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50 Best PC Games of 2015 Based on User Reviews
Updated: 13 Jan 2016 2:16 pm
Gamers decide.
BY: Michael Logarta
Ultimately, Gamers Decide what go down in history as the best PC games of 2015!
2015 was an amazing year for PC gaming, with game releases that pushed creativity, imagination, and technology to their limits. We've seen plenty of unforgettable titles, from well-polished triple A epics to wildly innovative and ambitious indie games.
When it comes down it, which games deserve to go down in history as the best of the best is entirely dependent on you, the gamers. Here, then, is our roundup of the 50 Best PC Games of 2015 Based on User Reviews!
50. Heroes of the Storm
Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm boasts a roster of gaming icons. Kerrigan? Arthas? Diablo? They're all here, and ready to raise hell. This MOBA also comes with several one-of-a-kind battlegrounds, each offering a secondary objective that drastically affects team strategy. But whether it's raising a gargantuan undead golem, or summoning the magic of temples to raze the enemy base, you better learn how to work together! Because in Heroes of the Storm, if you want to win, you'll have to cooperate closely with your allies. One of the best PC games of 2015 – and it's free!
49. Total War: Attila
Total War: Attila boasts an excellent change of pace from earlier Total War installments. For one, several playable factions are nomadic, meaning they don't start with a capital or province. This gives them a variety of perks, such as greater mobility, which allows them to pillage cities to their heart's content. Total War: Attila has also been lauded for its accurate portrayal of history. True to the violent, dismal era in which it is set, the game is steeped in an apocalyptic miasma, complete with inclement weather and gloomy lighting.
48. The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
What could be better than adventuring through the frozen wastes of Skyrim, hunting down mammoths and giants? Or exploring the majestic forests and metropolitan areas of the Imperial Province of Cyrodiil? How about having the entirety of Tamriel as your playground? That's what MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited offers. This is a land torn asunder by war, so you'll have to choose your side well. Plunge your blade into the enemy's heart, or steal into dank dungeons in search of precious treasures. Participate in epic siege battles, or craft the mightiest weapons. This is your story; you play the way you want!
47. Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assassin's Creed Syndicate takes us to Industrial Revolution London. Our heroes? The twin protagonists, Jacob and Evie Frye. Jacob is rash, goofy, and enjoys punching people in the teeth. Evie is tough, serious, and is so good at being stealthy it's almost like she can bend the shadows to her will. Both of them are equally dangerous – and they need to be, if they're going to stop the Templar threat that has taken control of London's seedy underbelly. You'll meet new friends (such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Alexander Graham Bell), not to mention you'll be using a lot of new tools! For example, you can now take to the skies with the rope launcher, which acts like Batman's grappling hook. It definitely makes scaling walls way faster! Burn cobblestones in carriage races, free child workers, hunt down supernatural phenomena, and more in one of the best PC games of 2015!
46. Hard West
The Wild West meets XCOM in the supernatural cowboy showdown, Hard West. When tragedy leaves you and your loved one dead, you find yourself brought back to life thanks to a lust for revenge. In Hard West's deep, turn-based combat, you control a squad of one to four gunslingers, then execute enemies with an assortment of historically inspired firearms. Kick line-of-sight in the face by exploiting the bullet ricochet system, and employ dozens of other lethal abilities. And as you've probably already guessed, this isn't your daddy's Western. These savage lands abound in the occult, so expect to deal with demons and mystical powers alongside bandits and assassins. Weird, wild, and a lot of bloody fun, Hard West is one of the best PC games of 2015.
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The call by Clover Moore, who is MP for the NSW seat of Sydney and also Sydney's lord mayor, comes after Ms Gillard on Wednesday ruled out a conscience vote on the issue.
"I ask that you provide for a conscience vote legislation that would allow same-sex couples to marry," Ms Moore wrote in a letter to Ms Gillard dated September 29.
This entry was posted on 01/10/2010 by D. It was filed under Gay, Marriage Equality, Sydney and was tagged with ALP, Clover Moore, Equality, Julia GIllard, Marriage, NSW, Same Sex, Sydney, Vote.


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One of the hard lessons in healthcare is learning to accept the things you cannot change, while simultaneously pouring incredible amounts of effort into making the changes you're able. Physicians can change a patient's health status, but not how long it takes to complete the documentation to reflect it. CMOs can change how the organization involves physicians in strategic and operational decisions, but not how consumers want or expect healthcare to be delivered. These paradigms cumulate as a challenge to strengthen physician engagement, confronting thousands of healthcare leaders as engagement declines nation-wide in hospitals of all types and sizes.
In a world where nearly three in every four physicians do not recommend their career and many more seek early retirement, physician engagement has become increasingly critical to maintaining the working population of healthcare providers. Unfortunately, cultivating a loyal medical staff who is invested in the hospital's mission is trickier than it sounds. As any leader will tell you, "engagement" isn't an actionable noun—people either feel it or they don't. What can be done to control yet another seemingly uncontrollable force in healthcare? Understand what exactly can be helped. PRC's Physician Engagement Study does just that, sharing insights on the changes leadership can make for their team of physicians.
The Physician Engagement Study measures the ownership physicians feel in their hospitals. Put another way, this score gives value to how much agency physicians feel they have in their workplace. Knowing that a stronger sense of ownership within the organization leads to higher engagement, the Physician Engagement Study offers actionable drivers as solutions to areas where physicians feel they don't have the input they'd like to see.
But what can be done about how people feel? Consider EMRs and EHRs, which are often cited as factors driving low engagement. Unfortunately, many hospital leaders feel as though their hands are tied; regulations leave no choice but to rely on EMRs and EHRs. Most physicians are quick to complain about EHRs, citing them as cumbersome to their workflow, it's tempting to say there's nothing more to be done and that physicians simply must adapt.
While these new technologies are part of the reality of healthcare, there are often forgotten factors leadership can leverage to ease the difficulties medical staff experience with these systems and drive engagement. Does your hospital have adequate tech support, or is there one IT guy dashing from broken tablet to broken tablet all day? Ensuring that the resources are available to seamlessly assist with issues and provide training without long wait times removes a significant burden from the physician.
On a larger scale, in PRC's research with more than 600 national healthcare organizations, the most common drivers of physician engagement are related to organizational culture. While EMRs and documentation requirements certainly play a role in decreasing physician satisfaction, these challenges exist at every American healthcare organization. Notably, organizations who successfully build cultures which promote collaboration, respect, and efficiency equip their physicians to not only manage these industry-wide challenges, but also provides resources to help design solutions—both of which strengthen engagement.
While true that company culture comes from everyone, remember that it starts at the top and flows down. Organizing teams across the hospital system so that everyone works well and communicates with each other does wonders for engagement. In any workplace, those who have positive relationships with their coworkers are more willing to help their teammates and pick up slack, fostering an environment which encourages even better communication and delivers higher outcomes. While it's true that you cannot wave a magic wand and watch frustrations with EHRs disappear, an organization who puts significant effort into building relationships with providers, sees those frustrations softened into challenges to overcome together; as a unified organization.


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City on the Brink: Charlotte's Recession-Era Unraveling
David Francis
The U.S. financial meltdown, coupled with a major education crisis, left the city reeling.
This is the second part in a three-part series on the recent history of Charlotte. Part one explored Charlotte's rapid rise. On Thursday, part three will explore the city's future.
CHARLOTTE – In January 2008, Bank of America announced it was planning to purchase Countrywide Financial, a California-based firm that provided mortgages. Bank of America had previously stayed out of the home loan business. But Countrywide was on the ropes: It serviced $1.4 trillion in mortgages at the end of 2007, many of them subprime or loans with adjustable rates. When the housing bubble burst, Countrywide was doomed.
Bank of America chairman Ken Lewis, believing the housing market was nearing the bottom in 2008, completed the purchase of the company for $2.5 billion in July of that year. At the time, he thought it was a steal.
The acquisition of Countrywide has been called the worst deal in the history of banking. According to some estimates, the deal has cost Bank of America more than $40 billion. It also cost Ken Lewis his job.
By the fall of 2008, the global economy was on the brink of ruin and the financial industry was in a free fall. In September, Bank of America was forced to acquire Merrill Lynch and its billions of dollars in losses. Wachovia, which also made a bad real estate bet when it acquired the subprime lender Golden West in 2006, was swallowed up by Wells Fargo after it reported $5 billion in deposit losses in one day.
"We were reliant on one particular sector. We relied too heavily on it."
The start of the financial crisis and the subsequent recession marked a dark turning point for Charlotte. In 2008 alone, the city shed 15,700 jobs. Wachovia let 12 percent of its workforce go that year. From 2008 to 2010, Charlotte lost 9 percent of its finance workforce. Bank of America is now in the midst of a plan to lay off 30,000 employees. It's not clear how many of the company's Charlotte employees will be let go, but the ratings agency Moody's has warned that the Bank of America plan was a "credit negative" for the city. Once eliminated, many of these high-paid finance positions are never coming back. Today, unemployment in Charlotte remains at 10 percent, nearly two points higher than the national average.
Charlotte's severe job losses between 2008 and today have led, as they have in so many other cities, to reduced tax revenue. The county had not assessed home prices since 2004, so it was unable able to take advantage of the housing bubble.
"If you look at Charlotte as a pie, about a fifth of it in south Charlotte pays almost 50 percent of the city's tax base," says David Howard, an at-large city council member who has focused over the years on city planning. "[This area] went up big time. They hadn't seen a new tax rate in years."
"We had the perfect storm going on in the city. No reevaluation [of home prices]. The economy going down," Howard continues. "We didn't have the capacity to actually go out and do a bond referendum. And … the ratings agency, they're saying, 'What are you doing to keep the city up?' It was kind of coming at you all at one time."
The housing slowdown had other consequences. According to the Census Bureau, the city's Hispanic population was 5,571 in 1990. By 2000, it had grown to 39,800. In 2010, there were nearly 100,000 Hispanics living in Charlotte, making it the fourth fastest-growing Latino population in the country. Many of these immigrants arrived seeking jobs in the construction industry. But with few new homes being built, work dried up.
In the last two decades, a large proportion of the Latinos who came to Charlotte were undocumented. In 2008, the federal government opened an immigration court in the city to process the thousands of deportation cases that originated in the metro area.
The Great Recession exposed many of the problems Charlotte was able to ignore during its boom years. Many in ritzy south Charlotte were no longer willing to foot the bill for the rest of the city. Simmering divisions, mainly along racial lines, re-opened.
Nowhere was the rift more apparent than in the fight over schools.
A Divided School System
In 1971, Charlotte began to use busing to integrate its schools. It was the first school system in the country to implement a busing program.
But in 2001, the city's busing program ended: A federal judge ruled that the school system had successfully eliminated "all vestiges of past discrimination." With the exception of magnet schools, Charlotte's students now attend schools close to where they live.
The result, according to school board member Joyce Waddell, is that Charlotte's schools are once again "almost completely segregated." Predictably, this has led to an achievement gap. Schools in more affluent white areas perform well, while schools in poorer, African-American areas struggle.
"The haves are not going to give up something for the have nots."
According to Waddell, African-American leaders in Charlotte have been complaining about the divide since the day busing ended. But the issue didn't become part of a wider debate until 2010, when the school board voted along racial lines to close 11 schools in an effort to close a $100 million budget gap. Most of the affected students were black or Hispanic and from lower-income families.
Black community leaders and school board members said the closings were racially motivated. Kaye McGarry, a white school board member who voted for the closings, received what police called a threatening letter in the mail. Members of the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) were accused of threatening behavior toward the board. Parents opposed to the cuts chanted "No justice, no peace," in the midst of the closure vote. Five civil rights complaints were filed against the school district.
Former Superintendent Peter Gorman insisted the closings were based on performance and empty classrooms. Eric Davis, chairman of the school board at the time of the vote, said that the decision to close the schools represented a shift in how the board defines success.
"The previous definition of success was, we want to give every student equal opportunity to get a good education, which was a noteworthy goal considering where we were 40 years ago. But by the late 1990s… the board realized that wasn't good enough," he says. "We want to deliver. We changed the focus of the school system from inputs to results."
Davis added that county student-funding formulas have been adjusted to favor low-income students: Every student who lives in poverty counts for 1.3 students. This means that 90 poor students are given enough resources for 120 students.
"The fact of the matter is, we're spending $11,000 on children on the west side of town and $5,000 on the south side of town. When the economic crisis hit, we had to explain that" to city residents, Davis says.
This room serves as a classroom, a gym and a cafeteria at Performance Learning Center in West Charlotte, a magnet high school that targets kids of aren't performing well in traditional high schools. Photo by David Francis
Still, Waddell insists that schools in Charlotte's black and Hispanic neighborhoods are underfunded. The closing issue hits especially close to home for her: E.E. Waddell High School, named for her late husband, the community leader and educator Dr. Elbert Edwin Waddell, was one of the schools shuttered.
"Most of the votes come down to racial votes," Waddell says, noting the school board has four black members and five white ones. "Until we have five votes to say, 'you can't do this,' you can close any school you want."
"The haves are not going to give up something for the have nots," she adds. "We were here since slavery. People who had slaves can still have them." When asked later to clarify what she meant by that slavery comment, Waddell laughed. Of course, "they can't have them," she says. But "the people who have affluence and have money can still control people who don't."
Schools have also been a battleground for Charlotte's Hispanic population. Nearly 18 percent of students in Charlotte schools are Hispanic or Latino (black students account for 42 percent; white students make up 32.5 percent). Many come from Spanish-speaking households.
Principal Suzanne Gimenez works with students at Devonshire Elementary. According to Gimenez, 98 percent of students at the school are low income. Photo by David Francis
These students are finding themselves in the center of a political fight over illegal immigration. While I was reporting this story, County Commissioner Bill James, a Republican, introduced a motion to the County Board of Commissioners that would require schools to determine how many Hispanic students are undocumented. Once there is a head count, the county would send a bill for services to the embassies of the countries the students came from.
"I looked at the fact that we were spending all of this money on illegals and they were so arrogant in their beliefs that they were entitled to take over America as though they were Americans. I just decided, let's have a discussion about how much illegals are costing Mecklenburg County," James says. "I think Americans are getting pushed around by illegals and I think it's time we start pushing back."
The motion was struck down 5-4 along party lines, with four Democrats and an independent voting against and four Republicans voting in favor.
Charlotte now finds itself at a crossroads. Its social, economic and racial divisions have been laid bare. The challenges facing the schools are clear. And they have made strides to close the achievement gap. Last year, they were awarded the Broad Prize, honoring schools that close the performance divide between income and ethnic groups.
But none of these problems will be solved unless the city's economy can evolve beyond the banks that served as Charlotte's lifeblood for thirty years. If the economy doesn't evolve, wealth will stay concentrated in south Charlotte and cycles of failure and uneven performance will likely continue.
"People understand that we were reliant on one particular sector," says Harold Cogdell, a Democrat country commissioner. "We relied too heavily on it."
Charlotte's ability to adapt now depends in large part on a massive development project, nearing completion 1,800 miles away.
David Francis is a writer and journalist based in Washington, DC.


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Kennedy Family Genealogy
In my article about the death of Senator Ted Kennedy yesterday, I used the website «Kennedy Family Genealogy»as a source for information about Ted's grandchildren.
I have noted, however, that the website has not been updated since 23 September 1999, and that is quite a while ago. There must have been many changes to the survey of the descendants of Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy since then. The genealogy does not - naturally enough - include the sixth child of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., for instance (that is Aidan Vieques Kennedy, born 2001, if you wonder).
I have googled around, but haven't found any other website that gives a similar and updated survey of the Kennedy family and which is trustworthy and well organized (the survey at Babylon, for instance, isn't! And the survey at Wikipedia does not give many sources). If you know of any website that I have overlooked, please tell!
I have several Kennedy books in my library, including the New York Times bestseller «Sons of Camelot. The Fate of An American Dynasty» by Laurence Leamer, published in 2004. Has any genealogy been published in print since then? If not, is anyone up for the job? :-)
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Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)
Senator Edward Moore «Ted» Kennedy – «the patriarch of the Kennedy clan», «Lion of the Senate», «the liberal stalwart», «the greatest United States Senator of our time» – died of brain cancer at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, on 25 August 2009. He was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in Dorchester, Massachusetts on 22 February 1932 as the 9th and youngest child of Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890-1995).
Ted Kennedy left behind his wife Victoria, his children Kara, Edward Jr. and Patrick, grandchildren Kiley, Edward III, Grace and Max (Allen) and stepchildren Curran and Caroline Raclin. His sister Jean Kennedy Smith is now the only surviving child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine children.
Ted Kennedy served as Senator from 1962 to 2009, following in the footsteps of his elder brothers John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) and Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968). When Robert was killed in 1968, Ted was offered to take his place in the campaign for the Democratic nomination, but declined. Everyone expected him to become his party's candidate in the 1972 election, but his presidential ambitions were destroyed by the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, something his unsuccessful challenge to President Carter in 1980 confirmed. Serving in the Senate for so many years, he probably got far more influence on American politics, especially in the fields of health and education, than he ever would have if he had become President.
In a statement on Wednesday morning 26 August, President Barack Obama said that he and his wife «were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy». «For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts». In a public speech held at Chilmark, Massachusetts later on Wednesday President Obama said that Ted Kennedy «became not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy».
In a tribute to Ted Kennedy Vice President Joe Biden Jr. said that he «changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans -- in the literal sense, literally -- literally changed the circumstances».
The news of Edward Kennedy's death has also dominated the news here in Norway. In the obituary by the Norwegian Telegraphic Agency, NTB, published in among others VG, Kennedy was described as the most influential politician in the Democratic Party. NTB mentions among others the late senator's fight to increase the minimum wage and his opposition to the war in Iraq.
One Norwegian expert on American politics, Professor Ole Moen, characterizes Kennedy as a political giant and a "welfare democrat". - His death must be a great loss to Obama, as he was an important voice in the work for reforming the health service. To Aftenposten Ole Moen says that Kennedy's death "er som en vegg som faller ut av senatet" ("is like a wall of the senate falling down"). - A dynasty has disappeared from American politics.
Other articles and obituaries:
The Times (UK)
The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Ted Kennedy will be laid to rest at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia near the graves of his elder brothers John and Robert.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Peter S. Canellos. «Last Lion. The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy», Simon & Schuster, 2009.
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Joni Mitchell's Norwegian ancestry
The Canadian musician, songwriter and painter Joni Mitchell (born Roberta Joan Anderson), who was born at Fort Macleod in Alberta in 1943, has in several interviews talked about her Norwegian ancestry.
The Norwegian genealogist Arnfrid Mæland, who holds Mithcell as one of her favourite musicians, invited in June 2009 other participants at the Norwegian genealogy forum Digitalarkivet's Brukarforumet to make a joint effort in finding Joni's Norwegian grandparents and if possibly further ancestry.
In early August Mæland published the first draft of part 1 of the singer's ancestry, Joni Mitchell - With ancestors from 'the Voss Fjord part of Norway'. The draft reveals among others that the family of Joni's paternal grandfather Henry Andersen (1873-1952) came from South Helgeland in Northern Norway, while her paternal grandmother Ingeborg "Emma" Gjertsdatter Andersen (b. 1882) came from Modalen in Hordaland county, a few miles north of Bergen. Emma's father was a third cousin of the Norwegian writer Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845).
The draft is written in English, while most of the discussion at Brukarforumet is in Norwegian.
8 September 2009: The webpage http://home.online.no/~harmell/joni.html was taken down on Sunday 6 September 2009, but can also be found at Joni Mitchell's official webpage, http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=2113.
Labels Alberta, Canada, genealogy
Jonas Bergström and football
When the engagement of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Jonas Bergström was announced on 11 August, the royal court published a cv where we were told that he "has been active in different sport activities including football at top level".
Curious about Bergström's football career, I have searched around for more information, but the few articles on the subject gives another picture than the royal court has wanted to show.
The Swedish newspaper Expressen wrote already in May 2007 that Bergström started to play football (soccer) only 6 years ago and was viewed as a promising striker. For 10 years he played for several clubs in the Stockholm area before he decided "to retire" only 16 years old to concentrate on school.
But football is still an important part of his life, and he still plays amateur football for the Swedish 7th division side Rara Avis BK, which he founded together with friends back in 2002. The other major tabloid in Sweden, Aftonbladet, claims to know that Jonas once dreamt about becoming a professional football player, but when his studies took more and more time he had to make a choice.
A person named RubyTuesday tells at the discussion forum Flashback on 11 August 2009 that Jonas Bergström used to play for AIK at junior level. His sources are not revealed, however. But if we take RubyTuesday's words for granted, is it still correct to say that Jonas used to play football at "top level"? I would think that the royal court is stretching the truth a bit too far...
I have of course asked the royal court's information department for more details about Bergström's football career, but have not received an answer as yet.
Labels Bergström, Bernadotte, football, Sweden
Royal blogs
My blog is just one of several blogs that focus on the royal families of the world. I thought I should make a list of some of the blogs that I have encountered.
One of the best blogs around is authored by the Norwegian historian Trond Norén Isaksen. He does not only cover royal news and events, but also finds the time to write about among others history in general, architecture, books and politics.
Ever since the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten decided to stop its "News in English" service in 2008, Trond Norén Isaksen has provided a place for non-Scandinavian readers to find news in English about both royal and non-royal major events in Norway.
I must admit that I have partly used Isaksen's blog as a sort of template when constructing my own blog, mainly because his choice of design is so reader friendly (then again Blogspot doesn't offer that many different ways in setting up the blog).
I promise, however, that I will not be a copycat! There is surely room for more than one royal blog covering among others the Scandinavian monarchies. There are so many different topics to write about that I don't think it will constitute a problem. It will probably be difficult some times to avoid commenting on the same events, but the emphasis and interpretations will surely be different. I will most likely write more about genealogy than Trond Norén Isaksen, and I doubt that he will ever comment on football or ice hockey!
The blog Royal Musings by author and Queen Victoria's Descendants expert Marlene A. Koenig is also worth a visit. She provides news and commentary about the reigning royal houses of the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain and Monaco as well as the former European monarchies. Especially interesting are the historical tidbits she posts almost daily.
Other blogs:
Marilyn's Royal Blog
Royal Anecdotes
Royals and Celebs
Danish Royal Watchers
The Royal Twist
(This is an edited version of a similar list posted at the newsgroup Alt.talk.royalty on 4 May 2009.)
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Genealogy of the Robertsen family from Lillehavn in Lindesnes
The booklet "Slekten Robertsen fra Lillehavn i Lindesnes" ("The Robertsen family from Lillehavn in Lindesnes") was published last week in connection with the family reunion at Spangereid grendehus (community centre).
Every family has a story to tell. This is the story about a fisherman's family from Lillehavn at Spangereid parish in today's Lindesnes municipality in the very south of Norway.
The booklet is divided into two main parts. In the first part I have made an outline of the family before Tobias Robertsen (1856-1929) and Andrea Pettersen Høyland (1873-1952) got married in 1891, as well as a short presentation of the two first generations. Tobias and Andrea had 9 children, of which 7 reached adulthood.
The second part gives a survey of all the descendants of Tobias and Andrea - the number of descendants has now passed 230. Most of them still live in the south of Norway, but there are also two branches in the United States as well as a smaller line living in Germany.
The booklet has 44 pages and is well illustrated. It also contains a cemetery survey as well as a list of explanations and abbreviations, sources and footnotes.
Labels genealogy, Lillehavn, Lindesnes, Robertsen, Spangereid
Jonas Bergström's ancestry
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published today an ancestry table (click on the picture for a bigger size) for Princess Madeleine's fiancé Jonas Claes Bergström. The table shows five generations of Bergström's ancestors.
The table reveals that Jonas Bergström - besides the fact that he also has Danish ancestry on his mother's side - has higher civil servants, shipowners and directors among his ancestors, but also blacksmiths and soldiers.
Jonas Claes Bergström was born at Danderyd on 23 January 1979 as the youngest son of Karl Claes Göran Bergström, b. 5 August 1942, and Elisabet Bergström, née Jörgensson, b. 19 November 1943.
Jonas has two elder brothers - Peder, b. 20 December 1969, and Ted, b. 5 January 1972. Peder is married to Sara, b. 1975, and has two children - Victor, b. 2005 and Siri, b. 2008. Ted is married to Karin, b. 1974, and has 3 children - Clara, b. 2002, Tom, b. 2005 and Disa, b. 2009.
Labels Bergström, Bernadotte, genealogy, Sweden
Princess Madeleine to marry Jonas Bergström
The Swedish Royal Court announced today the engagement between HRH Princess Madeleine and Jonas Bergström. The wedding will take place in late 2010 or early 2011.
The official announcement came only a day after the royal court refused to comment on Svenska Damtidning's claims that an engagement had taken place.
The media seems to disagree about when the engagement actually took place. Earlier today, the Swedish tabloid Expressen claimed that the engagement took place two weeks ago, after Mr. Bergström had asked the king for permission. But according to the happy couple at today's press conference at Solliden the engagement took place at the Italian island Capri on 12 June!
After the king had given his consent, I am sure that he brought the matter up with the government, as obviously the court wouldn't announce the engagement if it was not confident about the government's approval.
In accordance with the Act of Succession the government gave its formal approval in an extraordinary meeting today.
Unlike Daniel Westling, who upon marriage will become Prince of Sweden with the style Royal Highness as well as Duke of Västergötland, Jonas Bergström will "only" be titled Duke of Hälsingland and Gästrikland. This could be described as an unusual solution in Sweden, but it follows the practice in Spain where for instance Infanta Cristina's husband is titled Duke of Palma de Mallorca by marriage, but without the title Prince or style Royal Highness.
Photo: Kungliga Hovstaterna.
Labels Bernadotte, royal engagement, Sweden
Welcome to my new blog! I thought it was about time to create a place where I could air my thoughts on current and past events.
My blog will first of all deal with topics within my main interests such as royal and constitutional history, genealogy, travelling and politics. But there are so many things I am interested in, so you shouldn't be too surprised if I from time to time decide to write about other matters, such as current events, football (soccer), ice hockey etc.
The blog language will be English, but I might write an article in Norwegian from time to time as well.
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Eric French & Mr. Hyde -- Old City Blues Album Review
This CD review was originally published in the April 25, 2013 edition of Blues Blast Magazine. Be sure to check out the rest of the magazine at thebluesblast.com
Eric French & Mr. Hyde – Old City Blues
Self Release Through French Maid Music
www.ericfrench.com
8 tracks / 34:50
Maybe it is the long and cold winters, but New Englanders are unusually tough individuals. Providence/Boston denizen Eric French personifies this, having beaten leukemia and made his own way out into the world as a musician. This skilled singer, songwriter and guitarist even holed his band up in a snow-bound Vermont cabin in the dead of winter to record the new Eric French & Mr. Hyde album.
Old City Blues is Eric's second release, and this self-produced collection is a more mature and refined work than his debut double album, Eric French & Mr. Hyde. Old City Blues is unique in that he released the songs in three batches over the past year, only recently issuing a disc that includes all eight tracks. French wrote seven of the songs, and chose an amazingly reworked Tom Petty cover to round things out. Joining him on this album are Walter Skorupski on bass, Corey Schreppel on the skins, and Tim Butterworth on the piano and organ.
Eric is not terribly old, yet he has been playing the guitar for the past 20 years and it does not sound like he has been lollygagging either. His playing is confident, and he is secure enough that he can focus on playing with feeling while fitting into the song rather than acting like a star and aiming to impress with pyrotechnic guitar runs. You will hear this right from the beginning as he starts the album off with "Baby Where Ya Been," a slickly-written rhythm and blues tune.
The traditional blues elements are there for "Poison in Mah Pie," such as the song structure and the age-old story of a lady trying to off her old man. But Eric brings it straight into 2013 by choosing a modern sound and very clever present-day lyrics. Butterworth's organ work adds a funky note to this one, as well as the jazzy instrumental, "Spread it Around." I appreciate it when a talented band like this chooses to not add words to one of their tracks so that all of the individual parts have a chance to shine. This one has a mellow start then builds momentum until it erupts into a full-blown blues jam.
"Evenin's With the Blues" is an uptempo piece with a plentiful helping of tasteful acoustic and bottleneck slide guitar. He has a fabulous voice, and despite his Yankee heritage French has a bit of a southern accent when he sings. This is the perfect tone for him to take on songs like "Gonna Get" and "Middle of Love" which both have really great lyrics.
Then there is his cover of "Free Fallin'," which happens to be my least favorite Tom Petty song. The band kept the original lyrics and started from scratch with the music, and it turn out that the music was the part I did not like about the original. This version is a rocking mashup that sounds like collaboration between AC/DC and the Allman Brothers. That turns out to be a good thing -- Eric has only recorded one cover tune, and he knocked it out of the park.
The last song on Old City Blues is the title track, and is the longest one, coming in at 7 ½ minutes. This slow-rolling pure blues tune is another instrumental. Skorupski's bass and Schreppel's drum are totally in the pocket and provide a great foundation for French and Butterworth to go to town and play some incredibly soulful solos. What a cool way to finish things up!
All in all, this album is a neat piece of work, and it left me wanting more. If you like it and want to see Eric French in person, he has been performing both solo acoustic and full band shows around New England; judging by his work on Old City Blues I think it would be a great idea to track him down and see what he is doing.
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Learn the Days of the Week in Japanese on YouTube
Essential Japanese Vocabulary
Japanese Grammar
Languages › Japanese
Home study.
by Namiko Abe
Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years.
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Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation
PPP Loan Data — Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation, Glendale, CA
ALERT: There are 2 PPP loans for a total of $103,147 in our database for businesses with the name "Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation" in Glendale, CA. This this is typically due to the same business receiving both first and second-draw loans, but may also include similarly named but unrelated businesses, multiple branches of the same business, mistaken multiple applications, or potential fraud. Click each loan below to see full details.
$55,367 Loan - Corporation - January, 2021
316 E Broadway Ste A
Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$47,780 Loan - Corporation - May, 2020
316 E Broadway Suite A
Industry: Offices of Dentists
Location: Glendale, CA
Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation is a corporation located at 316 E Broadway Ste A in Glendale, California that received a Coronavirus-related PPP loan from the SBA of $55,367.00 in January, 2021.
Ongoing Loan
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation in Glendale, CA received a Paycheck Protection Loan of $55,367 through JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, which was approved in January, 2021.
This loan has been disbursed by the lender and has not yet been fully repaid or forgiven. The exact status of ongoing loans is not released by the SBA.
For Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation, the calculation used to estimate payroll costs is shown below:
Based on the standard PPP eligibility formula, it may be possible to estimate the payroll expenses represented by a company on their PPP application (see details above). In order to qualify for the PPP loan amount received, Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation's 2019 payroll expenses are estimated to be at least $265,762.
Based on their reported 10 jobs retained, this equals an estimated average yearly compensation of $26,576 per employee1
On the PPP application, Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation reported intending to use the proceeds of their PPP loan for the following expenses:
Business Information - Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation in Glendale, CA
Offices of Dentists
LMI Zone: Y
HUBZone: Y
Los Angeles County, CA — SBA Office 0914 — Congressional District: CA-28
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Nationwide, 173,223 businesses in the "Offices of Dentists" industry received a total of $13.99B in PPP loans. These businesses account for 2% of total PPP applications submitted, and received 2% of the total PPP funding allocated.
PPP recipients in this industry report an average of 8 employees, 20% lower than Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation's reported 10 employees, and received an average PPP loan of $80,744, 46% higher than this company's loan of $55,367.
Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation is a corporation located at 316 E Broadway Suite A in Glendale, California that received a Coronavirus-related PPP loan from the SBA of $47,780.00 in May, 2020.
Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation in Glendale, CA received a Paycheck Protection Loan of $47,780 through JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, which was approved in May, 2020.
This loan's status is reported by the SBA as "Paid in Full", which includes both loans repaid and those fully forgiven from repayment under PPP guidelines. The loan's status was last updated by the SBA in May, 2021.
In the Glendale area, 113 businesses in the "Offices of Dentists" industry received a PPP loan. These local businesses reported an average of 5 employees (compared to this company's 9) and received an average PPP loan of $43,529 (compared to this company's $47,780).
PPP recipients in this industry report an average of 8 employees, 11% lower than Hamlet S. Avanesian, DDS., A Professional Corporation's reported 9 employees, and received an average PPP loan of $80,744, 69% higher than this company's loan of $47,780.
Source: www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/hamlet-s-avanesian-dds-a-professional-corporation-glendale-ca


P2018DSC01277	The Mill hotel in Chester. P2018DSC01281	A canal basin in Chester.
Description This was a varied walk following the Dee downstream from Chester.
Condition I was wearing a new pair of boots today, and my left ankle started hurting towards the end of the walk. This is rather unusual, and I hope it is not a problem with the boots.
Weather Today was generally cloudy with a few sunny periods; it was also quite warm, with little breeze to help us cool down.
P2018DSC01283	Following the canal towards Chester city walls. P2018DSC01287	A street near the cathedral.
P2018DSC01296	Foregate Street, Chester. P2018DSC01304	Eastgate.
I had planned to go into the Peak District for my landmark 1,000th walk, but a short break in Chester and good weather meant a walk along the Dee seemed in order. Sencan wanted to come along, and so after breakfast we pulled our kit on and headed off. Our hotel is right beside the Shropshire Union canal, and we followed this for a short distance towards Chester's city walls, then climbed up and followed them past the cathedral. Before passing under the spectacular Eastgate clock, we nipped down to W.H.Smiths to buy a few snacks for the day, then clambered back to continue along the wall.
The walk around the city's walls is fairly spectacular: better and more spectacular than York's, although much of Chester's are medieval in date rather than Roman. We passed the site of a truncated Roman ampitheatre and continued marching along the wall. I have walked the vast majority of my thousand walks alone, and it was great to have Sencan alongside to chat and laugh with. Soon the tidal river Dee became visible down to the left, and then an old bridge over the river came into view. On the other side of this we left the walls and started walking past the racecourse. A man was mowing the border between the path and course, slaloming around the white posts that hold up the guard rails.
It was a pleasant stroll, but soon the path left the racecourse and headed under a railway viaduct before following the Dee's northern bank. We had to divert along a road past a new development, but we soon returned to the riverbank and a very good cyclepath. After a short distance we reached the Welsh border, where a few monuments commemorated not only the border, but also the start of the Welsh Coastal Path. For the rest of the day we'd see three small coin-sized symbols in pavements; two arrows pointing along the trail on either side of a central coastal path symbol. They were not particularly useful for routefinding, but were useful for confirmation that we were on the right path.
The trail passed a small footbridge over the river, after which the good surfaced path continued on northwestwards. After a while a series of metal posts - dolphins - stuck out of the water at an angle, by what appeared to be a short stretch of dock. The map showed Broughton aerodrome nearby and I made a guess that this was the dock where Airbus take wings out of their manufacturing facility - and for once I was correct. A large concrete bridge of virtually no architectural merit took the A494 over the river, partly concealing a much more interesting bridge behind - a bascule bridge that carries the quieter B5441 road across. It was not clear if the bridge opens nowadays - certainly it does not seem much lower than the adjacent concrete bridge - and alongside these two were the massive abutments of the Victoria Jubilee Bridge, which lasted less than thirty years before it was replaced.
I had used the bascule bridge to cross the Dee during my coastwalk, so it meant the point where this walk 'joined' the coastwalk, and much, although thanks to the new coastal path not all, of the rest of the day was on terrain that should have been familiar. However for some reason I could recall little of it, and when we got back to the hotel I had to re-read the relevant walk from my website. The path continued along floodbanks, the surfacing having ended. Sencan complained of a stone in her boot and sat on the ground to get it out. Wanting to help I picked the boot up as she straightened her sock, only to discover the boot's sole was covered in dog poo. With poo now all over my left hand, I had to place the boot on the ground and find some large leaves to try and clean it all off. A lot of water from my bottle helped clean most of it off, but my fingers still smelt slightly pungent.
The path passed under the Hawarden rail bridge, which now has a footpath alongside - I cannot remember whether it did fifteen years ago, but if it had I did not use it. The bank eventually followed a little inlet inland, where what looked like an old rail bridge spanned the inlet. This now carried a road, and it turns out it was indeed an old railway bridge that carried a line to Connah's Quay docks and on to Buckley Junction. A little further on we came across a small cafe in a portakabin - a quite eclectic sort of place, and we sat down outside after ordering some food - but only after I had nipped into the toilets to give my hands a thorough wash. The food was good, and we talked to an ex-fisherman for a while about the local area before setting off down the road.
We passed a group of men and women - perhaps in their early twenties - who were drinking lager and swearing loudly at each other, despite it being only one in the afternoon. They were not overtly threatening, but had a frisson that a wrong word or look could lead to problems. The childrens' play area they were standing by unsurprisingly did not appear well used. A little further on the trail crossed a bridge over the railway line and joined the B5129 road. This was not a particularly noteworthy or even pleasant stroll, and it was perhaps not the best walk with which to reintroduce Sencan to walking.
The trail passed under a main road and headed along a side road past a power station. It then joined the main road, and followed it to the outskirts of Flint. We were both suffering a little; Sencan had blisters forming on her toes, and my new boots were hurting my bad ankle. We soldiered on, and instead of taking the direct route along the road we followed the trail as it diverted off across the floodplain. This was a much more pleasant walk than the previous few miles along the roads, and we sat down for a short rest and to adjust our boots before heading towards Flint Castle.
This had been the site of an interesting conversation on my previous walk, when a man had said he had been planning to steal our motorhome until he saw the charity sign in the window, and had decided against it! We did not visit the castle today, and instead walked on a short distance to the station, which for some reason has a massive metal sculpture of a foot outside it. We had twenty minutes to wait for the next train back to Chester, and we sat down and tried to cool our feet down.
It had not been a classic walk to mark my 1,000th stroll, but the company had been superb. The vast majority of my walks have been solitary affairs, and it was great to have Sencan alongside me once again. Perhaps when Robert leaves home in fourteen years we might be able to do a few more!
P2018DSC01308	The Newgate. P2018DSC01315	Chester Roman Gardens.
This walk starts off outside the Mill Hotel in Chester, which is beside the canal and near the railway station at SJ41006667 - the bus station is passed early on in the route, if that is a preferred alternative. Leave the main entrance to the hotel and turn left to reach Cement Place; turn left along the side of the hotel to reach the northern canal bank, and then turn right along Union Terrace, with the canal off to the left. This immediately passes under a large bridge carrying a road overhead, and heads on until it ends at a T-junction with Frodsham Street.
Carefully cross the road ahead; Chester bus station is a short distance away to the right. Turn left along the road and immediately cross the end of a road and a bridge over the canal. Turn right to head down some steps that lead back down to the canal towpath. Follow the towpath as it soon curves to the right and passes King Charles Tower Gardens on the left. When some steps through the gardens are reached on the left, climb them and a second set to reach some steps that lead up onto the top of the city walls at SJ40656663.
Turn left to walk west along the city walls; they soon pass Chester Cathedral off to the right and then reach the Eastgate bridge, which has an ornate clock above it. Continue on to the Newgate bridge, and follow the walls as they curve right to run parallel to the Dee. It crosses a bridge over the approach road to the Old Dee bridge, and immediately on the other side descend some steps. Cross the end of Castle Drive and then turn right to walk along the pavement that runs between Castle Drive on the right and the river on the left. When the road curves away to the right, continue along the surfaced path as it curves left, passing the Little Roodee car park on the right and passing under the spectacular single-arch Grosvenor Bridge at SJ40216558.
Pass under the bridge, and head on along a good path between the river on the left and Chester Racecourse on the right (note that this path is closed on a few days every year for the races). The path slowly curves to the right alongside the racecourse, and nearly half a mile after the bridge, it turns right and then left to head under a railway bridge. On the other side, continue on a good path alongside the river on the left. The path becomes a boardwalk that leads to new houses on the right, and just before an inlet is reached ahead, turn right up a walkway to reach New Crane Street. (Note: these directions from 2018 may alter once construction work on the flats finish). Turn left to follow the road northwards, soon crossing a bridge over a canal. Once a gap through the hedge on the left is reached, turn left to join a path that leads into a riverside park. Follow this to rejoin the riverside path, and continue on eastwards for a short distance until a sharp bend is reached at SJ39596667.
Follow the good surfaced path that heads southwestwards, with the Dee off to the right. After nearly a mile the Welsh border is reached; continue on for another mile until Higher Ferry footbridge is reached. At the bridge, turn right and go past a cycle barrier to meet the end of a road. Turn left past the end of the bridge, and then left beside the bridge approach ramp. Go past another cycle barrier and turn right to continue along the riverside cyclepath. Continue northwestwards along the cycle path for another 3.3 miles, until the Queensferry bridge carrying the A494(T) overhead is reached. Go past cycle barrier and pass under this bridge, and continue on for another 200 metres until the cycle path goes past a barrier and slopes up to reach the Blue Bridge at SJ32266871.
Carefully cross the road using the pedestrian crossing, and on the other side turn left to cross the Dee using the bridge. On the other, southern, side, go down the approach ramp and then take the first road off to the right (towards "Bridge Villas"), which nearly doubles back towards the bridge. Just before a house is reached ahead, turn left to follow a track that passes a garden hedge on the right. Continue along the track to reach a bridleway gate beside a field gate, after which a path continues to a clappergate beside a field gate. The path curves around between fences, with the river away to the right. It then curves left to reach a second clappergate that leads out onto a floodbank. Continue northwestwards along the floodbank, paralleling two sets of power lines on the left. The path curves to the left under the power lines, and then right to join a track on top of a floodbank at SJ31526894.
A few metres further on, turn right to follow a path that runs along the top of a smaller floodblank. The path passes back under the power lines and parallels the river to reach a clappergate beside a pylon. Go through this and head on along the bank; when the three-arch Hawarden rail bridge is reached at SJ31026927, turn left down the bank to join a concrete track.
The track passes under an arch of the bridge, and then curves left away from the river to head back under the power lines. It soon meets another track at the top of the bank; when it curves left through the trees, continue straight on along the grass on the top of the floodbank; after 0.4 miles it curves left beside an inlet called Wepre Gutter, heading back under the power lines to reach a clapper gate that leads onto a road at SJ30266943.
Turn left to follow a path between a low stone wall and the pub towards the railway bridge; do not go under this, and instead follow the surfaced path as it curves right to parallel the railway line on the left. After a fifth of a mile the path turns left towards a bridge over the railway line; approach the bridge, but before it is reached turn right along another path that continues paralleling the railway line on the right. After another 200 metres, the path turns left to reach a footbridge over the railway line. Cross the bridge, and on the other side turn right along a surfaced path between stone walls. The path soon curves sharply left, passing an old chapel on the left to reach the B5129 road at SJ28817012.
Turn right to follow the road northwestwards. As a bridge is approached ahead after two thirds of a mile, carefully cross the road to meet the pavement on the other (left-hand) side. Continue on, and after another sixth of a mile carefully cross the road to rejoin the pavement on the right-hand side. Shortly after this the road curves to the left to meet a roundabout. Turn right to cross a sliproad heading down from the A548, pass under the A548 bridge, and cross a sliproad by a roundabout on the other side at SJ27567098.
After crossing the sliproad turn right down Kelsterton Road. Follow this westwards for a third of a mile; as the road curves to the right to cross a railway bridge, turn left to carefully cross the road and join a surfaced path that slopes downhill. The path emerges out onto the side of the dual carriageway. Continue along the road as it enters Flint; it passes a small roundabout on the left, the Yacht pub on the right, and after a little over a mile passes a chapel on the left. Shortly after the chapel at SJ25437227, turn right down a track.
The track passes between houses and leads down to a gate in front of a railway level crossing. Carefully cross the line and go through a second gate on the other side, and continue to a clappergate beside a field gate. Go through this and head straight on, following a hedge on the left At the end of the field, go through a gap in the hedge ahead and turn left along a grassy path. Cross a wooden causey over a boggy area, then a bridge over a dry ditch, and head on to a second footbridge and boardwalk. Continue on to a clappergate, and about twenty metres beyond the gate, turn right down a gravel path through scrubland. Go past a squeeze-stile beside a field gate, and then turn left along a surfaced path beside the sea wall. Follow the wall westwards; after a fifth of a mile it curves left; go past a vehicle barrier to enter a car park at SJ24837321, with Flint Castle away to the right.
Turn right to pass in front of a lifeboat station and walk on a few metres towards another car park. Follow the edge of the car park, and then turn left along another side to reach Castle Dyke Street. Turn right down this road, and when the entrance to the castle is reached on the right, turn left down Castle Street. Flint railway station is at the end of this road, at SJ24537312.
P2018DSC01321	The Old Dee Bridge. P2018DSC01325	Bridge Gate.
This makes a total distance of miles, with 200 feet of ascent and 253 feet of descent.
Regular train services run between Flint and Chester railway stations; Chester railway station is only a five-minute walk from the start of this walk.
P2018DSC01330	The Grosvenor Bridge. P2018DSC01332	Chester racecourse.
P2018DSC01342	The river lock to the west of Chester. P2018DSC01345	A Dee coastal path waymarker.
P2018DSC01347	The view back towards Chester. P2018DSC01353	Welcome to Wales!
P2018DSC01355	Sencan hugging the stone marking the border with Wales. P2018DSC01364	Higher Ferry Bridge.
P2018DSC01365	A plaque near Higher Ferry Bridge. P2018DSC01370	Following the Dee downstream towards Queensferry.
P2018DSC01374	The moorings at which BAE dispatch plane wings by sea. P2018DSC01378	Following the Dee downstream towards Queensferry.
P2018DSC01389	Queensferry bridge. P2018DSC01392	The Blue Bridge over the Dee.
P2018DSC01395	A remote-control mower. P2018DSC01396	The Blue Bridge over the Dee.
P2018DSC01398	The Dee viewed from the Blue Bridge. P2018DSC01409	Sencan on the path.
P2018DSC01425	A colourful cycle marker. P2018DSC01429	An old rail bridge over Wepre Gutter.
P2018DSC01432	A bouy on Wepre Riverside. P2018DSC01434	Wepre Riverside.
P2018DSC01439	A bike outside Yvonne's Cafe. P2018DSC01443	A mural in Connah's Quay.
P2018DSC01449	Following the trail through Connah's Quay. P2018DSC01456	Sencan on the roadside.
P2018DSC01457	Nifty pavement waymarkers. P2018DSC01460	A chapel in Flint.
P2018DSC01465	None shall pass! P2018DSC01476	Booze and pills - what a sonderful combination.
P2018DSC01486	Flint Castle. P2018DSC01490	Flint Castle.
P2018DSC01495	Flint Castle. P2018DSC01499	Flint Station.
P2018DSC01503	Myself at Flint Station. P2018DSC01504	Sencan at Flint Station.


Sweet post, Layne. And I'm glad you've embraced pecan. It was the first to go in our house, followed by the apple. Both got eaten in their entirety. Everything else finally had to go to the hens yesterday, not because the pies were bad (except salty pluff: BAD) but because we overbaked.
What did you make aside from pecan, apple and salty pluff?


"A lot can change in forty-eight hours," Nic said, angling his face away.
Nic's blue eyes swirled with a stormy mix of lust and hesitation, the former on the cusp of winning out. Cam just needed to push a little harder.


Bladnoch Lowland region distillery was established in 1817 by the McClelland family. It was taken over by the company T & A McClelland and Co in 1878. The distillery has had a few owners since 1930 had has been closed more than a few times. It was finally reopened in 1956 under the name of Bladnoch Distillery Ltd. Then again went through various owners including Inver House Distillers Ltd between 1973 and 1983, before closing its doors again for 2 years. After this last closing, it was acquired by Arthur Bell & Sons who modernised the distillery. Eventually it was owned by United Distillers, who then mothballed it in 1993. One year later it was acquired by an Irish businessman. The visitor centre was opened in 1998 and to the joy of whisky lovers worldwide the distillery reopened in 2000 but only producing a limited amount of this outstanding malt at present. But if you shop around you can find it and hopefully it will be available for many years to come.
Bladnoch 15 Year Old Sheep Label.
Taste: Smooth, oily. Grassy, lemony. Fruity - apple, pear. White flowers, cut grass.
Finish: Lingering, liquorice. Hints of melon, red fruits - raspberry, strawberry. Citrus.
Bladnoch 10 Year Old Flora & Fauna Series.
Nose: Subtle, fruity with a hint of malt.
Taste: Fresh, slightly sweet citrus fruits - orange.
Finish: Average length, sandal wood.
13 Year Old Single malt.
15 Year Old Sheep Label.
Bladnoch Bottled 1970's White Label.
Bladnoch Bottled 1970's Cream Label.
Bladnoch 8 Year Old Bottled 1980's Cream Label.