Baku Azerbaijan Hash House Harriers BAHHH

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5th July 2009, 5.30 pm
Start: McDonalds @ Narimanov metro station
Co-Hares: HASHERS !!!
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28 June 2009, 6.00 pm

Start: Elmler Akademiyasi metro station

Co-Hares: First In Last Out (FILO) and Kyle (needs a name…)
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21 June 2009, 6.00 pm

Start: Xatai metro
(just outside, can’t go wrong, no matter how hard you try)

Co-Hares: Fluffball, Rugburn, Shaggy
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Dear hashers,

This is a quick reminder of the Grand Hash Trip to Sheki and what you should remember before you go out drinking on Fri night, due to a risk of you: a) never waking up (in time for the bus, that is); b) not packing stuff you need there, other than your favourite 25-run beer mug.

So, be at the Hash Bus Stop (corner of the Carpet/Lenin museum square) at 7:45 (bloody AM, of course!!) on Saturday morning! The bus will LEAVE at 8 AM with all present and their luggage on board. Those who are not on it by that time will not be reimbursed.

We’re also preparing the hash acts for the Sat night. You don’t have to bring your costumes, unless you just luuuuv wearing that dress and high hills when this is socially acceptable, but do bring your favourite disco classic to perform to. The Bored of the BAH3 will be awarding the most memorable performances.

Drinks are on us! *applause* However, if you want to get rid of some extra bottles at home, feel free to bring them along instead of your spouse. We’re fully catered for, except the bus ride, so you may wish to pack a sandwich or two (to feed the starved hashers fortunate enough not to be married to the person in the kitchen). Clothes-wise, weather can turn a little chillier at night and there is a remote possibility of us partying outdoors on Sat night, so bring something long-sleeved as well. Otherwise, just your hash gear will do (that you may wish to change going to bed). A toothbrush is an advantage.

A reminder for everyone other than the 38 Sheki travellers: you will lead your sad lives in Baku without your favourite Sunday activity this week. Go and get wasted to death on Saturday - you don’t have to get up until Monday morning (or ever).

On-on to Sheki!

Your GM,

Table Dancing Queen

June 7th 2009, 6.00pm

Location:Top of Funicular
Hare(s) : D’Artaguan and Froth Head

May 31th 2009, 5.00pm
Location:Roundabout Number 20
(2km south of Villa Petrolea on the Salyan Hiway)
Hare(s) : Frankenstein and Sir Moonboots

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DIRECTIONS: This is the only roundabout between The Southernmost end of the Boulevard and Crescent Beach Hotel. If you get Bibiheyat Mosque you have gone too far; if you get to Crescent Beach you have gone far too far!! Get a bus number 20 or 124 along the Boulevard (Neftchilar Prospect). 

For example, bus station opposite Muppets Theatr is Okay (HEWIE)

May 24th 2009, 3.30pm
Location: Lenin/Carpet museum
(the usual BAHHH corner bus stop)
Hare(s) : “…they are hashers flu and flu…”

this is the
BUS RUN
(we’ll run inside bus)
so
you, HASHERS better CAME 5-10 minutes EARLIER and BRING extra MONEY

The Quince (pronounced /kwɪns/), or Cydonia oblonga, is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5-8 m tall and 4-6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad.

The immature fruit is green with dense grey-white pubescence, most of which rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes colour to yellow with hard, strongly-perfumed flesh. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, 6-11 cm long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs. The flowers, produced in spring after the leaves, are white or pink, 5 cm across, with five petals.

Quince is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, Bucculatrix bechsteinella, Bucculatrix pomifoliella, Coleophora cerasivorella, Coleophora malivorella, Green Pug and Winter Moth.

Four other species previously included in the genus Cydonia are now treated in separate genera. These are the Chinese Quince Pseudocydonia sinensis, a native of China, and the three flowering quinces of eastern Asia in the genus Chaenomeles. Another unrelated fruit, the Bael, is sometimes called the “Bengal Quince”.

Origins

The fruit was known to the Akkadians, who called it supurgillu [2]; Arabic سفرجل safarjal = “quinces” (collective plural). The modern name originated in the 14th century as a plural of quoyn, via Old French cooin from Latin cotoneum malum / cydonium malum, ultimately from Greek κυδώνιον μήλον, kydonion melon “Kydonian apple” (in the figurative sense, similar to pomodoro - Italian word for tomato literally meaning “apple of gold”, pomme de terre - the French word for potato, literally meaning “apple of the ground”, and the classical “golden apple”). The quince tree is native to Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and was introduced to Croatia, Turkey, Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria.

Cultivation of quince may have preceded apple culture, and many references translated to “apple”, such as the fruit in Song of Solomon, may have been to a quince. Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to her. Plutarch reports that a Greek bride would nibble a quince to perfume her kiss before entering the bridal chamber, “in order that the first greeting may not be disagreeable nor unpleasant” (Roman Questions 3.65). It was a quince that Paris awarded Aphrodite. It was for a golden quince that Atalanta paused in her race. The Romans also used quinces; the Roman cookbook of Apicius gives recipes for stewing quince with honey, and even combining them, unexpectedly, with leeks. Pliny the Elder mentioned the one variety, Mulvian quince, that could be eaten raw. Columella mentioned three, one of which, the “golden apple” that may have been the paradisal fruit in the Garden of the Hesperides, has donated its name in Italian to the tomato, pomodoro. This interesting fruit can also be eaten cooked or raw. They are an excellent source of vitamin C.