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So I have to admit, while I don't particularly like doing late-night, some nights it's not so bad
Hey!?? How's your squoze (that would be the past tense of 'squashed') foot?
Sound like "not broken" (whew!) or straight up-down and intermittent bushwhacking wouldn't have been possible.
Do you (the horses and riders on this property) literally wander into the woods anywhere at random? or are there multitudes of vaguely semi-cleared pathways meandering hither and yon which a person can ramble around on without placing horse and rider accidently in a precarious situation?
Hey Barb,
Foot's ok -- nothing broken, just bruised. I rode in paddock boots so to avoid trying to fit into my field boots, and avoided climbing fences for toady, but otherwise all good.
There are sort of three levels of trails on the property (discounting the XC course where you can go anywhere). The first trails - which Cayman's been mostly sticking to till today - are wide and flattened enough that a truck/tractor/gaitor/etc can go through -- some of these are gravel, others grass, and there are basically 3 of them running parallel at different altitudes (they all end @ the XC course). They twist and turn but very gently and while there are hills (it IS a mountain) they're not brutal.
The 2nd level has still obviously been cleared but not wide enough for vehicles. These connect the various big trails and sometimes can be quite steep. They're also, at the moment, covered in leaves so I don't *always* know where they actually go! These twist a little but seem to be mostly to get from one trail to the other.
The 3rd level is basically bushwacking -- may or may not have been a trail there @ some point in history, enuff space to squeze a horse through the trees if you're creative. I wouldn't do these alone cause I mostly can't discern what's 'trail' and what's not :) These were the more interesting parts of yesterday's ride :) *Very* twisty. Very fun :) Good for the whole 'teach your horse to think' thing -- "ooohhhhh shit; this isn't good, you figure it out!" hahaha


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Biophysical Profile
(BPP, Ultrasound Evaluation with a Nonstress Test)
Procedure overview
A biophysical profile is a test that's sometimes given during your third trimester of pregnancy. It is typically done if the health of your baby is in question because of the results of another test, because of certain pregnancy symptoms, or if your pregnancy is high risk.
The biophysical profile combines two tests to fully examine the health of your unborn baby. The first is a nonstress test, which measures the baby's heart rate and your contractions. This is accomplished with a pair of belts wrapped around the abdomen.
The second test that makes up the biophysical profile is an ultrasound evaluation. This is quite similar to the ultrasound done at other times during pregnancy. A qualified technician will use an ultrasound machine to "see" into the uterus to examine the health of your unborn baby.
Reasons for the procedure
A biophysical profile typically is not done unless there is some reason to be concerned about the health of your child. But just because your health care provider suggests a biophysical profile, it certainly doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with your baby.
During the biophysical profile, your health care provider is looking for specific things, including movement and heart rate, that can help give him or her a sense of the overall health and well-being of your baby. The procedure can also help your health care provider determine whether your baby might need to be born early.
Risks of the procedure
The biophysical profile is a completely noninvasive procedure. The nonstress test involves having two belts wrapped around your abdomen. The ultrasound involves having ultrasound gel applied to your belly, and then an ultrasound wand moved and pressed around on your belly in order to see into your uterus.
Neither of these poses much of a risk to you or your baby. Some concern has been raised about doing ultrasounds for a lengthy period of time, but an occasional ultrasound as part of a medical procedure doesn't seem to pose much of a risk.
There may be other risks, depending upon your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your health care provider before the procedure.
Before the procedure
You don't have to do much to prepare for a biophysical profile test. The test will be performed in your nurse midwife's, obstetrician's, or perinatologist's office, and no lengthy hospital stay or office visit is needed.
If needed, the test is typically performed after 32 weeks of pregnancy.
During the procedure
The biophysical profile is typically performed in a private room at your health care provider's office. You may be asked to undress and put on a medical gown to make it easier to conduct the test. The test is often done with you reclined on a doctor's table or bed.
The tests usually start by attaching a somewhat snug belt around your abdomen. This will measure the baby's heart rate, which will be displayed on a monitor in the procedure room.
Then a second, quite similar belt is attached right next to the first to measure your contractions. Even though labor is still a few weeks off, contractions are normal during this period of your pregnancy. This can monitor your contractions and make sure that nothing is out of the ordinary. This part of the test often lasts 20 to 30 minutes.
If the baby doesn't move during part of the test, you shouldn't panic. The baby might be asleep. If this happens, a nurse may try to wake the baby with a buzzer.
For the ultrasound portion of the test, an ultrasound technician will apply ultrasound gel to your bare abdomen. This part of the exam may take up to an hour.
After that, the technician will use an ultrasound camera to observe the baby within the uterus.
The ultrasound technician is observing the baby's breathing, movement, and muscle flexing.
In some cases, the ultrasound technician can also perform a separate test to measure the uterus' amniotic fluid and make sure there is enough present.
During the biophysical profile, the health care provider is looking at five specific things to determine the overall health and well-being of your baby:
At least one breathing episode within 30 minutes
Two or more baby movements within 30 minutes
One or more episodes of the baby's moving limbs or flexing muscles, such as opening and closing a hand
Two or more episodes of a reactive heart rate (in which the heart rate changes in a normal way)
One or more adequate pockets of amniotic fluid
After the procedure
Once the biophysical profile is complete, the technician will wipe the ultrasound gel off your belly, and you can get dressed and go about your day.
Your health care provider will "score" your baby's health based on the results of the five observations made above. If the score is lower than what your health care provider hoped to see during the biophysical profile, then he or she might suggest that you schedule your baby's delivery earlier than expected. In these instances, the delivery would take place through induced labor or a Caesarian section.
If your baby scores in an acceptable range during your biophysical profile, your health care provider may determine that everything is OK. You can progress with your pregnancy as usual and wait for the big day to arrive on its own.


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Here's guidance on how to avoid violating HIPAA when it comes to de-identification of protected health information.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued important guidance regarding the HIPAA concept known as "de-identification." This guidance applies to covered entities, which include physicians and business associates (a person or entity, other than a member of the covered entity's workforce), that perform certain services on behalf of the covered entity involving "protected health information" or PHI.
HIPAA's Privacy Rule helps guard against the use or disclosure of an individual's identifying health information or PHI by permitting its use in only certain instances, such as for treatment, payment, healthcare operations, or as authorized by the patient.(1) PHI is information, including demographic information, which relates to the individual's provision of healthcare, their physical or mental medical condition (past, present, or future), and any payment for that care that identifies or can be used to identify the individual. De-identification mitigates privacy risks by removing health data that individually identifies the individual and with respect to which there is no reasonable basis to believe that the information can be used to identify the individual. However, the privacy rule permits a physician or its business associate to create information for secondary use in comparative studies, policy assessments, and life science research that is not individually identifiable by following its de-identification standards.
De-identification occurs either by: (1) meeting the safe harbor in removing 18 identifiers and verifying there is no actual knowledge that the residual information can identify the individual; or (2) an expert has documented its statistical or scientific analysis determining that there is a very smallrisk of an anticipated recipient using such health information with other reasonably available information to identify an individual who is a subject of the information.
I. Safe Harbor-Removal of Identifiers:
The following 18 identifiers of the individual or of relatives, employers, or household members of the individual, are to be removed to comply:
II. Expert Determination
The assessment of whether or not there is a "very small" risk that an anticipated recipient could identify an individual must be determined by an expert who may have a statistical, mathematical, or scientific background. OCR does not require that an expert have a specific professional degree or certification when rendering health information de-identified. However, OCR will evaluate the expert's determination of acceptable "very small" risk based on his/her education and actual experience using health information de-identification methodologies.
There is also no universal level for the "very small" risk threshold. Risk will be determined on a case-by-case because its assessment is dependent on many factors (such as, replicability, availability of the data source, distinguishability, and social environment). Risk identified for one particular data set in the context of a specific environment may not be appropriate for the same data set in a different environment or a different data set in the same environment. As a result, an expert needs to define an acceptable very small risk based on its assessment of the ability of an anticipated recipient to identify an individual.
Although no single universal solution or process addresses all privacy and identification issues, experts are expected to document the methods and results of their analyses that justify their determination. Such steps may include: (i) the extent to which health information can (or cannot) be identified by the anticipated recipients; (ii) guidance on which statistical or scientific methods can be applied to the health information to mitigate anticipated risk; (iii) the execution of such methods; and (iv) their evaluation of the ability to identify the resulting health information confirming that the risk is no more than very small when disclosed to the anticipated recipients. It is understood that this process may require several iterations.
Additionally, HIPAA does not explicitly require an expiration date be attached to the expert's determination. In light of the evolution of technology, social conditions and availability of information, however, time-limited certifications may be considered reasonable. Covered entities should have an expert examine whether future releases of the data to the same recipient (e.g., monthly reporting) be subject to additional or different de-identification processes consistent with current conditions to reach the very low risk requirement.
In the next part of this post, I will discuss the examples and principles used in satisfying the safe harbor and methods used by experts to determine information is de-identified.
2 See 67 FR 53182, 53233-53234 (Aug. 14, 2002)
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A leaked Microsoft manual has revealed that you no longer need a capacious living room for Kinect to work properly as it has cut the distance the motion controller requires to do its job.
Kinect has always suffered in small spaces but with the launch of the Xbox One, we will see the distance needed shortened to a mere 4 feet 6 inches.
To put this into context, that is the official width of a double mattress or the height of famed music hall comedian Little Tich.
Nope, we have no idea where we are going with this either but we are sure targeted ad companies are going to have a field day with our search history.
Size matters
Given that Microsoft has previously recommended a 6 to 8 foot gap for Kinect to show its true worth this is quite a sizeable change for the technology.
The manual that has the new stats was spotted by NeoGaf, so there is no official confirmation from Microsoft on the measurement change - but it has revealed that Kinect will be changing for the Xbox One so we wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those changes.
We will find out for certain on November 22 when the Xbox One is finally released into the wild.


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As I reported today on Gadling, Six Flags America (near Washington D.C.) is removing their unique Intamin water ride known as Skull Mountain. I remember it as the Typhoon Sea Coaster when the park was in its Adventure World days. The ride's like many water flume rides, but it also incorporates roller coaster-like elements. In addition, it had these sections (or just one section, I can't remember) where the boats were rotated and then you'd continue traveling through the ride backwards.
Your last chance to ride Skull Mountain will be July 10th. Read about the special events that park is having to commemorate Skull Mountain's closing in the full press release.
What will Six Flags America's 2012 Attraction Be?
The park has shared that they plan to add a new 2012 attraction where Skull Mountain is now. I'm really interested in seeing what the park adds as it's down to only seven roller coasters after selling and removing the troubled Vekoma shuttle coaster Two Face. The park's last new roller coaster was Batwing in 2001. That's an unheard of ten year span without a new coaster!
If the new attraction is a roller coaster, my guess would be a wild mouse or wild mouse-esque coaster in the vein of the (formerly Tony Hawk) Big Spin coasters or SFNE's Pandemonium. Six Flags America is in a big market, but you wouldn't know it from visiting the park. For one reason or another locals, even those that didn't grow up in the area think of Kings Dominion when it comes to amusement parks. I felt like I was sharing a government secret when I told people there's a theme park only 30 minutes away just east of D.C.
What's Your Take?
What do you think Six Flags America's 2012 attraction will be? Do you think it will be a roller coaster? Leave a comment below. [Photo Credit – Flickr user Milst1]


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Tender, moist cake recipe with crushed pineapple, pecans and coconut with a cream cheese frosting. An old Southern tradition to make this cake when the preacher comes by for a visit!
I saw a recipe for this cake last week and the name really rang a bell for me. I knew exactly what it was and remembered eating it growing up once or twice. I thought about it so much that by the time the weekend rolled around I knew I had to make one!
I just knew I had a recipe for it somewhere so when I went looking and couldn't find one I was stumped. I looked through all my recipes and binders and notes and still could not find one.
Then I even pulled out all my old school community and church cookbooks and looked through all of them. Nothing.
I decided to put coconut in it because I love coconut but I'm not 100% sure if a true Preacher Cake has coconut in it or not. I guess that depends on your preacher... ha! [snort]
From what I've been told over the years, Preacher Cake got its name because it was a cake you usually had the ingredients for in your pantry so if the preacher told you he was coming to visit, you could whip one up with what you had on-hand.
Also? I think this would be awesome made as cupcakes!
If you like this cake be sure to check out this recipe for Moist Banana Cake too!
If the preachers's coming you might need to grab a casserole recipe too! Here are some of my favorites!
- Chicken & Stuffing Casserole - An addictive casserole recipe with Pepperidge Farm stuffing, sour cream and chicken.
- Smothered Chicken Casserole - Layers of creamy potatoes (think Potatoes Au Gratin) topped with chicken, smothered with cheese and bacon!
- Sausage & Rice Casserole - a simple recipe perfect for supper, side dishes, potlucks and Thanksgiving (sometimes called Rice Dressing).
- Pork Chop Casserole - An easy pork chop bake made with rice and French onion soup.
- Hamburger & Rice Casserole - Ground beef and rice baked together in a classic casserole recipe that's easy to make your own.
- Chicken Tetrazzini - Classic tetrazzini made with pasta, mushrooms, wine (optional) and cheese. Super easy AND super delicious!
Preacher Cake
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 20-ounce can crushed pineapple, with juice
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped pecans or walnuts, divided
- 1 cup flaked coconut (optional)
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
How to cook Preacher Cake
- Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
- Combine sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla and mix on medium-low speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Slowly mix in flour mixture until just combined.
- Add pineapple (undrained), 1 cup chopped pecans and coconut then continue mixing on medium-low speed until all ingredients are thoroughly combined (about 1 minute).
- Spray a 3-quart 13x9 baking pan with cooking spray. Pour cake batter into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until cake is set in the center and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Cool cake completely in pan then the frost with Cream Cheese Frosting. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup chopped pecans over cake. Store in refrigerator.
- Whip cream cheese, butter and vanilla with an electric mixer until fluffy (about 2 minutes). Beat in powdered sugar (add more if necessary to reach desired consistency).


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Hot Topics: Stewart slumping, Patrick trashed, Kenseth 2-for-2
Stewart's slow start
Tony Stewart has spent the last two weeks (Texas and Kansas) wrestling an ill-handling stock car. And in his last two starts, the three-time Sprint Cup champion has posted two ill-handling 21st-place finishes.
You know things are bad when your public-relations team waves the white flag, knowing that hype and excuses would be like trying to sweeten the scent inside a dog park with a spritz of Chanel.
Stewart's post-Kansas news release read, "The last two races and this entire season have been surreal for Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR).
"He has only one top-10 finish in the eight races run thus far and five finishes outside of the top 20. It's left Stewart an uncharacteristic 21st in the championship standings, 130 points out of first and 59 out of 10th."
It's no wonder Stewart was fighting mad at Joey Logano at Auto Club Speedway on March 24. All these ill-handling cars are making Stewart ill-tempered. At least, he stayed out of the way when Kansas race leaders Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne zipped past in the closing laps to put Stewart a lap down.
And Stewart's PR team did finish its Kansas report with an optimistic outlook saying, "There is still a lot of racing left – before the Chase begins and throughout the season. More racing means more opportunity. . ."
Patrick trashed
Danica Patrick said she got trashed at Kansas Speedway. OK, a quick clarification -- some paper debris got into the grille of her No. 10 Chevy, which complicated her racing effort in the STP 400.
On Lap 164, she radioed to crew chief, Spruce Creek graduate Tony Gibson, that her engine was running hot. A quick check of the grille on Patrick's Chevrolet revealed that much of it was covered by a piece of trash picked up somewhere along the 1.5-mile oval on a windy day.
Gibson ordered Patrick to pit road before the engine overheated and expired. It took mere seconds to pull the trash off the grille. But the damage was done as Patrick returned to the track in 31st place, two laps behind the leaders.
Kenseth undefeated
Matt Kenseth is undefeated at Kansas Speedway, well, since it had an asphalt face-lift last year. Kenseth has won both races on Kansas' new racing surface.
"I didn't realize that," Jimmie Johnson said.
And that statement sums up that stat perfectly.


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Big Ten rides NCAA Tournament surge with 3 teams in Sweet 16
This down year for Big Ten basketball just might end on an up note in the NCAA Tournament.
Eighth-seeded Wisconsin took out No. 1 overall seed and defending national champion Villanova in a second-round game Saturday, and No. 7 Michigan ousted No. 2 Louisville on Sunday. In between, No. 4 Purdue defeated No. 5 Iowa State.
None of the Big Ten's seven tournament teams were seeded higher than a No. 4. Now it has three teams in regional semifinals, matching last year's total, and would have had a fourth if No. 9 Michigan State had been able to upset No. 1 Kansas.
The Pac-12, Southeastern Conference and Big 12 also had three teams in the Sweet 16.
The Big Ten went into the tournament No. 4 in conference RPI behind the ACC, Big 12 and Big East.
"You guys seem to get a theme, whether it's good or bad. Tell them to go play Michigan," Purdue coach Matt Painter told reporters in Milwaukee after his team's win over the Cyclones . "People that don't think our league is any good, tell them to go play Wisconsin. They're not an eighth seed. I don't understand that. You don't understand basketball if you put Wisconsin as the eighth seed. Wisconsin is one of the toughest teams in the country, period."
Michigan's 73-69 upset of Louisville exemplifies the role reversals between the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten this postseason.
The ACC led all conferences with nine bids and was billed as the clear-cut pick as the top league in the nation. But only one team, conference heavyweight North Carolina, made the Sweet 16. Duke lost to South Carolina on Sunday night, several hours after Louisville was bounced by Michigan.
The ACC had four regional finalists last season, including Final Four participants North Carolina and Syracuse. The ACC also sent three teams to the regional finals in 2015, with Duke winning the national title.
The Big Ten had rosters filled with youth and no dominant team. The conference owned two of the worst nonconference losses in the country — Indiana losing at home to IPFW and Ohio State losing at home to Florida Atlantic.
Purdue has been consistent, other than a bad loss at Nebraska in January. Wisconsin lost five of its last seven in the regular season and was beaten handily by Michigan in the conference tournament championship game. Michigan lost six of 10 in Big Ten play before rolling off wins in 12 of its last 14.
All that played a part in the lower seedings for the NCAA Tournament.
"We're all going to be judged a lot on what happens in November, December," Michigan coach John Beilein said in Indianapolis after his team's win over Louisville. "We had a tremendous league last year with a lot of turnover. Guys going pro, great seniors in the league. We had some injuries to some players as well. So you get judged by that. I thought we had a pretty good record, actually, as a league, but it didn't measure up."
Wisconsin's Nigel Hayes, who scored the go-ahead basket with 11 seconds left against Villanova, dismissed ranking systems and analytics. He said he and his fellow seniors learned from players who came before them, guys who made it to Final Fours in 2014 and '15.
"The thing is with all those algorithms, they can't calculate heart, will to win, toughness, desire," Hayes said. "They can't put that into a formula to come out with a percentage chance to win, and that's the things that we have. The things that we've grown with. We've seen the older guys, they've had that."


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Why Portland Bible Church?
Recorded Bible Lessons
Audio Bible studies of the books of the Bible and special topics such as God's witness in the Stars.
Printed outlines of Bible Studies, doctrines of the Bible, charts and graphs of Biblical concepts.
Distinguishing one Christian church from another is difficult. Our statements of faith are similar. However, the churches comprising the Body of Christ do have different emphases. Portland Bible Church is all about teaching.
We take music seriously and believe that hymns provide the best format to express thought and appreciation for God. The hymns we use are Biblically accurate and arrangements are musically interesting and fun to sing.
Our lessons are lectures, presented by a pastor trained in the languages and historical context of Scripture and gifted by the Holy Spirit. We go through verse by verse, revealing the Holy Spirit's intentions for our spiritual edification.
While many churches emphasize counseling, we believe in the privacy, self-determination, and spiritual growth of the individual believer. Growing in the grace and knowledge of Christ, we're able to endure life's challenges on our own.
Portland Bible Church is a non-denominational, unaffiliated, Christian church committed to Biblical teaching. Our emphasis is verse-by-verse interpretation of Scripture from the original languages with attention to the context in which it was written. Quite simply, we are about the accurate teaching of the Word of God. 2 Tim 2:15 (Study to show thyself approved unto God…)
Pastor Gary Glenney, a graduate with a Masters Degree in Biblical languages from Tulsa Seminary, was ordained at Berachah Church in Houston Texas under the ministry of R.B. Thieme.
Please join us on Sundays at 10:00 am.


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"The next day,
The Samaritan
Took out
Two denarii.
He gave them
To the innkeeper.
He said.
'Take care of him!
When I come back,
I will repay you
Whatever more
You spend."
καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν αὔριον ἐκβαλὼν δύο δηνάρια ἔδωκεν τῷ πανδοχεῖ καὶ εἶπεν Ἐπιμελήθητι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὅ τι ἂν προσδαπανήσῃς ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ ἐπανέρχεσθαί με ἀποδώσω σοι.
Luke continued his unique story. Jesus said that the next day (καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν αὔριον), this Samaritan took out and gave two denarii (ἐκβαλὼν δύο δηνάρια ἔδωκεν) to the innkeeper (τῷ πανδοχεῖ). He told (καὶ εἶπεν) this innkeeper to take care of the wounded man (Ἐπιμελήθητι αὐτοῦ). When he would come back or return (ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ ἐπανέρχεσθαί), he would repay the innkeeper (με ἀποδώσω σοι) whatever more he would have to spend for the care of the wounded man (καὶ ὅ τι ἂν προσδαπανήσῃς). Now the story is more interesting. Not only did this Samaritan help the person in need, but he was going to continue to help him. He did not hand him off without assuring that he would be well taken care of. This was beyond the call of duty. This Samaritan had already spent a day with the wounded person, but now he was going to pay for his further care. Who does that? There did not seem to be any prior relationship with this person and the Samaritan. He was doing all this out of the goodness of his heart. One denarius was equivalent to a day's pay, about $.25 USA dollar. This was a reasonable amount. Would you do anything like this?


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Popular restaurants and catering companies get more than a 100 orders of turkey each on 24 and 25 December every year. They start baking turkeys weeks before and store them in freezers. On same day, it's stuffed, plated and delivered. No wonder I never liked it!
The secret to a juicy and flavored turkey is to be cooked on same day. It's not complicated at all. It just takes time in the oven. It's an easy recipe and is always a hero dish for main events like Christmas.
I like to use a lot of fruits in my recipe to flavor the turkey; it blends nicely with sautéed peas, carrots and sweet potatoes. Delicious!
If you buy a frozen bird, allow at least 24 hours to thaw. And when you take it out from the oven, remember to let it stand for about 30 minutes before carving.
Happy holidays to all!
- 1 (5 to 6kgs) turkey
- 1 orange, cut into wedges
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges
- 1 apple, cut into wedges
- 6 dried apricots, chopped
- 1/4 cup dried sultanas or cranberries
- 2 sticks of cinnamon
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 carrots chopped
- 1/2 cup of parsley
- 3 fresh rosemary sprigs
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 cup of white wine
- 1/2 stick (50g) unsalted butter, melted
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper
- 1 oven bag size Large
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- In a small saucepan over medium heat stir 1 tablespoon of olive oil, the cinnamon, the bay leaves, the onion, the carrots and the parsley, until the onion is cooked and the carrots are tender. Discard cinnamon and bay leaves and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees C.
- To make the turkey: Start with discarding neck and giblets. Rinse the turkey with the wine (or apple juice) over the sink. Don't rinse with water.
- Mix the oregano, salt and pepper to the butter. Rub the butter mixture all over the turkey and between the turkey breast meat and skin.
- Put one tablespoon of flour in the oven bag and divide the remaining ingredients (orange, lemon and apple wedges, apricots, sultanas, rosemary and onion mixture) to place some in the main turkey cavity and some in the oven bag.
- Tie the legs together to hold the shape of the turkey. Put the turkey inside the bag and seal in. Place the turkey inside a roasting pan and position the pan on the lowest rack in the oven. Put 3 cups of water in the pan.
- Roast the turkey for 40 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 175 degrees C. And then cook again for about 21/2 hours or according to the weight of the turkey and the manufacturer's instructions. Remove from oven. Take off the turkey of the bag and return it to the pan. KEEP THE LIQUID TO MAKE THE GRAVY.
- Pour 1 more cup of water into the pan. Continue roasting the turkey about 1 hour longer or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 75 degrees C to 80 degrees C or until the juices run clear when the thickest part of the thigh is pierced with a skewer.
- Transfer the turkey to a platter and tent with foil. Let stand 30 minutes while preparing the gravy.
- To make the gravy: Strain the turkey pan juices from the roasting pan through a sieve and into a 4-cup glass measuring cup; discard the solids. Spoon off the fat from atop the pan juices. Add enough chicken broth, about 1 to 2 cups, to the pan juices to measure 4 cups total. Melt the remaining butter in a heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the flour and whisk for 1 minute. Gradually whisk in the broth. Simmer until the gravy thickens slightly, whisking often, about 10 minutes. Season with mustard, salt and pepper. Serve the turkey with the gravy.


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This is a brilliant literary biography, combining extraordinarily thorough research with discretion and sensitivity about Beckett's private life, and a sure touch when it comes to analysing Beckett's surprisingly numerous works. Everything a Beckett fan could ever want to know is covered, thoroughly and intelligently.
How James Knowlson came to write Samuel Beckett's biography
James Knowlson (born in 1933) is Emeritus Professor of French and founder of the International Beckett Foundation at the University of Reading. He got to know Beckett after organising an academic conference to celebrate the fact that Beckett had won the Nobel Prize (1969) and founding the Beckett Archive at Reading, corresponding by letter and meeting him several times a year. As early as 1972 a publisher suggested he write a biography but when he broached the idea, Beckett said no.
But some 17 years later, the famous author changed his mind. He had realised that someone was going to write a biography come what may and that, on balance, he'd prefer it to be someone who knew and respected the actual works. He knew from their professional correspondence that Knowlson was very knowledgeable about his oeuvre and the result was that Beckett not only agreed to let Knowlson write the authorised biography, but agreed to give him a series of exclusive interviews and answer all the questions he posed.
Thus, over the last five months of his life, till Beckett's death in December 1989, the two men had a series of long, in-depth interviews and Knowlson quotes from them liberally i.e. this book benefits hugely from Beckett's own words and views about numerous aspects of his life and career. That is a masterstroke in the book's favour.
But Knowlson went quite a lot further further and has spoken or corresponded with an extraordinary number of people, conducting over one hundred interviews with Beckett's immediate family and close friends to a huge range of people he met in his professional life as a prose writer, playwright and director. The acknowledgements section lists them all and runs to six pages densely packed with names. The range is awesome and Kowlson's stamina in meeting and corresponding with so many people, and then organising the resulting plethora of information into a coherent and fascinating narrative is awesome.
Samuel Beckett's family and upbringing
Beckett's family was comfortably upper-middle-class. His father, William, was a surveyor and made enough money to buy an acre of land in the rising suburb of Foxrock, south of Dublin, and build a big house on it which he named Cooldrinagh (after his wife's family home), complete with servants' quarters and tennis court.
The house was in sight of the Dublin hills which his father loved to go climbing and also of the sea, where the boy Beckett learned to swim and then dive into the locally famous pool named Forty-Foot at Sandycove. Not far away was the Leopardstown race track which features in various works, notably the radio play All That Fall.
Beckett's parents were very different. His father, 'Bill' Beckett, was loud and sociable and not at all intellectual. He liked playing golf and going for long walks up into the Dublin hills. His mother, Amy, was tall and stern with a long face. Beckett inherited her looks and personality. The family was Protestant, the mother, in particular, being a devout church-goer.
Beckett had a brother, Frank, three years older, and a bevy of uncles and aunts who, with their own children, created a large, intelligent, well-off and cultured extended family. Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on 13 April 1906, in later life he enjoyed the symbolism of having been born on Good Friday.
As a boy Beckett was sent to a small, eccentric preparatory school, Earlsfort House then, from age 13, on to an established public school, Portora Royal School in Enniskillen (1919 to 1923) which, like most of its type, placed a big emphasis on sports and super-high standards of honesty, integrity and politeness. Everyone who ever met him later in life commented on Beckett's immaculate manners and considerateness.
Beckett was very sporty
Beckett was a very sporty young man. At school he won medals for swimming and cross-country running, and was a very proficient boxer, becoming the school's light heavyweight boxing champion. He was a keen golfer, joining his father's club, Carrickmines Golf Club, playing for whole days at a stretch, and, when he went on to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), representing the college at golf. He also played cricket for the college, and was included in the Dublin University team which went on a tour of English country clubs in 1926 and 1927. Hence the well-known fact that Beckett is the only Nobel Prize winner who is also in the cricketing 'Bible', Wisden.
Beckett's extended family was very musical and Beckett played the piano very well, well enough to know piano renditions of most of Gilbert and Sullivan when a boy, and to be able to play Debussy at university. When he was down in the dumps as a young man a friend hired a piano for his rooms to cheer him up.
Beckett's parents bought him a motorbike in his final year at school, and then a two-seater 'Swift' sports car at college. As a student he was affluent enough to be able to pick holiday destinations, so one year went on a tour of the Loire Valley visiting the birthplaces of notable French writers, and, in his final college vacation, went to visit Florence where he looked up the sister of his Italian tutor at TCD.
Private school, piano lessons in a music-loving family, membership of sports clubs, top university in Ireland, motorbike, sports car, cultural trips abroad. Beckett had what we would nowadays think of as a very privileged upbringing.
Influences at Trinity College, Dublin
Beckett attended Trinity College Dublin from 1923 to 1927 where he studied Modern Literature. Here he came under the wing of the Professor of Romance Languages, Thomas Browne Rudmore-Browne, a brash, aggressively freethinking, womanising intellectual who taught him the English classics and introduced Beckett to a wide range of French poets, classic and contemporary. 'Ruddy' as he was nicknamed, is caricatured as 'the Polar Bear' in Beckett's early short story collection, More Pricks Than Kicks.
Beckett's second formative influence was:
small, plump, middle-aged, Italian tutor named Bianca Esposito, who gave him detailed private lessons in Italian language and literature, who ignited his lifelong love for Dante and features in Pricks' opening story, Dante and the Lobster.
Nearly 50 years later, Beckett still carried round the student copy of Dante Bianca gave him, packed with his notes and annotations.
Beckett was solitary and aloof
Despite all this physical prowess, and his height and his piercing blue eyes, Beckett was a shy boy, at prep and boarding school and at college. He often withdrew right into himself and, when forced to attend social occasions, did so without saying a word. Tall, clever and charismatic, young Beckett sometimes felt contempt for those less able than him, which he then felt guilty about, redirecting the loathing inwards at himself, creating a downward spiral of negative emotions.
In other words, despite all the privileges of his upbringing, his loving extended family, loads of material advantages, encouragement in sports and the best education money could buy, Beckett developed into a hyper-shy, extremely self-conscious young man, plagued by narcissism, solipsism and self-obsession. Here are just some of the phrases Knowlson uses about him at this period:
- Beckett, the least gregarious of people (88)
- Beckett was diffident and solitary (90)
- Beckett's cocoon of shyness and silence (90)
- retiring and inhibited (92)
- shy, retiring nature (95)
- he would lapse into deep, uncomfortable silences (95)
The problem of pain
Like many a privileged young man, the discovery of the misery of the poor in his student years had a devastating effect on Beckett, and combined with intellectual doubts to undermine his Christian faith – something which went on to become a bone of contention with his pious mother.
A long time ago I was paid to do the research for a documentary series about the conflict between faith and atheism, a series which set out to define the arguments and counter-arguments across the full range of human history, culture, philosophy, psychology and so on. What emerged, at least in my opinion, was that beneath the thousand and one arguments of believers and atheists, both intellectual positions have One Big Fundamental Weak Spot:
The chief intellectual difficulty for thinking Christians is The Problem of Pain i.e. the very old conundrum that if God is all-powerful and all-loving why does he allow children to die in screaming agony? There is no answer to this, though thousands of theologians have come up with clever workarounds e.g. he is all-loving but is, for some reason, not quite all-powerful; or he is all-powerful but is not what we think of as all-loving because he is working to a plan which is beyond our understanding and presumptuous to try.
Thus Beckett was being very traditional, almost trite, in losing his faith once he came to appreciate the pain and misery in the world around him which his privileged upbringing had hitherto sheltered him from. In a way, most of his writing career went on to focus on this theologically-flavoured issue. (Actually, it might be more accurate to say that Beckett's central subject is not the Problem of Pain so much as the Problem of Physical and Mental Decay).
The biggest weak point in the Atheist position – the mirror image of what the Problem of Pain is for Christians – is The Problem of Consciousness: If we humans are the result of millions of generations of evolution by natural selection, descended from the first amoeba, and if we are the result of the purely mechanistic and amoral struggle for survival, how come we have such complex and delightful feelings and sense impressions, can be transported by the sight of a sunset or the fragrance of a flower? How come we have such a highly developed moral sense that can lead us to spend days debating the rights and wrongs of various actions, feeling such an acute sense of guilt, wasting so much time in complicated rumination? Surely we should just do whatever benefits us or the tribe without a moment's thought. None of those attributes seem particularly useful for a creature which has come about via the blunt and violent process of evolution.
Maybe we can see this as another of Beckett's central themes, or the other wing of his interests: the problem of consciousness, which in his prose works in particular, but also in most of the plays, is deeply compromised, broken, fragmented, in some cases, apparently, posthumous (in Play, for example).
(pp.107+). Beckett graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1927 with a BA degree. Patrons and supporters at the college wangled him the position of lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from November 1928 to 1930.
Paris came as a massive cultural and personal liberation. Throughout school and university Beckett had been strictly teetotal and sexually puritanical but in Paris he learned to drink, both beer and wine, becoming particularly partial to white wine. From now on there are numerous stories of Beckett getting completely trashed, passing out, being found under the table or passed out in alleyways, and so on.
Regarding sex, Knowlson gives detailed accounts of Beckett's love affairs as a teenager and young man which were strongly shaped by his strict Protestant upbringing and the ferocious emphasis on 'purity' at his public school. As a result he was screwed up about sex in a predictably traditional way and Knowlson quotes from diaries, journals and early stories to show how he had the classic difficulty of reconciling the women he respected and placed on a pedestal with the 'dirty' shenanigans he got up to with hookers in Paris brothels, sex and love. (pp. 108, 139).
(Later, in the mid-1930s, when he was living a solitary existence in London during his two years of intensive psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, Knowlson claims Beckett availed himself of London prostitutes on a regular basis.)
James Joyce
The post Beckett took up at the Ecole Normale Superieure had been occupied by another Irishman, Tom MacGreevey, who stayed on in the city he loved, and acted as guide and mentor to young Sam. MacGreevey had developed high-powered literary contacts and, among others, introduced him to James Joyce and his circle, his wife and grown-up son and daughter, his publishers and magazine editors and so on. It was a golden opportunity, an entrée into a whole new world.
Joyce was widely acknowledged to be the most important avant-garde writer in Europe. Beckett was a star-struck 23-year-old graduate. Sam quickly became one of the great man's secretaries, tasked with finding Joyce books, reading them out loud or providing written summaries, as well as taking dictation and other chores. The master and the ephebe went for long walks along the Seine (Joyce's flat was only 100 yards from the river).
Beckett was still so utterly shy that he hadn't the small-talk to spend with Joyce's wife, Nora, who, partly as a result, took against him. Whereas Joyce's nubile and impulsive daughter Lucia, just a year younger than Beckett, became infatuated with the tall, aloof, blue-eyed sportsman, sitting near him at dinner, making eyes at him, inveigling him to take her for walks.
Countless articles have been written about the impact of Joyce on Beckett but the central, much-repeated point is that in the end, Joyce's example helped set Beckett on a track diametrically opposite to the great man's. Both men not only spoke the major European languages (English, French, Italian, German) and were deeply familiar with the respective canons of literature of each of these countries, but were impatient with the realist or Naturalist worldview they'd inherited from turn of the century literature – were committed to going beyond the realist worldview.
But whereas Joyce's technique was accumulative, each sentence attracting to it multiple references and variations in other languages, breaking down English words and (by the 1930s) creating in their stead the entirely new polyglot language in which he wrote Finnegans Wake – Beckett found he could follow Joyce only so far. Indeed he did so in the short stories and novels of the 1930s, which are characterised by deliberately arcane syntax, literary references, the liberal sprinkling of obscure or foreign words, and an attitude which is deliberately contrived and non-naturalistic.
But Beckett lacked the musicality, the sensual feel for language, the world-embracing sympathy and the sheer joy of life which pours from Joyce's pages. Beckett was by his nature much more tightly wrapped, intellectually costive, temperamentally depressive, repressed by his stern Protestant upbringing.
Compare and contrast the lovely swimming sensuality of Molly Bloom's soliloquy which ends Ulysses with any description Beckett ever wrote anywhere of sensuality and sex. Molly is sweet and sensual and world-accepting; Beckett writes about sex a lot, but it is nearly always shameful masturbating (Malone Dies), callous sucking-off (Mercier and Camier), the disgusting rutting described in the four post-war short stories, the horrible homosexual abuse in How it is and so on. Sex in Beckett is never any fun at all.
Joyce is open to all the world, his books are overflowing with characters, incidents and brimming over with the joy of language. Beckett is locked away in one small, grey room, lying in the darkness, listening to the voices in his head punishing him with guilt and remorse, obsessively paring away language till it is reduced to blunt telegraphese, laced with one or two obsessively repeated key phrases.
Beckett's women
One of the most boring things about biographies is the attention they are forced to pay to their subjects' love lives. Here, as everywhere else, Knowlson does a very good, thorough job, providing all the facts without judgement or salacity.
Peggy Sinclair (1911 to 1933)
Beckett fell madly in love with his cousin, Ruth Margaret Sinclair, known as 'Peggy', daughter of William 'Boss' Sinclair who had married Sam's aunt, Frances Beckett, generally known as 'Cissie'. I'm not much interested in classic ups and downs of the actual 'love affair', the interesting thing was the way her parents moved from Dublin to Kassel in north Germany, and sent Peggy to school in Austria, so that his visits to see her accustomed Beckett to travelling all over the continent and speaking the local languages. He visited the Sinclair household in Kassel a number of times between 1928 and 1932.
Peggy was the inspiration behind the character of Smeraldina in Beckett's first, unpublished novel, A Dream of Fair To Middling Women. Eventually the love affair burnt out, and when he visited the Sinclairs in the early 1930s, it was to be distressed by their mounting business problems and by Peggy's deteriorating health. He was devastated when Peggy, by that stage engaged to another man, died of tuberculosis in May 1933 (page 168).
Lucia Joyce (1907 to 1982)
James Joyce's daughter, unsmiling, squint-eyed Lucia Joyce, became infatuated with the tall, handsome Samuel and, to please his father, Sam obligingly took her for walks or out to dinner, but he was still in love with Peggy Sinclair and not in the market for affairs. Things came to a head when Lucia threw a fit, denouncing Beckett to her parents and claiming he had cruelly led her on. Egged on by Nora, Joyce cut his links with Beckett, refusing to see him again. Sam was distraught. It was only as the 1930s progress that it became increasingly obvious that Lucia was suffering from severe mental illness, and ended up being placed in a series of sanatoria. A couple of years later, the pair were quietly reconciled and when Beckett moved to Paris permanently in 1935, started to see a lot of each other again.
Ethna MacCarthy (1903 to 1954)
MacCarthy was arguably Beckett's first mature love. She was a poet, short story writer and playwright who went on to carve a career as a paediatrician. Their love is very tenderly and respectfully traced.
These three women are singled out not least because Beckett's first attempt at a full-length fiction was a novel about a young Irishman whose life is dominated by… three women! The novel eventually became titled A Dream of Fair To Middling Women (a typically learnèd reference to both Geoffrey Chaucer's poem, The Legend of Good Women and Alfred Tennyson's long poem A Dream of Fair Women).
The Dream which is structured around a central protagonist (named, with characteristic over-learnedness, Belacqua Shuah, Belacqua being the name of a minor character noted for his lazy self-absorption in Dante's Divine Comedy) and his relations with the three women, being Smeraldina, Syra-Cusa and the Alba. Much scholarly ink has been spilt arguing about which 'real life' women 'inspired' each character. Knowlson takes them to be based on Peggy, Lucia and Ethna, respectively.
After a year or so of trying to get the Dream published in the mid-1930s, and having it continually rejected, Beckett gave up and slowly came to regret having satirised his close friends and family so closely. In the end he actively suppressed the novel and it wasn't published until 1992, three years after his death.
When he was introduced to Joyce, he not only met his family, but the network of book publishers and magazine editors connected with him. As an obviously highly intelligent, highly literate young man, Beckett found himself presented with opportunities to publish books, stories and articles which most aspiring authors can only dream of.
In 1929 he wrote his first short story, the 3-and-a-half-page Assumption which was immediately published in the leading avant-garde magazine, transition. Then a 100-line poem, Whoroscope, knocked off in a few hours in order to win the £10 prize for a poetry competition sponsored by literary entrepreneur and anthologist Nancy Cunard and published in July 1930.
A senior editor at Chatto and Windus suggested to Beckett that he write a detailed study of Proust for a series of literary introductions they were publishing. This Beckett did, extensively researching by rereading Proust, and the study was published in March 1931. Once he had bedded in with the Joyce circle he was commissioned to write a translation of the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake into French. In other words Beckett was, by 1930, very well-connected with the leading avant-garde writer in Europe, his circle and supporters and publishers.
But, despite all these advantages, Beckett failed to find a published for A Dream of Fair To Middling Women. It went the rounds of numerous publishers, both mainstream and avant-garde for two years before Beckett gave up trying, and the trickle of odd, eccentric short stories he was writing fared no better.
In 1932 the teaching post at Ecole Normale Superieure terminated, and Beckett was forced to pack his bags and return to Ireland where he was extremely lucky to be offered a prestigious teaching post at Trinity Dublin, a very sought-after position, supported by Ruddy and other patrons and supporters.
Unfortunately, Beckett hated it and discovered he was awful at teaching. Miserable, that winter he fled to 'Boss' and Cissie Sinclair in Kassel in northern Germany, from where he wrote a letter of resignation which dismayed his sponsors and upset his parents.
Breakdown and psychotherapy
Having chucked in his prestigious job at Trinity, completely failed to get any of his writings published, and been forced to move back in with his parents in 1933, Beckett was deeply traumatised when his father, apparently still in the prime of life in his 60s, died of a massive heart attack, on 26 June 1933.
His father's death exposed Beckett more than ever to the cloying, critical over-attention of his mother and Beckett suffered a series of increasingly serious physical symptoms, starting with a cyst on his neck, moving to heart palpitations, night sweats and panic attacks, which on several occasions brought him to a complete dead stop, in the street, paralysed with terror, and unable to move a muscle.
Beckett consulted a good friend of his from school, a nerve specialist, Geoffrey Thompson, who was planning to move to London and recommended Beckett to come with him and try psychotherapy at the relatively new Tavistock Clinic. So in January 1934 Beckett himself moved to digs in London and began his treatment with the pioneering psychotherapist Wilfred Bion. Bion was, Knowlson informs us, himself quite a strapping, hearty, sporty chap, while also being formidably well-educated at private school. So he and Beckett bonded on a social and personal level, quite apart from the treatment.
According to Knowlson, Beckett had psychotherapy with Bion for two years, at the rate of three times a week, which equals well over 2,000 sessions, during which Beckett explored his childhood, his formative influences, and came to realise the role his love-hate relationship with his mother played in cramping his life. He came to realise that, for his entire life to date, he had created an ivory tower founded on what he felt was his physical and intellectual superiority to all around him, becoming known for his aloofness and/or shyness, what Knowlson calls an:
attitude of superiority and an isolation from others that resulted from a morbid, obsessive immersion in self (page 180)
Beckett had to learn:
to counter his self-immersion by coming out of himself more in his daily life and taking a livelier interest in others (page 181)
But more than this, Knowlson claims that Bion showed him that he could mine many of these deeply personal compulsions and tendencies to create texts.
By externalising some of the impulses of the psyche in his work – the feelings of frustration and repressed violence for example – he would find it easier to counter the self-absorption that had seemed morbid and destructive in his private life. The writing thus became essential to his later mental and physical wellbeing.
(page 181)
Over 2,000 times Beckett lay on his back in a darkened room, closing his eyes, focusing on the moment, in order to let deeply buried memories bubble up from his unconscious, struggling to express them, struggling to understand their significance – while all the while another part of his mind observed the process with analytical detachment, critiquing the shape and pose of the figures in the memories, considering the words they spoke, assessing how the scene could be improved, the dialogue sharpened up, the dramatic core reached more quickly and effectively.
This is more or less the plot of Beckett's late novella Company and clearly the basis of the so-called 'closed room' and skullscape' fictions of the 1960s. You can also see how it forms the basis of the breakthrough novels Beckett wrote immediately after the war in French, Malone Dies and The Unnameable, texts of overweening, unprecedented self-absorption and self scrutiny. As late as his last published prose piece, Stirrings Still, Beckett is obsessed with a figure who regards himself as an 'other', sees himself rise and leave the room, although is other 'self' remains seated.
Reading Knowlson's fascinating account of Beckett's psychotherapy makes you realise the 'essential' Beckett was there all the time, lying dormant. First, though:
- he had to spend a decade, the 1930s, getting out of his system the immature wish to clutter his texts with smartarse quotes, foreign phrases, and mock-scholarly humour in the tradition of Rabelais and Sterne and Joyce, and then
- his experiences during the Second World War had to sear away any residues of Romantic optimism and even the last vestiges of late Victorian naturalism
for him to emerge in the immediate post-war period as the stripped-down, minimalist, and bleakly nihilistic writer who would go on to become one of the pillars of post-war literature.
Damned To Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 1996. All references are to the 1997 paperback edition.
Samuel Beckett's works
An asterisk indicates that a work was included in the Beckett on Film project, which set out to make films of all 19 of Beckett's stage plays using leading actors and directors. The set of 19 films was released in 2002 and most of them can be watched on YouTube.
- More Pricks Than Kicks (1934) Short stories
- Murphy (1938) Novel
The Second World War 1939 to 1945
- Watt (written 1945, pub.1953) Novel
- Mercier and Camier (1946) Novel
- First Love (1946) Short story
- The Expelled (1946) Short story
- The Calmative (1946) Short story
- The End (1946) Short story
- Molloy 1 (1951) Novel
- Molloy 2 (1951) Novel
- Malone Dies (1951) Novel
- The Unnamable (1953) Novel
*Waiting For Godot 1953 Play
- All That Fall (1957) Radio play
- *Acts Without Words I & II (1957) Mimes
- *Endgame (1958) Stage play
- *Krapp's Last Tape (1958) Stage play
- *Rough for Theatre I & II – Stage plays
- Embers (1959) – Radio play
- The Old Tune (1960) adaptation of a radio play by French writer Robert Pinget
- *Happy Days (1961) – Stage play
- Rough for Radio I & II (1961) Radio plays
- Words and Music (1961) Radio play
- Cascando (1961) Radio play
- *Play (1963) Stage play
- Film (1963) Scenario for a film
- All Strange Away (1964) Short prose
- Imagination Dead Imagine (1965) Short prose
- How it Is (1964) Novel
- Enough (1965) Short prose
- Ping (1966) Short prose
- *Come and Go (1965) Stage play
- Eh Joe (1967) Television play
- *Breath (1969) Stage play
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969
- Lessness (1970) Short prose
- The Lost Ones (1966-70) Short prose
- *Not I (1972) Stage play
- Fizzles (1973 to 1975) Short prose pieces
- Heard in the Dark, One evening and others – Short prose pieces
- *That Time (1975) Stage play
- *Footfalls (1976) Stage play
- Ghost Trio (1976) Television play
- …but the clouds… (1977) Television play
- Company (1980) Novella
- *A Piece of Monologue (1980) Stage play (Beckett on Film production)
- *Rockaby (1981) Stage play
- Quad I + II (1981) Television play
- Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) Short novel
- *Ohio Impromptu (1981) Stage play
- *Catastrophe (1982) Stage play
- Worstward Ho (1983) Prose
- Nacht und Träume (1983) Television play
- *What Where (1983) Stage play
- Stirrings Still (1988) Short prose
- Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson (1996) part 1
- Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson (1996) part 2
- A Samuel Beckett timeline


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Doubleclick the !Boot icon on the RISC OS bootdisc. Select 'Discs' in the configuration dialogue, configure '''one''' CD-ROM drive and click on 'Set'.
Doubleclick the !Boot icon on the RISC OS bootdisc. Select 'Discs' in the configuration dialogue, configure '''one''' CD-ROM drive and click on 'Set'.
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Click 'OK' in the next warning dialogue. Open the CD-ROM by clicking the CD-ROM icon :0 at the left of the ''iconbar''.
Click 'OK' in the next warning dialogue. Open the CD-ROM by clicking the CD-ROM icon :0 at the left of the ''iconbar''.
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This quick guide describes how to download/install/configure RPCEmu for your linux environment. The guide is written for a Debian linux distribution like Ubuntu, Knoppix and Xandros. This doesn't mean it won't work on other linux distributions but commands, package names and places of files could be different then described in this guide.
What do you need:
- Linux system: for best results P4 or similar processor at about 2GHz or more.
- A working X Window system (X11)
- Internet connection
- Harddisc space: 62 MB for the emulator and 500 MB for RISC OS applications
- Image files of RISC OS roms 3.6, 3.7, 4.02 or 4.39 (best is RISC OS 4.02)
Get the required packages for the RPCEmu emulator by using apt-get:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install subversion liballegro4.2 liballegro4.2-dev liballegro4.2-plugin-jack
Get the lates RPCEmu package with subversion:
svn co svn://svn.riscos.info/rpcemu/trunk rpcemu
After downloading:
cd rpcemu/src/ aclocal automake autoconf
If you get an error that the system doesn't recognize any of the above commands then install the next packages:
sudo apt-get install make automake autoconf
You can get some warnings from the allegro library, just ignore them.
Now you have two options. Create the interpreter version of rpcemu or the dynamic recompiler. The first one is slower but more stable and it's possible to select an ARM processor. The recompiler version has the advantage to be five times faster but only runs the StrongARM (SA) processor. If you want to run the SA processor under RISC OS 4 then I recommend the recompiler because of a current problem in the interpreter with bad screen redraws and abort on data transfers in 16 bits per pixel modes. The dynamic recompiler only works on x86 host processors.
To select the interpreter:
To select dynamic recompiler:
./configure --enable-dynarec
If you see the output and get no errors then compile:
The emulator is ready for use. You only need the RISC OS roms. I recommend to get RISC OS 4.02 because it has more support for internet (RISC OS 4.39 hasn't been as well tested). As RISC OS is copyrighted, you have to get them yourself from a real RiscPC. Just open a taskwindow (press CTRL+F12) on your RiscPC and enter the next commands:
*save rom1 38000000 39000000 *save rom2 39000000 3A000000 *save rom3 3A000000 3B000000 *save rom4 3B000000 3C000000
Get the 4 files (rom1 rom2 rom3 rom4) to your linux host system and copy them to the roms directory. If you have the wget package then download the bootimage:
wget http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/hdboot.zip
Otherwise download the archive from the site with your browser. Extract the archive to the rpcemu directory and overwrite cmos.ram and hd4.hdf:
unzip hdboot.zip
Create two directories:
mkdir hostfs mkdir poduleroms
Edit rpc.cfg:
mouse_following = 1 cdrom_type = 0 cdrom_enabled = 1 blit_optimisation = 0 refresh_rate = 60 stretch_mode = 0 sound_enabled = 1 vram_size = 2 cpu_type = ARM710 mem_size = 32 ipaddress = 172.31.0.1
Start up the emulator in your X11 environment:
A window will pop up and the emulator loads the OS and runs the Boot system. You've got a working RISC OS desktop on your linux system.
Enlarging bootdisc
Run the emulator and wait till the system has been booted. Now open the Filer window of your HostFS disc. This disc is linked to your previously created hostfs directory. It's now empty but you can use this disc to transfer files from the host system to RISC OS and back. The ADFS harddisc where the system boots from is linked to an image file hd4.hdf on your host system.
Open !Boot (shift doubleclick) on the bootdisc and go to directory Choices.Boot.Task.!hostfs. Edit !Run (shift doubleclick) and change line:
rmensure hostfs 0 rmload <hostfs$dir>.hostfsrm
rmensure ArcEmHostfs 0 RMLoad <hostfs$Dir>.hostfsrm
Copy !Boot from IDEDisc4 to the HostFS disc.
Now press F12 and enter the command:
*configure filesystem HostFS
An example of how your desktop looks like when you're at this step
Return to the desktop. Go back to the linux console and copy the HostFS module in the !Boot to your dir poduleroms:
cp hostfs/\!Boot/Choices/Boot/Tasks/\!hostfs/hostfsrm,ffa podulesroms/
Shutdown RISC OS and quit the emulator. Get HForm from the Arculator website and unzip it:
wget http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/arculator/rpchform.zip unzip rpchform
Boot the emulator and press CTRL+END. A menu pops up at the left top. Select 'Disc' -> 'Load drive :0...'. Select hform.adf and press 'OK'. Open drive 0 (click on the :0 icon at the iconbar) and run !HForm. Format the ADFS bootdisc with these options:
Drive: 4 Retain shape: No Drive type: OTHER Sectors per track: 63 Heads: 16 Cylinders: 1024 Drive parameter init flag: 1 Parking cylinder: 1023 No more changes to defect list Initialise the drive Soak test: None Bootable disc: Yes Longfilenames: Yes (only available for RISC OS 4) Confirm format: Yes Large file allocation unit (LFAU): 2048
You have created a large harddisc image of 504MB for ADFS drive 4. If you want a bigger image then enlarge number of cylinders. Note that the parking cylinder must be the total amount of cylinders minus 1. Note also that you have to multiply the suggested LFAU value by 2. So if HForm suggests 1024 then change it to 2048.
Installing RISC OS 4 Boot system
Go to directory hostfs and download the RISC OS 4 Boot installer archive from the riscos.com site:
wget http://support.riscos.com/Support/Releases/RO4install.zip mv RO4install.zip RO4install,ddc
As you probably don't have a dearchiver for RISC OS:
wget http://www.davidpilling.net/splug.bas mv splug.bas splug,ffb
Open your HostFS disc in RISC OS and run the basic file splug. After !SparkPlug has been created, doubleclick on the archive file RO4install and extract !RO4Install to your Harddisc4 disc. This can take some minutes (look at the SparkPlug icon to see if the extracting has finished).
Doubleclick on the RISC OS 4 installer, drag the !Boot icon to the filer window of Harddisc4, click on 'Continue' and in the next dialogue click on 'Start install'. Click on 'Continue' in the warning window and click on 'Continue' in the next dialogue. Wait till the installer is finished and click 'Continue' again. In the next dialogue click 'Continue' to install Apps and Utilities. After installation click 'Exit'
Press F12 and enter the commands:
*configure filesystem ADFS *configure drive 4
Return to the desktop. Open the installed !Boot dir and go to directory Choices.Boot.Task. Open your old !Boot directory on the HostFS disc and copy !hostfs from Choices.Boot.Task to the same directory inside the new installed Boot (see images below).
Copy !hostfs from this dir: to:
Shutdown RISC OS and click 'Restart' to boot the OS with the new Boot. You now have a fully working Boot with the standard RISC OS 4 apps and utilities.
CD-ROM support
Check if the symbolic link /dev/cdrom points to your CD-ROM device at the host system. You can check this by trying to mount this device to a directory. Insert a data CD-ROM in your drive and enter the commands:
mkdir ~/cdrom sudo mount /dev/cdrom ~/cdrom ls ~/cdrom
If you don't get any errors and see the contents of the disc then the link works. Now unmount the disc and remove dir cdrom:
sudo unmount ~/cdrom rmdir ~/cdrom
Edit rpc.cfg and check if:
cdrom_enabled = 1
Start the emulator and open the RPCEmu menu. Select 'Settings' -> 'CDROM' -> 'IOCTL'.
Doubleclick the !Boot icon on the RISC OS bootdisc. Select 'Discs' in the configuration dialogue, configure one CD-ROM drive and click on 'Set'.
Main Boot configuration dialogue
Disc configuration dialogue
Click 'OK' in the next warning dialogue. Open the CD-ROM by clicking the CD-ROM icon :0 at the left of the iconbar.
It's also possible to mount ISO images instead of real CD-ROM's with RPCEmu. Open the RPCEmu menu and select 'Settings' -> 'CD-ROM' -> 'ISO image...', select an ISO image to mount and click 'OK'. Open the CD-ROM image by clicking the CD-ROM icon :0 at the left of the iconbar.
Note every time you start RPCEmu, you have to select 'IOCTL' or 'ISO image...' to enable CD-ROM support.
Network support
RPCEmu uses a TAP tunnel device to send packets between the emulator and the host system. Unfortunately these devices can only created by root, therefore RPCEmu must be run as root. So to enable it you have two options:
1. Use sudo to start RPCEmu:
sudo ./rpcemu
RPCEmu will automatically drop root privileges as the tunnel has been created. This has a disadvantage that you have to enter a password to get RPCEmu going.
2. Make root the owner of the rpcemu binary and set the user s-bit. Enter the two commands:
sudo chown root rpcemu sudo chmod u+s rpcemu
And edit rpc.cfg to add this line:
username = <your standard username>
In this case RPCEmu will also drop root privileges after the tunnel has been created.
Check rpc.cfg for the IP address. It should be:
ipaddress = 172.31.0.1
Run RPCEmu with root privileges. You should not get messages like:
Error setting TAP on tunnel device: Operation not permitted Networking unavailable
Check if the emulator has created a tap interface and that it's IP address has been set to 172.31.0.1:
ifconfig -a
You should get something like this:
tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:ff........... inet addr:172.31.0.1 Bcast:172.31.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
Next try to ping the interface:
ping 18.104.22.168
You should get something like this:
PING 172.31.0.1 (172.31.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 172.31.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms 64 bytes from 172.31.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
Get the latest !System from Castle:
cd hostfs wget http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/download/System.zip mv System.zip System,ddc
Copy the EtherRPCEM directory from riscos-progs to the hostfs dir:
cp -r riscos-progs/EtherRPCEm/ hostfs/
In RISC OS open the HostFS disc and extract archive System. Doubleclick on !SysMerge. Open dir EtherRPCEm and copy !Boot from the EtherRPCEm dir on the !Boot of your bootdisc. Run !Boot and click 'System' to open the System merge dialogue. Drag !System from the EtherRPCEm dir to it and click 'Merge'.
Click 'Network' in the configuration dialogue and click 'Internet' in the next dialogue. Enable 'TCP/IP Protocol suite' and click on 'Interfaces'.
Network configuration dialogue
Internet configuration dialogue
Interfaces dialogue
Enable 'RPCEmu' interface and click 'Configure...'. Set these settings:
Obtain IP address: Manually IP address: 172.31.0.2 Netmask: 255.255.0.0
Click 'Set' and 'Close' in Interfaces dialogue. Open the Routing dialogue and set these settings:
Gateway: 172.31.0.1
Click 'Set' and open the Host Names dialogue. Set these settings:
Host name: rpcemu Local domain: riscoslocalnet.invalid Primary name server: use 1st IP address from output command cat /etc/resolv.conf Secondary name server: use 2nd IP address from output command cat /etc/resolv.conf Tertiary name server: empty or 3rd IP address from output command cat /etc/resolv.conf Name resolver module: Resolver Acorn Enable Use name server also
Click 'Set' and 'Close' in the Internet configuration dialogue. Next Click 'Set' in the Network configuration dialogue and click 'Reset now' in the next question dialogue.
After the emulator has booted open a taskwindow (CTRL+F12) and enter:
*ifconfig -a
You should get something like this:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 rpcem0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.31.0.2 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.31.255.255 ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
Next try to ping 172.31.0.1 (the emulator gateway) and your host system IP. If that works fine you only have to configure the host system to enable packet forwarding. If you're running a firewall package on your host system then it's recommended to use it to configure port forwarding. You can also enable forwarding by using these commands:
sudo iptables -I FWDINTERNET -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --source 172.31.0.0/16 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE sudo echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward sudo echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
This will forward packets out to the eth0 interface (change this to your main internet connection). Try to ping some hosts on the internet like google.com, riscos.com etc. If that works you are connected to the internet with RPCEmu.
If you want to allow access to servers running on the emulator from the Linux machine or other machines on the network you'll need to add additional forwarding rules. Consult a guide on iptables for how to do this.
Installing NetSurf
Go to the hostfs dir and download the latest NetSurf from http://www.netsurf-browser.org or use wget:
wget http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/development/netsurf.zip
Rename netsurf.zip to netsurf,ddc. Start the emulator and create a dir Internet on your bootdisc. Extract the contents from the netsurf archive to this dir. Use the Boot Merge and the System Merge facility to merge !Boot and !System from the Internet dir to your boot system. Next reboot the emulator and start !NetSurf from dir Internet. Enter a valid url in the top bar and you're on the world wide web.
RISC OS won't boot properly, or behaves oddly
As on a real RISC OS machine, it uses the CMOS RAM to hold important system settings. In the emulator these are stored in the cmos.ram file. If you use the emulator for the first time, or change the version of RISC OS you're running, you need to reset the CMOS. To do this, start the emulator while holding down the Delete key. Just as it would on a real machine, it resets the CMOS to factory settings for the version of RISC OS you happen to be running.


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Last year we wrote about a new product from SuperMegaUltraGroovy Software called Capo. The well-designed software was essentially a tool to help users learn to play music by ear, and it worked by slowing down songs without changing their pitch. Capo restored our confidence that not all competent developers were focusing on the iPhone, and that there could still be high quality software for the Mac. Now, Capo 2 has launched. While one developer can't support an entire platform, Chris Liscio is still making really great software.
At its root, Capo 2 still focuses on slowing down music without changing the pitch, enabling users to practice along with difficult passages of music. The technique has been used since the days of record players, and is one that many budding musicians are familiar with. The core functionality of Capo is still there, and if you are interested in learning more, you can read what we had to say about the original version of Capo.
In the newest version of Capo, the waveform view has changed to spectrogram. Now instead of seeing the fluctuating amplitude of the music, you actually see the individual pitches. Individual tones are represented by what can only be described as smears; the view looks a lot like an old time piano roll.
The higher the pitch on the spectrogram, the higher it is represented; the longer the streak, the longer the duration of the note. On its own, the spectrogram would only be mildly useful, as it only shows you the relative distance between notes. What makes Capo 2 remarkable is that a user can trace the smears of the music and, in turn, automatically create tablature. (This was enough to make me drop a few expletives in amazement.) If you click on a given smear, the note representing the pitch gets played back to you.
Music with just a solo guitar can work well, and with an entire band, it works better than you'd think. You still have to use your ear to differentiate between instruments, but as you use the application, you learn to read which notes are the fundamentals and which notes are part of the overtone series.
Generally speaking, the darker the smear, the more likely it's the note being played, although quiet notes can also be displayed very faintly. Luckily, you can increase the contrast of the spectrogram, allowing even the faintest of notes to be seen. The feature is amazing, and the more you use it, the better you get at using it.
The instrument you're creating tablature for doesn't have to be a guitar either; Capo will tab out parts for bass, mandolin, and ukelele. The application will also deal elegantly with just about any tuning you can think of—there are over 50 for guitar alone. You can also adjust the tablature to take into account a capo and, if a user feels that the string the note is being displayed on in the tablature isn't the best option, it can be easily changed.
The feature isn't all roses, though. Since the application's UI doesn't resize vertically, you only get a smidgen under three octaves at a time on the spectrogram. Also, the mapped notes on the spectrogram don't play back with the music. This would be helpful to see how accurately the tablature matches the audio of your song, but unfortunately, we were told that this was largely a performance issue. At this time there is also no way to print tablature created by the app; instead, you need to open the application every time you want to reference it.
The other major feature in the newest version of Capo 2 allows a user to place chord markers throughout a song, which is helpful when you are playing along. Incredibly, Capo can also make an educated guess of what chord is being played based on the frequencies it examines at a particular point in the music.
While it isn't 100 percent accurate, the feature is impressive. Capo can recognize major, minor, diminished, augmented, minor 7, major 7, dominant 7, suspended 2, suspended 4, and add 9 chords. And, even more types of chords can be entered in manually. Sometimes Capo comes up with the wrong chord—the algorithm it uses isn't perfect—and that's when you have to use your ear to make some corrections. Generally, it's not far off though, and sometimes a starting point is all some people need.
Capo 2 is a $19 upgrade for Capo 1 users, or $49 for new users. SuperMegaUltraGroovy Software has made a demo available that allows 5 minutes of work on any song. The application is a great tool for budding musicians, and is a glowing example of well-written Mac OS X software.


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Older brains do not think as quickly as younger brains do. But does this cognitive impairment arise because processing speeds slacken or because the ability to block out irrelevant information falters? A recent study reconciles these two leading hypotheses: older brains have a harder time ignoring distractions in the initial stages of performing a task, which slows down processing.
Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues asked two groups—one made up of 19- to 33-year-olds and the other of 60- to 72-year-olds—to perform a memory task. The researchers used electroencephalography to record electrical signals from the participants' brains in milliseconds during the task. In contrast to the younger adults, the older group could not suppress distracting stimuli during the first 200 milliseconds after exposure. "At later time points, the ability to ignore does show up," Gazzaley says. "It's not abolished, just delayed." By then, however, the irrelevant information had interfered with the memory task, making the older group less accurate overall than the younger group.
On average, older adults display this cognitive deficit, but "not all older adults are impaired relative to younger adults," Gazzaley notes. Dividing the older group in half according to high and low task performance indicated that only the low scorers had the problem. He adds that exploring the older adults' differences may reveal ways to avoid or correct the deficit.
Note: This article was originally published with the title, "Slow to Ignore".


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The National Pork Board has designated $135,000 in supplemental funding to increase pork demand and margins by supporting efforts to improve pork quality.
Action will focus on identifying ways that producers can impact meat quality during production and transport, and further evaluate the link between physiological characteristics of muscle and meat quality.
This work will be under the direction of the Pork Board's newly formed Animal Science Committee which "will oversee programs closely related to on-farm production," explains Mark Boggess, director of animal science for the Pork Board.
The Pork Board also approved new funding:
To increase consumer demand for pork, notably for consumers interested in low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets. The $750,000 will fund several efforts to encourage the 24 million adults who are on a low-carbohydrate diet to pick pork as their source of protein. About 44 million consumers are expected to try one of these popular diets in the next two years.
A new advertising campaign will be built around the slogan, "Not all proteins are created equal."
The Pork Board's consumer-oriented Web site has about 1,400 recipes available to sort by key word. Funding will provide means to develop a new section to highlight low-carbohydrate recipes available.
To expand the Hispanic marketing program from five to a dozen markets. "This additional funding ($2 million) will expand the reach of our award-winning marketing program to more than half of the U.S. Hispanic population," says Craig Christensen, Pork Board president and Ogden, IA, producer.
During its first two years, the Hispanic marketing program, which focused on markets in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Chicago, saw a 200% increase in awareness and 62% of the consumers are more comfortable buying pork. Consumers exposed to the campaign are buying about 43% more pork. The expanded pork program will continue to be based on the "El Cerdo es bueno" message (which means Pork is Good).
The 41 million Hispanic consumers are the largest minority in the U.S., comprising 14% of the population. While Hispanics represent 8.4% of U.S. households, they buy 12.3% of pork sold in the U.S.


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Via Reddit, here's what you see when you try to play a certain scene in the European version of South Park: The Stick of Truth on consoles. (Warning: minor spoilers.)
The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: May 2023 Edition
Ubisoft has said they censored the game for "marketing reasons." The PC version of the game remains unaffected.
The Stick of Truth is out on March 4 for Xbox 360, PC, and PS3. I've finished the game and we'll have a review up Tuesday morning. (Don't worry, Americans: the U.S. version is uncensored.)


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World Premiere of The Lone Ranger, a set on Flickr.
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