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Russian squad Katusha is debuting Canyon's new Aeroad CF SLX at the Tour de France. Here we take a look at the team-spec machine of Yuri Trofimov.
Video: Pro bike – Yuri Trofimov's Canyon Aeroad CF SLX
The most notable difference between the team bike and stock is the absence of the integrated bar/stem on the team machines. While Canyon's retail bikes will have one-piece carbon cockpits — available in five stem lengths, with two bars widths for each — Katusha goes with the more practical Ritchey WCS bars and stem, usually in alloy.
The Aeroad CF SLX frame using a truncated airfoil shape that Canyon calls Trident 2.0. Based on the Trident airfoil shape used on Canyon's Speedmax time trial bike, the Aeroroad's Trident 2.0 tubing is based on a 2.6:1 ratio instead of the UCI-maximum 3:1.
The Trident 2.0 shape is based on the Trident airfoil used on the Speedmax
As you'd expect with a new aero bike, Canyon claims aero gains over the bike's predecessor. Surprisingly, though, the down tube isn't hyper-slender; Canyon engineers found in iterative prototype testing that the front wheel generated so much air turbulence that they could make a relatively wide down tube without adding drag.
The Canyon Aeroad CF SLX has two front brakes. The bike has two direct-mount Shimano Dura-Ace callipers, but the rear is mounted where a normal rear calliper would sit, instead of the under-the-chainstays positions where a direct-mount calliper would go. Canyon claims mounting the rear calliper atop the frame, instead of tucked down by the bottom bracket, results in less overall drag since the frame shrouds the calliper this way.
The new Aeroad CF SLX gets a tapered 1.25in steerer tube, which should stiffen the front end over the original Aeroad.
Direct-mount brakes are used front and rear. But instead of mounting the rear calliper under the chainstays, Canyon puts it in the standard place, claiming that it is more aero this way


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Both the LA Times and the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported 30,000 marchers at the May Day demonstation in DTLA. I arrived at 11 a.m. at the launch point on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street to find a mass of people had filled up MacArthur Park, eager to begin the march up Wilshire Boulevard to City Hall. It seemed like a massive turnout.
It took that crowd almost thirty minutes, marching and chanting shoulder to shoulder and covering the full width of Wilshire, to leave MacArthur Park. Two and a half miles and nearly two hours later, they began to arrive at Grand Park, gradually filling in the rising parkland facing the stage at City Hall. There were waves of red, orange, purple, black, blue. Signs in Spanish and English, men, women, children. All ages. All colors. All genders and persuasions.
Words of the day: "No!" "Unidas," "Si, se puede!"
Nearly one hundred unions and community groups were represented, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. The Teamsters, several chapters of SEIU, Roofers, Steelworkers, Health Care Workers, the FMLN. Huh? The FMLN? The Marxist group that fought a revolutionary war in El Salvador for years and only recently laid down their guns to become a political party? They marched with an eye-catching banner.
The march passed through all the elements that make up DTLA…high rises, office workers, construction, the freeway. Denizens and drivers waved, honked, took pictures and the crowd waved back and cheered as it surged past restaurants, past coffee shops, the Grand Central Market and Angel's Flight to Grand Park.
It just seemed like more than 30,000 people.

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During the last phone conversation and informal interview I had with Michael, I mentioned the dates I was going to be back up in Leeds and we had arranged to meet when I was back.
We had met in their office that is located in Headingly. It was good to meet Michael and Liam Baxendale who is another owner and manager of Set One Twenty. We had discussed some of the work I had been working on and I got some feedback on some of the design I had been doing for them. They really liked some of the designs but then went on to mention that their head designer was not going to as busy as he had anticipated with his new job in London for the first couple of months so they had said that I would be working with him to brand the night using some of the existing designs they had done.
This was understandable as they have been working with their designer from the start of the company so there is obviously no question of reliability and trust and he is also a co-founder so he would have also had some input into this decision also.


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GOA: Color, Vision and Leapfrogging
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Press release from the issuing companyBy Noel Ward, Managing Editor, Trade Show Coverage There is a skyway in the Miami Convention Center that spans the show hall. Floor to ceiling windows on both sides give a view of everything below and it's fun to watch the walls, signage, computers, and large printing machines being assembled like a child's construction set. Often, the signs that hang from the ceiling go up first, staking out territory like an air force squadron providing air support for the troops on the ground. This year the stand with the most visible air cover was Kodak, whose signs were noticible from almost anywhere on the floor. Beneath them the focal point was the Versamark VT3000 inkjet printer, a key player in Kodak's goal of weaning high-volume printers off of black toner and bringing full color to transactional printing. This objective is driven by their customers who are seeing and increasing volume of what some are terming "TransPromo" documents-- ones that combine the traditional transactional information with promotional information that is graphically rich, colorful, and demographically relevant to the recipient. The color element is especially important. Like laser printers replaced impact devices and offset replaced letterpress, color is gradually going to replace black-only printing on more and more transactional documents. As InfoTrends puts it, " It's clear full color is coming to statements, transaction documents, and direct mail, replacing pre-printed color forms as well as adding new color elements where it's cost effective." Even IBM, which has insisted for some years that the market is not ready for color, has been frantically updating its AFP print datastream so it can handle color. Meanwhile, Kodak has been seeing continued success in placing its continuous inkjet systems in direct mail shops and service bureaus, all of them printing in color and taking jobs from continuous-feed monochrome devices. According to Ron Gilboa, vice president of marketing at Kodak Versamark, "Data-centers and service bureaus are expected to be able to support both transactional and marketing applications. To do this, companies must re-think both customer communications and their business strategy. "At the same time, companies are watching their expenses. Production often has to be done with less equipment than in the past, with reduced pre-print inventory, and waste. And as always, they have to be done at the lowest possible cost." This puts a new responsibility on data center managers and service bureaus, explains Gilboa. While their bosses may be looking for the lowest cost per page, the managers really must become strategic technology advisors to their companies' management. "It goes beyond eliminating pre-printed forms and the waste associated with that," he says. "They have to show how adding color and marketing messages delivers a better document--one that helps change transactional documents from being a cost-center business to being a profit center." This, of course is a strategic issue, and Gilboa says Kodak works with data centers and service bureaus to educate corporate executives on how its continuous inkjet technology --in color or not--can help their company. "It depends on what behavior you want to drive," notes Gilboa. "Do you want it to be business as usual or do you want to take a new strategic direction that has a vision for the future? If so, then you need to add color and rethink your documents." Born Digital Color, digital color, is almost all they think about at DocuMaster in Mexico City. "We were born digital!" affirms a smiling Julio A. Jimenez Monroy, partner and sales director at the busy business, one of the leading digital print firms in Mexico. They began with small Xerox products in the mid-'90s and have moved up the product line until installing an iGen 3 last November. Monroy plans to add another later this year. Many of the jobs are short runs of static data, ranging up to 2,500 pieces, while a growing volume are direct mail applications for banks and pharmaceutical firms. Others are in the food and beverage business where some specialized substrates are required. Some 30 percent of revenue comes from short-run books printed on a Xerox Nuvera and wrapped in digitally printed covers. "FreeFlow has been helpful in increasing productivity, and other tools like XMPie have been helpful as well," says Monroy, " because we can easily add PURLs to direct mail documents." He says his company has very few competitors in Mexico, and some are even shrinking in size even as DocuMaster is growing. "We try to add value for our customers. It might be providing a better cash flow by using short runs, making it easy for them to keep documents updated, or even to provide outsourcing services." Leapfroggers What is interesting about DocuMaster and similar firms in Latin America and other developing market countries is how they have embraced digital printing technology so quickly. (In relative terms, they have moved much faster than their U.S. counterparts). Monroy and his partners were never traditional printers. They simply realized that digital technology presented them with new opportunities that would have real value to their marketplace and went after the business. They have, in effect, leapfrogged over their erstwhile competitors and are transforming their markets. The same kinds of things are happening in other countries around the world. Every print engine vendor has examples of how new print providers have been "born digital" in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa and are succeeding and even thriving. It's really not about the box or the software. It is about seeing the potential the technology offers and applying the old business adage of "Find a need and fill it." As Kodak's Gilboa noted, they have a strategic vision, and they share it with their customers. And it becomes a win for all concerned. But Color isn't the Only Answer While Kodak, HP, Xerox and others strutted their color solutions at GOA, the often-crowded Nipson stand was proof that black and white still works just fine for a whole lot of applications. Robert Stabler, president of Nipson America told me the company has a strong presence in Latin America, especially in government printing operations and transactional service bureaus. Nipson's magnetography process makes the attractively-styled machines a good fit for many security documents including checks, airline tickets, two-part forms and more. "We see less direct mail than in the U.S.," explained Stabler, "but we are seeing more promotional work on transactional documents. Another place our machines are used is when synthetic materials are required. Since we don't use heat to fuse the toner our equipment is used for things like vinyl window stickers on cars, tax stamps on bottles and other places where a synthetic is better suited than paper." Stabler says many Nipson customers in Latin America have just one machine, but run a large range of applications on it because of its inherent flexibility. One of the key advantages he's seeing is lighter substrates. Postage is the largest component of mailing just about everywhere, and there's a move on to use lighter and lighter paper. He also says speed is another factor, combined with backend integration. "People think you have to have lots of systems to print and finish many different document types. But if you can print more documents quickly on a more flexible machine and have finishing equipment that's well-matched to the print engine you can reduce the overall investment required and still be very productive and more profitable." But wait, there's more! Coming next are some thoughts from Presstek and my pick for the best new product at the show.
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January 28, 2013 09:52 ET
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - Jan 28, 2013) - Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG), one of the largest privately held cybersecurity firms in the United States, today announced that Maryann Hirsch, President of KCG, has been elected to the TechAmerica Public Sector Board of Directors. TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry.
TechAmerica's Public Sector Board is responsible for overseeing all of the activities of the Public Sector Group, with a special emphasis on federal programs. Ms. Hirsch's term as a Director is for a period of two years.
"TechAmerica's Public Sector Group is the leading proponent of technology solutions for government programs and serves as a liaison between the industry and federal, state and local government markets," said Ms. Hirsch. "I am honored to have been elected to serve on its Board of Directors and look forward to leveraging my time and expertise for the betterment of the organization and the government IT community."
Ms. Hirsch has more than 23 years of experience in the government technology market. As KCG's President, she manages the company's day-to-day operating activities and directs KCG's operations, including short-term and long-range planning efforts to support strategic business goals. Prior to KCG, she served in leadership positions with Federal Sources, Inc. (now Deltek) and Sysorex Information Systems, Inc.
"Having Maryann on our Public Sector board enriches the expertise we have guiding us on the issues most important to the government IT community," said Trey Hodgkins, Senior Vice President of Global Public Sector at TechAmerica. "Ensuring that government IT is up-to-date is a critical priority and Maryann will contribute greatly to our efforts."
Ms. Hirsch is a graduate of Mary Washington University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She serves on the boards of George Mason University's Volgenau School of Engineering and Northern Virginia Family Service.
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Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG) is one of the largest privately held cybersecurity services firms in the United States. We operate as a trusted cyber advisor to our customers across the country. We take great pride in maintaining a single focus on being the leader in cybersecurity services, providing risk management, governance, operations and compliance services, utilizing our Chief Information Security Officer Framework methodology. We are uniquely positioned as a trusted cyber advisor with over 90 percent of our cyber professionals holding security clearances and security-specific certifications. With over 12 years of experience in providing cybersecurity services to our customers, we have a strong record of past performance in advising and executing cyber missions for all types of organizations and sectors.
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HOUSTON — Chase Budinger scored a season-high 21 points, hitting four 3-pointers, Luis Scola added 19 points, and the Houston Rockets blew out Washington in the second half of a 103-76 win Friday night.
Jordan Hill had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Rockets, who scored 41 points off Washington's season-high 24 turnovers. Courtney Lee scored eight points for Houston in place of leading scorer Kevin Martin, who sat out with plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
By the fourth quarter, the Rockets hardly missed Martin. The Wizards had 10 turnovers in the last 18 minutes, helping Houston outscore them 46-21 over that span to win for the eighth time in nine games.
John Wall had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists for Washington, playing its second game under Randy Wittman.


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WELCOME to share my Food Recipes, Food Art, Food Health Benefits AND Food Tips and Tricks
Thursday, December 8, 2011
CREAMING, in baking, is the technique of blending ingredients — usually granulated sugar — together with a solid fat like shortening or butter. The technique is most often used in making butter cream, cake batter or cookie dough. The dry ingredients are mixed or beaten with the fat until it becomes light and fluffy and increased in volume, due to the incorporation of tiny air bubbles..
PUREE and (more rarely) mash are general terms for cooked food, usually vegetables or legumes, that have been ground, pressed, blended or sieved to the consistency of a soft creamy paste or thick liquid. Purées of specific foods are often known by specific names, e.g mashed potatoes or apple sauce. The term is of French origin
Image of quebebe puree, compliments from AnaLuiza-" Hella Heaven"- see link at sidebar
42 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 5:29 AM
This butter cream rose looks deliciously yummy! Love purées in general, a good alternative between eating vegetables and keeping it sweet. My food of the winter for sure.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely day Wan!
I feel like picking the rose from the screen...lovely and informative post!!ReplyDelete
hi marie, glad you came by and like my post, have a nice dauReplyDelete
hi Julie, thanks for coming over and yes, i like the roses too. have a great dayReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 2:53 PM
Great post and photos!ReplyDelete
Great tips!:) Your such a great one Wan!:) Thanks for this very informative and useful tips you shared!:) Have a wonderful day!:)ReplyDelete
It's my pleasure Wan if you would visit my other blog!:) hehehe. They are waiting for your comment.:)) Thanks a lot Wan!:)
hi IBG, thanks Isa, for coming over and for the latest trendy artistic comments from you ...ReplyDelete
have a nice day..
hi yummy chunklet, thanks for your visit again and for liking my post, wish you a happy weekendReplyDelete
hi sagittarian, how are you doing..thanks so much for coming over- early as always..ok i will be so glad to visit your two other blogs, very soon. looking forward. A very happy weekend to you n family.ReplyDelete
Hi Wan...Love your pink rose - so pretty!ReplyDelete
Have a good weekend!
informative post Ms.Wan, the pink rose looks so pretty...ReplyDelete
hi Jasna, a very happy weekend to you too and many thanks for your visit and am glad you like my butter cream rose- where you are the expert :)ReplyDelete
hi sobha, thanks for coming over. I did send you an email today, have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Hey, assalamu alaykum, Very interesting =)ReplyDelete
Wow! The techniques of creaming produce beautiful outcomes. :)ReplyDelete
a rose..you made it perfectly Wan..oh I'll get your pink rose..I'll just try placing it on my ear..do I look pretty now? *blink*ReplyDelete
can i have that butter cream rose? i'll give it to my beautiful rose hon :)ReplyDelete
wa alaikum salam to you Black Pearl. how are you doing... thank you for coming and liking my post, have a nice dayReplyDelete
Hi balqis, the creaming technique refers mainly in baking. like making butter cream used for cake toppings, also in the creaming of batter and cookies dough. have a nice day and thanks so much for your visit dearReplyDelete
hi Sie, thanks for coming dear, did you take the same flight as beanizer today/ i saw you both at the airport,with the roses, did they melt on the way home? no, they should not, i made the best ones for you-...oh actually i made them for beanizer..oooops! sorry, very sorry..he will give them to you. hey, take good care of your health Sie, luv you and want you to be happy always... but you must take great care of your health. have a great weekend.. my regards to quiet angel and i will visit Bean at the very same last post of his again ha ha.ReplyDelete
hi beanizer 06..never grow old, many thanks for coming..here- take 2 dozen butter cream roses for your hon and a dozen more for you... sure you both like them very much,ReplyDelete
Sorry the crab claws on my right sidebar looks very delicious, very simple cooking, they just bake and add some sauce and condiments to it- so no recipe for you on crabs today..
I failed in bakery. I also don't know that you need to bake a cake not cook it. Hihihihi..... Why don't you teach how to make the rose?ReplyDelete
thank you for the creaming technique, certainly will be useful especially when I am baking and need to polish up on this.ReplyDelete
Butter cream rose really superb. I can't take my eyes from it.ReplyDelete
Hi Cooking varieties, wow! That first pic looks like art. Very beautiful mixture of colours. And what you display here really beautiful. Too good to eat....ReplyDelete
Can see you have a black belt in culinary skills....
and that cupcake is spectacular! Never seen one like it before. Outstanding!
You have fun and have a pleasant weekend.
Butter cream Rose looks cute...Lovely post...ReplyDelete
hi nava.. thanks for the visit,have a wonderful weekend and take careReplyDelete
hi uma, thanks for really liking the bettur milk rose, not that easy to make at first. the way to hold the piping stuff is a little bit awkward for me... what more to do intricate petals, but done, one for the camera... have a good weekendReplyDelete
hi reshmi, visited you today, you seem to be having a great time blogging those delicious looking foodies.. so how have you been doing, glad you came andReplyDelete
thanks for liking my petals- intricate to do, for a beginner like me, i find it very difficult to arrange the petals at first.. glad those wafer cones helped a lot...helps to give a perfect finish to each rose.
Hi lee, thanks for coming over and for the sweet comments.. Not that easy to make, BUT the rose petals look beautiful and perfect to my eyes...tho it may look ordinary to others.. :) :)ReplyDelete
the green petals looks perfect too. am glad you all my visitors likes them. have a great weekend to you too.
Not only do I love these lessons but your photos are beautiful!ReplyDelete
That rose looks very pretty on the cupcake!ReplyDelete
hi mari.. thanks for your visits, glad you like the photos too..you are part of my inspiration when it comes to photo works.ReplyDelete
i always go read your photo tips and come back inspired to excel on mine at best i can, cos to me, there has to be great photos accompanying every recipe, no matter how simple.
have a wonderful weekend
hi angie, glad you came over, thanks! you are another of my inspiration in foodie blogging. i like visiting your site and feast my eyes on your your crisp images of exotic recipes, especially your cookies..., that i likened authentic cookies to "Angie's recipes"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Very informative and sweet post. Thanks for sharing a nice info with good pics.ReplyDelete
Have a visit to my comic post. I will be off for somedays and that reason is written in that new post.
Have a nice day.
You're so talented to pipe those roses beautifully! Have a lovely weekend my friend....ReplyDelete
hi sarang mangi, glad you came by and thanks for the visit and comment. ok will blog walk to you siee soonestReplyDelete
hi treat and tricks, thanks for coming over and yes, not bad, at first, it was quite a struggle to hold the piping bags the right way, while creating the petals..have a good weekend to you tooReplyDelete
this post s pretty damn good :-)ReplyDelete
that's a beautiful rose that you did!ReplyDelete


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Staying in Pembrokeshire with Under The Thatch
The first thing you see when you get off the train at Fishguard in Wales is a vast white ferry. This is the end of the line for trains to this part of the Pembrokeshire coast and the start for people wanting to sail to Ireland. Either way, it felt like a long way from London, which we had left nearly five hours earlier. The ferry is Stenaline's service to Rosslare in Ireland, but we walked past the cars and trucks lining up to board, and went in search of a taxi to head up into the hills.
We checked with the information desk at the now deserted station (our only other train companions were some Goretexed geologists who were whisked off in a minibus bogged down in backpacks and books) where we could get a taxi. We also needed food, what with two hungry children to feed and a cottage in the middle of nowhere for the weekend, so they advised us to walk to the supermarket about twenty minutes away, stock up on supplies and call the cab from there.
Fishguard harbour and train station is actually in the village of Goodwick, separated from the town of Fishguard by a stretch of coast called The Parrog. Just at the start of the Parrog were the two things we needed: a supermarket and a café with the best all day breakfast I have had in ages. So, weekend shopping done (there were few options for shopping local at this stage of the proceedings) we stuffed ourselves at the local café, knowing that we still had half a day to walk it off when we got to our cottage. When our cab came, and we told him we were headed up to Strumble Head, about four miles away, he said, "Ooooh, nothing much up there, is there?." "Not even a pub?", I asked, "Oh, no, nothing up there at all." The children gave me that totally unimpressed with my holiday plans look as I tried to respond with feeble comments like, "Fantastic, a real adventure". Their sulks soon subsided however, as we drove into the driveway of our homestead for a couple of days. Trehilyn Farm has, as its centrepiece, the main stone farmhouse which, literally, glowed in February's late afternoon sunshine, with its mixture of white lime plaster and red ochre pigment . Pure eye candy for city dwellers who crave a house in the country.
Similarly, the interior is one big picture book of Farrow and Ball rural elegance, with well lived in armchairs, dark red walls, fine oak desks and tables, elegant beds draped in woollen blankets and copious cushions, flagstone floors and a bathroom that was bigger than our London flat. The children had run off to discover the gardens, climb over recently restored dry stone walls, and splash in the (safely shallow) stream which flows through the farm. Forgetting their despair of only half an hour ago, they ran in shouting, "We've spotted a mountain we can climb. Can we go right now?" Yesss, I thought with a secret punch of the air. Goodbye London, hello space.
The 'mountain' was, in fact, Garn Fawr (meaning 'big rock'), an iron age stone fort apparently and, thankfully, just a few fields away. We climbed to the top of this wild rocky terrain, surrounded by barren heathland, and were able to see the surrounding fields with grazing cattle and sheep, and ponies, which have been provided to farmers by the National Park to keep bracken and gorse low along the Coast Path, allowing the indigenous flora and fauna to thrive. We also had a clear view of StrumbleHead lighthouse, which illuminates the dramatic 140 metre cliffs which stretch out infinitely along the Pembrokeshire coast all around us. The wind and, indeed, the wilderness, took our breaths away.
Trehilyn Farm accommodation is marketed by Welsh holiday accommodation provider, Under the Thatch, award winner for its commitment to sustainability. It was one of the company's owner, architectural historian, Greg Stevenson' s major undertakings, as he acted as consultant on the project to renovate this 1840 stone farmhouse (and adjoining cottages), brick by brick, tile by tile. Stevenson is committed to renovating some of Wales' derelict properties, many of great heritage value. He is on a mission to show second home owners that they can have a huge positive impact on the local communities by keeping their properties occupied all year round. Under the Thatch offers a wide range of self-catering accommodation at a reasonable price and, therefore, are often booked all year round, bringing much needed tourism income to remote areas like Fishguard. They have detailed information for their guests on all things local, from activities, to shops and bus services, so they don't leave visitors to just find their own way.
Trehilyn iitself is a work of restorative genius, and we were lucky enough to bump into the building project leader, Jill, who is now taking the building project into stage three, converting the accompanying mill and barn. Not that you would know it, as any construction was being done very discreetly and away from the main accommodation. She was delighted to show off her giant hopper and boiler in the barn, packed with wood pellets (shipped in from Ireland) and providing all heating and hot water. She led me to the natural reed bed, which deals with all the waste, talked me through the painstakingly slow process of restoring the stonework with mortar and lime plaster, showed me the nature walk which they created along the stream, and shared the stresses of restoring the buildings' roofs.
The roof restoration had been complicated. After realising that the original slates were not salvageable, because the old Pembrokeshire slate had been too soft, they chose a North Wales slate for the new roof, using random shaped slates, and hammering them in one by one onto the local timber lathes using oak pegs. The adjoining cottages have also been redone exactly as per the originals, but these have had lime washed grout painted onto the tiles, as per tradition. As well as serving as protection from the elements, their chalky bright hue offered the perfect juxtaposition against the incoming dark grey sky of a threatening storm.
As the clouds burst, we tucked up beside a log fire, generously stocked up by the owners using farmland supplies, although hardly even necessary with a soft warm heat emanating from the under floor heating being blasted by that hopper next door. The next morning the rain had stopped, and we donned raincoats and walking boots to take in some of the other local walks. Trehilyn is a walkers' dream house. The taxi driver had forgotten one important thing when he said there was nothing up here.The Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Yes, there is no pub or shop within easy reach, and I am sure that most people visiting here come by car. However, I was so relieved that we had left ours at home. It is a four mile walk into Fishguard, but you can follow the 'old road' into town, using a waymarked path across fields and on smaller roads, and then take the one of those best kept secrets of our National Parks back home again, the rural bus service which in this case is The Strumble Shuttle (there are several along this coast path, which stretches for 186 miles in total). This has services all year round, offering not only a service for local people, but also a superb, cheap way for visitors like us to get around. It is important for tourists to avail of these services, as we help sustain it for local people and visitors, but it also keeps cars off the roads. At present, a shocking 90% of visitors to National Parks come by car.
This was our first visit to Pembrokeshire, and so we studied the OS map in detail before planning our 'big' walk of the weekend, with two young kids in tow. We were able to take footpaths across fields and woodlands to main clifftop path. Heading west were the beaches of Glany-Mor and Aber Mawr, but we decided to head East back towards Fishguard, as wanted to guarantee ice cream and a beer when we got there and, being out of season, we thought that the town was a safer bet. Our choice of route was also thanks to the über-efficient local tourist information centre, Oceanlab, which we rang to check on bus services. They talked me through the OS map grid by grid and, with expert local knowledge, and gave me all the time in the world to help plan my child-friendly route.
We started on the cliffs at Carregwasted Point, and followed the beautifully managed coastal path for about six miles in total, along four headlands, following streams heading seawards, watching the Irish ferry come and go, and looking out for dolphins as we walked. This is one of the country's best spots for bottle nosed dolphins, although a little early in the year for us, sadly. Later in the season you can go porpoise spotting, or 'Strumble Watches' with Seatrust. The walk is exhilarating enough without them, and the children found it just the right length (about four hours including picnic break).
Most of the cliff walk from this point into town is set back from the cliffs themselves, and feels very safe. There are a couple of spots, however, which dip right down to the cliff edge, so tread carefully and don't let the children run on too far ahead, when you can't see how the land lies. We didn't meet a single soul until we came into Fishguard, where we had timed an hour to have drinks, chips and game of pool at the Rose and Crown pub, before taking the Strumble Shuttle back up the hill, to the land of nothing, as the taxi driver would have had us believe. For us, on this much needed family weekend away, it turned out to be the land of just about everything.
There are many more details of Pembrokeshire's stunning landscape, activities and transport options at the National Park Authority's website.
To stock up on local supplies, you can also visit Fishguard Farmers' Market, held regularly at the Town Hall.
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A ship, a small merchantman, built at Goa, and serving the coastal route. The pepper ship, they called it, because it brought pepper from Cochin to Goa, pepper, that most precious article. The whole of the Portuguese Empire of the Indies was built on pepper. There were other spices, of course, and there was silk from the faraway, unapproachable land called
China—unapproachable because every foreigner trying to land there was instantly killed, according to the standing orders of the Emperor. But pepper was the main thing.
Francis and his three Tamil students were the only passengers. He almost wept as Goa vanished in the mists of the morning sun. Somehow the rumor of his departure had got around and a huge crowd had come to see him off, Father Almeida and Father Campo and other priests, Violante Ferreira with her nice young daughter, both in tears, Father Diogo de Borba of course, with all his students, and hundreds and hundreds of others; they upset the entire traffic near the port. And as the ship left, they had sung the Credo, rhymed as he had taught it to the children. How they loved singing, these joyful people. They sang when they plowed their fields, sang when they worked on the wharves. And there were the children, his children, tossing hibiscus flowers at the ship, bobbing up and down ....
Leaving them was a kind of dying. And now started the voyage to purgatory.
Father de Borba had told him a good deal about the Paravas, and no one could have given him better information. Eight years ago Father de Borba had been there himself, in the course of the War of the Ear.
Every girl child on the Pearl Fisher Coast had the lobes of her tiny ears pierced. Little leaden weights were inserted into the ears and these weights were gradually increased, till at last they were large enough for the enormous earrings that would be put in on the day of the girl's marriage. They were the sign of the married state and a Parava woman's pride and badge of rank and dignity.
An uncouth, greedy Moslem trader—one of the many who cheated the poor pearl fishers out of their goods, won by so much effort and under constant danger from sharks and stingrays—tore such a ring off the ear of a young Parava woman, tearing her earlobe at the same time. Outraged, the Paravas killed him and everyone of his kind they could lay their hands on. Then came the armed feluccas to burn down the Parava villages and the pearl fishers asked for Portuguese protection.
And Dom Martini de Sousa, Gran Capitan of the Seas, arrived with his fleet. Francis had heard the story from Marcello, but Father de Borba had a few things to add. He and a few Franciscans had gone ashore with the troops, and the priests—numbering no more than six— had baptized twenty thousand natives. They tried to instruct them, too, but the fleet had to go on and priests were needed on board ....
Since then the Paravas had had to be left to themselves, except for a few priests going over at Easter, from Cochin.
And now it was eight years since the War of the Ear.
The little ship, the pepper ship, was careful not to sail too far out into the dangerous waters of the Indian Ocean. Hugging the coast, it stopped for a day at Mangalore, for two days at Calicut, for another two at Cochin. Then it sailed along the Travancore Coast and round Cape Comorin to Manapad.
There Francis and his three students went ashore.
"Flat country", said Coelho, the oldest of the students, and the only one who had received major Orders and was a deacon. "Good for us, because there won't be so many wild animals. Bad—because there is little shade." He opened his parasol.
They found a little grotto, where Francis said Mass.
Far away, to the north, a few catamarans stood out in the ocean.
"Pearl fisher boats", explained Coelho. "One of the men is diving now. Can you see, Father?"
"Yes—he's holding something in his mouth, something shimmery…."
"His knife. For sharks."
Francis made his bundle ready and swung it over his shoulder. "You said you know the way to Tuticorin", he said.
"I know it, Father. I—I hope I do."
Rice paddies. A few laborers working in a millet field, with a number of completely naked boys jumping around and throwing stones at something, Francis could not see what it was.
"They're chasing parrots away", explained Coelho.
Coconut palms and banyan trees and limes and mangoes. With those and the fish they can get from the ocean, at least they have enough to eat, thought Francis. Of course, fish had to be eaten at once; they putrefied at almost the moment they were taken from the water.
A cow appeared suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, and the workers in the field turned towards her and bowed their heads.
"They hope for the droppings", said Coelho. "It is a sacred animal, you know, and the droppings are a certain cure for a great many diseases, when mixed with the food of a man. That is what Hindus believe", he added hastily, as he saw Francis look at him with horror.
"But these people are supposed to be Christians!"
"Some of them, yes, Father. Many of them. Not all. And there is no priest. Things get mixed up..."
" .. with the dung of cows", said Francis grimly.
He had to restrain himself from walking up to the men and tackling them then and there. It would have been foolish. The thing to do was to go to the heart of the country and to work from there towards the periphery. That was what Father Ignatius would do, he thought.
They closed their parasols, as they entered a forest—if the maze of trees of all kinds and sizes, of high grass and strange plants could be called a forest.
"Look out for snakes, Father", warned Coelho. "Most of them will not attack—except when they believe that they have been attacked. You must be careful not to tread on them. They will never believe that you didn't do it deliberately."
Mansilhas might have said that. Mansilhas. Perhaps he and Father Paul had arrived by now. They should have arrived long ago.
Suddenly he stopped. From a tree something was hanging upside down, an animal, not unlike a huge bat. But surely there could be no bats of that size! It had a horrible head, black or dark brown, with large, pointed ears. It looked like a devil.
One of the younger students jumped up and clubbed it to earth with his parasol. A few more strokes and it was dead.
"What did you do that for?" asked Francis with disgust.
"Verrie good to eat", the student grinned. "Flying fox, Father. Wonderful, when cooked."
A country where they held cows sacred and cooked devils. He gave awry smile. "Let's go through the Credo in Tamil again, Coelho", he said. "I must learn it.
Visuvasa manthiram— paralogath iyum—pulogathiyum—sarvesar—anai athiokia—bhaktiyaga..
; Coelho helped out.
Francis sighed. "Why must every word in Tamil have at least six syllables", he complained.
"Nathar Yesu"
, said Coelho, beaming.
"Ah yes, now I know:
athikiya—bhakthiyaga visuvasikirain—ivar ispirithu santhuvinalai karpomai urpavithu archayasishta kanni Mariyaiyidathilai nindru piranthu".
"Wonderful, Father", said Coelho. "You are making great progress."
"I know the Ten Commandments", said Francis, "and the Pater and the Ave, but I'm hopelessly lost with the exposition of the Faith and the story of the Gospels. Tell me, Coelho, I know there are those who speak Hindi and Konkani and Tamil, but tell me, quite honestly and frankly how many other languages are there in India?"
"Oh, quite a few", said Coelho, looking away. "There is Pushtu and Urdu and Gujarati, and Telugu and Kanarese and Bengali and Singhalese and Gondi and Malayan and... ."
"That will do", said Francis. They went on silently for a little while. Then Francis said, "Let's get on with the Credo where we left off.
Ponchu—pilathinkizhai—padupattu— siluvaiylaiaraiyundu—marith—adakappattar.
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