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Angola is an oil-rich nation located in southern Africa, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, and bordered by Namibia, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), holds a strong majority, having taken 72 percent at the August 2012 polls. The country has come a long way since its civil war ended in 2002. In 12 years, Angola has managed to transform its war-torn economy into the fifth biggest in Africa. This growth has been mainly fuelled by a doubling of oil production, turning Angola into Sub-Saharan Africa's second largest oil producer after Nigeria. Rising oil revenues have allowed for large-scale state investments, mainly in the construction and rehabilitation of public infrastructures, leading to a massive construction boom and double digit GDP growth rates which reached 23.4 percent in 2007 up from 3.3 in 2003.
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Excerpt from Africa Housing Finance Yearbook 2015
Angola is an oil-rich nation located in southern Africa, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, and bordered by Namibia, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' ruling party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), holds a strong majority, having taken 72 percent at the August 2012 polls. The country has come a long way since its civil war ended in 2002. In 12 years, Angola has managed to transform its war-torn economy into the fifth biggest in Africa. This growth has been mainly fuelled by a doubling of oil production, turning Angola into Sub-Saharan Africa's second largest oil producer after Nigeria. Rising oil revenues have allowed for large-scale state investments, mainly in the construction and rehabilitation of public infrastructures, leading to a massive construction boom and double digit GDP growth rates which reached 23.4 percent in 2007 up from 3.3 in 2003.
Poverty rates have been reduced in post-war years, but about 40 percent still lives below the poverty line[i]. While non-oil economic sectors, notably in services such as banking and telecoms, have been thriving in the past years, the benefits of this growth have been limited to a growing but still small urban middle class. Due to high birth rates and the continued underdevelopment of Angola's countryside, its urban population has been growing rapidly in the past years, with nearly a third of its 24.4 million population now living in the capital of Luanda [ii]. Average incomes are higher in urban areas compared to rural ones, but rapid urbanisation and high costs of living in the city mean that at least two thirds of Luanda's residents depends on the informal sector[iii]. In recent years the Angolan government has come to play an active role in housing development through the construction of mass scale housing projects. Nevertheless, informal self-built housing remains the predominant method of housing development.
Access to finance
As of 2014, there were 24 banks in Angola, four of which are state owned; half of which have entered the market in the past six years. The Angolan banking sector the third largest in Sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and South Africa.[iv] However, levels of financial inclusion in Angola remain low[v]. Only 39.2 percent of Angolans have a bank account at a formal financial institution. This percentage is somewhat higher in urban areas, where 56.5 percent have an account, compared to 33.8 percent in rural areas[vi].
The National Bank of Angola (BNA) has made a concerted effort to increase the use of banking services in recent years. In the past, commercial banks were restricted to the few who could meet the deposit requirement of about US$200 to open an account. In 2011, the National Bank of Angola launched the Bankita programme in partnership with most of the commercial banks that operate in Angola in an effort to improve access to banking services amongst low income households. This matched savings programme offers people the possibility to open a bank account with only Kz100 (about US$1).[vii] However, data on the holders of Bankita bank accounts indicate that their use is limited to urban, male and formally employed individuals[viii].
The post-war construction boom has resulted in a growing interest in the mortgage market and most large banks now offer loans for housing. BAI, for example, offers terms of up to 20 years and financing up to 85 percent of the value of the property. Interest rates for mortgages generally vary between eight and 14 percent. Other banks finance house acquisitions as unsecured consumer loans. These products typically have much higher interest rates, reaching up to 24 percent, and shorter repayment periods of around 36 months[ix]. In practice the lack of instruments to gauge the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers due to the lack of a credit information and a national identification system means that collateral is required for nearly all loans. The absence of a functioning property registration system remains an obstacle and rejection rates of loan applications are high.
As a result, only 7.6 percent of housing credit held by households came from banks in 2009, with the rest obtained from family and friends, savings and employers. In 2010, lending for housing picked up from Kz84 billion (US$900 million) in July to Kz189 billion (US$2 billion) in August of the same year. By mid-July 2013, according to the Governor of the National Bank, individual housing loans were still under eight percent of all loans. However 16 percent of overall investments from banks went into housing, the majority of which was for construction by commercial companies.[x] Most of these companies are large, established and often foreign-owned firms, as smaller domestic start-ups experience similar kind of difficulties as private individuals when it comes to accessing finance.
Nevertheless, Angolan banks investment in the real estate sector in 2014 from data released in July 2015 by the National Bank indicates an increase by approximately US$6 billion over the year[xi]. In order to overcome some of the obstacles related to access to housing finance, the Angolan government has taken an active role in the area of housing development through the construction of new urban centres, or centralidades, across the country. These have generally been financed through oil-backed credit lines from China. Housing in these projects is subsidised through a rent-to-buy scheme launched in 2013 by SONIP, the real estate arm of the Angolan national oil company. This scheme offers a three percent interest rate on twenty-year mortgages for apartments in the new centralidades. In August 2014, the SONIP housing portfolio was transferred to the Angolan private housing management company Imogestin SA.
The government has also created a Housing Development Fund (FFH) (Decree 54/09 of 2009) and adopted new legislation on housing finance with the aim of encouraging commercial financial institutions to provide credit for the construction or purchase of a house. This is done by providing subsidies to banks to reduce interest rates and by providing financial guarantees to reduce risk. Agreements to this effect have been signed with several banks, but so far the portfolio of the FFH is limited to the provision of subsidised loans for public servants. These loans are restricted to the 5 500 units in the centralidades of Kilamba and Cacuaco/Sequele in Luanda, which are managed by the FFH. Loans are extended for 30 years with a three percent interest rate.
The penetration rate of microfinance institutions (MFIs) remains low, with little more than 30 000 active clients. Three MFIs are currently registered with the BNA, but new MFIs have started to enter the market.[xii] Of these, only KixiCredito and Novo Banco Angola report to MIX Market, an online source of microfinance performance data and analysis, which recorded a combined US$20.6 million worth of loans disbursed in 2011.[xiii] Most microfinanciers in Angola are financial banks; in 2007 BAI moved into microfinance by acquiring Novo Banco Angola. The African Development Bank expected that the adoption of new regulations on micro-finance institutions in 2011 should accelerate the development of the sector going forward.[xiv]
KixiCredito is the largest non-bank microfinancier, launched by local non-governmental organisation (NGO) Development Workshop Angola. In 2014, KixiCredito had a gross loan portfolio of US$32 million, with loans to 20 000 borrowers. In addition to microfinance for small business, it also offers a housing microfinance product known as KixiCasa. This was developed on the realisation that more than 30 percent of business loans were being diverted for housing purposes. The product enables groups of between three and five people to access 36-month loans from US$1 000 to US$10 000. In 2012, Homeless International (now Reall) gave Development Workshop access to its CLIFF line of financing for a new social housing project in Huambo province. End-user finance for incremental housing is being provided by KixiCasa. KixiCrédito is also finalising a relationship with IFC to finance the institution's scale-up and its new housing product.
The social security system in Angola covers less than 10 percent of the economically active. There are some special pension funds set up for war veterans and oil sector workers, and there is scope for harnessing these resources for housing. Plans to set up a stock market have been underway since before the end of the war. Government bonds started to be sold to investors in December 2014 and equity trading is expected to start by the end of 2015.[xv]
The Angolan population is a young; almost half are under the age of 15. The average Angolan household consists of five members. A government household survey conducted in 2008-2009 calculates average income per person at about US$90 a month, but almost double in urban areas than in rural areas: US$110 against US$60[xvi]. The minimum wage in Angola is about US$150 and the average monthly salary is estimated to be approximately US$ 500, but skilled private sector employees generally earn over 20 times more than those in the lowest income bracket[xvii]. For (expatriate) oil company employees, this income is even higher with employers generally picking up the bill for accommodation.
The demand for high-end, quality housing in secure developments, with the reliable provision of utilities, and the substamtial budgets of oil companies means that rental and sale prices have become among the most expensive in the world. Prices dropped somewhat after the economic downturn in 2008, caused by a fall in oil prices. Nevertheless, the focus of formal commercial developers remains on the higher income category. In this market, a two-bedroom apartment of about 180 m² in downtown Luanda reaches an average of US$8 525 a m² or nearly US$1.5 million a unit, while a three bedroom house of about 190 m² in a residential compound in the suburb of Luanda Sul costs about US$1 million per unit or US$5 269 a m². The cheapest commercial properties are found in Camama, an hours drive from central Luanda, where there are limited asphalted roads and poor electricity supplies. There, a two-bedroom apartment costs approximately US$200 000, compared to US$840 000 in Maianga, an inner-city district[xviii].
The are government schemes aimed at making housing more affordable. In the beginning of 2013 the Angolan government substantially reduced the selling price of apartments in several of its large-scale housing projects in Luanda. Apartments in these projects were initially priced between US$125 000 and US$200 000 a unit. The introduction of subsidised rent-to-buy schemes through SONIP and the Housing Development Fund (FFH) reduced apartment prices to US$80 000 for a three bedroom apartment, with monthly payments of US$390. This brought ownership within the reach of early career professionals and mid-level civil servants earning over US$1 500 a month. While the FFH kept non-payments low through automatic debit orders, Imogestin has not charged any payments since it took over from SONIP. Residents are expected to start paying their monthly instalments from October 2015 onwards[xix].
It has been reported that in the future, the rent-to-buy option for housing units in government housing projects currently under construction in other parts of the country will be limited to public servants, while other prospective buyers will need to apply at commercial banks for loans that will benefit from state subsidies to keep interest rates low[xx].
It is evident that the rapid rise of house prices and rental prices are slowing, partly due to the government subsidised units. Despite budget cuts in other areas of the social sector due to the most recent fall in oil prices in 2014, investment in housing remains considerable at 4.7 percent of the state's budget, up from 1.07 percent in 2012. However, government housing schemes do not address the costs of living in government housing projects, which are mostly located on the city periphery. A lack of public transport means that many residents rely on costly private transport. Moreover, government housing projects have been largely unsuccessful in terms of reaching low income households.
Housing supply
The civil war in Angola left a legacy of a highly urbanised population, living in areas with little developed infrastructure—some 30 percent of the population have no access to electricity and less than 42 percent have access to clean water. The limited infrastructure restricts development by drastically increasing the cost of developing. This has led to a severe shortage of habitable housing in urban areas.
In the first post-war years, a number of government housing projects were developed for low income households, such as war veterans or people. However, rapid urbanisation means that these projects contributed little to overcome the housing deficit, estimated at just below two million units. In the run-up to the country's first post-war elections in 2008, the government announced a plan to build 1 million houses by 2012. Accompanied by the slogan 'My Dream, My Home' (Meu Sonho, Minha Casa), this plan was formally adopted in 2009 as the National Urbanism and Housing Programme. The public and private sector were each meant to deliver around 12 percent of the total of one million housing units. Housing co-operatives were to deliver around eight percent, while more than 68 percent were to be delivered through the provision of serviced and legalised plots of land for self-help building.
The implementation of the housing programme is still on-going and the timeframe has been extended to 2017. The most successful element of the programme has been the delivery of state-built housing. This includes the construction of new urban centres such as the 'new city' of Kilamba. Financed with a Chinese credit line of US$3.5 billion, which Angola is repaying in oil, and built by the Chinese state-owned company China International Trust and Investment Corporation, Kilamba is one of the largest new-build developments on the continent. Covering 5 000 hectares, the first phase of this residential development includes 750 eight-story apartment buildings with over 20 000 apartment units, as well as schools and retail units, which currently house over 70 000 people. The second phase of Kilamba consists of 5 000 apartments called 'KK 5000'.
Beyond Kilamba, several other new 'satellite cities' have been built by Chinese companies on the outskirts of the capital of Luanda, totalling about 70 000 housing units. The government is building an additional 40 000 units to re-house residents of the inner-city bairros (areas) of Sambizanga, Cazenga and Rangel, which have been targeted for urban renewal. Outside of Luanda, several other Chinese-built new cities amounting to 30 000 units are under construction. Progress is uncertain with the 40 000 houses are under construction in the provinces of Bié, Huambo, Moxico, Kwanza Sul and Uíge by Kora Angola, a partnership between SONIP and the Israeli company LR[xxi].
State-led housing delivery and the subsidised mortgages (regulated by Presidential Decree 259/11 of 2011) mainly serve better paid civil servants. The 'one million houses' programme has mainly fallen short in supporting the self-help housing sector, with regards to security of tenure, serviced stands and financing. It has also failed to create an enabling environment for private actors and housing cooperatives. The domestic construction and the local construction material sectors remain underdeveloped. As a result, foreign firms and imported building materials predominate. Though there has been some progress regarding local cement production, as a ban on imports and new cement factories reduced prices from over US$20 in 2007 to about US$7 in 2015.
Property markets
Angola's formal property market is still in its infancy, with most properties being bought new or off plan and little turnover of real estate. New laws for rentals and the transfer of housing have been adopted in recently in order to make investment in rental housing more attractive, replacing colonial. This is also expected to offer more protection for tenants. This includes a new urban rental, adopted in August 2015, which requires that rental payments be in the country's currency instead of US dollars and that downpayments should be limited to a maximum of 6 months[xxii]. Before, it was common for landlords to demand downpayments of two years.
Angola has also made significant progress in reforming the administrative processes for registering and transferring property. The Guiché Único (Presidential Decree 52/11 of 2011) was created in 2011, a one stop shop for property registration, while new laws on notaries and realtors (Law 8/11 of 2011 and Law 14/12 of 2012) have liberalised the property market, allowing for the private exercise of this profession alongside state officials. A new law on urban property tax (Law 18/11 of 2011) reduced the cost of transferring property from 10 percent to two percent, eliminating them altogether for low cost housing. Stamp duties have been reduced from 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent, tax on housing credit from 0.3 percent to 0.1 percent, and land registry fees have been reduced by half. As a result, the cost of transferring property was reduced from 11.5 percent of the property value in 2005 to three percent in 2015[xxiii]. However, it still takes 190 days to register property[xxiv].
Obtaining the official permits and licences necessary to operate in Angola remains costly and time-consuming. For instance, construction permits now take on average 203 days to obtain (down from 348 days in 2013). It takes 1 296 days (an increase from 1 011 days in 2013) to resolve a contract dispute, and the average cost of doing so is equal to 44.4 percent of the value of the claim[xxv]. At 187th of 189 countries in 2015, this makes Angola rank among the worst in the world for ease of contract enforcement. A general legal framework for faster, non-judicial arbitration of disputes, the Voluntary Arbitration Law of 2003, has yet to be fully implemented[xxvi]. Moreover, legislation that would allow banks to repossess property in case of non-payment is yet to be adopted. According to the Angolan Association of Real Estate Professionals (APIMA), it takes takes three years for banks to confiscate mortgaged real-estate.
Policy and regulation
In post-war years, the Angolan government has adopted an extensive legal and institutional framework to regulate the land, housing and financial sector. This includes the adoption of a new land law (Law 9/04 of 2004), which establishes the different types of land rights that can be granted by the state and stipulates that informally occupied land needs to be regularised within three years. A new territorial planning law (Law 3/04 of 2004) calls for the creation of national, provincial and municipal development plans to allow for more orderly planning. An official housing policy (Resolution 60/06 of 2006) with a view to guaranteeing the universal right to housing. A framework law for housing (Law 3/07 of 2007) defines the different instruments that are to be used to guarantee this right, such as the creation of a system of credit for housing. This law represents the statutory basis for the Housing Development Fund (FFH).
The Angolan government also created a Ministry of Urbanism and Housing, a National Housing Institute (INH) (Decree 12/04 of 2004), a Ministry of Construction, which in addition to local governments, are expected to contribute to fulfilling the government's policy objectives.
However, in practice state institutions are weak and the enforcement of policy and legislation is wanting, especially in the area of land tenure (Law 9/04 of 2004). Many different actors are involved in granting property rights and there is no unified land registry. Moreover, by-laws regulating and simplifying the legalisation of land in the large informal settlements around Angola's major cities have not yet been published. The first comprehensive study of Luanda's urban land markets carried out in 2011 by Development Workshop Angola, with the support of the World Bank, demonstrated that there was a thriving land market but that it operated mainly in the informal sector, with less than 10 percent of land parcels outside the urban core having legal titles[xxvii].
Although subsidised state-led housing construction remains a government priority, budget constraints resulting from the global economic downturn will limit the extent to which the government will be able to continue to invest its own resources in housing development. The National Private Investment Agency (ANIP) has long called for public private partnerships in the area of housing development, offering various incentives. In January 2015, the Minister of Urbanism and Housing invited various stakeholders from the private sector for a meeting about the current obstacles in the property market. This led to a decision to create a task force to improve the participation of the private sector in the implementation of the National Urbanism and Housing Programme (Resolution 20/09 of 2009)[xxviii]. This is likely to create further opportunities for residential financiers and developers.
Despite government investments in urban infrastructure, there are still significant needs in this area. There is increasing recognition by the government that insufficient progress has been made when it comes to making legalised and serviced land available for self-help building. This represents opportunities for actors and companies that can provide technical assistance in terms of land regularisation as well as opportunities for infrastructure development. This was highlighted in April 2015, during the 2nd Africa Urban Infrastructure Investment Forum that was held in Luanda.
While the buying power of the country's urban middle class represents on-going opportunities for both financing and development, so far the lower income segment of the population has been virtually untouched. Housing microfinance therefore represents big opportunities, having the advantage of a supportive legislative regime that formally recognises incremental housing, an established tradition of microfinance lending, established practices by players such as KixiCrédito, and recognised significant demand for it.
[i] National Institute of Statistics (INE). Inquérito Integrado sobre o Bem Estar da População(IBEP). Relatório Analítico. Vol. I. Luanda, 2011.
[ii] National Institute of Statistics (INE).
[iii] National Institute of Statistics (INE), Inquérito Integrado sobre o Bem Estar da População (IBEP) 2008-09. Luanda, August 2010.
[iv] KPMG (2014). Angola banking survey (October 2014). Available at http://www.kpmg.com/PT/en/IssuesAndInsights/Documents/bank-ao-2014-en.pdf
[v] Finscope Angola Community Survey, Literature Review on Current Financial Inclusion Initiatives, (forthcoming 2014)
[vi] World Bank Financial Inclusion data for Angola, see http://datatopics.worldbank.org/financialinclusion/country/angola
[vii] BNA website, see http://www.consumidorbancario.bna.ao/Conteudos_PC/Artigos/detalhe_artigo.aspx?idc=10140&idsc=12331&idl=1
[viii] BNA (2012). Relatório de Estabilidade Financeira. Available at
[ix] FinMark Trust. Access to housing finance in Africa: exploring the issues. No. 11, Angola (May 2010).
[x] FinMark Trust. Access to housing finance in Africa: exploring the issues. No. 11, Angola (May 2010).
[xi] Economia e Mercado, Bancos injectam, mas não na diversificação, 30 July 2015.
[xii] These include Mão Solidária Microfinança and Microcapital, which reportedly received licenses in April 2014.
[xiii] http://www.mixmarket.org/mfi/country/Angola
[xiv] African Development Bank (2012). Angola private sector country profile (September 2012). Available at http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Evaluation-Reports/Angola%20%20-%20Private%20Sector%20Country%20Profile.pdf
[xv] Bloomberg, Angola to start trading stocks this year as banks plan listings (7 May 2015), see http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/angola-to-start-trading-stocks-this-year-as-banks-plan-listings
[xvi] National Institute of Statistics (INE), Inquérito Integrado sobre o Bem Estar da População (IBEP) 2008-09. Luanda, August 2010.
[xvii] Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) (2015). Relatório Económico Annual 2014. Luanda: Universidade Católica de Angola.
[xviii] ProPrime (2014), Estudo de Mercado Imobiliário Angola 2014/Angola Property Market 2014. Luanda, Benguela, Lobito. Luanda: ProPrime.
[xix] http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/economia/2015/8/37/Angola-Imogestin-vai-cobrar-prestacao-2015-partir-Outubro-proximo,9f730e91-d3bc-46a2-b65f-76a696167923.html
[xx] http://www.portalangop.co.ao/angola/pt_pt/noticias/economia/2015/8/37/Angola-Imogestin-vai-cobrar-prestacao-2015-partir-Outubro-proximo,9f730e91-d3bc-46a2-b65f-76a696167923.html
[xxii] http://expansao.co.ao/Artigo/Geral/59725
[xxiii] World Bank Doing Business Report (2015) Economy Profile Angola. Available at http://www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/GIAWB/Doing%20Business/Documents/Profiles/Country/AGO.pdf
[xxiv] World Bank Doing Business Report (2015) Economy Profile Angola. Available at http://www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/GIAWB/Doing%20Business/Documents/Profiles/Country/AGO.pdf
[xxv] World Bank Doing Business Report (2015) Economy Profile Angola. Available at http://www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/GIAWB/Doing%20Business/Documents/Profiles/Country/AGO.pdf
[xxvi] http://opais.co.ao/arbitragem-debatida-em-luanda/
[xxvii] Development Workshop. "The Case of Angola: Strengthening Citizenship through Upgrading of Informal Settlements Cross Country Initiative." Final Synthesis Report TF 0901110 presented to the World Bank, Luanda 30 June 2011.
[xxviii] O País, 23 January 2015.
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So as most of you know our baby Boy has had a Cystic Hygroma since Jan 31st. We just seen a new specialist on Tuesday and she was going to consult with one of the best Drs whom is a double major in maternal fetal medicine and cardiology and get me set up to meet her for a level 2 Ultrasound and Echocardiogram. Well I just spoke with her and I am heartbroken completly we thought things were going well since the Cystic Hygroma was resolving even though its slowly resolving but technically that means nothing as most CH's do resolve ours is currently 6.9mm at it's highest it was 8.9mm (I was informed that is very high and dangerous anything voer 6 mm is) although my CVS was Normal and FISH was normal our Lil Guy is still very sick and they need to find out the cause of the CH. I am scheduled for my Level 2 Ultrasound and Echocardiogram on March 22nd I will be just over 18 weeks at that point. She was very kind hearted but open and honest and told me directly to cherish each day I have with him as it still could end at anytime. She was going to speak with the other specialist and call me back in regards to doing the Micro array she is afraid of it giving me a result that they wouldn't know anything aout as it happens alot then the parents worry even more and sometimes end up with a baby thats healthy for the most part but they continue to worry about the abnormal result for the childs life. So they will only do it if they feel it is truely needed or any other chromosome markers are seen (as of right now there are none just the CH). So after the Echo of the heart if nothing is seen then we will be monitored very closely and once he is born they will run lots of bloodwork this is ultimately the best case scenario along with having the CH completely resolve. However if the CH resolves does NOT mean our Son will be just fine (this is news to us and frustrating) as they need to know what ultimately caused it she said there are like 30 plus things mosta re the Chromsome issues the CVS tested for in which ours was normal (like Trisomy 18, Turners syndrome, and Down Syndrome etc.) also heart defects (which is what they are looking for on Mar. 22nd), and then would be just a delay in the lymphatic system (but that typically clears up and resolves very fast and is rarely ever a measurement over 6mm) there are others like Noonans Syndrome which they do not think is an issue for us. She did say that our 8.9 measurement is very high and to her indicates there is an underlying condition, now which it is we don't know but lets pray its not the heart as many don't survive after Birth (again news to us). She did promise she would do everything she can to get a diagnosis and answers for us as well as help us through this long journey. She too is a Christian and said pray, don't stop, and ask everyone you know to be praying for your son. I am bawling my eyes out and feel so lost, and alone. My Baby boy Connor is struggling and I can not do anything to help him besides pray. Then throw in the fact I am very sick with a severe Sinus infection they think is turning into Bronchitis, I can't sleep and I am so worried about my precious lil guy. WHY WHY WHY? Lord be with me as I can't do this I need you, I need this little boy even if he is sick or slow please let him survive I am begging you.
If I could please ask everyone who believes in prayer to say a prayer for our Connor Jack may the Lord Bless him and keep him safe, heal him of any sickness, relieve him of any pain and give me the strength to keep on gong it truely is getting very hard. I need to go get my meds and I am crawling into bed. What a crummy day.


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When I first discovered VT, I found that there wasn't that many info on nite life and restaurants. Lotsa general info, which can be found in all the tourist guides are available, though (respect to that!). But that's why I decided to concentrate mostly on those "wicked" travel activities. Sure, I like to see sights, but I gladly skip all the museums and other "must sees". After all, you gotta eat, and what else is there to do at night than sleep (which I can do at home;)... That's why I wanna make sure that I find the places to go to, the bars with the coldest beer and the restaurants with food without the "tourist-tax". Even though I'm a tourist myself, I don't like to see other tourists;) - I prefer locals - and since all tourists read the same guides, they're all at the same places, now aren't they?
On my pages I try to give you tips on places that are not that well known, but by locals.
Everytime I travel (at summer) I take my scooter with me. I'm still surprised to see that in most places only kids use these phenomenal gadgets for getting around!
I've saved countless of hours and sore feet by using my scooter, instead of walking. And it's fun, too. Walking up the hills in e.g. Budapest, Barcelona and Prague is good excercise, but coming down with a scooter is an adventure. Trust me!
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Hyvaa syntymapaivaa Tom and many happy returns of the day. Greetings from Lisbon which is waiting for your visit next May for the Euromeeting. It will be fun with vteers from all over. Cheers
Hi, Happy belated birthday. Mvh HEJ :-)
happy and free, peace and harmony in your birthday, wish you from burma. get great events in new year 2008
Happy Birthday, Tom! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Best wishes for your birthday and for 2008 too!! Greetings from Mexico all the way up to your beautiful country :)
Wishing you a very happy...and drunken (if you wish) birthday from the Big Apple!
Scooters - interesting - i love folding bikes and are great for more fun for exploring city destinations (ie - than walking)
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What is it? RFI leverages current programs and commercial-off-the-shelf technology to give the Soldier increased survivability, lethality, and mobility capabilities. The RFI list is updated periodically by the Training and Doctrine Command to keep the list relevant to the war and its lessons learned. The RFI list comprises two types of equipment: (1) equipment every Soldier receives (such as helmets, clothing items and hydration systems) and (2) equipment fielded to units. While all organizations receive certain unit equipment, a more expansive list is provided to Brigade Combat Teams and other selected organizations identified by HQDA, to include lethality and specialty items such as weapons optics and Military Operations on Urban Terrain kits. In parallel, Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier also fields a variety of other items essential to readiness that are not RFI items, to include Interceptor Body Armor, Thermal Weapon Sights, Night Vision Goggles, Multi-Band Inter-/Intra-Team Radio, and the Army Combat Uniform.
What has the Army done? The Army is fielding RFI equipment to every deploying Soldier, regardless of component. Priority of fielding is to Soldiers deploying to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Horn of Africa, Balkans, and then the remainder of the Operating Force until complete. Beginning in 3rd quarter Fiscal Year (FY) 2005, RFI began fielding additional lethality items and the Improved First Aid Kit based on approved Soldier-recommended changes. As of August 31, 2006, the Army has fielded RFI equipment to 728,988 Soldiers worldwide. The goal is to conduct RFI in accordance with the "Equip-Train-Deploy" concept in order to maximize home station training. Every attempt is made to field RFI to units and Soldiers prior to deployment; however, RFI has fielding sites at the Air Ports of Debarkation in Ali As Salem, Kuwait, as well as in Bagram and Kandahar, Afghanistan, to field RFI equipment to any OIF or OEF individual or unit that does not receive RFI at home station. The Defense Logistics Agency instituted an in-theater RFI sustainment strategy in October 2004 to sustain RFI Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment items at its forward depot in Kuwait. Army Direct Ordering and other theater-unique sustainment processes are also in place to support deployed units.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future? RFI continues to be flexible and dynamic. On 10 January 2004, Chief of Staff, Army, approved fielding of RFI equipment to the entire operating Army by the end of FY 2007. The Army's plan is to field the entire operating Army and other potential deployers in the Army-at-Large (a total of 1,166,000 Soldiers) by end of FY 2007. PEO Soldier has recently proposed that the RFI concept be institutionalized as a complementary program to the Army Force Generation model to ensure the continued synchronization of Soldier equipment modernization and sustainment beyond FY 2007.
Why is it important to the Army? In October 2002, the Vice Chief of Staff, Army, directed PEO Soldier to develop the RFI program to equip all deploying Soldiers with enhanced capabilities for the Global War on Terror (GWOT). This directive initiated the U.S. Army's largest equipment fielding effort since World War II and is intended to supplement unit and Soldier equipment with essential capabilities required for success in the GWOT. The program enhances the capabilities of our Active and Reserve Component fighting forces while ensuring Soldier modernization in a systematic and integrated manner that is commensurate with the principles of the Soldier-as-a-System philosophy.
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Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 10:29 a.m.
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Man charged in home invasion
An Avondale man was arrested for forcing his way into his ex-girlfriend's apartment with a knife, Terrebonne sheriff's deputies said.
Andrew Clark, 20, forced entry into the home at 216 Monarch Drive in an attempt to visit with the woman and their child Friday, police said. The call came in at 7:30 p.m., and deputies responded in less than two minutes to catch Clark with the knife and a bloody hand.
Clark, who was treated for a cut hand, is charged with home invasion and faces a 25-year prison sentence if convicted. He is in the Terrebonne Parish jail in lieu of a $300,000 bond.
Allegedly stolen cell alerts owner
An Addis man who left his cell phone at a Houma eatery recovered it hours later with the assistance of Bluetooth electronic technology.
Waitress Tracy Lynette Reed, 30, 231 Country Boy Court, Houma, was implicated in the theft of the phone, the Terrebonne Sheriff's Office said.
A 54-year-old man told deputies he ate breakfast at the Waffle House, 1736 Martin Luther King Blvd., about 1:45, forgetting the phone on the table.
He told investigators he returned about 10 a.m. to retrieve the phone only to be told that no one had seen it.
He told investigators that phone technology in his truck picked up signals from the phone, an indication that it had to be fairly close by. Looking through windows of cars in the parking lot, he spotted his phone inside a red Buick belonging to Reed, his waitress.
Reed reportedly first denied knowing about the phone, then offered to return it if no charges were filed. The phone's owner did press charges after deputies returned his phone. She was jailed on charges of theft more than $500, possession of stolen things and damage to property with intent to defraud.
Big Mike's BBQ opens Wednesday
Owners of Big Mike's BBQ Smokehouse expect the restaurant will open its new location on Barrow Street between The Courier building and the Civic Stop gas station Wednesday.
The restaurant's original location at 1002 Barrow St. burned down in November 2009. Since then, the restaurant has been run out of a small location in a gas station at Prospect Street and East Park Avenue. That location will remain open.
The new restaurant on Barrow Street is 2,400 square feet and will seat at least 40 people.
Lafourche bridge closes Wednesday
The Golden Meadow bridge that crosses Bayou Lafourche will be closed to motorists from 8:30 a.m. through 2 p.m. Wednesday while electrical work is completed, state officials said.
The bridge will be open to boat traffic. The closest bridges are the Belle Vue swing bridge about 19 miles north and the Galliano vertical lift bridge 6.6 miles north.
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Residents can learn more about the Idea Village Water Challenge held annually in New Orleans. Residents with ideas for water-based businesses, such as coastal restoration and flood-control, can compete for $50,000 in seed money. The meeting is sponsored by the Idea Village, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, BISCO, the Nicholls, SLEC, TEDA and the South Central Planning and Development Commission.
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In your own words, Arsenal have had a bad season whereas you just had a few bad games.....Yet we are only three points behind you. What does that tell you?We have a few key players due to return to full fitness, and Villa's squad is beginning to look jaded. These will be key factors in the run in.It's not gloating and I don't claim that Arsenal deserve a top four spot just because. It's because of these factors that Arsenal is looking more likley to claim a top four spot.
Bump.You can't say I didn't tell you.Beginning to look very much like a fifth place for certain, and if things don't improve Everton could take that away from you too.


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The L6235 device is a DMOS fully integrated 3-phase motor driver with overcurrent protection.
Realized in BCD technology, the device combines isolated DMOS power transistors with CMOS and bipolar circuits on the same chip.
The device includes all the circuitry needed to drive a 3-phase BLDC motor including: a 3-phase DMOS bridge, a constant off-time PWM current controller and the decoding logic for single ended hall sensors that generates the required sequence for the power stage.
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Volume 45, Issue 3, March 2007
Understanding Orders of Magnitude45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709662View Description Hide Description
Questioning Scientific Literacy45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709663View Description Hide Description
Author's Response45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709664View Description Hide Description
An Important Detail Omitted45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709665View Description Hide Description
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Why Physics First?45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709666View Description Hide Description
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OHM, OHM, ON THE RANGE45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709667View Description Hide Description
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The Standing Wave on a String as an Oscillator45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709668View Description Hide Description
In the usual treatment of waves in introductory courses, one begins with traveling waves and the frequency/wavelength relationship where v is the wave velocity. One then makes the point about superposition and shows that two waves traveling in opposite directions can add up to a standing wave; Eq. (1) still applies. This approach is problematic in two ways: (1) The motion being described, standing waves, has no apparent "velocity," and so it seems unnecessarily complex—perhaps unreasonably complex—to construct it out of moving waves; (2) It is not easy to derive the formula for the velocity of waves, especially for an audience without calculus or without multi-variate calculus (the wave equation).
Material and Optical Densities45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709669View Description Hide Description
The bending of a laser beam in a medium with a density and refractive index gradient in the same direction has been described previously.1–3 When a transparent container is half filled with a salt or sugar solution and an equal amount of water is floated on top of it, then diffusion will create a concentration gradient from top to bottom. A laser light beam shone from the side of the container will then be bent gradually. Its path is shown in Fig. 1.
Experimenting with Electric Trains45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709670View Description Hide Description
A simple experiment can be performed to characterize the relationship between applied voltage and velocity (steady state and transient) for an electric toy train. The results can be used by teams of students to solve a series of challenges in which they attempt to predict the performance of a particular train. Some sample challenges might include having groups predict the position of the train at a certain instant in time, predict the time the train will reach a given location, and select the applied voltage that will ensure the train will reach a certain point at a given instant. This activity is centered on a team-oriented modeling-based project conducted at Clarkson University, which was published in the American Journal of Physics.1
Ultrasonic Interferometers Revisited45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709671View Description Hide Description
I have been tinkering with ultrasonic transducers once more. In earlier notes I reported on optics-like experiments performed with ultrasonics,1 described a number of ultrasonicinterferometers,2 and showed how ultrasonic transducers can be used for Fourier analysis.3 This time I became interested in trying the technique of using twodetectors in acoustic interferometers instead of the usual one.
How Circulation of Water Affects Freezing in Ponds45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709672View Description Hide Description
One means of preventing the top of a pond from freezing involves running a circulating pump near the bottom to agitate the surface and expose it to air throughout the winter months. This phenomenon is similar to that of the flowing of streams in subzero temperatures and to the running of taps to prevent pipe bursts in winter. All of these cases appear to support the assertion that "flowing water does not freeze," a myth debunked in the case of shaken water in the December 2004 issue of TPT.1
Special Relativity and Magnetism in an Introductory Physics Course45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709673View Description Hide Description
Too often, students in introductory courses are left with the impression that Einstein's special theory of relativity comes into play only when the relative speed of two objects is an appreciable fraction of the speed of light (c). In fact, relativistic length contraction, along with Coulomb's law, accounts quantitatively for the force on a charged particle as it moves relative to a current-carrying wire. That force, which in the reference frame of the wire we call "magnetic," is measurable and important even at relative speeds on the order of 10−12 c. This paper offers a straightforward way of introducing students to the connection between magnetism and special relativity and provides references to more in-depth treatments, especially those of E.R. Huggins1 and of E.M. Purcell as simplified by D.V. Schroeder.2
"Physics with a Smile"—Explaining Phenomena with a Qualitative Problem-Solving Strategy45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709674View Description Hide Description
Various studies indicate that high schoolphysics students and even college students majoring in physics have difficulties in qualitative understanding of basic concepts and principles of physics.1–5 For example, studies carried out with the Force Concept Inventory (FCI)1,6 illustrate that qualitative tasks are not easy to solve even at the college level. Consequently, "conceptual physics" courses have been designed to foster qualitative understanding, and advanced high schoolphysics courses as well as introductory college-level courses strive to develop qualitative understanding. Many physics educationresearchers emphasize the importance of acquiring some qualitative understanding of basic concepts in physics as early as middle school or in the context of courses that offer "Physics First" in the ninth grade before biology or chemistry.7 This trend is consistent with the call to focus the science curriculum on a small number of basic concepts and ideas, and to instruct students in a more "meaningful way" leading to better understanding. Studies7–10 suggest that familiar everyday contexts (see Fig. 1) are useful in fostering qualitative understanding.
Teaching Physics Using Appropriate Technology Projects45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709675View Description Hide Description
Appropriate technologies able to be easily and economically constructed from readily available materials by local craftspeople have a central role in the alleviation of poverty in the developing world. However, research and development of these technologies are generally apportioned relatively modest support by the developed world's institutions, in part because the operation of many of these appropriate technologies is dependent on relatively well-understood science accessible even to introductory college physics students. This paper describes a project-based assignment used to capitalize on this opportunity to motivate students to learn physics by offering them a chance to make concrete contributions to the optimization of appropriate technologies for sustainable development.
An Elementary Model of the Earth's Magnetic Field45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709676View Description Hide Description
This article is intended as a guide for teaching geomagnetism in a high school or university introductory physics class. Many students find this subject fascinating. Instructors, however, often have a difficult time introducing this topic at an elementary level. Suggestions will be made on how to accomplish this using three electricity and magnetism problems commonly encountered in an introductory class.
Hydraulic Capacitor Analogy45(2007); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.2709677View Description Hide Description
Students have difficulties in physics because of the abstract nature of concepts and principles.1 One of the effective methods for overcoming students' difficulties is the use of analogies to visualize abstract concepts to promote conceptual understanding.2,3 According to Iding,4 analogies are consistent with the tenets of constructivist learning theories, which claim that learners should be actively involved and new concepts should be based on learners' previous experiences. When analogies are used during the teaching-learning process, they may promote students' understanding of abstract science concepts.5 This paper suggests a capacitor analogy that aims to foster students' conceptual understanding of capacitors in a slightly different way than Greenslade's analogy.6
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A ball placed on the edge of a horizontal table is hit with a pendulum and thrown over the floor. The fall time is measured by recording the sounds produced by the collisions with the pendulum and the floor. If the height of the ball with respect to the floor is known, one can determine the acceleration of gravity.
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The introductory physics lab curriculum usually has one experiment devoted to the study of the refraction of light. The most obvious way to study the refraction of light is to lay a transparent block down on the lab bench and aim a laser beam horizontally at the block so that it refracts twice—inward upon entering the block and outward upon exiting. The vendors that provide us with lab equipment (Sargent-Welch, PASCO, Fisher Scientific, and Frey Scientific to name a few) sell acrylic blocks for this very purpose, but these are either too small or they are too expensive. If students are going to measure angles of incidence and refraction, the blocks should be larger than the typical student protractor, which has a radius of 3 in (≈ 7½ cm). These blocks are just not large enough. They are generally not thick enough either so that the beam from a typical laser passes over them and not through them. The vendors mentioned above do sell blackboard optics kits that contain, among other parts, three blocks that are large enough—on the order of 10 to 20 cm. Unfortunately, these kits cost more than $1000.
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If you want to experience small town life in Italy that's a quick and easy distance from Rome without needing to rent a car – I highly recommend visiting the medieval hill town of Orvieto. Orvieto is easily reachable by train from Rome's Termini train station and depending on the train takes 50 minutes to an hour & twenty minutes to reach.
Orvieto sits up on a rock which when coming from Rome you can't really see from the train. As you exit the station at Orvieto, cross the piazza and take the funicular up into town. The original funicular started running in 1888 and used a water powered system. The ride up is a smooth and effortless 2 minute climb up the side of the rock past people's homes, olive groves and vineyards.
Exiting the funicular station, you can walk up Corso Cavour one of the main streets located directly in front you and be in the town's center in about 10 minutes. Or you can jump on the A bus that takes you to the front of the Duomo – Orvieto's cathedral – in less than 5 minutes.
Many Romans come to Orvieto on the weekend to stroll around the town and have a nice lunch. Orvieto is in the region of Umbria and has loads of great restaurants serving local, regional cuisine. Cinghiale (wild boar), truffles, umbrichelli (a thick spaghetti-type pasta made with flour & water) and the Orvieto Classico – a dry white wine, are typical specialties of the area.
There are a lot of very good restaurants in Orvieto. Our family's favorite is Trattoria del Moro-Aronne. This family owned and run restaurant is very popular in the guidebooks so usually crowded with visitors, but they have not lost their integrity as some places that get popular do – their food is great. When eggplant is in season go for the polpette di melanzane (eggplant patties) and their roasted potatoes. Their nidi di rondine with pecorino and honey is a cheese-lovers delight (warning – sweet & rich, but oh so good) and they make a fantastic porcini mushroom/truffle pasta dish. The owners, Cristian and his mother Rolanda are super nice and friendly. Bistrotters is owned and run by Emiliano & Ilaria who took over a long-standing restaurant that had seen better days and transformed it into this stylish yet casual spot. The staff are super friendly and they have a large outdoor dining area with good pizzas, pastas and great wine. Trattoria del Orso is the two-man operation of Ciro and Gabriele. Ciro will explain the day's dishes and Gabriele cooks in the kitchen. I particularly like their pasta dish with mushroom and truffles and they have some excellent meat dishes (I'm told. Being vegetarian, I have to trust the meat-eaters I know). After your meal, ask Ciro for his latest digestivo. They make their own liqueurs out of natural ingredients such as bay leaf and other plants. A bit hidden away is Mezzaluna if you are looking for a quick bite to eat with local grumpy ambiance. The owner is a bit gruff, but does serve up what my daughters consider some of the best carbonara they've ever eaten and the price is right.
Dolceamaro – Corso Cavour, 78 – a chocolate shop with artisan handmade chocolates and cookies and in the winter – their excellent hot chocolate and in the summer, their gelato.
La Loggia – Corso Cavour, 129 – wine shop
Enoteca al Duomo – Corso Cavour 51 near Torre del Moro – wine shop owned by friends of ours who also have a location at the Duomo and owners of the Bistrotters restaurant mentioned previously.
When you're in the midst of the chaos of an urban city center like Rome, it's difficult to imagine that just a few kilometers out of town you'll find a rural idyll with green hills, rolling green pastures, olive trees, grapevines, sheep and horses. Yet just 40 minutes by train north of Rome is a beautiful area called Sabina that easily rivals Tuscany and Umbria for its green and natural beauty.
I used to take horseback riding lessons in the Sabina area, but when I was pregnant with our third child, I was told very sternly by my midwife that horseback riding and pregnancy do not mix. Unfortunately, I never did go back to my lessons, but recently, thanks to our friends at Convivio Rome, I have been spending time in the area again.
Convivio Rome is small tour company run by Sally Ransom and Guido Santi, an Australian-Italian couple who offer cooking tours out of their home in the small medieval town of Toffia as well as wine and olive oil tours of the surrounding Sabine countryside. They were kind enough to invite me first on an olive oil tour last year and then a wine tour a year later this past April.
The only way to see this area is by car and Sally and Guido meet and pick you up in their own vehicle at the Fara Sabina-Montelibretti train station located 40 minutes from Rome's Tiburtina station. The countryside here like many parts of Italy is agricultural and there are orchards and vineyards a plenty.
The area of Sabina has been cultivating olives and making olive oil for thousands of years. In fact one of the oldest and largest olive trees in Europe, "l'Olivone" is located in this area and has been dated as being over 2,000 years old!
The olive oil from the Sabina are is one of the few olive oils to earn the DOP label (protected designation of origin) and many consider the olive oil here to be some of the finest in Italy.
Wine is equally important to the area and its cultivation started with the Etruscans in the area back in 800BC. We visited the Tenuta of Santa Lucia owned by the Colantuono family who have been wine producers in the Abruzzo region for 50 years and who bought the current vineyard in the Sabina area 10 years ago.
They are small producers, but their wine is exported as far away as the US and Japan. The grapes they grow are Malvasia, Falanghina, Pecorino, Syrah, Merlot, Montepulciano and Sauvignon.
We spent the day following the wine-making process with Massimo, a young oenologist, who explained in depth the scientific and technical aspects of wine production. Then we had a few tastings – a white and a red, along with some bruschetta and local oil.
Sally and Guido then took us to the nearby tiny borgo of Farfa, home of the Abbazia di Farfa (Farfa Abbey) and to Benedictine monks since the 600s. The borgo is small and seemingly perfect with an eclectic mix of people – I've seen tai chi practitioners to yogis to teenagers playing football in the local park in town.
There are only a handful of shops and places to eat including a place called i 4 Monaci where Sally & Guido took us for a light snack lunch and more local wine. This eclectic shop specializes in funky artisan products as well as many organic Italian skin care products and they sell an incredible homemade dark chocolate with hazelnut and pistachio.
A 3 hour tour turned into 4, but Sally and Guido were very patient and drove us to the train station afterward. Personally it was very gratifying to see visitors to Italy getting off the tourist path and I had a wonderful time with a diverse group of people who by the end had developed a camaraderie after a fun day together.
If you have some time while in Rome, but don't have a car, just contact Convivio Rome. Their tours are very reasonably priced and getting out to the Sabina countryside is easy and hassle-free. Wine and olive oil are inherent parts of Italian culture and are revered worldwide – it's worthwhile taking the time to learn more about them while you're here.
In the center of Rome alone there are over 100 museums. They range from the most visited (Vatican Museums ) to the oldest (Capitoline Museums ) to another that many people consider has one of the most exceptional collections of art under one roof. ( Galleria Borghese )
While these museums are definitely worthwhile to visit, the last time I visited the Vatican Museums in 1995 I was so overwhelmed by the hot, sticky crush of humanity that all these years later I'm still in shock over it and have never gone back. Granted, I should probably give it another try, but for now, I've got other fish to fry.
There's something I like about those places that are off the radar and that are not so well known and less well known means less people which is a huge plus for me. Context Travel's tours in the public interest offers the perfect opportunity to explore those unnoticed gems in Rome and they started their season with a "Hidden Museums" series. The series features tours of four museums that are often overlooked and yet full of important and interesting works of art, free of the masses and yet in an easily doable and digestible 1.5 hours.
Their first featured museum was the Centrale Montemartini. "Gods & Machines" was the perfect title of the first exhibit that took place here at this former power plant turned museum space when it was restored back in the 90's. Many ancient Roman sculptures from the Capitoline Museums found a home here.
The pieces here are beautiful and the contrast between the industrial and the classical in this art nouveau style building is striking. There were only a handful of other visitors when we were there and yet so surprising considering what an exceptional and very unusual space it is.
The second tour was of the Museo di Roma in the Palazzo Braschi (the first photo in this post is of the grand staircase). Palazzo Braschi looks out onto Piazza Navona and was the last papal building in Rome constructed in the late 1700's and giving it the nickname "the last miracle of St. Peter." The museum is full of very detailed paintings of a Rome long since gone and it was fun trying to guess which part of Rome we were looking at before reading the title of the painting. An unusual touch is the classical music played in the grand staircase leading up to the different floors.
Context's next Hidden Museums tours will be of Palazzo Venezia in Piazza Venezia on 27 May and the Museum of the Middle Ages in the EUR neighborhood on 24 June. Tours must be booked on-line and are only €5. Tours start at 5pm and last 90 minutes.
I lived in Panama as a child and I was a bit of a wildish creature. I spent 6 years barefoot and most of my waking hours were spent without walls – the worst punishment I could receive from my mother was being made to stay inside for the day. One of the highlights of our neighborhood was a hill that my friends and I dubbed "Clay Hill". We played on it a lot and in the rainy season that hill became a slippery, red, muddy mess, but as children do – we were oblivious and we played on despite the mud and the wet.
Unbeknownst to many, Rome has its own "clay hill". Monte Testaccio is not really a mountain, but a huge hill made up of the shards and fragments of amphorae dating back to the 1st century BC. Amphorae were terracotta pots used to carry a variety of products and the ones to carry olive oil were not reusable so they were discarded after use. These discarded pots are what formed Monte Testaccio. Estimates of how many amphorae were deposited on here range from 20-50 million. I've always been curious about this hill and it was great to explore it recently with Katie Parla of Parla Food.
Before the walk up, Katie showed us a bit around the part of the Testaccio neighborhood just surrounding the bottom of the hill. We stopped by Testaccio's food market which was moved to its present location in 2011 and which is overlooked by a mural of "La Lupa" – a 20 meter tall depiction of the Capitoline She-Wolf by Belgian street artist, ROA, that was commissioned by the residents of the building.
During the walk we observed the beginning stages of the dismantling of the Big Bambù installation by artists Mike & Doug Starn at the MACRO Testaccio which had been a beloved part of the Testaccio landscape for the past 3 years. The MACRO Testaccio is located in what were the former city slaughterhouses.
From the grounds of the MACRO and the Città del Altra Economia – a fair trade complex also located here – Monte Testaccio from the distance looks like an ordinary green hill. However, its uniqueness is more apparent the closer you get as you can see from this path leading up the hill.
At the top of Monte Testaccio is an iron cross. For years, the summit served as the final stage of the Way of the Cross (Via Crucis) for the Pope during the Good Friday celebrations which now take place at the Colosseum. Some of the views from Monte Testaccio look out into the area of early industrial Rome in the Ostiense neighborhood and the Gazometro structure that was built in the early 1900's – now no longer in use.
On another side of the hill Katie pointed out the birthplace of the football team, AS Roma, the pitch where the team had its first games back in 1929, abandoned in the 40's and turned into an illegal dumping ground. Still standing are 4 lights surrounding the pitch and some stadium seating. You can see the top of the Pyramid of Cestius – Rome's own pyramid – in the background.
As we walked back down the hill what came to mind was "where the hell else in the world could I do something like this?!?" Rome truly never ceases to amaze me!
Katie's next visit of Monte Testaccio will be on Rome's 2,768th birthday on 21 April.
Be sure to visit one of my favorite restaurants in Rome, Flavio al Velavevodetto, built into Monte Testaccio.
I'll come straight out with it – I hate to cook. I do it when I have to, but I do it begrudgingly. In Italy, where it is very easy to head to the local fresh pasta shop, learning how to make my own pasta has never seemed essential. I've also been spoiled by great food made by my husband, Steve, who is an excellent cook. However, in one of those "you can give a man a fish or you can teach a man to fish" moments – I thought it would be a fun evening spent with friends learning how to make this classic Italian food staple.
We often get guests at The Beehive wanting to take a cooking course, but nothing too rigorous. Walks of Italy's pasta making course is a great option for someone wanting a short, easygoing class while still learning a delicious and handy skill.
The course is located on the beautiful rooftop terrace apartment of Chef David Sgueglia della Marra and his wife Barbara. Chef David welcomed everyone warmly and despite his leg being in a brace from a recent surgical procedure, he still had loads of energy and enthusiasm. Pre-pasta making started with prosecco and delicious appetizers. My kind of cooking class!
Donning our aprons, our stations were already set up – ingredients were laid out and pre-measured. He told us the portions so we would know for the future and showed us how to mix the two main ingredients. While there is pasta made with egg, we made the lightest and easiest kind which consists of only two ingredients. It all starts with a little bit of flour and a little bit of water.
After we mixed and lightly kneaded our dough – it was wrapped in plastic and set aside for about 15 minutes which allowed us to have a second round of prosecco.
When the dough was ready, Chef David showed us how to use the wooden rolling pin to initially roll out the pasta and then using a hand cranked pasta machine – we rolled the pasta out another 3-4 times until it was quite long and thin.
With a knife we cut off pieces and rolled between our hands. Here's the result – our handmade pici pasta – Marchigiano style.
The sauce he chose was deceptively simple – olive oil, garlic, zucchini flowers, sausage and saffron which the pici pasta was then mixed into. In a smaller pan, Chef David's wife Barbara made a vegetarian version for me without sausage. It was absolutely delicious!
Afterward, we ate our pasta which was incredibly light and flavorful and enjoyed some glasses of wine and camaraderie with our fellow students. The weather was a bit cold to sit out on the terrace, but I can imagine in the spring and summer what a lovely evening it would be to enjoy the fruits of our labor al fresco.
For more information on this pasta making course with Chef David, contact Walks of Italy.


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Fairwood Motel – 7400 Hwy 45, Three Lakes
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A very nice waterfront lot on the Three Lakes Chain of 28 Lakes. The property includes a 1 bedroom owners home and a 5 unit roadside motel. The motel is insulated for winter rentals, there are piers at the lake for your customer's boats, a fish cleaning house and a small workshop on the property. The snowmobile trail and a bicycle trail are located across the street.
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White Deer Wine Spirits – 1801 Superior St, Three Lakes
Price: $199,900.00
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Live and work in the center of the Northwoods. This thriving business is the only liquor, wine and beer store in town. This well organized store would be easy to run independently with current full time manager and a few relief workers and you can sit back and build equity. Let the business pay for itself. Comfortable living quarters attached to the business. There is room to expand. Travel voucher included to buyer. * Listed withEliason Realty Of The North
Irish Waters Pub – 7004 Hwy 45, Three Lakes
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A prime location and year round business help make this downtown Three Lakes establishment an outstanding opportunity. Located on Hwy 45 and the on the snowmobile trail with an excellent reputation for great food and fun. Bar seating is for 27 with a dining room accommodating 40. Clean, spacious and well-equipped kitchen with recent updates including a new hydronic boiler, air conditioning and Ansul kitchen fire suppression system. City water and city sewer plus living quarters make this the complete package.
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1667 Superior St., Three Lakes
Price: $129,000.00
This building would suit several different types of businesses. The owners have gutted the building, blown in insulation, installed new drywall, wiring, fixtures, plumbing, Thermal Pane windows, water heater, and rubber roof. The building offers an office, two bathrooms and two kitchenette areas. The showroom has windows that provide abundant natural lighting. You will have five different doors for entering/exiting including one set of double doors. The ingress and egress for entering the business will make it convenient for your customers. There is also a room in the back for extra parking or an outdoor sitting area.
6957 Superior St., Three Lakes
Price: $155,000
Convenient location with easy access to start up or relocate a business. This building has 3 large bays w/overhead door system. Ample parking with room to expand. All city services available.
Patty's Place, 6990 Winkler Rd, Three Lakes
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Commercial/Industrial – One of the newest buildings available in town complete with a drive up window! If your business needs include high visibility, all city utilities and plenty of paved parking, you've just found your place.
Bonack's Safari World – 7036 Hwy 45, Three Lakes
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A beautiful building with a 3 bedroom upper apartment and store or office front with a large workshop/ manufacturing area on the ground floor, facing Hwy 45 in downtown Three Lakes. There is semi access at rear of building for deliveries/pickup.
Wonders Pit Stop – 1275 Margaret Lake Rd, Three Lakes
Price: $244,900.00
Building Sqft: 2,736
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Highly visible business that has a good following from area lakes & people coming to the Northwoods. Featuring a Friday night fish fry, Sunday Chicken Dinner, this bar has lots of potential. A 1-bedroom, 720 sq.ft. Marshfield mobile home is included. Kitchen has been remodeled & has new equipment. There's a new roof & log siding. Central air, updated electrical service & seating for 14 at the bar & 18 in the dining room. This is a cozy "mom & pop" establishment with room to grow.
Hilgys Gas & LP – 7626 Hwy 45, Three Lakes
Price: $549,000.00
Building Sqft: 11,000
Lot Size: 5 acres
GREAT POSSIBILITIES are awaiting this large commercial building conveniently located between Eagle River & Three Lakes. Ample parking & 11,000 sq.ft. of space with showroom area, storage & high visibility on Hwy 45. Portion of building houses a Laundromat that would like to continue with the new owner. This is the time for a creative investment in a building that could house retail, business office space, hardware store or subdivide into smaller units. The location is perfect!