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Today was the keynote session at Teched 2010 in Berlin.
During this session Brad Anderson welcomed everybody and explained Microsoft's vision. A lot of that vision is about the cloud and how the cloud can enhance the user experience.
SP1 for Windows 7 and 2008 R2
One of the new features in SP1 for Windows 7 and 2008 R2 is Remote FX. This brings the rich user interface that Windows 7 has to offer to the remote desktop. The workload for this is done by the GPU in the server, so no extra workload is added to the CPU.
Another new feature in SP1 is Dynamic Memory. VMware is already providing this in vSphere, but now Hyper-V will also benefit from a better use of memory. Dynamic memory will help Hyper-V to host 40% more load on the same hardware you are using today.
The Cloud
Microsoft's vision on cloud computing is a user centric one. In an ideal world it's not important how, or with what device, a user connects to the information in the cloud. Even the choice of the type of cloud (private, public, hybrid) should not make any difference in the end users experience.
To explain this a brief demonstration has been given with Windows Phone 7. Several applications were shown and explained how the information in the cloud is transformed into a uniform interface experience. Whether you are browsing eBay, or looking for a movie, the interface and the way you interact with the information stays the same.
Microsoft believes that we're only at the start of the 'cloud-age' and that the endpoint should be Platform as a service. Software as a service and infrastructure as a service is only the beginning.
Microsoft's offerings in cloud services have all been shortly demoed.
Microsoft Azure
Office 365 (formerly known as BPOS)
Windows Intune
System Center
With System Center Microsoft is working hard on a single management console for all of your services. Whether it's running locally in your own datacenter, or on Microsoft Azure. You manage it from the same console. Personaly, I like this much better than a web interface that 'almost' gives you what you want. A good example of this is the web client from vSphere. It works… but the vSphere client is so much nicer to work with.
See you tomorrow for information from day 2!


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Sep 29, 2010
Blog theme up for grabs.
It relies heavily on fancybox and jQuery so you'll need to add those. Also uses syntaxhighlighter. If you look closely you'll find that there's a very rough, custom brush for syntaxhighlighter in here that's used for chordpro highlighting.
Download Template Here
Sep 22, 2010
Dhivehi for alQuran on iPhone is now LIVE!
grab it while it's fresh boys... in relation to my previous post here, Afxal an I have finally managed to push through the bundle to the public. Now this process is a wheeeeeeee hweeeeeeenee weeensy teeeeenee tiny bit risky so if you're very very unsure about it let somebody else help you out in installing.
Well there it is folks. Add http://m0bi.com/cydia to your cydia sources and enjoy!
As always, the release is issued under the terms of GNULesser license agreement.
Sep 21, 2010
Overhauling again
SO! welcome to the new layout. I've made some changes and optimized things a bit and added a few nice features like adding automatic lightboxing to all pictures. Now it hardly uses any images to do the layout, and also relies heavily on jQuery. I'm quite pleased with how this one came out. I wanted to phase out as much of the distractions as possible and make it as clean and elegant as I could.
Do let me know if something is broken though :)
Sep 20, 2010
iPhone Dhivehi Quran Translation
After much hacking away at the iPhone's file system over the last two days, I've finally managed to get Unicode thaana stuff to display properly on the iPhone iOS 4.x
THE BAD NEWS is that people using older 2G iphones running 3.x firmware are still outta luck on the unicode front. I'm working on it though...
anyway as a by product of the aforementioned success, I've managed to put together a little hack that'll add the Dhivehi translation of the Quran (as found on http://presidencymaldives.gov.mv/quran ) into the alQuran app from alMubin.com
the package will be available from afxals cydia repo at m0bi.com/cydia so just add that up and you'll be good to go. also depends on afxals thaana package for iOS, and erica utilities. Also you'll need to have alQuran installed. *if you needed me to tell you that then....well...what the hell..?*
here are some screenshots of it in action! (I KNOW that the text appears on the wrong side...I CAN fix it I just chose not to for reasons of...elegance lets say)
on the licensing side, since this will inevitably "mix" with non-free code, I am releasing it under GNULesser/LGPL
Now if you're curious on how I got the "dhivehi" to appear on the keyboard selection popup ... well let's just say I'm working on it.
Sep 11, 2010
Experimental Thaana Spell-checking with Hunspell
[NOTE: I am aware that this feature is available in "Xiosis Scribe", however their approach to this appears to be somewhat lacking and IMHO disappointing. Also, the closed source nature of their system pisses me of]
I decided to try and implement this by building a custom dictionary for hunspell. This approach has several advantages too great to be ignored. a) it eliminates the need to write the spell-check engine from the ground up. b) It provides immediate integration into software like openoffice and firefox (and potentially even MSWord) to name a few. Of course there is the risk that it might not be able to handle dhivehi's "rules" - but as I always say if the Arabs and the Hebrews can do it - and it has been done - then so can we.
So I used the scripts I wrote for The Radheef project to generate words, and wrote a simple affix file to munch it down with. Using a dictionary comprising of all the "headwords" in the Radheef, and this affix file I was able to obtain some promising results - enough to convince me that it just may be possible to achieve reasonable results using Hunspell.
and the saga continues...
|The contents of the Affix file
|The test file to run the spell check on
|We give hunspell a chance to process it...
|and this is the resulting output ("misspelled" words with their suggestions)
I hope I got the attention of some talented young out there and hope that you take an interest in this.
Sep 9, 2010
Get rid of MV Boli on Windows 7/Vista/Xp
Sadly though, MV Boli remains to haunt us.
FORTUNATELY though, it appears to be a relatively simple task to rid ourselves of this menace!
WARNING: Always make a backup of your registry before editing it.
The fix involves changing out two registry keys. I'm not entirely sure if changing the first one is absolutely necessary, but we'll do it anyway for good measure.
in the start menu search bar, type "regedit" and open it. (XP users type regedit in the Run dialog)
Once in the registry editor navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
Here you'll see a listing for a bunch of fonts. Scroll down until you find the name of your REPLACEMENT font (eg MV Faseyha). Double click this, and copy the value. Now scroll to where it says "MV Boli", double click it and paste the value you just copied into the dialog box. Click ok. Also make a note of the NAME of the replacement font. Choose the replacement font wisely. It has to be a good unicode font. I recommend MV Faseyha, Faruma or one of the fonts from the Iyyu or Elaaf family of fonts.
Now navigate over to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]from here find the key "MV Boli", double click it and change the value to the name of the replacement font exactly as it was in the previous list (without the "(open type)" bit) eg. "MV Faseyha","MV Iyyu Formal" etc...
save and exit. Then restart your system. Boli should be replaced now.
IF you're feeling super lazy, I've put together a small registry patch file that should do the work for you. However I do not recommend using this as the font file name and stuff may differ between systems.
Download HERE
thanks apo and ÎĦΣçҜәѓ™ for the help testing this out.
Dict Database for Dhivehi Radheef Update
by minor I mean a complete overhaul - I had to rewrite the entire conversion script because of the recent "hard drive crash". I've managed to fix the "number reversal" problem, and also changed the formatting a little. Also included in the dictionary now are additional information about the words like "kan ithuru","nan ithuru" and so on....
Otherwise everything is pretty much the same. Installation instructions can be found on the previous post HERE
updated files are here:
RAW zip: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5385653/radheef/dict-radheef.zip
deb : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5385653/radheef/dict-radheef1-03.deb
Sep 6, 2010
Zekr: Changing Translation Display Font
(This article also titled: getting rid of or changing MV Boli font in Zekr) - that DAMNED boli font!
in Zekr, goto Tools->Options and select "View" from the side column. From here click the add (+) button to add a new setting key and call it "trans_dv_fontName" and click OK. You can now change the value assigned to this key and add "MV Faseyha" (or any other font you like).
You can also add "trans_dv_fontSize" to specify the size of the translation text.
On a side note, if you want the Quranic text to display nicely, download and install the me_quran font from http://arabicfonts.wikispaces.com/
Sep 4, 2010
ADSL Usage checker update
I added a few more options like the ability to customize the output string, check for updates, and so on and so forth. Here's the updated script. It's a bit lengthy...
#!/bin/bash ################################################## # Ugly Dirty yet functional script to check ADSL # usage statistics for Dhiraagu subscribers. # # type ./dslusage -h for options # # This script is provided as is, without liabilities # or guarantee. # # 2010 KudaNai - http://kudanai.blogspot.com #------------------------------------------------- username= #your login name password= #your password here package_allowance=20 #must be specified version=0.2 #End of configuration section. PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" fmtstring="DSL Usage:\tGBUSEDGb / GBALLOWGb ( GBLEFTGb remaining)" #Default format string function pusage() { echo -e "\tUSEAGE: ${0}
" cat ${0} | tail -n 23 | sed "s/#//g;s/VERSION/${version}/g" exit } function error() { echo -e "ERROR: $1\n" if [ -z $2 ];then pusage;fi exit } function checkupdate() { if [ -z $(which curl) ];then error "This functionality requires cURL. Please install it and try again" 1;fi local ver=$(curl --silent http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5385653/ddslcheck/ver) if [ $(expr ${ver} \> ${version}) -eq 1 ] then echo "A newer version ${ver} is available online." else echo "You are probably using the latest version." fi } while getopts 'vVUhu:p:f:' OPTION do case $OPTION in u) username=${OPTARG};; p) password=${OPTARG};; a) package_allowance=${OPTARG};; v) fmtstring="Dhiraagu ADSL Usage Details as on\n`date`\n\nCustomer:\tSUBSCRIBER (USERID)\nPackage:\tPACKAGE_NAME\nusage period:\tBILLING_START to BILLING_END (BILLING_CYCLE)\n\nDSL Usage:\tGBUSEDGb / GBALLOWGb ( GBLEFTGb remaining)";; V) cat $0 | tail -n 5 | sed "s/#//g;s/VERSION/${version}/g";exit;; f) fmtstring=${OPTARG};; U) checkupdate;exit;; h) pusage;; ?) pusage;; esac done if [ -z $(which img2txt) ]; then error "You need to install caca-utils before proceeding" 1;exit;fi if [ -z $(which wget) ];then error "You don't have wget installed...seriously?" 1;exit;fi if [[ -z ${username} || -z ${password} || -z ${package_allowance} ]]; then error "You need to specify username and password";fi cd /tmp # ---------------here on down everything is done inside temp wget --quiet --no-cache --post-data "web_user=${username}&web_pass=${password}" -p http://dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv/login.php if [ ! -f "dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv/comparision_graph.php" ];then error "Invalid username/password" 1;fi OIFS="{$IFS}"; IFS=$'\n' count=0 for LINE in $(sed -n 's/.*"#000080" size="2">\([^<]*\).*/\1/p' dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv/topframe.php;sed -n 's/.*through \(.*\) to \([^<]*\)<.*/\1\n\2/p' dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv/comparision_tpl.php) do ARR[${count}]=$LINE ((count++)) done IFS="${OIFS}" gstring=$(img2txt -H 400 -W 4 -d none -f ansi dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv/comparision_graph.php) gtotal=$(echo "${gstring}" | grep 44 | wc -l) gused=$(echo "${gstring}" | grep 43 | wc -l) gbused=$(echo "scale=3;${gused} / ${gtotal} * ${package_allowance}" | bc -l) gbleft=$(echo "scale=3;${package_allowance} - ${gbused}" | bc -l) echo -e "${fmtstring}" | sed "s/SUBSCRIBER/${ARR[0]}/g;s/USERID/${ARR[1]}/g;s/PACKAGE_NAME/${ARR[2]}/g;s/BILLING_CYCLE/${ARR[3]}/g;s/BILLING_START/${ARR[4]}/g;s/BILLING_END/${ARR[5]}/g;s/GBUSED/${gbused}/g;s/GBLEFT/${gbleft}/g;s/GBALLOW/${package_allowance}/g;" rm -r dsl.dhivehinet.net.mv # #OPTIONS: # -a Specify package allowance for limited connections. # -f Define custom format string. # -h Print this help. # -p Specify password. # -u Specify username. # -U Check for updates. # -v Verbose output. Print more details. # -V print version information and exit. # #FORMATTING: # The format string can by anything containing any of the following # special variables which will be substituted with appropriate values. # use \n,\t for newlines and tabs. # # SUBSCRIBER,USERID,PACKAGE_NAME,BILLING_CYCLE # BILLING_START,BILLING_END,GBUSED,GBLEFT,GBALLOW # # Dhiraagu DSLUsage checker # 2010 - KudaNai [ http://kudanai.blogspot.com ] # vVERSION #

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Students at Zandri's Martial Arts celebrated their teachers this past Wednesday at Teacher Appreciation Day.
Each martial arts student nominates their school teacher to receive special recognition. We've been hosting this event for years and it's a blast every time.
Teachers from Center School and Huckleberry Hill Elementary School in Brookfield primarily attend. But there was representation from the Danbury, New Milford, Bethel, Newtown and Southbury.
The teachers all really enjoyed the performances by their students. School teachers are extremely busy and hard working and this kind of recognition is well deserved.
Here's some great pics from the event.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: bethel, Brookfield, center school, danbury, educat, huckleberry hill school, ion, karate, martial arts, new milford, newtown, school, southbury, teacher appreciation day, teachers |


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Though I have shared inspiring enough posts on V-day here and here in past years, this year I am sharing something personal that I thought is cute enough to broach the topic lovingly.
Valentine's Day is never anything extravagant except a day for us to celebrate our love for one another, a day to celebrate the time, past and present after spending two decades together. Yes, we 'the oldy-goldy' celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in December and today's small post is about our small celebration we did to celebrate our togetherness. Though now after twenty years, we need something different to feel intoxicated and that's a complete different story ;).
The party took place without breaking any bank in our newly finished basement and with the company of all
loving close friends. ( The whole celebration was a surprise and I had to churn it out in the small span of 2 hours.)
The whole celebration was a surprise and I had to churn it out in the small span of 2 hours.)Simplest, playful and practical pieces were given unusual touches apt for the celebrations. Tissue paper flowers and candles were perfectly paired in sync with the theme. For some personalized touches; Treasured memories of our life captured in photographs were displayed in giant frames. To throw in some laughter funny "Somee cards" were replaced in old frames. Personalized water bottles for all guests are "Pinkz" specialty for any big or small events at our home. Shadow box displayed some serious calculations of our overall math of 20 years.


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Holiday Break
Like most of you, it's time for me to take a step back from the blogosphere to spend time with my family (and finish my latest manuscript). I will see all of you lovely people on January 12th!
Seasons Greetings
Merry Christmas, guys! (If you're not a fan, just put your finger over "Merry Christmas" and say out loud whatever you celebrate. It works, I promise!)
Change is Nigh
I'm consolidating and updating in 2015...
Question(s) of the week:
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ A nurse has been accused of stealing painkillers from a Lincoln hospital.
Court records say 30-year-old Krista Morgan is charged with violating a narcotic drug law. Her attorney didn't immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press. Her next hearing is scheduled for May 1.
She's accused of stealing several bottles of fentanyl citrate from Bryan Health's West Campus hospital. Fentanyl citrate is an opioid painkiller.
A January inventory check showed the bottles were missing. She's no longer employed at the hospital.


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Global Health
Global Hearing Health is a new focus of HEI, through its own efforts in humanitarian otology (Neurotology Clinical Fellows spend a rotation on humanitarian worldwide otology) and through a collaboration with Global ENT Outreach.
HEI partners also with the international arm of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Foundation, through the humanitarian committee, the Panamerican committee, and efforts by individual HEI scientists and physicians. Ongoing collaborative global health projects are underway in China, Ecuador, Peru, Malawi, and Paraguay.
Dr. Sigfrid Soli, Senior Clinical Research Scientist, is co-director of a clinical research program at West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, where he is a Guest Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology. The goal of this research program is to develop pediatric outcome assessment materials and protocols for use with very young hearing impaired children who are treated with hearing aids or cochlear implants. The materials and protocols are based on the prior work of pediatric audiologists at the House Ear Institute and the House Clinic. This research has resulted in the development of evidence-based best practices for early intervention programs that can be used throughout China.


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Weekly News Desk -Health and Medical Legal
Weekly News desk is here, just in case you missed any of the top stories that we spotted last week in relation to Health and Medical law issues, Here is the round-up:
The harrowing story of a mother's long battle for truth and justice in relation to the preventable death of ehr 11 month old daughter:
Calls for Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust's Chief Exec to resign over the scandal of many hospital deaths:
Naughty Sandwell Hospital order striking Junior Doctors to work:
The bar has been raised by the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the Human Right for protection of the right to life, also relevant to consent issues in care:
A heartwarming and successful story of the rush from many to save one. Long live humanity!
An amusing tale from the picket line: A Junior Doctor ponders hooking up his mobile wifi to an MI6 Surveillance van! His tweet extracted here:


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In July we launched our game Hit Tennis 3 into the iPhone charts with a hugely successful cross promotion campaign. This November we did it again for our iPad launch (as a universal game Hit Tennis 3.7). It worked again pretty well, reaching ranks in iPad top free #26 USA, #15 UK, #15 Italy, #21 Canada, #31 Switzerland, #6 Brazil, #15 Sweden, and #2 in the Netherlands. We did things a little differently this time:
- Ran the majority of ads on Chartboost, mostly as direct deals for barter with our cross promotions partner companies.
- Took a little more time before the campaign to test 6 different versions of the ad creative using paid downloads on Chartboost. Difference in final install rate between the best and worst ad was 2x. This can make a huge difference... our cross promotion partners can only run so many impressions, and every impression they run for us has an opportunity cost, so we want to make the best of our partners generous help.
- This time around we were not running the promo during tennis season. (A key part of our launch campaign was that it ran during Wimbledon.) This promotion was timed to come after thanksgiving but before the busy holiday season rush, so we would not be asking our partners to run our ads for free when they could be getting 'holiday high' ecpms. So instead of a global iOS promotion, this was only on the iPad, and only in our major national markets (9 in total).
- Ads ran between Nov 26th and Nov 30 inclusive, which was Monday-Friday.
- Showed a total of 690,000 impressions, which generated 15,000 installs over that 5 day period.
- Total downloads over those 5 days was 110,000. Over the preceding 5 weekday days, downloads were at 33,000. So the campaign received an organic lift of 77,000 installs, which is 5x more than the ad drive installs. (Thats pretty good!)
- Hit Tennis is sitting nicely in the charts now, so we will continue to enjoy a higher than normal install rate for a week or two at least.
- We entered into the top 50 in all the markets we advertised in, except Germany and Japan, where we didn't break into the top 100 free. The game isn't yet localized, its just in english. We will localize and have another crack at these markets next summer.
- Come the last day of the promotion, we were sitting outside the US iPad top 100 free, so we decided to give the US an extra push with a paid Chartboost campaign. That campaign ramped up quickly and drove an additional 4700 installs, which pushed usup into the top 25 free in the US. (This was in addition to the ads our partners were still running for us in the US.)
This has been a successful campaign for our launch of Hit Tennis 3 on the iPad, and it will certainly be profitable:
- The slide back down the charts will take probably 2 weeks, during which we will enjoy downloads higher than our 'base rate'. The weekend directly following the promotion achieved 87,000 installs worldwide.
- We now have a Hit Tennis 3 user base on iPad to spread the word to friends.
- We have more DAUs in the game, which means more IAP and advertising revenue (we're a Chartboost publisher), and we're seeing higher advertising ecpms on iPad compared to iPhone.
- With our larger audience we are able to offer our cross promotion partners more impressions for their app promotions.
I know a lot of indies are skeptical about advertising. Many have tried by spending a few hundred bucks and seeing no effect and concluding that advertising doesn't work, or is only for big publishers, or is only for games with really strong IAP sales. I hope this article shows that:
- Advertising free to play games can work for indies. The key is to work with other companies and cross promote with them. When we help each other we can run promotions just like big budget publishers.
- You need volume. 690k impressions to drive 15k installs for this promotion. (15k installs at paid CPI rates would have cost us about $20,000.)
- You need a good game that people want to check out, because the organic lift is the key ROI driver.
- Spending a few hundred dollars is 'pissing in the wind' in terms of effecting downloads and revenue.
- Spending a few hundred dollars in order to measure click through and install rates is a really good investment.
- Spending a few thousand dollars tactically can work if you are watching the charts closely.
Thanks again to our partners for running our ad campaign. Thanks also to Chartboost, who continue to be a great partner for us. What's so great about Chartboost?
- 100% fill and strong ecpms for publishers. Its an important revenue source for us.
- High click through and install rates... ie their ads do engage users and we get hardly any complaints about ads in our apps.
- Fully transparent detailed reporting to both advertiser and publisher. However, country and device type reporting is not available in their web portal. These would be welcome improvements.
- The direct deal marketplace is a great way to work with partners.
- The staff are friendly, helpful, and responsive.


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Men's Forum - Women's Access to justice project
Justice without Frontiers organized a three days workshop for the preparation of "Men's Forum" for the support and advocacy for women's access to justice project, from 26
till 28
of February 2013 at the Padova Hotel - Sin Fil.
The workshop gathered a number of religious leaders, ecclesiastical lawyer, representatives from some political parties, journalists and civil society activists whom they assured since the beginning of the training on the importance of bringing out a plan of action outside the framework of WAJ project's plan. Thus; this plan must be applicable and feasible for implementation from the position of each individual of the participants; in order to support women and advocate for access to justice specifically in personal status laws
Ms. Myriam Haddad, Project Officer for WAJ project presented a definition about JWF and its work on spreading the culture of human rights and providing legal support for women and children in particular what is related to personal status laws in "Women access to justice"; expressing that: "WAJ project aims to support vulnerable women, who are victims of exploitation or women in need of legal assistance in the Ecclesiastic Courts", as she noted.
Mr. Riad Issa, the Trainer began the first day of the training by explaining the communication skills and acceptance of the other, where he was paving to focus on the importance of promoting the concept of citizenship between rights and duties and the role of women between citizenship and civil society. Besides, Mr. Issa elaborated the model of justice and team work in an advocacy plan specifically in the issue of equality between women and men in the personal status laws
Mr. Issa initiated day two by linking the Convention of CEDAW with the points that spot on women's rights in personal status laws in Lebanon. The second day focused on explaining the concept of advocacy campaigns and advocacy as part of work in groups the main obstacles we might face. Mr. Issa also stressed on how to bring "strategic planning" in order to create targeted changes with authority members.
It is worth mentioning, that the work was characterized by collective interaction among participants who had reached for the conclusion of the second day by brainstorming a number of proposals and initiatives that were gathered to be unified in objective targets in their action plan.
The third day of the preparatory workshop for "Men's forum to support women in order to access to justice," allowed the participants to collect the most important ideas and suggestions that can be prepared and implemented within the future action plan. Everyone presented several initiatives and opportunities that can be used to move towards spreading awareness about the law and provide support for women to access to justice.
Moreover, the participants were motivated to expand the Forum and invite new members to join in supporting this process and hinted whether there's a possibility to involve the feminine element in the program after some time. Thus; the "men's forum" diverts to become "a forum for supporting women to access to justice," which includes both men and women
The participants developed a practical program and agreed to unite efforts in meaningful activities. They managed to renew their second meeting in the middle of May 2013 to launch their agenda.
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Lady Fiona and Ms Blackwood visit to JWF
Justice Without Frontiers welcomed today Lady Fiona Hodgson CBE - honorary Vice President of the Conservative Women's Organization, and UK Member of Parliament Nicola Blackwood, whom they have visited JWF office with the Head of UK Government Relations (Oxfam) Ms. Katy Wright and Programme Manager Middle East Regional Gender Equality Programme (Oxfam) Mrs. Sarah Barakat. Me. Brigitte Chelebian, Director of JWF introduced Women Access to Justice (WAJ) Project and how we are following the beneficiaries and activities to implement the project. The visitors had the chance to meet two paralegals from WAJ Project Marie Feghali and Carmel Mhana. Also the had the opportunity to meet and listen to two beneficiaries Hasna F. and Marie Kh. speaking about their fight to access to justice and get their rights.
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Raising Awareness for 183 woman about Personal status law
In the framework of raising awareness and training women to know about their Personal Status Law as a part of "Women's Access to Justice" Project (WAJ), Justice Without Frontiers held a series of awareness raising sessions on Catholic Personal Status Law for
One hundred and eighty three woman
in collaboration with the Social Development Centers( Bekfaya – Byblos and Ain Remeneh), Youth Cultural Center – Zouk Mkayel, House of Mayriam and Marta – Ajaltoun, Karakozian Association – Bourj Hammoud, Mar Elias Church – Jisr ElBasha and the School of "Pardis D'Enfants" – Jounieh during
February and March 2013.
Ms. Myriam Haddad, Project Officer for WAJ project presented a definition about JWF and its work on spreading the culture of human rights and providing legal support for women and childrenin particular what is related to personal status laws in"Women access to justice". She indicated that the aim of the project to support vulnerablewomen, who are victims of exploitation or women in need of legal assistancein the Ecclesiastic Courts.
In the same context, the Ecclesiasticallawyer Mario Mouawad provided a detailed explanation of the most prominent laws related to issues of marriage, divorce, custody, alimonyand other details. The meetings included series of discussions and interventions by women whom they shared their opinions. Also, Me. Mouawad answered the questions from participants and gave direct legal consultations
On the same context, Mrs. Marie Feghali and Mrs. Carmel Mhana, Two Paralegals in WAJ project held part of the sessions, where they gave a brief definition about the Catholic Personal Status Law as it is based on the Legal Guideline "Women in the personal status law of the Catholic communities" launched by the organization, in reference to the legal steps and procedures followed in the religious courts.
Women attending the awareness session expressed their interest and how they can benefit from that information and they expressed their desire to mainstream the knowledge to their friends.
Moreover, the participants showed the importance of giving similar sessions to the youth of the age of marriage before they get engaged. Some chose to come to the organization's office to view their legal problems.
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Awareness raising session with Religious Leaders at Byblos Diocese
Justice Without Frontiers met around seventy members from religious judges and priests during their monthly gathering at Byblos Diocese Saturday 29
of December 2012 at 10:45 a.m.
Ms. Myriam Haddad, Project officer introduced them to "Women Access to Justice" Project and discussed the terms and means of how they can integrate and connect with the project from their positions as Catholic Religious Leaders related to Byblos Archbishopric, considering them as stakeholders from the community leaders.
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Like the Wu-Tang Clan or a broken condom, Deshaun "Tank" Thomas ain't nothing to fuck with. While Jared Sullinger gets all the media praise and was named the East region's MVP, it's clear to those that actually watched the games that Thomas is the biggest reason the Buckeyes are heading to New Orleans, though Sully's tournament average of 18 points and 8 boards is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Thomas got off to a blazing start, scoring 31 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in Ohio St's route of Loyola, then followed that up with 18 and 7 against Gonzaga, 27 and 7 vs. Cinncy, and 14 and 9 in last Saturday's Elite Eight game against Syracuse.
While OSU hasn't looked flawless this postseason (we'll get to their atrocious start to the second half in the Cincinnati game in a minute), they have played very solid all-around basketball, and frankly were pretty clearly the better team in each of their first four matchups. The Buckeyes opened the tournament with a 78-59 pasting of 15th seeded Loyola (MD) before facing their first real test in round two against #7 Gonzaga. Sullinger picked up his second foul with 9 minutes to play in the first half, and spent the rest of the frame on the pine. I disagreed with the tactic to sit the big fella for the duration of the half, but I've been to less Final Fours than Thad Matta has so I guess I'll defer to his strategy. Lucky for Ohio St, Bulldog big man Robert Sacre also found himself in some foul trouble and on the sidelines for much of the first half as well. Aaron Craft's phenomenal play (finishing with 17 points, 10 assists, 3 steals) kept the Buckeyes on top at the break.
A rested Sullinger came on strong to start the second half and when the Buckeyes went up 58-48 I was breathing pretty easily. But the Zags came storming back and tied the game with just over four minutes to play after a 13-3 run. Sullinger wouldn't let them gain the lead however, as he put down two sweet-looking baby hook shots while the Buckeye defense clamped down and held Gonzaga scoreless on their next five possessions to clinch a seven-point victory and third consecutive appearance in the Sweet 16.
The 6th seeded Bearcats of Cincinnati were awaiting the Buckeyes in Boston, and Ohio St jumped all over them in the first half to take a 12-point lead into the break, mostly on the shoulders of Tank Thomas and Jared Sullinger. The two Buckeye big men completely dominated in the paint, grabbing numerous offensive rebounds and scoring at will. The game looked to be pretty well in hand, then Ohio St came out of the tunnel and offered up 9 minutes of the dumbest basketball I have ever seen them play. They took stupid shots, committed stupid turnovers, and picked up stupid fouls. Cincy took full advantage, going on a 27-11 run during this time to gain a four-point lead, causing Matta to take a timeout and really lay into his players in the huddle.
This must have woke up the Buckeyes, as they responded with a 17-1 run of their own and basically put the game away. Sully and Tank combined for 49 of the team's 81 points to lead the Bucks to a 15-point victory and a date with top-seeded Syracuse in the Elite Eight.
Ohio St's win over the 'Cuse wasn't pretty, but they punched their ticket to New Orleans and that's all that matters. The referees were waaaay to quick to blow the whistle in this one, as each team was called for several fouls that they should not have been, and the flow of the game was constantly interrupted. Sullinger found himself in an all-too-common precarious position, picking up his second foul just a mere six minutes into the game. The first was a charge that was borderline, and the second led to a three-point play that was just comical. As he did in the Gonzaga game, Coach Matta elected to sit his All-American for the remainder of the half. Freshman Amir Williams provided some real quality minutes when Sullinger's replacement, Evan Ravenel, also picked up two quick fouls. With Jared only seeing the court for six minutes and the Buckeyes turning the ball over seven times and shooting only 30%, I think they had to be thankful to be tied at 29 at intermission.
Quite simply, Syracuse had to take advantage of Sullinger on the bench and they did not - that's really what this game came down to. Because when the second half began, Sully was an absolute monster and the Orange were just overmatched and certainly missing their 7-footer, Fab Melo. The 'Cuse made a few runs to keep it close, but could never get over the hump and actually take the lead. Ohio St sank 13 of 14 from the charity stripe down the stretch to clinch a seven-point win and a trip to New Orleans and their first Final Four since 2007.
After recapping Ohio St's tournament thus far, the theme has been pretty simple - Deshaun Thomas' heroics and Jared Sullinger's foul trouble. Sullinger has been unstoppable when on the court, but he has missed significant minutes due to early fouls. As I mentioned in my previous piece previewing the tournament, most of his violations are silly fouls, and that continued to be the case in these few games. He absolutely needs to stay away from these, but if he can't I don't think Matta can afford to sit him for such extended periods of time. In both the Gonzaga and Syracuse games where he picked up the quick two and sat the rest of the half, he didn't get a third until late in the game and was never in any real jeopardy of fouling out, so he basically just wasted 10 minutes on the bench.
I've talked extensively about Sullinger and Tank's tournament play, and want to quickly touch on the others'. Like usual, Aaron Craft has been top-notch defensively. They don't win that Gonzaga game without him, and surely need him to keep up the defensive pressure and continue to distribute the ball effectively this weekend. Lenzelle Smith has played well, continuing to fill his role by playing solid defense and knocking down some open threes when the opportunity presents itself.
Which brings us to Will Buford. Sweet fancy Moses, Will Buford. They say it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and good Lord was I wrong about Buf needing to make shots for the Buckeyes to make a run at the Final Four. 45, 31, 12.5, and 25. In addition to those being the typical IQ scores you'll see in the michigan locker room, they also represent Buford's shooting percentages in the four tournament games, including that embarrassing 1-8 performance against Cincinnati. For those keeping track at home, that combined 13-44 shooting comes out to a disturbing 29.5%. Not only has he not been taking the team on his back, he's been downright pitiful.
If you choose to take an optimistic approach to these stats (I like to consider myself a glass-half-full kind of guy), you can make the case that Ohio St rather easily made it to the Final Four with their best shooter making fewer shots than some Steeler fans have teeth. If the rest of the squad can keep up their high level of play and Buford can at least be adequate, the Buckeyes are going to be a very tough out for any team.
Looking ahead to this weekend, Ohio St's first contest will be with the #2 seed out of the Midwest region, the Kansas Jayhawks (Saturday, approx. 8:49). While Kansas is a perennial Final Four team and far from an easy W, I feel like you have to like this matchup if you're the Buckeyes. Ohio St came up short but played Kansas tough in their regular season battle back in early December in Lawrence without Jared Sullinger. With Sully on a neutral court, I like our chances.
Deshaun Thomas will have to bring his defensive A-game, as he'll be going at it with All-American Thomas Robinson. But if Tank (with some help from Jared) can at least contain Robinson, there isn't really anyone else on this Jayhawk team that scares me too much. PG Tyshawn Taylor can score points in a hurry, but I have confidence that Craft will be able to limit his chances. 7-footer Jeff Withey is a shot-blocker extraordinaire, but doesn't give much on the offensive side. The keys to this game will be basically the same as any other - Sullinger limiting his fouls and someone else (see: Tank) helping him out in the scoring column. And hey, maybe Buford will even make a shot in this one.
The other matchup offers the overall #1 seed Kentucky from the South vs. the West's #4, Louisville, in the Pitino Bowl. Kentucky has looked pretty unbeatable so far, and all season long for that matter, so the Cardinals will definitely have their hands full.
I'd be remiss if I ended this post without of course mentioning one other tournament game - a first-rounder featuring the 13th seeded Ohio Bobcats and that school up north. brady hoke was so confused when he saw this contest because he didn't know which school his wolverines were actually facing. D.J. Cooper and Nick Kellogg led Ohio to the upset victory, proving once again that those bitches can't beat Ohio, whether there's a "St" on the end of the name or not.
Tuesday, March 27
Like the Wu-Tang Clan or a broken condom, Deshaun "Tank" Thomas ain't nothing to fuck with. While Jared Sullinger gets all the media praise and was named the East region's MVP, it's clear to those that actually watched the games that Thomas is the biggest reason the Buckeyes are heading to New Orleans, though Sully's tournament average of 18 points and 8 boards is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Thomas got off to a blazing start, scoring 31 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in Ohio St's route of Loyola, then followed that up with 18 and 7 against Gonzaga, 27 and 7 vs. Cinncy, and 14 and 9 in last Saturday's Elite Eight game against Syracuse.
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- Andy said...
A Wu-Tang reference plus both michigan- and steeler-bashing; very nice.
Buford has just been a non-entity; maybe he'll come out of the woodwork and lift OSU to one of these last two.
That Foul #2 call on Sullinger against Syracuse was an embarrassment to the game of basketball.
UK just looks nasty, a team as athletic as their coach's hair is oily.
- Wednesday, March 28, 2012


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EAGAN, Minn. — Aaron Rodgers has no doubts about playing against the Vikings this week. His coach isn't as optimistic.
After the quarterback returned from a left knee injury Sunday night, Sept. 9, and brought Green Bay back from a 20-0 deficit in the second half to defeat Chicago 24-23 at Lambeau Field, Rodgers told NBC, "I'm playing next week."
Packers coach Mike McCarthy tapped the breaks Monday.
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"I was amazed, but at the same time I feel like that's what you get from Aaron Rodgers," Vikings receiver Adam Thielen said. "We've seen it for so many years. You never feel like that team's out of game when he's at quarterback. That's why they pay him the big bucks."
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The two songs on the LP,however,are less interesting for the Krautrock fans. When the LP was released at that time was the disappointment in the camp of Aqua Fans also quite large ,since the sound as with many other bands of those years had significantly flattened compared to the 70s and the jazz rock,herbaceous,psychedelic elements of the Aqua- sounds had given an orientation to a more pleasing,easy proggigen Soft Rock. However,the two pieces contained at least make the best of this Musical misconduct dar.
The single reflects the previous phase of the band, which was characterized by organ -heavy hard rock,and can possibly think of Uriah Heep. This impression aroused the band quite well towards the end of the 70s with their live performances.
However, the real gem of this CD are the first four pieces that reflect the full demo from 1972 ! The sound quality here is a bit muffled,but audible. And what you hear here, confident and musically,is the more successful bands early 70 not according to: a herb rocking,sometimes organ - guitar -dominated times sound with elements of jazz and psychedelic rock. The vocals of Klaus Borucki acts somewhat plaintively.
A unanimous verdict is due to the different origin of the material collected years hardly leave. This CD dyed another white spots on the map of Krautrock in the 70s. For me personally,this publication,however,was a special pleasure,because I so far only the LP Sexy Boy knew. There,unfortunately,a rather sterile picture of the band was given that I had personally met as a rousing live act at some concerts late 70s. To so gratifying that finally a treatment of the history of Aqua exists that knows how to convince both musically and by the design of the booklet is here. For here, Garden of Delights its standard remain faithful and give detailed background information on the band's history,from form record covers and offer a good range of band photos. A recommendation for the collectors! Review by adamus67
02.Soul of my soul (1972)
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DURHAM, N.C. The bull still snarls from atop the outfield wall, snorting smoke after home runs and taunting hitters with four simple words written on it: Hit bull, win steak.
The replica of the prop Hollywood built for "Bull Durham" is larger and glitzier than the original and in that way, it's like nearly everything else about today's Durham Bulls.
Twenty years have passed since the film hit theaters in June 1988, and the modern-day Bulls bear little resemblance to the fictionalized crew portrayed on film by Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. No longer a small-town team with a run-down ballpark mired in the sleepy Carolina League, these Bulls play in a major-league-quality stadium and, as Tampa Bay's Triple-A affiliate, are one step from "The Show." Yet they're well aware why they're one of the minor leagues' biggest names.
"Without that movie, I don't believe minor league baseball is as strong as it is today," Bulls general manager Mike Birling said. "That was kind of the piece that really got minor league baseball moving again."
Especially the Bulls, who never would have catapulted to fame had ex-minor league second baseman Ron Shelton not placed Durham in his film, which spends a year with the then-Single-A club and stars Costner as an aging catcher, Robbins as a hotshot pitching prospect and Susan Sarandon as the fan wooed by both.
The film's sharp dialogue, timeless scenes and believable on-field action wound up sending the Bulls into the national consciousness.
"Ron wrote a beautiful screenplay and it was really up to us to try to serve it, protect it, add to it in whatever way we could that made sense to Ron, and then Ron protected it as a director," Costner said. "That's what happens if you get some classic writing ... Films are supposed to have some staying power. All too often they don't, but they're supposed to."
This one did. Two years after the film's release, the Bulls became the first Single-A team to break the 300,000 attendance mark, then in 1998 became a Triple-A team. Along the way, they've established themselves as one of the minors' annual leaders in merchandise sales, and set a franchise record last year by attracting 520,952 fans to their 13-year-old, 10,000-seat stadium.
And not a week goes by, Birling said, that a tourist doesn't walk past the "Bull Durham" movie poster hanging outside the team's offices and ask for directions to the 70-year-old Durham Athletic Park, where fictional fireballer Nuke LaLoosh plunked the mascot with a fastball, and infielders and a pitching coach gathered on the mound to discuss wedding presents.
"The movie is still part of our history, and definitely still in a positive way," Birling said. "It's more that minor league baseball has kind of changed from the way the movie portrayed riding buses, the tough life of minor leaguers with new stadiums nowadays and the way the players are treated.
"Just the whole family entertainment aspect of it, it's just evolved. But without that movie, I don't see minor league baseball being as successful as it currently is. We're just very proud and happy to have been a part of that."
The film, in which journeyman Crash Davis (Costner) and spiritual fan Annie (Sarandon) groom LaLoosh (Robbins) into a major leaguer, has been called one of the best sports movies of all time. Athletes have been known to quote lines back to the actors and assign the characters' nicknames to their teammates Robbins says players have told him their teammates call them "Nuke" or "Meat."
Shelton, who also directed the film, praised it as "a catalyst in the rebirth of the minor leagues," largely because its appeal extends well beyond baseball and beyond Durham.
While the movie has a distinct North Carolina flavor from the picturesque ballparks shown during the Bulls' road trips to the downtown bar in nearby Raleigh that was the site of a memorable fight scene it could just as easily take place today in Toledo, Albuquerque or any other minor league city where there are washed-up players, rookies and groupies.
"It was a reminder for a lot of people that there are other things at work with baseball, and that it is our national game, and there's a lot to be proud about it," Robbins said. "There's a lot of poetry and a unique spirit to the game. There's some really beautiful writing in the movie about the game itself, and so I think on a more important level, it kind of reminds people what they loved about baseball."
Shelton chose Durham as the setting because of its small-town charm and its access to ballparks in nearby Greensboro, Burlington and Wilson, and across the state in Asheville.
"Durham was sort of the black sheep of the cities of North Carolina, in my view as a kid," said producer and Durham native Thom Mount.
"It had gone through a tough civil rights experience, it had a calamitous failure of its downtown business district, it had been battered in the declining portions of the tobacco industry and textile industry, and it gave us a chance to make something that, in its making, carried some of the fondness that we grew to have for what the city stood for."


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Planted seeds of basil (cinnamon, lemon, genovese and Siam Queen), mizuna (mustard greens), komatsuna (mustard mix for salads), rainbow chard, pak-choi, and hon-tsai-tai (Asian broccoli grown for the stems).
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Marie Howe's Words of Wisdom
78º ~ all storms have moved eastward and taken the heat/humidity with them, aside from the wind gusts, a perfect afternoon
Once the sun returned, I headed out to the deck to catch up on some reading. What Marie Howe says in her interview with Christian Teresi in the current issue of The Writer's Chronicle struck a resonant chord with me.
Early in the interview, Teresi asks about the pressure to publish and notes that Howe's three books have ten-year gaps between each publication. Here is Howe's response:
"In all those years that I was writing poetry by myself at home, what mattered to me was not a book but a poem. Each poem. One poem. It was a world. You know what happens when you read a true poem. It sees you, you see it. There's a profound sense of mutual recognition in that moment, and it cures, for a moment, the profound loneliness we feel on this earth. We feel kindred to someone... ."
I love how Howe uses the word "kindred" here. This is exactly how I feel about the poetry I return to over and over again to read and the poetry I hope to write.
Later, she adds this, "This new notion about book projects is really beyond me. I don't understand it at all. I like a lot of books that are written that way. I don't feel in any way critical of them, don't misunderstand me, but I don't understand it. What I understand is one poem. To write one poem seems to me worth living for. So that you have 'To Autumn,' or you have 'After great pain a formal feeling comes,' or you have 'Whose woods these are I think I know, / His house is in the village though." You have something sturdy, and you can clamour all over it and climb inside and rattle it and shake it and howl and it stands there, this human voice, this human-made thing. And you can inhabit it."
Here, I love the idea of the poem as a body or a building.
Howe goes on to state that she believes the process of writing and publishing is different for all poets. I wish there were more of this kind of recognition and less worrying about schools and cliques.
That's just a bit about the opening of a quite in-depth interview, but it's the bit that stuck. What's funny is that later in the issue, there is an interview of H.L. Hix conducted by John Poch. The very first question echoes what I found so right on in Howe's interview. However, Hix has the exact opposite answer. He states: "For me the book is a more fundamental unit than the individual poem" and goes on to talk about how his first exposure to contemporary poetry was not by reading journals or anthologies, rather it was through reading individual collections.
I'm still with Howe on this one, but I'm glad the Hix interview was there to provide another voice in the conversation.
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Cuba is an amazing country that is on most travellers' bucket list, and for a number of very good reasons.
It is one of those places that grows on you: for as shocking, different, difficult and at times simply frustrating I found it, I could not help falling completely in love with it.
Since I have left the country I have been wanting to visit again. One place I would surely like to go back to would be Havana. I've put together 11 things to do in Havana that you may not have thought of.
Eleven fun and not-so-obvious things to do in Havana
1. Visit The Capitol Building
The Capital Building is one of the best places to visit in Havana. People who know me are well aware that I am not a huge fan of big cities.
My general rule is that, regardless of how many museums, churches, bars and restaurants there are to visit in a capital, I get tired after a mere two days and make my swift escape.
Havana is the exception to this rule. In fact, it was hard to leave, because I really had a blast there. Do you want to know what I did to have a good time?
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- Ready to fly to Cuba? Check out Cheap Flights here.
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- Don't forget that the water in Cuba is not drinkable. We recommend bringing along the Lifestraw Go Waterbottle. We bring this with us everywhere.
- Internet: It is available through the ETECSA telecom company and you can buy prepaid cards for around $2-3 per hour.
Not Staying in Havana Book a Half Day City Tour from Veradero
2. Ride in a Taxi Particular
Everybody takes pictures of vintage cars in Havana, as they are easily spotted pretty much on every street, traffic light, or parking lot.
I actually went as far as riding a few of them, and it was fun. Some of those vintage cars are kept perfect and shiny. Others are simply old and rusty. But all of them are incredibly large.
Taxi particulares (privately owned taxi) rides are shared taxi rides. Meaning that when I got in one, others people also got in. If they are going in the same direction, you'll have company. It's a good way to meet some locals!
Book your own 2-Hour Classic American Car Tour when visiting Havana.
3. Smoke a Good Cigar
I am not a smoker – in fact, I find smoking quite disgusting habit. And I have asthma too.
But Cuba is so famous for its tobacco and cigars I had to explore the culture of cigars. I visited the Real Fábrica de Tabacos Partagás and bought some of the best cigars for my friends.
So I thought I may as well try one too. Ok, here's a little secret: I did not even light it up. But I got to smell the delicious tobacco and found out a lot on how to properly save cigars.
And they are fun to chew on and pretend.
Did you know cigars are best kept in the fridge, on a wet cloth? When you take your cigars home from Cuba make them last this way.
4. Have a Cuban Cocktail
I am not an alcoholic. Far from it, indeed. Yet, for as much as I tried to be a good girl, I did not let a day pass in Cuba without having a good mojito.
Mojitos were invented in Cuba and are one of the island's oldest cocktails.
Mojitos are made from white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane), lime juice, soda water, and mint.
Where to have drinks in Cuba
So, one of the most fun things to do in Havana is to hit La Bodeguita del Medio for a mojito and El Floridita for a daiquiri.
Warning: they are touristy because they are classic spots for drinks.
They are in the gorgeous Havana Vieja (Old Havana). People go there to see what Hemingway was talking about as El Floridita was his favourite daiquiri spot.
Mojitos at La Bodeguita are average, while daiquiris at El Floridita are delicious.
Bonus: they often play live music there.
Recommended Hotels in Havana, Cuba:
Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Hotel Nacional is a beautiful old Historic Hotel. Minutes from downtown. A quick cab ride to Old Havana!
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Hotel Raquel
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5. Take a Walk on El Malecon
I grew up in a city right by the sea, and I love walking on the waterfront whenever there is one.
El Malecon is great: 8 km of paved road where the locals mostly go at sunset, to relax after a day at work.
Ocean waves crushing on the shore. Beautiful (sometimes very decadent) buildings on one side – such as the Hotel Nacional.
All of these make it a perfect place to relax. I also recommend a brief detour from El Malecon to go to the Callejón de Hamel, to look at some interesting street art and enjoy the Afro-Cuban culture.
Interested in learning more about Cuba? You may like The History of Cuba in 50 Events.
6. See el Cañonazo de las Nueve
Every night, at 9 pm sharp (may as well be the only thing that is punctual in the country) in the fortress of La Cabaña, the ceremony of "el cañonazo de las nueve" takes place: soldiers dressed in the traditional costumes of the 18th century shoot the cannons to warn that it is time to close the city gates.
This has been done for centuries, to protect Havana from its enemies.
I truly enjoyed it. The view of Havana by night from La Cabaña is amazing, the ceremony is engaging, there are a lot of museums and exhibits inside the fortress and the entrance ticket includes a drink!
Definitely one of the most fun things to do in Havana.
Suggested Havana Tours
Get Your Guide - Is a great company to book day tours and find discounts.
Private Half Day Tour of Havana - Book a private walking tour, up to 6 people for your own introduction to Old Havana.
Havana City Tour - A more affordable option is to join a group and take a city tour of Havana as you check out all the sights.
Vinales Valley - This 5-hour guided tour takes you out of Havana to visit a local tobacco factory, plantations, and a cruise the Cueva del Indio by boat.
Classic American Car Tour Havana is known for it's classic cars, so see it in style driving around in an old beauty with a cocktail in hand!
7. Go to the Barrio Chino
There is a Chinatown in Havana. But there are no Chinese people there. In fact, there once was a huge Chinese community in Cuba.
What's left today is just about 2 blocks of Chinese restaurants. Still interesting to see. I enjoyed it for sure.
8. Listen to Great Music
Ok, this is not a hard one. I noticed that Cubans are very musical, and they carry around a radio wherever they go!
Pretty much at every corner in Havana Vieja someone will be playing some great tunes and it is nice to stop and listen to the tunes.
Most bars and restaurants in Havana also have live music, at just about any time. Check out another musical city at Montreux and its Music Legacy
9. Practice Salsa Moves
Can you actually listen to salsa without wanting to dance to it?
I can't, for sure. I am a nearly hopeless dancer, but I still had to give it a try, and took one salsa lesson in Havana, so that I could make a food of myself for a good afternoon.
The teacher was less than impressed with me, and kept saying I needed to relax and let go.
I was really stiff. Yet, I had a great time!
10. Browse The Book Market of Plaza de Armas
The oldest square in Havana hosts a lovely book market in its centre.
I am a book junkie, and I had to browse. Besides, I met some interesting people there too and took some cool pictures.
11. Visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
I love art, and I spent a good afternoon browsing through the collection of this incredible museum that hosts international art from 500 AC onwards.
Warning: the museum is actually divided in two buildings.
Bonus Tip: Try Guarapo
I find the heat exhausting and at times I need a good dose of sugar to recharge my batteries.
Nothing beats guarapo for this: it is pure sugarcane juice, freshly squeezed.
I don't like the particularly sweet taste, so I added some lime. Perfect!
Have you ever been to Havana? What were the best things you did there?
Do you have other suggestions of things to do in Havana that I may have missed?
My Adventures Across the World
Claudia Tavani is from Cagliari (Sardinia) and is obsessed with travelling. A former human rights lawyer and academic, after devoting her life to the protection of cultural identity, in November 2013 Claudia decided to give in to her biggest passion and started travelling around Latin America, and she has hardly stopped since. Blogging came as a natural consequence, for Claudia wanted to let her family and friends be updated with her adventures.