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In statehouses around the country, some of the nation's biggest biotechnology companies are lobbying intensively to limit generic competition to their blockbuster drugs, potentially cutting into the billions of dollars in savings on drug costs contemplated in the federal health care overhaul law. The complex drugs, made in living cells instead of chemical factories, account for roughly one-quarter of the nation's $320 billion in spending on drugs, according to IMS Health. And that percentage is growing. They include some of the world's best-selling drugs, like the rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis drugs Humira and Enbrel and the cancer treatments Herceptin, Avastin and Rituxan. The drugs now cost patients — or their insurers — tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Two companies, Amgen and Genentech, are proposing bills that would restrict the ability of pharmacists to substitute generic versions of biological drugs for brand name products. Bills have been introduced in at least eight states since the new legislative sessions began this month. Others are pending. The companies and other proponents say such measures are needed to protect patient safety because the generic versions of biological drugs are not identical to the originals. For that reason, they are usually called biosimilars rather than generics. Generic drug companies and insurers are taking their own steps to oppose or amend the state bills, which they characterize as pre-emptive moves to deter the use of biosimilars, even before any get to market.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on pharmaceutical industry corruption, click here.
Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the "fiscal cliff" bill that did not mention the company by name but strongly favored one of its drugs. The language buried in Section 632 of the law delays a set of Medicare price restraints on a class of drugs that includes Sensipar, a lucrative Amgen pill used by kidney dialysis patients. The provision gives Amgen an additional two years to sell Sensipar without government controls. The news was so welcome that the company's chief executive quickly relayed it to investment analysts. But it is projected to cost Medicare up to $500 million over that period. Amgen, which has a small army of 74 lobbyists in the capital, was the only company to argue aggressively for the delay, according to several Congressional aides of both parties. Supporters of the delay, primarily leaders of the Senate Finance Committee who have long benefited from Amgen's political largess, said it was necessary to allow regulators to prepare properly for the pricing change.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on collusion and corruption between government and the pharmaceutical industry, click here.
A mercury-containing preservative should not be banned as an ingredient in vaccines, U.S. pediatricians said [on December 17], in a move that may be controversial. In its statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed calls from a World Health Organization (WHO) committee that the preservative, thimerosal, not be considered a hazardous source of mercury that could be banned by the United Nations. Back in 1999, a concern that kids receiving multiple shots containing thimerosal might get too much mercury - and develop autism or other neurodevelopmental problems as a result - led the AAP to call for its removal, despite the lack of hard evidence at the time. In a 2004 safety review ... the independent U.S. Institute of Medicine concluded there was no evidence thimerosal-containing vaccines could cause autism. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came to the same conclusion in 2010. Thimerosal contains a type of mercury called ethyl mercury. Toxic effects have been tied to its cousin, methyl mercury, which stays in the body for much longer. Earlier this year, the WHO said replacing thimerosal with an alternative preservative could affect vaccine safety and might cause some vaccines to become unavailable. Mercury, however, is still on the list of global health hazards to be banned in a draft treaty from the United Nations Environment Program - which would mean a ban on thimerosal.
Note: Can you believe that a group of doctors is advocating for continued use of mercury in vaccines? For two informative articles raising serious questions about vaccines in general and thimerosal in particular, click here and here. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on the risks of vaccines, click here.
When the legislation that became known as "Obamacare" was first drafted, the key legislator was the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, whose committee took the lead in drafting the legislation. As Baucus himself repeatedly boasted, the architect of that legislation was Elizabeth Fowler, his chief health policy counsel; indeed,... it was Fowler who actually drafted it. What was most amazing about all of that was that, before joining Baucus' office as the point person for the health care bill, Fowler was the Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs (i.e. informal lobbying) at WellPoint, the nation's largest health insurance provider (before going to WellPoint, as well as after, Fowler had worked as Baucus' top health care aide). And when that health care bill was drafted, the person whom Fowler replaced as chief health counsel in Baucus' office, Michelle Easton, was lobbying for WellPoint as a principal at Tarplin, Downs, and Young. Whatever one's views on Obamacare were and are, the bill's mandate that everyone purchase the products of the private health insurance industry, unaccompanied by any public alternative, was a huge gift to that industry. More amazingly still, when the Obama White House needed someone to oversee implementation of Obamacare after the bill passed, it chose . . . Liz Fowler. She then became Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy at the National Economic Council.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government corruption, click here.
Adverse drug reactions have reached epidemic proportions, killing more people each year than die on the nation's highways, and doing serious damage to millions more. This problem has taken on special significance recently: The FDA has pulled 10 drugs off the market in the past three years for safety reasons, which is unprecedented in the agency's history. Nearly 20 million patients, almost 10% of the U.S. population, were estimated to have been exposed to these drugs before their removal. Few people, however, are aware that their medications could be harmful, or know how to spot the warning signs and what to do if they suspect there's a problem. Yet a 1998 University of Toronto study found that roughly 100,000 Americans die of adverse drug reactions each year, and 2.1 million more are hospitalized. The FDA received reports of more than 258,000 adverse drug events in 1999, nearly quadruple the 68,000 incidents reported a decade earlier. And FDA officials acknowledge that they're catching only a tiny fraction of these incidents. More new therapies are being sold first in the United States, rather than in Europe and Asia. In the early 1980s, only 2% to 3% of new drugs were introduced in the United States. By 1998, that number climbed to more than 60%, according to FDA officials, largely due to faster approvals by the agency. Aggressive marketing of new drugs can exacerbate the problem by persuading doctors and patients to seek out the latest therapies more quickly. And it's not just newer drugs that can be dangerous.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on health issues, click here.
Arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world, the New England Journal of Medicine regularly features articles over which pharmaceutical companies and their employees can exert significant influence. Over a year-long period ending in August, NEJM published 73 articles on original studies of new drugs, encompassing drugs approved by the FDA since 2000 and experimental drugs. Of those articles, 60 were funded by a pharmaceutical company, 50 were co-written by drug company employees and 37 had a lead author, typically an academic, who had previously accepted outside compensation from the sponsoring drug company in the form of consultant pay, grants or speaker fees. The New England Journal of Medicine is not alone in featuring research sponsored in large part by drug companies — it has become a common practice that reflects the growing role of industry money in research. Years ago, the government funded a larger share of such experiments. But since about the mid-1980s, research funding by pharmaceutical firms has exceeded what the National Institutes of Health spends. Last year, the industry spent $39 billion on research in the United States while NIH spent $31 billion. When the company is footing the bill, the opportunities for bias are manifold: Company executives seeking to promote their drugs can design research that makes their products look better. They can select like-minded academics to perform the work. And they can run the statistics in ways that make their own drugs look better than they are. If troubling signs about a drug arise, they can steer clear of further exploration.
Note: To read an excellent summary of a book written by a former editor in chief of the NEJM exposing major corruption by the pharmaceuticals which poses a great threat to public health, click here. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, click here.
Italy banned the sale and use of anti-influenza vaccines produced by Novartis ... pending tests for possible side effects, prompting authorities in Switzerland to also take precautionary steps. The Italian Health Ministry advised citizens not to buy or use the drugs Agrippal, Fluad, subunit Influpozzi and adjunvated Influpozzi until further notice. The move came after the Italian Pharmaceutical Agency decided further tests on the products may be necessary following indications of possible side effects. Switzerland's drug watchdog then also raised a precautionary red flag for flu vaccines Agrippal and Fluad. Preliminary investigations had shown Italy's ban came after the discovery of white particles in the injections, which could suggest some of the components of the vaccine had clumped together.
Note: Canada pulled these vaccines, as well, as you can read in this CBC article. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on dangers posed by the corrupt vaccines industry, click here.
When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall. The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder "made up" and "an excuse" to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children's true ill — poor academic performance in inadequate schools. "I don't have a whole lot of choice," said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. "We've decided as a society that it's too expensive to modify the kid's environment. So we have to modify the kid." Dr. Anderson is one of the more outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools starved of extra money — not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance. It is not yet clear whether Dr. Anderson is representative of a widening trend. But some experts note that as wealthy students abuse stimulants to raise already-good grades in colleges and high schools, the medications are being used on low-income elementary school children with faltering grades and parents eager to see them succeed.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.
Thinking about going through your medicine cabinet and throwing out all your expired prescriptions? That might not be necessary, according to a UCSF-led study. Researchers analyzed eight prescription drugs with 15 active ingredients that expired between 28 and 40 years ago and found that most remained just as potent as they were on the day they were made. In 12 of the 14 drug compounds, or 86 percent of the time, the amount of active ingredient present in the drugs was at least 90 percent of the amount indicated on the label. That's well within the "reasonable variation" allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of 90 percent to 110 percent. Only two compounds - aspirin and the stimulant amphetamine - fell below the 90 percent threshold. Another medication, the painkiller phenacetin, fell below the threshold in one sample but was found in levels greater than 90 percent in another. The study was published online last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Note: A drug listed expired as 40 years ago is still just as potent as the day it was made. Could short expiration dates be an example of drug companies finding a way to make more money through unnecessary disposal of older medications?
Mexico on [October 3] launched a massive program to vaccinate fifth-grade girls against human papillomavirus, making it one of the few nations in the world with a universal campaign against the sexually transmitted virus. One million schoolgirls ages 11 or 12 will receive the HPV vaccination this week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said. Another 200,000 girls who aren't in school also will be given the vaccine. Mexico becomes one of the few countries in the world to follow in the footsteps of Greece, which in 2007 made the HPV vaccination mandatory for girls entering seventh grade. All fifth-grade girls will be given an initial shot, then a second shot six months later. A third and final dose will be given to girls in ninth grade. Mexico began an obligatory vaccination program of schoolchildren and pregnant women in 1991, and currently [administers] 14 types of vaccines, Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski said. During weeklong periods three times a year, thousands of doctors and nurses spread across the country to schools and rural clinics to administer the free vaccinations.
Note: Once again the pharmaceutical companies are persuading governments to force the public to take their questionable vaccines. For an excellent report endorsed by dozens of respected doctors and nurses on the serious risks and dangers of vaccines, click here. Read about a key scientific study which showed that monkeys given standard human vaccines developed autism symptoms, at this link. For powerful evidence presented in major media articles that some vaccines are much more dangerous than the health industry will acknowledge, click here.
The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more than $11bn in the past three years for criminal wrongdoing, including withholding safety data and promoting drugs for use beyond their licensed conditions. In all, 26 companies, including eight of the 10 top players in the global industry, have been found to be acting dishonestly. The scale of the wrongdoing, revealed for the first time, has undermined public and professional trust in the industry and is holding back clinical progress, according to two papers published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Leading lawyers have warned that the multibillion-dollar fines are not enough to change the industry's behaviour. The 26 firms are under "corporate integrity agreements", which are imposed in the US when healthcare wrongdoing is detected, and place the companies on notice for good behaviour for up to five years. The largest fine of $3bn, imposed on the UK-based company GlaxoSmith-Kline in July after it admitted three counts of criminal behaviour in the US courts, was the largest ever. But GSK is not alone – nine other companies have had fines imposed, ranging from $420m on Novartis to $2.3bn on Pfizer since 2009, totalling over $11bn. Kevin Outterson, a lawyer at Boston University, says that despite the eye watering size of the fines they amount to a small proportion of the companies' total revenues and may be regarded as a "cost of doing business".
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.
Dr. Ben Goldacre is no slouch when it comes to rooting out the flaws in scientific studies, analyzing clinical trial data and recognizing when it's been manipulated or fudged. But even Goldacre has been fooled by bad science. In ... his forthcoming book, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, ... Goldacre describes how he ended up prescribing the antidepressant reboxetine to his patients based on insufficient data. The research overwhelmingly finds the drug to be ineffective, but it was still approved in the U.K. In order to get approval of the drug in Europe, the manufacturer had simply not published its negative data. Seven trials had been conducted comparing reboxetine against a placebo. Only one, conducted in 254 patients, had a neat, positive result, and that one was published in an academic journal, for doctors and researchers to read. But six more trials were conducted, in almost 10 times as many patients. All of them showed that reboxetine was no better than a dummy sugar pill. None of these trials was published. I had no idea they existed. It got worse. The trials comparing reboxetine against other drugs showed exactly the same picture: three small studies, 507 patients in total, showed that reboxetine was just as good as any other drug. They were all published. But 1,657 patients' worth of data was left unpublished, and this unpublished data showed that patients on reboxetine did worse than those on other drugs.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.
The doctors prescribing ... drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling. Negative data goes missing, for all treatments, in all areas of science. The regulators and professional bodies we would reasonably expect to stamp out such practices have failed us. Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer. When trials throw up results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug's true effects. This distorted evidence is then communicated and applied in a distorted fashion. In their 40 years of practice after leaving medical school, doctors hear about what works ad hoc, from sales reps, colleagues and journals. But those colleagues can be in the pay of drug companies – often undisclosed – and the journals are, too. And so are the patient groups. And finally, academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure. Sometimes whole academic journals are owned outright by one drug company.
Note: This is an edited extract from Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, by Ben Goldacre, published next week by Fourth Estate. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.
The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine [said] in a report. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are accusing each other of trying to slash Medicare and put seniors at risk. But the counter-intuitive finding from the report is that deep cuts are possible without rationing, and a leaner system may even produce better quality. More than 18 months in the making, the report identified six major areas of waste: unnecessary services ($210 billion annually); inefficient delivery of care ($130 billion); excess administrative costs ($190 billion); inflated prices ($105 billion); prevention failures ($55 billion), and fraud ($75 billion). Adjusting for some overlap among the categories, the panel settled on an estimate of $750 billion. The report makes ten recommendations, including payment reforms to reward quality results instead of reimbursing for each procedure, improving coordination among different kinds of service providers, leveraging technology to reinforce sound clinical decisions and educating patients to become more savvy consumers. The report's main message for government is to accelerate payment reforms, said panel chair Dr. Mark Smith, president of the California HealthCare Foundation, a research group. For employers, it's to move beyond cost shifts to workers and start demanding accountability from hospitals and major medical groups. For doctors, it means getting beyond the bubble of solo practice and collaborating with peers and other clinicians.
Note: The US spends far more on health care than most other developed countries which provide health care to all of their citizens. The US system is driven by profits. For more on this, click here.
I remember the moment my son's teacher told us, "Just a little medication could really turn things around for Will." We stared at her as if she were speaking Greek. "Are you talking about Ritalin?" my husband asked. Will was in third grade, and his school wanted him to settle down in order to focus on math worksheets and geography lessons and social studies. The children were expected to line up quietly and "transition" between classes without goofing around. Will did not bounce off walls. He wasn't particularly antsy. He didn't exhibit any behaviors I'd associated with attention deficit or hyperactivity. He was an 8-year-old boy with normal 8-year-old boy energy - at least that's what I'd deduced from scrutinizing his friends. "He doesn't have attention deficit," I said. "We're not going to medicate him." Once you start looking for a problem, someone's going to find one, and attention deficit has become the go-to diagnosis, increasing by an average of 5.5 percent a year between 2003 and 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of 2010, according to the National Health Interview Survey, 8.4 percent, or 5.2 million children, between the ages of 3 and 17 had been given diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. There's no clinical test for it: doctors make diagnoses based on subjective impressions from a series of interviews and questionnaires. I understand why the statistics are so high. In many cases, I discovered, diagnoses hinge on the teachers' [information].
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on corruption in the medical-pharmaceutical complex, click here.
The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a settlement in the largest health care fraud case in U.S. history. The ruling, which included accusations of false advertising, forced the once widely respected British drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline ... to pay a record-shattering $3 billion to various plaintiffs and the Department of Justice. Despite this $3 billion settlement, advertising fraud is on the rise in the United States. Expert public relations teams are called in to spin stories and confuse consumers. It is clear there is not enough being done to prevent, stop or resolve matters of false advertising in this country. The effect of the GlaxoSmithKline case has yet to be fully seen. If GlaxoSmithKline is [creative and deceptive] then we might see it roll out ads that skew the $3 billion loss in its favor - blatantly distorting the ruling as an endorsement of its products. At this point, even as regulators secure record-breaking settlements, the American people are losing, and the corporate spin teams are winning, the fight. Record settlements mean little if the deception continues. While winning lawsuits is a first step, what really matters is changing corporate behavior.
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on corporate corruption, click here.
These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a [longterm] basis. Nearly 7% are on two or more such drugs. Doctors and parents warn that prescribing medications to children can be problematic. There is limited research available about many drugs' effects in kids. And health-care providers and families need to be vigilant to assess the medicines' impact, both intended and not. Although the effects of some medications, like cholesterol-lowering statins, have been extensively researched in adults, the consequences of using such drugs for the bulk of a patient's lifespan are little understood. Many medications kids take on a regular basis are well known, including treatments for asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. But children and teens are also taking a wide variety of other medications once considered only to be for adults, from statins to diabetes pills and sleep drugs, according to figures provided to The Wall Street Journal by IMS Health, a research firm. Prescriptions for antihypertensives in people age 19 and younger could hit 5.5 million this year.
Note: For a powerful article by Dr. Mercola showing how the drug companies get away with killing literally tens of thousands of people, click here.
Why is a me-too drug for which there are much cheaper alternatives the second-best selling medicine in the United States? Today, IMS Health released its annual look at the sales of prescription drugs in America. It is the first year in which all of the top ten medicines in America are generics. This year, cancer drugs passed antipsychotic medicines as the top revenue generators. The biggest surprise ... is in the second-place spot: Nexium, ... from AstraZeneca, which generated $6.3 billion in sales. Abilify, from Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibb, passed Seroquel from Astra as the top-selling antipsychotic drug for disease like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Crestor, AstraZeneca's cholesterol drug, has delivered a pretty stunning 5-year sales increase of 190%, apparently grabbing patients for whom Lipitor, from Pfizer, is not powerful enough. Sales do not equal popularity. Only three of these drugs (Lipitor, Plavix, and Singulair) rank among the top 25 most popular medicines. Price is often as big a component in making money as volume.
Three years after withdrawing its pain medication Vioxx from the market, Merck has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle 27,000 lawsuits by people who claim they or their family members suffered injury or died after taking the drug. The settlement, one of the largest ever in civil litigation, comes after nearly 20 Vioxx civil trials over the last two years from New Jersey to California. After losing a $253 million verdict in the first case, Merck has won most of the rest of the cases that reached juries, giving plaintiffs little choice but to settle. Based on the fact that the 27,000 suits cover about 47,000 sets of plaintiffs, the average plaintiff will receive just over $100,000 before legal fees and expenses, which usually swallow between 30 and 50 percent of payments to plaintiffs. Plaintiffs who do not want to accept the settlement can pursue their own claims, but with so many of the top trial lawyers in the United States agreeing to the deal, they may have difficulty doing so. The settlement does not end the government investigations that Merck faces, which include both civil and criminal inquires from several states and the Justice Department. But for Merck, which has already spent more than $1.2 billion on Vioxx-related legal fees, the settlement will put to rest any fears that Vioxx lawsuits might bankrupt the company, or even have a significant financial impact.
Note: For lots more from reliable sources on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, click here.
A study in Finland has found that children vaccinated against the H1N1 swine flu virus with Pandemrix were more likely to develop the sleep disorder narcolepsy. The condition causes excessive daytime sleepiness and sufferers can fall asleep suddenly and unintentionally. The researchers found that between 2002 and 2009, before the swine flu pandemic struck, the rate of narcolepsy in children under the age of 17 was 0.31 per 100,000. In 2010 this was about 17 times higher at 5.3 per 100,000 while the narcolepsy rate remained the same in adults. Markku Partinen of the Helsinki Sleep Clinic and Hanna Nohynek of the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland, also collected vaccination and childhood narcolepsy data for children born between January 1991 and December 2005. They found that in those who were vaccinated the rate of narcolepsy was nine per 100,000 compared to 0.7 per 100,000 unvaccinated children, or 13 times lower. Pandemrix was the main vaccine used in Britain against the swine flu epidemic in which six million people were vaccinated. It was formulated specifically for the swine flu pandemic virus and is no longer in use.
Note: The WHO stated "more than 12 countries reported cases of narcolepsy in children and adolescents using GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu vaccine." For powerful media reports suggesting that both the Avian Flu and Swine Flu were incredibly manipulated to promote fear and boost pharmaceutical sales, click here. For many news articles showing that vaccines are not tested adequately for safety and are at times politically and financially motivated, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on pharmaceutical corruption, click here.
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Is there some way in the next version to load js and css only in single.php ? thanks
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I can see no reason why it would be necessary, so please elaborate.
All of the CSS uses classnames that are especially unique to the plugin and therefor *shouldn't* conflict with anything your theme has in it...
I mean, unless whoever made your theme uses class names such as "sexy-bookmarks" or "sexy-bg-hover" and so forth...
Also, please please please please please use the appropriate contact forms to report bugs or request features... I don't know how to stress it enough... I get over 100 support emails every day from the contact forms, which is certainly hard enough work (unpaid work mind you)... Then throw in the fact that I have to trapse all over the internet looking for comments of people wanting help, that makes my life even harder.
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- When Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 1 p.m.
- Where San Diego Botanic Garden, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, CA Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Lectures & Classes, Outdoors
- Cost Free - $12
Tom Woodham, senior editor of Veranda magazine gives an entertaining and informative look at objects in garden settings with emphasis on how and where, and speculation as to why, they were placed. Images of good examples will be dissected for quality of materials, appropriateness and adherence to the principles of good design. How one tends and populates one's garden reflects how one tends and populates one's mind.
Children's art activities will be offered by the California Center for the Arts, Escondido with the San Diego Botanic Garden.
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This week on the podcast I have a range of engineers to inspire us all and Chris Vallance joins us again bringing back evidence of his hunt for prizes!
Some think modern UK engineering hasn't had the profile it deserves, in an effort to remedy that the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been launched. It's a million pound award that it's hoped will achieve the same status as a Nobel Prize.
So, what are you waiting for? Get in to the game and set your standards high - it seems that there is lot you can go for when it comes to competitive engineering. Be sure and let us know when you win of course...
Well, the fantastically named Raspberry Pi is about to become available. A computer the size of a credit card and easy on your pocket, it could be just the think for folk who like to know what their machines can really do. Eben Upton is an engineer with Broadcom and a trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation and he told me all about it.
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WESTPORT — Joey & Maria's Comedy Italian Wedding comes to White's of Westport on Friday, Feb. 14.
Joey and Maria invite you to be a guest at an anything-but-traditional Italian wedding. You'll Dance. You'll sing. You'll eat. You'll laugh yourself silly with two of the craziest families this side of the East Coast.
For more information call the Chamber of Commerce at 508-676-8226.
White's is located at 66 State Road, Westport. Tickets are $45 per person, and include dinner and 2-hour comedy show. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.
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The Alabama gymnastics team remained at No. 7 in the country after the team's 197.125 to 196.1 victory over Arkansas in last Friday's Power of Pink meet.
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In the meet, Alabama posted a season-high 49.3 on balance beam.
After starting the season with its highest opening score in school history, a 197.15 versus Missouri, the Crimson Tide has scored 197-plus in two of its first three meets for the first time in the program's history.
On Friday, Alabama will travel to No. 3 LSU for its second road meet of the 2014 season.
The Crimson Tide enters the meet ranked No. 4 nationally in both vault and uneven parallel bars. It is also ranked No. 5 on beam and No. 12 on floor exercise.
Senior Diandra Milliner is ranked No. 1 nationally on floor exercise, despite not competing in the event since Alabama's first meet against Missouri. Milliner is also ranked No. 13 on vault.
Senior Kim Jacob is ranked No. 14 in the all-around.
Milliner did not compete in the Alabama's three-team gymnastics meet at two weekends ago at the Ozone Classic and was held to only competing on vault and beam in last Friday's Power of Pink meet.
"We wanted her to say there was no pain and no soreness," Alabama coach Sarah Patterson said.
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->''He knows where you sleep.''
This 2010 film serves as both a remake of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' and a reboot of the actual ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Elm Street]]'' franchise; Creator/RooneyMara stars as Nancy and Creator/JackieEarleHaley plays the nightmare himself, Freddy Krueger. The film generally remains close to the origin of Freddy and the overall events of the original film, though it does make some superficial changes to both.
While the film became a modest box office hit -- it earned more money than any other film in the ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' franchise, barring ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' -- but received a lukewarm reception from critics and overwhelmingly negative reactions from Freddy fans. Enough so that Platinum Dunes decided that they should simply leave the franchise here rather than follow it up with a sequel.
!! One, two, Freddy's coming for you...three, four, here's the tropes you're looking for...
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. [[spoiler:The parents aren't able to do too much to protect their kids from Freddy in the present, but we see in flashbacks that they were so determined to protect their children from his molesting them that they burned him alive.]]
* AdultFear: The parents of Springwood have two major fears here. Their children were molested by an employee at their preschool and the parents decided to take care of him themselves. Years later, their children are being stalked and murdered by the same man in their dreams.
* AndIMustScream: Freddy intends to trap Nancy in this scenario, by keeping her awake for so long that, when she finally did fall asleep, she wouldn't wake up.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod:
--> '''Jesse''': Oh, God!
--> '''Freddy''': No. Just me.
* BlatantLies: Freddy to a hapless victim:
-->'''Freddy''': ''*brandishing claws*'' You don't have nothing to worry about. [[YouWontFeelAThing This won't hurt one...little...bit.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture:
--> '''Freddy:''' "Did you know that after the heart stops beating, the brain keeps functioning for well over seven minutes? We got six more minutes to play..."
* CompositeCharacter: Nancy Holbrook appears to be a combination of Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.
* DeadpanSnarker: The remake Freddy enters this territory; he is much more physically subdued than the original, but his love for wordplays and puns remain more-or-less-unchanged.
* DecoyProtagonist: Kris (to those who haven't seen the original, anyway).
* DullSurprise: Mara's usual reaction to things.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Played straight when [[spoiler: you find out all the victims went to the same preschool that Freddy worked at in life]].
** Also justified. [[spoiler:Freddy only went after those particular kids ''because'' they went to school together.]]
* EyeScream: Happens twice: [[spoiler:first when Nancy stabs Freddy in the eye with scissors, and again at the end, when Freddy impales Nancy's mother through the head from behind and a blade comes out of her eye.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: One of the main characters spends an entire scene that is pretty pivotal to the plot dressed in a speedo.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: This happened to Nancy.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Freddy appears in the end, despite nobody is asleep. Or are they?]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Jesse suffers this fate quite gruesomely, and is still alive long enough, as Freddy puts it, "to play..."
* InsultBackfire: During the final showdown with Freddy:
--> '''Freddy:''' Hello little Nancy. Now that you've got me, what game do you want to play next?
--> '''Nancy:''' Fuck you!
--> '''Freddy:''' Oooh! Sounds like fun! But a little fast for me.
* IronicEcho: Freddy comments that there's nothing Nancy can do to stop him because they're in his world. When she pulls him out of the dream, she chops off his claw-gloved hand, stating "Hurts, doesn't it? Cause, you're in ''my'' world now [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!"]].
* MamaBear / PapaWolf: ''Never'' touch the children of Springwood or you'll end up like Freddy.
* {{Meganekko}}: Nancy's mother.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Freddy's motivation seems to stem from this, as evidenced by this quote.
--> '''Quentin:''' He's not after us because we lied. He's after us because we told the truth.
* NeverSayDie: Although it's obvious that Freddy molested the kids, they never directly use the word 'molest'.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer had several scenes that were noticeably absent from the film itself, which include additiona scares from Freddy due to micronaps.
* OhCrap: Quentin has one of these [[spoiler:when he falls asleep whilst he should be guarding Nancy.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Aside from arresting Jesse for the apparent murder of Kris, the police in the film barely do anything at all in looking into the recent string of murders. When the parents kill Freddy in the past, there isn't a rogue policeman even there to show there is an actual presence in the town.
* PrecisionFStrike:
-->'''Freddy:''' ''(to Quentin)'' [[WhyWontYouDie Why don't you just fucking die?]]
* PsychoticSmirk: The remade Freddy pulled this one and a GendoPose on the film poster.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Freddy plays this ''quite'' straight with Nancy. While [[spoiler:he abused the children sexually at school,]] he menaces Nancy nonstop with a perverted Yandere attitude that makes his antics in life seem tame. And when Quentin and Nancy develop feelings for each other, Freddy gets pretty jealous.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: Used as [[spoiler:while Jesse's technically flatlined after being killed by Freddy, Freddy informs him in his continuing dream that the brain can survive up to seven minutes after heart failure, and they've still got six minutes to play]]. The scene cuts back to reality, with only his offscreen screams implying what's happening next.
* ShoutOut:
** [[Film/PulpFiction Waking up an unconscious woman by jabbing an adrenaline-filled needle straight down between her breasts.]] Also, three of the characters are named "Nancy," "Jesse," and "Kris"...the protagonists in the first three original Nightmare movies.
** This time Freddy is a [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI groundskeeper]].
** Multiple moments from the climax are shout outs to ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' (Freddy saying "Who don't you die?" A female character saying "Welcome to/you're in my world bitch," [[spoiler: Freddy's claw arm getting chopped off]])
* SlashedThroat:
** Dean's death, shown in the real world as him cutting his own throat with a knife.
** [[spoiler:Freddy's supposed death in the real world near the end of the film, where Nancy cuts his throat with a blade]].
* SlasherSmile: Whenever Jackie Earl Haley smiles (no matter innocently) while in full Freddy make-up in the making-of featurettes, it's this.
* SoundtrackDissonance: The end credits roll over "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by the Everly Brothers.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Combined with an IronicEcho at the climax.
--> '''Nancy:''' Hurts, doesn't it? 'Cause you're in my world now, bitch!
* VillainousBreakdown: Freddy's not usually prone to losing his cool, but he briefly snaps into an almost childish tantrum. Clearly jealous over Quentin and Nancy's growing affection, he attacks Quentin by banging his head against the boiler room pipes over and over again while furiously screaming [[PunctuatedPounding "You! Can't! Save! Her!"]] He regains his composure after thinking he's gotten the upper hand again, and quickly reverts back to his calm hide-and-seek taunts, [[spoiler: which turns out to be a bad idea - Quentin survives the attack and ''does'' save her]].
* {{Yandere}}: Played straight by Freddy himself towards Nancy. While he intends to kill all the children for [[spoiler:telling their parents he molested them]], he saves Nancy for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil something worse]] because -- as Nancy's mother admitted -- she's ''his favorite one of all''.
->...nine, ten, never sleep again...


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People's Square
the Piazza Del Popular initially got it's name from the Poplar Plant which grows in the area in roman times but is now knowned as the People's Square. This place was once the once the Porta Flaminia of Rome and also gained notoriety in the middle ages as the place for public executions during the Papal States Period. At Present, this huge square is so popular for hordes of tourists as it can really be crowded with people at most times as the square houses many attractions such as The Egyptian Obelisk of Ramses II at the center of the Square, The twin churches (the chiese gemelle) of Santa Maria dei Miracoli (1681) and Santa Maria in Montesanto (1679), The Porta del Popolo gate, the Fontana del Nettuno, Fontana dell' Obelisco and the infamous Santa Maria del Popolo and one of it's side chapels, the Chigi Chapel (where the path of Illumination Started in the Angels and Demons Movie of 2009 by Tom Hanks). The plaza was designed in neoclassical style and was built in 1822.
Address: Piazza del Popolo, Roma, Italy
Directions: Piazza del Popolo, Roma, Italy
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People square
Piazza del Popolo (people square) is a large square at one of the sides of Via del Corso. It laids under the Pincio, one of the best spot where to have a great view of the city. At the center of the square there is one of the oldest Obelysks in Rome, it has been brought from Egypt during the 10th century BC.
In the square there are also three important churches: Santa Maria del Popolo, Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli. In particular Santa Maria del Popolo is interesting as inside there are two wonderful paintings of Caravaggio and elegant statues by Bernini.
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Piazza del Popolo
This square was designed in the beginning of the 19th century by the architect Giuseppe Valadier. In the centre of it there is an Egyptian obelisk of Ramesses II from Heliopolis surrounded by four small fountains. The via del Corso exits between the twin churches of Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli, both build in the 17th century. The Porta del Popolo, beyond which lies the Piazzale Flaminio, stands to the north. On each side of the square, east and west, stand fountains designed by Giovanni Ceccarini.
Gateway to the North
Through a portal in 3rd-century Aurelian Walls, many a traveler to ancient Rome would have arrived at this piazza as it was the celebrated entrance/exit of the Via Flaminia: the main route to the north. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was also the site of grisly public executions. Bernini's monumental Porta del Popolo is on the north side of the piazza and opens to Piazzale Flaminio and basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. In the center of the piazza is an Egyptian obelisk of Rameses II that Caesar Augustus brought to Rome and which originally stood in the Circus Maximus. To the south are the not-quite-identical churches of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto, both dating from the 17th century.
The piazza was overhauled in the early 1800's by Giuseppe Valadier, who cleared away some old structures to create a more open space. He also connected Pincian Hill, on the eastern end, to the piazza with a staircase and winding road up to terraced gardens and Piazzale Napoleon I's panoramic vistas of the city. If you're up to climbing the steps, this is a fun and scenic way to access Pincio Gardens, the piazzale and Villa Borghese.
Address: At the very northern end of Via del Corso
Directions: VILLA BORGHESE AREA: The piazza is just a few blocks east of the Tiber and on the western edge the enormous combined green spaces of Pincio Gardens and Villa Borghese in the northern part of the city.
Website: http://www.060608.it/en/cultura-e-svago/beni-culturali/beni-architettonici-e-storici/piazza-del-popolo.html
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Piazza del Popolo and Pincio Gardens
Although there might be bigger squares in the city, I believe Piazza del Popolo is the largest we got to see, or at least the most impressive. The "people's square" dates back to the end of the 16th century, when Pope Sixtus V decided to move the 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that used to stand in the Circus Maximus to this area located just south of the Aurelian Wall. He also commissioned the construction of two twin churches, Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto, at the meeting point of Via del Babuino, Via del Corso and Via di Ripetta. Those three streets branching out from Piazza del Popolo are referred to as the "trident". Until 1826, gruesome public executions were held in the square.
Before the invention of railroads and airplanes, travelers got their very first look at the city when they reached the piazza via the Porta del Popolo. For this reason, in the early 19th century, an architect was hired to beautify the piazza. Giuseppe Valadier's major improvements were to give the piazza its oval shape and add three fountains: a group of four lion fountains around the obelisk at the center of the piazza, Neptune's fountain on the west side of the piazza, and a fountain representing Rome standing between the Tiber and Aniene rivers was erected on the east side. This fountain stands below the Pincio gardens, which Valadier also designed. His design included a stairway to connect the piazza with the gardens, and several terraces that offer beautiful views of the piazza down below. The gardens' broad alleys lead to the Villa Borghese and are graced with several trees and statues, an Egyptian-style obelisk dating back to the 2nd century AD, and a water clock that was presented at the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition.
As a side note, one of my favourite memories of my trip to Rome is when we got to sit on the steps of the Fontana dell' Obelisco in the middle of Piazza del Popolo and listen to a busker rock out on his electric guitar (you can watch my little video). He might not have been the best player I've ever heard, but his energy was contagious and listening to Metallica's "Master of Puppets" next to the Aurelian Wall felt a bit surreal, to say the least!
Directions: Metro Flaminio
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Piazza del Popolo
In ancient Rome (and in the comparatively not too distant past before automobiles, trains, and planes), visitors to the city typically entered from the north, through the northern gate called Porta Flaminia after traveling down the Via Flaminia. Today visitors most likely see this gate by walking from within the city, having already arrived by some form of modern transportation.
Next to the Porta del Popolo (which is the new name for the Porta Flaminia) is the wide open pedestrian area called the Piazza del Popolo, which means "People's Square" but historically refers to the poplar trees that grew in the area and influenced the name of the famous church on the piazza – Santa Maria del Popolo.
In the very center of this oval shaped piazza is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the tallest in Rome at nearly 79 feet high, that dates back to pharaoh Seti I and Ramses II (1400-1300 BC). Its inscriptions extol the glory of the two pharoahs. Augustus brought the obelisk to Rome in 10 BC after the conquest of Egypt; it was originally set up in the Circus Maximus until it was moved to the Piazza del Popolo in 1589 by the same architect that moved another obelisk to St. Peter's Square under the direction of Pope Sixtus V. The base of the obelisk has fountains with Egyptian looking lions carved in stone.
The piazza forms the joint of the Tridente – a three-street juncture that, when looking at an aerial view would appear to be a trident with the Via Flaminia being the handle and three main roads in Rome (Via del Corso, Via del Babuino, and Via di Ripetta) branching off from the piazza.
The Porta del Popolo was renovated in 1655 by Bernini in preparation for Queen Christina of Sweden's triumphal entry in Rome – dressed as an Amazon on horseback – after she converted to Roman Catholicism and abdicated the throne; she lived in Rome, founded an academy for literature and political science and is buried below St. Peter's with many other famous people and popes.
Next to the Porta del Popolo is the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, most famous today for its art, specifically two fantastic Caravaggios, Crucifixion of St. Peter and Conversion of St. Paul. On the opposite end of the piazza are two Baroque churches from the 1600s that would appear to be identical, although they are not symmetrical: Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto. The facades of these two churches were designed by Carlos Rinaldi and redone by Bernini and Carlo Fontana.
On the east end of the piazza is a green area called the Pinco park that serves as a connection to the Villa Borghese gardens and Villa Medici. These terraced gardens used to be part of the Augustinian monastery that was part of the church of Santa Maris del Popolo and has a waterfall and pedestrian steps. The road, which switchbacks up the hill, has a huge fountain and is lined with statues of Dacian prisoners.
The Piazza del Popolo is a short walk from the Spanish steps and worth a visit on your walking tour of Rome.
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Piazza del Popolo
This is a large, open, almost empty square, redesigned in 1816, and contains one of Rome's many obelisks, this one of Ramese II. It's a pleasant place, and seems less popular (no pun intended!) than many of the other squares; it wasn't crowded at all.
The paving of the square was allegedly paid for by taxes levied on prostitution, and the piazza was once a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826. There are three fine churches around the square, and fountains around the base of the obelisk as well as to the east and west of the square. There is also the Porta del Popolo, the northern gate of the Aurelian Walls, once the Porta Flaminia of Ancient Rome. It was reconstructed to it's current appearance by Pope Alexander VII in 1655.
Just around the corner are the gates to the Villa Borghese (2nd photo).
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Piazza de Popolo
First laid out in 1538 this Piazza features a Obelisk brought to Rome by the Emperor Augustus and is flanked by the twins churches Chiesa de Santa Maria Del Miracoli and Chiesa de Santa Maria in Montesanto.
Directions: Metor A Line Flamingo, Head due south.
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This was right by my hotel, so i got a chance to see this when i was brand new in Rome.
This was once the terminus of the road from Rome north, the Via Flaminia. For a long time this was the first place a visitor would see in Rome. It is a very large and attractive square.
At its center is the Egyptian obelisk of Seti. This was taken from the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis and brought to Rome in 10 BC. The obelisk is 24 meters tall and is one of the oldest and tallest in Rome. Originally it was installed in the circus maximus to commemorate the conquest of Egypt. It was moved to its present location in the 16h century.
In my photo you will see the door behind the obelisk is the Porta del Popolo. This is actually farther away, but it was the terminus of the Via Flaminia, the road north.
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This lovely square has twin churches and a fountain which is popular with people having their photos taken while sitting on its stone lions. I thought it was very pretty. It is very close to the Borghese Gardens. Get here by taking metro line A to Flamini Station. Enter the square through an arched gate. There is another church to your left as you enter.
This was the only place in Rome we encountered rose sellers but they were not too sticky and seemed to understand the word no.
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16-Ancient Entrance to Rome- Piazza del Popolo
At one point of time, all roads may have lead to Rome but the one place all ancient visitors coming from the north reached before branching out to different parts of Rome, was the Piazza del Popolo. They entered this square, situated at the end of Via Flamania through the Porta del Popolo, Rome's northernmost gate in the Aurelian wall, adjacent to the Santa Maria del Popolo Church. The Via Flaminia, built in 220 BC, connected Rome with the Adriatic coast and was, therefore, an important road linking Rome to the rest of the world.
The name of the square itself comes either from the Italian word for 'hamlet' or from the populus tree growing in that area. Today, this place allows you six, if not more, 'must-see' tourist attractions, viz., the square itself with its obelisk and fountains; three churches; Pincian Hills; panoramic and sunset views of the Basilica of St. Peter's, the Victor Emmanuel Monument as well as of entire Rome. Two other sights, rather close by, are the Villa Borghese and the Villa Medici.
Straight ahead is the broad Via del Corso (Road of the Course) leading directly to the Roman Forum. In days of yore, horse races used to take place along this route with Piazza Venezia being the finishing line. By its side, the Via del Babunio takes you to the Spanish Steps. The third road, the Via di Ripetta links this square to the Vatican. These three roads make up the 'Trident of Rome'. The Santa Maria in Montesanto (12-sided dome) and the Santa Maria Miracoli (octagonal dome) churches sit on either side of the Via del Corso. From one corner of the Piazza, a flight of windy stairs takes you to Piazza Napoleone and beyond to the leafy Pincian Hills.
At the centre of the piazza, drawing full attention to itself, stands an ancient 1300 BC obelisk which earlier stood in Circus Maximus, over 3 kms away. It was Emperor Octavian Augustus who transported this 80 ft. (24 m) tall granite obelisk to Rome from the Sun Temple in Heliopolis, an ancient city of Egypt, near the Nile to mark the conquest of Egypt. It was brought to its present site on March 5, 1589 on the orders of Pope Sixtus V and placed beside an octagonal fountain. At the top of the obelisk is a bronze Italian cross atop three hills and a star - all heraldic symbols of the family to which Pope Sixtus V belonged.
In 1823, Giuseppe Valadier, the foremost architect of that time, was commissioned to reconstruct the square. He removed the old fountain made by Giacomo Della Porta, added a platform to the obelisk, raising its height to a grand 110 ft (34 m) and constructed a square fountain with four lions sprouting water from its mouth on each of the four sides. The lions were an obvious reference to the family coat of arms of Pope Sixtus V who had commissioned the project two centuries ago. The eastern and western boundaries of the piazza were marked off with a curved wall and a fountain each. The square itself is a pedestrain-free area covered with black cobble stones.
Behind and to the top of this square is the steep Pincian Hill, earlier dotted with luxurious houses belonging to the wealthy and powerful families of Rome. Not surprisingly, the hill was named after one of these families, the Pincii, owners of one of the largest estates. Each of these families kept large gardens ('horti'), eventually giving the place another name, 'the Hill of Gardens'. 'Casina Valadier', now a historic cafe, was the house meant for the great architect. Unfortunately, he passed away before he could move into his new mansion. The busts of many famous men in Italian history dot the landscape here. The one of Angelo Secchi, a former director of the Astronomy Observatory, is placed exactly at the point where the Rome Meridian crosses.
First Written: Nov. 11, 2012
Address: End of Via Flamania through the Porta del Popol
Website: http://www.panoramicearth.com/490/Rome/Piazza_del_Popolo
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Grand scale - but area seems a bit seedy
I walked down to the Piazza del Popolo after spending much of the day up the hill at the Borghese Gardens. It is true to say that the scale of the piazza is grand by anyones standard.
There are some interesting architectural features such as the Porta del Popolo which is one of the old gates into Rome (medieval) and the twin churches either side of Via Del Corso - Santa Maria del Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto.
The squares main church is Santa Maria del Popolo and I was surprised at how tucked away in a corner it seems. Sadly it was closed when we got there and so we couldn't go inside (it closes between 12 noon and 4pm).
The disappointing aspect of the piazza is however how seedy the area feels. There are numerous cafes nearby, in particular at the entrances to teh streets leading off the piazza but all have a tacky, touristy and/or dubious look about them in my opinion and I wasn't at all tempted to linger.
Directions: At The northern end of Via del Corso. Metro station Flamino is on the opposite side of Piazzale Flamino from the Porta del Popolo.
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Piazza of Beauty and Harmony
I adore urban planning which unites streets, buildings, monuments and piazzas into one harmonious whole. Piazza del Popolo is the perfect example in Rome.
Originally (1538) this was the grand entrance to the city of Rome from the north, through the Porta del Popolo gate in the wall. Entering through this gate you see a piazza in the shape of a perfect circle, a 36 meter high Egyptian obelisk in the center, and twin Baroque churches at the far end, standing guard at the starting point of Via del Corso: Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto.
The road leading west from the piazza, V. F. di Savoia, leads directly to the bridge of Regina Margherita on the Tiber, and then on the west bank of the river it changes to Via Cola di Renzio leading to the Piazza di Risorgimento and the walls of the Vatican.
Undoubtedly, the best spot to see this whole Roman vista is the Pincio Hill garden, on the border of the Villa Borghese gardens: This view is certainly worth the climb!
Directions: Metro: Flaminio (Line A)
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_del_Popolo
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piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo is People's square (popolo is people in Italian) but according to my guide book its name comes from poplars, the flower plant.
The square is very big and its one of the places that people gather for major events like New Years Eve, football celebrations etc 2 centuries before it was a place for public executions too but that cant be seen anymore (don't bother to look for them in Colosseum, nothing there too).
You can see the Porta del Popolo(pic 1) which was the Porta Flaminia in ancient Rome when the square was just inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls that surrounded the city. The walls were demolished many centuries before but the square is enclosed by semicircular walls that date from the beginning of 19th century.
The morning we visited there was a small festival about babies (pic 2). I think the square is ugly but it looked much better during the night(pic 3).
In the center of the square you can see the obelisco Flaminio(Popolo Obelisk )(pic 4), a tall Egyptian obelisk that was erected by Rameses II from Heliopolis although 3 sides of it are carved by Sety I and only one by Ramesses. It was brought to Rome in 10BC but originally it was set up in the Circus Maximus until 1589 when it moved here.
At the bottom of the obelisk is the Fontana dell'Obelisco, where you can have your photo over the lions like every tourist does :) The four small fountains are 4 lions over different stepped plinths at the four corners of the obelisk.
Another fountain on the square is Fontana del Nettuno (pic 5), where you can see Neptune and 2 dolphins.
Directions: Metro stop:Flaminio
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Piazza del Popolo
The People's Square as commonly known in the english world has taken its name from the church of Santa Maria Del Popolo which is also in the plaza.
The plaza is in fact a popular execution until the year 1826. It's now a popular square where people congregate or just sit around the egyptian obelisk - of Ramses II of Heliopolis (Egypt) - and wait for the sunset.
The street Via Ripetta which is one of a branch street of the plaza is a popular pedestrian shopping street, and there are a lot of outdoor cafe and restos here.
The plaza could get very busy with a lot of people and there are first-aide medics on bicycles standing by with an ambulance on the side near the church.
It's also romantic in late afternoon with a musician (sax or violinist) right next to the obelisk playing music that could be heard in the whole plaza. And what would best compliment the romantic atmosphere than people selling roses around here, plenty of them.
Directions: Coordinates: 41°54′38″N 12°28′35″E
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Samuel Curtin and Kathryn Orr Harriger surrounded by their children in 1904.
Left to right, Elsie, Russell, and infant Glenn who was born in 1904.
Two children were born later, Frances and Rayburn. Rayburn died when he was about 10 years old.
Kathryn Orr Harriger died when the children were rather young and Samuel later married Lucy Southwell.
The family resided in Monroe Township, Clarion Co.
Submitted by Clayton D. Harriger, grandson of Samuel Curtin and Kathryn Orr Harriger and son of Helen and Russell Harriger
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