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Newsstands selling Sud-Ouest remind you where you are: this is not the Mediterranean, certainly, but in summer the quality of the light, the warm air, the fields of sunflowers and the shuttered siesta-silence of the farmhouses give you the first exciting promises of the south. While foreign tourists flock to Paris or the Riviera when summer arrives, the discerning French head for the west coast. Straddling the regions of Poitou-Charentes, Aquitaine and Pays-de-la-Loire, it's an area of great variety, with Roman cities, rustling marshes, a beautiful wine region and miles of sandy coast, dotted with small islands and slumbering coastal villages.
The Bordeaux wine region
Excursions from Royan
The Marais Poitevin
Rochefort and around
The Île de Noirmoutier
The Île de Ré
The Île d'Oléron
The coastline is rich in beaches, which are especially lovely on the pine-covered, sandy Côte d'Argent, south of Bordeaux. The historic port La Rochelle is a pleasing mix of Renaissance mansions and ice-cream stalls, and the islands are delightful: Noirmoutier, small and idyllic; Ré, with long beaches, windswept plains and flashy Parisian guests; Oléron, unaffected and blue-collar; and romantic Île d'Aix, tiny and windswept. The islands are popular in July and August, but best in late spring or early autumn when the crowds slip away.
Inland, the cities make ideal weekend breaks: elegant Bordeaux, with unrivalled dining, nightlife and shopping; young and lively Poitiers; and cool, creative Angoulême, home to the comic strip.For walkers and cyclists there is the Marais Poitevin, a lace-like mass of intertwined canals, and for lovers of Romanesque piety, a long stretch of the church-lined route to Santiago de Compostela, the medieval pilgrim path to the shrine of St Jacques (also known as St James and Santiago) in Spain. The finest of the churches, among the best in all of France, are in the countryside around Saintes and Poitiers.
It is a region of seafood – fresh and cheap in markets, restaurants and oyster bars for miles inland. Around Bordeaux are some of the world's top vineyards, producing robust reds (claret) and sweet whites like Sauternes. Baked specialities include macarons, invented in Saint-Émilion, and canelé (sweet pastries made from custard-like batter, and flavoured with rum and vanilla) from Bordeaux.
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Accommodation in Royan is overpriced and scarce in high season, when you're best making a day visit from Saintes or Rochefort.
Perched on a plateau above a meander in the river Charente, hilly Angoulême is the capital of its department. The town's splendid architectural muddle attests to a history of conquest and re-conquest stretching back to the sixth century, when the Franks took it from the Visigoths. An industrial powerhouse, Angoulême once manufactured paper for the whole of France, but only a few mills struggled into the twenty-first century. Today, it's better known for its comic strips, illustration and animation, and some 20,000 enthusiasts descend on Angoulême each January for the International Comics Festival.
The old town is a natural hilltop fortress. On the southern edge stands the cathedral, whose west front offers a dense exposition on twelfth-century theology, culminating in a Risen Christ surrounded by angels. A lively frieze beneath the tympanum commemorates the recapture of Spanish Zaragoza from the Moors; a bishop transfixes a Moorish giant with his lance, while legendary military commander Roland (Charles the Great's nephew) kills the Moorish king.
Touring the local vineyards and sampling a few home-grown wines is one of the great pleasures of Bordeaux. The wine regions lie in a great semicircle around the city, starting with the Médoc in the north, then skirting east through St-Émilion, before finishing south of the city among the vineyards of the Sauternes. In between, the less prestigious districts are also worth investigating, especially Blaye, to the north of Bordeaux, and Entre-Deux-Mers, to the east.
You will quickly see that there's more to the region than wine. Many of the Médoc's eighteenth-century châteaux are architectural treasures, while a vast fortress dominates the town of Blaye, and there's an older, ruined castle at Villandraut on the edge of the Sauternes. St-Émilion, loved by tourists, is the prettiest of the wine towns, and has the unexpected bonus of a cavernous underground church. For scenic views you can't beat the green, gentle hills of Entre-Deux-Mers and its ruined abbey, La Sauve-Majeur.
According to legend, the great Frankish hero Roland was buried in Blaye, which was a port of the Gaul Santones in pre-Roman times. The town played a crucial role in the wars against the English, and the French Wars of Religion. The citadelle was built by the great military engineer Vauban, but has never seen action.
Blaye has a long history of viniculture, as the area was originally planted by the Romans, and is also known for the messy-looking sweet confectionery, pralines, made here since the seventeenth century. Another speciality is caviar; legend has it that it was introduced to residents by noble Russians who fled to France during the Russian Revolution.
The green slopes north of the Garonne were planted long before the Médoc. Wine here is powerful, richly coloured, fruity, and cheaper than on the opposite riverbank. The Côtes de Bourg and Côtes de Blaye are quintessential pleasant, inexpensive reds. Visit the Maison du Vin des Premières Côtes de Blaye on cours Vauban to stock up. You can get a good bottle for around €5.
Entre-Deux-Mers ("between two seas") lies between the tidal waters of the Dordogne and Garonne. It's the most attractive area in the wine region, with gentle hills and medieval villages. Its wines, including the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux, are mainly dry whites, produced by over forty caves coopératives. They're considered good, albeit not up to the level of Médocs or dry Graves produced to the south.
Around 25km east of Bordeaux is the ruined eleventh-century abbey La Sauve Majeure, an important stop for pilgrims en route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Thick woods once surrounded the abbey – in fact its name is from the Latin silva major (large forest). All that remains today are the Romanesque apse and apsidal chapels, and outstanding sculpted capitals in the chancel. The best illustrate stories from the Old and New Testaments; a pensive Daniel in the lions' den is particularly winning. There's a small museum at the entrance, with some keystones from the fallen roofs.
Sauternes is a slumbering village surrounded by vines and dominated by the Maison du Sauternes at one end of the village, and a pretty church at the other. The maison looks like a treasure-trove, with its rows of golden bottles with white labels, and it's a non-profit organization, offering tastings, expert advice and competitive prices.
The Sauternes region, which extends southeast from Bordeaux for 40km along the left bank of the Garonne, is an ancient winemaking area, first planted during the Roman occupation. The distinctive golden wine of the area is sweet, round, full-bodied and spicy, with a long aftertaste. It's not necessarily a dessert wine, either; try it with Roquefort cheese. Gravelly terraces with a limestone subsoil help create the delicious taste, but mostly it's due to a peculiar microclimate of morning autumn mists and afternoons of sun and heat which causes Botrytis cinerea fungus, or "noble rot", to flourish on the grapes, letting the sugar concentrate and introducing some intense flavours. When the grapes are picked they're not a pretty sight: carefully selected by hand, only the most shrivelled, rotting bunches are taken. The wines of Sauternes are some of the most sought-after in the world, with bottles of Château d'Yquem, in particular, fetching thousands of euros. Sadly that particular château does not offer tastings, but you can wander around the buildings and grounds, two minutes' drive north of Sauternes.
St-Émilion
St-Émilion, 35km east of Bordeaux, and a short train trip, is an essential visit. The old grey houses of this fortified medieval town straggle down the steep south-hanging slope of a low hill, with the green froth of the summer's vines crawling over its walls. Many of the growers still keep up the old tradition of planting roses at the ends of the rows, which in pre-pesticide days served as an early-warning system against infection, the idea being that the most common bug, oidium, went for the roses first, giving three days' notice of its intentions.
The best way to see St Émilion is on a guided tour. Tours begin at the grotte de l'Ermitage, where it's said that St Émilion lived as a hermit in the eighth century, sleeping on a stone ledge. The tour continues in the half-ruined Trinity Chapel, which was converted into a cooperage (barrel-makers') during the Revolution. Striking frescoes are still visible. Across the yard is a passage beneath the belfry leading to the catacombs, where three chambers dug out of the soft limestone were used as an ossuary between the eighth and eleventh centuries.
Below is the church itself. Simple and huge, the entire structure – barrel vaulting, great square piers and all – was hacked out of the rock. The interior was once painted, but only faint traces survived the Revolution, when it was used as a gunpowder factory. Every June the wine council – La Jurade – assembles here in red robes to judge last year's wine and decide whether each viticulteur's produce deserves the appellation contrôlée rating.
The Médoc
The landscape of the Médoc, a patch of land between the Atlantic coast forests and the Gironde, is monotonous: gravel plains, the brown water of the estuary, and gravelly soil. The D2 wine road, heading off the N15 from Bordeaux, passes through Margaux, St-Julien, Pauillac and St-Estèphe, where many of the famous châteaux reside.
The wines of Bordeaux
The Bordeaux wine region circles the city, enjoying near-perfect climatic conditions and soils ranging from limestone to sand and pebbles. It's the largest quality wine district in the world, producing around 500 million bottles a year – over half of France's quality wine output and ten percent, by value, of the world's wine trade.
The Gironde estuary, fed by the Garonne and the Dordogne rivers, determines the lie of the land. The Médoc lies northwest of Bordeaux, between the Atlantic coast and the River Gironde, where the vines, deeply rooted in poor, gravelly soil, produce good, full-bodied red wines. The region's eight appellations are Médoc, Haut Médoc, St-Estèphe, Pauillac, St-Julien, Moulis en Médoc, Listrac-Médoc and Margaux. Southwest of Bordeaux, the vast vineyards of Graves produce the best of the region's dry white wines, along with punchy reds, from some of the most prestigious communes in France, like Pessac, Talence, Martillac and Villenave d'Ornon. They spread down to Langon and envelop the areas of Sauternes and Barsac, where the sweet white dessert wines are considered among the best in the world.
East of the Gironde estuary and the Dordogne, the Côtes de Blaye produce some good-quality white table wines, mostly dry, and a smaller quantity of reds. The Côtes de Bourg, an area that spreads down to the renowned St-Émilion region specializes in solid whites and reds. Here, there are a dozen producers who have earned the Premiers Grands Crus Classés classification, and their wines are full, rich reds that don't have to mature as long as the Médoc wines. Lesser-known neighbouring areas include the vineyards of Pomerol, Lalande and Côtes de Francs, all producing reds similar to St-Émilion but at more affordable prices.
Between the Garonne and the Dordogne is Entre-Deux-Mers, which yields large quantities of inexpensive, drinkable table whites, mainly from the Sauvignon grape. Stretching along the north bank of the Garonne, the vineyards of the Côtes de Bordeaux feature fruity reds and a smaller number of dry, sweet whites.
The classification of Bordeaux wines is a complex business. Apart from the usual appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC ) labelling, the wines of the Médoc châteaux are graded into five crus, or growths. These were established as early as 1855, based on the prices the wines had fetched over the last few hundred years. Four were voted the best or Premier Grand Cru Classé: Margaux, Lafitte, Latour and Haut-Brion. With the exception of Château Mouton-Rothschild, which moved up a class in 1973 to become the fifth Premier Grand Cru Classé, there have been no official changes, so divisions between the crus should not be taken too seriously.
If you're interested in buying wine, head for the châteaux, where you'll get the best price and the opportunity to sample and receive expert advice before purchasing. To visit the châteaux, ask at the Maison du Vin or tourist office in each wine-producing village.
Anyone who does not already know what Cognac is about will quickly nose its quintessential air as they stroll about the medieval lanes of the town's riverside quarter. For here is the greatest concentration of chais (warehouses), where the high-quality brandy is matured, its fumes blackening the walls with tiny fungi. Cognac is cognac, from the tractor driver and pruning-knife wielder to the manufacturer of corks, bottles and cartons. Untouched by recession (eighty percent of production is exported), it is likely to thrive as long as the world has sorrows to drown – a sunny, prosperous, self-satisfied little place.
Cognac has a number of medieval stone and half-timbered buildings in the narrow streets of the old town, of which rue Saulnier and rue de l'Îsle-d'Or make atmospheric backdrops for a stroll, while picturesque Grande-Rue winds through the heart of the old quarter to the chais, down by the river. The attractive hôtel de ville is set in pleasant gardens just to the east.
Cognac in Cognac
No trip to Cognac is complete without investigating the drink behind the town. All the major houses open their doors, and bottles, to visitors, so you can pick the one that appeals to your interests: Otard (127 bd Denfert-Rochereau) is historical – the birthplace of François I in 1494, and a prison for British prisoners after the Seven Years War; vast Rémy Martin (20 rue de la Société Vinicole) ferries visitors round on a little train; Camus is still a family-run outfit; at Hennessy you can cross the river on a boat to visit the storehouses; Meukow is run by a family of Franco-Russian entrepreneurs; and at Martell you can visit the founder's home, and a replica of a traditional cognac barge. You will find more historical information at Écomusée du Cognac, an 18km drive northwest of Cognac, which shows the evolution of the distillation process and includes tasting of cognacs and liqueurs.
There are various cruises from Royan in season – ask at the tourist office – including one to the Cordouan lighthouse, built by the Black Prince. There's also a frequent 30min ferry (one-way: pedestrians €3.10, bicycles €1.60, motorbikes €10.40, cars €22.80) that crosses to the headland on the other side of the Gironde, Pointe de Grave. From there, a bicycle trail and the GR8 walking trail head down the coast through the pines and dunes to the bay of Arcachon.
An ideal bicycle or picnic excursion just over an hour's ride from Royan is to TALMONT, 16km up the Gironde on the GR360. Apart from a few ups and downs through the woods outside Royan, it's all level terrain. The low-lying village clusters around the beautiful twelfth-century church of Ste-Radegonde, which stands on a cliff above the Gironde.
Known as "La Ville Blanche" (the White City), La Rochelle is a delicate concoction of pale limestone, warm light and sea air. The city was one of the most important ports in France during the Renaissance, and its rich past is visible in the city's grand arcades, turrets and timber-framed houses. Due to the foresight of mayor Michel Crépeau, the city's historic centre and waterfront were wrested from developers, and its streets freed of traffic in the 1970s. Controversial at the time, the policy has since been adopted across the country – even surpassing Crépeau's successful yellow bicycle plan, imitated in Paris and London.
The Vieux Port, where pleasure boats are moored, is the heart of the town. You can stroll very pleasantly for an hour or more along the seafront in either direction from the harbour: down to the Port des Minimes, a vast marina development 2km south of the centre, or west, along a promenade and strip of parkland, towards Port Neuf. Away from the centre, the area around La Rochelle is ideal for young families, with miles of safe, sandy beaches.
The Towers of La Rochelle
La Rochelle is home to three famous towers. On the east side of the mouth of the harbour, Tour St-Nicolas is the most architecturally interesting, with two spiral staircases that intertwine but never meet. On the opposite bank is Tour de la Chaine, which houses an exhibition on seventeenth-century emigration to French Canada. You can climb along the old city walls to the third tower, just behind Tour de la Chaine, known as the Tour de la Lanterne, or Tour des Quatre Sergents – after four sergeants imprisoned and executed for defying the Restoration monarchy in 1822. All three towers have fine views back to the port, and the entry ticket includes a trip on the electric ferry (passeur), which tirelessly crosses the water all day.
An endless maze of green pools and streams, wild irises, ruined churches, hidden marshes and golden orioles, the Marais Poitevin is a beautiful part of the world. Known as "La Venise Verte" (Green Venice), it was created when seventeenth-century Dutch engineers drained a wet marsh by constructing a network of rigoles – tiny canals banked with poplars. You can explore by boat, bike or by foot. The marshes lie across three départements, so getting information on the whole area, which is the size of the Isle of Wight, is difficult. Tourist offices stock an invaluable free map and guide called Marais Poitevin: Carte Découverte. When walking or cycling stick to the marked paths, as shortcuts invariably end in wet socks.
You can access the eastern part of the marsh from pretty Coulon (the "capital" of the Marais) 11km from Niort. Ten kilometres west is the quaint village of Arçais, which is dominated by a nineteenth-century chôteau, and is another place to hire canoes and punts, or find accommodation.
Roadside signs throughout the Charente advertise Pineau des Charentes, a sweet liqueur made by blending lightly fermented grape must and cognac. It's drunk chilled as an aperitif, or with oysters. Pineau is also used to make local specialities like moules au Pineau (mussels cooked with Pineau, tomatoes, garlic and parsley) and lapin à la saintongeaise (rabbit casseroled with Pineau rosé, shallots, garlic, tomatoes, thyme and bay leaves).
Poitiers, sitting on a hilltop overlooking two rivers, is a charming country town whose long and sometimes influential history – as the seat of the dukes of Aquitaine, for instance – is discernible in the winding lines of the streets and the breadth of architectural fashions represented in its buildings. Its pedestrian precincts and wonderful central gardens make for comfortable sightseeing, while the large student population ensures a lively atmosphere in the restaurants and pavement cafés.
The town is home to one of the most famous churches in France, Notre-Dame-la-Grande, built in the twelfth-century during the reign of Eleanor. The most exceptional thing about the church is the west front. The facade is not conventionally beautiful, squat and loaded as it is with detail to a degree that the modern eye could regard as fussy. And yet it's this detail which is enthralling, ranging from the domestic to the disturbingly anarchic. Such elaborate sculpted facades – and domes like pine cones on turret and belfry – are the hallmarks of the Poitou brand of Romanesque. Inside the church, the original Romanesque frescoes are gone, except in the apse vault above the choir, and the crypt. The columns and vaults were repainted by Joly-Leterme in 1851.
Since it opened in 1987, the enormous film theme park Futuroscope, 8km north of Poitiers, is France's second-biggest theme park after Disneyland Paris, drawing more than 46 million visitors since it opened in 1987. With ambitious virtual-reality rides, dazzling multimedia and audiovisual exhibitions, and mind-boggling robotic displays, it's a thrilling journey into the future for all ages and you'll need at least a full day to take it all in. Don't miss the award-winning 4-D cinema show The Time Machine; the new Fun Xperiences Arena, where participants can test their strength, agility and mind skills; and the spectacular live shows.
Colbert, Louis XIV's navy minister, built Rochefort in the seventeenth century to repel the English and watch over Protestant-leaning La Rochelle. It remained an important naval base for centuries, with its shipyards, sail-makers, munition factories and a hospital. Built on a strict grid plan, the town is a monument to the tidiness of the military mind. Place Colbert is just as the seventeenth century left it, complete with lime trees, and cobblestones brought from Canada as ships' ballast. The banks of the Charente river are beautiful, dominated by the eighteenth-century Royal Ropeworks and the stark, majestic Transporter Bridge, built in 1900.
Brouage and Marennes
Eighteen kilometres southwest of Rochefort is Brouage, a seventeenth-century military base. The way into the town is through the Porte Royale in the north wall of the original fortifications. Locked inside, Brouage seems abandoned and somnolent; even the sea has retreated, and all that's left of the harbour is a series of pools (claires), where oysters are reared.
Half a dozen kilometres south of Brouages is the oyster village of Marennes, whose speciality is fattening creuses oysters, a species bred in France since the 1970s. It's a lucrative but precarious business, vulnerable to storm damage, temperature changes, salinity in the water, the ravages of starfish and umpteen other natural disasters. Oysters begin life as minuscule larvae, which are "born" about three times a year. When a birth happens, the oystermen are alerted by a special radio service, and they all rush out to place their "collectors" – usually arrangements of roofing tiles – for the larvae to cling to. They mature there for eight or nine months, and are then scraped off and moved to parcs in the tidal waters of the sea. Finally, they're taken to claires – shallow rectangular pools where they are kept permanently covered by water that's less salty than sea water. Here they fatten up and acquire the greenish colour the market expects. With "improved" modern oysters, the whole cycle, which used to take five years, now takes about two.
Île d'Aix
Lying in the Bay of Biscay like a forgotten croissant, Île d'Aix (pronounced "eel dex"), just 2km long, has a population of only 200. It's a romantic place – frequented by abdicating emperors, wild birds and hollyhocks. It's also well-defended, with forts and ramparts. Over the course of history the island, particularly Fort Liédot, has often served as a prison, notably during the Crimean war and World War 1. The best time to visit is in spring or autumn, avoiding the midsummer crowds; hire a bicycle, cycle round the perimeter of the island in an hour or two, paddle in the sea, and enjoy lunch at Hôtel Napoléon.
Napoleon lived on Île d'Aix for three days in July 1815, planning his escape to America, only to find himself on the way to St Helena and exile. Now his former home, the Musée Napoléon, exhibits his clothing, art and arms. Napoleon's white dromedary camel, from whose back he conducted his Egyptian campaign, is lodged nearby at the Musée Africain.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire and Maison Pierre Loti
The explorers Pierre Loti – alias novelist Julien Viaud (1850–1923) – and the Lesson brothers haunt Rochefort's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire at 63 rue de Gaulle, which houses exotic objects brought back from expeditions, and nautical artworks. The Maison Pierre Loti at 141 rue Pierre-Loti is closed for renovations at the time of writing, but once it's open a visit is essential. It's part of a row of modestly proportioned grey-stone houses, outwardly a model of petit bourgeois conformity, inside an outrageous and fantastical series of rooms decorated to exotic themes, from medieval gothic to an Arabian room complete with minaret. You can see how the house suited Loti's private life: he threw extravagant fancy dress parties and, rather more scandalously, fathered more children with his Basque mistress, kept in a separate part of the house, than with his French wife.
Saintes was once more important than its modest size suggests; it was the capital of the province of Saintonge and a little cog in the Roman machine.
Its abbey church, the Abbaye aux Dames, is as unique as Notre-Dame in Poitiers. A sculpted doorway conceals the plain, domed interior, but its most unusual feature is the eleventh-century tower, by turns square, octagonal and lantern-shaped. A classical music festival takes place in the abbey in mid-July.
The town's Roman heritage is best seen at Les Arènes, one of the finest amphitheatres in France. The remains are perhaps all the more extraordinary for their location: this monumental vestige from an ancient past, now a little grassy in parts, sits embedded in a valley almost completely surrounded by bland suburbia; a forgotten, sleeping relic dating from 40 AD, also the oldest surviving Roman ruins in France. To find it take the small footpath beginning by 54 cours Reverseaux.
The Impressionist painter, Renoir, loved Île de Noirmoutier, an island of sandy inlets, pine forests and salt marshes. At 20km-long, and 60km north of Les Sables-d'Olonne, Noirmoutier enjoys a warm microclimate, responsible for the figs and early-flowering mimosa. Tourism is the island's main economy, but it also produces salt, fine spring potatoes, and an abundance of cod, oysters, eels and squid.
The little village of Noirmoutier-En-l'Île, the busiest of the island's six villages, has a twelfth-century castle once owned by the Black Prince (now containing a little museum), a church with a Romanesque crypt, an aquarium, a good market (Tues, Fri & Sun) on place de la République, and many of the island's restaurants, port-front bars and cafés.
Inland, the saltwater dykes are the only reminder that you're out to sea, while the pretty whitewashed and ochre-tiled houses in the villages are typical of La Vendée and southern Brittany. Spring weather is often stormy and the summer heat entices mosquitoes, so come prepared.
The most famous beach, Plage des Dames, with its painted bathing huts, is a ten-minute cycle east of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île. The beaches on the west and south coasts are the quietest in summertime.
With misty beaches, green-shuttered cottages and lonely coves, Île de Ré is one of the loveliest places in western France. Out of season the economy rests on oysters and mussels, while in high season 400,000 visitors pass through, many of them rich Parisians, and the island is a little less tranquil. The Île de Ré is a rung higher on the French resort prestige ladder than Noirmoutier, and three rungs above Oléron, so designer boutiques, high-class restaurants and luxury hotels are the norm.
The island's capital, St-Martin, is the centre of tourist life. At its heart is a harbour, filled with a democratic mix of flat-bottomed oyster boats and gleaming yachts. Around the water are less democratic shops, bars and cafés. This is the main tourist drag, to be avoided at all cost on hot August afternoons. To the east of the harbour you can walk along the fortifications – redesigned by Vauban in the seventeenth century – to the citadelle. From 1860 to 1938, this was the departure point for bagnards – prisoners sentenced to hard labour in French Guiana and New Caledonia.
Joined to the mainland by a bridge just north of Marennes, the Île d'Oléron is France's largest island after Corsica, a laidback, unaffected fishing island and coastal resort. Outside the tourist season, the island is a peaceful retreat: a patchwork of little villages, pine forests and gleaming muddy tributaries lined with fishing boats. Taken over by holiday-makers in July and August, it loses much of its tranquillity.
The main town in the south of the island, Le Château, is named after the citadelle that still stands, along with some seventeenth-century fortifications. The town thrives on its traditional oyster farming and boat building, and there's a lively market in place de la République every morning. The chief town in the north – and most picturesque of the island's settlements – is St-Pierre, whose market square has an unusual thirteenth-century monument, La Lanterne des Morts. The best beach is at La Brée les Bains, in the northeast. Activities abound, from cycling to surfing, and a great aqua park opens between June and September in the village of Dolus d'Oléron in the centre of the island.
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We work with UKTI and seven key Tech North cities (Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Sunderland) to tell a single narrative. It's about promoting ourselves as a collective rather than as rival cities. We're not competing against London but on a global stage against hubs like Berlin, Tel Aviv and San Francisco.
This work has seen us create marketing tools such as 'curator platform' apps which are currently available for iOS on the App Store. These apps cover opportunities in three key sectors. Take a look at Heath tech (in partnership with NHSA), Education tech (in partnership with Ed Tech UK), and Digital media and entertainment.
Trade missions are an important part of the mix. We're organising targeted overseas missions to events like SXSW in Austin, Dreamforce in San Francisco and Kidscreen in Miami.
The Tech Nation Visa scheme is key in attracting talent to the North of England. Supported by Ward Hadaway, we'll be organising a number of events to promote the scheme and provide advice.
Our Northern Stars competition is back for 2016. Just like last year, we want to raise profile of the best tech startups in the North and provide them with high value connections. A great example of the impact it can have is Peak. They raised £1 million thanks in part to an investor they met on the first programme.
We're looking to raise the bar this year in terms of scale, the number of companies applying and attendees. Companies involved in all areas of tech can apply, whether that's virtual reality, medtech, artificial intelligence, drones or anything else.
The 10 winners after the grand final will receive this year's prize package. This includes trips to TechCrunch Disrupt London, a Bloomberg investor pitch event, the GP Bullhound Northern Tech Awards, The Next Web Conference Europe in Amsterdam, plus the option to be involved in our trade missions, such as to SXSW in Texas.
Founders' Network is a six-month bespoke programme of tailored learning from world-class delivery partners, delivered across three regions in the North. In addition to hearing from experts, founders will be able to provide support to each other. This is a valuable chance to compare your experiences in a safe environment that isn't about pitches or selling.
Accessing finance is a key issue facing Northern tech companies. Investment is hard to access and it's even difficult just to work out where to go to find out about it. Investors don't often operate right across the North. There are no tier-one VCs, and there are fewer SEIS and EIS funds and angel syndicates than are found in London.
The co-investment fund that Tech North is planning would co-ordinate investors, leading to the creation of more SEISEIS funds. It would put more capital into the ecosystem and act as a 'hub' for tech investment activity.
Co-investment funds have been successful elsewhere, from Tel Aviv to London. This fund would address the North's issues around access to finance and have a tangible impact on the technology sector.
The fund would be between £20m and £30m and invest in rounds of between £150,000 and either £1.5m or £2m, depending on the fund's eventual size. Around 50% of the funding would be set aside for 'follow-on' investment in portfolio companies.
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Good news for Gizmodo: It will not be charged in the lost iPhone 4 case, it says.
If you'll recall, Gizmodo ended up with the iPhone 4 months before any other publication thanks to a tipster finding the phone in a bar.
There was some dispute over how "found" it really was. Was the phone stolen? And either way, was it legal for Gizmodo to pay a tipster to deliver the phone?
Apparently it is and Gizmodo is off the hook.
As for the guys that found the phone, they're being charged with "misappropriation of lost property, and possession of stolen property."


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When the Civil War began in 1861, he enlisted with the 51st PA Volunteer Regiment on September 123, 1861. Serving as a Corporal, he fought with the Regiment in major battles such as Antietam, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and much of the Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee in 1864. Unfortunately, Joseph did not survive the war. Joseph was killed during the Siege of Petersburg on June 17, 1864, only one week after the siege began. His remains were returned to his family and he is now buried in the County Cemetery. Joseph's younger brother, Addison, also fought in the war and thankfully survived.
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What do all these things have in common? They are all two great things that go great together. Just like our beloved new Atlanta BeltLine and art! If you've explored the Eastside Trail since it opened officially a few months back, you've no doubt noticed the interesting and interactive artworks presented along the path. Did you know those pieces were likely submitted as concepts by artists just like you? And good news for those who want to submit new works – the Atlanta BeltLine recently issued a request for proposal for Fall 2013 installations!
Known as Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, Atlanta's largest temporary public art exhibition is now in its fourth year. The program is seeking outdoor works of art to appear along an eight-mile stretch of the BeltLine path which includes highly visible areas like Piedmont Park and Historic Fourth Ward Park access points as well as the future Ponce City Market and 755 North, the luxury apartment building under construction at North Avenue and Somerset.
Interested artists should consider the landscape and sustainability themes of the Atlanta BeltLine when preparing their proposals. Projects must be able to sustain life outdoors and can take the form of sculptures, murals, music, performance art, environmental works and more. You can view works that have been chosen in the past for inspiration. Some current pieces appear below.
The deadline to submit a proposal is April 10, 2013 and selected projects must be installed no later than August 31, 2013. If you want to learn more, the BeltLine team is hosting five information sessions. All of the information and application documentation is available online.
So all you creative Atlantans out there, get thinking! This is a great opportunity to contribute to the experience of the BeltLine, one of Atlanta's largest and most impressive city enhancements to date.
Art on the BeltLine – Kyle Brooks' mural under N. Highland Ave.
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Insurers improve productivity with KM
Phil Britt
This article appears in the issue October 2009, [Vol 18, Issue 9]
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Insurance firms are using knowledge management solutions to increase productivity, save on expenses and to improve call center performance.
Croton Stokes Wilson Ltd., London, is an insurance broker that places business with U.S. insurers for Lloyd's of London. But in order for the small firm to increase its business, it needed to increase its productivity. Leslie Doel, manager, says, "We wanted to be able to process more business with the same number of staff."
The biggest challenge in becoming more productive was working with all of the different forms generated between Lloyd's and various U.S. firms, Doel explains. The language required for documents varied according to the firm involved. Although the insurance broker had some of the information after making the initial deal between Lloyd's and a U.S. firm, follow-up correspondence had to be written nearly from scratch. So the firm looked at a few different document management solutions that would enable it to reuse information and generate the necessary documentation in a much more efficient manner.
After testing different products, Doel chose InsuranceAccelerator from Exari. The software uses a Web browser wizard to enable brokers, agents, underwriters or customers to capture data and generate compliant insurance documents. Croton Stokes can generate open market quotes, quote comparison reports, comprehensive policies and binding authority certificates, endorsements and complex wordings.
"InsuranceAccelerator guides you through the process better than anything else that I have found," Doel says. The insurance broker went live with the application at the beginning of 2008, and by the beginning of this year, had replaced all of the legacy systems that handled the same functions.
The increased productivity was quickly evident, according to Doel. In 2007, the company produced 642 insurance policies and subsequent documents with a staff of six. In 2008, with some documentation produced through the legacy system and the rest through Exari, the number climbed to 710, while the staff decreased to five. This year, running totally on Exari and with the same staff size, Doel expects to see that number jump to 1,150.
"The growth is entirely due to the Exari system," Doel says. "It uses a standard Microsoft Word package. We can take the notes in Word, cut and paste, reformat and send as needed. Now we only have to put the information in once. Being able to reuse it saves a tremendous amount of time."
It also has sharply reduced errors, which is important in the highly regulated insurance industry, Doel adds, estimating that Croton Stokes has reduced its error rate by between 70 percent and 75 percent in the last three years.
Delivering knowledge to customers
The move to consumer-directed health plans that started a few years ago, combined with the increasing complexity of insurance offerings, has meant that insurance companies need to provide information in a way that can be understood by non-experts, says Jep Larkin, director of sales communication, for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (bcbsfl.com).
"With the advent of consumer-directed health plans, consumers are taking more accountability for their own healthcare plans," Larkin says, "so they need to be more engaged to understand the different plans and how to choose among them. The information is very complex. Navigating through the different terms and policies is very confusing."
The company was also growing quickly with in-state and out-of-state policies, including many sold to groups. But the time and expense spent sending salespeople to make presentations was becoming prohibitive, according to Larkin.
In addition to communicating the different benefits to consumers, the insurer also had to keep agents up to date on plan offerings. BCBS Florida uses independent agents, who can choose from a number of plans for their clients, so it is important to provide them with convincing information that their plan is better for an agent's clients than a competitor's plan, Larkin explains. So the insurer looked for a solution that would make that information much easier to understand, while reducing the company's overhead costs.
BCBS Florida chose a platform from Brainshark to distribute the knowledge via online multimedia presentations. In addition to containing voiceovers, they also incorporate attachments, comprehension questions and more—and can be stored indefinitely and easily updated.
The information is hosted on the Brainshark site. So all BCBS needs to do to make a presentation is to invite an individual policy or group policy prospect to the Brainshark site to view and listen to any information he or she desires. The multimedia presentations give BCBS of Florida a market differentiator, Larkin adds.


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Most of our Resource Hero customers think of resources as people in their company. Usually, these people are the ones allocated to multiple projects and clients.
We're always pleasantly surprised when we see customers use Resource Hero in different ways. With our app, "Resources" can be anything in your company where time needs to be allocated, forecasted, and tracked. Additionally, "Hours" can be any unit of measurement for resources.
We have a product company who's resources are people and their hours are "work effort points". There are also companies that track equipment, where resources are iPads, monitors, cameras and hours equate to an entire day.
Here's a deeper example of an education company who looked to Resource Hero to manage classroom capacity. For them, it's important to fill up the classroom as much as possible and without over-booking the space.
In our solution, each "Resource" equates to a classroom and each "Hour" is a seat in the classroom. Each classrooms' capacity threshold is set using Weekly Target Min and Max hour fields.
For example, if classroom A can hold up to 40 attendees, the Weekly Target Max Hours field is set to 40. Setting a minimum target capacity to 30 will allow us to see if we have less than 30 attendees registered.
We setup Resource Hero on the Salesforce Contact object because that's where the company historically has tracked each student. When a student signs up for a class they can be assigned to a specific classroom resource. An enrollment manager, can now begin assigning students to classrooms while visualizing classroom's capacity in real time.
For example, if Olivia signed up for a course that will be given in classroom A, we can add her as 1 registered student for the days she will be attending.
Our Resource Hero forecast matrix allows the enrollment office to use our color-coded utilization feedback to check whether seats are available without leaving the screen. Grey means the class is under the target capacity, red means the class is over over capacity, and green means it's within target.
The solution also allows the team to easily generate reports and dashboards to see the "utilization" or class sizes across the entire institution.
This is one of many interesting use cases and adaptations of Resource Hero that bring true value to our customers.
Email us at support@resourceheroapp.com if you have any questions, like to discuss solutions, or have unique ways you've configured Resource Hero to your situation.


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G'day Mate! Welcome to the Australian Hat Outlet. We have specialized in the outdoors hats for the past 27 years. Traveling to outdoor hunting fishing shows in California, Oregon and Washington. In the past you could have found us at Alameda County Fair, Sonoma County Fair or The California State Fair. Our home base store is located in Anderson, California near Redding, CA with its beautiful views of Mount Shasta and the Lassen Mountain range. Now the home of the world-renowned Sundial Bridge. Our store is conveniently located just off Interstate 5, a perfect stop on any road trip north. Going south stop by on your way to Shasta Lake, Whiskey town Lake, Oregon or the state of Washington to pick up your great outdoor hat. We offer a wide variety of hats made for any outdoor activity. Specializing in Australian made Akubra, made from 100 percent rabbit fur felt, waterproof and cool in the summer. The AKUBRA you buy from us will include FREE cleaning and Shaping service at our store. Our Australian made leather hats are very popular for winter or summer also. Come and see our wide variety of outdoor hats.
We have just the hat for you!
This place is just way too cool. They've got a huge selection of hats from the rabbit skin Akubras to ones made from mesh and suede and leather. There was even a selection of New Zealand wool drivers caps there (which I ended up buying.). It's a fun store to visit and check out the huge kangaroo fur they have on the wall by the door. Too cool!
We have been in the hat industry for 27 years. We had worked in state fairs all over the country. We are passionate about our business, love what we do and really enjoy making customers happy with their purchase. Sandy is also a great hat shaper just email her about what hat you like, maybe a picture and she'll make it for you! If you are looking for something you've seen in a movie or just a style you've always wanted we can help you with that. We'll be waiting for you!
Here is our map on how to find our little slice of Australia. If you are coming from the south on I-5, Take the Riverside exit, (just north of Anderson) go left over the freeway, stay on the main road, cross the railroad tracks, turn left on 273, go 3 to 4 tenths of a mile, and look for the kangaroo on your right. If you are coming from the north on I-5, Take the Riverside exit, (south of Redding) stay to your right, stay on the main road, cross the railroad tracks, turn left on 273, go 3 to 4 tenths of a mile, and look for the kangaroo on your right.


The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help of his fellow politicians, Thorpe schemes, deceives, embezzles - until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good.


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John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Armageddon (1998)
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
The Terminal (2004)
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.
Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's still not the end.
Commando (1985)
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.


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The Queen's Pardon
Alexis Carew, Book 6
By: J.A. Sutherland
Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
Trapped on a hostile world, hunted by pirate bands, and abandoned by her fellow captains, Alexis Carew must lead her small band to safety, even though it seems every hand is set against her. Stalked by pirates in the skies above and shadowy alien figures on the planet below, Alexis must convince former enemies to trust her even as she discovers where the tendrils of her true enemies lead.
By stevekaw on 06-15-19
Great series - best one yet!
Love this series - absolutely love it. It's fun and has lots of action. The narration is excellent as well.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
By: Phaedra Patrick
Narrated by: James Langton
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest; waters his fern, Frederica; and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before.
sweet, predictable novel of widower's quest
By Mark on 01-05-18
Absolutely lovely
I thought it would be too "low key" and boring at first but it didn't take long for me to flow into the story. Absolutely lovely story and the narration was excellent. Highly recommend.
A Knight in Shining Armor
By: Jude Deveraux
Narrated by: Steve West
Once upon a time...as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: Tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress.... Hailed worldwide as one of the most romantic novels of all time, Jude Deveraux's dazzling best seller "will capture your heart - and hold it" ( Daily Herald, Chicago) with its breathtaking tale.
Whiny heroine
By Kris on 04-22-16
Doesn't stand up to time ...
I loved this book when I first read it years ago and I really wanted to love this production as well. I guess my tastes have changed because it was hard to finish this audiobook.
The female characters were spineless and the men were jerks. Part of it was the narrator, who has a wonderful voice but his female voices are irritating and very whiny. But I have to put most of the "fault" onto outdated stereotypes of helpless women and rakish men.
An Expert in Murder
By: Nicola Upson
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise hit of the season, with pacifist themes that resonate in a world still haunted by war. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride - and Tey is plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any in her own works.
Quite good!
By Maine Knitter on 08-12-16
She kept me guessing "who done it" until the end!
The book was well written and beautifully performed. I normal don't care for mysteries because they tend to be trite or obvious. But she kept me guessing and kept my interest right to the end. Well done!
And Other Tips and Truths About Aging
By: Dick Van Dyke
Narrated by: Dick Van Dyke
With a fun and folksy way of addressing its audience, Keep Moving serves as an instruction audiobook on how to embrace old age with a positive attitude. The chapters are filled with exclusive personal anecdotes that explore various themes on aging: how to adapt to the physical and social changes, deal with loss of friends and loved ones, stay current, fall in love again, and "keep moving" every day like there's no tomorrow.
I didn't want it to end
By Debbie on 10-25-15
Inspiring and enjoyable
It was quite enjoyable and inspiring and offers wisdom for all ages, young and old(er) alike.
While his age showed somewhat in his performance, the performance was excellent.
My only complaint is that it was somewhat repetitive. Some of that was for emphasis but some of it felt like a filler.
But overall, that was 5 hours of my life well spent.
Derik's Bane
By: MaryJanice Davidson
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Werewolf Derik Gardner must save the world by destroying the reincarnation of history's most wicked sorceress. Unfortunately, the beautiful but ditzy Sara Gunn hasn't a clue that she's the epitome of pure evil. To make matters worse, Derik's falling in love with her.
rape is not entertaining
By woowka41 on 11-02-18
Derik's Bane is so-so. Skip the short story!
What disappointed you about Derik's Bane?
Why in heaven's name would you sneak in the that short story "Monster Love"? I was "OK" with this novel ... not good but it was OK. Then the ugly short-story started. RAPE is not romance.
What was most disappointing about MaryJanice Davidson's story?
RAPE IS NOT ROMANCE.
What does Nancy Wu bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
She is a very good narrator.
You didn't love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
If you jump past the piece of violent crud at the end, Derek's Bane was ok.
MaryJanice Davidson: Rape is Rape. It is not romance and it is not fun or funny. I always thought the Luke and Laura "romance" was sick and I would have thought that we had progressed past this level of sick thinking.
Please do not throw this garbage into any more of your books or you will lose readership.
An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
By: Laurell K. Hamilton
Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis
Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favorite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. She's accomplished, beautiful, and she's crazy about him, too. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong? J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual, with an emphasis on the female side of things.
How the mighty have fallen...
By Casandra on 01-14-15
Anita Does Everybody? Where did the plot go?
Would you try another book from Laurell K. Hamilton and/or Kimberly Alexis?
Laurell K. Hamilton? Not without reading the reviews first.
Kimberly Alexis' performance was the only thing that made this worthwhile.
What could Laurell K. Hamilton have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
I don't know. Maybe have a story, plot, something other than one sex scene, followed by discussion about the last sex scene, planning then next sex scene. Then the next sex scene ...
What character would you cut from Jason?
Anita. That character deserves more than being the "star" of the metaphysical version of Debbie Does Dallas
I'll read the reviews before buying next time.
Safehold Series, Book 5
By: David Weber
Narrated by: Charles Keating
The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love.
Weber delivers despite weak narration
By Lowe on 09-16-11
What is up with the changes in narrators?
Is there anything you would change about this book?
THE NARRATOR!
Would you be willing to try another one of Charles Keating's performances?
Great accent. Nice voice. Big "s" issue. Every "s" was disturbing.
This was nothing more than a reading of the book. No acting. No attempts to develop character voices.
Sorry. Boring.
By Heresies Distressed
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Now the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom.
I want Oliver Wyman back
By James on 07-14-09
Oliver Wyman vs Jason Culp. Sorry Jason.
Would you listen to By Heresies Distressed again? Why?
Not until it's re-recorded (if ever!) by Oliver Wyman.
What three words best describe Jason Culp's voice?
He's a good reader but not as good as Oliver Wyman. Can't stand the accent he chose for Caleb, a poor Scottish Burr that make the Emperor sound unintelligent.
Warbound
Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles
By: Larry Correia
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Only a handful of people in the world know that mankind's magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up here in the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Power's hiding place has been discovered by a killer. It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next. Former private eye Jake Sullivan knows the score. The problem is, hardly anyone believes him.
Started Strong-Finished Strong
By Don Gilbert on 08-07-13
Fantastic end to a fantastic series!
If you could sum up Warbound in three words, what would they be?
A Maz Zing!
Who was your favorite character and why?
Oh, no question: Faye! While Jake, Heinrich, Lance and all the rest are amazing, Faye is the star of the series. That little Okie girl can kick @$$ and take names. Actually, she doesn't bother with the names.
Which character – as performed by Bronson Pinchot – was your favorite?
That's tough. Bronson Pinchot is really the best narrator for having different voices for each character. I'd have to go with Faye and the Iron Guard.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
There were a few "whoops" as a few twists and turns arose but there was only one tear-jerk moment. I know you're going to have to lose somebody in a war but, sob, why couldn't (no spoiler here!) have had a happy ending?!?
My only regret is that the series had to end. It was exciting, thought-provoking and emotional. This was a satisfying conclusion and it certainly lived up to the rest of the series. I didn't want it to end.


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Anthony Rendon Agrees to Seven-Year, $245 Million Deal with Angels
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Free agent Anthony Rendon has agreed to a seven-year, $245 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels, MLB Network's Jon Heyman reports.
The contract includes no opt outs, and there is no money deferred in the deal, per the New York Post's Joel Sherman. MLB.com's Mark Feinsand reports that Rendon's contract includes a full no-trade clause.
Rendon's $35 million annual average value will be second in the league for a position player behind new teammate Mike Trout, who stands at roughly $36 million AAV.
The two-time Silver Slugger joins the Angels after winning the World Series with the Washington Nationals in October. On the way to his first championship, Rendon finished third in the NL MVP race and led MLB in doubles (44) and RBI (126), while also making his first All-Star appearance.
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Post by Tom » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:41 pm
In his classic 1981 book Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses, Richard Lloyd Anderson writes:
A main safeguard exists for testing claims that a witness modified his testimony—be sure that all statements come from the witness himself.
Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses, 152.
Anderson's safeguard provides an interesting measuring stick for reviewing some anti-Strangite writings by LDS apologists.
In an Interpreter article published in December 2017 titled "The Book of Mormon Witnesses and Their Challenge to Secularism," Daniel Peterson compares the Book of Mormon witnesses to the witnesses to James Strang's two sets of plates, arguing that "the two sets of witnesses and their experiences were very different." Dismissing Strang's plates as "almost certainly forgeries," Peterson asserts that "[o]ne source reports that most of the four witnesses to the Rajah Manchou plates ultimately repudiated their testimonies" (xx). Peterson does not identify the source beyond noting that his discussion was drawn from Milo M. Quaife, The Kingdom of Saint James: A Narrative of the Mormons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1930) and Roger Van Noord, The King of Beaver Island (Champaign/Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988) (see xix, n.26). (In a footnote, Quaife's biography identified the names of the four witnesses to the Rajah Manchou plates before baldly asserting: "Like the witnesses to Joseph Smith's plates, most of these [witnesses] later apostatized and repudiated Strang" (Kingdom of Saint James, 17).)
Peterson made the identical claim regarding the four witnesses to the Rajah Manchou plates in a 2011 Deseret News column, "Defending the Faith: The story behind James Strang and his sect." A FairMormon page quotes passages from the same column, including the sentence in question.
Note that in a January 2006 message board post (quoted here), Peterson commented on the source, admitting that "the credibility of this source is suspect, since it also asserts that the Book of Mormon witnesses repudiated their testimonies, which is demonstrably false." In an August 2006 FairMormon conference address, however, Peterson did not repeat this comment. Instead, he stated: "One not altogether reliable source reports that most of the four witnesses to the Rajah Manchou plates ultimately repudiated their testimonies" (6, emphasis added).
J. Runnells has commented as follows on Peterson's 2011 claim regarding the four witnesses:
Daniel C. Peterson's [2011 Deseret News] article states, "One source reports that most of the four witnesses to the Rajah Manchou plates ultimately repudiated their testimonies." What FAIR and Peterson fail to tell their readers about this source is that this source also asserts that the Book of Mormon witnesses likewise repudiated their testimonies of the Book of Mormon. Apparently, however, this is not a problem to these Mormon apologists since the "good" portions of this source work nicely with their agenda of "discrediting" the Strangite witnesses.
LDS apologists would immediately cry foul and demand evidence and sources to back up the above claims. Why then is FAIR operating under a completely different standard than what would be expected – even demanded – if the table was turned around?
Further, LDS apologists would not accept any evidence other than first accounts and affidavits/interviews from the witness himself making the claim. Hearsay (indirect evidence of someone claiming that someone said) would be dismissed and discarded in light of what is at stake.
Peterson's article also states (xx):
One of the witnesses to the "Plates of Laban," Samuel P. Bacon, eventually denied the inspiration of Strang's movement and denounced it as mere "human invention." Another, Samuel Graham, later claimed that he had actually assisted Strang in the creation of the plates.
Again, Peterson does not provide a source beyond general attributions to the biographies by Quaife and Van Noord.
J. Runnells has previously questioned the source of Peterson's claim regarding Bacon. Van Noord's biography of Strang notes that Warren Post, who presented a resolution accusing Bacon and another Strangite church leader of apostasy, "later wrote that Bacon had 'denied the work being done was the inspiration of God' and had called it 'human invention'" (King of Beaver Island, 219). Would R.L. Anderson accept this as credible evidence that a witness modified his testimony?
What is the source of Peterson's assertion that Graham later claimed that he had helped Strang create the Plates of Laban? Again, he does not cite a specific source. However, the FairMormon site may provide a clue. It quotes from a letter written by Chauncy Loomis to Joseph Smith III dated 10 November 1888. FairMormon introduces an excerpt from Loomis' letter as follows:
Chauncy Loomis, in a letter to Joseph Smith III dated 10 Nov. 1888 and published in the Saint's Herald, talked of a conversation that he had with George Adams. Adams described how Strang had asked him to dress in a long white robe and use phosphorous to impersonate an angel. Adams also reported that Samuel Graham talked about how he and Strang fabricated the Plates of Laban. Loomis reported that Samuel Bacon discovered fragments of the plates hidden in the ceiling of Strang's house, and then left the Strangite Church.
The letter stated, in part (719):
I shall now make some statements in regard to others who were the chief men of the kingdom. Bro. Samuel Graham, I think, president of the Twelve, declared that he and Strang made those plates that Strang claimed to translate the Book of the Law from. But they in the first place prepared the plates and coated them with beeswax and then formed the letters and cut them in with a pen knife and then exhibited them to the rest of the Twelve. The facts were Graham apostatized and left the island.
As indicated, the FairMormon page states: "Adams also reported that Samuel Graham talked about how he and Strang fabricated the Plates of Laban." However, it isn't clear from the letter itself that Loomis' report regarding Graham's declaration was based on a conversation with Adams. In any case, the declaration didn't come from Graham himself. To repeat R.L. Anderson's words:
A final note: Peterson's article reports Quaife's evaluation of Strang (xx-xxi):
"We can hardly escape the conclusion," writes Quaife, "that Strang knowingly fabricated and planted them for the purpose of duping his credulous followers"; and, accordingly, that "Strang's prophetic career was a false and impudent imposture."
For the record, here is the fuller context of Quaife's words:
It is quite conceivable that Strang's angelic visitations may had only a subjective existence in the brain of the man who reported them. But the metallic plates possessed a very material objective reality; and we can hardly escape the conclusion either that Strang knowingly fabricated and "planted" them for the purpose of duping his credulous followers, or that they were what they purport to have been, ancient records divinely preserved, in the discovery and translation of which Strang was divinely guided. If the former alternative be accepted, it follows that Strang's prophetic career was a false and impudent imposture; if the latter be the true one, we are confronted by the sad fact that of all the people now on earth only a few score at the most have comprehended it.
Kingdom of Saint James, 17-18.
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Post by Fence Sitter » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:53 pm
Very interesting Tom.
I had always been thought that the Strangite witnesses had repudiated their testimonies.
As Paul Harvey always used to say:
"And now you know the rest of the story".
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Post by Tom » Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:02 pm
An additional note: Peterson's 2006 message board post provided context to Quaife's comments on Strang:
If we are unwilling to accept The Book of the Law of the Lord as authentically divine, [Quaife] says, "we can hardly escape the conclusion . . . that Strang knowingly fabricated and 'planted' them for the purpose of duping his credulous followers" and, accordingly, that "Strang's prophetic career was a false and impudent imposture."
(emphasis added). His 2006 FairMormon address featured the same sentence (7). For some reason, Peterson chose not to include the opening phrase in his 2011 Deseret News column and his recent Interpreter article.
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Post by Uther » Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:27 am
Daniel Peterson seems to think that "faith" = the ability to manipulate weak evidence to support a preconcieved notion. The only thing that keeps his mind from imploding in shame must be his pride and inability to admit an erronous position.
About Joseph Smith.. How do you think his persona was influenced by being the storyteller since childhood? Mastering the art of going pale, changing his voice, and mesmerizing his audience.. How do you think he was influenced by keeping secrets and lying for his wife and the church members for decades?
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Post by MsJack » Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:37 am
Tom wrote: For the record, here is the fuller context of Quaife's words:
Interesting. It turns out that Loyd Ericson's "misquoting the Interpreter" prank was just a satire of how apologists actually misquote their sources.
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Post by Kevin Graham » Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:15 am
MsJack wrote: Interesting. It turns out that Loyd Ericson's "misquoting the Interpreter" prank was just a satire of how apologists actually misquote their sources.
LOL. The great thing about Mormonism is that anyone can be an expert in anything, regardless of background.
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Post by deacon blues » Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:11 am
Uther wrote: Daniel Peterson seems to think that "faith" = the ability to manipulate weak evidence to support a preconcieved notion. The only thing that keeps his mind from imploding in shame must be his pride and inability to admit an erronous position.
I think that is a very interesting definition of faith. Do you mind if I use it? Should I attribute it to "Uther" or somebody else?
I think that is a very interesting definition of faith. It is concise and describes accurately how the word is often used. I expect many Catholics and Mormons would view the others faith in something like this manner. Do you mind if I use it? Should I attribute it to "Uther" or somebody else?
Post by Fence Sitter » Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:30 am
deacon blues wrote:
I think I would drop the word "weak" out of it. I think faith also includes the ability to manipulate strong evidence or even ignore the lack of evidence.
So it would be:
"Faith is the ability to manipulate evidence to support a preconceived notion."
Post by Stem » Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:58 am
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Post by Kishkumen » Sat Mar 03, 2018 7:34 am
I'm still struggling to get past that December 2017 article title. Challenge to secularism? Really?
What they should have written is:
"Uneducated farmers who believe in treasure ghosts challenge science."
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This year was the worst for me personally. I thought I heard God say grow my family and I lost 3 babies. This last miscarriage in October was an especially low moment as I began to question God's faithfulness. So I'm so ready to put this year in the books and start a new journey into 2018.
I was reading yesterday and soaked in that God delights in our praise to him. He delights in seeing Him in all circumstances. Romans 5 shares how trials in our life lead to preservance. Perseverance develops character and character gives us hope. How desperately we all need hope.
2017 showed me this life is not about what I see as best. I'm trusting that as I persevere, my character is grown. As that is grown, my hope continues and focuses on the plans He has for my life and our family.
I pray that as you embrace your journey ahead for 2018, you have hope. Life throws us challenges. Place them at the feet of Christ who is able to fill your soul in ways you never thought imaginable. He will give that hope to face whatever you may be enduring.
Amen Susan. Happy New Year!!


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Hanlontown, Iowa – Two separate crashes on Interstate 35 at the intersection of State Highway 9 in Worth County near Hanlontown killed one person and injured two others on Friday night.
The Iowa State Patrol says at about 7:50 PM, a semi driven by 70-year-old Thomas Torkelson of New Hampton entered the median and continued until it struck the bridge support.
Torkelson was taken to Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City and then later transferred to another facility, with his condition being unknown at this time. Shortly before 9:30, a Worth County Sheriff's Department SUV providing assistance for the semi crash was struck by a car driven by 65-year-old Johnnie Waslick of Mason City.
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Winslow Lake, also known as Long Lake, is a lake near Shawano, Wisconsin in Oconto County, Wisconsin within the watershed of Green Bay of Lake Michigan. Its outflow is the First South Branch Oconto River by which it is connected to the Camp Five Lake. The outline of the Winslow Lake is formed like an H and it reaches from the southwest to the northeast.

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