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How To Roast Garlic Air Fryer Recipe
is quick, easy and can be a time saver making roasted garlic in the air fryer to have ready for your recipes.
One Quick and Easy tip is to have fresh garlic on hand and at the ready. Then making roast garlic in the air fryer can save you lots of time.
How to roast garlic air fryer recipe is easy when using roasted garlic for appetizers, salads and many other of your favorite and traditional recipes. The flavor of roasted garlic is richer and less bitter which makes it one of my favorite ways to use garlic. Whenever I make a traditional Italian meal I often use roasted garlic in place of chopped raw garlic. The flavor is less intense and better, not bitter.
This is the time of year – actually, anytime of year when life is hectic it's important that we have a plan for organizing and planning, if not for anything else but to have the time to put together healthy meals that are flavorful and quick and easy.
You will want to have this how to roast garlic air fryer recipe on hand to make many of your family-favorite recipes, snacks and appetizers.
One of our favorite, and very easy, ways to serve roasted garlic is as a spread on crusty Italian bread slices. Just simply use a butter knife to scoop out a clove of garlic and spread onto the bread. Add slices of roasted pepper or pimento. This makes a delicious appetizer.
How to roast garlic in the air fryer is prepared in the same way as you would to roast garlic in the oven.
Cut off about 1/4 inch off the top of the head of garlic and place it on a large piece of aluminum foil. Spread a little olive oil over the top of the garlic to cover each clove. Add salt and pepper and wrap the foil gently around the head of garlic.
Place the foil wrapped garlic in the air fryer basket and cook on 370 or 400 for 10 minutes. Open the fryer and carefully remove the foil wrapped garlic, open the foil to check for doneness.
The garlic cloves should be soft when you insert a tester. If the cloves are still a little raw with no color return to the basket and cook another 10 minutes. If they are starting to soften when tested and have browned a little, cook 5 minutes and check again.
Here is the easy How To Roast Garlic air fryer recipe.Print
How to Roast Garlic Air Fryer Recipe
The cooking time to roast garlic will vary based on your air fryer. Be sure to follow your specific air fryer's instructions. The best way for testing the garlic is roasted and cooked is to check at 10 minutes first, then continue at 5 minute intervals. Continue to cook until the garlic is softened.
- Prep Time: 5 min.
- Cook Time: 25-45 min.
- Total Time: 35-45 min.
- Category: Condiment
- Cuisine: American
- 1 large head of garlic
- a piece of aluminum foil
- drizzle of olive oil (1-2 tbls)
- salt and pepper
- Place the head of garlic on a piece of aluminum foil, drizzle with a little olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Wrap the head of garlic in the foil.
- Place in the basket of your air fryer and cook on 400 degrees starting at 10 minutes. Check the garlic after 10 minutes. The cloves should be soft and caramelized when done. If the garlic is not soft, it might not brown with the covered foil, carefully open the top of the foil and continue to cook at 5 minute intervals. If after the first 5 minutes the garlic has not cooked much, increase time to 7 minute intervals.
- Cool the garlic for 10 minutes and remove the cloves by squeezing them out of the paper skins. Or you can use a butter knife to scoop them out, place them in a small dish until ready to use.
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If you have not used the entire head of roasted garlic you can add the leftover cloves to a little olive oil.
Gently squeeze out the softened garlic cloves you have leftover into a clean, very dry jar with a little olive oil.
This can be saved for a few days. I've often saved my oil for about 1 week, I would not recommend saving the oil any longer.
If you like spicy flavored oil squeeze the cloves of garlic into a pan with some olive oil. Heat the oil to about 200 degrees (medium heat) simmer 5 to 10 minutes, do not let the oil boil.
Add a pinch or two or red pepper flakes, based on your preferred level of spiciness.
Using a strainer, pour the oil into a clean jar, let it cool a bit then seal the jar. You can save it for a week in the fridge to use in your favorite recipes.
Sometimes the oil will solidify but it is easy to scoop out a spoonful to add to your pan.
This is an easy prep and while the garlic is roasting you can multi-task. Maybe start the laundry or fold it; empty the dishwasher – you know the stuff that's always there but sometimes you just can't get to it.
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Playgirl at Lake Havasu
To all of those who left a comment in my prior FRIENDS ONLY post, I want to thank you!
It isn't so much that I'm a very good person, in fact, I'm pretty bad, but I do have a deep compassion for certain groups of people that most don't. I could very well focus my attention on other causes, causes such as children with Cancer as an example, but I realize I'm not really needed there, because there are so very many wonderful people who volunteer their time and money to causes such as these.
I focus my attention on the homeless, the animals, SOMETIMES the forgotten elderly in nursing homes, and those countless people in prisons. I do thank God that there are many animal lovers like myself, but there just isn't too many who care about the other groups of people.
Many of you know that I have domains of an adult nature, and I'm sure you often times raise an eyebrow when I make posts about my compassion for my causes in life. I'm sure some of you have judgmental feelings towards me when I post pictures of the many churches I visit, and then the next day or two, I'll make naughty posts with some provocative picture. Although, I am definitely as naughty as can be, I do believe in Jesus Christ. I believe He isn't too happy with me for having my adult domains, but I do believe He looks kindly on me sometimes, because He really helps me make more than enough money to attend to my needs and grandpa's, who was once a homeless man I picked up off the streets and brought home with me to live forever. I would like to take this opportunity to make something very clear about Grandpa. He is a man close to 70 years old, who is as close to an angel as I've ever encountered. There is absolutely nothing sexual in our relationship as has been hinted by a couple, and I'll go so far as to say that I honest to God believe he's still a virgin! If those of you who weren't my LJ friend when I made the post about my first encounter with Grandpa, you can find the information, along with his pictures here:
How I Found Grandpa
Pictures of Grandpa - Before & After
Pictures of Grandpa & His New Life With Playgirl
The Lord helps me make enough money through my RESPECTABLE real job, and my ADULT domains for me to help those causes I fervently believe in. Besides, to be quite frank, I could care a horse's ass what some people think of me in REAL life and the internet!
More than half of you, my LJ friends, don't know my history, and may be asking yourselves that if I had been a victim of crime, I wouldn't feel so much compassion for our prisoners, but what most of you don't know is that I HAVE personally experienced VIOLENT crime as a child.
There are some types of crimes committed by criminals that I have no compassion for, and in fact, loathe them. I believe that those who are proven guilty for committing crimes against children should be castrated, and then raped by every singe inmate in the prison until they ripe his anus to shreds. I despise cowardly terrorists and violent gang members. Criminals such as Susan Smith, Richard Speck, Berkowitz, Scott Peterson, Leslie Van Houten, Atkins, Krenwinkel, Manson, the bastard who buried that little girl alive, and the list goes on. I believe these people should rot in prison until the day they die, and then go directly to hell. As you can see, my heart is filled with compassion and mercy, but it is also filled with great hatred that goes beyond the norm. If I were really a good person, I wouldn't have these terrible feelings about those I've mention.
Although, I despise these groups of beasts, I'm totally against the death penalty, and nothing anyone says will ever change my mind. I believe prison is a hell hole, and these types of criminals pay much more dearly, than being put to death. Death is just too easy an escape from punishment. Another reason I'm TOTALLY against the death penalty is because I know there are a handful on death row that are innocent.
I know for a fact that our prisons are filled with the most dangerously vile criminals, criminals who will never change, but then, there are many who regret with all their heart the terrible mistake, or wrong choice they took for landing them in prison. I believe these prisoners deserve a 2nd chance in life!
I will soon do a big detailed write up about the lives of Texas 7, and how they managed to escape from prison. That post will also be FRIENDS ONLY. My list has barely grown to about 60 that I'll soon be deleting from my FList!
Oh! And I haven't forgotten to post a couple of pictures from the Playboy Mansion! That was taken of me at Lake Havasu in Arizona, and will soon post some pics of many of my friends dressed in respectable swimwear, along with pics I of some very sexy woman wearing the TINIEST bikini's in the world! See! I often times replace my halo with little horns! Heh heh
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or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
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It's spring break next week, y'all. And whether you're going somewhere or not (but especially if you are), these weeks off lend themselves to a lot of snacking and/or eating on the go. In our case, we're headed – in the car – to Florida to spend some much-needed QT with some sand and the in-laws.
This will be (wait for it) a THIRTEEN HOUR car ride. Both ways. With an almost 3-year-old. And I'm 5.5 months pregnant. Now, this is, on it's face, totally insane. We are, however, relatively used to these car rides – we pretty regularly drive back to visit family in Michigan at 11-12 hours each way. While that might make us crazy, it's also made us pretty good at eating on the road in a way that doesn't make us feel like total death by the time we get where we're going.
So, here's what we're packing for the drive:
We tend to leave for these things at like 4 or 5 in the morning, so we get where we're going in time for dinner and to set up shop before bed. This sounds like a lot of stuff, and depending on the day, we eat more or less of it, but the idea is that it all packs pretty well, and whatever we don't eat on the road, is fine for snacking throughout the trip.
- Wraps (ham & turkey, cheese, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, sauce/condiment of choice). We roll these up individually in paper towels and put them in a gallon ziplock in the cooler. They hold up well and the wrap/tortilla doesn't tend to get real soggy like bread. Extra wraps/tortillas freeze well until the next trip, or get packed along to use for the drive back.
- Cheese sticks
- Yogurt pouches (we try to find the ones with the least sugar, but being portable and utensil-free is key, here)
- Boiled eggs
- Fruit (a couple apples, a carton of berries, a bag of grapes)
- Veggies (carrots, cucumber slices, bell pepper slices)
- Hummus
- Pita chips/crackers (cracker-wise, we love Back to Nature's multigrain flax)
- Popcorn
- Chocolate (duh)
- Plenty of water & some LaCroix
And, for a week of beach-going and snacking through lunch, we stock up on a lot of the same, to be honest. Some lunch meat, portable cheese & yogurt, crackers, fruit, hummus, carrots & cucumbers, nuts (pistachios are a fave)…
When we get to where we're going, we usually get some oatmeal, sliced/sliceable bread, nut butter, and some eggs for easy breakfasts, and dinners we'll go out or plan with the fam.
What are some of your family's favorite road trip/vacation/snacky foods?
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Refineries realise N62 billion from refined products
Nigeria's refineries – the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited Port Harcourt Refineries Corporation (PHRC); Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company Ltd. (KRPC); and Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company Ltd. (WRPC) realised N62 billion from refined products in May 2017.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which made this known in its monthly report released on Tuesday, said that the associated crude plus freight costs and operational expenses were ₦50.01 billion and ₦9.31 billion respectively.
This, it noted, resulted to an operating surplus of ₦2.68 billion by the refineries. According to the NNPC, the operators of the refineries, the refineries combined capacity utilisation was 23.09 per cent with PHRC recording the highest level of 34.29 per cent during the period under review.
The Corporation had since January, adopted a merchant plant refineries business model that takes cognisance of the products worth and crude costs. Total petroleum products production by the refineries in May, amounted to 222.02 million litres compared to 232.71 million litres in April.
It stated: "A total of 1,204.30 million litres of white products were distributed and sold by PPMC in the month of May 2017 compared with 1,663.35 million litres in the month of April 2017. This comprised of 1,071.76 million litres of PMS, 49.71 million litres of Kerosene and 82.83 million litres of Diesel.
Total sale of white products for the period May 2016 to May2017 stood at 15.13 billion litres, PMS amounted to 13.20 billion litres and accounts for 87.24 per cent.
"While total special products for the month of May 2017 was 34.24 million litres comprising of 27.72 million litres of LPFO and 6.51 million litres of other special products."
NNPC added that a total sale of ₦145.78 billion was made on the petroleum products for white products by Pipelines and Product Marketing Company limited, (PPMC) in the month of May 2017 compared with ₦199.11 billion sold a month earlier.
It put total revenues generated from the sale of white products from May 2016 to May 2017, at ₦1,790.82 billion, where petrol contributed about 85.37 per of the total sales with a value of about ₦1. 53billion.
The Group operating revenue for April and May were put at ₦322.19 billion and ₦307.87 billion respectively, representing 87.62 per cent and 83.72 per cent respectively of its monthly budget. "Similarly, operating expenditure for the same periods were ₦327.47 billion and ₦311.42 billion respectively, which also represent 103.09 per cent and 98.04 per cent of budget for the months respectively," it added.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, said government had put in place strategies to engage various host communities to stem the incidences of pipeline infractions, which had begun to yield positive results.
Speaking on the challenges facing the downstream sector, the Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, NNPC, Henry Obih, said: "We have the capacity carry the market from a supply perspective with some pain, but when it comes to distribution the importance of working very closely with the market and for healthy market operators to exist come to play."
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May 21, 2020
The Beauty in the Mind
At times we might look at a person and admire their physical appearance, but as soon as they start talking we might start to find that person unattractive. Why is this? Why is it that despite their physical appearance we are taken aback by their words? Perhaps it is because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? And what does that quote mean?
This ancient Greek saying is expressing subjectivity in beauty. Since who are we to really set up what is and what is not beautiful? Are there really certain rules we must follow in order to be beautiful? Can the mind be attractive as well?
Being attractive is more than just looks. People are naturally drawn to confidence and personality. Our mind works like a magnet. A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison made students in a classroom pick other students that looked physically attractive. As the semester progressed the study showed those students who did less work were found as less attractive than at the beginning of the semester.
Ancient philosophers like Plato would speak about the beauty of the mind, and how is it possible to fall in love with it.
"After this, he should regard the beauty of minds as more valuable than that of the body, so that, if someone has goodness of mind even if he has little of the bloom of beauty, he will content with him, and will love and care for him, and give birth to the kinds of discourse that help young men to become better" wrote Plato in The Symposium.
In other words, what the excerpt above suggests is that, once you find someone with a beautiful mind, his or her appearance is of no relevance. A great example of this is Pablo Picasso. Picasso had a total of 7 "muses" or lovers. He had two wives and four children by three women. Although Picasso wasn't a Zac Efron or a Channing Tatum, Pablo Picasso did have a brilliant mind. Not only was he known as one of the fathers of cubism but also his art had great messages. Picasso's piece "Guernica" which depicted the atrocities of the Spanish Civil war sent a great message of peace.
People like Picasso, have something that attracts us. Plato talked about knowledge in the allegory of the cave where a person spent most of his life in a cave. This person was tied to a chair and was forced to watch the shadows. After watching the shadows for so long and believing the shadows to be the ultimate truth, this person was released, to the station where people made the shadows. His eyes burned, but he got used to it, and he began making shadows for the people that were tied down. When this person got extremely good at making shadows he was sent out of the cave. Where he saw the light, the trees, and the water, which Plato would represent as the truth. But how does this relate to the truth?
The allegory itself talks about a society living in a cave, watching shadows, which can be things that distract the mind until someone opens up his/her mind, and begins to break free from the norms of society. That's what Plato meant by the truth. Thus saying we can't just see someone's physical appearance and say they are beautiful until we really get to know the truth (who they are).
Another case that I see in daily life is that of singers. People are attracted to the ideas these individuals interpret through their music and lyrics. People relate so well to the situation the singer is portraying and they are immediately attracted to it. A vivid case of this example could be the salsa singer Marc Anthony who sings about love and even though according to the media he might not be qualified as one of the most physically attractive men in the world, he has the charisma and personality people are attracted to.
Therefore let us not be blinded in this world full of physical appearances, especially in the case of women. Throughout the years, people have set standards of beauty. Before 1915 it was okay for women to not shave their armpits until a fashion magazine named " Harper's Bazaar" came up with an ad depicting a woman with no armpit hair. Although not shaving armpit hair has many benefits like softer skin and fewer irritation women today still shave their armpits. A person shouldn't be judged by his or her looks but rather for who they are.
In the words of Dr. Seuss "Today, you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!".
With that being said, I think it is upon us to feed the mind. To see the beauty beyond takes time, but is not impossible. One is beautiful by the way he or she is, one just needs to expand the mind, and the right person will come along.


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WWE: Money In the Bank 2016
At WWE Money in the Bank, Superstars try their luck and risk it all by climbing the proverbial ladder to the top of WWE. In the main event, the returning Seth Rollins looks to reclaim what he never lost by challenging Roman Reigns for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. John Cena battles AJ Styles in a historic matchup. Plus, Kevin Owens, Dean Ambrose, Chris Jericho, and more battle in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. All this and much more!
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The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture in partnership with the Albany Museum was celebrating International Museums Day at Albany Museum. Guided by the theme "Museum Collections Make Connections". The commemoration and the collaboration of the International Museums Day (IMD) is an annual event that began in 1977. Since then 18 May of every year, museums all over the world create awareness about their function, vision and mission, take time to make with the public on a more personal level and also make a concerted effort to introduce their museum collections to communities. The core functions of the museum are to research, exhibit and educate.
The aims of the programme are to expose the learners, especially those from previously disadvantaged communities to museums its role and importance as a learning institution. Our focus this year is to take the schools from Ndlambe local municipality to visit the museum. The learners from the following schools, Kuyasa Primary, Nomzamo High, Velile High, Nompucuko Combined, Ukhanyo High and Ikamvalesizwe High attended the event. We took them to the following research departments Anthropology,Fresh water Invertebrates and Archaeology to see the museum collections.The learners wrote an essay about "Museums Collections Make Connections". The first prize won by the learner that came from Velile High, the second prize of a digital camera won by the learner came from Nomzamo High and also the third prize won by a learner that came from Nomzamo High and it was a parker pen. It was an exciting competition.
The leaner from Velile High represented the Cacadu District in the Provincial International Museums Day it was held at Adelaide on the 27 May 2014. I would like to thank our new MEC of department of sport recreation arts and culture Mrs Penny Majodina and the Senior Manager, Museums and Heritage Mr Similo Grootboom for their wonderful speeches. And also I would like to spread my sincere gratitude to my guest speakers and the Albany Museum staff during IMD at Albany Museum. The event was organised by the education officer of Albany Museum Mrs Nozipho Madinda and Mr Zandisile Sakata of Cacadu District Museums and Heritage.
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I was just thinking... Isn't there anybody apart from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to run for president of the US?
Apparently, there isn't. Private enterprise decide on the nominee and people are left with only two choices. It's so so obvious that this choice is not a choice. It's a game. It's fake.
And this is called democracy? Supposedly the best form of government?
We definitely need a new form of "country" and a new form of government.
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April 2013
Jason Heyward Undergoes Appendectomy
Uncooperative weather is not the only news coming out of Colorado for the Atlanta Braves. The team announced that right fielder Jason Heyward underwent a successful appendectomy at Rose Medical Center in Denver on Monday evening.
On Tuesday, the Braves placed Heyward on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 21. They have recalled infielder Tyler Pastornicky from Triple-A Gwinnett. Pastornicky is batting .351 with a homer, seven RBI and 11 runs scored in 18 games.
Heyward had gotten off to a slow start in 2013, batting just .121 with two home runs and five RBI in 17 games prior to the procedure. Recovery time typically requires approximately two weeks according to the Mayo Clinic.
Atlanta has multiple options in the outfield during Heyward's absence, but the most likely solution would be to platoon reserve outfielders Reed Johnson and Jordan Schafer in right field.
The club could slide Justin Upton over to right, which would allow Evan Gattis to start in left. Upton played right field exclusively while with the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2007-2012, before shifting to left field after being acquired by Atlanta in January.
Gattis, a catcher who has played a handful of games at first base in order to keep his bat in the lineup on a daily basis, has 37 games of outfield experience in the minor leagues. The return of Freddie Freeman will put an end to the shuffling of Gattis and Chris Johnson at first base.
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez has utilized Gattis as the primary cleanup man after Freeman was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right oblique on April 7. Gattis played six games in left field during spring training, starting two of them.
Braves Notebook: Off To A Hot Start
The Braves bring the best record in baseball into their first series against the National League East rival Nationals on Friday. The lineup has been productive despite dealing with its share of injuries and slow starts, while the pitching staff has been better than advertised. That combination has Atlanta riding a six-game win streak as they head to Washington.
Leading things off…
The changes in the lineup were prompted more by injuries than by necessity. Andrelton Simmons' swollen thumb sidelined him for the final two games of the Cubs series and led to a brief renaissance for B.J. Upton at the top of the order.
Despite some quick results – reaching base in six of nine plate appearances – Upton was unable to continue that trend during the Marlins series. After a 14 at-bat hitless streak, he was given the day off on Wednesday. With Simmons back atop the lineup and getting on base at a good clip (4-for-12, three runs, two RBI vs. Miami), the experimentation with the leadoff spot is likely over for now.
Right after that…
The struggles of B.J. Upton have somewhat distracted from the slump that Jason Heyward finds himself in to open the season. Hitting second in the order, Heyward has provided just two hits – both in the April 3 win over Philadelphia – in 28 at-bats. He was given the day off on Tuesday and will be looking to snap out of his current 0-for-21 skid when the series against the Nationals opens on Friday.
Gattis cleaning up…
The loss of Freddie Freeman to the 15-day disabled list with a strained right oblique (a move made on Sunday) has opened the door for rookie Evan Gattis to bat cleanup for the last four games. The burly catcher belted key home runs on Tuesday and Wednesday and is now batting .391 (9-for-23) with three homers and six RBI in his six starts overall this season.
Just in case his Spring Training numbers didn't provide a big enough sampling of Gattis' run-producing potential, then feel free to take a look at his tear through the minor leagues. In exactly 162 games played between 2011 and 2012, he batted .315/.387/.604 with 44 doubles, 40 home runs and 138 RBI in 691 plate appearances. Gattis earned his catchy nickname ("El Oso Blanco") after hitting .303 with 16 homers 53 games for Zulia in the Venezuelan Winter League.
Maholm certainly pitching like a #2 starter…
Atlanta has gotten the best pitching in the majors (1.89 ERA through its first nine games), another key to the club's early success. Tim Hudson, Kris Medlen and Mike Minor were expected to be the club's featured trio. Rookie Julio Teheran turned into one of the bigger stories in Spring Training, which allowed veteran left-hander Paul Maholm to ply his craft in relative obscurity.
There has been nothing obscure about his first two outings, however.
Maholm, who was acquired from the Cubs prior to last season's non-waiver trade deadline, is currently enjoying the best stretch of his career. Since a start for Chicago on June 29, 2012, Maholm has made 20 appearances (19 starts) and turned in an 11-5 record with a 2.27 ERA in 126.1 IP.
He closed out Grapefruit League play by not allowing an earned run in his last 24.2 IP, and has continued to mow down hitters to open the regular season.
The lefty has won his first two starts, tossing 12.2 shut-out innings in the process. Only two pitchers in baseball have a longer scoreless streak to start the season. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw has 16 innings, and Giants veteran Barry Zito has worked 14 frames without allowing a run.
Braves Notebook: A Tale of Two Uptons
Though sometimes rainy and a touch chilly, the Atlanta Braves opened the season in the exact fashion one would have imagined after taking one look at the lineup – power with a side of strikeouts. The latter could not stop the former from helping to propel the club to three wins in its first four contests, however.
One Upton thriving, the other is scuffling…
Justin Upton finished Spring Training with a power surge which he carried right over to the regular season. He homered in each of the first two games of the Phillies series before Cliff Lee kept him in the yard on Thursday. Not to worry, Upton was right back at it against Scott Feldman of the Cubs, connecting for his third homer of the season in the bottom of the first inning. He is 4-for-13 with three homers and five RBI's in four games thus far.
"It's even more fun seeing him hit in the cage," said shortstop Andrelton Simmons. "You just watch and try to pick up stuff from him. He's really talented and he has a nice swing, everything is nice and smooth. He's going to do this all year."
Brother B.J. is having a more difficult time in his first few games in Atlanta. Opening the season against the Philadelphia trio of Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay and Lee is seldom a recipe for offensive success, and is a big reason why the Braves center fielder is still looking for his first hit. Upton is 0-for-14 with nine strikeouts. He was hit by a pitch, stole a base and scored a run on Friday against Chicago.
"He's coming along," said manager Fredi Gonzalez. "You see the at-bats and the swing is getting there. Everybody gets into one of those things, whether it's in July or August. All those guys that win batting titles, they go in little slumps somewhere down the line. It just so happens that B.J.'s is the first four games of the season, but he's fine."
Gattis starts career with a bang…
The Evan Gattis story was one of the most talked about topics of the spring. His raw power and incredible journey back into baseball captured the attention of fans and teammates alike. It seemed only fitting that the slugging catcher would belt a home run in his Major League debut.
"Did you guys think anything else was going to happen? Didn't surprise me one bit," quipped Gonzalez.
Gattis, 26, connected against Halladay on Wednesday to become the seventh Atlanta player to homer in his first big league game.
"Couldn't have planned it," said Gattis. "Just excited and happy, a little emotional after the game when I got the lineup [card] and my home run [ball] back. It's just too cool."
His teammates were not only thrilled about the home run, but also shared some praise for his overall performance.
"Oh, that's awesome for him," said right fielder Jason Heyward on Wednesday. "Really happy for him. Roy Halladay is not a bad one to have your first homer off of… but, I feel like he did a good job behind the plate tonight too."
Teheran primed for first start of the season…
Another man who enjoyed quite a run through the Grapefruit League was righty Julio Teheran. He will make his first start of 2013 on Saturday evening against the Cubs.
Teheran, 22, benefited from a trip to winter ball in the Dominican Republic after a disappointing season in Triple-A Gwinnett (7-9, 5.08 ERA in 26 starts). He began utilizing a two-seam fastball and pitching with more of a plan after meeting his pitching idol Pedro Martinez. Those two things transformed him back into one of the top prospects in baseball.
While it appears Gonzalez will divide time pretty equally between Gattis and Gerald Laird behind the plate, the manager did say he intends to pair the rookie Teheran with the veteran Laird.
"I think Laird and Teheran will be locked in," said Gonzalez. "I like that. They've had some pretty good success in spring training… and you've got a guy that's handled situations behind the plate."
Teheran and Laird worked together throughout a spring which saw the 22-year-old righty turn in a 1.04 ERA in 26 innings. He struck out 35 batters while allowing just seven hits as well.
"He's got that breaking stuff and a changeup that's come a long way, but I think the pitch that's really putting him over the edge is that two-seamer he's learned to locate and throw in the zone," said Laird. "When you can establish a pitch like that with his velocity, you're going to get a lot of ground balls and that's huge."


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Out of Egypt: A Memoir, by Andre Aciman; copyright 1994 by author. Published in hardcover, 1994, by Farrar Straus Giroux; later by Riverhead Books, the Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014; Also published in Canada.
The story of an Egyptian Jewish family and their lives in Alexandria. The book won a 1995 Whiting Writer's Award and has received praise from a litany of reviewers, of whose excerpts themselves show mastery of the English language.
My disappointment with the author's word choices to describe his great-uncle, however, skewer my initial anticipation in choosing to read this book. I don't particularly care to find insulting or stereotypical language directed against Jews in my reading selections, but I have found it on a rather regular basis, and often from the same sources. The remarks I find derogatory in this book use descriptors for the great-uncle such as: arrogant; self-satisfaction; strutting; cocksure; …-braggart; hectoring, barged in; hapless; schemes; flaunting; rascal; shady; conjurer. All this, plus some negative turns of phrase in just the first three pages!
By the fourth page, he describes his great-uncle as a self-loathing type who turns the projected anti-Semitism of others inwards upon himself so that the stereotypical insults of the bully become his own self-directed hatred. He continues the derogatory terminology (via the character of his uncle) with: peddler; scoundrel; patronizing; shrewd; womanizer. It's bad enough to hear anti-Semitism from others, let alone from "one's own."
Segueing into another character, also Jewish, Aciman describes him as diffident; stupid; incompetent; duplicity. By the twelfth page, we've added "demonic." This is the stock-in-trade of anti-Semites and the academia of recent generations.
If you make it through all the hyperbole and hectoring, you're suddenly sucked into the lives of these characters and the portrayal of a time not so far into the distant past, where such attitudes were more commonplace and Jews still lived among many of the Muslim lands prior to the rebirth of their ancestral homeland, Israel. Nary a Jew remains among the so-called Muslim lands and people of today; they were all driven out by the Muslims, their properties and assets confiscated, for the most part, in the land jockeying occurring at the close of World Wars I and II, when the entirety of the Middle East was carved up and redistributed amongst the powerful family scions and factions prevalent at that time — Israel was one fair entity among them.
Yet with the outpouring of a propensity of the world's Jews and their concurrent settling among the various people of the world in the foreign lands of the "other", many Jews were looked at as interlopers among the local populace. They were forced to live apart from the mainstream in ghettos and were legally regarded as second-class citizens or subjects and were not permitted to assimilate into many of the cultures in which they found themselves.
This was later to have had the effect of making many Jews resentful of this low-class status conferred upon them, leading to the adoption of these similar attitudes by the Jews against themselves in their shedding of ritual practices and any appearance suggestive of their Judaism which might hinder their ability to blend into the local culture. Many Jewish people do not even realize they have done this and would wholeheartedly deny it was so — but, I know; because I was one of them, anxious to shed the identity which held me back, in my own perception. Later on, when I matured and my viewpoints about the world became more pragmatic and less utopian, so too did my attitudes change to my heredity and I became proud of this noble lineage from which I spring. It is just such inklings that show up in this book, which bring tears to the eyes at its tender moments, knowing that the past as it unfolded has been written and recorded for our review in posterity.
Like a flower bud blooming, one might look on the enlightenment of our recent decades of civil rights and wonder how people could ever have held the attitudes they did during such days. Really, this is what the book is about, to me — aptly named 'Out of Egypt' in nodding reference to the Jewish exodus out of bondage from their human masters and into the realm of the Divine.


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Wine is everything from an industrial beverage, a cultural artefact, a work of creative genius and an object of artisanal craft. Not unsurprising it cannot be all these things at the same time. What is produced in highly mechanised wineries from grapes sourced across a number of appellations is always going to be different from the rustic, but honestly made, craft wine from an almost forgotten valley in the south of Italy. The finely honed and brilliantly calculated masterpiece from a single site within a Grand Cru Burgundy appellation has little in common with a Georgian wine made from saperavi grapes and fermented in clay qvevri.
The idea that there could be a one-size-fits-all regulatory environment around wine production is the kind of fantasy that only bureaucrats could conceive. The Georgians used to bury the fruit from the harvest in clay receptacles and leave it underground through the long cold winter, excavating the fermented juice the following spring. Even today some of the elements of this ancient form of winemaking are still applied by the descendants of the tribesmen who stumbled across the early art of winemaking. It is simply not realistic to expect that the legislation in place today and which has largely been developed around large-scale industrial winemaking can accommodate traditional vinification methods.
In the days before massive commercial winemaking, regulations in the established producing regions were based on what seemed fair and reasonable to the community. The French prohibition on irrigation recognised that without restrictions growers would increase yields at the expense of quality. The same consideration prohibits the addition to water to the grape must, or to the finished wine. (Curiously California now authorises 're-hydration' at the crush, arguing that this is nothing more than replacing what global warming has taken out of the grapes – as if the sunshine never did this to the fruit until the last decade of the 20th century.)
But adding water is not necessarily a bad thing, providing this is fully disclosed. Right now an astonishing amount of high volume branded wine is sold in South Africa with declared alcohols which are simply too low to be believable. When the ripeness levels suggest that the alcoholic content should be at least 14% and the strength is a mere 12.5% the only credible explanation is that some of the contents are from the reservoir and not the vineyard.
The basic quality of the wine has not been adversely affected by this illegal sleight of hand – in fact the lower alcohol levels have probably improved the mouthfeel. However, it's near impossible in South Africa to make wines with the taste of fully ripened fruit at 12.5% alcohol unless you've used expensive alcohol removal equipment (unlikely for cheap wine) or you've topped the tank with water. This must be obvious to the authorities.
There are two issues here: one is a regulation which only serves the consumer interest if it stops the production of an inferior beverage, the other is the illicit benefit enjoyed by the producer who has down-sized the product without declaring the deceit. Perhaps it's time the authorities recognised that much of what is permitted (and quite a lot of what is presently banned) is only appropriate for certain kinds of wine. Imposing an obligation to declare what has been done would remove the deceit and leave it to consumers to decide.
I would have no problem knowing that water has been added to a wine which has been fermented with wood chips (for oakiness) and to which grape juice concentrate has been added (so that the almost imperceptible sweetness can conceal the tannic roughness). I simply wish to be informed. Right now only the water addition is illegal. While no one buying craft wine would accept any of these 'techniques', few if any consumers purchasing a commercial brand would even care. However, everyone has a right to know, if only so that they can price the product correctly in their own minds.


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Balm Balm is a company that produces skincare products that are 100% organic—great for those looking for natural, ethical, or ecological products. I decided to try the frankincense deep cleansing balm, which is sold in 30 ml (£9) and 60 ml (£16.50) jars. Among the other ingredients are: shea butter, beeswax, jojoba, sunflower and calendula, and the key point is that all the ingredients have been organically grown.
There are many reviews of this product, so I had high expectations, however, as much as I wanted to like this cleansing balm (and I have used others) it sadly did not live up to my other cleansers. The texture is slightly gritty, and isn't that pleasant to apply, and once rinsed off it leaves a slightly oily film on the face. To try and be fair as possible I used it in various ways; in the morning for a light cleanse, and then as the first part of a double cleanse in the evening. My face felt uncomfortable and sticky afterwards, and I had to wash it again with another cleanser to remove the tacky feel each time.
Rating and Verdict
The product isn't as concentrated as other cleansing balms and you have to use a couple of scoops from the fingertips for a single application. Therefore, even though it maybe cheaper than some higher end cleansing balms, it doesn't last as long. The balm does dissolve into the skin, but is quite oily, so if you have oily skin and don't like the feel of oil on your skin, you may not like this product.
The cleansing balm does cleanse, but not deeply and I tried this with (light makeup) and without makeup. Each time required another cleanse from another product or a double dose of toner to remove the residue. I found the oily and tacky film on the skin afterwards uncomfortable, and (I have normal/combination skin) despite rinsing several times with a muslin cloth the residue remained.
Sadly I won't be buying this product again, but am aware many people like the cleansing balm as it is 100% organic. Compared to other cleansers I have used, this product scores high on the ecological front, but while it does cleanse, it's not an effective cleanser, and is best suited for those who wish to use organic products and don't mind compromising on performance.


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The MK3771-17 is a low cost, low jitter, high-perfomance VCXO and clock synthesizer designed for set-top boxes and HDTV receivers. The on-chip Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator accepts a 0 to 3.3 V input voltage to cause the output clocks to vary by ±100 ppm. Using IDT's patented VCXO and analog Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) techniques, the device uses an inexpensive 13.5 MHz crystal input to produce multiple output clocks including selectable BCLK, a selectable audio clock, two communications clocks, a 13.5 MHz clock, and three 27 MHz clocks. All clocks are frequency locked to the 27 MHz output (and to each other) with zero ppm error, so any output can be used as the VCXO output.
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What are the best museums in Reykjavík? Check out our list of the 11 best museums in Reykjavík and find out where you should go to learn about Icelandic history and culture.
Iceland is known for its stunning landscape, but equally impressive is the country's history and culture. In Reykjavík, there are numerous museums and exhibitions where you can soak up some knowledge about Iceland. So if you're spending some time in Reykjavík, why not check out a museum or two (or nine)?
At Reykjavík's City Hall, you can purchase a City Card which will get you free admission, or a discount, to most of the museums on this list. You'll also receive a discount to numerous restaurants, free admission on the city buses and a free entry to Reykjavík's swimming pools.
Note that this list does not contain any art museums, as we have a special article dedicated to Reykjavík's Best Art Museums and Photo Exhibitions.
Photo from The Saga Museum
Starting off this list is the Saga Museum (Sögusafnið), where history comes alive! This relatively small museum is jam-packed with information about the Viking settlers, and it uses life-like replicas of Icelandic historical figures to recreate key moments in Iceland's history.
As you enter the museum, you are given an audioguide, in either Icelandic, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish or Swedish, that plays automatically as you walk past the realistic figures.
This is a great stop either before or after a tour of the country as you'll learn about the rich history of the places you are about to visit or have just seen, such as how Iceland's parliament, Alþingi, was founded in 930 at Þingvellir National Park, and what lead to a law-speaker named Þorgeir to throw idols into Goðafoss waterfall.
The replicas in the museum were created based on descriptions found in the Viking Sagas and chronicles, and the clothes, weapons and everyday objects have all been hand-crafted using traditional methods. Make sure you'll bring your camera because after the tour, you'll have the chance to dress up as a Viking in these hand-crafted clothes. Helmet, chainmail, sword and all!
Saga Museum
- Address: Grandagarður 2, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 10-18
- City Card holders will receive a 10% discount on the admission
Photo from Perlan Museum Glacier & Ice Cave Exhibition
On your Reykjavík visit, you have undoubtedly seen the iconic Perlan building which towers over the city from the top of a hill in the Öskjuhlíð area. The hemispherical structure provides visitors with an unmatched, panoramic view of the capital area from its observation deck, and now, guests can also immerse themselves in the wild Icelandic nature, without leaving Reykjavík city.
Perlan Museum has several exhibits; 'Glaciers and Ice Cave' exhibition begins with a visit to an ice cave that has been constructed inside one of the hot water tanks on which the Perlan dome sits. Visitors are urged to use their senses during the tour; not only watch but to touch the ice, listen to the sounds, and feel the cold. Rest assured, you will be provided with warm clothes for the chill.
After walking through the labyrinth of ice, guests are lead to the second floor where they will find an interactive wall aimed to show them the forces of the glaciers and the volcanic activity under them as well as multimedia displays with everything about glaciers.
Perlan's Áróra Northern Lights planetarium show will take you on a journey through time and space and allow you to witness the spectacular display of the Northern Lights, even in the summer. There is also a fun and interactive exhibition on water in Iceland, and a virtual reality telescope that allows you to explore the birdlife—including puffins—at Látrabjarg cliffs.
Perlan Museum
- Address: Varmahlíð 1, 105 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 9-19
The Maritime Museum on Seamen Day.
Nothing has been more vital to Iceland's survival than fishing, and so it should come as no surprise that there is a whole museum dedicated to the nation's maritime history. You can check out the country's seafaring heritage at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum in the newly renovated part of the Reykjavík's harbour, known as the Grandi area.
The museum gives a good insight into the life and times of Icelandic fishermen by displaying great old fishing artefacts, detailed model ships, mock-ups of wireless signal rooms, and a compass repair shop.
You'll gain a deeper understanding of this little island nation as you learn about the country's dramatic relationship with the sea, the scale of hardship the fishermen had to endure, and the gradual growth of modern Iceland through fishing.
Of course, there is also a section of the Cod Wars (not to be confused with the Cold War), a series of confrontations between Iceland and the United Kingdom on fishing rights. You can even take a tour of Óðinn, a Coast Guard vessel that survived three of these wars.
The Reykjavík Maritime Museum
- Address: Grandagarður 8, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 10-17
- Admission is free for City Card holders & it includes a visit to Óðinn vessel
Photo from Tales from Iceland facebook
A fairly new exhibition has opened in the historical Austurbæjarbíó building, just a stone's throw away from the Hlemmur bus station. The Tales from Iceland exhibit uses a series of cinematically beautiful videos to provide visitors with a unique perspective on the country.
This clever exhibit shows these taped stories on two floors with a total of 14 screens, each with a set of sofas in front of them. You are also offered free coffee or hot chocolate so you can wander around with a cup in your hand, enjoying the show.
On the lower level, you'll find the 'Nature Exhibition' where you get to see the Icelandic landscape and history through other people's eyes. Assorted videos made by tourist are scattered around, describing their (often hilarious) experience of the country and the people living here.
Upstairs in the 'News Exhibition,' you get the locals perspective from news videos. Here you'll learn everything you need to know about Iceland, from politics, history, and geology, to music, sports and culture. You'll see real footage from the Cod Wars, a commercial starring LazyTown's Sportacus and former First lady Michelle Obama, and everything in between.
Tales from Iceland
- Address: Snorrabraut 37, 105 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 9-17
- City Card holders will receive a 20% discount on the admission
Photo from Safnahúsið
On the Hverfisgata street in downtown Reykjavík, you can find a large and beautiful building known as Safnahúsið or Culture House. The stark-white house holds a collection which includes paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, alongside cultural pieces and historical artefacts. All designed to give you the history and perspective needed to appreciate the Icelandic nation as it is today.
The permanent exhibition, 'Points of View', gives guests a chance to delve into the collection of six different cultural institutions, from contemporary art to thousand-year-old relics. The suggested tour starts on the fourth floor, and the layout will take you from room to room and down the floors, exploring each wing of the house. There are plenty of chairs along the way if you need to take a rest.
The latest in Icelandic art is on the fourth floor, and medieval items are on the ground floor. However, the collections are arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, to paint a picture of various aspects of Icelandic culture and way of life. There are also special, temporary exhibitions in a separate room on the third floor which provide a greater insight into a specific topic.
Many consider the Culture House to be amongst Iceland's most beautiful buildings and great care was taken in designing both its interior and exterior. It was built in 1906-1908 by Danish architect Johannes Magdahl Nielsen to house the National Library. Nielsen's colleague, Frederick Kiörboe designed the oak furniture that can still be found there.
The Culture House offers a free web guide, and if you don't have a smartphone, you can rent one on location. Your ticket to the Culture house is also valid for the National Museum and vice versa.
The Culture House
- Address: Hverfisgata 15, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 10-17 (closed on Mondays from 16th of September to 30th of May)
-Admission is free for City Card holders
Photo from The Punk Museum
When exploring the nation's culture and history, one cannot forget about Icelandic music. At the bottom of Bankastræti street in downtown Reykjavík hides The Icelandic Punk Museum where you can learn about this country's punk scene, chronicled from the early years to the new wave uprising, which paved the way for some of the nation's most beloved artists, including Björk and Sigur Rós.
Much like the punk scene itself, the museum is underground, in a location that couldn't be more fitting for a museum of this kind, a former public toilet. The toilets themselves were shut down in 2006 only to be reopened a decade later by Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols to tell the story of Icelandic Punk.
The stalls serve as mini display rooms for the collection of photographs, posters, handbills, stage equipment, and instruments. There are streaming videos of classic club shows, and headphones hang from the ceiling, each one playing a different Icelandic punk song. You can also try on leather jackets and strike a pose with a guitar or behind the drums.
The Icelandic Punk Museum
- Address: Bankastræti 0, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Weekdays from 10-22 and on weekends 12-22
Photo from The Settlement Exhibition.
The Settlement Exhibition is another underground museum, but there is a practical reason for its subterranean location as it is built around an archaeological dig. In 2001, renovations of the nearby buildings were about to start when archaeologists found a few relics which turned out to be the oldest remains of human habitation in Reykjavík, including a tenth-century Viking longhouse.
The longhouse is believed to have been inhabited from 930-1000 AD, and older still is a boundary wall at the back of the museum, built around 871 AD. What is equally impressive is that these buildings were found at the very place where Iceland's first settlers made his home, as described in the old Icelandic Sagas which were written down some 200 years after the event.
At the Exhibition, you can walk around the unearthed longhouse and look at various artefacts to get a glimpse into early Icelandic life. There are multimedia tables which show information about the history and ecology of the area, as well as the daily activities of the residents, such as iron-work and carpentry. There is even a panorama showing you how Reykjavík would have looked at the time of the longhouse.
The Settlement Exhibition
- Address: Aðalstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 9-18
- Admission is free for City Card holder
Photo from Árbær Open Air Museum.
Another way of exploring what Reykjavík used to look like is with a visit to Árbær Open Air Museum where you'll find a large display of ancient Icelandic houses. The museum consists of more than 20 buildings that have been preserved and relocated to form a small town, a square and a farm, giving visitors a sense of how Icelanders used to live before the country underwent its period of industrialisation.
Each building is different and has its own story. You'll find homes of people with diverse occupations and social statuses, from a professor's resident to a 19th-century home of landless labourers, as well as houses from different time periods, such as traditional turf houses and WWII storage huts.
To keep with the theme, the employees and tour guides dress in traditional Icelandic attire and go about the business of working the farm, which includes tending to sheep, cows and chickens. There is also a children's room at the museum with traditional mid-century toys for the young ones.
The museum is located in Árbær, a suburb of Reykjavík city and although it is a little way out of the city centre, getting there doesn't need to be all that tricky. If you don't have your own car, you can simply take one of the city buses which stops in the vicinity of the museum. And if you have a City Card, both the bus ride and the entry to the museum is free.
Árbær Open Air Museum
- Address: Kistuhylur 4, 110 Reykjavík
- Open: Open every day from 10-17 in June-August, and from 13-17 in September-May.
- Admission is free for City Card holders
Photo from Whales of Iceland
The Whales of Iceland exhibition is a great way to learn all about the whales and dolphins that you might get a chance to see (or have already seen) on a whale watching tour in Iceland. The museum is located in the Grandi area, a short walking distance from the Reykjavík Old Harbour from which most of the city's whale watching tours depart.
The museum is located in a large warehouse and holds 23 life-size models of the whale species found in Icelandic waters, ranging from the small harbour porpoises to the enormous blue whale. The whale replicas hang from the ceiling, are all hand-painted, and each model has personal characteristics based on a real whale found in the ocean. The models are also soft and squishy, and you are allowed to touch them!
The exhibition is quite atmospheric; there is blue lighting and whale noises are played through the sound system which gives you the sense of being underwater. You can also get a better feel of what it's like to swim alongside orcas or dolphins with the museum's virtual reality glasses.
The museum's multilingual guidance app can be downloaded to your phone, or you can borrow a tablet at the front test to learn about the biology and habits of these magnificent creatures. But it probably will be the sheer size of the whales that will have you in awe and stick you forever.
Whales of Iceland
- Address: Fiskislóð 23-25, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 10-17
- City Card holders will receive a 30% discount on the admission
Photo from The National Museum
The National Museum houses many treasures of Iceland's history, beginning with the ship in which Viking settlers crossed the ocean to their new home, and ending in a modern airport. The vast collection of art and crafts, tools and furniture, religious artefacts and archaeological remains for the permanent exhibition 'Making of a Nation', are organised chronologically so you can easily follow this journey through time.
The section describing the settlement era features swords, drinking horns, a bronze figure of the thunder god Thor, and the Valþjófsstaður door, a priceless medieval church door on which the legend of Lion-Knight is carved.
Upstairs is a collection which spans from 1600 to the modern era. There, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the country's plight under foreign rule and their struggle for independence. You can listen to voices of the past (albeit in Icelandic) through headphones, and there is a special room where you can touch objects and even try on traditional Icelandic garments.
You can learn all about the museum's artefacts through the free smartphone audio guide, available in nine different languages, but there are also guided tours in English on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. There are also special, temporary exhibitions on everything from ancient riding equipment to modern apartment buildings. Remember that your ticket to the National Museum is also valid for the Culture House.
The National Museum of Iceland
- Address: Suðurgata 41, 101 Reykjavík
- Open: Every day from 10-17 (closed on Mondays from 16th of September to 30th of May)
- Admission is free for City Card holders
Photo from the Icelandic Phallological Museum
No list of Iceland's museums could be considered complete without mentioning the Icelandic Phallological Museum. The museum itself is pretty small, and you probably won't spend many hours there, but it is worth a visit just to say that you've been to the penis museum, and for the endless dick-jokes that will inevitably accompany your visit.
The museum was founded in 1997 and was housed in the town of Húsavík before it was relocated to Reykjavík, where you can find it on the main shopping street, Laugavegur, near Hlemmur Square.
There are over two hundred penises and penile parts from almost all of the land and sea mammals in Iceland, from a tiny hamster member to a 6ft long specimen from a sperm whale. Iceland is a land of myths and folklore, and so you can also find a section on troll, merman and ghost appendages. There are even four human ones and a donation station where you can reserve your member for the museum.
Visitors can also see an extensive collection of toys, trinkets and utensils related to the museum's theme and there is an excellent gift shop so you can bring home a penis shaped bottle opener or a fridge magnet to commemorate your visit.
The Phallological Museum
- Address: Laugavegur 116, 105 Reykjavík
- Open: September to May from 9-18, and June - August from 10-18
- City Card holders will receive a 20% discount on the admission
Have you visited these museums? What did you think? Are there other museums you would have liked to see on this list? Tell us in the comments below.


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It's the gift to myself that just keeps giving. I bought these to wear with my birthday dress and then I wore them to Vegas.... and now its hard not to wear them with every outfit.
It's true nude shoes worn with a dress or skirt make my legs look longer. I don't know why it took me so long to buy a pair of my own.
Shoes are from Aldo and when I say they are comfortable, I mean it. I danced at my Birthday and in Vegas and I am still alive to tell the story. Platforms save feet!


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A flashback from our oh-so-hip honeymoon phase…discovered while "downsizing."
Apropos since we've been re-watching Bakula and Blalock's "Enterprise." (Remember that amazing original Opening Theme?)
(Featured image is from the terrific 2-part episode, "In a Mirror Darkly," from the final season. You must at least listen to its Special Opening Theme song!!!)


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'Homeland' recap: Carrie moves fast to win over young asset
To track down a Pakistani terrorist likely plotting an attack on Americans, the CIA's Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) must quickly win over a young and frightened asset on "About a Boy," Episode 405 of Showtime's "Homeland."
Expelled college student Aayan Ibrahim (Suraj Sharma) is the gateway to his uncle, Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar). Carrie and her comrades initially thought they killed Haqqani in an airstrike. But he's alive, 40 civilians are dead, and America's relations with Pakistan are in flames.
Posing as a journalist, Carrie misleads Aayan into believing he'll soon board a plane to London where he'll receive asylum and admission to medical school. But after being seduced by Carrie to gain his trust, guilt-ridden Aayan wants to leave the safe house.
"You walk out that door, you'll be grabbed up, disappeared," Carrie warns. "Do you understand?"
Aayan reluctantly decides to stay put, knowing the viral video he recorded of the airstrike makes him a target of both the CIA and Pakistan's ruthless Inter-Services Intelligence agency. His nascent bond with Carrie is nearly broken, however, when she suggests Haqqani didn't die in the attack.
"It's insulting," Aayan says defensively. But after Carrie manipulates Aayan's fragile emotions and lures him back into bed, he admits his uncle is alive yet "very, very sick."
"I had to tell you," Aayan confesses. "I don't want to lie to you anymore."
Meanwhile, ISI agent Tasneem Kureshi (Nimrat Kaur) continues to blackmail political science professor Dennis Boyd (Mark Moses) because he stole top secret documents from his wife, Martha (Laila Robins), the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan.
Fearing he'll be arrested on treason charges if he doesn't comply with Tasneem's demands, Dennis sneaks into Carrie's apartment and snaps photos for ISI. He's particularly interested in her infant daughter, Franny, and the meds Carrie takes for her bipolar disorder.
In other action, CIA black ops specialist Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) and analyst Fara Sharazi (Nazanin Boniadi) stake out the location where Haqqani was seen with a Muslim cleric (Jamal Mukaddam). Fara is alarmed when Peter pulls out a sniper rifle.
"Carrie said I just have to sit in an office, like a journalist," Fara nervously says.
"You're in it now," Peter tells her. "And guess what. You're good at it."
Fara's nascent spy skills are put to the test when she spots the cleric shortly before he begins driving toward the mountains and lawless Taliban territory.
"I'm trying to be ballsy here," Fara says to Peter as they mount a pursuit. "But I'm not into suicide!"
When the cleric stops at a roadblock, Fara attempts to attach a tracking device to his car but is turned away by soldiers. While this unfolds, Peter calls Carrie so she can order aerial surveillance.
"If we don't get a drone on this cleric in the next five minutes, he's in the wind," Peter angrily says, leaving a message on Carrie's voicemail.
Too bad Peter and Fara lose track of the cleric's vehicle, for bound and gagged in the trunk is former CIA director Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin).
Saul was headed home to America. But when arriving at the airport in Islamabad he spots Farhad Ghazi (Tamer Burjaq), an ISI thug who orchestrated the murder of Carrie's predecessor.
After alerting Peter about this development, Saul becomes suspicious when Farhad hurries into a restroom. Saul follows and comes face to face with Farhad — but it's a trap. Saul is tranquilized, whisked out of the airport in a wheelchair and probably headed for Haqqani's hideout.
In the CIA's deadly struggle with the Taliban and ISI, America just suffered a devastating setback.
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Marvin E. Leis
Marvin E. Leis
VERONA – Marvin E. Leis, age 84, formerly of Middletown, Ohio, passed away Friday, March 7, 2014 at his residence in Verona. He and his wife had moved there to be with their daughter in December 2006.
He was born Sept. 10, 1929 in Preble County, Ohio and lived in Ohio most of his life. Marvin was employed at Armco Steel in Middletown, where he was a turn foreman in the aluminized department, retiring in 1990 after 42 years of service. While living in Middletown he was a member of the Towne Boulevard Church of God and in Virginia he was a member of the Zetta Presbyterian Church in Churchville.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Walter A. and Laura (Rhoades) Leis; his wife of 59 years, Margie L. Leis, June 5, 2008; two brothers, Walter Leis Jr. and George Leis; and six sisters, Della Wood, Wilmedia Reynolds, Erma Caul, Esther Baker, Glenna Bliss and Virginia Allen.
He is survived by one daughter, Patricia (Cassidy) Biernesser, husband, E. J. of Verona; one grandson, Anthony Cassidy; one great-granddaughter, Miranda Cassidy, two great-grandsons, Aidan Cassidy and Dylan Cassidy; and two sisters, Betty Hussain of Middletown, Ohio and Peggy Cox, husband Charles, of Lebanon, Ohio.
There will be no visitation. Graveside services will be Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Miltonville Cemetery, Miltonville, Ohio, with Jerry Minor officiating. Interment will follow.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Zetta Presbyterian Church, 229 Moffett Branch Road, Churchville, Virginia 24421.
Arrangements by Herr-Riggs Funeral Home, 210 S. Main St., Middletown. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.herr-riggs.com.


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Like many a thinking lady I watch the Daily Show mostly for Jon. When it is on hiatus, and it always disappointingly seems to be on hiatus when America goes a little mad in the late summer (2005: Katrina, 2008: Sarah Palin, 2009: Health Care Nonsense), my evenings seem even less magical than they usually are. I am the kind of woman, you see, who would go for Jon - funny, informed, irreverent - over a Brad Pitt in a second. I know I am not alone in this.
But as happens in any relationship, sometimes Jon does things that well... piss me off. See, every once in awhile, his show displays all the symptoms of having been written by Liberal Dudes Who Don't Quite Get It - It usually being women, or women's rights, or women's issues. The show likes to trot out Samantha Bee and Kristen Schaal every once in awhile, but in general it seems rather complacent about its overall dudely tone. And it's easier to take some times than others.
Take, for example, Monday night's episode. A propos of absolutely nothing, it opened with a joke about fat people, or probably more descriptively, Jon in a fat suit. The joke, one supposes, was that he was fat. From you know, eating bad food. Which is apparently why fat people are fat. Or at least why Fat Jon Stewart Is Disgusting. In case we hadn't picked up on this highly subtle message (this is, after all, one of Eddie Murphy-post-funny's go-to gags, the fat suit), the show sent John Oliver out to castigate Jon for... eating junk and being fat. Okay, great. I'm really glad you had this little moment to make a fat joke, Jon, except that it was kind of beneath you, and were I in your circle of acquaintance, it would have gotten you a smack upside the head. Not all comedy is successful, I realize, but when the animus is just plain old "fat people are gross ha ha" I think it's fair game to say you're being mean-spirited, and not really that funny to people who like smart comedy, you know, like the viewers of your show.
I tried to forgive and forget. But then I tuned in Tuesday night and was treated to a charming segment on ACORN. (If you haven't heard about what ACORN, a sort of large community service provider, was caught doing, you can catch up here.) Now look. Stewart was perfectly right to criticize ACORN for offering tips on how to cheat on taxes, and to do it in front of a liberal audience that was probably a little uncomfortable about what they saw. But it seems to me the whole thing was a rich enough mine for comic material there without making fun of sex workers. Which is what Jon proceeded to do, subtitling the segment as "The Audacity of Ho's [sic]." He made implied equivalencies between pimps and prostitutes and he suggested titles for their work like "genital contractor" (nice reduction to anatomy, there) and "used vagina salesman" (used vaginas are gross, man!). His only joke that really didn't depend on the stigma attached to sex work was to make fun of ACORN for advising would-be-traffickers on how to claim imported El Salvadorean thirteen-year-olds as dependents. In essence, the man behaved like a giggling high schooler confronted with prostitution as a practice for the first time. And it, too, was disappointing.
I know some will say that I need to lighten up, or Trust in Jon (if I manage to get one post on Bitch where someone doesn't tell me to wait and trust the show, I'll eat my summer flipflops). But if that's your impulse, I want to remind you how often feminists get told they need a sense of humour, or to stop being so superficial (he's really a Good Guy), so prone to finding politics in everything, why can't they just enjoy life, etc etc. We can put up and shut up when our idols and, um, imaginary future husbands and wives behave poorly. Or we can remind them, as I would like to remind Jon Stewart, that we know they have a commitment to being decent human beings. We know they have a commitment to equality. And all we're asking of them - and so, of the Daily Show - is that they do a better job of living up to that.
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I not-so-gingerly agree
mkp-hearts-nyc replied on
I have loved the Daily Show ever since JS took it over, but you're absolutely right that sometimes his Liberal Dudes Who Don't Get It bias shows - and it hurts my feelings, honestly (as opposed to more egregious sexist posturing, which makes me angry and determined to Show Them All) because I know he knows better. I know he knows that sexism exists, and is a real problem, and that there's more his show could be doing to promote women instead of relying on sex jokes and bathroom humor and meanness.
And that's what it feels like - it feels like your cool brother and his friends who you like and look up to turned around and called you a fat slutty loser. And that sucks. I hate it when people tell me to "lighten up" over pieces like this on the DS or the Onion because you know, the pieces aren't "light" - when I'm watching/reading and laughing along, sexist jokes bring everything to a crashing halt. I would <i>love</i> to just let it roll off my back, but you can't just ignore a nail in your shoe because you'd rather keep walking.
I love my Jonny, but...
BeckySharper replied on
Sometimes he and his boyos resemble nothing more than a crowd of overgrown teenagers. I totally cringed at both these pieces. Ho jokes? Fat jokes? Come the fuck on.
Comedy-wise, it shows a remarkable lack of edge and imagination, which Jon and his writers usually do so well. With everything that's going on in the news today, he makes fat jokes? That's just plain lazy. I can see that shit at any bad comedy club anywhere in the country, and get a free watered-down drink in the bargain.
Becky Sharper www.harpyness.com
Mandy Van Deven replied on
I'd be really interested to know more about JS's writers... and Stephen Colbert's for that matter. Both shows frequently make offensive remarks about fat people and play into tired tropes about "terrorists" (Gitmo Elmo) and women's sex appeal, which is an indication that their writers aren't representative of these groups. Perhaps we need a feminist version of the Daily Show/Colbert Report to make fun of these guys for the dumb things they say, huh?
No, I agree. I quite
kokopuff replied on
No, I agree. I quite watching a while back because the writing was getting rather sophomoric. Definitely has lost some of its intellectual edge.
politicalpartygirl replied on
I love Jon Stewart, but I was cringing throughout the whole "Fat Jon" sketch. I didn't even see the reason for it, especially when there has been such insanity in the news these last two weeks that would make great joke fodder. I was so eager for their return, and they started with irrelevant and offensive slapstick. It felt like bad filler.
I agree that he can be insensitive to women in his jokes, although I did not see last night's episode. I mourn the lack of female contributors, especially because it seems like a majority of the stories/commentaries by Samantha Bee and Kristen Schaal are about "being a laydee" or at least have a large emphasis on gender. The Daily Show was long criticized for a lack of racial diversity, and until the last year or two when they hired Aasif Manvi, Larry Wilmore, and Wyatt Cenac, the criticism was valid. Hopefully this year will bring many new female correspondents, but I'm not holding my breath.
I agree. Most of John's
Sanfranannie replied on
I agree. Most of John's commentary is enlightened and enlightening but he has some big blind spots, often in the area of women.
I was complaining the other day actually about one of his regular jokes - riffing on the 'you throw like a girl' meme. Ugh.
I absolutely agree. His
Kelly replied on
I absolutely agree. His "used vagina salesman" comment seemed to be less about ACORN and more about "Hee hee sex workers are funny!"
bluebears replied on
When I put the show on on Monday night I was SO excited to have it back and then....yeah. Ugh, and the Brian Williams picture? And the cheese-steak milkshake? cause haha fat people eat horrible repulsive shit. It was all just so bad. What were they thinking? Who were they aiming this towards? Why? Just fucking why? With the WEALTH of topical issues they had to mine for the opening of the show, why THAT?
You just need to trust in Jon
Laura replied on
Haha.. Just kidding. I think that what most people don't get when they tell feminists to "get a sense of humor" is that this "joke" is representative of society as a whole. The fact that he can make these largely uncriticized jokes shows that society is okay with subjecting certain people to a "less than" status. And it's not right. Jon Stewart needs to realize that by making these jokes, he's doing his audience a disservice. The smart social commentary that he often gets right is really what will appeal to his target audience and keep them from changing the channel.
I admit I'm ignorant because
Anonymous replied on
I admit I'm ignorant because I don't have cable and I have never seen his show but for snippets. Or maybe just jaded, or maybe unsmitten and therefore objective? I just feel like getting it off my chest that you'd think the man were out spouting some seriously, thought out feminist rhetoric the way feminists practically wet their pants over this dude. Is he that liberal and funny? Or are our standards low? People used to say "my boyfriend Jon Stewart!!" on a feminist message bb I used to frequent like it was original. Are we that excited about a man on TV just b/c he's not a complete idiot and traditionally sexist (oh wait, he actually is?)
Lee Salzwedel replied on
I totally agree. I don't really understand the appeal of Jon Stewart anyway, and I think the whole "smart humor" thing is played up in his case. There's nothing informed or funny about sexism or fattism.
Yeah, the Audacity of Hos
MarySophia replied on
Yeah, the Audacity of Hos and "used vagina" things were pissing me off too. I'd still marry him, though.
Ellie replied on
I totally agree, and I'm so glad you wrote this post because it is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I watched each episode. I thought the show was saying "you are a bad person for being a prostitute" rather than "you may be wrong for wanting to dodge taxes". The writers seem to think that their audience would agree with them that "not paying taxes is bad, but prostitution is worse" - an argument that is clearly soooo far from a being closed book. Lazy humor, that was both immature AND sexist... so disappointing.
It's been a while since this
Rachel R. replied on
It's been a while since this episode aired so I don't remember my initial feelings about it except what some have already said - being disappointed by what I was presented with after what felt like a long wait for the DS's return.
Honestly, like previous posters, I haven't been watching it lately. I don't if it's b/c I've been busy or b/c I've just lost interest in what they talk about or b/c I've felt like the show has lost it's edge.
In a reply to an above poster, the reason women like him so much is b/c he seems light years ahead of a lot of the men we commonly see on TV as far as being intelligent and sensible (most of the time), and often adorably funny, too. But no one is perfect. I still love him, but I lose a little bit of respect for anyone when I hear them make a fat joke. I'm not wild about sex worker jokes, either.


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Mars rover launch lifts NASA's spirit
Spirit, the aptly-named Mars exploration rover, gave a welcome boost to NASA morale on Tuesday with a flawless launch.
The loss of the Columbia space shuttle has cast a deep shadow over the agency and initial success on a mission to the red planet, the site of high-profile failures in the past, is very welcome.
The Delta II rocket carrying Spirit blasted of from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1358 EDT on Tuesday, after two days of delays caused by stormy weather. The Mars-bound craft separated from the launcher during a suspenseful communications gap, but was confirmed when it came within range of a tracking station in Canberra, Australia.
The mission control centre at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, then erupted in loud cheers. "It's where it's supposed to be, and it's on its way," said NASA spokesman George Diller.
Three-part volley
The launch was the second in June's three-part volley of spacecraft to the red planet. Spirit's near-twin, a rover named Opportunity, should set off on 25 June, but delays on this launch mean the NASA team will be hard-pressed to have everything in place in time. However, the agency says there is plenty of leeway in the schedule for that launch.
The two NASA rovers will touch down on opposite sides of Mars in early January 2004, days after the European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander lands. Altogether the three craft – if they work – will subject the Martian surface to by far the most detailed scrutiny ever mustered.
A key aim of this array of data-gatherers is to uncover definitive evidence that substantial bodies of liquid water may once have existed on Mars long enough for life to have sprung up. But if no such evidence comes out of this intensive battery of close-up tests, it could force a rethinking of that concept of an early warm and wet Mars.


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Fashion and beauty trends rarely stick around for more than a few years. Some trends do make a comeback like wide legged pants or high waisted trousers. Luckily some fads will never come back like shoulder pads and disco suits (please don't come back). This day in age, there aren't as many genre defining trends like there were in the '70s or '80s. I'm not sure who created these, um, unique looks and why people would even buy them. But for you, Gen Xers and Millennials, here's a peep into your parent's closet from the past. And I beg you to bring them back.


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