There are two excellent bike hire shops in Castelnuovo where you can hire mountain bikes or road bikes for €10 – €15 daily. The Giro d'Italia swings by in May. Release your inner Wiggo.
The most beautiful golf course in Tuscany? This little 6 hole course is beautifully maintained and provides some interesting challenges for even the most experienced golfer. The views of the Apuane Alps are nothing but a distraction. There is a driving range and putting green. Green fees are €18 and you can stay for the day.
A day at the Tuscan Riviera is quite an excursion with a breathtaking drive over the hills to the sea. Spot the marble quarries en route. Go on a Wednesday and pick up a bargain at the market at Forte dei Marmi.
There are courts in Gallicano, Barga and Bagni di Lucca.
The hilltop town of Barga is well worth a visit as the summer brings a score of artists who exhibit their work in this "Citta d'Arte". Among the most well known is John Bellany, the Glaswegian artist who lived locally.
Art Toscana run highly popular painting courses in Barga, as well as in Florence and Sicily. A possibility for non-participating partners perhaps?
We can point you in the right direction to find these as well as to shops and delicatessens for acquiring the best produce.
Italian food is about flavour. It is about ripe fruit picked off the tree and eaten while still warm from the sun, fish straight from the water, meat reared and butchered with skill, wine made with the genuine local grapes and matured in ancient barrels, organic vegetables just dug from richly matured fields with the earth still clinging to their roots. This is not a romantic vision, it is how our food should be!
Our closest restaurant at just 15 minutes walk away from Col di Lavacchio where a good meal can be had at a remarkable cost. Both the steak and the pizza can be recommended and you will be sure of a friendly welcome.
Further afield we can recommend restaurants in Lucca such as Canuleia or Ammodonostro as well as wine shops and bars. You could always visit a winery on the Strada del Vino just north of Lucca. www.stradavinoeoliolucca.it where some fabulous whites and reds can be purchased.


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Modak-Truran elected president of IP lawyers
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Butler Snow's Anita Modak-Truran has been elected president of the Tennessee Intellectual Property Lawyers Association. The organization is composed of patent, trademark and copyright attorneys who volunteer to educate others on emerging trends and best practices within the industry.
Modak-Truran heads the entertainment and media industry group in Butler Snow's Nashville office. She works on a wide variety of business and litigation matters in the entertainment and media industry, including representing motion picture and television companies, television stations, newspapers, record labels, music companies and talent.
She completed her undergraduate education at Gustavus Adolphus College and earned her Juris Doctor from Loyola University of Chicago. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi Law School where she teaches courses on deal-making in the entertainment industry.
Bar Journal honors 3 for legal writing
Raybin
Nashville lawyer Benjamin K. Raybin, Memphis Lawyer Amy J. Amundsen and South Carolina attorney Jeffrey L. Levy, formerly of Nashville, have been honored with the Justice Joseph W. Henry Memorial Award for Outstanding Legal Writing by the Tennessee Bar Association.
The Joe W. Henry Award is given each year to a member of the Tennessee Bar Association who contributes the most outstanding article to the TBA's monthly magazine, the Tennessee Bar Journal.
Raybin received the award for his article "Pardon Me: How Executive Clemency Works in Tennessee (and How It Doesn't)," published in the August 2016 issue.
Amundsen and Levy were honored for their point/counterpoint articles, "Confusion / Clarity: Two Family Law Attorneys on How to Balance Best Interests of Children and Doctor-Patient Privilege," published in May 2016.
Raybin is an associate at Raybin & Weissman, P.C., where he practices primarily criminal defense and civil rights law. He holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University.
Levy has been a family law practitioner in Nashville but recently relocated to South Carolina and is in the process of retiring. A graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School, he is a past chair of the Tennessee Bar Association's Family Law Section and of the Nashville Bar Association's Domestic Relations Committee. He has also a past chair of the TBA's Family Law Code Committee.
XMI expands executive team with new COO
XMI has hired Jennifer LeMieux as chief operating officer, placing with her the responsibility for strategic planning and management, identifying business development and partnership opportunities, and strengthening internal company teams and company culture.
She joins XMI with more than two decades of experience working with companies to improve business operations and processes. Under her leadership in previous roles, LeMieux forged long-term client relationships that produced process management improvements, higher revenue flows and growth for client companies. She also has significant experience implementing training programs for employees and developing initiatives to reward top performers.
Prior to joining XMI, LeMieux was chief customer/operations officer at Gaffey Healthcare and HealthTechS3. Her career has been focused on partnering with growing businesses and supporting them with business process services and outsourcing needs.
LeMieux holds degrees in biology and English from Mercer University and an executive MBA from Belmont University.
Additions, promotions at Lovell Communications
Hopson
National health care marketing and public relations firm Lovell Communications has added Jessica Hopson as account supervisor and Laura Elkins as senior account executive and promoted Kristy Lucero to senior account executive and Sam Prichard to account supervisor.
Hopson joins Lovell from Inbound Marketing Agents, where she served as director of marketing and specialized in creating digital marketing and customer acquisition campaigns for business-to-business and consumer-focused clients, including those in the post-acute and behavioral health space. Previously, she developed branding and marketing strategies for Comdata and secured nearly $1 million in grant funding for Junior Achievement of Middle Tennessee. Hopson holds a degree in communication and public relations from Mississippi State University.
Elkins most recently served as the director of tourism and business development at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, where she was responsible for expanding national visibility through a combination of traditional and digital marketing campaigns. Prior to Cheekwood, she was director of communications at the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development for eight years. Elkins earned a degree in human ecology from the University of Tennessee Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Lucero specializes in media relations, content creation, digital marketing and measurement for the firm's health care provider and supplier clients. The University of Southern California graduate is also a frequent contributor to national food websites.
Prichard has worked with a variety of healthcare clients throughout her career, specializing in national media relations and thought leadership. The Los Angeles native graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Opry Mills welcomes three team members
Simon Property Group has added Candace Kilburn, assistant director of marketing and business development, Candice Collins, guest services manager, and Krissy Bodnovich, marketing administrative assistant.
Kilburn began her career with the company in 2011 in guest services at College Mall and Hamilton Town Center in Indiana. She then served as a regional marketing assistant at Simon's corporate office in Indianapolis.
Bodnovich
Most recently, she served as the assistant director of marketing at Dadeland Mall in Miami, Fla., as well as the director of marketing at College Mall. She is a graduate of Indiana University, where she earned a degree in apparel merchandising/marketing.
Collins was most recently the guest services manager for The Village at Meridian, a high-end mall in Idaho. A native of northern California, Collins graduated with a degree in merchandise marketing from The Fashion Institute in Los Angeles.
Bodnovich was most recently the marketing coordinator for Southeastern Commercial Properties, Inc. Bodnovich, a native of Fairmont, West Virginia, graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in marketing and a master's in integrated marketing communications.
Public Schools Hall adds 4 members
Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway will receive the Nelson C. Andrews Distinguished Service Award at the Nashville Public Education Foundation's 13th annual Public Schools Hall of Fame luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Joey Hatch, Valerie Malyvanh Jansen, M.D., Ph.D., and Janet Miller also will be inducted into the Public Schools Hall of Fame as Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.
The event raises funds to strengthen and improve the public schools and honors community leaders.
Calloway will receive the NPEF's highest honor for her work on behalf of at-risk youth across the city. She has co-chaired the Mayor's Youth Violence Summit and Task Force, served on the Search Advisory Team tasked with recruiting a new director of schools and advocated for kids and families on dozens of community boards.
Hatch is the executive vice president and general manager of Skanska USA's Midwest Region. At Skanska, Hatch was instrumental in developing the company's Diversity Business Program and is a founding member of Skanska's National Diversity and Inclusion Council. He was appointed to the Tennessee Board of Regents earlier this year and represents the 7th Congressional District. Hatch serves on the boards of several organizations, including the YWCA and Conexión Américas, and serves on Mayor Megan Barry's Gender Equity Council. He is a Hillsboro High graduate.
Jansen is a medical oncologist at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. She also conducts translational breast cancer research as an instructor in medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The Overton High graduate has received numerous awards for her work, including the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Merit Award, the ASCO Young Investigator Award, the Susan G. Komen Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, and the American Association for Cancer Research Women in Cancer Research Scholar Award.
Miller is the CEO of the Nashville office of Colliers International, a global commercial real estate firm. Prior to joining Colliers, she served as the chief economic development officer for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce for 21 years. Miller is the past president of the Rotary Club of Nashville, chairwoman of the YWCA board, and a board member of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and numerous other boards. She is a Hillwood High graduate.
Cheekwood names VP of gardens, horticulture
Cheekwood has hired Peter Grimaldi as its new vice president of gardens and horticulture, luring him from his previous role as director of horticulture and facilities at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in North Carolina.
Grimaldi will serve on a six-person senior leadership team, responsible for ensuring horticultural excellence throughout Cheekwood's 55-acre campus.
Grimaldi has a degree in plant science from Cornell University.

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Stamped and Colored Concrete Patio Project
This was one of those projects that took longer than I expected. I think I started in mid-September and finished in late February. Approximately 13 yards of dirt was excavated, 6 yards of gravel laid, and 10 yards of concrete poured.
How Long Could it Take?
September 2004 I rented a Kubota tractor for about $225. It took me about three hours of learning the controls before I became proficient (could operate several functions at the same time) at moving dirt where I wanted it. Sure I could have paid someone to do it for me, but you haven't lived until you driven one of these things. I moved a lot of the dirt with the bucket and then spread it across the top of the lot with the box grader. The box grader is the most useful piece on the tractor. I also filled some holes in the backyard and scraped up the remains of the blackberry bushes and fallen tree.
November 15 2005 One of the few pictures I have of the forms being layed out. I did this mostly after work, so it was often dark. The concrete was only poured 3.5"-4" deep. If I had to do it over again, I'd pour it thicker.
February 23 2005 6:45 a.m. Capitol Concrete and Curb arrives to check the site and forms. They had previously checked my work when I had them come out for an estimate. They snapped some lines across the foundation and tacked expansion strips to the existing concrete.
6:50 a.m. Orangevale Ready Mix arrives and the pour is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. The Concrete pumping equipment is laid out and connected up.
7:30 a.m. Concrete mixing starts.
February 23 2005 8:00 a.m. Concrete is pumped into the forms. The concrete is Trowelled into the corners and packed against the sides of the forms. They screeded the surface as they went, rather than screeding it out over the edges of the forms like I have in the past. I don't think *any* concrete went over the top.
February 23 2005 The edges are floated by hand from the sides, while the centers are bull floated.
February 23 2005 Pumping, screeding, and floating
February 23 2005 The concrete was mixed on-site and two trucks of dry ingredients were required for this pour.
February 23 2005 9:00 a.m. CC&C starts spreading the Brickform Sunbaked Clay color hardener that will form the base color of the slabs.
February 23 2005 We could have also used an integral mix color, however, CC&C finds that the color comes out more evenly when applied to the top. Integral mix also costs more, but if it chips, the mix color is exposed, rather than the plain gray concrete color.
February 23 2005 Spreading color hardener
February 23 2005 Dispersing more color hardener. An additional layer of color hardener is added after the first is worked in.
February 23 2005 The color hardener is bull floated into the top 1/8" of the concrete.
February 23 2005 The colored concrete is then steel troweled to a fine finish using pole extensions. The slabs are also being edged.
February 23 2005 9:30 a.m. The site foreman lays out pattern using a tape measure. Then control joints are cut using a 2-1/2" jointer. Since the whole pattern is being cut with the jointer, the concrete should crack along the joints and minimize face cracking.
February 23 2005 It's pretty muddy. It had been raining several days before.
February 23 2005 The inner diamonds were cut after snapping lines across the slab at 4 foot intervals. After the pattern is jointed in, the surface is steel troweled again. The surface must be smooth and even before stamping.
9:45 a.m. More color hardener is thrown on thin spots and steel troweled into the slab.
10:43 a.m. The slabs are steel troweled by hand using kneeboards. At this point, CC&C appears to be waiting for the concrete to set. The outside temp reaches about 80 degrees.
February 23 2005 11:45 a.m. The Brickform Nutmeg Antique Color Release is spread and tamped into the center of the slabs. 12:00 p.m. Random Roman Slate texture stamping begins. The slabs are still being finish troweled, but it looks to be done.
February 23 2005 Stamping
February 23 2005 1:00 p.m. The Nutmeg color is removed from the borders using a wet brush.
1:50 p.m. The job is completed.
February 23 2005 Close-up, border
February 23 2005 Finished, close-up, looking west
February 23 2005 Finished, looking east. Now we wait for 30 days for the concrete to cure. We are warned against washing the surface, so we must wait and see.
May 18 2005 Finished, looking west. The nutmeg release is washed away using a power washer and the surface is sealed. Some Rhino-grip is thrown into a deck sprayer with the sealer to provide traction when wet. It works very well.
May 18 2005 A close-up of the Roman Slate texture and the Sunbaked Clay coloring with Nutmeg Antique release.
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Stocks up after GMAC lifeline
PUBLISHED: December 26, 2008 at 7:12 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 5:46 p.m.
NEW YORK — Wall Street put together a moderate advance in light post-holiday trading Friday after the finance arm of General Motors got a government lifeline, but dreary holiday spending readings dimmed the chance of a big year-end rally. The major indexes finished the week with losses.
Not surprisingly, Americans spent much less on gifts this season than they did last year, according to SpendingPulse, a division of MasterCard Advisors. Retail sales dropped between 5.5 percent and 8 percent compared with last year, the data showed, or between 2 percent and 4 percent after stripping out auto and gas sales.
Personal consumption is a huge part of U.S. economic activity — comprising more than two-thirds of gross domestic product — so Wall Street is nervous that a more frugal consumer could keep the economy weak in 2009.
Investors did get a some good news on Christmas Eve, when the Federal Reserve allowed GMAC Financial Services — the finance arm of struggling Detroit automaker General Motors Corp. — to become a bank holding company and thus qualify for the government's $700 billion rescue fund. Analysts had said that without financial help, GMAC might have had to file for bankruptcy protection or shut down.
There was little conviction behind the advance, which the market managed after stocks meandered for much of the session. With just three full trading days left in the year, no news has been upbeat enough to spark a big year-end rally, a consequence of the great uncertainty still in the market. December is usually a strong month for stocks, and a flurry of trading known as a "Santa Claus rally" is often seen in the final week.
"I think we could have a year-end rally, but it's got a formidable headwind in the form of tax-selling, in my view," said Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer of Johnson Illington Advisors.
Tax–loss selling
Tax-loss selling is when investors sell their poorly-performing stocks to realize a loss for the year, which can reduce their taxes in upcoming years.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 47.07, or 0.56 percent, to 8,515.55 after Thursday's market holiday.
Broader stock indicators also rose. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 4.65, or 0.54 percent, to 872.80, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 5.34, or 0.35 percent, to 1,530.24. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 6.28, or 1.33 percent, to 476.77.
For the week, the Dow ended down 0.74 percent, the S&P 500 fell 1.7 percent and the Nasdaq lost 2.1 percent.
As the year winds down, investors are flummoxed over what 2009 might bring. Some market analysts are predicting a stock market recovery, and others are predicting more volatility; but nearly all are doing so with the caveat that anything is possible.
"It's hard to imagine another year that is going to be as dismal or dark or bad as 2008," Johnson said. "It's even hard to imagine that we have another down year in 2009 — the odds are the stock market will be higher at the end of 2009. Common sense tells you that."
The Dow is down 35.8 percent for the year.
But, Johnson added, it's impossible to forecast the end of a bear market, and "confidence can turn on a dime."
On Friday, the dollar was down against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.
Demand for government bonds increased. The three-month Treasury bill's yield fell to 0.01 percent from 0.02 percent late Wednesday, and the 10-year Treasury note's yield fell to 2.14 percent from 2.19 percent.
Light, sweet crude rose $2.36 to $37.71 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude prices had tumbled Wednesday for the ninth straight day — dipping as low as $35.13 — after gloomy economic reports and growing stockpiles of unused gasoline suggesting eroded demand.
GMAC notes shot higher on the news of the company's transformation into a bank. GMAC's 7.25 percent note due to mature in 2033 rose 88.5 percent to $9.67 from $5.13 on Wednesday.
But analysts were wary of the big price move, noting that volume was thin, and saying there is still much to be resolved about the company's finances.
Japan on Friday reminded U.S. investors that the recession is not isolated to the United States. Japanese automakers and other manufacturers cut output last month by 8.1 percent — the biggest decrease since records began in 1953 — in the face of slowing demand overseas.
Despite the plunge, Japan's Nikkei stock index rose 1.63 percent.
In other overseas trading, Hong Kong markets were closed, as were those in Britain, Germany and France.
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Welcome to the world: First babies of 2022 born at Vidant are twins
By Maddie Kerth
Published: Jan. 1, 2022 at 12:11 PM EST
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The first babies of 2022 born at Vidant Medical Center made their debuts at 12:25 and 12:35 a.m.
The twins are the children of Lakeisha Peterson and Canaan Fleming, Jr. of Winterville.
"The babies are doing awesome," said Peterson. "They're not on breathing tubes, but they are going to be in the NICU for a while."
Camira weighs 1 pound, 9 ounces and is 12.9 inches long. Cayman weighs 2 pounds, 3 ounces and is 14.5 inches long.
While it is expected for premature babies to spend time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Peterson did not expect to test positive for COVID during her delivery.
"I didn't know it. I didn't have no symptoms or anything," said Peterson. "It's very important for people to follow the guidelines even if you don't want to. You never know who's sick."
Vidant announced visitor restrictions at the end of December, but the allotted visitors for the Women's Center and Children's Hospital were not affected by this.
Peterson says she is now focused on resting, healing, and preparing for the twins' grand arrival into a new home.
"They'll be in a bigger house. It'll be furnished for them, so I'm looking forward to doing all of that while they are still here being taken care of so when they get out," Peterson said, "they can go into their new house."
The twins have become the first babies to start the new delivery count for Vidant. In 2021, Vidant Health and Women's Services at Maynard Children's Hospital delivered more than 3,700 babies.
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Today's #BlueFriday honorees are the 17 brave young men and women from the graduating class of the Essex County Police Academy.
They started their careers as Corrections Officers on Friday morning at 6am. So of course they couldn't listen to the show and I suspect they'll be exhausted from Day One and may not catch Chasing News tonight. If they were able to tune in they'd hear just how much we appreciate the courage and sacrifice made by the men and women who get up every morning and put on a uniform.
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Had a great conversation on Chasing News and NJ 101.5 with my friend and nationally syndicated radio host, David Webb. David is driving the first leg of a journey that will raise funds for an outstanding charity to help disabled vets, The www.highfivetour.com charity is specific for refitting Ford F150s and Explorers in order to accommodate combat vets who lost their limbs or the use of their limbs. He's got a great point, returning combat vets are not necessarily inclined to want to drive the expected minivan which is often the goto choice to refit. Instead they're converting trucks. And the turnaround for vets in need has been as fast as 30 days. The car that David is taking across the country is a Shelby Mustang GT350. Wow, what a car. Although he told me I was being a bit too gentle on the clutch at first…it took me a few minutes but once I got it, I got it. Visit the website and help out a great cause.
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Wenceslaus Hollar
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The English colonists of Tangier rechristened the old Portuguese ortifications with familiar names, including Peterborough Tower and York Castle. The king's palace at Whitehall lent its name to a resort beyond the main fortifications that included a bowling green and arbour. Fashionable with the senior officials and their families, Hollar depicted Whitehall with a game of lawn bowls in progress. Several of Hollar's views show the Mole (or Mould), the masonry structure with which the English created an artificial harbour. The stone was quarried nearby and carried to the site by horse-drawn carts. Construction began in 1663 and the Mole was 437 metres long when work ceased in 1680. This remarkable piece of engineering was blown up when the English evacuated Tangier in 1683.
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Will Israel's government investigate the Israeli billionaire who is looting the Congo?
Will Israel's government investigate the Israeli billionaire who is looting the Congo?
The International Monetary Fund is so disturbed at the mega-corruption that it has suspended loans to the DR Congo. Some 70 percent of the country's 73 million people are malnourished, and more than 5 million have died since 1998 as a consequence of war.
The Bloomberg article reports that Gertler flies to Tel Aviv every week to spend the Sabbath with his family, who live there in an ultra-orthodox suburb. When I was in Congo earlier this year, the word on the street was that Gertler had been something of a hell-raiser in his youth, but he had since found religion. So far, his faith does not seem to make room for the Congolese people from whom he is stealing. The article estimates his worth at $2.5 billion — which would be more than one-third of the entire Congolese government budget last year.
An American suspected of mega-corruption would become the target of investigation at both the federal and state levels. Will Israel's government start to look into this man's finances?
Gertler, whose grandfather co-founded Israel's diamond exchange in 1947, arrived in Congo in 1997 seeking rough diamonds. The 23-year-old trader struck a deep friendship with Joseph Kabila, who then headed the Congolese army and today is the nation's president.
Oh to heck with all this hand wringing…..
Send the Navy Seals after Gertler and waterboard him for his bank account.
And send the US Marines after the Israeli and Congo governments.
I wonder if I dig up Eisenhower, Elliot Ness and Patton and re bury them in the Pet Cemetery if I can bring them back to life.
Oh, yeah? What planet are you living on, Pollyanna? If not already legal that mega-corruption would be immediately legalized a posteriori and he would be sleeping at the White House the same week. In Saban's bed.
I didn't realise that Mondoweiss now has comedy section.
Reminds to me the business activities of Michail Chodorkovsky. Only Chodorkovsky reinvented himself as the great political hope for Russia – which Gertler can hardly do for Congo.


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Professor A. M. Low and the 'Bunst' stories
I started reading SFF in the mid-1950s and, although I recollect very little of what – or who – I was reading at that time, one name has somehow stuck in my memory over all of those years through some quirk of memory; that of Professor A. M. Low. Recently I decided to track down this memory and was pleasantly surprised to find that he has a Wikipedia entry. Reading through it, it became clear that he was a lot more than a writer of children's SF stories; an engineer, inventor and research physicist, he was involved in experiments with radio-controlled aircraft and rockets during World War 1. He belonged to many different organisations in several fields and was a founder member and President of the British Interplanetary Society. He also wrote some forty books, many of them intended to explain scientific matters to the layman. This sounded like a man after my own heart, and another search pulled up a couple of his books for sale second-hand; Modern Armaments, published in 1939, and one of his four novels, Adrift in the Stratosphere (1937).
I read Modern Armaments with particular interest, especially because of its date of publication. It is an easy read, intended for the layman, and explains the principles of modern weaponry very clearly, although with little in the way of examples of actual equipment or hard data. Low took a broad view of his subject, with chapters on explosives, optics, parachutes, armour and the military uses of concrete, as well as the expected topics of army, navy and air force weapons. Some of his opinions reflected the mistaken and rather complacent views of the British military at the time: that submarines would pose little threat in a future war because of the advances made in detection systems; that contemporary anti-aircraft fire control systems would serve very well to protect warships against air attack; and that light tanks would predominate in any future conflict with little role for heavier vehicles other than in a direct assault.
He goes into some detail about locating aircraft by sound, although he doesn't mention the giant acoustic mirrors on the south-east coast for locating incoming bombers. He does not, of course, discuss radar, although there is a rather coy reference to experiments with devices which detect "the reflection of ether vibrations". He holds some interesting views on chemical warfare, pointing out that laws to restrict warfare would inevitably be broken in any major conflict and that the use of poison gas was far more humane than bullets or shell fragments, with casualties suffering a much lower death rate. On looking ahead, he discusses and dismisses the prospect of "death rays". Despite some flaws, this is a good book displaying a lot of sense as well as a clear understanding of armaments. However, I could have done without the long moral peroration on the nature of warfare which constitutes the entire first chapter.
Having absorbed that, I turned to Adrift in the Stratosphere with anticipation. I didn't expect it to be great literature, and I was aware that it was only intended for children, but given the author's interests I expected a tale which would be based on the scientific knowledge of the time. Sadly it was a major disappointment, being a barely readable fantasy in which hardly any of the "science" is correct or even remotely feasible. Three young men stumble across a stratospheric research vehicle being built in an inventor's barn (as one does) and accidentally launch it onto space, having various death-defying adventures before (inevitably) returning safely home to a hero's welcome. I didn't object to the hostile Martians who tried to kill them with various death rays (typical of SF of the period), but for the rest…There is no point in going through it in detail but it includes such matters as huge space-living dragons whose fiery breath almost overcomes the lads in their (sealed?) spaceship; Mars being approached in only a few hours while travelling at the ferocious speed of almost a thousand miles per hour (!); and "islands in the stratosphere" on which live humans with a perfect command of English. I'll leave it at that. It does make me appreciate the quality of modern fiction for young adults!
By another quirk of memory, I had remembered really enjoying a series of stories about a lad called Bunst which I was sure were by Professor Low but which turned out to be by someone else: John Newton Chance, who also published as John Lymington and under various other names. He has a Wiki entry, too. He wrote six children's books in the "Bunst" series, and I managed to find a copy of the penultimate one: Bunst and the Secret Six, published in 1951. On reading it I recalled one detail of the plot so and must have previously read it, some time in the late 1950s. The books feature a boy of unstated age but probably early to mid teens, whose nickname is a shortened version of "bunstuffer" from his habit of constantly eating. He is intelligent, resourceful, phlegmatic and mechanically minded, and works as an assistant to a scatterbrained and excitable inventor, an elderly ex-military type called Audacious Cotterell. This particular novel involves radio-controlled model aircraft, a secret new high explosive, a gang of six spies who try to steal it, and much chasing and hiding. It rather reminded me of John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, only on a smaller scale, written for children and with a constant undercurrent of humour. The style is very much of its innocent time, but I still found it an enjoyable read. Good to know that my reading tastes as a young lad weren't all bad!
The Inheritance by George Timmons
John More, a man from the mid-21st century, recovers from a spacecraft crash to find himself two thousand years in the future. The world has been through a terrible time in the interim, with wars and Dark Times as bad as anything in human history. However, it has for centuries enjoyed a settled and civilised existence, based on small communities which are self-sufficient in food and which trade for their other needs. Despite this, technology is advanced, with a comprehensive information network and high-speed trains running in vacuum tunnels.
More has difficulty settling in to his new environment and in particular understanding how the utopian society works. Everything seems too good to be true; everyone does their share of all kinds of jobs to help the community and appears to have everything they need to live in comfort without any excessive consumption. Crime and immorality seem to be virtually non-existent and, most unbelievable of all, children are quiet, polite and well-behaved! He gradually discovers that the key to this is the strong Christian faith which forms the basis of the society. The story then focuses, for much of its length, on the religious and philosophical debates in which More engages as he gradually becomes converted to their faith while being increasingly attracted to a young widow and her son. Only at the end does the drama get moving again as More is faced with the opportunity to return to his own time. His decision, and the repercussions which follow, form the conclusion.
It soon becomes obvious to the reader that The Inheritance isn't really an SFF novel; it's an argument for religious faith within a fictional shell. As such, its principal appeal is to those who are, or are interested in becoming, Christians. And it promotes not just any Christianity, but an idealistic vision of a kind of religious communism (which is, I suspect, unlikely to gain it much support among US Christians). Since I am not religious, I did not find the tale particularly appealing and skimmed over much of the long tracts of debate.
From the SFF credibility viewpoint, I have some problems with the technical base of his ideal society. How such advanced technology was developed and maintained in such a fundamentally rural society was unexplained. Mass transport systems such as trains also don't make much sense with a low and dispersed population. And while I can believe that pencils would still exist in the fifth millennium, I find it harder to believe that word processors familiar to More would still be around.
It also has weaknesses as a work of fiction. The author is fond of the omniscient viewpoint and sometimes informs the reader what different people are thinking within the same conversation. I don't care for this, as it tends to remove dramatic tension. I also found More a rather unsympathetic character, which doesn't help in getting engaged with the story. Finally, the ending was something of a disappointment; I thought that the author was building up to a classic SF twist finale, but in fact there was a strange and (to me) rather unsatisfying conclusion.
It may seem unfair for me to review this, given my own position on religion, but the publishers did send the review copy to the British Fantasy Society (who passed it to me) so I have assessed it on its merits as an SFF novel rather than a religious work.
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Some publications from the British Science Fiction Association
A bit of catching up needed, plus an apology. The last time I mentioned the first publication described below, I attributed it to the British Fantasy Society: I'll try to keep my organisations in order in future! Anyway, I've finally got around to reading it, along with some more recent publications from the BSFA.
The earlier one is Fantasy & SF: The Roots of Genre, which consists of two long articles taken from two books on SFF criticism: Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn and What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid. Both articles are concerned with analysing their respective genres. Mendelsohn identifies four different types of fantasy: Portal-Quest (e.g. 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'), Immersive (the Gormenghast trilogy), Intrusion (when the supernatural affects our own world), and Liminal (which regards fantastic intrusions as normal). Kincaid devotes his article to trying to define science fiction, concluding that the term includes such a broad range of works that one neat definition isn't possible.
I have to confess that I am rather sceptical about intense academic analyses of this type. My reaction tends to be along the lines of "well, that's mildly interesting, but it adds nothing to my appreciation of a story." However, coming up with definitions and arguing about them can be fun, so naturally I can't resist putting up a conceptual coconut for others to shy at. I should say that I've not read much about this, so my thoughts are no doubt treading a well-worn path.
Rather than start by trying to define SF or fantasy, I'll take a step back and consider both, plus other related genres, which can all be encompassed by a term like "fantastical fiction" (I have seen "fantasy" used to cover all of this, but I think that's confusing). The definition of fantastical fiction, or FF, could be something like this: "Fiction in which a principal plot element is not of this world." I think that's fairly comprehensive if somewhat loose, although it's obviously open to debate; I suspect that any definition would be disputed by the majority of SFF readers!
The different elements, or sub-genres, of FF can then be defined in terms of FF, for example: Science Fiction is FF in which an attempt is made to convince the reader that it might possibly happen. A further subset of SF is Mundane SF, which is limited to the science we know now. Alternative History is FF set in the past, in which a change at some point leads to a different history. Fantasy is, well, everything else within FF…but it includes its own subsets, in the form of fairy tales, horror, and vampire stories.
Obviously, not all stories fall neatly into one particular category. There are lots of grey areas, and also lots which contain elements of more than one type of FF – or from outside the FF genre altogether (e.g. crime fiction set in the future), as Kincaid observes. One genre which usually contains elements of SF is the techno-thriller, which involves technologies which are not yet available, although they might well be in the near future. I was thinking of this when watching the hair-raising (well, it would be if I had any) BBCTV spy thriller Spooks, which has just finished its latest series. Some of their technological tricks are not available, but most may be soon (although some look to be impossible for the foreseeable future). The James Bond movies have often included SF elements, with spacecraft and invisible cars, although the latest incarnation has been dragged firmly back into the mainstream thriller category. However, I would not describe Spooks or the earlier Bond movies as SF, because that is not their primary focus; the SF bits are peripheral, not "principal plot elements".
The issue of what is, or is not, SF is also raised in the latest issue of Vector, the BSFA's "Critical Journal". It includes an article by Adam Roberts on the works of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, who has been writing FF for years without describing it as such, or being accepted by the SFF world as one of its own. Roberts' explanation for this is that her stories don't really fit comfortably into our concept of SFF, being more concerned with mysticism. There are several other articles. Jonathan McCalmont considers SF and the laws of physics, difficult to summarise as it provides a general tour of the environs, looking at how various authors have dealt with the laws of nature in their works. Frank Ludlow writes on the "art" of reviewing, discussing the responsibility of the reviewer to produce informative and constructive reviews but also, having done so, to ignore the occasional angry reactions. Saxon Bullock discusses the TV series Lost, while Andy Sawyer examines the contents of the very first edition of Vector from 1958 (and discovers some perennial topics, such as a guide to writing SF and a discussion on the importance of characterisation). Stephen Baxter considers our fear of apocalyptic doom and our constant tendency to assume that major threats are going to turn out to be worse than they actually prove (let's hope that continues to be the case, given some of the predictions about the consequences of climate change). Graham Sleight writes about the Interzone magazine film reviews by Nick Lowe, who has been beavering away at the task for 23 years. Finally, there are no fewer than 48 substantial book reviews, which I will be studying carefully with a view to drawing up a post-Christmas purchasing list.
The third publication is Elastic Press: a Sampler, a booklet about the work of a small press which focuses on publishing single-author mixed-genre short-story anthologies and favours new authors and writing. It starts with an interview by Ian Whates of Andrew Hook, originator and owner of the Elastic Press, and includes stories from three of their books: Love in the Time of Connectivity, from Binding Energy by Daniel Marcus (the strange nature of future relationships in virtual worlds); La Macchina from The Turing Test by Chris Beckett (a new take on the old trope of robots developing sentience); and A Necklace of Ivy from The Last Reef by Gareth L Powell (a rather surreal view of an alien invasion). The purpose of the Elastic Press is unusual and worthy of support and, judging by the quality of the stories included, the books are worth buying on their merits anyway.
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Creationists launch new attacks on evolution
More blurring of the boundaries between fantasy, science and fiction this week!
The fundamentalist Christians are at it again, in their constant search to find some crack in the edifice of scientific knowledge into which they can force a wedge. Their strategy is to try to find any aspect of the natural world which scientists can't yet explain, so that they can argue that its purposeful creation by God is a valid possible explanation. In this way, they hope to get their religious beliefs accepted as worthy of being taught in schools alongside science, as a major step towards their goal of embedding religion within education. The focus of this activity is in the USA, in which religion is kept out of public education by law, but there is an increasing spill-over into other countries which are on the receiving end of lots of pro-creationist publicity and teaching materials.
Many of the fundamentalists believe that the universe and everything in it was created by God exactly as described in the Bible, over a period of six days a few thousand years ago. There is the slight problem that Genesis 1 has the creation of plants, animals, man and woman in a different order to that listed in Genesis 2 – they can't both be right – but that doesn't seem to faze the creationists. The big problem they have in selling this idea to non-fundies is the vast and ever-growing body of evidence from many different fields of research (astrophysics, astronomy, geology, geomorphology, palaeontology and biology, to name the obvious ones) which clearly point to the enormous age and slow development of life, the Universe and all that. Clearly, the creationists' beliefs are pure religious dogma and stand no chance of being allowed into US state schools, as emphasised by various legal rulings.
So they switched tactics to low cunning, and during the late 1980s and 1990s developed the concept of "Intelligent Design", or ID. Here we need to mention the Discovery Institute, based in Seattle, which is a major sponsor of the "wedge" strategy for getting religious beliefs accepted within mainstream education, and is closely associated with ID and other recent attempts to subvert the ban on teaching creationism. The tactic this time was a lot more subtle. Darwin once observed that it would only take one example of a feature of a living thing which could not have evolved from some earlier feature to disprove evolution. The aim of the creationists is to identify any such feature they can, and argue that this is evidence that this must have been the act of an "intelligent designer". They carefully avoid mentioning God as the likely designer, or using the forbidden words "creation" or "religion". However, this strategy suffered a major setback in 2005 when the proposal of a school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, to teach ID was challenged in court. After a high-profile six-week trial, the verdict went against the creationists. "The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the board who voted for the ID policy," the judge wrote. "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would, time and again, lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID policy." To make matters worse for the ID proponents, their prize exhibit – a complex flagellum which they claimed could not have evolved – has since been found in a simpler form, indicating an earlier stage of evolution.
So the fundies switched tactics again, to an even more subtle approach; the defence of academic freedom! They are promoting the argument that teachers have the right to hold "open discussions of scientific theories" – such as evolution – with their students, and can introduce books and other materials from outside the standard curriculum to help the students "critique" the science they are taught. This has been supported by a "teach the controversy" public campaign (ignoring the fact that as far as science is concerned, there is no controversy over the theory of evolution). This is a clever move, since who could be against academic freedom? But what it really does is open the door to an attack on evidence-based logical reasoning (the basis of the scientific method) by a belief system which rejects objective evidence and reason in favour of a dogmatic adherence to the exact words in an ancient book. Despite this, in mid-2008 Louisiana approved a state law which defends such academic freedom, and other states have been considering similar measures.
No doubt buoyed by this success, the fundamentalists have recently found what they perceive to be another point of weakness: our understanding of human consciousness (reported in the New Scientist on 25 October). In particular, they attempt to draw a distinction between the human mind and the material brain, with aim of arguing that a non-material mind is something entirely separate. It must therefore have had a separate origin, which leads into the existence of a "soul"; another angle to get a religious belief accepted as having a valid place in science. It is once again a clever move, because the nature of consciousness is an area of genuine debate among scientists working in the field, with different views being held. However, the New Scientist article points out that the arguments in favour of the mind being separate are flawed. Its proponents argue that brain scans reveal that when people use their minds to consciously change what they are thinking, this can be shown to affect brain functioning. Therefore, they say, the mind must be separate from the material brain. Their opponents point out that this is a logical non-sequitur; there is no reason why the brain cannot change itself. Furthermore, the fact that something is not yet understood by science does not mean that it will never be understood; in fact, the scientific method has a staggeringly consistent record of success in pushing back the boundaries of ignorance. If it weren't for evidence-based logical thinking we would still be living in caves and killing animals for food by throwing stones at them.
In case some readers feel that this blog is an attack on religion, I must point out that most Christians are not creationists, despite the attempt of the fundies to imply that true Christianity equals creationism; to put the debate (in the words of a car bumper sticker) in the form of "Jesus v Darwin". In most of the Christian world, creationists are in a small minority. Neither the Roman Catholic nor the Anglican churches oppose the theory of evolution. Even in the USA, which is at least 75% Christian, only 39% of the population rejects the proposition that human beings evolved from earlier species of animals (compared with 40% which accepts it, and 21% "don't knows").
Is any of this important? Does it really matter if children are taught religious beliefs as if they were on a par with science? Yes, I believe that it is and it does, very much so. What the fundamentalists are doing is attacking the basis of the knowledge which humanity has accumulated over many centuries. Knowledge acquired through patient observation of phenomena, the gathering of evidence, the development of hypotheses to account for the observations, the testing of these hypotheses (by experimentation wherever possible), and their validation by other scientists, leading to the establishment of theories which remain our best explanation for the phenomena – until contrary evidence or a theory which better fits the evidence comes along. The agenda of the fundamentalists is to sow doubt about this entire process, to encourage children to believe that rational and non-rational modes of thinking are entirely comparable and equally valid as a means of explaining the material world in which we live, rather than occupying separate aspects of human life. If they had their way, children would grow up in a world of medieval superstition, ignorant of the importance of evidence-based logical thinking, and thereby completely unequipped to deal with the increasingly complex and technical problems which we are facing, including resource depletion and climate change. From my perspective, that would be a crime against humanity.
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«Eisbrecher» — рок-гурт з Берліна, музика якого стилістично тяжіє до індустріального металу з елементами електроніки.

Лідери гурту

Алекс Вессельскі

Алекс Вессельскі () (тексти, вокал) — співак, лірик гурту Eisbrecher. Свою музичну кар'єру почав з простої причини — щоб було легше знайомитися з дівчатами.

В 1993 році заснував гурт Megaherz, яку залишив у 2002 році з причини особистих й творчих різносторонностей. Окрім свого гурту Алекс співпрацював з різними проектами, як співак і автор текстів. Записував пісні для аніме разом з Ноелем Піксом (наприклад, для «Покемонів» пісні «Pokemon Welt» і «Was fir ein Pokemon bist du»).
Цитата: «Я ніколи ще не заробляв стільки грошей за такий короткий час».

Бажання зайнятися чим-небудь новим, наприклад, створити щось нове без загальноприйнятих рамок важкої музики знову звело його з Ноелем, разом музиканти «поставили на ноги» проект Eisbrecher. Алекс запам'ятовується не тільки своєю гладкою блискучою лисиною, але й глибоким, і разом з тим таємно хвилюючим голосом. Але особливо він виділяється своїм акторським талантом. Ніхто до нього ще не зміг так зачарувати публіку, організувати шоу, якому нема рівних. При цьому, все це — без світлових і піротехнічних спецефектів.

Ноель Пікс
Ноель Пікс () — програмування, гітара, синтез. Ноель Пікс — музикант, француз по батьку. Веселий мюнхенець працював композитором й ді-джеєм в різних успішних звукозаписуючих компаніях (наприклад, B.O.P.).
Після співпраці з Gun і Faray стає знаменитим на естраді. В Німеччині його знають і люблять під іменем DJ Housmaster Kinky. При цьому він також гітарист грози німецької важкої музики — групи Megaherz. Музикант з таким широким колом інтересів випустив в 1998 році альбом, назва якого говорить сама за себе: «Вбивця кохання». На концертах від Ноеля виходить особлива енергія. У своєму ексцентричному наряді разом з танцівницями він буквально парить над сценою. Його хобі — катання на ковзанах, сноуборд, ролики і, не в останню чергу, організація вечірок — надають йому необхідну для творіння енергію і елегантний стиль танцю. В процесі співпраці з Andy Knote в світ виходять танцювальні композиції, які піднімають настрій: лише послухайте «Chicci Chicci. Chicci Chicci» і Ви будете почувати себе набагато краще. При роботі над альбомом «Дігімон» Ноель виступив яко співак, гітарист, автор музики і текстів пісень.

Учасники
 Алекс Вессельські — вокал (2003–понині)
 Ноель Пікс — електрогітара, програмування (2003–понині)
 Юрген Плангер — ритм-гітара (2007–понині)
 Домінік Палмер — бас-гітара (2010–понині)
 Макс «Максіматор» Шоер — клавішні, програмування (2003–понині)
 Ахім Фарбер — ударні (2011–понині)

Колишні учасники
 Фелікс Праймс — ритм-гітара (2003—2007)
 Мафкд Бехнке — бас-гітара (2003—2007)
 Мартін Мотнік — бас-гітара (2007—2008)
 Оллі Пол — бас-гітара (2008—2010)
 Рене Грайл — ударні (2003—2011)

Дискографія

Студійні альбоми
 2004: Eisbrecher
 2006: Antikörper
 2008: Sünde
 2010: Eiszeit
 2012: Die Hölle muss warten
 2015: Schock
 2017: Sturmfahrt
 2020: Schicksalsmelodien

Сингли
 Mein Blut (2003)
 Fanatica (2003)
 Leider (2006)
 Leider/Vergissmeinnicht (2006)
 Vergissmeinnicht (2006)
 Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein? (2008)
 Eiszeit (2010)
 Die Hölle muss warten (2011)
 Prototyp (2012)
 Miststück 2012 (2012)

Відеокліпи
 Schwarze Witwe (2003)
 Herz steht still (2003)
 Vergissmeinnicht (2006)
 Eiszeit (2010)
 Verrückt (2012)
 Die Hölle muss warten (2012)
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Interested in the wine country of Slovenia?
This weekend, we visited the Goriska Brda region of Slovenia. It was amazing. Goriska Brda is in western Slovenia, literally bordering Italy. If you cross the border, you are in the Friuli region, another region famous for its wines, but very different in terrain.
If you like wine and exploring a country's cuisine, I highly recommend a visit when you are in the area. You could do it uin one day,perhaps as you are traveling from Venice to Ljubljana! There are many very small wineries for tastings and then, you stay either at the winery or at a tourist farm for the night. They treat you to a slow food meal (about 4 hours) with cuisine that is typical to the area each course accompanied by a specific wine. It is a wonderful way to become acquainted with Slovene cookery and wine.
One of the unique varietals here is Rebula. From Epicurious "White wine grape, whose full name is Ribolla Gialla, that is grown in Italy's friuli-venezia giulia in Slovenia, where it's known as Rebula, and in Greece, where it's called Robola. Ribolla's been grown in Friuli since the twelfth century and is thought to be a native of this region, although there's some speculation that it has Greek origins. This variety produces dry, crisp, citrus-flavored wines that are medium-bodied and deeply colored. Ribolla will stand some aging, during which time it becomes richer and softer. There's also a red version, Ribolla Nera, more popularly known as schioppettino".
We stayed at a beautiful, little 'tourist farm' that produced their own wine. Belica (pronounced Beleetsa) was built about 3 months ago. It is a traditional stype Goriska Brda house. Large, comfortable rooms with panel and beam ceilings. We were a family of four and the room suited us beautifully. The hotel is perched on a hill with beautiful vistas. It is located in Medana and the phone/fax number is 386 5 30 42 104. English is spoken and it is a family business. They also hosted a very gracious dinner for us.
So, if you are coming to Slovenia and want to really explore the country, this is an area that you should not miss!
this is a great post. I have never tried Slovenian wine. Can you describe it? Is it worth stocking at home? I would expect it to be rather inexpensive, since it's not too famous...is this true?
I'd also be interested in any websites with info on these one-stop wine, dine and sleep establishments.
- Furlanski tokaj--This is not like the Hungarian Tokaj. Rather, it is a nice, light white. It was served with the mushroom risotto and complemented it well.
Here is a website discussing many of these wines with prices. Klinec is one of my favorites and they also host the wine and dine thing. Their wines are unique b/c they age their wines in cherry barrels. This gives their red wines a very unique flavor. I especially like their Quela wine which is a red blend.
I believe that this area will see a huge surge in tourism in the future. Currently, the vast majority of visitors are from Slovenia and Italy (border area). The Slovene Tourist Board is starting to market effectively and they are enhancing their websites.
This website describes the different regions of wine growing in Slovenia. http://www.matkurja.com/projects/win...ons/index.html Besides Rebula, we also have a unique grape called Teran. It is a heavy red wine but with a very unique flavor.
Usually, the tourist farms are gracious and very reasonable. Our room at Belica for a family of 4 was only 60 Euros. The quality was extremely high.
SloJan- this area sounds fascinating. Was the tourist farm where yu stayed listed on any website?
I just typed a long reply and lost it!
No, Belica is not listed on any websites yet. I guess it is still too new. Many tourist farms are listed on www.slovenia-tourism.si though. This is a newish website that has some in-depth information on Slovenia. Belica is located in Medana and the tel/fax number is 386 5 30 42 104. We had dinner there and while is was very graciously served (believe me, they were patient with ourloud, noisy group!) the food was only OK. I would recommend that you cross the street to Kristancic or Klinec wineries and eat there. Klinec produces some of my favorite wines and their food is very good. Their phone number is 386 5 30 45 092 and their email address is [email protected]. Kristancic is owned by Mirko and Ales Kristancic who also owns Movia. Movia's number is 386 5 39 59 510 and their website is www.movia.si. Movia is Slovenia's most famous wine producers and one of the few that is regularly exported. They also own vineyards in the Friuli. Kristancic ha a restaurant and rooms, as well.
The area just finished it "Days of Wine and Poetry' festival andis gearing up for October Harvest festivals.
It is so beautiful, think a very green Tuscany as far as terrain goes. Goriska Brda is only 1 hour North of Trieste, too! The prevalent car plates are Italian and Slovene. It is truly undiscovered.
SloJan - I think this area has been discovered, at least Belica where you stayed for 60 euros for 4 people. Now it is 140 euros and they now have a website! Do you have any more to add about this area and additional places to stay or to eat?
I checked the website. The room we stayed in was M'Rikana and it is now 80 Euros/night. 2 of our 4 were children so were free. Still a good deal. There are some other good restaurants around there. One closer to Pod Nanos is Zemono. I will have to dig around for the other one which is on the border with Italy.
I will have to dig out the name of the other hotel later.
The name of the other hotel is Hisa Franko. Again, it has one of the best restaurants in Slovenia.
Another option to wine and dine at in the Goriska Brda is the Dobrova Restaurant Castle. It is slow food in that each course is paired with a specific wine (and there are at least 6 courses...) for a wine tasting. We got a short, personable lecture on the wine industry in Slovenia and then went on to taste some very delicious wines, from small wineries. You won't find these wines in most restaurants in the city. This is a wine coop so they only represent the small ones.
Yes we ate at Hisa Franko, the food is wonderful!
oops, wanted to correct one of my other posts. While Nebesa is a very nice hotel, the restaurant I was describing was at Hisa Franka. Sorry, everyone!
We ate at Hisa Franka in mid April and it surpassed all expectations. The rooms are about 90 Euros/night. Unfortunately, they were booked while we were there and we stayed in Kobarid at Hotel Hvala. It was 150 Euros for a family of 4 and was completely average.
We drove up to Nebesa. It is a beautiful location that is very out of the way. People with children are not encouraged unless they are several families and booking the majority of the rooms. It is a serene, peaceful getaway. For the $$, I would prefer Hisa Franka though...esp. if you enoy sampling the local wines.


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Bill Gates Now Owns The Four Seasons Hotel Chain. His Investment Firm Spent $2.21 Billion To Lock Up The Presidential Suite Permanently.
By Tom Zenner • Sep. 9, 2021 • Titans & Icons
FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, Bill Gates smiles while being interviewed in Kirkland, Wash. Washington state's richest residents, including Gates and Jeff Bezos, would pay a wealth tax on certain financial assets worth more than $1 billion under a proposed bill whose sponsor says she is seeking a fair and equitable tax code. Under the bill, starting Jan. 1, 2022, for taxes due in 2023, a 1% tax would be levied not on income, but on "extraordinary" assets ranging from cash, publicly traded options, futures contracts, and stocks and bonds. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Bill Gates could afford the penthouse suite at any Four Seasons Hotel around the world, but he might have the option going forward of having any suite and amenity he wants. For free.
Gates' investment firm, Cascade Investment LLC is taking over control of the entire Four Seasons Hotel company, as Gates scratched a check for roughly $2.21 billion to take over the shares owned by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Now Cascade owns a cool 71.3% of the company which has a valuation of $10 billion after the transaction.
The ownership group is primarily a two man team, as Prince Alwaleed still owns 23.7% according to a story by Reuters.
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The hotel industry is a volatile business to be in right now, though some large cities, including New York City are starting to show some signs of improvement after being decimated by the pandemic.
The Four Seasons was founded by Isadore Sharp back in 1960. He's going to hold on to 5% of the company, which is a smart move since that is valued north of $110 million.


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Q: One var per function in JavaScript? I've been using JSLint to make me feel bad about my JavaScript. It is great, by the way. There is one check that I don't quite understand and I'd like your views, please.
From jslint.com:

In languages with block scope, it is usually recommended that variables be declared at the site of first use. But because JavaScript does not have block scope, it is wiser to declare all of a function's variables at the top of the function. It is recommended that a single var statement be used per function.

What is the last sentance in bold really saying? I think I should be declaring multiple variables like this?
var foo = 1, bar = 2;

And, is the "wise" part just a programming style to discourage errors down the line or is there more to it than that?
Thanks for your help.

A: Basically in JavaScript blocks ({ ... }) do not introduce a new scope, there is only function-scope, so no scope is created on any other statement.
A variable introduced anywhere in a function is visible everywhere in the function.
For example:
function myFunction(){
  var one = 1;

  if (one){
    var two = one + 1;
  }

  (function () {
    var three = one + two;
  })();

  // at this point both variables *one* and *two* are accessible but
  // the variable *three* was declared in the scope of a inner function
  // and is not accessible  at this point.
}

In languages with block scope, it recommended to declare the variables at the point of first use, but since JavaScript does not have block scope, it is better to declare all of a function's variables at the top of the function.
Check this article.

A: The problem is that, whether you realise it or not, javascript invisibly moves all the var declarations to the top of the function scope.
so if you have a function like this
var i = 5;
function testvar () {
     alert(i);
     var i=3;
}
testvar();

the alert window will contain undefined. because internally, it's been changed into this:
var i = 5;
function testvar () {
     var i;
     alert(i);
     i=3;
}
testvar();

this is called "hoisting".
The reason crockford so strongly advocates var declarations go at the top, is that it makes the code visibly match what it's going to do, instead of allowing invisible and unexpected behavior to occur.

A: The lack of block scope explains the code below:
var a = 1;
if (something) {
    var a = 2;
}

alert(a); // Alerts "2"

In most C-style (as in syntax) languages, the var a = 2 definition would define 'a' only for the scope of the if block.  Using a single var statement at the top of the function helps to avoid this quirk of Javascript, which is not always as obvious as the above, and would be unexpected to C/C#/Java programmers.

A: Yes, it means that you declare all variables at the beginning of the function. Whether you want to do it in one line or multiple lines is a matter of choice.
The reason is explained in the paragraph you mentioned. Javascript variables only have function level scope. If you declare the same variable inside an if/while/for block, it will be overwritten by the new value since the block doesn't carry a new scope. This is different from languages such as Java. To avoid such surprises, declare all the variables you are going to use in the function at the beginning of function so that you don't accidentally 'redeclare' andything.


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Greensboro Swarm Get Ready for 5th Anniversary Season
By carolinianweb on October 26, 2021 • ( 0 )
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The Greensboro Swarm are awaiting the start of their fifth anniversary season on Friday, Nov. 5 at the Greensboro Coliseum Fieldhouse. The Charlotte Hornets affiliate Swarm are looking to have a big season after many moves during the off-season. Hiring Jordan Surenkamp as the new head coach was the Hornet's most notable move. The Swarm has also been involved in multiple trades with a few teams around the league.
There were a plethora of trades throughout the whole NBA G League, The Greensboro Swarm traded several picks and players. Greensboro was part of a five-team trade completed on Oct. 15, with the Lakeland Magic (Orlando Magic affiliate), Raptors 905 (Toronto Raptors affiliate), South Bay Lakers (Los Angeles Lakers affiliate), and the Long Island Nets (Brooklyn Nets affiliate). The Swarm received a first-round pick in the 2021-22 draft from South Bay, and they also got the second-round pick of the Lakeland Magic in the 2022-23 draft. Greensboro sent the returning rights to Admiral Schofield, who was the swarm's No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 G league Draft to the Magic. Schofield played in 14 games and started in 11, where he averaged 10.1 points and 5.8 rebounds.
In another trade, the Greensboro Swarm acquired the returning rights to Luke Maye from the Wisconsin Herd (Milwaukee Bucks affiliate) in exchange for the returning rights to Javin DeLaurier. Luke Maye has North Carolina roots; he was born in Cary and played his collegiate basketball at the University of North Carolina. The 24-year-old Maye is currently playing for BAXI Manresa in the Liga ACB in Spain. It remains to be seen whether or not Maye will report to Greensboro at the moment.
Delaurier, 23, played in seven games, averaged only 2.9 points and 3.3 rebounds. He was undrafted in 2020 out of Duke University.
On Oct. 22, the Swarm completed a three-team trade with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers (Houston Rockets affiliate) and the Westchester Knicks ( New York Knick Affiliate). Greensboro obtained Westchester's first-round pick in the upcoming 2022 G League Draft. The swarm gave up the returning rights to Kahlil Whitney to the Vipers. Whitney played nine games and averaged 3.0 points and 1.3 rebounds. He was undrafted out of the University of Kentucky in 2020.
A lot of fans were looking forward to seeing LiAngelo Ball, brother of Hornets superstar guard Lamelo Ball, on the court for either the Swarm or Hornets. Due to procedural issues that prevent him from being a Hornets affiliate player, Liangelo Ball is eligible to be selected by any team in the upcoming G League draft. Ball averaged 9.6 points and 2.0 rebounds in five games during the summer league.
Before the season kicks off the Greensboro Swarm will be hosting an open practice on Saturday, Oct. 30 at the Fieldhouse. Fans can start coming in at 10:00 a.m. and the practice will start at 10:30 a.m. Fans that go to the practice will receive a free T-shirt, as well as other gifts and prizes. There will also be autograph opportunities throughout the event. This event is part of the celebration of the Greensboro Swarm's fifth season.
New head coach Jordan Surenkamp said, "The biggest thing is to lay the foundation of the culture here in the same ways that we have in Charlotte." He is very optimistic about the team and the task at hand. The Swarm is looking to end their playoff drought this year and have a winning season. Coach Surenkamp is one of many new additions to the team, but he is the most important.
The Greensboro Swarm will start the season going back-to-back against the Birmingham Squadron, the new name for the New Orleans Pelicans affiliate. This should be a good early battle for the Swarm as they try to kick off their fifth-anniversary campaign. After that two-game series, the next two are against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers (Houston Rockets affiliate). The Swarm will play in one last homestand against the Lakeland Magic (Orlando Magic affiliate) before going on the road to face the Texas Legends (Dallas Mavericks affiliate).
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