DACA Time

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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as #DACA was an American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit.

Bomb Cyclone

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Its beginning to look a lot like Winter here in NYC. Temperatures are dropping and the folks are stopping to see.

An extremely powerful Nor'easter slams the Northeastern coast of the US dumping snow and bringing dangerous conditions to places not usually affected by freezing weather.

The Wolff and The Hound

American author Michael Wolff is also, essayist, a journalist, a regular columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and GQ. But his latest offering has Washington's howling louder than ever.

His tell-all Trump book makes so many embarrassing claims that @POTUS attorneys have threatened legal action because apparently its do as I say and not as I do. Is @realDonaldTrump howling and crying over Wolff?

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Monster Storm

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A powerful nor'easter is expected to bring snow, ice, rain, very strong winds, and rough surf to coastal locations of the Southeast U.S., Middle Atlantic, Northeast, and into New England Wednesday into Thursday. The potential exists for dangerous travel, scattered power outages, tidal flooding, and very cold wind chills

This is the first #winter storm watch of 2018 forecast to stretch from #Florida for #ice accumulation starts tonight, the first chapter of an East coast storm. Meteorologists say its either a monster storm they call a Snow Hurricane or Bomb Cyclone that is expected to bring wintry weather from Florida and Georgia and all the way up the coast to New England.

Monster Storm Forecast Move Up East Coast https://youtu.be/i6mQAdU646o

Dangerous winter storm to target Northeast later this week http://cbsn.ws/2CFCZeB

Winter storm forecast to dump snow from Florida to Carolinas https://www.apnews.com/54a0f564bc98444d8ae4d5f8d074f560

11 Dead From Cold as Winter Blast Ravages East Coast http://thebea.st/2lHxaGe?source=twitter&via=desktop

Understanding The Dragon

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PRC China is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9.6 million square kilometers or 3.7 million square miles, it is also the world's second-largest country by land area and third- or fourth-largest by total area also has the most neighbor countries in the world.

LA and NYC Safer

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Location, location, location. The murder rate in American cities is deeply connected to individual neighborhoods. In some jurisdictions, local policies, police tactics, gangs, and socio-economic factors turn some areas particularly deadly.

In other locations, officials and communities leaders have highly-localized solutions to keep gun violence down.

The FBI says homicides in the US rose about 9% last year, and more than one-third of the increase appears to be concentrated in Chicago and Baltimore neighborhoods.

Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

Principal for a day did not go the same way he wanted it to play, so he decided to drive away. How was a fifth grader in The Bronx able to put a clueless leader in his place. Leave it to an eleven-year-old Latino to tell it like it really is.

And did he learn anything? Was was his overall takeaway no dialogue, just monologue and multiple Tweetstorms?

Celebrity Visits Show What's Missing in City Schools https://nyti.ms/2jNjhn9

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Washington DC Follies

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You must be delusional if you really believe this is going to be a very happy new year. And it points all the way to King Lear, written by Shakespeare about a descent into madness after bequeathing to his kids based on their flattery of him, and thereby bringing tragic consequences for all. A man who prefers to use fear, but masters something more near and dear... GOLF?

Global Food Traditions

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2018 is the beginning of another year and it brings family and friends together around tables for meal feasts of traditional food and customs around the world. Different countries have different New Year's meals and recipes including food with a variety of explanations for symbolism. There is also common "lucky" food eaten on the New Year Eve or Day worldwide, such as pork in the US, Cuba and several other countries. The following are the places I have visited and therefore know best.

Adios Chocolate

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Chocolate has been a typically sweet treat, usually brown and a delicious food preparation of cacao seeds, roasted and ground. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block, or used as a flavoring ingredient in other foods. Some can't live without it.

Most folks know that we get vanilla from a bean that is produced by an orchid. Ah, but where does the chocolate that goes into our candies, cakes, and sweets come from? Contrary to what we might have been told as kids, chocolate milk doesn’t come from chocolate cows.