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POPSOakland’s Little Guatemala – The early bird gets the tamale … and churrasco More: The tamales were pretty terrific too, tied with a little string. If you eat them there, the tamale lady unties the banana leaf and the fragrant wonderfulness perfumes the air. There is also a onion/pepper sauce which I was warned was hot … no kidding. Extra points for the woman being in native costume with her Guatemalan skirt, pink frilly apron and long-braided hair. She only sold the atole and tamales and had a larger variety of tamales, chicken, beef, pork and cheese…A half a block up from tamale lady #2 is another tamale vendor. I was so stuffed at this point that I didn’t even get out of the car to check it out. However, she has some sort of coleslaw with her tamales and three types of sauce…It is always surprising to me the food that can be found only early in the morning, the vendors vanishing like the dew once the sun rises in the sky. I have to get up early more…or stay up later.
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POPSReading between the lines of the Maya calendar From 1991 to 2001, about 815,000 acres of protected Petén rain forest were lost to unlawful settlers, drug traffickers and cattle ranchers. Since then, the rate of loss has accelerated, according to Edin Lopez, technical director of the government's National Council of Protected Areas in Petén. "We are not going to speak badly of cows," Chayax said. "But the ranchers have no heart."
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POPSMirador Pryamid Discovered Experts accurately describe the Mirador Basin as the “Cradle of Maya Civilization.” The archeological site of El Mirador itself covers over approximately four square miles and has the greatest concentration of civic and religious buildings in the Maya world, far larger and an estimated 800 years older than nearby Tikal. El Mirador’s La Danta Pyramid, rising 230 feet, is the greatest structure the Maya ever built, and both it and the slightly smaller Tigre Pyramid dwarf even the largest structures in Mexico. Abandoned shortly after the time of Christ, the Mirador Basin’s Preclassic Maya cities remain largely preserved without major destruction from subsequent occupations, leaving their unique history intact.
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POPSFacebook is your next interview weapon! Ever worry that your next employer will see your Facebook page or worse, ask you to explain a quote, picture or fb quiz? Never happen? Maybe or maybe not. Guy Kawasaki offers some useful tips on how to turn the recruitment tables around to your favor. The basic premise is to show your strengths and down play weaknesses. Thoughts? Comment or tweet us!
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POPSGourmet Coffee Gourmet Coffee from 8th Sin Coffee Gourmet coffee from sharp, fruity Kenyan beans to rich, smooth Sumatra Mandheling to perfectly balanced Guatemala Antigua, including Certified Organics, Fair Trade, Shade Grown, and coffees from the Rainforest Alliance.
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POPS5 Amazing Holes Excuse me, I know this clip has been done before. Both by me and a few others I think. But the 5th hole has just gotten SO much larger this year and I see no end. This is one way to relieve frustration. I would like to know if anyone agrees with me.
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POPSThe Latest Faux Social Cause: Urban Farming I guess no one remembers truck farms, so a new term had to be invented to cover the couple of thousand folks "playing" farmer and "buying local." Want to buy local and support the reestablishment of truck farms around major US cities? Fine. 1. Plow under your suburban homestead and a few thousand just like it that took the place of farms from the 1950s to the 1980s and into the 90s and sell it at a loss for farmland. 2. Move into the city and give up one of your cars and one motor scooter. 3. Don't buy reasonably prices tomatoes, strawberries, melons in winter from Chile, Guatemala, Argentina. or cheap roses from Columbia. 4. Learn how to "can" tomatoes and fruits as your great-grandmother used to. What am I talking about? What are you talking about?
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POPSNo Forests=No People Even a blind man can see that we are messing our nest so badly, that it cannot be long before nature says: no more!
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POPSAn Investigation Into Civilization's End In a scientific research city in the heart of Siberia, he meets with geophysicists who contend that the solar system is moving into a highly charged interstellar energy cloud. And on the tip of South Africa, he interviews physicists and psychics who are trying to make sense of the fact that the earth’s magnetic field is vanishing.
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