Has anyone else watched Chef's Table?
Its a Netflix original and made by the same guy who made Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Each episode focuses on a different chef's story and there is no host- just a beautiful story about food and those passionate about it. I have only watched one episode, but I am already enamored and excited for the rest of the season!
Disclaimer- just like fine dining, this is not bingable & this will make you hungry.
My Salt Lake friends have a 'friends vacation' that is become annual tradition and really fun. We find a rentable home (this year it was an old schoolhouse) for 15-20 people within a 4 hour drive, so most of Utah is on the table, Wyoming & Southern Idaho. Once we find a pretty inexpensive place, we spread the word to every friend group and when you RSVP dictates if you get a bed or you are foraging for a couch/quiet floor space. Between last year and this year, only 7 people went on both trips so it's a fun way to get to know acquaintances better or make new friends. Only a certain type of adventurous person will go to a random place with no agenda and few people they know well, so people generally mesh well and are lighthearted. It's great. Last year we spent a lot of time at Capitol Reef National Park & this year it turned into a 4 square fest in the attached gym with some Nintendo, yoga and Lava Hot Springs. With so many people, you can usually find one, two or 15 people that want to do the same thing you are doing.
My friend Steph & I plan, buy and coordinate all the meals. The New Years risotto was actually first made for the friends vacation group and this year I found an easier dish to make to scale that was a delicious hit!
In a large pot, Sauté the onions over oil for a minute, add curry and stir until onions are coated with spice. Depending on your preference, you can add fresh or ground ginger, garlic, spicy curry powder, turmeric or cumin at this point.
Add sweet potatoes & stir until coated. Continue with the rest of the veggies & lentils. Most hearty vegetables would work in this curry, the sweet potatoes are essential for flavor but you can get creative here. You can also add cooked chicken at this point if you want more protein.
Add the can of coconut milk & diced tomatoes, including the juice. Stir it in. Bring to boil, then let simmer for 30 min or until potatoes & lentils are tender.
Serve over rice, with naan or by itself & enjoy!
To double the recipe, use a 12-inch skillet to toast the oats and increase the cooking time to 10 to 15 minutes once the salt has been added.
If desired, serve with maple syrup or brown sugar, fruit, Nutella or one of your favorite toppings for oatmeal.
1. Bring water and milk to simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat. Meanwhile, melt butter in 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Add oats and toast, stirring constantly, until golden and fragrant with butterscotch-like aroma, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
20 minutes. Add salt and stir lightly with spoon handle. Continue simmering, stirring occasionally with wooden spoon handle, until oats absorb almost all liquid and oatmeal is thick and creamy, with a pudding-like consistency, 7 to 10 minutes. Off heat, let sit uncovered for 5 minutes, then serve.
These are incredible. I enjoy really rich and bold flavors which is accomplished with the gruyer cheese, but the cheddar cheese is more economical and still tastes really incredible. I think these are a perfect brunch pastry for entertaining, especially if served with a breakfast meat or vegetables (think English breakfast). If you have nobody to impress but your Snapchat followers, this is a perfect standalone breakfast item.
In s medium sized pot bring the water, milk, butter & table salt to a boil, once boiling, start stirring with a wooden spoon, bring the heat to medium and add the flour (this is a type of béchamel sauce, similar to that made in the Cauliflower Gratin recipe) whisk until dissolved then stir with the wooden spoon. Stir vigorously until you have a ball (a couple minutes). Bring the heat down to low-med to make sure you don't burn it.
Add the eggs one by one while mixing, then add the cheese.
Spoon the mixture onto pan. Each football shaped dough ball should be able 2 Tbs, you will probably need a second spoon to scrape the dough off the first spoon.
Weekday dinners are all too often chicken nuggets, avocado toast or hummus & chips in my household. While that's not the worst, its not the best. We try to east as many fresh veggies as possible and this guide has been really helpful and inspirational during the middle of the week when I'm tiered and would rather do anything else than make dinner.
Based on availability in my fridge, I usually use an onion, a couple bell peppers, frozen peas & zucchini (or any other veggie in the fridge flirting with expiration), as long as you have soy sauce, corn starch, rice wine vinegar you are in good shape. All the sauces are really good-Enjoy!
Thought about naming this post "the best thing i ate this week" but I think that'll be a new series on the blog So, for this week I'm sharing the best thing I MADE this week. I love spaghetti. It's not Mike's favorite. He's all about meat and not so much tomato sauce. I was looking for recipes I could make, reheat for left overs and share with Mitch & Molly who are still on the newlywed learning curve making dinner every night. Enter… Cincinnati Chili. Think comfort food ala Zippy Beef Casserole… nothing fancy here just good tasty food.
(tip) Toast dry spices before you add them to a recipe to deepen their flavor.
I generally measure them all out put them in a sauce pan and heat them on low heat until they smell good.
(tip) buy good ingredients – we got 3 dinners and a lunch out of this so it was worth buying good quality ground beef, tomato sauce & paste, chili powder etc. Next time i'll probably sub the ground beef with ground turkey.
1. Heat oil in Dutch oven over medium-high heat until shimmering. Cook onions until soft and browned around edges, around 8 minutes. Add garlic, tomato paste, chili powder, oregano, cinnamon, 1 t. salt, pepper, and allspice and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
2. Add beef and stir to break up meat. Bring to boil, reduce heat to medium, low, and simmer until the chili is deep brown and slightly thickened, 15-20 minutes. Season with salt and serve.
** note – i have never liked breaking up the brick of beef with the wooden spoon in the pan so i broke it up by hand as i added it, this gave me perfect size pieces.
Ever since I had my first homemade marshmallow at the very trendy and hipster café, Cured in Boulder, Colorado I have had my sights set on making my own. I was really intimidated because it seems like it would be really difficult and complex. I was really surprised to find that it was way way way easier than I had originally thought! Although this recipe isn't quite as good as Cured's, it was pretty good! I used this recipe from Alton Brown.
In a small saucepan, combine 1/2 c water with the salt, corn syrup & sugar & over medium heat, mix in to dissolve, cover & cook for 3-4 minutes (if you have a candy thermometer, take the cover off once it reaches 240F), uncover and cook for 7-8 minutes then immediately remove from heat.
Prepare a 9×13″ pan, sprinkle the sugar/starch combo on the bottom and sides of the pan to coat, the pour the mixture into the pan and let sit 4 hrs + (I did overnight).
Turn the marshmallows onto a cutting board, dust with sugar/starch combo & use a pizza wheel to cut into smaller squares. Toss the squares into the sugar/starch combo & roll until coated. Alton says you need to consume within 3 weeks if packed in an airtight container, but I found the sugar/starch combo is soaked up by the mallows within 4 days.
I just spent a fantastic New Years weekend in Olympia with a house full of family and could not be more refreshed! Each meal was assigned to different family members and I made this delicious Winter Hearty Risotto that was served during our Murder Mystery Dinner! The food prep is a bit intense from the stirring perspective, but it comes out really nicely and easy to serve the masses! I somehow didn't take a picture of the food, but if anyone did- could you send it to me?
Most of the ingredients are set in quantities that Costco sells (except for the Arborio rice, that can be harder to find at a decent price).
Set the oven to 350F, put your butternut squash on baking sheets, coat with olive oil, sprinkle with salt & cook for 50 minutes.
In a large pot coated with olive oil, over medium heat cook the garlic & onions until onions are almost transparent.
In a separate pot over medium heat, warm the broth.
Add the Arborio rice and mix until it is all coated with olive oil.
Slowly ladle the broth into the large pot, this is where it gets technical. From now until you are serving the risotto, you will not stop stirring. Pour one ladle of broth into the pot and stir until the risotto has absorbed the broth, pour one ladle of broth into the pot and stir until the risotto has absorbed the broth, continue like this until the risotto is no longer crunchy, the color will also be more consistent.
Add peas & corn slowly (as you continue stirring), you don't want the temperature to drop suddenly.
Once the peas & corn warm and no longer frozen, stir the asparagus, butternut squash & parmesan.


There seems to be a pattern in the way that you have filled cabinet positions in the various administration posts. It appears that you seek out the person that is most hostile to the department they will be heading, and then instruct them to refuse any advice on previous operations, even at the most mundane level. Examples include Scott Pruitt at EPA, Betsy DeVoss at Education, Zimmerman at AG, Zinke at Interior, Angelle at BESSE, Barry Myers at NOAA. I could go on, but my question is, what is your plan here? It just doesn't make sense to put a climate change denier in charge of the EPA, or an oil industry lobbyist in charge of BESSE, an agency whose sole purpose is to protect the public from oil industry's unsafe practices. Or to put a man who wants to shut down the NOAA so his company AccuWeather can make more money, at the head of the NOAA.
Are you trying to destroy these government agencies?


Nine people on a ship in deep space, looking for something they don't realize they alreaady have.
Malcolm Reynolds – A man who lost his faith. But making a family.
Zoe Washburne – Malcolm's second in command. Strong, usually clearer headed then Mal.
Hoban 'Wash' Washburne – The pilot and Zoe's husband. He'd rather stay on the ship, but is magic behind the wheel.
Kaylee Frye – The mechanic. And the heart.
Jayne Cobb – A mercenary. You gotta keep an eye on him at times.
Shepard Derrial Book – A preacher. Trying to get Mal to see the light, any light.
Inara Serra – A Companion. Always at odds with Mal. And with her heart about him.
Simon Tam – The doctor. Brilliant, but not as much as his sister.
River Tam – Off the charts. In ways she can't unserstand anymore.
Serenity – Named after the worse event in Mal's life. But is his truest love.
Firefly. Lost to us far before its time. Only one season we got of it. But oh what we gained from it.
So we fought and we protested. We were the Browncoats fighting in Serenity Valley.
And then we got our movie, Serenity.
And they still can't take the sky from us.
I think I've been doing NaNo for 'round a decade now.
Oh, for those who don't know, NaNo is short for NaNoWriMo. Which is short for National Novel Writing Month.
You write a novel (or rather the first draft of one) from scratch during the month of November. It's on an honor system and you get a printable certificate with a spot for your name and the title of the novel.
Most of us are in it for the fun of breakneck writing. There's a great community vibe that is worth looking forward to each year.
In the summer we go to Camp NaNo. There, the parameters are looser. It is more light hearted, if you will, as befitting the theme.
NaNo works out to a minimum of 1667 words a day. And there have been mad individuals who have done all 50,000 words on the first day.
If you've ever wanted to work on that one project that keeps rattling around in your brain pan, might I suggest you join us in our insanity. It's ever so much fun. Pantsers and planners both are welcome.


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IMF Advises Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy
W'Bank says poverty worsening in the country
The Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mrs. Christine Lagarde, has advised the Nigerian government to jettison spending on fuel subsidy and expend the money on health, education and infrastructural development.
Also reviewing the sub-Sahara African countries' situation, the World Bank Group said the level of poverty in Nigeria is getting worse despite other regions' progress on shared prosperity.
Lagarde, who made the call Thursday during the Global Policy Agenda press briefing at the ongoing World Bank Spring Meeting in Washington DC, said subsidy spending was infringing on other critical areas of capital development, including health, education and infrastructure, hence the need for the government to refocus.
The IMF chief said it was the monetary institution's general principle to discourage fossil fuel subsidies because of its consequences on other areas of life and development.
She said: "As far as Nigeria is concerned, with the low revenue mobilisation that exists in the country; in terms of tax to GDP, Nigeria is amongst the lowest. A real effort has to be done in order to maintain a good public finance situation for the country and in order to direct investment towards health, education, and infrastructural development."
Highlighting some of the negative impacts of fuel subsidy, Lagarde said: "If you look at our numbers from 2015, it is no less than about $5.2 trillion that are spent on fuel subsidies and the consequences thereof. And the Fiscal Affairs Department has actually identified how much would have been saved fiscally but also in terms of human life, if there had been the right price on carbon emission as of 2015. Numbers are quite staggering.
"If that was to happen, then there would be more public spending available to build hospitals, to build roads, to build schools, and to support education and health for the people.
"Now, how this is done is the more complicated path because there has to be a social protection safety net that is in place so that the most exposed in the population do not take the brunt of those removal of subsidies principle. So that is our position," she explained.
Speaking on the roles of IMF in global policy agenda, the IMF boss stated that "the global economy has entered a delicate phase. Growth is slowing, reflecting trade and geopolitical tensions, policy uncertainty, and one-off factors."
According to Lagarde, domestic policies need to strengthen growth, enhance resilience and promote inclusion, assuring the people that IMF will support members in designing tailored macroeconomic policies.
"Fiscal policy should strike the right chord between supporting demand, ensuring debt sustainability, and safeguarding social objectives, including by upgrading tax systems, mobilising domestic revenue, priortising expenditure and reducing public debt where needed.
"Monetary policy should ensure that inflation remains on track towards target and focus on anchoring expectations where inflationary pressures persist. Financial resilience must be enhanced, including by continuing to buttress micro-prudential supervision and strengthen micro-prudential frameworks that manage risk."
W'Bank Says Poverty Worsening in Nigeria, Others
Meanwhile, the World Bank Group has revealed that the level of poverty in Nigeria and other sub -Saharan African countries is getting worse despite other regions' progress on shared prosperity.
It also said illicit transfer of funds from the region to the developed world has become a huge challenge that must be tackled appropriately.
Also speaking yesterday during the World Bank press briefing at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Spring Meeting in Washington DC, the President of the World Bank, Mr. David Malpass, said if the regional challenge is not tackled urgently before year 2030, it could push those countries into extreme poverty with the citizens most affected.
He said: "By 2030, nearly nine in 10 poor people will be from Africa, while progresses are predicted to be made in other regions. This is troubling and we must collaborate to address this. The World Bank Group is financially strong, but we have started meeting member countries to ensure this is addressed.
"We must coordinate resources to boost prosperities in Africa and other parts of the world. We are also talking to donors and countries involved to arrive at a sustained and workable approach."
Malpass who has only spent three days as the president of the institution, said some of the concerns in the tackling of poverty and improvement of the economy in low and middle income countries include climate change, digital economy and capital flow.
He added: "Climate change is one huge challenge at the moment, and we believe the Bank's goal in addressing it can be achieved. Digital economy will help boost economic development.
"Some countries have success stories that sub Sahara African countries and other countries can learn from. One of such nations is China which has been able to reduce poverty to a great extent."
He also stated that on illicit financial flows, the bank would continue to work with nations to ensure such funds are tracked, and that financial flows should be done legitimately.
He also stated that Nigeria and 16 other countries were at risk of debt financial distress.
"Debt helps economies grow but if not done in a transparent way it can drag down such economies. That is why we need transparent disclosures of debts as they are created," he said.
Categories: Business, Metro, News, Politics / by Friday Ekeoba April 12, 2019
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COVID-19 Spreads Through 40 Indigenous Tribes in the Amazon, Experts Fear An Outbreak Might Lead to Extinction
By Danielle Ong First Posted: May 19, 2020 02:18 AM EDT
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected more than four million people across the world and killed over 320,000 individuals, has now affected indigenous tribe members living within the Amazon rainforest, according to latest reports. Experts fear the disease might lead to a devastating extinction of the world's isolated tribes.
On Tuesday, Ecuadorian health officials recorded the first tribesperson in the country to be infected with the contagious respiratory illness. The 17-year-old woman belonged to the Waorani tribe living in the rainforest. She started showing symptoms on May 4 and was taken to a hospital in the country's capital. The patient was reportedly pregnant at the time she contracted the virus.
The federal government collaborated with the indigenous leaders to check on more than 40 people who came into close contact with the unnamed woman. According to the health ministry, seventeen were found with a history of respiratory illnesses-six of which were still showing symptoms. Over 27 rapid tests and nose swabs were conducted.
In the Brazilian Amazon, health officials reportedly evacuate COVID-19 patients by plane as the virus rapidly spreads among the indigenous people living in the most remote area of the country's rainforest.
Government authorities more than 40 tribal groups were hit by the virus. As of Monday, 92 indigenous tribesmen and tribeswomen died due to the COVID-19 crisis. The victims all lived in isolated territories, with some located near the Amazon river bordering Colombia and Peru.
APIB, Brazil's main tribal organization, said 103 indigenous people who migrated to urban areas have also died. APIB said they recorded 540 confirmed coronavirus cases within the 40 afflicted tribes. The virus is spreading so rapidly that Manaus, a city close to the rainforest, have run out of bed spaces in the ICU. The dead are also collectively buried in graves.
Experts and advocates for isolated indigenous communities around the world say they fear that the remoteness of the villages as well as the members' inability to observe social distancing could make the COVID-19 worse. The villages lack proper sanitary conditions and are practising communal living arrangements. They also very limited access to health care services, including hospitals and medical resources.
Leila Salazar-Lopez, the executive director of the Amazon Watch, said the virus poses a threat of possible ethnocide within the communities.
The tribesmen previously began blockading the entrance to their villages in a bid to keep their members from contracting the deadly virus. However, many invaders have taken advantage of the coronavirus situation.
In Brazil, the number of outsiders entering protected territories has escalated in the previous years. The trespassers have continued activist, including illegal logging and mining. Experts say the invaders may have introduced the virus to the indigenous communities.
In previous years, Brazil has seen episodes of contagious and viral diseases. The outbreaks led to an extremely high mortality rate within the communities, with some going extinct due to the threat.
Galina Angarova, the executive director of an advocacy group, said the virus would obliterate many of the communities.
"They are our walking encyclopedias," she said. "If that's lost, we're losing part of our history."
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The 100 cities of Ecotopia 2121
Vienna 2121: In the future, all of the buildings of Vienna are veneered with algae cladding that not only capture solar energy but also feed on carbon dioxide and fix it into the building walls, rendering the city "carbon negative" and ecofriendly.
Wellington 2121: After a cataclysmic earthquake, and a massive sea level rise, New Zealand's capital emerges like a tranquil agrarian shire from Middle Earth.
Almaty 2121: Kazakhstan's old industrial capital transforms from a smog-filled car-choked urban hell into a valley filled with Apple trees.
Tokyo 2121: after nuclear catastrophe, a 'moonbase' architectural form becomes fashionable.
Chihuahua City 2121: An urban restoration program of desert willows slowly 'Greenifies' one of Mexico's most polluted cities; whilst an Agave craft economy grows to build sustainable rustic eco homes.
Como 2121: In this ancient alpine city of the Italian Alps, a 2000 year old planning blunder by Julius Caesar is reversed whereby the city's swampland is regenerated to act as a natural filter for Como's sewage, and the town is resurrected -- as it once was in pre-Caesar times -- on the alpine hills nearby.
Abu Dhabi 2121: After drastic climate change runs amok around Arabia, there's a reinvention of the city in a post-oil and post-automobile fashion with a new urban plan comprising interconnected communal dwellings, partly inspired by old-time domestic houses of the deserts of India, constructed from local sands and muds mixed with native Arabian palm leaves and treated camel dung.
Springfield 2121: After decades of neglect, the highways to and from Springfield fall into a state of dysfunction. Instead of investing in highway repair, though, the citizens decide to invest their resources into more valuable city projects, like outdoors education, public parks and music festivals. They then sing aloud their philosophy of highways: "Let the roads outta here slowly disappear. Who really needs 'em? It's so nice here!"
London 2121: Pensioners, schoolkids and environmentalists band together to protest against government neglect of social and environmental welfare. Together they occupy and reconstruct the Tower of London to enclose a massive inner city ecovillage, transforming unused offices into residential buildings, sowing gardens on street-corners to grow food, and setting up small sustainable businesses to trade among each other.
Vila Gaia de Nova 2121: A city known for its 'Port Wine' transforms into the 'Greeno Vino' eco spiritual capital of Europe, exuding sustainable godliness and a fervid quirky celebration of Mother Earth.
Salto del Guairá 2121: The cascading waterfalls of Salto del Guairá were blown away by the Paraguayan military government in the 1980s to build a dam. By 2121, though, both the falls and the town have re-emerged in splendid style as the dam has collapsed through neglect and local native people regain control of their ancient land.
Puno 2121: To lessen their impact on the sacred but eco-challenged lake Titicaca, the native Uros of Peru build 'light as air' homes, made from alpaca hair, which can glide within the clouds in the realm of the revered condor.
Zakynthos 2121: the citizens of the capital of the Greek island of Zakynthos resurrect the 'direct democracy principles' of ancient times before voting for decentralized community run renewable energy projects and a conservation program aimed at preserving the island's much adored wildflowers.
Wolverhampton 2121: a center of the industrial revolution during the Victorian Age, Queen Victoria herself once characterized Wolverhampton as a 'large & dirty town'. By 2121, though, Wolverhampton has transformed into an iconic sweet-scented 'clean and green' city through the whole-scale adoption of 'Green manufacturing'.
Karachi 2121: Karachi's informal settlers, long accused of exacerbating the silting up of the city's waterways, band together to dig-up and concentrate dredged silt into island mounds upon which they build their own mini-cities.
New Orenburg 2121: The melting polar ice caps make it possible to set up new 'energy cities' in the Antarctic.
Sochi 2121: Sochi was once the capital of the Circassian people before a crazed Russian army went rampaging through it in the 1860s to claim it for the Russian Empire. In Sochi 2121 though, as Russia crumbles under a wave of separatism, the Circassians reclaim their city; kicking out all the obnoxious ecocidal industry in the process.
Budapest 2121: Roadway horticulture, self-help solar energy, and the community spirit of immigrant communities transforms the city into a forested green utopia.
San Gimignano: This historical hilltop Tuscan town preserves a unique heritage and landscape by keeping it's organic saffron fields and unpolluted ecofriendly vineyards away from all forms of pesticide and genetically modified organisms.
Sharjah 2121: a collapsed megalithic monument lies decaying in the Arabian Gulf -- becoming home to a rehabilitated marine ecosystem.
Shanghai 2121: China's largest city develops the art and science of professional pedestrianism as a sustainable pathway to a crimeless compact ecofriendly city.
Stuttgart 2121: The city that invented the automobile decides to close down all its car factories -- transforming the landscape into a green wine making utopia.
Toronto 2121: cargo trucks are swapped for 'eco drones', which, unencumbered by the weight of humans, are supposed to fly around speedily without using much energy. The ground level streets and roads can then be repurposed for pedestrianism, playgrounds and parties.
Graz 2121: a super-clean technotopia in Austria's south where messy machines and messy people are banished forever.
Wuppertal 2121 The original monorail city builds more and more sky-trains and flying trains of various styles -- all in aerial space. With so much commuting going on ten, twenty, fifty feet above street level, there's less demand for ground transportation and more space opens up for citizens to walk about freely and to develop lanes and lanes of pretty urban gardens.
Yiyang 2121: Yiyang's now polluted waterways are rescued from all-out toxic death via a mixture of public protest and the establishment of a Green Party that sweeps into government in a new democratic China of the mid 21st century.
Taipei 2121: The ecological knowledge of Taiwan's indigenous tribes, such as the Atayal and Amis, is resurrected to help construct a new sustainable capital.
Lanzhou 2121: In the 2050s, the Chinese industry so destroys the nearby mountain landscape of the city of Lanzhou that it becomes all but uninhabitable. This allows the restoration of the city to the indigenous Qiang people who reoccupy the landscape and work to make the mountains ecologically sustainable once more.
Perth 2121: Through a combination of massive climate change and a myriad of uranium mining mishaps, the Western Australian city of Perth becomes a disaster zone. However, using ancient aboriginal knowledge, a multi-ethnic group of survivors are able to eek out an existence and then resurrect a prosperous arid zone utopia using appropriate-level desert technologies.
Sinaia 2121: The marginalized Roma community refurbish a decaying set of abandoned hydropower stations to create a recycled Utopian city in the Transylvanian Alps of Romania.
Philadelphia 2121: The birthplace of American independence is transformed into a garden city honoring the interdependence of all living beings.
Andorra la Vella 2121: The isolation of Andorra's capital city, accompanied with the serendipitous immunity of its alpine trees, means that it has survived the global spread of destructive nanotechnology relatively untouched -- and the locals there aim to keep it that way.
Reno 2121: In 22nd century Reno, high-rolling gamblers are enticed to play a new game: sink the geothermal drill. Each shot at the game costs about $10 million and involves picking a spot somewhere in the outskirts of Reno and sinking an exploratory drill. One of the reasons for the high price of a bet is that geothermal activity is associated with granitic rock, and drilling through granite is a very tough and drawn-out affair. However, high rollers who strike it lucky will be given a stake in an endless resource and can also be happy in the knowledge that they helped Reno 2121 become the Geothermal Capital of the West.
Birmingham 2121: England's second city transforms from an industrial wasteland into an urban & rural paradise with clean energy-powered mobility.
Malé 2121: Throughout the capital of the Maldives in 2121, there are extensive ecology zones where wastewater can be processed through plant-based recycling systems.
Paris 2121: Through sheer freaky luck, a future green Paris is saved from atomic disaster by a malfunctioning robot. Alas, the famous Eiffel Tower fares not so well.
Nuuk 2121: Climate change will warm Greenland's capital up so much that a grand urban garden can adorn a new Green central plaza. Alas, all the Polar Bears will be extinct!
New York 2121: In the future of the Big Apple, it's not technology that changes the world but enthusiastic storytelling.
Timbuktu 2121: The ancient university city of Timbuktu is re-devoted to combatting desertification in the African Sahel.
San Diego 2121: A submerged suburb of San Diego is resurrected within the sea by recycling the US Navy submarine fleet.
Rome 2121: the Italian capital is inspired by an ecofriendly Pope Francis II to lead the Catholic world into a new Green century.
Varna 2121: the citizens of the Bulgarian "sea capital" stage an occupation of the old grounds of the privatized sea garden, demanding that it be returned to the public and the hotels transformed into public 'environmental grant' schools.
Florence 2121: utilizing the power of germs, an ingenious young techno-preneur transforms Florence back into a magical artistic city.
Nador 2121: corporate bosses are made culpable for any fatal environmental pollution their firm produces. And the punishment is public execution. The bodies of the convicted bosses are then reprocessed into biofuels. Through these measures, the importance of a clean and Green environment is conveyed to all Nador's industrial leaders.
Thimphu 2121: The capital of Bhutan introduces "The Tree Laws" to promote urban and peri-urban forests.
Santiago 2121: The outer edges of the Chilean capital were once the site a great polluting copper mine. By 2121, the mine has been closed and it's environs rehabilitated.
Xanadu 2121: By 2121, the Gobi Desert has fully invaded the historic capital of the Mongol empire; offering a prescient warning for China as it seeks to mend it's environmental legacy.
Bethlehem 2121: Bethlehem 2121 banishes industrial parks as unsuitable for the city's character. Instead, only small-scale ecofriendly craft and cottage industries such as olive oil and date products are approved.
Los Angeles 2121: The highways of Los Angeles transform into vegetated greenways for pedestrians and cyclists. The highways would also act as a network of ecological corridors; connecting populations of wild plants and animals around Los Angeles that would otherwise be isolated.
El Dorado 2121: El Dorado is thought to be a legendary city of Gold. But in real El Dorado, Gold was sacred. Gold came from nature - a gift from the sun god - and back to nature it should be given.
Beijing 2121: Beijing becomes a city of eco gold architecture, each gram of the precious metal being mined and processed in the most sustainable ways possible.
Bristol 2121: A massive tidal bridge between Bristol and the Welsh city of Cardiff is built across the Bristol Channel. The channel has one of the strongest daily tidal movements in the world, and as the water flows in and out every day, the energy is harvested to power much of southern England and southern Wales.
Sao Paulo 2121: Great runs of tarmac will be dug-up by guerrilla gardeners in this football capital, when eventually its citizens claim that food and air is more important than sport. Soon after, the highways and by-ways will be strewn with verdant rows of diverse food plants stretching as far as the eye can follow.
Ordos City 2121: Tribes of the Ordos ethnic group reclaim an abandoned Chinese 'Ghost Town', recycling surplus infrastructure to build a great wall around it.
Oxford 2121: The crazy traffic jams of the English university city are no more for Oxford has banned cars. The entirety of the city's scholars and townsfolk amble all the from the outskirts to the city center on the tree lined pedestrian highways of a retro future.
Athens 2121: Factory workers in Athens strike against hazardous pollution in their workplace whilst port workers refuse to load and offload goods that are not ecofriendly or which travel on ships which pollute the sea. In this way, Athens' environment, and the Aegean Sea as well, are radically cleaned-up. Even the infamous smoggy air of the Greek capital slowly disappears.
Moynaq 2121: As the Aral Sea dried up in the 1960s, the port town of Moynaq lost it's reason for being. In the future though, an iconic form of architecture starts to mark the city out as a great destination for ecotourists and tea lovers.
Yerevan 2121: A band of hippies and science students restore an abandoned military camp in a forested area of Mt. Aragats.
Minsk 2121: Furry roof architecture becomes a nationalistic stride toward energy independence and climate friendliness.
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News has emerged from the United Kingdom that Nintendo Switch software sales have now pulled ahead of Xbox One software sales. The Nintendo Switch's software sales in January 2019 were 28.1 per cent. The Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch are both continuing to try and fend off Sony's PlayStation 4 system.
Back in January 2018, Switch only represented 13.1 per cent of all physical games sold in the UK, while in January 2019, it represented 28.1 per cent. In January 2019, for the first time, Switch has sold more physical titles monthly than the Xbox One. The Switch has been doing better than the Xbox One in terms of value for six out of the past nine months already.
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Sri Lanka to put their World Cup campaign back on track with victory over Kenya
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has urged his team not to panic after slipping to defeat against Pakistan, as he looks to get their World Cup campaign back on track with victory over Kenya on Tuesday.We have Kenya next, followed by Australia, so we will look back on the defeat and learn from our mistakes, which is very important," said Sangakkara.There are a few things we can learn. Bowling a better line and length is important, and when we bat partnerships are important, and we shouldn't panic," he said.
The top four teams from each group will qualify for the quarter-finals and Sangakkara stressed the need to keep improving as the tournament progresses.
"We are just going to keep preparing and keep playing as best we know how.
There's a long way to go in this tournament so we just have got to keep plugging on and make sure that we perform as well as we can," The Sydney Morning herald quoted him, as saying.
Sri Lanka, who beat Canada in their opener by a huge 210-run margin, restricted Pakistan to 7-277 after their opponents looked set for a 300-plus total but wasted a good start when they lost wickets at regular intervals.
Sri Lanka lost to Kenya in the 2003 World Cup, when the African side went on to reach the semi-finals, but that is their only defeat in five clashes between the two nations. (ANI)
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