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	<title>Ambrand.com</title>
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	<description>The musings of a team of 20 something friends in Cork, Ireland</description>
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		<title>Darragh O&#8217;Brien is a Senator?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No not the Comedian (spelled Dara) but another chap.
They say that &#8220;Publicity is the oxygen of politics&#8221; yet there are so many Seantors in the Irish Seanad who we have never heard of.
Martin Conway     Administrative Panel           Fine Gael
Michael W. D&#8217;Arcy     Administrative Panel           Fine Gael
John Kelly     Administrative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2011/12/02/darragh-obrien-is-a-senator/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to our website, now please phone us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you operate in a marketplace where you offer essentially the same service as your competitors,
then price becomes king.
The customer says &#8220;I can buy a widget from Company A, B, C, D, E or F, they are all the same&#8221;
so he chooses based on price.
So, to have a website which doesn&#8217;t display a price is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2011/07/23/welcome-to-our-website-now-please-phone-us/</link>
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		<title>Software4Students.ie problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that Microsoft and other large corporations charge hefty fees for their software, and we can understand why, while others may disagree it must be said Microsoft Office is an excllent piece of software.
Fortunately for students, and indeed parents and teachers, Software4Students.ie offers discounted products. Student discounts have existed for years but were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2011/03/08/software4studentsie-problems/</link>
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		<title>Turkeys vote for Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The board of the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) says it &#8220;welcoms the Government’s decision to merge the OTC into the HSE in 2011 as part of the Government’s ongoing rationalisation programme.&#8221;
The OTC’s Chairperson, Norma Cronin, said that this move will &#8220;ensure that Ireland’s ongoing work to create a tobacco-free society – in which Ireland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/07/07/turkeys-vote-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>The Jennings Gallery at UCC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as we have gotten to grips with the marvellous Glucksman Gallery at UCC (University College Cork, Ireland) another one appears on the radar; The
    
College of Medicine &#38; Health
Brookfield Health &#38; Sciences Complex
College Road
University College Cork
We must investigate this (not so) new development. The last time we went into the Brookfield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/07/06/the-jennings-gallery-at-ucc/</link>
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		<title>Poetry to our ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886 – 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a short poem entitled &#8220;Trees&#8221; (1913), which was published in in 1914. At the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/07/06/poetry-to-our-ears/</link>
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		<title>The death of the PFO letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, perhaps the death of the paper letter entirely.
It is ironic that in an age when almost everyone has a printer, and Microsoft Word, the paper letter is in decline.
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		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/06/03/the-death-of-the-pfo-letter/</link>
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		<title>Private sector fills a public lacuna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before buying a second hand car the wise man should investigate it&#8217;s history&#8230;
www.mywheels.ie
www.cartell.ie
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		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/06/03/private-sector-fills-a-public-lacuna/</link>
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		<title>I Dream of Jeannie (but not in 1965)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dream instead of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
It has been belted out by Robert Wilson, who sounds like the kind of chap who doesn&#8217;t need accompaniment, a fine voice. Was he Scotland&#8217;s answer to Irelands Count John McCormack?




He had excellent diction, his version of So Deep is the Night is definitive, 1m 20s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/06/03/i-dream-of-jeannie-but-not-in-1965/</link>
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		<title>Joseph Schmidt</title>
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Joseph Schmidt - Una furtiva lagrima
Josef Schmidt (1904 – 1942) was a Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Austria-Hungary, later Romania, and now part of Ukraine (The borders of Europe certainly changed alot in the past century)
As a child of musical parents, young Josef was influenced by many cultures. In addition to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ambrand.com/2010/06/03/joseph-schmidt/</link>
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