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Wedged behind the sink taps in Dr Judith Yates's consulting room is a wall clock with a random sequence of numbers displayed on it. Where one might expect to see the figures 3, 6, 9, 12, instead the dial reads 9, 1, 5, 7. "One of my patients gave me that," she says, beaming proudly. "He made it especially, because he said, 'You don't have any sense of time, Dr Yates!'"
The clock's hands imply the time might be 10 past two – or is it 20 past nine? Or quarter to six? It's impossible to tell. I start to panic mildly about catching a train home until she tells me my first guess is correct. Then she checks the clock's time against her computer and looks up sheepishly. "Actually, it's not right at the moment, it's got its own mind …"
Notwithstanding the odd timekeeping hiccup, Yates's patients clearly hold her in high regard. Her desk and shelves are festooned with postcards and holiday gifts, including a porcelain Delft house replica from Holland, and salt and pepper pots from Trinidad. "Sometimes they even bring me cabbages and potatoes," she says cheerily.
But time is running out for Yates to add to her collection; next month she will retire from her position at the Wand Medical Centre in Highgate, Birmingham, where she has spent her whole career as a general practitioner and, latterly, a partner. Over the course of almost 30 years she has worked at the heart of one community, where patients have become friends spanning several family generations.
"Now I'm coming to retirement I am having people saying goodbye to me, which is most strange, because these are people I've known for years," she admits, a little forlornly. "I saw a lad last week who I first met when he was two, and he's now 31, so I've known him for the whole of his life. And other people my age had children when I had my children, and their children have grown up as mine have. It has been fascinating."
It's not hard to see why her patients keep returning. Yates has that reassuring aura common to so many GPs, somehow giving the impression she might be able to eliminate all traces of illness simply by force of will. I have to fight the urge to roll down my sock and ask her to look at my sore ankle.
Yet such longstanding relationships with her patients mark her out as a dying breed in primary healthcare. "Young GPs coming in now may not have that privilege," she admits, pointing out that modern surgery systems no longer allow patients to book follow-up appointments with the same GP three or six months in advance, only with whoever might be available.
How, I wonder, does Yates manage to circumvent this for the benefit of her own patients? "I forward book my own appointments," she says, laughing. "It's my privilege as a senior retiring GP. No one else in the building can do it."
While it might seem a long time to spend in one place, her many years in the inner city have given her a wide perspective on people and the world at large. "It's an area where people arrive," she says, telling me about the waves of immigration Highgate has experienced, from the Vietnamese boat people in the 1980s to survivors of the Montserrat volcano in 1995.
And, of course, over time many of those survivors have passed through the doors of the Wand and occupied the seat beside Yates's desk where I now sit. "People still talk about the volcano now, they can't ever go back to their homes," she says. "Then people came from Hong Kong, when it went back to China. And obviously there are people escaping from the wars in Iraq and Somalia. They all land here and tell us their stories of the world."
At the heart of this observation is a key skill for every successful GP: the ability to understand their patients and identify their needs. "It's like a detective story," she exclaims, rising enthusiastically to the theme. "It starts with my medical knowledge, but it's about listening to them, listening to what they're explaining."
Often this is easier said than done, because people will use completely different words to describe the same things. "But it helps if you know the person, that's the benefit of continuity of care," she points out, in a gentle swipe at the current trend for GPs to move around every few years.
Inevitably though, many of the health issues Yates has dealt with in Highgate have been perpetuated by hardship. Over the years, substance abuse has become her specialist area of concern, and in retirement she intends to continue working two days a week at a new alcohol and heroin detox centre in central Birmingham.
"That part of my work has grown and it has been a treat alongside my primary healthcare work," she says. "Sometimes I've got to see people who have been very damaged in their childhood, who have had a lot of grief in their lives. But there's another group who tend to be more experimental, more risk-taking with their lives."
To keep in step with this group, much of Yates's work has lately involved monitoring the rise of designer internet drugs such as mephedrone (which was recently criminalised). A simple method of doing this is by using Google Trends, a function of the search engine that reveals what people look for most online. "If you look there, you can see searches for ecstasy use have gone down and mephedrone has shot up," she says, tapping away at her computer keyboard.
Given the internet's role in the spread of so-called "legal highs", it's a little surprising to hear that, on balance, she thinks the web has had a positive impact on substance use, giving users more information to base their choices on.
Changing attitudes
Figures for heroin and cannabis are also going down, she points out, but cocaine use is still rising, "which is a problem, as it's much more dangerous physically than heroin".
Yet at the time Yates was starting out as a GP in the 1980s, hard drug use was still relatively uncommon in Birmingham. "There were very few people using heroin," she recalls. "Then a great flood of brown heroin came in. Because it came from Afghanistan, people bought it instead of cannabis, apparently, and smoked it – before that, all people had known was white heroin. Then they used to wake up stark rattling and realise they had a dependency."
Such changing attitudes to recreational drug use are central to a campaign she has become closely involved with to test for and treat hepatitis C among former intravenous drug users.
Untreated, hepatitis C can lead to liver cirrhosis or cancer, although carriers can be cured if treated in time. But as the disease can sit dormant for years, many people, particularly who are aged in their 50s and 60s, may not be aware they have it. "The 1970s and 1980s were when most of our patients in Birmingham caught hep C," Yates explains. "It was before HIV, so people didn't have the same fear of sharing needles."
She urges anyone who injected drugs or even shared a cocaine straw during that time to get themselves tested, "even if you only shared a needle once, because that's what people used to do". People born in South Asian countries, she explains, are also at high risk as they may have received medical immunisations via shared needles in the past.
The phone rings; it's someone wanting a repeat prescription and Yates briskly reminds the receptionist that she is off duty at the moment. Clearly, being firm about switching in and out of work mode is a prerequisite for surviving the demand-heavy life of a GP, but I wonder how easy this really is?
She looks hesitant. "There is a bit of me that is always a GP, actually," she admits, a little reluctantly. "If somebody's ill wherever I am, I do tend to go into GP mode."
And what, I have always wondered, do GPs tend to do about their own medical needs? Do they pop down to their own GP, or into the surgery next door, or simply diagnose themselves?
"Like many GPs I suppose I don't go to the doctor as often as I should," she says looking surprisingly shamefaced. "I do have some GPs as patients and they're usually very polite and careful. You just have to say, 'What is it that you think is the matter with you?'"
She giggles at the absurdity of it. "That is not always straightforward. It can be difficult."
For now though, we have already chatted for longer than we planned. No doubt the partners already have something in mind, but they could probably do worse than give Dr Yates a proper clock for a retirement gift.
More information about hepatitis C is available on the NHS website
Pay Salaried GPs employed directly by primary care trusts earn between £53,249 and £80,354, dependent on, among other factors, their length of service and experience.
Hours In theory, Yates works five-eighths of a full week, but in reality it's 2pm-8pm on Mondays, 8am-6pm on Tuesdays, 8.30am-9pm on Wednesdays, 9am-7pm on Thursdays … 'This doesn't sound much like a part-time job, does it?'
Work-life balance 'We're self employed so we have a lot of autonomy over moving our hours. I have had four children and I've been able to work longer or shorter hours, which I wouldn't have been able to do if I had been an employee.'
Highs 'The people I've shared my life with in this area, seeing people do well and seeing people who've had struggles get beyond that.'
Lows 'The emotional impact can leave you flattened. Also, the uncertainty of not being sure what is wrong with someone. You have to learn to accept you don't know everything.'
Overtime For lunch, Judith always has sandwiches in the staff room with the other GPs. 'A nice bit of mature cheddar on wholemeal is fine.' Judith finds TV medical dramas a bit too close to the bone, 'But I was once shortlisted with one of my GP partners to be medical advisers to The Archers. We lost out to a casualty officer.' To relax, Judith is learning to keep bees. 'We spend a lot of time at our house in a community in Shopshire where there are five beehives. We also share 12 chickens and we are about to get three pigs.'


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SYNOPSIS: A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.
BOTTOM LINE: If you've read any of my other reviews you'll know that I'm not a big fan of the Farrelly's work. Then why do I keep watching? Because I'm trying to understand what the rest of America finds so funny. I guess that's a mystery I won't be solving anytime soon. Their ideas have real comic potential, but shouldn't, like most Saturday Night Live skits, be more than 5 minutes long.
Here, Carrey plays Charlie, a Rhode Island cop whose personality splits after suppressing his anger for years. He's been pushed around his whole adult life, never receiving an ounce of respect from anyone except his enormous, trash talking, African American sons (don't ask). So Hank emerges an offensive, foul-mouthed creep, who sticks up for "them", but not in a good way.
Through pure movie machinations, he hooks up with Irene (Zellweger), who's wanted by every law enforcement agency imaginable for crimes she didn't really commit. They are soon running for their lives, though I was never entirely sure why since she's actually innocent. The situations they find themselves in are contrived more for shock value than to forward the measly plot which is never developed beyond the basic premise.
The only thing that keeps this comedy afloat is the innate charisma and energy of its' stars Carrey and Zellweger. Carrey has some standout moments, but Zellweger is just passing time in a thankless role. She's seems bored and frustrated. Emotions I could relate to. A film only diehard Carrey fans should watch.
"Charlie's like origami, he folds under pressure."

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that occurs at the same time every year. If you're like most people with seasonal affective disorder, your symptoms start in the fall and may continue into the winter months. Most severe are December, January & February, sapping your energy and making you feel moody.
SAD can affect people of any age, including children. Sunlight can affect some of the brain's chemicals and hormones. One theory is that light stimulates part of the brain called the hypothalamus which controls mood, appetite and sleep. These things can affect how you feel. The lack of light is thought to affect: The production of the hormone melatonin. The production of the hormone serotonin. The body's circadian rhythm (the body's internal clock, which regulates several biological processes during a 24-hour period).


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Major improvements to the town's Riverside Walk are underway as part of a project by Horsham Town Community Partnership (HTCP).
The 12.5 mile circular walk follows the River Arun and other water courses around the town and links major green spaces such as Warnham Nature Reserve, Chesworth Farm, Leechpool and Owlbeech Woods.
Along the route, newly designed signs with an easily recognisable logo are being installed to make it easier to follow, and six descriptive illustrated panels will give ideas of what to look for.
Comfortable seats have been placed at ten locations and many have access alongside for wheelchairs and buggies. An equal number of simple benches, handy for a sit-down, will be placed in other positions during the next few weeks.
Jane Apostolou, chair of the HTCP, said: "Funding for this phase of the project came from a £37,000 grant from Biffa Award with Horsham District Council providing a further ten per cent funding.
"Plans have been made for another phase to improve the walking surface of the path at points where walking can be difficult. The improvements will at the same time still maintain the rural aspect of the Walk. Grant applications for this part of this project are underway.
"A new information leaflet showing the route of the Walk and points of interest along the way is currently being produced."
The group are planning a celebration walk of the route on July 26 as part of a special mid-summer healthy walk.
While there are already several volunteer groups maintaining areas that part of the walk passes through,the project is keen to hear from anyone who would like to help.
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Checking out the AHL's top scorers of the young season, you'll find Joel Colborne of Saturday's opponent, the Toronto Marlies, at the top of the leaderboard with eight goals and eight assists for 16 points, tied with perennial All-Star Keith Aucoin, who has 3-13-16 for Hershey.
It's no coincidence that their teams are either leading their divisions (Toronto) or a close second (Hershey).
To find the nearest Rampage player on the list one has to scroll down to #169, Michael Repik with a goal and five assists. Yep — a whole six points.
Over on the goaltender stat sheet, there's the AHL's leading netminder, rookie Tyson Sexsmith of the Worcester Sharks clicking in with a 1.69 goals against, the goaltender gold standard for the leader list.
The nearest Rampage goaltender, Brian Foster, is ranked 37th at 3.24.
When the woeful Rampage, last in the AHL with six standing points, compare their roster to their division rivals, the results are depressing.
Houston, leading the division and tied with Norfolk for the best record, has two goaltenders in the top 10.
Abbotsford's Leland Irving checks in at #7 and Yann Denis of Oklahoma City at #10 give the West Division excellent depth in the crease. The Barons also boast of the 12th guy on the list, former Rampage goaltender, David LeNeveu, who has made a career of making the Rampage look offensively inept with seven wins in nine games against San Antonio since his trade.
In the conference, Jeremy Smith, with a 1.79, is the third best goalie in the league playing for Midwest Division leader Milwaukee.
Last season's Rampage masked man, Matt Climie, is 15th with the Chicago Wolves.
Two Texas Stars, Travis Morin and Raymond Sawada both have 3-9-12 for 16th place on the scoring list.
From a team standpoint, the bad news continues.
San Antonio has been outscored 10-2 in the third period.
The Rampage have the worst penalty killing unit in the league and their power play is 23rd out of 30.
The Rampage are averaging 2.13 goals a game (28th — yes, there are two worse offensive teams — Lake Erie and, surprise, Chicago). They are 24th in giving up 3.5 goals a game.
One stat that might make you smile — the worst team in the league in goals allowed — the Texas Stars at 4.00 — a 10-goal game will do that to your GAA. But the Stars are second in the league in scoring goals with a 3.78 avg.
FYI — Portland is having a tougher time keeping the puck out of the net with a 3.56 GAA, 26th overall.
Now, the Boston Celtic teams of the 60's took great pride in NOT have stat leaders on their team — showing their ability to win with players who valued team over self…guys like John Havlicek, Bill Russell, Sam Jones, Tommy Heinsohn, Frank Ramsey, Bob Cousy, K.C. Jones, Larry Siegfried and Tom Sanders.
For the Rampage this season, it's not a question of spreading the wealth around as much as spreading the desperation around. It's still early to panic, but someone, anyone, has to step up. This weekend's two games against a hot team, Toronto, who the Rampage have historically owned, and Texas — also struggling, could be the litmus test of what to expect the rest of the season.
Zigomanis Returns Saturday
Mike Zigomanis is the next ex-Rampage player to take the ice at the AT&T when the Marlies arrive, along with his 10 points. Zigomanis scored 25 points in 27 games in 2007-8, and added five assists in seven playoff games against, ironically, the Marlies — the last time the Rampage made the post season.
With career performances like LeNeveu against the Rampage and last season's "all-time former player taking revenge against his former team performance of the decade when Adam Keefe scored two goals against SA," it will be little wonder if Zigomanis doesn't go for the hat trick.


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Friday, December 31, 2010
The Road Ahead
We have appointments written on the calendar, and we expect certain events. Others will surprise us. It looks like a warm, misty transition from 2010 to 2011. Maybe rain tonight. Time will tell.
Wishing happiness, health, prosperity and peace to all in the new year--
Posted by P. J. Grath at 6:06 AM
4 comments:
- Dawn said...
So pretty...and serene. I'm looking forward to the road ahead in 2011 as well. Happy New Year to you and yours! Giv Sara an extra treat. Just cuz.
- December 31, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- flandrumhill said...
Those country roads look so inviting. Happy New Year Pamela! All best wishes for 2011!
- December 31, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Gerry said...
I like that second patch of road in particular. May we have many winding invitations in 2011!
- December 31, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- P. J. Grath said...
Dawn, Amy-Lynn, Gerry--1/1/11 here, with temperature dropping and wind rising. Winter is back! Bread rising in my Paris kitchen. Hope the year is off to a good start for all of you. Stay warm!
- January 1, 2011 at 1:29 PM
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Sometimes I get a hankerin' for something but I'm not always sure what it is until i just stumble into it; and yes I just said "hankerin' ".
Well such was the case last week-ish when I was in the mood for chocolate. Yes I'm rarely not in the mood for chocolate but I wanted something I hadn't made in a long time; or ever.
At one point I had arbitrarily established a criteria my mysterious recipe had to meet.
- had to be chocolate (a give in here)
- had to be fairly quick (um, failed on this part)
- required to be both creamy and crunchy.
- must be eaten by the hands.
I flipped through cookbooks, Pinterest, magazines…nothing caught my eye. Then I saw the wrapper from a Ghirardelli chocolate bar sitting on top of my cookbooks. I had saved it for the hot chocolate recipe, which we love.
Curiously I looked it over and there was this recipe for marbled cheesecake bars and I knew I had found my fix. This was something I could get into.
I didn't really modify the recipe too much other than I opted for a ganache layer and a full chocolate cheesecake layer instead of marbled. I only had 13 ounces of cream cheese so I cut the eggs from three to two and the flour to 3/4 cup.
The only thing I didn't take into consideration was the set time. Duh, they needed several hours to chill and it was late so we didn't eat them until the next day. They were worth it. I was going to add a third layer of mousse but I had already waited all night so impatience got the best of me and I ixnayed the mousse layer.
Next time.
If you get a hankerin' and like cheesecake and chocolate; yep, these do nicely.
- 4 ounces 60% Cacao or higher Bittersweet Chocolate
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 13 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- Preheat the oven to 325°F.
- Combine the flour, pecans, butter, and brown sugar in a mixing bowl & mix well.
- Press the crust mixture onto the bottom of a greased 9x9 inch baking pan.
- Bake until light golden brown, approximately 16 minutes.
- Remove from oven and set aside to cool.
- Melt the chocolate over low heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract until creamy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add 1/2 of the melted chocolate to the mixing bowl and combine.
- Spoon the remaining chocolate over the crust to create a thin ganache layer.
- Let the chocolate layer set a few minutes.
- Spoon the batter into the baking pan and carefully spread in an even layer.
- Top with additional chocolate if desired.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until the center is set.
- Place the pan on a wire rack and cool completely.
- Cover, and transfer the pan to the refrigerator to set and chill, approximately 3 hours. Store covered in the refrigerator.
- Remove pan from refrigerator and let sit until nearly room temperature again.
- Run a spatula around the edge of the crust to loosen the crust.
- Cut into squares and store in fridge.
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Baby Boomers among us, defined as those born between 1946 and 1955, have been resorting to using substances such as alcohol and drugs as a method of coping with some of life's stressors.
Substance Abuse Grows Among Boomers
A recent study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) shows that the rate of illicit drug use among those adults aged 50 to 59 has increased 3.1% in the past eight years.
The NSDUH also found that an estimated 4.3 million American adults aged 50 and older (or 4.3% of this population) have abused an illicit substance in the past year. Of that, men over the age of 50 were more likely to use marijuana than prescription drugs, while individuals age 65 and older were more likely to use prescription medication. Women, as a group, had a higher rate of prescription drug abuse than men, although they did tend to use less illicit drugs.
According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), the two most commonly abused prescription drugs are opiates or painkillers, such as oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone, and benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), clonazepam (Klonopin), and lorazepam (Ativan).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimate that 48 million people in the United States have used prescription drugs for nonmedical purposes. But, although the elderly comprise only 13% of the population, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, this group accounts for one-third of the prescriptions, raising the potential for abuse and addiction. This poses a problem not only for the Boomers themselves, but also for their families, both children and elderly parents.
What is causing this growing incidence of substance abuse among Boomers? There are several possible explanations. We'll begin with one that seems to be a common perception, which may or may not have a basis in reality, depending on which Baby Boomer is being considered. After all, each person is the product of unique life experiences, and not all Boomers fall into the same category.
Population study experts who pore over data and characteristics of generations of adults in the United States point to the fact that Baby Boomers grew up during a time when the recreational use of drugs was not only common practice, but was accepted behavior in certain parts of society. Certainly it was among the Boomer generation. Now, as life stressors are mounting up, many of these Boomers are once again reverting to substance abuse as a means of coping with daily stresses and unexpected and unpleasant changes.
Contributing Factors
But just growing up in a time of common recreational use of drugs couldn't be the only reason why Baby Boomers are now using drugs and alcohol, often to levels approaching dependency and addiction. There have to be other contributing factors to consider. In fact, there are a number of them. Financial insecurity and strain, the loss of a parent or loved one, age-related health issues and other stressors tend to increase during this transitional period in Boomers' lives.
- Looking for a quick fix – With their tendency to be extremely goal-oriented or career-oriented, many Boomers look for a quick fix to problems. Approaching tasks, they were used to figuring out a solution and going for it. When their current lifestyle doesn't lend itself to immediate relief from stress, anxiety, depression, illness and other unpleasant changes, they may find that drowning their sorrows in alcohol or numbing their mind with drugs offers a way out of the pain, even it if is only a temporary solution.
- Dealing with stage of life issues – Baby Boomers are now at that time in their lives when they have to sit down and deal with some pretty heavy issues, things they either didn't think much about before or figured were a long ways off and therefore not demanding their attention. It could be adjusting to a life in retirement that adds stress to their lives. With no job or career to attend to on a daily basis, many Boomers may feel lost, undervalued, unimportant, and mourn the feeling they had of being part of something, a sense of community. Other life issues that cause stress and unpleasant change include possibly having to support two other generations: their own children and their aging parents. How much easier it often seems to just take a drink or pop a pill of one kind or another in order to just have it all fade away for a while?
- More medications prescribed as Boomers age – Then, there's also the fact that as Baby Boomers get older, they're subject to any number of age-related health conditions, any one of which may require that they are being prescribed various types of medication. Combine several different doctors and multiple conditions and the individual could be taking a pharmacopeia of pills – which could interact with each other and result in side-effects or complications. Factor in daily or frequent intake of alcohol, sometimes to excess, and the risks increase for dependency, addiction and overdose. Another fact to consider is that Baby Boomers are more accepting of medication, and often view prescription drug use as necessary. They may even boast how many pills they're taking, listing them in a litany of drugs to other family members.
- Combination of drugs and age-related complex disorders – As Boomers age, they may experience a combination of different disorders that are related to aging. Health risks increase when Boomers abuse substances and have existing or newly-developed complex disorders. While boomers may know something about their health conditions, they may not be aware of the health risks they are taking as a result of their substance abuse in conjunction with their age-related medical conditions. Older Americans also have more problems related to drinking due to both the effect of cumulative years of drinking and the fact that their bodies and brains are older and have less restorative abilities. The effects of drinking impact an older individual faster because the body and brain aren't able to metabolize the alcohol consumed as well or to regenerate brain cells.
- Resistant to getting treatment for addiction – Another common tendency is for Baby Boomers to feel that they can take care of the situation themselves, no matter what it is. This includes the belief that they don't need treatment to overcome substance abuse. Not only will they deny that they have a problem with abuse of alcohol or drugs, if pressed and when faced with the facts, they often vehemently insist that they can get a handle on it without outside help. The problem with this resistance is that Boomers will likely just continue abusing substances. Once dependent, it's an almost inevitable slide into addiction. Without treatment, the cycle will just continue.


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As i promised loads of the forthcoming posts crapper be most hacking toys.
In Nov i purchased this Mercedes GLA Class Trail-on kids automobile for my 1 yr nonexistent son, a automobile he loves so enthusiastic but i reassert a opinion he'll by no strategy same inferior as this find progresses.
It is best to probable additionally encounter it at amazon
So whatever facts most the automobile:
Its most 1.20 prolonged, 60 cm huge, 50 cm broad and weighs in at ammo 25 kilos.
It costed most 250 euros and crapper additionally be unvoluntary from the automobile or dominated by extreme keep check over. The organisation has threesome emulated gears, apiece and every allowing the motors to meliorate rpm's the simpler the equipment. I impart motors, because this help reassert 2 removed 6 v engines (of modify 380/390) which would perhaps be serial-related to the 12 volt passage within the receiver. The nous scarper is 5 km/h. The engines the automobile came with:
Gearboxes wear all-plastic cogs, which is every only in it's fashioned command, but this could perhaps additionally poverty to move to compound what i reassert to achieve:
Colorful null most the motors (within the lineage that restricted into as presently as) i took whatever measurements and started to google:
The someone is roughly a all-or-nothing switches, which makes you zig-zag to the mitt and the trenchant to keep a straightforward distinction patch sport it using RC along thin curbs. They additional a speed impression within the vitality-on to mix the unregularity a lowercase bit, but alas they didn't no individual managed to find the same when descending the gasoline, so fastening is celestial abrupt.
Furthermore it has a 6 songs "stereo" , with a three.5 mm stereo-crawl. The songs are substantially quiet compounding between kids penalization and digital dance, but 6 songs module impart departed fast so correct here is on the move checklist. When actuation the start-button you center a inform of the motor, and actuation the alarm makes a "mepp-mepp-mep-mep" tone.
The earpiece would perhaps additionally additionally be institute on Aliexpress, but a pdf with every pinouts reassert overturned discover to be player arduous to impart my safekeeping on. That sucks, as I countenance pins which would perhaps be clean which strategy it would additionally reassert player constructive aspects I don't undergo yet. Will alter organise it later. All in every it's a droll behave for it's toll but a patron of enhancements would perhaps additionally additionally be carried out.
So what am i thinking to find with it?
Effectively, i reassert a aggregation solutions but whatever toll a lowercase lowercase taste of modify and whatever are bedevilment to wage parts for, and whatever module only be unsafe.
- It would perhaps probable be a lowercase taste faster, with softer speed and braking.
- Change the radio-controller/receiver, with something a lowercase taste player legitimate, inferior meat and with a flooded aggregation constituent channels to keep check over the full electronics.
- Upright foam tires gift rubbing and verify a countenance at better. About a strategies available, but I haven't institute exactly what I desire.
- A pianoforte biaural with whatever umpff!
- Particular portion mortal brushwood disks on the face wheels in divulge to find burnouts.
- Melody horn.
- Upright seat-belt threesome or 4 point, newborn centre even?
Let's start.
The prototypal abstract that struck me when i started screwing it unconnected restricted into as presently as how enthusiastic positioning there is mitt in it. The the cowl is screwed down, but as presently as unscrewed still digit another super evenhandedly blank positioning is reveled. Identical goes for the trunk. Ohhh the effectuation
So where does digit start?
Let's high-tail along with the low-hanging fruit. Nothing says car-tuning be entertained RGB LED-stips, and it's something my son would countenance straightforward so that's what i went for. Close termination looks (and sounds) something be entertained this:
A 2d fast opt crapper be stickering it with whatever AlpineStars, Brembo, Hades efficiency and GoPro stickers. I had a left-over "i dawdle believe"-decal from the pimping of my zx636 ninja, so that went on the cowl too.
Talking of the hood, i discussed i unsealed it up still sight the cowl move prefabricated me consider it would no individual be screwed downbound ever over again. I prefabricated 2 short-term hinges with a glue-gun and digit screws, and derogate soured the Brobdingnagian eld of the full flanks that held the cowl into positioning making the positioning without pain reachable for forthcoming upgrades.
My lowercase Negro is full agog by keys, so nonmeaningful to divulge he wants an ignition-key. I unconcealed this lowercase switch in doubtless digit of my underway stores ammo the nook, Rotor-radio Amsterdam.
To impart it into the automobile, i necessary to unscrew large parts of the automobile.
Then solder it into the command where the nonexistent switch restricted into as presently as related.
Reversing digicam.
I unconcealed this enormous-low-price dashcam, and definite it would display a large side alter digicam:
Nice of the itemize is large and it also has period time-vision
Opening it up, shows i'm feat to poverty to solder 17 wires to removed the digicam from the circuit-board:
Now today not rattling no individual feat but since i impart to place in a pianoforte biaural within the deviate too, it makes significance inserting this on cover eliminate that is carried discover and I do undergo how enthusiastic positioning is left.
I purchased the vitality!
To fellow i reassert no individual impression into the constraints of the battery, but my son in every impartiality junior and we most commonsensible doable find tiny rounds with it. Alternatively i draw to follow a patron of electronics in this creature so the incoming shelling makes sense. The organisation genuinely had shack for the simpler shelling where the nonexistent digit restricted into as presently as mounted
I restricted the 5.5Ah 12 volt lead-acid with it's 12 Ah trenchant brother.
With brakes, LEDS and what-no longer, i trusty to verify stop of a eight-channel radio. I module most commonsensible doable wish this scales to the guidelines i reassert but we are healthy to gaze:
I reassert by no strategy shapely a radio-controlled automobile from irritate so determining on ESC, servos, motors, batteries restricted into as presently as every carried discover advert-hoc, patch googling round. This broadcasting is questionable for airplane/helicopters, so i started by reconfigured the keep check over to outflow abet the mitt assistance follow when released:
For the pressure-line i eat in a 40Amp 12 volt ESC from Graphner. Two nonexistent servos from a tiny automobile plane simulated the servos for the brake-disks and a small ESC to keep check over steering.
The nonexistent fireblade blind is crooked up to the 40Amp ESC to effort that every embody works. Having it every on the desk be entertained this allowed me to set servo's and ESC's in a cushy contrivance.
Once that detected to be impact i coiled it up to the automobile. As my son crapper be rattling sorry if his biaural did no individual work, so i mitt as enthusiastic of the nonexistent electronics coiled up within the birdsnest it is doable you'll additionally countenance below:
This compound that i today crapper keep check over the automobile over the octad steer radio, patch semidetached providing aliveness to the nonexistent electronics that enable the simulated engine sounds and "stereo" to work.
Engines impression in a program attendant model, but i center another folks on the impart slapping both digit and digit player batteries on these motors, so with the sort newborn husky shelling i trusty i would perhaps additionally reassert plenteous modify to parallel-join them as a change.
Danger strikes!
Unfortunately 12 volt, over a 40Amp ESC on a 12ah shelling on the RS-390's restricted into as presently as i taste likewise enthusiastic for the fashioned create to verify tending of and doubtless digit of the momentous gearboxes tossed within the towel.
The happening struck as i restricted into as presently as attractive it for a effort dawdle on the characteristic threefold carriageway by only reversing the automobile and touch husky throttle.
This prefabricated me depart every wish on using these gearboxes for some meliorate or player highly pleasant modify 380/390 motors. I requirement something a lowercase taste beefier for transmission, or this could decay only be entertained this did rattling fleet.
A sort newborn fortuity of day
I went above and beyond the fashioned motors when i purchased a cardinal octad volt A cardinal watt locomote of amazon. The locomote is questionable for a e-scooter, is 200 nowadays stronger than the fashioned engine, so the inclose module staleness be reinforced.
Discipline matter is tardily mild, the engine and a side figuring has arrived, i'm semidetached making an essay nervy to the face disk-brakes, 40kg servos, cardan's for the pressure-chain.
I also definite this find module requirement welding. Having by no strategy welded aluminium, i sequential a 200Amp TIG/MMA welding machine, restored the key fuse-field in my habitation in divulge to impression it without executing my habitation down. I am presently making an essay nervy to a plaything of Argon fuel early than i module move rise that hill.
Within the incoming allocation i'm feat to impart a side differential, support shapely and the locomote mounted, welding.
Ideas and rousing could perhaps be rattling welcome. Fresh challenges:
I requirement wheels and reassert been shopping for weeks with lowercase avail.. They poverty to be 300mm diameter, ~120mm huge, ideally with an metal hub and air-stuffed tires for weight-discount. Any solutions are welcome. I presently explored Golfcaddy's, wheelbarrow, high-tail karts and ATV/Quad.
Suspension. May perhaps probable substantially semidetached be 70mm(compressed)-125mm(decompressed) prolonged and verify tending of 20kg apiece and every.
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Our mission is to feed all of God's children — body, mind, and spirit — so that no one goes hungry. We have many ministries that provide an opportunity to share God's love by meeting the hunger needs of those in our community:
Manna Food Center's Choice Pantry at SSUMC
Starting on November 12, 2016, every 2nd and 4th Saturday from 10-12 pm volunteers distribute nonperishable food items, meat, and fresh produce at the Four Corners Campus location to dozens of Montgomery county families per week. The choice pantry model provides a shopping experience for the families we serve, ensuring that they can choose the foods that are best for their families based on what is available. This pantry is a partnership with Manna Food Center, and grows out of the long tradition of Arleeta's Pantry at the Downtown campus. Food comes the Manna Food Center, Capital Area Food Bank, area supermarkets, and donations from the congregation.
Items needed on a regular basis include: canned soup, canned vegetables and fruit, boxes of cereal, peanut butter, jelly, canned and dry pasta, rice, canned and dry beans, canned and dry pasta, rice and tuna and other canned meats.
Mobile Food Pantry
We participate in the Capital Area Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry Program, which delivers fresh produce at no cost to the sites, each of which provides the facility, a site manager and volunteers who help distribute the food. The Four Corners Campus of SSUMC is one of forty-two Mobile Food Pantry sites in the DC Metropolitan area. We distribute fresh produce to about 200 families at the site on the second Tuesday (2:30-5:00 pm) of each month.
We are always seeking volunteers for distribution on the second Tuesday (2:30-5:00 pm) of each month.
Smart Sacks
Smart Sacks is a program that gives a backpack of food to elementary school children at risk of hunger so they have food to eat on the weekends when there is no school lunch or breakfast. Manna Food Center, a nonprofit organization that fights hunger in Montgomery County, provides the food at no cost to the school or the community organization partner. We began a partnership with three area elementary schools at the beginning of the current school year. Each week members of the congregation take delivery of the food, package over 100 sacks of food and then deliver them to the schools while school is in session.
In February 2014, the church expanded with a new middle school initiative. In partnership with Sligo Middle School, the church prepares 25 sacks of food for delivery to the school every Wednesday.
Sandwich Making Ministry
We participate in Martha's Table's emergency food programs, which provide lunch and dinner daily to hundreds of homeless and low-income people. The programs rely heavily on donated sandwiches, canned goods and fresh produce to serve its clients meals throughout year. To help with that effort, volunteers meet at the Downtown Campus kitchen on the first Saturday (8:45a.m. – 9:30a.m.) to make sandwiches.
Shepherd's Table
Shepherd's Table is a nonprofit organization in downtown Silver Spring, supported by volunteers, religious organizations, government, businesses, foundations and individual donors. Members of the church volunteer with the setup and serving of dinner on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and brunch on the 5th Saturday. Shepard's Table also provides free eye care and a clothes closet (men's and women's clothing, towels and items such as shampoo, toothpaste, shaving cream and deodorant).


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Trading 61 Jap shiny Metagross with rash nature, wanting a shiny English brave Beldum, do not care about IV's i also have some DW and events but i dont want the metagross if i get a beldum lol
Trading 61 Jap shiny Metagross with rash nature, wanting a shiny English brave Beldum, do not care about IV's i also have some DW and events but i dont want the metagross if i get a beldum lol
White FC: 2451 9097 5076
Future White Team (have 4)
Adamant nature Metagross lv 81 for trade
5 IV Ditto's foreign from my country: Not English
Ho-Oh - Regenerator - Adamant Nature
Dream World Misdreavus with Inferno
Togepi with Tri Attack from XD
my FC is 1907 9689 1776 - Duskmeteor
Can offer a bunch of UT Jolly gible with 31IVs in Atk and Spe, some with 31IVs in HP,Def and SpA, and the rest stats are decent with at least 15. They are in HG, so it can learn Outrage. It is also nicknameable. In return, I want a UT Jolly/Adamant/Impish/Careful nature Beldum with 31IVs in Atk, Spe and at least 20IVs in HP,Def and SpD, best to be in 4th gen game and nicknameable. I also want a UT Brave/Sassy/Impish Bronzor with 31IVs in Atk and 0IVs in Spe, at least 20IVs in HP, Def and SpD, best in 4th gen game and nicknameableI would also accept Timid Thundurus with 31IVs in SpA and Spe, best to be nicknameable. DW Adamant/Modest/Jolly/Timid Torchic with decent IVs would be good too. Either will do, but if you have other offers which I may be interested in, PM me. All legit, no clones, thankyou.
have a brave lvl 100 metagross with all ivs 31 and 252 evs in attack and hp, willing to trade for anything with good ivs pm me if interested
i have a lv100jap metagross looking for other high level pokemon
my shinys x2x2x2
black fc: 3138-5798-5762
pokemon black team
pokemon heartgold team
I am looking to get an Adamant Metagross with Att & Spd IV's and Fire Punch and Stealth Rock.
I don't have access to move tutor for Fire Punch, or a Stealth Rock TM.
I assume if I can get a male Metang from someone with those moves, I can can breed to get the right nature and IV's??
If so, can anyone offer such a thing?
Or let me know of a more efficient way to get what I need?
TRADING EVERY LEGEND Many event legends. PM for a list
Trading ALL released DW ♀ except
Plus ANY ITEM (Every subway item/Berry/Evo Item,etc)
I EV train & reduce
Wants: Competitive Ferro/Cresselia/Deoxys-A/Swampert/Heatran/Wobbuffet/Tornadus/Garchomp. White FC:3697-0524-8516
LF adamant Metagross Ev'd 252 speed and 252 Att with the 4th gen move Thunderpunch, don't care about Iv's
Offering a flawless jolly Landorus, a flawless Adamanat Excadrill Ev'd 252 Speed/Att as well as some other nice pokes...PM me if interested
Black FC: 3654-1642-5166
Looking for shiny metagross metang or beldum can offer rare pokemon(ut deoxys)
I am offering a lot of UT Beldums, almost any nature you want. I am not asking for anything specific, so PM if interested =D
lv 66 metagross for trade...
Black FC: 3739 9774 2494
Platinum FC: 5286 3454 4291
Most evo stones/items, Pokerus, starter eggs, zorua w.dark pulse, Deino w.dark pulse,
Shinies(for trade)
Charmander and Cyndaquil
I CAN CLONE. All i ask is for a clone of the pokemon. you keep the original and a clone version!
LF: shiny ho-oh/shiny lugia/ shiny deoxys/pokeshifter
Looking for a beldum, metang, or metagross that knows stealth rock. Will trade a reshiram or a bulbasaur or a phanpy with iceshards.
Ive got a shiny beldum up for trade. PM me offers
Edit: Trade Complete
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Credit goes to Mew_ for these sick banners
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Yoooo got a shiny beldum. I want a shiny in return. Deal me
Platinum Team:
Heart Gold:
White Team:
I'm looking for someone to help me transfer 45-60 (2 games) Pokemon from 4th generation to 5th. I know it is a big ask but I can reward who ever does it. PM me
I got a shiny metagross up for trade
want a ut lv1 shiny cyndaquil, totodile, chikorita, charmander, taillow or beldum in 4th gen, but can only offer pokemon in my 5th gen game. offering UT jap shiny Terrakion, 2 rayquaza's, kyogre, entei, raikou, phione, zorua, or multiple of any starters. pm offers
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Have all 3 Kalos starters and all 3 Original starters up for trade if people want/need them
I have two Adamant Beldum availible. Both have perfect speed and attack IVs, both are also have Relatively Superior potential. Pm if you would like one!
Battle Subway Singles team (Black): (RECORD: 59)
Working on a new Singles team for Y:
Friend Safari: Type: Fighting Pokemon - Pancham, Medicham, and Breloom.
want a 4th gen UT lv 1 shiny Beldum. can offer 5th gen pokemon rayquaza, raikou, entei, latias, kyogre or anything in my sig. pm ASAP
Have all 3 Kalos starters and all 3 Original starters up for trade if people want/need them
Looking for an Non-EV trained Metang/Metagross with Ice Punch, and an Adamant/Careful Nature.
PM me if you can help, will see if we can work out something as a trade for it.
Offering a shiny Metagross lv 68 obtained from GTS negotiations.
Looking for low leveled shinies with wrong natures.
PM me offers
im looking for a Shiny Beldum, i can offer a Shiny Sudowoodo in exchange. however it does have a nickname that i cant change because im not the OT (name is Slatebark)
# of trades: 8
# of happy customers: 8
Click below to see what non-Unova i can breed
Spoiler:- non-Unova Breedable:
Looking for a shiny beldum/metang/metagross that is EV trained or UT. Have shinies such as Golbat and Cresselia to offer. PM me pls
Friend Code:
Pokemon Trainer Cloud
2406 5173 7383
I have Mastered Metagross
I have thousands of newly hatched Beldums that i would love to get rid of so send me a PM if you want one, looking for common shinies and other pokes.
Pokemon X FC: 3840-6550-9438
IGN: Anna
Friend Safari Type: Dragon
hey im looking for a shiny beldum. PM me if you have one you would like to trade
Looking for a shiny charmander, and shiny beldum. please pm me if you are looking to trade one.
Looking for beldum (or an evolution) that knows thunderpunch. All other qualities (nature, ability, etc.) are unimportant. PM me!
Name: Jeff
Black FC: 0604 8180 5875
I got about 100 Beldum for trade just giving them away let me know what nature you want it and i'll see if I have it
Stop by and see what I have!
My Shop
Name: Ptera
Adopt one yourself! @Pokémon Orphanage


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Arctic law: Maliiganik Tukisiniakvik celebrates its 40th birthday
Founding director Dennis Patterson to give keynote speech Nov. 15 at legal aid clinic's birthday bash
Over its 40 years of legal service, education and law reform in Nunavut's Baffin region, Maliiganik Tukisiiniakvik evolved from a pilot project on a shoestring budget, operating out of a small office in Iqaluit, to an envied model for providing justice for marginalized people.
"The first thing that's a huge success about Maliiganik is that the model endured," Sen. Dennis Patterson, the founding executive director of the legal aid organization, said while sitting in a coffee shop at Iqaluit's Four Corners.
Patterson, who will give the keynote address at Maliiganik's 40th anniversary celebration Nov. 15 at the Frobisher Inn, spoke passionately about the work the organization has done since its inception.
While he did so, Patterson often looked wistfully at some imaginary point in his vision as he recalled memorable, meaningful anecdotes.
"The pilot project became the core method of providing access to justice for Inuit and all Nunavummiut, and others, nationally," Patterson said, referring to the legal aid clinics opened in Nunavut's other two regions, as well as in the Northwest Territories and even Newfoundland, all based on Maliiganik's model.
The current executive director of the legal aid organization, Mark Mossey, agreed with Patterson while speaking from his second floor office in Iqaluit's Inuksugait Plaza — a definite step up from the Butler building office, now a jewellery store, that Patterson started in.
"This organization started 40 years ago with a focus on public legal education, law reform and representation," Mossey said, "and that's still the same today."
But the 40-year road traveled by Maliiganik was neither smooth nor easy at times, Patterson, a Baffin resident since the 1970s and former territorial justice minister, explained.
When Maliiganik was created, an NWT circuit court, based out of Yellowknife, administered justice in the Baffin region, Patterson said.
The circuit court system left much to be desired though, Patterson said.
Lawyers from Yellowknife never spent more than a few days in the communities and were only able to spend a few hours with their clients.
"Lawyers never got a chance to know their clients, let alone their families and the communities in which they lived. And then they were gone, to be replaced on the next circuit by other Yellowknife lawyers who were eager to see the eastern Arctic, buy a few carvings and then get back to their private practice," Patterson wrote in an advanced copy of his keynote speech shared with Nunatsiaq News.
"It was very much fly-in and fly-out justice."
The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada — now called Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami — spearheaded a proposal, led in part by Constance Hunt, now an appeal court judge in Alberta, based on the idea that there was a better way of administering justice to the people of the eastern Arctic.
"The compelling thesis of the ITC proposal was that a resident lawyer, who lived year round in the community, working under the supervision of a local board of directors, and training and working with local Inuit trained as paralegals, could much more effectively represent Inuit in conflict with the law than the traveling circuit court [could]," Patterson wrote in his speech .
Every Baffin community, except for Grise Ford, now has a trained Inuit paralegal working with Maliiganik.
"I give great credit to the paralegals I've worked with for enlightening me about the realities around us," Patterson said.
And the current director Mossey sees the promotion of the court worker program that trains local Inuit as the key to increasing access to justice.
"In reality it might be hard to ever place a full-time lawyer in some communities, but we can have very capable, knowledgeable court workers who know the community, the law, and the language, able to offer those front line services," Mossey said.
"Knowing the culture, the community, the language, the law: that's access to justice."
Patterson recalled a story from the early days of Maliiganik's existence, about a Coral Harbour man who had been given a ruffed hawk by his daughter after the bird had imprinted itself on her.
A wildlife officer seized the bird and charged the man with the illegal capture of a wild animal.
When the man led other hunters to the wildlife office to protest the bird's seizure, demanding its release, the wildlife officer also charged him with obstruction of justice.
Patterson flew up to Coral Harbour to act as the man's lawyer and began assembling a long list of elders and community leaders willing to testify about the offense to cultural and traditional values these charges represented.
"It was only through Inuit court workers that I was able to meet very wise local people who helped me with this defence," Patterson said.
The prosecuting team arrived — "with great pageantry and splendor" — only to announce the charges were dropped, after seeing the long, impressive list of respected community members willing to give evidence and testify against the charges.
Some 30 years later, when Patterson was teaching at Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit, he received a beautiful harpoon on a wooden mount and a note from his former client in Coral Harbour.
"I was carrying a heavy burden when I was going to court a long time ago … even though I was using Inuit traditions to adopt an animal," the letter reads.
"I know this thing is just an object but it will be yours and I made it for you … Thank you very much, Dennis."
Jack Anawak, a former member of parliament and the current chair of Maliiganik's board of directors, said that Maliiganik and its Inuit court workers will continue to be an integral part of the Nunavut justice system.
That's because it continues to inform and represent clients who are often ignorant of the law and too poor to afford a private lawyer.
Maybe even more so, Anawak added, sitting in his cluttered living room surrounded by plants, as Nunavummiut continue to grapple with social issues amidst big development plans for the territory's natural resources.
"I think Maliiganik will always be important," Anawak said. "If people are going through mental anguish, they're going to keep doing not-so-good things… there's always going to be those people that need legal advice and assistance."
The organization has come a long way from its beginning, Patterson said, but its mandate to provide legal education, representation and reform remains just as relevant today as in the 1980s, when he and others at Maliiganik filmed a mock jury trial to show people what a court proceeding actually looks like.
Since those early days, the legal aid organization branched out from only providing representation in criminal matters, to including civil, poverty, family and human rights matters.
And while challenges remain, such as training and retaining more Nunavummiut lawyers, Patterson said the organization is mature, established and flourishing.
"I think Maliiganik will continue to be a key to access to justice for Inuit, as an advocate for reform to the justice system, and to educate people about their rights and responsibilities. Now we just need more locally trained, northern lawyers."


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Merkel spoke about the "extreme efforts" of Germany on the settlement in Donbass
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a campaign rally in East Germany announced that its government is making "an extreme effort" to resolve the crisis in the East of Ukraine, writes "RBC" with reference to Bloomberg. She noted that is interested in good relations with Russia. In this regard, the German government is keen to conclude a deal that would remove sanctions of the EU, said Merkel.
However, the main obstacle remains the situation in the Donbas, where, according to Merkel, it is about the access of the Ukrainian military to the border.
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Naturally, everything blew up in their faces at the last minute.
Bea never liked passageways.
She wasn't afraid of them. No, passageways were boring. They were dark. Dark, dark, dark. Also stony and occasionally cold.
But mostly dark.
She wasn't afraid of the dark either, but darkness wasn't good for morale. You could even get sick from living in the constant dark. Their wands didn't help. The light was swallowed whole, a pitiful adversary against the inky black.
Scorpius had told her they heading toward some midway point to meet up with Anjali, who was in charge of bringing in Fred, Rose, and Albus, but that was forever ago. "Are you sure you know where you're going?" Bea grumbled, feet aching as they stumbled over the cracks.
Scorpius shook his head as if it were the silliest question in the world. "Of course! These passages are hundreds of years old; they're not changing anytime soon."
Petulant, Bea kicked a stone, except she ended up kicking some fallen pillar instead, one she swore wasn't there a second ago, and now her whole ankle throbbed. "...it's a magical castle. It can do whatever it wants."
A flicker of orange up ahead sparked hope. As they approached, a terrible stink assaulted their senses, so much that Bea's eyes began to water. She pinched her nose. "Are you absolutely sure�"
But she was silenced by the sheer absurdity of what awaited them.
The light was still too dim to make out the size of the room. The inky gloom seemed to penetrate forever into the ceiling, and all the way up were piles of socks in every color and material imaginable.
Scorpius craned his head. "What the bloody..."
The awe was interrupted with Scorpius' snort. "Sock gremlins? What's next, nargles?"
Bea shot him a look. Moving staircases, secret passageways, pillars appearing out of nowhere. How was this any stranger? There were sock piles for gremlins of every taste�clean socks, dirty socks, red socks, even windsocks for the punny types. In the corner was a dark pit that, if she had to guess, led to the underground ravines where the House Elves did laundry.
"I've seen socremlins before, but I never thought they had a home," she said, wonderstruck.
"Yeah, you've seen them, and I'm the Queen on a unicycle." Scorpius peered down the pit, kicking a stone in. A splash echoed back. "It's just a story. My nanny told me that so I'd learn to fold my own clothes�"
Patter. Patter. Bea whipped to the right.
"�and fat chance that worked. I�"
He rolled his eyes. "Don't shush me. What, the socremlins coming to take me away?"
Bea pressed a finger to her lips, but the stupid git ignored her, striding forward and spreading his arms wide instead. "Okay, come get me socremlins! I've got fancy socks, too! Very nice quality�imported. Made of silk and�hup!"
And just like that, Scorpius disappeared.
Or rather, he fell on the floor, which Bea noticed after a second of panic. Two green liver-skinned creatures were at his feet, trying to pry off his shoes. Despite having the wind knocked out of him, Scorpius found the voice to yell, "Oi! Those are my fancy socks!"
Seeing that his wand had rolled out of reach, Bea leapt to action, but she quickly fell to the same fate as clammy hands wrapped around her ankles and dragged her down. Kicking, she raised her wand. As she was about cast a Stunning spell, the torches blew out. More pattering feet approached, matched with pig-like squeals of delight. Bea managed one good stomp on something's face. She'd aim elsewhere but surely these things couldn't get any uglier. Still, there were too many.
A flash of light fell from the ceiling like a shooting star. Two solid thuds hit the ground. Bea tried to twist toward the sound, but the socremlins had restrained her too well.
A large sconce burst back into flames, offering scant lighting. The new figures dodged the horde, jumping from shadow to shadow, robes flapping behind them.
"Fred?" Bea called, recognizing the voice.
Another stun whizzed past and she felt her right arm free, but a fresh mob of the greedy gremlins pounced onto her stomach. Bea was quite fortunate that her reflexes were slow; she was about to raise her head when the second figure landed beside her and knocked the socremlins off with a sweeping circle kick only inches from her face. She sucked in a sharp breath and caught a whiff of familiar perfume.
Now able to sit up, Bea wrenched her wand arm out of the scrabbling grasps and blasted the remaining gremlins at her feet into a sock pile. The last of them scampered away.
Scorpius had managed to stand, but was one sock down. A determined socremlin was hanging off his other foot, wheezing 'Silky, silk, silk!' He nearly fell over backwards trying to kick it off but was caught before he hit the floor.
"Thank you, darling," Scorpius breathed in relief, hugging the arms that encircled him.
A deep ahem interrupted his reverie and Scorpius looked up to see Fred arching an amused brow. "I'm not your darling."
"Oh Fawkes�"
His darling, Anjali, was helping Bea up, who was also a right frazzled mess, though not nearly as bad as Scorpius. The socremlins had practically torn his shirt apart trying to get at the buttons. Why was every midget creature attracted to shiny things?
Fred and Anjali exchanged positions, and Fred took Bea aside. "You're lucky I had the Marauders Map on me," he said.
Bea tossed a sock off her head and glanced at the two Slytherins, who were also conspiring in whispers. "Did she see it?"
"I don�t think so. But they�d been following us." Fred dabbed at the sweat on his neck. Bea almost thought she could smell a faint perfume on him. "She claims they want to help. Says she knows where the central storage is. When you went missing, she came along�looking for him, I suppose." He gestured to Scorpius.
Bea nodded. "That's pretty much what he said, too. Trust them?"
"Not a bit."
"But you're curious."
Fizzlesticks. "Why are we so easy, Freddie? Give in to a few pastries, pretty girls, and now curiosity. At this rate, they'll nick everything they need by the end of the week. I bet they're doing all this just to lie in wait. They definitely have a plan. Gaining our trust, it's Evil Villainy 101." She would not easily forget the Wheezes fiasco five years ago, when a subsidiary of Malfoy & Co. copied a potion coloring concept that Uncle George had made up. Uncle George hadn't gone after them�said it was too insignificant�but she personally never let it go.
Anjali interrupted with a snap of her fingers. "Oi, you two! We still have a central storage to find. Let's get this done tonight, shall we?" She waved her hand at a makeshift sock-staircase. A large stone archway outlined the wall at the top.
While Bea and Fred trudged up after her and Scorpius, Bea couldn't help but notice Fred's utter entrancement by Anjali's swaying hips. Oh Freddie. She nudged him with an elbow, and he turned to her with a stutter, blinking and only barely attentive.
"You got down here with the Ceiling Claw," she said impishly.
Fred scratched at the side of his neck, tugging his collar. "So?"
"So there's only one. How did Miss Patil-Leggies get down here?"
He swallowed, tongue thick. He remembered Anjali's sly wink when she circled her arms around his neck to hold on. Even if she liked to flaunt her charm, did she really have to slink her leg up his like that? Slow and methodical and just a little too high to be decent? He had nearly lost his grip on the Ceiling Claw, which would have been terrible for both parties.
The memory was doing no favors for his current state either, and he would have fallen face first into a wad of old Christmas stockings if it weren't for Bea catching his shoulder.
"I'm just teasing." Bea grinned, punching his arm. "Really, though. If you let her get to you, I'll have to... mangle one of your suits or something. James told me to keep an eye on girls like that 'cause Merlin knows once they bat their eyelashes, you're a goner."
Fred didn't argue.
They passed under the arch and into a torch-lit tunnel. Fred said that Albus and Rose were waiting nearby. Sure enough, the sound of munching led straight to the resting pair sitting on the floor, surrounded by a circle of crumbs left over from the emergency biscuits.
Rose was the first to notice the returning four and with a grand leap, threw her arms around Bea and clutched her to the point of strangulation. "There you are! I thought you died!"
"Mffrph." And if strangulation didn't soon follow, then surely suffocation would come in the form of being crushed between Rose's knockers.
Rose released her to squint at the other new arrival. "Oh, who's this? Malfoy?"
Scorpius bowed with an exaggerated flourish. "The one and only. It's been awhile."
"Not long enough." Rose glared at him and then wrinkled a repugnant nose at Anjali. When he turned around, she whispered to Bea, "Troublemakers, both of them. She was always snogging him on duty last year. One day I'll catch them doing something I can really report � well, besides today." A flash of anxiety turned into a flood. "Circe, today. I broke so many rules today..."
While Bea rubbed Rose's back soothingly, Albus bounded up. "Good to see you in one piece. What happened?"
Anjali slipped a parchment out of Scorpius' blazer pocket to his protest. "I believe someone took a wrong turn? Maybe someone else should hold onto the directions next time. Someone who knows left from right."
"Very funny, darling." He caught her wrist, but she shrugged him off and patted his cheek.
"I'm not your darling."
With Anjali as their impromptu leader, they set out once again. Another maze of passages awaited them, but they had six wands providing light this time, and the darkness stayed well away.
"So does that mean we're abandoning the other plan with Aurelia's classroom?" asked Albus as he trudged alongside Bea.
Scorpius was the one to reply. "Why go for a Quaffle when you can go for a Snitch? Come on, Potterpuff, now is the time for thinking big." He spread his arms wide to express said point. Bea very much hoped his sleeve would catch fire from a wall sconce. "The central storage! It'll be the heist of the century."
"I'll believe when I see it," Fred muttered.
"Skeptical, Weasley?"
"Plenty have tried before you."
"Ah, but have they ever shared fine wine with their favorite professor and accidentally slipped them a little something extra?"
Rose nearly choked. "Y-you're not talking about Veritaserum?"
The smirk on Scorpius' lips only grew. "I never said anything like that. But you can fill in the details."
Anjali turned around, eyes glinting under her lashes. "Flitwick is such a lightweight."
Rose gasped. "That's illegal!"
"Thanks for the refresher. I'll keep that in mind for when I care."
"Don't get in a strop," Bea whispered, patting Rose's hunched shoulders. "They're not worth it. What's done is done." And if what's done was going to get her unicorn hair and then some, she couldn't have Rose ruining it.
As the incline took a steep turn downwards, the floor began to crunch with loose cobbles. Sticky webs hung too close, and water dripped faintly from some faraway puddle. It was a back way, according to Anjali. Fred was fairly certain that they were in the Unplottable regions now, the treasured nooks of Hogwarts that often went unseen for decades.
Anjali held a hand up and they shuffled to a stop. "It should be here..." she muttered, holding a wand close to the walls. Flitwick had divulged the area, but a House-Elf gave her the directions, and she had her reservations about trusting an elf who kept raving about butterbeer as if his lifeblood depended on it.
At the corner of her eye, she spotted a brick jutting out of place. Tugging and pushing had no effect. She tapped her wand against it. "Alohomora?" No audible click responded.
The others caught on. Fred pulled back his sleeve. "Aperilapis!"
"Aperijanus?" Bea was just mashing together Latin.
"Defodio!" tried Scorpius. The spell dug a hole in the wall.
"Open sesame!" Albus shouted. It didn't work either.
Anjali paced around with a deep frown. The tunnel didn't go on for much longer and the general region matched Flitwick's description as well. A detail was missing. If only that damned House-Elf had stopped babbling about �
The only warning was a crack of light on the floor before it broke apart completely, a blinding maw engulfing them. The fall only lasted as long as a shriek before they hit ground.
Bea was the first to recover, opening an eye to face the burning brightness. The ceiling had closed up again, seamless, and she could see no trace of where they fell from. Other than an aching bum, she was all right, having landed on something soft. "Is everyone okay?" she said, coughing.
"No," said a weak voice underneath her. That 'something soft' was Albus. Bea quickly clambered off him and into Rose, who was brushing the dust from her blouse.
"Holy hippogriffs," Fred whispered, looking around in awe.
The central storage.
It lived up to every bit of its myth, a library of the world captured in a storeroom. Boxes and jars lined every inch of the wall, so thickly clustered that one couldn't see the stone behind it. Bronze labels marked each ingredient in neat bold caps.
As they scrambled to their feet, Fred felt a surge of apprehension. It was so perfect; he was afraid of setting a single jar askew, as if it would tip the precariously ordered balance and send all the glass crashing to the floor. But before he could say 'Wait a second', Bea's incantation left her lips.
"Accio unicorn tail hair!" A bottle flew out of a top shelf and neatly into her free hand. Inside were three shining strands curled in a circle. She grinned, "Well, that was easy."
Nothing had exploded. Fred let go of a breath he didn't realize he had been holding. He placed a Silencing charm over the room, making sure that no one was outside the single door of the room. They seemed to be in some sort of old faculty lounge area.
"There's crocodile eggs here! I can never find these!" Rose held up a pickle jar. "Witch Weekly suggests putting it in your hair once a week for maximum shine." She unscrewed the lid.
Fred winced. "Hey, be careful, you don't just�" Didn't anyone read the old tales? Treasure always came with a price.
As Bea reached for a bowl of glittery stones, Scorpius slid into her view. He was a bit neater than before, even somewhat sophisticated, despite missing a combination of six buttons from his shirt and blazer. "Called me a liar, if I recall correctly?"
"Sorry," she mumbled, and then pushed past him.
"That's it?"
"What do you want?" Bea crossed her arms. She ought to be grateful, but she couldn't help being more suspicious than before.
He chuckled, and it reminded her why she associated him and Anjali as a pair. They had the same ring of condescension underneath their laugh. "Well, I just wanted to show you how I can help."
"Thank you, but don't," she snapped a little too briskly. The frown that flashed across his face was strangely genuine, not smeared on like grease, and guiltily, her thoughts flashed to the Scorpius who had given her the cupcake.
Albus stood at the door, which was cracked open just enough for a peek. "Er, guys... should we worry?" Outside, four furry cotton balls were bumbling their way.
Rose squealed. "They're adorable!"
"Scared of puffskeins, Potter?" Scorpius snorted. Bea blinked and the frown was long gone.
"No... but why are they down here?"
Rose clicked her tongue to beckon one closer. "Some professor probably forgot to leash�"
Fred's eyes grew wide. "Those are alarm puffskeins. Don't touch it!"
"Alarm�?" Her hand fell on the fur. The puffskein let out a great yowl, followed by a chorus of mewls from the others. Panicked, Rose tried to clamp its mouth shut but it hissed and mewled louder, and down the vacant hall, there was the sound of a door unlocking.
Fred shoved her through the door. "Run!"
Like a statue come to life, Rose sprint forward, mouth aghast as the puffskein bared its fangs. Outside was a single carpeted hall leading out of a lounge. Fred had Bea by the wrist, and she had Albus. Scorpius and Anjali took the lead. Rose ran just behind them, arms floundering.
"Alarm puffskeins?! Really?"
"They look harmless so you let your guard down�" Fred panted. He pulled the train toward the double doors opposite from the direction of the puffskeins; whoever they were alerting, he did not want to meet them. "Look, we got what we came for, so we just have to get out!"
They burst through the doors, and a new decision was thrust upon them as the flickering passageway extended in both directions.
"These are the dungeons. I know them," said Anjali, leaving left, no-nonsense. This was her reputation was on the line.
Bea lost her grip on Albus. She could still hear his feet behind her, but when they turned a corner, he was no longer there, nor Rose.
"We have to keep moving," Fred said, noticing the same. "If they're caught, they're caught. Nothing we can do now."
Reluctantly, Bea kept running. She tripped over a step and felt something loose in her pocket�the unicorn hair! Gasping, she clambered for it as it flew out, but it was too late.
She felt for her wand but couldn't find it. Infernal multi-pocketed robes! Her feet did a full turn. She knew it was stupid�one is not supposed to go toward the light�but this was her one chance, the success of the night, rolling down the hallway.
"Bea, where are you�"
Fred had skidded to a stop, and so had Anjali and Scorpius.
"She's lost the�for Fawkes' sake!" Scorpius cried. No heist went perfectly, but did it all have to unravel at the end?
No one was quite prepared, least of all himself, when Scorpius snatched the Ceiling Claw from Fred's belt and dashed after her. He mashed everything that looked like a button. "How does this thing work?"
At last, he managed to extend the claw and it hit the ceiling with a clang just before he reached Bea and she reached the bottle. He swooped her up, but whatever he latched onto wasn't stable enough to hold them. Like fingers scraping across wood, the claw screeched loose, and Scorpius and Bea collided with the floor, coming to a rest in a heap and Scorpius barely held himself up from crushing Bea.
He groaned, "We really have to stop getting into these situations."
Running from authority? Crashing to the ground in unfortunate positions? Bea blanched as she saw Ringleward behind Scorpius, hovering over them and tapping his foot.
"For once, Smarmy," she said, lolling her head back on the ground, "I agree with you."
A/N Loffs to Gubby for editing this for me. I owe socremlins to a very old conversation with my fellow authors. Also, I've established that Scorpius cannot go two chapters without tearing his clothes somehow. Even the socremlins want him.
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Guests left the launch with smiles on their faces and their arms full of Year of the Turtle paraphernalia, including the popular Year of the Turtle calendar, the new poster and a special limited edition T Shirt - ready to tell the rest of the world about the beginning of this exciting campaign.
The IOSEA Secretariat is grateful to everyone who was able to come and help launch the campaign in Bangkok. A special thank you goes to our launch partners, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources and to our hosts, Siam Ocean World for making this such successful start to the YoT campaign.
The next major event on the IOSEA calendar is the Fourth Meeting of the Signatory States, being held for the first time in Muscat, Oman, from 11-14 March 2006. Apart from the serious business of reviewing implementation of the MoU's Conservation and Management Plan, the meeting will hear about Year of the Turtle plans across the region.Click for text of UNEP Press Release issued on 1 March 2006Click for text of the statement of Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan


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Trump counts on good relations with Putin
The appropriate assumption is the Republican candidate said in an interview with journalists of CNN.
"I think I will develop a good relationship with the Russian leader. If I am elected President, will begin a relationship with Vladimir Putin on a positive note," said he.
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