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Piggy Banks That Aren't Pigs: A Glyptodon, A Goat, and More
Want to store the spare change in great style?
At $7,500, this cast brass piggy bank by Graham Parker Ansell isn't going to find a lot of buyers - even though "hidden chimes sound upon deposit of coins." But my goodness, isn't a wonderful piece? Update on July 9, 2012: I'm no longer finding any place to buy this piece — or any web site for the artist.
But moving on to the land of the more affordable, there's this vintage elephant money box, from Kay Loves Vintage. Update on July 9, 2012: Kay Loves Vintage has sold this item, but it was made by Luigi Colani. If you search, you can almost always find someone selling one. You can also find what look like the Colani elephant banks — although they aren't identified as such — at Present&Correct.
Mexico Primativo features banks in the form of many different animals; this goat piggy bank is my favorite. Update on July 9, 2012: The site that sold these doesn't seem to be working.
Or what about a hen bank? Update on July 9, 2012: The site selling this one is having some problems, too.
And at The Pig Pen, you can get a piggy bank painted to resemble a lion, a tiger, a giraffe, a panda bear, and much more.
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5 comments:
- Julie Bestry said...
Fabulous choices, Jeri!
I think the most important think about a piggy bank is the ability to get the money out without damaging the bank...it's hard to believe, but lots of banks used to be designed so that you had to crack them open and destroy them to get the money out--definitely a disincentive given how we tend to anthropomorphize the banks with animal features. Who would want to "hurt" the piggy? Sure, you'd save for a while, but if you realized getting your money back would "kill" the piggy, you'd either stop saving or forever postpone the gratification of buying your goal item. An inconvenient stopper is better.
I had a red ceramic gorilla bank instead of a piggy bank when growing up, and I was practically obsessive about putting all my money in it, shaking it up and imagining that clunking sound was the vocalization of a happy gorilla. (I was three--you can rationalize a lot at that age.) It gave me a lifelong appreciation for saving for a goal, and though Mr. MonkeyMoney (don't laugh) is far away and likely guarding only about seven cents now, he served his purpose. :-)
- March 4, 2010 at 10:28:00 AM PST
- Anonymous said...
I was in love with that first piggy bank until I saw the price. Ouch! It's beautiful, though. No. 2 is great, too.
Julie raises a good point about ease of extraction. I would hate to crack open any of these, even for a hefty pile of change.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:53:00 AM PST
- Janet Barclay said...
These are so fun! I have a piggy bank that my mom had since I was a little girl (and maybe before that) which was an olive jar with a coin slot in the lid. I'm not sure how long this will be available but you can see one just like it here
- March 6, 2010 at 4:49:00 AM PST
- Jeri Dansky said...
Julie, that's a very good point about wanting a bank with a stopper. And Mr. MonkeyMoney is a wonderful name - such great alliteration! I have no memory of a piggy bank from my childhood; I either didn't have one, or it was totally forgettable - unlike yours!
Simpler Living, I loved #1, too - he's totally the kind of thing I would buy, if the price tag weren't so high.
Janet, thanks for the pointer - that's something I've never seen before! Like Julie, you certainly had a memorable childhood bank.
- March 6, 2010 at 8:50:00 AM PST
- Deb Lee said...
These are super fun! Pigs are still my favorite, so I definitely like the last bank. =)
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What's the difference between independent journalists and people working for corporate media? What separates a journalist with a degree from everyone else with a computer and access to the Internet?
These are just some of the questions being addressed by the Park Center for Independent Media since its launch last spring. The center is headed by director Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), who is experienced with both corporate and independent media. Although Cohen says students at Ithaca College are "very well trained for either mainstream or independent media," his center studies independent journalism and encourages students to consider careers in the field.
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Cohen is proud of Haack, but Haack is equally pleased with his placement and with Cohen's guidance. "Jeff Cohen was incredibly supportive in helping me get this great internship," he says. "His stature and connections in the progressive and independent media world provide a great resource for the Park School and its students."
Besides exposing students to alternative career paths in journalism, the center plans to hold a symposium every year, give out an Izzy Award (named for investigative journalist I. F. "Izzy" Stone) for the best achievement in independent media, and continue to host visitors like Josh Marshall (see story, New Center Kickoff) and award-winning young investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, who visited campus in December. Of Scahill, who last year published the bestselling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Cohen says, "He's a classic case study of an independent media success" — just the kind of professional to whom the center wants to introduce IC students.
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When you do, you'll find that this place isn't completely devoid of any mobile life. You won't fight humans (or other aliens here), but you will fight the dog-like Varren creatures who rush your position. These guys are relatively weak, so give them a few blasts from afar to nullify any threat they may pose. If they start attacking you from up-close, you can always melee them into submission as well. As you progress further into this room, you'll spot a blood stain on the ground. Examine it, and Jack will describe to you what this area once was -- a makeshift arena, where the guards and facility operators would pit kids against each other in brutal battles. This is where Jack honed her biotic skills, and showed her mettle in combat. She says she was awarded with drugs that gave her a warm feeling when she won, and that she still feels that warm feeling when she fights today. Once that scene concludes, you can head out of the nearby door to continue with your journey.
As soon as you go through the door, you can pillage the medical kit right in front of you. Then, bear leftward down the crowded corridor. On your right, you'll find a door. Before pressing through it, examine the computer terminal across from the door. You'll find one of the base's soldier's distress calls from, purportedly, Jack's escape. However, as Jack remarks, things don't seem to be quite up to snuff here. She started the riot, she didn't just partake in it. And she was never in any real threat, anymore than anyone else there was. Once that little cutscene concludes, you can then head through the door and down the stairs. En route down the stairs, be sure to hack open the door on your left, as you'll find some Element Zero in a little box on the other side of it. You'll also see a fresh Varren kill on the floor across from the door -- this is a little strange, since no one is supposed to be left alive here... right? Continue down the rest of the stairs, and then bear rightward. You'll find the door there on your left that you can use to proceed.
This room is full of enemies, so when you walk in, immediately seek some cover. The description of this planet, which you could have read when examining the planet from the Normandy, alerted you that this out-of-the-way planet is sometimes used by pirates and mercenaries, and they weren't kidding. The Blood Pack mercenary group you fought time and time again back on Omega is here, and they aren't taking too kindly to your incidental presence. They will attack you from three sides here. They will attack through the windows to your right and left, and from the balconies straight ahead and above, as well as from the ground floor you're currently occupying. Try to take out their more powerful Krogan forces first before dealing with the lesser Vorcha (and others) who provide their numbers. If you're taking heavy damage, take cover and let your shields refill, and don't hesitate to use a Medi-Gel here if your party is getting hammered. When all's quieted down, you can then hack the door on the far end of the room to continue, though you shouldn't neglect hacking the semi-hidden PDA on the right side of the room before doing so, for even more loot to add to your ever-growing stash.
As soon as you're through the door, run down the catwalk in front of you, which will lead through another door jamb. You'll find another door to open on your right. After heading through that second door, have your guns at the ready. Run down the first staircase, and as you run through the door ahead, prepare to be attacked by a couple of Blood Pack soldiers on a balcony directly ahead of you. Once they're downed, you can then continue to run down the next set of stairs. You'll find yourself ultimately in one of the cellblocks where children were kept as prisoners. As your party makes remarks about the condition of the cells, expect to be attacked by a group of Varren. Once they're killed, you have nothing else to worry about around you for the time being. As you press down the cellblock, be sure you explore all cells on your right, since one of them has some salvage that, when examined, will give you several thousand credits. Then, head out of the door at the end of the cellblock.
Wrap around the metal catwalk you find yourself on, overlooking a room below, and Jack will make more comments about her time spent here. On the far side of the catwalk, near the door we'll use to continue, you can find another medical kit to pillage. Then, head through the door and down the short corridor until the path splits to your right and left. You can ignore the area on your left completely, as it's totally empty, and nothing is of interest there. However, on the right, you'll find plenty of items of interest. There will be two computer terminals here, in addition to some heavy ammunition and other items to pillage, including a biotic upgrade (if you successfully hack the computer near the chair). Be thorough here. The computer terminals will each show you a hologram that will catalyze a brief cutscene with Jack. Each is individual and unique, so you'll want to pay close attention. When this sob-scene is over, you can then head through the door to the next area. According to Jack, we're getting close to where she was kept for all of those years.
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Liverpool youngster Raheem Sterling feels the experience in the Anfield dressing room can help inspire the club to victory at Manchester United on Sunday, and he warned United's defenders that any foul on him will be avenged by Steven Gerrard.
Sterling, 18, will make his first visit to Old Trafford this weekend since bursting onto the scene as a Liverpool player.
Gone are the days when this fixture brought together the two top sides in the country, with Liverpool struggling for form in the league this season, currently lying eighth in the Premier League table.
However, the England international believes that with the likes of captain Gerrard and Jamie Carragher in the dressing room the Reds still have a great chance of securing a result.
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Sterling also credits Gerrard in particular as having an excellent influence on helping him settle into the club.
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Not many people remember the name Juan Terry Trippe.
But, Keys aviation history begins with Trippe, who got the first government contract to fly mail between the U.S. and Cuba.
That Pan Am airmail service began Oct. 18, 1927 when a rented plane dubbed "La Nina" flew the 90 miles from Key West to Havana carrying mail between the two countries.
Passenger service on Pan Am began Jan. 16, 1928 when Trippe's fledging airline began the first scheduled US flag commercial passenger service between the Southernmost City and Havana.
That's just one milestone in Keys aviation history and preserving that legacy is part of the mission at the EAA Air Museum at Florida Keys Marathon Airport.
Funded by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EEA) Chapter 1241 and by donations from visitors, the museum operates out of rented space with one hangar and some adjoining space where a 1942-era military DC3 is open for tours.
The bright green logo on the DC3 declares its last commercial mission was ferrying passengers for Ozark Air, a regional carrier that operated in the Midwest.
But the plane has an even more colorful history to tell. Shortly after it came off the assembly line in 1942, the plan was assigned to the U.S. Navy and spent some time in Jacksonville, Fl. It was also assigned to duty with the Army Air Corps (later, to become the U.S. Air Force).
Some of the DC3s built during the war are still flying, mostly in South America, says Ed Waldorf, who heads up the EAA chapter's Young Eagles program in Marathon and helps volunteer at the museum, which has seen a large increase in visitors since the DC3 returned to Marathon.
It's on loan from the Prairie Aviation Museum of Bloomington, Ill. And is owned by a retired businessman who lives part of the year in the Keys.
The plane has a colorful history in private service, including time spent carrying passengers for a wealthy Texas oilman, H.H. Coffield.
Visitors to the museum can climb aboard the DC3 and see the seat where Grace Kelly - before she became Princess Grace of Monaco - sat on a flight to Houston.
Inside the hangar, visitors can climb aboard a Beechcraft Model 18, which was a twin-engine workhorse deployed by the military to carry officers during World War II.
The same model Beechcraft also was the first passenger plane flown by Phillipines Airlines, Asia's first and oldest airline.
Avery Loucks, director of operations at the Marathon museum, said that model was favored because it could land and takeoff in some rugged conditions. And it could carry cargo as well as passengers. During World War II, it was known as the C-45.
Some wonder why an air museum in Marathon, since Key West had a much earlier aviation history?
Well, because EAA member Tony Daiuto had a thing about planes. He loved to build them and fly them and get others to be as enthused. He helped spark the idea of a museum at the airport a dozen years ago, Waldorf says.
In the early days, it was mostly tucked away in a corner of the Marathon terminal, thenspace constraints reduced it to a few showcases.
And then the EAA members persuaded county airport managers to help find a more permanent home. The artifacts, memorabilia, books and two still-servicable WW II-era planes have found their home at the north end of the field, next to Marathon General Aviation's office and hangar (across U.S. 1 from Marathon city hall).
The landing field at the Florida Keys Marathon Airport also has a World War II connection.
Belcher Oil built the landing strip for the Coast Guard in 1942-43. "It was designed to be a reliever airport for planes in trouble flying from Miami-Ft. Lauderdale to San Juan, P.R.," Waldorf says.
At that point in the war, military planes ferried cargo and troops from the U.S. to Brazil and then a transatlantic hop to Africa, he said.
There's a lot more history on display at the small museum, which operates from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily during season. Admission is free, but donations are welcomed.
And while you're there, be sure to have kids try the flight simulator while adults can read about the history of Pan American World Airways, Juan Trippe and the role the Florida Keys played in this country's early aviation history.
There's also a rare photo of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, who helped found Eastern Airlines in the 1930s. That had a Keys connection too, merging Eastern Air Transport and Florida Airways. The photo shows the medal-of-honor winner at a ground-breaking ceremony in Miami (Rickenbacker was president of Eastern from 1938 until he retired in 1963).
For more information about the air museum, call 305-432-1145 or visit: www.1241.eaachapter.org.
The Experimental Aircraft Association, Chapter 1241, will sponsor an Aviation Day on Saturday, Mar. 30, at Key West International Airport. This is the weekend following a Key West visit by the Navy's precision flying team The Blue Angels.
The chapter's Young Eagles program, which offers scholarships for students interested in pursing careers in aviation, will sponsor free airplane rides for interested students at the Mar. 30 event. All students ages 8 to 17 are eligible.
Pilots donate their time and their planes for the Young Eagles Rally.
For more information, visit: www.1241.eaachapter.org.


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Turns out, I'm just too lazy to post on my blog every day. So it goes.
It's been a long time since I've posted a Super Saturday Supper, mostly because it's been a long time since I've attempted to be a blogger, and somewhat because geez, food blogging blew *up* and I am after all poor, humble hipster, but partly because I've been guilty of more of this than I care to admit.
I'm trying to do less of all of those things.
So I cooked some this week, and this
turned into this
and it's all the Pioneer Woman's fault. The recipe is here and it is *stupidly* good.
As for tonight, well, let's just say that maybe I hate bacon, but I sure do love me some dead pig.
There is no recipe for that. It's made of win and brown sugar and some other shit.
I suck at food blogging.
Next week, the full Thanksgiving menu goes up, even if it ends up just being soup. I'm kind of on a soup kick. Sue me.
My standard Thanksgiving full menu is here
My variations of the turkey and potatoes are here.


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This one cracked me up. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVw-H9KDBLs"If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming'. So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?"
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From Transformers to Turtles
Candelabras not invited. Speaking of the absurdities of filmmaking...
Check out Megan Fox yesterday in New York shooting Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with co-star Alan Ritchmon. As you can see, he's wearing the framework of a turtle shell on his back. And then they'll add the rest in post. Which doesn't make it any less ridiculous. What's most ridiculous is that there can be 3 of these -- come on, two sequels at least, right? -- but no movies that are "too gay".
As for Megan Fox and her return to Michael Bay Productions -- I can't hate or snark on Fox for this, especially since it wasn't likely that she had any other options. And the way it was presented to her probably doesn't suck: work for 2 or 3 months on a movie, not work for 9 months and spend time with your kid, promote it for a few weeks, make a lot of money, go back to make more of them, repeat for the next 5 years.


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Liberty News
An ever-expanding vision: renovation expands, upgrades School of Religion
Liberty University co-founder Dr. Elmer Towns sees himself teaching 900 students in a classroom, while simultaneously teaching 9,000 students from all over the world using the Internet. His vision will be nearer to reality this fall when construction is completed on the Towns/Alumni Ministry Training Center.
The center, an expansion of the existing B.R. Lakin School of Religion on Liberty's main campus, will include a 900-seat "smart" lecture hall and interactive classroom with cutting-edge computer technology. A renovation of the school's exterior includes an addition of columns and steps to create a Jeffersonian-style façade similar to the Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center.
Liberty University officials, including the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, broke ground on the site behind the School of Religion, next to U.S. 460, on April 25.
The Liberty University Office of Alumni Affairs is spearheading a three-year, $2 million campaign, started in September 2006, to cover the cost of the project. At the end of 2007, $713,367 in cash and pledges had been given by 433 donors. Project donors include alumni, churches and various organizations.
"We've had some substantial gifts from churches because the whole basis of building this smart classroom is to accelerate the vision of Dr. Falwell and Dr. Towns to train 10,000 new pastors and missionaries in the next 10 to 15 years. You can train more in a larger classroom setting and through the Internet they don't actually have to be here," Andy Barrick, director of alumni affairs, said.
Liberty's spring 2007 fall resident enrollment stood at more than 10,500 students and the Distance Learning Program has an increased enrollment this year of 19,013 compared with 11,501 last spring.
Religion training, pastors and missionaries keep religion the most popular major at Liberty.
"With enrollment skyrocketing, this is a much-needed facility for classroom space. It allows us to have bigger classes, and that's why we've got to complete it by the fall," Barrick said.
The project also includes an additional classroom called the Hall of Ministry. It will feature murals of founder Dr. Falwell and Thomas Road Baptist Church.
Towns, dean of the School of Religion, said the center must be completed by fall because the school has already planned classes for the new facility.
"Ever since we started teaching large classes in [Rooms] 1113 and 1114, each side will hold right at 400 students, and I've always had right up the edge of 400 students," he said.
Dr. Towns, who says he "has been here from the beginning and taught a little bit of everything," began teaching in 1971, when the first group for the school consisted of 14 students. Over the years he has taught more than 5,500 students in classes ranging from Philosophy to Western Civilization. He continues to teach hundreds of students each year as a professor of religion.
He says what makes LU different from other higher learning institutions is its founding principle to establish a Christian college that acts as an extension of the church.
"We've called the School of Religion the rudder of the university so that the word of God will keep everyone straight, but [the Rev.] Jonathan Falwell has recently changed it from 'the rudder.' He calls it 'the lifeblood' of the university," Towns said. "The word of God, theology, Christian life, evangelism — that's the lifeblood; that's why Liberty was started."
To help in the construction of the Towns/Alumni Ministry Training Center, call (800) 628-7973, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.liberty.edu/development/alumni/ and click on Support LU.


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Cardiff City sack under-fire Malky Mackay
The 41-year-old guided Cardiff to the Premier League for the first time in their history last season, leading the side to the Championship title.
Cardiff have made a solid start in their fight to remain in the top flight, with the club gaining 17 points from 18 fixtures and currently sitting 16th in the table.
But Mackay's relationship with owner Vincent Tan has come under scrutiny in the past month, with the Malaysian reportedly issuing an ultimatum to the Scot to resign or be sacked.
It looked like Mackay would enjoy a stay of execution with the two set to meet to reconcile their differences.
Cardiff, however, have now decided to remove Mackay from his position a day after the 3-0 home defeat against Southampton, a game that saw protests against Tan from angry supporters.
A statement on the club's official website read: "The board of directors at Cardiff City Football Club have today relieved Malky Mackay of his duties.
"A new first team manager will be appointed and announced in due course."
Mackay's dismissal had a certain air of inevitability, despite chairman Mehmet Dalman saying the former Watford manager would be in charge for the foreseeable future last week.
Tan has proved a controversial figure at the Welsh outfit, not least for his decision to change the club's colours from blue to red at the start of last season.


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Why Loneliness is Bad For Your Health
Everyone knows what it's like to be lonely. It often happens during life's transitions: when a student leaves home for college, when an unmarried businessman takes a job in a new city, or when an elderly woman outlives her husband and friends. Bouts of loneliness are a melancholy fact of human existence.
But when loneliness becomes a chronic condition, the impact can be far more serious, says John Cacioppo, a social psychologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Cacioppo studies the biological effects of loneliness, and in a steady stream of recent papers, he and collaborators have identified several potentially unhealthy changes in the cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems of chronically lonely people. Their findings could help explain why epidemiological studies have often found that socially isolated people have shorter life spans and increased risk of a host of health problems, including infections, heart disease, and depression. Their work also adds a new wrinkle, suggesting that it's the subjective experience of loneliness that's harmful, not the actual number of social contacts a person has. "Loneliness isn't at all what people thought it was, and it's a lot more important than people thought it was," Cacioppo says.
Colleagues credit him with building an impressive network of collaborations with researchers in other disciplines to pioneer a new science of loneliness. "He's placed it on the scientific map," says one collaborator, Dorret Boomsma, a behavioral geneticist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "He's doing very creative work," says Martha Farah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. "He's created a new way of thinking about the biology of interpersonal relationships."
A new beginning
Cacioppo hasn't always studied loneliness. In the 1980s and '90s, he made a name for himself with meticulous laboratory studies on various aspects of emotion and cognition, and he's a founder of the field of social neuroscience, which seeks to understand the brain's role in social behavior. (Last month, colleagues elected him president of the newly formed Society for Social Neuroscience.)
Cacioppo says a 1988 Science paper suggesting that social isolation increases mortality (29 July 1988, p. 540) prompted him to change the focus of his research. Since then, scores of studies have found that people who lack social support are more prone to a variety of ailments. An analysis of 148 of these studies, published in the July 2010 issue of PLoS Medicine, suggests that social isolation increases the risk of death about as much as smoking cigarettes and more than either physical inactivity or obesity.
Compelling as these epidemiological studies are, Cacioppo says, they leave unanswered many questions about the mechanisms involved and about what aspects of social isolation are responsible. In the early 1990s, he set out to tackle these questions. He began by handing out questionnaires to thousands of students at Ohio State University in Columbus, where he was based at the time, and following up with physiological and psychological testing in the lab. For the past 10 years, he has been testing hundreds of Chicago-area residents, working closely with psychologist Louise Hawkley and other University of Chicago colleagues.
This work has convinced Cacioppo that loneliness is a health risk on its own, apart from conditions such as depression or stress that are common fellow travelers. More specifically, it seems to be the subjective experience of loneliness that's important for people's well-being rather than any objective measure of social connectivity (the number of close contacts someone has, for example). It's an important distinction that most previous studies had ignored, says Daniel Russell, a psychologist at Iowa State University in Ames. "Some people are socially isolated and they're not lonely," Russell says. "By contrast, some people are lonely even if they have a lot of social contacts."
As a graduate student in the 1970s at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Russell helped develop the scale Cacioppo now uses in most of his research. The UCLA Loneliness Scale is based on a questionnaire that tries to size up how people perceive their social situation, with questions about how often they feel a lack of companionship, feel they have no one to talk to, or feel out of tune with those around them.
When people score high on the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Cacioppo and colleagues have found, they also tend to exhibit several physiological changes that effectively put the body in a state of alert. In one early study, they found that lonely people exhibit higher vascular resistance, a tightening of the arteries that raises blood pressure. That forces the heart to work harder and can contribute to wear and tear on vessels.
"Those were landmark investigations" that got other researchers interested in potential biological effects of loneliness, says Chris Segrin, a behavioral scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Lonely people also have elevated molecular markers of stress. Cacioppo's group has found that cortisol and epinephrine are elevated in saliva and urine, respectively. That might help explain why lonely people report feeling more stressed in situations most people experience as only moderately stressful, such as public speaking, Cacioppo says.
Together, these findings point to activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which coordinates the body's fight-or-flight responses. It's as if loneliness prepares the body for some looming threat. Cacioppo thinks that makes evolutionary sense. He argues that being alone, for our distant ancestors, meant abandoning the protection of the group and jeopardizing one's genetic contribution to the next generation. He posits that the physiological changes and anxiety that accompany loneliness are a warning that an individual's social ties have gotten too weak: "It's an aversive signal that motivates us to change our behavior in a way that's good for our genetic survival." In his view, loneliness is a double-edged sword—adaptive in the short term but dangerous when it becomes chronic.
Loneliness tends to spread among people on the fringes of social networks, according to a 2009 study. Blue dots represent people who reported feeling lonely three or more days a week, green corresponds to two lonely days, and yellow corresponds to less than two lonely days.
Cacioppo and colleagues have also found evidence that loneliness has a direct impact on the immune system. In a 2007 study in Genome Biology, Cacioppo teamed up with UCLA genomics researcher Steve Cole and other colleagues to investigate gene activity across the genome in the white blood cells of 14 participants in a longitudinal study of loneliness among Chicago-area residents. The volunteers selected scored in either the top or the bottom 15% of the study cohort on the UCLA Loneliness Scale.
Two differences between the groups stood out: Lonely people exhibited increased activity for several genes encoding signaling molecules that promote inflammation and decreased activity for genes that normally put the brakes on inflammation. They also showed diminished activity in genes that help mount a defense against viral invaders.
Cole says that jibes with epidemiologic findings that socially isolated people are more susceptible to viruses, from the common cold to HIV, and to cardiovascular disease, which has been linked to excess inflammation. Cole says the team will soon publish a replication of the findings in a group of about 120 participants in the Chicago study. He notes that just feeling a little left out isn't likely to throw the immune system out of whack. "It really takes a person who has taken and consolidated a lonely view of the world to show these changes in gene expression," he says.
Loneliness not only increases wear and tear by keeping the body in alert mode but also may prevent people from recharging their batteries with rest and relaxation. In the March 2010 issue of Health Psychology, Cacioppo and colleagues reported that although lonely people sleep a normal number of hours, they report more fatigue the next day, suggesting that their quality of sleep isn't as good. Segrin says his group has recently replicated this finding and extended it to show that lonely people derive less satisfaction from leisure activities. Their findings are in press at Health Communications.
The lonely brain
Studies by Cacioppo and others before him have found that lonely people tend to rate their own social interactions more negatively and form worse impressions of people they meet. Researchers are beginning to show how these biases may be encoded in the brain. In a 2008 study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cacioppo and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure metabolic activity in the brains of 23 undergraduate women at the University of Chicago. Those who were lonelier, as rated by the UCLA Loneliness Scale, exhibited less activation in the ventral striatum, a component of the brain's reward circuitry, when they viewed pictures of smiling faces.
Lonely people take less enjoyment from social interactions and exhibit less activity (blue) in the ventral striatum.
In another study, Cacioppo and colleagues asked lonely and nonlonely people to perform the Stroop test, a workhorse task in experimental psychology in which people see words presented in colored text one by one on a computer screen, then indicate what color it was. When lonely people saw words that evoked negative social interactions, such as "isolate" or "reject," they took a split second longer to identify the color than they did for negative nonsocial words, such as "vomit." Nonlonely people showed no such delay. To Cacioppo, the findings, as yet unpublished, suggest that lonely people pay extra attention to negative social cues. "It suggests the brain is on the alert for social threats," he says.
A recent study by researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, meshes with these findings. Neuroscientist Ahmad Hariri and colleagues set out to replicate previous reports that people with anxious tendencies (but not a clinical diagnosis) exhibit more activity in the amygdala, a brain region crucial for threat detection, when they see images of angry or fearful faces. But Hariri's group found that this was true only for the subset of the volunteers who also reported below-average levels of social support. (They did not measure loneliness per se.) To Hariri, the findings, published online 31 August in Neuropsychologia, suggest that people's perceptions of social support may calibrate how the amygdala assesses social threats, which in turn could influence their risk for anxiety disorders or other conditions.
Loneliness may also affect the prefrontal cortex, a region important for what cognitive scientists call executive control. In daily life, that often translates to restraint—as in not eating cheeseburgers at every meal or putting the stopper back in the wine bottle after one or two glasses. Epidemiological studies have suggested that people with poor social networks are more likely to eat poorly, consume more alcohol, and exercise less. Several studies have found that lonely people perform poorly on lab tests that require executive control, and at least one study, published in the June 2006 issue of Social Neuroscience, found reduced prefrontal cortex activity in socially isolated people.
Contagious … but curable
Evidence that loneliness is partly heritable has emerged from a collaboration between Cacioppo and Boomsma, who oversees a database of Dutch twins and their family members. They've found that genetics accounts for up to half of the individual variation in loneliness. Their most recent study, published in the July 2010 issue of Behavioral Genetics, used an abbreviated version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale in a survey sent to 8683 twins and family members. In this group, genetics accounted for 37% of the variability in loneliness, somewhat lower than in some previous studies. Overall, the heritability of loneliness is comparable to that of depression, Boomsma says, but less than that of traits such as high blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
In his 2008 book, Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, Cacioppo hypothesizes that there is a "genetic thermostat" for loneliness that's set differently in different people. That setting determines the degree of distress triggered by social isolation. "You're not inheriting loneliness; you're inheriting how painful it feels to be alone," Cacioppo says.
But environment matters, too, as studies by Russell have shown. College freshmen rank among the loneliest populations he and his colleagues have studied, because they've left behind their family and high school friends and are trying to find their way in a new social ecosystem, Russell says.
According to some measures, society is changing in ways that may make people even lonelier. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that nearly 29 million people live alone in the United States, a 30% increase from 1980. A widely cited 2006 study in American Sociological Review asked a representative sample of the U.S. population how many people they would feel comfortable discussing an important personal issue with. Between 1985 and 2004, the average number dropped from three to two, and the percentage of people who reported having no such confidants rose from 10% to 25%.
And like certain other health risks, loneliness may be contagious. Cacioppo recently teamed up with James Fowler of UC San Diego and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University to investigate the spread of loneliness through social networks. Scrutinizing data on thousands of people participating in the Framingham Heart Study, Fowler and Christakis have reported that everything from smoking habits to happiness appears to spread from person to person within social networks (Science, 23 January 2009, p. 454). So, too, can loneliness, the trio reported in December 2009 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
The news isn't all bad, however. Even for hard cases, Cacioppo believes loneliness can be overcome. He and colleagues recently conducted a meta-analysis of 20 studies on interventions for loneliness. Simply providing social support doesn't seem to work, especially if people know they're being looked after. "If you know people are stopping by to check on you, it makes you feel like more of a loser," Cacioppo says. The most effective interventions were those that borrowed methods from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift people's attention and interpretation of social situations in a more positive direction, the team reported online 17 August 2010 in Personality and Social Psychology Review.
As for preventing loneliness, Cacioppo says it helps to know where your own thermostat is set and strive to stay in your comfort zone. In Loneliness, he writes: "The degree of social connection that can improve our health and our happiness … is both as simple and as difficult as being open and available to others."


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Making neuroscience understandable to aspiring neuroscientists (and anyone else who is interested)
Definition of ictogenesis.
Neuroscientifically Challenged is a neuroscience learning resource. In addition to a blog that discusses science current events in a non-technical manner, you will also find a number of videos and articles that you can use to learn about basic principles of science and the brain.


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In the last few days, we have gotten about 4 inches of snow. This just never happens in Denmark and must be giving the global warming skeptics visiting Copenhagen some ammunition.
I am amazed by how much trail running shoes help in the snow. I ran a 7 mile tempo across snow drifts next to farm fields and had such fun. Those of you who have snow all winter should really treat yourself to a pair if you don't have one.
Change of 2010 race schedule
Since Chippewa 50k has been cancelled and SR needs to go back to the US at the beginning of April, we are going to run Hells Hills 50 miler outside of Austin, TX on April 3rd. This means getting to meet Olga and Larry. I am so extremely excited this trip. My body just aches to run another 50 miler on trails. SR, on the other hand, is going to run the 50k and his thoughts are "if I don't win the 50k, I'm never running an ultra again". (But I can repect that. If he told me to run the 14 flights of stairs at the hospital every night like he did last night, I might also say "never again" at some point.)
European Ultra
For those of you looking for an ultra in Europe around the same time, Helen Lavin told me about the Connemarathon, a 39.3 mile race April 11th in Galoway,Ireland. Looks beautiful (but also sold-out. Maybe next year).
Fancy Family
Here are some pictures we had taken by our friend, Steen. I had helped him out a couple months ago, so he offered to take some professional pictures of the family for free! We got to visit his house and studio which are part of a farm from the 1700's.
Running song of the day: All Come Down by Steve Mason
Friday, 18 December 2009
Updated race schedule and other news
5 comments:
- SteveQ said...
Cute pics. But I wish the April race could've been the Trail Mix 50K or that you could do the Voyageur 50 Mile - looks like I may be the race director this year.
- 19 December 2009 at 18:41
- sea legs girl said...
I wrote a comment on your blog... but we are doing Voyageur and we may even show up on time this year.
- 20 December 2009 at 18:35
- olga said...
Very neat, this idea of making family pictures for holidays. I like it. May be one day I'll even do it:) happy season!
- 21 December 2009 at 15:34
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- 23 December 2009 at 19:21
- sea legs girl said...
You're too kind, bathmate.
- 23 December 2009 at 19:23
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Pink Grapefruit Green Tea
The Republic of Tea
The field of flavored green teas is looking a little crowded these days, but Republic's Pink Grapefruit entry sounded promising all the same. It's part of the company's Sip For the Cure line, which also includes Pink Lemonade, Pink Rose and Pink Lady Apple. A portion of the proceeds from each sale go to support breast cancer.
The ingredients list for Pink Grapefruit includes Premium China green tea, pink peony petals and natural pink grapefruit flavoring and it's all packed into a nifty round tea bag. When I opened the single serving sample pack I was assaulted by a strong grapefruit aroma. Not a bad thing, mind you. In fact, I kept the empty packet around for a little while just to enjoy that fragrance.
Unfortunately, the pink grapefruit flavor and aroma didn't carry over to the tea quite so well. After brewing, I caught a faint whiff of it and then for the first few sips there was an ever so subtle grapefruit overtone, but this seemed to dwindle.
But this is not such a bad tea, all in all, as the green tea component is good enough to make up for the relatively weak grapefruit taste.
Contents: Single serving sample packet
I paid: free
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Tea Review 23 - Republic of Tea Pink Grapefruit
2 comments:
- Culinary Fool said...
When I first read the name, this didn't sound too appealing. Then I thought about how great lemon and orange are in tea - so maybe grapefruit would add an interesting element.
I sometimes find that a bit of honey or sugar will bring out the taste in something that is delicate - although I generally prefer my tea "straight up". :-)
Nice to see a blogger giving tea it's due!
- William I. Lengeman III said...
I'm not real keen on flavored teas, but Republic also has a blueberry green tea that looks interesting.
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This chapter describes the Extension SDK, which is available to download to JDeveloper, and how to use it to develop your own extensions.
This chapter includes the following sections:
The JDeveloper Extension Software Developer Kit (SDK) includes a collection of projects containing sample code and the javadoc-generated documentation for the Extension API.
Each sample project contains a deployment profile for one-click deployment of the sample to the appropriate directory. You can also deploy all the projects at once.
You can use the code that provides each extension as a template to help you develop similar features.
You can download and install the Extension SDK using the Check for Updates wizard, or by downloading it from the Oracle website.
To install the Extension SDK using Check for Updates:
Follow the information in "How to Install Extensions with Check for Updates" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User Guide for Oracle JDeveloper, and on the Source page select the
Official Oracle Extensions and Updates update center.
On the Updates page, choose
Extension SDK from the list of available extensions, and click Next. Owing to the size of the extension, it may take a few minutes to download depending on your internet connection.
When you finish the wizard, JDeveloper will restart and install the Extension SDK. When it restarts, you are asked whether JDeveloper should install the sample application containing the sample projects described in this chapter. If you answer yes, the application
extensionsdk is open in the Application Navigator, and the sample projects are listed.
If you are working behind a firewall, JDeveloper will not be able to connect to the update center until you enter details of your proxy server. You can either do this in the Web Browser and Proxy page of the Preferences dialog (available from the Tools menu), or the Check for Updates wizard will time out and display the Web Browser and Proxy page.
To install the Extension SDK using a file:
Follow the information in "How to Install Extensions Directly from OTN" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User Guide for Oracle JDeveloper, and navigate to the page for Official Oracle JDeveloper Extensions.
Download the Extension SDK to a local location, then open the Check for Updates wizard from the Help menu.
On the Source page, choose
Install from Local File and enter the location of the
esdk_bundle.zip file and complete the wizard.
JDeveloper will restart and install the Extension SDK. When it restarts, you are asked whether JDeveloper should install the sample application containing the sample projects described in this chapter. If you answer yes, the application
extensionsdk is open in the Application Navigator, and the sample projects are listed.
When you successfully install the Extension SDK, the sample application is optionally open in the Application Navigator, giving you access to the sample projects that illustrate different aspects of JDeveloper functionality. You can use the code to help you develop your own extensions.
The Oracle Fusion Middleware Java API Reference for Oracle Extension SDK is available from the Reference node in the Contents list of the online help (available from the Help menu.
If you have trouble downloading the Extension SDK and you are working behind a firewall, ensure that you have set the proxy server settings on the Web Browser and Proxy page of the Preferences dialog (available from the Tools menu).
If the Check for Updates wizard has located the update center you are using, it may take up to a couple of minutes before the list of available extensions is displayed, depending on the speed of your connection.
When you select the Extension SDK in the wizard, it downloads while the wizard is still open, and this can take a couple of minutes, depending on the speed of your connection. Once the extension has finished downloading, JDeveloper needs to restart in order to install it, and a message to this effect is displayed.
The sample projects available in the Extension SDK are briefly described in this section. For more information, see the comments in each project, which provides guidance on the functionality.
If you need more information about JDeveloper, see the relevant section of the Oracle Fusion Middleware User Guide for Oracle JDeveloper.
For information about running the samples, see Section 3.4, "How to Run the Sample Projects."
AllSamples.jpr: This sample provides a deployment profile that can be used to run all the sample projects at once.
ApplicationOverview.jpr: Demonstrates how to plug in to the Application Overview window. Adds a Show Overview menu item to both the Application and Project context menus. It illustrates how to:
Add your own custom editor.
Get files from an application and project.
Get the status of individual files in a project.
AuditRefactor.jpr: Demonstrates using the Audit framework to detect problems in Java code, and how to write a transform using the refactoring API to fix the problems automatically.
Adds an option to the IDE Audit properties page.
Manages the public final static methods names.
shows how to use the refactoring features of the IDE.
Balloon.jpr: Demonstrates how to install a balloon notification into the JDeveloper status bar.
Shows how to:
Add an Action Listener to a dialog or Balloon element.
Interact with the IDE Status bar, both adding and removing items.
Get an icon from
ClassBrowser.jpr: Shows how to use the JDeveloper
Shows how to setup a single page wizard.
Adds a context menu to Navigator and Observer UI sections.
ClassGenerator.jpr: Shows the basic of JOT (Java Object Tool) to generate a java file in your project. Also demonstrates how to use the Finite State Machine (FSM) Wizard utility to create a multi step wizard.
Adds an item to the View menu.
Shows how to enable and disable a menu option based on what is currently selected in the Application Navigator.
Shows how to setup a multi-page wizard.
ClassSpy.jpr: Shows the simplest way to identify the class of a given node in the Navigator, and how to write its name in the log window. Shows how to:
Add a context menu to the source editor, explorer, and Application Navigator using
Work with a Context object.
Display information in a log window.
Code from this sample is used to illustrate Section 22.214.171.124, "How to Implement a Controller."
ClickableURL.jpr: Shows how to generate a clickable URL in the log window.
Adds a context menu to the Application Navigator using the
extension.xml file.
Shows interaction with a new log window.
Shows how to work with a file URL.
Works with
MessageWindow to place data in a log.
Shows how to launch a browser from the IDE.
CodeInteraction.jpr: Shows how to get text from the code editor, and launches a Google search on the currently selected text.
Adds context menu to the source editor.
Shows how to enable the context menu item based on a condition in the source editor.
Shows how to call a browser with data from the source editor.
ConfigPanel.jpr: Demonstrates how to store and retrieve preferences, and install a panel into the Preferences dialog.
Adds a menu item to the Tools menu using an
Addin class.
Shows interaction with the log window.
Shows how to use a listener to listen for changes to the IDE Preferences model.
Code from this project is used to illustrate Section 18.104.22.168, "How to Add a Wizard to the Tools Menu."
CPPageProvider.jpr: Demonstrates how to plug into the component palette using the palette2 API.
CreateDialog.jpr: An example of a simple create dialog invoked from the gallery.
Shows how to add a New Gallery item using
Shows how to use a background task with monitor.
Uses JEWTDialog and Panel to display data.
Shows how to listen for Enter key press in text fields and do something with the event.
CreateStructure.jpr: Demonstrates creating a new empty application (jws file) and adding a new empty project (jpr file) to it.
Works with the file system IO, creating files, and directories
Uses oracle.ide APIs to build structure rather than JDeveloper APIs
Shows the use of a logs() method for sending info to the logs window
CustomEditor.jpr: Shows how to implement your own editor for a given kind of file. To see the tool in action, open any XML file and switch to the Query page.
Code from this sample project is used to illustrate Section 220.127.116.11, "How to Implement the EditorAddin Class" and Section 22.214.171.124, "How to Define an Editor Class."
CustomExtensionHook.jpr: Demonstrates a custom extension hook, which allows other extensions to plug into your extension.
Shows how to add a menu item declaratively in
extension.xml, specifically to the View menu.
CustomNavigator.jpr: Demonstrates how to install a custom navigator window. Installs a "Favorites" window which can be used to store frequently accessed files.
Shows how to create your own navigator window.
Shows file IO methods for saving a file to the system directory.
Shows how to add a customer icon to the window.
Shows how to work with selected items in a menu.
Adds a separate controller for just one menu area.
DebugObjectPreferences.jpr: Demonstrates how to install a custom object preferences renderer for the Data window of the debugger.
Adds its parameter to the debugger output window in the Data tab.
Shows how to work with the
debugger_hook in
DockableWindow.jpr: Shows how to implement a custom dockable window.
Shows how to work with
Uses Addin initialize to add extension to View menu.
Shows how to work with
ExternalToolCreation.jpr: Shows how to write an addin that installs an external tools shortcut for an external program. This feature is actually part of the JDeveloper IDE, and uses a wizard to set up external applications. For more information about External Tools, see the section "Adding External Tools to JDeveloper" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User Guide for Oracle JDeveloper.
Shows how to setup an external tool and integrate it into the JDeveloper IDE, for example, passing the current editor content to an external tool for review or processing.
ExternalToolImportExport.jpr: Imports and exports the properties associated with a list of External Tools.
Works with reading and writing
ExternalTool properties.
ExternalToolMacros.jpr: Shows how to write an addin that installs a custom macro for use by external tools.
Shows the use of
<externaltools> and
<macros> tags in
ExternalToolScanner.jpr: Shows how to write a scanner for external tools that can automatically install external program shortcuts when the user clicks on the Find Tools button in the External Tools dialog, (available from the Tools menu).
FirstSample.jpr: A sample that illustrates the main concepts involved in writing extensions for JDeveloper.
Shows how to work with
extension.xml tags for
<toolbars> and
All IDE integration points call a
Wizard class that displays a message box.
Code from this sample project is used to illustrate Section 18.104.22.168, "How to Implement a Command," Section 220.127.116.11, "How to Define an Action," and Section 220.127.116.11, "How to Implement a Controller."
FlatEditor.jpr: Demonstrates how to implement a form-based overview editor similar to the one used for
<ide:editor> in
Adds a custom tab to the editor window.
Shows how to work with
HelloX.jpr: This is a sample that demonstrates a number of core concepts, including installing New Gallery items, actions, and menu items.
Shows how to call a dialup window.
Shows how to add something to the New Gallery using
Code from this sample project is used to illustrate Section 22.214.171.124, "How to Set Up a Wizard Project" and Section 184.108.40.206, "How to Add a Wizard to the Tools Menu."
LayoutMenuFilter.jpr: Shows how to filter the top level menus in the IDE when the layout changes.
Allows you to set only those menu items that you want shown.
addIdeListener to get IDE events and act on them.
MethodCallCounter.jpr: Uses JOT (Java Object Tool) to count the number of occurrences of a named method in some code.
Shows how to determine node type in the navigator and source editor menus.
Adds context menu options to the navigator and source editor.
showInputDialog to allow parameter entry at runtime.
MessageDialog.information to display results.
Shows how to use two method declarations in one class. The method used depends on parameters passed to it.
OpenNodes.jpr:Implements a dockable window which shows nodes that are open in the NodeFactory, and tracks when nodes are opened and closed.
Shows how to create and implement a dockable window in the IDE.
toString() to set specific string formatting.
Jtable inside a Jpanel, and shows setup and configuration.
Uses a timer to flash a color change on a table change then return to normal state.
When you run this sample, you can choose View > ESDKSample: Open Nodes to open an Open Node Tracker window, which shows the nodes that are open in
NodeFactory, and tracks when nodes are opened and closed.
Overlay.jpr: Shows how to use overlays in the navigator, like those used by the version control extensions.
Shows how to set up multiple Actions in
Works with
Works with
ProgressBar.jpr: Shows how to implement a progress bar during the execution of some lengthy task.
Illustrates a background running process.
Shows an indeterminate progress bar.
Writes to the log window in a background process.
ProjectSettings.jpr: Demonstrates storing and retrieving project properties and adding custom project settings UI.
Illustrates use of
<settings-ui> tag in
ProjectSettingsTraversablePanel to layout project settings page.
HashStructure and
PropertyStorage to store and retrieve project settings data.
StructurePane.jpr: Shows how to display your own content in the Structure Window.
Shows how to register a Structure Window using
Shows how to extend
Code from this sample project is used to illustrate Section 220.127.116.11, "How to Register and Initialize a Structure Explorer."
UpdateCenter.jpr: Demonstrates how to install a custom update center as part of an extension.
Shows how to use
<update-hook> and
<update-center> tags in
Shows how your extension can add its own Update Center item to the Updates Center page of the Check for Updates wizard.
VersionControlRCS.jpr: This is a sample version control integration using the version control system (VCS) API.
Shows implementation of VCS related tags such as
<vcs-profile> and
Shows implementation of action tags such as <automatic-action> and
You can run the sample projects in JDeveloper to see how they work.
The first time you run one of the sample project extensions, you have to right-click on it and choose Deploy to Target Platform.
To run the extension, right-click and choose Run Extension.
This runs a second copy of JDeveloper with the sample project installed.


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Pray the Anglican Rosary: What Does It Mean?
by David Allen White
A small but dedicated group of your fellow parishioners meets by the Lady Shrine in the back of the church at 9:30 AM on the first Saturday of the month to pray the Rosary. What is that about?
The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for them. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five Joyful Mysteries, five Luminous Mysteries, five Sorrowful Mysteries, and five Glorious Mysteries.
The word Rosary comes from a Latin word meaning Crown of roses or Garland of roses. The name refers to the string of beads that the suppliant uses to count the prayers (the beads were originally made from crushed rose petals) and to the devotion that is recited. The devotion was standardized in the 16th century, though it is much older, and is probably most associated with Roman Catholicism because of the references to Mary's part in the history of our salvation, but properly understood, it is used also by many Catholic-minded Anglicans.
The prayers of the Rosary often involve the use of Picture texts similar to Lectio Divina, which assist meditation. Those of us who use this devotion are happy to welcome newcomers and to offer assistance and instruction in the praying of the Rosary.


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Flag: Croatian
Nationality of Officers:Croatian
Number of Crew: 9
Passenger Capacity: 40
Speed: 9 NM
Length:48,50 m
Beam:8,50 m
Highlights of South Adriatic cruise
Omis (Croatia) - Dubrovnik (Croatia)
8 days / 7 nights - Oct 05, 2019
aboard Agape Rose
This cruise program is an excellent choice for all of you searching for an informal, casual and chillout cruise holiday in Croatia. Picturesque Dalmatian coast, secluded bays, paradise beaches and idyllic islands will capture your heart.
Saturday: OMIS
Welcome aboard Agape Rose! Enjoy a welcome drink and snack while meeting our Captain, the crew members and cruise director. Overnight in Omis.
First service on board: Dinner
Sunday: OMIS - PUCISCA - SPLIT
Morning after breakfast you can join optional boat excursion up the canyon of the river Cetina before setting sails towards Pucisca on the island of Brac. Pucisca is nested in a beautiful bay on the island of Brac, surrounded by stone quarries that yield some of the whitest and best quality limestone in the world. Suffice to say that pillars of this snow-white stone decorates the façade of the White House and other landmarks all over the world.
After docking at Pucisca, you can join a short visit to a stonemasonry school nearby where you will learn of the Brac limestone, their centuries-old tradition of stonemasonry and the unconventional tools they use. In the afternoon you will continue sailing to Split, your port of call for the day.
Upon arrival you are free to enjoy the Old Town and introduce yourself with the monumental Diocletian Palace built over 1700 years ago or you can join on guided walking tour*. Because of its historical and architectural importance, the whole Old Town is part of the UNESCO's List of World Cultural Heritage. Overnight in Split.
Meals on board: Breakfast and lunch.
*Split Walking tour – walking tour package
*Stonemasonry School in Pucisca – walking tour package
**Optional excursion: Cetina river
Monday: SPLIT - SIBENIK -excursion Skradin and Trogir
After breakfast you will join our excursion to Trogir and Skradin. Leaving Split first stop will be Trogir, small Dalmatian town listed on UNESCO's List of World Cultural Heritage, situated on an island and squeezed in between the mainland and the larger island of Ciovo. Except for the green parks the entire island is occupied by spectacular constructions of stone-houses, palaces, churches, monasteries, towers, walls etc.
You will have free time to pay a visit to the main attraction in Trogir – the Cathedral of St. Lawrence which is probably the finest example of sacral architecture in Croatia. Continuing by coach through the karst of Sibenik hinterland we will stop in Skradin.
Skradin is situated on the upper end of Krka estuary at the entrance to National Park, you will have free time for exploration. Final destination of the day will be Sibenik, where you can take optional walking tour*. Stroll with your guide through the narrow and steep streets; pass by the most important monument, the Gothic-Renaissance Cathedral of St. James located in the main town square. By its beauty, construction particularities and style characteristics, it represents not only the major and the most valuable monument of the town's architectural heritage, but it is also a unique monument of the European sacral architecture, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2001. Overnight in Sibenik.
Meals on board: Breakfast and dinner.
*Sibenik Walking tour – optional walking tour package
Tuesday: SIBENIK - VIS
After breakfast departure to Vis. Stop will be made for swimming and relaxing (weather dependable). Afternoon arrival to Vis – island famous for sandy beaches and beautiful bays. Vis is untouched by the modern development and tourism for many years so one can experience the tradition and the way of life of the Mediterranean as it once was. Dinner is taken on board for full board option. Overnight in Vis.
Meals on board: Breakfast and lunch.
**Optional excursion: Island of Vis
Wednesday:VIS - HVAR - KORCULA
Breakfast on board and early departure to Hvar - famous for its endless fields of lavender and rosemary, its beautiful coast and lovely historical towns. Your destination is the town of Hvar, a town of immense beauty that buzzes with vibrant energy in the summer sun. Upon arrival, our expert local guide will take you for a walk around the ancient streets of Hvar. After the guided walking tour* of Hvar we will set sail to Korcula Island. Arrival to Kor?ula in the afternoon is followed by optional walking tour*. Overnight in Kocula.Tonight enjoy the delicious Captain's dinner with our crew and your fellow travelers.
Meals on board: Breakfast and dinner.
*Hvar Walking Tour – optional walking tour package
*Korcula Walking Tour – optional walking tour package
Thursday: KORCULA - MLJET -SLANO
Breakfast on board and departure to Pomena (Mljet island). Island of Mljet on its western side houses the National Park Mljet, known for its immense beauty and its two turquoise salty lakes surrounded by thick forest. Upon arrival you will have plenty of free time to explore the park individually, for example, by renting bikes and cycling or jogging on the numerous paths around the lakes or in the forests or take our optional trip to the Lakes. Lunch and swimming break are followed by early afternoon departure to Slano. After arrival you are free to take optional guided tour Taste of Dalmatia – you will visit Ston a small town famous of its 5 km long city walls (the longest one in Europe) and visit local vinery where you will have opportunity to taste some finest Dalmatian wines. Overnight in Slano.
Meals on board: Breakfast and lunch.
**Optional excursion: Mljet National Park
**Optional excursion: Taste of Dalmatia
Friday: SLANO - DUBROVNIK
After breakfast we set sail to to Dubrovnik and cruise beneath Dubrovnik City Walls and then to port Gruz. Upon arrival to Dubrovnik, for those who purchased Walking Tour package transfer is organized to the Old Town gate where you will be joining a guided tour of Dubrovnik. Upon arrival to Dubrovnik, you will be transferred to the Old Town gate where you will be joining guided tour of Dubrovnik. Our local expert will show you around this fascinating world-known landmark, an ancient town protected by 13th century fortifications. Dubrovnik was for centuries a standalone Republic and the only power able to compete with the Venetians. After the tour you will have free time to explore Dubrovnik on your own. You can take the cable-car to the top of the hill overlooking Dubrovnik for wonderful photo opportunities, make the tour of the walls or just enjoy a scoop of ice cream as you stroll through its narrow streets paved with ancient stones. Overnight in Dubrovnik. Meals on board: Breakfast and lunch.
*Dubrovnik town tour with a coach transfer from Dubrovnik port (Gruz) to the Old town –optional walking tour
Saturday: DUBROVNIK
After breakfast with a heavy heart we will say farewell to you hoping to meet you again.
Meals on board: breakfast
Cruise Rates per person based on double-occupancy.
|Public fares
|Bonus fares
|Lower Deck
|Main Deck
|Upper Deck
Additional charges
|Charge type
|3rd pax reduction
|Single supplement - Lower Deck
|Single supplement - Main Deck
|Single supplement - Upper Deck
|Walking tour package
Other notices
Rates include:
• 8 days / 7 nights cruise on the route Highlights of South Adriatic in a chosen category cabin
• Welcome drink and snack
• Half board: breakfast buffet, light lunch buffet, except on day 1,4 & 6 when dinner is included instead of lunch
• 1/2 l bottled water during meals
• Coffee/tea all day long
• Fresh fruit all day long
• Snack during the afternoon
• Service of 9 crew members including cruise director
• Usage of the ship's equipment
• Change of towels three times a week
• Bed linen change twice a week
• Free Wi/Fi on board
• Excursion Skradin and Trogir (entrance to NP Krka not included)
Rates do not include:
• Drinks/Beverages from the ship bar
• Transfer from and/or to the ship
• Gratuities or any other expense of personal nature
• Taxes and fees, € 40,00 per person, to be paid on board in cash
• Laundry service at selected ports of call
• Beach towel hire € 3,00/week
• Walking tour package
• Entrance to National park Mljet approx. 14,00 € p.p.
Walking tour package – 90,00 € per person (prepayment price)
• Walking tour of Sibenik– included: guide
• Walking tour of Dubrovnik – included: guide, transfer
• Walking tour of Korcula – included: guide
• Walking tour of Split – included: guide
• Walking tour of Hvar – included: guide
• Pucisca Stonemasonry School – included: guide, entry fee
**Optional excursions:
Cetina river (20,00 € per person) – included: guide, small boat transfer, snack
Mljet Island National Park (20,00 € per person) – included: guide, entrance fee
Taste of Dalmatia (20,00 € per person) – included: guide, transfer, wine tasting
Island of Vis (20,00 € per person) – included: guide, transfer, presentation of local products
* Cruising route is subject to change depending upon weather conditions
* This cruise provides plenty of time for sunbathing, swimming and exploring interesting resorts, small bays and attractive Dalmatian towns
* Guests are obliged to follow ship rules (found in written form on the ship) especially with regards to bringing drinks on board.
Bookings are on request and need to be confirmed.
Deposit of 30% should be paid within 7 days from our written confirmation.
Deposit is non refundable.
Final payment is due 50 days prior to departure.
* up to 40 days prior to the tour: 30% of the tour rate
* 39-21 days prior to the tour: 50% of the tour rate
* 20-0 prior and no show: 100% of the tour rate


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Both companies exhibited at NPE. This is Jadcore's seventh recycling and repelletizing line — but its first from Erema.
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