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Cucumber Gouda Sprout Sandwich
Ingredients
2 Tbsp (30 mL) light cream cheese, softened
1 tsp (5 mL) chopped fresh dill (or 1/4 tsp/1 mL dried)
2 slices rye, whole wheat or gluten-free bread
4 slices cucumber
2 Tbsp (30 mL) quinoa sprouts
1/2 tsp (2 mL) balsamic vinegar
2 rings sliced red onion
1 slice Gouda cheese
Directions
1. Combine the cream cheese and dill and spread on each slice of bread.
2. Place the cucumber on 1 side. Toss the quinoa sprouts in the balsamic vinegar and place on top of the cucumber. Add the red onion and top with the Gouda cheese and the remaining slice of bread.
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"Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life."
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
Africa internet use hits 2,000 per cent growth
Growth of Internet use in Africa has superseded global average in the last decade reaching 2,000 per cent compared to the global’s 480 per cent. The significant growth is attributed to information technology (IT) developments in the continent in recent years including improved means of connectivity such as links with the global fibre-optic cables, declining prices of computers as well as increasing access to mobile phone Internet enabled handsets. However, a report by a market research company, Frost &Sullivan, still shows that Internet penetration is still lower in the continent compared to the developed world.
We live everyday with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr‘s bravery and ideology, but today in the United States we observe the Martin Luther King Day holiday to honor his birthday. King saw how struggles across Africa and Asia during the turbulent 50s and 60s were connected with his own in the United States. The photo above is of King and his wife Coretta Scott King at the independence celebration in Ghana in March 1957. Here is King speaking of that trip and the passing of the “old order” at Western Michigan University on December 18, 1963:
I can remember when Mrs. King and I first journeyed to Africa to attend the independence celebration of the new nation of Ghana. We were very happy about the fact there were now eight independent countries in Africa. But since that night in March, 1957, some twenty-seven new independent nations have come into being in Africa. This reveals to us that the old order of colonialism is passing away, and the new order of freedom and human dignity is coming into being.
But not only have we seen the old order in its international dimensions, we have seen it in our own nation in the form of slavery and racial segregation. We all know the long history of the old order in America. It had its beginning in 1619 when the first slaves landed on the shores of this nation. They were brought here from the soils of Africa. Unlike the Pilgrim fathers who landed at Plymouth a year later, they were brought here against their wills.
Happy MLK DAY!
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Nigeria restores fuel subsidy to quell nationwide protests
Nigeria’s president has announced the government will subsidise fuel prices to immediately reduce the price to about $2.75 (£1.80) a gallon amid a crippling nationwide strike over the removal of the oil subsidy. President Goodluck Jonathan also claimed provocateurs have hijacked the protests and demonstrations, which have seen tens of thousands march in cities across the country. Jonathan offered no other details on his claim, but his address on the state-run Nigerian Television Authority showed how worried his government had become by the demonstrations. “It has become clear to government and all well-meaning Nigerians that other interests beyond the implementation of the deregulation policy have hijacked the protest,” Jonathan said. “This has prevented an objective assessment and consideration of all the contending issues for which dialogue was initiated by government. These same interests seek to promote discord, anarchy, and insecurity to the detriment of public peace.” Jonathan’s speech came after his attempt to negotiate with labour unions failed late on Sunday night to avert the strike entering a sixth day. The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdulwaheed Omar, said early on Monday morning he had ordered workers to stay at home over Jonathan’s fears about security, but that might not keep people away from attending mass demonstrations like one in which more than 20,000 people show up in the country’s commercial capital of Lagos. The strike began on 9 January, paralysing the country of more than 160 million people. The root cause remains fuel prices: Jonathan’s government abandoned subsidies that kept prices low on 1 January, causing prices to spike from $1.70 a gallon (45 cents a litre) to at least $3.50 a gallon (94 cents a litre). The costs of food and transportation also largely doubled in a country where most people live on less than $2 a day. Anger over losing one of the few benefits average Nigerians see from living in an oil-rich state led to demonstrations across the country and violence that has killed at least 10 people. Red Cross volunteers have treated more than 600 people injured in protests since the strike began, officials said. Jonathan and other government officials have argued that removing the subsidies, which are estimated to cost $8bn a year, would allow the government to spend money on badly needed public projects across Nigeria, with its cratered roads, little electricity and a lack of clean drinking water for its inhabitants. However, many remain suspicious of government as military rulers and politicians have plundered government budgets since independence from Britain in 1960. The strike also could cut into oil production in Nigeria, which produces about 2.4m barrels of crude a day and remains a top energy supplier to the US. A major oil workers association threatened on Thursday to stop all oil production in Nigeria at midnight on Saturday over the continued impasse in negotiations. However, the Nigeria Labour Congress said the association had held off on the threatened production halt. I guess a lot happened while I had no internet (yes. again.)
