text: Author: Kavita mehta thukral It is said that order and chaos are the fundamental elements of your being. They co-exist and there is always some chaos that is lurking under the 'order' of living. Knowingly or unknowingly, we inhabit a world of order that is surrounded by chaos. We are so blinded by order that we ignore the tell-tale signs of chaos. So, whenever chaos strikes, it looks like a freefall with flailing arms, clueless mind and a general feeling of being overwhelmed. And when life becomes too much to handle, one feels numb, unable to perceive or feel anything. Take a pause. Think a bit. Dig in a bit deeper. You will realize that you have personally encountered that realm of chaos and have made it your temporary residence for a while. It can be in the form of a bitter break up, a career upheaval, a bad boss, a nasty colleague, unrequited love, illness of closed ones, or for that matter, death. What Is Chaos? Worry, change, deception, lies, betrayal, grief, loss of stable ground – all of these comprise CHAOS. An encounter with any of these turns your life topsy-turvy. A spin that makes you dizzy. A roller coaster with more dips than highs. A space ride which leaves you reeling, unbounded and unsupported. Regardless of how planned or sorted out your life is, there is always some room for something unfamiliar and undesired to make its appearance. How does one make sense out of this? How does one strike a balance between these two interlinked, interconnected fundamentals that make up your being? How does one deal with this duality of life? How does one chart from the explored territory of Order to the unexplored territory of Chaos? What is the compass that guides you? Come to think of it, it is a balancing act. It boils down to where you place your foot while balancing. What you need to do is put one foot in what you have understood and have a deep knowledge of and place the other foot into what you are currently exploring. Many things begin to fall in place when you make a conscious attempt to understand the world with this lens. So, the next time that happens, when you are pushed out of your comfort zone, your order into the unknown and scary realm of chaos, find your feet and strike a balance. Take, for example, a bad work atmosphere where you are feeling stifled. Instead of whining and ranting about it to all and sundry, you can take a deep breath and assess things from a logical perspective. It takes conscious efforts to put your decisions in practice. You can quit if it is too much to bear and explore things that you really like to do, but it should not be decided on the basis of an impulse, Why go further? When I was benched for an indefinite period because of a delay in some government licensing, my life went into a tizzy. From being busy for 30 hours in a 24-hour day, I had all the time on my hand, with me twiddling my thumbs waiting for that call and a goddamn signature by government officials so that I can start working at the breakneck speed that I was accustomed to. I did not know how to be not busy. I did not know what it is to wait. To get up every morning with the hopes that today will be the day when I will get the approval and to sleep with despair over the day getting wasted. My oh-so-precious time now meant nothing. And this was my unexplored territory. My version of chaos. One fine day I decided to stop waiting and take a break from all this. A trip to the mountains might help to clear my head a bit. So, going solo for the 'Hampta' Pass trek where I didn't know anyone was a difficult call to take. The weather gods played truant, making it a little more difficult. But, sometimes the feet have to travel to make the journey inward possible. And I wasn't looking for answers or have a head full of questions. I just wanted TO BE. Enjoy the beauty of being. Rediscover my grace. Retrace paths and also forge new ones. Celebrate moments and the friends made. Experience the vast expanse of one's own self while feeling like a speck of dust in the universe. Prune what is unnecessary. Bid farewell graciously. Let the starry skies serve as roadmaps. And the bonfire nights kindle the spark within. Let the soul sing its own songs. Let the stories be bereft of longing and belonging. Live truly, fully and beautifully. And that is what I did. I learned to straddle that ground. I learned to balance my chaos with my order, to channelize my energy. I am sure we all are going to encounter this crossroad at some point or other in this journey of life. Choose wisely and meaningfully. Instead of drowning in that overwhelming feeling, find a way out. Chart a new path. Sprout new wings and learn to fly. Don't get stuck in the rut because you are scared to leave your comfort zone. Growth happens in Chaos. Embrace it. Make it one of your own. Gift yourself your own better version.


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MANALAPAN _ Jake
Winston is Ron Guidry-
like with the way he hops
off the mound when a ball
is hit in his direction.
""One thing my father (the
late Darrin Winston, a for
mer Rutgers University
pitching standout and Phil
adelphia Phillies' pitcher)
always told me 'Is be an
athlete out there,' " Win
ston said.
Winston, a senior left-
hander for Manalapan, dis
played his athleticism with
three outstanding fielding
plays on Tuesday in an
NJSIAA Central Group IV
semifinal against Jackson
His fielding helped him
throw a a complete-game
two-hitter as the No.2 seed
Braves advanced to the
Central IV championship
game for the second
straight season with a 3-0
win in a rematch of last
year's Central IV final,
won by Jackson Memorial.
His defense resulted in one
knowledgeable baseball ob
server watching the game
to bring up Guidry, the for
mer Yankees' standout left-hander,
who was an outstanding
""I knew they were a con
tact hitting team," said
Winston, who improved to
6-1 and shuout the power-
hitting Jaguars for the sec
ond time in the last 27
days. ""I knew a couple of
balls were going to come
near me. I made the
Winston, who struck out
four, walked none and hit
a batter, showed off his
leather within a six-batter
span in the fourth and fifth
First, he raced off the
mound, fielded a beautiful
bunt by Jaguars' No.'2 bat
ter Andy Lopez between
the third base line and
mound and threw Lopez
out at first in a close play.
""I didn't think I was going
to get him (Lopez)," Win
ston said. ""I looked up and
he was three-fourths of a
way down the line. I made
a nice throw."
Two batters later, Winston
made a diving stop of a
softly hit ground ball by
cleanup batter Matt Thaiss
and threw him out.
Winston's final fielding
gem came with two out in
the fifth when he, again,
raced off the mound on a
ground ball by Spencer
Young and threw him out
at first.
""He's the best fielding
pitcher I've ever coached,"
said Manalapan coach Bri
an Boyce, whose team will
host Monroe on Friday in
the Central IV champion
ship game. ""Those hits
that a lot of pitchers don't
get to, he gets to them.
""He's a tremendous ath
lete. One of the better ath
letes on our team, on a
team filled with pretty
good athletes."
Winston, who in has al
lowed just five hits in 13
innings against Jackson
Memorial this season, had
complete command of his
fastball, his slider and
change-up in shutting
down a team that had
scored 26 runs and hit
eight homers in its previ
ous two games.
Jackson Memorial (20-4)
had just four baserunners
and just two of those
reached second base. After
he hit Alex Herceg to lead
off the second, Winston re
tired 11 straight batter un
til pinch-hitter Nick Petriz
zo reached on an error to
lead off the sixth.
""He's thrown two gems
against us," said Jackson
Memorial coach Frank
Malta, whose team has
been shutout just four
times over the last three
seasons. ""He's doing some
thing right if he's shutting
us out."
Jackson Memorial junior
right-hander Brandon Hol
up was a tough-luck loser
against Winston and Mana
lapan for the second time.
He pitched a complete-
game eight-hitter.
Manalapan (26-2) scratched
out runs in the third,
fourth and fifth innings.
Senior center fielder Alex
DeCastro had an RBI
ground out in the third
and sacrifice fly in the
Senior left fielder Derek
Kawa had a sacrifice fly in
the fifth.

subset: commoncrawl


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A correction is made to the theory of total internal reflection presented by Lotsch. With this correction his expression for the Goos-Hänchen shift is found to have a nonzero value for the case of grazing incidence, in agreement with the results of other authors.
© 1976 Optical Society of AmericaFull Article | PDF Article
OSA Recommended Articles
Helmut K. V. Lotsch
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(12) 1426-1426 (1976)
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Allan W. Snyder and John D. Love
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For Sale & Wanted / Re: 04 FAZER 1000« on: 13 September 2013, 07:37:17 PM »
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For Sale & Wanted / Re: 04 FAZER 1000« on: 12 September 2013, 09:00:37 PM »
Not a penny less...Sale of the Century!
For Sale & Wanted / Re: 04 FAZER 1000« on: 11 September 2013, 11:03:45 AM »
Cant even sell it for 1300!! 62,000 is high, but not that bad got a few more days left on ebay, if it dont go then ill break it, and give you boys first shout on the parts, first come first served, so if you do want anything put a post up, then i have a list of members to call in order.
For Sale & Wanted / 04 FAZER 1000« on: 02 September 2013, 10:27:21 AM »
Still in the shed, its on ebay and if it deosnt fetch £1500 i will break it for spares...so if any one out there is needing anything please get in touch so I can have a idea..Its a complete running bike, with no faults, only thing to mention is we have removed the EXUP, and it was warped, and cables ruined.
Seems a shame, but the high miles must be putting people off, and i need it gone! in bits or whole.
For Sale & Wanted / Re: 2004 Fazer 1000 FZS..For sale....worth a look..« on: 07 July 2013, 10:08:41 AM »
For Sale & Wanted / Re: 2004 Fazer 1000 FZS..For sale....worth a look..« on: 06 July 2013, 12:35:01 PM »
Im in Sunny South Wales, 15 miles from Brecon, if anyone would like to come for a ride, and see for themselves if a bike that has been ivanised and air mod done, but without the EXUP can still perform....then please get in touch, we'll put this argument to the test, and put some substantial evidence behind hit, rather than finger tapping.
For Sale & Wanted / Re: 2004 Fazer 1000 FZS..For sale....worth a look..« on: 06 July 2013, 12:32:11 PM »
if your interested PM me and ill email you some, believe you me, the EXUP valve makes no difference in my opinion, ive ridden with and without, and the cost of replacing one with a bike that has been ivanised and performance can is not worth it, take it from someone who knows!
Not sure why i cant post any pics, perhaps it my browser, cant paste the img links, ill try it with IE instead of Firefox.
For Sale & Wanted / 2004 Fazer 1000 FZS..For sale....worth a look..« on: 06 July 2013, 11:21:51 AM »
Had this on ebay to see what it would do, few offers, but nothing that would separate me form this Fazer. Its a high miler, 62,000 and climbing, but still loads of life in the old girl yet...R6 rear shock unit with polished dog bones, Ivanised Carbs, Renthal bars, CNC Custom levers, Scott oiler, fresh oil filter and coolant, the engine has been cleaned up and sprayed, Carbon Com Can, Chain, sprockets, pads, discs all very good, new clutch lever, the EXUP HAS BEEN REMOVED, this is my second Fazer 1000, first one never had the Ivan jet kit, but had the exup, and to be honest, this Fazer for sale, pulls harder at higher revs, as the two lads in Swansea last night found out, whilst trying to show off on their GSXERs, engine sweet as, same as box, still pulls well over 150mph, on private roads.....reason for selling, still in my thirties, havent matured enough to be able to ride a bike like this sensible, i drive for the Royal Mail, and its only a matter of time!!
Had it on the ebay for £1895, but would accept lower, not to low, or swap for a Tiger or a nice V twin ect... if it doesnt make make £1600 plus, ill break it for parts...
all in all, a high mileage bike, with some nice extras, clean and mechanically sound, and great value for money...any questions give me a buzz...07894036662
cant load pics, pm me, and ill email you some...
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: Rember this a couple of months ago..............« on: 29 April 2013, 11:11:00 AM »
Yep, done a good job there Dad, looking forward to the next Father/Son outing, your shout for the burgers though.
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: intermitent exup fault,any ideas?« on: 28 April 2013, 11:11:34 PM »
I beg to differ, bike is far more subtle on low revs without the EXUP, making easier riding through traffic, less jerkiness, but in saying that, im making that assumption without riding the bike in the town, just what it felt like when i rode it over mountain roads,
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: Exup or not to exup, that is the question.« on: 28 April 2013, 10:07:55 PM »
The difference isnt that great, unless your a purist, take it out, and keep it knocked down a gear!
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: intermitent exup fault,any ideas?« on: 28 April 2013, 10:03:35 PM »
Cost of replacing a worn and corroded EXUP, compared against the slight increase in response, is in my opinion, not worth it, ive rode a Fazer with and with out, and unless your racing, you really are not going to miss it!
For Sale & Wanted / Re: Fazer 1000 for sale« on: 18 April 2013, 11:36:01 PM »
It does not show on the Insurance, neither the log book, the only way you can tell is if you do the HIP check...
I would have Donkeys over that, far classier!
General / Re: cat d,c« on: 18 April 2013, 11:28:16 PM »
Done a bit of research, Insurance WILL know if your vehicle has past history, CAT D has absolutely no impact what so ever on policy cost or if you make a claim, so please do not try and scaremonger people with in correct information.
General / Re: cat d,c« on: 18 April 2013, 10:12:06 PM »
so try telling your insurance I've got a cat D and done a fancy paint job and adding a can and different this and blinged that and wait for the LOL.
So why doesnt the Insurance company ask if the vehicle has insurance history when giving details for a quote?
General / Re: cat d,c« on: 18 April 2013, 01:58:01 PM »
Yeah, the guy I bought it from told me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell, most bikes have suffered damage, its just down to whether the owner decides to make a claim.
Never go Full Retard.
General / Re: cat d,c« on: 18 April 2013, 11:45:53 AM »
only if your buying from the keeper who made the claim, mine happened two previous owners before hand.
For Sale & Wanted / Re: Fazer 1000 for sale« on: 18 April 2013, 10:36:35 AM »
It does not show on the Insurance, neither the log book, the only way you can tell is if you do the HIP check...
It is short sighted "FACT" , that some one would not buy a bike because of the past history, lost of people who havnt got fully comp had had their bikes thrown down the road, second hand fairing and past it on without the new person knowing, at least if someone does the correct thing and inform their insurance company, there is a record of what damage was sustained therefor your able to check to see if the work has been carried out correctly...
I agree, there should be a slight decrease invalue, but not much, but there, its all in the eye of the potential buyer, i bought mine with a CAT D, and to be honest i havent seen a nicer cleaner one about..FACT. and would in buy another, of course.
For Sale & Wanted / Re: Fazer 1000 for sale« on: 18 April 2013, 07:40:58 AM »
My bike also has a CAT D, fell of its stand and suffered minor damage, insurance companies would rather write something off rather than going through the proccess of getting things repaired, its a shame that some people are that short sighted, I was more interested in the mechanical side of the bike, rather than the fact it had a new tank and fairing fitted, good luck with the sale, she looks awesome.
Never go Full Retard.
General / Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?« on: 15 March 2013, 06:15:12 AM »
Had rear hangers and frame protectors powder coated black, some sexy black swinging arm bolt covers of devilsyam, acf50 the whole bike....
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: R6 shock Mod« on: 13 March 2013, 07:43:36 AM »
Fitted mine, dog legs spot on, bike feels more planted....good mod to carry out.....roll on western mild air!!
FZS600 Fazer / Re: help needed as always« on: 06 March 2013, 04:10:14 PM »
Well said that man, if only I could heed to such advice before breaking things that could of been left well alone!
Events, Meets, Ride outs etc / Re: Mid Wales Riders« on: 06 March 2013, 01:31:30 PM »
cool, I'm from Ystradgynlais....


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How Digitally Resilient Is Your Company?
Resiliency Means Being Able To Withstand A Cyber Security Breach And Regroup Quickly, Says TF 7 Guest
Unlike the game Whack-a-Mole, where the object is to clobber a mole as it pops its head out of a hole, cyber threats are becoming more targeted and harder to whack, said Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, and author of the book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat? on Monday's episode 55 of Task Force 7 Radio. Rothrock was the guest of host George Rettas, the president and CEO of Task Force 7 Radio and Task Force 7 Technologies.
"The bad guys keep creating new threats all the time and come at organizations in different ways, he said. "I was a [venture capitalist] for 30 years and in the early days, I called it the 'whack-a-mole strategy, and we had technology that would whack it. And that worked for 25 years."
But as threats became more targeted, "it demonstrated to us that whack a mole was not exactly the perfect strategy to have anymore," he said. "Since we don't know what that mole is going to look like, and we don't know which hole it's going to pop out of, we can't evolve technology fast enough; we've got to employ resilience strategies in our cyber process and operations."
Resilience, he added, "means the ability to withstand an impairment of some sort and come out the other side looking like you handled the problem." It starts with knowing what systems you have, how they are operating and how they were constructed, he said.
Cyber Security has constantly moving parts
In response to a question from Rettas about whether companies understand how to conduct a self-assessment of their cyber security system and reflect on their capabilities, Rothrock's answer was a resounding no – unless they have been the victims of a cyber threat or narrowly avoided an attack.
Cyber security is "not a static thing,'' but a lot of people treat it that way, he stated. Although smaller and medium-sized companies have likely deployed things like firewalls and antivirus software, "there's just not enough people and the technology is dated compared to where the threats are,'' he observed.
Rettas said he believes companies are still putting too much energy into trying to avoid a hack instead of figuring out how to bounce back from one, and Rothrock agreed. "Your job as a system is to prevent [an attack]. But you're really going to be judged on how you respond,'' he said.
A "large percentage" of security frameworks, including NIST, are based on prevention and detection, he maintained. "The problem is, now our systems are very porous: we have phones, we have Wi-Fi, we have clouds we have all this fabric that basically rips down the perimeter of the organization."
Rothrock also pointed out that "unless you have a lot of capital and engineers, chances are the network you're operating on was built and designed by people that are no longer at the company. And chances are the documentation was poor -- if there is any documentation." The two then talked about the cyber security breach retailer Target experienced in 2013, and how that was the seminal event that prompted companies to take further steps to protect themselves.
But the big mistake Target made, Rothrock noted, was electing to keep their operations up and running rather than shutting down the network to contain the malware.
That meant "they let the malware continue to operate and continue to exfiltrate this very sensitive data, 40 million customer records or something like that, and lo and behold they got in trouble,'' said Rothrock. Several executives were subsequently fired because they did not protect their customer data. "They had lots of procedures, they had lots of technology, but at the end of the day they made a decision not to protect that data."
Business continuity is more than backing up data
The show's second segment began by picking up the discussion about Target. Even though that breach happened five years ago, many companies have still not deployed systems "in a more cyber resilient way," Rothrock said. "So what happened to Target can happen to anybody."
The two then shifted gears to talk about digital resiliency and the ability to keep systems up and running. Business continuity is not just about backups, Rothrock said.
"We also have to have cyber resiliency,'' he emphasized. It's not enough to just recover from a cyber attack; organizations need to have crisis management policies in place to be able to make the right decisions, he said.
Rettas asked how a business can detect these breaches earlier. Rothrock said there are companies that sell systems with "lots of detection capability agents" that look for a change in traffic patterns and will "infer a problem or a least infer an alert."
When that occurs then those systems start to take an action, he continued. "They get an alert … [that] this IP is under attack, this device is under attack, or maybe it's under attack. You hand it to your incident response team and the incident response team investigates. And maybe it is, maybe it isn't; the first thing you want to do is isolate it or you can honey pot it, or you can do whatever your plan is -- you need to have thought that through."
Detection, Rothrock added, "is just good old fashioned … shoe leather, where you have systems and capabilities and look for the clues." Because cyber attack software has digital signatures, "this is very helpful in sorting out where the threats are and what kind of action you should probably take."
Emerging threats from the IoT
In the show's third segment, Rettas brought up Rothrock's book, which talks about "unboxed computation environments" and asked him to explain what that is.
Rothrock said they are an "actual, virtual thing," like the cloud, where servers can be spun up quickly. When a system is dynamic, he said it becomes harder to test.
That's one emerging threat, Rettas pointed out. Cyber security in the age of the internet of things, is another.
These devices "were not designed with security in mind,'' Rothrock noted. "In fact, sometimes it's not even considered in the design. It becomes a leap frog point or a transmission point … It's like a sneeze and the air that you're breathing carries the virus to the next person."
The problem, he said, is that those systems cannot be retrofitted if a security problem is discovered. "So what you have to do is you have to design the network in which these things operate to be resilient or to be sufficiently architected to prevent a problem."
Rettas then asked what is the best way to design resilience for networks and computer systems? Rothrock said the most popular method is segmentation.
"You have to have a router or a firewall at every junction, if you will … In a network, you want to think about the segments of activity where the data is stored, what's the important data, what's the not-so-important data. You need to think about that before you design, before you just throw things up and make them go."
All of that gear has to be programmed and tested, he added. "You need to make sure that you've got the segmentation in place, that the firewalls and routers are doing what you want."
But sometimes, accidents occur during the test phase, which Rothrock called "the 'fat thumb' problem.'' Half of the mistakes made happen because "someone was typing too fast. They hit a two rather than a three and they didn't go back and test it. We've seen whole networks where they take them down to do maintenance and they forget to put them back."
Then IT will wonder why an e-commerce site isn't running, he said. "I was actually in the room once when that happened, and it was an embarrassment to the operators."
Even though "Humans are pretty darn good at designing things and we're pretty good at building things," he said, "it's critical to go back and check them."
The human element
In the show's final segment, Rettas asked Rothrock to hone in on the role users play in making networks vulnerable.
"It is the human factor, the human failing, the human frailty, that causes most of the trouble,'' Rothrock said. People make mistakes, so they have to be continually trained about cyberthreats and how to "manage your relationship with the world on the digital front,'' he said.
"There's a lot of talk about social engineering and the young people today aren't as concerned about privacy,'' he added. Cyber training may be expensive for HR to implement, he noted, "but it's essential."
Rothrock then relayed a story about one of his board directors who was staying at a "nice hotel in San Jose." She logged on to that hotel's Wi-Fi network, like most people do and saw the name of the hotel. So she put in her room number and her name. "When she showed up at my office the next day, because her computer was known to us, she connected to the network, and all my alarm systems went off. It just went nuts,'' Rothrock recalled. "She had been phished, not on an email, but she had been phished into logging into a fake network that looked like the hotel network, and it had deposited malware."
The woman didn't do anything wrong, he added, "but that's how sophisticated these attacks are, so people are in the middle of this thing."
Even the most sophisticated cyber security person can be duped, like this woman, he said.
Rettas asked who should really take ownership of these networks and how important is it for the c-suite and the boards to be involved?
Rothrock said it's very important that boards get involved, especially CEOs.
Cyber security should no longer fall solely under the purview of IT, he said. "The network is the business of the company, so that puts it in the c-suite automatically. As we all know, culture, process, attitude, everything starts with the leadership in the organization whether it's the CEO" or someone else.
Never, he stressed, should someone log onto a company's free public Wi-Fi and start conducting mission-critical business.
Resiliency in the cloud
Another emerging threat where resiliency is very important is the cloud, and figuring out how to keep data safe, Rettas commented.
"The cloud is probably safer than these old legacy networks in many respects,'' Rothrock said, because it has been designed "with modern software programming techniques." But he added that "the truth is, we don't know really what's going on out there as a user, and these clouds can go away."
Even though cloud providers offer disaster recovery plans, "we may need to think more about it,'' Rothrock said, and make sure you have resiliency and backups in place. One of his customers, Stanford Health Care, he said, "has 5.7 million vulnerabilities in their network, and their network's pretty big and complicated. Which ones matter? Which ones are important to them?" The healthcare system uses a lot of software to help, he said, but organizations need to prioritize what data is most important.
Then they have to determine where that data resides, if it is properly segmented and if there are firewalls and routers managing that data.
"All of that matters and so we have to have the visibility … into where that data is, how it's being moved around and who has access to it,'' Rothrock said. That is it, really, at the end of the day."
The 'Task Force 7 Radio' recap is a weekly feature on the Cyber Security Hub.
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COVENTRY TWP. A new fence will soon be installed around the Coventry football field.
During the March 13 meeting, the Board of Education approved a purchase order for $23,700 for the new fence.
Superintendent Lisa Blough said the fence has needed to be replaced for the last two to three years because portions of it are falling over. She said people like to lean on the fence during football games and the condition has now become a safety hazard.
Some questions were raised about whether to replace only a portion of it, but Blough said it would be best to replace the entire fence so it is all consistently the same. She believes the district got a good price for the project and replacing the entire fence at the same time is the right thing to do.
In other business March 13, the board:
- Approved a preschool agreement with Summit County Educational Service Center.
- Approved a building lease agreement with Summit County Educational Service Center. One classroom will be leased for one year for the preschool program.
- Approved for the district to give the third grade state testing on paper instead of on a computer. Teachers said they prefer the students to take the tests on paper as they are more likely to score higher at that age by taking it on paper instead of on a computer.
- Heard from Treasurer Sherry Tyson about the 2018 audit being completed by the state. She said the audit will be posted on the auditor's website in the next two weeks.
- Heard from Blough about open enrollment. She said the district continues to right-size programs and the district is down about 200 open enrolled students. She said the number of open enrolled students at the elementary school decreased significantly as the district only accepted about 15 open enrollment kindergarten students compared to 40 to 50 in years past. She said open enrollment numbers are based on the number of resident students. Blough said some open enrollment students moved into the district recently.
- Announced the Taste of Coventry will be held 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. April 25 at Bricco Prime. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at Ayers Insurance Agency, 500 W Turkeyfoot Lake Road or by calling 330-644-8489 extension one.
The next Coventry Local Schools board meeting will be 6 p.m. April 17 at Coventry Elementary School.


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Denzel Washington is giving folks more of August Wilson's classic material to chew on as he brings the playwright's American Century Cycle series to HBO via a deal with the cable network.
Shadow and Act reports that Washington will serve as a producer of all 10 plays in the series, which portray the 20th-century African-American experience, from the early 1900s to the 1990s. The Oscar winner revealed that the deal will find him producing one play a year for the next 10 years, starting with Wilson's hit play "Fences."
The news comes as Washington gears up to direct the film adaptation of "Fences," which he will star in with Viola Davis, next spring (2016). Washington and Davis both won Tony awards for their performances in the 2010 Broadway production of "Fences," which was directed by Kenny Leon.
Wilson's request
The play's arrival on the big screen concludes years of trying to get a film adaptation of the production.
Shadow and Act referenced a long-standing story on the delay, which attributed it all from Wilson's insistence that a Black director helm the adaptation.
Wilson later reiterated his stance on the situation, saying that he wasn't suggesting a Black director be hired because he was Black. Instead, he maintained that it be a Black director who was qualified for the job.
Washington's production of the American Century Cycle series will be done in collaboration with the August Wilson Estate.
The plays
The 10 plays in the series are as follows.
•1900s "Gem of the Ocean" – A young man from Alabama visits Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old renowned cleanser of souls for help in absolving the guilt he carries from a crime he's committed.
•1910s "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" – Set in Pittsburgh, the story of Seth and Bertha Holly and the migrants who pass through their boardinghouse during the Great Migration of the 1910s.
•1920s "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" – Set in Chicago in 1927, the play explores issues of race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists by White producers.
•1930s "The Piano Lesson" – Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, the story of a brother and sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano they own – keep or sell it.
•1940s "Seven Guitars" – The story of a blues singer just released from prison and ready to right the past year's wrongs.
•1950s "Fences" – Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, the story of Troy Maxson, a restless trash-collector and former baseball athlete struggling to provide for •his family.
•1960s "Two Trains Running" – The story of a local diner owner who fights to stay open as a municipal project encroaches on his establishment.
•1970s "Jitney" – Set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh, the story of men hustling to make a living as jitneys — unofficial and unlicensed taxicabs.
•1980s "King Hedley II" – The story of an ex-convict trying to rebuild his life by selling stolen refrigerators so that he can save enough money to buy a video store.
•1990s "Radio Golf" – A powerful African-American politician runs for the highest office of his career, but as he steps into prominence, his plans collide with his past.


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The very best that Manchester has to offer is right on your doorstep – from fine and eclectic art and dining to cultural institutions and world-class universities. Excellent transport facilities are all within a short walk.
One of the largest and most prestigious developments of its kind in the city, Manchester New Square comprises three individually designed, 12-15 storey buildings around a tranquil landscaped square. The 351 one, two and three bedroom apartments are all generously proportioned with artisan restaurants and retailers on the ground floors and secure underground car parking. Each apartment is designed and finished to an exceptionally high standard, in a spacious, open-plan layout flooded with natural daylight. Manchester New Square is a stylish addition to this dynamic central neighbourhood and sets an impressive new standard of inner-city living.


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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
On the Movie, "12 Years a Slave"
While this story may have merit, to say that it is an accurate depiction of Southern slavery is full-bore slander and propaganda. a) Every Southern state had strict laws against the mistreatment of slaves and b) slaves actually had as much legal protection as many free black of that era (these included the right to own property, the right to marry, the right to sue and to give evidence in court, the right to have days off, the right to hire themselves out to others, the right to write up and sign their own work contracts, the right to practice religion, and the right to be supported by their owners from birth to death).........................................................................................................And, no, I'm not in any way implying that it was a just system, just that Southern slavery in America was probably the least virulent form of the institution in all of human history and that the court historians have gone out of their way to make it just the opposite. In the words of a male slave by the name of Francisco (extracted from "Harper's Weekly" circa 1860), "I was a slave in Africa, and do not wish to return there. I'd rather be a slave to the white man in this country than be a slave to the black man in my country (the fact that slaves in Africa were treated with unbelievable cruelty and so you'd have to be an absolute moron to want to go back there).".....................................................................................................Sources - "Without Consent or Contract" by Robert W. Fogel, "The Old South" by Mark M. Smith, and "The Afro-American Experience" by James H. Dormon and Robert R. Jones.
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Best Cafes in Taipei: Underrated Spots for Artisanal Coffee, Tea, and Desserts
PUBLISHED August 14th, 2018 06:00 am | UPDATED May 18th, 2020 06:58 pm
Taipei's cafe scene, just like the rest of the city is vibrant and dynamic, with specialty coffee shops and chic patisseries springing up alongside long-standing establishments and traditional tea houses. Our roundup below includes a varied selection, so there's something for everyone – coffee snob, tea drinker and dessert lover. Let's dive right in!
AMP Café Independent Roaster
At AMP, it's all about the coffee. Everything else is pared down: the coffee shop is furnished with seating just enough for eight, and you won't find food items on the menu, save for the occasional pastry served over the counter.
Coffees are served Italian-style, so the usual milk-based beverages will contain just a dash of milk. The must-try is AMP's cold brew; these beverages are typically steeped for 12 to 24 hours, but AMP's version stands out with the beans steeping for 48 hours.
AMP Café Independent Roaster is located at No. 409 Ren Ai Rd S4, 106 Taipei, p. +886 2 752 1221. Open Mon-Fri 8am – 6pm, Sat-Sun 10:30am – 6pm.
Coffee DPT
Coffee DPT isn't quite like your usual cafe. Tucked away amidst the greenery of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park, the venue comprises of a coffee counter that extends out to a breezy open space with patio furnishing. The ambience is quiet and tranquil – perfect for enjoying a good coffee, paired up with one of Coffee DPT's immensely popular cookies.
Coffee DPT is located at No. 1, Section 1, Bade Road, Zhongzheng District, 100 Taipei, p. +886 2 2341 6520. Open Mon 12pm – 7pm, Tue-Sat 12pm – 8pm.
GaBee Coffee
In Taipei's diverse coffee scene, GaBee stands out with its quality coffees and industry accolades; owner Van Lin has won the Taiwan Latte Art Championship, and came in at the 14th place at the World Barista Championship.
And while specialty coffee shops tend to focus on the classics, GaBee veers towards complexity and variety. The beverage menu is wide-ranging, and includes items like a pumpkin spiced latte, white gourd coffee and carbonated coffee.
GaBee Coffee is located at No. 21, Ln. 113, Sec. 3, Minsheng E. Rd., Songshan Dist, Taipei, p. +886 2 2713 8772. Open Mon-Fri 9:30am – 10pm, Sat-Sun 9am – 10pm.
Luguo Cafe
Tucked away in a low-key, second floor setting, Luguo Cafe is an oasis of calm in the ArtYard, Taipei's bustling arts and culture hub. The venue is airy and well-lit, with mismatched furniture and wood accents. A collection of vintage accessories, including antique lamps and typewriters lend the cafe an old-world charm, which feels refreshing in a sea of themed cafes and industrial chic coffee shops.
Luguo Cafe is located at No. 1, Ln. 32, Sec. 1, Dihua St., Datong Dist. 2f, 112 Taipei, p. +886 2 2891 5990. Open 11am – 7pm daily.
It's easy to see why KiOSK is a well-loved hangout, drawing in a varied crowd – from coffee and brunch lovers, to digital nomads. The minimalist, light-filled interior is welcoming, plus there's free Wi-Fi and power plugs all around.
Aside from KiOSK's widely popular flat white, the menu also lists the usual coffee beverages, alongside hot chocolate, teas and juices. And while the food selection isn't extensive, it's not something we'll quibble about, since KiOSK serves up tasty servings of what it does offer. Crowd favourites include the avocado-and-egg on toast and lemon olive oil cheesecake.
KiOSK is located at No.40, Sec.1, Xinsheng N Rd, Zhongshan Dist, Taipei 104, p. +886 2 2542 8090. Open Wed-Sun 11am – 7pm. Closed Mon-Tue.
Qing Tian Qi Liu
Hidden away along a quiet street, Qing Tian Qi Lu is a Japanese-style tea house set within a carefully preserved building. The venue's serene ambience and wide-ranging menu makes it a venue that'll suit a variety of occasions – come here for lunch, enjoy an afternoon tea with friends or curl up alone with a book. You'll find a mix of Taiwanese and Japanese mains on the menu, alongside teas, desserts and one-of-a-kind beverages, like the espresso with ginger, sugarcane and rose.
Pro-tip: Come with socks, as it's mandatory for visitors to don a pair in order to protect the wooden flooring.
Qing Tian Qi Liu is located at No. 6, Ln. 7, Qingtian St., Daan Dist, Taipei 10649, p. +886 2 2391 6676. Open 11:30am – 2pm, 2:30pm – 5pm & 5:30pm – 9pm daily.
Rufous Coffee
Rufous Coffee is one of those cafes that checks off all the right boxes: excellent coffees, friendly service, great ambience. The wood-clad interior is best described as eclectic, featuring a wide-ranging variety of toys, paraphernalia and postcards from customers all around the globe.
Much attention is paid to the details – the owner, Xiao Yang is in-charge throughout the entire process, starting from the sourcing of the beans, to the roasting and brewing processes – ensuring that each and every cup of coffee is brewed with care.
Rufous Coffee is located at No. 339, Sec. 2, Fuxing S. Rd., Daan Dist, Taipei, p. +886 2 2736 6880. Open Fri-Wed 1pm – 9:30pm. Closed on Thu.
Tamed Fox
With a menu filled with healthy cafe fare, Tamed Fox offers a change up from Taipei's decadent street food scene. It's a great spot for vacationers looking to start their mornings on a salubrious note, filling up on items like Greek yogurt smoothies, avocado-edamame- hummus-poached egg sandwiches or an energising matcha maca latte.
While you'll find the usual coffee beverages, Tamed Fox's standout drink is its doughnut latte – an Instagram-worthy beverage topped off with a "doughnut". In line with the cafe's health-conscious offerings, a lighter-tasting carrot cake in doughnut form takes the place of the usual grease-laden confection.
Tamed Fox is located at p. +886 2 2755 7758. Open Mon-Tue & Thu-Fri 8:30am – 5pm, Sat-Sun 10am – 6pm. Closed on Wed.
Yu Chocolatier
Just about everything at Yu Chocolatier is impeccably executed – from the chic monochromatic interiors, to the beautifully crafted pastries. The Forest of Alsace is one of the venue's highlights – it's a crisp puff encasing a raspberry jam centre and pastry cream made with Valrhona Manjari chocolate. There's also the Shibusa, a glimmering pastry with a luscious mousse and a crunchy base with layers of chocolate.
But there's more: chocolate tarts that come in a variety of flavours, truffles and velvety chocolate beverages. Balance the richness out by pairing up your desserts with a vanilla lemon tart or madeleine.
Yu Chocolatier is located at No. 10, Alley 3, Lane 112, Section 4, Ren'ai Road, Da'an District, Taipei, p. +886 2 2701 0792. Open Thu-Tue 12pm – 8pm. Closed on Wed.
Wistaria Tea House
Visiting Wistaria Tea House is akin to taking a step back in time; the venue is housed in a Japanese-style building that dates back to the 1920s, complete with a manicured garden and koi pond. Some of dining sections are decked out in tatami furnishings, with bamboo screens in between the tables for privacy. The menu offers an extensive selection of teas, alongside light meals and snacks.
Wistaria Tea House is located at No. 1, Lane 16, Section 3, Xinsheng South Road, Da'an District, Taipei, p. +886 2 2363 7375. Open 10am – 10pm daily.
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Window vinyls are generally printed on clear, shiny silver or gold, brushed silver or gold, and white substrates. The window vinyl provides instant information about the car or home owner of the window where it is plainly displayed.


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Marall: Sir, the man of honour's come, Newly alighted―― Overreach: In without reply, And do as I command…… Is the loud music I gave order for Ready to receive him?
New Way to pay Old Debts.
SIR WILLIAM ASHTON, although a man of sense, legal information, and great practical knowledge of the world, had yet some points of character which corresponded better with the timidity of his disposition and the supple arts by which he had risen in the world, than to the degree of eminence which he had attained; as they tended to show an original mediocrity of understanding, however highly it had been cultivated, and a native meanness of disposition, however carefully veiled. He loved the ostentatious display of his wealth, less as a man to whom habit has made it necessary, than as one to whom it is still delightful from its novelty. The most trivial details did not escape him; and Lucy soon learned to watch the flush of scorn which crossed Ravenswood's cheek, when he heard her father gravely arguing with Lockhard, nay, even with the old housekeeper, upon circumstances which, in families of rank, are left uncared for, because it is supposed impossible they can be neglected.
"I could pardon Sir William," said Ravenswood, one evening after he had left the room, "some general anxiety upon this occasion, for the Marquis's visit is an honour, and should be received as such; but I am worn out by these miserable minutiae of the buttery, and the larder, and the very hencoop――they drive me beyond my patience; I would rather endure the poverty of Wolf's Crag than be pestered with the wealth of Ravenswood Castle."
"And yet," said Lucy, "it was by attention to these minutiae that my father acquired the property――"
"Which my ancestors sold for lack of it," replied Ravenswood. "Be it so; a porter still bears but a burden, though the burden be of gold."
Lucy sighed; she perceived too plainly that her lover held in scorn the manners and habits of a father to whom she had long looked up as her best and most partial friend, whose fondness had often consoled her for her mother's contemptuous harshness.
The lovers soon discovered that they differed upon other and no less important topics. Religion, the mother of peace, was, in those days of discord, so much misconstrued and mistaken, that her rules and forms were the subject of the most opposite opinions and the most hotsile animosities. The Lord Keeper, being a Whig, was, of course, a Presbyterian, and had found it convenient, at different periods, to express greater zeal for the kirk than perhaps he really felt. His family, equally of course, were trained under the same institution. Ravenswood, as we know, was a High Churchman, or Episcopalian, and frequently objected to Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed , horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government.
Thus, although their mutual affection seemed to increase rather than to be diminished as their characters opened more fully on each other, the feelings of each were mingled with some less agreeable ingredients. Lucy felt a secret awe, amid all her affection for Ravenswood. His soul was of an higher, prouder character than those with thom she had hitherto mixed in intercourse; his ideas were more fierce and free; and he contemned many of the opinions which had been inculcated upon her as chiefly demanding her veneration. On the other hand, Ravenswood saw in Lucy a soft and flexible character, which, in his eyes at least, seemed too susceptible of being moulded to any form by those with whom she lived. He felt that his own temper required a partner of a more independent spirit, who could set sail with him on his course of life, resolved as himself to dare indifferently the storm and the favouring breeze. But Lucy was so beautiful, so devoutly attached to him, of a temper so exquisitely soft and kind, that, while he could have wished it were possible to inspire her with a greater degree of firmness and resolution, and while he sometimes became impatient of the extreme fear which she expressed of their attachment being prematurely discovered, he felt that the softness of a mind, amounting almost to feebleness, rendered her even dearer to him, as a being who had voluntarily clung to him for protection, and made him the arbiter of her fate for weal or woe. His feelings towards her at such moments were those which have been since so beautifully expressed by our immortal Joanna Baillie:
Thou sweetest thing, That e'er did fix its lightly-fibred sprays To the rude rock, ah! wouldst thou cling to me? Rough and storm-worn I am; yet love me as Thou truly dost, I will love thee again With true and honest heart, though all unmeet To be the mate of such sweet gentleness.
Thus the very points in which they differed seemed, in some measure, to ensure the continuance of their mutual affection. If, indeed, they had so fully appreciated each other's character before the burst of passion in which they hastily pledged their faith to each other, Lucy might have feared Ravenswood too much ever to have loved him, and he might have construed her softness and docile temper as imbecility, rendering her unworthy of his regard. But they stood pledged to each other; and Lucy only feared that her lover's pride might one day teach him to regret his attachment; Ravenswood, that a mind so ductile as Lucy's might, in absence or difficulties, be induced, by the entreaties or influence of those around her, to renounce the engagement she had formed.
"Do not fear it," said Lucy, when upon one occasion a hint of such suspicion escaped her lover; "the mirrors which receive the reflection of all successive objects are framed of hard materials like glass or steel; the softer substances, when they receive an impression, retain it undefaced."
"This is poetry, Lucy," said Ravenswood; "and in poetry there is always fallacy, and sometimes fiction."
"Believe me, then, once more, in honest prose," said Lucy, "that, though I will never wed man without the consent of my parents, yet neither force nor persuasion shall dispose of my hand till you renounce the right I have given you to it."
The lovers had ample time for such explanations. Henry was now more seldom their companion, being either a most unwilling attendant upon the lessons of his tutor, or a forward volunteer under the instructions of the foresters or grooms. As for the Keeper, his mornings were spent in his study, maintaining correspondences of all kinds, and balancing in his anxious mind the various intelligence which he collected from every quarter concerning the expected change of Scottish politics, and the probable strength of the parties who were about to struggle for power. At other times he busied himself about arranging, and coutermanding, and then again arranging, the preparations which he judged necessary for the reception of the Marquis of A――, whose arrival had been twice delayed by some necessary cause of detention.
In the midst of all these various avocations, political and domestic, he seemed not to observe how much his daughter and his guest were thrown into each other's society, and was censured by many of his neighbours, according to the fashion of neighbours in all countries, for suffering such an intimate connexion to take place betwixt two young persons. The only natural explanation was, that he designed them for each other; while, in truth, his only motive was to temporise and procrastinate until he should discover the real extent of the interest which the Marquis took in Ravenswood's affairs, and the power which he was likely to possess of advancing them. Until these points should be made both clear and manifest, the Lord Keeper resolved that he would do nothing to commit himself, either in one shape or other; and, like many cunning persons, he overreached himself deplorably.
Amongst those who had been disposed to censure, with the greatest severity, the conduct of Sir William Ashton, in permitting the prolonged residence of Ravenswood under his roof, and his constant attendance on Miss Ashton, was the new Laird of Girnington, and his faithful squire and bottleholder, personages formerly well known to us by the names of Hayston and Bucklaw, and his companion Captain Craigengelt. The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law's scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to Paris for the purpose. But Bucklaw had so far derived wisdom from adversity, that he would listen to no proposal which Craigengelt could invent, which had the slightest tendency to risk his newly- acquired independence. He that had once eat pease-bannocks, drank sour wine, and slept in the secret chamber at Wolf's Crag, would, he said, prize good cheer and a soft bed as long as he lived, and take special care never to need such hospitality again.
Craigengelt, therefore, found himself disappointed in the first hopes he had entertained of making a good hand of the Laird of Bucklaw. Still, however, he reaped many advantages from his friend's good fortune. Bucklaw, who had never been at all scrupulous in choosing his companions, was accustomed to, and entertained by, a fellow whom he could either laugh with or laugh at as he had a mind, who would take, according to Scottish phrase, "the bit and the buffet," understood all sports, whether within or without doors, and, when the laird had a mind for a bottle of wine (no infrequent circumstance), was always ready to save him from the scandal of getting drunk by himself. Upon these terms, Craigengelt was the frequent, almost the constant, inmate of the house of Girnington.
In no time, and under no possibility of circumstances, could good have been derived from such an intimacy, however its bad consequences might be qualified by the thorough knowledge which Bucklaw possessed of his dependant's character, and the high contempt in which he held it. But, as circumstances stood, this evil communication was particularly liable to corrupt what good principles nature had implanted in the patron.
Craigengelt had never forgiven the scorn with which Ravenswood had torn the mask of courage and honesty from his countenance; and to exasperate Bucklaw's resentment against him was the safest mode of revenge which occurred to his cowardly, yet cunning and malignant, disposition.
He brought up on all occasions the story of the challenge which Ravenswood had declined to accept, and endeavoured, by every possible insinuation, to make his patron believe that his honour was concerned in bringing that matter to an issue by a present discussion with Ravenswood. But respecting this subject Bucklaw imposed on him, at length, a peremptory command of silence.
"I think," he said, "the Master has treated me unlike a gentleman, and I see no right he had to send me back a cavalier answer when I demanded the satisfaction of one. But he gave me my life once; and, in looking the matter over at present, I put myself but on equal terms with him. Should he cross me again, I shall consider the old accompt as balanced, and his Mastership will do well to look to himself."
"That he should," re-echoed Craigengelt; "for when you are in practice, Bucklaw, I would bet a magnum you are through him before the third pass."
"Then you know nothing of the matter," said Bucklaw, "and you never saw him fence."
"And I know nothing of the matter?" said the dependant――"a good jest, I promise you! And though I never saw Ravenswood fence, have I not been at Monsieur Sagoon's school, who was the first maitre d'armes at Paris; and have I not been at Signor Poco's at Florence, and Meinheer Durchstossen's at Vienna, and have I not seen all their play?"
"I don't know whether you have or not," said Bucklaw; "but what about it, though you had?"
"Only that I will be d――d if ever I saw French, Italian, or High-Dutchman ever make foot, hand, and eye keep time half so well as you, Bucklaw."
"I believe you lie, Craigie," said Bucklaw; "however, I can hold my own, both with single rapier, backsword, sword and dagger, broadsword, or case of falchions――and that's as much as any gentleman need know of the matter."
"And the doublt of what ninety-nine out of a hundred know," said Craigengelt; "they learn to chanage a few thrusts with the small sword, and then, forsooth, they understand the noble art of defence! Now, when I was at Rouen in the year 1695, there was a Chevalier de Chapon and I went to the opera, where we found three bits of English birkies――" "Is it a long story you are going to tell?" said Bucklaw, interrupting him without ceremony.
"Just as you like," answered the parasite, "for we made short work of it."
"Then I like it short," said Bucklaw. "Is it serious or merry?"
"Devilish serious, I assure you, and so they found it; for the Chevalier and I――"
"Then I don't like it at all," said Bucklaw; "so fill a brimmer of my auld auntie's claret, rest her heart! And, as the Hielandman says, Skioch doch na skiall."
"That was what tough old Sir Even Dhu used to say to me when I was out with the metall'd lads in 1689. 'Craigengelt,' he used to say, 'you are as pretty a fellow as ever held steel in his grip, but you have one fault.'"
"If he had known you as long as I have don," said Bucklaw, "he would have found out some twenty more; but hand long stories, give us your toast, man."
Craigengelt rose, went a -tiptoe to the door, peeped out, shut it carefully, came back again, clapped his tarnished gold-laced hat on one side of his head, took his glass in one hand, and touching the hilt of his hanger with the other, named, "The King over the water."
"I tell you what it is, Captain Craigengelt," said Bucklaw; "I shall keep my mind to myself on thse subjects, having too much respect for the memory of my venerable Aunt Girnington to put her lands and tenements in the way of committing treason against established authority. Bring me King James to Edinburgh, Captain, with thirty thousand men at his back, and I'll tell you what I think about his title; but as for running my neck into a noose, and my good broad lands into the statutory penalties, 'in that case made and provided,' rely upon it, you will find me no such fool. So, when you mean to vapour with your hanger and your dram-cup in support of treasonable toasts, you must find your liquor and company elsewhere."
"Well, then," said Craigengelt, "name the toast yourself, and be it what it like, I'll pledge you, were it a mile to the bottom."
"And I'll give you a toast that deserves it, my boy," said Bucklaw; "what say you to Miss Lucy Ashton?"
"Up with it," said the Captain, as he tossed off his brimmer, "the bonniest lass in Lothian! What a pity the old sneckdrawing Whigamore, her father, is about to throw her away upon that rag of pride and beggary, the Master of Ravenswood!"
"That's not quite so clear," said Bucklaw, in a tone which, though it seemed indifferent, excited his companion's eager curiosity; and not that only, but also his hope of working himself into soem sort of confidence, which might make him necessary to his patron, being by no means satisfied to rest on mere sufferance, if he could form by art or industry a more permanent title to his favour.
"I thought," said he, after a moment's pause, "that was a settled matter; they are continually together, and nothing else is spoken of betwixt Lammer Law and Traprain."
"They may say what they please," replied his patron, "but I know better; and I'll give you Miss Lucy Ashton's health again, my boy."
"And I woul drink it on my knee," said Craigengelt, "if I thought the girl had the spirit to jilt that d――d son of a Spaniard."
"I am to request you will not use the word 'jilt' and Miss Ashton's name together," said Bucklaw, gravely.
"Jilt, did I say? Discard, my lad of acres――by Jove, I meant to discard," replied Craigengelt; "and I hope she'll discard him like a small card at piquet, and take in the king of hearts, my boy! But yet――"
"But what?" said his patron.
"But yet I know for certain they are hours together alone, and in the woods and the fields."
"That's her foolish father's dotage; that will be soon put out of the lass's head, if it ever gets into it," answered Bucklaw. "And now fill your glass again, Captain; I am going to make you happy; I am going to let you into a secret――a plot――a noosing plot――only the noose is but typical."
"A marrying matter?" said Craigengelt, and his jaw fell as he asked the question, for he suspected that matrimony would render his situation at Girnington much more precarious than during the jolly days of his patron's bachelorhood.
"Ay, a marriage, man," said Bucklaw; "but wherefore droops they might spirit, and why grow the rubies on they cheek so pale? The board will have a corner, and the corner will have a trencher, and the trencher will have a glass beside it; and the board-end shall be filled, and the trencher and the glass shall be replenished for thee, if all the petticoats in Lothian had sworn the contrary. What, man! I am not the boy to put myself into leading-strings."
"So says many an honest fellow," said Craigengelt, "and some of my special friends; but, curse me if I know the reason, the women could never bear me, and always contrived to trundle me out of favour before the honeymoon was over."
"If you could have kept your ground till that was over, you might have made a good year's pension," said Bucklaw.
"But I never could," answered the dejected parasite. "There was my Lord Castle-Cuddy――we were hand and glove: I rode his horses, borrowed money both for him and from him, trained his hawks, and taught him how to lay his bets; and when he took a fancy of marrying, I married him to Katie Glegg, whom I thought myself as sure of as man could be of woman. Egad, she had me out of the house, as if I had run on wheels, within the first fortnight!"
"Well!" replied Bucklaw, "I think I have nothing of Castle- Cuddy about me, or Lucy of Katie Glegg. But you see the thing will go on whether you like it or no; the only question is, will you be useful?"
"Useful!" exclaimed the Captain, "and to thee, my lad of lands, my darling boy, whom I would tramp barefooted through the world for! Name time, place, mode, and circumstances, and see if I will not be useful in all uses that can be devised."
"Why, then, you must ride two hundred miles for me," said the patron.
"A thousand, and call them a flea's leap," answered the dependant; "I'll cause saddle my horse directly."
"Better stay till you know where you are to go, and what you are to do," quoth Bucklaw. "You know I have a kinswoman in Northumberland, Lady Blenkensop by name, whose old acquaintance I had the misfortune to lose in the period of my poverty, but the light of whose countenance shone forth upon me when the sun of my prosperity began to arise."
"D――n all such double-faced jades!" exclaimed Craigengelt, heroically; "this I will say for John Craigengelt, that he is his friend's friend through good report and bad report, poverty and riches; and you know something of that yourself, Bucklaw."
"I have not forgot your merits," said his patron; "I do remember that, in my extremities, you had a mind to CRIMP me for the service of the French king, or of the Pretender; and, moreover, that you afterwards lent me a score of pieces, when, as I firmly believe, you had heard the news that old Lady Girnington had a touch of the dead palsy. But don't be downcast, John; I believe, after all, you like me very well in your way, and it is my misfortune to have no better counsellor at present. To return to this Lady Blenkensop, you must know, she is a close confederate of Duchess Sarah."
"What! of Sall Jennings?" exclaimed Craigengelt; "then she must be a good one."
"Hold your tongue, and keep your Tory rants to yourself, if it be possible," said Bucklaw. "I tell you, that through the Duchess of Marlborough has this Northumbrian cousin of mine become a crony of Lady Ashton, the Keeper's wife, or, I may say, the Lord Keeper's Lady Keeper, and she has favoured Lady Blenkensop with a visit on her return from London, and is just now at her old mansion-house on the banks fo the Wansbeck. Now, sir, as it has been the use and wont of these ladies to consider their husbands as of no importance in the management of their own families, it has been their present pleasure, without consulting Sir William Ashton, to put on the tapis a matrimonial alliance, to be concluded between Lucy Ashton and my own right honourable self, Lady Ashton acting as self-constituted plenipotentiary on the part of her daughter and husband, and Mother Blenkensop, equally unaccredited, doing me the honour to be my representative. You may suppose I was a little astonished when I found that a treaty, in which I was so considerably interested, had advanced a good way before I was even consulted."
"Capot me! if I think that was according to the rules of the game," said his confidant; "and pray, what answer did you return?"
"Why, my first thought was to send the treaty to the devil, and the negotiators along with it, for a couple of meddling old women; my next was to laugh very hearily; and my third and last was a settled opinion that the thing was reasonable, and would suit me well enough."
"Why, I thought you had never seen the wench but once, and then she had her riding-mask on; I am sure you told me so."
"Ay, but I liked her very well then. And Ravenswood's dirty usage of me――shutting me out of doors to dine with the lackeys, because he had the Lord Keeper, forsooth, and his daughter, to be guests in his beggarly castle of starvation,――d――n me, Craigengelt, if I ever forgive him till I play him as good a trick!"
"No more you should, if you are a lad of mettle," said Craigengelt, the matter now taking a turn in which he could sympathise; "and if you carry this wench from him, it will break his heart."
"That it will not," said Bucklaw; "his heart is all steeled over with reason and philosophy, things that you, Craigie, know nothing about more than myself, God help me. But it will break his pride, though, and that's what I'm driving at."
"Distance me!" said Craigengelt, "but I know the reason now of his unmannerly behaviour at his old tumble-down tower yonder. Ashamed of your company?――no, no! Gad, he was afraid you would cut in and carry off the girl."
"Eh! Craigengelt?" said Bucklaw, "do you really think so? but no, no! he is a devilish deal prettier man than I am." "Who――he?" exclaimed the parasite. "He's as black as the crook; and for his size――he's a tall fellow, to be sure, but give me a light, stout, middle-sized――"
"Plague on thee!" said Bucklaw, interrupting him, "and on me for listening to you! You would say as much if I were hunch- backed. But as to Ravenswood――he has kept no terms with me, I'll keep none with him; if I CAN win this girl from him, I WILL win her."
"Win her! 'sblood, you SHALL win her, point, quint, and quatorze, my king of trumps; you shall pique, repique, and capot him."
"Prithee, stop thy gambling cant for one instant," said Bucklaw. "Things have come thus far, that I have entertained the proposal of my kinswoman, agreed to the terms of jointure, amount of fortune, and so forth, and that the affair is to go forward when Lady Ashton comes down, for she takes her daughter and her son in her own hand. Now they want me to send up a confidential person with some writings."
"By this good win, I'll ride to the end of the world――the very gates of Jericho, and the judgment-seat of Prester John, for thee!" ejaculated the Captain.
"Why, I believe you would do something for me, and a great deal for yourself. Now, any one could carry the writings; but you will have a little more to do. You must contrive to drop out before my Lady Ashton, just as if it were a matter of little consequence, the residence of Ravenswood at her husband's house, and his close intercourse with Miss Ashton; and you may tell her that all the country talks of a visit from the Marquis of A――, as it is supposed, to make up the match betwixt Ravenswood and her daughter. I should like to hear what she says to all this; for, rat me! if I have any idea of starting for the plate at all if Ravenswood is to win the race, and he has odds against me already."
"Never a bit; the wench has too much sense, and in that belief I drink her health a third time; and, were time and place fitting, I would drink it on bended knees, and he that would not pledge me, I would make his guts garter his stockings."
"Hark ye, Craigengelt; as you are going into the society of women of rank," said Bucklaw, "I'll thank you to forget your strange blackguard oaths and 'damme's.' I'll write to them, though, that you are a blunt, untaught fellow."
"Ay, ay," replied Craigengelt――"a plain, blunt, honest, downright soldier."
"Not too honest, not too much of the soldier neither; but such as thou art, it is my luck to need thee, for I must have spurs put to Lady Ashton's motions." "I'll dash them up to the rowel-heads," said Craigengelt; "she shall come here at the gallop, like a cow chased by a whole nest of hornets, and her tail over her rump like a corkscrew."
"And hear ye, Craigie," said Bucklaw; "your boots and doublet are good enough to drink in, as the man says in the play, but they are somewhat too greasy for tea-table service; prithee, get thyself a little better rigged out, and here is to pay all charges."
"Nay, Bucklaw; on my soul, man, you use me ill. However," added Craigengelt, pocketing the money, "if you will have me so far indebted to you, I must be conforming."
"Well, horse and away!" said the patron, "so soon as you have got your riding livery in trim. You may ride the black crop-ear; and, hark ye, I'll make you a present of him to boot."
"I drink to the good luck of my mission," answered the ambassador, "in a half-pint bumper."
"I thank ye, Craigie, and pledge you; I see nothing against it but the father or the girl taking a tantrum, and I am told the mother can wind them both round her little finger. Take care not to affront her with any of your Jacobite jargon."
"Oh, ay, true――she is a Whig, and a friend of old Sall of Marlborough; thank my stars, I can hoist any colours at a pinch! I have fought as hard under John Churchill as ever I did under Dundee or the Duke of Berwick."
"I verily believe you, Craigie," said the lord of the mansion; "but, Craigie, do you, pray, step down to the cellar, and fetch us up a bottle of the Burgundy, 1678; it is in the fourth bin from the right-hand turn. And I say, Craigie, you may fetch up half a dozen whilst you are about it. Egad, we'll make a night on't!"


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|fletch [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:04 am ]
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Does anybody remember a game on C64 called Rocketball? It was a scrolling team game with about 2 or 3 men on each side who try to shoot a ball at a target. I remember it being particuarly good because the computer opponent was challenging and fun.
Is it available anywhere?
|fletch [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:25 pm ]
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just found it on lemon 64! sorry! great game, they should remake on PS2 or something...?
|Professor Brian Strain [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:04 am ]
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|Lloyd Mangram [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:33 pm ]
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I quote myself from the "games that made you smile" thread:
Excellent two-player games this one!
Scoring goals from the other side of the track was amazing.
Even better and humouristic was it to make the ball richochet form your enemies head into the goal. A pretty funny sight it was too, everybody cheering and one man on his butt in front of the goal!
Not to mention jumping in each other's back in the last split second while someone attempted to score Lovely, lovely.
I love Rocketball, especially in two player mode. Great fun, even today!
If you like Rocketball I recommend Bounces as well!
|fletch [ Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:49 am ]
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Thanks guys, there is much joy in throwing the ball and hitting two of your opponents...
Next question, who can recommend a joystick that will work with an emulator and plug via USB?
I loved using the Atari 2600 sticks with my C64, they were comfortable, durable and cool!
BTW I first bought Zzap at issue 6 and then spent the next year or so annoying the local newsagent around the due date (they were never on time as i remember), i used to read them cover to cover many times!
Great site guys, well done
|Professor Brian Strain [ Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:51 am ]
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Speedlink sell the Competition Pro USB, which is alright. Otherwise, look for a USB adaptor for a PS2 pad, which will give you lots of buttons for emulation purposes.
Got mine from http://www.core-digital.co.uk/
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