grateful to Anastasia for sharing it here.-Jessica

Christmas staycation and thank God for that. We needed time off—the wife and I often travel for work, but we were all pretty exhausted and ground down. We needed time for ourselves and each other; the less time we spent getting places, the more time we could spend enjoying. I devoted a lot of time to reading; most of my books are of interest only to me, but Reports on the Dajjal raised many eyebrows.

If I ever had to list out my favorite TV shows, I would have to include The Mick, How to Make It In America, and Freaks and Geeks near the top. The Mick is a hilarious show about a wealthy family and a sociopathic aunt. How to Make it in America is about struggling young adults with an entrepreneurial fire inside of them. Freaks and Geeks portrays high school outcasts in a way that was ahead of its times.

Happy Friday War & Peaceniks! Let’s talk layoffs! I have been fired. It sucks. Unfortunately, in the worlds of Media and Tech right now, getting shit-canned is an expanding contagion. The ecosystem has been going through a massive “right-sizing” for the past year, as 130,000 jobs have been shed across the sectors, with more to come this year. Meta is goin… ncG1vNJzZmido52usXrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeppMJutc2c

Firstly, apologies for the clickbait title but secondly, it is kind of true. The way you were likely taught to make scones is wrong. Okay okay, not wrong exactly, but there is another way. Another way to make incredibly light and tender scones that also look the part, scones that would be at home served at any high-end afternoon tea at even the fanciest of hotels. Scones that break all the rules.

Chuck Pick, owner of Chuck’s Parking, has been Hollywood’s go-to parking valet for decades. His company has handled all manner of high-profile events, such as the exclusive Vanity Fair Oscars party. In his time he’s interacted with not only film personalities, but also presidents, including JFK. In the 1960s Pick worked parties that involved the Kennedys… ncG1vNJzZmiilqCzoq%2FTrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyxsdOeqWakkayzsL7DZrCorZyheq%2Bx1Z6pZqOepMRuwMee