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Indulgently rich ginger and chocolate truffles
Incredibly rich yet wonderfully moreish, this indulgent chocolate truffles recipe has a trickle of brandy for an added boozy hit – perfect for Valentine's nibbling!
Impressive to give as a gorgeous Valentine's gift or simply to hand out on the big day, these elegant chocolate truffles have a beautifully boozy and tangy flavour for the ultimate in aromous nibbling. Remember to allow time for chilling.
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Serves: 24
- 150ml (5fl oz) double cream
- 1 tsp. sugar
- 200g (7oz) dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
- 25g (1oz) butter
- 2 capfuls of brandy
- 75g (3oz) crystallised ginger, finely chopped
- Dark chocolate cocoa powder, for dusting
- Edible silver or gold glitter, for dusting
- Add cream and sugar to a pan. Heat gently, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add chocolate, butter and brandy and, stirring occasionally, heat until melted.
- Remove from heat and stir in ginger. Transfer to a glass bowl and, when cool, loosely cover and put in fridge to chill. It's ready when cold and firm.
- Remove mixture from fridge. Scoop 1tsp of it at a time, roll between your palms and sit on a plate lined with baking parchment. Sift cocoa on to a plate and roll half of truffles in it to coat. Dust other half with silver or gold dust. Put in fridge until ready to eat. Sit them in mini foil-lined paper cases, arrange in gift boxes and tie with ribbon.
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So it seems to me that almost every fabulous person I have met over the course of this year has either been at the awesome Rockn'Roll Bride Party or the Christine Meintjes Funshop and Monica Dart is no exception – I met her at both! Super friendly and a great person to chat to and work with, next time Monica is in the UK you should grab her! On to the bride and groom…
Natalie and Mark met on the set of the filming of a music video. How cool is that? Sounds a bit like a movie to me. Monica described Natalie as "graceful and and has the most amazing calming presence." She is also stunning. I really love the dreamy bridal shots Monica took and how cool are the long exposure shots with the bridesmaids walking past? The colours and lighting add to the overall dreamy romantic feel of the day. Natalie's natural almost dewy makeup was by Helga Bridal while her ethereal dress was designed by up and coming fashion designer Lara Klawikowski. The flowers were created by Alison's flowers and guests were treated to cupcakes from Cupcake Boutique
Monica continues "Both Natalie and Mark are very eco-friendly and wanted a 'green' wedding'. Kirstenbosch Gardens was the perfect location for this – the ceremony was held against the backdrop of the mountain, surrounded by the lush gardens. Following the ceremony, everyone enjoyed drinks and canapes on the lawn while we snuck off to do the bridal photo's. The rest of the evening unfolded in Silvertree Restaurant in the gardens with everyone dancing the night away."
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BOSTON – The Massachusetts medical examiner's office says cyanide poisoning killed an alleged extortion victim of James "Whitey" Bulger who had hoped to testify at Bulger's trial.A spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said Sunday that the medical examiner concluded that acute cyanide toxicity killed 59-year-old Stephen Rakes of Quincy in July. His death was ruled a homicide.Rakes learned before his death that he wouldn't be called as a witness against Bulger, the Boston gangster convicted of murder in August.Authorities say Rakes' death wasn't related to the Bulger case.
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The coral reef was discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Just last year scientists discovered a previously unknown coral reef that is now known to be located at the mouth of the Amazon River. Now, through a collaboration with an expedition by the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, the first ever images have been published of the never seen before biome. The system of corals is extremely large, and has been said to cover an area larger than São Paulo or London, according to recent reports. The coral reef is made up of a patchy strip that covers a total length of 1,125 kilometres (700 miles), and spans from a few miles off the coast of French Guyana to the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The new photographs were taken by researchers who travelled to the Amazon Coral Reef in a mini-submarine which was launched from the Esperanza, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) off the Brazilian coast.
Reports have claimed that the location is quite an unusual, and therefore unexpected, area for a coral reef to be found, as they are usually only located in salty waters which have clear access to sunlight. In huge contrast to this, the Amazon Coral Reef is located in a muddy river mouth. Nils Asp, a researcher at the Federal University of Pará, explained more about the reef and the possibilities that could arise from it in a statement. He said, "This reef system is important for many reasons, including the fact that it has unique characteristics regarding use and availability of light, and physicochemical water conditions. It has a huge potential for new species, and it is also important for the economic well-being of fishing communities along the Amazonian Coastal Zone."
Despite explanations from scientists and researchers about the potential for biodiversity and new species, oil companies including Total and BP are already looking at the nearby areas that are believed to contain around 15 to 20 billion barrels of crude oil, according to Greenpeace. Thiago Almeida, a campaigner at Greenpeace Brazil, said, "We must defend the reef and the entire region at the mouth of the Amazon River basin from the corporate greed that puts profits ahead of the environment. One of Total's oil blocks is only eight kilometers from the reef, and environmental licensing processes are already under way."
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I mentioned on other threads that I was emotionally and intellectually preparing for this trip.
The physical preparation is also now in full swing (meaning it has its ups and downs) and the financial preparation is a procrastinator's nightmare.
DD is now with us from Chicago since Friday, provoking a 20 person chaotic family dinner at our house as usual. DW's pop of 86 to DD the older's SIL's and my nephew's 18 months boys, not all appearing in the customary family photograph.
DD the younger asked for Turkish fare, so we had Circasian chicken, Fava, Steam Kebap (small pieces of lamb wrapped in thin slices of fried eggplant,) two types of pilav, borek, my fusion blackeyed peas, cabbage and grape leave wraps and "Asure" pronounced ashourae, for dessert.
In between all the hullabaloo, I managed to put together three files for our Schengen visa applications, ownership papers, car papers, hotel reservation, IDs, passport, photograph (mine and DD's excellent if not a full liking, DW's reflecting some inner misery)
Will go to deliver files and be fingerprinted, like the culprits we evidently are, tomorrow morning and then visit the Grand Bazaar and streets below for a supposedly inpromptu visit, totally unapproved by me.
We expect to fly to Leipzig with THY in 8 days, spend one night there and drive to Prague for three nights. I checked for an interesting small town on the way back for our fifth and final night and not finding anything, decided to honour Handel, this time, and spend that night in Halle.
Hopefully, this will give us short periods at leipzig, Dresden and Halle and two full days in Prague.
We shall be taking Kafka with us and hope to acquire Bach, Handel and the various beers as well as the suckling pig, cabbage and dumplings on the trip.
So far, the diplomatic relations between the female contingent are quite amicable with no intermediation. I do not know if this is the calm before the storm or the start of a long and serene period in their lives.
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Another Trip of Discovery of Feminine Charm with DW and DD the Younger
I mentioned on other threads that I was emotionally and intellectually preparing for this trip.
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Oh boy, I've got to follow this one! It's a winner from the start.
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yep, I'm here too.
love the addition of Halle to the mix - if I didn't mention it before the Haendelhaus is a treat and just up the road from there is an excellent microbrewery.
That dinner sounds terrific OC - was that enough food for 20 of you?
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Anxious to hear more!
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Can't wait to follow this one. Have fun!
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The visa application process was easy as pie (not the edible kind, although free coffee was available while one waited.)
The subcontractor had pleasant ladies at the windows, who helped us by making some corrections and filling in gaps. DW's delicate (but possibly filed) fingers refused to give up legible prints even when the finger printing lady pushed on them herself. However she was told that that should be fine until she applies for another Schengen visa.
Than the time came about which I had been forewarned. The taxi took my instructions to deliver us to the Beyazit square in record time where we passed through the used book store arcade where I used to by my American comic books in the 1950's. We stopped at one book dealer, became friends and DD bought a reprint of the first Ottoman Architecture book originally published in mid 19th century.
Then I had to visit the little boys' room, but apparently there was a water cut in the whole district and all loos were closed indefinitely. The next two and a half hours passed in bouts of agony and misery in some strange order. During that time, we bought three silk pillow cases, $225 worth Czeck Crones, an old thick silver bracelet for DD, an interesting small silver bowl for a distant nephew as a wedding gift, a set of six silver napkin holders for DD's best friend in the States who got married recently and whose family has adopted us and vice versa, a leather vest for DD, a sports jacket for DD's DH, two knit designer ties, one for me one for DD's DH.
We also ate wraps of Adana Kebap and Shish kebap combined with roasted chilis, lettuce and onions at Durumcu Mehmet, near the Grand Bazaar, and shared one simit. Later we stopped to have new batteries placed in our watches. And I was still dry when we reached home. -
I am hogging the dining room table with my laptop, pads, fountain pens (an idiosyncracy) where I can witness everything and can intervene physically, verbally and emotionally. I find that this keeps the mind healthy and young because it requires me to multi-task. Although listening to DW and DD watch reruns(?) of Top Model and gossip about other people while I write this, check my mails and tweet is not really multi-tasking.
I checked for concerts at Prague, was going to ask them to pick one but they were too deeply embroiled in making comparisons with those on TV to respond to my generous and democratic offer. This will give me the chance to:
1. Not too choose an opera
2. Not too choose another sit-through of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons
3. Not to choose anything blatantly touristic
4. Not to choose something performed in an place with hard wooden seats or pews.
5. Not to choose something that is longer than 90 minutes.
The prices look quite good in comparison to Turkey or the United States, ranging from 450 to 1,200 Crones.
Unfortunately, the Prague Symphony play list is not available. So, it will be difficult to pick something with a great deal of forcando, crescendo, con forzo to keep me awake, and generally aa vivace or allegro to keep various parts of my body moving to the consternation of mes dammes.
Tomorrow, I will try to start increasing my German vocabulary from 16 to 32 words and Czeck vocabulary from 0 to 10. And I shall practice on my snickering family who do not have the good manners to appreciate it as a form of instruction in globalization.
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On for the ride
I have an image of a svelte young safe-cracker with filed fingers for extra sensitivity
You probably know all this but you can a get a three day pass for the Prague public transport system
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A very tense night.
DW and DD were very busy meeting old friends, visiting granpa, braving horrendous traffic, having manicure, pedicure, shampoo and shaping plus some shopping and arriving just in time for dinner which was dense kofte soup, Thai/Italian fusion zuccini-eggplant-sweet green chilis antipasto and tomato-cucumber salad. My BIL also showed up and stayed till 21:30.
I reminded Eser that she had to scan some documents on her late great uncle and send those together with some photos of his mother-of-pearl inlay works of art to an auction house, and then pack for the pre-trip trip to Alexandroupolis, Greece.
This may sound crazy, but it makes wonderful sense: The three of us are driving just over the border to Greece for an overnighter, leaving home sometime around 6AM tomorrow morning. It is supposed to be about a four hour drive + any time spent, fueling the car and ourselves and customs clearance.
Hopefully, we will have enough time to visit the antique ruins at Enes before the border where the worlds's first discovered oyster or mussel storage house is found.
No fisticuffs yet, just nasty looks thrown every which way and each of the three angling to discover a partner so that the two can gang up on the third. But we are all rather experienced and check to the sides and back and anyone approaching through a blind spot can easily be spotted.
I believe some Melatonin is called for before forced sleep, so that we can start a cloudy morning with some showers and lower temperaturs.
After the early hours tommorrow, the holy google says we will not be bothered with any more precipitation but we should not expect to find the German and Czech skies happily welcoming us. Alexandroupolis is another matter. The Greeks, with tourism revenues down, are now more or less dependent on what meager numbers of Turkish tourists come across and will hopefully welcome us with open arms, putting aside past bygones.
We are also expecting to compare the Turkish and Greek versions of the same food. I do the taste comparisons. DW does presentation, DD does smell (or stink, as the case may be, since she walked about our flat complaining of a stingk for two days until DW finally allowed her to throw away some dried flowers.)
I may or may not take this laptop tomorrow, depending on how courageous I feel about getting connected through my kindle.
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Writing from Hotel Mitropolis at Alexandropouli, Greece after a long day of driving, walking and eating.
Woke up at 5:30 AM and then at 5:35 and 5:40 and finally was forced out of the bed by the plaintive cries of one of our American short hairs, asking for a reward (!) Took us about an hour to leave home, was surprised at the amount of traffic, got sleepy about 45 miles out and then at 50 miles out and 55 miles out. Found the rest of the team snoring as accompaniment to Pink Martini. Finally had to stop for a second breakfast and some wakee-up tea (three glasses each).
DD took over when we detoured to Enez to see the neolithic, Roman and Byzantine ruins. Saw remnants of the Roman highway below a hole strewn with junk, possibly a 1,500 year old church on someone's property where the villager had built his home against the single remaining wall of the church and we hit the eternal weekly market.
The market had a truck from the town of Usak, selling factory and hand made kilims for very reasonable prices. DD who had brought an extra suitcase to Turkey for that reason, immediately bought two rugs. the salesman was so happy for the lack of bargaining that he gave three small colorfull seat pads as presents.
Passing through customs was easier than expected despite the Greek passport police attempting to hold down DW's fingers for the hand prints which refused his advances, as well they should.
Both D's making fun of my three finger keyboard profficincy, so will continue the rest tommorrow.
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sounds like a nice start to your journey.
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three fingers, OC? that's just one less than me, and i manage pretty well.
good news about the rugs, but are you going to take them with you all the way to Germany and back?
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The real journey has not started yet.
That was a warm up.
We dove 4 1/2 hours to Alexandroupoli with a detour through the sleepy ugly town of Enez which refused to divulge much of its secrets to us, stayed one night at the hostel like Hotel Mitropolis for 55 Euros for one night in a triple room including breakfast and then drove a horrendous Seven hours back, hitting Greeks crossing the border for shopping at the large Kesan weekly market which resulted in wait of 75 minutes and then a murderous, wormly, crawling three lane to 8 lane to 5 lane to three lane to four lane to three lane to two lane traffic about ten miles or so from Istanbul, all the way home.
Ann, I am starting to believe that the third finger is a luxury I can well dispose off since it has a mind of its own and punches wronf letters just to ire me. (se the gormer f for a g)
We liked Alexandroupoli. Some resort towns appear deppressing and deserted off-season, but not this one. It was lively. The bars were full and it was full of bars. There were fewer restaurants than we hoped but I guess ouzo and various cocktails can be quite nourishing.
There were old Anatolian style cafes just as in Turkey where middle aged and older men sat, playing cards and drinking tea or coffee and gazing at ugly blank walls rather than at each others' misery.
The fish restaurant , Gialos, where we ate, had standard meze in much larger portions than you would get in Turkey and somewhat cheaper also. There were three other tables of Turks who had come by bus and the restaurant next door has signs in Turkish but not in English !
The small restaurant, in the evening was nicer. They also had a menu in Turkish. The fares were similar.
You either have fish or lots of meze. Forget the white and red meat.
We wanted to ty their pork and chicken and were not too happy. Grilled chicken was like shoe in-soles and the pork over-fried. The breakfast at our hotel was much better than the Hampden Inn free breakfast which it somehow resembled.
the beds at the hotel may have been made to deter fleas. They were so hard and tight that a flea calculating a safe jump on one would have found itself over the other edge, or even out of the window or door, totally confused, in unknown territory.
I would expect the location of this hotel to be rather noisy in season. It is very centrally placed within good walking distance to most bars, restaurants, cafes (for old and young), expensive shopping, but has single pane windows. Room size was fine and the small refrigerator worked as a work station for a laptop.
When we plugged the refrigerator back again, it gave vent to its displeasure with strange moans which no modern appliance should have been able to produce. It took us almost ten minutes to discover where the intermittent sounds were coming, a time spent including eavesdropping at doors of neighboring rooms in the corridor, staring at the cold street from mosquito inviting windows, putting our ears to walls, flushing the toilet multiple times and discussing sexual habits and ghosts of different cultures.
After breakfast, we took off, visiting the outskirts of the city (I said intentionally, the ladies said because I took a number of wrong turns) and then drove the 44 kilometres to the border to join the shopping crazy Greeks on a queue of possibly 80-100 cars.
There was a pink slip attached to the wiper on the windshield of the car. It was totally unintelligible in this strange alphabet the Greeks use. My wife jealously said it could be a love note from a heavy set matron who ran a grocery store across from the curb on which I had parked the car. DD said it could be a commendation by the civic authorities for ability to park in the small space between some strange signs. In any case, we did not wish to bother the border police by asking what it meant and just drove through the border check point after showing our passports.
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Tomorrow morning we fly to Leipzig where we hope are softer mattresses and no love notes in pink.
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how brave to make such a long trip just before you are due to go somewhere else, OC. it's nice to know that Turks are made so welcome in Greece - that's not always the impression that we are given. I bet that your mattress was no harder than the one I "slept" on in Sorrento last year - and that was for a whole week - i hadn't thought of it as a technique for repelling bed bugs though.
It has been pointed out to me that my typing style is very weird - I use the middle three fingers on my left hand, and only the middle finger on my right - and I'm right-handed.
gute Reise!
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In hotel room after interesting game based meal, partridge, hare, goose, etc. not far from exciting, minimalistic but tasteful Fredehouse Hotel where the reception closes down after 8PM and you have to get back in using strange contraptions, walk through deserted maximalistix courtyard and empty corridors to reach rooms with creaking doors yet with the highest quality materials and fixtures. Rather scary after watching the film Adele last night.
Found out that we were upgraded to a Mercedes with a NAVI which refused to speak English. Rechts and Links were OK but other fascistic commands had to be ignored especially when we hit roads closed off for construction or so we thought.
Anyway, we made it to the lovely hotel in a terrific location, just off a market and some interesting looking restaurants and bars.
The free hotspot wifi gives me 30 minutes only, so will communicate after drive to Prague tomorrow.
Suffice to say, Leipzig was all and more than what we expected even when the NAVI followed on the bad manners of the passport lady who wanted to find out whether we had enough money or any credit cards, hotel reservations, retuen tickets. Must be because she was envious of the ladies and maybe thought they were snuggling me into Germany as a refugee from Syria.
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Found out that we were upgraded to a Mercedes with a NAVI which refused to speak English. Rechts and Links were OK but other fascistic commands had to be ignored especially when we hit roads closed off for construction or so we thought>>
glad you liked Leipzig, OC, despite the officiousness of the passport officer. two words which may be useful when trying to understand your "Navi" - Stau means a queue or hold-up, and "Umleitung" means diversion. If you manage to navigate round Germany without coming across at least one Umleitung, you'll be doing very well!
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We are enamored with Prague. Arriving after dark, as usual, it was a dream landscape filled with people of all ages and types. The touristy chintz and glintz was easy to ignore. The rather coarse and noisy cobblestones were not the best surface for dragging suitcases even on wheels and on tired feet but could not hinder our move into a very comfortable suite at Hotel Metamorphis, in a courtyard in the thick of things in the Old Town.
I gained back the respect i thought I was losing from DW and DD with the lucky hotel and car arrangements.
Before I forget, the two issues with Hotel Metamorphis are the excessive parking charge and inefficient WI-FI connection.
Driving here was fine while in Germany. We got out of Leipzig after a good breakfast at a nice place we stumbled upon after a heated argument of empty stomachs has erupted.
Immediately upon entering Czech Rep. we were beset by a rather dense fog. The stomachs had somehow managed to forget their earlier input. There were some diversions on the road, and once on highway 55, I made the terrific decision to stay on it rather than go back to motorway 8.
This brought us to a diner in a small town somewhere on the hills where we were offered a liver soup reminding me of Aduchamp and his chopped liver offering at 2nd Ave. deli in NY. (not in a very pleasant way, unfortunately) But their schnitzels were excellent and the price terrific.
What we saw of the landscape was rather dull, either flat or with low rolling hills.
The ladies are requiring me to stop to catch a tour bus to Prague castle. Will continue later.
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ah defenestration is coming up.
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Thanks for taking us along. Liver soup???? Doesn't sound appetizing.
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the 2nd defenestration, no less.
[I couldn't get what might have happened at the first one out of my head when the guide kept telling us about the 2nd one]
When we visited some Christmases ago, we had a very pleasant lunch [ soup but not liver! ] at a cafe at the top of the hill going up to the Castle, which we needed as it was pretty cold. Hope you find somewhere equally nice, OC!
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We found some nice restaurants. In terms of location and ambience, that is. The taste, presentation and the variaties of food remind one of starvation in Saharan or Sub-Saharan Africa.
easy to understand how and why the Czechs stay so slim, despite the beer, the absynthe and other 40% alcohol beverages.
Over cooked chicken, goulash sauce pasta, cabbages, some of the most tasteless potato leaves one with decent sausages and strong horse radish sauce to survive on. Cold pork necks are also fine. Soups are without any imagination, almost wobbling in their cups. And we all refused to visit an Indian or a Chinese eatery in our search of something to write home about.
The two hour tour became a private one with no other participants. it did not include any paid entrees into the prestigious parts of the palace cathedral and possibly other places. took photographs, discovered location of an old brewery with a restaurant, got ripped by the taxi which took us there after the tour. Decided to walk back and it took us over one hour. i was all walked in after the palace in the morning and the march of the over-stuffed, so flopped on the bed and slept two solid hours while the ladies went out again to check marionette shops.
Interesting to note that their president resides in a small building, an adjunct to the palace, possibly with no more than 30-40 rooms whereas ours decided he needed a new one and built one of one thousand rooms. In fact the palace seems to have more churches than offices, a strange situation for a secular and not very religious people.
Then it was time to wake up, get dressed nicely for the Czech Philharmonic concert at Rudolphina. ladies had to have the traditional pre-concert bubbly and I had no time to quench my thirst with something more respectable.
SEcond row balcony seats in the middle gave us excellent view of the orchestra, including the tympanist who had his chance about three quarters down the way on the Smetana piece. Good peace, acceptable rendition.
The Borodin started well but fell into a stupor with me. That is when I started feeling claustrophobic, a major issue when seeted with about twenty others on each side.
Rushed out at intermission, refused to go back to own seat but found one on the edge of a row and almost next to an exit door. Could then nod over the clarinet & violin peace to reach full wakefulness and joy with a favorite Bartok.
The auditorium, acourstics, the base and horn sections were good. The conducter was very energetic with a nice, well-shaped back side. This time around, we hasked the reception to call a cab for us to get to the concert because we were getting late. This guy was fine and charged us 10% of what we paid the first one (not that much shorter ride)
We walked back easily in 20 minutes or so, still not finding any restaurants which offered different fare. Ended up eating pasta and chicken and salad in a Middle ages cellar. The pasta and chicken tasted like goulash and the salad was iceberg with a goat cheese slice.
As you can see, I do not complain about food and will usually eat anything that comes my way, but I was getting worried about the delicate constitution of the ladies.
Most buildings in Prague seem to have small windows and many also have tiny useless balconies. Having learned about the art and scince of defenstration, I now understand whay they built those small fenesres and the apparently very necessary balconies. Even the gargoyles may have a second use after they run their water, as handholds or hooks to catch the falling bodies.
We did not witness any induced, voluntary or compulsory defenstration so far during this trip
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you mean the tour guide did not chatter on about window expulsions?
Taxi overcharge, should have bought a tram ticket.
Only in Prague would the waiter say sorry if they only have "Budvar" to drink. Like Rheims bar with only Krug.
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OC - hie thee to the municipal hall [the one with the concert hall upstairs] - the downstairs restaurant was very good when we were there, especially the roast goose. we didn't eat in the ground floor restaurant but that looked very nice, and a bit posher [chandeliers instead of art deco tiles] so it might suit your womenfolk a bit better!
also i can't imagine that you've not come across those czech dumplings yet - we had no fewer than 4 sorts of carbohydrate on one plate, which rather crowded out the rather tasty stew that we had ordered.
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Perhaps you are not recognising the dumplings - some are shaped like a slice of bread and it is hard to avoid them. My favourite meal featured 4 different types of cabbage, hard to imagine but true!
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Dumplings remind me of the ugly mush I was force fed when i was a baby right after the war in 1945-46. I have no idea hy I remember that and nothing else until the age of four.
I also have 2nd degree to yellow and 3rd degree to red cabbage food sensitivity. meaning, i feel miserable in all types of ways everytime I eat them.
their sausages are good except for their skins which chew like worn down ladies' stockings rather than anything edible.
Found a decent noodle restaurant for lunch with fine Thai curries and some good specialties and excellent Jasmine tea.
Fell for the tourist trap Mozart cafe dinner with a quartet in costumes playing tonight and a fixed menu 4 course dinner (no guesses there)
I am quite happy that I found an unabridged translation of The Good Soldier Svejk plus `Lord Mord` by Milos Urban, Umberto Eco's "The Prague Cemetery" and one that has been on my wish list for sometime, "Gottland" by Mariusz Szczygiel, in addition to the Golem and other Jewish Stories with drawings possibly made in the olde days.
DW & DD already packed most of their stuff in view of possible early departure towards Driezden (pronunciation) and then to Halles.
this was too short for Prague but I could see it getting more and more expensive as the glamour of new places to discover wore off and shop windows became more attractive. Today, it was not only marionettes and wooden toys, or cheaper Moser & Bohemian crystal and multiple bottles of different colored absynthe but also a new italian brand of ladies fashions which the two decided could be a recipient of their donations.
DW in huge bathroom whete the tub lacks curtain or glass, making it very uncomfortable to shower without spilling outside and then causing you to pose in indecision on whether to use the towels to mop up the floor to prevent slipping or cover one's magnificence in proper respect of peeping eyes.
I thought of all the blogs I did not make, was on the verge of deciding on a Prague one with photos et al. but then realized that i am already beyond the Alfred J. Pruffrock days. My pant bottoms have been taken in by an inch, and "I dare" but nobody listens and i procrastinate basically for fun and/or to extend the time available for me on this world.
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The cafe Mozart with the Mozart Quartet playing in period costumes pleasantly surprised us. the music was good, the food was the best we had in Prague. Fresh salad, tiger prawns with good sauce, salmon with avocados. the dessert was a let down, but we were quite full by then. the Czech white we tried seemed fine to me but not so fine to the ladies who had to be stopped from asking for another bottle.
there was a noisy, possibly British group at next table. I lied to them and told them that what they were saying was quite interesting since I could follow it perfectly while the musician tried their best to blanket them.
It is only a few minute walk to our hotel from the Grand Praha Hotel and cafe Mozart. Just past 10PM, I thought we had had enough for the day but they snuck out in more comfortable shoes. i told them that we should be at breakfast by 8AM if we wanted to see some of the countryside and Driezden.
will try to write from Halle, tomorrow night.
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thank goodness you found a decent dinner, though I am sorry about the boorish behaviour of your possibly british neighbours.
Enjoy Dresden [pronounced exactly as it looks, i.e. with a long "E" sound as in "beg"]
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Ann, I am going to trust our Navi's pronounciation to yours until we get back to turkey. Sorry about that.
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Great, OC! Do I dare to eat a peach?
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This whole peach thing, is it a reference to the song
"There is a girl across the river with buttocks like a peach
But alas I cannot swim" ?
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I saw your picture at the Cafe Mozart, a haircut is long overdo. Thanks for the narrative.
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Just started reading this wonderful report and am loving it!
Thanks for such a pleasurable read.
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Left Prague later than we wished but managed to get out with only one wrong turn, faced the diversions due to construction which the car Navi refused to acknowledge, and made it to Draeisdaen just in time for lunch, managing to park under the large Christmas market.
We bought Christmas cakes from a very pleasant Turkish lady, hot wine again and took fun photographs, argued about the way to a restaurant and ended in another typical one where the cute waitress, envious of DD, poured her diet pepsi on her bag and hat. Naturally, I allowed DD to pay and calculate the tip.
We ended up with soups and salads although my salad had a large slab of Schnitzel in it.
Took a few photos of interesting looking places on our route, started a contest between our TomTom and the car navi. It seemed that they joined forces and ganged up against us.
Our hotel at Halle is everything that Google told me; clean, reasonably modern, in an industrial zone on the outskirts of the city for ease of access, despised by the ladies who were spoilt by previous selections, but very close to a train or tram stop for the 15 minute ride to city center.
Will now, leave room, ask reception to provide two additional softer pillows and get the trains to see the wonders of downtown Halle, have some gluhe wine and eventually food of the simplest type which will treat us better, we hope.
Tomorrow morning, we drive to the airport for the 160 minute 12:30 flight to Istanbul after finding a decent breakfast joint.
I may report on this evening's experience depending on the outcome since I would hate to depress you.
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Go ahead, Other, do depress me. More....
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Loving this, OC!
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Thank you all.
Came back to the room from Halle Zentrum half past eight, having wisely decided to drive rather than take a tram.
It should have been a very streightforward drive but for the ease of missing the underpass and continuing on the bridge over the river. Traffic was easy, navi went crazy again, but we found a major square with some interesting churches and other buildings around it like Kaufhoff Galleria.
The square had half of the population of Halle present, eating, bumping into each other and us, standing with dreamy eyes, talking without making much sense (possibly in some foreign language like German)and drinking gluhwein from mugs you pay 2 Euros for. (the ones at dresden were nicer but had 3 Euros deposit.)
We walked around the square, tried the side streets and took the longish pedestrianized street with shops looking for a restaurant, any restaurant. (having forgotten name of restaurant Annhig had gracefully provided) We did not se one restaurant. saw three ugly cafes and no bars. We asked a mother and daughter pair at a stand at the Christmas market for the nearest restaurant they could direct us. They discussed for some time, rolled their eyes, spread their arms and shook their hands to mean that they knew of none within walking distance. there was not even a fast food joint.
So we ended up with some mushrooms with garlic sauce on a tiny paper plate and a bratwurst in a hamburger bun each. The ladies had a crepe and a waffle and some mopre gluhwein. Back in the hotel, writin this at 9:25 PM, I am starving and aware that I would find nothing anywhere unless I drove back to the Christmas market and if the food vendors are closed maybe try some of the Christmas ornaments.
We saw huge variation between leipzig, Dresden, Prague and Halles. the people, their clothing, interests, life styles, eating (or not eating) and drinking habits. And Alexandroupolis was another matter.
We all feel very lucky to have experienced this trip. What we missed most was not having the opportunity to have conversations with the naives, except for our guide and the people at reception at our Prag hotel.
DD was a terrific pilot and new how to handle the fickle navigation device as well a having the kind of photographic memory I used to have upto a few years ago.
I never, ever, in my entire life would have thought I would look forward to the airline food we will be given tomorrow.
Will try to close it with a few more words of timeless 5 dimensional being communication back in istanbul, a la "Interstellar" the science of which, has always interested me long before the film.
By the way, for those interested in the "peach" , you are recommended to reread the T.S. Elliot poem, "Love Song of Alfred G. Pruffrock. I also enjoyed visualizing the song mentioned by Bilbo, but alas!!!!!!
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I never, ever, in my entire life would have thought I would look forward to the airline food we will be given tomorrow.>>
commiserations on your lack of sustenance, OC. I even googled restaurants in Halle and the map claims that there are several in the centre of town; I am sorry that you didn't find any of them but admire your sang fraud in the face of adversity.
have a good trip home and i hope that the airline food lives up to expectations.
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Glad you survived your trip to Germany's outback
I must admit that I almost chocked on my lahmacun when I read about your quest to find a restaurant in Halle...
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oops - sang froid, obviously.
I blame autocorrect on my new latpot.
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Ann, I blame my ancestors for the sangfraud and the weather for the sang froid.
Cowboy, We more than survived, agreeing that it was a very good trip all in all. I love driving in Germany, but not in search of restaurants in semi deserted streets after 7PM in approaching Winter, with the fear of Stasi who is apparently in a state of hibernation, waking up every now and then to stay in practice. The passport police, entering the country kept on asking for return tickets, hotel reservations, money and checking our Schengen and United States visas over and over again, against some devices as well as the overhead light. We were all dressed properly, I, as much as possible, the ladies in the height of fashion and we had all reservations including the C220D Automatic staring at her.
Leaving Leipzig airport, today, we had just passed the final passport control to the waiting lounge, after walking the compulsory one mile from check-in to security dress-down, when I realized that I needed a drink to gulp down my heart and diabetes medicine. I approached the passport politzei very pleasantly to explain the circumstance, pointing to the cafe only 30 meters away in a totally empty area and he pointed at the sign which wrote Nicht Auchgang or something like that and said a simple `Nein` Unfortunately, i did not have enough German to explain that I supported communism, was not Jewish, that all Turks should be deported immediately and that the former East Germans should receive higher wages than their Western counterparts in view of all the hardships they faced to protect the indulgences of the West.
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Back home to four cats, two of our own and too on loan from DD the older and SIL the younger who flew to LA and will visit Hawai with a 17-18 week pregnancy. She married almost her age whereas DDthe Younger married 5 years older. Neither of them were wise enough to see the benefits of having 15 year older husbands like their mother.
The airplane food was really terrific, especially the sauteed eggplant and tomatoes and the pinto beans. 2/5 hr flight went quickly despite the limited leg room.
Called to dinner, so will give run-down on that after dinner and a movie.
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I think it was your reservation for a Mercedes that made the passport control agent go crazy... just kidding, well maybe not..
Funny how some people become less than human beings when you put them in a uniform.
If it is any relief, these people are also not necessarily very welcoming when they check citizens.
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Reviewing concerts can be a lonely experience. (Cue the world's tiniest violin, I know.) Unless you're fortunate enough to receive a plus one from the concert promoter, you end up at a venue in which 95% of the people have friends/significant others/random hangers-on with them. It occasionally sucks.
My general approach to this is to text a bunch of people, proving to the other attendees (who are not paying attention to me, because they are with their friends — duh!) that I have a life, damnit. That life just hasn't accompanied me to this particular concert. And such was the case on Thursday night at Sneaky Dee's. I was texting with a few friends, and at 10:30 p.m., about an hour before Vancouver's Japandroids were set to hit the stage, I sent the following message to one friend.
"I am at a concert that I'm supposed to review. I am a walking virus. Also… the opening band just started playing this minute. Don't these kids have jobs? (This has been an old man text.)"
So yeah, with a non-stop cough, I wanted no part of seeing Japandroids at the venerable beer-and-nachos joint on Thursday. And then Japandroids opened their set, and my rage disappeared.
Japandroids are Brian King (guitar) and David Prowse (drums), and they are loud. And although King apologized for the first song, a warm-up tune, he said, he did not need to. One of the loudest two-pieces in the world was locked in all night.
It helped, too, that King announced the band would have a new album out at the beginning of next year. The band has largely been playing from its 2009 debut, Post-Nothing. Expanding the catalogue can only serve to enhance an air of mystery about what will come next.
The band played three new songs, written down as following in my notes: Adrenaline Nightshift, Fire Sideways (probably not Sideways) and "new song." On first listen, they sound like classic Japandroids songs: They take advantage of stop-and-start dynamics, all while being deceptively catchy. Since Japandroids was here last, back in 2010, they have not decided to become a folk band.
However, they have refined the show; or, perhaps, the songs have just sunk in more. King has emerged as a high-energy showman, knowing all the right moves to keep the fans involved: casual banter, rampant cursing and shoutouts to the town they are in. (King changed the latter part of the lyric, "It's raining in Vancouver/But I don't give a f–k because I'm far from home tonight" from Post-Nothing's Sovereignty to "because I'm in f–king Toronto tonight." The crowd, unsurprisingly, ate it up.)
Alas, the ample energy means the crowd can be a bit, errr, aggressive at times. Taking exception to his girlfriend getting hit by an errant elbow by another girl, one dude in front of me decided to purposely dance as out of control as possible, making contact with the accidental hitter on purpose several times during the anthemic Young Hearts Spark Fire. Dude: It is a rock show.
Due to the sheer amount of noise Japandroids makes, you are bound to run into a few meatheads at their shows. It is unavoidable. Still: They trade in music that is designed for you to get lost in, whether you are alone or with a pack of friends. Now, if only my ears weren't ringing today. Damn kids.
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Bunheads S1E11: "You Wanna See Something?"
Truly wakes in a frenzy shouting for Fannie to cut her out of some bubble wrap so they can run into the yard. She has something out there, something she needs Fannie to see so she can fully realize the things going on in her head, the actualization of the images dancing in her dreams. And so they go outside, racing into the morning, only to find something truly amazing: a giant red button protruding from the ground that tilts the board and realigns the pieces of their lives so that they can go back to before the Nutcracker Macing. Fannie smiles first at the button, then Truly, before she presses it with glee.
Okay, so there wasn't an actual, physical, reset button, but "You Wanna See Something" DID try to rearrange everything that came before the train wreck at the end of the first half of Bunheads' debut season so that we might forget the disaster. It was an odd situation in Episodes 9 and 10 where all the popular pieces of the show were fine (dialogue, Michelle-to-kids interaction, etc) but the some of the storylines just collapsed on themselves, like that thing where Michelle made out with Godot.
Mercifully, only the important parts of the season thus far seem to have survived the break, and chief (or captain, my captain) among them was the townsfolk of Paradise running Michelle out of town like she was the devil.
I'm fascinated by how much Michelle and Paradise just can't connect, particularly because of how different the relationship was on Gilmore Girls. Lorelai and Michelle are fundamentally alike: smart, quirky, independent, and good-looking women who land in a small town. The contrast is in how they take to their situations. Lorelai embraced the small-town nature of Stars Hollow and became the center of its gravity; Michelle treats Paradise like a backward village centered on a well of ignorance.
So it's no wonder the parents used the excuse of the Nutcracker Macing to run her out to Not-Vegas, Nevada. And that's where the reset button really became apparent. Even though her job before Hubbell whisked her away to Paradise was far more illustrious than playing third-wheel assistant to Jo-Jo the Magician (Michael Deluise, yet another great-guest star from Gilmore Girls), it amounts to exactly the same thing: a dead end with only the faintest hope of rising to any level of fame, that flicker of a dream only slightly dimmer in Henderson. Fannie still had to come out and save her just like Hubbell did (well, in her own way. Liberal as Vegas is with its marriages, I'm not up-to-date on Nevada's same-sex marriage statutes). But, ultimately, Paradise is the place she can feel at home—where, at the very least, she isn't constantly demeaned. The details of her being saved are different, but the result and general plot are the same: Our hero was rescued from her miserable life to learn a more fulfilling one.
I'm hoping that, despite the similarities between this episode and Bunheads' pilot, the hangover of what Michelle did during the Nutcracker Macing won't evaporate with her return. It doesn't look like it will. The autotune video of Boo's local news interview has the potential to be a dated media reference ("dated" in that way that it's not trending), but it worked well enough as a device to get Michelle back to Paradise and to remind us that her accidental macing of the town's children is still a thing that might be on the minds of the parents, just like "Double Rainbow" lasted well beyond its fifteen minutes, reupped by a remix. Will Michelle return easily to the town that rarely had parental interference to begin with, or will she have to answer for her crimes before some sort of tribunal headed up by the local grocer?
Speaking of the parents, what was up with them in this episode? There are fewer mature role models on this show than there on Pretty Little Liars and half the adults on PLL are suspects in killing a 16-year-old girl. Boo's mom is the only one who made it on-screen, and she's like the Kevin Malone of Paradise: starting off a little silly and devolving into a childlike simpleton. Everyone else's parents were either sobbing messes from marital struggle or didn't mind thrusting their own infirm parents onto their children. No wonder these kids were ready for their summers to end.
Though all the girls had crummy vacations, it was Sasha who earned the triumphant moment of the episode. Her time at Joffrey was a "learning experience" that she didn't entirely hate, but the dread of returning to an uncertain, imbalanced home life frightened her secret (though oft-surfacing) fragility. Although Boo sometimes appears to be the writers' favorite since she's so often the hero of moral character, Sasha tends to be the one who gets the more important emotional beats.
Going rounds with her punk-rock boyfriend (literally stalking each other in Michelle's vacated carriage house), sneaking around in all black, being the last of the main characters to be introduced after the break, Sasha is a focal point and struck in the same image that would mature to be Michelle. So while I like Boo best and I feel like Ginny and Melanie get the short sticks so often as far as story attention goes (despite them starting to finally become full-fledged characters), it was Sasha who got to welcome Michelle back to the town, tossing her arms around her neck, and making sure Michelle knew she made the right decision.
But that put us right back where we started, subtracting all the hare-brained kookiness that came up during Episodes 9 and 10: Michelle is still walking on thin ice in Paradise, Sasha's home life is a mess, Fannie is becoming a spinster wreck, Boo is our comedic hero, Ginny and Melanie are our Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Truly is our Kirk. You know, because a Bunheads review can't go for more than three paragraphs without mentioning Gilmore Girls. Them's the rules. The episode wasn't astonishing or breathtaking. But it made me glad to have Bunheads back.
– While I like that they had a dance sequence set to "It's Oh So Quiet" (and the "old broad" jokes that came with it), I'm slightly disappointed they used the Lucy Woodward version instead of Björk (though I imagine Disney's involvement in the rights of the former might have had something to do with that decision).
– The cardboard kitchen. Truly is almost more Kirk than Kirk.
– "People walk by and see a 'Grade Pending' sign in the window and think this is a Gordon Ramsay show." That line is a good example of how Melanie is establishing herself (as are all her Oyster Bar quips). Of the four friends, the antipodes are Boo and Sasha. Ginny is a Boo-leaning moderate as far as personality goes, with her good nature and naivete. Melanie is a Sasha-leaning moderate with sarcasm up to her eyeballs but none of it meant to injure. I imagine the goal will eventually be for Ginny and Melanie to have their own independent stories (Ginny splitting with her long time boyfriend was a nice attempt), but right now, they're mostly defined by their more nuanced friends.
– Sometimes I think scenes are written just so the writers can unburden themselves of every joke of a certain genre. When Talia returned from her date: old man jokes. Interesting that there was an On Golden Pond reference but no "Old Man River" joke. Must've been too easy.
– "Is there something wrong with her hoo-ha?" I can check that for you.
– The Hubbell wedding video was sweet, precious, funny, and even if it was a manipulative and unsubtle way to build Michelle's self-esteem, Alan Ruck sold it. How could you not melt at the "Ducky got Molly" line?
– Kelly Bishop won all over the episode, from the martini gag to the smug grin when the dance was choreographed to the autotuned song.


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President Obama's fifth State of the Union is now history. Did you miss it? Check out a full recap of speech here and a transcript here.
We watched the speech and plucked out the 10 most memorable lines. These are the quotes that caught our attention, are likely to be dissected most in the coming days by opponents and supporters and best summed up the overarching themes Obama sought to drive home.
1. Obama framed his central argument early.
"Let's make this a year of action. That's what most Americans want, for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations."
2. And made clear that he will not wait for Congress to act.
"Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do."
3. He jabbed at political gridlock and (indirectly) at Republicans' role in the government shutdown and debt ceiling showdown.
"When that debate prevents us from carrying out even the most basic functions of our democracy -- when our differences shut down government or threaten the full faith and credit of the United States -- then we are not doing right by the American people."
4. And took Republicans to task for trying to repeal Obamacare.
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5. But he also praised Republicans -- like House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams. That's what drew our forebears here. It's how the daughter of a factory worker is CEO of America's largest automaker, how the son of a barkeep is speaker of the House."
6. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
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7. Obama name-checked "Mad Men."
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8. Vice President Biden got some love.
"Tonight, I've asked Vice President Biden to lead an across-the-board reform of America's training programs to make sure they have one mission: train Americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now."
9. The emotional high point came when Obama mentioned Army 1st Sgt. Cory Remsburg, who was nearly killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.
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Lecture # 8 Rise of Muslim Civilization Presented by Abul Kalam Azad Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Centre for GED Northern University Bangladesh E-mail: [email protected] Persia The Persian State:
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Lecture # 8 Rise of Muslim Civilization
Presented by
Abul Kalam Azad
Senior Lecturer in Sociology,
Centre for GED
Northern University Bangladesh
E-mail:[email protected]
The Persian State:
A revived Persian Empire arose in the territory to the east of the Byzantine Empire in the 3rd century of the Christian Era.
Recent discoveries led Some Scholars to Believe That Persia under the Sassanids(226-641) reached one of the greatest civilizations before the advent of modern times.
Unfortunately, the Persians spent much of their time and energy in fighting.
In the last century of the Sassanid rule, there was much constant warfare with Byzantinium that it led to the ultimate downfall of the kingdom.
Persian civilization of this period is comparatively unknown.
Not much of the culture passed into the Byzantine Empire because the two countries were constantly at war and because the land was almost completely enveloped by the Turks.
Persian religion was a form of Zoroastrianism. Most of the followers of the faith were driven out by the Turks.
The persees of India- the sole survivors of Zoroastrianism- are among the wealthiest and best educated people in the territory.
In the ancient Persian capital, Ctesiphon, there are remains of some of the buildings that belongs to the Sassanid monarchy.
The most famous is a high hall 163 feet long, 86 feet wide and 95 feet high.
The Land:
Arabia is a peninsula connected with both Africa and Asia but geographically somewhat isolated.
Although the great empires of the antiquity surrounded it, there were some penetrations into the interior.
Much of the territories which is approximately one-third the size of the US, is high, rocky, and barren with only a few fertile regions dotted here and there in the valleys of small streams or around oases.
In search of water and grass for their cattle, herdsmen travel from one oasis to another, taking their belongings with them.
There are a numbers of small cities along the coastline, but most of the population is migratory.
The Arabs who were Semitic in their cultural background, loved warfare and were sought by the Persian and Byzantine states to serve in their armies. Armed conflict among the different tribes was common; plundering the borderland cities and robbing caravans were accepted as legitimate practices.
The people were mystics, inclined to worship nature gods.
In the typical Arab there was a prevailing individualism and much self reliance.
He was not inclined to submit to centralized organizations- political, economic, or social.
In spite of the unsettled state of their existence and their wild nomadic life, these people were progressive in many ways.
The Arabs lacked the centralized organization that is characteristic of civilized society.
When mention is made of this Arabian or Mohammedan empire, this does not imply the existence of a state with a well defined boundary, but applies, instead, to many groups of people of varying culture spread over broad territories and bound together by a common devotion to the religious faith.
Religion, the Common Bond (cont'd):
At certain seasons of the year, the tribes endeavored to make pilgrimages to such favored spots as Mecca, where the Kaaba, a sanctuary for the famous Black Stones, was a center of veneration.
Fighting stopped for four months in each year, in order that faithful might congregate at Mecca.
The people took advantage of this meeting to exchange wares and bits of learning that they had gathered in their travels.
Poets recited their verses and a general celebration was held, after which each group went its own way.
The central authority, insofar as there was any central authority, was in the hands of caliph, the successor of Mohammedan and the Representative of God on earth.
He was both a temporal ruler and a religious leader. To question his authority was considered a revolt against Allah.
He was the supreme power acting in the common interest. The Ommiad dynasty(661-750) made Damascus the capital; but the succeeding dynasty(the Abbassds) chose Baghdad, where they built a beautiful palace, called the golden Gate, and ruled in Oriental splendor and despotism.
The city became a thriving and intellectual center. The tendency after the 8th century was to establish partly independent caliphs, with very little centralized control.
Caliphates were established in Cordova in Spain, at Cairo in Egypt and at Baghdad in Iraq.
The caliph ruled without a constitution and in the most high-handed and dictatorial fashion.
He was supposed to protect the faith and to advance the power of Islam, and to promote the welfare of his people.
The people had very little part in the government, but many of the tribes were far enough to be practically independent.
Economic Life: tendency after the 8
The Arabs were a commercial people , almost by instinct.
The prophet Mohammad was a merchant and the Koran showed a marked partiality to tradesmen.
There continent Africa, Asia and Europe-were connected through the efforts of Arabian merchants; and the Arabic language was the language of commerce.
Connections between trade centers were established through couriers.
Some of the messengers traveled on horseback as far as 75 miles in three days.
Economic Life (cont'd): tendency after the 8
The agriculturists of that time were the Arabs, who practiced the crop rotation, used fertilizer and established irrigation projects. They introduced into Europe spinach, asparagus, strawberries, lemons, dates, cotton, rice, sugarcane and pomegranates. Their manufactured products were armor, steel weapons, glassware, rosewater, leather goods, textiles and porcelain.
Art: tendency after the 8
The Muslims failed to develop a first class art, at least until they came into contact with other people whose art they borrowed as a stock upon which to graft some of their ideas.
For that reason, their art was not inform.Besides the Koran imposed a limitation prohibiting the representation of human figures.
Muslim decorations consistence mainly intricate carved in wood and metals.
The people admire color, and the wealthy attired themselves richly and decorated their homes with fine silks, costly hangings and beautiful rags.
Architecture: tendency after the 8
Mosques and palaces were the chief architectural works of the Mohammedans.
The sanctuary and the portal were elaborately decorated with plaster, wood carving, marble inlay, and colored glass.
Frequently wood was inlaid with ivory and ebony. Geometric patterns.
Made up of small polygons, carved in a floral
designs and finished with a beading, were the
decorative motifs most extensively followed.
Architecture (cont'd): tendency after the 8
The artists obtained color and brilliance by
painting the wood carving and by using stain
glass windows and colored marbles.
The Alhambra in Granada stands as a monument
to the riches of oriental color and design.
It is built around an open court, overlooking which
are rooms and balconies.
The interior walls of the rooms are covered with bright color design in blue, red, yellow and gold.
Religious culture: tendency after the 8
The Arabian desert was the mother of religions.
The cult of Isthar, Jufaism, Christianity and countless others of lesser importance sprang up here.
Belief in the mystical power of a Black Rock enshrined in the Kaaba, although there were separated and isolated during the remainder of the time.
There were four month in each year during which they forget their warfare and while they were on their way to Mecca, they were as safe from molestation as they would have been in any country in the world.
Foundation of Islam: tendency after the 8
The founder of Islam Mohammad (sm) born in Mecca in 570 ca.
He had no unusual talents and some of his critics believe that he was subject to epileptic fits, in which condition he is reputed by his followers to have made his contacts with god.
He married a rich widow, named Khadija, whose wealth and influence in Mecca were great assets. Many of his teachings were not new but were a adapted from Arabic folklore.
His conception of God was that of the old testament. He himself declared to his followers was the latest and greatest of all the prophets.He assumed the title of Praised One
Foundation of Islam (cont'd): tendency after the 8
The student of religion should be impressed by the personality of Mohammad and it should be remembered that the quality of Islam and the Personality of Mohammad (sm) are quite different things from others.
Prophet Mohammad (sm) was sent to the earth as the messenger by Allah.
He was called Al Amin by the people of Arab that period when the people of Arab were in the dark age.
Foundation of Islam (cont'd): tendency after the 8
He was gotten the Nobuat at the age of 40.
Holy Koran was given by Allah to the people on the earth through Mohammad (sm) both during the life in Mecca and Madina.
The is the main foundation of the followers of Islam.
He invited the people to Islam that there is no almighty but Allah and He was the prophet/messenger.
Character of Islam: tendency after the 8
ISLAM means fully surrender to Allah. The holy Koran is the constitution for the followers of Islam. Prophet Moahammad (sm) is their leader.
There are five pillars of Islam. These are Kalama, Salaat, Saom, Hazz and Zakat.
The holy Koran that is the constitution of Islam is not only a religious book but also the code of life for the people.
It has given a balanced among the different systems in the society. The right among the people of the society, the economic and political system are most important among the different systems.
Allah has created us for not other purposes but to pray To Allah. He is single one.
Literature: tendency after the 8
Much of the literature of the Arabs was not until after it had passed from mouth to mouth for many generations.
They took great pride in reciting their poems and had no troubles to find out enthusiastic listeners.
Two very necessary qualities for the good production were theirs- a clear and concise way of expressing themselves and vivid imagination.
Much of their literature idealized the people as fierce, bold, hospitable and truthful.
Their histories and biographies were numerous. A Biographical Dictionary was published in 13th century, contains accountants of 865 important Mohammedans.
Literature (cont'd): tendency after the 8
Poetry was a favorite form of literary expression. Omar Khayam was the author of Rubaiyat, the best known of the Muslim poems.
Gulistan and the Bustan, mythical and Philosophical odes, were written by Sheikh Saadi.
In prose the Arabian Nights is the most important work all over the world. Almost everyone has read at least parts of that great tale and has been entertained by it.
Within it included a great variety of material: proverb, adventure and fables, covering territory all the way from China to western Europe.
Science: tendency after the 8
One of the most important things that the Muslims did when
they conquered a territory was to build a mosque.
To this building they frequently attached a madrasa the main purpose of which was to teach the people the holy Koran.
Science, literature and art were ultimately added to the list of subjects taught.
The Muslims built Universities and libraries in Spain.
Science (cont'd): tendency after the 8
The University of Saleno was one of the first to teach the medicine.
Major operations were performed and the insane
were treated scientifically.
The Muslim scientists discovered alcohol, potash, nitrate of silver, nitric and
Sulphuric acids.They had learned the secrets of dyeing and
discovered a new process for making paper. They knew also
how to grafts trees and plants so as to produce new varieties.
Muslim civilization was composite. It gathered ideas from the waning civilizations of India, Byzantium, Persia and Egypt.
The Muslims continued the work begun in these earlier cultures and passed it on to Western people to serve as a part of the foundation of the Renaissance.
Medicine, astronomy, and the art of the West depended much upon Arabic knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas whose work served as a bridge between the Medieval and the Modern ages was influenced greatly by the Arabs.
The dark age is really a convenient term used to pass over the period in which Byzantine and Arabic civilization outshone that of the west.


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Course Overview
This non accredited course is designed to familiarise all employees with the firefighting equipment provided in their workplace. It involves the skills and knowledge required to operate and check firefighting equipment in accordance with manufacturers' instructions and workplace emergency procedures, including identifying and selecting the appropriate equipment, using the firefighting equipment to fight a fire, and checking that the firefighting equipment is operational.
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Runtime: 87 minutes
Andrew Berg, Eric Blood, Brigette Bordeaux, Brian Bunge, Ronin Bushi, Matty Clark, George Climer, Aaron Collins, Esme Collins, Jazz Copeland, Sadie Cox, Rory Demers, Ryan Demers, Prudence DeVilliere, Prudence Devilliere and Will Dupree.
Drama, Comedy.
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The original audio of The Honey Cooler has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2012.
Screenplay written by Ryan Demers, Bob Bobala and Paul Pendell.
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