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Luxury Villa, Sea, Mountain Views Nr Puerto Banus
Villa with 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and shared pool in Los Flamingos, Spain
From £783.75 per week
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- Villa #8597
- Sleeps: 8
- Shared pool
- Air conditioning
- Car hire: recommended
- Nearest beach: 3km
- Nearest bar: 2km
- Nearest restaurant: 3km
- Nearest supermarket: 15km
- Málaga Airport: 68km
luxury villa for self catering rental, nr exclusive Los Flamingos Golf & glamorous Puerto Banus & Estepona beach. Low Prices, Family development ideal for golfers and families.
A Magnificent Villa near the Exclusive Los Flamingos Golf Complex and Puerto Banus.
Our wi fi enabled Villa has a superb roof top solarium for al fresco dining, 3 further terraces, a relaxation games room/extra bedroom and a large communal swimming pool for residents only. The complex is completely sheltered with access controlled security and under ground parking. Puerto Banus is 10 minutes drive away with its many restaurants and designer shops, casino and nightclubs. You can enjoy suntrap beaches, crystal clear seas, all within minutes of Los Flamingos.
* Take a trip or drive to Gibraltar. It's about 35 minutes by car. Once there you can get some duty free (very cheap) and visit the Barbary apes by taking the Cable Car up the rock.
* Visit Sierra Nevada about a 2 hour drive away, but well worth the drive. Beautiful scenery with excellent skiing conditions in the winter and lovely mountain walks in the summer.
* The historic towns of Seville, Cordoba, Cadiz and Grenada, with the famous Alhambra Palace are just over 2 hours or so, you can arrange excursion trips in Fuengirola.
* A day trip to Morocco is possible, to visit the ancient town of Tangiers. A hydrofoil takes you from Algeciras about 90 minutes away direct to the port of Tangiers, where you can visit the markets, take in the atmosphere and buy some very reasonably priced rugs!
Golfers Paradise
For Golfers, there are many internationally renowned courses near by, within 10 mins drive. Imagine playing golf surrounded by a mountainous backdrop and stunning scenery.
The exclusive Los Flamingos Golf Resort is on your doorstep and other courses include Real Club de Golf las Brisas, Aloha Golf Club, La Quinta Golf & Country Club, Los Naranjos Golf Club, and Golf la Dama de Noche (floodlit Golf available).
Further east and west there are more than 40 golf courses within 30 mins drive.
GOLF COURSES NEARBY, to name but a few:
Furnished to an extremely high standard throughout this home oozes style no matter which room you opt to be in!
Ground Floor - Kitchen/Lounge and Diner
On entering the property through the main entrance to the left of the lobby is the fully fitted kitchen with all the requirements you will need for whichever level of cooking you are at along with a washing machine, dishwasher, microwave and fridge/freezer.
Directly ahead you enter the elegant lounge and dining room. Relax on one of the two leather sofas and put on one of your favourite DVDs (dont forget to bring your own!) should you find that sun a little too hot in the afternoon! The lounge leads out onto a large terrace with two large glass topped tables where you can choose to dine al fresco or just sip a cool gin and tonic whilst looking over the pool. For a more formal dining experience sit yourself indoors at the exquisite dining room table, all you need to do is toss to see who will be cooking!
Basement - Games Area
Downstairs from the ground floor, the basement has been converted into a games room with a pool table, two sofas, one which is a double sofa bed and its own en suite bathroom, an ideal room for R&R. There is a small fridge to keep your refreshments cool and is the ideal place to throw on some tunes. There is also plenty of storage space. The second entrance to the property can also be found here leading directly to the car port where there is ample room for two cars.
First Floor - Bedrooms 1, 2 and 3
Heading back upstairs to the first floor where you will find the main sleeping accommodation. Bedroom one consists of a twin beds and again plenty of wardrobe space. Bedroom two is a large double bedroom with en suite bathroom which houses both a separate shower and bath. This bedroom also leads onto a small terrace with a small table and two chairs where you can relax and enjoy an early morning coffee and to plan your day. Bedroom three houses just a single bed and is adjacent to the second bathroom that can be found on this floor.
Second Floor - Bedroom 4
The second floor has bedroom number four which has twin beds and opens out to a terrace either side with sun loungers on both terraces.
Top Floor - Solarium
The top floor houses yet another terrace where you may opt to get some space away from the rest of your party and is the perfect place to top up your tan prior to returning home. With great views over the mountains and the nearby Los Flamingos golf course relaxing could not come any easier.
Fully air conditioned throughout and housing everything that you would require in a home away from home, Platinum Heights is the perfect retreat.
There is a fantastic roof top solarium terrace with full al fresco dining facilites such as table, chairs, parasol and sunloungers. There are 3 further terraces with table, chairs and sunloungers. The large outdoor pool is shared with the other villas.
Cleaning/towels/linen/maid service
Linen and towels are provided. Linen is changed on a weekly base. Beach towels are not provided, please bring your own. High chair and cot hire are available upon request at an extra cost per week for both.
General Locality & Places of Interest
Puerto Banus
We are situated within a 10 minute drive from the world famous Puerto Banús Marina with its bevy of beautiful boats ranging from high speed offshore boats and yachts to luxurious cruisers owned by the likes of Michael Douglas and King Fahed of Saudi Arabia.
The beaches adjacent to both sides of Puerto Banús marina hold a European blue flag.
The nightlife in Puerto Banus is incredible, with a huge choice of alfresco bars, casinos, piano clubs and discos. Puerto Banus and Marbella boast some ofthe finest stores in the world for clothes,furnishings and all the accessories of luxury living. If shopping is your passion designer names such as Gucci, Chanel, Armani and Versace are here in abundance. For another view of the marina, boat trips are available on a regular basis. Also available for hire is a range of sporty water transport.
Puerto Banus is a great place to take a coffee and watch the celebrities who make this the place to be seen in. Dont be surprised if you see Sean Connery or Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffiths walking down the front as they have houses here and he even has a street named after him!
In summary, Puerto Banus is a year-round resort with outdoor dining and swimming in the sea possible from April to October. Spring is great for golfers and for visitors who enjoy the relative tranquility and pleasant temperatures (up to 25 degrees C). Summer is wonderfully hot (at 30 degrees C or more) and the resort buzzes with activity. Autumn and Winter are still pleasantly warm and sunny (at 20 degrees C or more). Take your pick!
Jewel of the Costa del Sol and the whole of the Mediterranean. Marbella holds a special charm for the visitor contrasting the sea, the mountains, and the famous "0ld Town" with the "Orange Square".
Fine sandy beaches which extend along the coast and the exceptional climate makes this an ideal place. Entertainment and leisure are high on the list in and around Marbella, Casinos, superb restaurants of every nationality, cinemas, shopping centres, numerous golf courses and every other sporting facility available, from December to May you are within easy reach of the ski-ing in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada.
Marbella is famous for its high class shopping , so if your purse allows, you can buy all the " names" you have ever heard of. If your purse wont stretch that far, it is still fun to fantasy shop.
San Pedro, Benhavis & Sierra Blanca Mountains
It is 5 mins drive to San Pedro which is a typically spanish town with lots of lovely restaurants, bodegas, shops etc. The famous Marina at Puerto Banus and cosmopolitan Marbella with its cobbled streets and Orange Square are within a 10 minute drive.
The highpoint of many a visit to Andalucia, the city of Granada was the region's most important city in muslim times and is home to the famous Alhambra, one of the world's great buildings. You're best advised to book your tour in advance as it's an enormously popular tourist sight. Also worth seeing here is the great cathedral, the elaborate Royal Chapel and the Albayzin, the old muslim quarter.
Benhavis 12km, Spanish equestrian Centre 8km.
Beautiful Ronda nestling amongst the Sierra Blanca mountains with the oldest Bullring in Spain is reached easily within 45 minutes.
One of Andalucia's loveliest towns, Ronda is steeped in history. Standing on a towering plateau in the mountains of Malaga Province, it is famous throughout Spain for the plunging river gorge that divides the medieval from the 18th century parts of the town. Known as El Tajo (The Cliff), the gorge is spanned by a stone bridge, which once housed a prison. It is thrilling to stand on the bridge and stare down at the waters of the River Guadalevin. Ronda is also famous for its bullring, which is the oldest and arguably most historic in Spain - the arena itself is also the country's largest. When there are no fights, the bullring is open to visitors, and has a fascinating museum with many momentos of Spain's most renowned bullfighters. Ronda is a popular destination for visitors to the Costa del Sol, as it has a traditional charm that attracts the day tripper.
The Platinum Heights is 15 mins walk or 5 mins drive to the local beaches.
Platinum Heights is within 2 hours drive of the Sierra Nevada mountains and its wonderful ski resort where you can hire all the necessary ski equipment. The best months are Jan/Feb/March when the skiing is excellent. It is possible through the winter to ski in the morning and swim in the pool at Bel Air late afternoon!
Further details
Our luxurious villa offers a wonderful combination of breathtaking views, tranquillity and easy access to some of Europe's finest and most varied nightlife. It is furnished to the very highest standard and an ideal base for dedicated golfers, families and anyone wanting a quality and relaxing holiday. Upon booking you will receive a pack with information on our apartment and the surrounding area.
Costa Del Sol Microclimate
Marbella has a unique microclimate, even in the winter months the temperature can reach a pleasant 20 degrees or more, perfect for all the sightseeing available in the area or a game of Golf or Tennis. In the Spring and Autumn you can expect temperatures of around 25 degrees or more and of course in the summer months it is wonderfully hot, perfect for just spending lazy days on the beach or enjoying the many water sports on offer. The warm evenings can be enjoyed strolling around the boutiques, cafes and restaurants that cluster around the cobbled streets of the harbour or you will appreciate sitting outside one of the many restaurants or cafes enjoying an alfresco meal and drink, as you watch the world go by......
Booking notes
A non-refundable deposit is required to secure your reservation. The balance is payable 10 weeks prior to departure. Your villa is prepared/cleaned at start of your holiday, however if you require extra cleaning or linen please mention when booking as this can also be accommodated.
Malaga Airport
Malaga which is only 45 mins away is served by many low cost airlines from the UK and airports, with a range of low cost options, including Thomsonfly, Jet2, BMI Baby, Easyjet and Mytravel Lite. It is also served by the charter airlines including Brittania, and First Choice, along with scheduled services from British Airways and Iberia.
Note: all distances are approximate and the owners reserve the right to change amenities / details within the property without notice and as necessary.
Shuttle Bus & Day Trips
Our property manager can now offer a Shuttle Bus from the Airport to the property at a very reasonable price so please do let us know if you would like us to arrange this for you. We would advise this if you are not looking to rent a car. Airport private hire shuttle buses and taxis will be more expensive so do take advantage of this offer.
Enjoy a fantastic day out with great rides and spectacular shows.
Wild Animals & Birds of prey Adventure activities & rides
Kids under 4 go free.
Open all year round.
Waterpark rides for all the family.
Note: all distances are approximate. The property is not located in Puerto Banus but a short distance drive approx 10 mins by car.
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|Guided day trip to Morocco. Price includes: boat trip to Morocco, English speaking guide, 3 hour tour of local history & Moroccan lunch in typical restaurant.
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A plain language explanation of Biodiesel and Straight Vegetable Oil technology. No auto repair experience required.
This intro is going to focus on diesel engines, and oil based fuels. Ethanol and other homemade fuels can be used in gasoline engines, but I have less experience/knowledge of that, and will save it for another essay.
This is not meant to be a step-by-step tutorial, but more of an introduction to and explanation of the process. There are many tutorials online. Here's a good one (How to Make Biodiesel at Home). There's a great online forum as well. (Biodiesel and SVO forums)
Avoid the site Journey to Forever, which is easy to stumble across when first looking for info. It is out-of-date and has quite a few errors. Eventually I'll post my own tutorial on this site.
So the first thing to know then is that there are two different kinds of automobile engines, diesel and gasoline. Biodiesel and straight vegetable oil can only be used in diesel engines.
Note: In case you weren't quite sure, Straight Vegetable Oil is just that. Pure vegetable oil. In all but a few cases, homebrew biofuel is made using waste vegetable oil. When filtered of particles and water, WVO is still quite usuable as a fuel. (Except when of lower quality from overuse and contamination.)
When Rudolph Diesel first introduced his new engine at the 1900 World Fair in Paris, it ran on peanut oil. It wasn't until Diesel's mysterious death 13 years later that a method was discovered to make diesel fuel from petroluem by-product (the left-overs from the gasoline production process.)
Difference between Diesel and Gasoline engines
Both kinds of engines are similiar in that they use small explosions to move pistons up and down in a cylinder. In a gasoline engine, fuel is mixed with air, compressed by pistons and ignited by sparks from spark plugs. In a diesel engine, the air is compressed first, and then the fuel is injected. The air heats up when it's compressed, thus igniting the fuel.
This difference allows for the use of oils in a diesel engine which are much less flamable than petroleum.
Diesel engines today
Diesel engines still operate on the same basic principle as they did a hundred years ago, the main difference being that they have been engineered to handle a less thicker oil than peanut or veggie oil. (When speaking of oils, the word viscousity is used to describe the thickness of oil. Petroluem diesel is less viscous than vegetable oil, and vegetable oil has a higher viscousity than petro-diesel.)
Therefore, the process of using vegetable oil in diesel engine involves reducing the viscousity of the oil. Once this has happened, the resulting fluid is for all purposes diesel fuel.
Two processes for reducing oil viscousity
The two basic processes that you would use at home to reduce the viscousity of vegetable oil are mechanical and chemical.
The mechanical process involves heating the oil to approx. 80 degrees celsius. Straight vegetable oil conversions involve installing components into the fuel-delivery system of a diesel vehicle to heat the oil, so that it is injected into the engine at the right viscousity.
The chemical process involves using chemicals (lye and methanol) to reduce the viscousity of the oil. This process is called transesterification, and is basically the process of stripping the oil of glycerine. Once this glycerine has been removed from the oil, it is the proper viscousity for modern diesel engines, and becomes bio-diesel.
Making Biodiesel
We'll start with the chemical process, for no particular reason. Whether you use bio-diesel or Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) is a personal choice. I'll get into the pros and cons of each method later. However, if you do use SVO, you still need to use petro-diesel or bio-diesel to start and warm up the engine. The excess heat that the engine produces when it is running is a main source or heat for the SVO process.
As I said earlier, making bio-diesel is a chemical process of thinning the oil, by using methanol and lye to strip the glycerine from it. The glycerine from this process (though brown and smelling of french fries) can be used to make soap. (perhaps just a shop soap).
Essentially, the process of transesterification happens when a catalyst (in most cases lye) is introduced to the oil in the presence of an alcohol. The catalyst causes the glyercine to seperate from the oil, and is replaced by the alcohol.
So simply put, lye is added to methanol, creating something called methoxide. This methoxide is then added to warm oil (80 degrees C) and mixed for about an hour. Then the oil is left to cool for about 8 hours, during which time the glyerine will settle to the bottom of whatever you are mixing the oil and methoxide in, and the oil left on top of the glycerine is biodiesel.
The bidiesel is then washed (a process of gently mixing water into the fuel) and letting it settle out. (Settling for about 12 hours and repeated twice.)
Equipment for making biodiesel
People have been known to make biodiesel in buckets and drums using blender like objects like electric boat motors or drill mounted paint stirrers. I've even made it while travelling in 5 gallon jugs by agitating the jugs by hand. These are unsafe and inefficient methods however, and much better equipment is easily built using inexpensive parts.
A very popular design for homebrew biodiesel making involves using a hot water heater, a water pump and a series of pipes and valves. Aside from the cost of the water heater, the parts involved should come out to less than $300 for a simple unit.
The design for this unit is open source, meaning no one owns the patent to it, and plans, innovations and modifications are freely shared by a large and passionate online community. The most popular forum can be found here.
In the simplest terms, a biodiesel processor is a giant, heated blender than heats the oil and blends the two liquids together.
In the past few years, innovations have occured in the homebrew community than has seen the creation of new designs (example) which have eliminated the need for the water washing step (which uses about three times as much water as oil) and allow for a greater volume of methanol to be reclaimed. In the simpler designs, the methanol was left to evaporate into the air.
Using Biodiesel in your vehicle
The alcohol content of biodiesel makes it slightly corrosive to natural rubber. In newer vehicles this is less of a problem, but in older vehicles, certain hoses and gaskets will need to be replaced. This is fairly simple and will cost $200-300. A synthetic materical called fluoroelastomer is generally used.
Also, I am just starting to read about ULSD (Ultra Low Sulfer Diesel) Emission engines and the issues they have running biodiesel. These engines were came into production in some vehicles in 2007. There are fixes and work-arounds for these issues, but it is important to do your research (the above mentioned forums are a great source of info) specific to your vehicle.
Aside from the biofuel forums, you can also find infomation on online forums specific to you vehicle. It seems every make and model has an online forum, and the diesel models tend to have a few people posting on them who have experience with biodiesel. Also, these forums are a great place to get info on locating and reparing different parts of your vehicle.
I had no auto repair experience before learning how to make biodiesel and convert vehicles to run on SVO. I taught myself everything I know by reading online, asking questions on the forums (if a search of the forums didn't reveal that my question had already been asked, and it usually had) and visting people locally who had experience and were willing to share. You may also want to hire someone like myself (hint, hint) to either help you as a consultant in the process or do a lot of the work for you. It's important however to have knowledge of how the process works, so that you can avoid creating problems for yourself.
Next time I'll talk a bit about using Straight Vegetable Oil, and what you need to do to your vehicle to do so,
If you have any questions, don't hestitate to ask, especially if it can be helpful in making this intro even more easy to understand.
(Next – Part Two: Straight Vegetable Oil)
Also: Alternative Ingredients and Methods for Making Biodiesel

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With shovels and broomsticks, garden hoses and wheelbarrows, mobile home residents on the northeast outskirts of Amarillo fought alongside firefighters to protect their structures from Thursday's blazes.
In one large area north of the city limits, the flames fed on tall grasses and debris, hopping from one field to the next and picking on some homes while ignoring others.
In one such home on North Acres Drive, the answering machine kept picking up whenever Duaine "Red" Kruse's mother tried to reach her son.
"Hi. You've reached the number you called. We're not home," the friendly voice on the machine would say.
"No one answers. She just gets the recording," said Carol Kruse, whose eyes filled with tears as she wondered why she couldn't reach her husband, Duaine, 46.
Cell phone and keys in hand, Duaine's mother and wife, 56, hugged each other from behind as they watched together in the direction of the smoldering neighborhood. They were among other residents and onlookers congregated on St. Francis Avenue, where the Potter County Sheriff's Department kept anyone from getting closer about 12:30 p.m.
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A couple of fields over, a man who identified himself only as Garcia held a pitcher of water and watched over a smoking black field next to his home. An empty mobile home across the street had almost completely burned down.
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"I need to run out to this field and take care of this hot spot," he said into the phone. "I've gotta get out of here and kill this. I'll talk to you later," he said and ran off. The driver of a small fire department vehicle spotted him and drove over to douse the area.
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A stray shaggy dog roamed the streets. A red Honda Civic was wedged in a ditch with its back right tire about two feet up off the ground. Potter County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Parvin crept along in his patrol car to make sure as many people vacated as were going to.
A man in a red baseball cap said his house was burning at the end of the street, and he walked in that direction with a dazed look on his face.
Clouds of gray smoke wafted through the air, carrying the occasional nauseating whiff of a burning chemical.
Amid the haze, Jim Ritchie and his brother, Thomas, guarded their homes on Cord Street. The authorities had asked them to leave, but they refused, they said.
Jim Ritchie said he didn't trust anyone else to protect his house, which he has lived in for 18 years.
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He pointed down the street to a mobile home that had burned down and had previously been occupied by "an old Spanish woman."
Across the street from the ruins of that home, Bill Tandy and Rob Robertson were more complimentary of the fire department's performance. They had thought the fire that approached Tandy's home had been put out.
But in a brief moment while they were inside, a hay bail had caught fire and thrown flames into the yard. Before Tandy and Robertson had come back outside, the fire department had caught the blaze and were putting it out, they said.
"You talk about spreading like wildfires. It sure was," Tandy said.
About noon, a team of neighbors and fire department personnel worked to keep a fire contained just southeast of East Central Avenue. It had blackened the land east of the dead-end streets in Glenn Estates, and now it was feasting on a pile of wooden pallets.
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Juanita Fortenberry was out of breath by the time she ran up with an armful of towels from her house at the corner of Glenn Drive and Central Avenue.
"I have no clue (how it started)," Fortenberry said. "I called the police and told them there's a fire. They said, 'Ma'am, there's fires everywhere.'"
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My tip is that, after a shower use only a dime, or a pea sized drop of the chi silk infusion and massage it through your wet hair! After you hair dries, you don't even smell it! Really!
And also to cut down on the use of it, only wash your hair after every 1 1/2 - 2 days. The wet hair helps reduce the potency of the product, but will still keep your hair sleek and shiny after you style it. :) Don't go overboard with it!
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PORTLAND — A strong second-half team through the first half of their season, the Portland Timbers didn't wait for their halftime break to put it to the Colorado Rapids.
Frederic Piquionne and Will Johnson scored first-half goals on Sunday, and the Timbers reached the halfway point of their Major League Soccer schedule with a 3-0 win at Jeld-Wen Field that has them sharing first place in the Western Conference.
Ryan Johnson added a late goal and Rodney Wallace had three assists in his return from the Costa Rica national team, thrilling the crowd of 20,674.
Portland's MLS unbeaten string has reached 15 games, and the Timbers record of seven wins, nine ties and one loss has them tied with Real Salt Lake at 30 points atop the conference standings. It was the sixth consecutive home shutout in league play for the Timbers.
"What's scary about this team is we're just scratching the surface of the team we can be," Timbers coach Caleb Porter said. "A lot of things today, even though it was 3-0, we can be better (at)."
Colorado (5-7-5), which statistically has been more productive than Portland in the opening minutes this season, created a series of early half-chances and spent more time on the attack than did the Timbers to start the match. But it was Portland that scored the early goal.
Piquionne's first MLS goal was a header off the fingertips of goalkeeper Clinton Irwin and the underside of the crossbar. The play began with Will Johnson quickly sending a free kick up the left wing, giving Wallace time and space for the left-footed ball that Piquionne attacked at the top of the six-yard box.
"I saw Piquionne making a good run. He's a great player in the air. As soon as I picked my head up he was right there," Wallace said.
The goal was the 100th Timbers goal in their first 2 1/2 MLS seasons, which Piquionne said added to the moment.
Piquionne was the big on Portland's second goal, too.
In the final moments of the first half, he won an air battle, flicking a header that sent Wallace dashing toward the penalty area. As the Rapids retreated to defend, Wallace found Will Johnson, who juggled the ball once with his right foot before putting a left-footer into the net.
"I figured that someone would be sliding at my feet, so I just chipped it up in the air and volleyed it with the left," Will Johnson said. "You don't know if you're capable of something like that unless you try it. It's part of expressing yourself as a player, trying things like that."
The two first-half goals on Sunday give the Timbers eight on the season. They have scored 20 second-half goals, and their 28 goals lead the league.
"It's nice to be up a couple goals at halftime, especially when we have this game (at Dallas) on Wednesday," Porter said. "I thought the guys managed the second half very well. We passed the game out and chewed up large portions of the second half with possession, which is what we wanted to do."
Portland had only two shots at goal after halftime. The second of those was Ryan Johnson's 84th-minute finisher after a Ben Zemanski interception set up a counter-attack with Wallace sending the pass to an open Johnson in front.
Colorado finished with 18 shots, compared with only six for Portland. Goalkeeper Donovan Rickets was forced to make only one save to earn his fourth consecutive shutout. The Timbers have not been scored against at home since March 9. That was also the team's last loss, a 2-1 defeat by Montreal in the second match of the season.
Including the U.S. Open Cup, Sunday's match was the Timbers fifth in 16 days. They play again on Wednesday at Dallas in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup, then won't see MLS competition until a July 7 match at Columbus.
"Throughout the game we weren't as sharp as we normally are, especially here at home," Will Johnson said of the fatigue factor. "Second half, we just did enough to win the game."
Afterward, the Timbers expressed pleasure in what they have accomplished. But not satisfaction.
"It's good, obviously. But now it gets even tougher," Will Johnson said. "There's no more flying under the radar. We've made too many statements. People know we're a good team, and we're going to get everybody's best shot now so we've got to be ready for that."
Colorado 0 0–0
Portland 2 1–3
First half–1, Portland, Piquionne 1 (Wallace, WJohnson), 12th minute. 2, Portland, RJohnson 6 (Wallace, Piquionne), 45th.
Second half–3, Portland, WJohnson 5 (Wallace, Zemanski), 84th.
Goalies–Colorado, Clint Irwin; Portland, Donovan Ricketts.
Referee–Silviu Petrescu. Assistant Referees–Kevin Duliba. Marco Arruda. 4th Official–Jesus Cisneros.
Colorado–Clint Irwin, Drew Moor, German Mera, Chris Klute (Anthony Wallace, 60th), Marvell Wynne, Dillon Powers, Hendry Thomas (Tony Cascio, 78th), Nathan Sturgis, Nick LaBrocca (Jaime Castrillon, 62nd), Deshorn Brown, Atiba Harris.
Portland–Donovan Ricketts, Ryan Miller, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Rodney Wallace, Pa-Modou Kah, Will Johnson, Jack Jewsbury, Diego Valeri (Kalif Alhassan, 84th), Diego Chara, Darlington Nagbe (Ben Zemanski, 72nd), Frederic Piquionne (Ryan Johnson, 60th).


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|July 31, 2011, 06:36 PM
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I was one that weathered Hurricane Andrew, and the so-called "martial law" that was declared was a great exaggeration of the term. It pretty much just meant that the Army Corps of Engineers was out in areas cut off by damaged infrastructure while being escorted by some MPs to make sure no one messed with them. Those areas had already been evacuated, and the police were still operating anywhere they could drive. As far I know, we've never seen a "real" martial law in force.
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Gun Control: The premise that a woman found in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is morally superior to allowing that same woman to defend her life with a firearm.
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|August 1, 2011, 05:49 AM
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Now, everyone sit back and imagine that all the news media start reporting that martial law will start nationwide tomorrow. Can you imagine it actually happening? I can, if the whole country suddenly looked like my old neighborhood (SW 159th St) the day after Andrew. It would be a good idea, too! Short of that, I really can't.
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jimpeel, my experience with drug interdiction ops was that while we (the Navy) might do boardings on the high seas, it was more likely that we'd carry a LE detachment for the actual boardings. In US territorial waters, we'd work in conjunction with the Coast Guard, and let them do the boardings. We were told this was due to posse comitatus.
I am not sure what grounds were used to bring in military hardware at Waco.
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My understanding is that Reno claimed that drugs were involved at Waco and that justified using the military helicopters for support. Drug war seems to have exemptions to many of the normal military and Bill of Rights restrictions.
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Google though I might, I can't find anything to indicate whether the tanks or Bradleys used at Waco were US Army or Texas National Guard. If National Guard, posse comitatus would not have been an issue. If US Army, then it would.
Does anybody know who sourced the armor?
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From Fort Hood supposedly under General Wesley Clark's Cavalry command, some believe.
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August 2, 1996 Report to the House of Representatives on INVESTIGATION INTO THE ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TOWARD THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS. Page number 50 of the report (PDF page 61) discusses the involvement of the Army (electronics maintenance) and National Guard (providing vehicles and logistical support).
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Regarding Posse Comitatus, looking at some of the antics of the past several administrations, Bush #1, Bush #2, Clinton and Obama, I do not know how much I'd bet on "PC". Of course, I could be completely wrong. I have been wrong before.
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Wed, page A4 my local paper:
Official apologizes for mistakes in gun probe
ATF head said project to stop flow of guns into Mexico backfired
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....shares responsibility for mistakes...resulted in high-powered weapons flowing into Mexico...
William McMahon, head of ATF's Western Region...said that looking back there are things it would have done differently...
....failed to keep close enough track of the investigation...
..The strategy carried the risk that the tracking dimension of the program would be inadequate and that some guns would wind up in Mexico or on the U.S. side of the border in the hands of criminals and gbe used at crime scenes - which is what has happened.
there is a little more fluff in the short article, but that is the jist of it.
Note there is no mention of the Fed agent killed, nor of anyone higher up than McMahon apologizing.
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The disgust factor seems to be heating up in Congress.
The ATFE Reform Act of 2011 is picking up steam:
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A related bill ( also driven by disgust with the current Administration ) is The Collectible Firearms Protection Act .
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The Collectible Firearms Protection Act would remove the power of Mrs. Clinton's State Department and the Pentagon beancounters to meddle with imports of USGI C&R guns like M1 Garands, M1 Carbines & 1911 series pistols.
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H.R. 1093: To reform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, modernize firearms laws and regulations, protect the community from criminals, and for other purposes.
Sounds good to me!
I wonder if ever this becomes law if people can stop worrying about whether putting a CCU carbine kit upper on their Glocks turns them into SBRs or if putting the Glock slide back on it means they've modified a rifle...
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Perhaps they could streamline things by repealing the 1934 NFA act and have those items transferred on a 4473 instead. Think of all the resources that could be saved by closing down the NFA branch and instead spending that money on enforcement. Obviously the NFA branch is a redundant department now that we have the 1968 GCA. Getting rid of it would streamline the ATF significantly.
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While not directly related to F&F or Gunwalker, this is related in "Abuse" by the DOJ and associates. Why bother with constitutional safe guards if one can bypass them and then block review by the courts.
"The government's position here is the FBI's conduct should be beyond the review of the courts, which would render the protections of the constitution meaningless," Bibring said. "Following the government's argument, any domestic law enforcement operation deemed to effect national security would be beyond review."
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On Reform of the BATFE mentioned by C0untZer0 is a contemporary post.
Sounds like a good idea except for the following, this is as I see it. "Reform" of this mob is something unlikely to happen, I speak of firearms enforcement, and its' relationship thereto, because the agency, concerning management has shown itself all to willing to prostitute itself, and is otherwise rotten to the core.
I would think that the following might accomplish something worthwhile, IF it can be done.
The laws, re forearms, that BATFE supposedly enforces, need to be repealed. I don't know if this is doable, given the make-up of congress (House and Senate), but that's what comes to mind. Concerning BATFE, take it's toys away.
The following posted by Dead.
Dead While not directly related to F&F or Gunwalker, this is related in "Abuse" by the DOJ and associates. Why bother with constitutional safe guards if one can bypass them and then block review by the courts.
"The government's position here is the FBI's conduct should be beyond the review of the courts, which would render the protections of the constitution meaningless," Bibring said. "Following the government's argument, any domestic law enforcement operation deemed to effect national security would be beyond review."
Re the last part, I submit that any public official, elected or appointed, that has the unmitigated gaul to attempt to foist off such rubbish should be publicly horsewhipped.
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The summary of H.R. 1093 sounds good but the bill is not doing an overhaul of the agency or anything when you read the details.
I have said in other posts that the FBI is a much more competent investigative and law enforcement agency. I do think the BATFE should be abolished, there are other agencies much more capable of doing most of the BATFE's functions. As for much of their rule making and the creation of regulations and their role in defining what firearms are what category of weapons (sbr etc...), that is a lot of nonsense and we don't need a huge agency to be doing that.
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Won't get any argument from me . Still , if the votes aren't there to kill the monster , then clipping some of it's claws & pulling some teeth sounds better than the current arrangement.
That's the downside to a constitutional republic - it takes votes to win. No philosopher kings to make it all better , starting yesterday.
|August 4, 2011, 02:45 PM
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The plot thickens. The F&F part starts about 1/3 of the way into the article.
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Maybe BATFE is categorizing Alcohol and Tobacco as drugs and those Mexican Drug Lords are using too much of both!
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Characterizing "Fast and Furious" as part of the "war on drugs" doesn't seem very farfetched, given this statement from the ATF's "Project Gunrunner" page:
Project Gunrunner's objective is to deny Mexican drug cartels the tools of the trade, which they employ to murder rival drug traffickers, civilians, as well as political, military, and law enforcement figures in order to strengthen their grip on the lucrative drug and firearms routes into and out of the United States.
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I think the message is this is going to span a lot of alphabet agencies, just like Iran Contra did.
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The DEA is so understaffed they need BATFE to help them on the "war on drugs?"
I don't think so... And I question their characterization of Fast & Furious. I wish I was on that House panel - that would have been one of the first things I asked "War on drugs? Who do you think you are - the DEA?"
I object to BATFE expanding their empire.
Next we'll see them going after inner city drug gangs, the mafia, and what else? They seem to think that any criminal with a firearm falls under their jurisdiction.
My opinion is that everything they touch they screw up. The last thing America needs is for them to be involved in any other kinds of investigations whatsoever.
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posted at 2/21/2011 8:16 AM ESTIn Response to Re: SHOULD WE KICK THE TIRES ON BOB SANDERS?:ABSOLUTELY!!! IN ALL SERIOUSNESS I WOULD TRADE MERRIWEATHER AND posted by JMichalski12well, i wouldnt trade merriweather. unlike a lot of you, i love brendon and me thinks he still has a huge uoside, has not peaked yet. he can cover, sanders is not known as the best coverage safety, lets just be generous and say that. i think you can start the season with a rotation featuring chung merry and bob with james sanders there to fill-in if god forbid he has another injury issue or is simply ineffective. i think bb can help him. its clear he can not be an every-down guy right now. we have the luxury of alllowing him to grow into his greatness again rather than rushing him there. bel is a master of finding creative roles for people. perhaps spikes will play less or even chung depending on how bob and the team performs with him in there. its a one year experiment... plus like fred taylor with bge, it would help chung and others become much better players....
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posted at 2/21/2011 8:21 AM ESTIn Response to Re: SHOULD WE KICK THE TIRES ON BOB SANDERS?:Sign Sanders, put him on the PUP list and have him available sometime after Week 6 (Week 9?) then let him play his heart out for the rest of the season and playoffs. Could be a difference maker in a shortened season.of course you are being sarcastic but who knows.. like with junior seau those last years, it could work. we need him more down the stretch esp once we figure out where the holes are and he gets acclimated with the system via practice and video. he's like an extra coach out there like fred taylor also
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posted at 2/21/2011 8:59 AM ESTI'd pass on him as he doesn't fit BB's system and the Colts wouldn't have let him go if they thought that he could still be serviceable.
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After my girlfriend showed me PETA.org and the horrbile way animals are treated I can't eat meat anymore, but I dig on my sushi something awful, so I am becoming a Fishatarian.
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A person who eats all kind of meat but not fish or any produce from the sea.
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IgG glycan hydrolysis by endoglycosidase S diminishes the proinflammatory properties of immune complexes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A possible new treatment?
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DOI: 10.1002/art.34454
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Lood, C., Allhorn, M., Lood, R., Gullstrand, B., Olin, A. I., Rönnblom, L., Truedsson, L., Collin, M. and Bengtsson, A. A. (2012), IgG glycan hydrolysis by endoglycosidase S diminishes the proinflammatory properties of immune complexes from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A possible new treatment?. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 64: 2698–2706. doi: 10.1002/art.34454
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with chronic or episodic inflammation in several organ systems, related to the presence of circulating and tissue-deposited immune complexes (ICs) that stimulate leukocytes through Fcγ receptors (FcγR) with subsequent inflammation. Treatment with endoglycosidase S (EndoS), an IgG glycan–hydrolyzing bacterial enzyme from Streptococcus pyogenes, has shown beneficial effects in several experimental animal models of chronic inflammatory disease. This study was undertaken to investigate whether EndoS affects the proinflammatory properties of ICs and has the potential to be developed as a therapy for SLE.
ICs purified from SLE patients or RNA-containing ICs formed in vitro were treated with EndoS and used in several assays reflecting different important features of SLE pathogenesis, such as phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs), complement activation, and interferon-α (IFNα) production by PDCs.
EndoS treatment abolished all proinflammatory properties of the ICs investigated. This included FcγR-mediated phagocytosis by PDCs (P = 0.001) and subsequent production of IFNα (P = 0.002), IC-induced classical pathway of complement activation (P = 0.008), chemotaxis, and oxidative burst activity of PMNs (P = 0.002). EndoS treatment also had a direct effect on the molecular structure of ICs, causing decreased IC size and glycosylation.
Our findings indicate that EndoS treatment has prominent effects on several pathogenetically important IC-mediated events, and suggest that EndoS has the potential to be developed as a novel therapy for SLE.


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Marking of the trail
The reason that we did not do this hike before is that we were told that especially the end of the hike, when you reach Lake Matka, is badly marked. Therefore the general advice is not to try this hike without a local guide. In retrospect, I think that when you have a good look at the map, in combination with the sparse marking of the trail, it should be possible to do it without a guide, but you may go wrong here or there...
This year however (2011), I bought an outdoor GPS and downloaded a track describing this hike from internet. Almost foolproof and no local guide needed!
We went by car to the parking at Middle Vodno (Sredno Vodo), which is halfway the top of the mountain. Then, we took the new cable car lift to the top of Mount Vodno and the Millenium Cross.
Alternatively, you can walk all the way to the top, from the foot of the mountain or from Middle Vodno, but that adds a pretty steep ascent to this hike! Some of the last parts are rather steep downhill, so high shoes and walking sticks are recommended.
From the top of Mount Vodno the hike is only downhill, so it is not too hard on your condition. The scenery and the trail are both pretty diverse, the views of the Matka Canyon are amazing.
When you arrive at the bridge over the Treska river, you have to go left to visit the lake. There are several churches around the lake, as well as a bar/restaurant for well-deserved refreshments!
There is a mini-bus going back to Skopje, but you can also arrange for a cab of course. The buses stop near the bridge.
The hike from the Millenium Cross to the bridge at Matka is about 11-12 km long and took us 4 hours including breaks. From the bridge to Lake Matka behind the dam is an additional 1.5 km.
You can look at the GPS track and download it via the link below.
Website: http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=gnjlsbhjjfxunibl
Vrelo Cave
You can visit a cave at Lake Matka. To get to the cave, you have to take a boat for about 4 km upstream from the dam. It takes 30 minutes to get to the cave by boat.
You will find these boats at St Andrea, located just after the dam that is responsible for the artificial lake.
The cave is very spacious, with a small lake inside. Unfortunately, there is almost no opportunity to wander around. You enter the cave by stairs to a small plateau. There you can have a look around, but you are not allowed to leave the plateau. After a few minutes you've more or less seen everything you can see.
The guide could not tell any facts about the cave, not even in Macedonian, as he was just there to navigate the boat.
Summarized: The 30 minute trip by boat over the lake is very entertaining, nice views. The cave is OK, but nothing special if you have seen caves before.
Price (2011); 300 MKD, about 5 euros.
Trail in the cliffs seen from the boat
You can walk along Lake Matka. At some places, you will be walking high on the cliffs on a very small trail, so this walk is certainly not suitable for people with vertigo. See the pictures!
Theoretically, it should be possible to walk all the way along the lake, but we were told that the trail is getting bad after about 6 km (when starting from St Andrea). Allegedly, after about 9 km a new dam is being build in the Treska river, and people told us that we would likely be send back anyways from there.
So we took a boat from St Andrea, 6 km up the river. These boats normally take you to a cave that is about 6 km up the river, but the generator of the cave was out of order, so we could not visit the cave.
A bit futher upstream from the cave we got onto the shore and walked back to St Andrea.
The boat was 250 Denars (about 4 euro) per person, including a transfer across the lake and back after our hike, to the trail that leads up to St Nikola.
If you want to start the hike at St Andrea (instead of taking the boat first), just walk past the huge carabiner that is attached to the rocks.
St Nikola
The Monastery of St Nikola Shishovski (or St Nicholas Shishevski) is located high on the cliffs above Lake Matka. It is not exactly known when the church was built, likely somewhere near the 14th century when it was first mentioned. Allegedly it was abandoned in the 18th century.
The high location is spectacular and gives you a wonderful view of Lake Matka and the Monastery of St Andrea (St Andrew) below. Most pictures in guides and postcards of the lake and St Andrew are taken from this place.
The church is on the opposite site of the Matka Canyon from the Church of St Andrew, the Monastery of St Bogorodica, the Church of St Spas and the Church of St Nedela.
See the map of Lake Matka in my general tips.
When we arrived there, the church was locked. It seems that people are making effort to make something nice of this wonderful spot, since wooden picnic huts are build and there are toilets at this remote site.
It can only be reached by a steep hike, starting from the beginning of Lake Matka. Near the restaurant (and close to the bus stop), take the blue bridge over the river and go left. The trail is marked with red and yellow stripes and spots. It takes about 1-1.30h to reach St Nikola from here, and it is a steep walk.
Alternatively, you can cross the lake with a boat at St Andrea and walk very steeply uphill to St Nikola. This climb is about 180 m and takes you about 20-30 min. Make sure you have good shoes. When you take this trail down from St Nikola, you can either scream to the other site of the lake (St Andrea) to be picked up by boat, or use the gong that is attached to a tree.
You can find more information about this hike, complete with pictures, in my Matka Traveloques, see the link below.
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/a0b83/#TL
Monument for mountaineers
Close to the Church of St Andrea, there is a huge carabiner hanging from the rocks to commemorate climber(s) that died in an accident.
Behind the monument, a trail starts that goes along river Treska for over 9 km, all the way to where a new dam in the river is built at this moment. At least the first 6 km of this trail are good enough to hike, I did not go further than that. Not suitable for persons with severe vertigo (see the picture)!
Dam at Lake Matka
This dam in the Treska Valley is responsible for the artificial Lake Matka.
Behind the dam there is the Church of St Andrea, a restaurant and the Matka Mountaineering club.
Marked hiking trails
At the Church of St Andrea, also the Matka Mountaineering Club can be found. You can also stay here overnight, see http://www.mkdmount.org/ for more information.
From this location it is possible to start several hikes, as well as to do some serious climbing.
There are marked hikes. An attempt to translation from the signs at the picture:
- (unreadable) 1327 - 240 min
- Osoj peak 1368 - 210 min
- Jama Srt - 120 min
- Mountain house Jasen - 150 min
- Bayrak peak 1010 - 150 min
- Marko's Gates (blue trail) - 20 min
- Matkin Dol (Torture valley with some small caves, yellow trail) - 40 min
- North Sedlo (red trail) - 20 min
- Gragor (red trail) - 60 min
- Monastery St Nedela (red trail) - 80 min
- St Spas (red trail) - 95 min
- Monastery St Troica (red trail) - 95 min
I walked the red trail the other way around, i.e. from St Spas to St Andrea. The last part, from St Nedela to St Andrea, was very steep and it is maybe easier to walk this part uphill than downhill. So you might want to start this trial form here, at St Andrea.
Also see the map of Lake Matka in my general tips.
Website: http://www.mkdmount.org
St Andrea seen from St Nikola
The Church of St Andrea (St Andrew) is located close to the dam that is responsible for the artificial lake.
The church, dedicated to St Andrea, was built in the 14th century (1388/89) by Andrea, second son of King Volkashin and brother of the later King Marko.
Pay some extra attention to the frescoes: The faces and postures of the depicted saints are very realistic, and perspective is added, distinguishing them from from frescoes in other churches built at that time.
Close to the church of St Andrea is a bar/restaurant and the mountaineering club Matka. Try to imagine how high above the river the church must have been before the dam was built and the lake was formed. Allegedly it used to be 20 m above the river!
The best and most spectacular view at St Andrea undoubtedly is from the Monastery of St Nikola, high on the cliffs on the other side of the lake. You can take a boat to the other site of the lake and walk steeply uphill to St Nikola. From St Nikola, a trial leads back to the blue bridge at the beginning of the Matka Canyon, see the link below to my Travelogues as well.
Another trail that starts at the site of St Andrea is the steep uphill trail marked in red to the ruins of the Church of St Nedela, Marko's City, St Spas and subsequently to the Monastery of St Bogorodica, which is close to the river Treska again.
See the map of Lake Matka in my general tips.
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/a0b83/#TL
Ruins of St Nedela
On one of the highest cliffs above Lake Matka, are the ruins of St Nedela (St Sunday).
Although the church is without roof, you can still burn candles here, and even write something in the log that is hidden in a metal case.
Some of the frescoes are still (barely) visible.
There are more ruins at this site, from Marko's City, such as those of an old fortress.
Hidden below the church, there is a small wooden hut with a stunning view over the valley, where you can have a picnic.
See the map of Lake Matka in my general tips.
You can get here from two starting points: Monastery of St Bogorodica (via the Church of St Spas) or from the Monastery of St Andrea. Follow the link below to my Travelogues for more information.
Website: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/a0b83/#TL
Marko's City
Close to the Church of St Spas and the Church of St Nedela, there are the ruins of Markov Grad (Marko's City).
The ruins on the pictures must have been of a fortress, judging from the thick walls,
Besides these ruins of the fortress, the only other remnants we could find were those at the Church of St Nedela.
See the map of Lake Matka in my general tips.
This place is located high above Lake Matka and can only be reached by foot. See my Travelogues at the link below for more information.
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University of Warwick plans to construct a campus outside Sacramento on land where Drexel University once planned to build.
Rather than build a branch campus abroad, UC Berkeley hopes to bring foreign universities to California to participate in a proposed global educational hub.
With conflict in Gaza ongoing, some universities with study abroad programs in Israel suspend programs while others stay the course.
Together, U. of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong U. run innovative joint institute.
These universities aren't building international branch campuses, at least not now. Here's why.
NYU reinvents itself as a "global network university," but critics at home question the creation of campuses in nondemocratic countries and the effect of rapid international expansion on programs in Greenwich Village.
As countries vow to become international centers for higher education, can educators distinguish between hype and reality? How do hubs differ?
University officials consider challenges to campuses in other countries -- including MOOCs, the wrong kind of oversight, no oversight, shifting student demands and (when asked about it) lack of academic freedom.
After one of its faculty members is turned away from Dubai, London School of Economics pulls out of joint conference with American U. of Sharjah.
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