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In the past week I have had several pieces of news from our far-flung family. During the Academy Awards ceremony my father's cousin, screenwriter John Michael Hayes (known to our family as Buddy), was honored in the memorial video. It was the first that I had heard of his death. Next, I found out that my first cousin on my mother's side of the family, the Reverend Charles Crabtree, had been named President of Zion College, a Pentecostal Bible school that had recently thumped itself down right in the midst of liberal New England.
Two cousins, two men, so different. The first had worked with Alfred Hitchcock to make the movies Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. He adapted and toned down big-budget melodramas like The Carpetbaggers and Peyton Place so that the movie scripts could pass by the censors. The second was a man of God whose college students are winning over their adopted town by doing the good works that they feel are their calling, working at the local homeless shelter and helping out in the soup kitchens of northern New England.
During the same week, the oldest member of Beez's family, an Italian immigrant, single lady, and devoted auntie who is now 96 years old, was taken to the hospital in an ambulance and was later returned to her home to continue bossing around her caretaker through another spring cleaning. We are rooting for her, and hope to yet attend her 100th birthday celebration.
Beez and Bucksnort and I find ourselves out here on the High Plains, a tiny little family. Though our parents are gone and our children all far away, we were reminded this week that we are still part of a huge and diverse family. In honor of that extended family, I'd like to share this nice old fashioned poem, written about our relatives by Fern Gallup Kinney (click to enlarge it a bit). It appears in her hand-typed and self-published book, Kith and Kin of the Kinneys, which is the genealogical history of the descendants of Israel Kinney (1738-1791) and his wife Susannah Hood (1745-?), who together had 14 children. It is a remarkable piece of pre-Internet research. If you are a relative (and we are legion--Kinneys, Kenneys, Belyeas, Crabbs, Crabtrees, Gibersons, Kimballs, McGees, Gallups, etc.) you will be interested to know that the entire book is available in pdf format and may be downloaded from http://home.comcast.net/~kinneyed/KithAndKin_image.pdf. If you are interested in this document, I would recommend that you download it, as it seems to disappear from online every once in a while.


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Comment Few will be surprised by the verdict of the Home Affairs Select Committee on the Damian Green affair.
But the conclusion to the debacle is a useful and timely illustration of the threat to democracy posed by the forthcoming Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP). A delayed consultation on its proposals, one of which is a central communications data silo and a ubiquitous wiretap system, is due "in spring".
The "national security" justification offered by Jacqui Smith for the warrantless counter-terror police raid on a fellow member of Parliament's offices was trumped up by officials embarrassed by a series of leaks, we've now learned. The information about immigration failures fed to the Tories was politically damaging to the Labour government, but arguably in the public interest, and certainly no threat to national security.
The Committee concluded: "There is a clear mismatch between Sir David's [Sir David Normington, the most senior civil servant in the Home Office] description of the sort of material that he suspected had been leaked from the Home Office and the Cabinet Office's letter to the police stating "there has been considerable damage to national security already as a result of some of these leaks".
The police were called in to protect the state by the Cabinet Office, the Whitehall-only department that serves as the nexus of political and civil service power. It's also the department tasked with coordinating the spooky parts of government; MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and the Defence Intelligence Staff all report to ministers via the Cabinet Office's central intelligence machinery.
Taken together, the Cabinet Office's willingness to talk up national security threats in the Damian Green case and its closeness to the agencies who would build and operate IMP should serve as a warning.
IMP was initiated, we're told by Gordon Brown no less, "to ensure that... our national interests will continue to be protected".
Are we to believe, then, that the Cabinet Office would not involve the intelligence services and their proposed database of every electronic communication in the UK in a future Whitehall mole hunt? After all, Christopher Galley, Green's Home Office source was a threat to "national security" in Cabinet Office eyes. Identifying him was important enough a target for police to raid an elected representative.
With the appropriate data mining software, all an IMP-capable intelligence officer told to find the mole need do is bring up a list of Home Office officials' recent email and mobile contacts. Then, just cross-reference that list with a similar one for Conservative Central HQ staff.
Maybe the spook will track down the leaker instantly; maybe he'll come up with a short list of suspects for other mole hunters to interview. Either way, the effect will be the promotion of secrecy in Whitehall, to the detriment of democracy and the public interest.
Another current political brouhaha provides further illustration that in the heat of political battle, the definition of "national security" can become more flexible. Just as the Cabinet Office claimed "national security" to trigger the arrest of Damian Green, Downing Street could make a reasonable case that the integrity of its communications was threatened by the exposure of spinner Damian McBride last weekend.
That is because Paul Staines, the political blogger also known as Guido Fawkes, obtained emails that were sent from Number 10. They showed the connivance of a man paid from the public purse in a unseemly plot to smear senior Tories and their families, a matter of great public interest. To officials concerned with national security, however, such mudslinging is irrelevant - what matters is the breach of security.
Staines hasn't revealed who gave him the emails, but to an IMP-enabled government, the temptation to have a look for clues in the database would be strong. After all, there could be a breach of network security at Downing Street, which would of course be a threat to national security.
Perhaps some officials might err though, plagued by suspicions that consulting the IMP database in such a situation was too heavy a blow against democracy. In that case they might refer to the recent words of retired Cabinet Office intelligence chief Sir David Omand as he considered data mining for a think tank report.
"The realm of intelligence operations is of course a zone to which the ethical rules that we might hope to govern private conduct as individuals in society cannot fully apply," he wrote.
"Finding out other people's secrets is going to involve breaking everyday moral rules."
So there they have it, from the man who was in charge of security and intelligence at the Cabinet Office when IMP was cooked up: new surveillance technologies will mean the rules don't apply. The Damian Green affair shows the rules are already being bent in Whitehall.
"Public trust in the essential reasonableness of UK police, security and intelligence agency activity will continue to be essential," Omand continues in his treatise on surveillance data mining, which maintains the terrorist threat remains high. But with friends like these, Sir David, who needs enemies? ®

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Senators To Obama: Hey You Can End Bulk Phone Data Collection Today; Obama: Ha, Ha, Ha, Nope!
from the well,-that-was-an-idea deptThis morning, a group of Senators, Mark Udall, Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich, sent President Obama a letter reminding him that he can live up to his promise to end bulk phone record collection today by simply having the DOJ not seek to renew the court order from the FISA Court getting the phone operators to hand over that data.
We welcome your proposal, announced on March 27, 2014, to end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. We believe as you do that the government can protect national security by collecting the phone records of individuals connected to terrorism, instead of collecting the records of millions of law-abiding Americans. We also believe that you have the authority to implement your proposal now, rather than continuing to reauthorize the existing bulk collection program in 90-day increments.And, of course, just hours later, James Clapper responded, not to the letter, but in a Tumblr post, which again mentions how President Obama promised to end such bulk collection, but then saying that the administration is still seeking the next 90 day extension to keep collecting those phone records. The post even calls out the passage of the totally watered-down USA Freedom Act in the House as "prohibiting" such bulk collection (even though it doesn't really do that, since it allows broad selectors that give the NSA effectively the same power). However...
Given that legislation has not yet been enacted, and given the importance of maintaining the capabilities of the Section 215 telephony metadata program, the government has sought a 90-day reauthorization of the existing program, as modified by the changes the President announced earlier this year.Wait. Given what importance of maintaining the capabilities? So far, every analysis of the program has shown that it wasn't important at all. How could anyone in the administration still claim with a straight face that the Section 215 bulk phone records collection is "important" when everyone who's seen the evidence agrees that the program has been next to useless in stopping terrorism.
Consistent with prior declassification decisions, in light of the significant and continuing public interest in the telephony metadata collection program, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified the fact that the government's application to renew the program was approved yesterday by the FISC. The order issued yesterday expires on September 12, 2014.
Either way, even though President Obama has already said that he wants the program ended, and he could do so, he's still keeping it going.
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My big activity each summer is to to take all the groups from our three schools to Valley Hill Farm for horseback riding, hayrides, picnics and farm fun. Each Friday, I take a different group. On every trip, we're met at the barn by Chipper, the Valley Hill greeter and mascot.
The first part of the trip is always spent taking turns riding horses.
Even the teachers get a turn to ride. (Yep, that's me!)
In between turns, there's time for a few games in the dirt. The teacher drew letters and shapes and the kids guessed what she had drawn.
Then the kids took turns writing the letter or drawing the shapes.
After everyone had several turns to ride, the tractor arrived to take us on a hayride to explore the rest of the farm.
We saw bunnies...
and chicks
and a few freshly laid eggs.
And little dogs....
And horses of every kind and color.....
We saw horses with new baby foals,
and cows with new calves. The little guy in front is blind but seems to do just fine!
We saw mama goats and their kids..... (and played a little tag!)
These kids playing on a little hill reminded me of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff.
We saw pigs
and piglets.
Isn't this guy too cute?
One of my favorite activities is near the end of the hayride, we stop for a drink out of the garden hose. The water is so fresh and sweet because it's well water and runs nice and cold. Most of the kids have never tried to drink from a garden hose, so it can be a bit of a challenge to get them started without soaking themselves (hence, no pictures ;). It always amazes me how the generations have changed ~ the idea that we have to "teach" them to drink form the hose surprises me every trip!
After the hayride, Mr. Tommy parked the wagon under the shade of a large tree. As we ate, the girls that ride and board their horses there practiced some jumping for us.
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With football season well underway, it's time to think about the part of the game everyone can enjoy – win or lose – the delicious food. And no tailgating spread, or homegate if you prefer to enjoy the game from the comfort of your own couch, can be complete without one star ingredient – bacon.
Hand-trimmed and slow smoked over real hardwood hickory chips, Farmland Hickory Smoked Bacon – available in multiple varieties, including thick cut, classic cut and low sodium – packs the perfect punch to take your tailgate to the next level. While a perfect topping for grilled fare, such as cheeseburgers, bacon can also be used to take other go-to game food up a notch.
Treat yourself to a classic appetizer, such as onion rings, only wrap them in bacon for an added flavor kick, or add a couple slices to a tried-and-true cold weather favorite, grilled cheese, along with some zesty jalapenos to push your pre-game meal to the extreme.
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Jalapeno Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- 4 strips Farmland Hickory Smoked Classic Cut Bacon
- 2 good sized jalapenos
- 4 bread slices
- 2 slices mozzarella, cheddar or pepper jack cheese
- Cook bacon over medium heat for 2-3 minutes.
- Slice jalapenos in half circles and saute in left over bacon fat.
- Butter non-greased side of bread. Sprinkle on jalapenos and bacon.
- Top with cheese of your choice.
- Top with another slice of bread, greased side facing out.
Bacon-Wrapped Onion Rings
- 2 large onions (Vidalia or otherwise)
- 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
- 1/2-1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated onion
- 1 pound Farmland Hickory Smoked Thick Cut Bacon
- Remove stem and blossom ends of onion and slice into 1/2-inch slabs, peels removed, and separate into two-ring sections.
- Line half sheet pan with layer of heavy duty foil, parchment or Silpat. In pie plate, use fork to toss together brown sugar, cayenne pepper, salt, granulated garlic and onion until evenly combined.
- Take one slice of bacon and gently stretch it to lengthen it. Hold one edge against an onion ring and wrap it around the onion, overlapping bacon by 1/8-inch or so. If needed, use part of second strip to finish wrapping onion. Use toothpick to secure bacon to onion. Place bacon wrapped onion ring in bowl of brown sugar and flip. Ensure entire onion ring is covered with brown sugar mixture. Place on prepared pan.
- Repeat with remaining bacon and onion rings. Place in a cold oven and turn temperature to 325°F. Bake for 30 minutes before removing from oven and gently flipping onion rings. Bake for another 20-30 minutes, or until bacon is crispy and deep mahogany in color. Transfer to paper towel or paper bag-lined plate to cool in single layer for at least 5 minutes before serving.


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Minera IRL: A news release from the company is on the way
The Friday OT: Leonard Cohen; Hallelujah
No choice.
Nothing else to say, so I'll say nothing. Youtube here.
Minera IRL: What this sneaky board is planning, what you can do to stop them
"...with new Articles of Association (the "New Articles") in substantially the form attached to this Information Circular as Schedule 1. The primary reason for replacing the Existing Articles with the New Articles is to provide the Company with a modern set of Articles of Association tailored to the Company's primary trading market in Canada. The Existing Articles were tailored to conform to the requirements of two trading markets - the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and the Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange (or TSX) - but the Company is no longer listed on the AIM market and has no intention of seeking to renew that listing. Some of the provisions included in the Existing Articles were adopted in order to conform to standards that are customary in the AIM market but not in the Canadian capital markets; these provisions are, on the whole, more restrictive than customary Canadian corporate and capital market provisions. As the Company is at the date of this Information Circular actively pursuing a listing on a Canadian stock exchange, management believes it to be in the Company's best interest to adopt Articles of Association that will enable it to carry on its business and access the Canadian capital markets without the more restrictive AIM derived provisions imposed in the Existing Articles.
The main differences between the Existing Articles and the New Articles are that the New Articles (i) do not require shareholder approval in advance of any allotment of securities, and (ii) do not impose pre-emptive rights on securities to be issued."
"...directors be authorized in accordance with Article 5.1 and 6.4 of the Articles of Association of the Company to allot up to a maximum of 115,567,514 ordinary shares, being 50% of the current issued share capital of the Company, free of pre-emptive rights. This authority is being sought to give the Company flexibility to make further issues of ordinary shares in order to raise capital for the development of the Company's portfolio of properties, the Ollachea project in particular, and for general corporate purposes. This authority will expire on the date of the next annual general meeting. As at the date of this Information Circular, the Company held no treasury shares."
Robert Schafer (the main partner in crime)
Chart of the day is...
...copper again. No real choice:
The wild move continues, so at what point is the world going to say...
Lest we forget
Leonard Cohen
Minera IRL: It's deja vu all over again
- Remove the company permanently from the London Stock Exchange.
- Remove the company permanently from the Lima Stock Exchange (contrary to their current corporate position).
- Give the board of directors, a group of people with virtually zero shares in the company, the right to allocate up to 115m shares to whoever they want and at any price they want without getting any further permission from their shareholders.
- Sell a massive part of the company's assets to their preferred friends at a near-criminal discount the true value of the company, all to the detriment of current shareholders.
TIMMEH! Gold (TMM.to) (TGD), the epitome of the bullshit precious metals producer
Here's TIMMEH! today:
Timmins Gold Corp. ("Timmins Gold") (TSX:TMM)(NYSE MKT:TGD) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters, led by National Bank Financial Inc. and RBC Capital Markets (the "Underwriters") pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 36,400,000 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of C$0.55 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately C$20 million (the "Offering").Each Unit will consist of one common share of Timmins Gold (each, a "Common Share") and one half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one common share of Timmins Gold at a price of C$0.70 at any time prior to the date which is 18 months following completion of the Offering. continues here
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. And here's the best-of reel:
Can't make this shit up, Panoro Minerals (PML.v) edition
Here's a screenshot from this report in the economy section of Peru's newspaper of record yesterday:
Oh, and then there's another thing about the Cotabambas project and they'd have to move a freakin' provincial capital town in order to build the pit and surrounding infrastructure, so that's slightly different from the working mine too. And the way Las Bambas isn't owned by a bullshit two-faced pumphouse junior. So yeah, apart from all that it's just like Las Bambas.
Andy Home on the copper price move
Good piece, right here:
Keith Neumeyer still doesn't get it
Keith, it isn't a conspiracy. They're not out to get you, it really is just you and your paranoia. Keith, look at what TIPS did yesterday. Then look at the relationship between TIPS and gold. Then try to remove a bit of that inane and incessant bias confirmation from your brain. And then STFU.
Copper kapow
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HudBay (HBM) (HBM.to) Constancia protest latest
Capstone Mining (CS.to) and "Zero Cost" collars
VANCOUVER, Nov. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Capstone Mining Corp. ("Capstone") (CS.TO) today announced that it has entered into zero-cost collars for 43,000 tonnes of copper with settlements between January and December 2017 at a minimum of US$5,025 and a maximum of US$5,585 per tonne of copper. There was no cost to Capstone to put this protection in place. Continues here
Precisely two words on the Sandstorm Gold (SAND) (SSL.to) 3q16 financial results
(lots more on Sunday, subbers)
A Flash update...
...has just been sent to subscribers, just before midday local time on this hot and sunny Wednesday morning. Nothing to do with Trump.
Weird block sales action today
UPDATE: Mystery solved in two of the cases, as Byron King of The Gold Speculator has called sell on Mirasol and Lara Which makes both of those buying opportunities, as he's a freakin' dumbass. (EDIT: And Goldgroup too, which proves how stupid this Byron guy is because anyone who claims to have met Keith Piggott and then recos his company is one beer short of a full sixpack).
PS: And the people who believe his words are dumbass squared. Your visual evidence:
The Primero (PPP) (P.to) 3q16 dog's breakfast
The price of gold in Mexican Pesos this evening
At this point in time, midnight EST, it's up 16.55%. Just in case you were wondering.
My thanks to readers J and N.
HudBay (HBM) (HBM.to) isn't telling you everything
On a day like today...
...nobody cares about IKN. Which is exactly how things should be.
I'm going to find some fish to eat. Have a pleasant day.
Chart of the day is...
...copper, 90 minute spacings:
That's a rally all right.
And though many of them have crashed and burned (as usual, this particular random prediction made in December 2015 has come back from the dead and stands a fighting chance:
Even called it under $2 early year.
Are you ready for some CUM...
Peru Mining reality check (from IKN391)
A small sample of IKN391, out last night. Here we see how the new Peru government of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is going down the old and tired road of over-promise, under-deliver.
Peru Mining reality checkIt's time to start being very careful about the overly bullish statements coming out of the new PPK government, the "investment community" many like the man at the top but his minions have started bloviating, which isn't good for the longer run.A prime example here came from Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mining, trying hard to fight back against the perception that there's a big gap in the project book in the country. To that end its trumpeted its wares to the media last week and here's (10) an example of the result, from Peru's major media channel (and number one news radio station) RPP which gave us the headline, "Construction Will Begin On Eight Mining Projects Worth U$9.033Bn". Here's a paragraph from inside the article (translated):"The ministry specified that the projects that will move into construction in the months to come are mainly for gold and copper, though there are also iron ore and phosphate projects on the list".That sounds good, right? Well yes, right up until the moment you see the list of the projects about to get going in the next few months:
On the bright side the Miski Mayo (Vale) expansion project and the Ollachea project are likely to happen in good order. Hochschild has its funding issues, but Crespo should happen eventually too. And though I have my doubts due to the fact it's copper, I suppose you could even make the case for Milpo's Pukaqaqa project because it's fully permitted and relatively small (as copper mines go, at least). BUT, over half this imaginary basket of loveliness is the Anglo Quellaveco copper project in Moquegua and that's not going to see the light of day in years, let alone "a few months". Then there's the marginally economic Pampa de Pongo iron ore project, that's $1.5Bn of the total and with serious doubts over its development. Then add on the Pacasmayo Fospac phosphates project in Bayovar that is advanced, but even if it gets its build decision currently slated for 2q17 won't become a working mine until 2022 according to that company's own timeline.The problem with the perception in Peru that there's a big gap in the mining investment pipeline is precisely that it isn't a perception, it's a stone cold fact. If the MEM decides to go the happy marketing route and Everything Is Awesome this early into the PPK administration, it's just asking for trouble further down the line.
Tinka Resources (TK.v): "These go to eleven"
Tinka (TK.v) adopts the Spinal Tap method of raising working capital.
Tinka announces the closing of the first tranche of its upsized brokered private placement for up to C$11 Million
It's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten.
vid here
Chart of the day is...
...ten days of gold bullion (GLD proxy) versus the US broad markets (SP 500 proxy):
Love it. It's a Rorschach.


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Aston Villa are hopeful of announcing Paul Lambert as their new manager within the next 24 hours, Press Association Sport understands.
Villa remain confident of securing Lambert as Alex McLeish's successor even though Norwich refused to accept his resignation on Thursday. The Birmingham club are ready to pay the compensation demands of the Canaries for Lambert, who has a rolling contract at Carrow Road.
The Scot has held talks with Villa, who are optimistic any loose ends can be tied up sooner rather than later. Lambert will then be charged by club owner Randy Lerner with the task of revitalising Villa after two seasons in the doldrums.
After three successive top-six finishes under Martin O'Neill, Villa have dropped too close to the Barclays Premier League bottom three for comfort.
It is believed Lambert will be given money to spend after McLeish spent last season reducing what he described as an "astronomical" wage bill. Lambert will also be able to use the money from any players he generates from current Villa players he off-loads to bolster the squad.
Experienced duo Emile Heskey and Carlos Cuellar have already left Villa at the end of their contracts.
It is believed Villa have to pay around £1 million in compensation to ensure Lambert becomes their fourth manager in less than two years. Gerard Houllier replaced O'Neill but had to quit last summer on health grounds, while former Birmingham boss McLeish was never accepted by the Villa fans.
Lambert also fits the profile of being a youngish, hungry and ambitious manager after working his way through the lower leagues before transforming Norwich's fortunes.
Lerner also held talks with former Manchester United star Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but he opted to stay at Molde in Norway for family reasons, although he was not formally offered the Villa post.
Villa also spoke with advisors of Wigan boss Roberto Martinez, who rejected the chance to replace Houllier 12 months ago. But Latics boss Dave Whelan claimed Martinez, who held talks with Liverpool, was staying put.


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Perhaps this is no bad thing. One of the many salutary bits of advice in William Strunk and E.B. White's classic book The Elements of Style is that no writer should offer their opinions 'gratuitously' because to do so is 'to imply that the demand for them is brisk, which may not be the case'. In fact, it almost certainly isn't the case. But sometimes, in the blog- and tweet- and comment-osphere, it can feel like everyone is shouting over each other to no one in particular, convinced that the demand for their opinions is, all evidence to the contrary, brisk.
Meanwhile all the books I am supposed to read lie in a big pile on the sofa, some of which have even been sent to me in the hope I will read them: a guilt mountain of paper and print. So my new year's resolution is to spend a bit less time writing and a bit more time reading. Reading other people's unread words seems a more generous act than adding yet more to the unread pile. Perhaps there are already too many words in the world.
I'm not sure whether I will be able to keep my resolution. It seems to be an occupational disease of writers to keep churning the words out whether the market for them is brisk or not. As Juvenal writes in his Satires: 'Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes', or 'the incurable itch to write affects many'. But I will do my best. Happy new year if you are reading this, and Lege feliciter, as the Venerable Bede said: 'May you read happily'.


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An introduction to the field of clinical psychology including the history of clinical work, American Psychological Association code of ethics, current professional issues, educational requirements, training, assessment procedures and therapeutic interventions.


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From the results of its Marketing Automation Survey last year, Loopfuse released some interesting data about the adoption of advanced marketing automation features. Based on 361 respondents, Loopfuse showed that, while many users have adopted the basic features of its marketing automation tools, most haven't started using many of the more advanced features.
This raises the question: Why are the more advanced marketing automation features tripping marketers up, and how can you prevent yourself from getting snagged? Let's take a look at the 4 least used advanced marketing automation features, explore why marketers get hung up them, and discuss what you can do to prevent it from happening to you.
Lead Nurturing
Lead nurturing is a fantastic way to continue moving your leads through the sales and marketing funnel. According to DemandGen Report, nurtured leads produce, on average, a 20% increase in sales opportunities versus non-nurtured leads. And using marketing automation, you can set up your lead nurturing emails to get sent automatically as leads progress, without any additional maintenance required. So if it's so effective and easy to maintain, then why are only 49% of marketers utilizing this wonderful tool?
The Challenges
There are two main reasons marketers struggle when trying to get started with lead nurturing:
- Overcomplicating Lead Nurturing: They make it more complicated than it needs to be. There are a million and one different ways a lead can move through your sales and marketing funnel. If you try to create a customized nurturing campaign for each, you will be quickly overwhelmed by all the options.
- Content Deficiencies: Many marketers don't have enough content at their disposal to keep lead nurturing campaigns interesting and relevant throughout the sales and marketing funnel. This leads to emails that don't add a lot of value to the sales cycle, preventing leads from moving further through the funnel.
The Solution
To prevent yourself from running into these problems, focus first on content creation. If your marketing team isn't continually creating new and relevant content through blog posts, ebooks/whitepapers, and webinars you will always be struggling to keep your lead nurturing campaigns interesting and relevant. Make sure you have a variety of the following three types of content to suit leads in each stage of the sales cycle:
- Top of the Funnel Content: content suitable for leads when they first discover your company
- Middle of the Funnel Content: content suitable for leads when they know who you are, are familiar with your company, and are interested in learning more
- Bottom of the Funnel Content: content suitable for leads when they are looking to make purchasing decisions
For a deeper dive into what type of content is suitable for each of these stages, read this post. Once you have the right content and marketing offers to fuel your lead nurturing campaigns, map them to these different stages. A basic, educational ebook about your industry is a top of the funnel offer, so if a lead downloads this type of content, they should be followed up with a series of lead nurturing emails that provide additional top of the funnel content. A demo or trial request, on the other hand, is a bottom of the funnel offer and should be followed up with a different series of emails containing content that a lead who is closer to making a purchasing decision would be more interested in.
When you're just getting started with lead nurturing, the key is not to get overwhelmed by all the options. You don't need to craft enough nurturing emails to get through a six month sales cycle. Instead, work on nurturing a new lead through the first 2 or 4 weeks. If they haven't taken the next step, then move them into a more basic weekly newsletter that will introduce them to a variety of your content. The beauty of setting up your lead nurturing based on stages of the funnel is, when leads are ready to move into the next stage, they will automatically start getting nurtured by the right level and type of content.
Lead Scoring
Lead scoring is a great way to make sure your sales team is spending their time calling the right, most likely to convert, leads. So why do only 29.6% of marketers say they're successfully using lead scoring, even though doing so can be a wonderful time saver for both Sales and Marketing?
The Challenges
The truth is, sometimes it's a waste of time to score your leads. If your sales team doesn't have enough leads or doesn't like the leads they already have, you need to focus on getting more of the right leads first. Many marketers think they have a middle of the funnel problem (i.e. they have enough leads, but they aren't converting into customers) and that they need marketing automation tools to solve it. In reality, much of the time we see companies with top of the funnel problems (i.e. they're not generating enough leads or they're generating too many of the wrong leads) that they need to solve before they implement a lead scoring system.
The other reason marketers fail to set up lead scoring is that they don't have enough data or analytics in place to create an indicative lead score. You need a mix of demographic data (or data collected from a lead on conversion forms) and lead intelligence (data gathered by a lead management system about a lead's behavior) in order to calculate a lead score. Marketers often either ask the wrong questions on their conversion forms or don't have a lead management and analytics systems in place to collect the right information needed to implement lead scoring.
The Solution
If you don't have enough leads to keep your sales team busy (or happy), focus first on creating more content to attract more people to your website. Launching a blog or increasing the frequency at which you currently publish to it is the best way to do this. Then work on building up the number of marketing offers and conversion events you have at your disposal. Boost your visitor-to-lead ratios by testing and improving your landing pages and making sure people are finding the right offers at the right time. If your sales team doesn't call the leads you generate, work on establishing a sales and marketing service level agreement.
If you don't have the right data to set up lead scoring, start by talking with your sales team about what makes a lead "qualified." Test your conversion forms with different form fields and lengths to make sure you're capturing the right information you need to decide whether a lead is qualified. Then ensure that your lead management and analytics systems are collecting information about activities and behaviors such as how many pages your individual leads have viewed, how often they've visited your site, how many and which offers they've downloaded, etc. Pull the different pieces of data together, and work with Sales to prioritize and weigh the value of each item compared to the others. Once you have an initial lead scoring system in place, test it with different sales team members and a variety of leads. Then iterate and test until you have a lead scoring process that both you and Sales trusts. (For more in-depth information about how to implement a lead scoring system, reference this post.)
Social Media Monitoring
Social media monitoring can help make the wide world of social media digestible for marketers. With Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, niche networks and new options like Pinterest and Google+ cropping up what seems to be weekly, it can get overwhelming. However, only 50% of marketers indicated they use social media monitoring to help sift through the mess.
The Challenges
One likely reason marketers don't use social media monitoring tools is because they don't know where to get started, especially considering the vast array of monitoring tools at their disposal. Not only are there countless social media sites to monitor, but there are also countless monitoring tools to help you do so.
The Solution
As a marketer, you need to narrow down which social networks you need to monitor, and then find one social media monitoring platform that brings all those sites together. The first step is to figure out where your prospects and customers hang out in social media. Are they all over Twitter? Or do they mainly congregate on Facebook and Pinterest? Is it a B2B crowd leveraging LinkedIn? Or a B2C crowd leaving reviews on Yelp? Are there any niche, industry-focused social networks you should watch? Chances are your customers don't use only one social network, but there's also a pretty good chance they don't use all of them. Spend time looking for the influencers in your industry to see where they hang out. Then look for your potential customers and where the conversation about your industry is happening. Identify the top 2 or 3 networks, and get started there.
The next thing you want to do is take a look at the various social media monitoring tools, and find out which one supports the social networks you're looking to monitor. Whether you're checking out HubSpot's social media tools or another platform, look for tools that allow you both to monitor the conversation and respond all in one place. Then, depending on your needs, consider additional features like analytics and the ability to manage monitoring through a collaboration of team members. Every marketing team will have different needs, but your life will be significantly easier if you can find one monitoring tool that can track the social networks that matter to your business.
Campaign ROI Reporting
Campaign ROI reporting allows marketers to understand the value of their marketing campaigns and determine what's working for them (and what isn't). Measuring the return-on-investment of marketing is key to determining which tactics to invest your marketing dollars in, yet only 39.1% of marketers are using it.
The Challenges
One of the main reasons marketers aren't able to successfully implement campaign ROI reporting is because they don't have closed-loop reporting in place. Closed-loop reporting takes your marketing analytics one (big) step beyond traditional web analytics. In addition to knowing how many visitors an element of your marketing generates, you can also track how many leads andcustomers it generates. Setting up closed-loop reporting generally requires integration between your web analytics and your CRM (customer relationship management tool).
The second reason campaign ROI reporting can be tough is that many marketers don't have the ability to track multi-touch campaigns. It's rare that a lead or customer will have been touched by just one campaign or one campaign element during the sales cycle. Chances are much more likely that they'll interact with your marketing in a number of different ways through a variety of channels. As a marketer, you want to be able to track an individual lead's first conversion event (i.e. how they found out about you the very first time) as well as their most recent conversion event (i.e. how they interacted with your company most recently or just before purchasing). In a perfect world, you'll also be able to identify what other elements of your marketing they touched in between their first and most recent conversion events.
The Solution
In order to make sure you don't run into these problems when trying to conduct campaign ROI reporting for your business, you need to conduct some very thorough research about the tools you're either already using or thinking of using. When considering a marketing automation solution, having campaign ROI reporting tools isn't enough. Your tools also need to offer closed-loop reporting and easily integrate with your CRM. When researching options, be sure to dig into the tools' multi-touch campaign capabilities. Make sure you can track and report on first and most recent conversion events as well as monitor conversion events that take place in the middle.
Advanced marketing automation features can be wonderful additions to a marketing team's day-to-day efforts. However, getting started with these tools can often be a really tough challenge. In order to make sure your team doesn't get tripped up like so many others do, put these solutions in place so you can be sure you're focusing on the right marketing automation strategies for your business.
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The 17-year-old high school senior recently landed a full scholarship to Monroe College to study in the Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts program after claiming first prize at this year's America's Best High School Chef Competition.
"It's a great accomplishment," said the Cambria Heights resident. It was her first competition where she got to showcase herself as an individual chef. "I really worked hard to win it." With all of her hard work put into preparing, she noted that she probably would not have won if it weren't for her mother. Between caring for Sade's three younger siblings and working, she was not able to make it to her other competitions, but she showed up to this one from start to finish.
"I really don't think I would've won without her showing up," Aguilla said. "She got to see me in my element,"
At previous competitions, Aguilla often showcased her work as part of a team. And while this was the first where she was on her own, she felt prepared because of her past experiences.
"I learned a lot from those other competitions, especially time management," she said.
Going into the national competition, she knew what techniques to use to finish the three-part competition with good time - and good food.
She did well in the first two rounds, but it was the third round that won the judges. Aguilla and the rest of the competitors had to complete an entree. It took her about an hour to prepare a whole chicken, and it was the round that solidified her win.
"Everything came together," she said.
Aguilla learned how to cook from the days when her mother and father would cook together. But after they split, she quickly had to take on the responsibility of preparing the meals. "I was always in the kitchen helping to cook when they were together, and now that he wasn't around, I had to cook and I enjoyed it," she said.
The cooking helped bring the family together again. Her siblings would in turn, help her out in the kitchen.
Cooking is the only thing that the soon-to-be college freshman sees herself doing. After going to Monroe, she plans to get a master's in nutrition before opening up her own restaurant because she believes in cooking health-conscious meals.
"People always say follow your heart and do what you love to do and it won't feel like work," she said. "I don't see myself doing anything else. I love the reaction that I get out of people when I present them with something I made."


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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) Chairman Warren Buffett backed away from stocks in the second quarter of 2012, reducing the company's holdings in consumer-products equities but investing more heavily in the finance sector.
Over the quarter, the billionaire investor's company was a net seller of $1.2 billion of equities, buying $1.8 billion in stocks but selling $3 billion, according to Berkshire's Q2 report filed on Friday with the SEC. Cash, meanwhile, was boosted a hefty 7.5% to $40.7 billion.
"Berkshire was a net seller of equities in the quarter as it cut its allocation to companies that make and distribute consumer goods while boosting holdings of financial firms and a group called 'commercial, industrial and other,'" Bloomberg reported Monday.
Individual stocks were not listed in the filing, however. Berkshire's Q2 purchases will be reported in about two weeks.
But the Bloomberg story notes that Buffett has cited challenges at consumer-products firms, including Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods.
In the first quarter, Berkshire was a buyer of Wells Fargo and Bank of New York Mellon as well as Wal-Mart and General Motors, GuruFocus reported.
Berkshire Hathaway's profits stood at $3.1 billion as of June 30, compared with $3.4 billion a year ago. Profits for the first half of 2012 rose, however, to $6.4 billion compared with $4.9 billion in the first half of 2011.
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Aaahhh… Kim Kardashian, no matter how much you try to distract us with Kimye; your divorce is not going away! And to remind us of how skanky and greedy you are is Kris Humphries!
This past week Kimye enjoyed a PDA-laden dinner at Scott Disick's new restaurant RYU, which was of course captured on film for one of the umpteen Kardashian reality shows (for which they recently scored a $40M deal to create). While Kim is focused on making-out, Kris is still focused on annulling that embarrassing 72-day-lapse in sanity also known as his marriage to Kimmie Kakes. And allegedly, Kanye is now part of his plan for proving the Kardashians' shameless ways!
"Kris was surprised to learn that Kim was including her new relationship with Kanye West on the show," a source close to Kris tells RadarOnline."The crux of Kris' case for annulment is that Kim married him under fraudulent pretenses and did it for her reality show. Team Humphries wants to know if producers of the Kardashian reality shows were in contact with Kanye prior to the new couple dating or going public with their relationship and what those conversations consisted of."


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There are times, though, that we use in our stories events that might make readers skeptical. Here are some ways I've found to make the implausible more plausible in fiction.
- If your premise is too weird or far out to be believed, postpone it. Open the book with related tension --- but not the full low-down --- that keeps building while at the same time deeply investing us in the character(s). Work in any necessary knowledge or background (history or science, for example) that will be needed for the reader to buy the premise, as the tension- and character-building continue. When the far-out premise is finally revealed, readers will hopefully be so emotionally in tune with the characters (their fear will be the readers' fear, for example), and so prepared by the groundwork, that they will accept the big reveal. Examples: Unwind by Neal Shusterman; The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell.
- An aspect of the above: Make a believer out of your MC. Then make readers believe in your MC. Or vice-versa. This will help readers believe what the MC believes.
- At the same time, try making one character a disbeliever. Let that character voice all the objections to the implausible aspect that you'd expect readers to voice. Readers feel a lot better when they know you know something's fishy, and will often cut you some slack if a character is saying the things they wish they could say. Then let other characters either prove the disbeliever wrong, admit he might be right, or take his objections into account when planning the next action. I think it was children's author Sid Fleischman who said, "If you can't cut the implausible element, point to it."
- To make a villain believably scary, make sure he holds a valid point. If he's right in some way, that's scary. Also identify something good about him. Does he love his mom? Make him human. Is he a gifted musician? Make him normal. Does he love ice cream and forget to empty his pockets before he washes his jeans? Reveal some background that creates sympathy for him. The abusive man in Kathi Appelt's The Underneath broke my heart because of how he'd been treated as a little boy.
- If you're using an unlikely event in your story, list as many reason as you can why such a thing could not happen. Then look at each obstacle in turn, and work out at least one reason why this obstacle will not prevent the event.


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Here's a fresh general discussion for everyone. I know there's not much going on other than AFL and the MLB Playoffs, so go ahead and talk about, I don't know, apples and oranges. Are they mentioned in the same breath so often that now they're grouped together, perhaps devaluing the notion of "apples and oranges".
Or you could talk about baseball. MLB playoffs I guess.


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Press Release
Department of Law Reaches Agreement with Cruise Industry
April 13, 2010
Anchorage, Alaska - The Department of Law reached agreement with the Alaska Cruise Association (ACA) to resolve a lawsuit against the state if Alaska's passenger excise tax is reduced.
Attorney General Dan Sullivan and ACA President John Binkley signed the settlement, stipulating that a specific reduction in the tax paid by cruise ship passengers in Alaska would result in the dismissal of the association's lawsuit. The agreement also states that the nine member cruise lines of the ACA share "the mutual goal of increasing future ship deployments to Alaska," and each line, as well as the state, "will work to achieve that mutual goal."
Legislation submitted by Governor Sean Parnell, House Bill 422 and Senate Bill 311, would reduce the tax and provide a sustainable funding mechanism for tourism marketing.If the legislation is passed, and within two weeks of the governor signing it into law, the agreement calls for the state and the ACA to take action to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, so that it could not be brought again. Each side would pay its own costs.
"This completes one important element of the negotiations I began with cruise industry officials in Miami," Governor Parnell said. "The administration and the ACA are united in the goal of making Alaska a more attractive destination for the cruise lines, increasing ship deployments and giving passengers more incentive to spend money on shore-side purchases and excursions. I encourage legislators to move swiftly to pass the bill."
The governor noted that Alaska visitation numbers, which had steadily increased for many years, dropped in 2009 and are projected to decline further this summer. Including both cruise and independent traffic, there will be an estimated 260,000 fewer visitors than in 2008, a loss of $400 million in visitor-generated spending and as many as 5,000 lost jobs.
The lawsuit, Alaska Cruise Association v. Patrick Galvin, was filed in September in the U.S. District Court for Alaska, challenging the legality of the tax enacted by citizen initiative in 2006. When it was filed, Attorney General Sullivan promised a vigorous defense of the law. If the excise tax is not changed as set out in the settlement agreement, the litigation would continue.
"We have negotiated a settlement that has protections for the interests of both parties," Sullivan said. "At the same time, we're ready to continue our vigorous defense of the current law, if need be."
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It was nearly 30 years ago, in the aftermath of the 1984 election, as pundits interpreted the presidential race, when the specter emerged.
Democratic candidate Walter Mondale lost badly, and many analysts said one major reason why was his statement on taxes: "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."
In predicting policy, Mondale was absolutely right. President Ronald Reagan did raise taxes.
But the political lesson stuck. It would be political suicide for a political candidate to say he or she favored raising taxes.
Now, this bit of common wisdom, this ghost of campaigns past, is ready to vanish, dispersing like smoke.
For two presidential elections in a row, the winner called for higher taxes on upper incomes, along with lower taxes on the middle class. In 2012, accepting his party's nomination, Barack Obama said he wanted, "the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000, the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president."
Gov. Mitt Romney, his vice-presidential pick Paul Ryan, and the entire Republican party, strongly disagreed with Obama's tax plan. Republicans framed the choice as epochal, claiming that restoring Clinton-era top rates was class warfare that would undermine free enterprise. And, in his convention speech, Ryan said, "We want this debate. We will win this debate."
In response to this lively debate and, despite laws and administrative decisions that made it harder to vote in some key states, more people voted in swing states than did in 2008.
Ultimately not only did President Obama win 51-47 percent, with an Electoral College margin of 332-206, and a popular vote margin of more than 4.5 million votes, but Democrats also gained seats in the House and the Senate. While Democrats don't hold a majority in the House of Representatives, they won nearly 1 million more votes than Republican House candidates.
In Maine, after campaigning against tax cuts that most benefited upper income individuals, Democrats took back both houses of the Legislature. (Maine Republicans then staked out a far-right position with a new party chair who has claimed Obamacare has death panels).
Under Republican policies, resources were redistributed upward and Obama proposals would reverse the flow.
Now President Obama has one huge advantage: The Bush tax cuts are all expiring at the end of the year.
After George W. Bush's policy sunsets, Obama would implement a federal income tax cut for 98 percent. Only 2 percent would have increased taxes on part of their income.
Under the Obama plan, everyone will retain a tax cut on taxable incomes up to $250,000 a year. Because this is a marginal tax, people with $270,000 a year of taxable income would pay more just on the $20,000 above $250,000. If the rate went from 36 percent to 39 percent on that $20,000 portion, this means $600 more in federal income taxes.
Raising this top rate is a straightforward approach and, compared to reducing deductions, a higher rate would be harder for lobbyists to reverse.
At this decision point, most Americans want Bush's tax policy replaced with Obama's tax policies.
In an opinion study released last week, "6-in-10 Americans support raising the marginal tax rate on income above $250,000, according to a Washington Post/ABC poll. Only 37 percent would oppose a tax hike. Seventy-three percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents support such a move, while 59 percent of Republicans oppose it. Even those making over $100,000 a year support a hike, 57 percent to 42 percent."
Americans want what taxes pay for: health care, environmental protection, national security, research, infrastructure, college loans and more.
Some have proposed reducing the deficit by raising the Medicare eligibility age. This is unwanted and not needed. Far more Americans want Medicare extended to people younger than 65 than think people should have to wait until 67 for Medicare. Over ten years, this would reduce costs by $114 billion, much less than the $1.6 trillion brought in by the Obama tax plan. And just last year, as the economy grew, the deficit shrunk by $217 billion.
Many issues and dynamics were important this year. But choices on taxes and spending were front and center. Looking over a longer time span, in five of the last six presidential elections, Republican presidential candidates, who opposed all tax increases, lost the popular vote.
Surely that record soundly vanquishes the apparition of tax politics past.


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5 sur juillet 15, 2017
We found this place on the internet whilst looking for a place to stay near Stresa and immediately fell in love with it. This was cemented after reading several other reviews and taking the advice to book the Summerhouse. Which we did. Upon arrival we were not disappointed, Gary and Jenny made us feel most welcome. Showing us our room and how everything works and where everything is etc. The views from villa are amazing and something you'll never tire of looking at. A 'pinch me' kind of feeling comes over you. We enjoyed Gary and Jenny's company and they were always on hand to recommend places to visit and where to dine out in the evening. They were happy to supply coals for the BBQ if you just wanted a night in relaxing on the summerhouse terrace with a glass or two of wine. Breakfast is on a beautiful terrace above the Summerhouse which consisted of crepes and an omelette which set us up for the day ahead. We honestly can't recommend staying here enough. They truly are great hosts making our stay magical.
4,4 sur juillet 27, 2016
We spent 4 nights here this summer, and it has been nothing but fantastic. The hosts are sweeter than your own mom and will give you hints of where to go on small daily trips nearby. The villa is amazing and the view is beyond imagination. I went straight home and told my parents to go here next summer. Privacy, relaxation, vino rosso, a beautiful view and a very cute dog will meet you here.
5 sur juillet 02, 2015
I stayed in both the Colonial Suite and the Summer House... Gary and Jen took care of me, even let me borrow their tools, made sure I had everything I need and made me feel more cared for and special than I can remember feeling perhaps ever! Their conversation and insights made me want to stay in Solcio so that we could be friends! I loved curling up in the window seat of the summer house, eating on the balcony looking over the lake, watching some of the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets imaginable. This place in incomparable. I left less than a day ago and I am already wracking my brain for a way to return or friends that I could send...
5 sur mai 25, 2015
Summerhouse was perfect. We enjoyed our stay due to the warm welcome of Garry and Jenny. Great evening in the Bar with the hosts and other guests from Florida. Very good Location.
5 sur juin 16, 2014
From the views (stunning!) to the quaint (but spacious!) rooms, and the incredible surroundings...all outstanding. But most importantly, and making this a most special visit to Lago Maggiore, are Gary and Jenny. These generous and caring hosts know no boundaries when providing you with the best, and friendliest, service imaginable. There is simply nothing that one could say is missing from this amazing stay. We will be back!
5 sur juin 01, 2014
We've just returned from a stay at this little bit of heaven on earth! A visit to Villa san Antonio should not be missed if you are planning a trip to Lake Maggiore. Our stay from start to finish was absolutely faultless. Dear Jenny & Garry are such lovely hosts, welcoming their guests with a genuine warmth and generosity you would most definately fail to find in in any top hotel. Attention to detail to ensure a comfortable and relaxing stay is certainly achieved. One highlight was waking to the beautiful lake view through wide open windows with the fragrance of jasmine flowers wafting on the air, all this without even getting out of bed.
5 sur mai 03, 2013
Davvero un bel posto!! Gary &Jenny unici !!! il panorama... mozzafiato!!Molto romantica la Summerhouse che gode di una vista sul lago da sogno!!che dire è il posto ideale per rilassarsi e rigenerarsi godendosi i giardini ben curati e il cinguettare degli uccelli e dei gabbiani in lontananza! A presto Rosy&Daniel
4,6 sur septembre 22, 2012
We spent a lovely week at the villa in late August this year.- We had first planned to stay there for only 2-3 days, but decided to stay a whole week. We chose the Summer House and were very happy with our choice. Amazing views from your private balcony and very cute inside. Our breakfasts, served on a beautiful patio with Lago Maggiore below us, were lovingly prepared by our hosts and simply delicious. Reaching Solcio was super-convenient: We arrived at Milan (Malpensa Airport) where we had booked a direct air-conditioned bus to Solcio (less than an hour's ride at a very low rate). We found we did not miss having a car, as we could walk down to two good restaurants in Solcio and/or use local transportation to nearby Strea and Arona. Our hosts, Jenny and Gary, took excellent care of us during our stay and we will definitely return in the future.
5 sur août 29, 2012
My husband and had a wonderful stay at Villa San Antonio and we were sad that we had only booked one night before heading on to Verona. We were touched by the warmth and kindness Gary and Jenny showed us. What better way to start the day than with a swim followed by a scrumptious breakfast with a gorgeous view! We look forward to coming back and spending more time with you both...maybe with some music at the piano bar?! Thank you for everything!
4,8 sur juin 21, 2012
What a find! The boyfriend had organised the flights so my job was the accommodation....it had to be something super special for our first time away together....and I FOUND IT! We stayed in the Summerhouse, which was a romantic little hideaway with a lovely terrace with views over the lake....it was pretty much exactly what you would want for a romantic get-away. On top of that we had such lovely hosts in Gary and Jenny, it was a real pleasure to meet them. We even had stunning weather and the Lake Maggiore area was a perfect place to go for lots of fun, swimming in the lake and loads of gelato. A fantastic find....but dont tell everyone as we would like to be able to go again and have our Summerhouse! Enjoy - you wont go wrong with this one!
5 sur mai 20, 2012
We have spent only 1 night in this villa, but we'll never forget it. Arriving late, Jenny and Gary took time to have a glass with us and discuss friendly. Everything is great : the lasagnas prepared by Jenny for our dinner, the house, the balcony, the vue, the Gary's old cars, the music, the bed, the bathroom... But the best are Jenny and Gary. Adorable!!!
5 sur avril 16, 2012
My brief time spent at Villa San Antonio was completely unforgettable - the views are spectacular, the surroundings sumptuous and the dining was an experience from beginning to end. Jenny and Gary envelop you into the fold and you'll never want to leave!! I can't wait to return...
5 sur mars 22, 2012
A "Gem" on the shores of Lake Maggiore with stunning views. I spent four idyllic days in this amazing place. What an experience!The Summer House is just gorgeous and the Colonial Room perfect in every way. Our hosts Jenny and Gary could not have done more for us. This is definitely a place to visit . Can't wait to go back there and stay longer.The air is so good there too.
5 sur mars 15, 2012
We stayed at the Villa Sanantonio in 2010 and loved every minute. Gary and Jenny treated us like old friends and nothing was too much trouble for them. The food was delicious, spectacular senery, lovely room and great boat trip on the lake. Can't wait to stay there again as it has become our favourite holiday destination.
5 sur mars 14, 2012
The Villa San Antonio was more than a place to sleep.... It was an experience.... A pleasure... A first of many times I will most definately return! Besides the fact that it's stunning, overlooking the priceless view of Lago Maggiore, the hosts are simply special. Jenny and Gary made us feel part of their home... Of their life for 1 night. Their warmth and kindness is what made this stay more than what we could have ever expected. They're amazing. And can Jenny ever cook!!! Enjoy!!!
4,4 sur mars 12, 2012
We spent an amazing weekend in the villa San Antonio at the end of September 2011. The little summerhouse with the fascinating view over the lake Maggiore, the excellent familiar service with the best scrambled eggs for breakfast and the warm sunny days made our stay like in paradise. We loved it there and will come back! Lovely greetings, Heike + Andreas from Germany
4,4 sur mars 12, 2012
we were very impressed by the beauty of the place and the kind hospitality of Gary And Jennifer.. we've had the opportunity to be at The villa into an independent suite, everything was intimate and romantic.. But le me stress again the best part of the thing.. Gary and Jennifer.. we had great time in funny conversations and .. well.. a lot of good wine! I just regret i couldn't spend more time at the place :) Thanks for everything Fabrizio And Chiara
5 sur mars 10, 2012
We were lucky enough to spend three days at the Villa in July 2011. We didn't really know what to expect and were completely blown away by how fabulous it was! Gary and Jenny were spectacular and they've created a truly beautiful experience. We stayed in the Summerhouse, waking up each morning to panoramic views of Lake Maggiore. The room was gorgeous and we loved the mezzanine bed! One of the other delights to wake up for each day were the breakfasts, simply devine. Scrambled eggs made from fresh eggs, collected from Jenny's very happy, healthy and fat chooks and Gary's croissants! Piping hot fresh from the oven, simply to die for. The local area is full of wonderful restaurants and bars. If you get to spend a day on the lake, we highly recommend it. We would definitely stay here again, maybe even for a winter skiing holiday (is the attic room ready yet?) and recommend it to anyway holidaying in the area. It is great value and you'd be hard pressed to find better hosts.


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