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Rioja Wine Region - Self-Guided
- Self-Guided 6 Nights
- Arrival - Logroño*
- Departure - Logroño*
- Difficulty - Easy-Medium
- Price - €1155
- Dates - May-September
This self-guided cycling holiday visits the beautiful Rioja wine region. Following quiet country lanes through the vineyards and alongside the glorious Ebro River, this tour has short daily distances and offers much to see and do off the bike, as well as on it!
In addition to riding through incredible scenery, with picturesque valleys and charming villages, you stay in excellent boutique hotels and visit high quality vineyards on this unique trip.
This self-guided tour is also a great cultural element. You pass by Medieval castles, Roman structures, the Camino de Santiago route, and stay in the stunning historic towns of Logroño, Laguardia, Haro and Santo Domingo.
Also check out our Guide to Cycling in Rioja for more information about the region in general.
Day 1 - ArrivalThe holiday begins in Logrońo – the capital of the Rioja province. We will transfer you from the airport or train station, to your hotel in the heart of the historic center. From here you can visit the picturesque cathedral and relax in one of Spain's most charming provincial cities.
Logrońo also has a fine gastronomic tradition and in the evening you can sample some of the best tapas and pintxos bars in the country. Of course, as you would expect from the capital of Rioja, there are also many delightful bodegas where you can sample the local wine!
Day 2 – Rioja VineyardsThe first day in the saddle sees us leave Logrońo to the north, crossing the impressive Ebro River and quickly entering the vineyards that characterize much of the region. The route follows gently rolling country lanes and heads through the provinces of Navarre and Alava, before reaching one of the highlights of the day – the Medieval town of Laguardia.
Set on a hill top overlooking the Ebro Valley, Laguardia has a beautiful fortified center with an impressive array of architecture dating back 1,000 years.
From Laguardia we continue a short distance to a beautiful boutique hotel, where you stay for the night. The hotel is in a picturesque setting, surrounded by scenic vineyards.
Distance: 35km (plus optional extensions)
Day 3 – HaroDay 3 - Haro Today you continue cycling along the picturesque trails and country lanes of the Rioja wine region. The landscape here is rolling, with small historic villages dotted amongst the vineyards to make for some delightful scenery.
Part of the ride also follows a cycle route along the Ebro river; the second longest river in Spain. And you also pass the impressive 12th century castle fortress at San Vicente. Next you reach the town of Haro – widely recognised as the wine capital of Spain, and home to the country's most famous wine festival. The town also has a charming historic center, home to a delightful range of bodegas and boutique shops, making it an excellent place to stay for the night.
Distance: 41km (plus optional extensions)
Day 4 – Santo Domingo de la CalzadaThe ride today heads south, again following beautiful and quiet country lanes as we pass through small villages. The first part of the route is largely flat, but the landscape is dominated by the Sierra de la Demanda mountains, which rise up to over 2,000m and offer a scenic backdrop to the ride. Indeed, if you are feeling particularly strong, you can extend the route today to continue up to Valdezcaray (a climb used in the Vuelta a Espańa cycling race); and enjoy panoramic views of most of the Rioja province.
The destination is Santo Domingo de la Calzada; another charming town with a rich history. Santo Domingo was founded in the 11th century as a resting point on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Initially consisting of just a bridge, a hotel and a hospital; a small town gradually grew and is today home to several impressive monuments.
One of these, the stunning Parador Hotel, is the accommodation for the night. The Parador is housed in a former convent dating from the 12th century and is renowned for its fantastic architecture.
Distance: 25km+
Day 5 – EltziegoAnother great day on the bike begins by following the Camino de Santiago route out of Santo Domingo, as we head back towards the heart of the Rioja wine region. The day is gently rolling and uses a combination of white roads through the heart of the vineyards and winding country lanes.
This makes for really pleasant riding with plenty of villages to explore and some fine viewpoints along the rolling terrain.
The ride finishes in Eltziego, another really charming village which home to many excellent wineries. Including, perhaps most famously, Marques de Riscal – housed in a very impressive Frank Gehry designed structure. You will spend the final night of the holiday in a beautifully hotel, which has its own historic wine cellars, dating from the 15th century.
Distance: 35km+
Day 6 - LogroñoOn the final day in the saddle you follow a route exploring more of the small villages and wineries that are dotted around the Rioja region. We then join up with a beautiful path running alongside the Ebro River, following a beautiful off-road cycle route, before heading into Logroño.
In Logroño you stay in the heart of the old town and can celebrate completing the tour with a trip along the famous Tapas street - Calle Laurel.
Distance: 22-38km
Day 7 – DepartureAt the end of the tour we will transfer you to Logroño in time for your onward connection. We are also able to provide transfers to the city of Bilbao upon request.
Prices & Dates
|Price (per person)*
|Single Supplement
|Bike Hire
|May, June, September, October
|July & August
|Other Dates
|contact us
*Based on two people sharing a double or twin room. If you would prefer to stay in a single room, the single supplement is applicable.
Guided TourPlease check out our Guided Rioja Vineyard Tour.
The following is included in the tour:
- Six nights accommodation in double, twin or single room with en-suite. Please see price list for details of single supplement.
- Transfer to and from the arrival/departure points
- Continental breakfast every day
- Vineyard tour and tasting
- Luggage transferred between hotels
- Route extensions every day for those of you who wish to cycle
The following are optional extras available for an additional charge:
- Hire of bicycles - we recommend hybrid bikes for this tour, but can also provide road bikes (see here for details)
The following is not included in the tour
- Any transfers not stated above
- Travel Insurance
- Entry to any attractions (e.g. museums, churches) except were explicitly stated
- Flights
Frequently Asked Questions
Please browse through some of the frequently asked questions about this cycling tour. If you have any further questions, or would like any more information, please contact us and we will answer by email.
How far do I cycle each day on this tour?
The basic route is 30-40km each day, along gently rolling terrain for the most part.
There are also additional extensions every day if you would wish to cycle further.
Most of the routes are on fully asphalted roads, with some short optional sections on a gravel trail.
How difficult is this tour?
This tour is rated as easy. The routes are mostly gently rolling and the daily distances are quite low. Even though there is climbing on some days, the gradients are gentle and the distances are short.
If you would like to do a more challenging tour in the region, please let us know and we can work in some daily route extensions.
What is a single supplement?
Our prices are based on two people sharing a hotel room (in a double or twin room). For cyclists that wish to stay in their own room, the single supplement is payable.
The cost is made up of the extra cost of accommodation when the room is single occupancy and also the greater cost of the transfers (luggage and people) when it is not split between two or more cyclists. We have made every effort to keep this to a minimum wherever possible.
What are the arrival and departure points?
The arrival point for this tour is Logroñp. Logroño is the capital of the Rioja region and has very good train connections to both Madrid and Bilbao.
It also has a small airport, with mostly domestic flights (Madrid and Barcelona).
We can also provide transfers to and from Bilbao or San Sebastian upon request.
How busy are the roads?
The vast majority of this tour is on narrow country lanes and quiet routes through the vineyards.
There is little traffic on all of the the roads that we use.
What type of bikes do you hire?
Both road bikes and hybrids are available for this tour. However, we would recommend hybrids as the distances are quite low and the more upright position will allow you to fully appreciate the scenery.
Please see our bicycles page for further details.
When can I do this tour?
We run this tour in summer and early autumn each year. In the winter and early spring it can be quite cool and wet in the Rioja region, so we try to take advantage of the best weather! Groups of more than six people please contact us to arrange the dates for a private tour.
We believe that the hotels that you stay in are just as important as the towns that you visit and the scenery that you ride through. On this tour we have chosen accommodation that is of a high quality and is typical to the area - with several hotels also operating as wineries.
LogroñoIn Logroño, you stay in an elegant **** hotel in the heart of the old town, just a short walk from the cathedral.
LaguardiaIn Laguardia you stay in a fine **** hotel, complete with oil and wine spa facilities, and just a short distance from the town's beautiful historic center.
HaroIn Haro you stay in a beautiful **** hotel in the old town. Situated in a converted 14th century convent, this is a delightful and luxurious place to stay.
Santo Domingo de la CalzadaHere we stay in the fantastic Parador hotel. This **** accommodation is housed in a stunning gothic building dating from the 12th century and is located in the heart of the small town.
EltziegoIn Eltziego you stay in another delightful historic hotel, which has its own wine cellar and beautiful rooms.
To find out more about how we select our hotels, please see our accommodation page.
To reserve a place on the tour, please follow the link below to continue to our reservation form.
Once we have received the form, we will be in contact to confirm the booking and to arrange for the payment of the deposit.
If you would like to do this tour in a group of more than six people as a guided tour, please contact us and we can arrange a private guided tour.


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When the United States women's national team suffered a major setback in its gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, it surprised people who had followed the case closely.
It's not that the USWNT was expected to win, but given the high-profile nature of the case and the nuances involved, it seemed likely it would at least go to trial.
Instead, on Friday a judge gave the green light for a dispute over travel accommodations to go to trial, but batted down the USWNT's claims of unequal pay, ruling in U.S. Soccer's favor. The judge determined that the women were actually paid more than the U.S. men's national team, and that comparisons to what the women would've earned under the men's contract weren't valid.
The judge's decision was far more sweeping than experts following the case expected, and now it leaves plenty of questions behind. Yahoo Sports reviewed legal documents in the lawsuit to answer some of the biggest questions.
Was the USWNT really paid more than the USMNT?
When the judge granted a summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Soccer, his decision seemed to hinge on this: The women were paid more than the men and there was no "genuine dispute" about it. The lack of "genuine dispute" simply means there was not conflicting evidence that a jury would need to wade through during a trial, so the judge could use the facts that both sides accepted as true to decide the case without a trial.
Why was there no "genuine dispute?" Because the USWNT's lawyers didn't really challenge the notion that the women were paid more per game.
In a review of the documents filed for this lawsuit, Yahoo Sports found that the attorney for the USWNT, Jeffrey Kessler, challenged the inclusion of some of the compensation numbers that U.S. Soccer filed as evidence — but he did so on legal grounds, not factual ones, and he didn't challenge all of them.
U.S. Soccer, in arguing the women had been paid more, relied on financial analysis that showed the USWNT and its players union had been paid a total of $37.3 million between 2015 and 2019 while the men were paid $21.2 million. If payments for the NWSL and the unions were removed, along with some other comparisons, the USWNT was paid $24.5 million and the men's team had been paid $18.5 million.
Kessler said that "these comparisons are legally irrelevant" and the court should exclude comparisons of total compensation as evidence. The reason was simple: Just because a woman was paid more overall doesn't mean she wasn't paid less for her work. If a woman worked three hours at $10 per hour and a man worked one hour at $20, the woman could have both been discriminated against and been paid more overall.
The legal standard needed to account for rate of pay. But when Kessler had the chance to refute the rate of pay claimed by U.S. Soccer for the men and women, he didn't.
The same financial analysis that included total compensation also set an average of compensation per game played. In that analysis, the men were paid a lower average per game of $212,639 compared to $236,952 for the women. But in the USWNT's "statement of genuine disputes" — the team's chance to challenge U.S. Soccer evidence they believed to be false — they failed to argue the information wasn't right.
It appears the USWNT's case hinged on potential compensation and the maximum the women could've earned vs. the men. The USWNT side felt that the bonuses offered to players constituted an unfair rate of pay. But the judge didn't care about that and was critical of using hypothetical scenarios — he was more concerned with how much money had actually been paid out, and he said it wasn't fair to fragment those payments into isolated elements, such as friendly bonuses only.
The women had been paid more, the judge said, and the evidence showed it wasn't simply because they worked more. There was no "genuine dispute that WNT players are paid at a rate less than the rate paid to MNT players," the judge said. Indeed, he added, the women "have not demonstrated a triable issue that WNT players are paid less than MNT players."
The irony remains that the USMNT helped U.S. Soccer out by failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. If they had qualified, they would've been paid more, flipping this entire discussion on its head, but that's just another hypothetical.
Should USWNT's lawyers have used NWSL as leverage?
Reading through the court filings, it's clear that the USWNT's lawyers wanted the National Women's Soccer League to be excluded from any calculations about how much pay the players had received.
The USWNT's lawyers wrote that "playing for an NWSL team is a separate job from playing for the WNT, and what the WNT players earn for playing for their NWSL teams is not relevant."
In fact, the USWNT legal team went out of its way to argue that not every player on the team is required to play in the NWSL. That's true — there is a provision allowing USWNT contracted players to compete in Europe during off-cycle years. But there is a limit to how many USWNT contracted players can exercise this option. It was arguably a bit of a stretch to say USWNT players don't have a requirement to play in the NWSL, but it was one Kessler and the USWNT legal team made in order to keep the USWNT's reported compensation as low as possible.
Clearly, this strategy didn't work. The judge agreed that, even without including NWSL pay, the USWNT had been paid more.
So, what if the USWNT side instead leaned into the NWSL as a factor and sought to include it? Well, it might've fixed the per-game compensation argument the judge felt was enough to dismiss the case.
The number of NWSL games in a season — between 20 and 24 — and a relatively small NWSL salary for players — between $62,500 and $72,500 — would have sharply reduced the USWNT's average pay per game.
According to U.S. Soccer's own analysis, which the judged accepted, the USWNT was paid $31,699,530 total for playing on the national team and the NWSL, excluding per diem and union payments. So Yahoo Sports crunched the numbers: If that total were to be divided by 111 national team games and 112 NWSL games, that's a per-game compensation average of $142,150 for the USWNT.
That is easily much less than the $212,639 the USMNT averaged.
It's certainly not apples-to-apples since the men aren't compensated by U.S. Soccer for club play at all. But to the extent that the USWNT had to decide whether or not to include the NWSL, perhaps it would've helped to attempt the opposite of what they did.
Did USWNT reject the same contract as USMNT?
The judge was emphatic that the USWNT can't compare its own CBA to the men's CBA because the women never wanted the same contract. But is that really true?
There's no evidence that the USWNT was ever actually offered the exact contract as the USMNT.
In fact, U.S. Soccer admits that it offered a pay-to-play structure "similar" to the way the USMNT is paid but "never offered the WNT Players Association the same level of wins or draw bonuses for friendlies" and never offered the same World Cup bonuses, either.
In his ruling in favor of U.S. Soccer, the judge seems to accept that that the USWNT being offered the same general "structure" was merely enough. The judge wrote that the women "cannot now retroactively deem their CBA worse than the MNT CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT's pay-to-play structure when they themselves rejected such a structure."
But if the women had been offered the same contract, which would've included much larger bonuses for qualifying for and competing in a World Cup, perhaps they would've accepted it.
After all, if the USWNT had the same contract as the USMNT, they could've made the same amount for simply qualifying for the World Cup as they actually earned for winning the whole tournament: $2.5 million. For reaching the semifinal, which the USWNT has done in every edition of the World Cup, they would've earned an additional $15.1 million.
It's unclear from the documents Yahoo Sports reviewed that the USWNT ever asked for the same contract, however.
The judge said the back-and-forth emails showed the USWNT "was willing to forgo higher bonuses for other benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players." Indeed, negotiations quickly focused on guaranteed contracts.
Former U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati allegedly said offering the USWNT the same World Cup bonuses as the USMNT would "break" the federation, which could be taken as preemptive notice that the USWNT would never get the same contract. But the USWNT's lawyers disputed that Gulati ever said that and pointed out that U.S. Soccer had a surplus of $150 million at the time.
If the USWNT did want the same contract, that fact is buried somewhere in the thousands of pages associated with this lawsuit, and it could be part of an appeal. Otherwise, it's too late — the USWNT can't submit new evidence in an appeal.
Should job performance have been a factor?
When the judge ruled that the women had been paid more than the men by U.S. Soccer, he said it couldn't be explained away by the women working more. But he completely ignored one crucial element: job performance.
The compensation between the USWNT and USMNT the judge used in his ruling was very close — on a per-game basis, the two teams were paid within $8,000 of one another. But in that time, the USWNT won two World Cups and the USMNT didn't even play in one because they performed poorly and couldn't qualify.
The judge indicated in his ruling that he was willing to consider the possibility that the women were paid more because they played more games. That could've meant that the women were paid more but were still discriminated against. Again, the judge used the example that if a woman in an office were paid $10 per hour and a man were paid $20, the woman could be paid more if she worked more. But it doesn't mean there was no discrimination.
The math didn't support the theory that the USWNT was paid more because it played more games. But there seems to be a fair argument that USWNT players were only paid more because they won more games. That may be a fittingly analogous metric to the hours-worked or games-played metrics.
The USMNT lost about four times as many games as the USWNT did in the period covered by the lawsuit, despite playing fewer games. It's safe to say job performance had a lot to do with the USWNT being paid more, but the judge didn't even acknowledge this fact.
The fact that the USMNT's failure to qualify for the World Cup may have helped U.S. Soccer win its lawsuit shows how flawed the judge's reasoning may be, and it could come up in an appeal.
Can USWNT equal pay appeal work?
The judge in this case, 78-year-old R. Gary Klausner, doesn't have an ironclad record of his decisions standing.
The decisions in five out of nine of his employment cases have been reversed by the Ninth Circuit appeals court, and his overall reversal rate is around 27 percent.
Judge Klausner's overall reversal rate is 27.3%, with 59.1% affirmed and 13.6% aff in part/rev in part. Klausner is more conservative than the 9th circuit as a whole, but it's not like he's an automatic reversal pic.twitter.com/yFrgP6rCVg— Steven Bank (@ProfBank) May 2, 2020
Klausner, who was appointed by president George W. Bush in 2002, tends to be more conservative in his decisions than the Ninth Circuit, which has jurisdiction in states across the west coast and Hawaii and is considered liberal.
But that doesn't necessarily mean the Ninth Circuit is going to want to reverse his decision here.
This case is indeed about gender discrimination, but there's also a question of the role of unions in labor negotiations. The biggest flaw in the USWNT's case is that they collectively bargained for the contract they signed after a protracted back-and-forth with U.S. Soccer, and later touted it as a victory after it was signed.
The court may be hesitant to do anything that erodes the autonomy of unions and introduces the possibility that negotiating and signing a CBA doesn't guarantee so-called "labor peace" between unions and their employer.
How much can the USWNT settle for?
Whether an appeal will or won't work, this case is still likely destined for a settlement.
The USWNT used financial analysis to argue the team and its former players deserved around $67 million retroactive payments.
In settlement talks, U.S. Soccer hasn't offered anything near that, with sources pegging the federation's highest offer at around $9 million.
That was a non-starter for the USWNT at a time when the team had enormous leverage. The court of public opinion has been firmly on the USWNT's side and, until the judge's ruling, the possibility loomed that U.S. Soccer would be forced to pay a ton in damages.
But now that the USWNT is on the ropes in this case, will they be willing to come down closer to that $9 million mark?
They will probably have to, but it's not as if U.S. Soccer is in a position to drop its offer. At the end of the day, the USWNT and U.S. Soccer still need to work together and co-exist, and letting a judge force the resolution won't help matters.
The two sides need to reach an agreement collaboratively, and they need to reach one that each party can feel OK about. Otherwise, the fracture in the team-federation relationship will be far costlier than any settlement.
Caitlin Murray is a contributor to Yahoo Sports and her book about the U.S. women's national team, The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer, is out now. Follow her on Twitter @caitlinmurr.
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This extra 5-7 min translated into "paper" ($800) off my profit just for DOG. I decided to wait for a bit and market gradually started to come back.
At noon, however, I had a business lunch with the CEO of my Real Estate Company. While adding last touches to my PowerPoint presentation, I noticed that the jump in prices didn't have enough support in confidence and energy of Bulls vs. Bears. I left without placing any orders.
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Co-Working has been around for a few years now and so many of us naturally think of serviced offices as the option or working remotely from coffee shops or hotels but have you thought about co-working with a fellow business owner at each others homes?
Today, I am working from my home with a fellow, local lady business owner. We met through an online business Facebook community after realising that we we lived in the same town, we then went onto attend similar women's networking groups, support each other and are now great friends too!
Here are a few benefits…
- Fabulous opportunity to work somewhere different from your own home office where we can often get distracted by our home surroundings (read; putting the washing on!)
- New surroundings can offer give us our most creative times and inspiration
- You can bounce ideas off of a like-minded business owner and gain a different perspective
- Set a goal of what you are going to achieve for the day and have joint accountability
- It can give you the much needed time away from feeling the need to be reactive to client demands the inspiration you need to work on your business rather than in your business. Like today, for me, I'm writing this blog. My co-worker is adding WooCommerce to her website for her latest sales page. We both set an intention at the start of our day to make sure we didn't just end up chatting the whole time…of course, we're women so we have plenty to chat about! Plus, we get on really well but equally our businesses are very different so it's been fantastic to have each others ideas and input today. Next time, we may go to a lovely little cafe we know of for another change of scenery and she's welcome back here again.
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CFO- Ms. Linda Kogut (BA Economics & Accounting, CPA certificate) – Linda has joined the Finance department in 2017 and today she is responsible for all financial affairs of Mego Afek and its subsidiary, Lympha press USA. Linda has 20 years of experience in various executive financial roles in Deloitte, Israel Electricity Company and Motorad.
VP Sales & Marketing – Ms. Michal Haim-Bravman (B.Sc Biotechnology ,MBA) – joined the company in 2016 as the VP Marketing, responsible for business development and strategic affairs. Michal has experience of more than 15 years in business development, marketing and sales in leading Israeli medical companies, including Enzymotec, Itamar Medical and Kamedis.
VP Research & Development – Mr. Gilad Kent ( B.Sc Computer Science, MBA) joined the company in 2011 and is the R&D Manager since 2014 , responsible for the development of medical devices, innovation and project management. Gilad has over 15 years of hands-on R&D and extensive project management experience.
VP Operations – Mr. Ran Hamish (B.Sc Mechanical Engineering, M.E. System Engineering) – joined the company in 2019. As the VP Operations, he is responsible for devices and garments production lines, production engineering, purchasing, logistics and infrastructure. Ran brings with him over 20 years of experience, most of them in Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. In his recent positions he managed a R&D department and served as a multi-disciplinary project manager.
QA/RA Manager – Mr. Reuven Yunger ( B.Sc Chemical Engineering , M.Sc. Quality Assurance) – joined the company in 2016 as the head of the division responsible for quality assurance, regulatory affairs and quality control. Reuven has 25 years of experience in quality engineering and quality management, of which he has worked 15 years in the Degania Medical (acquired by Q Medical Devices). He has previously served in various executive roles in Indigo, Tosaf Compounds and Galtronics.
HR Manager – Ms. Michal Hofmann (B.Sc Human services and communication) – joined the company in 2018 as the HR manger, responsible for recruitment, welfare, training, salary and benefits. Michal has a vast experience and previously worked for Ness Technologies, Netvision and the Technion.
Clinical Marketing Manager – Ms. Deborah Gross (B.A) – Joined the company in 1998, concurrently VP Marketing for Lympha Press USA from 2007. Deborah has over 20 years of experience in the lymphedema and vascular therapy market, 6 years of external experience in medical research, and is responsible for clinical business development and outreach.
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Aldar and Emaar merger not on the table, says chairman
UAE property giants Aldar and Emaar do not have plans to merge, Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Aldar Properties said
UAE property giants Aldar and Emaar do not have plans to merge, Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Aldar Properties said.
The statement comes off the back of a joint venture (JV) announced last month worth $8.1bn (AED30bn) between the two companies.
The agreement was signed by Al Mubarak and Emaar chairman Mohamed Alabbar to initially build projects in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
READ: GCC construction leaders must learn from the UAE's real estate JVs
"We want to first cement this JV… We want to finish these developments, at the highest quality we can, at the timeframe we announced, and share it with the people, and then we can discuss what the future can hold for both these entities," Al Mubarak said in a CNBC interview this morning, according to Arabian Business.
The property developers will initially collaborate on two UAE-based projects: Saadiyat Grove on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, and the Emaar Beachfront project, located between Jumeirah Beach Residence and Palm Jumeirah.
"You eventually always outgrow your market. And as we've last seen, over the last several months with the announcement of the joint venture with Emaar - that is specifically focused on how we can bring in brand new clientele to Abu Dhabi," Al Mubarak said of the strategy.
"At the same time, how we can expand to Dubai and other areas where Emaar are available… I think what you get with Emaar is a fantastic track record in developing unbelievable projects."
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The chairman also acknowledged that 2017 saw a "difficult real estate market around the world," but said that the company's gross profit was "about AED2.7bn", or $735m, with recurring revenue of AED1.6bn ($436m) and off-market sales of AED2.5bn ($680m)
"Abu Dhabi is still quite early in bringing international investors in the realm of real estate," he added.
"But, the opportunities are quite vast. Our real estate laws continue to get stronger. The locations that we have that Aldar has are really second to none."
The JV between Aldar and Emaar will focus on the development of master-planned destinations, and is expected to spur similar co-investment opportunities between developers from both emirates.


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I've been knitting some lately... or lots depending on how you look at it..lol....
I started another sweater for Polly using this pattern it's turning out smaller than I'd like tho... I'm knitting the biggest size on needles 1 size larger ( getting gauge) I was hoping for a man sized sweater, but I'll be lucky if it fits me?!!? weird.
maybe blocking it will help it out ?!?
I cast on and off for this quick scarf too
with one row to remember and big needles it sure made that ball of yarn disapear fast!!I didn't block it yet and i may not, it's so soft and smushy!
I cast on something for myself too... the Reversible Cabled Brioche Stitch Scarf
I won this yarn from Claudias blog when she was doing her MS bike ride... I cast on 5 or 6 different scarves with it and nothing looked right, Cass cast on a little while ago ( it's where I first seen it) and I loved it, but it looked WAY too hard...
But looks can be deceiving!!
this is just about as easy as a good ole' garter stitch scarf!
and with only 3 cable twists in 23 rows... you can't go wrong!!
Lucy is still doing well, and Lloyds face is just about completely better too!!
it's been raining here alot the past couple of days so they all look like drown rats... cute in a funny way.
We also got another rabbit.... just a regular white rabbit.
We got her from the mom of a lady I work with...
so the kids and myself though we should name her after her...
so we named her Kelly...lol
you should of seen Carrots when I put her into the cage next to his.... he was a pretty excited little bunny, mostly I think because he's been lonely since Koko died... and because Kelly is a hot little number.. ;) lol
Well I suppose thats all for now.... it's Thanksgiving here in canada this weekend, Mmmmmm turkey, stuffing, perogies, and all the fixings!!!
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Monday July 30, 2007
She was in Maicop helping her inlaws with remodeling their home. I saw her brother Slavik (see yesterday's post), her sister in law (married to Lena's other brother Vova) and her nieces soon after we got back but I did not see her until today. She called and didn't identify herself but I knew right away who she was... it is not easy to forget the voice of one's language helper. She has worked with us since we moved here in 2005. She had been in Maicop helping her inlaws with remodeling their home.
Her first questions were about whether or not we had practiced our Russian while we were away.
After inquiring about our study habits Lena asked if I wanted some Russian practice tonight and said that she and Alexei could come over at 7 pm. When they arrived they had lots of questions about our time in America and about Tom's surgery.
I had looked up the word for gall bladder..."shoalch-nee poozeer" so when they came over I was able to tell them exactly what type of surgery Tom needed.
Alexei thinks that Tom made a wise choice to stay in America for surgery. He believes that Tom would have been cut the old fashioned way and that the procedure could not be done laproscopically here in Russia.
Lena was especially excited that we have already renewed our visas and will not have our language studies interrupted by having to leave in September like we normally do. We won't have to leave the country again until January.
Lena is going back to college to get a degree in Finance. We won't find out until August what her school schedule will be like and how much or if she will still be able to work for us.
In other news for today: Tania, the director of our school called today and asked if I would look in on the new family with East-West. I was able to tell her that I already had! We made plans to take them to the mall tomorrow.
School will start either on the 2nd of August or Monday of next week. They teachers will meet on the 1st after a one month vacation to decide on the schedule and will call us to let us know when to show up!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Lena is back!
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Eve Ensler just came over to visit me. I haven't seen her in many months. Too many months, because being with Eve opens my heart and lifts my spirit.
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What a beautiful day for a tennis match -- at least across the pond, that is! In what seriously has to be a show of solidarity, Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton headed to Wimbledon today to cheer on Meg's bestie, Serena Williams, in the women's final, and if we didn't know any better, we'd say it looks like the two of them are getting along quite famously.
Can we go ahead and point out that the Duchess of Sussex upgraded her attire from last week's Wimbledon appearance?
Amid the multiple feud rumors that have plagued these two over the last year, they sure don't look like they're not getting along.
But just wait ... because some people are going to see this pic of the two of them and start a rant about how they're ignoring each other, or whatever.
Oh, and did we mention the two of them weren't alone?
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Chelsea bid for Anelka - official!
The Blues have confirmed a bid for the 28-year-old hitman - something we all ready knew and Bolton Wanderers are considering Chelsea's offer.
The first offer of £11m has been rejected. Chelsea will up their offer by £2m increments until Bolton's valuation of £18m is met.
The current offer is £13m .
Anelka will be offered a four-year, £100k a week deal once the dust has been settled on the fee.
Chelsea are desperate to sign a striker as number one choice Didier Drogba will be away for up to three weeks for the African Cup of Nations, and will leave the club in the summer.
Anelka's signing is a direct result of Drogba;s desire to leave Stamford Bridge.
In the wake of Jose Mourinho's senational sacking earlier this season, Drogba was vocal in his anger at the decision. He has twice said that he will leave SW6 in the summer.
With AC Milan the likely destination for Mourinho next season, Drogba will be his first major signing.
The Ivorian striker will cost in the region of £20m and the purchase of Anelka now will be seen in some quarters as an asute bit of business by chief executive Peter Kenyon.


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"The Western world in general has been hard at work promoting sterile sex for nearly a century now. We began by sanctioning the break-up of families through ever-easier divorce. Divorce is a kind of pretense that the marital covenant is ultimately sterile, in the sense that children do not matter. Next we embraced contraception so that our sexual pleasures could not be diminished through responsibility. Promiscuity inevitably followed, and with it abortion, which is simply fruitfulness in denial. We've covered our eyes and stopped our ears. "Nyah, nyah, nyah, I can't SEE you! I can't HEAR you!"
A culture like this, a culture which embraces these values, has no argument against homosexual sex, no case against homosexual marriage. A huge percentage of our marriages are deliberately and totally sterile; most of the rest are deliberately sterile much of the time. Huge numbers of marriages, by deliberate design, result neither in children to preserve the race nor in future citizens to enhance and develop the social order. There is no conceivable public interest in such unions, and no significant personal interest in them either, apart from the fuel they temporarily provide for the couple's doomed egoism à deux.
Far from having a natural revulsion against homosexual intimacy, modern Western culture can hardly help seeing it as the jewel which crowns and protects its own warped vision of sex. We recognize and defend a right of men and women to engage in sexual intimacy without fruit. It follows that rank prejudice must be the only reason anyone could possibly oppose the same freedom between men and men or women and women.
No group is more hateful to modern society than the perceived moralistic prigs who, out of what most perceive as religiously-motivated prejudice, seek to diminish the personal sexual liberty of others. Nothing could be more obvious in our current culture than that such people must be silenced and, if necessary, restrained. Moreover, it seems only right and just that their denunciation of the gay lifestyle and their opposition to gay marriage should be criminalized. In fact, it should be criminalized in the name of liberty. That is why gay marriage is the lie that will create the next Gulag.
The insistence on ignoring vice is the hallmark of a debased culture, but the insistence that a lie be publicly affirmed as true is the hallmark of ideological totalitarianism." - Dr. Jeff Mirus
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cut-e, the leader in online testing and assessment, has presented the Theta Award 2015 to the Institute of Knowledge Based Systems & Knowledge Management (KBS&KM) at the University of Siegen, Germany.
cut-e, the leader in online testing and assessment, has presented the Theta Award 2015 to the Institute of Knowledge Based Systems & Knowledge Management (KBS&KM) at the University of Siegen, Germany.
The Theta Award was established in 2013 by cut-e to recognise outstanding innovation in person-job fit. Chosen by a panel of judges from across industries and countries, Dr Ansari's submission on behalf of the Med-Assess team focused on the assessing job knowledge of nurses and caregivers.
Dr Achim Preuss, co-founder and MD of the cut-e Group comments, "The Theta Award is the only award of its kind as it is recognises great ideas which, when put into practice, truly enhance the person-job fit within an organisation."
Dr Preuss continues, "The Chair of Prof Dr-Ing Madjid Fathi coordinated an EU-funded project in which Dr Ansari led an international team from Amsterdam Business School at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), the Corvinno Technology Transfer Center (Hungary) and Beta Klinik GmbH (Germany). The consortium has applied an innovative solution to the nursing profession looking at the assessment of essential competencies and job knowledge to recruit high quality staff but also to signpost the areas for development where a skills and knowledge gap exists."
"All submissions were reviewed before the shortlist being presented to an international panel of experts drawn from industry, psychometrics and applied psychology." Dr Preuss continues. "The panel was asked to review the submissions based on three key criteria: innovation – as the winning idea needed to be something that is either completely new or is a new application of a current practice; practicality and usability - as without this it cannot be put into practice and, finally, there needed to be a clear value-add to a person or people and their fit with their job."
The winner was announced as part of cut-e's international Networking event held in Hamburg, Germany and Dr Ansari and Prof Fathi accepted the award and the prize fund of 5,000 Euros.
One of the judges commented that Med-Assess "has great potential to add value from many perspectives. It not only ensures that those people with the right competence are recruited into nurse positions, but also can be used as a strong training and development tool."
Dr Ansari comments, "I was thrilled to hear that my team and I had won the Theta Award. Our research and development of what we call Med-Assess is timely as health sectors across Europe are demanding highly qualified nurses."
Dr Ansari continues, "The key to determining quality of nursing performance is by considering the ability and skill to apply appropriately specific knowledge in any given situation and, where necessary, filling existing knowledge or skills gaps by taking part in vocational education and training. The development of Med-Assess supports this drive for quality nursing staff by assessing work-based nursing competencies and job knowledge, highlighting knowledge gaps, and providing recommendations for improving nursing competencies."
Dr Ansari comments on the future development of Med-Assess, "Our work continues to shape the Med-Assess approach and we are working currently on the advancement of the ontological knowledge-base and the exploitation of the system in the context of an Erasmus+ funded project, Professional Nursing Education and Training (Pro-Nursing)."
For more information about Med-Assess, and recent progress on
Pro-Nursing, visit www.med-assess.eu and www.pro-nursing.eu.
The Theta Award is an international competition open to universities, psychology or human resource students, businesses, young professionals and HR professionals who work in companies or organisations.
Submissions for the Theta Award 2017 will be accepted from March 2016 and the Award will be presented on March 23rd 2017.
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Ruth Jones finds out what the UK 200m record-holder has been doing since he hung up his spikes
The UK 200m record-holder and the first Briton to break 20 seconds for the distance may have retired from athletics 16 years ago, but John Regis remains an integral part in the burgeoning careers of future stars of the track.
Although he took his time believing in his own potential as a precocious teenage sprinter – and still rates his relay gold in the 1991 World Championships 4x400m as his greatest achievement rather than individual glory – he is brimming with positive belief in his own protégés now he is in the athlete management industry at Stellar Athletics.
The 49-year-old three-time Olympian set up the business with his ex-partner and fellow GB sprinter Jennifer Stoute when he hung up his spikes 16 years ago.
However, it wasn't a straightforward path to his current role managing the professional lives of world-class athletes including Lynsey Sharp, Serita Solomon, Eilish McColgan, Laura Muir, Shara Proctor and Desiree Henry to name but a few on the company's roll call.
He explains how he arrived in his current position, saying: "Way back in 2000, I was hoping to make my fourth Olympic team, but I was finding training hard," he says.
"The combination of posting a 21.21 result in Hungary behind four athletes who were normally behind me by some distance, and the fact I didn't feel the buzz or the drive anymore, led to me retiring the day after that race," he adds.
"I went on to try bobsleigh and made the GB squad, before realising the cold is way too cold for me! I then worked with the BBC and during my last five months there, I set up Stellar Athletics with the Stellar Group, a sports management agency, which gave me an insight into managing the careers of professional sports men and women."
"I went on to try bobsleigh and made the GB squad, before realising the cold is way too cold for me!"
The former aspiring footballer from Lewisham is hands on with the day-to-day running of the business, working alongside five experienced team members, all of whom were previously involved in athletics to a high standard.
Regis's work diary varies from organising athletes' travel and racing arrangements from his office in Stanhope Place in London, to flying all over the world helping to ensure they arrive safely at their race location and have everything they need in place to allow them to compete at the highest level.
"Depending on the day, I could be on a flight to Europe or America for an athletics meet, where some of our clients are competing, or working 11-6pm in the office back in the UK," he explains. "If I'm on the road, as soon as I've arrived and checked into my hotel, I make sure my competing athletes' accommodation is in place, and they have the information they need for the race, such as their lanes, who their competitors are, their meal times, training, the bus timetable to the track, and they have physiotherapy or massage if needed, before finally calling my daughters (Alicia, 14, top ranked under-15 200m talent, and promising 60m athlete, 10-year-old Renee) before I go to sleep.
"A day in the office involves contacting event directors to confirm our clients are in their meets, calling injured athletes to see if they're recovering, or if they need extra help, speaking to my US colleagues to see what, if any, developments have occurred, checking on potential new clients, overseeing athletes' travel arrangements, and perhaps a few meetings before leaving by 6pm."
He is keen to help the athletes he manages reach the same dizzy heights of international glory he did, with the memories of his first senior 200m bronze aged just 20 still invoking excitement when he recalls his breakthrough result.
"It was the first international race where I went from being a 'no name athlete' to someone the world knew existed," he explains. "It was an amazing feeling to be so close to a gold, but to be on the podium and to hear my name broadcast to the stadium and the cheers I received, made me feel hungry for more success. I began to believe even more that I could be a star!"
That moment came just three years after he turned professional, following his first AAA 200m victory over a certain Linford Christie and Todd Bennett, before going on to to win his first international medal the following year, a European Junior 100m bronze to go with the gold he won in the 4x100m in Cottbus, Germany.
The Belgrave Harrier knows how important having a reliable support team is if success is to be achieved by his young elites, but acknowledges that his own career was backed more by the belief his club and parents had in his abilities than the sport's governing body.
Speaking about his success in the senior athletics ranks, he says his own will to succeed and determination together with that of his equally high flying team mates were essential components in his financial 'survival' as an elite runner.
"My GB teammates were – and still are – my friends, and we all had the same drive and belief in our ability to take on the world," he reveals. "We wanted to maintain our level of excellence, and, if one athlete stood on the podium, we all wanted to emulate that in our own events.
"We knew that our performances would be our financial gain, so we just focused on being the best, which would then bring the financial rewards. There wasn't as much support from the athletics governing body as there is today, so we had to be successful to survive."
"My GB teammates were – and still are – my friends, and we all had the same drive and belief in our ability to take on the world"
His substantial global relay medal collection clearly means just as much to the man coached by greats including John Isaacs (1986-1993), John Smith (1993- 1995), and Clarence Callender (1995-1998), but he concedes that although he enjoyed great success alongside household names such as Roger Black and Kriss Akabusi, they could have been an even greater force to be reckoned with.
"Athletics is an individual sport, so the only time we were a team was in a relay, the highlight of which was being part of the 4x400m team that beat the USA to become world champions in 1991," he recalls.
"That was my best moment in athletics, as although we were massive underdogs, we ran perfect races to win.
"However, relays don't work if you're not all on the same wavelength – egos must be left at the door and the team must be the focus. We didn't have the same complete unity in the 4x100m – that meant we were good, when we should have been great."
Reminiscing about his career highlights gives a clear insight into how he is able to handle the pressure and expectations of current and future Olympians on a daily basis.
"My first major championship win will always have a special spot in my memory, and that together with winning the world indoors in 1987 and being the first ever GB winner in that event, gave me the belief that I could have a great career in athletics," he reveals.
Although his international sprinting days are behind him, he still keeps fit doing regular T25 fitness training (intense short bursts of exercise completed in 25 minutes), golf, tennis and occasional runs, but his busy days managing today's and tomorrow's track and field stars, together with supporting the next generation of Regis talent, consume more energy than his sporting pastimes ever could.


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Porsche Club of America Chicago Region will be hosting their annual Oktoberfest event (this year...a little early!) For event details or to register, please visit www.pca-chicago.org . Gate will open at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27th and remain open 24 hours until the end of the event on Sunday.Find out more »


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Iditarod Throw Back Thursday
Throw Back Thursdays (TBTs) seem to be all the rage on social media these days. We'll play along! Take a minute (literally) to check out our latest video on YouTube. Our tribute to TBT takes you back to Fairbanks on Monday for the Iditarod restart... take a turn through the dog lot and enjoy some close up antics of the twins' very excited canine athletes.
Great Video On YouTube!
Check out this great interview and footage of Kristy and Anna before and during the Knik 200 race earlier this year. From KTVA CBS 11 News.
I could practically hear the dogs clambering to get off my camera's memory card, so far be it from me to deny them!
You'll find all of my photos from the start of this year's Iditarod on our Flickr page. Forgive me if it takes a couple more days to get them all set up with snappy captions.
And there are two new videos on our YouTube Channel!
New Additions on YouTube
There are two new uploads on Seeing Double's YouTube channel. Take a 360 degree tour of the dog lot in Nome or ride along with the twins for a moment over the brutal section of trail crossing Norton Sound.
Video Footage on the Iditarod Site
I don't believe you have to be a paying Iditarod Insider to view some of their video content (you'll just have to sit through a few commercials if you aren't). Simply complete their free user registration to get access to some video and article content. Registering is worth it to check out the Iditarod's Video page. With a little digging around, you will be able to see a lot of great clips, including the following:
Two Minutes With The Berington Twins (Posted Fri. March 9th ~ Featured video)
Gebhardt Out Of Takotna (Posted on Mar 8, 2012 10:11 am)
Dogs of Iditarod 2012 Episode 1 (Posted on Mar 6, 2012 8:10 am)
You Tube Channel
Check out some video uploads from the start of the race. Apologize to those around you and turn up the volume. Don't be surprised if a few attract the attention of family pets!
Click here! Seeing Double's You Tube Channel
Check out this great interview of Kristy and Anna that aired on CBS Anchorage Channel 11 after last night's banquet. You can also find it directly on KTVA's website.
Go to Iditarod.com!
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I have had this foundation for quite sometime and its only fair I share my thoughts with you all. From the time I started purchasing makeup I always knew I would purchase a Bobbi brown foundation. So I finally made the purchased and was pleased that I did so.
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My review:
The packaging:
The foundation comes in a sleek matte glass bottle. I'm so glad that it comes with a pump that easily dispenses the product. Most higher end foundations don't come with pumps so I'm glad that this product did.
The texture:
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This is a medium to a full coverage foundation. I use three pumps to achieve a full coverage look.
This dries down to almost a full matte finish. This definitely proved to be waterproof and sweat-and humidity-resistant. I went swimming one day with it and it lasted. On hot days , this foundation does not separate or look cakey.
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This foundation lasted the whole entre day for me. Around the 6-hour mark, I found myself get oily and I needed to blot. However, my makeup remained the same and it didn't feel cakey to the skin.
Overall thoughts:
This is an amazing foundation. It provides the full coverage that I need and lasts throughout the day for me. I definitely can recommend this foundation to everyone.


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Question: What is the population of North Druid Hills? Answer: North Druid Hills, United States (Administrative unit: Georgia) - last known population is ≈ 18 900 (year 2010). This was 0.006% of total United States population. If population growth rate would be same as in period 2000-2010 (+0.05%/year), North Druid Hills population in 2020 would be: 19 042*.


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Lea Michele is working with Glee producers on Cory Monteith's tribute episode.
The 31-year-old actor died from an accidental heroin and alcohol overdose on July 13 and his grieving girlfriend and co-star wants to make sure the upcoming episode dedicated to him is perfect.
A source told HollywoodLife.com: "The producers are still going back and forth on what they want to do and clearing music for his tribute.
"The meetings are lengthy and Lea is a part of them to make sure everything is just right.
"It's still touch and go for all involved. Tears can and will happen.
"When they start filming the episode, everyone is going to be a mess. After they film that episode they are going to go on a break to recharge."
Cory battled drug addiction throughout his teens and first entered rehab at the age of 19. After suffering a relapse earlier this year, he checked into a treatment facility but overdosed after a night out in Vancouver with friends last month.
Cory's character Finn Hudson will be killed off the show in the third episode of the upcoming fifth season, which will deal with drug addiction.
Lea Michele is working with Glee producers on Cory Monteith's tribute episode.


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How exactly do high school students at Safonovo learn to live independently?
Social apartment is a specially equipped accommodation within the territory of the facility. There are bedrooms, a kitchen, and bathrooms there. Those who live there are high school students who are going to leave the orphanage and start living by themselves soon. Living in a flat where you have to do everything yourself is very helpful as it makes your transition from the orphanage to adult life more smooth and successful.
In 2014 nine graduates of the 11th class lived in the social apartment of the Safonovo Orphanage-School (six of them lived there from the beginning of the year until their graduation, and three others came at the beginning of the next school year). They did all the work themselves: cleaned up, washed and ironed their clothes, made minor repairs and cooked meals. The children planned their menu in advance and bought food at the grocery. Girls and boys learned how to use home appliances, distribute duties, and keep the apartment clean – all those things ordinary teenagers in ordinary families do.
Flexible timetable allows the children to attend tutorial classes or to learn via distance learning and at the same time to actively participate in the school life. There are practical exercises organized for the children. Here are some of the topics which help them feel more confident and gain better understanding of various details of domestic life and the law:
The children also discuss details of family relationships, such as marriage, wedding, the psychology of family, family celebrations, and the role of the husband and the wife in the family.
Most of the participants live a healthy lifestyle – they don't smoke and go in for sports. The graduates took part in a protest against drugs held by the graduates of Smolensk Oblast schools.
The children, together with the project curator, visited such organizations as post offices, city library, chemist's, clinic, and bank and also learned how to use payment terminals and electronic cards. Types of medical care were presented to them as well – clinic reception, hospitalization, and emergency medical services.
Another school year will come, new participants will join the project. To give these children an opportunity to prepare for independent life, you can support our project "Social apartment" here.


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When the multigroup module was introduced as part of the CCK 3.x dev branch in 2009, it took CCK to a whole new level. It allowed people to easily create their own multi-value, multi-field widgets. Currently it is still only available as an alpha release for Drupal 6 though, most likely to focus more on Fields for Drupal 7 and to allow an easier upgrade path from Drupal 6 CCK 2 to Drupal 7 Fields. More information about this decision can be found on the drupal.org issue about the Status of CCK3 and plans for D7
In Drupal 7, the core Fields module doesn't offer the option to create groups, let alone multigroups. To create simple groups, you need the Field group module. It's much more powerful than its predecessor in that it allows you to not only create fieldsets, but also vertical and horizontal tabs and accordion groups.
The Field group module does not cover any multigroup functionality however, and it never will. It states so on the module's project page, and more information can be found in the issue queue.
Luckily there's the Field collection module which uses the Entity API to create multi-value, multi-field widgets. The Field collection table module adds a table formatter to the collections, and Field collection also integrates with Field group to offer amazing flexibility and power. As an added bonus, both modules integrate flawlessly with Features. At this time, there is no upgrade path from D6 Multigroup to D7 Fields with Field collection though.
Last year Telenet successfully migrated its knowledge base and business site to Drupal. As a member of the Ausy/DataFlow group I'm proud to announce that Telenet today launched its multisite search using Drupal.
We continued on the Apache Solr based solution we had already created for the knowledge base while Robert Douglass was hired to work on a Nutch/Solr implementation to crawl the (for now) non-Drupal based sites in the company's portfolio. This powerful combination results in a multilingual multisite search that features autocompletion, spell checking and file indexing.
Contributions were made to the following projects:
On March 15 and 16 I'll provide the follow-up training on the introductional Module Development course I gave during the Drupal Dev Days. Learn how to get custom functionality using Drupal's hook system, as well as how to extend or alter contributed module functionality in this two-day Acquia Drupal Module Development training.
I'm a freelance Drupal developer who loves enabling organizations switch to free and open source software.
When you're setting up Tomcat to run Solr be aware that although Solr supports UTF-8 by default, Tomcat does not. You can enable the character encoding by doing the following in Tomcat's server.xml:
- Add
URIEncoding="UTF-8"to the correct Connector
- Be sure to remove
useBodyEncodingForURIfrom that Connector
As I've mentioned before setting up a Wysiwyg in Drupal has become a straightforward job. A popular method is using the Wysiwyg module in combination with CKEditor. Enable the module, install the editor library and make sure to allow the <img> tag in your input format and you're good to go, right? Sadly, this is not always the case. It's important to note that as a security measure all input formats except the 'Full HTML' format remove all attributes from an html tag. This means that even though the image option in your favorite Wysiwyg editor allows you to align an image to the right and setting a margin, your input format will remove these attributes. Here's a clean example of CKEditor using the standard align and margin functionality:
Using the default 'Filtered HTML' input format and allow the img tag, this renders the following output:
What we saw in the Wysiwyg is definitely not what we see in the actual output because the input format removed the attributes that we set to style and position the images.
So how can we fix this? In Drupal core, we can not: the only option you have is to enable the 'Full HTML' filter, which is not advisable. Your best option is to install the Wysiwyg Filter module which enables a whole range of extra settings for input formats, allowing you to select which attributes, classes and properties should be allowed for which html tags. Such as the 'align' attribute and 'margin' property for images.
Setting up a Wysiwyg or rich text editor in Drupal is a straightforward task: you download the Wysiwyg module along with the library of your favorite editor and you're good to go. You will run into issues when you're using CCK multiple value fields though:
- You will experience data loss when adding more fields: all content added to existing fields will disappearing when you click the "Add another item" button to add a new field.
- Depending on which editor you use, there's a chance of hick-ups and data loss when using the drag-and-drop interface to rearrange fields.
- Depending on which editor you use, you will run into different kinds of unexpected behaviors when adding your first new item after clicking the "Add another item" button. These issues can range from the editor only appearing on the first field, to only appearing on the last field, or from the editor disappearing completely.
The first two issues can be fixed by installing the Wysiwyg API CCK Integration module, which itself depends on three other modules: JS Alter, jQuery Form Update and jQuery AOP. These modules require no configuration: just enable them to fix the problems.
The third issue however is more tedious. I've tried fixing the bug with hook_form_alter() and CCK fields along with the Wysiwyg integration guide but these don't play along nicely. The added difficulty is that the problem varies depending on which editor you use. The only bulletproof "solution" I've found this far is to simply use the FCKeditor editor: it's the only editor that doesn't appear to cause any unexpected behavior. Do note that these problems are only fixed if you use the FCKeditor with the Wysiwyg module: the FCKeditor module itself still has these issues.
On July 14, 15 and 16 I have the pleasure to provide the first two Acquia-powered training courses in Europe. First is the introductional "Drupal in a Day" training for everyone who wants to dive head first into Drupal to get to know the basics. This is followed by the two-day "Drupal for Site Builders" training that goes much deeper into specific modules like CCK, Views and Panels.
The Drupal template override system is very intuitive: find the template you want to alter, copy it to your theme folder and adjust it. The handbook page on d.o about overriding themable output is even one of the most complete and appealing I've seen. So I was surprised when I wanted to override the core poll module's "Most recent poll" block, and found out it simply wasn't working. Try as I might the altered
poll-results-block.tpl.php that was sitting in my custom theme folder wasn't being recognized, no matter how many times I cleared the registry or double-checked the paths and filenames. I had my Eureka moment want I came across this d.o issue about how themes can't use node-story.tpl.php without node.tpl.php. John Albin explains the history of this issue (and why it won't be fixed in Drupal 6) in comment #48.
The issue is fixed in Drupal 7 but just so you know in Drupal 6...
- if you want to override poll-results-block.tpl.php you need to copy poll-results.tpl.php as well.
- if you want to override comment-blog.tpl.php you need to copy comment.tpl.php as well.
- if you want to create a Zen subtheme with region-sidebar-first.tpl.php you need to copy region.tpl.php as well.
Following Davy's initiative, here are two years of Mollom stats for mostrey.be. Spread the word!
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About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web