#basically Barcelona is the California of Spain

[madame-helen]

Warcelona

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as i did last year, this year i've been recording basically everything i did during the year so i didn't forget. anyways, here is my true 2023 experience, it is divided by categories (travels, books, music, movies, etc) and i will bold my favourites of each category. also, if you want more details especially with travelling and music, here's the twitter thread i've been using to record everything down <3

also!! just in case, dates are in dd/mm format !

TRAVELS:

02/01. calp (alacant, spain) 05/04. mojácar (almería, spain) 17-18/04. glasgow (scotland) 18/04. balloch and loch lomond (west dunbartonshire, scotland) 20/06. albacete (spain) 18-19/08. barcelona (spain) 19-23/08. milano (italy) 20/08. lake como (lombardia, italy) 22/08. verona (italy) 08-10/09. valència (spain) 15/10. bari (italy) 15-28/10. metaponto (matera, italy) 22/10. taranto (italy) 13-16/12. vera (almería, spain) 15/12. mojácar (almería, spain) 16-17/12. valència / la pobla de vallbona (valència, spain)

CONCERTS:

14/01. amaia (la riviera) 17/04. paramore (OVO hydro, glasgow) 15/05. cariño (el matadero) 16/06. valeria castro (noches del botánico) 23/09. amaia (wizink center) 12/10. ginebras (wizink center)

MOVIES:

17/01. knives out 22/01. glass onion 19/02. ¡ay, carmela! 25/03. volver 26/03. jojo rabbit 26/04. super mario bros. the movie - IN THE CINEMA 30/04. knives out (rewatch) 27/05. glass onion (rewatch) 10/06. matilda (2022) 21/06. spiderman: across the spiderverse - IN THE CINEMA 28/07. barbie - IN THE CINEMA 01/09. indiana jones and the dial of destiny 22/09. the little mermaid (2023) 24/09. bottoms 11/10. barbie (rewatch) 18/11. mean girls 02/12. marie antoinette (2006) 09/10. the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes - IN THE CINEMA

VIDEOGAMES:

03/02. simmiland (PC) 03/02. stacklands (PC) 10/02. fire emblem engage (switch) 03/03. crusader kings iii (PC) 09/03. rpg maker xp (PC) 04/05. dice kingdoms (PC) 25/06. harvestella (switch) 27/06. indoorlands (PC) 08/07. humankind (PC) 28/07. the legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom (switch) 28/07. lakeburg legacies (PC) 28/08. the yawhg (PC) 08/09. frostpunk (PC) 31/10. lakeside (PC) 24/11. hades (PC) 23/12. cities skylines ii (PC)

TV SHOWS:

18/02. el ministerio del tiempo s1 06/03. druck s5 (rewatch) 08/03. druck s6 (rewatch) 13/03. el ministerio del tiempo s2 20/03. shadow and bone s2 16/05. abbott elementary s2 23/06. el ministerio del tiempo s3 21/07. derry girls s1 (rewatch) 12/11. bany compartit

TOP SONGS BY MONTH:

january: 5. la maza - priscila félix 4. la canción más hermosa del mundo - manuel carrasco 3. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 2. odio que te quiero - paula koops, noan 1. joker (REPUTA) - zahara, carolina durante february: 5. liar - paramore 4. you first - paramore 3. running out of time - paramore 2. big man, little dignity - paramore 1. figure 8 - paramore march: 5. si quieres - cariño 4. inteligencia emocional - belén aguilera 3. música ligera - ana mena 2. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (album version) 1. me he pillao x ti - ana mena, natalia lacunza (single version) april: 5. california friends - the regrettes 4. galgo - belén aguilera 3. costura - valeria castro 2. un clásico - ana mena 1. no me querías tanto - natalia lacunza may: 5. oh boi - shego 4. c'est comme ça - paramore 3. évidemment - la zarra 2. this is why - paramore 1. zenzenzense - RADWIMPS june: 5. yo quisiera - alice wonder 4. you first - paramore 3. antagonista - belén aguilera 2. father and son - yusuf / cat stevens 1. tonta - nathy peluso july: 5. guerrera - valeria castro 4. la vida moderna - veintiuno, love of lesbian 3. vampire - olivia rodrigo 2. i have a dream - amanda seyfried 1. fiebre - bad gyal august: 5. galgo - belén aguilera 4. nunca llega 05 - natalia lacunza 3. roméo&juliette - olympe chabert 2. discoteka - lola índigo, maría becerra 1. es albacete - rozalén september: 5. narciso - pipiolas 4. get him back! - olivia rodrigo 3. love is embarrassing - olivia rodrigo 2. vampire - olivia rodrigo 1. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo october: 5. vampire - olivia rodrigo 4. hot to go! - chapell roan 3. más colao que el colacao - la la love you 2. vii. cassandra (fillas de cassandra) - fillas de cassandra 1. ateo - c. tangana, nathy peluso november: 5. novix - maría josé llergo 4. si quieres - cariño 3. maledetta primavera - loretta goggi 2. salvaje - nathy peluso 1. all too well (10 minutes version) - taylor swift december: 5. san peter - pipiolas 4. ballad of a homeschooled girl - olivia rodrigo 3. deja vu - olivia rodrigo 2. drivers license - olivia rodrigo 1. can't catch me now - olivia rodrigo

THEATRE PLAYS & MUSICAL SHOWS:

05/03. la saga (teatro lara) 07/04. tick tick... boom! (teatro la estación caixabank príncipe pío) 08/10. school of rock (teatro ibercaja delicias) 18/11. mean girls (grupo de teatro amorevo) 29/12. phantom of the opera (teatro albéniz)

BOOKS:

29/01. assembly - natasha brown (2021) 08/04. tartesso y los fenicios de occidente - sebastián celestino pérez & carolina lópez - ruiz (2020) 12/04. daddy - emma cline (2021) 23/04. a thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini (2007) 29/05. los renglones torcidos de dios - torcuato luca de tena (1979) 03/06. the bands of mourning - brandon sanderson (2017) 24/06. kokoro - natsume soseki (1914) 10/07. miss benson's beetle - rachel joyce (2020) 08/08. the no-show - beth o'leary (2023) 18/08. tales of the alhambra - washington irving (1832) 22/09. the attack - yasmina khadra (2005) 25/09. the lightning thief - rick riordan (2005) RE-READ 30/09. the sea of monsters - rick riordan (2006) RE-READ 02/10. the titan's curse - rick riordan (2007) RE-READ 04/10. the battle of the labrynth - rick riordan (2008) RE-READ 07/10. the last olympian - rick riordan (2009) RE-READ 23/11. the kamogawa food detectives - hishashi kashiwai (2023) 21/12. a christmas carol - charles dickens (1843)

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T H E B A S I C S Given Name: Rafael Caleb Isserlis Nicknames: His family all call him Ray, but most people just call him Rafael. Age: 30 Birthday: June 6th Zodiac Sign: Gemini Birthplace: Sunnyvale, California Current Location: Barcelona, Spain Speaks: English, Spanish, some Castilian, a bit of Hebrew but not much. Dominant Hand: Right Education: He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree. His original focus was Computer Software Engineering, but he switched his focus to Drawing and Painting in his sophomore year. Occupation: Bouncer at a strip club, and he has been working on a comic book with a friend (Rafael is working on the art, and his friend is the writer/story creator) for about a year. They hope to publish and sell it at some point soon. Vehicle: 2003 Opel Zafira in silver. Not the most attractive car, but he got it for cheap and it has been very reliable for him. Worldly Possessions: Lots of art supplies, a bunch of comic books, tons of dog toys, a photo album full of family pictures (put together for him by his mother before he moved to Spain), and tons of blankets and pillows because he loves to be comfy~ Pet(s): A black and white Mucuchi named Oreo. Rafael loves taking Oreo pretty much anywhere that dogs are allowed, and Oreo is always very happy to go on adventures.

A P P E A R A N C E Height: Just under 6’ Hair: He generally keeps it trimmed short just because it is easier to take care of, though he occasionally grows it out a little longer so the curls really show. He’s never dyed it before, so it is his natural dark brown color. Facial Hair: He always has at least a little bit of facial hair, even if it’s just some light scruffiness. He does like to let it grow out more sometimes. Eye Colour: Brown with some flecks of hazel Skin Tone: Dark, though the tone varies depending on the time of year. He is quite a bit darker in the warmer months thanks to his love of the outdoors. Clothing: He dresses casually for the most part, lots of jeans and t-shirts (especially band tees). If he’s working, he might wear a nice jacket as well. He almost always wears combat boots, unless he’s going running or hiking, then he’ll wear comfy sneakers. He loves wearing beanies, especially in colder weather, and he has them in a bunch of different colors. Although he doesn’t have much reason to dress up, he does look great in a suit and has some nice clothes on hand just in case. Distinguishing Marks: He has a couple of large tattoos on his chest, and a half sleeve on his left arm. He plans on getting more tattoos at some point, but he hasn’t decided what he wants or where. Face Claim: Jordan Calloway

H E A L T H Physical Health: Rafael is in excellent health– he loves doing any sort of physical activity, especially if it involves being outdoors, so he's very fit. He works out on a regular basis and eats quite healthy (though he's not opposed to a little junk food now and then). He gets sick now and then, just minor things like a cold or a mild case of the flu, but he's never been seriously sick or anything. Basically, Rafael takes great care of himself. Physical Abilities/Limitations: He can lift very heavy things thanks to his weight training at the gym. He's got good endurance/stamina– he can hike or run for quite a long time before needing a break. He's a good artist with a very distinctive style; he is constantly drawing, doodling on napkins, just keeping his hands busy whenever he can. Addictions: No addictions to speak of. Allergies: Citrus in general makes his mouth hurt, but sometimes he eats it anyway because he just can't resist. Mental Health: Generally good. He had a very stable upbringing with lots of supportive friends and family around. He is lucky enough to never have experienced any sort of mental illness or any really traumatic events in his life.

H I S T O R Y Summary: Rafael was born in Sunnyvale, California to wealthy parents (his mother is an OB/GYN, and his father is a very successful software engineer). He was the fourth of five children. He grew up surrounded by a very loving family, including much of his extended family, and had a near idyllic childhood. Growing up, Rafael always showed an aptitude for art– he was quite a skilled artist from a young age, but he also had a deep interest in his father’s work and loved all things to do with technology. He taught himself to code when he was about twelve years old and even made a couple of very basic games just to practice. Rafael was always a great student, not exactly straight A’s since he had a bit of a hard time in his literature classes and some of the more complicated math classes, but he never got any grades lower than a B, and he always tried his hardest and studied a lot, did extra credit whenever he could, etc. He also always had a lot of friends and was a bit girl crazy in high school, so he was always dating a new girl. He was on his high school’s soccer team as well– the PE coach always wanted him to go out for the football team, but Rafael hated football and still does, so he never bothered, preferring to use the time to do various volunteer projects or just hang out with his friends. Thanks to his excellent GPA and a wealth of extracurriculars and volunteer experience, Rafael had an easy time getting accepted into UC Berkeley. He initially majored in Computer Software Engineering, as he’d always planned– but after a trip across Europe with some of his friends just before his Sophomore year of college, he had a shift in perspective and realized that he really wanted to focus on his art after all. He changed his major to focus on Drawing and Painting, which was a bit of a surprise to his family, but they were, as always, very supportive of his decision, especially since it turned out he wouldn’t lose any progress toward his degree. After graduating, Rafael decided to do what he’d always wanted to do and live abroad. He decided on living in Spain, since he had taken nearly eight years of Spanish between high school and college and was almost fluent at that point. He spent a few years just travelling around Spain, exploring, working odd jobs, meeting people, just having a good time. Eventually he ended up settling in Barcelona after meeting a particularly good group of people, finding himself a quaint little house in the heart of the city, and getting a job as a bouncer in a local strip club. He has been there ever since. Job History: He didn't have his first job until college– he worked as a barista at a Starbucks on campus for his entire college career, which he actually really enjoyed. Once he moved to Spain and started traveling around, he did tons of odd jobs helping out with manual labor, working in restaurants, helping out around people's houses, doing yard work, just anything he could find that didn't require a lot of commitment. Once he settled in Barcelona, he took a job as a bouncer in a strip club because it paid decently well and fit into his schedule very nicely– that is where he's been ever since. Fondest Memories: Lots of happy childhood memories, too many to list actually. One of his fondest memories is his trip across Europe with his college friends. Plus all his adventures across Spain and the various times his sister Eliana has come to visit him. Worst Experiences: His paternal grandparents both died in a car accident when Rafael was fourteen, and that was probably the single worst experience of his life. A couple of his breakups were particularly rough on him as well.

C O M M U N I C A T I O N Speech Pace/Style: Definitely not a smooth talker, but not super awkward either (unless he’s trying to flirt). He’s laid back when he speaks, not overly formal, always seems pretty relaxed (again, unless he is attempting to flirt). He doesn’t talk excessively, but he’s not quiet or shy either, always loves to jump into a conversation, especially if it’s about a subject he’s interested in. If someone gets him started on a subject he’s passionate about, he gets very animated and excited about it. Accent: American accent, which sometimes comes through in his Spanish– though his Spanish accent, for the most part, is pretty good. Favorite Phrases or Words: He says “oh snap!” a lot when speaking English, something that rubbed off on him thanks to his younger sister. Usual Curse Words: He doesn’t curse a whole lot– it’s not that he’s offended by cursing or anything, he just kind of doesn’t think to curse unless he’s angry or really passionate about something.

P E R S O N A L I T Y, M I N D S E T, A N D B E L I E F S Personality Type: ENFP-A Sense of Humor: Rafael loves to laugh and has a pretty open sense of humor. The only type of humor he doesn’t vibe with is super offensive or raunchy/sexual humor, that’s just not his thing. But anything silly, clever, wordplay or puns, non-sequitur/weird humor, all of that is totally his cup of tea. Habits: Rafael is a bit fidgety and always has to be doing something with his hands. He can be still if he actively focuses on not fidgeting, but it's a little difficult for him. He's constantly drawing on napkins or little pieces of paper, on himself, and on others if they'll let him. If he doesn't have a pen handy then he'll crack his knuckles or he'll kinda rock back and forth on the balls of his feet. He just really cannot hold still unless his mind is fully occupied with something. Fears/Phobias: The whole idea of ghosts or demons really freaks him out. He also sometimes has a touch of existential dread and wonders if he’s going to be alone forever, but that usually doesn’t last long, just a sleepless night or two and then he gets past it. Strengths: Rafael is a very caring, sweet person who is genuinely interested in other people and loves to help whenever he can. He is attentive to people’s needs and tends to anticipate those needs in advance, so he is quite a thoughtful person. In general, he’s an optimist who likes to look on the bright side of things no matter how bad the situation may get and tries not to let the little things get him down. He is also very protective of those he loves, and though he is friendly to people almost all of the time, if anyone is rude to or tries to hurt someone he cares about, he won’t hesitate to speak up on behalf of or physically protect his loved one. Flaws: While his optimism is often a positive trait, Rafael sometimes takes it too far and doesn’t allow himself to just be sad or angry now and then, even when it would be good for him. He tends to suppress any emotion he perceives as negative instead of actually processing his feelings. In relationships, he can be a bit possessive and jealous at times, but he knows that’s his own problem and he really tries not to take it out on his partners. Hopes/Desires: He really hopes to get his comics published at some point– he just really wants to get them out there, even if they don’t get super popular or anything, he’s just really proud of their work and wants people to see it. He also really wants to find someone he can settle down with (or go on adventures with), someone he can spoil with tons of love and affection. He would love to get married and maybe have kids someday, but if his partner didn’t want children he would be okay with that also. Self-Esteem: Super good, honestly. He has his moments of insecurity just like anyone else, but overall he is comfortable with himself and believes himself to be a good person. Religion: Kinda Jewish, kinda atheist. It’s complicated.

R A N D O M Sleeping Position: Curled up on his right side, usually. Boxers or Briefs?: Boxers Day or Night?: Night for sure, he is naturally a night owl. Top or Bottom?: Probably top more than anything, but if he was with a partner that wanted to switch it up, he would happily give it a try~ Partying or Relaxing?: This would be a really hard choice for him, but he would probably have to go with partying. He loves the atmosphere of a good party.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S Closest Friend: Besides his younger sister, Rafael's best friend is Isabel Maduro, a woman he met when he moved to Barcelona. They have been working together on a comic book series for a while now; she is a very talented writer who comes up with stories that blow Rafael's mind. They see each other fairly often not just to work on the comics, but to go on walks or out to lunch, or on the occasional hike. Relationship History: Rafael had a ton of relationships in high school, many of which lasted two weeks or less and obviously those relationships didn't get serious at all– Rafael was just kind of playing the field at that point. He didn't actually have sex, or a serious relationship, until his first year of college. He then dated his first serious girlfriend, and they lasted about six months before she broke things off because she felt he was more attached than she was and she didn't want to waste his time. That is actually how all of Rafael's relationships have gone since then– he always gets broken up with before a year has passed (often much sooner than that) because they're not as into him as he is into them, or he's just too much, being too intense, etc. As a result, he's now reluctant to express his feelings at all because he doesn't want to put pressure on anyone. Sexual Partners: Rafael doesn't exactly get around or anything, but he has had about a dozen sexual partners in his life, all of them women. Thoughts About Sex: Rafael loves sex within the confines of a relationship but doesn't have much interest in it other than that. One night stands, flings, anything like that is not for him. So far, Rafael has only been with women. He's been attracted to men before and he knows he's definitely not straight, but he's always been way too nervous to try and flirt with men. He has never come out to anyone but if he were to end up in a relationship with a man, he wouldn't hesitate to come out– his sister Eliana is a lesbian and currently engaged to another woman, and was readily accepted by their family, so he knows they would all support him if he ever told them.

P A R E N T S Name(s): Shira and Booker Isserlis Age(s): Both 64 years old. Social Standing: White collar for sure, and they are in very good social standing. Occupation(s): She is an OB/GYN who is set to retire in a couple of years, and he is a computer software engineer who doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon. Religion: She is Jewish and he is agnostic, but does observe/celebrate Jewish holidays and events. Quality of Relationship With Their Children: They love and support all of their children unconditionally. They do worry about Rafael sometimes just because he’s more of a wanderer than their other children, he’s a bit more aimless, but they know he can take care of himself. Living/Deceased: Both alive and in excellent health.

S I B L I N G (S) Name(s): Daniel Isserlis, Itai Isserlis, Tamar Huang, and Eliana Isserlis (soon to be Eliana Florakis). Age(s): 34, 32, 31, 29. Yes, their parents basically had all of their children back to back. Social Standing: They have all done very well for themselves, and are all in good social standing. Occupation(s): Daniel is a software engineer and works with their father. Itai is a forensic accountant and he has helped to arrest many white collar criminals. Tamar runs a non-profit organization that helps underprivileged children by providing housing, food, education/tutors, and after school activities. And Eliana is an event planner who specializes in weddings. Religion: Daniel and Tamar are still devoutly Jewish. Itai and Eliana are more like Rafael– they appreciate and enjoy aspects of Judaism but they don’t really believe in it. Quality of Relationship with Character: Rafael loves all of his siblings and would do just about anything for them, but he is definitely the closest with Eliana out of all of them. He really only sees/talks to his other siblings a few times a year, but he talks to Eliana all the time. Living/Deceased: All alive.

D A I L Y L I F E Living Arrangements: He lives in a cute little one bedroom house right in the heart of the city, on a very busy street. He loves being right in the middle of everything, so it’s ideal for him. The place was a bit rundown when he first bought it, but he has fixed it up quite a bit and although no one would say it’s luxurious or anything, it’s definitely nice and comfortable. He loves having guests over and has lots of seating and a large TV, plus a pull-out couch in the living room just in case anyone stays the night, not to mention a spacious king sized bed in his room.

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This is very important, so please take a moment to read so you know what has been happening behind the scenes!!!!! Evidently monies to fund the child trafficking tunnels came from US Taxpayers through the Cabal-owned IRS/Federal Reserve System. An inside source said, “They spent trillions of dollars on these tunnels… that’s where the trillions of dollars that have been missing from the 9-11 building that they took down.” READ BELOW!!!!

Since April 2019 in secret military operations, thousands of tortured, mutilated babies, children and teens have been rescued or found deceased by the US Military. US Special Operations teams directed by President Trump and his Pentagon Pedophile Task Force have been clearing out the children, corpses, gold, cash and documents from a massive labyrinthine of DUMBS tunnels (Deep Underground Military Bases) that ran beneath the US, Canada and Mexico.

Evidently over centuries the tunnels had been built and used by members of the Illuminati, better known as the Cabal, or Deep State. Global, political and Hollywood elites into Satan worship were known to pay big bucks to drink the blood of a traumatized child (known as Adrenachrome) – reported to create a “high,” along with a supposed reverse of aging. Although, if their “supply” was cut off, the partaker suffered greatly and could even die.

The Pentagon was making sure that supply was never harvested as evidently it had been for centuries. Back in April 2019 the US Military, Interpol and different countries’ local military forces began a concentrated and coordinated effort to rescue children from a huge tunnel network that ran throughout the US from California to New York, to Canada, Mexico, Europe, Italy (the Vatican and Venice), the Hague, New Zealand, South America and the Middle East (Lebanon). Some of the tunnels lay beneath the Vatican, with many reported to be several stories deep – like the one beneath the Denver Airport.

By April 2020 a total of over 50,000 malnourished, caged and tortured children had been reported as rescued or found deceased in the tunnels beneath large US cities including one under New York Central Park. Another tunnel was said to run from the Clinton Foundation building to the New York Harbor.

The latest horror was uncovered around August 20, 2020 beneath Reno Nevada where thousands of mangled recently deceased corpses of children were discovered. The child captives were believed to have been kidnapped or bred for purposes of sexual abuse, human experimentation and human sacrifice in Satanic rites.

On Wed. Oct. 16 2019 an unbelievable 2,100 children being held in cages in underground tunnels at the California China Lake Military facility were rescued by Navy Seals and US Marines. The children and teens were said to have been sexually abused, tortured and killed to collect their blood. Marines carried out traumatized children, some of whom have never seen the light of day, pregnant preteens, deformed babies, piles of little corpses whose bodies were apparently used for organ harvesting, children locked in cages, electro-shocked and traumatized in order to harvest their blood – Adrenachrome for the elites to drink.

“In Nevada the child rescue operations moved in earnest… what was amazing is that everyone was thinking Las Vegas would be the horror show of horror shows… there was a horror show but it was Reno… underneath Reno they could not believe the tunnels underneath the ground... the DUMBs… the bulk of the children found in the tunnels under Reno were dead… not only dead folks, they were mangled… they’re trying to do DNA testing to get the pieces back in order… which piece belongs to which other torso… it’s horrific” commented Dr. Charles Ward, who has been in a couple of the tunnels.

A trooper involved in rescue operations said, “On 4 July 2019 at 2 am PDT we surprised personnel at the China Lake Naval Research Base in California. We took over the base and rescued approximately 3,000 children being tortured in ways beyond comprehension. . .The count now of traumatized children (found dead or alive) was more like in the hundreds of thousands – generations who had never seen sunlight.”

Another trooper in rescue efforts reported, “Underground bases trafficking children were destroyed back in 2019. That included a base that was under the Getty Museum. The more recent Utah March 18 2020 earthquake was actually destruction of child trafficking tunnels (under the old Dugway Utah Germ Warfare base also referred to as another Area 51 UFO Base). There was a major battle under the Denver airport. The Illuminati had planned to make Denver the capital of the US after they took over and killed most of us.”

There was a tunnel system that circled Australia and centered in Melbourne. The military made a massive raid in tunnels beneath the Black Forest in Germany. In Barcelona Spain they rescued over 2,000 women and children, while arresting 13 of their pedophile leaders. There were 30,000 pedophiles arrested out of Germany, and “lots” were arrested in Spain and England.

Charlie Freak - about Australia said that the troops went into Melbourne and found a second layer of tunnels beneath an enormous tunnel system in Australia. “It started in Sydney… they described it to us… think arachnid… it’s a web… and it was below… so this second tunnel system goes in a ring around Australia, with a big central line running towards Ayers Rock…One night - 9 p.m. to 6 or 7 a.m. - there were explosions every 2 or 3 seconds that entire time. That’s why there were police out there.”

US Military, Marines, Navy Seals and Special Ops trained for over a year for the special missions under direction of President Trump and the Pentagon Pedophile Task Force. These US Special Forces were working with Interpol and various countries’ militaries to clear out the underground tunnels filled with trafficked children and women. They then blew the tunnels up so they can never be used again for any purpose. The small nuclear explosives used caused small earthquakes in the region.

Evidently monies to fund the tunnels came from US Taxpayers through the Cabal-owned IRS/Federal Reserve System. An inside source said, “They spent trillions of dollars on these tunnels… that’s where the trillions of dollars that have been missing from the 9-11 building that they took down.”

The operation was ongoing as they discovered even more tunnels deeply buried beneath the earth. Dr. Charles Ward said: “The rescue operations were taking longer than The Alliance thought because the massive labyrinthine illuminati tunnel systems were more vast than anyone had any idea of.

“They collapsed tunnels in Lebanon,” Ward said. “There was a considerable amount of tunnels under a building there that exploded. I’ve learned an awful lot about these tunnels and I have actually been inside some of these tunnels in my work because they store a huge amount of gold and cash in these tunnels. The ones I’ve been in were 200 Meters below ground level. .. the width of the tunnels would be 30/40 feet, the height would be 15/20 feet, there was electric golf buggies riding around down there like it was a main road; 40 km, 30 km of roads down there, shops down there, living quarters down there, storage facilities, safes, everything down there, and this was in just the two that I’ve visited. . . I think the process has been, from what I understand, once they’ve removed the women and children that were stored down there, they were removing the tunnels so nothing can be ever done there again.”

Ward has personally has been inside two DUMBs that were crammed with cash, gold and valuables. He was part of a team that was moving gold, cash and valuables around the world for the United States Government to back a revaluation of currencies in a Global Currency reset about to take place.

Dr. Ward related that in March 2020 during the child rescue mission at the Vatican they arrested the Pope. Some of Ward’s Security Team watched the arrest. He said that 650 plane loads of gold, cash and documents were flown out of the Vatican to Fort Knox. He regularly used specially trained teams to move money and his teams had been hired to clear out the Vatican of its stolen treasure.

“I don’t think normal people have any idea or any concept as to how many children disappear every single year…And I'm going to sicken you right now. People that we trusted, organizations that we trusted during times of tragedy were involved, such as Hurricane Katrina where lots of people went missing. They were basically stolen by organizations that we trust to look after us in a time of trouble. Those kids were trafficked.

“That’s pretty damn disgusting… In times of war… the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, the amount of children that were stolen from those countries is unbelievable. So that the families think that they’ve died and they haven’t. They’ve been stolen… and this is a world that, don’t take my word for it, go and do some homework, because it’s absolutely disgusting

“And you’ll start to wake-up to what Donald Trump is actually doing when he’s draining the swamp…I don’t think… a lot of people have any idea how dirty that swamp is…how contaminated it is…and when you wake up to what he’s actually doing…It doesn’t matter if he has funny hair, it doesn’t matter if he does funny tweets. If he gets rid of one pedophile gang, saves one woman and a child from being trafficked, he’s doing a good job. He’s saved thousands and thousands of children and families, yet there’s NOTHING, NOTHING in the mainstream media. They should be ashamed of themselves, totally ashamed. It’s disgusting.”

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AYOOOOOO, it me, mini from the blockkk ~ and im here to give you a very bratty kid. she’s rude, unfiltered, ride or die and a hell of a fighter. truly, i hate her but i hope you enjoy her and i wanna plot with everyone new and old pls. 

chicago’s very own kylie castillo has been spotted on madison avenue driving a bentley continental gt, welcome ! your resemblance to becky g is unreal . according to tmz , you just had your twenty first birthday bash  . your chance of surviving new york is uncertain because you’re hot tempered , but being brave might help you . i think being an aries explains that .  3 things that would paint  a  better picture of you would be a bottle of patron, messy makeup brushes and a joint. & ( female + she/her  ) +  ( mini , 23, she/her , est )

We got a pinterest board right here ! Besides that, give this a like and i’ll mssge u! 

Basic Information

Full Name: kylie valentina castillo

Nickname(s): ky, kyky, k, kybby

Age: 21

Height: 5 ft

Date of Birth: April 15th 1998

Zodiac sign: aries

Hogwarts house: slythindor (slytherin + gryffindor)

Ethnicity: mexican

Nationality: american

Gender: cis female

Pronouns: she/her

Orientation: bisexual

Religion: agnostic-catholic

Tattoos: a peach on her ass, #2 tramp stamp and canon becky g tattoos

Language(s) Spoken: english + spanish

Accent: american with a hint of spanish

Favourites

Weather: fall

Colour: yellow or pink

Music: sebastian yatra, reik, travis scott,

Movies: halloween or selena

Sport: soccer, basketball, hockey, volleyball

Beverage: tequila

Food: chicken or carne asada tacos 

Animal: lions + dogs

Family

Father: alejandro castillo, soccer player (jersey #7)

Mother: lupe castillo (molina), seamstress/designer

Sibling(s): ricky castillo

Step Siblings: jesse james altera, elissa altera

Pet(s): sushi and lola (dogs)

BIOGRAPHY

FAMILY HISTORY

kylie castillo is 2nd generation American, meaning that both pair of her grandparents immigrated to the United States a looong time ago from Mexico, and both her parents grew up in the USA. 

Her dad, alejandro castillo grew up in Los Angelos, California working to be a big time soccer player, and he got scouted but he ended up playing for MEXICO, and when he wasn’t playing for the official team, he played for Barcelona FC. So her dad made a name for himself in soccer. 

Her mom, lupe castillo molina grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She went to school and started up her own fashion brand, it was small and slowly growing as she was working as a seamstress for different companies all over Chicago. It took awhile to take off, but it did, and she had a shop in Spain bc she was illegal in the US and it was easier to stay in Spain and gain citizenship. ANYWAY, her shop blew up in Europe before getting big in the US. 

Both met in Barcelona where lupe was just a fan. it suddenly became more after they got pregnant, and after they married with their first child they decided to settle in Chicago. 

They were together until Kylie was 12 years old and her mom started seeing angelo altera, eventually marrying him for a few years. This means that she’s step siblings with lennon james and elissa altera! 

That marriage didn’t last that long, so right now both her parents are single, separated and living in different households that share the same customs. EXCEPT, kylie’s mom and dad seem to be sorta reconciling~

lupe castillo currently lives in New York for her step kids and kids while alejandro castillo still resides in Chicago, and sometimes Los Angelos. 

WHO IS KYLIE CASTILLO?

kylie was born in Chicago and she had a pretty normal childhood. she grew up in a house with her parents, siblings and grandparents under one household, growing up with hispanic traditions. She grew up speaking latin american spanish meaning she’s bilingual and is 100% PROUD of her ethnicity even though she has been told the typical slurs from ignorant people, but you know, it happens. it’s really only made her stronger as a person.

kylie has always been the closest to her dad and he implemented not just in kylie but in all of his kids that if you work hard you can achieve anything. to not let anyone tell you that you can’t do things. this was especially true with sports. ofc having a soccer player for a dad, kylie was automatically interested in soccer, all of her siblings were and are. they were known as the sports family on the block.

while her dad taught her sports and to toughen up in any situation, by no means does this mean she was a tomboy. she can play a game of soccer in 6 inch heels. if you don’t think so, she’ll prove it to you! So while her soccer interest grew, her mom would introduce kylie to clothes, makeup, cooking. all of that stuff so kylie always knew to be presentable. ‘let them judge you by what you wear so you can prove them wrong with who you are.’ is one of a thousand quotes her mom would tell her about life.

even if kylie grew up comfortable and in a good position, her parents instilled the value that you gotta work hard to get what you want. if you don’t implement blood, sweat and tears, you haven’t earned it. So if you know kylie, she’s a partier mixed with a workaholic sometimes mixed with a UFC Fighter dEKJGDKJFSGH

When her parents broke up, she went on a rebellious streak, more of a streak than the one she’s always on. she had family that weren’t the safest but for kylie it was safe. so she got involved with some shady characters, and she’s done some stufffffffffff. hmu if you wanna know more. FKJGHDFKHGJ that went on for awhile, she was wildin and she settled into her new home with her step siblings and step dad. 

Kylie is still very much closer to her dad than her mom but she loves them both, bouncing between houses and states (since her mom lives in NYC now) to hang out with each of them often. 

In a grand total, she’s a problem child that just likes to have fun. 

CAREER

There was at one point where she wanted to be a soccer player like her dad but for a women’s team. although there were times growing up where she would definitely show guys she could kick their asses in the sport. she still can! 

When her dad found out what she wanted, he made sure and he worked with her everyday to make her a better player, EXCEPT, kylie overworks herself, A LOT, even when her dad didn’t schedule practices. it didn’t work out for her in the end because during a game she really messed up her knee where she had to give up the sport.

She was DEVASTATED, and she moped for about a day before she found something else, which was makeup. She actually rlly slowly got into it, watching tutorials, practicing on her lita’s, siblings, tia’s, mom, etc. By networking through her mom’s connections, she landed a couple of gigs to do makeup for a couple of backstage things and movie productions. she was getting around to a lot of stuff.

For awhile she was an MUA, and works with a lot of different people. she doesn’t care who you are as long as you’re chill, but then she wanted to try something different and went into music. She is step siblings to lennon james, and there is a lot of musical influence in her life, so of course she was going to dip into that. 

Her style of music is primarily in spanish, targeting that market and since it’s being big in the US, she’s definitely one of the prominent artists since she’s one of the few born in America that makes this type of music. So currently she’s working out stuff with music, working on collaborations, and then doing things in other fields.

Kylie doesn’t believe in limiting herself, if she wants to do something, she’ll do it. She also very much loves to work with charities and going to marches for things she believes in, using her platform for things like that ... even if she isn’t the best person to look up to. 

PERSONALITY

kylie is literally F I E R C E. she’s got two types of personalities, one where she’s a home body and loves her family, will beat you in a quick game of soccer. she’s that bubbly girl with the laughter, sarcastic remarks followed by a smirk at the end of it

BUT

she is also that girl that when it’s time to work, she is scary. she knows what she wants, she knows how she wants it and she will get flustered when it’s not like that. she’s got a whole ‘that BIIITCH’ personality, like when she’s on the red carpet, she just has it going for her kind of thing.

but she’s a goof, and that’s something everyone will notice. she loves to make people laugh and smile. 

if you’re an asshole, those are her favorite types where she’s just drawn to those people. she really does love a challenge. 

A big thing for her is she is really hot tempered. talk shit get hit, is kinda her thing. if you wanna start an argument, don’t expect to come out of it without a scratch on you when you’re with kylie. she just has that mentality that if you don’t wanna talk it out she already has her hands up to start swinging. 

If you’re close to her, she will ADORE YOU. This girl is ride or die for anyone she loves, she doesn’t care what you did, or how other people perceive you. if you’re close with kylie, that’s all she cares about. she’s too loyal.

connections?

old school friends

old school enemies

makeup clientele

squad?

ride or die

drunk friends

sibling like friends

exes ( good + bad + messy + angsty )

crushes ?

former lovers to friends

um, anything? let’s brainstorm ! :)

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USA Football World Cup: Champion league important for USMNT to qualify FIFA World Cup

For quite a long time, U.S. men's soccer estimated progress through basic achievements: meeting all requirements for a Football World Cup 2022 from an undecorated locale and progressing to the knockout stage, developing the homegrown expert group, and sending players to another country. The bar was low, and aside from a passing disaster four years prior, the United States met it.

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Presently take in what will happen Saturday at an arena in Portugal: A youthful American assailant who directed a U.S. record move charge two years prior and a goalkeeper who went through the NCAA and MLS before likewise arriving in the English Premier League will crash in club soccer's greatest display, the UEFA Champions League last. I get goosebumps considering everything, Gregg Be strap, the U.S. public group mentor, said of Chelsea's Christian Puglisi and Manchester City's Zack Steffen being in uniform at Estacio do Dragon in Porto.

Puglisi and Steffen would not be the principal Americans to play for European and, likewise, worldwide matchless quality. In 1997, at age 20, American Jovan Kirov ski was an individual from Borussia Dortmund's title group however wasn't in uniform for the last. In 2013, Neven Subtopic, who addressed U.S. youth crews before he changed to Serbia on the senior level, begun for next in line Borussia Dortmund. For more to know about Qatar Football World Cup Packages Click here

Yet, interestingly Saturday, a functioning individual from the U.S. men's public group will step onto the triumph stage and celebrate with the silver prize in the midst of a snowstorm of confetti before a worldwide TV crowd moving toward 400 million, four times U.S. viewership of the Super Bowl. Pulisic, 22, will begin or fall off the seat sooner or later; Steffen, 26, will not play except if Eder's child, the Brazilian starter, is harmed.

It's an extensive advance for U.S. soccer, regardless of whether Pulisic plays just five minutes and TV cameras never discover Steffen on the sideline. CBS will convey the match, not on a link stage but rather with a public transmission went before by an hour and a half pregame show. Eastern Time. The third round of the PGA Tour's Charles Schwab Challenge should stand by at the soonest. That was the organization's arrangement from the start, with or without U.S. players.

The inclusion of Americans just widened the game's allure here. What is significant for U.S. soccer, however, is making this the standard instead of the exemption. The inquiry just before each hero League last shouldn't be whether an American is in the match however which ones.

On the off chance that this advancement season across the landmass is any sign, normal appearances in the Champions League's late stages will develop. Other than Pulisic and Steffen, U.S. major parts in top-five European associations qualified for next season's competition from Barcelona (Sergio Desta), Juventus (Weston McKinnie), Borussia Dortmund (Gio Reyna), Lille (Tim Wean), Wolfsburg (John Brooks), and RB Leipzig (Tyler Adams).

Adams, 22, verged on arriving at the last a year ago, falling one stage short. Others this season assumed key parts on title clubs in unobtrusive classes, for example, 20-year-old assailant Brenden Aaronson with Austria's RB Salzburg. Solid exhibitions at more modest clubs conceive moves to greater clubs in greater classes. It's the manner in which soccer works. For more to know about Qatar Football World Cup Packages Click here

U.S. men's players have been looking for some kind of employment in Europe for quite a long time, and the current tally is more than 120. In any case, having them in Champions League groups, that is somewhat unique, said Jürgen Klinsmann, the previous German genius who trained the U.S. public group from 2011 to 2016.

The crème de la crème of world football is the Champions League, and now have two parts in the last really in the group sheets, that is nothing to joke about, and that satisfies us all, said Klinsmann, a long-lasting Southern California occupant. During his residency, Klinsmann was a defender of pushing youthful Americans with high expertise levels to Europe and specifically to significant clubs, where they would raise their game by confronting more prominent difficulties and contest for playing time than in MLS.

That, obviously, didn't agree with proprietors in the homegrown circuit. The truth, however, is the best soccer is played in the significant alliances of Europe. Furthermore, as American ability creates here, the characteristic objective is Europe's force five: Premier League, Germany's Bundesliga, Spain's La Lia, Italy's Series A, and French League 1.

The climb of Pulisic and Steffen, Klinsmann said, shows all the American children, any place they are and whatever group they play in, there is a way to the greatest groups on the planet. There is a chance. It demonstrates there is such a lot of ability in the United States. Some such countless children have the characteristics. Pulisic and Steffen took various ways, however they started in Pennsylvania towns 60 miles separated.

Pulisic marked abroad at age 16, supported by Borussia Dortmund prior to being offered to Chelsea for $73 million of every 2019. Steffen played at the University of Maryland for a very long time, didn't work out in Germany, featured for the Columbus Crew, and afterward endorsed with Manchester City. To acquire playing time keep going season, he went borrowed to Germany's Fortuna Düsseldorf prior to choosing to acknowledge a reinforcement part in England this season.

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MEDITERRÁNEO - LOS REBELDES 

(holy shit that music video is... something)

Well, I’m going away to the beach (in the Mediterranean) in two weeks, so I’ve decided to do a bit of a theme, with two songs that scream SUMMER. If you like them, maybe I could extend the theme throughout all August, when I come back!

So, before starting, here’s the previous post if you haven’t seen it.

Let’s go!

Here we are, back to the 80s, and back to “La Movida”, with “Los Rebeldes” (”The Rebels”). They were a rock group from Barcelona, composed of Carlos Segarra, Aurelio Morata and Moisés Sorolla. They were one of the top groups of “La Movida” and were pretty popular during the 80s.

About the song, “Mediterráneo” (1988), which translates to “Mediterranean”, I know, shocker; it basically is a boasting song about the Mediterranean, the best sea in the whole world (totally unbiased here) and the coastal places of Spain. It’s just a really fun song that totally gets you in the mood for the beach. There is actually another really famous song called “Mediterráneo”, which some consider the best Spanish song ever created, by the master Joan Manuel Serrat, but I’ll leave that song for later.

Now, let’s go for the lyrics! They talk about a lot of places of Spain, so expect photos down below!!

Qué agobio de verano

What a nasty summer Tengo el cuerpo empapado en sudor

I have all my body soaking with sweat Se me cae la casa encima

I need to get out of here (1) Yo ya no aguanto el calor

And I can’t stand the heat.

La vida ya no es vida en la ciudad

Life is not life in the city Llegó la hora de cambiar asfalto por mar

Time has come to change asphalt for sea Cansado de vivir en una jaula como un animal

I’m tired of living in a cage like an animal

Quema la ropa de invierno y prepárate para viajar

Burn the winter clothes and prepare yourself to travel Que la tierra prometida está más cerca de lo que puedas pensar

Because the promised land is closer than you could think of California ya no existe, el sueño acabó

California doesn’t exist, the dream ended Pero yo sé de un lugar donde brilla el sol

But I know a place where the sun shines Déjame llevarte este verano donde está la acción

Let me take you this summer where action is

Mediterráneo

Mediterranean Ruta de calor

Heat route Mediterráneo

Mediterranean A templo del sol

To the sun temple Mediterráneo

Mediterranean Noches de luz y color

Nights of light and colour

Mediterráneo

Mediterranean Tierra de pasión

Passion land Mediterráneo

Mediterranean Ruta de calor

Heat route Mediterráneo

Mediterranean Eterno verano al sol

Eternal summer by the sun

Si buscas sensaciones aquí hay algo realmente especial

If you are searching for sensations here there’s something really special Si quieres un paraíso esto es lo más parecido que vas a encontrar

If you want a paradise this is the closest thing you are gonna find Si buscas algo que dinero no pueda comprar

If you want something that money can’t buy Y si quieres ver a mescalina nadar

And if you want to see mescaline swimming (?) (2) No hay mejor rincón en el planeta si quieres soñar

There isn’t a better place in the world if you want to dream

Nos veremos en Ibiza, en Mallorca, San Luís y Mahón

We’ll see each other in Ibiza, in Mallorca, San Luis and Mahón (3) Bailaremos en Valencia, en Alicante, en Gandía y Benidorm

We’ll dance in Valencia, in Alicante, in Gandía and in Benidorm (4) Desde L'Escala hasta Playa San Juan

From L’Escala to Playa San Juan En Cadaqués, en Sitges, Playa Libertad

In Cadaqués, in Sitges, Playa Libertad (5) Seremos los elegidos en el templo del dios del mar

We’ll be the chosen ones in the temple of the god of the sea.

1. “Se me cae la casa encima” is a Spanish saying, it literally would mean “The house is falling in top of me”, and it basically means that you feel trapped inside your house and you need to get out. 

2. I think this is a reference to “La Ruta del Bakalao” (Bakalao Route), a partying route throughout Valencia in the 80s and 90s that had a lot of drug usage.

3. They are all islands or towns in the Balearic Islands, San Luis and Mahón are both in Menorca (fun fact, the word “mayonnaise” comes from “Mahón”, where it was invented):

4. They are all cities in Valencia Autonomous Community. Gandía is in Valencia province, and Benidorm is in Alicante province:

5. Playa de San Juan is in Alicante, Cadaqués and L’Escala are in Girona (Catalonia) and Cadaqués is in Barcelona. I couldn’t find where the hell Playa Libertad is:

I hope you liked the song! Personally, where I go on holidays is not in Valencia, Balearic Islands or Catalonia, but in Andalucía, in Almería Province specifically, here is how it looks:

Hope you have a nice summer :)

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Lessons from Paris and Chicago

Paris

Today, Paris is rich in culture and is a well-connected city with extensive transportation networks. The city is a business hub and is innovative in reaching environmental sustainability for its residents through architecture.

In the 1850’s, Paris was seeing overcrowding, diseases, and unhealthy living conditions. Haussmann’s plan for the city called for a drastic change of character in the city. Old buildings would be torn down to create new avenues and wider boulevards with character and attractiveness in their buildings.

Haussmann created a plan along with the four guiding principles that have influenced other cities across the globe. However, the most beneficial lesson from Paris is that cities need to find ways of housing the poor and to implement affordable housing projects. The property of the slums were cleared to create a better Paris with wider streets, but many people were left without a place to live and could not afford to reenter the new developments in their existing area.

This plan did not provide enough low-income housing and displaced low-income people from their homes and businesses. Over 19,000 buildings were demolished, and more than 30,000 new buildings were built. Many people think the positive outcomes of this plan are greater than the negative outcomes, but the I think the displacement of people can be avoided by having affordable housing projects.

Pruitt Igoe

The displacement of the poor in Paris reminds me of the Pruitt Igoe housing project of 1956 in St. Louis, Missouri. There was a rise in population and the city wanted to relocate the people of the slums. The slums were cleared, and the Housing project was completed. After the first years of opening the project was not maintained and soon began to lose funds. Crime rate increased and the area became a displeasing neighborhood. Basically, the tenants lived in unhealthy condition just as if they were living in the slums. Creating affordable housing that works is a difficult task, but I think this is one of most important factors in urban planning. In the U.S, Las Vegas ranks 7th among the 10 highest rates of homelessness. Other states like California have a high percentage of homelessness.

Affordable Housing Projects

Savonnerie Heymans, MDW Architecture, Brussels, 2011

This Project is a conversion of a Soap factory in an eco-friendly development of units, apartments, lofts, duplexes, and a daycare center. Two existing structures were renovated and four new buildings were built in the area. Sustainable features include natural insulation, solar panels for hot water, and rainwater harvesting for toilets.

Torre Plaça Europa, Roldán +Berengué, Barcelona, Spain, 2010

This project is a mixed-use development providing a 75 unit apartment tower. The tower uses recycled materials for the façade; at least 65% of the

Tetris Apartments, OFIS architects, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007

This project is a four-story apartment development. Balconies were built to give outside access and the materials and colors of the finishes give these apartments character. Only the shell of each apartment is structural, so interior walls may be rearranged by the occupants.

Chicago

Chicago is similar to Paris because it wanted to create a more walk able city. They had a lot of similarities as Paris when it came to regulations for skyscrapers and having set backs for them depending on height of the skyscraper and the width of the street. There was a big emphasis on the implementation of Green spaces like Parks around the city as well prioritizing the Lakefront. This encourages the citizens to want to go out and walk around, and public transportation is easily accessible all around the city. Walk ability and public transportation became important because it takes away the need for everyone to own a car. 

Mario : Paris

Jason : Chicago

Sources:

planningtank.com - Baron Haussmann’s Urban Development of Paris

shareable.net - 11 projects that prove affordable housing can be beautiful

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Coronavirus Live Updates: As Virus Spreads Swiftly Worldwide, China Reports Zero New Infections

As the virus spreads, the human toll grows.

China reported its first day with no new locally transmitted coronavirus infections, three months after the first case was detected. But the march of the affliction gathered pace while nations throughout the world braced for a surge of infections and, ultimately, deaths. For the Fusco family in Freehold, N.J., the dangers of the virus and its pernicious exploitation of human connection were laid bare when Grace Fusco, 73, died Wednesday night, hours after her son and five days after her daughter. Four other family members are hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, from an infection traced to a routine family gathering. No one is safe. Two members of Congress tested positive and were in isolation on Thursday. While older people remain at gravest risk worldwide, a C.D.C. report found that 38 percent of those who required hospitalization in the U.S. were aged 20 to 54. Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, warned that as testing becomes more widespread, people would see the numbers soar. President Trump signed a relief package to provide sick leave, unemployment benefits and free coronavirus testing, and lawmakers were drafting an even more sweeping $1 trillion economic stabilization package. But even as the federal government invoked wartime powers to speed the production of essential medical equipment, such as surgical masks, protective body suits, testing kits and, especially, ventilators remained in short supply. World leaders escalated pleas to the only ones who can ultimately help buy time: everyone. “It’s down to each and every one of us,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said in a televised address. “We are not doomed to helplessly watch the spread of the virus. We have a means to fight it: we must practice social distancing.” Failure to do so could result in even more stringent lockdowns that Germany has so far avoided, she said. “We are a democracy. We don’t live by force, but by shared knowledge and cooperation.” In California, more than nine million people have been told not to leave their homes. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York resisted taking such a drastic step, even as he ordered businesses to compel employees to work from home. In Spain, violations of isolation orders are enforced with fines. Russia is using facial-recognition technology to track down and fine people who violate mandatory quarantines. Beaches in Barcelona are closed, but many Americans were heading to sandy shores for Spring Break. Even as nations wrestled with a public health emergency, the economic crisis grew darker, deepening the anxiety felt by people increasingly cut off from their support networks. But, as Ms. Merkel said, even as a society in isolation, “we will show that we are there for one another.”

China reports zero local infections, a major turning point.

For the first time since the coronavirus crisis began, China on Thursday reported no new local infections for the previous day, a milestone in its costly battle with the outbreak that has since spread around the world. Officials said 34 new coronavirus cases had been confirmed, all of them involving people who had come to China from elsewhere. In signaling that an end to China’s epidemic might be in sight, the announcement could pave the way for officials to focus on reviving the country’s economy, which nearly ground to a halt after the government imposed travel restrictions and quarantine measures. In recent days, economic life has been resuming in fits and starts. But China is not out of danger yet. Experts have said that it will need to see at least 14 consecutive days without new infections for the outbreak to be considered truly over. It remains to be seen whether the virus will re-emerge once daily life restarts and travel restrictions are lifted around the country. “It’s very clear that the actions taken in China have almost brought to an end their first wave of infections,” said Ben Cowling, a professor and head of the division of epidemiology and biostatistics at Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health. “The question is what will happen if there’s a second wave, because the kind of measures that China has implemented are not necessarily sustainable in the long term.” To contain the outbreak, the authorities shut schools and workplaces and imposed travel and quarantine restrictions on broad swaths of the population and many visitors from abroad. Since January, more than 50 million people in the central province of Hubei, including its capital, Wuhan, where the outbreak began, have been subjected to a strict lockdown.

Many hospitalized in the U.S. are younger adults.

American adults of all ages — not just those in their 70s, 80s and 90s — are being seriously sickened by the coronavirus, according to a report on nearly 2,500 cases in the United States. The report, issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that — as in other countries — the oldest patients were at greatest risk of becoming seriously ill or dying. But of the 508 coronavirus patients known to have been hospitalized in the United States, 38 percent were between 20 and 54. And nearly half of the 121 sickest patients studied — those admitted to intensive care units — were adults under 65. “I think everyone should be paying attention to this,” said Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. “It’s not just going to be the elderly.” Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, appealed on Wednesday for younger people to stop socializing in groups and to take care to protect themselves and others. “You have the potential then to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none of us knew about, and cause them to have a disastrous outcome,” Dr. Birx said. In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation.

First details of Trump’s economic package includes $500 billion for taxpayers.

The Trump administration on Wednesday broadened the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and spelled out the first details of a $1 trillion economic package, asking Congress for an infusion of $500 billion for direct payments to taxpayers and $500 billion in loans for businesses. President Trump invoked a seldom-used wartime law that allows the government to press American industry into service to ramp up production of medical supplies. He said he would send two military hospital ships to New York and California. He also directed federal agencies to suspend all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April as the full economic toll of the crisis began to set in around the world. And he agreed with Canada to stop all nonessential traffic across the northern border. After weeks of playing down the outbreak, Mr. Trump appeared on Wednesday to fully embrace the scope of the calamity, saying he saw himself as a wartime president and invoking memories of the efforts made by Americans during World War II. “Now it’s our time,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “We must sacrifice together because we are all in this together, and we will come through together. It’s the invisible enemy.” Entire sectors of the American economy are shutting down, threatening to crush businesses, put millions of people out of work and forcing lawmakers to consider a vast financial bailout that would dwarf the federal government’s response to the 2008 crisis. The scale of the problem is unlike anything Washington has faced before: The financial crisis, which sent unemployment skyrocketing to 10 percent, centered on foreclosures and the banking sector while this crisis is springing from dozens of place at once, as restaurants and movie theaters shut down, factories close and airplanes, public trains and buses run nearly empty of passengers. Economists fear that by the time the coronavirus pandemic subsides and economic activity resumes, entire industries could be wiped out, proprietors across the country could lose their businesses and millions of workers could find themselves jobless.

Testing in New York gathers speed as health officials rush to stem the spread in Hasidic communities.

New York City officials, already grappling with one of the largest outbreaks in the country, expressed growing alarm that the coronavirus is spreading quickly in tightly knit Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn, saying that they are investigating a recent spike in confirmed cases. More than 100 people have recently tested positive for the coronavirus in Borough Park and Williamsburg, two Brooklyn neighborhoods with sizable Hasidic-American populations. Across the state, the number of new cases continued to grow exponentially, something health officials said to expect across the nation as testing is stepped up. Of the 14,597 people to be tested so far, nearly 5,000 were tested on Tuesday, helping explain why the number of new cases jumped for 1,000 in just 24 hours to 2,382 people. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he expects the true number to be many times greater than that. Mr. Cuomo has resisted issuing the kind of “shelter in place” orders being put in place on the West Coast, but he issued new rules meant to decrease density, including ordering businesses to compel half their employees to work from home. The public health fight has wreaked havoc on the city’s economy, with the hospitality industry an early casualty. The restaurateur Danny Meyer laid off 2,000 employees from his Union Square Hospitality Group, one of the nation’s leading restaurant companies. Hilton Hotels said it would close the huge New York Hilton Midtown indefinitely starting Friday. President Trump agreed to dispatch a 1,000-bed hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Comfort to New York Harbor, but it will not arrive for weeks.

Queen Elizabeth heads to country home as Britain’s restrictions expand.

At 93 years old, Queen Elizabeth II has lived through the Great Depression and World War II. But the spread of the coronavirus has presented a challenge unlike any other that she or her nation have faced during her 66 years on the throne. The queen’s age puts her squarely in the high-risk category, and the palace is moving to ensure she is isolated. A planned visit by the emperor and empress of Japan was postponed “in the current circumstances,” Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. The palace announced this week that, “as a sensible precaution,” several changes would be made to the queen’s schedule, and that she and her husband, Prince Philip, would move to Windsor Castle. Initially reluctant to impose widespread restrictions on Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that schools would close beginning Friday. He has also ordered 20,000 members of the military be put on standby to assist in the days ahead. London has been the center of the outbreak in Britain, with more than one-third of the country’s 2,626 confirmed cases. By Wednesday, at least 103 coronavirus patientsn had died. Train services will also be curtailed this week, with some 40 tube stations across the city closing to limit the number of people moving around the city. The country’s national health service, already strained, is bracing for an influx of patients. With new cases mounting daily, many have criticized Mr. Johnson for being slow to implement the stringent measures seen across much of Europe.

What does ‘social distancing’ actually mean?

Trump doubles down on labeling the coronavirus ‘Chinese.’

President Trump has defended his increasingly frequent practice of calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” ignoring a growing chorus of criticism that the term is racist and anti-Chinese. Experts have said that labeling the virus as Chinese will ratchet up tensions between the two countries and result in the kind of xenophobia that American leaders should discourage. “The use of this term is not only corrosive vis-à-vis a global audience, including here at home, it is also fueling a narrative in China about a broader American hatred and fear of not just the Chinese Communist Party but of China and Chinese people in general,” said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. At a White House briefing on Tuesday, Mr. Trump told reporters that he was attaching “China” to the name of the virus to combat a disinformation campaign promoted by Beijing officials that the American military was the source of the outbreak. “I didn’t appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them,” Mr. Trump said. “I think saying that our military gave it to them creates a stigma.” Then in two tweets on Wednesday morning, he pointedly referred to the “Chinese virus.” Asked about the term later in the day, he insisted that he was simply pointing out a fact: that the illness was first detected in China. Public health officials have tried to avoid names that might result in discriminatory behavior against places or ethnic groups since releasing more stringent guidelines for naming viruses in 2015. On Twitter, the White House has criticized what it called “the media’s fake outrage,” pointing to past illnesses that had been named after places, including the Ebola virus and the West Nile virus.

Australia joins growing list of nations to ban all foreign visitors.

In an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia on Thursday barred all foreign citizens and nonresidents from entering the country, becoming the latest world leader to enact a wide-sweeping travel ban since the pandemic was declared. The ban will take effect beginning on Friday and follows similar orders in Canada and New Zealand. Mr. Morrison said he had consulted with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand about the ban said it was “essential to take that further step in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus.” “We have already seen a very significant reduction in the travel to Australia by noncitizens and residents,” he added, citing the fact that 80 percent of cases in the country have been linked to overseas travel. Australia has recorded 568 cases and six deaths, a figure that reflects the country’s still-limited testing protocols, experts said. Australian citizens and residents are still able to enter the country from abroad, but must quarantine themselves for 14 days upon returning. Earlier this week, the island state of Tasmania issued an order that Australians from other parts of the country would have to self-isolate upon entering. Mr. Morrison also issued a rare travel notice for Australians seeking to go overseas, advising them not to travel at all anywhere in the world.

Some countries are just better prepared for a pandemic.

This could be Estonia’s moment. As Europe is battered by the coronavirus, the tiny Baltic nation should be relatively resilient: Estonia is known as one of the most tech-savvy countries in the world, potentially a big advantage as the outbreak forces economic activity online. And then there’s Southern Europe, which bore the brunt of the last big economic crisis and will suffer the most. Countries like Greece and Italy depend heavily on tourism and are still suffering the lingering effects of the eurozone debt meltdown over the last decade, including austerity programs that left their health care systems ill prepared for a pandemic. But even countries regarded as paragons of competitiveness, like Germany and the Netherlands, may turn out to have weaknesses that, until a few weeks ago, were regarded as strengths. Germany’s automakers, for example, have dominated the luxury car business. But the virus exposed their dependence on sales in China, and now they are closing factories all over the region.

Rich and famous patients are getting tested while other Americans are being denied.

Politicians, celebrities, social media influencers and even N.B.A. players have been tested for the new coronavirus. But as that list of rich, famous and powerful people grows by the day, so do questions about whether they are getting access to testing that is denied to other Americans. Some of these high-profile people say they are feeling ill and had good reason to be tested. Others argue that those who were found to be infected and then isolated themselves provided a good example to the public. But with testing still in short supply in areas of the country, leaving health care workers and many sick people unable to get diagnoses, some prominent personalities have obtained tests without exhibiting symptoms or having known contact with someone who has the virus, as required by some testing guidelines. Others have refused to specify how they were tested. Such cases have provoked accusations of elitism and preferential treatment about a testing system that has already been plagued with delays and confusion, and now stirred a new national debate that has reached the White House — with President Trump being asked at a Wednesday news conference whether “the well-connected go to the front of the line.” “You’d have to ask them that question,” he replied, suggesting that should not be the case. “Perhaps that’s been the story of life. That does happen on occasion, and I’ve noticed where some people have been tested fairly quickly.” The question burst into public view this week after the Brooklyn Nets announced Tuesday that four of their players — including Kevin Durant, one of the biggest stars in the N.B.A. — had tested positive. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York criticized the dynamic, writing on Twitter that while he wished the athletes “a speedy recovery,” he did not think the N.B.A. should be getting tests for its athletes while critically ill patients were kept waiting. “Tests should not be for the wealthy, but for the sick,” he wrote.

Keeping yourself and your things germ free.

Getting rid of germs is at the top of your mind, and washing your hands properly is the first step in that process. But what about your phone, which you likely handle all day? Here are some tips to help. Reporting and research was contributed by Javier C. Hernández, Marc Santora, Megan Specia, Melissa Eddy, Katie Rogers, Lara Jakes, Ana Swanson, Nicholas Fandos, Emily Cochrane, Megan Twohey, Steve Eder and Marc Stein. Read the full article

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Saint of the Day – 9 September – St Peter Claver S.J. – Priest, Religious, Missionary, Confessor, Patron of the missions to African peoples and human rights defender, Apostle of Charity.   Also known as • Apostle of Cartagena • Slave of the Blacks • Slave of the Slaves.   (1581 at Verdu, Catalonia, Spain – 8 September 1654 at Cartegena, Colombia of natural causes).   Beatified on 21 September 1851 by Pope Blessed Pius IX and Canonised on 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII.   St Peter Claver (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú (Catalonia) who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, the Republic of Colombia and ministry to African Americans.   During the 40 years of his ministry in Colombia it is estimated he personally baptised around 300,000 people.   He is also patron saint for seafarers.   He is considered a heroic example of what should be the Christian praxis of love and of the exercise of human rights.   The Congress of the Republic of Colombia declared September 9 as the Human Rights national Day in his honour.   Patronage – • African missions (proclaimed in 1896 by Pope Leo XIII)• African-Americans• slaves, against slavery• black missions• black people• Human Rights• foreign missions• inter-racial justice• race relations• seafarers• Missionary Sisters of Saint Peter Claver• Colombia• Accra, Ghana, archdiocese of• Lake Charles, Louisiana, diocese of• Shreveport, Louisiana, diocese of • Witbank, South Africa, diocese of • Apostleship of the Sea.

Claver was born in 1580 into a devoutly Catholic and prosperous farming family in the Catalan village of Verdú, Urgell, located in the Province of Lleida, about 54 miles (87 km) from Barcelona.   He was born 70 years after King Ferdinand of Spain set the colonial slavery culture into motion by authorising the purchase of 250 African slaves in Lisbon for his territories in New Spain, an event which was to shape Claver’s life.

Later, as a student at the University of Barcelona, Claver was noted for his intelligence and piety.   After two years of study there, Claver wrote these words in the notebook he kept throughout his life:  “I must dedicate myself to the service of God until death, on the understanding that I am like a slave.”

In the New World: After he had completed his studies, Claver entered the Society of Jesus in Tarragona at the age of 20.   When he had completed the novitiate, he was sent to study philosophy at Palma, Mallorca.   While there, he came to know the porter of the college, St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a laybrother known for his holiness and gift of prophecy. Rodriguez felt that he had been told by God that Claver was to spend his life in service in the colonies of New Spain and he frequently urged the young student to accept that calling.

Claver volunteered for the Spanish colonies and was sent to the Kingdom of the New Granada, where he arrived in the port city of Cartagena in 1610.   Required to wait six years to be ordained as a priest while he did his theological studies, he lived in Jesuit houses at Tunja and Bogotá.  During those preparatory years, he was deeply disturbed by the harsh treatment and living conditions of the black slaves who were brought from Africa.   By this time, the slave trade had been established in the Americas for about a century.   Local natives were considered not physically suited to work in the gold and silver mines and this created a demand for blacks from Angola and Congo.   These were bought in West Africa for four crowns a head, or bartered for goods and sold in America for an average two hundred crowns apiece.  Others were captured at random, especially able-bodied males and females deemed suitable for labour.

Cartagena was a slave-trading hub. 10,000 slaves poured into the port yearly, crossing the Atlantic from West Africa under conditions so foul that an estimated one-third died in transit.   Although the slave trade was condemned by Pope Paul III and Urban VIII had issued a papal decree prohibiting slavery, (later called “supreme villainy” by Pope Pius IX), it was a lucrative business and continued to flourish.

Claver’s predecessor in his eventual lifelong mission, Father Alonso de Sandoval, S.J., was his mentor and inspiration.   Sandoval devoted himself to serving the slaves for 40 years before Claver arrived to continue his work.   Sandoval attempted to learn about their customs and languages;  he was so successful that, when he returned to Seville, he wrote a book in 1627 about the nature, customs, rites and beliefs of the Africans.   Sandoval found Claver an apt pupil.   When he was solemnly professed in 1622, Claver signed his final profession document in Latin as:  Petrus Claver, aethiopum semper servus (Peter Claver, servant of the Ethiopians [i.e. Africans] forever).

Ministry to the slaves:  Church of St. Peter Claver in Cartagena, Colombia, where Claver lived and ministered.   Whereas Sandoval had visited the slaves where they worked, Claver preferred to head for the wharf as soon as a slave ship entered the port.   Boarding the ship, he entered the filthy and diseased holds to treat and minister to their badly treated, terrified human cargo, who had survived a voyage of several months under horrible conditions.   It was difficult to move around on the ships because the slave traffickers filled them to capacity.   The slaves were often told they were being taken to a land where they would be eaten.   Claver wore a cloak, which he would lend to anyone in need.   A legend arose that whoever wore the cloak received lifetime health and was cured of all disease.  After the slaves were herded from the ship and penned in nearby yards to be scrutinised by crowds of buyers, Claver joined them with medicine, food, bread, brandy, lemons and tobacco  With the help of interpreters and pictures which he carried with him, he gave basic instructions.

Claver saw the slaves as fellow Christians, encouraging others to do so as well.   During the season when slavers were not accustomed to arrive, he traversed the country, visiting plantation after plantation, to give spiritual consolation to the slaves.   During his 40 years of ministry it is estimated that he personally catechised and baptised 300,000 slaves.   He would then follow up on them to ensure that as Christians they received their Christian and civil rights.  His mission extended beyond caring for slaves, however.   He preached in the city square, to sailors and traders and conducted country missions, returning every spring to visit those he had baptised, ensuring that they were treated humanely.   During these missions, whenever possible he avoided the hospitality of planters and overseers; instead, he would lodge in the slave quarters.

Claver’s work on behalf of slaves did not prevent him from ministering to the souls of well-to-do members of society, traders and visitors to Cartagena (including Muslims and English Protestants) and condemned criminals, many of whom he spiritually prepared for death; he was also a frequent visitor at the city’s hospitals.   Through years of unremitting toil and the force of his own unique personality, the slaves’ situation slowly improved.   n time he became a moral force, the Apostle of Cartagena.

Illness and death:   In the last years of his life Peter was too ill to leave his room.   He lingered for four years, largely forgotten and neglected, physically abused and starved by an ex-slave who had been hired by the Superior of the house to care for him.   He never complained about his treatment, accepting it as a just punishment for his sins.   He died on 8 September 1654.

Legacy:  “No life, except the life of Christ, has moved me so deeply as that of Peter Claver”.   St Pope Leo XIII, on the occasion of the canonisation of Peter Claver Many organisations, missions, parishes, religious congregations, schools and hospitals bear the name of St. Peter Claver and also claim to continue the Mission of Claver as the following:

The Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. is the largest African-American Catholic fraternal organisation in the United States.   In 2006, a unit was established in San Andres, Colombia.   The Order was founded in Mobile, Alabama and is presently headquartered in New Orleans. Claver’s mission continues today in the work of the Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) and his inspiration remains among port chaplains and those who visit ships in the name of the Church, through the AoS. The Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver are a religious congregation of women dedicated to serving the spiritual and social needs of the poor around the world, particularly in Africa.   They were founded in Austria by the Blessed Mary Theresa Ledóchowska in 1894. Among the many parishes dedicated to St. Peter Claver are those in Lexington, Kentucky,[1 West Hartford, Connecticut, Macon, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, Simi Valley, California, St. Paul, Minnesota, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Montclair, New Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland and Nairobi, Kenya. Among the many schools dedicated to St. Peter Claver are those in Decatur, Georgia and Pimville, South Africa.   The oldest African American school in the Diocese of St. Petersburg and the oldest African American school still functioning in the State of Florida, is the St. Peter Claver Catholic School.

St Peter Claver’s Relics under the altar at the Church of St Peter Claver in Cartagena

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World’s Best Culinary Schools

The World’s Best Culinary Schools

A career in the culinary arts is a great option for many young people and anyone considering a change. This is the kind of job that requires passion and allows for creativity as well as skill. If you love food, cooking, being creative, working with others and even design, consider a culinary career.

Why Choose a Culinary Career?

In addition to being a fun, meaningful and creative job, working in kitchens and as a chef or cook is also a smart move for practical reasons. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, occupations in food preparation and serving, which includes chefs, cooks, bar tenders and food prep workers, are growing faster than average, at a rate of 11 percent.

This means there will be thousands of new jobs available in the coming years for qualified culinary workers and those willing to learn and train on the job. And you can expect to earn a good living in this field. The average annual salary for chefs and head cooks in the U.S. is $48,460. Top earners in the industry make more than $81,000 annually. 

How to Get into the Culinary Industry – The Importance of Education

Going to school to learn the culinary arts is not strictly necessary or required if you want to work as a cook, chef or other industry professional. However, there are several good reasons to start out on your new career with an academic program:

Culinary school will teach you foundational skills for working in a kitchen.

At a culinary school, you can learn the basics and specialize in things like pastry, baking or mixology.

Some of the best chefs in the world went to culinary school first.

If you don’t have a degree or certificate you will likely start at the bottom in the kitchen, even washing dishes, and have to work your way up to cook.

Training on the job is possible, but it is much easier to advance in a kitchen if you have a culinary degree.

If you’re ready to get started in a career that involves cooking, preparing foods, designing menus and testing recipes, choose your culinary school wisely. There are many good schools and programs, but only a handful can be the best.

10 of the Top Culinary Schools in the World

Many community colleges and vocational schools around the U.S. have culinary programs, but if you’re looking for the best possible food education, you need to look a little further afield. The U.S. is home to a few of the world’s best, but many of the finest chefs trained learned their skills in other countries.

The Basque Culinary Center

The Basque Culinary Center, San Sebastian, Spain. The BCC is renowned internationally as among the best schools for learning not just how to cook, but about nutrition and the science of food, as well as research and innovation. Located in the Basque region of Spain, the BCC was founded in 2011 by Basque chefs and is connected to Mondragon University. It is backed by an international council of eleven of the world’s best chefs. Although it has only been operating for less than ten years, the BCC has quickly become one of the most innovative and highly regarded culinary schools in the world.

Basque Culinary Center (Photo: San Sebastian Turismo)

At the BCC, you can earn a degree in gastronomy and culinary arts or even work toward a master’s degree in specialty subjects like food tourism, pastry, restaurant management, gastronomic sciences and sommelier studies. As a student here, you can even get involved in research projects related to ingredient sources, eating behaviors, personalized gastronomy and more. The on-location research facility is world-class and offers a unique opportunity to combine food and science.

Le Cordon Blue

Le Cordon Blue, Multiple Locations. One of the most recognizable names in culinary education throughout the world is Le Cordon Bleu. It’s also one of the world’s oldest culinary schools. Founded in 1895 in Paris, there are now 35 campuses in 20 different countries. You can study with Le Cordon Bleu in the U.S. and around the world: Madrid in Spain, London, Paris, Istanbul, Brazil, Mexico, China, Lebanon, Tokyo, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Australia, New Zealand and in many other places.

Le Cordon Blue, Paris (Photo: Le Cordon Bleu)

Le Cordon Bleu offers a number of programs for aspiring culinary professionals. The Grand Diploma program provides a comprehensive survey of classic French culinary skills and is considered one of the best programs for multiple career opportunities. You can also focus on cuisine, pastry, hospitality, nutrition, and wine and spirits. With such a large, international network of campuses and professionals, finding work as a Le Cordon Bleu graduate means you’ll have many opportunities around the world.

The Culinary Institute of America

The Culinary Institute of America, Multiple Locations. Known as the CIA, the Culinary Institute is one of the best and most well-respected culinary schools in the U.S. Choose from campuses in Hyde Park, New York on the Hudson River, St. Helen, California in Napa Valley, and San Antonio, Texas, near the city’s famed river walk. Most recently, the CIA opened a campus in Singapore as a partnership with the Singapore Institute of Technology and focused on food business management.

The CIA in the Hudson Valley. (Photo: The Culinary Institute of America)

Founded in 1946, the CIA has been providing a quality education for aspiring chefs for decades. You can choose from shorter certificate and associate degree programs or a full, four-year bachelor’s degree in applied food studies, culinary science, food business management or hospitality management. The shorter programs in baking and pastry arts or culinary arts are more than adequate for starting a kitchen career. Classes are conducted in small groups and students have a chance to learn hands-on and by working in the campus restaurants.

School of Hostelry and Hofmann Restaurant

School of Hostelry and Hofmann Restaurant, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona in Spain is home to several world-class culinary schools and programs. Founded in 1983 by Mey Hofmann, the Hofmann Group consists of the School of Hostelry, which is the culinary school, the one-Michelin star Hofmann Restaurant, Taverna Hofmann, a more casual restaurant, and the Hofmann Pastry Shop. The School of Hostelry is a benchmark program in Europe, and students here benefit from the restaurants and pastry shop, which are world-renowned.

(Photo: Hofmann Barcelona)

The Hostelry Program teaches students the basic knowledge and foundational skills for kitchen work, but also emphasizes creativity, innovation and experimentation with food and recipes. Students work in learning labs but also have the opportunity to work in the Hofmann Restaurant, the Taverna or the Pastry Shop to hone their skills and get valuable experience in one of the world’s finest kitchens.

Hattori Nutrition College

Hattori Nutrition College, Tokyo, Japan. A truly unique culinary school, Hattori in Japan accepts international students and focuses on training chefs who understand nutrition and how food benefits people. This is the underlying philosophy of the school—founded by Iron Chef Yukio Hattori—which gives students the chance to learn skills for a culinary career as well as additional knowledge about health, nutrition and the healing properties of foods.

(Photo: Hattori Nutrition College)

Some of the courses you can take at Hattori include nutrition, culinary skills, culinary business administration and patisserie. You’ll graduate from this school with the opportunity to work in restaurants but also as a nutritional consultant, food and nutrition coach, nutritionist or recipe developer.

The School of Artisan Food

The School of Artisan Food, Welbeck, United Kingdom. Another unique international program is available at an excellent facility in the UK known as the School of Artisan Food. The school is focused on teaching the slow art of crafting truly artisan food products, with courses on bread making, cheese making, brewing, butchery, charcuterie, preserving and more. The school is known around the world for teaching these unique, traditional skills and is associated with Nottingham Trent University.

Welbeck Estate (Photo: Nottingham Trent University)

Much of what the School of Artisan Food offers are short courses for locals and tourists. But there is also an advanced diploma program for students specifically interested in becoming artisan bakers. If bakery work is in your future, consider this special program. Here you’ll learn traditional baking techniques in practical courses, artisan patisserie and the business of crafting and selling artisan foods. Graduates of the program go on to work in bakeries, patisseries and in product development. The program also prepares you to start your own business making and selling artisan bread.

International Culinary Center

International Culinary Center, New York, New York. The International Culinary Center, or ICC, began as the French Culinary Institute in 1984 and evolved over the years into one of the world’s leading educators of chefs and bakers. The goal of the founder was to bring professional, French culinary education to the U.S. and specifically to students in New York. The philosophy of quality training in an immersive environment and classic French style continue, and students come from around the U.S. and the world to study here.

The International Culinary Center

The ICC offers a few select and focused programs to train students to work in the culinary profession. The classic course is the Professional Culinary Arts program, which can also be completed with an intensive farm-to-table course of study added to it. The Professional Pastry Arts program can train you to begin working as a baker or pastry chef. You can also add courses in cake techniques and decoration or international bread baking to this program. Finally, the ICC offers an Intensive Sommelier Training program if you’re interested in becoming a wine specialist.

Institute of Culinary Education

Institute of Culinary Education, New York City and Los Angeles. ICE is a large school with two campuses to serve students on the east and west coasts. It is a world leader in training chefs, bakers, pastry chefs and restaurant managers. The school began in 1975 and now has several programs that take between six and 13 months to complete. ICE programs have won numerous awards from organizations like the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

(Photo: Institute of Culinary Education )

Some of the alumni of ICE include famous New York restaurateur Marc Murphy and food journalist and Top Chef host, Gail Simmons. Like these star chefs you can learn the culinary trade at ICE with programs in Culinary Arts, Pastry and Baking Arts, Health-Supportive Culinary Arts, Restaurant and Culinary Management, and Hospitality and Hotel Management.

Ferrandi

Ferrandi, Paris, France. Ferrandi in Paris has been teaching and training new chefs for nearly 100 years. This school is unique in offering a wide range of programs, from short, vocational training courses to master’s degrees. In addition to the main Paris campus, students can study at two other locations just outside the city and one in Bordeaux. The educational philosophy at Ferrandi is to blend traditional classroom and kitchen learning with real-world work in local restaurants, hotels and other companies. All students benefit from internships.

Ferrandi

The programs you can choose from at Ferrandi include French pastry, French bread baking and French cuisine. Students can also combine tracks or earn a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and management or a master’s degree in hotel management. Programs are available in both French and English to meet the needs of international students.

Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts

Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, Austin, Texas and Boulder, Colorado. This legendary American cooking school is based on classic French techniques. The namesake of the school, Escoffier, was a French chef who revolutionized cooking by beginning the tradition of formally training chefs. The school bases its programs on Escoffier’s philosophy of discipline and exacting techniques for French cooking.

Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts

Both Auguste Escoffier campuses focus on two main types of programs: culinary arts and baking and pastry. With just two programs, the school has been able to develop the coursework and instruction into some of the finest training anywhere. World-class chefs are the instructors and the classes are small, student-focused and hands-on. You can also take courses online and receive hands-on training through an industry externship.

A career in the culinary arts is both exciting and rewarding. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, making food and interacting with others, you may love being a chef. Other careers in the industry include management, consulting and research and development. What all these careers have in common, besides food, is that the best way to get started is with a good education. Culinary school sets you up for success in the industry, providing a foundation that will help you land your first job and propel you upwards as you advance in your culinary career.

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[evoldir]

Course: Barcelona.InferenceInBiogeography.Dec11-15

Dear colleagues, This course might be of interest to the people in this list: MODEL-BASED STATISTICAL INFERENCE IN ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOGEOGRAPHY - 2nd Ed. Instructors: Dr. Dan Warren (Macquarie University, Australia) and Dr. Matthew Van Dam (California Academy of Sciences, USA). Place: Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spain). Dates: December 11th-15th, 2017. PROGRAM - Monday; Organization and introductions. Spatial data in R. Point data, vector data, and raster data. GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Interacting with Google Maps. Working with raster and vector data. - Tuesday; Ecological biogeography. ENM / SDM concepts and assumptions. Dismo. Conceptual issues with ecological inferences from distribution data. Simulating species occurrence data. - Wednesday; Testing ecological hypotheses via Monte Carlo methods. ENMTools R package. Ecospat. Questions of taxonomic scale. Incorporating niche conservatism into the modelling process. - Thursday; Phylogenetic biogeography. How to read and use phylogenies. Short history of historical biogeography methods and assumptions. Likelihood-based statistical model choice. New probabilistic models for historical biogeography in BioGeoBEARS. Biogeographical stochastic mapping. Using BioGeoBEARS and interpreting results. Including geographical and environmental distance in models. Using QGIS basics and creating paleo areas. - Friday; Integrating in phenology (NCDF & other data sources) in SDM and trait evolution. Integrating biogeography with biotic interactions (e.g. insect host plant interactions). Running analyses over multiPhylo objects (posterior distribution) and interpreting results. Help session for student projects. Wrap-up. Organized by: Transmitting Science and the Institut Catal de Paleontologia M. C. More information: http://bit.ly/2rpHgeU With best regards Sole Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD. Scientific Director Transmitting Science http://bit.ly/1gdSpYn Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno via Gmail

[areusittingcomfortably]

Here’s a link to the article about Santi from the Saturday section of El Mercurio on 21 January 2017. Between Google Translate and my school girl Spanish, I’ve had a go at translating, but Chilean Spanish is full of slang, and I can’t translate some of the expressions! I’d ask a Chilean friend to help, but I don’t think she’s come round yet since I sent her the photos! 😉

It’s a beautiful interview, but I’m warning you, you may need some tissues. Particularly when you think back to that scene when Aramis talks about not having children… “in another life, perhaps”. I’m glad they had the miracle in this one.

Here’s the (edited, but still with a few strange expressions) translation:

The path of Santiago Cabrera

Scene 1: Los Angeles, early 2005. In an attempt to get better opportunities as an actor, Santiago Cabrera comes to live in California, United States. His agent had insisted that he should settle there. The first few months were miserable, he remembers today: after going to dozens of castings for movies and series, his phone did not ring. Without contact networks, his savings were gone.

“What am I doing here?” I asked myself. For a moment I faltered and said, “Maybe this is not for me.”

Scene 2: Los Angeles, February 2007. It’s Oscar night and Cabrera is in a limousine with his wife, the German theater director Anna Marcea, on the way to the traditional Vanity Fair party, which summons the biggest stars of the event. As one of the protagonists of the series of television Heroes, that swept in hearing, he lives a moment of greater success.

“I’m getting out of the car and Martin Scorsese is just in another limo. He had just won his first Oscar as director for The Departed. I stood looking at him and there were a lot of people standing behind a fence, waiting to see the arrival of the celebrities. Then I feel that they start to shout all: “Santiaaago!”. There I realized the power of the TV: I was in front of Scorsese, but the fans recognized me.”

Santiago Cabrera (38) never thought about being an actor. Affable, charismatic, and with a neutral accent but sprinkled with Chilean, he remembers that his dream was to be a footballer and get to play in Real Madrid or Barcelona. As a boy, living in Spain, he was offered to join Atletico Madrid cadets. But, as at other times, he had to leave behind the opportunity and follow the path of his father, Pedro Pablo Cabrera, who made a long diplomatic career - he was Chile’s ambassador to London, Moscow, Beijing and the Vatican. And to each of his destinations, he took his wife and three children. The actor was born in Caracas, and then lived in Toronto, Bucharest, London, and Madrid.

When he was 2 years old, in Canada, Cabrera says he spoke half English, half Spanish. He got used to leaving behind friends and schools, but they always told him that his home was in Chile. They returned a couple of times a year. In fact, he completed third and fourth basic, in addition to all his middle school, in the College of St. Benedict, which was near his home in Vitacura.

“I was always scared to arrive in a new country, a new school. I was shy, which meant being alert to how I was going to be received. I always thought about being here, but I came back for two years then I wanted to go. I caught the travel bug.”

When leaving the school he studied psychology at the University Diego Portales, thanks to a sports scholarship, while playing in cadets of Catholic University. Coach Óscar Meneses told him that he had conditions [possibilities?]. But, for him, it was too late for football.

“At semi-professional level I was a scorer, but when I played more professional football, I realized that there were always about 10 guys better than me and that frustrated me. I was always starting, but they did not put me on the front, so I realized I was not going to reach a high level.”

Have you ever regretted not finishing psychology?

“No, it was not my thing.” He was pure pichangueando and rolling [it was all fun and games?]. It was a good party, half a bottle of pisco, the whistle and remain as a shoe [getting drunk and having hangovers?]. But he had to stop. “I tried to be the rebel, the [busted? wild guy?], and over the years I realized that I am not like that, and I am content not to be like that.”

In his third year, Cabrera left his course and, at 20 years old, went to London to study acting. Two years earlier he had discovered that he liked it, he recalls, after doing a play about Mozart, so he followed that impulse. In England he got a job in a bar and entered the Drama Center, from which actors such as Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth or Tom Hardy, have graduated. After three years of study, he quickly got an agent.

“My first part was in a play by Shakespeare and I thought about the acting life. I was super innocent about the industry, but I did the audition, and got the part in Empire, which at the time was the biggest series, and then it was less so. But when they gave it to me, in Hollywood many were waiting to see who they were going to give the role to, so there was a lot of interest in representing me. I was an idealist, I wanted to do cinema, art and theater.” He regarded Hollywood suspiciously.

In Hollywood actors must endure many rejections, how do you deal with it?

“They hurt when you’re interested in the project, but now I reject it.”

What does he say no to?

"The bad guy, the Latin drug dealer and when it is for my looks. I try to break the Latin stereotype, I consider myself a character actor, and although there are always exceptions, I do not want to fall into that. Today, in the United States and England, they are trying to do more diverse projects, but I get the audition and in the description of the character it says: “We seek any ethnicity.” You go to a casting and everyone is black, Latino, Indian, and Asian. Then you ask: why am I in this category and not in a lead role? It’s super strong. They believe that Latin is a race and not a culture. There has to be a day when this changes, that inclusion is not just about meeting the quota.

Of the Chilean actors who live in the United States, Cabrera has been the most constant in the last 15 years. Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, Narcos) and Cote de Pablo (NCIS) have achieved success with serial productions, but do have not had the CV that Santiago does: besides Heroes, he participated in the series Merlin; In Alcatraz by JJ Abrams; In Steven Soderbergh’s film about Che Guevara; In the HBO mini-series Hemingway & Gellhorn, alongside Nicole Kidman; In the miniseries Anna Karenina; And for three years he played Aramis in the series The Musketeers, which can be seen on Netflix.

Despite rubbing shoulders with high-profile projects, Cabrera has only relative fame in Chile, and he’s aware of that.

“Here I pass super piola (pass mainly unrecognised?), people only recognise me after looking at me for a while. One time a Chilean asked me what I was doing, I told him that The Musketeers had finished and he asked me what character I played. I answered him and he looked at me in surprise: "Ah, you are one of the Musketeers!” He recognized me but he thought I was extra, and that already seemed good to him. I think my fame could be double that of Bruce Willis and it would be the same in the media here. I think everything is measured by the same rod in Chile. But I understand, we are a smaller country, we are not accustomed to it.”

Do you care about recognition in Chile?

“I think if I cared that much, I would have made the effort to be more recognized. People tell me that I have to promote myself more, but I’m content, because the work dictates everything. Now I have a mini-series on HBO and Transformers, concrete things. I feel more relaxed talking about my work. US Weekly magazine has wanted to do a feature in my home and I have always said no. I do not feel comfortable, I do not sell my life, but the work I do.“ If he were on TV in Chile, he would probably be more recognised. "They offered me several years and I always said no, I think they got tired. But I’m not closing the door, only saying no for now.”

Don’t you care about fame?

“I don’t. I am more withdrawn and quiet, perhaps, but I am willing to be high profile if I am in a project that deserves it. I see people who are very famous and most are looking for it. There is a tremendous confusion with being popular today, they do not care what project you do, they respect how much you earn for the film. If people say, ”He was a good actor, but he could have been promoted more”, I could die content.

Cabrera goes to a casting for a movie that interests him. While reading the script, the casting director - who already knew him - puts on a strange face, which he translates as “this role is not for you, but I like what you’re doing.”

Then she says: “I’ll pass on another project that may interest you: Transformers 5.”

Did it interest you immediately? Didn’t you have reservations?

“I acknowledge that I had reservations. When she told me, and she is a casting director who does really good things, I thought: “Transformers number what?”. I hadn’t seen one.

Transformers 5: The Last Knight, which opens on June 23, is Cabrera’s first blockbuster. The film, he says, will be a huge showcase for him: movies 1-4 grossed over $1 billion worldwide and now similar figures are expected, with a cast featuring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, and John Goodman.

“Transformers is an opportunity for an actor, because there is a possibility that your name is there and that will open other doors or fund projects. But I was also interested in the background of the character and the work we did with the American special forces to prepare me. It was a great experience and is the biggest I’ve done, because they have also put me in the group of protagonists. ” He says in the film he will play a retired military man who is now a mercenary and who leads a squadron called TRF that fights the Threat of the Transformers. If all goes well, he says, his character could be in the sixth part of the franchise.

In order to work on the film, which finished filming on December 10, the actor had to be interviewed by Michael Bay, director of the series and known for films such as Armageddon or Pearl Harbor. Initially, the meeting would be in his office, but at the last moment he decided to do it at home. There they talked for a while in the garden, until Bay said:

“Let’s do a couple of scenes, shall we read some?”

Cabrera was not expecting it.

“I stopped, read the texts, he told me a few things and then said, "Already, we are, now I have to go talk to Anthony Hopkins on Skype,” and he left. From his reaction, I thought he had not been much impressed, but the casting director looked at me and thumbs up.“

The other big project that he will be inthis year is Big Little Lies, an HBO miniseries premiering on February 19th. Based on the novel by the same name, by Liane Moriarty, and adapted by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal), it’s produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, and its cast is completed by Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas buyers club), tells the story of three mothers with children who are involved in a mysterious crime, while Cabrera plays the role of a theater teacher who is key in the plot. He can not tell much more about the role, he says, only that almost all his scenes are with Witherspoon.

"In almost every scene I was alone with Reese, and the atmosphere was very creative, because as she was producer, she offered space to play around and improvise. We talked a lot, she is a grounded and intelligent person, very prolific in projects. In fact, she told me that she would love to work with me again. And with Nicole Kidman we only had a couple of scenes, but as we had acted together before, there was a big hug; she is a very nice person.”

The first day of work in the miniseries, he remembers, in particular: he arrived at the set and sat at a desk to familiarize himself with the context of his character. As he read, the lights went down and a voice shouted, “Action!” “I saw the camera above and I froze. I feel a few tacos and it was Reese coming up to me to start the scene. Obviously, we shot it more times, but that adrenaline was incredible. That night I could not sleep, it’s one of the reasons I say: "That’s why I like my partner so much.”

For 15 years, Cabrera has been married to Anna Marcea (40). They met in London, when he studied acting, and at the time decided to have a civil wedding. It took two weeks to decide and do it.

“I phoned my mom, they were in Moscow, because my dad was an ambassador there, and I said, "Not this Wednesday, but the other one, I’m getting married.” There was a long silence. Then I learned that my dad said, “Let him write a letter, this can not be, things are not done that way.” Anna was known to her, but we were impulsive.

It took years for you to be parents, why?

“Since we were young, we did not have money at the beginning, so we did not want to. And when we decided to have a child, it did not come. First it was three years that we did not, then we started with the treatments, and we lost a pair, it was really hard.”

It must have been suffocating for you as a couple.

“A lot. So much so, that we talked one day and she said, "I can’t take more, I need to take control of my life.” Because physically they were affecting her, there were so many hormones that she had to take, and emotionally it was terrible that it did not work. She told me she could not do it any more. I was in Prague recording The Musketeers and it was a very hard week. We came to the conclusion that we were very fortunate to be together and that we would be a couple with no children. And accept it just.“

Among the treatments to get pregnant, did she postpone her career?

“Yes, but in addition to resuming her career, it was also to resume her life, because she had to take care of herself all the time to get pregnant. It was a project of life that took us years and didn’t work out, so there was a sadness in our home, a tremendous emptiness … And that same month we talked, she became pregnant. Imagine: to be eight years trying, with all the hours to achieve it, the in vitro treatment, and all that did not work, but then suddenly it happens in a natural way. It was a miracle. That’s why we called him Kilian, which means "warrior.” In addition, it was a 24-hour delivery, born with a tremendous knot that could have complicated things.“

Santiago, Anna, and Kilian - who was born last April - arrived on vacation in Chile a month ago. They were in the house of the actor’s parents in Cachagua and now they will go to the south.

"I want to settle here, I was seeing some places to buy something on the coast, I’ll see something in Pucón too. In Los Angeles I also want to buy (there he leases a duplex in West Hollywood), to be with one foot here and the other outside. I did not feel so Chilean until I lived here between the ages of 15 and 20, but I had a strong relationship since I was a boy, and I want to give my son that opportunity, so that he knows his country.”

PS: if anyone can help improve this translation, by all means send me a message!

Here you go - I think this might be a better translation! http://santiagocabrera.net/2017/01/santiago-cabrera-sabado-interview-el-mercurio/

[wineanddinosaur]

VinePair Podcast: Which Drinks Will Dominate Summer 2021

This week on the “VinePair Podcast,” Adam Teeter, Zach Geballe, and Joanna Sciarrino discuss which drinks will dominate summer 2021. While the Margarita had its moment last year, our hosts discuss the newest wave of trendy sippers that listeners can expect to see on menus throughout the warm months.

While Sciarrino surmises that the Midwest hard seltzer smoothie trend — a mash-up of between of hard seltzers, smoothie beers and fruit-forward IPAs — will take over the nation, Teeter is certain that the Cosmopolitan will be this season’s biggest hit. Finally, Geballe believes that we will see the return of large-format and visually stunning drinks this summer.

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Adam Teeter: From VinePair’s New York City headquarters, I’m Adam Teeter.

Joanna Scarrino: And I’m Joanna Scarrino.

Zach Geballe: And in Seattle, Washington, I’m Zach Geballe.

A: And this is the “VinePair Podcast.” And Zach, now you’re back to being the only one who’s working from home.

Z: As it always has been.

A: I mean, look, we’re still hybrid until September, but this feels good, man. It’s nice to be back in the office in Manhattan, just hanging out. What’s been going on with both of you guys, though?

J: Just keeping on, you know?

A: What else? What have you consumed that is in liquid form since last week?

J: Since last week? Let’s see. This past weekend, we had a few friends over to our roof. It was about 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity, so it was quite hot. And we had some Cynar Spritzes, and they were very, very good.

A: Look at you. You’re totally on trend.

Z: Not to spoil our topic, but is that a big trend right now?

A: I’m seeing a lot of people posting about it: “If you like Aperol and you like Campari, you’ll like Cynar.” It’s very funny with a lot of drinks influencers, people now want to show you that they’ve discovered something new. Nonetheless, Cynar is delicious. What was your recipe, Joanna?

J: We didn’t really use a recipe. We eyeballed it, so it was some Cynar, Prosecco, club soda, and Castelvetrano olives.

Z: Oh, olives? Interesting.

J: It’s a nice switch up from the Aperol Spritz.

A: Totally. That sounds really delicious. Zach, I think I told the story before about an olive and a spritz that resulted in Naomi never wanting to ever drink spritz ever again. Correct?

Z: Oh, my goodness. I don’t know the story. It sounds tragic, though.

A: Oh, it’s the best. For those that are regular listeners, you know that my wife has been a vegetarian since she was five. Basically, we were in Barcelona. And I think it was the first year that the spritz was really big. Aperol had pushed massive campaigns. A bunch of people told us about this amazing tapas restaurant on the beach owned by, I don’t know, one of these famous chefs who actually had a really fine-dining restaurant in Barcelona. You couldn’t get a price fixe, but he had this great tapas restaurant on the beach. We walked down to the beach in Barcelona. We’re sitting on the beach, and we thought to order spritzes because that was the thing that everyone is doing these days. We ordered them and they came with olives. And I’m enjoying my spritz and Naomi says, “Oh, I’ll eat the olives.” She puts the olives in her mouth and she says, “Adam, can you please eat one of these olives?” I said, “Why? I’m just enjoying my spritz. I don’t want to eat the olive right now.” And she said, “Please, right now, do it right now!” So I take the olive off the stick and I’m eating it. And I say, “Oh yeah, there’s definitely anchovy in this.” She literally got up and puked. Now she doesn’t trust a single spritz with an olive in it. Anyways, that’s my funny olive story.

Z: You see all kinds of weird shit with olives in Spain. It’s true.

A: Joanna, I mean not to be a creeper, but I also saw on Instagram that you seemed to have gone to a really nice restaurant recently and had some delicious cocktails as well, correct?

J: Yes. I was also going to mention that I went to dinner with my brother the other night at a restaurant called Dr. Clark in Chinatown. It’s a Japanese Hokkaido restaurant. And we had their house Martinis, which are made with Nikka Gin and Bermutto, which is this Japanese vermouth that I think Tim has spoken about on the podcast before. And it was really citrus-forward and really, really delicious.

A: Wow, that’s awesome.

J: Yeah, I’m not a huge gin person, but I know Tim really loves the Nikka gin.

A: Yeah, Nikka is delicious.

J: Give it a try. It was really great.

A: That’s awesome. What about you, Zach?

Z: I think the two things I’ve had recently that I really enjoyed was a bottle of some Chardonnay from a producer in Oregon. That’s Brickhouse, which is up in the Ribbon Ridge up in the Chehalem Mountains. And I probably have said this on the podcast before, but I’m a real believer in the current concept of Chardonnay in Oregon. For a while, the Willamette Valley was really pushing Pinot Gris as a white wine that they produced, even though for a variety of reasons, I think it’s in some ways better suited for both Chardonnay and Riesling. Then, there’s been a big resurgence in interest in Chardonnay. Some of it has to do with just getting better about where they’re planting it, which clones they’re using, etc. What’s great about Willamette Valley, Chardonnay occupies a unique position from what I’ve experienced on the West Coast, where it isn’t, generally speaking, going to get to the levels of ripeness that you find in much of California or here in Washington. The best ones are not made purely in lean, stainless steel. They’re not afraid of some oak, at least used oak, if not new oak. They want to get texture in the wines but because it’s not as hot, you’re not getting the tropical fruit notes that you find in a lot of West Coast Chardonnay, but more of the apple and citrus fruit that you can also find in Chardonnay, so that was really great. I also think about the other thing I had recently, and it’s funny because we’re all in a spritz mode. My wife — I guess I haven’t announced this on the podcast — is pregnant.

A: Congrats.

J: Congrats!

Z: Thank you! We’ve been playing around with some low-ABV options for her, because as with our first kid, definitely not not drinking at all, but got to be more cognizant of just how much. She’s a big Aperol Spritz fan, and she would certainly eat the anchovy-filled olive, just to note. I would say that one of my favorites of late is that I’ve been trying to make livened-up, diluted versions of classic cocktails. So I’ve made a Paper Plane that I served her long. More recently, I did essentially a Last Word. Actually, I take it back, it wasn’t really a Last Word. It just had lime juice and green Chartreuse as well a little bit of absinthe in it. It was really good, and I actually made one for her. I was going to have something else, but I ended up just having one of these for me, too. It was very tasty. If we’re moving past just Aperol in our spritzes, then Chartreuse is another great classic liqueur that fits that format really, really well and offers a different set of flavors than Aperol. What have you been having, Adam?

A: Thanks for asking. I was waiting. First of all, we had a staff party on Friday of last week, which was pretty awesome.

Z: I saw you sabering a bottle with an Amex.

A: First of all, I only did it because I saw that a friend of ours, Philippe, who’s a friend of the podcast, do it, and I just want to see if it could be done. I feel like I looked like a real jerk on Instagram when it was posted. But it was cool.

Z: I mean, it worked. That’s awesome. That’s all that matters.

A: Yeah, it was cool to know that you could do it. I was like, really? A credit card will actually saber a bottle of sparkling wine? And it did, so that was cool.

J: It was for the people.

A: It was research. But we had some delicious things there. Josh’s favorite beer, Grimm, made an appearance, of course, one of their IPAs. We had some really delicious rosès, Ameztoi Txakolina. Is that huge in Seattle or is that just a huge one here?

Z: Txakolina rosé?

A: No, the specific producer Ameztoi. They’re on our list.

Z: I don’t recognize the label on the top of my head, so let’s go look at the top 25 list you’ve been talking about, and I will let you know if I’ve seen it.

A: Interesting. We also had some really cool Beaujolais. Then, after Joanna, you left. Basically all day long, Tim McKirdy had a flask of Cynar with him, and he was convinced he was going to get people to pizza luge. For those who have not read Aaron Goldfarb’s article on our site about pizza luging, basically it’s this new phenomenon. People are taking it from “BoJack Horseman,” where it originated, I think. It is where you take a shot of Cynar and you run it down with a slice of pizza, and you drink it.

J: Well, it evolved out of the bone luge.

A: Yes, express fat washing. Tim is convinced he’s going to get people to do it. Finally, enough people had left where I thought, “If I make a fool out of myself, it’s OK.” Because apparently, it gets all over you. We figured out a way to do it where it doesn’t. Actually, you eat the tip of the pizza first, the pointy end, and then you make a luge. I did it, Josh did it, and Tim did it.

Z: With different slices of pizza or the same one?

A: No, different. You do it, and then you’re supposed to eat the slice of pizza. Basically, all it actually does is infuse the flavor of Cynar onto the pizza. It doesn’t do anything to the Cynar. It’s really just for the fun of it. Then, the pizza does have a flavor of Cynar, which was nice, but I did it. So that was the most exciting thing I did since I last spoke to you guys. I pizza luged.

Z: Somehow that video didn’t make it to Instagram.

A: No, I refused to allow anyone to have their phones out. I would not do it again because I don’t see the point. But now, I can at least say that I have done it.

Z: Adam, I looked up the Txakolina rosé and yes, this one is big. The Getariako one. It’s funny because Txakolina is one of these weird things where for me personally, I enjoy the rosé a lot. The whites, I can’t do because they’re just too crazy acidic for me. Some of those wines that you call the “enamel scrapers” are so high on acid. The rosés I really like, they’re delicious.

A: Cool. Let’s move on to the conversation we get to have every year but is always fun, which is: What do we think the biggest drinks of the summer are going to be?

Z: Cynar pizza Luge?

A: No. So you’re hearing this after Memorial Day. It’s always a really fun thing to reflect on. And since Joanna’s the newb, I think we should start with her.

J: All right. All right. We recently published this article about hard seltzer smoothies. It’s a trend coming out of the Midwest. It’s a mash up between the hard seltzer and smoothie beers and fruit-forward, hazy IPAs. I think that’s going to be a big trend this summer. Along those lines, I recently saw a sangria slushie made with sour beer and have been seeing a lot of beer slushies, too. I saw one at Torch & Crown, which is a brewery in Manhattan made, with IPA, fruit juice, and served with a Fernet floater.

Z: Whoa, that sounds like an adventure.

A: Yeah, that sounds like the most hipster drink you could possibly have. And to be fair, the Fernet is actually Faccia Brutto, which I love but is also like a Brooklyn Fernet. It’s all the things. Very, very funny. I could see those, potentially.

Z: Can you explain to me Joanna, because I read the article, but it was a couple of weeks ago now. What exactly is a hard seltzer smoothie? How does that make sense? Are they blended, or what?

J: There’s real fruit juice in hard seltzer, and it’s canned. It remains effervescent still and fizzy, and it’s kind of thick, as I understand. I haven’t had one. I think it’s the bottled smoothies that you might get at the grocery store. That type of consistency.

A: It’s similar to the smoothie beer trend, which was also really thick. A lot of the time they use lactose to give it this consistency. They’re starting with the base which is basically the same base you would use to start to make seltzer. Yeah, I don’t know. It was an interesting article to me. I don’t see the appeal. I think it’s this other way to deliver flavor in an interesting way. It’s for people who are looking for that really big fruit flavor and that mouthfeel that you do get with a smoothie beer, but you’re not getting the beer-type stuff. You’re getting more of the clean, pure fruit you get when you drink a seltzer, if that makes sense. Whereas when you drink smoothie beers, a lot of it is like the smoothie IPAs where you’re getting the mango and the guava. Then, you’re also getting the hops and stuff like that. And that’s not happening here. It would just be mango-guava seltzer smoothie. You would taste mango-guava, and there would be that thicker mouthfeel.

Z: That is very interesting. It actually feeds into one of the trends I wanted to talk about. I think we are in the middle of a resurgence in, for lack of a better word, thick, rich mouthfeel drinks. I think it’s cyclical. This is the kind of thing that just comes and goes. And I think we are coming back to this era of wanting body in whatever we’re drinking. You’re seeing these smoothie hard seltzers as an example. I think you’re seeing a lot of talk about egg white cocktails again, which had a big moment in the early days of the craft cocktail surge, but then fell out of favor because they are a pain in the ass to make. We’ve done a number of interviews with producers of RTDs, and I have a couple more coming up. One of the things that we’ve talked about is that one of the crucial things to try and get right in some of these cocktails is the mouthfeel that you get when you stir a cocktail or shake a cocktail that you can’t really replicate if you’re just drinking it straight from the can. How they try and match what we expect texturally from some of these drinks, especially things like citrus-based drinks or even things that just tend to have more viscosity to them. I think that you’re even going to see this again and maybe we’re already seeing it with wine. Typically, we think of summer as exactly what you were talking about before, Adam. Rosé and stuff like that. I really do think we are in this period where we’re moving back away a little bit from super-lean, super-low-alcohol, crisp wines as the only white and rosé that people want to drink in the summer. And I think that there is a way in which — whether it’s because they’re using these wines as complements to food where you do want a little more body in some cases — I think it ties into what the mood that people are in, which is that austere wines are great for austere times. This is a weird, jubilant moment in this country where people are going back to their lives and they want to do fun shit and they want to be with each other. And I think there’s a way in which these wines with more texture, and drinks in general, feel a little more celebratory. I don’t know, that may just be a projection on my part, but that’s what I’ve seen of late, which is interesting to me.

A: I definitely think we’re seeing a return to richness. We’ve talked about this before, but we are seeing a return to things that were big in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. And a lot of that is being driven by Gen Z. One of the biggest jokes that millennials have about what’s happening on TikTok right now and on Instagram as well, if you follow those two platforms, there’s been a lot of these specific posts of, “Let me show you the secret place that you need to know about in x City.” It’s like PDT. We knew about PDT years ago, but it’s cool that you just discovered it. There was one really funny one last night that someone sent me that someone posted: “Oh, my gosh, I don’t want this place to blow up but you need to go to Vinegar Hill House now.” Someone said, “That restaurant’s been around since 2008.” It’s cool that you just found it, and we’re happy for you, but that is a very successful restaurant that’s been around for a very long time. And I think we’re going to see a return of people rediscovering cocktails that maybe aren’t really hot right now but that were hot 10 to 15 years ago. They are bringing them back, and one of the cocktails that I am convinced is coming back in a big way is the Cosmopolitan.

J: I’m seeing it on a lot of menus now.

A: A ton. This isn’t just me. Our data is supporting it if you start looking at the trends of what people are looking for in cocktails. I did an interview earlier today with the people who own Tattersall Distillery in Minneapolis, which I didn’t realize they’re doing 40,000 cases in sales after only six years of their spirits, which is insane. Their fastest- selling RTD is this new one they just came out with that’s a Cosmo. It’s in a full 750-milliliter bottle. And I asked them why they decided to do the Cosmo. They said a lot of these local distilleries have a cocktail bar connected, and it’s the No. 1-selling cocktail in their bar besides the Old Fashioned. Also, I’m sick of the genderization of drinks. Can we just get over it? If I want to drink a pink drink, it’s cool, man. No one’s saying you’re less of a man for drinking a pink drink, but what they’ve done is they make what they call a Cosmopolitan Bianco so it doesn’t have the pink color. He said it’s ordered even more by men than women, which I think is really interesting. And all they did was take the pink color out of it.

J: It’s just cranberry juice.

A: Yeah, they’re still using a cranberry flavoring, but they got rid of the pink. Also another thing that we talked about on this podcast before that he reiterated in the conversation is that they have a really hard time getting men in their bar to order any cocktail that is served in a coupe. I f*cking love a coupe, so I don’t care. Dante in the West Village in New York was the No. 1 bar in the world in 2019 and has an entire menu devoted to the Cosmo and Cosmo riffs. On the Rocks, which is probably the biggest RTD brand right now, they’re definitely the fastest growing, and Beam Suntory fully bought them out recently. One of their most popular skews is the Cosmo, another well-made one. You also have the return of “Sex and the City” and all this other stuff happening, and I think the Cosmo is going to be huge and we’re going to start seeing it a lot more. I think the brands that jump on it now are going to be really smart. Everyone else could think back and say, where were we? How did we miss this?

Z: I wonder why it stopped being taken seriously. A well-made Cosmo is a f*cking delicious cocktail. I don’t know, maybe because it’s vodka, maybe because it got gendered because of “Sex and the City.” I don’t know. I definitely went through a long stretch where people were afraid to order it. They’re saying, “I don’t want a Cosmo. What else do you have?” I would say, “Why don’t we make you a Cosmo? It’s a great drink.”

J: Aren’t there a lot of really badly made Cosmos, though?

A: Yes. I think we’ve talked about this before, but maybe we haven’t talked about it with you Joanna. I think what happened was that Cosmo was really popular, and Toby Cecchini, who made it famous. It’s still debatable if he invented it, though. Some people say he did. He’s a great bartender, and he invented it at the Odeon. Now he owns Long Island Bar in Brooklyn. He had a great drink, but then it spread across the country. There started becoming poor man’s iterations, including vodka with cranberry juice. It went from a drink that was really balanced with obviously the cranberry, the Cointreau, and the vodka. It’s really a delicious sour, right? All of a sudden, it converts into this crazy thing that’s just easier to make and not that good. People are squeezing lime into it and then it just became synonymous with bad bars and just getting wasted. I think that it was almost the reaction to the vodka cranberry. Then, it was reverberated up to the Cosmo, and it disappeared. Then, there was just the backlash of everything, especially ‘90s drinking culture in general. There was a time where it was the only cocktail. It was all you saw. What I think is funny is that they’re really, at this point in the country, two main cocktails, right? The Margarita is No. 1 and the Old Fashioned is No. 2. I mean, how many times do you walk into a top cocktail bar — and a third, I would say, of the drinks, you hear ordered are Old Fashioneds. There’s no backlash against those. I don’t know, I think it got unfairly targeted and also it got wrapped into the whole hatred of vodka and vodka not being a serious spirit. That fueled the hatred of the cocktail for whatever reason.

J: Speaking of pink drinks, what do we think about the color-changing spirits? They are everywhere now. Empress Gin. I’ve seen a lot of these color-changing gins.

Z: Yeah, that’s a fascinating one. I think that is something Adam and I talked about a while back when we were thinking about ways in which the bar scene might return post-Covid is, I think, the show will be a big part of it. There’s no doubt that color changes, or spirits that will noticeably but not as dramatically change color as you add ingredients or dilute them, will be very popular. I also think you could feed into this with the idea of the visual. I was in a restaurant that I might be working at going forward that serves several cocktails that are essentially smoked and served under a bell jar of smoke. All that stuff was popular beforehand. But again, it’s this idea in general of supporting an $18 cocktail on a list, and you have to have that visual flair component. Also, it’s a thing that very few people are going to do at home, but at a bar can be put together in a way that is maybe not easy, but is a lot more manageable than it is at home. I think that you’re right; that is going to be a big deal in these settings. You think about how cool that looks, not just to you, not just to the people at your table, but the people next to you. Bars rely on that as a big way to sell the next thing. I think we saw this, too, and we might see this again coming back: large-format drinks. Another area where that visual impact of that landing on the table or on the bar top is a huge thing. I think when we’re talking about drinks in bars, in particular, we’ve forgotten a little about them because most of us haven’t been in bars lately with those big, showy displays.

A: Yeah, I think we are definitely going to see large formats. I don’t know about you both, but I’m already seeing a snapback where there were things I think people were worried about, such as being at crowded bars again. Already I’m seeing people being more than willing to be in crowded spaces. I’m hearing about big events and stuff. The large format, especially the ones that are just really showstopping where you and your friends can all split this flamingo filled with some crazy cocktail, are definitely going to come back in a big way because, again, that’s just what people are looking for. And I do think that people are going to be looking for drinks that feel extremely celebratory this summer. The other thing we haven’t talked about, which obviously is the big elephant in the room, is Prosecco rosé. It’s just hitting the American market, and unfortunately for them, they already realize they probably didn’t make enough of it this year, so I think it will sell out pretty quickly. You combine bubbles that feel celebratory with pink, which is what has always been everyone’s favorite, and it’s just going to be this massive behemoth on the market this year. Some people are going to poo-poo it and say it’s stupid. But the majority of people are going to love it and are going to think it’s absolutely delicious. They’re going to buy tons and tons and tons of bottles of it because it just feels like what you should do right now. You’re getting together with people and popping bottles. I think that’s the one that is almost stupid for us to talk about, because if you haven’t realized that’s already going to be a trend and you listen to this podcast, then I would assume you’re interested in the drinks business and you just haven’t been paying attention because it’s going to be everywhere.

Z: I did an interview with Jessica Tomei, the winemaker for Cupcake, and we definitely talked a lot about Prosecco rosé and how much faith they have in that category as being a huge source of growth for them. They’re not alone, obviously.

A: Yeah, they’re not. Anything else? Do you guys have any other drinks? Any sleeper hits?

J: I don’t know. In this conversation that I was having with my friends over the weekend, we were talking about a bit of Aperol Spritz fatigue. That was the impetus for the Cynar Spritz, but maybe even more inventive Spritzes, as we mentioned earlier.

Z: I think that’s a great one. I think it’s very true. I also think that we talked a year ago during this podcast about fruit. That in cocktails, whether it’s fruit juices, fruit purées, things like sangria or infusions, are all going to remain really big because, again, it comes back to this notion of celebration, which is always a big part of summer every year. But it’s going to be tenfold this year. I think that so many people have a lot of stuff. They bought a lot of booze over the pandemic and might not know exactly what to do with it. Things like punch become like the natural outlet for that. That’s basically why it was invented. We’ll dump a bunch of shit in a bowl, add some fruit, and it’s good. I agree, most of the time it is. It’s hard to screw up punch. You can do it, but you’ve got to try. My wife and I have been joking for years about this because we’ve got a punch bowl as a wedding present, which is one of those things that you only ever get as a wedding present. I think we would never go out and buy one ourselves. We keep saying this will be the year, but we actually made plans to have people over to have punch in June. This will actually be the year that punch bowl will get used.

A: Nice. I keep thinking if there is going to be any indie stuff that’s going to be happening. But again, I think there’ll be a lot of Champagne drunk this summer. I agree with you, Joanna. There’s going to be a little bit of people looking for alternatives to the spritz while still wanting the spritz. I think we’ll see the Daiquiri continuing to be popular. The Margarita as well. But I’m pretty bullish that the biggest drink will be the Cosmo.

Z: There you go. That and everything lemonade-flavored, right?

A: Oh, yeah. That’s another given. It’s just going to be more and more lemonade. More lemonade than you can handle. There’ll be some more fruit punch stuff because now you’re seeing that coming out from some of the seltzer producers like Truly.

Z: More ‘90s nostalgia. Fruit punch. Oh my goodness.

A: Again, it all comes in waves.

Z: Is Hi-C going to make an RTD?

A: Dude, maybe. They always say culture in the United States is either influenced by the West Coast or the East Coast. Right now, it really does feel like we’re still in a West Coast moment. I believe the East Coast is going to push back pretty soon, and then maybe we’ll go back to again, the dimly lit cocktail bars and the Old Fashioneds and the Manhattans, which could be any month now, but not yet. Oh, and this goes without saying: tequila. Come on. Lots of tequila. Well, this has been great. Joanna, I know you’re off next week because you’re on vacation. I know that we’re a little annoying, but to already have to take a break after only two episodes?

Z: Well, you have to come back and tell us exactly what you drank on vacation.

J: I’m going to keep a list.

A: And Zach, I’ll see you next week.

Z: Sounds great.

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