The Prancing Pony Podcast has a discussion with Greg Hildebrandt.
For those of you who are culturally naive, WIKIPEDIA PAGE
and the website of the Brothers Hildebrandt.
Starwars, Tolkien, pinups and Fulton J Sheen....
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GetReligion discusses the Crown Of Thorns rescued from the Notre Dame fire and gives a quick history of relics in the Roman and Orthodox churches.
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Strategy page gives the background:.
Russia, Pakistan, China vie for influence in Central Asia.
China's new silk road vs Russia's rebuilding their empire. What could go wrong?
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Traditionally, do gooders give freebies to poor people, but an alternative is the capitalist idea to spread prosperity one employee at a time.
While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together.
John Bachelor has an interesting discussion of a book about a gourmet restaurant in Rwanda.
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Related item: Environmentalists work with the Rohingye refugees.
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Don't miss it: Space.com has a map of where you can watch the solar eclipse tomorrow.
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the plastic stuff in the Pacific is more due to lack of garbage collection in Asia than straws from California, and I had written earlier about how "sachets", i.e. the cheap one time use packets that the poor can afford, are part of the problem.
So there is now an experimental program on recycling these sachets.
Over the years, the collected sachets were converted into energy, cement pavers and, recently, through a partnership with the Villar Sipag Foundation, into school chairs that are donated to public schools. This grassroots program based on collective action yielded inspiring results. In 2018 alone, the Company reported that it was able to collect over 310 metric tons of flexible waste thus successfully diverting this from our waterways. Read more: https://business.inquirer.net/267806/surf-unilever-sustainable-living-program-misis-walastik-campaign#ixzz5sNZLuyf9
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