Two great beers from Iceland

I guess it is not so common to drink Icelandic beer. So last weekend I was lucky enough to have and try some. Even their names are just awesome Vatnajokull Frozen in Time and Myr Kvi Porter Nr.13.

Olvisholt Vatnajokull Frozen in Time Brewed by Ölvisholt Brugghús is dunkler bock (RateBeer overall/style rating 58/76). Olvisholt Brugghus is a microbrewery located at an old dairy farm in south Iceland. It was founded in the year 2007 by two neighboring farmers who had a true passion for beer. Their portfolio is pretty rich and I would love to try some more - specifically their smoked lager called Lava (RateBeer overall/style rating 99/99). But I liked the Frozen. Clear amber body, nice head, a bit sweet a bit fruity in taste. Easy to drink and pretty nice label. According to their webpage you can order their beers in Scandinavia, Canada and USA as well. For US try this link - http://belgianexperts.com.

Borg MyrKvi Porter NR.13 (RB rating 69/46) is brewed at Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson in Reykjavik. Ölgerðin was established in 1913 and is one of the largest and oldest companies in Iceland. The company has its own beer brand - Egils - which is considered to be not very good (see the ratings) but it brew for smaller contractor Borg Brugghús. They number their beers so MyrKvi is their 13th beer. Up to date Borg Brugghus made 20 different beers. The last one is India Red Lager called Teresa. Brugghus has very neat and interesting webpage and I´m looking forward to their next brews. Porter NR13 was very heavy, dark chocolate stout with small brown head and long pleasant dry palate with coffee tones in it. Perfect for a cold nights not only in Iceland.

Iceland has some very interesting and decent breweries and I really wants to see what more is hiding up there.

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me (The Atlantic)

What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week.

Memorization, not rationalization. That is the advice of my 13-year-old daughter, Esmee, as I struggle to make sense of a paragraph of notes for an upcoming Earth Science test on minerals. “Minerals have crystal systems which are defined by the # of axis and the length of the axis that intersect the crystal faces.” That’s how the notes start, and they only get murkier after that. When I ask Esmee what this actually means, she gives me her homework credo.

Esmee is in the eighth grade at the NYC Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies, a selective public school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. My wife and I have noticed since she started there in February of last year that she has a lot of homework. We moved from Pacific Palisades, California, where Esmee also had a great deal of homework at Paul Revere Charter Middle School in Brentwood. I have found, at both schools, that whenever I bring up the homework issue with teachers or administrators, their response is that they are required by the state to cover a certain amount of material. There are standardized tests, and everyone—students, teachers, schools—is being evaluated on those tests. I’m not interested in the debates over teaching to the test or No Child Left Behind. What I am interested in is what my daughter is doing during those nightly hours between 8 o’clock and midnight, when she finally gets to bed. During the school week, she averages three to four hours of homework a night and six and a half hours of sleep.

I wonder: What is the exact nature of the work that is turning her into a sleep-deprived teen zombie so many mornings?Some evenings, when we force her to go to bed, she will pretend to go to sleep and then get back up and continue to do homework for another hour. The following mornings are awful, my daughter teary-eyed and exhausted but still trudging to school.

I decide to do my daughter’s homework for one typical week.

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Thunderbird 2 is go! Gigantic amphibious airship takes first flight

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• The Aeroscraft can take off and land without an airstrip meaning it can operate even in war zones and disaster areas

Zeppelins were once considered the future of air transport - but after the horror of the Hindenburg disaster, they disappeared from the skies for more than 75 years.

Now a pioneering aviation firm hopes to bring back the airships in a bid to revolutionise the global market in transporting freight.

The Aeroscraft is built using innovative technology which allows it to control its flight better than previous airships, so it should avoid the problems experienced by the first generation of zeppelins.

It requires only a third as much fuel as an aeroplane carrying cargo, and it can take off and land anywhere even without a formal airstrip - including on water - making it well suited to war zones and disaster areas.

The aircraft has been designed thanks to a $3million grant from the U.S. government, and it will soon be ready for its first test flight, according to Business Insider.

The Aeroscraft is designed by Worldwide Aeros Corp., who predict that it will change the way that goods are moved around the world by providing a mode of transport which is cheaper than planes but faster than ships.

The key technological breakthrough came when the firm's founder Igor Pasternak came up with a way to compress helium, which allows the airship to control its weight.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416809/Return-zeppelin-Firm-unveils-gigantic-airship-revolutionise-goods-carried-world.html#ixzz2eZNJyxwQ
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Mother mummifies her dead son's body in alcohol for 18 years

Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia mummified Joni Bakaradze when he died 18 years ago

She wraps his corpse in sheets dipped in alcohol to keep it from decay

He's received a change of clothes every birthday until decay made too hard

She says: 'He wanted son to see him that way. The kid started to love him'

A mother whose son died 18 years ago pickled him in alcohol and stashed his corpse in the basement where she has cared for him ever since... all so his son can learn to love him.

Tsiuri Kvaratskhelia keeps Joni Bakaradze's body entombed in a wooden coffin beneath the family home in Georgia, eastern Europe.

But despite having died in 1995, the 22-year-old has remained almost perfectly mummified, thanks to his mother's constant love and attention.

And every year on his birthday she has even given him a change of clothes - until four years ago when decay finally made the feat impossible.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416728/Mother-preserves-dead-sons-body-alcohol-18-years-son-sort-man-was.html#ixzz2eZMVut95
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