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Nov 06, 2018
Dear Professor,\n\nI am fascinated with week one, even though I work in the scientific side, also like history, nothing more rewarding than visiting and ancient place and know what happened... Thanks
Apr 16, 2017
Such an informative course, and it linked together different regions & events; that's something only top-level sources of education does. I will no doubt continue on with the course to Part 2.
por Anne M•
Apr 25, 2018
I am giving this 3 stars for one reason. Although the instructor was terrific and the subject matter interesting, you cannot take the quizzes/tests without purchasing the course (I like to test my retention of the material). As I am an elderly and retired audit-only student and have NO interest in getting a certificate or using the course for college credit, I found that off-putting and dropped the class. Hopefully, other Coursera courses are not going to adopt the same requirement.
por Lazaros A•
Jun 10, 2017
In the 10 years, I reckon I've spent about as much time doing courses as being asleep... I've done University degrees (graduate degree, 2 masters and a PhD), personal development courses, courses on sports and activities (sailing, long distance swimming, gliding) and, in the last few monts, I must have done about 11 MOOCs.
This course goes straight into my top 10 all time favorite courses list, and is definitely the one I enjoyed the most in 2017. The course helped me understand how societies and economies have evolved over the years, which is a prerequisite for appreciating the basis on which modern societies are built on. The course is delivering by a prominent academic who knows what he's talking about. There is a good flow from lecture to lecture and the presenter makes a solid effort to presents facts, rather than his own (or others') judgements.
All in all, I felt this is a great, eye-opening and thought provoking course, and I'd recommend everybody with an interest in politics, society and modern history to give it a shot.
por jorge e j d•
Dec 29, 2017
An excellent synthesis of history. The teacher explains the topics very well and is entertaining. As a Latin American, I miss that nothing is mentioned about the history of independence and Spanish power at that time. It is logical that there are always topics left. Although the English and Americans have built the world since 1700, there are good stories from the Latin American side. No mention was made of the great inflation unleashed in Europe by Spanish gold. It would also be interesting to include the big scams that happened and some characters in France, who shaped capitalism. You could go deeper into banking and other characters like Robert Owen who I think was the first true socialist. But as I said the subject is extensive and I learned a lot. I am a 53 year old Colombian who studied by general culture. Convey the most sincere congratulations and thanks to the professor. A hug.
Una excelente síntesis de la historia . El profesor explica muy bien los temas y es entretenido. Como latinoamericano extrañe que no se menciona nada de la historia de la independencia y del poderío español en esa época. Es lógico que siempre se quedan temas. si bien los ingleses y los norteamericanos han construido el mundo desde 1700 hay buenos relatos del lado latinoamericano. No se menciono nada de la gran inflación que se desató en Europa por el oro Español. Seria interesante también incluir las grandes estafas que ocurrieron y algunos personajes en Francia, que moldearon el capitalismo. Se podría profundizar en la banca y en otros personajes como Robert Owen que creo que fue el primer verdadero socialista. Pero como dije el tema es extenso y aprendí mucho. Soy un colombiano de 53 años que estudio por cultura general. Transmitanle al profesor mis mas sinceras felicitaciones y gracias. Un abrazo.
por Terry L L•
Jan 21, 2017
I completed both parts of this course--a lot of work, but well worth the effort. My last formal history course was a two-semester sequence called "Modern Civilization," which I took as an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill back in the late 1960s. It's amazing how much my perspective on history and studying history has changed over a half century.
It might be helpful for a student to have had some exposure to European and American history prior to taking this two-course sequence. A knowledge of world geography would also be beneficial. The quizzes in part 2 seemed to cover more material than the quizzes in part 1, which required me to change my study habits a bit. This two-part course, however, was well worth the time and money spent. In fact, I can't remember when I got so much out of such a modest purchase!
por Andrew O•
Feb 26, 2018
An excellent history course and very thoughtfully presented. It doesn't rely on memorizing a bunch of dates and events but pulls it together in a story. Rather than focus on "What," "When," or "How," it focused on "Why." Its professor is a very learned and notable figure in both American Academia and Politic having lead the 9/11 commission but refusing to sanction the doctrine of pre-emptive strike. Frankly if they'd have taken his course, they'd have known why. I highly recommend this course to anyone who loves history and wants a different perspective or anyone who wants to know more or wants to pull together the facts they've had swimming around in their head for years!
por Eloy R•
Jul 30, 2017
Es el único curso de Historia general con el que cuenta actualmente Coursera para este periodo histórico.
La amplia variedad de temas que abarca, así como la diversidad de ideas y teorías empleadas en el curso, proporcionan al alumno una formación horizontal en el estudio de la disciplina histórica y a su vez, se le genera las ansias de conocer más de cada uno de los temas. Obviamente es un curso para iniciarse en el camino de este periodo histórico pero no por ello menos esencial e importante para futuros interesados o especialistas en la materia.
por Derek A•
Apr 02, 2017
"Events, dear boy": yes, yes, we know, but Professor Zelikow is determined to steer his students beyond events to a questioning of causality - to the whys as well as the mere whats. In addition, the course is very well structured, and pitched I would say absolutely perfectly for the curious generalist. Only cavil is that one or two lectures are perhaps a touch too compressed, even for such a brief course (week three, for example). Overall I would thoroughly recommend this course: I'm not sure I've ever spent €46 so well. On now to Part Two!
por ana b•
Nov 02, 2015
Being a professor as well (though in computer science), I know how hard it is to get the full attention of the students. I congratulate Prof. Zelikow for his achievements. This course has capture my attention and I was eager to watch the next presentation. I learned a lot and I just have a single point (actually a suggestion), which is that each module should finish with a list of literature for those seeking more info on particular topics. Apart from this, a well balanced course. Not easy to put together stuff about 250 years of History.
por Benjamin W•
Dec 21, 2015
There is much to praise: nice mapwork, a steady and organized march through time, and some interesting case studies (I especially enjoyed the lecture on Henry Adams).
However, the title is a complete misnomer, as the course is regrettably white bread history. I found the approach stale and western-centric, as the content actually covers western Europe and the stretch of its influence through the time period. I also found myself questioning the veracity of many conclusions, as the lecture often had difficulty citing more than a couple specific points of evidence for his arguments.
por Jack C•
Sep 13, 2017
Illuminating course to help understand how the world got to be the way it is today and frankly to help understand the whys and hows the Western world dominated so much during this period. Also, extremely eye opening on non-Western histories of Africa, India, and China. I was shocked at the calamities and instability that China went through during this period and the resulting precariousness of their survival at the turn of the last century. The course also whets the appetite for more because the professor emphasizes the "whys" and not just the "hows". I've sought out other books, Hollywood movies, and web searches based on what the professor has shared in the course. I look forward to taking part two.
por Geordie w•
Jun 28, 2016
A great course on predominantly the western course of history from 1760 to 1910; one that focuses on ideas and movements that shaped the world, not a course that focuses on western history for reasons of eurocentrism alone. Where the course is eurocentric, it is so by necessity, a symptom of a well-balanced, well-structured course that strives for an approach that poses questions in an earnest and truthful manner.
The professor who runs this course is a highlight. His voice and presentation style makes the course that much easier to enjoy. I hope to later follow him and pay attention to his external writings and insights, even in my time beyond studying this online course.
por Victoria D•
Oct 13, 2018
This is a phenomenal introduction to what happened in the world between 1760 and 1910. Not only the professor is able to explain ''what'' happened but most importantly he makes a super emphasis on ''why'' things happened the way they did. The split between the ''what'' and the ''why'' is about 50/50 which I find quite rare as many of my previous learning experiences concentrated primarily on the ''what'' which is not enough to truly understand life and the world. Super course for those interested in the innerworkings of human beings, the choices they have made and the systems those chhave created.
por Arjun S•
Feb 16, 2018
This is an exceedingly well constructed course presented with ease and confidence. It takes a rather difficult subject and explains it with fluency and most importantly clarity. Even someone who is marginally acquainted with world history from the 18th century onward will find it illuminating and very insightful. It really encourages the student to look deeper into specific issues raised in the course of the lectures. I thoroughly enjoyed all the video lessons and the graded quizzes were just difficult enough to be interesting. I am looking forward to taking the second part of the course.
por Vinayaka H•
Dec 22, 2018
I was interested to learn History but books were so boring for me, so I chose Coursera and now I can explore World History, how global forces interact with each other and influence lives of people in the community through this course.
Throughout the course Dr. Philip will not only explain about the history but he also tries to reason "Why it happened ?". In some of the videos, he even decodes the message hidden in art works of the past.
It is indeed a fascinating subject which is beautifully narrated. I look forward to take the second part of World history.
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por Ana C C•
Oct 03, 2015
The course covers an extensive important period of time and in a very organized way. You never get lost. The quizzes are of remarkable level, very well-thought and never superficial. The way things get related and start making sense helped me get to another level in my knowledge of history. I will never study any subject without making reference to other important events that happened elsewhere. And will always refer my readings on this theme to what I learned in this course. Great chance to watch Professor Zelikow's classes from Brazil. Thanks Coursera!
por Gleb S•
Mar 23, 2020
An absolutely blissful course. A well organised and balanced review of an immense topic, delivered in an engaging and personal style. I can not recommend this course high enough, especially for those who have some understanding of the 19th century history, but are looking for a more overarching and cohesive view. Dr. Zelikow delivers the information at a perfect pace and in an engaging manner, and it is hard to imagine how the course can be improved, as it clearly achieves what is sets out to do.
por Kelly•
Oct 17, 2015
I'm enjoying this course very much and looking forward to Part II. I appreciate the approach that ties everything together with larger themes and trends -- and identifies the reasons and motivations behind them as well as identifying regional causes for global events and the impact of global events on individual regions. This class is accessible to students who are not history majors but on the other hand is not simplified -- it's challenging enough to keep intelligent people interested.
por Skylar F•
Feb 03, 2017
Wow, what a fantastic class. I love how Philip doesn't just talk about a bunch of dates, but really brings in humor, paintings, poems or things from literature, and really does a great job of painting a global view. But it doesn't feel overwhelming considering the topic. Things are presented in an easy-to-understand way each class, and you can tell he really likes this topic, as I found myself more and more interested in all that he was presenting. That's the sign of a great teacher.
por Frances M•
May 02, 2017
The course covered a huge amount of material but was presented in a clear concise way. I liked the way it pulled together so many different ideas and referred to places all over the world, giving the big picture as well as a fair amount of illustrative detail. The presenter was clear and concise in his delivery and paced it so the student could follow quite complicated material easily. I would have like to have the results of the quizzes before deciding whether to purchase
por Changez J•
Aug 15, 2017
This is a fantastic course. I have read many books on this period in history including Eric Hobswam, some on China, the American Civil War etc. This course very nicely summarizes the relationships of these events and also take a look at the WHY part.
I highly recommend this to student of history. I also recognize thanks to the help of the course on the IT revolution that we currently see and the disruption that is caused by it in our lives.
por Jorge L P V•
Jan 14, 2016
Es un excelente curso en el que te sumerges en la historia global del siglo XVIII a inicios del XIX. El único pero que le pondría es que no profundiza demasiado en la historia de Latinoamérica, se centra en algunos países en específico lo que hace que se pierdan algunas cosas que me gustaría conocer más a fondo. En términos generales es un curso excelente, bien explicado e incluso entretenido además de interesante.
por Lisa S•
Aug 01, 2016
I just audited this course for the fun of it with an interest in seeing patterns from the past in order to understand our present. I enjoyed the presentation and the professor's thematic approach and his relaxed conversational presentation style. I feel like I got exactly what I hoped to get out of it. I particularly found his use of images from the various countries and time periods helpful and memorable.
por John S S I•
Feb 03, 2016
Professor Zelikow is making the subject interesting and is presenting me, for the 1st time with insight into the causes of many wars and revolutions in not only the Americas, but also in Europe and how they were all largely tied to the same causes. It has also opened my eyes to what is going on in the World today and how similar some of the underlying causes are the same now as they were in centuries past.
por Darcy R J•
Dec 03, 2015
I actually took the pair of courses in backwards order and as I was finishing Part one (after part II) I was ready to go and do Part II again.
Really enjoyed these to courses very much. Enough detail but also broad enough to cover many things that were happening in the world.
Highly recommended as a course to get an overview on what was happening in the 2 plus centuries this course covers.


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Video Name: Nebraska Engineering
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College Featured: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
What is this video about:
- There are brief discussions that answer these questions:
- What is the computer science and engineering program at UNL?
- What can I do with engineering?
- Where can I study abroad while earning an engineering degree?
- Are there opportunities to learn new and fun things?
- How do I find friends and support as an international student?
- Can I play sports or be in activities outside class? What's the benefit of that?
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- How can I find out more about this college?
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- Engineering Learning Community – Students in the department live close by each other in on-campus housing. This allows the students in the same program to get to know each other better, become friends, and help each other understand the class material better. One goal of such communities is to inspire the students to dialogue about their subjects, ask thought provoking questions and challenge themselves to think differently (innovate and create).
- Throughout the video, the word 'fun' is used. Americans like to think of college as a fun experience. Previously the 'fun' aspect was confined to socializing outside class. Now a days, this 'fun' aspect is being played up in the classroom. Teachers want to make learning fun. Students must be serious and do all their work, but teachers try to make learning 'fun' by giving creative, hands-on and group assignments and other activities that stimulate interest. It's not about being 'spoon-fed' information. Spoon-feeding is NOT FUN. It's about learning through a combination of methods while gaining skills in independent thinking, brainstorming, questioning, innovating, inventing, and creating.
- Sports and extra-circular activities were discussed. Most sports teams and other clubs may have more availability for undergraduates. If you are able to join sports or select clubs that interact with students from other colleges, that will give you a chance to travel in a local or regional area of the US, see new places and meet other people from different college.
- Some facilities on campus are open to students from other colleges or the general public. Each college has different rules and regulations. The gym (rec center), cafeteria, library, and art gallery are some services that may be open to those not working or studying on campus.
- On-campus sporting events, special lectures, concerts, plays, recitals and other events may be open to the public. Your friends from other campuses could come to your campus to participate in some events. Likewise, you could also visit other campuses to attend events there.
- E-week. Engineering week. This event showcases interesting stuff going on at the campus related to engineering. Parts of this event are open to the public.
Location of this college:
This college is located in Lincoln, Nebraska in the mid-west part of the USA. Nebraska is a state known for being flat with a lot of wheat and farm fields. The most famous TV character from Nebraska is Penny on the Big Bang Theory.
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Thank you for taking the time to do the exercises and watch the video. This will help you better prepare for a successful cross-cultural adjustment in the USA.
*I as the author of this post and blog am not being paid to promote these videos or colleges. I chose these videos on my own based on the fact that that they showcase American college culture in a way I found useful to the International College Orientation Process.
International Student Online Orientation Links
- Introduction, Objectives, Directions – Part 1 of 9
- Student Clubs and Recreation at American Colleges - Part 2 of 9
- Teaching Philosophy and Classroom Expectations From Professors – Part 3 of 9
- Admissions, Academic and Social Life at One American College - Part 4 of 9
- Is a Relaxed Atmosphere Conducive to Learning? - Part 5 of 9
- Campus Services and Perks - Part 6 of 9
- Small Town, Big Opportunities - Part 7 of 9
- College is FUN In and Out of the Classroom – Part 8 of 9
- Staying Motivated During Graduate Studies – Part 9 of 9


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Christopher Millett is Professor of Public Health at Imperial College London. He is Visiting Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Christopher moved to the UK from Australia in 1994, working in several research and NHS public health roles before undertaking formal public health training in London. He completed his PhD at Imperial College in 2008 and was awarded a 5 year NIHR Research Professorship in 2014. He is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
Christopher directs the Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit within the School of Public Health. He is lead investigator at Imperial College for the NIHR School of Public Health Research. Christopher has published studies on a variety of topics, including tobacco control, active travel and obesity, cardiovascular risk assessment, health system performance and health inequalities. His main research interest is public health policy evaluation, with a particular interest in health inequality impacts. This includes a growing focus on evaluating strategies to prevent and manage chronic (non-communicable) disease in middle income country settings, particularly India and Brazil.
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Enquiries from prospective PhD students are welcome in any of the research areas listed above.
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et al., 2019, Effect of economic recession and impact of health and social protection expenditures on adult mortality: a longitudinal analysis of 5565 Brazilian municipalities, The Lancet Global Health, Vol:7, ISSN:2214-109X, Pages:E1575-E1583
et al., 2019, Impact of armed conflict on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review, Heart, Vol:105, ISSN:1355-6037, Pages:1388-1394
et al., 2019, Quantifying the impact of the Public Health Responsibility Deal on salt intake, cardiovascular disease and gastric cancer burdens: interrupted time series and microsimulation study, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol:73, ISSN:0143-005X, Pages:881-887
et al., 2019, Smoke-free legislation and neonatal and infant mortality in Brazil: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study, Tobacco Control, ISSN:0964-4563
et al., 2019, Associations of public transportation use with cardiometabolic health: a systematic review and meta-analysis, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol:188, ISSN:1476-6256, Pages:785-795
et al., 2018, Reducing chronic disease through changes in food aid: A microsimulation of nutrition and cardiometabolic disease among Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, Plos Medicine, Vol:15
Hone TV, Macinko J, Millett C, 2018, Revisiting Alma-Ata: what is the role of primary health care in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?, The Lancet, Vol:392, ISSN:0140-6736, Pages:1461-1472
et al., 2018, Child morbidity and mortality associated with alternative policy responses to the economic crisis in Brazil: a nationwide microsimulation study, PLOS Medicine, Vol:15, ISSN:1549-1277
et al., Association of cigarette price differentials and infant mortality in 23 European Union countries, Jama Pediatrics, ISSN:2168-6203
et al., 2017, Association between expansion of primary healthcare and racial inequalities in mortality amenable to primary care in Brazil: A national longitudinal analysis, Plos Medicine, Vol:14, ISSN:1549-1676
et al., 2017, Artificially sweetened beverages and the response to the global obesity crisis, Plos Medicine, Vol:14, ISSN:1549-1676
et al., 2016, The Great Recession And Increased Cost Sharing In European Health Systems, Health Affairs, Vol:35, ISSN:0278-2715, Pages:1204-1213
et al., Impact of NHS Health Check on cardiovascular disease risk: difference-in-differences matching analysis, Canadian Medical Association Journal, ISSN:1488-2329
et al., 2016, Alternative strategies to achieve cardiovascular mortality goals in China and India: a microsimulation of target- versus risk-based blood pressure treatment, Circulation, Vol:133, ISSN:0009-7322, Pages:840-848
et al., 2015, The Health System and Population Health Implications of Large-Scale Diabetes Screening in India: A Microsimulation Model of Alternative Approaches, PLOS Medicine, Vol:12, ISSN:1549-1277
et al., 2013, The Effect of Tobacco Control Measures during a Period of Rising Cardiovascular Disease Risk in India: A Mathematical Model of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke, PLOS Medicine, Vol:10, ISSN:1549-1277
et al., 2013, Associations between Active Travel to Work and Overweight, Hypertension, and Diabetes in India: A Cross-Sectional Study, PLOS Medicine, Vol:10, ISSN:1549-1277


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This lip crayon is SO.MOISTURIZING. I absolutely feel the Vitamin E at work in this lippie! This is great for me since I have the driest lips ever and nothing seems to help (not even that fancy Dior everyone raves about–I stick with Aquaphor now).
The color is really nice and wearable with just about everything.
It is lightly pigmented in a swatch, but more coverage is easily attained with a couple swipes over the lips.
This is not super long wearing, maybe two to three hours. It is one of those lip products that you can just throw in a purse and be good to go for whatever event you are headed to.
All in all a win for me!


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The secret to perfect pizza
The key ingredient to making perfect pizza dough at home is the flour. You need a high-gluten flour that will give strength and elasticity.
Sunrise Flour Mill Pizza Flour
is a blend of our Hard Red Spring Wheat and Soft White Winter Wheat. Both grains are sourced from local farmers, and only the highest quality organic grains are selected for our flour.
This flour can be used in place of white flour for most uses but is especially good for pizza dough, baguettes, and Italian-style breads.
Pizza dough recipe:
16 oz
Sunrise Flour Mill Pizza Flour
10 oz tepid water (This is about a 64% hydration)
1 Tbsp fresh yeast (Red Star Dry Active seems to work best)
1 Tbsp sea salt
Add water and yeast to flour and mix with a mixer with a dough hook for 6 minutes. Add salt and continue to mix for another 2 minutes. If you do not have a mixer you can knead the dough on a clean floured surface. Make a mound with the flour and yeast, add water gradually, and knead thoroughly for the same amount of time, adding salt last.
After mixing or kneading, let the dough rest and rise to at least double its size. The time required will vary depending on the room temperature and temperature of the water used.
Punch it down and use now or put in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours.
Preparing the dough:
Portion out into four equal parts. Work on a clean dry surface sprinkled with a little flour. Work in a circular motion to make a nice round ball.
Lightly flour a pan that can be covered easily (eg a jelly roll pan). Place the four balls on the pan and cover.
Making pizza:
Press raised dough ball with fingertips from the center of the ball in a circular motion moving toward the outside. Leave a lip of dough on the edge of the circle to create a nice bubble on the outside of the pizza. As it gets bigger you can use your own technique to stretch it out more, eg getting both hands under the dough and flipping it in the air a bit, turning and stretching. You can also continue to press and turn on the counter until it becomes the size you want. You will find your own special way of doing this
Not turning out the way you like? Roll it back into a ball, let it rest a few minutes and try again.
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"Priceless" is a TV documentary that was aired on many public stations. It does a fine job of tracking the appalling cost to America's well-being caused by our campaign finance system. For updates go to http://www.pricelessmovie.org/air-dates/
Back in 2009 when the U.S. Congress was working on the health care bill that became known as Obama Care, it was barely noted in the press that Max Baucus, Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee, was using his power to block any testimony from advocates of "Medicare for All" - or of any single-payer health care system. The reason wasn't hard to find. Eight of the Montana Senator's top ten campaign contributors since 2005 were health care companies.
Not surprising, then, that the bill that finally left the committee heading for passage and the law that it ultimately became has been a boon to health care special interests while only partially accomplishing its goal of universal health care. In the years since, the Obama Care program that Baucus midwifed into creation has forced millions of people to purchase overpriced and underperforming insurance services that face little competition, all while protecting the pharmaceutical industry by barring Medicare, the largest single purchaser of pharmaceuticals, from negotiating bulk purchase discounts while providing no mechanism to prevent massive increases in drug prices.
For much the same reason – campaign money – it took a major at-the-White-House-gates demonstration by protestors before the Obama White House would allow any advocate for single-payer care into its very public deliberations, and then as a late-comer. In the end, the White House fought alongside Baucus for severe limitations on health care reform despite polls revealing that a majority of Americans favored Medicare for all.
Not long ago, the American Academy of Neurology decided it needed to get into this game and formed a campaign finance fund called BrainPac. The rest was smooth sailing. "Nothing has put the Academy at the table like Brain PAC has," admitted Michael J. Amery, the Academy's legislative counsel. "We literally did not exist in the eyes of Congress before the PAC was created."
Here at Fix Our America, we believe it doesn't matter whether you personally support or disdain the health care outcome. It doesn't matter your political affiliation or ideology. What matters is that this is the way the game goes in a system that demeans the word "democracy" and which behind closed doors demonizes the concept "the will of the people." Who can follow the will of the people when the will of special interest money, without which you can't get elected, is what it takes to play in the game of politics in the first place? Within that context, the real politics game becomes fooling and misdirecting the people and keeping all of us from a fair presentation of important choices on all issues, not only on healthcare.
Here are two nasty and stark realities of American political life:
• Most legislation is written by lobbyists. Most lawmakers rarely read what they are voting on. They lack the time to read because they are so preoccupied by fund-raising, and they lack the interest because they are being swayed in how to vote by donors and by party leaders who are even more beholden to the donors (you don't rise in the system unless you are a superb fundraiser).
• Money buys its greatest influence behind the scenes. From an online book review: "Using a national analysis of state legislators, Lynda Powell, a professor of political science at the University of Rochester, documents the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which money buys influence – from setting a party's agenda, to keeping bills off the floor, to adding earmarks and crafting key language in legislation.
"In her book, The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures (University of Michigan Press, 2012), Powell argues instead that the real power of money is exerted long before the roll call. 'The question is, what went into these laws,' says Powell. 'The wording of just a sentence or two or the addition of an earmark makes all the difference to a special interest group. For other contributors, the goal may be to preserve the status quo and prevent a bill from coming to a vote at all.'"
A 2000 poll conducted by Lake Snell Perry and Associates involving 1,000 voters and 200 donors revealed that 54% of campaign donors got to speak directly to a major elected official about issues that concerned them compared to 9% of voters who sought the same face-to-face contact. Thus, the tiny minority donor class has far more ability to influence government policy than the rest of us.
How else but via the power of campaign money could an insane policy of ending Depression-era safeguards against bank and Wall St. speculative gambling in derivatives and commodities and in high-risk loans have passed Congress during the Clinton administration? Both parties drank the money Kool-Aid and conspired to indulge the huge-campaign donors of the financial industry with the moronic non-regulation that brought on the bank crash and the Great Recession with it high unemployment of 2008-9, in which the country still significantly flounders.
The money bought not only deregulation; it also bought a massive bailout of Wall St while ignoring Main Street and total absence of criminal prosecution for massive criminal acts from both the Bush and Obama administrations, each heavily dependent on campaign dollars from the financial sector. Or as stated by William K. Black, one of the key regulators sent in to salvage the remnants of the savings and loan banks during the Reagan years, for which many bankers went to jail: "We've had the greatest explosion of white-collar crime in history and the weakest criminal justice response."
As just one example of the consequences of no prosecution, take the many billions in losses Chase bank took in 2012 on its derivative funds, which it then felt perfectly immune to lie about to regulators and stockholders, even going so far as to change its accounting methods to hide the losses a la Enron.
The mass murder of elementary school children and educators in Newtown, Conn., churchgoers in Charleston, SC, people enjoying their evening in Orlando, Flor., and our police officers in Dallas, Tex., denote another frightening reality about the U.S. brought about by the influence of money over our political system. The level of mass murder we experience is usually seen in war-torn and segmented Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakisatan and Syria, but our political class, in response to special interest money, has prevented all meaningful attempts to prevent these tragedies. As one magazine pointed out at the time of the Newtown shooting, "Since 1982, there have been at least 61 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii. Of the 139 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. The arsenal included dozens of assault weapons and semiautomatic handguns." Four years later, we can add at least 10 more mass murders, many carried out with legally obtained weapons.
How to explain this particular form of collective insanity, where our lawmakers continue to offer "thoughts and prayers" and moments of silence, anything to avoid looking at the role of campaign money in putting battlefield weapons in the hands of civilians? Given that the majority of the American populace supports strict controls on sales of assault rifles like the ones deployed so devastatingly in Dallas, Newtown and in other recent mass murders, given also that half the members of the National Rifle Association also support such controls and that a sizable number of conservatives do as well, how is it that fast-fire, high-round semi-automatics are are so readily and plentifully available?
Look no further than the savvy role the NRA brass has played in politics for decades. Financed by weapons manufacturers, the NRA has devised a dual strategy of buying gun-control blocking lawmakers while threatening to provide sizable amounts of campaign financing to the electoral opponents of any lawmaker who strays from the NRA gospel that all guns and all ammunition are good for you; also, that no background checks need be made on gun sales made outside formal gun stores. Since most lawmakers support gun ownership and hail from districts where gun ownership is strongly favored – 89% of the overall public supports private gun ownership – the threat boils down to seeking to enforce rigid adherence to every type of gun the NRA's gun-making financiers want to sell.
Hence, for a lawmaker to support gun ownership in general but move to vote to restrict or ban the types of weapons used in the mass murders, brings a genuine threat of NRA money in his or her district or state accompanied by TV commercials along the lines of: "Did you know that the NRA says Congressperson (fill in name) does not support the right of Americans to arm and protect themselves against the criminals out there?"
According to Source-Watch.com., the NRA spent upwards of $24 million during the 2012 presidential cycle to enforce its rigid doctrine, including $16.8 million spent through its Political Action Committee, almost exclusively for negative ads against candidates who displeased them. The NRA spent another $7.45 million through its Institute for Legislative Action, its lobbying arm that warns lawmakers of the electoral consequences of bucking the NRA. For the NRA, the PAC money goes a long way in intimidating lawmakers from even considering votes that might make them an NRA election target.
To see the impact of this strategy, look no further than the December, 2015 vote in the U.S. Senate on a measure to prevent terror suspects from purchasing guns, which failed 45-54. Senators who opposed the measure received 30 times as much money from anti-gun control groups and Senators who voted for it. Similar attempts to limit terror suspects access to guns and require universal background checks, both widely supported by the American people, failed to pass the Senate again in July 2016.
Examples of money-bought politics are as endless as the federal and state budgets. The top 25 federal contractors have spent $1.2 billion on lobbying and contributed over $150 million to PACs since 2005, which may seem like a ridiculous number. But it's paid off. Over the same period, these contractors have received $1.6 TRILLION in business, a return on investment of $1,171 for every $1 spent. You can look at virtually any political decision and vote and find the money trail.
Here are a few examples by industry or topic derived mostly from the fine work of two organizations that track the specifics of money-bought politics, MapLight.org and OpenSecrets.org. Other superb sources are the Sunlight Foundation and Follow the Money.
- Big money has taken a strong position in favor of major trade deals like the TPP even as the American public remains skeptical. Between October 2008 and September 2014, industry groups, nonprofits and corporations that came out in favor of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) giving President Obama more latitude in trade negotiations contributed over $218 million to members of the Senate when the TPA was considered. Industries opposing the TPA spent a comparatively small $23.2 million. Small wonder, then, that TPP remains likely to pass despite opposition from the presidential nominees of both parties.
- The Senate has actively stood in the way of attempts to address climate change and improve the environment on behalf of their major donors in the gas, energy and coal industries. In November 2015, the Senate passed Joint Resolutions 23 and 24, which, together, would prevent the EPA's Clean Power Plan to regulate carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Each measure passed 52-46, but was vetoed by the president. Supporters of the resolutions received an average of 17 times more in contributions ($75,802) as opponents ($4,464) over a six year period ending March 31, 2015.
- Moreover, while scientists have long since reached a consensus on the realities of climate change, in January, 2015, a measure to express the sense of the Congress that "human activity significantly contributes to climate change" failed in the Senate 50-49. Opponents of the measure received an average of $259,314 from the oil and gas industry, seven times more than the average $36,759 received by supporters of the measure over the same period.
- House GOP leadership, egged on by over $10 million from petroleum and natural gas industries and support from the Senate, has continued to press the issue of oil & gas drilling, including voting to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on 10 different occasions, sometimes tying it other more essential legislation in the hopes of escaping a presidential veto. When the House approved the 10th attempt 270-152 on February 11, 2015, representatives who voted for the bill had received 13 times as much money from the oil and gas industry and representatives who voted for it. Meanwhile, the top five refinery companies and their parent companies, Valero, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66, and Shell / Saudi Aramco spent $58.8 million lobbying Congress in 2013 and 2014.
- The Pentagon is by far the largest customer and consumer of fossil-fuel based energy in the world - a reality that creates huge logistic issues and costs lives in protecting vulnerable fuel transport, as it did in both Iraq wars and has in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, Congress moved vigorously in June, 2012, to stop the Pentagon's plan to invest in renewable energy resources, with a sizable number of Democrats joining a solid front of Republicans in seeking to stop the plan. The charge in the Senate was led by Oklahoma Republic James Inohfe who in recent elections was blessed with $491,000 in donations from the the fossil fuel industry, of which $44,000 came from the ferociously anti-sustainable energy Koch Brothers oil company. The industry as a whole, of course, is one of the three leading campaign financiers among major industries.
- Buried in the January, 2013, "fiscal cliff" deal with little notice by the media was $200 billion in giveaways to large campaign donors that made a mockery of the concept that the rich would pay more in a meaningful way. As just a few examples, Goldman Sachs, often criticized as the epitome of an unpunished Wall St. ripoff outfit, got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its massive new headquarters. Banks in general were given $9 billion in exempt taxes on offshore loans. Certain other U.S. corporations that are big donors got another $1.5 billion waived in taxes owned on offshore profits.
- Campaign donations to both parties have allowed the big banks to pull off the greatest financial sleight-of-hand in human history. Unbeknownst - we bet - to almost all of you who read this, the federal government has allowed the banks to park trillions in derivatives in subsidiaries insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Should matters go terribly wrong, the government could be on the hook for up to $72 trillion banked by JP Morgan Chase, $53 trillion by Citigroup; $74 trillion by Bank of America, and $44 trillion by Goldman Sachs.
- Why are taxes so complicated and so expensive? Because it benefits a private industry to keep it that way, of course! Congress could long ago have passed a bill that would allow the IRS to handle most of the tax filing process for us, but this would cut into the profit margin of companies that provide tax services. Five of the largest companies and organizations representing tax preparers spent $35 million lobbying Congress between 2011 and 2014.
- A key funding mechanism of Obama Care was the tax on medical devices, supported by the National Physicians Association and expected to raise $26 billion over ten years. The medical device industry immediately made it a target for repeal, with the House supporting it's repeal in a H.R. 160, the Protect Medical Innovation Act, which passed 280-140 on June 18, 2015 with the support of 46 Democrats. Ultimately, the tax was suspended for two years in the 2015 omnibus budget bill, a favorite tactic for special interests giveaways. The defeat of this tax demonstrates the difficulty of maintaining taxes or regulations on specific industries that can spend nearly unlimited funds on a topic few others prioritize but which may be important. Industries that sought repeal of this tax gave $19.5 million to members of the House over a two year period ending in September 2014. The top ten companies alone spent $109.7 million lobbying Congress between passage of the tax in 2012 and the House vote in 2015. Is it any surprise our leaders backed down in the face of that entirely legal onslaught?
- With all the chest-thumping about Medicare costs, a bipartisan group in Congress has repeatedly blocked the Medicare administration from negotiating billions in drug costs savings per year by forbidding it to buy in bulk and to use its discretion about purchasing generic drugs. As just one example, in January Congress saddled Medicare with $500 million in unnecessary costs over two years by giving Amgen a two-yer extension on proprietary rights to an expensive drug used in dialysis. And Congress forced Medicare to pay $2,000 a dose for the macular degeneration drug Lucentis when it's equivalent generic, Avastin, is available for $50 a dose. Pharmaceutical companies rank among the top three campaign donating industries.
- Similarly, an amendment to a Senate bill offered by John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2012 would have allowed importation of less-expensive prescription drugs from Canada and was defeated 43-54. Senators who voted 'NO' on this amendment received on average 2.8 times as much ($98,054) in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical manufacturers as those who voted 'YES' on this amendment ($35,558).
- When voters try to go around lawmakers to take on drug prices directly, the pharmaceutical industry hits back, hard. By March of 2016, drug companies had already contributed $49 million to fight a ballot initiative in California intended to lower the price that state agencies pay for drug, far more than the $4.3 million contributed by the lone financial supporter, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
- Defense contractors spend on both sides of the aisle and often receive bipartisan support for their priorities. For example, when S. 754, the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) to make it easier for the government to get access to and analyze data, came to a vote in the Senate on October 27, 2015, it passed 74-21. Supporters had received, on average, just over $121,000 from defense contractors who stood to receive huge contracts to analyze the data and provide related services. Opponents received less than half as much money, at nearly $52,000. Fifteen Senators raised more than $200,000 from these industries, with all voting yes except one who did not vote.
- Between 2011 and 2014, the top five contractors for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spent $107.6 million lobbying federal agencies and another $7.4 million in contributions through PACs to Congressional candidates. In that same period, the contractors received $8.9 billion in federal contracts from the DHS alone.
- Defense contractors don't just use this influence to increase their business, they also use it to fight each other. When the Air Force considered competing bids to design and build the next stealth bomber, a contract worth at least $55 billion, defense contractors squared off - and opened their checkbooks to start massive pr campaigns, invested millions in their PACs and hired more lobbyists. And while Boeing and Lockheed Martin ultimately lost this battle, the money wasn't entirely wasted as Congress is sure to reward them down the line.
- In July, 2012, the California state Assembly passed a measure that would have allowed school districts to more quickly to remove teachers found to be sexually or physically abusive with students. In the state Senate, however, the bill was killed in committee by Democratic legislators deeply beholden to the teachers union for campaign financing. Not even pressures from a majority of other Democrats could extract the bill from the committee.
- In January, 2015, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) held a hearing on the FCC's attempts to regulate internet service providers and ensure net neutrality while introducing legislation. In the previous cycle, both Representatives had received significant amounts of financial support from employees and PACs of the top internet service providers AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon Communications, totaling $99,500 to Rep. Upton and $56,800 to Rep. Walden.
- In April, 2012 a bill restructuring the Federal Communications Commission's rule-making process in favor of the dominant media companies passed the House, 247-174. The measure was supported by AT&T, the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and Verizon Communications, all of which are major contributors to the bill's 10 House sponsors. Here are the sums which key committee members pushing the bill received from July 1, 2009–June 30, 2011 (and please note that in years Democrats are in charge of the House, the industry has been just as successful in buying their support; in fact, in its greatest coup, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the industry got both parties in Congress to back its monopoly agenda and it bought the Clinton Administration's support as well). •Greg Walden (R-Ore.): Comcast ($30,500), CenturyLink ($25,500), AT&T ($13,500), the National Association of Broadcasters ($13,000), Clear Channel Communications ($11,800). •Joe Barton (R-Texas): Comcast ($17,500), Verizon Communications ($10,500), Time Warner Cable ($10,000). •Charlie Bass (R-N.H.): National Cable & Telecommunications Association ($15,000), Comcast ($14,650), DirecTV Group ($14,400). •Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.): Comcast ($13,500). •Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.): AT&T ($13,000), Comcast ($11,000), National Cable & Telecommunications Association($11,000), DirecTV Group ($9,000), T-Mobile USA ($9,000). •Lee Terry (R-Neb.): CenturyLink ($30,450). Telecom Services & Equipment ($61,450) and Telephone Utilities ($56,000). •Bob Latta (R-Ohio): National Cable & Telecommunications Association ($9,000), AT&T ($8,000). •Steve Scalise (R-La.): National Cable & Telecommunications Association ($12,500). Interest groups from Cable & satellite TV production & distribution as a whole ($23,500). •Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.): Comcast ($10,500).
- A revealing look- back. In 1996 the Telecommunications Act was touted by Congress as a means to increase competition in the industry, decrease prices and improve service for the public. In reality, the new legislation deregulated the industry and enabled large telecommunication corporations to merge with one another and increase prices at the expense of the public. Telecommunications corporations contributed $3.5 million to members of the Congress in 1995. The two most enthusiastic supporters of the new legislation and top beneficiaries were Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler, who received $103,165 from telecom PACs, and House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields, who received $97,500.
- During his campaign for the Republican Presidential primary in 2012, Newt Gingrich's rise in the Republican contest was made possible by multi-billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who donated $10 million to a pro-Gingrich Super PAC. Gingrich openly admitted Adelson's support came down to a single issue: Israel. Adelson, who hardly conceals his disdain for Palestinians, is an ardent supporter of Israel taking over the occupied territories and driving Palestinians from the land – a policy the U.S. has adamantly opposed through every administration. Over the years Gingrich had called for fair treatment of the Palestinians. After Gingrich took Adelson's money he adopted the most extremist anti-Palestinian stance of the Republican presidential field, calling the Palestinians themselves an "invented" people.
- The UN's World Health Organization is encouraging smokers around the globe to ditch their cigarettes, if only for 24 hours, to mark "World No Tobacco Day," an annual event designed to promote a tobacco-free lifestyle. In the U.S., big tobacco companies, a major source of campaign money, have been successful in ensuring that Washington doesn't join in. Helping is House Majority Leader Eric Cantor whose top contributor ($146,500) since 2004 has been Altria Group, the world's largest tobacco company. In the 2012 election cycle, Altria -- its executives, other employees and company PAC combined -- gave Cantor's PAC more than $57,000, with another $20,000 going to his campaign committee. The company doesn't ignore compliant Democrats. It was Sen. Mark Warner's (Va.) top donor in 2008 and has contributed nearly $39,000 to his campaign account this cycle, even though he's not up for re-election until 2014.


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Few organizations can survive without dedicated people. And the Cooper Museum is no different.
We are a registered 501(c)3, non-profit organization. We rely on a dedicated group of volunteers and generous friends. We are managed by a Board of Trustees, each one of whom has their own talents to bring to the table. We are all dedicated to the mission of preserving and sharing the history of the area we live in.
If you are interested in joining us, come on down! We have a number of projects and the place is usually busy with any number of visitors and friends !!
Established in 1965, the Chaffey Communities Cultural Center is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history and culture of the communities of Upland, Ontario, Montclair, Mt. Baldy, Rancho Cucamonga and San Antonio Heights.
It was first located at 525 W. 18th Street and operated there from 1965 until 1988 when its historic building was the victim of an arson fire. The building was severely damaged and many artifacts were totally destroyed or damaged beyond repair. For almost 8 years, this museum location was closed completely as the building was repaired, artifacts sorted an salvaged.
In 1995 The Chaffey Communities Cultural Center received a generous donation from the estate of Miss Ada Cooper, a long time resident of Alta Loma. With those funds, we were able to purchase an Art Moderne style building located at 217 A Street in downtown Upland. It was built in 1937 by the Ontario-Cucamonga Fruit Exchange to serve as their offices. The "O.K. Fruit Exchange" dates back to 1897 when it was formed to coordinate the sales of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit from a dozen local packing houses. When the Exchange closed in the 1960s, the building was used as offices by the West End Board of Realtors and later by several local attorneys and accountants. In 1997, the Cooper Regional History Museum was dedicated at 217 East A Street in downtown Upland.
But since that time, there has always been a goal of re-opening the 18th street location to feature the agricultural implements that were so important to the early building of this community. That reality has finally happened. This original 18th Street facility has re-opened, as of May, 2009.
In addition to the agri-business exhibits, we will be able to exhibit other items in our collection that are just too large to be displayed at the downtown museum. As an added feature, we will have a research library available, focusing on local history research. Included in the library will be old books and maps of the area, clipping files, scrap books, historic home research tools, and a growing genealogy and family history collection.
We also hope to sponsor workshops on historic home identification and preservation, and help interested owners with the paperwork necessary to get their properties on historic registers. Another goal is to sponsor workshops on collections management and artifact preservation and restoration. So come on by and see what we have to offer. Initially, the 18th Street location will be open Thursday 2-6pm, and Friday and Saturday 10-6pm.


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Episode 00121 (George Biggs)
Recorded 4/28/13
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This week George Biggs from the Give Me Cake Or Give Me Death podcast joins Mike and Paul for some interviewness. Then the show takes a weird turn to some phone games. I laughed a ton doing this one. Sorry for the sniffles, I was sick.
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Welcome to the Lake Como Mountains
The lake and the mountains come together to offer, in every season, pleasant experiences of healthy living in a beautiful natural setting.
Families looking for outdoor activities, find many opportunities for recreation and relaxation. They can approach mountain life experience by discovering mountain huts and pastures with walks suitable to everyone. Lively lake destinations offer beach lifestyle, nature and sports, with harbors and equipped beaches, ferry trips and excursions.
Sportsmen can live their passions surrounded by nature, actively practicing sailing, water sports, trekking, mountaineering, climbing, paragliding, skiing and winter sports always surrounded by a landscape alternating views of the lake and of the mountains. Important sport events offer emotions to a passionate national and international audience.
Small villages hold ancient customs, which are also found at the dinner table, when genuine products of the farms and pastures meet those of the lake in traditional recipes or with innovative proposals. Big or small churches, castles and museums can be discovered either through guided itineraries or religious, cultural and historical events.
We are waiting for you to discover and experience together the beauty and the authentic values of our territory.


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If you're coming to Berlin, you're coming to a fantastic place where you can try all sorts of new foods and dishes that you might not be able to get back home.
I'm not talking about sauerkraut and sausages, although I have included a few German specialities on this list. German food is actually pretty hard to come by in Berlin. There are plenty of German restaurants, of course, but you're more likely to stumble upon Turkish, Vietnamese, or vegan restaurants when you're out and about.
This isn't the case everywhere in Germany: Berlin is never the best example of Germany, and that definitely applies to food. If you're visiting several places in Germany, I would probably recommend saving the German specialities for somewhere else. There are some great German restaurants here, but what Berlin is particularly great for is its international cuisine.
If there's one food that Berlin, and really the whole of Germany, excels at it's the döner kebab. You've probably had a kebab before, usually after a late night of drinking, and you've probably listed it as one of your many regrets of the evening.
Kebabs in Germany are unlike kebabs anywhere else (except maybe Turkey, of course). Here the döner is so good, you can actually eat them sober.
Look out for kebab stands advertising gemüse kebabs, the most famous being Mustafa's Gemüse Kebap on Mehringdamm. Gemüse is the German for vegetables, and these kebabs not only include döner meat and fresh salad but roasted vegetables as well.
Other Turkish Dishes
Because Berlin has such a large Turkish community, it's one of the best places to try Turkish food outside of Turkey. A few things to look out for include Gözleme, Pide, Menemen, Mantı, İmam Bayıldı, and lentil soup.
Vietnamese Food
You'll find Vietnamese restaurants all over Berlin, in much the same way as Chinese restaurants are common in other parts of Europe like the UK and Ireland. And, like Chinese restaurants everywhere else, some are better than others.
You'll find Vietnamese restaurants in every kiez in Berlin, but probably the best and most authentic place to go for Vietnamese food is at the Dong Xuan Center in Lichtenberg.
The Dong Xuan Center is a collection of shops and wholesalers that sell to the Vietnamese community in Berlin. You can find everything here from cheap clothing and homewares to Asian ingredients, medicines, and teas.
There are a couple of restaurants here and, if you want to "eat where the locals eat", this is definitely the place to do that.
Thai Food
As well as Vietnamese restaurants, you'll find plenty of Thai restaurants in Berlin as well, but the most fun way to eat Thai food in Berlin is at Thai Park in Preußen Park.
Thai Park is an unofficial street food event that takes place on the weekend during the summer. Here, local Thai residents set up little stalls and sell Thai dishes to hungry Berlin residents. You'll find everything here from mango salads and Pad thai to more exotic dishes like deep fried insects.
As mentioned, the events is unorganised – at least by the local Berlin council. It apparently got started after some Thai Berlin residents started having picnics in the park and the other locals offered to buy some of their food.
It's not the best Thai food I've ever had, but the whole experience is the most fun way to try Thai food in Berlin.
Berlin has one of the largest Turkish populations of any city in the world and, because of this, it's has some incredible Baklava houses.
You can actually buy Baklava throughout the city: you'll see it in the Turkish supermarkets and restaurants, but there's nothing quite like going into one of the specialist shops.
The majority of these are concentrated Neukölln, the part of Berlin with the largest Turkish population, particularly along Sonnenallee but also Karl-Marx-Straße and Hermannstraße.
You probably won't know what to buy, or even what you're buying, so the best thing to do is just point and say how many pieces you want.
Ice Cream
You can buy ice cream in pretty much every major city, but ice cream parlours in Berlin are in a league of their own. Many of the parlours are very experimental, and it can be a great place to try unusual flavours like beetroot (Eismanufaktur Berlin), white chocolate and Parmesan (Eismanufaktur Berlin), and yam and coconut cream (Die Eismacher).
There are also several places that specialise in gelato, and some like Aldemir Eis and California Pops that make natural fresh-fruit paletas with fruits like mango and blueberries.
If you're looking for a more German and less Berlin take on ice cream, look out for Spaghettieis, a bowl of ice cream that's made to look like spaghetti bolognese. It's quite a unique dish that you're unlikely to find outside of Germany.
If you want to try something that's typically German, one of the best street food options is the Currywurst. This was actually invented in Berlin, or at least that's how the story goes: in 1949 Herta Heuwer mixed ketchup and curry powder which she'd obtained from British soldiers, poured it over a grilled sausage, and voilá.
Curry 36 is generally regarded as the best place for Currywurst, although there are plenty of smaller joints like Bergmann Curry that have their fans as well. If you really like it, be sure to check out the Currywurst Museum.
You don't have to walk far in Berlin before you stumble across somewhere selling falafel, whether that's an Arabic restaurant, Sudanese restaurant, falafel stand or restaurant, or a vegan restaurant. You'll also find it in some Turkish restaurants, although the falafel in Arabic restaurants tends to be better.
Tip: The Sudanese restaurants serve falafel (tamiya) with peanut sauce.
These days, you can find good burgers in most cities so you may decide to skip this one. If you're a burger fiend, however, there are a couple of places that you should add to your bucket list.
For novelty's sake, the best burger has to be Burgermeister. This food stall is actually located in an old outdoor toilet in the heart of Kreuzberg. Burgermeister has a new venue, in Kottbusser Tor, but it's not quite as much fun as its main venue.
In terms of actual taste, however, this is the kind of question that starts intense debates.
Places to look out for include Zsa Zsa Burger, Windburger, Berlin Burger International, The Bird, Bobsek Burger, Rebell Room, Burgers Burgers, and Tommis Burger, to name just a few.
Vegan food
Berlin is probably Europe's most vegan-friendly city, so you won't have any problem finding vegan options here. There are hundreds that solely offer vegan food, and you'd have to look hard to find a normal restaurant that doesn't have vegan options. If you're vegan, or just love vegan food, you'll love Berlin.
Be sure to try the vegan variations like the vöner kebab (vegan döner) at Voner on Boxhagener Straße, vegan currywurst at Curry36, or a vegan burger from any number of burger joints including some, like Glück to Go and Yellow Sunshine Burger, that specialise solely in vegan burgers.
If you're looking for something more upmarket, check out some of Berlin's vegan fine-dining restaurant like Cookies Cream, Lucky Leek, and Kopps.
What foods did you try in Berlin? What is this list missing? Share your thoughts and reviews by leaving a comment below.


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Air France-KLM's cargo traffic in September dipped 3.4 percent year-over-year as a steep decline on the Asia-Pacific network outweighed a small increase in Americas traffic.
The announcement comes a month after Air France-KLM chief executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said the airline would no longer seek to be remain among the leading cargo operators because the industry is too cyclical.
Capacity was just 1 percent higher than in September 2010 and the load factor shrunk by 3 percentage points to 64.7 percent. Unit revenue, excluding currency movements, was "slightly down" from a year ago.
The lower September figure, following a 0.2 percent year-on-year decline in August, was largely due to a 6.1 percent drop in Asia-Pacific revenue on 1.4 percent less capacity, and a similar drop in the previously resilient Africa/Middle East region, where capacity was cut by 3.9 percent. The Americas continued to grow, but the year-on-year increase slipped to 0.5 percent from 1.1 percent in August.
Air France-KLM's performance contrasts with a 1.6 percent increase in September cargo traffic at IAG, the merged British Airways-Iberia carrier, that was driven by a 7.8 percent rise at the Spanish airline.
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Regular readers of my blog may remember a couple of months ago I reviewed a Lunch Bag from Belo & Me. They have now extended their product range to include a Kids Cooler Bag and have sent me a free one to review.
The Cooler Bag comes with a cute animal design in 3 colours – blue, red and purple and retails at £5.95. I chose to review the blue one.
The bag is made of shiny material inside which helps to keep the heat out, and you can easily pop a small cool pack in too if you wish. I don't know if it is washable, but both the inside and outside are easy to wipe clean and the bag closes with a velcro fastening. And it folds flat for easy storage when not in use. An eco product made from recyclable PP material.
The bag is ideal for packed lunches, picnics and days out.
You can read my previous review of the Belo & Me Lunch Bag here. I also discussed some of the environmental issues of plastic bags.
Take a look at the Belo & Me webshop to see all their products. They have a sale on currently with some of their lunch bags reduced to a bargain £1.95 each.
I tested it out with a sandwich box, a bottle of water, cereal bar and a satsuma, when going to watch son1's sports day. School was providing son1's packed lunch, but there was plenty of space left if we had been sharing. I also put a cool pack in as temperature was forecast to reach 27 deg.
It certainly worked well. After 3 hours outside in the high heat, my picnic lunch was still nicely chilled.
And I'm hosting a rafflecopter competition to giveaway a kids cooler bag in your choice of colour to one lucky winner, courtesy of Belo & Me.
a Rafflecopter giveaway – Please click on the link to enter.
And don't forget to check out my other giveaways.
Disclosure. This post is a review of a product I was sent for free. All opinions are my own.