POLL: What's Your Favourite Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor Special?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsM8cmhJhF_wwnBqkKYmmkgIFm9wfOGPjERu0zlVaHi4i3A_dwhIeVd5LBAZasdBlKpsOKMS34Eqoe2e6Gzur5drtxgEq8sYkF8tClvW5dSCrZSLsYqJz7BIhyN9CIqwsPzelFaAdato/s1600/VOYAGE1_(10).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsM8cmhJhF_wwnBqkKYmmkgIFm9wfOGPjERu0zlVaHi4i3A_dwhIeVd5LBAZasdBlKpsOKMS34Eqoe2e6Gzur5drtxgEq8sYkF8tClvW5dSCrZSLsYqJz7BIhyN9CIqwsPzelFaAdato/s640/VOYAGE1_(10).jpg" width="442" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fafafa; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fafafa; clear: both; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fafafa; clear: both; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As we celebrate the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary year celebrations we would like to know what your favourite Tenth Doctor Special is..<br />You can vote below and also leave your comments on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidtennantcom" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Facebook page here.</a></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;"></span><span style="text-align: justify;">We will be finding out what your favourites from all the series and specials are and then pitting them against each other to find your ultimate David Tennant episode of the show.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;"></span><span style="text-align: justify;">You only have until Midday (12pm GMT) on Monday 18th November to cast your vote so be quick!</span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; 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Weekend in Valencia: a complete itinerary [ BeritaTerkini ]

<p>Valencia might just be the perfect weekend destination: historic centre; a unique arts and science complex; sandy beach; lots of green space; fantastic food; and a great climate. Spain’s third city was established by the Romans, occupied by Muslims, and won back by Spain in 1238, when its influence grew until it was one of the most important Mediterranean cities of the 15th century. These days, it attracts nearly 2 million international visitors per year (about 80,000 from the UK). Many come for the extraordinary Las Fallas in March, a wild five-day fiesta in honour of San José, when hundreds of giant puppets are paraded and set on fire. But it is a party town all-year round – and if you miss Las Fallas, you can always visit the Museo Fallero to see the <em>ninots</em> (figurines) that have survived the flames.</p> <p><span class="inline embed embed-media"><br><br><small>View Valencia in a weekend – mapped in a larger map</small><br><span class="caption"><br> All the places numbered in the article can be found on this Google map of the city<br></span><br></span><br><br></p> <hr><strong>FRIDAY</strong><br><br><h2>9.30pm<br> </h2> <p>Head out to bar-hop and eat tapas in the Ciutat Vella (old town). Calle de Caballeros is thronged with bars and restaurants, as are the streets and squares north, into Barrio del Carmen, and south, into the Centro Histórico. The city’s La Tassa district is particularly well-served by tapas restaurants. One, <strong>La Taberna de Marisa</strong> (latabernademarisa.com), <strong>1</strong>, is known for its <em>morcilla de Burgos</em> – rounds of rice-heavy black pudding, crispy without, soft within – but its salted anchovies and <em>croquetas</em> are equally delicious. Try <em>agua de Valencia</em> at one of the bars on Plaza del Negrito: it is a more lethal version of buck’s fizz (cava, orange juice, sugar and spirits), invented in the 1920s and still widely drunk. Restaurants stay open until at least midnight at the weekends and most bars until about 2am, but if you want to stay out later, try <strong>Radio City</strong> (radiocityvalencia.es), <strong>2</strong>, a club with flamenco nights and other events.</p> <hr><strong>SATURDAY</strong><br><br><h2>10am</h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Valencia market, Spain" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2008/03/12/Valencia4.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Valencia’s brilliant Mercado Central, one of the best and biggest food markets in Europe<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Spend the morning exploring the old town, where all the sights are within walking distance. Valencia has three main squares: Plaza de la Virgen, Plaza de la Reina and Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Start the day with a coffee at one of the outdoor tables in the atmospheric Plaza de la Virgen.</p> <p>From here, head to the vast <strong>13th-century cathedral</strong> (catedraldevalencia.es), <strong>3</strong>, a hotchpotch of Roman, gothic, baroque and renaissance architecture on the site of the old mosque. Inside, have a look at San Vincente’s withered left arm, a relic that has terrified generations of Valencian schoolchildren; the “Holy Grail”, a chalice dating to at least Christ’s time; two Goya paintings, one of which depicts a fantastically horrifying exorcism; and the windows – they are made from fine alabaster, because Valencia’s light is too dazzling for glass. Climb the 207 steps of the Miguelete tower for the best views of the city.</p> <p>Next go to <strong>La Lonja de la Seda</strong> (whc.unesco.org), <strong>4</strong>, a gothic chamber of commerce built to impress visiting merchants in the 16th century and to symbolise the city’s wealth and power. It is now a world heritage site and beautiful in its own right, but also fascinating as a secular building designed with the splendour usually reserved for religion.</p> <h2>Midday<br> </h2> <p>On the other side of the Plaza del Mercado is the biggest fresh-produce market in Europe, built in the <em>modernismo</em> style (the Spanish variant of art nouveau). <strong>Mercado Central</strong> (mercadocentralvalencia.es), <strong>5</strong>, is still the place where most Valencians buy their groceries and is a great, light-filled place to wander around and haggle for ham. Stop at La Huertana, a little stand-up cafe inside the market, for the archetypical Valencian snack: <em>horchata</em> and <em>fartons</em>. Similar to <em>churros con chocolate</em>, this is a milky drink and a pastry, but the Valencian version is served cold. Horchata, made from tiger nuts, is creamy, slightly grainy and incredibly sweet. Fartons are light, finger-shaped buns, thickly dusted with sugar. Dangerously moreish.</p> <p>While you’re in the old town, squeeze in a quick visit to the <strong>National Ceramics Museum</strong> (mnceramica.mcu.es), <strong>6</strong>, housed in a rococo palace said to be Valencia’s Versailles in (extreme) miniature. At the very least, take a look at its brilliantly over-the-top facade: the doorway is flanked by two muscular figures, with a statue of the virgin – who can be seen all over the city – above. Decorative ceramic tiles are also ubiquitous – to buy ceramic souvenirs, try <strong>Artesania Yuste</strong> (Plaça Miracle del Mocadoret), <strong>7</strong>.</p> <h2>2pm<br> </h2> <p>Take a tram to the beach for lunch. Restaurants and bars line the seafront, but the quality is variable so get off the tram a couple of stops early (Grau is closest) and head to the old fishermen’s quarter. Calle José Benlliure (and surrounding streets) is full of bars and tapas restaurants, including <strong>Casa Montana</strong> (emilianobodega.com), <strong>8</strong>, one of the oldest restaurants in Valencia. You can eat in the busy front bar, lined with wine barrels, or in the more spacious back room, but the best table is squeezed into a space between the two. You have to duck under the bar to get to it, next to the kitchen and the jamón-carving station. Don’t miss the fat <em>boquerónes fritas</em> (fried anchovies), meaty brown broad beans stewed with chorizo, roasted piquillo peppers stuffed with béchamel and tuna, and, of course, the translucent slivers of jamón ibérico.</p> <h2>4.30pm<br> </h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Destino 56 " height="279" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2013/11/15/1384535253693/Destino-56--001.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Destino 56<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Follow a long lunch with a siesta on the beach (Las Arenas or Las Malvarrosa), a 10-minute walk away. Valencia has three kilometres of long, sandy beaches and more than 300 sunny days a year – it can be warm enough to swim and sunbathe into November. Have an early-evening pick-me-up at a bar on Paseo Neptuno, the palm tree-lined beach promenade. Valencians have embraced “gin tonic”: <strong>Destino 56</strong> (destino56.es), <strong>9</strong>, for example, has 15 craft gins and three premium tonics – measures are huge and served in a proper balloon glass with lots of ice.</p> <h2>9pm<br> </h2> <p>Choose between upmarket or hip Valencia. L’Eixample is a wealthy district just south of the centre, with wide boulevards and grand art nouveau buildings. Its boutiques and delis include <strong>Espacio 1880</strong> (turron1880.com), <strong>10</strong>, which specialises in all kinds of turrón, and <strong>Torreblanca</strong> (torreblanca.net), <strong>11</strong>, which made Prince Felipe’s wedding cake. <strong>Mercado Colón</strong> (mercadocolon.es), <strong>12</strong>, a gorgeous example of modernismo, is now full of cafes and bars, though it still has a gourmet food market downstairs.</p> <p>For dinner, the city has four Michelin-starred restaurants. One of them, <strong>Vertical</strong> (restaurantevertical.com), <strong>13</strong>, is on the ninth floor of a hotel east of L’Eixample, with incredible night-time views of the City of Arts and Sciences. (The entrance is quite confusing – go to Hotel Confortel Aqua 4 and take the lift.) There is no choice, only a daily changing, multi-course set menu. Dishes might include a ruffled egg yolk, beef with foie gras, and deconstructed fudge cake.</p> <p>Alternatively, head further south to Ruzafa, which has overtaken Carmen as the city’s hippest area. It is a working-class, ethnically diverse quarter that is being colonised by young creatives – Valencia’s version of Brixton in London. It is full of vintage clothes shops (eg Kauf Vintage), bike shops, and homeware stores such as <strong>Gnomo</strong> (gnomo.eu), <strong>14</strong>, which sells work by contemporary Valencian artist Paula Bonet and displays a mural by Vinz, Ruzafa’s answer to Banksy. <strong>Espacio 40</strong> (c/Puerto Rico), <strong>15</strong>, is an art gallery/wine shop run by a Valencian woman and her Chilean husband. The <strong>covered market</strong> (c/Padre Perera), <strong>16</strong>, gives a taste of pre-gentrified Ruzafa – its one bar caters to older locals. Younger drinkers head for three “bookshop bars” – <strong>Cosecha Roja</strong>, <strong>Slaughterhouse</strong> and <strong>Ubik Cafe</strong>, <strong>17</strong> – a Parisian theatre bar (Café Tocado), or “The Corner”, a crossroads with a bar on each corner. Restaurants range from traditional tapas and <em>bocadillos</em> (El Rus) to oysters (De Claire), South American restaurants, and fusion (El Rodamón). It’s a small district, so wander around and you won’t go far wrong.</p> <hr><strong>SUNDAY</strong><br><br><h2>10am<br> </h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="View of the Palace of Arts and Sciences and The Hemispheric in Valencia" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2007/02/02/valencia.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> The iconic City of Arts and Sciences. Photograph: Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Most cities have riverbanks to stroll along; Valencia has a whole river. The Jardín del Túria is a unique, 9km-long swathe of greenery through the city. When the river Túria flooded – again – in 1957, it was diverted south. The former riverbed is now a landscaped parkland walk with trees, sculptures and water features, crisscrossed by 18 bridges – some designed by Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava. The gardens connect the <strong>Bioparc</strong> in the west and the <strong>City of Arts and Sciences</strong> (CAC) in the east. The zoo (bioparcvalencia.es), <strong>18</strong>, is a modern, immersive animal park that recreates natural habitats, but in a weekend you’ll probably only have time for CAC (cac.es), <strong>19</strong>. You can walk there along the gardens in about 45 minutes. The futuristic complex was mainly designed by Calatrava and includes an opera house, science museum and planetarium. Oceanogràfic is best: more than 45,000 specimens swimming around Europe’s biggest aquarium. Look out for the spooky sandfish, awe-inspiring white whales and shoals of leaping dolphins.</p> <h2>2pm<br> </h2> <p>Stroll back towards town and stop for lunch at <strong>Les Graelles</strong> (grupo-jbl.com), <strong>20</strong>, a traditional restaurant with arched stone ceilings, dark-wood furniture and crisp white tablecloths. Paella was invented in Valencia and this is the place to try an authentic version – which, surprisingly, doesn’t contain seafood and is only eaten at lunchtime. Saffron-flavoured rice is served with hunks of rabbit and chicken and a handful of snails, plus some vegetables – perhaps green and broad beans and artichokes. Everyone around the table digs in to the communal pan with their own wooden serving spoon, and washes it down with rioja. (Locals often head to L’Albufera, a nature reserve about 30km along the coast, for their Sunday paella lunch.)</p> <h2>3.30pm<br> </h2> <p>From here, it’s a short walk to the <strong>Museo de Bellas Artes</strong> (museobellasartesvalencia.gva.es), <strong>21</strong>, Spain’s second-biggest art collection, housed in a beautiful 17th-century convent. It has paintings by Spanish greats such as Velázquez (including a masterful self-portrait), El Greco and Goya, plus Valencian artists Pinazo, Benlliure and Sorolla. If admiring modern works of art is more to your taste, <strong>IVAM</strong> (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, ivam.es), <strong>22</strong>, was the first contemporary art gallery in Spain – you’ll need to catch the Metro or take a cab, though, as the museum’s back in El Carmen.</p> <hr><strong>LOCALS TIPS</strong><br><br><h2>Paula Sancho Torregrosa, web editor</h2> <p>By the <strong>Flowers bridge</strong>, <strong>23</strong>, there is a statue of King Jaime I, where children can learn something of our history in a show about him until 24 November (eltorneodelrey.com). <strong>Gulliver Park</strong>, <strong>24</strong>, also in the river gardens, is a great play area. <strong>Canguro Verde</strong> (facebook.com/canguroverde) <strong>25</strong>, is a coffee shop in Ruzafa where kids are welcome.</p> <h2>Alejandro García Llinares, restaurant manager,<br> </h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="El Mercado de la Tapinería, a concept market" height="341" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2013/11/15/1384535912214/El-Mercado-de-la-Tapiner--001.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> El Mercado de la Tapinería<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Semana Santa Marinera, maritime holy week, in El Cabanyal, the fishermen’s area is an interesting experience. And <strong>El Mercado de la Tapinería</strong> (mercadodetapineria.com), <strong>26</strong>, is a concept market in a downtown square. <strong>El Jardín de Monforte</strong>, <strong>27</strong>, is a quiet and relaxing garden in the centre.</p> <h2>Carla Carrión Palanca, blogger</h2> <p>Few tourists go to <strong>Calle Alta</strong> and <strong>Calle Baja</strong> but these two streets in El Carmen (or El Carmé in Valencian), <strong>28</strong>, are popular with locals for their charming bars and shops. Jazz lovers might like to try the Jimmy Glass Bar (Calle Baja 28, jimmyglassjazz.net). Or, if a bar crawl is what you’re after, look no further than Calle Alta’s drinking dens.</p> <h2>Where to stay</h2> <p>Accommodation was provided by <strong>Hotel Caro</strong> (doubles from €137, +34 963 059 000, carohotel.com), <strong>29</strong>, a former palace, 200m from the cathedral, which opened in 2012 after seven years of refurbishment. It is one of the oldest buildings in Valencia, with astonishing Roman, Arabic and gothic remains on display alongside sleek, modern furnishings: lots of glossy black and moody lighting. You can eat breakfast – a spread of meats and cheese, bread and fruit, plus unlimited cava – next to the old city walls, or sink into a sunken bath under an ancient beamed ceiling. There are 26 rooms – the three in the attic are especially romantic.</p> <h2>Way to go</h2> <p><strong><em>Getting there</em></strong> <em>EasyJet (</em><em>easyjet.com</em><em>) flies from Gatwick to Valencia; Ryanair (</em><em>ryanair.com</em><em>) flies from Stansted, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and East Midlands</em></p> <p><strong><em>Getting around</em></strong> <em>Valencia has an easy-to-use metro and bus system. Metro lines 3 and 5 take you from the airport to the city centre in about 20 minutes. The Valencia tourist card gives you unlimited travel on public transport, plus discounts at shops, restaurants and museums (€13.50 for 24 hours, €18.00 for 48 hours or €22.50 for 72 hours,</em> <em>valenciatouristcard.com</em><em>). Valencia is very flat, so cycling is a good way to explore: BEbike has five rental outlets around the city (€2 for 1 hour, €8 for 4 hours, €10 for 24 hours,</em> <em>bebike.es</em><em>)</em></p> <p><strong><em>For further information</em></strong> <em>on Valencia, go to</em> <em>visitvalencia.com</em></p> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

Weekend in Valencia: a complete itinerary [ BeritaTerkini ]

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8 Years Later, Google's Book Scanning Crusade Ruled 'Fair Use'

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Eight years after a group of authors and publishers sued Google for scanning more than 20 million library books without the permission of rights holders, a federal judge has ruled that the web giant's sweeping book project stayed within the bounds of U.S. copyright law.</p><br /><p>On Thursday morning, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin dismissed a lawsuit from the Author Guild, ruling that Google's book scans constituted fair use under the law. Though Google scanned those 20 million books in full and built a web service, Google Books, that lets anyone search the digital texts, users can only view 'snippets' of a book if the right holder hasn't given approval.</p><br /><p>'In my view, Google Books provides significant public benefits,' the ruling reads. 'It advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders.'</p><br /><p>In a statement sent to WIRED, a Google spokesperson said the company was 'absolutely delighted' with the ruling. 'As we have long said, Google Books is in compliance with copyright law and acts like a card catalog for the digital age giving users the ability to find books to buy or borrow.'</p><br /><p>Michael Boni, a partner with Boni & Zack, the law firm representing the Authors Guild, did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment. Nor did the Author's Guild. But the Guild has told other news outlets it will appeal the decision.</p><br /><p>'We disagree with and are disappointed by the court's decision today. This case presents a fundamental challenge to copyright that merits review by a higher court,' reads a statement sent to . 'Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world's valuable copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works. In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.'</p><br /><p>The ruling comes two years after Judge Chin rejected a $125 million settlement between Google, the Author's Guild, and the Association of American Publishers, which was also part of the original lawsuit against the web giant. After complaints over the settlement from outside organizations such as the Internet Archive and Google rivals such as Microsoft, Chin ruled the deal would give Google a de facto monopoly over so-called 'orphan books,' scanned texts whose rights holders had not come forward to claim their share of the revenues Google would make from its book scanning endeavor.</p><br /><p>A year after this ruling, the publishers agreed to another settlement with Google, and this one was not subject to approval from the court. But Chin allowed the case to continue as a class action, but an appeals court reversed this decision and told Chin to rule on the copyright issue.</p><br /><p>Though Google limits how much book text you can view online - and though it doesn't display ads on pages describing books it does not have rights to, the company, as the court explained, can still use its service to draw people to its websites and make money in other ways. But this commercial gain doesn't necessarily mean copy infringement. Google Books, the judge ruled, doesn't 'negatively impact the market for books.'</p><br /><p>On the contrary, Chin said, Google Books feeds the market for books. 'A reasonable factfinder could only find that Google Books enhances the sales of books to the benefit of copyright holders,' the ruling reads. 'Google Books provides a way for authors' works to become noticed, much like traditional in-store book displays.'</p><br /><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/af7781f21afbb766f2f66dbaa3f3d920?s=50" width="600"/><br /><p>Cade Metz is the editor of Wired Enterprise. Got a NEWS TIP related to this story -- or to anything else in the world of big tech? Please e-mail him: cade_metz at wired.com.</p><br />Read more by Cade Metz<br /><p>Follow @cademetz on Twitter.</p><br /></div>

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INTERVIEW: David Tennant & Matt Smith Talk Regenerations, Tarzan And Hair

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbqGSEpm9twJreTBQFXtAhiy0FHTIaUak1SjPzm_IVyI2pJBlO893mQ6ZzHRic4TwQJphyphenhyphen94UxPOwQUubQN0G-oxGGV8CA64O6-OOziNWy93th1Y90tEfx9jbpUOnt_3k1N1xNuchrj4/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbqGSEpm9twJreTBQFXtAhiy0FHTIaUak1SjPzm_IVyI2pJBlO893mQ6ZzHRic4TwQJphyphenhyphen94UxPOwQUubQN0G-oxGGV8CA64O6-OOziNWy93th1Y90tEfx9jbpUOnt_3k1N1xNuchrj4/s640/14.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant and Matt Smith have taken part in a joint conversational interview for this month's Doctor Who Magazine and in it they talk about how they both felt whilst recording David's regeneration scene...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "I just sort of stumbled through it, and was grateful and thankful when it was over. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that? Also, I'd been for two auditions, had like three or four months hanging around, and then they were like, 'Can you come in, in like two weeks, please?'"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"Here's a page of dialogue"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Yeah, and suddenly you're doing it and then... I mean, I'm going to have to go through it as well soon, but I can't imagine what it's like to see some young whippersnapper turn up in your suit".</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"It is quite peculiar. But that day was very different to my first day (The Parting Of The Ways, 2005). I had the advantage of sort of being slipped in under the cover of darkness, with a skeleton crew, no other actors, Chris Eccleston's half of the scene had already been filmed. I was just being dropped in a few weeks before it was transmitted. Whereas when you did it, Matt, most of the BBC seemed to have come down from London and was standing round the monitors. It was very high pressure."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"My experience of the day was...it was very mixed, because it was quite emotional just filming that last moment. It wasn't my last day. Had it been my last day as well..."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Horrendous"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "I think I'd have found it really tough"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "Then I just wandered off and got in a car. That was the really weird bit. As you wander off you hear them going 'Right, okay, let's block the next scene', and suddenly you are aware of how dispensable you are - but also that you've filmed something quite historic, and that's exciting to be part of, as is this.."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conversation also touched upon David's hairstyle in The Day Of The Doctor, a subject that seems to be popular with some members of the fanbase. So are we to read anything in to the fact that his hair isn't quite as bouncy / spiky or generally va va voom as it was in some previous episodes..</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"Nothing. No. Well we're mixing it up. Otherwise it's business as usual. This isn't the sort of part where you can change your look all that often. You have a different tie now and again."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt: </b>"That's a different tie?"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David: </b>"It's a slightly different tie, although very much from the same palette (laughs). The shirt's quite different."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "Is it?"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "No."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do they feel about their performances as the Doctor being compared to past actors portrayals?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> "The Doctor isn't the same each time, so you're expected to kind of do it a bit different to the guy who did it last. It's not quite like Hamlet, or Tarzan, or James Bond, where the characters are sort of..."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt:</b> "I find Tarzan a remarkable character. Sorry, to interrupt. Carry on."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>David:</b> (Laughs) "But those characters are the characters, whereas the Doctor is a bit of a blank sheet each time. So I suppose you're compared by people who like to make lists of their favourites and things like that, but that's not really being compared against someone else as an actor, that's people having preferences, isn't it? Which is a slightly different thing."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Matt: </b>"I just really want to see a whimsical Tarzan now.."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read the full interview in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine which is out now priced at £7.99</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Charlie Sheen Drops 10K In Epilepsy Fight</p><br /><img src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/11/12/1112-tmz-charlie-sheen-3.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p><strong>Charlie Sheen</strong> ... is juggling his battles -- with one hand he's pulling out a can of whoop-ass to use on <strong>Brooke Mueller</strong>, and with the other he's writing a $10k check to help finance the war on epilepsy.</p><br /><p>Rewind to a week ago Friday ... when Denise threw in the towel, saying she could no longer care for the twins. It's also the day Charlie called the judge in his custody war Judge Anus Brain.</p><br /><p>At the very same time another part of Charlie's brain was on the hunt for something charitable. He was on the set of 'Anger Management' when a grip named Casey Jones plastered a few posters on the wall seeking donations for The Walk To End Epilepsy. The poster included a pic of Casey's grandson, Dylan, who was diagnosed with pediatric epilepsy when he was 3.</p><br /><p>So Charlie did what he often does -- he pulled out his checkbook and scribbled out $10k.</p><br /><img src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/11/12/1112-epilepsy-kid-wm-sub-3.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>The walk is November 17.</p><br /><p>BTW ... Charlie still hates Brooke.</p><br /></div>

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Charlie Sheen Drops 10K In Epilepsy Fight Charlie Sheen ... is juggling his battles -- with one hand he's pulling out a can of whoop-as...

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17-Nov-2013 13:27

'God bless Canada' late night comics revel in latest chapter of Rob Ford saga - Calgary Herald :: <a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/bless%2BCanada%2Blate%2Bnight%2Bcomics%2Brevel%2Blatest%2Bchapter%2BFord/9170323/story.html">http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/bless%2BCanada%2Blate%2Bnight%2Bcomics%2Brevel%2Blatest%2Bchapter%2BFord/9170323/story.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Miami-Dade Police Say They Believe They Have Found Body of Florida Man ... - ABC News :: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/miami-dade-police-found-body-florida-man-fell-20911611">http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/miami-dade-police-found-body-florida-man-fell-20911611</a><br /><br><br /><br>Franklin Davis sentenced to death for killing teen rape accuser - Dallas Morning News :: <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20131116-franklin-davis-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-teen-rape-accuser.ece">http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20131116-franklin-davis-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-teen-rape-accuser.ece</a><br /><br><br /><br>State's canceled health plans: What no going back will mean - The Seattle Times :: <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022275957_acacanceledpoliciesxml.html">http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022275957_acacanceledpoliciesxml.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Death toll rises to 12 in Afghan bombing - MiamiHerald.com :: <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/17/3759810/6-contractors-found-beheaded-in.html">http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/17/3759810/6-contractors-found-beheaded-in.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>There cannot be a time limit for reconciliation: Rajapaksa - The Hindu :: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/there-cannot-be-a-time-limit-for-reconciliation-rajapaksa/article5360915.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/there-cannot-be-a-time-limit-for-reconciliation-rajapaksa/article5360915.ece</a><br /><br><br /><br>France's Hollande receives warm welcome in Israel as Iran nuclear deal looms ... - Jerusalem Post :: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Hollande-receives-warm-welcome-in-Israel-as-Iran-deal-looms-large-331990">http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Hollande-receives-warm-welcome-in-Israel-as-Iran-deal-looms-large-331990</a><br /><br><br /><br>Poll Lookahead: With Stanford out, which one-loss team is best? - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/rankings/2013/11/17/coaches-poll-lookahead-stanford-cardinal-football/3617697/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/rankings/2013/11/17/coaches-poll-lookahead-stanford-cardinal-football/3617697/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Aid agencies say typhoon shows need for action on climate change - BBC News :: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24975106">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24975106</a><br /><br><br /><br>JFK's limo an enduring symbol of dark day - USA TODAY :: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/17/jfks-limo-an-enduring-symbol-of-a-dark-day/3614865/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/17/jfks-limo-an-enduring-symbol-of-a-dark-day/3614865/</a>

17-Nov-2013 13:27

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Travel tips: Live it up in Lisbon, have drinks in a pop-up teepee, and where to stay in Snowdonia | Joanne O’Connor [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="main-content-picture"> <img alt="Sunrise over the rooftops of Alfama, Lisbon" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384356759724/Sunrise-over-the-rooftops-008.jpg" width="460"><p>Here comes the sun: dawn over the rooftops of Alfama, Lisbon. Photograph: Getty</p> </div> <div id="article-body-blocks"> <h2>Take me there: Alfama, Lisbon</h2> <p><strong>Why go?</strong><br> A ride on the rickety yellow “Tram 28″ through the steep, narrow streets of Alfama is on every tourist’s to-do list, but the opening of a new boutique hotel is the perfect excuse to delve deeper into this atmospheric hillside neighbourhood.</p> <p><strong>What to do</strong><br> Get a bird’s-eye view of Lisbon from the ancient ramparts of Saint George’s castle or the Portas do Sol miradouro (viewpoint). Learn about two of the city’s most distinctive art forms – azulejo tiles and fado music – at the Tile Museum (<em>museudoazulejo.pt</em>) and Museum of Fado (<em>museudofado.pt</em>), which often has live music in its café.</p> <p><strong>Where to stay</strong><br> Since it opened in September, the rooftop winebar of the Memmo Alfama, with its striking red swimming pool, has become <em>the</em> place in which to hang out in Lisbon. Bedrooms are simple but stylish (from €115 a night, <em>memmoalfama.com</em>).</p> <p><strong>Where to eat</strong><br> With its comfortable sofas, books and artsy, laidback vibe, Pois Café (<em>poiscafe.com</em>) is something of a local institution. It serves up brunches, light meals and cocktails.</p> <p><strong>Insider tip</strong><br> Célia Pedroso, food writer and co-founder of Eat, Drink, Walk (<em>eatdrinkwalk.com</em>) which offers culinary walking tours of Lisbon, recommends Patrono for “simple, honest Portuguese food”, such as arroz de marisco – or seafood rice – and salt cod (Largo di Chafariz de Dentro, 20). Finish off with a cocktail at Chapitô à Mesa (Costa do Castelo, 7). “This circus school has one of my favourite terrace bars for a sunset drink overlooking the city,” she says.</p> <h2>Winter wonderlands: Teepees are this season’s favourite pop-up</h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="WigWamBam, the teepee rooftop bar at the Queen of Hoxton" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384356995791/WigWamBam-the-teepee-roof-008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> WigWamBam, the popular rooftop bar at the Queen of Hoxton </span></span></p> <p><br></p> <p>In certain neighbourhoods of London, Manchester and Brighton this summer, you would have struggled to find a car park or factory roof that hadn’t been transformed into an urban beach, supper club or even a hot-tub cinema. But just when you thought the pop-ups had packed up, a new breed of winter spin-offs has arrived on the scene, complete with reindeer skins, hot punches and open fires.</p> <p>Summer saw a disused factory in Hackney taken over by the team at Forza Win, which creates seasonal “dining experiences” in offbeat spaces. Now they’re back on the rooftop with an Italian winter feast featuring minestrone soup and wood-roasted porchetta (until 21 December, forzawin.com).</p> <p>Also in east London, WigWamBam (pictured), the popular rooftop bar at the Queen of Hoxton, is back with a Nordic flavour, including a candlelit tipi adorned with deer hides, and a menu of Arctic-inspired goodies including wild boar sausages and marshmallows for toasting (until March 2014, queenofhoxton.com/wigwambam).</p> <p>Continuing the Nordic theme, Brighton Music Hall bar and restaurant will launch a Tremendous Tipi Christmas Festival in an 8m teepee on the seafront (weekends from 23 November to 22 December, brightonmusichall.co.uk).</p> <p>In Manchester the Oast House restaurant’s Curious Teepee bar is spreading seasonal cheer on Spinningfields (theoasthouse.uk.com), and Bath will host its first-ever “après-ski” bar at the Abbey Hotel, with schnapps and falling snow (28 November to 20 December, abbeyhotelbath.co.uk).</p> <h2>F<strong>or the great outdoors, head for… Snowdonia</strong> </h2> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Picture of Y Golchdy (The Laundry), near Bets Y Coed" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384357393036/Picture-of-Y-Golchdy-The--008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Y Golchdy (The Laundry), near Bets Y Coed<br></span></span></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Plas Curig, Capel Curig</strong> Wales’s first five-star hostel packs a big design punch with bespoke bunkbeds, Welsh-wool blankets and wooden floors. The lounge area wouldn’t be out of place in a boutique hotel, and there’s a large kitchen and dining area. Plas-Y-Brenin, the National Mountain Centre, is just around the corner, for climbing, canoeing and kayaking. From £22.50pp (snowdoniahostel.co.uk)</p> <p><strong>Y Golchdy (The Laundry), nr Bets Y Coed (pictured)</strong> This former dairy and coach house has recently been converted into a cosy retreat for two, surrounded by 14 acres of Victorian parkland on the Ffin y Parc estate. Explore the grounds and you’ll discover an art gallery specialising in 20th century and contemporary Welsh art and a coffee shop serving lunch and afternoon tea. >From £62 a night based on a four-night midweek break (underthethatch.co.uk/laundry)</p> <p><strong>Castell Deudraeth, Portmeirion</strong> This intimate boutique hotel in a Victorian castellated mansion makes great use of the surrounding resources, from the Welsh slate floors to the locally sourced food in the restaurant. It’s a great base for exploring the Llyn Peninsula and the fantasy village of Portmeirion, backdrop to cult 60s TV show The Prisoner and also the setting for Festival No. 6. From £109 (portmeirion-village.com)</p> <p><strong>Ffynnon, Dolgellau</strong> From the honesty bar to the Butler’s Pantry, where you can make yourself a cup of tea or a snack, the owners of this classy B&B in a Victorian rectory work hard to make their guests feel at home. The market town of Dolgellau and Snowdonia National Park are on your doorstep, but you could stay in with a book in the cosy library or soak in the outdoor hot tub. From £150 (ffynnontownhouse.com)</p> </div> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

Travel tips: Live it up in Lisbon, have drinks in a pop-up teepee, and where to stay in Snowdonia | Joanne O’Connor [ BeritaTerkini ]

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Today's Teamster News 11.17.13

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/world/europe/youth-unemployement-in-europe.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" rel="nofollow">Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs</a>  New York Times   ...Five years after the economic crisis struck the Continent, youth unemployment has climbed to staggering levels in many countries: in September, 56 percent in Spain for those 24 and younger, 57 percent in Greece, 40 percent in Italy, 37 percent in Portugal and 28 percent in Ireland. For people 25 to 30, the rates are half to two-thirds as high and rising...<br /><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/americas-student-debt-balance-is-growing-and-less-of-it-is-g" rel="nofollow">America’s Student Debt Balance Is Growing And Less Of It Is Getting Paid Back</a>  Buzzfeed   ...Now it’s over $1 trillion, bigger than credit card debt...<br /><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-15/mass-surveillance-destroying-american-economy" rel="nofollow">Security Expert: “Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA”</a>  zero hedge   ...We’ve previously noted that mass surveillance is killing American tech companies. And Cisco just blamed its earnings slump on China’s disdain for NSA spying...<br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all/harsher-cuts-are-their-way" rel="nofollow">Harsher cuts are on their way</a>  MSNBC   ...Unless Congress reverses the cuts, defense discretionary spending will be cut by an estimated $19 billion in 2014 and non-defense spending will be cut $12 billion more...<br /><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/chases-twitter-gambit-devolves-into-all-time-pr-fiasco-20131115" rel="nofollow">Chase's Twitter Gambit Devolves into All-Time PR Fiasco</a>  Rolling Stone   ...I almost couldn't believe it when I heard that JP Morgan Chase was going to do a live Twitter Q&A with the public – you know, all those people around the world they've been bending over and robbing for, oh, the last decade or so...<br /><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101193946" rel="nofollow">Feds expand hunt for offshore tax evaders</a>  CNBC   ...Federal judges approved special summonses aimed at getting account data and identifying information of American banking clients of Switzerland's Zurcher Kantonalbank and Bermuda-based N.T. Butterfield & Son, prosecutors said Tuesday...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-usa-bank-fatca-idUSBRE9AB18K20131112" rel="nofollow">Bankers' lawsuit jeopardizes U.S. tax dodger crackdown: lawyers</a>  Reuters   ...A court challenge by Texas and Florida bankers threatens to undermine a broad U.S. government crackdown on offshore tax avoidance and jeopardize a web of carefully crafted international agreements, tax lawyers said...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/16/elizabeth-warren-2016-race-white-house" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Warren: quiet revolutionary who could challenge Hillary Clinton in Democrats' 2016 race</a>  The Guardian   ...Senator's tough stance against Wall Street is attracting voters on the left who are disenchanted with the party establishment...<br /><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15876/anti_union_forces_mobilizing_at_chattanoogas_volkswagen_plant/" rel="nofollow">Volkswagen Isn’t Fighting Unionization—But Leaked Docs Show Right-Wing Groups Are</a>  In These Times   ...Mike Elk reports that while the company promised not to oppose the United Auto Workers attempts to organize their Chattanooga, TN plant, outside groups disagree with that decision. They're pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into anti-union campaigns...<br /><a href="http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/11/boeing_recipient_of_the_largest_state_tax_subsidy_in_history_paid_nothing_in_state_corporate_income.php#.UoiulmTF36l" rel="nofollow">Boeing, Recipient of the Largest State Tax Subsidy in History, Paid Nothing in State Corporate Income Taxes Over the Past Decade</a>  Citizens for Tax Justice   ...Over the past decade, Boeing has managed to avoid paying even a dime of state income taxes nationwide on $35 billion in pretax U.S. profits...<br /><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/the-sports-business-cant-take-any-more-money-from-its-fans" rel="nofollow">The Sports Business Can’t Take Any More Money From Its Fans</a>  Buzzfeed   ...The industry’s growth now mostly involves extracting billions from television networks and advertising. Ticket sales and merchandising growth are slowing...<br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304799404579155953286552832?tesla=y" rel="nofollow">Wisconsin Political Speech Raid</a>  Wall Street Journal   ...In recent weeks, special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders...<br /><a href="http://stinktanks.org/ohio/" rel="nofollow">Something stinks in Ohio</a>  Center for Media and Democracy   ...The Buckeye Institute is largely funded by right-wing out-of-state foundations, and does not disclose its donors to the public despite its influence in shaping public policy in Ohio...<br /><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/seattle-elects-socialist-city-council" rel="nofollow">Seattle elects Socialist candidate to city council </a> Associated Press   ...She backed efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15; called for rent control in the city where rental prices keep climbing; and supports a tax on millionaires to help fund a public transit system and other services...<br /><div><br /></div>

corporate tax evasion Elizabeth Warren european austerity Jobs JPMorgan scott walker Seattle Sequestration spying stink tanks Today's Teamster News 11.17.13

Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs  New York Times   ...Five years after the economic crisis struck the Continent, youth ...

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PHOTOS: First Four Doctor Who Radio Times Covers Revealed

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Bjtm_dBrLNgNBnuLhP1ImR4l7VWXrwSKNBPjXy4VS8jtYysgI7Gr27uCoyWuPZxInez3dZJxg6A1jipYvUQWY5H4hYjHJ7iZxcUGTRbAP8DJcoj_Bj6S3Ywc_laXk-37xCLJAlrMHQU/s1600/col4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Bjtm_dBrLNgNBnuLhP1ImR4l7VWXrwSKNBPjXy4VS8jtYysgI7Gr27uCoyWuPZxInez3dZJxg6A1jipYvUQWY5H4hYjHJ7iZxcUGTRbAP8DJcoj_Bj6S3Ywc_laXk-37xCLJAlrMHQU/s640/col4.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The Radio Times have revealed the first four of their collectable covers celebrating Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary. There will be 12 collectable covers in total each featuring a different Doctor and monsters from their era.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">And that's not all as they will be dedicating an amazing 26 pages to the show inside!</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">l And David Tennant will be interviewed! </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Magazine is published on Tuesday 19 November - be quick to collect yours!</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6e50j5hRSsvyifcJ4vhmHKTOsrlfqc3qTO_oLT2aQIPWX4gEHxn_Dg3iQ5TQwTBNy42mMgrvEjBCMRk_N-hO1zFIhetVat31mrj8HjCXN_iLNcrWaoMVPNeu-ECTvmjJZ_0MOeXRZPxQ/s1600/col1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6e50j5hRSsvyifcJ4vhmHKTOsrlfqc3qTO_oLT2aQIPWX4gEHxn_Dg3iQ5TQwTBNy42mMgrvEjBCMRk_N-hO1zFIhetVat31mrj8HjCXN_iLNcrWaoMVPNeu-ECTvmjJZ_0MOeXRZPxQ/s640/col1.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGm6piQmtT0WPtxotuPiojHvNgfbyyZkxzbZiqnxZlEKCUlFyAZGg6rXW8VJ_iIbwC98tTOj0PDV8jj3YhrB4OrDGW_OnKXx2XfLaoA7J-WlzFfQ9p7J-UU1SI-9lz0Rh4UYs8oL14zso/s1600/col2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGm6piQmtT0WPtxotuPiojHvNgfbyyZkxzbZiqnxZlEKCUlFyAZGg6rXW8VJ_iIbwC98tTOj0PDV8jj3YhrB4OrDGW_OnKXx2XfLaoA7J-WlzFfQ9p7J-UU1SI-9lz0Rh4UYs8oL14zso/s640/col2.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZ25mRadDWagF_hj_OwpNAGBljgy0gK2h4EJR0BlGSCDKA9hfuR5adyLZuiWRhVqWDVGzYsqFXFXmNMIMV0NN7eYElbivRGKMGbNVx-vGbsrsLMKlfzihouCqeDMwk7-eNNoMvfDieZY/s1600/col3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZ25mRadDWagF_hj_OwpNAGBljgy0gK2h4EJR0BlGSCDKA9hfuR5adyLZuiWRhVqWDVGzYsqFXFXmNMIMV0NN7eYElbivRGKMGbNVx-vGbsrsLMKlfzihouCqeDMwk7-eNNoMvfDieZY/s640/col3.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

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The Radio Times have revealed the first four of their collectable covers celebrating Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary. There will be 12 col...

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>BERLIN - A German man who kept a priceless trove of art, possibly including works stolen by the Nazis, hidden in his apartment for half a century says he did so because he 'loved' the works.</p><br /><p>Cornelius Gurlitt told German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview published Sunday that he wanted to protect his father's collection from 'strangers.'</p><br /><p><img src="http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/11/09/Foreign/Images/03942587.jpg" width="600"/> </p><br /><p>A quick way to catch up on the week's news through our favorite photos.</p><br /><p>Looking for things to do?</p><br /><p>Select one or more criteria to search</p><br /><p>The magazine quotes the 80-year-old as saying that his late father Hildebrand Gurlitt never bought art from private individuals, only museums or dealers.</p><br /><p>German officials who seized the paintings last year say they suspect the elder Gurlitt may have acquired pictures taken from Jews by the Nazis.</p><br /><p>Several heirs of Holocaust survivors have already come forward to claim some of the 1,406 works whose existence was revealed by German magazine Focus two weeks ago.</p><br /><p>Copyright 2013 newsandtalking.blogspot.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.</p><br /></div>

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PHOTOS: More Doctor Who - Day Of The Doctor Promo Images Released

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The BBC have released a new set of  Doctor Who - Day Of The Doctor  production images featuring David Tennant, Matt Smith, John Hurt, Billie...

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Poll Lookahead: With Stanford out, which one

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Stanford has a problem. Beating teams like Oregon, Arizona State or UCLA? Not a problem. It's the winnable road games that give Stanford trouble, whether at Washington, Utah or USC - the Cardinal's last three Pac-12 losses, all three on the road, all three to unranked teams.</p><br /><p>It's a steep slide from the top of the Rose Bowl chase to outside the Bowl Championship Series picture; that's where Stanford stands today, after a second loss again gave Oregon control of the Pac-12 North Division. When it comes to the new USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, set to be released midday Sunday, the second loss should send Stanford tumbling outside the top 10.</p><br />RANKINGS: Coaches Poll entering Week 12<br /><p>And with the top four teams staying the course, the main intrigue in this week's poll comes from the competition to replace Stanford as the top-ranked team with a single loss. There are five teams with a very strong case for slotting in at No. 5, right behind the four unbeatens: Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State and Baylor.</p><br /><p>One is Oregon, which lost at Stanford, 26-21, on Nov. 7. A second is Clemson, which has found easy sledding after a 51-14 loss to Florida State on Oct. 19. Also in the hunt are Missouri, which was idle Saturday, and Oklahoma State, which moved to 9-1 by beating Texas on the road.</p><br /><p>But it's hard to ignore what Auburn has achieved in coach Gus Malzahn's first season. After going 3-9 last season, losing all eight games in the SEC, the Tigers are 10-1 heading into the annual Iron Bowl against Alabama on Nov. 30. Saturday's memorable 43-38 win against Georgia leaves Auburn at 6-1 in the SEC, one win away from securing the West Division title.</p><br /><p>One thing is sure: Both Alabama and Auburn will have one or fewer loss and be ranked inside the top 10 - two firsts in the rivalry since 1994.</p><br /><p>While in no danger of losing its No. 1 ranking, Alabama could lose another handful of first-place votes to Florida State. The Crimson Tide were far from perfect Saturday in a 20-7 win against Mississippi State. FSU did what it has done all season, ripping apart an overmatched conference foe in Syracuse by 56 points. But it's clear that Alabama would have to lose a game to drop out of the top spot.</p><br /><p>Stanford's slide could only be to No. 10, just behind those one-loss teams. But the Cardinal could very well slip lower, due to the two losses to unranked teams, and be slotted behind fellow two-loss teams like Texas A&M and South Carolina. USC, meanwhile, should move back into the Coaches Poll for the first time under interim coach Ed Orgeron.</p><br />Teams moving up in the poll:<br /><p>USC will be one new face in the new poll. There are should be at least one other; Miami (Fla.) and Texas lost, so this week's poll should have two or more new teams. One team with a very strong case for joining USC is Duke, which handed Miami a 48-30 loss to take control of the ACC Coastal Division.</p><br /><p>1. Mississippi. The Rebels continue to get shockingly little respect in the poll despite netting wins against Vanderbilt, Texas and LSU.</p><br /><p>2. Louisiana-Lafayette. The wins are rarely pretty, but the Ragin' Cajuns continue to charge toward a 10-win regular season.</p><br /><p>3. Michigan State. Mark Dantonio and Pat Narduzzi can't love Saturday's performance on defense, but the Spartans are 9-1 and eyeballing the Rose Bowl.</p><br /><img src="http://moc-assets-prod.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/b2e9b23cd767d8a10443c055f0220c24d0200e88/r=266x400/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2013/11/17/1384672596000-USATSI-7508672.jpg" width="600"/> Teams moving down in the poll:<br /><p><img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/5e7566e7c793c369876df8aaed081316a1b1debf/c=0-377-2640-2362&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2013/11/17//1384672596000-USATSI-7508672.jpg" width="600"/> </p><br /><p>Louisiana Lafayette quarterback Terrance Broadway (8) looks to pass against Arkansas State in a 23-7 victory on Oct. 22.(Photo: Nelson Chenault, USA TODAY Sports)</p><br /><p>1. Virginia Tech. One week after dominating Miami, the Hokies played listless, sloppy, boring football in losing to Maryland in overtime.</p><br /><p>2. Washington. The Huskies could have moved back into the Coaches Poll by beating UCLA; the Bruins won 41-31.</p><br /><p>3. Minnesota. Despite being idle, Minnesota could be penalized for Nebraska's loss to Michigan State - since the Gophers' most impressive win of 2013 came against the Cornhuskers.</p><br />HOW THE TOP 25 FARED IN WEEK 12<br /><p><i>Paul Myerberg, a national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @PaulMyerberg</i>.</p><br /></div>

SPORTS Poll Lookahead: With Stanford out, which one

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Your Favourite Doctor Who Series 4 Episode Revealed

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnIX_w1Nyvy7AXySB_NGSq_UZ31NX2LB4pu57ek04PqzxYB2tWmFDKxAwxnPZ2FN5aleWqHyh9MHGUGO4bOE82OyPx2B_8uPh2AWUQxTsX1pzeJ73qXiGI5nxUKVf1kzOgl9DoRHM_64/s1600/dr21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUnIX_w1Nyvy7AXySB_NGSq_UZ31NX2LB4pu57ek04PqzxYB2tWmFDKxAwxnPZ2FN5aleWqHyh9MHGUGO4bOE82OyPx2B_8uPh2AWUQxTsX1pzeJ73qXiGI5nxUKVf1kzOgl9DoRHM_64/s640/dr21.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">As part of our celebrations for the 50th anniversary  of Doctor Who, we asked you what was your favourite episode of series 4.</span><br /><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to all of you who voted and took the time out to discuss your favourite episodes with us over on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidtennantcom" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can announce that the winner with 30% of the vote is the epic two part series finale The Stolen Earth / Journey's End.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story which saw the return of many of the Tenth Doctor's friends as the Children Of Time. There were many heart breaking moments in the episode, the reunion between the Doctor and Rose Tyler and the loss of Donna Noble as his closest friend.. </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KG8nFMkn-Tc?rel=0" width="640"></iframe><br /><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's closet rival was another two parter, this time Steven Moffat's Silence In The Library / The Forest Of The Dead, with 26%, which saw us witness the death of River Song long before we and the Doctor knew her properly. And third was the Doctor led episode Midnight with 10% of the vote.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuxBioDq9X85YRKpnWmpXW109fWh8qvnNzrKm1UV_o2GFFz3QvB348V55lVeXGHUtJyChx-SB26Mc3OceMDscVbpz8F534aWaaM-TmKNYOwloOZ4P4xFiEEKZWoHw4mGlHU7T-F5HwkM/s1600/s4+poll.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuxBioDq9X85YRKpnWmpXW109fWh8qvnNzrKm1UV_o2GFFz3QvB348V55lVeXGHUtJyChx-SB26Mc3OceMDscVbpz8F534aWaaM-TmKNYOwloOZ4P4xFiEEKZWoHw4mGlHU7T-F5HwkM/s640/s4+poll.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Specials episode poll will start later today so make sure you vote in that too as</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">w</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e will be finding out what your favourites from all the series and specials are and then pitting them against each other to find your ultimate David Tennant episode of the show.</span></div>

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Sichuan Folk: restaurant review | Jay Rayner [ BeritaTerkini ]

<div id="main-content-picture"> <img alt="Tables and paper lanterns at Sichuan Folk in Shoreditch" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/12/1384272736956/Tables-and-paper-lanterns-008.jpg" width="460"><p>Get it while it’s hot: the ‘cosy’ dining room of Sichuan Folk, in London’s Shoreditch. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer</p> </div> <div id="article-body-blocks"> <p><strong>32 Hanbury Street, London E1 (020 7247 4735). Meal for two: £70 (cash only)</strong></p> <p>A few years ago I gave a positive review to a Chinese restaurant on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue called Golden Day, where the food made my scalp sweat. It specialised in the dishes of Hunan; nothing could be served unless it had first been pelted with fistfuls of fresh and dried chillies, even dessert. I loved their “dry pot” chicken, the liquor in the wok bubbling to nothing over its burner, and the slices of pork belly with pickled soya beans. The management laminated my review and stuck it in the window. I walk past often and, being thus reminded of what a great time I’d had there, would pop in by myself, hunker down behind one of the wooden partitions and bury myself armpit deep in plates of fire and punch with a bit of pig thrown in for good measure. It made me happy.</p> <p>A few months back I ate there again and it was awful. It was now a culinary black hole, a place where appetite went to die. It felt like a different place entirely. Dreary bits of meat floundered about like corpulent German tourists testing the buoyancy of the Dead Sea, in sauces which had a similar level of subtlety as those waters. I told the manager how bad I thought it now was and walked him over to the window where the laminated copy of my review was Blu-Tacked in place. I insisted he took it down, which he did. It was a staggeringly self-regarding thing to do: bullying, bombastic and ludicrous. In my defence, I was really quite drunk, which is no defence at all. Then again I was also very cross.</p> <p>I’ve since realised my sense that this was now a different restaurant was closer to the mark than I might have imagined. Not long after, I heard that the Golden Day chef had moved on to Yipin China on the Essex Road. I ate there and lo and behold all the power and attitude I loved was in place. This is something with which those of us who adore these niche Chinese restaurants, with their fighty repertoire far removed from the sugary staples of the Cantonese tradition, must contend. The kitchens of restaurants serving the food of Sichuan, Hunan and Xiandong provinces depend, for the most part, on an immigrant workforce. And that workforce tends to be more mobile than most. The restaurant is great until they sod off somewhere else. Then it isn’t. I am constantly receiving emails from people telling me the place I praised is awful, that I am an idiot and have personally ruined their evening out. (The exception to this is the group around the Soho Sichuan restaurant Barshu, which maintains its standards.)</p> <p>I hope today’s restaurant stays as good as it was the night I ate there, but past experience means I advise you to visit sooner rather than later. Sichuan Folk was recommended to me by the brilliant Fuchsia Dunlop, author of the key English language cookery books on Sichuan food, who also trained at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in Chengdu, one of the very first Europeans so to do. She is a consultant for the Barshu group, and regularly rolls her eyes at me when I big up the qualities of a rival, as if I’m a promising undergraduate who has overreached himself. So if she recommends somewhere it’s generally worth paying attention.</p> <p>And it is. Sichuan Folk is a small box of a restaurant on Brick Lane, down the road from the many truly awful curry houses which cluster here. There is a little wooden fretwork on the walls and some brushwork – Chinese characters, a few delicate bamboo shoots – for decoration. Tables are packed closely together, so that you end up pointing at dishes landing in front of strangers and barking: “Ooh, what’s that?” As is standard in Sichuan places, the menu is picture led. It is a riot of overexposed saturated colours – or at least I assumed it was until the food arrived and it was just as vivid off the page.</p> <p>We started with a bowl of sesame seed-sprinkled caramelised walnuts, as black as pebbles on a churned shingle beach and almost as shiny. These are the crystal meth of sugared-nut snacks, the thin outer layer giving way to deep toasted tones punched up by the sesame seeds. They are what Tsingtao beer was invented for.</p> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="Curving deep-fried 'fish fragrant sea bass' in sauce" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/12/1384273014167/Curving-deep-fried-fish-f-008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Jay Rayner: ‘We fear bones, but the whole fish can be crunched through from head to tail’: (pictured) the sea bass in question. Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer<br></span><br></span></p> <p>Their meaty, thin-skinned “signature” dumplings are half the size of standard Chinese-restaurant offerings and come in a deep soy-based sauce which is less a salty hit than something intense with umami and more caramel. Our waiter insists on spooning the sauce over the dumpling’s folds repeatedly before he will let us near them. We appreciate his ministrations.</p> <p>Sichuan twice-cooked pork is slices of belly with fat the colour of marble that melts on the tongue, with a good handful of seared spring onions to make you feel it might almost be good for you, plus the welcome intrusion of pickled red chillies. It’s served with steamed rice buns to be opened up and back-filled: you get soft sweet bun, the crunch of spring onion, the hit of fiery sauce and then the pork itself.</p> <p>Fire-exploded kidney flowers is perhaps a little less pyrotechnic than it sounds – it’s a stir-fry of sliced pig’s kidney but is as gloriously unapologetic a piece of offal cookery as you will find in London.</p> <p><span class="inline wide"><br><img alt="'Fire-exploded kidney flowers' with vegetables on a plate" height="276" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/11/12/1384273522442/Fire-exploded-kidney-flow-008.jpg" width="460"><span class="caption"><br> Jay Rayner: ‘Fire-exploded kidney flowers is less pyrotechnic than it sounds – it’s a stir-fry of sliced pig’s kidney’ (pictured). Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer<br></span><br></span></p> <p>The final combo is Chinese fish and chips. The chips are slices of flash-fried potato with a shedload of dried red chillies, garlic and salt. What’s not to like? The fish is a “fish-fragrant” sea bass that arrives at the table whole, battered and curling up on itself, slathered with a sauce and a fine julienne of spring onions. The waiter displays then dismantles it. We fear bones, but by some miracle of expert deep-frying, the whole thing can be crunched through from head to tail. The flesh is white and pearly and soft. The sauce is sweet and sticky, with an edge of fire.</p> <p>That’s a repeated theme. Some Sichuan restaurants throw chillies and numbing peppercorns at you as if you’re an addict craving a fix (and sometimes I am). Perhaps we only hit the gentle end of the menu, but here it felt like they were being used as a flavouring rather than some sweat-inducing declaration of intent.</p> <p>Right now Sichuan Folk is an absolute gem, a true collector’s piece. I just hope it stays that way.</p> <p>■ The Red Chilli group has been a reliable source of kicking Sichuan food across the north for many years now. The most reliable remains the outpost on Portland Street, in Manchester. Portions are huge, and prices reasonable. Ignore any dish you’ve ever heard of and go instead for the likes of spicy hot-poached mutton in chilli oil. Some of it may hurt, but you’ll like it…</p> <p>■ While we’re in that part of the world, Disappearing Dining Clubs, which stages pop-up dinners in unusual locations, has just extended operations from London to Mancs. The next one is on 28 November in Murray’s Mills, Ancoats. Four courses cost £46 with £1 going to the Teenage Cancer Trust (disappearingdiningclub.co.uk)</p> <p>■ This week sees the publication of <em>A Fork In The Road</em>, a collection of food-based travel writing from the Lonely Planet, edited by James Oseland of American food mag <em>Saveur</em>. There are contributions from big names such as Michael Pollan, Tamasin Day-Lewis and Fuchsia Dunlop…. Oh, and an essay on the joys of Essex oysters by, er, me.</p> <p><br> Email Jay at jay.rayner@observer.co.uk. Follow Jay on Twitter @jayrayner1</p> </div> //<!--[CDATA[ jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();}); //]]--> <br><br>

Sichuan Folk: restaurant review | Jay Rayner [ BeritaTerkini ]

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