SunStar February 13, 2021 How are you doing, Khokies? Times are hard, so we make do a lot these days, pun intended. So here I am with the idea of recycling as part of making do.
Tawgi, togue, mung bean sprouts by any other name togi? toge? are crunchy, and a good source of insoluble dietary fiber.
“It’s silhig sa tiyan (literal translation: broom for the tummy). Nutritionists say fiber ‘clean out’ the colon,” Uncle Gustave said.
The idea of recycling ready-cooked tawgi came from my friend, Illustracio. His wife, Nardie, had a cupful of leftover sauteed tawgi that she bought at her favorite carinderia (eatery).
Broadsheet ‘recycled’ NAB’s reports on Sharifs
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February 10, 2021
LONDON: The former director-general of the National Accountability Bureau’s Financial Crimes Investigations Wing told the London High Court that Matrix Researchers investigators, working for Broadsheet LLC, had recycled NAB’s own reports on Nawaz Sharif and presented to the NAB as new information without adding anything or tracing any assets of the former premier and his family members.
According to Talat Ghumman’s statement before Sir Anthony Evans in July 2015, the senior NAB official told the court Broadsheet didn’t have it’s own capacity to investigate and trace assets and it hired Matrix Research Limited to investigate Nawaz Sharif and his family members at a total cost of around £500,000 but the information gathered on the Sharif family didn’t impress the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigators who were looking for seriously actionable evidence of wrongdoing and illici
US Man Turns Backyard Into Art Exhibit Made Out of Other People s Discarded Objects
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Randy Gilson found happiness in a garbage can.
It started with salvaging other people’s throwaways to transform into Christmas gifts for his siblings, then it evolved into cleaning up an old house and the drug-infested neighborhood it stood in.
What he created is Randyland, an iconic Pittsburgh landmark that attracts visitors from all over the world.
But the real icon is Gilson himself.
An eccentric folk artist, Gilson created a child-like art installation in his backyard and invited the world to experience it for free. A walk through his garden is a glimpse into his brain - an explosion of colors with subtle surprises. He added life and whimsy to everything there - walls, fences, sidewalks, and once-drab lawn ornaments, all reimagined into pieces of art.
Recycling to nowhere Share CLOSE A paper collector is seen on a street in Yau Ma Tei on Jan 15, 2021. [Photo by Calvin Ng / China Daily]
Hong Kong s paper recycling business is in dire straits as many economies stop importing solid waste. But the SAR government has moved to revive an industry that once flourished. Gu Mengyan reports from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong s once-thriving paper recycling business may soon end up where it all started as garbage heaps - not on the streets but in landfills - if help isn t forthcoming.
When the Chinese mainland started to tighten curbs on solid waste imports in 2017, Hong Kong s recycling business was thrown into a quandary as Hong Kong exporters cut waste paper prices down by more than a half, and some even stopped collections.