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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2019 23:28:37 GMT
Thanks, Kimby. I'm finally reading that book about cochineal. In the part about rivals to Mexico in the production of the red dye, that little factoid about the Canary Islands came up. Kinda made my day!
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Post by lagatta on Dec 29, 2019 0:25:50 GMT
Yes, my colombo spice mixture does include mustard - not a lot, and it doesn't taste of mustard, but it adds a certain typical piquancy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2019 5:49:46 GMT
Aren't mustard seeds one of the ingredients that are frequently fried in oil when commencing certain East Indian dishes?
Here is the thing I just learned ~
The Monkee Michael Nesmith's mother Bette was a typist. In 1956 she invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen, and called it “Mistake Out”. In 1979, Bette sold the company -- re-named “Liquid Paper” -- to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million plus continuing royalties. Mike Nesmith is heir to that fortune. He turned 77 today.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2019 5:53:22 GMT
Aren't mustard seeds one of the ingredients that are frequently fried in oil when commencing certain East Indian dishes? Probably. There is also mustard oil.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 2, 2020 22:52:41 GMT
I learnt about the number of bananas species but forgot the number. Quite a few though.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2020 3:40:03 GMT
Good to know!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2020 8:34:32 GMT
The population of Italy is the second oldest in the world after Japan.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 11, 2020 10:13:47 GMT
Must be all that lovely Italian food.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 12, 2020 9:42:09 GMT
That has made the population incapable of reproduction ?
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Post by whatagain on Jan 12, 2020 9:45:25 GMT
We all know that once in the water spaghetti cannot stay rigid.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2020 17:16:05 GMT
That has made the population incapable of reproduction ? Eh?? I think by oldest it means that Italy has enough really old people to raise the average age to the oldest worldwide, nothing to do with a lack of infants. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 12, 2020 17:42:33 GMT
No, the point was that some countries are fading away because there are no new generations. In both Japan and Italy, the birth rate is down to 1.2. Other countries that will soon disappear because they have no children are Moldova, Singapore, Poland, Greece and South Korea.
I can only hope that all of these countries will be overrun by immigrants.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 12, 2020 18:56:31 GMT
There are also a lot of very old people in Italy and Japan alike. But it is true that many young Italians and young Japanese (particularly young women) want to either avoid or delay having children. I think we'd face a similar population decline if not for more immigration than those countries. The US has a significantly higher birthrate than Canada's: www.prb.org/divergingmortalityandfertilitytrendscanadaandtheunitedstates/ This article is old but the trend continues. More religious fundamentalists, or some other factors?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2020 19:09:11 GMT
Quite a few years ago, maybe twenty, an Italian woman complained to me about how expensive housing was in Italy & said, "That's why everyone lives with their parents!" If true, that would be a factor in delaying having children. As far as immigrants, perhaps all the refugees in Italy will eventually become established there as settled residents.
LaGatta, from what I've read, one reason for the higher birthrate in the US would be because of what's practically an epidemic of teen pregnancies.
As far as The reasons for this mortality gap are not easily explained. (from the linked article), I'm guessing it's the fact that the United States lacks something Canada and the rest of the civilized world have, i.e., a sane, humane medical system.
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Post by bjd on Jan 12, 2020 19:34:19 GMT
According to this: www.macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/birth-ratepopulation growth in Italy has been negative since 2009. Interestingly, it was also negative in the 1970s and early 80s -"the years of lead". We went to Italy with small children in 1983 and people were all over them but there were few children in the streets or parks.
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Post by spaceneedle on Jan 20, 2020 6:21:50 GMT
Something I learned today? That I am not as good as remembering forum passwords as I once was.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2020 5:07:16 GMT
How did you manage to get back in? Anyway, great to see you here again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 25, 2020 21:00:11 GMT
PEZ originated in Austria, where it began in 1927 as compressed peppermint tablets marketed as an alternative to smoking.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 26, 2020 11:27:23 GMT
Steatose of the liver is fully reversible. You just have to cut sugar and stop drinking alcohol for one year.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 26, 2020 11:49:06 GMT
Is that what you're going to do?
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 26, 2020 12:19:34 GMT
My brother has a combination of Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome as a part of metabolic encephalopathy. Also reversible when not too acute. Unfortunately is doesn't want to give up drinking or using hash.
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Post by questa on Jan 26, 2020 22:35:24 GMT
Does he know the outcome? Has he made an educated choice?
If so there is not much you can do. You have your immediate family to care for and help to make wiser choices.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 27, 2020 3:03:18 GMT
Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as a nation in 1777.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 31, 2020 21:13:45 GMT
When daughter was expecting eldest grandson she had a craving for pickled cucumbers which had to come from the fridge together with ice cream.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 31, 2020 21:34:23 GMT
Sadly, I have learned this week that if you hit your head hard, you must have it examined.
YOU COULD DIE, hours later, as my beloved youngest sister did on Saturday.
(See Grief for more info)
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 31, 2020 22:03:45 GMT
A few years back an old cricket friend of mine was on a ladder helping put up Xmas decorations in a village hall.
He was on the last but one step, stepped backwards by mistake and hit his head and never recovered. His widow died 3 months later.
Two of the loveliest, gentle people I have known.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 31, 2020 22:12:33 GMT
IF YOU HIT YOUR HEAD, USE YOUR HEAD. GO TO THE ER, NOT TO BED.
I nearly had the same kind of accident as my sister, missing my footing at the bottom of the stairway: didn’t see the last step in the dark and thought I was stepping onto the floor, nicked the bottom step and plunged into the opposite wall. In my case, a curio cabinet stopped my body, preventing my head from crashing into the wall. In her case the wall and her head made contact.
She thought she was ok, though shaken up, and went to bed. Got up next morning and fell down dead.
I am gutted. She was 62. I thought we had 20 more years.
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Post by questa on Feb 1, 2020 9:30:23 GMT
Oz has a 'known by everyone' guru of pop music called "Molly" Meldrum who for 40+ years presented a program of music and groups and interviews. Putting up the Christmas lights he fell from the ladder and was rushed to the best hospital and medical teams. Induced coma for ages then lots of surgery and after 6 months or so off to rehab. 2 years later he appeared in a TV tribute show but was vague and needed his minders to help him keep up. It caused a lot of men to resist ladder climbing after 60 years.
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Post by bjd on Feb 1, 2020 10:24:48 GMT
When daughter was expecting eldest grandson she had a craving for pickled cucumbers which had to come from the fridge together with ice cream. When my mother was still working, she kept having cravings for pickles (cucumber). It turned out that she was low on potassium,hence the craving. No explanation for the ice cream. About head hitting -- when one of my sons walked into a wall in the schoolyard in nursery school, he was taken to the hospital. When the doctors asked him whether he had lost consciousness, he couldn't answer -- he was 4 and is still absent-minded. Anyway, they kept him overnight and went to check on him all the time, waking him up to make sure he was okay. And one of my nephews in Canada fell down the stairs when he was a kid and my sister had to wake him every hour that night to make sure he was conscious. Kimby, it does sound as though you are accumulating disasters.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 1, 2020 10:42:12 GMT
Something I learned today on an entirely other subject is that love can struck at any time. My uncle found another 'compagne' - I like the term very tactful - at the age of 86. My uncle is really great. One of the most positive people I know.
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