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Church in Wales gives "amber light" to Anglican Covenant
on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 4.11 pm by Peter Owen
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The Governing Body of the Church in Wales debated the Anglican Communion Covenant this morning and has now issued this Press Release.
Church gives "amber light" to Anglican Covenant
A plan to protect the unity of the worldwide Anglican Communion was given an amber light, rather than a green light, by the Church in Wales today (April 18).
Members of its Governing Body voted to affirm their commitment to the Communion and the Covenant process, but asked questions of the Anglican Consultative Council which meets in October. They feared the recent rejection of the Covenant by the Church of England jeopardised its future and clarifications about that were now needed before a decision could be made.
The Bishop of St Asaph, Dr Gregory Cameron, who proposed a motion which was amended in the light of the Church of England decision, said, "We have given the Covenant an amber light rather than a green light but in doing so we are being honest about where the Church is today. However, I think we need to reaffirm our strong commitment to each other through the saving power of Christ revealed in the Gospels. That is what I believe the Covenant ultimately calls us to do and I hope one day the Church in Wales will be able to vote for it."
The amended motion, which was carried overwhelmingly, was that the GB:
i) affirm the commitment of the Church in Wales to the life of the Anglican Communion;
ii) Affirm its readiness to engage with any ongoing process of consideration of the Anglican Communion Covenant;
iii) Request clarification from the 15th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council as to the status and direction of the Covenant process in the light of the position of the Church of England;
iv) Urge upon the Instruments of Communion a course of action which continues to see reconciliation and the preservation of the Communion as a family of interdependent but autonomous Churches.
The published agenda gave this text for the original unamended motion:
That the Governing Body:
i) affirm the commitment of the Church in Wales to the life of the Anglican Communion, and subscribe to the Anglican Communion Covenant;
ii) invite the Standing Committee to monitor the Church in Wales's participation in the Covenant on an annual basis.
Gregory Cameron may well want to describe this as an amber light but surely the amendment was the polite synod speak way of saying no.
Martin Reynolds
So glad the Gregory himself offered this amendment. It was Gregory Cameron who I had previously reported here anonymously as saying the consequences of England's rejection needed to be closely examined by the ACC who were likely to "pull it". This will be bitter for Gregory who has worked tirelessly on the Covenant over a couple of years and genuinely believed it was a step forward both in catholic order and for gay people to have a real opportunity for a hearing in the Communion. As Jonathan Clatworthy reports Dr Cameron was always (and uniquely) willing to engage with opponents… Read more »
Doesn't an amber light mean "slow and prepare to stop?" Or does Dr Cameron imagine this is a flashing amber light, which at the end of a red phase in the UK means "give way to pedestrians"?
At least he has managed to resist the urge to compare anyone to the BNP on this occasion, so I suppose we must be thankful that the good bishop's metaphors are merely obscure rather than actually inflammatory.
Concerned Anglican
As I've commented before. Given what has happened how can the Covenant possibly be a unitive force for good in the Anglican Communion?
It seems to me that there is some wounded pride evident as well.
It would be best simply to drop the whole idea now, but I suppose that that can't actually happen until a new Archbishop emerges.
So I imagine we'll limp on for the rest of the year with traffic lights of red amber and green … stop, get ready, go and then stop again.
Simon Sarmiento
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I got a smile from the link posted by Simon S.
Yellow (amber) lights mean the same thing in North America, in theory. In practice, it usually means put it to the floor before the light turns red.
So the Welsh dragon fails to breathe Red hot fire yet again! That's the trouble with Anglicanism – permenantly stuck on Amber.
I found out recently in New Zealand, when I turned a corner on a Yellow Light, I was fined $150! It is not difficult to see how this decision came about in the Church of Wales. Bishop Gregory is a realist and he probably knew that the Covenant might have been lost without this last minute amendment. It will be of great interest how the upcoming meeting of the GAFCON claque to take place later this month in London will affect the non-GAFCON Primates – in their assessment of the advantages – or disadvantages – of trying to lure the… Read more »
Erika Baker
I was taught that Amber means "stop if you can do so safely before the lights turn red but move swiftly across if that's the safer option".
Martin do you know that Gregory proposed the amendment? The press report just says that he proposed the motion that was then amended.
Pat O'Neill
Jeff Bridges in "Starman", explaining to Karen Allen that he (an extra-terrestrial) understands the rules of driving:
"Red means stop, green means go, yellow means go very fast…."
Sorry to mislead you Brian.
As I understand the substantive debate did not happen. The amendment although not actually drafted by Gregory (probably Swansea and Brecon) DID have his assent, which everyone is seeing as a very gracious move on his part. So that was what I meant by offered.
No press release on the talks that were held on the second day around women bishops. Major changes are thought to be in the offing in the way this is proposed to move forward.
Well, Pat, them's the American rules, for sure.
Grandmère Mimi
Simon, I got a good laugh out of your link.
It's quite true that Gregory Cameron was willing to engage with even his most humble critics, meaning moi on my wee blog. He surely caught me by surprise. At first, I thought it must be someone else posing as the bishop, but I've come to realize that it was indeed Cameron.
To a good many folks in the US, an amber light means speed up, but the official position is still slow down and stop unless you are already nearly beneath the traffic light.
We, in the New Zealand Diocese of Christchurch are presently in the middle of a Division for voting on the Covenant. I made my little speech (against – on grounds of stifling prophetic initiative) and had to leave – being a P.T.O (retired priest only) – but was under the impression that there were more speakers against than for the Motion.
We will know in a few hours time!
Oh dear, not so.
It would now appear that the text for the amendment was also drafted by Llanelwy! Just to get the historical record straight.
For those who might be interested. I did an earlier comment that the Synod in progress at the diocese of Christchurch Synod meeting today, was about to go into division for a vote on the Covenant. My prayer this morning at Mass was that the Holy Spirit rule.
The result has just been announced Covenant NO!
With no following motion!
This vote will go on to our General Synod in ACANZP in July and will probably tip the balance away from the Covenant.
Christ is Risen, Alleluia.
What could be more unWelsh, nay unCeltic than the proposed 'Anglican Covenant' with its control-freakery, its head in the sand attitude,pomposity-grandiosity, and failure of honesty – ok its BS !


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Restaurants that receive Michelin stars are likely to jack up their prices and spend the extra money on decor, not food, according to a working paper released this week by the American Association of Wine Economists.
Before I go on, let me say that I am a fan of what the Michelin guide has done in the US. Unlike Michelin's stodgy preferences in France for stifling traditional establishments, Michelin inspectors in the US have more often rewarded casual restaurants with good food. It's easy to point out ratings we disagree with, but I pored over the Michelin books for San Francisco and believe they are overall the best guides to dining in the area.
However, once issued, these ratings may have an adverse effect on the restaurants included if you care more about food than decor.
While we do not find any Michelin-induced increase in perceived food quality, we find strong Michelin effects on service and decor quality ... Michelin-reviewed restaurants enjoy substantial returns only to service and decor improvement. Our result suggests that (Michelin's) opinion on the New York City restaurant market exerts a negative externality on gourmets by giving restaurants incentive to invest mainly in service and decor leading to higher prices.
What the authors did was compare Michelin ratings in New York City to the Zagat guide, which is kind of like Yelp in print without the outraged 20-somethings who can't BELIEVE this restaurant doesn't have a soy chai latte. Zagat compiles ratings from lots of real diners and tends to favor places with big portions, especially when covered in cheese.
The authors set out to see if Zagat raters would change their view of restaurants' food quality to follow Michelin. Apparently they did not, which is not surprising if you've ever tried to take your Aunt Agatha from the homestead for sushi.
What the authors did find is that, despite Michelin's protestations to the contrary, the French company still takes service and decor very seriously, much more so than Zagat.
Moreover, "For the mere inclusion in the Michelin guide we find a substantial marginal price effect of approximately 37% from 2004 to 2007." The report says that restaurants are passing on their investments in service and decor, needed to gain Michelin stars, to consumers.
However, there's an interesting corollary, worth noting for new restaurants. The authors, using statistical methods I won't pretend to have paid close attention to, say that while service and decor improvements pay off with higher prices successfully charged for restaurants already in the Michelin guide, they don't actually help restaurants which have not received a star. Those restaurants, say the authors, can only raise their prices in response to better food quality.
Just think: When Michelin does its first food-truck edition, those portable purveyors who receive stars will be able to raise their prices by 37% if they invest in gas lamps and Noilly Prat umbrellas. It also helps, when handing the crawfish and pumpkin empanada through the window, to give a slight unsmiling bow.


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Emery County is continuing work on their lands bill, hoping to match the results and decisiveness of the bill passed by Washington County in 2009. Three other Utah Counties are doing the same.
The Emery County Public Lands Council discussed their progress at the meeting held on Tuesday, and revealed that the latest language and maps can be found on the county website at www.emerycounty.com/publiclands/landuseplan.html.
Though many in the crowd prodded for a date by which the bill may be finished, the Council has not set a definite one. The closest thing to an answer came from Randy Johnson, who represents the County in Washington. He said that Emery County is working on the bill with the goal of introducing it in the current Congress.
Though Robert Bennet, who championed the Washington County bill is no longer in the senate, the County has support from Utah's Washington Delegation. They hope to receive further support from Senator Mike Lee's office. A staffer for the Senator, Vick Iverson introduced himself to the Council at the meeting. He said the Senator's office plans to be "fully engaged with Emery County", and looks forward to working with the counties in Utah, "the rural counties, especially."
Also during the meeting, the Forest Service explained that they decided to leave the Paradise Creek Route near Potter's Ponds open for vehicles 60 inches or narrower. They also reported that they had rescheduled a planned public open house on the Grabin Prescribed Burn for May 12 at the Emery County Courthouse from 5 to 7 p.m.
Representatives from the Division of Wildlife Resources announced that they had received eight applications for their Wildlife Board, and of the eight, Mike King, former President of the College of Eastern Utah was selected by the governor to fill the opening. The DWR will hold a Regional Advisory Meeting in Green River at the John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River next Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
The Council will hold another work meeting on May 12 at 9 a.m. The next public lands meeting will be June 7 at 10 a.m. with a work meeting before, at 8 a.m.
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After months of rumours and feverish speculation, the Motorola Razr, which was a household name in the mid-00s at the height of the popularity of flip-phones, is back. It's had a 2019 reboot from Motorola and was launched on Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at an event in Los Angeles.
The return of the Razr became certain in mid-April 2019, when the new Motorola Razr was officially confirmed as existing and indeed called the "Motorola Razr" in an official Bluetooth certification body listing, which also confirmed that the phone would use Bluetooth 5.0 technology.
The re-imagined handset had been rumoured to be incoming ever since the hugely-successful relaunch of the Nokia 3310 two years ago, and will apparently combine the hinged design of the original 2004 flip-phone with a new folding OLED display.
The addition of a foldable display means the new Motorola Razr will compete directly with the likes of the Huawei Mate X, the Samsung Galaxy Fold, and the unnamed (and so far unreleased) dual-folding Xiaomi.
MOTOROLA RAZR PRICE
Unlike the rebooted Nokia 3310, which sells for £49.95, the Motorola Razr will be a high-end flagship smartphone with a price tag that competes with the latest iPhone models and the Samsung Galaxy Fold. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal , the revived Razr will cost in the region of $1,500 ( £1,170 / 1,07,000 INR).
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According to the company, the Motorola Razr (2019) will go on sale starting January 9, 2020 in the United States. It will be carried exclusively via Verizon in the country and the wireless carrier will start taking pre-orders beginning December 26 this year. Motorola Razr will also be making its way to India; however, the specifics are unknown at this point. The company has set up a registration page of its India website where the interested consumers can sign up to get updates.
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Motorola is expected to keep the same industrial design of the original July 2004 Razr V3, albeit with a very modern twist. The schematics of the as-then unannounced Motorola-branded smartphone, now widely-believed to be the 2019 rebirth of the Motorola Razr, were spotted in a patent filing late last year.
These illustrations have since been transformed into a series of stunning high-resolution renders, as well as a glossy new concept video. Based on both, the new Razr will keep the iconic flip phone design seen on the original handset, as well as the secondary screen on the outside of the casing for notifications.
Then on 31 October 2019, a leaked image of the 2019 Motorola Razr broke cover. The picture was tweeted by leakster Evan Blass and can be seen below. How modern-retro cool does that look?
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Open up the new Motorola Razr and you can see just how the design has changed from the original. According to the patent schematics and rumours from the supply chain, the new Razr will have a foldable OLED display that runs the length of the handset and that's what the leaked images confirm.
While the Razr will still have a hinge, it will be hidden from view by the pliable display whenever you're using the smartphone. When the rebooted smartphone is open, it is expected to have an expansive screen with a widescreen aspect ratio so that you can watch the latest blockbusters without any of those troublesome black bars.
Like the iPhone XS Max and Pixel 3 XL before it, Motorola will use a notch at the top of the screen for the earpiece, and probably a selfie-camera, though that selfie camera is looking a bit doubtful based on the latest leaked images shown above.
Based on the schematics included in the latest patent from Motorola, and confirmed in the leaked images, there will be a single rear-mounted camera, as well as a fingerprint scanner just below it. Motorola recently moved every model in its new Moto G7 range to a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner to increase the size of the display.
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Perhaps you've seen a recent meme that has been making the rounds on social media. There are different variations of the meme, but most of them feature a picture of either heaven's gates or a wall, along with the caption: "Heaven has a wall with strict immigration policies. Hell has open border policies." Needless to say, those in favor of President Trump's proposed wall to help America protect its southern border have been fueling the meme's popularity.
I myself don't claim to have all the answers concerning what the United States should do about illegal immigration. That's not the purpose of this post. My purpose here is to clarify what the Bible teaches about heaven. I can't fix Facebook and Twitter, but if I can help just one person get their thinking straight about heaven's "wall," I will have done some good.
So, let's get started. The "heaven" that has a wall around it is the heavenly city of New Jerusalem that is described in Revelation chapters 21 and 22. New Jerusalem's wall has twelve gates cut into it. That's three on the eastern side, three on the northern side, three on the southern side, and three on the western side (21:13). Each gate is one solid pearl (21:21), while the wall itself is solid jasper (21:18). There is an angel posted at each gate (21:12), and each gate goes by the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (21:12).
The wall has twelve foundations, and upon each foundation is written the name of one of Christ's twelve apostles (21:14). Each foundation is made from a different type of precious stone: jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, etc. (21:19-20). The wall is 124 cubits (approximately 216 feet or 72 yards), which most likely refers to its width rather than its height.
If you wonder how a wall can be 72 yards thick, let me point out that the city it surrounds is approximately 1,400 miles squared (Revelation 21:16). That means the city is 1,400 miles long in not only length but also width and height. That adds up to over two million square miles, enough territory to take in most of the entire eastern portion of the United States! If you are going to have a wall around a city that size, the wall had better be big!
New Jerusalem is made of pure gold, but it's not the kind of gold that we know. It's a gold that is transparent enough to look like clear glass (21:18). The city's street is made of this same type of gold (21:21). By the way, that's not a typo on my part. The city of New Jerusalem has a street (singular), not streets (plural).
The transparent clearness also extends to the river that has its source at the throne of God and runs through the city. This river is described as being clear as crystal (22:1). The city has a tree of life, too, a tree that yields a different type of fruit each month (22:2).
One thing the city doesn't have is a temple. It doesn't need one because God the Father and God the Son are literally present on the scene (21:22). It has no sun or moon either, because the glory of God illuminates it (21:23; 22:5). Try to imagine all the glory that beams forth from God the Father and God the Son bouncing off not only all that clear gold but also that clear river. It's no wonder that the city doesn't have any lighting problems! Oh, and did I mention that there is no night there (21:25; 22:5)?
There is, however, an important fact about those twelve gates inside that wall around that city, and this fact gets to the heart of this post. Those gates are never closed (Revelation 21:25). That throws a definite monkey wrench into the the comparison between New Jerusalem's wall and President Trump's proposed wall, doesn't it? Furthermore, New Jerusalem is a city in which all kinds of different nationalities walk (21:24; 22:2). That throws a definite monkey wrench into any segregated "white nationalist" thinking.
Look, I'm not writing this to chose a side between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi. Let's keep politics out of this. All I'm trying to do is keep our thinking straight when it comes to using certain Bible passages to make questionable analogies about current events. As Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have to be better than that. Is illegal immigration a major issue in 21st century America? Absolutely. But, please, let's stop trivializing the Bible just so we can get a bunch of likes of Facebook.
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Russia stands by its international obligations and has no plans to stop an arms deal with Syria, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday. 28.08.2010, Sputnik International
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Russia stands by its international obligations and has no plans to stop an arms deal with Syria, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday.
Sergei Prikhodko said recent reports in some Israel media outlets misrepresented Russia's position on cooperation with Syria.
The Haaretz daily reported on Friday that Israel was working to "thwart a Russian arms deal with Syria" and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to stop the sale of advanced P-800 Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles.
"Lately, some Israeli media outlets have been actively disseminating information distorting Russia's position on the implementation of its obligations to Syria, including in the sphere of military and technical cooperation," Prikhodko said.
"I would like to stress that the Russian Federation honors all the agreements that were previously signed between Russia and Syria."
He said Russia's military cooperation policy is shaped by the president and is not directed against third countries.
Israel considers this weaponry dangerous to its navy vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, The Haaretz said.
In a conversation with Putin, Netanyahu told the Russian leader that "missiles his country had delivered to Syria were then transferred to Hezbollah and used against IDF troops during the Second Lebanon War," the paper said.
A senior Israeli official was quoted as saying that Israel and Russia have been engaged in discreet dialogue over arms deals to the region. But as these talks have not yielded any results, the decision was made to upgrade the level of discussions with a senior political figure.
The P-800 missiles have a range of 300 kilometers, carry a 200-kilogram warhead and feature a unique ability to cruise several meters above the surface, making it difficult to detected and intercept it.
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Q: HTTP Request Header limit hard coded in Apache 2.2 I looked up some other question concerning this on SF, they revolved around a maximum limit being set for LimitRequestFieldSize and LimitRequestLine at 8K.
httpd's documentation confirms the limit, but doesn't list the value to be fixed.
I tried increasing it, which didn't work. Decreasing didn't work either. Every source I turned up just indicated that there's a maximum limit.
To check how long a header may be, I issued this command:
curl -v -H "CustomHeader: `printf '1%.0s' {1..n}`" hostname

I installed apache2 on a RHEL 6.3 VM and tried various values for both directives (specified in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf).
For reference, apache2's version:
Name        : httpd
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.2.15
Release     : 15.el6_2.1

Now here's the question:
I get that I can't increase it past 8K (seems the Redhat people didn't touch the limit), but why can't I decrease it? Whatever value I specify, apache will return errors if n is greater than 8K.

A: There's a warning in the docs.

Warning
  When name-based virtual hosting is used, the value for this directive is taken from the default (first-listed) virtual host for the NameVirtualHost the connection was mapped to.

It's not clear from this setence if any value in httpd.conf will be ignored if you are using name-based virtual hosting.  Are you using name-based virtual hosts and have you tried putting this directive in the first one?

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The Philippines is home to some of the most spectacular hills that are almost a rage among travellers. The country casts an everlasting impression on the mind of visitors with its 1,268 perfectly symmetrical, haycock-shaped hills called Chocolate Hills. The name is given to it as it resembles chocolate bonbons. These hills rise 30 meters above the ground and it has been given National Geological Monument status. These hills are formation of million years of evolution. Some of the hills are provided with viewing point from where you can get a commanding view of the city.
Beaches of the Philippines
Beaches of Philippines are other major draw cards for travellers and the country is home to some of the most scenic beaches on the planet earth. As the country consists of an archipelago with more than 1000 islands it has no dearth of beaches. Boracay Island with its sugary white beaches and azure water is located on the north-western tip of Panay, Western Visayas. The beach is highly popular among travellers. The 4Km vast stretch of the sand here is considered as the finest beach on the earth. The water here is shallow and sand is fine. On any normal day, one can see hordes of people walking barefooted on the beach. You can see people relaxing under the shade of a coconut tree. From dusk to dawn, the beach becomes an open air party space which everyone can join. Apart from this, El Nido and Honda Bay are other popular beaches.
Makati City, Metro Manila Philippines
Beaches, mountains and hills may have their own charm, but no description of Philippines is said to be complete unless you visit Manila. The capital of Philippines is the place where a common Filipino goes for shopping, education and even making a career. The city which remains abuzz with activity round the clock is a fascinating mix of occidental and oriental. Most of the travellers visiting Manila complain about its chaotic traffic but once you brave this you will find an array of options to explore. Intramuros the oldest and most historic part of the city is worth exploring. The complex houses a good number of churches and other historic buildings that include Fort Santiago, Postigo del Palacio, Plaza de Roma and San Agustín Church.
El Nido, Palawan Philippines
Palawan attracts a large number of travellers through its diversity. The island boasts of a diversity of terrestrial and aquatic animal life. This sparsely populated region interests a large number of people with its serene environment. Puerto Princesa (Puerto) which is famous for its culinary delights also acts as a jumping off point for many a tour in vicinity.
Vigan City
Vigan City, Philippines
Century old edifices of Vigan give a reflection of the city which it was during its heydays. Founded in 1572, this earliest Spanish settlement in Philippines is patterned after Intramuros in Manila. On your arrival to the city, you would see wooden castles and horse drawn carriages. Walk through its cobbled streets that echo with history. The city is finest example of Spanish history in Asia. The old part of the city has been listed as UNESCO world heritage site.
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LaineyLovesLife
Vigan is next on my list! Thanks for sharing yours! :)
Ma. Clarice Lao
I only got 2/5 in your list since I never got to explore the northern part of country eventhough i lived in Metro Manila for 5 years. Will be visiting Boracay next month. :)
karla| Karlaroundtheworld.com
Interesting choices, I find it hard to say the top destinations in the Philippines mainly because ang ganda ng Pilipinas. Super madaming pwedeng puntahan! I really love the natural beauty of this country. Nonetheless, you have named few of the best places to go to :) Nice pictures too .


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Limón Province and the Caribbean coast
In his book Tekkin a Waalk, journalist and travel writer Peter Ford uses the ingenious term "an anthropological Galápagos" to describe the ethnic and cultural oddities encountered in Limón, where the Caribbean meets Central America. There's no doubt that the province provides a touch of multiculturalism lacking in the rest of Costa Rica's relatively homogeneous Latin, Catholic society. In Limón, characterized by intermarriage and racial mixing, it's not unusual to find people who are of combined Miskito, Afro-Caribbean and Nicaraguan ancestry. Though the first black inhabitants of the province were the slaves of the British pirates and mahogany-cutters who had lived in scattered communities along the coast since the mid-1700s, the region's ethnic diversity stems largely from the influence of Minor Keith, who brought in large numbers of foreign labourers to work on the construction of the Jungle Train. They were soon joined by turtle fishermen who had settled in Bocas del Toro, Panamá, before migrating north to escape the Panamanian war of independence from Colombia in 1903. The settlers brought their respective religions with them – unlike in the rest of Costa Rica, most Afro-Caribbeans in Limón Province are Protestant.
Regardless of race or religion, the coastal settlers were resourceful and independent. They not only planted their own crops, bringing seeds to grow breadfruit, oranges, mangoes and ackee, all of which flourished alongside native coconuts and cocoa, but also made their own salt, charcoal, musical instruments and shoes and brewed their own spirits – red rum, guarapo, cane liquor and ginger beer.
Limón's diversity has never been appreciated by the ruling and economic elite of the country. Until 1949, blacks were effectively forbidden from settling in the Valle Central or the Highlands, and while the indigenous communities have a degree of autonomy, their traditional territories have long since been eaten up by government-sanctioned mining and banana enterprises. Official discrimination against the province's Afro-Caribbean inhabitants ended in 1949 with a new constitution that granted them full citizenship. Black Limonenses now make up around 30 percent of the province's population.
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AUSTIN - Parents who would have terminated a pregnancy if they had more information about the fetus' abnormalities no longer would have the right to sue their doctor under a bill the Texas Senate passed Monday in the chamber's latest attempt to chip away at abortion rights.
The Republican-led Senate voted 21-9, largely along party lines, to pass Senate Bill 25, which would eliminate the "wrongful birth" cause of action giving parents the ability to seek legal damages if they give birth to a child with disabilities that they would have aborted had the doctor provided them more information.
While advocates say the bill helps to promote the value of babies with disabilities, opponents say the legislation is an attempt to meddle with women's decisions and give anti-abortion doctors legal cover to downplay information about the severity of a fetus' potential disability.
"It seems to be all about restricting and further limiting a woman's right to exercise her choice as to what she's gong to do in the case of serious detects in the fetus, congenital defects in the fetus," said Sen. Jose Rodriguez, an El Paso Democrat, during debate on the Senate floor.
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Brandon Creighton, a Conroe Republican and lawyer who argued the legislation works to promote a culture that the lives of disabled babies are valued in Texas and "end the negative precedent that disabled persons should not have been born."
He stressed that doctors who act improperly still can be sued for malpractice.
The cause of action first was recognized in the Texas Supreme Court in 1975 in the case of Jacobs v Theimer in which parents of a disabled child argued they would have aborted the pregnancy if they knew about the baby's disabilities. The parents won and were awarded expenses necessary to treat the child's impairment for life.
The legislation is one of several anti-abortion bills that have moved swiftly through the Senate this session, including Senate Bill 415 that restricts the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions and Senate Bill 415 which restricts so-called dismemberment abortions.
Critics of the bill say that removing the cause of action infringes on a woman's right to choice by protecting doctors who fail to share medical information that could lead to the decision to end a pregnancy.
"For the families it affects, it's a huge deal. It's a lifetime of extra care," said Blake Rocap, legislative counsel for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, an abortion rights advocacy group. "It basically says to physicians, 'Well, if you think you might disagree with the position that the patient makes for their own health care, you don't have to tell them,' and that violates every tenet of health care and the way physicians should treat their patients."
The legislation passed the Senate on second reading and is due for a third reading before lawmakers send the measure to the House of Representatives.
Republican Texas lawmakers have pushed to curtail abortion in the state, but were dealt a blow last year when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down major provisions of the state's strict 2013 law that forced abortion clinics to adhere to costly standards of ambulatory surgical centers and require their physicians obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The law prompted about half of the state's 40 abortion clinics to close.
SB 25 was brought to the Legislature in part by the Texas Alliance for Life, according to Joe Pojman, executive director of the organization which is active at the Capitol.
"Texas would basically say that physicians are not accountable to a disability that they didn't cause. That's how we view it," said Pojman, who added that the legislation is "consistent with the state's policy of promoting childbirth over abortion."
Monday's preliminary passage in the Senate marks the first time the bill has won approval on the floor. A similar bill won approval by a House committee in 2015, but never received a vote by the full chamber.


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Q: Storing Data in JSON file using Java I'm new to JSON.
I've list of data which I can show in my console when I execute file. I want to store that data in JSON file using JSON array and JSON Object. I can store data in JSON file but I would have to put each data manually in the array, its very time consuming and I do have a lot of data to enter. So, I am looking for a way to read the data instead of printing it in console, I want to store it in JSON file.
This is how it should look in array.

   {
           "employee":
           {
              "id": "100",

              "name": "ABC",

              "address": "New York"
           }
    }

Any suggestion on how to do it?
Update
The data which I'm printing on console is already imported from an excel file.

A: create a class Employee
public class Employee {
    private String employee;
    public String id, name, address;

    public Employee(String id, String name, String address) {
        this.employee = "employee";
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
        this.address = address;
    }

    Employee(String string) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet."); //To change body of generated methods, choose Tools | Templates.
    }

    public String getEmployee() {
        return employee;
    }

    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public void setEmployee(String employee) {
        this.employee = employee;
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address) {
        this.address = address;
    }

}

main
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.*;

public class JavaApplication1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList<Employee> array = new ArrayList<Employee>();
        for(int i = 0 ; i < 100; i++){
            array.add(new Employee(i+"", i+"", i+""));
        }

        JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();
        for (int i = 0;i < array.size() ; i++) {
            JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
            JSONObject objItem =  new JSONObject();
            objItem.put("id", array.get(i).getId());
            objItem.put("name",  array.get(i).getName());
            objItem.put("address",  array.get(i).getAddress());
            obj.put("employee", objItem);
            jsonArray.put(obj);
        }

        try (FileWriter file = new FileWriter("your path")) {
            file.write(jsonArray.toString());
            System.out.println("Successfully Copied JSON Object to File...");
            System.out.println("\nJSON Object: " + jsonArray);
        } catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println(e);

        }
}

}

A: This may be helpful to you...
        //First User
        JSONObject userDetails = new JSONObject();
        userDetails.put("firstName", "Arun");
        userDetails.put("lastName", "Kumar");
        userDetails.put("website", "google.com");

        JSONObject userObject = new JSONObject();
        userObject.put("user", userDetails);

        //Second User
        JSONObject userDetails2 = new JSONObject();
        userDetails2.put("firstName", "Brian");
        userDetails2.put("lastName", "Schultz");
        userDetails2.put("website", "example.com");

        JSONObject userObject2 = new JSONObject();
        userObject2.put("user", userDetails2);

        //Add users to list
        JSONArray userList = new JSONArray();
        userList.add(userObject);
        userList.add(userObject2);

        //Write JSON file
        try (FileWriter file = new FileWriter("users.json")) {

            file.write(userList.toJSONString());
            file.flush();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


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Grant Gains Ground
Magazine | February 25, 2019, Issue
By Allen C. Guelzo
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Historians are coming to respect the 18th president as they should
In the ratings game of U.S. presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, who was inaugurated as the 18th president 150 years ago, usually ends up in the bottom tier. C-SPAN's presidential poll in 2000 placed Grant at 33rd — mercifully ahead of Andrew Johnson (at 40), but only one notch ahead of Herbert Hoover (34) and lagging well behind James Knox Polk (12). An American Political Science Association survey last year promoted him to 21st. But that still lodges Grant behind James Monroe, William McKinley, and the Mexican War–mongering Polk.
And this despite the fact that Grant was the Union general who finally brought the Confederate armies of the Civil War to their knees and the president who suppressed the menace of the Ku Klux Klan, won reparations from Britain for damages caused by Confederate raiders built in England (setting international precedent on neutrality laws), and reduced both taxes and the national debt after the war. None of this budges today's popular image of Grant as a blunt and unimaginative killer-general, an alcoholic, a political incompetent, and the presiding spirit of an administration riddled through and through with corruption. According to Richard White's dreadful 2017 tome The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896, Grant's "financial and economic policies, the spoils system with its associated corruption, and his foreign policy . . . all contributed to a rich stew of disappointment and alienation."
Grant was held in much higher esteem the day he took the presidential oath in March 1869. "That General Grant is peculiarly fitted to choose and direct matters of statesmanship, as he does matters [of] war, is every day proved more and more," rejoiced a Washington newspaper, adding: "His head is as clear as his heart is pure. His judgment is as calm as his will is firm." He would need every ounce of that judgment, too, because in the four years that had passed since Grant brought the Civil War to its practical end, the opportunities for the "just and lasting peace" Abraham Lincoln had hoped for were rapidly evaporating.
Lincoln was assassinated five days after the Confederate surrender and took to his grave whatever plans he had for Reconstruction. His successor, Andrew Johnson, showed interest only in extorting public repentance from the Confederate leadership and none whatsoever in the fate of the more than 3 million African-American slaves the war had liberated. Southern grandees returned themselves to power in the rebel states, reduced the freed slaves to near serfdom through a series of infamous "black codes," and allowed the sprouting of paramilitary groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to make, in the words of historian Hans Trefousse, "murder and intimidation . . . the order of the day" in the former Confederacy.
This set off political war between Johnson and a Congress still dominated by Lincoln's Republicans, a war Johnson lost. But while the political fury raged in Washington, the nation's interest in the fate of the freed slaves wandered. State elections in 1867 cost Republicans dearly in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; and state constitutional amendments to permit black voting failed in Ohio (by 39,000 votes), Kansas (by 8,000 votes), and Minnesota (by 1,298 votes). "Our defeat here is owing simply and purely to the question affecting our Sable brother," wrote an anxious M. Russell Thayer, a Republican who had represented Pennsylvania's fifth congressional district. Only Grant "can save the Republican party," Thayer said. No wonder Grant was nominated virtually by acclamation at the Republican national convention in May 1868. And as the convention delegates had hoped, he overwhelmed the Democratic candidate, Horatio Seymour, in November by 3 million votes.
However, the question soon became whether Grant could save himself from his fellow Republicans. Grant was an Ohioan and had spent virtually all his life in places other than Washington. He was, in fact, only the second president (after Zachary Taylor) never to have previously held an elected office, and his outsider status almost at once began to grate on long-term Washington insiders. Henry Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams, resented Grant's quick accession to the presidency. He simply could not credit the idea that his father, Charles Francis Adams, had been passed over for the Republican nomination and the presidency. Grant was "inarticulate, uncertain, distrustful of himself, still more distrustful of others, and awed by money," Adams snarled. He should have "lived in a cave and worn skins." Grant, sniffed former Navy secretary Gideon Welles, was "a pitiable object, wholly unfit for his position." But he enraged no one more vehemently than Charles Sumner, the toplofty senator from Massachusetts, who fully expected to become Grant's wise guide and director as secretary of state.
Grant had no intention of taking direction from anyone. He nominated his old Army chief of staff John Rawlins as secretary of war; the New York City merchant Alexander T. Stewart as secretary of the Treasury; Massachusetts supreme-court justice Ebenezer Hoar as attorney general; and his longtime congressional ally Elihu Washburne as secretary of state (to the chagrin of Sumner). (Curiously, Washburne wanted the job to be temporary — he was intent on becoming the American minister to France and thought the prior State Department appointment would increase his prestige in dealing with the French.)
The impact on insider Washington could hardly have been worse. One newspaper editor misspelled the name of Grant's nominee for secretary of the Navy, Adolph E. Borie, as Bovie and then burst out, "The Honorable Adolph E. Bovie, Secretary of the Navy, is — is — well, who in hell is Bovie, anyway?" Sumner was beside himself. "To the dishonor of the civil service, and in total disregard of precedent," Sumner complained, "the Executive Mansion . . . at once assumed the character of a military headquarters." Longtime officeholders were dismissed, complained Henry Adams, and "the discarded servants of the Republic" were left to "be ground to death under the wheels of this slow-moving idol."
Obstructing Grant soon became as important an object to Sumner as reconstructing the Confederacy, with the principal weapon being the congressional investigation. "The whole country must understand," wrote a gleeful Maryland Democrat, "that the chief duty of the next Congress will be investigation" (emphasis in the original). Using the investigative power of congressional committees to embarrass the executive branch was nothing new in Washington. The Covode Committee had come within an ace of impeaching James Buchanan in 1860, and the famous Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War was able to prod, intimidate, and (in one case) imprison a Union general it suspected of lacking fervor. It became routine for committees sympathetic to Sumner to open inquiries into "the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, or any officer of the Government" for malfeasance or corruption.
They did not find much. Of the 25 cabinet appointments Grant made over the eight years of his administration, only one — William Belknap, as secretary of war — was ever shown to have had a hand in the till. Investigations and charges against William Adams Richardson as secretary of the Treasury, George Robeson as secretary of the Navy, Columbus Delano as secretary of the interior, and Ely S. Parker (Grant's military secretary at Appomattox) as commissioner for Indian affairs never resulted in a single indictment. But they provided enough public embarrassment that Grant was forced, reluctantly, to replace them.
In frustration, the old-line Republican leadership — Charles Francis Adams, Lyman Trumbull, Salmon Chase — mounted a dump-Grant insurgency for the 1872 presidential campaign, with the famed newspaper editor Horace Greeley as their candidate. Known as the "Liberal Republicans," they had misjudged the political climate completely. Grant won reelection in a landslide, with 55.6 percent of the popular vote.
Votes count only once. Literary venom of Sumner's and Henry Adams's sort has had far longer innings and weighed far more heavily in defining Grant's presidency as an unrelieved stumble from scandal to scandal.
None of these distractions prevented Grant from pushing hard to complete Reconstruction. Congress had reconstituted the rebel states under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, and Grant's chief responsibility was to secure the Republican regimes elected under those acts. Over the course of his two terms, he intervened in contested elections in Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas and used federal troops to restore order three times in Louisiana. In South Carolina, he used Congress's adoption of the Force Acts to suspend habeas corpus and drive the Ku Klux Klan into oblivion. (The Klan came back later, largely because of the notoriety it received from D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, but it was a very different Klan at that point.)
In his first inaugural address, Grant championed the adoption of the 15th Amendment, guaranteeing voting rights to all citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." And he repeatedly denounced race bigotry as the root cause of resistance to Reconstruction. "The present difficulty in bringing all parts of the United States to a happy unity and love of country grows out of the prejudice to color. The prejudice is a senseless one, but it exists." The war had freed the slaves, and the 14th Amendment had made the freedman a citizen, but "he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected." The best correction was to remove barriers to public accommodations: "Give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive."
That it took another 80 years to bring this aspiration to legal fruition is a measure of how long the odds were against Grant's success. And his critics were not entirely wrong when they complained, as Henry Adams did, that "Grant appeared as an intermittent energy, immensely powerful when awake" but at other times "torpid." Grant did not so much initiate policies as react to crises, and he never developed a comprehensive and aggressive plan for Reconstruction. Even so, Grant was certainly the foremost presidential advocate of black civil rights before Lyndon Johnson.
The usual trend of presidential reputations over time is downward. Grant is one of the few (along with Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Theodore Roosevelt) whose ratings have risen. When we consider that his principal offense was not in his ideas or policies but largely in cold-shouldering official Washington, we should wonder whether it's right to let those insider opinions place a thumb on history's scales.
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The second film in this summer's anniversary series is BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY on Saturday, July 21, at 7:00pm, at Guild Hall of East Hampton. The film will be followed by a conversation with director Dava Whisenant, hosted by HIFF Co-Chair Alec Baldwin and Artistic Director David Nugent.
When he started as a comedy writer for the LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, Steve Young had few interests outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever. Bizarre cast recordings—marked "internal use only"—revealed full-throated Broadway-style musical shows about some of the most recognizable corporations in America: General Electric, McDonald's, Ford, DuPont, Xerox. Steve didn't know much about musical theater, but these recordings delighted him in a way that nothing ever had. BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY follows Steve Young on his quest to find all he can about this hidden world. While tracking down rare albums, unseen footage, composers and performers, Steve forms unlikely friendships and discovers how this discarded musical genre starring tractors and bathtubs was bigger than Broadway. With David Letterman, Chita Rivera, Martin Short, Florence Henderson, Susan Stroman, Jello Biafra and more.
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You've probably eaten Niçoise olives before - you know those little black things scattered about that Niçoise Salad. More than likely, however, the salad was not made with Niçoise olive oil since it is a rarity on these shores.
The silky golden oil of this little black olive - technically known as the callietier variety - is highly prized in the South of France, and points beyond. We have secured a shipment of some of the best. Rarely seen outside of Nice, Nicolas Alziari's golden oil is a must for true olive oil aficionado.
The oil is light and buttery with the full flavor of ripe olives and a silky smooth finish. It is one of our most versatile oils, just as good for making salads as it is for finishing a prepared dish.
Note about harvest dates: In the nothern hemisphere, olives are harvest and pressed between October and December. Which means the current harvest is actually last year.


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Should I Survey My Ranch?
One of the more common questions we receive from buyers of ranches for sale is "Do I need to have the ranch surveyed?" In a perfect world with unlimited time and resources, it would always be beneficial for a buyer to survey their ranch prior to its purchase. However, given the sometimes-astronomical costs of surveying a large, remote Rocky Mountain Ranch, combined with the time and seasonal limitations of surveying, many buyers decided that the benefits do not outweigh the costs. Thanks to the technological improvements with mapping and satellite imagery, buyers can identify potential issues or problems that will help them to determine if a survey is necessary.
It's hard to believe, but less than a decade ago, the much of the technology we currently use to map and understand ranches either didn't exist or was prohibitively expensive. Back then, the most accurate way to determine acreage (other than surveying) was to refer to the county's assessor records and/or use the legal description to physically map out the property by hand using a magic marker and a USGS topo map. The acreages deemed from either of these methods could be wildly variable and inaccurate, and may not be an accurate representation of the true acreage. Without a survey, there was no effective way to determine the accuracy of fencelines, to evaluate potential encroachments, or to truly understand where your land stops and your neighbor's starts. Many times, landowners had no options other than to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a survey in order to truly understand their property boundaries.
With the emergence and affordability of technologies such as Google Earth Pro and ArcGIS, we are able to map properties fairly accurately to identify acreage discrepancies, fenceline inaccuracies, or potential encroachments. The high resolution satellite images combined with county-specific GIS data allows us to zoom in so closely that we can actually see the fenceline and compare to the property line as defined by the county's records. Many times, particularly on large acreage, multi-generational ranches, fencelines are going to be slightly inaccurate. As long as the fenceline is not encroaching on a valuable aspect of your or your neighbor's property (a building, a water source, a road, etc.), most landowners and neighbors will agree to look past the slight inaccuracy. However, if there is an inaccurate fenceline that creates (or could create) a disagreement between neighbors, surveying the ranch would be a good, proactive measure to avoid any future unpleasant and potentially expensive conflicts.
At Mirr Ranch Group, we employ some of the most high tech mapping software available to help our clients fully understand a ranch's fencelines, the county records, and any potential discrepancies between the two. Our mapping technology combined with decades of cumulative experience allow us to advise our clients on whether or not a survey is necessary for their specific ranch. Sometimes, such as when placing a conservation easement or purchasing certain types of title insurance, there is no way around it: You'll have to survey. But there are plenty of situations where a survey, and its tens of thousands of dollars price tag, may be overkill.
Like all ranch-related issues, there is no universal, one-size-fits-all answer— Every ranch is unique and requires personalized and thorough research to determine the most appropriate, cost-effective solution. If we can assist with any fenceline related questions, don't hesitate to give us a call.


After our trip to the Spanish Pyrenees last year we were looking for a similar experience this year. This is how I stumbled upon Picos the Europa. I had neven heard of it before. It doesn't seem like a popular destination for Belgians. But is has been discovered by British, American and German tourists. We booked a 10 day trip, of which 4 days would be traveling days. Two days to get there by car and two days to drive back home. We decided to make a stopover near Bordeaux. From Bruges that would make an 8 hour drive to Bordeaux and a 6 hour drive from Bordeaux to Potes, the place we decided to stay in Picos. You can choose between, Potes, Cangas de Onis or Arenas de Cabrales as the most obvious places to stay. Some reading online told me that Potes was the most charming place of the three and the raving reviews of Hotel del Oso made my decision final. You have to book directly with the hotel, and they reply very swiftly by mail. Unfortunately the hotel was not available on all dates we planned to stay so we also booked two nights in Posada San Pelayo which we booked through Booking.com, but I think it is cheaper to book directly through their website. A month before our holiday the hotel informed us that the main road that leads to Potes, the Hermida gorge road (N-621 from Panes to Potes) would be closed for works on the bridges during weekdays and would only be open on weekend days. That limited our planning a bit, and put an hour extra on the traveling time to and from our hotel because we would arrive and leave on a weekday. But I was confident we could plan around this.
We found a great B&B , Crisalys Chambres d'Hotes in Pessac, a village south of Bordeaux, just of the highway. We were warmly welcomed by Isabelle who runs the B&B. You can park your car safely in front of their house. There are two rooms in a separate building in the garden. One room has one double and one single bed, the second room has a large twin bed. Both have a comfortable bathroom, air-conditioning, free wifi, a terrace, free toiletries, a bottle of water.
You can use the fully equipped kitchen and dining room to make coffee or tea or prepare something to eat if you do not wish to go out. You sleep soundly in the very comfy beds and quiet surroundings, and in the morning you get a wonderful breakfast with a choice of bread, croissant, cake or pancakes, freshly prepared eggs, yoghurt, fresh fruit salad, fresh orange juice, homemade marmelades, coffee or tea. The place is spotlessly clean and warmly decorated. It is cheaper to book directly with the B&B than via Booking.com. You do not have to pay in advance. It was a great experience and we were very happy to return on our way back home. Isabelle, the owner gave us the other room on our second visit so we tried both rooms. They are equally good.
On the way to Potes we made a stopover in Bilboa. We made a walk through the city and gazed at the Guggenheim museum, but did not have time to visit an exhibition.
We took lunch on the terrace of Sua San, just opposite the Guggenheim in Bilbao with a great view of the Guggenheim and a good stop for a drink or lunch. The menu of the day was a real great deal, and the dishes were really good. 14,5 euro, for two plates, dessert of coffee/tea and drinks included. Highly recommended and very popular with locals. We chose a salad, fish and cheesecake.
We drove on to Potes and had to make quite a detour because of the closure of the Hermida gorge road. But the scenery was wonderful, we enjoyed the views and made stops to take pictures. The arrival at Hotel del Oso was a pleasant surprise. The staff is very friendly, the hotel looks beautiful and the rooms are spacious and very comfortable.
We booked a table for dinner at 8:30 PM. As a hotel guest you can have a three course menu for 22 euro that includes mineral water and tea or coffee. You a have choice between several dishes for every course. The food is not of gastronomic level, but very tasteful and the portions are good, sometimes even a bit large. You should try their orujo ice-cream for dessert.
They have a wonderful heated outdoor swimming pool that does wonders after a days walk in the mountains. There is also a tennis court. The hotel has several beautiful lounging areas to read or watch tv. If you are not so hungry you can always have some tapas on the terrace from the bar. In the morning you can choose between a breakfast buffet in the restaurant or a mini-breakfast in the bar or on the terrace.
We took the mini-breakfast, still feeling full after the copious dinners in the evening. You get a tea or coffee, toasted bread and cake with butter and marmelade, and freshly pressed orange juice (4,3 euro). For lunch we bought some bread, fruit, ham and cheese in the supermarket of Potes as a small picnic on our daily walks.
The two nights we stayed at Posada San Pelayo were just as agreeable. The rooms are housed in a beautiful traditional farming house, the rooms are spacious, our bathroom was a bit on the small side. The view from our room was just splendid. You can have a larger room if you choose for a room with a balcony, which are a bit more expensive. The Posada also has a beautiful indoor and outdoor sitting area and a small pool. There is ample parking space for your car.
In the morning they serve a small breakfast buffet. In the morning the owner sets up his telelens in the garden to gaze up at the mountains. We spotted some Chamois buck through his lens on the snowcapped mountains. The Posada does not serve dinner, so we booked a restaurant in Potes for the first night.
The dinner at La Soldreria was great. The restaurant is very cosy, the food delicious, the service super friendly. The restaurant has an informal area and terrace for food and drinks, and a more formal restaurant area. You can only make reservations for the last one. The food is based on traditional dishes which have been reinvented and modernized a bit but with respect for the original recipe, while using good ingredients. We took a starter to share (coquille ), two main plates (lamb and cod), and a dessert (cheesecake). They advised us against two startes and two mains because that could be too much. We had some issues with the lamb, and the owner immediately came to apologize and offered us the lamb and the aperitif for free. A real beautiful gesture, and very professional. We were really glad to have found this restaurant for our dinner in Potes.
On the weekend we decided to take advantage of the open Hermida gorge road, and drive up to the coast. We wanted to play golf. We visited the Club de Golf Municipal, a 18 hole golf course in Llanes. The court is not the easiest and a bit technic, but its setting is really magnificent with views of the seaside on one side and of the mountains on the other side. The fairways and greens are well tended too. You first play holes 10 to 18, and then holes 1 to 9. There is a small drive range. The green fee is really not expensive at 30 euro per person on a Saturday. You cannot make tee reservations, but the man at the reception said that this was usually not a problem, you might just have to wait a little before your tee-off. You can always hit some balls on the practice while waiting. We had wonderful weather and enjoyed it immensely. There are toilets and changing rooms with showers. They do only speak Spanish at the reception but are very friendly. Nothing posh or stuck up at all!
In the evening we drove to San Vincente de la Barquera, where we had booked a table at Sotavento, a small fish and seafood restaurant. And what a nice surprise this restaurant was. The owners give you a very warm and personal welcome. The menu is small but every dish is prepared with the freshest ingredients by the husband cook. He is a real good chef, who cooks with respect for the best ingredients.
We had two starters to share and one main also to share. The hostess warned us that two mains might be too much. Very thoughtful of her. The cook served us mussels in a great marinade on the house. We had the cuttlefish and langoustines, both prepared deliciously, and after that the monkfish. We also shared two desserts of which the orange ice cream with chocolate was a real delight. This is a real great restaurant if you are looking for freshly cooked seafood and fish to perfection. The owners speaks only Spanish but make every effort to explain the menu to you. And there is always 'google translate' in need. Be sure to make a reservation ahead!!
After one more night at Crisalys Bed and Breakfast we decided to visit Bordeaux. We visited Bordeaux once 20 years ago, and it did not make a lasting impression then. But things have changed and Bordeaux was named the world's best city, according to Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2017 list. The Queen of England concluded that Bordeaux was "The very essence of elegance," last time she visited Bordeaux. So I got curious. We were pleasantly surprised during our two hour walk through this vibrant city. We rounded off our trip with a drink on Place de Parlement in cafe Le Parlement.