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Great Blog Spencer… I get in trouble all the time when I tell people that the best way not to be obese is to STOP EATING! I hear, "Some people can't help it". I say that is BS. I;m telling you, every time i see an Obese person driving in their car, they are either eating, or drinking a large soda, (probably diet). Diet soda, what a joke….. It's like one time in band camp…..hahaha One time I went on a diet and decided to eat salads for lunch. I ate salads for a month and didn't lose much weight al all. Then I realized I was eating, probably a pound of salad with rasins, shrimp, ham… hahahahaha I quit eating sandwitches and ended up eating MORE in salad. hahahahaha In order for me to lose weight. Cut my portion sizes, stoped eating once i felt full, quit drinking sodas, and walked every day. WoW, don't eat as much, who would-a thunk. hahahah Take Care Spencer. Glenn From Sacramento
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Nanny Bloomberg to Target Movie Popcorn Next?? TOLD YOU SO.
I must be in better health than I thought to be able to sustain all the moronic and maddening stories I come across during my hours of radio show prep everyday.
Someone in lesser health probably would have had a stroke by now. Honestly. Some days I wonder how I do it.
The only aggravating part of my job is being so hyper-aware of all the stupidity plaguing our nation and world. There's more out there than an average "digester" of the news can imagine.
We recently talked about and debated the whole Food Fascism coming out of the Nanny Bloomberg Administration in New York City.
He recently proposed a BAN on sodas larger than 16 ounces in most establishments, including restaurants, fast food, sporting arenas, and movie theaters.
I predicted on the air and in my blog that they would not stop there. Food Fascism knows no end.
And I was unfortunately right.
Am I psychic? I think we all are to an extent.
But no. That's not how I saw this next move coming. It's just because I am a student of history and I know how out of control governments develop, grow, and ultimately take over a people. History has given us, sadly, many examples to learn from.
Now Nanny Bloomberg's Food Fascist Panel as I have dubbed them are looking beyond the size of your soft drink.
They think it might be a good idea to also limit the size of the popcorn you enjoy at the MOVIES!!
People laughed at me when I said movie popcorn would be next.
I laughed at them right back because of their naivety of what government power grabs look like.
So now, in the nation formerly known as The Land of the Free, free citizens will be told how big their soda can be. How much movie popcorn they can and cannot have.
All in the name of a FUTILE FIGHT against obesity.
I am the only one I know of who has coined it like this: More SELF CONTROL, not GOVERNMENT CONTROL. More WILL POWER, not GOVERNMENT POWER.
It's true.
Why hasn't government, after spending TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS over the span of generations, STILL not solved the poverty problem? Why after trillions of dollars dumped are we MORE dependent on government than EVER??
Because poverty is a malady of the mind. Certainly in nations like ours where warlords don't starve the people by destroying their crops or confiscating their property.
Other people in other lands may have an excuse to be "poor" but we don't.
A person with ten cents in their pocket with enough determination can become a multi-millionaire. Not true in most nations on earth.
Obesity is another problem, like poverty, that the government will NEVER, EVER be able to solve.
Because it's a personal choice for 95% of people.
Yep. I said it. It's a CHOICE just as much as being ripped and in amazing shape is a CHOICE.
It's a BAD choice, but a choice nonetheless.
People don't HAVE to eat thousands of calories more than they should. But they do.
People don't HAVE to keep buying bigger clothes sizes. But they do.
I challenge people to tell me how it ISN'T a choice! You choose it a hundred times a day by the foods you eat or don't eat, by the stairs you climb or don't climb, by parking your car in front of the store or a block away, by making the gym a priority or not, but walking around your neighborhood or sitting home and watching TV instead.
The THOUSANDS of choices we make every week determine how smart or dumb we are. How successful we are or not. How abundant or lacking we are. And yes, how fat or fit we are.
This is why government will NEVER solve the obesity problem.
It is a problem that stems from the INDIVIDUAL and the choices they make.
And until that individual decides to change their lives for themselves, no amount of government involvement, small or fascist, will help them lose an ounce.
I think the government knows full well it can't solve poverty or obesity or heck, most of the problems it tries to tackle.
It knows it can't. It knows it's track record is riddled with failure.
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true! very TRUE! On this i can afford to be PRO-CHOICE !!!
Now this is just plain overkill. Why pick on the food when it's the attitudes of the people that need changing. If this pushes through, I'm getting my hands on some popcorn popper machines and watching movies from home.


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by Matt Goldberg Posted: April 14th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Theater owners are none-too-pleased about the decision from Warner Bros., Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Universal to launch a premium VOD service this month. Exhibitors believe that the service, which will rent movies for thirty dollars 60 days after the film has hit theaters, will significantly cut into theater revenues. Earlier this month, we learned that Regal Cinemas was making the convincing threat to cut trailers and pull posters for the four studios' big summer movies. It was a proportional response designed to let the studios know that the theaters were finally going to fight back–not in anyway that actually benefits the average moviegoer–but in a way that would let the studios know that theaters weren't going to take this potential revenue cut lying down.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 01:38 p.m.SPORTS values will take center stage in the opening program of the 89th season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, dropping the usual practice of beaming milestones of host schools.
"We want to highlight the values that uphold NCAA, the human spirit. If you talk about athletics, it's all about perseverance, fair play, and endurance," said Hector Gloria, Season 89 media relations head from host College of St. Benilde.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 01:35 p.m.CELEBRITY wellness doctor Joel Mendez will suffer a jail term of two to four years after the Court of Tax Appeals affirmed his conviction for tax evasion.
CTA said Mendez did not file his income tax returns in 2001 and 2002 and underdeclared his income in 2003.
Power firm in Cagayan de Oro robbed
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 12:55 p.m.CAGAYAN DE ORO (Updated, 12:48 p.m.) -- Eight armed men robbed Tuesday morning a branch of Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company (Cepalco) in Barangay Carmen here, carting away an estimated P100,000 from the tellers.
Paying customers were also divested with their belongings.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 11:51 a.m.MANILA (Updated, 11:51 a.m.) -- Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz ordered Tuesday the creation of an investigation team that will probe on the alleged "sex-for-fly" activities at the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (Polo) in Kuwait.
Baldoz issued Administrative Order No. 239, Series of 2013 for the creation of the probe team.
Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 12:46 a.m.BEIJING -- China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in central China's Changsha city is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second. That's the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second.
SC justice denies tantrums in international conference
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 07:31 p.m.SUPREME Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen rejected a newspaper report that he threw a fit and snubbed a conference in The Netherlands last month after he was mistakenly referred as magistrate of the Court of Appeals.
SC spokesperson Theodore Te, who was authorized by Leonen to respond to the matter, said the report was completely erroneous.
Floods kill 23 in northern India; dozens missing
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 05:56 p.m.LUCKNOW, India -- Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday.
More than a dozen people died in the state's Rudraprayag district alone, while another 50 people were missing, said Amit Negi, an official in Uttarakhand.
Ex-Batangas mayor, 2 others face murder raps over fiscal slay
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Charged by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group were former Sta. Teresita mayor Anna Marie Mendoza, her husband Hermogenes Mendoza, and Jayson Espejo Guerrero, Batangas police spokesperson Senior Inspector Joel Laraya said Monday.
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Professor Stephen Bainbridge wrote in Tech Central Station By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that governments may seize your business and even your home in order to facilitate private economic development schemes. It's well settled, of course, that the government can take your property in order to devote the land to some public purpose. The Binghamton campus of the State University of New York, for example, was built in part on land that the state took away from my family. In the case before the Supreme Court, however, the City of New London wanted to seize a neighborhood and turn the land over to a private developer who would then raze the homes and build a big industrial park.... The Economist explained the problem quite succinctly:"Put simply, cities cannot take someone's house just because they think they can make better use of it. Otherwise, argues Scott Bullock, Mrs Kelo's lawyer, you end up destroying private property rights altogether. For if the sole yardstick is economic benefit, any house can be replaced at any time by a business or shop (because they usually produce more tax revenues). Moreover, if city governments can seize private property by claiming a public benefit which they themselves determine, where do they stop? If they decide it is in the public interest to encourage locally-owned shops, what would prevent them compulsorily closing megastores, or vice versa? This is central planning."
Exactly. The government's takings power is a necessary evil that, if used broadly, can destroy the entire concept of private property rights. As Russell Kirk pointed out, doing so will have devastating affects on society:"[F]reedom and property are closely linked. Separate property from private possession, and Leviathan becomes master of all. Upon the foundation of private property, great civilizations are built. The more widespread is the possession of private property, the more stable and productive is a commonwealth."
.... One final thought: Reagan appointee Kennedy and Bush 41 appointee Souter voted with the majority, proving once again just how essential it is that Bush 43 pick somebody reliably -- and permanently -- conservative when there's an opening.
Steve Bainbridge blogged My TCS column on yesterday's Kelo decision is up
Glenn Reynolds blogged I'm still getting a lot of angry email, and as noted below, the decision seems to have angered people on both left and right. It's true, as Eugene Volokh noted on Hugh Hewitt's show last night, that it was only a modest extension of existing law. But I think that existing law has moved, by gradual increments, to a point where it's out of step with the Constitution and with public sentiment about what's just. Sometimes a Supreme Court decision, even one that doesn't make new law, can bring people's attention to a situation and drive efforts to change it.
John Cole blogged So, in just two weeks, the Supreme Court has rendered two major decisions on the limits of government. In Raich v. Gonzales the Court said there are effectively no limits on what the federal government can do using the Commerce Clause as a justification. In Kelo, it's now ruled that there are effectively no limits on the predations of local governments against private property. These kinds of judicial encroachments on liberty are precisely why Supreme Court nominations have become such high-stakes battles. If President Bush is truly the "strict constructionist" he professes to be, he will take note of the need to check this disturbing trend should he be presented with a High Court vacancy.
Earlier I posted on this, giving links to all four decisions, and I agree that this makes a very good argument in the upcoming Supreme Court battle.
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L'Aquila | ||
— Comune — | ||
Comune dell'Aquila | ||
Piazza Duomo | ||
Coordinates: 42°21′N 13°24′E / 42.350°N 13.400°ECoordinates: 42°21′N 13°24′E / 42.350°N 13.400°E | ||
Country | Italy | |
Region | Abruzzo | |
Province | L'Aquila (AQ) | |
Frazioni | see list | |
Government | ||
• Mayor | Massimo Cialente (PD) | |
Area | ||
• Total | 466.9 km2 (180.3 sq mi) | |
Elevation | 714 m (2,343 ft) | |
Population (March 31, 2009) | ||
• Total | 73,150 | |
• Density | 160/km2 ( 410/sq mi) | |
Demonym | Aquilani | |
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
Postal code | 67100 | |
Dialing code | 0862 | |
Patron saint | St. Maximus, St. Equitius, St. Peter Celestine, St. Bernardino of Siena | |
Saint day | June 10 | |
Website | Official website |
L'Aquila (Italian: [ˈlaːkwila] ( listen), meaning "The Eagle") is a city and comune in central Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. As of 2009[update], it has a population of 73,150 inhabitants, but has a daily presence in the territory of 100,000 people for study, tertiary activities, jobs and tourism. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the Aterno river, it is surrounded by the Apennine Mountains, with the Gran Sasso d'Italia to the north-east.
L'Aquila sits upon a hillside in the middle of a narrow valley; tall snow-capped mountains of the Gran Sasso massif flank the town. A maze of narrow streets, lined with Baroque and Renaissance buildings and churches, open onto elegant piazzas. Home to the University of L'Aquila, it is a lively college town and, as such, has many cultural institutions: a repertory theater, a symphony orchestra, a fine-arts academy, a state conservatory, a film institute.The city presents a tradition in the winter sports with six ski resorts which lies around the city (Campo Imperatore, Ovindoli, Pescasseroli, Roccaraso, Scanno).
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Close to the highest of the Apennine summits, L'Aquila is positioned at an altitude of 721 meters in the Valley of the Aterno-Pescara, wedged between no fewer than four mountain peaks above 2,000 meters.
The mountains block the city off from warm humid air currents from the Mediterranean, and give rise to a climate that is cool in comparison to most of central Italy, and dry. It has been said that the city enjoys each year eleven cold months and one cool one.
L'Aquila is approximately 100 kilometers (62 mi) to the east-north-east of Rome, with which it is now connected by an autostrada through the mountains.
The city's construction was begun by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily out of several already existing villages (ninety-nine, according to local tradition; see Amiternum), as a bulwark against the power of the papacy. The name of Aquila means "Eagle" in Italian. Construction was completed in 1254 under Frederick's son, Conrad IV of Germany. The name was switched to Aquila degli Abruzzi in 1861, and L'Aquila in 1939. After the death of Conrad, the city was destroyed by his brother Manfred in 1259, but soon rebuilt by Charles I of Anjou, its successor as king of Sicily. The walls were completed in 1316.
It quickly became the second city of the Kingdom of Naples. It was an autonomous city, ruled by a diarchy composed of the City Council (which had varying names and composition over the centuries) and the King's Captain. It fell initially under the lordship of Niccolò dell'Isola, appointed by the people as the People's Knight, but he was then killed when he became a tyrant. Later, it fell under Pietro "Lalle" Camponeschi, Count of Montorio, who became the third side of a new triarchy, with the Council and the King's Captain. Camponeschi, who was also Great Chancellor of the kingdom of Naples, became too powerful, and was killed by order of Prince Louis of Taranto. His descendants fought with the Pretatti family for power for several generations, but never again attained the power of their ancestor. The last, and the one true "lord" of L'Aquila, was Ludovico Franchi, who challenged the power of the pope by giving refuge to Alfonso I d'Este, former duke of Ferrara, and the children of Giampaolo Baglioni, deposed lord of Perugia. In the end, however, the Aquilans had him deposed and imprisoned by the king of Naples.
The power of L'Aquila was based on the close connection between the city and its mother-villages, which had established the city as a federation, each of them building a borough and considering it as a part of the mother-village. That[vague] is also why number 99 is so important in the architecture of L'Aquila, and the Fountain of the 99 Spouts (Fontana delle 99 Cannelle), was given its name to celebrate the ancient origin of the town. The City Council was originally composed of the Mayors of the villages, and the city had no legal existence until King Charles II of Naples appointed a "Camerlengo", responsible for city tributes (previously paid separately by each of its mother-villages). Later, the Camerlengo also took political power, as President of the City Council.
From its beginnings the city constituted an important market for the surrounding countryside, which provided it with a regular supply of food: from the fertile valleys came the precious saffron; the surrounding mountain pastures provided summer grazing for numerous transhumant flocks of sheep, which in turn supplied abundant raw materials for export and, to a lesser extent, small local industries, which in time brought craftsmen and merchants from outside the area.
Within a few decades L'Aquila became a crossroads in communications between cities within and beyond the Kingdom, thanks to the so-called "via degli Abruzzi", which ran from Florence to Naples by way of Perugia, Rieti, L'Aquila, Sulmona, Isernia, Venafro, Teano and Capua.
Negotiations for the succession of Edmund, son of Henry III of England, to the throne of the Kingdom of Sicily involved L'Aquila in the web of interests linking the Papal Curia to the English court. On December 23, 1256, Pope Alexander IV elevated the churches of Saints Massimo and Giorgio to the status of cathedrals as a reward to the citizens of L'Aquila for their opposition to King Manfred who, in July 1259, had the city razed to the ground in an attempt to destroy the negotiations. On August 29, 1294, the hermit Pietro del Morrone was consecrated as pope Celestine V in the church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio, in commemoration of which the new pope decreed the annual religious rite of the Pardon (Perdonanza Celestiniana), still observed today in the city on August 28 and 29: it is the immediate ancestor of the Jubilee Year.
The pontificate of Celestine V gave a new impulse to building development, as can be seen from the city statutes. In 1311, moreover, King Robert of Anjou granted privileges which had a decisive influence on the development of trade. These privileges protected all activities related to sheep-farming, exempting them from customs duties on imports and exports. This was the period in which merchants from Tuscany (Scale, Bonaccorsi) and Rieti purchased houses in the city. Hence the conditions for radical political renewal: in 1355 the trade guilds of leather-workers, metal-workers, merchants and learned men were brought into the government of the city, and these together with the Camerario and the Cinque constituted the new Camera Aquilana. Eleven years earlier, in 1344, the King had granted the city its own mint.
In the middle of the 14th century the city was struck by plague epidemics (1348, 1363) and earthquakes (1349). Reconstruction began soon, however. In the 14th–15th century Jewish families came to live in the city, while the generals of the Franciscan Order chose the city as the seat of the Order's general chapters (1376, 1408, 1411, 1450, 1452, 1495). Bernardino of Siena, of the Franciscan order of the Observance, visited L'Aquila twice, the first time to preach in the presence of King René of Naples, and in 1444, on his second visit, he died in the city. In 1481 Adam of Rottweil, a pupil and collaborator of Johann Gutenberg, obtained permission to establish a printing press in L'Aquila.
The Osservanti branch of the Franciscan order had a decisive influence on L'Aquila. As a result of initiatives by Friar Giovanni da Capistrano and Friar Giacomo della Marca, Lombard masters undertook, in the relatively underdeveloped north-east of the city, an imposing series of buildings centring on the hospital of Saint Salvatore (1446) and the convent and the basilica of Saint Bernardino. The construction work was long and difficult, mainly because of the earthquake of 1461, which caused the buildings to collapse, and the translation of the body of S. Bernardino did not take place until May 14, 1472. The whole city suffered serious damage on the occasion of the earthquake, and two years went by before repairs on the churches and convents began.
In a strategy finalized to increasing their political and economic autonomy, the Aquilani took a series of political gambles, siding sometimes with the Roman Papacy, sometimes with the Kingdom of Naples. When the Pope excommunicated Joanna II, Queen of Naples, appointing Louis III of Anjou as heir to the crown in her stead, L'Aquila sided with the Angevines. Joanna called to fight for her Braccio da Montone, lord of Perugia, Todi, Assisi, Spello and Jesi, one of the greatest Italian condottieri of the time. In exchange for his services, Braccio obtained the lordship of Teramo, as well as the fiefdoms of Capua and Foggia, and he started a 13-year-long siege of L'Aquila, that resisted bravely. Facing Braccio at the head of the Angevine army was Muzio Attendolo Sforza and his son Francesco. The final clash between the two contenders was just below the walls of Aquila, near the hamlet today called Bazzano. On June 2, 1424 the battle was fought between the most celebrated condottieri of the time; Braccio, mortally wounded in the neck, was made prisoner and transported to Aquila, where he died three days later, on June 5, 1424. The Pope had him buried in deconsecrated earth. The citizens of L'Aquila honoured the bravery of their enemy Braccio by dedicating one of the main streets of the city to his name.
This period of freedom and prosperity ended in the 16th century, when Spanish viceroy Philibert van Oranje partially destroyed L'Aquila and established Spanish feudalism in its countryside. The city, separated from its roots, never developed again. Ancient privileges were revoked. L'Aquila was again destroyed by an earthquake in 1703. Successive earthquakes have repeatedly damaged the city's large Duomo, and destroyed the original dome of the basilica of San Bernardino, designed along the lines of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.
The city was also sacked two times by French troops in 1799.
L'Aquila, like so much of Italy, is a city of political contrasts. In the 1970s a novel by Alberto Moravia was seized because considered obscene and a local Catholic Archbishop protested the nudity of a centuries-old statue of a young man, and a group of local reactionaries even asked for the seizure of the £50 coin, because it showed a naked man. However, in October 2003 a liberal judge in l'Aquila ordered the small town of Ofena to remove a crucifix from its elementary school so as to not to offend the religious sensibilities of two young Muslim students. After a national outcry, the judge's decision was overturned. In May 2007 Massimo Cialente, a physician and medical researcher, was elected mayor of L'Aquila with a center-left coalition.
Earthquakes mark the history of L'Aquila, as the city is situated partially on an ancient lake-bed that amplifies seismic activity.[1][2]
On December 3, 1315, the city was struck by an earthquake which seriously damaged the San Francesco Church. Another earthquake struck on January 22, 1349, killing about 800 people. Other earthquakes struck in 1452, then on November 26, 1461, and again in 1501 and 1646. On February 3, 1703 a major earthquake struck the town. More than 3.000 people died and almost all the churches collapsed; Rocca Calascio, the highest fortress in Europe was also ruined by this event, yet the town survived. L'Aquila was then repopulated by decision of Pope Clement XI. The town was rocked by earthquake again in 1706. The most serious earthquake in the history of the town struck on July 31, 1786, when more than 6.000 people died. On June 26, 1958 an earthquake of 5.0 magnitude struck the town.
On April 6, 2009, at 01:32 GMT (03:32 CEST) an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy with its epicentre near L'Aquila, at 42°25′22″N 13°23′40″E / 42.4228°N 13.3945°E.[3] The earthquake caused damage to between 3,000 and 11,000 buildings in the medieval city of L'Aquila.[4] Several buildings also collapsed. 308 people were killed by the earthquake, and approximately 1,500 people were injured. Twenty of the victims were children.[5] Around 65,000 people were made homeless.[6] There were many students trapped in a partially collapsed dormitory.[7] The April 6 earthquake was felt throughout Abruzzo; as far away as Rome, other parts of Lazio, Marche, Molise, Umbria, and Campania.
G8 summit[edit]
Because of the 2009 earthquake, the Berlusconi government decided to move that year's G8 summit from its scheduled Sardinian host of La Maddalena to L'Aquila, so that disaster funds would be distributed to the affected region and to show solidarity with the city's inhabitants.[8] World leaders converged on L'Aquila on July 8 and many of them were given tours of the devastated city by the host Prime Minister.[9] A Washington Post newspaper article on April 11, 2010, reported that in February 2010, residents of L'Aquila, frustrated that cleanup efforts of the destroyed downtown had not begun after ten months of waiting, had organized daily volunteer crews to haul away rubble themselves. Many of these displaced residents have been re-housed in new housing on the fringe of town, and missed the vibrant life, shops and cafes downtown that were damaged and shuttered (reportedly some 2,000 businesses have closed). As of Dec 2011 the old city center is still in ruins, with many buildings held in place by external support systems of various kinds. There is an eerie sense to the deserted center, where some streets are accessible by foot; while a large part of the old city is sealed up by the military who are also present with a few patrol cars. The main churches and other buildings of special interest are closed, but plans are underway to preserve the most notable structures. With the high cost of rebuilding, and the current national and European economic situation, the future of the majority of the buildings is uncertain. With no immediate plans to restore them, weather will likely speed their deterioration over time.
Climate data for Stazione Meteo L'Aquila 42°22′N 13°21′E / 42.367°N 13.350°E | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °C (°F) | 6.4 (43.5) |
8.5 (47.3) |
12.3 (54.1) |
16.3 (61.3) |
20.9 (69.6) |
25.3 (77.5) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.1 (84.4) |
24.7 (76.5) |
18.4 (65.1) |
12.2 (54) |
7.4 (45.3) |
17.54 (63.57) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
10.7 (51.3) |
14.9 (58.8) |
18.7 (65.7) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
18.1 (64.6) |
12.8 (55) |
7.8 (46) |
3.7 (38.7) |
11.92 (53.45) |
Average low °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.0 (41) |
8.8 (47.8) |
12.2 (54) |
14.2 (57.6) |
14.1 (57.4) |
11.4 (52.5) |
7.2 (45) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
6.25 (43.26) |
Rainfall mm (inches) | 66.1 (2.602) |
64.5 (2.539) |
51.2 (2.016) |
56.6 (2.228) |
51.0 (2.008) |
46.1 (1.815) |
34.7 (1.366) |
37.7 (1.484) |
52.8 (2.079) |
66.3 (2.61) |
91.3 (3.594) |
83.7 (3.295) |
702 (27.636) |
Snowfall cm (inches) | 27 (10.6) |
19.8 (7.8) |
7.2 (2.83) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
13.8 (5.43) |
67.8 (26.66) |
Avg. rainy days | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 91 |
Avg. snowy days | 3 | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | 7.8 |
Source: [10] |
Main sights[edit]
Although less than an hour-and-a-half drive from Rome, and a popular summer and winter resort with Romans hiking and skiing in the surrounding mountains, the city has not yet been heavily affected by foreign tourism.
In the highest part of the town is the massive Spanish fort (Forte Spagnolo), erected by the Spanish viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo in 1534. It is currently home to the National Museum of Abruzzo.
The Cathedral of San Massimo (Duomo) was built in the 13th century, but crumbled down during the 1703 earthquake. The most recent façade is from the 19th century, but after the earthquake of 2009 and subsequent aftershocks the transept and possibly more of the Cathedral has collapsed.
The church of Saint Bernardino of Siena (1472) has a fine Renaissance façade by Nicolò Filotesio (commonly called Cola dell'Amatrice), and contains the monumental tomb of the saint, decorated with beautiful sculptures, and executed by Silvestro Ariscola in 1480.
The church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio, just outside the town, has a very fine Romanesque façade of simple design (1270–1280) in red and white marble, with three finely decorated portals and a rose-window above each. The two side doors are also fine. The interior contains the mausoleum of Pope Celestine V erected in 1517. Many smaller churches in the town have similar façades (S. Giusta, S. Silvestro and others).
The town also contains some fine palaces: the municipality has a museum, with a collection of Roman inscriptions and some illuminated service books. The Palazzi Dragonetti and Persichetti contain private collections of pictures. Outside the town is the Fontana delle novantanove cannelle, a fountain with ninety-nine jets distributed along three walls, constructed in 1272. The source of the fountain is still unknown.
A well-known city landmark is the Fontana Luminosa ("Luminous Fountain"), a sculpture of two women bearing large jars, built in the 1930s. The local cemetery includes the grave of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a 19th‑century German gay rights pioneer, who lived and died at L'Aquila: every year, gay people from all over the world meet at the cemetery to honour his memory.
The surrounding area boasts Roman ruins (the important Roman city of Amiternum), ancient monasteries, and numerous castles. The best-known of these is Rocca Calascio (used in the 1980s as the location for the movie Ladyhawke), which is the highest castle in Italy and one of the highest in Europe. Also nearby are several ski resorts like Gran Sasso d'Italia, the highest of the Apennines where in its valley the movie The Name of the Rose was filmed in the end of the 1980s.
Cinematographic activities[edit]
The first step of L'Aquila in the cinematographic activities was the Cineforum Primo Piano founded by Gabriele Lucci in the middle of 1970s. As a work of Lucci, in 1981 saw the establishment of l'Istituto Cinematografico dell'Aquila, an institute for the production and diffusion of the cinematographic culture in Italia and abroad.
The Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo is based in the city and was formed in 2000.
The city is the home of five-time Italian champions L'Aquila Rugby. The football squad, L'Aquila Calcio, played 3 times in serie B.
There are some frazioni, villages around principal towns, surrounding L'Aquila. The following is a list of surrounding frazioni: Aquilio, Aragno, Aringo, Arischia, Assergi, Bagno, Bazzano, Camarda, Cansatessa, Casaline, Cermone, Cese, Civita di Bagno, Colle di Preturo, Colle di Sassa, Colle Roio – Poggio di Roio, Collebrincioni, Collefracido, Coppito, Filetto, Foce, Forcelle, Genzano, Gignano, Monticchio, Onna, Paganica, Pagliare di Sassa, Pescomaggiore, Palombaia, Pettino, Pianola, Pile, Pizzutillo, Poggio Roio, Poggio Santa Maria, Pozza di Preturo, Pratelle, Preturo, Ripa, Roio Piano – Poggio di Roio, San Giacomo alto, San Giuliano, San Gregorio, San Leonardo, San Marco Di Preturo, San Martino di Sassa, Santa Rufina, Sant'Angelo, Sant'Elia, Santi, San Vittorino, Sassa, Tempera, Torretta, Valle Pretara, Vallesindola, Vasche.
International relations[edit]
Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]
L'Aquila is twinned with:
Notable residents[edit]
- Mariangelo Accorso, (Aquila, 1489 – Aquila, 1546), Humanist
- Amico Agnifili, (Rocca di Mezzo, 1398 – Aquila, 1476), Cardinal
- Anton Ludovico Antinori, (Aquila, 1704 – Aquila, 1778), historian
- Corrado Bafile (1903–2005), Cardinal
- Giulio Cesare Benedetti Guelfaglione, (Aquila, ? – Rome, 1656), Physician
- Bernardino da Siena, (Massa Marittima, 1380 – Aquila, 1444), saint.
- Braccio da Montone, (Perugia, 1368 – Aquila, 1424), condottiero
- Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila, (Aquila, 1473 – 1522), papal protonotary, friend of Raphael
- Buccio di Ranallo, (Aquila 1294 – Aquila 1363), epic poet.
- Raffaele Cappelli (1848–1921)
- John of Capistrano, (Capestrano, 1386 – Ilok, 1456), saint
- Cesare Campana, (Aquila, 1532 – Vicenza, 1606), Historian and Poet
- Celestine V, (?, 1215 – Fumone, 1296), saint
- Pompeo Cesura, (Aquila, ? – Rome, 1571), painter
- Filipe Lorenzo Cianfarani (Phil Farren) 1874–1952, bandmaster Indiana
- Appius Claudius Caecus, (Amiternum, 350 a.C. – ?, 271 a.C.), Roman Politician
- Nazzareno De Angelis (1881–1962), opera singer
- Serafino De' Ciminelli, (Aquila, 1466 – Rome, 1500), poet
- Carlo Franchi (1698–1769), racing driver
- Mario Magnotta (1942–2009), janitor and internet phenomena
- Lorenzo Natali, (Florence,1922 – Rome,1989), vice-president of the European Commission.
- Paul Piccone (1940–2004), founder and editor of TELOS.
- Cesare Rivera, (Aquila, 1539 – Napoli, 1602), humanist
- Roberto Ruscitti (b. 1941), composer
- Sallustius (4th century), historian
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895), writer
- Trebisonda Valla, (Bologna 1916 – L'Aquila 2006), Olympic gold medal
- Amleto Vespa (1888–1940), spy for Japan
- Bruno Vespa (b. 1944), journalist
- Claudia Romani (b. 1982), model
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- Poland, Chris; Razzano, Holly; Scott, Andrew; Hernandez, Ricardo (2009). "L'Aquila, Italy: The Next Lesson". Civil Engineering 79 (11): 46–53. ISSN 08857024.
- Bindi (1889). Monumenti storici ed artistici degli Abruzzi. Naples. p. 771 seq. Unknown parameter
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- ^ "L'Aquila, prov. of L'Aquila, Abruzzo". Abruzzo2000.com. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ^ Earth-prints.org
- ^ USGS.gov
- ^ "Powerful Italian quake kills many". BBC News (London). April 6, 2009.
- ^ "TG1 ed. 08.00 08.04 integrale" (in Italian). TG1. April 8, 2009. Archived from the original on July 29, 2009. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
- ^ Hooper, John (April 28, 2009). "Pope visits Italian village hit hardest by earthquake". The Guardian (London).
- ^ RAI One news. Live reports from L'Aquila, retrieved April 6, 2009, =9:26 CET
- ^ "G8: Italy Wants to Move Summit to L'Aquila"
- ^ "Obama inspects quake damage in L'Aquila". EuroNews. July 9, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ^ "Il clima dell'Aquila". CETEMPS. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
- ^ "Hobart Offers Condolences to Italian Sister City L'Aquila Severely Damaged by Earthquake". Hobart City Council. April 7, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ^ "Zielona Góra – Partner Cities". Urzędu Miasta Zielona Góra. Retrieved December 7, 2008.[dead link]
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It was only a matter of time before the true colors of the health care opponents came out. It didn't surprise me that, sooner or later, a "birther," a "deather," or some oddball combination of sub-humanity like U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson could be expected to let loose with a foul attack on the president. Just like a skunk in a rose garden.
But to do it at a joint meeting of the Congress, attended by a televised audience estimated in the millions worldwide, was an egregious affront to common decency. This wasn't a right-wing town hall meeting in a state where the confederate flag still flies above the state capitol.
Maybe this clown of a congressman can be court-martialed from his place in the command staff of the National Guard in South Carolina for insulting his commander in chief. If a Democratic congressman of color had acted in a similar manner with President Bush, you can bet your butt there would have been calls for his expulsion from Congress. No apology accepted.
Frankly, I'm tired of the worn-out, lame, "old boy" excuses that are always dredged up about what the Democrats did or didn't do in past situations. For example, "Didn't Nancy Pelosi say the CIA lied about something?" But wasn't it dragged around for months by the Republicans? Despite the fact that the CIA has had a long history of lying since its inception?
As my mother used to say, "If they put their heads in the fire, does that make it right for you to do the same?" Apparently, it's all right if you're a Republican. Especially since the old refrain of, "But, Clinton …" ran out of mileage. Now, the password begins: "He shouldn't have interrupted the president, but …"
This wasn't the first time that this congressman offered up unwanted advice in public. Wilson had the nerve to say that the late Strom Thurmond's black daughter should have remained in the shadows instead of "smearing" her father's legacy by revealing her relationship to him. Does this sound like racism to you?
Unfortunately, there are right-wing nuts in this country who will sign on to any claim about President Obama, whether ridiculous, extreme or untrue. Only eight months into the Obama presidency, Dick Armey and Tom Delay have resurfaced from the swamp to join Dick Cheney in spewing garbage after presiding over the Bush agenda that put most of us in dire straits. Fact is, we would have been in a much worse condition if the president had followed the Republicans' advice to let the market fail rather than take corrective action.
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An armored U.S. Embassy vehicle is checked by military personal after it was attacked by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. / AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini
(CBS/AP)MEXICO CITY - The Mexican Navy says federal police shot at an embassy vehicle carrying two U.S. government employees after the vehicle came under attack from unidentified gunmen.
The shooting appears to have been a case of a confused gunbattle that broke out on a rural road just south of Mexico City.
The Navy said Friday the embassy personnel were heading down a dirt road to a military installation when a carload of gunmen opened fire on them and chased them, along with a Navy officer accompanying them.
Alerted to the gunfire, a federal police patrol vehicle came to the scene and apparently opened fire. The statement does not make clear whose bullets injured the U.S. workers.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press both men hospitalized, one with a wound to the leg and the other hit in the stomach and hand. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said they are in stable condition.
The official said the wounded were not agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration or FBI, but did not identify which agency they work for.
The U.S. Embassy had no immediate comment.
A Mexican army official said the SUV with diplomatic plates was found after a report about a shootout on the two-lane highway. The army official was not authorized to be quoted by name. He said a Mexican navy captain was also in the vehicle, but was not injured.
The Toyota vehicle was riddled with bullets, most concentrated around the passenger-side window, indicating possible involvement by experienced gunmen.
The shooting occurred on road winding through a mountainous area where drug gangs, common criminals and leftist rebels have been known to be active in the past.
The scene of the shooting was cordoned off and guarded Friday by more than 100 heavily armed marines and soldiers, and the highway was closed. Investigators examined what appear to be shell casings left at the scene.
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Budget savings unclear, but 'jointness' good at Lewis-McChord
The 2010 merger of Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base is not at the point where officials can quantify budget savings, but it is encouraging the two service branches train together and operate more efficiently, the outgoing colonel who managed the consolidation said last week.
Examples of that new "jointness" between the Army and Air Force in the South Sound include McChord's cargo jets practicing precision air drops at the Army's Yakima Training Center and increased collaboration between Special Forces units from both branches, Army Col. Thomas Brittain said.
"The home installation jointness has opened doors for training jointness, and that didn't happen in the past," Brittain said.
He took command of the Lewis-McChord garrison in late 2009 just before Lewis and McChord consolidated. The merger resulted from the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Committee recommendation to combine 26 military installations into 12 joint bases.
At the time, the Defense Department estimated mergers would save some $2.4 billion in expenses over 20 years. Since then, the Government Accountability Office has revised the estimate to less than $250 million in savings.
Among the mergers, Lewis and McChord offered one of the most logical combinations. They were adjacent, and the Army's mission here of keeping thousands of infantry soldiers ready for combat in the Pacific dovetailed with the Air Force's logistics hub at McChord.
Those missions – infantry soldiers relying on Air Force crews for supplies and medical evacuations – have been operating together throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now, Lewis-McChord is the Defense Department's third-largest military installation, with 42,000 active-duty service members and reservists. Its expanding ranks help the base make its case for steady military construction funding to keep pace with the rapid growth of the Army's units in the South Sound since 2003.
In recent years, the base has experience banner years for military construction projects. This year's Pentagon budget set aside close to $300 million for improvements there. That pace should continue through the 2014 budget, Brittain said, before declining in 2015.
"This place has been here since 1917. It's going to be here for years to come," Brittain said. "There is nothing else that is power projection platform with operational forces on the Pacific Rim other than what you see here at JBLM."
Combining the service branches has yet to manifest in significant savings partly because the Army and Air Force were committed to different service contracts that expired at different times. Some of the contracts are ending now, giving the joint base an opportunity to look for savings by combining orders and making larger purchases.
Other important challenges remain, including completing a road to connect the Air Force side of the base with the Army side. The base plans to break ground late this year on a two-lane road that could handle some of the traffic.
As is, service members need to get on Interstate 5 to go from the Army side to McChord. That can be frustrating for service members on McChord because the Lewis side of the base near freeway Exit 120 is the center for many military services.
Ultimately, the base wants a four-lane road to connect McChord and Lewis, which could relieve traffic from I-5, Brittain said.
Lewis-McChord has merged dozens of services, such as contracting, engineering and recreation programs. For the first time, those services report to Brittain as a garrison commander instead of the three-star general who leads the Army's I Corps at what was Lewis or the Air Force colonel who leads the 62nd Airlift Wing on McChord.
"It's a paradigm change," Brittain said.
Brittain works with both mission commanders to rank priorities so the base can provide resources to military units and the families of service members. The idea is to free up the senior mission commanders to focus on training, deployments and reintegrating service members after overseas assignments.
"When we get joint-basing perfect, I'm going to have the coolest job in the world because all I have to do is plan combat operations," said Air Force Col. Wyn Elder, the 62nd Airlift Wing commander.
Elder arrived at Lewis-McChord last year. He said the joint base gives the airlift wing extra muscle in requesting support services because it can draw on the larger Army staff next door.
That doesn't mean the combined support staff will be as responsive to either the senior Air Force commander or the senior Army commander as it had in the past.
Elder used the engineering teams that work on McChord's runways and other facilities as an example.
"The difference," he said, "is I owned the civil engineering squadron and they had a customer of one: Me. My priorities were their priorities."
Now, Elder works with Brittain to keep the air wing's resources flowing. Things have gone well so far, he said.
In years ahead, Elder anticipates Pentagon belt-tightening as the nation looks to the Defense Department for budget cuts after the drawdown of combat operations in Afghanistan.
At that time, he's concerned the military families living on McChord will have to make more and more trips to the Lewis side of the base if the Pentagon consolidates more services.
For example, child-care services could become centered at Lewis. Or McChord could fall behind on plans for a new gymnasium because the Defense Department has spent more than $1 billion building resources on the Lewis side of the base since 2007.
For the time being, service members have access to the best of both branches, the commanders said.
"Airmen stationed at JBLM have a much broader range of (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) type of services and support services available than they did under McChord Air Force Base," Elder said.
Brittain's next assignment is to move over the headquarters for the new 7th Infantry Division at Lewis-McChord, where he will be chief of staff. The division will manage Lewis-McChord's five primary combat brigades and report to the I Corps.
He is to be succeeded by Col. Charles Hodges, a former Stryker battalion commander at Lewis-McChord and officer in the I Corps.


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by – Matt Vernick, Tour Manager, Europe
The liberal nature of the Dutch culture is a lure to many people who travel or tour the Netherlands as this free and open attitude as extends to the use of 'soft' drugs like marijuana and 'magic' mushrooms. While other 'hard' drugs were made illegal by the Dutch government in the 70's, laws were never introduced banning these drugs and their use is tolerated in certain parts of Amsterdam. All other drugs are very much illegal. Small amounts of marijuana and magic mushrooms are tolerated however the Dutch have some of the harshest laws in Europe for trafficking large amounts of the substances.
There are literally hundreds of 'coffee shops' selling marijuana products and 'smart shops' vending mushrooms spread throughout the city but most readily found in the Red Light District. As long as you choose to consume their products in the shops themselves, everyone is cool.
Marijuana can be consumed in a myriad of different forms from the traditional smoking to space cakes, brownies, muffins, milkshakes and even mull tea – if you can think of a way of ingesting it, the Dutch have already thought of it.
Psychoactive mushrooms however are a little (but not) much harder to come by in one of the city's many 'smart' shops whose staff are often very knowledgeable when it comes to the different varieties of fungus and its effects on your mind and body.
As with all things, moderation is the key to enjoying yourself and even if Dutch coffee shops are not your cup of tea, they still a curious attraction that add to the relaxed vibe of the city.
Please Note: Contiki in no way promotes or condones the use or consumption of any of the products mentioned in this article. Having said that, you're free to 'do as the Dutch do' (…when in Rome!) and sample and enjoy the coffee shop culture of Amsterdam as much as you like.
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on the 1st of december 2008 NL has a new policy concerning paddo's, i don't know all the details but they're now classified as softdrugs and most smartshops had to close down.
One of the motives for this new policy was the death of a french tourist, who committed suicide while being under influence of paddo's. So be careful, and don't buy marihuana from a tramp in the park because it might be oregano that they're trying to sell you..Explorer1122237 posted on 18th Jan 2009 Flag as Inappropriate -
THe Hash Brownies and space cake I tried averaged about 8 to 10 grams per slice. They were very costly.
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Does anyone know how potent the brownies and other "foods" are?
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At the risk of sounding stupid. Please explain! Coffee Shop / Cafe, what's the difference?
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You tend to drink alot more coffee in a Coffee Shop than you do in a Cafe.
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In Amsterdam there is a big difference between a "Cafe" and a "Coffee Shop". If you are not sure … check with your Tour Manager first. ;)
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A value x belonging to a distribution with mean 'x_mean' and standard deviation 's' can be transformed to a standard score, or z-score, in the following manner:
z = (x - x_mean)/s
The mean of standard scores is zero. When values are standardized, the units in which they are expressed are equal to the standard deviation, s. For the standardized scores, the standard deviation becomes 1. (Variance is also 1). The interpretation of the standard-score of a given value is in terms of the number of standard deviations the value is above or below the mean (of the distribution of standardized scores).
So, the standardization of a set of values involves two steps. First, the mean is subtracted from every value, which shifts the central location of the distribution to 0. Then the thus mean-shifted values are divided by the standard deviation, s. This now makes the standard deviation as 1.
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Went to Gay Pride on saturday and it was a really good day - the place itself was a bit small and boring but the people there were amazing! :D
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I have been with my guy for about one year and eight months. We had lots of memories and we did make love. However, I am freaking out. I have been conducting early researches for symptoms of a pregnant woman. I am studying and have two years left to graduate in a university. I am young and I am not totally prepared to build a family yet. I still have dreams in life and I want to enjoy my youth. I know these things would wither, if ever I would be pregnant. In addition, my parents would be shattered to death if I will not finish my studies. In this time, my life is normal and my physical state is normal. I have not felt any changes in my body. No symptoms I have seen have occurred in me yet. Nevertheless, I am worried. Can somebody help me please?
Happytobehis, having a family when you are not prepared can be difficult. It is good you are looking into the symptoms of pregnancy so you know what to look for in yourself. Try to remember having a family does not have to stop you from pursuing your dreams.
Try talking to your boyfriend about this. Even if you are not pregnant, he is a part of the equation. Try discussing his feelings of a possible baby. You might talk about what yours and his dreams. Having this conversation with him could help you prepare for a future family and know each other's needs.
Maybe you could take a home pregnancy test. It is possible to have a false positive. Consider talking to your physician. They could give you a more definite prognosis if you are pregnant or not. Please consider talking to your parents as well. Many parents might understand their child will make mistakes and learn from them. Try discussing how they could support you and your boyfriend.
If you want to avoid another pregnancy scare, consider practicing safe sex with condoms and birth control. Consider how much safer both of you will be if you use it. It might be a good idea to go shopping for it together. Try not to be afraid to insist on safe sex before you have sex again. Remember one time is all it takes.


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- n. The olfactory region of the brain, located in the cerebrum.
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- n. The olfactory lobe of the brain; the foremost one of the several morphological segments of the encephalon, preceding the prosencephalon. In the lower vertebrates the rhinencephalon is relatively large, and evidently a distinct part of the brain. In the higher it gradually diminishes in size, becoming relatively very small, and apparently a mere outgrowth of the cerebrum. Thus, in man the rhinencephalon is reduced to the so-called pair of olfactory nerves, from their roots in the cerebrum to the olfactory bulbs whence are given off the numerous filaments, the proper olfactory nerves, which pierce the cribriform plate of the ethmoid, and ramify in the nose. The rhinencephalon, like other encephalic segments, is paired or double—that is, consists of right and left halves. It is primitively hollow or has its proper ventricle, which, however, is entirely obliterated in the adults of the higher vertebrates. This hollow is a prolongation of the system of cavities common to the other encephalic segments, and known as the rhinocœle. Also rhinencephal. See cuts under Petromyzontidæ, Rana, brain (cut 2), and encephalon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior
"HOLISTIC MEDICINE called rhinencephalon and was thought to be concerned with olfaction"
"A group of structures within the rhinencephalon, that part of the brain once thought to be devoted to smell, which is associated with various emotions such as anger, fear, sexual arousal, pleasure, and sadness."
"The olfactory center in the cortex is generally associated with the rhinencephalon (page 826)."
"The auditory area occupies the middle third of the superior temporal gyrus and the adjacent gyri in the lateral fissure; the visual area, the calcarine fissure and cuneus; the olfactory area, the rhinencephalon."
"The remaining parts of the rhinencephalon, viz., the septum pellucidum, fornix, and hippocampus, will be described in connection with the lateral ventricle."
"The rhinencephalon comprises the olfactory lobe, the uncus, the subcallosal and supracallosal gyri, the fascia dentata hippocampi, the septum pellucidum, the fornix, and the hippocampus."
"The rhinencephalon, associated with the sense of smell, is the oldest part of the telencephalon, and forms almost the whole of the hemisphere in some of the lower animals, e. g., fishes, amphibians, and reptiles."
"They were thus regarded as a part of the rhinencephalon, but it is now recognized that they belong to the neopallium; the cingulate gyrus is therefore sometimes described as a part of the frontal lobe, and the hippocampal as a part of the temporal lobe."
"Although superficially continuous with the hippocampal gyrus, the uncus forms morphologically a part of the rhinencephalon."
"As previously stated (see page 744), each cerebral hemisphere may be divided into three fundamental parts, viz., the rhinencephalon, the corpus striatum, and the neopallium."
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limbic system—was once called the 'rhinencephalon,' literally 'nose-brain' or 'smell-brain.' A 2003 study found that strong smells triggered activity in both the amygdala and the ventral insula."
"In fact, the seat of many of those emotional centers—the
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 128 Oct 2, 2008
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