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Large Family Home, Big Level Block, 250m to Balmoral Beach
This spacious, sun-drenched home 'Cannon's Hall' is set on 720sqm of level land. A great family home and a superb entertainer, it has a flexible floor plan with due north casual living area, oversized formal areas, expansive indoor/outdoor living with pergolas and level lawns plus room for a pool (STCA). Offering 5/6 bedrooms, it is ideal for both young children and teenagers. Located only 250m to the beach, this truly enviable location provides the best of the Balmoral lifestyle. Level stroll to the beach, parks, cafes, restaurants and Queenwood School.
• 5/6 double bedrooms, 3 opening onto sunny outdoor areas, study/6th bedroom
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• Open fireplace, reverse cycle air-conditioning for upper level
• Convenient to buses, Mosman village nearby. Level walk to Balmoral lifestyle
'Cannon's Hall' was built around 1890 and has a rich Balmoral history. Gavin Souter, the author of 'Mosman, a History' once lived at 28 Mandolong Road. In...
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Allardt's 24th Annual Great Pumpkin Festival and Weigh-off is set for Saturday, October 3, 2015. (One day only.) Food and crafts vendors will be set up in Allardt's Bruno Gernt Park all day. (Allardt is in the Central Time Zone.)
Pumpkin Run - Registration 7:00 to 7:45 a.m. at Allardt School. Line-up 7:45 to 8:00 a.m., and start time at 8 a.m. Categories of entry are 10K run, 5K run, 3K, and 1 mile Fun Run. Entry fee is $15 for the 10k, 5K, and 3k, and $5 for the 1 mile Fun Run. (Family rate three or more entries $40 total). Sponsored by Hall Family Pharmacy, Jamestown. Download the Pumpkin Run Entry Form at www.allardtpumpkinfestival.com or the Allardt Pumpkin Festival Facebook page
Festival Kick-off Ceremonies –10:00 a.m. at Allardt City Hall. Chairman Tom Potter will welcome everyone and present this year's Great Pumpkin Festival King and Queen and the Pumpkin Festival Beauty Pageant winners.
Children's Costume Contest - 10 a.m. on stage at Allardt City Hall. Registration at 9:30 a.m. Categories: Ages 0-2 years; 3-5 years; 6-8 years; 9-12 years; and group. Any costume theme acceptable. No live animals, please. Sponsored by Progressive Savings Bank.
Crafts and Food Vendors - Bruno Gernt Park, all day. Sample a large array of festival fare, from the highly sought pumpkin rolls, fried pies, pumpkin and nut breads, to the usual funnel cakes and homemade goodies brought by local church folks. There is more substantial fare as well, tasty barbecue at the Allardt Fire Hall, "swamp cabbage," deep fried vegetables, Italian and Polish sausages, hamburgers, hot dogs, pinto beans and corn bread from park vendors. Treat your taste buds to the famous "pumpkin roll," homemade and available from multiple vendors. Shop for festival t-shirts, crafts and decorative items, including handmade wreaths, quilts, afghans, Christmas decorations, wood crafts, soap, artwork, jewelry, purses, and numerous other items. Vendor Park sponsored by Micro Metals, Inc. and Top of the Hill Properties.
All vendors not set up in the park and who have not paid the fee must purchase a vendor's permit for $50 at Allardt City Hall and keep it at their site during the festival. The permit validates the vendors' support for the festival and their contribution toward festival expenses.
Weigh-Off of Pumpkins and Other Vegetables – Register your pumpkins, squash, watermelons, and other vegetables from 8 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. at the Sandy's Diner building. Entry fee $10. The actual weigh-off will take place there between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Allardt is an official GPC weigh-off site.
The big pumpkin winner must ride in the parade or be disqualified. See rules and regulations at www.allardtpumpkinfestival.com.
Clyde and Zelia Stephens Memorial Auto Show and the Motorcycle Show
Registration Saturday from 8 a.m. – noon Central Time at the 4-Way Stop in Allardt. $10 registration fee. ALL cars, trucks, and motorcycles welcome!
Antique Tractor Show - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gernt Lumber Yard behind Allardt Land Company. Coordinators Bryan Edwards (931-704-1241) and Dustin Garrett (931-397-2546) in charge. Participants will receive commemorative plaques or trophies. Steiner Tractor Parts is a sponsor.
Pumpkin Festival Parade - 3 p.m. – The parade is always a highlight of the day and one of the largest parades of the year for Fentress County. This year's parade will feature the Oneida High School Pride of the Tribe Marching Band and the Scott County High School band. As usual, parade entries will line up on the Baseline Road. To line up, follow Highway 52 E from Allardt past the orange water tower to the Les Franklin Road. Turn left at the Les Franklin Road. Then enter the Baseline Road from the Les Franklin Road only. The deadline for entries is noon Thursday, October 1. Call Crystal Tompkins at 879-5897 or 397-3495 to register and for additional information.
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William Bilbrey, Entertainment Chairman.
Fireworks top off the event at dark about 7 p.m.
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Vendor Park Sponsors: Micro Metals, Inc., Top of the Hill Properties
Auto and Motorcycle Show Sponsors: O'Reilly Auto Parts, Fitzgerald Glider Kits, Dave Kirk Automotive in Crossville, Auto Solutions Repair Shop, and the York Institute Cheerleaders
Pumpkin Run Sponsor and Coordinator: Hall Family Pharmacy
Tractor Show Sponsor: Steiner Tractor Parts.
Weigh-off and Festival Sponsors and Contributors: Dilip N. Joshi, MD, Hall Family Pharmacy, Allardt Land Company, Patton Insurance, Fentress County Farm Bureau, Fentress Courier, Progressive Savings Bank, Union Bank, Clarkrange Drug Center, First Volunteer Bank, Volunteer Energy Corporation, Medi-Thrift, Twin Lakes Telephone Coop, Jamestown Regional Medical Center, Potters Home Center, Fentress County Soil Conservation District, Fentress County Solid Waste.


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Rockefeller Center's celebrated tree lighting is a holiday-season staple. The colorful and towering tree is a sight to behold, and the lighting ceremony always features celebrity guests, musical performances and more. The tree can be seen from the ice-skating rink below and is a must-visit for anyone in NYC during the holidays.
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THIBODAUX -- On one side of the field, E.D. White Catholic prevented its opponent from getting easy scoring opportunities, forcing difficult shots that often sailed wide of the goal.
On the other side of the field, though, the Cardinals struggled to take advantage of their own scoring chances, tying St. Martins Episcopal 1-1 in the non-district match at Harvey Peltier Stadium Tuesday night.
St. Martins (0-6-1 overall) was a Division III semifinalist last season.
The Cardinals finished with 11 shots, while St. Martins had 14.
E.D. Whites (3-3-3 overall) lone goal came on a first-half penalty kick, when Nick Duet pushed his shot inside the right post at the 35th minute.
Other than that, many of E.D. Whites attacks ended in passes that were slightly ahead of their targets, allowing the St. Martin goalie to reach the ball before a Cardinals attacker could reach it.
Cardinals coach Roger Bimah said as his team gains more experience, he expects to see more of his offenses attacks finish in goals.
Still, he felt playing an opponent the quality of St. Martins will only help his team improve.
"Thats inexperience," Bimah said. "I wish we could play every game like this because we need that. We need games where our guys are put into positions where they are comfortable in how they react in the game.
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Good Vibrations
Tune them in to Nashville's music roots with a harmonica from the famed Ryman Auditorium (ryman.com).
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Crab-Cracking Set
Guests can summon Maryland with a sprinkle of Old Bay seasoning -- it's great in Bloody Marys and on potatoes, too -- a wooden mallet (themarylandstore.com), and a kitchen towel (surlatable.com).
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Key Lime Confections
These irresistible bite-size cookies smack of the Sunshine State's tart produce (keywestkeylimepieco.com). Shell-shaped chocolates are another seaside favor (weddingfavors.com).
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Belle Fleurs
The Bayou is known for more than Mardi Gras. Honor Louisiana's French heritage with fleur-de-lis-themed note cards from La Belle-Vie Design (labelleviedesign.com) or with chocolate lollipops (hitsthespot.etsy.com).
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Hot Chocolates
Candied pecans and pretty papers dress up Sweeteeth Cinnapsis chocolate bars (sweeteethchocolate.com). The Charleston, South Carolina, chocolatiers will even create small-batch custom-blend flavors for smaller affairs.
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Nutty Nosh
Who doesn't love goober peas? (That's what peanuts are called down south.) Whitley's Peanut Factory nuts (whitleyspeanut.com) will come in handy on the flight home -- if they last that long. Just pour them into Bella Terra ribbon-handle bags (bellaterra.net).
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Brilliant Bites
Crafted to resemble nuts from the Ohio state tree, Marie's Candies buckeyes are decadent orbs of chocolate-dipped peanut butter (mariescandies.com). Four fit perfectly into these 3 1/2-inch-square white candy boxes (confectioneryhouse.com). We wrapped ours in yellow paper for a colorful finishing touch.
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Prairie Companion
A handsome volume of the classic American novel "O Pioneers!" connects Nebraska's past to its present. Hand it over bound in ribbon with a stalk or two of wheat. (doverpublications.com)
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Sinfully Delicious
Mackinac Island fudge is a hit with fans from Michigan and all over the Midwest, who visit Mackinac Fudge Shop to indulge their sugar cravings. (mackinacfudgeshop.com)
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Morning Mix
Come June, tart cherries pop up all over the Great Lakes. A jar of Michigan's Cherry Republic triple-cherry granola (cherryrepublic.com) lets friends enjoy the fruit year-round.
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Cheese Please
End the celebration without a dose of dairy? We think not. A little package of Wisconsin cheddar cheese and Carr's crackers (wisconsincheesemart.com) is a terrific late-night snack.
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Flower Power
Wildflowers dot the Kansas prairie, but they can grow in most backyards, too. A muslin bag of Midwest seed bombs contains an arsenal of native plants that are ready to be sown. (visualingual.etsy.com)
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Maize Munchies
Pay tribute to the crops of Iowa and Indiana by adding bright paper leaves to a cob-shaped lollipop (melvillestore.com) or dole out kettle corn (popcornindiana.com) in striped paper bags (bakeitpretty.com).
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Cocktail Coasters
The Magnificent Mile's skyline is immortalized in these letterpress versions by Paper Stories (paperstories.com). Place a bundle at each place setting.
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Motor City Mementos
For guests: an ode to your locale courtesy of Barrel of Monkeys "Detroit Love" pin-back buttons (barrelofmonkeys.etsy.com). For you: a photo of everyone wearing them during the reception.
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Desert Dwellers
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Good Spirits
Keep the party going with bottles of Austin, Texas-based Tito's Handmade Vodka (titosvodka.com). The smooth liquor is made in copper pots at Texas's first (legal) distillery.
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Cowboy Candy
Bedre's chocolate boots were made for walking -- and eating. After gobbling these up, everyone will wish they came in a life-size version. (thegourmetgallery.com)
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All That Glitters
You got a diamond -- why not present guests with something sparkly, too? Arizona's amethysts and pyrite from Astro Gallery (a.k.a. "fool's gold") symbolize protection and are thought to bring good luck (212-889-9000). Toss them into 3-by-four-inch pouches from Soft Suede Collection (softpouch.com).
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Lucky Lollies
All you need is a clever tag to turn a Melville Candy Company horseshoe lollipop (melvillestore.com) into a gift worth trotting off with.
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Safe Bet
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas -- except for Stardust Hotel's playing cards, that is. Bundle them up with a stack of poker chips (oldvegaschips.com).
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Sip Stop
Named for one of the country's oldest highways, Route 66 cream soda (route66sodas.com), along with a fun tag and striped straw -- just set out a bunch next to the bottles (fishseddy.com) -- will quench any weary traveler's thirst.
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Stylish Suds
Hand-made in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Songbird Soaps (songbirdsoaps.etsy.com) have a unisex appeal. They're composed of ingredients like sage and indigo, and make great shaving bars. Plus, they come wrapped in beautiful fabric.
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Twinkling Trinkets
Souvenirs guests would probably buy for themselves -- like punched tin ornaments -- are a no-brainer. Bonus: supporting regional artisans such as Cristina Hernandez. (therealsouthwest.com)
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Bag of Joe
New Mexico's pinon coffee (therealsouthwest.com) is made from pine nuts brought to a dark, savory roast. Repackage the java in 1/2-pound kraft paper bags (leboxboutique.com), and add a colorful flourish.
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Luxe Nuts
For more than 50 years, Ken & June's Hazelnuts (madeinoregon.com) have satisfied Oregonians. A glassine bag filled with them and finished with a handwritten tag is a delectable treat.
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DIY Pine Tree
Talk about longevity: An Ancient Bristlecone Pine grow kit has the potential to produce a tree with a 5,000-year life span (jonsteen.com).
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Guiding Light
Keep the flame alive long after the ceremony is over with Seattle-made sugared eucalyptus soy candles (torchillumination.com). The scent freshens up hotel rooms, and lids make them travel-friendly.
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Dress to Impress
Berries gathered from the Bighorn Mountains yield this wild-chokecherry vinaigrette (wyomingbuffalocompany.com). Add a label to make it your own.
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Country Cloth
This display-worthy tea towel is printed with a 1940s-style state map and will jazz up any countertop. (Idaho souvenir towel, antiquekitchen.com)
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Scrumptious Spread
Washington-grown apples pack crisp flavor into Deluxe Foods' spiced apple butter (madeinwashington.com). Tip: It's mouthwatering with farmhouse cheddar.
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Better Than Butter
With a gorgeous label and luscious contents, La Tourangelle avocado oil (latourangelle.com) is a rich ode to California.
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Salt of the Earth
Gourmet Hawaiian seasonings, complete with punched-paper tags, bring the island spirit to meals back home. From top: Papohaku opal sea salt, bamboo-leaf sea salt, and Molokai red fine salt (atthemeadow.com). Martha Stewart Crafts hydrangea punch (michaels.com for stores).
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Nature's Nectar
Honeyville mountain-wildflower honey (honeyvillecolorado.com) offers a tempting taste of the Rockies. Consider giving it with a charming wooden dipper (surlatable.com).
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Write Stuff
Covered with facts and figures about Big Sky Country, Field Notes "County Fair" state notebooks (fieldnotesbrand.com) are just the right size for travel.
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Skip to comments.CBS's Nancy Giles: Whites Oppose Abortion 'To Build Up the Race'
Posted on 11/12/2012 4:35:02 PM PST by chessplayer
Host Harris-Perry was discussing with her guests the results of Tuesday's election by demographic group.
When she got her chance to comment, Giles said, "It's been weird to watch white people report on this."
"You know when you just showed that graph of the decline in the numbers," she continued, "I thought, 'Maybe that's why they're trying to eliminate all these abortions and stuff. They're trying to build up the race."
Apparently she never learned of Margeret Sanger's connections to the Nazis.
Abortion kills more black babies than any other, dipshit. So which race is it that us white devils are trying to build up?
yeah the life of the baby has nothing to do with it. /s
the stupid it burns
Man is dense. Banning abortions would build up the black race more than any thing.
Pro-lifers are not that because they love the idea of liberals having more offspring.
Exactly. If we wanted to get rid of more Blacks, we'd be promoting abortion.
I have heard a lot of really stupid statements in my life but this one wins hands down..Abortion kills more black children than any other race what the hell is this moron even talking about
Nancy Giles is a full blooming Marxist idiot and proud of it.
Hey Nancy!
If you were ever interested in the history of the abortion movement in America, you might learn that the primary intent was to kill Black babies.
I enjoy watching "Sunday Morning" but I always walk off or change the channel when this loon comes on.
i thought whites were accused of encouraging abortion of minorities?
Bitch be dumbern a sack o' rocks 'n' shee-it.
The woman sounds like a eugenics freak.
I'm a white and I oppose the killing of the unborn. It's not a matter of race, it's the sanctity of innocent life.
These people are sick!
So, anyone supporting abortion then should be seen as trying to dewindle the race. Got it: Abortion is racist because it killed all those black babies.
Sick, sick, woman.
Does she have any idea how sick she sounds?
What a POS. I hope she likes her time in hell.
And killing liberals and pro-choicers is just icing on the cake.
Care for a coat hanger, Ms. Giles?
...I guess this means that blacks supporting abortion means that they are trying to eliminate their race..
Even if that was the reason. SO.
We take a lot of grief for trying to save Democrat babies.
Gosh, could it get any worse/the blatant hatred ...
I guess, she's pro abortion because she want to reduce the human race
Hey Nancy, we conservatives defend the life of unborn babies because it is the moral and right thing to do. We act on what is right, not what is self serving. That is how leftists behave.Abortion is a barbaric and reprehensible act upon a totally defenseless baby who has no "choice" in the matter. As a flaming liberal, you are morally bankrupt and believe that all actions must benefit liberalism and/or self. Please don't project your godless, selfish motives on us. While you're at it, read about Margaret Sanger's motivation for abortion.
I wish Hannity or O'Reilly would invite her onto their shows and ask her about that. The depth of her stupidity is only outdone by her racist hatred. Amazing.
Giles works for the Collective BullShit System.
Looks like she has been playing with electric sockets again.
Blacks and Mexicans have the vast majority of abortions. Ending it would increase their numbers, not ours.
Nancy Giles is too stupid to realize that she just made the case by inference that blacks are murdering their posterity with their lopsided abortion rates per capita. Odd that, wholesale disenfranchisement of alive unborn children, since disenfranchisement is what black people tend to wear as a chip on their shoulders. But then most voting blacks don't know what hypocrisy is, much less how to identify it in their midst.
>> Abortion kills more black babies than any other, dipshit.
Someone should tell the Professional Angry Black Woman that there are many more black babies aborted than white, so if anti-abortionists are trying to build up the race, it just doesn't add up.
Apparently, Nancy was never very good at math...or logic.
Sad, the people that suffer under abortion are minorities, but it's why the self-hating, white, liberal elites love abortion, they all say how they love blacks, but they promote contraception and abortion in African nations for a reason, isn't that right Bubba, planned parenthood my a**, it's planned murder!
Pro choice my rear-end! The woman has the only choice. She can kill her baby if convenient. The baby has no choice. It simply suffers the death penalty for a sexual freedom of the mother. A one-sided choice. The other human being is a little pawn. It'll be interesting to watch the pleading at the Pearly Gates.
Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.
This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated "Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member."
A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions.
Just a few 'stats.
First time I have ever heard a lib claim that opposition to abortion is racist.
"The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb" Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr.
Libs: killing the babies and babying the killers.
Suppose whites did want to "build up the race." Does she have a problem with that? Any other race wanting to increase its numbers or at least not go extinct would receive sympathy.
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figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and
began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen
invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)
Ignorant libtard. Most planned parenthood's operate in black urban areas, on purpose. As a percentage of population blacks abort far more kids than whites. If we wanted to build up the race we'd be doing everything possible to build more planned parenthoods in urban areas, and putting through more laws that appear to help blacks but really just ensure the destruction of their family units. IE we'd be racist democrat socialists.
A goof gets to propound racial theories on American television. Shows you how far downhill America has gone.
Yes, the complete lack of logic in these folks is stunning.
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No, just stupid.
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The greenest version of Volkswagen's Sharan is the BlueMotion. Steve Walker reports.
Volkswagen's aging full-size MPV doesn't strike you as a prime candidate for conversion into environmentally-friendly BlueMotion form. It's big, it's no spring chicken in automotive industry terms and with capacity for seven adult passengers, it has the potential to be very heavy. These eco-special models are often centred around the idea of saving weight but the grams saved by removing noise insulation material or fitting a slightly thinner rear-view mirror will be instantly cancelled out if the chap in the back row happens to be a sumo wrestler rather than a jump jockey. Volkswagen sensibly chose to leave the weight problem alone with its Sharan BlueMotion, instead concentrating on mechanical and aerodynamic routes to greater economy.
BlueMotion models pervade across the Volkswagen line-up these days. You can get anything from a Polo to a Passat with the BlueMotion badge on its tailgate. The brand serves as an easy way for the marque's customers to identify the cleanest, greenest most cost-effective models in the line-up without recourse to ploughing through endless specification sheets and pricelists. For that, Volkswagen, we salute you.
The Sharan BlueMotion's engine and gearbox combination is vital to its green credentials. The engine is the 2.0-litre TDI unit with 138bhp from the standard Sharan range and it's an altogether more satisfying installation than the older 1.9-litre TDI unit that's used in many other Volkswagen BlueMotion models. It's mated to a revised gearbox with revised ratios designed to allow the engine to work less hard at a given speed than it would otherwise be forced to do. The engine itself also benefits from a higher boost pressure for its turbocharger and exhaust gas recirculation system to further clean up its operation.
"In BlueMotion guise, the Volkswagen Sharan gets more fuel efficient and chucks notably less taxable nastiness out of its tailpipe."
The Sharan's roadgoing behaviour was at the forefront of its class when it was launched and a series of suspension tweaks for the second generation models improved things still further. The German engineers concentrated particularly on improving the ride over poor surfaces - the kind of thing you notice around town - and they largely succeeded without compromising the higher speed handling that makes this car the surprisingly rewarding drive it is. The large MPV has moved on slightly but the Sharan is still a more rewarding vehicle to drive than many of its more modern rivals.
The standard Sharan's clean lines look reasonably aerodynamic to the untrained eye but the BlueMotion model features revised cooling ducts on the nose and a 25mm reduction in ride height to help it flow through the air more effectively. In case you were wondering, these changes lowered the drag coefficient from 0.31 to 0.29.
Seven seats are standard on all Sharan models and as far as their layout is concerned, things are pretty familiar - though early Sharan buyers should find that the removable chairs themselves will feel a lot more comfortable in this current model. Sadly, they're no lighter, so lugging them in and out remains a job not to be undertaken by the weak or faint-hearted. The two front seats can be swivelled round completely to face the rear - which is great for picnics and business meetings if you're stationary and there's only four in the car. It's annoying however, that you still can't do the same with the middle set so that occupants behind the driver can face each other and talk on longer journeys.
The Sharan suffers from the age-old MPV problem of luggage space and if the back row is occupied, you won't squeeze much into the boot. There's a good amount of space for all seven occupants however, and some tinkering with the seating can produce various usable combinations of people and luggage space.
Given its size and capacity, the Sharan looks well priced and comes with air-conditioning and the reassurance of a three-year warranty as standard across the range. As for other items of equipment, the BlueMotion model gets security remote central locking, an alarm, a trip computer, six airbags, ABS, an electronic engine immobiliser, electric front windows, power steering and a good quality stereo. Not bad.
There's no doubt that the Sharan is one of the old stagers of the large MPV market and it lacks the latest design features that appear routinely on more modern rivals. The package still has legs however, courtesy of its simplicity and general build quality. Volkswagen's own Touran MPV is a more modern and compact alternative and buyers seeking additional space may consider the van-based Caravelle.
The modifications made to the BlueMotion version of the Sharan have quite an effect on its economy and emissions. The standard models with the 2.0 TDI engine emit 177g/km of CO2 but the BlueMotion lowers that to 159g/km. It's not going to endow the seven-seat Sharan with supermini running costs but this and the 47.1mpg fuel economy, make it a very economical way to shift seven people from A to B. With the vehicle's 70-litre fuel tank, there's a theoretical range of 680 miles which is great for removing the temptation of the chocolate bar selection at you local filling station.
In BlueMotion guise, the Volkswagen Sharan gets more fuel efficient and chucks notably less taxable nastiness out of its tailpipe. You'll pay £600 extra to get it and it will take a good few thousand miles to recoup that in fuel savings but you'll be doing your bit for the planet and eventually, you'll be saving money as well.
Yes, there are newer large people carriers you could consider but don't ignore this one if you get offered the right deal. It's well sorted. It's well designed. And it's a Volkswagen - which has to count for something. You'll buy a Volkswagen Sharan if you're not easily impressed by the gimmicky design touches on the more modern alternatives and you like the Volkswagen's simple no-nonsense approach. The model's age should mean that discounts will be forthcoming but despite its advancing years, there are few rivals that drive better.
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"Do you think it's possible to live again, Monsieur? ... I mean ... is it possible to die and then ... live again in someone else?"
Being a huge Hitchock fan this book particularly intrigued, but even if you've never seen a single Hitchcock film in your life, VERTIGO is an engaging, fascinating, and frequently beautiful book. If you are also a fan of the film, then there is greater nuance here than the film, and plenty to conjecture about for the reader.
Set at the start of World War II, the central character of Flavières is troubled by many things, not just the need at one point to flee the war's encroachment. He seems, on the face of it, a man who was destined to be obsessed with the wife of his friend. Her behaviour whilst mysterious, is mesmerising and her beauty in the eyes of Flavières incomparable. His obsession and the moral dilemmas presented to him by her husband's insistence that he continue the friendship are understated, yet beautifully illustrated.
The reasons posited for her behaviour are unexpected and yet oddly believable, but nothing is ever that straight-forward and VERTIGO delivers some twists and turns and stings in the tail that make it end up sitting somewhere between a mystery and a morality play.
Beautifully translated with nary a bump to be detected in the language, VERTIGO is complicated, clever and another of those wonderful, one sitting reading experiences.
Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion. Their life together is one of enviable privilege and ease - enviable until, one evening after supper, Oliver attacks Alice and beats her into a coma.
If you ever need to sum up UNRAVELLING OLIVER by Liz Nugent in one word then mesmerising is it. It starts out with the serious assault of Alice by her husband Oliver Ryan and then steps back through the previous five decades, charting the events in Oliver's life leading up to the assault. The narrative switches from Oliver to other people he has spent time with over the years, and it carefully and very cleverly builds a story of the real Oliver and why he is who he is, why he did what he did. There is also geographical variation with many of the pivotal events in their lives happening in France, whereas day to day life, and the crime occur in Ireland.
There's a claustrophobic, intense feeling to this style of narrative, as Oliver's facade is laid bare, carefully and forensically. In a style that's almost deceptively gentle, there's a deliberation to the way that friends and family all step up to tell their part of this man's sorry story each in turn, each twisting the knife a further turn.
Not that Oliver does not deserve skewering. His assault on his wife, as described in the opening pages of the book is shocking, vicious and seemingly utterly without regret. The mesmerising manner in which Liz Nugent does that cannot be understated. The assured narrative, the way that the cast of characters become so real in such short sharp chapters, the sense that you're being given an opportunity to understand that great question of crime fiction - why, in such detail, all combine to create something extremely satisfying in UNRAVELLING OLIVER.
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie?
AFTER THE CRASH opens with private eye Credule Grand-Duc preparing to take his own life after spending nearly eighteen years failing to discover the truth behind the miracle of the baby who survived a plane crash. Preparing his papers for handover, and setting the scene for his dramatic final act, he contemplates once more the front page from the local newspaper the day that the crash happened. And suddenly realises he finally knows the answer.
Occurring at a time well before the advent of DNA testing, any chance of establishing the parentage of the baby at the time was limited to potential physical evidence - of which the type of clothes she was wearing, the lack or existence of jewellery and the location where she was found are the only possible pointers that the court, and initially Grand-Duc have to work with. The two families have had to resort to court action to settle their claims for the baby girl, one of two on the list of passengers on that ill-fated plane. The hard-fought court case eventually hangs on the slightest of evidence, and enough doubt to lead the court to decide in favour of one family. Accepting the decision, but quietly hiring Grand-Duc on a yearly retainer up until the girl turns 18, the other family clings to the idea that the baby may still prove to be their granddaughter, hence the dilemma that he finds himself in at the eleventh hour.
This is such an intriguing, and utterly believable story told in multiple narratives, switching from the baby girl's brother Mark, and voice of Grand-Duc via his case notes. Along the way there are telling observations around the events of the crash and the aftermath. The fickle attention span of the media, the nature of familial love and connection, and the love of a brother and sister which always seems to have another aspect to it. It's also not a single-threaded story, there are plenty of complications in both of these families, and each set of grandparents are left with one living grandchild into the bargain as well as their own complicated and realistic personal stories. In both these cases the families are always part of the focus, frequently part of the problem, or struggling with many unexpected complications.
Bussi is a master at the art of dropping clues into the narrative that don't become clear until much later, and of frequently leading the reader into a solution which raises more and more questions. Using the case notes of Grand-Duc as the guiding narrative for much of the action also brings in the potential of a highly unreliable narrator, especially as both he, Mark and the second possible sibling seem to be rushing to precipitate a resolution against each other. Of course you could be forgiven for wondering why it is that Mark doesn't simply flick straight to the end of Grand-Duc's notes, but that realisation might only happen with the benefit of hindsight. The quest in this case constantly seems more important than the resolution in the end. Particularly as it becomes clear that the matriarchs of both families have known the truth for much longer than anybody could possibly realise.
The pacing of this thriller is particularly interesting, somehow achieving massive leaps forward in what otherwise feels rather languid, almost rhythmic style. Even for those readers that pick many of the twists and turns coming there is more than enough unknowns to keep most people guessing right until the end of AFTER THE CRASH. Certainly this reader was intrigued, and surprised by the resolution, having got to the point where it felt like just about everybody was stepping up for the position of chief unreliable narrator.
In another Epicurean journey in France, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker's world gets turned upside down one night in Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. There a flamboyant British dandy, a spectacular blue-eyed blond, a zealous concierge and touchy local police disturb his well-deserved rest. From the Loire Valley to Bordeaux, in between a glass of Vouvray and a bottle of Saint-Émilion, the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and very particular heist.
It's hard not to become increasingly enamoured of this wonderful series of books (of which there are now 8 translated), based in the gloriously described wine regions of France, featuring the curmudgeonly, slightly arrogant, ever vigilant Benjamin Cooker, his assistant Virgile and wife Elisabeth. In THE GRAND CRU HEIST, sadly Elisabeth who is missing in action for much of the novel.
This story starts out with our renowned wine critic being bashed and robbed one night in Paris. Bad enough that the young, violent villains pinched his beloved Mercedes, but it contained his briefcase, which contained his tasting notes. A disaster of monumental proportions, outweighing the distress of his physical injuries. To recover, of course, Cooker heads to a wonderful Chateau hotel in the Tours region for rest, recuperation and wine.
Needless to say, his path quickly crosses with that of a murderer, when two people - the companion of a flamboyant British wine lover, and the concierge of his hotel both end up dead in quick succession. This leads to much conjecture on the possible connections between the victims. Cooker and Virgile, however, soon reunited with the missing Mercedes, are heading to Cooker's dear friend, Huber de Boüard, of Château Angélus fame, who has been the victim of a series of baffling wine burglaries followed by cryptic messages from the thieves.
The matter of murder is undoubtedly important, but the theft of valued wine stocks is also a national catastrophe as far as Cooker is concerned. But the resolution of both of these threads must be pursued in the correct manner, and the tasting and enjoying of various wine varieties along the way is of vital importance. It seems that Cooker thinks best when seated at a tasting table, or that of a much loved local eatery.
Cooker is wonderfully ambiguous - an insufferable know it all, astute observer and solver of many problems, there's a gentle side to him in THE GRAND CRU HEIST which is most touching. His poor assistant Virgile is very often put upon, and the commentary on food, other people, surroundings and everyone else is frequently hilarious, all very much part of the fun of these books. This series has proven to be enormously entertaining, and THE GRAND CRU HEIST, a very short novel, is up there with the rest of the series. Not just because, I hasten to clarify, it's impossible to read them without a glass of something (slightly more local) in your hand.
The Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux to go to Burgundy for a dream wine tasting trip to France's other key wine-making region. Between Beaune, Dijon and Nuits-Saint-Georges, it urns into a troubling nightmare when he stumbles upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. What do they mean? What dark secrets from the deep past are haunting the Clos de Vougeot? Does blood need to be shed to sharpen people's memory? A made-for-TV series.
The third in the Winemaker Detective series, NIGHTMARE IN BURGUNDY takes our hero Benjamin Cooker away from his native Bordeaux to Burgundy, where he is being named Chevalier du Tastevin by the Knights of the order that are proud of their slogan 'Never whine, always wine!'.
Which will probably give you a little bit of an indication of the tone of this charming series, set deep in the world of French wine, and the intrigues that seem to pile up alongside it. In NIGHTMARE IN BURGUNDY this intrigue revolves mostly around a series of extremely erudite graffiti attacks which start to show up around the small town that Cooker is visiting. In Latin, ultimately identified as quotations from one of the more sobering Psalms, our graffiti writer doesn't seem to be any ordinary teenager, despite the locals taking matters somewhat precipitously into their own hands.
This series is one of those perfect little morsels for fans of all sorts of crime fiction. For the cosy fans this is a perfect way to immerse yourself in a beautiful place and a very different background industry. There are deaths, but they are almost off-screen, the puzzle of the Psalm and what the graffiti is trying to tell its readers is the point of the story. For fans of the darker side, there's enough plot here to keep the reader occupied, and whilst the style is a little on the arch, vaguely amused with itself side, it's not going to result in an overdose of the cutes.
It also doesn't hurt that the books come with a wonderful sense of place. Some of the descriptive elements are positively glorious. Then there's a sprinkling of wine education, a bit of local history, and even a brush up of your Latin.
As is this reader's usual wont, I've gotten out of sequence, and have now read the first and the third books, although I'm definitely going to catch up with the second at some point. NIGHTMARE IN BURGUNDY is an unusual setting for crime and an unusual plot into the bargain, but it is done well, with a central character who is definitely on the eccentric side. Which suits him very well.
What do you do if your fiancée goes missing, presumed taken?
If you're Daniel Trent, a highly-trained specialist in hostage negotiation, the answer is simple: You find out who took her and you make them talk.
But matters are complicated when Daniel's chief suspect is kidnapped. How does he get him back quickly - and alive?
As a child, Catherine Monsigny was the only witness to her mother's death. 20 years later as an ambitious attorney in contemporary Paris, she catches a professional break when her boss assigns her to major felony case in rural France. An immigrant stands accused of poisoning her husband, but her secrets are not the only ones hidden in the scenic rolling hills of Creuse. While preparing the defence, Catherine is reunited with images of own past and a high-intensity search for two murderers ensues. Who can she believe? And what will Catherine do with her past should she discover it?
It is always a pleasure to come across publishers who are bringing works from different cultures to the English-reading world, particularly when there is such a strong sense of place in the books I've been lucky enough to read from Le French Book (http://lefrenchbook.com/). THE PARIS LAWYER has a particular French sensibility, combined with a clever take on lawyer based crime fiction.
The Parisian Lawyer is Catherine Monsigny, a young lawyer whose earliest memories are fleeting glimpses of the day that her mother was murdered. Her debut criminal trial involves an enigmatic immigrant, accused of murder, a defence harder to build because this person seems to have come from nowhere. Called out of Paris to assist her client, the case triggers Monsigny to confront her own history. Along the way she develops a relationship with a strange man who may have an ulterior motive for his pursuit of her.
One of the most interesting aspects of THE PARIS LAWYER is how what starts of as a slightly meandering, low key sort of a story, builds into something that becomes extremely involving. It's almost sneaky how the combination of an isolated location, a man with a secret and a central character with a confronting past, all combine as Monsigny's investigation into her own background and the defence of the murder accused, twist and turn together. The story deftly balances the idea of a lawyer, trial based book; with many of the aspects of a psychological thriller.
Whilst much of the standard formula of a psychological thriller is twisted on its head early in the book, and Monsigny's reveals her insecurity, there is a further twist that may or may not work for many readers. At some point in the search for the murderer of her mother, Monsigny becomes even more preoccupied with what the mother she never had a chance to know was really like, and hence who she is herself. At that point the book becomes increasingly less about the who and more about the why. What is driving many of the central characters, why they do what they do, and who they really are. For this reader it added an extra layer, and there was absolutely no reason not to follow where the author was leading.
The only other problem is likely to be in the way that many of the plot elements are left unresolved at the end of the book. Not necessarily a bad thing, unless that lack has no apparent reason. Be it to allow the reader some thinking material, or because everything in life is not automatically wrapped up neatly, unresolved elements aren't automatically an issue as far as this reader is concerned. Unfortunately here, some of the elements left hanging at the end of THE PARIS LAWYER didn't leave a question to consider, instead they contributed to the feeling of a bit of a mad scramble to the end.
Fortunately these minor problems did not lessen any enjoyment of THE PARIS LAWYER at all. It is a refreshing, different, challenging approach to some standard and not so standard crime fiction norms.
Geneva, 2012. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and what is his connection to the British agent?
At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky, and panic spreads through the British and American Intelligence services. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West's defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere?
It's always intriguing, who or what will be the next threats that espionage writers can employ in their thrillers. I'm not sure what it says about the world that we live in but there does seem to be no shortage of possible scenarios and nefarious goings-on to occupy the intelligence world. THE GENEVA TRAP is the 7th book in the Liz Carlyle series, and the main plot elements, as you'd expect from a writer with Rimington's background, have a ring of truth and absolutely credibility about them.
Liz is a very strong character. Strong enough to survive this particular reader's tendency to wander around in this series, as there are a few books that I've missed. Most obviously, it's her personal life that I'm behind with, but at no stage did I really get lost or feel at sea. Which was particularly pleasing as there is a sub-plot in THE GENEVA TRAP which involves her mother's partner, his daughter, Liz's own partner, a French commune, and the possibility of armed protest and personal violence.
Not everything, however, worked perfectly, particularly some of the technicalities of computer hacking. Now granted I'm not as technically expert as some around me, but there were elements in the "techy talk" that simply didn't make any sense, and lacked credibility. To the point where I had to give myself a little "it's fiction - get over it" talking to at one point. Nitpicking undoubtedly, but it did make those parts of the book hard to swallow. What wasn't so hard to chew was the spy craft, right down to the surveillance aspects, the not quite as clandestine as required meetings in parks, generational sleeper agents and all the other covert goings on.
There's good pace and action, some very nice twists and turns and a complicated but clever plot that does pull everything together in a believable finale, although that's tempered a little by some very stereotypical villains and the requisite inept upper echelons. But THE GENEVA TRAP, and the whole Liz Carlyle series are very much espionage based thrillers, and despite a few minor quibbles, this was a book that was hard to put down.
Strange things are happening at the Moniales Haut-Brion wine cellars in Bordeaux. Who would want to target this esteemed vintner? World-renowned wine specialist turned gentleman detective Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien search the city and the vineyards for answers, uncovering mysteries lurking in the shadows of prestigious estates.
Living on the edge of the Pyrenees (the ones in Victoria, Australia), surrounded as we are by wineries and winemakers, it's was a rather interesting experience to find myself reading TREACHERY IN BORDEAUX which is steeped in wine-making tradition, methodology, and a dash of intrigue.
TREACHERY IN BORDEAUX is the first in a series of books that are likely to be compared to the Number 1 Ladies Detective agency, if for no other reason than its incredibly strong sense of place and culture. Plus, whilst the book is crime fiction, there's not a murder in sight. This is a very different, dare I say, very French sort of a crime.
The book relies heavily on the development of the central, somewhat eccentric and rather bombastic character Benjamin Cooker. Cooker might be a man who agonises over his professional reputation when it comes to his wine based writings, but is also very firm in his position about life, food, wine and his place in the world. To this reader he seemed like an unusual combination of a quintessentially English Frenchman, and there are times when you wonder how it is that his new sidekick Virgile Lanssien doesn't simply throw his hands in the air and walk away. It also builds a picture of a very particular world. That of the winemakers, of ancient and revered wine cellars, of the pressures of modern life and the relentless urban push. It has a message about the destruction of tradition that particularly resonated.
TREACHERY IN BORDEAUX is not, however, a book for action fans. It takes forever for anything like the crime to occur, and you'd be forgiven if you kind of missed it in all the wine facts (why was I hearing Oz Clarke and James May's voices all the time....). It's definitely a book for fans of expertise, of eccentricity and of a strong sense of place and people. Benjamin Cooker could be exactly the sort of wine-buff that makes some of us roll our eyes and mutter under our breath a little, but if you can handle the slightly superior tone, and see it with the humour implied, it is the perfect book for people who might like a little treachery with their evening glass of Bordeaux, a little history and tradition with their Merlot.
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Early one morning in Paris, the tranquillity of the Sorbonne University is shattered by a death. But why would Albert Cadas, a quiet, crumpled professor of medieval literature, have any reason to kill himself. Meanwhile, Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, receives a visit from an enigmatic elderly gentleman with a unique commission: to restore a priceless manuscript whose time-worn pages promise to reveal the truth of a mystery that has fascinated scholars and writers for centuries.
DEATH IN THE LATIN QUARTER is the first novel by Raphael Cardetti, translated from the original French, released in English in 2010. Categorised on the cover as a "treasure-hunt tale", this is a book set in the halls of academia and the world of art collection, restoration and museums.
The story, as outlined in the blurb, revolves around Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, taking in private commissions to clean and restore artwork on behalf of the great general public. She has fallen from grace, fired from a prestigious job after a mistake, which is slowly revealed as the book goes on. After being approached by an enigmatic elderly man with a unique commission, she quickly finds herself involved in nefarious plots to possess an ancient manuscript and the secrets it allegedly holds.
Okay, up front, I really really struggled to finish this book. Originally I thought it might be a slight personal wariness that I feel about these great artwork / secrets from the past / enigmatic old millionaires / playing fast and loose with everyone around them type scenarios. There were a number of things that worried me about this book: why we couldn't just confirm what had happened to make Savi lose her job so that we could all move on (it wasn't hard to take an educated guess after all). Why the Dean even had time to develop such a hump with some poor hapless student (and quite what all that was supposed to be about anyway). Why so many millionaire art-collectors have to be "enigmatic"; and most of all why their assistants have to be gorgeous, wound up like a top, perfectly coiffed blonde women (for that matter why are their bodyguards always "disguised" as the chauffeur and built like the proverbial without a brain cell to spare). And I haven't even mentioned the compound, the state of the art security system that wasn't, and the security consultant who would have been better paying more attention to the aforementioned state of the art security system, and a lot less to lusting after the main female characters. Whilst these sorts of books are very much about the manipulation of the reader experience, there must be something in the storytelling that makes the reader willing to go along with the obvious tension building, and I couldn't, no matter how hard I tried, swallow a lot of it.
At one point I thought I'd nailed the problem, assuming I'd missed a subtle sense of humour. Maybe the story was teasing me, it was supposed to be slightly tongue in cheek, and I'd misread the tone completely... Toiling on through the book, I looked for these signs, but I simply couldn't find them. Instead I found an increasing pile of overt red herrings, a bit of romantic tension, much rushing around and a hefty dose of telegraphed character-jep that would have made a movie fan pitch Jaffa's at the screen. As the pace tried to pick up in the book, my ability to stick with it was getting less and less. The villains were too much, the bad guy too obvious, the characterisations too clichéd and the plot too transparent for my taste.