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Footprints Villa is a large detached 5 bedroom beachfront residence with its own private pool. Fully renovated, the house dates from the 19th century, once a historic former Sea Captains detached stone residence. Located in the renowned picturesque mainland village of Viganj, with stunning views over to the amazing Korcula, birth place of Marco Polo. Located north of Dubrovnik, on the stunning Dalmatian Coast.
Viganj is a peaceful oceanside setting, within easy reach of Dubrovnik airport (I arrange transfer from as little as £12-18* per person), with striking seafront views, beautiful beaches, restaurants and a vibrant windsurfing scene (ideal for children and adults of all ages - low cost tuition provided) and just a 10 minute foot-ferry trip on the village boat to historic 12th century Korcula (being the featured destination in the August 2015 BBC 2 Rick Stein series for is historic and culinary excellence).
The restored stone villa has its own large private pool ( it's an ideal 8.9m x 5.6m in size) and wonderful views out to sea, with beaches a few footsteps from the front door!
Footprints Villa offers spacious living with 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, and sleeps 10 (up to 12 if infants in cots). It has 2 large reception rooms, atrium, plus a huge kitchen with Bosch fittings, beverage fridge (for the local wines provided in your welcome pack!) dishwasher, sit up bar, triple sinks, granite work surfaces to stunning decks, front and rear, to enjoy the access to the ocean & the huge sea front south-west patios, or around its large private pool to the rear of the home.
There is no need for a car, as easy walking to this lovely little fishing village's bars and small restaurants, serving local fresh foods, especially sea food. The well stocked shop is just 150 meters away. Beaches are seconds by foot too. The villa has a jetty in front.
I also offer a free pre-arrival grocery shopping service. Just send me a list for basics you'd like for your first evening/breakfast and it will be awaiting you on your arrival. Groceries just charged as per the receipt.
Footprints Villa dates from the 19th century and was restored over a 4 year project from a ruin to its present glory with exposed original stone features which blend beautifully with stylish, contemporary finishings, polished wooden and tiled floors, hi-end sanitary wear, designer kitchen and quality outdoor furnishings. Large stone BBQ.
The original features have been carefully retained, yet it offers modern elegance in undoubtedly the most amazing location. Other features include flat screen TV, thick, fluffy towels & bath robes, 400 thread Egyptian bedding, The White Company toiletries, pool towels, free wireless internet.
A perfect private, spacious luxurious family villa.
Footprints Villa, in Viganj, is located on the Adriatic mainland, so no need to catch (or worry about catching!) ferries to the islands. From experience, if a ferry is missed, especially in higher season, the delay can be lengthy and rather hot in the summer months!
The village of Viganj (pronounced ve-gan) sits on the azure clear Adriatic sea, and north from the city of Dubrovnik, and faces the 'mini Dubrovnik' of Korcula - easy to reach by the foot passenger only water taxi that leaves just 200m by foot from Footprints Villa. The village has a plentiful supply of excellent bars, restaurants, its very well stocked mini supermarket, at of course within walking of the villa. The beaches are safe and again, all near the villa.
Viganj is famous for its windsurfing and kitesurfing scene, with plenty of opportunity to learn or improve your skills with the various companies that offer tuition - again, all within a short walk of the villa.
If you like to enjoy more sedate forms of relaxation, the region is equally famous for its vineyards with tours and tastings all available that we can arrange, as can boat hire, both for own use and captained.
No need for the car once once in residence, or long walks in the hot summer heat to 'close to the sea' accommodation in the area. Taxi's too are a cost effective wy to visit the near villages with more choices of places to eat and drink.
Full details of many things to do locally are provided in the villa.
I hope you come and enjoy sea front living at Footprints Villa!
Richard Affleck, UK, owner.
Footprints is open annually from 1st May - 15th October.
Its easy to book Footprints Villa for your holiday in Croatia. Just complete the enquiry for to the right of this message and I will reply immediately. I will confirm the dates and rates and if you wish to progress, you can use the secure and guaranteed booking now system this site operates, after which I'll e-mail you the booking form. This can be completed and e-mailed or posted back. The deposit is 25%. The balance is not due until 8 weeks before your holiday. Payments can also be made by internet banking, credit cards or via PayPal.
FOOTPRINTS VILLA IS NOW IN THE TOP 20 HIGHEST REVIEWED VILLAS of all 60,000+ properties listed on this site for the entire country of Croatia. (excluding small apartments). Click on 'reviews' to read the latest comments from our recent guests.
Recent published news - Travel Weekly - the principle trade forum for travel trends stated, in its 2015 trend report -''Those seeking safe, European sunnier climes, are heading to Croatia's Dalmatian Coast in their droves, according to Thomson and the latter ranks Croatia among its five fastest-growing destinations for 2016/17''.
* airport transfer price based on group of 5-10 persons.
Hello! I bought Footprints villa as a roofless ruin back in 2008, but knew with some hard work, I could restore it to its former glory as the former Sea Captains house it once was. The position of course, being sea front, is unrivalled, and made me all the more enthused to create a great home. It took 3 more years to complete the project to what you can now see.
Richard Affleck, owner purchased this villa in 2008
Why this property?
It's always been very rare indeed to find a large, historic sea front house with plenty of outside space, but after 4 years of visiting and searching Croatia, when this popped up, I grabbed it.
It took nearly 3 years to create Footprints as it is today, with over 40 return visits as the restoration progressed.
Sea front living on a holiday can't be beaten. Not just for direct access to the sea, amazing views, but also the convenience of being able to wander to all local facilities (no 'a short walk' or ''just a 5 minute drive for the shops and beach' with this villa!!).
We spend enough time behind the wheel of a car not to have to do the same on our holidays.....,there is no need for a car at Footprints...I can recommend transfers for you are in the village, on the beach, everything is within walking distance (shops, bars, great restaurants).
Better still, my villa is on the mainland, so no waiting for hours and hours in the summer sun (after 3-4 hour flights and car journeys) queuing for a ferry to the outer islands such as Brac, Miljet, Hvar etc etc!
We supply wireless Internet of course and bath, hand AND pool/beach towels, plus also a large array of complimentary toiletries.
An extensive welcome pack is provided, with my compliments.
I have excellent stay who care for my guests when in residence, and as you can see from my many reviews, their service is welcome and appreciated.
The following review was written by the guest in the villa comments book...
''What a perfect place! We loved everything about the villa, the town, the sea and Korcula. So relaxing here, I wasn't sure if I still had a pulse!
Little Viganj village is really enchanting. We can't wait to come back!
Beautiful sunsets, Drinks on the terrace. Great local restaurants, church bells ringing. So quiet and peaceful.
Would definitely come back here, Fabulous home''
The villa was beautiful with marvellous facilities. Great kitchen and fab views from bedrooms and large terrace. Sea literally across the road, crystal clear waters and lovely little stone jetties all along the coastal walk. So peaceful and unspoilt. Lots of restaurants and bars closeby with one almost next door for a cold beer sitting right out over the sea. Loved it and would certainly go back to "Footprints" .
We had a wonderful holiday at Footprints Villa, set in such a beautiful seaside village. As first timers to Croatia we were really pleased with the property and location. Being keen walkers, seven adults were well served with the stunning areas to explore in the immediate vicinity.
The villa itself is very well appointed with lots of space for all. The kitchen was a great social area with seating as needed whilst we enjoyed cooking together. There are outside dining tables by the pool or on the seafront terrace and also a dining room inside, so plenty of choice. A cold glass of local wine went down well while enjoying the beautiful view from the front patio. We were blessed with warm Autumn sun.
Lots of nice touches too, with a big welcome pack we found on arrival and a very helpful local agent.
Comfy beds too to rest our weary bones!
Made very welcome when we went out to eat, to explore or just for a village wander.
A lovely large home to spread out and relax in. Highly recommended.
We would have given a higher star rating as the house is well equipped and
in a lovely setting but there were two major issues which marred our late
season stay and others need to be aware of this. We arrived in late
September and the owner had not made us aware that building works are
permitted from 15th September onwards. Builders were tearing down the first
floor and roof of a property two doors away so we were subjected to drilling
with a jack hammer, grinding etc which often didn't end till gone 7pm so
ruined our peaceful sunsets.This completely ruined our holiday. The owner
suggested we move elsewhere but made no offer to assist with the cost of
this. He hides behind his Terms and Conditions about noise, especially as
his manager lives locally and clearly knew about the noisy works before our
arrival. Also be aware that all the lovely restaurants within walking
distance close for the season on 30th September, so heaven help any client
without a car who cannot make the trek to the nearest town of Orebic. We
were also disappointed that the manager did not put in an appearance for our
arrival (or departure) and we had to let ourselves in. A most disappointing
choice for an autumn holiday, based on the previous five star reviews. PS
one of the double rooms which fronts onto the pool area only has a cell-like
window high up and there was a smell of drains from the bathroom which is
obviously an ongoing issue as it was acknowledged by the manager.
Seven ladies, seven days, spent at a lovely villa on the Adriatic. The views from Footprints were spectacular. The villa was clean, spacious and well equipped. Fani arranged two terrific tours for us, one to the vineyards and one to Mali Ston to watch them harvest the oysters and mussels.. We enjoyed Viganj, the local people were helpful and gracious. The restaurants were within walking distance, they served great food, fresh fish and fresh local vegetables. One note...make sure you have Kunas, some of the restaurants do not accept credit cards. We enjoyed our stay and would highly recommend Footprints, Viganj, and Croatia for a great vacation. Our stay ..May 21st to the 28th, 2016 The Vermont Ladies
We have recently returned from a wonderful holiday staying at this first class home - Footprints Villa.
Living right on the sea edge was a real treat and having this impressive and beautifully restored old house to call ours made the stay very special indeed.
The rooms are large and finished to the highest standard we've ever experienced in a holiday home, while the outside spaces gave us lots of space to stretch out and relax - the pool was private and loved by all, especially the little ones.
The owner provided an excellent service from booking to arrival, from where his local team took over and who could not have been more helpful, from assisting with local information and excursions, places to eat and shop. We did not need hire cars as so central (a big saving for groups who may need 2+ cars). We used the airport transfer company Richard arranged that was quick and very good value.
The village and area is immaculate, with welcoming locals and everything on your door step. Two of the groups tried their hand at kite boarding using the tuition offered on the beach along from the villa. The rest of us watched from the villa's very grand sea edge terrace with something cold in hand!
I'd recommend this villa for those looking for a perfect family or group base, with the location and all the quality and trimmings rarely found or affordable. A real gem!
We have just returned (party of 5 couples) from our stay at Footprints Villa. Although the drive from the airport is approx. 2.1/4hrs drive, the journey was well worth it! Footprints is situated in the village of Viganj which is still an unspoilt area of Croatia. The villa itself was perfect for us. Plenty of space for 10 adults and the actual location which is just a few steps away from the sea was absolutely great. Rooms are spacious, beds comfortable and overall a really lovely villa with all the facilities you need (home from home really).
Whilst there, we took a water taxi (20 mins) to the island of Korcula which is mostly catered for tourists. Lovely thought it was, we were so glad that we were spending our week among local people, away from the hustle and bustle of shops and tourists!!.
If you want a totally chilled out holiday with good food and drink, then this is the place to visit. We hope to come back to Footprints one day ourselves.
Footprints Villa is the ideal family holiday villa. Located right on the sea front, as well as having a large private pool, this detached, imposing restoration of a 19th century house is located in Viganj, a delightful sea front village of the wine area of Croatia as well as it being the wind surfing capital of the country too! The villa is located on the mainland, so no need to catch a ferry to the islands, which, if due to flight delays can be very stressful!
With the backdrop of Mount Isla, this very upmarket fishing village, is a delight! Quiet, relaxed and perfect for a family holiday. Located on the Pelejsac Peninsula, the village looks over to the 12th century city of Korcula, know as the 'mini Dubrovnik'. Korcula is a 10 minute boat ride to visit during your stay.
Viganj is also the perfect place to enjoy the benefits of staying right on the crystal clear Adriatic, with plentiful water sports, snorkelling, fishing or just swimming right outside your door! Easy to access from Dubrovnik, the area is the nation's wine growing region. The food here is all organic, and the seafood is excellent. The villa's location makes walking access to bars, resturants, the supermarket and of course the beaches, just foot steps away. Thankfully, no need to use the car! In 'The Croatian Adriatic' guide, published by N&N, states 'the houses and bay form what is the most beautiful location on the Adriatic! This really is a very special and luxurious home.
Footprints Villa has free wireless internet.
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Late May - Late June 2017
May 27 2017 - Jun 24 2017
7 night minimum stay
Late June/early July 2017
Jun 25 2017 - Jul 1 2017
7 night minimum stay
Early/Mid July 2017
Jul 2 2017 - Jul 22 2017
Changeover Day: Sunday
7 night minimum stay
SOLD OUT. Mid July/August 2017
Jul 23 2017 - Sep 2 2017
Changeover Day: Sunday
7 night minimum stay
September & October 2017
Sep 3 2017 - Oct 31 2017
7 night minimum stay
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|Refundable damage deposit
It's easy to book Footprints Villa. Just complete the enquiry section and I'll reply directly.
If you choose to progress, I would send out the booking form and thereafter the deposit is 25%, with the balance due 8 weeks before your stay. Refundable damage deposit £300, payable with your balance.
Between July and August, my change over days are Sundays. At all there times, other arrival/departure days may be possible depending on the calendar.


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Buy the arsenal. Btw I too have a spikes middy and your going to love it!
This is a discussion on add to my AR or buy AK? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I'm not sure if this topic belongs here - please feel free to move it if necessary. I bought myself a Spikes Tactical ST-15 middy ...
I'm not sure if this topic belongs here - please feel free to move it if necessary.
I bought myself a Spikes Tactical ST-15 middy for Christmas. Here is my dilemma: I want to buy an Arsenal SGL21 at the upcoming gun show here in Corpus Christi, TX (next weekend). I hope I can find one OTD for <=$800. However, I also want to buy furniture (mainly Magpul) and an AIMPOINT PRO for my ST which will total ~$650. Is it wise to add and complete my ST before I purchase another rifle? Or do I buy an AK and put my ST on hold for a few more months?
Here are my main concerns:
1. Firearms will go up in price more drastically than aftermarket parts; therefore, I should purchase the AK now.
2. I will have two rifles to build up (don't really want to do a lot to the AK, just a scope mount, optic, magazines and ammo, more magazines, and a lot more ammo).
3. My ST will get jealous of all the attention the new Arsenal will get from me.
Thanks for your input!
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Buy the arsenal. Btw I too have a spikes middy and your going to love it!
If you want an AK, get it. They're not getting any cheaper. I bought one used a while back and now after buying an AR I'm thinking about trading it in at my LGS towards an underfolder to have something a little different than a regular AK now that the AR fills my "precision plinking" role.
Accessorize the AR and then stock up on mags and ammo before worrying about the AK.
"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Work on the AR. I bought an AK and then an a while after. I am not longer worrying about stocking up on ammo and other things for the AK.
The AR is going to receive my attention.
You have a good weapon in the AR it nice to have a AK around they have their place
I'd grab the AK now - I'd forget the Magpul furniture - and I would buy the AimPoint Patrol Rifle Optic for myself next Christmas.
That's what I personally would do...but, that's only because I have this uncanny, incredible, "knack" for making correct and amazingly wise decisions.
AK for sure. Hoping to get one soon. Used to have an SKS years ago. I've shot AR-15's before. I like the slower, heavier 7.62x39 than the tiny and fast .223. AK isn't as accurate as the AR but accurate enough and better penetration.
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I would for sure buy the AK. They are sweet! They are as reliable as a hammer, the ammo is cheap and frankly they are more fun to shoot then an AR.
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Buy a 7.62x39 ar from spikes. These are super nice!
I'd get the AK! Accessories can always be bought later...ofcourse sneak in a mag purchase for the AR, here and there if you can. Alot of time you can accesorize with like new used gear, at around 25-40% discount. Arsenal is nice AK! Oh yeah try looking for your Aimpoint on Gunsamerica, gunbroker, and even ebay...you might get lucky with a seller who has surplus.
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Greg Valliere, Washington strategist at Horizon Investments, took a break from writing about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Friday to discuss the Fed. His headline asks the question, "How Politicized is the Federal Reserve?" His commentary answers that it is political -- even without ever discussing politics.
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We believe Fed officials who insist that politics and elections are never discussed at FOMC meetings, and we believe that the Fed is generally apolitical. But this cuts two ways – the Fed is so determined to stay out of the limelight ahead of an election that it raises this ironic issue: if there's a compelling reason to hike rates at the Nov. 1-2 meeting, will the Fed abstain because of the impending election? That in itself acknowledges politics.
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We're fans of the Fed – more than anyone on the face of the earth, Bernanke saved the world from a second Great Depression, but no good deed goes unpunished. The modest recovery has not lifted all boats, and an institution as powerful as the Fed should expect plenty of criticism from all sides. It's politicized already, and you have to wonder if that will have a subtle impact on the timing and extent of its gradual tightening.


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One of the most authentic Singapore restaurants in London. We had beef rendang, chicken satay, spare ribs and char kway teow (fried wide rice noodles). All were extremely good even if I compare with what is found in Singapore- I have had much worse there.
Beef rendang was like my mum makes it, all the spices were correct and the beef tender enough to show that it had been cooked for hours the way it should have been. My only slight criticism was that it wasn't spicy enough, but we are told that this can be arranged!
Spare ribs were totally authentic. The sweet and sour sauce is hard to get right because it's often too sweet or too gloopy. It was just right here. Chicken satay would have been improved by using chicken thigh meat instead of chicken breast, but I really couldn't fault the peanut sauce or the spieces. Char kway teow had the correct "wok hei" or "fragrance of frying" which is really hard to get right, even in Singapore. The noodles were perfectly tender, not falling apart and not too chewy.
We also had the sago gula melaka dessert, which is special because it is served here with shredded gula melaka (palm sugar) on top. This provides a subtle crunch that complements the smooth sago and coconut.
The service was lovely. We had plenty of tea and water refills, and the lovely waiter offered us extra sauce for our dessert when we ran out halfway.
This restaurant is not well patronised enough in my opinion. It was half empty on a Friday night, perhaps because of its unusual location between Holborn and Russell Square. I will be returning many times, and telling all my friends about it.
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The Beginning of the End
Seth, Selena, Nick, Audrey, Drake and I had just arrived at my uncle's concert. My uncle's Travis Cottrell. As I was his favorite niece, we had gotten front row seats, backstage passes, and a meet and greet. I was excited to listen to my uncle's music again. We had come with our youth group, about sixty kids, ranging from ages ten to twenty. Tonight, I had a feeling that something big was going to happen, but I pushed the feeling aside and labeled it excitement. I didn't know how wrong I was. The concert was halfway through when the music stops. All the lights go out and I hear some people scream.
"Ryan, is this part of your uncle's new show?" Drake squeezes my hand and I can tell he's joking, but worried. So am I. This has never happened before. What went wrong? We soon get an answer as the doors are ripped off their hinges. More people scream as huge, muscular guards pour in and start arresting people. What's going on? Most of the younger people begin to quickly slip out unnoticed.
"Ryan, we need to leave!" Selena and Seth both agree and try to pull me towards the exit, but I stay put. Then, we see It. The Beast. To all non-Christians, he looks like their perfect idea of a role model, leader, and dream guy, anything that will get people to believe the poison that drips from his lips. To all Christians, we see him for what he really is: the devil. All four of us take one look as he begins to speak.
"I'm so sorry to interrupt your evening, but all of this is wrong! Why are you wasting your time worshiping a God that doesn't even exist? Turn to me, and you will have everything you ever wanted. Together we will purge the world of this blight!" I swear his red eyes are looking straight at me. I finally allow Drake to pull me away. The six of us manage to slip out before the guards find our exit hole. We run as fast as we can away from the nightmare that has just broken loose.
We stop on Broadway, just down the street from where all of hell broke loose. When we stop, we find nearly all the kids that we came with, along with a few extra. Seth steps up as the leader. Everyone seems to be asking the same questions: what happened, where my parents, friends, siblings, things like that. Drake and Nick get everyone's attention. Seth stands up and begins to speak.
"Yes, the thing you just saw was the devil. And now, we are left to wait until God comes back. You are welcome to leave and live in his lies, but just remember if you do, you'll be denying everything, including your Savior. You will live in pain and suffering until you die. Is that what you want, or do you want to stay with us? We'll live in Central Park until God comes back or help comes." Everyone just looks at Seth with hollow eyes. They've lost hope. Who can blame them? Then it hits me. Will I ever see my mom, dad, or uncle again? I turn towards Drake and bury my face in his shoulder. He holds me and tells me everything will be fine. How much better can a boyfriend get? On our way to the park, Seth sends some of us out to stores and restaurants to get food and clothing. We all meet at the park around midnight. It's late summer, and the moon is full. We build make-shift tents in the depths of the park, prepared to wait.
I wake early the next morning, thinking that last night was just a horrible nightmare. I look around and realize I was wrong. I'm still in Central Park, waiting on God. I walk outside to see Nick. He smiles and continues walking with his sister, Audrey. I smile back and go to find Seth. Wherever Seth is, I'll find Drake and Selena. After checking with what seems like everyone in the park, I find the three of them. Drake kisses me good morning. Selena hugs me, and Seth just smiles. I look at him.
"So chief, what's our plan of action?" He looks up and brushes a shaggy brown lock of hair out of his eyes. Drake comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my waist.
"I'm sure that there are still some people hiding out in the city, and today, I'll send some of the stronger, smarter, faster ones to find them and bring them here." I nod. "You're one of the one's I'm sending." I look up.
"You are?" I hear Drake echo my words. Seth nods. I shrug. What choice do I have?
In the city, every sense in my body is heightened. I feel like I can see and hear everything. I remind myself not to get cocky as I check everywhere for survivors. I see movement down a dark alleyway. I turn and run down. I see my dad.
"Ryan? What are you doing here? It's not safe! Go! Run!" I slowly shake my head. I can't leave him. Then, one of the Beast's thugs comes up.
"Join the Beast."
"No." My dad turns and looks at me, clearly wanting me to run.
"Then die." I'm forced to watch as the guard pulls out a revolver and shoots my dad. I turn and don't look back as I obey my dad's last wish: to run.


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Lavelle Lounge Lion Cub Photos Prompt Toronto Animal Services Investigation
Toronto Animal Services are investigating after photos surfaced of a lion cub at a trendy rooftop restaurant and lounge in downtown Toronto.
Several Instagram posts with Lavelle lounge in the location tag show patrons holding and petting a small lion cub.
Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice advocacy group, says she was alerted to the photos Friday morning by a supporter whose friend had seen the photos online.
Labchuk says she contacted Toronto Animal Services, which responded by email saying they would send an officer to Lavelle to investigate.
She says it is not rare to see wild animals brought to parties in the city.
"It's seriously detrimental to the welfare of these animals to be owned by private people and taken around to events like this,'' she says.
"It's very dangerous to have these wild animals,'' she says. "They are not tame they are not domesticated they're not like house cats.''
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To make elephants submit to giving rides, they are taken from their mothers when babies and forced through a horrific training process known as 'the crush'. This typically involves restraining them in a small cage, or tying them in ropes or chains so that they can only move when commanded. Severe pain is often inflicted with pointed metal 'bull hooks' or wooden battens to quickly establish dominance. This process can take between a few days and a week. This process 'breaks' the young elephant's spirit so they will accept people riding on their back or other direct contact between tourists and elephants. The great trauma elephants endure during the breaking process can stay with them throughout their lives. It can also leave them suffering from post-traumatic stress. Their suffering continues once broken. In elephant parks they are prevented from forming natural social relationships with each other. This is hugely damaging to their physical and psychological wellbeing, as is the size of their captive world. They are often kept on chains or in small enclosures and never allowed to roam freely as they would in the wild. Contrary to public perception, elephants are one of the most dangerous animals to handle. Consequently, handlers use bull hooks to maintain control of them. These can cause serious injuries including infected sores and cuts. The elephants kept in these situations are typically given little veterinary care. A relatively minor illness can quickly become a big problem, causing unnecessary long–term suffering. The global tourist hotspot for elephant rides is Thailand, although it is prevalent in other Asian countries. It has also emerged in Southern Africa over the past ten years.
Tiger cubs are separated from their mothers at an early age so they can be used as photo props for hours on end. They are handled and hugged by tourists and typically kept chained or in small cages with concrete floors. In Thailand we found 10 venues housing around 614 tigers. Although Thailand is a hub of cruel tiger tourism it is also prevalent in other parts of Asia, Australia, Mexico and Argentina.
Lion cubs are bred and taken from their mothers typically within a month of birth to supply the growing lion tourism industry, mostly located in Southern Africa. Tourists handle the cubs for hours and pose with them for photos. They are also often told to hit the cubs if they display aggressive or unwelcome behaviour. When the cubs grow too big for tourists to pick up and hug – but are still young enough to control – some are used for the relatively new walking with lions tourist experience. The lions are trained to 'safely' walk with tourists, sometimes on leads. These lions face a lifetime in captivity as they cannot be released into the wild.
Bears are kept in sterile barren 'pits' with minimal – if any – behavioural enrichment. These pits are severely overcrowded. Bears are mainly solitary in the wild so this overcrowding can also lead to infighting and nasty injuries. The stress associated with these captive conditions can increase the susceptibility of wild animals to diseases caused by bacterial infections. Sometimes these bears are also forced to dress as clowns and perform circus tricks such as riding a bike or balancing on a ball.
The world's last remaining sea turtle farm that acts as a tourist attraction is in the Cayman Islands. Here, tourists can hold turtles and even eat them during their visit. Holding a sea turtle causes it to suffer a great deal of stress which can weaken its immune system and increase its susceptibility to disease. Almost 1,300 turtles were recently killed at the farm following an outbreak of Clostridium infections. Sea turtles are naturally timid creatures. When handled by tourists, they often panic and intensively flap their flippers which can cause fractures and detached claws. It has also been known for tourists to accidentally drop struggling sea turtles. This can cause significant injury, like a broken shell, which can kill the turtle.
Millions of tourists visit dolphinaria, but they are unaware of the cruelty and abuses the dolphins endure to perform in shows. The United States is one of several countries to ban dolphins being taken from the wild for dolphinaria because of the suffering involved. Dolphins are often chased by high-speed boats before being hauled on board or caught in nets. For many, the stress is too much to take and they die during transportation to their intended destinations. Those kept in dolphinaria, whether wild caught or captive bred, face a lifetime of suffering. They spend their entire lives in a space not much bigger than a swimming pool – completely unnatural and restrictive compared to their natural open sea environment. The pools are often treated with chlorine which can cause painful skin and eye irritations. Pool-bound dolphins often suffer from sunburn because they can't escape to the ocean depths. Their highly tuned echolocation – used for navigating – is interfered with by the level-sided tanks which are so unlike the rocks and corals which form their natural ocean landmarks. Many dolphins also face stress-related illnesses and can suffer from heart attacks and gastric ulcers.
Many species of primates are used for street entertainment but we have also uncovered the systematic abuse of 290 macaques housed in venues offering macaque shows in Thailand. Young macaques are trained aggressively and painfully, to make them walk, behave and appear more human. They are often dressed up to look like geishas and repeatedly forced to dance and perform tricks for groups of tourists. When they're not performing, the macaques are often kept chained in small barren cages or outside on short chains. As the macaque grows, the chain can become embedded in the skin leading to painful infections and disease.
A single cup of civet coffee or Kopi Luwak, fetches up to $100. Civets love to eat coffee cherries and Kopi Luwak coffee is made from the beans within the cherries that the civets excrete in pellets. When the pellets are collected from civets in the wild, no cruelty is involved. But in an attempt to produce more civet coffee, farmers have started catching the civets and keeping them in small, crowded barren cages. Caged civets are encouraged to gorge on an unbalanced diet of coffee cherries. This unnatural captivity and forced feeding results in injuries, disease and poor nutirition. Many show signs of great stress, including pacing and self-mutilation. There is now a growing civet coffee plantation tourism industry in Indonesia where tourists visit caged civet cats and sample the coffee. This is causing more and more civets to be caged and abused.
Snake charming has been a street entertainment activity for hundreds of years, and the latest twist on this includes kissing a cobra in Thailand. Cobras are commonly used for performing even though they are venomous and their bites can be fatal to humans. The cobras are usually captured from the wild, then they are defanged with metal pliers and their venom ducts are either blocked or removed – often with un-sanitised equipment. This often results in painful infections, and can kill the cobras.
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It is a measure of Roy Keane's impact that Wearside is awash with talk of automatic promotion. A route back to the Premiership via the play-offs has been politely declined - a top-two finish is the sole objective of a side transformed under the former Manchester United captain.
"It is in everyone's mind that we get straight back to the Premiership," said Carlos Edwards, a £1.4m signing from Luton last month. "That's the only thing the manager has instilled in us. He's not looking to next year - this year he wants to be promoted and that's our mentality. The gaffer won't accept us playing for sixth or seventh or settle for a play-off spot. We're looking to be promoted without having to play extra games."
It is worth remembering that Sunderland's appearance into the top six for the first time this season, on goal difference, came courtesy of Saturday's win over a team who have been embedded in the relegation zone since September 30. But, equally, defeat by the same opponents at Roots Hall in August saw Sunderland bottom of the table without a point after four defeats from four games. "You've always got to have a bit of hope and belief," Keane said. "That's why I took the job, in the hope we could turn things around."
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The true test of their challenge will come over the next fortnight when they face each of the top three - Birmingham away tomorrow , Derby at home on Saturday and West Bromwich at The Hawthorns a week later. "They will be coming to the Stadium of Light shaking after today's performance," Edwards said. "Derby are not going to be too keen and Birmingham won't be counting their chickens. I think we're going to go there and come away with the three points."
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Here the home fans were left singing "Niall Quinn's Disco Pants" long into the night. The song had peaked at No56 in the UK singles chart in April 1999 and that season they gained automatic promotion to the elite by finishing top of the old First Division. Encore, anyone?
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You can't fault him on expectations management. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has succeeded in launching a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative for which almost no one has high hopes. Conventional wisdom suggests the effort is, if not doomed from the very start, at least hobbled by stubborn facts akin to those that have thwarted every peace effort since the Oslo accords, which will be 20 years old next month. To take just a few: the Palestinians remain divided between Hamas and Fatah, and their president is weak; Israel's governing coalition includes parties explicitly hostile to a two-state solution; the US has shown itself unwilling to impose the pressure required to get a deal.
One veteran negotiator says his fellow Palestinians "are either sceptical or actively opposed", and the Israelis are no more enthusiastic. In Washington and Europe some eyebrows have been raised. With Egypt and Syria unravelling, is it really wise for Kerry to be spending so much time and energy going down an alley that everyone knows ends in a brick wall?
Yet talk to those who follow this conflict most closely and you find something surprising. Nothing so reckless as unbridled optimism – they've all seen too much failure for that – but what one longtime insider comically calls a "cautious non-pessimism". It's the unfamiliar sensation of spotting a glimmer of light in the usually reliable gloom.
No one thinks the two sides have suddenly seen merit in each other's cause. Rather, they've found themselves in a blame game they don't want to lose. Neither wants to be left with the dead cat on their doorstep, as Kerry's Texan predecessor James Baker so memorably put it. Kerry has played on that skilfully, herding both sides into a room under threat of being named and shamed as spoilers if they refuse. So long as they fear being cast as the naysayer, they're likely to stay there.
The upheavals in the wider Middle East play a part too. Initially, it was assumed that the Arab revolts would militate against any peace breakthrough: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas lost key backers, the US was distracted, and Israel was reluctant to draw final borders just as the tectonic plates around it were shifting. But regional change can work the other way. Recent events have weakened Hamas's position, depriving it of allies in Cairo and Damascus, which has created some space for Abbas. Meanwhile, Kerry knows his chance of getting progress on Syria is meagre, so why not have a go in an area where the US might just have an impact? For his part, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's chief focus remains Iran. But to act there he will need US help – and if that means saying yes to Kerry now, so be it.
None of this amounts to a cue to put flowers in your hair and start singing Give Peace a Chance. But if cautious non-pessimism is in the air, there are a few moves Kerry can make to boost the prospects for success.
First, he needs to ensure either he or his just-appointed envoy, Martin Indyk, maintain the current level of intense involvement. On this the Palestinians and Israelis I've spoken to grudgingly agree – Kerry's persistence and determination has been crucial. He has made six visits to the region in four months, even as his wife battled serious illness. If either side hoped to let things drift, or for momentum to stall, Kerry has dispelled that hope. He just keeps showing up. And if a US secretary of state is repeatedly in your office demanding something, eventually it becomes impossible to say no.
This is what Tony Blair had in mind when, in his memoirs, he offered lessons for the Middle East from his success in Northern Ireland. "The thing needs to be gripped and focused on," he wrote, recalling the constant, daily engagement he and his office had had on the Ulster issue. In Israel-Palestine, wrote Blair, "no one has ever gripped it long enough or firmly enough". It was not sufficient to pay "intermittent" attention. "If it was gripped, it would be solved." That may be too hopeful, but Kerry seems to subscribe to the same philosophy. While Obama's first envoy, George Mitchell, believed in endless listening – diplomacy as therapy – Kerry is what Blair would doubtless call a gripper.
Second, he needs to show a flexible approach to the tricky matter of timing. Leave things open-ended and they will drift, each side coming up with stalling tactics designed to run out the clock. But set too hard a deadline, establish what Yitzhak Rabin mocked as a "sacred date", and a process that was building its own rhythm can become fatally rushed – witness the scramble for progress in the last days of the Clinton administration. Kerry has spoken of a nine-month process, but wisely he has not waited until the twilight of the Obama presidency to start it. He's given himself time. But he needs to ensure the parties have neither too much time nor too little.
Third, this needs to be about peace, not process. Israeli officials have spoken openly in the past of their comfort with talks that never end but which give the country diplomatic cover. To prevent that, Kerry has to ensure both sides are pressed to speak about specifics, not generalities. Daniel Levy of the European Council on Foreign Relations says, for instance: "If Bibi gets through this without showing a map, it will have failed."
The favoured formula is that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. That's useful in avoiding a past mistake: a focus on security measures taking priority over the concrete business of agreeing a border. There will have to be both. But that does not mean that progress on issues left over from the 1967 war – relating to the occupied territories – has to be held hostage to thornier questions dating back to the birth of Israel in 1948, such as the status of refugees or Israel's character as a Jewish state. It might be possible to forge an agreement encompassing the former even without a final agreement addressing all of the latter.
Finally, experience suggests it is not a good idea to prepare for failure. Speak of a fallback option and, says one Israeli official, "that exerts a magnetic attraction of its own". Soon the two sides are lobbying the US over the contents of plan B rather than striving to reach plan A.
The smart money says this will fail; in the Middle East, failure is always the safer bet. But while cynicism is certainly the easiest posture, when it comes to this conflict, it's not the right one. Too many lives have been lost or broken to be cynical about an effort to make peace. The least we can offer is our hope.
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I arrived NYC in the last week of January. On the second day, I dropped by Wall Street, to my surprise, that was Wednesday, in Wall Street around 6pm something, i saw a white young man in a decent executive coat getting his dog shitting on a heap of snow while he was reading his cell phone like a very usual daily routine in his daily life. Other people passed by as if seeing this was also part of their daily routine. Oh, that's the first impression NYC gave me.
And then, sadly, I started to see, regularly, or almost everyday, men and women getting their dogs peeing or shitting on the streets, or, I saw dog's bowel on the street. And there are used plastic bottles, paper cups, disposed product plastic bags, and many other kinds of rubbish disposed on the streets and subway railways. I started to label NYC as a city of garbage in my mind.
And there are very frequently some poor people in Subway coaches announcing they want money and singing for a while, then jumped to another coach or another train to repeat their announcements.. While offering sympathy and donating some small amount of money, I keep wondering if there could be any authority attempting to disallow these people from disturbing the passengers ? (this won't happen in Japan or Hong Kong metro, in Hong Kong, such behavior is illegal).
And I keep seeing even some very young men or women in bus terminals and subway stations begging money in different ways. Seeing people begging money is not that surprise, but what's to my surprise is, it seems more people begging in different ways in NYC on a daily basis than I saw people begging in streets during the years I stayed and worked across China cities.
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And next time if my American friends in China complain to me about people in China don't speak good English, I would have no hesitation to tell them, "Oh, many Americans (immigrants) live in the USA do not speak a word of English at all."
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I will be walking the northern United States starting March 20th. I was just wondering if anyone here has ever done anything like this? I have a website for the walk with all the info. I will not post the link unless requested, I don't want to be a spammer. The full walk will be 3,565 miles.
I will be walking from Oregon To Washington DC via Roads and trails. I know about the American discovery trail but I will be making a documentary about the people I meet so I want to walk roads mainly.
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please post your website. I'm curious.
Did you know that the ADT has a lot of road walking? And it's not freeways, so you're likely to meet even more people on the road.
Andrew Skurka has walked a northern route across the country. He might respond. His website is andrewskurka.com
March 20th is a very early start date! How long are you planning on taking?
Peace Pilgrim crossed the U.S. many times starting in the 1950's,wearing a sign on her back about her walking for peace and carrying only a comb,toothbrush and a pad of paper and pen.She did this for almost 30 years.
My website is http://mikewalksamerica.com/ if you want to check it out!
@angelazLocale: New England
Peter Jenkins wrote a book about his walk. It's called A Walk Across America. I imagine you've seen it. It's probably one of the first things that pops up on google for this subject.
Yes, I have read that book. I will be filming the walk with a RED Scarlet and will edit together a documentary when I am done. The film will be called "Asphalt And Blisters".
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We answered this question on the show...
We posed this question to our brain panel.
- Well, weve been simulating neurons for a long time. the question is, how good are we at simulating a particular neuron and its fullness. It depends on which neurons you're looking at. All the neurons are different from each other and people have been trying to simulate different neurons and we can do it pretty well, but never to completion. The same thing with the brain people simulate pathways in the brain, work out models for how information goes from one place to another and its getting more and more sophisticated, but simulate a brain, which brain are we talking about a frog brain, a human brain, you're brain? That may be more and more challenging.
- There is a lot of interest now in trying to model whole brains but using super computers. So, there's a lot of funding just been awarded in Switzerland which is called a Blue Brain Project where people are trying to use very powerful super computers to model the whole brain. Were really at the beginning of that and I think its going to be many years before useful data arise out of that project.
- When you say useful data, what do you mean by that? Because I think [img float=right]/forum/copies/RTEmagicC_IBM_Blue_Gene_P_supercomputer_03.jpg.jpg[/img]every model produces some data thats at least kind of hypothesis for what it might be doing so its testable. So, models are valuable as far as they go and they throw up problems with our current understanding. So, I might argue that the Blue Brain project, even in its early phases will give you answers that may ring true or may not, and that lead to further sophistication of the model.
- I think thats a good point. To be honest, I'm slightly sceptical about whether this is a good use of money and whether I would fund this or not. I think if it was up to me, I would probably fund far more slightly less ambitious projects. So, I'm actually slightly sceptical about how useful this will be.
- I mean, do we know enough about the brain in order to have the knowledge to simulate it in the first place?
- So, there's a number of large multimillion pound projects going on at the moment and they're trying to map what's been called the human connectome, so using some of the newer imaging techniques that weve got to look at the brain to look at both the structural and the functional connectivity between different areas. We know quite a lot about this in some pathways and in some sort of networks within the brain, but we dont know in its entirety exactly how all areas of the brain work together, how the patterns of activity in one set of pathways might influence a pattern of activities in another set of pathways completely in all its complexity. Obviously, if we could, it would be a very useful way to perhaps be able to model what we might expect to happen in the use of certain drugs or certain medications in development.
- Lets say you look at a circuit in the spinal cord thats involved in [img float=right]/forum/copies/RTEmagicC_dalya9_fig4_couplewalkingdog.jpg.jpg[/img]walking. People have been studying something like that for quite a long time and understand to a medium degree of understanding I guess, the neurons that are involved. But its not by any means complete how we walk faster or slower, how we change gait from walking to running, how we jump and hop and skip, what's the circuitry involved, what are the neurons involved? We dont even know those in a very small part of the brain. Similarly, when light goes into our retina and all the cells are connected up in the retina. We dont know what all the cells are doing. We know what some of them are doing, many of them are doing, but completion of this task, how far away from completion of the task is kind of hard to say.
- I think that just because we dont have like fairly complex and in-depth models of a fully functioning brain in terms of software doesnt mean that people should think that we dont have useful models. So obviously, there's entire fields of neuroscience that are largely devoted to using software and using it to model the way that the brain works and that both helps us in developing theories that we can test and also, taking the things that we have learned and putting them together in trying to work out exactly what is going on by running different iterations of them.
- Along that line, there's a paper that was published actually last month. So, published in Nature, researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Vienna, Austria managed to develop a 3D organ which resembled a 9-week embryonic human brain. They developed this from a human stem cells and it grew from 3 to 4 mm cubed. They think that they kind of seem to mirror some of the activity of a functioning kind of brain-oid they called it and may be useful in the future for trying to uncover more about Schizophrenia and autism for example.
- I'm not sure what this little mini brain in culture has to do with modelling, simulating a whole brain. Id take it has to do with getting a mathematical model that predicts the interactions and the activity of different things. This little mini brain made out of embryonic stem cells certainly has some wiring to it as bunch of neurons in a culture dish would if you put the dish together. And it may be a little bit more alike a real brain than a bunch of neurons in a dish that are randomly connected to each other. But thats such a far away from a real animals brain or a human brain.
- But do you think some of the information that could come from this brain-oid could help to input into the computer simulations?
- No. I would study real brain rather than little mini brains. Each one of which is going to be different from each other.
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