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Ash and his friends are staying in a wintry mountain region which means lots of snow for all their Pokemon to play with. Togepi wanders into the woods and encounters a friendly Kangaskhan and its baby who's feeling shy. But the baby Kangaskhan grows curious when it sees all the other Pokemon playing and throwing snowballs at each other. Soon it's running around and and throwing snowballs with the best of them! Then Togepi and the baby Kangaskhan find a toy sled and take it for a ride which inspires all the other Pokemon to try sledding. One problem: there's a giant lake directly in their path!
Mama Kangaskhan leaps in to stop everyone from falling into the water and it turns out that Kangaskhan also makes a pretty good playground for small Pokemon. Everyone has lots of fun playing, but after a fun day in the snow, it's time for the two Kangaskhan to say goodbye. Then Ash and his friends come looking for their Pokemon who are especially happy to see them. There's nothing like the caring bond between a mother and its baby, or a Trainer and their Pokemon!


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Très beau travail !
Autant au niveau du rendu global que de l'intégration des icônes de cités ou les bannières.
Hi everyone,
My latest work, a private comission : The 5 Duchies of Lunesse, a regional map and Serdune, the Crimson City. Both are 2480x3508px size (uploaded images at 65% size). Lunesse's map was made in photoshop, using some hand-drawn elements and digital work. Serdune's map was first hand-drawn, then imported in photoshop for the color steps.
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Great work! The city is gorgeous and I like the overall palette on both maps
Fantastic work. Very reminiscent of Jared Blando's work. Once again, your capacity to output amazing work surpasses my ability to rep you.
Its a amazing map!!! I Remember the town detail from other maps
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After foiling Dr. Namba's evil scheme and saying goodbye to Ritchie, Oliver and Luka, Ash and co. set their sights on Olivine City once more. Heading back to Red Rock Isle (Transit Town to be more precise), they contact Janina who tells them Sparkle's felling a lot better. Unfortunately for them, they missed the ferry and the next one won't arrive until tomorrow. So they'll have to fly there courtesy of the legendary pilot Wings Alexander and his trusty sidekick Noctowl. After years of service will Wings be able to have one last great adventure, and what is the light shining in the distance?
- Wings's Noctowl appears to have a beard.
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There are six candidates running for the U.S Senate in Maine this fall to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe. Among them is 52-year-old Yarmouth businessman Steve Woods, who is running as an independent. Woods says he wants to challenge Mainers to become more involved in the democratic process, which he believes is broken. MPBN's State House Bureau Chief A.J. Higgins has this Your Vote 2012 profile.
If life is truly a journey, few of its travelers have taken as circuitous a route on their way to fame and fortune as Steve Woods. Back in 1977 when, at the age of 17, after graduating from high school in Needham, Massachusetts, he took a pass on college. Instead, he found his way into what would would eventually become known as the Route 128 high-tech corridor outside of Boston.
"I started with a computer software company. There were three people there," he says. "By the time I left a year-and-half later, there were 50, and I was asked to be a convention conference coordinator. I ended up arranging conventions in Las Vegas for the computer software company and that's where I met somebody named The Amazing Kreskin."
Woods said that association with Kreskin, a professional mentalist, led to the idea of launching a Texas off-shoot of Ed McMahon's Star Search series called the Wrangler Country Star Search, which he later sold. From there, Woods began a career as a sports agent who also explored advertising marketing and promotion.
Today he is the CEO of a Yarmouth-based, six-company marketing firm called TideSmart Global, and he's part-owner of the NBA D-League team, the Maine Red Claws. For his next challenge, Woods is trying to Convince Maine voters to send him to Washington to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe--and in the process, restore passion in the form of voter participation.
"The problem is the system is broken, democracy is broken," Wood says. "It is embarassing to me as a Mainer and as an American about what we've done to our democracy. It is embarassing, it is shameful that not just in Maine, but around the country that we send people to war to give the ultimate sacrifice of giving their lives for us when the majority of people cannot muster up 10 minutes or 20 minutes to be involved in the civics of democracy."
Woods, a former Democrat now turned political independent, will be 53 this month. His wife Katie is a Bangor native and they have three children. Woods says his kids should have the chance to live and work in Maine if they choose. And while Maine's economy has its challenges, he says they can be overcome.
"We have a huge infrastructure and we have a relatively weak economic engine," Woods says. "That's nobody's fault. You know, we don't have to blame everything on government or former politicians, but our economic engine is relatively small, giant infrastructure. So I think we have to be smarter in terms of how we develop our economy and how we grow things. And that's one of the reasons that I want to run for the United States Senate and that's one of the areas where I think I can contribute value here in Maine."
Woods supporters say his message offers voters a clear choice.
"Where Olympia Snowe has decided to back out due to what she sees as the failure of U.S. Democracy, Steve Woods, I think, brings a fresh, new perspective," says Phil Coupe, a partner in Revision Energy and Revision Heat in Liberty that specializes in renewable energy systems.
Coupe recently took the morning off from his job to attend a Woods press conference, and he says he likes the candidate's independent spirit. Although Coupe acknowledges that Woods lacks name recognition, he believes the candidate is well-equipped for the task.
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But staging a significant challenge to two major party candidates, and a field of three independents that includes former independent Gov. Angus King, will be a major undertaking for Woods, according to Ted O'Meara, a Portland political consultant who has yet to decide who he will support for the Senate.
O'Meara managed Eliot Cutler's independent gubernatorial campaign two years ago, and although he believes that an unknown with enough funding and the right message can break through to Maine's voters, it will be tough going for Woods.
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It bothers me that Americans, acting on behalf of my country and therefore on behalf of me, poured water in some people's faces to try to convince those people that they were drowning.
It bothers me, but I'm not sure it was a mistake.
My ambivalence stems largely from my inability to indulge in the fantasy that waterboarding, or any of the other unpleasant "interrogation techniques" my country has subjected certain people to over the past several years, happened simply because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are dullards and bullies.
I'm susceptible, when I ponder controversies, to a sort of peripheral vision, a condition which reminds me, with annoying persistence, that just because a lot of people shout that something is true does not mean that their truth is in fact merely one opinion among many.
If I were able to pass off America's treatment of suspected terrorists as purely psychotic — as the equivalent to scenes from "A Clockwork Orange, for instance — I could blithely condemn the actions as beyond justification and feel comfortable that, for me at least, the matter is settled.
Trouble is, the people who have suffered at our country's hands — and our sloshing buckets — think it's reasonable to hijack airliners and crash them into our skyscrapers, and they would happily inflict even more terrible damage on us if they had the chance.
Anyone who refuses to consider the ramifications of this fact before expounding on the topic of America's interrogation methods has, it seems to me, succumbed to intellectual laziness.
Many of the critics who chastise the Bush administration for employing tactics such as waterboarding insist that these acts are antithetical to the ideals upon which America was founded.
I hear much talk these days about our country's values, and repeated references to America's reputation as a nation of laws.
This is a tempting stance to take. People instinctively scramble to gain the moral high ground in unsavory matters such as this, and I understand the lure of resting your argument on the premise that America is too noble a place to ever mimic the brutal, if effective, ways of less enlightened lands.
The only flaw in this conclusion is the overwhelming evidence which proves it false.
That America is a great country, and one which stands, in word as well as act, for freedom and justice and against subjugation and torture, is beyond dispute.
Yet the notion that America has always rated its ideals, which are theoretical and ill-defined, as more valuable than the lives of its people, which are absolutely real, is nonsense.
It's also naive, perhaps dangerously so.
I have always believed that our government's most sacred duty is to protect its citizens, for the simple reason that it is hard to partake of America's wealth of freedoms when you're dead.
The dilemma is deciding how far we should go.
Germany was a pretty safe place to live in the 1930s, after all — but only if you could prove your lineage was in order and you looked the other way when thugs busted the windows in your Jewish neighbors' house.
The current controversy involves America's record since Sept. 11, 2001. When I compare that period with the rest of the country's 233-year history it seems to me that our recent leaders have shown a greater capacity for restraint than certain of their predecessors.
I suspect the people of Dresden and Nagasaki and Hiroshima would agree with me.
In 1945, the final year of World War II, America killed hundreds of thousands of residents in those cities. I doubt any of those people, even if poured water on them, could have told us anything that would have allowed us to thwart a planned attack inside our borders.
We honored the Americans who dropped the bombs on those cities by branding them as the greatest generation. And they deserve the title.
Yet contrast the nation's reaction to their deeds with what's going on now.
We are again at war. Except this enemy has proved that it's capable of hurting us in a way Hitler could only dream of.
Rather than raze a few cities, we captured some of the people who would like to kill Americans.
We put these people in cells. We fed them and clothed them and we made sure they have copies of the Koran.
And, yes, we got pretty rough with some of these prisoners — including subjecting several to waterboarding.
Yet some government officials contend (I've not yet seen definitive proof of this) that waterboarding elicited confessions which enabled us to prevent attacks that could have killed thousands of Americans.
President Obama told the nation the other night that he believes waterboarding is torture. The president said America's use of the tactic "corrodes our character."
I think he's right.
And I agree with the president that America's character is one of its greatest attributes, and one we ought to guard jealously.
But it seems to me important to ask who exactly has detected these blossoms of rust that have tarnished our reputation, and to wonder whether their eyesight truly is more keen than those who see America as unblemished.
I'm worried, as Mr. Obama is, about corrosion.
But I also remember that 7fi years ago, before the country's reputation was supposedly at stake, it was Americans' flesh and bones that were being corroded, and if we are willing now to dismiss this as trivial then I fear we have begun to lose our way.
I don't mean to imply that I think President Obama lacks the fortitude, much less the inclination, to protect his constituents. I trust the man.
But I hope he believes as strongly as I do that dedication to saving lives is a value which Americans treasure as much as any other.
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Twenty-eight cartography and geography majors at East Central University and their three faculty members left their classrooms for the geography of the Oklahoma panhandle recently to attend the Oklahoma Academy of Science (OAS) Fall Field Meeting.
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East Central University has a $143 million impact on Oklahoma's economy, according to a statewide analysis conducted by Regional Economic Models Inc. for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.
The study shows that individual institutions of higher education are a vital economic engine, and the resources invested in them have a high rate of return and contribute to improved economic prosperity for their communities.
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Flutist Juliana Overmier, an adjunct instructor of music at East Central University, will perform a concert with accompanist Dr. Samuel Magrill at 3 p.m. Sunday [NOV. 9] in Lindsay.
The Lindsay Civic Arts Council will present the free concert at the United Methodist Church, 114 W. Chickasaw Street in Lindsay. A reception will follow.
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Douglas Humpherys, chair of the piano department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., will perform a solo piano concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 [SATURDAY] in the Dorothy Summers Theatre at East Central University. The concert is free and open to the public.
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Photographs of life in Calcutta shot by three East Central University students and their instructor will be on exhibit beginning Thursday [NOV. 6] in the Hallie Brown Ford Atrium of ECU's Linscheid Library.
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Auditions for roles in East Central University's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 10 [MONDAY] for non-ECU students and community members and at 4 p.m. Nov. 11 [TUESDAY] for ECU students.
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Noted historian Dr. Marvin Kroeker, retired chair of the History Department at East Central University, will be honored Nov. 6 [THURSDAY] for his longtime service to ECU and the community.
ECU's Department of History and Native American Studies will host a reception for Kroeker at 4 p.m. in Danley Hall. Following the reception, a bench will be dedicated in his name on the Tom Crabtree Honor Plaza on the east side of Science Hall.
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Best-selling author Dr. Ali Shehata will present a lecture on Islam Nov. 10 [MONDAY] at East Central University. He will discuss "Is Islam a Threat to Our Freedom?" at 7 p.m. in the Estep Multimedia Center in the University Center.
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Renee Finney, 42, died in her Moreno Valley home Tuesday. She leaves behind three children.
Finney's family members tell our sister station KGTV she had been battling cancer for more than a year and was discovered by one of her daughters who came to check up on her. They believe she had been dead for more than a day inside her home.
"My sister called and said, 'Momma -- she's cold and she's not breathing and she won't wake up,'" said Finney's oldest daughter, 25-year-old Karries. "I had to run by my sister's side and I saw my mom laying there."
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(WUSA)- There is a race to stop a family of once-rare bacteria that has evolved to elude the strongest drugs we have. Death rates with these infections are around 40%.
A USA Today investigation tracked the of these lethal germs to healthcare facilities in 42 states, including Maryland, Virginia and the District. And Nine News first told you about one of these outbreaks at NIH this past summer.
The bacteria that plagued the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health for more than a year infected 19 people; 7 of them died from the infections. And no matter what extreme infection control measures were taken, (a wall was built to isolate infected patients in a separate wing, and plumbing ripped out that could harbor the bacteria), the superbug stayed.
That doesn't surprise investigative journalist Peter Eisler of USA TODAY.
In the course of his reporting, he found that, "the conventional wisdom with CRE is that once it is in a hospital it is virtually impossible to eliminate."
CRE stands for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae , and describes strains of bacteria that have become resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.
Eisler says, "They are the last thing in the medical community's toolbox. So when you have an infection that doesn't respond to these particular drugs, there is literally nothing doctors can do for you, they just have to essentially hope that you can tough it out."
Eisler says CRE infections can manifest in many ways, from pneumonia to urinary tract infections. They tend to strike immuno-compromised people, those with major illnesses, or who've undergone organ transplants or chemotherapy. Our nation's sickest patients often visit or are transferred to several hospitals rehab centers, and long-term care facilities. CRE can travel with them, and the staff may not realize a patient is colonized.
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I just love a good fuss. There's something truly entertaining about adults frothing at the mouth and blowing an issue all out of proportion.
That seems to be the case in Providence, R.I., where the teachers union is all up in arms over the school system's decision to send out dismissal notices to all 1,926 teachers in the city.
School officials say the notices make sense. As Superintendent Tom Brady told the Providence Journal, state law requires the district to notify teachers by March 1 if there's the possibility that their employment status could change.
And, confronted with a potential $40 million budget deficit next year, "a dismissal letter to all teachers was necessary to give the mayor, the school board, and the district maximum flexibility to consider every cost savings option, including reductions in staff."
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An investigation into the biogeography of the Antarctic Continent has identified fifteen distinct regions on the continent and on its near-shore islands.
Antarctica divided into distinct biogeographic regions
The Australian Antarctic Division has released a study, published in Diversity and Distribution Journal, that examines the geography, geology, climate, flora and fauna of the ice-free areas of Antarctica and has indentified biologically-distinct Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions.
The lead author and Australian Antarctic Division terrestrial biologist Dr Aleks Terauds, said this is the first time there has been a continent-wide assessment of the biogeography of Antarctica using all of the available biodiversity data.
"Previously terrestrial Antarctica has been divided into 2 main areas based on aspects like geography geology or specific types of biodiversity," Dr Terauds said.
Antarctic moss. Credit: Roger Kirkwood. "The new research amalgamated 38,000 terrestrial records including the diverse biology such as microbes, invertebrates and plants. It revealed a complex ecosystem which can be divided into 15 very distinct and potentially delicate biogeographic regions which are characterized by different climates, landscapes and species," Dr Terauds said.
Introduced species are identified as one of the biggest threats to the Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, particularly in a warming climate.
"With about 40,000 people visiting Antarctica over a summer, as tourists, scientists or station support personnel, there's the potential more species will be accidently transferred to and within Antarctica."
"While quarantine procedures are already in place for inter-continental travel, such as cleaning clothing and equipment before arriving in Antarctica, there are less biosecurity measures for intra-continental movement," he said.
"The Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions represent an important basis for biosecurity measures to manage the risk of species, including species native to Antarctica, being transferred from one biogeographic zone to another."
The collaborative effort, which involved scientists from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the UK identified the 15 areas as:
- North-east Antarctic Peninsula
- South Orkney Islands
- North-west Antarctic Peninsula
- Enderby Land
- Dronning Maud Land
- East Antarctica
- North Victoria Land
- South Victoria Land
- Transantarctic Mountains
- Ellsworth Mountains
- Marie Byrd Land
- Adelie Land
- Ellsworth Land
- South Antarctic Peninsula.
While Antarctica already has a series of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, delegates at the ATCM are being urged to develop a broader representation of conservation regions based on this new biogeographic assessment.
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- Map of Biogeographic Regions
- Diversity and Distribution Journal paper
- Weeding out the aliens in Antarctica
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Top officials of the Ministry of Communications and Transport were in control of the lease project for an A 320 Airbus while the ATCL management as well as the board were bystanders and passive executors of the project, a veteran ATCL insider has declared in a personal newspaper column.
Byase Luteke, the pen name of a veteran member of the ATCL management who is privy to what goes on in the Board of Directors, made this observation in an article meant to give "a dialogue perspective on ATCL's A 320 saga" in his weekly column specialising in aviation matters, in the Business Times.
Essentially criticising the reporting on the lease by this newspaper, the columnist and ATCL insider made two critical observations, first that the lease process was tied to "government business" as it had a greater stake in the issue than the ATCL management, which was caught in the middle by a rapidly changing scenario of a far-flung business engagement.
The second key observation was that the lease was only a side-show to a more important concern at least on the part of the Chinese firm Sonangol, which entered into the disturbing lease contract with ATCL via its subsidiary, Wallis Trading also based in the Far East.
Luteke particularly objected to fingering David Mattaka, then ATCL chief executive officer saying that intimating he was responsible for the event "is tantamount to scapegoating," elaborating that "had the CSHL (China Sonangol Holding Corporation) deal been successful, credit would have gone to the government, not the CEO. Finally, ATCL isn't creditworthy to buy aircraft on its own."
What this means to observers is that the A 320 lease affair entirely started and ended with the principal shareholder, that is, the government, and this insinuation is brought out when Luteke explains the reaching of the lease contract and who made the decision, or was reticent to reverse some previous decision.
It means that while the shareholder's business, ATCL isn'\t creditworthy enough to purchase even one aircraft, the principal shareholder has adequate funds to commit to a lease contract whose total implication is the purchase of two new aircraft of the sort that was being leased.
It is thus not a question of the govrnment not having the capital to inject into ATCL to purchase new aircraft and engage in aviation business with candor and dignity, but a deliberate maintaining of a hobbling ATCL so that, on the pretext that it has no aircraft, lucrative lease contracts where half of the money goes into foreign bank accounts of state officials can be arranged.
That this is the case is noticed in the writer's explanation of how two aspects of the lease played out to the finale, first the fact that the signing of a loose contract for a plane that was soon to be grounded was shareholder interest rather than the management, and second, the state reneged on promises to CSHL.
From the overall account that Luteke makes of what CSHL has committed to ATCL, this activity wasn't an expansionary activity of own airline business or anything of the sort, but rather as a 'sweetener' to other projects it was pursuing, chiefly obtaining rights or concessions for exploring some rare minerals.
While the writer doesn't quite clarify on what this entailed, speculation shall unavoidably focus on the continuing tussling among two or three major powers to obtain exclusive rights on the uranium extraction zone.
Among the bidders is a Russian firm which has some discreet government support, and one or two US multinationals whose government support hasn't quite come out yet, but if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out in fulsome praise for a 100 MW jet engine thermal power facility, what of State Department concern as to who obtains rights to a uranium concession?
The question that comes up is who engineered the faulty contract, as three parties are involved, or say four of them, two on one side and two on the other, namely China Sonangol and Wallis Trading on one hand, and then the Ministry of Transport and then ATCL on the other hand, which the writer gives clues while not raising the matter substantially.
On the face of it, one would form an impression that Wallis Trading was a secondary entity that China
Sonangol uses for its marginal trade activities, for instance in this case, where controversy is likely to arise on the good faith underlining the contract, so it is advisable that the brand name be spared the blame throwing.
In like manner on the other side, officialdom in the ministry would have found it difficult to engage the government outright in such a scheme, so it it helpful if there is a state airline badly in need of lease aircraft, and through such need, a whopping 300bn/- and counting could be arranged as liabilities for plane leasing.
The point is that bureaucracy needs to find a way of siphoning such amounts of money from the govenrment, so it should be large enough so that it is adequate for all parties involved, here meaning the various layers of bureaucracy (in the sense of sector ministries, financial institutions and proper state authorities) as well as the foreign companies enabling the siphoning of money to take place.
In other words the plane lease in its loose manner was something that the ministry wanted, in precisely the manner indicated by Luteke, which is sensible because ATCL, even if it had a penchant for rather bad contracts, would at least make sure that the plane is working even if the payments are large.
ATCL as an aviation firm would be hard put to arrange an aircraft effigy with which to siphon away cash, but the ministry is a different matter as their professional status or dignity isn't affected by the state of ATCL aircraft – outsourcing trouble the way CSHL asks Wallis Trading to do its dirty work.
Evidently CSHL could not have been the source of the problem because its interests were in strategic minerals, not defrauding petty cash from rock bottom ailing Third World aviation firms, while Wallis Trading could not have engineered such contract as it would have to be presumptous so as to believe aforehand that ATCL would accept it. Only the ministry would be undisturbed and capable of pulling it.