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Well, this is going to get everyone talking. Sting appeared in the first part of the Ultimate Warrior Week special that aired tonight, talking about his memories of the Ultimate Warrior. In the interview, he talks about training with Warrior and said that the late Hall of Famer used to put tuna fish and orange juice in a blender and tell him that he was getting his Warrior dose of protein & Vitamin C.
This is Sting's first-ever appearance for WWE in any capacity. As you likely know if you've been paying attention to news, there has been a ton of speculation about Sting's potential WWE signing, with recent reports saying he had a contract offer but had not signed it yet. This could indicate that he has signed, or it could conceivably be a one-off appearance in honor of his early tag team partner.
We reported over the weekend that Sting hadn't signed his WWE contract but is expected to at any point. As noted, the deal is done "in principle" and has been for a while; it is now just a matter of pen hitting paper.
Also and to few people's surprise, that the belief is he will not be wrestling on a regular basis.
ummm sting first appeared on wwe tv as part of wwf : wcw monday nitro live on tnt and usa network. so in a way it was already owned by the wwe at that point. now the wwe network spot tonight would be his first wwe contracted appearence, but not first ever wwe appearence
Accctually..it was..the Sting/flair match appeared exclusively on TNT..at that point was still on WCW (turners dime) ..That episode of Nitro was still under Turners ownership..but part of the deal was Vince could come on and announce the sale
From what I've read, and am hoping for, Sting may not be wrestling now since Taker may be retired physically now. I expected to see Sting in this capacity and possibly a GM role on one of the shows.
I still wouldn't be surprised if this was a "one off" for UW, and we see Sting elsewhere soon. The Stinger never shows his hand until it's time to the lay the cards down.
Sting is a traitor and back stabber. Let's hope WWE jobs him out.
Grow up. He's worth more than the $1.20 TNA pay there talent now.
What is there left for Sting to do in TNA? What is the left for AJ Styles to do in TNA? These two guys have had some pretty good programs, and there was even a passing of the torch, but the creative team screwed that up.
I would rather Sting go to WWE, open a spot for a younger guy in TNA, and a future star be made. TNA really wasn't using him at an optimum level IMO. Plus now, if he has signed, all the real Sting fans can get that career DVD… you know, a real one. Sorry, but Goldberg, Batista, and certain others really shouldn't be getting career DVDs.
I hope when WWE puts out there DVD TNA puts one out as well to give a full view of his career. I know TNA did one but that was so early in his run it hardly covered much.
Relax guys – he's kidding.
Sting in the WWE would not make sense anymore. The wwe as stupid as it already is dropped the ball on Sting. If he is still around it would make better sense if he was in GFW
Sting may not wrestle on a regular in wwe, but I'm pretty sure he will wrestle at least one match in wwe
If not Taker, then who? Cena doesn't need it, and that would truly be a franchise vs. franchise match.
He's confirmed signed except for the part of signing with a pen. I saw Zack Ryder in a drive through at McDonalds, not confirmed yet if he's taken a job working at McDonalds. To mosts surprise, it's belief that he won't be making the burgers. In principle he works there now, just a matter of putting pen to employment application.
Comic genius right here. Does this mean that Ric Flair works at a bunch of booze and liquor stores? :p
No, but he probably washes dishes at the local restaurant to offset his bills 😉
Not really a big deal. Sting filmed his comments at home then sent them to the WWE. Could be just a free agent paying tribute to a guy he broke into the business with. Wouldn't it be funny if the "confirmed" contract Sting has with WWE was simply for this?
Whatever Sting ends up doing is fine by me, as long as it's fine by him. He's entertained us for a very long time. Now it's time for him to think of what is best for Sting.
Sting talking about the Ultimate Warrior, well duh.. How many times has Sting stated they started out together in this business. For WWE, not to get the Stinger's comments on Warrior would have been dumb.
I saw Sting and UW before they were famous. They were a damned good team together. They made a lot of rookie mistakes but they learned from them. They were, contrary to some thought, were best of friends. i got the joy of meeting UW and man he was impressive. It would have been wrong NOT to have Sting in the documentary.
so you obviously have no idea what youre talking about..considering both Sting and UW have stated that that were not very close, and have not kept in real contact since they split up..but yes..ill believe what you have to say
Yeah. Right. I was best friends with Ric Flair back in the day. Yup. He used to come over, wash my car, and then screw my wife. Vince McMahon would come over to watch and cheer him on, occasionally.
Sting's "interview" was less than 20 seconds. Not exactly an interview, more of a reminiscence.


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Cheaney, a defender at Thomas More, was an all-conference selection his junior and senior years in high school in addition to being named team MVP. A member of the Croatian Eagles club team, his squad earned the regional champion title three seasons and the won the 2010 State Cup Championship under head coach Aaron Schroeder. Academically, Cheaney is a four-year member of his school's honor roll.
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Allison played as a forward and midfielder for Fox Valley Lutheran High School. As a four year starter, Allison was named to the Eastern Valley All-Conference Team all four years. He was selected as the conference Offensive Player of the Year and served as team captain in 2009 and 2010. The Appleton Post-Crescent named Allison its 2009 Soccer Player of the Year. His team was the 2009 Division II State Champions and the 2010 Division II State Runner-Up. The Foxes were also voted the top performing Lutheran High School soccer team in the nation for 2009 and 2010. Allison was named to the academic honor roll in addition to being nominated for a Leadership Symposium. The two-time Lutheran High School All-American is also a three-year volunteer at high school sponsored soccer camps for grade school students. Allison played for the FC Green Bay club team under the leadership of head coach Quinn Ross.
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- Bottled water is 3000 times more expensive than water from a tap
February 26, 2012
Why do we spend money on things we used to get for free?
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- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM
in the late 80s and early 90s most of us drank free tap water, however it wasn't uncommon to pay $20 or more for the latest compact disc. Now, peer-to-peer networks provide essentially the same content for the price paid out to ISPs for monthly bandwidth while a case of imported bottled water will cost $3 or $4, plus the hidden environmental costs of shipping and so forth, as you point out.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Well, in the case of bottled water, we (people who care) found out that tap water is unsafe to drink. There are three populations here: the wealthy healthy who knew about this in the 70s and gave bottled water its initial mass acceptance in the US. Then the non-wealthy healthy learned of the dangers in US tap water and started purchasing bottled water. Then we have the great American lemming who is drinking bottled water because they want to be like the healthy looking desirable guy/gal who drinks it - at least that's the initial appeal that got everyone drinking bottled water. First is was health from those who knew how polluted our water is, then it was lemmings.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Many (most?) places in America have perfectly safe tap water. Maybe the rest would be less polluted if we weren't burning so much fossil fuel to ship it halfway around the globe.Delete
No matter where you are on this continent, there are much cheaper and more efficient ways to get safe water than producing it in Italy, putting it in heavy glass bottles, and shipping it across the ocean.
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 7:41 PM
People think that tap water is unsafe, but in reality there have been many more incidences of contaminated bottled water than of contaminated tap water in major metropolitan areas in the the Unites States.Delete
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How to remove soldered cap on my bathroom shower flange?
Dear all, thanks for helping out in advance...
I have a old bath that we are trying to get the shower function back. Here is what the bath looks like now (notice the top of the picture there is a shower flange which was painted...):
It looks like a copper cap was soldered. I have tried to use some tools to remove the cap but failed. Here is a zoomed in photo for the flange:
My questions:
1. What tool (or procedure) should I use to remove the cap so that I can test it out to see if the pipes still work?
2. If it is not a shower flange, can we still somehow install shower pipes without damage the current tiles??
By the way, found this relevant article online but no conclusive answer:
did the wrench scrape the paint off to show copper put a magnet to it....you might consider drilling a hole in the cap and threading in a fitting to take a shower head pipe.a plumber would open up that area around the cap and swet in a new fitting so you could screw in a pipe out with a chrome plate cover...i would bet that line is active when you turn that middle selection knob diverting the water
If I had to guess, that has a short galvanized steel (or brass) nipple with a cap, screwed on to the drop ear elbow (like this - http://www.terrylove.com/forums/show...Drop-Ear-Elbow; also look at step 5 picture from this link http://www.diyadvice.com/diy/plumbin...r-tub-faucets/)
If that was me, I would;
1. Make sure the water is turned off
2. take a sharp utility knife and score around it to break any paint and/or caulk seal(s)
3. use a pair of large adjustable pliers (or small pipe wrench) and gently try to turn it counter-clockwise
4. if that doesn't work, make the opening slightly larger with a utility knife so that I can squirt in some WD-40 and try again
5. if that doesn't work, the nipple might be soldered on to the drop ear elbow. in that case, I would have to heat the fitting with my torch to melt the solder. To do that, I would need to make a large square cutout of the sheetrock to gain some working room.
Good luck
It almost looks like a pvc cap to me, but the image is not clear enough to tell if it's that, or a really nice paint job.
Scrape it and let us know what material is under the paint.
I would cut a inch or 2 all around the cap and see what you got behind the wall and go from there. Then when finished buy a sheetrock hole repair square, drill a center hole and slip it over the pipe and make it flush on the wall, mud, sand and paint and you will never know.
I don't see any pictures.
Problem solved. I will post some pictures later. We hired a professional plumber and he used a pair of large adjustable pliers and was able to open it up easily.. and yes there was water coming out!! Thanks for everyone's help.. That only took the plumber about 3 minutes to open it up and he charged $75.. oh boy...
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Even Hot Housing Markets Can Go Cold
A year ago the six-bedroom house where Scott and Dawn Norton raised 10 children in the shadow of a Utah mountain range would have been snatched up.
The Provo (Utah) home, which is listed for $368,000, seems to have plenty going for it besides scenic lake and mountain views. For most Americans, the housing slump began in 2006, but in Provo and adjacent Orem, home prices leaped 14% in the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared with the same period in 2006, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's Nov. 29 report. Only one metropolitan area in the nation—the city of Wenatchee, Wash., in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains—saw higher price appreciation.
Still, the Nortons have knocked $30,000 off their original asking price, set five months ago, and are giving a 3% discount to any buyer who comes to the closing table without an agent. Why offer incentives in a hot market? Well, it seems that even some of the nation's strongest markets, including Utah, the state with the highest third-quarter year-over-year appreciation, are losing steam. "We live in a great area, and I know we're priced reasonably," says Dawn Norton. "I've had a Realtor tell me, 'It's not just your house.'"
No Place Is Immune
Unlike previous downturns, this housing slump is affecting even areas and properties that should be immune. Prices are rising in some places, but not as much as they were, and the pace of sales is down almost everywhere. The hottest markets have likely already been weakened by tighter loan restrictions in the wake of the subprime mortgage mess.
"I keep hearing that Utah's economy is great," says Kevin Shoell, who owns title company Title One in Salt Lake City. "But the housing market isn't great. I've heard the stats before [about the state's home prices]. Everybody in the industry is looking around and saying, 'Who are they talking about?'"
The credit-tightening brought on by the subprime mortgage crisis took hold in August, but its impact on home prices won't be quantified until the fourth-quarter 2007 data are released next year. "It's really hard for any state to escape a downturn of this magnitude," says David Stiff, chief economist for Fiserv Lending Solutions in Brookfield, Wis. "There are places that won't drop. But the strongest markets will roughly be growing at the rate of inflation, so in real terms, they'll be treading water."
Where the Housing Boom Hangovers Are
Of course, speculative markets such as Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida are suffering the worst housing boom hangovers. Developers during the boom overbuilt to accommodate flippers and buyers with no-money-down mortgages and other creative loans that are going into default. But prices are also falling in Ohio and Michigan and other Midwestern states with troubled manufacturing economies that never experienced much appreciation during the boom. New England has also cooled off: "It was early to come into the boom and early to exit the boom," says Andrew Leventis, a senior economist with OFHEO.
Less than two hours from Yosemite National Park, Merced, Calif., is the nation's worst-performing housing market, at least according to the OFHEO's third-quarter data. Prices in Merced plunged 13% from the third quarter of 2006. Merced also leads the nation in foreclosures with one filing for every 82 households, nearly seven times the national average, according to Irvine (Calif.)-based RealtyTrac. The best market was picturesque Wenatchee, a city of more than 35,000 that is the seat of Chelan County, Wash. Prices in the Wenatchee metro area increased by 15.7% year over year in the third quarter.
States that had the largest quarterly price growth generally had healthy economies. Rising fuel prices have been a boon to energy-producing states such as Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. The falling dollar has helped states with export-heavy economies such as Washington.
Transactions Dropping in the Pacific Northwest
Home prices jumped more than 10% in second home markets in Utah, Idaho, and Colorado. "They're doing so well because they're getting the runoff from California, Nevada, and Arizona," says Jeannine Cataldi, senior economist for Global Insight. "When prices got so high [in those states], people said, 'There must be places that are more affordable.'"
But even the nation's hottest markets are slowing. In the Pacific Northwest, where many markets have been bucking the national trend, the pace of sales transactions and price appreciation is dropping off.
In Wenatchee, real estate agents acknowledge the softening. "We've had a little bit of a slowdown but nothing compared to what we're seeing in the rest of the country," says Lisa Day, a Realtor with Lisa Day Group at Century 21 in Wenatchee. "In my market, prices have gone up and they've plateaued. You're seeing a little bit of a plateau now."
Utah Not Crashing
Day says Realtors in Wenatchee are still busy. But Merced real estate professionals are leaving the business or adjusting quickly to disastrous conditions. Jessica Rattanasack, a Realtor with Century 21 M&M Associates in Merced, said she started selling foreclosed properties during the summer and now 90% of her sellers are banks.
Katherine Zupan, who owns My Very Own Room in Merced, used to help residents stage homes—that is, decluttering, cleaning, and preparing properties for quicker sales and higher closing prices. But she no longer feels comfortable taking business from Merced sellers who appear to be calling her out of desperation. "It's hard even for a staged home to stand out from the rest of the homes when new home prices are comparable to resale homes," Zupan says.
Shoell, the Utah title company owner, says prices aren't crashing in his state. But it's not "all wonderful here," he adds. "We're always about two steps behind everybody else, but we'll feel it."
Check out the BusinessWeek.com slide show to see the best- and worst-performing housing markets in the U.S.


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TCU Wins Rain-Shortened Affair Over UTA, 4-3
March 1, 2003
FORT WORTH, Texas - Will Lewis' (Texarkana, Ark./Texarkana) sacrifice fly to deep center field in the bottom of the fourth inning broke a 3-3 tie and propelled TCU to a 4-3 victory over Texas-Arlington Saturday afternoon at Lupton Stadium and Williams-Reilly Field. The contest was halted after five innings due to rain.
After the Horned Frogs allowed three UTA runs on just two hits in the second inning to fall behind 3-1, TCU's Chris Meeks (Brownwood, Texas/Brownwood) tied the game with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the third. The left-handed Meeks roped a two-run homer through the fog and over the right field fence off fellow southpaw Derek Brehm to knot the contest at 3-3. The home run was Meeks' second of the season.
TCU (9-4) opened the afternoon by plating a run in its first at-bat without the benefit of a hit. Shortstop Shaff Elkouri (Norman, Okla./Asher) opened the frame with a walk, moved to second on a balk, to third on a groundout and scored on an RBI-groundout off the bat of Terry Trofholz (Plano, Texas/Plano Senior) to give the Frogs the 1-0 lead after one frame.
Horned Frog starter Clayton Jerome (Mesquite, Texas/Poteet) overcame the rough second inning to collect the win. The right-hander went all five innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He struck out three while walking only one to up his season record to 2-0.
Brehm picked up the loss for UTA (6-8) as he allowed four runs on five hits in the five-inning effort. He struck out six and walked four in falling to 0-2 for the year.
Weather permitting, the two squads will continue their three-game series at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Lupton Stadium.
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Beckham I've written about recently -- he continues playing, of course, turning in indifferent performances for Milan, and he continues to be praised for doing very little. Frankly, if this is the best he can do, MLS doesn't need him.
But Alexi. What's to be done about Alexi? His playing days were as good an example as you'll find of a player stretching meager talent far beyond what was logical. But that was not his doing - that was the marketing people, who saw exploitable assets - an easy-going guitar-playing character - and the coaches who saw a huge, physical player. No coach that I spoke with ever tried to defend Lalas on the grounds of his skill. It was always other things, his physical power, his leadership - and there was always careful avoidance of the awkward fact that Alexi's team never won anything.
But there was a wonderful personality there, a brightness, a humor, a presence. The guy was a natural, everyone liked him. Sure, a lot of the behavior was pretty sophomoric, but this was a young guy clearly enjoying himself, so what the hell?
As his playing days drew to a merciful end, the vaudeville red beard disappeared, the hair calmed down, and it seemed that a maturing Lalas was emerging. Just in time - for no sooner had he retired than he went - far too quickly - into management. Lalas looked good in his new suits, the likeable personality blossomed. And in no time at all he had been the GM at three MLS clubs, and had been fired from all three.
Something was wrong. And that something was the Peter Pan factor. Alexi was refusing to grow up. Being bright and being amusing is one thing - but being downright silly is not acceptable at the GM level. And Lalas managed to make his share of stupid statements particularly in New York and at the Galaxy. He became easily disposable - even though, in the Beckham case, it's pretty clear that he was far from being the chief culprit.
Alexi needs to think seriously about his future in soccer, to start taking things more seriously. Unfortunately, he has now been sucked into the very area where that will be impossible. Television. And - again, in no time at all, he's a quick worker - Alexi has managed to make an outstanding ass of himself.
Now, admittedly ESPN's hour long (it seemed like much more), live (inert would be a better description) telecast of the MLS Super Draft (try Anything-but-Super) desperately needed something to liven it up. So the ESPN guys dug up rough-stuff footage from a previous USA vs. Mexico game and used it as a promo for next month's game in Columbus - which, you understand, will be televised by ESPN. (Boy, there must be some real brains at work up at ESPN - probably the same guys who, as I reported last October, were helping to promote Beckham by airing footage of him looking bad).
Caught up in this squalid attempt to sell violence was Alexi Lalas. That's what I'd like to believe, but there's too much evidence to make it clear that, far from being caught up, Alexi relished his role as the designated Mexican hater. "I hate them," Alexi told us, and repeated it for good measure, "I hate them." All Mexicans, Alexi? It wasn't clear. Alexi appeared to be coming slightly unglued as he fidgeted and worked himself up with "It drives me nuts, I wanna crush 'em," and then he managed to repeat that as well, "Crush 'em!" OK, Alexi has a strong personal reason - well illustrated in the ESPN footage - for not feeling too friendly to at least one Mexican player. So now his vendetta must be turned into a national hate-Mexico campaign?
I've been trying to recall any other instance in the decades and decades that I've been involved in soccer of another player, or ex-player, making quite such an idiot of himself, and I cannot. However you look at it, this is appalling stuff - either Lalas means it, or he's putting on a shameful act for publicity purposes.
So, be prepared. On February 11 we shall get an ESPN telecast of the USA vs. Mexico game that will be billed as a bloodbath, and we shall have commentators looking for even the slightest evidence of foul play. Provided it comes from Mexico, that is.
Lalas has always been a heavily over-promoted individual, as a college and pro player, as a GM - and possibly as a rock artist, I wouldn't know. But his light sense of humor kept things in balance, made you feel that he saw through this fanciful promotional stuff and that when the time came he would be ready for reality.
Sadly, it doesn't look that way. Putting his disastrous executive career rapidly behind him, Lalas - thanks to ESPN - has now regressed to his sophomoric, make that sophomoronic, mode. Even if I assume that ESPN knows what it is doing, and that its viewers will only watch soccer when the players are behaving like hooligans, it is a sad day indeed when a prominent soccer personality, a former U.S. national team player, lends himself so eagerly to such a travesty of the sport.
C'mon Alexi, you're better than this. Time to say goodbye to Peter Pan.


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Rob Carrick: Stephen, a very good question. I wrote one of the articles to which you refer and my point was not so much to criticize the fact that people are saving, but rather to highlight how much money is being saved in the wrong places. Let's start with money market mutual funds, which people are using to park money they've taken out of their investment portfolios.
Money market funds are providing returns of well less than 1 per cent on an annualized basis today. Most of these funds are charging far more in fees than they're returning to investors. It's scandalous. Other rotten places to save are conventional bank accounts, where the interest is minimal at best.
If you want to keep some ready, safe cash around because of the economy, go ahead. But be picky. Find a high-interest savings account paying 2 per cent (Ally, Peoples Trust, Maxa Financial). Investors willing to move a fair bit up the risk ladder might consider some dividend-paying blue chip stocks. Dividend yields on these stocks could easily be 3 or 4 per cent, and you get the benefit of the dividend tax credit in non-registered accounts. Sure, these stocks can fall in value. But with the worst of the recession over, dividends paid by rock-solid companies seem safe.
Mike: Hello Rob, when will you be publishing your survey about online trading? I am about to move some money to one of these and I'd like to use this information. Thanks.
Rob Carrick: Hi Mike. Glad you asked about the next edition of The Globe and Mail's annual ranking of online brokers. We're looking at publishing it later in October. Stay tuned. And, let me urge all online brokerage customers to drop me a line if they have something good or bad to point out about the firm they deal with.
Mutual funds and ETFs, income trusts and REITS
Christian in Ottawa: Are you a fan of mutual funds? Or the fashion nowadays are EFTs?
Rob Carrick: ETFs are not a fashion. The are an evolution. First, we had mutual funds, which to this day remain a sensible, practical way for the average person to invest. Exchange-traded funds give you most of what mutual funds do, but they do it better. ETFs cost less, they're more flexible for building portfolios, they're more tax-efficient in non-registered accounts and, in an age of justifiable investor skepticism and suspicion, they are more transparent. Where ETFs fall down a bit is in the fact that you must have a brokerage account (full service or discount) to buy them. Mutual funds are way more accessible -- you can buy them at the local bank, for God's sake. So, investors, buy mutual funds if you're just not ever going to get yourself a brokerage account, or your adviser simply isn't licensed to sell ETFs. Carefully chosen, funds are just fine. But if you can get over the brokerage account hurdle -- and many investors are, if you judge by the flood of new accounts being set up at online brokers -- then you owe it to your portfolio to give ETFs a long look.
Peter: I am working on creating a passive ETF portfolio. Two questions, are there good ETFs that I can use for holding cash, like a money market fund and still get some kind return? For foreign content I have a hard time putting my money in US or international ETFs when you look their 10 yr track record and how the investments have been hurt by the rising CND dollar and poor performing U.S. market. So I have left this in a couple value based mutual funds that have relatively low fees. Is this a good strategy in your opinion?
Rob Carrick: Peter, there is in fact a money market ETF. It's called the Claymore Premium Money Market ETF (CMR-TSX) and it has a super-low MER of 0.25 per cent. The problem with this ETF is that you have to pay a brokerage commission to buy or sell it. These commissions could well obliterate all your gains at a time when interest rates are so low. As for your decision to leave your international holdings in value-oriented mutual funds, I like your thinking. Even die-hard ETF people concede that a mix of passive investments (tracking indexes) and actively managed funds (where a manager chooses the stocks) can make sense. I think you've hit upon just such a situation. If you've chosen well, your value managers may be able to scout out stocks that have been pounded in the past year or two but have good long-term potential.Report Typo/Error


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Racing along the edge of a dark mountain ridge, clinging for dear life to the jacket of our driver Vico, I wondered whose madcap idea it was to place a restaurant halfway up a treacherous mountain slope.
After four hours of nibbles and grappa overlooking the beautiful Italian resort of Courmayeur, I realised this had been a perfectly acceptable way to arrive for a dinner reservation. In Courmayeur excess and indulgence take on a whole new meaning.
This little corner of the Aosta Valley, just through the Mont Blanc tunnel from Chamonix, is where the well-heeled Italians come for winter fun, largely hidden from the moneyed Russians flitting around in their helicopters just over the border in Les Trois Vallees.
A few days earlier we'd embarked on a simple challenge - a road trip from London to Mont Blanc - in an attempt to explore whether or not an Italian ski holiday by car really is a viable alternative for us isolated, island-dwelling Brits.
The vehicle of choice was the brand new Ford Tourneo Connect - chosen for it's size, comfort and convenience. Big enough to throw three sets of skis and a snowboard in the back, but comfortable enough to ensure it doesn't feel like you're driving a plumbers van 700 miles across the continent.
The short answer to our question is yes. At £52 for a car of four, the Eurotunnel is far cheaper than a flight from City airport (particularly considering extras for a snowsports baggage allowance), and a mid-way stop in the idyllic 16th-century town of Troyes adds a second dimension to your trip and splits up the drive into two easily manageable chunks.
The journey through the Champagne region, down to Geneva and across the Alps must be one of the finest winter drives on the continent. Gothic churches and vineyards litter the landscape as you make your way through Burgundy, and as you approach the Swiss border the Jura Mountains loom, giving you your first taste of what lies ahead.
Skirting around Geneva the fun really begins. As you find yourself winding along the lower hills the anticipation grows, for mountain roads really can't be beat. Pass Chamonix - where the serious après party crowds ply their trade - and you're into the Mont Blanc tunnel. After 20 minutes of flashing lights and underground monotony, the Italian mountains explode all around you. Courmayeur is a spectacular place to drive to - the journey only surpassed by the time you spend enjoying its unique charm.
Sitting just out of town in the small hamlet of La Palud, a 10 minute drive to central Courmayeur, Auberge de La Maison is a beautifully traditional mountain inn, bolstered by the style and service of a very good four-star hotel.
Courmayeur itself is about as perfect an example of a traditional Italian mountaineering village as you could hope to find, and despite its leanings towards the glitz - Hermès and Cartier sit close by on the quaint main road - it has maintained most of its original character.
If we forget the chic north Italian hoards that set up winter residence, and that's particularly easy considering the soaring views of Mont Blanc at every turn, Courmayeur is a gentle and relaxing change from so many party ski resorts.
The sunny plateau at Plan Checrouit is the main skiing area and the starting point for a network of lifts covering the open bowls on the front face of the mountain. The perfect resort for intermediate skiers, Courmayeur offers a good selection of testing runs and enjoyable reds, with a few relaxing blues and road runs to catch your breath. The resort is relatively small, but 100km of piste served by 18 lifts should suffice.
Looking back to our last night in Courmayeur as we rattled along the edge of that inky black precipice wishing we were sitting comfortably in the Tourneo, I can't help but think of the contrasts - the drive was surprisingly stress-free, but the view that accompanied it violent and extreme. The mountain thrills proved as challenging as any I've faced on European snow, but as soon as that second boot was unclipped at the end of the day I'm not sure I've ever been more relaxed.
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This is a discussion on Hello from Illinois within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; I just heard about this forum earlier today from a fellow SASS member. While we don't have concealed carry in Illinois yet, we're doing all ...
I just heard about this forum earlier today from a fellow SASS member. While we don't have concealed carry in Illinois yet, we're doing all that we can to see that it gets passed.
Some of you may know me from other forums. I'm a member of The Sig Forum, The Firing Line, The High Road, The Smith & Wesson Forum, The Colt Forum, The SASS Wire, The Beretta Forum, Glock Talk, The Walther Forum, and Illinois Loves to go Shooting where I am a moderator.
I look forward to participating in this forum.
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Let me start by saying that I LOVE APPLE! I have been a loyal customer from my first Apple IIc that my parents bought me in 1984 to the Powerbooks 170 and 500 that got me through college. Today, our home is filled with a Mac Pro, a MacBook, three iPhones, three iPods, one iPod Shuffle, one iPod Touch, every version of iLife and iWorks right up until today's iLife 11 and iWork 09. Hopefully, Christmas morning will bring an iPad. My wife and I also proudly display the Apple logo decals on our cars.
This is why I am so disappointed right now. The company that I love so much has all but abandoned me.
Four years ago, I paid over $6,000 for my Mac Pro. The person who sold me the computer assured me that it would last 6-7 years. Well, that was optimistic. Over the past few months I've been working with Apple to get my Mac Pro to get and remain stable. The machine was literally freezing-up two-three times per hour. Most of the time, the beach ball just taunted me. Other times, I could move the cursor around but couldn't select anything. And there were more than a few instances in which the monitor just went black.
Over the months I bounced back-and-forth from phone support to the Genius Bar back to phone support and...well...you get the picture. Some people told me it was a hardware problem, so - on their recommendation - I replaced the hard drive. That didn't do anything. Others said it was a software issue and the Geniuses assured me that everything was okay after my visits to them.
Today, my computer is on my desk in shambles lying among countless wires and codes. Time Machine only has back-ups to last Monday, 12/20. Here is what is lost thanks to Apple's "help:"
-10 years worth of pictures
-12 years of professional work (I work in advertising so most of the stuff are commercials and ads that cannot be replaced.)
-A full quarter's UCLA grad school work worth of papers, homework, research and notes. I am missing a paper that I was working on. I was on page 65 of what is probably going to be over 100 pages. I saved this on my internal drive and backed it up on one of my four external drives. Gone.
-A chunk of my right index finger. As I was walking-up my stairs coming home from my latest Genius visit, I fell carrying the 20 pound Mac Pro. I lacerated my finger on one of the metal handles (pictures on request). I ended up in the emergency room that night only to find out the wound was too wide to stitch-up. It bled for three days. I hurts, and both the ER doctor and my own doctor agree that there will be a "significant" scar.
So what is Apple willing to do? They are willing to wave the $35 incident fee, or they suggest that I take it back to a Genius to see what they can do. That's it. Good luck to me.
The one shining spot in this whole situation is a senior tech support person named Justin. As much as he wants to and try to help, however, he's hampered by what's happened to date.
I'm disappointed. I feel after all these years, Apple has completely abandoned me.
Any suggestions?


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Alex Salmond's fantasy of a tidal-powered Scotland washed away
SNP's King Canute 'in a minority of one' on Pentland potential, says boffin
One of Alex Salmond's ambitious dreams for an independent Scotland - that it would soon become rich by exporting clean green electricity pouring from tidal powerplants in the Pentland Firth - has been destroyed this week by new research showing that the Firth's potential output is far less than Salmond had thought.
The wild-eyed Scots politico, announcing early efforts in the Firth in 2008, went so far as to suggest that not only could Scotland power itself on Pentland 'leccy, but that it would be selling electricity in substantial amounts to less fortunate nations.
"The sort of power that potentially could come from this area is not some hundreds of megawatts, it's not just like one conventional power station, its 20 gigawatts and more than that, that's like 20 conventional power stations," he enthused back in 2008.
"We have to get in a position where we have a supergrid, not just to England but across to Europe to sell that energy to people who need it," added the would-be premier of an independent Scotland.
A steady twenty or even thirty gigawatts as envisioned by Mr Salmond would indeed be more than sufficient to meet all of Scotland's energy needs, not just that much smaller amount supplied today in electric form. At the moment (pdf page 4) Scotland consumes around 13,301 kilotons-of-oil-equivalent of energy in all forms (electricity, coal, oil, gas, all of it). Even in a future with fully electric transport, industry, heating etc, such a level of demand would equate to steady production of well under the Pentland's supposed 20 gigawatts, leaving a sizeable surplus for export to energy-starved England and the Continent.
There's just one problem with that: it's a load of rubbish, according to a new study published by a group of engineers based at Oxford uni and in Ireland and Australia. They write in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A:
It is found that three rows of turbines extending across the entire width of the Pentland Firth and blocking a large fraction of the channel can theoretically generate 1.9 GW, averaged ... generation of significantly more power than this is unlikely to be feasible as the available power per additional swept area of turbine is too small to be viable.
"We are happy our number is very robust," lead author Thomas Adcock tells the Guardian, describing the adviser who had given Salmond his figures as being "in a minority of one" among subject-matter experts.
Tellingly, the Scottish government webpage "Energy in Scotland: Get the facts" has now been amended to remove claims of 14GW tidal potential, though the foolish figure can still be seen in the Google cache for the moment.
So in fact the Pentland Firth, described as "the world's best site for tidal power" by Grauniad enviromation correspondent Damian Carrington today*, could at the outside maximum supply about 10 per cent of Scotland's energy needs (that is, less than a single percentage point of Britain's as a whole). The figure would almost certainly be a lot less in the real world, as the Firth is a busy shipping route and full exploitation would mean closing it completely.
The cost of doing this would be massive compared to that of simply building a nuclear power station with the same output (in the Severn estuary the proposed barrages were costed at six to ten times as much as equivalent nuclear plants). The price difference would have to be made up by government action to force electricity prices up much higher than they would otherwise be - and such government action has already been responsible for the bulk of the electricity price rises of the past decade. The scope for even more gouging is probably limited.
Carbon emissions may perhaps, as climate alarmists contend, be a terrible and immediate menace. But the allied idea that the carbon-driven power sources of today can really be replaced in any meaningful or affordable fashion by renewables looks madder and madder every day. ®
*He seems to have forgotten about the Severn estuary. At one point, enthusiastic tidal developers were pushing plans for a massive barrage there from Minehead to Aberthaw, which would have produced averaged output of 2.9 gigawatts, making the Pentland look rather small. Disappointing work from the "head of environment" at a major newspaper, really. Perhaps he means "world's best site for tidal power where plans for tidal power have not yet been formally scrapped".
Wondering about the word "enviromation"? It comes from The Day Today, whose Rosie May was more like an accurate picture of many mainstream media environment correspondents than a parody.
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The Canisius College rowing team saw its season come to a close on Saturday at the MAAC Championships.
The Griffs placed fourth in the Varsity Eight and Varsity Four, and finished sixth in the Second Varsity Eight en route to a fourth place overall finish.
"It was a great day of racing here at Mercer County," said head coach Joel Furtek. "I couldn't be prouder of the mature races each of our boats raced today. In the end, all three slipped a place or two due to tactical challenges that we just couldn't meet. The record ice this winter - dodging floes just this week - cut into our ability to put all those pieces in place. Still, looking at our improvement over the past month and the complete commitment that our women made to the races today, I have more than enough content to overcome the racer's want for more."
Jacksonville took the team championship with 45 points, Marist (37), Fairfield (35), Robert Morris (28), Canisius (27), Drake (21), Stetson (16) and Iona (7) rounded out the field.
"The fact that we were just one point out of fourth as a team is a bitter loss - but it speaks directly to the team nature of our sport," Furtek said. "Any boat finishing just one place higher would have made it happen. Clear motivation for next year."
The Canisius Varsity Four were the first to hit the water this morning, finishing its race in 8:30.34. The crew consisted of freshman Lauren Bielby and sophomores Nicole Littlejohn, Tiffany Velado and Jordan Szustak, as well as freshman coxswain Kaitlyn Taylor.
Marist was the top-qualifier out of the Varsity Fours with a time of 8:03.56.
The Varsity Eight of freshman Liz DelBarba, sophomores Corrine Kickel, Molly Murphy and Nora Kennon, seniors Meghan Martin, Liz McKinney, Bridget Laszewski and Allison Braun, and sophomore coxswain Jordan Bamrick also rowed to a fifth place finish on the day.
The Griffs completed the 2,000-meter course in 7:10.67. Jacksonville was the top-qualifier in the Varsity Eight, finishing the race in 6:52.30.
The Second Varsity Eight finished its race in 7:36.65, with Jacksonville also serving as the top-qualifier in that event.
The Second Varsity Eight was made up of freshmen Amber Giambone, Chanel Davis, Mikaela Braun and Erin Grim, sophomores Megan Walsh, Julia Sciandra and Ashley Tylenda, junior Liz Reinwald and sophomore coxswain Hannah Blum.
The fifth place finish signals an end to the season and the careers of four seniors, with Braun, Laszewski, Martin and McKinney all departing due to graduation. Canisius will return 20 members of this year's roster for next season.
"Our four seniors have given us a great legacy for the rest of this young team: Canisius Rowing gets it done, gets better every day, and puts it all into great execution on the race course," Furtek said. "We owe a great debt to Bridget, Meghan, Liz, and Allison!"
"Returning 19 freshmen and sophomores, anticipating the leadership of rising senior Liz Reinwald, and welcoming such a great incoming class, we can't wait to get started in next year. But first, a week of relaxed training, exams, and a great summer."


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" The history of Łańcut stretches back to the early Middle Ages, founded as a town in 1349 under King Casmir the Great. The major landowning families in Łańcut were, successively, the Pileckis, Stadnickis, Lubomirkis and the Potockis. In the second half of the 18th century, the then current owner of Łańcut, Izabela Lubomirska of the Czartoryski family, converted the fortress into palace-park complex. She employed outstanding artists such as Szymon Bogumił Zug, Jan Christian Kamsetzer, Christian Piotr Aigner, Fryderyk Bauman and Vincenzo Brenna. The most important changes were made to the layout and equipment of the castle, adapting them to the needs of the fashion of the times. The palace was filled with excellent works of art. In the 1870s, work started to create the park surrounding the castle. After levelling the embankments and re-aligning the road surrounding the moat, lime-trees were planted out creating an avenue. "
Lancut (pron. wineshoot) was one of the very first places in Poland that my then fiancée and I visited in our first flush of romance. Indeed, it was on the Sunday of my very first visit to Poland - the "meet the parents" trip in June 2001. That day trip to Lancut was rather rushed for several reasons, partly though due to the heavens opening. It was a very hot and humid, thundery day. Outside the sky was as black as night, we saw little of the gardens, or indeed the Coach House.
During the five years that followed I have always wanted to return on a finer day - partly because, due to the weather, we were unable to take photographs that first time.
On the last Sunday of July (2006), we made our return visit, this time as a family party, Mrs R, her sister Klaudia, their parents and myself. It was an equally hot day, the outside temperature gauge in the car reading 35deg.C, as we parked in the road that crosses the park. This time however, a bright blue sky formed a backdrop for the many photographs taken.
Assuming that very few of you have heard of, fewer still actually visited this little town, I had better explain where it is located. Follow European route E40 all the way east from Calais, across northern France, central Belgium, all the way through Germany and then Poland - stop around 50 miles from the Ukrainian border and there you will find Lancut, situated on the left hand side of this ancient trans-continental route. It is about a 20 minute drive to the east of the local administrative city of Rzeszow. The castle is very well signposted off of E40 and is easy to find as it is the centrepiece of this attractive little town.
Apart from the Castle, Coach-House and Park, all under the same administration, the other local attraction is the well known Polmos distillery, vodka manufacturers - situated only 1km from the entrance to Lancut Castle.
The Castle Museum is in fact a catch-all title for the combined attractions of the fortified palace (Zamek), the Coach House, which is actually a group of buildings in its own right, and the extensive park, which, as already mentioned, is bisected by a road. Whilst very well known in this local area of Poland, Mrs R's family live about 50 miles away, from the lack of foreign visitors here on both occasions, this seems to be very much a hidden gem on the tourist map.
The Castle is set well into the park, there is therefore no traffic passing and the whole park, excepting the horse drawn carriages, is a very peaceful pedestrianised area. This makes it a very relaxed place to stroll. Initially, especially if you cannot speak Polish, you will have a job locating where to obtain an entry ticket to the castle and Coach House. There is no pay kiosk at the front door, you can only buy a ticket at the gatehouse on the north side of the park. This is far from immediately apparent; even on our second visit we had a job locating this. Behind the handsome gate and gatehouse are located large and clean (attendant run, therefore paid - about 18p for a pee!) toilets.
By the way, keep off the grass! It didn't look particularly lush, or out of the ordinary and there were no signs, but Klaudia and I were snarled at by an officious guard for standing on his precious grass in order to take a photograph.
The ticket now, in high season, is a timed one, by guided tour only. Five years ago, we were given free access to the Castle, now you have to go with a group or not at all. That is fine if you are Polish speaking, certainly we were not offered an English guide. We were instructed to be at the front door at midday (which is the first tour), by which time there was quite a large group assembled.
Outside, on the front step, we were given a more than brief, to put it mildly, history lesson on the town and its previously regal occupants. Founded in 1349 by probably the most famous of Poles, King Kazimierz the Great, Lancut has passed in ownership through the most prominent family dynasties in Polish history. In the mid 1600's, Stanislaw Lubomirski, the most powerful man in Krakow, ordered the building of a fortified palace. He employed the most famous architects and builders from all corners of Europe to build this stunning palace, which originally was far more of a castle that it now appears to have been.
Obviously, from the appearance of the grassy banks remaining, originally moated, Lancut Castle was built in order to defend the vital trade routes, both to the east and to the south. As the centuries went buy, the threats diminished and the large Castle became increasingly palatial, by the end of the 18th century it was ranked among the most splendid residences in all of Poland. In our modern times, that may not sound very impressive, one has to remember that in that particular period of history, Poland was an extremely prosperous nation.
This state of affairs continued through to the turn of the last century, at which stage Lancut Castle was undergoing substantial modernisation and renovation. Between 1899 and 1911, electricity was installed throughout and the plumbing extensively renewed. At the same time the Stables and Coach House complex were built to house the then owner's (Roman Count Potocki) huge collection of horse carriages.
Over the centuries, art and furniture had built into a stunning collection, housed in the most opulent of surroundings here at Lancut.
All of that really rather came to an abrupt halt in 1944, when under occupation of the German army, Alfred III Potocki was forced to flee Lancut as the Russian army approached. He fled to Switzerland, where he died in 1958, leaving his large domestic staff to the mercy of the invading Russians.
The communist authorities evicted the staff, setting up Lancut as a museum, which, to this day since 1945 is what it has been.
We were shown through the courtyard and into a boot-room where we had to don soft slippers over our footwear. Most of our group also had to hand in ruck-sacks and larger camera bags, even though you are not allowed to take photographs inside the Castle, I preferred to keep hold of my camera case.
Our guide was a rather old fashioned Pole, a man of around 60 years, obviously passionately interested in history and art, well versed in all matters to do with Lancut. Unfortunately, even I could tell that he was really rather boring with it too, dwelling far too long on individual paintings rather than giving more of a "flavour" of the fascinating place itself.
Having visited before, we were also only too aware of the fact that during our hour long guided tour, we saw far fewer rooms - the whole top floor was excluded for instance - than when we had toured this building un-escorted.
The entranceway at Lancut is highly unusual. The carriages drove straight into the front of the building, onto a courtyard paved with wooden cobbles. From their carriages, the guests alighted into the Grand Hall. This is part of the original 1650 castle, although the furniture there now is of mid 19th century origin.
From here you climb the stairs to arrive in "The Room Under The Wooden Ceiling". Its title needs no explanation, but it is in here that you will see the first of the superb ceramic stoves which were used to heat these grand spaces. Again this is an original 17th century room, furnished in contemporary style.
As with most grand houses, Lancut is built around a central, open, courtyard, and consists of four joining "wings". The corridors leading along these wings form galleries, from which the principal rooms are accessed. And what rooms they are
lavishly furnished, richly decorated and with outstanding chandeliers. We have over the past two years seen many English palaces and country houses, but few compare to this in size or quality.
The rooms themselves are deceptively large. Mrs R comments that a double bed appears rather small, actually it is a huge bed, but the room in which it is placed is high ceilinged and of massive proportions, merely making the bed look like a toy. There are few carpets here, all the flooring has superb parquetry - hence the over slippers that we are wearing.
Unlike the majority of buildings, both public and private, in Poland, this one has been maintained regardless of cost. That it has been a museum for the last sixty years is incredible, most of the rooms appear as though the family has recently left, on holiday perhaps. There are far too many rooms to describe each individually, even on our shortened guided tour. The most interesting I found to be the tower rooms, the library, the ball room, the theatre (oh yes!) and the veranda room, both of which lead off the ball room.
Since stepping foot in the park, we had been aware of hearing live, classical music. Everywhere upstairs in the house you could hear it, bringing the whole place to life. On the approach to the Ball Room our guide informed us that there were music rehearsals taking place (for an evening concert - this was the festival season here) and asked us to remain quiet once inside the Ball Room. When we actually reached this room there was a very talented young lady playing the violin on stage. She gained a rapturous round of applause at the end of her piece from our group of visitiors.
The Ball Room is the largest room in the Castle, made even more impressive by the mirrors running along the back of it, facing the windows. Not only does this flood it with natural light but, along with the double floor height of this room, also enhance its already huge proportions.
The theatre, dating from 1784 is a far more intimate, yet even more richly decorated room. It has been very recently restored to its full splendour.
On leaving the ball room you come into the Gallery of Sculptures which leads through to the Columnade Room (decorated in 18th century English style) and the Veranda Room. This is a garden room, again having English conservatory overtones.
To bring you back full circle (square more accurately) you walk back down the long north (Red) Corridor which contains a fine collection of historic weapons and early fire arms. Off of the Red Corridor is to be found the extraordinary Chinese Apartment of 1780. This is a bedroom apartment and in terms of decoration is very similar to the Royal Pavilion, right here in Brighton!
Also on the Red Corridor is the Chapel, a surprisingly modest room when compared to the splendour of the rest of this castellated palace.
The rooms upstairs, on the third floor, which we were not shown on our guided tour, are equally sumptuous, if of more modest proportions. These were the daily living quarters, rather than the state rooms which you are shown on the guided tour.
Anyone used to the current general living standards in Poland will be left reeling from the sheer richness and no expense spared interior of Lancut. For me, it is even more of a breathtaking experience having been accommodated in a communist built 1970's apartment block over the previous several days.
The tour returns to the ground floor and the Great Hall where we began. Our over-slippers are returned and the guide then takes the party out into the gardens.
This is a long, lower building located in front of and to the west of the castle itself, which was built in 1802. You enter it through a scruffy door and hallway, to find inside a rather eclectic collection of plants, birds and turtles in small tanks. Incidentally, the Orangery is the only building here inside which you are allowed to take photographs. There is running water flowing through this long oblong room too, which gives us some welcome cool on this scorching hot day. Exiting the Orangery, we are marched across the park to the Carriage House.
Your admission ticket to the Castle also includes a tour of this large collection of horse drawn carriages, housed inside impressive custom built coach houses. Fascinating indeed is the variety and style of these, it is very easy to see the link between the last horse-drawn carriages and first horseless ones - or cars as we now know them. Manufacturers of coaches from all over Europe are represented here, even some English ones. Collecting these carriages was the passion of Roman Count Potocki at the turn of the twentieth century. The museum has continued adding to his collection over the last 60 years. One carriage on display had even been used by the famous Polish composer Chopin.
This is a big collection, and not only of conventional wheeled carriages. The sleighs are numerous and fascinating and must have been a very practical way of travelling during harsh Polish winters.
Within the Coach House complex there is also located the stables and tack rooms. Whilst there are no horses stabled here now, the tack rooms have a very impressive display of various riding equipment and ceremonial harnesses.
For anyone interested in matters equine, the Stables and Carriage House would be a fascinating attraction in their own right. I was certainly suitably impressed and usually prefer an engine in front of my carriage!
Having shown us around the Coach House, this is where our guide departs. In all his tour has lasted around an hour and forty-five minutes. Personally I would have preferred to have done this independently with the aid of an English Guide book - regrettably, no such publication actually appears to be available.
OK, hands up here, this is where we rather gave up through exhaustion on this baking hot afternoon and took the easy option, which to this day I feel a little guilty about. Outside the Coach House they run a horse and carriage tour of the park, using a six seater open carriage - the driver taking up one seat - pulled by two beautiful white horses.
We English I suppose have a rather soft reputation for being animal lovers, on the whole the Poles take a rather less sentimental attitude towards them. Personally I would not have been working these two horses all day on this, probably, the hottest day of the year.
I was persuaded by the family to take the seat to the left of the driver, high up above them seated in the carriage behind me. Whilst this was a great position - albeit unstable as it turned out - for photography, it neither suited my fear of heights, nor my rather swollen left ankle (from the heat) when I had to climb down again.
The carriage ride lasted approximately twenty minutes, my wife having handed over 28PLN (£5) to the driver, which for the five of us I think has to count as a bargain.
From the lofty seating position in the carriage we saw everything in the park that we would have seen on foot. In truth this is not a large park by English standards, although such places are less common in Poland. The trees at least provided some welcome shade both for us and the horses. Due to the sheer heat, or perhaps such attractions just are not so popular in Poland, there seemed to be very few people enjoying this Sunday afternoon in the park.
Café / Restaurant
Whilst on this visit we did not use the restaurant, from our last visit here I can inform you that they sell wonderful fresh ice creams. The café / restaurant is located through a gateway between the Orangery and the Castle.
Yes a small and out of site area of the Castle itself has for many years operated as a hotel. On our first visit here I was curious enough to enquire about rooms. Regrettably, in this most romantic, glamorous too by Polish standards, place, the hotel could only be described as old fashioned and very basic. The room that the receptionist showed us was dark and dingy, it had an en-suite that looked more than ready for re-furbishment.
The Shop
For what is a very large and well established museum complex, the shop at Lancut leaves an awful lot to be desired. It is absolutely tiny, three visitors standing at the counter and it is pretty much full. This problem is compounded by the fact that it is located adjacent to the Carriage House at the end of the guided tour.
The shop, such that it is, sells a range of small books and leaflets(some in English) about the Castle, some good post cards and a very limited range of souvenirs. Fortunately for us on this particular day, there is also a tiny cold cabinet, containing a limited range of drinks - including mineral water.
As already explained, admission tickets can only be purchased in the gatehouse on the north (town) side of the park. The ticket pricing structure is fantastically complicated; I will quote what we actually paid - on a high season Sunday, for a timed guided tour - the most expensive and only "service" available to us on the day.
All recognised credit cards are accepted.
We paid 26PLN (equiv. £4.64) each. According to the Castle's website:
http://www.zamek-lancut.pl/en/Visiting/Prices you are able to obtain the services of a foreign speaking guide for an additional 3PLN per person.
During the week, or off season, you can buy an ordinary admission ticket
for rather less than this. My advice would be to do so, you will see far more of the castle and not have to suffer the fairly boring picture, by picture history lesson which took up the majority of our time inside the castle.
I note that the "all-in" ticket price also allows admission to the Synagogue, an attraction that we did not see, therefore allowing us an excuse for a return trip to Lancut!
Opening times are equally as complicated as the ticket prices and I would suggest referring to the site above in order to determine just when you can visit Lancut.
Incidentally, the site has an English language option!
Lancut is some way off the beaten tourist path for western visitors to Poland. For me, there lies its' appeal, it has yet to be overrun by English and American tourists - indeed in the course of two visits there we have not heard English spoken.
It is a strenuous three hour drive to the east of Krakow, if castles and palaces are of interest to you, then this would be a day trip worth taking from there. If you were thinking of taking a holiday in south eastern Poland, maybe being a little adventurous and venturing away from Krakow for a few nights then the local cities of Tarnow and Rzeszow offer some very good and cheap accommodation, as well as interesting old town centres and cathedrals (in the case of Tarnow).
About two hours drive to the north of Lancut is my favourite Polish town Sandomierz, on the way there a stop can be made at Baranow, where there is another splendid 16th century castle.
Lancut is undoubtedly the most impressive single attraction that I have seen in Poland. I therefore thoroughly recommend it to you - preferably without the services of a guide.
""The history of Łańcut stretches back to the early Middle Ages, founded as a town in 1349 under King Casmir the Great. The major landowning families in Łańcut were, successively, the Pileckis, Stadnickis, Lubomirkis and the Potockis. In the second half of the 18th century, the then current owner of Łańcut, Izabela Lubomirska of the Czartoryski family, converted the fortress into palace-park complex. She employed outstanding artists such as Szymon Bogumił Zug, Jan Christian Kamsetzer, Christian Piotr Aigner, Fryderyk Bauman and Vincenzo Brenna. The most important changes were made to the layout and equipment of the castle, adapting them to the needs of the fashion of the times. The palace was filled with excellent works of art. In the 1870s, work started to create the park surrounding the castle. After levelling the embankments and re-aligning the road surrounding the moat, lime-trees were planted out creating an avenue.""


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