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• I cooked a Thanksgiving feast using only Ina Garten's recipes, and it cost me $132.
• I made turkey, green beans, stuffing, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pie.
• I spent 10 hours cooking but the meal was beautiful

As thousands of employees prepared to move into Tesla's new Gigafactory outside Austin, Omead Afshar had to decide what kind of coffee they were going to drink.

Afshar, then operating as a chief of staff for CEO Elon Musk, was overseeing the construction of one of the largest vehicle-manufacturing facilities in the world. He approached picking which beans to brew in the break

• A Russian deserter who was an officer at a top-secret nuclear weapons facility spoke with the BBC.
• He described an atmosphere of paranoia, with personnel subjected to lie-detector tests.
• The deserter said his job involved making sure his subordinates didn't bring phones onto the base.

A Russian deserter

• Drake's company Frozen Moments filed a petition against Universal Music Group and Spotify.
• The petition was in relation to rapper Kendrick Lamar's diss track about Drake, "Not Like Us."
• The filing claims that Spotify and Universal used bots and payola to increase the track's popularity.

Kendrick Lamar and Drake's rap

If you ask Drake, Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us isn't as popular as it seems. The Canadian rapper has filed a petition in New York's Supreme Court, accusing Universal Music Group of using bots and paying Spotify, Apple and other entities to "artificially inflate the spread of Not Like Us and "deceiving consumers" into believing that "it was more popular than it was in reality." Universal Music

• Amy Speace became a mom for the first time one month shy of her 50th birthday.
• The musician underwent IVF and used donor eggs.
• She does yoga and meditates daily as part of her regime to be a patient, hands-on mom.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Amy Speace, 56, a singer-songwriter from Nashville. It has been edited for