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Rarely can it be said that a nightclub or concert venue has "history," but for Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, that is absolutely the case. Located on York Street, the building in which the club resides was the original location of the Yale Co-op. The building housed a couple of restaurants before becoming a live music venue in 1976. When the owner, Michael Spoerndle, first decided to bring in live music,…
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For those of you non-familiars out there reading my blog, you may not know I'm from Alaska -- the great state where, according to Homer Simpson, you can never be too fat OR too drunk. I quote that with the utmost respect - really - not only do I love Homer on oh so many fronts, but seriously - you need extra layers to protect yourself from the cold, and alcohol... well it also helps keep you warm.
Two weekends ago marked the beginning of the Iditarod sled dog race - as I was reminded by my friend's photos on her blog. I loved that time of year in Alaska - the increasing sunlight and warmth and all the activity downtown. I miss the place that was my home. If you're unfamiliar with the Iditarod, I suggest you get on that link and check it out. It's a big part of Alaskan history - and if you think an Iron Man marathon is hard... well it is. This isn't really like that. But the cojones it takes to mush 12 to 16 dogs over 1150 miles in 10 to 17 days... well, I can tell you one thing - I haven't got those kind of cojones. A good handful or so of men, and some freaking awesome women, do.
Sadly, she has since passed away, but 4-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher once came to speak to my elementary school to talk about what life was like mushing dogs. All the little girls in my class, including me, just wanted to be her. She had "Susan Butcher braids" we coveted - two plaits down either side of her head; thick, sensible and pretty. One of my boyfriend's acquaintances has those same braids. When I was introduced to him and said, "Love your Susan Butcher braids," not being from Alaska, he only stared at me like I was some sort of crazy person. As I've told you all before - I'm not crazy. I just have too much time on my hands.


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Didn't get a chance to re-post this at the weekend, but here's my review of the new Alastair Reynolds novel from last Saturday's Irish Examiner:
Blue Remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds
Gollancz; £18.99
Review: Val Nolan
An intelligent, energetic mystery which manages to balance its deceptively straightforward style with a complex and thought-provoking vision of the future, Alastair Reynolds's Blue Remembered Earth might just be the first great novel of the year. The fact that it is Science Fiction is incidental, for brimming with the optimism and gee-whiz wonder all too often absent from modern writing, this is a terrific book regardless of where it gets shelved.
Set in the mid-22nd century, the novel follows Geoffrey Akinya, scion of Africa's most powerful family and a biologist studying elephant cognition in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. All Geoffrey wants is to be left alone, however his scheming, purse-string-holding cousins have different ideas. When loose ends arise in relation to the death of his grandmother, matriarch of 'a business empire as wide as the Solar System', the reluctant Geoffrey is tasked with investigating.
His journey begins on an Earth which has weathered war and climatic catastrophe to emerge as a utopia. But as with any perfect world, not all are happy to trade liberty for security. One of these is Geoffrey's sister Sunday, with whom he conspires to unravel family secrets of epochal significance. A sculptor, Sunday has emigrated to the dark side of the Moon, to a 'Descrutinized Zone' where millions have chosen to live free from 'dollar-eyed' industrialists and 'legislation made by stupid, short-sighted governments'.
Intentional or not, it is this strand of the novel which best exemplifies Science Fiction's ability to comment on the present. While the Descrutinized Zone is never directly linked to the contemporary Occupy movement, the similarities are difficult to ignore: 'It's not all about being crypto-anarchists and throwing wild parties,' Geoffrey is told. No, it's about resisting corporate and governmental dominance of the individual; it's about 'creativity, the impulse to experiment, and the urge to test social boundaries'.
Reynolds too has chosen to push the limits of what's possible, with much of the technology in Blue Remembered Earth – from space elevators to VASIMR propulsion – drawn from real proposals on the cutting edge of physics. A leading proponent of Hard (meaning 'realistic') Science Fiction, Reynolds provides a futuristic tune-up for everything from crime prevention to voicemail. His characters exist in an augmented reality, a plausible extrapolation from the 'layers of distorting mediation' implicit in our increasing reliance on smart phones and social media. Always interested in Artificial Intelligence, he equips this information space with exactly the kind of digital avatar we might someday be mining Facebook profiles to create, a software 'construct' of Grandmother Akinya who guides Geoffrey and Sunday on their quest.
Though the artificial persona here echoes the simulations present in earlier Reynolds work, Blue Remembered Earth adopts a warmer tone than the posthuman Gothicism of either his Revelation Space series or his steroidal update of Arthur C. Clark, 2005's Pushing Ice. Characters like Geoffrey, particularly in his love of the elephant herd, serve to ground the story in the face of startling disclosures. Yes his grandmother's trail leads towards the murky depths of trans-Neptunian space, but in his heart Geoffrey never really leaves Africa. As such, if Blue Remembered Earth has a natural home in any genre it is amongst novels about home, family, and responsibility.
This article originally published in the Irish Examiner, 11th February 2012, p.17.
Other posts you may enjoy:
- 'Why aren't the BBC here right now? World Fantasy Con 2013's "Does Science Fiction Have a Future?" panel.
- 'In a Vision of the Future, a Critique of our Present Ills'; my Irish Examiner review of Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.


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I'd been thinking for a while that I needed a better way to store my sewing scissors and related paraphernalia (isn't that such a lovely word). I'm constantly moving everything on and off my table and it all ends up piled up in a bit if a jumble.
So when I was recently having a tidy in my garage and rediscover this wire shelf and hooks I use to store and hang my jewellery from, I had a wave of inspiration. The hooks are a perfect size for scissor handles, however the reason I stopped using it was the awkward gaps in the wire shelf, I used to loose things through them and get bracelets stuck between the wire. So I thought I would just make a little fabric cover to sit in the shelf to stop items dropping though. This idea brewed for about a week until I had a bit of time to sit down and actually make it. In that time the idea had brewed into a small piece of patchwork.
I kept it simple with straight forward squares (I cut 2" x 2"), to make a 9 by 6 square mat. I made it a little longer than I needed so I could tuck under the edge which would be visible from the front.
I often wonder whether I'm a bit crazy for keeping so many small faffy bits of scrap fabric, however they came into their own for this little project!
I think as long as I limit it to just this one box I can justify it (the lid does fit on, honest)!
I think the finished shelf and hooks look great, I like it below my colour collage, and will be so handy right above my sewing table.
It's not the most attractive sewing table, however it is perfect for what I need, my sewing space doubles as the spare room, so I need something that is a sensible size, can fold down small, is pretty solid, I don't mind about scratching and I found it in a local charity shop for £20!!! One of my best finds, I had a little sand underneath to see if I could remove the dark varnish and it looks pretty good under that horrid finish, so maybe that's a project for the future!
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I did also sort out storing my ever expanding jewellery collection sometime ago with another flash of inspiration! I simply hammered large nails into a piece of wood I'd painted, then glued buttons to the heads of the nails (to make it look less industrial), it's not perfect but very functional and I love it. Having this much jewellery is unavoidable when you work at a Bead shop and design jewellery as part of your job (that's my excuse & I'm sticking to it!)
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People Say If You Can't Fish in Karumba Then Probably No Where You Can
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in Karumba is nothing short of fantastic. You can choose to target estuary species in the Norman River or head offshore for larger pelagics. It takes some time to wire the place as there is only one tide a day. Target species include, Barramundi, blue salmon, grunter, Spanish mackerel, queenfish, and cobia. You really need to consult the tide chart to do well here and throw out any preconceived notions about where you'd normally expect to catch these fish.
The Town Boat ramp.
Karumba has two excellent boat ramps; one at the point and one in town. The town ramp is the most protected and also features a floating pontoon. Both ramps are multilane and there is adequate parking.
The 'Big Barra' at Normanton.
For my first trip, I launched at the Point ramp and headed upstream in the Norman River. I was fishing with Brisbane friend and fellow traveller expert and we both had never fished here before. We headed up past the powerlines which is about 12 kilometres upstream. We tried for a barra before anchoring out the front of a creek and fishing pilchards on the bottom. We proceeded to catch catfish and some small grunter before I managed to land a reasonable sized Barramundi and Jewel fish. We didnt tried spots before heading back to fish under a derelict jetty. This provided shade for us and shelter for the fish. We then proceeded to catch about five different species of fish; Barra, cod, grunter, threadfin salmon, steelbacks and more catfish. We had constant action for about 2 hours and ended up catching about 30 fish. We used cubes of pilchard for bait and a size 2/0 hook.
We caught 2 big barramundi in less than 10 minutes which motivated us to move on and try our luck on other fish. We didnt loose the opportunity to try some hands on other species. Here is a short story about our success.
Steelback salmon Skippy's to the locals due to their habit of leaping about.
The next Karumba trip was offshore. One expert took me out in his 4.5m Bluefin to a spot called the 'DropOff'. This location is about 23 nautical miles offshore and is where a large sand bar drops from 1 m of water into 3m. We caught 2 big salmon. I must say it was a big day for us but mostly anglers who visit karumba say if you cant catch fish in Karumba then you probably cant do it anywhere else.
Plenty of salmon catfish in the Norman River!
We chose to burley up with pilchards and float ganged pilchards out the back of the boat under a balloon. After about 5 minutes we had our first doggie mackerel in the boat and quickly followed this up with 3 more. I noticed a dark shape following one of the doggie mackerel to the boat and a cobia of around 20kg materialised. It ate the mackerel, hooked itself and powered off. After a 5 minute fight, the wire broke and the fish won its freedom. expert then had a run on his gar and another lengthy fight ensued with a similar sized cobia escaping after the hooks pulled.
Some of the school macks taken at the 'dropoff'.
What happened next was amazing. I hooked up to a horse of a queenfish which went for a long run featuring some spectacular jumps. I noticed a large triangular fin near the queenie and told expert that the fight was about to end. However, the queenfish powered off and after about another five minutes, we caught 2 queenfish.
This all happened in the space of 1 hour over a flat, feature, greenery. There was no sign of bait and there were Pelican birds.
Expert and a small Threadfin King Salmon.
Finally, We tried our luck for salmon and grunter in the shipping channel near the sand island. I had been told to look for dirty water as the salmon muddied the bottom as they chased prawns. We found ourselves lucky and got many patches of dirty water with out wasting much time we caught 3 big grunters and a nice blue salmon.
All in all, if you like to chase tropical fish, then Karumba is one of the best places to do it. Even when the Trade Winds are blowing, you can find a lee shore to wet a line.
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TuffGnarl.com staff picks: The Best of 2016
We here at TuffGnarl.com are just as exhausted with 2016 as you are. A cavalcade of celebrity deaths, a historically ugly and divisive presidential election, daily terrorist attacks and shootings… The list goes on. Suffice it to say, this year was rough.
But in entertainment, 2016 was one of the finest years in recent memory in terms of quality, selection, accessibility and the ease with which we were able to share our tastes and experiences with one another.
To kick off 2017, we look back on the previous 365 days to highlight the best the year had to offer in music, film, TV, books and podcasting.
Happy New Year!
Jesse Scheckner – A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service: When Tribe co-founder Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor passed away in March from complications due to diabetes, the music community—not just the hip-hop community—collectively mourned. But to our surprise eight months later, Tribe dropped We got it from Here…, an instant classic that, after the group's more than 25 years making music, had NO business being as good and relevant as it is. With guest appearances by Tribe friends and collaborators Busta Rhymes, Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Talib Kweli and more bolstering recordings Phife, Tip and DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad laid down before Phife's untimely death, the group bestowed upon the world—and especially their fans—a parting gift that gets better with each repeat listen.
Chuck Livid – Astronautilis: Cut the Body Loose: There were tons of great records in 2016, from Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker to A Tribe Called Quest's We Got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service, and I'm sure those albums will get the honor of "Album of the Year" elsewhere, but for me the record that stuck was Astronautalis' Cut The Body Loose. A solidly produced soundscape that rivals Beck's 1996 album Odelay in the sense of musical risk, it's also one of Astronautalis' deepest, sincerest records of his career. From reminiscing about his days in Jacksonville to questioning God himself, I firmly believe this record was the most overlooked release of this year and will be considered a hip-hop classic.
Manny Gomez – A Tribe Called Quest: We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service: This album features some of the most relevant and political songs of the group's career. It reminds you why hip-hop is still a vital music genre, how rapping still has power and can convey message and emotion. It also has amazing beats and rhythm. This is an album that can make you think, bop your head and even dance. Founding member Phife Dawg also passed away, making it the last album that will ever feature Tribe together.
Ashley Goldstein – Childish Gambino: Awaken, My Love: The afrofuturistic, electronic and funky jazz beats of Childish Gambino's new album, Awaken, My Love, are a different take for Gambino, but there is no denying that the challenge he took upon himself was nothing but successful. Each song brings the listener to an overwhelming urge to bop their head, rock their shoulders, and sway their hips. It is truly a treat for the soul.
Mark Dubin – Against Me!: Shape Shift With Me: This may not be my favorite band or favorite album (if I were selfish, the Descendents' Hypercaffium Spazzenate would be my choice), but I just can't deny that 2016 was a way better year because of this album and because of Laura Jane Grace.
Jesse Scheckner – Weiner: While 2016 had its fair share of worthwhile fictional fare, documentaries on the silver and small screen like O.J.: Made in America, Amanda Knox, Zero Days and Into the Inferno consistently provided moviegoers with reprieve from the seemingly nonstop barrage of comic book movies, unnecessary sequels and reboots, and more comic book movies. With Weiner, cinematic newcomers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg caught lightning in a bottle, capturing on film the attempted resurrection and ultimate implosion of former congressman Anthony Weiner, a tragically flawed politician whose self-sabotage solicits equal amounts of cringes, laughs and unabashed schadenfreude. At one point in the film, Kriegman asks Weiner, who on camera has had his career and family going up in flames, "Why are you still letting us film this?" Weiner's defeated answer: "I don't know."
Chuck Livid – Swamp Ape: Ft. Lauderdale actor/director Geoff Ward has released a pristine outing of a film that proudly displays its '80s low-budget horror camp love on its sleeve. Better yet, the film was produced and edited with nothing more than consumer cameras, basic editing software and the blood, sweat and tears of friends and family. It's an honorable ode to South Florida and to the myth of the Swamp Ape. I truly loved everything about this movie. If you've got Amazon Prime, it's on there for free and I suggest you make it a movie night.
Manny Gomez – Green Room: Without a doubt the most visceral experience I had at any screening this year was watching Green Room. A stripped down, punk-rock take on the siege genre, Green Room also found moments to be artful and darkly humorous. It was also the most well-paced film I have seen recently, wasting no time and trimming the excess fat found in so many movies these days.
Ashley Goldstein – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Placed 70 years before Harry Potter, Newton Scamander, a zookeeper for magical creatures, travels to 1926 New York City to find several missing creatures that escaped their enclosures. During his travel he finds love, evil dark magic and a muggle best friend. For any fan of the Harry Potter movies, watching Fantastic Beasts was like watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the first time, as we were introduced to new characters, new creatures, new spells and new abilities. J.K. Rowling has also announced that there will be five movies and a book series, so hold on tight all you muggles and mugbloods; us purebloods will be around to entertain your eyes for at least another few years!
Mark Dubin – Sausage Party: If you look beyond the small dick/big buns jokes and maneuver within a perception of a low-hanging-fruit-written script, you'll find an existential quandary of inanimate objects pining for the meaning of existence, only to discover that the inescapable answer, no matter what type of beautiful lies we tell ourselves, is death. Sex, drugs, comedy, religion, racism, homophobia and anything else we all seem to grasp onto are just harbingers of the ultimate price we pay as organic beings.
Jesse Scheckner – The Night Of: This HBO adaptation of the BBC miniseries, Criminal Justice, is equal parts murder mystery, courtroom drama, police procedural and prison drama with both humorous and disturbing character studies thrown in for good measure. The performances are strong, the pacing is swift and the story itself, layered and twisted without once veering into the unbelievable, has viewers still discussing the show four months after the eighth and final episode aired. The Night Of is an exceptional and subtle work of art.
Chuck Livid – Ash vs. Evil Dead: BEST SHOW EVER! Bruce Campbell is a fucking national treasure. Nuff Said!
Manny Gomez – The Night Of: It was hard to pick a favorite TV show in a year where the format was certainly my favorite medium. HBO's The Night Of was by far the best show I saw this year. Not only was it socially relevant, it was a hell of a narrative that demanded to be seen week after a week. It also had amazing performances by its talented cast of veterans and newbies. Throw in some of the most solid writing and assured directing on ANY screen, and you have a winner.
Ashley Goldstein – Stranger Things: Is this even a contest? What other TV show this year got as much publicity, memes, fangirl obsessions and Jimmy Fallon interviews as this show and its cast? Following a group of nerdy (but also super cute) young boys around a small town in the 1980s as they searched desperately for their friend who was stuck in the "Upside Down" with a man-eating creature was nostalgic of our childhoods and a time lost to the internet. Not only that, but the reference to Stephen King's IT, which is being revamped for 2017, was exciting and thrilling for any horror movie buff life myself.
Mark Dubin – Adam Ruins Everything: "The truth is out there" and it only took a tiny, pompadoured, suit-wearing nerd to tear apart every popular notion of social idealism we've come to hold dear to us. Every episode, Adam rips into conventional norms with (at times cheesy) humor and turns everything we've ever learned into a primordial soup of alphabets and bitter pills. Along the way, he supports every fact he espouses with a real-time bibliography in the upper right hand corner.
Jesse Scheckner – Champion of the World by Chad Dundas: Chad Dundas's debut novel, set in prohibition-era 1921, tells the fictional story of disgraced former lightweight professional wrestling champion Pepper Van Dean and his cardsharp wife, Moira, who are lured back to the world that once ruined them with the promise of fortune, revival and possible retribution. We meet Pepper as he is just about to perform his nightly "Hangman's Drop," a deadly stunt (that is pretty much what it sounds like) that affords he and Moira passage with the traveling circus that scooped them up when they were down on their luck years earlier. But when a former associate makes them an offer they can't refuse, Pepper accepts a job as the head trainer for Garfield Taft, a similarly sidelined but gifted African American heavyweight contender with his eyes on fame, wealth and the world championship. Dundas's assured prose, shaped by years of work as a sportswriter, is economic without sacrificing beauty and forgoes the grossly overused narrative crutch of an unreliable narrator in favor of telling a straightforward, third-person story featuring well-rounded characters dealing with realistic situations in tangible settings. And though the book certainly indulges many masculine interests, it is Dundas's female characters—Moira Van Dean and Taft's white wife, Carol Jean—that are the most nuanced and complex.
Chuck Livid – The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher: Reading Carrie Fisher's diaries from her days on the original Star Wars set will bring tears to your eyes. The book is brutally honest and funny in its telling of her affair with Harrison Ford, depression and the questioning of celebrity. May the Force be with you, Princess.
Manny Gomez – Patience by Daniel Clowes: Another hard pick, as this was an exceptional year for comics. But Patience takes the top spot. It's not only a trippy, time bending science fiction story; it's a powerful mediation on what forms a person and the dangers of obsession. The artwork, some of the most beautiful of Clowes's career, is Jack-Kirby-infused comic book pop-art that leaps of the gorgeous paper stock.
Mark Dubin – Under the Black Sky by John Doe and Tom DeSavia: I dig Henry Rollins, but he's everywhere and we know EXACTLY what he thinks about EVERYTHING. In an '80s sea of younger, angrier and way less talented hardcore punks, John Doe was the coolest cat of them all. Reading his perspective of the L.A. punk scene and what was happening at the very onset of it all is truly a gift.
Jesse Scheckner – In the Dark: On October 22, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, his brother and a friend were riding their bikes back from a gas station near his home in St. Joseph, Minn. when they were stopped by an armed man in a mask who took Jacob and told the other two boys to run into the woods and not look back, or else he would shoot them all. The search for the mystery man, who murdered Jacob soon afterwards, haunted the community for decades and led to the creation of a national sex offender database. American Public Media's In The Dark, narrated by Madeleine Baran (a Peabody winner), follows the investigation into the Wetterling case, the staggering shortcomings of the local police charged with its investigation and, in a remarkable turn of events, how the culprit, Daniel Heinrich (an early suspect), was finally caught just before the first episode of the nine-part series was set to air. If you are at all a fan of the true crime genre, In the Dark is mandatory listening.
Chuck Livid – WTF with Marc Maron: Comic Marc Maron's WTF podcast is one of the most listened to in the world. This year the show made amazing strides with guests ranging from Billy Crystal to President Obama. Marc's ability to have people open up about their trials and tribulations makes you feel more like a fly on the wall listening in while celebrities are chatting with their psychiatrist. That's Maron's charm – he strips down celebrity and exposes the human condition.
Manny Gomez – Pod Sequentialism with Matt Kennedy: I listened to hours of podcasts this past year, and none made me more excited, educated or introduced me to things quite the way Pod Sequentialism did. Hosted by Las Luz De Jesus gallery curator Matt Kennedy, Pod Sequentialism is a weekly interview series featuring people heavily involved with pop culture. What makes the podcast stand out is Kennedy's vast pop culture knowledge and passion. It's a highly infectious listening experience and a must add to your list.
Ashley Goldstein – My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: With a long obsession for true crime, finding a podcast that didn't repeat the most common facts and same story word-for-word of popular murders was quite difficult. That was until two comedians got together and birthed the now #1 comedy podcast on iTunes, My Favorite Murder. These two hilarious women get together once a week to tell each other about a murder they found interesting and informally researched. Their giggly dialogue leads down obscure tangents and they sometimes get the facts wrong but you end up loving them by the end of the episode, especially when Georgia's cat, Elvis, meows for a cookie. Check these ladies out if you love morbid humor, but most importantly, stay sexy and don't get murdered!
Mark Dubin – Stuff You Should Know: If you and your friends not only made it through college but also excelled at the whole higher learning gig and still were able to still your 14-year-old love of being smarmy while finding fart jokes funny as hell, this would be the podcast you'd run. Titles like "Whats The Deal With Headstones?" and "Polyamory: When Two Just Wont Do" are just a small glimpse of the downloadable free episodes. They debunk, they fact check, they share anecdotes and, most of all, they make driving in rush hour tolerable.
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From an e-mail security point of view, I can't help but feel that GoogleMail is a bit.. well.. dodgy..
See the thing is, when you mouseover a link, it tells you the site that the link refers to. You can right click and copy that link as you would any other – it is just a link. Upon inspecting the HTML, the code is still the same – just the href and target properties within an <a …> tag.
And yet, you click the link, and up pops a window that initially has a Google URL. Which then redirects you. Effectively, Google know exactly which links in which e-mails get clicked and by whom, and potentially store that information. Now I don't really have an issue with that, because I don't really imagine that they're using that information for sinister purposes.
What does bother me, however, is the fact that they are basically intercepting the normal browser operation of clicking a link, and doing something else. They're not sending me to that page at all – they're sending me to their own page, which is then trusted to forward me on to the relevant site. And there's no transparency there.
I'm sure they don't do anything wrong with that power, of course. But it's a slippery slope, letting users believe they're getting X, giving every impression of giving them X, when actually you're doing it your own way, through a mechanism that most users won't even notice, let alone understand.
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Posted by: Walisa on 2016-11-04
On this unexpected trip, My parent and I met new friends from many countries and learned a lot about historical backgrounds of the places we visited. The long way on the bus trip was a tiring but safe trip. Thank you for our tour guide (Sammy), He described the historical, shown the friendly and professional performance on the trip.
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It was a nice experience joining the tour. I went on the tour with my wife. We met and made new friends. The tour was hectic. We visited a lot of places.The tour could have been better if the guide had trimmed the evening dinner time. Mostly he gave 2 hours for evening dinner - if he had shortened that it would have given us some more sleeping time. The driver/guide were efficient. The group which came with us on the tour made it memorable. There were people from all over the world on the trip ranging from Europe,Australia,Asia to Caribbean and were super friendly. The hotels where we were accommodated were very good ( mostly Sheraton or Hilton). All in all a very nice trip.
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It was a great experience joining the tour. My wife and I met new friends and learned a lot about historical backgrounds of the places we visited. The long bus trip was tiring but worth experiencing. The tour guide (Allen) was knowledgable and professional. He made the trip memorable to most of us.


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Android Community has had an interesting chat with a Sony Ericsson "representative", who confirmed that the upcoming Xperia Play was once intended to be Google's Gingerbread "hero phone".
That honour eventually fell to the Samsung-developed Google Nexus S, which became the first Gingerbread phone when it was released in December 2010. But that's not to say Google doesn't still love the PlayStation Phone.
Sony Ericsson is far from the biggest player in the Android game, but while other smartphones like the HTC Incredible S are launched with Froyo, the Xperia Play will ship with Gingerbread. Indeed, Google and Sony Ericsson have worked closely together on the platform, making it beneficial for all.
The PlayStation Phone launches on 31 March, and will be available from all the big carriers, namely O2, 3, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere.
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ORLANDO – Maybe Walt Disney had it all wrong but the DCN can't seem to wrap our minds around a theme park that, quite frankly, isn't any fun. There are no rides or funnel cakes and the characters are Roman soldiers who go around whipping Jesus and crucifying him at the end of the day. Now who wants to have your picture made with them? And you thought your kid cried when Pluto tried to give him a hug.
The park, which was purchased by (you guessed it) Trinity Broadcasting Network, had been in financial trouble until TBN stepped in to purchase it with their untold fortunes amassed from Social Security checks nationwide. TBN hope to use their theme park as a set for filming television shows and movies "the way Universal Studios does".
Interestingly enough, the park was formerly owned by a Baptist preacher from New Jersey named Rev. Marvin Rosenthal who is Jewish. After continuously losing money and being crucified with paradoxes Rosenthal decided to sell his park to TBN.
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Albert Pujols is six foot three and weighs 230 pounds. One look at his forearms suggests that if he weren't a baseball player or a lumberjack, he would be wasting a natural gift.
LaDainian Tomlinson is five foot ten and weighs 215 pounds. His body is so powerful and so compact that his true calling has to involve tucking a ball under his arm and marching forward while eleven huge men try to rip the ball away and shove him to the ground.
Shaquille O'Neal is seven foot one and weighs 325 pounds. There is perhaps no human body better suited for elbowing defenders out of the way and dunking a basketball through a ten-foot hoop.
So much of athletics, particularly at the professional level, is dependent upon having the right body. Hard work is essential, but power, speed, coordination, and agility, the cornerstones of professional sports, tend to be more innate than learned.
How, then, can Dustin Pedroia play baseball at an elite level? Pedroia is listed on his ESPN Player Card at five foot nine, 180 pounds. Anyone who has seen Pedroia play may suspect that Pedroia was standing on a prone Shaq and holding a few of Pujols's bats when those measurements were taken. Pedroia's in good shape, and even has a bit of a barrel chest, though it's more like the garbage barrel you keep in your bathroom than one in which bourbon is aged. I'm not sure anyone has ever looked at Pedroia in street clothes and said "you should play second base for the Boston Red Sox."
But Pedroia does play second base for the Red Sox, and with all respect to Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr, he plays it better than any Red Sox ever has.
Pedroia has every skill a baseball player needs. He's fast (78 career stolen bases in 94 attempts, including a sensational 22-for-26 this season). He has great hand-eye coordination (a .306 career batting average, .310 this year). He's agile (he's saved 38.3 runs more than the average second baseman over his career, according to Ultimate Zone Rating, including a remarkable 14.6 in 2011). He even hits for power (69 home runs, a career-high 20 of which have come in the first 110 games of this season).
Perhaps the most important tool Pedroia brings to the table, or at least the tool that's set him apart from other contenders for this year's AL MVP award, is his vision. His 69 walks rank fourth in the American League, as does his .401 on base percentage. The skill that allows some hitters to walk more than others is commonly referred to in baseball as patience, but it's much more than not swinging at the first pitch. Recognizing that a 98-mile per hour fastball, or a slider that breaks 12 inches, will not cross the plate in the strike zone takes incredible visual acuity. Holding back a check swing takes wrist strength the average person can barely imagine. Fouling off full-count pitches to stay alive and earn a walk against a tough pitcher takes superb hand-eye coordination. That Dustin Pedroia has earned the right to casually jog 90 feet 69 times this season is a testament to his great athleticism.
When Dustin Pedroia won the Rookie of the Year Award in 2007, there was some sentiment that he was a novelty. He opened the year in such a massive slump that manager Terry Francona spent more time defending his reliance on a 23-year-old Lilliputian second baseman than he would spend later in the year trying to find harmless situations to let Eric Gagne give up four runs in an inning. By the end of the season, Pedroia had hit .317 with a .380 on base percentage and had introduced himself as Boston's second baseman of the future.
In 2008, Pedroia took his game to another level, hitting .326 with 17 home runs and 20 stolen bases and vastly improving his defensive game. Still, Pedroia's MVP award was met with much derision. According to Fangraphs' Wins Above Replacement, a metric that aggregates all of a player's offensive and defensive contributions and determines how many more games his team won with him than it likely would have with a replacement player, Pedroia was the second-most valuable player in the AL in 2008, behind Cleveland's Grady Sizemore. Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer had a strong MVP case as well, but Pedroia was certainly a defensible pick.
One common sentiment among fans is that Pedroia was graded on a curve. Sure, he's great for a little guy, they say, but Alex Rodriguez is big and powerful and hits long home runs. Sizemore is sleek and athletic and makes diving catches in the outfield. Pedroia's just an adequate player who looks like he has no business playing in Fenway Park, so they threw him a sympathy MVP Award the way the smallest guy on your Little League team got the Coach's Award.
In 2011, Pedroia is again in the mix for AL MVP. Only Toronto's Jose Bautista, who exploded from the gate like Babe Ruth riding Secretariat but has faded as spring turned to summer, has accumulated more Wins Above Replacement. In June and July, Pedroia's 4.9 WAR were 44 percent better than runner-up Ben Zobrist's. Read that last sentence again. He's currently playing on a level no one in the game can match.
Still, when ESPN's David Schoenfield stated last week that Pedroia would get his MVP vote if the season ended right now, web commenters were incredulous, again suggesting that Pedroia gets extra credit because he's built more like a baseball writer than a baseball player. Much of this comes from fans' unwillingness to look beyond traditional statistics and consider the value a player brings his team by walking, stealing bases at a high percentage, and turning would-be hits into outs with his glove. Teammate Adrian Gonzalez leads the league with a .352 batting average and 91 RBI, making him a popular choice for MVP. But Gonzalez is a horrible baserunner who plays a much less demanding defensive position (though he plays it very well). He's simply not as valuable to the Red Sox as Pedroia is.
Compared to the average person his size, Dustin Pedroia is a once-in-a-generation athlete, somehow capable of turning 98-mph fastballs into doubles off the Green Monster with ease and covering more infield terrain (and often outfield too) than one might think possible. Compared to more perfect physical specimens like Pujols and Alex Rodriguez, Pedroia is a peer, capable of playing the same game at a similar level. He needs no curve to be compared to the game's elite players. And that is truly remarkable.


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My professional academic journey began when I started my PhD in 2006. I had the opportunity to conduct some sustained ethnographic research amongst the Paniya of Wayanad, a marginalised indigenous ethnic group in the South Indian state of Kerala, who were slaves until the latter part of the 20th century.
By going back and forth to India over a period of three years, I learned a lot about the importance of spirit possession, music/song, funeral rites and black magic healing rituals for the Paniya.
I am particularly interested in how the Paniya engage with policies of public health, development practice, environmental/resource management, native title, globalisation and governance. In essence, I explore the ways in which the Paniya attempt to maintain a sense of place, identity and well-being in a world where every body else keeps trying to tell them how to live and who to be.
I have taught at the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, Western Sydney University, the University of Wollongong, and the University of Notre Dame. The subjects I have taught include:
- Human Evolution and Diversity (2010, 2012, 2014, 2017)
- Introduction to Anthropology: Identity and Difference (2009, 2012)
- Culture, Myth and Symbolism: Affect and Meaning (2006, 2017)
- Culture Health and Sexuality in Developing Countries (2011, 2013)
- Doing Ethnography (2012, 2014, 2017)
- Methodology in Local and Community Studies (2013, 2014, 2017)
- Research Methods in Anthropology (2013, 2014, 2017)
- The Anthropology of Politics and Power (2013)
- The Anthropology of Religion (2017)
- Teaching for Change (2016, 2017)
- Social Justice in a World of Inequality (2016)
- Becoming a Sociologist: Interdisciplinary Competencies (2015)
- Research Methods in Sociology and Cultural Studies (2015)
- Sociology of Teaching (2015, 2017)
- Healing and Culture (2012)
- Illness and Healing (2014)
- India: Power and Performance (2012)


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Contador, on Spanish TV's El Hormiguero, laments the death of Iñaki Lejarreta.
Alberto Contador en persona
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Opening kick, Real Madrid vs Celta
Alberto Contador does the honorary opening kick at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the Real Madrid vs. Celta game, October 20, 2012
The World of the Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia 2013: The Route Presentation
Giro d'Italia 2013: Official promo video
Giro d'Italia 2013: Official Route and Stage Details
Giro d'Italia 2013: Course announcement with interviews
2012 Vuelta a España
Contador's mechanic Faustino assembles the new bike that matches the maillot rojo
Alberto Contador does a quick interview with Ciclismo a fondo at the Vuelta presentation
Scenes from the Eneco Tour
Alberto Contador returns to racing at the Eneco Tour.
Before Stage 3
Pre-Eneco press conference
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Victory Number 2 in San Luis
Contador wins the queen stage on a beautiful day in Argentina
Highlights, Stage 5
Ouch! That's one steep climb.
Post-stage press conference
Contador wins Stage 3 of the Tour de San Luis!
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Chinese Dessert Recipes-Nian Gao Coconut Ball 椰丝年糕
Nian Gao is a traditional food of Chinese and very famous Chinese dessert eaten during Chinese New Year because it means getting higher level of success yearly. Nian Gao will be made for praying ritual and worship of ancestors. Then after Chinese New Year, the Nian Gao will use for making the dessert. If you don't like to made in pan fried method, you may choose this type of steam method and mix with desiccated coconut. The taste is awesome because it will not feel too sweet but some salty taste and aroma smell from the desiccated coconut. Lets try and enjoy this Chinese dessert recipes, I strongly believe you will love it very much.
Nian Gao Coconut Ball 椰丝年糕 | Chinese Dessert Recipes
- Prep Time : 10 min
- Cook Time : 10 min
- Ready Time : 20 min
- 250 Grams desiccated coconut
- 9 pieces Nian Gao ***After cut into pieces
- 1 tea spoon Salt
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Step 1: Mix the salt with the desiccated coconut.
Step 2: Remove the dumpling leaf and cut the Nian Gao into pieces. Prepare the Nian Gao for steam around 10 minutes until it look soft and melt.
Step 3: Take a teaspoon of the melted Nian Gao and mix it into the desiccated coconut. Cover around the Nian Gao with desiccated coconut and make it into a ball shape. Then ready to serve and enjoy the dessert.


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PTI govt to turn Punjab's jails into 'Dar ul Islah': prisons minister
OKARA: Provincial Minister for Prisons Zawar Hussain Warraich on Thursday visited district Jail Okara and planted araucaria plant under PM's Clean and Green Pakistan Project, ARY News reported.
According to a statement issued from his office, the minister said that through implementation of positive policies, the Punjab government will turn province's prisons into "Dar ul Islah" (rehabilitation centers)
The minister said that the prisoners' data of all of province's jails will be computerized, prisoners will be made skillful through TEVTA and cottage industry at lower level in the jail.
He said that under prime minister's vision of legislation will be carried out for improving the service delivery system for the masses and the eradication of corruption of the department.
"The minister said that lists are being prepared of those prisoners who are unable to pay fine and "Deaat" so that measure could be taken for their early release. Provincial Minister Social Welfare and Provincial Minister Bait ul Maal are on board in this regard," said Warraich.
He said that non-officials visitors committees are being setup for district and central jails in Punjab which will pay visit to different jails of the Punjab and reforms would be introduced under their recommendations.
The provincial minister maintained that Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to increase the salaries and pay scales of the employees of the prisons.
Earlier, DIG Jail Kamran Anjum and Superintendent Jail Noor Hassan Baghela welcomed the minister who visited the jail without any protocol.
Zawar Hussain Warraich said that measures are being taken according the vision of Imran Khan for promoting the culture of austerity and merit.
Later, the minister visited the hospital of district jail and inquired after the patients of the hospital.
He also inspected the store of the medicines and standard of the food in the kitchen of the jail and went to the wards of the prisoners and inspected the water filtration plant.


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Writing about the possible benefits of invasive plants, I had the fear that for most broad-leafed weeds it would be easy to find medicinal and other value, but that for grasses, I might have to pass. Interestingly, grasses have some good sides, too � even a such-maligned, horrible weed as crab grass.
Crab grass (also called �finger grass� because of its spiky inflorescences, or �fonio�, for African plants) are actually several Digitaria species � �Digitaria� again meaning �finger-like�.
Why is crab grass the proverbial weed? It turns out that �crabs� can�t take hold in a well-watered, well-fertilized lawn. But let that lawn be neglected, and develop some bald spots � that�s where the annual crab grass will move in, taking advantage.
A lawn usually consists of perennial grasses that stay green long into fall and often into winter. Crab grass would be fine to be intermingled, if it would not die by the end of summer and will leave a bald spot � especially if you pull it and do not immediately reseed with normal lawn seed. In that bald spot, its many, many seeds can take hold again. Crab grass� trick is its long germination period: It might die early, but it can germinate basically all year, as long as there is no snow on the ground. Usually, a bald crab grass spot extends thus from season to season, always looking awful in the fall, showing your neighbors that you are a less-than-perfect gardener.
Remedy? Keep your grass healthy, well-fed, well-watered, well-limed, and reseed in fall and spring, so that crab grass seedlings have no chance.
So, what for is this invasive grass good? For cows and other ungulates like deer crab grass is as nutritious as any other grass; even more so, because of its high protein contents. Sub-Saharan Africa people eat the milled crab grass seeds in porridge and bread. The problem with crab grass is that it germinates and ripens its seed willfully throughout the year. Therefore it must be hand-harvested, defying large-scale cultivation. However, early settlers in America purposefully would till a spot in the spring so that crab grass could grow there, for the grazing of the animals later in the year.
Crab grass (like Bermuda grass) is a warm-weather grass. As such, it accumulates less sugar than a perennial grass - it does not intend to stay around for the winter, needing staying power through the winter. That makes crab grass better digestible especially to horses who might be quite sensitive to a high sugar and starch content � which bloats them, causing colic. So, as hay, crab grass is quite desirable.
Crab grass contains non-trivial amounts of magnesium, phosphorus and calcium � important for bone health, and some vitamin A, folate, and retinol; they might account for its use in eye health: Medicinally, crabgrass infusion is said to be helping against cataracts and feebleness. I probably won�t use it exactly for that purpose. But just knowing that crab grass is not poisonous will land it in my garden teas from now on.


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Well, I finally finished Faith. And, um, yeah, it was sort of a let down for me. [Warning: Spoilers-ish are present] I am glad they got their happy ending and all, but it just didn't really resonate with me. Perhaps it has something to do with how booooooooooring the pacing of the drama was. That's not to say that I didn't like the drama, I just didn't really fall in love with it.
I sooooooooo wanted this show to be fabulous and awesome and amazing, but sadly it just didn't get there. It just never got addictively amazing for me. It was like the little engine that could, except it couldn't. It tried so hard to be epic, but wasn't. The soundtrack was epic, the basic premise of the story was epic...it just didn't get epic. The pacing was sloppy and irregular, the storyline was too detailed and convoluted and repeated and repeated and not developed - I mean really, I think I lost count of how many times Eun Soo got kidnapped - talk about recycling a plot device. The editing was slap-dash - there was this one scene towards the end that was driving me absolutely crazy - camera pans to face-shot of Choi Young fighting Gi Chul, pans to shocked king's face, pans to shocked Woodalchi's face - over, and over, and over again. Sooooooooooooooo boring!!! Sad day. And the fight scenes - booooooooooring *sigh* - okay, I promise to stop whining now.
Now before you hate me for totally wailing on Faith, remember, I watched it from beginning to end, and mostly as it aired. I did like it. For instance, I really loved the soundtrack (despite it often not completely matching the emotion and pathos of the scene). I particularly loved some of the score - really beautiful music. I also really loved Ryu Duk Hwan's performance as Gong Min. He was just absolutely fabulous and lovely and amazing. I think I cared about him the most of all the characters. His character arc was just so well done, and moving, and the scenes with him and Princess No Guk (Park Se Young) were really sweet. After reading up about what really happened in history, it just made each of their scenes all that much more meaningful and poignant.
I also really loved Choi Young's aunt - played by Kim Mi Kyung - she was sassy and forthright and just all around awesome. And Dae Man-ah and all the cute little Woodalchi. Okay, really the super awesome, brave, and hotte Woodalchi who were so idealistic and who died to defend the King and Queen. I even loved Gi Chul (Yoo Oh Sung) at times, probably just because his evilness was oddly adorable - sometimes. I even liked the flute dude and the fire ball girl - though if I'm really honest flute dude was just pretty to look at - he did show some actual emotion towards the end which was nice to see. The costumes were also gorgeous.
And our OTP. I definitely enjoyed them. Lee Min Ho was fabulous in this role (could we just had more smooching, really) and I enjoyed his portrayal of this conflicted warrior who really doesn't want to kill anyone anymore, but who continues to serve honourably. I also love how he gives his heart to each king that he serves. And he's smart. And he gets stuff done. And he is funny in that wry, stone-faced way of his. I feel though that the writing left his role lacking. His story arc was there, but I always wanted more. There was just so much going on, and I feel like we had so much unnecessary detail in the plot that it stopped the story from having the depth that was potentially there. I wanted to know more about Choi Young, and more about his struggle with his conflict of being a warrior, but wanting to let it go and not being able to.
And I also wanted more of that chemistry and conflict to play out with Eun Soo. It was all there on paper, but the busy-ness of the convoluted storyline, and the constant kidnap-rescue scenario never really let it play out. The sad thing is that they did have some great chemistry, and some lovely verbal-sparring, and I liked Kim Hee Sun's spunky and sassy portrayal of Eun Soo. It's not like you have to have a tonne of tea to let it steep in a cup of hot water and still get a nice, deep tasting beverage. Yes, that was a convoluted metaphor that probably doesn't make sense. Perhaps I am just trying to say that the quantity of storylines stopped the quality from happening.
And that is why the ending failed for me. Without the emotional depth that could have been there, I just didn't feel it. It was too rushed and had too many loose ends left to our imagination. The basic premise was great, but it lacked the necessary emotional build-up and release that one wants to feel really satisfied with a drama and be on the sidelines cheering along our hero and heroine. Side note: the tree they meet by at the end, hasn't that tree setting been used in like a gazillion K-dramas?
Oh Faith, what might have been. But let's end on a positive note, right?! My favourite parts of the drama (other than the transformation of Gong Min into a king) were the quiet moments where Choi Young let down his guard with Eun Soo and they just had a lovely moment to connect, so like Choi Young, "I'm trying to remember this moment. Now that I don't have to forget about you."


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