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age of Obama has descended on us.”

(Amity Shlaes, a Bloomberg View columnist, is the director
of the Four Percent Growth Project at the Bush Institute and the
author of the forthcoming “Coolidge.” The opinions expressed
are her own.)

Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow and director of the Four Percent Project at the George W. Bush Institute. She is the author of the best-sellers "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" and "The Greedy Hand: Why Taxes Drive Americans Craz
Read more.GILBERT, Ariz. -- The Desert Duel Memorial Basketball Tournament was an invitation-only event that attracted elite travel teams from all four corners of the country in order to raise funds for the Tom Crawford Leadership Children's Foundation, a non-profit organization that benefits many children's charities. Here is a look at who impressed during the event.

Standout players

Josh Scott is the No. 46 overall player in the 2012 class. Reggie Rankin

The future Buffalo is long and very productive. Scott can score from both low blocks with drop steps, up-and-unders where he initiates and welcomes contact and finishes with either hand. He also can face and get to the rim from the high post and along the baseline with short straight-line drives. Scott does a great job using the shot fake


to gain an advantage and loves to spin and finish with his left hand. Scott made short jumpers along the baseline from 12 to 15 feet with needed time and space. He is a good area rebounder on both ends as well. Defensively, Scott worked to get around and deny the low post and attempted to box out almost every time a shot went up. He was also very alert away from the ball. Scott needs to add strength and continue to expand his perimeter skills, but the big man plays with a plan and carries it out.

Johnson is a true shooting guard who runs the outside lane on the break, spaces on the side of dribble penetration and comes off screens ready to display his deep 3-pointrange. He shoots over smaller defenders with ease and can get on a role and knock down three or four in a very short period of time. Johnson also showed the ability to get into the lane when the defense closed on him, where he made some clutch finishes and floaters. He will need to add strength, continue to work on creating off the dribble and his individual defense but the sharp shooter makes the defense pay and he mentioned Miami (FL), Temple, Providence, George Mason and Rutgers as schools in the mix.

I heard from a college coach that Parker reminded him of Carmelo Anthony and after watching him this week, I agree. The super skilled small forward seems to have an answer for whatever the defense throws


at him. Parker goes by less mobile players on the perimeter and shoots over or posts up smaller defenders. His midrange game has gone to the next level with his ability to hit the 15- to 18-footer off the catch or dribble. He rebounds at rim level at times and has the ability to not only finish above the rim on the break, but lead as well. He is also a willing and accurate passer when he draws multiple defenders. He works to defend the ball, is alert and ready to help away from it. Parker even came from a distance for an above-the-rim block. Parker looks to be in great shape, possibly grown another inch and is very explosive. He is not talking school lists but everyelite program in the country seems to be present when he takes the court.

Wilson is a left-handed terror on the break. He slashes at high speeds and can make a highlight finish over or around heavy traffic in the lane. He simply attacks defenders and can find an open teammate when the defense fully collapses on him. The future Tiger is long, athletic and makes plays repeatedly with the ball in his hands. He also can lead the break off a defensive rebound and go coast to coast, if not identified and brought under control immediately. He has all the tools be a multiple-position perimeter defender as well. He must continue to add strength and make his jumper a consistent weapon, but he always seems to make good


things happen off the bounce.

Bail has a world class basketball body and is a monster athlete with a great motor. He runs the floor like a gazelle and finishes above the rim with speed and power. He scored on short, quick dribble drives along the baseline, as well as drop-off passes created by dribble penetration. He can make no stress midrange jumpers with time and space, but is at is best around the rim where he can use his quickness and super athletic ability. He must continue to work on his shooting and overall feel for the game. Bail's best playing days lie ahead if he builds his game from the inside out. He mentioned Texas Tech, Florida State, Baylor, Auburn and Villanova.

Jefferson has an all-business approach tothe game and competes on both ends of the floor on a consistent basis. He loves to score from the left side of the floor, especially in the low post where he uses quick spin moves and baseline slashes to score on both sides of the rim with either hand with great touch and body control. Jefferson is a very strong rebounder and shot-blocker in and out of his area as well. He must continue to expand his game, but Jefferson plays to his strengths and excels at a high level. He mentioned Louisville, Pittsburgh, NC State, Ohio State, Maryland and Stanford.

Anderson has a special feel for the game and excellent skill, which causes major matchup problems for opposing forwards. He rebounds and leads the break where he


uses his length, ballhandling and court vision to make on-target passes on the move look easy. The smooth wing can start the offense and make a play for himself or others. He has an elite basketball IQ and is very efficient.

Kyle Davis has been hearing from Colorado State, Northwestern, Illinois, Xavier, Florida State and University of Illinois at Chicago so far. Reggie Rankin

This lefty lead guard is as tough as nails and athletic enough to play above the rim on the break or whenever he has a clear path to the rim. Davis makes plays for himself and others in a variety of ways. He can hit the open 3 although his is streaky at times, has a smooth midrange pull-up jumper, where he stops on a dimeNebraska, USC and Rutgers all have a close eye on him.

Wood is a very athletic wing who plays above the rim on the break and is big-time shooter in the half-court set. He can hit the open 3 or midrange pull-up with great elevation on his jumper. He gets to the rim and scores through or around defenders with length and body control. He competes and is also a capable defender due to his length, athletic ability and toughness. Wood can get it going quickly and is fun to watch.

Notes

• The Playaz Basketball Club (N.J.) took home the 2011 Desert Duel title by beating the Mac Irvin Fire in overtime, 70-62, despite being down 22 points at the half.

• SF Steve Taylor (Chicago/Simeon) has been impressive with his


ability to score from the midrange areas out to the arc. He still needs to fine tune his ballhandling, but he has great upside. Taylor mentioned Marquette, Missouri, Iowa, Xavier and Ohio.

• Utah, Pepperdine, Santa Barbara, Denver, Montana and Portland have all been keeping close tabs on 6-4 SG Tanner Samson (Littleton, Col./Regis), who not only can shoot it to the arc and pass but has a good basketball IQ as well.

• Class of 2013 SF Jordan Scott, the younger brother of Colorado commit Josh Scott is an excellent defender and slasher who is hearing from Colorado, Texas Tech, Nebraska and Boston College so far.

• SG Kahlil Johnson (Los Angeles/Palisades) is a long, lean lefty shooter with a quick trigger. He shoots over smaller defenders with ease andalso knocks down 3s. He makes the defense pay for not identifying him right away in transition and in the half-court set he simply stretches the defense.

• Stacy Davis (Tolleson, Ariz./Tolleson) is an undersized PF who is ultra productive thanks to his feel and touch around the basket. He has an all-business approach to the game and welcomes contact when he competes for rebounds on both ends of the floor.

• Really liked the athletic and ability and perimeter shooting touch of PF Nick Banyard (Flower Mound, Texas/Marcus). He is a quick leaping above-the-rim finisher who is great in pick-and-pop situations, rebounds with length and has great upside. One to keep a close eye on.

Reggie Rankin was an assistant coach at seven schools for 13 seasons, most recently at


These U.S. ‘diplomats’ wield fiddles and dance moves, not briefcases

East Carolina University’s Greg Hurley is going abroad again for a two-week trip this month, but not exactly for a classic vacation.

ECU music teacher Gregory Hurley, who plays viola, seen in a recital hall in the Fletcher Building on the ECU campus in Greenville, NC on July 1, 2014. He is part of a cultural exchange program where they bring music to children in underprivileged and war-torn countries. (Chris Seward/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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ECU music teacher Gregory Hurley, who plays viola, seen in a recital hall in the Fletcher Building on the ECU campus in Greenville, NC on July 1, 2014. He is part of a cultural exchange program where they bring music to children in underprivilegedand war-torn countries. (Chris Seward/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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Greg Hurley, professor at East Carolina University with the students at Youth Excellence on Stage Academy in Bangkok, Thailand. (courtesy of Greg Hurley/MCT)
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Greg Hurley, left, works with a student at the Youth Excellence on Stage Program held in Sulymania, Kurdistan, Iraq. (MCT)
Greg Hurley

East Carolina University’s Greg Hurley is going abroad again for a two-week trip this month, but not exactly for a classic vacation.

It will be Beirut for the viola and violin teacher, who’s left Greenville, N.C., every summer for the last five years and gone to places “emerging from conflict” as part of a program for students in formerly war-torn areas. A kind of summer camp, it teaches students who already have some musical training, and they


rehearse and form an orchestra for a concert at the end of the visit.

Every year, the State Department and nonprofit groups help send musical troupes, dance groups and teachers abroad to promote American culture and generate goodwill.

It’s all part of cultural diplomacy, an idea that got its start with the “jazz ambassadors” at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s. To buff its image, the U.S. sent jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and others overseas to showcase the unique American art form.

The programs and cultural exchanges have exploded since then, with the latest rage being hip-hop, an in-demand art form but one that has also drawn criticism of “hip-hop diplomacy.”

For Hurley, an associate professor of music who’s on the board of American Voices,trouble, our top-notch U.S. based Customer Service team is ready to help by email, chat or phone.

Relying on primary sources, including more than a hundred interviews, Paul Dickson has crafted a richly detailed portrait of an American original: baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit and unflinching advocate of racial equality, Bill Veeck. Veeck (19141986) was born into baseball. His sportswriter father became president of the Chicago...
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Relying on primary sources, including more than a hundred interviews, Paul Dickson has crafted a richly detailed portrait of an American original: baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit and unflinching advocate of racial equality, Bill Veeck. Veeck (19141986) was born into baseball. His sportswriter father became president of the Chicago Cubs, and Bill later worked for owner Phil Wrigley, rebuilding Wrigley Field


to achieve the famed ambience that exists today. In his late twenties, he bought into his first team, the American Association Milwaukee Brewers. As World War II intensified, Veeck volunteered for combat duty, enduring a leg injury that led to a lifetime of amputations and silent suffering. On returning, he bought the Cleveland Indians in 1946—the first of four midwestern teams he would own, preceding the hapless St. Louis Browns (195153) and the Chicago White Sox (twice, 195961 and 197581). Though foiled in an earlier plan to bring Negro League players to the majors, in the summer of 1947, Veeck integrated his team on field and off, signing Larry Doby, the American League’s first black player, and hiring the first black public relations officer, trainer, and scout. Ayear later, he signed the legendary black pitcher Satchel Paige, who helped win the 1948 World Series—Cleveland’s last championship to this day. His promotional genius was second to none, endearing him to fans in every city, while his feel for the game led him to propose innovations way ahead of their time. Veeck’s deep sense of fairness helped usher in free agency, breaking the stranglehold owners had on players; indeed, he was the only owner to testify in support of Curt Flood during his landmark reserve clause challenge. Bill Veeck brings fully to life a transformational, visionary figure who spent a lifetime challenging baseball’s and society’s well-entrenched status quo. It is essential reading for any fan and anyone with a fascination for twentieth-century America.
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IDF, Rotary Club of Mumbai North End and Rotary Club of Green City joined St.Mathew's High School at Malwani, Malad (W), Mumbai to celebrate India's 65th Independence Day - 15-08-2011. Dr.A.R.K.Pillai, President, IDF unfurled the national flag along with all the dignitaries, Rotarians and IDF social ambassadors. Mrs. Larzy Varghese, Principal of the school conveyed patriotic feelings to all the children. Students depicting various freedom fighters, gave the message of brotherhood and togetherness. Jai Hind, Jai Hind, Jai Hind slogan wrapped the entire school environment.

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[19]  This bill (H.B. 2107) was finally passed on May 22, 1956, by the regular 1955 session of the General Assembly, which was convened on January 4, 1955, and recessed from time to time but did not adjourn sine die until May 22, 1956. This was the longest legislative session in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since H.B. 2107 was passed during the 1955 regular session, the following sentence of


Managing chronic oedema and wet legs in the community: a service evaluation.
Patients with chronic oedema and 'wet legs' are frequently seen in the community setting, with research indicating that more than half of community nurses' caseloads are patients with chronic oedema. However, a lack of nurse education and standardised care pathways for this condition has been identified. In June 2016, the Welsh Government supported the development of the On the Ground Education Project (OGEP), which aimed to raise community nurses' awareness and recognition of chronic oedema and wet legs, to improve the management of these conditions, and to support the efficient use of community nurses' time and resources. To investigate the potential economic benefits of the OGEP and its effects on patients' quality of life. The OGEP wasI’d love to get useful emails from IDP about study abroad, scholarships and IELTS

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James Madison university International Study Center is part of Study Group, a global leader in preparing students for international academic success and rewarding careers through a life-changing learning experience. The study centre welcomes, supports and helps students to gain the skills, knowledge and perspectives to make the most of university life. It offers specialized academic and English courses that fully prepare international students to enter university degree program. International Study Center delivers the Intensive English Program courses and James Madison University delivers the academic, credit-bearing courses. It is based in the Memorial area of campus, which includes a baseball and softball field complex, student art galleries and


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After two years with middling statistics, Adams finally broke out in Year 3, recording more receiving yards in 2016 (997) as he did combined in 2014-15 (929), and scoring 12 touchdowns (compared to four in his first two seasons). Not that Adams didn't have his chances in his first two years. He played all 16 games as a rookie, with 11 starts. In 2015, with Jordy Nelson sidelined, he was targets 94 times in 13 games but had only 50 catches (53.2 percent catch%). In 2016, perhaps helped by the return of Nelson taking some pressure off him, Adams had a 62.3 percent catch% on 121 targets. He might not ever be a No. 1 receiver, but Adams is settling


on one hand, he joined in on a training session, literally putting his body on the line, testing his own rugby skills and fitness levels - fumbles, tackles and all - against the best female rugby players in the Bay of Plenty.

Two seasons of junior rugby from the age of 9 was all it took for me to realise my inability to tackle and aversion to physical contact would prevent any sort of rugby career.

In my 28 years on this earth, I have played football since I was 3 and those two seasons of rugby as a 9 and 10-year-old with the Paraparaumu Rugby Club is as far as my experience playing our national game spans.

While I've always been a massive sports fan and played plenty of footballOklahoma Mom Advocates For SQ 788 After CBD Oil Helps Daughter

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Tuesday, June 26, Oklahoma voters decide on legalizing medical marijuana in our state.

One advocate of State Question 788 is a mom of three with a 10-year-old who struggles with severe seizures.

"As a parent it's quite possibly the scariest thing I've ever had to see," Mindy Kennedy said.

Mindy posted her daughter Gracen's latest seizure on Facebook, which took place Thursday night around 10 o'clock.

She says they have tried every form of pharmaceutical seizure medication possible.

Nothing seemed to help Gracen drastically, until they tried CBD oil.

"Before we knew it, she was off almost every single pharmaceutical that she was on. At one point in time, she was taking 12 pills. We are down


[Galen of Pergamum (129-216/217 AD) and his contribution to urology: part I: life, work and medical system].
Galen of Pergamum was, along with Hippocrates, the most influential physician and undoubtedly the most important medical scholar of classical antiquity. His anatomy and his concept of humoral pathology dominated western medicine until the sixteenth century and influenced all fields of medicine until after the seventeenth century. After referring to some biographical data the philosophical and epistemic fundamentals of Galen's"medical system" are outlined and brought into relation with the prevailing medical sects of the second century AD. The very treatises of his enormous work which are the most relevant with reference to the issue are briefly characterized.In the second part of the paper to be published in one of the next issuesknown in the field of art. Generally, a rotary engine uses the pressure of combustion to move a triangular rotor within an epitrochoidal-shaped rotor housing. The four cycles of conventional combustionxe2x80x94intake, compression, combustion and exhaustxe2x80x94each take place in its own portion of the housing. These cycles cause the rotor to rotate an eccentric output shaft geared to the rotor. The rotary engine seemingly would have increased efficiency due to the decrease of moving parts, a combustion event of 270xc2x0 of the output shaft rotation on every rotation, and better balance, since the rotor and shaft move in the same direction.
Despite these advantages, the conventional rotary engine has found little commercial success because the long and shallow shape of the combustion chamber hurts both emissions and fuel economy performance


the compression problem by providing a precombustion chamber adjacent to the rotor housing and in communication with the housing.
A fuel injector is disposed in the chamber for injecting fuel into the supplied combustion air. The combustion air is provided, in part, by a compressor, which ensures a sufficient pressure is maintained to combust the diesel fuel. The introduction of fuel into the precombustion chamber in the presence of high pressure and temperature causes the combustion of the fuel to flash into the working chamber of the housing via an outlet port. The burning continues in the working chamber to cause the rotor to rotate the output shaft.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,125,813, to Louthan et al., discloses an alternate method of providing a precombustion chamber to a diesel fueled rotaryImage copyright Press Association Image caption Stuart Olding, seen here at a previous hearing, denies rape

One of the rape charges against Ulster and Ireland rugby player Stuart Olding has been dropped.

The 24-year-old, from Ardenlee Street, Belfast, had faced two rape charges over an alleged incident in June 2016

He was accused, alongside fellow Ulster and Ireland player Paddy Jackson, of raping the same woman in south Belfast.

However, a pre-trial hearing heard the prosecution is not proceeding with one of the rape charges against Mr Olding due to additional forensic evidence.

Both men deny all of the charges against them.

Mr Olding attended the hearing in Belfast Crown Court on Friday as the rape charge was dropped.

On direction of the judge, a statement was released on behalf of the prosecution and his


Spreading The Love Of The Game: An Interview With Aaron Bell, Presented By Nike Ultimate Camps

The former University of Oregon and club star talks about how he got started in the sport, the work he's doing leading youth ultimate in New York, and what's it's like to work with USAU.

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After a very successful college and club career that spans the country and even globe, Aaron Bell has spent much of the past decade working to build out youth playing opportunities in New York. We sat down with him to find out why he does what he does.

UW: For people whosecond in the Callahan and led us to the #1 seed at College Nationals, though we lost to our nemesis, Stanford, in the quarters.

When it was time to graduate, one of my best friends, Adam Holt, was living in London and playing with Clapham, and my girlfriend (now wife and mother of my daughter) was living in Barcelona, so I got a work visa and finished my grad school credits over there. I played with Clapham and we won UK Nationals, then I won a Paganello, and was just on top of the world.

When I came back stateside, my wife was going to grad school at Parsons in New York. I was working in finance, but New York was pretty daunting, so when I got here, I reached


all our club and pro teams in the city — every year we’ve had at least 19 coaches come through over the five days of camp. I was at states this year and so many of our Nike Camp alums were playing big roles for their teams on Sunday. Says a lot about it.

What was the youth scene like in New York when you got there and started getting involved? How has it changed in the last decade?

I started coaching by on a job as the varsity coach for Abraham Joshua Heschel High School. When we first joined the NYCPUL league, there were nine schools. It was just kind of a loosely organized group of clubs that had been around since the early 2000s and perhaps going backinto maybe even the late 90s. Darren Myers is an older name in the New York scene; he was the head coach at Fieldston and was acting commissioner of the league for many years. We’d scrape to find a room in midtown and we’d all [the coaches] get together and order pizza and try to bang out a schedule and he’d manage it. As the league grew and the UPA paperwork became more difficult, the commissioner role changed hands twice. BY that point, I had become a board member of DiscNY in the role of youth development, so that second year after Darren left, I became commissioner so we could manage the league under DiscNY.

This year, we had 38 high school teams and five middle school teams playing,


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February is Black History Month, and in many ways, that history is still being written today. Throughout this month, key Milwaukee Black History makers will be profiled on the City of Milwaukee website. The prominent online spot will give students and Milwaukeeans across the city a chance to learn about – and to honor – some of the city’s notable and unsung heroes.

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On May 15-17, 2018, an estimated 1,000 urban, suburban, and rural leaders will gather in Milwaukee, for the eighth Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference (RVP), the only national conference of its kind. Conference sessions will highlight work from around the country, including the host city, Milwaukee.

February 20, 2018 - Spring Primary Election

The City of Milwaukee currently owns several historic homes and is offering themMichael Zorc?s little flea market

Most of the Bundesliga teams have just started their winter preparation programmes and just in time Borussia Dortmund has finished an astonishing number of 4 transfers. While Kruska, Federico and Klimowicz left the club, today Kevin-Prince Boateng was signed on a loan deal from Tottenham Hotspurs.

Giovanni FedericoThe elegant but sometimes drowsy looking attacking midfielder came on a Bosman transfer in 2007 from Karlsruher SC. There he rocked 2. Bundesliga and became top scorer easily. Unfortunately his stint with Borussia was not that successful. Though he scored 4 times and gave 8 assists last season, he didn't fit into the team properly. Some nice performances were outmatched by so many really disastrous appearances. Some fans had still some hope that he would better fit to


Jürgen Klopp's style play. But in fact our new coach had other plans and gave him just 50 minutes during the first leg of this season. Giovanni Federico got the message and he and his adviser looked out for alternatives already. Ironically Karlsruher SC is struggling and deep into relegation battle. As their biggest problem is the offence and as Federico is used to the club, it was the perfect deal. For a loan deal worth 150.000 Euro the tall Italo-German joins Karlsruhe until June 2009.

Diego KlimowiczThe Argentinean striker with Polish roots was a longtime target of Michael Zorc, but it took until summer 2007 that he was signed from Wolfsburg, where he had several good seasons. Though was not in the prime of his career when hejoined us he was still a valuable addition to our squad. Last season he scored 6 goals in Bundesliga and, maybe even more important, 4 goals in our German cup run that finally took us to the final in Berlin. Nonetheless during the last months he was only striker number 4 behind Frei, Zidan and Valdez. As Klimowicz didn't want to move to a new city, he agreed a deal with VfL Bochum, just 20 kilometres away from his home. There he signed a contract till summer 2010. Bochum agreed to pay about 350.000 Euros to Borussia Dortmund.

Marc-Andre KruskaOne of our youth teams. Born near Dortmund, himself a longtims supporters of BVB and worked his way through all youth teams. This could have been the start to a


youth teams and was a regular starter in the U-21 team. He debuted with 18 in Bundesliga and had already more than 40 appearances when he and his adviser became to greedy. While talking about a new deal with Hertha Boateng's side demanded serious money, that Berlin wasn't willing or able to pay. Boateng's adviser draw his joker and lined up a offer by Premiere League club Tottenham Hotspurs. The English team finally signed Boateng. The only weak point of Kevin's plan was that in London he was just a number, just one of many talents. In consequence he hadn't many matches in Premiere League and in the end even played for the Reserve team. Of course he wasn't happy with that situation and was asking for afor the car park to Apparate away. She didn’t care about the rain, or the cold, or whether or not any of the boys were still watching her. A clammy hand was squeezing itself around her throat, and it was all she could to do hope that she and Severus would not so soon be brought to clash in war in this way.

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Sirius craned his head, trying to find wherever Beth had disappeared to, but she must have returned to her flat – at any rate, she wasn’t hanging around the theater car park anymore. He turned back to James, who was talking almost a bit too deliberately to Remus and Peter. “Did Beth leave?”

James glanced about with such practiced disinterest that Sirius knew he was faking. He


(1) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a transport apparatus for feeding media in sheets of various sizes from a first processing station to a second processing station.
(2) Description of the Prior Art
One example of the above transport apparatus is an image-forming apparatus in which the first processing station is an exposure station and the second processing station a developing station. In the image-forming apparatus, a photosensitive recording film is exposed to light at the exposure station for forming an image thereon, and the image-carrying film is transported to the developing station for developing the image into a visible image.
Known image-forming apparatus generally include only a plurality of transport rollers between the exposure station and the developing station. Accordingly, there is no problem unless the processingspeed (film transport speed) V1 at the exposure station is higher than the processing speed (film transport speed) V2 at the developing station. If the processing speed V1 is maintained higher than the processing speed V2, the recording film will accumulate upon a transport path between the exposure station and the developing station in an amount corresponding to a difference (V1-V2) per unit time between the two processing speeds. In such a case, therefore, the processing at the exposure station must be adjusted to the transport speed at the developing station, such as by controlling the exposure station to wait for completion of the processing at the developing station and transporting a next sheet of film from the exposure station to the developing station only after the processing


is completed at the developing station.
It is conceivable as a solution to the above problem to provide a film-storing tray T between the exposure station and developing station so that the processing at the exposure station need not be adjusted to the transport speed at the developing station. However, where the film is in sheets of various sizes, the sheets of film S1 are stacked on the tray T with leading ends thereof placed out of register. This state makes it difficult for the sheets of film S1 to be picked up and sent out of the tray T reliably.awarded the medal in 2016

The highest civilian award of the United States

Established in 1963 by President John F Kennedy, superseding the Medal of Freedom

Citation: "An especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavours"

Major categories of recipients: politics; business; military; music; film; journalism

Only two-time recipients: former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former US ambassador to Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker

Mr Obama said that Mr Biden's career was "nowhere close to finished" both at home or abroad.

Mr Biden has said he plans to work on policy issues at the University of Delaware and University of Pennsylvania, and to continue his efforts to tackle cancer, which claimed his son Beau in 2015.

Earlier on Thursday, Mr Biden gave


an hour-long interview with media outlets in which he strongly criticised Mr Trump for his condemnation of the US intelligence services.

"It is really very damaging in my view to our standing in the world for a president to take one of the crown jewels of our national defence and denigrate it," Mr Biden said.

"It plays into, particularly now, the Russian narrative that America doesn't know what it's doing."

However, he was full of praise for his successor, Mike Pence, saying he had sent him memos on how to handle certain situations.Huntington, New York, March 4. Joe Gray of Newcastle, Washington and Shanna Ailes Istnick of Kent, Ohio were crowned the 2012 USATF National 50K Champions at the 10th annual Caumsett 50K.

Gray pulled away from defending champ Michael Wardian after the first 10 kilometers and won handily. Ailes Istnick led wire to wire for the win. The weather was chilly, around 40F, and the runners were hampered by gusty winds.


the good grain that God places in my hands.  And then I let things take their course! I busy myself with it no more. Sometimes, it's just as though I had thrown nothing; at other times, it does some good. But God tells me: 'Give, give always, without being concerned with the results.

Together with Francis of Assisi, Thérèse of Lisieux is one of the most popular Roman Catholic saints since apostolic times. She is approachable, due in part to her historical proximity. Barbara Stewart, writing for The New York Times, once called Thérèse "...the Emily Dickinson of Roman Catholic sainthood".

As a Doctor of the Church, she is the subject of much theological comment and study, and, as a young woman whose message has touched the lives ofto endorse proposals for a tour in 1997, her relics finally visited England and Wales in late September and early October 2009, including an overnight stop at the Anglican York Minster on her feast day, 1 October. A quarter of a million people venerated them.

On 27 June 2010, the relics of Saint Thérèse went on their first visit to South Africa in conjunction with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They remained in the country until October 5, 2010.

The writing-desk Therese used at Carmel (an artifact as opposed to a relic) toured the United States in September and October 2013, sponsored by the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States.

In November 2013, a new reliquary containing the relics of Saint Thérèse and of her parents, was presented to the


it a lot to League of Legends," says creative director Jeremiah Slaczka. "You get your ass kicked in League of Legends, but you're compelled to play it more because you don't feel that it's the game's fault, you feel it's you... If this game has a very difficult learning curve, then we need to embrace that and make it about people wanting to feel like they could become masters at this game."

With so much emphasis on flight, it surprised me to learn that Hybrid was initially conceived without jetpacks at all. In fact, they weren't added until a year into development.

"The original impetus was about trying to make a gameplay mode out of real world combat," Slaczka explained. "In the real world, nobody runs and guns and circlemake that start on Sunday and do everything I can to get it feeling as good as I can."

Morrow allowed four runs in his two innings Tuesday, but only one of the three first-inning runs was earned, as the Blue Jays committed two errors behind him. He also allowed a home run to Braves center fielder Jordan Schafer in the second, leaving after the inning having thrown 47 pitches, 31 for strikes.

The injury left him more than a little bit curious and disappointed in being unable to go further.

"You'd think it would be more like in the flexor area but it's more on the opposite side," he said. "I couldn't get enough on the fastball to really make it effective. It was hurting the command as well. It


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In addition, as an apparatus for receiving the PJL and the PDL, there is an image forming apparatus disclosed in JP-A-2004-188619. This apparatus provides an image forming apparatus that can be easily used by enabling a user to set a preferential means from among a panel for setting various functions, a super option, the PJL, and the PDL. The image forming apparatus includes a panel setting unit for setting various functions including a double sided printing setting, a discharge destination setting, andto about 600 head of cattle and 100 horses.

In 1914 the Baker family sold the ranch to Aztec Land and Cattle Company, and Guy Saval, a Basque ran it, hiring many Basques to help. For the next seven years the town of Baker was nicknamed "Basque Town." Rodeos and dances were frequently held, and the cattle operation became principally a sheep operation. In 1921 Guy Saval sold the ranch, and it went through a series of owners.

In the 1920s, Fred Baker (no relation to George W. Baker family) from Delta came out to work on the ranch as a ranchhand. He enjoyed Snake Valley, and kept it in his memory when he returned to Delta. In the 1950s, when Fred had decided to buy a ranch, he found


used for large circular fields. An alfalfa field can provide up to four crops a year.

We have a variety of hereford, black angus, red angus, and simmental cattle on the ranch. Cowboys still move cows around the old-fashioned way, when they don't take a break to give a baby a ride.

The views on the ranch are spectacular, from watching a neighbor's horses run across a meadow to baby ducklings swimming in one of the irrigation ditches.

The youngest member of the Baker family is quickly initiated into ranch work on an irrigating trip with Dad, while another youngster learns how to put pipe together with her father.A 5-year old boy was found sitting next to cocaine and subsequently tested positive for the drug in his system after his parents were busted on the way to an alleged drug deal in Moorpark on Friday.

Members of the Ventura County Interagency Pharmaceutical Crimes Unit and Sheriff's Department arrested Marco Cuevas and Sandy Cuevas after the couple were alleged to be on the way to sell cocaine. According to a press release from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, Cuevas had "several ounces" of cocaine on himself along with a half-pound in the backseat with his son and $10,000 in "suspected drug proceeds" in the car.

Although the child had drugs in his system he was not hospitalized. "We just happened to test him because he was found so close


to the drugs in the car," Captain Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department told the LA Times.

Marco Cuevas had been under investigation by authorities for being a major supplier of cocaine and guns for local dealers. Authorities searched the couple's home in Sylmar where they found "several pounds of marijuana, hundreds of pills of prescription drugs, $75,000 in cash, 16 guns, and nearly 3000 rounds of ammunition."

Shocked neighbors told KTLA that the couple had three children and that Sandy Cuevas was pregnant with a fourth. Witnesses said they saw authorities take away the Cuevas' three children into protective custody.From ringside Claude Abrams said former champ Mike Tyson was in decline in 1991

IT took Donovan “Razor” Ruddock 16 months to get Mike Tyson into the ring after the former heavyweight champion withdrew from a title defence back in November 1989. But just minutes after the Canadian was stopped controversially in seven rounds at the outdoor Mirage arena, both fighters were talking rematch.

March must be a bad time of year for referee Richard Steele. As Ruddock fell back unsteadily into the ropes after absorbing Tyson’s best string of punches in the fight, Steele called it off.

Almost exactly one year ago to the day, Steele stepped in with two seconds left to save Meldrick Taylor, leading on points, against Julio Cesar Chavez in another highly debatable call.

But while Steele


had slowed again. But then Ruddock connected with a right in the sixth and Tyson looked hurt. He tried to hold the ropes.

An expression, only seen in Tokyo in February 1990, swept across Tyson’s face in those exciting moments.

All the action was inside. Tyson then stepped back to land a big left hook and Ruddock punched straight back at him. Another just missed the shorter Tyson and Tyson made him pay, wobbling Ruddock’s legs with an overhand right.

Ruddock was in trouble and Tyson moved in to finish it. Big combinations – a left-right, then another, then another – thudded into Ruddock and he fell backwards into the ropes.

Tyson was ready to race across and finish it but referee Steele decided he had seen enough with 2mins 22 secondsPepe Escobar reports on a searing account by Iran’s foreign minister of his country’s relations with the U.S.

By Pepe Escobar

in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

The Asia Times

Just in time to shine a light on what’s behind the latest sanctions from Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a speech at the annual Astana Club meeting in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, delivered a searing account of Iran-U.S. relations to a select audience of high-ranking diplomats, former presidents and analysts.

Zarif was the main speaker in a panel titled “The New Concept of Nuclear Disarmament.” Keeping to a frantic schedule, he rushed in and out of the round table to squeeze in a private conversation with Kazakh First President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

During the panel, moderator Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute, managed to keep


that the Amana suffered total loss of engine power on at least one occasion, followed by rapid loss of height until it struck the ground. However, the evidence did not allow the court to determine the cause of the total loss of engine power. Consequently, the court was unable to determine the cause of the accident. Simpson stated he was satisfied water had not been introduced into the Amana's fuel system in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth.

The Inquiry uncovered two deviations from the Air Navigation Regulations although it did not consider these deviations contributed to the accident:
 ANA was not in the practice of performing a fuel-drain check immediately after each re-fuelling, as required by Air Navigation Orders.
 On the fatal flight, 8,545 feet of photographic film wereA Montreal intern woke up to a burst of laughter on his second day at a new job Tuesday after his co-workers had gathered around to take a now viral photo of him – with his mouth wide open, asleep at his desk.

Eduard Paraschivescu has been undergoing training at a company called Gsoft that afternoon. He has a slight anemia, so when he felt tired, he leaned back in his chair and about 20 minutes later he realized he'd dozed off.

One of the reasons he knew this was because his co-workers were around him when he woke up, laughing, and taking pictures and videos.

He also found a message saying he should bring in doughnuts in the next day. He said he did, and that he hasn't lost his


his career, Paraschivescu said he's not too worried.

"In all honesty, I have my reputation to lean back on," he said. "I'm the president of a student society, I'm a good software architect, I'm known for many other things than sleeping - and hey, if it's funny, it's worth sharing."

As of press time, he hasn't heard from his parents on if they approve of him sleeping on the job – or being Elton John or being swallowed into a monstrous void for that matter.The Milan president, Silvio Berlusconi, has revealed he came close to selling Mario Balotelli to an unnamed Premier League club before the World Cup.

The Italy striker has been strongly linked with a return to England this summer, with Arsenal reportedly keen to acquire his services for around €35m (£28m).

The former Manchester City striker scored the winner against England but that was his only goal in three appearances in Brazil, as Italy suffered early elimination from the tournament.

“Other than Italy, I lost during the World Cup,” Berlusconi was quoted as saying in Gazzetta dello Sport. “I was about to sell Balotelli to an English team for several millions. But after this World Cup who will buy him any more?”

His daughter Barbara Berlusconi, Milan’s vice-president, last month hinted at the


possibility of a Balotelli transfer this summer by saying he is “replaceable”.

Balotelli’s agent has also suggested his client will move away from the San Siro. Mino Raiola claimed the 23-year-old was “sad and desperate” after being widely criticised in the Italian media following his disappointing World Cup.

Balotelli, who still has four years left on his contract with the Rossoneri, has scored 30 goals in 54 matches for Milan since his move from Manchester City in January 2013. Milan are keen to sell Balotelli for financial reasons. They will not compete in Europe next season for the first time in 16 years after finishing a disappointing eighth in Serie A.about

Tom Seawell is an Emmy nominated director / filmmaker and award winning commercial advertising photographer with over 25 years of industry experience.

After graduating from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara in 1990, Tom returned to his native San Francisco where he has produced images that have been featured in an array of noteworthy publicatioins including Photo District News, Communication Arts, Time Magazine and Archive. In the last 15 years he has expanded into film and motion, specializing in producing commercials, corporate films and viral videos.


The instant invention relates to a film retrieval device, and more particularly to a two-part film retrieval device and a method for retrieving the free end of a film from a cassette.
The conventional film magazine or cassette, such as a 35 mm photographic film cassette used in a standard 35 mm still camera, transmits no light, is substantially cylindrical in configuration and includes closed ends. A longitudinally extending slot forming a film passageway is provided through the cylindrical wall of the magazine. The passageway is usually lined with two pieces of black velvet whose surfaces touch. A length of film leader extends from the slot of a film-loaded cassette to permit the photographer to connect the film from the cassette to the camera takeup spools that successive filmThe present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant, botanically known as Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd., and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Duepremmar’.
The new Poinsettia is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Rheinberg, Germany. The objective of the breeding program is to create new Poinsettia cultivars with uniform plant habit and attractive flower bract coloration.
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Press Conference to Update Case of Shooting Death of Brian Babb

Family of military veteran killed by Eugene police continues to advocate for change

On July 12, the family of a 49-year-old Army National Guard veteran killed by Eugene police is holding a press conference to again call attention to the shooting death of Brian Babb.

Babb was killed March 30, 2015, by officer Will Stutsman of the Eugene Police Department 45 minutes after the veteran with PTSD called his therapist for help. The therapist phoned EPD after Babb said he’d fired a gun into the floor, and officers showed up in an armored vehicle. Babb’s sisters, Stephanie Babb and Ronda McGowan, have said the militarized response by police undid the efforts of his therapist to calm Babb, who came toparts: truck springs, steering wheels, locally-made bootleg Mercedes mud flaps, and bumpers harvested from the wrecks of imported cars, complete with foreign license plates. Every so often, there’s a three-storey heap of carefully piled truck cabs.

Suame Magazine emerged around a colonial-era armory in central Kumasi in the 1930s. For a while, it was just big companies—local giants and multinationals repairing cars. They grew rapidly and were moved to the outskirts of Kumasi in the 1960s. Then in the 1970s, with Ghana’s economy faltering, and a bunch of new trade restrictions almost banning imports, the big companies collapsed, leaving hundreds of skilled workers. They became the first wave of small firms in Suame Magazine.

Joyce Darko sells nuts, bolts and washers.

They slowly turned this into the best place in the


modern vehicles: “If we don’t take care, Suame is going to collapse.”

But there are glimmers of a future for Suame. In Kumasi, I stayed with an uncle on the absurdly lush campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The city had carved plots of land for the university out of virgin bush, so everything was a wrong turn away from almost obscenely luxuriant greenery. Workers had to cut the grass really short to keep the snakes, the big black scorpions, and whatever it was that made those high-pitched screaming noises at night away from the house. The building itself was the kind of 1960s African modernist construction people dream about now, featuring mahogany everything, cross breezes, light in every room.

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that the DEP was notified.

Zeman said the university was told the cause is a virus that specifically affects carp, but Shinske would not confirm that detail.

On Thursday morning, a William Paterson employee was seen walking the eastern edge of the pond, along High Mountain Road, snapping cellphone photos. Most of the dead fish — about 35 in all — floated toward a spillway at the southeast corner of the pond.

Zeman said the university would dispose of the dead fish.

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Carp can grow up to 30 pounds and are found in almost every lake, pond and reservoir in New Jersey. Some anglers pursue them because they fight hard, butthey are not considered game fish in the U.S.

Gil Hawkins, an experienced fisherman from Leonia, said he did not know about a virus contagious to carp in New Jersey.

"I've never heard of a virus," said Hawkins, environmental director for the Hudson River Fishermen's Association. "But, if there is a virus out there, I think everyone should know about it. It's an indicator, just like anything else, about the health of our waterways."

The fish kill disturbed some residents.

"Lived across the street for 30 years — never saw anything like that," said a woman, who posted her thoughts about it to Facebook.

"The smell is awful," wrote another woman, who lives "right up the street."

The pond was donated to the university by Whippany-based Bayer Corp. in 1998. Miles Laboratories, a subsidiary


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David Beckham #23 of the Los Angeles Galaxy battles Brad Evans #3 of the Seattle Sounders FC during Leg 2 of the Western Conference Championship at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington on November 18, 2012. Photographer: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images

David Beckham will end his six-year stint with the Los Angeles Galaxy in next month’s Major League Soccer championship game, saying he wants to experience “one last challenge” before the end of his playing career.

Beckham, the 37-year-old former England captain, didn’t elaborate on his future playing plans in a statement last night on the Galaxy’s website. Although the Dec. 1 MLS Cup against the Houston Dynamo will be his final competitive game for the Galaxy, Beckham said that he hopes


wonderful country and I want to always be part of growing it.”

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Beckham, who had signed a two-year contract extension in January, scored 18 goals and had 40 assists in 98 regular-season games for the Galaxy. He also recorded eight assists in 16 MLS playoff games, setting up one-third of Los Angeles’s postseason goals. Beckham became the first MLS player to have an assist in five straight playoff contests, including one in all four of the Galaxy’s games during their run to the 2011 MLS Cup title.

Off the field, Beckham’s presence helped the Galaxy reach a 10-year partnership with Time Warner Cable Inc. in November 2011 that’s the most lucrative broadcast deal of its type in MLS history. Exposure of the Galaxy and MLS are at all-time highs,the halfway line against Wimbledon on the opening day of the following season. He won England’s Premier League six times with United, the F.A. Cup twice and the Champions League, Europe’s top prize.

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He won the Spanish league title while at Real Madrid, which he joined in 2003, and played in 115 games for England, the most by a non-goalkeeper. When Beckham came to Los Angeles in 2007, he was the highest-profile signing by a U.S. soccer team since 1975, when Pele joined the New York Cosmos of the old North American Soccer League.

“There is no doubt that MLS is far more popular and important here and abroad than it was when he arrived,” MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in a statement. “David has achieved great things on


should not do those things which ye desire" (Galatians 5:17). In other words, there is, in the Christian, a conflict.

But this verse also teaches us the nature of the new man of righteousness: he is a spiritual man. It is the spirit that lusts against the flesh. And again scripture speaks of the new birth, saying: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." (John 3:6)

And the new birth, as you would admit, happens in this life. So the new man, born of God, exists in this life, and is a righteous man, by nature (spiritual nature). Scripture says, "We know that every one begotten of God does not sin, but he that has been begotten ofat the cross. We're justified by Jesus' blood in that our justification, given to us through His Holy Spirit, is given to us on account of Jesus' blood / on account of the redemption.

It is the new man of righteousness to whom God imputes righteousness from eternity, not the child of wrath. The old man of sin is hated by God from eternity - and God nailed him to the cross because he hated him so much / because he loved the new man of righteousness so much.

The language of being clothed in God's righteousness indicates that whereas, by nature, we are sinners, now, through the redemption and the gift of a new nature, righteousness is reckoned to the believer.

I think we also disagree about history. The Roman


confession and penance, and receiving the sacraments, God's grace/righteousness is "infused" in believers more and more over time, and their own "righteousness in the flesh" becomes subsumed into God's righteousness

That seems pretty works-oriented to me! The Bible says that God's people are born of the Spirit of God without any effort from them at all.

I also see the doctrine that Bob espouses (concerning the imputed righteousness of Christ) as an invention of that free-willing heretic, and subtle snake, Melancthon, who through craft deceived Luther into accepting it, who mistook it for the wonderful revelation he had years earlier, of that great truth that God's people are justified by faith, and not by works. Bob Gundry (a highly regarded Reformed scholar), in his book The Old Is Better, saysby John Gill sums up what I believe.:

I depend wholly and alone upon the free, sovereign, eternal, unchangeable and everlasting love of God; the firm and everlasting covenant of grace, and my interest in the persons of the Trinity; for my whole salvation: and not upon any righteousness of my own, nor any thing in me, or done by me under the influences of the holy Spirit; nor upon any services of mine, which I have been assisted to perform for the good of the church; but upon my interest in the persons of the Trinity, the person, blood and righteousness of Christ, the free grace of God, and the blessings of grace streaming to me through the blood and righteousness of Christ; as the ground of my


true that a monkey could own any copyright. A further cloud has now appeared on this Kat's horizon in the form of news that a campaign has apparently been initiated to vest copyright in an animal other than a cat as an author. In this guest post solicitor and Katfriend Lucy Harrold (Keystone Law) takes up the story:

Copyright Law: A Load of Monkey Business?
Is the selfie on track to change the face of intellectual property? In 2011 British wildlife photographer David Slater was on the island of Sulawesi, following a troop of macaques. He set up his camera and waited. Suddenly, a cheeky monkey grabbed the camera, smiled into the lens and pressed a button. The photographs that followed went on to become internationally known – featuring inInterview with Mark Taimanov

This interview was conducted by Joel Lautier on the 18th of May 2002 at the NAO Chess Club in Paris. Mark Taimanov is an exceptional storyteller and this interview has taken on larger proportions than usual. Nevertheless, it would have been a pity to present a truncated version of it, it is therefore given here in full.

Joel Lautier: Tell us about your parallel careers in chess and music. How did they begin?

Mark Taimanov: (Smiles) It is not easy to describe in a few sentences careers than span over seventy years! Everything began with music. As a small child, I went to a music school where I studied the piano. In 1937, when I was twelve years old, a major event took place in my life.


In my town of Leningrad, a film that was entitled "Beethoven's Concert" was being shot. Since I was a good student in my music class, I was asked to perform the main part, that of a young violinist. However, since I was studying the piano, I had no knowledge of the violin and had to learn all the movements and postures. Apparently, I did a decent job, since the film became a great success and was even awarded a prize in the Paris Cinema Festival of the same year. That is how my aunt, who lived in Paris and did not know me yet, saw me for the first time on a cinema screen [Mark Taimanov's aunt is today an elderly woman of 92, and Mark is stayingwith her during this tournament at the NAO Chess Club - J.L.].

In one day, I became a famous cinema actor! A few months later, I was invited to the official opening of the Leningrad Pioneers' Palace. I should explain to Western people what were the Pioneers' Palaces in the USSR. It was a remarkable idea: children would be gathered after school and teachers would help them develop any skill or talent they had for a specific subject. When I was asked which topic I would choose (I was still eleven years old!), an inner voice whispered to me: "chess!". And that is how, coming from music and passing through cinema, I entered the world of chess. The director of the Leningrad chess school, at the time, was none


by Philipps and are part of the prestigious collection that presents the 100 greatest pianists of the 20th century - J.L.].

In 1953, I became a Grandmaster after the interzonal tournament in Saltsjobaden, which qualified me for the famous Zurich tournament. The latter is beyond any doubt the most beautiful tournament of the last century, not only in terms of the games' quality, but also for the struggle's intensity. All of it has of course been immortalised, thanks to Bronstein's magnificent book. In 1955, I became USSR champion. Until the match with Fischer in 1971, everything went smoothly in my chess career. This dramatic match changed my life into hell [as everyone knows, Fischer won this encounter with the stunning score of six to zero - J.L.].

Lautier: Tell ustrue balance of strength. The terrible feeling that I was playing against a machine which never made any mistake shattered my resistance. Fischer would never concede any weakening of his position, he was an incredibly tough defender. The third game proved to be the turning point of the match. After a pretty tactical sequence, I had managed to set my opponent serious problems. In a position that I considered to be winning, I could not find a way to break through his defences. For every promising idea, I found an answer for Fischer, I engrossed myself in a very deep think which did not produce any positive result. Frustrated and exhausted, I avoided the critical line in the end and lost the thread of the game, which led


to my defeat eventually. Ten years later, I found at last how I should have won that fatal game, but unfortunately, it didn't matter anymore! I have written a book about this match, entitled "How I became Fischer's victim", it represents an essay on the American player and describes how I perceived his style and personality, once the match was over.

Lautier: What were the consequences of this defeat?

Taimanov: The sanctions from the Soviet government were severe. I was deprived of my civil rights, my salary was taken away from me [all Soviet grandmasters received from their government a substantial salary - J.L.], I was prohibited from travelling abroad and censored in the press. It was unthinkable for the authorities that a Soviet grandmaster could lose in such away to an American, without a political explanation. I, therefore, became the object of slander and was accused, among other things, of secretly reading books of Solzhenitsin. I was banned from society for two years, it was also the time when I separated from my first wife, Lyubov Bruk.

Lautier: How were the sanctions lifted?

Endgames of the World Champions from Fischer to Carlsen Let endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller show and explain the finesses of the world champions. Although they had different styles each and every one of them played the endgame exceptionally well, so take the opportunity to enjoy and learn from some of the best endgames in the history of chess.

Taimanov: In 1973, I was qualified by FIDE to participate in the interzonal tournament. My case was


very best duets in the world. As a solist, however, it was a different matter. Nevertheless, I began giving concerts again and at the same time, I experienced new successes in chess. The following years were peaceful and since the fall of the communist regime, everything has become much simpler. As my friend Rostropovich put it: "Before we were sent abroad on missions, now we can travel wherever we please". I was thus able to reply positively to your kind invitation, which would have been impossible in former days. As a matter of fact, I now play in more tournaments than during my best years. It has of course become much more difficult, since I usually give odds of forty to fifty years on average to most ofin clear sentences the essential principles of our game. And of course, he is also the author of the most beautiful words written on chess: "Chess, like love and music, has the power to make people happy" (Smiles).

Lautier: Do you have any other hobbies in life, apart from chess and music?

Taimanov: Writing and journalism have always been important to me. I have thus written a great deal of articles and books about chess, I was also the commentator for the Russian press on the numerous matches between Kasparov and Karpov. However, my main hobby is the love of life. The greatest gift of nature is love, and the love of women has always been an essential part of my life.

Lautier: Please forgive this rather brutal transition, but what


EUCLID AVE. OPERA HOUSE - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

The EUCLID AVE. OPERA HOUSE was known as one of the finest theaters in the U.S. Located at the southeast corner of Euclid Ave. and Sheriff St., it was built in 1875 at a cost of $200,000 and described on its opening night (6 Sept. 1875) as elaborate, luxurious, and very beautiful.

Construction of the Euclid Ave. Opera House, ca. 1870s. WRHS.

It was completely carpeted, with a painted dome and intricate plasterwork. The interior included an auditorium 70' deep x 65' wide, a 54' x 76' stage, and a proscenium that measured 34' high x 37' wide. D. Graham, a specialist in theater architecture, designed the structure, which seated 1,638. When refitted from gas to electricity in 1885, it wasamong the first theaters in the U.S. to make this move. JOHN A. ELLSLER†, formerly of the ACADEMY OF MUSIC, formed a stock company that established the Euclid Ave. Opera House. Soon after its founding, Ellsler lost his fortune, and the opera house was sold at a sheriff's sale to MARCUS A. HANNA†, who leased the theater to AUGUSTUS HARTZ† from 1884-1920. On 24 Oct. 1892 the theater was destroyed by fire, but it was rebuilt on a grander scale than before, reopening on 11 Sept. 1893. In 1899 it hosted Cleveland's first official visit by the Metropolitan Opera Co. of New York. It thrived throughout the early 20th century but was demolished in 1922. The HANNA THEATER, located at Euclid Ave. and E. 14th St., became its


Navy: Fewer Than Five US Troops Now Assigned to Conflict

The Pentagon has withdrawn the vast majority of the military personnel involved in Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, officials revealed today, saying there are now “fewer than five” troops inside Saudi Arabia participating in the operation, down from nearly 45 at the peak of America’s involvement.

The announcement comes at the end of a week of several high-profile incidents in which Saudi warplanes attacked and killed significant numbers of Yemeni civilians, including an attack on a school and the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders facility.

Pentagon officials, however, insist that the drawdown is unrelated to international concerns about civilian deaths, and that it “does not diminish US commitment to supporting Saudi-led military operations.” They added that a re-escalation was possible.

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For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, reduces energy use. But a unique situation in Indiana provides evidence challenging that view: Springing forward may actually waste energy.

Up until two years ago, only 15 of Indiana's 92 counties set their clocks an hour ahead in the spring and an hour back in the fall. The rest stayed on standard time all year, in part because farmers resisted the prospect of having to work an extra hour in the morning dark. But many residents came to hate falling in and out of sync with businesses and residents in neighboring states and prevailed upon the Indiana Legislature to put the entire state on daylight-saving time beginning in the spring of


the marriage: B.J.A. and R.E.A., born October 17, 1982 (twins); F.L.A., born December 4, 1984; and S.R.A., born January 21, 1990. Presently, Robert serves in the United States Army and is stationed in Korea. After his tour of duty in Korea is completed, he expects to be stationed in either Kentucky or Georgia.
As noted above, the petition for dissolution was filed on June 12, 1990. On September 26, 1990, the Department of Public Welfare [DPW] initiated proceedings alleging the children to be Children in Need of Services under IND. CODE 31-6-4-3.1 [CHINS proceedings]. At the initial factfinding hearing in the CHINS action, Julie asserted the children had been sexually molested by their father. Robert appeared at this hearing and asserted the children's physical or mental condition were seriouslythe final hearing in the dissolution action required two (2) more days for the presentation of evidence. The record in this appeal consists of 1500 pages contained in six (6) volumes. Julie's motion to file a brief in excess of 50 pages was granted by this court. Julie's statement of the facts in her brief is sixteen (16) pages long.
The trial court awarded the parents joint legal custody. In general, Julie was awarded physical custody of the children during the school year and Robert was awarded physical custody of the children during the summer months. With respect to the award of joint legal custody, the trial court entered the following findings:
9. It is in the best interests of the minor children that the parties should be awarded joint


Threats, arrests and prosecutions of those who have voiced criticism of the proposed amendments to the Constitution have been a defining feature of the authorities’ campaign ahead of the referendum scheduled in Azerbaijan on 26 September, Amnesty International said ahead of the vote.

“The referendum has been accompanied by arrests and intimidation from the beginning. Those who have attempted to criticise and campaign against these proposals have faced assaults and harassment by the authorities,”said Denis Krivosheev, Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International.

Last month, police arrested three political activists from the opposition group, Republican Alternative (REAL) after they launched a petition against the referendum and the proposed changes to the Constitution.

The referendum has been accompanied by arrests and intimidation from the beginning Denis Krivosheev

REAL’s executive directordetention on charges of resisting the police. They were released after the completion of their sentence.

The proposed amendments to the Constitution would give further powers to the already powerful president, including a longer presidential term, the authority to declare early presidential elections at will and dissolve parliament.

The amendments will also lead to violations of the right to freedom of association. While in practice, public assemblies have already been prohibited in central Baku, the proposed amendments will grant the government even more power to interfere with the freedom of assembly in violation of international standards.

Every single electoral campaign turns out to be a campaign of intimidation of civil society Denis Krivosheev

All major elections in recent years in Azerbaijan have been marked by crackdowns on the rights to freedom of


to hierarchic bureaucracy. No less important, this change would in time produce bishops and cardinals who would make both lay people and honorable priests proud rather than ashamed.

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

VINCENT RYAN RUGGIERO, M.A., is Professor of Humanities Emeritus, State University of New York, Delhi College. Prior to his twenty-nine year career in education, he was a social caseworker and an industrial engineer. The author of twenty-one books, his trade books include Warning: Nonsense Is Destroying America and The Practice of Loving Kindness. His textbooks include The Art of Thinking and Beyond Feelings, both in 10th editions and available in Chinese as well as English, Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues, and A Guide to Sociological Thinking. His latest book, Corrupted Culture: Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense,is available at Amazon and in bookstores. Professor Ruggiero is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of the Critical Thinking movement in education. Earlier in his career, he published essays in a variety of magazines and journals, including America, Catholic Mind, The Sign, The Lamp, and Catholic World.

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Great article – except: Prof. Ruggierios’ 2 requirements for elevation to the Episcopy are, at best, paltry. Five years of pastoral experience at one parish is meaningless without a record of measured excellence in pastoral performance, especially regarding spiritual growth.
A recommendation from a prior pastoral superior, while nice, is worthless in the current environment. Many pastors of parishes large enough to have a curate are themselves guilty of the negligence in leadership cited and have themselves been poorly formed


is dominated by homosexual sexual deviants and of course their bosses who are the same homosexual predators. I say ban all homosexuals from the priesthood. The APA once rightfully called homosexual attraction a severe mental illness. It clearly is!

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VINCENT RYAN RUGGIERO, M.A., is Professor of Humanities Emeritus, State University of New York, Delhi College. Prior to his twenty-nine year career in education, he was a social caseworker and an industrial engineer. The author of twenty-one books, his trade books include Warning: Nonsense Is Destroying America and The Practice of Loving Kindness. His textbooks include The Art of Thinking and Beyond Feelings, both in 10th editions and available in Chinese as well as English, Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues, and A Guide to Sociological Thinking. His latest book,Corrupted Culture: Rediscovering America's Enduring Principles, Values, and Common Sense, is available at Amazon and in bookstores. Professor Ruggiero is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of the Critical Thinking movement in education. Earlier in his career, he published essays in a variety of magazines and journals, including America, Catholic Mind, The Sign, The Lamp, and Catholic World.

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Jimmy Butler is Miami-bound. The Heat will be his fourth team in 25 months.

DeAndre Jordan, a first-team all-NBA center as recently as 2016, plans to sign with the Nets. Brooklyn will be his fourth team in 15 months.

Kawhi Leonard, if he forsakes Toronto for the siren song of LA, will join his third franchise in 13 months.

Kyrie Irving is on his way to Brooklyn. The Nets are his third franchise in 23 months.WASHINGTON -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a pointed but subdued appeal Friday to religious conservatives, a group he has struggled to win over in the past.

Trump pledged during an address to the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual Road to Majority conference to "restore faith to its proper mantle" in U.S. society.

"I'm with you 100 percent." Trump told the crowd gathered at the Omni Shoreham hotel and convention center in Washington, D.C. "We will respect and defend Christian Americans. " He added that he would work hard to advance "our shared values."

Trump told the mostly evangelical attendees that he would pursue a conservative agenda if elected. The businessman expressed his opposition to abortion, support for Israel and his intention to nominate conservative judges to federal courts,


as he generally stuck to themes familiar to the GOP's religious base. "Marriage and family as building block of happiness and success," he said.

It was a low-key address compared to Trump's often boisterous and overtly provocative speeches, most closely mirroring the candidate's remarks to the American Israeli Political Action Committee in March, when he eschewed his extemporaneous speaking style for a teleprompter.

Though Trump's Friday address was delivered with the assistance of a teleprompter, he kept his off-the-cuff remarks to a minimum and was instead very deliberate, carefully outlining how he shared the audience's agenda. He also made a point of acknowledging several religious conservative supporters, including Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Ralph Reed, the founder and chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Trump's speech wasn't completelysomber. "I happen to be Presbyterian," he quipped at the beginning of his remarks, "and there are about three of you out there." At one point, several groups of protesters had to be escorted out of the hall, after they chanted, "Stop hate! Stop Trump" and "Refugees are welcomed here!" The audience responded with chants of "USA! USA! USA" and "Trump! Trump! Trump!"

And the reality TV personality didn't stray entirely from his standard stump speech. He denounced "uncontrolled immigration" and "the threat of radical Islam" and attacked the presumptive Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for having a "Wall Street agenda."

Trump's relationship with religious conservatives -- one of the Republican Party's most influential constituencies -- has been tenuous at best. Many evangelical activists have viewed his


past support for abortion rights with skepticism, along with other statements the candidate has made, including one praising Planned Parenthood.

During his remarks to the conference ahead of Trump's address, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pointedly did not mention the presumptive Republican nominee, nor did Sen. James Lankford(R-Okla.).

Trump's erstwhile rival for the Republican nomination, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, preceded Trump, but she didn't mention the real estate magnate once. His relationship with Firoina has been strained, thanks in no small part to his remarks last September about her appearance.

However, Trump did receive a warm welcome from the conference attendees and earned a standing ovation before and after his speech. Several speakers, including Reed and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), defended him vociferously in their remarks.

It was Trump'sMeaning for Russell Westbrook

April 21, 2020 - Two colorways from Russell Westbrook's signature line — the Jordan Westbrook One Take and the Jordan Why Not? Zer0.3—feature details that honor Westbrook's late best friend and teammate.

On the Why Not? Zer0.3, a KB3 patch appears on the shoe's lateral side, while the green and desert sand color scheme is loosely inspired by camouflage print, reflecting how the two friends were always ready to go to battle for each other.

The green is more vivid in the new Jordan Westbrook One Take through its volt upper, an unconventional variation on camouflage green. Thick, overt stitching appears over the textile material with synthetic overlays. Zoom Air cushioning under the ball of the foot is paired with aggressive traction in a two-section rubber outsole.

The


Jordan Westbrook One Take releases globally in its volt green colorway later this summer. The Jordan Why Not? Zer0.3 colorway releases May 11. Both silhouettes will be available in grade-school sizing.

April 17, 2020 - New colorways of the Nike Air Max Verona, a women’s silhouette debuted in early 2020, draw bold and bright colorway-inspiration from classic ’90s runners, including the OG white and blue Nike Air Verona (the first women's-specific Air Max), the crimson and magenta Nike Air Max 180 (the first Air Max to featured blow-molded 180 Max Air in the heel) and a women's pink and blue colorway of the 1992 Nike Air Pegasus (Nike's longest-running franchise). In addition to referencing these icons of footwear through color play, the latest Nike Air Max Verona pays homageon Ebit’s official page, the price for E9++ and E10 is 3,880 USD and 5,230 USD respectively with delivery date on 1 February 2018. Unfortunately, both miners are sold out.

E9++ 14T And E10 18T of Ebang are sold out

Ebang emerged as the new player in bitcoin mining market, ranking the 3rd supplier in mainland China following Bitmain and Avalon(Canaan) with independent R&D capability in the market.

Bitmain and Canaan are well-deserved leader in bitcoin mining market in the past two years. However, due to the soaring price of bitcoin this year, mining business has become so lucrative that many companies are eying on the open market.

In September this year, Japan’s Internet giant GMO announced that it invested 320 million USD into the field of bitcoin mining. GMO plans to


tested and is expected to be mass-produced by January 2018.

Bitmain is said to have become the biggest buyer for IC in December 2017, surpassing Hisilion of Huawei.

With deviation on AI, could Bitmain retain its leading position in bitcoin mining?Wounded and battered, they wait to be released in the wild

Wounded and battered, they wait to be released in the wild

Three female leopards, aged 5-7 years are waiting in a 10x10 cage to be released after recovering from back injuries which they sustained after falling in a dry well in Rahuri, Ahmednagar district. They were brought to the Manikdoh Leopard Rehabilitation Center, about 90 kms from Pune after being rescued by a team of Maharashtra's forest officials and the experts at the MLRC. Devidas Deshpande reports.

"They will be released after about a month. They have recovered fully but they are not yet strong enough and there are other issues such as immunity, vigour etc. So we have kept them here,” said Dr Ajay Deshmukh, in-charge of the center.

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Image: Manikdoh is the only rehabilitation center in India exclusively for leopardsPhotographs: Devidas Deshpande

Wounded and battered, they wait to be released in the wild

Until now, these leopards were kept in the 10x10 ft cages but with new stricter guidelines from CZA, the new cages are being devised which measure 250 square metres. However, the outside visitors are not allowed to the MLRC and the citizens have an option to adopt the animals for specific period during which they are given full updates on their 'adopted' animal and a visit to the center.

Maharashtra Forest Minister Babanrao Pachpute had proposed to create 'leopard safari' where the visitors could see the leopard roaming while they themselves remained in cages, on the linesof Thailand. The proposal is still in pipeline with CZA.

The MLRC is run jointly by the forest department of government of Maharashtra and Wildlife SOS, a non-governmental organisation based in New Delhi. Originally a brain child of the former forest officer in Pune Ashok Khadse, the center came up with state government's initiative. The sugar belt of Maharashtra, extending from Nashik to Kolhapur, allowed the leopards to live, hide and flourish in the sugarcane fields.

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The abundance of leopards caused people-animal conflict and about 106 leopards were captured from 1999 to 2001. Once established, all the captured leopards were brought to the MLRC. The state government


maintained the center from 2001 to 2007 and later handed it over to the wildlife SOS. The center has a total 10 employees among which six are from NGO and four from the state government.

Deshmukh said, “Right now, we release all leopards except the four categories. Those which were caught and brought up here cannot survive on their own in the wild. Then another category is of those who are too old or ailing. Another category is that of handicapped ones because they could also not survive on their own. Also, the leopards which are prone to enter the human territories are also kept here.”

Wounded and battered, they wait to be released in the wild

The case of Ganesh, a four-and-a-half year old leopard brought in from Dolara inMORE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 COVERAGE

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A 16-year-old girl who tested positive for COVID-19 and whose condition was deteriorating was successfully treated with a blood-cleaning procedure and is now recovering at home.Karla Duarte was admitted on March 29 after a week of fever, body aches, and breathing difficulties, according to Dr. James Schneider, chief of pediatric critical care medicine at Cohen Children's Medical Center.He said she tested positive for the novel coronavirus and was started on supportive treatment, but three days later, she was transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit for worsening symptoms and higher oxygen needs."I even asked my mom, when is this going to be over?" she said. "And she said, 'Soon, mama, soon.'"She was intubated and put on a ventilator the next


offered and initiated."It was really scary," mom Ana Tejada said. "And I told the doctor, 'Do whatever you have to to save my daughter.'"Despite various common challenges with ECMO, some unique to patients with COVID, Dr. Schneider said Karla was successfully removed from ECMO on April 10 and continued to improve."Frankly, she's a 16-year-old tough kid, and we were relying on kids' resilience to improve," he said.She was extubated on April 15 and released from the hospital on April 19."Eventually they said, 'I think she's ready,'" Tejada said. "And that was the most amazing moment when they took her off the ventilator, and I said, 'Wow, God has heard our prayers.'"Dr. Schneider said that when she was discharged, Karla was breathing room air, eating normally, and ambulating."The entireDesigners, planners to tackle building health, efficiency

Ted Reiff, founder of the nonprofit ReUse People of America, is one of the keynote speakers at The Building Conference in Morgantown later this month. His group has pioneered an approach for "deconstructing" old buildings.

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Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and author of the book "Design Like You Give a Damn," is among the speakers at The Building Conference.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Building Conference is a simply named yet broadly targeted event coming to Morgantown. It will speak to anyone who works or lives in, designs or redesigns, or fixes or owns buildings that are old, new or yet to be built in West Virginia.

In short, just about everybody who has a stake in the quality of the places where


we spend so much time, says Sarah Halstead of the nonprofit group WV GreenWorks, one of the sponsors of the Jan. 31-Feb. 2 event at the Waterfront Place Hotel.

After all, the state's "built environment," as she sums it up, is shorthand for the homes, buildings, offices and spaces where people live, work and spend most of their daily existence.

"It's our big chance to really accelerate the general public's understanding of energy efficiency and healthy building concepts. And it's certainly a chance for all the players in the state to get on the same page so we can work better together for better results," she said.

WV GreenWorks brought together West Virginia University, West Virginia State University and the state chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council to advance theIlkae are Aaron Munson and Krystian Lubiszewski, representing Canada and Poland respectively. Their music could be described as a mixture of classic video game soundtracks, hip hop, and experimental electronica. Munson has been the sole active member of the group since 2003. when Lubiszewski decided to take a prolonged hiatus from writing music to focus on his academic career. Ilkae remains an active musical project, continuing beyond the closure of merck records in 2007. Since then, Munson's work has largely been published on the Eerik Inpuj Sound netlabel. He has also made ph… read more


No one really knows where it came from, but if the legends are to be believed, the Tree was forged of purest love and honor – as was the Silverleaf in Sheria and the Heavenly Willow in Keer. If you want to believe the legends, then all were wrought of the same love. Would you like to hear the legend, Ale’ah?” he tried to sing the title as she had sung it, but he knew he had butchered it. He was a Weaver of Essence, not a singer. Only a bard could hope to do justice to the Solnyr tongue.

She didn’t seem to mind. In fact, Garek was certain he saw a faint smile at her lips – although whether it was amusement, curiosity, or affection that inspiredit, he would never dare to guess. She sat, putting her small pack to her side and gazed up at him. Her legs were crossed at the ankle, and her chin rested on her knees. The posture looked uncomfortable to Gerek, but he had seen it often enough to know that it meant attentiveness in a Solnyr. “They will not trouble us if you tell me the tale here, under the tree, will they? It is sacred to the humans, isn’t it?”

“It is – and to my people, as far as that goes. But they know we cannot harm it. It is eternal, and no mortal thing can bring it harm.” He looked into her eyes, smiled, and told the tale.
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Long, long ago, before the Mists fell, there


was a great warrior named Nera Greenblade. The way they tell it here, she was a Minosian, but I’ve heard it told with her as a variety of human races: a Sherian, a Keerian, a Bseri – once, I heard the tale with Nera as a non-human – one of the sidhe, I think. I don’t believe that. She was human, if she ever was at all. Which race of humanity she came from is only important to humans.

She was not clever, or beautiful – or even pretty, nor was she possessed of might or mystic power beyond the ken of humans – but she was a true hero. Nera saved the lives of many over and over again. When the fey lords went mad and went ona Wild Hunt, she protected her fellow humans. When the fey retreated, she protected the goblins and other sidhe from the vengeance of man. She fought for peace always – but she always fought. Often with her long emerald blade, but when she could, she fought with words. Do you see?

She was proud – and rightly so – of her prowess, however, and often boasted that no woman or man could best her among fey or nyrian or humankind.

Tales came, however, that there was one man who perhaps could – a lone hunter in the Icy Wastes north of where the Terrison Holds are today. Far, far north where the Ice Bears and Frozen Lizards hunt one another for food and sport, there was a man called Kalah


the Last – one of the ancient Sil, the ones humans call Dragon Men.

When Nera was confident that Fey and Man would be at peace for a time, she ventured north, seeking Kalah. It is said that she searched the frozen north for a decade seeking him out, but I don’t believe that part. In the end, she found him, and challenged him according to ancient human custom. Kalah, who knew nothing of human rites new or old, merely gazed back at her, enraptured, for she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, for a dragon’s eyes see no beauty in form, only in spirit. Kalah had never seen a mortal maid – his whole life was ancient war and the hunt, and he fell immediatelyin love with her, and he would not fight her. He would not harm her, and vowed that as long as he lived, he would never let her come to harm.

Nera tried to fight him anyway, but her months – I think it must have only been months – in the Icy Wastes had finally made her frail. She collapsed, and Kalah was at her side, stripping off his furs and wrapping her in them. He then carried her for a day and a half to his cabin, using his fiery breath to keep her warm. He spent a year nursing her back to health, caring for her every need. She taught him the Human Tongue, for there was only one such language before the Mists. He taught


her Sil, the ancient language of his people. They hunted and sparred and lived together for a decade – and span I believe. They had found that rarest of treasures: true love. In fact, I do not think they would have come south at all, but something terrible happened.

No one knows exactly what it was, but something… horrifying happened. Some sages say it was a tear in the very fabric of the Realm. I do not know if I can believe it, but one story I heard from a traveler in my old village – which he claimed to have seen on an ancient tablet in the Imperial Museum – was that a comet burning brilliant green had rent the night, and the invaders had come from beyondthem what was happening with her last frozen breath. Kalah had no love for the peoples of Tyrce, but he would not let Nera face the Legion alone, and so they went, far again to the south.

The two great warriors first met the Legion north of the Chraestalwood, and in that battle, it is told that the combined force of Nera’s Blade and Kalah’s Spear – called Soulsaver – rent the back of the World Dragon, leaving the Rift – 1,000 feet across and bottomless, still seeping the evil of the Legion blood spilled that day. They fought the Legion through the Chraestalwood, joined by the forces of human and fae and nyrian and diathen as they went. In that great battle, Kalah sustained many wounds, but his


vow to protect Nera never failed – she was unscathed, all the way to where we stand now, after a full week of constant battle.

Where we are now – that is where Kalah made good on his promise to protect Nera until he died. An arrow, bound with a dozen demon souls, pierced Kalah’s heart, and put him past any power of healing by mortal or god.

He fell, and told Nera he loved her with his last breath. Nera fell to his side and held him, covering him in tears turned to something more than gold, wrought from despair and true love.

At first, the Legion was nearly giddy, feeding from her abject misery – until one sought to touch her, to mingle her misery with physical pain asspice. That one fell, writhing and dying – and the others who had fed on her misery began to fall as well, poisoned with her purest love.

Then she rose to her feet and turned. It is said that no creature has seen true rage since that day. She raised Soulsaver in one hand, and her Emerald Blade in the other, and let out a scream that Zartinus, the Dark God/Goddess of Vengeance and Storms him/herself echoes to this day in the sound that follows lightning when it tears across the sky. It was a sound of pure sorrow, pure misery, and pure vengeance.

Nera swung her blade end felled armies. She thrust Soulsaver and drove back hordes of the Legion. The combined forces of humans, faerie, diathen, and nyrian


could only follow her, mopping up the survivors.

She fought for a full year, across the whole of Minosia, across the Dreamsea, into deepest Sheria seeking only to avenge her fallen love, and when she felled the last of the Legions, she screamed again. She cast he sword and Soulsaver away from her, and where they came to rest no one knows. She fell to her knees and said only ‘It is done, my love.’ Then she began to cry tears of Mythryl, and her broken heart took her to the Gods.

Where Kalah fell, the Gods planted a new tree, and fed it with Nera’s tears of orichalcum, and this Great Golden Oak grew. Where Nera fell, the Gods planted another great tree, and fed it with her tearsallege that over the next six months, the postmaster expressed some interest in purchasing the property. Based upon this expression of interest as well as favorable reactions from other prospective developers and purchasers, plaintiffs decided not to exercise the right to cancel the deal on January 15, 1971.
On September 23, 1971, title passed to the plaintiffs. In a letter dated May 11, 1971, plaintiff Grasso asked the Stamford postmaster whether the Postal Service was still interested in the property. The postmaster relayed the offer to his superiors, and on August 27, 1971, the United States Army Corps of Engineers informed plaintiffs that the Corps had received authorization to negotiate for the purchase of the property which was contemplated for use as a postal facility.
During October and November, 1971,