shot on one of the guards here. Then take out the next one. If
you miss, they will run to a lift and come down to your level.

Continue around the stacks of crates, eliminating dD guards. They hide in
every nook and cranny, so don't leave a single inch of the ground floor
unexplored. When all the guards are dead, head upstairs on the lift.

Hidden Item:
Phoenix: This item is pretty difficult to get. From the elevator, head right.
Shoot the door behind the guard stationed in front of it. About 20% of the
time, doing this causes him to open the door and head through. Follow behind
him, moving up the ramp in the subsequent room to an elevator. Take the lift
up, then go down the hall through a couple groups of sliding doors.wall until you reach a small X chiseled
into a silver strip of wall. Leave the crate here, then back up and shoot
it. This will open a passage into the next area.

Several guards will likely approach through the opening you've created. Fall
back and take them down as they step through, then head into the lab hall.

Perfect objective:
Destroy computer records

Go to the right, taking down the guards past each set of sliding doors. Follow
the path as it turns right. Now go to the silver door halfway down the hall
to the left. Enter and punch out the guard here. Equip the Data Uplink on
the computer terminal to download a virus, causing a gun across the hall
to shut down. Head to the silver door opposite and enter.

Punch out these labbies too, and


About the game

Incorporate a member of the US Army's best-kept secret group: the SPECIAL OPERATIONS unit known as Delta Force, formed to FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM worldwide. When the best can not command the operation, you are called to action.

How good are you really?

Highlights

NovaWorld ™ FREE: Online game with support for up to 50 players.

TAKE THE OBJECTIVE: land on a parachute and use high grass, water, and undulating terrain to move undetected.

TAKE CONTROL: A new Command Screen lets you manage your team in one-player or multiplayer action.

CREATE YOUR OWN: single or multiplayer battles with the Mission Editor, plus more than 40 new quests.

ALTER THE TERRORISTS: with new weapons, new equipment, fixed machine guns and well-placed grenade launchers.No Pain Labor & Delivery: A Global Health Initiative's Impact on Clinical Outcomes in China.
The availability of labor analgesia is highly variable in the People's Republic of China. There are widespread misconceptions, by both parturients and health care providers, that labor epidural analgesia is harmful to mother and baby. Meanwhile, China has one of the highest cesarean delivery rates in the world, exceeding 50%. The goal of the nongovernmental No Pain Labor & Delivery (NPLD) is to facilitate sustainable increases in vaginal delivery rates by increasing access to safe neuraxial labor analgesia, thereby decreasing the cesarean delivery rate. NPLD was launched in 2008 with the stated goal of improving labor outcome in China by increasing the absolute labor epidural analgesia rate by 10%. NPLD established 10 training centers


over a 10-year period. We hypothesized that increased availability of labor analgesia would result in reduced requests for cesarean delivery and better labor outcomes for mother and baby. Multidisciplinary teams of Western clinicians and support staff traveled to China for 8 to 10 days once a year. The approach involved establishing 24/7 obstetric anesthesia coverage in Chinese hospitals through education and modeling multidisciplinary approaches, including problem-based learning discussions, bedside teaching, daily debriefings, simulation training drills, and weekend conferences. As of November 2015, NPLD has engaged with 31 hospitals. At 24 of these sites, 24/7 obstetric anesthesia coverage has been established and labor epidural analgesia rates have exceeded 50%. Lower rates of cesarean delivery, episiotomy, postpartum blood transfusion, and better neonatal outcomes were documented in 3 impact studies comprisingAnalysis on the Influence of Geographical Indication Protection on International Competitiveness of Shaanxi Apple

As a big agricultural province in western China, Shaanxi loess plateau area of Weibei has a unique ecological environment and natural climate, and the climate here is the only one that meets the requirements of seven indicators for apple growth. In 2003, after Shaanxi’s apple got the geographical indication protection products, it got an unprecedented development, that is, the Shaanxi apple cultivation area and yield became the first in the nation, and its production accounts for about a third of the country, 11% of the world. Shaanxi apple industry is the pillar industry of the whole province’s national economy development, which occupies the important position in the national apple industry. With Shaanxi apple approved geographical


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Last year at this time, a giant women’s march was in the planning stages. It turned out to be among the largest in U.S. history, according to the Washington Post. Between 4 million and 5 million people turned out in over 650 marches across the U.S. on Jan. 21, 2017, ranging from 200 in Abilene, Texas, to five who bravely marched in their hospital cancer ward, to between half a million and a million each in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and New York. In spite of Trump administration sputtering, the D.C. women’s march alone dwarfed the size of the official inauguration.

The pink-hatted marchers conveyed an unmistakable message of fury


Trump enterprises, family, and perhaps the president himself makes this a dangerous moment in American history.

The dreams of DACA youth have been crushed.

A white supremacist movement is reemerging with the support of the president.

The Paris climate deal has been abandoned.

The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been eviscerated by the Trump administration.

Protections for net neutrality, health, and the environment, and even respect for “evidence-based” science, have been targeted by the current administration.

So march we must!

But mobilizing marches around the country will have much more impact if we also build sustained, local movements. The work of resisting Trumpism and the rogue Republican state will last for years, and building a different sort of world—beyond corporate power and beyond white supremacy and patriarchy—will take years and generations. Bigtake place Tuesday. We venture to
say that Mrs. Lindbergh, the mother of the murdered baby
was not interested in what type of clothes she wore at her
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day when the vehicular traffic on both Colfax and Marion is
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cross East Colfax. With the street cars, east and west bound,
the Tramway bus south bound, automobiles, trucks, taxi-
cabs and overland transportation coming and going in all
directions, besides autos going in and out of the filling
stations and pulling into the street from the curb, the poor
pedestrian by the time he gets across the street is actually
dizzy dodging all of this


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petting and cajoling nowadays. We read in the morning paper
that Mrs. Anna Hauptmann. wife of the convicted slayer of
the Lindbergh baby in spite of her terrible anguish purch-
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of Latin American countries are eligible to apply for Mexican citizenship after only two years in the country, but FIFA's naturalization rules means Furch - who signed for Veracruz in December 2014 - wouldn't be available for El Tri until 2020.

Mexico's depth pool in the center forward position is shallow, with Javier Hernandez (30 years old) and Raul Jimenez (27) the established Europe-based strikers, but this season the top 10 goal-scorers in Liga MX are all foreign-born, potentially opening the door for someone like Furch.

"I think that maybe it's a topic for the directors," said Furch about Mexican strikers not getting many chances in Liga MX teams. "They look abroad to make up the goals. Mexicans are maybe at a disadvantage against a foreigner who is already proven."

Thepeople had already booked some place in advance. If he is the prime ministerial candidate, then it does not mean that others bookings are cancelled just for his sake," he added.

"They were given a permission, but if they refuse it, and instead, choose to protest. I want to warn people that it might be their intention to cause unrest in that area through their protest," he said.

The BJP is outraged after the Varanasi District administration denied permission to Modi for holding one of the two rallies in Varanasi on Thursday.

The party will protest in Varanasi and Delhi against the decision. BJP leader Arun Jaitley, along with Amit Shah, will lead the protest in Varanasi.

The BJP had sought permission to organise five events which included a rally by Modi


in Beniya Bagh ground in Varanasi.

Modi is contesting from the holy city of Varanasi that will go to polls in the last phase of elections on May 12.

BJP senior leader Arun Jaitley called the move as unprecedented, and said it was a deliberate interference in conducting free and fair polls in the world's largest democracy.I's speech to the League of Nations to plead for assistance against the Italian Invasion, 1936.)

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie's trip to Australia was quite a resounding success. The Prince met with Prime Minister Turnbull and members of parliament, but also attended events held by the Ethiopian community in Australia. What I found especially heartening was the reverential reception he received from the Ethiopian community at large, and the fact that the the Ethiopian Ambassador received him respectfully as well.

I was very surprised and pleased to see Prince Ermias received on such a high level. You could almost allow yourself to think there was still an Emperor on the throne and the Prince was representing a ruling monarch. It was particularly interesting to read that he held an event


I do not think we will get much public monarchist activity from him in the future sadly. The next in line is the Duke of Harrar, his brothers and nephews (he and his brother Prince Michael are childless, and Prince Beide Mariam only has daughters so the nephews (sons of the late Prince Dawit, and the son of Prince Taffari are effectively the future), followed by Prince Ermias and his twin boys. You may have seen in the "weddings" section here that Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen (5th in line according to the 1955 succession rules) got married in Washington DC last weekend, and that his wedding garnered a great deal of attention and curiosity from the community as the younger generation of Princes and Princesses took a moreThis is from an interview in the Paris Review in 1955 and describes how he dealt with his literal-minded editor’s questions about this cartoon.

Once I did a drawing for The New Yorker of a naked woman on all fours up on top of a bookcase – a big bookcase. She’s up there near the ceiling, and in the room are her husband and two other women. The husband is saying to one of the women, obviously a guest, “This is the present Mrs. Harris. That’s my first wife up there.” Well, when I did the cartoon originally I meant the naked woman to be at the top of a flight of stairs, but I lost the sense of perspective and instead of getting in the stairs when I


Grenfell Tower fire: Council chooses Elizabeth Campbell as new leader Published duration 3 July 2017 Related Topics Grenfell Tower fire

media caption New council leader Elizabeth Campbell: "I want to apologise. This is our community and we have failed it"

The Kensington and Chelsea Conservative group has chosen Elizabeth Campbell as its new leader.

Nicholas Paget-Brown remains leader of the council for the time being but Ms Campbell becomes de facto leader.

It is expected that she will be confirmed as leader of the council at its next full meeting on 19 July.

He had faced fierce criticism of the council's response to the blaze, in which at least 80 people died nearly three weeks ago.

'Truly sorry'

In her first statement since her selection, Ms Campbell said: "The first thing I want to doin the borough since 2006 and represented the Royal Hospital Ward since 2010. She was previously a Conservative parliamentary party candidate in for Gateshead East in 2001

Local politicians have warned the new leader must come from outside the "contaminated" administration.

Councillor Daniel Moylan said the ruling Conservative group has to "show a complete break with the past".

Mr Moyland, the Conservative former deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said "any idea of a continuity candidate would be a very bad idea".

"We have to be able to go to the people of North Kensington and to the victims of the fire with a real sense of acknowledging how badly they have been let down, a real sense of shame if you like," he told BBC London Radio.

Judith Blakeman, a Labour


councillor in the ward which houses Grenfell Tower, said "it can't possibly be one of the cabinet members" as they had voted to endorse the former leadership.

"They are all contaminated. No member of the current cabinet would have any credibility with the residents of North Kensington," she added.

Sadiq Khan has called for commissioners to take over the running of Kensington and Chelsea Council.DC Universe is making a big splash at San Diego Comic-Con.

The forthcoming subscription video on demand platform opened the confab with a first look at its scripted originals with Titans and on Thursday afternoon unveiled its sixth overall series: a live-action Stargirl.

Geoff Johns, who revealed the news during his spotlight panel, will write and exec produce the 13-episode scripted original series via his Mad Ghost Productions banner. The drama hails from Warner Bros. Television and Greg Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Productions, with Sarah Schechter also serving as an exec producer. The series will bow in 2019.

During his panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Geoff Johns announced that he will be writing and producing a Stargirl live-action series, which is set to air on DC Universe.

“The show’s about Courtney Whitmore, whose


mom gets remarried to Pat Dugan, and they move to Blue Valley Nebraska. She learns that Pat Dugan used to be a member of the Justice Society of America, and so she steals her stepfather’s stuff and goes for a joyride.”

Stargirl follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore who inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. The series reimagines Stargirl and the very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, in a fun, exciting and unpredictable series.

In making the announcement, Johns addressed his recent departure as DC’s chief creative offer and noted that he would have not been able to write such a deeply personal series if he were still in that role.

“It’s so personal for me, and to create andthe map so it can vote on a district elections ordinance on Feb. 27.

Under threat of a lawsuit, the city is undergoing a public engagement process as it considers transitioning to electing council members by district instead of at-large. Oxnard resident Arthur “AJ” Valenzuela, who is threatening to sue the city, said the current at-large voting system is in violation of the state’s voting rights act.

If approved initially on Feb. 27 and finalized by a second vote on March 6, a district election system will have voters picking a council member who lives in their own area of the city. The mayor would continue to be picked by all voters.

During this process, the City Council can opt to add more seats to the current five-member body. Most agreed


Watch: 'This Is the End' 'Real World' Parody Starring James Franco Is Almost As Funny as the Film

As if Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's directorial debut featuring Rogen, James Franco and Michael Cera poking fun at their own celebrity wasn't meta enough, the funny crew behind the comedy has taken it to a whole other level with a hilarious bit of cross-promotion that transplants the main cast to the set of MTV's "The Real World."

As if Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's directorial debut featuring Rogen, James Franco and Michael Cera poking fun at their own celebrity wasn't meta enough, the funny crew behind the comedy has taken it to a whole other level with a hilarious bit of cross-promotion that transplants the main cast to the set ofIdeal Scenario Miami Arena Site Becomes New Home Of Florida Marlins Owner Says

By Scott E. Pacheco
Once the Miami Arena comes down, it’s up in the air what will become of its five downtown blocks.

Property owner Glenn Straub says he expects the old arena to come down within weeks, and that he is open to several options on the five blocks. These include a first-class soundstage, a home for Cirque du Soleil or one of its competitors, a project that fits in with the designs of other developers in the area or, if it were up to him, the planned Florida Marlins stadium.

"You take and bring a baseball stadium down here" and businesses follow, Mr. Straub said. "People want to be around where there’s activity."

He said the arena hasn’t


been in use since it was damaged by a hurricane about three years ago.

A new stadium needs to be ready for baseball by opening day 2011, because the Marlin’s lease at Dolphin Stadium — its current home — expires after the 2010 season. A proposed retractable-roof stadium at the Orange Bowl site is projected to cost $515 million.

But while economic development executive Frank Nero likes the idea of a downtown ballpark, he said the feasibility may no longer exist for such a prospect.

Mr. Nero, president and CEO of the Beacon Council, the county’s economic development public/private partnership, said while "history has shown the closer you get it to downtown is ideal," the old Orange Bowl site is the best chance to make a new ballpark a reality.

"I hopegreat idea for the city of Miami," said Mr. Sarnoff, who emphasized that whatever goes there is the decision of the private owner.

Mr. Straub, a Palm Beach businessman, bought the arena in 2004 for $28 million. The arena, built in 1988 for $52.2 million, was home to the Miami Heat and Florida Panthers. Both teams moved out of the building in the late 1990s, and the city eventually sold it at auction to Mr. Straub.

The arena is in Park West, where developers Marc Roberts and Art Falcone have purchased a lot of land. While neither Mr. Roberts nor Mr. Falcone returned calls, Mr. Straub said he would be willing to work with them with one of their projects.

The Beacon Council’s Mr. Nero said Park West has "great potential,"


_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will beevery dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will be held accountable by its own people..."Quoting Dostoyevsky:"Rest assured, hell is big enough for all. It doesn't deserve this fierce competition over who will


It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will be held accountable by its own people..."Quoting Dostoyevsky:"Rest assured, hell is big enough for all. It doesn't deserve thisfierce competition over who will be the worst." - Dr. Bashar Jaafari, UNSC session, 22nd of February, 2018

_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have


in ways that are downright sickening:"

Interesting reading...

_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorismnot a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will be held accountable


Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will be held accountable by its own people..."Quoting Dostoyevsky:"Rest assured, hell is big enough for all. It doesn't deserve this fierce competition over who will be the worst." - Dr. Bashar Jaafari, UNSC session, 22nd of February, 2018

_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and athis fierce competition over who will be the worst." - Dr. Bashar Jaafari, UNSC session, 22nd of February, 2018

_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies


rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will be held accountable by its own people..."Quoting Dostoyevsky:"Rest assured, hell is big enough for all. It doesn't deserve this fierce competition over who will be the worst." - Dr. Bashar Jaafari, UNSC session, 22nd of February, 2018

The only thing the Zionists have left in their so called playbook, lol.

_________________Remember the U.S.S. Liberty, NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!

“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force,Sovereignty. #FromSyria

_________________"This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." - "The Obsolete Man" - The Twilight Zone, 1961

"I assure you, ladies and gentlemen that, very soon history will show that we and our allies have fought a war on behalf of the whole world against terrorism supported by governments that will


It was New York Islanders rookie Steve Valiquette from Atlanta. Moments earlier, Valiquette made 37 saves for his first NHL win, a 4-2 victory against the expansion Atlanta Thrashers on March 16, 2000.

ANAHEIM -- One night almost 18 years ago, Sudarshan Maharaj picked up the telephone with a goaltender in tears on the other end.

Valiquette spent the previous two summers working with Maharaj, a goaltending consultant, to improve his skills. Those lessons, said Valiquette, were largely responsible for launching his NHL career.

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And so when Valiquette made it, he immediately knew what he had to do.

"I called to thank Sudsie even before I called my parents," Valiquette said. "I rushed outside as our team was getting onthe tallest goaltender to appear in an NHL game, according to Elias Sports Bureau. He would play 46 NHL games with the New York Rangers, the Islanders and the Edmonton Oilers.

And Maharaj, who was born in Trinidad but moved to Toronto at age 6, would go on to break cultural and racial barriers in 2003 when he became the first goaltending coach of Indian descent to work full-time in the NHL. Previously, Maharaj played six seasons of professional hockey in Sweden, where he occasionally faced episodes of racial intolerance.

Even so, Maharaj won't express bitterness. He refuses to let any of those negative experiences affect or define him. He speaks modestly about his pioneering impact on the sport.

"More and more people of different cultures are getting involved in hockey


in general," he said. "I think that's having more of an impact rather than, say myself, being a role model."

Maharaj's early work with Valiquette led him to tutor goaltenders Kevin Weekes and Rick DiPietro before he ultimately landed a full-time position with the Islanders.

When Dwayne Roloson, who played parts of two seasons for the Islanders, stepped down as Ducks goaltending consultant in the summer of 2016 because of family reasons, he recommended Maharaj replace him. Maharaj joined the Ducks before the 2013-14 season as a consultant, focusing on their American Hockey League affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia.

Organizationally, the Ducks have done a good job of developing young goaltenders and helping to salvage the careers of others. Frederik Andersen was traded by the Ducks to the Toronto Maple Leafs onJune 20, 2016, for a first-round draft pick in 2016 and a second-round pick in 2017.

Last season, Maharaj helped Jonathan Bernier, now with the Colorado Avalanche, get his career back on track after three tumultuous seasons with the Maple Leafs.

Maharaj's communication skills and empathetic manner allowed him to win the trust of Ducks No. 1 goaltender John Gibson, who is 21-15-6 with a 2.55 goals-against average and .924 save percentage.

"He's always been there for me," Gibson said. "Being together this long, he knows what to expect from me and I know what to expect from him, working on things here and there.

"We just have a good relationship and it makes things a lot easier. And he's just a good person."

Gibson and Maharaj have been through a lot together,


from riding buses in the AHL to the three-round journey in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Maharaj, 54, has two teenaged daughters, which helps him relate to the younger text-messaging generation.

Their relationship benefited from a defining moment when the Ducks lost to the Nashville Predators in the Western Conference Final in six games. Gibson missed the end of the series after he sustained a lower-body injury in Game 5.

After Gibson's official exit interview, he and Maharaj sat down for a follow-up conversation to clarify what they could've done differently.

"There had been some things that weren't working the way we both wanted," Maharaj said. "John and I went into a separate room and we aired out a lot of things we both felt that we weren't happy with.

"It wasuncomfortable at times, but it was also cathartic in a lot of ways. I think it was the best moment in our relationship because it cleared a lot of things out of there. Our relationship has probably been the best it's ever been right now."

Maharaj's pre-NHL training served him well in this line of work. He taught grade school in Toronto and later worked with at-risk students. His classroom was often a melting pot with up to 36 students, speaking as many as four or five languages.

"His background in teaching, working with behavioral students has certainly allowed him to work with goalies because we've all got our behavioral issues," said Valiquette, who works as a studio analyst for MSG Network covering the Rangers. "I have a hard time


lot of work to do.'

"I was two months away from going to my first camp with the New York Islanders. I fell in love with him. If he told me to eat lima beans, I'm eating lima beans."

Video: Sudarshan Maharaj on preparing his goalies

Maharaj's strength is his ability to determine what a certain goaltender needs to work on and then tailors the instruction accordingly. This season, the needs of a veteran such as Ryan Miller, who is 37, are different than Gibson, 24.

"As a former school teacher, I always look at the person first before I look at the position," Maharaj said. "(Gibson's) maturation as a person has certainly been reflected in his maturation as a goaltender. They've happened hand in hand.

"He's much more disciplined in how he'sapproaching the game. He's always had a great mental game, but he's matched the physical part of that. He's playing a lot more controlled.

"I'd still love him to be a little more controlled, but he's improved. He's not stretching and reaching to the degree that he used to."

Despite his patience and ability to connect with his pupils, Maharaj was not accepted into teachers college once he retired from hockey. His initial application was rejected because he didn't have enough experience. He found a solution before re-applying.

"I was driving a truck and delivering uniforms," he said. "Once I finished my shift, I'd run to public school up the road where I arranged to volunteer for the last part of the day."

His approach to succeeding in hockey was equally dogged;


he grew up idolizing Philadelphia Flyers legend Bernie Parent and devoured a goaltending manual by Jacques Plante, who won 437 NHL games with the Montreal Canadiens, Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978.

Playing hockey was one of the quickest ways to make friends and assimilate in Toronto after arriving from California - that's California, a small town in Trinidad.

Maharaj's father preceded the family to Canada; Sudarshan stayed behind in Trinidad for almost two years, living with his grandmother and great-grandmother.

"It was about a 15-minute drive to the beach," Maharaj said. "You could actually see the coast of Venezuela on a clear day. We didn't have very much money. We would play in the yard withthe date upon which the two offenses were allegedly committed. Fred indicated that he had met defendant at an apartment house where defendant originally resided. Fred had gone to this apartment house with several of his friends to use the swimming pool there. The use of the pool was without permission of any of the tenants of the building. On May 8, 1977, Fred was 15 years of age and defendant was a young man about 27 years of age.
On the date in question, May 8, 1977, Fred said that defendant had invited him to come to his apartment at a different apartment building to which defendant had moved; that defendant picked him up at the location of the old apartment building and drove him to the new


apartment. Fred testified that, after his arrival at defendant's apartment, he had something to drink and smoked two joints of marijuana cigarettes which defendant provided. The time of arrival at defendant's apartment was in the area of 7 p.m. The drink which Fred said he had was Southern Comfort and Coke. Fred testified that the smoking of the marijuana came about after defendant said that he had some high grade marijuana and wanted to know if Fred wanted to smoke a marijuana cigarette with him. Fred said they smoked the first cigarette, talked for a while, and then Fred smoked a part of a second cigarette. Fred testified that he had become familiar with marijuana before meeting defendant and had been using it for about six months beforehe met defendant, but not on a daily basis.
Fred indicated he became drowsy, tired and sleepy after smoking the second marijuana cigarette. Fred testified that defendant started fondling him in the crotch area while he still had his clothes on; that defendant then led him into the bedroom, where defendant first took off Fred's clothes and then his own. Fred testified to acts of masturbation and oral copulation committed by defendant. When these acts were finished, Fred said that they got dressed and the defendant then drove him back to his home where he was living with his family. Several days later Fred told a friend about what had happened and ended up going to the police.
*471 Defendant testified in his own behalf. Defendant admitted meeting Fred at


indicated he wanted to come over around 7 p.m.; that Fred asked defendant to pick him up about 7 at defendant's old apartment building. Defendant said that he drove his car to his old apartment building, met Fred there, and brought him back to defendant's apartment.
Defendant's version of what took place in defendant's apartment was completely contrary to the version presented by Fred. Defendant said that the two engaged in conversation while defendant was busy getting ready for the next day  getting papers together for his regular job and things needed for his attendance at a hockey clinic after work. During this period of time, Fred was sitting in a chair looking at magazines and listening to music. At some point defendant told Fred he was goingMINOR WITH MARIJUANA ON OTHER OCCASIONS IS ADMISSIBLE TO SUPPORT THE VICTIM'S CREDIBILITY AS A WITNESS
(1a) Defendant asserts two errors of the same nature in seeking a reversal of the judgment of conviction. He contends that the trial judge committed reversible error in permitting Fred to testify that, on several dates prior to May 8, 1977, Fred had visited defendant at the latter's apartment and had been provided marijuana cigarettes by defendant and had smoked these cigarettes at defendant's apartment on these prior occasions. Defendant asserts that the trial judge made an equally erroneous ruling in permitting another minor, Jane M., to testify that, on some of these prior occasions, she had been with Fred at defendant's apartment and saw defendant provide Fred with marijuana cigarettes which Fred


The Republic of Lithuania lies on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. The country borders on Latvia, Belarus, Poland and Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation. The capital Vilnius is a multinational and multicultural European city. As the National Geographic Institute of France confirmed in 1989, the geographic centre of Europe lies just 24 kilometres northwest of Vilnius.

Lithuanians show great respect to trees and nature. The most scenic places of the national ethnic regions, with the largest concentration of historic sites, represent the National Parks of Aukštaitija, Žemaitija and Dzūkija. The most beautiful and unique protected areas of the Lithuanian nature cover more than 12 percent of the total country’s territory. The Curonian Spit National Park is just one example and also part of the UNESCO WorldHertiage. The biggest insular castle in the Central and Eastern Europe, together with a historical Trakai town nicely blend into the labyrinth of lakes and relief of the Trakai National Historical Park.

Up to the present days the millennium-old and turbulent history of Lithuania has preserved its extremely diverse heritage. Wedged at the dividing line of Western and Eastern civilizations, Lithuania battled dramatically for its independence and survival.

Environmental challenges in Lithuania

A UN report on Lithuania stated that air pollution had damaged about 68.4% of the nation's forests. Problems exist mainly in the cities - the sites of industrial facilities, as well as the ones most exposed to increased traffic. Forests affected by acid rain are found in the vicinity of Jonava, Mažeikiai, and Elektrėnai, which are the chemical, oil,


and power-generation centers.

Water pollution results from uncontrolled dumping by industries and the lack of adequate sewage treatment facilities. Only a part of the sewage-contaminated water in the republic is processed because cleaning facilities are not yet available everywhere. Beaches in the Baltic resorts, such as the well-known vacation area of Palanga, are frequently closed for swimming because of contamination.

After the nuclear accident at Chernobyl that contaminated much of Lithuania with excessive radiation, Lithuanians are concerned about nuclear energy development, especially the use of nuclear power generated by plants of the same kind as the one at Chernobyl. Although the Ignalina nuclear power plant, which operated two reactors similar to those at Chernobyl, was shut down at the end of 2009, proposals have been made to build a newplant on the same site.

Lithuania's pollution problems have also affected the nation's wildlife. The country's flora and fauna have suffered from the drainage of land for agricultural use. Although nearly 10% of Lithuania's total land area was protected as of 2001, many of the country's original animal and plant species are now extinct. Five mammal species and four species of birds are threatened. Threatened species include the European bison, marsh snail, and Russian desman.

The climate is already changing in Lithuania. During the 19th-20th centuries the average annual air temperature in Lithuania increased by 0.6°C and temperatures are expected to continue to rise. Forests have been an indicator of climate change in Lithuania. Other impacts that Lithuania is expected to face include greater precipitation, warmer winters, and less snow


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National strategy for the development of renewable energy sources (2010)

The Energy Efficiency Action Plan (2007)

National housing strategy

The programme for modernization of multi-apartment buildings (2004, a2009)

National strategic waste management plan 2007-2013 (2007)

Drinking water supply and waste water management development strategy for 2008-2015 (2008, a2009)

National strategy for implementation of united nations framework convention on climate change (2009)

At 2.0 % of GDP, revenue from environmental taxation is the sixth lowest in the EU, due in particular to the very low revenue from transport taxes. Since 2003, environmental tax revenue, as a share of GDP, has fallen continuously till 2008. From 2008 to 2009 there has been an increase of 0.3 percentage points in revenue from environmental taxes.

Corporate Social Responisibility (CSR)

According to a study regarding CSR, approximately one third of respondentkancing or "sitat" which are not unlike those used in Western-style formal dress shirts. The studs usually have screw-in backs and can be made from a variety of materials including gold, silver and precious or semi-precious stones. The studs may also be connected with a light metal chain which will be concealed behind the shirt when the placket is fastened.

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In the state of Johor, both the design and the wearing of Baju Melayu is somewhat different from that of other areas. Here, the kain samping or kain sarung is worn below the baju rather than above it. The baju itself does not have the cekak musang collar or any placket. Instead, the opening is hemmed with stiff stitching called tulang belut (literally eel's spine) and ends


Isaiah 36

Isaiah 36Contemporary English Version (CEV)

The Assyrians Surround Jerusalem

36 Hezekiah had been king of Judah for fourteen years when King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded the country and captured every walled city 2 except Jerusalem. The Assyrian king ordered his army commander to leave the city of Lachish and to take a large army to Jerusalem.

The commander went there and stood on the road near the cloth makers' shops along the canal from the upper pool. 3 Three of the king’s highest officials came out of Jerusalem to meet him. One of them was Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was the prime minister. The other two were Shebna, assistant to the prime minister, and Joah son of Asaph, keeper of the government records.

4 The Assyrian commander told them:

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by a plain and effectual establishment of the truth.

The advocate for truth may descend into the field of controversy, he may engage every adversary that comes in his way, and he may pursue and expose every single error. But error possesses a wide and dark dominion, and he who undertakes the conquest of the whole, undertakes a labor that is almost infinite. It will still find some obscure corner to retire to, from which it will be found hard to dispossess it.

Error is various and changeable; a circumstance of which a skillful adversary will not fail to lake the advantage. When his opinion is ready to be wrested from him, he will take entire possession of it again under another shape. He will lead us through all theNow Commenting On:

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Bauman: Girardi does his best through triumph, tragedy

10/11/12: Yankees manager Joe Girardi reflects on the passing of his father Thursday and speaks about his emotions over the past few days

By Mike Bauman
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NEW YORK -- While Joe Girardi was doing some of the best managing of his life, he was also mourning the death of his father.

Girardi's father, Jerry, died last Saturday at the age of 81 in an Illinois nursing home after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for many years. It is a measure of who Joe Girardi is -- an essentially private man in one of the most public of all jobs, managing the New York Yankees -- that he told almost no one about his father's death.

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a truly touching remark. At that moment you got a glimpse of a side of Girardi you never could have seen before.

Just a few hours ago, the most important thing about Girardi seemed to be that he had both the brains and the guts to pinch-hit Raul Ibanez for Alex Rodriguez in Game 3. Ibanez responded in glorious fashion, hitting a game-tying home run in the ninth, then winning the game in the 12th inning with another homer.

Asked what his father would have thought of this decision, Girardi replied, "He would have been extremely proud and probably told all his buddies."

Girardi reflected on his parents after that classic Game 3 victory, thinking, "My mom and dad saw a pretty good game last night."

In a happier world, Girardi wouldhave received one more victory Thursday night in his time of trial, a Division Series clincher that would move the Yankees on to the Championship Series. But in this world, what he received was a 2-1 loss in 13 innings that forced the Yankees into a win-or-go-home circumstance Friday against the Orioles. It will be a difficult situation, but it won't be anything like dealing with the death of a father.

It has been clear in Girardi's five years as manager of the Yankees that, despite winning a World Series championship in 2009, he has never been completely embraced by the fan base or regarded by the New York media in the affectionate, ultimately respectful way his predecessor, Joe Torre, generally was.

Girardi is guilty mostly of not being Torre,


but nobody else is Torre, either. Torre was an impossible act to follow, filling reporters' notebooks on a daily basis with an endless supply of topical anecdotes, almost invariably maintaining his poise and dignity, even in the most difficult of circumstances. Girardi is not into embellishment, or story-spinning, and he clearly does not see charming the media as part of his job description.

But on Wednesday night, there was widespread admiration voiced for him, as he broke with convention, went with his heart and his gut, and gave the at-bat of the season to Raul instead of A-Rod.

And on Thursday, when the narrative of his father's death and the following days emerged, Girardi became a genuinely sympathetic figure. He was a private man, dealing with his father's death inthe most public of settings, as the Yankees' manager in the postseason.

In the relatively few words he spoke regarding his father and his mother, Girardi showed a depth of feeling that many could not have otherwise seen. He was doing the very best a man could do in his job at Yankee Stadium, doing his best in both triumph and tragedy.

Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Gottlieb likened the act of smoking pot to crushing up a prescription medicine and smoking it. He contended that using the lungs as entry point for a drug is not optimal.

Gottlieb pointed out that he prescribed blood pressure pills, as well as all kinds of other treatments, to his patients back when he was still a practicing physician. However,


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The head of Ginny's new school was a woman.
There was a man who I think taught at the school, who was a very powerful wizard. There may have been some backstory with him having been an Auror or something in Britain but getting banished for some reason.
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India Partition not the result of jihad

In fact, Pakistan's jihadi politics has nothing to do with India Partition. Partition was the result of British imperialist rulers' "divide and rule policy." It is unfortunate that some Indian intellectuals living in the United States provide the Western world distorted facts with the sole ambition of demeaning Islam, Muslims and Muslim countries. We have enough problems already regarding misrepresentation of Islam. Such distorted explanation of "jihadi politics" in the Muslim countries only strengthens the misconception that Islam is a religion of violence.

It is hard to believe the writer thinks Pakistan was secured from the British by a Muslim leader, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who exploited Islam to gain political power. It is true that the enmity between India and Pakistan started sincetheir very inceptions in 1947 as independent countries. However, the emergence of Pakistan was not related to Jinnah's exploitation of Islam, and Pakistan's politics was not shaped either by its subsequent alliance with the Islamic jihadists.

Here is the true history of the creation of Pakistan and India as I have witnessed it being born in undivided India under the British colonial rulers. I lived in British India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) for a total of 34 years, so I know what I am talking about.

The British ruled India for about 200 years. Before that, India was under Muslim rulers for 700 years. The British came to India as traders and, with the help of a local "traitor" named Mirzafar, invaded the capital of the Muslim ruler in


1757. In India and Pakistan, the words "traitor" and "Mirzafar" have become synonymous.

After capturing India, the British rulers decided to crush, as usual, Muslims, depriving them of all sorts of patronages and privileges to prevent them from gaining strength, so they wouldn't be able to fight back. On the other hand, they sought cooperation from Hindus and promoted their causes. This fact has been aptly established by the historians as the "divide and rule policy" of the British administration.

Indeed, the British rulers pitted Hindus and Muslims against each other by instigating communal riots, with the ambition to rule India forever.

On the other hand, the Muslim rulers were not Islamic fanatics. Although they ruled India for 700 years, it was not their intention to turn India into a Muslimcountry. India still is a Hindu majority country, which bears testimony to the fact that the Muslim rulers did not try to convert Hindus through intimidation.

If they tried, 700 years was enough time to do that.

Besides, there was no single instance of Hindu-Muslim riots in India during those 700 years. Riots between Hindus and Muslims started as soon as the British took over the administration of India. So, India's Muslim rulers were not Islamic jihadists. However, Dr. Dutta never mentioned that fact in his commentary. He squarely blamed Jinnah for taking advantage of Islamic sentiments to create Pakistan.

Dr. Dutta forgot to mention that it was Jinnah who called for Hindu-Muslim unity to achieve independence of India. Therefore, he was called the "Pioneer of Hindu-Muslim Unity" in India. Eventually,


Jinnah had to accept the British decision to divide India on the basis of Hindu and Muslim majority areas. However, it is too naïve to believe the British just wanted to create Pakistan (a Muslim country) because Jinnah wanted to.

If the Indians had not started freedom fighting, which the British called "terrorism," and subsequently Gandhi did not come up with his noncooperation and nonviolent movement, I doubt very much whether the British would have left India in 1947. However, before they left, they decided to give Indians a Parthian shot and divided the country.

So, India's Partition and the creation of Pakistan were not the result of Islamic jihad, as Dr. Dutta wants his Western readers to believe. It was not Pakistan's fault that a Hindu king of Kashmir                                             1

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HELEN KOTTENNER                of sight. Do not let them observe us. Get together a
number, then you shall see!"

It was as Inez had said. The repairs of the fortalice, which had been
already commenced, had put the means of defence into their hands. Large
quantities of great stones had been collected at first in the basement,
but only the previous week had been laboriously carried up the steep,
narrow stairs which led upwards to the dwelling rooms; and these large
stones the two brave girls were now quietly collecting in a great heap
at the top of the flight.

They were in deep shadow, and below the brown-skinned men, in their
picturesque Arab dress, were far too busy examining their spoil, and
making away with it, to heed the slight sounds from above. They talked
together as they worked; they told of


the door; they were
almost directly underneath.

"Now!" cried Inez, setting her hand to a huge stone. Juana put all her
strength into the task, the great coping stone was hoisted between them,
and pushed bodily over.

A fearful yell and a thundering crash told that it had done its work
well; a storm of furious execration went up, and in the midst of it down
came another stone which dashed out the brains of a fellow in the crowd
below.

Juana peered over and then drew back, a fierce triumph on her girlish
face; for she had seen that there were two enemies the less.

"We have plenty of stones, the saints be praised!" she exclaimed. "They
are closing in again, Mistress. Let us give them another!"

The Moors were always careless of life in battle; and again and again
theyas dearly as we can; and plunge our daggers
into our own hearts sooner than fall alive into their hands."

"We will, Mistress," said Juana firmly. "But surely our Lady will send
us aid ere that!"

"Look! look! look!" cried Inez suddenly. "The banner of the cross! Oh,
Juana, do my eyes deceive me? Is it a vision that I see?"

And indeed for a moment both the girls thought that it must be; for the
light fell sparkling upon mailed headpieces and flashing swords; and a
banner with the cross flaunting in the golden light of the southern
afternoon was borne aloft, and waved as though in signal that help
indeed was at hand.

"What can it be? Whence come they?" cried Inez, with breathless
agitation. "That is not the road from Marbella! Our Lady herself must
have sent them


dashed itself
against Catharine's head; a blood-red mist seemed to swirl before her
eyes, and blank darkness swallowed her up.

When she opened her eyes next it was to find herself at home, lying upon
the wide couch beneath her favourite window which looked down the
street. The light showed that the evening was advancing; May was in the
room setting the table for supper, and--but was not that part and parcel
of the dream which still seemed to enwrap her faculties?--Harold, her
bronzed-faced soldier, was seated beside her, his eyes hungrily bent
upon her face.

She smiled, half afraid to move lest the dream should vanish, and the
next moment he had her fingers close in his grasp.

"Kate, my Kate!" he cried; and she smiled back, and sat up.

[Illustration: The Commandant pulled her down beside him before ittell yon children at that window that I am safe afloat. They feared
the boat might not go in such a storm. And, fair sir, be pleased to
leave kicking of that box, and come away to this better seat; for there
is some precious porcelain inside, and if it be broken, I shall get the
blame, for I packed it."

But Elsje's signal was for the straining eyes of her mistress far more
than for those of the children. All was well thus far, and the worst of
the peril was over; but--but there was still the landing on the other
side.

"Take my box first," she pleaded, as they approached the wharf.

"That lumbersome thing?--that can wait till the last," answered the
skipper, rather surlily; "'tis as heavy as if it held a man."

"I have heard tell


of her heart. There was no room
for thoughts of self there.

The beat of horse-hoofs behind her told that the moment had come. The
man with the mail-bags strapped to his saddle was advancing rapidly
towards her. Grizel reined back her horse into the shadow of the trees,
and drew out a pistol from her belt. Her heart beat fast and furiously.

Next moment the man had ridden up.

"Stand and deliver!" shouted Grizel, in the most masculine voice she was
capable of assuming; then as the man reined up and regarded the slight,
boyish-looking youth with glances of inquiry and surprise, she added in
a quieter tone: "Sir, I desire to obtain possession of certain papers in
those bags of yours; wherefore deliver them up peaceably to me, and
your life will be safe. Otherwise----" and here Grizelforced to give out that the bridal could not take place owing to
the prohibition of the King was a thing abhorrent to the proud spirits
of Roger and Raoul, whilst the equally high spirit and courage of Emma
revolted against the imperious intermeddling of the King, who but a
short while since had been nothing but a noble himself, and whose recent
sudden rise in power was greatly owing to the support of the very
families whose happiness he now sought to mar.

It wanted but a little to arouse in many hearts a sense of revolt and
anger against the absent William. No man can rise so suddenly to such
power without raising up a host of enemies amongst those who begin to
feel the iron hand of monarchy, where once was only the clasp of


little. Where her husband was, there was her home. But her
soldiers and servants, were they to be given up? Never! Never! Never!

"I will go forth and die at their head, fighting to the last, sooner
than that!" she cried.

The Bishop had many times sought to open negotiations with the brave
Emma, but hitherto fruitlessly. Now, with her own hand, she penned him a
missive, offering to surrender to him the castle and its munitions of
war, but only on the condition that every living creature within its
walls went forth unharmed, and that they should be permitted to take
ship unmolested for the shores of Brittany.

"Else will I never give up whilst one stone remains upon another. You
shall see how long the daughter of William Fitz-Osborn can bid defiance
to the man whom her fathersaw her instantly, and advancing, hat in hand, towards
her, exclaimed:

"Welcome, my life!"

And since Charles II. has often been charged with ingratitude towards
his friends, let it be said of him here that he showed a different
spirit towards the Lanes upon his restoration to power. He settled upon
Jane one thousand pounds for life, and half that amount upon her
brother the Colonel; also to the girl he gave a beautiful gold watch,
and a portrait of himself set round with pearls, which for generations
(until, in fact, they were mysteriously stolen and never heard of again)
were handed down as a precious family heirloom.

HELEN KOTTENNER

"To be a Queen, and a young Queen, and a widowed Queen in these stormy
times, and in these stormy lands! Ah, Helen, Helen, that is indeed no
light thing!"

"Indeed, madam, I


to be the place where the hostile
forces will meet. Alan will be there! I feel in all my being that he is
coming--that he is near! He will fight, and why not I beside him? Let me
but don the kilt and trappings of that young Norman whom thou didst
lose, and I will show to those who scoff at woman's courage, what one
girl can achieve! Let Gregory and Duncan fight against their brethren if
they will; I will strike my blow for the honour of our name! Their
treachery and cowardice shall be atoned by the valour of the sister.
Maid Lillyard will uphold the honour of her father's name, which they
have forgotten and smirched!"

The old woman kindled into enthusiasm as the words were spoken. She had
been born and bred amid the clashof things they have grown familiar
with, the horrible reality seems to come over one like a flood; and the
awful doom comes ever nearer and nearer. The boys have heard much--the
implacable temper of the King; his bloodthirsty mood; his choice of the
Judge who is to arraign them. In Newgate it is whispered that there will
be such a slaughter in the West as has not been heard of in this land. I
felt myself shaking all over at the things I heard there. Oh, I fear for
my brothers, I fear, I fear!"

The mother clasped her in her arms, and they mingled their tears
together. Hannah told in broken words of all that she had gleaned from
her brothers, of what they had dared and done, how they looked, how
they had stood the journey


many
desperate smugglers himself, was dragged bodily into a boat that he was
pursuing, whilst his head was chopped off on the gunwale and flung into
the sea.

The _Black Prince_ was a trim little vessel that did a great deal of
illicit traffic all along the coast at that time, and was well known to
every man, woman, and child in Morwinstow. Whorwell was the name of her
captain. A daring fellow he was, and one of the most popular smugglers
in those parts, free with his money, free with his contraband spirits,
making friends with villagers, parson, and sexton alike, and even
bribing old Tom Hockday, this latter functionary, to let him deposit his
kegs and bales in the church till he could find a convenient opportunity
of getting them away to old mother Varcoe's, or some otherI must defend you, Jessy; not you me. You have risked your
life already. You must not do more. It is me they want--not you."

But the injured arm had no power to strike a blow. Jessy tenderly took
the dirk from between the numbed fingers.

"Say your prayers, Tim, if you can remember any," said Jessy, between
long breaths, "for we shan't easily get out of this alive."

"There they are--see them? The witch-wench and the boy? Ah, ha, my fine
maid, you'll sing a more civil tune to-day I warrant. Give us over the
boy, and maybe we'll let you off easy!"

"The first man that touches him I'll kill!" cried Jessy.

"Curse her for a witch," cried one of the men, recoiling before the
fierce aspect of the girl; but Moffat was filled with the lust


Chapter 61: Storm

Disorientation hits Red as he appears on the roof of the Trainer House, legs adjusting to the sudden stillness of the building below him, nose flaring as the heavy scent of the ocean is replaced with the scents of the city. He takes a moment to brace himself against the wind, which is gusting hard enough to flap his jacket and tug at his cap.

He and Leaf had changed into their traveling clothes and left a note in their room so the crew would know they'd left before going out onto the deck of the ship and teleporting back together. Red's fear for Blue and Aiko, for himself, and most of all for Leaf were overwhelming as he summoned his abra and prepared for the unknown…

...butnow that he's here, his fear takes the backseat to a sense of awe as he gazes over the city.

Half the sky is twilight, the last gleam of light not enough to hide the stars on the deep, cloudless blue. The other half of the horizon is the dark of a starless night, storm clouds gathered in a sweeping curtain, rising up like the rough wall of a sheer mountain cliff. It's like the storm has sucked all the clouds out of the sky into one half of it, and was now marching across to blanket it all.

"Swords of Justice," Leaf whispers from beside him. "One pokemon did that?"

As if to punctuate her point, lightning flashes across the cloudwall, illuminating its many peaks and valleys. The thunder hits


them a few seconds later, and it breaks the spell, Red's fear resurfacing as he quickly withdraws his abra, then puts his headphones in and calls Blue. As he watches, lightning lights up a different part of the cloudwall, then another flash arcs down to the ground below it, then another far to the left. The thunder from each one hits with a few seconds between them, and Red realizes that he's hearing what will be a constant refrain throughout the storm.

Blue answers after the fourth ring. "Red, how-"

"I'm here." Red looks at Leaf, who's at the railing and, looking down at the city below. "We're here. We teleported back as soon as we saw on the news."

"You're… You actually…" Blue laughs. "Red, you brave, beautiful idiot! Ishouldn't have doubted you for a second!"

A particularly loud crack of thunder echoes across the city, and Red hears it both in the air around him, then a half-second later through his headset. He turns to the west. "Where are you guys?"

"Pokemon center by the harbor. We're all here, Glen, Aiko, and I plan on helping out inside if we need to." His voice loses its excitement, turning serious. "Come quick, Red, most of the trainers are already stationed somewhere."

Red fights down his feeling of dread as he feels the wind gust around him again. The idea of getting caught out in that storm is viscerally terrifying, even though he knows objectively that it's not the storm itself he should be worried about. He checks his map and


wall.

"Which pokemon are you bringing?" Red asks as he deposits his metapod, then brings out his spinarak, then swaps Vermilion the abra with his pineco. Bill is in his bag rather than his belt: he has no intention of facing this situation without a way to escape.

"All of them," Leaf says, and he sees her fill ball after ball with her pokemon, putting them on the ground after. He's about to ask if her bag really has room for them, then sees her take a container ball out and summon its box. She pulls her spare pokebelt off it, then straps it loosely over her main one before tightening it and adding the balls. "I haven't practiced with it much, but every pokemon might matter, here."

Red nods, consideringthose he was leaving out. Metapod is the only truly "useless" pokemon he has, good for little more than a sacrificial distraction unless it evolves in the field. He chose bellsprout over oddish because they were the same types and he'd trained it more, but there's nothing wrong with having both. And he has barely trained with his whismur, but it still has useful area of effect attacks…

Despite not having practiced at all with a second belt, Red realizes that limiting himself to six pokemon isn't worth the risk. He doesn't need to get used to battling with a team of six for the League, and the added physical awkwardness is less likely to kill him than the lack of options, at this stage in his journey. Even


calls out. "They…"

"I know!" he yells, but pedals harder. Blue said they had to make it to a defense point, and he understands why, there would be no way to save all these people in the street.

A minute of pedaling later, Red's phone starts blaring at him. He checks it as he bikes, slowing down slightly, and sees an emergency broadcast message from the Ranger outpost at the eastern edge of Vermilion:

MASSIVE FLOCK FLYING OVER CITY SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY

Ice water floods his veins, and he finally listens to his inner nervous voice, recognizing its premortem wisdom. "Leaf! Change of plans!" He struggles to renavigate them to the nearest defense point, and finds a hospital just nine minutes away. "We're not going to make it to the others, butsits up and looks around. Garbage cans and street signs are knocked over, and glass litters the street as windows designed to withstand hurricane-force winds were shattered by the beaks and bodies of heedless pokemon. Many of them are on the ground as well, dead or badly injured.

Red looks around for Leaf and spots her staring around in horror. Her eyes lock on something, and she struggles to her feet. He follows her gaze to see a spearow at the end of the street with a bleeding gash across its body sprinkling blood on the ground. It tries to take off, only to tumble back to the ground, one of its wings broken.

"Leaf!" he shouts, forcing himself to his feet as well. His arms and legs ache with


her race away ahead of him, unaware that he's stopped, and Red's mind locks up as that thought hits a brick wall. He has to leave, has to, he'll die if he stays, but she can't leave…

She's going to die.

"Le-!"

Thunder claps just as he yells, drowning him out. Leaf reaches the turn in the street ahead and disappears.

She's going to die!

Red withdraws Bill and starts cycling again as the fear fills him, bending his thoughts toward nothing but running, hiding, escaping, surviving. He ignores the impulse and forces himself to cling to the thought of Leaf being left here, alone, dying without him, and races after her, bent over the handlebars. "Leaf!"

Shit, his phone! He can call her…

"Dial Leaf!" he yells, then turns the corner and sees her.of the door just as a crowd of pokemon turn onto their street, running wild and trampling anything in their way.

The doors slide open automatically, and as Red and Leaf rush in, biking between the clothing aisles, Red can make out the small crowd of people in the back, cowering against the walls or behind countertops.

Then the stampede arrives outside, a cacophony of different steps and cries filling the street as first a handful of pokemon run by, then a steady stream. Red turns to see nidorino, tauros, raticate, arcanine, ninetales, and others all rush by.

Red and Leaf move together off their bikes to summon Charmeleon and Raff, standing between the doors and the people in the store. Their pokemon appear, then both twitch and shiver, adjusting to


ineffective.

Then the Nidorino turns to him and charges, and panic makes Red yell "Ember!" as he dives aside.

The nidorino cries out in pain as it tries to get away from the fire that's sticking to its side. It stomps through the store, throwing its horned snout around and tearing through racks of clothing… and spreading the fire to each. It gets close to one of the people hiding in the room, who screams and runs away, the movement catching the nidorino's attention and causing it to rush toward him.

"Tackle!" Leaf yells, and Raff intercepts. The nidorino, flank still burning, is sent crashing into a row of clothing racks, and the shirts on them quickly catch fire. It shies away from it and tries to find another way out,but stops as it finds fire on every side of it, now.

Leaf lets out a dismayed cry, and runs toward it.

"Stop, Leaf!" Red says, and his pokemon stops attacking, taking the command as if directed at him. He rushes forward to grab her shirt, then freezes as the heat is felt, suddenly scared of being burned, watching in horror as she rushes straight for the flames...

...then drops to grab the bottom of one of the shirt racks, lifting the fire atop it toward the ceiling.

Water starts pouring from the sprinkler, though no fire alarm goes off. Leaf drops the rack and pulls out a pokeball, then runs through the dying flames to ping a lock and capture the nidorino. She quickly leaps back and away from the fires,


boy who'd screamed says, rocking his head against her stomach. She looks at Red and Leaf, eyes wide. "Th-thank you, both of you."

It's a little hard to hear her with the water rushing down, the constant thunder, and the cries of pokemon outside. Red shakes his head, still not relaxing. They had barely won that, they'd made so many mistakes… And he still feels an urge to just hide and stay safe, distracting him from thinking about what to do next.

It's just fear, I can handle fear. He almost left when the Pressure first hit, but his desire to keep Leaf safe stopped him. He can do it again, he just has to focus on something to protect.

The sprinkler finally stops pouring water down, and Red takes aaround looking for them. He finds them in the corner, and climbs until he reaches the top to see another room full of clothes, though less wet and burned and smashed up. The five strangers follow him, with Leaf bringing up the rear. Her face and arm are slightly burned.

Red feels a strain inside, a note of something that he would normally call grief if he… wait no, it is grief, and it's…

He lets the mental state go, and immediately shivers as the Pressure brings the fear back. He's used his powers a lot already today on the cruise, he can't rely on them that much. I can deal with it. They are. He looks to the others. A young mother is holding her son, who looks about


4, tight against her leg. The man who tried to run from the nidorino is leaning against a counter with his hands in his hair, and the other two are an elderly couple, their clasped hands held tight between them.

None of them have pokebelts. What the hell were they even doing out there when the storm hit?

"Red." Leaf approaches him, cheeks still wet with tears. Wait, no, that's the water from the sprinklers. "I'm sorry for, before…"

"It's alright, I went a little nuts too." Red shakes his head. "I was a hair's breadth from just… leaving. If you weren't here, I would have." He still wants to, but he seems to be getting used to the feeling, at least a little, though his nerves still feel jittery, hisheart pounding too fast in his ears.

He needs to calm himself. He summons Pikachu, and sits on the floor as he pulls his pokemon into his lap and strokes him. Not just for his own comfort, but also because the electric mouse seems particularly agitated. Red merges minds with his pokemon briefly, and—

—

—then breaks the connection with a small cry of shock.

"You okay, Red?" Leaf asks from where she's kneeling beside Raff.

"Yeah," he says, staring at his pokemon with wide eyes as he rubs his forehead and focuses on his body to remind himself he just has one. How are their pokemon still following orders, while feeling the terror and desperate aggression that the Pressure is forcing on them?

He should have realized he'd end up feeling the stormgod's


aura twice over, would have if the damn thing didn't keep pushing at him to run and hide… But there was something more interesting underneath that. Some overwhelming sensory input he couldn't process at all, but was still aware of through Pikachu. Did he just begin adapting to a new sense his pokemon has? Or maybe it's something he sensed through Pikachu before, but in such small amounts that he never noticed...

Something crashes downstairs, and everyone turns toward the stairway as the young boy screams and cowers against his mother. "Oh, what now?" Leaf moans, mirroring Red's thoughts as they all listen to the pokemon downstairs knock over and smash things, probably confused as it tries to get back out. There's a cry of pain from some pokemonRed doesn't recognize, and he glances at Leaf, but she's holding herself together, arms tight around her middle, biting her lower lip hard.

Red turns back to the stairs, swallowing against his own fear. Whatever you are, don't be able to go up stairs… stay down there, get out...

Something else falls over with the crash of glass, and the boy screams again. The man turns to the woman, eyes wide. "Shut that kid up," he hisses.

She glares at him, looking like she wants to shout something back, but fear contorts her features and she starts shushing the boy, rocking him against her.

A loud banging sounds below them, somewhere near the wall, and then there's a crash, and the sounds of battle. Something hits the first floor's ceiling hard enough


to crack the floor nearby them, and everyone scrambles toward the walls away from it.

Red gets up and rushes to the stairs. He hears a pokeball discharge and looks back to see Leaf stand by the crack with Raff, as if preparing for something to burst through.

When he reaches the bottom of the stairs he sees the huge hole in the wall, some of which is still stuck to the spikes on the carapace of the kingler smashing at a male and female nidoran that dart around it. Each one leaps forward to strike the huge crustacean as soon as it focuses on the other, biting and stinging and kicking at it until it spews a foamy stream at both, sending them scrambling for traction. The ceiling iscracked above a linoone's limp and bloody body, which looks like it was smashed against it. Red tries to imagine how that happened before he realizes he has more important concerns.

Everything's wet from the sprinklers going off, and Red's hand goes to Pikachu's ball, fumbling for a moment with the one above it. A sudden jolt of fear keeps him from pulling it off, however, imagining the pokemon not getting taken down by his first attack and all turning on him together…

This is a normal fear, it's a justified fear, but the Pressure is amplifying it, just set it aside. He breathes deep, then lets it out as he watches the kingler scurry to the male nidoran and crash its massive claw onto it in a blow that


crushes it. Red barely notes the gore, watching the female nidoran switch from trying to scramble toward the kingler to running away, out through the broken front door.

Now. Red's arm doesn't move, and the kingler turns itself around to search for threats… then spots him in the stairwell. NOW!

He leaps backward as another stream of foamy water shoots out, tripping over the stairs behind him and scrambling back as the attack hits his legs in a painful spray… and covering his shoes in slippery foam that would make running impossible.

Red pulls Pikachu's ball off and aims it at the stairs above him, out of the water soaking the stairs and floor below him. "Go, Pikachu!" His pokemon appears and flinches, quivering in place until Red lifts his legsto the side and yells, "Shoot!"

Pikachu leaps forward over Red, and electricity arcs out. It bends toward a metal clothing rack to the side, but its feet are in the water, and the charging kingler falls over twitching as it slides. Pikachu lands and immediately leaps onto its back, shocking it directly this time before scrambling to avoid its flailing limbs.

Red struggles to pull a great ball out and get to his feet, shoes slipping and sliding, and nearly misses it when Pikachu, sending another jolt through the kingler, gets knocked across the room by a swing of its claw.

"Pikachu!" Red pulls the greatball out, fury and fear pumping through him. There's a trail of blood on the ground in the direction his pokemon was flung, mixing with


the water, he's okay, he's okay—

The kingler gets to its feet before Red does, and he's about to unclip Oddish's ball when he hears running footsteps behind him. Red turns to see Leaf appear, and immediately tosses her the ball. "Careful of—!" he starts, but she's already caught it and leaping over him, feet skidding on the slippery stairs and spilling her onto her side. She rolls with it, however, a few pokeballs coming loose from her second belt, and stops herself within range to aim at the kingler as it skitters toward her.

She throws, and it bats the ball away with its small claw while raising the massive one overhead, but the contact was enough; the greatball sucks the pokemon inside as it sails away and rollsbehind a service counter.

Red lets out his breath, then yells, "Pikachu, here!" as he struggles to get up again. "Leaf, are you okay?" She's still wearing her biking gear, but he watches with concern as she pushes herself to her feet, then struggles to keep them under her.

"Fine…" She holds onto a mannequin that managed to stay up, then looks around and gasps as she takes in the bloody bodies of the linoone and nidoran. He sees her visibly shudder, then try to step forward, forgetting about what she'd stepped in. She flails for balance, nearly takes the mannequin down before righting herself, then angrily pulls the shirt off it and lifts one foot at a time to wipe off the slippery residue from the bubblebeam.

Red's mind fills


with images of his pokemon bleeding out in a corner somewhere, or with its skull caved in, and feels tears gather in his eyes. He reaches back for a side pocket on his bag where he keeps some tissues to start wiping at his own shoe soles, but they're not nearly enough, and frustration boils up in him, an anger and feeling of unfairness similar to when he watched his spearow die.

Red yanks his shoes off and carefully gets to his feet, stepping around the bubblebeam residue and rushing toward where Pikachu flew, digging a potion and revive capsule out of his bag, ignoring the feeling of his socks getting soaked around his feet.

His heart leaps as he sees the flash of yellow against the wall, under thehanging clothes hooked against it. He crouches and carefully picks his pokemon up, remembering too late that he can use his powers to check if he's alive.

He uses them now, and feels relief as he senses Pikachu's mind. He quickly empties a potion bottle into the long gash that goes over his back and side.

His pokemon twitches and starts to move again as it's healed, but Red quickly realizes something is wrong. Pikachu's hind legs and tail are utterly still.

Red hugs his pokemon to his chest, feeling like he going to cry. He doesn't hear Leaf approach until she puts her hand on his shoulder, and he turns to her as a tear leaks down his cheek.

"Is he?" Leaf whispers, face horrified, but then she sees Pikachu moving,


and lets out a breath of relief.

"His lower spine got severed," Red says. They could fix it at a pokemon center… maybe. Depending on how bad the injury is.

"Oh, no, poor thing." She crouches beside him and strokes Pikachu's head between its ears. "Withdraw him, Red, you can't do any more for him now."

Red nods and puts his pokemon down, whispering words of encouragement before stepping back and withdrawing him. He puts his ball carefully at the back of his lower belt, swapping its position with his spinarak, heart heavy.

Leaf wraps her arms around him, shocking Red into stillness for a moment before he awkwardly hugs her back, then squeezes. "He'll be okay," Leaf says, and Red nods against her shoulder, not trusting himself to speak.

Over the windHe plops down onto the floor and pulls his socks off, then starts cleaning the slippery foam from his shoes with them as best he can.

"I'm Red Verres," he says, and waits for the others to introduce themselves.

"Pam," the mother says. "And this is Jordan."

"Sara," the older woman says. "This is my husband, Kaito."

"Tony," the lone man says, scratching at his arm.

"Where were you all going?" Red asks. "Why didn't you stay in your homes?"

"We weren't home when the sirens started," Kaito says. He sounds like he's barely holding together, clutching his wife's hand hard as his other adjusts his glasses. "We were eating out… took a walk after, the transport services got filled or stopped, we couldn't get one…"

"I work here," Pam says, voice quiet. "I was


doing some accounting, and my son was scared from the sirens, I had to find him, he was hiding in a bathroom and locked it..."

Red frowns at the boy, who's pressing his face into his mom's leg as she strokes his back, then turns to Tony, who looks defensive and upset.

"I was… napping, alright?" He shakes his head. "I'm from out of town, and my phone's broken. Didn't know where the nearest shelter was."

Napping? Whatever, the whole line of questioning wasn't important, now that he thinks about it. "Didn't mean to sound judgemental, sorry. My friend and I were just talking about what to do next. We don't know how safe this place will stay, and were thinking of going to the nearby hospital, at best ten minuteshe takes his container ball out and grabs some new socks, then pulls his shoes on. "I have an idea to keep you guys a bit safer."

They reach the administration wing, the whole thing set against a wall of the building with multiple rooms inside. "Stay in one of the middle ones, not too close to the building's wall or these inner walls," Leaf says.

Red brings his pineco out, near where the administration wall meets the building wall, then lifts it up and says, "Set!" The pineco shivers, then starts dropping sharp shards of its hard shell, the patter of the razor thin chitin faint on the carpet as Red starts walking backwards, repeating the command as needed.

Leaf does the same with her own pineco from the other


every direction. Probably hearing pokemon that Red can't.

Thunder cracks at the same time as a blinding flash of lightning, making Red jerk in fear, adrenaline pumping through him and setting his nerves on edge. He lets out an angry sigh as he tries to calm himself down again. It's been barely an hour since the flock went over us, and I already feel like taking a nap… somewhere far away or deeply protected. He pushes back the instinct to run back upstairs and hide with the others, sucking in a deep breath, then letting it out slowly. It takes some time, but little by little he regains some sense of calm, and sends his psychic sense outward in a quick burst.

Other than the minds of Tony, Leaf, theirIn a blink of an eye, that all changed. In its stead came a powerful ownership group that forced MLS to rethink it’s posture. Flush with money, City brought the infrastructure and bankroll to make anything possible. The Yankees, meanwhile, offered an invaluable and respected local sporting partner that could potentially crack the long-sought-after New York City media market.

For MLS, the union was everything they hoped to have for this aspiring venture.

While most expected a big splash from the club in year one, NYC FC has instead featured a slow and steady approach to growth.

May 22nd: NYC FC holds their inaugural press conference, with former Mayor Mike Bloomberg in attendance and a plethora of Manchester City players representing the ownership group. Claudio Reyna is named the club’s first