Yappin
..where I get to yap. :)
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Greece is a smokescreen to hide the mother of all bank bailouts
via politico.ie The terms of the European 'bailouts' - the severe public spending cuts, the onslaught on public ownership – all reflect the experience of the developing world in the 1980s and ’90s. Eurozone finance ministers who sat in Brussels and decided Greece’s future on Monday should have attended yesterday’s well-timed University of London conference on learning lessons from Latin America. The central lesson is of urgent importance: that the economic policies pushed on Latin America in the early 1980s were...
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Earthquake measuring 2.2 on Richter scale hits north Donegal
A earthquake measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale has struck north Donegal. Many listener contacted Highland Radio this moring claiming to have experienced the small earthquake overnight. Tremers was felt in areas including Kerrykeel/Fanad, Downings, Letterkenny and Buncrana. The British Geological Survey confirms that their equipment in Buncrana recorded a magnitude 2.2 earthquake at 1.04 this morning. The quake’ measured depth was 3km. via highlandradio.com I heard this last...
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You do know today’s not a public holiday, right? · The Daily Edge
via thedailyedge.thejournal.ie THE CHANCES ARE that you’re among the large swathes of the Irish population for whom today is the last day of the Christmas holiday. Just to make sure you’re totally up to speed – today isn’t actually a public holiday, meaning you’re not strictly entitled to have the day off. The difficulty is that ’bank holidays’ and ‘public holidays’ are not the same thing – one has a legal status, and the other doesn’t. Legally speaking, there are nine public holidays. They’re defined in...
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Fresh strawberry from Egypt
after a week in the fridge ;)
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Pour Vinegar Over Frozen Meat to Speed Defrosting and Tenderize
Tips and tricks blog Lifehackery recommends that the next time you thaw frozen meat try pouring a cup or so of vinegar on the frozen flesh—the vinegar will lower the freezing temperature of the meat so it will begin to thaw more quickly and the acid in the vinegar will break down connective tissues that will make the meat more tender. You can always rinse the vinegar off the meat once defrosted, but in some dishes the vinegar may add a nice flavor, such as using an apple cider vinegar on a Bavarian-style pork roast...
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School Portrait
School Portrait (2011) from Michael Berliner on Vimeo.
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