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Q: Homebrew brew doctor warning about /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework, even with brew's Python installed When I ran Homebrew's brew doctor (Mac OS X 10.9.2), I get the following warning message:

Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or
  a brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can
  interfere with other software installs.

Therefore, I ran brew install and followed the steps provided in the installation's caveats output to install Homebrew's version of Python. Running which python confirms that Homebrew's version of it is indeed at the top of my PATH. Output is /usr/local/bin/python.
Despite all this, when I rerun brew doctor, I am still getting the same warning message. How do I suppress this warning? Do I need to delete the /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from my computer? Am I just supposed to ignore it? Is there a different application on my computer that may be causing this warning to emit?
Note that I don't have any applications in particular that are running into errors due to this warning from brew doctor. Also note that this warning message didn't always print out when I ran brew doctor, it was something that started to appear recently. Also, I am using Python 2.7 on my computer, trying to stay away from Python 3.

A: I also received this message.
Something, sometime installed

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

on my machine (the folder date was about 4 years old).
I've chosen to remove it.
Please note that the Apple provided framework lives in

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/

A: I had the same problem. When I upgraded python3 through Homebrew, I started getting this:
-bash: python3: command not found

I had the same conflict with Python somehow being installed in /Library/Framework/Python.framework. I just did a brew link overwrite and everything is working fine now. There is some info about what to do with the Python version in the /Library/Framework/Python.framework here.
I guess you could try deleting that version as the link suggests, just make sure that version isn't being used. When I got into the Python.framework directory I was seeing some EPD version of Python, which I think is Enthought. You could delete it, but I if it isn't causing you any problems besides the unsightly Homebrew warning message, then I think you should just ignore it for now.
Update:
I did delete the Python.framework directory which, through some poking around inside that directory, I started seeing a few old versions of Python that I didn't install with Homebrew. One was from Enthought, and another was a distribution of Python3.3. I think some of these installs in the Framework directory are user installs. I installed R on my system, and there is also an R.framework directory, so I think most of these are user installs. After I deleted the directory, I just had to call brew prune to remove the old symlinks. I checked both brew versions of python 2.7.6 and 3.3.4, and they seem to be in good working order with all of my installed packages. I guess I leave the decision to remove that directory, or python version, to your discretion.

A: per this thread, enter this command:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
because there are multiple installations of Python on your computer, and this removes the one that may cause additional problems in the future.

A: Removing directories manually can be a nightmare, but fortunately 'brew' can take care of that. Once you are done with the removal, put this:
brew doctor

The above command will list the broken system links. In order to get rid of these broken symlinks, put this:
brew prune

Check with 'brew doctor' once more to ensure no links are broken. Your system will then be ready to brew.

A: You can use this solution as I've put below
sudo rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

brew doctor

brew prune

brew update

That combo fixed it for me, even thought this error usually doesn't cause any major problems its just was annoying me to see them pop up under brew doctor

A: I had installed Python 3 from Homebrew and then another Python 3 directly from the Python website.
I deleted /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. I did not add any PATH or PYTHONPATH variables in .bash_profile. Then I checked the following in the shell:
~$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Feb  7 2017, 00:08:15)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit()

~$ python3
Python 3.6.4 (default, Mar  9 2018, 23:15:12)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit()

~$

In addition, I checked the following:
~$ whereis python
/usr/bin/python

~$ whereis python3

~$ which python
/usr/bin/python

~$ which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3

~$ which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip

~$ which pip3
/usr/local/bin/pip3

~$ whereis pip

~$ whereis pip3

I was a bit worried that whereis python3, whereis pip, and whereis pip3 returned nothing, but since there was no problem launching Python, I'd think it's safe to delete /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. Ask me again in a month.

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Lavender Rose for the One You Love!
Yellow with Red Tip Rose for Adoration!
Animation of a Girl in Love Thinking of Her Lover, When the Night is Silent, and Her Hurt Beats with Love!
Love and Marriage Dreams in an Animation of a Girl Dressing in White!
Somebody wrote from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, in one paragraph, I divided here, "So there's this guy I think I like. He's 1 year younger than me and is friend with most of the boys in my class".
"He's also friend with one of my girl-friends, as they drive in the same bus - but they're like (frenemies). He has many connections around the school too. We occasionally talk, but only once or twice as we're still on the (schoolmates-strangers stage)"
"He knows my name and knows that I exist. Anyway, I'm like the shy sort of person and need the other person to start a conversation and well, he's the opposite of me - though we do have a few things in common".
"I also catch him staring at me - rarely though - when I try to look at him. I don't want to confess, as I don't want to be in love (itself). I want to get rid of this feeling, but I also want to be friends at the same time. What do I do?"
It is very important to follow the instructions mentioned on the main love pages to write and submit good request in good details.
Write about Hyderabad, or Any Beautiful City in India and read about Gujarat.
Shivani wrote from India, "I am Shivani. I am facing acute love problem. I am in love since the last 5 years. Some members of my family informed me last year that they oppose and will never accept my love".
"One of my brothers had a stroke, when he heard that and he still suffers. Another fainted when he heard about my love. They asked me to leave him. But I did not. I continued with him. Now once again they came to know that I am still in love with him".
"They are forcing me to leave him. Emotionally, they are (blackmailing) me. I love him very much and I cannot leave without him. We have woven so many dreams together. We can't separate from each other. Many times, many thoughts of suicide came to my mind. I am not able to find any solution. I don't want to leave him. Please advice, urgently".
Write about about any city in India and read about Gujarat at the two links above.
Somebody wrote from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, in one paragraph, I divided here, "We had a 6 years love relationship and was very passionate. We had a serious fight, but we did contact after that".
"This makes me feel that we are still in relation and we will continue. We talked thrice on chat and twice via email. Then he sent his last email saying that he will love me forever, but its very late now".
"I did not lose hope and kept on sending him emails, SMS and calls. He asks other friends about me and does read my emails. He knows I do not have any relationship for sure. Its been a year, since we had a breakup".
"Now, I'm feeling like losing it all. He still loves me, but he does not want to talk or continue. I love him and will try whatever it takes. So, please suggest me something".
* Are you from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan?
Write about it, or about any city in Pakistan and read about the Indus River.
Someone wrote briefly from Bangalore, Karnataka, India, "I have a problem getting married. I am in love with girl. But, that girl is in love with my brother. My brother is in love with another girl... So what is the solution of these complicated and reversal love relations?"
"Coincidentally, my parents and her parents are committed to marry her to me. (arrange marriage)"
Write about it, or about any city in India and read about Gujarat at the link above.
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Indonesia candidates: Metal fan, cleric, soldier, tycoon
This combination photo taken on Saturday, April 13, 2019, left, and Sunday, April 7, 2019, right, show Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, and his
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's presidential election Wednesday pits incumbent Joko Widodo against former special forces Gen. Prabowo Subianto in a repeat of the 2014 contest. Widodo, a furniture exporter and heavy metal fan who had a meteoric rise in Indonesian politics, chose a conservative Muslim cleric as his vice presidential candidate. Subianto's running mate is a self-made tycoon.
A look at the presidential and vice presidential candidates:
Usually known as Jokowi, Widodo began his political career in the central Javanese city of Solo and hit the big time when he became governor of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, in 2012. A down-to-earth style and reputation for clean governance helped propel him to the presidency in 2014.
Widodo, 57, was likened to Barack Obama, and progressive voters hoped that as the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite he would address a catalog of major human rights abuses in the country. But while in office, he has been unwilling to press for accountability that threatens powerful institutions such as the military. Instead he has emphasized nationalism while also fending off attacks that he is insufficiently Muslim.
Widodo's signature policy has been improving Indonesia's poor infrastructure. He also continued the poverty alleviation policies of his predecessor.
MA'RUF AMIN
One of the most important religious figures in Muslim-majority Indonesia, Amin was selected as Widodo's running mate to shore up his support among pious Muslims. He was chairman of Majelis Ulama Indonesia, the country's council of Islamic leaders, and supreme leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world's largest Muslim organization.
But an avuncular persona belies Amin's reactionary beliefs. Amin, 76, has been a vocal supporter and drafter of fatwas against religious minorities and LGBT people. Human Rights Watch says the fatwas, or edicts, have legitimized increasingly hateful rhetoric by government officials against LGBT people, and in some cases fueled deadly violence by Islamic militants against religious minorities.
Subianto, a former special forces general who was dismissed from the military in 1998, is making his second run at the presidency after narrowly losing to Widodo in 2014. A strident nationalist, he has run a fear-based campaign, highlighting what he sees as Indonesia's weakness and the risk of exploitation by foreign powers or disintegration.
Subianto, 67, has sometimes highlighted a novel about a future world war that briefly mentions Indonesia as part of the basis for those fears. He was a star officer during the Suharto era and married the dictator's daughter. After Suharto was forced from office by social and economic chaos in 1998, Subianto was dismissed from the military. Soldiers under his command had kidnapped student activists, some of whom remain missing.
A self-made tycoon and deputy governor of Jakarta, Uno — commonly known as Sandi — has reportedly spent millions of his own money on the campaign. Articulate and youthful looking at 49, he has been more active on the campaign trail than his running mate and has been the ticket's way of appealing to the burgeoning number of young voters.
Nearly a decade ago, Uno was profiled by CNN as an inspirational entrepreneur from humble roots who claimed to have the ear of then Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. His role in the 2019 campaign has raised his profile nationally and he is already talked about as a possible 2024 presidential candidate.

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You won't get many—if any—complaints from Chris Young right now.
Chris is currently enjoining back-to-back No. 1 singles—the title track and "Think of You"—from his fifth studio album, I'm Comin' Over, which also topped the Billboard Country Albums chart. He's got a new single with Vince Gill, "Sober Saturday Night," climbing the charts, and he has a new Christmas album coming out in a couple of weeks.
On top of all that, "Think of You," his duet with Cassadee Pope, was nominated for CMA Musical Event of the Year on Aug. 31.
Although there was a push for the smooth-crooning star to be nominated in the Male Vocalist of the Year category, it wasn't to be this year as Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban took the five spots. But that hasn't dampened Chris' outlook in the least.
We'll have to wait until the CMA Awards on Nov. 2 to see how Chris fares. In the meantime, you can catch the fall leg of his I'm Comin' Over Tour, and stay tuned for more info on his Christmas album next week.


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4T or 4-T may refer to:

Biology and chemistry
4-T-TRIS; see Thiotrisescaline
4-t-butylpyrocatechol; see 4-tert-Butylcatechol
4T-MMDA-2; see MMDA

Locomotives
4T class of locomotive
LMS Stanier 2-6-4T (disambiguation)
LMS 3-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T
LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T
LMS Fowler 2-6-4T
Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives
LMS/BR Class 4 2-6-4T locomotives
BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T
LMS 2-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T
L&YR Hughes 4-6-4T
LMS Stanier Class 2 0-4-4T
Highland Railway Drummond 0-6-4T Class
Highland Railway Drummond 0-4-4T Class
0-8-4T
2-6-4T; see  2-6-4
0-4-4T; see 0-4-4
4-6-4T; see 4-6-4
0-6-4T; see 0-6-4
2-8-4T; see 2-8-4
2-2-4T; see 2-2-4
2-4-4T; see  2-4-4

Other
4T-GTE, a model of Toyota T engine
4T, a model of LWD Szpak, a Polish utility aircraft
Piaggio Zip 4T, an urban scooter
4T – Vietnam Youth Education Support Center
4T, the production code for the 1977 Doctor Who serial The Invisible Enemy
Fourth Transformation, 2018 campaign promise by Mexico's president to do away with abuses that plagued that nation.

See also
 The Four T's (disambiguation)
T4 (disambiguation)
 TTTT

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Continued: Twenty 6 wheeled SUVs of India & the world
Here are 20 6X6 SUVs from India and around the world
Spectre Performance Dually
It has to be one of the best-looking custom 6X6. The truck based on 2004 GM Silverado dually and has been customised by Spectre Performance. The SUV gets slammed and gets very closer to the ground. It has been developed for the Bonneville land speed racers and gets as many as 8 wheels in the rear. In total, the truck boasts of 10 wheels.
The power is drawn from 8.2-litre Cadillac engine that gets compressed air from two Garrett turbochargers. The engine generates a massive 1,425 BHP of power. The vehicle also gets hydraulic powered rear flatbed which can be lifted when needed. It sure is a monster truck on small wheels.
Hummer H2 SUT Luxury
The Hummer is the official US Military vehicle and is known around the world for its badass looks. Here is the Desert Ops edition of the Hummer H2 SUT. The car was modified by a limousine company in the USA. The SUV has been stretched significantly to fit the extra axle. Also, the body receives a cream colour and gets contrasting black coloured 18-inch alloy wheels. The interiors also get very carefully upgrades one the line of the military theme.
Dodge T-Rex 6X6
The Dodge T-Rex is called so because of its amusing length, breadth and height in stock form. This T-Rex looks like it has been given pretty strong steroids. The green coloured SUV rides on six 42-inch Swamper tyres. The vehicle also gets anti-roll bars, skid plates and stronger suspensions.
The axles are military grade Rockwell and work in sync with each other to make the vehicle one of the most capable SUVs in the world. The car also gets an exterior roll cage, customised bumpers, and a remapped engine. The owner of this vehicle wants to reach Arctic on this vehicle.
The Chevrolet Silverado is a heavy-duty pick-up truck. The Silverado name is quite popular in the SUV circle. This Silverado truck has been customised by a customisation house in the USA. It gets a huge lift kit and massive tyres that make other vehicles go dwarf in front of it. The SUV gets a fully functional third axle with locking differential. The engine has been modified to put out the extra power that makes the whole package a much aggressive and attractive deal.
Toyota Hilux 6X6
This one is rather subtle looking truck among all of the 6X6 we have seen till now. The truck has been customised by the renowned Arctic Truck customs. The red coloured Hilux gets a third axle drawing power from the transmission. Also, the tyres have been upgraded to 36-inches with off-road sped wheels. The engine has not been touched with this one. This Hilux sure looks subtle but is capable enough to reach the toughest parts of the planet.
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Theatre blog
Out, damn'd conspiracy! Shakespeare was no fraud
The film Anonymous falls for ill-informed Victorian prating – sadly, many still find fantasy more compelling than mere truth
Wed 26 Oct 2011 13.22 EDT First published on Wed 26 Oct 2011 13.22 EDT
Over-egging the drama? … David Thewlis and Joely Richardson in Anonymous. Photograph: Reiner Bajo
However much we may claim to be curious about hat really happened in history, it seems we often prefer our stories about the past to follow the pattern of fairytales. Shakespeare understood this very well. He gave his audiences Richard III, the hunchbacked wicked uncle, rightfully destroyed by the good avenging prince, for instance, rather than the complex politician of history, defeated and killed by an invading opportunist. History may provide good raw material for drama, but it will need a bit of underlying myth if it is really going to stay in the imagination.
To that extent, the film Anonymous – which offers a version of Elizabethan history obsessed with monarchy, parenthood and usurpation, in which the rightful heir to the English throne is wickedly kept from his inheritance – is only doing what costume drama has done since Shakespeare's time, acting out our fantasies in fancy dress while mentioning a few real events and actual people. But Shakespeare never went so far as to claim that there was no real Richard III, only a pretender using a pseudonym. Nor did he suggest that 1485 was a year of complete peace, during which the traces of the Battle of Bosworth were cynically faked by the establishment. The plot of Anonymous, by comparison, is based on the premise that Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare. It isn't just a piece of sexed-up historical drama in the great Elizabethan tradition: it belongs to a much more recent mindset, that of the great Victorian conspiracy theories.
I say Victorian because nobody doubted that Shakespeare had written his own plays until the 1850s. The first claim to the contrary is Delia Bacon's article William Shakespeare and his Plays; an Inquiry Concerning Them, printed in Putnam's Magazine (in 1856). Bacon thought the Complete Plays represented a deliberate attempt to spread enlightenment, modernity and progress, and that rather than being the work of a single supremely talented showbusiness professional they must have been written by an occult committee of world-designing philosophers. Its leader, she hinted, could only have been Sir Francis Bacon, who had somehow scheduled its meetings in between his other duties as attorney general and his efforts to invent empirical science.
Delia Bacon died in an asylum after failing to find a single piece of evidence in favour of her claim, but her example has not inhibited successive waves of other champions, who have credited the plays to Francis Bacon alone, to Christopher Marlowe, to the Fifth Earl of Rutland, to the Sixth Earl of Derby, to the 17th Earl of Oxford, and even to Queen Elizabeth I, among many others. The obvious truth that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, sadly, is not news, and popular journalism since the 1850s has preferred news at all costs.
Shakespearean scholars, when they have managed to calm themselves, have sometimes paid reluctant tribute to the sheer determination and ingenuity which "anti-Stratfordian" writers have displayed, since any theory suggesting that the theatre professional William Shakespeare did not write the Shakespeare canon somehow has to explain why so many of his contemporaries said that he did, and why none of the rest ever said that he did not. Most observers, however, have been more impressed by the anti-Stratfordians' dogged immunity to documentary evidence, not only that which confirms that Shakespeare wrote his own plays, but that which establishes that several of the alternative candidates, including Oxford, were long dead before he had finished doing so. How did this weird cult belief that Shakespeare was a fraud ever come into being?
By Delia Bacon's time, the authorship controversy was an accident waiting to happen. In the age of Romanticism, such transcendent, quasi-religious claims were being made for the supreme poetic triumph of the Complete Works that it was becoming well-nigh impossible to imagine how any mere human being could have written them at all. At the same time, the popular understanding of what levels of literacy might have been achieved in 16th-century Stratford was still heavily influenced by a patriotic tradition of Shakespeare-worship which liked to depict the playwright as an uninstructed son of the Warwickshire soil, a thoroughly native genius who had out-written the world without any help from foreign or classical literary models. These two notions combined to persuade Delia Bacon and her more snobbish successors that the Folio's title page and preliminaries could only be part of an elaborate charade, orchestrated by some more elevated personage. They accordingly misread the distinctive literary traces of Shakespeare's solid Elizabethan grammar-school education visible throughout the volume as evidence that the "real" author had attended Oxford or Cambridge.
This misapprehension was reinforced by the 19th century's deepening sense that there was an absolute boundary between poetry (a disinterested manifestation of high culture) and live theatre (a mercenary form of vulgar entertainment). At a time when the theatrical dimension of Shakespeare's works was especially ill understood (the plays heavily cut and altered to fit the contemporary stage, and read by Victorian critics as sublime poems rather than as practical scripts), it became possible, perversely, for the fact that Shakespeare had been a known professional actor and man of the theatre to be cited as evidence that he could not have written the plays rather than as corroboration that he did.
The spread of conspiracy theories about Shakespeare has an international dimension to it. Both Hart and Bacon were Americans, and blue-blooded candidates for the authorship continue to find some of their most eager (and munificent) supporters in the United States. Members of other nationalities, too, have at times enjoyed the sense that they know the "real" Shakespeare better than do his compatriots: during the early 20th century German conspiracy theorists particularly favoured the Earl of Rutland, for example, though their French counterparts preferred the Earl of Derby, and in Austria Sigmund Freud, in a classic instance of the fantasies about secret aristocratic origins which he had identified in children, placed his own ill-informed faith in the Earl of Oxford.
The German director Roland Emmerich, then, has belatedly climbed on to a creaky Victorian bandwagon with Anonymous, a film which adopts the most lurid and B-movie-like variant of the theory that Oxford wrote the plays, in its quest to combine the commercial appeal of Shakespeare in Love with that of The Da Vinci Code. According to the scenario the film depicts, the Complete Works, especially Hamlet, encode the story of how Oxford was not only the secret author of the Shakespeare canon but was secretly both the son and subsequently the lover of Elizabeth I, and was thereby secretly the father of the Earl of Southampton and the unacknowledged rightful heir to the throne of England into the bargain.
Taken as a serious account of real history, this is so plainly daft, and so wildly at variance with all the copious evidence we have about Shakespeare, the Elizabethan theatre, Oxford, Elizabeth and Southampton alike, that it is beyond rational refutation. Taken as a version of one of our culture's perennially recurring daydreams, however – the tale of the oppressed rightful prince, wickedly deprived of his true heritage and recognition – it ought to give us serious food for thought about the ease with which fantasy, in some minds, can prove far more compelling than mere truth.
- Michael Dobson is director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham
Period and historical films
Shakespeare film Anonymous has lost plot, says Stratford
Warwickshire campaigners hit back at Roland Emmerich's revisionist film that claims Shakespeare didn't write his plays
There's nothing Anonymous about William Shakespeare's genius
Jonathan Jones: Conspiracists ignore a crushing weight of documentary and in-text evidence that the Stratford master authored the plays
Our film Anonymous asks viewers to think for themselves about Shakespeare
John Orloff
John Orloff: Criticism of Anonymous has been vitriolic. But scholarship about Shakespeare's life relies on smoke and mirrors
Shakespeare's plays tell us all we need to know about the man – except his identity
The debate about who wrote the plays rages, but only one thing remains sure: by his works shall we know him. By Robert McCrum


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What strikes me so much here is that, out of that list in the final sentence, only 'History' is something that arguably takes place (mostly) outside of the human head. The rest are essentially all subtly-colored synonyms for 'feelings'.
Aesthetics is concerned with shared sub-cultural tastes and values, which are, at their root, feelings-based. Imagine two people: the art professor trying to develop a new formal theory of aesthetics, and some random person in their car choosing a radio station for the drive to work: Whether they realize it or not, each is trying in their own way to answer the same essential questions on some level: What sub-cultural tribe do I identify with? What am I supposed to like or dislike, based upon that? What makes me feel good? What makes me feel uncomfortable, or in territory unfamiliar?.
Tell me your socioeconomic background, age, gender, marital status, where you're from and your religion, and I've got a pretty good chance at guessing your taste in movies, books, art, music and politics. That is 'aesthetics'.
"Prudence, morals and virtues" have even less essential substance. The study of 'Morals', as Nietzsche pointed out over a century ago, is largely a subset of aesthetics (you inherit your initial set of morals from your originating tribe, perhaps modifying them as your tastes change over time as you interact with and move between different sub-cultures), so the above applies. I'd argue that 'Prudence' is essentially the urge to avoid public shaming or other consequences. And I'd argue that 'virtues' are ultimately derived from pride, both private and public. Prudence, when it works, is the thing that keeps you from getting shunned or expelled from the group. Virtues are the things that will help you to acquire social capital (and therefore status) within a group.
The first principle [of the scientific method] is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
I pick on Sullivan here because he's a kind of 'cultural canary', quite canny at sniffing out overall trends, and this general anti-science backlash is definitely something I've noticed coming back into prominence over these past few years.
The slow, inexorable move towards post-scarcity economics seems to be driving two general trends. First, more and more goods are becoming positional goods, i.e. things that derive their value mostly from their artificial inaccessibility to the general crowd. And secondly, the increased prominence of social capital in the lives of ordinary people.
Up until a few centuries ago, only the ruling class and their courtiers had to worry much about social capital: the so-called lower orders, generally too busy surviving to indulge in much intrigue or social games, tended to derive all their value from their originating tribe. Move forward to the present, and the Everyfolk now seem to spend much of their of time displaying cultural signifiers and tribal identifiers to one another on Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, YouTube, etc. Much like the old Courtiers at Versailles, (though minus the scented handkerchiefs), and frankly not too different from Baboons flashing their red haunches at each other– we are primates, after all, and it's just part of what we do. There are even forums like Kickstarter now, which give the Everyfolk a chance to actually monetize any social capital they acquire to fund a new product or service.
My point: We seem to be moving from the old American notion of 'Every Man a King', towards a new aesthetic (there's that word again) of 'Every Man a Courtier'. And I do think this is a big part of what's driving the anti-science movements, because the notion of objectivity threatens this new culture.
Essentially, you discriminate between tribe A and tribe B by what they believe– but if there is only One Right Answer, that distinction disappears. A positional good rarely has any objective excess value of its own (the $10K Rolex and the $10 Timex are objectively equivalent in function, for example). And most of the baubles of social capital are either matters of opinion (i.e. aesthetics), or have no essential substance at all (i.e. they are completely inside our proverbial heads).
Small wonder, then, that there's so much anti-scientism in popular culture: If you derive almost all of your personal value from these things, you will unconsciously see science, with its potentially corrosive truth-seeking, to be a dire threat to your very self.
IMO this will only get worse as time moves on: But this tension between our tribal primiate natures, and the new global machine-culture that's being born as we speak, will be one of the primal forces driving everything from our art to our politics for at least the next few decades.
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Q: Let $U$, $V$ be independent random variables following a continuous uniform distribution on $(0,1).$ Let $X=U.V$ then find $f_X$ and $f_V|_X$ Let $U$, $V$ be independent random variables following a continuous uniform distribution on $(0,1).$ Let $X=U.V$ then find $f_X$ and $f_V|_X$
My Working
for $f_X$ we have:
$P(X\leq x)=P(UV\leq x)=\int_{0}^{1} F_V(\frac{x}{u}) \,du=\int_{0}^{x} F_V(\frac{x}{u}) \,du+\int_{x}^{1} F_V(\frac{x}{u}) \,du=\int_{0}^{x} 1\,du+\int_{x}^{1} \frac{x}{u}\,du=-\log{x}$
Is my working for $f_X$ correct? Also how do find $f_V|_X$. Kindly help me

A: Yes your reasoning is correct but there is a method by which you can solve both question together. Consider the following system
$$
\begin{cases}
x=uv\\
y=v
\end{cases}\rightarrow\begin{cases}
u=\frac{x}{y}\\
v=y
\end{cases}$$
calculate the jacobian obtaining $|J|=\frac{1}{y}$ and thus
$$f_{XY}(x,y)=\frac{1}{y}$$
Now observe that $0<\frac{x}{y}<1$ that is $0<x<y<1$ (a triangle) thus, integrating, immediately you find
$$f_X(x)=\int_x^1\frac{1}{y}dy=-\log x$$
and again immediately you get
$$f_{Y|X}(y|x)=\frac{f_{XY}(x,y)}{f_X(x)}=\frac{1}{-y\log x}$$


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One Texas city among best in U.S. on Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards 2019
One Texas city among best in U.S. on Condé Nast Traveler awards 2019
San Antonio is among the country's best big cities. Photo by dszc/Getty Images
For more than 30 years, Condé Nast Traveler has asked readers to weigh in on the top places, spaces, and trips around the world. This year's results, released on October 7, not only shine a spotlight on six top-rated hotels and resorts in San Antonio, but on the city itself.
This year's Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards are based on input from more than 600,000 travelers around the world.
Topping the accolades for San Antonio is a No. 10 showing among the best big cities in the U.S. Chicago took the top spot, followed by Minneapolis and Boston. No other Texas city made the list.
"Best known for its River Walk and the historic Alamo, San Antonio in recent years has developed a hip side worth exploring," the magazine says. "Its Pearl District is a pedestrian-friendly redevelopment with buzzy restaurants on the banks of the river."
Condé Nast Traveler also gives a nod to the smothered chicken-fried steak at Lulu's Bakery & Cafe and the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden.
"If you're lucky, you'll be there for Fiesta, a 10-day heritage celebration that draws locals and tourists alike," says Condé Nast Traveler, recommending the Pearl's Hotel Emma or the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa as places to stay.
San Antonio fared well in the magazine's ranking of the best hotels in Texas, too. The Hotel Valencia Riverwalk grabbed the No. 2 spot, behind the JW Marriott Austin, while The St. Anthony, a Luxury Collection Hotel ranked third, and Hotel Emma ranked fourth.
How did Dallas hotels do? Five made the Texas' best list: Hotel ZaZa (No. 5), the Ritz-Carlton (No. 8), Hotel Crescent Court (No. 13), The Adolphus (No. 14), and Hilton Anatole (No. 18).
On Condé Nast Traveler's list of the top resorts in the U.S., San Antonio's La Cantera Resort & Spa landed at No. 8.
"We take pride in our world-class property, team and services, and we are elated and humbled to be ranked so highly, especially since it comes directly from readers and travelers who have experienced our Hill Country oasis," John Spomer, vice president and managing director of La Cantera, says in a release announcing the news. "We look forward to continuing to provide elevated service and experience to our future guests."
San Antonio also nabbed three spots among the top resorts in Texas and the Southwest, with La Cantera Resort & Spa leading the list, followed at No. 2 by the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa. The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa ranked 16th.
The Four Seasons Resort and Club at Las Colinas grabbed No. 22. It was the only Dallas-area resort to make the list.
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I always knew a PhD would involve hard work.... But I didn't realise quite how frequently I would feel like a piece of washing wrung out by a Victorian clothes- drier.... I am used to unexpected things cropping up that put my experimental plans in disarray but this week has been exceptionally difficult!
For my PhD project, I am investigating if infection with parasitic plants ( especially Striga species) makes the host more vulnerable to above ground pathogens. For my model system , I am using Arabidopsis thaliana ( thale cress) as the host and Striga gesnerioides as the parasitic plant. I was very excited as this week I was due to challenge my first batch of Striga- infected hosts with downy mildew ( this is done by filling a perfume spray bottle with a solution containing downy mildew spores and spraying it as a fine mist over the leaves!). I had already prepared a living culture of downy mildew on a different host, ready to use when I came to challenge the Striga infected plants. First problem- the living culture wasn't producing spores so I had to find some elsewhere. Someone had a culture but it was ready to sporulate RIGHT NOW and not in two days time, as I had planned! So it was a rush to prepare to infect my plants. Second problem - my Striga- infected hosts were flowering! This was bad news as when Arabidopsis starts to flower , it stops putting so much energy into making leaves and I needed nice big leaves to score the extent of downy mildew infection. Fortunately I managed to scrape together enough non-flowering plants for a viable experiment.
My current experimental plan... You can see how often it gets changed!
But why WERE they flowering? My cabinet was supposed to be set to a short photoperiod ( 9 hours of 'daylight') so the plants should think they were in the middle of a ( mild!) British winter...I asked the technicians to check and , yes, the photoperiod was definitely 9 hours. So what was going on?
... And there was precisely what you do NOT want to find first thing in the morning! A chain of emails between my supervisors and the growth room technicians, all with 'URGENT' in the title. My growth chamber had completely broken - the temperature system had conked out. So that's why the plants had started to flower! My supervisor was away at a conference so it was up to me to move all my plants into temporary quarters. It was a mad dash to tell the lecturer leading the practical what had happened, then a sprint to the growth rooms to move my plants out. I was just in time - you could feel the heat coming out of the chamber, they were being cooked! With the help of the technicians, I managed to find some temporary lodgings for them and just made it back in time for the practical. By the time the lunch break came, a new growth cabinet that was currently empty had been found so I went back to move my plants in. I took several thermometers with me and have taped these to the walls - I'm not going to be caught out again!
Fortunately, the practical - despite involving undergraduates, mealworms and beetles- went fairly smoothly with the students not as squeamish as I thought they would be!
Lesson learned - don't trust what computers or people tell you - listen to your plants. They never lie!
The plants never lie... This cabinet is definitely NOT 'winter conditions'!
Happier plants in their new growth cabinet - although the shelves are at a different height than the previous one hence why some are on the floor!


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White Fang quotes
"White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"He was never disturbed over why a thing happened. How it happened was sufficient for him." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"The clay of White Fang had been moulded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been so moulded in the making." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
"He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it." Jack London, "White Fang" - 1906
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Jack London quotes


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This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Significant Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO's Quite Large Telescope. The relatively compact sum of dust in the LMC and MUSE's acute eyesight permitted intricate aspects of the location to be picked out in obvious mild.
This location of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) glows in striking colors in this impression captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO's Really Big Telescope (VLT). The location, regarded as LHA a hundred and twenty-N 180B — N180 B for brief — is a style of nebula regarded as an H II area (pronounced "H two"), and is a fertile resource of new stars.
The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, obvious generally from the Southern Hemisphere. At only all-around one hundred sixty 000 mild-decades away from the Earth, it is pretty much on our doorstep. As well as staying shut to residence, the LMC's one spiral arm appears approximately encounter-on, making it possible for us to examine regions such as N180 B with ease.
H II locations are interstellar clouds of ionised hydrogen — the bare nuclei of hydrogen atoms. These regions are stellar nurseries — and the newly fashioned significant stars are liable for the ionisation of the surrounding gasoline, which can make for a stunning sight. N180 B's distinct condition is manufactured up of a gargantuan bubble of ionised hydrogen surrounded by 4 scaled-down bubbles.
Deep within this glowing cloud, MUSE has spotted a jet emitted by a fledgling star — a enormous young stellar item with a mass twelve occasions bigger than our Solar. The jet — named Herbig–Haro 1177, or HH 1177 for limited — is shown in element in this accompanying impression. This is the initial time these kinds of a jet has been observed in noticeable light-weight outside the house the Milky Way, as they are ordinarily obscured by their dusty environment. On the other hand, the comparatively dust-totally free atmosphere of the LMC permits HH 1177 to be noticed at visible wavelengths. At virtually 33 mild-decades in length, it is a person of the longest this kind of jets ever observed.
This pan video explores a dazzling location of recently-forming stars in the Big Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The HII area LHA 120-N 180B — also regarded as N180 — was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument on ESO's Incredibly Large Telescope. The rather modest volume of dust in the LMC and MUSE's acute vision permitted intricate aspects of the location to be picked out in noticeable gentle.
HH 1177 tells us about the early life of stars. The beam is hugely collimated it barely spreads out as it travels. Jets like this are affiliated with the accretion discs of their star, and can get rid of light-weight on how fledgling stars obtain make a difference. Astronomers have observed that each superior- and reduced-mass stars launch collimated jets like HH 1177 via related mechanisms — hinting that massive stars can type in the exact same way as their low-mass counterparts.
MUSE has lately been vastly enhanced by the addition of the Adaptive Optics Facility , the Huge Discipline Method of which noticed initial gentle in 2017. Adaptive optics is the process by which ESO's telescopes compensate for the blurring effects of the atmosphere — turning twinkling stars into sharp, higher-resolution visuals. Due to the fact acquiring these info, the addition of the Slim Area Manner, has presented MUSE vision just about as sharp as that of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — offering it the probable to examine the Universe in higher depth than at any time ahead of.
This zoom video clip begins with a broad look at of the Milky Way and finishes with a near-up glimpse at a dazzling region of recently-forming stars in the HII area LHA one hundred twenty-N 180B — also identified as N180. This glowing area of new child stars in the Huge Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument on ESO's Really Large Telescope. The somewhat compact quantity of dust in the LMC and MUSE's acute eyesight allowed intricate specifics of the region to be picked out in noticeable gentle.


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Katie Brown: 'I'm looking for a fresh, captivating voice'
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Welcome to the next in our series of Curtis Brown 120 blog posts, these blogs include exclusive interviews with authors, agents and publishers; writing tips; industry insights – and much more besides.
This week the Curtis Brown 120 team asked commissioning editor at Trapeze, Orion – Katie Brown – about her path into the publishing world, the types of books she's looking for now and the advice she has for writers …
What was your route into publishing – where did you start?
I started out as a publicity assistant at Riot Communications, a small arts and culture agency set-up by two former Penguin employees. It gave me a broad insight into different areas of publishing – adults and children, fiction and non-fictions, prizes and charities as well as books and authors – and I loved the variety it offered in terms of my day-to-day work. I then moved in-house to Headline, where I spearheaded campaigns for Neil Gaiman, Mary Berry, Sarah Winman and Eowyn Ivey. After two years, I decided I wanted to make the move into editorial, and I am now commissioning editor for fiction at Trapeze, Orion.
What was the first book you commissioned?
Somewhere Close to Happy by Lia Louis, a glorious novel about a woman who receives a letter from her first love, dated the day he disappeared 12 years before. It's this wonderful heart-wrenching mystery, that's funny and depicts friendship in all its honest nuance, but I also loved the exploration of social disparity, poverty, the disenfranchisement of the young, and mental health.
What's your favourite debut novel?
Oh god, can anyone actually answer this?! If put on the spot I'd have to say The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – I adored the dark magic and glamour of it, and the feeling of never having read anything like it before. My other, more obvious one, would have to be Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
If you could tell your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?
What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
Read widely and as much as you can, but don't compare yourself. Write as often as you can, regardless of how hard or difficult you find it. Know that finding it laborious to get words down on the page does not make you a bad writer.
Which book do you always recommend to others?
Depending on the person and their tastes (I know this isn't one but these are all books I constantly recommend!)
A Mad World, My Masters by John Simpson
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (obvs)
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (double obvs)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
A Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
What is your pet hate in submissions?
Comparative titles that don't make sense!
Who is your favourite fictional hero/heroine?
Death in Terry Pratchett's discworld series.
Technically a submission but the last book I read for pleasure was Folk by Zoe Gilbert / last book I listened to on audio was The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker.
What book is totally overrated in your view?
I don't know about overrated but I certainly won't ever be reading Jordan B Peterson's book.
What's your guilty reading pleasure?
I never EVER feel guilty about reading anything, and no one else should either.
What is your prediction for the next publishing trend?
Crime books that aren't as dark and don't focus on a murder etc, but rather centre around 'victimless' crimes. Something that basically merges the uplit trend with the appetite for a crime caper.
'Millennial Lit' – books like Queenie, Normal People and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love have established a platform and I think we'll see more fiction especially like this, especially in the commercial sphere.
What are you looking for in a debut?
I am quite voice-led, so with all my books I'm looking for a fresh, captivating voice.
In terms of genre, I have a few things I'm looking for:
Reading group historical that tells me something new and has a fresh premise, perhaps around a true historical event.
Something with a hint of magic that firmly sits in the reading group area of the market.
High concept crime.
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Things to do in Italy
Activities for couples
Underground & catacombs
Our most recommended things to do in Italy
1. Vatican: Museums & Sistine Chapel Entrance Ticket
Take a stirring journey through art and religious history with skip-the-ticket-line entry to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Avoid the long ticket lines and then enjoy your visit at your own pace. Wander through the Greek Cross Gallery to see elaborately-carved sarcophagi that might just contain the earthly remains of some of antiquity's famous kings and queens. Peek at the Cabinet of the Masks, or tour the Sala degli Animali to see a virtual menagerie of fantastic beasts, real and imagined. Walk the Upper Galleries, including the Gallery of Maps, to see how cartographers depicted the world through the ages. See masterpieces by Renaissance masters in the Raphael Rooms, and rest for a while in the Borgia Apartments. Then, it's time to marvel at Michelangelo's exquisite Sistine Chapel, the crown jewel of the Vatican, and perhaps even of all the world's art treasures.
2. Rome: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Basilica Tour
Take a tour of one of the holiest sites in Christendom on this guided walking tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. First, visit the Pine Courtyard, Belvedere Courtyard, the Gallery of the Maps, Candelabra Gallery, Pio Clementino's Rooms, the Tapestry Gallery, Raphael Rooms (only on early morning tours), and the Sistine Chapel. Then, be led by an expert guide to some of the major attractions, as well as to some lesser-known spots that other tourists often miss. You will also get to see other galleries of the Vatican corridors. Finally, visit Michelangelo's Pietà at St. Peter's Basilica before concludig your tour at the Sistine Chapel.
3. Genoa: Aquarium of Genoa Timeslot Entry Ticket
Explore the Aquarium of Genoa to see more than 5,000 animals from 400 species at Italy's largest aquatic zoo. Learn how the aquarium was built for the Genoa Expo '92, and the variety of conservation programs that it is involved in. Discover a venue that is home to the biggest display of aquatic biodiversity in Europe. Venture into the fascinating waters of the world as you explore more than 70 tanks of wonderful aquatic creatures. Marvel at animals from the Antarctic, such as penguins, and see sharks, seals, jellyfish, and the colorful fish of the coral barriers. Head to the Cetacean Pavilion, designed by Renzo Piano, and be amazed the playful bottlenose dolphins at 4 open-air pools.
4. Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill Priority Access Guide
Start your tour right outside the monumental Colosseum where you will meet your guide. Here, your expert in Roman history will give you an introduction to the finest arena of the Roman Empire. Explore the magnificent Colosseum, which had 80 entrances and could accommodate around 65,000 spectators. Hear about the spectacular festivals the Romans held here, which could last up to 100 days. Enjoy time at your leisure after your visit to take some pictures, refresh yourself, and wander around. Then, being the second part of your tour to the Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. Explore the social, political, and religious center of the Roman Empire, where the different strata of Roman society would rub shoulders. Take in the incredible ruins at Palatine Hill on a guided tour of the grounds, and enjoy breathtaking panoramic views of the Colosseum. For the second part of your tour, you will have the opportunity to meet your second guide, who is passionate about Ancient Rome. Make the most out of your experience by having two of the highest-rated guides lead you through the areas of expertise they know best.
5. Naples: Naples Underground Entry Ticket and Guided Tour
Enjoy a unique underground experience with the official Underground Naples guided tour. Your guide will take you through 2,400 years of history, from the ancient Greeks to modern times, unveiling the "womb" of Naples from an archaeological, historical, anthropological, and geological point of view. The tour includes a visit to the Greek-Roman Aqueduct, the remains of the Roman Theater, and the Summa Cavea, a new fragment of the Roman theater just brought back to life. The guide will speak English or Italian, or you can follow the visit in other languages, thanks to the free multilingual app that you can download at the beginning of your visit. In addition, a brochure in several languages is always delivered in order to follow the visit better. You may also take pictures along the way.
6. Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill Entry Tickets
Marvel at the remains of some of the greatest monuments of the Roman Republic with an entry ticket to the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill. Skip the long ticket line at the Colosseum and go straight to the fast-track entrance for security checks. After entering the Colosseum at your allotted time, relive the stories of emperors and gladiators. Explore the largest amphitheater ever built and learn about its construction process, which started under Emperor Vespasian in 72 AD and was completed by his son Titus in 80 AD. Imagine the ferocious fights between man and beast, as you stand in the elliptical arena which was once able to seat up to 73,000 spectators. Discover Palatine Hill and Roman Forum, which, according to ancient tradition, are precisely where Rome was born. Look down at the ruins of temples in the Imperial Forum, the center of all political, social, and economic life in the city during the Roman Republic. Experience the most ancient parts of Rome from the most significant of its seven hills.
7. Milan: Da Vinci's Last Supper Guided Tour
See the masterpiece that is the Last Supper up close on a guided tour, learning about its fascinating history from your licensed guide. The Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Refectory with the Last Supper has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980. They were part of a large monastic complex belonging to the Dominican monks. See the Last Supper with this tour who will tell you all about the most fantastic wall paintings of the Renaissance. A licensed local guide will show you this masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, revealing surprising facts about the perspective, the composition and the technique used by the artist, as well as the history of the site.
8. Pompeii: Small-Group Tour with an Archeologist
Transport yourself back to Roman times on a guided tour of Pompeii led by an archeologist. Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site for 2 hours with the help of your expert guide, who will take you around the city preserved by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD. Choose the experience you would like to have, with the choice of either a shared small-group tour or a private tour for your and your group alone. Skip the line when you enter the city at Porta Marina Superiore, one of the ancient city's 7 gates. Walk the main streets and wander around the Forum, the old heart of the city and the center of public life. From here you can see Mount Vesuvius overlooking the city. Discover highlights such as the basilica (business and legal center), thermal baths, temples, bakery and great Theater of Pompeii. Listen to interesting anecdotes from your archeological guide, who will tell you about people who lived in Pompeii. Peek at plaster casts of those who were in the city at the time of the eruption. See well-maintained artworks, mosaics, and frescoes and travel back nearly 2000 years. Highlights include the House of the Vetti and the Lupanar Brothel. Find out how this famous brothel got its name and see its preserved stone beds and frescoes. Get great tips from your guide at the end of the tour about how to spend the rest of your day, or even choose to stay inside the archeological site longer to explore on your own. Get directions to the Sanctuary Dedicated to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, the local cathedral that is located close to the excavation site. You can also get directed to the Amphitheater and Orto dei Fuggiaschi.
9. Venice: Grand Canal Gondola Ride with App Commentary
Feel the essence of Venice as you explore hidden and picturesque waterways near the Grand Canal with a gondola ride. Listen to in-app commentary to learn more about the city as you admire the sights. Start your activity by meeting the host, who will explain some curiosities about the history of gondolas and gondoliers. Get free access to an app with commentary of your itinerary on the gondola. As you enjoy the beauties of the Grand Canal, admire the marvelous Palaces such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Palace, the Gritti Palace, the Salute Church, the Punta della Dogana. Discover the worldwide-famous La Fenice Theatre and the Mozart House along the romantic and hidden waterways. At the end of your ride, enjoy a breathtaking view of the Saint Mark's Basin with San Giorgio Island.
10. Pompeii Ruins Skip-the-Line Small Group Tour
Walk through the ruins of Pompeii with your small group of maximum 20 people and explore this ancient city, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. Learn about one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in the world on this 2-hour walking tour led by an archaeologist and professional local guide. Visit where the most important public buildings, homes, and shops are located. You will see the Marina Gate, the Basilica, the Forum, the baths, the Lupanar (brothel), the bakery, the house of Faun, the Termopolium, the main street, the Plaster Casts of the dead, and the Theaters. At the end of the tour, the guide will give you great suggestions on how to spend the rest of the day exploring the ruins or the modern city of Pompeii if you want the best directions.
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Top Attractions in Italy
1 Vatican Museums
2 Colosseum
3 Pompeii
4 Leonardo Interactive Museum
5 Last Supper
6 Pantheon, Rome
7 St. Peter's Basilica
8 Underground Naples
9 Milan Cathedral Terraces
10 Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci
11 Venetian Lagoon
12 Boboli Gardens
13 Milan Cathedral
14 Pitti Palace
15 Scala Theater Museum
16 Bergamo / Orio al Serio Airport
17 Saint Mark's Basilica
18 Castel Sant'Angelo
19 Accademia Gallery
20 Teatro La Fenice
17 Ciampino
1 Capri
2 Sardinia
3 Lake Maggiore
4 Lake Garda
5 Liguria
6 Cinque Terre
7 Amalfi Coast
8 Bardolino
9 Veneto
10 Sicily
11 Chianti Hills, Tuscany
12 Campania
13 Piedmont
14 Ischia Island
15 Apulia
16 Lombardy
17 Tuscany
18 Ponza
19 Abruzzo
20 Emilia-Romagna
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What people are saying about Italy
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our tour guide was incredible! a funny, interesting, kind man from rome who knew tons about the city and was eager to share his knowledge. the headsets we were provided with helped tremendously, as i've been in tours where you have to stand really close to the guide to understand them. this way, he could talk to us without us having to be right on his heels. i absolutely love guided tours as i'm a bit of a history nut and this tour was perfect. definitely recommend :)
Rome: Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman Forum Guided Tour Reviewed by Zoe, 1/31/2023
Tony was an excellent guide. He had extensive knowledge of Pompeii and told us many interesting stories about the history of the city, its citizens, and how it eventually came to be discovered. The pacing of the tour was perfect as well and didn't feel rushed at all.
Pompeii: Small-Group Tour with an Archeologist Reviewed by Jamie, 1/31/2023
Antonella was just great. She told everything incredibly vividly and interestingly. Their knowledge of art and history is truly remarkable. A commodity delight.
Rome: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Basilica Tour Reviewed by Elizabeth, 1/31/2023
Anna is great. She made the trip fun and tasty. :) We definitely got to know more about Catania after this 3-hour tour. A good start of our trip.
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Fantastic guide! made the tour all fun and interesting. Knowledgeable and witty. impeccable English too.
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