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Mekong Eyes Cruise's design
Mekong Eyes CruiseMekong Eyes Cruise The Mekong Eyes Cruise combines regional boat-building traditions with modern comforts to become the perfect holiday vessel to cruise the Mekong Delta in style.
At 39 m long and 8.5 m wide, the Mekong Eyes cruise was built out of an old, traditional rice barge with the finest quality wood, and artfully decorated by skilled craftsmen of the Mekong Delta.
The river cruise boat can comfortably accommodate up to 30 passengers on a large area of approx. 250 m2, it's like a floating hotel:
Mekong Eyes Cruise Cabins
There are 14 lavishly furnished twin and double rooms, each with a private bathroom with shower and hot water, wardrobe, air-conditioning and fan. The rooms are well insulated against climate and sound, and all offer a fantastic panoramic view of the Mekong river.
There is a large dining room in the lower deck, where you can enjoy culinary specialities of Vietnam or a sundowner in the cosy bar.
A stylish upper-deck inside panorma lounge invites you to sit back and take in the impressions of the fantastic scenery and the busy every day life on the river.
Mekong Eyes Cruise's Technical specifications:
Class: River Cruise
Max. length 39 m (125 ft.)
Max. beam: 8.5 m (27 ft.)
Draft: 1.8 m
Load: 400 tpns
Number of cabins: 15 (9 twins and 6 doubles). All are deluxe standard with private bathrooms
1 air-conditioned indoor restaurant with bar
1 indoor panorama lounge with air-condition
1 outside sitting area
1 sun deck
Main engine: Cummins 450 hp
2 electrical generators: Yanmar 100 kVA, 24h hour electricity supply
Toshiba central-controlled air-conditioning and ventilation
Heat and smoke detectors
Fire fighting system
Mekong Eyes Cruise Deckplan
On the top deck you will find an open sitting area and sun deck with breathtaking views. While you are basking on the sun deck our friendly staff will pamper you with cool drinks and freshly cooked delicacies.
Our crew will do their utmost to provide you with all the services and comfort you need during your Mekong Delta cruise. The captain and his deck hand as well as the engineer are in charge of the technical details and the routing. An experienced chef and sevice staff will take you on a culinary journey through Vietnam. A local guide will explain the life and culture of the Mekong Delta to you and answer any questions you might have. Our staff also get regular safety trainings.
Upper Deck
Main Deck
- Cruise Ship: Mekong Eyes Cruise
- Route: Saigon - Cai Be - Can Tho or vv
- Duration: 2 days 1 night
- Tour Price: from US$167
- Cruise Ship: Mekong Eyes Cruise
- Route: Saigon - Cai Be - Sadec - Can Tho or vv
- Duration: 3 days 2 nights
- Tour Price: from US$268
- Cruise Ship: Mekong Eyes Cruise
- Route: Saigon - Ha Tien - Phu Quoc
- Duration: 4 days 3 nights
- Tour Price: from US$410
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Jahan Cruise Review by Mr. Bruce Dear Kelvin,You asked me for comments on my voyage up the Mekong on The Jahan Cruise Review. Entering Vietnam was quick and easy. My plane arrived in Ho Chi Minh City just before midnight. I presented my visa authorization letter, one copy of the arrival form and one picture to the authorities, paid the $25 single-entry visa fee, and received my visa, all within about 15 minutes (but I was one of the first to...
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If anyone had anything to say against crimes committed by one's government in one's name, and did not take the time to raise their voices, now is the time to realize that one is seriously being silenced. It does take some time in the so-called 'developed' world, the world that has caused an economic collapse, to realize that the democracy one thought one had has been in fact an illusion with all things in the material world being relative as opposed to actual, and in fact a few hundred thousand people still have a long way to go towards that which may be helped by H.R. 347 on Monday 27 February 2012.
H.R. 347 known as the H.R. 347: Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, is the law that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives 388-3. A humongous majority vote without informing or consulting American citizens H.R. 347 means that one can be convicted for trespassing on the gorunds of the White House.
Well that does not stop me from protesting elsewhere one might say.
The catch is that H.R. 347 makes it a crime to protest anywhere in the U.S. by giving the government the right to bring charges against anyone who protests, and anywhere protests occurs where the president is visiting. If the arrest is considered illegal one might not be able to defend one's self by providing evidence, becuase one is not allowed to videotape the police in action.
Putting Syria aside, the 7th (last) version of the bill passed by the Senate states:
''§ 1752. Restricted building or grounds
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''(1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so;
''(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions,engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;
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''(A) of the White House or its grounds, or the Vice President's official residence or its grounds;
''(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or
''(C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance; and
''(2) the term 'other person protected by the Secret Service'means any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title or by Presidential memorandum, when such person has not declined such protection.''.
When the Occupy Wall Street Movement started out, it was a peaceful protest, and still is, but when provocateurs mingle in the midst, and the police kettle a march to lead the participants off course to areas where they can be arrested does one say "It's alright you are only doing your job!"
Recently, ready for violence hundreds of British police dressed in riot gear along with 100 bailiffs set out to break up a peaceful camp of the Occupy Movement, U.K., as they removed the tents which the peaceful protestors camped under at St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London on Tuseday 28 February 2012.
The violent attacks on American protestors has been worse, but it is the protestors who are arrested, and charged.
That liberty to protest was set out in the U.S. Bill of Rights under the 1st Amendment in 1789 by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The 1st Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
But it is not only the 1st Amendement that is no longer valid. The momentum was put into motion by the Patriotic Act, which made it acceptable for the FBI to carry out raids on American citizens without a warrant. The 4th Amendment reads:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
In no uncertain terms, the American public can vote, but cannot question those they voted for. They are being denied the right to be heard, and for their vote to be respected, and they can keep paying their taxes which is used against their will to compromise the sovereignty of other countries while forcing thousands of American citizens into unemployment, homelessness and starvation. The American public is being denied the right to say how their taxes should be spent.
112 Congress of the United States of America
' Charters of Freedom: The Bill of Rights." http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
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Jack Dorsey's lifestyle does seem a bit extreme, but he probably likes it that way. The philosophy of Stoicism isn't a simplistic fad, and it doesn't really preach self-imposed deprivation, although that might be the path some people use to get where they want to be mentally and emotionally.
Stoicism emphasizes the discipline and mastery of the emotions through ancient teachings in order to reach a wiser, more rational, more peaceful mindset. In other words, It teaches you how to get outside of yourself in order to see an issue from other perspectives, versus being a slave to your runaway emotions.
There's a big difference that the author of that article (who appears to be a nitwit) completely misses.
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Day 11: A Mother's Day Doula Story
My mother and I wrote a guest post for Stacie Bingham: Support for the Year Surrounding Birth for Mother's Day. I loved being able to honor my son and my mother on such a special day in such a special way. Click the link to head over there and check it out. Make sure to browse her other posts too.


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I recently discovered that after an entire lifetime drinking milk like it was water and eating cheese like it was candy, I have a dairy sensitivity. In fact, I'm so sensitive to it I probably shouldn't consume it at all in consideration for those around me, if you catch my…drift.
I'm Not Vegan Cheese
This is part of the reason I started working in a vegan cheese shop; I am not vegan, but I've been having a really hard time giving up my lattes and nachos. At this store I work at, we sell several different types of plant-based and nut-based milk along with our cheeses, yogurts and other vegan alternatives. I wanted to know what the nutritional facts had to say when comparing dairy products with nondairy options, mainly milk.
Rise in Dairy Allergies
Like most things that burst onto the market, nondairy milk started in reaction to both veganism and a rise in dairy allergies. It really exploded, however, because of the health assertions about it.
When it comes to protein, nondairy milk doesn't compare to the real Milk-Coy. In the US it is recommended that the average person consumes somewhere between 50 and 70 grams of protein per day. There are plenty of other alternatives for protein content, namely meat, beans, and nuts so that if you want to or have to give up animal milk, you shouldn't be missing out on protein all that much.
Calcium is something my mom, in particular, has been missing since she switched to almond milk for health reasons. As an older woman, though, she had had to start taking an intermittent calcium supplement even when she was drinking dairy milk. The good news is that many brands that are producing non-dairy kinds of milk are fortifying their products with added calcium so that it can compete with dairy milk on the market. That being said, if you're going nondairy for health considerations or veganism, there are plenty of plant-based and natural calcium options out there. Leafy greens, bok choy, tofu, broccoli, almonds and green beans are just some examples of natural foods high in calcium. If you add almonds to your daily diet, you'll be more than set on calcium and protein even if you've given up milk.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D gets into your body mostly through sun exposure. Milk is actually high in Vitamin D because it has been added, so if you're really worried a supplement won't be much different. Making sure you get outside regularly is also a good bet, eas long as you protect yourself against skin cancer of course.
Almond milk has significantly fewer calories, most of the time, than dairy milk; even though it has lower fiber, protein, and calcium in it, this is great news for those of us looking to boost our health and get off the cow's…milk. Additionally, dairy milk has high amounts of natural sugars which can be negative if you're watching your sugar intake for dietary or health reasons like diabetes.
In Defense of NonDairy Milk
Further, in defense of nondairy milk, recent research is indicating that our calcium needs may not be as high as we were once told or once believed. Some research has suggested that calcium intake made the little-to-no difference when it came to bone fractures, bone strength, and bone healing capabilities. Some have said that calcium was associated with higher fracture ris, but that is still not a definitive fact. Many believe that a large part of the world's population actually lacks, or loses over time, the enzymes necessary for digesting dairy properly. This is what happened to me. I have drunk milk my entire life like most people drink water, that was not an exaggeration above. It has only been in the past two years that I have started to associate individual bodily events and discomforts with my dairy intake, facts which have been further proven when I solidified when I performed a self-evaluation for the allergy by cutting dairy out for an amount of time and then going back on it.
Other Adverse Effects of Dairy
There are other likely adverse effects from dairy milk, like high cholesterol that may be associated with its fat content, and the inherent harmful effects of its sugar content. Some early study results may also be showing a relationship between dairy and cancer growth, but don't quote me on that. It's just something to consider if you are looking at cutting dairy out. There are alternatives for calcium and protein, as mentioned above, and these may overall be healthier choices anyway. For me, the hardest transition is cheese; but, I'm finding ways to have my favorite foods without it—tacos with lots of salsa and avocado don't need cheese. And the people making vegan and non-dairy cheeses are making some great products and they only get better the more they do it. I've found that I can barely tell the difference inform the distinction between a healthy plant-based milk and whole milk in my coffee, especially if the product has been processed so that it isn't chunky and doesn't immediately separate from the coffee itself. The same goes for lattes, though I can never get behind soy lattes because they just taste weird to me.
I'm not saying do it or don't do it; I'm just saying, if you do do it, it's not going to be that bad. Trust me.
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The Unique Spaces of the Museu Nacional
The Unique Spaces of the Museu Nacional
The Palau Nacional (National Palace) in Montjuïc is, without doubt, one of Barcelona's most emblematic buildings. Since its opening in 1929 to mark the International Exhibition and its subsequent conversion into a museum, it has been the setting for numerous events that have impacted public life in Barcelona, many of which were linked to the 1992 Olympic Games. And it wishes to remain an important stage.
It houses the Museu Nacional, a world-class museum and one of the city's major attractions, with an exceptional collection of Romanesque and Gothic art and an extensive body of Modernisme art, a movement strongly entrenched in early 20th-century Barcelona.
The museum's rich collection, the exceptional nature of the building and its location, its stunning views over Barcelona, its dominance over the entrance to Montjuïc and its position between the two exhibition palaces have created a unique setting for a wide range of events organised by associations, companies, institutions and even individuals. The Palau Nacional seems to have been custom-made for gala dinners, opening and closing ceremonies for conferences, concerts, presentations and award ceremonies.
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The Museu Nacional houses a unique series of spaces, including the spectacular Oval Room, one of Europe's largest events rooms. Of particular note are its immense dome, which lets in natural light, and the organ, which is 34 metres long and 11 metres high and dominates the room from the balcony. This large multipurpose space, which was restored to modern standards by Italian architect Gae Aulenti, was ths scene of the opening ceremony of the 1929 International Exhibition.
Other intriguing spaces include the Museu Nacional entrance itself, the dome, the Òleum restaurant in the old throne room, the terraces, the auditoriums and the Sert Room. The Museu Nacional is a highly versatile venue, with spaces accommodating between 35 and 1,400 people.
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The Museu Nacional has remodelled more than 1,200 m2 of the roof. It has opened two terraces, viewpoints that provide a new setting for events such as cocktail receptions and outdoor concerts or simply for enjoying the Magic Fountain light show by night. Direct access to the roof from the street means that it can be used outside museum opening hours.
The front viewpoint that looks over Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina and the viewpoint overlooking the gardens of the Palauet Albéniz provide a 360-degree panorama of the city that takes in the key buildings and monuments of the Barcelona skyline, including the Sagrada Família, the Torre Agbar, the buildings of the Olympic Village, the port and the Olympic ring.
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The museum's Friends and Benefactors Room, decorated with paintings by Josep Maria Sert, is a privileged setting. This room is available as an additional private and exclusive space, ideal for use as a VIP or function room. It is noted for its 6-metre decorative panels painted by Josep Maria Sert to decorate the ballroom of the mansion belonging to Sir Philip Sassoon, an important figure in 1920s British high society.
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August 1, 2011 marked the 10-year anniversary of the passing of Korey Stringer, a Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman who passed away due to exertional heat stroke. Since the time of his death, Korey's wife, Kelci Stringer, worked tirelessly to develop a heat stroke prevention institute to honor her husband's legacy. She joined forces with exertional heat stroke expert Douglas J. Casa, PhD, ATC, FACSM, FNATA and on April 23, 2010, with the support of the National Football League and Gatorade, the Korey Stringer Institute opened its door at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Its goal - to further research, education and advocacy for the prevention of heat stroke and sudden death in sport.
While August 1 marks the 10-year anniversary of Korey's death, Casa said it is another milestone to pay tribute to the progress they have made and the Herculean tasks that lie ahead.
"In one of our KSI offices hangs a framed former jersey of Korey from his playing days with the Vikings; a few feet away is my framed jersey from when I had a heat stroke as a high-school track athlete. Together they serve as reminders of the life that was tragically and needlessly lost 10 years ago and the opportunity to serve that was provided when I survived my heat stroke 26 years ago. We do not take the responsibility lightly. We will never back down from our aggressive efforts to make positive changes. The outcomes of our efforts are lifesaving, and that is our fuel. The ultimate motivation for me is knowing that at hundreds of dinner tables across the country, parents, spouses, children, siblings, and friends are blessed with the presence of someone that we helped save. We cherish our chance to do this, and look forward to doing this long into the future."
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This time of year, we're inundated with references to Santa Claus. As a Christian, I like to keep Christ front and center in my mind and my children's. However, I can't shield them from the story of Santa, but I can turn it back towards Jesus.
The real St. Nick was a man who shared his wealth with those who needed it. But in today's society, that part seems to have been lost in the tales.
There is one thing that I believe as Christian's we should copy from the many Santa Claus traditions. Most of you will remember either writing Santa a letter or hearing about other children who did. Last year my son wrote a letter to Santa in school.
I thought about all the gifts we receive at Christmas, and how so many of them (especially with children) get carried out in the trash the following year. Either broken, out grown, or plain not wanted.
And then I thought about the spiritual gifts that we truly need. I decided to write Jesus a letter for gifts that will last for eternity.
No matter what age your children are, I believe this is something we should all do. You may choose to read your letters out loud or keep them between you and Jesus.
I urge you to keep your letters and every year at Christmas, pull them out to see the miraculous things God has done and the ways He has answered your prayers and the requests you made in your letter.
Here is mine.
Dear Jesus,
As I look back over this past year, I'm amazed and humbled at the gifts you have given me. You walked me through our daughter's diagnosis of Von Willebrands Disease. So many times, you've protected us when we didn't realize it. Thank you for your love and mercy. Thank you that I don't deserve any of it, but You give it freely anyways.
I don't know what this next years entails, but I know You do. I pray you'll give me wisdom at every decision. Give me peace when the hard times comes, I know You'll always be by me, no matter what, but let me feel You when those times press against me.
Deliver my loved ones from the hand of the enemy. You know the battles they face and the deliverance only You can provide. Mend hearts and old hurts, let the bonds of love be strengthened.
Show me the areas where I'm blinded. Open my eyes and heart to Your truths and light.
Let me know more of You. Let me be renewed by Your presence daily. Let me be in awe by the ways you reveal Yourself and the mountains You move, in both my life and those around me. May everything we do be a testament to Your goodness and faithfulness.
As my children grow, allow me to show them Your grace. Keep my tongue harnessed when I would speak harshly or out of impatience.
Help me to build my husband up and not down. Let me be a helpmate to him. Help us to grow together and grow stronger in You.
Let Your people see Your might. Let our faith not remain stagnant, but to grow daily. Help me to be bold in speaking Your truth. Help me to seek You first.
Soften every heart, that we would be drawn closer to You. Let Your Holy Spirit prepare us for the might works You have planned.
Love Your daughter,
Will you write your own letter?
Melissa K. Norris inspires people's faith and pioneer roots with her books, podcast, and blog. Melissa lives with her husband and two children in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. When she's not wrangling chickens and cattle, you can find her stuffing Mason jars with homegrown food and playing with flour and sugar in the kitchen.


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I have been a Sony shooter for the past two years. I mostly do trips & street photography around the UAE. I am starting from Sony a6000 to Sony a6300. I have done a lot of photos with it. I love the images & videos produced from it. Sony cameras are fantastic.
But I think there is a feeling I am looking for a camera. Something that will make my shooting enjoyable.
The Sony a7iii was on my wishlist because of the features it offers and one of the best hybrid mirrorless cameras to date. But man, the lenses are way too expensive for me.
So I decided to get the Fujifilm X-T3
Why I switched to Fujifilm? Here are five reasons why I switched from Sony to Fujifilm:
1. Firmware upgrades
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Sony's firmware updates are once in a blue moon. If they want to add new feature and improvements, they'll release a new camera.
In Fujifilm, they continually update their systems. They don't just dump their previous system, they make new systems, and they also improve the old ones.
Jun Watanabe, the Fujifilm product planner, said on the Fujifilm X Summit 2019 in Dubai "The firmware update concept is clear.", "Firmware never stops improving, and the technology is advancing day by day.".
I love the philosophy of Fujifilm, and that is one thing that I liked about the brand.
2. Lens Choice
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Though Sony has an extensive set of lenses for their Sony APS-C cameras, most of their best lenses are for the full-frame, and it costs a lot, like really a lot.
Fujifilm has kept their lens choices for the most useful focal lengths, and that is a good thing because we don't need to buy and buy more lenses. Ohhh… and the prices cost less for its quality.
Reddit user ITechTonicI, added the Fujifilm lens roadmap where we can see the lens lineup and even future lens they are making. This will help us decided whether to buy the previous lens or wait for the new one. You can check the Fujifilm X mount lens roadmap.
During the Fujifilm X Summit 2019 in Dubai, they are talking about how they make their lenses smaller without sacrificing quality and speed. They even are developing smaller medium format camera and lenses.
3. Look and Feel
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I don't know who doesn't like the looks of Fujifilm cameras but man, they look classy. The build quality of their cameras is robust especially the Fujifilm X lineup.
Since this is my first time to own a Fujifilm system, my first impression was the build quality is superb compared to my previous Sony cameras. Having the Fujifilm X-T3 in my hands feels premium.
4. Buttons, Dials and Functions
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Though I was already familiar using the Sony, switching to Fuji wasn't that hard to learn, and the menu system is more comfortable to navigate compared to Sony.
Having dedicated dials for ISO, shutter speed and aperture makes a different feel while using a camera. I did not experience using any vintage film SLR cameras before which shares the same style, but the use of this dials brings much joy shooting with the X-T3.
Just need a bit of practice and customisation to be confident using the system.
5. Colours
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The different colour profiles on this camera are very flexible and have their look and characteristics straight out of the camera.
When comparing to my previous Sony system, which outputs very basic colours and has limited colour adjustments, Fujifilm gives you a lot more control with highlights, shadows, grain adjustments, and the colour chrome adjustments.
This will probably lessen the post-processing time for me as Fujifilm has the colours I am looking for.
Additional Points & Opinions:
- Fujifilm focuses on making APS-C & Medium format cameras which are a good point in my opinion. They skip making a full-frame system because they know that there will be a small improvement from the APS-C. This will also keep consumers out of the urge to get and switch to expensive full-frame cameras and lenses.
- Fujifilm focuses on photography and imaging systems v.s. Sony is a consumer electronics brand though Sony makes the sensor for various camera brands.
- Looking at the past, Sony did make A-mount cameras and sadly were discontinued. How upsetting is that if I bought and built a set for the a-mount system before? That is one factor which pushes me to switch to Fujifilm because we don't know if it will happen again to Sony.
Either of the two camera brands makes great cameras; it just depends on your choice and what suits your personality and style.
Fujifilm was the brand of my choice since before I started taking photos. But instead of getting a Fuji system two years ago, I decided to go with the Sony a6000. That time, I want to try taking photos and learn photography.
For me, the Fujifilm is a considerable upgrade from my Sony. I don't mean the upgrade of the system but of the brand because I think that Fujifilm gives more value to their products.
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Researching your options is great. Until, well, it's not. When too much research becomes a playmate for our old buddy procrastination and his best friend, avoidance, you know it's time to break free of that habit.
Are you that writer that has researched the best platforms to self-publish . . . but who hasn't written a word?
Are you that photographer who has researched the products you want to make available to your clients; canvas, metal frames, wooden frames . . . but who doesn't have a single photo of those products on your website?
Are you that business strategist who has researched the podcasts you want to appear on . . . but hasn't applied to a single podcast?
That last example was me. It took a kick in the backside before I realised what I'd been doing.
I'd been kidding myself that compiling a list of potential podcasts to apply to was the same as actually applying to them. Sure it was important to listen to a couple of episodes from each podcast to make sure that they were a good fit for me but delaying sending off applications to be interviewed meant that progress towards my goal had ground to a halt.
Take a look at what you're researching. Then take an honest look at how long you've been researching that topic for. How many times has that research been transferred from one weekly to do list to the next?
It's time to stop your habit of too much research. It's time to take action.
No matter how scary it feels. No matter how small that first step feels.
Because we all start in that place. You're not alone in this.
What one action can you take today to move closer to your goal?


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Weyerbacher Brewing Company today announced the sale of a majority stake in the company to 1518 Holdings LLC, a Philadelphia-based private investment group.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Speaking to Brewbound, newly named president Josh Lampe, who previously served as chief operating officer and has supplanted brewery founder Dan Weirback as the company's leader, said 1518 Holdings had acquired a 55 percent stake in the 24-year-old business. Lampe declined to name the investors within the firm, describing them as "a loose group of four or five people."
"It gives us working capital to fund the things that we want to be able to do," he said, adding that the new funding would help solve some of the cash flow issues that hampered production and marketing.
According to Lampe, he and his brother Chris Lampe will retain about 30 percent of Weyerbacher. The remaining 15 percent of the business is owned by a handful of other shareholders, including Weirback.
In addition to the new investment, the Easton, Pennsylvania-based craft brewery has also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to restructure its debt. In a press release, Lampe said 1518 Holdings believed the bankruptcy filing "was necessary in order to move forward quickly."
Lampe told Brewbound that the company is carrying $2.1 million in bank debt. It also has "a fair amount of outstanding accounts payable," he added.
"We had to get out from under some of this debt that we've been carrying for a very long time," he said.
Most of Weyerbacher's financial issues stem from a 2014 expansion project that cost $2 million and included the addition of a 40-barrel brewhouse. Over the years, however, the company dealt with increased competition — particularly in the pumpkin beer category — as it struggled to grow sales and pay down debt.
"We were expecting to see double-digit growth for a number of years … and with the market saturation that happened in pumpkin and all of those other things, that just didn't pan out," he said.
Moving forward, Weyerbacher's 50 full- and part-time workers will not be affected by the ownership change, Lampe said. In February, the company cut two Philadelphia salespeople as part of a reorganization effort that Lampe said was aimed at operating "leaner and stronger."
Lampe added that "the ultimate goal is to eventually implement an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), which he said is part of 1518 Holdings' exit strategy over the next five years.
"We've got to get to the company to a point that the ESOP makes sense," he said.
In the meantime, Weyerbacher will begin offering contract production for other Pennsylvania craft breweries — including Emmaus-based Funk Brewing — in order to fill excess capacity. Lampe said Weyerbacher has about 10,000 barrels of its 30,000-barrel capacity available for contract production.
Last year, Weyerbacher produced about 11,000 barrels, Lampe said, adding that the company could have produced around 16,000 barrels if it had the cash flow available to purchase all of raw materials. This year, Lampe is projecting 16,000 barrels of Weyerbacher beer.
Part of Weyerbacher's turnaround strategy includes the addition of new taprooms. The company currently operates taprooms in Easton and New Hope, and is eyeing new locations that could be announced in the coming months.
Weyerbacher will also begin reevaluating its 23-state distribution network and look to expand its canned beer lineup.
"The company is positioned for growth but has been hampered by debt that the company has been holding for a long time," Lampe said.


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Mr. Carter, Read This Wall
by: Schvach Yid
Last week CNN aired (cabled?) a 3 part series titled Gd's Warriors. Former President of the United States James (Jimmy) Earl Carter was briefly interviewed and reference was made to his recent literary contribution to the world of Jew hatred,
Mr. Carter has made a positive reputation for himself, and deservedly so, for his efforts at international peace via his organization The Carter Center, as well as for his humanitarian work via his other organization The Jimmy Carter Work Project, affiliated with Habitats For Humanity International.
I thought his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid was over and done with, but alas, CNN has resurrected it, so here I go.
Mr. Carter makes no secret of his religious faith, and has pursued a life as a Gd-fearing, Bible-believing person. He claims to have taught Christian Sunday school years ago. Perhaps having been born and bred in the briar patch of the American Bible Belt, Mr. Carter might recall a ditty from the Book of Deuteronomy (for us, Parshas Ki Tavo, for him Deut. 27:2): As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that the Lord your Gd is giving you, you shall set up large stones, coat them with plaster and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching.
Yo, Jimmy! Israel, ie the Jews in Israel, are commanded to construct a physical wall between themselves and everyone else, display the writing of the Sefer Torah on that wall, and live according to its contents. It's not apartheid Mr. Carter, it's the Bible. Get it? It has nothing to do with the now extinct Berlin Wall.
More than a decade ago, when he was still a vital individual, Ariel Sharon came to the
Perhaps I've trespassed upon turf about which I'm not qualified to comment, but it seems to me that former President Carter's remarks about


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Happy Holidays From Taber Transport!
During the holiday season, we will be operating with modified hours. Here is a list of days we will not be open, or will be open for shorter than normal hours. We all hope that you have a merry, safe, and peaceful holiday season, ready to take on a brand new year of possibilities. We also wish to thank all of our loyal customers who have made 2016 a year in which we have thrived, sometimes through some adversity.
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Sugar: A Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott
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agricultural Revolution, Bartolomé de las Casas, British Empire, flex fuel, land tenure, liberation theology, Mason jar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, spinning jenny, strikebreaker, trade liberalization, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, women in the workforce, working poor
That is what they serve." 34. Clifford Krauss, "A Historic Figure Is Still Hated by Many in Mexico," The New York Times, March 26, 1997. 35. Ibid. 36. Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, pp. 80–81. 37. Bonar Ludwig Hernandez, "The Las Casas-Sepúlveda Controversy, 1550–1551," www.sfsu.edu/~epf/2001/hernandez.html. 38. Carrozza, "Bartolomé de Las Casas," www.lascasas.org/carrozo.htm. 39. Ibid. 40. Quoted in Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, pp. 183–85. 41. Davidson, Black Mother, p. 66. 42. Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, p. 102. 43. E. Williams, From Columbus to Castro, p. 43. 44. Las Casas, Obras Escogidas, vol. II, 487–88, quoted in Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, pp. 100–102. 45. E. Williams, From Columbus to Castro, p. 43. 46. Herrara, History of the Indies, quoted in Williams, From Columbus to Castro, p. 43. 47.
"In a way that few Europeans could understand, the land was Indian culture: it provided Native Americans with their sense of a fixed place in the order of the world, with their religious observances, and with their lasting faith in the importance of the struggling but united community as opposed to the ambitious, acquisitive individual," a recent study explains.28 Until the Europeans arrived, the Taino population numbered anywhere from three million to just under eight million.29 When Bartolomé de Las Casas arrived in 1502, their extermination was already foreseeable. In 1514, their Spanish conquerors counted only twenty thousand survivors. In 1542, Las Casas recorded only two hundred, and within two decades, the Tainos of Hispaniola died out. Las Casas is the primary narrator of the Tainos' life and death. He was a Renaissance man, a deacon and later a priest, a sugar planter, administrator, historian and anthropologist whose experiences ultimately transformed him into a human rights advocate.
Some scholars believe that Man Friday in Daniel Defoe's 1719 classic, Robinson Crusoe, was modeled on an Arawak captured by a marauding band of Caribs. European disease and persecution decimated the Caribs, but survivors eventually developed new ways of living, and many settled down on a 232-acre reserve allocated them by the British, who won Dominica from the French in 1763. Today, Caribs still live in Dominica and St. Vincent. BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS, SUGAR PLANTER AND GUILTY WITNESS The brutality of New World slavery was condemned even as it was being developed. Its first public critics were the Dominican friars who arrived in 1510 and lived apostolically, in huts, sleeping on beds of branches, eating plain cabbage broth and wearing coarse habits. These men possessed only two boxes among them, full of psalters and liturgical paraphernalia.
War Without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR by John Dower
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anti-communist, Bartolomé de las Casas, British Empire, colonial rule, European colonialism, ghettoisation, Gunnar Myrdal, labour mobility, land reform, Monroe Doctrine, Plutocrats, plutocrats, Scientific racism, South China Sea, Torches of Freedom, transcontinental railway
See Tzvetan Todorov's table of "oppositions," The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, translated from the French by Richard Howard (1984: Harper & Row), 153; on the "natural slave," see Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982: Cambridge University Press), esp. 38, 42–45, 67, 97–99, 107, 116–18, 122–23. For the great debate, see Lewis Hanke, All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and Religious Capacity of the American Indians (1974: Northern Illinois University Press); Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, against the Persecuters and Slanderers of the Peoples of the New World Discovered across the Seas, trans. and ed. Stafford Poole (1974: Northern Illinois University Press). 4. Drinnon, 19, 40, 42–43, 50, 53, 65–66, 81, 85, 95–99.
Out of the terrible mortality rates that slavery brought, there also emerged another theory concerning nonwhites that carried through the centuries and was sometimes used to explain massive Japanese deaths in the Pacific late in the war: they did not feel pain as severely as the more sensitive whites did, and life was cheap to them.2 From the time of the earliest Spaniards who addressed the nature of the Indians of the New World, nonwhites were treated as polar opposites of their conquerors: as savages, children, madmen, and beasts; and, of course, as pagan and evil as opposed to Christian and good. And for these sins (along with their gold), many of them were tortured and exterminated. The Spanish conquest of the Indians, however, was not undertaken casually. It provoked intense learned discussions in Europe concerning the true nature of the Indians, culminating in a justly famous debate between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550; and out of these deliberations we have our first inkling of the manner in which intellectual discourse at the highest levels would serve as a legitimization of racism over the centuries that followed. The problem of savagery became comprehensible in terms of the theological and philosophical theory of a Great Chain of Being–a fixed hierarchy of existence extending from God down to the basest of creatures.
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. ———. The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans. Lippincott, 1975. ———. The Politics of Prejudice. Atheneum, 1968. Daugherty, William E., and Morris Janowitz, eds. A Psychological Warfare Casebook. John Hopkins University Press, for the U.S. Operations Research Office, 1958. de Las Casas, Bartolomé. In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, Against the Persecuters and Slanderers of the Peoples of the New World Discovered Across the Seas. Translated and edited by Stafford Poole. Northern Illinois University Press, 1974. De Mendelssohn, Peter. Japan's Political Warfare. George Allen & Unwin, 1944. De Vos, George, and Hiroshi Wagatsuma. Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality.
1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half by Stephen R. Bown
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Atahualpa, Bartolomé de las Casas, British Empire, charter city, Eratosthenes, European colonialism, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto, Peace of Westphalia, spice trade, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, UNCLOS
The junta, an august body of specialists knowledgeable in maritime affairs, included respected cartographers, astronomers, navigators and ecclesiastical authorities, several of whom Columbus had already met, and luminaries such as Diogo Ortiz, bishop of Ceuta, and the court astronomer and physician José Viziñho. Brandishing his charts and books, Columbus laid out his technical arguments for the feasibility of a voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean to the fabled land of Cathay, or at least to some new Atlantic islands, or perhaps even an undiscovered continent or a new trade route to the Spice Islands. According to Bartolomé de Las Casas, one of his early biographers, Columbus promised "that going by way of the West towards the South, he would discover great lands, islands and terra firma, all very prosperous, rich in gold and silver, pearls and precious stones, and an infinite number of people." He hoped to inspire the committee with Marco Polo's century-old claims that the land was, in almost the same language Columbus himself used, "most fertile in gold, pearls and precious stones, and they cover the temples and the royal residences with solid gold."
Once again, Columbus's proposals were intriguing if outlandish and audacious, and while his grandiose demands for compensation were nearly insulting, the monarchs were still curious. Their country, however, was preparing for war: troops filled the roads displaying their banners and livery, marching to the beat of drums; horsemen congregated in the armies of the nobles; and cartloads of food and supplies trundled south towards the border. In the prescient words of Bartolomé de Las Casas: "When monarchs have a war to deal with, they understand little, and wish to understand little, of other matters." Even after seeing the written support of several high-placed nobles and hearing the opinions of the learned monks with whom Columbus had stayed when he first arrived in Castile, the monarchs were hesitant. Though intrigued by the possibility of circumventing the Ottoman blockade of the spice route and getting "to the Spiceries" faster than the Portuguese in their inching south along the African coast, they could not commit to his bold scheme without further evidence.
And now Magellan presented his case for how he would get there: he would sail west across the Atlantic, to the coast of South America (as the land was called after Martin Waldseemüller named it on his popular map of 1507) and continue to hug the coast as he pushed southward, until he reached a west-leading strait or break in the landmass that would lead him into the South Seas, which he would cross to arrive in the Moluccas. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa had recently proved that water lay on the far side of the American continents, having thrashed his way across the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 to encounter a mighty ocean stretching as far as he could see. According to the missionary priest and chronicler Bartolomé de Las Casas, Magellan displayed "a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted. And on it he depicted the route he proposed to take." Magellan also later recalled that he had seen the strait depicted on charts in the library of the king of Portugal. Whether these straits were based on wishful thinking or on the discoveries of some forgotten voyage, Magellan was now in the business of trading on the state secrets of his homeland.
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz
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Whoever succeeded the chief, Pane wrote, would rule for only a short time "because there would come to his country a people wearing clothes who would conquer and kill the Indians." At first, Pane added, the Taino thought this prophecy referred to the dreaded Caribs. "They now believe that the idol prophesied the coming of the Admiral and the people who came with him." While Pane is forgotten, another Spanish friar in Hispaniola is renowned to this day as "Defender of the Indians." Bartolomé de Las Casas arrived in Santo Domingo in 1502, at the age of eighteen, and prospered from the sweat of Taino awarded him through the encomienda system, which made settlers the overseers of natives living on grants of Crown land. In theory, this feudal institution meant that natives became vassals, working in exchange for the protection and Christian instruction of their masters. In practice, the system led to enslavement.
After three days of dancing, feasting, and games, he ordered his men to surround a building where the Taino leaders had gathered. The governor had heard rumors of an impending revolt, and was determined to crush Taino resistance once and for all. The Spanish set fire to the place, burning alive everyone inside. Caonabo's comely widow was spared the inferno. "As a mark of respect and out of deference to her rank," Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote, "Queen Anacaona was hanged." THOUGH THE LAST Taino perished in the sixteenth century, they had a long half-life in the Dominican imagination. With the importation of African slaves, blacks quickly came to outnumber Europeans on Hispaniola. This was particularly so in the island's western third, which was better suited to plantation agriculture; in 1804, following a slave rebellion against French rule, it became the black nation of Haiti.
In practice, the Requerimiento was more akin to last rites—a death sentence delivered in language Indians couldn't possibly comprehend, in the name of forces they couldn't possibly imagine. Who was "God, Our Lord"? The "Pope"? The "exalted and powerful monarch" of a place called Castile and Leon? As if the Requerimiento wasn't a bald enough sanction for slaughter, it was often read without an interpreter present, or was delivered from a distance of several miles, or uttered at night while Indians slept, unaware of an impending attack. The Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas declared that he didn't know "whether to laugh or to cry" at the absurdity of the document. The Indians gathered before Cibola had a different response. "Being arrogant people," Coronado wrote, "they showed it little respect." So little, in fact, that one warrior shot an arrow through the robe of the friar attending the reading. After a brief skirmish, the natives retreated inside their well-fortified pueblo.
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings
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I can't quite . . . can you turn your head the same direction as mine?" Machines and molars may come easier to people with keen spatial sense, but maps really come alive for them. They engage with the map in a way that others don't. They can project their viewpoint right into its dots and lines and vividly imagine what the territory will look like ahead. Christopher Columbus's biographer Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote that the explorer's first Atlantic voyage was inspired by a nautical chart that the Italian mathematician Paolo Toscanelli had sent him. "That map set Columbus's mind ablaze," wrote Las Casas. "He did not doubt he should find those lands that were marked upon it." Columbus was clearly one of those people who could see a map once and enter its world immediately, and it changed the course of history.
This isn't just the earliest surviving use of the term; the text that accompanied the map makes it clear that, when we peer at the map, we are witnessing the word's coining in action. "A fourth part of the world has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci," wrote Waldseemüller.* "Since both Asia and Africa received their names from women, I do not see why anyone should rightly prevent this from being called Amerigen—the land of Amerigo, as it were—or America, after its discoverer, Americus, a man of perceptive character." Columbus's biographer Bartolomé de Las Casas huffily insisted that the new continent "should have been called Columba instead," after its real discoverer. But Vespucci was a different kind of proto-American: a showman and a shameless self-promoter. He was a Florentine merchant who probably deserved only a solid place on the exploration B-list for tagging along on a couple of Portuguese voyages to Brazil. But his (no doubt exaggerated) accounts of those travels took Europe by storm, testament to one eternal advertising dictum: that sex—even if you write about it in Latin—always sells.
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
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In 1452, Pope Nicholas V gave Catholic countries 'full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be . . . and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery'.5 As Spain and Portugal took control of America in the 1500s, indigenous people were oppressed and enslaved. There were a few brave opponents to this practice though, the most prominent of whom was the Spanish Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas. He argued that indigenous people had the right to their own persons, beliefs and properties, making Las Casas an early proponent of human rights theory. But it is not easy to set yourself apart from the period in which you live. Even this man, who spent fifty years of his life fighting against slavery, found it difficult to explain how a world without slavery would work. As an alternative to enslaving the Indians, Las Casas suggested that Spain could import African slaves to the American plantations.
Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek by Rutger Bregman
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The time has come to imagine new utopias, to build them up from solid foundations and to begin cautiously experimenting. After all, history is not determined by machines, apps, and algorithms, nor is it predicted by trendwatchers. It is steered by humanity and its ideas. As always, our utopia will start small. The foundations of what we today call civilization were laid long ago by dreamers who marched to the beat of their own drummers. The Spanish monk Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) advocated equal footing between colonists and the native inhabitants of Latin America, and attempted to found a colony in which everyone received a comfortable living. The factory owner Robert Owen (1771–1858) championed the emancipation of English workers and ran a successful cotton mill where employees were paid a fair wage and corporal punishment was prohibited. And the philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) even believed that women and men were one another's equals.
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
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Columbus was accused of mismanagement of his colonies, and of having painted a misleading picture of their potential. At the end of the third voyage he was sent back to Spain in chains and was stripped of his title as governor. After a fourth and final voyage, he died in 1506, convinced to the end that he had indeed reached Asia. The idea of finding spices in the Americas outlived Columbus. In 1518 Bartolomé de las Casas, a Spanish missionary to the New World, claimed that the new Spanish colonies were "very good" for ginger, cloves, and pepper. The conquistador Hernán Cortés found lots of gold, plundering it from the Aztecs in the course of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, but even he felt bad about his failure to deliver any nutmeg or cloves. He insisted in letters back to the king of Spain that he would, in time, find the route to the spice islands.
Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide by Joshua S. Goldstein
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For example, the Spanish commander at the Aztec capital in 1520 "ordered the slaughter of masses of unarmed religious celebrants in the temple. The carnage was terrible.... Spaniards fell on the packed throng, cutting off arms and legs and disemboweling their victims in a slaughter that continued until virtually everyone was dead." More deaths came about indirectly through overwork and exploitation in mines and plantations. One eyewitness, Bartolomé de Las Casas, reported, "The newborns died soon, because their mothers, because of the hardship and hunger, had no milk in their breasts. For this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7,000 children died in three months." The greatest effect, however, was the devastation caused by diseases introduced by the Europeans. THE MIDDLE AGES Now push the lever in our time machine back to the Middle Ages, the age of chivalry, of knights and ladies, where stylized rules governed warfare under a code of honor.
Year 501 by Noam Chomsky
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No less predictably, in his January 1992 report to Congress, President Serrano declared the results of the properly neoliberal economic program (including the 100 percent increase for the military in the 1992 budget) to be an "economic miracle," while Western commentators applauded and looked forward to still further triumphs of capitalist democracy. We may recall, in passing, that the main victims are indigenous people, who constitute over half the population. Their travail began long ago. "At no time before the [Spanish] conquest," Susanne Jonas writes, "did the Indians suffer the systematic material deprivation that has characterized Guatemala since 1524," and "although Bartolomé de Las Casas's figure of 4-5 million Indian deaths in Guatemala between 1524 and 1540 may be exaggerated, its thrust is accurate. An estimated two-thirds to six-sevenths of the Indian population in Central America and Mexico died between 1519 and 1650."22 Child slavery has long been documented in the traditional service areas. India alone is reported to have some 14 million child laborers, aged six and up, many working under conditions of virtual slavery for up to 16 hours a day.
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna
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Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés destroyed Mexico's Aztec empire in the 1520s, and during Spain's direct domination of Portugal from 1580 to 1640, Spain alone essentially controlled the entire Western Hemisphere. Native populations were subjugated by the sword and exotic disease, while Christian charity justified the bleeding of the New World for its silver and gold. In 1551 Spanish priest Bartolomé de las Casas wrote The Devastation of the Indies, a damning critique of slavery by agents of the Spanish Crown, sometimes described as the first human rights report in history—even if the imperial mentality was impervious to such appeals to conscience. After the Protestant Reformation, the New World reentered calculations of the global balance of power, with France and the Netherlands undermining Catholic Spain by seizing territories from Canada to the northern coast of South America.
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby
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A New Source of Labor The Spanish, and later the Portuguese, tried to enslave the survivors, with limited success. Columbus had even sent 500 captured Indians back to Seville in 1495. In the early decades of the sixteenth century a succession of Spanish conquistadors moved onto the islands of the Greater Antilles, forcing the native people to pan gold and raise food for them. One of the witnesses of the bloody conquest of Cuba in 1511 was Bartolomé de Las Casas. In a long career as priest, historian, polemicist, Dominican friar, and bishop of Chiapas, he became the Indians' greatest defender. It was Las Casas who suggested that the Spanish import African slaves as a way to protect the indigenous people. He argued that Africans were better prepared to work than the Indians who, he said, had not yet reached the same stage of civilization.3 From his suggestion came one of the most lucrative plums of Caribbean commerce, the asiento, a contract that Spanish officials awarded for an annual supply of slaves and European goods.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
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They were worked at a ferocious pace, and died by the thousands. By the year 1515, there were perhaps fifty thousand Indians left. By 1550, there were five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island. The chief source—and, on many matters the only source—of information about what happened on the islands after Columbus came is Bartolomé de las Casas, who, as a young priest, participated in the conquest of Cuba. For a time he owned a plantation on which Indian slaves worked, but he gave that up and became a vehement critic of Spanish cruelty. Las Casas transcribed Columbus's journal and, in his fifties, began a multivolume History of the Indies. In it, he describes the Indians. They are agile, he says, and can swim long distances, especially the women.
Caribbean Islands by Lonely Planet
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Larimar Museum MUSEUM ( 809-689-6605; www.larimarmuseum.com; 2nd fl, Isabel la Católica 54; 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 2pm Sun) This museum is the best place to learn about larimar, though of course it's meant to inspire you to make a purchase from the 1st-floor jewelry store. Signage is in Spanish and English. Convento de la Orden de los Predicadores CHURCH (cnr Hostos & Padre Billini; hrs vary) Built in 1510, this was the first convent of the Dominican order in the Americas. It is also the place where Father Bartolomé de las Casas – the famous chronicler of Spanish atrocities committed against indigenous peoples – did most of his writing. Be sure to take a look at the vault of the chapel; it is remarkable for its stone zodiac wheel, which is carved with mythological and astrological representations. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes CHURCH (Church of Our Lady of Mercy; cnr Las Mercedes & José Reyes; varies) Constructed during the first half of the 16th century, the church was reconstructed on numerous occasions following pirate attacks, earthquakes and hurricanes.


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This song has been covered by everyone from Joe Cocker and the Allman Brothers to Fleetwood Mac. I must give Irma Thomas serious props for taking it up a level and hitting it with a slow blues feel, but Little Willie John has always been my version of choice.
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When you want to spice it up a bit at the dinner table, try my Cajun Style Florida Snapper with a lime margarita sauce.
When you're talking about fresh fish in Florida there are two that always come to mind, Grouper and Snapper. Today I was lucky enough to pick up a beautiful Yellowtail Snapper at Whole Foods, so I thought I would cook up a Cajun Style Florida Snapper with fruit salsa and a lime margarita sauce.
There are many ways to prepare and enjoy Snapper, but I was in the mood for one of my favorite restaurant dishes and decided to prepare it Cajun Style!
One of my favorite accompaniments for Cajun or grilled fish is fresh fruit salsa. Add my Lime Margarita Sauce and you've just turned out one delicious Restaurant Style Meal at a fraction of the cost of dining out.
And besides saving money, you also get to control what you're eating, making sure only the freshest, purest ingredients go into what you're making. That's a win-win in my book!
If you enjoyed my Cajun Style Snapper Recipe you might also like these delicious fish dishes:
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Cajun Style Florida Snapper
Cajun Style Red Snapper
- 2 tablespoons of Your Favorite Cajun Style Seasoning
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon unseasoned cracker meal
- 16 ounce snapper fillets 2 -8 ounce fillets
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
Lime Margarita Sauce
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- juice from one lime
- 1 ounce tequila
Fruit Salsa
- 2 ounces diced mango peaches or cantaloupe can be substituted
- 2 ounces diced Pineapple
- 2 ounces diced Strawberries
- 2 ounces diced red onions
- 1 tablespoon cilantro finely chopped
- pinch of sea salt
- juice from one lime
- Trim snapper fillets and rinse in cold water, pat dry with paper towels
- Mix Cajun seasoning with cracker meal and brown sugar
- Press one side of snapper fillets into seasoning mixture coating evenly
- Get saute pan very hot and add just enough olive oil to keep fish from sticking.
- Add prepared snapper fillets, seasoned side down in the pan
- Allow them to cook undisturbed until the coating has browned, then turn to sear the other side of the fish.
- Remove fillets from the pan, and place in baking dish seasoned side up, and add a little water to the pan
- Place baking dish in preheated 350-degree oven for 15 minutes
Fruit Salsa
- mix diced fruit, onions, cilantro, lime juice, and salt together. (strawberries will soften and bleed, so if you make this ahead of time, don't add the strawberries until serving time)
Lime Margarita Sauce
- In a small saute pan, add 1 tbsp of butter and after it melts, add in brown sugar and blend well.
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A chocolate crust is topped with cheesecake, strawberry cheesecake, a chocolate ganache frosting and macerated strawberries to create a sensational dessert. It reminds of a Neapolitan cheesecake, add vanilla and you are there. :) No matter what you call it or how you slice it, I have full confidence in this recipe. Enjoy my friends! I adore it when you make recipes and share, tag @artisticvegan77 on IG or #artisticvegan. I hope you all have a Happy Valentine's Day! With love, Christa
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