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Butter Chicken

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Would you be scared off by its name, butter chicken? It sounds you might intake too much fat. No worries in fact. Although butter is one of the key ingredients that helps create a fragrant sauce that you’d love, you can reduce the amount of butter to your liking. That’s the beauty of home cooking. This recipe yields the minimum amount of butter and just right to make the sauce smooth and fragrant enough.

Butter chicken, a traditional Indian dish, is very popular, with many versions evolved around the world. What I like about this dish is the fragrant spices incorporated that are very good to our health. Some Indian dishes are very spicy and hot, but this butter chicken dish is quite mild. It’s a great family dish and a hit with my kid, served perfectly with naan bread or steamed rice.

Butter Chicken Recipe (Printable recipe)
By Christine's Recipes
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Yield: 4 to 6 serves

  • 800 gm skinless chicken thighs (or chicken breast)
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 garlic, minced
  • 3/4 tsp turmeric powder
  • 4 cardamom pods
  • 3/4 tsp ground coriander
  • 3/4 tsp garam masala
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 can (about 400 gm) diced tomatoes
  • 150 ml chicken stock
  • 40 gm butter
  • 3 tsp sugar
  • salt to taste
  • lemon juice, to taste
  • 2 Tbsp tomato paste
  • 3 Tbsp plain yoghurt
  • 1 garlic, minced
  • 1 Tbsp minced ginger
  • ¼ tsp chilli powder
Butter Chicken Procedures

  1. Cut the chicken into 3cm cubes. Mix with the marinade and set aside for 20 minutes.
  2. Heat oil in a wok or a heavy based pot. Sauté onion until aromatic. Push onion to the sides. Add some oil in the middle. Sauté garlic, turmeric powder, cardamom pods, ground coriander, garam masala and bay leaves. Stir and fry until fragrant. Pour in the diced tomatoes with sauce, and stock. Bring it to boil. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes, or until the onion turns soft. Remove from the heat and let it cool down a bit. Discard the bay leaves. Process it with a food blender into a paste. (Be careful if it’s still too hot.) Put it back on stove to reheat on medium-high.
  3. In the meantime, heat butter in a large frying pan over medium heat, when frothy, add the chicken and increase the heat to high, and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and pour the chicken with the butter into the sauce. Cook until the sauce is thickened. Season with salt and sugar. Serve hot. Squeeze some lemon juice in or add yoghurt if you like.
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  • For convenience, I used tinned tomatoes. You might use fresh tomatoes instead. Make sure to choose the ripe ones that are not too tangy.
  • Try to get the brand of yoghurt that’s not too sour.
  • All the spices are available at supermarkets.

  1. This is usually served with naan. Very nice.

  2. Is there another method to turn the sauce into a paste without a food blender?

    1. Unfortunately, it's quite hard to make a smooth paste like this without a food blender.

  3. how much tomatoes would I use, if I am using the fresh tomatoes?

    1. You may use about the same amount of fresh tomatoes, 400 gm. Take note that the sweetness and acidity will vary depending on the ripe level of your fresh tomatoes. Please try the taste and adjust the seasonings accordingly.


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Andy Murray of Britain reacts after he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France during their semifinal match at Wimbledon on Friday.

Once again, Roger Federer will be playing in the Wimbledon final. For once, it will be against Andy Murray.

A few hours after Federer reached his modern era-record eighth final at the All-England Club, Murray advanced to his first - and the first for a British man since Bunny Austin in 1938.

"There is a lot of pressure and stress around this time of year," said Murray, who beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 on Friday. "I don't feel it when I'm on the practice court or when I'm just walking around. I try not to think about that stuff.

"But in the back of my mind, it's there."

Federer played top-ranked Novak Djokovic under the roof on Center Court, and looked a lot like the player who has won six titles on the very same grass. The 16-time Grand Slam champion defeated last year's winner 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, and is now one victory from equaling Pete Sampras' record of seven Wimbledon titles.

"I have one more match to go. I'm aware of that," said the 30-year-old Federer, who is 6-1 in Wimbledon finals and now 1-0 against Djokovic on grass. "Still, it's always nice beating someone like Novak, who has done so well here last year, the last couple years."

The victory improved Federer's semifinal record at the All-England Club to 8-0. His only loss in the final came in 2008, when Rafael Nadal beat him 9-7 in the fifth set.

The shotmaking will do the talking in the final.

Federer will almost certainly have the psychological edge against Murray. Not only has he been at this stage seven times before, but he has beaten Murray in straight sets in two Grand Slam finals - at the 2008 US Open and the 2010 Australian Open.

Murray is 0-3 in Grand Slam finals - 0-9 in sets in those three matches - and will also have the expectations of his country squarely on his shoulders. The British public has been waiting for a men's Wimbledon champion for 76 years, since Fred Perry won the last of his three titles in 1936.

"I'm going to need all their help on Sunday because it's a massive challenge to win against Roger in the final of a slam, at Wimbledon," Murray said. "I hope that all of the crowd is with me."

Only minutes after the win over Tsonga, British Prime Minister David Cameron called the victory "great news," perhaps piling even more pressure on Murray.

"I'll be watching the final on Sunday and like the rest of the country, will be getting right behind Andy Murray," Cameron said in a statement. "I wish him the best of luck."

While a victory for Murray will be celebrated all over Britain, Federer is playing for more history. A victory in his 24th Grand Slam final would again give him the No 1 ranking, and equal Sampras' record of 286 weeks as the top-ranked player.

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The Hangzhou Declaration: Heralding the next era of human development

The Declaration urges governments, civil society and the private sector to harness the power of culture in addressing the world’s most pressing developmental challenges, such as environmental sustainability, poverty, and social inclusion.

"Culture is precisely what enables sustainability – as a source of strength, of values and social cohesion, self esteem and participation. Culture is our most powerful force for creativity and renewal." stated the Director General, Irina Bokova.

Released at the end of the Hangzhou International Congress, the Declaration is the product of intensive discussions led by over 100 of the world’s most cutting-edge leaders in the field of culture and development, who joined forces to prove the inextricable link between culture, sustainable development and lasting peace. As the largest and most high-profile global event in 15 years dedicated to culture and development, the Hangzhou Congress brought together ministers and high officials, private companies and experts and civil society actors, including Highness the Aga Khan, chairman of the Ag Khan Development Network, H.R.H Prince Sultan bin Salman Abdulaziz, and Liu Yondong, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China.

Building on UNESCO’s longstanding advocacy to demonstrate the link between culture and development, the Declaration brings together a decade of evidence and initiatives to showcase culture’s indispensable role for sustainability. Culture is at the vanguard of social and economic development in an increasing number of countries. Yet culture is still not fully integrated into sustainable development strategies worldwide. The Hangzhou Declaration urges that public policies need to reflect and scale up the variety of initiatives led at the local and national level. Because of culture’s cross-cutting role across a variety of fields, the Declaration exhorts stakeholders in the cultural sector and beyond – such as education, heath, and urban planning – to integrate culture in strategies for social growth and development.

Cultural and creative industries, such as tourism or heritage, and cultural infrastructure, such as museums and public theaters, are engines for social dialogue and cohesion, as well as jobs and revenues, especially in developing countries, thereby fighting poverty, unemployment and violence. The Declaration suggests that the creative economy, fueled by the power of new technologies, may be the next new economy, following the agrarian, industrial, and service economies.

The Hangzhou Declaration is a key step in UNESCO’s advocacy to integrate culture into sustainable development strategies, as the international community shapes a new global agenda for sustainable development after 2015. Its recommendations include:

  • Integrate culture within all developement policies and programmes, as equal measure with human rights, equality and sustainability
  • Mobilize culture and mutual understanding to foster peace and reconciliation
  • Ensure cultural rights for all to promote inclusive social development
  • Leverage culture for poverty reduction and inclusive economic development
  • Build on culture to promote environmental sustainability
  • Use culture to strenghten resilience to disaters and combat climate change through mitigation and adaptation
  • Value, safeguard and transmit culture to future generations
  • Harness culture as a ressource for achieving sustainable urban development and management
  • Capitalize on culture to foster innovative and sustainable models of cooperation

The Hangzhou Congress came at a critical juncture, less than one thousand days from the 2015 deadline and as the world debates the shape of new global post-2015 development agenda. The Hangzhou Declaration is expected to play a crucial role in helping to set the terms for that debate and to push for the full integration of culture into post-2015 development goals.

For the Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean, UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, aid programmes in Haiti that have the greatest impact are those that incorporate the cultural characteristics of the target populations -- "the emergency tents needed to be reconfigured according to Haiti’s villages, not in straight lines, as is too often the case”.

For Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), if development is to be sustainable, it must be embedded in culture and social fabrics. For example, in 1979, infant mortality in Bangladesh had been as high as 252 per thousand. Most of this infant mortality had been due to diarrhoea, easily treatable with oral rehydration solution. Attempts to teach village women the importance of using this solution were initially disappointing; and it was discovered that this was because the men in the households were not encouraging its use. Following extensive work among men, infant mortality in Bangladesh now stood at fewer than 40 per thousand, the lowest rate in South Asia, demonstrating that if an intervention was not culturally appropriate and if it had not been accepted and made part of the culture, it would not have worked.

According to Wiendu Nuryanti (Vice-Minister of Education and Culture for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia), 10 per cent of Indonesia’s GDP now comes, directly or indirectly, from the creative industries. The Borobodur Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is, for her, an exemplary example of the importance of cultural heritage in Indonesia. Situated in a majority Muslim area, it is the world’s largest Buddhist temple, and the local population is keenly aware of its importance for the local economy. It attracts five million visitors a year, 90 per cent of them domestic. One million jobs had been created directly or indirectly as a result of the temple.

According to Carlos Villasenor (President of Cultural Interactivity & Development), turning to the cultural sector helped the Colombian city of Medellin, which was plagued by endemic violence in the 1990s, diminish violence by 80% in a dramatic turnaround. In 2011, 30% of the city’s budget was invested in education, culture, and urban landscaping. New cultural infrastructures, such as public libraries and concert halls, gave access to culture to all. A new urban landscaping succeeded in bringing residents together, through the creation of open and green spaces.

The diversity, durability and dynamism of these initiatives prove the viability of culture in development models. Their value must be recognized and supported by public policy at the highest level. Let’s put culture on the world development agenda now!” stated the Director-General.


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Shift Clock Day Night - Public DomainI don’t do a lot of articles like this, but I want to share something with you that happened to me just recently.  I debated about whether or not to share this, but since this story will be aired on national television in just a few days I decided to go ahead and do it.  On Saturday, May 14th, my wife and I were enjoying a day of peace and rest when something very unusual happened.  I am not sure exactly how to describe it.  I have been describing it to some people as a “wave”, but I am not sure if that is entirely accurate.  It was almost as if I could feel something shift in the spiritual realm, and with it came the sudden realization that things had suddenly become a whole lot more serious.

If you don’t believe in God, I am sure that what I am saying does not make a whole lot of sense.  What I received that day was not in words, and so I have been attempting to translate into words what was deeply impressed upon me at that time.

It was kind of like a sudden soberness came over me.  I knew that it was not a time for joking or laughing, and that something important was taking place.

That night when my wife and I were getting ready for bed, I told her what had happened.  I explained to her that I felt that something had shifted and that now things had become much more serious.  But neither of us had any idea precisely what that meant.

The very next morning, on Sunday, May 15th, we received an extremely startling phone call.  It was my wife’s mother, and she told us that a member of our extended family had died on Saturday.  This member of our extended family was only in his sixties and he was thought to be in very good health.  For him to drop dead like that was totally unexpected.

This was immediate confirmation of what I had felt on Saturday.  It is entirely possible that what I felt in the spiritual realm was directly connected to the death of our relative.

However, I believe that what I received was not just for our family.  If it was only for our family, I would not be relating this story to you.

At the time when I received it, I had a very clear impression that things had also suddenly become much more serious on a global level as well.  I don’t know exactly what this means, but I think that we will find out during the weeks and months to come.

In the Scriptures, sometimes God used events in the personal lives of His servants to point to larger spiritual truths.  Ezekiel and Hosea are two good examples of this, but there are others.  Perhaps God timed things in such a way that something that happened in the natural (the death of our relative) would confirm the broader message that He had given to me.

I don’t claim to have all the answers.  I am just trying to make sense out of a very intense personal experience.

And without a doubt, things have already started to become “very serious” in many areas around the globe.  For example, just consider the crisis in Venezuela

It was around noon when a food truck rolled up… But, to the fury of the long line of people waiting out front, the cargo wasn’t unloaded. Instead soldiers took it away.

“We want food!” the crowd roared in protest, to no avail. Some tried to run after the truck.

Under the state of emergency imposed by President Nicolas Maduro, the military, along with government-organized civilian committees, ensures that food packets are delivered door-to-door in order to — as officials say — cut out black market operators.

“Here in Guarenas there were revolutionary supporters. But now the people no longer want revolution — what they want is food,” she said.

“The people are going hungry. We are tired of lining up, of killing ourselves for just a carton of eggs or some bread,” she said.

And of course we are seeing similar things take place all over that very troubled nation.

So far in 2016, there have been more than 100 major incidents of looting and more than 2,000 political protests in Venezuela.  The following comes from the Guardian

The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict registered 2,138 protests between January and April, most of them spontaneous manifestations of anger or frustration. Incidents of looting have nearly quadrupled in the same time.

We are like a bomb going tick-tock, tick-tock,” said Zenovia Villegas, a 54-year-old housewife who waited in line at a Guarenas supermarket since the early hours of Thursday only to be told at 3pm that the store would not be opening its doors that day. Dejected, she went home empty-handed.

Some people are already so desperate for food in some parts of Venezuela that they are hunting down cats and dogs and eating them.

I know that sounds quite graphic, but it is important to understand what takes place when an economy totally collapses because the exact same thing is coming to America.

Other Venezuelans have turned to barter to secure the things that they need

Thousands turn to social media to barter for goods. On Facebook, people offer to swap razors for cough syrup, toothpaste for sugar and oil for wet wipes.

Demand for antibiotics is voracious. In one post, someone offers seven boxes of amoxycillin – a form of penicillin.

Within minutes, he is inundated with requests.

This is why I have always encouraged people to stock up on barter items for the hard times that are coming.  When you can’t rely on the stores any longer, people will be trading what they have for what they need, and you will want to have some things that you can barter with.  For much more on the deteriorating situation in Venezuela, I would encourage you to check out this video that my wife and I just made…

We are moving into a time when the sorts of chaos and suffering that we are witnessing in Venezuela right now will start erupting all over the planet.  In my new book, I address some of the things that are going to be happening in the United States, and hopefully people will heed my warnings.

The worst times that any of us have ever seen are right at the door, and yet apathy is everywhere.

There just seems to be such blind faith in the Federal Reserve, our politicians and the man residing in the White House.

Unfortunately, that blind faith is about to be absolutely shattered, and we are going to see things happen in this nation that are far worse than what we have seen take place in Venezuela or anywhere else so far.

*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on*

  • Kim

    venezuela is a mess.

    I get those waves and feeling sometimes. That said, not to be disrespectful, u don’t need a feeling from God to know where this is all heading. The writing is on the wall. I figure sometime between October and December this year the banking system will indeed collapse and there will be no bail out this time.

    • Abe

      • James Staten

        Tishri 1 2016 ?

    • Raven

      Is it not odd that the people all look great but can their vanity now feed them? I wonder if the people had put more concern of what they put into their mouths than what plastic procedure they want to have done the outcome could have been different but they were far to worried about how they looked than how many crops were being planted. They live in paradise and a viable crop of spinach can be easily held within 5 weeks they been at this for a couple years building to this point.

    • Quetzol-43

      Can you imagine what will happen if the barriers between this reality and others openly, visibly breaks down?
      People are going to panic, especially when it is discovered that the other reality isn´t empty of life either.

  • Mondobeyondo

    For lack of a better analogy, did you sense a disturbance in the Force?

    • bbarnicle

      I felt it on May 14 – even emailed my brother to document it. Something bigger than ‘normal’ happening in the background or underground?

  • K

    I too have felt it. Among my family and friends. The most tenderhearted, and kind, seem to be being called home. While those of us, who have seen more than a few things, seem to be staying. Is it possible? That those He knows could not bear the strain, of what is coming. He is calling home? All I can say, there seems to be a pattern among my family and friends.

    • abc

      The GMOs that Bill Gates wants us to eat cause organ failure.

      • Jim Speaker

        Bill Gates you are A pretty man you know that?

    • watchmannonthewall

      I do not agree wih your statement, with respect to, “Is it possible? That those He knows could not bear the strain, of what is coming. He is calling home?”
      My father died in 2003.
      What I have seen since then is that my older brother has great distain for my father as does my mother! Many Christians think these two have great insight into the Word of God (both are esteemed among the MEMBERSHIP of the church, over 1,500 people) but my observance of them is that they both distain the ONE God put in charge of the family and who taught the family God’s Word!
      God IS a Husband AND a Father to His family. Those who will not render proper respect to the Father and Husband, WILL be cut off from the family! The FATHER of the family is the first “NEIGHBOR” a person has [commandment #5]! The promise is long life in “the LAND” where Messiah reigns as KING! Most people Think of this as “long life in the here and now”!

  • James Staten

    My wife and I have been discussing this situation in Venezuela over the last few days, and it centered around the fact that over the last few years we have talked about this coming to America. We have several pets, and the idea of eating your pet would be very troubling. I reminded her that if my memory serves me correctly, history records that during the siege of Jerusalem, when the city had fallen, hardened Roman soldiers came upon mothers eating their infants. Even the soldiers were throwing up at the sight. Lord help us!!!!

    • abc

      In China the sickos are supposedly processing human meat and lying saying it’s animal meat.

      • James Staten

        Yeah, I saw that made my stomach turn. Makes me think of Charlton Heston, “Soylent Green is People”.

        • Abe

          No No ” It’s People”. The last line of Heston! End of movie.
          Believe it or not, we’ve been doing that since 1998. Senomyx! I wont eat dead baby parts!

          Vote for Hitlery and keep the agenda rolling!

          No not you Jim!

          • James Staten

            You know the movie better than I. I think I just replied to another comment of yours, I believe?

  • Robert

    Unfolding events are truly stunning. We are on the cusp of war with Russia and China, the two main political parties are self-destructing, there is a drug pandemic, the economy is a shambles and yet the big news is the govt is pressuring states to allow men to use female toilets. I’d say the end is near one way or another.

    • watchmannonthewall

      I have to believe the “toilet” issue is a distraction introduced by the president and DOJ through the MSM to get people focused on this issue so that something else can pass “in the darkness”.

      OR it may also be deliberately designed to inflame people and be just one of a number of items that may come out over the next few months. Either way, there is more to this than meets the eye and there are definitely events taking place in the backgound.

      • michael malachi

        The 10 kings are about to destroy the harlot!!! SOON — Their unveiling will be in the invasion of the US. Everything is about to be in place. 7nukes???!!!

        • watchmannonthewall

          I have to say, “You may be correct!”

        • Jim Speaker

          Nuke the gates of hell now! NUKE SATAN!

      • Jim Speaker

        F…… those ugly looking deformed demons from hell.

        • watchmannonthewall

          Jude, the brother of Jesus wrote, “But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not DARE pronounce against him a railing judgement, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you.'”

          • Gay Veteran

            Jude was the brother of Jesus?

          • watchmannonthewall

            Mt. 13:55- “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph, and Simon and Judas [Jude]? ”
            Jude 1 “Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James…”

            The reason the book of Jude is canonized is because Judas, Jude, Jesus’ half brother, is its accepted author. The book contains material not corroberated by any other Biblical source but TPTW (were) decided he likely got his information from Jesus, who should know, and so they decided to put it in the canon.

            I do not use Jude to build any Scriptural doctrine because there are too many valid questions about the source of its content and many arguments have arisen over some of its material, i.e., did angels mate with human women?

            Some would be unhappy with me for saying that but better to be safe than sorry. Salvation issues can be corroborated elsewhere.

          • Dave Bosse

            I think Jude was one of Jesus’s half brothers along with James who pastored the first Christian church.

      • Hillary4Prison

        The “toilet issue” is more than a distraction. It’ another step to destroy the heter-binary structure of society. New terms are being established to refer to those who don’t consider themselves male or female…leading to transhumanism, i.e., humans no longer in God’s image.

        • abc

          Some people are born intersex (not standard xx or xy chromosomes).

          • Itsover2016

            No…it’s not the way it works.

          • lifesite censors

            Look it up. They are also born with parts from both genders. Don’t be ignorant.

    • Quetzol-43

      The barrier between realities is weakening, soon enough we´ll find out what is on the other side(s).

  • Cliffco

    I’ve been having the feeling recently that Obama and Valerie Jarrett will take out the electrical grid through channels and enact martial law, installing himself as permanent dictator, and ushering in Sharia law, killing the Constitution. Maybe I’m just paranoid about it all, I don’t know, but if it happens it’ll be before the elections can happen, and if it does happen it will be blamed on a massive solar flare.

    • Jim Speaker

      Barack Obama has A small head.

      • Cliffco

        Valerie Jerrett could. The date has probably already been set and the wheels could already be in motion………I expect something like this to happen in one way or another. Our electrical grid is vulnerable.

    • Sam

      Nah, Obuma will not usher in Sharia law, he is a Communist, and commies don’t agree with the tenets of Islam. Islamic law (forget Sharia law) does not call for undermining another country’s constitution. Obuma wants to create a rift between Muslims and Christians; this enables him to exploit the people and justify more powers for himself.

    Wow this truly places fear in my heart and mind. Recently I had a feeling that was weird to me, I been smoking marijuana for a while and was high that day but it never made me feel this way. It was hard to explain but I felt weird. I am a Christian and I believe in God and Jesus (Yashua), I have been researching conspiracy theories for a while now and have a general idea of what many believe will come to this nation. My fear derives from my belief that the “end” is alot closer than I’d like to think.. Man I got a daughter and I love her to death and I don’t want her to experience anything like what kids and people period are going through in Venezuela. But at the end, I’m on God’s side and I know He will never forsake me.

    • watchmannonthewall

      I used to smpke that stuff, and other things. Perhaps it had an impact on your understanding and thoughts. You might want to clear your mind!

    • Paul Patriot

      You are a Christian, and you are getting high smoking pot????

      Please help us understand what sort of “Christian” gets high and talks about nonchalantly?

      Not judging here, just real confused. The Bible tells us to be sober minded.

      Please repent and stop getting high. I had a long history with this prior to being saved, so, I speak from experience.

      • watchmannonthewall

        Me too! And worse drugs than this! Thank God He pulled me out of the bottom of the pit!

        • Paul Patriot

          Amen. All honor, glory and praise to the lamb that was slain, and has redeemed us with his precious blood.
          Grace be with you!

        • Gay Veteran

          “…And worse drugs than this!….”

          well that also explains a lot

          • watchmannonthewall

            No doubt we have more in common than you thought!

          • Gay Veteran

            uh, never used such worse drugs

      • Gay Veteran

        “…I had a long history with this….”

        well that explains a lot

  • James

    When Obama was Elected the New US President, Here in Australia a lot of us were breathing a very big sigh of relieve indeed, the walk that Obama did on his

    First inauguration was taken with much hope at last a leader ready for diplomacy not bullets an exicting moment captured right around the world i have friends in the UK and Ireland emailing me the same thoughts!! the war years of Bush,Clinton, Bush Over!………oh Dear as the Beatles once put Iam Only Sleeping…….God Help US ALL

  • michael malachi

    America IS mystery Babylon of Revelation 17&18 as well as Jeremiah 50&51. I do not think that there will be an economic collapse because America will be in the midst of her judgment. An army of several nations including Russia and China will invade from the north. Several nuclear or similar devices will destroy much of NY city and other major cities. (I believe that there will be 7 such devices used – based on a prophetic dream) Next will come the chaos with martial law, food medicine and clean water shortages, rioting, an invading army descending on America plus several natural disasters of epic proportion. This will all begin before the end of next year – possibly sooner – and will proceed for a few years until America is uninhabitable.
    How about that for a wake up call! Let this be your warning —————- COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!!!

    • watchmannonthewall

      People such as David Wilkerson, Henry Gruver, and Dumitru Duduman (1984-85) all foresaw the destruction of the U.S. By 2 or 3 witnesses are facts established.

      George Washington saw its destruction, but without an invading army. Only recently have people begun to claim an invading army occurs.

      Destruction is assured. Whether there is an invasion is debateable. The enemy(?) may already be among us and the pres wants to bring more. I’m not sure what can be acccomplished by outsiders invading a nation already destroyed by nuclear weapons.

      As to your last statement: “Come out of her MY people!” If you belong to the Sovereign, Get OUT of her!

      • michael malachi

        Nuclear detonations will destroy a relatively small area and have fallout over a larger area. There will be some unsafe areas in the country however most of the country will not be directly impacted by the blasts.

        • watchmannonthewall

          Nuclear tipped missles, with 10 warheads each, aimed at popoulation and industrial centers (those that remain), would destroy a significant amount of the population as much of the population of the US lives in cities.
          Scripture speaks of a land that is NOT inhabited during the Millennial reign of Chist, and it seems possible/probable it is the U.S. Just as Israel was uninhabited for much of 2000 years due to its peoples disobedience to God, the land would not support people, it is plausible the same will happen to the U.S. What happens to Israel is a prelude of what happens elsewhere, later. It is all prophetic!
          Could Israel have committed any worse sins than we have?

  • watchmannonthewall

    It is interesting that you “felt” this on the 49th day of the counting of the omer, if one was using the barley being aviv as the beginning of the year rather than simply following the Hillel calendar made up in the 4th century AD. Scripture records that unto “Shiloh” is to be the gathering/obedience of the people, not unto Hillel. (Gen. 49:10)

    The day your extended family member died was actually Shavuot, Pentecost, and we know according to Joel 2 that the Holy Spirit is going to be poured out once again, as the LATTER rain (Hosea 6:3), most likely on the day of Shavuot, as this has happpened 2x’s already (at Sinai and at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Rauch Ha Kodesh, when Peter gave his first message in Acts 2:14-36).

    Only time will tell whether you are/were in touch with the Spirit, but surely there will be a time God begins to speak to and through those who are obedient to Him as we come to the end of this age! Scripture records this as a fact!

    • Gay Veteran

      “It is interesting that you “felt” this on the 49th day of the counting of the omer, if one was using the barley being aviv for Firstfruits….”

      you forgot the chicken bones and goat entrails

      • watchmannonthewall

        You will need to give me a reference for that one. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in scripture.

        • Gay Veteran

          you might as well use chicken bones and goat entrails

          • Mary Mclocke

            I’m always respectful of Veterans, and my heart is always full of wanting only the BEST for them all. Please have some respect, even if you do not believe in the Savior – which is actually YOUR loss. Sir, the last place you want to be is here when it “hits the fan.” Without Christ, you don’t have a choice. With Christ, we rest in the knowledge that though we pray daily for the worthiness to escape those things to come, we rest also in Jesus’ saving Grace and the Blessed Hope that is God’s rapture of His own. God created us all, but He also tells us, “If you do not have My Son, you do not have Me.” I pray you reconsider who you’ll trust your soul with in these days of the upcoming Latter Rain..though know it’ll require repentance.

  • Jim Speaker

    I hate the DEVIL MONSTER

  • DJohn1

    I know exactly what you mean.
    He left the Holy Spirit as a comforter for us all.
    But the time is close and Jesus Christ’s followers are being slaughtered in the middle east by ISIS and others. Do these people think that there will not be a price to pay for this abomination? The price is coming and it is not something I want to be any where near.
    IF Jesus comes back he comes with an army of sophisticated superior beings at his back called angels.
    Jesus cannot be lied to successfully.
    Some might remember that when he comes and when he takes over.
    It is not to late to accept Jesus into your heart and be saved.
    I speak not to Michael but to those who haven’t been saved.
    We know not the time and place of our own death. Many have postponed it and died.
    When he comes, those that follow him go to a better place than this.
    If Jesus comes tomorrow, I make no promises. But I hope I have the guts to follow him wherever he leads. If he takes us to a place he has prepared for us, then all is well with my soul.
    I have witnessed the reality of the Holy Spirit in my youth. I have been used before by Jesus. I simply hope he will take me as one of his own.
    If this is that time when he comes back, we rejoice. If he has given you a message of some kind you are blessed.

    • iris

      DJohn1, thank you. And if you have put your hope and trust in Jesus Christ as God come in the flesh and your savior, because of what He did for us all, taking the punishment which we deserve, dying for us and rising from the dead, then for sure, He is finishing what He started in you, Philippians 1:6. And as Paul said, “for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him, against that Day”. As it says in James, His mercy triumphs over His judgements. He is faithful to all of His promises. God bless!

  • Randall

    i will throw my two cents in with everyone else. I did feel an evil spiritual shift this last weekend. The spirit of antichrist is here and so is the antichrist. The world is waiting for a ‘savior’ and they will get him…for a while. I think the USA is on it’s last leg and God’s judgment is here or nearly here. I bought another 3 months of survival food and a big berkey water filter also. Being prepared isn’t ‘not trusting in God’ it’s being prudent and wise. The persecution of our brothers and sisters around the world has increased and it is shifting to the west. This ALL has to happen because God tells us it will. I don’t like it and neither do my friends and church members BUT I know that God will either protect me and provide for me, OR take me into glory as a martyr like others have gone before me. He is in charge of my life and He directs my steps…where ever they will go. I am ready and I continue warning those who don’t want to hear it. I am not a popular person now but i am not in a popularity contest.
    We are living in the last of the last days and i believe this year (or maybe early next year) you and I will meet face to face with Jesus and each other!

    Thank you for warning others on a large scale and I pray it will get even bigger in the days to come.

    • Dave Bosse

      Obama is seeking to become the head of the United Nations which I believe will be the “opposition” to Christians. I always thought Obama “could be” the antichrist, but now I think he may be the preceding “Beast” and Hillary Clinton the antichrist.

      • Mary Mclocke

        Can’t be Hillary.. God’s word is clear that it is a man..

  • James Staten

    I have written this numerous times through the years. I had the privilege to exchange a few e-mails with Pastor R A Coombes before he went home to be with the Lord. He wrote what many consider to be the classic on “America the Babylon”. It cost him friends, finances and family. He gave a presentation at the Prophecy Club in 1998. Just google the presentation, but be warned it’s not a snack lunch. It’s a full course meal. He goes in depth into the Greek and Hebrew. It is a 2 1/2 hour presentation. I have studied several scholars like him through the years, and I am persuaded.

  • Lazarovic

    How about something on EMP? Chemical, biological warfare defense? Nuclear War Survival Skills perhaps? Civilian Emergency Response Teams maybe? How to can your own food, victory gardens, home defense techniques, etc. How about something useful to the people?

    • Gay Veteran

      sit back and enjoy the tidal wave of BS, like posted above:

      “It is interesting that you “felt” this on the 49th day of the counting of the omer, if one was using the barley being aviv for Firstfruits, as the beginning of the year rather than simply following the Hillel calendar made up in the 4th century AD….”

  • greanfinisher .

    We can stock up on all the staples in the world, but what good would it do us? After all, if conditions should deteriorate that badly, I can guarantee you that anything and everything imaginable would be confiscated and rationed by the commander-in-chief.

  • nohomehere

    The question about the U.S. being the women in rev’s!
    Their are some who believe the U.S. is the fulfilment of the patriarc Joseph’ blessing or prophecy for his children
    Ephriam and Manasseh! ( check them out yourself! ) and that these two symbolized latter day England and America, brothers you know!
    The spread of the Isrealites in the world and becoming a blessing to the the whole world, was a completed fulfilment of promise that
    God has kept! , if you believe his word will not return to him void!
    So if America is end time Isreal She ( America) is also the wayward betrothed of God , ( you who say you know the word know he found a baby girl abandoned and he raised her as his own)Ezek 16.6
    It is a sad story I feel great depth of sorrow , and you also know she grew and when she was of age he betrothed her to wife and all the wedding gifts and jewelry she turned trade coat on him and went after other men and instead of her Johns paying her she payed them giving them the gifts that God had given her ezk 16: 33
    Its a utterly sad story of betrayal !
    The blessing God had promised he kept and if you follow the story line , She ( The Women Isreal), He calls her a prostitute .Ezek 16:22
    And adds that her lovers will be her destroyer,ezek16:37,38-60
    It is a common thread for the History of Isreal to go a whoring after strange gods and God punishes her and then she returns…. over and over! But as you also know he will punish her this last time and out of this the remnant will be saved not the whole world but a remnant , That you know who you are there is no doubt!
    America as a whole has followed this same pattern of giving our best God given gifts and sqandering them on others rather than her own!
    Sure once in awhile she did good for the whole country but lots of squandering has gone on, whoring after the ways of foreign nations. And right now she rides the world high and drunk with power with out a care as she says I sit as a queen and am no widow….and will know no sorrow!
    So when everyone says peace and safety then comes sudden destruction ! I dread seeing the coming suffering , come out of her my people, Isreal of God!

  • Dan Jones

    Time for God’s Judgment on America, and people are either going to serve God with all their heart or they are going to be swept away in the apostasy that is overtaking the world… there is no middle ground in this fight…

    Always be a light that is .shininginthedark.

  • The Daddy

    Maria Esperanza, a lady from Venezuela with what some say a gift of prophecy said, “It will all began here.” (in venezuela)

    • Gay Veteran

      it doesn’t take a prophet to figure out Venezuela would end badly

      • abc

        ALL fiat currency collapses. You always leave stupid responses.

        • Gay Veteran

          and your comment was brilliant?

    • Dave Bosse

      Venezuela is a socialistic country just like what Bernie Sanders and to a lessor degree Hillary Clinton want to turn America into. Obama came to mess up the status quo and create division between groups, classes and races to keep the public’s eye away from other deceptive things he is doing in the background. Those who think Obama will be gone and sitting as his Presidential Library, retiring from public life… wait and watch… we have heard the last of Obama.

  • MaxRockatansky33

    Even before this crisis, crime rate in Venezuela was one of the worst in the entire World. Now they are on the brink of Civil war.

  • Abe

    I knew as a child I’d see the “End of Days” How? Why? I don’t know, but I knew! Make your peace with God People!! I have! I fear no evil!

    BTW these days a passport doesn’t mean squat!!

  • Seniorsquadldr

    Repent and believe. “Marvel not that I say unto thee, ye must be born again” John 3:7 There is no salvation in Religion. Salvation is by grace of God.

  • hanna

    I had that ‘wave’ of feeling in February 2016. I couldn’t explain it, but it felt very bad. Like something bad has been decided and in process.
    I’m not Christian by the way.

  • horse777res

    GOD HAS ABANDONED AMERICA!!!! Judgment is here.

    • Abe

      The writings are on the wall!
      “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.”
      We’ve been measured, weighed, and balanced, now comes division!

    • ATrober

      Correction: the USA has abandoned God.

  • rawhunger .

    “There just seems to be such blind faith in the Federal Reserve, our politicians and the man residing in the White House.”

    Hmmm… just like Christians and their blind faith in an invisible man living the sky that created everything in the universe in seven days.

    • Mary Mclocke

      No one forces you to believe, obviously, and it IS your loss. However, your ridiculous taunting is not necessary either. Grow up.. the world is in trouble. Since you insist on going through the “Great Tribulation” and it WILL be, at least leave those of us alone who by Christ’s Grace will not.. but do remember, that you DID have the chance to be one of Christ’s denied Him. You SHOULD come to Christ while there is still time, as that time IS running out. Once the Arc door closes, that’s IT. You WILL face all the hell on earth which is to if I were you, I’d grab the chance and quit being so smug..You are NOT behaving as smartly as you THINK you are. Salvation is time left on this offer!

  • darius herndon

    For thirty years this spring, I’ve seen the Bride taken out of this, for the reason that the church age has ended, now the reign of Jacob’s seven years of trouble. Though there is nothing wrong with preparing oneself, James said,works without faith is dead being alone, Thus upon ascension whatever preparation we leave will help those who ‘re left. It will be a blessing to those left behind, family, neighbors, whoever, so its not a sin to prep, but actually a god sent, for like Him, we so love everyone. There was a time I had a case of salt, in Venezuela right now, that would he like having a case of gold to barter with, beware, Apb, The RAM

  • Tatiana Covington

    I didn’t notice a thing that day.

    • Mary Mclocke

      If you are in Christ, you can feel something in the air.. If you are truly in Christ, you do not fear it.. but you DO feel it. ARE you saved by the Blood of the Lamb?

  • ATrober

    Had the same last fall and many have had it.

    The Holy Spirit is telling those in Christ something’s changing in the world scene. And, it is.

    Thy Kingdom Come.

  • Jim Davis

    Bernie wants to bring the joys of Venezuela to America!

    TRUMP 2016!!!

  • abc

    But if your disposition changed after suspecting what they could announce u don’t think that could be a placebo effect?
    no offense

  • M.E. Perritte

    Michael I had a very similar experience last year on January 19th. I was startled awake by what seemed like a shift. My first thought was earthquake but I was aware that this was a shift in the spiritual realm. On January 20th Obama gave a State of the Union address and I knew by what he had to say that this was the shift for evil that had taken place. As we can readily see, evil has escalated exponentially since then.

  • Gay Veteran

    that’s right, blame it on Teh Gays

    • Mary Mclocke

      Sodom and Gomorrah ring a bell??

  • This corresponds with the article that I did on April 15th:

    omegashock dot com/2016/04/15/i-am-uneasy/

    (my website address is being interdicted by disqus)

    It’s hard to know if these feelings have merit. I’ve been like a cat with his hair on end for a while, myself, but I can’t say that your hair should be on end, too.

    But, we are about to begin the 50th year since Jerusalem was liberated by the Jewish people. Jesus included that in His list of markers for the Last Days in Luke 21.

    My hope is that you will redouble your efforts to prepare and to help others prepare.

    John Little
    omegashock dot com

    • carson

      Hi John. Yeah the ‘peace’ process is set to restart in what? june 3?
      Interesting that this time around france seems to have taken charge, and they’ve already voted (non binding on the gov for now) to recognize a palestinian state. So have most of the countries of the world, along with favoring islam it speaks to joel 3 and dividing the land..

      With everything else going on about all that we need is a world saying ‘peace, and safety’…
      Even so come Lord Jesus and look up rejoice always!

  • Vizar

    World War Three. There is no doubt and it WILL go nuclear. The result will be a mess that only God can clean-up. Though, God is sad and disgusted with us. Pray about that, He’ll tell you. This is HIS beautiful planet after all we are about the desecrate again.

  • davidnrobyn

    It isn’t that the government is going to let us down or won’t help us. That would be the best-case scenario.

  • Mary Mclocke

    Not mid-60s, 1973.. I remember it like yesterday. Saw it in the theater in June of 1973 with my ex. Broke off with him a couple weeks later. I also own the movie to double check the date, but no need. I’d not forget those days!

  • lizziedw

    These last few days are also the days during which the US/NATO forces have begun placing antimissile nuclear drones/bombs/whatever right next store to Russia, about like 160 miles from St. Petersburg.


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20th March 2017 By: Reuters

ArcelorMittal, the world's top steelmaker, and Italian processor Marcegaglia have offered €1.6-billion ($1.72-billion) to buy Italy's troubled Ilva steel plant, outbidding a rival consortium, three sources said on Friday.

The rival group that includes India's JSW Steel bid €1.2-billion for the Ilva plant, the three sources with direct knowledge of the bids told Reuters.

Italy has been seeking a buyer for Ilva, based in the southern Italian port city of Taranto, since the government took over the plant in 2015 in a bid to clean it up and save thousands of jobs in an economically depressed area.

The loss-making plant, Europe's largest by output capacity, was sequestered by magistrates in 2012 on charges its owners caused environmental and health problems in the area.

The plant has production capacity of more than 11-million tonnes of steel a year, but produced just 5.8-million tonnes last year.

The three sources with direct knowledge of the bids said the €1.6-billion offered by ArcelorMittal-Marcegaglia for the Ilva plant was on top of 2.3-billion euros the group pledged last week it would invest to lift output and clean-up the firm.

The sources asked not to be identified as they were not authorised to discuss the offers in public.

Two of the sources said the rival group, known as AcciaItalia, planned to invest €3-billion in Ilva in addition to its €1.2-billion bid for the plant.

AcciaItalia, which includes Italian steelmaker Arvedi, Italy state holding company CDP, businessman Leonardo Del Vecchio's holding company Delfin and JSW, has yet to make its investment plans public.

"ArcelorMittal is pushing quite strongly. They probably also have stronger financial backing because their consortium is just two entities," said Emanuele Norsa, an analyst at market intelligence provider Kallanish Commodities.

Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s biggest retail bank, signed a letter of intent to buy Ilva presented by ArcelorMittal-Marcegaglia to the Italian government.

Italian state commissioners managing Ilva have until April 6 to weigh the offers. Two sources said their decision, which is subject to ratification by Italy's Industry Ministry, would be be announced in the second half of April.

But the new owners are unlikely to take over the plant until autumn at the earliest as the ministry has to examine environmental aspects of the bids and European Union anti-trust authorities also needed to approve the deal.

The EU authorities were already reviewing the offers, two of the sources said.

The AcciaItalia consortium is unlikely to face anti-trust issues as JSW, its key industrial player, is a domestic Indian producer with almost no steel assets in Europe.

The ArcelorMittal-Marcegaglia consortium might face hurdles. Global investment bank Jefferies said ArcelorMittal's share in the European flat steel market could rise to 40% from 33% post after acquiring the Ilva plant.


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A Taste of Lazio #ItalianFWT

One of the things I love most about food and wine is their ability to transport one to a different place.  And a  place’s people, culture, and customs are reflected in its food and wine.  In that sense, one can virtually travel the world through food and wine.  And that is exactly what we are doing through Italian Food Wine and Travel (#ItalianFWT).  We taking a virtual tour of Italy by exploring its food and wines.  This month we’re exploring Lazio!

Lazio, which is also goes by it Latin name, Latium, is located central Italy.  Its neighbors include  Tuscany to the north, Campania to the south, Abruzzo to the east and Umbria to the northeast.

It’s home to the ancient capital city of Rome with its art, historic sites, and of course, a plethora of gustatory delights.

Understandably, with Rome as the crown jewel of the region, it’s easy to overlook other places to see, and things to do.  But, should you want to take the road less traveled, consider a visit to Tivoli, home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites: Villa Adriana, the sprawling country estate of Emperor Hadrian, and the 16th-century Villa d’Este, a Renaissance villa famous for its landscaped gardens and lavish fountains.  Or perhaps Viterbo, which despite sustaining heavy bomb damage in WWII, is the region’s best preserved medieval town.

Both are easy day trips from Rome.

Source: http://italianwinecentral.com

Lazio Wine

Before we received this month’s theme, I’d never heard of Lazio. The region’s vinous reputation is primarily based on its white wines.  Among the 30 DOCs, there are three white wine DOCs that stand out – Castelli Romani (the most important), Frascati (the more renowned and traditional) and Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone.  The region has three DOCGs –  Cannellino di Frascati,  Frascati Superiore and Cesanese del Piglio, which produce a dessert wine, a blended white wine and a red wine respectively.

In My Glass And On My Plate

I wanted to try both a white and a red wine from the region.  I was able to track down a couple of the DOCG wines – a Frascati Superiore (K&L Wine Merchants) for my white and Cesanese del Piglio (Beltramo’s) for my red.

Let’s begin with the white…

Frascati  is named after  a tiny, ancient town in the hills just south-east of Rome. Grapes have been cultivated for wine in the area since the 5th century B.C.!

Several grape varieties may be used to make Frascati wines, but the core is formed by the classic central Italian white-wine blend of Trebbiano and Malvasia.

The wine doesn’t have the best reputation.  It’s an easy-going, often the innocuous, dull wine that’s served as “house wine” all across Rome.

Casale Marchese Frascati Superiore ($14, 13%) Imported by Oliver McCrum Wines

The Casale Marchese property dates back to the middle ages.  It’s been owned by the Carlettie family since 1713.  The grapes for this wine are sourced from 40 year old vines.  It is a blend of Malvasia del Lazio, Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia di Candia, Bonvino and Bellone.  The wine is raised in stainless steel and sees no malolactic fermentation.

The wine pours a very pale yellow color.  It shows aromas of peach, apple, dried herb, almond and a bit of lemon aromas.  On the palate it’s medium-bodied and zesty with peach, green apple, nectarine, and lemon flavors underscored with an appealing vein of minerality

This is a delicious, delightful every day white wine that I’d buy again. Very Good (86-88 pts) >>Find this wine<<

I paired the wine with Spicy Linguine with Clams and Mussels.  It was a wonderful pairing. The shellfish seemed to bring out the lemony acidity of the wine, and the minerality of the wine was a satisfying complement to the dish.

A Taste of Lazio - Spicy Linguine with clams and mussels
Spicy Linguine with Clams and Mussels

2013 Casale Della Ioria Cesanese del Piglio Tenuta Della Ioria  ($24.99, 14%) Imported by Oliver McCrum Wines

Cesanese (“chae-sah-NAE-say”) is an ancient red wine grape indigenous to Lazio.  It’s quite possible that Cesanse was local wine of ancient Rome because the grape existed in the region during pre-Roman times.

Cesanese gives credibility to Lazio’s growing wine culture. Produced near the hilltop hamlet of Piglio, Cesanese del Piglio…boasts winemaking roots that date back to 133 B.C. and the ancient Romans who first recognized the favorable position…Soils are red and dark in color, and volcanic tufa stone is common in the Colli Albani area.- Wine Enthusiast

There are two different genetically unique Cesanese species. One is called “Cesanese Comune” or “Local Cesanese” and the other is called “Cesanese d’Affile. Cesanese d’Affile is considered the finer of the two grapes.

Cesanese del Piglio DOCG is considered the best Cesanese wine, made with 100% Cesanese grapes from the Frosinone Province.

IMG_3048Casale della Ioria is ‘Lazio’s best producer of Cesanese’ according to Italian wine expert Ian d’Agata.

Fruit for this wine is grown in Ciociaria.  The wine is made from Cesanse di Affile.  It is aged in French barriques.

The wine is a dark ruby color with promising red fruit, juniper, and forest floor aromas.  On the palate it’s medium-bodied  and fresh with a very smooth texture, and a subtle savory character.  It shows distinctive Morello cherry, red mulberry, hints of red currant, black olive and vanilla flavors with an earthy undertone.

The wine reminds me of a cross between Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc.  Among the many things I enjoyed about this wine is that takes a chill quite well. I’ll be adding it to my (short) list of chillable reds.  Very Good to Outstanding (89-91pts) >>Find this wine<<

I paired this wine with Sausage, Pepper and Mushroom Spiedini with Grilled Truffled Polenta.

A Taste of Lazio
My grill marks didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked, but the truffled polenta was flat-out delicious!

And what a  harmonious food and wine pairing it was!  Cesanese is a very versatile wine at the table. Will buy more!

Sausage, Pepper and Mushroom Spiedini with Grilled Truffled Polenta
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Italian
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  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • 6 cups water
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1¾ cups yellow cornmeal
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tsp of truffle oil
  • 5 tablespoons canola oil
  • 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
  • 1 pound basil garlic sausage
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 green bell peppers
  • 1 large yellow onion
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon spicy brown mustard
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 10 (10-inch) skewers
  1. Spray a 9 by 13-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Bring 6 cups of water to a boil in heavy large saucepan. Add 2 teaspoons of salt. Gradually whisk in the cornmeal. Reduce the heat to low and cook until the mixture thickens and the cornmeal is tender, stirring often, about 15 minutes. Turn off the heat. Add the butter, and truffle oil. Stir until butter melted.
  2. Pour the cooked polenta into the baking pan and smooth the top. Let cool until firm, about 20 minutes.
  3. Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat. When the polenta is cool, invert it onto a cutting board and slice it into 12 squares. Brush the squares with a little canola oil and grill until they are heated through and have nice grill marks, about 2 minutes per side.
  4. Meanwhile, if you are using wooden skewers, soak them in water for at least 30 minutes or while you prepare the sausage and peppers.
  5. Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium heat. Arrange the sausages on the grill and cook for 8 to 10 minutes giving them a ¼ turn every couple of minutes. Remove them to a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes, then cut them into ½-inch thick pieces. The sausage will not be completely cooked through. It will finish cooking on the skewers with the peppers and onions.
  6. While sausage is cooking, core and slice the peppers. Cut them and the onion into 1 by 1-inch pieces.
  7. In a small bowl, whisk together 3 tablespoons canola oil, balsamic vinegar, Italian seasoning and mustard.
  8. When you are ready, heat the grill or grill pan over medium heat. Thread each skewer with 3 pieces of the sausage, 4 pieces of onion and green pepper and 2 pieces of the red pepper making sure to alternate the ingredients. Brush them with the oil and vinegar mixture and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Grill the skewers on both sides until they are hot and sizzling, about 6 to 8 minutes. Arrange them on a serving platter and serve with the grilled polenta

I really enjoyed both these wines.  Both were wonderful expressions of the grapes and a taste of Lazio!

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  1. Ooh, both pairings sound good but I think I’d really love the truffled polenta paired with the Cesanese, which I haven’t tried before.

  2. Great post! I’m definitely making a stop at K&L in West Hollywood next trip to LA. Lovely pairings, and will be looking for the Cesanese when I’m there! Happy 4th of July!

    1. Martin D. Redmond says:

      I hope you’re able to find a Cesanese Christy. I think you’ll enjoy!

  3. Yet to try Cesanese and have always wanted to. I’m sure we have some somewhere in Boston. I have to try this dish though. Sounds delicious!

    1. Martin D. Redmond says:

      Thanks Jennifer….I hope you are able to find a bottle. It’s truly a wonderful wine!

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Green chilly: 1-2 pcs
Ginger chopped: 1/2 tsp
Garlic chopped: 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder: 1 tsp
Coriander powder: 1 tsp
Pepper powder: 1 tsp
Garam masala: 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves: 2 strings
Mustard seeds-1/4 tsp
Coconut pieces: 2 tbsp
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Modern tendency of death rate of the population in the Far East region of Russia

Tatiana Komarova, Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems

The economic crisis in Russia has led to falling of a standard of living of the population, to growth of poverty, to degradation of system of public health services, to environmental contamination, and, as consequence, to deterioration of health of the population, decrease in life expectancy, increase in death rate of the population. Since 1993 death rate of the population has began to grow steadily, the has been the fastest rates in territory of Far East region of Russia. The general mortality rate coefficients at the Far East surpasses a similar parameter across Russia. For 1990-2008 the given parameter (counting upon 1000 чел) has increased in 1,3 times in Russia and in 1,6 times - on the Far East. But rates of death growth on the Far East surpass much more average Russian parameters. In 1990-2008 death rate on 1000 inhabitants has increased for 30,3 % in Russia, for 65,8 % in Far East region. Life expectancy is one of the major demographic categories, represents generalizing characteristic of people death rate. For the period 1998-200 average life expectancy in Russia has decreased for 2 years, in the Far East - for 2,77 years. At the same time absolute values of life expectancy separated considerably: at average Russian parameters is 65,07 years, in Far East region - 62,42 years. Increase of death rate crisis on the Far East of Russia, first of all, is precisely visible on a background of tendencies of death rate in economically advanced countries where life expectancy has increased during last decade. The research is exucuted with support of the grant Russian Foundation for Humanities 09-02-88201a\T

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Abstract: Evaluating the side-channel attacks (SCAs) resilience of a crypto device is important and necessary. The SCAs-secure evaluation criteria includes the information theoretic metric and the security metric. The former metric measures the leakage amount of a crypto device. It should be independent with the evaluator. However, the current metrics, e.g. mutual information (MI), conditional entropy and perceived information, are related to the leakage model selected by the evaluator. They only reflect the leakage utilization, rather than the real leakage level of a crypto device. In light of this, we analysis the side-channel as a communication channel and develop two objective metrics, the average MI and capacity of the channel, to characterize the real leakage amount and its upper bound of a crypto device through communication theory. Although the channel capacity is a rough estimation of the leakage amount of the device, it can furnish the leakage amount at the worst case scenario the device may leak. We investigate the estimation methods of the two metric in different noise scenes. Besides, a leakage detection method based on consistency check is developed subsequently. The proposed method are capable of finding the Point-Of-Interests (POIs) in leakage traces and introducing few leakage points cannot be used to mount SCAs. The experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Another finished quilt

This time it is M's quilt that is finished.

The binding is on, the threads are burried (the least favorite step for me) and the quilt is signed! He will even sleep under his new quilt tonight! and he is happy about that too.

I have even washed this one straight after it was finished.

Quilt stats:
Fabric:Lots of fabric from various stashes.

Backing: various fabric from my stash
Binding: Blue fabric from my stash!

Quilting with Superior Threads King Tut #937

Pattern:Various 12' blocks from several bees (from 2013! with a few added this year)

Started in 2013 and finished on 24 June 2016
Size: 72'  x 84'

Another OPAM this month and another one I can cross off my Finish Along Q2 list!

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  1. It looks great and congrats on getting it finished.

  2. Love the fabric choices and the design sampling of blocks is very pleasing to the eye. Very nice job.

  3. A lovely finish! And great to have all been made from stash, must feel good!

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Mar 31, 2010

I gots owie!

Ewww, that's a lot of band aids.

Owie envy, common among multiples. One gets an owie, they all do. Then suddenly one finger in my face turns to three or thirty with no injury in sight. My favorite is when one falls, another gives a good fake tumble (this would mostly be a Sira thing). So slapstick. Such good physical comedians (again, mainly Sira).

Band aid obsession, common among preschoolers. I wouldn't dare buy the cartoony ones.

Fake sick, common among school children. No scoo morrow, I sick. I hear this everyday. But man, since preschool all of us have been sick and sicker like nothing I've ever experienced before. I mean our health runs are short lived and few. That's what happens when nearly sick-free country kids start public life. And I was so careful to expose them to all the germs of our messy lives in high doses.

BTW smarty readers, great advice on last post. All good ideas and possibilities. Wiffle ball, I love it. Haven't thought of those in years. I just hope it's heavy enough to satisfy. It has to be just so. You know, three year old rationale. :)

Mar 30, 2010

Three three year olds, a stool, and a string. From each end of the string two drag around the third on the stool all over the house. Not sure what to call this game . . .

(Sira leaps like no frog can.)

Speaking of strings . . . I never thought I would resort to banning strings from my children, especially strings that act as tails, and especially strings that act as tails that have balls tied to the end. It all has to do with Pinocchio. I love Pinocchio. Tsega loves Pinocchio like nobody. He even has a little wooden Pinocchio doll my mom picked up in, I think, Budapest (was a marionette, but we cut off all the strings) and Tsega loves his “nah-co-co” doll, formerly known as “kin-ee-kee-o”. (The doll makes an appearance in “Lettering” posted a couple of posts ago.)

(One dressed like Pinocchio doll.)

Yes, he is still full-on into the song and dance “Got no Strings”. But now another scene obsession emerged. Monstro Awakes. Pinocchio’s at the bottom of the sea searching for Geppeto as a whale swallows him. Pinoch has a rock tied to the end of his new donkey tail, the one he earned for being very bad at the wrong place and time, and so walks the ocean floor weighted down by the rock as he fights and swims frantically from the whale’s mouth. Tsega needs the tail with the rock and he flails his arms and runs in circles repeating about 2 lines over and over. He acts it out in the yard, in the house, with and without the video. Indeed, I have seen him spontaneously acting out several seemingly random scenes as he watches various cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Snow White (oh yeah, we have a collection of conventional toons, party at my house).

The thing is, it’s hard to sustain a ball or rock at the end of a string. It falls out. Or the weight isn’t just right. Or the position of the tail is a little off. You know three year olds, if a crumb falls off their bread they think it’s broken and suddenly they're screaming. This makes what’s supposed to be fun turn ugly. He gets too worked up. He whines. The tail makes him upset. And it’s not such a little thing that he keeps stealing shoelaces and losing them so that I keep buying more and way too many shoes in our house are unwearable. It’s pretty funny when you catch your three year old secretly unthreading your shoelaces behind closed doors and then tells you to go away when discovered. He’s a sweet kid, his brothers too, really sweet. They only tell me to go away because they want to get away with something I don't like. OK, so we are working on this. So now I am hiding shoelaces, shoes with shoelaces, and having heart-to-hearts with Tsega. The tail drives me nuts! I love the theatrics, I can't wait to expose him to more arts and classes, but the pickiness of the tail is too much.

I am like anti-Martha Stewart. I don’t even bother sewing buttons. So can anybody advise me on how I can make a tail that would carry a ball, or where I can get a small ball with a hook on it?? Like a ball and chain sort of dealy? Are we just weird or what? Pretty funny, huh? Us getting all worked up about tails. You gotta sit back and just laugh. :)

Mar 24, 2010

Kitchen Camper

It's what, 10:00, 11:00? Friday night. Boys snug in their beds, mom and dad partying like rock stars. Then, oops, I stumble out my bedroom door and run into this (Tsega) about three feet away on the kitchen floor.

No jammies. That is the usual way we find Tsega by morning. But in his room, sometimes our bed, not usually in the kitchen.

Party on, Sira.

Mar 23, 2010

Bereket is The Letter King. It all started with a video my mom sent the boys eons ago. She doesn't even remember. Yeah, right, like videos teach kids, uh-huh. The only thing Sesame Street taught my kids so far is how to stuff food in their faces as fast and furious as they can while growling (it took us a long time to break Cookie Monster manners, I kid not). So sometimes there we are getting all crazy before school and I'll pop in a video, many times The Letter Factory. A perfect 20 minutes or so that allows us to finish processing the boys.

Something soaked in, because I'd hear Bereket singing to the tune of high-ho-the-merrio, The D goes "duh", the D goes "duh", blabber blabber blabber, the D goes "duh". (Or more like, de e oh duh). Then he started freaking me out by recognizing, pointing, and naming letters like within a few weeks of starting preschool. Oh, get off it, so your kid has been doing this before he walked. La-de-da.

OK, sorry about the attitude. Yeah, no, I don't school my kids much. Our particular triplet household is not conducive . . . we break down into wrestling mode at the slightest hint of organization. And I don't need to go into the language delays again, which makes his lettering extra special. Anyway, then he freaked me further by spontaneously drawing letters. His teachers didn't even realize he could do all that. Anyway, his love holds (Sira too, not so much Tsega) and his penmanship is lovely.

He sees letters in his body and objects too.

Look mommy, look. "Y"

(Did you notice those cute little teeth topping his cute little smile? I always liked that about him.)

Look mommy, look. "K"

(Dude needs improvement at drawing K.)

Look mommy, look. "I"

And to prove a point, learning morphs to wrestling. And this is why they separate into 3 different classrooms and why homeschooling is out (ha, as if I'd be up to task anyway).

In the words of Bereket, Uh-buh-by, Cookie, buh-by-eeee. (You got me.)
Side note: Cookie used to be Loo-la, as in, uh-buh-byeee Loo-la. (Again, you got me.)

Oh, a little over a year ago I videoed a certain cookie monster. Oh my, the chubbiness and short hair and bad manners, where did it all go?

Mar 18, 2010

Shhh, notice the cake? Mama, that'd be me, turned 40 last week. As Jerry would say, I don't look a day over 39.

I hate it. I feel it. I hurt.

Cute part is, the boys were too jealous to let me have a birthday all to myself, so I shared mine, which makes it a good thing they're triplets come actual birthdays in June. There are always enough beats to the Birthday song to accommodate everyone: Happy Birthday dear Mama, Tsega, Bereket, and Seeeeera . . .

Hey, don't be all like, man she's old! You are getting older just as fast as me.

Relax. Yes, my hand is where you think it might be, but my mom took the picture in front of children so it can't be that R-rated. ;)

This is something I do when I see a camera pointing at me. I angle my head so that I have this sort of angelic quality and not so much the used up 40 around the eyes thing.

Yeah, I'm one of those old new moms and that's OK. :)

We escalate tizzies a lot. My neurons shoot off in ways that get me dizzy. I seriously feel motion sickness at times trying to tend to all the sweet little boys in my life. Imagine you are a pinball and the pinball wizard is playing a marathon; that's me, the ball. I've mentioned this before, but dinnertime is typically the height of craze. It would help if Sira ate dinner.

You know, this kid hates everything and after breakfast, during which he eats like a horse, he has little interest in food the remainder of day. This is the one area where Bereket doesn't follow Sira. Sira rejects new foods. He rejects vegetables. He even smells food first. I mean, it's pretty funny, smelling your food out of sheer suspicion before trying, I mean rejecting, it. It's a kid thing, I guess.

His short list of likes include (I mean beyond sugary delights): milk, peanut butter and jelly, toast, eggs with ketchup (or just ketchup but organic only . . . the o-word makes me feel a little better about it), cereal, oatmeal, pancakes, yogurt, apple sauce, pears, and that's about it. Huh, just noticed, mostly breakfast food. Baby food. Not a foody. Somedays pizza, pasta (only whole wheat rigatoni), and tostados/tacos/burritos (simply beans and tortillas, never cheese or sauce) . . . but not consistently (no pasta right now). What kid doesn't like cheese, or mac n cheese? Mine!

Anyway, back to our neurons. I am about to reveal a heaven-sent secret that calms our firing storm. A trick I stole from a 5 year old girl on the Internet: deep cleansing breaths. Yeah, not rocket science. Not pop psychology or heavily intellectual. At the height of chaos or upset, we huddle as I announce, time for deep cleansing breaths! And this is how it goes . . . in your best slow calm preschool teacher voice . . .

Everybody! Close your eyes! Think of something nice . . . the park, birthday parties, kisses, the dogs, trikes, the river, the sun on your face . . . now close your eyes, breath in and count to 3, and phhhhhhew, blow it out slowly. OK, one more time . . .

And poof, magic, the sea is calm. For 5 minutes anyway. Ewwww, try it!

Mar 15, 2010

(Early morning after breakfast ragamuffins.)

"I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him ... and pat him and pat him ... and love him and caress him..."

If you recognize this quote and get my blog title, then you watch Looney Tunes and read Steinbeck. You rock.

If Tsega loves you, he has probably squeezed you to crying. If all three love you, run. Love does hurt. Especially in numbers. I kid. Savor it and consider yourself (*gasp, choke, sob*) too lucky for words.

See Tsega's tight lips? This means he is really feeling the love. You lucky Bereket you.

Tsega, stop pulling the dog's ears until he cries. I know, I know, they are sooo pull-able. Yes, you love him a lot, I can tell by your lips.

Mar 9, 2010

No, not Halloween. Mouse suit is good for all seasons.

I just noticed. The camera often catches the kid, Sira, with his mouth full of food doing odd monster moves. And that's why he is, currently -- because this could change any moment -- Silly Sira.

The exciting part of above picture is not just the long tongue (I always wanted one of those tongues that could reach the tip of my nose), but Sira is actually eating at a restaurant. And because all are eating, my kids aren't acting horrible in public. Yay for having yogurt as a side option! Yay for serving kid's food in cardboard cars! Yay for breweries in general (this was a lovely one in Hays, Western Kansas)!

Hey, live in Kansas and be easily entertained like me.

Nuggy on an ink pen. Nums.

He's sweeter than a sucker. His eyes dissapear when he smiles. Sweeet. I'm not sure how we spiraled down this road (the TV, action movie, & fast food roads have all been hit) but the sugar has got to stop. That is, we've got to stop using it as a parenting tool. Oh, forget it, it works. But this I promise, in front of everybody, the video game road will never be traveled in my house!

How is it that Tsega's curls suddenly hang ? They used to reach out and kiss the sky and now he has . . . bangs. Go curls, whether up, out, or down.

By the way . . . have you noticed? . . . this kid is huge!

Mar 8, 2010

He (Sira) grabbed these 3 bags from me (2 must have held wine?) and off he went. Minutes later I find this . . .

Clever boy. It's forever a costume change here.


text:
Title: The study of language use in its societal context : pragmatics and the representation of Parliamentary debates in newspaper discourse.
Author: Slembrouck, Stefaan G. G.
Awarding Body: University of Lancaster
Current Institution: Lancaster University
Date of Award: 1992
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Supervisor: Not available Sponsor: Not available
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID:  DOI: Not available
Keywords: Linguistics Linguistics Literature Mass media Performing arts