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Italian Family Traditions – Mothers, Sons and Marriage in Italy
Mamma mia!: Saint or Sinner?
The Italian mamma embodies all the paradoxes of Italian life. A beacon of self-sacrifice, she always gets her own way. An apparent martyr to her family's needs, she commands the same family without question. She is able to make life both easy and incredibly difficult.
It's no wonder that "Mamma mia" is the most used phrase in the Italian language!
Italian Mothers: The ultimate home-maker.
Far more than in America or the UK, Italian mothers in the twenty-first century tend to be home-makers while their husbands go out to work. A recent survey showed that it's quite acceptable in Italian family traditions for the average young son in Italy to spend around fifteen minutes a day with his father but several hours with his mother.
It's not surprising, then, that he learns to take every cue from her: how to dress, where to go, what to eat, who to see. And such is the attachment formed in childhood that it continues into adult life: one in three married adult sons sees his mother every single day, and seven out of ten unmarried men still live with their mother at the age of thirty-five.
Italian 'mothers' boys': The Growth of the 'Mammoni'.
In other countries that would make them the object of jokes and derision. Not so in Italy. Here, there's nothing strange about men wanting to stay with their mothers for as long as they can – even when they have married – and it's applauded as the right thing to do. The average age for an Italian man to marry is thirty – one of the highest recorded in United Nations statistics.
And that's given rise to a growth of what have become known as 'Mammoni' – men who are still tied to their mother's apron strings.
A recent story in a Roman e-magazine told of an Italian lawyer in his thirties, a prominent and very powerful figure in an intensely male and competitive world. Recently married and with a baby due, he still takes his dirty washing to be done by his mother who also irons his shirts, buys his underpants and gives him food to take home in case his new wife can't cook…
Is this the archetypal Italian mother stereotype? Perhaps. But it's having a very real effect on Italian marriages.
Italian Mothers and Marriage.
For a shocking three out of ten Italian marriages is now failing specifically because of the unusually close attachment of men to their mothers.
Psychologists conclude that boys in Italy being indulged by their Italian mothers well into adulthood makes them too emotionally immature to deal with the demands of a relationship with another adult woman in the shape of a wife:
"The husband is used to being adored and when he doesn't get that unconditional love from his wife, he goes running back to his mother."
Italian Marriage: Does it have a future?
Perhaps that's why recent United Nations statistics have shown that the marriage rate in Italy is now at its lowest ever ebb: Italy is twenty-third out of twenty-seven countries (the United States being at the top of the table) in terms of how many people per head of population are marrying per year.
Will this trend continue? As with many things Italian, there are regional differences: the south of the county is still a more patriarchal society than the north, the cities are more accepting of women and men having equal rights – and responsibilities – than rural districts.
So does Italian marriage have a future? That will largely depend on the new generation of men in Italy and the ability of the younger generation of women to change a mindset that has existed for generations.
write by GUETZOIAN YERVANT ( ED )


A couple of weeks ago I had the luck of finding a new food spot in New York. I really like to go out and find new restaurants and bars in the city. Manhattan is paradise for that kind of stuff. And since I often miss my traditional dishes – who could possibly live without a really good pizza once in a while? Or without gnocchi? Not me. I sometimes have nervous breakdowns if I can't get a good plate of affettati, with bresaola, salame and prosciutto crudo! – I've had quite good experiences with Italian restaurants. As you can imagine, Italian cuisine in New York goes beyond Babbo and Lombardi's, it's a lot more!
My latest discovery is the newly opened Caffè Storico ("storico" means historic), located in the renovated New York Historical Society (170 Central Park West at 77 street, New York, NY 10024). The oldest museum in New York – yes, it really is! – recently completed a $65 million renovation that included a new space for the Café.
Stephen Starr, the Philadelphia restaurateur who owns also Buddakan and Morimoto in Manhattan, won the contract and hired Jim Burke as a chef. He has worked for a few years in Venice, so the highlights of the menu include typically Venetian cicchetti (tapas-like dishes).
Anyway, I forgot about it when I saw the over 50 labels on the wine list. The elegant, but fresh atmosphere also helped for sure! The first thing I noticed was all the pretty Chinese and 19th century European porcelain (all from the museum's collection) adorning the walls. Also striking: a giant marble slab shaped into a cicchetti bar where the small plates are prepared and served and the open-air kitchen. Dazzling chandeliers, high ceilings, and cheery butter yellow banquettes are also attention-grabbing.
An amazing place for romantic dinners, I can assure you! I don't know about the brunch menu, but you can try it and let me know. Deal?


Department of Heat Supply and Ventilation trains students in field of specialization "Heat and ventilation." The Chair teaches students of all departments of the university. There is e-library (Room 194-A), which has over ten thousand items.
The Department conducts competitions of course and diploma projects with leading manufacturers of equipment for heat gas supply and ventilation systems: Danfoss (Denmark), HerzArmaturen (Austria), Rehau (Germany) Vents (Ukraine) and others.
Scientific publishing activity: professional scientific and technical digest "Ventilation, Lighting and HeatGas Supply" professional scientific journal "New Topic".
There are 8 scientific student's circles available. Students perform research in the field of Heat supply and ventilation under the guidance of professors. Members of the group have the opportunity to perform research work in specialized laboratories equippedwith research stands, use a computer lab with specialized software and receive a copy of the distributions under a free license.
Teaching staff of the chair, post-graduate students and members of student's scientific groups participateat the conference at KNUCA, annual scientific conference of young scientists and students of KNUCA, an international scientific conference of young scientists and students of KNUCA "Ecological Environmental Problems and efficient energy" (KNUCA) at international conferences: "Geometric and computer simulation: energy saving, environment and design", State of Art, Trends of Development and Challenges in Civil Engineering: Scientific Conference Rzesz?w-Lviv-Ko?ice (Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia), moNGeometrija (Serbia) , International Conference of Engineering Graphics and Design ICEGD (Romania) and others, and also take part in the international exhibition "AquaTerm".
Over the past five years about one hundred scientific papers have been published, including ten patents for invention.


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Senator for Buenos Aires province received by Communist Party leader, while on island to visit daughter, Florencia, who is receiving medical treatment.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was received on Monday by Cuban leader Raul Castro for a private meeting, an official on the island revealed late last night.
"Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, received the senator and former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on Monday afternoon," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez revealed on Twitter.
The Cuban government did not offer official comment on the meeting.
Fernández de Kirchner, 66, travelled to Cuba last week to accompany her daughter, filmmaker Florencia Kirchner, as the latter undergoes medical treatment.
Prior to her departure, the former president notified judicial officials that she would be flying to Cuba for seven days. Despite the raft of accusations in the courts against her, Fernández de Kirchner was under no obligation to notify the authorities if she was leaving the country.
The former president arrived in Havana on March 14. She was welcomed by the foreign minister himself after landing at Havana airport. Both the former president's activities in Cuba and the details of the Florencia Kirchner's medical treatment have been handled with upmost secrecy ever since.
On Monday, Fernández de Kirchner was charged in yet another corruption case, this time relating to the alleged overpricing of imports of liquified natural gas. The senator for Buenos Aires province, who has immunity thanks to her role as an elected lawmaker, denies the allegations and says they form part of a campaign of judicial and political persecution against her and her family.
Last week, in a dramatic video posted on Twitter, Fernández de Kirchner said her 29-year-old daughter was suffering from "severe health problems" as a result of "the fierce persecution to which she has been subjected."
Fernández de Kirchner and her two children, Máximo and Florencia, face money-laundering allegations in the so-called 'Hotesur case,' the investigation exploring a corruption ring centred on public works graft and the fraudulent rental of hotels rooms involving businessman Lázaro Báez. No date has yet been set for the trial.
Prosecutors believe the Kirchner-owned Hotesur firm was used to launder money and pay bribes, through a corporate, economic and accounting structure that allowed the parties involved to launder illicit funds. The hypothesis of the investigation is that Báez lent the Kirchners money to buy the hotels and used Valle Miter to exploit them as mechanisms to launder money.
According to the casefile, a total of 86 million pesos were paid by Valle Miter SRL to Hotesur SA for the payment of rental fees for rooms at various Kirchner family hotels, namely Alto Calafate, Las Dunas and La Aldea.
"The persecution they have done on her and that has devastated her is because she is the daughter of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner," the former president claimed in the video released last week.
Florencia's father, former president Néstor Kirchner, died in October of 2010.
If found guilty and handed a prison sentence in a trial, Fernández de Kirchner and her son, Máximo, would likely not go to jail. As sitting lawmakers, they hold parliamentary immunity. Florencia, however, would likely find herself behind bars.


A new-look, much-expanded Volleyball England Beach Tour (VEBT) may well be coming to a beach near you this summer, providing the chance for hundreds more players to pick up VEBT ranking points during the beach season.
Historically, the VEBT included only five of the summer's top elite competitions but it is now expanding to include a whole host of smaller tournaments.
Tournaments will be given a star rating (from one star for the smallest tournaments up to five for the showcase events) with VEBT ranking points available to competitors at all events.
With the popularity of beach volleyball steadily growing across the country, the revamped Tour intends to provide a more accessible and inclusive competition framework, where players of all standards can compete for ranking points and prizes.
As part of this radical change, numerous tournament organisers have agreed to bring their events under the VEBT umbrella. In addition, applications for new tournaments from clubs and other interested parties are still being processed.
There are currently four 5-star events in the summer schedule, with negotiations still taking place over two more. In addition, there are enough 1-4 star tournaments already inked in to ensure that committed enthusiasts should be able to enter a competition somewhere in the country most weekends.
The Tour schedule is designed to finish with a Finals weekend and Awards night in Bournemouth on the August Bank Holiday weekend. This will also feature a Plate competition, allowing the lower ranked players to have their moment in the spotlight too.
The star ranking system provides organisers with a strict set of criteria which will determine what ranking they are given – and how many ranking points players can therefore earn at their event. A single gender, one day tournament, featuring at least eight teams could qualify for a single star ranking. A similar event run across at least three courts and with a minimum of two 8 team draws could attract three stars, whereas a 5-star event would require show courts, branding, pool play and knock-out play across two days.
Even at this late stage, applications for new tournaments are still being taken – but only until May 5. Organisers who are interested in running a VEBT competition can find more information here as well as the event hosting application form here.
A full list of all events will be published imminently, once the event vetting process is concluded. Players wanting to enter these competitions will need to do so via the individual tournament websites, not via Volleyball England.


David Whitesock had been in remission from an addiction to alcohol for about two years when a professor at the University of South Dakota encouraged him to go to law school and become a public defender. The professor, Sandy McKeown, saw great potential in Whitesock because of his unrelenting work ethic and, perhaps even more so, his compassion for others.
It's readily apparent in talking to Whitesock, chief data officer at Face It TOGETHER, that his empathy for others' journeys is deeply rooted in his own struggles with addiction.
Whitesock, a 2015 Bush Fellow, grew up in Grand Forks, N.D. As a young adult, he became addicted to alcohol and was plagued by mental illness. In 2005, he was working as a broadcaster for a radio station in Winner, S.D., a small, secluded town in the south-central part of the state, when he received his fifth DUI. The fifth conviction made Whitesock a felon. The sentencing, he says, was a turning point in his life. The judge tasked with his case challenged Whitesock to take ownership of his life and get the help he needed: "You own each day, you own the direction you are going and you have to do the work," he recalls the judge saying.
His life experiences, although exceptionally difficult, have given him the ability to really connect with other people at the place where they are.
After getting treatment and ultimately going into remission, Whitesock pursued his undergraduate degree in history at the University of South Dakota, where McKeown would challenge him to become a lawyer.
Whitesock went on to earn his law degree, but becoming a lawyer would prove much more complicated. As someone with several DUI convictions, including a felony charge, passing the state bar exam alone wouldn't allow Whitesock to practice law; he also would need special approval from the State Board of Bar Examiners. That would be a long process, but Whitesock's resilience would serve him well.
Still, Whitesock waited one year after the hearing to receive the Board's approval. In the meantime, he joined the Face It TOGETHER staff and discovered his true calling: working to change the way communities support people with the disease of addiction.
a full 10 years after his mentor encouraged him to become a lawyer. Over those years, he found a different way to help others battling addiction.


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Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Baghdad) is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber's Stories of his Six Brothers  in One Thousand and One Nights.  The first of three operas by Cornelius, the piece was first performed at the Hoftheater in Weimar on 15 December 1858.

Performance history
Cornelius planned the work as a one-act comedy, but on the advice of Franz Liszt expanded it to two. Franz Liszt later arranged the second overture for orchestra (S.352). Unlike most German comic operas of the period, which have spoken dialogue, Der Barbier von Bagdad is through composed.  Cornelius offered the inventive and complex opera as an alternative to the contemporary German opera composers such as Richard Wagner, whose ideological fervor he found overwhelming.

At its first performance the opera was a failure, and it was not played again in the composer's lifetime.  The composer's mentor and friend Franz Liszt conducted the premiere. However, political actions by the director of the theater resulted in demonstrations against Liszt and the so-called neo-German school of composition. The opera closed after only one performance, and Liszt resigned his post. Cornelius also left Weimar.

In the late 19th century two versions were made, by the noted Wagnerian conductors Felix Mottl and Hermann Levi. In New York City the work was first played in 1890 by the Metropolitan Opera House Company and in London in 1891.  Finally, in June 1904, the original version as composed by Cornelius was again staged in the Weimar Hoftheater, this time to popular approval and critical acclaim.

In the 20th century, the opera was performed infrequently abroad but held its own in German opera companies using the original text, rather than Mottl's or Levi's revisions.  It has a minor niche in the operatic repertoire.

Roles

Synopsis
The hero, Nureddin, is in love with Margiana, daughter of the Cadi. Bostana, a relative of the Cadi, approving of Nureddin, helps him to woo Margiana by making himself presentable. Abdul Hassan, the barber is summoned, and like his confrère of Seville in Rossini's earlier opera, he adopts the role of co-conspirator in the romance. (Like Rossini's Figaro, he delivers a virtuoso patter aria, "Bin Akademiker".)
Margiana waits for Nureddin in the women's quarters of her father's house. He is proposing to marry her off to a rich friend, but when he leaves, Nureddin enters to woo Margiana. A traditional farcical plot then unfolds, with the barber breaking in, Nureddin hiding in a treasure chest and being carried away by servants, and a happy ending when the Caliph arrives and Nureddin is released and betrothed to Margiana.

Recordings
1939: Leonhardt – Eipperle/Waldenau/Osswald/Ludwig-W/Welitsch/Hann – Koch Schwann (live in Stuttgart)
1951: Keilberth – Schlemm/Roesler/Offermanns/Schock/Schmitt-Walter/Böhme – Gebhardt
1952: Hollreiser – Jurinac/Rössl-Majdan/Majkut/Schock/Poell/Frick – Melodram (live in Vienna, mono)
1956: Leinsdorf – Schwarzkopf/Hoffmann/Unger/Gedda/Prey/Czerwenka – EMI
1957: Matzerath -  Helmut Krebs, Benno Kusche, Anneliese Rothenberger, Josef Greindl, Richard Holm & Gisela Litz - Walhall Eternity Series
1973: Hollreiser – Geszty/Schmidt-T/Unger/Kraus-Ad/Weikl/Ridderbusch, Bavarian Radio Chorus and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Eurodisc (live in Munich), Preiser Records, CD Cat: MONO 20035 2CD
1974: Leitner – Donath/Schiml/Peter/Laubenthal/Duesing/Sotin; Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester und Chor – Profil, CD Cat: PH08037

References
Notes

Sources
Holden, Amanda (ed), The Penguin Opera Guide, London: Penguin Books, 1995,
Information from answers.com
Extensive synopsis at the Music encyclopedia website
Pines, Roger, The Opera Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2004, pp. 141–143 (available at the Project Muse website (subscription required)

German-language operas
Romantische Opern
Operas
1858 operas
Operas by Peter Cornelius
Music based on One Thousand and One Nights
Operas set in the Middle East

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Caedwalla, an Anglo-Saxon King, signed a charter in 688 CE granting certain lands in Farnham to found a 'Monasterium'. In 803 the land was passed to the Bishop of Winchester. Little is known of the early period but the monks at Waverley Abbey mentioned the existence of a castle at Farnham in 1128.
Waverley Abbey, Farnham
The start of Farnham Castle's story
The importance of the Castle to the Bishops of Winchester
The Castle as we see it today
The Bishop's Palace
The English Civil War and the Restoration of the Monarchy
Georgian and Victorian influences
Farnham Castle - the later years
The Castle also played its part in the second World War, set up by the War Office as a Camouflage Development and Training Centre. Early students included notable figures from the world of art, architecture and stage design, as well as regular army officers.
The diocese of Winchester was regarded as one of the wealthiest in Europe and early Bishops wielded immense power. Nine Bishops of Winchester were Chancellors of England and three were also Papal Legates, giving them a status above that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The castle has benefitted greatly from its proximity to London and the Channel ports. The journey to London was a frequent one for Bishops whose diocese, for most of its time, stretched to Southwark. Being practically midway between the capital and Winchester, the Castle provided a convenient stopover.
The vast, dense forests nearby offered good hunting for red and fallow deer, as well as wild boar, giving Bishops the opportunity to entertain sport-loving Kings and Queens across the centuries. Multiple visits have been recorded for many monarchs from King John to Charles II. Queen Mary Tudor stayed more than two weeks at Farnham Castle before her marriage to Philip of Spain at Winchester on July 25th 1554.
Queen Elizabeth I made at least six visits, including possibly one for the summer of 1583. And James I leased the whole castlefrom Bishop Bilson from 1608 to 1616 as a hunting lodge.
The Castle buildings today can be divided into two main elements, the round Keep and the Bishop's Palace, laid out in the form of a traditional 'motte and bailey' structure.
Excavations in the c20th showed that a 3 or 4-storey tower formed the original Keep, built from ground level with earth being piled up around its base. 1138 is generally accepted as the date for the beginning of the tower's construction, instigated by Bishop Henry de Blois, grandson of William the Conquerer and brother of King Stephen. This tower was demolished in the reign of Henry II, not long after it was built, but its remaining foundations and well have been preserved for the benefit of visitors.
The current impressive ring wall or 'shell keep' was probably erected at the end of the c12th. The gatehouse with its drawbridge retains evidence of a portcullis and 'murder hole' or meurtrière. Some original elements of the Keep's towers and structure were modified in c17th to form platforms suitable for mounting cannon.
The Palace is a much larger and complex structure. The original Great Hall was constructed in the late c12th - an aisled room, with two rows of oak posts runningdown its length supporting a beamed roof.
Also probably dating from the c11th-c12th are a Norman Chapel and medieval Kitchen. The chapel has a barrel vault roof, round headed windows and door arches of Romanesque style. There are also pointed, Transitional arches added in the c13th, one of which is blocked by a half-timbered Tudor Lodging Range.
Probably built just after the Chapel and Kitchen was the Bishop's Camera or private room. Built above ground level, it offered storage and stabling space below.
The main, brick entrance tower leading to the Great Hall can be dated to 1470-75, commissioned by Bishop Waynflete. An additional tower was added to the entrance by Bishop Fox in the early c16th. Adjacent to the entrance tower remain traces of a further chapel, which has long since been demolished.
The Great Hall was made far grander than its lower and longer c12th predecessor. It now included a Minstrel's Gallery, raised flat ceiling with upper gallery or walkway, and a large fireplace with oak fire surround. An imposing staircase was added which leads to the Bishop's private accommodation and a new Bishop's Chapel. The entrance doors to the chapel include several double-sided sun carvings said to have been given to Morley by Louis XIV, the 'Sun King'. Many decorative oak carvings in the style of the school of Grinling Gibbons are found throughout Morley's additions.
During the c18th and c19th a number of small but important changes and additions were made to the Palace. Revisions were made to both the layout and stained-glass window in Bishop Morley's Chapel. A new fire surround and bay window were added to the Bishop's Camera.
And in the Great Hall three new stained-glass windows were added to depict the coats of arms of nine Bishops who were also Chancellors of England, including two, before the Reformation, who were also Papal Cardinals.
Prior to the war the diocese of Winchester was divided and Farnham became part of the new diocese of Guildford, remaining the residence of the Bishop of Guildford until 1955.
Originally held by Parliamentary forces, Farnham Castle was attacked and taken by Royalists before being retaken by the Parliamentarians under Colonel Sir William Waller. From their base in Farnham Parliamentary forces won back Alton and Arundel in 1643 and were successful at the turning-point battle at Cheriton in 1644.
At the end of the war the Palace was in bad repair, suffering from use as a barracks, a gunpowder store and as a holding place for prisoners of war. The restitution of the monarchy in 1660 meant the return of the Bishops to Winchester and the arrival of one of the most significant figures in the Castle's history, Bishop George Morley (1662-1684), who set about its repair and reconstruction.
Women hunting - not just a sport for men
George Morley's coat of arms, Farnham Castle chapel
Morley chapel doors
Part of Great Hall
Output from the WW2 Camouflage Development and Training Centre at Farnham Castle: Dummy tank and camouflage posters
Find out more about the bishops >>
Farnham Castle Trustees are responsible to the Church Commissioners for ensuring that the fabric of the Castle is maintained to the highest standard and safeguarded for the benefit of future generations. It is also responsible for ensuring public access and for promoting knowledge and interest in the Castle and Bishop's Palace.
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Thank you to Infinity Jars for the samples. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
You can use the bottles for liquids including cooking oil to topical ointment oils or even balsamic vinegar. The jars are perfect for preserving things around the house including trail mix, expensive seasoning herbs, teas, flour, and cosmetics. The smaller bottles are great for facial serums, toners, essential oil blends, and DIY perfume.
The Infinity Jars can be used for many purposes. I decided to use them in the kitchen since my husband and I cook and bake frequently.
The tall bottle I decided to use for olive oil. I love the slow pour spout. It is so much better than the clear bottle and spout I had previously.
I put some basil in the tall jar. We don't use it regularly, but I like to every once in awhile. The jar kept it fresh longer than I usually can otherwise and I was able to use it in a few recipes.
I am going to try a DIY perfume for the smaller bottle. I've never done it before, but having these jars is motivating me to try something new.
The jars are very inexpensive for the quality of storage they provide. The screw top jar is on sale for $20, the glass bottle with the oil spout is on sale for $15, and the fine mist spray bottle is on sale for $15.
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I Would love to make my own essential oils and store them in the essential oil bottles.
750-ml-square-glass-bottle-with-oil-spout is such a great bottle love one for my kitchen oils.
The 250 mL Square Glass Bottle with Oil Spout for making/holding salad dressings.
I would get some Glass Pipette Dropper Bottle and Fine Mist Spray Bottle.
I would get a couple of the 100 mL Glass Push Pump Bottles.
I'd love to get a screw-top jar to store homemade toothpaste in, and I'd also love to pick up one or two roller bottles for essential oil blends!
Definitely the fine mist spray bottle!
I would get several different sizes of the spray bottles.
I'd get some spray bottles!


Doylestown, Pennsylvania: Police in Pennsylvania say Matthew Aimers, a groom forced himself on a teenage waitress at his wedding reception and then was taken from the hall in handcuffs over a drunken brawl.
When officers arrived, they found Aimers "pushing and punching people," according to an affidavit filed in that case. A country club employee told the officers the groom had punched him after he tried to stop him from bringing alcohol outside.


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Greylock? You know. For Grimpeurs.
Last Saturday I enjoyed what has got to be the ride of the year.
The Mount Greylock Century. An event that despite being around since the 1970's, is one of New England cycling's best kept secrets.
I say that because on almost any level you want to rate this low key open participation ride, Greylock and the surrounding Berkshires deliver the kind of experience true road cycling affiiciandos long for through long northeast winters spent riding a windtrainer watching video of Alpine Tour stages.
Big long climbs? Check, give or take, it's got 10,000 feet of climbing. Fast sweeping descents? Arguably the two of the longest, most exciting, and fun descents in Massachusetts. Quiet traffic-free roads? You betcha, almost the entire route seems blissfully car-free. Feed support? Four well stocked stops that merge into the meal zone. The T-Shirt? A classic Tour-eque stage profile you'll wear...instead of becoming drawer-filler like most event tees.


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Q: How to send data to php file api using http post with same key but multiple value? I want to send multiple value with same key from flutter/dart to php api using http POST. But i dont know how to do that. I have been searching for the past few days but still can't find the answer. What is in my mind is something like this:
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A: You can pass these ids to the PHP page using ajax call where your id needed to perform query operations.
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A: Finally i can figure it out. Idk if it's the best solution or not, but for me it works. I just need to loop the http.post like this:
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Do prices go down or up on release day?
Does the birth date do anything??
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How different is 4-3-3 to 4-3-2-1?
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The first of two big problems of the day. I climbed very nervously and long hesitated in wet section with pushing up my left foot . Then I fell immeditely I grabbed the resting jug because my right foot slipped. The second attemp was much better. I did not hesitate in wet section, very well mentally focused I dried hands in jug go on to crux. Crimp like side-pull, very bad intermediate and small dyno to good hold. But fall is coming. NO!!! Whole situation is not very positive. 9:20 AM, weird clouds on the sky and I still had not done even the first pitch.
Adam Ondra writes about his ascent of WoGü.
Very exciting to read. Adam is such an amazing climber!


WARNING: No Pioneers Found in This Installment.
A couple of posts ago I discussed how the Providence Sauerkraut Dinner did, or did not, help to create a sense of community. I think we often use food as a vehicle for creating community. At the Episcopal church in Ogden, they use coffee before the service to do this, and then of course the service itself with the wafer and the wine is designed to bind the community together (with a communal cup).
Last night was Halloween. Last year for Halloween we took the kids trick or treating. Some in the neighborhood wanted to do the "Trunk or Treat" at the church. Both were employed last year, and the neighborhood swarmed with ghosts and gremlins. This year, it seems the emphasis was placed on the Trunk or Treat. Very few ghosts or gremlins were to be found out and about. At the Trunk or Treat, food (sweets) are dished out in large quantities, in the most efficient manner, but there is no social interaction.
We seem to be seeing a shift in how we organize our social spaces and interactions. It seems we don't visit each other like we once did. The home is being fortified more and more as a private space which excludes neighbors and passing strangers. We seem to prefer congregating in a common public place, then retreating to the safety of our homes, instead of welcoming friends into our homes.
This is a little disturbing to me.
Agreed. Do you think technology is to blame? One of my friends recently wrote a status update on facebook that read, "does anyone have 1 cup of pumpkin I can use?" Instead of calling around, she used facebook to communicate her need for 1 cup of pumpkin. It's interesting. I find myself doing similar things. I would rather use email than talk to someone on the phone. Also, it is through my blog I interact with my friends...rarely in person do we talk and share our stories. It's kind of sad if you think about it.
Yes, I do think technology has a lot to do with it. As an example, back in the day (say, Utah 1850s) people would come together for threshing wheat or shucking corn. But after threshing machines came into use, there was no need for a coming together. Combine harvesters worsened the problem.
Same thing with computers. The idea was that computers would allows us to work more effectively and efficiently, saving so much time. But what do we do with that time? We surf blogs. Instead of using time savings to make our relationships more meaningful, we use the time savings in ways that isolate us even further.
Mr. Wonderful and I have talked about this very thing. We came up with our own small solution: Once a month we host dinner at our house. Sometimes it is with just three other couples (our formal dining seats 8), sometimes it is up to 8 couples. If the guests offer to bring something, I am thrilled. Each time it is with different people, either in our ward or those around our neighborhood. It certainly has been a way to get to know people.
Our other attempt at getting to know our neighbors better is to have an open house to watch BYU or our local university football team play. We've had from just one family to an insane houseful of rabid fans.
Has it been convenient? Absolutely not. But we have gotten to know our neighbors better.
There's this thing some people do called "soup night" where someone hosts a dinner, and the entree is soup. All sorts of people are invited, none having a common connection. People bring whatever they want to contribute by way of drinks, bread, etc. and the host makes a big pot of soup. Eventually the group turns into an organic entity of its own. I'd like to try this.
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Project Hololens' chief inventor, Alex Kipman, is representative of the Microsoft that Nadella is trying to build. Although his official title is technical fellow with the Operating Systems Group, he works collaboratively across disciplines. Nadella appreciates his versatility. "Alex is pretty crazy in the sense that he's not like your classic engineering guy," he says, drawing a distinction between the predictability of typical engineers and the imaginative quality of their researcher counterparts. "He sort of thinks of engineering as a research project."
Kipman, who was born in Brazil, started young. His parents had to replace his Atari 2600 twice because he kept breaking it to figure out how it worked. He landed at Microsoft after graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology, and by the end of 2007 he'd dreamed up Kinect, the motion-sensing accessory for the Xbox. "When I pitched Kinect to the company, it wasn't Kinect. It was this vision," he tells WIRED, holding up an early prototype for Project HoloLens. "Kinect was the first step."
Kipman fervently believes Project HoloLens will be to this phase of computing what the PC was to the last: the latchkey to a completely transformed world. In this new reality, sensors will be everywhere, producing copious amounts of data, providing a layer of ambient intelligence coating every physical object. Project HoloLens and its counterparts will offer a visual computing platform controlled by speech and gesture that is so intuitive it fades into the background. "So you and I can do what we're put on Earth to do: interact with other humans, environments or objects," Kipman says. "With technology helping us do that more, better, faster, and cheaper."
Project HoloLens is built, fittingly enough, around a set of holographic lenses. Each lens has three layers of glass -- in blue, green and red -- full of micro-thin corrugated grooves that diffract light. There are multiple cameras at the front and sides of the device that do everything from head tracking to video capture. And it can see far and wide: the field of view spans 120 degrees x 120 degrees, significantly bigger than that of the Kinect camera. A "light engine" above the lenses projects light into the glasses, where it hits the grating and then volleys between the layers of glass millions of times. That process, along with input from the device's myriad sensors, tricks the eye into perceiving the image as existing in the world beyond the lenses.
The device has just three controls: one to adjust volume; another to adjust the contrast of the hologram; and a power switch.
Its speakers rest just above your ears. Project HoloLens can determine the direction from which a sound originates, so that when you hear something, it'll appear to be coming from where it would be in real life. If a truck is meant to be speeding by your left side, for example, that's where you'll hear the sound of its engine. By the time Project HoloLens comes to market toward the end of this year, it'll weigh about 400 grams, or about the same as a high-end bike helmet. Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 10, powers it, so any developer can program for it.
Nasa has already gotten an early crack at it. As the mission operations innovation lead at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jeff Norris is charged with rethinking how we explore space, with a focus on the interface between humans and technology.
He met Kipman nearly five years ago when he was creating Kinect. In Project HoloLens, Norris saw the potential for technology to help space explorers collaborate more closely and to provide them with a quality known as presence. ("People make better decisions when they feel like they're in the environment," he says.) Last March, Norris and several members of his team relocated from Southern California to Redmond for a few months to build a Mars simulation.
Kipman offers a test drive. WIRED slips on the headset and is transported to the parched, dusty surface of the Red Planet. Behind me, the Curiosity rover towers two metres tall, its cameras recording the terrain. The illusion is leg-quiveringly realistic, unsure what to make of the disparate information. Norris appears in the Mars-scape, represented as a 3D golden human-shaped blob. A dotted line extends from his eyes toward what he's looking at. "Check that out," he says, and we squat down to see a rock shard up close. Project HoloLens allows users to work on a desktop computer while in the demo, something you can't do in the Rift's virtual world. It also makes it possible to pin holographic flags on the virtual scenario, and someday this will be able to set in motion real-world actions. An upward right-hand gesture brings up a series of controls; choosing the middle of three options drops a flag.
When scientists do this, the command could theoretically be transmitted to the actual rover so that the task can be accomplished in real life, on Mars.
The simulation is so effective that Nasa plans to deploy it on a mission by this summer. But this is just one example of Project HoloLens' capabilities. The real opportunity for the platform will come from developers committing resources and imagination to it.
Nasa has already signed on as a launch partner; others will likely follow. But for Project HoloLens to succeed -- and for Microsoft to succeed -- it has to build platforms that developers want to build software for, as it did with Windows for PCs in the 90s, and as it failed to do with Windows for phones earlier in this decade.
Two-and-a-half months before Microsoft made its Project HoloLens announcement, Nadella is in London to address European customers and developers at an event called Future Decoded. This is the type of audience he'll have to win over if Project HoloLens and future innovations are to succeed. A swing band performed outside an exhibit hall full of Microsoft demos. More than a thousand people crowded into the nearby auditorium for Nadella's appearance, which was advertised as an "intimate, interactive conversation" with a Microsoft UK executive whose title was "chief envisioning officer".
The duo promised to cover "how Microsoft is creating the next generation of technology innovation". For all of its promise, the conversation underwhelmed. Nadella kept it to just 15 minutes. His interview was long on catchphrases ("reinventing productivity" and "mobile first, cloud first") and short on the how. As he exited the stage, a local reporter remarked on his brevity in a tweet: "Whoa!
He's gone!" Of course, the point wasn't to say anything new; it was to show face, reinforce Microsoft's message and rebrand the company and its culture as approachable and forward-thinking.
Since being named CEO, he's kept up a hefty speaking schedule and met with small groups of journalists over dinner to amplify his efforts. He has relied on board chair John Thompson, who ran securities company Symantec for years and is now CEO of the software company Virtual Instruments, to make introductions for him up and down Silicon Valley's Highway 101. He has spent time meeting with startup founders such as Ryan Smith, who runs Utah-based survey software company Qualtrics and who presented to Nadella at the invitation of venture firm Accel. Nadella asked Smith a half-dozen questions, quickly picking up on where Smith placed his strongest engineering talent. Smith was impressed. It was his first time meeting with anyone in Redmond. "Historically, companies have struggled a little bit on how to work with Microsoft," Smith says. "I mean, where do you start?" The meeting shifted his impression of the company. "This guy's different," he says of Nadella. "He's humble."
Salesforce will be integrated with Office, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business on Android and iOS. A Salesforce app for Outlook will also become available and Salesforce apps for Windows phones and Excel will follow. Says Benioff: "Before, we just were not able to partner with Microsoft. Satya has opened a door that was closed. And locked. And barricaded."
The new, warm and fuzzy, more collaborative Microsoft has even embraced open source software, the collective multi-authored approach to writing code that Ballmer once referred to as a cancer.
In November, Microsoft opened up its entire .NET framework, its programming infrastructure for building and running applications and services.
This new attitude won't necessarily make developers excited about Project HoloLens. But there is optimism in the air. Soon after Microsoft announced that .NET would be open source, Box CEO Aaron Levie summed up the response in a pithy tweet: "Sometimes it feels like Satya is in one of those 80s teen movies when the parents go out of town. And it's great."
As mind-blowing as a holographic tutorial is, or even the virtual surface of Mars, Project HoloLens' first killer app is likely to be the popular video game Minecraft, which Microsoft acquired in September. For a generation of children, Minecraft has become the digital equivalent of LEGO, a highly collaborative form of play. Soon, imaginative kids might be able to play in 3D, working alongside holograms of their real- life friends to build things together.
The promise of a product such as this is central to helping Project HoloLens take off. As Terry Myerson, who runs Windows, says, "If you want to play holographic Minecraft, the only place to do it is going to be on this." And you don't have to be an early-adopting Glasshole to want in on holographic Minecraft.
But you will probably have to wait a little while. Microsoft is being very deliberate in how it rolls out Project HoloLens. First, Nadella plans to spark the public imagination by introducing the device to folks it calls "makers" -- the people who attend TED conferences and lined up to buy Google Glass -- and the oh-so-critical developers. Microsoft plans to distribute lots of development kits this year. Next up will be the commercial partners. Finally, once the platform has critical mass, Microsoft will make it available to everyone, including the Minecraft-obsessed.
The slow roll-out is because -- in another sign of an attitude shift -- Nadella says he wants to see how people react to Project HoloLens and adjust the product accordingly. In 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he resisted apps, preferring his customers to access the web through their Safari browsers. But after that approach tanked, in 2008 he released a software development kit and launched the App Store. In similar fashion, Nadella has defined a strategy for Project HoloLens but says its path will ultimately be determined by the behaviours and preferences of its developers and users.
Companies large and small are pushing to invent the next computing interface -- a canvas so critical it will be to smartphones what smartphones were to desktop computers. Facebook has Oculus. Google has Glass. And in Dania Beach, Florida, a stealth startup called Magic Leap has banked $542 million (£360m) in its latest round of funding to develop something allegedly smarter than all of them. The ones that prevail will do so because developers and customers buy into the dream, sinking time and money into their platforms and causing innovation to flourish.
It will take a while for any of these competitors to succeed, and Kipman suggests that if users and developers take Project HoloLens in another direction, or don't take to it at all, Microsoft will be OK. The real beneficiaries of Project HoloLens will be Windows 10; its cloud-computing product, Azure; and its suite of software products, Office 365. They'll continue to improve even if Project HoloLens doesn't. What's far more important is that more people find more ways to use them and, as the next new technology platform emerges -- whether it's Project HoloLens or not -- Microsoft gets there early.
Just when will the next computing interface take hold? Nadella is not one to predict the future. "What is that quote? I forget now who said this," he says. "You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in ten years."
WIRED looks up the quote. He got the gist of it right. Who said it? Bill Gates.


Spectators have been left horrified by a brutal incident that knocked out a Russian ice hockey player before he even hit the ice.
Ruslan Iskhakov was playing for the University of Connecticut in a match against Quinnipiac when the terrifying scenes unfolded.
The 18-year-old was skating at full speed when he turned sharply and hurtled towards the centre of the ice.
However, the young Russian's change of direction took him straight into the shoulder of an opposition defender, who was braced for the contact.
Iskhakov tried to avoid the bone-rattling collision but his last-second attempt proved in vain as his head clattered into his rival's shoulder.
Replays of the incident suggested that Iskhakov was already knocked out before he suffered another vicious blow when his helmet smashed into the ice.
Onlookers were genuinely concerned for the player's welfare as he was stretchered off the ice and taken to hospital.
Absolutely terrifying moment during the UConn-Quinnipiac game as 6-1 Brogan Rafferty hit 5-7 Ruslan Iskhakov (NYI 2nd rd pick) in open ice…out cold before he even hit the ice.
Good news: he was moving all extremities and talking as he was stretchered off.
Iskhakov's college, UConn, provided an update on the teenager's condition afterwards.
"Ruslan Iskhakov was transported to the hospital from the arena during last night's game at Quinnipiac for precautionary reasons," said the school's statement released to a UConn blog.
The youngster – who decided to stay and finish college after being drafted by the New York Islanders – is regarded as a hot future prospect in the NHL.


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Q: How to check if the length of an array from api call has changed? How Can I check if the length of the array returned after an api refresh call is longer / shorter than the previous value?
for example
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previousLength;

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   this.data = data;
   this.currentLength = this.data.length;
   // provide check to see if currentLength is different to previousLength

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this.dataService.getUpdatedData().subscribe();

}

A: if (this.previousLength !== this.currentLength) {
     // Your code

    this.previousLength = this.currentLength;
}

On component init, previousLength will be undefined so condition will be true
And in that condition only we are assigning previousLength
So the next time condition will work as per your requirement


resume: The Jesuit Relations are the collection of correspondence between the missionaries of the Society of Jesus sent to New France, and their religious superiors in Paris. The first were written in 1616, here is the one of 1641 and 1642.
resume: First of a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Second in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Third of a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Fourth in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Fifth in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Sixth in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Seventh in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Eighth in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.
resume: Ninth in a series of 21 volumes published between 1918 and 1923, studies on historical facts and at the same time genealogical, written by Benjamin Sulte and compiled by Gérard Malchelosse.


Domestic violence charges can be defined as crimes against a person, property, or animal when used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge. While many believe that domestic violence is limited to physical abuse or harassment, some other instances that are defined as domestic violence charges in the eyes of the law. For instance, if a man finds out that his live-in girlfriend is cheating on him and destroys her laptop as a form of revenge while she is at work, this is a form of domestic violence according to Colorado law.
Being charged with domestic violence in the State of Colorado is not a pleasant experience. Not just because no one likes to argue or fight with someone they once had an intimate relationship with, but dealing with the consequences that follow once an officer of the law is called to a person's home. When an officer is called on a domestic violence situation, chances are strong that someone will be arrested and jailed. Most cases that go before a judge are misdemeanor charges.
Not all domestic violence charges are misdemeanors and can be elevated to felony charges. If this is the position you find yourself in, do not hesitate to contact legal counsel. Musell Law is well-versed in defending domestic violence charges and is ready to assist you. Contact us today.
This program is a legal process where someone charged with misdemeanor domestic violence charges will appear in court and quickly plead guilty. The accuser is also given a subpoena to Appear in court on the same day that the accused goes before a judge. When a defendant pleads guilty under the Fast Track Program, they are waiving their right to seek legal counsel, who may be able to analyze the case and restore their client's rights.
After the accused has been jailed on domestic violence charges, they must go before a judge before a bond can be set. Because prosecutors and judges like to push these cases through quickly, prosecutors encourage defendants to accept a plea deal before a defendant's case is reviewed by a criminal defense attorney.
This also means that a defendant may end up with a domestic violence conviction for the rest of their lives. In most cases, the Domestic Violence Fast Track Program plea deals don't allow for a defendant to seal their record after successfully completing the Fast Track Program. Additionally, the court will order supervised probation with mandatory domestic violence classes. However, depending on the case, the judge may also restrict a defendant's the time with their children, and prohibit the right to own firearms.
A domestic violence conviction could impact your ability to obtain the job that you want and your ability to posses a firearm. Most domestic violence convictions cannot be sealed and will always show up on your criminal record.
Musell Law receives numerous calls from people who are having trouble obtaining a good job because they either accepted a quick plea offer that came with a conviction or did not hire an experienced domestic violence criminal defense attorney.


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Capitan ist ein frankobelgischer Comic.

Liliane und Fred Funcken schrieben und zeichneten die zur Zeit der Musketiere spielende Abenteuerserie. Die Texte der Kurzgeschichten stammten von Jacques Acar und Yves Duval.

Es entstanden acht Fortsetzungs- und vier Kurzgeschichten, die in der belgischen und französischen Ausgabe von Tintin sowie in der flämischen Version Kuifje erschienen. Der Titelheld zierte dabei mehrmals die Titelseite. Betrug die Seitenzahl der ersten fünf albenlangen Geschichten zunächst 30 Seiten, erhöhte sie sich für die letzten drei Folgen auf 44 Seiten. Daneben wurden noch vier Kurzgeschichten im Taschenbuch Tintin Sélection veröffentlicht. Lombard gab die Alben in der Reihe Jeune Europe und Une histoire du Journal Tintin heraus. Zu weiteren Veröffentlichungen kam es 1980 durch Bédéscope sowie 1986 und 1987 bei Récréabull.

Handlung
Capitan de Castaignac und sein Diener Larose verteidigen als Geheimagenten die Interessen Frankreichs gegen fremde Spione.

Albenlange Geschichten
 En garde, Capitan (1963)
 Capitan contre les conspirateurs (1964)
 Capitan défie d'Artagnan (1964)
 Capitan et le masque de cuir (1965)
 Capitan et l'agent secret (1965–1966)
 Capitan et le coffret d'ébène (1966)
 Mission spéciale (1966–1967)
 Capitan et le prince des ténèbres (1970)

Einzelnachweise

Frankobelgischer Comic (Werk)
Frankobelgische Comicfigur


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It is not about the beginning of music. That's the music history. It is about those who still hesitate at the door step, whether to enter the music world as a beginner. MusicBeginnings.com is a brand new blog that convinces people to learn to play music. Operated by the father-son team of Newell and Sam Hardy, they posted the first welcoming article on 18th May 2007. MusicBeginnings.com is our little brother on the Internet 🙂 Pianologist.com was built on March 2007. This made us two months older.
The father Newell is a multi-talented musician who play guitar, the piano, harmonica, steel guitar and a few others musical instrument. Meanwhile Sam works in the tech world and pretty much maintains the website.
minor chords. These types of subjects are considered music theory.
There is no easier way to learn music theory than to study piano.
There are only 9 posts there at the point of writing, including the review of Pianologist.com. I wish that Newell will write more often, at least 3-5 post a week.


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One of the interesting and pleasant excursions around Sweet Stay Forest House is a circular path past several fortifications from the mid-20th century, along the Rupnik line. The trip is easy and also suitable for families with young children. The path is marked and leads us past many learning tables, bunkers – which can also be viewed inside. Energy points are also found along the way, which have a beneficial effect on many internal organs (heart, lungs, thyroid, uterus, ovaries, intestines, bile, and others). The high difference on the way is 138 m. The round trip is 3 km long and will take from 1h 20 min to 2 h (depending on how detailed you read the boards). The visit is suitable in all seasons.
The Western line of defence, called the Rupnik line, was built by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in response to the Alpine Wall, which the Kingdom of Italy built right along the Rapal border, obtained by the 1920 peace agreement. The line of defence was named after Leon Rupnik, the general who led the construction work. The works took place between 1937 and 1941, with 60,000 soldiers and civilians working on it at its peak. The entire line ran from Jalovec over Blegoš, Žirovski Vrh, Logatec and onwards to Rijeka, and more than 100 bunkers were built.
This area had great military significance also during the Roman era, as the path leads us past the remains of the Roman Defence Wall, named Claustre Alpium Iuliarum. The time of its creation dates back to the second half of the 3rd century. Despite the roughly 1,500-year time difference, the two lines of defence are strikingly similar after an unimaginably large amount of time, resources and effort by people to build them. Interestingly, the Roman Wall is supposed to defend the "Italians" from the "eastern people", while the Rupnik line is supposed to defend the "eastern people" from the Italians. Both defensive lines also had a similar ending. Although the Romans managed to build the barrier, it never served its purpose, and the construction of the Rupnik line was interrupted by World War II.
Napoleon's Fountain
At the end of the road, we also pass Napoleon's Fountain. According to the local people, it was built for the needs of French soldiers, who later occupy Ljubljana. Until the construction of the water supply, it was the only source of drinking water in the area, as it never drys.
The starting point of the route is at the restaurant Mesec, Jerinov hill 44, Vrhnika. We should go across the parking lot of the Restaurant Mesec and climb the short stairs behind the decorative fountain onto the road. Here we go left. The roads are held up for a few tens of metres when we notice the green signpost for the Rupnik line, which leads us left to the footpath. We walk along the right edge of the meadow, where we can see the remains of the Roman Defence Wall. The path leads us to a large learning board, the bench and the first healing energy point. This is where the path turns left and leads us into the forest. Hereafter the path is completely laid down and leads us to the next learning board next to the remains of the bunker, which was demolished by the Italian army at the beginning of the occupation. After a short ridge part, we descend down to the right onto the gravel road, or so-called "military route". We stick to it all the way, and it brings us to the pasture with the view, where the next bunker is located at the edge of the forest. Nearby are benches, a viewing pad and three healing energy points. This is where the view of Javornik, Snežnik, Slivnica, Ljubljanski vrh and other peaks opens. At the edge of the forest, we descend to the pasture, where we continue straight into the forest. Here we come across the next learning board, the two well-preserved bunkers and an energy point. The path leads us past the left bunker downwards. After a short descent, the signpost directs us to the right, to the next learning board and a bunker. From here we continue to the right through the forest. The path descends and quickly leads us to the crossroads, where the markation shows right, while our path leads to the left and downwards. In a few minutes, we descend to the paved road, from which we return to the starting point.
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If you have already tasted the planned peace, greenery, and want to be among the people again, visit the longest tourist cave in Slovenia – the Postojna Cave. You will certainly not be alone and in silence there, as more than 39 million people have visited it so far.
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