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KDE 4 rev 802150: Work in progress
[ Tuesday, 29 April 2008, Bastion ]
The state of Plasma can be currently described as 'chaotic'. The reason for that is that its API is being refactored which in result makes it almost impossible to use for a regular human being. Most applets despite continuous development, still experience issues with adjusting to the new API. This results in instabilities and — in some cases — even problem with displaying properly on desktop. Yesterday however, I managed to catch a dev snapshot of KDE 4.1 which allowed me to test the recent changes, at least on the surface. Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to "The Revision 802150″.
First thing worth noticing is the new looks of KRunner. Unfortunately, on the current stage, it behaves in an unpredictable manner. In some cases after typing one letter I had to wait a few seconds for KRunner to catch it and prompt me with a list of available choices. What is more, it randomly hung up completely, exceeding the maximum response time, forcing KWin to kindly ask me to kill it.
KRunner — new looks
Till now, the only way to add a Plasma applet was to use an icon located in the upper-right corner of the desktop. This time I noticed a new icon, located in the bottom panel. Currently it does not response to my actions so it's hard to state whether it's going to replace the former solution or — perhaps — it will be used to add a new applet to a specific panel. I think though, that the latter makes more sense so it's pretty likely to be the correct guess.
Plasma manager in KDE panel
Dolphin — the file manager — eventually got the feature I've been waiting for: the tab support!
Dolphin with tabs
In kdereview tree, the work is in progress to add a new sound engine to Phonon. Now those of you who — for one reason or another — don't like Xine, are given an option to choose GStreamer as the audio output. I have often heard that Gstreamer beats Xine in many areas, especially when the number of supported audio/video formats is concerned.
Sound system settings
Konqueror & WebKit
Some people commented my previous revision stating that Konqueror already used WebKit as the default engine. These comments were incorrect. Last time I presented the Acid3 test results for Konqueror with default KHTML engine. Today however, I compiled the Qt library with WebKit support and the required dependencies. Here is the result for Acid3 for the Konqueror/WebKit duo:
Konqueror / WebKit
Oxygen theme
Only cosmetic changes here: polished tabs and beautified scroll bars.
Oxygen theme
As it shows, the default window decoration for KDE 4.1 will not be Oxygen, but its fork, called Ozone. Currently the only difference is that — in contrary to Oxygen — Ozone respects the color scheme changes.
Windows decoration for Ozone theme
KDE Info Center
KDE Info Center has been fully ported to Qt4 library. Let's see how it looks now…
KDE Info Center: Main windows
KDE Info Center: Memory usage
KDE Info Center: Partitions
KWin with Wobbly Windows
Kwin features a new visual effect known to most of you from Compiz: the Wobbly Windows. Only a few days ago the settings panel for this effect had tons of detailed options. Most of these options have been disabled now, the only thing that can be configured is the window deformation level while in motion. This seems more appropriate for a common user since the number of configurable settings was overwhelming before. One minor flaw that I noticed in KWin Wobble Windows is that the window shadow is not properly deformed (it does not adjust to the current shape of the window).
KWin effects
Wobbly effect configuration
Wobbly effect in action
Amarok is getting closer and closer to its major release. The current changes mostly concern the looks of Plasma applets and streaming sources extensions. It's however worth noting that the application itself proves to be much more stable than before. Amarok also now remembers previously added collections, playlists and — what is crucial — does not crash upon frequent interaction with the user. I'll try to write a separate piece of text about this great multimedia player soon.
Amarok: Let the music play!
Amarok: Last.fm support
Another crucial KDE app is K3b. It is by far the best open source tool in the world to burn DVDs and CDs, but it also features other things as well. There is a rumor that K3b will be renamed to K4b with its stable release of KDE 4. Whatever its name is or will be, the fact is that it's quite usable even now, in development state.
K3b (K4b)
Let's investigate some configuration options…
K3b settings
Other configuration options
A DVD project that I started to test the app:
Now it suffices to insert a blank disk and… let it burn!
Burn settings
I hope you liked this new revision, it took some time to prepare it but I promise the next one will appear soon, so check frequently your PolishLinux RSS and stay tuned!
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Thanks a lot for the regular KDE4 revisions!
K3b is from "KDE Burn Baby Burn" and not from the major KDE/Qt release
K3b is from "KDE Burn Baby Burn"
Sure, but in future it could be:
"KDE Burn Baby Burn, Beautifully"
Digg it if ya loved it! (The publicity is good for KDE too)
Thanks for the link. I added the digg button at the top.
WebKit shipped by Qt is quite an old snapshot, I am not surprised it only scores 55/100. Even KHTML now is about 75/100. That's why IMO it is very good to keep both KHTML and WebKit, or even the best is to merge both (I heard there is an ongoing effort to sync KHTML dir structure to WebKit's – also porting WebKit's SVG to KDE as GSoC).
With WebKit sure we get excellent engine, but it is rather annoying to see the bugfixes/features propagate from WebKit to Qt and finally to KDE. (except we want to create yet another Qt/KDE binding which can be synced directly to WebKit)
That's strange, my KHTML Konqueror scored only 13 on the Acid 3 test.
You have something seriously messed up, sorry. Standard trunk is at 75. I think you can get higher if you install test patches. And there's an soc project which should give another 10.
Thank you for this Review.
It's everytime very interesting to see the development progress of KDE4.
Sad – Amarok looks much less attractive in the incarnation than the previous, and K3B looks really, really sad.
In which way?
Concerning Amarok, you're right. Nothing can be more attractive than a huge list full of text.
If this was meant to be ironic, au contraire. I'm a supporter of the list too. It's much easier to oversee the whole collection when scrolling through the list, assisted by search words.
I'm not a user of play lists, I'm just adjusting the search words and play my stuff in random mode. Also I tag tracks or albums to the play next list which is very comfortable in the list view. So hopefully, K3b will be configurable to show the list if the user wants it like the developer once promised when the new interface was shown first.
If I want to see information about the current track, album and stuff, this part was shown in the info bar very nicely, so why waste the whole central space for it?
Regarding the "add a Plasma applet" button in the top right corner is a nice thing – if it ca be disabled. Right-click on the desktop is the way to go for an experienced user (same for the applets themselves) as I don't like to always have something pop up when I hover it. Don't get me wrong, these are nice features for beginneres, yet not for people who want to do their everyday-work on a workstation.
Please KDE guys make more stuff configurable (through dialogues) as we're used to from KDE3, we're not all beginners. If you want, establish an "advanced mode" as it exist in Xine for example. Fine tuning through config files may be possible, but who really wants to search for info every time he wants to change the color of the panel. And black is not everyone's favorite "colour".
What about the super user mode in configuration dialogues that need this stuff (as in former kcontrol)? Couldn't find that ind KDE4 by now (Kubuntu Hardy), I guess it was just not implemented yet?
Anyway, I really look forward to find testing KDE 4.1. It looks very promising, if it'll get close to KDE 3.5.x in maturity I'll be more than happy with it
AFAIK there was possible to disable Plasma applets in Amarok, and there was also possible to have a 1.4.x-like playlist. Was that removed in the alpha process?
thank you
Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy these reviews.
thanks for all the kde4 reviews, its seems to be nice, great work
Thanks for your work, it's nice to see the work done on KDE 4 from another person's perspective.
Thanks, I love that articles!
"Dolphin — the file manager — eventually got the feature I've been waiting for: the tab support!"
wonderful !
Now if only Dolphin could be put on a diet. Its default is so chunky you can carve it. I like a minimalistic file manager that does not highlight the entire row in details mode. If Dolphin does this and treats me like a moron (as does Nautilus) then it's a deal breaker!
great work. looking forward to kde4.1!
Thank you for doing these. We really do appreciate them. I know it takes time to put suc a screenshot tour together.
Thanks for doing these. Those screen shot tours are great. I'm a very visual person.
Please take your time and do a very thorough tour of Amarok. It is probably the most highly anticipated open source project since Firefox. You'll deal with a lot of newbies that will hear about Amarok for the first time ever!!
Please be thorough enough that even the Amarok veterans will find useful information as well as tons of visual eye candy in there.
I'm predicting the Amarok tour being in the 1000′s of "diggs".
Thank you again.
KDE is more beautiful day by day.Thanks 4 review
Nice to see the progress on 4.1
Thanks, I really enjoy these previews! I would really like a preview of Amarok2 when you can, and if you want to!
I use the opensuse 10.3 version of kde 4.0.3.
kwin_composite doesn't work with xgl in kde 4.0.3.
but it works bad with nvidia-glx.
i hope xgl support will be added to kwin_composite in kde 4.1.
Looks like KDE 4.1 will be usable.. but what we need is a configurable taskbar. But I tried using plasma from within KDE3 and it worked fine and having plasma in kde3 with the 'good old' task bar may interest many people. I made a post about it some time ago. Plasma in KDE3
Hope this will be useful to the people who have been annoyed by the taskbar and who love the new plasma experience.
KDE4 looks so much better than GNOME!!! Coupled with its greater overall speed and responsiveness, I hope it becomes the default used by more distros that count!
I switched entirely to KDE4.0 for just over a week and I switched back to KDE3.5.9 when hardy came out. I think KDE4′s interface is more intuititve but the lack of qt4 software (like adept, or knetworkmanager) makes it not worth the switch for kubuntu users like myself. I really miss the CTRL+F8/F9/F10 commands. I hope the performance increases are significant, because KDE4 was still rather laggy when I used 4.0.3. This seems like a load of welcome changes and it's wetting my palette to taste KDE4.1 when a beta or final release comes out.
Thanks for the great reviews.
Hope kde becomes stable until august when I plan to reinstall my system.
Great reviews. KDE is looking great.
My windows won't wobble I compile the trunk every day and yet my wobbling windows configuration won't work. Never has. Using a Macbook. Does it work now for anyone else?
Keep these coming, very nice way to see how KDE4 is coming along.
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Congressional Apportionment Amendment
United States of America
|This article is part of a series on the
|United States Constitution
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and Amendments
The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (also known as Article the First) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, one of twelve articles of amendment to the United States Constitution approved by the 1st Congress on September 25, 1789 and sent to the legislatures of the several states for ratification. It would, if ratified, establish a formula for determining the appropriate size of the House of Representatives and the appropriate apportionment of representatives among the states following each constitutionally mandated decennial census. It is the only one of the twelve which remains inoperative, as it has not been ratified by enough states for it to become part of the Constitution. Ten of the articles were ratified in 1791, becoming Amendments 1–10 of the Constitution and known collectively as the Bill of Rights. In 1992, another was ratified, becoming the Twenty-seventh Amendment.
On January 28, 1790, the Delaware General Assembly ratified eleven of the articles of amendment, rejecting only Article One, the apportionment amendment.[1] As a result, it remained one ratification short when Articles Three through Twelve were certified two years later as being part of the Constitution. It remained one state short of the required three-quarters plateau for most of the period between 1791 and 1803, after which it fell further behind as more and more states entered the Union. As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still technically pending before the states. Currently, ratification by an additional 27 states would be necessary for this amendment to be adopted.
After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.[2]
Placed first among the twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution sent to the states for ratification by the 1st United States Congress, this unratified amendment would modify Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution and would have an impact on the apportionment of House seats among the states. It was designed to ensure that members of the House would continue to represent small constituencies even as the general population grew. Opponents of the 1787 Constitution's ratification noted that no such guarantee existed in it, and they feared that over time, if the size remained relatively small and the districts became more expansive, that only well known individuals with reputations spanning wide geographic areas could secure election. It was also feared that those in Congress would, as a result, have an insufficient sense of sympathy with and connectedness to ordinary people in their district.[3]
The Anti-Federalists' concern with the size of the House of Representatives was evident in the state ratifying conventions, where several states specifically requested an amendment to secure a minimum size for the House of Representatives. Virginia's ratification resolution proposed,
That there shall be one representative for every thirty thousand, according to the Enumeration or Census mentioned in the Constitution, until the whole number of representatives amounts to two hundred; after which that number shall be continued or encreased [sic] as the Congress shall direct, upon the principles fixed by the Constitution by apportioning the Representatives of each State to some greater number of people from time to time as population encreases [sic].[4]
Anti-Federalist Melancton Smith declared at the New York ratifying convention that,
We certainly ought to fix, in the Constitution, those things which are essential to liberty. If anything falls under this description, it is the number of the legislature.[5]
Supporters of the new Constitution managed to disarm those opposing its ratification by agreeing that the new government should immediately address Anti-Federalist concerns and consider amending the Constitution. The assurance that these issues would be addressed in the First Congress was essential to the ratification of the new form of government.[6]
Legislative and ratification history[edit]
The proposed amendment to the Constitution's apportionment of representatives clause was introduced first in the House on June 8, 1789, by Representative James Madison of Virginia. One of a series of proposed Constitutional amendments, it was referred to a committee consisting of one representative from each State. After emerging from committee, the full House debated the issue and on August 24, 1789 passed it and sixteen other articles of amendment. The proposals went next to the Senate, where 26 substantive alterations were made. On September 9, 1789, the Senate approved a culled and consolidated package of twelve articles of amendment.[7] Changed in this amendment was the apportionment formula to be followed once the number of House members reached 100.
|A comparison of the two versions of the amendment[8]
(The substitute Senate language and the affected House language are both in red.)
On September 21, 1789, a House–Senate Conference Committee convened to resolve the numerous differences between the two Bill of Rights proposals. On September 24, 1789, the committee issued its report, which finalized 12 Constitutional Amendments for House and Senate to consider. Regarding the apportionment amendment, the House passed version prevailed with one change, the word "less" was changed to "more" in the second to last line.[9] The amendments were finally approved by both Houses on September 25, 1789.[10][11]
Having been approved by Congress the twelve Bill of Rights amendments were sent to the states for ratification. This one was ratified by the legislatures of the following states:[12]
- New Jersey — November 20, 1789
- Maryland — December 19, 1789
- North Carolina — December 22, 1789
- South Carolina — January 19, 1790
- New Hampshire — January 25, 1790
- New York — February 24, 1790
- Rhode Island — June 7, 1790
- Pennsylvania — September 21, 1791 (after rejecting it on March 10, 1790)
- Vermont — November 3, 1791
- Virginia — December 15, 1791
- Kentucky — June 24, 1792
At the time it was sent to the states for ratification, an affirmative vote by ten states would have made this amendment operational. That number rose to eleven on March 4, 1791, when Vermont joined the Union. By the end of 1791, the amendment was only one state short of the mark. However, when Kentucky attained statehood on June 1, 1792, the number climbed to twelve, and, even though Kentucky ratified the amendment that summer (along with the other eleven amendments), it was still one state short. No additional states ratified this amendment since. To become part of the Constitution today, ratification by 38 states (an additional 27) would be required.
Potential effect of amendment[edit]
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Under the terms of the proposed amendment, were the U.S. population to have been below 3 million, each state would have had one Representative in the United States House of Representatives for every 30,000 persons.
Were the U.S. population to have reached 3 million with the amendment in force, the total number of Representatives would have been recalculated. To reach the minimum of 100 representatives, Congress would initially have had to keep the district size at 30,000 per representative.
As the population would have approached 8 million, Congress could have gradually increased the size of districts from 30,000 to 40,000 and still meet the minimum of 100 representatives. This would have been allowed by the amendment, as it says "...there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; ...".
However, even at a district size of 40,000, the number of representatives would inevitably have grown to 200 when the population would have reached 8 million, thus triggering the final clause. It would have been impossible to satisfy with a population between 8 and 10 million, as it says "...there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons". For a population of 8 million, a district size of one per at least 50,000 yields at most 160 representatives, below the minimum of 200.
The final clause's conditions would have been satisfied only by a population size of 10 million or above. The clause stipulates a minimum district size of 50,000, and at that minimum size, a population of 10 million would have yielded the minimum of 200 representatives. As the final clause only stipulates a minimum district size, it would thereafter have allowed for any number of representatives between 200 and the current population divided by 50,000. At the approximate current U.S. population of 310,000,000, this would yield a House of Representatives with 200 to 6,200 members, depending on the district size. By changing the one instance of the word "less" to "more" the Conference Committee added much confusion to the amendment's effect. If taken literally, the change would return the control of representation to the House itself (under Art. I§2.3) as opposed to automatically increasing membership as total population increased.
Currently, there are 435 members of the House of Representatives and six non-voting Delegates from the District of Columbia and the territories, which do not possess statehood status. The figure of 435 is set by statute (2 U.S.C. 2a & 2b) and the allocation of seats among the 50 states is calculated by using "method of equal proportions". The present statutes would comply with the article's final language so long as there are at least 50,000 people in each Congressional district; as apportioned after the 2010 census, even the smallest district (the lone district of Wyoming) far exceeds this number. Therefore, ratification of this article today would have no impact on the present Congressional apportionment process, though it could impact future changes to the process.
See also[edit]
- List of amendments to the United States Constitution
- List of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution
- Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2 –Apportionment of representation in House of Representatives
- United States congressional apportionment
- Apportionment Act of 1792
- Apportionment Act of 1911
- Reapportionment Act of 1929
- ^ James J. Kilpatrick, ed. (1961). The Constitution of the United States and Amendments Thereto. Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government. pp. 38, 63, 64.
- ^ "The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Centennial Edition, Interim Edition: Analysis of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 26, 2013". Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2013. p. 49. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
- ^ "Representation I"
- ^ "Virginia ratification" Avalon Law Project, Yale University. Viewed June 12, 2014.
- ^ Amar, Akhil Reed (1998). The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction. Yale University. p. 14. ISBN 0-300-07379-8.
- ^ "Promise of Amendments"
- ^ Labunski, Richard E. (2006). James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights. Oxford University Press. pp. 235–237. ISBN 978-0-19-518105-0.
- ^ "Legislative History of Article the first of the Federal Bill of Rights" (Web Pamphlet). thirty-thousand.org. June 28, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
- ^ Gordon Lloyd. "The Four Stages of Approval of the Bill of Rights in Congress and the States". TeachingAmericanHistory.org. Ashland, Ohio: The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- ^ Adamson, Barry (2008). Freedom of Religion, the First Amendment, and the Supreme Court: How the Court Flunked History. Pelican Publishing. p. 93.
- ^ Graham, John Remington (2009). Free, Sovereign, and Independent States: The Intended Meaning of the American Constitution. Foreword by Laura Tesh. Footnote 54, pp. 193–194.
- ^ http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/content.php?pid=133726&sid=2065874
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We turned to Ground Control's awesome state-of-the-art Advance Design racing shock absorber for help. We selected Ground Control because of several reasons; the other brands of racing shocks we checked out were pure racing universal types originally intended for real purpose-built racecars. This made adapting them to the SE-R's production based street car suspension a difficult and expensive task, which would require lots of machining, welding or both.
The Ground Control shocks have a modular design that makes them easily adaptable for both racecars and modified production sedans. In fact, GC already offers shocks for most popular offerings such as the Nissan Z cars, Hondas, Acuras and the Supra. Different types of end mounts and shock shafts can easily be screwed onto either end of the shock body to adapt the shock to most types of car. Ground Control also makes fabricated, ultra-strong strut bodies for the AD shock so they can be adapted to cars using a McPherson strut-type suspension. This is what we used to adapt the shocks to the SE-R. If Ground Control doesn't currently make an application for your car, it probably can on a custom basis.
The shock body itself is designed to be easily lathe cut to the correct length for any application. Ground Control makes Spherical Bearing, Polyurethane Bushing and Clevis ends for the shocks to make them easily adaptable to just about any sort of car.
In the relatively short time that they have been in production, Ground Control shocks have amassed quite a few victories. Many SCCA road racing and solo championships have been won on these shocks that have been produced for less than three years! This is an impressive accomplishment for this new design and a tribute to the design's basic soundness.
The SE-R's stock suspension has one major disadvantage-the stock struts don't have much wheel travel and the car can't be lowered more than an inch without the car bottoming excessively.


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Thank you for your good intentions, I do believe you are trying to be helpful. Also, this topic does show up in searches, so selfishly, I appreciate the chance to add more research-based information for people looking up the diet.
I also appreciate your willingness to answer any questions regarding the diet. However, even though I have had no contact with the Brewers, I have read everything I can get my hands on about this issue. So have many, many other women here. You mentioned your own pregnancy-related struggles/issues, and I am sorry to hear that you, too, did not find birth an easy experience. However, unless you have had this disease, one that has killed babies and mothers, I don't know if you can understand the passion / obsession many of us have experienced in trying to keep ourselves and our babies safe from this disease.
We know this diet. We know every research article related to it. We know every research article about every other attempt at treatment and prevention. We know the old wives' tales. We know about Ina May Gaskin and The Farm's exceptionally low PE rate. We hear about Brewer's successes so many decades ago but search in vain for the actual data. We know our friends in Bradley childbirth classes who use the diet seem to have low rates of PE, but still never see hard numbers.
Because of the anecdotal "evidence" (individual stories) many of us (me included) still fell in the "may not help but can't hurt" camp. Then this study came out this summer (sorry, no pubmed abstract yet):
"That original study population was a group of mothers attending a maternity hospital in Motherwell, Scotland, between 1952 and 1976. These mothers had been advised to eat a high-meat, low-carbohydrate diet in an experimental attempt to prevent preeclampsia (hypertension during pregnancy). The advice was to eat 1 pound of red meat daily during pregnancy and to abstain from carbohydrate-rich foods such as bread and potatoes. Subsequent studies showed that the adult offspring of mothers with the highest recorded meat intakes went on to experience high cortisol and develop hypertension."
And, I know that the Motherwell diet is not exactly the same as Brewer. However, this study drove home the point for me that experimenting with my body could hurt my children, even if it takes decades to see the damage.
I love Caryn's literature review, Thank You, Caryn! I wanted to add just a few more thoughts:
60-85% of women *will not get PE again*. No matter what we do. So anyone can say "I did x and x prevented PE". But unless a lot of women, randomly selected, try the same prevention and *more than 60-85%* stay healthy (one of our research professors will be along to correct my poor explanation of statistics, but I think I'm close), then that "prevention" is just luck. It's just that PE is so scary that the natural human response is to latch on to something that promises to keep horrible things from happening to us. The Brewer diet is not the only thing people have latched onto. People have also tried low protein diets, salt restriction, massive *extra* salt, fish oil, eggs, calcium, vegan diets, no trans-fat diets, extra vitamin C, E, water immersion, progesterone, the list is fairly extensive... My personal theory is that it's a credit to Brewer's skills at self-promotion and partnership with the Bradley childbirth classes that has given the Brewer diet hypothesis extra longevity and staying power, despite the evidence against it.
Finally, even though you say Dr. Brewer did not blame women, in at least one letter to our founder, Anne Garrett, he did. And even if *he* normally didn't, many other people use this diet as a way to blame women for getting sick. Since there is no research-based evidence to support Brewer's protein diet, I personally would like it eradicated from serious discussion about the disease.


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The Spanish Heart of Australia's Second City
Bar Lourinha is perhaps the truest to form tapas bar in Melbourne. Sharyn Cairns/©ICEX
Author: Richard Cornish/©ICEX
Australia's second city, Melbourne, sits at the southern extreme of the island continent. Greater Melbourne sprawls around a large bay and at its heart is a tightly compact Central Business District (CBD) on the banks of the Yarra River where the first European settlers arrived in 1835. Vast gold reserves saw a rush of people from around the globe including the USA, China, France and Spain and the creation of a great Victorian colonial city with grand buildings and lengthy tree lined boulevards. Today Melbourne is considered the cultural capital of the nation with music, food, sports, arts and fashion festivals held throughout the year. While Spanish have been part of this multicultural city since its early years, (some of the city's icons such as the Parer's St Kilda Pier Kiosk were built by Spanish families) it is in the fields of cutting edge culture, commerce and gastronomy that flavours of Spain shine through 'Down Under'.
We start in the National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Rd, a few minute's walk from Melbourne's CBD. In this modern concrete and stone hall of artworks Spain's modernists and classic artists are well represented, and through controversy, have become icons. In 1986 Picasso's 1937 work Weeping woman was the target of arts activists who called themselves the Australian Cultural Terrorists. Persons still to this day, unknown, stole the painting and demanded more security for priceless art. Picasso's work was returned 17 days later to a railway station locker. Other Spanish artists whose work is in the collection include Miró, Goya, Dali, Murillo. A favourite of many is El Greco 1600 enigmatic work Portrait of a Cardinal.
A ten minute walk along the river promenade to the new Hilton South Wharf reception brings one face to face with a contemporary coral-like wall mural of Barcelona born artist Dani Marti. Called Time (is the fire in which we burn, inspired by John) it is made from copper and steel pot scourers and commands the cavernous like reception hall. The adjacent bar, Sotano, a warm but expansive, modern riverside bar is lined with Australian hardwood and showcases Spanish conservas (preserves), beers and jamón - displayed in a massive glass refrigerator that theatrically dominates the space.
Barcelona's Ramón Freixa was Executive Chef at the a la carte restaurant next door, Nuevo 37, until September 2011. The Catalan chef designed menus seasonally and flied in to show the European trained crew how to execute his benchmark dishes which may be a traditional xatonada-salt cod with romesco sauce or turrón- a modern dish consisting of an uncharacteristically savoury nougat served with a sphere of foie gras. Nowadays Nuevo 37 is managed by a Freixa's apprentice, Phillipe Perrey.
A few kilometres to the north, easily accessed by the network of trams that criss-cross the city, is North Carlton, described as the Notting Hill of Melbourne, and home to Rathdowne Cellars. They are owned by the Kidd family, multi-generational aficionados of Spanish wine. "I love the subtlety and complexity of the wines from Ribera del Duero," says Cameron Kidd, "and dad just adores Sherry." The Kidds stock four lines of finos, four manzanillas, six brands of oloroso, eight of amontillado and a dozen different Pedro Ximenez. Their weekly free tastings on Friday evenings can be quite sociable events.
Ham & Beers from Spain
A short distance back towards the centre of the city is the Fitzroy. This has been the traditional heartland for Spanish expatriates heading to the simple corner store Casa Ibérica, the Melbourne home of Spanish comestible goods. The smell inside makes most Spanish-born homesick: the sharp tang of pimentón ahumado (smoky Spanish paprika); the rich saltiness of bacalao (salted, dried codfish) and the reassuring aroma of jamón. Owner Alice de Sousa was born in Portugal but is considered by local Spanish to truly understand all cuisines from the Iberian Peninsula. For decades she has imported some of the finest extra virgin olive oils and Sherry vinegars into the country and stocks a broad range of conserved goods.
Across the road is headquarters to the bastion of flamenco in Australia. Arte Kanela is a flamenco group based around brothers Johnny and Richard Tedesco. Lauded by the media and adored by fans they use their tapas bar, Kanela, as a performance platform but are just as likely to be seen around town performing with local sultry chanteuse Kate Ceberano or hip young band the Cat Empire.
A ten minute walk down to Gertrude Street brings us to the 95 tram route and one of the coolest strips in Australia where urban grunge mingles with cutting edge fashion, art and cuisine. The chef at restaurant Cutler and Co., Andrew McConnell, is a big fan of Spanish food and always has excellent jamon Ibérico de bellota from Jabugo on the bar menu.
A block further east is Añada, a compact lively bar and restaurant with a Spanish menu prepared by Jesse Gerner, an Australian born chef who trained under Sam and Sam Cook from Moro in London. He takes classic Spanish dishes and presents them in a modern, stylish manner in a room that is casual bordering on laid-back. The cellar is stocked with 30 different Spanish wines complimented with a good range of quality Australian wines while the barman is constantly pouring, Mahou, Rosita and Alhambra Spanish beer for his thirsty crowd. It's a good idea to book as it is an exceptionally busy business.
A one minute walk further east takes us to Books for Cooks, a book store specializing in culinary cook books including over a hundred books on Spanish cuisine including a section of new Spanish language culinary books and some old classic household cookbooks in Spanish. On the opposite side of the street is the Dianne Tanzer Gallery. This is home to Australian/Spanish artist Juan Ford. His works of hyper-real still-lifes and modern portraiture has seen this young artist collected in the major galleries across the nation.
Take the tram back to the centre of the city, get off at Spring Street and walk walk down towards the river to Little Collins Street. In a small, wide window building, nestled next to the back entrance of the auspicious Melbourne Club is Bar Lourinha. Young, fun and with a no reservations policy this is perhaps the truest to form tapas bar in Melbourne. Chef Matt McConnell (brother to Andrew) fell in love with the Iberian Peninsula many years ago and the menu reflects both his love and understanding of the foods of Spain and Portugal. It could be grilled sardines, a cogollos like lettuce and anchovy starter or rabbit and morcilla de migas (black sausage and bread crumbs).
From design chairs to Spanish films
Continue west down Little Collins, south onto Russell then west onto Flinders Lane. Shadowed, narrow and cobbled in rugged basalt stones this is one of the many small laneways that criss-cross and interconnect various areas of the city. With lower rents than the big tree lined street the lanes allow a diverse range of businesses to thrive. Stylecraft, although a lofty furniture showroom, feels more like a museum of modern design with the works of some of the globe's best designer gathered under the one roof. Followers of interior design would automatically recognize the organic lines of the nested tables of Jon Gasca of Stua - part of the father and son team based in San Sebastián (Basque Country). There's the beautifully blocky lines of Marco Ruiz's chairs he designs for Navarre company Dynamobel.
Walking westward along Flinders Lane for a hundred metres there's an even smaller laneway off to the left. The walls of the buildings in Hosier Lane are covered in colorful street art, graffiti so popular that artists come from all over the globe to add their work. At the end of the lane hangs a small sign that reads "Bar Vino y Tapas". This is MoVida, Australia's best Spanish restaurant owned by Barcelona born and Córdoba raised chef Frank Camorra. Camorra still makes morcilla (black sausage) with his dad and serves this and other classic dishes such as croquetas (croquettes) but instead of filling them with the traditional bacalao he uses sweet, rich and earthy Australian smoked eel (a product once made by local aboriginal people).
Specialising in raciones (shared plates) Camorra brings classic Spanish dishes like estofados (slow cooked meat dishes) and his own take on modern Spanish with his benchmark cecina (air dried beef) with truffle foam and poached egg. Adjacent to MoVida is MoVida Next Door, a bright, fun bar specializing in Sherry, dishes from la plancha (on the griddle), fried seafood and ice-cold Moritz beer imported from Barcelona.
Opposite this is the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and home to La Mirada, Melbourne's annual Spanish film festival. For two weeks every April modern Spanish films, Spanish classics and films from Hispanic countries take over the screens of ACMI. In 2009 Madrid director Pedro Almodóvar half a dozen of his favourite Spanish films for the festival allowing audiences a taste of Spanish cinema from the 1950s,'70s and '80s.
A walk past 19th century St Pauls neo-gothic cathedral, and north along Swantson Street brings one to Bourke Street, a pedestrianised mall planted out with sprawling fig trees. At one corner stands the old colonial era post office, a towering edifice with internal and external colonnades that was transformed into an upmarket shopping centre at the turn of the 21st century. Majorcan shoe brand Camper takes centre stage here with their bright and comfortable shoes dominating the almost all white retail space.
Directly across the mall is MNG just one of the 1223 Mango clothing outlets worldwide and incredibly popular with young Melbourne women. A few minutes walk further west along Bourke Street brings you to MoVida Aqui. This is the third MoVida restaurant in Melbourne and has commanding views over the classical dome that sits over the old law court. It has an outdoor kiosk that serves all day bocadillos (Spanish sandwiches).
Chapel St-Prahran
Fifteen minutes south east of the centre of the city by train or tram is the funky shopping street of Chapel Street in Prahran. It's young, fun, pumping with energy and for over two decades been the place to see and be seen. No wonder this exciting young fashion label Skunkfunk, based in Guernica in the Basque Country, has opened a store on this strip adding a strong sense of European styling to a culture dominated by casual streetwear...
Setting a trend in the food fashion stakes is San Churro, a shop that specializes in churros (fried Spanish doughnuts) and chocolate. Local food lovers really love the fact that they use quality couverture chocolate from Barcelona company Chocovic and carry a line of Spanish chocolate covered almonds called Catanias. (Chocovic's master chocolatier Ramon Morató strengthened ties with Melbourne in 2009 by being one of the hit celebrity chefs at that year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.)
A short walk west along Commercial Road brings one to Oliveria -a shop specializing in extra virgin olive oil, many of which are Spanish. Owner Morrie Behrmann also stocks a great range of conservas (preserved foods) including mussels from Galicia, razor clams from Cantabria and wood roasted piquillo peppers from Navarre.
Like Spanish cities Melbourne is blessed with municipal markets. These are generally great Victorian buildings housing fish, meat and fruit and vegetable sections. The Prahran Market, across the road from Oliveria houses several delicatessens which sell imported Spainsh cheeses such as Manchego, Valdeón and Menorca-Mahón.
Those who admire fine interior design make Bridge Road, Richmond a destination. 10 minutes by tram from Prahran the strip is lined with importers and manufacturers of furniture. Considered a temple to the modern is Living Edge, a showroom dedicated to the world's best. Valencia's Andreu World's Lineal range of stools and chairs are striking because of their sheer visual elegance and lightness of form.
Richard Cornish is a Melbourne-based food writer and an award winning author of cookbooks, including four on Spanish food.


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This Lichfield Trail 250 Sleeping Bag is the perfect way to stay warm when you're out camping in the great outdoors.
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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Spokane police are searching for a woman who robbed a coffee shop on the South Hill.
It happened around 7 a.m. at Tully's Coffee near 29th and Southeast.
The cashier told police the suspect flashed a knife and took off with about $150 from the cash register.
The suspect is described as a young white woman with blond hair, who stands at 5-foot-4. She was wearing jeans, a black hoodie and carried a leopard print purse.
Police believe she took off in a white, 4-door vehicle.
No one was hurt.


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Four years ago, hundreds of "So You Think You Can Dance" wannabes converged upon the Fox Theatre and it was barely above freezing. The dancers were miserable.
This past Saturday, Atlanta weather was far more cooperative and the crowd was far more upbeat. They danced, they made funny faces, they yelled "Welcome to the ATL!" A group spelled out "ATL." Anything for a few seconds of camera time.
Atlanta wasn't even originally on the audition itinerary. But due to Nigel Lythgoe's schedule, they had to move it from Charlotte. This will be the third time the city has hosted "So You Think You Can Dance" auditions in eight seasons. Surprisingly, Atlanta has not had a single representative among the finalists of the first seven seasons.
Acworth hip-hop dancer Kevin Crawford, 26, has auditioned six times and has made it before the judges (including Lythgoe) three times for a solo dance. He could never get a ticket to Vegas, however.
If anything, he's creative and knows how to stand out in a crowd.
Here's video of Crawford suggesting a group of auditioners crowd surf one of the dancers while the camera guys shot promotional moments for an episode set to air this summer:
[I checked with Crawford Monday: "It didn't happen this year. But it's encouraging to know [executive producer] Jeff [Thacker] gave me some advice to work on my technique and not give up."]
On Monday, the judges Lil C, Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy showed up,along with Cat Deeley.
February 21st, 2011
12:48 pm
I can't wait to see the audition footage.
February 21st, 2011
1:45 pm
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February 21st, 2011
2:15 pm
I ain't going unless the delicious Miss Catherine Deeley is in the house.
February 21st, 2011
9:31 pm
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February 21st, 2011
9:46 pm
Woh! So truly encouraged, thank you!
February 21st, 2011
10:34 pm
I think Atlanta's lack of dancing ability has something to do with the women at the cheetah and tattletales. Some of those girls look good but when you get over their nakedness you realize they couldn't dance their way out of a wet paper sack. Thank god for their other talents.
February 21st, 2011
11:19 pm
I look good with a beard . Atlanta is rocking the nation with their moves! Can't wait to record some more of you guys!
February 22nd, 2011
12:16 am
Get a job.
February 22nd, 2011
10:47 am
The dances everybody does on these shows are so cliche it's painful to watch. Trying to be stars seems to be more important than doing something original and talented.
February 22nd, 2011
3:48 pm
Wait….Cat Deeley was here….and I missed her?!
February 23rd, 2011
8:49 am
I'll be back, season 9 is my time to shine.


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I've been with my husband for a long while now, but boy were we traveling on a rocky road in the first 12-months. Women can be drama queens, and I was definitely that. Constantly dumping him if he said the wrong thing, and then experiencing an insane yearning, as tears rolled down my cheeks. No wonder the poor guy felt like he was getting mixed messages. I guess it can make a relationship seem exciting to experience drama—just not all the time. It can be draining, but it's not quite game playing. And yes, the sex was always hot afterwards. I felt like a complete freak!
Creating Drama In A Relationship – Is It Ever Really Worth It?
My untrustworthiness in men has been constant since an uncomfortable breakup when I was younger. Best friends can be so cruel, but I guess some women will do what they can to steal a man. There are books written on "how to keep her keen", but these strategies often include game playing. For example, playing it mean keeps a woman keen. This is true for women who play men. It's always easier to play mind games with nice men, as they will always be attentive to our needs, and yes, it is sad that women have to use such drama to gain "girl power."
The drama continued in my and my partner's relationship for about 12-months. Each time I ended things, often for a reason that I knew was damn right selfish and stupid, I slipped back into my hermit cave. A part of me wanted him to lash out with hurtful comments. I expected cruelty on some level. If he was cruel to me then maybe I could say "f*** you" but after all this time, he has never said a hurtful word to me, besides calling me a dick occasionally for going overboard with my emotions, which can be manipulative at times. At least I can say that I have a weakness.
How many of us continue to make outrageous demands in a relationship? Many men continue to date women who make them feel like shit? The game playing or drama is constant. She always has to have the last word, and if she doesn't, all hell breaks loose. It's pretty dire that she will refuse you sex, but some women are crazy-manipulative and will use sex as a weapon. Even I wouldn't go that far… as an orgasm is very stress relieving!
Drama can make a relationship seem exciting, but it's not necessary. It's something for women to share, as they love to gossip, but it's not quite the same for men. Men can be very private, and even sharing details of intimacy with close friends is a no-go area, so having to confess that a girlfriend is turning you into a nervous-wreck every time you're around her can turn the stomach uneasy.
Imagine it like this, you feel like you're standing on the edge of a cliff, as she's just accused you of cheating on her with Kirsty from Accounts. You know she sounds crazy, and it's all through jealousy, but you can't leave her as you love the crazy bitch. She won't listen to your reasoning. She continues to try to make you confess something you haven't done. And if you did, you know she would do something crazy like throw paint over all your clothes. If you're a cool-together guy, try confessing that your girlfriend is a drama-queen to your friends. Some of them may take the piss, or you may get some support, so it's easier to say nothing and cope alone. Jumping off the cliff is an easy way out.
Gradually, she'll come to realise that she made a mistake and be apologetic. I suppose the only good to come out of a drama is the hot sex. Drama is what some couples need, but drama is not always necessary to make a relationship work.
Have you been in a dramatic relationship where its full on arguments one minute and passionate sex the next? How how this played out for you? Are you over such relationships or still involved in one? Please share your thoughts on this topic.


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- Joeban Machiel Bergs
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So, suppose you had no past. What's it like? What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?
Here we're not talking about having a past but not remembering it or not being able to recall it. Neither are we talking about having a past but putting it aside or ignoring it. All people have a past. You have a past.
When you live in your past (or when you live from your past) you perpetuate the life you've already always lived. Nothing new shows up. If you tell the truth about it, that's not deeply satisfying and you're not nurtured by it. You're stuck and powerless, like a rat in a race.
But suppose, just suppose you ... had ... no ... past ... How would you be?
...Would you take company as it comes, and equally enjoy yourself by yourself? How would you express yourself? Fully, without holding back or avoiding being embarrassed? Would you let love nurture you rather than require it prove itself to you?...
For the sake of argument, create the experience of having no past. Stand in the experience of having no past. What's like? Having no past, What choices do you have? Where are your reference points? What are you like, having no past?
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Dec 20 2011: "I really doubt if I am cut out for this form of communication." (from a reply above above above above) Completely disagree! This forum, the pubic, needs thoughtful, erudite people such as yourself.
"It often strikes me that everything is in communication with everything else ... on every level of reality ... for its own sake" Hmmm . . . wonder if this is what is called entanglement? In that case, we are still as we are to others, or is the qualifier 'for its own sake' making it more important . . . solitary . . . everlasting?
"I do not know which of us has written this page" (from the Jorge Luis Borges excerpt). Recently, in my own writing, I expressed a similar sentiment and I beleive that other one was the "Who are we then ?!!!!!!!!", to which you referred earlier. Tell me, the 'other than Borges', is it dreams, ambition, the soul, a universal consciousness, a flight of fancy, the "Who are we then ?!!!!!!!!" ? Thank you for sharing that piece!
What is this no future as of New Years Eve? How are you going to do that? What are the steps you will be taking? If you don't mind sharing with the world : )
Hoping I have made a semblance of sense . . .
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Dec 20 2011: Ok, here we go Denis,
We are meaning-seeking creatures and, unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we cannot find significance and value in our lives.
When a event is happening in life, most of the time we are judging, evaluate, find it good or bad, agree on it or not, and sometimes we want to chance the event. So where is all the judging and need for chance coming from? Let say it's coming from your past experience, the past. So what is your past doing in the moment of the event now?
In my experience it is in the way, it is a barrier to a clear view to the future.
If we truly want to change things (if we want a breakthrough), we need to be able to let go of the things/feelings/emotions/believes that don't 'serve' us anymore. To be able to move on. Let say that those things are a result of your past experience, than your past is in the way to your future. If you would take the past out of your view to the future and put it back where it belongs, the past, now you have a clear view to the future. Where anything is possible, because there are no barriers!
I hope you can wrap your mind around this way of being! ;-)
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A five-year police officer in the town of Culpeper is guilty of three felonies, including voluntary manslaughter.
He was also found guilty of unlawfully shooting into an occupied vehicle and involuntary manslaughter shooting into an occupied vehicle resulting in death. He was found not guilty of use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
Daniel Harmon-Wright left the courthouse in handcuffs Tuesday afternoon, escorted by armed bailiffs. In court, Harmon-Wright put his hands to his face as the verdicts were read aloud. His wife was crying, as was a female juror.
Special prosecutor Jim Fisher said he's satisfied with the jury's verdict in the case.
"I've always felt that self-defense was not supported by the evidence. So it has been an issue of the grade of homicide, so either murder - in the first or second degree - or manslaughter - voluntary or involuntary. And the jury has now spoken to that, so I stand by their verdict," he said.
The verdict came after five days of testimony and nine hours of deliberations. After the decision, Patricia Cook's brother spoke about moving forward.
"It vindicates her. What happened on that day should not have happened. There were a lot of things done incorrectly that day and I'm just pleased with the verdict and I'd like to move on from here," he said.
Culpeper Mayor Calvin Coleman issued the following statement Tuesday afternoon:
"The trial is over. The jury has spoken. The whole situation is a tragedy that gripped and, in some cases, divided our community."
He went on to say, "Now is the time to start the healing process. The men and women of the Culpeper Police Department are hard-working and should not be judged by the actions of a former officer."
Harmon-Wright had nothing to say as he was taken into custody. His defense attorney also left without talking to reporters.
The jury will come back Wednesday at 1 p.m. for sentencing. Harmon-Wright faces up to 25 years in prison.
The sentencing guidelines for the charges Harmon-Wright faces according to the Virginia Criminal Code are as follows:
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Mayor Coleman's Quote"The Trial is over. The jury has spoken. The whole situation is a tragedy that gripped and, in some cases, divided our community.
We asked for an independent and unbiased investigation into the shooting. The Virginia State Police professionally conducted that investigation. We thank them for their efforts.
A special grand jury listened to evidence and returned indictments against the former Culpeper police officer.
A special prosecutor, without ties to Culpeper, prosecuted the case. Witnesses testified and the jury rendered a verdict.
That is what we as town government asked for, and that is what we got. The system worked.
Now is the time to start the healing process. The men and women of the Culpeper Police Department are hard working and should not be judged by the actions of a former officer." --Mayor Calvin L. Coleman
Chief Jenkins Quote
"The outcome of the trial does not change our mission. We are still devoted to providing the best possible services to our community and in the best way possible.
This was a tragedy and a first for our community and this agency. We are all saddened by this event. We hurt too.
I want to personally thank all those citizens who showed their support during this trying time. It meant so much to our department to know that so many of our citizens did not negatively judge the entire department because of this incident.
The men and women of your police department stand ready to answer the call."-- Culpeper Police Chief Chris Jenkins
Town Manager's Quote
"In the last year, the town has experienced some very difficult times, especially this shooting incident. Our town employees will continue to work extra hard to prove to you, our citizens, that we are here providing exceptional services and working to regain any trust that may have been lost during this unfortunate tragedy."--Acting Town Manager Chris Hively


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In the time-honored tradition of, er, Justin Bieber , One Direction is starring in their very own comical ad for Macy's Black Friday extravaganza, which doubles as a promotion for their new perfume.
In the ad , which will start airing on TV November 24, the boys are seen setting up a display of the fragrance, Our Moment, as "Harold," the store manager, comes by to check up on them. At first, their conversation is normal, but then Harold gets all stalkery, changing his hairstyle to match those of Harry , Liam , Zayn , Louis and Niall , and then talking in a bad British accent. "I thought maybe you could use one more bloke in your band," he says. "Back away," Liam advises the rest of the group.
The commercial promotes the fact that Macy's will open starting 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving night so people can start their holiday shopping. On November 28 and November 29, customers who buy the boys' Our Moment fragrance spray will get an exclusive black tote bag, and Macy's will donate $2 from each Our Moment purchase to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
In addition, Macy's flagship New York City store will also feature a 1D pop-up shop, and Macy's YouTube channel and Instagram account will offer fans exclusive behind-the-scenes video captured during the filming of the ad.
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Two national parks protect much of the mountains, cloudforests and pines present in the Cordillera Central, BERMÚDEZ and RAMÍREZ, each encompassing over seven hundred square kilometres that really need to be explored on an organized trek up Pico Duarte, the highest mountain in the Caribbean. At the very least, you'll need to check in with a ranger and be accompanied by a guide for whatever trip you take into the parks.
Once in, you'll see no small array of flora, though the endemic Creole pine tends to proliferate. Reforested Caribbean pines have been planted in places where there was once agriculture, and scattered palm trees dot the fringes. You'll also spot many orchids and bromeliads, along with Spanish moss and parasites known as The Count of Pines, their branches winding up the trunks of other trees and slowly strangulating them. There aren't many large animals in the mountains – persistent rumours of wild pigs aside – but you'll notice a number of lizards and even Coquí frogs near the summit of Duarte; the relatively rare tarantula or non-poisonous snake is also known to make an occasional appearance. There are plenty of birds, too, especially Hispaniolan parrots, hummingbirds and woodpeckers; you'll hear a raucous population of white-tailed crows near the summit.
Signs of agriculture are visible in the small valleys along the southern half of Ramírez, though the traditional slash-and-burn farming has been banned. Local folklore has it that small bands of Tainos are still holed up in the deepest mountains waiting for the Spaniards to depart, and that the trails are haunted by ciguapas – mythical blue-skinned women with their feet back-to-front who seduce young men at night and lure them to their deaths at the bottoms of streams.Read More
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Five strenuous treks lead up to 3087m Pico Duarte, which towers over the centre of the mountain range alongside its sibling peak La Pelona ("Baldy"; before 1930 they were known as Pelona Grande and Pelona Chica). The lack of fresh water on the mountain has left it uninhabited through the centuries – though Tainos once lived in the nearby Valle del Tétero – and the first recorded ascent was only in 1944.
Climbing to the very top of the Caribbean's highest mountain holds definite cachet, and the view from the treeless peak is magnificent (though even here you can't quite escape from it all – Duarte's face is sculpted onto one of the rocks). If you've come this far, think seriously about extending your trek to include Valle del Tétero – a broad savannah with roaring mountain rivers, wild horses and Taino petroglyphs. This can be done by adding a two-day loop into the La Ciénega trek or by following one of the trails that crosses the valley on the approach to the peak. Unless you're a seasoned trekker, you'll do well to stick to the La Ciénega route.


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