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KKB announced on Friday the contract was awarded on March 14 to provide engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of wellhead platforms for the D18 phase two project and D28 phase one project.
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It's that time of year again. When all thoughts turn to the biggest global mobile technology and applications showcase in the world, Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (MWC). Held each year by the GSMA, the show unveils some key yearly indicators that any attending exhibitor, press member, or aspiring Steve Jobs-acolyte should know about mobile.
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Toy Maker wrote:(1) 2X Polo right Gary ?? On it's way !
I got all the T's out last week, I'll get the remaining Polo's gone now.
I have no idea who did and didn't get them at CarverFest.
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EMC today announced it has qualified its Data Domain Boost software for use with Oracle Recovery Manager, allowing data deduplication to take place on Oracle backup servers prior to crossing a storage network.
The Data Domain Boost software also allows Oracle database administrators to have direct control of backups and disaster recovery operations.
"As IT environments continue to scale in both size and complexity, we believe application owners will increasingly want more involvement in individual backup and recovery processes," Rob Emsley, an EMC senior director of product marketing, said in a statement.
EMC claims that its Data Domain Boost software offers as much as a 50% increase in backup performance, an 80% to 99% reduction in LAN bandwidth use, and a 20% to 40% reduction in CPU utilization on both the Oracle backup servers and Data Domain appliance.
The Data Domain appliance using the Boost software produces an aggregate throughput of up to 26.3 TB/hr, EMC said.
Data Domain is EMC's deduplication backup appliance. Typically, a Data Domain appliance identifies data segments coming from application servers, determines whether or not they're unique, and if they are, compresses them and writes them to the storage subsystem.
EMC's Data Domain Boost software distributes parts of the deduplication process to the Oracle servers, so segments are identified on the server first, where if they're unique they're compressed on the server and then sent to the Data Domain appliance to be stored.
Data Domain Boost also makes it possible for a backup application to integrate with Data Domain appliance, allowing it to use its data replication feature. Backups written to one Data Domain system can be written to a second Data Domain appliance. Users can use the backup application to recover duplicate backup copies from a replica Data Domain system.
EMC also claims that by using Data Domain Boost software, administrators will see a 10x to 30x reduction in backup storage capacity requirements.
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Word first hit the wires yesterday that IBM had announced the long-awaited 970MP and 970FX processors at a forum in Japan. For those who don't follow the Apple scene obsessively, the 970MP is a dual-core G5 and the 970FX is a low-power G5 intended for use in portables. The Japanese press release was linked at Xlr8yourmac.com, with the English press release following it in the Ars forums this morning. Here are the basics on the two chips, ripped from M. Isobe's Xlr8yourmac post.
- dual core
- 1.4-2.5GHz
- each core has 1MB L2 cache (2MB total)
- one core can be switched off for low power operation
Low Power 970FX
- 13W @ 1.4 GHz, 16W @ 1.6GHz (Typical)
The announcement raises a number of questions about timing, like, when will these parts be available? how long has IBM been sitting on them? if they're to be available soon then why did Apple switch? why the sudden leap in performance per Watt on the same process after a year with so little improvement?
I hope to be able to address these questions in a subsequent post, but for now my only comment is that the announcement seems to have caused a minor flare-up of the old platform wars in the MA. Enjoy it while it lasts, folks. I'm sort of sad to see it all go.
For what it's worth, I have reason to believe that the 970FX announcement could've been made sooner than today, and that IBM has been sitting on it for at least a month. As I said in my previous coverage of the Apple-Intel transition, Apple's jumping ship was less about IBM's roadmap and more about Intel's volume discounts, especially on non-PC chips like the XScale. But maybe I'll be able to write more on that later.


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At the beginning of each year, I typically look back over the garden books I read during the previous 12 months and pick the best to recommend. But because I moved from Massachusetts to South Carolina last year, I was pretty sure that in the process, I fell off the mailing lists of various publishers and probably didn't get to see all the good garden books that were released.
So I asked garden-writer colleagues to step in and recommend what they thought were the best books they'd read in the previous year. Since there are a number, I'm breaking this into part 1 (today) and part 2 (click here).
"One of my favorite books this year was 'Boston's Gardens & Green Spaces' by Meg Muckenhoupt (Union Park Press, $22.95), says Hilda M. Morrill, columnist and editor who's in charge of the website Boston Gardens (no connection to the book).
It has "great photos, great information and history, and introduction to gardens I had never been aware of," she explains. "Much to look forward to! Good resource for both visitors and residents alike."
Helen Yoest, who writes at Gardening With Confidence and twice a month here at Diggin' It, says: "I would like to recommend Bobby J. Ward's book: 'Chlorophyll in His Veins; J.C. Raulston, Horticultural Ambassador' (BJW Books, $20). Dr. Raulton is the man for whom the North Carolina State University Arboretum is now named. He had great influence on gardening and horticulture over the past quarter-century. Click here to read Helen's review of the book.
Helen's second recommendation is: "Rain Gardening in the South," by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford (Eno Publishers, $19.95), which won a prestigious "best gardening book" award from the Garden Writers Association.
Dee Nash, well known for her Red Dirt Ramblings blog and articles in gardening magazines, says: "I really like the writing in 'Thoughtful Gardening,' by Robin Lane Fox (Basic Books, $29.95). "He doesn't advocate organic gardening (in fact, he thinks it's ineffective), but his essays are great."
Dee also recommends "Gardening for a Lifetime, How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older," by Sydney Eddison (Timber Press, $19.95) and "The New Low-Maintenance Garden, How to Have a Productive, Beautiful Garden and the Time to Enjoy It," by Valerie Easton (Timber Press, $19.95). They "are really good," she says.
In addition, Dee says, " 'Garden Anywhere,' by Alys Fowler (Chronicle Books, $24.95) shows you really can garden anywhere. I reviewed it on my blog awhile back. She has a charming style."
'Gardening for a Lifetime'
Also recommending "Gardening for a Lifetime" is Karan Davis Cutler, who blogs here at Diggin' It: The subtitle explains it all, she says: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older.
"In addition to being a practical guide to making gardening less labor-intensive, it's an engrossing story of Sydney's Connecticut garden from its beginning in 1961 to 2010," Karan reports."While written with the older gardener in mind, it's a wonderful guide for anyone whose beds and borders have gotten out of hand.
"Sydney is a graceful writer, author of six other books, and the recipient of a truckload of horticultural awards," adds Karan. "Additionally, she's a seriously hands-on gardener; the creator of a garden that's been featured in magazines and is a regular stop for garden clubs, plant societies, and more. To wit, she knows about what she writes, and she writes with enthusiasm and style.."
"I second Karan's recommendation of Sydney Eddison's 'Gardening for a Lifetime,' " says Doreen Howard, who writes the gardening blog at the Old Farmer's Almanac website. "I read it to do the book review [for] The American Gardener, but was so struck by her wisdom that I ended up reading it again. We all slow down with age, some of us (like me) slow due to temporary injuries, and Eddison's lessons on gardening and life are almost the holy grail for gardening through time."
'Places for the Spirit'
One garden book that I did read this year and am happy to recommend is "Places for the Spirit" (Trinity University Press, $29.95). Subtitled Traditional African American Gardens, this evocative book is filled with black and white photographs taken by Vaughn Sills across the South over the past almost 20 years.
To non-Southerners, many of these gardens may appear to be mostly collections of random items strewn about. But look more closely, Professor Sills urges in her photos.
"I see a sense of both order and mystery," she says, "with visual and soul-satisfying contrast between open space and dense arrangements of plant life." Many of the objects in these yards and gardens (which may seem to the casual viewer to be ordinary) have symbolic and spiritual meanings going back centuries to andestral African homelands, she notes. Bottle trees, for instance, provide ceremonial protection.
The long introduction, by Lowry Pei, helps enlighten the reader to whom this subject matter is new. It's impossible to read this book, or even leaf through it casually, and not want to learn more about the traditions of African-American gardening and the meanings behind them -- the use of water, circles, pipes, and shiny objects, for instance..
"Places for the Spirit" is a beautiful and respectful introduction to these traditions and to those who are continuing them in their yards and gardens. What a joyful group of people and what a joy-filled book this is.
Judy Lowe is a long-time garden writer and blogger. Her latest book, about how to create many different types of herb theme gardens, has just been published.


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I guess the cover art was to keep the costs down.
Praise be that Mr Cornwell has come up with this idea. Cycling 2013 is a guide to almost everything going on in UK cycling for the year.
Split into three sections: Road Racing 2013, Leisure Cycling 2013 and Cyclist's Directory this very useful little guide - not just the details of the year's pro races, Hill climbs, TT's, sportives, audaxes and charity rides - but the results from the previous year's pro results (someone called Wiggins won the tour it seems..), a list of pro teams and a list by region of the best cycle shops, cafes, clubs, kit retailers, and pretty much everything you could want to know.
As most racing and sportive information is online these days and even BC's site is designed by people seemingly still referring to something called 'The Inter-web' a comprehensive well designed book guide to the year in cycling has long been overdue.
It's not only dates, facts and figures though. Cornwell's editor's introduction 'The View from the Saddle' is a perceptive and intelligent summation of where UK cycling is at present and where he hopes it's leading. His comments on the growth of overpriced sportives is spot on and I hope he keeps on personalising each edition with his opinions.
There are a few curious omissions. I'm sure the handlebar biters on road.cc will note with satisfaction that Cornwell makes no mention of Rapha in the clothing retailers section but he does mention Shutt Velo Rapide - so there obviously isn't a price ceiling. Whilst there is a pretty good list of event organiser sportives – especially those that support the Dave Rayner Fund - there need to be more local club sportives listed. One of Britain's oldest cycle clubs, Southport CC (est 1874) is mentioned in the clubs section but there is no reference to their very enjoyable annual sportive 'The Bill Bradley' which costs just £10 with any profits going to the youth squad and which has been running for donkey's years now.
I imagine that this will be addressed for next year. My favourite sportive of last year isn't mentioned either (well it was sponsored by Rapha...) but I have no complaints as I'm happy to keep that one quiet.
My only other criticism is the dreary art work on the cover which gives the impression of a particularly turgid local council report on cycle infrastructure circa 1985. It does the witty and very useful contents of Cycling 2013 no favours at all.
These little niggles aside I feel sure that this almanac will surely grow to become a sort of Wisdens and the National Trust Guide in terms of utility and nostalgia. I'll be able to get this edition down in a few years time and show it to the grandkids and talk about the glory days of British Cycling and point out all the sportives I should've, would've, could've done if only I hadn't had the knee/neck/chest infection problem (delete where applicable). I can see it becoming a must buy each year for the Christmas stocking.
It's pretty spot on and value for money for all cyclists - and spectators too.
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Make and model: Andrew Cornwell's Cycling 2013, Cycling Press
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Cyclists and maybe a growing breed of cycle spectators.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 47 Height: Weight:
I usually ride: Dolan Prefissio - winter bike My best bike is: Condor Moda Ti - summer bike
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Every week I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, commuting, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,


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Gov. Shumlin recommends $770K for Red Cross emergency planning
Friday April 5, 2013
BRATTLEBORO -- On Sept. 10, 2012, Larry Crist, the regional executive of the American Red Cross, Vermont & the New Hampshire Upper Valley, went before the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel during a meeting in Vernon to voice his concerns over what he saw were the shortcomings in the state's radiological emergency response plan.
He told the members of VSNAP more than $727,000 was needed to fund the Red Cross' role in the plan, which includes finding shelter for up to 6,000 people who live in the emergency preparedness zone around Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, which is located in Vernon.
"Current funding priorities do not adequately address the RERP's largest component with the longest duration -- sheltering and feeding," Crist said at the meeting.
"Evacuation will be completed in hours, whereas the duration of sheltering will be days/weeks/months," states a flyer handed out at the VSNAP meeting. "The RERP envisions a level of sheltering far beyond any other state plan formulated to respond to disaster and far outstrips the private resources of the Red Cross."
The problem, according to Crist, was that the Red Cross was only prepared to support 3,000 people, and even that was questionable, given the realities of emergency planning following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011.
"This was a situation where the Red Cross and the state took a hard look at what many folks thought was OK, but discovered was not as sound as we believed it to be," said Crist on Thursday. "We took the new information from Fukushima, looked at the state plan with a fresh perspective and recognized its shortcomings. We identified those shortcomings and came up with a common-sense strategy to address them."
Today, Crist and Erica Bornemann, emergency management planning section chief for the Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, will be going before the Senate Committee on Government Operations to explain the Red Cross' portion of the budget. Following that meeting, they will go before the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask for a budget adjustment.
When Bornemann first presented the response plan budget for fiscal year 2014, which begins on July 1, 2013, to the governor's office, it was in the amount of $2.4 million, up from $2.3 million for fiscal year 2013.
But following some confusing signals from FEMA, the budget proposal was increased to $2.7 million to reflect a two-year funding plan for upgrades to the Red Cross' response capabilities.
Joe Flynn, the director of the Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, which is part of the Department of Public Safety, said last year FEMA issued new standards calling for sheltering requirements for 5 percent of the population in the EPZ. Because of that change, the initial budget request that went to the Legislature called for a $53,000 disbursement to Red Cross.
After the budget recommendation was submitted to the Legislature, FEMA indicated it makes more sense to prepare for 20 percent of the population, or 6,000 people in Vermont Yankee's case, though it hasn't put it in writing yet, said Flynn.
The result Flynn is recommending, and the governor's office has agreed, that Red Cross should get $344,375 in FY2014 and $426,743 in FY2015.
"We agreed a two-year plan is a good, reasonable way to hit the ground running," said Jim Reardon, the commissioner of the Department of Finance and Management.
This is higher than any previous budget allocation for Red Cross, he said.
"It was driven in part by the change in FEMA guidance and the retraction," said Reardon.
"We've never gotten more than a few thousand dollars a year," said Crist. "This is more than any Red Cross in any state has gotten relative to nuclear power."
In 2012, Red Cross requested $92,000, but only received $725. In 2011, it requested $39,120, was told to resubmit a request for $6,161 and then received nothing. In 2010, it requested $392,695 but only received $9,200, with the money targeted for a statewide digital radio upgrade, which was not part of the Red Cross' request.
The funding of the RERP comes from Entergy, which owns and operates Yankee, after emergency management reviews requests from the towns in the EPZ and emergency response agencies such as the Red Cross, Rescue Inc. and the Windham County Sheriff's Department.
Though Entergy had been involved in most of the budget process, said Bornemann, "We really stopped a continuing coordinated effort with them back in December because it was clear the situation was dynamic due to the changes in the standard and what we thought we needed to be able to achieve this. We focused our efforts on coming to a conclusion in this budget process."
Flynn said despite the lack of communication between the state and Entergy over the past few months, the corporation and its representatives have been "good partners."
"Once you start developing the budget it's a closed effort until the governor releases it to the Legislature," he said. "That had nothing to do with keeping information from them. It has to do with the internal process."
Rob Williams, spokesman for Yankee, said since the development of radiological emergency plans, Entergy has continued to fund all incremental costs of emergency planning that are reasonable and prudent.
However, he said, this request by the Red Cross for additional funding appears to have no basis.
"It would be unlike any other state and far exceeds the funding necessary to meet the responsibilities of the Red Cross for radiological emergency planning," said Williams.
Crist's request includes items such as a planning and coordination deputy ($59,000) and assistant ($54,000), as well as a volunteer coordinator ($54,000). However, a large portion of the money is needed to provide for materials such as regular cots, at $129,000, medical cots, at $54,000, and four vehicles, at $100,000. The Red Cross also needs $47,520 for the blankets that will go along with the additional cots and $3,840 for walkers.
In addition, the Red Cross will need to hire two full-time staffers for on-going coordination and preparation activities and to identify new shelter locations.
Over the years, Red Cross basically just signed off on the response plan, said Flynn, but then Crist came along and took a hard look at all the numbers.
"He had the courage to say we can't do what we said we could do, and surely not 20 percent," said Flynn.
"I have been thinking about this for years," said Crist.
Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham, the chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, said she doesn't doubt the Red Cross request is appropriate.
"When Larry took over, he really started looking at this and what it really means," said White. "He has done his homework."
She said Entergy representatives won't be happy with the proposal.
"They're going to yell and scream," said White. "But they've known for a long time this has been going on and they've seen the numbers and knew it was a real possibility the administration would put this in the budget. They might say they don't want to do it, but they have to fund it."
White also said Flynn and Bornemann spent a lot of time evaluating Red Cross' request and she expects they will have all their ducks in a row during today's hearing.
"It's taken a long time for emergency management to make sure they are really on sound footing in order to present this," said White.
"Entergy can contest the amount, but we've never come to a point where we have had Entergy contest the amount that is being requested," said Bornemann. "We have a really good working relationship with them."
Crist said the process led to a collective understanding of what needs to be done to accomplish two things.
"First, to ensure the plant can continue to comply with federal guidelines relating to emergency preparedness and second, to ensure that we will be able to take care of all of the Vermonters who live in the EPZ in the event of a serious problem at the plant."
But, warned Crist, to keep the Red Cross' plan current will probably require $250,000 each year going forward starting in fiscal year 2016.
"We need a large infusion on the front end to put infrastructure in place but then there are ongoing costs to maintain it," he said.
The goal for the first year is to get equipment ordered and onsite for seven additional shelters, said Crist.
That's because during the whole budgeting process, one hard realization has come home for all involved: Sending evacuees to a reception center prior to directing them to a shelter won't work.
"We are not going to have people go there to find out what shelter to go to," said Crist. "We are going to work with communities to pre-identify shelter sites. And we want shelter sites to be at least 50 miles from the plant. We're not going to move them multiple times as happened with Fukushima.
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Food costs everywhere are soaring and even so-called budget foods are eating our wallet.
Today, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture brought more bad news to consumers with its annual analysis of food cost increases.
According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the USDA sees prices going up on, well, everything: Beef's up 1.1 percent; eggs are up 1.9 percent; and fish/seafood and dairy products are up 0.9 percent.
About the only thing catching a break is fresh fruit, which saw a 0.3 percent drop. (Sadly, veggies are up 1 percent.)
Your Money tapped Teri Gault, founder of the excellent deals site The Grocery Game, to find out four things shoppers can do to offset rising costs. Hint: It's all in the planning.
1. Ditch the typical grocery list. Gault says too many consumers make the mistake of treating food like a cheap commodity rather than an investment. "We're not doomed to pay full price for everything we consume," she says. And she's right: Running to the store to replenish whatever you've run out of almost always means you'll pay full price for it as everything's not on sale all the time.
"Instead of letting running out of food trigger the purchase, let the sales trigger when you shop," says Gault. "Every single thing goes on sale once every 12 weeks," so everything short of dairy and produce can be bought as an investment—if you're sure that you'll eat it.
Find sales by checking weekly circulars online and in-store—you can find them near the entrance—and on GroceryGame.com, where Gault says most of the deals are unadvertised.
2. Bigger doesn't mean better. Items typically come in three sizes—small, medium and large, says Gault. But bigger doesn't always mean better value. Choose the item with the lowest cost per unit; chances are it will be medium-sized.
3. Go for store brands. We're not talking generics—the supermarket's private label actually competes with no-name products since they offer great value at a reasonable price, says Gault. When they go on sale it's practically a steal. Can't bear to part with your name-brand? The only way you'll beat the store brand on price is with a coupon.
4. Shop "high-low" stores' sales. Grocers fall into two categories: "high-low" chains like Ralph's and Albertson's and Every Day Low Price (EDLP) stores like Dollar Tree and Dollar General. Gault, who lives in California, has "parallel shopped" at a Ralph's and Food For Less and found that despite their fancy digs, Ralph's still beats Food For Less on price—when she shops the sales.


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As Jason Aldean found out this week, celebrity has its downside, and not all public attention is the kind a person necessarily wants. But he also found out that he sure has a lot of friends.
When the "My Kinda Party" singer was caught in a less-than-savory moment with American Idol contestant Brittany Kerr, many of these friends came out of the woodwork to support him during what is surely a trying time for the married-with-children musician.
One of Jason's buddies is fellow country artist Jerrod Niemann. Jerrod has been extra busy this week getting the word out about his brand-new album, Free the Music. But during a conversation with the morning show team at Detroit station WYCD, he took the time to stand up for his friend.
"I obviously heard about Jason," Jerrod told WYCD. "And the truth is, everyone makes mistakes. And what made me definitely proud of him was when he came out and talked to his fans and just said, 'Hey, this is the truth, I made a mistake, I'm going to work through it with my family.' Instead of just saying, 'Oh that's not true, this didn't happen.'"
As Jason Aldean wrote in a statement this week: "The truth is that I screwed up. I ultimately ended up embarrassing my family and myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm sorry for disappointing you guys. I really appreciate being able to work through this privately with my family and for all your continued support."
Jerrod felt that that was a strong, positive move. "He was honest, and I really respect that. And I'm sure he feels horrible." But, says Jerrod, "it sounds like he's on the right track."
As mentioned, Jerrod Niemann has had a busy week this week, thanks to the release of his brand-new album, Free the Music.
With an instrumental mix that includes horns as well as guitars and piano, it's not your typical country album by any means. And you can get a sense of what you're in for based on the cover image alone.
The cover "encompasses what the album has on it," Jerrod explains to WYCD. "We're letting the music out, letting the people in."
And as for what's inside? "It was fun to dig through and pay homage to all eras of country music," Jerrod explains in another interview, this one with Riverside, Calif. station KFRG. For instance, he says, "the pedal steel guitar, which we all look at as the epitome of country music, wasn't even invented until 1948." Before that, horns made regular appearances in the music of such greats as Tex Williams and Bob Wills.
Whether Jerrod will single-handedly bring trombones and trumpets back into country music remains to be seen. In the meantime, as he explained to the KFRG team, he's doing his best to bring as much music as possible to kids–including donating a piano and drums to the students at PS22 in New York, where he had the honor of performing this week.
"Having a chance to meet and perform with PS22 was like no other experience," Jerrod explained. "Those children have so much talent and passion for music that I am so inspired and proud to be their biggest fan."
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Gene Wood, Dick Para, Jon Lengacher and Bob Ried scored 24 to win the Men's Lakewood Ranch three-ball nine-hole event on King's Dunes July 1. Joe Bornstein, Jack Jimmink, Jim Lapides and Jay Lilien scored 32 for second place and Dale Woodbury, Mike Bridges, Lou Lacivita and David Fuller scored 38 for third place.
Will and Anita Crocker and Thomas and Frances Mastrelli shot 119 to win the two best ball of four Fourth of July event on Cypress Links July 4. Heidi Phillips, Bob Simes, David Lacy and Dave Lorman shot 120 for second place and Ted and Cindy Cook and Mike and Lynn McCrary shot 121 for third place.
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Duke Semilof, Michael Fencil, John Orr and John Costello shot 158 to win Flight 1 of the two best balls 3's and 5's and three best balls 4's Men's Golf Association event June 27. Gino Giampietro, Louis Rosa, Al Robinowitz and Dean Swift shot 163 to win Flight 2.
Tina Price and Patricia Raffery shot 1-under par to win Flight 1 of the one partner odd holes, one partner even holes Women's Golf Association event June 30. Nancy Rosa and Nancy Reichl shot 2-under par to win Flight 2.
Bill Lavelle used his 3-wood to record an ace July 1 on the 177-yard No. 17 of Champions Course.
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Mary Naylor scored 16 to win the tee to green nine-hole event June 30. Rachel Willet scored 18 for second place; Carol Litzinger scored 20 for third place; and Linda Suereth scored 22 for fourth place.
Paul and Mia Ficarro and Bob and Carrie Mueller shot 130 to win the Red Flight of the red, white and yellow Fourth of July Couples event July 4. Sam and Linda Jones and Paul and Jane Dain shot 132 for second place. Darcie Allison and Kevin Killoram and Dave Dimartino and Susie Scott shot 128 to win the Blue Flight. Terry and Holly O'Shea and Kim Hosilyk and Betty Rainier shot 138 for second place.
Ellie Toepfer, Rachel Willet, Jutta Tragnitz and Linda Suereth scored 159 to win the team score nine-hole event July 7.
Karen Myers, Nancy Stanz and Barb Loreto shot 94 to win the one best ball front, two best balls back Women's Golf Association event June 30 at the Meadows. Irene Ras, Kristin Senachal and Mickey Boughton shot 96 for second place.
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Gary Kleiman used his Callaway 3-iron to record an ace July 3 on the 182-yard No. 24 of University Park Golf and Country Club
Jim and Nancy Kopnisky and Bert and Katy Arrillaga scored 90 to win the 1-2-1 on 3-4-5 Fourth of July event July 4.
Janice Ritchie and Judy Werner scored 51 to win the best ball of two Ladies' Day event June 30. Patti Piazza and Becky Curtin scored 54 for second place.
Ken Bumgarner scored 21 to win Flight 1 of the individual net stableford Men's Day event July 1. Steve Adams scored 25 to win Flight 2.
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Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, will be releasing a new box set of the series this summer. This new collection, which you can see here in our galleries, is available for pre-order via Barnes and Noble, as well as Walmart. Included in the collection are the set of US paperback editions of books one through seven, with the box to feature the Deluxe cover from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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On Friday, May 3, 2013, SeniorNet at FSL, L.I. held its annual volunteer orientation and training meeting. The large Harborfields Public Library meeting room was chosen as the meeting site because our volunteer group has grown to over 130+ and space and comfort has become an issue. The meeting started at 10:00 AM with a light breakfast and at 10:15 AM the meeting was called to order. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an opportunity for the SeniorNet volunteers from both the Don Weidman Computer Learning Center and Yaphank Annex to meet each other, exchange experiences, understand proper procedures and learn of new projects as well as review old ones. It gives new volunteers an opportunity to explore new venues and expand their vision of what SeniorNet is all about. A total of 77 volunteers from the Huntington and Yaphank Computer Learning Centers took part in this session. Like every organization where volunteers perform all tasks, the need for training and procedural updates is essential. Although our volunteers are devoted to their tasks and especially care greatly about the welfare of the students, it seems that many are not really aware of how our SeniorNet Centers works at many different levels. This training is especially important since it will provide key data for future coordinators.
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Weather: Partly cloudy, 59 degrees, wind 300 degrees at 3 knots
My best friend Rob made another journey down from Kalamazoo this week and - as always - we planned on some fun in the Cub. We also spent a lot of time watching and photographing the twenty B-25s in town for the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid. I'll have a post with photos and videos from that incredible event up sometime soon.
Tonight the weather was pretty decent - a tad cloudy but otherwise a nice evening to fly with good visibility. We took off and flew up towards the USAF Museum in hopes of seeing all the B-25s lined up on the runway. Unfortunately they had already moved them to the east end of the field in preparation for tomorrow's departure and flyover, which made them harder to see due to the airspace surrounding the field. It's inside Wright Patterson AFB's Class D that we had to remain clear of since the Cub has no radio.
On our way up there (right after takeoff, actually) we spotted a hot air balloon flying up around 2,500 or 3,000 feet. I always enjoy seeing them close by so I pointed the nose in that direction. One of the pilots from the local balloon companies has actually told me before that their passengers get a kick out of seeing us up close. We flew up level with them, remaining safely away, while I rocked the wings and Rob waved out the window. Everyone in the basket waved back at us and then we continued on our way. Sometimes the simple things are the most fun.
Once we had realized the photo opportunities near the USAF Museum would be lacking, we decided to head back down towards Stewart for some fun. I climbed up to around 5,000 feet then we tossed a roll of toilet paper out the side and sliced through it about five times as it slowly fell towards the ground. It really is too much fun... so we climbed back up and went after a second roll. Rob made a couple good passes at the controls and hit the streaming paper - very good work for his first time! On my final pass, I came in high so I pulled the throttle to idle and used a massive forward slip to catch it with our left wing. Not going to lie, I was quite impressed with my work on that one. As always, we took the proper precautions to ensure safety during all of this.
Rob wanted to do a little more fun stuff so I made a few steep turns (hit my wake on the first one, which is always a treat!) and made a steep spiral down to get to pattern altitude before heading back to the airport. I made three landings in order to help extend my tailwheel currency. The last two were power-off 180 landings; I landed too long on the first but the second was great with a touchdown about 50 feet past my aiming point. All in all, another fun day of aviating in a Piper Cub!
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Post-dino mammals were fat and slow
Slow start A near complete fossil of an ancient mammal proves it wasn't much of a runner. But with the dinosaurs gone, it really didn't need to be.
Many of the mammals that emerged right after the non-avian dinosaur extinction were hearty creatures, as exemplified by Ernanodon, a beast described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The skeleton that is the focus of the study is nearly complete, revealing how this early mammal looked in the flesh and lived.
"Ernanodon was a badger-sized, rather chunky mammal with a short square skull, extremely reduced dentition and big claws on the forelimbs," says lead author Peter Kondrashov.
"The structure of the forelimb indicates that this animal was doing a lot of digging, probably mostly in the search of food," adds Kondrashov, who is an associate professor and chair of the Anatomy Department at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
He and colleague Alexandre Agadjanian analysed the skeleton, which dates to the Late Paleocene (60 to 55 million years ago). This Ernanodon individual lived in Mongolia. Other, less complete, remains were previously found in China.
"Ernanodon is a unique find and represents one of the most complete skeletons ever collected from the Paleocene of the Naran Bulak locality," says Agadjanian, who works at the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The animal's hind limbs were almost flat-footed, so the researchers don't think Ernanodon was much of a runner. It instead appears to have spent most of its days digging and eating, without much chomping.
"Based on the structure of the teeth - very thin enamel layer, reduced tooth size - it appears that the food was rather soft and did not require a lot of chewing," Kondrashov explained. "Similar dental structure is observed in mammals that feed on termites, ants and other social insects, so we think that it was specialized in feeding on social insects as well."
No direct descendants
While Ernanodon is long gone and has no direct descendants, the scientists believe this animal was related to a group of extinct mammals known as palaeanodonts. They too had bulky bodies, tiny teeth, and big claws for digging.
These animals are, in turn, related to modern mammals called pangolins, or scaly anteaters, which live in Africa and Asia.
Based on the earlier evidence for Ernanodon, scientists thought the then enigmatic mammal was related to modern armadillos or sloths. While pangolins somewhat resemble these animals in appearance and behaviour, they represent a different genus and species.
Ernanodon is just one of many mammals that came to prominence after the great non-avian dinosaur extinction.
"This animal comes from the time period known as the Paleocene, which followed the Cretaceous, so it probably evolved as a result of the appearance of numerous new niches after the dinosaurs went extinct," says Kondrashov.
"We know very little about Paleocene deposits in Asia," he adds, "and this find sheds a lot of light on the early evolution of mammals in Asia."


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Cyberbullying: How to Spot the Warning Signs and Help Your Child Cope
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Newswise — Tips on spotting the warning signs of cyberbullying and how to help your child deal with the issue, from Mary Muscari, associate professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and author of Not My Kid: 21 Steps for Raising a Nonviolent Child and Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood.
Cyberbullying, the sending or posting of harmful or cruel text or images, using the Internet or other digital communication devices, affects almost half of today's teens. Cyberbullying messages and images may be posted on personal, web sites or blogs, or transmitted via email, discussion groups, chat, Instant Messenger (IM), text and smart phones.
Cyberbullies, mostly ages 9 to 14, use the anonymity of the Web to dispense pain without witnessing the consequences. Many cyberbullies are unrepentant, and their numbers are staggering, especially in affluent areas where technology is prominent.
According to Cyberbullying.org, the bullying techniques are as inventive as they are cruel: "¢ Sending cruel, vicious, and sometimes threatening messages. "¢ Creating web sites that have stories, cartoons, pictures, and jokes ridiculing others. "¢ Posting pictures of classmates online and asking students to rate them, with questions such "Who is the biggest ___ (add a derogatory term)?" "¢ Posting unflattering photos of peers on the Web. "¢ Taking a picture of a person in the locker room using a digital phone camera and sending that picture to others. "¢ Altering pornographic photos by adding a peer's face to the image and sending it to porn sites or posting it in a blog. "¢ Breaking into an e-mail account and sending vicious or embarrassing material to others. "¢ Engaging someone in IM, tricking that person into revealing sensitive personal information, and forwarding that information to others. "¢ Criticizing or defaming teachers and administrators on the Web.
Cyberbullying may more harmful than traditional bullying because: 1) There is no escape; cyberbullying runs 24/7. 2) The hurtful material can be globally distributed and is often irretrievable. 3) The bullies can be anonymous. 4) Children avoid telling their parents, fearing greater retribution, as well being forbidden to use the Internet.
To prevent cyberbullying, teach your kids to: "¢ Report negative messages to you or their teacher "¢ Not pass along negative messages to others - don't repeat it, just delete it. "¢ Set up blocks to messages from cyberbullies. "¢ Respect the rights and feelings of others in cyberspace.
Mary Muscari is an associate professor in the Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University, State University of New York
Topics areas include parenting, from toddler age and up, especially teens. She has conducted a number of parenting workshops around the country; most popular topics: keeping kids safe from predators ('live' and Internet), bullying, raising nonviolent kids
Parenting books include: Everything Book: Raising Adolescent Girls (Moira Mc Carthy with Dr. Mary Muscari) (2008) Everything Book Raising Adolescent Boys (Robin Weiss with Dr. Mary Muscari) (2008) Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood (2006) Not My Kid 2: Protecting your Kids from the 21 Threats of the 21st Century (2004) Not My Kid: 21 Steps to Raising a Nonviolent Child (2002)


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MANCHESTER, N.H. – With a pair of goals in each of the final two periods, the Hawks of St. Anselm College (10-3-2, 6-1-2 ECAC East) defeated women's ice hockey (5-9-1, 3-5-1 ECAC East) by the final of 4-0 Saturday afternoon in an ECAC East conference match-up at Sullivan Arena.
After a scoreless opening period, the Hawks got on the scoreboard five minutes into the second when Alex Kazmer ended the scoreless draw. Michelle Conway then made it a two goal game with less than three minutes to play in the period. A Courtney Winters goal at 11:42 and a Rosemarie Giarrusso power-play tally at 17:06 would seal the victory for the Hawks.
UMass Boston recorded a combined 27 shots in Saturday's tough conference loss, while St. Anselm put a combined 39 shots on UMB's Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.). The freshman netminder played a very strong game making a combined 35 stops.
Janie Michaud improved to 3-1-1 on the year after making all 27 saves to lead her team to the conference victory.
On the power-play UMB finished 0-for-4, while their Division II opponent went 1-for-5 on the afternoon.
Sophomore Dylan Caron (Burrillville, R.I.) led the Beacons offense with a combined six shots on goal, while classmates Emily Howard (Terryville, Conn.) and Kayla Kiernan (North Smithfield, R.I.) each recorded five.
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I think from this point out we're just going to make this a continuing thread. There's really no need to keep making new chapter threads when they get so few responses, and traffic to this forum has plummeted since the anime ended.
So from here on out, this is now the thread for all chapters 500 and beyond.
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I'm going for Grimmjow rather, not cause it makes sense but as Kubo doesn't give a damn bout logic anymore and a couple of other characters fans wanted were revived to service so why not him, too?
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if it was at melee range kirge should felt it
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I'm hoping whoever it is, is strong enough to free Ichigo. He or she also has to be so incredibly unexpected that even Urahara would be caught by surprise.
Honestly, I'm hoping it'll be a Squad Zero member. But to be able to slice an enemy clean in half with such power, and then immediately point their blade in front of Urahara in such a manner also makes the idea of it being Gin somewhat plausible I suppose. Granted, he should be dead. But I don't believe we ever saw his body actually break down into spirit particles. So maybe his popularity kept him alive somehow.
I'd mention Nel and Grimmjow, but those have already been predicted.
The only other possibilities that come to mind are one of the remaining Vizards in KT.
So for this week, I'm going to make an unlikely prediction--Kirio Hikifune.
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It's grimmjow! Don't denie it!
Hint one, the huge slice... brutal .. Hint Two, who else would have scared Urahara by getting close with a SWORD.
"Don't sit there scared like a little bitch, get up and get him out of that .. whatchhya call it..."
What I want to know is how they are controling big guy and the other kid. Aizen on their side?
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my bet is on grimmjow as well
oh poor ss, things are going to hell in a handbasket for them
im guessing ss will actually be destroyed, and we'll have renegade shinigami's trying to take it back... although i swear that's happened in like two or threee filler arcs...
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Meh to hell with Grimmjow or even a fav like Nell or Halibel showing up again don't need them now, prefer to see our Zero Squad show up instead.
Had enough of old characters showing up and being badass for like a couple of panels before being curbstomped before using their new power to payback the curbstomping.
Just bring in the other "special" reapers and kick ass already!
This dude in HM is past his death by date already, hope he's dead for sure this time.
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Well whoever it is, they have to at least be somewhat hostile towards Urahara since they're poiting their sword at him so I doubt it's Nel or the Zero squad. Unless Kubo feels the need to make character act OOC just to make them look cool.
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A Zero Squad Member: Plausible.
Isshin: Plausible, but that wouldn't really explain why there's a sword pointed at Urahara.
Gin: Extremely Unlikely...Lol...I can't believe I'm even mentioning this, but the speed could be Gins, and the rate of how the sword reached Urahara.
An Arrancar: Most Likely. Personally Grimmjow seems most likely of the KNOWN characters, considering the aggression, and the fan demand, and the fact that of the only two espada confirmed to have survived, Nel has been introduced so early, leads me to believe this is Grimmjow. Nel I just don't see coming. An arrancar we don't know of is a possibilty.
Aizen: Unlikely. Lolwut, Aizen out so early . The big gatekeeper guy attacking and all could have been illusion induced, but I doubt it. Most likely ANOTHER quincy ability that makes shinigami look like little kids with metal sticks. Aizen wouldn't be out this easy, all I gotta say.
Edit: Actually, a vizard, like Hiyori is likely
I think I've covered most of the suspects
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Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Fin de siecle 15-1600. Midsummer night on the terrace of the Palace at Whitehall, overlooking the Thames. The Palace clock chimes four quarters and strikes eleven. A Beefeater on guard. A Cloaked Man approaches.
THE BEEFEATER: Stand. Who goes there? Give the word.
THE MAN: Marry! I cannot. I have clean forgotten it.
THE BEEFEATER: Then cannot you pass here. What is your business? Who are you? Are you a true man?
THE MAN: Far from it, Master Warder. I am not the same man two days together: sommetimes Adam, sometimes Benvolio, and anon the Ghost.
THE BEEFEATER: (recoiling) A ghost! Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
THE MAN: Well said, Master Warder. With your leave I will set that down in writing; for I have a very poor and unhappy brain for remembrance. (He takes out his tablets and writes.) Methinks this is a good scene, with you on your lonely watch, and I approaching like a ghost in the moonlight. Stare not so amazedly at me; but mark what I say. I keep tryst here to-night with a dark lady. She promised to bribe the warder. I gave her the wherewithal: four tickets for the Globe Theatre.
THE BEEFEATER: Plague on her! She gave me two only.
THE MAN: (detaching a tablet) My friend: present this tablet, and you will be welcomed at any time when the plays of Will Shakespear are in hand. Bring your wife. Bring your friends. Bring the whole garrison. There is ever plenty of room.
THE BEEFEATER: I care not for these new-fangled plays. No man can understand a word of them. They are all talk. Will you not give me a pass for The Spanish Tragedy?
THE MAN: To see The Spanish Tragedy one pays, my friend. Here are the means. (He gives him a piece of gold.)
THE BEEFEATER: (overwhelmed) Gold! Oh, sir, you are a better paymaster than your dark lady.
THE MAN: Women are thrifty, my friend.
THE BEEFEATER: Tis so, sir. And you have to consider that the most open handed of us must een cheapen that which we buy every day. This lady has to make a present to a warder nigh every night of her life.
THE MAN: (turning pale) I'll not believe it.
THE BEEFEATER: Now you, sir, I dare be sworn, do not have an adventure like this twice in the year.
THE MAN: Villain: Wouldst tell me that my dark lady hath ever done thus before? That she maketh occasions to meet other men?
THE BEEFEATER: Now the Lord bless your innocence, sir, do you think you are the only pretty man in the world? A merry lady, sir: a warm bit of stuff. Go to: I'll not see her pass a deceit on a gentleman that hath given me the first piece of gold I ever handled.
THE MAN: Master Warder: is it not a strange thing that we, knowing that all women are false, should be amazed to find our own particular drab no better than the rest?
THE BEEFEATER: Not all, sir. Decent bodies, many of them.
THE MAN: (intolerantly) No. All false. All. If thou deny it, thou liest.
THE BEEFEATER: You judge too much by the Court, sir. There, indeed, you may say of frailty that its name is woman.
THE MAN: (pulling out his tablets again) Prithee say that again: that about frailty: The strain of music.
THE BEEFEATER: What strain of music, sir? I'm no musician, God knows.
THE MAN: There is music in your soul: many of your degree have it very notably. (Writing) "Frailty: thy name is woman!" (Repeating it affectionately) "Thy name is woman."
THE BEEFEATER: Well, sir, it is but four words. Are you a snapper-up of such unconsidered trifles?
THE MAN: (eagerly) Snapper-up of-- (he gasps) Oh! Immortal phrase! (He writes it down). This man is a greater than I.
THE BEEFEATER: You have my lord Pembroke's trick, sir.
THE MAN: Like enough: He is my near friend. But what call you his trick?
THE BEEFEATER: Making sonnets by moonlight. And to the same lady too.
THE MAN: No!
THE BEEFEATER: Last night he stood here on your errand, and in your shoes.
THE MAN: Thou, too, Brutus! And I called him friend!
THE BEEFEATER: Tis ever so, sir.
THE MAN: Tis ever so. Twas ever so. (He turns away, overcome). Two Gentlemen of Verona! Judas! Judas!!
THE BEEFEATER: Is he so bad as that, sir?
THE MAN: (recovering his charity and self-possession) Bad? Oh no. Human, Master Warder, human. We call one another names when we are offended, as children do. That is all.
THE BEEFEATER: Ay, sir: words, words, words. Mere wind, sir. We fill our bellies with the east wind, sir, as the Scripture hath it. You cannot feed capons so.
THE MAN: A good cadence. By your leave. (He makes a note of it).
THE BEEFEATER: What manner of thing is a cadence, sir? I have not heard of it.
THE MAN: A thing to rule the world with, friend.
THE BEEFEATER: You speak strangely, sir: no offence. But, an't like you, you are a very civil gentleman; and a poor man feels drawn to you, you being, as twere, willing to share your thought with him.
THE MAN: Tis my trade. But alas! the world for the most part will none of my thoughts.
(Lamplight streams from the palace door as it opens from within.)
THE BEEFEATER: Here comes your lady, sir. I'll to t'other end of my ward. You may een take your time about your business: I shall not return too suddenly unless my sergeant comes prowling round. Tis a fell sergeant, sir: Strict in his arrest. Go'd'en, sir; and good luck! (He goes).
THE MAN: "Strict in his arrest"! "Fell sergeant"! (As if tasting a ripe plum) O-o-o-h! (He makes a note of them).
(A Cloaked Lady gropes her way from the palace and wanders along the terrace, walking in her sleep.)
THE LADY: (rubbing her hands as if washing them) Out, damned spot. You will mar all with these cosmetics. God made you one face; and you make yourself another. Think of your grave, woman, not ever of being beautified. All the perfumes of Arabia will not whiten this Tudor hand.
THE MAN: "All the perfumes of Arabia"! "Beautified"! "Beautified"! A poem in a single word. Can this be my Mary? (To the Lady) Why do you speak in a strange voice, and utter poetry for the first time? Are you ailing? You walk like the dead. Mary! Mary!
THE LADY: (echoing him) Mary! Mary! Who would have thought that woman to have had so much blood in her! Is it my fault that my counsellors put deeds of blood on me? Fie! If you were women you would have more wit than to stain the floor so foully. Hold not up her head so: the hair is false. I tell you yet again, Mary's buried: she cannot come out of her grave. I fear her not: these cats that dare jump into thrones though they be fit only for men's laps must be put away. Whats done cannot be undone. Out, I say. Fie! a queen, and freckled!
THE MAN: (shaking her arm) Mary, I say: Art asleep?
(The Lady wakes; starts; and nearly faints. He catches her on his arm.)
THE LADY: Where am I? What art thou?
THE MAN: I cry your mercy. I have mistook your person all this while. Methought you were my Mary: my mistress.
THE LADY: (outraged) Profane fellow: How do you dare?
THE MAN: Be not wroth with me, lady. My mistress is a marvellous proper woman. But she does not speak so well as you. "All the perfumes of Arabia"! That was well said: spoken with good accent and excellent discretion.
THE LADY: Have I been in speech with you here?
THE MAN: Why, yes, fair lady. Have you forgot it?
THE LADY: I have walked in my sleep.
THE MAN: Walk ever in your sleep, fair one; for then your words drop like honey.
THE LADY: (with cold majesty) Know you to whom you speak, sir, that you dare express yourself so saucily?
THE MAN: (unabashed) Not I, not care neither. You are some lady of the Court, belike. To me there are but two sorts of women: those with excellent voices, sweet and low, and cackling hens that cannot make me dream. Your voice has all manner of loveliness in it. Grudge me not a short hour of its music.
THE LADY: Sir: You are overbold. Season your admiration for a while with--
THE MAN: (holding up his hand to stop her) "Season your admiration for a while--"
THE LADY: Fellow: Do you dare mimic me to my face?
THE MAN: Tis music. Can you not hear? When a good musician sings a song, do you not sing it and sing it again till you have caught and fixed its perfect melody? Season your admiration for a while": God! the history of man's heart is in that one word admiration. Admiration! (Taking up his tablets) What was it? "Suspend your admiration for a space--"
THE LADY: A very vile jingle of esses. I said "Season your--"
THE MAN: (hastily) Season: ay, season, season, season. Plague on my memory, my wretched memory! I must een write it down. (He begins to write, but stops, his memory failing him). Yet tell me which was the vile jingle? You said very justly: mine own ear caught it even as my false tongue said it.
THE LADY: You said "for a space." I said "for a while."
THE MAN: "For a while" (he corrects it). Good! (Ardently) And now be mine neither for a space nor a while, but for ever.
THE LADY: Odds my life! Are you by chance making love to me, knave?
THE MAN: Nay: Tis you who have made the love: I but pour it out at your feet. I cannot but love a lass that sets such store by an apt word. Therefore vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman--No: I have said that before somewhere; and the wordy garment of my love for you must be fire-new--
THE LADY: You talk too much, sir. Let me warn you: I am more accustomed to be listened to than preached at.
THE MAN: The most are like that that do talk well. But though you spake with the tongues of angels, as indeed you do, yet know that I am the king of words--
THE LADY: A king, ha!
THE MAN: No less. We are poor things, we men and women--
THE LADY: Dare you call me woman?
THE MAN: What nobler name can I tender you? How else can I love you? Yet you may well shrink from the name: Have I not said we are but poor things? Yet there is a power that can redeem us.
THE LADY: Gramercy for your sermon, sir. I hope I know my duty.
THE MAN: This is no sermon, but the living truth. The power I speak of is the power of immortal poesy. For know that vile as this world is, and worms as we are, you have but to invest all this vileness with a magical garment of words to transfigure us and uplift our souls til earth flowers into a million heavens.
THE LADY: You spoil your heaven with your million. You are extravagant. Observe some measure in your speech.
THE MAN: You speak now as Ben does.
THE LADY: And who, pray, is Ben?
THE MAN: A learned bricklayer who thinks that the sky is at the top of his ladder, and so takes it on him to rebuke me for flying. I tell you there is no word yet coined and no melody yet sung that is extravagant and majestical enough for the glory that lovely words can reveal. It is heresy to deny it: Have you not been taught that in the beginning was the Word? That the Word was with God? nay, that the Word was God?
THE LADY: Beware, fellow, how you presume to speak of holy things. The Queen is the head of the Church.
THE MAN: You are the head of my Church when you speak as you did at first. "All the perfumes of Arabia"! Can the Queen speak thus? They say she playeth well upon the virginals. Let her play so to me; and I'll kiss her hands. But until then, you are my Queen; and I'll kiss those lips that have dropt music on my heart. (He puts his arms about her).
THE LADY: Unmeasured impudence! On your life, take your hands from me.
(The Dark Lady comes stooping along the terrace behind them like a running thrush. When she sees how they are employed, she rises angrily to her full height, and listens jealously.)
THE MAN: (unaware of the Dark Lady) Then cease to make my hands tremble with the streams of life you pour through them. You hold me as the lodestar holds the iron: I cannot but cling to you. We are lost, you and I: nothing can separate us now.
THE DARK LADY: We shall see that, false lying hound, you and your filthy trull. (With two vigorous cuffs, she knocks the pair asunder, sending the man, who is unlucky enough to receive a righthanded blow, sprawling an the flags). Take that, both of you!
THE CLOAKED LADY: (in towering wrath, throwing off her cloak and turning in outraged majesty on her assailant) High treason!
THE DARK LADY: (recognizing her and falling on her knees in abject terror) Will: I am lost: I have struck the Queen.
THE MAN: (sitting up as majestically as his ignominious posture allows) Woman: you have struck WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR!
QUEEN ELIZABETH: (stupent) Marry, come up!!! Struck William Shakespear quotha! And who in the name of all the sluts and jades and light-o'-loves and fly-by-nights that infest this palace of mine, may William Shakespear be?
THE DARK LADY: Madam: he is but a player. Oh, I could have my hand cut off--
QUEEN ELIZABETH: Belike you will, mistress. Have you bethought you that I am like to have your head cut off as well?
THE DARK LADY: Will: Save me. Oh, save me.
ELIZABETH: Save you! A likely savior, on my royal word! I had thought this fellow at least an esquire; for I had hoped that even the vilest of my ladies would not have dishonored my Court by wantoning with a baseborn servant.
SHAKESPEAR: (indignantly scrambling to his feet) Base-born! I, a Shakespear of Stratford! I, whose mother was an Arden! Baseborn! You forget yourself, madam.
ELIZABETH: (furious) S'blood! Do I so? I will teach you--
THE DARK LADY: (rising from her knees and throwing herself between them) Will: in God's name anger her no further. It is death. Madam: do not listen to him.
SHAKESPEAR: Not were it een to save your life, Mary, not to mention mine own, will I
flatter a monarch who forgets what is due to my family. I deny not that my father was brought down to be a poor bankrupt; but twas his gentle blood that was ever too generous for trade. Never did he disown his debts. Tis true he paid them not; but it is an attested truth that he gave bills for them; and twas those bills, in the hands of base hucksters, that were his undoing.
ELIZABETH: (grimly) The son of your father shall learn his place in the presence of the daughter of Harry the Eighth.
SHAKESPEAR: (swelling with intolerant importance) Name not that inordinate man in the same breath with Stratford's worthiest alderman. John Shakespear wedded but once: Harry Tudor was married six times. You should blush to utter his name.
(Dark Lady and Elizabeth cry out together)
THE DARK LADY: Will: For pity's sake-- ELIZABETH: Insolent dog--
SHAKESPEAR: (cutting them short) How know you that King Harry was indeed your father?
ELIZABETH: Zounds! Now by-- (she stops to grind her teeth with rage)
THE DARK LADY: She will have me whipped through the streets. Oh God! Oh God!
SHAKESPEAR: Learn to know yourself better, madam. I am an honest gentleman of unquestioned parentage, and have already sent in my demand for the coat-of-arms that is lawfully mine. Can you say as much for yourself?
ELIZABETH: (almost beside herself) Another word; and I begin with mine own hands the work the hangman shall finish.
SHAKESPEAR: You are no true Tudor: This baggage here has as good a right to your royal seat as you. What maintains you on the throne of England? Is it your renowned wit? your wisdom that sets at naught the craftiest statesmen of the Christian world? No. Tis the mere chance that might have happened to any milkmaid, the caprice of Nature that made you the most wondrous piece of beauty the age hath seen. (Elizabeth's raised fists, on the point of striking him, fall to her side.) That is what hath brought all men to your feet, and founded your throne on the impregnable rock of your proud heart, a stony island in a sea of desire. There, madam, is some wholesome blunt honest speaking for you. Now do your worst.
ELIZABETH: (with dignity) Master Shakespear: It is well for you that I am a merciful prince. I make allowance for your rustic ignorance. But remember that there are things which be true, and are yet not seemly to be said (I will not say to a queen; for you will have it that I am none) but to a virgin.
SHAKESPEAR: (bluntly) It is no fault of mine that you are a virgin, madam, albeit tis my misfortune.
THE DARK LADY: (terrified again) In mercy, madam, hold no further discourse with him. He hath ever some lewd jest on his tongue. You hear how he useth me! Calling me baggage and the like to your Majesty's face.
ELIZABETH: As for you, mistress, I have yet to demand what your business is at this hour in this place, and how you come to be so concerned with a player that you strike blindly at your sovereign in your jealousy of him.
THE DARK LADY: Madam: as I live and hope for salvation--
SHAKESPEAR: (sardonically) Ha!
THE DARK LADY: (angrily)--ay, I'm as like to be saved as thou that believest naught save some black magic of words and verses--I say, madam, as I am a living woman I came here to break with him for ever. Oh, madam, if you would know what misery is, listen to this man that is more than man and less at the same time. He will tie you down to anatomize your very soul: He will wring tears of blood from your humiliation; and then he will heal the wound with flatteries that no woman can resist.
SHAKESPEAR: Flatteries! (Kneeling) Oh, madam, I put my case at your royal feet. I confess to much. I have a rude tongue: I am unmannerly: I blaspheme against the holiness of anointed royalty; but oh, my royal mistress, AM I a flatterer?
ELIZABETH: I absolve you as to that. You are far too plain a dealer to please me. (He rises gratefully).
THE DARK LADY: Madam: he is flattering you even as he speaks.
ELIZABETH: (a terrible flash in her eye) Ha! Is it so?
SHAKESPEAR: Madam: She is jealous; and, heaven help me! not without reason. Oh, you say you are a merciful prince; but that was cruel of you, that hiding of your royal dignity when you found me here. For how can I ever be content with this black-haired, black-eyed, black-avised devil again now that I have looked upon real beauty and real majesty?
THE DARK LADY: (wounded and desperate) He hath swore to me ten times over that the day shall come in England when black women, for all their foulness, shall be more thought on than fair ones. (To Shakespear, scolding at him) Deny it if thou canst. Oh, he is compact of lies and scorns. I am tired of being tossed up to heaven and dragged down to hell at every whim that takes him. I am ashamed to my very soul that I have abased myself to love one that my father would not have deemed fit to hold my stirrup--one that will talk to all the world about me--that will put my love and my shame into his plays and make me blush for myself there--that will write sonnets about me that no man of gentle strain would put his hand to. I am all disordered: I know not what I am saying to your Majesty: I am of all ladies most deject and wretched--
SHAKESPEAR: Ha! At last sorrow hath struck a note of music out of thee. "Of all ladies most deject and wretched." (He makes a note of it).
THE DARK LADY: Madam: I implore you give me leave to go. I am distracted with grief and shame. I--
ELIZABETH: Go (The Dark Lady tries to kiss her hand). No more. Go. (The Dark Lady goes, convulsed). You have been cruel to that poor fond wretch, Master Shakespear.
SHAKESPEAR: I am not cruel, madam; but you know the fable of Jupiter and Semele. I could not help my lightnings scorching her.
ELIZABETH: You have an overweening conceit of yourself, sir, that displeases your Queen.
SHAKESPEAR: Oh, madam, can I go about with the modest cough of a minor poet, belittling my inspiration and making the mightiest wonder of your reign a thing of nought? I have said that "not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive" the words with which I make the world glorious or foolish at my will. Besides, I would have you think me great enough to grant me a boon.
ELIZABETH: I hope it is a boon that may be asked of a virgin Queen without offence, sir. I mistrust your forwardness; and I bid you remember that I do not suffer persons of your degree (if I may say so without offence to your father the alderman) to presume too far.
SHAKESPEAR: Oh, madam, I shall not forget myself again; though by my life, could I make you a serving wench, neither a queen nor a virgin should you be for so much longer as a flash of lightning might take to cross the river to the Bankside. But since you are a queen and will none of me, nor of Philip of Spain, nor of any other mortal man, I must een contain myself as best I may, and ask you only for a boon of State.
ELIZABETH: A boon of State already! You are becoming a courtier like the rest of them. You lack advancement.
SHAKESPEAR: "Lack advancement." By your Majesty's leave: a queenly phrase. (He is about to write it down).
ELIZABETH: (striking the tablets from his hand) Your tables begin to anger me, sir. I am not here to write your plays for you.
SHAKESPEAR: You are here to inspire them, madam. For this, among the rest, were you ordained. But the boon I crave is that you do endow a great playhouse, or, if I may ake bold to coin a scholarly name for it, a National Theatre, for the better instruction and gracing of your Majesty's subjects.
ELIZABETH: Why, sir, are there not theatres enow on the Bankside and in Blackfriars?
SHAKESPEAR: Madam: these are the adventures of needy and desperate men that must, to save themselves from perishing of want, give the sillier sort of people what they best like; and what they best like, God knows, is not their own betterment and instruction, as we well see by the example of the churches, which must needs compel men to frequent them, though they be open to all without charge. Only when there is a matter of a murder, or a plot, or a pretty youth in petticoats, or some naughty tale of wantonness, will your subjects pay the great cost of good players and their finery, with a little profit to boot. To prove this I will tell you that I have written two noble and excellent plays setting forth the advancement of women of high nature and fruitful industry even as your Majesty is: the one a skilful physician, the other a sister devoted to good works. I have also stole from a book of idle wanton tales two of the most damnable foolishnesses in the world, in the one of which a woman goeth in man's attire and maketh impudent love to her swain, who pleaseth the groundlings by overthrowing a wrestler; whilst, in the other, one of the same kidney sheweth her wit by saying endless naughtinesses to a gentleman as lewd as herself. I have writ these to save my friends from penury, yet shewing my scorn for such follies and for them that praise them by calling the one As You Like It, meaning that it is not as I like it, and the other Much Ado About Nothing, as it truly is. And now these two filthy pieces drive their nobler fellows from the stage, where indeed I cannot have my lady physician presented at all, she being too honest a woman for the taste of the town. Wherefore I humbly beg your Majesty to give order that a theatre be endowed out of the public revenue for the playing of those pieces of mine which no merchant will touch, seeing that his gain is so much greater with the worse than with the better. Thereby you shall also encourage other men to undertake the writing of plays who do now despise it and leave it wholly to those whose counsels will work little good to your realm. For this writing of plays is a great matter, forming as it does the minds and affections of men in such sort that whatsoever they see done in show on the stage, they will presently be doing in earnest in the world, which is but a larger stage. Of late, as you know, the Church taught the people by means of plays; but the people flocked only to such as were full of superstitious miracles and bloody martyrdoms; and so the Church, which also was just then brought into straits by the policy of your royal father, did abandon and discountenance the art of playing; and thus it fell into the hands of poor players and greedy merchants that had their pockets to look to and not the greatness of this your kingdom. Therefore now must your Majesty take up that good work that your Church hath abandoned, and restore the art of playing to its former use and dignity.
ELIZABETH: Master Shakespear: I will speak of this matter to the Lord Treasurer.
SHAKESPEAR: Then am I undone, madam; for there was never yet a Lord Treasurer that could find a penny for anything over and above the necessary expenses of your government, save for a war or a salary for his own nephew.
ELIZABETH: Master Shakespear: You speak sooth; yet cannot I in any wise mend it. I dare not offend my unruly Puritans by making so lewd a place as the playhouse a public charge; and there be a thousand things to be done in this London of mine before your poetry can have its penny from the general purse. I tell thee, Master Will, it will be three hundred years and more before my subjects learn that man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that cometh from the mouth of those whom God inspires. By that time you and I will be dust beneath the feet of the horses, if indeed there be any horses then, and men be still riding instead of flying. Now it may be that by then your works will be dust also.
SHAKESPEAR: They will stand, madam: fear nor for that.
ELIZABETH: It may prove so. But of this I am certain (for I know my countrymen) that until every other country in the Christian world, even to barbarian Muscovy and the hamlets of the boorish Germans, have its playhouse at the public charge, England will never adventure. And she will adventure then only because it is her desire to be ever in the fashion, and to do humbly and dutifully whatso she seeth everybody else doing. In the meantime you must content yourself as best you can by the playing of those two pieces which you give out as the most damnable ever writ, but which your countrymen, I warn you, will swear are the best you have ever done. But this I will say, that if I could speak across the ages to our descendants, I should heartily recommend them to fulfil your wish; for the Scottish minstrel hath well said that he that maketh the songs of a nation is mightier than he that maketh its laws; and the same may well be true of plays and interludes. (The clock chimes the first quarter. The warder returns on his round.) And now, sir, we are upon the hour when it better beseems a virgin queen to be abed than to converse alone with the naughtiest of her subjects. Ho there! Who keeps ward on the queen's lodgings tonight?
THE WARDER. I do, an't please your majesty.
ELIZABETH: See that you keep it better in future. You have let pass a most dangerous gallant even to the very door of our royal chamber. Lead him forth; and bring me word when he is safely locked out; for I shall scarce dare disrobe until the palace gates are between us.
SHAKESPEAR: (kissing her hand) My body goes through the gate into the darkness, madam; but my thoughts follow you.
ELIZABETH: How! to my bed!
SHAKESPEAR: No, madam, to your prayers, in which I beg you to remember my theatre.
ELIZABETH: That is my prayer to posterity. Forget not your own to God; and so goodnight, Master Will.
SHAKESPEAR: Goodnight, great Elizabeth. God save the Queen!
ELIZABETH: Amen.
Exeunt severally: She to her chamber: He, in custody of the warder, to the gate nearest Blackfriars.
Ayot, St. Lawrence, 20th June 1910.
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Ricotta Pasta with Chimichurri
I love chimichurri sauce. The bright green color and subtle spiciness are perfect with steamed fish or grilled skirt steak. I've wanted to incorporate this delicious green sauce into a vegetarian dish for some time now to share with my husband Lulu.
So, I made a dish of fettuccine pasta with a creamy white sauce and served it with a little chimichurri sauce. The creaminess of the white sauce is made with ricotta cheese and it matches wonderfully with the garlic and herb flavor of the chimicurri. It's a healthy alternative to fettuccine alfredo that doesn't skimp on flavor.
Yields: 8 servings1 (16-ounce) package fettuccine pasta
2-½ teaspoons salt
1 bunch curly parsley
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste (see tips)
1 Anaheim green pepper
½ teaspoon paprika
½ teaspoon ground coriander
1 bay leaf, finely chopped
juice of 1 lime
3/4 teaspoon sea salt (or regular salt)
1-¼ cups olive oil
1 yellow onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
9 tablespoons butter, diced
4-1/3 cups milk, warmed for 2 minutes in the microwave
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
8 ounces ricotta cheese (3/4 cup)
Keeping a bright green color: Blanch (dip for 10 seconds in boiling water then transfer to an ice-cold bath) the parsley, drain and pat dry on a paper towel. Roughly chop; you'll get approximately 1 cup of greens.
Roasting peppers (check the tip section for the oven method): Cut the stem off the Anaheim pepper. Wash the pepper, pat dry and brush with oil. Place a grill on your stove and char all the skin of the pepper. Wrap in aluminum foil. Let cool for about 5-10 minutes until you can handle it without discomfort. Clean the pepper using a knife; the skin will come right off. Seed it and finely chop the flesh.
For the chimichurri sauce:
In a mini-food processor or mini-blender, combine the blanched, chopped parsley, the ginger garlic paste, lime juice, roasted chile pepper, bay leaf, paprika and ground coriander. Pulse and slowly add about ½ to 3/4 cup of olive oil until it becomes a thick paste. Season with sea salt and pepper.
Transfer to a 1-pint jar, cover with about 1/3 cup of olive oil and store in the refrigerator; it will store up to 2 weeks.
For the fettuccine pasta:
Bring about 8 quarts of water to a boil. Add the pasta, bring back to a boil, then immediately lower the heat to a gentle boil. That way the pasta is cooked all the way through evenly. Cook the pasta for about 10-12 minutes total. Salt (with 2/3 teaspoon) the water half-way through the cooking process (it will bring out the natural flavor of the pasta and the pasta will be more tender) and keep stirring every now and then so the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom. It may take longer than the cooking time that's written on the box.
When the pasta is cooked (cooked inside and out but still in shape and firm), reserve about 1/3 cup to 1/2 cup of pasta water and drain the pasta (do NOT rinse). Transfer it to a large flat platter or into a colander.
In a large non-stick sauté pan, heat the rest of the olive oil. Add the chopped onions and cook until they're slightly golden. Add the garlic, cook for another 2 minutes. Add the fettuccine pasta and 1 tablespoons of butter. Toss the pasta using tongs for about 3-4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. If the pasta starts sticking to the bottom, add the reserved pasta water. Transfer to a large serving platter.
For the ricotta cream:
In a saucepan, melt 8 tablespoons of butter over medium-low; you don't want the butter to burn. Bring the heat back up to medium-high (the butter should be hot and golden) and add the flour. Keep stirring manually with a whisk for approximately 3 minutes. The flour should absorb the butter instantly and form a paste. Add the warm milk in 3 stages; stir well until incorporated. Increase the heat while constantly stirring for about 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to low. Add the ricotta cheese. Stir well. Season with salt and pepper. Let the sauce rest until it's time to assemble the dish.
Assembly time:
When you're ready to serve, bring the chimichurri sauce back to room temperature. Stir well.
I served the dish family style. I placed the large platter of warm fettuccine pasta with a large bowl of the ricotta creamy sauce and the jar of chimichurri sauce on the side. Everyone helped themselves to their own pasta bowl, starting with the fettuccine, a ladleful of ricotta sauce, and then finally the chimichurri.
Bon appétit!
I use parsley stems as well as the leaves, because that's where the flavor is the most potent. If you don't have any curly parsley, you can use other herbs such as cilantro, flat-leaf parsley or basil.
You've probably noticed I use ginger garlic paste a lot in my cooking. It tastes great and is very healthy for you as well. Just clean the ginger, carefully removing any dirt. Peel the ginger root with a paring knife or the edge of a spoon, then finely chop it. Place the chopped ginger and 5 cloves of garlic in a blender and, add about 2 tablespoons (or more) of water for a smooth flow. Transfer to a jar and store in the refrigerator. You can keep this paste for at least a week in the refrigerator.
I roasted the peppers on the stove. Here's Carole's oven method for roasting peppers:
The oven method works well for chiles, garlic and tomatoes.
Preheat your oven to 450°F. Spread the peppers evenly on a cookie sheet, in a single layer. Roast the peppers for about 4-5 minutes until the skins blister. Watch carefully so they don't burn. Place the roasted peppers in a plastic bag and seal the bag. After about ten minutes, just take them out of the bag and the skins come right off under running water. Works great!
You could also store the chimichurri sauce in the freezer. Just place about 1 tablespoon of sauce per slot in an ice-cube tray and freeze them. Transfer the ice-cubes into sealable plastic bags and store in the freezer for up to 3 months. I think it's the best way to keep the same flavor without getting freezer burn. I store them exactly the same as I do extra pesto or papaya (for marinating meat).
To make béchamel sauce or any cream sauce like this ricotta cream, you should always use all the ingredients at the same temperature. Make sure to heat the milk in the microwave for about 2 minutes (or in a saucepan), so it's warm. If you get lumpy pieces in the sauce, don't hesitate to use a hand blender.
I used regular cow's milk ricotta cheese for this recipe but if you like a stronger flavor, don't hesitate to use goat ricotta cheese. As you may have noticed, I'm a huge fan of this variety of cheese.
If you're a pasta lover, check out my other pasta dishes.Published By: on March 2, 2010.