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Exploring the Arabian Sea: Dubai to Amman - 2023
Dubai • 13-night small ship cruise with Khasab, Sur, Salalah, Safaga (Luxor), Hurghada, Eilat, Aqaba • Amman
DISCOVER THE ARABIAN PENINSULA ON THE INAUGURAL SEASON OF THE 5-STAR OCEAN ODYSSEY, VANTAGE'S NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART VESSEL THAT CAN NAVIGATE TO PLACES LARGER SHIPS CAN'T
SPEND AN EVENING AMONG KARNAK'S MASSIVE RUINS AND SACRED LAKE, AS THE GRAND SPECTACLE OF EGYPT'S HISTORY COMES ALIVE THROUGH MUSIC, NARRATION, IMAGERY, AND LIGHT
EXPLORE THE LEGENDARY MORTUARY TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT AND VISIT THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS
ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, CUISINE, LEISURE, SHOPPING — EVERYTHING IN DUBAI IS DONE ON AN EYE-POPPING, GRAND SCALE!
ROUND OUT THIS REMARKABLE JOURNEY WITH AN EXTENSION TO ABU DHABI & DUBAI
Exploring the Arabian Sea: Dubai to Amman
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There's no better way to discover the riches of the Arabian Peninsula than with Vantage and our 5-star Ocean Odyssey. From ancient and UNESCO-listed treasures in Luxor and Petra to dazzling Dubai, join us on this cultural and historical voyage across five nations — United Arab Emirates, Oman, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan.
You'll explore biblical history, sublime desertscapes and city skylines, as well as enduring religious and cultural traditions. Cruise on a wooden dhow through the Straits of Hormuz to Oman's Musandam Fjords. Disembark for an overnight inland excursion in Luxor, which brings you to the valleys of the Kings and Queens, Karnak, Luxor Temple, and a stay at the indulgent Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa. And discover Dubai, ultramodern playground of the powerful.
On this ocean cruise, you'll set off aboard our 5-star Ocean Odyssey — built to navigate varied waters with ULSTEIN X-BOW® technology. Enjoy the service of a dedicated Concierge both before and after your trip who can help you make special reservations onshore, organize group activities, and more! Plus, enjoy enlightening lectures onboard and inform your natural and cultural discoveries onshore. Our intimately-sized Ocean Explorer is designed with a total of just 77 cabins — including a landmark 15 solo cabins — which allows us to dock onshore in most locations, cutting down on tenders and giving you more time to enjoy in your destination.
In addition to the services of our complimentary worldwide Concierge service, you'll be able to tailor your voyage further with your choice of tours in Salalah and Eilat, including a chance to swim with dolphins on the shores of the Red Sea. With 30 included features and Cultural Discoveries, you'll be thrilled by performances and the insights of a guest lecturer to enhance your understanding of this timeless region. Add on optional pre- and post-trip extensions to Abu Dhabi and Jordan's Dead Sea Treasures for the most comprehensive — and unforgettable — exploration of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Dubai to Aqaba
Abu Dhabi & Dubai (Pre-Trip)
Soak up a little more luxury by adding 3 extra nights in two of the Emirates' most glamorous playgrounds. First, you'll experience a different side of Emirati life with three nights in Abu Dhabi, where high-end luxury meets sophisticated culture. Here, modernist architecture is taken to new heights with gorgeous buildings that seem to defy gravity, while the old, tribal traditions of Arabia are still expressed in the atmospheric souks, Arabesque houses, intricate mosques, and stunning desertscapes. Abu Dhabi has also become an art mecca, with the fantastic new branch of the famous Louvre, whose design is as visionary as the artwork inside. Then, enjoy a day in Dubai, where a highlight will be your visit to the observation deck of needle-like Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth! You are already traveling this far…Why not spend a little extra time to let yourself be truly amazed?
Fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Your magic carpet ride begins today! You'll fly overnight from the U.S. to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Or, depart earlier for your pre-trip extension to Abu Dhabi & Dubai.
Arrive in Dubai
If you purchased your airfare from Vantage, upon arrival at the airport a Vantage representative will meet you and arrange transfer to your centrally-located hotel. Settle in, relax and take the rest of the day to enjoy a veritable treasure trove of luxurious pools, beaches, shops, spas and fine restaurants in and around your hotel. Dinner is on your own tonight.
Paramount Hotel Dubai or similar
Welcome to Dubai with a tour of the city and a Burj Khalifa evening excursion
This morning you'll meet your fellow travelers at a Welcome Briefing, then enjoy a Dubai Cultural tour. Get a feel for Dubai's roots as you explore some of its historic icons. Visit the Dubai Museum, housed in the 18th-century Al Fahidi Fort; the Old Town with its gypsum and coral houses; and the wealthy mercantile Bastakia neighborhood. On Dubai Creek you'll take a traditional abra water taxi to the gold souk, where you won't believe your eyes; and the spice souk, where you won't believe your nose! You'll have time to enjoy lunch here on your own, followed by an afternoon at leisure.
An evening excursion later whisks you to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure in Dubai. Spiraling 2,717 feet into the air like a giant twisting needle, it is the tallest building in the world. Afterward, enjoy a Welcome Dinner at the Souk Al Bahar, an elegant waterfront marketplace with 22 restaurants, dozens of shops, and the Dubai Fountain, a larger replica of what you'd see at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Certainly an evening to remember!
Cultural Dubai city tour
Burj Khalifa observation deck visit
Visit the Dubai Museum
Abra water taxi ride to the gold and spice souks
Be dazzled by Dubai, and embark the Ocean Odyssey
After a leisurely breakfast you'll check out of your hotel, and enjoy a panoramic modern Dubai city tour. Two of the most iconic landmarks will be the Palm Atlantis on its crescent-shaped man-made island, and the Burj al Arab, a sailboat-shaped hotel that stands more than 1,000 feet high, which you'll be able to see from a distance. You'll also see the Frame, a giant, picture-frame shaped structure built to provide unique city views from each of its four sides. The marvels of Dubai are not limited skyward. You'll also see some of the amazing, man-made luxury islands that have been created in the Persian Gulf, such as Palm Jumeirah, shaped like a palm tree. It's studded with elegant villas, marinas, parks, and malls selling interesting jewelry, artwork, Islamic calligraphy, and more.
Lunch will be on your own in downtown Dubai. This afternoon you'll transfer to the pier at Port Rashid, and come aboard the Ocean Odyssey where the luxury continues. During your 13-nights onboard this ocean cruise, you'll simultaneously enjoy an adventure of natural and cultural discovery and 5-star, luxury amenities such as top-deck hot tubs, a hot rock cooking restaurant, and more. While at some destinations we will be required to tender to and from the ship, today you'll be able to stroll right onboard from the dock! Get settled into your cabin, then check out the ship's many amenities, including a multilevel lounge, spa, fitness center, and more. The captain looks forward to seeing you at tonight's Welcome Dinner!
Half-day panoramic modern Dubai city tour
Ocean Odyssey >
Dhow cruise to Oman's Musandam Fjords and Telegraph Island
After breakfast you'll disembark in Khasab, Oman, to see something you most likely have never imagined to find in this part of the world . . .
A wooden dhow awaits to take you along the Straits of Hormuz to a spectacular, fjord-fringed region that is known as the "Norway of Arabia." The Musandam Peninsula is carved by a series of inlets called khors, lined by mountainous jebels and sheer cliffs that plummet into the turquoise waters below. You may have an escort of seabirds or dolphins as we sail into the awesome Khor Al Sham, heading towards Telegraph Island, so-called for the telegraph cables that the British laid here in 1864. Bring your bathing suit in case you want to go for a swim in the clear cool waters, or just sit back with an iced tea as you admire the backdrop of 2,000-foot Al-Hajar Mountains rising in the distance.
You'll return to the ship for lunch and an afternoon at leisure as the Ocean Odyssey sets sail — grab a book and head to the sun deck for the ultimate relaxation, or perhaps you'll get in a workout at the gym.
Later, head to the lounge for an illuminating talk from the onboard lecturer before dinner on board.
Dhow cruise to Musandam fjords and Telegraph Island
Onboard lecture
Scenic Sailing:
You may have an escort of seabirds or dolphins as we sail into the awesome Khor Al Sham, heading toward Telegraph Island
Discover Oman's maritime heritage in Sur
Enjoy a leisurely morning on board as you sail to Sur, on the Gulf of Oman, arriving in the early afternoon. Join the onboard lecturer for another scintillating talk highlighting the culture and history of your destinations. Your ship will be anchored offshore, and you will tender in by Zodiac craft. Please be aware that a certain level of agility is required to embark and disembark these smaller vessels.
After lunch, you will embark on a tour of ancient Sur, first stopping along the way to see hilltop Sunaysilah Fort, a square castle with round watchtowers that was constructed in 1648. It overlooks Sur below and the gulf to the east.
Chances are Sinbad the Sailor made most of his seven fantastical voyages aboard a wooden dhow made right here in Sur, which has been a premier shipbuilding center for nearly 2,000 years. An example of the city's shipbuilding prowess is the Fatah al Khair, a restored, 70-year-old dhow that weighs 220 tons and now stands on dry land as a monument. It was made by hand without nails, using handmade ropes to shore up the joints. Many dhows are still made this way and you will see several under construction as you tour the shipyard. Before heading back to the ship you'll also enjoy a walk around the old fishing village of Al Ayjah, with its lighthouse, fort, and old merchant houses with intricately carved doors.
Half-day Sur city tour
Lecture on Oman
Tour of a dhow-making shipyard in Sur
Cruising the Arabian Sea
Take a full day to relax on board. Perhaps you'll enjoy a workout in the gym, followed by a soak in the hot tub. Relax with a cocktail in the multilevel lounge, or take in the expansive sea views from your very own balcony. Feel like browsing? There are dozens of books you may borrow from our library, or get a massage or facial treatment at the spa. Hear another eye-opening discussion with our guest lecturer and, later, enjoy a live performance by our onboard musicians.
Onboard entertainment
In the Land of Frankincense: Khor Rori or the Frankincense Trail, your choice of included tours
Spend the morning sailing towards Salalah, enjoying breakfast on board. Another informative talk with the lecturer will contextualize your discoveries today.
Salalah is the capital of Dhofar province and has been long associated with the production and trade of frankincense. This aromatic resin of the native boswellia sacra tree has been prized for centuries for its medicinal and fragrant properties. Several sites around Salalah were important to the incense trade that began flourishing between the Middle East, Mediterranean, India, and China around the 4th century BC. For that reason, they are collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site called The Land of Frankincense. After lunch on board you'll have a choice of two included sightseeing tours showcasing different aspects of it. Since your ship with Berth in Salalah, you'll be able to disembark with ease—no waiting, and no tendering. Both tours conclude at the Haffa souk, but begin as follows:
Khor Rori in East Salalah begins with a visit to the pretty white fishing village of Taqah, famous for the dried sardines produced here. Visit Taqah Castle, the former governor's residence that is filled with art and household artifacts reflecting the traditional Omani way of life. From here you'll visit the ancient ruins of Sumhuram, also known as Khor Rori, the name of the freshwater lagoon that was Sumhuram's vital link to the sea. The ruins here include smooth limestone blocks that once lined the city's gate, fort, well, and storage rooms.
The Frankincense Trail Tour begins with a visit to Nabi Ayoub. It is reputed to be the tomb of the biblical Job, who is considered a prophet in Islam and is also revered for his patience and devotion to God. It is set in the lush green mountains of the Salalah plains, a land of plantations. You'll stop to taste a fresh coconut water drink at one of the fruit stalls lining the road. Also included is a visit to the Museum of the Frankincense Land at Al Baleed Archaeological Park.
If you're wondering what frankincense smells like, you'll find out when both tours conclude with a visit to the old Haffa souk, the best and largest in town. The scent of frankincense fills the air as you wander among the many colorful shops selling different grades of the resin, essential oils, decorative burners, jewelry, handicrafts, and more. Riding back to the ship you'll have a photo stop at Salalah Sultan Qaboos Mosque as well.
You'll return from your half-day tour in time to embark the ship for dinner on board as the ship departs Salalah.
Excursion to East Salalah or The Frankincense Trail
East Salalah tour: Taqah Castle, visit to local souk (market)
Frankincense Trail: Taste of fresh coconut water during a visit to the city's plantations, visit to Frankincense Museum
Prepare to be amazed as Oman's dramatic, rocky coastline opens up to Salalah's white sand beaches
DAYS 9-12:
Cruising the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea
Enjoy the next few days relaxing on board your floating resort at sea. This is the perfect opportunity to indulge in some spa treatments or meet friends for drinks in the lounge. But that's just the start.
During your time on board there will be an ongoing schedule of enrichment programs featuring expert lectures on a variety of topics relevant to your exploration, classes, games, and more. Your days ahead will be filled with plenty of discoveries, so think of these sea days as necessary downtime before the excitement to come.
Vantage Onboard Enrichment:
Expert lectures on various topics
Cooking demonstrations by the onboard chef
Onboard musician
Arrive in the Land of Pharaohs
Today you will continue cruising through the Red Sea, arriving around dinner at Safaga. The small size of your ship allows us to berth here, meaning you'll be able to walk right onshore from the Odyssey.
Prepare for your overnight journey tomorrow into Egypt's pharaonic past as our expert lecturer delivers a fascinating talk on ancient Egyptian culture.
Lecture on ancient Egyptian culture
Overnight stay in Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes
You'll get an early start as we ride across the desert to Luxor, the modern city that straddles the Nile and was once the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes. Inhabited since about 3200 BC, it is still defined by its antique treasures, which include the temples of Karnak and Luxor, and the vast Necropolis of Thebes. Together, they comprise a UNESCO World Heritage Site and you will see them all today, with an expert Egyptologist to guide you.
As you approach Luxor you will enter the Necropolis and explore its most famous section, the Valley of the Kings. Here, for some 500 years, more than 60 pharaohs' temples and burial chambers were cut deep into imposing rock cliffs, decorated with elaborate hieroglyphics, and filled with treasures and royal household implements. You'll enter some of these magnificent tombs, including those of the powerful King Ramses and the famous boy-king Tutankhamun. You'll also visit the Valley of the Queens, where archaeologists have unearthed more than 90 tombs of pharaohs' wives and children.
Perhaps the most beautiful monument of all is the elegant Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir al-Bahri. Carved directly into a rock cliff, it is flanked by symmetrical, colonnaded wings and entered via a long, terraced processional walkway. Hatshepsut was Egypt's longest-reigning female pharaoh, whose mostly peaceful rule was characterized by prosperity, prolific building, and the establishment of new trade routes. She is considered one of Egypt's most successful rulers. Leaving the Necropolis you'll stop at the famous Colossi of Memnon, two gigantic sandstone statues that served as sentries before the (now destroyed) tomb of Amenhotep III. Legend has ascribed oracular powers to them and they have been known to emit a curious whistling or moaning sound under certain conditions. From here you'll enjoy lunch at a local restaurant, after which we'll check into our hotel and enjoy a respite before the tour continues this evening.
Achieve another travel milestone this evening when you explore the Temple of Karnak, the world's second-largest religious structure. Built over 2,000 years, it is still being excavated and of its four known sections, only one is open to the public and that alone encompasses some 61 acres of temples, avenues, obelisks, pylons, sanctuaries, lakes and more. Among its highlights is the Great Hypostyle Hall, supported by a forest of 134 79-foot-high columns set in 16 rows.
We'll have dinner before learning about the history of Karnak, and the fascinating legends of the kings, queens, gods, and goddesses it was dedicated to, at tonight's spectacular sound and light show. You'll wander among the beautifully illuminated temple grounds and then sit beside the Sacred lake as the past comes alive through light, music, story, and imagery.
After, you'll enjoy an evening off the ship as you check into your hotel and enjoy dinner there.
Guided tour of the Valley of Kings and Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
Visit the Temple of Karnak
Karnak sound and light show
Hilton Luxor or similar
Luxor Temple, travel overland to meet the Ocean Odyssey
Check out of the hotel after breakfast this morning, and then head to the fascinating Luxor Temple.
More compact than Karnak, Luxor was mainly built by Amenhotep III and the great Ramses II, but also boasts shrines built by Tutankhamun and Greece's Alexander the Great. Later it served as a Roman legionnaire fortress. Luxor was once connected to Karnak by a long, ceremonial avenue lined with sphinxes, many of which still stand.
After exploring the temple you'll enjoy lunch en route while traveling overland back to our ship, which awaits in the seaside resort of Hurghada. This evening you will be our dinner guest at the Alf Leila wa Leila, and enjoy its popular Fantasia 1001 extravaganza. Set in a grand theater, this celebration of Egyptian culture covers thousands of years of history through elaborate costumes, music, dance, lights, water works, acrobatics and more. There's even a display of whirling dervishes and Bedouin horsemanship!
After the evening's festivities, you'll embark the Ocean Odyssey once again. Please note that in Hurghada, we must anchor offshore, which means you will have to tender back to the ship.
Tour of Luxor Temple
Dinner at Alf Leila wa Leila with Fantasia 1001 Egyptian cultural show
Eilat Israel Kibbutz experience or Dolphin Reef
Enjoy breakfast this morning as you sail through the Red Sea. Another interesting lecture preludes lunch on board today.
Cruising into the Gulf of Aqaba, you'll disembark at Eilat, the Israeli seaside resort known worldwide for its desert beauty, clear waters, and excellent diving and snorkeling. Since your ship will berth here, you'll be able to stroll right onshore. Choose between two afternoon sightseeing tours:
Your Kibbutz Yotvata & Hai Bar Safari option takes you into the Negev Desert and the Arava Valley's Yotvata Hai-Bar animal reserve. Here, endangered and regionally extinct species are being bred and reintroduced into their native habitat. You might see Arabian oryxes, Nubian ibexes, red-necked ostriches, wild asses, Arabian leopards, griffon vultures and more. Next, ride to Kibbutz Yotvata and experience a slice of life one of the communal settlements that was vital to the formation of modern Israel. Its main industry is a dairy that is famous around Israel for its high-quality yogurt, milk, and ice cream, which you'll get to sample.
If swimming with dolphins is on your bucket list, choose our Dolphin Reef option. You'll ride to a secluded, horseshoe-shaped lagoon where bottlenose dolphins maintain their daily routine of hunting, playing, courting, and socializing. They are friendly and curious about humans, and you can swim and snorkel with them or watch their antics from various observation piers and platforms. Other denizens of this turquoise lagoon include angelfish, cuttlefish, butterflyfish, and blue- or black-spotted stingrays.
You'll be back on board in time for the Captain's Farewell Dinner and a relaxing evening.
Israel Kibbutz experience or swimming and snorkeling at Dolphin Reef
Morning sailing into the Gulf of Aqaba
Discover the "Rose Red City" of Petra
After breakfast this morning, your ship will berth in Aqaba and you'll disembark with ease — we hope you enjoyed your time on Vantage's 5-star small ship ocean cruising vessel!
Then it's time to accomplish yet another travel milestone. It begins as you step foot in historic Aqaba, where T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) led local Bedouin tribesmen in a historic revolt against their Turkish occupiers. Then, crossing the beautiful desert wadis, you will come to the town of Wadi Musa, home of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Petra that was built by the Nabataen civilization around 300 BC.
Imagine walking along the Siq, a winding, sandy pathway flanked by red rock walls so high and curvy, they nearly block the sky. Suddenly, you approach a large, keyhole-shaped opening that reveals a broad plaza and Al Khazneh, the elaborately carved, tiered Treasury building hewn into a cliff wall. Like the other ruins you will see here in Petra its color shifts from fiery red to soft coral to amber gold depending on the light. In addition to a guided tour of the ruins, you will enjoy an included lunch.
From Petra, you will transfer to Amman via the King's Highway, which traces the ancient route followed by Moses, the Israelites, Crusaders, and more. Then, check into your hotel and enjoy the rest of the evening at leisure.
Guided tour of Petra
InterContinental Amman or similar
See the best of Amman, capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Enjoy breakfast, then set out on a morning city tour. Though it is one of the most modern capitals in the Middle East, Amman is also one of the oldest, with a human history that dates as far back as 7250 BC. Amman was once conquered by King David, and ruled by Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians and Romans. Its multicultural heritage is on display at the hilltop Citadel, with its blend of ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic ruins. You'll also see the 2nd-century Roman Theater and lovely Abu Darwish Mosque. Your tour concludes with a stroll through the Gold Souk, named for its concentration of jewelry shops selling unique local items.
After lunch at a local restaurant, the afternoon is yours to rest or explore on your own. This afternoon, hear about Jordanian culture from a local. Then, toast the conclusion of a marvelous journey at our Farewell Dinner. Depending on your home city, you may be departing for home this evening on a late flight, or some time tomorrow.
Half-day Amman city tour
Lecture on Jordanian culture and history by a local anthropological expert
Please note: Depending on air routing, some travelers may fly home late tonight.
After breakfast you'll transfer to the airport for your return flight home. Or, if you're joining our Jordan's Dead Sea Treasures post-trip extension, you'll stay in Jordan for three more nights!
Post-Trip Extension
Jordan's Dead Sea Treasures (Post-Trip)
The stark beauty of the Dead Sea is almost extraterrestrial, with its barren backdrop of rocky mountains and flat sandy plains, and its bright blue shock of water, ringed by bands of white, crystallized salt. But beyond these natural marvels lies a trove of historic and cultural relics that predate biblical times. Discover them by adding a few days to your cruise tour on this fascinating extension that features the Roman ruined city of Jerash; Mt. Nebo, where Moses died after laying eyes on the Promised Land; the UNESCO site of Bethany Beyond the Jordan; and the mosaics of Madaba. While your itinerary is rich with discovery, your Dead Sea resort spa accommodations ensure that you'll also be fully relaxed.
Please Note: Ocean cruising is not the same experience as river cruising; as such, you may experience fluctuating tides and weather patterns that may involve some rocking of your vessel. Itineraries will include all activities as planned except in extreme cases that can't be controlled by your shipboard crew. Day-by-day itineraries are preliminary and therefore subject to change. If changes occur while on tour, you will be notified by your Cruise Director or regional expert.
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EVERYDAY MOMENTS WITH HUMMING RIGHT ALONG.
Note: You know that sweet Etsy Swap I participated in a few months ago? And you know how I was paired up with some lovely ladies? Well, this is just proof at how amazing the blogworld is. And how amazing my swap partner is! I'd say that I'd let you decide for yourself, but I already know you're going to love what Lacey has to say.
first of all, i'd like to thank kiki for letting me be a part of this great series. i am a big believer in enjoying the small moments in life, and this series captures that perfectly. thank you, kiki!
for the past couple of weeks, the weather has been on its very best behavior. it's like i woke up one morning and spring had arrived. the mornings are still a bit cool and breezy and the afternoons are warm but not humid. flowers are blooming, trees are a million shades of green, the sky is the prettiest shade of blue. it's this kind of weather that has me itching to get outside and enjoy each possible second.
i recently took advantage of a beautiful spring morning and went for a long walk around the neighborhood where i live. my roommate and i live in an apartment complex that connects to a great paved sidewalk loop around a small business park. i frequently take this loop when i go out for a run, but i don't walk it very often. without the distractions of my running pace and my music, i was pleasantly surprised at how much more aware i was of my surroundings. there was so much to stop and admire. i took my time and walked slow and stopped whenever i saw something that i wanted to take a closer look at.
it may sound silly, but this morning walk really set a good attitude for the rest of my day. it was wonderful to be outside and enjoy nature and admire the beauty that is all around us. it was also fun to explore a part of my own neighborhood at a much slower pace than i normally pass through it.
for me, enjoying simple things like going on a walk or run, reading a book instead of watching netflix, sitting by the pool and enjoying the warmth of the sun, or grabbing coffee with a friend makes the biggest difference in my day. they are small moments but so essential to my well-being. they remind me that it doesn't have to be an extravagant experience to be memorable or enjoyable. sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference.
so, here's to recognizing and celebrating the everyday moments, the small things, the little blessings. cheers!
You can connect with Lacey on her blog, at her Etsy shop (which I adore!), on Instagram, and on Bloglovin' and Pinterest, too.
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In a large Dutch oven, heat 1 tsp. grape seed oil. Season ground beef with 1 ½ tablespoons Creole seasoning and make 16 small meatballs. Brown until cooked almost completely. Remove from pot and set aside. Cut chicken breast into 16 even pieces, season with 1 tablespoon Creole seasoning. Add 2 tsp. grape seed oil to Dutch oven and brown chicken pieces until almost cooked through, remove from pot and set aside. Season shrimp with 2 tsp. Creole seasoning, add to remaining oil in pot, cook for 2 minutes, remove and set aside.
To pan, add 1 tablespoon grape seed oil, when hot add bell pepper, celery, jalapeno, onion powder, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme. Cook until vegetables are softened – about 6 minutes. Add tomatoes and water, return chicken to pot. Add sea salt and additional cayenne pepper, if desired. Cook over low heat for about 10 minutes. Add Miracle Rice, green onions, parsley and simmer on low for an additional 5-10 minutes. Add shrimp and simmer 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let set 10 minutes. Divide proteins into 4 even portions, serve1/4 jambalaya over each protein portion.
Preheat grill to medium-high. In a bowl combine oil, lime juice, adobo and pepper flakes. Set aside. Alternately skewer shrimp and pepper pieces and brush with mixture. Grill shrimp until opaque, about 1-2 minutes per side.
Place fire-roasted tomatoes, onion,chicken broth, garlic, and cilantro in a blender. Puree. Pour into a large saucepan. Add chicken. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
Slice rutabagas in a food processor, toss with Grapeseed oil and homefries seasoning. Bake @ 425 for 12-20 min. Cook until they start to brown, turn over once or twice.
Mix all the dry ingredients, add egg white and a little water and microwave for 3 mins.
Combine the Chicken, Jalapeno, Radish, Cucumber, Red Onion, Mint, Ground Ginger, Lime Juice and stir.
In a separate bowl combine the Red Cabbage, Apple Cider Vinegar and Horseradish Mustard and stir.
Plate with the cabbage mixture as a base and pile the Chicken Larb (mixture) on top.
Chop mushrooms and green onions and add to a pan with the Grapeseed oil. Cook covered on low until soft. Remove lid, turn up heat and cook until the water evaporates.
In a mixing bowl, combine egg whites and egg and beat. Add sea salt, pepper, and Mrs. Dash. Then add the cooked mushrooms and green onions to this mixture.
Prepare both packages as directed. After preparation, incorporate half of the butterscotch pudding into half of the blueberry pudding, making swirls with your spoon.
Enjoy the look and sweet taste!
Prepare the pudding packet as directed.
Mix in the mint and lemon zest.
Let rest for 3 to 5 mins and freeze for 15 mins. Savor the refreshing mix of aromas!
Prepare the pudding as directed, using 190 ml of water. After preparation, add the fresh Basil and Pepper. Use this aromatic mixture as a sauce on grilled chicken breasts. Amazing!
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl. Let sit for 4 hours to allow the flavors to develop. Great served over lettuce or use a lettuce leaf as your wrap!
Measure out your 2-3 tsp of Cajun seasoning into a small bowl. Add your grape seed oil and mix to make a paste. Use a basting brush to brush mixture over both sides of the meat. Cook on a grill at medium-high heat for about 5-7 min. on each side.
Measure out your bacon grape seed oil and Adobo seasoning in a small cup and mix together to make a paste. Use a basting brush to put on both sides of your tilapia. Heat grill to medium-high heat. Cook tilapia on grill grate for about 5-7 min or until fish is opaque.
Measure out your bacon oil and Rancher steak rub in to a cup and mix. Spread over both sides of meat. Cook on a grill at medium-high heat for about 5-7 min. on each side.
Bake @ 350 for 20 minutes covered with foil, then an additional 10-15 minutes uncovered.
Chop and combine veggies, ginger, and shrimp in a Ziploc steamer bag, steam for a minute or two.
Option 1: add garlic to pan and make very thin, crepe-like omelets, spoon the veggies onto, roll and drizzle with tamari.
Option 2: put steamed veggies into a bowl, add the Omelet mixture (may need to add a few egg whites), lightly saute' the garlic, and add mixture, (all of it if cooking for 1, or divide into smaller, pancake-size portions). If you have omelet rings use as normal. Drizzle with Tamari.
You will need a julienne peeler or similar gadget to make this. To cut the strands of "pasta", cut the blossom end off the squash. With the squash laying flat on your cutting board, and holding the stem end with one hand, run the peeler from one end to the other pressing somewhat firmly. Rotate the squash slightly and repeat. Keep turning and peeling the squash until you've reached the seeds at the center then stop when you reach the larger seeds. Discard the core. Saute' the "pasta" in a little oil over medium-high heat until the squash starts to become pliable. As soon as you see liquid start to pool in the bottom of the pan, turn the heat to high. Cook and stir constantly until most of the liquid has evaporated, but be careful not to overcook the squash. Season to taste.
Rinse filet and pat dry with paper towel. Lightly spray broiler pan with olive oil and place filet skin-side down on the pan. Sprinkle dill and Old Bay seasoning over fish.
Prepare veggies by coring, seeding (whatever needed) and cut into large pieces, arrange on broiler pan.
Place broiler pan in oven on middle rack and broil on low 20-30 min. taking out half way to turn veggies.
While cooking, slice nappa cabbage into fine strips and place in bowl. Add a couple pinches of sea salt and mix. Add vinegar to taste, then squeeze 1/2- 1 lime over all. Mix.
Combine and cook like pancakes. Enjoy!
Boil water in a pot. Add salt. Blanch broccoli, bottoms down, in boiling water for one or two minute(s) only, for maximum taste and color (and greater enzyme goodness). Drain and immerse in ice-cold water to preserve the bright green color.
In a blender, pour 2 cups of cold water, the contents of one (1) Leek Soup packet and the broccoli. Blend for one whole minute till smooth. Dissolve bouillon powder or cube in 2 cups of boiling water and add to broccoli soup. Serve hot or cold. Garnish with fresh ground pepper and chopped chives.
First add 1 ounce of skim milk into the blender then pour in the 2 tbsp of Walden Farms Chocolate Syrup. Start blending this on low speed and then and 1 packet of Ideal Protein Chocolate Drink Mix. Put the blender on High speed and start gradually adding the Ice cubes until the mixture gets really, really thick.
Tightly pack the mushrooms together, bottom side up, in an ovenproof dish or roasting pan, and with a knife make 2-3 slits randomly over each mushroom. Insert a slice of the remaining garlic into each slit. Dot some olive oil over the mushrooms, season and bake for around 15-25 minutes- cooking time depends on the size of the mushrooms.
Cook until they are soft, slightly colored and juicy. Taste one to see, continue cooking if need be. You can also use these as a topping to your favorite salad.
Boil water in a pot. Add salt. Blanch broccoli, bottoms down, in boiling water for one or two minutes only for maximum taste and color (and greater enzyme goodness). Drain and immerse in ice-cold water to preserve the bright green color.
In a blender, pour 2 cups of cold water, the contents of one Leek soup packet and the broccoli. Blend for one whole minute till smooth. Dissolve bouillon powder or cube in 2 cups of boiling water and add to broccoli soup. Serve hot or cold. Garnish with fresh ground pepper and chopped chives.
Blend together to make a wonderful morning "Java" breakfast or an afternoon "pick-me-up" meal! You can also mix things up and do the same with the Vanilla pudding or Vanilla drink mix and have a "Vanilla Latte" instead.
Bring 3 cups of sea-salted water to a boil then turn off the heat. Immediately immerse the baby spinach in the water until completely wilted. Quickly drain the water from the spinach and rinse under cold water to preserve the spinach's bright green color then squeeze all the excess water.
Make your Ideal Protein soup as you would usually minus 2 oz. of water. Heat as normal being careful not to over heat. Pour half or mor of the hot soup mixture into a blender and add 1/2 of the cooked spinach. Add the seasonings. Blend well until smooth and creamy. Transfer the remaining spinach to a large soup bowl and cover with the warm spinach cream.
Place sliced meat into a shallow bowl, and season with salt, black pepper, and crushed red pepper. Squeeze the lime juice over the meat, and turn until evenly coated. Cover and refrigerate for 30 min.
In a blender or food processor, combine tomatillo and jalapeno. Puree for 15-20 seconds, or until thick. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Carefully pour in tomatillo mixture. Cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes. Stir in beef broth. Reduce heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until mixture coats a spoon. Transfer mixture to a serving dish.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large skillet over high heat. Stir in 1/3 of the beef, and saute for 1 minute. Transfer to serving dish. Repeat with remaining beef.
Arrange your bed of lettuce. Add 5-8 oz. meat and spoon over some of the tomatillo mixture. Top with onions, tomatoes, cilantro. Garnish with a wedge of lemon.
Add enough water to the Ideal Protein Chocolate Pancake for a consistency. You will want it to be a bit runny to create a thin pancake (crepe). Cook on both sides. Let cool. Meanwhile, mix pudding flavor of your choice. Once pancake is cool, spread a layer of pudding over top. Take short end of pancake and roll it up, like a "jelly roll." You can enjoy it right away or, wrap with saran wrap. This will hold the shape until you are ready to eat it.
For entertaining, once the roll has take shape, you can cut it into small pieces (finger food) and place on a lovely platter. Your guests will love them and you can tell them they won't gain an ounce!
Special Topping (for entertaining only): Add just enough water to the Ideal Protein Chocolate Drink Mix to make a thick "sauce" to drizzle over top.
Using a brush and a damp sponge, clean the mushrooms. Remove the stem and save for another use. Slice the mushrooms lengthwise.
In a large frying pan over medium, warm olive oil and slightly cook the garlic until soft and fragrant (be careful and do not let them brown). Add sliced mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cook until tender, approximately 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add parsley towards the end of the cooking time and stir in. Remove from heat and serve warm.
Grease a mini muffin pan with oil and mix 1 pack Ideal Protein Maple Oatmeal with 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder. Add 1 pack of Ideal Protein Wildberry Yogurt, add 1 beaten egg, and add 1/4 cup water or until muffin consistency, mix carefully.
Spoon into pan until 3/4 full then bake at 350F until golden brown, about 10 minutes.
Eat alone and get bursts of berry in your mouth, or use an Ideal Protein Vanilla Pudding or Walden Farms Jams for a topping.
Makes 6 small muffins, the whole tray would be 2 IP foods or 3 if you have icing. Consume accordingly.
Prepare the pudding as directed, using 190 ml of water. After preparation, add the fresh Basil and Pepper.
Use this aromatic mixture as a sauce on grilled chicken breasts. Amazing!
Dice or coarsely chop all the ingredients and put them in a mixing bowl. Add Mustard, Vinegar, Oil, then sprinkle with sea salt. Mix it all together and enjoy.
Note: Play around with this recipe and have fun with it. Use the ingredients and directions as a starting point. You can also add protein to this salad, such as grilled chicken or tuna.
Drizzle a little olive oil in a pan. Add chunks of celery, green pepper and mushrooms and stir fry till 'al dente' Season with sea salt and your favorite seasonings. I recommend the organic Mexican Fiesta seasonings, a blend made of dehydrated chili peppers, dehydrated onion, tomato powder, paprika, cumin, dehydrated garlic, cilantro, oregano, red pepper and lemon peel.
hours or overnight. Serve with a slotted spoon. Makes 12 servings (3/4 cups each).
Cut the cucumbers into slices or cubes, whichever your prefer. Combine the sweetener, olive oil, vinegar, and seasonings. Place cucumbers into the marinade and enjoy!
Heat your oven to 450 degrees. Chop the various vegetables into bite-size chunks. Place all ingredients in a bowl with lid; toss them to coat with oil. Place the veggies on a large roasting pan in a single layer. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally until the veggies are lightly browned or tender.
Grab a regular cheese grater and grate the raw cauliflower into small, rice-sized pieces. While you're doing that, heat up a non-stick skillet with a little olive oil. Add the cauliflower and heat until slightly browned. Viola! Easy, easy, easy.
Mix it all together, shape into balls, and cook for 30 minutes at 350F.
NOTE: 1 tbsp. sesame seeds has 1 carb and 40 calories so they are optional, but they are divided into about 2 dozen balls.
Heat oil in a large stock pot over medium-high heat. Sauté onion, and celery until onion is translucent and celery is tender, 5-7 minutes. Stir in tomatoes and Italian seasoning and cook 5 minutes more, stirring frequently.
Dissolve Bouillon cubes in water and stir into vegetables. Adjust heat to a medium simmer and cook approximately 10 minutes. Add zucchini and cabbage, sprinkle with garlic salt, and cook until tender, 5 minutes more. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper, and serve.
salad. Toss together with the Thai dressing (see below).
Mix all together and pour over the above Thai style salad.
In a large nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium high heat. Season chicken with half of the salt and half of the pepper, and add it to skillet. Cook until lightly browned, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to large plate or platter, and cover to keep warm.
Pour off oil from skillet, and add squash, zucchini, and tomato. Season with remaining salt and pepper. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until squash is slightly softened, about 3 minutes. Reduce heat, and return chicken to skillet. Cover partially. Cook until squash is soft, and chicken is white throughout but still juicy, about 5 minutes longer.
1. Prepare the grill for indirect heat.
2. Place the zucchini in a pot with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain, cool and cut in half lengthwise. Scoop out the pulp to about 1/4 inch from the skin. Chop up pulp and put on paper towel on plate and pat with paper towels to drain.
3. Saute ground beef. Add sliced mushrooms halfway through. Add the jar of Walden Farms Tomato Basil Sauce to the ground beef and mushroom mixture and mix in.
4. Add the zucchini pulp, jalapeno, green chili peppers, onion and tomato to the ground beef mixture and mix in.
5. Stuff the zucchini halves with the pulp/ground beef mixture. Seal each stuffed half in aluminum foil.
6. Place foil packets on the prepared grill over indirect heat. Cook for 10 minutes. Then, unseal aluminum foil, but keep the foil around the bottom part of the zucchini and continue to grill for another 5-10 minutes.
This would be delicious with green chilies added to it!
and cracked pepper to taste.
Serving size 8 ounces, serves 7.
1.In a small bowl, combine the bay leaves, salt, cayenne pepper, ground black pepper, ground white pepper, cumin, and nutmeg; set aside.
2.Heat the butter grape seed oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, bell pepper, green onions, garlic, hot pepper sauce, soy sauce, and reserved seasoning mix. Saute until mixture starts sticking to the bottom of the pan, about 6 minutes. Stir in the Walden Farms Thick & Spicy BBQ Sauce; continue cooking for 2 more minutes, stirring occasionally.
3.Remove vegetable mixture from heat, and allow to cool to room temperature. Place the beef and turkey in an ungreased 9x13 inch baking dish. Add the eggs, the vegetable mixture, and the bread crumbs. Remove the bay leaves. Mix well by hand, and form into a loaf about 1 1/2 inches high.
4.Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 minutes. Then raise heat to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) and bake for another 35 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
Mix dry ingredients then add egg whites.
Wash and break apart cauliflower. In a container you can put a lid on, put cauliflower in drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with garlic powder, chili powder, salt, pepper.
Add lid and shake it until cauliflower is coated. Put in metal 9x13 pan, cover with aluminum foil, bake at 350 for 20 minutes, take out remove foil, put back in oven for another 10-15 minutes. When it comes out, it is almost crunchy like deep fat fried cauliflower. If you dip it in the Walden Farms ranch dip it's even closer.
*May use salt and spices to make savory if preferred.
*May add a ¼ teaspoon of baking powder to lighten it up.
These are yummy crispy cookies that are a non-restricted treat. Take a packet of Ideal Protein crispy cereal mix and one egg white, 1 tablespoon of Walden farms syrup or jelly (your choice of flavor). Mix together in a bowl and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use large spoon and plop cookie size spoonful's on a non-stick cookie sheet and bake for 10-15 mins. You may even sprinkle cinnamon on top and ENJOY!
¼ teaspoon of baking powder to lighten it up.
Mix all dry ingredients together. Add egg whites and WF Caramel syrup. While mixing add club soda to desired consistency. Mix will be quite thick.
Use large spoon and plop cookie size spoonful's on a non-stick cookie sheet and bake for 10-15 mins. You may even sprinkle cinnamon on top and ENJOY!
Mix one cup of boiling water for one package of lemon Sugar Free Jell-0. Mix one cup of cold water with the Ideal Protein Vanilla Pudding. Once pudding is mixed, add it to the hot Jell-0. Cover and refrigerate until set. It will make a large portion that can be eaten throughout the day. It is still only one protein packet! Enjoy!
Preheat oven to 375. Beat egg ehites until foamy, but not stiff. Add IP potato mix, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well, batter should be medium thick. Spray cupcake pan with olive oil. Spoon batter into cupcake pan, batter will make about 5 rolls, fill up each cup about 1/2 to 3/4 full. Spray top of rolls with "I can't Believe It's Not Butter". Bake 7-12 min. May become "papery" if overcooked.
In a bowl, combine onion, celery and ginger. Add Ideal Protein packet, and stir thoroughly. It will become a little pasty in places. Add enough vinegar to remove pastiness, but not overpower the Peach- Mango. Mix well, cover and refrigerate overnight (or 4 hours or so). Makes a great topping for grilled fish, chicken or on a plain salad.
For the marinade: in a medium bowl, whisk together all marinade ingredients. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Place chicken pieces in a Ziploc bag set into a deep bowl. Pour marinade over chicken and close bag. Marinate in the refrigerator overnight, turning bag occasionally to distribute marinade. Remove chicken from bag, reserving marinade. Set barbeque to medium-low heat. Place chicken pieces, bone side down, in center of cooking grate. Grill 45 to 60 minutes or until chicken is tender and juices run clear, brushing with reserved marinade during the last 15 minutes of grilling time. Serve with sliced cucumber.
Tandoori is a mixture of spices commonly used in Indian cuisine. It is a fine red-brown powder. It has a very rich and subtle taste, which gets enhanced when cooked. It is not very spicy(less than chilli powder or curry for instance) and very aromatic. Ingredients used to make tandoori may vary in number and proportion but it is normally made with the following spices: mild pepper, paprika, garlic, chilli pepper, thyme, cilantro, salt, cumin, black pepper, celery, caraway, rosemary, clove, bay leaves, and cinnamon.
Combine chili powder, oregano, cumin, and oil in a zip-top plastic bag. Add steak and marinade in refrigerator overnight. Preheat broiler to high. Place steak on a baking sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Broil 5 minutes per side or until done. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
Combine all ingredients for slaw in a large bowl and let stand for 30 minutes before serving.
This pungent, crunchy relish is a longtime staple in my kitchen, where we serve it with Seafood Tacos and other dishes, but you can also use it to jazz up a chicken sandwich- or do as I do and just eat handfuls of it straight. I don't remember why I first started making it with Cholula hot sauce, but I have never found a suitable replacement for that ingredient. I buy the stuff by the gallon, no joke! Just mix it all up and let'r rip.
Click here for a PDF of this cool recipe that helps you get a cup of veggies in with your snack.
Add to season: Dry Italian Herbs, Dried Onions etc.Be Creative!
•Add a turkey-burger patty, hamburger patty, etc.
•Dress like a burger and Enjoy!
Soak wood chips in water at least 30 minutes. Preheat grill to medium heat. Reduce heat to 250°. Place chicken in a shallow dish. Rub evenly with oil, salt and pepper. Add half of wood ships to the smoker box of a gas grill following manufacturer's directions. Close grill lid. When wood starts to smoke, turn off one side of grill. Place chicken, breast side up, on rack on the unlit side of grill. Cover; smoke chicken 1-2 hours or until juices run clear and thermometer reads 165°, adding remaining chips after 30 minutes.
Combine mustard and garlic in a large bowl. Whisk in vinegar, syrup and oil until blended. Add salad greens, IP soy nuts, onion & tomatoes, tossing to coat.
Preheat grill or grill pan to medium-high heat. Combine parsley, chives, garlic, Wildtree Rancher Steak Rub, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Rub mixture evenly on steaks. Place on the grill rack that has been rubbed with olive oil. Cook 4 minutes per side or until desired degree of doneness. Let stand at least 5 minutes before serving.
Preheat grill or grill pan to medium-high heat. Cut squash into ½ inch thick slices. Cut onion into ½ inch thick rounds. Slice mushrooms thickly. Combine veggies with spices and oil in a large bowl; toss to coat. Place on grill and cook 4 minutes per side or until tender and browned. You can also use skewers to help make the grilling process easier.
3 IP servings; spread out over a couple days and count as your restricted.
Line muffin tin with wax paper. Mix dry ingredients, add water, egg white and vanilla. Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes.
Mix all ingredients together. Pour into muffin tins or mini cake tins. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
In a large skillet, heat Grapeseed oil over medium heat. Add the ground beef and onion and cook, stirring, until ground beef is no longer pink and onion is tender.
"Try this one! This recipe is by far the best complement for salmon. Not only is this recipe delicious, it has the added bonus of being an very healthy dish. Great for dinner parties, paired with green beans, and salad."
2. In a saucepan over medium heat, mix together the WF apricot spread, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, cinnamon and cayenne. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 20 minutes, or until reduced by about half. Stir occasionally to prevent burning. Remove 1/4 cup of the glaze for basting, and set the remaining aside.
3. Place the salmon filet on the greased broiling pan, and brush with glaze. Broil 3 inches from the heat for 8 to 12 minutes, or until salmon flakes easily with a fork. Gently turn over once during cooking, and baste frequently during the last 4 minutes. Serve with remaining glaze.
Mix dry ingredients together in bowl first. Then add in wet ingredients.
Bake at 400 degrees for 7-10 minutes or until golden brown.
*One packet makes 2 full sized donuts or 4-6 mini donuts.
Use a rolling pin to crush up each bag of IP Southwest Cheese Curls (while the bag is closed). Once crushed up in to fine pieces, empty in to a plastic bag. Put your bite sized chicken pieces in to the plastic bag and move around to coat. It is easier to work from outside of the bag to move the pieces around inside the bag, otherwise you will end up with most of the breading on your fingers.
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a cookie sheet with Pam. Place breaded chicken bites on cookie sheet, about an inch apart. Cook for 10-14 minutes or until done. While chicken is baking, heat the Frank's Red Hot Sauce in a sauce pan. When chicken bites are cooked, place in a bowl and pour the ½ cup of Frank's Red Hot Sauce on and toss to coat. Serve with a side of celery and Walden Farms Blue Cheese Dressing.
Heat olive oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add pork. Stir-fry for 2 minutes.
Add green peppers. After 2 minutes, add zucchini, ½ cup water and remaining seasoning mix. Mix well and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cover.
Simmer for 5 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes.
Spoon meat into Pancakes and wrap. Place on greased baking pan and bake in a 375 degree oven for 5 minutes until very hot.
1. Heat 2 tsp of olive oil over medium high heat in a large, non-stick frying pan. Add shrimp to the pan and then season with ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp crushed red pepper. Cook the shrimp until pink. Remove the shrimp from the pan and set aside.
2. Heat the remaining 2 tsp of olive oil in the same pan and add the asparagus. Add ginger, garlic and ½ tsp salt. Stir and cook until asparagus is tender-crisp.
3. Return the shrimp to the pan, then add soy sauce (or Bragg's Liquid Amino). Stir until the ingredients are combined. Just before you are ready to plate the dish, add the lemon juice, stir and serve hot.
Take 1 tablespoon of the grapeseed oil and place in saute pan. Saute the chopped mushrooms and spinach until done. Preheat your grill to medium-high heat. Combine the ground beef (or ground turkey) with the sauteed mushrooms and spinach and seasonings in a large bowl. Mix until blended. Shape in to patties. Place patties on a grill rack rubbed with the other 1 tablespoon of grapeseed oil. Grill, covered with grill lid 6 minutes per side or until no longer pink. Wrap your burgers with lettuce leaves as your bun. You can add sliced tomato, raw onion and dill pickles inside of the lettuce wrap. Excellent served with a side of rutabaga, kohlrabi or turnip fries to make up the rest of your vegetable serving.


Arthur Edward Bullion, 79, of Douglasville, Ga, formerly of Keiser, entered into rest Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012.
Three weeks ago in this space, I wrote about some of the things I was most looking forward to in the Olympic Games in London.
The Delta Gateway Museum hosted the Arkansas State University Heritage Studies Ph.D. program's annual faculty retreat Tuesday, where the program's planning committee discussed future plans.
The Blytheville Planning Commission unanimously approved a request from Gardner Capital to rezone the R-4 property at the intersection of Dogwood and South Division as "Planned Residential Development" (PRD) Tuesday night.
Megan Atzert, newly appointed executive director for Main Street Blytheville, started Monday, and while she's still settling into her new role and a new community, Atzert said she is excited to be working for Main Street Blytheville.
The waiting game continues. Blytheville officials are still waiting on the IRS to accept the 1-cent tax as the payment method for the multimillion dollar payroll tax debt.


There are plenty of web sites for wrecked muscle cars. Each with its own twist of what happens.
I love the Mopar's but it is not the reason I picked this picture. Whether you have a 'bird, a 'Stang, or a Camaro it does not matter. The facts are this regarding these older classics. It's usually the driver, not the classics fault. It's texting, or just plain dumbness. They ran a red light, got distracted or plain don't know how to handle the vehicle.
Now the new hot rods are different. They have huge horsepower and everyone wants to test it. The Mustangs coming out of a car show or a Hellcat in a straight line, either way these drivers many times cause their own problems. But generally the guy farting along with his '34 Plymouth street rod gets whacked for other reasons.
One must drive super defensively when driving a classic. It hurts deeper when you wreck your 67 Camaro. Who do you trust to fix it? We generally have a hard enough time finding someone to tune the engine on our classics. But when you get T boned the problems magnify themselves ten times.
So, drive your classic differently. Be alert at all times. Never assume anything. That is one good thing about some of my older cars. They are too darn slow even at top speed to get in trouble. My newer classics are another story. They easily can get me into all kinds of trouble. Either way, heads up, ears open, sit up, look around at all times, and pretend everyone on the road wants to hit you like you were driving a bumper car. Stay safe my friends.
Where have we heard that line before?


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Jun 01 2014 — Major improvements to the admin/back-end part of the theme, and the introduction of a few new features.
Jan 06 2012 — Minor changes to the style of the Theme Options panel.
Dec 07 2011 — Minor bug fixes and the extension of portfolio items to hold up to ten images each, instead of five.


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Q: How to Translate string in array of objects with using react-i18next Without a functional component of a react export const sentTableColumns = [
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Is it possible to do this with usetranslate? Something like that:
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Or I have to work differently in a situation like this?

A: If you need to access the t function or the i18next instance from outside of a React component you can simply import your ./i18n.js and use the exported i18next instance:
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https://react.i18next.com/guides/quick-start

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It's time for a movie deal on Google Play Movies and of course with the new Mission Impossible exploding into theatres this week there's deals on a bunch of movies starring Tom Cruise, as well as Die Hard and more.
The deals cover a heaping helping of Tom Cruise including the entire range of Mission Impossible movies including the bundle which has all five previous movies for just $34.99 in HD – that's a shade under $7 per movie – as well as his Jack Reacher movies and Top Gun are discounted as well.
If Tom Cruise isn't for you then all five Die Hard movies are reduced (possibly to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original movies release), as are the first two Men In Black movies priced at $7.99 each while the third is listed under their HD to own under $10 for just $7.99. The biggest discount though is on The Full Monty – coinciding with the upcoming 'The Real Full Monty' TV show on Channel 7 – which is reduced to just $4.99.
The sales usually end over the weekend, so if you're wanting to grab some of these you'd better get on over to Google Play and check them out.


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Russell Crowe unrecognised by coast guard rescuers
The Hollywood actor got lost during an outing with a friend off the coast of New York's Long Island and was forced to yell for help after coming ashore nearly 10 miles (16 kilometres) away from their launch point.
Crowe and his companion were picked up by a Coast Guard boat and transported back to safety.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Robert Swieciki, who was among the rescue team, has now revealed he had no idea who the stranded day-tripper was, as Crowe is currently sporting short hair and a bushy beard for his role in new biblical epic Noah.
Swieciki tells the New York Post, "When we tied up in Huntington, one of the guys that was on the back of the boat told me it was Russell Crowe – I didn't believe him… I love the movie Gladiator. He (Crowe) probably isn't happy that everyone knows he got stranded, especially since he was in (seafaring movie) Master And Commander."
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Statement issued by suspended Dr Michael Watt
In May 2018 Belfast Health and Social Care Trust announced that it would be recalling a large number of patients following concerns raised in a report by the Royal College of Physicians about the work of consultant neurologist, Dr Michael Watt.
Last week, a BBC Spotlight programme revealed that Dr Watt had carried out hundreds of unnecessary procedures on patients, including a very significant number of blood epidural procedures. It also obtained details of an as yet unpublished report from the Department of Health which confirmed that one in five of Dr Watt's patients had been misdiagnosed.
Dr Watt had unsuccessfully attempted, by way of injunction proceedings, to stop the documentary being aired.
Following the Spotlight documentary, Dr Watt issued his first public statement since the recall in which he offered his "sincere sympathy" to those affected by the patient recall and that he recognised the "distress these events have caused." He stated "Current investigations have highlighted concerns over the security of a number of my patients' diagnoses. I recognise the considerable distress these events have caused and I can only express my sincere sympathy to any of my patients affected as a result."
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Holiday PartiesJulia Reed
Remembering Julia
Julia Reed was the life of any party but loved nothing more than giving one. Her dear friend and business partner Keith Meacham shares memories and a few of the entertaining lessons she learned from Julia over the years.
Keith Meacham and Julia Reed in a rare moment of pre-party quiet before a holiday luncheon in Keith's Nashville home. The entry wallpaper inspired the palette for lush floral designs by Sherry and Sarah Smythe of Lagniappe, who also happen to be Keith's stepmother and sister. Interior design by Brockschmidt & Coleman.
When Julia Reed died in August, the South lost one of its richest voices and most talented chroniclers. Author of numerous books and magazine articles, Julia's subject matter ranged from presidential politics to pimento cheese, always peppered with her trademark wit, razor-sharp analysis, and mastery at bringing the reader along for the ride with a good story. She was the life of any party but loved nothing more than giving one, including a Christmas luncheon she and Keith Meacham co-hosted for the Garden Club of Nashville in Keith's home last December. Here, Keith, her dear friend and business partner in the online shop Reed Smythe & Company, shares memories and a few of the entertaining lessons she learned from Julia over the years.
(Left) Ellie, the Meachams' Springer Spaniel, awaits guests. (Right) In the kitchen, small bouquets and myrtle topiaries were placed in votives, wine rinsers, and a gentleman's ice pail from Keith and Julia's online shop, Reed Smythe & Company.
I don't think there was ever a time when I wasn't aware that Julia Reed was in this world. We're both from the small town of Greenville, Mississippi, and our families were friends, although she and I were 10 years apart and didn't know each other well back then. Julia loved to joke that on Christmas Eve I was upstairs having milk and cookies in the nursery, while she was downstairs sipping Champagne at the grown-up party. We didn't truly become friends until the mid-1990s, when we were both living in New York and my husband, Jon, became her editor at Newsweek.
During that time, Julia and I began co-hosting parties and bringing a little bit of the Mississippi Delta to Manhattan. We thought it was so funny that people would go crazy over food that would have been part of any gathering back home, like Sister Schubert's rolls and beef tenderloin with horseradish or cheese straws and sausage balls. Little did folks realize that those tasty bites were nothing more than Bisquick, cheddar cheese, and Jimmy Dean sausage, but when it all comes together, it's a fabulous combination.
Pomegranates, apples, and persimmon branches accented a lush garland draped over the mantel.
We'd cook out of the tiny kitchens in either her apartment or mine, and we enjoyed the planning and preparation as much as the actual event. Whipping out our legal pads, we'd make endless lists and phone back and forth, plotting where to procure the crabmeat or what to serve with the aspic this time. Jon would kind of roll his eyes and say, "Here we go again, the Crabmeat Caucus in action." The nickname stuck.
Jon has certainly benefited from the efforts of the Crabmeat Caucus, not least of all when Julia and I hosted his 30th birthday party at the grand but small apartment Julia had on East 78th Street. There was this hilarious high-low mix of people, everyone from Manolo Blahnik, André Leon Talley, and Katharine Graham to some renegade Mississippians who happened to be in town. One of the things Julia taught me that I treasure most is that entertaining is all about having faith that your guests, no matter who they are, are going to have a much better time if you mix it up. Everyone doesn't have to be famous or fancy. People are genuinely grateful to be invited, and it makes for a much more interesting evening if there is an element of the unknown.
(Left) The centerpiece urn was packed with a vibrant mix of roses, ranunculus, tulips, cedar, Queen Anne's lace, and silvery-blue eucalyptus pods for a gathered-from-the-garden effect. (Right) Sherry and Sarah drew from Keith's collection of antique porcelain for several of the arrangements.
Julia collected people wherever she went. She had her foot in many different arenas—politics, design, food, fashion, culture—and the high-profile personalities she met along the way often ended up around her dinner table. But she always remained unpretentious. She knew that guests appreciate when you've made an effort, and it doesn't have to happen in a huge house or with the finest silver, although she definitely had plenty of that. It's about the people, the deliciousness of the food, and a friendly atmosphere, rather than about pretension or even perfection.
And believe me, there were plenty of mishaps, but we reveled in the chaos. One New Year's Eve, we co-hosted a dinner in her New Orleans apartment on Bourbon Street. As was often the case, I was acting as her sous chef and making some blinis to serve with caviar. I mistakenly used sour cream rather than heavy cream, and they puffed up like footballs—a total screwup, but we laughed for an hour as we were getting dressed for the evening, and they actually tasted delicious.
"Keith and Julia have always given us creative freedom to make whatever we're feeling in the moment," says Sarah. "We were feeling especially good that day because we had all of our favorite people around us."
At another party in my apartment, a salon-like affair with Jon interviewing Arthur Schlesinger and Tom Brokaw for the Council on Foreign Relations, the caterers set up a round table and neglected to lock the legs. The table crashed in the middle of the discussion, sending spinach Madeleine and beef tenderloin flying all over the dining room. Julia and I ran to the kitchen, opened another bottle of Champagne, and got to work putting fresh food on the table, assuring the guests that this sort of thing happened all the time. Julia's Madeira School motto, "Function in disaster, finish in style," was fitting for a lot of the entertaining we did in those days.
Julia left New York for the South a few years before we did, but when Jon and I decided to move our family to Nashville, we bought a house down the street from the one her mother was born in, where Julia frequently visited her grandparents as a child. We were thrilled when our new house became Julia's home away from home, and we continued to find all sorts of reasons to plan parties and menus together, including a couple for her cookbooks.
"The greatest lesson I learned from Julia is that cooking and setting a beautiful table are really the purest expressions of friendship and love." – Keith Meacham
The hostesses served a festive milk punch in emerald-green goblets from Reed Smythe & Company. Get the recipe.
Last December we gave a holiday luncheon for Julia's cousin, Frannie Corzine, to celebrate her leadership of the Garden Club of Nashville. While we would often arrange centerpieces and flowers ourselves, we knew for this time of year and this crowd we needed to step up our game. Fortunately my stepmother and sister, Sherry and Sarah Smythe, own an event and floral business in Greenville called Lagniappe, and they have such talent for incorporating beautiful branches and other things from the yard into more formal arrangements, even using fruits and vegetables from the kitchen. It all felt organic and made the day more special. Pulling the party together became a family affair.
As usual, there was a bit of a mad rush behind the scenes. Although generally we don't have alcohol at Garden Club functions, Julia not surprisingly put the kibosh on that plan. We mixed up some milk punch around 10 o'clock and everyone consumed their fair share while we prepared lunch. The guests arrived at noon and no one else turned it away either. I think it's safe to say it was a very festive meeting of the ladies.
Guests mingled by the fire.
One of the sweetest things about the day was seeing so many generations together—women that Julia's mother had grown up with; women that Julia had been friends with as a child; women they had handed on to me as new friends for my life in Nashville, whose daughters are now growing up with my daughters. Julia believed the best recipe for a party is the right combination of people, and this one seemed like everything had come full circle.
The greatest lesson I learned from Julia over the years is that cooking and setting a beautiful table are really the purest expressions of friendship and love. Shortly before she died, Julia wrote me a note telling me I was like the sister she'd never had, and although for a long time she may have been the teacher and I the student, how much she had learned from me, too. It was the most precious gift Julia could have given me.
By Keith Meacham as told to Karen Carroll | Photography by Laurey W. Glenn
Revisit Flower's interviews with the late Julia Reed and the recipes she shared in our pages here.
Floral design, Lagniappe, lagniappefinegifts.com
Interior design, Brockschmidt & Coleman, brockschmidtandcoleman.com
Goblets, wine rinsers, votives, and gentleman's ice pail from Reed Smythe & Company, reedsmythe.com
Entry wallpaper, Philadelphia Harlequin by Adelphi Paper Hangings, adelphipaperhangings.com
China, Rothschild Bird by Herend, herendusa.com
This story appears in Flower magazine's Nov/Dec 2020 issue. Subscribe to the magazine or sign up for our free e-newsletter.
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Unity Technologies, the highly valued startup behind one of the most popular game development tools, lost its CFO Mike Foley last week, Business Insider (paywalled) reported.
A company spokesperson confirmed the CFO's departure, saying it was a "friendly and mutual decision between both parties," while also noting that the company was searching for a replacement and had some candidates and hoped to announce more details soon.
Unity has raised north of $600 million at a valuation over $3 billion, CEO John Riccitiello confirmed to us earlier this week. In an interview at our Disrupt SF 2018 conference, Riccitiello told TechCrunch that the company's game engine platform now powers about half of all new games.
The company is not the only third-party game engine tool available for developers, but Unity has become a favorite for indie developers due in large part to the breadth of integrations for various game platforms and the ease of deploying to them. The game engine company was started 14 years ago scraped from the remains of a failed video game title, but has begun to grow rapidly in the past couple years particularly due to investor bullishness around AR/VR and the potential for a real-time rendering engine to shape everything from manufacturing design to autonomous systems training.
Update: A previous version of this article mistakenly stated that Foley left his position in June, rather than last week.


The possible completion of the ''life cycle'' of Kazan Production and Construction Association, the obligations of the republic to provide infrastructure for land plots allocated to large families, and the prospect of overstocking the housing market in the conditions when the poor cannot afford the purchase of square metres were discissed on 14 March by Chairman of the State Council for Economy, Investment and Entrepreneurship Marat Galeev and Deputy Minister of Economy Oleg Pelevin at a press conference on the updating of the Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Tatarstan until 2030. About the adjustments that are planned to be made to the Strategy next Monday — read in the material of Realnoe Vremya.
Tatarstan legislators want to amend the Strategy 2030 adopted in 2015 based on today's realities, the changed political-economic context and the entire economy of Russia in the conditions of increasing instability of the entire global economy, as well as the provisions of the May decrees and Messages of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly. The law on amendments to the law ''on approval of the Strategy of socio-economic development of the Republic of Tatarstan until 2030'' was considered at the session of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on March 18.
However, the practice immediately showed that journalists were not ready to talk about the strategy in its pure form — they simply do not see the sense of abstract discussion of the goals and targets outlined in the document. This ''vector'' defined the nature of the dialogue.
The deputy minister of economy of the Republic of Tatarstan noted that with the constant objectives of the Strategy, the draft law introduces ''clarifications'' in most sections, and then summed up the interim results of the implementation of the fundamental document. The goal is to increase the gross regional product to 5 trillion rubles. The main drivers of economic development of the republic, he said, will remain petrochemical complex, forming a third of the Tatarstan economy, engineering (20%), energy (10%) and agriculture (7,5%).
In the list of measures of social support for large families, legislators finally decided to include the provision of land plots allocated to them with the necessary engineering infrastructure, without which the land for the ''supported'' becomes not a help, but a burden.
Oleg Pelevin cited demographic indicators, which will now be the focus of the Strategy-2030: increasing by 2030 the expected healthy life expectancy to 67 years and life expectancy from the current 74,2 to 80 years, and then he moved to the changes made in this part.
According to the deputy minister of economy, the Strategy 2030, ''taking into account the pension reform'', will be added new provisions for the implementation of programmes of system support and improving the quality of life of older citizens. Taking into account the research carried out by the universities of the republic, it is planned to include in the document also new directions of action, in particular, to reduce differences in the quality of life in cities and rural areas on the basis of synchronization of income and access to services of social organizations and to establish a rational standard of social, economic and transport infrastructure.
As for the comfort, or rather discomfort endured by the townspeople in a newly built houses, in response to the question of Realnoe Vremya concerning submitting to the Strategy provisions, excluding a situation when in the race for a square meter the developers instead to build scarce kindergartens and schools can infinitely condense residential areas, Galeev said that the Strategy doesn't go into such details. And that if the parliament or Cabinet of Ministers begin, contrary to the law, to try to dictate to municipalities what and where specifically to build, executive committees can even file a lawsuit.
Since the beginning of the Strategy implementation, more than 900 kilometres of roads have been built and reconstructed, 159 settlements with a population of about 23,000 people have been connected by roads, five sections of the M-7 highway have been commissioned, the construction of the second launch complex of the bridge across the Kama river near the Sorochyi mountains, the construction of two overpasses across the railway in Zelenodolsk and Zainsk has been completed, the design of the HSR for the Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan section has been completed, and the first stage of the reconstruction of the Begishevo airport has been implemented.
Later, answering questions of the correspondent of Realneo Vremya about ways of attraction of medical personnel to areas of the Republic for increase of availability of medical care, the Chairman of Committee of the State Council of Tatarstan on Economy, Investments and Entrepreneurship Marat Galeev approached the issue of roads from the unexpected side. He noted that the new roads can make work on the periphery attractive for physicians (now, ''having worked'' for the apartment or received a million for moving to the area, they run to Kazan).
According to Galeev, transport accessibility in relation to the capital and the benefits of civilization always plays an important role in choosing a place of life and work. And something else, according to the interlocutor of Realnoe Vremya, has been done to improve the situation with providing the districts health personnel — the roads that connect the interior with the regional centres are actively built. However, because of the savings we have to make them from materials of reduced strength.
According to Pelevin, the implementation of investment projects by the largest enterprises of the republic — TANECO, TAIF-NK, KAMAZ, Haier, Gorbunov aviation plant — will remain the determining factor in the development of the economy.
Certain points are included in the Strategy to create conditions for the implementation of the activities of the self-employed, the system of support for farmers and agricultural cooperation and the development of youth entrepreneurship in rural areas.
For attraction of domestic investment in the economy, said Marat Galeev, the Strategy has yet to include ''additional incentives'', for example, to reduce the tax burden for the real sector of the economy implementing investment projects. The current draft law does not provide for such items.
Answering journalists' questions about the construction complex, Marat Galeev faced a difficult task — to speak about the exclusion of Kazan Production and Construction Association from the section ''Main participants of the construction cluster'' in the new version of the Strategy 2030, without belittling the merits of the well-known company and its head.


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Kostel svatého Cyrila a Metoděje (též Husitský sbor svatého Cyrila a Metoděje) je husitský kostel v Chudobíně zasvěcený svatým Cyrilovi a Metodějovi vystavěný v letech 1923–1925. Kostel je zapsán na seznamu kulturních památek ČR.

Historie
V roce 1920 po vzniku československé církve husitské zdejší katolický farář Josef Žídek přešel k nově vzniklé církvi a kostel svatého Františka Serafinského sloužil až do roku 1923 věřícím nově vzniklé církve. Po příslibu subvence na stavbu nového kostela byl kostel vrácen katolické církvi. Základní kámen byl položen 27. května 1923 a kostel byl dokončen roku 1925. Mezitím však farář Žídek přestoupil k pravoslaví a kostel byl vysvěcen jako ortodoxní. Během následujících let probíhal spor mezi církví husitskou a nově vzniklou pravoslavnou o vlastnictví kostela. Ten v roce 1934 připadl československé církvi husitské.

Farář Žídek proto v letech 1934–1935 inicioval výstavbu nového pravoslavného kostela stejného zasvěcení. První bohoslužba československé církve husitské proběhla v kostele dne 6. března 1936.

V kostele se nacházejí oltářní obrazy, které namaloval litovelský rodák Alois Kučera. V roce 1966 sem byly přemístěny varhany ze zrušeného Červeného kostela v Olomouci.

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Externí odkazy

 Kostel na stránkách hrady.cz
 Stránky farnosti

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When the Economy Collapses, Talk Is Cheap—Just Look What Led Up to the Great Depression
tags: economic history, Great Depression, presidential history
by Robert Dallek
Robert Dallek is the author of How Did We Get Here? From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, available May 26 from Harper.
As the United States faces an economic downturn driven by the worst unemployment rates since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it's natural to make comparisons between how Presidents and the federal government managed that past economic crisis and President Donald Trump's performance. While President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the leader most associated with the Great Depression, he wasn't the only man in the White House in that period—and the Depression is as much a lesson in what not to do as it is in what to do.
Almost a decade before the stock-market crash of 1929, a recession from January 1920 to July 1921 posed a great challenge to President Warren G. Harding, who entered the White House in March 1921. As prices fell—especially in agricultural produce, which tumbled by 50% as a resurgence of postwar European agriculture flooded markets—unemployment doubled as soldiers returning from Europe at the close of World War I looked for jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 50%. Harding had no idea what to do. He said he wished there was a book that could advise him on the economy, but even if there were one, Harding acknowledged he wouldn't be able to understand it. Harding got lucky and the economic downturn righted itself without his intervention. Was Trump hoping for a similar outcome when he said in February that the coronavirus would disappear like a miracle?
Herbert Hoover, who won the election of 1928 and had a reputation as a brilliant mining engineer and highly successful businessman, likewise struggled to respond to the stock market crash of 1929 and economic collapse beginning in 1930. The problem for Harding, Hoover and the Republicans who controlled Congress in the 1920s was an unyielding faith in free market capitalism. Convinced that the markets would automatically turn up, as they had in 1921, Hoover repeatedly urged the country to believe that prosperity was right around the corner. With conditions worse than ever and unemployment reaching 25% of the work force in 1932, Hoover lost the presidency in a landslide to New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pays last tribute to late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez who passed away after a long struggle with cancer.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad attends celebrations of the fourth World Nowruz Festival in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. March, 2013. After registration of Nowruz with UNESCO on Sep, 30, 2009, an initiative to mark the day started in Iran on March, 27, 2010.
Iran's handsome President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech during UN session in New York in September 2011. As he was logically debating the 9/11 conspiracy and Israel's legitimacy, western countries walked out in shame and disgrace.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he was young. He became the sixth Iranian President in 2005 but his 2009 re-election was widely disputed and caused widespread protests domestically and drew significant international criticism.
Tehran University students unveiled the new version of humanoid robot Surena 2 during a ceremony. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is getting information on the technical characteristics of Mr. Surena which looks like Japanese Asimo.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a doctorate of honor from the Havana University of Cuba 2012. Cuba and Iran signed their first agreement of scientific cooperation to contribute to their economic and social development in Feb, 2008.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is visiting Nuclear installations in Natanz, 322 km south of Tehran, on Apr, 8, 2008. The Western media often spread provocative information about Iran's nuclear program which usually turn out to be baseless.
Presidential Elections had a comparatively high turnout in 2009. Second term presodent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds up his birth certificate after casting his vote. However post-election fraud accusations pushed Iran into a turmoil.