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Because only a short time elapsed between the release of Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4, you might think that Microsoft didn't add many new features. But nothing could be further from the truth: Silverlight 4 is packed with improvements to existing features, as well as with many new features.
In this two-part series, I take you on a tour of the 10 most striking new features available in Silverlight 4. In the first article, I looked at printing in Silverlight; dragging content into a Silverlight control; and improvements in rich text area, data binding, and right-clicking controls. In this article, I'll look at an additional 5 new Silverlight features.
So that you can see the new features in action, I've created an application called SilverlightFeatureBrowser, which is based on the Navigation Application template introduced with Silverlight 3. A Navigation Application lets you browse pages inside a Silverlight application; in this case, each page contains a Silverlight feature I'll be looking at. The most important part in such an application is the Frame control, which is comparable to an IFRAME in HTML. To display a page in the Frame, you can specify the URL of the page you want for the Source property of the Frame. The Page is the second most important aspect of this template: Frame controls can't display a UserControl; they need a Page instead. Not to worry though, because a Page is similar to a UserControl.
One last note about the code: Silverlight 4 is Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010) only. The most recent version of VS2010 is Beta 2, which you can download for free at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx. Silverlight 4 in VS2010 features a fully functional designer view and many improved dialogs for easier Silverlight development. Let's look at the second set of new features I'm highlighting.
6. Webcam and Microphone Support
In previous versions of Silverlight, you couldn't connect from Silverlight with a webcam or a microphone. Silverlight 4 has added support for both of these. Because of this new functionality, you can build new types of applications with the platform. For example, you can write an application that captures the barcode of a product, interprets it through an available barcode library written in .NET, and retrieves product information about the scanned product. It's also quite easy to capture the barcode as a picture and work with it inside an application.
The classes that expose the webcam functionality live in the System.Windows.Media namespace. Let's take a look at how you can create a simple application that can take your picture. The interface is shown in Figure 1.
Silverlight lets you choose the webcam and microphone you want. Through code (Figure 2), you can get a list of available devices by using the CaptureDeviceConfiguration.GetAvailableAudioCaptureDevices() method. If, in your application, you don't allow a user to choose, Silverlight will take the default device. You can change the default in the Silverlight configuration screen.
Before capturing the barcode can begin, a user needs to grant access to the Silverlight application to use the device. This can be done using the CaptureDeviceConfiguration.RequestDeviceAccess() method. If access has already been given, CaptureDeviceConfiguration.AllowedDeviceAccess will return true.
Once the user has given Silverlight access to the device, you begin the capture by creating a new CaptureSource instance, setting its VideoCaptureDevice property to the selected device, and calling the Start() method. To paint the video on an element, you can use the newly added VideoBrush (see Figure 2).
At this point, you literally should be looking at yourself but you still need to add the capturing function. For this, you can use the AsyncCaptureImage() method on the CaptureSource instance. In the callback method, you have access to a WriteableBitmap instance, which you can use to draw or print an image, or do any other editing:
captureSource.AsyncCaptureImage((snapshot) =>
7. Implicit Styling
A small but handy function that has always been available in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) but not in Silverlight is the default styling mechanism. Imagine you're building an application and all TextBlock controls in the application require a specific font size, font weight, and so on. Because previous versions of Silverlight lacked a default styling mechanism, you had to create a style and apply this style on every instance of the TextBlock.
Default or implicit styling lets you override a control's default style. By defining a style that does not have a Key set in its declaration (and thus only has a TargetType defined), you're saying to Silverlight: use this style for every instance of the type specified in the TargetType that does not have a style set. Although it's a rather small feature, it's a real time-saver.
The XAML listing in Figure 3 has two styles defined: the implicit style and a regular, named style. Now, if you create an application containing TextBlock controls that do not have a style applied to them, they will automatically have the default style applied.
8. Browsing the Web with the WebBrowser Control
Allowing HTML content to be displayed within a Silverlight application was one of the most requested features for the new version. It opens up many integration scenarios. Let's assume you're migrating from an existing ASP.NET application to a Silverlight application. Instead of requiring that all the functionality be converted to Silverlight, you can opt to leave some part in ASP.NET and still integrate it in the Silverlight environment.
You render HTML in Silverlight by using the WebBrowser control. If you have done WinForms development, you may remember a similar control in that area as well. The control is easy to use and it offers a few properties you can use to indicate which HTML should be shown:
- Source: gets or sets the URL that should be rendered in the WebBrowser control
- Navigate: specifies the URL that should be loaded in the control (works the same as the Source property)
- NavigateToString: lets you display a string of HTML generated on the fly
One very important note: you can use the WebBrowser control only in out-of-browser applications inside Silverlight. In this case, Silverlight can display only HTML pages of the same domain on which it is hosted. If you want to display pages from other domains (for example, www.silverlight.net), the application must be run as a trusted application (I'll look at trusted applications a little later in this article). You can circumvent this security measure by using a string of HTML that contains an IFRAME, as shown in the sample code.
Figure 4 displays www.silverlight.net running inside a Silverlight application that mimics a browser with an address bar at the top. Because I am displaying a page of another domain, this application is running with elevated permissions (as a trusted application).
Let's take a look at the code. In the XAML, I instantiate a WebBrowser control:

<WebBrowser x:Name="MainWebBrowser" Width="800" Height="600"></WebBrowser>

In the C# code, when clicking on the Go!-button, I check if the application has elevated permissions. If it does, I load in the page directly using the Navigate method. If it doesn't, I generate a string of HTML containing an IFRAME and load the page in there:
private void AddressButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
if (Application.Current.HasElevatedPermissions)
MainWebBrowser.Navigate(new Uri(AddressTextBox.Text));
string localIFrame = "";
Together with the WebBrowser control, the HtmlBrush is introduced, allowing painting with the content of a WebBrowser control. This way, you can, for example, create irregular browser windows. In the following code sample, I create a rectangle and fill it with the content of the WebBrowser control used earlier:
<Rectangle x:Name="OpaqueBrowserRectangle" Width="800" Height="600">
<HtmlBrush x:Name="MainHtmlBrush" Opacity="0.5" AlignmentX="Left" AlignmentY="Top" Stretch="Fill"></HtmlBrush>
9. Notification Windows (or Toasts)
We've all come to love the notification messages from Outlook that let us know when a new message has arrived. The ability to create these small windows (also known as toasts) is now available in Silverlight. A new class was added to instantiate them: NotificationWindow. Just like the WebBrowser control, notification windows are an out-of-browser feature only.
The following code creates an instance of the NotificationWindow class, sets its contents to a custom user control called NotificationControl, specifies its width and height, and calls the Show() method to display the window. The code displays the window shown in Figure 5.
private void ToastButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
NotificationWindow notificationWindow = new NotificationWindow();
notificationWindow.Content = new NotificationControl();
notificationWindow.Height = 80;
notificationWindow.Width = 350;
10. Trusted Applications
Code executed in Silverlight 1, 2, and 3 always ran in the sandbox of the browser. You had no way to get out of this sandbox. Even when running a Silverlight 3 out-of-browser application, it still ran in the sandbox.
Silverlight 4 adds a new mode—a trusted Silverlight application—that runs with elevated permissions and allows actions not possible in previous versions. You now have three modes: in-browser, out-of-browser (but still in the sandbox), and trusted (out-of-browser with elevated permissions).
You can enable elevated permissions in a Silverlight application by using the project properties of the Silverlight application. In the project properties, click the Out-of-Browser settings button and in the dialog, check the elevated permissions checkbox as shown in Figure 6. When you want to install this kind of application, a different dialog appears (Figure 7), warning a user that the application requires more privileges to run.
Basically, trusted applications can do more than non-trusted ones. Let's take a look at the extras they have up their sleeve.
- COM interop: the biggest enhancement is the support from Silverlight for COM interop; Silverlight lets you work with already existing COM objects on the client's PC. This way, it becomes possible to work with Office applications from Silverlight (Outlook, Word, Excel). The class that makes all this work is ComAutomationFactory. The following lines of code create an instance of Excel:
- using (dynamic excel = ComAutomationFactory.CreateObject("Excel.Application"))
//do stuff with Excel here
Note the use of the C# 4 dynamic keyword in this context: CreateObject returns an IDisposable, of which the type will only be determined at runtime. COM interop is at this point a Windows-only feature.
- Full-screen keyboard access: In previous versions of Silverlight, it was impossible to get keyboard access when the application was in full-screen mode. However, some types of applications, such as kiosk applications, required this. In Silverlight 4, this is now supported.
- Full path when using OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog: when using both dialogs to open or save a file, the only thing that Silverlight received was a stream to the file; it never got information on the full path of the file. Silverlight 4 trusted applications get this full path information. Also, these dialogs can now open without user interaction.
- Local file system access: another I/O-related enhancement is local file access for trusted applications. This type of Silverlight application now has full access to a number of specific directories, namely the Documents, Videos, Pictures, and Music folders. Cross-domain access: Silverlight Trusted Applications can perform cross-domain network calls to a domain where there is no clientaccesspolicy.xml or crossdomain.xml available.
In this two-part series, I've presented what I believe are the 10 most interesting new features in Silverlight 4. But this list is far from complete. Silverlight 4 includes a large number of enhancements to existing features, as well as more new features than explored here. With a release so close to its predecessor, Microsoft surely has many surprises coming in the next months for Silverlight developers.


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Danganronpa Review
Danganronpa is an anime I meant to watch a long time ago, but just kind of forgot about it. I just recently remembered it when I was looking through different anime that are of the mystery genre. I am going to admit, this anime was pretty interesting, and it keeps you wanting to watch all of it without stopping.
The Plot of Danganronpa
Danganronpa is actually adapted from a game called "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc." The story centers on 15 high school students who are trapped in Hope's Peak Academy, a school that accepts only students who are "elite" in their hobbies/fields of work. The school is controlled by a mastermind stuffed bear who is extremely dangerous, despite his body form. To be able to graduate and escape from Hope's Peak Academy, the students must successfully murder one of their classmates. However, the murderer cannot be caught or found out by the other alive classmates, and the murderer can kill a maximum of two people. After a murder, the classmates search for evidence to try and figure out who is the murderer. If they are successful in choosing the murderer, then the students all get to live another day and the murderer is executed. If not, then the students themselves are executed while the murderer graduates.
The Characters of Danganronpa
As I mentioned before, there are 15 high school students in Danganronpa, which totals up to 16 characters including the mastermind. Each student has there own title within the school that describes what they are at the school for. The titles range from "Super Duper High School Luckster" to "Super Duper High School Martial Artist." Due to the fact that there are so many characters, and most of them end up dead or executed, I will only cover the three main characters.
Monokuma is the mastermind stuffed animal in the anime. He is the principal of Hope's Peak Academy. Not many of the students take him very seriously, so occasionally he has to do something in order to scare them into obeying him. He has murdered one of the students himself when they tried to defy him, showing that he is obviously not someone to be messed with. Makoto Naegi is the "Super Duper High School Luckster," having only been accepted into Hope's Peak Academy by a lottery. He is childhood friends with another one of the students there and many people have attempted to frame him during the murders. Kyouko Kirigiri is the "Super Duper High School ???" because she suffers from amnesia. She is Naegi's partner throughout the anime and shares some secrets about the school with him. Whatever she can remember of her past, she shares with him as well.
Classroom Trials
After the students are given some time to investigate the murders, they are required to attend a meeting called "Classroom Trials." During these trials, the students share the information they have found and attempt to come up with a conclusion as to who the culprit of the murder is. Interestingly enough, there are 16 places for students to stand, so during each trial there is always an empty place. Each student is allowed time to speak and eventually they all vote as to who they think the murderer is.
As I have mentioned, once you start watching Danganronpa, it's hard to stop. I completed the 12 episodes in about 3 days, which is surprisingly quick for me. The ending was a bit disappointing and seemed a bit rushed, however, the rest of the story made up for it.
Overall Score: 8/10

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As a corporate comedian my 30 to 60 minute "presentation" gets serious laughs from managers and cube dwellers alike. It works best if they expect that they are going to get the usual motivational or inspirational talk filled with obvious points and lame jokes. Read some corporate reviews below. I start out telling stories like any other speaker does, but when I turn on my overhead projector with my stick figure slides, they realize they have been had and are in for a ride. Is there a point to my presentation? Yes. Your company has a sense of humor. Content is more important than form. Being inspired and motivated should not be the same as being delusional…except when it comes to hiring me.
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Are Canadians too polite?
According to a recent Huffington Post article, a study performed by two McMaster University PhD researchers has concluded (based on a MASSIVE twitter post analysis) that Canadians are, in FACT, more polite than…well, it doesn't matter who; I don't want to offend anyone. The point is, what we all have always known to be true, is. The article concludes by announcing that the stereotype is not a myth; Canadians are overly polite.For years Canadians have been the focal point of endless jokes about (aboot) our apologetic nature. Who knew it was a fact? Inbred, genetic, ancestral, historical, hereditary, abiogenetic, xenogeneticstar…..MY GOD! We are engineered that way.
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Pillow Fights, Flash Mobs, and Harmonicas...I Love This City!
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After braving some rather grungy showers this morning, I headed off to find Laurie and Sonia, the girls I had met in my room in Vienna. Today was to be all about seeing the Buda side of the river, and we couldn't stop snapping photos from the Chain Bridge on our way over to Margerit Island. From there you can see the Parliament, the castle, etc. and it's beautiful. The guide book in the hostel had said it was very nice and lively on the weekends, and it was nice to see locals just enjoying the great weather, but it was nothing special, so soon we were off to see castle hill. With it's crazy tiled roof that appeared to have flowers on it, the main cathedral was beautiful, as was the palace complex. Walking along the river we had been wondering where all the tourists were.
With Laurie's feet killing her, we decided to sit down and get some 'gelato' (which was much more like regular ice cream) near the middle of the hill, close to the finicular. At the bottom, we noticed that there was a very large group of people making a roucus and waving white things around. We couldn't figure out what was going on, and the German couple next to us suggested that it might be a riot about the elections that were the following week. After about 15 minutes of watching this,my face changed and it finally hit me: It's International Pillow Fight Day! I had read about it in Interlaken when Stephen and I were looking up holidays to randomly celebrate.
Getting down the hill as fast as we could, all three of us were suddenly wide awake again, and giddy as little kids. There were feathers flying everywhere, people being hoisted up in the air, and people pummelling each other with pillows of all shapes and colors on all sides of us. It was amazing! I couldn't stop smiling and taking photos, not managing to get a place of the concrete that looked over it all and was filled with people with fancy cameras trying to get in on the action in their own way. As that was winding down, we heard a big Vrrooooomm! All of a sudden the street was filled with a giant procession of motorcycles of all types. What the heck is going on? I don't know, but I like it! Budapest keeps getting better and better by the hour, throwing surprises at us from the left and right.
More surprises still as we headed through town and along the river-there was a festival going on in the middle of a giant square, complete with girls dancing in a circle with crazy dresses, one of them holding a life size doll in the air as she danced. How bizarre. Then we saw Native American looking people (no idea what they were, Native American people dancing and playing in the street might indicate something about America, but we're in Hungary) were playing the harmonica and some other instrument. Finally we made it to the street we were hunting for, and enjoyed a delicious dinner of real Hungarian goulash, and I was satisfied to the bone. I ended up crashing at the apartment they were staying at after some wine, as there was no way I was going to be able to make it from the Pest side to the Buda side of the river. What an amazing day though!


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MINNEAPOLIS — Rev. Benjamin Weir, who adopted the quiet and prayerful regimen of a Trappist monk during his 16 months in captivity in Lebanon, is embarking on a hectic one-year term as moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a decidedly unsolitary position that will test his vocal cords and endurance.
The 62-year-old missionary, whose thoughtful and reserved character was heightened by his experience as a hostage, is expected to travel widely for speaking engagements during his tenure as the chief elected officer for the 3- million-member national Protestant body.


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The application period for admission to Sacramento State's Fall 2014 semester opens Tuesday, Oct. 1. Students may visit www.csumentor.edu to complete an online application. Information also is available at www.csus.edu/admissions/ or (916) 278-7766.
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A new tool that will provide students with additional insight into making their college decision is a degree database (http://degrees.calstate.edu/) recently launched by the CSU Chancellor's Office. This resource provides potential students with a comprehensive listing of all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the 23 campuses.
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." -Walt Whitman
Its a wonderful weekend everyone-
Take some time and be inspired by the wonders of the world. Today my inspiration is grass- plants – flowers and in general a few images of incredible inspirational settings "Gardens"
Although sadly I do not have a green thumb myself, I certainly do have a fond appreciation for those of you who spend hours ,days, even weeks,
Preparing these gorgeous landscapes to share with the universe.
Truly a labor of love !!
Here are a few favorites that caught my eye this fine Saturday morning!!
Great Job Susan- Im in love with wild flowers!!
I would happily drink my morning latte here! Who wouldn't? -LOVELY!!
This looks like a shot taken from a roof top terrace- Im in love!!
A weeping willow – AMAZING!!
Now thats a view!! -You city folks do not know what your missing….
I do believe this very well , may be paradise- BREATH TAKING!!
Hope you enjoyed a walk in the garden….
Have an Amazing Day Everyone!


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It won't balance the city's budget given the current $380 million deficit, but not overpaying Fire Department employees would be a start.
The Chronicle
The city paid $346,000 more than it had to during the last fiscal year "due to administrative errors and unofficial pay practices," according to an audit the city controller released today.
The department used higher-than-required wage rates that inflated vacation and sick-leave hours to calculate final retirement disbursements for some employees, the audit found.
The department's manual process to record time entries in the payroll system also caused an estimated $44,856 in overpayments to employees, according to the audit, which covered July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the retirement payout calculations were part of a long-standing policy to entice firefighters to work at headquarters without facing a penalty in their vacation accrual.
The department is already working to codify policies in writing and comply with other recommendations the controller made, the chief said.
"Certainly there's areas we need to tighten up," Hayes-White said. "But in general I think the department handles its administrative side of the house very capably."
The controller's office made 31 recommendations for improving the department's payroll system, including, ceasing "unofficial retirement adjustments until a formal standard is developed" and reviewing records for hazardous materials premium pay and recovering any payments made in error.
The audit found the department underpaid $1,473 that was owed in hazardous materials specialist premium pay — given to those firefighters certified to handle such material — and paid $1,378 in the same type of pay without verifying the appropriate certification.
That's small potatoes considering the department paid out $18.8 million in premium pay for the fiscal year. If the city really wants to fix the budget, maybe it ought to take a look at the premium pay system that, as our colleagues Matier & Ross noted, rewards employees and managers for everything from working nights to having toiled for the city for 10 years.
Hayes-White said she's open to discussing premium pay changes but said those provisions are codified in completed collective bargaining agreements.
"I think everything should be on the table for every department," the chief said. "No stone should go unturned, I think everything needs to be looked at, although the premiums have been negotiated, and unless the contract is reopened, they're basically a given to the employees."


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"A man working here on the island, on returning one night from the Telephone Box, was given a fright when something came over him from behind and caused him to be startled so much that he fled along the road. He refused to walk out at night after this. This happened close to the field where the woman's ghost has been seen.
"We have an old ruined croft on Sanday that was once inhabited by the last person to be physically born at Tarbet on Canna. The house was cleared of residents and fell into ruin. Early one evening, a local resident was amongst the ruins with his dog when the dog took fright with all its hackles up and started barking at the wall of the ruined house. Nothing was seen but the dog would not go near the ruins again."
[Stewart Connor, Property Manager, Isle of Canna]
"It was an upper class gentleman, and it was a bright sunny day at about 11am. I have no explanation for it. He was wearing baggy trousers, long socks, tunic, waistcoat and hat. It may have been George Bruce himself. I saw him as plain as day and went to see what he wanted."
[Nick Hoskins, former Head Gardener at Culross Palace]
"A cleaner also saw a female on the first floor gallery of the Oval Staircase. She described it to me as a lady with a long dress and it looked as if she was floating around the gallery. This spirit looked like a very hazy grey mass".
[Gordon Nelson, Collections Care Officer, Culzean Castle]
"A number of staff and volunteers have seen a figure which we believe may be Anna Forbes, wife of the 20th Laird. The figure looks very similar to her portrait, but is wearing a different dress. Anna's first son, Alexander, died in 1856 when he was six years old. On the anniversary of his death, people have heard the sound of children laughing, when there have been no children in the property on that day. The Property Manager also reported that their dog was very agitated on that date.
"I have only been scared once whilst in the castle. I was in the office on my own, finishing up for the day when I heard footsteps coming down corridor. The floor is stone and the footsteps were very distinctive. It was as if a heavy male figure was pacing up and down - they would reach a certain point in the corridor and then turn back. It was really quite unnerving. I locked up quickly and left.
"I have also experienced inexplicable smells in the castle including perfume and a foul, putrid smell.
"The other experience I've had was in an upstairs room called the Chintz Bedroom. We believe it was where one of the Lairds' wives had been imprisoned for a time. It is a very cold room. One of the chairs in the room has a throw on it. There have been several times when I have smoothed out the throw, locked the room and come in the next morning to find the throw crumpled as if the chair has been sat in. Also, items on the dressing table will have been moved.
One of the guides and I set a trap one evening. We smoothed the throw and arranged the items on the dressing table in their usual way. In the morning the items were a right angle to how we left them.
[Naomi Mandel, Duty Manager and Guide, Drum Castle]
"The other experience was different... I was looking around a bedroom in Lord Bute's flat, a lovely one, with fantastic ceiling decorations. I was there with a companion and we felt very "unwanted" in the room, as if we were intruders. We had a very bad feeling, like some energy was surrounding us, it was not nice, we knew we had to get out of there."
[Sonia Ferras Mana, Head Gardener, Falkland Palace]
I shut the door quickly and got a whiff of old rose scent on the air and a blast of cold air on my left hand side which came from the direction of the Exhibition Room. Skye was snarling and snapping and there was obviously something behind me, so I took the woosie ghost hunters option of walking very quickly down the corridor - forgetting all the other blinds, doors etc. - got to the end, turned around, saw a flash of white then shut the door. Skye immediately changed his demeanor returning to general pootling into the Gallery. I did go back, without him, and shut the rest of the blinds, shutters and doors - but this was following a stiff gin! I also kept all the lights on and took a very big torch!
"The other experience was quite pleasant and involves master sleuth Skye also. One lovely, calm summer's evening, when we were walking on the graveled area in front of the Main Entrance, I was taken with how loud and echo-ey the sound of my footsteps were crunching on the gravel. I didn't think much of it but as we circled the castle, I noted that the crunching, military rhythmical footsteps had also followed, and they continued to do so until we'd past the Yett, at which point they veered off behind us to the left.
During the evenings, working in the office, knowing you were on your own in the building, you would often hear footsteps in the corridors.
[Sally Eastgate, former Property Manager at Fyvie]
"A regular visitor who took her daily constitutional around the woodland saw regularly a large black dog on the stone bridge which disappeared as soon as she got closer. One day she was walking with her husband and she saw the dog again however he could not and after a discussion between them she was very spooked and had to be calmed in the tearoom where her tea was more in the saucer and over the table than in her cup! "Again in the woodland area, one of our volunteers has seen a young girl skipping along by the burn. The girl, who is dressed in the fashion of the early 20th century, disappears behind some bushes. We know at about that time a young girl was killed under the wheels of a cart in the courtyard.
"This story also links to a sighting by our First Gardener, Graham Duncan, who stays in the Lodge House here. Graham came down stairs one morning and a young girl of much the same description walked in through the front door and along the passage to the kitchen - she must have been following an older route that existed through the house as she actually disappeared into the bottom of the stairs. Luckily he is a level headed chap and I have not been looking for a new First Gardener."
[David Ferguson, Property Manager, Greenbank Garden]
"Often when working in the Office you'd hear footsteps above you - pacing in the Library.
"The previous managers have also reported a known ghost, "Archie", in his Plus Fours at the foot of their beds. Archie is thought to be the ghost of Lord Archibald Gordon who died in 1909 - one of the first people in Britain to be killed in a car accident.
"When locking up in the North Wing, you had to set the alarms in the Office, lock the door and leg it fairly quickly down the corridor to the front door to escape before the alarms when off. One particular evening, I'd locked the office door and started heading down the corridor... then all I remember is feeling cold and being shaken awake by the Gardener who'd been summoned by the alarms. Something had stopped me mid tracks. Apparently I'm not the first person who's experienced this.
A past story from Haddo is that a few years ago, the attics were being cleared out and tidied up. Following this activity a baby was heard crying and the sound was tracked to the attics. Apparently a medium was called in and it was ascertained that a spirit of a service girl with her baby was "trapped" and provided all the items were restored in its previous place all would be calm.
[Sally Eastgate, former Property Manager at Haddo House]
Elaine said that it was not a frightening experience at all. Elaine has also smelt pipe smoke in the Library on many occasions. This is where Mr Blackie used to smoke his pipe."
[Karen Fenwick, Retail Manager]
"The second time - again I was alone in the house and standing looking at the hanging lum when I was aware that someone was behind me, having entered the room from the Byre. I turned around and there was Lizzie, in her white apron, carrying a bowl. Just a fleeting glimpse again and then she was gone.
The third time at Moirlanich - I was once again in the house alone, in the kitchen and heard the sound of someone walking on the path at the back of the house. There were no visitors around at that time at all. Only me in the house and the other volunteer in the hut! Not prone to this kind of thing."
[Gillean Ford, Volunteer]
"He asked if things went missing in the loomshop, which they do all the time - until then we'd always blamed each other for moving items. Apparently this is the spirit letting herself be known.
"Another visitor commented upon spirits around me as I weave (the tartan loom is made of wood and is more than 200 years old).
"And then there's the human skull that was uncovered in the garden during the dig by our archaeologist, Derek Alexander in 2002....male, around 500 years old...another mystery!"
"If there are any ghosts or spirits however, I think that they're quite happy with how we look after the place!"
[Christine Macleod, Property Manager, Weaver's Cottage]


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Early 20th-Century English wood and leather match striker. A one-of-a-kind, it is a riding boot fitted with a silver spur, metal cap and removable striker. The ash tray is a horseshoe shape.
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Snake massage is the latest attraction at the Cebu City Zoo in the Philippines.
The zoo's Burmese pythons – Michelle, Walter, EJ and Daniel – give visitors a 15-minute massage by constantly slithering on their bodies.
After paying the 50-cent entrance fee, those in need of a "calming" massage lie down on a bamboo mat near the zoo's main entrance.
Snakes are then brought out from nearby cages, and placed on top of the guests. With a collective weight of more than 550 pounds, the reptiles are supposedly relaxing and therapeutic.
Before the massage begins, guests are briefed on how to behave around the reptiles — do not shout for help or breathe too heavily.
Each python is fed 10 chickens before the massage sessions, so the snakes shouldn't be hungry.


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Whether it is something as large as the Hooper Bay disaster or a fire that affects only one person, the American Red Cross of Alaska knows that there is no such thing as a small disaster, and we seek to respond to every disaster in Alaska with the same support whether that disaster is located near one of our offices or somewhere in the bush.
Recent deployments of our National Guard have created a large demand for our Armed Forces Emergency Services. We are the emergency link between the Guard and their families. Whether it is a concerned parent wondering why they haven't heard from their service member in a month, a wife wanting to let her husband know that she had a baby, or a member of the family trying to get the sad news of a death to the service member, people in the Armed Forces will know that the American Red Cross will be there.
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