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Head and Bust from a Seated Statue
Clothing, jewelry, and objects like staffs and scepters—all part of what art historians call iconography—provide clues about individuals represented in sculpture and other works of art. Because certain iconographic features like costumes changed frequently they can also reveal when an object was created. If we know when a type of wig or garment was popular, for example, we can place a statue with that feature within a very limited time span. The elaborate style of wig seen here, with its twin masses of corkscrew curls, first appeared in the Eighteenth Dynasty reign of Amunhotep III (circa 1390–1352 B.C.) and remained fashionable for only a few generations. A faint inscription on the statue's right arm confirms this dating and also tells us that this official served King Amunhotep IV, the son and successor of Amunhotep III. Five years after Amunhotep IV became king, he changed his name to Akhenaten, dating this statue within a five-year period.
The two necklaces depicted here represent strands of gold disks, or the so-called Gold of Honor, presented to officials or soldiers who had preformed an unusual act of valor. Although the name of this man has not been preserved, he was obviously very important in his time.
- Medium: Granite
- Geographical Locations:
- Place made: Egypt
- Possible place made: Thebes, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1353-1336 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
- Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
- Dimensions: 22 1/16 x 11 5/16 x 10 7/8 in. (56 x 28.8 x 27.6 cm) (show scale)
- Inscriptions: Erased cartouches on right shoulder and right side of chest. The latter illegible, but the first must have belonged to Amenhotep IV. Inscriptions on rear of seat and two columns on back pillar do not preserve owner's name.
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
- Exhibitions:
- Accession Number: 69.45
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Head and Bust from a Seated Statue, ca. 1353-1336 B.C.E. Granite, 22 1/16 x 11 5/16 x 10 7/8 in. (56 x 28.8 x 27.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 69.45. Creative Commons-BY
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Group calls on governor to oppose solar tax
PHOENIX -- The governor's office had some visitors Friday.
Members of the group MoveOn.org delivered over 3,000 petition signatures calling on Gov. Jan Brewer to stop a proposed tax that would add $152 annually to the bill of families who use solar power.
Members of the group say public utilities are afraid that their bottom line is threatened by families who are switching to solar to save money.
MoveOn.org member Richard Studley of Anthem, Ariz., said the utility companies are being hypocritical.
"The utilities should be helping us," he said. "They have web pages that state they are pro-solar, but they're trying to make it unaffordable for residential users like us to afford it."
Studley said he switched to solar to save money because of his $250-a-month electric bill. He said he's using about $13 dollars a month in electricity but is paying a lot more than that because of fees that are starting to add up.
"My flat fee for the leasing of the solar panels is $150 a month," said Studley. "The other fees are about $10 to $20 on top of that. If they keep adding other stuff, I'm back up to the $200 to $250 range, and then it's not affordable."
Studley said Brewer is siding with the power companies who favor the tax, instead of the people that she was elected to serve.


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- The Holy Cross women's golf team will begin the spring season this week at the Brown Invitational held on April 13-14 at the Metacomet Country Club. The Crusaders will rely on the leadership of junior captain Morgan Powers (Glastonbury, Conn) for the spring season. Powers is the only upperclassman on the Crusader team, as there are five sophomores on the roster heading into the spring season.
- Sophomore Marisa Cameron (Garden City, N.Y.) held a scoring average of 84.0 strokes per round in the fall season, while Powers averaged 85.6 strokes per round. Both Cameron and Powers competed in a total of nine rounds throughout the fall.
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Once again police have allegedly killed protesters fighting for their constitutional right to basic services. This time it was in Mothutlung, North West, but instances of criminal acts committed by the police continue to be reported regularly. GREG NICOLSON looks at the watchdog established to police the police, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
The IPID website offers a glimpse of the watchdog in action. The latest news dates back to October 2013. IPID is investigating complaints against police commissioner Riah Phiyega. A warrant officer was found guilty of assaulting a woman. Two cops were arrested for allegedly gang-raping a woman in Tshwane. Investigations are under way into allegations of torturing Radovan Krejcir. And in December, a constable was convicted on charges of rape, robbery and kidnapping in 2011 and 2012 around Johannesburg.
The allegations against police, however, are much more frequent. The Monday news referred to multiple instances of crimes committed by police officers. On New Year's Day police are accused of shooting and killing a gangster in cold blood. In the aftermath of the holiday death toll on the roads, it was reported that there are 200 cases of corruption committed by police being investigated related to drunk...


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Harare — MDC legislators yesterday ended their boycott of presidential addresses to Parliament and remained seated in the chamber listening to President Mugabe's speech during the official opening of the Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament.
Opposition leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai also attended the ceremony from the Speaker's Gallery.
MDC parliamentarians have been boycotting President Mugabe's addresses to the House, refusing to recognise his re-election.
Cde Mugabe won last year's presidential poll beating Mr Tsvangirai by more than 400 000 votes.
President Mugabe urged legislators to take the business of the House seriously and commended MDC lawmakers for attending the official opening of the Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament of Zimbabwe.
He was speaking at the traditional luncheon hosted by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing marking the opening of the new parliamentary session.
Some MDC MPs, including acting Harare mayor Ms Sekesai Makwavarara, attended the luncheon.
In the evening, some opposition MPs also attended a reception hosted by the Speaker of Parliament, Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, marking the opening of the session.
The President said he hoped the new session would see Zanu-PF and MDC working together.
"I am glad that today there was that realisation that Parliament must hitherto be an honourable institution to which we belong. I hope the session that is yielded by the opening of this Parliament will see us work together.
"I can only say to the brothers and sisters in opposition that to have a difference of opinion on an objective basis is honourable but to have difference of opinion on the basis your conscience disagrees with is dishonourable in the extreme. They should be able to say that of Zanu-PF," he said.
Back at Parliament, Mr Tsvangirai sat in the Speaker's Gallery with MDC national chairman Mr Isaac Matongo, and shared the same bench with war veteran Cde Joseph Chinotimba, as they pensively listened to President Mugabe's address.
Below them, in the legislative assembly, MDC MPs also sat throughout Cde Mugabe's address.
Mr Tsvangirai said in a statement afterwards that his party now wanted a peaceful political engagement with the Government.
"Our national executive tasked the leadership to do all it can to clear the air for a peaceful political engagement," he said.
"We decided to invest all our energies in search for a permanent and lasting solution to the Zimbabwean crisis."
Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity Cde Nathan Shamuyarira said the MDC had now realised there were people who elected them to Parliament who did not want them to boycott.
"The people are against boycotts and they are also against sanctions the MDC is calling for," he said.
This is the first time that Mr Tsvangirai has come into the Speaker's Parliament to listen to President Mugabe speak since he became MDC leader at the party's formation in 1999. This is also the first time that he has visited Parliament since the 2000 election that brought members of his party into the House.
Cde Mugabe said MPs played a dignified role in society and that was the reason they were addressed as honourable.
"But those who are honourable must not do dishonourable things. Those who are lawmakers must not be breakers of the law."
He said it was understandable that sometimes people erred but they should always behave honourably.
"So we have to distinguish between the political course of organising ourselves towards power, it's demands, the flexibility it has.
"We may call each other all kinds of things outside Parliament in political campaigns. I don't know whether there is any ugly abusive word which has not been said against me in some quarters."
But he said such name-calling had limits even outside Parliament.
"Parliament should not be a joke, it's a House of honour, a House of dignity. It has rules (and) those have got to be observed."
Cde Mugabe said the opposition should desist from thinking that if it called for sanctions against the country, the hardships would affect Zanu-PF members only.
He said the hardships would affect everyone in the country.
The President said political parties could differ on ideologies and ways of governing but should never differ on national interest and the decision of "who we are".
"I am glad that there is now rising within the conscience of all of us that sense of common or is it a common sense of belonging or a sense of common belonging whichever way you want to put it.
"As we stand here you may not like our faces aah kamudhara kachembera, aka hazvina mhosva (you may say I am old man, it does not matter), but I am still your mudhara. Let's work together."
The President said the Fourth Session was being opened against the background of the successful conclusion of the fast track resettlement exercise and the appointment of the Presidential Land Review Committee to assess the land reform programme.
He said while the A1 resettlement scheme had been a success,the A2 scheme had not been that successful and the review committee was expected to come up with recommendations to address the anomalies of not only the scheme but the entire land reform programme.
Cde Mugabe reiterated that those who got more than one farm would be required to surrender surplus land.
He said the review committee would also look into the fairness and justness of the resettlement programme and there would be no sacred cows in correcting cases of unfairness and injustice.
The President hailed established indigenous commercial farmers that were helping newly resettled farmers saying if all farmers had that spirit, Government's burden would be lessened.
He also commended the role played by chiefs and other traditional leaders in identifying beneficiaries of the A1 resettlement scheme.
Cde Mugabe lambasted white commercial farmers who opposed the land reform programme saying their behaviour showed they remained Rhodesians.
He said the Government would not force them to be Zimbabweans but would work with those who were willing to co-operate.
The Government would not be intimidated in facilitating for people to take ownership of the country's resources which rightly belonged to them.
He said the country had gone through the grill of the liberation struggle and would not fear the greatness of Britain and the United States who were demonising the Government for embarking on land reform.
"There are some who are saying this old man has ruined things for us but what comes to me and what should come first to every revolutionary is the issue of the ownership of your land," said Cde Mugabe.
The President said some people doubted him and the Government when they said British Prime Minister Tony Blair was lying when he said Zimbabwe's problems stemmed from issues of rule of law, democracy and governance when the core of the problem was land.
But following Britain and the United States' invasion of Iraq on the basis that it had weapons of mass destruction, which are still to be found, it was now clear the two countries lied, Cde Mugabe said.
He said some people even said he was being abusive for calling Mr Blair a liar but the British leader was failing to justify their invasion of Iraq.
"His (Mr Blair) own people are saying he is a liar and who are we to deal with a liar?"
Cde Mugabe said US President George Bush was convinced after his recent visit to Africa that the continent was united after South African President Thabo Mbeki told him that Zimbabweans were capable of solving their own problems.Meanwhile, the Airforce of Zimbabwe (AFZ) added a new spectacle to the official opening ceremony by introducing new Mi35 helicopter gunships during the traditional fly past.
Hundreds of people who thronged the Africa Unity Square adjacent to the building leapt with joy when the three helicopters passed in a diamond formation, flying from west to east.
The gunships were followed by four jet fighters flying in the same direction also in diamond formation.
Among the four jet fighters were two new Mig 23s that were being introduced for the first time.
AFZ traditionally uses three hawks during the fly past.
AFZ director of operations Group Captain Biltim Chingono said the new aircraft were being introduced to the public.
"It was just a way of introducing the aircraft to the public," he said. "We were taking advantage to introduce them so people will not continue to speculate.
"We just wanted to show the public what we are capable of. The aircraft were first introduced at the firepower demonstration in the Midlands last weekend."
Group Capt Chingono said the fly past was the presidential salute offered by AFZ.
Other sections of the armed forces do their presidential salute on the ground.
President Mugabe arrived at Parliament Buildings around 12 pm accompanied by the First Lady Cde Grace Mugabe in an open black Rolls Royce.
They were accompanied by police mounted on horseback and were greeted by ululations by members of the public, among them Zanu-PF supporters.
Soon after the President's arrival, the whole area was engulfed by the sound of heavy artillery as the Zimbabwe National Army fired the 21-gun salute shortly after the fly past.
President Mugabe then inspected the Guard of Honour mounted by the Presidential Guard, with the army band doing a rendition of Nehanda Dzika Mudzimu, a popular traditional song from the late 1960s.
President Mugabe then entered the House to deliver his speech followed by judges of the High and Supreme Courts, the Speaker of Parliament Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa, Cabinet Ministers and MPs.
The National Anthem was sung once more when the President finished addressing the House just before he departed for State House.


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DES MOINES, Iowa The Senate Economic Growth/Rebuild Iowa Committee voted 13-2 Thursday in favor of a bill designed to provide a tax rebate of up to $16.5 million to the owners of the sprawling Eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie "Field of Dreams" who want to preserve the site's baseball legacy.
The company, Go the Distance Baseball LLC, plans to develop the 193-acre site near Dyersville as a $38.4 million youth baseball and softball complex with 24 fields, dormitories and other amenities.
"This is a unique opportunity for the state of Iowa to create jobs," said Sen. Tod Bowman, D-Maquoketa, who expected the project. He said the project is projected to create 506 jobs and generate $47 million in economic activity via tourism spending at restaurants, hotels and other spin off retail activity. "This is a whole different beast. This is an icon, something they travel to."
Senate File 2110 authorizes the Iowa Department of Revenue to rebate sales tax collected by retailers on purchases made at a baseball and softball tournament facility and movie site. The bill's language is crafted to apply only to the Dyersville project, stating that construction on the facility must commence not later than one year following the enactment of the bill and the cost of the construction must be at least $38 million. The rebate of sales tax only applies to the sales tax collected on transactions occurring on or after Jan. 1, 2014, and before Jan. 1, 2024, and shall only be paid from the baseball and softball tournament facility and movie site sales tax rebate fund created in the bill. Backers said S.F. 2110 is similar to an incentive package the General Assembly approved for the Iowa Speedway in Newton.
Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa, questioned the constitutionality of the financing arrangement and said, if it happens, it should be offered generally rather than just for one project. "If it's good for one, it's good for all," he said. "We really shouldn't be picking winners and losers."
However, Sen. Rick Bertrand, R-Sioux City, applauded the concept as a way to pick winners with a project that would have a "cluster effect" of attracting other development to the northeast Iowa area. "This is exactly the type of project we should be looking for," he said.
Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, said it was a great project that builds on the "magic" of the Field of Dreams movie, but Sen. Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny, said there are other great ideas looking for state financial help which raised the question "where do we draw the line? If we're really going to open the door, let's open the door and have that policy," he said.
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Saurimo — Telecommunications and Information Technologies minister José de Carvalho da Rocha last Wednesday in Saurimo, eastern Lunda Sul Province, guaranteed that major work is will be done with a view to improving the services of his sector in this region.
The government official said so to the press in the end of visit he paid to several departments of his sector in this province.
During his stay in the province, José Carvalho da Rocha handed 40 computers to the 28 de Maio primary school and Bairro Candembe primary school.
"We got concerned, so we thought that some measures should be taken with urgency, because we think some situations must be resolved quickly in the coming times. We're going to have to work harder to start changing some of the situations we've found here", he explained.
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UAAP: Olivares stars as Warriors overtake Archers in 4th quarter
An emotional Charles Mammie celebrates with endgame hero Ralf Olivares. KC Cruz
(Updated 4:47pm) The University of the East Red Warriors mounted a comeback behind reserves Ralf Olivares and Dan Alberto in the dying minutes of the fourth quarter, to defeat the De La Salle Green Archers, 85-83, on Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena in the first round of UAAP Season 76.
The Red Warriors improved their record to 3-3, gaining solo third just behind NU, while the Green Archers end up with a 2-3 mark.
[Review the play-by-play of this game here]
"They cannot underestimate anything, but as early as now, this first round, kasi last year 3-11 lang kami, at least first round pa lang naka-three [wins] na," said UE coach Boysie Zamar. "Going against UP [UE's next opponents] we have to be more determined."
The Green Archers led as much as 10 points in the fourth quarter, but the Warriors shrugged off the fatigue to outscore the Green Archers 27-19 to end the game.
DLSU was two possessions ahead after a wide open triple by Thomas Torres, 1:10 left in the game, but Olivares converted five straight points, including a go-ahead three-pointer of his own, 82-81. La Salle then failed to connect on the last possession as UE survived a game that featured 12 deadlocks.
All-in-all, Olivares and Alberto scored UE's last 10 points.
Roi Sumang paced his team with 21 points, seven rebounds, and six assists. Coming to his aid was power forward Chris Javier, who scored seven of his 16 points in the fourth period. Center Charles Mammie logged 19 points, 16 rebounds (12 offensive), and six assists. Mammie also burst into tears after the win.
"He has gone through a lot," said coach Zamar. "Suspension... noong opening, yung certification. It's our first back-to-back win. That is Charles Mammie, an emotional man."
La Salle stormed out of the gates running and pounding the ball inside, prompting coach Zamar to press for time after DLSU took an early lead, 6-2, within the first two minutes. The Warriors retaliated with an 8-2 blast led by Mammie, this time forcing Green Archers mentor Juno Sauler to call for time with six minutes remaining on the clock.
Teams then swapped baskets until forging an 18-all tie to end the quarter, with DLSU guard Almond Vosotros leading all scorers with eight points.
The two sides continued trading baskets in the early stages of the second, with Jeron Teng doing most of the lifting for DLSU. The Archers gained some separation after a three-point play by last year's rookie of the year, and maintained it after Teng traded a basket for Sumang's charities, 27-24. The Warriors however cashed in from long-range after the timeout, drawing three's from Alberto and Javier, but Thomas Torres answered with a three of his own to even the game at 30-all.
Double technical fouls were called on Gino Jumao-As and Thomas Torres after some rough play elicited the attention of the referees, with the game tied at 34-all.
The teams traded punches until the Archers again broke away from the tie via three consecutive triples, one from Vosotros and two from Florida-native Matt Salem to gain a seven-point buffer, 43-36. After a UE timeout, the Warriors resorted to drawing fouls, and Sumang and Mammie made three straight to cut DLSU's halftime lead to four, 43-39.
The Archers relied on efficient shots near the rim and lights-out shooting from deep, en route to a 51.4 percent shooting performance at the half, with four out of 10 makes from beyond the arc. They also eked out 14 points off nine UE miscues.
Teng paced his team with 13 points on 6-8 shooting, while Vosotros added 11 on a 5-8 clip.
The Warriors' free throws kept them in the game, making seven out of eight attempts (87.5 percent), even while hitting just 15 of their 36 shots (41.7 percent). They held a slight lead on the rebounding department at 20-18 and produced scores from their bench as well, with 14 coming from their reserves.
Mammie topped his team in scoring and rebounds with 11 points and seven rebounds (six offensive), while Sumang posted 10.
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La Salle opened the third quarter with a tough basket from Norbert Torres inside, 45-39, but the Warriors made six unanswered points before a nifty lay-up by Luigi De La Paz stopped the rally. A basket by Adrian Santos off a dime from Sumang evened the game at 47. Vosotros then drilled seven straight points from the perimeter as La Salle led, 56-49.
Mammie and Javier swapped scores from the inside with Van Opstal to make it 60-53, but La Salle extended their lead to nine after Thomas Torres lobbed it to Vosotros for a backdoor play, and Vosotros' 19th and 20th points, 62-53.
Norbert Torres' hook shrugged off two free throws from Sumang, but Sumang drilled a trey from around 30 feet to make it a two-possession game heading to the fourth, 64-58.
The Archer lead finally reached double-digits after two straight baskets from Van Opstal and De La Paz, 68-58. UE managed to add points only at the 7:39 mark after a split by Sumang, and two more from the line by Mammie, to make it a 68-61 game. Undaunted, the Red Warriors went on a 10-3 run, seven courtesy of Javier, to make it a 73-71 ballgame. Free throws by Sumang then knotted the score at 73-all, the 12th deadlock of the ballgame.
Vosotros cut the tie with a triple, and La Salle maintained the lead after a dunk by Van Opstal countered two splits by Mammie, 78-75. Alberto punched back with a floater, but Thomas Torres' triple had seemingly drove the nail in the coffin, 81-77. Olivares, however, scored five straight points to swipe the lead, 82-81.
The referees adjudged a long-range shot by De La Paz to be a long two instead of a three, with La Salle still down 84-83 after free throws by Alberto. A split by Olivares at the line gave them a two-point lead, a small advantage that the Warriors clung to after Thomas Torres missed the final basket, 85-83.
Vosotros scored a career-high 26 points on an 11-19 shooting clip from the field, to go with three assists and two steals. On his heels was Teng, who scored 13 points and logged five rebounds, five assists, two steals, and three blocks in limited minutes, as the coach pulled him for most of the third quarter and the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. - RAF, GMA News
The scores:
UE – Sumang 21, Mammie 19, Javier 16, Alberto 9, Olivares 8, Noble 4, Sumido 0, Jumao-As 0, Hernandez 0, galanza 0, Flores 0, Casajeros 0
DLSU – Vosotros 26, Teng 13, N. Torres 9, T. Torres 9, Van Opstal 8, De La Paz 8, Salem 6, Perkins 4, Tampus 0, Revilla 0, Montalbo 0
Quarter scoring: 18-18, 39-43, 58-64, 85-83
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The Young Entrepreneurs' Organization created opportunities for Keith Alpers, but he has given back to the organization many times over.
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Be it encouraging the development of a US clean energy industry, supporting our amazing internet and communications entrepreneurs, developing new ways to save lives and make Americans healthier at lower cost, or catalyzing a vital new commercial space industry to follow in NASA's footsteps and open the frontier to the people, in each of these areas the president is pursuing initiatives that are transformative.
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In an email, MBDA confirmed a deal for infrared and active radar guided versions of the weapon has been authorised by India's cabinet. No other details were provided.
News of the authorisation first appeared on Indian news websites on 5 January, citing unnamed sources. The reports suggested the deal values at about $1.2 billion for 450 to 500 missiles, although MBDA declined to comment on either figure. However, if accurate the buy would work out at a cost of approximately $2.7 million per round.
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Ifo Institute
Ifo Branch Dresden
Main tasks
Ifo Institute's Dresden Branch, founded in 1993, conducts theoretical and empirical economic research. Ifo Dresden's studies focus on the economic transition process and economic development of Saxony's and East Germany's economy, but also on the situation of the eastern EU-accession countries. Moreover, ifo Dresden offers economic policy consulting services and serves as a forum for scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs.
Fields of research
- Business cycles and growth in Saxony and eastern Germany
- Human capital, structural change and Saxony's/eastern Germany's position in the competition for the most attractive industrial locations
- Labour market and social policy in Saxony and Eastern Germany
- Integration of Saxony and the other new federal states in the international division of labour (especially with Central and Eastern Europe)
- Public finance and business development in Saxony and the new federal states
20th Anniversary of Ifo Dresden
On 23 September 2013 the Dresden Branch of the Ifo Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary. Ifo Dresden can look back at two successful decades of empirical economic research. The Dresden researchers have strongly established themselves in the research landscape, and their expertise and know-how, especially in the field of Eastern German economic development, is highly valued by both economists and politicians.
To mark this anniversary, the Institute organised a conference entitled: "Reform options for federal fiscal equalisation" on 9 October 2013, which identified the deficits of the fiscal equalisation system and discussed proposals to reform fiscal equalization between the Länder.
Since 1994 ifo Dresden publishes the journal ifo Dresden berichtet (6 issues per year). In this periodical ifo Dresden's researchers as well as guest writers publish the results of their analyses of the economic situation of Eastern Germany.
Results of comprehensive research projects are published in the book series ifo Dresden Studien. The titles of the issues give a reasonably full account of the research profile of the ifo Dresden Branch.


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C-USA rivalry matchup slated for a 3:15 p.m. kick on CSS.
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Joined the Tigers in spring 2010 after transferring from Alabama State...Redshirted during the 2010 season...Saw increased time in the secondary during the spring 2011 practice session, and could add some depth in the fall.
A three-year letterman at Coatesville High...Played cornerback and was named a team captain as a senior in 2006...Selected as the team's Best Defensive Back in 2005 and 2006...Earned Special Teams Player of the Year honors in 2003 and was honored as the Most Improved Player in 2004...Also lettered in basketball as a shooting guard and in track, working primarily with sprints and relays...Earned a medal at the state championship track event for the 4x100 relay as a freshman...Was part of a 4x400 relay team that won the Penn Relays in 2006 and 2007.
Adam Johnson is the son of Woodrow and Selena Johnson...Born April 14, 1989, in Philadelphia, Pa.


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UTSA Gallery 23 art show highlights work of alumna Cornelia White Swann
(Aug. 19, 2013) -- Gallery 23 at the UTSA University Center presents "Forty: A Collection of Small Gestures," an exhibition of acrylic and watercolor paintings on paper from UTSA alumna Cornelia White Swann. Free and open to the public, the exhibit at the UTSA Main Campus runs Aug. 19-Oct. 25.
>> Guests can meet the artist at a gallery reception from 3 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11.
"This curiosity evolved with my observations of the urban landscape, the strong architectural lines of a building existing with the organic forms of clouds passing behind it, or the desire paths left by pedestrians seeking the route of least resistance," said Swann. "I'm inspired by psychogeographic theories, the power of color, and the poetics of time and space.
Swann received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her works have been included in exhibitions at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Women and Their Work in Austin, Texas; McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio; Laredo Center for the Arts in Laredo, Texas; and UTSA Satellite Space, cactus bra SPACE and Joan Grona Contemporary Art Gallery in San Antonio. She currently lives and works in San Antonio.
Gallery 23 serves a vital role in creating a vibrant campus community by offering cultural enrichment, enhancing diversity on campus, and providing an educational opportunity to explore the arts. The gallery serves as a professional space to showcase student, staff, faculty, alumni and local artists' works.
Taking its name from its room number, University Center Room 1.02.23, the gallery is a service of the UTSA University Center, an organization in the Office of Student Life in the Division of Student Affairs. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Thursday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday.


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140 grams egg whites, about 4 large egg whites (aged 5 days in refrigerator)
92 grams granulated sugar
168 grams ground almonds
252 grams confectioners' sugar
clear vanilla extract
pearl luster dust
small paint brush
*Remove egg whites from fridge 2 hours prior to using.
*Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
*Weigh all bowls that you'll be using (it's helpful when trying to ensure you have the proper weight of ingredients after sifting).
*Measure granulated sugar into a small bowl.
*Sift ground almonds into a large bowl. Measure the weight of any almonds that didn't fit through the sieve, and replace them, continuing to sift, until you have a total weight of 168 grams. Sift confectioners' sugar into the same large bowl. After sifting, weigh the total weight; be sure the combined weight of the bowl, almonds, and confectioners' sugar is correct. With a spatula, mix together the almonds and confectioners' sugar.
*Fit a large decorator's bag with a coupler (optional) and large round tip (I use Ateco #808). Clip the bag just above the inserted tip (a clothespin works fine). Fold the bag down to form a cuff and set bag into large glass or pitcher. (The cuff can help the bag balance inside the glass, but it also makes it easier to fill the decorator bag.)
With an electric mixer or whisk, beat the egg whites (medium speed) in a large stainless steel or glass bowl until frothy. Gradually add granulated sugar, continuing to beat until glossy and semi-stiff peaks are formed (the peaks will curl to the side but will hold their shape and remain moist) - don't overbeat.
Add half the almond mixture to the egg whites. Combine with a spatula (no need to fold) until mostly mixed, deflating the egg whites. Add remaining almonds to egg whites and continue to mix in a half folding, half smoothing the batter against the sides motion, until the batter starts to fall back on itself in a ribbon. (If you're unsure if the texture is right, pipe a one-inch mound onto the parchment. There should be a slight peak that will disappear on its own after a few seconds. If the peak doesn't go away on its own or the batter appears very thick, give the batter another fold, then try again.)
Transfer batter with the spatula to the decorator bag. I find it better to just undermix the batter, as filling the bag tends to continue the mixing and could result in an overmixed batter. Pipe 1 inch rounds onto the parchment, leaving about a half inch in between macarons. Let rest at room temperature 30 minutes to set.
Preheat oven to 325*F.
Bake one sheet at a time, 10-12 minutes. Check for doneness at 10 minutes by touching the top of the macaron and giving it a light wiggle with your finger. If it jiggles, baking another minute or two until set. Cool completely before removing macarons from parchment.
Combine a teaspoon or two of clear vanilla extract with a sprinkle of pearl luster dust in a small dish or ramekin. "Paint" shimmery mixture onto macaron shells (though it probably goes without saying, use a brush dedicated to food decorating). The extract will evaporate, leaving a shimmery sheen.
Pair up like-sized macarons and fill with a small spoonful of blackberry lime curd.
Bonus: your home will smell wonderful!
Blackberry Lime Curd
1 pint blackberries
1/4 pound (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
3 large eggs
4 large egg yolks
Fill a medium saucepan 3/4 full with water and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Puree berries in food processor or blender, then pass through sieve into a small bowl. Measure out 1 cup of puree (I had one cup exactly) and transfer to a small saucepan. Add butter and cook over low, stirring occasionally, for about a minute. Add sugar and lime juice juice, stir until sugar is dissolved (rub a little between your thumb and index finger - when it no longer feels gritty, the sugar is dissolved). Transfer to a large liquid measuring cup (I use a 4 cup measure). If, unlike me, if you do not make a giant mess in the kitchen, you can skip this step.
Whisk eggs and yolks in a large heatproof bowl, just until combined. Place bowl on a damp paper towel. Slowly drizzle the blackberry mixture into the eggs while whisking. Place bowl over simmering water and cook, whisking constantly, until the curd has thickened and reached a temperature of 160*F.
Remove from heat and strain curd through a mesh sieve into a small bowl. Press plastic wrap directly on the curd's surface and refrigerate. When cool, transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate until ready to use, up to 1 week.
Macaron recipe adapted from Mad About Macarons
Blackberry Lime Curd adapted from The Secrets of Baking


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William breathed in and out quickly, sweat coated his broad forehead as
his shoes hit the pavement in a hauntingly quick rhythm that only got
faster as he heard the shrieks from behind him. He didn't know where he
was going, which direction, anywhere was better than here. As far as that
went, he wasn't even sure where "here" was. He could have been anywhere,
he could have been nowhere. He stopped briefly under a street lamp to
catch his breath. He hadn't eaten in probably twenty-six hours. The
shrieking noises still echoed from the alley. He looked up at the moon,
still red, still full. The Bloodmoon, the soul harvest, evil that knew no
boundaries had set its sights on him. He kept running towards the center
of the city where there were no people, empty cars littered the streets
and fires burned in trash barrels. He hadn't seen people in a month, maybe
more. He'd lost track of time at some point. He ran his hand through his
brown hair as he looked for a place to hide for the rest of the night.
He saw a convenience store next to a hair salon and forced the sliding
doors open, savagely seizing everything that was either vacuum sealed or
non-perishable. He sat in the darkness, eating what must have been some
sort of sugary disgusting chocolate treat from the looks of it, and a can
of peanuts. He looked around him constantly, sitting in the aisle, with
the door he had closed behind him in plain sight. He minded every exit in
case he had to run, the old man's words echoing in his brain as they had
for the past month. "Everything is as it has always been. The human race
can survive no longer than any other race that has plagued the planet.
We've overstayed our welcome from nature. Our time has come." He
remembered the corpse as he'd last seen it, lying there, helpless,
submissive to its fate. The old man had seen his time come and pass, but
William was not so eager to lay down his life. He had discovered an evil
in the world that had escaped from where it was once sealed, and it wanted
its revenge on the thing that sealed it there. The thing was clearly man.
Somehow, man had sealed it somewhere, but it wasn't going to leave
William. It had gotten a taste of him, and it was going to hunt him like
wolves to a deer leaving a bloody trail behind itself in the snow.
He walked over to the refrigerator and opened the door. A single bulb
flickered and he saw the massive quantity of unconsumed energy drinks. He
took one from the row right in front of him, and as the others behind it
scraped down the row the electricity for the entire store came back
online, music, loud and irritating music in some foreign language was
echoing through the place, and the lights were on. "Damn." He was gone for
sure this time. He hadn't gone far enough away from the alley. Taking a
drink had never made the electricity come back on before. He had barely
consumed a sip, but he threw the drink down behind him and burst out of
the back door as he heard the glass storefront shatter behind him. He saw
black smog fill the place as the door swung shut and he ran into the
smaller alley behind the store. Four very large crows behind the door
scattered as he bolted up the fire escape of the building opposite, making
it to the roof as he saw the alleyway darken beneath him. There was
something evil even in the smoke preceding whatever it was that was after
him. He'd never actually seen what it was, but he'd seen what it could do,
he'd felt its bite, and that was enough for him.
He ran on, across the rooftops until he reached a point where he couldn't
jump far enough anymore. He kicked in the door to the stairs and bolted
down them as fast as his feet could carry him. He ducked into a room, but
the dark fog followed his feet, wrapping around his ankles and dragging
him out of the room by the one leg that it managed to get a firm hold on.
He whipped around and kicked at the nothingness with his other leg and it
recoiled. He sprung back to his feet, running straight through the room to
his left and bursting through the window without regard of where he would
land. He felt the weight of his actions when he landed one story down in a
parking garage, on the hood of a generic model full-size truck.
He kicked the door to the stairwell to the apartment building open. As he
passed doors left and right leading to hallways, closets, rooms, he
skipped steps, watching the blackness overtake the stairs above him.
A pair of hands reached out and grabbed him as he reached the bottom,
pulling him into an old broom closet and covering his mouth. The shrieking
noise came closer and closer. His heart kept beating as the girl held a
finger to her lips. He nodded, and she let her hand down. He took in a
breath to say something, and her hand went back over his mouth even from
behind her. She turned and shook her head as the shrieking sound echoed
through their darkened section of the world. The black smog took out the
light from the street and the room beyond the door which he had used to
see the girl originally. Some of the smoke, that smell like rotting wood
and burnt rubber, made its way into the room. He could hear the sound of
something like an animal sniffing. He felt cold, too cold, like winter,
only this had all started in winter and every night had been progressively
warmer since, and there was no way it had been a year since this all
began, six months at most. William shrank inside himself and blacked out.
He felt arms under his, holding him up as he slipped from consciousness
and the shrieking faded.
She had only seen it for a split second as it darted past the hair salon
she had been waiting in, not enough time to even raise her gun, let alone
get a shot off. She had been hunting it since it killed her sister,
running after it, not ever seeing it up close, but feeling its presence
and being forced to run from it as often as she assumed it had run from
her. He had brought it here. It had followed him here.
He hadn't dreamt since December. When he awoke, the young woman was
standing over him holding a candle. They were still in the broom closet.
"Why is it after you?" her accent was Australian.
"It met me once before," he replied, pulling his shirt down over his
shoulder to reveal the four piercing fang marks. "News from around the
world said Australia went black after four days, how are you here?"
"I was a part of the refugee camp that ended up in Scotland," she replied,
"Two days after the damn thing broke out in Greece I hauled ass for New
York. Then somehow I ended up here. Funny, I'm not even sure where this
is." She was attractive. He hadn't seen a woman since December either. It
must have been May of 2013 from what he could judge. The cold had left
him, and the sweat on the back of his neck had resumed making his collar
stick to his skin in an irritating way. Her brown hair had body around her
head, and it hung, curled perfectly, and highlighted. The job had been
done recently.
"Those look new," he gestured to the highlights.
"That's because I put them right before I saw you, and then I saw it, but
only for a split second before it disappeared into the store that you
turned the lights on in like an idiot." His mind flashed back to the hair
salon standing motionless beside the convenience store. He hadn't done it
on purpose. She had been in that salon and he hadn't noticed. She'd
noticed him, and she didn't seem to have had any intention on declaring
her existence before it became necessity or at least obligation to fellow
humanity to save his life, or maybe she'd have let it kill him before she
killed it. Her tank top clung to her ample chest, barely concealing any
bit of cleavage the large lacey bra was causing, and her bare flat stomach
flirted with being muscular. Her legs swelled outward, being
over-developed. His arms were more muscular. He usually climbed things to
escape it half of the time though, and most people just ran, as it was
clear she had for a long time. "How did you get here?"
"I was in New York just after Greece, and then I was in Colorado," he
replied, "and I don't know how I got to this city after that. The other
survivors went to some remote place they didn't think it would follow, and
I avoided crowds to stay away from it."
"You were in Colorado?" her eyebrows raised. "I heard horror stories
coming out of there, how did you survive?"
"My legs and my arms, I got bitten once, but I never caught a glimpse of
the thing." William shook his head.
"I'm Citlali, but you can call me Cit," she replied to this. It hadn't
been a question, but there she stood holding out a hand.
"William," he shook her hand, eager to make physical contact to confirm he
wasn't hallucinating.
"I lost my whole family to this thing when I was nineteen," she shook her
head. "I'm gonna kill it."
"You're insane," he shook his head. "I lost my parents to the feet of
people trying to get onto the train in New York. They were trampled.
Everyone in the station was sitting ducks once blood began to hit the
floor. The very old would get trampled along with the very young. I
couldn't bare it, and so I ran. I could see it looming in the sky over the
station like a white fog. Through pure determination and my will to
survive I made it to Colorado. I thought I'd be safer at higher altitudes.
The thing destroyed the train in Colorado as it headed towards California,
stopping it right on the track and heading back through the cabins. It
slithered on the air and bit all of the passengers. It seemed to have fur
as I ripped it from myself and threw it towards the door to the
compartment, but then it disappeared through the door, and I blacked out."
"It ate half of my sister," she shook her head. "It spared you after you
fought it. I'm not about to return the football."
"How?" William asked.
"We've got to get it to come out into the open somehow," Cit replied.
"The city's no place for that," William shook his head.
"Then we have to go," she replied. "It doesn't like the light as much, we
can go now if we want to get out of the city."
They ran out of the building and city, seeking anywhere and everywhere
that was free of trees, but all they could find was highway. Walking all
day, they never encountered anywhere, then, as darkness began to fall,
they were finally approaching another place.
"This is the same city," William turned back. The highway was the only
place that they might have stood a chance at facing the thing without
being killed. He looked at the machine gun by Cit's side. "Do you know how
to use that thing?" A crow landed on the overpass that they were standing
on. He turned away from the city, noticing something, There was no way to
get to the road directly below this overpass from anywhere they had been
walking as far as roadways went. He saw a ladder down to the side, well,
more like rusted rectangles with one side embedded in the concrete.
"Yeah, I can shoot," she was looking at him. He walked towards the ladder
and climbed down onto the road below. She followed, noting where he was
going. "We're sitting ducks out here."
"So is it if it approaches us," he said as she mounted the ladder above
him. One of the rungs gave way to her as he approached the bottom, and she
fell. He backed up and broke her fall by catching her. As night crept on
they walked on down the road, away from the city they had come from. He
saw nothing but the road ahead, and the beautiful woman he was with. Trees
broke up as they walked on. They didn't say barely a word as they walked
on. He was happy not to be alone anymore. She was happy that there was
still another living person if she died trying to kill this thing. "I was
nineteen in September of last year, I just hope I live to see twenty," he
smiled in the red light of the moon as they walked on towards wherever
they were headed on this straight road. They saw a place, a town of some
sort at the very end of the road. At the center, there was a large clock
tower. It reminded William of some sort of fake old world Bavarian town
that might be recreated in an amusement park. He expected to hear yodeling
and accordion accompanied by some sort of goofy horn coming from the
center of the round place. Instead he heard three o'clock tolling by the
clock tower.
"What's your full name?" he asked suddenly, as the sun began to brighten
three hours later and they could read the name of the town on a sign at
its apparent entrance.
"Citlali Maria Carcassonne," she told him, "What's yours?"
"William Eagle Narbonne," he replied, "my family was into birds of prey."
"Why did you ask?" she asked.
"I just realized I know more about this town than I do about you," he was
pointing at the sign that said that it was The New City of the Sun. The
civilization that had been in the city had been victim to rapidly changing
laws and multiple conquerors. It was amazing how many times the sign said
the city had been captured. However many times it had been captured, this
was their city now. With all former residents gone or dead, this was their
city now.
They sat in this place, which seemed to be an impossibility. Then again, a
highway which led to the same city in two directions also seemed to be an
impossibility in itself. They looked at each other, they saw each other.
They almost didn't need to speak, but they did. They talked through the
day. They talked, and they talked, and they talked. They looked for the
best defensible location. Neither had found someone who could make them
laugh and almost make the situation they were in not as bad. Everyone they
had met only ever told stories that came after the day that the black fog
that killed people had appeared. All of their stories were of fonder times
that came before the wretchedness. They didn't want to complain about
their situations, to whine about their losses and what the thing had taken
from them.
"What do you think it is?" she asked.
"An old man told me it was nature getting sick of people, but I don't
think that nature is a furry creature that eats people after blanketing
them in smog so thick they can't see," Will smiled. "I'm pretty sure it's
something alive, and I'm pretty sure it's something we didn't think was
possible. You're not sure that gun will kill it, and I'm not sure that gun
will kill it. I'm sure other people have tried."
"So what's the point?" she asked.
"I'm scared, you're scared, we don't want to die, but what do we have to
live for? What can it hurt?" he asked.
"Don't you know by now?" she asked.
"Know what?" he turned as they walked up the steps of the clock tower no
one was maintaining, but which was somehow still running.
"Don't you know?" she repeated, stepping closer, a bed sat at the center
of the room.
"What?" he spoke as she took another step towards him in the evening light
coming in through the face of the clock, its giant pendulum swinging away
the time they had left to live.
"Don't you know?" she asked a third time, touching her nose with his, and
before he could ask what she was talking about again, their lips met.
Before he could be sure what was happening his head was spinning. He
didn't trust her. He couldn't trust her. She couldn't trust him, but
surely he had died and was in heaven. They made the kind of love people
make when they have nothing left but each other, a cleaving impulse to
cling to what time they have left, the love they make when they don't care
anymore, the kind that two people make when they know that they're going
to die, and as the minutes rolled on past, and the hours fell away in that
bed, the two had each other to live for, and to die for. They made the
kind of love where the gun shifted around in the bed beneath them as they
could both feel the beast, the presence of the black fog moving closer
shifting over the New City of the Sun. Afterward they laid there, just
laid there, as what was probably the last sun they'd ever see, went down
behind the trees in the distance. They held against each other tight as
darkness fell on the New City of the Sun, and William felt the presence of
the fog creeping closer and closer.
Around ten he walked to the window, the fog was falling on the highway,
creeping closer, almost daring them to confront it outside their
watchtower. It didn't seem threatening as it usually did. They felt strong
in their resolution to try and kill it. They certainly felt that they
deserved to live. William looked at his shoulder, and the four dots of the
bite began to bleed a little. That was what they saw, death, coming for
them, like storm clouds on a sunny day. They put their clothes back on,
and prepared to face it. Here brown eyes were steady, her hands, their
more powerful equal. She pointed the gun down the highway.
"Wait," William put his hand on top of the gun and lowered it in the
window. The beast was about to come into sight. She wondered impatiently
what he was waiting for. It was small, couldn't have stood more than four
feet off of the ground. It was something that moved like a dog or a cat,
definitely on four legs. It came into sharper and sharper focus as it
neared, and the fog began to creep towards the entrance to the city, he
kept his hand firm, pushing the gun down.
"I am not the one you seek," a strange voice filled his head. It could
have been lying, but this animal didn't seem right as what bit him. He
looked out at the beast in the moonlight. At the moment it crossed the
city gates it came into clear enough focus to see that it was spotted like
a leopard, only the spots were white and its coat was black. It wasn't a
leopard though, and it wasn't a dog. It wasn't a cat. It was a black fox,
a black fox with white leopard spots and red glowing eyes.
"Let me shoot it," she told him.
"It's not the one we want," he replied. "I think it's looking for the same
thing we are."
"Yeah, each of us wants the other dead, got it, now let's kill it," she
"No," he grabbed the gun from her, and he went down and outside to
confront it.
"William stop!" she cried after him, running behind him and trying to stop
"Let her shoot, what's the difference?" a new voice hissed inside his
head. The one they were looking for, maybe it was the bite, but somehow he
knew this one was the one they wanted. William walked towards the fox
creature as it came at a lazy jogging pace through the red light of the
moon behind the clock tower.
"Come and see," the voice of the fox beast spoke, and William saw,
something was on the highway, waiting on the overpass, waiting for them.
The smoke around the beast seemed lighter tonight, and the three walked
beside each other in the darkness, Cit looking frightened to be near the
beast at all.
"Look at the teeth," William pointed at the fox, "Now look at my shoulder."
"What?" she looked from one to the other.
"That's not what bit me," he spoke as the clock struck midnight behind
them. This thing, whatever it was, was not going to hurt them. It wasn't
going to betray their trust, this fox, this night leopard. It was
something good. William felt warm just being around it. It was trying
their hearts not to exact their revenge on something of the evil fog that
had taken everything from them.
"It was me last night," it told him, "I gave you to each other. I drove
you from the city where it stays, without your lives to take, it was
nothing, it was wounded by your leaving, and now it waits for your
"Why does it want me?" William thought.
"It tasted your bravery, it tried your heart, just as she didn't admit to
you that it tried hers," the fox beast's voice echoed in his head as he
saw the blood drip down her finger from where on her arm that her own
wound must have been bleeding like his.
"What is it?" William asked out loud.
"You'll see," the beast's voice echoed in his head.
Worse fog covered the overpass, its edges creeping and slithering out
towards the three just out of its reach. They climbed what was left of the
ladder from when the rung slipped out. He looked over at her as he came
up; she was aiming the gun, prepared to fire. There, in front of them, was
a great snake, only this snake was feathered in white over every inch of
its undulating body. They were in its fog now. It coiled up, preparing to
strike, its feathers on the underbelly dirty from being dragged on the
ground. He told her to fire. The snake seemed annoyed by the bullets, but
little more.
"To kill it, you must equal it," the fox told him. "It grew since it bit
you. You must puncture it as it punctured you. I will help."
Then the snake lunged at them. They jumped out of the way. The fox was
running around behind the snake, daring it to strike. It took the chance,
narrowly missing the fox and knocking a section of concrete off of the
side of the overpass. William jumped up on the tail and began to climb the
snake using its feathers. Up further and further as he traveled on the
lunging snake, which switched between the fox and Citlali. He knew what he
had to do. He moved to the snake's head as Cit shot it in the eye on one
side. He wriggled under its jaw as it began to violently throw its head
"Get off of me, the other is deceiving you," it told him in his head.
"You killed my family, you attacked the train, and you ate her sister.
You're going to die now." William bit into its neck four different times,
puncturing it in four different places, and the snake began to bleed. It
bled in black gloppy, pus-like fluid that covered William's entire head as
he dove from the beast. Its taste was terrible in his mouth and he spat as
he rolled over and got up to run. It took what seemed like ten minutes to
lose all of its energy and fall to its inevitable death, but it wasn't
quite dead. The head shot back up as the voice rang out in laughter in
William's mind. The snake wasn't dead.
"What do we do?" he asked the fox.
"Die," the serpent's voice hissed as it glowed as brightly as the sun on a
summer day, shooting cold out in all directions, a feathered serpent of
cold flame. Into the city they ran. They were in its domain now, but it
was the only place that they could avoid it. They ran to the other side of
the city and split up.
"Meet back up on the highway," the fox creature called out. It waited for
the giant serpent, and when it went to strike, the fox darted out of the
way, sending the snake barreling towards a large open manhole behind it.
William watched from a rooftop as Cit ran headlong down the center street,
gun still drawn, good lord she was the fastest person he'd ever seen in
his entire life. He started to run to catch up, she was still gaining
distance on him, but then manhole covers started blasting upward behind
her. She started turning to shoot, and then in no time it seemed like the
last manhole cover was off. William heard three more pop somewhere, and
then before he could move, the building beneath him began shaking. The
roof burst upward under his feet and he was thrown to the next building,
but he landed it, and was forced to run. The snake was gliding on the air
again. He had to outrun it. He had to, but then he ran out of roof. Down
he went, jumping from level to level in a stairwell before finally
reaching the bottom. He could hear the building itself crumbling above him
as the snake burned through it. He ran straight for the highway, gaining
distance on the other two in his own amazement. He had to make it back to
the City of the Sun. There was something there, something that the serpent
had been avoiding. He had to get to whatever it was.
So back they ran, trying to outrun a flying serpent and succeeding, as the
closer they came, the more hesitant the snake became to follow. They ran,
what was the clock tower? Why was it at the center of the city? Surely it
was important. He had to get there. They'd be safe if he could get there.
"Stay here," he told them as he ran up the stairs in the clock tower, what
was it? What was here? He had to figure it out quickly. He couldn't
believe himself. He had left his friends, or at the very least his allies,
down at the base of the tower as bait. The serpent was coming. He could
see the light shining off of the minute hand on the giant clock. He saw
the light shining off of the edge of the minute hand, the silvery edge of
the wrought iron minute hand. The clock began to toll midnight and he had
no choice. He summoned all of his strength, and jumped through the thin
browned glass face of the clock, grasping the minute hand and swinging it
with all his might, and then he fell, holding the minute hand, eyes
closed, through the cold. He'd lost sensation, but he clung to the minute
hand like a child afraid to go to the next monkey bar. He felt his body
jerk downward as the clock's hand made contact with the ground. He felt
his grip spin around, and he opened his eyes. He was hanging from the back
of the minute hand which was stabbed into the cobblestone town square in
the City of the Sun. A serpent laid, headless, bleeding, on the ground,
riddled with glass and clockwork mechanisms. The three walked out of the
city without so much as a word, and it disappeared behind them. The world
hadn't righted itself totally, but they knew that the war was almost over
for humanity.
"I now award you dominion over the world, being its last two human
residents of consequence for the moment. Save the others and mankind
survives, fail to do so, and you, and your child shall die as the last
humans," the fox beast said before turning to clarify. "The snake was the
first group of things to come out of Pandora's Box. I was the very last
thing that came out of the box, and now I pass my gift to the child within
her…hope." And with that, the beast trotted off, and Cit and William went
back down the ladder to the New City of the Sun, holding hands in the dawn
light of a new era. The battle wasn't over, but the head of the snake was
severed, and the writhing body was sure to follow.
Apocalypse by Mitch Learish
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NATIONAL soccer team doctor Mwanandi Mwankemwa has confirmed that Mbwana Samata and Thomas Ulimwengu have both been ruled out of Tanzania's International friendly against Zambia on Saturday.
Dr Mwanandi confirmed the TP Mazembe striking duo will not be available for the match at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam due to injuries. He said Samata, who has established himself as a key member of TP Mazembe, injured his shoulder when featuring for the Congolese giants and former African Champions in a league match, while Ulimwengu sustained knee injury during training.
"Samata and Ulimwengu submitted medical reports that revealed they have shoulder and knee injuries respectively and they are definitely out of Saturday's match against Zambia," Dr Mwankemwa told the 'Daily News'. The Stars physician revealed that the two former national youth players will both have MRI tomorrow (today) at Muhimbili hospital to determine the full extent of their injuries.
"They are going to remain at the camp as we want to monitor their progress. We expect to play more friendly matches in January, therefore, depending on their progress we expect them to feature in those games," he added. Already ruled out of the match is towering striker John Bocco.
The Azam hitman, who scored five goals for Mainland's Kilimanjaro Stars, during the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup, sustained injury during training. It means the absence of Samata and Ulimwengu has landed a huge blow to Taifa Stars technical bench ahead of the muchanticipated clash against the reigning African champions.
They were influential as Taifa Stars marched to a 1-0 win over Kenya's Harambee Stars in an international friendly staged at the CCM Kirumba in Mwanza last month. Taifa Stars assistant coach Sylvester Marsh said Monday that the TP Mazembe pair were important players for the high profile game, after they appeared to have mysteriously disappeared in thin air following a late arrival at the camp.
But Marsh remained positive as he said that should not bring fears to Tanzanians as capable replacements have already been lined up. "We have Mrisho Ngassa who has a lot of experience playing up front; we also have Amri Kiemba and Mwinyi Kazimoto, two midfield players who can play well behind main striker. And there is Mcha Hamis who is capable of playing in the attack," Marsh said.
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Hooked on a feeling
Hard to explain, but sometimes you just know it's going to be a good day for fishing
LOYOLA BEACH - In early April 2006, the backwaters of Baffin Bay were brown and much too salty.
This is not what anglers look for going into summer in a freshwater-starved bay.
And it's certainly not what Aubrey Black, Tom Crouch and I found this past week, when Tuesday's return of spring sparkled green and clear like a divine apology for the previous week's unwelcome encore of winter in the Coastal Bend.
Forgiveness for nature's untimely transgression came easy from where we stood
Tuesday, half-submerged in Baffin's 58- to 62-degree tide. And memories of that tardy norther dimmed with each palm-tingling jolt generated by dozens of thick and aggressive trout. Yes, this was one of those glorious days on Baffin Bay.
I was due for this.
One of the many challenges anglers face when scheduling trips involves timing. I know because they ask me weeks or months in advance when's the best time to go fishing. I usually tell them to go when they have an opportunity. Or I suggest that if they wait for the perfect day they may never go.
Weather conditions often make up much of the clutter that confounds anglers. High pressure, low pressure, sunny or overcast, windy or calm, before or after a storm, we all tend to overanalyze.
Some of these factors played on our minds when planning this trip. How much rest does a bay need following a violent front? The simple response is that it depends on the bay.
Tuesday's outing originally was scheduled for Monday.
If we had fished Monday - a gray, breezy and drizzly day - we'd likely have cursed forecasters for their outlook, which called for partly cloudy with a high in the 80s. This forecast was a day off the mark.
For weeks leading up to that cold blast, anglers had been enjoying consistent trout action with surface plugs and soft plastics along thigh-deep shorelines and near shallow rocks on Baffin's north and south shores and in Alazan Bay. Back-bay reports came from seasoned anglers and guides alike, touting generous outcomes, the likes of which few of us ever see, with double digit tallies of fat upper-class specks, even during annoying winds.
If you recall, early spring 2006 produced a statewide stir when similar and more widespread trout reports came from anglers fishing crowded waters from the mouth of Baffin Bay to the Landcut. Even inexperienced boat anglers enjoyed impressive action typically reserved for men who feel they have earned the right to catch what these guys were catching. During this time the back-bay mostly was silent.
This past week we found a different kind of quiet in the far reaches of Baffin, uninhabited and calm, shrouded in fog, with a clear tide a foot or more above normal. We imagined the fish had not eaten much since the storm had hit.
Anglers who fish often are familiar with what I'm about to write. This is about a feeling as undeniable as it is indescribable. It's a deep sensation that resonates clearly with hope, of profound confidence, with anticipation of good. We use words such as fishy in our clumsy attempts to express what lay before us. But mostly we savor the feeling in reverence of it.
This is not about recognizing a visual sign that might imply pending success. And it's not just about a collection or combination of signals such as baitfish activity, surface slicks or the fragrance of melons that trout produce. It reaches beyond our pedestrian senses.
It is a contagious and benign foreboding that could have ancient roots. I think many of us would like to believe this is true, perhaps because of an equally unexplainable need to feel connected to our primal instincts. You've probably known folks who are attuned to this feeling.
Whatever the source, the feeling narrows our searches, helps maintain our focus and stamina, keeps impatience at bay and surely allows even the most jaded among us to become lost in the recreational pursuit of fishes and fun.
Black mentioned this feeling at our first stop and his instincts proved sound almost immediately, when I belly- hooked an aggressive trout with the trebles of a topwater plug.
Somebody spoke reassuringly what the others were thinking, "They're here folks."
It was me.
Black explained the lay of the bay. He described a skinny triangle of low-lying submerged rocks intersected by a line of seagrass that runs perpendicular to the shore. An angular gut from the shore also provides contours to the area. A softer bottom intermittent with seagrass covers the floor nearer to a section of productive shoreline that stretches for 200 yards.
Before the storm, long and stocky trout had hung by the rocks. And so we tested those waters first. Crouch threw a soft plastic for variety. And his lures got more attention than our surface plugs. Eventually I switched and stayed with Bass Assassins, while Black went with a Corky Super Devil and then to a new kind of soft plastic from Brown Lures called a Devil Eye.
Riding on Blacks's confidence and collecting my own along the way, I abandoned the rocks. It held too many small fish. And that grassy shoreline was calling.
Good decision. At this point we were spread out and catching fish, several big ones too. But for a sweet hour or so that shoreline gave up about a dozen trout ranging from two to six pounds each.
The feeling was true.
And as dramatically as this was proven to us, Black later demonstrated an instinct that sent him a different message. At a spot in Alazan Bay, where before the storm big fish had been, Black commented right out of the boat that something was not right. After a short wade, we abandoned dead waters in search of the previous feeling.
We found it again along a line of shallow rocks on Baffin's south shore.
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production that escapes seizure. Thus, q + X is total industry production. Let C(q + X) denote the total cost of producing this amount of cocaine. Let Q be the equilibrium 'quantity of cocaine that escapes seizure and left P be the equilibrium price.
As in the RAND study, assume that equilibrium price equals the average cost of cocaine production, measured as total cost divided by the amount of cocaine that escapes seizure. Thus,
The equilibrium quantity that escapes seizure equals the quantity demanded at the equilibrium price. Thus,
Combining these two conditions yields
Solving this equation for Q yields the equilibrium consumption of cocaine as a function of the magnitude X of seizures. Given specifications for the demand function D(•) and the cost function C(•), one may use (3) to study how cocaine consumption responds to variations in seizures.
As in the RAND study, assume that demand has the constant-elasticity form
In a departure from the RAND study, assume that the cost function has the power-function form
The average cost per unit of production that escapes seizure is then
The RAND study essentially assumes the special case of (5) and (6) in which d = 1, implying constant marginal costs and downward sloping average costs. Here we entertain the possibility that d > 1, implying that