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Meeting with a banker (as Mayor of Barcelona)
Everyone is aware of my background as a housing rights activist, and of my criticisms of the behaviour of the financial sector. On April 6, I published a post on this very blog called "to dine (or not to dine) with a banker." Well, I still haven't dined with any bankers, but last Friday I had my first formal meeting with the president of a major national bank: the President of CaixaBank, Isidro Fainé.
On May 24 the Barcelona In Comú candidacy won the elections and, on June 13, I was officially sworn in as mayor of my city. I'm immensely proud to be the first woman mayor of Barcelona, and I'm also aware that it's an enormous responsibility!
It's been two weeks since I took office and we've had a lot to do in a very short period of time: find our way around the giant town hall building, get to know its staff, appoint essential personnel to keep it running, implement the first measures of our Emergency Plan, communicate what we're doing to the people and the media, negotiate with the opposition (over advisors, salaries, commissions, committee presidencies ...), react to constant, biased leaks, deal with hundreds of requests for meetings, go to local neighbourhood festivals ... All this with a government of only 11 councillors or, rather, 10 councillors and a mayor. And with the pressure of knowing we're being watched by half the world and being held to higher standards than previous governments. The whole nine yards!
But despite the exhaustion and the nerves, I'm not complaining. We're here because we wanted to be, and because thousands of people have stepped up to the plate with us. Every day, in the street and at public events, hundreds of people give me encouragement and wish us luck. Many tell me they are well-aware that this will not be easy, that many things can not be done straight away. But they say that the key is to keep relying on the people that got us here in the first place, by explaining each step, listening to all opinions, and consulting the biggest decisions. And we must recognize that we're not doing as well as we would like. We haven't had the time to explain many of the things we've done or the things that have happened to us over just a few days. Personally, I have resorted to Facebook to explain some of my feelings because communicating informally is better than not communicating at all. But believe me when I say that we can't wait to settle in to the town hall and to begin to systematize the flow of information.
We've had to explain much of our experience as and when we've been able to. However, there is one thing which, in my case, could not wait. Everyone is aware of my background as a housing rights activist, and of my criticisms of the behaviour of the financial sector. On April 6, I published a post on this very blog called "to dine (or not to dine) with a banker." Well, I still haven't had dinner with any bankers, but last Friday I had my first formal meeting with the president of a major national bank: the President of CaixaBank, Isidro Fainé.
Maybe it's because I went to this meeting as Mayor of Barcelona. Or because the city council has accounts and various contracts with La Caixa. Either way, the fact is that the words that best sum up the meeting are "completely friendly" or even "totally cooperative". Isidro Fainé was accompanied by Jaume Giro, Head of the Obra Social (social responsibility wing) of CaixaBank. I went with Gerardo Pisarello, the Deputy Mayor responsible for the economy. We had coffee and water in the main office of mayor (the one which has works by Miró and Tàpies hung from its walls). Perhaps most disconcerting of all was when, just before starting the conversation, Mr. Fainé asked Gerardo: "Do you speak Catalan?".
Given that we're all polite and sensible people, most of the meeting was predictable: Isidro Fainé, who led the conversation, explained his humble origins (he took evening classes while working as an electrician and taught his parents to read and write), his commitment to the unique role of the Obra Social of La Caixa, and his willingness to cooperate fully on social issues. For my part, I explained that I know that, at least in Barcelona, CaixaBank is one of the institutions with the most foreclosures, but that when organizations like the PAH suggest negotiations in cases of the habitual residence of vulnerable families, it is also the institution that offers the most options of payment in kind and affordable rents. But our mission is to guarantee housing rights, and we must do everything possible to ensure that foreclosure processes aren't even started, let alone evictions carried out. We discussed revising protocols in this regard and Mr. Fainé promised to send his Vice President to the next session of the Eviction Prevention Committee next Tuesday.
My main goal was to transmit to CaixaBank that, aside from preventing evictions, Barcelona has an urgent need for social housing stock with affordable rents comparable to other European cities. Isidro Fainé explained many of La Caixa's social housing developments, certainly much more numerous than those of other banks, but Barcelona can not afford to be at the mercy of charity work from private banks. A guarantor institution must treat every resident in need of emergency housing equally, and in our city there are at least 30 thousand families on the waiting list for affordable social housing. Our duty is to expand the social housing stock, and to do this we need everyone, banks, real estate agents, private landlords – to cooperate. Leaving housing policy in the hands of the market has been an obvious failure. Now it's time for everyone to play their part: banks must manage savings and provide credit responsibly, while public administrations must draw up regulations and policies that guarantee rights. That's why the social housing stock should be a matter for the city council rather than financial institutions, in the spirit of cooperation with all parties, of course.
The biggest substantive disagreement (also predictable): Mr. Fainé disagrees with regulating payment in kind as proposed by the PAH and supported by the vast majority of the population and the Catalan Parliament. He believes that solutions should be offered on a case by case basis, but we already know that this strategy has led to the unacceptable suffering to thousands of families. However, he was willing to continue the discussion.
At the end of the meeting, Mr. Fainé gave me his personal mobile number "for whatever", which I responded to by giving him my own. He also gave me one last recommendation: to read "The Revolution of Tenderness and Love" by Pope Francis. Now its about beginning the real collaboration between teams of CaixaBank and the city council, so that each contributes to the common good of the city as a whole, within the non-negotiable framework of human rights and democracy.
This meeting is part of a series of meetings with major financial institutions operating in Barcelona. Bankia will be on Monday and Anticipa-Blackstone on Wednesday. We'll keep you in the loop.


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Oceanologia No. 57 (2) / 15
Original research article
Barycenter reflected equatorial Pacific sea level structure evolution and its indication of ENSO events:
Wen Luo, Lin Yi, Zhaoyuan Yu, Hui Sun, Linwang Yuan
Modelling the water and heat balances of the Mediterranean Sea using a two-basin model and available meteorological, hydrological, and ocean data:
Mohamed Shaltout, Anders Omstedt
Variability of currents over the southern slope of the Gulf of Finland:
Irina Suhhova, Juss Pavelson, Priidik Lagemaa
Morpholithodynamical changes of the beach and the nearshore zone under the impact of submerged breakwaters – a case study (Orłowo Cliff, the Southern Baltic):
Agnieszka Kubowicz-Grajewska
Spectrophotometric studies of marine surfactants in the southern Baltic Sea:
Violetta Drozdowska, Marek Józefowicz
DOC and POC in the southern Baltic Sea. Part II – Evaluation of factors affecting organic matter concentrations using multivariate statistical methods:
Anna Maciejewska, Janusz Pempkowiak
Water type quantification in the Skagerrak, the Kattegat and off the Jutland west coast:
Trond Kristiansen, Eyvind Aas
Comparison of PCBs and PAHs levels in European coastal waters using mussels from the
Mytilus edulis
complex as biomonitors: Production and mortality rates:
Michał Olenycz, Adam Sokołowski, Agnieszka Niewińska, Maciej Wołowicz, Jacek Namieśnik, Herman Hummel, Jeroen Jansen
Deep water masses in the Iceland Basin during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e): Evidence from benthic foraminiferal data:
Nadezhda P. Lukashina, Leyla D. Bashirova
Original research article
Barycenter reflected equatorial Pacific sea level structure evolution and its indication of ENSO events
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 107-115
Wen Luo
Lin Yi
Hui Sun
Linwang Yuan
Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University,
Nanjing, PR China
Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application,
Nanjing, PR China;
corresponding author
Geography Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, United States
Sea level changes; ENSO; Equatorial Pacific; Satellite altimetry; Principal tensor analysis; Barycenter method
Received 18 October 2014, accepted 23 January 2015. Available online 18 February 2015
This work was supported by the NSCF Project (Grant Nos. 41201377 and 41471319) and the PAPD program.
Focused on the zonal and meridional response of sea level change to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, this paper retrieves the overall average, positive anomaly and negative anomaly sea surface height (SSH) series of equatorial Pacific area (EPA) from satellite altimetry data from 1993 to 2013. The barycenter method is then applied to each of the three series to get the zonal and meridional barycenter coordinates. The barycenter coordinates are then compared with the Multivariate ENSO index (MEI) to reveal the zonal and meridional response of sea level change to ENSO. The meridional and zonal spatio-temporal evolutionary processes of sea level change in EPA during different ENSO events are reconstructed by the Principle Tensor Analysis of Rank 3 Method (PTA3). Comparative analysis shows that the meridional change of positive anomalies barycenter, rather than the mean series of sea level height anomaly in EPA, can well characterize the intensity and evolutionary process of ENSO events. Meanwhile, the zonal migration of barycenter may reflect the lag adjustment of the sea level to the ENSO signal. The analysis on the meridional and zonal evolution of the sea level change in different ENSO periods shows that the response of sea level change to the ENSO events can be mainly characterized by the position differences between positive and negative sea level anomaly barycenter, SSH gradient in the meridional direction and the inconsistency in the overall spatial structure and temporal evolution characteristics in the zonal direction.
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Modelling the water and heat balances of the Mediterranean Sea using a two-basin model and available meteorological, hydrological, and ocean data
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 116-131
Mohamed Shaltout
, Anders Omstedt
Department of Oceanography, University of Alexandria, Faculty of Science,
Alexandria, Egypt;
corresponding author
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg,
Goteborg, Sweden
Mediterranean Sea; Water budget; Heat budget; Gibraltar Strait; Sicily Channel; Climate change
Received 27 October 2014, accepted 6 November 2014. Available online November 2014
This research was undertaken when Dr. Mohamed Shaltout was a visiting scientist at the Ocean Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The work is a contribution to the GEWEX/BALTEX phase II and the newly formed programme "Baltic Earth-Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea region" and the HyMex program.
This paper presents a two-basin model of the water and heat balances of the Western and Eastern Mediterranean sub-basins (WMB and EMB, respectively) over the 1958–2010 period using available meteorological and hydrological data. The results indicate that the simulated temperature and salinity in both studied Mediterranean sub-basins closely follow the reanalysed data. In addition, simulated surface water in the EMB had a higher mean temperature (by approximately 1.6°C) and was more saline (by approximately 0.87 g kg
) than in the WMB over the studied period. The net evaporation over the EMB (1.52 mm day
) was approximately 1.7 times greater than over the WMB (0.88 mm day
). The water balance of the Mediterranean Sea was controlled by net inflow through the Gibraltar Strait and Sicily Channel, the net evaporation rate and freshwater input. The heat balance simulations indicated that the heat loss from the water body was nearly balanced by the solar radiation to the water body, resulting in a net export (import) of approximately 13 (11) W m
of heat from the WMB (to the EMB).
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Variability of currents over the southern slope of the Gulf of Finland
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 132-143
Irina Suhhova
, Juss Pavelson
Priidik Lagemaa
Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology,
Tallinn, Estonia;
corresponding author
Slope current; Stratification; Up-/downwelling; The Gulf of Finland
Received 27 November 2014, accepted 19 January 2015. Avaiable online 29 January 2015
This study was supported by the Estonian Science Foundation Grant 9381 and institutional research funding IUT19-6 of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.
In our intraseasonal variability studies of currents in the coastal sea of the Gulf of Finland northeast of Pakri Peninsula, we compared the observation data from a bottom-mounted ADCP (March–June of 2009, 50 m depth) with the simulation data from High Resolution Operational Model of the Baltic (HIROMB). The structure of the current pattern appeared strongly dependent on the stratification conditions. The flow was quasi-barotropic during the periods of weak inverse thermal stratification at the end of winter season and at transition from the inverse thermal stratification to summer type stratification when the sea was thermally unstratified, but mostly two-layered (baroclinic) when the summer type thermal stratification had developed. The alternation of strong westward (eastward) currents (up to 30 cm s
) in the upper layer is explained in terms of coastal upwelling (downwelling) due to favourable background winds. The measured and the modelled upper layers along isobath currents showed a noticeable correlation with the correlation coefficient of 0.52 and 0.82 during the periods of winter type and summer type stratifications, respectively, and the absence of a significant correlation during the transition period. The eastward (upwind) current episodes with speeds reaching 18 cm s
below the seasonal thermocline are likely to reflect the specific circulation response in the elongated basin caused by the easterly wind. The long-term mean (over 3.5 months) current vector (−2.0 cm s
, −2.9 cm s
) was westward in the upper sea and eastward, nearly along isobaths (1.1 cm s
, −0.3 cm s
) in the deeper layers.
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Morpholithodynamical changes of the beach and the nearshore zone under the impact of submerged breakwaters – a case study (Orłowo Cliff, the Southern Baltic)
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 144-158
Agnieszka Kubowicz-Grajewska
Department of Marine Geology, Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk,
Gdynia, Poland;
Submerged breakwaters (SBWs); Morpholithodynamics; Orłowo Cliff
Received 31 August 2014, accepted 27 January 2015. Available online 9 February 2015
The reported study was supported by RFBR, research project no. 12-05-00240 a.The results presented in this paper come from the doctoral thesis: "The influence of submerged breakwaters in the region of Orłowo Cliff on morpholithodynamics of the coastal zone".
Submerged breakwaters (SBWs) were used for the first time on the Polish coast in 2006, in the western coast of Gdańsk Bay, in the area of Orłowo Cliff. They were built to prevent the abrasion and inundation of areas situated in the hinterland, especially in the conditions of storm surges. The main objective of the study was to determine their effect on the morphology and grain size composition in the seashore and nearshore zone.
Based on the conducted research and analysis, it has been found that the construction has a minor impact on the modification of the shore and nearshore zone morpholithodynamics, which is evidenced by a sinuate shape of the shoreline and a relatively stable cape in the central part of the area, present both before (1966–2005) and after SBWs were built. Furthermore, the progressive abrasion, the lack of significant changes in the morphology and particle size distribution of the beach and the nearshore zone, as well as the fact that those changes are limited only to the immediate surroundings of the submerged breakwaters prove their neutral impact.
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Spectrophotometric studies of marine surfactants in the southern Baltic Sea
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 159-167
Violetta Drozdowska
Marek Józefowicz
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Sopot, Poland;
corresponding author
Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Gdańsk,
Gdańsk, Poland
Marine surfactant; Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM); Fluorophoric dissolved organic matter (FDOM); Photometry; Fluorometry; Baltic Sea
Received 25 September 2014, accepted 30 December 2014. Available online 9 February 2015
Support for this study was partly provided by the project 'Satellite Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Environment – SatBałtyk' funded by European Union through European Regional Development Fund contract no. POIG 01.01.02-22-011/09.
It is well known that surfactants in the southern Baltic Sea constitute the organic matter from riverine waters discharges as well as the secondary degradation products of marine phytoplankton excretion. They reach the surface microlayer by the upwellings and turbulent motions of water and in the membranes of the vesicles as well as from the atmosphere. To assess concentration and spatial distribution of marine surfactants in the southern Baltic Sea, the steady-state spectrophotometric and spectrofluorometric measurements of water samples taken from a surface film and a depth of 0.5 m were carried out. Water samples were collected during windless days of the cruise of r/v 'Oceania' in November 2012, from the open and the coastal waters having regard to the vicinity of the Vistula and Łeba mouths. In the present paper, fractions of dissolved organic matter having chromophores (CDOM) or fluorophores (FDOM) are recognized through their specific spectroscopic behavior, i.e., steady-state absorption, fluorescence excitation and fluorescence spectra. The steady-state spectroscopic measurements revealed the CDOM and FDOM molecules characteristic to both the land and marine origin. Moreover, the concentration and spatial distribution of marine surfactants significantly depend on the distance from the river mouth. Finally, higher values of absorbance and fluorescence intensity observed in a surface film in comparison to these values in a depth of 0.5 m clearly suggest the higher concentration of organic matter in a marine film. On the other hand, our results revealed that a surface microlayer is composed of the same CDOM and FDOM as bulk water.
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DOC and POC in the southern Baltic Sea. Part II – Evaluation of factors affecting organic matter concentrations using multivariate statistical methods
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 168-176
Anna Maciejewska
Janusz Pempkowiak
Marine Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Sopot, Poland;
corresponding author
Southern Baltic; Organic carbon sources; Quantitative contribution; Biological activity; Abiotic factors; Cluster analysis (CA); Principal component analysis (PCA); Segment analysis
Received 30 June 2014, accepted 17 November 2014. Available online 8 December 2014
This study was supported by the Baltic-C a BONUS Plus EUFP6 Project, statutory activities of Institute of Oceanology PAN, Sopot, and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Grant No. N N306 404338.
This study is a continuation of the research on organic matter sources, distribution and dynamics in the southern Baltic Sea described in detail by Maciejewska and Pempkowiak (2014).
In this paper, cluster analysis, principal component analysis and segment analysis were used to assess relations among factors influencing organic matter concentration in the Baltic sea-water. The following sea-water properties, salinity (Sal), temperature (Temp), pH, concentrations of chlorophyll a (Chla) and phaeopigment a (Feo), were assessed, while dissolved (DOC) and particulate (POC) organic carbon were used as organic matter measures. Water samples were collected in the course of a three-year study (2009–2011) from the Gdańsk Deep, the Gotland Deep and the Bornholm Deep (Southern Baltic).
As a result, relations among both DOC and POC and the measured water properties were revealed. The cluster analysis leads to the discovery of the following structure of the analyzed water properties: DOC-pH, POC-Chla, without providing interpretation why the structure exists. Using the principal component analysis, factors influencing DOC and POC concentrations were classified as plankton activity and the inflows of saline and freshwater water masses as the study area. Segment regression analysis revealed that organic matter consists of labile and stable fractions and led to the quantification of relations between DOC and the measured sea-water properties. The following contributions to the DOC fluctuations were calculated: salinity – 11%, chlorophyll a – 26%, phaeopigment a – 26%, POC – 38% in the growing season and 31%, 33%, 21% and 22% respectively in the non-growing season.
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Water type quantification in the Skagerrak, the Kattegat and off the Jutland west coast
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 177-195
Trond Kristiansen
Eyvind Aas
Institute of Marine Research,
Bergen, Norway,
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo,
Oslo, Norway;
corresponding author
German Bight; Kattegat; Skagerrak; Water types; CDOM
Received 1 September 2014, accepted 17 November 2014. Available online 6 December 2014
An extensive data series of salinity, nutrients and coloured dissolved organic material (CDOM) was collected in the Skagerrak, the northern part of the Kattegat and off the Jutland west coast in April each year during the period 1996–2000, by the Institute of Marine Research in Norway. In this month, after the spring bloom, German Bight Water differs from its surrounding waters by a higher nitrate content and higher nitrate/phosphate and nitrate/silicate ratios. The spreading of this water type into the Skagerrak is of special interest with regard to toxic algal blooms. The quantification of the spatial distributions of the different water types required the development of a new algorithm for the area containing the Norwegian Coastal Current, while an earlier Danish algorithm was applied for the rest of the area. From the upper 50 m a total of 2227 observations of salinity and CDOM content have been used to calculate the mean concentration of water from the German Bight, the North Sea (Atlantic water), the Baltic Sea and Norwegian rivers. The Atlantic Water was the dominant water type, with a mean concentration of 79%, German Bight Water constituted 11%, Baltic Water 8%, and Norwegian River Water 2%. At the surface the mean percentages of these water types were found to be 68%, 15%, 15%, and 3%, respectively. Within the northern part of the Skagerrak, closer to the Norwegian coast, the surface waters were estimated to consist of 74% Atlantic Water, 20% Baltic Water, and 7% Norwegian River Water. The analysis indicates that the content of German Bight Water in this part is less than 5%.
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Comparison of PCBs and PAHs levels in European coastal waters using mussels from the
Mytilus edulis
complex as biomonitors: Production and mortality rates
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 196-211
Michał Olenycz
Adam Sokołowski
Agnieszka Niewińska
Maciej Wołowicz
Jacek Namieśnik
Herman Hummel
Jeroen Jansen
University of Gdańsk, Institute of Oceanography,
Gdynia, Poland;
corresponding author
Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology,
Gdańsk, Poland
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology,
Yerseke, The Netherlands
Den Helder, The Netherlands
PCBs; PAHs; Biomonitoring; Mussels; European coastal waters; Pollution
Received 31 July 2014, accepted 30 December 2014. Available online 14 January 2015
This work was supported by the European Community, RTD project "The impact of biodiversity changes in coastal marine benthic ecosystems" (BIOCOMBE; EVK3-CT-2002-00072), ARI project "Sandgerdi Marine Centre" (SMC; HPRI-CT-2002-00193) and by internal grant BW/13A0-5-0272-8 for A.S./Adam Sokołowski from the University of Gdańsk.
Mussels from the Mytilus edulis complex were used as biomonitors for two groups of organic pollutants: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, congeners: 28, 52, 101, 118, 138, 153 and 180) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, naphthalene, acenaphthylene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benz(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene, dibenz(a,h)anthracene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene) at 17 sampling sites to assess their relative bioavailabilities in coastal waters around Europe. Because of the temporal differences in PCBs and PAHs concentrations, data were adjusted using Seasonal Variation Coefficients (SVC) before making large-scale spatial comparisons. The highest concentrations of PCBs were found near estuaries of large rivers flowing through urban areas and industrial regions. Elevated bioavailabilities of PAHs occurred in the vicinity of large harbors, urban areas, and regions affected by petroleum pollution as well as in some remote locations, which indicated long-range atmospheric deposition.
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Deep water masses in the Iceland Basin during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e): Evidence from benthic foraminiferal data
Oceanologia 2015, 57(2), 212-221
Nadezhda P. Lukashina
Leyla D. Bashirova
The Atlantic Branch of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ABIORAS),
Kaliningrad, Russia,
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University,
Kaliningrad, Russia,
corresponding author
Holocene; Last Interglacial; Paleoceanography; Deep water circulation; Benthic foraminifera
Received 9 August 2014, Accepted 20 August 2014, Available online 22 October 2014
The reported study was supported by RFBR, research project no. 12-05-00240 a.
The Last Interglacial period, marine isotope stage (MIS) 5e, is a potential analogue for the Holocene. In this study, we investigated a marine sediment core, AMK-4442, recovered from the northern part of the Iceland Basin. The multiproxy approach used in this study, which includes foraminiferal and lithological analyses, identifies the difference in intensity of deep circulation between MIS 5e and the Holocene. Our data indicate that during early MIS 5e, the Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW) flux into the Iceland Basin was suppressed. We suggest that the less active North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation at this time was related to the obstruction of warm surface water inflow into the Nordic Seas.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Bristol native and former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez will spend the rest of his life in prison.
On Wednesday morning, jurors announced they found him guilty of all charges in the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree, which carries an mandatory life sentence. Hernandez also will not be eligible for parole.
He was formally sentenced just a short time later. Family members of Odin Lloyd had the chance to read victim impact statements.
"I forgive the people that had a hand in my son's murder," Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, said. "The day I laid my son Odin to rest, I felt my heart stop beating. I felt like I wanted to go into the hole with my son, Odin."
"He was the brother that everyone would love to have," Lloyd's younger sister, Olivia Thibault said.
There is no death penalty in Massachusetts. He will spend the rest of his life at MCI Cedar Junction in Walpole, less than 4 miles away from Gillette Stadium.
Jurors based their murder conviction on "extreme atrocity or cruelty." They found that the shooting of Lloyd six times was excessive. Hernandez was also found guilty on his other charges, including unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Both families were crying in the courtroom. Hernandez was placed in shackles as soon as the verdict was read.
Before the verdict was read, the judge reminded everyone to remain calm. "I know emotions may be running high," Judge Susan Garsh said. "But you are in a courtroom."
The 12 people working to decide whether to convict Hernandez arrived at their decision after seven days, and nearly 35 hours of deliberation.
Hernandez had pleaded not guilty to the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, who was found shot to death in an industrial park less than a mile from Hernandez's North Attleboro home. Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
You can find complete coverage of the Aaron Hernandez case up to this point here.


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Two Aboriginal women worked for me at our museum/art gallery and one day they argues so much that I painted a large bright red painting of two women walking down the beach, then I painted another and called it 'Palsâ€. I let them choose a painting and they were so happy and seemed to work out all their problems. After they tool their paintings home everyone loved them so much, I decided to do a series on this topic.
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| POULTRY FARMS | April 21, 2017
The state Department of Agriculture is preparing to conduct soil tests at 15 Oklahoma farms in the Illinois River watershed to determine the effects of poultry litter, according to a recent Associated Press report.
The agreement for testing was made between Agriculture Secretary Terry Peach and Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, and has area poultry growers concerned about individual property rights.
"The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture is maintaining they have the right to come on our land and test for anything they want at any time," said Bev Saunders.
Saunders and her husband, Al, are Delaware County poultry growers for Peterson Farms. Their broiler ranch is near Colcord.
"Please understand, we do not have a problem with them testing for what Senate Bill 1170 was written for - nutrients," said Saunders. "We have openly expressed and even invited them to do that."
SB 1170 allows Department of Agriculture inspectors to test for potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen.
Farmers and their representatives say the new tests - conducted for arsenic, copper, zinc, several different bacteria as well as estrogen-related hormones - are meant to provide ammunition for a lawsuit against the poultry companies.
Marla Peek, director of regulatory affairs with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, told AP there is every indication these farms have followed the act and are in compliance with state law.
"It's way above and beyond what state law requires," said Peek. "I don't know if this is legal, but I can tell you it smacks of abuse of power."
Saunders tends to agree.
"This is a witch hunt," said Saunders. "The funny part of this story [is] - the very week after this situation began in April, my husband sent soil samples to OSU to be analyzed. If we had anything to hide, would we have sent the soil tests to the state testing lab? Of course not."
By law, Oklahoma poultry producers send samples to the Oklahoma State University for testing. The lab at OSU tests the soil for potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen, and sends the results back to the farmers.
"[The results] tell us the safe application rate of fertilizer we can use without causing environmental problems," said Saunders. "And that's what we do, according to the law. And that is what the law was intended to do - to control the application of poultry litter in Oklahoma, mainly because of the phosphorus issue."
Ed Fite, administrator for the Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission, believes full disclosure is best.
"I know Bev Saunders, and I look to her to provide the best example of 'Mom and Pop' poultry production," said Fite. "I hope cooler heads prevail in the coming months. What people need to understand is, in this day and time, environmental issues are becoming a large part of property sales. More and more, people are going to be held responsible for those issues when selling their property."
After being contacted by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture in an effort to explain the additional testing, a few of the farmers got together, along with a newly organized group, Poultry Partners, to discuss the matter.
"It was clear the farmers selected for testing are in the Illinois River watershed," said Saunders. "We began to wonder what they were looking for and why."
Saunders said it was then revealed to the group that the Department of Agriculture was asked to conduct the testing at the request of the Oklahoma Attorney General's office.
"The representatives said 300-plus samples would be taken in each of three different 10-acre fields from each farm," said Saunders. "Now, if this testing was being done in residential home areas or even on business or government lawns, how many people would alow a government agency to come in and probe that many holes, up to 6 inches deep, in their yards just because the government agency was on an exploration?"
After a number of farmers protested the testing, officials from the Department of Agriculture called a meeting with the selected farmers at the ICTC Vo-Tech in Kansas, May 3, to persuade farmers to allow the testing.
Saunders said that while several areas of concern were voiced, one major item was the question of allowing the farmers to get split soil samples for their own testing.
Dan Parrish of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, via a letter written May 18, stated a representative of Poultry Partners would be allowed to go to Colorado to observe lab testing for 34 parameters.
"Now how many poultry farmers, who have a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job just raising the birds, would take off and go to Colorado to watch a lab test?" asked Saunders. "Especially in the summertime, when heat is such an issue and other farm activities, such as baling hay, is a priority. Why couldn't the samples be split in the fields and the farmers take one and the Department of Ag take one?"
Saunders said the farmers "have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide."
The Poultry Partners received a letter May 27 from Secretary Peach, stating: "The Department is confident in its authority to conduct the sampling events" and "In the event access is not granted, alternative methods for entrance and sampling will be sought."
Ed Brocksmith, administrator for Save the Illinois River (STIR) and longtime advocate for clean water, made the following comment on the organization's Web site regarding additional testing: "STIR is encouraged by the Attorney General's attention to other contaminants of concern besides phosphorus. The lawsuit also requires an examination of poultry pollution from arsenic, growth hormones, and bacterial pathogens such as e coli. While the problem associated with excess phosphorus is well-known, the concerns regarding these other pollutants must be investigated and addressed if we are to protect the citizens safety and heritage of Scenic Rivers."
Public support
A recent AP report showed most Oklahomans support Attorney General Drew Edmondson's lawsuit against the poultry industry over water quality issues, according to the findings of a statewide poll.
The Oklahoma Poll, conducted June 23-27, found that 58.3 percent of those questioned support the filing of the lawsuit, while 22.3 percent are opposed. The remaining 19.4 percent were undecided.
The poll also found that 58.6 percent of those polled said they were concerned about Oklahoma's water quality. Another 36.6 percent said they were not concerned, and 4.8 percent said the had no opinion.


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Wednesday, 7 December 2016
WIPW - Trinity Green on Hold
Work on the Trinity Green quilt has been put on hold. Hopefully I will have some Work In Progress Wednesday report in a week's time.
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Take care and look after yourself, thinking of you. xxReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. I will take care, but the risk is always there.Delete
wishing everyone a speedy rcovery and fingers crossed you do not get the flu tooReplyDeleteReplies
I just hope the super OAP doesn't catch anything that will develop into pneumonia.Delete
Hope everyone improves and that you don't catch it. Here it is so hot and humid we are melting.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't particularly like the cold, but I do prefer it to your heat and humidity. I will do my best to care for the others while staying safe myself.Delete
Take care of yourself so you don't end up sick too! I'll look forward to seeing next week's progress.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. YOU too, must take good care of yourself. Use your 'aircon' and rest a lot.Delete
Take care, I hope you don't catch it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. So far I am OK, but tired and begin to feel as blurred as the photo of the green fabric!Delete
Wishing a speedy recovery for the people you are caring for. do take care of yourself too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. One family member is on the mend, so the workload has lessened a bit.Delete
I agree take care of yourself. The flu and colds do get around this time of year. I just got over a nasty bug here.ReplyDelete
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I hope so, too. Actually I HAVE been able to do a bit of hand work while sitting at bedsides. With a bit of luck I can show some Stitch School homework tomorrow.Delete
Hope your family is better soon.ReplyDeleteReplies
Your kind wishes have already been partially granted! One family member is much better and I don't need to work THAT hard.Delete
I hope you remain healthy and not contact the 'flu yourself while in the Florence Nightingale mode.ReplyDelete
All the best for a quick family recovery too.
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Thank you for your concern. I have a bit less nursing to do today as one member is up and about. I will try to rest more in between duties, and treat myself to some hand embroidery.Delete
Well done "Florence"!ReplyDelete
Fingers crossed that you do not catch it!
I had the flu jab this year, for the first time, a few weeks ago, but I've been in contact with someone who had a terrible cough and cold .... now I have a sore throat and sniffles, and am trying to fight the germ off!
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Face Care – Tips for Glowing Skin
Every woman aspires to get a beautiful glowing skin and in this aspiration try every product that claims to give glowing skin, yet completely ignoring the fact that glowing skin is an indication of skin being healthy. Packaged products work on external features to provide glow but when combined with good skin care regime can give long lasting results.
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A local music video, featuring a girl group, FFx, dancing and singing their song "My Sugar Baby" rather awkwardly, went viral recently.
It was revealed later that the video cost only HK$900 to produce.
The performance of the four girls was so weird that it instantly captured the attention of the city and garnered more than two million hits online.
Some regard it as evidence of the decline of the Hong Kong music industry.
Actually, it is just another example of a common phenomenon in the mass entertainment industry.
You may recall Fox TV's American Idol segment in 2004 in which William Hung, a Hong Kong-born American, sang an off-key rendition of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" with extraordinary dance steps.
The judges couldn't help but stop him in the middle of his performance.
Yet Hung's response was impressive.
He said he had given his best and had no regrets at all.
This helped him win the hearts of the audience long enough for him to appear on some more shows and even in the movies.
In mass entertainment, what matters most is the ratings, followed by the quality of the show.
Anything that can attract the "eyeballs" of the audience is a good show.
If it sustains its momentum and becomes a hot topic, that's even better.
However, only outstanding performances can draw the attention of viewers. There has to be some reason for people to watch something again.
The best ones are rewarded with praise, while the worst are destined to be mocked.
If you can't produce the best, then give the worst to the audience.
That's the application of "Machiavellianism" in mass entertainment.
One need not worry too much whether another FFx or William Hung will emerge. Surely more will appear in the near future.
However, only the best, genuinely good shows can survive and even create a trend.
Cult performances will only grab windfall attention.
There hasn't yet been another William Hung or another HK$900 music video gone viral.
Machiavellian manipulations can only be short-lived, as shown in last week's English Premier League match between Chelsea and Arsenal football clubs.
Diego Costa from Chelsea successfully ignited the ire of Gabriel Paulista.
It was Paulista who got sent off the field with a red card.
Chelsea's victory over Arsenal can be considered as a successful result of Costa's application of Machiavellianism.
However, the English Football Association held a review meeting, which lifted Paulista's suspension but sentenced Costa to detention for the coming three matches.
The ruling stirred up controversy in Britain, with some people supporting and others disapproving of Costa's manipulations.
Those against Costa criticized his "dark arts", since he often behaves in an uncivilized manner toward opposing players behind the back of the referees.
What happened against Arsenal was nothing new.
Since the time he played for Atlético Madrid, Costa has always behaved the same, harassing his opponents.
ESPN commentator Iain Macintosh dubbed Costa "the nasty, driven, brilliant striker".
Of course, there are people who cheer on Costa.
Chelsea's football manager, José Mourinho, regarded him as the best player of last week's match against Arsenal.
Tony Evans, a veteran sports commentator, wrote that Costa should be "celebrated, not demonized", for his brand of football and that it was the Arsenal player's fault for not being able to keep himself under control.
Costa is a pantomime villain but also well versed in the dark arts, wrote Paul Wilson, who reckoned the three-match ban on him wasn't a good idea, given that football is part of the entertainment industry.
Wilson's logic can equally be applied to rationalize the celebration of FFx's and Hung's awkward performances.
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William Gray (Massachusetts)
|William Gray
|9th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office
|Elbridge Gerry
|Preceded by
|David Cobb
|Succeeded by
|William Phillips, Jr.
|Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
for Suffolk County
In office
January 12, 1812 – March 1813
|Preceded by
|Benjamin Gorham
|Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
for Essex County
In office
|Personal details
June 27, 1750 (old style; July 8, 1750 new style)
Lynn, Massachusetts
November 4, 1825 (aged 75)
Boston, Massachusetts
|Resting place
|Mount Auburn Cemetery
|Political party
|Elizabeth Chipman
William Gray (June 27, 1750 (old style; July 8, 1750 new style)– November 4, 1825) was a Massachusetts merchant and politician. Born into a lower-class family in Lynn, Massachusetts, he managed to build his own business and rise through the state's political ranks, becoming the richest man in New England, and in the eyes of many the richest man in all of America. Prior to the War of 1812, William Gray had the largest private fleet in the United States with 60 square-rigged vessels.[1]
Gray first served as a state senator, before becoming the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1810 to 1812. He married Elizabeth Chipman (May, 1756 - September 24, 1823) in 1782. Elizabeth was a pioneer in philanthropy, volunteering a significant portion of her time to helping the poorest citizens of Boston.
In 1820, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society[2]
He owned Gray's Wharf in Charlestown.[3] In Boston "he lived on Summer Street, in the mansion previously occupied by Governor Sullivan."[4]
Elizabeth and William's son, Francis Calley Gray, was also a politician.
- ^ Horace Gray: Father of the Boston Public Garden
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ Timothy Thompson Sawyer. Old Charlestown: historical, biographical, reminiscent. J.H. West Co., 1902
- ^ Drake. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. 1872. ; p.201
Further reading[edit]
- Gray, Edward.: William Gray, of Salem, merchant: a biographical sketch (.1914)
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| Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
|Succeeded by
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A recent article in Social Media Today had the arresting headline, "Why Marketers Are Now in Charge of Cyber Security." Let's think about that for a minute.
Nobody is secure from hacking and data theft, not even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. After repeated hacking, Zuckerberg now runs around with duct tape on his webcam. 3M saves the day!
Hacking isn't anything new. For over a decade, we have witnessed data breaches of increasing scale and ferociousness, attacking hundreds of companies, governments and institutions without prejudice. U.S. data breaches in 2016 hit an all-time record high of 1,093. It's assumed that any entity with potentially valuable financial or customer data is a target.
Consumers, Businesses – All Data is at Risk
The most publicized breaches, such as credit card data theft, usually affect consumer-facing companies at the end of the supply chain. B2B companies are also exposed to data losses but don't seem to have made the same headlines. Hacked companies include internet service providers, such as Dyn and GoDaddy, where data breaches and denial of service have afflicted scores of companies and millions of users. The most recent data breach involved Qantas, whose outbound Melbourne passengers received an email containing private information of other passengers.
ISACA, a professional security standards organization, says that cybersecurity trends include extortion linked to the internet of things (IoT) and hacker penetration of cloud providers. Two additional trends have direct marketing implications:
Social media has been called the new "superhighway for cybercrimes." Some security professionals estimated that there may have been as many as 30 million malicious posts on social networks on one day during the December 2016 shopping season, and hackers are phishing social networks for credit card details and other financial information.
Marketing, Sales Must Step Up
Once a headache for the IT department, the battle for cyber security should be a shared responsibility with data-hungry marketing and sales professionals. This is a joint risk management arrangement that I've endorsed on other occasions, most recently among airline loyalty and fraud professionals at the November 2016 LFPA Conference in London. Unfortunately, marketing and sales executives don't tend to play well with risk and IT security professionals.
The marketing approach to cyber security often runs headlong into its goal of establishing the best possible customer experience. IT teams may try to compromise by establishing less annoying security procedures — a possibly counterproductive option. Marketing needs to take a more expansive view of data security and to share accountability.
If you need to scale up your security efforts, consider deploying a "cyber resilience" action plan. This approach would rely explicitly on a cross-functional working group that includes sales, marketing and IT to reduce risk management costs, time to recovery and reputational damage of a breach.
Research shows that most users are skeptical about web security anyway, and more than two-thirds make negative associations with a brand that is linked to data breaches.
What's the payback?
A strengthened relationship between marketing and IT is good defense. The stakes are high. Consider the Yahoo example. As I write this, reports are circulating that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company for delaying disclosure of data breaches that might have affected more than a billion users. Verizon's $4.8 billion purchase offer for Yahoo is in jeopardy.
This is a classic crisis communications dilemma, and one for which Yahoo seems to have only itself to blame. Research shows that most users are skeptical about web security anyway, and more than two-thirds make negative associations with a brand that is linked to data breaches.
The flip side is that brand associations improve when customers and business partners detect that adequate security precautions have been taken. If this is the case, and research suggests it is, here's a fair question: Can you find a brand- and sales-building opportunity if you, as a marketing professional, effectively establish and leverage online security measures to build trust with customers and business partners?
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently noted that online security and customer intimacy "go hand in hand." After working with the CIO (and IT team) to establish the best security practices, marketing can help build business retention and loyalty by helping customers better understand that security is embedded in the company's culture and business practices, and that their security concerns really do matter.
As the HBR put it, "The increased sales and potentially decreased security liabilities will be good for your business, your brand, and your profits."
In our current business climate, anything that companies can do to increase customer trust and boost transparency can serve as bulwarks against always-present cyber threats.


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Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Edinburgh University on behalf of the school. Every year the Headteachers of Schools in Somerset visit a University to find out more about the student experience. Edinburgh University was easily accessed via a 1 hour flight and 30 minute tram ride straight into the City Centre. The University provides a very wide range of courses including Medicine, Veterinary Science, Nursing, History, Languages and Sports Science. The facilities on offer for both study and living were of a great quality and inspiring. Having the opportunity to talk to year 12 about this in assembly and show them photographs of this wonderful city rounded off a great trip.


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LONDON – British fare has helped Carrmelo Anthony in the breaking of his recent fast that occurred the Knicks' Sunday matinee vs. New Orleans.
Melo had complained about a lack of energy after the Hornets game and promised his 15-day fast would be broken in style as the Knicks arrived in London Tuesday morning. They tip off at 3 p.m. (est) today vs. the Pistons. Melo had three straight poor shooting games during the fast and also his unfortunate confrontation with Kevin Garnett.
"I had a big plate of fish and chips yesterday,'' Melo said at today's morning shootaround at the O2 Arena. "I've been drinking (British) tea the whole time. That's one of my favorite things. No shepherd's pie but I'm back to my normal routine of eating. Foods I'm supposed to be eating. I feel good now. The fast is over with. No more of that. ''
Anthony said at the practice yesterday, he felt most of his energy back. "I felt good yesterday, felt good in practice,'' Anthony said. "I felt a little jetlagged but otherwise felt good.''
The Knicks conducted their shootaround at 11:30 p.m. London time – which really is 6:30 a.m. back home. Mike Woodson said at the shootaround Iman Shumpert is expected to start in his season debut, with Jason Kidd sharing the backcourt and Chris Copeland at small forward. Melo and Tyson Chandler will be up front. They were the two centers on the U.S. Olympic Team that won the gold medal in this arena in August.
Woodson said he can't play Shumpert more than 15 minutes in his debut – in four-minute spurts.
"He's a kid in a candy store,'' Anthony said of Shumpert. "It's good to have him, another body and defensive presence and guy who brings energy to the game and guy we can feed off of.''


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Currently subscribed at over seventy five students spanning three different classrooms, American History is a course that enables students to push their horizons past the aspect of the Canadian culture. As a course that does not require a lot of memorization, it allows the students to push their critical thinking with the cause and effect relationship between major American events. With all of the attributes that course already delivers, it provides another quality that signifies the American history classes: the trip to Washington D.C. Now, Do students take American History because they enjoy learning about our neighbors to the south, or to have fun with their friends in Washington? In reality, it's a mix of both.
Mr. Witmer, one of the American history teachers was asked if implementing a field trip to another country is an effective tool for teaching. He had replied, "Absolutely. You know, sometimes people tend to live in a sheltered environment for teaching and we know a lot about our local environment. But, to get out and see the world and view different things, it just broadens your horizons and opens up the ability to gain more knowledge. As well as, seeing things you might not have been able to ever see." But, a teacher's perspective can always differ from a students. Today, I will be interviewing two students that had taken American History last year, and ask them the same question.
(Kimathi Kaai: Grade 12 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute)
Fjord: Can you tell me something you learned about American History, or the Washington D.C trip you attended?
Kimathi: *Laughs* To be honest, I don't remember much about American history. But, the Washington trip made me realize that there is more to the world outside of Canada. Experiencing that with my friends made it even better.
(Keyuan Wang: Grade 12 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute)
Fjord: Can you tell me something you had learned about American history, or the Washington D.C trip you attended?
Keyuan: Well, there are many things I had learned about American History. For example, I had gained a lot of insight about the stories of the past. By learning those stories, American History had become a class that made me excited to attend everyday of the week.
Even though Mr. Witmer has been on the Washington trip for twenty years, he explains how students get highly engaged within the classroom, and enjoys witnessing the monuments from the students perspective rather than his own. Although the trip to Washington can be a struggle for a teacher, having fun with friends and learning about American history is a great way to keep the students engaged. If you enjoy going on a trip to another country, and learning about Americas past, be sure to sign up for American History!


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Rating: Mid-range
Colca Lodge is in the midst of ancestral farming terraces in the Colca Valley.
The rustic 45 bedroom lodge is built of traditional materials in keeping with the natural environment. There are three suites including the bridal suite with its own jacuzzi, as well as double, twin, triple and quadruple rooms. All rooms have heating, hot water, mini bar and a terrace, but no TVs. Hot water bottles are put in the beds at night which are always very welcome on cold nights.
There are 3 restaurants. The evening buffet is served in the main restaurant and specialises in 'Alpandina' cuisine, a combination of local Andean produce and alpine techniques. Puye Restuarant has a more intimate atmosphere, while the barbecue by the river offers grilled trout and meat. There are 2 bars, a library, a living room with a large fireplace and a games room. Don't miss the 3 private thermal baths which are fed by volcanic hot springs - a perfect place to relax under a star-filled sky after a day of exploring the Colca Valley!
The Eco-spa at Colca Lodge has been carefully designed to offer a unique sensation of wellbeing, comfort and total relaxation in natural surroundings on the banks of the Colca River. Treatments offered here include massage and facials. There is a steam room and a jacuzzi, which use natural geothermal energy.
While here you can see traditional Colca villages and visit the Cruz del Condor. The lodge can arrange horse riding, cycling and trekking. There are several interesting walks in the area surrounding the lodge, including trails to the Uyo Uyo ruins and the 'Amphitheatre' where the pre-Incas used to prepare the finest seeds to be stored at the 'Colcas.'
Open: Colca Lodge is open all year.
Location: Colca Lodge is located in the Colca Valley in southern Peru. It is at an altitude of 3.250 metres. The lodge is about 3 hours' drive (165kms) from Arequipa, the nearest airport.
Rooms: There are 45 guest rooms built around the courtyards and gardens with views of the valley. Rooms are rustic in style. They have small, en-suite bathrooms. The 27 standard rooms have small terraces. There are 15 quadruple rooms with beds on the mezzanine floor. There are 2 suites which are ideal for families and a honeymoon suite with its own Jacuzzi. Room facilities include a safe,
Activities: Exploring the Colca Valley, trekking, horse riding, guided trekking in Colca Canyon, watching Andean condors, visiting the pre-Inca ruins at Uyo Uyo and local villages. Guests can hire mountain bikes for independent exploration. At the lodge guests can indulge is spa treatments and bathe in the thermal springs by the river and relax in the gardens.
Facilities: There are 3 restaurants and 3 bars with a wide choice of meals and drinks. The main restaurant serves a buffet each evening, while the more intimate restaurant, Puye, offers a la carte dining and Apandina cuisine, a blend of Andean flavours and alpine techniques. There is also a barbeque restaurant near the hot springs. There are 3 hot baths by the river, each with water a different temperature. The 4th pool contains cold water for a more bracing experience. There are separate changing rooms for men and women by the baths. The Eco-spa offers massages, body treatments, facials, Jacuzzis and saunas. There are pretty gardens.
Dining: Meals are taken at individual tables.
Children: Children of all ages are welcome.
Health: Colca Valley is not a malarial area.
Communication: There is internet access at the reception.
Notes: The thermal baths may be closed on some days in February when the river swells due to the rains. In this case guests can use the thermal pool in the spa.
Cusco, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Titicaca, jungle, Colca Canyon, Chan Chan and Sipan ... this trip has it all.
Colca lodge actively supports its local community through donations to schools, planting trees, and also helping to rebuild rural pathways in its area. These paths enable tourists to hike or mountain bike and help provide jobs for local people.
Most of the lodge employees come from the local community, and it also makes big efforts to use resources wisely. The hot water comes from solar heaters, and all the energy used for the sauna, Jacuzzis and general heating is derived from natural geothermal sources.
"A strange mix of very upmarket spa with some clean but basic safari style cottages. Dining room chilly and a bit souless but food ok and cosy bar area."


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Date: April 29, 2013
Report Type: TA Report:
Trail Name: Bluff Point State Park
Town: Groton
Trail Conditions: AWESOME
Observations/Information: One of the guys from CLIMB (Concerned Long Island Mt Bikers) came over to play in some CT rocks. Really wanted to take him to Hartman Park but travel time and such it was just better to go to Bluff Point. That and I hadn't been there in SOME time.
did a lot of short hops and let him play at all the rollers and skinny's and such. Did have one major mechanical when he did the skinny out in the middle that is a broken tree up and over a large rock. Came off and hit the rear derailleur of a bit of the stump end. Funny thing is it busted the upper jockey wheel not the lower one. Did a quick run to Mystic cycles who had a jockey wheel in stock. slapped it on and we were off again. did the tour out to the bluff, hit the preserve section and then out. I think he had fun!!
Trail Ambassador Name: Ken Rojas (CLIMB) ,.. Thom Lamourine
How did you use the trail? MT Biking
Trails Ridden: mixed
Time of day: Morning
Time/Duration (hours): 5 hrs
Approximate Distance (Miles): guessing 8 or 9? didn't record
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