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Be careful on the phone, folks. The Rockford police union says there are people out there using its name for no good.
Telephone solicitation to raise funds for the union's Shop with a Cop Christmas program shut down Dec. 21.
Any calls received after Dec. 21 asking for a donation to support Shop with a Cop were fraudulent, the union warned Wednesday.
Union representative Doug Block said he was alerted to the problem by a phone call from a Rockford resident, suspicious that a call his wife took was a scam. The man told Block that the caller identified herself as "Barbara" and said she was calling on behalf of the Rockford Police Benevolent & Protective Association Unit 6. The call was received Dec. 31.
The man told Block that "Barbara" asked his wife for her bank account information and also asked for credit card information. The man's wife gave neither, Block said.
He's advising Rockford residents to do the same thing. They should not give their information, and they should call their local police department.
"That's not us calling," Block said. "We would never ask for that kind of information over the phone."
Calls may be going to businesses, too, he added, and may go beyond the Rockford area into Boone, Ogle and Stephenson counties.
The Shop with a Cop program treated 64 local kids to a shopping spree at Target just before Christmas. Kids got $150 to spend with a cop buddy. Union members also delivered presents to a few dozen more children in area shelters Christmas morning.
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Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has something to say to all the emo bands out there: "F— you."
Needless to say, the British singer is not a fan of the overly sensitive acts — like Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and My Chemical Romance — that have taken the U.K. by storm in recent months. As is the case with most things involving the motor-mouthed Meighan, it's better to let him do the talking.
"I keep hearing how emo music is bringing kids together and that it's got these positive messages and all that, but if it's damaging teenagers and if it's making them depressed, how can that be a good thing?" he snarled. "All it causes is moaning teenagers. There's nothing positive from it. People tell me it's doing something for the kids, but all it's doing is making them moan all the time.
"It may upset people, but emo is dead in my eyes. F— emo. Just enjoy the world," he continued. "Teenagers are better than that, man. I want to tell them to be positive about life. You've been brought up well by your parents, so don't sit around in your bedroom cutting your wrists.
Grow up."
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While his comments may not win him many fans in MySpace land, Meighan gives the impression that he couldn't care less. After all, earlier this month, the second Kasabian album, Empire, debuted at #1 on the U.K. albums chart, and the title track has been a mainstay on the singles chart for more than eight weeks. Plus, he can count the brawlin', battlin' Gallagher brothers as two of his closest compatriots (see "Oasis Might Work With Kasabian, Unless It Was Just The Beer Talking" ). So he's obviously doing something right.
But Stateside success has so far eluded the band. Big-beat tunes from its self-titled debut appeared on shows like "Desperate Housewives" and "CSI: Miami" but failed to drum up much by way of sales (see "Kasabian Mix Big Riffs And Dance Beats To Make Noisy Love During War" ). Of course if you ask him about it, Meighan will tell you that Kasabian are just getting started and view breaking through in America as just another battle they're more than prepared to fight.
"We've got unfinished business to do here in America, and we're coming around to do it," he said. "This country is so big, and we've got to work so hard. But it's just great to have a new record, man, and to show it to you American people. We're not finished yet."
With one big-budget video already making the rounds on mtvU (the Wiz-directed clip for "Empire") and a second one on the way (for "Shoot the Runner"), it's obvious that Kasabian are serious about making it on this side of the pond. And they don't care who they tick off in the process.
"We called the record Empire [because] we've been using the word for many years now to describe things we think are great: a pair of shoes, a pair of boobs, a good CD — that is empire," Meighan laughed. "And so to call your record Empire, it's like Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols: It can upset a lot of people, but it suits a band of our stature. And I think it's really brilliant, honestly."


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- The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's bandwagon.But getting back the tape of the lady's X-rated indiscretion is a nonstop express ride to trouble--trouble that is deep, wide and deadly.
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Seduced by Subtitles
When America fell in love with Bergman, Kurosawa, Italian Neo-Realism—and Brigitte Bardot.
Beginning in 1948, when Roberto Rossellini's "Rome, Open City" opened in New York, until sometime in the early 1970s, moviegoing was likely the most exciting occupation (or preoccupation) available to intelligent, culturally venturesome Americans. Scarcely a year went by without the arrival from abroad of some new cinematic sensation to delight in and argue over—and eventually incorporate into our sensibilities. Italian Neo-Realism, Brigitte Bardot, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, the French New Wave, Angry Young Brits, the Czech Renaissance—you name it and we were there, lining up outside some "art" theater, ready to engage with films that defied the Hollywood tradition, which had previously bullied all alternatives into marginality.
In this period American movies entered into a long bad patch, during which their studio-based economic model was decimated. It seemed possible to some observers that movies might cease to be a mass medium, becoming an essentially elitist enterprise. To a degree, that happened—in the past 70 years the American film audience has diminished by more than half. Hollywood can still assemble its old mass audience once or twice a year, but the odd "Avatar" aside, it makes most of its money through higher admission prices and, until recently, through DVD and other ancillary sales. We have long needed a history of the rise and fall of the foreign film in the postwar years, when for a time something like 500 theaters across the country were playing subtitled movies and taking in around 7% of the national box-office grosses.
Tino Balio's "The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973" aspires to be that history. Mr. Balio is a specialist in the economic history of the movies, a thorough researcher and a clear writer, but he is the wrong man for this job, which demands a cultural historian and critic, not a numbers cruncher. We learn much from the author about the comings and goings of the many small-timers who imported foreign films in this period. We discover what theaters the movies opened in, what grosses they took in and what awards they won. It's mildly interesting to learn that "La Dolce Vita" earned more than $19 million in the U.S. in 1960, but there is much more to its story than its American grosses. Mr. Balio makes no attempt to place the movies in a wider critical-historical perspective.
Instead he quotes as gospel the critics who were writing at the time these films were released, and that's a problem. For the leading reviewers of the era were, with a couple of exceptions, total clunkers, especially the all-powerful Bosley Crowther of the New York Times, who was, I believe, the worst major critic in the history of medium. He was a doughty opponent of screen censorship, to give him his due, but he was possessed of a jocular-avuncular style incapable of conveying the essential qualities of, say, a Bergman or a Godard film.
The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973
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Let me give you an example of Old Bos in full mumble, calling the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud—familiar from many Truffaut and Godard films—"a pint-sized Jean Gabin," which is not only unhelpful but an affront to both performers. Crowther was not alone in his ineptitude; he and his feckless colleagues erected a formidable intellectual barrier whenever a foreign film presented its passport here. To say that a book reverting to these critics for intellectual positioning disappoints is to understate the case.
For there is more to this history than yellowing newspaper clips suggest. Foreign films, with their sexual openness, presented a long-needed challenge to America's onerous screen censorship. Just as significant, these films were socially and politically more challenging than anything that had gone before. It was wonderfully liberating to see foreign filmmakers wrestle with the same issues that stirred us.
I passed some of the years that Mr. Balio covers at the University of Wisconsin, where he is an emeritus professor, and I'm here to tell you that Bosley Crowther was not much on our minds. There was no film department at the school, but there were two sophisticated screening programs at the student union, a student film society and at least two downtown theaters that played non- American movies. We were at them all the time. I don't think we could say why it was important to see these pictures. I can say that, for me, a passion, not to mention a career, was born in the pursuit of a sly glimpse of Hedy Lamarr's breasts or Bardot's bum.
Of such low-life matters Mr. Balio cannot bring himself to write. But he might easily have caught the growing connection between the proliferation of foreign films in America and the newly burgeoning auteur theory, with its emphasis on a personal vision as opposed to a purely commercial one. Eventually it became possible to tease out the auteurs who were operating within the American industry—Hitchcock, Hawks and others. But for the moment it was enough that, as applied to foreign filmmakers, the theory allowed us to see that a movie director is, at least, an artist manqué and that his work has the right to be judged by the same standards as that of a novelist or poet.
This was no small matter—the establishment of the auteur theory in film constituted nothing less than a general acknowledgment that a "new" art form had arisen. But this change cannot be captured by a resort to hard figures. It demands a certain critical swagger—an ability to pass nuanced judgments on individual works and careers and on the ways they were judged by reviewers, then and now.
"The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973" is earnest and means well. But it almost entirely misses the stir and excitement of the last period in our history when going to the movies was an activity that carried the promise not merely of changing your life but of changing, to some degree, your perception of the world in which you lived.
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All 20 LAM's will be at the show for sale individually and SKU / Pricing will be in the PDF list.
BT-305 Thor II Prime $13.95
BT-311 Savior Repair Vehicle $12.95
BT-313 Regulator II $6.95
BT-319 Wheeled APC $0.80
2015 Convention SpecialsSubmitted by Mark Yingling on Sun, 07/12/2015 - 1:46pm.
2015 Convention Specials
Limited Edition Mechs
Mortis MS-1A (Jumper) $20.00
Mortis MS-1A (Standing) $15.00
Below are all of the Con Specials that will be at Gen Con 2015. Though the Exterminator will be in limited numbers at Historicon.
CE-008 Exterminator EXT-4C Null Signature Variant Price coming soon(Made out of Clear Resin, Very limited number) Limited Number will be at Historicon
3145 Republic of the Sphere Lance Pack $49.95 GenCon Release
Lament LMT-4RC
Mad Cat MkII 5
Doloire D
Malice MAL-XT)
BT-352 Doloire B $14.95 GenCon Release
BT-353 Mad Cat MkII 4 $16.75 GenCon Release
BT-347 Revenant UBM-2R3 $10.25 GenCon Release
See images in the Con Special Preview Gallery. Note the images for some of the con specials are of the converted master, so there are a few differences in the final production models. As soon as I have production minis assembled I will post them if there is time before GenCon.
Historicon 2015 Convention, July 16th to 19thSubmitted by Mark Yingling on Sat, 07/11/2015 - 5:10pm.
Historicon 2015 - Fredericksburg, VA - July 16th - 19th, is coming up and IWM will be at the convention represented by Jim Fox.
Limited Edition Mortis mechs and the new BT Web Only items (debuted at Origins) and maybe some other items....
Also available at the Conventions, ThreeBond Super Glue, IWM Paint Brushes, X-Marx Terrain, IWM Resin Terrain, Grendel Resin and Map Scale & Mech Scale Dropships.
Attached to this post are some PDF's for the blister product and small Battle Armor and Micro Fighters in the Blue Bins.
Monthly Specials updatedSubmitted by Mark Yingling on Mon, 07/06/2015 - 8:41pm.
Dinosaurs SpecialSubmitted by Mark Yingling on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 12:55am.
Dinosaurs Specials
25% off Retail
In honor of the new Jurassic World movie, the Dinosaurs are on sale.
See all of the sale items in the Dinosaurs Category


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Skiing plans to revive Alpine super-combined event
Updated: October 5, 2012, 4:02 PM ETAssociated Press
ZURICH -- The International Ski Federation plans to revitalize the Alpine super-combined event at classic venues after downgrading its World Cup status.
Beginning this season, the governing body will no longer give a crystal globe trophy for the season-long titles in events Lindsey Vonn and Croatia's Ivica Kostelic dominated in recent years.
Many race organizers have said the super-combined -- which tests all-around skills in separate speed and slalom runs -- is difficult to market. ...
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Huawei pushes to transform telcos into digital service providers
Huawei is pushing hard to get telcos moving into the content and digital services markets and take a share of their revenues through its Digital inCloud service.
Cisco Systems is the undisputed leader in the networking space, but HP has acquired 3Com in an effort to close the gap. In addition, Juniper Networks is a strong No. 2 to Cisco among telecommunication firms and enterprises. With video consumption set to explode, networking requirements will boom too.
Huawei is pushing hard to get telcos moving into the content and digital services markets and take a share of their revenues through its Digital inCloud service.
The US' second-largest cell network reported $39.1 billion, up almost 20 percent year-over-year, thanks to the DirecTV acquisition.
Serious flaws have been discovered in NTP which can be exploited to cause wholesale destruction on a network -- because of a clock.
Labour accuses the Government of botching the roll-out of wireless broadband to rural New Zealand.
New Zealand telco retailer spies opportunity to expand services and cut costs through software running on commodity hardware.
If you're whinging about Australia's national broadband network operator buying new copper cables, then you're part of the problem. Copper is not the issue. Transparency is.
Fitting blades into a 2U rack format is a tall order, but that's what Dell has done with its new PowerEdge FX2 converged solution. Blocks are set to become the new blades, and may also overshadow conventional...
Verizon's smartphone connections and installment plans are the primary focus of the company's third quarter report, but its Internet of things plans are taking shape.
The prospect of more spectrum for LTE mobile services in South Africa has receded again, after new wrangles about the country's switch to digital television.
While ISPs are struggling to bring 25 Mbps Internet to customers, the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, a publicly owned utility, is bringing 10-gigabit internet to its customers. If they can have it, why can't we?
The networking giant is reshaping its business in the face of new competitors. Can it reinvent itself again to stay relevant in a cloud computing world?
Nokia has passed another significant regulatory hurdle in its $17bn bid to buy networking rival Alcatel-Lucent.
Microsoft is starting to roll out a new Skype chat feature to Skype for Windows, Mac and Web users that will make easier inviting others, including non-Skype users, into group chats.
Yes, but it wouldn't be the Internet you know.
Kilo's big theme of making popular open-source cloud platform OpenStack easier to use continues with new features in the Liberty release - but there's also a focus on scaling.
Australian telco Telstra has partnered with HP, F5, and Nuage to announce a proof of concept for a multi-vendor, open NFV solution.
Take a trip down memory lane with these old PC ads. We sure have come a long way since then -- on style and pricing.
What will be the next big thing? As cellular carriers merge and become stronger, mobile makers may not survive. Will big data analytics take off, and will 3D printing arrive with a bevy of legal and ethical issues? Here's a look ahead at 2013 and what we can expect.
Join me for the "first" computer Christmas season: when PCs cost thousands of dollars, hard-drives boasted of having megabytes of storage, and connecting to the Internet happened at 1,200 bits per second.
During the year, we have seen the destruction of SOPA and PIPA but the emergence of CISPA and similar laws around the world, a growing trend in hacks and scams, an explosion in malware, and states committing cyberwarfare on their friends and foes. Here's a run-down of what happened in 2012.
4G is finally here, but how good is it? And does it vary depending on where exactly you are? I took to the London Underground to map out some average download and upload speeds around London, to see how EE's 4G fares.
Controversial Global hacking conference Hack In The Box just celebrated its ten-year mark in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event attracted hackers from all over the world and company participants that included Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, sponsor 'friends' such as Megaupload, and many more.
Your next PC? It just might be a Chromebook.
Writing isn't just sitting at a desk waiting for the news to happen. It often requires a prepared bag of kit for travel to report at the source. Here's what Zack Whittaker keeps in his on-the-go bag.
The technology behind the Olympic Games has changed beyond all recognition since the international sporting event was last held in London, more than 60 years ago
Videogames market to grow 10 percent next year
With more and more smartphone use, there is a need for external speakers that provide audio output and speakerphone functionality. In addition, you can use it to charge up your smartphone.
Everyone wishes they could get more out of the battery built into their iPhone or iPad. Apple has set up the operating system with convenience in mind, and some of these settings don't necessarily give the best battery life possible. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to help you squeeze more out of each charge. Let's take a look at a few things you can do.
Six London Underground stations now have free Wi-Fi access for the summer, provided by Virgin Media. ZDNet UK went down in the Tube stations at midday to find out whether the service works and what kind of speeds can you expect
UK Broadband plans to start selling its 4G service to homes and businesses in Southwark next week. ZDNet UK put the TD-LTE network through its paces to find out whether it can deliver the typical 40Mbps speeds it promises
From tired hardware, to expired support contracts and creaking networks, the tell-tale signs that suggest urgent treatment may sound all too familiar
Salesforce.com CEO urges software industry to keep pace with younger generation
SHows off new interface, office updates
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CTO Justin Rattner discusses "context-aware computing." The new technology will soon be embedded in mobile devices and will be able to learn about who you are, where you are, how you're feeling, and what you want. Tim Jarrell, publisher of Fodor's Travel, demos how the technology works as a personal vacation assistant for travelers to San Francisco.
After Australians get the ubiquitous national connection offered by the Coalition or Labor's broadband policies, they might find that they desperately want to be disconnected.
July has arrived, but the first National Broadband Network (NBN) service is yet to be turned on, despite former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd having nominated this month as the go-live time. According to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the start of services will be dictated by new Prime Minister Julia Gillard's diary.
The national roll-out of the Federal Government's National Broadband Network (NBN) is unlikely to use the same equipment that has been installed in the first portion of the network's build involving three Tasmanian suburbs, according to the chief executive Mike Quigley of NBN Co, the company charged with building it.
NBN Co has not yet delivered its business case to the Federal Government, despite having previously said it would be handed over by 31 May, the group's chief executive Mike Quigley confirmed this week.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has accused Google of deliberately collecting payload data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jeff Pierce, manager of Mobile Computer Research at IBM, shows off the company's prototype mobile e-mail client. He also compares different usage patterns for how people use e-mail from their mobile devices and desktops.
IBM's cloud computing chief Kristof Kloeckner talks at the Interop conference in Las Vegas about how the consumerisation of IT is driving user expectations
Virgin America is trying to take airplane service to new heights by creating on-board features that cater to the techie in all of us, whether it's texting a fellow passenger from your seatback, choosing food through an online ordering system, or connecting to a Wi-Fi hot spot 35,000 feet in the air. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das reveals the innovations that could improve your next flight.
The household thermostat has always been difficult to program--wasting energy and driving up your utility bill. But ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das explains how new networking technologies will one day connect your thermostat and meter to your PC, so you are better able to track, monitor, and analyze the energy usage in your home.
At an Apple press event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPad. The new mobile device is a half-inch thin and weighs 1.5 pounds. It's powered with a 1GHz Apple A4 chip and comes with 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The new device plays movies, music, TV shows, and acts as an e-reader. It will cost $499 for the 16GB version.
Microsoft has changed the look and feel of its venerable browser while adding some much-needed security features.
While not a necessity, the DWL-G730AP is a highly convenient, inexpensive tool for frequent travellers.
If you're looking for an 802.11g router and want a simple life, the Belkin Wireless G Router with Built-In USB Print Server comes highly recommended.
iBurst is a superb wireless broadband solution that's highly useful for the mobile business user, but users who don't require portability will likely find its price to be a deal breaker.
More suited to the medium-sized business with lots of phone activity rather than the occasional call, the IP290 allows you to grow into it. It's a solid piece of kit that will need little, if any, training to use.
While the speed and pricing plans make it appealing for those who aren't deskbound, Unwired's Wireless Card is cruelled by the lack of true mobility and the Sydney-only coverage, which itself is undeniably patchy.
Aggressive pricing, a slice of speed-boosting tech and a tempting 'unlimited' downloads plan puts Vodafone in pole position in the race for 3G datacard customers.
Acer's Aspire 9504 incorporates a lot of empowering technology, although its chief TV offering is rather weak.
The V300 offers quality voice services and simple router functionality in an easy to set up package.
As long as you're a metropolitan broadband user, Telstra BigPond Wireless Broadband delivers well, but it can't be said to be an inexpensive broadband option.
Ultraportables don't get much lighter than Sony's 1.2kg TX17. Although diminutive in size, the 11-inch Vaio has a built-in DVD burner, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
An 802.11g wireless router with an integrated ADSL modem suitable for multiple PC homes and small offices.
D-Link's DCS-5300G is no real match for a dedicated wired and monitored solution, but it's also nowhere near as expensive.
If you've got signal problems with existing wireless gear, then the WRT54GX is an excellent solution, but bear in mind it's not yet standards-based technology.
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Anzac Christmas hampers
Tuesday 23 December 2014 by Alison Wishart. 7 comments
Perhaps you've packed, compiled or received a Christmas hamper full of goodies in the last few days. About this time 99 years ago, the Anzacs who had evacuated from Gallipoli were eagerly awaiting their Christmas hampers. Women distribute Christmas billies to men in Cairo, Egypt, December 1915. Driver Jack (John) O. McKenzie, from the 20th Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), recalls: …
"With loving Christmas greetings"
Tuesday 16 December 2014 by Stephanie Hume. 3 comments
The sending of a traditional Christmas card has diminished in popularity with theadvent of mobile phones, email and social media. TheAustralian WarMemorial has a large collection of postcards and greeting cards sent to and from Australian service personnel engaged in conflicts from the South African War (1898 – 1902) to Afghanistan (2001 – present). During the First World War, a very popular design of greeting card was the woven or …
Christmas messages from the AWM collection
Tuesday 18 December 2012 by Daniel Eisenberg.
The audio you hear playing at the beginning of this video is S05008, a Christmas message from Lieutenant Colonel William John Victor Windeyer (later Major General Sir William John Victor Windeyer, KBE, CB, DSO Bar). Lieutenant Colonel Windeyer was stationed in the Middle East as the commanding officer of 2/48 Battalion when he recorded this very personal Christmas message to his family. He makes no mention of the war as he speaks to …
Christmas Dinner During War
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When we think of Christmas we think of presents, decorations and most importantly Christmas dinner. What was Christmas dinner like for those at war? Private Charles Bennett (PR04245) writes in his letters home about the Christmas dinner he had in an English camp in 1916. He had: Turkey, Ham, Roast Potato, Peas, Parsnips, Xmas pudding, Café au Lait, apples, orange, bananas, saffron cakes, mince pies Lieutenant Donald Armstrong …


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Route de Salerne, 83510 LorguesShow on map
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Château de Berne is a country house retreat of warm dignity and bucolic calm
Château de Berne offers plenty of space for poolside contemplation
Château de Berne is a mix of plump Country Life style and urban sharpness
Château de Berne retains enough country character with tiled floors, Provençal furniture, and sumptuous bedding
Château de Berne's rooms are lightened and brightened for contemporary tastes
Château de Berne's Provençal landscape tells you you're a long way from Paris
Anthony Peregrine is based in France and has reported from there for 20 years or more. He also visits as much of the rest of Europe as he can.
Who goes?
Anyone mature enough to appreciate tailored tranquillity and rich enough to afford it.
The 1,500-acre estate is a few miles from Lorgues at the southern end of the Haut-Var – handy for the Var uplands, perched villages and Verdon Gorges. Thoronet Abbey and the Lac de Carcès are nearby. The coast is around an hour away.
Here's the place to realise your fantasies of being a patrician Provençal wine baron. Absolutely everything is done for you, and with some panache. Inside, the hotel is a mix of plump Country Life style and urban sharpness: the new bar could have been airlifted from Paris. Outside, the hotel shares a little courtyard with the château itself, beyond which the Provençal landscape tells you that you're a very long way indeed from Paris. And quite a long way from anywhere else. There are few lovelier aspects for pool-side contemplation. Should sunlit idleness become a threat, there's tennis, table-tennis and pétanque, plus miles of tracks to walk, cycle or pound along on a quad bike. This really is splendid countryside for exploring. And, in summer 2015, there's a pretty packed diary of on-site events, including jazz picnics through July, and much else. Naturally, a fitness centre, sauna and steam bath await your return, as do wine visits and wine-tasting in the winery.
Warm, polite and effective. Staff lay on a free drink, bottle of wine, and mineral water for your arrival.
They're the sort which you enter and say: "Yes, that will do nicely – very nicely indeed." Recently renovated, they retain enough country character (tiled floors, Provençal furniture, sumptuous bedding) to remind you where you are – but lightened and brightened for contemporary tastes. Many have balconies. All 19 are of a decent size and flatter their occupants.
Food & drink
The main, Orangerie restaurant deals with the gastronomic side of Provençal life at dinner, and does so toothsomely, menus from €65. Simpler dishes may be had at summer lunchtime under the olive trees at the Bouscarelle brasserie – mains from €22, three-course menus from €34. And there's also a day-time snack-bar, Le Bistrot, which will rustle you up wine and cheese, or a picnic basket for €16.
Value for money
You're paying a lot but getting a lot for it. I certainly wouldn't complain.
Access for guests with disabilities?
With all those activities, certainly – though it's a tidy sum to spend on the kids.
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