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Cheshire Cheese
This month we delve into a bit of history to find out why a cheese is orange as we explore one of the worlds great cheeses, one that has almost been lost in time.

Cheshire was at one time considered to be Britain's finest cheese.

Cows milk is white and at most a slight beautiful cream color when they are on rich grasses. So why orange cheese?

What does it have to do with cows and green grass?

Well it seems a very long time ago, and I do mean back in the first Millenium, there was a fabulous cheese being made in the west of Britain called Cheshire (Chester/Chestershire).

Cheshire is one of Britain's oldest known cheese, having been mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Over time it became of such renown that many other regions began to copy this cheese successfully.

In the hills of North Wales, Red Cheshire, colored with annatto to a shade of deep orange, was originally developed and sold to travelers. The color was added to distinguish the fact that it was not made in the traditional Cheshire region. This trade was so successful that the travelers came to believe that all Cheshire cheese was orange, and producers in Cheshire's home county were obliged to dye their cheese in order to match the expectations of the market.

Of course, this has little to do with why Cheddar is still orange in Wisconsin and I am still searching for the answer to that question.

The traditional region for making Cheshire cheese extends into Lancashire, Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Prior to Britain's Milk Marketing Board and its homogenization of the English cheese landscape, Cheshire was considered to be one of the best cheeses produced throughout the country. However, as the emphasis became placed on Cheddar, Cheshire production, like many of Britain's farmstead cheeses, went into a decline.

Today, the direction for Cheshire has been to younger, fresher, crumbly cheese that requires shorter storage. Crumbly cheeses like Cheshire became less important as they did not lend themselves to the new prepacking requirements of the supermarkets. Traditional crumbly cheeses simply did not pack well!

They continue to use traditional methods of manufacture - open vats and manual curd handling to produce what many regard as one of the most under-rated cheeses in Britain.

Cheshire ... the cheese

Today Cheshire comes in three varieties: red, white and blue and following the tradition that Cheshire should be red, most is lightly colored.

It is also made in 3 levels of moisture for different lengths of aging. The primary difference in these 3 is the milk quality (time of year), the final moisture in the cheese determining aging potential.

Cheshire is a cheese characterized by its moist, crumbly texture and mild, salty taste. While some consider it a form of Cheddar, it is quite different both in texture and taste. The primary difference between the Cheddar and Cheshire process comes in the late slow acid development where the Cheshire curds sit for another day at warm temperatures to drain and develop the final acid before being salted and pressed.

Making Cheshire Cheese

As I began looking into the Cheshire cheese process, I found very little in current literature on how it is made since there are only a handful of people still making this the traditional way.

My sources for this centered around "Practical Cheese Making" by Walker-Tisdale and Woodnutt 1917 and "Cheese Making Practice" by R.Scott 1998, along with several sessions in my cheese lab to develop this recipe for you wonderful cheese makers out there.

The cheese I will be making here is a full RED Cheshire from "first grass" fresh milk and will be a shorter aged cheese (great for those just starting out and not wanting to wait for their cheese to ripen).

A Recipe for Making Cheshire Cheese

Before you begin:

You will need:
gallons of milk (not ultra-pasteurized)
1 packet of our C101 culture or 3/8 tsp of MA011
Annatto cheese coloring
1 tsp liquid animal rennet
A good thermometer
A knife to cut the curds, and a spoon or ladle to stir the curds
A colander and butter muslin to drain the curds

A Form to hold the curds for pressing
A Cheese Press or weights to consolidate the curds
Note: everything needs to be clean and sanitized.

Acidifying and heating the milk:

Begin by heating the 4 gallons of milk to 86-88F (30-31C). Higher temp for higher fat milk.
You can do this best by placing the pot of milk in a larger pot or sink of very warm water. If you do this in a pot on the stove, make sure you heat the milk slowly and stir it well as it heats.

Once the milk is at proper temperature the culture can be added.
1 pack of Ricki's C101 mesophilic culture or 3/8 tsp MA011 (same as Cheddar) for fresh farm milk but increase this to 1/2 tsp if using pasteurized milk from the store.
Ripen 40-60 minutes. This is ripened less than Cheddar.

To prevent the powder from caking and sinking in clumps, sprinkle the powder over the surface of the milk and then allow about 2 minutes for the powder to re-hydrate before stirring it in.

Once the culture has been mixed in well, the color can be added. This is an extract from the Annatto tree. For a full color Cheshire, about 8-12 ml of the color should be added to the milk. It is best to mix this in a small volume of milk and then add that to the full batch.

This will not appear to be very dark, but since the color is held in the curd, the color will darken through the process as whey is released and the color concentrates. This initial milk/curd will be a nice golden color. (I will be posting a more detailed page on coloring cheese in the near future).

Make sure the color is stirred in for 10-15 min before adding rennet .

Coagulation with rennet:

Then add about 5 ml (1 tsp) of single strength liquid rennet diluted in 1/4 cup water.

The milk now needs to sit quiet for 60 minutes while the culture works and the rennet coagulates the curd . The thermal mass of this milk should keep it warm during this period. It is OK if the temp drops a few degrees during this time.

At 20 minutes you should note a thickening of the milk, but wait a full hour before cutting.

Cutting curds and releasing the whey:

The curd can now be cut to 1/2-3/4 inch pieces and stirred briefly before allowing it to settle for 5 minutes.

Cooking the curds :

Over the next 60 minutes stir intermittently while heating slowly over 60 minutes to 88-90F.

Over the next 30 minutes, the curd is allowed to settle to the bottom of the vat (pitch) limiting the moisture loss while a slow acidification of the lactose takes place.

This last 90 minutes was a slow stir and settle to keep moisture loss to a minimum and thus keeping a moister curd than with the Cheddar process but it does allow the bacteria acid production to continue in the best environment.

Removing the whey:

Next, a colander or perforated pan is lined with a draining cloth and the curds are transferred to this for the whey separation. The curd mass is wrapped in the draining cloth and weighted with 8-12 lbs to help consolidate the curds for 10-15 minutes

The curd draining and wrapped for consolidation

Just a bit of weight will help here to consolidate the curds.

Following this, it is broken into large cubes of 3-4"and turned every 10 min (5-6 times). It is kept warm while it continues to drain.

Continue with this for 2-3 hours while the acid continues to develop and the whey drains freely from the broken blocks of curd. Open the cloth and turn the curds several times to increase the whey drainage.

Salting the curds:

The curd can now be broken into 1/2-3/4 inch pieces and salted. My final curd weight was 4.25 lbs and I used about 1.75 oz of salt to slow the bacteria and flush the final whey.

Notice in the photos above how much darker the curd has become and how little of the color remains in the whey.

Once the salt is absorbed the cheese is transferred to a cloth lined mold (I am using the 6 inch stainless mold for this cheese here) BUT NO WEIGHT is added now. This also is a major departure from the Cheddar process. The forms should be turned occasionally as they drain and are kept overnight in a warm place at a temperature between 75 and 80F.

I achieve the warm phase by placing the form filled with curds back into the pot and water bath and keeping the temperature of the outer pot around 80F.

Final pressing:

The next morning the cheese is removed from the forms, re-wrapped in cloth, and placed in a press.

It will be pressed slowly for about 2 days and turned daily while in the press. The weight begins light at about 12-20 lbs and is increased gradually until finally it reaches about 150 pounds in a 6 inch diameter form. With each change in press weight, unwrap the cheese, turn and re-wrap.

Finishing and aging:

The cheese is removed from the press, dried and wrapped with a bandage or waxed. It is cured on shelves in a curing room at temperature of 55 to 60F. Notice in the photo here how dark the color has become compared to the earlier stages of the process.

This early-ripening cheese may be cured for as short a time as 3 weeks (I find 5-6 weeks better) , the medium-ripening type is cured for about 2 months, and the late ripening type is cured for at least 10 weeks and often for 8 to 10 months. The longer curing period improves the cheese.

The final cheese, waxed and resting on the shelf for aging.

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Welcome to Pets Aboard! Chesapeake Bay Magazine's page devoted exclusively to our cruising critters of the Chesapeake.

Add your seafaring pet to the Pets Aboard gallery:

• Send a photo (or several) of your four-legged cruising mate to petsaboard@chesapeakeboating.net. Include all the information you like, including your pet's name, your name, your boat's name and type, and where you and your pet(s) enjoy cruising.

• Share your stories about cruising with your pet with our readers. Where does your pet stay when the going gets rough? What's your pet's favorite cruising spot? Silly, serious, or informative-tell us your "tail."

Email petsaboard@chesapeakeboating.net or write Pets Aboard!, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, 601 Sixth Street, Annapolis MD 21403.

This is Ms. Maggie and she loves cruising the Magothy River and Bay waters aboard her Albemarle 24.

Her People: Scott McGregor and Brie Collard of Frederick, MD.

Skyler, our Rhodesian Ridgeback (a.k.a. Lionhound) aboard our appropriately named Cruisers 3575 "Lionhound" at Kings Creek Marina in Cape Charles, Virginia. Kings Creek and Cape Charles are Skyler's and our favorite cruising destination.

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Sally, our Rhodesian Ridgeback standing watch at the helm station aboard our Cruisers 3575 while in port.

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Koko & YumYum

Little princesses KoKo and YumYum aboard m/v Growltiger. Homeport, LaTrappe Creek

Larry is a 10 year old rescue dog. He is living the dream in Crisfield, Md. He loves his 19 foot Mako, which is docked at his house near Jones Creek, a tributary of the Big Annemessex River. His crew members are Mark and Irene. Larry is always on high alert for fish and crabs. Larry loves the water.

Jake the Cat

Meet "Sailor" Jake, our almost 19 year old Siamese cat. He has been cruising with us for about 18 of those years ranging from our original homeport of Newburyport, MA downeast to Searsport, ME and south into Long Island Sound. Now home ported in Cambridge, MD he has been aboard from Havre de Grace to Albemarle Sound, NC. Most of his and our cruising is now limited to the Chesapeake Bay and it's tributaries.

This picture was taken in May '14 in Dun Cove, Tilghman Island. When underway he stays below in the cabin, usually in the v-berth, but when anchored, moored or in a slip he has the run of the boat and does several laps around the deck every afternoon for exercise. He has been the best sea gull and tern protection we've ever had.

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Our dog Mitchell loves sailing or just hanging out on "his" sailboat Marlee at the Yankee Point Marina in Lancaster, VA.

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Maggie & Woody

This is Summer, Maggie and Woody enjoying a relaxing day aboard our Stingray "Salty Paws", at Sue Creek.

From Jill Reyes

Winnie & Lizzy:

Winnie and Lizzy aboard CLOVER leaving Cather Marine, Colton Point MD August 17, 2013. Looking forward to a visit to St. Clements Island in the Potomoc River.

From Fred Millhiser

Nala Enjoys the Ride!

This our dog Nala on a cruise from Breezy Point to Smith Island in our Scout Abaco 242.  She is not that fond of the boat but seemed to be enjoying it this time.  She stayed in this position looking out over the stern at the bay for a good part of the two hour ride.

From Dennis Raulin

Boating Border Terriers:

Jake is 4 and Kimi is a year and a half. In the first picture, Jake is "driving" the Kingfisher. The other is at Lake Lure, NC this summer "navigating" a paddle boat with my wife Sharon and three of our grandchildren - Owen, Luke and Maria.  Whenever the paddle boat would leave shore without Jake he would swim out to catch the boat so he could ride along.

This picture is Jake (left) and Kimi (right), enjoying the day on our 27 foot Harbercraft Kingfisher called Coast2Coast.  We live and boat on the York River near Gloucester, VA.
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Bo Duke:

We rescued Bo Duke from the local SPCA here on the Eastern Shore of VA. He is a 3 year old male lab mix with a purple tongue who absolutely loves cruising on the boat, kayaking, and paddleboarding. We regularly take him out on Onancock Creek (as seen in the paddleboarding photo) and paddle to our favorite beach spot at Ware Point. He has better balance than his owners on the board and has never fallen off! Crab pot floats must be avoided while paddling with him because they are his favorite toys and he will jump off to attempt to retrieve them!
We encourage your magazine to give a shout out to local shelters and SPCAs in the Bay watershed! From our experiences always owning rescue dogs, they seem to have amazing character and are extremely appreciative of getting a chance at living life on the Bay!
From Curt, Sara, and Bo Duke Smith
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Dave & Karla Scanlan's Yellow Lab:

Our 7 yr old yellow Lab, NothingToMeNow Fredo Scanlan, on our boat called the Special K, which is an Osprey Fisherman.

We live at Grandview on the Bay which we purchased in 1998 and ever since have been exploring the joys of Mathews County, home to the 3rd oldest lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay and over 200 miles of shoreline! Fredo simply loves cruising on Mobjack Bay and the East River past the last of the Chesapeake Bay Country's tide mills.  He's in heaven with the wind in his face...and even more so when it's swim time!

Chessie in the Bahamas:

Chessie is a half lab half golden retriever from Annapolis. This fall she navigated the ICW from Annapolis to Miami on a Tartan 30 where she waited for a weather window to cross the stream. Now after 2 months in the islands she is headed north for the summer with Ted Hale an Maggie Lumkes.

Captain Seaweed:

This Newfoundland's name is Captain Seaweed and this is how we had to get him from the dinghy into the main boat, or out of the water when he went swimming.
The sailboat as a 33' Hunter named "In Deep" that we docked in Havre deGrace and sailed throughout the upper Chesapeake bay.
From Barry Bauman. The girl in the picture is Barry's daughter, Khrystina Bauman.

Stella, from William Linaberry:

This is a picture of our lab mix Stella. She is relaxing at the stern of our 45' Sea Ray, Wave Alert Too, as we cruise down the Miles River. She is fearless walking up and down the gunnels as we travel at full speed. On hot days she plunges off the swim platform into the bay to cool off. She is a courageous member of our crew that we couldn't do with out.

Cooper, from Kevin Cross:

Here is a picture of my dog Cooper aboard my fishing boat. This picture was taken on the James River near Richmond. Cooper loves to be on the boat and will hop right on the front so he can be the first to see whatever lies ahead.

Mickey, a boating Cairn Terrier, from Pam Sowell:

I hope you enjoy these pictures of our cairn terrier Mickey. He loves being on our boat and of course being the center of attention!

First day on the boat. On the way home from picking up our new family member, Mickey, we stopped by the boat to make sure he knew all about it and was introduced to the boating life early.

This is a picture of our cairn terrier, Mickey and our two granddaughters. We were putting on their jackets, getting ready for a day on the water, but something caught their eye on the dock behind the boat. They couldn't resist taking a look, and I couldn't resist snapping this picture. Mickey had just graduated from a smaller life jacket to this next size which was a little big for him but he didn't seem to mind!

This was taken on the deck of our boat while waiting for the fireworks to begin at James Creek Marina, Washington DC.

Mickey at Aquia Harbor for the End of the Summer Cruise.

Lizzie the aspirant tug boat captain, from James & Pamela Hoffman:

Lizzie, our Dachshund, is 11 months old. We picked her up at 8 weeks from a very loving family in Elizabeth City, N.C., and the first place she spent the night with us was on our boat. We own a 1993 Cruisers 3675 Esprit Express and a 19' Swan Point center console, both of which we keep at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland. Our cruises are all up and down the Chesapeake Bay area, whenever and as often as possible. There is absolutely no reason to think that we will be leaving without Lizzie in hand. I have raised or had Dachshunds off and on for a big part of my life, but have never seen a dog as wild over the water as she. Underway, she is right in the middle of it all, and when she grows up she wants to be a tug boat captain or a cruise boat captain. (Hope she makes it!!) She has brought more smiles and laughs to us than can ever be imagined, especially when she hits the sandy beach. Then she is really out of control. You can tell how much she loved boating by the SMILE on her face.

Lizzie on our dock in Crisfield her first day as part of our family.

Lizzie LOVES boating in Crisfield!

Maggie the Lab, from Jill and Andy Reyes:

This is our Lab Maggie onboard our Stingray "Salty Paws." She can be found most weekends swimming in Sue Creek, Middle River, and Hart Miller Island.

Chum, at Ganeys Wharf on the Choptank River, from Chris Gill:

This is our dog Chum enjoying a guided kayak tour of the upper Choptank River where we live. Even though she looks quite regal, her "eats everything" lab tendency is showing with the piece of seaweed hanging out of her mouth.

These two were taken last summer when Chum was a pup. My husband John was teaching her how to retrieve and the second is our son Zach taking Chum for a paddle. Again, both on the Choptank at Ganeys Wharf.

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Reese's Peanut Butter Cup - Carneys Point, NJ - napping at Cabin John Cove, MD.
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Our Rottie, Benelli, on board the Skippers One at Weavers Marine in Essex, MD.
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Our Rottie puppy, Thompson, watching the seagulls on board the Skippers One at Weaver's Marine.
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Lola aboard Brandywine
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Ruby in the dink!
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Shelby having fun at Northumberland Plantation, VA.
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Angel & Molly : Living the Good Life on St. Leonard Creek

Ann Femina writes:

These are our golden retrievers-Angel, 7 years old, and Molly, 2 years old. They love to go for boat rides on St. Leonard Creek in Calvert County. We use a ramp to help them onto the boat from the pier. As soon as they see that ramp come out of the boat shed they go crazy. We usually cruise to a sandy beach and let them play and swim at the beach. Angel uses the ski platform to slither into the water, but Molly takes a graceful leap from the back seat. They each use the ski platform to climb back into the boat.

They love their life on the water. For Molly, it's quite a departure from the start she had. She is a rescue from a puppy mill, where she spent the first 8 months of her life. She was going to be a breed dog. By a lucky turn of events she landed in a golden retriever rescue and subsequently into our lives. Angel was already an old pro at savoring the good life, and she has helped Molly evolve into the spoiled dog she is today. Molly still has some trust issues and anything new scares her, but she watches Angel and takes her cues from her.

If Molly could talk I think she'd say that living on the water and going for boat rides is way better than life in a puppy mill.

Pictured here, Molly and Angel aboard, playing in the water with owner Jim Littleton and living the good life on the Bay (that's Molly all smiles in the rear).

Frankie loves boating!

This is Frankie, the Minnick family's 20-month-old lab-plott hound mix. Frankie joined the family from a shelter in December 2007. Frankie has a beautiful brindle coat and a sweet lab face. Frankie and the rest of the Minnicks live in Frederick, Md., and boat out of Podickory Point on their Grady White Offshore.

Initially, in the summer of 2008, Frankie was tentative on the boat, but quickly realized it was the best time to be had on four legs on the entire planet. Now, Brooks Minnick says, Frankie loves to run and play on Dobbins Island and at Broad Creek, and to sneak treats while tethered to a back table at Waterman's. His favorite Bay toy is a stick firmly attached to an old crab pot float, which he leaps into the water for time after time. Frankie has also become comfortable with launching himself off the 3-foot-high gunwale anytime anyone from the boat jumps in to go swimming. He's a true water dog.

Frankie wears a harness when he's on the boat, which makes it easier to help him up onto the swim platform when he returns to the boat. Anybody got a good design on a puppy swim ladder?

Meet Beans of Sunchaser

Owner Kelly Chase writes:

"When we first got Beans, my Dad (John Chase) was upset that we came home with a dog, but by summer time, when we brought Beans out on the boat, Dad began to really love our dog. Now, my dad would never leave the house without our dog. He even bought a dinghy for Beans, that he now calls The Beaner Boat.

"Beans enjoys traveling to Fairlee Creek and Whortons Creek. When we are underway, Beans tends to fall asleep to the hum of the engines. When we arrive at out destination, Beans is always eager to jump into the dinghy and go for a ride or go swimming! We have a 42-foot Regal named Sunchaser.

Snook Beaulieu of Eastport

Here is Snook, who boats out of Eastport, Annapolis. Snook's owners, Chris and Debbi Beaulieu rescued Snook in 2002, and she took to boating, fishing and lounging after her first day on the boat! She will be approximately 9 years old this October and is staying young and fit by swimming in the Bay.

Nate and Koko on NautiDog

Nate and Koko have been boating on the NautiDog since they were 8 weeks old. The NautiDog is a 46-foot Chespapeake charter-boat style boat outfitted for family use. The NautiDog's homeport is Solomons, Md., at Spring Cove Marina.

Owner Sally Bibro says Koko, on the left, is in charge of boat security, and Nate specializes in all manner of boating ball games: ball overboard, ball in the bilge, etc.

Lucy the Ship's Puppy

Here is Lucy on her first sail. Lucy is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and the ship's dog for Bill Glossner's Carpe Ventum. Lucy, Bill, family and friends sail out of the Magothy River. Lucy was 3 months old at the time of these pictures. She didn't know what to make of this sailing thing, so she decided to sleep most of the trip.

Klondike plays it cool

This is Klondike, Troy and Renee Bardwell's 90-pound yellow lab mix. Klondike loves to anchor in coves where he can swim and chase after all the ducks. The Bardwells' 1999 30-foot Wellcraft "Martinique" Cabin-Cruiser Let It Go accommodates Klondike with a custom swim platform and plenty of room in the air-conditioned galley for resting on those really hot summer days.

When the Bardwells, who boat out of Rock Hall, first got Klondike from the pet rescue, all their friends told them that he'd just love their boat and the water. But the first few times he was aboard, they had to get in the water and float treats and cookies to coax him in. After a few unsuccessful times out, he finally went for the bait. Now the only way they can get him out of the water is with more treats and cookies.

"Whoever said that pets are a lot smarter than the owners, were absolutley right!" the Bardwells say.

CJ's Story

by Ted Tait

Nine years ago this summer, I was in Rehoboth Beach for the weekend. While browsing the shops, I came across a clothing shop. Outside, tied to a fence post was a young Golden Retriever, with a sign that said "please give me a good home." He was a quiet thing, and not very energetic considering his young age, but very sweet. Getting a dog was the last thing on my mind for this trip, or at all for that matter. I didn't even know if the hotel I was staying at would allow a dog, so I decided to sleep on it.

That night, my dreams were full of puppies. My unconscious had decided for me. If he was still there today, I would take him back home to Washington with me. Indeed, he was still there. I went inside to talk to the owner, a young kid who said he lived in a place where he was not allowed to have dogs. I offered to take him. The kid obviously loved him, but was not prepared to take proper care of him. He agreed to let me have him, and asked where my leash was! I said, "You don't have a leash for him?". Obviously the answer was no.

So a quick walk down the street to one of the little beach town specialty shops for a handmade, fancy $20 leash. This dog was off to a pampered start from me! The young boy gave me some of the dog food he had been feeding him-it was sample packs of adult dog food, and they looked rather old and stale. No wonder this puppy was a bit skinny not very energetic, he wasn't getting a proper diet.

My new dog hopped into the back of the car, along with the luggage, and we headed back to D.C. He stared out the back of the hatchback the entire way, as if taking a last look at his old home. I decided to call him CJ, which he quickly responded to. After some proper food and visits to the vet for a few minor issues, he perked up nicely.

That same summer, I bought my first boat. CJ didn't always enjoy the noise and vibration of the engine, but he loved going swimming, and still does. Getting CJ was one of the most spontaneous decisions I have ever made. It has also proved to be one of the best. He has a knack for reading moods and trying to do what I ask of him. He took to house training quickly, and manages on the boat just as well. On land he prefers to be let off the leash to do his business up in the woods near our home. I release him and say GO, and off he runs.

Two summers ago, we were on one of our many boating vacations. During this two-week trip, it rained nearly every day. You might remember that summer of flooding everywhere. Although some friends were concerned with us being on a boat in all the rain, I did explain that with everything flooded, at least I was safe floating above it all in the boat. We stuck to marinas on the stormier days. But one evening promised to be less trouble than most, and we decided to anchor out. But it was still a bit drizzly, and taking CJ to shore in the dinghy really felt like a chore that night. Instead I got a bright idea. I discovered that the water near the shore went from deep to shallow very quickly, very near the shore itself. So I backed the boat quit close to the shore line, put his swimming vest on him, and told CJ to GO! He jumped off the boat, swam to shore, did his business, and swam back, just as if it were one of our trips to the woods. With the vest on, it was a simple job to hoist him back aboard and dry him off. He was happy, and I was happy and dry!

I continue to use this training now and again when we are at a deserted shoreline and I can't bear the trip to shore. The next step is to try and train him to use the swim platform. He did it once on his own when he could not hold it any longer. I hope to encourage that! Even if that training never takes, he's the best friend I could have ever hoped for. And boating-well we all know how great that is! Thankfully, the two seem to work well together for me.

How to Build a Trawler Dog Lift

by Ralph and Celeste Yost

My wife Celeste and I began trawler-shopping in January 2007 and soon recognized that cruising with Striper, our 45-pound Portuguese water dog, might present a problem in getting her on and off the boat and into the dinghy while anchored. We felt it important to have a boat layout that allowed the dog to be with us and to move about the boat on her own, so we looked at several basic boat designs, including pilot-house trawlers and trunk-cabin trawlers.

The pilot-house trawlers offered the ease of allowing the dog to simply walk from the deck level through the stern door onto the swim platform and into the dingy. However, they also had a fly bridge that required climbing a ladder, something the dog could not do on her own-and she is too large and heavy for us to carry up and down the ladder. The trunk-cabin trawlers offered a fly bridge with relatively easy access for the dog, but the trade-off was that the trunk cabin trawler has a deck level about three and a half feet above the water. This meant that our challenge was to figure out the best way to get her to and from the dinghy from deck level.

Before we took delivery of Say Good-Bye, our 1982 41-foot DeFever, we read many articles and books and talked with other cruisers traveling with pets. We gleaned a lot of great information, but really nothing that would quite work for us. We considered a ramp, but the placement of the steps-and the davits that protruded from the transom just above them-made it a poor choice. We were stymied until I suddenly realized that we could simply transport Striper in much the same way that livestock are offloaded from ships. We could use a customized reinforced doggie life jacket and a block and tackle system on the boom to hoist Striper up and over the stern rail, drop her down to the swim platform, where she could make her own way into the dinghy.

Here's the technique we devised:

The life vest we purchased is a Fido Float Life Vest from www.arcatapet.com for just under $20. It's a padded floatable doggie life vest with mesh underbelly support that zips up the back.(Other well-made vests will no doubt work as well.) The dog steps into two front leg holes in the mesh underbelly and the vest is zipped snugly. The original design of the vest had one woven adjustable strap handle sewn onto the front of the vest near the collar and a second strap handle located near the hind leg area. The front strap goes around the dog's chest, forming a "handle" on her back near her head, but lifts her from underneath. We had The Ship's Tailor (a local canvas and sailmaker) add a woven adjustable strap just in front of the dog's hind legs, going around her belly area, thus reinforcing the second "handle" on her back near her tail. This modification affords total support from underneath and distributes her weight evenly between the two handles. The woven straps are adjustable to fit comfortably.

We feed a heavy line with spliced eyes at both ends through both handles of the vest and attach both line eyes to a shackle. Using a block and tackle attached to the boom, we attach the snap shackle to the two eye splices of the lifting line. Then I go down to the swim platform, where I control the 4:1 block and tackle that hangs from our lifting boom. I carefully hoist the dog from the aft deck up and over the stern rail, then lower her to the swim platform. My wife assists from the deck level by ensuring that the dog is guided up and over the stern rail so I don't snag her legs on it! A lightweight Rubbermaid container lid approximately 2 feet by 3 feet is all that's needed to cover the slots in the swim platform, allowing her a solid place to touch down. The line is unshackled and removed from the life vest and attached to one of the davits temporarily while we are ashore. Striper gets a dog treat, then hops into the dinghy and we're off. This method is safe and efficient . . . and best of all, Striper likes it!

One caution for dog owners. Don't just lift your dog with the boom and expect the dog to cooperate. Training is essential so the dog knows what to expect. We started by putting her in the vest, then manually lifting her a few inches off the deck. allowing her to hang while holding her. We rewarded her with a treat, petted her and verbally reinforced the good behavior. We repeated this several times so that she associated getting into the vest and being lifted with a fun and rewarding activity. Next, using the block and tackle, we lifted her higher to the level needed to get her over the stern rail. Again we reinforced the maneuver with a reward and repeated it several times. Finally, we went for broke and lifted her up, over and down, disconnected the apparatus and she hopped into the dinghy.

Your dog will soon learn that the process enables her to go with you in the dingy where more fun activity takes place, like exploring the land areas, beaches, the essential personal relief . . . and of course, all those dog treats!

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Life of a King: Cuba Gooding Jr. Stars in Chess Movie

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“Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.” This is the one-sentence description of IMDB's entry for Life of a King, a new film with chess playing an important role, starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Directed by Jake Goldberger, the film was released in cinemas in the U.S. on January 17th.

What kind of movie is Life of a King? Here's the synopsis from the official website:

Life of a King is the unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and reentry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of due to circumstances. From his daring introductory chess lessons to a group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens' first local chess competitions, this movie reveals his difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.

The main character in this new “chess movie”, Eugene Brown, is played by Cuba Gooding Jr. The actor is best known for his Oscar winning role in the film Jerry Maguire, where he plays American football player Rod Tidwell. One of his first roles was his portrayal of Tré Styles in the 1991 coming-of-age classic Boyz in the Hood. He also played in As Good as It Gets, What Dreams May Come, and the Oscar-nominated A Few Good Men. He can also be seen in a film that is currently in theaters: The Butler

Here's the official trailer of Life of a King:

The film, released by Millennium Entertainment, is based on a true story. Besides Cuba Gooding Jr, Life of a King stars Dennis Haysbert, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Thurston Hill, Chidi Ajufo, Jaida-Iman Benjamin, Rickey Brown, and Buda. The film premiered in June at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Jake Goldberger directed from a script he co-wrote with David Scott and Dan Wetzel. It hit U.S. theaters January 17th.

Chess.com's IM Danny Rensch "played a role" the film as well. Together with his friend and former partner IM David Pruess he spent “the better part of a few weeks” in Los Angeles, giving advice wherever they could about the chess part of the film (a big part!).

“In addition to working privately with the actors on their chess skills, to make the close up scenes (of which there are many) look as authentic as possible, we were also on call constantly to make sure every chess position, chess phrase, chess term, chess banner, etc., was 100% authentic.”

You can read about Danny's experience on his blog, and see lots of photos here! For example, he met with the real Eugene Brown, whose Big Chair Chess Club can be found hereYou can find Life of a King on iTunes here.

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  • 16 months ago

    good movie watched it :)

  • 16 months ago

    When I was a kid, chess was my passion, I love'd beating my weaker friends in chess.

  • 18 months ago

    I bought the movie. Now I have a bit of buyer's remorse. Let's just say it's not the strongest picture ever made. Cuba Gooding Jr., did the best he could, but with a script like that, not much could be done. Would have been better had Danny directed it.

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  • 19 months ago

    Chess is cool and allows you a chance to : bond, compete,plan,anticipate,defend,attack,win,loose,draw,make war,make friends,stay young, bridge gaps such as language,borders of all kinds... You feel adrenaline and satisfaction.

    CHESS BABY!!! I love this game!!!

  • 19 months ago

    I watched it tonight with my roommate.  Even though he doesn't play chess he thought it was a good movie, as do I.

  • 19 months ago

    Check out the movie "fresh". Also "revolver" with Jason stathom. Best chess movies ever!

  • 19 months ago

  • 19 months ago

    Seems like a pretty generic "how do I reech these kiidz" type film, to be honest - but it's nevertheless good to see chess in mainstream movies! Smile

  • 19 months ago

    @mattisks, I don't know abt you, but mving from 500 to 1878 in abt 3yrs is pretty good in my book. Thats an Elo increase of 400+ a yr for 3yrs. Thats at least IM talent.

    FIDE stats show that the average 1600 player has had 6yrs of active chess in their lives.

    Give her another 5yrs and she should be knocking on FM (2300+ strength). Which is much more than your online cheating a$$ will ever dream of:) Plus the exposure to intl tournaments and the Kasparov foundation's support, she may make IM or GM some day!

    Don't be cynical on me buoy, i'll get Yankee on yeer a$$, don't shun the Kenian flag buoy:)

    With a light heart bro no worries:)

  • 19 months ago

    1800 is any achievement?

  • 19 months ago

    I watched the movie through iTunes, and I enjoyed it.

  • 19 months ago

    Chess lovers...lol... relax, movies are about human stories, chess is just the setting in this particular one... the setting could be a ballet troupe or an bangladesh underwear factory for all we care, so relax and enjoy the movie...lol

    In Uganda there is this poor village girl (abt 15yrs) who got into chess thru the Kasparov foundation when she was 12yrs... (she is abt 1800 now! imagine the talent!!)... she lost a game in the Olympiad a game she thought she should win, she went into depression for a few weeks, thinking about the winning position that she lost. Now she is back and working hard at her chess. I wish one day I can make a small film abt her. But the story is not a chess story... chess is just the setting for her remarkable story.

  • 19 months ago

    will definitly be checking this out.... looks good

  • 19 months ago

    chess.com has its guest appearance in there haha

  • 19 months ago

    Great to hear they used expert opinions about anything related to chess in this movie.

  • 19 months ago

    This movie was entertaining for the whole family.  My wife enjoyed it, so did my kids.  It is already available for rent from itunes.

  • 19 months ago

    uh i can't really tell for sure cause the guy's arm is making it so we can't see all the pieces in the actual movie but I was disappointed when what seems like a clearly winning position was just blundered on the 2nd to last move by the main character :( otherwise great movie

    oh btw maybe I'm just retarded or the arm was indeed blocking view of some critical piece so don't take my word for it ^^

  • 19 months ago

    Think the movie has to be out for 6 months before you can actually buy it in stores.  Looks like a great movie that could inspire some young people and in reality save lives from many a mean city street.

  • 19 months ago

    Awesome. Definitely going to watch it soon.

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Representatives from Children of America, the new daycare center now setting up shop in the old Borders building at Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike, appeared before the Development Review Committee Tuesday night, Feb. 21, to introduce themselves and talk about their business.  The meeting was informational only because the  day care center is allowed by right under the city’s current zoning and is not seeking approval for a variance

Project manager Brad Parks answered questions from the committee on topics ranging from traffic and parking to building aesthetics and paint color, all in an informal setting.  Parks told the committee he was curious to get input on these and other issues.

Parks said he was very impressed with neighborhood.

“It’s just a beautiful little town, I love it,” said Parks.  He received a packet from Community Manager Celeste Hardester with the Germantown Avenue design guidelines.

Parks told the committee that there is a 14-week schedule to complete the work on the building, plus an additional 30 to 60 days past that for additional prep work.  He said the business should be open in mid-June.

The building offers 16,000 square feet of space and will be, according to Parks, the largest facility of the company’s 47 schools.  This will be their 9th Pennsylvania location.

The sign on the building will be linear, similar to what Borders did.  According to Parks it will run between the trim above the first floor windows, just below the second story dormers.  He said the sign would be turquoise and have their logo.

“It may not be what you’re looking for, but we’re definitely willing to consider all of your ideas,” he said.

Responding to concerns about where parents will pick up and drop off their children, Parks told the committee that children won’t simply be dropped off in the front of the building.  Instead, parents will walk in with their children and sign in with a swipe card.  Each drop off will take between 4 to 5 minutes.

“Everything is monitored as security is, obviously, very important to us,” Parks said.

He said the company has performed traffic studies that will be delivered to Hardester for consideration by the Traffic, Transportation, and Parking committee.

There are 19 spaces in the parking lot on the side of the building, two of which will often be occupied by buses.  Parks said he hopes most employees will use transit to get to work.  Parks expressed interest in offering a commuter benefit to employees that would allow pre-tax dollars to be used to pay for transit.

Unlike other locations, the playground for this facility will be located in the basement and not outside the building.  When the renovations are complete the basement will feature ten-foot high ceilings and padded walls.  The equipment will be specialized, similar to the kinds of ball pits seen at McDonald’s restaurants.

Aesthetics committee representative Carolyn Simmons expressed concern that glare from the interior fluorescent lighting would reflect out onto the street.  Parks said he plans to install a tempered inlay for the windows that will be tinted.  Parks told her the tint would prevent a lot of light from being visible on the street.  Parks said he has no plans to install any awnings on the exterior of the building.

Also on-hand were Dr. Vicki Folds, Vice President of Education and Professional Development, and Kylee Kline, business manager for the Northeast Region.  Dr. Folds writes the curriculum for all of Children of America’s schools.  Both she and Mr. Parks are headquartered in Florida.

Representing the business association, Rob Remus asked about how the school would market to the area.  Kline said that they would focus on a 5-mile radius around the school to target direct mailings and newspaper ads.  She said in her experience with other suburban locations, 75-80% of the student will come from this radius.

At full capacity, this school can handle  226 students.  This would require a full staff of 28.

“We’re a long-term neighbor, we want to be a good neighbor,” said Parks.

According to its website, Children of America is a Florida-based daycare and after-school care provider with 47 schools in 12 states.  Founded in 1999, their curriculums are “developed to accommodate key age ranges.”  The company is a subsidiary of World Wide Child Care Corp (WWCC).

The Development Review Committee suggested that Children of America also meet with the Traffic, Transportation, and Parking Committee, as well as a joint meeting of the Aesthetics and Historical Advisory Committees and they agreed.  Traffic, Transportation and Parking will meet Monday March 5th at 7:00pm in a location yet to be determined.


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Chevron has three technology companies that support our businesses in this effort: Chevron Energy Technology Company, Chevron Information Technology Company and Chevron Technology Ventures. The work that these companies do is integrated across Chevron, ensuring a strong alignment between the technologies we use and our business strategies.

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Paula Deen's first appearance since N-word scandal: 'Hi. I'm back!'

Paula Deen was moved to tears by a standing ovation she received in Texas this weekend at an event marking her first public appearance after a national uproar over her admitted use of the N-word.

Deen, 66, visibly shook and cried into a tissue as hundreds of welcoming fans chanted her name and shouted their love for the woman dubbed the Queen of Southern Cooking as she walked on stage at the Metro Cooking and Entertaining Show in Houston.

Deen told the crowd her appearance this weekend in the Lone Star State was not a coincidence -- it was a deliberate choice made after several months out of the public eye.

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"The one place that I would want to make my first step back out was Texas," Deen told the audience as she spoke in a halting voice, struggling to regain her composure. She added: "I'm so thankful and I'm so full of gratitude for all the love and encouragement that you all have shown me."

And then she got down to the business of cooking, including showing the audience how to weave strips of pastry dough into a lattice topping for their dish.

Later during the appearance, Deen approached one of the onstage cameras following her every move and playfully looked into the lens, uttering: "Hi! I'm back."

The appearance comes as Deen is slowly rehabilitating her image after suffering an astonishing fall from grace.

Deen was embroiled in a nasty racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee who worked at a restaurant co-owned by Deen and her brother. The employee, Lisa Jackson, said racial slurs and sexual innuendo were a common occurrence in that workplace. Additionally, Deen was portrayed as being racially insensitive herself. According to the allegations, Deen at one point suggested a plantation-themed wedding and talked about having a waitstaff made up of black men wearing plantation-era clothing.

As part of the legal proceedings, Deen was questioned about her own racial views. It was during this deposition that she admitting using the N-word. Deen qualified that she'd only used it once, and that it was decades ago and at a time when she'd just been held up at gunpoint by an African American man.

But those qualifications could hardly be heard above the headlines screaming that Deen had admitted using the racial slur.

The reaction among Deen's sponsors and business partners was swift. One by one, they scurried to cut ties, including Target, Walmart and even Food Network, the platform that helped make Deen one of the most recognizable figures in the food world. (Deen's recipes still appear on Food Network's website, and the network says her earlier shows will occasionally air in reruns.)

The lawsuit has since been settled and dismissed, and the accuser is now singing a different tune about Deen. Deen's legion of fans say she was treated unfairly by the media, and say she deserves a second chance.

What do you think? Do you want to see Deen back on TV with a new show?

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Phelps looks to put stamp on perhaps the greatest Olympic career ever

In Michael Phelps' telling, one of the greatest Olympic careers almost began with a skinny dip. It was the first trip out of the country for the kid from Rodgers Forge, and he gawked like a tourist — not at monuments or museums — but at the famous swimmers competing in Sydney.

"I was kind of just like, 'Wow, that's this person, that's that person, there he is, there she is. This is really cool,' " he said in a recent interview, channeling his wide-eyed 15-year-old self at the 2000 Games. "So I was not really focused on what I needed to do, what I was there to do."

He was so distracted, he forgot to tie his suit before the semifinals. While he escaped without a wardrobe malfuction — "Everything stayed together, so it was good" — he also failed to medal.

But Phelps didn't return to Baltimore empty-handed. Twelve years later, the innocent abroad at his first Olympics is now the veritable living legend heading to a fourth and final Games, having figured this out: To go big, you have to go small.

"I think that was just something I learned — having to prepare myself, make sure I did all the right things and pay attention to all the small things because in the end that's what made the big difference."

On Saturday, a day after the Opening Ceremonies for the London Games, the now 27-year-old Phelps will slouch into the Aquatic Centre for the first of his seven events. The crowd likely will go insane, fully aware that they are bearing witness to the final flourish atop something already quite extraordinary.

Phelps, though, will be somewhere inside his own head, in a place walled off by his headphones, the unreadable mask that is his game face and his singular focus. After a bit of housekeeping, toweling off his starting block and making sure the angled push-off segment isn't loose, he'll climb aboard. In the stillness that falls as swimmers and spectators alike anticipate the starting buzzer, Phelps will loosen up by swinging his arms, crossing them first in front then in back. They are so long and hyper-extended that he slaps his own back, a self-flagellation that cracks like a whip in the soon-to-be broken silence.

And then he'll take off, slicing through the air — and then the water.

The adage that you can never swim in the same river twice is certainly true for Phelps. He is an older swimmer now, but also a smarter one. There are competitors who have started to catch and even surpass him, particularly his main rival, Ryan Lochte, determined that London will host swimming's own version of the changing of the guard.

But if Phelps is swimming in vastly different waters these days, it's because he changed their course: No swimmer has ever brought more attention, or big-money sponsorships, to the sport, nor set the bar as high on what is possible.

As the number of opportunities to see him race dwindle, each rises in significance for those who collect them like baseball cards in the shoeboxes of their memories.

There are aficionados, for example, of his 200-meter freestyle in Beijing — his coach, Bob Bowman, first among them — who consider it his most technically perfect race. The most recent entry to the pantheon has to be the 200-meter individual medley in the Omaha trials, in which he and Lochte, in some sort of Vulcan body meld, matched stroke for stroke and seemingly breath for breath until Phelps somehow out-fingernailed him to the wall.

"Time slows down for him," Lenny Krayzelberg is convinced.

Krayzelberg, a four-time gold medalist in the 2000 and 2004 Games, will be in London for his former teammate's farewell to the sport. Phelps rises to the occasion better than any other athlete he's seen, Krayzelberg says, seizing the moment and controlling rather than submitting to the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the Games.

"I don't think I've ever seen someone perform better on the biggest stage of the world than Michael," he said. "Maybe he has an extra gear."

Improving with age

Indeed, the wonder of Phelps these days is no longer that of the raw talent, the child prodigy who seemed to break world records as a matter of course. It is that now, even as an older swimmer, and one who has many more distractions and fewer things left to prove, that he still finds a way to win.

Phelps arrived at the trials in Omaha late last month feeling what he called less "peppy" after six weeks of altitude training in Colorado, and he had gone there directly from a Grand Prix race in Charlotte and an Olympics media event in Dallas. In press conference after press conference, he talked about getting off to a slow start in one race, not hitting his turns as powerfully in another, popping up to check out the scoreboard instead of pouncing to a fast finish in yet another.

"It was a pretty crappy first 50" meters, went a typical self-assessment after one race, "and a pretty terrible finish."

And yet, he won that race, the 100-meter butterfly in which he was sixth in the first lap but, somehow, passed those five swimmers to finish first. In fact, he won every race but one, the 400-meter individual medley, and even then, his second-place finish was all he needed to qualify to swim it in London.

He has always been something of a closer — thrilling, last-fraction-of-a-second victories being something of a trademark — but now, what the world is watching for is how Phelps will finish his competitive career. The fact he is opting for a fourth Games, when he could have ridden off into the sunset at the very peak of his record-breaking eight gold medal sweep in Beijing, both impresses and baffles. What could possibly be left for him?

"I just want to be able to look at it five years, 10years down the road, if I can look back and say I did everything that I wanted to do then that's all that matters," Phelps said during an interview in Omaha after the trials. "I have goals and things that I want to accomplish, that's the only thing I'm after right now."

What those goals are, Phelps refuses to specify. The Phelps of today is something of a cypher — or, at least, a political consultant's dream: He invariably stays on message, returning repeatedly to the same set of mostly bland generalities. It is no doubt a soul-preserving measure when you're asked some variant of the same question over and over again, but it also reflects a certain discpline and wariness that Phelps has developed over the years when it comes to his public face.

After years in the spotlight, whether during his Olympic highs or his personal lows — most notoriously, the tabloid photo of him hitting a marijuana bong — Phelps now tends to deflect personal questions and guards what privacy he can.

But his friends say he is a happier person these days, compared to when he was more single-mindedly driven.

"I feel like in the past four years he has mellowed a lot more," said Allison Schmitt, 22, who has trained with Phelps since she was a high school student in Michigan, where the Baltimore swimmer had moved with Bowman in the years before the Beijing Games.

"He's a lot more laid back now," said Schmitt, a rising star in the sport poised for a breakout Games. "He already has experienced every possible situation, so I think he knows how to react to whatever happens."

Phelps would point to Schmitt as the reason for his more relaxed self, saying she lightens up the atmosphere with her jokes and singing, N'Sync making a recent appearance. In their off-hours during training, they and other swimmers will play board games — Phelps is apparently quite good at Scattergories — watch movies and talk shop.

"He's just pretty normal outside the pool," agrees Chris Brady, his roommate this past year in Baltimore. "If you came to the house, we would be watching sports or playing video games like any other guys" in their 20s.

Brady, 24, a Delaware native whom Bowman recruited to the University of Michigan when he was coaching there, moved to Baltimore after graduation to continue training at North Baltimore Aquatic Club. To help him save money and since they both were on the road so much, Phelps invited Brady to move into a spare bedroom and join a household that included Herman, the bulldog the Baltimore swimmer got after Athens — his mom Debbie having promised him a dog if he won gold — and the more recently adopted Stella, a Catahoula mix that he fell in love with while filming a Today show segment.

For Brady, swimming with Phelps was like a golfer getting to play with Tiger Woods: You can't help but get better, he said. But it was something of a two-way street as well — as Phelps' primary training partner for speed work, Brady pushed and "made him work for it."

Brady watched from afar, but with particular insight, the brouhaha over swimmer Tyler Clary's recent takedown of Phelps. Like most, Brady, who trained with both swimmers at Michigan, was baffled that Clary could tell a columnist at his hometown paper, The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., that Phelps didn't work very hard and could have accomplished so much more.

Still Brady, who retired from swimming after the Omaha trials, said he could see what was behind the remarks.

"I think it was probably frustration," Brady said. "I don't think it's wrong for Tyler to think he works harder than Michael. Then you mix in not being able to beat him, and the frustration boils over."

The incident, for which Clary has apologized, provided a window into what it's been like to swim at an elite level during an era dominated by Phelps. He has long said that one of his goals is to elevate the sport beyond the once-every-four-years spotlight that it has enjoyed in the past, and he has succeeded in large part.

Swimmers marvel at how much attention they now draw — the TV coverage of not just the Olympic races, but the Grand Prix series and the qualifying trials in Omaha as well. The trials even got the nightly Bob Costas treatment this year. Crowds have swelled, in numbers and enthusiasm — at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where the newly selected Olympic swim team held a training camp before heading across the Atlantic, an announcement that practice would be open one morning drew hundreds to line before dawn, in the rain, to make sure they got a seat.

His biggest rival

This year, swim fans have a particularly engaging reality show to follow, their very own Amazing Races, featuring the rivalry of Phelps and Lochte.

Lochte offers the new face that magazine art directors were hungry for after two Olympic cycles of all Phelps all the time. If you could never tell Men's Journal fromMen's Healthapart on the newsstand, this month didn't help with both featuring the Florida swimmer with the surfer-dude affect.

They are mostly friendly rivals, often teaming up after hours during meets for hotel room games of spades, usually against sprinters Cullen Jones and Ricky Berens. In cards as in the pool, their equally competitive but differing styles come out, Berens said.

"Ryan doesn't think at all," he said, "and Michael overthinks."

Lochte is coming off of a series of wins in international competitions over Phelps, who admittedly lost his focus and drive in the wake of the Beijing Games. But Phelps bested him at the trials, beating him in all but one final, making their two rematches in London, in the 400- and 200-IMs, can't-miss events.

But if Lochte poses a threat to Phelps' supremacy, he seems to also have energized him. There is a sense that Phelps, whether by personality or his status as head and shoulders above the rest of the pack, might feel the loneliness of being on top and relishes some company, even in the form of a rival, up there.

Neither is much for trash-talking. The closest Lochte gets is saying London is "his" time, Phelps won't even go that far — and, in fact, hardly needs to.

"Michael doesn't need to say anything," Krayzelberg said. "They know they're racing the best swimmer in the world."

Phelps will indicate, though, that he thinks Lochte made a strategic misstep in the trials by swimming three races in a single day, the dreaded triple that Phelps himself will avoid in London. Although he emerged from trials on track to swim the same eight events in London that he swept in Beijing, he dropped one race, the 200-free, in favor of more rest time between the grueling 400 IM on the first day of competition and the high-profile 4x100-meter free relay on the second.

While a concession to age and, in his post-Beijing funk, a later start to preparing for London, the decision lifts the onus of Phelps having to compete against himself, or rather, his greatest-hits album of 2008. Rather than having to match his younger self, whatever he accomplishes in London has a better chance of being judged on its own.

But what Phelps wants to do in London remains something of a mystery. If the 2004 and 2008 Games were about chasing, and ultimately surpassing, Mark Spitz' record of seven gold medals in a single Olympics, his current goals are less easily quantified, at least for public consumption.

He will allow that he is motivated by firsts. He could, for example, become the first male swimmer to earn gold in the same event in three Olympics by winning his first event, the 400 IM. And given that he'll have two more chances to do that, he conceivably could three-peat the three-peat.

And by winning just three more medals, of any color, he could supplant Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina's record of 18 to become the most decorated Olympian ever.

Given his performances this past season, both goals seem in reach, although the ever-cautious Phelps would say that in any competition, it's a matter of who shows up and delivers.

By now, he has sweated all of the details, studying videos of his races to find ways of shaving a fraction of a second off a turn, or buying one with a faster start. He has swum with his goggles blackened out, to make sure he can swim through darkness — which of course is what happened in the 200-meter butterfly in Beijing, when water flooded in and blinded him during the final laps.

Even when he's not swimming, he's working, or at least, his body is working: he wears a compression suit to help his body recover. At home in Baltimore, he has slept in a hyperbaric chamber to make his lungs work as hard as if he were at 10,000 feet in altitude.

Still, the Phelps of today is less the single-minded Phelps of the past; they are in fact "like two different people," his coach Bowman said.

"One was like a machine — well, half-man, half-machine," Bowman said earlier this year, "and one is like a man."

The machine didn't take a single day off from the pool between the ages of 13 and 18, a glutton for the kind of punishing workouts that produced his record gold medal haul and shattered world records right and left. The man is the one who after 2008 blew off practices for the golf course or the poker table and left him newly vulnerable to the Lochtes of the world.

The hard-driving Bowman jokes that he liked the machine better. But even he views these final Games as not so much for the record books — Phelps has already filled more than his share of pages — but for the swimmer himself.

"He has worked so hard," Bowman says of the years of training that have taken Phelps to this final Olympics. "I'd like him to just enjoy it more."

Medal Count

Michael Phelps will swim in his fourth Olympics in London. He has won 14 golds and two bronze medals. He needs three medals to pass gymnast Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union, who won 18 medals (9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze) from 1956-64. Here is how Phelps has fared in three Olympics and what his finals schedule is like for London:

2000 Sydney Olympics — 15 years old

No medals, best finish is 5th in the 200 butterfly.

2004 Athens Olympics — 19 years old

Gold: 100-meter butterfly

Gold: 200 butterfly

Gold: 200 individual medley

Gold: 400 IM

Gold: 4 X 200 freestyle relay

Gold: 4 X 100 medley relay

Bronze: 200 freestyle

Bronze: 4 X 100 freestyle relay

2008 Beijing Olympics — 23 years old

Gold: 100 butterfly

Gold: 200 butterfly

Gold: 200 freestyle

Gold: 200 IM

Gold: 400 IM

Gold: 4 X 100 freestyle relay

Gold: 4 X 200 freestyle relay

Gold: 4 X 100 medley relay

2012 London Olympics — 27 years old

Schedule of final events he is entered in:

July 28: 400 IM

July 29: 4 X 100 freestyle relay

July 31: 200 butterfly & 4 X 200 freestyle relay

Aug. 2: 200 IM

Aug. 3: 100 butterfly

Aug. 4: 4 X 100 medley relay

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Currency has been as foreign as the languages in the annual Paper Cup tennis tournament.

What: Annual Pueblo tennis tournament.

Where: City Park Tennis Complex.

When: Today-Sunday; Semifinals at 9 a.m. Saturday; finals at 9 a.m. Sunday.

Who: 108 amateur and professional players.

At stake: $2,800 in prize money for men’s and women’s open singles.

Pairings for the 35th annual Paper Cup that begins today and runs through Sunday at the City Park tennis complex. Please note time and date for each match:

Men’s Open Singles

First round, today

Alan Nunez Aguilera, bye; Beau Fresquez vs. Michael Driksen, 5:30 p.m.; Richard Pollara, bye; Ben Rode, bye; Javier Martinez, bye; Chris Roman vs. Steven Alcala, 5:30 p.m.; Eric Rivera, bye; Patrick Perrin, bye; Dante Alcala vs. Tommy A. Chavez, 5:30 p.m.; Juan Regalado, bye; Dakota Stupar, bye; Milos Koprivica, bye; Dakota Burns vs. Caio Poitena, 5:30 p.m.; Jonathan Goodman, bye; Jacob Spreyer vs. Brendon Bravo, 7:30 p.m.; Marko Rak, bye.

Second round

Nunez Aguilera vs. Fresquez-Dirksen winner, 11 a.m.; Pollara vs. Rode, 11 a.m.; Martinez vs. Roman-Alcala winner, 11 a.m.; Rivera vs. Perrin, 11 a.m.; Regalado vs. Alcala-Chavez winner, 11 a.m.; Stupar vs. Koprivica, 11 a.m.; Goodman vs. Burns-Poitena winner, 11 a.m.; Rak vs. Spreyer-Bravo winner, 11 a.m.

Men’s 3.0 Singles

James Sullinger vs. Diego Hernandez, 5:30 p.m. today; Eric Bedwell vs. James Sullinger, 9 a.m., Saturday; Hernadez vs. Bedwll, 9 a.m., Sunday.

Men’s 3.5 Singles

Quarterfinals, Friday

Jeff Voltattorni vs. Brad Dvis, 7 p.m.; Dennis Brock vs. James Sullinger, 7 p.m.; Stan Nakama vs. Daniel Trujillo, 5:30 p.m.; Robert DeVine vs. Mark Porcher, 7 p.m.

Men’s 4.0 singles

Michael diStasio vs. Rick Thomas, 7 p.m, Friday; Nile Knez vs. Michael Bhagat, 7 p.m., Friday; diStasio vs. Bhagat, 9 a.m., Saturday; Thomas vs. Knex, 9 a.m., Saturday; diStasio vs. Knez, 9 a.m., Sunday; Thomas vs. Bhagat, 9 a.m., Sunday.

Men’s Open Doubles

Chavez-Aguilera, bye; Fresquez-Lucero vs. Alcala-Stupar, 7:30 p.m. today; Poitena-Rode vs. Alcala-Burns, 7:30 p.m., today; Beauvais-Tapia vs. Martinez-Regalado, 7:30 p.m. today.

Men’s 4.0 doubles

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Father-Son Doubles

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Meagan Monaghan, bye; Megan Moore vs. Sarah Megilligan, 11 a.m., Friday; Andrea Meneses, bye; Brittany Vail vs. Deidra Roque, 11 a.m., Friday; Kristin Fudalla vs. Brooke Trevithick, 11 a.m., Friday; Martina Rosker, bye; Hanni Deters vs. Sarah Brown, 11 a.m., Friday; Gabriela Chaparro, bye.

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Women’s 3.0 Singles

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Women’s 4.0 Doubles

Berzins-Sanchez vs. Emerson-Lange, 5:30 p.m., Friday; Berzins-Sanchez vs. Lewis-Lotspeich, noon, Saturday; Emerson-Lange vs. Lewis-Lotspeich, 11 a.m., Sunday.

Women’s 3.5 Doubles

Ertel-Henry, bye; Abbott-Chavez vs. Gust-Price, 5:30 p.m., Friday; diStasio-Spangler, bye; Bayne-Self, bye.

Women’s 3.0 Doubles

Calhoun-Clark vs. Bedwell-Brown, 5:30 p.m., today; Holman-Stowell vs. Bole-Brock, 5:30 p.m, today; Calhoun-Clark vs. Bole-Brock, noon, Saturday; Bedwell-Brown vs. Holman-Stowell, noon, Saturday; Calhoun-Clark vs. Holman-Stowell, 11 a.m., Sunday; Bole-Brock vs. Bedwell-Brown, 11 a.m., Sunday.

Mother-Daughter Doubles

Madden-Madden vs. Hinrichs-Hinrichs, 11 a.m., Sunday (final).

Mixed Open Doubles

Fudalla-Perrin vs. Drummond-Komma, 7:30 p.m., today; Roque-Tapia vs. Chaparro-Martinez, 5:30 p.m., today; Meneses-Regalado vs. Barbero-Stanton, 5:30 p.m., today; Denney-Margison vs. Rak-Rosker, 5:30 p.m., today.

Mixed 4.0 Doubles

Luscombe-Nugent, bye; Price-Wall vs. Trujillo-Trujillo, 7:30 p.m., Friday; diStasio-diStasio, bye; Bricking-Merkoulova, bye; diStasio-diStasio vs. Bricking-Merkoulova, noon, Saturday.

Foreign flavor OF PAPER CUP

Name: Alan Nunez Aguilera

Age: 18

Hometown: Puebla, Mexico

Events entered: Men’s Open Singles, Men’s Open Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: Ranked in the ATP’s top 1,000 worldwide in singles, in the top 600 in doubles.

Biggest moment in tennis: Playing for Mexico in the Davis Cup and playing in the junior U.S. and Australian Opens.

Name: Javier Martinez

Age: 24

Hometown: Chihuahua, Mexico

Events entered: Men’s Open Singles, Men’s Open Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: University of Chihuahua

Biggest moment in tennis: Earning a college scholarship and being in the finals of the Paper Cup several years ago.

Name: Rodrigo Regalado

Age: 25

Hometown: Chihuahua, Mexico

Events entered: Men’s Open Singles, Men’s Open Doubles, Open Mixed Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: University of Chihuahua; coach, Club Britania in Mexico

Biggest moment in tennis: Making the quarterfinals of a major university tournament in Sinaloa.

Name: Gabriela Chaparro

Age: 20

Hometown: Chihuahua, Mexico

Events entered: Women’s Open Singles, Women’s Open Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: Tec de Monterrey

Biggest moment in tennis: Winning the Paper Cup Women’s Open Singles in 2013.

Name: Andrea Meneses

Age: 26

Hometown: Chihuahua, Mexico

Events entered: Women’s Open Singles, Open Doubles, Open Mixed Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: University of Chihuahua

Biggest moment in tennis: Winning the Paper Cup and reaching the quarterfinals of a college tournament in Sinaloa.

Name: Martina Rosker

Age: 23

Hometown: Maribor, Slovenia

Events entered: Women’s Open Singles, Open Mixed Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: Universty of Cyprus

Biggest moment in tennis: Semifinals of a major tournament in Slovenia; being ranked as high as No. 3 in Slovenia juniors; reaching a singles final for Cyprus.

Name: Marko Rak

Age: 19

Hometown: Maribor, Slovenia

Events entered: Men’s Open Singles, Open Mixed Doubles

Prep/College/Pro experience: Member of several clubs in Slovenia, including prestigious Klub Branik.

Biggest moment in tennis: Reaching the quarterfinals of a professional tournament in Zagreb; reaching as high as a No. 3 ranking in Slovenia juniors.

When the 35th edition begins its four-day run today at City Park, foreigners could be banking on some currency.

For the first time in the tournament’s rich history, bragging rights — whether they are spoken in English, Spanish, Slovenian or even Portuguese — come with cash. The men’s and women’s open singles champions will pocket $1,000 — each.

“It’s equal pay for men and women,” tournament director Norm Vail said proudly. “We’re trying to attract better players from throughout the state or from wherever, so we decided to offer prize money. The total purse is $2,800. You won’t get rich, but it’s a nice payday. Semifinal losers get $250 each and even the losers in the Round of 16 get paid.”

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Great Wall of China1987Cultural HeritageBeijingMausoleum of the First Qin Emperor1987Cultural HeritageXi'an
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sui 歲 "traditional lunar age"

The traditional lunar age calculation operates with "void years" (xusui 虛歲). This method uses calendric years to indicate the age of a person. When born, a person is one "year" (sui 歲) old, not because he or she has spent 9 months in the womb of the mother, but because the current year is the first calendric year the person experiences. With the shift to the next calendric year (according to the Chinese calendar), the person in question is two "years" (sui) old, even if he or she was born only a week before the Chinese New Year. The consequence is that the difference between the lunar age and the real age (shisui 實歲, measured in absolute time) can be as much as one, in many cases even two "years". A person in a traditional text, having the age of 20 sui, is thus 19 or 18 years (absolute) old.

Luo Zhufeng 羅竹風 (ed. 1991). Hanyu da cidian 漢語大詞典, vol. 8, p. 814. Beijing: Hanyu da cidian chubanshe.

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