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RF Monolithics has introduced the WLS-series of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth combination modules to the company's integrated short-range radio products. With the addition of three standards-based modules – the WLS1270, WLS1271, and the WLS1273 – the RFM integrated short-range radio product line now includes high-performance standards-based technologies in addition to the company's proprietary RFIC- and SAW-based product portfolio.
According to the April 2011 issue of Connected World Magazine, by the year 2020 over 50 billion M2M intelligent devices will be wirelessly connected. Many M2M applications employ end-devices that are Wi-Fi- and/or Bluetooth-enabled which are connected to the internet via an open or private communications network.
Commenting on the use of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in M2M applications, Larry Miller, Director of Product Management for the RFM integrated short-range radio product portfolio said, "Immediate access to information and the standard-based communications protocols for ease of connectivity have become major selling points for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. As a result, the RFM WLS-series of combo modules are ideal for OEMs wanting to quickly add Wi-Fi, or Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth connectivity within a broad range of products for world-wide markets."
The WLS-series of products include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology in a single SoC and a high-efficiency RF front-end circuit plus a DC-DC converter. The modules are designed to fit into space constrained designs and are slightly smaller than a dime. Minimal external circuitry is required to complete a radio design; add an antenna, power source, processor and associated interface hardware and the radio hardware design is complete. The modules are FCC and/or ETSI certifiable.
The WLS1270 is IEEE 802.11b/g/ and 11n compliant and measures 9.2 mm X 8.4 mm x 1.35 mm, the WLS1271 is IEEE 802.11b/g/ and 11n compliant, Bluetooth 2.1 plus EDR, Power Class 2 compliant with dimensions of 9.2 mm x 8.4 mm x 1.35 mm, and the WLS1273 is IEEE 802.11a/b/g/ and 11n compliant, Bluetooth 2.1 plus EDR, Power Class 2 compliant, and measures 11.4 mm X 9.4 mm x 1.4 mm. The WLS Evaluation Kits currently support Linux and Android operating systems.
For further information: http://www.rfm.com.
This article originally appeared on EE Times Europe.


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Just found some unusual crays at a lfs and wanted some help
identifying them. They were sold as Red Chili Crays.
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Few disagree that Buenos Aires is one of the top urban destinations in South America – and it is, arguably, among the top budget destinations in the world.
My wife and I stayed in two apartments in the Palermo Hollywood and the Palermo SoHo districts; the costs were $313 and $375, each for a week. A two-star hostel's cost? About $50 a day ($350 a week). Granted, there are perks to hostel stay – but there is a frenetic do-do-do to hostel living that, in my experience, keeps me from savoring the world's greatest cities.
If trying on a tuxedo can be likened to checking in to a luxury hotel, renting a downtown apartment can be compared to renting a local's entire wardrobe. In Buenos Aires a company, Buenos Aires Stay, has made it affordable and easy to "try on" this elegant, expansive metropolis. The apartments range from shabby-cheap to chic to shabby-chic, ranging from below $200 to above $4000 weekly.
To book our apartments we used buenosairesstay.com, and were helped by a lovely group of Spanish-speaking British expatriates with an immense passion for, and knowledge of, the city and the surrounding campo. Their low administrative fees are easily worth the time they spend "fitting" you to your apartment.
If you feel like splashing out, the website bastay.com offers luxury rentals. For example, a cool $2700 will rent a 280-square-meter five-star penthouse apartment in Palermo Hollywood that combines "sumptuous design" with all the amenities of a five-star hotel (sauna, gym, pool, laundry, concierge).
We budgeted, splurging on the clothes and fascinating Argentine wares of the burgeoning SoHo district's artists and designers. I completely went off my economic grid, buying custom leather boots from Lopez Taibo, a century-old cobbler, for all of $120 (I have hobbit-wide feet so this was a must).
Boarding the plane with my new shoes, I realized I wasn't entirely ready to give back the Buenos Aires I had tried on.
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Wildcat band on the run to D.C.
Musicians invited to perform before thousands at Memorial Day Parade
As long as members can raise enough money, the De Soto High School band will be marching upon Washington, D.C., next summer.
Band director Justin Love told the De Soto USD 232 Board of Education Monday night that the DHS Marching Wildcat Band was invited to represent Kansas at the 2006 National Memorial Day Parade in Washington.
Love said fund-raisers for the trip would start right away.
A goal was for all interested students to be able to go, Love said. Also, the director said it was important the band be well-represented to perform its best.
D.C.'s Memorial Day Parade is expected to draw a crowd of around 200,000, Love said. That's more than three times as many attendees as the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, where the DHS band performed in front of 60,000 people a year ago.
"Wow" was a common response when students learned of their opportunity, Love said.
"They were very excited," he said. "Going to Washington is a pretty big deal. There's lots to do there."
Performing in the Parade is by invitation only, Love said, and De Soto was recommended from two directions.
An Olathe woman with a connection to the company charged with filling the bill for parade performers recommended the Wildcats, as did the band director at the University of Kansas.
Beyond those endorsements, Love said the band still underwent evaluation. They had to turn in a performance video, references and a list of performance history to prove they were of high enough caliber for the parade.
Love said that was a testament to his typical reminders, like always stay on beat.
"They've done a lot of checking on us since then," Love said. "You never know who's watching and why they're watching."
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Berlin, Germany: July 5-8, 2014
July 5th . . . finally, the beginning of our Berlin & then Globus Reformation tour, leaving from Atlanta and arriving in Berlin on the 6th, via an Amsterdam transfer. Our Berlin time was "on our own" but the following tour of Germany would be with Globus.
Taxi ride was about half an hour into our hotel, Arcotel John F, very near Museum Island in Berlin. We were able to get into our hotel room immediately and were surprised at the size of the room and our view – we could see the Berlin Dom (Cathedral). A beautiful small brick church with twin towers, Freidrichswerdersche Kirche, was directly across the small street, filling most of the window along with the construction site beside it that had destabilized the church foundation to such an extent that it was closed (even though it was listed in all our guidebooks as being a lovely small museum). This became symbolic for Berlin to us – construction cranes were everywhere. We were told that Berlin, especially the former East Berlin (location of our hotel) is a very active building market at the moment; apartments/townhouses were the construction that we were seeing but many of the churches and government buildings in this area were also still undergoing renovation.
We headed out immediately, bought a 3 day museum pass for 24 Euros. (Just a note – Berlin's museum prices were expensive compared to Britain and France). We walked around Museum Island, a huge complex of buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s that has developed back into Berlin's pride since the fall of the wall. Since it was a Sunday and crowded, we decided to start with one of the smaller museums on the island, Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), with a collection of 19th century paintings and sculptures. We saw some nice Monets and Manets, a streetscape by a German artist showing "our church", but my favorite painting was by Max Lieberman, The Flax Barn at Laren. He was the leading German painter of his day but his works were removed by the Nazis.
It was a pleasant day outside so we sat beside the Spree River and ate an excellent roasted bratwurst on a hard roll, from a stand right outside the museums. (Alas, the stand wasn't there our next two days and we never found a bratwurst as good or as cheap as that first one.)
We then took a narrated boat ride down the Spree River. I am still amazed at how beautiful Berlin is. . . not as charming as Paris but greener and less crowded. The Spree is a pretty river with lots of bridges. We passed by the huge Tiergarten, Berlin's "green lung" that gives it quality urban air. We also saw the Reichstag, a very modern glass building, that I wish we'd had time to tour and other government buildings along the river. It gave us a bit of an orientation to the city. The East Berlin TV tower is visible from everywhere.
The Berlin cathedral called to us but we were too tired to do more; returned to the hotel room for a nap and then went out walking. Just a few blocks from our hotel was the Gendarmenmarkt Square, with 2 churches (the German and French Huguenot cathedrals) and a large concert hall. Guidebooks described this as most beautiful square in Berlin but it was so cut up with yellow construction tape and during the evenings so busy because of the free outdoor musical concerts that it is hard to judge. For our first evening, we ate in a little restaurant's outdoor seating, just below the concert (but I could still hear the beautiful music). I had good meatloaf and potato salad (with apple in it) and we watched people, once observing the police completely close off an adjacent street for 10 minutes as a huge group of skaters came through. I've never seen so many people on bicycles, carrying dogs and babies, women pedaling in high heels, etc. We made our way back to hotel and watched the light finally fade from the sky about 10 p.m.
Monday, July 6th Woke up early enough to take a walk but was still disoriented from flight, strange hours. It was very bright with sunshine at 6:30 a.m. when I went out for a quick walk back to the concert/church square and to a big shopping street. At breakfast I drank 3 glasses of juice, 2 pots of tea, and finally started feeling normal again. In spite of drinking diligently on the plane, I felt like I was dehydrated and maybe a bit hypoglycemic, the juice helped more than the caffeine. The hotel had 5 kinds of juices: orange, grapefruit, carrot, mummy and fruit juice with whey. Carrot juice wasn't particularly good but I became a big fan of the mummy (multivitamin) juice and fruit juice with whey. Only the Berlin hotel had the fruit juice with whey but the multivitamin juice was everywhere, seems it is a German product.
For breakfast, I had all sorts of "interesting" things: salmon, cucumbers, a tomato spread, ligonberries, a mixed fruit compote that was wonderful with their natural yogurt plus the usual bread, cheese, and eggs. (They had plenty of meat but that I could skip.)
We made it to the Berlin Dom, the church that was closest to the Hohenzollern palace (razed by East Berlin communists after WWII) and took general tour, then climbed the 270 steps up to the beginning of the dome, got great view of Berlin and the cathedral's own statutes and bell towers from there.
We also tramped down to the Hohenzollern crypt, full of stone coffins, including that of Queen Sophia Charlotte, from 1705.
We headed then for the Neues Museum and the famous bust of Nefertiti was as beautiful as promised. Museum itself was interesting structurally, as it reopened in 2009 after wartime destruction with the rebuilding overseen by a British architect. (All of Museum Island was in East Berlin before wall.) There are hints of the original building from the time when Berlin was competing with British Museum but it has the feel of a new design.
I was touched by the Egyptian family statues; they were something new to me. Adult children were included but small sized, some of the statues had families with their arms around each other. Also collection of King Akhenaton era statues.
Most surprising though was the gold hat, both from an artistic and historic standpoint. It came from Central Europe's bronze age when there was a widespread sun worshiping religion. Hat was encoded with astronomical & calendar information; probably worn by priests or kings during special occasions. Also nearby was a large bronze twist of horns.
Also enjoyed the exhibit from prehistoric early humans in Germany . . . the famous Neanderthal skull, a huge elk from Berlin itself, etc.
For lunch, we returned to same spot for another roasted bratwurst but stand had disappeared; must have been a weekend set-up. We ate lunch outside; I enjoyed a bowl of lentil soup and then we went on the Deutsches Historisches Museum, which was in a pink marble building by the river The museum was commissioned by West Berlin in 1985, to present German history in an European or international context, but museum moved to former Prussian Arsenal building after reunification. There was a good section on Martin Luther, with several famous paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and on the Napoleonic wars. The sections on WWI and Nazis/WWII were mostly text and photographs which were difficult for a tired, English language person to take in. The Nazi posters were compelling (the young Aryan beauty shrinking from the evil Semite), also the exhibit that included copies of the books burned in Berlin. Also the yellow stars with the word "Jude" . . . they were larger than I had imagined. There was a cloth with about 20 printed on them that made me realize it had to be sewed on all clothing.
There was a small section of the Berlin Wall preserved in museum, also an East German Trabant (car). And then on to the wonderful Pergamonmuseum, where we walked right into the Ishtar Gates and Processional Way from Babylon, perhaps the most beautiful thing we saw on entire trip.
Next we went through the Market Gate of Miletus (AD 120), which seemed very real and human, more so than the even bigger Pergamon Altar, which dates from 160 B.C. Both are from modern Turkey, I think, with Pergamon Altar being excavated in the 19th century.
We went to the Middle-Eastern Islamic collection also, stepped into a gorgeous, elaborate reception room from a Syrian merchant's home during Ottoman Empire: Also was fascinated by several beautiful prayer niches, from homes and mosques, I think:
This wasn't pretty but it was interesting & impressive, part of the palace walls from early Islamic days (740s) from Jordanian desert, the Mshatta Façade. Islamic textiles also beautiful and impressive.
We walked home to the hotel, dodging the water puddles, and then went back out, armed with umbrellas, to find supper again on Gendarmenmarkt Square. To our surprise, even though it was a Monday evening, the square was again crowded and again there were preparations going on for another outdoor concert. We grabbed a quick bratwurst again and ate on a church bench, next to the Franzosischer Dom (French Huguenot Cathedral). We explored some around the church, walked through to the Humboldt University campus (Einstein, Marx, Engels' university). Their library was covered with construction boards. After briefly walking on Under der Linden, Berlin's famous street, we managed to get ourselves back to our hotel's street through one of the church courtyards just before rain started again.
Tuesday, July 7th
Woke up to steady rain but I slipped out for quick walk anyway, finding the Mendelsohn spot near our hotel. I watched the Berliners riding their bikes in the rain from our window for a while, had leisurely breakfast, and then when rain stopped about 9:15, set out for the Gemaldegalerie, in West Berlin's Kultuforum, just past the very busy, very new Potsdamer Platz. It took us almost an hour to walk there, stopping to look around (Sony Center, markings in the sidewalk for wall, etc.). The Gemaldegalerie ("Old Masters Gallery") was wonderful art museum; very relaxed and uncrowded. We had headsets but couldn't spare the time, of course, to listen to everything. Daughter enjoyed their early art and I liked their collection of Dutch landscape artists and Vermeer. I think it is the best designed, easy to follow large art museum I've ever been in, it was planned in the 1980s as West Berlin's counterpart to Museum Island.
I like the German artist, Albert Durer, and they had many nice pieces by him.
I They had several Rembrandts, including self-portraits (and the one of him in a helmet that is now thought to have been painted by someone else). I could stand as long as I wanted directly in front of their Vermeers, nothing was crowded.
They had several Caravaggios, which are always fun to look at, lots of Rubens, too, also several by Botticelli, who I really like.
We left art museum about 1:00 & then I spotted the public library, Staatsbibliothek, directly across the street. I had to go in; it was a busy, bustling place. I didn't go past the security gates, just looked at the display areas, which included their retired card catalog and got daughter to take my picture:
Ate lunch as we were walking to the Jewish Museum (another outdoors bratwurst washed down with tap water in our water bottles). It was warm but also noticed threatening clouds . Jewish Museum's crowds were a surprise to us after the quiet of the art museum. It was very much a "modern museum", in design and philosophy. It covers 2000 years of Jewish history in the German areas, you begin in a beautiful old building and then head downstairs, symbolically and physically, to begin the tour. New part of building is designed as a fractured star of David, has many empty spaces.
The lives of the medieval Jews were so limited – often being peddlers and money lenders were the only occupations open to them. I am always impressed at the emphasis they put on education, even valuing literacy and schooling for girls. There was an impressive exhibit on Gluckel of Hamelin (1646-1724), an unknown name to me, a successful businesswoman (after husband died), mother of 14 children, and most important, a diarist who recorded details of her life that were preserved and published by her descendants.
I spent some time on the Mendelssohns exhibit, since our hotel was just around the block from one of their homes. Also was interested in Max Liebermann, after enjoying his paintings at art museum day before.
I'm interested in synagogues but old ones just don't exist in modern Europe – I looked at the model for the ones in Cologne and then another for Breslau.
There was a big special WWI exhibit but we were short of time . . . a moving exhibit of things people took with them when they were exiled, very little about the Holocaust itself although that may have been covered in the "Garden of Exile" which we didn't reach – always the limitations of time. I feel that we needed a guided tour of the museum to pick out the most important things. We saw tours being given by museum staff, most with children, but no English speaking ones at the time we were in the museum.
It was raining steadily when we left the museum but we walked doggedly back, passing Checkpoint Charlie and standing in the corner of its small museum, noticing also several little square cobblestones on the sidewalks for specific Jews taken from the neighborhoods, we would see these again in Berlin and also in other German cities. One thing that I noticed . . . many times they were for couples about the ages of my grandparents, born in the 1880s, so in their 50s and 60s during the dangerous times, an age when one is established and it is difficult to flee, to think of starting over, especially in another language. None were for survivors.
We reached the hotel about 5:45, quickly dried ourselves off, and headed downstairs for our welcome dinner with the Globus "Luther Reformation" tour that was beginning next day. Tthere were only 14 of us. Our tour guide, Scott, was American who has lived most of his life in Germany -- he turned out to be an excellent guide, funny & very practical about lunch spots, things to see, etc.
Wednesday, July 9th We set out at 8:30 for our Globus tour of Berlin with Burt, a local guide, after last breakfast at my favorite hotel of the trip. Stopped at the Brandenburg Gate, which still had TV screen from the big semi-final World Cup game the night before – saw the elegant Aldon Hotel and embassies next to it and tried to imagine it as the tense border between East and West Berlin. We drove past the beautiful Schloss Charlottenburg (summer palace built for Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte). Also we stopped at Checkpoint Charlie, where we had been in the rain the day before. It seemed a cheerful place these days.
We stopped again at the longest stretch of the wall still existing, which incidentally is next to the new Topography of Terror Museum, the spot where the SS had its underground headquarters; no time for us to go in. Next door to SS was a beautiful pink art & exhibition hall building.
So hard to realize how completely the wall divided the city; guide would even mention "the street used to be blocked here by the wall".
We then stopped at the new Holocaust Memorial (official name Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), dedicated in 2005 – it is a plaza of gray stele blocks, of varying sizes, arranged in straight lines. There were a couple of school groups, some tour buses and then just others on their own there but I have to say the mood didn't seem to be sober. I had read about the memorial so I understood some of the meaning (emptiness, cemetery-like) but there was no text, no symbols in the area where we were – although I think there is a small building where the names of all the murdered Jews are read continuously. On one side there were green trees, on the other fast food type stands. Some younger people were climbing on top of the steles.
Our last stop was the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which was a moving anti-war memorial with a modern church built next to ruins of the elaborate church tower, right in the middle of a prosperous and busy area. Inside the tower was a Coventry Crucifix, made of nails from the English cathedral destroyed by the Luftwaffe in 1940. Also there was a Russian Orthodox cross, a post-War gift, and a memorial to a member of the church who was a deputy mayor of Berlin until deposed by the Nazis because he was a converted Jew (he was killed in 1945 in a concentration camp).
After a lunch of currywurst (much prefer the bratwurst) and a run through a department store's grocery store (where we were baffled by "American salad dressing"), we headed out of Berlin for Wittenburg in early afternoon. Luther tour had officially begun! But so many places in Berlin that we didn't have time for . . . hope to return one of these days. Berlin needed at least 5 days, not 3!
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3 days spent in Berlin before starting Germany tour . . . trip report has pictures but they don't seem to copy and paste into the report.
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Hi ... nice TR! I hope you will also report on the Luther tour, it sounds very interesting!
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I think Berlin is a city which will always leave one "wanting more."
You write so well ~ may I suggest more spacing to make the report easier to read?
Thanks for taking the time to post.
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I have been to Berlin 3 times now at the beginning and end of tours and I am anxious to get back there for a week or so on my own. so much to see and do.
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CLBtravel: I've also seen those brass plaques sunk into the cobblestones in Berlin. I've also seen them in Schwäbisch Hall. They're called "Stolpersteine," or "stumbling blocks."
I think 29Feb made the right comment. I've been to Berlin many times since I first went there in 1966, and there's still lots I haven't seen.
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On my list for next trip to Berlin: Schloss Charlottenburg, tour of Reichstag, more art, (Kathe-Kollowitz Museum & Museum Berggruen especially), more churches(St. Mary & St. Nicholas), and an outing to Potsdam. Also would like to spend more time on the River Spree, just admiring the bridges.
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I found the book, Gluckel of Hamelin last year and thought it was fascinating. If you want a different viewpoint on life during those times, this is the book to read. Highly recommend.
The small, brass cobblestones are called Stolper Stein and they are for anyone who was murdered by the nazis, not just for Jewish victims. Roma & Sinti, Homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, "traitors", Communists, priests, those who were experimented on, and those who were euthanized. There are over 44,000 of them as of today, and more are being installed every day.
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When President Obama made his endorsement of gay marriage (on the state level) last month, many Republicans and media commentators scoffed that the topic would not be a major issue this campaign year. But persistant reports on the importance of the issue among those bankrolling the president's reelection campaign illustrate the naivety of these claims. A CNN analysis released Tuesday reveals that at least one in sixteen of the president's biggest fundraisers are gay.
After President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, a group organizing a fundraiser on his behalf suddenly had to find a bigger venue. The event, featuring the pop singer Pink, is one of two LGBT-organized fundraisers Obama is expected to attend on the West Coast on Wednesday.
A CNN analysis of President Obama's biggest fundraisers, known as bundlers, shows that at least 33 — or about one in every 16 bundlers — is openly gay. Together, they have raised at least $8 million for the campaign between January and the end of March.
In CNN's analysis, only bundlers who have disclosed their orientation in past CNN reporting or in trusted LGBT publications were counted as gay. The Washington Post has reported that as many as one in six bundlers supporting Obama are gay. The Advocate Magazine estimates one in five.
Discussion on the power of "gay money" in the reelection campaign has been brought up before. In the time in between Joe Biden's infamous appearance on" Meet the Press" and the president's formal support for gay marriage during an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts three days later, NBC's Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd commented on "Morning Joe" that the importance of "gay money" has "replaced Wall Street money" for Barack Obama in the 2012 election.


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Design has started on the last section of the main Big Gulch Trail that will take it the rest of the way to near the Districts Wastewater Treatment Plant. The upper loop, from SR 525 near the new Staybridge Hotel, over to the library, down the gulch and back up to Staybridge is open to pedestrians and bicycles but not motorized vehicles or horses. Bicycles must yield to pedestrians.
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Note that the BEGIN comment includes both the complete component id in the page and the location of that in the template. With just the component id it can still be unclear which component is being referenced without the line number.
For security purposes, this feature cannot be enabled in production mode. In non-production mode it can be enabled two ways:
- Setting the symbol "tapestry.component-render-tracing-enabled" to "true" (default: false)
- Setting the request query parameter "t:component-trace" on the URL to "true". This allows enabling for a specific request when you need it in development rather than having it on all the time.
Note that rendering comments are based on the component lifecycle. Thus in some case where post-render DOM manipulation is performed the markup my not longer be in the correct rendering comments.
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+1 Unit testing is where is comes in handy. With the addition of the component class to te comment It will allow you to do things like assertComponentOnPage(MyComponent.class).
I made a temporary hackish solution for this, see http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToVisualizeComponentHierarchy . Hope this helps.
I think enabling component debugging on a request-by-request basis would be really helpful.
What about if the parameter was there but Tapestry would only actually use it's value if tapestry.prodution-mode was false ? Wouldn't that provide both ease of use and security ?
Or an specific symbol which has a default value of tapestry.prodution-mode.
Yep, just a query parameter seems too much easy as Ulrich proposed a production-mode could be leveraged for this purpose.
I wouldn't want anyone knowing that my application is a Tapestry application to be able to see my component structure, just by adding a query parameter to the url. Why not bind this to "tapestry.production-mode==false && log.isDebugEnabled()"?


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A joint initiative will change the life of fashion students in Gauteng, through the Edcon Design Innovation Challenge.
This challenge brings SA Fashion Week's Runway Productions, which has emphasised the importance of business in fashion and retail group Edcon, attending to the opportunities much required for a disadvantaged group of people. The disparity of access and opportunity is not only in history but still prevalent today. And the gap between studies and the reality of the workplace is also wide, this serves to bridge that and so young students will be under the Edcon Design Innovation Challenge and become skilled with critical business thinking and problem solving, further understanding the retail, all this under the strategic guidance and collaboration with Lucilla Booyzen (managing director of SAFW and Runway Productions) and the retailer.
Targeted at final year students and graduates, the three final winners in this contest, will walk away with first prize being R20 000, R15 000 for second and R10 000 for third. In addition, they will be part of a one-year learnership with Edcon – a 21 Step to Retail programme facilitated by Runway Productions. Next year's fashion week ss17 and aw17 seasons will have eight leading designers showcase in a shared slot, all proving evrything learned.
Recently, the 15 nominated students were introduced and will receive three-month mentoring where the selection process will continue and leaving the most promising and fitting the programme. The opening held at Edgars Melrose Arch also had Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, who commended this contribution in creating opportunities.
Elelwani Pahlana, Transformation Executive at Edcon said this initiative is part of Edcon's transformation journey.
"We have undertaken a number of initiatives by leveraging our expertise and using our platforms to empower women and youth".
The programme fits right into what Edcon has devoted to through the Orange Campaign, where 40 women from shelters in Gauteng were trained in sewing and basic fashion elements. And this has now extended to Kwa-Zulu Natal.


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Lucid FC x Superrradical Pop Up Shop at The Good Company
Up and coming streetwear brands Lucid FC and Superrradical are set to collab for a one-day trapathon at The Good Company.
Although temperatures continue to drop in the city, a Southern heat wave is about to hit the streets of the Big Apple. Up-and-coming streetwear brands Lucid FC and Superrradical are set to collaborate for an exclusive one day only pop up shop this Saturday Nov. 9th hosted by The Good Company. The collection will feature an array of pieces, ranging from short and long sleeve tees, down to hoodies and beanies.
The collection is guaranteed to satisfy all swag palettes with basic logo tees, tie-dye prints for those looking to turn heads, and custom airbrushed hoodies that take us all the way back. (Shirt Kings anyone?) The lookbook is looking like a cookbook, featuring the heads of each respective brand sabotaging the bluffs of Atlanta and trapping on a typical evening. Straight off the Mac Book, no less! The photos certainly capture the essence of a superficial outlook on the grit and grime of The South.
When asked about the collaboration, Lucid FC's Betts DeHart said, "Lucid and Superrradical are both from the southern area of the United States so we wanted to design the collection that represents The South. Not to mention trapping is the new thing." Moving forward Lucid also hopes to transition their headquarters to NYC come 2014, so the streets better keep watch.
The Lucid FC x Superrradical one-day trapathon will take place on November 9th from 12-5pm at The Good Company. Special guests are also expected to make appearances, so it looks like that little boutique on Allen Street will be steady mobbing.
Yo! Adrian doesn't trap, but he is on Twitter.
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Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, June 17, 2014
A cold frontal boundary will extend from the Great Basin to the upper Midwest on Tuesday, while a ridge of high pressure will continue to park itself over the eastern Pacific.
A cold front will stretch across the Great Basin, the Intermountain West, the central Plains and the upper Midwest on Tuesday. As warm, humid air collides with this frontal boundary, widespread heavy rain and thunderstorms will develop across the northern tier of the country. Severe thunderstorms will be possible over eastern Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, northeast Iowa, northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. These thunderstorms will be capable of producing large hail, dangerous straight line winds and isolated tornadoes. In addition, heavy rain associated with these thunderstorms will bring a threat of flash flooding to northeast Montana, southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, an onshore flow from the Gulf of Mexico will trigger rain and thunderstorm activity across the Gulf Coast and the Southeast. Similar conditions will also be possible over the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast on Tuesday.
Portions of the Pacific Northwest will experience rainy weather due to an onshore flow from the Pacific. A ridge of high pressure will keep the remainder of the West Coast clear of wet weather. Temperatures are forecast to range between the 90s and 100s across the Desert Southwest. . Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Monday have ranged from a morning low of 30 degrees at Yellowstone, Wyo. to a high of 100 degrees at Gila Bend, Ariz.


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As a novice astro-photographer, like many others, I use DSS to stack my (Canon 450D) images.
For the skill level I'm at, I'm not unhappy with the results and DSS never gives me any trouble. I find it just about as simple to use as anything.
However, I'm wondering if CCDStack would give me better results with the DSLR. (I'm not planning to go to a dedicated CCD camera anytime soon).
If there is an improvement, would it be substantial enough to warrant the cost ($200)?
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A worker for China's largest mobile carrier has confirmed that the iPhone 5 will launch on China Mobile in September. What does that mean for Americans? An iPhone 5 as early as August.
We know that Apple COO Tim Cook was in China earlier this week, working on bringing the iPhone 5 to China Mobile. If Apple can strike a deal, it'll be a huge coup for them: a $70 billion dollar market across over 600m new customers.
Now a China Mobile worker has apparently said that a deal has officially been struck, bringing the fifth-generation iPhone to China in September.
When Apple released the iPhone 4 in June of 2010, China didn't get it until late September, three whole months later. Even if Apple shortens the time it takes them to bring the next iPhone to China, the United States will still get it first, meaning that it's possible that instead of the ubiquitous September launch of the iPhone 5 we've been hearing rumors about, the most recent rumor of an American August launch will prove true instead.
Still, for right now, caution in getting too excited about this report. Although we know Apple is working with China Mobile to work out a deal, the hearsay report of a random employee isn't exactly worth its weight in gold when it comes to predicting the moves of the most secretive tech company in Silicon Valley.
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No Improvement in Florida Sewage Spill Reporting
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The state of Florida has failed to improve its record of reporting sewage spills into local waters and along beaches, an environmental group said Thursday in a follow-up to a study it released last year.
According to the follow-up study, "Are We Still Wading in Waste?," the state accounted for 44 million (166 million liters) to 51 million gallons (193 million liters) of wastewater and sewage spilled last year.
"This is only a drop in the bucket of what may really be happening," said Kathleen Aterno, the fund's Florida director, in a statement.
"Not only has little changed in how spills are being reported, it appears that no one, including the state, counties and the public, is getting the full picture of how much sewage is actually spilling in our communities," she added.
The study notes that a 250,000-gallon (950,000-liter) sewage spill that closed beaches in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach last year is nowhere to be found in the Division of Emergency Management's "State Warning Point" data although it had been highlighted in the fund's 2005 study.
In other instances the state simply listed "unknown amounts" for various spills.
Division of Emergency Management spokesman Mike Stone had no immediate comment on the study itself, but he said the data is collected to help state and local agencies respond quickly to the spills rather than for record-keeping purposes.
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Man starts 2008 with severe beating
A Hancock Avenue man told police Sunday that he was severely beaten at a New Year's Eve party at an Athens night club.
Alarm thwarts burglary attempt
A burglary at a Hawthorne Avenue construction company may have been thwarted by an alarm Monday, Athens-Clarke police said. However, burglars still made off with a ladder and damaged the building's balcony.
$4,500 A/C unit taken by thieves
A 2-ton air conditioning unit valued at $4,500 was reported swiped from a location on Danielsville Road sometime between 6 p.m. Monday and Jan. 2, Athens-Clarke police said.
Helper steals moving woman's meat
A woman told police that a man named "John" stole $300 worth of meat while helping her move Sunday to Denney Tower in downtown Athens.
Burglar hits Cedar Creek home
A telephone, television, laptop computer, printer, modem, bread machine, jewelry and Christmas presents were stolen Saturday or Sunday from a Cedar Creek Drive house, according to police.
Burglars make hay over the holiday
A University of Georgia student returned home from vacation Monday to find his home on Willow Run burglarized, Athens-Clarke police said. Someone broke a window to a back door sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 7, police said, taking a computer monitor and jewelry valued at more than $300.
Rice to declare for NFL draft
NEWARK, N.J. - Ray Rice will skip his senior year to enter the NFL draft after becoming the leading rusher in Rutgers history and transforming the Scarlet Knights into a Top 25 team.
LSU coach has lots of Miles to go
NEW ORLEANS - Flanked by his team's four gleaming national championship trophies, Les Miles was already looking for more.
Tigers benefit from key play
Ricky Jean-Francois atoned for a season-long suspension by getting his big right hand on the ball for LSU.
Jones leaves Hawaii
DALLAS - Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered program that led him to take the coaching job at SMU, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this past year.
Jones leaves Hawaii
DALLAS - Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered program that led him to take the coaching job at SMU, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this past year.
Jones leaves Hawaii
DALLAS - Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered program that led him to take the coaching job at SMU, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this past year.
Repairing damaged psyches
NEW ORLEANS - Sometimes a coach needs a couch more than a whistle. That may be the conundrum for Ohio State's Jim Tressel as he tries to rebuild his Buckeyes' tattered psyches heading into the 2008 season.
Kaltefleiter: Outlook for playoff not so rosy
The Rose Bowl is considered one of college football's greatest assets. The history, tradition, pomp and circumstance surrounding the annual New Year's Day game is unrivaled. The Rose was this country's first bowl game and is still touted as the epitome of college football.
Richt excited to be ranked No. 2
Georgia didn't get a chance to play in the BCS title game, but ended up with the No. 2 ranking behind champion LSU in the final Associated Press poll released Tuesday morning. It's the highest final poll ranking for Georgia since it finished No. 1 in its national title season of 1980.
Buckeyes' defense falters again
NEW ORLEANS - As Ohio State prepared to face LSU, the Buckeyes defense vowed things would be different this time.
Swofford shows interest in plus-one
NEW ORLEANS - Officials for the Bowl Championship Series are going to have some serious discussions in the coming months about implementing a plus-one format, which could create a psyedo playoff for college football's highest level.
LSU dumps Ohio State for BCS title
NEW ORLEANS - Too easy. No. 2 LSU danced, dodged and darted its way into the end zone Monday night, turning the BCS national championship game into a horrible replay for No. 1 Ohio State. It was over early, with Matt Flynn throwing four touchdown passes in a 38-24 win.
Jones leaves Hawaii
DALLAS - Staying at Hawaii would have been the easy choice for June Jones. It was the challenge of rebuilding a tattered program that led him to take the coaching job at SMU, which stumbled to a 1-11 record this past year.
BCS title game ratings down from last year
NEW YORK - This year's LSU-Ohio State matchup in the BCS title game couldn't draw as many television viewers as last season's Florida-Ohio State game.
Coggins resigns after 14 years in Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina women's golf coach Kristi Coggins has resigned after 14 years with the team.
Gary Doster: Campus weapons law not needed for adults
How refreshing to read that a Clarke County grand jury had enough sense not to indict Douglas Kyle McClure, who was arrested by University of Georgia police last year on felony weapons charges because of a toy gun they found in his car on campus (Story, "Grand jury refuses to indict grad for pellet gun at UGA," Thursday).
Lee Becker: Oconee officials are not open about sewage plant
Oconee County officials, in an effort to keep citizens from "tainting" the review process, have decided to keep secret the second round of bids for the $8 million to $10 million upgrade of the Rocky Branch sewage plant, as well as the review process by which those bids will be evaluated.
Kevin Ayres: Gun ownership comes with responsibilities
I take comfort in knowing the writer of the Monday letter expressing support for the Second Amendment Protection Act, a piece of proposed state legislation, is a law-abiding gun owner. However, it is wishful thinking to believe that all gun owners are, or would be, responsible.
Barry A. Palevitz: Money, not TV, is real evil ruining collegiate athletics
In his Sunday column, Dan Magill says TV is ruining college football. Yes, but let's dig more deeply. TV already has ruined football - plus basketball - and it did so long ago. Actually, the real culprit is money; TV is just the bagman.
J. Keith Bertrand: UGA provides vital help to animal agriculture
A Jan. 1 letter to the editor, "University is a long way from being 'green' leader," urged the University of Georgia to phase out animal-based curricula and animal-based foods.
Tommy Lumpkin: Athens-Clarke should buy entire Dunlap Road area
No resident of Dunlap Road wins with the planned expansion of the Athens-Clarke County Landfill at its current site. I think it would be in the best interest of the county government and residents of the area near the landfill for the county to purchase the entire Dunlap Road area, from U.S. Highway 78 onward.
It's hip to be flat
In Mexico it's a tortilla. In Ethiopia it's injera. It's naan in India and matzoh in Israel. By whatever name you call it, flatbread is everywhere. And in the United States, it is a quickly rising part of the nearly $14 billion bread industry that is crowding shelves from Wal-Mart to Earth Fare.
Agent answers
I have pet rabbits that produce a lot of waste. Is it safe to use their manure in my garden?
French Republic honors veterans contributions with Legion of Honor
Local student on NPR's 'From the Top' tonight
Ibanda Ruhumbika, a 17-year-old senior at Cedar Shoals High School, will be one of the featured guests this evening on the NPR program "From the Top."
Golden Globes eyeing new format after actors threaten boycott
LOS ANGELES - The Golden Globes and NBC were on the verge Monday of scrapping the traditional show format, which would be picketed by striking writers, in favor of a news-conference approach, a person close to the awards broadcast said Monday.
Sandy Creek Park offers hiking class
Carly Robinson, program specialist at Sandy Creek Park, will teach map reading and basic hiking techniques during a hike at Raven Cliff Falls in White County Sunday. The hike is 5 miles round-trip.
Teen writes about real food, fast
If you've got 5 minutes and are at least 10 years old, Sam Stern has a few recipes for you.
Today in history
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2008. There are 358 days left in the year.
Lessard: Cull furniture to make the most of small space
Dear Lanie: My husband and I live in a small house with a small living room/dining room combination that is just jam-packed with furniture accumulated over the years. Not only are we physically crowded, we've both begun to feel stifled psychologically as well. We're ready to eliminate whatever we can in order to create more openness.
From the Humane Society: Please meet Gabby
Gabby, a round, adorable girl, loves to curl up against your chest to nuzzle. Although she's now 9-months-old, Gabby is still a total kitten. She was rescued at just a few weeks old with a severe respiratory infection. AAHS entrusted her to the care of a local vet, who worked got her through the early health problems and saved her life. Because of her early sickness, Gabby will probably have chronic respiratory problems, which are simple to manage in a home. Luckily she doesn't let the sniffles get her down.
Northeast Georgia Quail Unlimited bags honors, helps community
Among the programs and organization supported by the chapter is SAFE Program of Jackson County 4-H. SAFE, Shooter Awareness, Fundamentals and Educations, promotes safety in shooting sports. The Jackson County program emphasizes BB guns competition for ages 9 years old to the eight grade. The 4-H members start competing in early March leading up to the state competition at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in May. The SAFE program was in need of a trailer to haul shooting equipment such as target boxes, BB guns, cover and mats and other equipment to and from different practice locations. The chapter was able to purchase a 12-foot trailer with their logo as well as N.E. Georgia Quail Unlimited on each side. The top photo includes all the SAFE 4-H members and their coaches.
Thai dish unites chicken, coconut milk
Can you tell me how to bake chicken in coconut milk? I had a boyfriend whose mother was from Thailand and she made this all the time. It was incredible, almost sticky, and I think it had a lot of ginger in it. Lost the boyfriend, and never got the recipe. Don't miss him, but miss the chicken.
Cottingham: Fragrance from Edgeworthia will fill your garden
One plant in my garden that I am watching with keen interest is my Edgeworthia. Right now, the flower buds are clustered at the end of each stocky stem.
Add a little something extra to BLTs
Tinker with perfection? What the heck. Some would argue the BLT is a perfect triumvirate unsuited to tweaking. Some might say a little enhancement never hurts.
Blackwell names worst and best dressed celebs
A decade after singling out the Spice Girls as fashion atrocities, Mr. Blackwell put just one of them - Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham - at the top of his 48th annual worst-dressed list.
Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban confirm pregnancy
LOS ANGELES - Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting their first child together.
Oh, spicy: Salt's silent partner has history of its own
Salt and pepper have been partners for so long, hardly anyone questions how they happened to form such a lasting relationship.
Winder Fire Department receives thermal imaging camera
Today's best bets
Wildcard Wednesday for teens, 4 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Library
Smith: Cool wind blows up memories
EULONIA - A service station offering "Firewood for Sale" was doing a brisk business. In another day, I never heard of folks selling firewood. Trade some, perhaps, but nobody bought or sold firewood. Everybody simply cut his own firewood and stacked it neatly against the barn. When winter came, you transferred it to a wood box on the back porch as the need arose.
Today in history
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 9, the ninth day of 2008. There are 357 days left in the year.
Quick Glimpse
COMEBACKS: East Athens Physical Therapy recently chose D.J. Johnson from Oglethorpe County High School and Taylor Jordan from Cedar Shoals High School as this fall's comeback players.
Today's best bets
Dickie Hayden, Radiolucent, Some Animal
Globes to become news conference
So much for the glitz and glamour of the Golden Globes.
Madison man travels the world to study snakes
Chris Harper sat at his computer desk, while next to him lay probably one of the largest Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes in captivity. A few minutes earlier, Harper had disturbed the snake's rest by removing it from a secure cage and letting it stretch to its full length on the floor. The rattlers began to vibrate. It's a sound most people don't want to hear.
A time to hear some gospel music
Mt. Zion Church, Bullock Mill Road, Danielsville will hold a benefit with musical performances and barbecue and hot dog plates beginning at noon Saturday.
If rain fails to fall during the winter, 2008 will suffer
North Georgia clawed through its driest month - October - and through forced watering restrictions and elective conservation measures kept at least some water in drought-depleted reservoirs.
Madison County police blotter
The Madison County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents
For longtime Colbert mayor, job's gotten easier
There's no official list of the country's longest-serving mayors, but if there were one, Colbert's John Waggoner surely would be on it.
Madison County residents look at ways to cut water use
Eleven of 22 public water systems in Clarke and five surrounding counties have failed to cut winter water use by 10 percent as Gov. Sonny Perdue mandated and might face fines, according to the state Environmental Protection Division.
Around Madison: New tax plan discussed
Thomas P. Lauth, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and an expert in public finance and the state budget process, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 16. at the Madison County Library.
Globes to become news conference
So much for the glitz and glamour of the Golden Globes.
Today's best bets
Wildcard Wednesday for teens, 4 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Library
Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban confirm pregnancy
LOS ANGELES - Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting their first child together.
Sore left knee hinders Humphrey
Rashaad Singleton won't be with Georgia when the Bulldogs host Georgia Tech on Wednesday.
Butler: Foul looked worse than it was
Corey Butler is on the public enemies list in Spokane, Wash. And it's not the one that includes Chuck D and Flavor Flav.
Hoosiers throttle Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Kelvin Sampson's smash-mouth style has brought out the best in D.J. White.
Bush, Arab leaders share Iran concerns
CAIRO, Egypt - Iran is the one issue where President Bush and Arab leaders have shared concerns. Ahead of the president's Mideast trip, Arab nations are eager to contain growing Iranian power, though they're wary of doing so militarily.
Iranian boats threaten U.S. warships
WASHINGTON - Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode," according to a video released Tuesday by the Pentagon.
McCain wins N.H.; Dems too close to call
CONCORD, N.H. - Arizona Sen. John McCain won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, completing a remarkable comeback and climbing back into contention for the Republican presidential nomination. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton moved out to a startling lead over Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic race.
U.S. going after al-Qaida in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military launched a countrywide offensive Tuesday against al-Qaida in Iraq's efforts to regroup and intensify suicide strikes on civilians who have sided with the Americans against the terror group.
President will preach democracy to leaders
WASHINGTON - For years, President Bush has eagerly waved a flag for democracy in the Mideast from afar. This week, he steps gingerly into the troubled region where his freedom agenda is stalled.
Gold proves its metal as investment haven
NEW YORK - Gold futures surged to an all-time high above $880 an ounce Tuesday as traders bet that rebounding oil prices would boost demand for the metal as a safe haven investment.
More borrowing drives up debt
WASHINGTON - Consumer borrowing rebounded in November as credit card debt shot up by the largest amount in six months.
Digital transition could blank out low-power stations
WASHINGTON - Owners of thousands of small television stations that reach rural populations or specialize in community affairs and minority programming are worried the digital transition is going to leave their audiences watching a blank screen.
Bombings kill key al-Qaida foe
BAGHDAD - The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed Monday in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives and highlighted the deadly precision of attacks on Sunni leaders choosing to oppose al-Qaida in Iraq.
Kenyan president invites chief rival to talks
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's president on Monday invited his chief rival to his official residence to discuss how to end the country's election standoff, just hours after the opposition called off nationwide rallies amid fears of new bloodshed.
Snowmobilers rescued in Colorado
CONEJOS, Colo. - Six snowmobilers missing in the mountains for 21/2 days while a howling blizzard swirled around them were rescued Monday - hungry and cold but unhurt - after taking shelter in a cozy cabin and calling 911 on a cell phone when the storm eased up.
Rare winter twisters rake Arkansas area
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A line of thunderstorms fed by warm weather continued spinning off unusual January tornadoes Tuesday, killing a man in Arkansas and carrying a cow close to a mile.
Clinton scrambles to avoid second defeat
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Hi! So my fiance and I have the first 1/2 of our honeymoon planned and need some assistance with part 2. June19-July11 is our frame
Let me preface this with: I know we are moving around a lot, but my fiance has never been to Italy and he wants to see a few areas so we can decide where we want to spend a whole 2 weeks next time.
We are spending the first 9 days in Puglia with a rental car and then heading over to the Cilento coast and staying 3 nights somewhere there before we return our car in Salerno (anyone like Salerno in July or super crowded/touristy?). After we return the car we will take a train to Rome and spend 4 nights. After that, we have about 6 days before we have to be in Milan for our flight home (used miles so no choice on airport). Initially we were going to spend those days in Florence, but now I am feeling stressed about being in another huge, crowded city after Rome and I like the idea of chilling in a small Tuscan or Umbrian village and doing perhaps a day trip to Florence or passing through Florence for one night on our way to Milan (fiance really wants to go to Florence). I found a cute little town, Bettona, but you need a car, and that seems the case for every small village. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a small quaint non-touristy village reachable by public transit? Or should we stay in perhaps Perugia or Bologna or Parma which would not be small but an easy train to/from Florence? We could potentially rent another car in Umbria for 4-5 days (if there is a town that we just have to visit) but that's another expense....the easiest thing would of course be to stay in Florence the whole time but I am not a Renaissance art fanatic (plus I've been to Florence) and really I just want to relax in a tiny village square, soak up the culture, and eat local delicious food and wine. I feel that it would also be easy to stay in a village near Florence, but I would be concerned those would be touristy.
Thanks in advance x a million!
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non-touristy in Umbria or Tuscany?
Hi! So my fiance and I have the first 1/2 of our honeymoon planned and need some assistance with part 2. June19-July11 is our frame
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The owner of Enoteca Piazza Onofri in Bevagna has a dozen or so apartments to rent in the town center. You would need a car. Within a half hour or so are Spello,a nice hilltop town, Montefalco, the home of Sagrantino, Perugia, the capitol of Umbria, Assisi, Norcia, of salumaria fame.
Just a suggestion.
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That time of year I would not spend that time in Florence. You did not mention the Ligurian coast, but I see that as an excellent alternative on your way to Milan.
If you do rural Umbria or Tuscany you will need a car. I know several good places to enjoy the best of Tuscany--holler if you decide to do that.
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"Fiance really wants to go to Florence" but you've already been...I assume your compromise is this small village but with a car, correct?
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For Tuscany without a car near Florence, check out Pistoia. Lucca and Settignano. You might even consider Bagno a Ripoli. San Miniato would mean a bit more complicated trip to the train station, but you might like it or be willing to spring for the occasional taxi ride. Also check out Montecatini Alto as a possibility.
A bit further from Florence but closer to beaches in both Tuscany and Liguria is Pietrasanta. It might be just what you are looking for.
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Florence is really overrun in summer. Bologna is kind of dead in summer - - almost too much so. If you don't want to rent a car, a nice compromise might be Lucca. Although there is an ant lane of tourists from the main bus park down a couple main streets (mostly daytrippers), 90% of pretty Lucca is relatively untrammeled. You can ride bikes through town and atop the city wall around the town (I stayed at a very nice 3* right at the train station and they had free bikes). It's a short train ride to Florence, or to Pisa, or to the beach at Viareggio. Cinque Terre is a couple hours. Here are some pictures from last July (arriving Bologna; train to Lucca; one night in packed Florence): https://www.flickr.com/photos/douglashoyt/sets/72157634874102329/
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Another place to check out is Arezzo. You wouldn't need a car there.
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Wow guys thanks for all the great replies! So what I am gathering is if we stick to some of those towns near florence or even go to pietrasanta we could get along without a car but if we go into Umbria (spello, bevagna..) we would have to rent a car in, say, Perugia.
We will definitely look into all these spots and make our decision (perhaps by going onto airbnb.com and just seeing what apartments are out there)
All three suggestions sound spectacular: Florence to Ligurian coast on way to Milan, or Tuscan towns not too far from florence, or the several close together hill towns in Umbria. Decisions to make!
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Somewhere like Siena or Lucca would be good and you wouldn't need a car.
For the smaller towns in Umbria a car would be best if you want to see a lot of places. However, we spent five days in Spello last year and used only bus and train. We were able to visit Bevagna, Assisi, Spoleto, Foligno, Montefalco, Trevi all by bus and train but as bus services are not frequent, we only visited one or two places each day. For us that was plenty anyway. Check http://www.umbriamobilita.it/it for buses and www.trenitalia.com for regional trains (select tutti treni and a date not too far into the future).
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I would love to get more info on great spots in tuscany. how do I PM you?
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@Dreamon: Thanks for the suggestion. Lucca and siena will be too touristy for what we want. (we want as little tourists as possible--I know WE are tourists but we have been learning Italian and really want to practice and get an authentic experience). I think for now we are looking at Spello, or perhaps Todi or Narni (did you go?) since those can be reached by public transport. If we decide to get a car then we can go to the really small villages like Bettona or San Gemini. That would be best, but we are trying to save $ by not renting the car, since we are doing that for 11 days in the south.
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In the meantime, here are some of my favorite places---the Val d' Orcia is my favorite part of Tuscany.
A. RURAL LOCATIONS: All have parking and good food options nearby
1. Relais La Saracina www.lasaracina.it 230 to 300E
Fabulous country home near Montepulciano—helpful owners
2. Cretaiole Agriturismo http://www.cretaiole.it/ Good value for families
Isabella also has 2 apts. in Castelmuzio for rent—wonderful—see her site.
3. Terre di Nano www.terredinano.com 100 to 155
Both rooms and apartments at rural Agriturismo near Monticchiello
4. Casanova di Pescille http://www.casanovadipescille.com/ 100E
Rural B&B 3 KM from famed San Gimignano—we loved the views of San Gim.
5. Fattoria Tregole www.fattoria-tregole.com 110E to 180E
Has both B&B and apartment accommodations. Near Castellina in Chianti
6. Agriturismo apts. near San Quirico— www.poggiolo.info/ About 110E
7. New historic B&B north of Pienza. http://www.camprena.it/index.htm
Site of filming for THE ENGLISH PATIENT About 90E for double
8. http://www.borgoargenina.it/index.html A special rural B&B in Chianti.
The lovely owner, Elena, will make you feel like family. 170E for double
B. IN-TOWN LOCATIONS: For walking convenience to shops & ristorantes.
1. Palazzo del Capitano www.palazzodelcapitano.com 170 to 210E
Very nice small hotel in center of San Quirico—perfect location to explore.
2. Vecchia Oliviera www.vecchiaoliviera.com/ 150 to 200E
Nice 4 star hotel at the gate into lovely Montalcino---has pool.
3. Palazzina Cesari www.montalcinoitaly.com 80 to 110E
Lovely small B&B in heart of Montalcino—great value—2 night stay minimum.
4. Locanda di San Francesco www.locandasanfrancesco.it 180 to 200E
New boutique B&B in a lovely location in Montepulciano—great reviews !
5. Politian apartments http://www.politian.com/ Good value apts. with
minimum stay of 3 nights in Montepulciano---helpful host---85E
6. Palazzo Ravizza www.palazzoravizza.it 170 to 250E
Very nice & popular hotel in Siena with parking.
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For Cilento - I love Pisciotta. Gorgeous. Romantic. A medieval fishing town clinging to the hill. Hotel Marulivo is as lovely as it looks and the restaurants in town are delicious and affordable. The swimming is good. From Palunuro you can rent a boat to see the grottos along the coast. I'll be there in a week (YAY!), and I'll check out Castellabate too. I would definitely not choose Salerno but then I've only been to rent and return a car.
Spoleto is a good, less-touristed option in Umbria. I've stayed there twice and had a car both times, but it's on the train line and I think you can see the small towns of Umbria via train or bus. Not all, but many.
I would never go to Florence in the summer. I like Lucca but prefer Spoleto. And the Val d'Orcia is gorgeous but lots of visitors and fewer transit options.
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If you want as few tourists as possible neither the val d'Orcia or Spello fits that description. Be aware that in the first half July Spoleto hosts a huge international music festival so it will be slammed out with tourists (and Perugia will be slammed out with the jazz festival). Assisi is always slammed out with tourists. If I stayed in Todi, I would want a car. (I would want one in Spello too.)
Of all the towns on your list that you don't absolutely need a car, I would probably pick Narni. San Gemini looks lovely, by the way. I'd never heard of it.
Is there any way you can reduce the number of days you need a car in Puglia?
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I just looked at your previous posts on your trip and if you are flying into Bari and heading to some like Lecce or Matera in Basilicata it is possible to get there by train or bus (and to other major Puglia towns) and skip renting a car for several days depending on where you are and what the rest of your itinerary is.
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Agree about Pisciotta. Make sure to have dinner below the town in Pisciotta Marina ifi you like seafood.
Beaches at Palinuro are beautiful!
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Thanks everyone! We decided to hold off on the few days in umbria for the next trip and spend those extra days in cilento since it will be less running around, and more relaxing, we booked a beautiful place in pisciotta and I can't wait!!
So, we are doing mostly southern italy this trip (puglia, cilento and rome). Next time, hopefully during the off season, we will hit up Umbria and Tuscany.
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That sounds like a great choice, Lauren. I think it's always better to stay in one general area. We leave tomorrow and are flying in and out of Milan too - on Easy Jet to Naples, then on the 20th, from Bari back to Milan.
I just changed some of our reservations. We had planned to stay in Bernalda, but switched to Pisticci because the hotel - Hotel Torre Fiore Masseria - is so lovely. I'll report back.
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Just a little tip: if during your trip you will want to relax, in Tuscany there are many free hot springs thermal baths: absolutely not touristy... the full list here
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