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A Guide to the Best Things to do in Alberobello, Puglia
By: Author Sophie Nadeau
Posted on Last updated: 4th February 2022
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Trulli houses sit side by side in Alberobello, a quintessentually Apulian town in the very heart of Puglia, the 'heel of the boot' of Southern Italy. Often classed as a must-see on any trip to the region, here's your guide to the best things to do in Alberobello, as well as travel tips, and what to know before you go.
Where is Alberobello?
Wjat is Alberobello known for?
Is Alberobello worth visiting?
Best things to do in Alberobello
Trullo Sovrano
Stroll around the Rione Monti (the 'trulli district' of Alberobello)
Casa D'Amore (Monumento Casa D'Amore (Antonio Francesco D'Amore))
Take a walking tour
Sant'Antonio Church
Basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano
Things to know before visiting Alberobello
Alberobello is one of the small towns close to the city of Bari (which is served by its own international airport and offers links to the rest of Europe and beyond). Notable towns nearby include Cisternino and Locorotondo. Today, Alberobello boasts a population of just over 10,000 residents.
Alberobello is famous for its trulli houses (known in the singular as 'trullo'). These unique house huts are typically one storey high and are characterised by being a whitewashed cylinder in shape which are topped by a conical roof.
The tradition of dry stone building dates back thousands of years. The trulli are considered so historically important that they've been classed as a UNESCO world heritage site since 1996.
If I were to recommend just a handful of places to visit in Puglia to someone, I'm not sure that I would put Alberobello on the list, and here's why: the town is honestly one of the busiest places I've ever visited in Europe (and I currently live in central Paris, France so I'm pretty used to crowded cities).
Yes, we visited at peak season (i.e. in the middle of August), and yes, it's probably more pleasant to visit when there are fewer visitors, but the truth is that I wasn't as impressed by Alberobello as some of the other Apulian destinations we checked out on our road trip.
During our visit to Puglia we spent three nights in the close by town of Locorotondo which, while touristic, still feels like an authentic Italian town. The mass of souvenir shops in Alberobello and all of the tourists (including ourselves, of course!) definitely felt like an extreme example of over-tourism in Europe.
So should you visit Alberobello? Well, yes and no. If you only have a limited time in Puglia, then I would recommend skipping out on Alberobello and instead heading to Martina Franca or Locorotondo. With this being said, if you have a morning to spare, Alberobello is worth a visit, if only to admire the architecture and say you've been.
If you're interested in Apulian architecture, then a visit to Trullo Sovrano. This the only two-storey trullo in Alberobello and, thanks to this status, has since become a tourist attraction in its own right.
Sovrano is quite literally translated as 'king' or 'ruler' and the Trullo Sovrano can be found in the newer district of town. Today, the Trullo is in use as a small town heritage museum which exhibits the history of Alberobello and its surrounds. The museum is very reasonably priced and costs €2 (€1,50 for concessions).
Of course, there is perhaps no better way to enjoy all of the trulli of Alberobello than wandering around the town and letting your feet guide you where they may. The most historic district of the town is Rione Monti and this is where you'll find the oldest and biggest concentration of trulli (though they can also be found scattered across the newer parts of town too).
Rione Monti boasts over 1000 trulli, many of which have been transformed into souvenir shops. The best time to explore this part of Alberobello is earlier in the day and mid-week if possible. High season is in July and August and this is when the town receives the most visitors.
One of the most historically important buildings in Alberobello is the Casa D'Amore, which was built in 1797 and was the first house in the area to include terracotta & mortar in its façade.
The house was also the former home of Antonio Francesco D'Amore, who led an uprising against the Acquaviva family. The uprising was so significant that it led to the end of the feudal period in Alberobello.
Those who prefer to discover a place with the help of a local guide would do well to book a walking tour. Please note that most walking tours must be booked at least 10 hours ahead of when you plan to visit the town. Book a walking tour now.
One of the most unique buildings in Alberobello is the Sant'Antonio Church, which is located on the fringes of the Rione Monti district of the town. The Church of Saint Antony was constructed in 1927 and is the only church in the world to be built in the trulli style!
If you're visiting Alberobello, I can't stress to you enough how much I recommend heading away from the 'trulli area' (i.e. the Rione Monti district). Away from the trulli, you'll discover that the rest of Alberobello has its own charms which are worth discovering, not to mention that there are a number of trullo houses scattered around.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Alberobello that is not in the Apulian architectural style is the Basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano. This ecclesiastical building is constructed in a neo-classical design and is dedicated to the patron saints of the city.
One of the most important things to know about visiting Alberobello is that, thanks to the rise of social media over the past few years, the little village is more popular than ever.
It's almost impossible to have a relaxed walk through the streets unless you arrive extremely early (or, better yet, stay over the night before). In the same vein, it's also really hard to park in Alberobello and so I would recommend arriving as early in the day as possible so as to reduce the amount of time you'll have to wait for parking.
There is a tourism office on the fringes of the most historic part of town, where you can get a tourist map. You'll have to pay a nominal fee for even the simplest of tourist maps (I think we paid 50 cents,) which is not very much but it's definitely one of the first times I've ever seen a tourist office charge for a map!
Due to the incredibly touristic nature of the town, my partner and I had already decided (prior to arrival) that we wouldn't be eating in Alberobello. I would recommend making reservations in advance if you plan to have lunch or dinner in the Puglian town.
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It had been Wednesday since the pole beans were last picked so was a big chore to pick the 80 foot row of Selma Zesta Pole Beans this morning. I harvested more than 30 pounds of beans from the nicest row of beans I've grown. I thinned out the plants more than I ever have to almost a foot in between each plant and also used sturdy wire panels for the trellising. It is so much easier to pick pole beans as you can stand up rather than bend over to pick the bush beans.
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Melissa Etheridge pays tribute to her children's father David Crosby
Crosby is the biological father of Etheridge's two children, who were conceived using artificial insemination.
By Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter
Melissa Etheridge said she will always be grateful to "true treasure" and musician David Crosby for giving her the "gift of family" as she paid tribute to the singer, who has died age 81.
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— Brian Wilson (@BrianWilsonLive) January 19, 2023
Also paying tribute to Crosby was Brian Wilson and his former The Byrds band member Chris Hillman.
The Beach Boys' Wilson posted on Twitter, saying: "I don't know what to say other than I'm heartbroken to hear about David Crosby. David was an unbelievable talent – such a great singer and songwriter.
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Four-time Grammy winner Jason Isbell also wrote on Twitter: "Grateful for the time we had with David Crosby. We'll miss him a lot."
Grateful for the time we had with David Crosby. We'll miss him a lot.
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) January 19, 2023
Stephen Stills and Graham Nash who worked with Crosby in influential rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash also released statements.
While with the two musicians, he wrote Guinnevere, Almost Cut My Hair, Long Time Gone, Delta and Deja Vu.
Crosby is also known for collaborating on chart-topping hits with The Byrds, including a cover of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man, which leapt to number one in the US singles chart, and Turn! Turn! Turn!
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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia Privacy Policy (2017)
The Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia is an unincorporated association. The church collects data from users of church services, and from persons and businesses that provide services to the church and its organisations. The data collected by the church includes information which can identify you as a person such as your name, your address and other details about you. This information is referred to in Australian Government legislation as 'personally identifiable information'. The church may also collect sensitive information about or related to you from time to time. Sensitive information includes information which may not personally identify you but is related to a person's:
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A US multinational manufacturer of major food brands. One of the factories making its Pillsbury products is located in an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Settlement Industry
General Mills is a multinational food conglomerate headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company has about 35,000 employees and annual revenue of $17.6 billion as of 2020. General Mills has been described as one of ten companies that "control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world." The company is known best for its cereal brands Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, and Trix, but it owns more than 100 other brands, including Annie's Homegrown, Betty Crocker, Cascadian Farm, Gold Medal Flour, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, and Yoplait. General Mills bought the Pillsbury Company in 2001 and has owned the Pillsbury brand ever since.
General Mills manufactures frozen baked goods for its Pillsbury brand in the Atarot Industrial Zone, an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory. The factory is owned by Israeli company Shalgal (Food) Ltd and is used exclusively to make Pillsbury products as the Israeli licensee of Pillsbury. General Mills acknowledged that it "holds a factory" at Atarot and its employees are regularly stationed there to monitor product quality. In 2020, the United Nations included General Mills in its database of companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The factory started manufacturing Pillsbury products for General Mills in 2002, and was expanded that year using $2 million of Israeli government money. Shalgal has received additional grants from the Israeli government at least twice, in 2010 and 2019, to increase the number of workers at the factory. The Israeli government allows Shalgal to employ 128 Palestinian workers from the West Bank as of 2019. The factory employs a similar number of Israeli Jews, mostly from the ultra-orthodox community.
The Atarot Industrial Zone is located north of Jerusalem and is part of the area of the West Bank known as "East Jerusalem," which Israel illegally annexed in the aftermath of the 1967 war. The Pillsbury factory was built on land that belongs to Beit Hanina, a Palestinian town that Israel made into a neighborhood of Jerusalem and later split into two by the separation wall. Israel confiscated this land in 1970, as part of the largest confiscation of Palestinian land in the Jerusalem environs.
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Coach Santini is sacked by Auxerre
Santini joined Auxerre after a disappointing spell at Tottenham.
PARIS, France -- Auxerre have dismissed coach Jacques Santini after his failure to guide the French Ligue 1 side into Europe.
The club said in a brief statement on Wednesday that they had ended their collaboration with the former France and Tottenham Hotspur coach.
Auxerre had a good start to the season but then faded to sixth and out of the European qualifying places after going five matches without a win.
Santini was hoping to rebuild his reputation after a brief, frustrating spell at Tottenham, when he joined Auxerre in June last year.
A playing member of the great St Etienne side of the 1970s, Santini coached France from 2002 to 2004.
At Auxerre, he succeeded Guy Roux, who was the longest serving coach in European soccer history when he left after a 44-year stint.
Although he was retired, Roux remained influential at the club and his relationship with Santini became increasingly tense.
The decision to sack Santini was taken just after a testimonial match for the 67-year-old Roux at Auxerre's Abbe-Deschamps stadium on Tuesday night.
Several former Auxerre players, among them Eric Cantona and Basile Boli, played in the match.
In recent weeks Roux continually denied reports that Santini, who complained about the club's transfer policy and wanted more say in the decision-making, was on the way out.
Winner of four French titles and two cups as a player with St Etienne, Santini played in the 1976 European Cup final defeat by Bayern Munich in Glasgow.
He then coached Ligue 1 sides Toulouse, Lille, St Etienne, Sochaux and Lyon before replacing Roger Lemerre after France's failure at the 2002 World Cup.
He helped Olympique Lyon clinch the League Cup in 2001 and led them to their first title in 2002 before he stepped down and was replaced by Paul Le Guen.
Under Santini France, European champions in 2000, fell to Greece in the quarterfinals of Euro 2004.
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Crashes seem to be an unspoken reality for all app developers. This week we have an excellent article on dealing with crashes on iOS, and how to do better than ignore crashes on rotating Android devices.
Lots of variety with everything from dealing with crashes, building iMessage apps and keeping up with RxJava 2.0.
App crashes causing you nightmares? Learn from someone who has seen it all in How Not to Crash.
Here's a great guide on How to Build an iMessage App with Swift.
There are some things you'll probably never do as an iOS developer. Here's one person's list of iOS True Confessions.
Not everyone warms to Swift instantly. Bob Lee gives 5 Reasons Why He Fell In Love With Swift and why it's the perfect language for beginners.
Over the past few weeks, we've had a few articles on the storyboards theme. Here's another piece on How Real Teams Deal With iOS Storyboards.
Hypertext: Any-way-you-want-it, type-safe HTML in Swift.
CascadingTableDelegate: A no-nonsense way to write cleaner UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource in Swift.
TTGSnackbar: TTGSnackbar shows simple message and action button on the bottom or top of the screen with multi kinds of animation, which is written in Swift3 and inspired by Snackbar in Android. It also supports showing custom view, icon image or multi-action button.
RxJava 2.0 is a complete rewrite of RxJava, so if you're planning on keeping up with the latest release, it's worth checking this official list of What's Different in 2.0.
Activity Revival and the Case of the Rotating Device talks through the options that you have in handling the case where your app's activity could be restarted as the device rotates.
As it gets more popular, see how Kotlin became one development teams' primary language for Android, despite some potential difficulties.
Want to use AnimatedVectorDrawableCompat in your app, but at a loss about how to get going. Here's the missing guide that you've been looking for.
material-remixer-android: Remixer is a set of Android libraries and protocols to allow live adjustment of apps and prototypes during the development process.
ClearScreenHelper: The ClearScreenHelper can help you clear screen by sliding mode easily.
android-TNRAnimationHelper: A library that contains practical animations: Rotation, Flip, Horizontal and Vertical Shake, Pulse.
mirror: Yet another Sketch Mirror App for Android.
From three apps that captured the author's imagination, here are Three Key Lessons About Mobile User Experience Design.


Flying has become incredibly expensive for Canadians. We have some of the highest airport taxes in the world and with limited competition, the fares offered can seem ridiculous at times compared to what you may pay in Europe or Asia.
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Many airlines now charge on average $25 per checked bag, each way, so those fees add up quickly. Let's say you have a family of four and everyone is checking a bag, that's an additional $200 you'd be paying. Well if you fly WestJet and you have the WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard, you can get those fees waived.
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Many people don't put a lot of value into airport lounge access, but once you've tried it, you'll never want to sit in the common areas again. Admittedly, access to lounges can be expensive since you need to pay for a membership fee and then for individual visits, but there are a few credit cards that give you some free visits.
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Investissement et Commerce Cinéma, souvent appelée ICC, est une entreprise française d'exploitation cinématographique active depuis 1936 sur l'île de La Réunion, département d'outre-mer du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien ainsi qu'à l'île Maurice.

Sa principale concurrente dans le domaine de la distribution et de l'exploitation cinématographique est la société MauRéfilms.

Elle exploite deux cinémas à Saint-Denis le Ritz (3 écrans) et le Plaza (2 écrans), le plus grand multiplex de la Réunion à Sainte-Marie, le Cinépalmes (10 salles)  et un cinéma à Saint-Pierre, Le Rex (2 écrans). La salle Le Grand Ecran à Saint-Gilles a fermé.

Sur l'île Maurice, elle exploite 3 cinémas dont deux multiplex, l'un situé à Bagatelle (au centre) et l'autre à Grand Baie (Le Nord).

Annexes

Articles connexes
Cinépalmes.
MauRéfilms.

Exploitant de salles de cinéma en France
Entreprise ayant son siège à La Réunion
Cinéma à La Réunion

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Kostel svatého Mikuláše, který se nachází ve střední části obce Bílý Kostel nad Nisou mezi řekou Nisou a silnicí směřující do Chotyně, je raně barokní sakrální stavbou postavenou na vyvýšeném starém hřbitově v letech 1679-1691. Předchozí kostel postavený na stejném na místě byl zmiňován již v roce 1352. Tento starý kostel dal obci zřejmě také jméno, které se objevuje v roce 1500 v latinském tvaru Alba Ecclesia ( Bílý Kostel). Současný kostel je největší dominantou obce a je viditelný z velké dálky.

Historie
Větší zásahy do architektury kostela proběhly v letech 1749-1754 a také v roce 1785, kdy byl rozšířen o nový presbytář. Kostel dlouhou dobu sloužil jako sklad knih liberecké knihovny. Na počátku 21. století je kostel ve vlastnictví obce. Je uvnitř opraven a využíván k pořádání kulturních akcí obce.

Architektura

Kostel je orientovaný, obdélný a jednolodní. Má západní hranolovou, v horní části osmiboká, věž z roku 1783, která je zakončená plechovou cibulí s lucernou. U paty věže se nachází hlavní vstup umístěný v půlkruhově zakončeném pískovcovém ostění. Klenák na ostění nese reliéfní kartuši s datací 1691. Presbytář je čtvercový a půlkruhově uzavřený. K severními průčelí přiléhá čtvercová sakristie. Kostel má sedlovou střechu s plechovými šablonami. Loď i presbytář má segmentově zakončená okna v profilovaných pískovcových ostěních s klenáky. Jednotlivá průčelí s hrubou omítkou člení hladké lizénové rámci světlého odstínu. Na nárožích spodní části věže vystupuje z omítky armatura z pískovcových kvádrů. Po obvodu kostela je řada náhrobků a pamětních desek pocházejících z 18. a 19. století.
Uvnitř má kostel valenou klenbu na rákos (z roku 1780).

Vybavení
Původní vybavení bylo v období po roce 1977 zcela odstraněno a nedochovala se ani kruchta ani oltáře. Starší popis z roku 1977 ještě uvádí, že vnitřní zařízení kostela je barokní pocházející z 18. století. Kruchta kostela je trojdílná, dřevěná, zdobená na poprsni malovanými rokokovými kyticemi z 2. poloviny 18. století a obrazem Panny Marie Růžencové z poloviny 19. století. Hlavní oltář je opožděně barokní, sloupový a portálový. Je na něm obraz sv. Mikuláše z roku 1832 a sochy sv. Víta a sv. Jana Nepomuckého z konce 18. století. Dva boční oltáře jsou panelové, opatřené dvěma sochami z roku 1786. Kazatelna a varhany jsou klasicistní, pocházející z roku 1786. Křtitelnice později vytvořená má z vršku raně gotické pilíře s bobulovitou hlavicí z 2. poloviny 13. století. V presbytáři je hodnotný obraz sv. Mikuláše pocházející z 1. poloviny 18. století, který se původně nacházel na hlavním oltáři. V kostele se nachází barokní krucifix z roku 1734. Toto vybavení se však v kostele již nenalézá.

Okolí kostela
V ohradní hřbitovní zdi okolo kostela jsou niky s hliněnými pálenými reliéfy Křížové cesty z 1. poloviny 19. století. Ohradní zeď má kované brány. Nachází se zde také náhrobník s reliéfem Kalvárie ze začátku 19. století. Komplex od severu uzavírá barokní fara s čp. 133, která je adaptována na soukromý byt, ale na se zde i oratoř, která slouží pro katolické bohoslužby.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura

Externí odkazy

 Pořad bohoslužeb v kostele sv. Mikuláše, Bílý Kostel nad Nisou (katalog biskupství litoměřického)
 Program NOCI KOSTELŮ, Bílý Kostel nad Nisou, kostel sv. Mikuláše
 Kostel sv. Mikuláše v Bílém Kostele nad Nisou na stránkách hrady.cz

Mikuláše Bílý Kostel nad Nisou
Mikuláše Bílý Kostel nad Nisou
Bílý Kostel nad Nisou
Bílý Kostel nad Nisou
Kulturní památky v okrese Liberec
Bílý Kostel nad Nisou


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gov.nih.nci.system.query.hibernate

Class HQLCriteria

java.lang.Object
  gov.nih.nci.system.query.hibernate.HQLCriteria

All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:
DeleteHQLQuery, InsertHQLQuery, SearchHQLQuery, UpdateHQLQuery

public class HQLCriteria
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable

Author:

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

private  java.lang.String
countHqlString

private  int
firstRow

private  java.lang.String
hqlString

private  int
numberOfRows

private  java.util.List
parameters

private static long
serialVersionUID

Constructor Summary

HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString)

HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
            java.util.List parameters)

HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
            java.util.List parameters,
            int firstRow)

HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
            java.util.List parameters,
            int firstRow,
            int numberOfRows)

HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
            java.lang.String countHqlString,
            java.util.List parameters)

Method Summary

 java.lang.String
getCountHqlString()

 int
getFirstRow()

 java.lang.String
getHqlString()

 int
getNumberOfRows()

 java.util.List
getParameters()

 void
setCountHqlString(java.lang.String countHqlString)

 void
setFirstRow(int firstRow)

 void
setHqlString(java.lang.String hqlString)

 void
setNumberOfRows(int numberOfRows)

 void
setParameters(java.util.List parameters)

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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

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hqlString

private java.lang.String hqlString

countHqlString

private java.lang.String countHqlString

parameters

private java.util.List parameters

firstRow

private int firstRow

numberOfRows

private int numberOfRows

Constructor Detail

HQLCriteria

public HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString)

HQLCriteria

public HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
                   java.util.List parameters)

HQLCriteria

public HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
                   java.lang.String countHqlString,
                   java.util.List parameters)

HQLCriteria

public HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
                   java.util.List parameters,
                   int firstRow)

HQLCriteria

public HQLCriteria(java.lang.String hqlString,
                   java.util.List parameters,
                   int firstRow,
                   int numberOfRows)

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getHqlString

public java.lang.String getHqlString()

getParameters

public java.util.List getParameters()

setHqlString

public void setHqlString(java.lang.String hqlString)

setParameters

public void setParameters(java.util.List parameters)

getCountHqlString

public java.lang.String getCountHqlString()

setCountHqlString

public void setCountHqlString(java.lang.String countHqlString)

getFirstRow

public int getFirstRow()

setFirstRow

public void setFirstRow(int firstRow)

getNumberOfRows

public int getNumberOfRows()

setNumberOfRows

public void setNumberOfRows(int numberOfRows)

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class SkCanvas;

namespace cc {

class CC_EXPORT ClipDisplayItem : public DisplayItem {
 public:
  ClipDisplayItem(const gfx::Rect& clip_rect,
                  const std::vector<SkRRect>& rounded_clip_rects,
                  bool antialias);
  explicit ClipDisplayItem(const proto::DisplayItem& proto);
  ~ClipDisplayItem() override;

  void ToProtobuf(proto::DisplayItem* proto) const override;
  void Raster(SkCanvas* canvas,
              SkPicture::AbortCallback* callback) const override;
  void AsValueInto(const gfx::Rect& visual_rect,
                   base::trace_event::TracedValue* array) const override;

  size_t ExternalMemoryUsage() const {
    return rounded_clip_rects_.capacity() * sizeof(rounded_clip_rects_[0]);
  }
  int ApproximateOpCount() const { return 1; }

 private:
  void SetNew(const gfx::Rect& clip_rect,
              const std::vector<SkRRect>& rounded_clip_rects,
              bool antialias);

  gfx::Rect clip_rect_;
  std::vector<SkRRect> rounded_clip_rects_;
  bool antialias_;
};

class CC_EXPORT EndClipDisplayItem : public DisplayItem {
 public:
  EndClipDisplayItem();
  explicit EndClipDisplayItem(const proto::DisplayItem& proto);
  ~EndClipDisplayItem() override;

  void ToProtobuf(proto::DisplayItem* proto) const override;
  void Raster(SkCanvas* canvas,
              SkPicture::AbortCallback* callback) const override;
  void AsValueInto(const gfx::Rect& visual_rect,
                   base::trace_event::TracedValue* array) const override;

  int ApproximateOpCount() const { return 0; }
};

}  // namespace cc

#endif  // CC_PLAYBACK_CLIP_DISPLAY_ITEM_H_


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Most of us assume that aging equals illness.
To be honest about it, we don't usually put it that bluntly and we often deny it, even to ourselves, and yet we tend to assume that unless we are struck down suddenly – an unexpected automobile accident, a sudden pneumonia, a fatal heart attack – we will gradually lose the ability to care for ourselves, lose the ability to live in our own homes, and lose the ability to enjoy our lives. Are we wrong?
What if we could cure age-related disease?
What if we could be older, true, but be as healthy as the average young adult? The assumption – aging equals illness – shows itself in how we respond to the question "Do you want to live to be 120?" Most of us don't. The Pew Foundation, and then the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, asked this exact question. The majority of us said we wouldn't want to live that long, even if people had access to "medical treatments that slow the aging process and allow them to live decades longer".
But look carefully at what the question implies.
Most of us – having close friends and relatives with Alzheimer's disease or who live in a nursing home – immediately translate the question from "do you want to live to be 120" into "would you be willing to live in a nursing home, unable to care for yourself, for another 30-40 years?" We make this translation unconsciously, but quite naturally: after all, that's what it means to be that old, doesn't it? When look at the question with this assumption in our minds, why would we want to live to be 120? Not surprisingly, most of us wouldn't. Why would you – or anyone – want to be kept alive even longer, unable to feed yourself, unable to recognize your own children, and unable to enjoy life around you? Not surprisingly, most of us would prefer an easier fate, a sudden illness for example, rather than submitting to decades of nursing care.
But let's change our question a bit.
And yet perhaps it's not so odd a question after all. As it turns out, a great deal of research shows that we may soon do exactly that. We can now reverse aging in human cells and in human tissues in the laboratory and at least one Canadian biotech firm is about to take the same approach in curing age-related diseases. They may well change everything you think you know about aging and disease. Older yes, but why not healthier as well?
The original question assumed a tragic end. At a very real level, the Pew Foundation was asking us if we wanted to be unhealthy for a longer time. A better question is whether or not we want to be healthy for a long time. It's a much better question, particularly in light of what is about to happen to our ability to cure age-related disease.
Or try an even better version of the question.
If you had only two choices, would you rather suddenly become 30 years old or suddenly become 90 years old? Would you like to have the health of the average 30 year-old or would you want the health (and the health problems) of the average 90 year-old? What if you could live to be 120, not by living longer in a nursing home, but by being healthy, living in your own home, and being free to enjoy an active life? But is this realistic?
It is if we can cure age-related disease, and we may soon do precisely that.
Some of us discount the question for other reasons, feeling it would be wrong to "grasp after youth", yet we chose health every day, with nary a pause for thought. We even chose the mere appearance of health, even when it does nothing to improve our health. It's not surprising that we should take antibiotics for pneumonia and replace our aging knee joints when osteoarthritis prevents our walking without pain, but we also dye our hair and pay a truly astonishing amount for Botox, when neither of these provides anything but an illusion.
Soon, however, we will be able to prevent and cure Alzheimer's disease and regrow our own natural knee joints, so that they work as well as they did when we were young adults Would you want to play tennis at age 90 if your knees and your heart were healthy?
Until now, when it came to aging, the medical community has also tended to "answer the wrong question". We still think of aging as inevitable and age-related disease as incurable. But the outcome is that we often discount disease in our elderly patients, treating them often as not only incurable, but invisible. Few of us would be callous enough to ignore the suffering of children, yet some of us have quietly ignored suffering in the elderly, perhaps not because we don't care, but because we feel impotent in the face what we thought of as inevitable disease.
Research now shows that this view is naïve. Aging is not inevitable nor is age-related disease incurable. We need to take the results we have in cells and animal studies and go further: we need to eradicate the diseases of aging. Suffering is not inevitable, nor can we afford to ignore the elderly. Over the past century, we worked hard – and worked together – to cure polio and other common diseases of the young. Compassion for the young is common; an equal compassion for the old should be no less equally common. It is time to find out what compassion and hard work can accomplish.
It is time to save both our health and our lives.
Telomerase does not cause cancer.
The statement is accurate, but it's not that simple nor is it a naïve concern.
– If we increase telomerase in somatic cells, would the incidence of cancer rise in an average group of healthy patients?
– If a patient already has cancer and we increase telomerase in their somatic cells, would that patient get better or worse?
– If we have a population of healthy patients and we wish to decrease the overall incidence of cancer, would it be better to increase or decrease telomerase activity?
These sort of questions are much closer to the nub of what we actually want to know, as they constitute useful clinical information, information that is useful to both the physician and the average patient. Putting it bluntly, if I want to be healthy, do I want telomerase or not? To answer just as bluntly, you generally want more telomerase rather than less, or to put it more accurately, you generally want longer telomeres rather than shorter telomeres.
The reason the answer is "generally" true is that elongating your telomeres – like almost every function in biology and every therapy in medicine – has both an upside and a downside. The upside is that longer telomeres stabilize your genome, and hence lower the probability of cancer. The downside is that – once you have a cancerous cell – cancer needs to maintain telomeres just to survive. In other words, long telomeres prevent cancer, but cancers require telomeres or they may spontaneously go into remission.
There is a balance of risk. If you don't have cancer, you definitely want long telomeres. If you already have cancer, you would prefer it if the telomeres in your cancer cells would continue shortening and kill the cancer cell before the cancer cell kills the rest of you.
Consider why this balance occurs. In normal cells, the repair and recycling of cellular elements – in this case we can focus on DNA repair – depend on changes in telomere length: as telomeres shorten, DNA repair slows down. In the young cell, DNA maintenance is stunningly accurate and efficient. In the aging cell, DNA maintenance has become slipshod, showing decreasing accuracy and efficiency. In old cells, the genome is no longer defended as competently and the outcome is an increasing number of mutations and errors, leading to cancer. To put it simply, the longer your telomeres, the more stable your genome. As telomeres shorten, genomic stability falls and cancer incidence rises.
On the other hand, once a cell's genome has accrued enough errors to become cancerous, there are still three internal cellular obstacles: DNA repair, the cell-cycle braking system, and telomere loss. If DNA repair fails (which occurs as the telomere shortens), then cell division is generally halted as the cell detects DNA errors. However, as the telomere shortens, the cell also becomes sloppier in applying the "brakes": the aging cell is more prone to continue dividing even in the face of DNA damage that would halt a younger cell. This leaves the telomere as a final defense. In normal aging cells, shortened telomeres result in a failure to divide (or to put it more accurately: a slower rate of division, a decreased likelihood of continued division, and an increased likelihood of apoptosis or even necrosis). If the cancer cell no longer divides, then it isn't a clinical problem. If it can't grow, it can't kill you. Unfortunately, there are a number of ways that cancer cells elude the problem of telomere loss, at least for a while, and almost all of them involve maintaining telomere length. Not surprisingly, telomerase is expressed in about 85% of human cancers and telomerase inhibitors are seen as potential cancer therapies. If we have cancer cells, then we would prefer it if their telomeres would be entirely lost, resulting in dead cancer cells. If you already have cancer and we re-extend your telomeres, that wouldn't cause cancer, but it might increase the ability of your cancer to survive and metastasize.
In short, telomere extension might increase mortality in patients with a pre-existing cancer, but if patients don't already have cancer, then telomere extension would prevent cancer from occurring in the first place. Neither telomerase nor long telomeres cause cancer, but either telomerase or long telomeres could permit cancer to grow once it gets a foothold.
To return to our practical questions, let's construct some evidence-based, rational clinical advice for a hypothetical patient population. If a patient comes to us with a known prostate cancer, we would probably recommend against a telomerase therapy. This recommendation is not because telomerase causes cancer, but because telomerase therapy might increase the likelihood that the cancer would continue to grow and would metastasize. On the other hand, if a patient comes to us with no known cancer, we would recommend telomerase therapy to prevent getting cancer in the first place.
This is not a new therapeutic dilemma: it's actually true of a great many other clinical options. Consider exercise: does it cause heart attacks or is exercise good for you? Most of us – both physicians and the general public – are in favor of exercise as a preventative action: patients who exercise are considered to be less likely to get a heart attack, for example. On the other hand, if a patient has just had a heart attack this morning, we certainly don't recommend that they run a marathon this afternoon. Does exercise "cause" heart attacks or does it prevent heart attacks? Exercise doesn't actually cause heart attacks, but it can contribute to them or trigger them if you already have enough atherosclerotic disease. Most of us, however, think of exercise as healthy, and with good reason.
Overall, telomerase therapy is – like exercise and with similar caveats – a beneficial clinical intervention, but one that must be discussed in context.


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In this Monday, Jan 21, 2014 file photo Zambian deputy president Guy Scott, centre, attends the burial of Zimbabwe's deputy president John Nkomo, at the Heroes Acre, in Harare, Zimbabwe. Following the death of Zambian President Michael Sata, the Zambian government says Guy Scott will become acting president of the southern African nation until new elections are held within 90 days. President Michael Sata, who had been gravely ill in a London hospital, died late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, FILE)
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LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia's vice president Guy Scott, a white Zambian of Scottish descent, became the country's acting president on Wednesday, making him the first white leader of a sub-Saharan African nation since 1994 when South Africa moved to majority rule.
The appointment of Guy Scott as Zambia's acting president until elections are held within 90 days followed the death of President Michael Sata in a London hospital after a long illness.
Sata, once dubbed "Mr. King Cobra" for his sharp-tongued remarks, had largely dropped out of public view months ago as his health deteriorated. The government did not divulge details of his condition, but some Zambian media outlets said he suffered multiple organ failure.
Under the constitution, Scott, a 70-year-old former agriculture minister who also worked in Zambia's finance ministry, cannot run for president because his parents were not Zambians by birth or descent.
"Elections for the office of president will take place within 90 days. In the interim, I am the acting president," Scott said in a radio address. "The period of national mourning started today. We will miss our beloved president and commander."
Defense minister Edgar Lungu, who also runs the justice ministry and is secretary general of the ruling Patriotic Front party, said it is a difficult period for Zambia and the party that Sata founded.
"The government remains intact and so does the PF as a party," said Lungu, who is considered a possible presidential candidate.
Sata died shortly after 11 p.m. on Tuesday at London's King Edward VII hospital, Cabinet secretary Roland Msiska said.
Sata's wife, Christine Kaseba-Sata, and his son, Mulenga Sata, were at the 77-year-old president's side when he died, Msiska said. Mulenga Sata is the mayor of the Zambian capital, Lusaka.
Zambia had already declared Wednesday to be a national day of mourning for 26 people, all but three of them schoolchildren, who died Oct. 24 when a crowded boat capsized on Lake Kariba, near the border with Zimbabwe. The children were heading to a ceremony marking Zambia's 50th anniversary of independence from Britain.
Kenya, South Africa and other countries sent condolences to Zambia over Sata's death. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Sata "played a commanding role in the public life of his country over three decades."
Rumors that Sata was deathly ill had long gripped Zambia, and opposition groups had questioned whether Sata was fit to lead a country of 15 million people that has enjoyed robust economic growth but suffers widespread poverty.
On Sept. 19, Sata spoke at the opening of parliament in Lusaka, poking fun at speculation about his failing health, saying that he was still alive.
Sata later failed to give a scheduled address at the United Nations in New York and police said doctors treated him in a hotel room.
Sata had a volatile relationship with Chinese investors in Zambian mines and other infrastructure, criticizing them as exploitative but toning down his rhetoric after taking office.
Some critics say Sata became increasingly intolerant as president. An opposition leader, Frank Bwalya, was acquitted this year of defamation charges after he compared Sata to a local potato whose name is slang for someone who doesn't listen.
As an opposition leader, Sata lost three presidential votes, but became Zambia's fifth president in 2011. He also served in previous governments, and was a member of every major party.
Sata was born in Mpika in what was then northern Rhodesia, and worked as a police officer and trade unionist under colonial rule. He also trained as a pilot in Russia.
After independence in 1964, he joined Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independent Party, becoming governor of Lusaka, a city as well as a province, in 1985.
He resigned from Kaunda's party in 1991 and joined the new Movement for Multiparty Democracy, later serving as a party lawmaker for 10 years and as minister for local government, labor and social security, and health.
In 2001, he left to form his Patriotic Front party. In 2008, he suffered a stroke. The same year, President Levy Mwanawasa died following a stroke and a special election saw Sata narrowly lose to Rupiah Banda, who had been Mwanawasa's vice president.
Sata's wife is a medical doctor and the couple had eight children.
Sata introduced Kaseba-Sata at the opening of parliament last month, crediting her with tough love.
"She has made me stay up to now," he said. "I haven't died yet."
Torchia contributed to this report from Johannesburg.
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The Bibliotheca Bar and Book exchange is one of Adelaide's hidden gems in the small bar scene. Roman Tazhdynov and Marina Tazhdynova are the Russian born husband and wife team behind this unique venue, and have been calling this little nook in the wall on Gresham Street in the city's West end home for the past three years.
The bar is well known for great cocktails, an eclectic collection of books that you can read and exchange, and provides an inviting space for some quiet down time while sipping on a delicious cocktail or two. The bar is almost theatrical in nature, and heading in there takes you in to their world, where the hours can easily pass by while you relax and unwind. The Bibliotheca bar is one of my absolute favourite small bars in Adelaide. It was such a pleasure to sit down with the team behind the venue, find out more about what life is like in the small bar scene, and gain an insight into some exciting developments coming up for this team.
The introduction of the small bar license has given the Hospitality industry in Adelaide a new lease on life. Roman says that when the scheme first started, they were all called "small bars", but many of those venues have stood the test of time and are now well established and prominent players in their own right. "That is a big achievement for the Adelaide Hospitality scene in general" he says. When asked about the competition with larger venues, Roman doesn't believe that small bar presents too much competition for the pubs as they are offering something quite different to the market.
Originally getting in to Hospitality whilst in University in Moscow, and like many they tried working elsewhere, but the lure of the bar and a love of the industry was too strong and drew them back in. They immigrated to Adelaide 5 ½ years ago and fell in love with the place, choosing to make it their home and place of work by opening The Bibliotheca Bar and Book exchange three years ago. Over this time, they have solidified their place in what can be a tough market and are now a prominent player in the small bar scene. It is a great achievement for them to have the venue thrive in a tough market, and over this time Roman has become well praised for his knowledge and cocktail skill in the industry.
Marina sees the West end of the city transforming, and the small bar scene breathing new life back into the area. "This is a great transition for the city of Adelaide. It is taking time, but we still get people every day who have never been here before, and have a loyal base of regular customers as well which is really great".
There are many challenges facing the industry these days, and small bars often have to charge a higher price for product. Roman says from a customer perspective "it's understanding what we do, and why we do it this way".
We know that the "Craft Bar" scene can't compete with massive venues in terms of prices, and that is why the small bars go with a different product. Small bars are all about looking for the point of differentiation and working with that. "The scene is still pretty new in Adelaide so it's about educating our customers".
They both feel that finding good staff is always a challenge. The level of skill they look for in a cocktail bar tender is greater than a bar staff member in a pub, as they have a vast number of spirits and cocktails to remember. A big challenge is the standardized pay rate, meaning someone pulling a beer in a pub and someone who is a cocktail bar tender are on the same rate of pay, making it is hard to find people willing to learn the craft. What has worked well for the team at Bibiotecha is getting staff in with limited or basic experience, and training them in the way they do service.
Small bars also have challenges dealing with suppliers who are used to working with larger venues that have longer opening hours, so getting stock delivered in opening hours for small bars presents a greater challenge. On the up side, there are a lot of craft spirit makers entering the market who are trying to get their boutique lines in to the smaller bars.
"Paying close attention to everything is the key to staying at the top of the game" says Roman, and Marina uses the same principle in every business she has worked in;
"Do something for others that you would do for yourself. If you are happy with this drink, how it looks and tastes, then it will be good for everyone".
Roman also believes that they treat everyone like their guests, not like their customer.
Over time they have continued to develop their niche market and refine their offering. Their customer base is quite broad, and they get people from all walks of life and all ages visiting their venue which makes it interesting.
"Just go for it, give it a try, look to evolve and see what works best for your business". Their advice to those starting out in the industry and wanting to get in to the small bar scene," Always keep learning, keep studying".
"To have more, you need to do more. To do more, you need to know more".
Extensive research happens before adding a new cocktail to the menu, and then they will look to find the right alcohol to work with. Every time they put a new cocktail on the list, it has to be perfect.
And some big news coming from the husband and wife duo is that they are in process of getting ready to open a new venue only a few streets away. There are a few closely held secrets, but what they can tell us is that they are opening a restaurant/bar that will still fall under a small bar license. The concept is close to a gastro pub with lots of great beers, whiskeys, and bourbons paired with food. We can't wait for them to open their doors.
Pop down to The Bibliotheca Bar and Book exchange for a delicious cocktail or two and meet the team behind what I would say is one of Adelaide's best small bars. Stay tuned for the announcement of their new venue opening soon.
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Ryan McGinness at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
RxART collaborated with Ryan McGinness on a site-specific installation at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. McGinness created an expansive mural for the new CHKD Landstown Health Center. Entitled Energy, McGinness's sprawling site-specific mural – 100 ft wide by 12 ft high! – crowns the atrium, greeting over 460,000 young patients along with their families, visitors and hospital staff.
Energy is an extensive constellation of vibrantly colored arabesque forms of all sizes, which the artist has referred to as 'event horizons:' meditative portals that pull the viewer into an infinite world of energetic color. There is a true pulse to the work. It embodies its title, as it will breathe life and inspiration into its surroundings within the Health Center's main entrance.
Ryan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in New York, NY. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, VA, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Cincinnati Art Museum, among others.
RxART's Project at CHKD with the artist will be his largest commission in Virginia since the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts commissioned "Art History is Not Linear," 2010, a 16-panel painting inspired by their collection.
RxART would like to thank Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation for their major support of this project. Additional thanks to Meredith and Brother Rutter their support. For more information about this project and supporting RxART's projects, contact Megan Skidmore at 212-260-8797 or megan_skidmore@rxart.net.
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As a mother of three boys, I have had several trips to CHKD in the last 14 years. The art installations have a tremendous impact on my children, particularly the recent Ryan McGinness one in the Virginia Beach Landstown facility. What begins as a very anxious situation for parents and children, quickly becomes less so when you enter a building with a mural as colorful and joyous as the one by Ryan. The art at CHKD, has become the perfect solution for distracting the children and alleviating their stress. The sense of fear, sadness, and nervousness quickly dissipate when we are surrounded by the vibrancy and life of that enormous work of art. It is truly a gift for the patients, the parents, and our entire community.
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Capital Group is proud and thrilled to work with the wonderful people at RxART in support of the Ryan McGinness project. We have a long involvement with CHKD, and this project is merely the latest example of their innovation in caring for children and their families. Through our affiliation with the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, we are very familiar with Ryan McGinness, a tremendous artist with roots in Hampton Roads. This project brings it all together in a unique and vibrant way, and we know this artwork will brighten the lives of countless members of our community for years to come.
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The private investment initiative Ars Fundum was established in 2005 as a completely new concept that advocates the dissemination and promotion of Spanish and Portuguese artists, while at the same time offers them a singular saving strategy very beneficial to their personal and professional development. Under the slogan "Your Art - Your Future", Ars Fundum allows the artist to create a savings plan by adding his/her artworks into the Collection, where they will remain a number of years. These artworks will be promoted and subsequent sold.
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