Russia: What Is A Sandwich?


A Dagwood sandwich

That is a sandwhich...

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about sandwiches! In America a sandwich is food, meal, art & tradition! The term Dagwood Sandwich comes to my mind.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Dagwood A real sandwich is awesome!

buterbrod

In Russia; the concept of a sandwich is still very foreign and new. Russia has a form of a sandwich called, бутерброд (buterbrod).  >>>>>>>

“Dagwood Sandwich – It is a multilayer sandwich with a variety of fillings. Used to denote a sandwich put together so as to attain such a tremendous size and infinite variety of contents as to stun the imagination, sight, and stomach of all but the original maker…

Dagwood sandwiches, a term so well-known it made Webster’s New World Dictionary.

caviar

1930 – A term that originated in the comic strips in the 1930s after a comic strip character named Dagwood Bumstead, a character in the “Blondie” comic strip. According to the creator of the comic strip, Murat Bernard “Chic” Young (1901-1973), the only thing that Dagwood could prepare in the kitchen was a mountainous pile of dissimilar leftovers precariously arranged between two slices of bread. Dagwood became know for his huge sandwiches he created on evening forays to the refrigerator...

What is a buterbrod: According to my Wife: who is an expert on Russia. 🙂 –
Buterbrod is one slice of bread, with or without butter, & could have one of the following; Sausage (kielbasa), cheese, salmon or caviar. Never two of those items?? (Yummy?)

Because I am America, I happen to disagree with this Russian form of sandwich. So I have tried to converted my wife to American sandwiches! 🙂

I make her every kind of sandwich that I can think of. She has eaten & liked grilled cheeses, hamburgers, grilled ham & cheese, Monte Christos, cold cuts & many more styles! (but she still tells me that Russian do not eat sandwiches like this) So I have met her half way and make sandwiches with only one slice of bread…

She is right: All you have to do is go to McDonald’s in Russia and you will see what I mean! The art of eating sandwiches in Russia is a new concept. Russians are prone to removing the top of the bun and eating the burger. They like to balance the burger on their finger tips and munch around the outside edge…

You learned something new about Russia today. That is why I love Russia!

Kyle
Windows to Russia!

PS: Sveta likes a grilled cheese on one slice of bread. That is her favorite and of course it has to be black bread…

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Do You See What I See / Do You Hear What I Hear? Boom Boom…


Those War Drums are beating so loud that they keep people up at night even all the way over here in Russia…

“Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria,” McCain told a World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan.

Now that is a really loud beating of a War Drum if I ever heard one…

I have got to say: It looks like America has a really big desire to just hop from one small country to the next in the Middle East and bully everyone until they are dead or cry Uncle…

With things destroyed in Libya and messed up worse than a kids toy box in his room. We now want to go and kill another 100,000 people in Syria…

How do you sleep at night? I sleep only because I myself refuse to be quiet about it! If I can get one person out of my readers to stop and say to himself that we are killing people all over the world in the name of democracy and that is a bad thing. Then I have made a difference…

So Boom Boom Boom beat those drums, lets go blow the hell out of Syria. You know they deserve it our government says it is so… 🙁

By the way: We are killing people all over the world in the name of democracy…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

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Russian Dove: Pigeon!


In The former CCCP (Soviet Union), They had Dove houses. These Dove houses have survived mostly intact. These houses are all over Russia, from the center of Moscow to the Villages. They are still being used for mostly white Doves. Though interracial seems to be the future. 🙂

I find it interesting that the Humans lived in flats, and they built free standing houses for the Doves. I am finding out that the Russians Love their Doves, very much!

I being American, made the mistake of saying, “The city is full of Grey Pigeons! (please, do not call them pigeons)” The Russians call them Doves, So be them white, gray or brown, they are Doves! (That is final!)

This is just another aspect of the Russians, that you did not know about.

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

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Moscow’s Population Will Grow…


Many residents of the Moscow region will receive an unexpected boost in their social status on January 1, when City Hall legally incorporates huge chunks of land as part of the Greater Moscow expansion project. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov will formally sign legal documents on January 1 that will automatically transform some 250,000 residents of the Moscow Region into Muscovites – a highly coveted status…

I also wondered what that did to the population rankings for worlds largest Cities proper by population!

1 Shanghai 17,836,133 Core districts 2,605.8 6,845 km2  China
2 Karachi 14,500,000 City District 3,527 3,683 km2  Pakistan
3 Istanbul 13,120,596 Metropolitan Municipality 1,831 7,166 km2  Turkey
4 Mumbai 12,478,447 Municipal Corporation 603 20,694 km2  India
5 Beijing 11,716,000 Core districts 1,368.32 7,400 km2  China
6 Moscow 11,551,930 Federal City 1,091 10,588 km2  Russia
7 São Paulo 11,316,149 Municipality 1,523 7,383 km2  Brazil
8 Tianjin 11,090,314 All districts 7,422 1,494 km2  China
9 Guangzhou 11,070,654 All districts 3,843 2,881 km2  China
10  Delhi 11,007,835 Municipal Corporation 431 25,540 km2  India

 

Looks like Moscow moves up a notch in the City Proper listings. Moscow looks to become number 5 on the list. That is interesting…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

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Search Engine War: Yandex and Baidu Taking on Google…


This morning over coffee I just had to express what I use for search engines in the last few months. I decided that Google was just to big and controlling. That Google has too much information on everyone in the world and it is monopolized. It just does not seem right…

I have silently switched what I use as a search engine. I now use Russia’s Yandex and China’s Baidu in 75 percent of my searches. I have been watching them become better and better at search engine results as I use them more and more…

China’s top search engine Baidu said that it had signed a partnership deal with Microsoft’s Bing search engine to offer English-language search to Baidu users. Baidu dominates China’s search engine market after Google Inc pulled out following a high-profile fallout with Beijing over censorship last year…

Yandex, Google’s Russian competitor in online searches and Internet advertising, is looking to carve itself out a bigger share in cyberspace as Google faces serious antitrust charges. They are doing it on their own..

http://www.yandex.com is the English version of Yandex…
http://baidu.com is the Chinese search engine…

I realized when Google played the hypocrisy game and called China down for censoring. I had to laugh at that time because Google is the king of censoring. That issue alone with Google to call the kettle black, was enough that I knew it was time to tell Google, “You are a hypocrite!” What better way is to stop using the product that they produce. Up until now that has been hard to do. But now Yandex and Baidu have opened the doors…

The picture to the right is the ground campaign for the East. The one area that Google has been unable to control is the Eastern world. Yandex is King in Russia and Baidu is King in China. The King of the West (Google) is now watching with surprised eyes as the Easter world that he has tried to conquer, is expanding into his world…

Not all success stories in the West can penetrate the Eastern market. McDonald’s, Pepsi, Coke and a few others are the exception not the norm. Most Western countries leave with their tail between their legs after trying to enter China and Russia. You have to come with an open mind and leave the holier than thou attitude behind…

The story in the West of the partnership between Baidu and Bing is  interesting. Microsoft gets belittled for working with the censorship in China and Google is praised for its stand against China on censorship. Now that is hypocrisy at its capitalist best…

A year ago China’s Baidu said that they were getting 10,000,000 plus English hits a day from people trying to get search results from them in English. This prompted the partnership with Bing and Bing has smiled ever since… 🙂

Yandex is another story. This is the story that I consider the real success! Yandex is standing on its own two feet and ignoring all the Western world about how it should do what the West does. Yandex has decided to bite off one country at a time and grow at a pace that will not stress the corporate structure. The only move I saw associated with the Western world is the investment into Blekko. That allowed a foothold into the USA market…

http://download.yandex.ru/company/Fact_Sheet_Q2_2011.pdf – How about a company fact sheet?

Yandex has just moved into Turkey and Yandex has a smile that says we are going to grow, just watch and see…

So Yandex has also entered into the USA market. It has a branch in Palo Alto, California. As of June 30, 2011, they had over 3,000 full-time employees. Now that makes California smile. It is a growing company amongst the dead. Yandex has its teeth into the US and that will lead to market saturation in America, but its main goal is the East. The Western future saturation is the icing on the cake…

I looked at the internet market that is growing in the Eastern world. I have to say that it is impressive. It is largely an untouched market and has potential to easily exceed that of the Western world in just a few years. It is simply mathematics. Everyone (literally) lives on this side of the world and as infrastructures develops, so will the internet and business…

This is all fine for me as I live in Russia and watch from the outside as Google stifles the competition and tries to alter the search results to her favor. That makes sense from a competition point of view and many will say good job Google! I say bad Google! I do not like my search results messed with. When I punch in Gaddafi I want everything on Gaddafi. Not what only makes Google money…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

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Russia Denounces The Execution of Gaddafi: Against the Geneva Convention…


Executed...

“We have to rely on the facts and international law,” Lavrov said. “It is said (Geneva Convention) that a participant captured in an armed conflict must be treated in a certain way, and in any case, a prisoner of war must not be killed…”

Russia has criticized NATO military action in Libya, saying it has gone far beyond the stated mission to save civilian life…

And the Russian political eccentric Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also head of the International Chess Federation, said the death of Colonel Gaddafi was a “tragedy” but he died as a martyr and reincarnates…

Mr. Ilyumzhinov was on a surreal mission to Tripoli in June, where he met with Colonel Gaddafi as an official mediator and played a game of chess with him. Yesterday he said in an interview with a Russian newspaper that he had spoken with the Libyan leader on the phone numerous times since. He said that Colonel Gaddafi had no fear of death: “It is a little belief in reincarnation…”

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Lets Talk Gasoline (Benzine) Price in Turkey…


Sveta and I were just in Turkey. In Turkey Gasoline is sky high in price and I really think that if Russians and Americans had to pay these prices as in Turkey then people would really riot…

Turkey uses lira as money. Gasoline is priced in lira. Price per liter (not gallon) in Turkey runs approximately 4.5 lira per liter for the cheap stuff. 1 Turkish lira = 0.539403 U.S. dollars so that means as of right now a liter of gasoline cost about $2.43 per liter. There is 3.78541178 liters per US gallon. That means a gallon of gasoline in Turkey costs = $9.21 per US gallon…

Now I see a lot of $3.30 per US gallon in America when checking the gas price charts. This changes but it looks like a good place to start. In Russia I will figure what I saw as price when I rode the taxi home from the airport. That means the price is higher than when we travel because Moscow has a higher price for fuel. I saw 21 rubles per liter in Moscow as the cheapest price.(I also saw 36 rubles for super 98 plus but we will use the lowest grade that I see available within reason. That means about 90 octane!) 21 rubles equates to $2.57 a US gallon. That is using 31 rubles per dollar for your information…

Tidbit of information: BP (British Petroleum) is always the most expensive gasoline no matter where we go. I mean it is always the most expensive. So BP is not used in figuring any gas price because it is so elevated in price over everyone else… (Russia and Turkey specifically)

So we have Russia who complains all the time about high price fuel and America who says the country will collapse at any minute because of high price fuel at $2.57 and $3.30 per gallon respectively…

Okay go ahead and say I fudge the numbers. Even if I did and you want to add 20% you will not equate to anything near Turkey pricing. But the fact is that I did not and am using prices that I see in two countries personally and take from http://gasbuddy.com/ for America…

I realize that many parts of the world pay just as much as Turkey and maybe more. I know that in England gasoline is very high. I have seen it as high as $10.00 per gallon…

The one thing that I saw in Turkey was a whole bunch of cars are using propane. Propane is 2.25 lira per liter and even without figuring it you can see why when compared to 4.5 lira per liter that propane would be a viable choice. In fact because we run propane in Russia in our Volga wagon. I kept telling Sveta smell that? She would say, No! Then we would walk some more and I would say smell that? She would say, No! Then I would say that is right because they are all burning propane in their cars. Sveta would then smile as she was thinking of our Sammy the Volga just as I was at that moment…

Driving on Propane Part 1 Driving on Propane Part 2 Driving on Propane Part 3

I saw that in Turkey cars were not dual fuel but propane only. In fact where the gasoline fill normally is. Open the flap and you will find a propane fill valve. I also did not see any reason to say that high gasoline price is the death of an economy. Turkey has an active economy to say the least but in America the whole world falls apart with high fuel prices. Turkey has adapted: They walk more, they use mass transit, they use solar panels to heat water, they conserve, conserve and conserve some more. That word conserve is the big one… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

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Unbelievably Wonderful: Gaddafi E-mails to Windows to Russia…


Last night I received a slew of comments on the e-mail system. I expected to be slandered all over the place as I usually am. I had in mind just to delete them all and say Oops…

I was wrong and totally amazed at the compassion and sadness at the way Gaddafi was treated in his final minutes…

Many cried…

Many worried…

Many were angry along with that sadness…

Here is one I received:

The silence is Deafening.
I wonder if anyone will ever end that silence?
Fairness, Justice and Freedom have become Dirty Words.

Every human being knows in their hearts and in their minds that something is terribly wrong in the world. You don’t even have the Freedom to Speak Out, or even Question what you see anymore.
For without doing those, you all give them your Consent.
Events have evolved outside the Control of the Individual, whom is now powerless to do anything but Watch.

So remember those Dirty Words.
They Died Forever Today.

Mike

The one thing that was common with them all was the fact that we (West) were suppose to be happy about this occasion and many seemed taken back by it all. It was if a realization slammed home to millions and millions of people all at the same time, Law and Order is gone from the world agenda. Democracy and the Rule of Law no longer go hand in hand…

Not a single derogatory comment was sent to me. Not a single, “I hate you or you should die.” comment was spat my way…

No one will ever contend that Gaddafi was a saint but when he was killed it was with a gasp from the people in the world. We have been told from day one that Gaddafi was to be held accounted for his crimes. We believed that and even though we all knew it would be his death. We all expected him to be brought to trial and then everything that Gaddafi had knowledge of would be put on the table. Good or bad for the Western world we did not care, We only knew that Gaddafi had information that can put light on much corruption in the world…

We wanted an ending to why the West stuck its nose into Libya. We want why months before all this started he was met with open arms and hugged by all of our great pathetic leaders. We wanted real answers and those answers would come by a court system that was prided on being the Rule of Law…

We were told that this was not about killing Gaddafi…

I have to put a statement by Lew Rockwell in at this time:

It wasn’t only Hillary, Obama, Bush, and the rest of the power elite that cheered the murder of Gaddafi today. CNN showed the tape of his being beaten bloody before he was shot in the head, again and again and again, for our delectation. It was a tribal killing, ordered by the US, and savored by the establishment as well as the perps. He was a dictator, but more so than Obama? More so than the fundamentalists the US has brought to power, so as to cause chaos? As in Iraq, ethnic and religious minorities may look back on the dictator’s rule as a golden age. This isn’t a bunch of classical liberals who’ve come to power. Certainly anything that has Hillary–who looks more and more like one of the Three Witches every day–chortling over blood and scheming for more, can’t be good news.  Lew Rockwell

As I have said before. The West has no respect for the rest of the world. Just look at Libya now. Look at what we considered a proper choice to run Libya. May God help us for stepping where we should never have gone…

I want to thank all for the e-mails I got. They were heart warming and gave me hope that people are really good inside after all. It looks like we have created another Martyr out of Gaddafi just like we did out of Ben laden. We truly are ignominious…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: President Barack Obama hailed the lifting of the “dark tyranny” over Libya after the new government confirmed Muammar Gaddafi had been killed, issuing a warning to other dictators in the Middle East – and particularly Syria – that they could be next…

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Gaddafi Executed After Capture…


Sick world we live in. Gaddafi shot up by a NATO/American Predator drone. Captured alive which was a miracle in itself. Then executed in the back of a truck after being paraded around with his legs shot up and such. A bullet in the temple! That will kill you every time…

The story has changed so many times but the correct one was out for a awhile and then the Western media clamped down and modified. On this side of the world I watched a video that was not altered. They have done their best to pull the picture of Gaddafi with a gunshot to the temple. They (NTC) admitted to executing Gaddafi…

Have you watched the videos of his capture? (Even the altered versions!) Take a good look! That is your new Libya and the people in charge in Libya. Those are the people that the West has supported to be Libya’s new democracy…

I guess it, takes one to know one…

Kyle

Windows to Russia!

PS: I got to say that our great Western leaders are gloating over his death. They smile and brag. Maybe you should stop and think about what Obama and company are saying…

I myself say: “So American foreign policy now depends on drones, assassinat­ion and summary execution. So the question becomes: Was getting rid of Gaddafi worth giving up on the rule of law? :(”

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year… (Sic)

Kyle Keeton

PS: Video that tells it like it is from RT…

Now this next video you have gotta find disgust at. This is our government in joy. Hillary Clinton is so proud and laughing. I have never laughed at a death of anyone. For no one deserves that. NO ONE…

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October 18th, 2011 in Sirte after another bombing by NATO to Break Gaddafis Back…


Sirte is devastated as much of Libya is destroyed…

Just look at the picture and tell me no civilians died in that city. Tell me please and really please come and say it to my face. I really want to see what a true sick idiot looks like. Look at the telephone polls along the streets. Looks at the buildings, that is what a tank does at point blank. That is what a Howitzer does to a building. That is what you do to a city when you only care about killing, anything and everything in that city…

That is some serious fire power and I see the mark of 30mm chain gun from helicopters all over the place. My God, we wanted him dead so bad that we tried to mow a whole city down to get him and did not care how many we killed…

I write this with tears in my eyes. I once walked down a street that looked like this. It was many many years ago, But that walk was before they picked up all the bodies as they have done here. That is how I know what kind of country America is and that is why I cry…

Do you realize how many people we killed, once again in the name of humanity and democracy?

God Bless the people of Libya and you can not say that they did not go out fighting. Just look at the picture that is a fight that included the inhabitants of that city fighting for their life against someone bigger and stronger. That was not a hired group of men who were hired to fight for Gaddafi, for no one fights that hard unless they believe in what they fight for.  The ghosts of thousands are in that picture and you should weep…

Kyle

Windows to Russia!

PS: (Emails I just received from readers) : This makes me sick to my stomach. Who may be right or wrong is not my point and how can I even go there? We have Liars wall to wall. All I am saying is this upsets me greatly. I am ashamed of being part of the human race. I pray God ends this World and quickly. Those who live by the sword can go to an eternity where that is the way. I choose a different course. I choose the Life, the Truth and the Way. Print okay but no name please! (I have to agree that it has upset me also very much. Kyle)

(Another one)

Gaddafi was a true hero. He fought to the end.  If he is dead (he may not be; NTC and the NATO media have so far told so many lies); if he is indeed dead, he will go down in the books of history and in all sane minds as a great man who fought a greater evil. Like a modern Spartacus he fought against the enslavement of human beings in Africa. God bless Africa and God bless the world. (Interesting thinking. Thank you for leaving me an e-mail! Kyle)

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