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The plan was to brew a barley wine. One day during the mid-'80s, Phil Moeller met up with a friend to make a batch of that strong, warming winter ale. But a blunder occurred. Too much wheat went into the mash. Before the beer swirled down a drain, samples were poured. "As all brewers do, they drank their mistakes and found it delicious," says Glynn Phillips, who owns Sacramento, California's Rubicon Brewing Company, where Moeller became the first brewmaster in 1987. To celebrate the brewery's first anniversary, in fall 1988, Moeller revisited his delicious gaffe.
Relying on a heavy measure of wheat, Moeller made a rich, brawny ale with a surprising caramel complexity that tipped the scales at more than 10 percent ABV. Despite the heft, Winter Wheat Wine was surprisingly, even dangerously easy-drinking. "In the early '90s we used to sell pitchers of the Winter Wheat Wine," says Scott Cramlet, Rubicon's brewmaster since 1990. "I'm sure there were some righteous hangovers back then."
Since wheat wine's accidental birth, the intriguingly malleable style has steadily gained a toehold in craft breweries' lineups, becoming a lighter but no less warming barley wine alternative. In Michigan, Short's Brewing Company makes its Anniversary Ale with blood orange zest and green peppercorns, while New Hampshire's Smuttynose Brewing Company ages its Wheat Wine Ale with oak chips. In Missouri, Boulevard Brewing Company has taken the name of its Harvest Dance Wheat Wine literally, formerly adding grape juice when bottling the beer. And what started as an annual fall release for Rubicon has blossomed into a year-round staple.
Against the Grain
There's no denying that a snifter of barley wine is wonderful on a winter evening. Occasionally, though, versions can border on cloying. It's a hazard of brewing with loads of malt. Massive amounts are critical for supplying the fermentable sugars that yeasts convert into an elevated alcohol profile, but too much barley, and not enough balancing hops, can create a sweet imbalance.
Adding wheat is not a cure-all, but the grain does diminish some of a big, boozy beer's potential drawbacks. Used in conjunction with barley, wheat adds smoothness, a touch of tartness, rounds out a beer, and helps with head retention. (Recall the foamy cap atop a freshly poured pint of wheat-focused hefeweizen.) And somewhat counterintuitively, using large percentages of wheat in a stronger beer can add a unique caramelized flavor profile.
"What draws me to the style is that malty, caramel finish that's different from a barley wine," says Phil Wymore, the brewmaster and cofounder of Perennial Artisan Ales in St. Louis, Missouri. When Wymore was looking to build a lineup of high-alcohol beers, he initially thought about a barley wine or an imperial stout—beers he could brew and bottle quickly, which was important for his fledgling brewery. Then, a brain flash: "Breweries in St. Louis were already making barley wines, but no one was making wheat wines," he says. Familiar with the style from his stint at Chicago's Goose Island, where a pub brewer made several versions of wheat wine, Wymore released his hop-forward Heart of Gold in October 2011 and gave it an annual slot in his Cellar Series.
While the style's caramel quirk has appeal, other brewers enjoy that wheat creates a lighter body that, combined with the general lack of stylistic guidelines, provides a perfect platform for experimentation. In Ohio, Jackie O's Pub & Brewery makes several versions of its honey-driven wheat wine, including the bourbon barrel–aged Bourbon Berry Grove that's matured alongside cherries and blueberries. For its White Oak, California's The Bruery blends equal ratios of a bourbon-barreled wheat wine with its strong, hoppy Belgian ale Mischief. (Rubicon has also released a bourbon-barreled wheat wine, as has Perennial.)
On the other hand, Oklahoma City's COOP Ale Works added alfalfa honey to its Territorial Reserve Wild Wheat Wine Ale and infected it with unpredictable Brettanomyces yeast (the namesake "wild"), before letting flavors develop for more than a year. "The honey dried out the beer and left behind some really nice flavors, and it had a little bit of a tang," says cofounder and director of sales and marketing JD Merryweather.
It filled fans' desire for a flavorful, atypical beer that's not another hop bomb. "When you brew a beer that deviates from a heavy hop profile, it's amazing how people respond," he says. "People went crazy for the wheat wine."
Northern Michigan's Short's Brewing also went crazy with its wheat wine. This is no surprise—Short's is synonymous with wacky, yet winning beers, such as the S'Mores Stout and Key Lime Pie. When selecting a beer to celebrate the brewery's fifth anniversary, in 2009, creative engineer and brewmaster Joe Short, his production manager and pub brewer merged three different beers they each wanted to make: a wheat wine, a beer with blood oranges, and one with plenty of peppercorns. "The smooth, malted wheat base buffers the tartness from the blood orange," says Short of what's become an annual tradition called Anniversary Ale. "It's a very in-depth beer and surprisingly sessionable. It doesn't bog me down like some burly barley wines do."
What's in a Name?
When it comes to alcoholic beverages, the American government tries to insulate its citizenry from confusion. Lest someone mistake a barley wine with, say, a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon or Chardonnay, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau requires brewers to label the beer as a "barley wine ale" or a "barley wine style ale."
Until 2005, the TTB hadn't approved a terminology for wheat wines because breweries had not shipped bottled versions across state lines. This is not to say that breweries were not bottling wheat wines. Since 2000, Illinois' Two Brothers has packaged the annual Bare Tree "barley wine style weiss beer," and California's Marin Brewing bottled Star Brew, a "triple wheat ale" inspired by Rubicon's Winter Wheat Wine. "On a trip to Rubicon, we fell in love with the style," says Brendan Moylan, the proprietor of Marin Brewing, which debuted Star Brew on February 29, 1994—Leap Day—as its thousandth batch. "Back then, barley wines were all the rage. They were the extreme beer of the time. We'd already done the barley wine, so we wanted to do something special."
Made with two-thirds wheat, the celebratory brew became a standby because "it's a fun, big beer and easy-drinking," Moylan says. "It's easy to fall in love with a beer like that."
David Yarrington fell in love with wheat wine after sampling Oregon brewer Teri Fahrendorf's take at the 2001 Craft Brewers Conference in Portland, Oregon. "It was beautiful and incredible," recalls Yarrington. When he was hired at New Hampshire's Smuttynose Brewing, the company was looking to expand its Big Beer Series. Naturally, he suggested a wheat wine.
Yarrington brewed a recipe with darker wheat malts, then aged the beer with oak chips and pungent, citrusy Centennial hops. In early 2005, it was bottled and ready to ship out the door when there was a hiccup with the label—the TTB thought the term "wheat wine" could be confusing to the consumer. They settled on the term "wheat wine ale," and at that fall's Great American Beer Festival, the Smuttynose Wheat Wine Ale won a gold medal.
Going Grape
Government regulators may safeguard consumers from confusing a craft beer with a carafe of wine, but in Kansas City, Missouri, Steven Pauwels is bent on blurring the distinction. As brewmaster at Boulevard Brewing, Pauwels has made wheat his muse, using the grain in the brewery's flagship Unfiltered Wheat Beer, as well as its fragrant Z¯ON Belgian-Style Witbier, citrusy Single-Wide IPA and imperial Dark Truth Stout. "Boulevard is a wheat-beer brewery," says Pauwels.
So it was not a matter of if, but when Boulevard would brew a wheat wine. In 2008, Pauwels was exploring adding another beer to Boulevard's experimental Smokestack Series. A barley wine was bandied about, but the brewmaster quickly turned his attention to wheat wine. Why not take the style's name at face value? "We had the idea to get actual wine characteristics in a wheat wine," Pauwels says. "No one really knows the style, so we could do whatever we wanted."
He reached in his spice cabinet and pulled out Citra hops, which have a Sauvignon Blanc profile, then aged the beer in a blend of French and American oak barrels. Finally, the beer was bottled with Muscat grape juice, which spurred a secondary fermentation. The result, called Harvest Dance Wheat Wine, recalled a warming trip to the tropics with a detour to a vineyard (it's no longer bottle-conditioned with grape juice due to licensing regulations). "I like how different it is from the other fall beers," Pauwels says. Harvest Dance is released in mid-autumn, just in time for wintertime savoring.
Many wheat wine makers try to stick to a fall/winter release schedule. Perennial's Heart of Gold hits stores in September, and New Holland's Pilgrim's Dole debuts in November. Others release wheat wines when you least need internal warmth—Short's rolls out Anniversary Ale at April's end, and Colorado's The Fort Collins Brewery unveils Wheat Wine Ale in May, as did Smuttynose this year. "Since our wheat wine requires a bit more aging time, we try to brew it at slower times of the year," Yarrington says. Besides, he says, their Wheat Wine Ale can easily withstand a cellaring stint. In fact, it may be better for it. "We put this beer out when we feel that you can drink it, but it's not quite at its prime," Yarrington says. "At the minimum, the beer needs a couple years of aging."
But there's no need to wait. If you spy a wheat wine on the shelves or at your local brewpub, grab one and savor the unexpected twist on the traditional barley wine. "You put it in your mouth, swish it around, savor the flavor and try to figure out what's going on," says Rubicon's Cramlet. "It's beer that requires a little more thinking when you're drinking."


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A baby would spot a cookie in the hand of anybody and would reach out to it; give it to them and they will lit-up with a smile that will fill your heart. I have already written a piece about "The Weight of a Foodie", there are situations where being a foodie can be a detriment to the experience; we may tend to ovecriticize at times.
Personally I am pretty forgiving regarding the flavors of a dish (as long as it is edible) but I am more strict toward the basics of the hospitality business. Butter should never be served fridge-cold when you are supposed to spread it on equally cold slices of stale bread; if you sell me a "Caramelized goat cheese tarte with basil pesto and salad" I surely do not expect to receive a "Sour-sweet onions and goat cheese phillo-tarte with basil pesto and plain greens".
You see, here there are two kinds of crimes to consider: the first is negligence and sloppiness the second might be verging toward false-publicity. The result of both is the same, you ability to appreciate the meal is drastically ruined.
To get back to free food and my trip to London; two were the occasions were such a kind gesture was able to change the direction of an evening so much that it was worth a specific folder on our special-memories drawer.
One night, to celebrate Sarka's boyfriend's birthday we went to a local Italian restaurant in their neighborhood; a tried and favored restaurant of theirs I should add. The food was just as it should be: simply well prepared, no fuss about it (how can it be bad when you start smelling wafts of nutty butter coming from the kitchen?).
All our dishes (a fresh Lemon sole, an entrecôte in pepper sauce and a pasta with broccoli) were fresh and true to their nature. By themselves they would have made the evening worth remembering if it wasn't that the owner, at the end of our meal, offered us a little bit of a very special liquor of his private stash.
It was home-made grappa, as it is used in the old country; thick with essential oils, velvety and rich in the mouth. The simple of gesture of leaving the whole bottle on our table giving us the possibility to even finish it, was what made us feel special. Naturally we wouldn't even remotely be able to finish such a nectar and still be able to stand on our two feet and roll uphill toward home (stopping for chips on the way). The pride in the offered gift and the consideration given us resulting from this simple offer of free booze, made the whole day.
We stopped the movie player and finished the box of chocolate sharing each bonbon as well as high pitched screams of surprise for the new life-changing trouvaille (I hear that my friend went back to Pierre Hermé right on the day I left; they were hooked!).
Sharing is in us foodies, we do not want to be alone in our madness of ingredient haunting and crazy recipe martial-law regime; we want to bring other down the spiral. This is I am trying to do with all of you lately, sharing special recipes from my home land Sicily. Today is the turn of a pasta dish with walnuts. Despite the almost ubiquitous use of cream when dealing with walnuts and pasta, Sicilian cuisine has almost no cream in it. The fatty richness is usually provided by meat (pork, beef or veal) often cooked so its collagen transforms into moist gelatine. The use of different cut, even different kind of meats in a single recipe, is quite common; often these meats are even cooked separately. In the recipe I share with you today, I comply to these traditions to give the dish a variety in texture and sapidity that best highlights the crunchy goodness of roasted walnuts.
Pasta che nuci #1/Tagliatelle with walnuts and pork sauce Sicilian style
Ingredients (serve at least 2):
- 125g pork meat
- 125g sausage meat
- 25g of butter or so
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1tsp tomato paste (double-concentrate)
- 1/2tbsp muscat wine
- 2tbsp dry white wine
- 1 bay leaf
- 40g walnuts
- Tagliatelle
Cut the pork meat in little dices (8mm/1/3") and crumble the sausage meat in similar sized bits; in the meantime heat a heavy bottom pan over medium fire.
When the pan will be nicely hot, transfer the meat in it and let it brown nicely on all sides. Set the meat aside on a bowl and melt the butter into the hot pan. When the butter will start to smell nutty, sauté the onions in it until translucent.
In a little cup, mix the tomato paste with both the wines and poor it on the onions scraping any browned juices on the bottom of the pan. When the wine will be almost completely evaporated, transfer the meat into the pan; add the bay leaf and cover with vegetable stock. Put the lid on the pan and let the sauce simmer gently for 30-40 minutes or until the meat is tender. Keep an eye on the sauce, it shouldn't dry up too much. If at the end of the cooking you will have too much water remaining, uncover the pan and let the sauce reduce.
Check the sauce for seasoning and add salt and black pepper and keep warm.
While you boil the water for the pasta, warm up the oven to 150C/300F. Spread the nuts on a baking tray and toast them in the oven for roughly 10 minutes; keep an eye on them.
When the tagliatelle will be ready, drain and toss them with the sauce, some of the toasted walnuts crumbled with your fingers and extra-virgin olive oil if needed to lubricate the pasta.
Crumble the rest of the walnuts directly over the service plates and enjoy.


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INDIAN WELLS ? The fifth seeded Gauchos powered past No. 3 seed Pacific at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in a 4-2 triumph to claim their first Big West Championship title since 2009. The Gauchos are the first team to enter as a fifth seed and win the tournament.
UCSB won in consecutive doubles matches to capture the doubles point and won three more singles matches en route their 8th Big West title in school history and an NCAA tournament berth. The men's tennis team is the first UCSB team to win a Big West title this year and the first to qualify for an NCAA tournament. The Gauchos improved their record to 12-13 overall and sent the Tigers home with a 16-9 record on the season.
The Gauchos dominated in doubles with wins at courts 1 and 2. UCSB's No. 1 doubles pair, Mbonisi Ndimande/Ziad Sultan, led with an 8-3 victory against the Tiger's Verbeek/Stolyarov and Benjamin Recknagel/Axel Bouillin sealed the doubles point for the Gauchos with an 8-5 win at court 2. Play at court 3 was suspended after the Gauchos took the 1-0 lead.
Senior Benjamin Recknagel added to the Gauchos' lead with a victory in straight sets at the No. 2 position, defeating Alex Golding 6-2, 6-2. The Tigers battled back to tie the match at 2 points each with wins at courts 3 and 5. Pacific's Ben Mirkin topped Sasha Gryaznov 6-1, 6-4 at court 5 and Axel Bouillin was defeated 7-6(5), 6-2 at the No. 3 position.
Freshman Jacob Johnson put the Gauchos back ahead with a three set victory against Alex Hamilton at the No. 6 court. Johnson won the first set 7-5 but dropped the next set 4-6 to his Pacific counterpart. The freshman bounced back in the third set and eased to a 6-0 win to put the Gauchos one point away from the Big West title.
Sophomore Ziad Sultan clinched the 4-2 victory and the Big West Championship title for the Gauchos with a win in straight sets 7-6(1), 6-4 at court 4 against Daniel Alameh.
"Ziad and Benny were players of the day," said Head Coach Marty Davis. "Ziad was fantastic in doubles and won the clincher. Benny won in doubles and was first off the court in singles."
UCSB now awaits their seed and opponent for the NCAA tournament with first and second round matches beginning May 10-12.
(5) UCSB 4, (3) Pacific 2
1. Ndimande/Sultan (UCSB) def. Verbeek/Stolyarov (PAC) 8-3
2. Recknagel/Bouillin (UCSB) def. Golding/Hamilton (PAC) 8-5
3. Riminton/Seemann (UCSB) vs. Alameh/Mirkin (PAC) DNF
1. Mbonisi Ndimande (UCSB) vs. Sem Verbeek (PAC) DNF
2. Benjamin Recknagel (UCSB) def. Alex Golding (PAC) 6-2, 6-2
3. Denis Stolyarov (PAC) def. Axel Bouillin (UCSB) 7-6 (5), 6-2
4. Ziad Sultan (UCSB) def. Daniel Alameh (PAC) 7-6(1), 6-4
5. Ben Mirkin (PAC) def. Sasha Gryaznov (UCSB) 6-1, 6-4
6. Jacob Johnson (UCSB) def. Alex Hamilton (PAC) 7-5, 4-6, 6-0
Order of Finish: Doubles (1, 2); Singles (2, 5, 3, 6, 4)


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Noticias corporativas
- Group sales grow 8.5 percent to EUR 10.209 bn
- Group operating profit* increases at a faster rate than sales, by 10.2 percent to EUR 2.363 bn
- Group operating margin rises to 23.1 percent (2010: 22.8 percent)
- Increase in earnings per share to EUR 5.02 (2010: EUR 4.13)
- Outlook for 2011 confirmed:
- Group: growth in sales and earnings
- Gases Division: sales growth, earnings increasing at a faster rate than sales
- Engineering Division: sales constant, operating margin of at least 10 percent
Munich, 28 October 2011 – In the third quarter of 2011, the technology company The Linde Group built on its good business performance in the first half of the financial year, achieving significant increases in Group sales and Group operating profit* in the nine months to 30 September 2011. "We are continuing to make good progress and are therefore able to confirm our previous forecast," commented Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG. "We are still expecting to achieve a higher level of Group sales and Group operating profit* in the 2011 financial year than in 2010." As far as the general economic environment is concerned, Reitzle said, "Even if economic activity loses a little pace, we continue to see good growth opportunities for our business, especially in energy and the environment and in the emerging economies."
In the nine months to 30 September 2011, Group sales rose by 8.5 percent to EUR 10.209 bn, compared with the figure for the first nine months of 2010 of EUR 9.405 bn. After adjusting for exchange rate effects, the increase in sales was 9.0 percent. Linde increased Group operating profit* at a faster rate than sales, by 10.2 percent to EUR 2.363 bn (2010: EUR 2.145 bn), mainly as a result of the rigorous implementation of its HPO (High Performance Organisation) programme, a holistic concept for sustainable process optimisation and productivity gains. The Group operating margin rose to 23.1 percent (2010: 22.8 percent).
Earnings before tax (EBT) were EUR 1.184 bn, 18.0 percent higher than the figure for the prior-year period of EUR 1.003 bn. Earnings after tax rose by 20.7 percent to EUR 903 m (2010: EUR 748 m). After adjusting for non-controlling interests, earnings attributable to Linde AG shareholders were EUR 856 m (2010: EUR 698 m). Earnings per share increased as a result by 21.5 percent to EUR 5.02 (2010: EUR 4.13). On an adjusted basis, i.e. after adjusting for the effects of the purchase price allocation in the course of the BOC acquisition, earnings per share stood at EUR 5.68 (2010: EUR 4.88).
Gases Division
Given the improvement in the general economic environment in the first nine months of 2011 compared with the prior-year period, demand in the global gases business rose. Due to the Group's global footprint and its strong market position, especially in the emerging economies, Linde was able to benefit from this trend in all its product areas.
Sales in the Gases Division in the first nine months of 2011 grew 9.0 percent to EUR 8.270 bn, compared with sales of EUR 7.590 bn in the prior-year period. On a comparable basis, i.e. after adjusting for exchange rate effects, changes in the price of natural gas and changes to Group structure, the increase in sales was 8.1 percent.
The Gases Division achieved a 9.7 percent increase in operating profit to EUR 2.254 bn (2010: EUR 2.055 bn). One of the factors contributing to the increase, which once again was at a faster rate than the increase in sales, was the continuing implementation of Linde's HPO measures. The operating margin rose to 27.3 percent, exceeding the high figure achieved in the first nine months of 2010 of 27.1 percent.
Business trends in the individual operating segments of the Gases Division make it clear that the pace of economic recovery still varies from region to region. In the first nine months of 2011, the highest growth rates were once again to be seen in the emerging economies of Asia, especially in China and India, and in South America. Demand also increased in the more mature markets such as the US and Western Europe, compared with that in the first nine months of 2011.
In the EMEA operating segment (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Linde achieved sales growth of 7.0 percent in the first nine months of 2011 to EUR 4.258 bn (2010: EUR 3.978 bn). On a comparable basis, the growth in sales was 5.6 percent. Operating profit increased by 7.9 percent to EUR 1.215 bn (2010: EUR 1.126 bn). This resulted in an operating margin of 28.5 percent (2010: 28.3 percent). Here too, as well as higher volumes, the continuous implementation of the various productivity improvement and process standardisation initiatives under the HPO programme made a positive contribution.
Economic dynamism in Asia continues unabated. Against this background and based on its leading position in these markets, Linde again achieved double-digit growth rates in the Asia/Pacific operating segment. In the nine months ended 30 September 2011, sales in this region rose by 16.2 percent to EUR 2.283 bn (2010: EUR 1.965 bn). On a comparable basis, the increase in sales was 10.8 percent. Operating profit rose by 14.9 percent to EUR 634 m (2010: EUR 552 m). The operating margin in this segment for the nine months ended 30 September 2011 was 27.8 percent (2010: 28.1 percent). When comparing the operating margin for the first nine months of 2011 with that for the first nine months of 2010, factors to be taken into account are the pass-through of increases in the price of natural gas and the preliminary investment required to establish infrastructure and employ new staff in the rapidly expanding Chinese market. To sustain steady profitability, Linde is also continuing with the rigorous implementation of its HPO concept in the Asia/Pacific segment.
In the Americas operating segment, sales in the first nine months of 2011 rose by 4.6 percent to EUR 1.778 bn (2010: EUR 1.700 bn). On a comparable basis, the increase in sales here was 10.5 percent. Operating profit improved by 7.4 percent in the nine months to 30 September 2011 to EUR 405 m (2010: EUR 377 m). Factors contributing to this increase in earnings, apart from higher volumes, were the progress made by Linde in the implementation of HPO and positive one-off effects from the first quarter of 2011. At 22.8 percent, the operating margin exceeded the figure for the prior-year period of 22.2 percent by 60 basis points.
The performance of the individual product areas confirms the overall positive trends in the Gases Division. The highest rate of growth was again achieved in the on-site business, where Linde supplies gases on site to major customers. On a comparable basis, i.e. after adjusting for exchange rate effects, changes in the price of natural gas and changes to Group structure, sales here in the nine months to 30 September 2011 rose by 9.7 percent to EUR 2.015 bn (2010: EUR 1.837 bn). Linde benefited not only from increased utilisation of existing plant capacity but also from the start-up of new plants. In the product area of liquefied gases, sales rose to EUR 1.993 bn. On a comparable basis, this figure was 9.0 percent above the figure for the prior-year period of EUR 1.828 bn. Cylinder gas sales increased to EUR 3.382 bn. On a comparable basis, this figure was 7.4 percent higher than the figure for the first nine months of 2010 of EUR 3.148 bn. The Healthcare product area (the medical gases business and related maintenance and advisory services) again saw steady growth, achieving sales of EUR 880 m. On a comparable basis, this figure was 5.0 percent higher than the figure for the prior-year period of EUR 838 m.
Gases Division – Outlook
Linde remains committed to its original target in the gases business of growing at a faster pace than the market and continuing to increase productivity. In the on-site business, Linde has a full project pipeline which will make a significant contribution to sales and earnings in the 2011 financial year. In the liquefied gases and cylinder gas business, steady growth rates are expected to continue for the rest of the year, despite the forecast slowdown in economic activity. Linde anticipates that the positive business trends in the Healthcare product area will continue, with a higher rate of sales growth than in 2010. Against this background, Linde continues to expect that sales generated by the Gases Division in the 2011 financial year will exceed sales achieved in 2010 and that operating profit will grow at a faster pace than sales.
Engineering Division
In the first nine months of the 2011 financial year, the market environment for international large-scale plant construction proved largely stable.
Sales in the Engineering Division in the nine months to 30 September 2011 increased by 6.1 percent to EUR 1.776 bn (2010: EUR 1.674 bn). The continuing successful execution of a number of individual projects meant that operating profit grew at a faster rate than sales, rising 16.3 percent to EUR 214 m (2010: EUR 184 m). The operating margin rose to 12.0 percent (2010: 11.0 percent).
Order intake in the first nine months of 2011 was EUR 1.676 bn, 9.0 percent above the figure for the first nine months of 2010 of EUR 1.538 bn. In the third quarter of 2011, order intake was influenced primarily by two major orders from China and Thailand. In Thailand, Linde's Engineering Division was awarded a contract by the Group's own Gases Division to supply an air separation plant with a capacity of 800 tonnes per day. Linde will also supply two air separation plants to the Chinese Yantai Wanhua Group with a capacity of 110.000 normal cubic metres per hour.
In addition to these major orders, order intake was characterised by a number of small and medium-sized new orders, as in previous quarters. The order backlog in Linde's Engineering Division remains high. At 30 September 2011, it stood at EUR 3.761 bn (31 December 2010: EUR 3.965 bn).
Together with its project partner SBM Offshore, Netherlands, Linde's Engineering Division signed a cooperation agreement during the reporting period with the Thai oil group PTT (Petroleum Authority of Thailand) to develop a floating natural gas liquefaction plant in the Timor Sea off the northern coast of Australia. The project will involve the conversion of natural gas from three gas fields into LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). If the gas reserves meet expectations, the project will move into the front-end engineering and design phases by the end of 2011. The final investment decision would be made at the end of 2012. Commercial production would be expected to commence at the end of 2016.
Engineering Division – Outlook
The high order backlog creates a good basis for a solid business performance in the Engineering Division over the next two years. Linde still expects to achieve the same level of sales in its engineering business in the 2011 financial year as in 2010. The Group continues to assume that it will achieve an operating margin in the current financial year of at least 10 percent. In the medium term, the target for the operating margin remains at 8 percent.
Linde is well-positioned in the international market for olefin plants, natural gas plants, air separation plants and hydrogen and synthesis gas plants and will derive lasting benefit in particular from investment in the two structural growth areas, energy and the environment.
To coincide with the publication of the quarterly financial statements, a teleconference for analysts will take place today at 2pm (German time) in English with Georg Denoke, CFO of Linde AG. Journalists will have the opportunity to listen to the conference live by dialling +49.69.589.99-0509. Please give the reference number 894635 and tell the operator your name and the name of your company. Following the teleconference, you will be able to hear a recording of the event by calling +49.30.726.16-7224. Please give the reference number 894635.
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2010 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 12.868 bn. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com
The new Linde Corporate Responsibility Report 2010/2011 is available online at http://www.linde.com/cr-report
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HERSHEY, Pa. -- Unheralded on a national level throughout the season, the Hope College men's golf team will go into the record book as the most successful in school history.
HERSHEY, Pa. -- Unheralded on a national level throughout the season, the Hope College men's golf team will go into the record book as the most successful in school history.
Coach Bob Ebels' Flying Dutchmen have finished in the top ten of the NCAA Division III championships for the first time with three golfers posting the best cumulative tournament rounds in this national competition. The MIAA champion Flying Dutchmen entered the tournament unranked in the Golf World/NIKE Golf Division III Coaches' Poll.
The four-day, 72-hole tournament concluded Friday in Hershey, Pa. Perennial power Methodist, N.C. led the 37-team field at 1,177 strokes. Hope ended in a tie for ninth place with Skidmore, N.Y. at 1,206 strokes. Hope previous best at the NCAA tournament was 17th place on four different occasions.
Three Flying Dutchmen averaged within a stroke of one another and all three surpassed the previous best by a Hope golfer at nationals. Senior captain Steven Strock (Grandville, Mich./Grandville HS) averaged 74.25 strokes over the four rounds. Junior Chris Ansel (Zeeland, Mich./Zeeland East HS) averaged 74.75 strokes and freshman Charles Olson (Suttons Bay, Mich./Suttons Bay) averaged 75.25. The previous best average was 76.5 strokes on two occasions by Tommy Yamaoka (2007 and 2008).
Strock finished in a tie for 20th place among the 120 golfers while Ansel finished
27th, Olson 35th, and sophomore Andy Thomson (Beaver Dam, Wisc./Central Wisconsin
Christian HS) 100th (79.5).
Sophomore Nicholas Campbell (Saline, Mich./Saline HS) averaged 76.0 strokes over three rounds. The tournament medalist was Tain Lee of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Calif with an average of 70.0.


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I am now almost finished with my journey of medical treatment for breast cancer. I have been given examinations, explanations and expectations; I have gone through and successfully recovered from surgery; I have just completed a schedule of radiation therapy; and I will now be starting on a special prescribed medication.
So far, I have coped well, made progress, experienced only moderate discomfort or disruption.
Indeed, during this time, I have come to be regarded as almost a "model" older patient. I followed instructions, I kept appointments, I made adjustments, I tolerated the demands of the schedule, I accepted the fatigue of the treatments. I didn't express anger or envy of others or pity for myself — at least, not too much.
I remember that, at first, I worried that my age — over 80 — would be a problem in coping with cancer treatment, but instead I found that, in some ways I coped well because of my age, not in spite of it. That's not to say there's any "good" or "better" age to have breast cancer. But different skills and strengths can be found at different ages.
I am not talking of any unusual or profound wisdom I've discovered over my years, but of the practical realities I've experienced over my years.
There are three long-ago learned lessons that have been especially important for me in my cancer treatment.
First, I know not to expect many straight, smooth paths on any journey. Life presents happenings that I may not seek or anticipate or want. I do not have a choice about these, but I do have some choice about what I do about them — not necessarily how to "fix" them, but how to face them.
Second, I know through long experience that there are few safe or sure shortcuts. If I do some things only partially or occasionally, or alter or "forget" other things, I may save myself time or inconvenience — but I also may bring risk or harm. And I will be the one who pays the highest cost.
Third, there few absolute guarantees. Even if I try my hardest, do my best, care the most, I may not necessarily see the "happy" ending I hope for, or believe I deserve. All I can do is all I can do, and hope that it works out well — or, at least, well enough.
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[Adobe TV Presents] Russell Preston Brown in...] [The Russell Brown Show] Aloha from this addition of the Russell Brown Show. As you can see, I've gone Hawaiian with this incredibly good-looking Hawaiian shirt, which I expensed on the Adobe expense program. Hey, in this episode, I'm going to take you through a series of images that I've completely edited in Adobe Camera Raw. I challenged myself to see if I could edit these entirely with these new tools in Adobe Camera Raw CS4. So let's get this project started right here in Adobe Bridge. As you can see, I've got a series of images open. Now these images, by the way, are a set of images from a great photographer by the name of Clark Little. I met Clark at the Maui photo festival in Maui, of course. A great photographer, he does his photography by lying in the surf and having the waves crush over him. So check this out. Here's a series of his images. They're like frozen glass in in time. He lies there in the surf, captures these, and I happened to be lucky enough to get some of these images so that I can use them in this project. So let's get this started and go right back here to Bridge, right here. Now on this project, you can see, here's the finished result that I'm going to achieve in this project. And, of course, here's the original. This would be the original. Of course, isn't this convenient how you can just turn on different ratings, and you can simply and easily see different images just like that? Of course, Mr. Brown did that little mistake just so you can see that. So here's the after, right here. And here's the before image. So check it out. This is the original photograph, and I'm going to achieve the results simply and easily in Camera Raw. Okay, let's get started. Target my image here in Bridge, and let's use that command key on the Macintosh and the control key on the PC and the letter R to open it up directly into Camera Raw. Now here we are. Of course, this is unedited, but there are some great new features in here that's really going to make this project just sing. Of course, that's with a ukulele and a great band. So let's get started here. Right over here, let's start with the basic settings. Now, you're supposed to move through these right down through the exposure, recovery, fill light, and go right down through the set, but I tend to cheat a bit. I move around a little bit, because in my technique that I'm using, I don't usually touch the exposure if the exposure looks pretty good to start with. I'm going to go right into recovery in this particular case. But before I do that, I'm going to turn on the preview for both shadow clipping and highlight clipping. You see up here in the upper right-hand corner, this is a great way to see what you're adjusting with these controls, especially with recovery, one of my first adjustments. I'd like to recover some of the detail in the highlights. That's represented by the red in this image. I move this over to the right, and you see how I'm recovering that area? I want to make this wave look more like glass, so I'm going to recover some of the detail in those highlights. I'm going to turn off these two previews for right now. I just wanted to show you that. It's a great way to help you as you're working on this. So I set my recovery a little bit higher to bring back detail in the highlights. Then fill light; my next favorite adjustment. This is like setting a strobe if you could have a waterproof strobe here. I can flash a little bit of light into the shadows, so the fill light is going into the shados and opening them up. Now many times when I run the fill light, I have to add a little bit of black back in. So I'm going to slide the blacks over. I need a little bit more of a solid black for that. Now brightness--brightness is one of my favorites. Brightness doesn't distort the hue of my image, and I like to make adjustments with this. Again, I'm not going to make much adjustment there with brightness right now because I'm going to bring brightness back in with some other great controls. However, I am going to go down here and adjust the clarity right here. Let's bring the clarity up. What does clarity do? Clarity goes in and it changes the contrast of the midtones. There are a lot of midtones happening here in this upper area of this wave. So let's just see what clarity does. Clarity set to minus 100--very, very soft, not good. Clarity set all the way up to 100, a little bit too sharp. I'm going to pull it back a little. Did you see the way it really gives that--it sort of bumps it and makes it look a little bit more like glass-- really, really great. Double-clicking on the hand tool always brings you back to your full view, so I'm going to do that. Clarity--one of my favorites. I'm a little bit addicted to clarity. I'm also addicted to vibrance. Let's bring the vibrance up over the entire image. Isn't that great the way that just pops all the colors? Vibrance, of course, is intelligent saturation. It's not going to over saturate any of the colors-- relatively over saturate them, and it's going to lift the colors. For example, it's going to lift the green values until they're saturated, but if the red values aren't quite saturated, it will continue to rise up and bring up those values. Okay, so vibrance good, clarity good. We didn't adjust the exposure because we're going to do that in a different way. I'm moving to my next section here, the tone curve. The tone curve is a great way for non-tone or people who just don't understand this tonal curve or working with curves very much. You've now added highlights, lights, darks, and shadows. You have the ability to move these adjustments and then adjust the curve for you. So in this case, I can go in here and start to adjust the highlights and the lights, midtones, and the darks. And in this case, I want to make just a few adjustments just like this. But wait, check this out. I'm using the manual controls over here, but a new feature in CS4 here in Bridge is the targeted adjustment tool. This is cool because with this tool selected, I can go in, for example, and click here on the sand, move up or down on the sand, and then choose different areas of the image to highlight or shade in different ways. Fantastic capabilities. Okay, I've done my adjustments there. Let's move on to this one, the HSL grayscale. This is the true control. This where an enormous amount of power comes into play. I just want to point you right here to luminance. This is the best, especially when you're trying to do the project entirely in Adobe Camera Raw, because it's targeted luminance control without masking. For example, I want to adjust the luminance of the sand. Check this out. I'm moving it all the way to a minus 100 or all the way back up to a plus 100. I want the sand a little bit brighter. Let's try the yellows. Check that out. The yellows are bringing up the shades within the sand here in the surf. I said earlier that I can use the targeted control tool, the targeted adjustment tool, with my previous adjustments. I bet I can use it here, as well. I can target right in on this sand. Check it out. I can give a little snap right to that sand, and I can move up. I can bring down the shadow, the detail here in the water so I have greater contrast. Let's go through here and let's adjust the blues. I want the sky to be a little bit brighter. Notice how I can go down or up, here. With the sky a little bit brighter, I'm really bringing the light through that wave as it crests over. Okay, this looks great. Now we can save all these settings, of course, here in Camera Raw. Save these as the default settings, and I can apply these settings to different photos that I've taken in surf. But, beyond that, I may want to take this a little bit farther with another great tool right up here. This is the adjustment brush. This is what really makes this project work well. The adjustment brush let's me go in and make adjustments, targeted adjustments, right on specific areas in the image. I want to bring up the values of this sand. The sand just doesn't have the contrast here. So with this tool, you can see I've got adjustments targeted to this brush I'm about to use. I can set the size of the brush, the feathering, the flow, and the density. I want a lot of feathering because I want it to drift out and blend out in my image. The flow is the speed in which the color or the mask is laid down onto your image. The density is the maximum value that the flow can achieve if you continue to press your trigger on this. So the maximum value I can achieve is 100 percent for the area that I'm working on. So if I click on the flow with a fairly slow flow of twelve, I can go in and paint this in. Now we're not seeing anything right now, but we do see this pin show up. Check it out. As I move my cursor over the pin, just like this, it highlights that area. And then I can go in and make adjustments, targeted adjustments. I can make it darker or lighter. But what I'm going to do is bring up the clarity a bit more for this area. Remember, that's my midtone sharpening. And down here, color. I can bring in a color layer right here and move this around, bring up the intensity. Let's drop this down, and let's bring this up so you can see this. So I'm bringing back in more of this sand color into the sand, targeting color, targeting clarity, targeting contrast. Let's try a little bit of contrast on that. It's very, very experimental, but targeted experiments. Okay, let's add another one, a new pin. And we want a pin up here in the top, right up here. We want to take out the color that we added in before. We want to bring up our clarity, and we want to have a little contrast and let's adjust our brightness. Excellent. One last thing. You can go back in to any of these other pins, click on the pin to reactivate that pin to make new adjustments. Wait, wait, I just have to add one more because I can--a new adjustment. Let's bring in a little bit more light right down here to bring up a little bit more detail. Let's bring up our brightness for that particular area. See how I can just bring up the brightness? I can target a light right here in this reflection as it hits the water, adjust the clarity. Oh, let's add a little bit of sandy color to that just like we did before, so we have a little bit of color. So, once again, targeted colors, global color adjustments, working across your image. These are great, great controls. When I'm all done, of course, I can hold down my shift key and export this as an object, or without the shift key I can just export this as an image and bring it back into photoshop or just click done and it will save those settings directly on this image. So you can see the great power and capability of Camera Raw functionality without going into Photoshop. Let's just review this again. We started off with that original image, ended up with this. Let's take a look at a few others here. Here's another original I worked with, and then here's the finished results. Check that out. I just have to see that again. Before and after. Look how I've targeted these areas to the right so I can see the coral reef and the sand inside that dark region. That is a lot of control. So there you have it, amazing set of tools, Adobe Camera Raw. All the controls you need to make some great photos. Until next time, see you at the surf. 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Conservation and Environment in South Africa: Monthly Updates
Legodimo Nature Reserve - October 2008
We've had a busy month here at the conservation project and our world is finally going green again now we have had our first rains.
The volunteers have made great progress with opening up a new road and with the continuing removal of the old fence line on the reserve. The research drives and elephant hide observations are going well, we are collecting lots of useful data and we have been very lucky with leopard sightings over the past two months with some volunteers seeing one 5 or 6 times during their time here.
We also saw a herd of 7 Gemsbok in the north of the reserve for the first time in many months. Some renovations have been made at camp; an extra shaded sitting area was made using mopane latter and old thatching grass and the volunteers are currently in the process of making another rock garden under the water tank. The rock garden will also be home to some new camp residents, two Leopard Tortoises called Emily and Charlie.
Over the past few months we have regularly been setting up camera trap sites to lure in and capture some amazing images and video footage of the predators of Legodimo, large and small. The results of which have been more than spectacular, capturing; leopards, African civets, brown and spotted hyena's, honey badgers, and the occasional mischievous elephant trying to steal the camera! Luckily we got it back in one piece.
We had a four day stay in Mapungubwe National Park to help them clear their Eco-Route, a 4x4 drive route through the park. During this trip we also visited Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve. Last month we took a second group of volunteers for a day on Makula Makete game reserve in South Africa.
These trips are proving very successful and educational for our volunteers as they get to see and experience cheetah conservation from the people who are at the forefront of current research. This reserve is currently working on re-wilding three captive bred cheetahs; they have two brothers in a coalition and one female.
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They even reduced lucid dreaming to mere "warm up" for the coming day. BS.
A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain
It's snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there's even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata?
Dreams are so rich and have such an authentic feeling that scientists have long assumed they must have a crucial psychological purpose. To Freud, dreaming provided a playground for the unconscious mind; to Jung, it was a stage where the psyche's archetypes acted out primal themes. Newer theories hold that dreams help the brain to consolidate emotional memories or to work though current problems, like divorce and work frustrations.
Yet what if the primary purpose of dreaming isn't psychological at all?
In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking.
"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up. It's the same idea here: dreams are tuning the mind for conscious awareness."
Drawing on work of his own and others, Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking. The idea is a prominent example of how neuroscience is altering assumptions about everyday (or every-night) brain functions.
"Most people who have studied dreams start out with some predetermined psychological ideas and try to make dreaming fit those," said Dr. Mark Mahowald, a neurologist who is director of the sleep disorders program at Hennepin County Medical Center, in Minneapolis. "What I like about this new paper is that he doesn't make any assumptions about what dreaming is doing."
The paper has already stirred controversy and discussion among Freudians, therapists and other researchers, including neuroscientists. Dr. Rodolfo Llinás, a neurologist and physiologist at New York University, called Dr. Hobson's reasoning impressive but said it was not the only physiological interpretation of dreams.
"I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses," said Dr. Llinás, who makes the case in the book "I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self" (M.I.T., 2001). Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels — the dreams are "corrected" by the senses.
These novel ideas about dreaming are based partly on basic findings about REM sleep. In evolutionary terms, REM appears to be a recent development; it is detectable in humans and other warm-blooded mammals and birds. And studies suggest that REM makes its appearance very early in life — in the third trimester for humans, well before a developing child has experience or imagery to fill out a dream.
In studies, scientists have found evidence that REM activity helps the brain build neural connections, particularly in its visual areas. The developing fetus may be "seeing" something, in terms of brain activity, long before the eyes ever open — the developing brain drawing on innate, biological models of space and time, like an internal virtual-reality machine. Full-on dreams, in the usual sense of the word, come much later. Their content, in this view, is a kind of crude test run for what the coming day may hold.
None of this is to say that dreams are devoid of meaning. Anyone who can remember a vivid dream knows that at times the strange nighttime scenes reflect real hopes and anxieties: the young teacher who finds himself naked at the lectern; the new mother in front of an empty crib, frantic in her imagined loss.
But people can read almost anything into the dreams that they remember, and they do exactly that. In a recent study of more than 1,000 people, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard found strong biases in the interpretations of dreams. For instance, the participants tended to attach more significance to a negative dream if it was about someone they disliked, and more to a positive dream if it was about a friend.
In fact, research suggests that only about 20 percent of dreams contain people or places that the dreamer has encountered. Most images appear to be unique to a single dream.
Scientists know this because some people have the ability to watch their own dreams as observers, without waking up. This state of consciousness, called lucid dreaming, is itself something a mystery — and a staple of New Age and ancient mystics. But it is a real phenomenon, one in which Dr. Hobson finds strong support for his argument for dreams as a physiological warm-up before waking.
In dozens of studies, researchers have brought people into the laboratory and trained them to dream lucidly. They do this with a variety of techniques, including auto-suggestion as head meets pillow ("I will be aware when I dream; I will observe") and teaching telltale signs of dreaming (the light switches don't work; levitation is possible; it is often impossible to scream).
Lucid dreaming occurs during a mixed state of consciousness, sleep researchers say — a heavy dose of REM with a sprinkling of waking awareness. "This is just one kind of mixed state, but there are whole variety of them," Dr. Mahowald said. Sleepwalking and night terrors, he said, represent mixtures of muscle activation and non-REM sleep. Attacks of narcolepsy reflect an infringement of REM on normal daytime alertness.
In study published in September in the journal Sleep, Ursula Voss of J. W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt led a team that analyzed brain waves during REM sleep, waking and lucid dreaming. It found that lucid dreaming had elements of REM and of waking — most notably in the frontal areas of the brain, which are quiet during normal dreaming. Dr. Hobson was a co-author on the paper.
"You are seeing this split brain in action," he said. "This tells me that there are these two systems, and that in fact they can be running at the same time."
Researchers have a way to go before they can confirm or fill out this working hypothesis. But the payoffs could extend beyond a deeper understanding of the sleeping brain. People who struggle with schizophrenia suffer delusions of unknown origin. Dr. Hobson suggests that these flights of imagination may be related to an abnormal activation of a dreaming consciousness. "Let the dreamer awake, and you will see psychosis," Jung said.
For everyone else, the idea of dreams as a kind of sound check for the brain may bring some comfort, as well. That ominous dream of people gathered on the lawn for some strange party? Probably meaningless.
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Professor Robinson is an evolutionary biologist whose teaching and research experiences have focused on organismal biology and behavior. He has taught classes on animal behavior, ecology, ornithology, vertebrate biology, general biology, environmental science, and human anatomy and physiology. He guided a group of students to New Zealand for an 18-day trip and looks to do so at Mount Saint Mary College soon.
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All insurance must cover public liability and include Fingal County Council and Ardgillan Castle Ltd for €6,500,000. Additional insurance coverage or higher limits may be required based upon the risk level. These will be determined when the application is reviewed by risk managers. This additional coverage may include a higher limit for General Liability. Other insurance coverage may be required.
Risk Assessments are required for all work carried out inside the castle.
We also require all that an activity/disclaimer agreement is filled out before all work commences inside the castle.
All documents should be emailed to [email protected] for any filming inside the castle or contact Tom on + 353 1 8492212. Any other filming inside the park should contact Fingal County Council directly.
Thursday 16th February at 11am
Free of charge
Limited places/Booking essential.
This is the first in a series of talks that will center around the vegetable garden at Ardgillan. The head gardener will explain how to maintain a vegetable garden and also its many uses. Produce from our vegetable garden is currently used in Paws at Ardgillan.
This talk will begin in the castle with a chance to sow seeds, then participants will get the opportunity to explore the vegetable garden at Ardgillan.
Participants can take their own seeds & containers with them and will be guided through the sowing process.
Dress for the weather and wear appropriate outdoor footwear.
However, the period 1600 – 1700 saw great changes in the pattern of land ownership in Ireland due to the confiscation and redistribution of land after the Cromwellian and Williamite wars (1640s and 1680s respectively).
In 1658, the "Down Survey" records that Ardgillan was owned by a wine merchant, Robert Usher of Tallaght, Dublin and by 1737, the property had been acquired by the Reverend Robert Taylor, one of the Headfort Taylors, whose grand-father had collaborated with Sir William Petty on the mid 17th century "Down Survey of Ireland".
Ardgillan remained the family home of the Taylors (later changed to Taylour) for more than two hundred years up until 1962 when the estate was sold to Heinrich Potts of Westphalia, Germany. In 1982, Dublin County Council purchased Ardgillan Demesne and it is now managed by Ardgillan Castle Ltd. under the auspices of Fingal County Council.
Initially the site was heavily wooded, the name Ardgillan being derived from the Irish "Ard Choill" meaning High Wood. It was cleared out by service soldiers and itinerant workers in return for one penny a day, sleeping accommodation and one meal.
The house consists of two storeys over a basement which extends out under the lawns on the southern side of the building. When occupied, the ground and first floors were the living accommodations while the west and east wings were servants' quarters and estate offices. The basement comprised of the service floor, the kitchen and stores.
The Castle has now been restored and the ground floor rooms and kitchens are open to visitors for guided tours.
Ardgillan Castle and Demesne is Ireland's hidden gem. Set in spectacular parklands overlooking the Irish Sea, as well as the castle, the demesne features a walled garden, rose garden, Potentilla garden and a magnificent herbaceous border all of which present a marvellous profusion of colour for photographs.
Our civil ceremonies take place in the opulent atmosphere of the castle Drawing Room. Filled with period features, paintings, artifacts and grand decoration, the beautifully-appointed Drawing Room is the most extravagant room in the castle with views out over the front elevation of the demesne and the Irish Sea beyond.
The bride and groom are seated at the focal point of the room with the superb backdrop of the conservatory providing a luxurious frame of foliage for the duration of the ceremony.
Wedding guests are also afforded the use of the sumptuous entrance hall and the plush surrounds of the Dining Room for wedding photographs.
As well as its lavish and meticulously-groomed gardens, the spectacular surroundings at Ardgillan also provide unique photograph opportunities for couples to capture their wedding day for posterity and create memories that will last forever.
Brambles Itd catering facilities are available for a light reception after the ceremony. For further information including menus/ prices, please email Niamh at [email protected]Book your Civil Wedding
A selection of images courtesy of Rachel Leintz Photography DesignWorks Photography.
On the tour the schools/groups will meet one of our costumed entertainers who will tell them stories of what it is like to live in the castle. They will even get a chance to see a real photo of our resident ghost!
Schools/groups are encouraged to bring their own packed lunch which can be enjoyed in any of the expansive picnic areas, or indoors if desired. Children's packed lunches are available but must be booked in advance.
After lunch, the children will then be taken on a walk through the gardens, where they will see many varieties of trees, plants, flowers and herbs.
Whilst in the gardens the children may encounter the scary figure of the Ardgillan Bigfoot. He's really a friendly Bigfoot, and people say that he's more afraid of us than we are of him.
To round off an action-packed visit, schools/groups can avail of our state-of-the-art playground or enjoy a leisurely walk around the park.
Prices are from €7.00 per child (Minimum of 20 children)
For more information or to check availability Contact us.
Unfortunately due to the pandemic restrictions and in order to keep your little ones safe, when we re-open we will no longer be able to facilitate children's parties at the castle until further notice.
Our children's parties have proved to be a huge success since they were introduced in the summer of 2010. Our entertainment team will ensure that your day is magical, fun and most importantly, stress free!
Our regal parties include:
Our parties are held every Saturday and Sunday at two time slots:
11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm.
Up to 15 Children €250
Each additional child €15
In order to secure your booking a we require a €75 deposit, the balance can then be paid on the day of the party.
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If Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a good enough writer to save "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," then the "Carrie" remake and "Glee" are in good hands.
Aguirre-Sacasa, a veteran playwright and comic book writer, who was recently brought in to fix the disastrous "Spider-Man" musical, has just been hired as a writer-producer for "Glee" and as screenwriter for the upcoming remake of "Carrie," reported Deadline.
Word is that Aguirre-Sacasa plans to do for "Carrie" what the Coen Brothers did for "True Grit," which is to writer a screenplay that hews more closely to the source material, in this case Stephen King's novel of the same name. Aguirre-Sacasa and King already have a good relationship thanks to the former's work on the comic book adaptation of "The Dark Tower."
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"Carrie" is great movie to take another crack at. Despite a great story and a killer cast--Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta, Betty Buckley, Edie McClurg (!)-- director Brian De Palma's take is a wee campy.


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Plans like this allow employers a way to buy minimal coverage for employees. But it's not comprehensive health insurance. The medical bills may be much more than what the plan pays out.
Each year, we survey fixed-payment companies doing business in Washington state, and compile the results into a report on fixed payment insurance plans.
Here's what we're seeing:
- Sales for group policies have decreased significantly, as has the number of group enrollees. (Group enrollees decreased by 88 percent.)
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BOTHELL, Wash. – Scheduled for February 13 through 17, the Innovation Forum is a four-day, free public event held on the University of Washington Bothell campus that encourages discourse between the university and the community on an annual topic of interest. This year's event is focused on innovation and creativity and their impact on our region, economy and education.
The four-day event will include numerous panels, programs and activities spanning a range of disciplines from bioethics to theater. The community is invited and encouraged to join the discourse on innovation and creativity. To view the schedule and follow the Innovation Forum blog visit http://www.uwb.edu/chancellor/event/innovationforum.
UW Bothell Chancellor Kenyon S. Chan will moderate the opening plenary on Monday, February 13 at 9:30 a.m. This session will examine how organizations promote innovation from within. Chancellor Chan will be joined by Richard Shea, CEO, Olympus Respiratory America; Dr. Deborah Wilds, CEO, College Success Foundation; and Lou Gray, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of DreamBox.
According to Chancellor Chan, "A goal of University of Washington Bothell is be a place that inspires creativity and innovation on the part of students and faculty, and then connects the resulting ideas and inspirations to the betterment of our community and region." He added, "The community's participation in this forum will help us chart our direction."
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When asked to put her opening victory into context, Lorena said:
It means a lot. To me it's a great motivation, you know? It makes me want to play better, to win more. But like I said, sometimes there is just no explanation. It just happens and it was a great win for me. Everything came together at the right place, and I'm ready to keep going. I do want to have a great year this year. I know it's going to be tough, we're just at the beginning, but I like the way I've started.
And what did Annika think of Lorena's performance?
She's playing well, but it's nothing I don't think that's not achievable by any means. I think I'm playing as good from tee to green, so I'm very proud of the way I hit it.
It's only one tournament, but I think Annika and the rest of the ladies have their work cut out for them.
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Well, there's a big surprise. Not.
The beautician who claimed to have had a 'drunken fumble' with Prince Harry and was subsequently thrown in jail over a bounced cheque - an incarceration she blames on the British secret service - is writing a book about her escapades with Prince Harry and other rich and famous men she claims to have 'partied' with.
Reports say that Carrie Reichert, 40, names Tiger Woods, Jude Law, Robbie Williams and Michael Jordan as some of those about whom she has stories to tell.
Attentive readers of the Royalist will recall that hours after Miss Reichert - who was born in Britain but lives in LA - gave an interview detailing a 'naked fumble' with Prince Harry in Vegas at the time of the naked pictures scandal, she was arrested and thrown into jail when attempting to board a plane to Mexico.
She spent a month behind bars.
Reichert is comparing her book to that of high class call girl Belle Du Jour, according to MailOnline.
Reichert told the website last night: "I am writing a book about what happened with Harry and other people too. I want to put the record straight on the many things, which have been said about me in recent months. I think many people will be surprised at my life story."


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- On your computer, open Google Maps.
- Enter your business name. Then, click Search or hit Enter.
- Scroll to the "Reviews" section of your business profile.
- Next to the review you'd like to reply to, click Reply.
Edit or delete your review
On your computer, open Google Maps.
In the top left, click Menu .
Click Your contributions choose Reviews.
Next to the review you want to edit or delete, click More .
- Choose an option and follow the instructions.
Report a review
Reviews may get taken down if others label them inaccurate or if they don't comply with Google's review policies. You can't contact someone who left an inappropriate review, but you can request that Google remove it.
- On your computer, open Google Maps.
- Find the review that violates Google's review policies.
- Next to the review, click More Flag as inappropriate.