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Star Trek: Phoenix-X
Responsible Delinquent
(Amp transfers to the Research Lab and walks over to Trunks. He suddenly transfers his program into Trunks' body)
Trunks: --Hello. Look at me. I am Trunks. Look at me! Hahahaha.
(The android suddenly pushes Amp out and regains control of his own body again)
Trunks: Argh! Don't ever do that again!!
Amp: Hahahaha! Sucker.
(RaeLuna enters Torpedo Mechanics Research where Seifer and GoyCho are working on an open torpedo casing)
GoyCho: The upgrade is nearly complete.
Seifer: Can you believe it? They say Slipstream is just like Transwarp! When the Slipstream expert told me that, I punched him in the face and told him he was a liar.
GoyCho: But when we took a second look at our Slipstream Torpedoes, we suddenly saw what they meant and we started coming up with ideas to modify them.
RaeLuna: Enemies often rebuild their weapons until they have destroyed each other.
Seifer: Sure RaeLuna, whatever world you're living in.
(They lift the torpedo casing onto its side to get to another circuit hatch. The two look over at RaeLuna who is suddenly preoccupied)
RaeLuna: ...I think I sense something.
(The Phoenix-X treks through space. A thin brown Alien creature of 1 3/4 meters height and four arms, fly's straight for the Ship. Cell liquefies off the Captain's Chair having the screen activated)
Cell: What the hell is it?
Trunks(scans): Unknown.
[They watch it, with its flowing energy around itself as the Alien creature grasps the side of the Ship]
Jeera: He's hot. Do you think it's single?
[The screen zooms in on the Alien creature]
Cell: It's an omni-X...
(The ship is put on red-alert)
Epsen: Argh!
(The alien creature, a NechRen, uses its top right arm to punch a dent into the closed hatch. He then pulls the hatch off, viewing the airlock area inside. He swings in, passing through the force-fields)
Epsen(hits the floor): ...Where are you now...
(He breaks past the secondary glass door and leaves Airlock Exit Room 3 out into the Hallway. People see him and fire phasers)
Nathan: What's that? Kill it!
(A phaser beam cracks a wall display panel behind Epsen as he ducks it and then leaps up to stick to the wall near a venting frame. He shoots himself through the frame and infiltrates the venting ducts to a lower deck)
RaeLuna: Uh!
(Epsen breaks out a venting frame in a hallway and tackles RaeLuna to the floor. He recognizes her type of scent. RaeLuna uses her feet to grab Epsen by the sides and throw him against the wall in the distance)
RaeLuna: Get off me!!
(Epsen collects a ball of X energy beside him with his lower hands. He passes the energy to his upper hands and throws it at RaeLuna, who leaps to the ceiling dodging it)
Epsen: I don't need to waste my time inside this Ship, when this Ship is filled with enough dangerous energies that can kill you itself!
(Out the side of the Phoenix-X, Epsen breaks through another hatch, and fly's around in space, positioning himself in front of the Phoenix-X)
Cell: Shall we test out those enhanced slipstream torpedoes?
Seifer(takes weapons): They're not ready yet.
Cell: Again! You know, you don't come in handy.
(Epson gathers a larger amount of energy grater than his size. The Phoenix-X fires a quantum torpedo ramming him away. He fly's back over to his created energy-ball, flipping it around him, and throwing it)
Epsen: Take that, Klokian!
(The energy-ball bursts against the Phoenix-X, rupturing most of its initial systems. The lights and control panels flicker)
Cell: Initiate multi-vector separation. Now!!
(Seifer and RaeLuna get to the other two Bridges just as the Phoenix-X is splitting into three. Phoenix-Vector 1 comes around behind Epsen, firing torpedoes. Phoenix-Vector 2 locks a tractor beam on him as Phoenix-Vector 3 fly's around with RaeLuna at its Bridge)
Tong: We have a good shot.
RaeLuna: Fire.
(Phoenix-Vector 3 fires a torpedo, injuring Epsen. Epsen gathers his energy and blasts a beam at the tractor emitters on Phoenix-Vector 2, knocking it off. He flys in circle, blasting huge balls of energy, knocking and severely damaging the other two Vectors away. He gathers an enormously dense amount of energy to blast at Phoenix-Vector 3)
RaeLuna: He is after me.
Tong: Why?
RaeLuna: Because I am a Klokian.
(Epsen hurls the dense energy, but Phoenix-Vector 3 arch's to an axis, dodging it. The Vector activates a warp field and jumps to Warp)
Cell: Where is she going?
(Phoenix-Vector 1 leaks plasma, impulsing over)
Trunks: I don't know, but we'd better integrate to Vector 2 so it can regenerate.
Cell: Acknowledged.
(Epsen speeds at Warp right after Phoenix-Vector 3, blasting energy spikes. Phoenix-Vector 3 is hit a couple times, forcing the people onboard to hold on)
RaeLuna: Increase speed before he destroys us.
(The Vector takes on Warp 9, leaving Epsen far behind, unable to catch up. The Vector drops Warp and approaches a large Space City of interlocking stations and connecting roadways that expand as far as 1000 kilometres. The computer displays this as Illinex City)
Lox(enters): What exactly are we doing here?
Tong: Yeah, the X creature is just going to catch up.
RaeLuna: I know, I know. I think I can get rid of it here.
(The Vector passes a few leaving ships but docks at a Docking Ring at one of the interlocking bridges of the city)
RaeLuna: Wait here.
(RaeLuna enters the city. She goes through customs and takes a dematerialization transport to another part of the city. She enters a busy Bar, reeking with alcohol-like substances. She walks through the crowd)
Lernchet: Can I help you?
RaeLuna(walks on): No thanks.
Grunt: Hey baby, how about a ride on my love-ship?
RaeLuna(pushes him away): Get lost, loser.
(She approaches a table where a Jem'Hadar-looking alien is, surrounded by slave girls)
Shadow Flare: I am the seer. I knew you were coming.
RaeLuna: Shadow Flare, I need your help.
Shadow Flare: Don't tell me. I am the seer! I know what your problem is.
(She waits for him)
Shadow Flare: Uhh.... You're dental plan has expired?
RaeLuna: I need you to kill an omni-X because you're the only one that can.
Shadow Flare(gets up): That is true. I do kick ass on daily basis.
(RaeLuna's senses heighten as Epsen suddenly enters the Bar. She turns to see him behind the centre bar stand. Epsen leaps up onto the bar stand, scaring a bunch of people away)
Lernchet: Aaah! It has jumping abilities!
(Shadow Flare gathers his energy, and it flows along his arms. He walks around his table and peers at Epsen across the room)
Shadow Flare: This is going to be fun.
(Epsen leaps off the bar towards Shadow Flare, but Shadow Flare blasts energy that knocks Epsen back out of mid-air. Epsen crashes into a bunch of stools, but then gets up)
Epsen: Hhhrrhhh....
(Epsen gathers a ball of energy and tracks it through the stools, dematerializing them and collecting their matter into the ball. He throws the energy at Shadow Flare who back flips to dodge, but the energy splits into four and two balls burst against him)
Shadow Flare: Argh!
(Shadow Flare is ricocheted to an angle, smacking his head off the bar and twirling into the back-wall. The other two energy balls curve around and pound Shadow Flare into submission)
Shadow Flare(tries getting up): ...Uuuugghh...
(RaeLuna is without luck as she glances sympathetically over at Shadow Flare. Epsen runs for RaeLuna but RaeLuna picks the table up and smacks it against Epsen, sending him crashing into the drinks cabinet)
Epsen: Owe!!!
(RaeLuna runs off. Meanwhile, Phoenix-Vector 1/2 speeds through space, suddenly stopping at the approaching of a NechRen ship)
Cell: On screen.
[Telse]: Please. Have you been fighting with a creature that looks similarly to us?
Cell: I don't have to answer these allegations!
[Telse]: Epsen is a part of my crew. We are trying to get him back.
Cell: He attacked us!
[Telse]: Yes, he seems to have gone crazy.
(RaeLuna runs desperately down a vast roadway leaving the Bar station. The roadway is inside a huge tube that leads to another station. Approaching hover Vehicles curve to a stop past RaeLuna as Illinex Soldiers jump out and blockade the place)
Norleng: Get ready men! It's coming!
Kinglet: I'm going to make my mother proud!
(The Soldiers stand in a line aside each other, firing pulse rifles as Epsen comes flying out the Station doors. Epsen is hit by a multitude of pulses, flipping and pushing him left and right)
RaeLuna(stops running and watches): Wait a minute... Omni-X's aren't immune to everything. If I hit him with enough torpedo blows, I can probably take him out.
(Epsen is injured from the constant rifle blasts and is in need of regeneration. He stops flying and drops to the road. He turns around and runs off in search of food and energy. On the other side of the blockade, RaeLuna sprints in the other direction)
RaeLuna: I have to get to Vector 3!
(Phoenix-Vector 1/2 and the NechRen ship speed through a Transwarp Conduit. The omni-X's parents are brought on-screen)
[Boles]: Our son was living a normal life here until the X-Continuum ruined it.
[Aeta]: We took care of him for a whole part of his childhood!
Cell: What about the other part of his childhood?
[Aeta]: That's when we were disciplining him.
Seifer: It seems like he really had a life on that ship.
Cell: Don't tell me what to seem!
(RaeLuna stops running down the road and accesses a panel on the wall. The city schematics hover on-screen, showing diagrams of starships leaving and docking the Illinex City)
RaeLuna: Computer, show me where the Federation Starship Phoenix-X Vector 3 is.
(A triangle logo starts blinking. RaeLuna memorizes the map and runs off. She comes down another road, finding people, security, and fire crews standing around assessing a smoking pile of hover vehicles and fallen support beams blocking the way)
RaeLuna(approaches someone): What happened here? My ship is on the other side.
Logenek: Oh it was another showdown between the Illinex Soldiers and that omni-X. They really did a lot of damage. There's a radiation leak, blocking the scanners in this area now.
(RaeLuna walks away and taps her commbadge)
RaeLuna: RaeLuna to Vector 3; one to beam out.
(There's no response. She runs across the street to the large window and sees Vector 3 docked a couple metres away. A guy beside her is admiring it)
Toreg: Nice ship you got there. Looks like only part of a larger ship though.
(RaeLuna ignores him and starts climbing the glass window. She makes her way over to the top of the pile of vehicles and fallen support beams. There's a crack in the ceiling, where a support beam was, exposing space. She climbs out into space, passing through the protective force-field)
Epsen: Hhhhnnhh...
(RaeLuna uses her sticky hands and feet to climb along the outside of the Road-Tube. She jumps through space towards Vector 3 when suddenly Epsen tackles her from the side. They both go flying into a corner of the Road-Tube architecture)
RaeLuna: Rrrrggggg!!!
(She uses her leg to rotate off the edge and kick Epsen across his face. Epsen starts twirling but grabs RaeLuna's other foot, throwing her out into deep space away from the City)
Amp: Now approaching Illinex City.
(Phoenix-Vector 1/2 and the NechRen ship drop Transwarp past a few exiting ships to the vast space city. RaeLuna is lost in space until Vector 1/2 passes by and she clings on. She climbs inside opening a hatch as Vector 1/2 positions itself above Vector 3, integrating. The Phoenix-X undocks the trashed Docking Ring)
RaeLuna(enters): I almost died out there.
Cell: RaeLuna. What's going on here?
RaeLuna: I'm sorry, Captain. I thought Shadow Flare could help stop the creature.
Trunks(scans): Lox and Kugo are still in the City.
RaeLuna: They must've had a look around when Vector 3 was docked.
Cell(taps his commbadge): Cell to Kugo and Lox, come in.
(The transmission is rough but clears up)
*Kugo*: Kugo here. We found the Illinex Automated Repair Control Centre.
(Lox and Kugo are at a Control Tower at the east side of the City. The Control Tower controls automated robots, which look like large eggshells with robot arms)
Kugo: We got control of one of their repair-units.
Lox: It was easy. We told the guy usually in here that his lunch was in his co-worker's locker.
(Meanwhile, in the control tower's lower Cafeteria, the guy eats a sandwhich from a paper bag)
Gegin: Heyyy... this isn't my lunch!
(Lox and Kugo make one of the Robots fly around outside. It speeds away)
*Cell*: What are you doing with it?
Kugo: We found the omni-X and we're chasing him with the Repair-unit.
(Epsen flys through the city, ducking passing road-tubes and transport pods. The Repair Robot chases after him at full impulse)
Epsen: Ggrggh!!
(RaeLuna sits at the Helm beside Amp on the Bridge of the Phoenix-X)
*Lox*: We keep poking him. It's funny.
RaeLuna: Here, let me patch the controls in through the Phoenix-X. I may be able to catch him.
(The Robot suddenly stops impulsing, it drifts through space, past city architecture, until it suddenly lights up again. The far away Phoenix-X gets control of it, making it fly around)
Epsen: Cccrrrhh!
(Epsen clings to a Station, and fires an energy out his mouth at the Robot. The Robot flies over and picks Epsen off the wall, holding him tightly)
Epsen: Argh!
(Epsen gets really mad and uses his lower arms to pry the Robot arms off him. He spins around, kicking it away. The Robot bumps off another Station behind it, but comes back. Epsen fires an energy from his mouth at the Robot. The Robot is vapourized as the energy beam rushes past)
Kugo: Oh no!
(They can see Epsen vapourizing the Robot in the distance from the control tower's window. The energy beam also hits the City's East-end Power Core, shattering the hull. A white light is released)
Lox: Ah well. It's not our City. Let's go home.
Kugo(stares out the window): Good luck trying...
(The destroyed Power Core centre starts sucking everything in like a miniature black hole. The Power Station crumbles and pieces off, shrinking metal right into the Core's white light. The connecting Road-Tubes' glass shatter, and the road's bend towards the Core. Escape pods and people in environmental suits retreat to the other side of the City that of which is not being affected)
Kugo: We have to get out of here!
(Lox and Kugo take a ladder down to the hallway to a Road-Tube. They start running but the Control Station they just left suddenly begins to crumble under pressure. The air around them starts to escape from where they just came from. They leap to the sides of the road and hold on to the architecture)
Cell: Beam them aboard. Hurry!
(The Phoenix-X suddenly approaches the Control Tower, which is shattered)
Trunks: Unsuccessful. The quantum singularity is interfering.
Cell: Seifer, take a Jumper down to get them.
Seifer: Okay fine. But you have to stop telling me what to do.
(Jumper 1 launches out the back of the Phoenix-X. It speeds around and docks against the side of the nearby Road-Tube. Seifer and RaeLuna come out the airlock-passageway with three pattern-enhancers. They clamp them on the road just in case)
RaeLuna: It's windy in here.
Seifer: This place is about to sucked into the Quantum Core.
(They find Lox and Kugo in the distance, holding on for their lives as the air gushes by them. RaeLuna and Seifer run over to help them)
Lox: Thanks, RaeLuna.
(RaeLuna's senses heighten and she looks up as Epsen grasps onto the glass outside the Tube, trying not to be sucked away. He punches a hole in the glass and falls to the road)
Epsen: Ugh... I'm dizzy...
(More air is blown out the new crack in the glass as Lox holds on tight to the lower architecture. Espen gets up and starts running along the road past all four of them towards the other Station. RaeLuna runs after him, as Seifer and Kugo struggle over and help Lox up)
Lox: She left us!
Kugo: --Didn't you say 'thank you'?
Lox: I can't remember!
(They watch in the distance as RaeLuna tackles Epsen to the road. Epsen reaches out for one of the pattern enhancers and hacks it against RaeLuna's shoulder. RaeLuna falls to one knee grabbing another pattern enhancer and using it to block another hack from Epsen)
RaeLuna: Listen to me. We have to stop this---!
(Epsen pulls his weapon back with his lower arms and uses his upper arms to blast a ball of energy, that of which RaeLuna leans back to dodge)
Epsen: Argh!!
(They both come back clashing their pattern enhancers like swords. RaeLuna uses the kick-stand on her weapon to hook into Epsen's and twirl his weapon out of his hands)
Kugo: Uh!
(Kugo leaps over the fallen pattern enhancer as she, Lox and Seifer get to the airlock-passageway against the glass-wall. They pass through and get into the Jumper outside)
Lox: What about RaeLuna?
(They wait until the last minute but they watch as RaeLuna chases after Epsen down the road towards the further Station. They detach the Jumper, as it hovers, and fly's up through the gravimetric disturbances into the Phoenix-X)
Seifer: Seifer to the Bridge. We're in.
(The Phoenix-X turns around and impulses away, but is suddenly sucked backwards)
Cell: Amp, get us out of here...
Amp: I'm trying!
(The Phoenix-X accelerates to maximum impulse, but doesn't go anywhere. The distant Quantum Core continues to suck them in from behind)
Cell: Go to Warp, Transwarp, anything!
Trunks: They're offline!
Cell(paces): Re-route power from all non essential systems.
Trunks: ...I have.
(The Phoenix-X continues to be pulled backwards. The hull starts to buckle)
Cell: NechRen vessel. We need your assistance!
[Telse]: You were trying to destroy Epsen. We saw it!
Cell: You don't understand---
[Telse]: We hope you die!
(The screen clicks off. Cell looks around)
Cell: What's left!? Suggestions?
*Kugo*: Captain. We may be able to integrate power from the Raekwon Generator.
Cell: Do it!!
(Kugo enters Engineering where the Raekwon Generator is in the third open area behind the first two, which the engines occupy. She activates it, and circuits around it light up)
Kugo: Done.
(The Phoenix-X suddenly accelerates out of there. The ship heads back deep into the City, dodging overhead Road-Tubes and Stations. The Quantum Core is left behind, sucking the rest of that East part of the city in)
Cell: Let's hope nobody liked that place.
(Epsen leaps past two guards into a departing Train)
Shensh: Hey!
(RaeLuna runs by, pushes past the guards aswell, and then leaps onto the side of the moving Train. She climbs in through a hatch and enters a car. She walks by many lazy people, who are either sleeping, or watching entertainment screens)
[*Kela*]: This just in. The destruction of East Illinex is almost to an end as Quantum Core N3-7 begins to depressurize.
(The view-screens show the immediate news, as few people look up to watch it)
[*Kela*]: Telepathic detectives and internal systems analyzing has come to conclude the destruction of the Power Core to be caused by the provocation of a powerful alien being. The provocation was through a subspace link into a Repair Robot. Detectives have determined that the provocationist is a half Klokian.
(RaeLuna is suddenly surprised, and looks around in shock of their criminal system's ways)
[*Kela*]: Authorities are on the lookout for this provocationist. If you have any details or know anything about this person, please contact us.....
(RaeLuna walks past a couple who are sleeping. One of them wakes up, unwraps their blanket, and walks down the Train to complain to stewardess about the temperature. RaeLuna grabs that person's blanket and wears it like a cloak around herself. She looks around incase anyone has seen her and suddenly catches sight of Epsen, sticking to the ceiling in the distance)
RaeLuna: ...
(The stewardess and the other person leave a Back Room and comes walking down the Train. RaeLuna walks past them and follows Epsen who scurries into the Back Room)
Epsen: Cccaa!!
(Epsen falls to the floor noticing RaeLuna's entrance. RaeLuna unwraps her cloak and twists around Epsen, tactfully tying the blanket around Epsen's front, back and arms, slamming him against the wall)
Epsen: Argh!!
RaeLuna: What's wrong, X?! Can't you vapourize my insignificant molecules?
Epsen: I must regenerate my powers for that. Besides, Klokian skin isn't as breakable as mortal skin.
(RaeLuna glances away to change the subject and then looks back at Epsen)
RaeLuna: ...I know you heard about me as being the only mortal Klokian to exist and that's why you wanted to take advantage of that and kill me. I am telling you now that I am not like the other Klokians. I don't hunt omnipotent beings!
(Epsen kicks her back in anger not believing her and RaeLuna slams against the door, breaking out into the open hallway of the Train. Epsen concentrates his energy, burning to a crisp the blanket around him. He blasts a hole through a window and jumps out the Train. Automatic force-fields immediately cover the hole as RaeLuna runs back in, watching Epsen falling in the distance past City Structures in escape)
RaeLuna: Damn!
(She goes back into the hallway and takes a seat. She stays on the Train in exhaustion as the Train speeds along tube-tracks that intertwine around the City. It stops off at the next Station)
RaeLuna: Ugh... I need a drink.
(She departs the Train Deck and enters the Station. She follows people and hallways throughout the Station to a Pub. It's filled with relaxed people, drinking and conversing)
Telse: Where is Epsen?
(The NechRen ship slowly travels through the City passing Stations and Road-Tubes nearby. They scan the vicinity)
Onio: I still can't find him. He's a sneaky little bastard!
(Epsen's parents are standing right there)
Boles: Hey! We did get married you know.
Aeta: Yeah.
Telse(walks over): Who cares about that! ...We have to regain control here. Locate that Klokian girl.
(RaeLuna notices at the bar, Kugo, Lox, Trunks, and Amp who are ordering drinks. She walks over)
Amp: Hey, it's RaeLuna!
RaeLuna: Amp? How are you able to be here?
Amp: They've got holo-emitters throughout the whole city! The engineers use holographic tools here.
(One of the engineers throws a holographic wrench across the Pub that hits Amp in the head)
Amp: Owe!!
Logenek: Hey, that usually just passes through people.
RaeLuna: What are you guys doing here? What happened to you?
Lox: What happened to us? What happened to you?
RaeLuna: Don't change the subject.
(The view-screens throughout the Pub click to the latest news. Kela speaks for a few seconds)
[*Kela*]: ...And telepathic image rendering artists have been able to generate a picture of the wanted provocationist.
[RaeLuna's picture is shown on all the view-screens in the Pub]
RaeLuna: Not again!
(A green laser-wall sweep sweeps through the Pub from one end to another, passing over everyone. The sweep suddenly picks up RaeLuna's life-signs. Police Robots, which look like triangle plates, suddenly break off the walls and extend metallic legs and lasers launchers. They start walking towards RaeLuna, firing lasers. Soldiers break into the Pub in search of her)
RaeLuna: You guys have to help me!
Lox: Uuhh...
(Amp, Lox and Kugo glance at each other in hesitation)
Kugo: We'd better get out here.
(RaeLuna, Kugo, Amp, Lox and Trunks make a run for it. They dodge laser fire out into the hallway, turning corners until suddenly being confronted by a NechRen away team of eight)
Trunks: It's the NechRen!
Onio: Hold it right there, Klokian. We'd like to have a word with you.
(The NechRen's advance on her)
RaeLuna: Not a chance, four-arms!
Splej: Hey! We're very sensitive about that!
(Trunks opens a torpedo launcher out of his left forearm and launches a torpedo at an approaching NechRen, who dodges it and returns strange fire. A net opens around Trunks, electrocuting him to his knees)
Trunks: Argh!
(Kugo lowers herself to swing her foot around, tripping a NechRen onto his back. Two other NechRen's leap over, grabbing Kugo and pinning her against the wall. Amp attacks but one of the NechRen's download his program into a heavy computer module)
Lox: This looks like a job for me!
(Lox approaches a NechRen. The NechRen suddenly points to two of his guards who are waiting to capture Lox. Lox just gives up and walks over to the two guards who capture him)
RaeLuna: Let go of me!
(One of the NechRen's grab RaeLuna's arm from the back. RaeLuna swings around, picking him up and pinning him against the wall. The NechRen slaps an isolinear tag onto RaeLuna's shoulder. All the NechRen's and the four of them are suddenly beamed out)
Splei: Move it, two-arms!
(The NechRen shove RaeLuna, Kugo, Lox and Trunks onto the Bridge of their Ship. Mini-tractor beams focus out from the ceiling at the back and pick the four of them up, holding them in mid-air)
-Lox: Ugh! My back is killing me!
-Kugo: Let us go! Our Captain isn't going to be very happy about this!
Telse: We don't care about his happiness!
(They go over to control panels. The NechRen ship starts impulsing away from the Station with the pub. The Phoenix-X is facing the same Station just as Captain Cell and Commander Seifer enter the Bridge noticing it empty)
Cell: What is the meaning of all this?
Seifer: I assume you mean the missing senior staff.
Cell: You better explain as well as you assume.
Seifer: Don't you remember? They all took a break and went to that Pub.
Cell: No. I was regenerating!
Seifer: Oh.
(The NechRen ship hovers away through the City. They track Epsen's movements on their monitor)
Onio: He's at the West end. His energy output is at maximum.
Telse: Don't lose him.
-Kugo: Listen to us. We're very sorry about the fact the X-Continuum ruined your friend's life!
-RaeLuna: Yeah.
Telse: That doesn't help anything!!
Onio(tracking): He's knows we're nearby. He's trying to escape.
Telse: How can he treat us this way? We didn't get him those powers for nothing!!
(RaeLuna and Kugo glance over at each other in confusion, when suddenly the view-screen clicks on magnifying on Epsen who is clinging to a Road-Tube. The ship approaches and he jumps off. He leaves the City out into space. The Phoenix-X finds out what's going on and accelerates after)
Seifer(scans): I'm reading signs of Kugo, Trunks, Lox and RaeLuna on that ship.
Cell: We're going after them.
(He takes the Helm. The Phoenix-X speeds over, catching up to the NechRen ship that is following Epsen into open space. Epsen's energy starts flickering around him as he begins to submerge out of existence)
Cell: What the--?
(The NechRen ship activates their own special Drive)
Onio: ...He's leaving...!
Telse: Over-charge the Submergence Drive. Don't lose him!!
-Lox: What the hell is going on?
-RaeLuna(shakes her head): He jumped to the sub-existence.
-Lox: I thought we were done with that existence!
-RaeLuna: I told you that galaxy's interception was only the beginning!
-Kugo: But why are we going there!?
-RaeLuna(shakes her head): ...It's their home-existence. That's where these people are from.
(The NechRen ship disappears out of sight with Epsen, leaving the Phoenix-X behind)
Cell: Hey! Where did they go?
Seifer: I think I know. They went to the sub-existence!
Cell: Yeah right. How do you know that?
Seifer: I just know. Remember, my Symbiont is infected with that interception-energy?
(Cell just looks at him)
Seifer: My Symbiont kept slipping in-between existences!!
(Cell just keeps looking at him with no clue)
Seifer: It was able to talk on its own!
(Seifer drops the explanation and looks back on-screen, seeing Epsen and the NechRen ship in the other galaxy. His eyes strain and loses sight of them, as he cannot keep mental comprehension of the laws of the other existence)
Seifer: Well, they're gone now.
Cell(makes a fist): We'll see about that...
(The NechRen vessel follows Epsen through space. They're happily going along until space suddenly turns blue all around them. They continue happily along until the area around them is filled with many football-field sized asteroids and smaller)
Epsen: Hrrrhhhh...
(He dodges behind asteroids, fooling the NechRen vessel's sensors, and clings behind a distant asteroid to regenerate his omni-powers)
Onio: I lost him.
(The NechRen vessel slowly passes asteroid after asteroid, scanning. The crew admires the look of the blue lightyear-diameter space)
Splei: ...We can see this place from our homeplanet but no one ever bothered to come here before.
-RaeLuna: Why is all the area blue and cloudy?
Splei: We think the asteroids emit a certain magnetic radiation that holds an oxygen, carbon dioxide atmosphere.
Onio(looks out a window): It is very amazing if you ask me...
-(Kugo, Lox and RaeLuna glance over at Trunks to let him know now is the best time for escape)
-Trunks: ...Why must you all look at me like tha--?-- Processing... I now understand your intentions.
(He establishes a subspace link with the un-protected computer module sitting in the corner, and releases Amp. Amp is activated in front of everyone, as he grabs a nearby Guard and coils the Guard's body to a fallen angle. Amp transfers back into the computer and disables the tractor beams. Kugo, Lox, RaeLuna and Trunks fall to floor)
Onio: What the--?! Escaping is not allowed!
(RaeLuna gets to the sensors grid-panel while the others apprehend the NechRen officers)
Trunks: I will attempt to lock out the Bridge and use the computers to fool the NechRen's on the lower decks that nothing is wrong.
(He gets to the side control panels as Lox takes out a hypo-spray from his thigh pad and goes around hypo-spraying the NechRen officers unconscious)
Lox: I never leave home without it.
Kugo: Ookkayyyy....
RaeLuna(scans): I found him! ...You guys wait here.
(She runs over to left side of the Bridge, climbing a ladder up to the ceiling where she swivels a hatch open. She climbs outside of the Ship and leaps off, floating through the sky)
RaeLuna: ...
(Gravity pulls her down to an asteroid, which she pushes off of. She leaps from asteroid to asteroid, in search of Epsen. Epsen doesn't wait; he approaches from the distance and blasts a huge amount of omni-energy at her)
Epsen: Aaacccc!!!
(RaeLuna angles to a side, dodging it, and crashing herself into Epsen. They both go whirling through the sky, until smacking against another piece of floating land)
RaeLuna: Ooo-f!!
(They can hear air escaping through tiny holes in the rock, as if it was breathing. Two live tentacles suddenly grow out from the rock, circle around, and tie around each of their waists')
Espen: Grgh!
RaeLuna: Uh!?
(Nevertheless, they get to their feet. RaeLuna jumps forward, kneeing Epsen at his chin. Epsen is forced back, but propels his four fists around redirecting RaeLuna's punches. He blasts a ball of energy at her, knocking her away)
RaeLuna: Ugh!!
(The tentacles around each of them strengthen and pull them up into the sky. In the distance they can see Trunks, Lox, and Kugo leaping off from the idle Vessel, and hopping from rock to rock towards them)
Trunks(jumping): Are you two sure you can breathe out here?
Kugo(jumps): Yes already!
(He lands in a tactically good position on a rock and kneels, aiming his torpedo launcher at Epsen being held in the distant sky. He fires a torpedo, knocking Epsen away)
RaeLuna: Guys! --Get me off this thing--!
(The tentacle squeezes tighter, swinging her around. Kugo, Trunks, and Lox make it over to her rock)
Lox: This rock is a lot nicer than the others.
(Kugo pulls out her phaser and aims it, but a tentacle from the side rushes her off from the surface. More tentacles grow out and grab the others)
Kugo: Argh--!! How rude!
(An opening is intentionally broken up from the rock beneath, and they're each thrown down into the asteroid. They slowly get up and dust themselves off, finding that they're inside a cave-like corridor, inside the asteroid. The rock opening above them suddenly closes)
Lox(gets up): Uggh... Where are we?
Trunks(helps Kugo up): Inside the asteroid. My weapons must regenerate.
(A line of enslaved ant-like Aliens slowly walk by, ignoring them, and each carrying a strange gel pack. Kugo, Trunks, Lox, and RaeLuna follow their source, finding that the ant-Aliens are picking the gel packs up from a spewing hole in a back wall and carrying them down a corridor to a rock-processing cavity)
RaeLuna: These creatures must be forced to maintain the health of this Asteroid species.
(Smaller tentacles spit out from the walls, poking and pushing them to get into line. In the distance, they see a tentacle pushing one of the ant-Aliens too far)
"Ant-Alien"(fights back in anger): Rraahhraahhrah!!
(The tentacle suddenly stabs itself through the ant-Alien's chest, killing him. He falls to the floor, as the other ant-Aliens continue on as this behavior is normal. The other small tentacles push Kugo and RaeLuna along to get in line)
RaeLuna: He is dead.
Trunks: We'd better do what they want.
Lox: Oh man! This all wouldn't have happened if we never came out here!
Kugo: I know. Whenever we're around RaeLuna something bad always happens.
(They each start picking up gel packs)
Cell: Try all hailing frequencies.
(The Phoenix-X sits in space, where they last saw everyone. Seifer accesses the external operations hover panels)
Seifer: I'm picking up a signal…!
*Gegin*: ….My lunch. It's gone. It's all gone. Please, you have to help me!
Cell: What the---? That's not who I wanted to hail!
Seifer(cuts the connection): Well I can't seem to contact them.
Tong: What do we do now?
(The Apocalypse suddenly rushes overhead, in the other direction. It approaches Illinex City in the distance)
Cell: Hmm…
(The Phoenix-X re-enters Illinex Space City. It docks at a port right beside the Apocalypse. They are unable to use transporters due to the left over Quantum radiation from east Illinex)
-Hersha-: You in? It's a thirty-slip latinum fee.
(Cell and Seifer enter the Station and hand latinum over to an alien in a booth before an Ecstasy Club. They enter the chaotic Club where hundreds of aliens and humanoid aliens are dancing and socializing to loud pulsating music and plasma flow effects)
Seifer: What now?…!
Cell: …There's Shadow Flare. …!
(They a forced to yell over the remixing music. Cell points to Shadow Flare who is luxuriously sitting on an upper level, drinking, with orion slave girls all around him)
Dredge(walks over): If you cause any kind of negative ruckus on the dance floor, you will be destroyed.
(The bouncer points to large laser cannons on the walls that point to the dance floor. He walks away, as they notice all the girls in the place; one of which is an orion slave girl who descends from the upper level to get a drink)
Cell: Hey.
(He approaches her)
Veele: Hi. I'm Veele.
Cell: So are Orion slave girls really as irresistible as they say?
Veele(moves in closer): …Does this answer your question…
(The bartender gives Veele her drink)
Cell: Let me talk to your carrier.
(She nods. She takes Cell's hand and leads him across the dance floor to the upper level. They approach a table where Shadow Flare suddenly recognizes him)
Shadow Flare(sits up): …Captain.
Cell: It's Captain Cell to you.
(Shadow Flare puts his drink down arrogantly)
Cell: How do you know RaeLuna?
Shadow Flare: We met once, at a place just like this.
(He picks up his drink again)
Shadow Flare: …I know your problem. You lost your friend's to the NechRen. I guess you came here to find more! Hahahahaha!
(Cell stands there)
Shadow Flare: You lost your powers. Do you have any idea how much more powerful I am than you now?
Cell: If it wasn't for me, no omni-X in existence would've ever had any powers to begin with.
Shadow Flare: So! I once destroyed an entire planet with my powers.
Cell: I'm not afraid of you.
(Shadow Flare waves his hand, signaling the girls to leave. He stands up with hatred and approaches Cell)
Shadow Flare: …
(He jabs forward at Cell's chest, but Cell leans to the side, grabbing the arm and redirecting the jab. Still holding on, they circle around and Shadow Flare throws Cell through the wall into a back Hallway)
Shadow Flare: My wisedom exceeds your own.
(He enters the Hallway, charging his right hand with omni-energy. He blasts it towards Cell, who curl-jumps out of the way onto his feet)
Cell: My body exceeds your own.
(He liquefies a spike through Shadow Flare's chest, missing his heart. Shadow Flare is in pain but blasts another shot into Cell's stomach, slamming Cell back against the wall)
Cell: Argh!
(Shadow Flare pumps out five or six more shots. Cell liquefies around out of the way, tripping Shadow Flare and blocking liquid density against him. Shadow Flare tries getting up)
Shadow Flare: Grggh! ...You fool!
(He stops, realizing his fallen place, and sighs reluctantly)
Shadow Flare: ...You are a worthy adversary... for your size.
(Cell liquefies off and back to himself. Shadow Flare sits up and takes out a blinking device from his suit pocket)
Shadow Flare: This is a communications device for the impending sub-galaxy. That's all I can do.
Cell(takes it): ...Thanks.
(RaeLuna, Lox, Kugo and Trunks walk in line with the ant-Alien's in the asteroid caves, carrying gel packs)
Lox: We have to get out of here.
Kugo(taps her commbadge): Kugo to Lieutenant Amp. Transport us out of here.
(Amp is slammed against a control panel. He knees Onio in the stomach and kicks Onio away)
Amp: Unable to comply---
(Splei is at a distant control panel, accessing systems as Amp starts static-ing on and off)
Onio(gets up to attack): Argh!!
(Communications break up as the four of them are urged to move on by the ant-Alien behind them)
"Ant-Alien2": Rrrhh.
RaeLuna: I have an idea.
(She takes her gel pack and runs over to the processing cavity in the rock, which all the ant-Aliens have been dropping off gel packs. She throws her's in)
Lox: You want us to work for them instead of the Federation?
Kugo: I think she wants us to overload the processing cavity.
RaeLuna: Exactly.
(They each go back and forth from the spewing gusher taking gel from it and packing it into the cavity)
RaeLuna: ...If they want us to feed it, then we will.
(The cave begins to shake. The entire Asteroid is aggravated, as more of its tentacles flail out. Tentacles from all the other Asteroid's flail out as well, illustrating a creepy sight)
Kugo: I think that means it's happy.
(The walls quake and rocks fall. Ant-Aliens start running around crazy)
Lox: I think that means it's mad.
(A large rock falls out, as light beams in and they find a hole they can escape from. They each climb out to the surface of the Asteroid, noticing all the tentacle-Asteroid species starting to move around)
RaeLuna(senses): Epsen is still here.
(The rock beneath them quakes. Rocks all around the entire blue-area of space start to form together. They look to their left and see a huge collection of rocks and a hole of a mouth approaching them. The enormous mouth has chaotic teeth circling inside)
Lox: Something else is here...!
(They all start jumping away, leaping from rock to rock as the large Rock Creature slowly heads for them, eating those rocks after rocks)
Epsen: Hhnnnrrrnnn...
(They notice Epsen sucking on a hole of one of the distant rocks, assimilating the gel energy into himself. RaeLuna lands on his rock and looks at him)
RaeLuna: Hey.
(She jumps of and continues leaping from rock to rock with the others. Epsen notices the oncoming Rock Creature's teeth and stops)
Cell: Why haven't we left the City yet?
(He approaches Seifer who is under the back hover control panel, fixing the circuit pathways)
Seifer: I can't install that communications device and pilot the ship at the same time. We need more people on the Bridge.
Cell: I don't trust anyone! Oh well, I guess you're right.
(Ensign Dan walks by)
Cell: You! Alter the course and activate thrusters!
Ensign Dan: Aye Captain!
(He goes over to the Helm)
Ensign Dan: This is my big chance to prove myself. Don't screw it up...
(He accidentally fires phasers, even though phaser control isn't normally routed to that panel)
Ensign Dan: What the--?
Cell: You moron! You're relieved!
(Ensign Dan walks away in confusion)
Ensign Dan: But... But how...?
(Seifer gets up and accesses communications)
Seifer: I've got it installed. Some of the Bridge controls may have jumped to other panels.
Cell: Can you hail the NechRen vessel?
(Seifer attempts to make contact through existences. A tiny point of light is pierced through normal space, in front of the ship)
*Amp*: Captain is that you?
(Meanwhile, on the NechRen vessel in the sub-galaxy, Amp punches a NechRen out. He accesses gravity control and makes all the NechRen's fall down to the floor in their own increased weight)
Telse: Argh--!! I hate this!
*Cell*: What was that?
Amp: Nothing, Captain. I think I may be able to open a portal. You have to come to these co-ordinates...
(He just thinks the co-ordinates into a text message on a panel and transmits it)
*Cell*: We're on our way.
(Amp is content until he senses through external ships sensors that all the asteroids are forming into one huge Rock Creature. The screen is activated)
Cell: Engaging thrusters.
(He takes the helm as the Phoenix-X speeds away from Illinex City and out into space again. They approach a spectacular opening in space)
Seifer: Something's gotta be going on.
(Through it, they can see blue and cloudy space, the NechRen vessel, and the circling asteroids)
RaeLuna: Argh!!!
(Epsen doesn't care about the Rock Creature. He tackles RaeLuna from the side, and plummets to the surface of a moving rock. His energy is at full now and he inflicts subatomic charges along RaeLuna's body)
RaeLuna: Listen to me. All this fighting must stop--! ...I'm telling you, I'm really not like the other Klokians...!!
Epsen: I don't believe you... Prove it!
(RaeLuna looks from side to side, having no idea what to do next)
RaeLuna: ...I can't...
(She looks sympathetically over at the others, who are in the distance, leaping from asteroid to asteroid with the huge Rock Creature gaining on them)
Epsen: I thought so.
(RaeLuna pulls one of Epsen's right arm in, making one side of him lean in. She punches his other side, forcing it to lean out. He's at an angle, as she trucks her right knee into his stomach, putting her at a parallel angle. She flips him over and slams him against the rock)
Epsen: Hey!!
(She steps her foot into his neck as she jumps off into space. Epsen is suddenly covered by a merging rock)
Kugo: Ahh!
(Her foot gets caught on an asteroid. Trunks activates his thruster boots and flys over, picking her up. He fires a torpedo at the teeth of the Rock Creature as it covers them. He blasts away from being eaten, while carrying Kugo)
Kugo: Thanks.
(The Rock Creature gains on Lox who leaps from a rock. RaeLuna comes down and leaps by his side)
RaeLuna: You okay?
Lox: No!
RaeLuna: Then hold on!
(Lox takes another jump into the air. RaeLuna goes underneath him, making him hold onto her back. They both land on another rock, just before the spectacular portal. The Phoenix-X sticks its nose through)
"Rock Mouth": UUURRRRHHH!!!
(It closes in on them as she jumps onto the Phoenix-X and opens a hatch, letting Lox in)
Cell: Seifer, what the hell is that thing?
(The Phoenix-X is halfway through the portal with the huge Rock Creature in front of them)
Seifer: Look, I'm not your dictionary.
(The Phoenix-X backs out towards their own space, but the Rock Creature shoots out tentacles that jab into all sides of the ship, draining power from the Raekwon Generator. Kugo, Lox and Trunks get to the Bridge)
Trunks(accesses controls): Shields, deflectors, transporters, containment fields, structural integrity, inertial dampening, life support, all going offline!
Cell: Whoa, that's a lot of stuff.
(RaeLuna pushes off from the Phoenix-X, jumps off the upper mouth of the Rock Creature and heads left floating through blue space until landing onto the hull of the NechRen vessel. She reads the name inscribed on it)
RaeLuna: That's a cool name for a ship.
(She enters the NechRen vessel and goes over to the controls where Amp is)
Amp: What do we do? What do we do?
(RaeLuna accesses controls. The NechRen vessel archs around, and fires three quantum torpedoes which hit the Rock Creature one after another. Pieces explode on the Creature and it wines)
"Rock Mouth": NNNNNRRRHH!!
(The Rock Creature detaches its vines from the Phoenix-X and backs up. It turns and heads slowly for the NechRen vessel, which fires four more quantum torpedoes. The torpedoes burst more rocks along its side)
"Rock Mouth": RRRRNNNNHHH!!!
(The NechRen vessel hovers a little over, firing two quantum torpedoes and three photon torpedoes. Each torpedo hits the upper mouth, bursting more rocks)
*Rock Mouth": RRHHNN!!!
(The NechRen vessel fires more photon torpedoes, bursting more parts of the Rock Creature. The Rock Creature turns around and heads out of there, causing the blue sky to follow him)
RaeLuna: He's leaving...
Amp: Great shot! ...I would've never thought of doing that.
(RaeLuna and Amp get back to the Phoenix-X, as it's stuck in the portal between existences)
Cell: Thanks RaeLuna, we were almost depleted there.
RaeLuna(takes sensors): I was due.
Seifer: Isn't it about time we got the hell out of here?
Amp: Impulse engines are offline.
Trunks(taps at the side panels): ...It's going to be a minute.
(The portal around the ship suddenly starts closing. The Phoenix-X gets minimum impulse online and starts backing up slowly. The portal starts inter-phasing the molecules of the hull, fading and confusing existences)
Cell: Reverse course, now. Now is that time...
(The Phoenix-X quakes as it roughly backs out. It makes it to normal space, and the portal disintegrates before them)
Amp: We're out.
[The NechRen vessel resurfaces into normal space, and opens fire]
Amp: ...Looks like they got their gravity back.
Cell: This is not a place for useless comments!
(The Phoenix-X is hit by torpedoes. It returns fire onto the NechRen vessel. They sit in space, exchanging fire, until a fleet of Illinex ships suddenly drop out of Warp)
Norleng: Halt! Hand over the Klokian and you will not be harmed.
(Eight Vessel's surround the Phoenix-X and NechRen)
Kinglet: Hah! They fell for it.
Norleng: Don't say that. They can still hear us!
Kinglet: Oops.
(The Phoenix-X speeds up, passing under an Illinex Ship, phasering out their deflector array. The Phoenix-X passes Illinex Ship after Illinex Ship until it's behind them)
Cell: Seeya.
(The NechRen Vessel watches from a distance as the other Illinex Ship's are turning around. The Phoenix-X suddenly cloaks out of sight)
Bleth: Hey. Where'd they go?
(The Ships just sit there)
Cell: Hey.
(The Phoenix-X becomes visible beside an Illinex Ship disabling their starboard weapons array with torpedoes)
Bleth: Aaah!
(The Phoenix-X disappears and then reappears beside another Illinex Ship, firing phasers along their warp-field emitters. The Phoenix-X disappears again)
Cell: Suggestions?
(He looks over to his crew)
Seifer: The enhanced slipstream torpedoes are online.
GoyCho: They are locked and loaded.
Seifer: They're not supposed to be locked.
GoyCho(leaves): I'll go unlock them.
(The Phoenix-X becomes visible again, beside an Illinex Ship. It fires phasers at the Phoenix-X, but the Phoenix-X fires an enhanced slipstream torpedo)
Yegge: What is this?
(The torpedo blossoms underneath the enemy Ship, bubbling an invisible field around them. The Ship is suddenly stretched, being pulled into a Slipstream Conduit. The Illinex Ship is shot a lightyear away)
Cell: Awesome!
(The Phoenix-X cloaks and becomes visible somewhere else. They fire a slipstream torpedo, which explodes a conduit a lightyear long, sling-shooting the Ship away)
Cell: Are they harmed?
Seifer: No. It's not much of a destructive weapon.
Cell: That's good. It's funny too.
(The other Ships scramble to fire torpedoes at the Phoenix-X, but it keeps cloaking and reappearing. The Phoenix-X appears out of nowhere and fires slipstream's at Ship after Ship, sling-shooting them away)
Norleng: Aaahh!!
(The Phoenix-X leaves the remaining Illinex Ships and Transwarps out of there)
Cell: Haahahaha! Good work people. ...We have to do more of that in our spare time.
(They lose their eye on the NechRen vessel)
Tong: What are we going to do about them?
Cell: Drop them like a bad habit. Have you ever had a bad habit before?
Tong: N---
Cell: It'll be exactly like that! ...We'll drop them like a bad habit...
(RaeLuna walks down a hallway of the Phoenix-X. Jeera meets up with her)
Jeera: Hey.
RaeLuna: What is it?
Jeera: Some of the guys and I just wanted to show our appreciation for, you know, giving a crap about us back there.
(She gives her a bottle of 2374 Kanaar)
RaeLuna(takes it): Oh ...uhh, sure.
Jeera(leaves): It's a good year. The year the Phoenix-X was launched.
(RaeLuna enters her Quarters. She asks for the lights, but they don't turn on. She suddenly senses someone else's presence in the room)
RaeLuna: ...
(The lights go on. Epsen holds his finger on the lights button at a wall control panel. He crouches at the top of a chair)
Epsen: I never wanted to be an omni-X. It was Telse who summoned the X and requested the power ascendance. He wanted his ship to have me as a weapon.
RaeLuna: I never asked to be Klokian.
Epsen(looks away changing the subject): ...They're still after me, you know.
RaeLuna: They won't catch you. I know this from experience.
(He jumps off the chair and approaches her)
Epsen: Consider yourself lucky to be with a Federation crew. They respect you. You become one of them.
(He breaks away, out into the Corridor, running along the floors, walls and ceilings, dodging people)
Nathan: Aah! Kill it!
(Epsen breaks into Airlock Exit Room 3 and passes through the secondary glass and hatch, out into space)
Epsen: Argh!
(He jumps off the hull of the Phoenix-X and speeds away into space)


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August is What Will Be Your Legacy Month, and it is the perfect time to start thinking about what your're doing, how to keep doing it, and how to make changes. "Legacy" is defined as, a gift by will especially of money or other personal property; something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or form the past.
What Will Be Your Legacy Month is characterized as a time for people to reflect on their past and present actions and vow to make positive changes that will affect generations. We have to remember the seeds, whether positive or negative, we plant in our lives. This observance is about making the right choices so our children and their children will make the right choices. Everything we do will grow and reflect our teachings.
Here's some tips on leaving your best legacy:
1. Be who you are and embrace it.
We all have our own story in life, and are where we are for a reason. Write your story, and blaze a trail. Inspiration is great, but being your own person is one of the best things you can do for yourself.
2. Have a strong support system.
Support is critical. Being independent is great, but having support for your independence is always helpful. When thinking of what you want to achieve, think of how you'd want to celebrate it. If you invited people who helped and supported you along the way, surely you'd want the room to be quite full. In having a great support system, you can also translate it into being support for someone else, too.
3. Share your positives.
We all have positive qualities. Finding them may sometimes take more effort or time than we'd like, but know for certain, they're there. When you realize these strengths, hone them and share them with others. This is a great way to make yourself marketable in the workplace and a go-to in your personal circles.
4. Strengthen your weaknesses.
We all have weakness, too. They don't have to be detriments, though. Use your weaknesses to improve who you are, but to also pick up skills and lessons along the way. Reaching the goal is just as important as the journey there.
5. Stay aware.
Being self-conscious and self aware are totally different. Self awareness is a positive trait, which continuously makes you better. This also includes being responsible for your actions--no matter what they may be. Knowing how you are as a person, what you are good at, and need to improve on is essential to self awareness and will continue letting you be the person leaving a strong legacy.
Think back a couple years and ask if you would admire the person you are now. Also ask, will you admire the person you're growing to be for the future.
We have some great quotes to help get your mind going ---
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way." - Les Brown
"I want to put a ding in the universe." - Steve Jobs
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - President John F. Kennedy
"The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and; do more of what you do..." - David Joseph Schwartz
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"Goals help you channel your energy into action." - Les Brown
What will be your legacy?

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1st Birthday Party
We had Lila's first birthday party this past weekend, and in my (and Eric's) usual fashion, I decided that I needed to make all the decorations and food, rather than buying pre-made items. This, of course, made for a lot of work, but it was worth it as I loved that the finished product was a party that was completely us.
The plan was to have about twenty family members over to the house for afternoon lunch. A pretty casual affair. I decided to make a few decorations: two strands of bunting for two arches in our living room, a high chair garland, a birthday banner, and a wreath for the door. Hurricane Sandy actually blessed me with some time off work, so I was able to accomplish all this without too much trouble. I purchased about twenty fat quarters in fall colors from Joann's and was able to make all of the decorations from those bits of fabric.
For the bunting I used the same template that I did to make the bunting currently hanging in Lila's room. I cut out some hearts and glued them on to the flags with fabric glue. The flags themselves are sewn together, and then sewn onto strips of quilt binding.
For the birthday banner, I cut out letters from fabric (I used some letters printed out from my computer as the stencils) and just glued them to some pieces of felt. Then Eric used a grommet tool to put grommets along the top edge and I strung them together with twine. Underneath the birthday banner, I hung 8x10s of Lila's monthly photos, which were hung with mini clothespins on another strand of twine.
The wreath for the front door was made by tying strips of ripped fabric (about 10 inches long) around a styrofoam wreath ring (is that what they're called??) that I bought at Michael's. Then I made a "1" out of fabric and glued it on. The wreath was so easy to make and looks super cute. We now have it hanging on the front of Lila's bedroom door. The tutorial I followed is here.
The high chair garland was just strips of ribbon sewn onto another strip of quilt binding and then a "1" made out of fabric sewn onto the front. I attached the garland to the high chair tray with double stick tape.
As for food, we decided to make a fall "lunch" with some of Lila's favorite foods. We did order a platter of sandwiches from our local deli to make things a bit easier, but in addition we had the following:
Appetizers: caramel crisp popcorn from Garrett's, Cranberry Apple Salsa with Sweet Potato tortilla chips, Spinach Artichoke dip (Eric's mom made this), Lila's favorite meatballs with honey mustard dipping sauce, green salad and black bean and corn salad - I used this recipe but left out the barley. For mains, we had the deli sandwiches, plus Sweet Potato Chili and Skinny Baked Broccoli Mac and Cheese. For desserts, we had Strawberry Cake (which turned out pretty well, I must say! Lila loved it!), Pumpkin Poppers (delish and so easy!) and strawberries. For beverages, we had beer, wine and cider from Trader Joe's, which we heated up on the stove - so good! I'm pretty proud of how the food turned out because I am not a cook AT ALL.
The other big thing I made for the party was a video montage of all of Lila's 365 photos I had taken this year, interspersed with video clips taken by both Eric and I, and then set to music. It became a 45 minute film! I have to spend a bit of time finishing it (there were three days left of Lila's "365 days" after her party, which I want to add to the video) before I publish it online, but I think everyone enjoyed watching it at the party. It is so cool to see her grow through her photos. I can't believe she was ever so small!
All in all, I think the party was a success. It was nice spending the afternoon with our family members, and Lila had a great time. She was given many beautiful presents - lots of them handmade! My mom crocheted her a set of Yo Gabba Gabba dolls, Eric made her a growth chart, and a number of the toys bought for her were handmade as well - some beautiful wooden blocks, a rag doll and a train. The dress Lila wore was also handmade, purchased from Adelaide's Boutique on Etsy.
Finally, this isn't birthday party related, but in the flurry that was Hurricane Sandy, I don't think I ever posted a photo of Lila's Halloween costume. She was the cutest Little Red Riding Hood ever! I knit her sweater for her so hopefully she will get some more wear out of it this winter.
So, one birthday party down...what - seventeen more to go??? Happy birthday, sweet Lila!


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After many years of trying to conceive, and usually after many failed IVF treatments, one of the options that many couples and singles consider is surrogacy. They feel that they have tried everything else and believe that the only option left to them is to find a surrogate mother to carry their child. We understand that place as we have been there ourselves before.
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The cold, hard truth is that our eggs have an expiry date – and no matter how youthful you look on the outside – your eggs age. We know that fertility declines after 35 and then rapidly after 40. Unfortunately by the age of 45 your chance of conceiving with your own eggs and a surrogate is very slim. However your success rate with donor eggs and your own healthy womb, or that of a surrogate is extremely good. Unfortunately or fortunately, in the world of making babies, the age and quality of the egg is all important.
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Thanks Deiter, I've tried that but as attached, the problem is the same :(Any other ideas? I'm tempted to try the mysql backend just to test if it's not BDB, does anyone have a good guide for that?
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Chris Gobeil and Judith Bauer, who've lovingly restored their 19th century heritage townhouse on Ottawa Street (adjacent to the old Horse Palace) eloquently state their opposition to both the form and undemocratic process of the Village Griffintown megaproject. Their point is valid; if the city wants redevelopment, why not just rezone the area as mixed residential-commercial and let the market take care of things with a range of designs, infill buildings, etc?
Given the volatility of capital markets (long expected, as the US credit/housing bubble deflates), I think another white elephant is exactly what this city doesn't need.
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This is the first letter from a resident that I actually have to agree with. Her point of view is smart and articulated unlike some "just because…" letters I have read.
I also agree with Chris and Judith. As a resident of the Lowney lofts, with a view facing South towards the area in question, I'm now trying my best to inform myself properly in order to add (hopefully) significant suggestions and criticism.
Change is inevitable, but it would be a tragedy to throw away key elements of the history of the neighbourhood. There are many buildings which are still in use or could be "recycled", similar to the Lowney, Redpath, etc. By allowing measured, responsible development which complements rather than obliterates these structures, it should be possible to rekindle the soul of the neighbourhood AND provide additional residential/commercial space to the (extended) downtown core.
I've explored just about every street with my dog over the past year, and there are plenty of fascinating buildings and signs of life that I was previously oblivious to! A single massive development would surely smother and overshadow that collection.
There are plenty of parking lots and vacant lots which provide fertile ground for a first wave of development…
One should take a look at the Devimcos' frightening parking layout, covering almost the entire neighbourhood, including space underneath Peel, Shannon, Young and Smith streets, which seems like the REAL promoter's development scheme (incidentally generating privatization of the public realm and demolition-"reconstruction" of buildings presently very properly occupied by dynamic businesses), ironically exactly like Quartier DIX30, where the only true and interesting piece of architecture – left out the pastiche dysneyland-like streets and façades – is the underground parking as well.
But who cares about trueness and architecture in this city ? Layers of history that give the meaning and the uniqueness of a specific place, – and, consequently, its specific attractiveness and economic value ?
Instead, some advocate for cheap jobs, cheap condos, a generic environment with no interest whatsoever. They call it economic development; it is a loss of value, a spoiling of public assets, a third-worldization of our city. Why can't we insert new buildings and development within – and between – existing buildings, onto existing blocks, like, say, what they are doing in the Meat Packing District of New York ?
Smith Street (old Wellington) gives a magnificent view onto the old train bridge, giving the sense of the place in relation to the Lachine Canal ; instead of being enhanced, bordered with store fronts and properly restored, it will be closed off, replaced by truck docks and underground service access. The developer prefers to insert a winding "picturesque" commercial road cutting through existing blocks. How does this relate to or enhance the genius of this specific place ?
Shannon and Young streets provide alernative journey ways for the promeneur and magnificent dramatic views onto downtown towers and skyline; they'll be closed off, giving way for privately owned and controlled indoor passageways leading to commercial malls.
The very fine grain of these unique, oldest Montreal urban grid, blocks and buildings will be lost for good. Pastiche displaced façades and buildings will make Montreal enter the new faked-urbanism era.
At least, iconic brutalist and modernist buildings and projects of the 50's, 60's and 70's – Complexe Desjardins, Habitations Jeanne-Mance, Maison Radio-Canada – were true to what they really were : a replacement of thriving lively and diverse neighbourhoods by bleak megastructures, a displacement of local activities and populations to the outskirts, and did not falsely pretend to recreate urban life or spirit.
50 years later, the urban scar left by the widening of Rene-Levesque (former Dorchester) boulevard and the demolition of adjacent buildings to make room for transportation is just starting to finally become properly lined up with buildings again. Guess what they want to do with Peel ? Enlarge it to make way for transportation – whether it be for a tramway, cars or a bike path doesn't make a difference : buildings will still be torn down. Are they going to rebuild better – and quicker – than Centre-Sud, Faubourg Saint-Laurent, Faubourg Quebec ? Aren't there enough vacant lots to be built, or underused buildings to be rehabilitated – even in prime locations like the Old Montreal, even in Griffintown – before tearing down and making tabula rasa of another entire neighbourhood ? How much public money – government subsidies, expropriations, infrastructure – will finance or support that private initiative ?
Devimco did a great job in talking and trying to convince as many groups and people they could. A much less convincing job in respecting Montreal history, culture, and Montrealers who just love and inhabit their city.
They are really proud of their project. They should think twice, and maybe ask for a second – and independant – professional advice.
I live less than a five minute walk from Griffintown. I have lived and invested downtown for 25 years now. Guess what ? Will this project go on, I'll move to the suburbs.
Couldn't agree more. Griffintown is such a unique part of Montreal and because of it's heritage is perfect as a starting point to craft a neighborhood that is a destination in and of itself, irrespective of the downtown core/Ste Catherine street shopping district. You don't compete with the suburbs by bringing the suburbs to the city. Downtown neighborhoods should be a showcase for many things: our history and architecture especially.
In Griffintown, the industrial bones of the neighborhood add to the character -a character that needs to be enhanced and not erased.
If the city re-zones accordingly, developers will take a look at the area. It is already happening with the Lowney lofts. Great neighborhoods, like great cities, happen organically.
I know that I have mentionned this in past posts, but, if anykind of mega development is to happen, at least the right architects and designers should be commissioned. I just wish that Montreal looked outside the Quebec box sometimes: we should be asking the best in the world. If we are a world class city we need to start acting like one. For all you out there, please check out the link below. Robert Stern did a masterplan for a project in The Netherlands very similar to Griffintown.
Too many people (some of you here) don't even live there and have the "Not in my backyard syndrome" that's why this letter makes sense, she's not agaisn't the project, actually, I think she's happy with it. She doesn't like the way it's being handle and that's a whole different story. let the people INSIDE speak. Not people that live 5 minutes away.
Griffintown's future is both a local and a national issue, due to its cultural and historic relevance for all Montrealers, Quebecers and Canadians.
Griffintown should be important for Montrealers, even the ones that don't even know where it is (like most West Islanders), but trust me, must canadians don't really care about it.


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Once-mighty Christian Coalition's money woes continue to mount.
The organization, founded by TV preacher Pat Robertson in the wake of his failed 1988 presidential campaign, faces a mountain of debt and a leadership crisis. In the most recent blow, one of the group's most active chapters, the Iowa Christian Coalition, severed its ties to the national group and became independent, renaming itself the Iowa Christian Alliance.
The Coalition's woes were the subject of a front-page Washington Post article April 10 that chronicled the scope of the Coalition's decline. The newspaper noted that during its peak in the 1990s, the Coalition, then run by GOP operative Ralph Reed, employed a dozen lobbyists on Capitol Hill and worked with churches nationwide to distribute millions of slanted "voter guides" that favored Republican candidates.
Today, the Coalition, which was cut loose by Robertson in December of 2001, is more than $2 million in debt and has only one employee left in Washington. Roberta Combs, a long-time Robertson associate, has moved the group to her home state of South Carolina. Its budget, which once reached as high as $26 million, is now estimated to be a paltry $1 million.
Even the Coalition's famous voter guides are taking a hit. The Post reported that Coalition leaders entered a settlement a year ago with the Internal Revenue Service that allowed the group to regain its 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status only if it alters the guides. (The Coalition's tax status had been yanked by the IRS after the agency concluded its voter guides were far too politically partisan.)
The settlement requires the Coalition to allow candidates for public office to provide lengthier--and therefore more accurate--answers to the guide's questions. Critics say this change could be a serious blow to the Coalition. For years, the group's clearly stacked voter guides were used to promote favored candidates and demonize others. Despite their dubious legality, millions were distributed in churches nationwide.
That began to change in the mid 1990s, when Americans United stepped up its campaign to warn church leaders about the partisan content of the guides. The Coalition began having difficulty getting them into churches.
"You'd be amazed at the churches around the country that won't take our voter guides because they're fearful," Combs said. "They're fearful of voter guides because of Barry Lynn [executive director of Americans United]."
Many Religious Right activists are looking for other groups to work with. In Iowa, Steve Scheffler, former president of the Iowa Coalition chapter, announced March 6 that his group was going its own way.
"For years, the board of Christian Coalition of Iowa struggled with its 'parent' organization, Christian Coalition of America," Scheffler said in a statement. "For years the national organization reigned as the country's premiere conservative organization, leading the fight against those who would tear down our Judeo Christian values. Although in the early years, the national organization was a GREAT help, assisting us with financial support and political savvy, the past few years had been mired with dissent and distrust. Promises made were not kept and when confronted the typical response was to threaten."
Continued Scheffler, "It seems that the eyes of the national organization lost focus. It appeared to the board of Christian Coalition of Iowa, that the focus was no longer on our ultimate service, that of our Lord, but on those things of this world. When the focus of a Christian organization becomes blurred, the organization is doomed. After the national organization found itself riddled with lawsuits and unpaid bills, when the leadership appeared to be more interested in 'looking good' than 'being good,' your board members decided that in order to uphold their personal integrity and to stand firm in the face of the Lord, that the ties needed to be severed."
The Coalition's woes do not amount to a crippling blow to the Religious Right. Groups affiliated with radio broadcaster James C. Dobson are becoming more active, and Religious Right pastors Rick Scarborough and Rod Parsley are working to fill the void left by the Coalition.
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Teaching Personnel's International and London Branches are always looking for fun and exciting things for you all to do to make your experience of living in London as exciting and enjoyable as possible. Throughout the upcoming school year we will continue to run our monthly social events, with this years calendar looking even bigger and better than ever. You will all receive an email in the next few weeks outlining all the events, and we hope that you are all able to come along.
As well as our official International teacher's monthly functions, we will also be updating you on events and things that you can come along and attend. For Example:
As I am sure all Australians are aware, AFL Grand Final is being played on Saturday 29th September. There are a group of Teachers and consultants that will be watching the game at the Temple Walkabout. It is an early start at 5.30am, but if you were planning on watching it, it would be great if you wanted to watch it there. Unlike our official monthly events, teaching personnel will not be paying for your entry or drinks, however we will be there if you are looking for somewhere to watch it or someone to watch it with. Tickets cost £15 each, but this gives you 2 drinks and breakfast. There are 900 tickets available, but they are selling fast, so you will need to buy them soon from the Temple Walkabout.
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Scenario: You've spent an entire month waking up early to get a workout in, you've cut out junk food and soda, and you've ate more fruits and vegetables than you ever thought you would. Yet when you step on the scale, your weight hasn't budged. At this point, you may have decided to give up and let your weight dictate your day and how you feel.
Has this ever happened to you? The problem is, the scale can never tell the whole story. You may be losing or gaining weight...but where is this weight coming from? Muscle or fat?
If your overall goal is to be "skinny", let me start by saying that contrary to what the media and magazine covers want you to believe, skinny does not always mean you are healthy. Can you be skinny and unhealthy at the same time? Absolutely. Just because someone is at a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) doesn't automatically mean they are healthier than someone with a higher BMI. For many years, BMI has basically been the "standard" way of determining whether a person is healthy or at risk for health problems. Based on only your height and weight alone, with BMI you are categorized as either being "underweight", "normal", "overweight", or "obese". However, according to a recent study by the Mayo Clinic, as many as 10% of Americans may be "skinny fat" or "normal weight obese". Meaning, although these individuals are within normal BMI range, they can still have a high body-fat content, increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease and other health-related problems. The problem with BMI is it fails completely at differentiating between high body fat and lean muscle mass. I have seen this firsthand with my clients who are collegiate and professional athletes. According to BMI alone, they are considered "overweight" or "obese", yet many have less than 15% body fat. (Here's a chart on healthy body fat percentages.)
So instead of solely basing all your hard work by the number on the scale, how should you actually gauge your progress? Check up on your body fat. Whether you do this with an actual body fat device (i.e. skinfolds, BIA, bodpod, etc.) or you simply do this by monitoring how your clothes are fitting (muscle takes up less room in the body than fat, meaning you may look and feel leaner even at the same body weight). Knowing your body fat percent can help you make realistic goals on how much fat you want to lose. It can also tell you if you're losing lean muscle mass, which could be because you aren't eating enough or you're training too much. When you lose weight too quickly (i.e. more than the average healthy recommended max of 2 lbs per week), you are most likely also losing muscle and water...not just fat. The best example I have of this is the contestants on the show The Biggest Loser. This show gives viewers false and very unhealthy expectations for weight loss. I have honestly had a few clients refer to that show - telling me they "just don't know why they can't lose 14 lbs in a week" like the contestants on that show, when they feel frustrated after only losing one or two pounds a week. The ugly truth is that the contestants aren't going to sustain this weight loss, as it's primarily muscle and fat loss...and chances are, a few months after the show's ended, they will sadly gain it all back. Here's a great article on what has happened to many of the contestants after the show.
Body image is a person's perception of their physical self and the thoughts and feelings that result from that perception. Having a positive body image means that most of the time you see yourself accurately. You feel comfortable in your own body, and you feel confident about the way you look. Just like you can't base your progress with the number on a scale, you can't base it on what you see others doing on TV or the celebrities in magazines. It isn't realistic, and most importantly, it isn't your own journey. Your overall health, your hard work, and your self-worth is so much more than the number shown on a scale. Don't let that number or what you see in the media dictate your day or your confidence.
If you're looking for healthy ways to decrease your body fat, try these tips below:
1. Exercise - Try adding some resistance training to your routine. You don't need a gym membership for this...you could purchase a pair of hand weights to use at home or even perform body weight exercises 2-3 times per week to start. Along with resistance training, try getting in some cardio as well. Just 30 minutes a day of aerobic activity can help boost your metabolism and burn fat.
2. Cook at home! You'll greatly reduce the fat and sodium content in your food, and you can monitor exactly what's going into it. It's also a great way to get your whole family involved in something together. Check out my recipes page for simple recipes you can make at home.
3. Breakfast - Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Give your metabolism a boost by eating within 30 minutes of waking up! Studies have shown that people who eat breakfast everyday are 40% less likely to develop belly fat than those who don't. Here's some breakfast tips and recipes to get you started.
4. Eat Consistently - Skipping meals can be one of the worst thing for your metabolism. When people skip meals or decrease their calories significantly (<1000 calories/day), they go into "starvation mode" in which the body tries to compensate for the low calories. Your metabolic rate can actually decrease by as much as 10-15% doing this!! Your body will hold onto fat and burn lean muscle instead. So aim to eat a small meal or snack every 3-4 hours...here's some additional tips on healthy snacking.
5. Sleep! Studies show sleep loss affects the way we metabolize carbs, which could possibly lead to increased hunger or slowed metabolism. Lack of sleep can also interfere with your energy levels during the day, causing you to skip a workout because you're too tired. Try getting in at least 7 hours of sleep!
If you are unsure where to start, contact me and I can help design a plan to fit your personal needs and lifestyle!


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The National Academy of Sciences 1996 release of its National Science Education Standards caused the type of community discussion on science education not heard since Sputnik circled on high. All of us have a stake, as individuals and as a society, in scientific literacy, says Richard Klausner, Chairman of the National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment, and Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of Sciences, in the Call to Action introducing the Standards. We must all be vigilant and support the academys goal of helping all students achieve scientific literacy. Now, with the inclusion of earth science in the Standards, geoscientists can embrace the cause.
Inquiry-based learning provides the minds-on experiences of observing, inferring, and experimenting. This deeper approach gives students the skills that will not only educate them, but keep them thinking and turn them into lifelong learners. Whether the excitement of geoscience captures a students mind and she becomes a geologist, geomorphologist, hydrologist, geochemist, or geobiologist isnt the point. The goal is for students to experience the breadth of earth science, to see themselves in the world within a realistic context, and to understand what theyre walking on.
In this issue, we examine some of the educational initiatives the Standards have inspired. To start, we see how a group of educators and media experts are using computers in the classroom. Kent Kirkby (University of Minnesota) and colleagues describe the risks and advantages of teaching with computers. Designing an electronic component that meets the expectations of teachers and students is always challenging. Lessons must satisfy the teachers curriculum, engage the student, and, at the same time, function on a variety of computer platforms. Cost-conscious textbook publishers tell us that computer-based curricula must be cost effective or they cant be sustained. Well learn of the pitfalls and rewards of these educational experiments.
Barbara Tewksbury, chair of the geology department at Hamilton College, poses two critical questions: How do we recruit majors into geoscience departments? And, what should we teach students to prepare them for the multidisciplinary careers they will have in the coming century? Tewksbury suggests that, under the threat of dwindling departments, geoscience professors should present the geoscience degree as a stepping stone for a variety of professional careers. By learning about Earth, geoscience students will become better-informed citizens. However, in order to make this strategy work, geoscience faculty must stop viewing as failures the geology majors who dont pursue graduate school in the geosciences.
Also proposing changes in university geoscience departments is Robert Ridky, associate professor of geology at the University of Maryland and a past program director at the National Science Foundation. He offers a solution for creating a corps of quality geoscience teachers. The country may need almost 2 million new teachers over the next six years. Ridkey suggests adding teaching courses and certification to undergraduate geology programs for students interested in science education. The students can graduate as science majors and well have a better source of qualified teachers to serve the legions of future learners.
In our last feature, Michael Passow, who teaches earth science at the White Plains Middle School in White Plains, N.Y., looks at the changes in high school geological pedagogies over the past three decades and the modern use of the Web for education. Passow has braved many a reform initiative and, like many teachers, has an opinion to share about the trickle-down effect that national reform initiatives have in states and districts. Now, with more state legislators demanding accountability, educators must ensure that all students receive the science training that will help them secure work in coming decades. The new Standards have established a baseline. Realizing them is a challenge for each of us. Good reading.
Victor V. van Beuren, Editor, Geotimes
Michael J. Smith, Director of Education, American Geological Institute
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James N. Sessler – Attorney
Jim's legal practice has been as extensive as it has been varied since he became an attorney in 1976. Jim's experience in real estate law includes representing clients as varied as banking institutions throughout New England as well as the young couple who is becoming first home buyers. Jim has been an agent for First American Title Insurance Company since the early 1980s and a member of American Land Title Association. Jim practices civil law in the areas including wills, estates, elder law/guardianship, probate, real property (closings, title searches and title insurance), banking and the formation of closely held corporations and limited liability companies. He has also practiced municipal law since 1976 in areas which include zoning and planning, condemnation, real estate taxes, construction contracts, and public utilities regulation.
Jim's present association with a financial management firm allows him to interact with our clients during his lectures on estate planning, the probate process and elder law.
Jim's experience in municipal law includes representing and advising N.H. towns and cities, school boards, airport authorities and water districts. Jim was involved in the creation of the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project, a state and local multi-community sewer treatment and collection project. He has been involved in rate setting for the construction of water treatment plants. He has also been involved in condemnation projects for municipal landfills and airport expansions and navigation easements. Jim has extensive experience in contract administration and litigation, as well as municipal zoning and planning. He has appeared before all New Hampshire trial courts, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as well as numerous state agencies, such as the Public Utilities Commission, and the Board of Land and Tax Appeals. Jim has also helped settle many disputes through his roll as a court certified mediator. In addition he has appeared before federal agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. He frequently appears before local Planning Boards and Boards of Adjustment on behalf of our clients.
Jim was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Amherst, New Hampshire, graduating from the Milford Area High School in 1969. He worked in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional aide to Representative James Cleveland (N.H.) prior to practicing law. Jim is actively interested in sailing, hiking, fly fishing, fly tying, alpine skiing, and all things outdoors. He has maintained his interest in public service, having served as a Selectman for Laconia, N. H., a member of the N.H. Judicial Counsel by appointment of the Governor, and he was awarded the President's Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service in 1986, and again in 1987. Jim has lectured on municipal issues and co-authored a paper on Conflicts of Interest for Public Officials. He is the past state president of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. Jim has served on the Board of Trustees for the Peabody Home in Franklin N.H. and is a Corporator of Franklin Savings Bank.
Jim, and his wife, Sally have resided in Laconia, N.H. for over 30 years, where they raised three children.
Michelle Boisvert – Paralegal
Michelle Boisvert joined Sessler Law in early 2011. Michelle is a welcomed addition to the legal team because of her extensive background in the legal field. She earned her Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies from Hesser College and has over 17 years of paralegal experience. At Sessler Law, Michelle assists Jim and our clients in the preparation of estate plans, probate cases, LLC & Corporate formations, Bankruptcy and takes on administrative tasks. She works extensively with the staff of our principal banking and financial clients and assists Jim in his municipal projects working with the town officers and elected officials.
Michelle's past legal experience includes but is not limited to bankruptcy, divorce and custody, and guardian ad litem work.
Michelle is a New Hampshire native having grown up in Pembroke, NH. She lives in Concord, NH with her husband, Shawn and 3 boys, Brian, Brandan and Jordan.
In her free time Michelle enjoys reading, hiking, traveling and spending time with her family
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It is given out with at least 2 days to do it in so pupils can come and discuss any problems they may have.
Failure to do or bring in the set homework will result in doing it at lunchtime and also reflected in pupil's assertive mentoring gradings.
Pupils are also expected to read daily for at least 10-15 mins & to learn weekly spellings (given out on a Monday, test on the Friday). Spellings can be practised online on the SpellingCity website or SpellingCity app.
Failure to do this will be logged & reflected in the assertive mentoring gradings.
PE days are MONDAY & TUESDAY, children need a school PE kit and pumps or trainers for this. Failure to bring these in will be reflected in their assertive mentoring gradings.


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We should be intensely wary when the State takes on the role of a parent. That, surely, is the lesson of two very different tales of child protection this week.
The first is the shocking case of child abuse in Rotherham. 1,400 girls were sexually exploited, revealing a total failure of those charged with protection to investigate and pursue wrongdoing.
Political correctness blinded the authorities to a common factor, that these abuses were overwhelmingly being perpetrated by men in one ethnic group.
Box ticking, rather than the interests of the victim, dominated the response. And there appears to have been no accountability for these failures.
One key councillor at the time is now the elected Police & Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire. Yet he is meant to supervise a force which itself has questions to answer. Clearly his position is untenable, and a system of recall should be introduced so that such people can be removed from office.
His failures do not, however, mean that PCCs are a bad idea. The very visibility of the new office leads to a scrutiny that would have been far less acute had he merely continued as one of many members of an invisible police authority.
When I hear Labour blame the system of PCCs, I ask who selected Shaun Wright for office, and who ran Rotherham Council.
The second story this week is the polar opposite: not neglectful State action, but horribly misguided intervention by the authorities, allegedly to protect a child.
It was shocking that Ashya King's parents should have been arrested and imprisoned in Spain, as a result of a warrant issued by the authorities in Britain, when their only motive was to try and save their child.
Thanks to a public outcry and the Prime Minister's intervention they have been released and are being helped to secure the treatment that Ashya needs. But they should have never have been pursued in this way.
We've seen in West Sussex, with child protection failures in the Church and the County Council, what can go wrong when those charged with supervision fail to act.
When the State assumes responsibility for children, as sometimes it must, it has a duty to behave as a good parent. And a good parent would never allow a child to be harmed, or deny the love which a child needs.