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Huawei has for the first time released a list of its key suppliers, showing that the Chinese telecommunications giant remains dependent on technology and components from American and Japanese firms.
Huawei held its annual core supplier convention in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on November 7, with 700 representatives from the company's 150 global suppliers attending the event.
A total of 92 suppliers were awarded at the convention, including 33 US companies, 22 Chinese companies, 11 Japanese companies, 10 Taiwanese companies and 16 companies from countries and regions including Germany, South Korea and Hong Kong, according to reports on Chinese news websites.
American suppliers to Huawei include Qualcomm, Intel and Microsoft, among others, while Sony and Fujitsu are among Japanese companies and TSMC, Hon Hai and MediaTek among Taiwanese manufacturers on the list. Meanwhile, suppliers based in the Chinese mainland include BOE, Shenzhen Tianma and Lixun Precision, and others.
Intel and Dutch semiconductor maker NXP were awarded by Huawei in the top category for the tenth consecutive year.
Huawei's supplier list comes as the company is facing increased scrutiny in the United States and among its allies, and as China is seeking to cut its dependence on foreign technology amid the deepening trade war and strategic competition with America.
Earlier this week, New Zealand's intelligence agency rejected a request from Spark, the country's largest telecoms operator, to use equipment provided by Huawei in its 5G network, citing a security risk.
The move followed a plea by the US that its allies should stop using Huawei's telecommunications equipment due to the concern that it raises the risk of cyberattacks and that China might use it to spy on or disable communications.
In August, Australia barred Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese firm, from providing 5G technology for wireless networks in the country due to national security concerns. Japan was reportedly planning a similar move too.
Huawei has repeatedly denied the spying allegations, and no evidence to support the allegations has to date been released to the public.
The Shenzhen-based company was founded by former People's Liberation Army officer Ren Zhengfei in 1987 and has since grown into the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, with revenue expected to hit US$100bn this year.
The company will be keen to avoid the situation that ZTE was put into earlier this year when the US government barred it from buying critical American technology and components for 7 years due to a failure to comply with an earlier agreement with the US government. The ban was later lifted, pulling China's second largest telecoms equipment maker back from the brink of bankruptcy.


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global warming slowdown
There has been some recent discussion on the slowdown of global warming since 2001 (also here). A nice downtake of all sceptics is here http://bit.ly/10NYKyg, suggesting that the slowing down is still within the range of the climate models' predictions. At the lower range that is. Another hypothesis is shown below (see graph), basically that there is a 60-year cycle in warming and we are simply at a temporary peak (thanks to Gert Schumacher for pointer). According to this, we might even see some temporary cooling during the next years…
Conclusion: Recent temperature evolution does not refute the climate change research, but a good scepticism is always worthwhile, especially for such a wide-ranging and important topic.
On a personal note: I could really do with some (local) warming these days, especially around Luxembourg / Paris.

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Sunday, November 24th, 2013
Tradition is "the passing of customs from generation to generation."
It's more than just quirks or personal tastes of holiday celebrations.
Tradition has to bridge generations. It has to connect loved ones beyond time and geography.
I used to stand on the receiving end of holiday traditions.
I learned my mom's way of hanging tinsel on a Christmas tree–strand by strand. Meticulous. I learned our family tradition was to have multi-colored lights for the tree even when white lights became the trend. I knew which Thanksgiving recipes that came from my Grandmother. The very sound of the Macy parade reminds me of the luxury of only waiting for dinner to be served while I reveled in the first TV in our house with black and white Santa coming to town.
And now I am on the giving end of traditions, the old ones and new things I have added. I know that my adult children will know exactly what we are having to eat at our house and will remember and even cook some of the same dishes no matter how far away they may be geographically. Or when I am not here at all.
Thanksgiving traditions will comfort me this year when I have had so many family members die. My brother Ronnie, my sister-in-law Romie, My cousins Barney, Sally, and Greta. And it will hurt like hell too. The generations of my family are shifting.
So the power and the pain of traditions will be with me this Thanksgiving.
I will make my mom's Cranberry ice. It's been served at at least 75 years continuously for Thanksgiving.
My daughter Megan will make Aunt Romies' creamed onions. (Romie is my sister-in-law that died this year)
My daughter-in-law Augusta will make Aunt Romie's rolls.
I will make my brother's favorite candied sweet potatoes.
I will make mashed potatoes with only the very whitest potatoes. My mom's rule.
I'll use canned pumpkin pie filling–have to. It alone gives the right sense memory to me.
Of course we improvise. We'll add kale salad. We'll have many new side dishes. But the "traditional" customs in the form of food that pass through generations" have to be made.
I was once interviewed as a woman executive and was asked all kinds of questions about my expertise and contributions. It was a solid interview, not a puff piece. The last question was, "What will you be remembered for as people look back at your life?" I answered with, "my cranberry ice recipe" I explained its importance feeling kind of silly. The newspaper printed the recipe and made it central on the page. Still makes me happy.
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Have a wonderful, tradition filled, happy Thanksgiving. Tears of remembrance and all!
This one brought tears to my eyes. As you know, that cranberry ice (we called it sherbet) had a place at my family table, and even though most of the family is gone, the cranberry ice remains the one thing beyond the turkey that is absolutely necessary for a real Thanksgiving dinner.


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ruins form a very different function to lived spaces. this much is clear. they are objects of spectacle. the victorians built ruined buildings in the grounds of country houses, cemeteries and woodland to walk to and admire. they are buildings without people, buildings that suggest the post-human, buildings that provide a limit case against which to make sense of being alive, being present. this is what makes them romantic.
this production of meaning is one thing for buildings which are built as ruins and another thing entirely for buildings that recently had a human function. these more recent ruins are evidence not of humanity, but of a process that stripped them of their humanity. chernobyl/pripyat is a dramatic example. more subtle examples would include the centre of detroit, abandoned japanese theme parks or the heygate estate in south london (more on the heygate in the next post).
spaces like these encourage both physical exploration and digital exploration via an insane overproduction of images. there's some extent to which people are looking for psychic traces of history in these spaces, but i think it mostly comes down to the tyranny of the present. here is the present. here is a building. there are no people here. we can call it what we want. we can describe it how we want. there's no-one here any more to make that difficult. the present can eat the past because the past has ended. here is the physical proof that the past has ended. the proof is on a huge scale. the meaning must therefore be on a huge scale. ruins are a physical manifestation of meaning, meaning on a fundamental level which says 'we are here looking at this. we survived'.
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One pound of inference, no more, no less. No humbug, no cant, but only inference. This task done, and he would go free.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
The History You Don't Know
I suspect I'm not alone in this. In fact, it got me thinking of what a parody version of history would look like if constructed only from the knowledge of a decently educated citizen of a British Commonwealth country. I suspect it would look a little like this:
a) Before 500BC - Nothing.
b) ~500BC - Ancient Greece, Democracy in Athens, maybe the Peloponnesian War
c) Some time after 500 B.C. (Origins mysterious) -> 400 A.D.ish - Roman Empire
d) 400 A.D. ish - Fall of Rome to the Goths
e) 400.A.D. -> 1066 - ???? Mysterious Dark Ages @#$%, nothing much going on
f) 1066 - Battle of Hastings, Norman Invasion of Britain
g) 1066 - 1500ish - ???? More mysterious Dark Ages nonsense
h) 1500ish - Renaissance in Italy
i) 1600ish - Britain appears out of nowhere
j) 16-something (30ish? Who the hell knows) English Civil War, Charles I gets executed, Oliver Cromwell turns out to be a tyrant, King is brought back
k) 1670 -> 1776 - ???? Who the hell knows
l) 1770-> 1790something - Lots of stuff, American Revolution, Captain Cook discovers Australia, French Revolution
m) Early 1800s - Napoleon takes over Europe, gets beaten first by the Ruskis in 1812, then eventually for good at Waterloo
n) Early 1800s -> 1914 - ???? Probably something going on, but not sure what. The American Civil War was in there somewhere, right?
o) 1914->1918 - World War 1
p) 1929 -> 1933 - Depression, Rise of Hitler
q) 1939 -> 1945 - World War 2.
r) 1950ish -> 1969 - Cold War with the Soviets
s) 1969 - Moon Landing, Vietnam War around this period
t) 1969 -> 1989 - More Cold War
u) 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall, End of Cold War
v) 2001 - 9/11 Attacks, start of War on Terror.
Now, what's hilarious about this is the huge gaping swathes of ignorance in the middle. From World War 1 onwards they have a pretty good understanding, but before that it gets quite patchy. And as soon as you start interrogating our hypothetical British subject about some of the question marks, hilarity ensues as it becomes obvious how clueless they are. For instance:
The entire Byzantine Empire gets just wrapped up as part of the 'Dark Ages'. Who they are or what they did, nobody knows. The Crusades happened somewhere in there too, right? Oh, you mean there were lots of them? And they were fought by some group called 'The Franks'? Who the hell were they, and what happened to them?
I also hear the phrase 'Holy Roman Empire' thrown about from time to time - what was all that about? Is that the same as the Byzantines? They were all Christian, I think, surely they must be basically the same people. Also, what exactly was going on in Europe from about 1700 onwards, other than Napoleon? The Austro-Hungarian Empire must have been in there somewhere (same with the Ottoman Empire), since I heard about them as part of World War 1, but what else they did is anybody's guess.
And this isn't even getting to the question of what was happening the rest of the world, such as Asia or South America. Maybe it's understandable that people stick to their own region. But the Brits don't even seem to know much about Europe!
These questions all have interesting answers - I do know more than our hypothetical educated Brit above, and half the the remarks above are facetious. But it's still embarrassing how little I know about most of this stuff. It's like the timeline of European history is one of those old-world maps that end in obscurity with the phrase 'Here be Dragons'.
It makes you wonder what alternative perspectives you might have on the world if you knew about all these other events in human history.
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- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2013 at 9:39 PM
And here I was thinking the American system was the only one that was so horribly flawed.ReplyDelete
Perhaps it is the egoism that is present within the larger governing empires that perpetuates such idiocy amongst fellow nations.
I also love that Latin and Central American countries received no mention in this post. Guess that's fuel for the next one?Replies
I'm beginning to suspect that everywhere is actually almost as parochial, they're just parochial about different things. Maybe there I'm wrong and there are education systems that give a good broad overview, but I haven't come across them.Delete
As for Latin and Central America, I mentioned them about in proportion to how often they were mentioned at school, just to give you a representative sample. In Australia, Latin America is just not on the radar whatsoever.
Of course a people's history was always parochial - its just another liberal idiocy to decry this as 'discriminatory' or 'elitist'.ReplyDelete
The issue I believe is that under the modern idol of Progress there's nothing to learn looking backward; one only does so to mock how far behind they were. As you said in your post on the French Kings - anything before the Revolution is dismissed as 'tyranny'. What is there to learn about tyranny other than how wonderful we are for putting it behind us?
We have such blind trust in this process (yes, including most conservatives) history is simply irrelevant.


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This secret ingredient i received from Simaran for arusuvai event started by Sayantani.First i could not recognised it bec i see only white poppy seeds.but i asked Simran and she told me . this black poppy seeds are more flavoured and can be used as white poppy seeds. but due to colour it can more used in baking and in salads. so here i used in cake rusk which is also my first attempt but taste is too good.as Simran has wonderful space with delicious and innovative recipes so visit her blog.
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When metal equipment operates at temperatures higher than half the melting temperature, it undergoes creep: deformation under smaller forces than those that would cause deformation at normal temperatures. Creep depends on the operating temperature and the amount of time the equipment has been in operation. Engineers typically test metal to determine its usable lifespan, but tests under operating conditions are not feasible when lifespan is measured in years. Instead, engineers test the metal at higher temperatures, and calculate the Larson-Miller parameter based on the temperature and time to failure. Once you know the Larson-Miller parameter, you can calculate the lifespan of the metal at the operating temperature for the equipment.
Divide the Larson-Miller parameter by the operating temperature of the equipment in Kelvin. If the parameter is 25,000 and the temperature is 1,000K, for example, 30,000/1,000 = 25.
Subtract 20 from the result. For example, 30 - 25 = 5.
Take the inverse base 10 logarithm of the result to find the time to failure in hours. For example, invlog(5) = 100,000 hours.
Divide the time to failure in hours by 8,760 hours per year to find the life of the equipment in years. For example, 100,000 hr/(8,760 hr/yr) = 11.4 years.
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- "Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials"; Joachim Rosler, et. al; 2007
- University of Washington; Time Dependent Behavior: Creep; Paul Labossiere; 2007
- Taking the inverse base 10 logarithm of a number is the same as raising 10 to the power of that number.
- Add 273.15 to the temperature in degrees Celsius to convert to Kelvin.
- Subtract 32 from the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and divide by 1.8 to convert to degrees Celsius. Convert from degrees Celsius to Kelvin.


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I always knew that the limestone mountains and cliffs in Northern Palawan were the home to swiftlets (collocalia whiteheadi) or birds that made their nests that are unfortunately (for the birds), a delicacy for mainly Chinese diners. On a trip to El Nido two years ago, I was told that the name El Nido meant Bird's Nest… At any rate, I was under the mistaken impression until recently that you had to scale the razor sharp cliffs to find little crevices where the birds would nest…it turns out the nests are mostly in bigger, darker, slippery caves instead, not on the cliff faces. This post is something the Food Gods absolutely divined, for how on earth could I have chanced upon a native who would not only give me a crash course in bird's nest, but also happen to have a few on hand for me to photograph?! While on the fantastic small strip of sand at Banol Beach, and burning up in the hot sun, an older lady approached to collect the "fee†for using the beach…after we paid, she sat down in the hut to avoid the sun we started to chit-chat…
Turns out she is a Tagbanuan, and has lived on the island since birth as have her forefathers and ancestors… She explained that there used to be so much more bird's nests in the mountains but that the supply had rapidly declined. When pressed for her view of the situation, Manang Herminia Aguilar believed the culprit is cyanide fishing. She felt that the birds, called Balinsasayaw locally, which she said "ate†the bubbles on the surface of the sea, which were contaminated with traces of cyanide (which is used on fish and which kill off coral) and the result was the poisoning of the birds. Some research suggests two views of the material that makes the bird's nests. One view is that the birds eat seaweed such as agar-agar and regurgitate this when they get back to their nests as they build them. Another view is that they simply use their saliva. At any rate, the "prized†delicacy is reputed to be good for one's blood circulation or other medical rationale, so it is highly sought after. Of course my suggestion that natives simply stripping the caves of all nests might lead to a lack of bedding for new born chicks wasn't considered a reasonable explanation. It seems they are supposed to limit their collection of nests to only January to April, though everyone says that rule is flaunted…
After several minutes of discussion, I asked her if I could find some bird's nests to photograph for this blog and lo and behold, she whips out these two small bundles from her cloth bag. Carefully wrapped in a soft cloth, she gently took them out to show me. She explained that many people had died over the years trying to harvest these nests as the conditions in the caves are treacherous. She pointed out that she had two bundles classified by quality. The first bundle of noticeably whiter nests was Class A and was sold to traders from Manila for a whopping, hold your seats, PHP200,000 a KILO!!! Omigod is all I could think. This little bundle was about 20 grams or PHP4,000 pesos worth! The second bundle was Class C because of its color and the foreign matter embedded in the nests, this would retail for a much less shocking PHP120,000 a kilo and her bundle here of roughly 25 grams would garner PHP3,000 from the traders. So, in the photos here are roughly PHP7,000 pesos worth of dried saliva; now if only dried buggers were so highly valued as a flavoring agent for some special dish…ugh, that was a gross thought Marketman!
Sensitive to light, Manang Herminia did not want these freshly harvested nests to be exposed to light as they would discolor and as soon as I clicked my photos, she wrapped them back up again. And for those of you impressed by numbers, my rapid calculations place these nests among the MOST EXPENSIVE INGREDIENTS on the planet, period! The finest beluga caviar at its source in Kazakhstan might run you just USD 50 cents a gram (USD500 a kilo at the source, as much as USD5,000 by the time it reaches the West), while the best saffron, often touted as the most expensive spice on the planet, might run about USD1 per gram at the source in Iran or elsewhere, and the finest truffles may range from USD2-4 per gram at their source in Italy or France. These nests, of top quality will already command USD4-5 per gram right at the foot of the mountains from which they were collected…shocking! However, I must end this post with a comment that I will never ever again eat bird's nest soup. The swiftlets are endangered, and the thought of robbing them of their cozy nests is not something I can stomach. The same feeling goes for Shark's fin soup, as I have seen bulk processors of this delicacy in Indonesia and that experience also meant I cannot, in all conscience, eat a bowl of gelatinous, stringy shark's fin. And since the sturgeon that yields beluga caviar is also now on the endangered species list, I will refrain from consuming any of that as well (not that I get a chance to do that too often at all). While I learned a lot from Manang Herminia, I learned more the importance of preserving the dwindling swiftlets…
oh sure it is the most expensive. . . one of my titas is working in a bank and some of their chinese clients withdraw money just to buy some birds nest. . . . i wonder how it tastes like. . .
Apr 2, 2007 | 6:25 am
I feel the same way about eating endangered animals (or anything sourced from endangered animals). I always say I'll eat anything (i.e. "extreme foods" like snake's blood, monkey's brains, etc) … all things endangered.
I'm even trying to cut down on unethicaly grown meat (i.e. chickens, pork, beef grown under inhumane circumstances) but that's another uphill battle, and another story for another day.
Apr 2, 2007 | 8:52 am
Very informative…thank you! Yes, I join you in not eating endangered things or animals. Imagine a finless shark or a chick without a nest. How can we humans be so cruel!
Apr 2, 2007 | 9:17 am
Collecting shark's fins is one of the most cruel things humas do to animals. I saw a docu once that showed fishermen catching the sharks, cutting off their fins and throwing the sharks, while still alive, back in the water to die. So, please,please, please people, NEVER eat shark's fin soup or dumplings ever again!!!
Same goes for bird's nests, sun bear bile, etc.
Thanks MM, for bringing this to the attention of readers.
Apr 2, 2007 | 10:21 am
thanks for that post marketman. *adds bird's nest to don't-eat-list*
Apr 2, 2007 | 11:04 am
I too wonder what this tastes like, but that's it. Not only are they endangered, but what people pay for them is utterly ridiculous. I know it's their money, but the Social Weather Station reports that a record 3.4 million Philippine households claim they experienced starvation in the past three months.
Apr 2, 2007 | 12:30 pm
MM, I know I've said this several times before (though maybe on other blogs?), but please also add the fish called "Chilean Sea Bass" to your list. I know it's delicious, but it's terribly overfished and in danger of extinction. Yet it is still a very common menu item — probably more so than Bird's Nest Soup, outside of Chinese restaurants. Like Wysgal, I'll eat most "extreme" foods, but exterminating a species from the planet is quite another matter. Chris of Gourdo's once mentioned in one of his posts that he tried to take Chilean Sea Bass off the menu but couldn't because of its popularity. So it's really up to the diners to STOP ordering it and demand for restaurants to stop stocking it. It worked for the Mameng fish, why not others? As the WWF slogan says, "If you stop the buying, you stop the killing."
Apr 2, 2007 | 12:56 pm
Am I the only person who thinks bird's nest is just like chewy sotanghon? Had it once, nothing special, which makes it even more difficult for me to understand why people pay so much for something that threatens the existence of an entire species.
There's pending legislation here in the US about banning foie gras because the ducks are raised unhumanely, force fed everyday with metal spouts shoved down their throats until their livers swell to 10X their normal size. It's been removed from menus across the country.
Okay, so ducks are not endangered species, just wanted to know what my fellow foodies think about this! if you say yes to the banning, then following that logic, must we also give up kobe beef and veal?
Apr 2, 2007 | 1:42 pm
I've been anti-shark fin soup since I started diving, and the details of how fishermen massacre schools of sharks (especially the beautiful hammerheads, colonies of them in Bohol gone after a terrible poaching incident in the 90's), dumping their bodies back into the water to drown, it's horrific. Makes you want to get those fishermen and anyone who pays to eat sharks fin, cut out their lungs and ask them how they feel. Ugh, sorry, it gets me riled up.
Both bird's nest and sharks fin have so little flavor, mostly texture if anything. But the supposed aphrodisiac/curative properties given to these ingredients by chinese and oriental cuisine and the increasing number of chinese with the money to try them is a reason why these ingredients are in demand. An NYTimes article speculated that over 95% of the indigenous hammerheads and sharks in the eastern coastline of the US has been killed for the chinese market. This has meant an increase of the rays in the area, deciminating (spelling?) the oysters and clam population, affecting fishermen whose livelihoods have been based on the shellfish/mollusk growth in N. Carolina and around those areas. Now, they're panicking. I don't think they can easily replicate the successful reinstatement of sharks in the wild as they did with grey wolves in the rockies. A lot harder to replicate shark babies in a tank.
Apr 2, 2007 | 4:44 pm
hi marketman! about the bird's nest, my grandma keeps telling us how healthy it is and cooked it almost regularly (once every few months) when we were kids (around 10-15 years ago). up to a few years ago she used to cook some whenever she heard one of us got sick. so the price is more for its perceived medicinal value (according to folklore i guess, haven't read any studies on it yet) rather than as a gastronomical treat. truth to tell, the description 'chewy sotanghon' could pretty much sum up its taste. or something like chewy gelatin strands. grandma cooks it with these umm… sweet crystals(?) that they sell in chinese stores, and something that looks like cherries.
OT: (quote)…or cows are stunned before they are slaughtered… isn't it actually more humane to stun them before slaughtering them anyway? =)
Apr 2, 2007 | 4:47 pm
Hi MM!
Are shark's fin dumplings really made out of shark's fins? or are thye named so because they look like shark fins? Kasi I like eating these dumplings eh. Just asking.
Apr 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
Oh no. When I was a kid, I enjoyed Chinese food nights with my dad and siblings because we always had shark's fin soup. Later, they said we can't eat this because it was cruel to sharks. We switched to bird's nest soup. Now we can't eat that either. Boo hoo hoo. But I agree with you so goodbye delicious bird's nest!
OT: Congratulations MM! I voted for you too so I am very happy to know that you won the Bloggers' Choice award. :)
Apr 2, 2007 | 6:05 pm
the same way the marketman is with foie gras, so too am i with chilean seabass. as katrina points out above, the issue here is overfishing, not cruelty. baka kasi kayo malito na kayo. and just to clarify, there IS an allowed commercial fishing quantity for this beloved fish. it's the unregulated and illegal fishing that is the problem.
Apr 2, 2007 | 6:16 pm
both shark's fin and bird's nest are tasteless, and are prized for their texture, aside from theri reputed medicinal value. but jome is right, the texture is very similar to that of chewy sotanghon. chinese cuisine has several ingredients that are tasteless but are prized their texture: tofu, water chestnuts, lotus root, white fungus, pork tendons (litid), jellyfish, etc.
chark's fin dumplings are so-called only because they are crimped (pleated) on top after they are folded. the crimped part is supposed to make the dumpling look like a shark's fin.
Apr 2, 2007 | 9:09 pm
Yes, I agree poor little birds with no nests. I hope they harvest old nests instead of throwing away the baby birds to get them. My young cousin (20 y/o) was given some expensive Chinese medicine made from these nests. I don't know if it helped her a bit (as in abate some symptoms) as her malignant cancer eventually caused her death.
Apr 3, 2007 | 12:30 am
There are responsible harvesters of bird's nests out there who carry out their activities only after the nests have been used. But of course, when you're looking at two bird's nests, it is virtually impossible to tell which one's legit and which one isn't.
Apr 3, 2007 | 3:59 am
If there is market for it and the price is high, there will always be poachers. Here in the bay area the Sea Urchins were also getting over harvested and poachers getting caught face huge amounts of fines and jailtime, but that doesn't stop them, cause the market for these highly priced delicacy in Japan is outrageous. I would just say as a consumer, i would first ask myself why any of these edibles are expensive in the first place…and if i find out the reason for it as being endangered or overfished, etc, then i would stop buying.
Apr 3, 2007 | 6:11 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you for ending your post with a vow not to eat sharkfin and bird's nest. Completely agree that it would be hard to stomach eating an endagered species or something that contributes to their demise. I mean there are so many other good things to eat. We really could spare species especially if consuming will drive them to extinction.
People say that it's ridiculous for me to avoid eating shark's fin soup when the food is already there — luto na, patay an ang shark. Pero I say, how else do you stop it? By trying your little bit to influence the demand (drive it down). Every little bit counts.
Now I am an even bigger fan of yours. Mabuhay ka Marketman!
Apr 3, 2007 | 6:43 am
Now you see how we really feel about what you're doing. More power to you and the team… I'm still trying to see you among the winners from the winners group photo!
Apr 4, 2007 | 1:59 am
Re: your resolution. That's good news! The more people decide not to eat shark fin soup, the better. I stopped eating this soup when I saw on TV how the nests are gathered.
Same with a caviar. It is hard to believe that sturgeon could ever be considered to be "endangered"– but that's economics for you: law of supply and demand. Although it costs an arm and leg to buy a can of caviar in the the West, spparently in Russia, one can still buy a can at a fairly reasonable price. Someone I know visited Russia and came back with a can for me. It's been sitting in my freezer for almost a year now, it's probably not worth eating anymore. One of these days, I'll try to make "zasuski" – supposedly a Russian appetizer. Have you ever tried preparing this appetizer?
Per Jule, I will now include "chilean bass" in my "don't buy" list, although I've never really seen this fish in the stores I frequent. Thank goodness, as I like "bass".
Apr 4, 2007 | 2:20 am
typo: please ignore "a" before caviar. I guess I can't type very well.
Apr 4, 2007 | 2:22 am
We used to enjoy bird's nest and shark's fin soup when I was little. Later my dad suddenly stopped ordering them and telling us that we were just being fooled – that those strands in the soup were nothing but kundol (ano ba ito sa English?). We did find out later that he was spare us kids the awful truth about how they get the fins but he did tell us that the nest were made from saliva and that was all it took. Never had them since.
Apr 4, 2007 | 6:39 pm
Kundol is "Gourd" in english.
Apr 5, 2007 | 7:46 am
Thanks MM. Somebody told me the english name but it really escaped me yesterday. Must be a sign I need to start drinking those "memory gap" enhancer drinks.. I now recall how I learned about it. A friend hosted dinner at a fancy restaurant and ordered it – at a price I may say since we didn't (luckily I wasn't paying). When it arrived, my companion had a good time teasing him the whole evening how he was ripped off! I even had tried a dessert version, hot soup but sweet. Amazing what a name can do for a price of a dish.
Apr 5, 2007 | 11:13 am
Great write up. We've all been guilty of over-consumerism (is that a word?) which is resulting in our resources being depleted. Chilean seabass was banned several years ago (around 2000) in California menus when it became apparent they were being overfished. I was surprised when I started seeing it again in menus in Las Vegas and other cities (including CA cities) in recent years. In fact, when I had my wedding in Makati in October, we served seabass. There actually is a difference and there are several types of seabass, and there might be some mis-identification going on. I would not have served the endangered variety. I think there was a debate as to whether or not Chilean seabass are indeed endangered, but at the rate that all kinds of food sources are being consumed without thought of re-stocking or the consequences, I wouldn't be surprised it they will be soon if not already.
It's sad how the attitude of "it's not our problem" can cause the ripple effect which can lead to extinction or depletion. If we can each take a stand and realize the power of one person and the choices we make, we can preserve our resources so that many, many, many more generations can enjoy what we have now.
Apr 5, 2007 | 1:49 pm
The last time I had a grilled Chilean sea bass was some two years ago in my favorite local seafood resto here in the SF Bayarea. And even back then, I could understand why people loved it so much. It's almost 'melt-in-your-mouth' taste is just out of this world. It's a cold-water fish so it's got so much fat on it's skin … you could actually hear it sizzle on the hot grill as they get cooked. Okay, enough with the visuals here … :)
I did give up on it since then as I've become more aware of its precarious and threatened existence. From what I could gather, this fish has a slow growth rate. The females may take up to ten years to reach sexual maturity, thereby potentially hampering the flock's recovery once the stock has been depleted.
I still see them large filets of sea bass at the local asian stores though. And they're not cheap … but yeah, they're still selling them around here. As for my favorite seafood resto, I've yet to re-visit them to find out if they still carry the item. I'm thinking the boycott is probably still in effect.
Apr 5, 2007 | 3:51 pm
I've always wondered about this so please fill me in. Nido soup is the same as bird's nest soup, right? If it's so expensive, how come Knorr sells them at fairly low prices? If the "bird's nest" that Knorr uses isn't the real thing, then I have yet to taste the real "bird's nest". hehe
Apr 7, 2007 | 8:44 pm
what could those be? Chicharon? hehe
Apr 8, 2007 | 11:26 am
heyy!!!i wonder if you can help me get a buyer of birds nets.plss..plsss..plsss–marketman
May 2, 2007 | 11:50 am
Hi, just surfing and decide to search more about this tiny birds. just curios coz i have them in my place for few years now in in bsement. our house is not done yet dats why .I love to see dem flying in n out of the house. their sounds is my music. A magical feeling i would say being able to witness them how they live nd build thier nest, lay their eggs and being able to hold them in my hands, the cute tiny birds with their unopened eyes, pink color and featherless, so delicate nd innocent. having them at home gives me a sense healing just by witnessing them so closely. Watching them how dey patiently build der nest, gain my respect for these little ones. More or less i have around 200 nests and more or less 500 birds lately. Maybe more than a thousand if my not for my gourmet mother and daughter cats discovered them where they live and gradually consume them for more than a year. thank god my husband decided to send our lovely cats to our parents . my problem will be , how to keep them at home when our house will have complet windows and we, living together. We plan though of having one or two basement window wth grills for their access in getting in and out without entering in our living area. Thanks for the information. God bless you.
Oct 25, 2007 | 3:11 pm
There are also socio-political issues surrounding these very expensive bird nests…The "cave nests" are traditionally harvested from high up on cave walls. There is a tremendous risk to the collectors who stand on bamboo scaffolding that is sometimes hundreds of feet tall and centuries old. Over the past years, the demand, the price, and the overexploitation of these nests have increased parallel to the increased of deaths in the process of harvests due to the risks involved in harvesting the latter. Sad really.
Mar 3, 2009 | 3:30 am
where i can uy it here in the philippines?
thank you
Jul 29, 2009 | 12:51 am


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Katie Hopkins 'happy US stopped Mahmood family flying to Disneyland'
Katie Hopkins 'happy US stopped Mahmood family flying to Disneyland'
Published time: 24 Dec, 2015 13:36
Columnist and provocateur Katie Hopkins has praised US Homeland Security for stopping a British Muslim family from traveling to Los Angeles to visit Disneyland, it has emerged.
Last week Mohammed Tariq Mahmood, from Walthamstow, London, was preparing to board a flight with his brother and nine of their children when officials from US Homeland Security stopped them in the departure lounge at Gatwick Airport.
The family, who had spent thousands of pounds on the trip, were told their authorization to travel had been canceled.
Mahmood said his family was "devastated," adding he did "not know what to tell our kids."
Cameron urged to act after US bans Muslim family from visiting Disneyland https://t.co/WHQSHunRip pic.twitter.com/wOtVr3ok12
— RT UK (@RTUKnews) December 23, 2015
Supporting US Homeland Security's decision to stop the family, Hopkins said she wouldn't have allowed the Mahmoods to fly either, calling them a "mafia."
In a column for the Mail Online, she said: "If I had been playing my usual game of 'spot the terrorist' at the airport, (beard – 5 points, rucksack – 10 points, sandals – 5 points – be honest, you've all done it) I'd have been feeling a little anxious."
The commentator then went on to claim Waltham Forest, the London borough where Mahmood's family lives, is known to be a "hotbed of extremism."
"I find it utterly improbable two men with the entire Mahmood clan were travelling without the company of a wife or mother to such a family-orientated destination," she said.
"Ultimately, Homeland Security don't mess around, and neither should we," she told LBC radio on Thursday.
ITV News reported on Wednesday that a Facebook page claiming links to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda was set up by someone who has lived at Mahmood's postal address.
The account, which lists the job titles "supervisor and Taliban and leader at [Al-Qaeda]," was in the name of "Hamza Hussain," a first name shared by Mahmood's 18-year-old son, according to the Daily Star.
Apparently UK has a 'Muslim problem' & only 'respected' Katie Hopkins & Donald Trump see it https://t.co/iM53T6dzEg pic.twitter.com/Qf0RwWVQOs
— RT UK (@RTUKnews) December 10, 2015
The father dismissed these allegations and insisted his family is "normal."
"We are a normal family. We pay our taxes. We are normal people," he told the Independent.
Hopkins, however, said she is not "buying [Mahmood's] story."
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron asking why the family had been stopped, having received no response to her inquiries from US authorities.
"If the embassy won't answer to the family's MP, it should answer to their prime minister and he to us about what he is doing to ensure that no British citizen is being discriminated against for their faith on our shores," she wrote in the Guardian.


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Sputnik Sweetheart in one Tweet-sized chunk:
Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel of almosts, where liminal spaces overlap and longing can never quite be divorced from true love.
"In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains – flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits…In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a women. This was where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost."
Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel of almosts, where liminal spaces overlap and longing can never quite be divorced from true love. It is beautifully evocative yet difficult to define, a tale of unrequited love, unrealised ambition, and yearning, always yearning, for more. Perhaps because it is about anticipation of, and longing for, love rather than love itself, it is also one of the most romantic books I have ever read.
The plot revolves around a love triangle between three people who, like Othello, love not wisely but too well. Their fatal flaws are not violent jealousy though, but a sort of insidious loneliness destined to prevent them ever really finding what they most crave. There is K., your typical easy-going and pensive Murakami narrator; Sumire, a bohemian and obsessive writer who dresses in an oversized coat and heavy boots, dreams of emulating Jack Kerouac, and whom K. is helplessly in love with; and Miu, the women Sumire has fallen for. Miu is a successful wine importer, independent, stylish, and confident – everything Sumire wants to be. She is drawn to Miu like a little Sputnik orbiting a vast planet.
If ever love has transformed a person it does Sumire. She becomes Miu's assistant, exchanging a life of compulsive all night writing and chain smoking for a regular nine-to-five job. She buys nice clothes and changes her hairstyle, begins to appreciate wine and learn Italian, and soon moves into a bigger apartment. She spends hours on the phone with K., discussing the big questions in life: love, sexual desire, existentialism, the process of writing, whether she should confess her feelings to Miu.
Miu and Sumire set off on a business trip to Europe, leaving K. behind to console himself in a series of meaningless affairs. But when a distraught Miu calls K. out of the blue from a small Greek island to say that Sumire has disappeared without a trace, he drops everything and travels halfway around the world to help find her.
What started out as a love story morphs into a sort of otherworldly detective novel. K. finds a document on a floppy disc hidden in Sumire's luggage and it holds a clue. But can it be that the key to Sumire's fate lies in the strange events which afflicted Miu on a Ferris wheel almost 14 years before, turning her prematurely and completely white?
Transformation – both voluntary and involuntary – is one of the central themes of Sputnik Sweetheart. The loneliness is not only borne of not being around others, but of being apart from one's self. Each ruminates on loneliness in their own way: "Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?" meditates K. at one point. This detached passion runs throughout his narration: you get the feeling that in recounting Sumire's love for Miu he is really giving voice to the love he has fantasised Sumire showing him. Typically for Murakami characters they prefer this sort of sexually enigmatic fantasy to actual love. Each of the protagonists lives out their own longing in their own unreciprocated – and therefore unsullied – way. Sputnik literally translates into English as 'travelling companion,' and that is what they are each looking for: a human connection, someone to talk to, fall asleep next to, and yearn for. Someone to free them from themselves, from loneliness. And in a way that is what they each find, though not in the way any of them had hoped.
Part detective novel without detective or resolution, part love story without reciprocated love, pinning Sputnik Sweetheart down is far from easy. Everything seems to be "one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong." Writing in The Guardian when it was first published, Julie Myerson professed to not really knowing what it was all about. "But", she continued, "it has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time."
Such is the mysterious power of Murakami novels.
Given the characters obsessive longing, it is perhaps unsurprising that the imagery sometimes borders on the overblown. Murakami treads a fine line, pushing the longing as far as possible, without quite tipping over into the histrionic. Near the beginning Sumire expresses her desire to one day compose "a massive 19th century-style Total Novel, a kind of portmanteau packed with every possible phenomenon in order to capture the soul and human destiny." Sputnik Sweetheart achieves this in barely 230 pages. With a similarly spacious style to Hemingway, Murakami lets events speak for themselves; he is a master of anticipating his readers' reactions, manipulating without appearing to do so. "A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side." All the brilliance of Murakami's novels lies in an understanding of this. And it is precisely because this magical otherworldliness is juxtaposed with a routine, everyday recounting of events that he is able to move one so.
There are those who find the ambiguity of Murakami's fiction baffling and infuriating in equal measure. Certainly it is unwise to pick up any of his books expecting rational explanations or perfectly tied up plots. Yet the quality of Sputnik Sweetheart is in its representation of an emotion, a sense, a deep held belief that can be neither proved nor disproved. It captures longing – for love, for artistic realisation, for life, for beauty – at its most elemental.
Everything is ethereal, nothing quite as it should be. Whatever you think you perceive vanishes when looked at too closely. Like most great romances, Sputnik Sweetheart has the feel of a dream. There is something of Wuthering Heights here, in the way that not even physical separation can overcome the connections the characters share, and not even emotional closeness can fill the void each others absence leaves in themselves. As with Cathy and Heathcliff, what takes place defies explanation, and doesn't really need one either.
"All over again I understood how important, how irreplaceable, Sumire was to me. In her own special way she'd kept me tethered to the world. As I talked to her and read her stories, my mind quietly expanded, and I could see things I'd never seen before. Without even trying, we grew close. Like a pair of young lovers undressing in front of each other, Sumire and I had exposed our hearts to one another, an experience I'd never have with anyone else, anywhere. We cherished what we had together, though we never put into words how very precious it was."
Like much of Murakami's oeuvre Sputnik Sweetheart is best understood as a sort of ellipsis, a gap in everyday life that is simultaneously mundane and fantastical and into which all the things we sort of know about ourselves and sort of suspect about the world around us are given composite reality. He is an author who never fails to reaffirm my love of reading. His fiction, never more so than in this slim novella, creates worlds where dreams – in all their bizarre and often troubling unpredictability – come true.
9 out of 10
Edition shown: The Harvill Press, ISBN: 9781860468254, 229pp
Currently available edition: Vintage, ISBN: 9780099448471 , 240pp
Vulpes Libris is one of ten blogs invited by The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, London, to take part in their new Bloggers' Book of the Month promotion. Sputnik Sweetheart will be our choice for March.


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WESTON, FL – Sept. 19, 2018 – Monaker Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKGI)("Monaker"), a technology leader in the travel and alternative lodging rental/vacation home rental (ALR/VHR) markets, today announced that the company has launched its next-generation Monaker Booking Engine (MBE) with two major travel distributors. The MBE is believed to be the travel industry's first B2B solution allowing travel companies access to instantly-bookable alternative lodging rentals.
The initial two travel distributors to integrate and launch the Monaker Booking Engine are based in Europe. The combined companies process hundreds of millions of dollars in travel and lodging products annually through their global distribution channels, which consist of over 100 individual tour and travel companies, hotel consolidators, and more than 17,000 travel agents.
These are the first launches since the next-gen application program interface (API) for MBE was delivered to 12 of Monaker's contracted travel distributors in July of this year. "Additionally," said Monaker CEO, Bill Kerby, "There are four more travel distributors in the final stages of integration, and we anticipate those distributors going live with the MBE in the next two-to-three weeks."
Monaker continues to work with more than 50 companies in various stages of evaluation and demonstration; and has recently signed three additional travel companies to utilize the proprietary Monaker ALR B2B platform – bringing the initial distributor base to 15 contracted companies. In many cases, these distributors represent dozens of downstream partners which the distributors service in their network including airlines and tour providers, as well as several travel agencies, hotel chains and hotel consolidators.
Monaker's highly-flexible booking engine creates a unique B2B solution for travel companies wanting to access vacation rental properties for display and instantaneous booking alongside their other offerings for air travel, car rentals and tour packages. Instantly-bookable vacation rental homes, villas, chalets, apartments, condos, resort residences and castles have been contracted and are now available through the MBE platform.
As part of its services, Monaker has established a new help-and-service desk to assist in product evaluation, deployment and ongoing support. The company is also continuing to contract with new property managers to further expand its inventory of instantly-bookable properties. Monaker's current inventory of one million contracted properties is expected to expand by year-end.
"Going live with our next-generation MBE and API is the culmination of months of extensive development, and certainly is a milestone for our company and for the travel industry," said Mr. Kerby, who continued, "Our ALR properties are now available to the hundreds of thousands of customers of these two leading travel firms. With the full MBE launch by all 15 contracted companies anticipated by year-end, our growing ALR inventory will be able to be booked instantly by hundreds of travel companies in the tour, cruise, hotel and airline sectors, as well as over 100,000 travel agents in North America and Europe.
"Adopting cutting-edge travel technology like ours can naturally take time to integrate, and we anticipate some of our partners will be quicker to market than others. However, we are fortunate that the travel industry's need for our B2B solution has attracted the interest of so many major travel companies, and we expect to generate a growing revenue stream from ALR transactions beginning in the current quarter."
The next-gen version of the MBE API was redesigned from the ground up to meet the special needs of the company's contracted travel distributors, including the added capability of dynamic pricing. This functionality provides more accurate pricing given the myriad of variables involved in booking an ALR, from market conditions and currency exchange rates to availability and demand. The API incorporates a more scalable architecture that is deployed in the cloud and with the booking engine based on Open Travel standards.
The global ALR industry is expected to grow at a 7% compound annual growth rate to $194 billion in 2021, according to Technavio, making it one of the fastest growing sectors in the travel industry. Meanwhile, worldwide digital travel sales are anticipated to climb at a 9.7% compounded annual growth rate to top $817 billion by 2020, reports eMarketer. Monaker expects to benefit from the growing demand for ALR and the growth in digital travel sales.
About Monaker Group
Monaker Group, Inc., is a technology-driven travel company focused on delivering innovation to the alternative lodging rental (ALR) market. The Monaker Booking Engine (MBE) provides access to more than one million instantly bookable vacation rental homes, villas, chalets, apartments, condos, resort residences, and castles. MBE offers travel distributors and agencies an industry first: a customizable, instant-booking platform for alternative lodging.
The company's NextTrip.BIZ website offers customizable business travel booking and management solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Business owners and employees can search for and securely access exclusive discounted pricing across air, hotel/ALR, car, and other ancillary travel services. NextTrip.BIZ can be configured to a company's particular travel policies, with bookings recorded for easy corporate expense tracking and reporting. Visit www.NextTrip.BIZ to sign up for a free trial.
For more about Monaker Group, visit www.monakergroup.com.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations, opinions, belief or forecasts of future events and performance. A statement identified by the use of forward-looking words including "will," "may," "expects," "projects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimate," "should," and certain of the other foregoing statements may be deemed forward-looking statements. Although Monaker believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future activities and results to be materially different from those suggested or described in this news release. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by the "Risk Factors" and other cautionary statements included in Monaker's annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including, but not limited to, the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended February 28, 2018 and the company's subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which have been filed with the SEC and are available at www.sec.gov. Investors are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof. The company takes no obligation to update or correct its own forward-looking statements, except as required by law, or those prepared by third parties that are not paid for by the company.


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Anonymous on 11/02/2015
Stayed on Oct 18, 2015 and again Oct 23 to Oct 27, 2015. On Oct. 26, I noticed a row of bites on the back of my neck. After returning home, on Oct 28 I noticed more bites on my arms and the horrible itching began. My daughter stayed with me between the 23rd and 27th and she has also developed numerous terrible itching bites since getting home. She called the motel to report it and they weren't really interested in hearing about it. I have emailed them and have not received a reply from them yet.
We have both checked all of our belongings and cannot find any signs of bringing them home with us...she lives in AK and I live in NY.
Anonymous on 09/11/2015
Found a bed bug and reported it to the front desk. They didn't seem surprised!
Ick!! on 06/22/2015
After missing a flight, needed a place to crash for the night. Checked the bed seams and bedding before crashing didn't find anything at first. Just goes to show you how elusive they are, upon waking at 4 am found a bug about 3mm in length, about the size of a tick. Then found many more on the move; and so were we. Adios!
No nearby bug reports


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William J. Barber II. Cornell West said "The William J. Barber II is the closest thing this generation will have to a Martin Luther King, Jr." Watch
his interview on The Daily Show.
He left his job as head of the North Carolina NAACP to lead a new Poor People's Campaign: poorpeoplescampaign.org.
What's the "Snake Line?" His son, an environmental physicist, gave him this advice:
If you ever find yourself in the wilderness, don't walk through the low ground 'cause snakes live at low ground. Go up the mountain 'cause there something they call the "snake line." If you can get high enough, snakes asphyxiate.
Anti LGBT people are below the snake line.
Racism is below the snake line.
Voter suppression is below the snake line.
Hating Muslims is below the snake line.
Taking health care away is below the snake line.
Let's get on up that mountain.


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Voodoo Donuts, worth the hype?
After an episode on The Travel Channel some years ago, I was instantly drawn to the crazy flavors and variety that Voodoo Donut was selling. While not living on the west coast or even in the middle of the United States, the chances of me trying one was pretty slim, that is until a week ago.
Making plans to see my best friend out in Denver, Colorado involved visiting the Red Rocks, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Voodoo Donuts. I don't typically crave donuts but this was something that I NEEDED to try.
I settled on two flavors: cocoa puffs and oreo peanut butter. The cereal was a tad stale on the cocoa puffs but it was one hell of a chocolate donut. I think the oreo was my favorite, it was so incredibly delish, my mouth is watering as I write this!
My friends opted for the Voodoo man donut, which looked so adorable, just like a real Voodoo doll! If you follow me on Snap, you most likely saw a lot of this, most of which I just could not fully capture its awesomeness on my iPhone.
So yes, Voodoo Donuts is totally worth the hype and I would highly recommend stopping in if you have time or are in the area!
xoxo Lindsay
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Linds what's your snapchat name? Mine is theflynnigans6288, add me.
Although those look damn good (love me a good donut), they look so heavy and rich.View Comment
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Thanks girl! I will add you!View Comment