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Business product menu section in a business plan includes the detail of products that you plan to offer in the market. It is very important to analyze your business product menu in the light of the competition and lay it out in a coherent manner in your plan.
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Bar Lodge is a truly stunning place to spend a holiday. Perched just above Loe Bar, with far-reaching sea views - from the high cliffs of the Lizard to the south, right around to the Land's End peninsula in the distant west - and with Loe Pool and its woodlands just behind, you are spoilt for scenery.
And then there is the Lodge itself: built by Captain John Peverell Rogers of Penrose more than a century ago, this distinctive house is approached on a winding track through the woods. Far from any road or other dwelling, the building is magnificent, with a roof terrace overlooking the sea and a multi-fuel stove in the living room. Come rain or shine, this is a breathtaking place.
Penrose estate is home to three other cottages, also overlooking Loe Pool but a little further from the sea is Helston Lodge, The Stables is an apartment in the main house and Whitstone Cottage is on Penrose Hill.
If you would like to go on holiday and explore this part of the country you can find out more about our other West Cornwall holiday cottages here.
Heating: Air Source Heat Pump.
Parking: Final approach to lodge is very narrow so arrival in daylight is recommended. A parking area is located adjacent to the cottage.
Garden: There is no garden but there is a roof terrace.
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Offers: Guests will benefit from a late Sunday checkout of 4pm at this cottage
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The location is fabulous, the house spacious and very bright. The kitchen is very well equipped. The area around is stunning: beach, lake, wood, rocky coast, South-West Coast Path. We enjoyed being on our own, far from everyone. We made many walks and played on the beach.
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. - As the events commemorating the 9/11 attacks wound down Wednesday, a now Johns Creek man who played a vital part in keeping the president safe during the attacks 12 years ago, told his story to an audience at a local high school.
"I was convinced that the world had shifted and it did," said retired Lt. Gen. Glenn Spears of the United State Air Force.
Spears worked as the operational and installation commander of Andrews Air Force Base and the 89th Wing, which left him with many jobs to handle that day.
"One of those jobs was the safe transportation of the president, protecting the president, and we did that job very well," Spears said.
Spears told Channel 2's Carl Willis he could smell the smoke from the attack at the Pentagon. He said he had to keep cool head and watch over Air Force One all while dealing with the emotions that so many Americans felt that day.
"I felt anger. I was frustrated that someone had snuck up on the United States and attacked us from within," Spears said.
Spears said he made the recommendation to the Secret Service to take President George W. Bush to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport and they agreed.
On his return to Andrews Air Force Base, Spears said the president had a message for him.
"The president said to me that we would as a nation determine who had conducted these cowardly attacks, we would find them and bring them to justice," Spears said.
Spears spoke at Northview High School Wednesday night. He shared the lesson that he took from this tragedy.
"That we should not be afraid of the terror that was instead celebrate the resolve and the strength and unity that resulted on that day," Spears said.
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I think Auburn should win since southerners are naturally inclined to eliminate OU. Just look at what we did to the term "you all."
In any other year, Auburn going to the Sugar with Bama going to the Chick-Fil-A bowl would be almost ideal. But even in 2016, this is pretty good. War Eagle!
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We've lost two of the last eleven, which is inexplicable.. but at least those two wins lead to championships (something the Dawgs haven't seen in any of those other nine). War Eagle.
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Nothing Special
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Galveston
The negative:
Food in the main dining room was beyond horrible. If it wasnt for our wonderful table mates we would not of went back.
Beds in the room, felt like you were sleeping on the box spring! Old TV
Cruise workers not at all friendly, did there job well enough, just didnt give you the warm and fuzzies..
Children allowed to run all over.. some of that I blame on the parents.
Lay out of the ship hard to get around.
Karoke was boring due to the person hosting it.. you could tell she hated being there..
Jenn the cruise director is just plain weird. Always had her cell phone to her ear.
Cabin had plenty of storage
Plenty of chairs out on deck
Did not come across any rude people.. awesome peeps on board
Got what you paid for.. which wasnt a 5 star cruise
Photograpers were excellent
Comedy shows outstanding.
The piano bar was fun.
Do not spend the More money the chef's table. You only get to see maybe one room in the gally and spend the next 4 hours listening to the chef talk as you get a small amount of food to taste. FYI- he may call himself a chef, but he has no control over what is on the menu, how the food is made.. he is actually a supervisor over the dining..
Disembarktiion.. TOOK FOREVER!! get a porter.. they get first in line. Less
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I have a durable power of attorney document for my uncle. He has a check he needs cashing. How do I go about cashing his check for him? Do I have to open an account for him or can I just ask the lawyers at the bank to review my document and open an account for me?
What should I ask for them to do? I don't want to sound silly.
It somewhat depends on the size of the check.
For example-if it is less than $100 and needed for
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If it is a much larger check-the proper plan would probably be to set up
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Go to his bank, endorse the check by signing the back of the check "his name by your name, his agent" or "his attorney in fact" and bring the power of attorney with you. The bank should have no problem cashing it unless it is for a large amount, in which case you may need to deposit it first and wait for it to clear.
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I agree with the other counsel. If the check is small in amount the bank will probably allow you to cash it if you produce the durable power of attorney and you endorse the check by signing the back of the check "his name by your name, his agent" or "his attorney in fact". They will ask you for your identification as well. If it is a larger check then the bank will ask you to deposit it in a bank account in his name. You will then have power of attorney on the account and be able to spend the funds on his behalf.Ask a similar question
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Full-time score from The Den
Andy Yiadom struck an extra-time winner as plucky League Two newcomers Barnet dumped Millwall out of the Capital One Cup with a shock 2-1 win at The Den.
Barnet took the lead after 11 minutes with a John Akinde penalty, and although Steve Morison rattled the woodwork with a 61st-minute spot-kick, The Lions striker levelled with a fine header on 76 minutes to send the game into extra-time.
Buoyed by Saturday's opening day win at Shrewsbury, Millwall had high hopes of booking their place in Thursday's Second Round draw, but they came unstuck against a determined Bees outfit.
Manager Neil Harris made four changes to his starting XI, handing full debuts to goalkeeper Jordan Archer and left-back Shane Ferguson, with John Marquis and Sid Nelson also coming into the side.
However Archer's first real action of the night was not what he envisaged, picking the ball out of the back of the net following Barnet's opening goal.
Akinde used his power and pace to burst past Byron Webster on the left flank, but the Lions defender seemed to have recovered sufficiently to put the Barnet player off his stride as they headed into the penalty area. However Akinde went to ground and to the disbelief of Webster, and howls of protests from home fans in the Cold Blow Lane Stand, referee Andrew Madley pointed to the spot.
Akinde stepped up and promptly sent Archer the wrong way, burying his penalty into the bottom right corner.
Millwall responded and twice created half-chances when Webster sent a looping header from a Ferguson free-kick narrowly over on 21 minutes before Lee Martin curled a 25-yard free-kick off target three minutes later.
However, The Lions were indebted to Archer for keeping the busy Bees at bay, getting a strong hand to divert Luke Gambin's low goal-bound effort round the post for a corner.
Millwall had a great opportunity to level on 32 minutes; Morison showed real persistence to win the ball 30 yards from the Barnet goal and then threaded an inch perfect ball through to Martin in a one-on-one with Graham Stack. The Bees keeper spread himself expertly to block Martin's shot and although the loose ball seemed to be spinning over the line, a last-ditch clearance from Sam Togwell diverted the danger inches from the goal.
Chopper's men started the second-half brightly and were unlucky not to level when skipper Tony Craig's blockbuster of a volley was blocked seconds after the restart.
But it took another piece of athletic goalkeeping from Archer to prevent the visitors doubling their tally just before the hour mark when Michael Nelson caught a volley flush from 12 yards, but was thwarted by the stopper at full stretch.
The Lions were handed a great chance to level with a penalty of their own, awarded after the dangerous Fred Onyedinma burst into the danger zone and was caught by Gambin, who was penalised for a trip.
Morison, making his first appearance at The Den after signing for a third spell with the club, stepped up but smashed his spot-kick against the crossbar and the ball bounced the safety.
Having introduced fresh legs in the shape of Paris Cowan-Hall and Lee Gregory, the home side pressed again. Cowan-Hall sprinted down the right and picked out the onrushing Onyedinma at the back post, but the latter connected with the ball slightly off balance and could only drill his effort wide of the target.
With 14 minutes remaining Millwall's persistence paid off as Morison met an inviting free-kick delivery from Shaun Williams and sent a looping header past former Lions keeper Stack for the equaliser.
The two teams traded scoring chances with Archer acrobatically keeping out a fierce shot from Gavin Hoyte and then both Morison and Webster going close for the home side, first with a shot across the face of goal and then a header cleared off the line by Bira Dembele.
Cue extra-time and that man Akinde, a thorn in Millwall's side all night, turned from goal scorer to provider in the 102nd-minute. Akinde picked up the ball on the right, drove down the line and despatched an inviting cross that Yiadom swept home with aplomb.
Despite a little flurry of pressure in which Ed Upson twice had shots saved by Stack and sub Mark Beevers hit a stinging shot that the keeper did well to hold, Millwall just could not find a way through a well organised Bees backline as the League Two team booked their place in the hat for Round Two.
Archer, Nelson, Ferguson, Craig, Webster, Onyedinma (Beevers, 90+5mins), Upson, Williams, Marquis (Gregory, 66mins), Morison, Martin (Cowan-Hall, 66mins). Subs not used: Forde, Cummings, Powell, Philpot.
Martin (53mins)
Morison (74mins)
Stack, Hoyte, Johnson, Dembele, Nelson (N'Gala, 89mins), Yiadom, Weston (Gash, 69mins), Akinde, Gambin (Vilhete, 69mins), Togwell, Champion. Subs not used: Stephens, Tomlinson, Muggleton.
Champion (81mins)
Akinde (11mins, pen), Yiadom (102mins)
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The jump to DVD can be unforgiving for films of great sensory allure: minus the cinema's scale of sound and image, couch viewing can highlight weaknesses in even the most radiant visions. Not so with Jonathan Glazer's continually astounding Under the Skin (Studiocanal, 15), which lands on the small screen with beauty and curiosity to burn – the rare extraterrestrial-invasion film that itself seems an alien object. The black-opal shimmer of cinematographer Daniel Landin's compositions fascinates anew; ditto the sharp primal shriek of Mica Levi's score.
If the sheer shock of the film's surface is inevitably tempered on a revisit, that allows for greater consideration of what this independent-minded adaptation of Michel Faber's very different marvel of a sci-fi novel is actually about – beyond the luridly strange spectacle of Scarlett Johansson (always otherworldly to some degree, never more so than here) driving around Scotland's least salubrious stretches, drawing men into a house of terminal temptation. She's not human; that much we know, and little more. Her natural makeup doesn't appear to preclude gender or perhaps that's a human affectation she's adopted as seamlessly as her cut-glass accent.
Either way, Glazer's film conducts a searching examination of the ways womanhood is identified and treated in a society often oblivious to internal identity. Like its literary source, Under the Skin supports and rewards multiple readings; elegant and agitated in equal measure, it's the first British film in some while to feel genuinely unprecedented.
Nothing this week matches Under the Skin for daring or impact, but if it's comfort food you're after, The Lunchbox (Artificial Eye, PG) is worth opening. The packaging of Ritesh Batra's appealing epistolary romance suggests glossy gastroporn in the vein of Like Water for Chocolate, yet while devotees of Indian cuisine will pick up flavourful culinary details, this is no exercise in vapid exoticism. The story of the unlikely bond that forms, via misdirected lunch deliveries, between a lonely widower (the excellent Irrfan Khan) and an unhappy young housewife (Nimrat Kaur), it's short on surprises, except in its pleasing avoidance of sticky feelgood tactics.
Danis Tanovic's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (New Wave, 12), meanwhile, works overtime for its feel-bad credentials; even that commercial death wish of a title feels calculatedly austere. There's commendably unforged social detail in this dramatised documentary about a Roma family living on the Bosnian breadline, but it illuminates only the bleakly obvious. I learned similarly little, albeit on a more exposed subject, from pedestrian couturier biopic Yves Saint Laurent (Entertainment One, 15), with its less than stunning revelations about the destructive hedonism of high fashion; if you're intrigued, at least wait for Bertrand Bonello's more garishly engaging Saint Laurent later this year.
Two worthwhile music docs hit shelves still warm from the cinemas. Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets (Soda Pictures, 12) is a chipper concert film centred on the indie-disco squires' 2012 Sheffield homecoming gig. There's little in it for non-acolytes, which I wouldn't say about the delightful Mistaken for Strangers (Dogwoof, 15), a goofy-sad portrait of life on the road with glum-rock favourites the National, seen through the eyes of frontman Matt Berninger's self-confessed loser of a younger brother, Tom. It's a pointed story of fraternal friction in behind-the-music disguise.
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I have always been fascinated by the Fire Swamp, not only of the pain that lurks within, but of the fear that suffocates the surrounding villages. The screams and wails that echo from within the ominous forest, if it can indeed be called that, turn many stomachs. I however only experience almost a pleasant fluttering on hearing such agony. Astride my black stallion, whose name I haven't wasted any time in remembering, I experience a wave of fatigue. It is difficult to maintain a constant façade of worry. Humperdinck's fiancée, Buttercup, was taken during her daily ride by 'men from Guilder'. The Prince, myself and a few of his most reliable soldiers have set off to hunt them down.
Of course 'tis merely a ruse. Prince Humperdinck was bored and power-hungry, a dangerous combination in my opinion. With his father, the King, ill and he himself not getting enough rest I believe he became rather overwhelmed and the notion of war became propitious. In any case, together we devised a plan that would almost definitely initiate war between Guilder and Florin. We hired a Sicilian to abduct the Prince's peasant fiancée and frame the Guilderians. Rather a marvelous plot I think. It was foiled however by a strange man garbed solely in black attire. He bested the Sicilian as well as a giant and master swordsman, a wizard I think, that I assumed the Sicilian hired to assist in the abduction. The gaumless fellow then ran off into the Fire Swamp.
To keep up the façade of our ignorance the Prince and I along with a small army of soldiers have been tracking the trio who took Buttercup. We had to travel all the way to Guilder and follow the path they took. It was quite tedious until we discovered that a stranger had bested the entire group sent to kidnap the girl.
We're waiting now on the other side of the Fire Swamp. No one has ever survived the place but the Man in Black seems like the most worthy opponent to have ever entered its shadows. That man would make a most fascinating study. Perhaps if he survives Humperdinck will allow me to have some time with him. How delectable.


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The Fix 50 project in Sacramento is getting all the attention, but there's another road into downtown which is under construction.
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According to Bridgehunter online, the bridge over the American River on 160 was built in 1915 and renovated in 1934. It's in sorry shape. Detour signs will be up.


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Two of them have already been inducted into the Hall of Fame and the third will be, and all have managed the St. Louis Cardinals to World Championships. Now, Red Schoendienst, Whitey Herzog and Tony La Russa will be honored together as part of the Awards Presentation on Saturday, July 21 in Cooperstown. The event is held during the annual Hall of Fame Weekend at Doubleday Field the day before the induction ceremony. The announcement was made by The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday. Schoendienst led the 1967 Cardinals to the title and he was inducted into the Hall in 1989. Herzog's 1982 club won the World Series while he joined the Hall in 2010. La Russa's St. Louis teams took it all in 2006 and 2011. Along with the three legends, the World Series trophy will be on hand. The Hall of Fame Awards Presentation honors the recipients of the Museum's broadcasting and baseball writing awards. Tim McCarver is the 2012 Ford C. Frick Award winner for excellence in basebal...
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My chamber doors flew open, Savana striding in, all high and mighty as usual. Or perhaps a little more than usual...
"What have you done this time?" I groaned, recognizing the sly look on her face she got whenever she did something devious. The last occasion was when she had sliced the cook's cat's tail off and thrown it in the soup pot for the rest of us to 'enjoy'.
A dashing young man entered my room behind her. He had dark blonde hair and bright blue eyes which darted around, taking in the astonishing color of my room, no doubt.
His gaze alighted upon me at last, a lopsided smile filled with pity causing my stomach to churn. I detested those that felt badly for me.
"My lady," He strode to my bedside, taking my hand in his own and planting his lips upon my knuckles. His fingers were rough and calloused, dirt beneath his nails. I turned my nose up in disgust, pulling my hand away.
"And who is this ruffian, Savana?" I cocked an eyebrow in my friend's direction.
Completely full of herself, she stuffed her hands in her apron pockets, "This is Kevin, King of the Forest Thieves," Savana announced proudly.
Kevin? What sort of name was Kevin? I had heard of the so-called King of Thieves but no one had bothered to mention his name was Kevin.
Stifling my laughter, I nodded in his direction, "Irene. Pleased to meet your acquaintance,"
Kevin bowed low, removing his peaked cap, the yellow feather unfurling to the ground.
"I am equally pleased to be in the company of such a fine lady," He replied, planting his hat back on his straw colored hair.
I noticed the laundry cart was out in the hall, just outside my open chamber doors.
"Ready for your heroic escape, my dear?" Kevin winked mischievously before I had a chance to reply, moving to the cart. He wheeled it across the floor to my bedside.
"Gen-" He dumped me inside the cart. I folded in half, my legs sticking painfully up in the air, my knees in front of my nose, "-tly," I moaned.
A large amount of clothing was dumped on top of me. Stifled and squished, my legs now bent at the strangest, but somehow possible, angles, I was wheeled away to what I hoped would be a successful escape.


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OCMonitor.com At this time last year is when everything changed for UofL menŌĆÖs basketball manager, Logan Baumann. During the teamŌĆÖs first week of practice, Baumann was in charge of doing the teamŌĆÖs laundry. However, after former guard Mike Marra went down with a season ending knee injury, Rick Pitino called Buamann in his office and asked him if heŌĆÖd like to join the team as a walk-on. As you could expect, Baumann gladly accepted the offer. Fortunately, the Ohio County, KY., nativeŌĆÖs one season in a Louisville uniform ended with a national championship. Kenny Klein confirmed to the Courier-Journal that Baumann is now back to being a full-time manager for the program. He played in just four games last season, connecting on a pair of free-throws against Miami (OH) for his only collegiate points. As a senior in high school, Baumann led the┬ĀOhio County Eagles to a 29-3 record as a senior in 2011-12, a number nine ranking in the state and a 10th┬Ādistrict championship. He was voted as the...
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Will there be a new section for the new models such as the 10v64 / 12v32 / 12v64 ?
Does anyone know if these are supported in the same way as the current models? As previous owner of the 8 inch and original 10 inch I can say the new one's box is the same format etc.
I picked a 12v64 up this morning for my wife, she is loving it so far. It looks and to a degree feels like a Surface3. The kickstand is made of cheaper materials (and is quite sharp along the edge!). At £329 though, it is by no means in the cheap category that the other LINX tablets I bought previously (I was lucky to get both my 8 and 10 inch from the awesome staples deal 2 years back).
The specifications have been speculated on quite a bit as well. I can confirm that the 12v64 comes with 4GB RAM and a 64GB eMMC drive. It has only got a 2.4 GHz Wifi radio no 5GHz here . 1 x full size USB3.0 , 1 x Micro USB (2.0) and a micro HDMI 1.4 are found on the side. SDHC card slot is also present, no mention of SDXC. EDIT : It does support SDXC - right there on the box!
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The loud sounds of the Fair reverberated into the sky, the fading sun off in the distance painting the heavens a deep crimson fire. Ron Stoppable remained steadfast outside the entrance way to the fairgrounds. Hundreds of couples, families, friends all walked past him, buying their tickets and going inside, as Ron stood anxiously, waiting.
"Ron!" The sound of his girlfriend brought Ron's spirits soaring. He felt his feet practically float off the ground as he followed the voice to its source. He couldn't keep his arms to himself as they wrapped around his girlfriend, pulling her in tight.
"Hey Tara." Ron leaned in, planting a quick kiss on her soft cheek. "And how is the most badical girlfriend on the planet doing this fine evening?"
Tara tried to suppress a deep blush as it burned across her cheek, which of course only had the affect of making it worse as she smiled back at Ron. Ron may not have been as romantic in the 'traditional sense' as she might have always wanted in a boyfriend, but just one look into those deep brown pools of his and she knew that there was nowhere else he would rather be than at her side. Even after three wonderful weeks together as a couple, she had to admit, it still made her heart flutter the way he always greeted her. "Better and better with every second. You ready?"
"Nah, got to wait for KP." Ron just shrugged as he smiled at her. "They're late. Again."
Tara didn't need another invitation as she leaned in, taking Ron in a deep kiss. "Oh darn. What will we do?"
"So not the drama." A familiar voice cut in from the side, prompting Ron and Tara to break up the smooch fest. "I see you two are trying to give Barkin another seizure with your blatant disregard for PDA policy."
"Please KP. You are so the hypocrite." Ron casually dismissed her accusations, eyeing Kim and her boyfriend with a knowing gaze. "You know, I think I heard some kids earlier complaining about some living bush that liked shake and moan." Narrowing his playful gaze, he looked at the two "You wouldn't know anything about that would you?"
"Ah, guilty." Josh Mankey admitted as he exchanged deep blushes with Kim. "We thought we'd have just a few more minutes before you two got here."
"For shame." Tara chided, knowing that she was every bit as guilty as she leaned back into Ron's chest, taking his arms and wrapping them around her.
"Well, guess we'd better get some tickets or else we're going to be out here all night." Kim added cheerful as she guided her BF towards the waiting lines. Ron and Tara quickly followed.
It didn't take long for the couple couples to start listing off the hundred and one different things that they wanted to do before the night ended.
"…cotton candy and I want to see the petting zoo." Tara admitted. "And-"
"The Disorienter!" Ron interrupted enthusiastically as he indicated to the enormous monstrosity waiting for them right at the front of the fair way. "Two hundred and twenty tons of death by extreme speeds." Ron's voice lowered as he admitted cautiously "They say no one has yet survived it."
"Amp down the drama Ron" Kim said, even as she stifled a chuckle before indicating to a few green faced patrons on wobbly legs moving weakly away from the aforementioned ride. "I think they qualify."
Ron watched as the group hurried over to a corner of a nearby tent and proceeded to throw up their meal of corn dogs and fairway French fries. "No they don't."
Tara felt her own stomach unsettle as she watched this gruesome display. "Ron, you may be my boyfriend, but there is no way I am going on that ride with you."
"Ah come on Tara, those guys are just lightweights." Ron tried his best to dismiss their synchronous vomiting even as Rufus popped out of his pocket and took the time to sigh at the pitiful sight.
"No. Thank. You." Tara really did hate to sound all girly on the matter, but she had come here for a fun, relaxing night with her boyfriend and that in no way meant loosing her dinner.
"Don't worry Ron. I'll go with you." Kim looked up at Josh expectantly "You coming?"
Josh did a double take on the group still trying to conceal their weak stomachs. "No thanks." He decided quickly. "I'll stay with Tara."
"Fair enough." Kim leaned in, planting a quick peck on his cheek. "Back in a flash."
"See you soon." Ron leaned in to plant a similar kiss on Tara before heading off, chasing after Kim as the two moved straight for the line leading up to the Disorientator.
Tara and Josh decided to treat themselves to some frozen chocolate covered bananas from a nearby vendor stand as they stayed within eye sight of the Disorientator.
"You know, I can't figure those two."
"How's that?" Tara asked as she bit into her frozen treat.
"Well, you've got a pair that goes around saving the world."
"And from what Kim's told me, that's a pretty extreme way to pass the time."
Tara had to nod at this. She had heard more than a few horror stories of her own from Ron, and while she was pretty sure he embellished them, she had to admit that world saving and globe trotting was probably something she would never be able to get into herself.
"And yet, what do they do in their free time?" Josh went on.
Tara finished swallow the lump of banana and ice cream in her mouth before replying "Find the most extreme ride in the whole fair and go on it first thing?"
"Exactly. You'd think they'd want to unwind a little."
Tara just shrugged. "Ron's motto is 'Never be normal' and let me tell you, he commits to it."
Both had to laugh at that thought. The two took a second longer to share in their mutual moment before a sight off to their sides caused them both to flinch in synchronization.
"Oh." Josh had to wince at the sight. "I'm guessing Ron also decided to abandon his policy of only crackers and soda before extreme rides."
"Just tell me he didn't hit the…" Tara's hopes were dashed as her eyes fell upon the sight. "Yeah, he hit the clown."
"Still… totally… worth it." Ron admitted weakly as the ride attendant, with rolled eyes, let both him and Kim off the Disorientator.
"You just had to get off your 'diet', didn't you?" Kim looked at him with crossed arms.
"Cheese pizza with the Possibles, KP." Ron held onto his stomach as Rufus, similarly wobbly and disorientated, stuck out of Ron's pocket and fell to the floor. "I never miss it."
"Of course not." Kim rolled her eyes even as she picked up Rufus. "That would just break my dad's heart."
"Exactly." Ron chased after her, disregarding his sensitive stomach long enough to make his point. "I know how much it means to him. I don't want to break his poor heart."
"Oh please, you just can't resist cheese." Kim narrowed her smirking eyes upon his golden hair that seemed alight by the last vestiges of the setting sun. It was a sight that she forced herself past after a stunned second before remarking smartly "You'd eat cardboard as long as it was covered in cheese."
Ron looked about ready to retort when he caught himself. Lost in thought, he finally admitted aloud "Well, I did enjoy the cafeteria pizza on Tuesdays, so you got me there."
Somehow, Ron's comment hit Kim's funny bone squarely, causing her to burst out laughing. She looked at Ron again, catching him beaming with pride at the wittiness of his joke. The two smiled at each long and hard before Kim finally broke up the moment. "Come on ride boy, let's go find our dates."
Josh and Tara looked up to see Kim playfully swatting at Ron even as the slightly wobbly legged blonde made his way back into the waiting arms of his girlfriend.
"Everything ok?" Josh asked.
"He'll live." Kim walked up, kissing Josh squarely on the nose. "Though once again, we learn that cheese and extreme riding do not mix."
"Oh nag, nag, nag." Ron griped as he pulled Tara close to his chest. "You sound like my mother. Or a nagging old wife."
"I so do not." Kim bit back sharply at the 'old' comment, ignoring any mention of the word 'wife', even as it reverberated back and forth within Tara's mind.
"Oh really?" Ron teased back as he started walking down the fairground with his arm around Tara's shoulder. "Stop me when this sounds familiar." Ron paused for a split second before beginning again in an imitated higher tone of voice "'Ron Stoppable, stop clowning around. Ron Stoppable, this is mission time, stay focused."
"I have so never uttered the phrase 'mission time.'" Kim tried her best to sound indignant, even as she began giggling at Ron's impersonation, all the while she stood with Josh's arm around her shoulder, walking alongside Ron and Tara.
"'Ron Stoppable, don't you dare provoke that rabid ostrich." Ron went on, ignoring Kim's remark. "'Ron Stoppable, stop tearing open a whole in reality.'"
"Did he actually do that?" Josh looked down at Kim.
"Once." Kim admitted, fumingly. "And I did not sound like that."
"You tore open reality?" Tara asked Ron, more than a little concerned.
"Hey, in my defense, with all the times people steal the Pans Dimensional Vortex Inducer, you would think that the people who make it could at least leave some safety instructions on the side."
Kim and Ron shared a laugh at this. But without any prior knowledge of what the two were talking about, Josh and Tara were left out in the cold.
However, Tara's mind was drifting off anyway to thoughts of an off-hand comment made earlier. The notion of Kim as Ron's older, nagging wife somehow had disquieted her. Tara knew that it was still far too early to be thinking of such things but still, for reasons that she couldn't quite articulate, the matter left her to brood on troublingly.
The evening went on for several hours longer before eventually, the couples said their goodbyes.
On the front steps of the Possible home, one such goodbye was going on at that very moment.
"Thanks for a great evening." Kim leaned in for a quick kiss on the lips as her arms remained wrapped around her utterly gorgeous boyfriend. With the full moon over head, Kim couldn't help but to glow even brighter than the stars.
"My pleasure." Josh could feel his innards melt at the radiant redhead staring at him. He had to admit, as much fun as it had been to double date, he was enjoying this moment alone with Kim far, far more. "And I hope you will be there tomorrow for my showing at the Middleton Gallery."
"Totally. As if I'd miss."
This brought a wide smile to Josh Mankey. The thought of having Kim to himself for a whole afternoon was a prospect that Josh had been looking forward to all week. It wasn't that he didn't like Ron or Tara, but ever since both Ron and Kim had hooked up with someone else, the two still liked to double date. While Josh had to admit that he still enjoyed such occasions, he also had been eager to get Kim alone. The idea of her holding his hand while he showed off his latest works, a few of which he'd yet to even show to Kim, to some of the most critical eyes of Upperton's School of Arts was just so perfect.
"I'm really sorry Ron." Tara looked crestfallen as she stood on her doorstep. She'd been holding in this confession all night, hoping not to ruin such a wonderful evening. But she couldn't put it off any longer.
"It's ok." He admitted somewhat half-truthfully.
"No it's not. It's your birthday." Tara had hoped that Ron might actually get all jealous or upset. Somehow, that he seemed to be taking this so well seemed to make her feel all the guiltier.
"Yeah, but it's your aunt." Ron smiled back at her, staring into those deep blue eyes as her perfect blonde hair hung from her sides. If Ron had to, he would never have guessed that he'd ever score such a smoking hot girlfriend. Even now, he still couldn't help but feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
"It's my aunt Eleanor and I just… I haven't seen her in so long." Tara knew that she had already explained all this already, but she still felt bad about it. "She's only going to be up in Go City for the weekend, and my whole family is going up there and…"
"Tara, Tara," Ron interrupted, grabbing her hands as he leaned, placing a gentle kiss on her lips. "It's cool, really. You know, Rufus and I can chill for a weekend, catch up on some comics while you're with your aunt. It's no big."
"It feels big to me." Tara let out a long smile.
"I'll be here when you get back." Ron returned the smile. "It'll be fine."
"This tanks." Ron lamented into the phone as he lay in bed, trying to read his favorite issue of Fearless Ferret. He managed to skim through only the first few pages before throwing the comic aside in frustration.
"I'm really sorry Ron." Kim answered back as she lay in her own bed, her Pandaroo clutched safely in her arms. "I know she even had a new dress picked out."
"Dress?" Ron perked up at this. "Dress? What dress?"
Kim threw her free hand over her lips, cursing her carelessness. She had promised to keep Tara's dress a surprise. It was supposed to be part of her gift to Ron. "Nothing."
"What? You know something about a dress." Ron shot quickly into the phone. "What about a dress? Does Tara have a new dress?"
"Ron, I'm not supposed to tell you." Kim confessed guiltily. "I promised."
"So she does have a new dress!" Ron's eyes shot wide. "Tell me about it. Is it hot?"
"It's smoking." Kim admitted. "I helped her pick it out. She wanted to surprise you with it at your party. But you can totally not tell her that I told you about it."
"Wow." Ron leaned back in his bed. Even though he knew almost nothing about it, he could just imagine his smoking hot girlfriend showing up in a smoking hot dress, and all for him. "Heh, it's just not going to be the same without her."
"Relax Ron. I'm sure if nothing else, she'll wear it to the Spring Fling Dance."
"Yeah, it's just… well it's my birthday!" Ron whined into the phone. "I mean, I'm trying not to be a bad boyfriend about this, but this still totally tanks."
"Ron, you're an awesome boyfriend." Kim assured warmly into the phone. "Anyone who asks Tara knows that she feels the same way."
"Totally." Kim smiled. "I'll hang out with you this weekend for your birthday."
"Heh, thanks KP." Ron couldn't help but to smile at the thought of it. "You're… you're kinda totally awesome, you know?"
"So not the drama." Kim smiled. "We're best friends."
"You can't be serious." Kim looked at Josh, practically horrified.
"I'm sorry. But there was some kind of mess up with scheduling and now the Gallery is holding my exhibit tomorrow." Josh confessed as he and Kim made their way through the school cafeteria. The lunch line seemed like far too crowded a venue to be having this particular discussion but now that it had been brought up, there was no sense in avoiding it further.
"Josh, I can't make it on Saturday." Kim confessed in a tight whisper so as not to attract undue attention to the two of them. "Ron's birthday is Saturday and I already promised him I'd be there."
"But you promised you'd make it to the gallery." Josh pleaded.
"That was before you changed the date on me." Kim bit back.
"It wasn't me." Josh insisted defensively. "And besides, why can't you miss Ron's birthday this once. Or at least catch up with him on Sunday instead."
"Josh Mankey," Josh's innards began to constrict at Kim's no-nonsense tone. "I have not missed Ron's birthday since I was five. I am not going to start now because your gallery opening changed at the last second. And it is so not fair of you to ask."
"I… I'm sorry. I know." Josh admitted, defeated. He had known this was an argument that he wasn't going to win, but still, he'd had been hopeful. "I just really wanted you to be there."
"I'm sorry too." Kim's voice fell with Josh even as the two found an open table to sit at. "I really did want to make it."
"Hey guys." Ron's voice drew away Kim's attention, and as it did, Josh felt his heart tighten at the sight.
"How's it going?" Tara asked as she sat down next to Ron, opposite Kim and Josh.
"It's cool." Kim insisted weakly.
"We're fine." Josh agreed in the same pitiful tone.
"They're having problems." Ron whispered to Tara loud enough for all to hear.
"Ron!" Luckily, Ron was saved from Kim's true wrath by the tell-tale chimes of the Kimmunicator. Drawing it out, Kim looked down with her all-business tone "Go Wade."
"Hey guys." Team Possible's resident tech support appeared on the screen. "'Fraid I got a hit on the site.
"Super villain?" Josh guessed.
"Nation in trouble." Tara guessed.
"Monkeys." Ron let out with a groan.
"Uh, yeah. How did you know?" Wade asked.
"Just a guess." Ron sighed, as he sank in his seat. It was always monkeys. Why this was so, he never knew, but it just was.
"What's the sitch?" Kim asked, ignoring the playful banter of those around her.
"It looks like Monkey Fist is after the Codex Simius Rex." Wade double checked the information on the computer screen in front of him. "It's a book that supposedly details the end of the world. It actually provides step by step instructions."
"Huh. So after all this time trying to destroy the world, Monkey Fist has finally decided to just read the manual. No wonder all his other plans never worked." Ron mused aloud, causing Kim to laugh heartily at his comment before looking back down to Wade.
"On its way, courtesy of Global Justice." Wade replied with an all too proud smile. "They should be there right about… now."
Wade's comment was punctuated by the familiar hum of a GJ hover jet as it touched down over the Middleton football field, drawing the attention of more than a few students.
"Wow. They make good time." Tara noted.
"You have no idea." Ron smiled as he leaned in, planting a much needed kiss on Tara's cheeks. "I'll catch you later."
"I got to run." Kim explained in much the same hurried fashion as she leaned over to Josh. "I'm sorry. I promise I'll call you later tonight."
"That's fine." Josh smiled. "Be careful."
"You too." Tara insisted as she spoke to Ron.
"Please." Ron just waved off her concerns. "The Ron man is batting close to a thousand."
"Come on, 'all star." Kim joked, drawing a smirk from Ron as he chased after her.
This left Tara and Josh to stare as the two walked away, sitting in silence.
"Do you ever wonder about those two?"
"What do you mean?" Tara asked, glancing suspiciously back at Josh.
"Well I mean, just… well think about everything that they've been through together."
"It's a lot." Tara admitted as she worked on her fries, devouring them lazily.
"It's more than just a lot." Josh insisted anxiously. "When was the last time you were in a life and death situation with Ron?"
Tara paused a moment to think about the matter. "Not since Wannaweep. But it was so amazing." Tara seemed to rise up from the cafeteria lunch table to be swept by the wind as she drifted back to that moment. "Ron was so brave there. It was unreal."
"I've never been in that situation with Kim." Josh said as his mind began to drift back as well. "In fact, aside from some weirdness on our first date, I don't think I've ever come close. Meanwhile, those two go on that kind of thing… well just about every other day."
Tara's eyes began to narrow as they cast a suspicious glance at Josh. "Did you and Kim have a fight?"
"She's missing my gallery opening this weekend." Josh admitted. "But that's not what this is about. Well, at least it's not just what this is about."
"Uh-huh." Tara drew a knowing look at him.
"They spend more time with each other than they do with either of us." Josh argued, determined not to be dismissed as merely an overly jealous boyfriend speaking.
"Well… yeah." Tara admitted reluctantly. "But they've known each other a lot longer than they have us. Face it, we're still the newcomers."
"And that's my point." Josh went on, taking great care to choose his next words carefully. "You ever get the feeling like we maybe we're the odds ones in the middle? Like maybe we interrupted something special."
"What?" Tara looked at him incredulously. "No. Look, I'm sorry Kim is missing your Gallery, but just chill ok. It's not that big a deal, and I'm sure if you play up the guilt angle, you can get her to make it up to you. I for one am totally happy with my boyfriend, and I am not walking away from him for anything."
"Whoa, whoa." Josh held up his hands defensively. "I didn't say anything about walking away from anything. It's just… well, Kim had a choice between her best friend and her boyfriend and… sometimes that makes me wonder."


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Billy Budd, Sailorby Herman Melville, Frank Muller (Narrated by), Ed Sala (Narrated by)
Hailed as the best short story ever written, this literary masterpiece is the haunting story about a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence. Photo insert.
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"[A] late-life masterpiece." The New York Review of Books
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- 9781556900532
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- Recorded Books, LLC
- Publication date:
- 01/01/1981
- Edition description:
- Unabridged
- Age Range:
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Chapter One
In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or like a bodyguard quite surround, some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the "Handsome Sailor" of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.
A somewhat remarkable instance recurs to me. In Liverpool, now half a century ago, I saw under the shadow of the great dingy street-wall of Prince's Dock (an obstruction long since removed) a common sailor so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadulterate blood of Ham a symmetric figure much above the average height. The two ends of a gay silk handkerchief thrown loose about the neck danced upon the displayed ebony of his chest, in his ears were big hoops of gold, and a Highland bonnet with a tartan band set off his shapely head. It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor. In jovial sallies right and left, his white teeth flashing into view, he rollicked along, the center of a company of his shipmates. These were made up of such an assortment of tribes and complexions as would have well fitted themto be marched up by Anacharsis Cloots before the bar of the first French Assembly as Representatives of the Human Race. At each spontaneous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow the tribute of a pause and stare, and less frequently an exclamation the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker of it which the Assyrian priests doubtless showed for their grand sculptured Bull when the faithful prostrated themselves.
To return. If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Dam, an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggeries along the towpath. Invariably a proficient in his perilous calling, he was also more or less of a mighty boxer or wrestler. It was strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess were recited. Ashore he was the champion; afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost. Close-reefing topsails in a gale, there he was, astride the weather yardarm-end, foot in the Flemish horse as stirrup, both hands tugging at the earing as at a bridle, in very much the attitude of young Alexander curbing the fiery Bucephalus. A superb figure, tossed up as by the horns of Taurus against the thunderous sky, cheerily hallooing, to the strenuous file along the spar.
The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make. Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates.
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd or Baby Budd, as more familiarly, under circumstances hereafter to be given, he at last came to be called aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. It was not very long prior to the time of the narration that follows that he had entered the King's service, having been impressed on the Narrow Seas from a homeward-bound English merchantman into a seventy-four outward bound, H.M.S. Bellipotent; which ship, as was not unusual in those hurried days, having been obliged to put to sea short of her proper complement of men. Plump upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the boarding officer, Lieutenant Ratcliffe, pounced, even before the merchantman's crew was formally mustered on the quarter-deck for his deliberate inspection. And him only he elected. For whether it was because the other men when ranged before him showed to ill advantage after Billy, or whether he had some scruples in view of the merchantman's being rather short-handed, however it might be, the officer contented himself with his first spontaneous choice. To the surprise of the ship's company, though much to the lieutenant's satisfaction, Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.
Noting this uncomplaining acquiescence, all but cheerful, one might say, the shipmaster turned a surprised glance of silent reproach at the sailor. The shipmaster was one of those worthy mortals found in every vocation, even the humbler ones the sort of person whom everybody agrees in calling "a respectable man." And nor so strange to report as it may appear to be though a ploughman of the troubled waters, lifelong contending with the intractable elements, there was nothing this honest soul at heart loved better than simple peace and quiet. For the rest, he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression. On a fair day with a fair wind and all going well, a certain musical chime in his voice seemed to be the veritable unobstructed outcome of the innermost man. He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him. On a passage, so long as his craft was in any proximity to land, no sleep for Captain Graveling. He took to heart those serious responsibilities not so heavily borne by some shipmasters.
Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle getting his kit together, the Bellipotent's lieutenant, burly and bluff, nowise disconcerted by Captain Graveling's omitting to proffer the customary hospitalities on an occasion so unwelcome to him, an omission simply caused by preoccupation of thought, unceremoniously invited himself into the cabin, and also to a flask from the spirit locker, a receptacle which his experienced eye instantly discovered. In fact he was one of those sea dogs in whom all the hardship and peril of naval life in the great prolonged wars of his time never impaired the natural instinct for sensuous enjoyment. His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. For the cabin's proprietor there was nothing left but to play the part of the enforced host with whatever grace and alacrity were practicable. As necessary adjuncts to the flask, he silently placed tumbler and water jug before the irrepressible guest. But excusing himself from partaking just then, he dismally watched the unembarrassed officer deliberately diluting his grog a little, then tossing it off in three swallows, pushing the empty tumbler away, yet not so far as to be beyond easy reach, at the same time settling himself in his seat and smacking his lips with high satisfaction, looking straight at the host.
These proceedings over, the master broke the silence; and there lurked a rueful reproach in the tone of his voice: "Lieutenant, you are going to take my best man from me, the jewel of 'em."
"Yes, I know," rejoined the other, immediately drawing back the tumbler preliminary to a replenishing. "Yes, I know. Sorry."
"Beg pardon, but you don't understand, Lieutenant. See here, now. Before I shipped that young fellow, my forecastle was a rat-pit of quarrels. It was black times, I tell you, aboard the Rights here. I was worried to that degree my pipe had no comfort for me. But Billy came; and it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy. Not that he preached to them or said or did anything in particular; but a virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones. They took to him like hornets to treacle; all but the buffer of the gang, the big shaggy chap with the fire-red whiskers. He indeed, out of envy, perhaps, of the newcomer, and thinking such a "sweet and pleasant fellow," as he mockingly designated him to the others, could hardly have the spirit of a gamecock, must needs bestir himself in trying to get up an ugly row with him. Billy forebore with him and reasoned with him in a pleasant way he is something like myself, Lieutenant, to whom aught like a quarrel is hateful but nothing served. So, in the second dogwatch one day, the Red Whiskers in presence of the others, under pretense of showing Billy just whence a sirloin steak was cut for the fellow had once been a butcher insultingly gave him a dig under the ribs. Quick as lightning Billy let fly his arm. I dare say he never meant to do quite as much as he did, but anyhow he gave the burly fool a terrible drubbing. It took about half a minute, I should think. And, lord bless you, the lubber was astonished at the celerity. And will you believe it, Lieutenant, the Red Whiskers now really loves Billy loves him, or is the biggest hypocrite that ever I heard of. But they all love him. Some of 'em do his washing, darn his old trousers for him; the carpenter is at odd times making a pretty little chest of drawers for him. Anybody will do anything for Billy Budd; and it's the happy family here. But now, Lieutenant, if that young fellow goes I know how it will be aboard the Rights. Not again very soon shall I, coming up from dinner, lean over the capstan smoking a quiet pipe no, not very soon again, I think. Ay, Lieutenant, you are going to take away the jewel of 'em; you are going to take away my peacemaker!" And with that the good soul had really some ado in checking a rising sob.
"Well," said the lieutenant, who had listened with amused interest to all this and now was waxing merry with his tipple; "well, blessed are the peacemakers, especially the fighting peacemakers. And such are the seventy-four beauties some of which you see poking their noses out of the portholes of yonder warship lying to for me," pointing through the cabin window at the Bellipotent. "But courage! Don't look so downhearted, man. Why, I pledge you in advance the royal approbation. Rest assured that His Majesty will be delighted to know that in a time when his hardtack is not sought for by sailors with such avidity as should be, a time also when some shipmasters privily resent the borrowing from them a tar or two for the service; His Majesty, I say, will be delighted to learn that one shipmaster at least cheerfully surrenders to the King the flower of his flock, a sailor who with equal loyalty makes no dissent. But where's my beauty? Ah," looking through the cabin's open door, "here he comes; and, by Jove, lugging along his chest Apollo with his portmanteau! My man," stepping out to him, "you can't take that big box aboard a warship. The boxes there are mostly shot boxes. Put your duds in a bag, lad. Boot and saddle for the cavalryman, bag and hammock for the man-of-war's man."
The transfer from chest to bag was made. And, after seeing his man into the cutter and then following him down, the lieutenant pushed off from the Rights-of-Man. That was the merchant ship's name, though by her master and crew abbreviated in sailor fashion into the Rights. The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine, whose book in rejoinder to Burke's arraignment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everywhere. In christening his vessel after the title of Paine's volume the man of Dundee was something like his contemporary shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, whose sympathies, alike with his native land and its liberal philosophers, he evinced by naming his ships after Voltaire, Diderot, and so forth.
But now, when the boat swept under the merchantman's stern, and officer and oarsmen were noting some bitterly and others with a grin the name emblazoned there; just then it was that the new recruit jumped up from the bow where the coxswain had directed him to sit, and waving hat to his silent shipmates sorrowfully looking over at him from the taffrail, bade the lads a genial good-bye. Then, making a salutation as to the ship herself, "And good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man."
"Down, sir!" roared the lieutenant, instantly assuming all the rigor of his rank, though with difficulty repressing a smile.
To be sure, Billy's action was a terrible breach of naval decorum. But in that decorum he had never been instructed; in consideration of which the lieutenant would hardly have been so energetic in reproof but for the concluding farewell to the ship. This he rather took as meant to convey a covert sally on the new recruit's part, a sly slur at impressment in general, and that of himself in especial. And yet, more likely, if satire it was in effect, it was hardly so by intention, for Billy, though happily endowed with the gaiety of high health, youth, and a free heart, was yet by no means of a satirical turn. The will to it and the sinister dexterity were alike wanting. To deal in double meanings and insinuations of any sort was quite foreign to his nature.
As to his enforced enlistment, that he seemed to take pretty much as he was wont to take any vicissitude of weather. Like the animals, though no philosopher, he was, without knowing it, practically a fatalist. And it may be that he rather liked this adventurous turn in his affairs, which promised an opening into novel scenes and martial excitements.
Aboard the Bellipotent our merchant sailor was forthwith rated as an able seaman and assigned to the starboard watch of the foretop. He was soon at home in the service, not at all disliked for his unpretentious good looks and a sort of genial happy-go-lucky air. No merrier man in his mess: in marked contrast to certain other individuals included like himself among the impressed portion of the ship's company; for these when not actively employed were sometimes, and more particularly in the last dogwatch when the drawing near of twilight induced revery, apt to fall into a saddish mood which in some partook of sullenness. But they were not so young as our foretopman, and no few of them must have known a hearth of some sort, others may have had wives and children left, too probably, in uncertain circumstances, and hardly any but must have had acknowledged kith and kin, while for Billy, as will shortly be seen, his entire family was practically invested in himself.Copyright © 1999 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Meet the Author
Herman Melville (1819–1891) found early success with stories inspired by his adventures in the South Seas. His fortunes declined with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick, now recognized as a masterpiece but scorned by Melville's contemporaries. The author was obliged to work as a New York City customs inspector and died in obscurity, three decades before the critical reassessment of his work.
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- Date of Birth:
- August 1, 1819
- Date of Death:
- September 28, 1891
- Place of Birth:
- New York, New York
- Place of Death:
- New York, New York
- Education:
- Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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Before asking students to tackle 'Moby Dick,' we assign 'Billy Budd' as part of the freshman high school curriculum. This novella is true to Melville's style: not always easy reading, but enormously rewarding. The drama unfolds with the digressions and character analysis which those who love Melville relish and those who do not find annoying. This reader is solidly in the former group. Melville's digressions are chatty and informative, yet --in so many ways-- they add to the tone and enhance reader's understanding of the context of the action of the novel. Melville makes it so easy to imagine a salty, old, sea-dog, ruminating as he smokes his pipe and tells his story. This edition has much to recommend it. There is en extended reader's supplement which contains biographical information on the author, explanations of the nautical, military and naval terms and clarification of the biblical, mythological and historical allusions which fill its few pages. A good follow-up to the novella is viewing the film with Peter Ustinov as Captain Vere and Terrence Stamp as the title character. The opera by Benjamin Britten also follows the book very closely and is available on cd and in video. This book makes a good first introduction to Melville, and this edition is excellent.
The only reason I read this was because I was forced to by my English teacher, and for what reason, I don't know. It is tediously boring, and he continually makes a point of going off on naval history that has no real concrete relavence to the story line, which is the weakest I've ever seen. Even though it's 95 pages, it felt like 500.


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Despite the dark clouds looming over Europe and its own financial problems, France has entered a period of calm and relative serenity with the election of François Hollande.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy's style grated on many French. They couldn't stand his impulsiveness, his temper tantrums, his unabashed love of glitz and money and his compulsive need to micro-manage any file that caught the public eye.
At the end of his five-year mandate, the French were exhausted by this hyperactive and overexposed president. In any case, after 17 years of living under right-wing presidents, it was time for an alternative and for the Socialists to return to power. So, out of weariness rather than enthusiasm, the French settled for Mr. Hollande, a quiet and uncharismatic party bureaucrat who could be trusted to bring a certain tranquillity to public life – a "normal man," as he once described himself.
Indeed, Mr. Hollande turns out to be a French version of the Protestant leaders of Northern Europe who make a point of behaving like the common man. His first move was to cut his salary and those of his ministers by 30 per cent. Breaking with the grand, quasi-monarchist lifestyle of his predecessors, he wanted to remain in his IKEA-furnished apartment in the 15th arrondissement rather than move into the Élysée Palace – but security considerations prevailed.
His companion, Valérie Trierweiler, a journalist, intends to go on working. She has three children to support, she says, and doesn't want to live off the state. The two are not married, which will cause some problems of protocol when they travel in conservative countries, but for now, they don't intend to tie the knot.
The cabinet he recently formed confirmed that Mr. Hollande will govern from the centre-left. The radical wing of the Socialist Party received only two minor posts in the cabinet.
As prime minister, he chose Jean-Marc Ayrault, the pragmatic and efficient mayor of Nantes and a former teacher of German – an asset since relations with Germany are crucial to France's future.
Foreign affairs went to Laurent Fabius, prime minister from 1984 to 1986 under François Mitterrand. In fact, Mr. Fabius, one of the brightest politicians in France, might have been in Mr. Hollande's place had his career not been derailed by two events. In 1991, he was accused of manslaughter (but acquitted) after infected blood was distributed by France's blood bank during his tenure as prime minister. In 2005, breaking abruptly with his party, he campaigned for the No side in the referendum on the European constitution.
Although as recently as last year he criticized Mr. Hollande for lacking presidential stature, Mr. Fabius is now back in the fold. He will bring much-needed experience to a cabinet mostly made of neophytes.
The real policymaking, though, will begin after June's elections to the National Assembly, which the Socialist Party is poised to win – albeit by a thin margin, according to a poll published last week by Le Monde.
For his first official outing, at the NATO and G8 summits, Mr. Hollande carefully avoided making waves. His first meeting with Angela Merkel was marked by strong disagreement. (The German Chancellor is adamantly opposed to the Eurobonds that France, Italy and Spain are pushing for.) It helps that Mr. Hollande has a sense of humour and a sunny, placid character. He will need plenty of that in the months to come.Report Typo/Error
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