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When I got married and moved to Haiti I was introduced to a new culture and cuisine. I realized early on that although Haiti was part of the Caribbean, the culture and food was quite unlike the other neighboring countries. The rich bold flavors of Haitian foods were delicious and I immediately loved the different way some familiar ingredients were used. I wanted to learn as much as I could about the fascinating history, the rich culture and the enticing cuisine of my new home. It was very important to me that I be able to cook my husband's favorite foods. I learned many new special things from my mother-in law, Lucile. She taught me her marquise au chocolat, lambi gratin, pain patate as well as many other family favorites. My three sisters-in-law were all amazing cooks and together we shared recipes and techniques. Learning about Haitian cuisine was a great way to assimilate into a new culture and for me it was the perfect way to adapt to my new family.
Sour oranges, leeks, parsley, garlic, hot peppers or piment bouk.
Although Guyana is situated in South America, it is considered part of the Caribbean due to our common culture. As such, I thought I had knew practically all of the fruit and vegetables of the area. I discovered many new varieties which I had never tasted before when I arrived in Haïti. Due to the altitude and mountain terrain, Haïti grows several types of crops which are more familiar in cool temperatures. As most of the Caribbean is tropical and a few islands boast the high mountainous terrains like Haïti. This is why crops such as potatoes, turnips, cauliflower, broccoli, leeks and carrots can grow so well. Arabica coffee is also commonly grown in the mountains of Haïti. few of my favorites were mirlitons ( prickly pear or Christophene), sweet earthy burgundy beets, the complicated but awesome artichoke, the delicious creamy cachiman (coeur de boeuf) and the sublime taste of grenadines.
Fresh beets in all of their glory
There were also things which I could not find here locally which I was accustomed to having in Guyana, such as soft skinned pumpkin varieties, bok choi greens, bora beans, golden apples, sourie to mention a few. I had to learn to adapt my recipes and use what I could locally. It was at this point that I started integrating my spices and herbs into local foods, coming up with my own unique flavors.
My kitchen helper was rather curious about my seasonings. She had never used ginger in cooking before and it is an ingredient which I often use in many preparations. Beyond the occasional grating of ginger for teas or in a preparation like pain patate, this rhizome is not really used in Haïtian cooking. I also could not find chives or green onions easily. Instead, poireaux (leeks) and cives are more commonly used. When we started to farm our land in Belot, I had to think of a way to use leeks. We grow a great deal of it on our land and so I had to figure out a way to use the quantity of this legume which arrived at my house during the height of the season. This is how I decided to make my green spice blend, as I had a surplus one year that I had to use.
The average Haïtian cook prepares the seasoning blend as needed. The kitchen ritual of prepping the green seasoning is time consuming but habitual. The key ingredients are added to the wooden pestle: garlic, cives and parsley and are vigorously pounded together, breaking them down into a paste. This forms the base of the spices for frying the beans for diri ak pwa kolè (rice and beans). I changed the traditional formula in my home in an effort to use the abundance of farm grown leeks. It worked well and I make batches in my food processor. For the last 16 years, I have meticulously made batches of green seasoning. I store extra containers in the freezer and always have a new fresh jar on hand. I season practically all of my meats, chicken and fish with my green seasoning blend. It saves time and energy and has become a kitchen staple.
The food of Haiti is bright, flavorful and has strong African and French flavors which blend together to make up the Creole style.
Ingredients for the National and ever popular rice and beans or diri kole ak pwa rouge.A typical bouquet garni bundle and a hot pepper with cloves is commonly used in sauces and rice.
I learned a great deal about Creole cooking from two women who worked with me over the years. Rita and Rosanna were both great cooks and they shared techniques and methods of doing things the Haitian way. I learned the value of the basic components of Haitian cuisines such as sour oranges, piment bouk, poireaux and a bouquet garni could enhance creole food. The simple addition of a few cloves, ground or whole to a dish can also heighten the flavor incredibly. In turn, I showed them many new ways of using local ingredients and how to blend them with other non-traditional ingredients to create flavors which were unknown to them. I can say that in my home I have created a true fusion cuisine over the course of 28 years. For me, that's what innovation is all about. It's about taking the best things that exist in a culture and combining them in new and exciting ways to create something fresh and out of the ordinary. I find great pleasure in using the spices and methods of my ancestors and mixing them with ingredients and methods of my adopted home.
A bounty of organic freshly harvested vegetables grown in the mountains of Haïti.
Haitian dried black mushrooms or djon djon.
Tasting djon djon, a small black mushroom only found in the mountains of Haiti was quite a revelation. It is the principle ingredient used to make an unforgettable and very flavorful black rice. It must be reconstituted with water and the woodsy flavors of the mushrooms can then be imbibed in the rice grains. The addition of seafood to the rice is a special treat. It can be also made by combining the flavors of tiny dried shrimp, fresh shrimp or small blue crabs. Using any of these seafood additions will greatly enhance the flavor and will make an already exquisite rice even more delicious and flavorful. This particular rice is served on special occasions such as weddings, baptisms and holidays.
In Haïti, I also discovered a meat which I had never eaten before. Goat meat is readily found all over the country. There are goats herded by invisible owners. Goats can be seen in many neighborhoods roaming menacingly in search of grass and leaves. They are not herded by anyone who takes responsibility for their transgressions. If a goat is seized by someone or killed by a vehicle; miraculously the owner appears on the scene to be compensated. These animals are serious eating machines and are highly destructive to gardens, shrubbery and flowers. They seem to have an insatiable appetite and if one has the unfortunate luck of having a goat wander into a garden or field, great havoc will be done in a short while. I have seen the amazing agility of goats jumping onto parked cars in order to reach tall overhanging leafy branches of trees.
But as menacing as goats are, these animals provide a most delicious meat. It is not as gamey as lamb and is low in fat and high in protein. It is delicious prepared creole style but in my opinion is Cabrit boucanné or spicy grilled goat is the most succulent. Marinated overnight in a bath of sour oranges and hot peppers, small cuts of meat are rapidly grilled over charcoal and eaten with fried green plantains. This simple preparation is delicious beyond belief. I also make a very good curry goat in homage to my Guyanese roots, and it is well loved in my family.
Another delicacy enjoyed in Haïti is pintade or guinea fowl. These beautiful grey and white speckled birds are hunted in the wild and are very difficult to catch. They are also farmed in small quantities, and are today quite expensive. The meat has a refined taste. As this bird is rather active, the meat is best cooked in a braised preparation. Pintade in a black mushroom sauce (djon djon) with breadnuts (Arbe à pain) is a Haitian classic.
The simple everyday rice and beans is the accompaniment to most meals, as is the ubiquitous 'sos pwa' or bean sauce which is poured liberally over white rice and is a Haitian staple. Corn meal and millet are also eaten in place of rice. Ground provisions such as potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, plantains, malanga and cassava are root vegetables which are widely used all over the country.
Creole food is delicious and will vary slightly in different provinces with more seafood eaten along coastal areas. Although this is a large island and we are surrounded by the sea in a large portion of the country, seafood is very expensive and not always easily available. In seaside towns, you will definitely be able to find fresh fish, lobster and crabs.
Fishermen offering their catch of fresh fish to be grilled on the beach in Haïti
Haitians love lambi or conch. There are always people meandering around market places with pots of prepared conch and a bottle of hot sauce made of lime juice and hot peppers selling to eager customers. Lambi boucanné is a beach favorite. Spicy and delicious, it is synonymous with summertime and the beach in Haïti. Salted local fish as well as imported salted codfish and smoked herring are commonly used in creole cooking. As these dried type of fish are preserved and requires no refrigeration, it is a common food source to many.
Like many Caribbean countries, spicy flavors are embraced and therefore hot peppers are a part of the cuisine, though they are used more for flavoring rather than merely the heat packing element. The addition of whole peppers to simmer in sauces and to steam amid rice dishes is common. The spicy condiment pickleez, is a Haitian slaw made with cabbage, carrots, onions, vinegar and hot peppers. It works perfectly with practically all foods and is served as a condiment and part of the meal. It is the equivalent of pepper sauce on the table in a Guyanese home. A spicy clear gravy called "sòs ti malice" is also a favorite to accompany grilled meats or to serve on rice when there is no meat cooked in a sauce. It is usually quite spicy and is also made with eshallots.
A plate of fritay (mixed fried green plantains and bread fruit) and bowl of pickleez or spicy slaw.
Another very typical Haitian food which is not only delicious but bears a very strong traditional importance in this culture is Soupe joumou or Pumpkin soup. I knew pumpkin soup in Guyana, but it is not prepared in the same way as it is in Haïti. The strain of pumpkin is also not the same. The skin of the pumpkin or joumou is tough and hard and has to be cut with great strength and pressure unlike the pumpkins in Guyana, which are sweeter and more water based. The flesh when cooked is of a heavier and thicker consistency. The symbolism behind this creation is one of national pride. It is traditional to have a bowl of soupe joumou on January 1 to celebrate the New year as well as in remembrance of Haitian Independence. The pumpkins, turnips, potatoes and cabbages were items which slaves were forbidden to consume and were meant solely for the masters. It was only fitting that upon victory, all of the forbidden ingredients were melded together to make a soup to commemorate Freedom.
The deep yellow/ orange colored pumpkins make the best soup.
It is made from a stock base of beef and pork or chicken stock. Puréed Pumpkin, potatoes, turnips, carrots and cabbage are added to make one of the most delicious and satisfying soups imaginable. It is also quite common to add a bit of pasta to the soup. This was probably not in the original soups back in the day, but it is a nice addition. Soup joumou is synonymous with a free and independent Haïti.
Food is an important part of any culture. We all need to nourish our bodies in order to function and it is fascinating to me the way that food is prepared all over the world. In my little corner of the earth, undoubtedly economics dictates how well and how varied a person's diet is formulated. Haïti is a country of diversity in many realms, therefore local foods will most definitely vary from region to region. One thing that I can state for sure is that all Haitians have learned to use whatever is at their disposal to create a tasty meal for their families. From porridges made with ground fermented corn (AK100), manioc, rice or wheat, flavored with cinnamon, lime zest and cloves to hearty bowls of bouillon or soups using various root vegetables and fresh greens like watercress and spinach, Haitian food a wide spectrum of choices. The Marchand de griot can be found all over the country selling plates of fried pork and fried green plantains. The meat is marinated and boiled in Seville oranges, peppers and spices and then cut into chunks and fried golden brown. This is local food which is customary and well loved all over the island… from the mountains, the plains and to the coastal regions, you will see these familiar spots with the local griot vendors and their vats of cooking oil and meats.
Spaghetti for breakfast is common on menus and as odd as this may seem to some, it is tasty and filling. Made with sautéed sweet peppers, onions, and either fried sausages or even smoked herring , this local pasta dish is easily made and widely available. French styled puff pastry pâtés are also delicious and a big part of Haitian food culture. They can be found fresh at all patisseries with filling of chicken, beef, ham and cheese and salted cod. I urge you to look for a Haitian restaurant if you live in the USA, France or Canada as these are areas where there are large Haitian diaspora communities. Try something new and exciting to tantalize your palate and to open your mind about Haïti. Order some stewed goat or other Creole dishes like turkey Tasso. Try an appetizer platter of accra, marinade or pork griot. Taste Creole chicken with rice and beans or a vegetable dish simply called 'touffé de legumes' made of braised eggplant, mirlitons, onions and tomatoes. There is great variety and a wealth of flavors to enjoy in Haïtian foods. I hope you can take the culinary journey soon.
Top photo: fried sardines, Middle: typical Haitian meal of chicken creole, rice and beans, mirliton gratin. Last photo: stewed goat with okra and rice and pigeon peas.


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Exploring Rio on foot
As all eyes turn to Brazil ahead of next week's World Cup draw, Gavin McOwan walks the streets, beaches and mountains of Rio de Janeiro – and meets a football legend along the way
I'd spent all day walking in the heat and humidity of Rio, and my first beer didn't touch the sides. I was about to dispatch my second when a greying, pot-bellied man appeared next to me at the bar. I froze. He no longer looked anything like the powerful Brazilian striker who had torn defences to shreds in the 1970 World Cup, one of the stars of the greatest football team of all time. But there was little doubt who he was.
"Is that Jairzinho?" I mouthed to the barman.
He nodded with a smile.
A member of the glorious, beautiful team that lit up the World Cup like none since, Jairzinho was its unstoppable goal machine – the "Hurricane", the only player in history to score in every round of the tournament, a feat not even Pelé, his teammate, got close to.
And there he was – no longer looking much like a hurricane – but standing next to me at the bar. Starstruck, I blurted out the first thing that came into my head: "Hi! You're a legend!"
"Yeah, I know that," he replied, as if it was the most obvious thing he'd heard all day.
I composed myself enough to offer him a beer (he had one, but paid for his own) and ask him about the football coaching programmes he runs in the city's favelas, but inside I was aglow. (If you're not a football fan, this was like having a chat with Jean-Paul Sartre over a pastis in a Parisian cafe.)
I was looking forward to many things on my four-day walk across Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to its unique topography and gobsmacking natural beauty, it offers a city walk like nowhere else on earth, taking in a lake, mountains, two of the world's most famous beaches and some of Brazil's last remaining virgin Atlantic rainforest, not to mention colonial villages and the biggest favela in Latin America – all within the city limits. But I'd never dreamed of sharing a beer with a living legend in a scruffy little bar in the arse end of Copacabana.
I'd begun my walk eight hours earlier in the spot where Brazil itself had started, or at least came of age and shook off its colonial past. In 1889, at the Imperial Palace in Praça XV, the heart of old Rio, a group of army officers delivered a letter to Dom Pedro II, the Emperor of Brazil descended from Portuguese royalty, with words to the effect: "You know what, mate, I think we can manage our own country on our own from now on. Pack your bags and head back to Europe."
Some of Rio's most impressive architecture can still be found in and around Praça XV, but it has been throttled by modernity, its colonial charm obliterated by a concrete flyover, now black and decrepit, built directly over the top of it. In the morning rush hour, I got off a bus in a tunnel underneath the square with dozens of commuters, and within seconds was engulfed by thousands more pouring off the ferries from Niteroi, the satellite city across Guanabara Bay, as planes coming in to land at the domestic airport nearby grazed the tops of the boats in the harbour.
The only person I saw not rushing to work was a homeless man standing next to a old disused fountain in the middle of the square. When I asked him about the fountain's history, he said: "It's never worked; it's just for tourists to come and take pictures."
But there were no tourists around and the palace was yet to open, so instead I ducked under an arch, Arco do Teles, to a narrow cobblestone street, where, as a child, Carmen Miranda lived at number 13.
If I were true to the spirit of this series of megacity walks – which has included Mexico City, Shanghai and Tokyo – I should have headed north from here, through the endless gritty suburbs and poor favelas that are homes to millions in the urbanised and industrial stretch of Rio. (Actually, scratch that. If I were true to this series, I wouldn't be here at all; I'd be 270 miles away in São Paulo, South America's largest, most dynamic city – twice the size of Rio, but not nearly half as much fun.)
Which is why I headed south, through old Rio, towards the natural playgrounds of Copacabana and Ipanema, Pão de Açucar, Corcovado, Cristo and other places that slip off the tongue like a silky bossa nova melody.
I had to battle through the morning commuters, but one boy, asleep on the pavement outside a bank, was completely oblivious as passers-by stepped over him.
"Is he dead?" one guy asked. A hefty nudge from the bank's security guard reassured him he wasn't.
The air was already thick with the meaty, garlicky whiff of simmering feijão (black beans), the staple that would feed the army of office workers at lunchtime. And by 10am, it was soupy with humidity, too, so I headed for the cool and calm of the Metropolitan Cathedral. From the outside, it looks like an enormous upturned concrete bucket, an example of graceless 70s architecture. But this just made the spectacular interior, of stained-glass windows ascending to the heavens, all the more breathtaking. An effect as awe-inspiring as the grand medieval cathedrals of Europe.
Slipping out through the back door, I felt as though I'd walked into in a different city. The office workers had vanished, and the empty, ramshackle streets of Lapa, Rio's bohemian quarter, were still asleep in the late morning.
Lapa has been the home of Brazilian artists for two centuries, but no one has contributed more to the area than Chilean-born Jorge Selarón, whose one-man project, the Escadaria Selarón, a flight of 215 mosaic steps, has become a focal point of the neighbourhood. The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
At the top of the steps, I turned left and headed to Santa Teresa, a sleepy hillside village of cobblestone streets, colonial houses and artists' studios that feels cut off from the rest of the city. This was the first of several occasions on the walk when I didn't feel I was in a big city at all.
Heading back down the hill, I got my first "wow" moment as I gazed at Botafogo beach on the edge of Guanabara Bay, with Sugarloaf mountain beyond, like a granite spaceship ready for lift-off. This is where the Portuguese fleet arrived on 1 January 1502, hence Rio de Janeiro, (January River) – they mistook the huge bay for a river delta. Even laced with roads and buildings, it's a jaw-dropping vista, but I tried to picture what it looked like 500 years ago, the mountains swathed in emerald forest, the beaches ringing to nothing but the sounds of the jungle. It must have been like sailing into Eden.
Five minutes later, all notions of tropical paradise vanished as I was confronted by a mash-up of flyovers, tunnels, deafening traffic and pollution – a natural bottleneck resulting from the granite morros that shoot into the sky all over Rio. There's no easy way to walk from Botafogo to Zona Sul, the area of Rio with all the famous bits. Until the early 20th century, Rio ended here; Copacabana was an isolated Atlantic fishing village. But once the Túnel Engenheiro Coelho Cintra opened in 1906, the Brazilian middle class started moving south, followed by the rich and famous, who turned the Copacabana Palace into one of the world's most glamorous hotels.
I took the narrow footpath through the six-lane tunnel and saw Copacabana beach beckoning at the other end, but I opted for that cooling beer with Jairzinho rather than a swim. I made my way to the beach afterwards, exhausted but ecstatic, my head full of beer and Brazilian football, and practically danced the two miles back to my hotel, cooling my sore feet in the crashing waves.
Copacabana's star has long since faded; it is now one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the world, tightly packed high-rise blocks squeezed between the mountains and the sea, beer-bellied blokes drinking their pensions away and women with small dogs and bad facelifts. Yet the 4km arc of beach still has an irresistible shimmer, a crescent of white sand 100m deep from the water's edge to the famous wave motif on the black-and-white mosaic pavement.
And it's still where Brazil shows off to the world. When Usain Bolt ran an exhibition race earlier this year, when the Rolling Stones played a free gig, and the new Pope addressed the city, they did it on this beach in front of millions.
My hotel, the Sofitel, was at the far, western end of Copacabana, in front of the neighbourhood's tiny fishing community, a vestige of when this was an isolated hamlet rather than the most famous beach in the world.
The next morning, I walked round the corner to the city's second most famous beach, Ipanema, which was grey and moody, the pointed peaks of the Dois Irmãos mountains looming over the far end of the beach, shrouded in heavy cloud.
(I went back with friends a few days later, when the sun was out, and Rio was at its sultry best. Hundreds of people were meditating – legs crossed, eyes closed – on the rocks at Arpoador, at the eastern end of the beach. On the pavement nearby, a busker was playing the saxophone, his hat containing a not inconsiderable amount of cash. This might sound like an everyday scene for a hip city beach, but when I lived in Brazil 20 years ago, people in Rio seemed almost scared to blink lest their bags were snatched from their hands; and the busker's hat would have been nicked by hoodlums, along with his sax.
It's still not the safest city in the world – I was warned to stay away from Copacabana and Santa Teresa at night – but, boosted by the booming economy and double feelgood factor of hosting the World Cup Finals and the Olympics – Rio feels a far happier, more confident place. Admittedly, I was there before this summer's riots, but I would argue that the demonstrations were a positive sign of a population confident enough to express its frustration.)
But I still had half the city to walk, so I tore myself away from watching locals playing the incredibly skilful hybrid of footvollei on Ipanema, and headed down Rua Vinicius de Moraes, named after the lyricist and bossa nova composer. On the left is Garota de Ipanema (the Girl from Ipanema), the bar where de Moraes wrote the classic song with Tom Jobim in 1962. Despite changing its name (it used to be called Bar Veloso) and being just one block back from the beach, the bar still attracts locals as well as visitors, and does a great steak (go for the picanha, rump cap: it's the most expensive thing on the menu – around £25 – but will serve two or three people).
Down the end of the street is the Lagoa, simply "the Lake", which will host the rowing in the 2016 Olympics. It seems unfair for a city with so many fantastic beaches to be blessed with a beautiful lake too, especially one ringed with imposing black mountains. From the tallest, the 710m Corcovado, straight ahead of me the statue of Christ the Redeemer surveyed the city.
After a mile, I turned west through the pleasant but uneventful middle-class suburbs of Leblon and Gávea. It was a quiet, easy day's stroll which I cut short to plan the most challenging section of this walk, through Rocinha, one of the biggest favelas in Latin America. Many of the city's favelas have been "pacified" in recent years and small companies have sprung up offering tours. But when I rang a couple to ask if they had a guide for for a whole day, to take me up the long and winding road through Rocinha, they reacted as if I was slightly mad. So I asked for help at the community centre on the main road at the bottom of the favela. There Dilmar Borges called her grandson Rogério, who came to meet me and agreed to be my guide the following day.
So, on day three, I started at sea level and walked back up to where I'd stopped the day before. "A favela is like a mountain: you need to climb it from the bottom," said Rogério.
At the more desirable bottom of the favela, a two-bedroom house can go for R$80,000 (around £22,000). At first it felt like any other working-class Brazilian street, full of nail bars and mobile phone shops, banks and restaurants.
But as soon as we hit the dank alleyways off the main drag, the place felt Dickensian. Every thoroughfare was overhung with a black plastic spaghetti of hundreds of internet, telephone and electricity cables. This is how at least 12 million Brazilians live, most in far poorer favelas than Rocinha.
It felt otherworldly, but also welcoming and completely safe. This was partly thanks to Rogério, who seemed to know everyone we met on the long, slow climb to the top of the favela. Young children he knew came to say hello and insisted on having their pictures taken with us. Two policemen armed with huge machine guns also said hello, but declined the photo opportunity. The only time I felt in danger was when I was stung by a bee. "See, I told you favelas can be dangerous," smiled Rogério. He proudly showed me the new, sadly underused, ecological park, and a pristine clay tennis court funded, with little fanfare, by Novak Djokovic.
At the top of the morro, we had a drink at Laje Carlinhos (terracetourist.com), a bar on the roof of a small house, with a sweeping view of the whole favela – a mountain dotted with tens of thousands of tiny houses made of cheap red bricks. Beyond lay the Atlantic, to the right was Pedra da Gávea, the imposing mountain I was planning to climb the following day. Up a floor, from another improvised rooftop, we looked in the opposite direction to where the Tijuca rainforest climbs up the hillside in a carpet of dark velvety green.
From here, the Cristo – who had watched over my entire walk – looks down over the city. These views are just as exhilarating as those from the top of Sugarloaf and Corcovado, but free – and more rewarding given the long slog it took to get here. And, instead of swarms of tourists, the only other person here was the friendly bar owner Senhor Carlinhos, on hand to point out the sights and crack open another cold beer.
I said farewell to Rogério at the summit of Rocinha, and in less than five minutes I was walking back down through Alto Gávea, Rio's most salubrious suburb. Within touching distance of the favela is the Escola Americana, the most expensive school in town, landscaped into the hillside. Standing on top of a favela full of people living in poverty looking down on a school that charges day fees of over £2,000 a month, it felt like a mad world, but my God, what a beautiful one.
On the final day of my walk, I climbed another mountain, but unlike Rocinha, where every crevasse is crammed with humanity, the 844m Pedra da Gávea, two miles to the west, is stark, empty and covered in some of Brazil's last remaining Atlantic rainforest, inside the Tijuca national park. I was accompanied by Rob, a Scottish friend who has lived in Rio for nearly 20 years. He says misses the Highlands but I reckon having mountains like this on your doorstep – which you can climb in the morning and then be back down on the beach in the afternoon – is ample compensation.
There are dozens of hiking trails in Rio but only in recent years, as a result of greater affluence and expanding horizons, have locals really started taking advantage of them. The ranger at the start of the trail told us, with some pride, that 200 people had come through already that day. Perhaps because it's so close to the city, many were woefully unprepared for the hike, wearing cheap trainers and even flip-flops. The near-vertical rock faces were far more challening than I was expecting and – though it pains me to say it – I wouldn't have made it to the top without Rob there to chivvy me along.
Luckily the mountain was covered in mist for much of the assent, protecting us from the sun. But as we reached the summit the clouds lifted, revealing the city below bathed in sunlight. To the west was the modern suburb of Barra da Tijuca, Rio's future, full of shopping malls and Florida-style condos – and home to many of the venues for the 2016 Olympics – fringed with sand and sparkling blue sea. To the east, I looked back to the city I'd spent the last four days walking across: the white apartment blocks and favelas seemed tiny and insignificant next to the vast sweep of Copacabana, the ocean and the towering mountains swathed in tropical rainforest. There might be a megacity of 13 million people down there but, from up here at least, it seems that man, despite his best efforts, has barely made a dent on this incredible landscape.
• The trip was provided by British Airways Holidays (0844 493 0787, ba.com), which offers direct flights from Heathrow and five nights at Sofitel Rio de Janeiro on Copacabana from £1,449, or seven nights from £1,739
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04.26.14 The Airliner. Los Angeles, CA
Apr 14 2014
Rusty Eye's new album Saca El Cobre was produced by Baron Murtland and mixed by Bill Metoyer (SLAYER, SACRED REICH, W.A.S.P), and marks a new production standard for the band. Saca El Cobre ("Bring out the copper") is a Spanish saying that means: show your true self, defining the bands reinvention of these classic songs. This hard-hitting, high concept, cover album is a must for anyone who loves intricate hard metal!
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6 Exercises for New Mums
Getting your body back after having a baby is never easy. But it's also not as hard as you might think.What's more, many experts agree that the sooner you start, the easier it may be to: lose the extra "baby fat" tighten and tone muscles that can make it easier to care for your baby. Research also shows that a regular exercise programme started soon after giving birth is not only good for your overall health but may also help reduce the risk of postpartum depression.
To help you get started, here are six exercises that can put you on the road to success.
Keep in mind before you start, though, that every pregnancy and delivery is different. So check with your doctor before engaging in any workout program after giving birth. If you experience any heavy bleeding, excessive soreness, headaches, or other unusual symptoms during or right after exercising, stop immediately and call your doctor for advice.
Exercise #1 – Walking
It may not sound like much of an exercise, but walking is one of the easiest ways to ease into a fitness routine after giving birth. Everything from a leisurely stroll to a pumped-up power walk can do wonders for you and your body. And if you bring baby along in a front pack, you have an automatic extra "weight" that can increase the benefits.
For a variation, try walking backwards or walking in a zigzag pattern to help keep your muscles guessing. You probably should not include a baby in this activity, though, until you've mastered it and are certain of your balance.
Exercise #2 -- Deep belly breathing with abdominal contraction
This exercise is so easy you can do it an hour after giving birth. However, you'll probably have other things on your mind, and it won't hurt to wait for a more convenient time. This second set of exercises helps relax muscles. It also starts the process of strengthening and toning your abs and belly.
Here's what you do:
Sit upright and breathe deeply, drawing air from the diaphragm upward.
Contract and hold your abs/midsection tight while inhaling and relax while exhaling.
Gradually increase the amount of time you can contract and hold your abs.
Exercise #3 -- Shoulder lifts and head lifts
These two movements help strengthen back muscles. They also tone the tummy and abs and burn calories.
Here's how you do head lifts:
Lie on your back with your arms along your sides.Keeping your lower back flush to the floor, bend your knees so that the bottom of your feet touches the floor.Relax your belly as you inhale.As you exhale, slowly lift your head and neck off the floor.Inhale as you lower your head back down.When you can do 10 head lifts with ease, and shoulder lifts.
This is how to do a shoulder lift:
Assume the same position as you did for head lifts.Inhale and relax your belly.As you exhale slowly, lift your head and shoulders off the floor reaching with your arms and hands toward your bent knees. If this strains your neck, fold both hands behind your head instead.Inhale as you lower your head and shoulders back down.
Exercise #4 -- The curl up
When you can do 10 shoulder lifts, move on to the curl up. To increase the benefits you get from the shoulder and head lifts, start by assuming the same position on the floor. Now, instead of just lifting your head and shoulders, lift your torso until it's about halfway between your knees and the floor behind you. Use your arms to reach toward your knees and hold for a count of between two and five. Then slowly lower your torso. Don't forget to breathe. Exhale when you exert. Inhale when you relax.
Exercise #5 -- Kneeling pelvic tilt
Kneel down on all fours -- toes touching the floor behind you, arms straight down from the shoulder line, palms touching the floor. Your back should be relaxed and straight, not curved or arched. As you inhale, pull your buttocks forward, tilting your pelvis and rotating your pubic bone upward. Hold for a count of three and release.
Exercise #6 -- The Kegel
This classic exercise for women will help you tone and control bladder muscles and may reduce risks of incontinence associated with childbirth. This exercise involves contracting and holding the muscles that control the flow of urine. To get which muscles they are, start by doing just that. As you urinate, manipulate your muscles until the stream temporarily stops. Then release and let the urine flow. Remember what that feels like, and when you're not urinating, contract, hold and release those same muscles. The more you do and the longer you hold those muscles, the better control you will have over those leaks caused by sneezing, laughing, or picking up your baby.


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Canadian Brewing Awards – Submissions now open 2018
The 16th Annual Canadian Brewing Awards & Conference will be held on May 24-26, 2018 at the Nova Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The CBAC is the only nationally Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) sanctioned competition inviting majority Canadian-owned breweries of all sizes across Canada to compete in a certified blind tasting to determine who produces the best beer in over 50 style categories.
The submission platform is now open and breweries can submit up to twelve separate entries to be judged in the competition.
The Canadian Brewing Awards & Conference is a 3-day event that features an expansive trade expo floor, influential speakers and awards gala where winning brews and breweries are announced, along with the highly coveted 'Beer of the Year' and 'Brewery of the Year' winners.
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While waiting for today's edition of The Forgotten, here's a clip you can enjoy, if that's the word, from René Clément's award-winning GERVAISE (a956). A lavish and rambunctious Zola adaptation, it sets out its stall early with this savage, raucous and not-even-safe-for-work fight scene in which lead Maria Schell demonstrates her fighting spirit, which will carry her through the story and everything Zola, assisted by scenarists Aurenche and Bost, can throw at her.
The film also features Jany Holt, heroine of the resistance, and also, as Schell's opponent here, Suzy Delair, who we cannot, sadly, credit as a heroine of the resistance. That goodwill trip to the Fatherland stills sits uncomfortably in her CV (but hey! Film is a collaborative medium!)
This scene reminded me strongly of the nasty girlfight in Paul Verhoeven's A GIRL CALLED KATY TIPPEL, to the extent that I'm trying to recall if the films have anything else in common. Can anyone help?
SOCIAL OPPRESSION with a Regency stripe — our director is never shy about letting the production design tell the story. I hate this kind of narrative — the catalogue of woes, strung together in loose novelistic fashion. It's only slightly more bearable in a period movie than in Ken Loach modern job. But the filmmaker's skill here, and the colossal production values slathered over everything, do make it quite watchable. And the explicitness — a vomit-spattered drunk, the Delair posterior exposed above — must have been pretty shocking at the time. And that urge to shove unpleasantness in the audience's face was bound to appeal to the young Verhoeven if he was out there.
While you're reeling from the sight of Suzy Delair's arse (or her stand-in's), I'll just hit you with a couple of links to older pieces about Clément films ~
I'd forgotten that I'd written so many Forgottens on Clement.
There's also this recent piece on LES MAUDITS and this one on THE DAY AND THE HOUR.


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John Tortorella from the Columbus Blue Jackets won the Jack Adams Award as well as coach within the National hockey league in the 2017 National hockey league Awards and National hockey league Expansion Draft presented by T-Mobile in Vegas on Wednesday.
Tortorella, who turns 59 on Saturday, also won the Jack Adams using the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004. Another finalists were Mike Babcock from the Toronto Walnut Leafs and Todd McLellan from the Edmonton Oilers.
Nowhere Jackets had their finest season since entering the National hockey league in 2000. Columbus set its records for wins (50) and points (108), finishing third within the Metropolitan Division to achieve the Stanley Cup Playoffs for that third amount of time in its history. Nowhere Jackets also were built with a 16-game winning streak, one shy from the National hockey league record of 17 set through the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins Ezequiel Carrera Jersey.
"I stated available the factor I am most looking forward to, I am waiting in for a corporation and I am just thrilled for the organization that there are some recognition happening within the offseason for all of us,Inch Tortorella stated. "I really hope it fuels us approaching our pick up because [we] were built with a [heck] of the year, however the hard stuff starts pick up. So great stuff for the organization. That is what I am so happy about."
Tortorella also would be a Jack Adams finalist in 2003 using the Lightning and 2012 using the New You are able to Rangers.
Babcock, 54, has yet to win the Jack Adams despite as being a finalist in 2008 and 2014 using the Detroit Red Wings he won the Cup with Detroit in 2008. Babcock led the Walnut Leafs towards the Stanley Cup Playoffs the very first time since 2013. These were 4th within the Atlantic Division with 95 points, a 26-point improvement from last season, his first with Toronto. Babcock also performed six rookies greater than 75 games each, including center Auston Matthews, 19, the very first pick from the 2016 National hockey league Draft. The Walnut Leafs went 40-27-15, their most wins given that they had 40 in the year 2006-07 Francisco Liriano Jersey.
McLellan, 49, coached the Oilers towards the playoffs the very first time since 2006. These were second within the Off-shore Division with 103 points, 33 greater than they'd in 2015-16, his first season with Edmonton. The Oilers went 47-26-9, their most wins given that they had 50 in 1986-87. McLellan would be a finalist for that Jack Adams in '09 using the San Jose Sharks.


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Basically, SQL injections happens when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. Any webmaster creating web applications that involves database manipulation will have to take these measures to prevent SQL injections.
According to WhiteHat Security's statistics, there is a 20% likelihood that 8 out of 10 websites have a vulnerability in the area of SQL Injections.
- Keeping It Clean
For example, it is important to make sure that users insert only codes that have these characters in the email field :
- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Many database interface languages caters to the need of safe-quoting text. For example, MySQL uses 2 functions to 'string quote' and to 'string parse' :
- mysql_real_escape_string() adds backslashes in front of all the quotation marks.
- stripslashes() removes backslashes in front of the quotation marks.
- Insecure
- Secure
Statement s = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery("SELECT email FROM member WHERE name = " + formField); // *boom*
PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT email FROM member WHERE name = ?");
ps.setString(1, formField);
ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery();
Above is an example of bound parameters in Java. Neither quotes, semicolons, backslashes nor SQL comment notations are able to corrupt the string because it's been turned into data. Bounding parameters is one of the most important step anyone can take to truly secure the database from injection attacks.
Web applications should use connections to the database with as little rights as possible. Web applications should start with only 1 type of access which is query access to members table. This method eliminates the possibility of using the 'UPDATE' statement to taint the database. Let rights access be progressive, like allowing more flexibility only after a successful user validation.
As long as the interface on the stored procedure stays the same, the table structure can change with no consequence to the application that is using the database. This layer of abstraction is like an extra barrier because table permission is implicitly set. By only allowing database modifications through stored procedures, tables are safe from exposure to external applications.
A DMZ is a computer network that is accessible from two other computer networks that have no direct contact with each other. Often, one of these networks is the Internet and the other is a local, internal network. Having a web server with very, very little access in a DMZ prevents total control of all networks, even if one manages to take full control of the machine.
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Two days after 49 people were killed and 53 were injured by a gunman in a mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, Demi Lovato has taken to Twitter to let the LGBT community know that they do not stand alone in the face of this senseless and horrible tragedy.
"There are no words for how upset I've been since Orlando," she wrote. "I cry for the victims, ache for the families, and have immense admiration for the LGBTQ community and their resolve in absorbing this horror and uniting with strength and fearlessness."
"Stay strong," she continued. "We stand with you."
Shortly after, she posted another message to Twitter, saying that the cycle of mourning, arguing, and then settling after tragedies needs to stop — that these tragedies themselves need to stop.
Demi has long been an extremely vocal ally for the LGBT community and most recently showed her support for LGBT rights by wearing a transgender equality shirt during her performance at the Billboard Music Awards.
"We hurt. We mourn. We argue. We settle," she wrote. "We need to stop the cycle."
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
- Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control over Sensitive Data
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An ever expanding body of research has shown that children of divorce are at increased risk for a range of maladaptive outcomes including academic failure, behavior problems, poor psychological adjustment, reduced self-concept, and reduced social competence (Amato, 2001). Furthermore, the widespread prevalence of divorce makes preventing these poor outcomes a pressing public health concern. The Children of Divorce-Coping with Divorce (CoD-CoD) program is an internet-based selective prevention that was derived from recent research identifying modifiable protective factors in children of divorce including active and avoidant coping, divorce appraisals, and coping efficacy. CoD-CoD addresses these putative mediators through careful adaptation of …
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Despite the evidence that suicide risk assessment training is necessary only 40-50% of psychology programs offer risk assessment training (Granello & Juhnke, 2010). In the present study an online suicide risk assessment and safety plan training workshop for graduate students in the field of psychology was investigated. Participants were randomly assigned to the control condition (lecture) or the treatment condition (lecture + demonstration). Measures of declarative knowledge of suicide risk and protective factors, application to clinical scenarios, and risk assessment and management self-efficacy scales were administered before and after completion of the workshop. Two way repeated measures ANOVA's were conducted …
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- Krieg, Christina Heaton, Tracey, Terence, Horan, John, et al.
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Scotland Yard will "bring their expertise" to the search for missing Madeleine McCann, following a written request from David Cameron to "cast a fresh eye" over evidence.
Clarence Mitchell, the lawyer for Kate and Gerry McCann said they welcomed the news, which came after they made an impassioned appeal to the Prime Minister to help them revive the search for their missing daughter.
Madeleine, who lived with her parents in Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve in 2007.
The official Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance was formally suspended in July 2008, although private detectives employed by the McCanns continued the search.


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My name is Mia Leventhal.
I am a handcraft artisan currently resettling in France.Born In N.Y, lived in several different countries, Israel, Turkey, Cyprus, England.. in pursuit of a spiritual journey, decided to form a Project by the name of "Aakhda",which means "Together" in Ancient Arameic.This is the root language of Hebrew and Arabic aswell as the language spoken by Jesus Christ.
At this time and Place I feel a deep calling to put my energy into planting seeds of Love ,reaching out to all to understand that we are all in this together..
The motives, initiatives and activities of 'Aakhda' will be displayed here on the site,on the home page.
My first essential project within "Aakhda" is to teach creative recycling to Palestinian women to create handcrafted products that can be sold to aid in their income.Read more about this in my post "seeds of Love" :
If you would like to contribute to the welfare of these women by purchasing one of their creations, or products created either in collaboration or by myself to fund the project, please check my online shop where I offer them for sale :
Shops or organisations interested in larger quantities or for any further info please contact me at : Mia dot aakhda at yahoo dot com.
This space is a space of Love,it is non political and non debating, rather a river flowing and collecting momentum as it moves forward towards the sea ~ ~ ~
Lots of Love


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Onward to Rio!
Dr. Cowin is headed to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games this summer! He has been given the amazing opportunity to provide sports medicine services for the World Rugby's Referees. We know they will be very well cared for and wish him safe travels to Brazil in a few months! Viagem Segura!


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Well, People, it's here! Or it's there.
Anyway, How Was I Supposed To Know? (my memoir, all 402 pages of it) is now available in paperback on Amazon. com.*
You can now go:
- buy it
- fondle it
- flip through it
- read it
- bench press it
- carry it around and brag that you know the author and that she's quite a character
- tell others to get this book or they are missing out on something Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious or, for those in the southern hemisphere, dociousaliexpiciousfragicalierpus
I know you may not get to purchasing it right away or reading it at wiz-bang speed, but when you do finish it, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take a few moments to go back to Amazon or Goodreads and write even a brief review. Maybe even post a review on your blog. These things are important in the self-publishing biz. And now that I'm in that biz, I know both the lingo and about that stuff (aren't you impressed?).
*For Amazon customers in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, or Italy, go to my Memoir Page and scroll to the bottom. I have provided separate links that Amazon gave me for those countries.


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Santa Fe has a special charm to it as a Mexican town located here in the US. It is the oldest state capital in North America. The original colony was established by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro de Peralta in 1610. The heart of the city is the Central Plaza, around which the town revolves. Santa Fe is a quaint town with a poplulation of 68,000 that is not sure if it is a small town or a larger city. Sixty miles by highway from Albuquerque, it sits in the mountains at an elevation of 7000 feet so it is not as hot as most people think of when they think of summer in New Mexico. Dogs like the cooler temperatures as well. Santa Fe is a dog-friendly town, with unique B&B lodgings, small hotels and specialty lodging and shops.
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Interview | Fake Club
From Bangor's brightest Two Door Cinema Club to the 90s pop troupe of seven, the idea of the 'Club' is no new notion when it comes to band monikers. Even unassuming North London quartet Bombay Bicycle Club switched between various aliases before sticking with the collective ring of similarly named Indian restaurants. Yet, unlike their pop predecessors before them, Fake Club are a band that won't be accompanied by any sort of questionable kids TV show nor even a scent of their manufactured musical tones [or a Sag aloo for that matter!]
With hints of 70's Led Zeppelin macho nonchalance in the bands garage rock riffery and growling lead vocals, Fake Club create a visceral, defiant and powerful noise. Kicking back against the "Gameboy generation", the band only go to show fellow femmes out there that it's OK to cut their nails and pick up a guitar and that's something we fully applaud here at The Girls Are. So, what do the self professed haters of our reality obsessed generation think of X Factor generated, 1D going up against bands like the XX at this year's Brit Awards and who were their pop muses growing up? We chat the relevance of the full length format, Daddy Warbucks and keeping it real with our blues sisters…
TGA: How did you all come together to form Fake Club and, more importantly, how can we join?
Chloe: Vicky and I knew each other from uni and Vicky was friends with Aicha so she got her involved. Aisha stole Rosie from another band.
Rosie: I was playing and Aicha saw me in my poor, little band who are now probably all working in Asda…[Laughter] but yeah, basically she came up to me and said 'You have to come and have a jam with us. I came and had a jam and then we all went out to the Blues Kitchen in Camden one night and heard this amazing lead guitarist and were just like 'What, the…?' We obviously thought it was going to be a boy and then saw her [!] …
Vicky: She does have short hair!
Rosie: We were just like 'Oh my god, Justin Bieber's got really good at guitar'.
Vicky: Either way, if she'd been a boy or a girl; she would have been in.
Rosie: So, we took her back to our rehearsal space that night and all had a drunken jam with a couple of bottles of whiskey and a year later, here we are.
TGA: As you mentioned briefly Rosie, you were in another project before this [Big Kids with Mr Hudson] Are any of you doing any other projects at the moment or have you all dedicated time to this one?
Carmen: Not now…We did all used to have different projects but we've all said goodbye to those because we've found each other.
[what a lovely story]
Rosie : It warms the cockles.
TGA: To describe your sound, you do reference the Spice Girls [but with guitars] If you all had to have a similarly Spice girl-esque name for Fake Club, what would you all be called and why?
Chloe: We've got a few nicknames between ourselves anyway…I'm The Force.
Rosie: …because she loves Star Wars.
Chloe: I love Star Wars and I'm the rhythm guitarist so…
[TGA: a nod to The Edge as well perhaps?]
Rosie: Aicha is The Pacemaker being the drummer
Aicha: And, I soothe people's hearts and keep them going, of course!
[TGA: We feel like you guys have probably already thought of this before]
Vicky: No, no! Well, we're all stuck for ours though…and up for suggestions?
Rosie: I wanted to be Daddy Warbucks because I think it just sounds cool. So, then when I'm meeting people, I can be like 'Hey, my name's Daddy Warbucks but you can call me Daddy'. I thought that would be really cool…
Vicky: Maybe I could be something bear related as I do love bears…Grizzly V?
Rosie: Beetlejuice has been one in the past…Or Sticky Vicky?
Vicky: Oh, but that's just horrible. The thing with the name Vicky is that all the shit things rhyme with it so you've got "sticky", 'Vicky's got a hicky..' Well, tricky.
Aicha: We call Carmen Tin Tin.
Rosie: Tell the story behind Tin Tin.
Carmen: There's was this one day when my hair was kind of sticking up all over the place and I turned round to say I look a bit like 'Tan Tan' but they wouldn't understand for about twenty minutes…They were all just like what's 'Tan Tan?' So, I googled the picture and was like, 'Look, Chloe- it's this'.
Vicky: It's because she's multi-lingual.
Carmen: Well, it's a Belgian cartoon. I just didn't realise you guys call him Tin Tin.
Aicha: We say Totem Carmen sometimes…
Rosie: Spaghetti Carmenara?
TGA: The band is co-managed by Guy Chambers who is notorious for his work with Robbie Williams; how did that collaboration come about?
Chloe: We played at one of his gig nights and he really liked us and wanted to get involved.
Vicky: We always joke that he's a bit like the film 'The Runaways'. He's a bit like the manager in that.
Rosie: We're so honoured to have him as part of the team though, it's amazing. To have someone like that thinking what we are writing is amazing is so encouraging…
Aicha: …and he leaves us to it, as well. He just lets us get on with it and then says that's cool. We've got amazing managers really; we've got a wicked team. We are kind of strict with who we work with so, we just want those people to be on the same sort of level as us.
TGA: You've recently been in the studio, what are forthcoming release plans looking like for Fake Club?
Vicky: We're not sure yet, really. We're going to release a new single in January [now out] called 'Over and Over' and then after that we might do an EP. We would really like to do an album but you know, people don't really buy albums anymore.
Aicha: We want people to though..
Vicky: We want people to pick up our stuff though so we're just going to go with the times.
Rosie: Ultimately, we're just going to do what feels right. We put 'Do What You Gotta Do' out; we got our amazing friend Ralph to put out a video for us and we put it out just to basically see what would happen. To see the kind of stuff that's coming in off the back of that is absolutely amazing.
Aicha: There's nothing contrived about this. What we've got is about 25 songs and loads of gig experience.
Carmen: Essentially, two albums worth so we can pick and choose.
Rosie: When it feels right to release the album; we'll release an album.
Carmen: It could even be something we do to take on tour so we have something to offer out…it might not be. We're seeing various different options.
Rosie: We're looking towards doing something new as well, aren't we? We had an idea of using these twenty odd songs for people to compile their own album.
Carmen: That way we'd have all twenty songs up there with a snippet and people can just pick their favourite tracks.
Aicha: With different covers as well because we all love the tangible side of the album thing and that idea of seeing who's done what and who's drawn which element. It is a big part of it and it would be a shame for that to die so we just want to think of ways for people to be part of that. So, maybe you will download something and then print something alongside that we might have designed some lyrics as well perhaps…
TGA: You were lucky enough to get Bob Ludwig to master the record who's worked with some pioneers of rock in his time; Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins to name but a few. What was that experience like? Did you go over to the states?
Aicha: No, what happened was we recorded and self-produced our album basically with one of our friends and we had the studio for a week to ourselves. Kevin Killen heard the recordings that we were doing and absolutely loved it and wanted to get involved. We were chuffed and couldn't really believe it, to be honest. So we sent the stuff over to him and it was through Kevin that Bob Ludwig got involved as they work quite closely together. I mean, that was just like the extra cherry on top really!
TGA: Obviously, Bob Ludwig has worked with some incredible bands in the past; were they your pop muses when you were growing up? Who inspired you to pick up your instruments?
Aicha: Oh yeah, definitely. Massively. I was the grebo at school, you know? We were all the grebos in our separate schools. We were all into Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. Soundgarden and that sort of stuff.
Vicky: It's just really important to us that people are doing it because they really like the music, not because they're being paid to or told to. Bob really wanted to do it so he did and that's incredible.
[TGA: It sounds quite organic as a process]
Aicha: Yeah, definitely. That's one of the reasons and ideas behind why we're called Fake Club because we just want to keep it real.
Carmen: Embrace the fake so you can keep it real.
Aicha: Embrace the fake, ey? Nice.
Rosie: One for the merchandise stall…
Aicha: But it is confusing and it is just about being in a band as a form of expression. You know, being with the people you want to be with and making something good and that you're proud of and it's amazing how complicated other people can make that.
TGA: You've said before in previous interviews that it's not the fact that you are girls; this is just the music you want to make with the people you want to play it with. Genre rather than gender, would you say that's true?
Rosie: Yeah, that's not really the point. I think the more you're talking about the fact that it is a woman, the more it makes it a big deal. Hopefully, we prove that point that we're a band that just happen to be girls..
Aicha: We just want to be compared to other bands, rather than other females.
Vicky: We'll often get referenced to the likes of Suzi Quatro and the Runaways and we don't actually sounds anything like them…it's just the fact that we're girls.
TGA: The other issue with that would be that there has been quite a flurry of similarly blues tinged, femme rock of late with the likes of Haim and Deap Valley; would you say Fake Club fit into that scene or would you place your music away from that?
Vicky: I'd say more Deap Vally than Haim, but we are different. It's great that they're out there doing that though. It makes us really happy.
Rosie: I don't think musically we sound the same.
Aicha: Yeah, I mean with Deap Vally it's a two piece for a start whereas we've got four instruments and four voices in this band. So, we actually do build layers and try to make big sounding songs. It's a totally different sound.
Rosie: [whispers] five instruments…
Aicha: Oh and the cowbell, of course! So sorry, Rosie. But yeah, we want to make this a big sound. A lot of people nowadays would probably use a backing track for a keyboard or something to get that extra layer or texture, whilst we'd put another harmony in. So, it's just coming from the five of us. What you see is what you get.
Carmen: What you hear is what you get too though. So, like the recordings we could do live. There's nothing added in there. It's just a version of our live show.
TGA: Tying into that idea, when recording your latest album, you recorded all the tracks live in the studio with no click and a maximum of two takes per song. Is it important for you to keep the live element to these recordings?
Aicha: Yeah, we want our songs to breathe. Music moves, there are pushes and pulls and as a band, you get tight and then you move together so having something metronomic in this style of music wouldn't work. It's got no relevance.
Rosie: Also, the aim of what we're doing is that we want to be at a point where we don't need it. You know, Aicha is an amazing drummer and she doesn't need to have a click clicking in her ear. What we try and do is we will play with her and I will lay down a guide vocal as we're going and sometimes we might even use that vocal take. Obviously, there's a few bits that we keep and some stuff we might have to add over the top but the actual bones of the recording will be live.
Carmen: Basically, in the studio where we record you can't keep the amps at full volume or they will feed into the drum mics so we play with her and she can hear us in her headphones but then we'll go back and crank the amps up and do just one take. It's basically live.
Aicha: I'm the one who definitely has to get it right!
Carmen: If she doesn't do it in three takes, she gets a bad star.
TGA: The manifesto behind Fake Club, as you've already mentioned, seems to be steering away from the manufactured music that's so popular of late. Sadly, we're now in day and age where X factor generated, One Direction can go up against Mercury nominated acts like Alt-J and the XX for Best British Group at this year's Brit Awards. If you were hosting your own underground awards show, who would you like to highlight?
Aicha: Jake Bugg is definitely the best male out there at the moment.
Rosie: Tribes are amazing, they're doing their own thing and they're insane.
Aicha: We're going to be doing some support slots with them in the next couple of months too. We're mates with them and they really like are band so that's awesome.
Vicky: I think Lianne La Havas is a really good female, I know she's not really like our style of music but she really knows how to play and sing. I've seen her live and she's amazing. She's been doing really well though, she got best album over at iTunes and stuff like that; she obviously had the Mercury nomination too so she is getting recognised but her live show is just insane. She's a great example of female talent out there at the moment.
TGA: Can you sum up Fake Club in five words?
Aicha and Rosie in unison: Keep. It. Real. "!!"
Carmen: Love FakeClub [if you have Fake Club as one word]
Aicha: Keep it Real [comma] Fake Club.
Vicky: But this isn't a sign off is it so we can have two more words?
Carmen: Keep it Real, fuck yeah.
Vicky: Keep it Real, Go Create.
And on that inspirational note, our time with the quintet is done as they kick back with some whisky's in the hidden Holloway, Club house. The band's latest free download single, 'Over and Over' is now available over at the bands soundcloud page. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the groups next North London club night up not to mention, those print out and keep album artwork designs.
Fingers crossed for The Force on A3!
Cheri Amour
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It was a story that took the world by storm. A man sacrificed his life for his pregnant wife. When it happened last year, I cried my way through a post here on The Stir about the car accident, recalling the moment my own husband announced he "felt like a dad" and how this man, Brian Wood, this Dad, gave up so much. Even know it makes me tear up just thinking about it.
But today isn't a time for tears. Because today I caught a glimpse of the happy ending to a story that seems impossible to turn positive. Sierra Grace Wood was born last October, but photos of her surfaced on the Internet just this week.
It was more or less the way the story was supposed to play out. Brian Wood gave his life in a horrible car accident, steering the car so he'd take the brunt of the impact and wife Erin (and baby Sierra, who he'd already named) would be unharmed. After the accident, doctors told Erin she'd be OK for delivery -- physically of course, not necessarily emotionally.
But there's something about actually looking at the pictures of little Sierra today that bouyed my spirits. That made everything seem just a little bit better. It's funny the different reaction we have. When we hear a dad died, we cry. But when we see a baby, even with the knowledge that she's growing up without her dad, we can't help but smile. Babies are good for the soul, good for the community, good for the world.
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I came to Melbourne as a student in 2008. My struggle in studies took a toll on me as for someone like me who comes from a very well educated family where education is considered everything has never flunked in studies, failed in one of the units. My confidence was shattered and I was de-motivated completely. Nothing was working out for me. Mom and brother asked me to come back and worried for me as being too young and inexperience to handle everything except for my dad who believed in me and kept pushing and motivating through to achieve and finish what I went for. That's when I got inclined towards my Sai! I always use to get attracted to Him back home but was too naive to understand. Somehow I started Googling Him, reading Sai Satcharitra, listening to Aartis. In that state of mind it was the only thing that gave me peace. That's when I met my best friend (now my husband)! I reckon this was Baba's plan for me. I firmly believe that He is Baba's gift to me, rock solid, protecting and the most caring. Things settled in eventually by Baba's grace and I finished my masters with flying colours. Once we went to look for a house to rent, we decided to change from south Melbourne to north Melbourne which is bit different (south is better). I was not keen on moving. We decided to inspect the house and decide. As soon as I stepped in the master bedroom, there he was!! A cut out calendar picture of my Sai smiling right back at me, taking away all my doubts (to find His picture that way in Melbourne was very unusual) That was more than enough for me to change my decision.
Couple of years passed, then came most daunting phase in my life which was very recent. By Baba's blessing I use to work in a reputed MNC for 3 years and had been promoted to an accountant position. The day came when I got fired! It was completely my fault! Out of mere laziness I forged my medical certificate and got caught. It was Baba's way of teaching me a lesson to always be rightful in your dealings. I have always been very clean in my dealings except for this one mistake that I did committed. I learned in a bitter way but I learned. I understood the importance of maintaining trust! I was so ashamed that I lost all the confidence to apply for another job. That was the time when I got lost in Baba completely, heart and soul! This is when I realised what Baba wanted to teach me was a complete Surrender! He brought me very near to Him. My whole attitude towards life changed. For everything I did, I realised that there is no "I". Whatever happens it is Baba's plan for me. "Have complete faith in Him, always do the right thing, and leave your burdens at His Feet, He will take care of it" and that is exactly what happened. In 4 months time He placed me in a reputed company again in the same position and mind you it is absolutely difficult to find an accounting job here. I believe I don't deserve what I have been given, Baba has always been very generous and I feel to be His loved daughter!
Out of all the lessons the most important thing I learned was "no matter what your situation is, no matter how bad/worse it has always been, no matter how dark the path looks, treat it as if it's not your problem its Baba's and you are only following Him and His plans for you! Be content with what you have and Believe in His plans. Do the best you can do in that situation and leave the rest to Him. As a human I do get negative sometimes but Baba has become my strength who pulls me out of that state of mind immediately. Whether you had a bad day at work or had a tiff with your best friend or for any personal issues, trust in Him and ask Him to take care of it and surrender completely- heart and soul, mind and body!! He will look right at you if you look at Him! All He wants is your Shraddha and Saburi! Lastly, All I need and want is Baba's presence in my life, and my soul ever glued to His Holy Feet, in separable and nothing else. If I am successful in motivating even one soul with my experience it will all be worth it! I wish you all a very happy times ahead! May Baba bless & rescue every soul that comes to Him! Om Sai Ram! Shri Sachidanand Sadguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai.
Believe In Sai And He Will Answer Your Prayers
One day when i was doing Pooja in Mandir and i thought may be i can read any other book i have related Sai like Vrat Katha. Then suddenly i saw the book Sai Satcharitra placed there, i was shocked by miracle that He is indicating me to read it. That book belong to someone else but has kept in Mandir. That was the day my faith started in Sai then i started reading it everyday one chapter each day and as i read my faith in Sai goes more stronger, i pray Him with full devotion now as i read the confusion in my heart like why i always see Sai Feet while worshiping and as i worship lord Shiva earlier so now worshiping Sai then i got both my answer in the Sai Satcharitra book itself. My heart got desire to meet Sai and go to Shirdi and Sai called me there. I recently went to Shirdi and prayed Him, i cried as struggling problems in life and He answered my prayers.
Another miracle happened as I have desire to attend His Aarti so i again went in queue, i reached Darbar at Aarti time but they said they won't allow anyone to wait here but i prayed Sai please i want to attend it while i was moving out Darbar the security guard told me you just wait here and i was so surprised by His words as if Baba is saying me to wait for His blessings there. I could not attend Aarti but was the last person to leave Darbar, i kept standing near Samadhi and keep praying tears of joy in my eyes that He accepted me as His child. When i came back, i took Sai name on Thursday and ask for what i prayed in Shirdi and He gave me the desired thing my faith just doubled as He showed me miracles at every step. Now i pray Him daily with heart not to ask anything because He already knows everything. Just surrender yourself to His Feet with all devotion and He will never leave you alone and will shower His blessings. I read Satcharitra another book. Sai is my Father, my Guru, my Friend and He will solve your every problem one who just pray Him with faith and love. So all believe in Sai with full devotion and your prayer will soon be answered. Om Sai Jai Sai.
Just Chant His Name And Immediately He Will By Your Side
I had a younger brother who is 3 years younger than me. He is not only my brother but also my best friend and i love him a lot. I wanted to celebrate his birthday this year in a different way .First i started preparing greeting card for him differently. I completed almost everything but i want make a shirt card with his favourite colour which i could not get in any stationary shop. I have searched for that colour in almost all big and small shops, But of no use. Finally one day i went for accessories shopping for a marriage and while coming back home we took a auto and my mother asked auto driver to stop at one boutique for her cloth stitching. There i saw three stationeries. I got down and asked in two shops and they said we don't have that kind of colour. When i was about to go to third shop i prayed and chanted Baba's Name and entered the shop. The shopkeeper asked me to wait and started searching. First i got a colour which is familiar to the colour i want, i thought something is better than nothing and was about to return and suddenly my eyes felt on a bundle of colour papers and now the miracle and in that bundle i got the exact colour i want. It's Only Because Of My Sai-Nath, My Sai Baba. I felt happy purchased it and made my brother a beautiful card and presented Him. Baba, You know i have a big wish to be full filled and i am waiting for it. I have hope You will make it happen and if it happens it's only because of You and i know You will make impossible possible. Please Baba make it happen and i am waiting for a longer time and i will wait till the date You mentioned because i love You Baba. Shri Sachidanand Sadguru Sainath Maharaj Ki Jai.
Baba Saved My Life From Being Ruined And Gave Me A Good Life And A Very Good Husband
At the time when my marriage was about to be fixed I was again caught at home for this guy matter. I did approached my parents and my parents did speak to him but he just postponed telling that I will talk to my parents today and later he switched off his phone, I then understood how he was, what he is and what he had done to my life, being very frank I was very much loyal to him, but he used to take drugs and all and he hid it from me telling it's a cough medicine and I believed it because I did not know about all that and was innocent. Later I told him I am getting married to whomever my parents and Baba shows and left him a last message. He did some drama but this time I was strong enough and more than anything Baba was with me so He made me take right decision and now I am married to a very nice guy who takes care of me very well. All these old things shouldn't trouble in my present life I beg Baba for this please Baba because of You, I have got this beautiful life please keep my family and myself happy without any problems. I love You Baba. After my marriage got fixed, i did Nav Guruvar Vrat asking Him please there shouldn't be any kind of trouble in my marriage and all the past things shouldn't trouble in my life anytime so as per my promise I am posting my experience . Please all do listen to your parents because they always give us the best. Trust Baba always.
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The Essence, Spirituality, and Glorious Issue of the Religion of Christ Jesus to All Gods̓ Chosen: Exhibited in Remarks on the Expression, "Verily, Verily," as Used by Our Blessed Saviour in Many Parts of Scripture
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