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Global Food Traditions

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

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.

Full of Crap?

Theere are many reasons why so many people in the US are full of crap. One person’s definition of constipation may mean going a few times per week. Another’s might be pooping a couple of times a day, but still has an incomplete evacuation, with a feeling of pressure and they didn't get all their crap down and out.

For some like me, a morning cup of coffee transitions seamlessly to our daily defecations. But if you have poop problems, evacuating your bowels can remain elusive, achieved only through a studied regimen of straining, grunting, and camping out on the john.

2018 Premier Edition

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Happy New Year to you from all of us who have worked to bring all of you City Images for the past six years.
Since our launch, our constant readers have grown in the tenths of thousands and we welcome all of you back.

We're extremely proud to share this new year edition of City Images published from the middle of somewhere in New York City that doesn't get much attention, but that's the way the locals like it. We call City Island is a slice of NYC paradise. Life is short and precious so don't let it go to waste, and enjoy our information content.

Global Security Alert

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Cities all over the world are on high alert for New Year's Eve. Hundreds of thousands of public safety, military and security officials are deployed around the globe to keep New Year's Eve revelers safe to welcome 2018. According to statistics, there have been 1,125 international terrorist attacks, resulting in 7,580 fatalities so far this year. https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/terrorist-attacks/

Radical Rights

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My innermost deepest algorithm confirms that I'm no fan of flying, after a fair share of crazy flights to last a lifetime. But a twelve-hour coast to coast tour took Yirong and me thru connecting flights in Minneapolis and Salt Lake City, plus the mandatory six hours in the air, and the time change was all worth it to be with family.

Deadly Bronx Blaze

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At least 12 New Yorkers are dead as a result of a fire which took the lives of people ranging in ages from 1 to 63 years old. The Bronx historic fire is considered the worst in a quarter of a century and occurred inside a building near The Brox Zoo.

Four kids among 12 killed in in New York City apartment fire https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-dead-including-1-year-old-new-y…

Fire in New York City apartment block kills 12 including four children https://reut.rs/2zKThjq

50 Weeks That Changed America

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Its been nearly 50 weeks since and we ask the 5 W's What, Where, When. Who and Why do we deserve this?

What's happened to the indivisible United States of America and to the Republic with Liberty and Justice for all?

Where has the epicenter of this transformation occurred?

When did it all happen to all of US?

Who is responsible?

Why now?

Moron 3.0

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Moore was once on the ballot but is he now off his rocker. Trying to keep up with Jones is difficult, especially if a moron does not want to face reality.

Republican Roy Stewart Moore served on the Alabama Supreme Court and then ran for Senator but lost. Are the GOP and their supporters responsible for making the fake news popular? It looks that way more and more.

Home Buyers Year 2018

The US housing bubble was a real estate bubble affecting over half of the U.S. states. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2012.

However, for the past several years, home sellers have had the upper hand as they haggled with buyers over price. However, next year it will be a fair fight.