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EDINBURG — The board of trustees of the local school district received an updated plan for the previously proposed $229 million bond that might be put up for a vote this fall, but the price tag might change to nearly $238 million.
On Tuesday the board received another update during a regular workshop meeting on a bond issue that has been discussed in open meetings since early 2018. The board was presented with tax increase options for different amounts ranging from a minimum of $169.5 million to the nearly $238 million.
If the bond is included in the upcoming May election, the board must approve putting the bond before voters by February 15.
“We are trying to finalize an amount that we can go out to the community (with),” said Edinburg Superintendent Rene Gutierrez. “The immediate decisions are to prioritize which projects we will be working on… we are almost near final with the board in the discussions that we’ve had.”
Since early last year, district officers have been tasked with researching the district’s facility needs as well as where growth is expected to occur, which in this case is in the far northeast area of the district.
The current tax rate is set at $1.2398 per $100 valuation, and the bond would mean this could increase the rate anywhere between $1.25 to $1.29, per $100 valuation.
For a home valued at $100,000, district officials estimate the maximum tax increase would be about $50 annually, while the minimum would be $10.
“We finished paying a bond loan in 2017 and then we are also going to finish one in 2020,” Gutierrez said. “We’ve been good at paying our notes so it’s going to allow us to look into borrowing new money… and the opportunity to go out for very few amount of pennies.”
The original wish list presented April 2018 also changed from nine new buildings – one high school, two middle schools, one elementary and five career and technical education centers – to five new buildings – one high school, one middle school, one elementary and two CTE centers.
On Tuesday, B2C Engineering and Gignac Architects presented the cost of all possible choices. All new buildings would come at a total cost of $241,413,726, compared to the previously estimated $227 million for the then foreseen nine buildings.
The board would also have to decide whether to include classroom additions at Monte Cristo Elementary and Villarreal Elementary, as well as gym additions and renovations at 17 other schools throughout the district.
These upgrades and additions would come at a cost of about $22.5 million, according to the presentation.
The board was also presented with properties better suited for the placement of the new buildings. These are located between Mile 8 and Tres Lagos; Rodger Road and Cesar Chavez; and La Sienna 93 and 40 Acre Tracts.
The most expensive location to develop due to needed infrastructure and access roads would be Tres Lagos, priced at $3 million. The second-most expensive location was the one near Rodger Road, which came at a cost of $2.25 million.
The least expensive location was La Sienna at $2.1 million because all utilities are adjacent to the site, the firms said, and there are fully developed and paved roads running east to west and north to south of the location.
The lot was described as big enough to fit a new middle school and a new high school with a CTE facility.
All three locations are located near the expected growth as evidenced by two demographic studies recently conducted, and all three lots already belong to the district.
“Four or five years ago, we conducted a demographic study, and that showed us where the growth of the areas were then, and where they would be trending in the future,” said Edinburg Board President Robert Peña. “Then we conducted a second demographic study this year and that second study is also confirming those trends and showing us that the locations where we are projecting these campuses to be and where we have available land are holding true.”
While not all items in the wish list might be attainable under this potential bond issue, the board is now tasked with narrowing down the list to the most immediate needs.
“We want to be definitive about our ask from the very beginning, and we want to be definitive about our needs and what’s going to unfold from the bond from the very beginning,” Peña said.
The superintendent said it is clear to them that the secondary schools — middle schools and high schools — are currently under the most need, not only for upgraded facilities but for overall space as most have resorted to portables to meet enrollment needs.
“We’ve been looking at our needs and we’ve identified the needs mainly at our secondary level,” Gutierrez said. “We are overcrowded and we need to relieve some of those schools that have an excess number of students. Practically all of our secondary schools have portables. All of our middle schools, high schools.”


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“Midget, Sprint & Champ Dirt Highlights Vol. 3” spans the 1930’s to the mid-1960’s from tracks all across the US including: Langhorne, Williams Grove (real audio), Ascot, Indiana State Fairgrounds, Ho-Ho-Kus Speedway, Flemington and many more!
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I have stayed in 15 hostels and motels across 3 continents, and this is the best budget accommodation I've ever stayed at. Heck, it's even better than some cheap hotels.
The staff (especially the owner, Brett) are super friendly and helpful with the planning of our day, including recommendations for activities to do and down to details like places to grab a good meal/buy cheap groceries.
They're also a booking centre, so you can just go to the reception and they'll give the place a ring/book online. I was going to go paragliding, but one of the staff AQ called the place for me and was informed that the weather was bad. Then 2 hours later I ran into Brett at the computer room and he offered to call again to see if the weather permitted paragliding. He wasn't even the one who called earlier on, so I was very impressed by how he took note of what his guests needed or wanted.
The place itself is fantastic with sturdy bedframes (no shaking bunk beds!), non-saggy mattresses, and extra pillows and blankets to ensure a good night's sleep. There's also a free supply of tea and coffee and spices, the biggest and most well-stocked kitchen I've ever seen, an activity room with group activities at night to get to know other people if that's your fancy, free hairdryers, free wifi (extremely rare in NZ), free international phonecalls, free printing, plentiful power points in both the bedroom and common rooms...
The location itself is also perfectly situated at the heart of QT, but it's nice and quiet at night for sleeping.
It all sounded too good to be true on their website, but they provided everything they promised and more. I only regret that I had to check out and move on to the next city after 2 days of fantastic accom and sleep.
All my thanks to to owner and staff of AQ hostel for running such an amazing hostel and their hospitality!
(when we checked in, Brett showed us around the place and my friend asked him, slightly stunned after seeing all the facilities, 'How do you afford all these?'. And Brett answered, 'By being excellent'. Now that I'm basically gushing non-stop about the place, I understand how providing an excellent hostel has led to the success of the place.)
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Seattle Socialist City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant is introducing a resolution for a vote by the Seattle City Council demanding the Biden administration stop blocking the Intellectual Property waivers for the COVID-19 vaccines. Below is the text of a mass email sent from her office.
Rapid dissemination of vaccinations is at the center of the strategy by public health professionals to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. But globally, there are shockingly deep inequities in the access to the vaccine. This is putting countless lives at serious risk. Profit-driven big pharmaceutical companies, with the blessing of the Biden Administration, are blocking Intellectual Property (IP) waivers that would allow poor countries (formerly colonized countries) to produce the Covid-19 vaccine!
Big pharmaceuticals are making obscene profits, selling 87% of all vaccines to rich countries, with 1 out of every 4 receiving the vaccination to date. Meanwhile, in poor countries, only 1 out of every 500 people have received the Covid-19 vaccine! This is putting at risk the lives of billions. Furthermore, it could lead to a future reemergence of the Coronavirus, including new strains in rich countries.
The Biden Administration can help resolve the problem immediately by waiving Intellectual Property rights for vaccines. This call is supported by hundreds of organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch. The U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said, “A Covid-19 vaccine must be seen as a global public good, a people’s vaccine.”
That’s why on Monday, April 26, my office will bring forward a resolution for a vote by the Seattle City Council, to join the 400+ organizations calling for the Biden Administration to stop blocking the Intellectual Property waivers for the Covid-19 vaccine. People Over Profits!
Given billions of dollars in Big Pharma profits are at stake, we will need a strong grassroots movement that escalates the pressure on Biden and the Democratic establishment to respond to our just demand! Working people globally need to stand in solidarity with one another. We have to recognize that the laws under capitalism – including global trade laws – are set up for profit maximization for the elite in all countries, at the expense of all working people, especially in the global South.
Instead of waiving Intellectual Property, the Biden administration is attempting to exploit the inequities, recently agreeing to share surplus vaccines with Mexico, but only in exchange for Mexico cracking down on emigration to the United States.
Arguments that pharmaceutical companies deserve such massive profits as reward for innovation or that they are necessary to develop future vaccines and treatments have no basis in reality. These self-serving lies from the capitalist elite ignore, among other things, the overwhelming reliance of for-profit pharmaceutical corporations on publicly-funded technology development and on the hard work and dedication of researchers who take home modest salaries. For instance, Katalin Kariko, one the heroes in the development of mRNA technology for the vaccines, spent her career going from lab to lab, supported by government grants, never making more than $60,000 a year.
Of course, big pharmaceuticals profiting off human misery is nothing new. When medical technology considerably mitigated the risk of AIDS, it took almost a decade before countries in the global South like South Africa, could benefit from them. This was not because of any technical factors around the cost of production or distribution of the AIDS drugs, but because of patent monopolies. Similar examples abound, such as with the price of insulin, and the price of drugs treating cystic fibrosis and tuberculosis, illustrating the global significance of this issue. The opioid epidemic of recent years is yet another tragic example of pharmaceuticals profiting at the expense of ordinary people, and of this failed for-profit healthcare system as a whole.
It’s also no coincidence that even though nearly 80 percent of Democratic voters support Medicare for All, the Democratic establishment is completely beholden to the healthcare profiteers, and notoriously opposes this popular demand. By 2018, for example, the five members of Congress who comprise the Democratic National Campaign Committee’s top leadership positions had received nearly $3 million in contributions from the healthcare industry in their careers.
The Biden Administration’s policy of blocking the Covid-19 Intellectual Property waivers is an enormous gift to Big Pharma and the billionaire class in general, at the expense of ordinary people worldwide. Other powerful billionaires, like Bill Gates, have also relied heavily on Intellectual Property protections to amass their wealth. We will need a movement of ordinary people to pass a resolution in Seattle City Council and pressure the Biden Administration to allow the IP waivers on the Covid-19 vaccine, and put the health and lives of billions of ordinary people worldwide over the insatiable greed of the pharmaceutical companies and billionaires.
I look forward to being alongside you in struggle. Please contact my office if you or your labor or community organization would like to help us win this City Council resolution!

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Looking back at three catastrophes, the high yen, the tsunami and the Thai flood, a Japanese auto executive said to me last spring: “We’ve gone through hell, and made it. What else would be there, war?” He was close. A war of words over rocks in the East China Sea destroys Japanese car sales in China, while Korea profits. (Read More…)
Toyota’s China sales dropped 44.1 percent year-on-year to about 45,600 units in October, The Nikkei [sub] says. Toyota confirmed the number. A territorial dispute over uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea triggered a massive boycotts of Japanese goods, especially of high-profile cars. In September, Toyota’s China sales were down 40 percent in September.
A company owned by China’s central government is taking it on the chin as Chinese customers avoid Japan branded cars. Dongfeng reduced production at its joint ventures with Nissan and Honda, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Amount or duration of what the company calls “production adjustments” is unknown. (Read More…)
The boycott of Japanese goods in China, triggered by a dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, hit Japanese automakers where it hurts most: In the pocket-book. Honda cut its profit forecast for the fiscal year to March to 375 billion yen ($4.7 billion) from its earlier estimate of 470 billion yen ($5.9 billion), Reuters says. (Read More…)
Sales of Japanese cars in China dropped 40 percent in September as a result of the islands rumpus. The shares of Nissan, Toyota and Honda shares lost about 10 percent of their value. Chinese state-owned enterprises lost much more. (Read More…)
The violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in China appear to be over, and intestinal complications aside, it seems to be safe again to eat sushi in Beijing or Shanghai. State-owned media however is trying its utmost to keep the matter on the front burner, so to speak, in a very insidious way. (Read More…)
Cratering China sales due to the islands row made Toyota revise its production targets. Worldwide production by the Toyota Group including Daihatsu and Hino “now looks likely to reach around 9.8 million units to 9.9 million units for the calendar year instead of the currently projected 10.05 million units,” The Nikkei [sub] says.
Toyota may be cutting back its global group production by 200,000 units in the 2012 calendar year, writes Reuters, as a reaction to sharply reduced sales in China after the island row. Toyota’s China sales were down 49 percent in September. (Read More…)
Japanese carmakers and their Chinese joint venture partners lost big-time in the spat over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. The winners are German carmakers and their Chinese joint venture partners. Oddly enough, the central government ends up with a shot in the foot. (Read More…)
Some have quietly or openly been hoping the GM could cash-in on the misery of Japanese brands in China. It’s not happening. Sales across all of GM’s Chinese joint ventures were up a marginal 1.7 percent in September while sales of German marques received a boost. (Read More…)
Toyota’s sales in China took a big hit in September, reports by the Yomiuri Shimbun and Reuters say. Executives of Japanese carmakers are putting on a brave face when it comes to China, but are worried that their significant China business could become a casualty of the East China Sea troubles.
No official data are available yet, but the Yomiuri says that Toyota’s September sales in China “halved,” after many Chinese customers canceled their orders in September. Reuters talks about a 40 percent reduction. A senior Toyota executive told the usually very reliable Reuters that Toyota sold about 50,000 cars in China in September, down from about 86,000 in September 2011. (Read More…)
On Monday, Japan’s prime minister Yoshihiko Noda presented a new and improved cabinet, tailcoats and all. Apparently, that cabinet has few friends in Japan’s auto industry.
Akio Toyoda, who took over the rotating chairmanship of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association last May, sent a surprisingly strongly worded address to his new leaders. Speaking on behalf of all JAMA members, Toyoda said: (Read More…)
Japanese carmakers are worried about their sales in China after Japanese cars were smashed and dealerships torched during large scale anti-Japanese riots in China last month. As a first indicator that Japanese cars may be falling out of favor in China, Mazda reports via Reuters that September sales in China dropped 35 percent. (Read More…)

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My regular visits to Castlebar are never complete without a walk around beautiful Lough Lannagh – the urban park and walking trail that is a recreational oasis in the heart of Mayo’s county town.
Located just off the old Westport Road – and close to some of Castlebar’s busiest shops – the 1.9km walking trail skirts the pretty lake that gave the park its name.
There are several entrances and exits to the park and, on this occasion, I took the entrance near the Mayo Peace Park although further along the road there is a car park and the trail will take you by the famous Lough Lannagh Holiday Village.
What I love most about the Lough Lannagh Loop is that it’s a wilderness preserved in an urban setting – and, at the same time, it has all the best features of a municipal park.
I love the way children’s playground and outdoor exercise machines for adults fit in perfectly in the wild setting of native woodland – and natural habitats of tall grass and wildflowers along the lakeshore.
A recreational haven for young and old
The lake with its ducks, swans, and boat jetty is crossed by an impressive single-span pedestrian bridge that is an aesthetically pleasing design in this tranquil setting of lake, woodland and green space.
The bridge is busy throughout the day with walkers, joggers, parents with pushchairs, and children running for the playground on the other side of the lake.
From the bridge, you have a lovely view of Croagh Patrick in the distance – a reminder that Lough Lannagh is part of the Great Western Greenway that now extends all the way to the National Museum of Country Life following the opening of the Castlebar to Turlough Greenway.
The lake itself is brimming with coarse fish stocks, making Lough Lannagh popular among coarse anglers, lured by its famous tench.
The continuing development of Lough Lannagh as a place for active recreation in Mayo has received a huge boost with the announcement that the park is also to be home to a new national outdoor pursuits academy and new 25m swimming pool which will be built between Lough Lannagh Holiday Village and Castlebar Tennis Club on Lough Lannagh Road.
And the newly-opened Castlebar to Turlough Walking and Cycling Greenway, which starts in Lough Lannagh, is a 7km trail that leads to the magnificent grounds of Turlough Park.
My recent Saturday afternoon walk took me by the playground and over the hill taking in the beautiful views of the surrounding countryside before exiting on the Newport Road.
Lough Lannagh is a unique, multi-functional recreational haven for young and old in the heart of Castlebar that is a credit to Mayo County Council.
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Nice post that captures the walk perfectly.


In South Tarawa, life takes place along a road.
It is Kiribati’s capital and main atoll, made up of several small islands connected by a string of causeways. The atoll is about three meters above sea level—roughly the height of a bus—and has an average width of just 450 meters.
It is also one of the most densely populated places in the Pacific: this narrow stretch of land encompasses about half of the country’s population of 110,000 people.
Just one road runs through it all, connecting Betio in the west to Bonriki in the east. People live beside it, it takes people from village to village, to schools and hospitals, people sell their goods by the roadside, and the flow of vehicles and people is constant.


Doctors Transplant Vein Grown from Patient's Own Cells
Scientists built a vein made entirely of human tissue for a 10-year-old girl.
June 13, 2012 — -- Scientists in Sweden are reporting a medical first: a vein grown in a lab for a 10-year-old girl using her body's own cells.
Doctors are hailing the step as a milestone in tissue engineering, a field in which doctors grow windpipes, bladders, lungs and other organs to replace faulty ones while avoiding the dangerous, lifelong complications of organ transplants.
While a handful of doctors around the world have had success growing blood vessels and other organs and transplanting them into patients, doctors said this is the first time a vein has been lab-grown and successfully transplanted using cells and parts taken entirely from the human body.
"To many of us working in this field, it is a validation of what we believe will be a revolution in medicine," said Dr. Adam Katz, director of plastic surgery research at the University of Florida.
Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, one of the authors of a report on the transplant published today in the Lancet journal, said the experimental procedure could someday bring promise to patients needing new blood vessels for dialysis or coronary bypasses.
"It is very difficult to find suitable arteries and veins to use for these patients," she said. "It would be good to create a personalized artery and vein for them."
Sumitran-Holersson and her colleagues grew the vein for a 10-year-old girl who had a blockage in the vein connecting her intestines and spleen with her liver. The rare condition can cause life-threatening bleeding, delayed development and even death. The patients often need a graft of a vein to replace the blocked one.
But traditional vein grafts are complicated. Doctors usually cut deep into patients' legs or necks to harvest their own veins to replace defective ones elsewhere, putting the patients at risk of an additional, traumatic surgery. Another option is using man-made vessels as replacements, but those are prone to dangerous clots and blockages and virtually guarantee that the patient will need a lifelong course of drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the vessel.
In this new approach, doctors took about 3.5 inches of a vein from the groin of a 30-year-old deceased donor and, in the lab, scraped away all of the donor's cells, leaving just the protein scaffolding of the vein. Doctors then took cells from the bone marrow of the 10-year-old girl and seeded the vein scaffolding with them. Then, for two weeks, they waited for the cells to grow.
The result was a blood vessel engineered entirely from human tissue. When surgeons took the vein and used it to replace the faulty vein leading to the girl's liver, normal blood flow was restored almost immediately, the researchers said.
The vessel had to be repaired after nine months when hardened scar tissue in the girl's body put too much pressure on the transplanted vessel.
A year after the transplant, the girl has grown nearly 2.5 inches, gained 11 pounds and has even taken up light gymnastics. So far, her body also shows no signs that it will reject the vein. But doctors will have to make sure that the vein and the liver stay healthy.
"When we met her last week, she was somersaulting and talking away," Sumitran-Holgersson said. "So far, she is doing very well."
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I have been observing with great interest in the recent past, the many very animated debates and media coverage about the two very important medical issues prevalent in our country: Surrogacy and Unrelated Kidney Donation. This has taken center stage because of the recent move by the government to introduce the Surrogacy Bill and the press coverage of the events of unrelated transplants in well-known corporate hospitals in Delhi and Mumbai, culminating in the arrests of reputed doctors, administrators and the patients as well.
Let’s examine these medical issues closely and debate the similarities and differences between the two and debate as to why the public perceptions are so different.
Surrogacy is a procedure wherein couples or individuals, unable to have a child for various reasons, have the ovum fertilized by the sperm of the partner and implant this embryo in a surrogate, who then carries it in her womb for 9 months. This is usually done by couples who are infertile for various reasons, single parents, those who wish to be single parents and same-sex couples. Though there is an option of adoption in these cases, some opt for surrogacy because of the sense of joy and fulfilment of having one’s own child. In most of the cases in our country, due to the absence of an altruistic surrogate, a paid surrogate mother is used.
An Unrelated kidney donation and transplant is a desperate measure taken by a patient with kidney failure who needs a transplant but is not able to get a related altruistic donor or a deceased donor transplant (Cadaver transplant) because the waiting period may run into years and very few of these transplants are done
Both these procedures provide immense benefits to the recipients:
In surrogacy, there is an immense joy and a sense of fulfillment for a childless individual of bringing a new life into this planet that is of their own flesh and blood.
In case of an unrelated transplant, it is truly a gift of life for the recipient with kidney failure who would have had a slow painful death without the transplant. One procedure brings in a new life for the parent, while the other gifts the person with a second life. Unfortunately, both these procedures in most instances depend on non-altruistic subjects, many a time money exchanging hands and also in some cases middlemen being involved with exploitation of the donors.
Now lets us look at the risks of surrogacy to the surrogate vs the risk to a living kidney donor.
In surrogacy, the surrogate carries the baby in the womb for 9 months and the childbirth may be normal or may need a caesarean section for delivery (the rates of which may vary between 20 to 40% depending on the clinical situation). It is also to be noted that many surrogates are older and multiparous since they might have had children of their own earlier, and this may increase the risk.
Though pregnancy is considered a safe physiological event unfortunately there is a small risk of serious complications including fatality as evidenced by the death of one our most versatile actress Smita Patil due to post partum complications. The risk of complications of pregnancy (some minor and others major) may be in the range of 10 to 20% and the overall maternal mortality in our country is about 174 per lakh depending on the risk factors and the need for Caesarean section (of course the risk in a rural maternity setting is much higher than in an urban corporate hospital setting).The risks are certainly higher for rural impoverished women in developing countries.
With regards to Living kidney donation related or unrelated ,it is a well established medical procedure being performed for well over 60 years and is considered a very low risk ,accepted medical procedure. Now a days with laproscopic surgery (key hole surgery ) most donors are discharged home by 3 to 5 days and can resume regular work in a couple of weeks .The risk of complications mostly minor is around 3% and mortality is about 2 to 3 per 10000 surgeries. The risk of any chronic (long term ) complications are also low
All in all if one compares surrogacy with unrelated kidney donation and transplant both are very beneficial medical procedures with huge psychological boost for a childless couple with the former and truly a gift of life for a patient with kidney failure with the latter.
Both have very few complication rates: Kidney donation is a very short stay in the hospital whereas with surrogacy the surrogate carries the baby for 9 months and may need a caesarian section in some cases. The overall mortality is low in both instances.
Unfortunately in both these enormously beneficial medical events, surrogacy and kidney donations happen for non altruistic reasons; money may exchange hands, middlemen may be involved and exploitation of the impoverished does happen.
Even though both these procedures have many similarities, it appears the public perception ,perception of the media ,and celebrities is that Surrogacy is acceptable but Unrelated Kidney Donation is an aborrhent crime.
Many celebrities have openly accepted non altruistic surrogacy and have had surrogate babies but no one has accepted or endorsed the possible benefits of non altruistic kidney donation.
On the contrary unrelated kidney donations have had serious negative publicity and many well known doctors administrators and even patients have been arrested for this so called crime.
The million dollar question that needs to answered is Why is renting a womb more acceptable than buying a kidney :One gives the happiness and fulfillment of the desire to have a child and the other gives life to a dying patient and both of them have somewhat low risk of serious complications
Though all of us would condemn the exploitation of the impoverished citizens by middlemen ; the civil society should debate, deliberate and come up with an answer to this question which to me is certainly a burning issue right now.
If we accept paid non altruistic surrogacy, let’s be fair and accept paid unrelated kidney donation too; If we consider the former unethical and unacceptable then let’s do the same with the latter but let’s use the same yard stick to judge both is my contention.
Let the society be the judge.
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SMS was starting to improve. I felt so badly that he was sick on the vacation. There were a few silver linings like at least it didn’t happen in the mountains and that he felt better by the time we flew out but, overall, it was a bummer. I am fairly certain he has sworn off raw cheese for the next several years.
We walked around in the morning, following tips from the “Tastemakers” featured in the Zurich city guide app. We went to Milchbar for coffee and pastries.
Then we checked out the two famous churches: Grossmünster and Fraumünster, with its famous Chagall stained glass windows. We stopped in Schwarzenbach Kolonialwaren (specialty store), which had delicious-looking items but none that we purchased. For lunch, we stood in line at Sternen Grill and ordered a very delicious hot dog.
Then we went to West Zurich where I showed SMS the cool sights I had discovered the day prior. Then we went back to the hotel where SMS rested up while I went down to the lake to check out the Manifesto!
There was a huge floating wooden dock/structure with outdoor movies playing and multiple places for jumping into the water. I went swimming in the lake and it felt absolutely amazing.
After my swim, I met up with SMS and we went to Noon for dinner. It was pretty good. Most importantly, it sounded good to SMS after a few days of being sick. We walked around afterwards- it was a beautiful evening. Overall, it was a pretty good last full day in Switzerland and SMS was definitely on the mend.
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It is just starting to snow lightly here. They are saying this area of Massachusetts is going to get 5-6" overnight. We always seem to get the most out of the whole state I guess because we are in the northern part of the state about 10 minutes from the NH border. I hate the stuff unless it is on a card!
I did this card for the Sugar Bowl challenge, challenge 25, Lilian's sketch. You were to use the sketch and also your favorite color. My favorite color is blue and it goes perfectly with these shades of pink and cranberry so this card was a lot of fun to do. I also love this Sugar Nellie winter stamp because she is so fun to color! I put lots of sparkle on it but of course it didn't show up well in the picture. There is no sentiment yet because I'm not sure if it will be a Christmas card yet.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie
Paper: SU Bravo Burgundy CS, Old Olive CS, Bashful Blue CS Papertrey White CS, and DP Basic Grey
Accessories: Coluzzle Cutter, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, SU Glitter, Recollections Sticker Pearls, Joanns Ribbon and Pearl String Beads, SU Slot Punch, and Bow Easy
Thanks for stopping by to see what I created for the Sugar Bowl challenge. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments that you leave for me.
Enjoy the weekend,


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Talented pastry chef, Yann Couvreur, has opened his new YouTube channel full of delicacies in which he shares his essential recipes. Last? His chocolates are filled with generous, intense vanilla cream. We reveal the recipe and tips so you can make your own!
Chocquettes, we love puffy and soft with sugar granules that nibble to the bite. And when it’s filled with cream, all the better! You can find it for all tastes: chocolate, red fruits, caramel … This is the recipe that pastry chef Yann Couvreur decided to share on his Youtube channel in a lighter version with vanilla cream. And not just any vanilla! blue vanilla From Reunion Island. Refined for two years, it is known for its aromatic strength. So it is perfect for adding flavor to your dishes and desserts! Another peculiarity of this recipe is choux pastry with orange blossom flavor. Once you try, you won’t be able to stop taking it. Find out right away A delicious recipe for chocolate with vanilla cream from Yann Couvreur !
The recipe for chocette with vanilla cream from Yann Couvreur
- 81 grams of water
- Milk 81 grams
- salt 3 g
- Butter 36 g
- Grape seed oil 36g
- T55 Flour 96g
- 127 gm whole eggs
- orange blossom
Boil milk, water, salt, butter and oil.
Professional advice: It is important to boil the liquid items as soon as the butter has melted, otherwise the other ingredients will evaporate.
Add the sifted flour over very low heat or remove from heat and mix with a spoon until a smooth paste is obtained. Dry the mixture over low heat. The goal is to dry the dough so it’s easier to work with. When the dough comes out easily from the pan, you can remove it from the heat.
Turn on the temperature with a stand mixer or pastry robot with the frying pan on speed 1 until it cools down to prevent the eggs from settling in the preparation. Gradually add the eggs and flavor them with a little blossom water. A good dough is homogeneous, smooth, supple, and firm. All you have to do is put it in the piping bag. Make regular little balls using your pocket on a baking sheet
Professional advice: Arrange the puffs in overlapping rows, making sure to leave enough space between them, as they will puff up during cooking.
Generously coat the balls with fine granulated sugar for an even more elegant look. Bake for 15 minutes at 175°C.
Professional advice: Make sure that there is sugar in all parts of the puffs, because when they swell, the grains will be more scattered.
- Milk 373 g
- egg yolk 89 g
- sugar 75 g
- Cream Powder 10gm
- T55 Flour 18gm
- vanilla 1 piece
- Gelatin mass 18 g
- Cream 117 gm
In a saucepan, heat the milk and scrape out the vanilla beans that you are going to put in the saucepan. Dry the pods, grind to an aromatic powder, then set aside.
In a bowl, mix sugar and egg yolk. Add flour and cornstarch together. Pour the hot milk into the bowl. Once the mixture is homogeneous, return to the skillet over the heat, whisking constantly. Your preparation should thicken and have a creamy texture.
Professional advice: The cream is ready when it comes off easily from the bottom of the pan, and then removed from the heat.
Now add gelatin that will dissolve on contact with heat, and mix.
Put a layer of coating on the bottom of a gratin dish and spread the cream until cool.
Professional advice: A film on contact (ie directly on the cream) to prevent a crust from forming as it dries.
Wait for it to cool to room temperature before placing it in the refrigerator to respect the cold chain.
Expert tip: To lighten pastry cream, whip cream with 35% fat content until well set. Gently add the whipped cream with a spoon. Put the cream into the piping bag.
Take the chouquettes and make small holes under the chouquettes using a nozzle (the same caliber used for the cream). All that remains is to stuff the pancakes and sprinkle them with a little icing sugar and vanilla powder.
Bon appetite !
And to reproduce more recipes from the pastry chef Fox, allow yourself to be tempted by his latest book:
12 Seasons – Yann Couvreur
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