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Bisbee Pass LbNA # 20611
|Placed Date
|Feb 26 2006
|Bisbee, AZ
|Found By
|Last Found
|Jun 12 2016
|Hike Distance
|Last Edited
|Nov 9 2015
Difficulty: trail and clues easy.
Walk time: about 5 minutes one way.
Stamp hand-carved.
Status: alive and well on August 18, 2015
This letterbox is placed in the Mule Pass in the Mule Mountains on the west side of Bisbee. From Bisbee, drive northwest on State Highway 80. After passing through the Mule Pass tunnel, turn right (east) on the next road which is N. Old Divide Road (also this is old U. S. Highway 80). Drive southeast uphill to a pass (Mule Pass). At the pass there is a white monument for road construction in 1913-14 and (erroneously) for the Continental Divide at an elevation of 6030 ft. Park near this monument.
Facing the front of the monument, look to your right and you will see a yellow sign that says No County Maintenance. From behind this sign, walk down hill on an old dirt road to two vertical rusty pipe posts, one on each side of the road. From the left (shorter) post, go at about 248 degrees for about 12 steps to a moderate size tree. You will pass a Manzanita bush and a large Oak Tree to arrive at the tree. The box is hidden on the south side of the tree trunk under a large rock and some twigs and plant debris. Be alert for snakes.
Please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag). Please rehide the box well under the rock, twigs and plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Please contact me if the box needs attention:
This box is in my "Historic U. S. Highway 80 Series". The other boxes in the series are: "Mohawk", "Old Highway 80", and "Yuma Prison".
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .

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Rita Ora might be a style icon in her own right, but there's an A-lister whose wardrobe she's itching to raid � Blue Ivy Carter's.
We caught up with Rita for an exclusive interview at an intimate gig held at Sony Music's Derry Street HQ last night, where the 22-year-old put on an incredible performance to promote the new Xperia Access campaign.
She told us: 'I�d definitely want to raid Blue Ivy�s wardrobe more than Beyonc�s. It is probably like bigger than both of their wardrobes put together. That�s the wardrobe I wanna be in!'
Chatting about her friendship with music's finest, Beyonc� and Jay-Z, she told us: 'It�s like your idol giving you the seal of approval. I loved Destiny�s Child growing up so the fact she knows who I am and listens to my music and gives me good advice is amazing.
'She just sometimes goes �change that riff� or �that sounds great�� she�s just very quick� but when she speaks, you know to listen to the advice. It�s amazing for me. She�s like the God of vocals.'
Rita was signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label in 2009 and has been lucky enough to share many a night out with the famous pair. So what's her best memory? 'Probably just going to the 40/40 bar and eating wings and watching the match.' Amazing.
Straight off a flight to LA after an emotional goodbye with Calvin Harris, Rita leapt on stage to perform hits such as RIP, Radioactive, and a cool acoustic version of Hey Ya at last night's gig, which kickstarts a summer project to provide fans with exclusive access to behind-the-scenes and backstage content from emerging artists.
Wearing an oxblood PVC skater skirt and matching cut-out top while showing off her new long blonde locks, Rita invited fans on stage to join her for 'How We Do' and declared: 'I've just had the most incredible year and it means a lot to me to be doing a second album so thank you so much.'
So what can we expect from record number two? Rita added: 'I�m feeling the pressure a little bit but I�m really excited.
Like, last time I was scared because I was a new artist, and I still am. But this time I feel much more confident... It�s just much more mature but still crazy fun�.
'I don�t want to tell you who I�m collaborating with but I am working working with people I�ve loved from the get-go like Mark Ronson and, umm, some amazing producers from our camp at RocNation.'
Could that mean Jay-Z? Here's hoping there's a cameo from Blue Ivy�
Xperia Access gives Xperia owners and music fans a rare insight into the world of music that only Sony could deliver, with intimate gigs, candid interviews, festival experiences, and speaking to the people behind the stars such as stylists, set designers and producers.
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|Large Stroke Electrostatic Comb-Drive Actuators Based on a Novel Flexure Mechanism
|June 20, 2012
|This paper reports in-plane electrostatic comb-drive actuators with stroke as large as 245 µm, achieved by employing a novel Clamped Paired Double Parallelogram (C-DP-DP) flexure mechanism. For a given flexure beam length (L1), comb gap (G), and actuation voltage (V), this is currently the largest comb-drive actuator stroke reported in the literature. The C-DP-DP flexure mechanism design offers high bearing direction stiffness (Kx) while maintaining low motion direction stiffness (Ky), over a large range of motion direction displacement. The resulting high (Kx /Ky) ratio mitigates the on-set of sideways snap-in instability, thereby offering significantly greater actuation stroke compared to existing designs.
|Proceedings of the Hilton Head 2012: Solid-state Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop
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|June 3-7, 2012
|Microelectromechanical systems, MEMS, electrostatic actuator, flexure mechanism, large stroke actuator
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Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Crowns FAMU Champion at 27th annual NCT!
The 27th annual National Championship Tournament has concluded with an epic 8th win for the scholars of Florida A&M. Watch the Final Games.
Through 16 rounds of games and playoffs which culminated in the livestreamed finals, Florida A&M carved an undefeated path to victory.
Honda supports HBCUs because of the unique and critical role they play in higher education, and because they have helped literally millions of students achieve their dreams through the years.
More than $8 million in grants from Honda have provided support for book & tuition scholarships, facilities upgrades, and other investments to improve the student experience.
HCASC alumni span the U.S. and abroad. Their career paths are varied -- they are doctors, teachers, lawyers, community-builders, scientists, professors, architects, researchers, writers & journalists, military & government officials, business leaders & entrepreneurs, artists, engineers, economists, musicians, and more. They share an enthusiasm for learning and have put their education to good use.
Be sure to see the HCASC Alumni Hall of Fame profiles. We're calling on HCASC Player Alumni to Log In at the top of the page to stay in touch with their "Friends For Life"!
The year-round HCASC season begins when students arrive in the fall. Power Search quizzes, given across campus where students learn, gather, study and live, help identify the superstars. Next, HBCUs hold campus tournaments and form their HCASC Club. Practice sessions commence, with an emphasis on knowledge acquisition and team building. In December, the coach selects the varsity team.
In February, teams attend official National Qualifying Tournaments which help determine the field for the National Championship. In January, teams attend National Qualifying Tournaments, after which, the Great 48 teams are selected.
At the National Championship, over 100 volunteers, including 50 Honda associates, serve as game officials, conduct registration and host the students. Honda highlights the HCASC program with its associates throughout the year.
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Jennifer Garner held Seraphina Affleck's when they made a breakfast stop at the Brentwood Country Mart in LA yesterday. Later in the afternoon, the mother-daughter duo headed to Sera's karate class in Santa Monica together. Jen has been getting in some quality time with her girls recently. On Wednesday, Jen accompanied her oldest daughter Violet on a trip to an LA park.
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Synonyms of unstable in English:
2 the country suffered from unstable coffee prices
changeable, volatile, variable, unsettled, fluctuating, inconstant, inconsistent, irregular, fitful, unpredictable, unreliable, fickle, capricious, mercurial, erratic, uncertain, wavering
[Antonyms] stable, firm
3 he was mentally unstable
unbalanced, of unsound mind, mentally ill, deranged, demented, crazed, distracted, troubled, disturbed, unhinged, insane, mad, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, raving mad, lunatic, out of one's mind/head, not in one's right mind, neurotic, psychotic;
Latin non compos mentis;
British sectionable
informal crazy, loopy, loony, mixed up, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake, bananas, cracked, crackpot, daft, dippy, screwy, bats, batty, dotty, cuckoo, bonkers, potty, mental, screwed up, not all there, off one's head, out to lunch, a bit lacking, round the bend/twist, away with the fairies
British informal barmy, crackers, barking, barking mad, off one's trolley/rocker, daft as a brush, not the full shilling
North American informal nutsy, nutso, squirrelly, wacko, buggy
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Sexual act in which a man gives a woman a pink sock, then she puts it in his mouth.
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Feed the hungry and pay Tempe library fines without taking a dollar out of your wallet. Just open your pantry and bring what you can.
From now through Dec. 31, for every item of non-perishable food patrons bring to the Tempe Public Library, the city of Tempe will take a dollar off the tab for overdue materials.
People who don't have fines will be entered into a drawing for prizes donated by Friends of the Tempe Library, such as author-signed books, gift cards to the Connections Café and more.
The food will benefit non-profit group Tempe Community Action Agency, which operates a volunteer community garden, a food pantry and other programs to serve Tempe's neediest residents, the majority of which are families with young children.


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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is no fan of the gun industry, but he opposed a move by the teachers' pension fund to sell its stock in companies that make guns and ammunition.
Trustees of the $46.6 billion New York City Teachers' Retirement System voted last week to sell the fund's gun stocks. The move was a response to the Dec. 14 school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Bloomberg told his appointee to vote no on divestment.
The appointee, Raymond Sarola, tells the Daily News ( http://nydn.us/Xba608 ) that the mayor doesn't believe in mixing politics and finance.
The fund had a total of $13.5 million invested in five gun makers. Those included Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. and Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Bloomberg is the founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
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Jnr Web Designer / Jnr Creative Designer - (Fashion Brand) - Kent
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A Junior Web Designer / Digital Designer with a killer portfolio is needed to join one of the UK's leading names in Children's Luxury Fashion. Joining their design team you will drive creativity on digital projects (web, social, marketing, branding etc.) ensuring they continue to stand out within their industry. Read on...
Established in 1952 (online since 1999) and based in Tunbridge Wells this highly respected and rapidly expanding business are proud of their heritage, employing over 70 staff of which 13 are members of the original founding family. With an established international presence (both online and offline) our client has an unrivalled reputation that attracts custom from across the globe.
Joining as a highly conceptual Junior Web Designer /Digital Designer you will work within a small creative team designing, innovating and implementing the current and future online look and feel of this leading fashion retailer. Expect to play a key role in driving creativity on all digital and branding projects, creating visually stunning and eye catching designs that translate effectively across all areas of the web. As an idea this will include: email templates, social sites, typography, landing pages, interactive banners, online magazine editorial, adverts etc.
To qualify... You should be a Web Designer / Digital Designer at either a Junior or Midweight level with a superb portfolio and key skills that cover the following...
- A high level of creativity with the ability to produce stunning designs on-brand.
- Proficiency in Adobe CS (Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, DreamWeaver and Illustrator).
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS.
- A sophisticated sense of typography, content layout, banners and editorial/magazine style imagery.
- An ability to produce email campaigns/newsletters (when necessary).
- An ability to take projects from concept to final product, in a fast paced and changing environment.
- Think socially, creatively contributing to their social marketing (Facebook, Twitter etc)
- An ambition to take on a wider creative role within the company.
- A passion for fashion/retail.
If you are creative and passionate about design then you'll find this an excellent, exciting business where you can progress yourself and your career. Get in touch...
* Please note, only applications with portfolios will be considered for this role. Please include!
Guru are an employment business renowned for delivering careers networking to the Design sector. In this instance Guru are managing the selection process for this particular Jnr Web Designer / Jnr Creative Designer campaign on the behalf of our client. We offer a transparent service to both clients and candidates which means that if you pass our initial filtering criteria (based on your CV suitability against our client's requirements) we will email you with the client's details and also pass your complete application to the client for consideration. By applying to this role you are granting consent for us to work in this way. One final note, your application will only be used in conjunction with this specific role.


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Jam, Idleness & Tangerines
A friend and former co-worker in the corporate salt mines, Colleen Shea, writes a charming blog about reading and food called Jam and Idleness. She recently revived an interview feature from a previous blog under the new name of Brain/Food and yours truly was interviewed for the inaugural edition.
The bright and witty Colleen sent me a very engaging set of questions via email, to which I responded at some length. Too much length really. But the questions were so good, I had trouble containing my enthusiasm. I often find myself daydreaming about how I'd answer the ten Pivot questions* on Inside the Actor's Studio, so Colleen's interview played right into that same intellectual vanity and tendency to soapbox.
I enjoy the Jam and Idleness blend of book and food topics—such naturally related pleasures. It always makes me think of the slow Sunday mornings when I manage to leisurely read over coffee and maybe a croissant at my dining-room table. Although to be fair, Colleen's blog is more lively than that prosaic image might imply.
So, go and take a look at my interview, and then please spend some time perusing the marvelous Jam and Idleness.
*For the record: the sound I love is the chunky guitar noise you hear on tracks like Led Zepplin's In the Evening—it happens around minutes 3:44 and 4:02 of Jimmy's solo. Although, if I were ever on the show, I would go on to explain that I'm not really a classic rock person per se and that The Clash is my all-time favourite band.
Your excellent interview is intimidating my future interview prospects! Which is good; I meant to set the bar high. Thanks again!


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Definition of merkin in English:
An artificial covering of hair for the pubic area.
Example sentences
- For example, if a particular designer was contracted to do all of Julia's merkins for her latest movie, that designer might very well get a special credit in the film notes.
- A merkin was popular during the 18th century, she said.
- On the run from France for assorted crimes, he attaches himself, gargoyle-like, to the hotel as a year-round resident, and sets up shop in the town making hair adornments - from toupees to merkins to funeral jewellery.
Early 17th century: apparently a variant of dialect malkin, diminutive of Malde (early form of the given name Maud).
Words that rhyme with merkinfirkin, gherkin, jerkin, Perkin
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Summer Challenge Camps Take Teens of the West into the Worlds of High-Tech Finance, Entrepreneurship and Aviation
Salt Lake City-July 14, 2003-Imagine a high school student learning the ups and downs of the bull and bear markets in the most state-of-the-art facility west of the Mississippi-with all the high-tech tools of the trade you might expect in a Wall Street brokerage house. Or imagine a teenager getting a jump start on an aviation career with high-tech simulators and a fleet of 15 new planes. Budding teen entrepreneurs can learn the secrets of success from leading entrepreneurs. Some think it beats the beach.
Teens in the western states will converge in Salt Lake City at Westminster College's new Bill and Vieve Gore Center for Business, Aviation and Entrepreneurship-one of the most technologically advanced facilities for business education in the nation. The same outstanding faculty who teach top college and MBA students will help high school students get an edge on their career. The challenge camps run from June 15-20 and July 13-18.
The Finance Challenge Camp allows students to invest a million dollar portfolio in real time, compete head-to-head in trading sessions, and watch fortunes grow or melt away with market changes. Students can check the data boards on the global markets and watch currencies fluctuate. They can test solutions to finance problems with both live markets and historical data from foremost financial information providers, such as Reuters.
In the Aviation Challenge Camp, students can rack up flying time in high-tech simulators, take the controls in flight, chalk up hours on their log book, and earn their Westminster Wings.
The Entrepreneurship/Leadership Challenge Camp allows students to meet leading entrepreneurs, learn teamwork and team motivation, develop a marketing plan to get their business to market, develop leadership skills, and work out financial plans.
"The college made no compromises in its selection of technology, tools and design for the new Center in order to provide students with the most innovative and relevant education available," said Aric Krause, associate dean of the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business. "Imagine the start high school students can get with these facilities and this faculty. They can get their first taste of college, while having a summer they won't forget, and forging their future," he said.
Westminster College is the only private, comprehensive liberal arts college in Utah and one of the very few in the Intermountain West. The college is small, nondenominational and focused intensively on student learning. It prepares its students for success through a strong foundation of liberal education combined with cutting-edge professional programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Westminster in the top tier of regional colleges and universities in the West, and as an excellent educational value. For more information visit www.westminstercollege.edu.


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'Fast Six' star Vin Diesel revs up anticipation with two new images from the film
Who needs a PR firm when you've got Vin Diesel in your corner?
The "Fast Six" star - who has also taken a "direct-to-the-fans" approach to promoting his forthcoming "Riddick" sequel - has shared two new images from the upcoming franchise entry via his official Facebook page, giving fans yet another taste of the highly-anticipated follow-up that has director Justin Lin re-teaming with Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges for yet another round of rubber-burning mayhem.
The first photo, which features Diesel, Walker and Brewster's characters gathered for a little backyard powwow, is accompanied by the following caption: "1999, is when the three of us first worked together in our respective roles...How fortunate we are, to be allowed to evolve our characters over a decade. P.s. Last month of filming... blessed."
In the second image, Diesel's character pilots a red muscle car through an unknown, probably European, location (albeit one predictably populated by some curvaceous mega-hotties).
The last installment in the franchise, 2011's "Fast Five," grossed a whopping $626 million worldwide.
"Fast Six" is slated for release on May 24.
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Issue No.03 - May/June (2004 vol.6)
pp: 82-86
Guy Ashkenazi , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronnie Kosloff , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2004.53
A quantum system's state is described by a complex wave function, which can be supported on different topologies--for example, one-dimensional open space, a closed one-dimensional ring, or a two-dimensional surface of a sphere. Interactive tools represent the quantum state of a single particle constrained to different topologies, while stressing the underlying superposition principle, which is independent of topology. The insight gained by visualizing the same phenomena in different geometrical contexts contributes to the students' ability to abstract, which is the key to understanding quantum phenomena in more complex systems.
Guy Ashkenazi, Ronnie Kosloff, "String, Ring, Sphere: Visualizing Wavefunctions on Different Topologies", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol.6, no. 3, pp. 82-86, May/June 2004, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2004.53


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Charts have shaped up, accumulation has increased, and sentiment is negative.
It is in such times that prices go higher.
jmho, please do your own due diligence.
How much uglier will this get?
Screw the dividend!
Look at the 1 Year chart.
Getting ready to do what ?? screw the shareholders some more ??? . this POS has broken many hearts and wallets.
Sentiment: Sell
Yes, "This Stock is READY!" was a good and timely title.
And now, today, BSX is moving up on volume and without any news.
Well, I think it is moving because it is ready. In other words, there are no more cheap shares to be had. So, market makers must bid it up. There is of course a chance "they" will shake it one more time, which would be surprizing for me and of course disappointing too.
Long and strong and patient I am.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Good morning Boston Scientific bulls.
This stock is ready, are you?
Enjoy the ride, it has barely begun.
It may jump up over 15% one of these days.
Sentiment: Buy


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The moon is seen in its waxing gibbous stage as it rises behind the helicopter from the original Batman television show, which people can ride at the New Jersey State Fair, Saturday, June 22, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. The moon, which will reach its full stage on Sunday, is expected to be 13.5 percent closer to earth during a phenomenon known as supermoon.
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The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz and director McG (We Are Marshall) bring us Chuck, a series laced with humor about young twenty-something spies. Zachary Levi (Less Than Perfect) plays Chuck Bartowski, a nerdy computer tech who has a database of government secrets downloaded into his brain. Chuck soon finds himself recruited by John Casey (Adam Baldwin), a veteran NSA Agent who now works with the CIA, for espionage work with his new partner (and first date in 10 years) Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) - leading Chuck to live a split life of computer geek and secret CIA missions.
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Plus: Mindy's getting more love on The Mindy Project, Futurama will finally be validated, and Josh Groban is guest-starring on The Crazy Ones.
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"There's a lot that we can do right now, and we are doing it," Miles said at a meeting Wednesday with the Dallas Morning News editorial board. "There are enough obstacles that we have that we need to deal with. TEA is not the biggest limiting factor."
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Miles said that trustee Mike Morath, who helped create Support Our Public Schools, told him about the home-rule effort before the group went public. But Miles said that the group hasn't asked for his input or involved him.
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Like the dazzling Glinda, "Wicked" knows how to milk an entrance, fill a room and put on a show. This is the same tour that was here in 2010, and the production values in evidence then continue to impress, from the lavish Edwardian costumes and matching steampunk set to the spectacular lighting design and 14-piece pit orchestra. »Read Full Article
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If you ask me, I'll tell you that "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is Neil Gaiman's portrait of the artist as a young man. With this book, Gaiman has crafted an achingly beautiful memoir of an imagination and a spellbinding story that sets three women at the center of everything.
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Journal Broadcast Group, owners of WTMJ-AM (620) and WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), is partner in an awards event for conservative women.
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Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of Melniboné is all of these–and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magic–and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other.
Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elric's early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;
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Book One
Is there a madman with a brain
To turn the stuff of nightmare sane
And demons crush and Chaos tame, Who'll leave his realm, forsake his bride
And, tossed by contradictory tides,
Give up his pride for pain?
The Chronicle of the Black Sword
Chapter One
A Doomed Lord Dying
It was in lonely Quarzhasaat, destination of many caravans but terminus of few, that Elric, hereditary emperor of Melniboné, last of a bloodline more than ten thousand years old, sometime conjuror of terrible resource, lay ready for death. The drugs and herbs which usually sustained him had been used in the final days of his long journey across the southern edge of the Sighing Desert and he had been able to acquire no replacements for them in this fortress city which was more famous for its treasure than for its sufficiency of life.
The albino prince stretched, slowly and feebly, his bone-coloured fingers to the light and brought to vividness the bloody jewel in the Ring of Kings, the last traditional symbol of his ancient responsibilities; then he let the hand fall. It was as if he had briefly hoped the Actorios would revive him, but the stone was useless while he lacked energy to command its powers. Besides, he had no great desire to summon demons here. His own folly had brought him to Quarzhasaat; he owed her citizens no vengeance. They, indeed, had cause to hate him, had they but known his origins.
Once Quarzhasaat had ruled a land of rivers and lovely valleys, its forests verdant, its plains abundant with crops, but that had been before the casting of certain incautious spells in a war with threatening Melniboné more than two thousand years earlier. Quarzhasaat's empire had been lost to both sides. It had been engulfed by a vast mass of sand which swept over it like a tide, leaving only the capital and her traditions, which in time became the prime reason for her continuing existence. Because Quarzhasaat had always stood there she must be sustained, her citizens believed, at any cost throughout eternity. Though she had no purpose or function, still her masters felt a heavy obligation to continue her existence by whichever means they found expedient. Fourteen times had armies attempted to cross the Sighing Desert to loot fabulous Quarzhasaat. Fourteen times had the desert itself defeated them.
Meanwhile the city's chief obsessions (some would say her chief industry) were the elaborate intrigues amongst her rulers. A republic, albeit in name only, and hub of a vast inland empire, albeit entirely covered by sand, Quarzhasaat was ruled by her Council of Seven, whimsically known as The Six and One Other, who controlled the greater part of the city's wealth and most of her affairs. Certain other potent men and women, who chose not to serve in this Septocracy, wielded considerable influence while displaying none of the trappings of power. One of these, Elric had learned, was Narfis, Baroness of Kuwai'r, who dwelled in a simple yet beautiful villa at the city's southern extreme and gave most of her attention to her notorious rival, the old Duke Ral, patron of Quarzhasaat's finest artists, whose own palace on the northern heights was as unostentatious as it was lovely. These two, Elric was told, had elected three members each to the Council, while the seventh, always nameless and simply called the Sexocrat (who ruled the Six), maintained a balance, able to sway any vote one way or the other. The ear of the Sexocrat was most profoundly desired by all the many rivals in the city, even by Baroness Narfis and Duke Ral.
Uninterested in Quarzhasaat's ornate politics, as he was in his own, Elric's reason for being here was curiosity and the fact that Quarzhasaat was clearly the only haven in a great wasteland lying north of the nameless mountains dividing the Sighing Desert from the Weeping Waste.
Moving his exhausted bones on the thin straw of his pallet, Elric wondered sardonically if he would be buried here without the people ever knowing that the hereditary ruler of their nation's greatest enemies had died amongst them. He wondered if this had after all been the fate his gods had in store for him: nothing as grandiose as he had dreamed of and yet it had its attractions.
When he had left Filkhar in haste and some confusion, he had taken the first ship out of Raschil and it had brought him to Jadmar, where he had chosen willfully to trust an old Ilmioran drunkard who had sold him a map showing fabled Tanelorn. As the albino had half-guessed, the map proved a deception, leading him far from any kind of human habitation. He had considered crossing the mountains to make for Karlaak by the Weeping Waste but on consulting his own map, of more reliable Melnibonéan manufacture, he had discovered Quarzhasaat to be significantly closer. Riding north on a steed already half-dead from heat and starvation, he had found only dried river-beds and exhausted oases, for in his wisdom he had chosen to cross the desert in a time of drought. He had failed to find fabled Tanelorn and, it seemed, would not even catch sight of a city which, in his people's histories, was almost as fabulous.
As was usual for them, Melnibonéan chroniclers showed only a passing interest in defeated rivals, but Elric remembered that Quarzhasaat's own sorcery was said to have contributed to her extinction as a threat to her half-human enemies: A misplaced rune, he understood, uttered by Fophean Dals, the Sorcerer Duke, ancestor to the present Duke Ral, in a spell meant to flood the Melnibonéan army with sand and build a bulwark about the entire nation. Elric had still to discover how this accident was explained in Quarzhasaat now. Had they created myths and legends to rationalize the city's ill-luck entirely as a result of evil emanating from the Dragon Isle?
Elric reflected how his own obsession with myth had brought him to almost inevitable destruction. "In my miscalculations," he murmured, turning dull crimson eyes again towards the Actorios, "I have shown that I share something in common with these people's ancestors." Some forty miles from his dead horse, Elric had been discovered by a boy out searching for the jewels and precious artifacts occasionally flung up by those sandstorms which constantly came and went over this part of the desert and were partially responsible for the city's survival, as well as for the astonishing height of Quarzhasaat's magnificent walls. They were also the origin of the desert's melancholy name.
In better health Elric would have relished the city's monumental beauty. It was a beauty derived from an aesthetic refined over centuries and bearing no signs of outside influence. Though so many of the curving ziggurats and palaces were of gigantic proportions there was nothing vulgar or ugly about them; they had an airy quality, a peculiar lightness of style which made them seem, in their terracotta reds and glittering silver granite, their whitewashed stucco, their rich blues and greens, as if they had been magicked out of the very air. Their luscious gardens filled marvelously complex terraces, their fountains and water courses, drawn from deep-sunk wells, gave tranquil sound and wonderful perfume to her old cobbled ways and wide tree-lined avenues; yet all this water, which might have been diverted to growing crops, was used to maintain the appearance of Quarzhasaat as she had been at the height of her imperial power and was more valuable than jewels, its use rationed and its theft punishable by the severest of laws.
Elric's own lodgings were in no way magnificent, consisting as they did of a truckle bed, straw-strewn flagstones, a single high window, a plain earthenware jug and a basin containing a little brackish water which had cost him his last emerald. Water permits were not available to foreigners and the only water on general sale was Quarzhasaat's single most expensive commodity. Elric's water had almost certainly been stolen from a public fountain. The statutory penalties for such thefts were rarely discussed, even in private.
Elric required rare herbs to sustain his deficient blood but their cost, even had they been available, would have proven far beyond his present means, which had been reduced to a few gold coins, a fortune in Karlaak but of virtually no worth in a city where gold was so common it was used to line the city's aqueducts and sewers. His expeditions into the streets had been exhausting and depressing.
Once a day the boy who had found Elric in the desert, and brought him to this room, paid the albino a visit, staring at him as if at a curious insect or captured rodent. The boy's name was Anigh and, though he spoke the Melnibonéan-derived lingua franca of the Young Kingdoms, his accent was so thick it was sometimes impossible to understand all he said.
Once more Elric tried to lift his arm only to let it fall. That morning he had reconciled himself to the fact that he would never again see his beloved Cymoril and would never sit upon the Ruby Throne. He knew regret, but it was of a distant kind, for his illness made him oddly euphoric.
"I had hoped to sell you."
Elric peered, blinking, into the shadows of the room on the far side of a single ray of sunlight. He recognized the voice but could make out little more than a silhouette near the door.
"But now it seems all I have to offer in next week's market will be your corpse and your remaining possessions." It was Anigh, almost as depressed as Elric at the prospect of his prize's death. "You are still a rarity, of course. Your features are those of our ancient enemies but whiter than bone and those I have never seen before in a man."
"I'm sorry to disappoint your expectations." Elric rose weakly on his elbow. He had deemed it imprudent to reveal his origins but instead had said he was a mercenary from Nadsokor, the Beggar City, which sheltered all manner of freakish inhabitants.
"Then I had hoped you might be a wizard and reward me with some bit of arcane lore which would set me on the path to becoming a wealthy man and perhaps a member of the Six. Or you might have been a desert spirit who would confer on me some useful power. But I have wasted my waters, it seems. You are merely an impoverished mercenary. Have you no wealth left at all? Some curio which might prove of value, for instance?" And the boy's eyes went towards a bundle which, long and slender, rested against the wall near Elric's head.
"That's no treasure, lad," Elric informed him grimly. "He who possesses it could be said to bear a curse impossible to exorcize." He smiled at the thought of the boy trying to find a buyer for the Black Sword which, wrapped in a torn cassock of red silk, occasionally gave out a murmur, like a senile man attempting to recall the power of speech.
"It's a weapon, is it not?" said Anigh, his thin, tanned features making his vivid blue eyes seem large.
"Aye," Elric agreed. "A sword."
"An antique?" The boy reached under his striped brown djellabah and picked at the scab on his shoulder.
"That's a fair description." Elric was amused but found even this brief conversation tiring.
"How old?" Now Anigh took a step forward so that he was entirely illuminated by the ray of sunlight. He had the perfect look of a creature adapted to dwell amongst the tawny rocks and the dusky sands of the Sighing Desert.
"Perhaps ten thousand years." Elric found that the boy's startled expression helped him forget, momentarily, his almost certain fate. "But probably more than that . . ."
"Then it's a rarity, indeed! Rarities are prized by Quarzhasaat's lords and ladies. There are those amongst the Six, even, who collect such things. His honour the Master of Unicht Shlur, for instance, has the armour of a whole Ilmioran army, each piece arranged on the mummified corpses of the original warriors. And my Lady Talith possesses a collection of war-instruments numbering several thousands, each one different. Let me take that, Sir Mercenary, and I'll discover a buyer. Then I'll seek the herbs you need."
"Whereupon I'll be fit enough for you to sell me, eh?" Elric's amusement increased.
Anigh's face became exquisitely innocent. "Oh, no, sir. Then you will be strong enough to resist me. I shall merely take a commission on your first engagement."
Elric felt affection for the boy. He paused, gathering strength before he spoke again. "You expect I'll interest an employer, here in Quarzhasaat?"
"Naturally." Anigh grinned. "You could become a bodyguard to one of the Six, perhaps, or at least one of their supporters. Your unusual appearance makes you immediately employable! I have already told you what great rivals and plotters our masters are."
"It is encouraging—" Elric paused for breath—"to know that I can look forward to a life of worth and fulfillment here in Quarzhasaat." He tried to stare directly into Anigh's brilliant eyes, but the boy's head turned out of the sunlight so that only part of his body was exposed. "However, I understood from you that the herbs I described grew only in distant Kwan, days from here—in the foothills of the Ragged Pillars. I will be dead before even a fit messenger could be halfway to Kwan. Do you try to comfort me, boy? Or are your motives less noble?"
"I told you, sir, where the herbs grew. But what if there are some who have already gathered Kwan's harvest and returned?"
"You know of such an apothecary? But what would one charge me for such valuable medicines? And why did you not mention this before?"
"Because I did not know of it before." Anigh seated himself in the relative cool of the doorway. "I have made enquiries since our last conversation. I am a humble boy, your worship, not a learned man, nor yet an oracle. Yet I know how to banish my ignorance and replace it with knowledge. I am ignorant, good sir, but not a fool."
"I share your opinion of yourself, Master Anigh."
"Then shall I take the sword and find a buyer for you?" He came again into the light, hand reaching towards the bundle.
Elric fell back, shaking his head and smiling a little. "I, too, young Anigh, have much ignorance. But, unlike you, I think I might also be a fool."
"Knowledge brings power," said Anigh. "Power shall take me into the entourage of the Baroness Narfis, perhaps. I could become a captain in her guard. Maybe a noble!"
"Oh, one day you'll surely be more than either." Elric drew in stale air, his frame shuddering, his lungs enflamed. "Do what you will, though I doubt Stormbringer will go willingly."
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Gvori Vodka is a Polish offering made in from a traditional (for Poland) base of rye grain and blended down with spring water. The word "Gvori" is meant to translate as "speak to me" in the sense of creating conversation. The label itself is an homage to "Prince Vladamir of Kiev."
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Captain George Bailey has defended his selection of Pat Cummins as Australia's super over bowler in their one-run loss to Pakistan.
After the second Twenty20 match in Dubai was tied with both sides scoring 151 from their 20 overs, each team was given one over to decide the game. After Australia scored 11 runs in their super over, Cummins - who had earlier hit a six to tie the match - sent down a host of short deliveries and a wide as Pakistan scored 12 to win the match.
But Bailey defended his young paceman after the loss and admitted he was surprised by Pakistan's selection of Abdul Razzaq to partner Umar Akmal in the extra over.
"We thought they were going to go with the Akmals (Umar and brother Kamran)," Bailey said. "My personal feelings are that they prefer the ball fuller rather than shorter and I thought Patty's change-ups and his extra pace could cause more troubles."
Bailey added with such fine margins between success and failure, it would be unfair to blame Cummins for the defeat.
"If you win that game then it's the right bowler," Bailey said.
Friday's tight victory handed Pakistan the overall series triumph 2-0, with a third match to come.
Bailey's team slipped below upcoming World Twenty20 opponents Ireland to 10th in the T20 rankings and Australia's captain has conceded it is a bad signal to send prior to the tournament.
"It doesn't look very good," Bailey said. "I'm still not sure how the rankings work. So Ireland go past us tonight... I'm not sure if we've ever played Ireland in a T20, make of that what you will.
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A Ph.D program generally begins with two to three years of coursework. It entails a copious amount of required reading, and this period also consists of a series of comprehensive written or oral exams, commonly known as "comps." Students must demonstrate a firm grasp of the material in order to move forward. Some fields, such as psychology, may require an internship as well.
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Brent Clevlen's heads-up base-running skills gave Wichita a walk-off 8-7 win over the Fargo-Moorehead RedHawks on Saturday night.
After reaching on a ground rule double Clevlen advanced to third on a wild pitch. A second straight wild pitch allowed Clevlen to score and earn the walk-off win.
The Wingnuts trailed 7-5 into the 8th inning and scored one run in the bottom of the 8th and 9th innings respectively to complete the victory.
Wichita used 5 pitchers on the night with Matt Nevarez eventually earning the win. Starter Anthony Capra received a no decision.
J.T. Wise hit his third home run of the series in the bottom of the 6th inning. It was Wise's threatening bat that forced the wild pitches by Nate Garcia. Garcia was attempting to intentionally walk Wise when he threw the consecutive wild pitches allowing the winning run to score.
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International pop singer Christina Aguilera is on her way to Rwanda for charity activities under United Nations Food Program.
The Genie in the Bottle singer comes to Rwanda from Amsterdam in Holland where she has been also making appearances on different special events organized by UN.
The news of her coming to Rwanda hit Rwandashow.com desk after one of Christina's friends posted the pop queen's photo on Instagram.
The photo posted was written on "From Amsterdam on our way to Rwanda."
It will be the first time for the Micky Mouse raised diva to visit Rwanda.
It is estimated that the 32 American pop singer Christina will jet in the country on 26th June straight from Holland.
Series of icons in music and movie industries have been flowing into the country in past years although some go back without being noticed by the public due to their nature of visit.
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Forty a good age to take stock, make adjustments
People have definite opinions about turning 40. They sadly call it the "big 4-0," and view it with a sort of dread. While it's true that age does affect the body, that doesn't mean turning 40 is a harbinger of doom.
Rather, it's an excellent time to adopt more preventive health measures. Yes, the body does slow down a bit, but how much that affects overall health often comes down to personal choices.
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Quantity is not the only issue with food, quality also plays a part. While eating out can make meals more festive, it can also add fat, salt, sugar and calories. Moderation is the key. Fresh fruits and vegetables and proper hydration are simply good eating habits.
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Hurricane Sandy will go down as one of the worst natural disasters in American history. According to the latest news reports, more than 100 people have died from the storm and economic damages may surpass more than $50 billion dollars.
To make matters worse, looters have made some people afraid to leave their homes to obtain much needed supplies. As a former New Yorker, my heart goes out to my friends and former neighbors who are dealing with this terrible tragedy.
During the storm, many people were Tweeting and posting content online. Some people were making predictions about the storm, others were discussing their greatest fears about the storm, some were asking for help, and others were Tweeting intentionally false and misleading information. Were all of these posts protected by the 1st Amendment?
One of those people who were allegedly making false and misleading Tweets during the storm was Shashank Tripathi. For example, one of Tweets stated, "BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water." This was an intentionally false Tweet. However, intentionally misleading Tweets are generally protected under the 1st Amendment.
New York City Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. has stated that he has asked the Manhattan District Attorney to look into filing charges against Tripathi for his Tweets. Under Brandenbury v. Ohio 395 U.S. 444 (1969), the Supreme Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless that speech is directed to inciting, and is likely to incite imminent lawless action. In addition, under U.S. v. Alvarez 132 S.Ct 2537 (2012) lying in some situations is constitutionally protected free speech. Was Mr. Tripathi's Tweets or online posts by others directed to inciting and likely to incite imminent lawless action? Most likely not. Was Mr. Tripathi lying? It appears he was misrepresenting the truth.
Regulating free speech is a very slippery slope. During Hurricane Sandy, social media helped bring out the best in people and it has also has brought out the worst in others. However, the storm should not be utilized as a reason to further regulate speech.
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What is a savory, or better, a savoury, since you will be more likely to have one in England?
A savoury is the last course of a formal British dinner, served after dessert.
You haven't been invited to a formal British dinner? I haven't been, either, but once at a seminar in a hotel in Marlow, savoury was on the table d'hôte menu, so I asked for it, to the surprise of the waiter. Eventually I was served sautéd champignons on toast, a simple form of the dish, but savory, a mildly spicy contrast to the dessert.
That is the purpose of a savoury, to eliminate the sweet taste of the dessert before the port is served. (If it were a really old-fashioned formal dinner, the ladies would have excused themselves and "withdrawn" to a drawing-room before the port was served.)
Typical savouries are Scotch woodcock, Welsh Rabbit, Angels on horseback, Devils on horseback, and Sardines on toast.
The last needs no explanation, but the others do, since their names are misleading or humorous.
tch woodcock is creamy, soft scrambled eggs served on toast spread with anchovy paste (also known as Gentleman's Relish or Patum Peperium), garnished with anchovy filets.
Welsh rabbit – or Welsh rarebit – is more generally known: melted cheddar cheese on toast, the melted cheese often including ale, mustard, cayenne pepper, paprika or Worcestershire sauce.
There are suspicions that both names are English slurs on their supposedly poorer neighbors, that Welsh rabbit is what a Welsh rabbit hunter had to have for supper. "Rarebit" is a folk etymological perversion to make more sense of "rabbit."
Angels on horseback are oysters wrapped in bacon, baked or broiled briefly and served on toast.
Devils on horseback are a darker and cheaper version: pitted prunes or dates stuffed with mango chutney, wrapped in bacon and cooked and served as above.
The latter two can also be served as a hot appetizer—not on toast, and then not reappearing at the end of the dinner. It is evident why savouries are only served at formal dinners prepared by kitchen staff, who can prepare a freshly made hot dish at the end of the meal. There are, of course, other dishes that can been served as a savoury.
Now, the toast to the Queen with our port, and the cigars can be passed.
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I enjoyed your piece. I must say I've never been served a savoury in England, but then I'm not an alderman or a freemason or the chairman of a cricket club or anything like. I think you go a bit awry at the end. It's the port that's passed (I think to the left) not the cigars. You smoke one each, so it's different from marijuana in that respect.
Heh, Brian, I think it's the box of cigars that is passed around the table, not the lit cigars :)
Glad you liked it, Brian. I did write "cigars", one each, box passed, of course, to the left, like dealing cards, and like that time I smoked "bang" in India with a Frenchman and a couple of natives. Got gently reprimanded for passing the pipe with my left hand the first round.
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This nine-piece-box-packing puzzle challenges puzzlers to spill the pieces out of the box, then pack them back flat -- so the lid closes easily.
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That's the key word I took from Tony Caridi's appearance on Monday at the Parkersburg Rotary Club.
West Virginia University's play-by-play announcer, who is in his 25th year with the Mountaineer Sports Network, talked with confidence about the major sports programs at WVU, the future of the athletic program and the Big East Conference.
Caridi liked what he saw during spring football drills. He liked the way the new offensive coaching staff worked with the veterans on the defensive side of the ball. The chemistry was there and any time there's good chemistry on a staff, you can expect good things to happen.
Caridi said there is a consensus building that WVU is the favorite to win the Big East Conference this fall. One prominent ESPN personality ranks the Mountaineers at No. 14.
The schedule, he says, is favorable with a short trip to Maryland the only road game in the first half of the season.The national exposure will be good as even the opener with Marshall is on a Sunday when the two state teams will have an exclusive nationwide audience looking to be impressed. Caridi figures that WVU's home game with LSU will be moved to prime time and will be the highest interest game in the nation that week.
Yes, he knows WVU lost some key players from last year. But he believes that recruiting has allowed the Mountaineers to fill those holes with talented replacements. If they can make a quick adjustment to the college game and gain that all-valuable commodity known as experience, big things could happen in Morgantown.
Virtually the same scenario may play itself out for the Mountaineer basketball team, which has a strong incoming class joining some veterans who know how to win.
Caridi marveled at the coaching job performed by Bob Huggins this winter. The Mountaineers were coming off a Final Four appearance that saw WVU lose two players to the National Basketball Association. Due to injuries and off-court problems, the incoming recruiting class dissolved into non-existence.
But Huggins squeezed every ounce out of the remaining players and managed to get WVU back into the NCAA Tournament, where it won its opening round game.
Caridi also is optimistic when it comes to the Big East Conference. He said the league's television contract could triple.
Already, the Big East has secured TCU as a football member. Caridi said he would like to see Houston and Central Florida join. That way, each league member would play one game in Texas (either TCU or Houston) and one game in Florida (either South Florida or Central Florida) each season. That would be great both for exposure as well as recruiting fertile territories.


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Longwood and Richmond Symphony Orchestra to host strings workshop April 5
April 1, 2014
The string section of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra will present a side-by-side workshop and mini-concert Saturday, April, 5, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in Longwood University's Jarman Auditorium.
The event, open to anyone who plays an orchestral stringed instrument at the intermediate level or above, is an opportunity to play alongside the professional musicians of the Richmond Symphony in a casual atmosphere. There is a $10 fee.
People can register by completing a brief online registration by April 1. Those without Internet access should call Longwood's Music Department at 434-395-2504.
The workshop will consist of a rehearsal period from 2:30 to 4:15 and a run-through mini-performance at 4:30. It is modeled after the RSO's popular "Come-and-Play" events in Richmond, which often draw hundreds of amateur string players, young and old.
The music will be conducted by Erin Freeman, the RSO's associate conductor, who conducted the portion of the Jan. 31 Longwood concert that featured a collaboration between the Richmond Symphony and Longwood's Camerata Singers. Sheet music will be made available to participants well ahead of time.
The event has been made possible by a gift from the late Dr. John Randall Cook, a 1952 Longwood alumnus who was among the university's most generous benefactors and had a love of the arts.