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We will welcome Tamedia delegates on February 4th
Tamedia delegates will come and have a meeting at CPE Lyon on next February 4th. They with meet International department team and some students to offer them internship opportunities.
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MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has a set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must create several new businesses. The head of knowledge management must decide hos his function should change in order to become more supportive of innovation and new business development.
The aim of this case is to introduce students to a set of highly effective knowledge management practices, built around communities of practice, and to show how they have been created and implemented. The case also shows students the power of organizational culture and values, and how leadership activities and HR policies can support a culture of collaboration, openess, and employee development and learning.
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Movie Mayhem with Michael Doherty!!!!
Friday, 7 March 2008
It's Friday and that can only mean one thing Movie buff Michael Doherty is on the sofa with all of this weeks biggest and best new releases.
Vantage Point (12A)
Courtesy: Sony Pictures
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Pete Travis
Verdict: Entertaining, if uneven thriller, which offers a very smart premise and a very strong cast. The premise is an assassination attempt on the US president as seen (Rashomon-style) from a variety of perspectives. The strong cast includes Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker and William Hurt as the Prez. Perhaps with a different director, it could have been smarter, slicker and more tense, but Pete Travis (Omagh) is pretty much going through the motions.
Trivia: In its opening weekend, the film grossed $22.8 million in the United States and Canada, ranking #1 at the box office.
The Other Boleyn Girl (15A)
Courtesy: Universal Pictures
Starring: Natalie Portman, Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson
Director: Justin Chadwick
Synopsis: Two sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, are driven by their ambitious Father and Uncle to advance the family's power and status by courting the affections of the King of England. Leaving behind the simplicity of country life, the girls are thrust into the dangerous and thrilling world of court life--and what began as a bid to help their family develops into a ruthless rivalry between Anne and Mary for the love of the King.
Initially, Mary wins King Henry's favor and becomes his mistress, bearing him two illegitimate children. But Anne, clever, conniving and fearless, edges aside both her sister and Henry's wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon, in her relentless pursuit of the King. Despite Mary's genuine feelings for Henry, her sister Anne has her sights set on the ultimate prize; Anne will not stop until she is Queen of England.
As the Boleyn girls battle for the love of a King--one driven by ambition, the other by true affection--England is torn apart.
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who! (G)
Courtesy: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett
Directors: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Verdict: Horton is an elephant (voiced by Jim Carrey) who hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust that is home to tiny people called the Whos, who live in Whoville (yep, it's Dr Seuss territory).
Their mayor (voiced by Steve Carell) realises they need help and Horton comes to the rescue, but when Sour Kangaroo (Carol Burnett) refuses to believe that there could be life on a speck, Horton finds himself in hot water.
The story teaches a very valuable lesson: "A person's a person, no matter how small."
And it's an absolute Who-ot for kids of all ages.
Hanna Montana & Miley Cyrus 3D (G)
Courtesy: Buena Vista
Starring: Miley Cyrus
Director: Bruce Hendricks
Synopsis: Fans of the hugely popular "Hannah Montana" TV show will get the chance to experience the thrill of a front row seat to see their favourite singer, songwriter and actress, Miley Cyrus, perform her sold-out U.S. tour HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT on the big screen with this very special Disney Digital 3-DT presentation in Irish cinemas on 14th March. Shot during her 69-city, standing-room-only US concert tour, the film brings a whole new dimension to the pop idol, as state-of-the-art 3-D captures up close, and with stunning clarity, the music, persona and inside world of both Miley Cyrus and her rocking alter ego, Hannah Montana.
With rapidly rising stars, Jonas Brothers, as her special guests and a stage filled with dancers, pyrotechnics and video imagery, HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT showcases the exuberant magnetism that has led the 15- year-old singer and actress to become a multimedia sensation and attracted legions of fans all over the world. In addition to its viscerally real concert footage, the film includes a "backstage pass" peek at Miley's life on tour.
Trivia: HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT shot to the #1 spot at the US box office establishing the following records:
The biggest 3-D opening ever with a screen average of $42,000 on 683 screens
The biggest opening of any film playing over Super Bowl weekend including Titanic.
The highest opening for a film playing on fewer than 1000 screens stealing the #1 spot from Borat which opened on 837 screens.


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It's still a sprawling action movie, complete with boilerplate plot, senseless acts of violence, and the satisfying crunch of large-scale destruction. But make no mistake: Guardians of the Galaxy is a riot, and Marvel's master plan to take over Hollywood is well under way.
After thirteen years and three films, it's still hard to know what to think about Richard B. Riddick. No one calls him Dick. His luminescent mother-of-pearl cat's eyes allow him to see in the dark, when they're not protected by an iconic pair of black welding goggles. He is very talented at killing people and…


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Island fire contained
Firefighters have been flown by helicopter onto a Lake Macquarie island after a blaze broke out in swampland this morning.
The fire started on Ponte Point, near the Fennell Bay Bridge, at around 11:00am (AEDT), and took 20 Rural Fire Service volunteers with portable pumps around an hour to extinguish.
A water bombing helicopter was brought in to help fight the fire which is now contained.
A total fire ban has declared across the state today.
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Cyclone Yasi repairs face inspection
The pace of rebuilding some of the areas worst hit by Cyclone Yasi, in north Queensland, will come under scrutiny today.
The Federal Government body, the Australian Government Reconstruction Inspectorate, will visit Cardwell to view progress on its foreshore reconstruction project.
The inspectorate, which reports directly to the Prime Minister, will also visit Mission Beach to discuss plans to repair jetties at Clump Point and Dunk Island.
More than $5 million has been allocated to rebuilding the jetties within a year.
The Cassowary Coast Regional Council says the long-awaited reconstruction of the Cardwell foreshore will begin in early August.
Contractors were awarded yesterday to complete the Cyclone Yasi reconstruction works, which are expected to cost about $32.5 million.
Mayor Bill Shannon says the redevelopment will include the construction of a rock wall to protect a section of the Bruce Highway from future natural disasters.
"There'll be barbecue areas, water features, there will be play areas, shade areas, an auditorium formed out of the natural part of the land near the jetty and a boardwalk that will connect to the Port Hinchinbrook Development," he said.
He says the council will ensure disruptions are kept to a minimum during the seven-month project.
"The project managers are working closely with the property owners and the business owners to make sure that the worst affected on their trading will be mitigated by the planning of the work," he said.
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Lots of bad news about Iraq! And it gets worse — because the answer ain't Maliki
- By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Politico is asking today, Who lost Iraq? They got a variety of interesting answers from the best minds in the business.
Meantime, Brian Fishman has a good article, published by the West Point Combating Terrorism Center, looking at what led to the current dismal situation in Fallujah. The bad news is that al Qaeda is in Anbar province receiving support or acquiescence from the tribes. The worse news is that the situation in Syria gave al Qaeda a safe refuge and access to many foreign fighters. The worst news of all is that, "Good governance, including effective law enforcement and intelligence work, is the only way to eliminate a terrorist organization, and that does not seem likely in Iraq anytime soon."


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AMAZING ARCHITECTURE: Now through this weekend will be your last chance to see the more than 100 entries in the annual Festival of Gingerbread at The History Center, 302 E. Berry St.
Special events also are planned:
•Beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, all non-consignment items in the gift shop will be sold at 20 percent off regular price. The price of gingerbread cookies also will be reduced to 50 cents each.
•At 8:30 a.m. Saturday, the Gingerbread Pursuit run/walk fundraiser for The History Center will take place around downtown Fort Wayne. Participants can pick up their entry packets at 7:15 a.m. at Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St. They also receive free admission to the Gingerbread Festival after the race. More information is available at www.veepraces.com/?races=gingerbread-pursuit-2.
•From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Science Central and the History Center will present the "Science of Sugary Structures" as children explore building a sturdy gingerbread house. Program cost is $3 per child, in addition to museum admission.
•From 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, join in a Cookie Decorating Party. Cost is $1 per person, in addition to museum admission.
Festival of Gingerbread hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. today, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5, ages 19-58; $3, ages 59 and older and ages 3-18; and free, ages 2 and younger. For more information, call 426-2882 or go to www.fwhistorycenter.com.MUSICAL CELEBRATION: Salute the season with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic's annual Holiday Pops concert at 8 p.m. at the beautiful Embassy Theatre, 121 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Bradley Thachuk, the Phil's former associate conductor and longtime Holiday Pops planner and conductor, will be back again this year in a guest conductor role. As in recent years, the Phil's music will be complemented with vocals by talented students from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
The performances also will feature the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus and Fort Wayne Children's Choir.
Additional Holiday Pops concerts will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 14-15 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 15.
Tickets are $28-$68. To order, call 481-0777, go to www.fwphil.org or buy them at the Embassy Theatre box office.
DANCE CLASSIC: The Fort Wayne Ballet continues its annual production of "The Nutcracker" at 8 p.m. at the Arts United Center, 303 E. Main St. The performance tells the story of a young girl whose magical uncle sends her on dreamy adventures where she encounters fairies, a Mouse King and Nutcracker Prince.
Additional performances are at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $31 and $36, adults; $25 and $31, ages 60 and older; $20 and $25, ages 11-18; and $17 and $20, ages 3-10. Children ages 2 and younger can sit free on a paying patron's lap, but the ticket buyer must request a lap ticket.
For tickets, call 422-4226 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays and noon-4 p.m. Saturdays, or visit the Arts United ticket office during those hours at the Arts United Center. For information, contact the ballet at 484-9646 or www.fortwayneballet.org.ENJOY A LAUGH: Christian comedian Chonda Pierce will be in town for shows at 2 and 7 p.m. (the evening show is sold out) at First Assembly of God Christian Center, 1400 W. Washington Center Road.
Tickets are $5, ages 6-12; $10 each, groups of 10 or more; general admission, $15 advance and $20 at door; and Artist Circle, $20. Ages 5 and younger are free, except in the Artist Circle seating.
For more information and tickets, go to www.trinitycommunications.org. Tickets also are available at iTickets.com and at Yo Yo (Yogurt On Your Own) locations at 10015 Lima Road and 9930 Illinois Road.
'WONDERFUL' TIME: Get a different perspective on the holiday film classic by taking in the live stage performance of "It's a Wonderful Life" at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Theater, 300 W. Wayne St.
As in the film, the play plot revolves around George Bailey and the lesson he learns about the value of faith, family and friends.
Additional shows will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and Dec. 14 and 15; and at 2 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 16.
Tickets are general admission, $20 presale or $24 if bought at the door; age 65 and older, $18 presale or $22 at the door; and full-time students, $10 presale and at the door. To reserve a ticket with a credit card, call 422-6329 or pick up tickets at the church, 300 W. Wayne St. Box office hours are noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and one hour before each show, or order online at www.firstpres-fw.org/the_arts/theater/tickets/.LOCAL VOCALS: Enjoy songs of the season as the Heartland Sings choral group presents Heartland Sings: Holidays at 2:30 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational Church, 501 W. Berry St.
The performance will include a mix of well-known holiday classics as well as new songs Heartland staff members believe will have enduring popularity.
Additional performances will be at 7 p.m. Saturday at Auburn Presbyterian Church, 111 W. 12th St. in Auburn; 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at Homestead High School's auditorium, 4310 Homestead Road; and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 16 at Trinity Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 709 E. Business U.S. 30 in Columbia City.
Tickets for all shows $20 each and are available at www.heartlandchorale.org or by 436-8080. Children ages 18 and younger are free when accompanied by a paying adult.


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THE first incarnation of the Proceeds of Crime Act was seen in Ireland, as the Garda fought to control the power and influence of drug racketeers in Dublin.
Like now, back then it was hailed as the best way of hitting the leaders of the underworld where it would hurt the most: their pockets.
The creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) was prompted by the murder of crime reporter Veronica Guerin in 1996. Gangster John Traynor, known as "The Coach", fled Ireland soon after Guerin was shot dead while stopped at traffic lights on the outskirts of Dublin.
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Traynor was later named in court by underworld associate and drug trafficker John Gilligan as the man who ordered the journalist's killing.
Guerin's death sparked outrage and the Irish parliament brought in the CAB to tackle the increasing levels of serious organised crime in the country. Scotland and the rest of the UK began to look across the Irish Sea at the success of the new legislation in disrupting gangland activities.
In 2002, the Proceeds of Crime Act (Poca) was introduced in Scotland.
Scottish politicians and police officers spoke about ending the status of "Mr Bigs" as negative community role models, who drove flash cars but never did an honest day's work.
The new legislation allowed police and prosecutors to freeze, seize and ultimately confiscate the ill-gotten gains of drugs barons and criminals.
Since 2007, the Crown Office has taken more than £40 million under the Act through civil and criminal recovery procedures.
Almost all funds raised through Poca have gone to good causes in communities.
The first major haul for Poca in Scotland came when the Crown seized £1.3m from Michael Voudouri, of Bridge of Allan. Voudouri was jailed for four years for a £3m VAT evasion in 2006.
In 2010, Christopher Cummins of Glasgow had more than £200,000 taken from him, after police investigating a drugs ring found cash in his car. Cummins was pulled over during the Strathclyde Police operation and failed to explain to officers why he had £200,191.75 in his possession. He was ordered to forfeit the full amount to the Crown.
Two criminals once dubbed Scotland's most wanted couple had almost £1m seized from them in 2011. Anthony Kearney and Donna McCafferty escaped to Spain's Costa Blanca when police started looking into their activities, but they were caught and extradited to Scotland.
Kearney, who admitted a money-laundering offence as well as three charges of housing benefit fraud, was sentenced to two years in prison. McCafferty was ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service after pleading guilty to benefit fraud at Glasgow Sheriff Court in December 2009.
Separate proceedings were later raised under proceeds of crime legislation and Kearney was ordered to pay £930,362.75 and McCafferty £13,003.25.
Earlier this month, notorious crime boss Eddie Lyons, 53, had £75,000 worth of assets seized under proceeds of crime laws after racking up £259,000 in mortgage frauds.
He also admitted being involved in the transfer of criminal property after using some of the money he made through the frauds to give his daughter, Ashley Lyons, a gift of £30,000.
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Rated 4 / 5 stars
The intro cals you and just leaves your mind blank but the trupet kicks in and really paints a pcicture of what you were trying to accomplish great job :)
Rated 4 / 5 stars
I actually quite liked this track, it seemed like something that if worked out with the right percussion and choir, would fit right into some sort of Danny Elfman score. The various chords made great use of tension and release, offering melody and dissonance at just the right moments...I would have given this 5 stars if it had not cut off right and the climax...quite the musical cock-tease, lol. But if you're going to be docked a point for anything, at least it's the fact that I wanted to hear MORE of it.
Found this track in the "Review for Review" Audio Portal thread.
Good job and keep up the great work!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
The composition is spot on man, and that stand up bass... WOW... I would to have liked to have heard more of that trumpet and less of the intro. MAN... Are you kidding? You gotta finish this!! great job.
Thanks Jay, this was actually mostly spontaneous creation, the first half literally having been done in a single take while looking at the movie I was scoring!
I'm glad to like it, and I hope to be able to make something like this soon, as it was pretty fun. :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Seems perfect to me, it's just a bit short, though since it's an intro it's a good length.
Thank you!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
The strings alone have a weird tinge to them hahahaha, but when combined with the trumpet, and from what I think I hear a soft accordion, it all blended very nicely. Wow that's a very short student film...but definitely quintessential of the noire type music, actually really captivating string melody that flowed very nicely. And of course, the trumpet is divine. Can't really think of much else to say since it's so short lol, but really nice musical sting, if you will.
Thanks for the nice words, Zip, I'm glad you enjoyed!
The reason it's so short is simply due to the fact that it's the intro theme, as I was asked to simply produce the occasional musical cues and intro.
Nonetheless, thanks again!


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|November 16, 2006, 10:08 AM
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Uneven 8" concrete block walls and ricochet
I'm finishing up our basement for my wife to use as a studio (works at home), and I'm evaluating a new defense firearm purchase (any excuse ;-).. Previous work location was suitable for just about anything due to firing angles but I'm a bit concerned about ricochet from the very uneven block walls.
They 're being covered by 2x4stud walls (2 walls insulated) and 1/2" drywall which perhaps would be enough to catch anything that might try to bounce off?
It seems to me that shotgun in general would be very resistant to ricochet of any sort, and handgun cartridges (in a carbine perhaps) should be okay? Of course large caliber rifle might just punch in, but if the bullet hits at an angle I could see a possible problem.
I don't want this to turn into the 'best home defense gun' type thread, just looking for input on caliber/type choices for a room built outta concrete block...
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|November 17, 2006, 02:02 PM
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Hollow 8" concrete blocks or solid concrete blocks?
Last time I shot plain old 8" hollow blocks my 9mm punched right through with ease as expected.
They will hold up well with a lot of pressure bearing down on them from above, but give them a whack from the side and they crumble, got yelled at for that one time, was 10 and had a hammer. It doesn't take much to bust them.
|November 17, 2006, 02:58 PM
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Use a frangible ammo, then you dont have to worry about bullets bouncing all over the place and they have plenty of stopping power.
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|November 18, 2006, 08:17 AM
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Frangible ammo...
good for target practice...bad for self defense.
|November 18, 2006, 10:42 AM
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I standard hollow concrete block, you won't hav a problem with ricochets. I've shot a few 4" and 8", and even solid block....The concrete will usually break and contain, but anything that does bounce off has lost almost all of it energy, and would probably barely make it back through the drywall. Actuall, rifle rounds are safer, as they are mor likely to break into the block and stay there.
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If this is going to be a stay at home weapon for access in the studio...why not a shotgun? I don't think you should be that worried about ricochets. Bullets have a mind of their own..99 times out of 100 something we expect might happen...then that one time it's just a freak of nature.
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The study of bullet ricochets is a complex science in and of itself. We can predict trends in ricochets in general, and sometimes probable outcomes, but the variables involved are so great and sometimes complex, that a predictable, accurate outcome is rarely possible.
Consider this abstract by the US Dept. of Justice on an article published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 1992.
Throw the word "uneven" in the mix, and you have a mathematical nightmare. I understand your concerns in wanting a predictable outcome, but be aware that Murphy's Law has a huge influence here .
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Jerusalem (Mar. 11)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Six Arabs, accused of murdering the Jewish watchman, Liberman, on August 20, were sentenced by the Jaffa district court to five years imprisonment.
In reporting the conference of the United Jewish Campaign in Columbus, Ohio, the wrong amount of the quota for the state of Ohio was given. The quota for the state is $1,000,000.


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The RCMP have just reported there has been a motor vehicle collision on the Trans-Canada Highway at Port Blandford (Between the Irving in Port Blandford and the North Atlantic Gas Bar). Due to this accident, the TCH is now closed and traffic is re-routed through the community of Port Blandford.
A transport truck and a pickup truck were off the road beside the sign to Port Blandford, both pointed westward.


text: I'm thinking about doing a Disney Cruise in Dec, 2010. Looking at the 4 or 7 day. Consideruing doign the 4 day, then hitting Sea World when we return and not doing the Disney parks. I have always wanted to go to Sea World, but we never seem to want to miss a day at Disney to do it! So, I thought this might be on opportune time, since there won't be "enough" days to do WDW "right" (at least one day in each park would be "enough" for me). Will going on the cruise make me want to go to the parks? Or will I get my Disney fill on the cruise and be able to relax and enjoy Sea World after the cruise? Or should I just do the 7 day cruise and forget doign any parks on this trip? AAAGH!! The possibilities are endless!!


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Renown industry analyst Michael Pachter predicts that Sony's PlayStation 4 will continue to dominate the market as long as it's the cheaper choice.
In the most recent episode of Game Trailer's Bonus Round show, Michael Pachter–a leading industry analyst for Wedbush Securities–has made yet another one of his sage predictions in the gaming world. According to Pachter, it doesn't matter to consumers which console does what; the victor of the console next-gen console arena will be the one that costs less.
Sony's PlayStation 4 console has since stolen the lead of the next-gen market in terms of cumulative sales, selling a record-breaking 2.1 million consoles across Europe and North America in its first two weeks of availability.
Over the holidays that number has grown, but Microsoft's Xbox One actually one-upped the PS4 by selling more units in December. The Japanese console-maker continues to hold the crown in terms of global sales, with the Xbox One trailing behind.
Pachter attributes Microsoft's lower sales to the Xbox One's $499 price tag, and delivers a portent that reflects the current trends of the market.
"They've won as long as they have a $100 price advantage," Pachter affirms Sony's current stance as far as hardware sales. "Microsoft will not turn that around. It's not possible."
The Xbox One's $100 premium is in no small part due to the advanced Kinect 2.0 sensor bundled with every console, but this device–along with a host of exclusive console features like Snap Mode, entertainment options and upcoming content–may not be enough to win over the general consumer base.
Pachter also gave an interesting forecast regarding current-gen game support. He predicts that the publishers will threaten manufacturers–that is Sony and Microsoft–not to port games onto current-gen consoles in order to get a price cut on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Pachter guesses this price cut might come as soon as February–but of course there's no official evidence, this is just his forecast.
Interestingly enough, back in December of last year another analyst firm by the name of DFC Intelligence echoed Pachter's claims, as they saw Sony as the clear victor against Microsoft's Xbox One.
Although both consoles have been released, the war is far from over: both sides will continue to exchange blows for the control of the market and interest of gamers worldwide.
Sony is readying a salvo with its cross-platform PlayStation Now service, which brings classic games from PS3 (and beyond) across an ecosystem of consoles, tablets, smartphones, handhelds and even Smart TVs. Microsoft has its extensive cloud-based structure, Xbox LIVE Compute, which plans to provide a bevy of additional features for Xbox One consoles including possible graphical enhancements.
Time will prove Pachter's clairvoyance, but for now both sides continue to gain momentum as plans–and a smattering of upcoming games–are put into motion.
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About this blogIn this blog I am making my researches in the architectural and family history of British and Irish landed families and their country houses available in the hope that others will find them interesting and useful: the usage of the site by more than 40,000 readers a month from all round the world is most encouraging and suggests that others share my interests. I want in particular to show how the history of the houses reflects the history of the families who owned them, and to enable those interested in particular houses to trace the kinship networks of their owners, which so often shaped the patronage choices which owners made. The approach has been developed on the basis of my previous research on Gloucestershire country houses, where I was able to visit almost every surviving house and personally inspect all the surviving archival evidence. However that one county study took me 20 years, and in scaling up to a national canvas I am inevitably largely dependent on the original research of others.
The research which supports this blog is therefore primarily derived from secondary sources, online catalogues of archives, and digitised original sources, although I am also drawing on a lifetime of country house and church visiting, which means that over the years I have been to quite a lot of the places described, including many that are not open to the public. The secondary sources - and especially the Internet sources - for genealogy, and indeed for the architectural history of country houses, are notoriously full of inaccuracies and wish-fulfillment, and I hope that as an archivist I bring to bear on this material over 35 years of experience in evaluating and testing the evidence they provide, so as to offer in the blog as factual an account as I can. However, while the information provided is as accurate as I can make it while maintaining a reasonable output, I am far from infallible in both my discovery of sources and my assessment of them, and I will be genuinely grateful for additional information and corrections supplied by readers, and especially by the current owners of the houses and by descendants of the families discussed, who may have personal archives containing information not otherwise available. I make updates and corrections to past posts on a regular basis, so trustworthy information supplied will be incorporated within a few days. I include at the end of each account a note of when it was first published and subsequently amended, so that readers who refer to the site at intervals can see at a glance whether an account has been updated since their last visit.
I have been asked how I select families and houses for inclusion. My rule of thumb is that a family should have owned and occupied at least one country house continuously for over half a century and more than one generation, and should have used it as a country house (not as a farm or a furniture store!). Most of the families included will be found in the pages of one or more editions of Burke's Landed Gentry or Peerage & Baronetage, though not all. Impressively comprehensive though those works are, some families do seem to have slipped through their net, and of course some families died out before John Burke began publishing in the 1820s and 1830s, such as the Ackloms of Wiseton Hall or the Agards of Foston Hall. I have also been asked about which families I have considered for inclusion, but rejected as not meeting these criteria; a list of these is given below. It will be seen that many of the families which are included in one or more editions of Burke's publications do not meet my criteria. (If you think any of these families did meet the criteria, please let me know!)
Saying that a family is selected for inclusion on the basis of owning a country house of course begs the question of what is a country house, which is interesting and tricky to define. My best effort is that it is a residential building which at the time it was built was in a rural setting and exhibited the characteristics that suggested gentry or aristocratic status to contemporaries. Those characteristics changed over time, with the varying social and economic significance of land ownership and changing architectural and landscaping fashions. Houses that were built as country houses could - and did - decline in status; others that had been simple farms over centuries could be refashioned and redecorated and lived in in a different way, and become country houses almost overnight. Those are the principles of selection, but I reserve the right to bend the rules to write about any family or house that interests me, and indeed to exclude the terminally dull!
I have already received very generous help of various kinds with the project from Sir William Arbuthnot, bt., Catherine Beale, Matthew Beckett, Peter Bell, Chris Bennett, Martin Deacon, Charles Hind, Gareth Hughes, Thomas Lloyd, the National Trust, Chris Pickford, Liz Rees, Rob Wheeler, Chris Whittick and Sue Wood.
I have also received help with particular families and houses from William Acton, John Ainslie, Peter Archdale, Jill Armitage, Anthea Ashfield, James Ashford, Pete & Jackie Bettess, David Bowd-Exworth, David Brown, Nicholas Coleridge, Peter de Loriol, Geoffrey de Wilton, Joanne Eastman, Alison Elliott, David Erskine, Niamh Fitzpatrick, Elisabeth Frankish, Bil Fulton, Clare Hartwell, Stan Hicks, Debbie Hodgson, Marc Hoover, Martyn Howes, Michael Kelly, Felicity Learey, Caroline Magnus, David Martin, Jean F. Milne, Nick Molyneux, Jeremy Musson, Jonathan Myles-Lea, Phil Norris, Lord Norton, Bernard Nurse, Christine Penney, Anthony Ruscoe, Megan Ryan, Bob Scott-Ashe, Colin Varley, John Venning, Chris Webb and Cressida Williams.
I am also particularly grateful to all those who have generously allowed me to reproduce individual photographs from other online and archival sources in return for nothing more than an acknowledgement, and in particular to Matthew Beckett, Charles Hind, Historic England and National Trust Images: the number and quality of the illustrations I can offer is thereby much enhanced. The images used are wherever possible my own, rights cleared, or available under a Creative Commons licence or equivalent. For images taken from the Web it has in some cases not been possible to establish or to contact a rights owner; if anyone can show their copyright has been infringed please contact me and I will either add an appropriate credit or take down the image.
Anatomy of the blog
Comments from readers suggest it may be helpful to explain a bit more about how posts on this blog are structured. Each post is in three parts:
Firstly, a general narrative account of the family from its first rise to gentry status down to its extinction, lapse from gentry status, or the present day, paying particular attention to its fluctuating status and wealth and the acquisition and dispersal of landed estates.
Secondly, accounts of each of the family's country houses, usually in the order they acquired them, and telling - as far as I can discover the information - the whole story of the house, including its development before the family under consideration acquired it, and after they sold it. For each house, there is a narrative history and a list of the owners as far as I have been able to trace it. Some houses which have been owned at different times by several qualifying families may eventually appear in more than one post (e.g. Linden Hall, which features in the posts of the Adamson and Ames families; or Frickley Hall, which features in the posts on the Anne and Warde-Aldam families).
The final section gives summary biographical and genealogical information about the members of the family who actually owned the estate or parts of it, in the sequence of their ownership. The names indexed on the 'Index to Biographical Entries' page are the names which appear in bold in this section, and who were generally the owners of one of the estates of the family, although where estates have passed from a man to his grandson or great-nephew I have included the intervening generations for comprehensibility. For each individual treated, I aim to provide the following information, where known:
- Parentage, date and place of birth and/or baptism
- Education, including travels on the Grand Tour
- Career - employment, official appointments, offices held, honours
- Personality, where illuminated by memoirs or other evidence, and significant friendships
- Marriage(s) - date, place, name and parentage of spouse(s)
- Children - for each, their dates and places of birth, marriage and death, names and parentage of spouse(s), number and sex of children; occupation and career, rank and honours
- Key property transactions during the lifetime of the owner and responsibility for work on the house or houses of the family
- Date and place of death and burial; date of probate of will, and value of estate; and similar details for their spouse.
For families with a very complex story, this material may be split over two postings, labelled 'part 1' and 'part 2', as, for example, with the Actons of Aldenham, Barons Acton. Each family has been assigned a number, included in the title of the post, which is used for indexing the content of the blog on the index pages.
To avoid any confusion, I should make it plain that the counties referred to in describing the location of properties are those in which the property stood immediately prior to the major shake-up of local government in the mid-20th century (in 1965 around London; in 1974 in the rest of England; and in 1975 in Scotland). Earlier minor boundary changes are ignored; thus Alscot Park is in Warwickshire not Gloucestershire, even though it lay in the latter county until 1931.
I would really welcome any suggestions for improvements in the content or presentation. I am also very keen to receive additional information and images as updates to previous posts, and will incorporate these to ensure that each post remains the most accurate account I can offer of the family and houses concerned. If you are able to help in this way, please post a comment on the relevant post or contact me throught the Contact Form on the blog. You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook. I put a message on Twitter and Facebook as each new post is published.
What's coming next
- Abrahall of Abrahall and Ingeston (Herefs) [now published]
- Agg (later Agg-Gardner) of The Hewletts, Cheltenham (Glos) [now published]
- Aislabie of Studley Royal (Yorks WR) [now published]
- Baber of Chew Court and Regilbury Court (Somerset) [now published]
- Babington of Dethick and Rothley Temple (Leics) [now published]
- Backhouse of Darlington (Durham) [now published]
- Backhouse of Swallowfield (Berks) [now published]
- Bacon of Burton Latimer (Northants) [now published]
- Bacon of Redgrave Hall (Suffolk), Gorhambury Park (Herts), Gillingham Hall and Raveningham Hall (Norfolk) and Thonock Grove (Lincs), baronets
- Bacon of Shrubland Hall (Suffolk) and Earlham Hall (Norfolk).
List of families considered for inclusion in the blog but not meeting the criteria
Aungier of East Clandon (Surrey) and Longford (Co. Longford), Earls of Longford
Aveling of Estover (Cambs) and Rochester (Kent)
Avenell of Norfolk
Averey of Fillongley (Warks)
Avery of Mells (Somerset)
Avery of Oakley Court, Bray (Berks)
Aykroyd of Cliffe Hall and Lightcliffe (Yorks)
Aylesbury of London, baronets
Aylesbury of Packwood (Warks)
Aylesbury of Wiveton Hall (Notts)
Ayliffe of Brinkworth (Wilts)
Aylmer of Balrath (Kildare), baronets and Barons Aylmer
Ayloffe of Great Braxted (Essex), baronets
Aylwen of London, baronets
Aylworth of Aylworth (Glos)
Aylworth of Trefford and Lewes (Sussex)
Aynscombe of Aylwins, Mayfield (Sussex)
Murray-Aynsley of Hall Court (Hants)
Ayre of Ely (Cambs)
Ayre of The Limes (Derbys)
Ayre of Yorkshire
Ayscough of Blyborough and Ayscoughfee Hall (Lincs) and Nuttall (Notts)
Ayshcombe of Lyford (Berks), baronets
Babington of Creevagh (Derry)
Bacon of Elcot House (Berks), Aberaman House (Glam) and Eywood (Herefs)
This page was last revised 22 August 2017.


text: Hey, if you have one of these you definitely need the manual! The canvas routing diagram alone is worth the price of admission. The fancy warranty page is definitely not worth what it adds to the file size but what the heck, I'm a perfectionist. High res, slow link, but definitely worth the download time. http://www.backglass.org/duncan/darkroom/pako_pakonomy_18ss_print_dryer.pdf Duncan


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Oxford Cambridge 100 Mile Relay
Oxford to Cambridge
Sat 03/29/2014
Elite, Military, Off-road/Trail, Other
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The race takes teams of runners an unprecedented 100 miles from ancient unversity city of Oxford across to the famous university city of Cambridge. It's a scenic route with lots of country footpaths and twisting lanes. The race combines strategy alongside individual effort and a huge team work component. Teams start together completing the first mile as a team, as well and the middle and last mile together. Teams must decide which runners complete which of the individual legs. These vary from 3 to 11 miles. Some have very simple navigation, running on clear footpaths during daylight and others involve difficult town navigation, running in the dark, running through woods, on a mix if off road and on road terrain. Teams must decide not just who runs which leg, but which vehicle that runner is in, who is eating and when, who is sleeping, who is navigating for the team member driving their minibus and cars.Event schedule and timesStarts at Oxford Ice Rink at 4am and finishes in Cambridge University sports ground in the evening.
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I am putting together a sausage making kit as a gift (for a guy). I would like to include a nice book on making your own sausages. Do you have one you like? Or suggestions on ones to avoid?
I have been considering Food DIY by Tim Hayward, with thoughts of extending the gift in the future (a small jar of my sourdough starter and a proving basket, for instance). I would love to hear if anyone's familiar with the sausage section of that book, to see if it's enough to get him going without needing any other books.


text: I played the 20 sec of risk yesterday at a large Christian Jr. High and High School in Port Macquarie, Australia - they went nuts - God's presence showed up as I briefly spoke on risk and then invited kids to stay after if they wanted to be healed - about 60 of them stayed - I was told that I couldn't lay my hands on them by the teacher in charge (the warden :-) so, I had them pair up and laugh over each other's ailments - most of them were healed right away - they were so shocked that many of them started crying and laughing at the same time - 4 kids received Jesus - one had a visitation of Jesus, was healed, then saved. One girl had cut herself intentionally so that she had stitches a few days prior - the stitches and scar completely dissolved and disappeared - she got saved as well. One girl had a degenerative jaw bone where it had grown out sideways causing her jaw to look strange - it grew back - that testimony caused a boy to get saved at recess! I have never seen such a breakout of the presence and power of God - I only had 20 minutes to minister at the Chapel - ended up staying 1 1/2 hours! Go Risk.


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Silke Trissl <trissl(at)informatik(dot)hu-berlin(dot)de> writes: > I found out, that the change of the operator from '~*' to '=' for the > item.description brought a great boost in performance (425 secs to 1 > sec!), but not in cost (Query plans at the end). The main problem seems to be bad estimation of the number of rows extracted from the item table. Have you ANALYZEd that table lately? regards, tom lane
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Andrea Begley from Co Tyrone has won BBC's 'The Voice' landing a major record deal as her prize.
The 27-year-old who is a niece of singer Philomena Begley, was rendered tongue-tied when her name was announced as the winner of the show.
"I actually can't speak. I never ever ever could have imagined this," she said.
Andrea, described as an "inspiration" by her coach Danny O'Donoghue from The Script, promised fans she would do her utmost to build on her win.
"Hopefully I'll try my best to put your vote to good use and be a success," she said.


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As Sade prepares for her musical resurgence, here is the tracklist from her forthcoming album, Solider Of Love. Fall in February 8th.
1. The Moon And The Sky
2. Soldier Of Love
3. Morning Bird
4. Baby Father
5. Long Hard Road
6. Be That Easy
7. Bring Me Home
8. In Another Time
9. Skin
10. The Safest Place
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Holbrook hopes SC prepping for another CWS run
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:24:48 GMT —
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina baseball coach Chad Holbrook won't talk to his players about finishing a victory short of the College World Series last season. He says they know too well what happened and are ready to work their way back to Omaha this season.
The Gamecocks and their second-year coach opened practice Friday in chilly, 29-degree temperatures. South Carolina was in line for a fourth consecutive CWS trip this past June, but lost the best-of-three, NCAA Super Regional series at North Carolina.
The Gamecocks were disappointed, but Holbrook believes they used the loss to motivate them for another run at the top. For Holbrook's part, he says he's sleeps much better this time than a year ago before his debut season as South Carolina's head coach.


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Tag: Disney
Art: Grieve-Tan and Hazel Commission by Psuedofolio
by Nojh on Feb.25, 2013, under Art, Entertainment
The best part is that both of these characters probably seem incredibly familiar right? I hope they do. One of them is General Grievous (of Star Wars Prequel Fame) as a Japanese school girl. The other is a more obscure but not less lovable character, the human form of the female squirrel from Disney's The Sword in the Stone animated movie. The randomness of these two characters… I just adore the idea.
Psuedofolio might be most well-known for the online comic Question Duck.
Steampunk Gadget
by Nojh on Nov.29, 2011, under Art, Entertainment
I had to share this. Amy Mebberson did it as a request and it blew my mind. I loved Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers as a kid and Gadget was my favorite character. Seeing this seriously brightened my day.
Trailer: Brave
by Nojh on Aug.02, 2011, under Entertainment, Trailers, Visual Media
The next major animated Disney movie and I admit it looks awesome.
Phineas and Ferb movie!
by Nojh on Jul.01, 2011, under Entertainment, Television, Videos, Visual Media
Phineas and Ferb TV Movie Announced [Wired]
Phineas and Ferb is one of the best television shows on TV right now. Sadly I don't have regular access to cabal television so I can't always watch the newer episodes which air on Disney but I have learned, thanks to wired, that a made for TV movie will be airing later this summer. Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension will premiere on the Disney Channel on Friday, August 5 at 8:00pm ET/PT, with a sneak On Demand preview beginning on August 1.
The trailer for the movie can be found embedded in the wired article above but I will link to a clip from the film below.
Video: Disney Punch (Mashup Trailer)
by Nojh on Mar.15, 2011, under Entertainment
Excellently put together mashup trailer of up coming movie Sucker Punch and various Disney movies. If you are interested in comparing you can find the other videos here.
Trailer: Tron: Uprising
by Nojh on Mar.10, 2011, under Entertainment, Trailers, Visual Media
Okay now that looks fun! CG and standard graphics looking rather nice together. Great atmosphere. Little iffy on the tag line at the end about looking for the next Tron but I suppose they want to try and keep it all contained away from the movies?
The beginning with the light cycles moving at edges and then the new style light cycle combat was a very nice touch. I am looking forward to this one.
The Princess and The Frog
by Nojh on Dec.14, 2009, under Films, Reviews, Visual Media
So to be clear, I'm not that much of a Disney fan. There have been Disney movies I loved (Lion King, Lilo & Stitch, Beauty & The Beast, Meet the Robinsons, and Disney movies I've shrugged my shoulders at. In reality I actually had a small little itty bit of hatred towards Disney when they declared traditional 2d animation dead and would be going solo 3d. If I remember correctly that was former CEO and all around creative black hole Michael Eisner, but feel free to correct me.
So as far as Disney goes, I haven't had a satisfying Disney film since Meet the Robinsons in 2007. And, although I shouldn't split hairs like this because I personally feel it is demeaning to the art as a whole, I haven't had a non-"traditional"/non-"3d" Disney movie that was satisfying since Lilo & Stich… which was seven years ago. I know there was a movie called Brother Bear that came out awhile back but I really heard nothing about it and its trailers looked rather uninteresting. So I never saw it and I never heard about it again.
So all is quiet on the Disney animated front as Disney started giving us Pirates of the Carribean, and helping Pixar give us fantastic films, and generally producing some decent, if not masterful, films such as Bolt and Meet the Robinsons.
Then along comes the trailer about a Nawlins Woman and a Frog. For those of you who don't know, Nawlins is correctly spelled New Orleans in English. But I digress. We see it is a story about a girl, and a frog, and the word 'princess' is being thrown about like it was green paper. Because to Disney, as we all know, Disney Princesses are almost nothing but green paper. But much to our eyes' surprise, we see something we've never seen before. The main character has dark colored skin!
Gasp! Is this it? Is this the return of Michael Eisner and the money grubbers once again? Are we finally just doing a movie just so we can add a black princess to the cash cow that is made up of four white women of various hair shades, a middle-eastern woman of undetermined complexion, an Asian woman who isn't even a princess, and an aquatic woman who is only allowed to stand if she can wear a dress that will hide her fish tail. Come on. You thought it too.
Well I am hear to say that the answer is firmly: Maybe. But it doesn't matter because Disney has produced a film worthy of its name and easily makes my top 10, if not top 5, favorite Disney animated films.
The other question you asked yourself, after you got over your comfortable insight into how color blind you aren't, is… how is Disney going butcher the story of The Frog Prince? And the answer to that is: Not at all. In fact the The Princess and The Frog isn't even a retelling of The Frog Prince. The movie makes numerous references to the standard fairy tale but it is indeed its own story!
And the final question a lot of people asked themselves about this film, once they saw the extended trailer: Nawlins? (New Orleans?) They're really going to make a new Disney Princess from the early 1900s New Orleans using Jazz? Answer to that one is: Yup. And they do it with some style, let me tell you.
So lets start with a slightly condensed description of the plot and characters.
So The Princess and the Frog is about young woman named Tiana who grows up in New Orleans at the beginning of the last century. Her father, a dock worker, had dreams of saving up enough money to open up a restaurant. A dream he passed onto his daughter when he died during "the war" (presumed to be the American Civil War). So Tiana works two different jobs, day and night, to save up enough money to buy the building her father wanted, so she could open up their restaurant.
Enter the Prince Naveen of some foreign country whose name never gets pronounced fully due to slamming books. He is a bit of a hedonist spoiled prince who has come to New Orleans in hopes of living it up and perhaps finding a nice rich wife to help fill his pockets with money since his rich parents have cut him off due to his irredeemable irresponsible ways.
If you think you can figure out where this is going then you're probably right. I'll start off by saying that this movie is not likely for everyone. It is a Disney movie at its core, which means it has one or two morals to teach you. It has a few good (actually excellent) songs to help you learn them, and the basic story plot doesn't stray far from your typical children's story. If you're fine with that, then I highly suggest this movie. If you're rolling your eyes at the above stereotypes, well hold up, this movie might still be for you. Theres still plenty in it, let me tell you.
First off the secondary characters of this film were excellent. From villains to sidekicks and even blind old women, all were interesting and had their own personality. There was no centralized comic relief but instead a shared job of walking the story along while providing us both comedy gold and a nicely flowing story. Actually a very apt phrase comes to mind regarding the characters and how they interacted:
It was just like Jazz.
We had a Jazz loving alligator. A Cajun lightening bug. A charismatic con-man. A blind crazy wise woman. A big hearted but completely oblivious best friend. An angered but ultimately cowardly servant. Three Cajun frog hunters. Shadow hunters, each distinctive in their appearance and manners. And loads more, each with a breath of life that I have a hard time criticizing.
This is likely because of the voice acting which was completely up to the standards of any of the "golden age" Disney films. While our two main characters are voiced by actors of some small renown (Anika Rose of no real fame and Bruno Campos of marginal "Nip/Tuck" and "Royal Pains" fame), our main villian, Shadowman/Dr. Facilier is voiced by none other than the famous Keith David himself. You may remember as the voice of Goliath from Disney's Gargoyles, or as Roger from the movie Reality Bites, or Louise from the movie Men at Work, or The Cat from the movie Coraline, or perhaps more recently, the voice of David Anderson from the video game Mass Effect. He is joined by his friend Jim Cummings who voices our little Cajun Lighting Bug, Ray, most excellently. You may remember Jim as the voice of Dingo from The Gargoyls as well as nearly as many "additional voices" as most of the Simpson's voice actor's according to his IMDB list. And of course, one of our favorite fatherly voices, John Goodman, as the voice of "Big Daddy" La Bouff, the kindly man who couldn't help but spoil his daughter yet still give her a heart of gold. You'll likely remember him from his iconic role as the father on the sitcom Rosanne, or possible as the father "Pops" racer in the recent remake of the anime classic Speed Racer. You might remember his voice from the movie "Cars" or Sulley from Monster's Inc. Containing a mixture of both new voices and old hats really seemed to prove they were working on finding the right voice for the right character, rather than just filling the role.
And the music. The music was excellent. If I were to rate it, I'd still rate it lower than that of Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King, but it certainly tries. I certainly am a budding fan of Jazz thanks to this movie. My only real problem is that I can't really remember any of the songs, just I remember loving them, and tapping my feet to them. Which really just makes me want to go back and re-watch the film so I can listen to them again. Or perhaps just go buy the sound track. Like a good musical, the music was used primarily as a tool for expressing the character's thoughts and motivations and it does so excellently. Most every song is done in a slightly different style of Jazz which is an audibly delight, honestly.
Plot wise, the movie is nothing to snicker at. While a children's film a heart, which means most movie going fans will be able to easily predict the ending. The actual journey to the end is both interesting and somewhat innovative. Having the "princess" turn into the frog is really only the first twist in an interesting series events. The comedy the plot provided was well worth my ticket for admission. I am a self-admitted laugher. You can give me almost any joke and I'll laugh at it. I'll even laugh if you just start laughing. But this film gave me one or two spots where I had a nice deep belly laugh, not unlike some of the bits from Iron Man. That was very satisfying.
The animation, of course, is the par we've come to expect from Disney. Beautiful cinematography and excellent choreography combined with vibrant use of colors and locals. There was no point in the movie that I felt that my eyes were being paid a disservice for watching either the characters or the background.
So all this great stuff. What was wrong with the movie? After all, I'm supposed to be critical right? Well I gotta say, it isn't a Lion King, Aladdin, or a Beauty and the Beast. There isn't a resonance. Directory by Ron Clements and John Musker, our two pioneers who gave us The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, it just didn't feel like the same classic either of those movies were. That might be because I am older, wiser, more cynical, than I was when those movies came out. You'll find me using the word "satisfying" a lot in the preceding words and that is really what this movie is. It gives us something new without being innovative or touchy. It fits within expectation and relies upon the details to stretch or break the stereotype.
From my personal perspective, I found the "Shadow Man" disappointing. I've been looking for another good Disney Villain since Jafar or Scar and Dr. Facilier really didn't fill the role no matter how awesomely Keith voiced him. He was a charismatic lackey for greater powers and while I felt he was given his far share of the movie I didn't feel any investment in him like I was hoping to find.
If I really wanted to take a critical strike at Disney. I'd ask why they didn't take a critical strike at race relations? This movie takes place both before and after the American civil war and its primary portion takes place at the height of the Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson incident. But honestly this is an unfair expectation to level against a child's film. When I was younger I laid such claims against Pocahontas and then later The Little Mermaid for how Disney skewed the stories. But by now we can expect Disney to change things in the name of painting a better future. Why instill our children with the color-shaded views of the world that we have? I don't think it is doing the people of the past who worked so hard to provide us free rights and the ability to know to have tolerance by not including their plights in a children's film. Save that for the high-school or collage texts where it can be discussed rationally. But I digress.
I might fault the plot a little for breaking from stereotype in one place that was slightly dissatisfying. The climatic "fight" with our antagonist seemed to take place during the end of act two, rather than the end of act three. Again this is probably because I have a love of villains and wanted to offer him more show time but removing him so early gave me a false sense of ending that my rational brain was convinced of but my emotional one was uncomfortable with. The movie broke a little for me there. This might not be the case with everyone however.
Perhaps my biggest gripe is the portrayal of Voodoo/Hoodoo. Although Shadow Man did actually make a point of saying both terms, which means they did their homework, the details concerning Hoodoo were scarce at best. This, is of course, a high expectation to have, similar to combating racism, I can't expect a children's film to combat the Hollywood created mythos surrounding Voodoo. And in retrospect the film's portrayal of Hoodoo was very good when compared to prior works and free of most of the usual "tropes". Being free of these tropes, however, meant that the forces the antagonist used were lacking in informational detail, even if they were visually distinctive and appealing. This was brought to my attention by my companion whom I saw the movie with, who for their lack of education on the subject and particular religious affiliations, just assumed that "friends from the other side" meant the devil. Fair enough I suppose. Disney certainly didn't want to tackle educating people about Voodoo/Hoodoo practices but if you're interested in educating yourself about the religion of Voodoo or the practices of Hoodoo, I suggest you start with Wikipedia. I find Voodoo to be one of the more interesting religions of the world and Hoodoo perhaps one of the more potent "magical" practices of the modern world.
So the final break down, do you want to see this movie? If you're a fan of animation, children's films, or Disney. You'll want to see this movie multiple times. If you're a casual fan of Disney movies, have children, or like a good laugh, you'll likely want to see it at least once. If nothing it is a better use of your money than going to see the current butchering of A Christmas Carol. For those of you who intensely dislike one of the following: musical, animation, Disney, romance, comedy, or any combination of there of, you'll probably want to avoid this movie.
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A spicy beef burger, grilled and then dredged in flour and deep-fried, topped with celery root slaw and crumbled Gorgonzola cheese and served on a Kaiser roll smeared with buffalo aioli.
The sweet flavor from the pineapple relish and Gourmet Sauce combined with the spicy kick from the wasabi-horseradish cream sauce marry very well on the palate.
I love hamburgers and since I recently relocated to the Lone Star state I had to create a burger that had a tex-mex feel.
It might sound like the latest dance craze, but the Wasabi Jerk is a burger that is at home on the Far East of any Caribbean beach.
This is all my husbands idea. I said one day that I would like to enter this and he told me not to. He told me I make better chile than I do a burger.
The idea for this burger came from a combination of some of my favorite food experiences.
This Asian-inspired burger begins with chicken thighs marinated in a homemade teriyaki sauce before grinding and forming into a patty.
When we go to visit my grandparents in Bellingham, Washington we go to a local cheese farm to buy cheese.
The Great Fusion Burger! Sounds like an interesting name for a burger. I gave my burger this name because of the ingredients that come from around the world. Thailand to Mexico.
Masarap means delicious in tagalong, the native language of the Philippines. On occasion we can talk my mother in law, of Filipino descent, into making delicious wontons.
This burger is a rendition of a sandwich I used to have at my favorite deli (since closed) . A Red Baron Reuben , a triple decker reuben on rye.
My idea for this burger came from our enjoyment of going out for buffalo wings when we were newly married.
Spicy, Spicy Chicken patties are cooled with a "mean" tasting green mayonnaise in these burgers that are sure to make you happy…especially when paired with a glass of Sutter Home Gewürztraminer.
This is my first time entering in any kind of cooking contest. I am very excited and nervour at the same time. I enjoy cooking for my family and coming up with new recipes.
This is a creation that my friends and family absolutely love.
Creating this burger was about trying something new for me.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Late night news & current affairs
LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2001/s400997.htm
Broadcast: 25/10/2001
PM explains Australian involvement in Afghan war
The PM has made what he called his formal explanation of Australia's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, saying not to support the US would be both strategically inept and morally indefensible. Addressing the Australian Defence Association in Melbourne, Mr Howard warned that community support for the action could not be taken for granted and could easily dissipate.
Compere: Tony Jones
Reporter: Steve Letts
TONY JONES: The PM tonight made what he called his formal explanation of Australia's involvement in the war in Afghanistan, saying not to support the US would be both strategically inept and morally indefensible.
Addressing the Australian Defence Association in Melbourne, Mr Howard warned that community support for the action could not be taken for granted and could easily dissipate.
Steve Letts reports.
STEVE LETTS: The PM used his address to the Australian Defence Association to put as he said "in a formal way" with a considered text why he's committed troops to Afghanistan.
JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER: If we left this contest only to America we would be leaving it to them to defend our rights and those of all the other people of the world who have a commitment to freedom and liberty.
We will not do that.
We admire their strength and their greatness but Australians have always been a people prepared to fight our own fights.
To do anything less on this occasion would be both strategically inept and morally indefensible.
STEVE LETTS: The key message was that in concert with its allies, Australia's commitment was just.
JOHN HOWARD: We have made it clear that this is a deployment without restrictions except those inherent within Australian rules of engagement.
In contrast to past operations, the special forces detachment will not be limited to search and rescue roles.
STEVE LETTS: However, the commitment is not without its limits.
JOHN HOWARD: Australia's response to any future requests will be assessed against the extent of our operational capacities.
STEVE LETTS: Paradoxically, the Defence Association's lines were easily breached by a lone insurgent interrupting Mr Howard's considered text.
PAMELA CURR, GREENS CANDIDATE: It's not good enough.
You're an old war mongerer too.
War is not the answer.
Did you hear today, they're dropping cluster bombs?
Cluster bombs, the most appalling weapons, on the poor people of Afghanistan.
STEVE LETTS: And that brought another warning from the PM.
JOHN HOWARD: It is important in the nature of political debate, that no assumptions be made about continuing support for a political position that appears at the very outset to draw almost overwhelming support and response from within the Australian community.
History is littered with many examples of where an early strong tide of support subsequently dissipates through the propagation of false criticisms of involvement.
STEVE LETTS: Support wasn't about to slip away amongst audience tonight, but there was concern about how the message is being received out in the community.
VOX POP 1: I see that in the American media they're already talking about bombing fatigue.
We've already done all this bombing.
If it's so effective why do we have to go on doing it?
People begin to ask questions.
This of course is in the States.
What Mr Howard has in mind, he's afraid something like that might happen here.
VOX POP 2: For a start, if we don't address the humanitarian concerns that are likely to arise because of displacement within Afghanistan.
STEVE LETTS: However, with the formal explanation now delivered, it will back to the more immediate battles on the home front tomorrow.
Steve Letts, Lateline.


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Being that it's time for the NJ marathon once again, I wanted to follow up my previous interview with first time half-marathoner Bernard Del Rey. Below are a few more answers Bernard had for me:
1. If you had the chance to start your training from scratch, what would you do differently?
I would have made exercising more of a priority. I have come to realize that if you do not make your scheduled workout a priority, it won't happen. I need to schedule my day around health and fitness, not schedule health and fitness around my day. Oh-and I would have bought better sneakers.
2. What was the biggest annoyance during training?
Because I had to train for the half-marathon through the brunt of the winter, I was forced to run on a treadmill during all that crazy snow. The treadmill seemed to bother my knees more-so than outdoor running.
3. How do your legs feel right now?
My legs and body have never felt better. I recently told my trainer my legs feel like steel and my body weight is down 15lbs from about a year ago.
4. What was the biggest adjustment you had to make in order to train for this half?
Because my feet are not used to the high mileage, they had a tendency to swell. The biggest adjustment I had to do was find thinner socks so my shoes would be more comfortable, not to mention find the time to put the training in.
5. What advice would you give to a first-timer training for a half?
Anyone can do it, if you stick to the program. Your body just responds to the training. I am NOT an athlete, but it actually will make you think you could be some day!
I look forward to sharing Bernard's thoughts about what goes through a runner's mind during the race.


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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Vice President Joe Biden told supporters Thursday that the Obama administration plans to raise taxes by $1 trillion in order to shift liability to wealthy Americans.
"My heart breaks, come on man. You know the phrase they always use? Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do, in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy," he said during the meeting.
Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan was quick to respond to Biden's remarks.
"What we don't need is a trillion-dollar tax increase," Ryan told Fox News. "What we don't need is a tax increase on our successful job creators that will cost us 700,000 jobs in just two years."
Ryan Williams, one of Mitt Romney's spokesmen, added his thoughts to the vice president's comment.
"Fresh off admitting that America's middle class has been 'buried' over the last four years, Vice President Biden went a step further today and fully embraced the president's job-killing tax increases. The choice facing Americans in this election gets clearer every day," Williams told Fox News.
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My Top 10 Albums of 2013
Okay, so a couple of weeks ago there was the worst albums I've heard in 2013 and then last Friday I offered the best albums of 2013, with the caveat that there would still be a Top 10.
So here we go - today. The Blog On The Tracks Top 10 albums of 2013. Click on the link for the full review or just go with the precis. And be sure to add your Top 10 below.
In alphabetical order here's 10 albums that I returned to more than any others this year. Those that filled my heart with joy, that offered (almost) everything I want from music. And in some cases provided wonderful respite, too, from the chore of reviewing. And it can (often) be a chore...
[Translation to blog-readers: f**k I hate music!]
Arve Henriksen, Places of Worship: Places of Worship is music as meditation, music for meditation. It's a medication, a tonic to sooth the rough edges off any day, music that curls up into the nook of the night. It would be my day-spa music of choice, it would be among the very best things you could ever choose to fall into sleep with - and those two ideas don't usually sell themselves as compliments. But they're meant here as no backhander, this album is beautiful. So beautiful. It offers peace and love and heart and soul, it feels like warm-milk wisdom, like a friendly hand offering comfort, support.
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: Daft Punk decides to do disco chic guitars. So who you gonna call? Nile Rodgers. They have often been told they owe a debt to Giorgio Moroder. So he's here. Offering autobiography, allowing the Gallic funkster-pranksters to reset his thoughts in shades and tones that could have come from the soundtracks and disco and pop songs he invented. And you keep thinking that calling cheese on these boys will work? Well they've called in Paul Williams to f**k that up entirely. It's meticulous, it's calculated and the robot get-up and the metallic sheen both in front and behind so much of Daft Punk's music has always allowed people the easy shot of calling it out as cold-blooded. But for the first time since that startling, brilliant debut here we have a set of tunes filled with (a warm) heart. In a way Random Access Memories feels like the band writing its own aural biography, a musical autobiography as real-time documentary with guest-spot vignettes popping up just like the talking heads do in the video versions of people's life-story highlight reels. Random Access Memories is stuffed full of ideas, some of the songs finish then start up again merely because their sides have split and the overspill has spawned a new motif, a new - random - memory is being built as Daft Punk does its best to redefine its role. Here is an album that has been built to suit its makers, rather than made to build up suitors.
Elvis Costello and The Roots, Wise Up Ghost: The Roots will have another album to come - that's when they'll step up and be the other version of the band they are. But here they've nailed their supporting role. They've also - it would have to be said - reinvigorated Costello. They've allowed him to make a record he just would not (could not) have made without them. It's the best Elvis Costello record in some time. Or it's just another great Elvis Costello record. It's also the best effort from The Roots-as-backing-band on record. Wise Up Ghost is wonderful. Often extraordinary, at times a little baffling and there's a lot to unpack from it, so many clues, hints and ideas. A chance to for you to go back to the source material and hear some of the gems spread out over the so-called weaker Costello albums. Surprise of the year really, that this would actually work. That this was not just a gimmick. And one of the best albums I've heard in a long while.
Hammock, Oblivion Hymns: It's impossible to think of Oblivion Hymns as an album, really. Because it doesn't deserve comparison to anything else. It's a stretch of space - a musical shade cloth, a safe place. A beautiful, haunting, moving, profound artistic experience. It's art for the ears - an installation, a soundtrack to provide the mind space to wander and take in images, or check out of this world for a charming, hypnotic 57 minutes. When I choose the right time to play this - and somehow, so far, it's always chosen me - it's one of the finest things I've heard this year. Or any. Less a case of music, more so a case of magic. Bottled, turned on its side. You can see the ship still sailing.
Jaga Jazzist, Live With Britten Sinfonia: This album is a masterpiece, it's hypnotic, propulsive, it's almost stupefying in the breadth, depth, focus and all-out indulgence - it's profound and just a touch ludicrous (of course). And it gives me goosebumps. And I want to be the players involved - I want to sit in on something like that, and imagine my head spinning at the where-to-start feelings that would immediately overwhelm. But I'm not an idiot. I know this album is not for everyone. And it's not even for me some of the time. In that while I still think it could well go on to be the best album of 2013 - it will never be the most-listened to album of 2013. That's part of what makes this so special. It's too good to just play all the time - without thinking. This is music for the head and the heart. And it's often a profoundly moving experience just trying to take (all of) it all in.
Jonathan Bree, The Primrose Path: Big call, sure, but this album feels almost instantly like a classic. It's a masterpiece in songwriting, song-styling, Bree's singing is brilliant, the arrangements are lovely - and correct. The playing is spot on (most of it performed by Bree, across almost every instrument).
Lustmord, The Word as Power: This album is a huge commitment, a slow, deliberate sound-world built up over 75 minutes. It requires you listen to it, perhaps through headphones, certainly sitting down, doing little else. It's a spiritual experience - a meditation. The closest touchstone I have to offer is if you imagine Dead Can Dance reworking Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Hackneyed though that may be, it certainly helped me to digest this experience, to process and contextualise what was going on. Or think of Burial reworking the Philip Glass scores for Nagoygatsi, Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi - perhaps reworking them and layering all three across one another. This is beat-less but in the slow-moving intensity it's deeply beautiful. Thanks to the vocals of Aina Skinnes Olsen in particular, giving a hint of Lisa Gerrard and the Trans Global Underground sound; other vocalists include Tool's Maynard James Keenan and Jarboe formerly of Swans. If you found the big-serve albums from Swans and Scott Walker last year, The Seer and Bisch-Bosch respectively, to be the sort of hard work that was so thoroughly rewarding to the point of seeming spiritually redemptive, rejuvenating then you've come to the right place. If you've been moved by Lustmord's Heresy and Stalker albums in particular then you'll find this deep emersion rewarding, absorbing.
Nils Frahm, Spaces: Spaces is frequently dazzling, but always in this heart-stoppingly beautiful way, never in a too much/more-is-more fashion, always with Frahm steering the ship, his guiding hand/s.
Phosphorescent, Muchacho: Matthew Houck might even suit comparisons to novelists and short story writers like Barry Gifford, Raymond Carver and John Fante as much as to any other musicians. In that sense I have to wonder if, like Willy Vlautin, he's got a novel or three in him. Perhaps he'll just keep releasing these novels, these short-story-collections-inside-song-cycles. Consider Muchacho his Ask The Dust; consider Muchacho a new beginning for Phosphorescent - with enough to keep the old guard while seeking out a few new fans. Consider it his finest to date and one of the albums of the year.
Sebastien Tellier, Confection: Confection is a movie soundtrack without a film; that's as Tellier has described it and that's how you'll hear it too. This mostly instrumental suite of themes is like a musical chocolate box, so much so the Mantovani-esque record sleeve it deserves would only serve to promote an irony that's actually not there. For this is OTT, there's no denying it, choir and nearly horror-score affectations, the elasticised-but-perfect-pocket drumming of Tony Allen, and strings that are damn near cloying at times - particularly when mingling with synths. It all makes for a version of serene that brings to mind that penultimate moment in Friday The 13th, the survivor adrift at Camp Crystal Lake, but the swamp-ghoul is just about to lurch from the water. The swamp-ghoul is always just about to lurch from the water in Tellier's cycle called Confection. That it never does is what makes it work. For as much as there's a horror-film feel to the serenity it's also trowelled on so thick as to approximate the Bless The Beasts And Children score; borrowing wholesale from Serge (he's probably always hated that comparison, and beyond the passport stamps it's never really seemed valid, here finally he's embracing it, giving it reason, cause). Also there are snapshots of Morricone, Gabriel's Obe from The Mission, a wee bit of Cinema Paradiso. All of this fits in around piano motifs that could just as much be accompanied by candlelight. (I passed this album on to someone who, after my near-incessant gushing, replied that they'd have to listen again as all they'd heard is Carl F**king Doy. No disrespect to Mr Doy, not least because that's a valid call, it's almost entirely correct even). Confection has swept me up with its sappiness; it's pulled me along with it, so much so that I'm writing about it from deep within the smarm and charm of the music, with no real way of knowing how to get out, and not wanting to.
So that's my Top 10 - and then I realise I haven't actually ranked them, nor have I told you about my absolute number one album of the year. So it's actually a Top 11.
From that list the huge favourites were the Nils Frahm, Sebastien Tellier and - often - the Jonathan Bree.
But my actual number one - TOP - album of 2013 is Open by The Necks. So good I wrote about it not just once but twice.
The pacing is this album's sheerest display of virtuosity - these three players work as if with one heartbeat. And so calm, so sure, so very much the epitome of underplaying. Most of the recordings by The Necks mean something very special to me. Some of them have stayed with me for days and weeks on end. Most of them I return to. Have been playing them so oftenacross the last decade and a bit. Many of them are masterpieces. The ones that aren't - quite, come very close. Open is a masterpiece. Another one. A new one. Open is another life, an afterlife. It's almost hard to imagine that three people could come together to make something this beautiful, this sure of itself, this happy to take this much time to unfold. It's flawless.
So there we have a Top 10 plus the number one album - a Top 11...and I forgot, in all of my lists, to mention Charlie Jones' wonderful album. Certainly a magic year for music. My favourite in a long time; pretty sure it's been my favourite for musical discoveries in all my time reviewing. So here's to 2013 - and on toward 2014...I still have great albums from this year to get to and review.
So what did you think of the list? Anything here you agree with? Anything you want to try out?
And what's your list of Top 10 (or 11) albums from 2013?
You can also check out Off the Tracks for The Vinyl Countdown, reviews and other posts.


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RESIDENTS have been granted £360 to help keep their garden green.
Adactus Housing Association has awarded residents from Slackey Fold, Hindley Green a Green Grant to help spruce up their outdoor space.
The Leigh-based housing provider has awarded more than £15,000 to groups across the north west for residents to purchase items such as garden furniture, plants, shrubs, raised planters, solar lights and garden sheds.
Slackey Fold resident Alicia Foy said: "Everyone has worked really hard over a number of years to improve the communal space.
"We have created a fantastic garden that incorporates a vegetable patch, bird feeders, nesting boxes, outdoor seating areas and an array of beautiful flowers and plants.
"The garden is an asset to the scheme and everyone enjoys spending time in their surroundings."
The grant has enabled the residents to create a decking area, re-plant pots and save water by using a more economical watering system.
Lindsay Greenhalgh, Adactus' neighbourhood development officer, said: "Residents spend a lot time and expense improving their gardens and neighbourhoods, so it is important we recognise them for all their hard work.
"Slackey Fold is an excellent example of what residents' hard work can achieve and it is fantastic we are able to continue our support of their scheme."


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These lovely spoons are made from buffalo horn. When held up to the light they are transparent.
I display them on a red cord hanging next to a lovely Japanese scroll
they are a work of art with the handles carved in the shape of a dragon.
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Kalvin Brinkman
Kalvin John Brinkman was born to Kelly and Tony Brinkman of Cushing, Feb. 20, 2012, at 4:52 p.m. at St. Gabriel's Hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was 22 inches long.
Grandparents are George and Terri Kramer and John and Mitzie Brinkman.
Brayden York
Brayden Tyler York was born to Tiffani Pitman and Brandon York of Little Falls, Feb. 21, 2012, at 7:36 a.m. at St. Gabriel's Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 6 1/2 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Aiden Erdrich
Aiden Robert Erdrich was born to Alissa (Hallberg) and Josh Erdrich of Royalton, Feb. 21, 2012, at 9:45 a.m. at St. Gabriel's Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Grandparents are Kathleen Schwanke of Randall and Carl and the late Elaine Hallberg of Little Falls. Great-grandparents are Robert and the late Mary Erdrich, Lorraine Kallis and Anne and the late Morris Hallberg, all of Little Falls.
Nora Petersen
Nora Genevieve Petersen was born to Rachel and Jeff Petersen of Little Falls, Feb. 19, 2012, at 2:47 p.m. at the St. Cloud Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.
Grandparents are Edward and Darlene Sayre of Mineral Point, Wis. and Alan and Darcy Petersen of Randall. Great-grandparents are the late Dean and the late Genevieve Sayre of Jefferson, Wis., the late Nick and the late Clara Glaza of Rudolph, Wis., Marilyn and the late Robert (Murph) Mueller of Randall and Ivan and Patricia Petersen of Randall.
Aiden Doble
Aiden James Doble was born to Heidi and James Doble of Cromwell, Feb. 16, 2012, at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He weighed 9 pounds, 15 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Grandparents are Ron and Mary Frey of Randall and Rosemary Doble and special friend Tim Pickar of Fort Ripley. Great-grandparents are Delores Gaffke of Randall, the late Gerald Gaffke, Jerome Gohl of Little Falls, the late Valerie Gohl, Eugene Doble Sr. of Royalton, the late Hildagard Doble and the late Agatha and Joseph Frey.


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When consistent slices with your hardboiled eggs and mushrooms is essential in your kitchen, putting egg and mushroom slicers to work behind the lines might be just the thing you need. These handy tools are an excellent way to cut down on food prep time, and they're ideal for both commercial and at-home kitchen tasks. Egg and mushroom slicers couldn't be easier to use, and they give you a perfect finished product, every time.
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