of others.

Ron Paul is not a man of integrity. He’s been caught double charging the tax payers for his trips back and forth to Texas. He’s used his position, as well all of the money his zombie supporters send him to make his family richer.

He is a man of low morals and poor character.

He gets on TV and rails about deficit spending, and yet he’s brought home billions, all of it borrowed money. When every other Republican voluntarily swore off earmarks, he was scooping them up, and using them to pay off his cronies.

The man is a fake, a phony, and a fraud.

Oh, and yeah, the federal government CAN ban abortions. I’m a firm believer in states rights, but Roe v Wade made abortion a federal issue. And30 years, and brought home tens of billions in pork, he just got 20% of the vote against Romney! The people who know him best completely rejected him.

Ron Paul has been dead weight in Congress for three decades. Glad to see him go and good riddance!

Yes liberalism is a mental disorder but so is pretend conservativism. This bill is nothing but pandering to the right (of which I count myself) It would accomplish nothing and it discriminates against baby boys. The purpose of the bill was NOT to restrict abortions. The purpose of the bill was to give the pretend conservative establishment Republicans an issue to run one – another way to fool the American people into believing that they really are conservative when in fact they are


provides him the fodder of young, passionate, and idealistic supporters to supplement the old hippies stuck in the 60s and 70s.

Like others before him, the man has become the cult. He knows the damage he has caused by inserting himself into the political process, yet he can no more stop his quest for attention than a junkie can turn away from his drugs.
He’s had the opportunity to do good, but as Gary said, he has done little more than posture and create employment opportunities on his campaign for his family members.

As a doctor, Paul knows that abortion is the taking of a life. While he may support a woman’s right to make that irreversible choice, he has a responsibility to inform the women of its consequences, and tothe writ. The appellant, in his argument portion of the brief, is more specific, and contends that the arrest of the petitioner was initially illegal, because he was arrested on information received by a police officer by telegram from officials in the State of South Carolina and also upon a warrant from a court *261 of that State, which was two years old. Petitioner further contends that the requisition from the demanding State of South Carolina was defective and that the extradition warrant issued by the Governor of Indiana and served on the petitioner just prior to the trial, was legally insufficient on the ground that the Governor did not hold a hearing thereon at which the petitioner was present.
These questions were raised by objections to the various


RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - A national movement to raise awareness about gun violence made its way to Richmond Saturday.

During an event at MLK Middle School for National Gun Violence Awareness Day, Lisette Johnson shared a story that's tormented her family for the last 8 years.

"I still have several bullets in me," said Lisette Johnson, domestic gun violence survivor

Johnson's husband shot her several times before shooting and killing himself in front of their children - It's why she wore orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

The NRA is trying to change the narrative, encouraging its supporters to wear orange. And the president of a pro-gun rights group in Virginia, did just that.

"We're wearing orange, because we think we have a better solution to the problem of violence," said Philiphow his greatest fear is his son being gay and describing someone as looking like “a gay bill board [sic] for Aids” was both cruel and damaging, and he is filled with remorse. Ha ha, jk jk jk. Rather, Hart described the criticisms as “a malicious attack on my character”. He added that he is determined to host the Oscars because: “Somebody has to take a stand against the trolls.” Hi Kevin, Hadley from the Guardian here, can you clarify who are “the trolls”: the people criticising homophobia or the man who writes tweets describing someone as a “fat faced fag”? Kevin?

Troll hunter … Kevin Hart. Photograph: Buchan/Rex/Shutterstock

Hart is not alone in his resistance to self-examination. Aziz Ansari is back doing standup almost a year after he was


of life. Dr. Spertus is also the recipient of the highly competitive Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, which is given to researchers who have made extraordinary contributions to outcomes research and the improvement of cardiovascular care.

Rong Li

Biological Systems/Processes

Formerly an Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Rong Li is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. Ms. Li brings a culturally fresh, direct, and actionable focus to complex questions, such as the prevention (not cure) of Cancer, through an understanding of the mechanisms of degeneration and aging. Ms. Li’s lab has recently discovered a third (mitochondrial) pathway for aging, whichopens fields of research possibilities.

John Richard

Civic Engagement/Activism

John Richard is president of Essential Information, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. He also supervises staff at The Center for Study of Responsive Law, the hub of Ralph Nader’s public interest activities in Washington, which includes consumer protection and public policy. Mr. Richard also pioneered the uses of GIS and data visualization to understand policy impacts.

Arthur Molella

Innovative Education

As the founding Director of the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Dr. Arthur Molella developed a wide range of publications, exhibitions, and programs exploring innovation and creativity as a subject, and innovation and creativity within the realm of exposition. Dr. Molella currently serves as Director Emeritus and as


a senior lecturer in the Department of History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University, as well as serving on the boards of the National Academy of Inventors and the MIT Museum.

Mark Hansen

Community Systems Architect

A former Navy SEAL, Mark Hansen is a result-oriented manager with multifaceted international strategic and operational skills, whose experience was critical in turning around LEGO Systems, Inc., making it the number one toy maker in the world. Mr. Hansen was the original architect of LEGO Factory and currently, as the Senior Director of LEGO Digital Play Studio, serves as the lead in the development of LEGO Universe, a massively multiplayer online game. Mr. Hansen has also successfully implemented and managed innovative, diverse new products; software and technology services/businesses; product licensing; theme parks; educationissues that affect us as citizens and human beings. As part of her distinguished career in museum administration and educational publishing, Ms. McPherson developed educational materials and enhanced the tour experience for the Apollo Theater in New York City, served as the Senior Vice President and Publisher for Time Life Education, and editor for Time, Inc.

Nathan W. “Bill” Pearson

Management Systems

Bill Pearson is the Managing Director of Gallup Hill, LLC, a strategy and organizational consultancy that works closely with senior executives and private equity investors to achieve lasting performance improvements. As an operating executive, Mr. Pearson has served as co-CEO and CFO of a publicly held media company, CEO of a technology firm spun out of Motorola, and has led the restructuring, sale, and public offering of a technology


company

Robert Strom

Economic Thinking

Dr. Robert Strom directed the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s commissioned research, working with the nation’s top scholars to advance knowledge in entrepreneurship, and is the co-editor of three books on entrepreneurship and economic growth. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was Assistant Vice President for public affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and regularly speaks on entrepreneurship to professional and academic audiences.

Gerald Weinberg

Systems Thinking

Gerald Weinberg led the team that created the IBM 360 Operating System, as well as the Mercury and Gemini tracking systems. His 1970s mantra that technology can enhance lives, but also constrain lives if it forces us to conform to its functions and processes, are even more relevant today.

Thomas Volney Munson (in memoriam)

Dynamic Living Systems

A freethinker, inventor, philosopher, and grape-breedercredited with saving the vineyards of Europe from the Phylloxera scourge, Thomas Volney Munson was the second American, after Thomas Edison, to receive the Chevalier du Mérite medal. A proponent of Dynamic Agriculture, Mr. Munson saw cultures as responsive to their place in time, and held that it was not enough to have an idea in the mind—it had to be worked out in dialogue with the real world.

Benjamin Lawless (in memoriam)

Innovative Storytelling

As Former Director of Exhibits at the Smithsonian, Benjamin Lawless pioneered the practices of storytelling in exhibition design. Our 31-year association ended with his passing, but a memorial internship has been established at the Smithsonian to foster innovative storytelling in the next generation.

Taylor Bye contributes rigorous, multi-disciplinary research to the development of ContemPlace initiatives. Having served


in AmeriCorps, a network of national service programs that improve lives and foster civic engagement, Mr. Bye contributes toward addressing critical community needs, and firmly believes that anonymous people can, and often do, change the world by learning and acting together.

Cheryl Muré

Education Program Designer

As President of TurnKey Education, Inc., Cheryl Muré is an experienced professional with extensive training in education, marketing, sales, business development, and management. Ms. Muré partners with blockbuster traveling shows, such as Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and Bodies: The Exhibition to create integrated educational programs and experiences that align with curricula, and with 21st century thinking skills.

Bronwyn Llewellyn

Writer

Bronwyn Llewellyn has nearly four decades of experience crafting exhibit text for museums and science centers, including the Tech Museum of Innovation, where she wrote editorial guidelines laterRuggieri has been involved in all phases of exhibition design and planning, including conceptual design, team management, detail design, and production supervision for over 35 years. As a senior exhibit designer, Mr. Ruggieri expertly defines techniques for communicating content intent, develops budgets, and ensures design solutions and strategies integrate with traffic flow and the overall architectural program.

Stephanie Reyer

Experience Designer

As the former Vice President of Exhibitions at the National Constitution Center, Stephanie Reyer led the organization’s efforts to produce and travel original exhibitions across the country. As a creative executive with more than 20 years’ experience developing award-winning exhibitions and design projects, Ms. Reyer has proven success in the interpretive development, design, and fabrication of engaging learning environments.

Jan Adkins

Writer/Illustrator

Formerly Director of Illustration for National Geographic Magazine, Jan Adkins has


received numerous awards for his work published in over 37 books, many of them illuminating complex subject matter, and/or conveying complex information to children. Known to friends and colleagues as the “Explainer General,” Mr. Adkins possesses a particular skill in explaining complicated subjects in colorful detail so that general audiences can understand them.

David Brown

Interactive Systems Designer

David Brown is the former Technology Director for the GLOBE Program, a global citizen-science project now active in 110 countries around the world. Additionally, Mr. Brown was a communications researcher at JPL and spent three years at NASA Headquarters working on communications and data systems for the Space Station and Shuttle programs. As an exhibit design associate, he led the design and development of media and interactives for the International Civil Rights Museumand the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and continues to convey complex concepts through the use of digital media and interactive technologies, both in physical spaces and online.

Howard Litwak

Strategic Planner

Howard Litwak has served as an Owner’s Representative for the Annenberg Foundation/Trust at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, for the last 13 years. He also served as the Senior Project Manager for the Experience Music Project (now the Museum of Pop Culture), and continues to employ his keen ability for thinking and articulating on his feet to ensure our initiatives maintain forward momentum.

Vernita McMurtrey

Development Director

Vernita McMurtrey has more than 20 years of expertise in nonprofit executive management as well as a broad health industry background. Ms. McMurtrey was the Executive Director of the Hope Family Care Clinic and


past President of TREES Consulting, specializing in training, research, and nonprofit education and management services. She also served as the Executive Director of the Missouri Health Insurance Pool for over 10 years. Having formerly served as Chair of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, and as current board member for Arts & AGEing KC, she brings her knowledge of Public Policy to ensure positive personal impact and an ongoing commitment to community engagement.

Gerard Eisterhold

President and Founder

Gerard Eisterhold is a leader in developing exhibits and engaging educational experiences that connect with diverse audiences. ContemPlace’s immersive and transformative informal learning environments leverage technology to social ends, and are rooted in his belief that exhibition and interpretive design will play an increasingly important role in the future of1. Field of the Invention
The invention is based on an injector for fuel injection in an internal combustion engine.
2. Description of the Prior Art
One injector is known from German Patent Disclosure DE 100 57 683 A, has an injector body, to which a fuel line is connected by which fuel at high pressure is delivered from a reservoir to the injector. In the injector body, a bore is provided, into which a fuel filter is inserted, through which filter the fuel delivered through the fuel line flows upstream of the injection. In the filter bore, a sealing seat is formed against which the end region of the fuel line is pressed upon the securing of the fuel line to the injector body. The sealing seat and the end


region of the fuel line are disposed with their longitudinal axes at least approximately coaxially to the filter bore. The location of the filter bore in the injector body must be selected in accordance with the space available in the injector body, whereupon the location of the end region of the fuel line is then also defined and cannot be selected optimally to suit the space conditions in the surroundings of the injector. The result under some circumstances can be an unfavorable installed position of the end region of the fuel line, and especially in the longitudinal direction of the injector a great structural height can ensue, which can make it more difficult to install an engine equipped with the injector in a motor vehicle. In particular, theSchulz: Cut aid to African countries with anti-gay laws

Imprisoning gays and lesbians for their sexuality is a “disgrace” that should disqualify offending countries from EU aid, the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, told a joint summit with MPs from the Pan-African Parliament yesterday (31 March), sparking a row.

On 25 March, Ethiopia became the third African country, after Uganda and Nigeria, to institute long-term imprisonments for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people, with other African states, including Kenya, said to be preparing to follow suit.

This represented “an unacceptable violation of the basic rights of individuals” said Schulz, who has been widely tipped to be the next president of the European Commission, after elections in May.

“It is a disgrace that in far too many places, one can


Milwaukee, June 6, 2017 – Baird associates and their family members donated more than 5,974 volunteer hours to help more than 130 non-profit organizations as part of the firm's annual "Baird Gives Back Week," held from May 15-20. The firmwide event, which was launched eight years ago, included more than 1,508 volunteers from over 75 Baird offices in cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Shanghai, Milwaukee, London, Atlanta, Baltimore and many more. Associates across the global financial services firm helped with projects such as preparing and serving food, tutoring and mentoring students, working with seniors, building homes, cleaning up parks, performing indoor/outdoor maintenance, and assisting with event coordination.

"Baird Gives Back Week truly showcases the passion that Baird associates have for the communities in which we live andwork," said Steve Booth, Baird President and CEO. "We are proud of our nearly 100 year tradition of giving back and of our associates who generously share their time and talents with very deserving organizations not only during this week, but throughout the year."

The weeklong event is organized by the Baird Gives Back Associate Resource Group, which consists of associates who share a passion for volunteering. It is an extension of Baird's commitment to the communities in which its associates live and work, which is core to the firm's culture and brand. This caring commitment is a tradition built through the efforts of the firm, Baird Foundation and the community involvement of Baird associates. Baird gives its associates two full paid days off annually to volunteer in their


communities through the "Baird Cares" program, which many use to participate in Baird Gives Back Week. Learn more about the firm's drive to give back in the 2016 Baird Foundation Annual Report.

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Advances in information and communication technology have facilitated the development of online psychotherapy. This form of psychotherapy would provide the developing world with better access to professional mental healthcare services. At the same time, it is prudent to carefully consider the various ethical, legal and regulatory issues involved in online psychotherapy. This paper highlights the major ethical issues involved in the use of online psychotherapy, whether conducted via e-mail, chat rooms or interactive video, and identifies practical solutions for the ethical dilemmas that exist. Many authors and organisations have expressed their opinions on the subject, but no consensus has evolved. The advice offered to psychologists is mostly skewed and the scarcity of literature available to those considering expanding their practice


Earlier this year, Duster went back into the studio for the first time in 18 years and now the band are attached to their first show in the same amount of time. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, they’ll be opening up for (Sandy) Alex G at Warsaw in Brooklyn on 12/14, with Girlpool’s Harmony Tividad starting off the bill.

The group has achieved a revered status among many of today’s indie-rock set, as laid out in our recent feature about the low-key legacy of the band.

The band formed in 1996 and released two albums and an EP before breaking up in 2000. Recently, they started an Instagram account and last week they teased that they were planning some upcoming shows. It’s unclear where else Duster are playing later thisa first multiplexer and a second multiplexer, each for outputting one of the delayed clock signals according to the first and the second select signals, respectively. The apparatus further comprises the first and the second edge-triggered flip-flops, for receiving output signals of the first and the second multiplexer respectively. The apparatus further comprises a logic gate for outputting the digital wave according to the outputs of the first and the second edge-toggled flip-flops. The digital wave is toggled according to the first select signal, and then further toggled according to the second select signal.


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The former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia said in an interview this week that following 9/11, Saudi King Salman had insisted to him that the Mossad was responsible for the attacks.“One of my first calls was with then-governor of Riyadh... Prince Salman,


What is MoneroV (XMV) Cryptocurrency?

By Prashant Jha

MoneroV is a Hard-Fork of the well-known privacy coin Monero. The hard-forked cryptocurrency promises to be completely private, untraceable, with finite reserve and completely secure.

The Hard-Fork has become a norm in the crypto ecosystem, where when the coin gets enough attention and adoption, the community behind it gets divided over certain aspect and wants to bring in the changes to improve upon the existing coin, this leads to the Hard-Fork of the cryptocurrency.

The MoneroV got forked from its predecessor on the block number 1564965, and all the previous holders of the original coin got the additional MoneroV when the hard-fork commenced on April 18, 2018.

Since both Monero and MoneroV are privacy centered coins, both use the concept of ring signature and stealthof things. Half the time, he even believes them. But they're never true. He'll just keep coming back to us for more money until the police catch him. And when they do, I have no doubt he'll throw me to the wolves." She reached over and grabbed my hand, gripping it tightly. "Hoagy, what am I going to do?"

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the verdict, the damages awarded by the jury were excessive. The Court therefore grants defendant's motion for a new trial unless plaintiff elects to file remittitur of damages in excess of $283,585.15, the maximum damage award the Court finds supported by the record.

BACKGROUND
Plaintiff, a seventy-five-year-old woman, was injured on October 27, 1991, when she arrived at Pennsylvania Station in New York City on defendant's train bound from Niagara Falls. Escalator # 15, which is located in the center of Amtrak's main waiting room and ascends from the lower level of the station to the waiting room, is within those portions of Pennsylvania Station owned, operated, and maintained by Amtrak. Plaintiff was riding Escalator # 15 when she fell backwards, landing prone with her feet towards the top ofthe escalator. There was conflicting testimony as to whether plaintiff's head actually struck the escalator stairs or hit the side of the escalator. Harold Thompson, a red cap employed by Amtrak, had been assisting plaintiff with her luggage and was standing directly behind her at the time she fell. Mr. Thompson testified that he caught plaintiff, successfully preventing her head from striking the stairs. The testimony did show, however, that plaintiff's head and a portion of her body came into contact with the right side of the escalator.
At trial it was undisputed that at the time of the accident the moving handrail on the right side of the escalator, which plaintiff testified she had been holding, stopped abruptly. Plaintiff stated that the mobile stairs continued to ascend after


the handrail failed, creating an effect whereby she felt as though she were being dragged backwards *482 down the stairs by the handrail. Plaintiff claimed, and defendant conceded, that Escalator # 15 malfunctioned as a result of defendant's negligence, and that this negligence was a cause of the accident. Defendant urged unsuccessfully at trial, however, that plaintiff's own negligence contributed to her injuries, in that plaintiff would not have been injured or would have sustained a less serious injury if she simply had released the right-hand handrail and continued up on the escalator stairs.
The case was tried before this Court and heard by a jury on August 2, 3, and 4 of this year. After finding no contributory negligence, the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffshe experiences constant pain in her right side and leg, numbness in her right hand, and has great difficulty walking. She stated that she no longer has the ability to perform daily tasks such as shopping and laundry, and has lost the independence she enjoyed before the accident. Plaintiff described a variety of injuries for which she has received continuing medical treatment, and stated that she had seen her treating physician as recently as one week before trial.
Plaintiff's expert, Dr. Paul Post, testified that a standard magnetic resonance imaging examination (an "MRI") revealed three disc herniations, one disc bulge, and a straightening of plaintiff's normal spinal curve. He testified that during his examination of plaintiff he noted areas of decreased sensation on plaintiff's right hand, tightness in the


engage in a portion of her normal daily activities. Plaintiff required no surgery or period of hospitalization as a result of the accident, and, according to the testimony provided by plaintiff's own medical expert, it is highly unlikely that she will undergo any surgical procedure in the future. The Court also views with great significance plaintiff's age and condition at the time of the accident. The parties and their experts agree that plaintiff is an elderly woman who suffers from degenerative arthritis. Indeed, defendant's expert testified that in his opinion some, if not all, of plaintiff's symptoms originate from degenerative disc disease and her arthritic condition, rather than from the accident at issue. Plaintiff's life expectancy, as set forth in the mortality tables and as decided by theand Zingaro. It comes in several ethnic/national varieties including Zingaran, San Zancudan, Puerto Oroan, and Hidalgan, with various degrees of mutual intelligibility.

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was used as a training prosthesis. Out of three patients, one patient was referred immediately after surgery, one patient five years after surgery and other patient one month after surgery. In the first and third case report, resection was distal to canine. The amount of deviation was more in the first patient as the patient reported one month after surgery, mandibular GF was given for a period of three weeks later replaced with maxillary GF. The amount of deviation was trivial in the third patient as he reported one week following surgery, maxillary GF was given. In the second case report, the downward rotation of mandible was significant as the resection involved mandibular canine. For this case, maxillary GF was given with functionally generated occlusal table on non-defectConcord,
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junta in 1967. In short, Giorgos Xylouris comes from stock where ideas have always cross-pollinated from all corners of the Mediterranean; where meandering raga-like structures or North African grooves can crop up just as often as Celtic fiddle licks or Eastern modes. As an Australian, Jim White’s also from a pretty mongrel folk culture himself. His years with Dirty Three demonstrated his ability to frame and compliment a melody with uncanny fluidity – never settling for rhythms aping anything else at all, serving only the strings of Warren Ellis, Mick Turner. And now Giorgos Xylouris.

Xylouris White’s first album Goats was an almost entirely instrumental affair, comprising for the most part of meditative noodlings on themes that had Xylouris and White outright sparring at some points, and consoling atA charity founded by George Galloway which claimed it had raised £1m in aid bound for the Gaza Strip “may not have conducted any charitable activity or distributed any humanitarian aid”, according to the findings of a Charity Commission statutory inquiry.

The former MP founded Viva Palestina in 2009 when Charity Commission told Galloway that a fundraising appeal for aid in Gaza he was running had to be registered as a charity. An earlier inquiry cleared the charity of having links to the ruling party in Gaza, Hamas, but was criticised for its governance.

Galloway was not a trustee, but he did front some media activity for Viva Palestina, was described as its founder and used his social media activity to encourage people to donate.

A second inquiry was opened in


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Media reports in 2009 said that hundreds of volunteers were involved in a 110-strong aid convoy delivering £1m of aid to Gaza. At the time Galloway told the BBC: "It is a massive and peaceful movement in support of the beleaguered population of Gaza and Palestine.

"It is happening everywhere, but is especially strong in the north of England and especially among young Muslims."Search form

Basketball Ends Season With 97-87 Loss To Huskies

SEATTLE (AP) - Despite a career high 31 points from sophomore guard Aisha Hollans, the USC women's basketball team fell to Washington, 97-87, in the second round of the Postseason Women's NIT on Sunday in Seattle.

The win was the 100th for head coach June Daugherty at Washington, and it came against the school's former coach, Chris Gobrecht. The Huskies will host Oregon in the quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Ducks beat Oregon State in the final seconds 50-48 on Sunday to advance.

Giuliana Mendiola and Loree Payne led the Huskies with 18 points apiece, which was playing USC for the third time this season. Washington won the two previous games by a total of seven points.

Hollans added her career high on


14-of-21 shooting and had five assists and four rebounds for the Women of Troy. Ebony Hoffman added 25 points, seven assists and eight rebounds for the Trojans, who ended their season 16-14. Both players were named to the Pac-10's first team.

These teams are accustomed to playing close games, but it didn't happen this time. Washington's 3-point shooting was too good and the Huskies' swarming defense in the paint made it difficult for USC's post players much of the game. Washington made 10 of 19 3-pointers with five different players scoring them.

But the Women of Troy managed to match the Huskies from beyond the arc in the second half. Hollans and Hoffman both hit a career high four and six 3-pointers, respectively. The Women of Troy finished the gameBollywood actor Nana Patekar reacts while talking to the media in Mumbai, Monday, October 8, 2018. (PTI Photo) Bollywood actor Nana Patekar reacts while talking to the media in Mumbai, Monday, October 8, 2018. (PTI Photo)

The Maharashtra State Commission for Women Tuesday took cognisance of the complaint filed by Tanushree Dutta alleging sexual harassment against actor Nana Patekar. The Commission issued notices to the Bollywood actor along with choreographer Ganesh Acharya, producer Sameer Siddiqui and director Rakesh Sarang to submit their response within 10 days.

According to officials from the commission, a notice has also been shot to the Cine and TV Artists Association (CINTAA) to explain the procedure to redress sexual harassment complaints. “As per the Act, production houses and TV artist association must have a redressal mechanism


The Tennessee state Senate on Monday considered a bill that would allow counselors to discriminate against LGBT students, sexually-active students or anyone else based on religious objections.

Republican state Sen. Joey Hensley encouraged fellow senators to pass SB 514 to “prevent an institution of high education from discriminating against a student in the counseling, social worker, psychology programs because of their religious beliefs.”

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According the The Tennessean, the bill was inspired by Julea Ward, a Christian student who was expelled from Eastern Michigan after she refused to “engage in gay-affirming counseling” by helping an LGBT student who wanted to be treated for depression in 2009. Arizona has already passed a law based on the case. Similar bills have also been proposed by lawmakers in Michigan and Georgia.

Hensley’s bill would protectof attacks originate to trick customers into revealing their personal as well as account details.

Mark Lee, Trust and Safety Manager, eBay, UK, said during e-Crime Congress 2008 Conference held in first week of March 2008 in London, that phishing attacks will continue to create trouble for eBay users.

At the conference, Lee highlighted the lack of fear of real punishment causing the problem. He also commented on the gravity of problem in Romania.

Lee further said that organized criminal groups are engaged in the attacks. There are few towns in Romania where groups concentrating on sites like eBay to earn money, as reported by silicon on March 10, 2008.

However, Lee also clarified that eBay has managed to nab the small networks of cyber criminals but tracking organized and big groups


Power is one
thing. The problem of how to administer it is another.1  Douglas MacArthur

On 9 April 2003, jubilant crowds and US troops toppled the statue of
Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad and drew down the curtain on the major combat phase of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. Within hours of the liberation of Baghdad, amid spreading
disorder and growing expectations, debate began over the reconstruction challenges ahead. Criticism and frustration with the chaos
on the ground intensified over the apparent failure of the United States to plan
adequately for the
restoration of political and economic order once major combat operations had ended.

The root of
Washingtons failure to anticipate the political disorder in Iraq rests precisely in
the characterization of these challenges as postwar problems, a
characterization used by virtually all analysts inside and outside of government. The Iraq
situationUS military
forcesusually the Army. The United States entered virtually all of its wars with the
assumption that the government of the opposing regime would change or that the political
situation would shift to favor US interests. During the Spanish-American War, we sought to
change the governments of Cuba and Puerto Rico, and succeeded. During the Civil War,
Washington was determined to change the way the South was governed. In Panama in 1989, the
United States ousted Manuel Noriega, and the war did not end until the regime against
which US forces had fought was out of power and political stability had resumed. In
virtually all contingencies, political leaders in Washington conceded that only US
military forces were up to the task of overseeing and implementing this final aspect of
war. Arguably, the 2003 war in Iraq is


rooted in the most prominent recent case where the
political order did not changethe 1991 Gulf War. Some top Defense Department leaders
have called the 2003 war a logical conclusion to the 1991 campaign.

President
Bushs early concerns, which emerged during his presidential campaign, about the
involvement of US military forces in nation-building and peace operations stemmed from his
desire to avoid overextending American resources and commitments.3 A clear distinction between governance operations that
are integral to war and the myriad of missions referred to in the peace operations
discourse would be hugely beneficial. Such a distinction would allow US defense planners
to focus on the political and economic reconstruction that is a part of war, while
relegating humanitarian and nation-building missions to other organizations. Moreover,
equating the governance tasks that occur in all wars with the broader missionsassociated
with peace operations and humanitarian assistance reinforces the tendency to avoid
planning for governance operations in tandem with planning for combat operations. The
essential point is this: Combat operations and governance operations are both integral to
war and occur in tandem. US soldiers in Iraq today are wondering why, if the war is
supposed to be over, we are still being shot at.4 They remain
in Iraq because the war there is not over. The war in Iraq will not be over until a
legitimate government is in place and until, as Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
has emphasized, the Iraqi people no longer live in fear.

Furthermore, it
often has not been specialized civil affairs personnel who have conducted governance
operations, but tactical combat personnel in the

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theater. Before
World War II, in fact, specialized civil affairs units


the case for their own
specialties, civil affairs advocates tended to ignore that in many previous wars, tactical
combat forces performed reasonably well in implementing key aspects of political and
economic reconstruction. Furthermore, except for one active-duty brigade, all of the
Armys civil affairs units ended up in the reserve component, reinforcing the
separation from the active Armys focus on combat operations and setting governance
operations apart from the professional heart of the military.

US Army officers
have directly supervised the creation of new governments in many defeated states. They
faced remarkably similar governance challenges in all of these contingencies. These
include the well-known success stories of Germany and Japan at the end of World War II, as
well as cases that garner less attention, such as the Mexican War in the 1840s,
reconstruction at the close of the CivilWar, and Puerto Rico and Cuba during the
Spanish-American War. Interventions that included governance operations took place during
the Cold War period, too: the Dominican Republic in 1965, Grenada in 1986, and Panama in
1989. Since the 1800s, in over 13 instances, Army personnel under the theater
commanders operational control supervised and implemented political and economic
reconstruction.5 In virtually all of the Armys major
contingencies, Army personnel remained on the ground overseeing the political transitions
that were essential to the consolidation of victory. Furthermore, the continued presence
of Army troops in several casesGermany and Japan following World War II, South Korea
after the Korean Wartransformed the geostrategic landscape.

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Yet due to a host of reasons, most Army
and civilian officials have failed to absorb the historical lesson that reconstruction is
an integral part of war.

Governance
Operations as Strange and Abhorrent

US civilian


role in the political rehabilitation of the South, fearing
that such power was in palpable conflict with the Constitution and a formula
for absolute despotism.6
As the Army began the reconstruction of Cuba during the Spanish-American War, President
McKinley reassured the public that military government was being established for
non-military purposes. In the early years of World War II, President Roosevelt
and many of his advisors believed that military government was . . . a repulsive
notion, associated with imperialism, dollar diplomacy, and other aspects of our behavior
we had abandoned and was both strange and somewhat abhorrent.7 After receiving one of his first briefings on occupation
plans for Japan, President Truman remarked that civil government was no job for
soldiers and that the War Department should begin to plan to turn occupation
responsibilities over to the State Departmentoccupation. He
compromised by arguing that the State Department would have oversight over policy, with
the War Department responsible for the execution of the occupation.10 During the Vietnam War, there

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was an acceptance by the Johnson
Administration that civil agencies were not up to the task of overseeing pacification;
thus the Civil Operations for Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program was
created within the US Military Assistance Command.

Similar concerns
about military control over governance seem to have influenced decisions in Operation
Iraqi Freedom, contributing to the decision to avoid ceding full operational control of
governance functions to US Central Command (CENTCOM). The Office of Reconstruction and
Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), created before the start of hostilities in February 2003,
was charged with administering the country, providing humanitarian aid, and rebuilding
damaged infrastructure. ORHAs relationship to CENTCOM seemed to create dual
authorities, with ORHA


in the theater, with Bremer reporting
directly to the Secretary of Defense, the CPA remains dependent on CENTCOM for many of the
resources needed by the CPA to accomplish its mission. The specific sets of activities
that fall under CENTCOMs purview and the CPAs purview are being worked out in
the theater, and although the situation seems to be improving, there are still disconnects
between the two organizations. One example: the CPA lacks the capability to secure areas,
and without security, reconstruction in unstable pockets of the country cannot begin.
Joint Task Force 7, under CENTCOMs command, retains responsibility for security,
creating a bureaucratic separation between two inextricably linked tasks. The hundreds of
CPA administrators control very few resources on the ground. The CENTCOM theater commander
almost literally holds all the keys (Army convoys accompany top officials), andCPA
personnel remain dependent upon the Army for accomplishing many of their day-to-day
activities. CENTCOM has a great deal of control on the ground, without the necessary
authorities, while CPA has more control on paper than it does in reality.11

These are precisely
the kinds of problems and constraints that hampered civil agencies in past wars and led to
the decision by US leaders to cede control over governance to the Army. Indeed, with the
appointment of Bremer,

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US civilian and
military leaders failed to appreciate the key difference in Germany at the end of World
War II between General Lucius Clay and High Commissioner John McCloy. It was General Clay,
serving as theater commander and military governor, who oversaw the toughest
political and economic reconstruction tasks, including intensive denazification and
demilitarization efforts as well as banking and monetary reform. The


civilian leader,
John McCloy, arrived in 1949, well after stability had been achieved. In Iraq today, the
Army with appropriate political directionis the only organization that is
capable of asserting the countrywide reach necessary for effective reconstruction to take
root and evolve.

Reluctant
Military Governors

The Army has never
relished the tasks associated with governance. Army leaders have had recurring concerns
about the dilution of resources away from Army combat missions. During the Mexican War,
Secretary of War William Marcy warned his commanding generals that tasks related to civil
administration would be the least pleasant part of their duties.12 During and after the Civil War, the Armys power
during reconstruction made General Ulysses S. Grant uncomfortable, and Union generals were
reluctant to divert any of their forces to meet the requirements of the military
governors: Fighting generals believed that military objectives shouldcome first:
win the war and then worry about the political ramifications later.13 During World War II, General Eisenhower was reportedly
eager to hand duties over to civilian administrators as quickly as possible,14
though in fact this transfer did not occur until political and economic reconstruction was
well under way.

Despite these kinds
of reservations, the Army often has sought control over governance operations due to
military necessity and the desire to preserve unity of command. Army commanders have
recognized that operational control over all activities in the theater was critical for
maintaining stability and for protecting US forces during the course of the war. During
World War II, competition between the Army and civilian planning efforts emerged less
because of the Armys desire to lead governance operations and more because of the
Armys determination to rise above the confusion


of civilian planning and preserve
unity of command. Frustrating coordination problems had arisen in North Africa in the
summer of 1942, and General Eisenhower was determined to avoid a situation in which
conflicting civilian and military authority over the same territory existed.15

Furthermore, in
practice, combat and reconstruction virtually always occurred in tandem, with the defeat
of the enemy forces in rear areas requiring a consolidation of the political situation
while remaining troops pushed ahead. In Germany during World War II, US troops overtook
towns in rear areas and began to restore order and stability even as the advance into
Germany continued. During the Korean War in 1950, the Army actively resisted efforts by
the State De-

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partment and the
United Nations to retain control over governance tasks, not because the Army was eager to
assume reconstruction tasks, but because thecommanding general insisted upon unity of
command.16

The situation in
Iraq today reinforces this link between combat and reconstructionnot as separate
phases of the war, but as interrelated components. Reconstruction efforts are under way,
but American troops remain targets of almost daily attacks by Iraqi irregulars. Indeed,
CENTCOMs regular briefings from Baghdad repeatedly refer to the intermixing of
maneuver forces that are continuing to clear potentially hostile pockets while conducting
assessments and aiding reconstruction efforts. Combat in Iraq, albeit at a different level
of intensity, continues at this writing in late July 2003, and there will be no clear
separation between combat and reconstruction until a new Iraqi governing body is elected
and reasonably stable.

Lessons for
the Future

History offers some
lessons for the contemporary situation in Iraq. First, although the ongoing problems in
Iraq reflect, to some degree, the inevitable fog of


war, most observers agree
that planning for the reconstruction phase was not as advanced as the planning undertaken
by CENTCOM for the first three phases of the war. CENTCOM had responsibility for planning
four phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom: setting the conditions for war, the air campaign,
major combat operations (the ground offensive), and postwar stability operations. However,
this temporal approach to war planning has permitted civilian and military planners to
allow CENTCOM to pay less attention to the final phase of the war.17 The
organizational arrangements that emerged on the ground following the main combat
operations reflected an eagerness to delegate perceived postwar duties.

An acceptance of
political and economic reconstruction as an integral part of war would facilitate
decisions about appropriate command arrangements, decisions that have been so difficult
and incendiary in Iraq. History suggests that leadership overreasons. Yet the
how behind this linkage is equally important: governance operations are the
operational link needed to consolidate a states final political aims in war. One
challenge today is to recruit and train soldiers in a manner that makes clear that
governance missions are a key part of the job they are signing up for. By explicitly
accepting governance operations as a part of war, military and civilian leaders can help
to offset the kind of disillusionment being voiced by young US soldiers throughout Iraq as
they wonder about their ongoing purpose in the theater.22

A rethinking of the
role of governance operations will require a reconsideration of accepted Army definitions
and doctrines. Existing doctrine and the concepts that shape Army combat service support,
counterinsurgency operations, special operations, and civil affairs missions may need to
be modified. While many


candidate Al Gore, Bush warned against the problem of
extending US troops all around the world in nation-building missions. Candidate Bush
repeated this theme in several of his campaign speeches through the fall of 2000.

5. These cases include: (1) the Mexican
War; (2) Reconstruction; (3-5) the Spanish-American War (i.e. the Philippines, Cuba, and
Puerto Rico); (6) the Rhineland following World War I; (7-10) World War II
(i.e. Germany, Italy, Japan, and Korea); (11) Korea in 1950; (12) the Dominican
Republic in 1965; (13) Grenada; (14) Panama in 1989. There were also the early cases of
the Indian wars, in which the Army administered territories throughout the West. See Henry
Putney Beers, The Western Military Frontier 1815-1846 (Philadelphia: Univ. of
Pennsylvania, 1935); and Fairfax Downey, Indian Wars of the U.S. Army 1776-1865
(New York: Doubleday, 1963).

7. See Earl F.
Ziemke,Improvising Stability and Change in Postwar Germany, in Robert Wolfe,
ed. Americans as Proconsuls: United States Military Government in Germany and Japan,
1944-1952 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1984), p. 59. See also Henry L.
Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York: Harper
and Brothers, 1947), p. 556.

14. General Lucius
Clay wrote that he and Eisenhower had intended to build an organization that could
be transferred bodily to a civil branch of government. Lucius D. Clay, Decision
in Germany (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1950), p. 53. Note also that
after the opening of the Armys first school of military government in 1942, Army
leaders recognized that although it was the sole agency capable of initiating the
reconstruction process, civilian agencies would eventually help too. See Memo,
Wickersham, Comdt, SMG, for PMG,


17 June 1942, PMGO files, 321.19, MG, original citation
in Harry L. Coles and Albert K. Weinberg, Civil Affairs: Soldiers Become Governors,
United States Army in World War II Series (Washington: Center of Military History, 1964),
p. 12.

15. The Army
believed this was in contrast to the British system in which civil affairs operations were
closely guided by political authorities in London. See Coles and Weinberg, p. 162. See
also Msg, Marshall to Eisenhower, 8 May 43, OPD Msg files, CM-OUT 3586, original citation
in Coles and Weinberg, p. 169.

16. Eighth Army had
responsibility for all civil assistance activities in Korea, and MacArthur gave Lieutenant
General Walton Walker (Commander of Eighth Army) complete and overall responsibility
for the provision of necessary supplies and equipment to prevent disease, starvation, and
unrest among the civilian population in Korea. See CINCFE Directiveto CG Eighth
Army, Korea, 17 Oct 1950, reprinted in Darwin C. Stolzenbach and Henry A. Kissinger, Civil
Affairs in Korea 1950-1951, Working Paper (Chevy Chase, Md.: Johns Hopkins University,
Operations Research Office, August 1952), p. 67. There are other documents in
this collection which describe the tension between the Army, the United Nations, and
the State Department. It is also interesting to note that the Department of the Army
actually drew up plans for the occupation of North Korea, anticipating the need
for military government there. For a discussion of the occupation plan, see, RAD W 93721,
DA to CINCFE 10 October 1950, cited by James F. Schnabel, Policy and Direction: The
First Year, United States Army in the Korean War, Office of the Chief of Military
History, US Army (Washington: GPO, 1972), pp. 219-20.

17. Although CENTCOM
reportedly


did some planning for the reconstruction phase of the war in a plan called
Eclipse II, some well-placed observers acknowledge that much less attention was paid to
this phase of the operation than the previous three. As an aside, it is interesting to
note that Eclipse was the name given to one of the early plans that focused on the
reconstruction of Germany after World War II.

18. See press
release, President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,
remarks by the President from USS Abraham Lincoln, at sea off the coast of San
Diego, Calif., 1 May 2002,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/iraq/20030501-15.html.

19. Traditionally,
Afghanistans unifying transportation artery has been the road connecting Kabul in
the east to Herat in the west. This is the key link in Afghanistans ring
road, which also connects its northern provinces with the capital. The
reconstruction ofthis road was seen as an important step demonstrating the US commitment
to reconstruct Afghanistan. It was to be done in conjunction with Japan and Saudi Arabia,
but progress has been extremely slow. See White House, Office of the Press Secretary,
Joint Statement on Road Construction in Afghanistan by the President of the United
States, the Prime Minister of Japan, and the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, 12
September 2002. See also Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service, U.S. Honoring
Pledge to Help Rebuild Afghanistan, 27 February 2003,
www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2003/n02272003_200302278.html.

20. Excellent work
is being done on this by Don Snider. See Don Snider, Gayle L. Watkins, and Lloyd J.
Matthews, eds., The Future of the Army Profession (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002).

21. Huntington
described a military specialist as an officer who is peculiarly expert at directing
the application of violence under certain


prescribed conditions. Samuel Huntington, The
Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (2d. ed.;
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1985), p. 12.

22. There have been
many articles about the frustrations of US soldiers. See, for example, Williams and
Chandrasekaran. See also John Hendren, For U.S. Soldiers in Iraq, Long Haul Grows
Longer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2003, p. A1; and Ann Scott Tyson,
Troop Morale in Iraq Hits Rock Bottom, Christian Science
Monitor, 7 July 2003.

Nadia Schadlow is a senior
program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith
Richardson Foundation in Westport, Connecticut. She previously served for six years in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense. She is a graduate of Cornell University, holds an M.A.
from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins
University,policy formulations. In a hyperactive media age, a single stray sentence will be seized upon.

At the general election, Labour also thrived by attracting the support of many of those who voted to remain in the European Union (enjoying a 28-point lead over the Conservatives among this group). Here, again, ambiguity served a purpose. Mr Corbyn has since been charged with a second betrayal by opposing continued UK membership of the single market. On this, there should be no surprise. Mr Corbyn is an ardent Eurosceptic: he voted against the single market’s creation in 1986 and, from the back benches, he continually opposed further European integration.

However, his position on the single market puts him into conflict with prominent Labour politicians, such as Chuka Umunna and the Welsh First Minister,


that. In a thrilling match, England overcame India by nine runs to lift the trophy. Few of the 26,500 spectators present will forget the match. For this may well have been the moment that women’s cricket (which has for so long existed in the shadow of the men’s game) finally broke through.

England have twice before hosted women’s World Cups. In 1973 matches were played at small club grounds. Twenty years later, when England won the final at Lord’s, the ground was nearly empty, the players wore skirts and women were banned from the members’ pavilion. This time, the players were professionals, every ticket was sold, and the match was shown live around the world. At the end, girls and boys pressed against the advertising hoardings in an attemptvillas which are
scattered over the hills, that rise behind the town, look very pretty
and pleasant. "Mira Mare," the property of Prince Maximilian of Austria,
Emperor of Mexico, is a beautiful marine residence. The streets of
Trieste are paved as those of Florence, Naples, and Messina, with large
stones, like our London footpaths, they present an animated appearance,
for one sees many different costumes. I remember, especially that of the
Mexican soldiers, of which there were many in Trieste, and who, in their
long white woollen cloaks, and broad-brimmed straw hats, are wild and
picturesque-looking fellows.

All the day there blew a strong north-easterly wind, which the
Triestines however, called a Boretta, meaning a little Bora; but I must
confess that in spite of that, I looked rather suspiciously at the many
little white-headed waves of the Adriatic, which looked


his sons, was going to the Holy Land, from a beautiful
sentiment of pure devotion and gratitude. He had been prosperous in his
trade and fortunate in his family. All his sons were doing well, all
his daughters happily married. He had lost his wife many years ago, but
time and religion had soothed that sorrow. He was going to Jerusalem now
to offer there thanks to the Divine Being for the joys of a long and
honourable existence, to pray for the soul of his departed wife, and for
the salvation of all his children. He showed me a letter from his
youngest daughter, in whose house the old man lived, and who had sent
him this letter to Trieste. It was badly spelt, but most touching. She
called upon the Holy Virgin and all the saintsvalues nothing but beauty in
his wife, she looks for a rich Harem, jewels, carriages, and a handsome
compensation in case he sends her away. The women of the middle classes,
who have of course no carriages, ride sometimes on horseback. They sit
like men, and are accompanied by some black or white man servant, who
runs behind the horse, and carries his mistress's slippers and parasol.
These Amazons do not look particularly pretty or graceful, but the men
on horseback are splendid. A Bey or Pasha, on a fine Arab horse,
especially if he is an old man, and still wears the national dress, is a
sight worth seeing. Horse and rider look as if moulded in one form, so
firm and gracefully sits the rider in his saddle. Many of the horses are
splendid, and seem gentle


I asked myself if I had any
right to feel angry, or even annoyed at the cool reception these ladies
gave me; placing myself in their position, I thought that I had reason
to be surprised rather that they had abstained from absolute rudeness
towards me, and had preserved at least the forms of politeness.

Should we like our husbands to receive ladies in their own apartments,
and when it pleases them, only to bring those visitors for a quarter of
an hour to see us, talking with them all the time in a language of which
we do not understand a word, and then leaving us again alone, locked
up, a prey to jealousy and envy? Really one need not be a Turk, under
such circumstances to feel tortured by those ugly passions. Ah, I can
forgive almostto mention these ancestors.

Goethe quotes Pliny's description of Naples, and what Goethe did I
surely may be allowed to do. Instead, therefore, of trying to describe
Naples myself, I will translate what he has quoted: "So happy, lovely,
blessed is that region, that one perceives Nature has rejoiced in her
work there. Such vital air, such continued salutary clemency of the sky,
such fruitful fields, such sunny hills, such innoxious woods, such shady
groves, such useful forests, such airy mountains, such far-extending
cornfields, such an abundance of vines and olive-trees, such fine wool
of the sheep, such fat necks of the oxen, so many lakes, such an
abundance of irrigating rivers and streams, so many seas, so many
harbours! The earth opens her bosom everywhere to commerce, and, almost
anxious to assist man, stretches her arms into the sea."


annoy me like the performances of the young ladies from
Constantinople, or the quadrilles of the young English officer.

We arrived at Leghorn on the 13th of May, after a journey of
twenty-four hours, there we remained the night, not daring to proceed to
Florence, for we knew that all the hotels were over-crowded, and that we
should find it difficult to get a room if we arrived late at night.

After a stroll through the town, which is a well built modern place, we
went to rest, in order to be better able to bear the fatigues, and enjoy
the pleasures of the days to come.

CHAPTER V.

THE DANTE FESTIVAL AT FLORENCE.

    "Del bel paese la dove il si suona."
                    [N] Supreme of gifts which God, creating, gave
            Of his free bounty, sign most evident
            Of goodness, and in his account most prized,
            Was liberty of will, the boon wherewith
            All intellectual creatures, and them sole,
            He hath endowed.

Through the happy crowd that thronged the festive streets of Florence,
we wound our way to the Piazza St. Croce, after having rested a little
while at the house of


them. The
wonderful structures of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Palazzo della Podesta,
the Palazzo Pitti, and of the Duomo, served as a scaffolding for the
fairy palaces that burned through the night. And if possible the effect
they produced was even surpassed by the illumination of the Lung' Arno,
where the long rows of innumerable lights along the banks, and round the
arches of the bridges, were reflected in the placid waters of the Arno,
in which they formed long lines of golden light, and wonderfully
increased the effect of the illumination above. How I wish that we could
be treated to a similar sight in London. Why are the noble mansions,
for instance the Club-houses in St. James, not lighted up in this
way, instead of being actually disfigured by senseless ornaments, which
I hear are nevertheless very costly?Reza Zarrab was a well-connected Turkish-Iranian gold trader known for throwing money around with abandon, paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Turkish officials.

When he was arrested in 2016 and jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, an ultrasecure federal lockup in Manhattan, one of the guards, Victor Casado, 36, of the Bronx, saw an opportunity and offered his services.

Over a year, he smuggling in alcohol, cellphones and vitamin C packets, among other things, for Mr. Zarrab in exchange for at least $50,000 in bribes, the authorities said.

Mr. Casado was eventually arrested and pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges last summer. On Friday, Mr. Casado, a former New York City police officer who was forced to resign after he committed perjury in court, stood before a federal


NRL regular season (this table does not include finals matches)

Scorers

Most Points in a Game: 18 points

 Round 8: Cameron Smith (9 Goals) vs. New Zealand Warriors

Most tries in a Game: 3

 Round 9: Josh Addo-Carr vs. St. George Illawarra Dragons

Winning Games

Highest score in a winning game: 52 points

 Round 17: vs. St. George Illawarra Dragons

Lowest score in a winning game: 7 points

 Round 12: vs. North Queensland Cowboys

Greatest winning margin: 40 points

 Round 8: vs. New Zealand Warriors

Greatest number of Games won consecutively: 8

 Round 12 to Round 20

Losing Games

Highest score in a losing game: 20 points

 Round 21: vs. South Sydney Rabbitohs

Lowest score in a losing game: 4 points

 Round 4: vs. Cronulla Sharks
 Round 11: vs. Manly Sea Eagles

Greatest losing margin: 20 points

 Roundminutes, followed by the reappearance of two to eight images, including the initial one, on the same screen.

When the monkeys correctly chose the image they were shown first, the electronic prosthetic device recorded the pattern of neural pulses associated with their decision by employing a multi-input multi-output nonlinear (MIMO) mathematical model, developed by researchers at the University of Southern California.

In the next phase of the study, a drug known to disrupt cognitive activity, cocaine, was administered to the animals to simulate brain injury. When the animals repeated the image-selection task, their decision-making ability decreased 13 percent from normal. However, during these "drug sessions," the MIMO prosthesis detected when the animals were likely to choose the wrong image and played back the previously recorded "correct" neural patterns for the


smith-abortion

Rep. Chris Smith addresses New Jersey residents who trekked to Washington for the annual anti-abortion March for Life. (Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media)

WASHINGTON — As thousands marched against abortion, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed legislation to cut off any federal funding for abortion and health insurance plans that fund the procedure.

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.) played a key role in both events.

Smith was chief sponsor of the bill that would permanently enshrine a ban on federal funded abortions for poor women except in case of rape, incest or the life of the mother. The legislation also would require insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act to break out whether they cover elective abortion and prohibit them from adding premiums for that procedurestated after signing the agreement with Riyadh that “the two sides signed agreements which have become known in the fields of air defense and in other fields, and these agreements were reached during the recent visit of the Saudi King to Russia, and they have entered into force today.”

The assistant of the Russian president for military cooperation had recently revealed that Riyadh and Moscow would sign S-400 missile system contracts soon.


Fargo - Pair a mythical treasure with a heavily armed pirate and what do you get?

Answer: a successful video game.

At least that’s what game designer Cassidy Schnase, known as C.J., is shooting for with “Cursed Gold,” the working title of a video game he is developing for the Wii U game console.

Schnase is co-founder of Fargo-based Wicked Soul Studios, a video game start-up he put together with a friend, Glenn Wade, who has since left the enterprise to pursue a military career.

Wicked Soul Studios is now comprised of a small team that includes Schnase and a few others, including an artist and a music composer.

Wicked Soul is one of about five game design firms in the area, but Schnase said it is the first to be invited toof for as long as he can remember.

His career goals began taking shape in middle school when a counselor asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he answered, “Game designer.”

After graduating from Fargo North High in 2007, Schnase considered attending an area college for a degree that would let him work in the computer hardware field.

Instead, he discovered the University of Advancing Technology, a school based in Tempe, Ariz., that offered online courses.

After 4½ years, Schnase received a bachelor’s degree in video game design and is now putting those skills to use on “Cursed Gold,” which follows the adventures of a pirate armed with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other.

Schnase said the game’s design is similar in style


original quake was about 7km west of Korumburra, and was felt in Melbourne's CBD and the southeastern suburbs.

Tonight's aftershock may not be the last, according to Geosciences Australia.

Senior seismologist Clive Collins told Victorians they may feel further aftershocks, and while it was unlikely the state would ever cop anything stronger, it should never be ruled out.

"If you look at the history of recorded earthquakes in Australia, they are not increasing or decreasing necessarily, it's just the luck of the draw," he said.

"But you can have clusters of activity within the space of a year and then nothing for five years.

"People are also hearing about it a lot more because they can just jump onto the internet.''

4.09pm With the continuing drama of Christchurch's disastrous quake, people are understandably nervouswas turning into a slide.

"Makes you feel for the people of Christchurch, that was just a small insight as to what they are living through," she said.

3.09pm Geoscience Australia has released seismograms of the Korumburra earthquake and say it hit at a depth of 2km.

2.51pm GeoNet reports the New Zealand earthquake hitting 30km west of Taupo (220 km southeast of Auckland), 150 km deep at 3.36pm local time.

The epicentre was below the plate boundary and according to GNS volcanologist Brad Scott, the volcanic zone of the North Island would have absorbed much of the energy.

Dr Scott also told stuff.co.nz the quake was more likely felt on the east coast of both islands.

2.38pm It's a shaky day. There are reports of a 6.5 magnitude earthquake on New Zealand's lower


bedroom. My cat was beside herself, she knew something was not right.

Warragul resident Michael O'Keefe told the Herald Sun it was the strongest he'd ever felt.

"It sounded like a truck was approaching up the street and then it was as if the truck had run into the building. Everything was rattling. It feels a bit like it's not complete, like there is another one to come.''

12.16pm The earthquake was magnitude 4.4, according to the Australian Government Geoscience website.

12.08pm Prof Ian Cartwright, of the School of Geoscience at Monash University, said earth faults that cause quakes do exist in Victoria but it was unusual for tremors to be felt across several suburbs.

"Even though we don't have major faults in Australia, there's always a little bit of movement on thesealso desirable to be able to detect the existence of small rotor ground faults at times when the rotor is in either a state of shutdown, startup, or in operation. By the early detection of the low ground fault currents, and consequent preventive maintenance of the systems, expensive generator downtime is minimized. Particularly, by being able to detect ground faults during the operational state, wasteful downtime is avoided.
There is also a need to provide means for being able to determine whether the fault is in the generator or exciter sides of the electric power generator system. By being able to detect faults on the exciter side, it is easier and less expensive to shut down simply the exciter and not the generator rotor. Accordingly, there is a need


A common and well known form of threshing machine is the rotary combine. In a rotary combine, the grain or other crop harvested in the field is fed by a conveyor section into the threshing section containing the threshing rotor. The rotor itself is an elongated cylindrical member which may be positioned transversely or longitudinally of the direction of travel of the combine, but usually the latter. Thresher vanes or bars are permanently affixed to the outer surface of the rotor, usually arranged in a simple helical pattern, and it is those elements which do the work of separating the edible grain from the remaining plant material. Various agitators, shakers, graders, and screens are then utilized to further separate the different plant components.
In rotary threshing, it is customaryMilitants backed by the United Arab Emirates have killed six Yemeni worshippers and abducted four others in an attack on a mosque in the southern province of Dhale.

The purpose behind the Friday attack is not clear yet, Yemen's al-Masirah TV reported, quoting local sources.

Dhale province, where the mosque is located, has come under intensified attacks by the Saudi-led coalition and their mercenaries as the forces of the Ansarullah-led government, known as the National Salvation Government, have been retaking large swathes of the province from the aggressors.

On the same day, the coalition forces and their mercenaries also launched artillery attacks on residential areas in al-Hali district of the port city of Hudaydah, killing three Yemenis, including a little girl.

The attacks were yet another violation of the Hudaydah ceasefire agreement


between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which was reached in the Swedish capital of Stockholm in December 2018.

The Ansarullah movement has repeatedly complained about Saudi Arabia’s repeated violation of the ceasefire in Hudaydah. The city serves as a lifeline for millions of Yemenis who are facing the threat of famine due to Saudi airstrikes and siege of the country.

Based on the UN-brokered ceasefire, the Houthis unilaterally withdrew their forces from the key ports of Salif, Ras Isa, and Hudaydah; however, the other side to the conflict has not carried out its end of the bargain.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched the Hudaydah offensive in June 2018 but have been facing strong resistance from Yemeni armed forces, led by the Houthis, as well asthe city’s residents.

Hudaydah has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the Saudi-led war, which Riyadh began in March 2015. The imposed war initially consisted of an aerial campaign but was later compounded by a naval blockade and the deployment of mercenaries to Yemen.

Yemen is going through the worst humanitarian crisis since 2015.


one listing you don't think you can handle. While the game does make you work, you only have to best half of a club's events in order to move on, so it is still possible to reach the end with a heavy reliance on simpler choreography.

The mild difficulty caters to casual, novice players, but it's the music that attracts them in the first place. Clazziquai is actually a successful Korean trio; they won 'Artist of the Year' at the 2005 Korean Popular Music Awards. The band's style is a fusion of pop, jazz, hip-hop, and electronic dance music. Their contribution to this game focuses on the latter, as their songs were pulled from their experimental 2008 EP Metrotronics. Most of the 48 total songs in the Clazziquai EditionMonday, December 21, 2009

My seagull is going to fly up the Tennessee River from its mouth at Paducah to see what this new Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is all about. But first there is Kentucky Dam which backs up Kentucky Lake....Kentucky Dam and Lake on the Tennessee River???? Go figure.....the lock is along the right bank.

Kentucky Lake.com: "Kentucky Dam creates the largest manmade lake in the eastern United States. It backs up the Tennessee River for 184 miles and creates a lake that stretches south across the western tip of Kentucky and nearly the entire width of Tennessee...it covers 160,300 acres." ....It nearly wore my poor seagull out flying a lake that long.

The lake eventually narrows to river size and going up the river the Krugers would have encountered the


Pickwick Dam. Just before that on the left bank is the site of the Battle of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. I have been there and it is very sobering to contemplate what went on there. I don't know what the Krugers thought as they passed by or did they visit it? You might want to look it up.

The Pickwick Dam or Pickwick Landing Dam has a lock along the left bank and backs up the Tennessee into a reservoir called Pickwick Lake.

The Divide Cut is a 29 mile artificial canal between Pickwick Lake and Bay Springs Lake which, as the name would indicate, crosses the divide between the Mississippi River drainage basin and drainage to the Gulf of Mexico through Mobile Bay.Computer Alliance

Aquaponics refers to the rearing of fish and crops together in a managed setting. It is a combination of aquaculture, the rearing of fish, and hydroponics, the rising of vegetation without soil. In aquaponics the water from the fish tanks is used to grow the crops. The plants get their vitamins from the nutrient wealthy water produced by the fish wastes. Since within the strategy of deriving their vitamins from the waste water, the vegetation are actually cleaning the water, the water is thus recycled and reintroduced into the fish tanks. Aquaponics is commercially viable that a farmer promote both fish and plant products, corresponding to lettuce, tomatoes and spinach. Whether or not it is a book, weblog or even social media put up, it is simpler


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The 2013 NASL season will hopefully be a transitional period to a more consistent 2nd division in North American Soccer. The league has announced expansion teams for the next three season including a team in Ottawa, and 2013 will see the return of the New York Cosmos. The Cosmos have signed former MLS players Carlos Mendes, Hunter Freeman, Joseph Nane and Peri Marosevic, although feel they are not ready to play in the spring. The league decided to do a split season similar to what is used in South America with each season champions playing in the 2013 Soccer Bowl at the end of the Fall Championship. Seven teams will compete in the 14game Spring Championship including FC Edmonton who are looking to improve on their last place finish last season. Until the Cosmos enter the league, below are my predictions and analysis for each team competing in the 2013 NASL season.

ATLANTA SILVERBACKS

2012: 7-12-9 (7th in regular season)

Head Coach: Brian Haynes

Key Returners: Martyn Lancaster Df (25GP), Borfor Carr Fw (22GP 2G), Shane Morony Df (18GP 3G)

Key Newcomers: Ruben Luna F (Dallas MLS), Kellen Gulley (Chicago MLS on Loan), Mark Bloom D (21GP for Charlotte USL PRO)

Analysis: Altlanta has struggled in the NASL finishing last and 2nd last in 2012. In 2013 the team brought in the very opinionated Eric Wynalda, who created some buzz last season as manager of Cal FC who became the first USASA side to beat an MLS


Club in the US OPEN Cup (Portland Timbers). Wynalda brought in six Cal FC players along with former MLS players Ruben Luna and Kellen Gulley. On paper the team looks worse off than last season especially with the losses of Goalkeeper Daniel Illyes, Midfielder Ciaran O'Brien and leading Goalscorer Matt Horth.

2013 Prediction: 7th Place CAROLINA RAILHAWKS 2012: 10-8-10 (4th in regular season - Lost Semi-Finals)

Head Coach: Colin Clarke

Key Returners: Nick Zimmerman F (26GP 15G 1A), Brian Shriver Fw (22GP 5G 3A), Ty Shipalane Mf (27GP 5G 4A), Kupono Low Mf (26GP)

Key Newcomers: Tim Murray GK (New England MLS), Nicholas Addlery F (23GP 9G 1A with Puerto Rico), Ciaran O'Brien M (23GP 2G 4A with Atlanta), Paul Hamilton D (23GP 1G with Edmonton). Analysis: After dominating the 2011 season,2A with Minnesota), Edson Edward D (20GP with Puerto Rico) Analysis: Former Canadian National Team Player Colin Miller takes over as head coach of FC Edmonton. The club brought in Albert Watson and Daryl Fordyce from Northern Ireland and Americans Wes Knight and Neil Hlaverty to create stability. However, it’s defender Edson Edward and midfielder Shuan Saiko, both on the outside of the Canadian National Team, who could provide the most excitement to Clarke Stadium. Edmonton does have some depth issues and are hoping the addition of Carlyle Mitchell on loan from the Whitecaps and veteran Chris Nurse will make Edmonton competitive throughout the season.

2013 Prediction: 6th Place FORT LAUDERDALE STRIKERS 2012: 9-10-9 (5th in regular season - Lost in 1st Round)

Head Coach: Daryl Shore

Key Returners: Mark Anderson


League player Jamal Johnson will hope to assist the offence.

2013 Prediction: 5th Place MINNESOTA UNITED FC

2012: 8-9-11 (6th in regular season - Playoff Finalists)

Head Coach: Manny Lagos

Key Returners: Simone Bracalello F (23GP 5G), Matt Van Oekel GK (25GP), Justin Davis D (24GP 1G 3A), Kentaro Takada M (24GP 2G 1A)

Key Newcomers: Etienne Barbara F (Vancouver MLS), Pablo Campos F (28GP 20G 5A with San Antonio), Aaron Pitchkolan D (23GP 2G 1A) Analysis: Playoff specialist Minnesota United will have a very interesting strike force for the 2013 season. Etienne Barbara joins the club from Vancouver, who failed to perform in the MLS although and prior scored 20 goals for Carolina and Pablo Campos joins him after scoring 20 goals with San Antonio last season. Barbara and Campos did playAnalysis: San Antonio had a very successful expansion season, both on and off the pitch in 2012, including generating an attendance of over 9,000 per game and finishing 1st during the regular season. This year the club opens a new soccer specific stadium and they also brought in former MLS players Bryan Jordan and Pat Phelen, who will join Blake Wagner, Greg Janicki and Canadian Kevin Harmse as well as five new players from Eastern Europe. Although they also allowed 20 goal scorer Pablo Campos, Wes Knight, Matt Gold, and Aaron Pitchkolan, all who have MLS experience, to leave during the off season. It’s difficult to predict how San Antonio will do this season although I think they lost too much in the off-season to finish first again.

2013


Prediction: 3rd Place TAMPA BAY ROWDIES 2012: 12-7-9 (2nd in regular season - Playoff Champions)

Head Coach: Ricky Hill

Key Returners: Mike Ambersley F (27GP 6G 7A), Luke Mulholland F (26GP 5G 1A), Takuay Yamada M (28GP 3G 1A), Frankie Sanfilippo D (26GP 2G)

Key Newcomers: Armani Walker F (21GP 7G 4A with Minnesota), Jay Needham D (25GP 3G 1A with Puerto Rico) Analysis: Tampa Bay won the 2012 championship beating Minnesota in the finals on Penalty Kicks. This season the Rowdies will have to compete off the field with USL PRO expansion team VSI Tampa, although on the field the team should have the lineup to compete for another championship. The club has nine regulars returning from last season, including the strike partnership of Mike Ambersley and Luke Mulholland. TampaJose at this time appears to be beach erosion and rip currents along the shore. There will also be some gusty winds and some heavy rain squalls making their way onshore as well.

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Major Hurricane Maria is the second category 5 storm in the tropical Atlantic Basin this month. It is unfortunately in the same basic location as the last category 5 storm Irma. Maria is lashing the islands of the Lesser Antilles this morning and is expected to move to the northwest over the next several days.

This track forecast puts the center of the storm over the island of Puerto Rico by Wednesday afternoon. The system should slide just north of the Dominican Republic and then take a more northerly turn by Friday.


will come out soon."

James gave Swansea the lead in the 23rd minute against Nathan Jones' side, with Mike van der Hoorn and Oli McBurnie also got on the scoresheet as Potter's side clinched their third successive victory.

Wales boss Ryan Giggs was in attendance to watch James - as well as Connor Roberts, Joe Allen, Sam Vokes and Ashley Williams - in action on Tuesday night.

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And having starred for Wales on his first competitive start for his country against Slovakia in March, James hopes he can force his way into Giggs' plans once again for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Croatia and Hungary in June.

When asked about Giggs being at the game, James responded: "It wasn’t until after the game that I was told.

"There willhave been a few players from Stoke that he was looking at as well, so that was a key game to try and get in the squad for the European qualifiers in June."

James took his goal tally to six for the season for club and country with his effort against the Potters.

And the Swansea academy product admits he's been delighted with the way the Swans have acquitted themselves over what has been a hectic schedule of late.

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"It’s been a tough week, so to come out with three wins is fantastic. The football that we’ve been playing is unbelievable," he added.

"I had two the other day which I thought were unlucky not to go in. As soon as I cut back inside, the only thing


It has been a summer of big change in Miami. Some of it was expected; some was not. The Big Three era may be over, but the rapid Pat Riley-led retool was hailed a success and there's hope and expectation moving into next season.

As this stands, here are the players who'll carry the Heat forward, those who may still return and those en route to pastures new.

The Starting Five

Dwyane Wade

The NBA Finals masked what was actually an excellent season for Wade. His field goal efficiency of 54.4% was a career high, from career low attempts, suggesting he picked his moments much more effectively. While his accuracy is on the rise, Wade's effectiveness moving forward may depend on his off-season regimen. He's currently rocking the Paleo diet in a27, he infuses a little more youth into the Heat line-up, while adding size, physicality and, as he proved with that elbow to James' throat in their offseason playoff series, a potentially useful mean streak.

The Rotation

Udonis Haslem

After selflessly leaving more money on the table to give his team salary cap flexibility, Mr. 305's status as a Heat legend is beyond doubt. However, following a greatly diminished role in 2013-2014 (games started dropped from 59 to just 18) just how often will we see UD? His minutes were limited even at times when the team seemed to be devoid of defensive toughness. At aged 34 will his role continue to diminish or will the change in approach mean more floor time for Udonis?

Norris Cole

Miami's point guard problems were not


limited to Mario Chalmers during the NBA Finals. Indeed, things got little better when his young back up tagged in. Although Norris made strides forward last year, the Cole Train didn't really pick up a head of steam. This makes 2014-2015 a potentially career-defining year for the 25-year old. Before James' departure, Cole was in line for that starting berth. Now, with Chalmers back in the fold and Napier looking for minutes, Cole could find himself the odd man out and could even be traded if he can yield a decent return. The opportunity to acquire some decent cover for Wade would reportedly tempt Miami.

Chris Andersen

Birdman has been rewarded for two years of extremely valuable contributions off the bench with an extremely valuable contract and the opportunity forof years, a healthy and happy Danny Granger has the All-Star talent to become an inspired acquisition and a valuable part of this rotation.

James Ennis

The Heat could sure use an injection of youth and, having impressed last year in Australia for the Perth Wildcats and more so during his recent Summer League outings, excitement surrounding 24-year-old small forward James Ennis is building. "Don't be surprised if..." appears to be the mantra.

Shabazz Napier

Napier arrives in Miami as the team's third string point guard, but despite his growing pains in Summer League play all of that could change very quickly. With Cole's future still uncertain and Mario Chalmers still with plenty to prove the UConn graduate and reigning NCAA Final Four Outstanding Player could soon move through the ranks. Many


observers expect the job to be his by the time next postseason rolls around.

The rest:

Ray Allen: You get the sense that it's LeBron and Cleveland or retirement for Sir Shuttlesworth. The prospect of a return to South Beach remains unlikely.

Justin Hamilton: The Heat's leading scorer in Summer League play (18.0PPG and 7.0RPG) has certainly staked a claim for a place on the roster. The Heat brass has yet to decide whether to pick up the option to guarantee his contract.

Toney Douglas: As it stands NBA journeyman Douglas remains a potential stand-in for Wade after appearing in 27 games last year. However a contract offer has not been forthcoming.

Greg Oden: The Oden experiment was undertaken with a view to combatting the dominance of Indiana's Roy Hibbert. However, Hibbert becamea non-factor and a lingering back injury ensured the same fate for Oden. It's unclear whether there's a spot for him going forward.

Michael Beasley: Despite showing great flashes offensively, Beasley's inability to assume the expected responsibilities on the other side of the ball saw him fall almost completely out of the rotation as the season wore on. He may yet be back as a low risk option.

The Dearly Departed:

LeBron James: Went home.

Shane Battier: The ever-popular forward retired following the Finals after three years and two titles in Miami. We'll continue to see his infectious smile in his new role as a college ball analyst on ESPN.

James Jones: The Heat veteran is accompanying LeBron to Cleveland. James' lobbying for more minutes will likely be better received in northeast Ohio.

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warning and a reminder. The warning clear, you do not cross Grand Master Schnee, the reminder that he'd shown her mercy, choosing only to scar her face rather than end her life. In all outward appearances, Weiss was the perfect soldier and daughter, dutifully completing any mission he gave and ending the life to any who opposed her father. To those who were lesser informed, she was the picture of poise, class and elegance, carrying herself in a regal manner befitting a lady of her status. To those within their ranks and among their enemies, however, she was the perfect killing machine. Efficient, calculating and deadly, her enemies knew if they lived long enough to see past the blur of snow white hair and piercing blue eyes, itwas only because she wanted them to see her, with the exception of one person.

Ruby Rose, for all who knew of her, was a simple soul. She lived her days working hard as a blacksmith aid to feed her family. Her father, after having gone through the pain of losing two wives, was no longer mentally able to work. She, like Weiss, held a different reputation among closer friends and frightened enemies. Silent, swift and inventive, The Rose knew no enemy who could escape or outwit her. In hushed whispers, the Templar soldiers often talked about how they would know their life was ending by the sound of her scythe cutting through the air, and their throats, followed by the sweet scent of roses, their final sight being


her flowing red cloak. Some talked about encountering her, a blur of red and the feeling that they'd just barely escaped her murderous intent. She eliminated her targets unnoticed, other than the flapping of a familiar red cloak as she stole her way into the night, the cloak of an assassin. The vibrant red impossibly hid her in the shadows as her silver eyes traced her targets, but not from Weiss.

As Weiss listened attentively to one of her father's party guests, she also listened intently to the sound of measure breathing, stealing glances at the rooftop above the garden to find only small traces of the familiar red cloak and silver, predatory eyes peeking out from under a hood. To the untrained eye, the shadows could be playedoff as a trick of the light, or maybe an errant cloud, but to Weiss, it meant death and danger. From her perch above, Ruby admired the attentive Schnee, perfectly concealing the glances the white haired beauty shot her way from the other guests. Any time their eyes met, she felt a shiver as she remembered their prior interactions. No one outran the Rose, no one except for the Ice Queen, though her disappointment in her own failure was short-lived, as no one survived the Ice Queen's rapier except the Rose. A sly smirk crossed her face as she watched Weiss excuse herself from her guests and wandered to an empty section of the Garden, secluded and free from prying eyes and listening ears. This would have to


be quick; a Schnee's absence rarely went unnoticed at these Galas. Checking her collapsed Scythe in her cloak, a habit to never go in unprepared, she leapt off the roof and headed toward her target from above.

Weiss knew the moment Ruby moved, the near unnoticeable sound of feet on the tiles of the roof. Weiss smirked; the Rose was good, her irritation at letting the red assassin escape her blade consoled by the fact that she'd also escaped her prowler's scythe. Her father wasn't happy when she'd returned, bloody and injured, a failure, ordering their servants to provide no aid to her wounds. Getting their next encounter over with swiftly was the best course, saving the few guests that remained the fear of seeing that Red cloak. Slippingher formal dress off and retrieving her rapier from the bench within, she watched as her pursuer ambled down from above, a level of skill and grace no proper lady could hope to achieve, losing sight of her for only a brief moment before the hairs on her neck prickled to warn her of a presence behind her.

"Weiss" Ruby greeted her from behind, the smell of roses rushing in with the gust that always followed Ruby when she expanded her scythe to its full length.

"You certainly know how to make an entrance, you sure you don't want to use those theatrics for the party?" Weiss said, turning around to look at the hooded figure, drawing her rapier out in a defensive pose. They stood silently for a beat,


the sounds of the party fading out in the tension of the air between them.

*Snort*

A wide grin crossed Ruby's face from under the hood, and her shoulders began shaking as she covered her mouth. Quiet laughter burst from her mouth and she lifted her hood, her silver eyes warm and wrinkled in the corners with her chuckles.

"Sorry," another chuckle, Ruby covered her mouth again, trying to stifle her laughs.

"How a bumbling, giggling and childish girl like you gained the reputation as one of the world's most feared and deadly assassins, I'll never understand." Weiss sighed as she dropped her pose and stood resting on her rapier, the tip pointed downward into the wood.

"And I'll never understand how you're one of the most sought after women for rich bachelors,home. A reassuring hand squeezed her shoulder, and she looked up to see Ruby smiling warmly at her.

"Hey, I know it's going to be hard, but you get used to it, after a while, you're so busy on your missions, you don't even miss home. And you'll have me, Yang and Blake there to help you adjust." Weiss smiled at Ruby, thankful they'd sent her and not Yang to deliver the message. Capable and terrifying as she was, the Golden Dragon had a mischievous streak and would certainly tease Weiss for worrying about being homesick.

"Thanks Ruby," the lights from the Gala shut off, signaling the departure of their last guest. Her father would have long since retired to his wing of the house, leaving only servants in the