At one point, Paul calls Peter out publicly for
his hypocrisy. Yet, from beginning to end, Peter continues in the Spirit. When
he fell short, he repented. He did not try to fix things on his own, but leaned
on the Lord for strength. This is what we must do as individuals and as a
church. Continue the way you started: by faith in Christ and in the power of
the Spirit.

1) Christ has
been portrayed to you in the preaching of many ministers in the past 80 years.
That message is the truth. Do not take your eyes off of Him. Hold fast to the
Gospel truth of Christ and Him crucified. Do you remember what the Apostle told
the Corinthians? He said, “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus
Christ and him crucified.”paving will occur today, while the landscaping, signage and pavement markings should be done on Friday.

Lake Geneva Mayor Jim Connors said he's not sure everything will be complete on the bridge, such as the landscaping and other details, but he's been told the bridge will be open for traffic this weekend.

Work on the Wrigley Drive Bridge, located next to the Geneva Lake Chamber of Commerce building, first started in October when the bridge was torn out. Since then, work continued through much of the winter and early spring.

In March, it was believed that a mid-May completion was on target. However, weather played a factor in the ability to complete the bridge by then.

The nearly $1 million bridge reconstruction is being funded mostly by the state Department of Transportation


A collection of images and other items from Disneyland, theme parks and other amusement parks. Also look for images and items I find interesting, amusing or both.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Burning Frontierland in Color

Both of these photographs are quite red in color with bad film stock. However, both came back to color fairly easily. The photographer took most of the pictures when on the Mark Twain. First up is the friendly Indian Village with a couple of elk drinking water from the Rivers of America.

Next up is everyone's favorite Frontierland attraction which is the burning cabin. You can see the unfortunate settler in front of his cabin.In the current mobile unit communication system, mainly, communication services are provided by base stations each of which forms a macrocell that is a wide communication area. In a description below, a base station that forms a macrocell is sometimes referred to as a “macro base station”.
However, an area, such as the inside of a building, in which a radio wave transmitted from a macro base station is hardly reached, sometimes becomes an out-of-communication-service area or a non-detection area, such as an area in which communication is unstable. Accordingly, measures are taken to relieve this non-detection area such that a small-size base station with small transmission electrical power is arranged in a macrocell and, by using this small-size base station, a femtocell whose communication area is smaller than


telecommunication carriers, due to the arrangement of femto base stations, it is possible to take measures against non-detection areas at low cost, which is an advantage. Furthermore, due to the arrangement of the femto base station in a macrocell, it is possible to accommodate a communication terminal, which is conventionally accommodated in a macro base station, in the femto base station. Consequently, for mobile unit telecommunications carriers, due to the arrangement of the femto base station, an advantage is provided in that the communication resources in a macrocell can be efficiently used. Furthermore, due to the arrangement of the base station inside of a building, for a user of a communication terminal, an advantage is provided in that the state of a radio wave is improved and high-qualitysupply functioning as an emergency power supply is connected to a typical macro base station. Thus, even if a power failure occurs in the main power supply, the macro base station can continue a communication service by switching the power supply from the main power supply to the standby power supply.
In contrast, because a typical femto base station does not include a standby power supply in case of a power failure, if a supply of electrical power from the main power supply to the femto base station is stopped due to the occurrence of a power failure or the like, the typical femto base station is not able to continue the communication service. Due to a stop of the communication service of the femto base station, a plurality


of communication terminals accommodated in a femto base station simultaneously sends a location registration request to a macro base station. Consequently, in a macrocell, due to a stop of the communication service of the femto base station, congestion of communication data sometimes occurs. If congestion of the communication data occurs in a macrocell, a communication delay may sometimes occur in the communication of the communication terminals that are originally accommodated in a macrocell. Furthermore, if a core network located in a level higher than that of the macrocell detects congestion in the macrocell and thus performs call regulation on the entirety of the macrocell, the call regulation is also performed on the communication terminals that are originally accommodated in the macrocell. Consequently, a stop of the communication servicewas introduced in all participating CHCs. In addition to collecting outcome measures for the main trial, the intention of introducing SDQ was to facilitate the children's yearly health check-ups by providing the CHC-nurses with preschool teachers' important knowledge about the individual children.

Following the new procedure, nurses sent study information, consent forms and three sets of paper and pencil questionnaires, including SDQ (one for each of the child´s legal custodians and one for the preschool teacher), together with the standard invitation letter that parents receive about three weeks prior to the child's routine check-up. For nurses' convenience, packages including all materials were prepared, sorted by age, and delivered to the participating CHCs. Nurses then added the routine invitation letter to a package and sent it to the parents. Participating


assessments, nurses were instructed to directly ask parents about their child's behaviour and then weigh their clinical observations together with the parents' description of their child. Additional educational outreach visits with nurses were held during the course of the trial. The meetings were led by external facilitators (nurses and members of the research team) and took place at the local CHCs during lunchtime for the nurses' convenience. The facilitators were instructed to ensure that all CHC-nurses working at the participating CHCs were adequately informed about the information sharing procedure, and worked with the SDQ procedure as intended. Nurses were invited to a salad luncheon and were provided with up-to-date information regarding the trial and the study questionnaires, specifically. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss nurses' experienceswith a high rate of foreign-born parents, were provided assistance in sending out the invitation letters. Two years into the trial, the research team decided to initiate assistance at yet another CHC located in an area with similar socio-economic (SES) characteristics. Every second week, a research assistant went to the CHCs to send invitation letters and study questionnaires in the primary language used by each family, as indicated by the nurses.

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Initially, two subscales of a widely used instrument measuring parenting practices, the Parenting Scale (PS) \[[@pone.0234383.ref022]\], were included in the study questionnaire. However, within weeks of the first-year data collection, the research team received several calls and e-mails from nurses and parents expressing discontent with the overreactivity subscale items in the PS concerning how parents handled


training was provided via one-hour educational outreach visits from one or two members of the research team. In addition to reviewing the parent and teacher SDQ assessments, nurses were instructed to directly ask parents about their child's behaviour and then weigh their clinical observations together with the parents' description of their child. Additional educational outreach visits with nurses were held during the course of the trial. The meetings were led by external facilitators (nurses and members of the research team) and took place at the local CHCs during lunchtime for the nurses' convenience. The facilitators were instructed to ensure that all CHC-nurses working at the participating CHCs were adequately informed about the information sharing procedure, and worked with the SDQ procedure as intended."

I wonder if nurses received trainingRepresentatives of various Russian military units take part in a spectacular Victory Day parade in Red Square, Moscow. Russia celebrates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany every 9 May, honouring those who fought and died in the second world war. This year new fighter jets and missiles were included in the display of military might

• Russia shows off new missiles and jets in Victory Day parade


Brazilian soccer great Pele will witness Atletico de Kolkata’s first home match of ISL season 2 against Kerala Blasters on Tuesday. As we laud the Kolkata franchise’s achievement, irony dies a thousand deaths.

Even as the land of Bengal begins its Mahalaya celebrations, the homecoming of Goddess Durga, the fervent passion around the festival seems matched only by their love for football.

The football-crazy people of Kolkata, at the same time, are rejoicing the visit of soccer's greatest ever, Pele. The Brazilian reached on Sunday amidst a joyous reception from a sizable crowd. The gathering outside the airport wasn't as large as it was 38 years ago.

The Meteorological department in Kolkata has predicted thunderstorms for the next three days, much like they had back in 1977 when over a lakhstarry-eyed fans watched Pele's New York Cosmos take on Indian domestic giant, Mohun Bagan in a friendly at the Eden Gardens, even as more waited outside the stadium.

A lot has changed over the years, even in a city which lives within a time capsule. Eden Gardens no longer holds football games, Communism exists only in the history books and East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting are no longer the only major stakeholders in Kolkata football.

Atletico de Kolkata is the new bully in the block, and has been aggressively marketing itself with glitz and glamour. Pele's visit is part of that all pervading capitalist machination-marketing, but this time even the most loyal Mohun Bagan and East Bengal fans, who normally despise anything related to the Indian Super League,


won't complain.

For Mohun Bagan supporters, Pele brings back memories of what many claim to be their best performance on a football pitch – holding a star-studded New York Cosmos side to a 2-2 draw.

There is an irony about his visit, however, one that boldly states the direction Indian football is taking currently.

Back in 1977, Mohun Bagan urged Pele’s New York Cosmos to visit for an affordable appearance fee, in order to help the Indian club win back the support of their fans. Bagan was undergoing a tumultuous phase, after facing a humiliating defeat at the hands of East Bengal in the premier Calcutta league.

The Mariners may have suffered a similarly humbling defeat against their arch-rivals in the Calcutta Football League last month. This time, though, Bagan, along withsurvive.

From a 124-year-old establishment like Mohammedan Sporting to newly formed Bharat FC, a host of clubs are on the verge of shutting down. There are also unconfirmed reports that India's oldest and the world’s third-oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup, is to be scrapped due to lack of interest from sponsors.

The Durand Cup will join other tournaments with long tradition like the Rovers Cup, Federation Cup and DCM Trophy which have all been removed from the calendar. A sign of changing times indeed.

Pele has himself been credited with changing the face of football, or soccer as they call it, in America. When he signed for New York Cosmos back in 1974, the North American Soccer League was just six-year-old. His arrival brought in a lot of interest, hype,


train kids for the future.”

He also didn't seem to have any doubts about who can do that. “Oh yes! ISL can improve Indian football, no doubt about it," quipped the legend.

When the league started out, IMG sold the idea of ISL mostly on the fact that it will force the franchises to invest on youth development programs. While Nita Ambani did grab the headlines at the launch of “Reliance Foundation Young Champs”, the ISL clubs are yet to match the sell, which was initially promised.

Questions were also raised when the ISL clubs refused to release the national team players in advance for India's World Cup Qualifying matches. The squad came together only three days before their game against Turkmenistan, and certainly didn't have enough time to prepare. InSymbolic portrayals important to caricature – ‘Art demands both responsibility and courage’

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Ali Ferzat

Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat is one of the Middle East’s most important living artists. Over a career spanning four decades, more than 15,000 of his satirical drawings and caricatures of political figures have been published in Arabic-language and international newspapers.

In 2011, with the first wave of the Arab Spring, Ferzat boldly depicted his dissent against the Asaad regime, using his pen to counter and critically frame the brutality of the regime’s crackdown. In retaliation, he was seized by a group of masked thugs and assaulted savagely, his fingers were broken with the intent of intimidating him into silence.

But the violence only amplified Ferzat’s voice. Photographs of a bloodied and beaten Ferzat spread online, gaining global attention


and garnering solidarity. He was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2012.

Fully recovered from the attack, he continues to produce political cartoons today. In this week’s Insight, Ferzat, who has since been living in Kuwait, speaks to the Arab Times about his mission of breaking bonds of fear between his audience and the establishment.

The interview was conducted on the sidelines of the Nuqat creative conference at which Ferzat gave a workshop on Caricature Illustration, teaching young participants how to develop ideas and concepts and to present them appropriately through the satirical lens of the caricature.

A selection of Ali Ferzat’s work is also on display at the Contemporary Art Platform.production has on community economic development and the opportunities to diversify Kansas’ energy portfolio.

The process will be facilitated by the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS). Their work is supported by the Energy Foundation and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, which includes the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. CCS has developed climate action plans in: Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Vermont. State plans are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, Michigan, Maryland, and Alaska.

The veto decision places increasing pressure on state legislatures and the federal government to develop a coherent and national climate change and greenhouse gas management plan that incorporate an energy policy and strategy the US has lacked for decades.It is clear that climate change policy and energy policy are inextricably intertwined, requiring policy


the gases emitted from coal-fired power plants, other pollutants like sulfur dioxide and mercury would also removed from the emissions of the plants that would otherwise be released to the atmosphere.

This veto and effective prohibition of coal-fired power plants demonstrates it is clearly time for the sake of the utility industry and the public that we have a coherent energy and climate change policy for the United States. Hopefully, we will see consistent and dedicated work in Congress this year and leadership by a newly-elected president in 2009, whomever that party may be.

November 15, 2007

Governors of nine midwestern states, along with the Canadian province of Manitoba today signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord to establish a regional multisector cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions andagreement, 15 percent of all gasoline stations in the region would be selling ethanol mixes by 2015, and one-in-four by 2025.

These states combined are the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions behind the United States as a whole, Russia, China and India.

This new accord puts even greater pressure on Congress, as almost half the states have already committed to restricting greenhouse gas emissions.


end Saudia won the game 4-2

He played the game vs Iran in Semi Finals which was an epic rematch with their regional rivals considering that Saudia had lost to Iran 3-0.  Saudia won the match on PK 4-3

Yousuf played the whole final and Saudia won the final beating UAE the host nation in final 4-2 , with Yousuf Scoring a critical first Penalty Shot

This was the second continental Asian Cup for Yousuf and Third for Saudi Arabia

1998 Arab Nations Cup Winning Squad Member

Yousuf collected the Trophy after winning the Championship with Saudia National team in tournament featuring, Algeria, Egypt , Morocco

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BOGOTA, February 24. /TASS/. Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Saturday that states parties to Lima Group will discuss further measures to enhance the diplomatic blockade against Venezuela during their upcoming meeting on Monday.

"Next Monday, the Lima Group will consider on how to enhance the diplomatic blockade that will assist to the fall of the dictatorship," Duque told reporters at a news conference broadcast live on the presidential administration’s website.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he would take part in the session and will meet with US Vice President Michael Pence.

The Lima Group, set up on August 8, 2017 and uniting nations that refused to recognize the Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly convoked by President Nicolas Maduro, will convene on Monday, February 25, in the Colombian capital of Bogota.

Twelve countriesWalker Bey and later as Yavir Pasha. In July 1840 Ahmet Fevzi Paşa, the Capitán-Pasha (the chief admiral of the Turkish fleet), took the fleet to Alexandria and delivered it to Muhammad Ali of Egypt, who then refused to part with it. Walker summoned the Turkish Captains to a Council of War, and proposed a night landing where he would surround the palace, carry off Muhammad Ali, and despatch him to Constantinople. This operation was cancelled due to Muhammad Ali letting the ships go.

While serving with the Turkish Navy he commanded the Turkish squadron at the bombardment of Acre in November 1840, for which service he became a Knight Commander of the Bath on 12 January 1841; he also received the second class of the Austrian Order of


the Iron Crown, the Russian Order of St. Anna, and the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle.

Following his return to England in 1845 he commanded HMS Queen as flag-captain to Sir John West at Devonport, and from 1846 – 1847, the frigate HMS Constance in the Pacific.

From 1848 – 1861, he was Surveyor of the Navy (the post being known as Controller of the Navy from 1859). He was created a baronet on 18 July 1856, gaining the title 1st Baronet Wake Walker, of Oakley House, appointed Rear Admiral of the Blue in 1858, and Rear-Admiral of the White in 1861, in which year he was also appointed Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station. He returned to England in 1864, being promoted toLE CENTER, Minn. — A woman accused of texting while driving and fatally striking an elderly man along a road in Le Sueur County has pleaded guilty to charges.

Susan Ann Russo, 48, reached an agreement with prosecutors, who will recommend four days in jail and two years of probation. Russo pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless driving and misusing a wireless device.

Joseph Tikalsky, 79, was struck and killed last October as he retrieved his newspaper from the side of the road. Tikalsky was wearing a reflective vest and was on break from his school bus route.

Sentencing for the New Prague woman is scheduled Oct. 17.


Emily Ann Cottrell

September 5, 2013

Emily Ann Cottrell, age 87, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, September 1, 2013, surrounded by family. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 PM Saturday, September 7, at High Mesa Cowboy Church, 1100 High Mesa Drive with Pastor Todd King officiating. Burial was private.
Ann was born on May 18, 1926, in Kelton, Texas, to Bascom Price and Nellie Lee Chilton Price. She was married to Sherman Cottrell on July 16, 1953, in Borger, Texas, and together they came to Brownwood in 1976. Ann worked at Joe Loudamyâ€™s Dress Shop and at the Ranch House. She was a member of Rocky Creek Baptist Church and also attended Southside Baptist Church and Early First Baptist Church. Ann enjoyed sewing, cooking and loveplaying games especially cards and 42. She loved her family and devoted her life to them.
Ann is survived by her children, Vic Cottrell and wife Julie of Bridgeport, Texas, Lynn Tyler and husband Rex of Brownwood and Tonya Hopper and husband Doug of Early; her twin brother, Bill Price of Phoenix, Arizona; 10 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and 2 great, great grandchildren. Annâ€™s family would like to give special thanks to Dr. Travis Locklear, Dr. Stephen Oines, Dr. Tom Byrd and all of the Nurses and Staff at Care Inc. and Brownwood Regional Medical Center. Condolences for the family may be left atwww.davismorrisfuneralhome.com.


Former First Lady, ex-Secretary of State, and possible 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined Twitter, and is tweeting from the @HillaryClinton handle. In her first tweet, Clinton thanked Texts From Hillary creators Adam Smith and Stacy Lambe for the inspiration.NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen and Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn have been running their campaigns for a critical U.S. Senate seat like their matchup was assured.

Voters made it official Thursday.

Bredesen and Blackburn disposed of minimal opposition in their primary elections, kicking off what’s expected to a bruising, expensive fight that could determine Democrats’ chances of overturning the 51-49 Republican Senate majority.

Polls have indicated a close contest to replace retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker.

A general election win would be historic for Blackburn, who would become the first female U.S. senator ever elected in Tennessee.

Voters faced a more competitive field in the race for the nomination to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Bill Haslam.

Former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean won the Democratic primary, defeating state House


Side-impact collisions of Ar with NO.
In the realm of molecular collision dynamics, stereochemistry refers to the dependence of the collision outcome on the mutual orientation of the colliding partners. This may involve directed end-on collisions along a molecular bond axis or encounters in which the partner approaches the bond of an oriented molecule from the side. Using both experiment and theory, we show here that in the simplest case of an inelastic collision between an atom and a nearly homonuclear diatom, in which the two atoms have almost the same mass, the scattering dynamics are very distinct for impacts on either side of the molecule. By recording the direction of the scattered particles after the collision, we demonstrate that the intensity of products scattered in the forward direction,damn few people who ever get to be a 4 star General. I would guess he's a little to the right of John McCain and a bit to the left of Ron Paul.

Did y'all see the pissing and whining on the NESARA blog about the supposed appearance of General Ham in front of the new Congress? A couple of people calling the whole RV/PP thing a scam, but a lot of speculating about how the Cabal blocked the video feed...

However, their version of science is flawed because real science predicts no survivors left alive on earth if my father's Vatican endorsed food process is not revived and frankly immediatly is none too soon! -ERASMUS OF AMERICA

GMac wrote:Did y'all see the pissing and whining on the NESARA blog about


prepare the masses for the transition.

There will be chaos, there will be panic. This transition may last for weeks or even months. I urge you to prepare for this upcoming transition as it is going to be a Revolution.

In other news, is there a message being sent to the Cabal?

Recently, Beau Biden, son of the Vice President of the United States passed away.

"Beau Biden, the former Delaware Attorney General and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died at 46, the Vice President’s office announced Saturday night. The cause of death was brain cancer."

John Kerry, strangely had an accident and was injured around the same time of Beau Biden's death.

"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb,is that Obama has been arrested several times but he spasmodically gets replaced by an unlimited supply clones. This has caused one of the members of the New Republic registered with the Hague to be depressed. This unlimited supply of clones are originating from the underground facility of the Montauk Air Force Station in Long Island. The Resistance Movement is currently in the process of solving this problem.

The Clinton's and Dunford's are currently negotiating to not be arrested as well as other individuals.

We are the victims of a proxy war between dark and light forces. Please be patient, be vigilant and be well.

...Obama has been arrested several times but he spasmodically gets replaced by an unlimited supply clones. This has caused one of the members of the New


was worth, managed to change a grumpy clubhouse into a happy one in which Ken Griffey Jr. rehearsed Japanese curse words with IchiroSuzuki and people smiled. A team that won 61 games in 2008 won 85 under the new regime, did so for less money, and did it in style.

This winter, Zduriencik followed all that up with the best run of moves that any general manager made. He traded iffy prospects for ace Cliff Lee, signed third baseman Chone Figgins away from the division-rival Angels, traded one of the worst starters in the game for 2008 American League OPS leader Milton Bradley and signed incumbent ace Felix Hernandez to a five-year contract extension. By basic math, 85 wins plus a new ace and a couple key offensive piecesBlur's Damon Albarn's musical wonder.land to debut in July

Blur and Gorillaz mainman Damon Albarn has written a new musical based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's book Alice In Wonderland.

The show, which is titled wonder.land, will make its debut in July at Manchester's Palace Theatre as part of Manchester International Festival.

wonder.land reunites Albarn with director Rufus Norris, who he worked with on recent opera Dr Dee, it also features a book and lyrics from Byzantium and Tamara Drewe screenwriter Moira Buffini.

The show, which has been written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice In Wonderland, will follow the character of 12-year-old Aly, who escapes from her daily life of torture at the hands of school bullies into an extraordinary virtual world called wonder.land. Online, Aly becomes Alice and meets


Fujinoki Tomb

is a tumulus, known as a kofun in Japanese, located in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is estimated to date from the later half of the sixth century or the late seventh century.  The burial mound is about 40 or 48 metres in diameter, nine metres in height, and the stone chamber the mound covers is sixteen metres in length. Excavation began in 1985. The tomb yielded gilt-bronze ornaments, horse trappings, and a stone coffin.

The tomb's appearance is supplemented by the harness excavated in the tomb which is a Chinese product imported via the Korean Peninsula. Michio Maezono (Professor, Nara College of Arts) and Taichiro Shiraishi (Professor, Nara University) argue that it is highly possible Prince Anahobe (uncle of Prince Shōtoku, assassinated by Soga no Umako)
Shively, Donald H.; McCullough, William H., Hall, John Whitney. (1993), The Cambridge history of Japan, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press,
Kidder, J. Edward, Jr. "The Fujinoki Tomb and Its Grave Goods." Monumenta Nipponica Spring 42.1 (1987): 57-87. JSTOR. Web. 17 Mar. 2015. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/2385039>.
Kidder, J. Edward, Jr. "The Fujinoki Sarcophagus." Monumenta Nipponica Winter 44.4 (1989): 415-60. JSTOR. Web. 17 Mar. 2015. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/2384537>.

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In the video, Flint Farmer was lying on the grass between the curb and the sidewalk. It was shortly before 2 a.m. on a June morning in the West Englewood neighborhood, and Farmer had been shot by a Chicago police officer. Then, according to the video, the veteran officer, Gildardo Sierra, stepped onto the parkway and walked a semicircle about the prone Farmer as three bright flashes went off.

That shooting was the third by the officer since January — and the second fatality in those six months, records show.

Sierra fired 16 shots at Farmer, hitting him seven times, autopsy reports show. A Cook County deputy medical examiner, after performing an autopsy and later reviewing the video, said the three shots in the back were the fatal wounds.

Sierra toldnetwork. At first, the story revolved almost singularly around Michelle (Sutton Foster), a 35-year-old dancer past her prime whose life is turned upside down when on a whim she marries an adorably obsessive fan (Alan Ruck) and relocates from Vegas to his mom’s house in the quirky coastal town of Paradise. After he dies suddenly and tragically in a car accident, Michelle begins to reluctantly and slowly warm to his mom (Kelly Bishop) and her ballet students. But by the end of the first season, the four student ballerinas — Boo, Ginny, Sasha, and Melanie — had come into sharper focus. (Boo and Carl, take me away! Sasha, let it all out!) They don’t solve murders like the glam squad on Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family’s most watched


was intended to be a full profession in Guild Wars Utopia but was little more than concept art and an idea when the campaign was cancelled. At the time it was shelved, the chronomancer profession also trod somewhat on the toes of the mesmer within the original Guild Wars, as they were both mages with the power to manipulate reality.

The mesmer of Guild Wars 2 is just as fond of toying with reality and perception as its predecessor, but it also possesses the ability to twist the fabric of space and time in the form of skills like Time Warp and Temporal Curtain. Jon says that this made the chronomancer a natural choice for the mesmer’s first elite specialization.

A Bit of a Mind Flip

While the ranger’s druid eliteAndrew Garfield Calls The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show

Known for playing the role of Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield is promoting his latest movie on The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show. Andrew called to talk about Breathe, a movie in which J-Si says Andrew had to do a lot of 'face acting' something to which he agreed with! He talks about previous movies and when he chooses a project he wants to be challenged. The cast also gets Andrew to talk about his first job at Starbucks and what he did at that job and others to get fired in his early days and so much more in this best of audio clip!


likes of President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee…have a RSS background and Gandhi's comparison of the organization with an Islamist outfit is "unforgivable".

Some from RSS stable went on to say that one who has not understood India cannot understand RSS. As such there has been various analysis of the nature of RSS politics.

Academics and political scientists have tried to unravel the real politics behind its activities. RSS is not just a political organization, it is a supra political organization, where its political wing BJP is a small component of its total activities manifested through myriads of its organizations. Sudhanshu Mittal from BJP in an article states that RSS affiliated organization all have greatly contributed to the nation.

Hundreds of suchin turn float different organizations, rooted in RSS agenda, which have different formal structures.

Muslim Brotherhood probably encompasses most of the activities under its own umbrella. Here one can add that the Christian Fundamentalism which came up in US in the decades of 1920s had many similar features.

In post colonial societies in particular; organizations deriving their legitimacy in the name of religion; to begin with; have come up in opposition to the rising values of Equality. In India when the Indian National Congress began in 1885, it aimed at an inclusive nation hood cutting across all the religious communities. It also aimed at equality of all.

In contrast Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha-RSS began from the feudal, landlord sections, joined in by the elite and middle class sections, harping on


clots secondary to a reduction in blood flow in the aneurysmal sac. These clots may emobilize and block distal arteries.
Arteriosclerosis and cystic medial necrosis are two common causes of aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. Thoracic aneurysms commonly compress and impact surrounding body structures as they expand. They may impact into the lungs, the spinal column, or the gastrointestinal tract.
Berry aneurysms are congenital defects which occur in cerebral arteries, most commonly at the junctions of vessels in the circle of Willis. These aneurysms appear to be related to defects in the muscular coat of the vessels. Rupture is common, resulting in intracranial hemorrhage.
Other aneurysms include aortic aneurysms, especially abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), which are characterized by transmural aortic wall degeneration leading to dilatation, progressive growth, and eventualYet they did not place her on a suicide watch or summon a mental health expert to evaluate her, steps national experts say should be standard practice. Nor did they follow other mandatory procedures aimed at protecting inmates at risk, state inspectors said last week.

Ms. Bland, a 28-year-old African-American who was moving to Hempstead from the Chicago area for a job at a local college, was found hanged from a plastic trash can liner in her cell on July 13. She was supposed to start her new job, at Prairie View A&M University, which was her alma mater, two days later.

On Thursday, the chairman of the State Senate committee that oversees Texas corrections said that the jail where she died, in Waller County outside Houston, had mishandled her


to take her life, saying that she was ecstatic about her new job at the college. Her family has indicated that it will seek an independent autopsy to corroborate the findings of the one conducted by Texas officials.

Ms. Bland’s death came three days after a traffic stop for changing lanes without signaling mushroomed into a furious confrontation with a white Texas state trooper who threatened her with a stun gun, then handcuffed and arrested her. State public safety officials have said that the trooper, Brian T. Encinia, 30, violated police procedures in the confrontation, and he has been moved to a desk job while state and federal inquiries are underway.

Her death, like those of a number of other African-Americans who died after encounters with police officers, has setoff a national outcry as well as deep suspicion among some critics, including her family, of the Texas authorities who are investigating it.

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A memorial for Sandra Bland on Thursday at the spot where she was arrested in Prairie View, Tex.CreditIlana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

A screening form for “suicide and medical and mental impairments” completed when officials admitted Ms. Bland to the jail on July 10 indicates that she said she had tried to kill herself last year with pills after losing a child, had battled depression and was feeling depressed at the time she was entering the jail. But a second questionnaire prepared hours later says that Ms. Bland had not ever been depressed and was not feeling depressed at that moment, though it does note


Ms. Bland’s cell did not smell marijuana smoke, and the cell contained no evidence of the drug, he said. He raised the possibility that she could have ingested it right before the traffic stop to avoid being arrested for drug possession. Explaining why the information was relevant, he said, “It is a mood-altering substance and a mood amplifier.”

More extensive drug tests may shed more light on that question later, he said.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences is headed by the chief medical examiner, Dr. Luis A. Sanchez, a University of Massachusetts medical school graduate who joined the staff as a senior deputy in 2001 before becoming the top medical examiner in 2003. He was previously deputy and acting medical examiner in Washington and served as a liaisonto the United States attorney’s office. Waller County officials said they asked Harris County to conduct the post-mortem inquiry because of inadequate medical facilities in Waller County.

Nearly two weeks after her death, it remains unclear why Ms. Bland was allowed to remain under minimal supervision despite telling her jailers that she was depressed and had tried to kill herself.

The rules governing inmates with medical and mental problems in Texas’ 245 county jails are basic and, some experts say, inadequate. Jails must give mental health training to workers who deal with inmates. They must screen new inmates for signs of mental illness. And they must have a policy for dealing with suicide risks. Within those broad outlines, individual jails can design their own procedures as long as they pass


Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Downing Street and the mayor of London have condemned the use of a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley in a video shown at a London 2012 event in Beijing. The painting was shown in promotional footage produced by Visit London, not the Olympic 2012 organisers. A spokesman for Boris Johnson said the mayor was "deeply disturbed" the image had been shown. A Downing Street spokesman said it was in "poor taste". Visit London said the image appeared fleetingly and had been shown before. The tourism body's video was shown at a party attended by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Mr Johnson at the Chinese capital's London House to promote London's culture ahead of the 2012 Games. The mayoris deeply concerned by the realisation that a shot of Myra Hindley was shown in a short video... and asked that it not be shown again

Spokesman for Boris Johnson Marcus Harvey's portrait of Hindley was one of a number of pieces of art seen in the footage filmed in a gallery. A Downing Street spokesman said: "The use of this image is in extremely poor taste and it should not have been used to promote London." A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "The mayor is deeply concerned by the realisation that a shot of Myra Hindley was shown in a short video at London House and asked that it not be shown again." The Liberal Democrats described the decision to include the image in the video as a


"regrettable choice". The party's Olympics spokesman, Tom Brake, said: "Of all the many masterpieces that could have been used this was the most regrettable and the least inspired choice." Moors murderer Hindley, who died in 2002, was jailed along with her partner Ian Brady in 1966 for the murders of three children between 1963 and 1964 and confessed to two others later. Labour peer Lord Pendry, who represented the relatives of the victims, also criticised the use of Hindley's image. Tom Pendry, former Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde in Greater Manchester, said: "It was in very poor taste and brought about by those who have no regard for people in my constituency who have suffered." 'Extraordinary decision' Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe told the BBC she was shockedbeen caused, we will withdraw it from use with immediate effect." The painting, made from children's handprints, was vandalised while on display in the Royal Academy in 1997. The pair were convicted of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, in 1964, and Edward Evans, aged 17, in 1965. Brady was also convicted of the murder of 12-year-old John Kilbride and Hindley was found guilty of being an accessory. In 1987, Brady and Hindley confessed to two further murders - those of Pauline Reade, aged 16, and 12-year-old Keith Bennett.

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31-03-2004 Statement

At a meeting in Geneva (31.03.04) ICRC operations director Pierre Krähenbühl outlined the organization's view of current threats to humanitarian work in conflict zones and re-affirmed its commitment to the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.

To begin with, I wish to convey the sincere appreciation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for being invited to attend this meeting and to share some opening remarks on today's important topic.

I would like also to thank OCHA for the discussion paper entitled " Addressing the challenges to Humanitarian Security" .

The year 2003 has undoubtedly been a difficult – and often dramatic - one for the conduct of humanitarian operations. There were threats and attacks deliberately targeting aid organisations and their personnel, something that has raised questions aboutof the ICRC by far the most widespread in the world today.

This being said, in 2003, the ICRC was the victim of a series of deliberate attacks that claimed the lives of four colleagues in Afghanistan and Iraq. A fifth colleague was caught in cross-fire and killed in Baghdad. Several other organisations among which the Afghan Red Crescent Society, the UN family and NGOs suffered similar tragic losses.

While two out of the three deliberate attacks, specifically those north of Kandahar in March and south of Baghdad in July, appear to have been the result of an apparent association of the ICRC's presence with the broader international political and military action in the contexts, the October car-bomb attack against the ICRC offices in Baghdad was a direct and planned


targeting of the organisation.

Was this a new element? Not specifically: being deliberately targeted in a given context has happened before. The ICRC has lost several staff members in past years to deliberate attacks: in Burundi and Chechnya in 1996, in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001. Again other organisations have faced tragedies of their own.

Therefore, what is new today? From an ICRC perspective, what is new in the present context is the global nature of the threat, the fact that it is not geographically circumscribed. The ICRC's security concept was defined as an essentially context-based approach. A given delegation in the field evaluates its security environment on the basis of a series of institutional indicators – we call them our security pillars - among which acceptability figurespart of the broader political and military presence is high.

Regardless of what the motives might have been the ICRC has strongly condemned these attacks against its staff, which seriously affect its ability to provide protection and assistance to the extent required by the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Another element of risk is that of being instrumentalised, in other words the risk of integration by some state actors of humanitarian action into the range of tools available to them in the conduct of their campaign against terrorist activities. A variety of expressions thereof have been noted in recent months. They include statements by some governments describing their military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan as " mainly humanitarian " . The establishment of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) concept by


In the summer of 1971, a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Phillips Zimbardo divided a group of undergraduates randomly into two groups, prisoners and prison guards, and arranged for them to act out their respective roles in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Within days, the guards began to display authoritarian attitudes, ultimately subjecting some of the prisoners to intentional . The prisoners developed passive attitudes, many sinking into a depressed state. The experiment had to be stopped after only six days.

The Stanford prison experiment is often said to illustrate the power of social roles in shaping behavior, but it also illustrates the power of behavior to elicit real powerful emotions. The guards in Zimbardo's experiments were not really guards. And thedepression were pushed aside somewhat in the 80s by cognitive techniques, which focused on altering internal "cognitive distortions" (catastrophic, pessimistic thoughts) and negative "attributional styles" (self-punitive habits of assigning meaning to events). However, several studies in the 90s, showing that a behavioral activation component alone performed as well as the total cognitive package for depression, created renewed interest in the earlier ideas.

The behavioral activation model assumes that depression has to do with the sufferer's external circumstances, not merely with the sufferer's internal characteristics. Disorders, in other words, are ‘events in context.' The behavioral activation model hence represents a ‘contextualist' view of mental illness. Rather than reflecting the individual's internal genetic or cognitive flaws, disorders are seen as an interaction between individual characteristics and environmental conditions.

The principle that behavior


John Alexander Dowie (1847-1904) was a religious leader who claimed to be a prophet of God. He boasted 100,000 followers in the US - based in Zion City - as well as missionaries around the world. His literature was filled with vile insults towards Islam, a religion he claimed his movement would destroy. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, wrote to Dowie and warned him to reform and desist from evil practices or to fear the wrath of God. Dowie replied that Ahmad could be crushed at his hand like 'gnats and flies' and so the two men entered into a prayer duel, with Ahmad praying for a divine victory over Dowie. Eventually, Dowie's movement was wiped out within Ahmad's lifetime at whichthe Boston Herald (left) wrote:

"It is quite true that Hazrat Mirza Sahib was much older than Dowie. So there were more chances for Dowie to survive Hazrat Mirza Sahib. Dowie died with his friends fallen away from him and his fortune dwindled. He suffered from paralysis and insanity. He died a miserable death, with Zion city torn and frayed by internal dissensions. Mirza comes forward frankly and states that he has won his challenge."

- Boston Herald, 23 June 1904


abandoning his elderly father amidst the heavy crowd at the festival and is seen walking away. Awaken to his mistake by the sight of a man tying his young son to him to prevent from getting lost, the man hastily returns to his own father, only to find him calmly seated, with two cups of tea, assured of his return.The advertisement touches upon a sensitive issue of elder abandonment and is set to the backdrop of Kumbh Mela. It tried to drive home the point against desertion of parents but found itself in a quagmire when it alleged that such religious thoroughfares are where elders are ‘abandoned’.Enraged users of the micro-blogging platform have called out the company for maligning the image of the largest congregation of Hindus, MahaMUSINA, South Africa (Reuters) - Skies
darkened over southern Africa and Australia on Wednesday as a rare
total solar eclipse raced across both continents, delighting
astronomers, astounding tourists and confusing animals as day became
night.

"It's amazing for
us," said 15-year-old Rhengu Baloyi as he peered skywards with
special eclipse glasses distributed by South African tourism
authorities.

"For a moment I
thought our lives were going to be endangered."

The eclipse first
touched African shores at around 12:15 a.m. EST as the moon moved in
between the sun and the earth, blocking out the summer sunshine.

Starting from Angola,
the lunar shadow sped eastward across the continent at speeds greater
than 3,125 miles per hour, momentarily casting parts of Namibia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa into darkness before heading out
to sea at Xai-Xai in Mozambique.

The total eclipse
touched southern Australia at 4:10 a.m. EST.

Thousands of
astronomers, serious


and amateur, tourists and new age worshippers
gathered on a beach at the outback coastal town of Ceduna on the south
Australian coast to watch the astronomical phenomenon.

Sitting on deck chairs
or beach towels Australians watched in awe as the moon crept across
the sun, applauding "totality," and claiming the ocean
seemed to calm as the eclipse occurred.

In Australia's main
city of Sydney, sky watchers were treated to the sight of brown smoke
from dozens of bushfires wreathing the setting sun as the moon crept
slowly up its face.

TEMPERATURES DROP

In northern South
Africa, cars pulled to the side of the road in rural areas in and
around the country's famous Kruger National Park as tourists put
themselves into prime position to see the celestial spectacular.

It grew colder, the sky
grew black and the murmuring crowd went quiet as the moonpassed in
front of the sun.

"It's
awesome," said Cherie, a South African woman.

Nearby, dancers kicked
up clouds of dust at an all-night rave party held to mark the eclipse.
People sporting nose-rings, tattoos and tie-dyed shirts boogied in the
bush to booming techno music.

"It was amazing.
Life is never going to be the same after this," said Ben, a
wild-haired rave fan from Cape Town decked out in surfer necklaces and
mirrored sunglasses.

Across the border in
Zimbabwe, visiting motorists viewed the eclipse through dark viewers
while school children made do with tinted plastic bags in defiance of
media warnings that this could cause eye damage.

Elsewhere along the
eclipse path, villagers continued tilling their fields, pausing only
for a few minutes to watch the eclipse, while some joined long queues
outside rural shops for scant supplies of food in a country where
about half


the estimated 14 million population faces starvation.

CONFUSING FOR ANIMALS

Wildlife experts said
the eclipse could be briefly confusing for animals, although the speed
with which daylight returned would probably prevent any major impact.

In Johannesburg, South
Africa's commercial capital, the eclipse meant the sun was about 85
percent obscured. Partly cloudy conditions hid much of the action,
however -- a disappointment for many who were hoping to get a good
view of the last eclipse in the region for almost three decades.

The eclipse had been
billed as a major tourism draw for southern Africa, where towns along
the path of the total eclipse have set up special festivals and travel
companies have packed tourists into hotels, game lodges and national
parks to witness the sky go dark.

Tourists at Musina's
five-day eclipse festival picked through handicrafts and souvenirs,
which included T-shirts proclaiming "Africlipse."

Butsome businesses
reported less than stellar sales, which they attributed to overpriced
tour packages, some cancellations following a series of attacks on
tourists, and general hype involved with the event.

"It's a marvelous
opportunity which has become a total disaster," said Alida
Lourens, who was selling pottery at the Musina festival.


so, like all difficult questions in science, it benefits from having many eyes on the problem.

While the battle for access to Tamiflu trials has gone on, the world of medicine has begun to shift, albeit at a painful pace, with the European Ombudsman and several British select committees joining the push for transparency. The AllTrials campaign, which I co-founded last year, now has the support of almost all medical and academic professional bodies in the UK, and many more worldwide, as well as more than 100 patient groups, and the drug company GSK. We have seen new codes of conduct, and European legislation, proposing improvements in access: all riddled with loopholes, but improvements nonetheless. Crucially, withholding data has become a headline issue, and much less defensible.

Last year, inFreda Dowie

Freda Dowie (22 July 1928 – 10 August 2019) was an English actress. She was born in Carlisle, Cumberland. She died on 10 August 2019 in Suffolk.

Her television credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Doomwatch, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Carnforth Practice, I, Claudius, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Lillie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Our Friends in the North, Common As Muck, Lovejoy and Heartbeat.

Dowie frequently portrayed long-suffering roles, most notably as the Mother in the 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives, for which she was nominated for a European Film Award. Her film career also includes roles in Subterfuge (1968), The Omen (1976), The Monk (1990), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Jude (1996), Cider with Rosie (1998), and Fragile (2005).

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After returning to Denmark in 1855, Olrik soon became recognized as a reputable portrait painter and painted portraits of a wide variety of individuals including King Christian IX of Denmark, his daughter  Alexandra - (later the Princess of Wales), members of the Danish Parliament and representatives of Danish and Scandinavian high society, including Sigurd Ibsen and Henrik Ibsen.

Olrik also specialized in still lifes, landscapes, historic, and religious paintings. Some of his religious works can be found in Marble Church and St. Mathew's Church in Copenhagen.

In 1871, Olrik become a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 1883 a Professor Titular, and in 1887 he was elected to Akademirådet.

Pursuits in design and decorative arts
In addition to being a successful painter, Olrik was active in the


Montgomery argued at the time, according to a November 4, 1986 article in the Christian Science Monitor.

Perpich then took the lead, filing a lawsuit against the constitutionality of the Montgomery Amendment. After he was initially rebuffed by a federal district court judge, he vowed to appeal. "We feel very strongly about the states' rights issue, and that is why we will be appealing ... ," Perpich was quoted in an August 4, 1987, Associated Press article. "This is a clear example of the federal government's encroaching on state powers that have worked effectively in the past."

Yes -- the nation was subjected to the spectacle of a liberal Minnesota Democrat arguing for states' rights, against a measure from a conservative Mississippi Democrat.

Perpich went all the way to the Suprememuffled. But the disrespect shown Obama seems so disproportionate to the issue -- health-care reform -- that I just have to wonder. Wilson later apologized for his outburst, but he cannot take it back. It was, as has been said of another incident, a teachable moment. I hope he and other Republicans learn from it.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

I have never seen that look on Speaker Pelosi's face. Usually, she's the schoolmarm, Mom scolding her kids for talking too loud...

But look at her face. She's ready to throw.

It was the length of time she stared, that's what did it for me. She locked in on Wilson's face, and made promises that no man would wish on his worst enemy.

But I do wish them on Rep. Joe Wilson of South


that in these tough times, America's working men and women are ready to roll up their sleeves and get back to work."

"I want to salute your AFL-CIO local leaders: Executive Secretary-Treasurer Doug Sizemore, President Joe Zimmer and state President Joe Rugola. And your outstanding national leaders: a man who we thank for devoting his life to working Americans-President John Sweeney. And the man who will pick up the mantle of leadership-who we need to succeed because a strong labor movement is part of a strong economy-Secretary-Treasurer Rich Trumka.

Although Ohio's terrific Governor Ted Strickland couldn't be here, we have Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Attorney General Richard Cordray, Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, and Hamilton County Commission President David Pepper.

We're joined by members of Ohio's congressionalhad to be fought for, by men and women of courage and conviction, from the factory floors of the Industrial Revolution to the shopping aisles of today's superstores. They stood up and spoke out to demand a fair shake; an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. Many risked their lives. Some gave their lives. Some made it a cause of their lives-like Senator Ted Kennedy, who we remember today.

So let us never forget: much of what we take for granted-the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, health insurance, paid leave, pensions, Social Security, Medicare-they all bear the union label. It was the American worker-union men and women-who returned from World War II to make our economy the envy of the world. It was labor that helped


we all rise together.

And that is why the first piece of legislation I signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act-guaranteeing equal pay for equal work.

Lilly worked at an Alabama factory. She did her job and did it well.

Then, after nearly two decades, she discovered that for years she was paid less than her male colleagues-for doing the very same work. Over the years, she had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages and in pension and Social Security benefits.

Lilly could have just moved on. Instead, this Alabama grandmother made a decision-principle was at stake. She stood up and spoke out for what was right-all the way to the Supreme Court, then Congress, and finally the White House, where I signed the law that bearsof America's working families.

What this Blog is About

Fort McHenry defended Baltimore, Maryland (my home state) from the British Navy during the War of 1812. Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" while a prisoner on a British ship. The "rockets red glare" and "bombs bursting in air" were bursting over Fort McHenry. I've decided to use this blog as my own "Fort McHenry" for President Obama, using this space to occassionally defend and explain his actions.


with Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, it's about a sheltered, upper-class woman named Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) who's sentenced to 15 months in prison for her (small) role 10 years prior in an international drug smuggling ring led by her girlfriend at the time, Alex (Prepon). OITNB fans are united in their love for the truly addicting series, which is based on a memoir of the same name. But fan reaction to Alex — a love-her-or-hate-her character if there ever was one — has been more divisive. Is she a master manipulator or just misunderstood?

Why we still can't stop talking about Orange Is the New Black

TVGuide.com recently spoke with Prepon about her character's "jailhouse rockabilly" style, whether she supports a Piper-Alex romance, and what's ahead in SeasonIn extremely common use is a key ring which is constructed of a single thin strip of material which is wound in an overall circular pattern with the thin strip of material forming abutting, ring shaped members located in a helical arrangement. The length of the strip is selected to form substantially two complete revolutions.
The normal method of use is for the user to somehow separate an end from the remaining portion of the key ring which then is to be inserted through the opening which is normally found within the bow portion of a key. The key is then moved through a single three hundred and sixty degree revolution which then results in the entire cross section of the strip to be located within the opening formed


Malaysia publicly caned 2 women for attempting to have lesbian sex

Two Malaysian women pleaded guilty to attempting to have lesbian sex, which is outlawed under Sharia law in some of the country's states.

The women were sat on a stool and caned six times each in a courtroom on Monday, the Associated Press reported.

More than 100 people were present in the courtroom at the time, the news agency said.

Human rights groups have condemned the prosecution and punishment, saying it will "fuel the recent wave of homophobia and transphobia in Malaysia."

Two Muslim women in Malaysia have been caned after they were found guilty of attempting to have sex with each other.

The two unnamed women, aged 22 and 32, were caned six times each in a courtroom at the Terengganu Shariahigh court on Monday. More than 100 witnessed it, the Associated Press reported, citing lawyers and activists.

They had pleaded guilty to committing musahaqah — sexual relations between women — after attempting to have sex in a car in April.

The case was the first conviction in Terengganu state for same-sex relations, Satiful Bahri Mamat, a member of the Terengganu state executive council, told Reuters. It was also the first time a caning was carried out in public.

The women were seated on stools facing the judges while female prison officers gave the women six strokes each on their backs with a light rattan cane, the Associated Press reported.

Muslim Lawyers' Association deputy president Abdul Rahim Sinwan said the caning was not harsh and was meant to educate the women, according to


the Associated Press.

The women were also fined 3,300 Malaysian Ringgit ($798). They can be seen arriving at court in the photo below.

The move has been condemned by women's and LGBT groups. Thilaga Sulathireh, an activist from Malaysian rights group Justice for Sisters who was at the court on Monday, told British newspaper the Guardian: "For all intents and purposes it was a public caning."

"This case shows a regression for human rights," Sulathireh said. "Not only for LGBT people but all persons because corporal punishment affects all people."

Federal law in Malaysia criminalizes "gross indecency." While caning is banned under civil law in Malaysia, it is allowed under Sharia law, which also outlaws same-sex relations, in some states.

Both sodomy and sex between women can result in up to three yearsHot spells

During the summer just gone, which was New Zealand’s warmest on record, our oceans experienced an unprecedented marine heatwave. Across the region, waters were 1.5°C above average, while some coastal areas were up to 6°C higher than normal.

Several factors contributed to the sustained hot weather—which peaked three times, in mid-December, late January, and mid-to-late February. Patterns of high pressure stayed put over the Tasman Sea and New Zealand, while a La Niña continuously brought warm north-easterly winds. The Southern Annular Mode, a patch of low pressure near Antarctica, was in its positive phase, limiting southerly winds and stormy weather. It’s the most unusual warmth on record for the Tasman Sea, says Ben Noll, a meteorologist at NIWA.

“At one point it represented some of the most unusually warm


French frigate Médée (1741)

Médée was a French frégate du deuxième ordre, or 26-gun frigate, built in 1740. She is widely considered to be the inspiration for a long line of similar sailing frigates, and was the first ship captured by the British Royal Navy in the War of the Austrian Succession. She became a privateer and was wrecked at St Ives, Cornwall, following a succession of gales in November 1745.

Construction
Médée was designed by Blaise Ollivier, with twenty-six 8-pounder guns, and was launched in February 1741 at Brest. She is regarded as the first of the 'true' frigate designs: she was built with two decks, but only the upper deck mounted guns. These guns were relatively heavy, and the higher mounting meant that they could be used in roughand the shorts showed off nearly all of her bright thighs. She had her hips low and her hands together in the perfect form to receive the hard ball flying her way, but she instead received it straight to the face.

It was such a clean hit that the ball bounced straight up and was still considered in play. Her teammates would not let her sacrifice go to waste. They quickly tossed it around, made a powerful attack, and scored the winning point. The gym teacher nodded silently with arms crossed, so she seemed to approve of how they waited until they had won to rush over to aid the girl. Mitsuari Ayu, on the other hand, wished they had come help her sooner.

After using up all her strength,


she fell straight to her knees and collapsed forward. The butt showing its shape through her shorts stuck up in the air behind her and she secretly wondered if she could take a nap in the infirmary if she just lay here like this for a while longer.

“Ugh… Why does this have to happen to me?”

She rubbed together her almost fully exposed thighs as she hobbled out of the gym alone. Her change of clothes was in the classroom, but she had brought her small bag with her to the gym.

As soon as she stepped out the door, her ears were assaulted by the cicada chorus.

A few classmates had offered to accompany her, but she had refused. Yes, when you wanted to throw a fit and climb intoover while continuing on her way. A fair number of Tokiwadai girls had unusual pets like snakes or monkeys, so she assumed one of those had escaped. An intruder here was unthinkable. It seemed far more likely she would run across an animal protected by the Washington Convention.

That was why she let her guard down.

And a moment later…

Kabooooooooooooooooooooooom!!

A great din seemed to chew through space itself as a Gatling gun mercilessly fired 6000 rounds per minute.

Normally, she never could have survived that.

She would have been torn to pieces and killed before she even knew what was happening.

And while strictly speaking she may not have been normal, her power was a psychological one. She could not hold out a hand to produce a thick barrier.

So in this case…

“Ah.”

A surprised


bullets had been fired in frustration at the flying cicadas, so they hit the artificial woods instead of the walkway. Broadleaf trees thicker around than Mitsuari were splintered as easily as chopsticks.

The ubiquitous chorus was gone.

A figure came into view.

It was a girl smaller even than Mitsuari. The longish wavy hair fluttering around her was an unnaturally bright blonde, likely made through bleaching. Could she be in elementary school? But that appearance clashed with the Gatling gun and the enormous drum magazine that she dragged around like a vacuum cleaner.

(G-G-G-G-Gatling?)

Mitsuari could not believe her eyes.

She doubted this girl was only here to destroy those empty woods. And since this was the middle of a class period, Mitsuari was the only one on the walkway between the gym andschool building. There was only one conclusion here: Mitsuari was the target.

Plus, this was a Gatling gun.

She thought of those as something from the action movies she rarely watched. How had one of those left the movie trailers and entered the real world? It was rumored those could slice a tank in two if you attached it to an attack helicopter and fired on the surface along a straight line.

“Ghhh.”

Since her hips did not give out and she did not wet herself, Mitsuari Ayu may have had greater-than-average coping skills when it came to abnormal situations. Or maybe it simply worked in her favor that she was so shocked that she froze in place and the ice cream caught in her throat. She did not have time to


card within. She kept moving her legs, which had most of the thighs exposed, and made sure she did not trip over her own feet as she ran at full speed.

She stayed off the paths and worked to leave the school grounds. Tokiwadai and the School Garden were no longer safe, so she had no choice but to try to escape them. Even a sheltered girl knew how effective a credit card could be while outside your usual territory.

“Argh, really!? That idiot’s running. Riku Onee-chan, this is why I told you to make sure she was surrounded!!”

The fluffy-haired girl was dumbfounded when she heard that voice again.

She had not mistaken what she saw earlier.

The girl really was that tiny.

She spoke crudely, but it was still the voice ofa girl younger than a middle school first year like Mitsuari. Mitsuari caught glimpses of her as she ran, but she did not have time to aim her phone at her. But if that appearance was not some kind of disguise, then it had to be a blonde girl of elementary school age. Although her hairstyle and dress made it seem like she was trying to look older than she was.

She was less than 130cm tall.

A girl that small was walking around with a Gatling gun meant to be attached to a fighter or armored truck, but that was Academy City for you. In a way, her skimpy dress left even less to the imagination than Mitsuari’s athletic uniform, but there was no sign of any motors or


her phone’s external lens around.

She had a shallow wound on her exposed upper arm.

It looked almost like a cut, but she doubted it was from that wire. That would have taken off her entire arm and then made her foam at the mouth with its poison.

(Really? Did I cut myself on a leaf like a papercut?)

She could only bite her lip and bear with it.

Now was not the time to shed tears of disgrace.

She continued observing through her phone camera. The Gatling gun was the most obvious threat, but the invisible wires were there too. She was trapped between the two and could not move.

Yes.

The Gatling gun girl was approaching from behind while using an esper power to strengthen her muscles and swing around that heavy weapon. Unlikeof a hard leaf to cut a girl’s soft skin.

That Gatling gun girl had been showing just as much skin as Mitsuari.

Still silent, Mitsuari Ayu lightly tapped the side of the refrigerated bag she used to sneak ice cream and drinks into school.

Her final trump card was in there.

Part 6 [ edit ]

“Shit.”

The girl was less than 130cm tall.

Her wavy blonde hair had obviously been bleached and her gaudy minidress looked out of place on her slender frame. It must not have been fitted properly because the shoulder straps were slipping off and, if she were to lean forward, the dress would likely create a tunnel revealing her undeveloped chest. However, no one who laid eyes on Gokusai Amazora would have paid any attention to that.

Something else seemed


far more out of place.

She was carrying a giant Gatling gun made from 6 barrels, each capable of firing 20mm rounds, and she was dragging around a drum magazine full of those rounds. The magazine had small wheels attached in a very DIY way, but no one would mistake it for a household vacuum cleaner.

She used a single hand to casually drag along the weapon despite its barbell-like weight and she used her other hand to vigorously scratch at what was more her butt than her thigh. The skirt was short, but the dress also provided little protection for the armpits or chest.

She was dressed maturely, but her behavior was so childish it may have made other girl’s her age blush.

“Why do they have to bite me inbright thighs.

She had also failed to notice the mystery goo splattered on the bushes around here.

“…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………”

For the first time, the girl with the giant Gatling gun came to a complete stop.

In fact, her mind itself had gone blank.

“Riku Onee-chan, wait. Where are you sending those drones of yours!?”

Instead of that familiar voice, she was answered by a long tree branch flying in from somewhere. She reflexively swung around her Gatling gun and blew away the surrounding trees with a spray of gunfire while her short skirt fluttered wildly, but that was not what mattered.

The stick was as long as a mop handle.

And the clear goo on the end gave off an obviously artificial sweet smell.

Yes.

The drones piloted by 1st Sister Rikuri were not the only ones who could


her life.

“…”

The most nerve-racking moment had been when she threw the stick to heighten the illusion for the other girl. She had known the girl would fire wildly, so she could have been hit by pure chance. That would have torn off an entire limb.

Once it was over and she could relax some, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.

It was too soon to collapse quite yet. She had to remain focused.

“Phew.”

Only after wiping sweat from her brow with the back of her hand did she realize how improper that was.

(But breaking the school rules pays off sometimes. I’m so glad I had that ice cream in my bag.)

Her gym clothes left her shoulders bare, so she only had to hold that drinkable ice cream packin her armpit to quickly melt it. By squeezing the sticky sweetness on the end of the stick and on various leaves, the difference from the poison would be too subtle to detect with the naked eye.

It also helped that the other girl was already feeling itchy from the bug bites.

She was caught in a horrible situation, but she could only count herself lucky today. Otherwise, she felt like her spirit would break and she would come to a stop.

“Agh, itchy, itchy, itchy.”

She had also fallen victim to the bugs targeting soft maiden skin.

Her bra’s hook had apparently shifted a bit out of place and her shoulder blade had been bitten through the thin fabric of her gym shirt. She arched her back and reached back with both


hands, but she could not quite reach the itchy spot. She realized just how bad an idea it was to run through the midsummer woods with your shoulders and thighs bared.

But she had to remember that the tiny army of bugs had helped bring the Gatling gun girl to a stop. That girl was panicking and throwing a noisy, tearful fit, so now was the time. Mitsuari quietly left that area and aimed her phone’s enhanced camera around to check for wires as she made her way out of the woods.

The Gatling gun was certainly frightening, but so were the drones.

Not only were the wires and poison dangerous, but the drones themselves had cameras. If her location was discovered, the Gatling gun girl might regain her cool.

The Gatlinggun could easily destroy a target from a straight-line distance of 2 or 3 kilometers.

That was too far to escape on foot, so the best course of action was to get as far away as possible without being discovered.

“Ah.”

She managed to break free of the bushes.

She found herself in what looked like a faculty parking lot.

She pulled some chilled tea from her refrigerated bag, took a sip, and sighed.

She had noticed some difficulty in walking, so she looked down and removed the pebbles caught in the grooves of her indoor slippers’ rubber soles while she thought.

This space was surprisingly peaceful given the deafening roar of the Gatling gun from earlier. That may have been a downside to being a prestigious esper powers development school. People would assume those


destructive sounds were part of some Curriculum or another. The assumption that intruders were not possible did not help matters.

She was still in her indoor slippers and she had left her school bag, textbooks, and uniform back at the school.

Now that the chaos had temporarily passed, she felt a little embarrassed. Still, heading back now would be beyond suicide. She had to consider herself as fortunate for having the bag containing her credit card and her phone which could handle e-transactions.

(Ugh. My face is…fine. At least I don’t see any bug bites there.)

She viewed her face in the side mirror of a nearby parked car and performed a quick once-over of her appearance. Now that she had avoided the worst possibility, she had time to think about thesmaller problems. It was a stereotypical technique used in business deals to guide people’s thoughts.

Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she heard a dry gunshot and the window of the car door shattered right next to her.

She shrieked and crouched down as another gunshot rang out. This did not seem to be the Gatling gun. The entire car would have blown up if it was. This sound was as light as the starting pistol for a race, so she guessed it was some kind of handgun.

Not that that was any reason to relax.

Bullets were bullets and she was not wearing those tough bulletproof jackets that Anti-Skill wore. She would be killed instantly in those thin gym clothes.

When she pressed her back against the car door, she


circle around the car.

But she was in luck: this enemy had made a physical appearance.

They were firing a handgun, but that was far weaker than the Gatling gun from before.

“…”

Mitsuari Ayu gripped her phone tight.

Mental Stinger.

She did not know who this was or what kind of power they had, but if she could take control of them before they used that power, she could overcome this threat.

As long as they stood here themselves, her power could work on them.

She remained crouched with her back pressed against the car while she slid to the side. Her gym shirt was caught between her body and the metal door, so it pulled up to reveal her navel. She moved forward, toward the hood. She got down on all fours, pressed hersoft cheek against the ground, and nearly jerked her head back up from the heat, but once she did peek down below the car, she saw bare legs and feet in expensive-looking sandals.

She had never tried using her power when she could only see the target’s legs, so she did not know if it would work.

She would much prefer to aim the external camera lens at their face or head.

That would make it a sure thing.

“Phew…”

She slowly let out a breath and held the phone to her chest.

She waited until the time was right.

This was just the one opponent. They had no allies to cover for them while they swapped magazines, so there would be a slight opening there.

Now was her only chance.

“!!”

She gathered strength in her legs


melting like cheese on toast.

She climbed the winding slope.

That was all she could do.

“Pant, pant.”

Once on the second floor or higher, there was no escape for the skinny girl. Her sleeveless top and her shorts were both uncomfortably soaked with sweat. She gradually consumed the drink she had pulled from her refrigerated bag, but she felt like she was sweating the fluid right back out of her. It was like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom.

The emergency stairs on the outside wall had long since been torn away by the Gatling gun, but if she jumped down and hurt her legs, she would be obliterated by the Gatling gun or sliced up by the wire drones. On the other hand, the rising heatand smoke of the fire meant she would be burned to death if she stayed where she was. The second and third floors both felt equally oppressive. It was already a midsummer day, but now she was assaulted by an intense heat similar to a sauna or pizza oven. There was no doubt in her mind that her stamina was slowly but surely being sapped from her.

She really was trapped.

“Ugh.”

What had she been thinking?

She could not help but wonder that while dripping with sweat.

She had her phone with her, but Mental Stinger only worked on people’s minds. She needed someone to use it on. Her power had one weakness: being alone. That seemed to perfectly reflect the shape of her own heart.

She did not know who this enemy


was.

There were at least three and possibly more. That was all she knew.

The thing was, she had actually run across some people on the way here. She had spotted some Tokiwadai students, some School Garden security officers, and even some people in this very parking garage. If she had aimed her phone’s camera at them, she could have controlled them and sent them toward the enemy as a diversion.

But she had not.

Now that she was trapped, she had to ask herself why she had not.

Of course, the answer could not have been more obvious.

Part 10 [ edit ]

“Okay! Can I go in first, Riku-Kai Onee-chans? Neither of you already entered the first floor, did you?”

The 3rd sister’s long, wavy blonde hair fluttered behind her in the blazing sunshe had been given a role to play, and she had not had to defeat that giant dragon herself. Things could not have been more different from when that pointy-haired boy and mystery high school girl had been with her.

She had the power to control people.

But if she did that, she would have to take responsibility for everything that happened to those people. What if they were caught in the fire and smoke or if they were torn apart by the Gatling gun or wires? She could never carry that weight. Choosing to fight meant to no longer remain just a victim. She would then be a victim and an attacker simultaneously. One or the other would be hard enough to bear while living a peaceful life, but


it seemed, the reality before her was very real. She could only accept it.

In other words…

“It’s outside the building? But this is the 5th floor!”

With a deafening roar, an airborne motorcycle soared into the parking garage at a point well off the ground.

Part 12 [ edit ]

It began with his phone.

Kamijou Touma pulled it from his pocket and glanced down at it. A few unread online news notifications were flashing.

A parking garage was on fire near the School Garden.

The wind could carry the smoke to nearby locations.

Kumokawa Seria raised one of her shapely eyebrows.

“What, did you actually write a macro for that?”

“It’s nothing that fancy.”

It was a built-in service on the phone, although he rarely used it.

The pointy-haired middle school boy exhaled through his nose. By inputting some50kg. She was trying to act mature, but she did not seem to notice how the belt over her shoulder had twisted her dress’s strap out of place.

(I might be screwed if he asks me to open the bags.)

She maintained her perfect smile as she began wondering if she should play the harmless little girl to avoid any questioning, or if she should use up one of the acceptable deaths for this mission.

But her thoughts were interrupted by a loud shattering of glass.

The adult must have had an idea what caused it because his head shot up to look overhead.

“Them!!”

Just as he shouted into the air, Amazora used the distraction to slip away. That righteous hero had been lucky, but the 3rd sister had to click her tongue


amateur – everyone.

The large motorcycle broke through the shopping mall’s 8th floor window, flew in a falling arc, and charged right into the 5th floor of the blazing parking garage. The force of landing blew out the rear tire, but Kumokawa kept the motorcycle from falling over and forcefully stopped it by spinning it around in something like a roundhouse kick.

“Kyah!?”

A high-pitched scream sounded from surprisingly close by.

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Penelope begins to kiss Eufrat unaware that she is about to learn more than she could imagine of the pleasure of being with another woman. She has flirted with colleagues at work, even had a few drunken kisses but this is the real thing, there's no turning back now. She lets Eufrat take control and lay her down gently on the bed, making her relaxed and comfortable with a cushion she puts the young woman at ease, allowing her to open herself up to new sensations. Eufrat slowly peels away Penelope's clothing before sliding her hand down on top of her panties, her already moistening vagina barely hidden by the thin fabric. Eufrat lets her large breasts hang down over Penelope who laps at them eagerly before sheMen's Soccer to Begin Preseason Practice

Timothy Bullock is congratulated by Chris Phillips after scoing a goal last year. Both players are back this season as the Flames begin preseason practice today.

The Liberty Flames men's soccer team will begin its preseason preparation for the upcoming 2010 season today.

After finishing last season with a 12-5-3 record, the Flames will be looking to capture the program's second Big South crown and record a double-digit victory total for the fourth consecutive year in 2010.

Head Coach Jeff Alder will open preseason practice with a roster of 25 players, 17 of which return from last season's squad.

Among those returning for the Flames are the 2009 Big South-leading goal scorer and South Atlantic Region team member Darren Amoo, All-Big South forward Timothy Bullock, All-Big South


midfielder Chris Phillips and midfielders Phillip Aseweh, who finished the year fourth in the Big South in scoring, Alex Verville and Juan J. Niño.

In addition, defenders Greg White, Chris Osborne and Thad Taylor return after helping the Flames post 12 shutouts last season, tying the school record. The two remaining goalkeepers from last season's team, Panashe Nhekairo and Paul Gilbert, who redshirted in 2009, will vie for the starting goalkeeper spot with the departure of A.J. Madero, who is now a graduate assistant with the team.

The 2009 Flames ranked fifth nationally in scoring offense by averaging 2.15 goals per game and seventh in the country in team goals-against average with a 0.53 GAA.should get some help…" wondered Pikachu aloud as they passed the shops you get airports, selling duty-free stuff.

"Yeah." agreed Totodile, a crocodile-esque Pokémon, who was struggling under about four suitcases, most of which contained peanut butter due to his obsession with the gooey brown substance. Oh, wait. That was probably a bad description.

"Maybe we should ask him." said Charmander, a fire lizard who was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses (he was looking forward very much to the trip), pointing to a Kadabra dressed in the Airport staff uniform and was muttering to himself while sweeping the floor.

"Excuse me," said Squirtle, walking over to the cleaner.

The Kadabra did not look up. "I see things…" he muttered in a slightly high-pitched and fast voice.

"Do you think you could give


see what had made the noise.

"Ack! Bulbasaur, your head fell off!" Totodile squealed in a very girl-like manner, recoiling in the horror of seeing his friends' head looking up at him from the non-existent floor.

"I noticed." said Bulbasaur's head dryly from its new place on the floor.
The Pokémon stared.

Suddenly, Bulbasaur's face was contorted with pain. "Oh, pie that hurt… oh that hurt..." Bulbasaur mumbled from the ground, his eyes wincing in anguish.

"Why isn't there any blood?" Charmander wondered aloud, looking at Bulbasaur's headless body, which simply had a layer of skin covering his neck, "it makes no sense."

"And THIS does?" demanded Squirtle, spreading his arms wide, indicating to the vast white, empty space they were in.

"Very true, very- HOLY MILTANKI!" Totodile screamed, recoiling yet again, as Squirtle changedshape. It was like watching a Pokémon evolve, but without the light, and he was getting smaller… and squarer.

"What in Ho-oh's name is happening?" shrieked Totodile, as Squirtle finished his disturbing metamorphosis, having assumed the shape of a large book, on the front of which was displayed the words "Key Stage 4 Trigonometry".

"I didn't know it was possible to mutate into a textbook. Interesting." Bulbasaur's head muttered wryly.

"Grass? No way!" said Bulbasaur, before seeing the small blades of green becoming large blades of green. "There IS grass!"

"I see a bush!" shouted Pikachu, suddenly pointing at a small bush, which was growing out of the grass, which was growing out of nowhere.

"I see a tree!" shouted Pichu ecstatically.

"I see Tom Jone-" began Totodile, before all the Pokémon with hands


around to see Fred coming toward them with a twisted expression on his face, looking like something out of a horror movie.

"Ack!" the Pokémon chorused.
"Help!" Pichu yelped.
"Kill. Exterminate." Fred said in a mechanized voice, his eyes ablaze with something that looked like fury.

Squirtle floated upwards, feeling terrified. "He's coming this way!"

"Obliterate. Kill. Annihilate." Fred said in the same scary and disturbing tone of voice, before reaching behind him and producing a huge axe, never ceasing his advance on the terrified Pokémon.

"He has an axe!" Totodile screamed. "He's going to kill us all!"

"Wait! I have an idea!" yelled Pikachu suddenly.

"What?" Bulbasaur asked, running while holding his head with his vines.

"Pichu, come here!"

Pichu leaped over to her evolved counterpart and realized what Pikachu meant. They held hands and began cracklingwith electricity before firing a huge Thunderbolt attack at Fred.

Fred exploded on contact with the electrical attack, and, to the Pokémon's disgust, sent little bits of wiring and electrical thingummys everywhere.

"Ack!" Pichu screamed. "Tom Jon- I mean Fred – is a robot!"

They looked with horror upon the blasted remains of the Fred robot. They all leaped backwards when the pieces began moving. The pieces began to reconnect, but in such a way that there were now two Freds in front of them, each wielding axes and looking more murderous than ever.

"Eradicate. Eliminate." the Freds chorused, advancing on the terrified Pokémon at a frightening speed.

"Come on Squirtle!" screeched Totodile, panicked. "Let's do a water attack!"

"Erm," said Squirtle's voice from above him, sounding very sarcastic and terrified at the same


time. "I'm a textbook. Does it look like I'm going to be using Hydro-Pump anytime soon?"

"Guess not." muttered Totodile, still sounding petrified, before whirling around to face the two Freds, who were still saying random disconnected words about death and destruction. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. A distant rumble was heard, and suddenly a huge wave appeared from nowhere and crashed onto the Freds, breaking them up into little pieces once again. The water disappeared into the nowhereness of cyberspace.

But once more, the pieces began to reassemble themselves, only this time there were four Freds, each armed with his own axe and positively radiating with anger. They glared murderously before running after the terrified Pokémon, who were now running off in all directions, screamingunleashed a Flamethrower attack. It hit the Fred straight in the chest, causing the robot to fall over backwards. Charmander continued with the attack and soon all that was left of the Fred was a pile of ashes. The ashes didn't stir.

"Great!" squealed Pichu, "Now use it on the others too!"

Charmander did as he was told and created a huge Fire Spin attack, which whirled around for a bit, nearly incinerated Bulbasaur, but engulfed and destroyed all the robot Freds, leaving behind not a pile of ashes but a large and physically impossible hole in the fabric of time and space.

"What's that?" asked Togepi, looking at it.

"A large and physically impossible hole in the fabric of time and space; weren't you reading the narration?" snapped Squirtle.

"Freaky." muttered Pichu,


gazing at the hole.

"Is it me," asked Totodile, "or is the hole getting bigger?"

"It is!" screeched Togepi. "I'm scared!"

"What's down there?" Bulbasaur wondered aloud. He lifted his head up with his vines and moved his head so he could look down into the hole, which was slowly getting bigger. "WOW!"

"What is it?" asked Charmander, walking over the hole, but mindful not to walk too close, "It's so far down I can't see anything!"

"You're right!" said Pichu in awe, also looking down into the hole.

Totodile decided he wanted a look, so he ran over, but bashed into Bulbasaur by accident, knocking him over and into the hole.

"AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!" Bulbasaur screeched, falling into the unknown place, his head with him.

"I shall save you!" Togepi declared, running over to the hole, beforePichu yelled back.

'Each one of us knows just what to do; we're never gonna stop, gonna stop, searchin' for you…'

Pikachu was trying his hardest to panic, but it was hard to, since the music was growing more distracting, making it much harder to scream in terror.

The Pokémon all closed their eyes and braced themselves for inevitable death.

Pikachu opened his eyes groggily. He blinked once, then twice before twitching his nose, ears and tail. He then moved his arms a bit, checking to see what damage had been done. Finding that he could still move without insurmountable pain, he moved his weight onto his front paws and heaved himself up, standing, perfectly fine, on his feet. He noticed his friends lying in a crumpled heap beside him and he


Suddenly, Pichu noticed where they were.

"ACK! LOOK!" she squealed, pointing.

Squirtle looked "That is SO WEIRD!" he shouted, "Look at the shading! The color!"

"The absence of outlines!" Charmander added.

Totodile looked terrified. "The three-dimensionalness of it all!" he howled, dropping to his knees.

"Where are we?" asked Pichu, panic-stricken, "What should we do?"

Squirtle rolled his eyes. "Dance in front of the town hall with teacups and biscuits, what else?"

"Biscuits!" shouted Togepi happily, "Yay!" The others ignored him.

"Okay." said Pikachu, trying to sort things out. "We're stuck on the top of a three-dimensional building, possibly in the dreaded real world. We need to get back to the Pokémon World. Badly."

Suddenly Togepi took his little arms or whatever they are into his shell and searched around in there before producing a large leather-boundthe postal service."

"What about this?" Togepi asked brightly.

"Or Bolivia."

"Actually, in eighteen-seventy-six, there was a…" began Pikachu, who was cut off by glares from some of the others. "Nothing."

"Can we please put away our various chess sets, dictionaries and other random expletive and think of a way to get down from this freaky place and back to the Pokémon world? Please?" Squirtle shouted, earning another frown from Pikachu.

Bulbasaur extended two long vines and wrapped one around the small mouse Pokémon and the other around the deranged egg. He lifted both of them down and onto the sidewalk below, before releasing them and bringing back his vines to… wherever they come from. "You okay?" he shouted down.

"Yeah!" called up Pichu, about three storeys down from the other Pokémon, "but this