of fresh pork had toughened in the cooking. (Seasoning was generally uneven — the escargots also yearned for salt, while the ratatouille garnish on the lamb chops was over-salted.)

Desserts were a mixed bag too. The chocolate mousse cake and cheesecake were rather dry, and the apples in my tarte Tatin had cooked to applesauce, but the white chocolate crème brûlée was divine.

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Sometimes State Street mixes the two cultures: an American-style crab cake, dense with seafood, was served atop a mound of that French standard, celery rémoulade (the latter lacked a bit of mustard). The duck à l’orange — a hefty portion of roasted breast and leg — was sauced with a sprightly orange sauce, and accompanied by wild rice.

And there are innovations:his later years in Pakistan.
Martin Kämpchen is a Santiniketan-based translator of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems from Bengali to German, author, journalist and social worker.

Tan Chung did his Ph D from Visva Bharati University and went on hold important academic positions as a Chinese scholar. He was conferred with Desikottama, Padma Bhusan and other awards.
Xu Beihong,  one of the pioneers of Chinese modern art, was visiting professor of Chinese fine arts at Santiniketan in 1939.
Luther Carrington Goodrich from Columbia University came as visiting professor of Sinology at Santiniketan in 1953-54.
Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya, the Bangladeshi exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, was trained at Santiniketan. She was conferred the Independence Day Award, the highest civilian award in Bangladesh in 2016.

Jan Yun-hua, a researcher and writer, did his PhD from Cheena


FILE - This undated file photo from the Weld County Sheriff's Office shows Chris Watts, who pleaded guilty in the deaths of his pregnant wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste. Documents show Watts has acknowledged to investigators that he strangled his wife in their bed then drove her body and the girls to a worksite, where he smothered the girls using a blanket. Watts made the statements during a prison interview with detectives three months after he was sentenced to life in prison. Authorities said they believe the grim details represent Watts’ first full confession.(Weld County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

FILE - This undated file photo from the Weld County Sheriff's Office shows Chris Watts, who pleaded guilty in the deathsof his pregnant wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste. Documents show Watts has acknowledged to investigators that he strangled his wife in their bed then drove her body and the girls to a worksite, where he smothered the girls using a blanket. Watts made the statements during a prison interview with detectives three months after he was sentenced to life in prison. Authorities said they believe the grim details represent Watts’ first full confession.(Weld County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man strangled his pregnant wife in their bed before driving her body and their two daughters to a worksite where he smothered the girls with a blanket, according to records of an interview he gave police from


Watts, 33, expressed no hesitation about talking.

Watts previously told police he killed his wife after she strangled their daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, but he acknowledged in the interview that was a lie and he was solely responsible for the killings. He said detectives were the first to mention that Shanann may have killed their children and he “just went with it.”

Watts said he strangled 34-year-old Shanann in their bed on Aug. 13 after he told her their marriage was over and she said he would never see their children again. Watts said his wife correctly suspected that he was having an affair, but he did not tell her about his ongoing relationship with a co-worker before killing her.

Authorities have speculated that Watts wanted a chance tostart over with the woman. Watts told investigators in February that the woman “never asked him to get rid of his family” but their relationship may have “contributed” to his actions.

After he strangled Shanann, Watts said Bella came into their bedroom clutching a blanket and asked what was wrong with her mother. Watts claimed his wife wasn’t feeling well.

Their daughter continued watching as Watts wrapped the body in a bed sheet and began crying when he pulled it down the stairs of their home, he said.

Watts said he put her body on the floor of his truck’s back seat. When he went inside, Celeste also was awake.

Watts said he put the girls into the backseat of the truck, where they occasionally napped on each other’s laps as he


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An autopsy of "Happy Days" star Erin Moran showed that she probably died of late-stage cancer, authorities said Monday.

Moran, 56, was found dead in her Indiana home on Saturday. Investigators from Harrison County concluded that she "likely succumbed to complications of stage 4 cancer," the county's sheriff and coroner said in a joint statement. They did not say what type of cancer Moran had.

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Related: Erin Moran, Who Played Joanie on ‘Happy Days,’ Dead at 56

The actress played Joanie Cunningham for most of the sitcom's decade-long run in the 1970s and 1980s. She wasonly 13-years-old when the show began in 1974.

The sitcom was set in the 1950s in Milwaukee and Moran played the little sister of Richie Cunningham, who was played by Ron Howard.

"I'll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens," Howard wrote on Twitter.

She also starred in a spinoff, "Joanie Loves Chachi," with Scott Baio.

Moran also made appearances in "Murder, She Wrote," and "The Love Boat."


from circling around behind the Union line.

The film shows Chamberlain surrounded by his staff as they react to the command. They all are stunned by what seems a foolhardy charge, nearly unprotected, into certain death. Chamberlain himself appears to be perfectly aware of the unusual nature of his own order. His mood, as much as his decision, seems to illustrate something dangerous in his character. In the book, however, it is different.

In the novel, Chamberlain is described as making the obvious choice. His options are limited. His men are out of ammunition, and his requests for more bullets haven’t been answered. If he retreats—as he has been ordered not to do, under any circumstances—shifting to the right, towards the rest of the Union line, the enemy will notonly take the hill, but will sweep behind the Union line and attack them from behind. If he stands pat, he and his men will likely be slaughtered.

His only option is to tell the men to fix bayonets. They will be armed only with those, against an infantry armed with guns (and possibly also a cavalry armed with swords), but this would be their situation in any event. What he does that is unusual is order them to take the offensive (unplanned by his own superiors), and charge down the hill. He tells them to sweep to the right, pushing the enemy across the front of the remaining Union guns. He has heard of the maneuver in his training to be an officer but has never seen it


done. His troops end up sweeping well across the front of the line, taking large numbers prisoners. They may well have startled the enemy as much as they did their own side.

It’s only after the battle is over that Chamberlain realizes that what he did was unusual. He knew the battle could not be won unless he ordered his men to charge downhill, so he ordered his men to charge downhill. Most experienced officers, though, as he discovers, would probably not have done the same. His reason for acting as he did, in giving such a risky order, is not so much that he was a college professor as that he was inexperienced. He probably acted more as a young man would, just out of officer training school,of information for the analysis conducted in this paper.

For rabies, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis, the criteria used was evidence of the presence of the disease over a three year period (2005 to 2007) because the epidemiological situation may vary in a short period of time and elimination programs are in place with updated information for most areas. For trachoma and schistosomiasis, the epidemiological situation usually does not vary in short periods and there is a lack of periodic information for many countries; the presence of the disease is based on surveys conducted over a longer interval of years. For this reason, the criterion used was evidence of the presence of the disease over the 10 year period between 1998 to 2007. A database was created with the information


without access to improved sanitation, that is, 15% of school-age children in urban areas and 55% in rural areas. In estimated numbers, this indicates that, for 2007, 12.9 million school-age children in urban areas and 13.4 million school-age children in rural areas, a total of 26.3 million school-age children in the LAC Region, were at high risk of infection by STH and therefore in need periodic deworming. According to PAHO\'s database on STH, the reported coverage reached in 2007 was 8.6 million presumably at-risk school-age children, or 32.7% of the estimated total population of school-age children at risk. Thus the treatment coverage gap was 17.7 million children (67.3% unreached). Looking at coverage targets based on the World Health Assembly Resolution 54.19 (2001) which set a benchmark of atAssociation Football Club Ann Arbor are proud to announce that the club have joined USL League Two ahead of the 2020 season. The club will join the Great Lakes Division in the Central Conference. The club looks forward to competing in the third-tier of the USL league set-up, the country’s top pre-professional league.

“The move to USL2 is an exciting new chapter for our club,” said Head Coach Eric Rudland.

“The competition will present a welcome new challenge for our players and staff in terms of preparing to play new rivals and shifting how we go about building our roster. The standard of play in the Midwest is extremely high, so we are working hard to enter the league on competitive terms.”

On the move, co-owner Rishi Narayan said, “While we


years existence. The side have finished in the top two in each of the four years spent in the NPSL’s Great Lakes Division and helped found and compete in the Great Lakes Premier League in 2015, the club’s first year of existence.

AFC Ann Arbor be joining USL2’s 2019 National Champion, Flint City Bucks (formerly known as the Michigan Bucks), as the second team from the state in the Great Lakes Division. Prior to relocating to Flint in 2019, the Bucks and Ann Arbor met just once, in the first round of the 2017 U.S. Open Cup, dropping a tight 1-0 contest to the historic club.

Fans can expect the same amount of home matches for the men, continuing their May-July schedule. 2020 Season Memberships are now on sale, whichthe league while securing two Great Lakes Conference Championships, two Midwest Region Finals appearances and producing the 2018 National Player of the Year, in Joseph Stanley Okumu (who went on to become a USL record transfer as he know plays in the top division in Sweden). In just five years, the men’s team has produced sixteen professional players and have dedicated significant resources and energy to creating opportunities for their players to push on. The move to USL2 will only enhance these opportunities as AFCAA now have a direct #Path2Pro.

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USL League Two is poised to make elite pre-professional soccer more accessible than ever for elite collegiate soccer players and others with amateur status in the 2020 season. In addition to valuable consistency in competition and an emphasis


Bulgaria marks on Saturday the 1150th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity and the 1145th anniversary of the establishment of an autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church also observes on Saturday the feast day of Saint Tsar Boris I the Baptiser, the medieval ruler, who converted Bulgaria to Christianity.

The celebrations, which will be held in the Eparchy of Varna and Veliki Preslav, will be attended by Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev, daily Dnevnik reports.

There will be representatives of all Orthodox churches - the patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Cyprus and Greece.

Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte will hold a divine liturgy together with the Bulgarian metropolitan bishops and the representatives of the other Orthodox churches in the Great Basillica in Pliska.

After the service, the Order ofa hierarchical structure as they are identified, and the structure is organized by source, the total risk exposure to the project can be more easily understood, and planning for the risk more easily accomplished.

Templates for creating a Risk Breakdown Structure

The concept of the RBS is new. The PMBoK (2004), barely references its use; however, the PMI Standards team has incorporated the RBS in the Practice Standard for Risk Management (draft for release in 2009). The PMBoK provides an example graphic of the RBS in Chapter 11, Figure 11.4. This reference has as major topics: Technical, External, Organizational, and Project Management. Another source  provides the following major topics: Technical, Management, Organizational, External, and Project Management. Dr. David Hillson, in the proceedings of the Project Management Institute Annual


In a statement on Sunday, Mr Khan called the attack an act of terrorism.

He praised the "initial response by security guards and security forces" for preventing greater loss of life.

At least one hotel security guard was confirmed dead by the military on Saturday, which said all hotel guests were safely evacuated.

It was unclear if the newly announced casualties were civilians, hotel guards or security forces.

A Baluch separatist group, the Baluch Liberation Army, has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying four of its fighters were involved.

The same separatist group in 2018 attacked a Chinese consulate in the major southern city of Karachi, triggering a shootout in which all three insurgents, two police officers and two civilians were killed.

China is helping Pakistan to build a modern port in Gwadar, 600kilometers (373 miles) west of Karachi. The Pearl Continental hotel is located near the port.

Gwadar lies in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, the scene of a low-level insurgency by separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural gas and mineral resources.

Pakistan says it has quelled the insurgency, but violence has continued. The latest attack came weeks after Islamabad claimed that a group of militants crossed the border from neighboring Iran and killed 14 security officials when they were on their way to Gwadar in buses. Pakistan at the time blamed a Baluch separatist group, Raji Aajoi Sangar, for the killings.


industry sector as ammonia gas is used for a wide range of products such as fertiliser, bleach, cleaning agents and in WW2, it was used to make explosives.
Lets go off on a tangent for a moment:

In WW1 the Germans had very little resources due to British ships blocking Germany's allies from providing them materials. This meant that they had to produce great quantities of ammonia themselves as they desperately needed it to make explosives. Thankfully German chemistry, Fritz Haber, created the Haber process which allow the Germans to mass produce ammonia. It is estimated that WW1 was prolonged by 2 years due to the creation of the Haber process. Haber later received the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his production process of ammonia and 'contribution to agriculture'.

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gives no mechanism whereby one could be constructed. Certain constructive proofs exist, but they tend to require highly complicated (i.e. fractal) functions, and thus are not suitable for modeling approaches. Therefore, the Generalized Additive Model drops the outer sum, and demands instead that the function belong to a simpler class.

where  is a smooth monotonic function. Writing  for the inverse of , this is traditionally written as

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When this function is approximating the expectation of some observed quantity, it could be written as

Which is the standard formulation of a Generalized Additive Model. It was then shown that the backfitting algorithm will always converge for these functions.

Generality

The GAM model class is quite broad, given that smooth function is a rather broad category. For example, a covariateb = gam(y ~ s(x) + s(z))
In common with most R modelling functions gam expects a model formula to be supplied, specifying the model structure to fit. The response variable is given to the left of the ~ while the specification of the linear predictor is given to the right. gam sets up bases and penalties for the smooth terms, estimates the model including its smoothing parameters and, in standard R fashion, returns a fitted model object, which can then be interrogated using various helper functions, such as summary, plot, predict, and AIC.

This simple example has used several default settings which it is important to be aware of. For example a Gaussian distribution and identity link has been assumed, and the smoothing parameter selection criterion was GCV. Also


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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) on Jun 06, 2002 Satoshi Kunsai (2074) added(SNES) on Jun 06, 2002

Recently, famine and drought have plagued Hyrule. When all seemed lost, a mysterious wizard,hours to program. (Source: Nintendo, World Features Syndicate)To add to the evidence of the game's popularity and longevity: When Nintendo Power retired their Top Games list for the SNES,had remained number 1 on the chart for more than five consecutive years.In various homes across Hyrule, there are pictures of our favorite plumber, Mario on the North wall of each home.The Japanese version of the game was released on November 21, 1991. Exactly seven years to the day later, the N64 game Ocarina of Time , was released in the U.S.The English translation of the Japanese title is "The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods".


Orb sees his way clear to Derby win

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Short name, long quest. Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey has a resume as long as the legendary Churchill Downs home stretch, but in 37 years the Kentucky native had not found the winner's circle in the Kentucky Derby.

The Phipps family, whose patriarch, Henry Phipps, Jr., was a childhood friend and neighbor of Andrew Carnegie in Pittsburgh, has had six generations of storied history owning and breeding horses -- but never a victory in the sport's most famous race.

But Saturday all that changed as Orb, a bay colt owned and bred by the Ogden Phipps Stable and Stuart Janney III and trained by McGaughey, won one for the good guys. He ended what Churchill Downs vicepresident and Derby historian John Asher called a "patient quest" with a patient trip, rallying six-wide from 17th place in the 19-horse field to take a 2 1/2-length victory over a sloppy, sealed track in the 139th running of the race.

Before a crowd of 151,616 pelted all day by a steady rain, there weren't many dry eyes -- there wasn't much dry anything -- as McGaughey and the colt's connections made their way to the winner's circle. And as the Orb team sat together at the post-race news conference, the number of years of striving represented in front of the cameras was a poignant reminder of the difficulty of achieving a Derby victory.

"I'm a little emotional," said McGaughey, who made a point of only coming to the Derby


Maybe one day when I settle down I'll be able to."

Joel Rosario, a 28-year-old jockey from the Dominican Republic who grew up using horses as much for transportation as recreation, continued a torrid hot steak. He won the Dubai World Cup earlier this year aboard Animal Kingdom and has been the leading rider at Del Mar, Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. He navigated a shaky start and chose the wide move to bring Orb home in 2:02.89 for the mile and a quarter.

Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps, age 72, said, "I started coming around here in 1957 with my grandmother when she had Bold Ruler . . . It's really the culmination of horse racing, and I'm thrilled to be here."

Stuart Janney, the first cousin of Phipps, owns Orb,along with Phipps' children.

"This horse's bloodline goes back to our grandmother, and Dinny's father was very instrumental in getting me to take over my parents' horses 20-some years ago," Janney said. "So I couldn't be more delighted that we're doing this together."

The race's early pace was quick, set by the Todd Pletcher-trained Palace Malice, who ripped through the opening quarter-mile in 22.57 seconds. Rosario steadied Orb after an awkward start and tucked him in four-wide early.

"I was really far back," Rosario said. "I said hopefully he can go faster than that. I was saying maybe I was too far back, but it was so easy."

He angled farther outside after six furlongs, then made a bold move just before the stretch. He caught the leaders in midstretch and drew


away. Longshot Golden Soul finished second for trainer Dallas Stewart and Pletcher's Revolutionary, ridden by Calvin Borel was third.

But his connections weren't the only ones vying for history. Rosie Napravnik, aboard Mylute, fell short in a bid to become the first woman rider to win the race, but her fifth-place finish was the best for a woman and was a photo-finish from hitting the board in third.

"I really had a great trip," she said. "... I have never wanted to win a photo for third so bad in my life."

Gary Stevens, who came out of a 7-year retirement to return to racing earlier this year, finished sixth aboard Oxbow.

"I've got a smile on my face I can't wipe off," said Stevens, who has been a successful analyst forNBC got acting credits in the film "Seabiscuit" and the HBO series, "Luck." "It was fun because [Oxbow] ran his race. He got a chance today and he fired a big bullet, and that's when it's fun."

Pletcher matched a Derby record with five starters but was unable to capture his second win in the race.

Kevin Krigger, aboard Goldencents -- trained by 2012 Derby winner Doug O'Neill and owned in part by University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino -- finished 17th. But at the end, the day belonged to McGaughey.

"I don't know what it will be like tomorrow morning when I pinch myself and figure all this out," he said.

After nine Breeders' Cup wins and just about every award the sport can bestow, a colt name Orb closed


and waited by a waterfall.

The natives do not go naked, though Bril considers their attire scandalously revealing:

"I am Bril of Kit Carson, second planet of the Sumner System, and a member of the Sole Authority," said the newcomer, adding, "and I come in peace."
He waited then, to see if the savage would discard any weapons he might have, according to historic protocol. Wonyne did not; he apparently had none. He wore only a cobwebby tunic and a broad belt made of flat, black, brilliantly polished stones and could hardly have concealed so much as a dart. Bril waited yet another moment, watching the untroubled face of the savage, to see if Wonyne suspected anything of the arsenal hidden in the sleek black uniform, the gleaming jackboots, the metalgauntlets.

The natives have integrated nature with their environment:

It seemed to have no margins. It was here high and there only a place between flower beds; yonder a room became a terrace, and elsewhere a lawn was a carpet because there was a roof over it. The house was divided into areas rather than rooms, by open grilles and by arrangements of color. Nowhere was there a wall. There was nothing to hide behind and nothing that could be locked. All the land, all the sky, looked into and through the house, and the house was one great window on the world.
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The room was wide, wider at one end than the other, though it was hard to determine by how much. The floor was uneven, graded


upward toward one corner, where it was a mossy bank. Scattered here and there were what the eye said were white and striated gray boulders; the hand would say they were flesh. Except for a few shelf- and tablelike niches on these and in the bank, they were the only furniture.

The natives get their powers from the belt with black stones, as Bril learns when he puts one on:

"One of our few superstitions," said Tanyne. "It's the formula for the belts—even a primitive chemistry could make them. We would like to see them copied, duplicated all over the Universe. They are what we are. Wear one, Bril. You would be one of us, then."
[. . . .]
The first thing he was aware of was the warmth. Nothing butCarson by giving them the belts which make them smarter:

And then, as the designers in Xanadu had planned, all the other segments of the black belts joined the first meager two in full operation.
A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology, now had the others: philosophy and logic and love; sympathy, empathy, forbearance, unity in the idea of their species rather than in their obedience; membership in harmony with all life everywhere.
A people with such feelings and their derived skills cannot be slaves. As the light burst upon them, there was only one concentration possible to each of them—to be free, and the accomplished feeling of being free. As each found it,


Furious motorists today hit back at Sadiq Khan's plans to have a car-free day in parts of London on Sunday September 22.

The London Mayor extended the ban on vehicles to 12.5 miles of the capital's roads, which will be the biggest Car Free Day yet in Central London.

It will banish all vehicles from Tower Bridge, allow only buses to cross London Bridge, and cordon off routes that span the length of almost 200 football pitches.

But critics said it would damage business for taxi drivers and also cause problems for the disabled and elderly who need road transport to make it across the City.

However, Mr Khan insisted the event will help Londoners 'reclaim the streets' and allow for children to play freely and communities to enjoy parties in theirLondon to enjoy an autumn day without being exposed to the toxic emissions produced by vehicles.

Free events will be put on by councils, ranging from guided walks and treasure hunts, to BMX rides, pop-up playgrounds, and a number of street performances and live music events.

The major hopes the event will attract more than 150,000 Londoners to take part.

He said in the day's confirmation statement: 'London is leading the way in innovative measures to improve air pollution and I want this year’s Car Free Day events to be the best of any world city.

Tower Bridge will be closed to all vehicles for the day, the London mayor has confirmed

Only buses will be allowed to cross London Bridge as part of the arrangements in place for Car Free Day in


is one of the routes cordoned off to car

At least 18 boroughs have also confirmed they will be participating in Car Free Day.

Boroughs including Ealing, Brent, Greenwich, and Tower Hamlets are organising their own events, while others have pledged to support residents who would like to hold a Play Street on the day.

Silviya Barett, transport research manager at Centre for London, said the Car Free Day will give Londoners a 'brief glimpse of what the future of our city could be; a people-friendly city with cleaner air'.

She also warned: 'But one day of action will only go so far – we need to lock-in car-free lifestyles for good.

'We must make it easier for people across the city to leave their cars at home by investing in walking, cyclingThe National Children's Study (NCS) is the most ambitious study ever attempted in the United States, and arguably the world, to assess how environmental factors affect child health and development. To complete the project, 100,000 children from across the United States---the largest pregnancy cohort in the history of the country---will be followed from gestation until 21 years of age. The ultimate goal of the study is to improve the health and well-being of children ([@b16-ehp-118-1318]). Its appropriately broad definition of environment encompasses the following:

-   Natural and human-made environmental factors

-   Biological and chemical factors

-   Physical surroundings

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-   Cultural and family influences and differences

-   Geographic locations.

Population health disparities are viewed as a function of gradients in environmental


and 3). Investigators must then determine site-specific protocols to stratify local populations in accordance with health-relevant social and environmental characteristics, to maximize their power to detect associations. For example, one Vanguard Center, Queens County, New York, used community boundaries previously defined in 2007 by the New York City Department of City Planning to delineate 18 strata, and then checked for homogeneity within strata using census data on race, ethnicity, education, income, and foreign-born status ([@b11-ehp-118-1318]).

In this report we describe the stratification process developed for the wave 1 Worcester County, Massachusetts, site that began in 2007 as the Mass CHILD (Massachusetts Child Health Indicators and Life Determinants) project under the aegis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Specifically, we discuss the process used to divide Worcester County intolocal officials top-notch training and up-to-date information,” said Governor Fletcher. “Local officials can now go back to their communities with new tactics and techniques to make their communities better places to live and work.”

The conference began on Thursday, August 30, 2007. Office of the State Budget Director Brad Cowgill, (Ret.) Major Alecia Webb-Edgington, Executive Director, Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and State Auditor Crit Luallen were just some of the featured presenters.

The Governor’s Local Issues Conference is made possible through the Kentucky Local Issues Conference, Inc. Board, a non-profit organization comprised of members from the Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo), the Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts (KCADD), the Kentucky Judge/Executives Association (KJEA), the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) and the Kentucky Magistrates and Commissioners Association (KMCA).


to help count the toys on Dec. 15, set up the toy distribution room on Dec. 17 and help hand out the toys on Dec. 18. Contact toy drive co-chairwoman Barb Cohn at barsteanna@comcast.net if you're interested in volunteering on any of those dates.

Unwrapped gifts can be dropped off at various locations:

• Irving Park United Methodist Church, 3801 N. Keeler Ave. (home of the pantry's food distribution operation)

• St. John's Episcopal Church, 3857 N. Kostner Ave.

• Irving Park Lutheran Church, 3938 W. Belle Plaine Ave.

• Starbucks, corner of Irving Park Road and Kostner Avenue.

• Golden Nugget, corning of Irving Park Road and Tripp Avenue.

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parks or lands belonging to indigenous tribes. None of it is on private property. Anyone looking to challenge this move will have a tough time demonstrating they have standing to do so.

The sections of border in question are among our more troubled stretches, dealing with significant rates of illegal crossings. One region is in both Luna and Hidalgo Counties in New Mexico. They’re located just to the west of El Paso, Texas. There are already plenty of Army troops assigned in the region so they should be able to get to work there pretty quickly.

The next piece is in Yuma County, Arizona, near the California border. The final stretch will be constructed in San Diego County, California. That’s one of our busiest areas for border traffic and hasThe Struggle to House Cambridge's 'Crammer' Students Continues

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5th January 2016 at 12:12pm
by Ross Jones-Morris in Development

After the issue of student accommodation and 'crammers' emergied in Cambridge at the end of last year, one development has failed in its bid to house the city's newest brand of students.

So called 'crammer colleges' have been springing up around the city for a while now, offering intensive training for GCSEs and A-Levels to those willing to pay . But housing these potentially high-spending students is becoming an issue in the city, and one that many traditional student accommodation blocks (understandably) want to help alleviate.

One such developer, Beechwood Estates, appealed to the council to remove a planning condition on their Mill Road building, which stipulates the property can only house students of Anglia


Ruskin University. However, this week the appeal has only resulted in the condition extending to students at the University of Cambridge, with control of parking in the area the council's main concern.

Planning inspector Cullum Parker said of the decision, "Whilst the appeal site is outside of a controlled parking zone, there was very limited on street parking availability, with a lack of available spaces and double yellow lines. I am reinforced in this view by the objections raised by neighbours, which include concerns over local parking pressures."

The parking issues of crammer students are a concern for the council because the two main universities in the city have policies restricting their students' use of cars in the city. Parker went on to say, "There is no evidence before menegligence of the insurance agent in failing to advise the Williamses to obtain a different policy than the one actually issued.
In November of 1984 Billye contacted the Jefferson-Allsopp Insurance Agency to obtain auto insurance coverage for herself, her family and her business, Russ' Bargain House, Inc. Jefferson-Allsopp is a general lines insurance agency. It was alleged that the individual employee for Jefferson-Allsopp knew Billye and Carl had no other auto insurance; and they thought the policy issued by Iowa National Mutual Insurance Company took care of their needs.
In fact, the Iowa policy had Russ' Bargain House, Inc. as the named insured. It also listed four vehicles, one of which was owned by Carl, as the "covered vehicles." In June of 1985 Carl was injured in an auto collision


in 2015, his first full season, he became the first FBS quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000. He was the Tigers first Heisman Trophy finalist, finishing third, and led Clemson to an ACC title and appearance in the national championship game.Against Alabama, Watson completed 30 of 47 passes for 405 yards and four touchdowns. He added 73 yards rushing. Clemsons 550 total yards were the most Alabama allowed all season in a single game. The Crimson Tide finished 2015 ranked No. 1 in adjusted defensive QBR.Then everyone said, Well, lets see how he does against the Alabama defense -- the defense everyone thought was the best, Watson told Bleacher Report. I think my teammates and I proved we can throw the ball.Watson was theNo. 1 quarterback in the 2014 recruiting class after breaking several state high school records in Georgia and leading Gainesville to a state championship. He held offers from Alabama, Georgia, Florida State, Ohio State and USC, among many others.Early projections have Watson as the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NFL draft, if he elects to forgo his senior season. As a sophomore, he threw for 4,104 yards and 35 touchdowns and rushed for 1,105 yards and 12 scores.Injury concerns followed Watson into the 2015 season after he suffered a torn ACL late in 2014 -- his third significant injury that year -- but he remained healthy throughout all of last season. He told Bleacher Report he doesnt think his injury history will scare teams.Not at all, he


deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2. A 1,200-pound, 9-foot bronze statue of Hall of Fame center Shaquille ONeal will be unveiled outside Staples Center before the?Los Angeles Lakers game against the?Minnesota Timberwolves?on March 24, 2017, the Lakers announced Tuesday.ONeal played with the Lakers from 1996-2004, winning three championships from 2000-2002, along with Finals MVP honors in each title run. He was also named an All-Star seven times with the Lakers and 15 times overall.The Lakers reached the Finals in 2004, losing to the Detroit Pistons. Then, in the wake of constant clashes with Lakers star guard Kobe Bryant, ONeal was traded in 2004 toMiami, where he won a title in 2006.The statue was commissionedd by the Lakers, Staples Center and AEG. Alexander Kerfoot Jersey. It was created by Julie Rotblatt Amrany and Omri Amran, who also created the statues for Lakers legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Chick Hearn and Jerry West that stand outside Staples Center at Star Plaza, where ONeals will stand, too.ONeals statue, which depicts him dunking, will be connected to Staples Center and will be suspended 10 feet above the ground. The ceremony will be free and open to the public, and it will feature speeches from ONeal, his teammates, colleagues and friends. Cheap Jerseys 2020Cheap JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys 2020Cheap Jerseys StoreCheap JerseysJerseys From China ' ' '


WASHINGTON - As the first Muslim member of Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has long used his high-profile status to enhance America's image in the Middle East. On Friday, he was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Ellison, who has made a half-dozen government-sponsored trips to the Middle East, recently became the first member of Congress to participate in the hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca. He has also been a key component of the Bush administration's public diplomacy efforts, despite his opposition to the war in Iraq.

"All I want to do is help make friends for the United States," Ellison said Friday in an interview.

The Foreign Affairs Committee handles diplomacy, nuclear nonproliferation, trade disputes and other international issues. Ellison said the assignment is a good fit for hisimmigrant-rich, Minneapolis-area district, including one of the nation's largest Somali populations.

"My main goal is to help my constituents understand how tightly connected we are with the rest of the world and how important it is to have an international outlook," he said. "I really want to connect my district to these issues."

While he won't find out which subcommittee he'll serve on for another two weeks, Ellison said he is eager to tackle some of his pet issues, such as U.S. aid to developing democracies.

"The world knows about America's hard power, our massive military might," he said. "But I think America's real strength lies in America as an influential thought leader around the world."

Ellison was one of two Minnesota representatives who voted "present" to abstain from a resolution backing


Israel's right to defend itself in its conflict with Hamas fighters in Gaza. He and Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum said the resolution made little mention of the human suffering in Gaza. They have both called for a cease-fire.

Ellison has taken separate trips to Israel with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer, D-Md., party leaders who make committee appointments.

Gunnar Birkerts, an internationally acclaimed modernist architect who designed buildings including the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, and the University of Michigan Law Library, has died. He was 92.

The mayor of a traditionally liberal Wisconsin city has ordered the removal of a cemetery's monuments to Confederate soldiers, saying the Civil War was "a defense of the deplorable practicethe moving partition, of the type which comprises a control rod moving in the piston selectively according to an axial input force exerted forward against the action of a return force exerted on the rod via a return spring, of the type in which the movements of the control rod are able to determine the openings and closings of at least one axial intake valve which is inserted between a pressure source subjected to the pressure higher than the first pressure and the rear chamber, and of at least one axial equalizing valve which is inserted between the front chamber and the rear chamber, to actuate the moving partition, and of the type in which a plunger, passing through the moving partition and secured to the end of


returned toward the moving partition, of which axially offset transverse faces have first sealing elements for the axial intake and equalizing valves,
a complementary transverse second sealing element for the axial intake valve, borne by the rear end of the plunger,
a complementary transverse second sealing element for the axial equalizing valve, consisting of at least one portion of the rear face of the moving partition.
According to other features of the invention at least a first sealing element consists of a seal borne by an attached tubular bushing slideably mounted in the floating tubular element, the floating tubular element comprises, a tubular intermediate section, which is slideably mounted in an intermediate section of the piston which is roughly cylindrical and around a tubular bearing surface of the moving partition whichslideably houses the plunger, a tubular front end section of a diameter greater than the diameter of the intermediate section, which is housed in a perforated front section of the piston lying where the piston and the moving partition meet, which internally houses a seal of which a front face forms the first sealing element for the equalizing valve and which is intended to collaborate with that portion of the rear face of the moving partition forming the second sealing element for the equalizing valve which is arranged radially on the outside of at least one drilling providing communication between the front chamber and the rear chamber, a tubular rear end section, of a diameter smaller than the diameter of the intermediate section, which internally houses the tubular


bushing of which a transverse front end face bears a seal forming the first sealing element for the intake valve which is intended to collaborate with the second sealing element borne by the plunger, and of which a bore sealingly surrounds an axial inlet take duct in the piston communicating with the pressure source subjected to the pressure greater than the first pressure, the plunger is guided in a tubular bearing surface which extends axially from the rear face of the moving partition and the moving partition comprises a plurality of drillings distributed angularly through the transverse partition around the region when its tubular bearing surface and its rear face meet, a stepped face delimiting the tubular intermediate section and the tubular section of the tubular element has,bearing against it, the end of a return spring the other end of which bears against a stepped face of the tubular piston, a radial stop pin, of which the ends external to the piston are able to bear against the casing of the booster, passes through a drilling in the plunger, through two diametrically opposed slots in the tubular bearing surface of the moving partition, through two diametrically opposed slots in the element, and through two diametrically opposed slots in the piston, the diametrically opposed slots in the piston form part of the perforations in the piston, the intermediate section of the piston, of a determined diameter, includes the intake duct, of a diameter smaller than the determined diameter, with which it is integrally formed, and the


intake duct is connected to the intermediate section by way of a transverse wall formed integrally and a front face of which forms the stepped face against which the return spring of the tubular element bears and the rear face of which forms a stepped face against which the return spring of the control rod bears, the transverse second sealing element for the axial intake valve is borne by a cup mounted tightly on the rear end of the cylindrical plunger and a transverse rear face of which extends opposite the seal forming the transverse first sealing element, the moving partition, the floating tubular element, the tubular bushing secured to the floating tubular element, the piston and the cup secured to the plunger are produced using cutting andpressing methods, a return spring is inserted axially into the floating tubular element between the plunger and the rear section of the tubular piston so as to exert a return force on the control rod, the axial intake valve is arranged at the end of an interior chamber of the tubular piston which chamber is formed in the rear section of the piston and communicates radially with the rear chamber, the transverse first sealing element for the axial intake valve surrounding an axial intake duct which is formed in the floating tubular element and which communicates with the external surroundings and the complementary transverse second element for sealing the axial intake valve being received with clearance in an axial drilling in the piston communicating with the interior chamber,


the axial equalizing valve is arranged on the outside of the tubular piston and is arranged radially on the outside of at least one equalizing duct of the tubular piston placing the front chamber and the rear chamber in communication.
The floating tubular element comprises a tubular front section, slideably mounted on the rear section of the piston, which bears the first sealing element for the equalizing valve, and which is intended to collaborate with the second sealing element of the equalizing valve borne by the portion of the rear face of the front section of the piston, the first and second sealing elements for sealing the equalizing valve being arranged radially at least in part on the outside of at least one drilling providing communication between the frontchamber and the rear chamber which passes through the front section of the piston; a tubular intermediate section which is slideably mounted on the rear section of the piston, and of which at least one longitudinal slot is formed radially in line with at least one longitudinal slot in the rear section of the piston which allows communication between the interior chamber of the piston and the rear chamber; a tubular rear section, of a diameter smaller than the diameter of the intermediate section, which forms the duct communicating with the external surroundings and which is slideably mounted on at least one tubular rear section of the plunger through which the control rod passes; and a transverse joining wall joining the intermediate and rear sections of the tubular


element, and arranged more or less axially near the drilling in the end of the tubular rear section of the piston, comprises the first sealing element for the axial intake valve which is intended to collaborate with the second sealing element for the axial intake valve which is borne by the plunger and which is housed in the said end drilling of the tubular rear section of the piston.
The first sealing element for the axial intake valve consists of an annular part of the front face of the transverse wall joining the intermediate and rear sections of the tubular element; the complementary transverse second sealing element for the axial intake valve consists of an annular seal borne by an annular rear face of a cup carried by theplunger and which is housed with clearance in the end drilling of the chamber of the tubular piston; the first sealing element for the axial equalizing valve consists of an annular seal which is housed in a groove made in the front face of the tubular front end section of the tubular element; the complementary transverse second sealing element for the axial equalizing valve consists of an annular portion of the rear face delimiting the front and rear sections of the tubular piston.
The booster comprises a plurality of drillings which are angularly distributed in a uniform manner through the front section of the piston and which open into the rear face delimiting the front and rear sections of the tubular piston to form the equalizing ducts; the body


of the piston has an internal axial bore which opens into the front face of the piston and into the interior chamber of the piston and which houses the end of the actuating rod of the master cylinder, the reaction disk, a sliding bushing, through which there passes a front section of the plunger, of which a step constitutes a front face coaxial with a feeler formed at the front end of the plunger to act upon the reaction disk.
A transverse wall, formed at the end of the internal axial bore, forms, on the one hand, an end stop for the step of the bushing and, on the opposite side receives the end of the return spring the other end of which rests against a front face ofthe cup of the plunger.
A stepped face delimiting the front section and the intermediate section of the tubular element has, bearing against it, the end of a return spring the other end of which bears against a stepped face of the casing.
The cup is inserted axially between the rear and front sections of the plunger with which it is integral while an annular seal is inserted between a tubular rear section of the casing and the tubular rear section of the floating tubular element, so as to provide a seal between the external surroundings and the rear chamber of the booster. The intermediate section of the floating tubular element has a plurality of longitudinal slots each arranged in line with longitudinal slots in the rear section of the


KNIGHT, Margaret Faith

Margaret Knight of Calgary, passed away in the comfort of her own home on Friday, January 10, 2014 at the age of 88 years.

Margaret will be remembered as an AVID animal lover.

Margaret is survived by her special friend and companion Frank Boyd; son David Knight of Calgary; daughter Jan Knight (Ken Cruickshank) of Lacombe, Alberta; grandchildren, Vanessa (Cameron) Bosovich and great-grandchildren, Jazlyn and Wyatt of Leslieville, Alberta; Kylah (Ryan) Cuff and great-grandchildren, Ethan and Ella of Sylvan Lake, Alberta; and Brody Knight of Blackfalds, Alberta. She was predeceased by her loving husband Jack on February 28, 1992.

Graveside Service will be held at Queen’s Park Cemetery (3219 – 4 Street N.W., Calgary, AB) on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com.

InMeet Our Team – Seth Fischer

Cannon & Cannon, Inc. (CCI) is excited to announce Seth Fischer’s promotion to Utilities Group Director. Seth has been part of the CCI team for over 5 years and has been an integral part of the success of the utility group as a project manager. Before he came to CCI he served in the U.S. Army for 8 years with 2 tours in Iraq. He has wisdom beyond his years and is passionate about being the best he can be – first as a father and husband; as an engineer; and as a person. His drive to help others is also something you discover when you spend time with him. Please join us in congratulating Seth in his new role at CCI. Below


are some fun facts and interesting things to know about Seth and his career:

A look into seth’s career

His first engineering related job was as a Technical Engineer in the U.S. Army. He was a Staff Sergeant team leader of a design team whose work included survey, soil and concrete testing, and drafting and design.

What he enjoys the most about working at CCI is the people, both within and outside CCI

His favorite type of projects to work on are hydraulic modeling of water distribution systems and sewer collection systems

fun facts about seth

He wanted to be a professional hockey player or an architect growing up

He got into engineering because he always enjoyed Math. In college, he started in Architecture school but after taking a basic engineering course he said heright turns the film takes when you've braced yourself for a left. So let's face off these two couples for "Beauty vs Beast" this week...

If you need a refresher both couples are in the middle of personal crises -- Marion & Ralph (Moore & Modine) are the couple who have the long fight about her cheating whilst Juli proves she's a natural redhead, while Stuart has just told Claire (Ward & Archer) that he and his fishing buddies fished around a corpse all weekend long. In the grand tradition of Altman-esque character studies, they're all a bit beastly.

PREVIOUSLY Last week we ventured to Mortville with John Waters and his muses for a look at one of his most underappreciated efforts, Desperate Living (and the poll showed just how


Beast."

John Waters' Desperate Living was released on May 27th 1977 - sandwiched as it is between Female Trouble (his masterpiece, says me) and Hairspray (his big mainstream hit) Desperate Living often gets overlooked, but it's High Trash Heaven thanks to its two leading ladies, John's manic & marvelous muses of manure...

PREVIOUSLY Sharon Stone achieved near dominace (and she wouldn't want it any othe rway) with last week's Basic Instinct poll - she topped Michael Douglas (ahem) with nearly 92% of the vote! Said forever1267 and Ryan Murphy, heed our call!):

"Such delicious filthy trash Brilliant movie movie dialogue, and that all empowering Scene. The only person in that room with power is wearing white... and nothing else.

John Waters with Patty Hearst at the "Carol" premiereAh one of our favoritemodule 15 comprising two barrel shifters shall be provided below to explain a common bitstream packing mechanism known in the prior art. Referring to FIG. 2A, barrel shifters 15A and 15B are capable of accommodating a data length of 32 bits and providing a maximum shift amount of 32 bits, respectively. The bitstream packing module 15 receives a bitstream in each cycle. Referring to FIG. 2B, in a first cycle, a bitstream a having a length of 8 bits is first stored in the barrel shifter 15A and is aligned to the left. In a subsequent second cycle, a bitstream b having a length of 16 bits is inputted into the bitstream packing module 15. In order to place the bitstream b adjacent to the right of the


its ancestral relics, passed down through the successive kings until, one hundred years later, it belonged to Cornelius, the fourth king. In the year 602, at the onset of the War of Shadows and Medeus's revival, Cornelius departed with the blade with the intent of fulfilling his destiny as Anri's descendant, but was killed in Gra's betrayal. Gharnef took the blade and kept it safe for the majority of the war. Two years later, the blade was retrieved from Gharnef's corpse by Marth, Cornelius's son, who used it to slay Medeus for the second time.

In the year 607, in the initiating act of the War of Heroes, the forces of the Holy Empire of Archanea invaded and conquered Altea while Prince Marth was on an expedition in Grust,and the blade was again taken by the resurrected Gharnef. It was not recovered until the last moments of the war where Gharnef was slain again, and from there Marth used it to again slay Medeus, now resurrected as a Shadow Dragon.

As the following millennia passed, Falchion's divine blessing waned over time, and the blade began to decay and lose its durability; as a result, it was continually repaired over the ages, with the hilt coming to take an entirely different shape as a result of these repairs.[1] Eventually, it came into the possession of the royal family of Ylisse, the descendants of Marth, and was used by the nation's founder to defeat the Fell Dragon Grima.

By the time of Fire Emblem: Awakening, this weakened Falchion (Japanese: 封剣ファルシオンSealed


Sword Falchion) was inherited by Chrom, Ylisse's prince, and used in his wars against Plegia, Valm and the Grimleal; its full power was unsealed by Naga herself to facilitate Grima's defeat, transforming it into the Exalted Falchion. A second time-displaced incarnation of Falchion, dubbed the Parallel Falchion, was brought back by Chrom's daughter Lucina from her disastrous future.

An identical but different Falchion exists on Valentia, forged by the dark god Duma for King Rudolf to use to imprison the earth goddess Mila. This Falchion eventually became the property of Alm, who used it to slay Duma.

Awakening

Other appearances

In a flashback in the first episode, Prince of Aritia, Cornelius was the bearer of Falchion (rendered in the English dub as Falcion) as in the games during the Gra betrayal. Heattempted to use it to fight Gharnef, but failed and was slain. The anime's visual depiction of Falchion differs greatly from the games' depictions: its hilt is a steel-blue with a gold blade, and the sword crackles with electricity as Cornelius unsheaths it. During his attack on Gharnef, Cornelius uses it to parry some of the Imhullu tendrils launched at him.

In "The Great Cave Offensive", Falchion appears as one of several obtainable treasures referencing other Nintendo franchises, worth 325,000 gold. In the English version of Super Star, it was just called "Sword" as it predated the international presence of the Fire Emblem franchise; the name "Falchion" was restored to it in Super Star Ultra, the game's remake.

Marth wields the Mystery of the Emblem version of Falchion in his


spot and so deals even damage across the blade.

Falchion makes several other appearances in Super Smash Bros. in various roles. The silhouette of the Mystery version of Falchion is used by the games as the icon representing the Fire Emblem series as a whole. Additionally, Chrom wields his version of Falchion from Awakening in his appearance in Robin's Final Smash, Pair Up. Lucina also wields her Falchion variant, the Parallel Falchion, in her playable appearance.

As part of the Chrom and Lucina armor set crossover promotion, the Wii U version of Monster Hunter: Frontier G features Falchion as a usable weapon. Chrom's armor set is accompanied by his basic Falchion (Japanese: 封剣ファルシオンISealed Sword Falchion I), while Lucina's armor set instead gets her Parallel Falchion variant (Japanese: 裏剣ファルシオンIReverse Sword Falchionwas used only in the English dub of the Mystery of the Emblem anime.

Japanese

• ファルシオン• 封剣ファルシオン

• Officially romanized as Falchion, previously as Falcion; as above.• Sealed Sword Falchion; this term is the name given in gameplay to Falchion's weakened initial state in Awakening, and the blade in general is still referred to as "Falchion" in any of its three states in this game.

Falchion; a transliteration of the English/Japanese name. Used only in the Korean version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, as no Fire Emblem games have been released in South Korea as of yet.

References

↑"Owain: Hark! Your partner fang resists the remorseless arrow of time! It is infused with the breath of gods and the passion of ages. Should a thousand thousand years pass, it shall never know the


MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM NARRATIVE NOVEL

Summary

Prologue

Chapter.01 Reunion

Chapter.02 Homesick

Chapter.03 Atonement

Chapter.04 Flight

Epilogue

PROLOGUE

When thinking back to the sights that day, Jona Bashta always remembered this poem:

It has been found again.

What? – Eternity.

It is the sea fled away With the sun.

It was part of a poem written by Arthur Rimbaud during the old century. She was the first to find it at the facilities they grew up in. Both Jonah and Michelle taught her about the poem. She would tell them how beautiful yet sad it was.

The scene is the outskirts of the Gold Coast. Jonah, Rita and Michelle are on a school bus on their way back from a field trip when Rita suddenly yells out “Stop!” As the driver slams on the brakes, she races out the door and out intojust yet.

CHAPTER.01 REUNION

SECTION 1

“Heaven… Do you think it really exists?”

“No… There’s no such place.”

He recalls a conversation with Rita and Michelle from when he was 15. He never believed in such a thing ever since he foresaw the future from the cliff that fateful day. The three have a conversation that is similar to the one in the novel about the existence of God, death and Newtypes.

His consciousness wandered around the darkness. Where was he now? Is it something that happened in reality or was he still wandering through the vision of the site that happened when he was 8 years old? A blue phosphorescence flashed across the darkness. The light grew steadily and sharply before him. There was a giant, clad in golden colored armor with wings


spread out from its back. It looked like a bird of fire that shone gold.

A Phoenix.

When the word came to Jona’s mind, a giant golden arm with its palm outstretched appeared before his very eyes. Jona wakes up in bed, hand outstretched towards the ceiling calling out Rita’s name. His senses returning to him, he gets up and yanks open the curtain to the dazzling sunlight of New Hong Kong City. It is now U.C.0097.

New Hong Kong City mixes old with the new. The city has since reconstructed since the incidents of ten years ago and a monument was erected for that purpose.

The Luio & Co. building is situated close to that monument. The interior of the building exudes the magnificence of a palace. In the middle ofForces as well as political and financial worlds time and again. She was also the reason that Jona was brought here.

Heeding her words, Mauri returns to his black luxury car along with his adjutant. Seeing him off was a young man wearing a suit, Brick Theklat, Michelle’s secretary. Mauri gets in the car without so much as a second glance at the man. As the car is leaving, Mauri expresses his disdain for the man. His adjutant wonders if he really should or not, considering that Michelle is Luio’s step-daughter and not a blood heir and that there are rumors that Stephanie is planning on exiling her father since he fell ill.

Mauri said her words are sound and that everything she’s predicted has come true. His adjutant is


surprised that even something so far back as the Gryps War and events from the One Year War. Mauri tells him that she has many fans within political circles, even in the military. Still in disbelief, he explains to his adjutant that she is one of what they call the “Miracle Children”.

SECTION 2

Having finished the ceremony, Michelle retreated back to her personal quarters, one that gave of a considerably different vibe from the temple setup. Also with her is her piece of the pendant she shares with Jona and Rita, a memory of their time.

Also present in her room is Brick who is manipulating images on a large screen on the wall. It is secret imagery captured by the Federation’s military surveillance cameras last year. It’s footage ofwas too late. This was the day that Michelle was living for, and Brick who had watched over her since she was 15 knew better than anyone.

Luio Woomin’s room was in a high security area of the same building. An elevator that went directly to his room wouldn’t move unless fingerprint authentication was done, and even then it was only registered to Woomin’s close relatives and a few administrators. After Brick left, Michelle headed down to his room alone.

When the elevator door opened there was a long, empty corridor. At the end was a set of smoky, bulletproof glass doors. The corridor was ice cold and Michelle’s breath gave off white clouds. After authenticating herself on the pad, she enters into the room. Each step she takes leaves


a print on the ground that is quickly covered up again by frost. At the rear of the room she stands in front of a cold sleep capsule connected to medical equipment. Inside it was Luio Woomin. Through the window she could see the face of an old man with white hair and a beard and moustache. In the past, this man reigned in the economic circles of New Hong Kong City as well as the underworld is now a body who is kept alive by machines after collapsing five years ago. Michelle is reminded of when she first met the man ten years ago. At the time he was probably over sixty years old, and it wasn’t clear how he had survived and gained his current position.team. He tried to object but is reminded by Michelle that he cannot get hurt right now.

The armored car gets toppled over in the battle and the shadow of a woman wearing a coat crawling out the broken rear door can be seen. There was no doubt that this was the target Jona was looking for. The lead unit looked down at the woman. A man in a suit came running out brandishing a handgun at the mobile suit, but he crushed him mercilessly with the foot of the mobile suit. There was an unpleasant sound of crushing bones and flesh.

Michelle calls down to the woman, “Martha Vist Carbine.” Search lights are directed down at her, and odd pockets of the crushed man could be seen on the


snow. The cockpit hatch opens and Michelle, who was on board the lead machine, steps down onto the hand. Removing her helmet, she asks Martha if she remembers her. She stammers out her name and asks how and why she’s here. Michelle tells her that both Anaheim and the Vist Foundation abandoned her. Martha is clearly upset by Michelle’s words yet Michelle tells her that she can give her a new life under the protection of Luio & Co. with the assets and networks equal to what she had before.

Martha thought about this for a moment. Even though she was detained as a political prisoner, she hadn’t lost her high level of pride. She asked Michelle what she wanted in return. Michelle explains that it’s the third brotherit wouldn’t reach her .

SECTION 4

In a sector of space formerly known as Side 5’s Loum (the new Side 4), a large amount of debris accumulated during the early stages of the One Year War.

Minovsky particles that were dispersed in high concentrations during the war were still present. Lieutenant Commander Iago Haakana was in the cockpit of the RGM-96xs Jesta when a strong acceleration kicked in and caught him off guard. They were chasing after a blue phosphorescence that glistened in the darkness… the Phenex.

Iago fires off several shots at the golden suit, some of them grazing it. The suit on his panoramic monitor almost appeared angry. The dogfight continues, the Phenex slipping in and out of the debris. Even with B Team and C Team arriving to


frame in the suit itself along with a thick visor. He remembers the unexpected uneasiness with the power of the high mega cannon he just fired. He kicks up the speed of the Gundam, clenching his teeth due to the overpowering G’s. The distance between the Phenex closes and Jona begins to feel the limits of his body from the force. He desperately grasps the control sticks and continues to increase speed.

He thinks to himself, “wait for me. I’ll reach you soon.” With that in mind, he desperately fought off the pain of the G-forces crushing his body.

The team is shocked that it’s speeding up and yet if it can, it may catch the suit. Michelle, meanwhile, was monitoring the situation from the bridge of the transport shipPhenex yet again as it slowly faded into the darkness.

SECTION 6

The Republic of Zeon is located on the opposite side of the moon, the furthest location from Earth. It was once called Side 3. The capital of the Republic of Zeon was located in Colony 1 since its founding. Yet even when it called itself the Principality of Zeon, there was no stiff or rigid atmosphere. Degwin’s residence remained undestroyed for historical value, as well as for its unique design.

In an office, Monaghan Bakarov, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, was having a video call with someone. He was only in his mid-forties, but he was a blood-thirsty man full of mental and physical strength.

“You seem to be playing with a dangerous fire, Foreign Minister Monaghan Bakarov, mobilizing the


this.

Having finished her call, Mineva summons Zinnerman. Monaghan was also considering his next deal and gave instructions to his secretary to keep an eye on Magellanica and to warn Zoltan. The secretary bows and leaves the room. Monaghan stares up at a portrait of an elderly man lamenting about how deplorable it was that the descendant of the Zabi family abandoned their dream of independence for Spacenoids and now merely wanted peace. The portrait was of his father, former Prime Minister Darcia Bakarov.

*

Anchored in a shoal zone was the Federation Space Forces Clop-class cruiser Damascus. On the mobile suit deck, mechanics were scrambling about as equipment and supplies for the Narrative Gundam were steadily being loaded from the transport ship Rosebud. On one side of the deck, thewas quite evident as it appeared to deprive them of their physical strength. The team is surprised by this and speculate whether the pilot is a Cyber Newtype or not. A mechanic and Brick guided Jona towards the gravitational sector of the ship. As soon as they crossed the bulkhead, the weight of the psycho suit pulled Jona to the floor. The mechanics supported him as he was taken to the residential block.

Jona was unaware that he arrived in the room. The psycho suit was stripped away from him. His muscles which had been paralyzed by the weight of the psycho suit started screaming. Before he knew it, he was grabbed by the mechanics and electrode pads for vitals and an oxygen inhaler was placed on him. They


the Chivvay-class heavy cruiser Gulltoppr of the Neo Zeon forces. While confirming the blip on the bridge’s radar monitor, Lieutent Zoltan Akkanen also had the eyes of a hunter and pursued prey like Lieutenant Commander Iago. The only difference was that hunting for him involved chasing his prey and depriving it of life, relishing him in ecstasy.

Zoltan was still in his late twenties but he was a cunning, brutal yet qualified youth. Yet for some reason his right eye had a red iris. He ordered the operator to display the previous battle the Schezarr team had with the Phenex.

“Well, gentlemen. The Phoenix Hunt is on from here.” He says as a daring smile creeps across his face and a sudden but subtle twitch happens in the iris ofhis right eye.

A huge cargo container was being pulled behind the Gulltoppr. Around it, a Geara Zulu mobile suit flew around it on guard, its mono eye flashing.

CHAPTER.02 HOMESICK

This chapter is a flashback to U.C.0078 in Australia along the Gold Coast. We learn that Jona was an airplane fanatic like his father. He’d always hear the sounds of planes here and be reminded of his dad. His father was a researcher working in the development sector at Hervic. His Spacenoid father was originally working at a colony branch on Side 6 but due to his ground-breaking aeronautical tech that he developed in the gravity-free part of the colony, he was allowed to move to earth three years ago. But, his father was gone now. Two months ago, his


father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at work and collapsed and died.

While the survivor’s pension and his mothers office job covered things, life was more difficult than before, but he was glad there was an airport nearby to watch planes at.

**UPDATED LATER – NOTHING OF REAL IMPORTANCE IN THIS CHAPTER**

CHAPTER.03 ATONEMENT

SECTION 1

U.C.0087, over the South Pacific. Jona, Rita and Michele are aboard a Federation Forces transport that left the Augusta base in Georgia and had taken a route from the North Pacific across the equator to the South Pacific. They were huddled beneath a blanket as they hid behind a cargo container. The aircrafts destination was the Torrington base in Australia. Jona felt he was drawn to the continent again, even if there was nothing there. He felt thatdoubtful that it was really true and she insists she heard it during her exam and that she wasn’t sick. If the three of them parted again they would probably never see one another again. He had a hunch about it. Michelle was adamant about him making a decision, even calling him a crybaby again. She says it’s the only way for the three of them to survive.

Back in the cockpit, feelings of anger welled up inside of Jona as he remembered that day. “Liar.” Came out of his mouth, despite Michelle not being there. However, on the bridge of the Damascus, the words resounded inside of her. She agreed that she did lie, although she had no ill-will at the time.

Another flashback where she’s seated in Eskola’s


tells the duo that they should leave Rita to them and to not make matters worse before ushering them out of the room. Michelle says that she has a little more she’d like to discuss. Jona leaves the room first. He asks what that may be. She tells them she heard them taking earlier outside the operating room doors. At this point all signs of a pleasant disposition disappear from the two.

She bargains for the safety of herself and Jona. Eskola agrees. Back in the present, Jona again calls her a liar to which she denies it. She had masked herself as a Newtype and was taken in as an adopted child by Luio & Co but she didn’t abandon Jona and Rita.

In thought, she says she intendedto come for them, but Jona wouldn’t have it. He says she abandoned them so she could escape and made Rita a scapegoat. He says he too is guilty for believing her lies. He remembers what happened ten years ago.

Just two days after disclosing Rita being a true Newtype, a woman name Stephanie from Luio & Co. left with Michelle. Dejected, Jona goes back into the facility only to find Rita being held by two Federation soldiers. She didn’t seem to be resisting. She was taken to a more secure location, one that only Newtypes could set foot in. Two guards stood on either side of the door blocking his entry.

Jona called out her name and tore after her. He was trying to tell her not to go


but is restrained by a soldier. As he was slammed to the ground, he began to cry and scream out that it was a lie and that they all lied and that they should take him. He kept calling out to her for as long as he could.

Jona’s cries resonated with the II Neo Zeong through the psycho waves. As if a huge mobile armor took up Jona’s anger and sadness, the arm unit with five finger cannon muzzles slowly lifted themselves and beams of light began to blister inside them.

Michelle again says she searched for them when the war had ended, as soon as the facilities were closed. Jona again calls her a liar. He was now living through his memories of 15, the embodiment of hatred.by the funnels released from the Narrative Gundam. He was seeing Rita’s memories now. Michelle repeatedly tried to interject with what seemed to be excuses only to be called out by Jona as a liar every time. They abandoned Rita. They robbed her of her body. Michelle tries to explain that by the time she knew where she was she was already gone. Once again Jona calls her a liar and this time his anger explodes to the point where the muzzles of the II Neo Zeong were about to fire and pierce the wall of the colony.

Iago had been listening to the conversation via psycho waves as well but didn’t really know what was going on. He tries to walk Jona back from his anger by telling


him that he’d be taking the lives of those in the colony as well due to the anger he has.

The team notices the appearance of the Phenex. The funnels surrounding the Narrative are destroyed one by one but there is no explosion. They were all disassembled. The Phenex unleashes its blue phosphorescence again.

The II Neo Zeong was ready to fire but a voice came telling Jona not to do it. It was Rita. She tells him that he should not leave himself to anger, but Jona tries to stutter out that it was their fault… Just then, a small white hand appeared and gently wiped away his tears. Jona knew immediately that it was Rita.

The Phenex gently touched the docking port of the II Neo Zeong that heldthe Narrative Gundam. As soon as it was released, it moved away as if to spit out the Gundam. At the same time, the beams that should’ve been emitted from the five finger barrels of the II Neo Zeong converged. The Narrative was gently embraced by the Phenex drifting in space. In the cockpit, Jona felt as though he was being embraced by warmth.

Zoltan was piloting the Sinanju Stein and was monitoring the situation. He wondered what the hell kind of farce he was witnessing. He was thrown off due to the disturbance of the Phenex. He’s then informed that they’ve recovered the control system of the II Neo Zeong. He instructs his team to withdraw and take the II back to the ship. He steps on the


foot pedals of the Sinanju Stein once he sees the II Neo Zeong returning from the hole that was blown in the colony. He swears to retaliate against the two machines saying he’ll remember the names of those who made him suffer such humiliation.

Jona watches the II Neo Zeong withdrawing. The Phenex also witnesses it. Rita’s voice tells him that that shouldn’t be in this world. She asks him to lend him his strength when the times comes. Before he knows it, her warmth is gone.

Back on the Damascus, it’s chaos. Their radar captured the suit but it rapidly fled the colony. Before they knew it it was off their radar and traveling at almost the speed of light. The captain of the ship tells Michelle that theyhe tells them that the Republic regarded the strategy as a failure and is cutting off their support and that their ship will be shot down. He sais that he has no intention of dying at the hands of the Federation so he implores everyone to follow him.

Getting on board the Sinanju Stein, he exits the ship and docks with the II Neo Zeong. He says he’ll tell everyone his target. He swears to get his revenge on Jona and Rita as well. In front of him lies Side 6’s helium 3 reserve base. The cylindrical storage tanks were coupled in a cross section at the center of a small asteroid base.

SECTION 5

Jona and Brick are on the mobile suit deck discussing why Michelle brought him into the


operation when their conversation is cut short by an alarm resounding on the ship. The two rushed to the bridge. There were countless lights against the inky blackness of space. Each of the lights were from thrusters of Federation warships.

Both arm units of the II Neo Zeong were raised as if to confront them. He tells the captain of the Gulltoppr to use the tanks as a shield. Cutting the comms he mulls how the ship and the suit he is on are the pnly place he has to go back to.

The Federation ship dispatched to investigate was the Dogos Gear-class General Revil. Captain Maseki Danbaev was listening to reports from operators. Mobile suit teams are ordered to engage.

Jegans and ReZels are dispatched to fight the II NeoMaseki orders them to shoot it down. Many of the shots hit the tank but the psycho field around the tank deflects them off. Zoltan, meanwhile, is feeling the physical strain of moving the object. Still, he focuses everything he has on it. With one final push he delivers judgement on them. The tank goes critical and a massive explosion envelops the General Revil and the ships in the fleet along with it.

The high heat and shock waves wash over the II Neo Zeong as well but it is protected by the psycho field. Nothing is left near Zoltan. Space is silent except for his laugh.

On the bridge of the Damascus, they caught sight of the small explosion in a sector of space. Abaev feels that the life


that it’s still too early to rendez-vous with the recovery ship. Brick asks if she is sure and Michelle says it’s neither good nor bad and that it was decided upon a while ago. She was certain that Rita was aware as well as the fate that would befall her and the choice that Jona and her had to take.

A huge container was dumped off the Damascus. In the container is the Narrative Gundam and Jona is again wearing the psycho suit much like that of a cross. He sensed Rita coming back. A ways away from their sector, the Phenex was flying about, blue phosphorescence emanating from its golden frame. The fight against the II Neo Zeong was coming up.

*

Meanwhile, the II Neo Zeong was lying inwait behind the Helium 3 reserve base. Zoltan, inside the cockpit, was already crazy. He harkens the Newtype to come and to see which one of them will show real power. For him, the chance meeting with Jona and Rita wasn’t for a personal grudge or war. Repurposed as a Newtype, Zoltan was branded as defective and this was just one way to prove he was alive.

When the container was far enough away, Jona launched the Narrative Gundam. The Narrative Gundam, equipped with a psycho package, revealed its entire form: a white body similar to that of the Unicorn Gundam!

CHAPTER.04 FLIGHT

SECTION 1

Remains of the destroyed General Revil fleet hang around the Helium 3 reserve base of Side 6. A few of the survivors, Jegans, fire at the II


universal specification. As such, Iago and Franson deduce that they could mount them onto their teams suits in order to reach the battle.

SECTION 2

When the Jegans detonated by thrusting their beam sabers into their stomachs, the nearby helium 3 tanks exploded in a chain reaction. The billowing fireball assailed the Phenex which was evading pursuit from another Jegan. The Phenex tried to accelerate away but was rapidly pushed back inside the base from the shockwave. The Phenex momentarily lost its way, enough for Zoltan to sneak up on it. Manipulating his puppet Jegans, he started firing on the Phenex. Since the suit was dodging the shots, they skimmed the surface of the tanks turning them red hot. Zoltan sensed Rita’s impatience.

He speculates that Rita was a Cyber Newtype.tells him he’ll escape somehow but he needs to fight back. Jona tries to help him by cutting off the funnel’s cables.

Michelle was watching the scene from a ways away. Rita had asked her what she was doing and whether she could really run away like this. She did rob Rita of her life, after all. Michelle wonders why she said Rita was a true Newtype. She wonders why she threw their lives away. She was jealous in a way. She wanted to be born like Rita: love by everyone. She wanted to be Rita. Rita was a brave child. When she put scissors to her hair and cut it off, she knew for the first time she was no longer the child she had to protect. That,


long-range beam suddenly appeared just then, destroying the four funnel bits at once. It came from the Silver Bullet standing on the deck of the Garancieres Jr. However, Jona wasn’t even aware. His sights were set on Rita. As the core fighter crumbles around him, he launches himself at the cockpit of the Phenex. The hatch welcomes him and he’s somewhat disappointed at his expectations of there being someone inside of it. He looks at a small shadow floating inside the cockpit. It was the pendant that Rita had. He was sure she was waiting for him, keeping an eye on him until the last moment.

Settling into the cockpit, Rita asks Jona what he would become if she becomes a bird. He says that he would do thesame. As if that were a signal, the cockpit hatch of the Phenex closes. The Phenex began to transform into destroy mode, causing it to emit a blue shine. The three pendants floating in the cockpit approached one another as if they were being attracted to one another. The original shape was restored. It was as though souls started to emanate light from it. Jona oddly felt the warmth of Rita and Michelle with him, as though three souls had become one.

SECTION 6

Zoltan was astonished at the sudden luminescence being given off by the Phenex. The suit, which seemed to have lost its life force before, suddenly revived just like a Phoenix. It wasn’t like before though, the psycho waves being given off were overwhelming. He wonders if


Jona is a true Newtype! He prepared for yet another battle with the suit.

The II Neo Zeong instantly lost all of its arms. He was attacking the Narrative Gundam with the remaining mega particle cannon on both shoulders and waist. He fires off the bazookas being carried by the Sinanju Stein as well. Despite the overwhelming firepower, the Phenex skips over it. It destroys the cannons and pierces the armor, and the II Neo Zeong was driven back riddled with wounds. Jona calls on him to stop, that it’s gone on far enough. Zoltan jettisons from the II Neo Zeong and intends to fight with the Sinanju Stein.

The halo of the psycho shard had continued to supply power to the unit. Roaring like a beast, Zoltan released allof its power and created a powerful psycho field around him. The visor helmet that he was wearing was shattered from the impact of the shock wave and blood started seeping from the corner of his eyes where shards had scratched him.

Jona witnessed the spectacle before him. Behind the Sinanju Stein, the helium 3 tanks were starting to approach critical mass due to the radiating psycho shard. Enraged, Jona calls out Zoltan’s name. With his body already experiencing a heavy burden, he channels Rita and Michelle to attack him. He charges towards the Sinanju Stein with everything he has. The Phenex presses against the psycho field that the Sinanju Stein had thrown up and ultimately pierced the psycho shard barrier as well. He rushed the Sinanju Stein, brandishing


psycho frame material drifting nearby gathers around it. They create the shape of the Armed Armor DE, similar to the wings on the Phenex. The wings wrap around the psycho shards that are emitting light as well as the remains of the II Neo Zeong. When wrapped in the feathers, the light of the psycho shard disappeared as did the II Neo Zeong that was skewered with the Sinanju Stein, as though they were crushed. The light that was covering the Helium 3 reserve base also disappeared. Instead, a blue light is emitted from the huge wings of the Phenex. A rainbow colored light envelops the entire base.

The Captain of the Damascus asks Iago if a critical explosion was averted or not. He suddenly sees a mobile suitthe silhouette immediately collapsed and morphed into the figure of a person and embraced Jona from behind. He had come to help JOna, having been guided by Rita and Michelle’s will, but Jona didn’t know that just yet. He left the field of light guided by him.

*

Mineva Lao Zabi was watching the situation unfold from the Vist Foundation estate on Magellanica. Since the Laplace incident, it was anchored in a protective cage containing a Helium 3 tank at the Helium3 reserve base at Side 3. Monaghan appears on the screen. He reports the incident to her but Mineva lays into him, calling him out on the excuses that he’s making. Ending the communication, Mineva inputs a secret code into the terminal. An image was displayed on the screen.


There, the figure of Singularity One, Unicorn Gundam Unit 1, which was sealed away in a place unknown to anyone.

Mineva muses that it’ll be their life’s work to keep it sealed away. She says it to Banagher Links, who wasn’t there at the moment. Guided by the psycho waves of Rita Bernal and Michelle Luio, he threw himself into the battle again to save Jona Bashta. Banagher, after all, was her soulmate.

EPILOGUE

Jona regained his consciousness. When he opened his eyes, the light reflected from the stars was visible through the psycho suits helmet visor. When he tried to move his stiffened limbs, he felt pain running throughout his entire body, causing him to groan slightly.

He was told to stay still, that his body was being killed by theG’s. When he turned his eyes towards the voice that echoed from the helmet’s built-in speaker, he saw a man looking at him from the hatch of a mobile suit. His face couldn’t be seen but he wore and unmistakable white pilot suit. The mobile suit was familiar to him: it was a Silver Bullet belonging to the Federation Forces. He was laying in the palm of the suits hand.

As he looked around, he noticed he was within the debris of various blown up vessels and debris from the storage tanks. In the distance he could see the semi-ruptured helium 3 reserve base and nothing else. As he unclenched his hands, he realized he was still holding onto the pendant. This time, though, it was broken in three


again. Neither Rita nor Michelle were here anymore.

The man in the mobile suit tried giving him a portable rescue beacon. He’s told that relief will be here soon and that he needs to see a doctor as soon as he gets back to the ship. Jona felt that he had no place to return to. He begins to feel a sense of emptiness welling up inside of him. But just then, he heard voices. They told him they were there and will always be by his side. He didn’t know if it was one or the other but felt that it was both of them. As he looked out, the blue phosphorescence of the Phenex expanding its wings reflected in his visor as it traveled towards the centerhe watched one day with Rita and Michelle. Yet he felt that he couldn’t catch up with it at the speed of light. His words were filled with remorse of being forced to face reality. The man in the white pilot suit told him, “Even so, one day…”

Jona repeated the words even so and smiled back at him. He looked back up at the starry sky again. The blue phosphorescence was already fading. The man once again presented Jona with the rescue beacon and Jona accepted it. Banagher retreated back into the cockpit of the Silver Bullet and gently released Jona, turned the craft around and jettisoned away.

A group of Jesta’s belonging to the Schezarr team approached him. In the palm of one of the suits was Iago,


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Understanding the importance that poetry plays in Iran’s culture and history it came as no great surprise to find not just any ordinary tombs but large mausoleums both ornately decorated with colourful mosaics and set in beautiful public gardens.

Hafez

Hafez is the pen-name of the poet born in the early 14th century, Mohammad Shams al-Din Hafez. Hafez means “one who has learned the Koran by heart” which suggests that he was educated in devoted Muslim surroundings. Hafez was, and still is, renowned for his sensual poetry and passionate free-thinking nature of his writing to the extent that, when he died, he was initially denied a proper Muslim burial. This decision was eventually revoked and he was buried in a Muslim cemetery; his plot marked only by a plain tombstone.

Thisausterity is a marked contrast to the Mausoleum of Hafez which exists today. The centrepiece is the marble tombstone engraved with two of Hafez’ poems. The tombstone stands within an 8-columned rotunda whose roof is coated with copper on the outside and decorated with intricate mosaics made of enamel tiles on the inside. The beautiful garden complex includes a popular tea house where Feri and I ordered tea to drink under the tapestry canopies whilst enjoying the early evening warmth by the rectangular pool.

I understand that the Mausoleum of Hafez is the most visited historical and cultural site in Shiraz. Seeing the number of people come to pay their respects during the short time we were there, I am not surprised.

With tea finished, we made our way out


of the garden and set out this time for the Mausoleum of Saadi.

Saadi

Unlike Hafez who rarely left Shiraz, Saadi travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His travels clearly influenced his writing and the combination of his experiences and the wisdom gathered during his journeys mean that his works are highly valued by Persians. One of his sayings, referring directly to his travels is;

“I have wandered through many regions of the world, and everywhere have I mingled with the people. In each corner, I have gathered something of good.”

This resonates with me following my travels in Iran and I hope it continues!

In many ways, the setting of Saadi’s Mausoleum is even more spectacular than the gardens where Hafez lies in rest. The site covers an areasat on large stone benches awaiting their audience with the King. Some of the walls remain as do two of the original columns. The East portal is well-preserved and bears the design of two figures made up of the body of a bull, with eagle wings and heads of bearded humans. The detailed carving is astonishing.

The Apadana

The Apadana is the largest of the palaces; scholars estimate that it took more than 30 years to build and was in use for almost two centuries. This is where the King of Kings met the nobility and gift-bearers who came from all over the Persian Empire. The remains of the palace still standing suggest that the palace was originally over 20m high and dominated the entire complex. Out of its 72


are also insulated with a very effective and delightful mixture of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair and ash up to 2 metres thick. We found a yakhchal and badgirs together on the outskirts of Na’in between the new town and the ancient citadel and I can vouch that the ice house is a very large building. Sadly, the ice house was locked and we were unable to find anyone who could let us in to take a look.

Ice could either be brought down from the mountains in early winter and stored until the following summer or, more commonly, the water from the Qanats was channelled into areas which were sheltered from the sun and wind so that it froze overnight in the notoriously cold winter desertbe a ban on hosepipes?

Desert country

Nain citadel

Esfahan to Nain

It was when reading about these problems that I came across an ingenious solution to water distribution, the Qanat system. This underground aqueduct system is known to have been developed by the Persians sometime early in the 1st millennium BC, around the same time that we Britons were fighting off the Roman invasion led by Julius Caesar. Qanats were subsequently adopted by Arab and African countries further West and the remains of Qanats can still be found in China, Pakistan, Syria, UAE, Algeria, Greece and Spain.

So what is a Qanat? Simply, a Qanat is a series of shafts connecting ground level to sloping tunnels below ground. The theory is that the Qanats tap into the water underground so that it