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Eevee TF Series
Part 4
Chapter III
With every passing second standing on the rocks, another chilling blow crashed against Ron's racing heart. The last thing he had seen was Valencia jumping into the water after they saw Eevee struggle and go under. That was well over two minutes ago, before the sight of bubbles streaming towards the surface and bursting made his eyes bulge and his knees buckle. With each internal punch of his racing heart, his mind screamed No!, desperately hoping his friend was okay. The violent barrage in his chest was soothed only by a subtle display of blue and teal lights which emanated calmly from the deepest part of the lake, as if the moon had taken residence in the sandy lake bed.
Any plan he tried to formulate inevitably dissolved before it could take shape. Valencia was the best swimmer he knew, and she would immediately know what to do in such a situation. A million thoughts rushed through his head, such as how a novice could possibly hope to rescue an expert, or what could be waiting for him if he did dive after her. The anxiety and helplessness began to drag him down in a similar fashion, and his breathing thinned.
Another strong convulsion finally shook him free of his shock. The flow of frantic thoughts through his pale head was suddenly cut off as he made up his mind. Without any hesitation he waded his way to the waist-deep water, fully clothed, and awkwardly dived under the surface.
His eyesight underwater was terrible. All he could see was pale green, and occasional dark-brown rocky blurs. There was no trace of any more bubbles, and he could no longer see any of the dazzling blue lights. The sun shone down on the surface above and cast shimmering rays down to the hazy sandy floor, providing him with minimal lighting. He continued to move in the direction Valencia had gone under, not seeing any trace of her.
Come on, Val, where are you... His head spun meticulously in every possible direction, with only the infinite turquoise surrounding him. He kept thinking to himself, Oh man, oh man, oh man! Val, where are you? With a bubbly grunt he shot upwards to the surface and gasped for much-needed air. Valencia often teased him for his measly 20 second breaths, but he was pushing his way into the 30s. As soon as the water trickled out of his tightly-clenched eyes, he scoffed, finding himself much further out than he had planned to go, almost 80 feet further than he wanted to go. With a groan, he began to put the summer swimming camp he went to as a kid to use, and stroked his way over to the shore to try and regather himself, still keeping a rigid eye out for anything he didn't see before.
Back on the rocky shore, Ron paced along the water's edge as he nervously grabbed at his soaked hair. He tried his best to let the natural serenity around him calm him down so he could organize his thoughts, with little success.
A quick, sudden movement in the water caught his attention, and his focus entirely snapped towards it. Too deliberate to be a fish or an insect, he could faintly see a small brown submerged blur sailing towards the shore, creating a noticeable wake like that from a small boat. It was unmistakably Eevee, as a few soaked features occasionally stuck out of the lake, but Ron saw no sign of Valencia's bright one-piece. As Eevee approached, Ron bolted over towards the shore to meet him, still keeping his eyes out for Valencia.
At about twenty feet away, the blur began to slow down and the flanking waves relaxed. Ron could definitely make out Eevee's features- his head, tail, tiny legs. Though, he could not comprehend how he was swimming because his paws were motionless; in fact, it became apparent that he wasn't moving on his own at all. His eyes were closed, likely unconscious. Yet, as he approached, all Ron could think about was Valencia's whereabouts. Now ten feet away, Ron could faintly see a nearly invisible blur following Eevee, making the water behind him surge and ripple. Eevee's static form continued to float towards him, slowing ever more as he entered the knee-deep water.
At last something popped out of the water, though it surprised Ron because it was not brown, or furry at all. A navy-blue line of firm ridges jutted out of the water and bobbed just above the surface behind the brown blur. Ron remarked at how well they blended with the water, completely disappearing when submerged. As it got closer, more and more of the bumps became visible, bobbing further out of the water. Surrounding the ridges underneath was a tenuous turquoise-blue island that floated lamely on the surface before submerging again. A pair of flat turquoise flaps soared up occasionally at the end of the elusive blue tract.
"What the hell," Ron mumbled, a familiar hand covering his lips in a bewildered gesture. Whatever was bringing Eevee to him appeared to be some aquatic creature, with pale-blue skin which glimmered brilliantly in the sunlight and a two-pointed tail like a dolphin's dripping with white water. Before Ron could see any more detail, it completely submerged again. The mysterious creature then pounced completely out of the water and onto the rocky shore, carrying Eevee gingerly by his mane. The two landed in a dripping-wet pile near Ron's feet, making him jump back. Now completely out of the water, he could see exactly what it was that was following Eevee.
In a nearly-motionless disheveled heap lay a furless cat-like figure. Its sky-blue body was gently heaving, panting with closed eyes. Gleaming with moisture, the creature's skin was hard to look at without being blinded by reflected sunlight. The line of short dark-blue bumps which announced its presence like a shark's fin lined the creature's back from the tail all the way to the head. A regal, pointed, pearl-white mane resembling a fin wrapped completely around the neck. The small head was decorated on each side with a pale-yellow, blue-rimmed fan of an ear, with a similar fin crowning the watery beast.
The strange creature panted heavily in front of him with slender legs sprawled out across the grass. Its large eyes were tightly and fearfully squeezed shut, and it made continuous gasping sounds through its pointed teeth each time it panted, Vape, vape, vape, vape...
Ron knelt down, keeping his distance. Somehow he knew he had seen the creature's shape somewhere before. As he heard the sounds of the rapid breathing, he began to connect the dots, recalling his earlier conversation with Valencia.
"And you have those awesome abilities- powers over your environment and the elements."
""Yeah, I remember you saying something like that, like your favorite- that bluish what's-it's-name..."
"Vaporeon," he whispered, remembering. He had seen the figure before, countless times, but he had never paid much attention, nor had any of the pictures which Valencia shoved in his face ever resembled something as realistic as what was sprawled out in front of him. He blinked, recalling his recent encounter with Umbreon, and the calm awe he felt in front of the strange dark creature, which looked remarkably similar to the majestic one at his knees. He took a deep breath and calmly reached over in front of him, placing his unshaking hand on the pointed forehead crest above the stiffly clenched eyes. The eyelids loosened as Ron's shadow covered them. When his warm palm touched the cool, smooth skin, they fluttered open and looked wearily up at him in a dazed squint. Ron's immediate impression was how beautiful they seemed. They shook in confusion for a moment, trying to collect an image of the hand's owner. Ron noticed a faint hint of hazel-green around the eyes' edges amidst the enigmatic ink-black irises. As they focused on his figure, however, all traces of the light brown color seemed to dissolve away, replaced by a deep-purple tint in the dark abyss.
It blinked slowly, and then turned its head a little more, groaning. He had made a similar sound waking up that morning, though it was with much more annoyance than the gentle, curling hum the creature made. The corners of its mouth twitched as they strained to pull up in a faint smile, then its lips parted in a wider smile, which appeared to take all of its energy. Out of its pink mouth came a soothed Rrreooooonnnn... before the head fell back to the ground.
The yellow flipper on the side of its head fell across Eevee, who was lying in a similarly collapsed position next to the Vaporeon. Ron had almost forgotten about the furry mess, and he leaned over him apologetically. He removed the fin and uncovered the shivering brown soaked figure, which looked as if he was just waking up from a long nap. He coughed with short articulated chirps, and small spouts of water shot out of his tiny mouth. He looked up at Ron, with an exhausted, yet delighted expression as he sighed back down. A deep pant from his blue savior made his head spin, and with a grunt he pounced onto the wide belly, curling up with satisfaction. The Vaporeon lay still, totally blacked out.
Wishing not to disturb the stranger, Ron reached over and tried to remove Eevee. He received, however, an angry series of whines and bites.
"Come on, Vee, leave them alone, we gotta go find Val-"
Eevee-Vee! Eevee seemed to be very adamantly attached to the blue creature, as though the lifeless heap was a long-lost parent. He looked up at Ron with a surprisingly stubborn expression, making Ron draw back.
"Hey, stop that, now's not the time." Ron insisted, looking out over the still water, the familiar nervous pounding of his heart returning. Still, Eevee resisted. "What happened down there? Where's Val?"
Eevee stood up on Vaporeon's side with a wet, obstinate look, and squinted with determination. Vee! He lifted his paw up in the air and thrust it back down into Vaporeon's side indignantly. Vaporeon's chest rippled beneath it, though it did not stir.
Ron's nerves were beginning to burn as confusion added smoke to the flames. "No, no. Where's Valencia?"
Again Eevee's paw poked at Vaporeon with a chirp.
Ron's head spun with a mixture of emotions. He felt like an idiot arguing with the young fox. In a confused frenzy after the ridiculous day, an icy nervous needle pricked his skin, as he felt thoroughly fearful that Eevee might actually be trying to answer his questions. "So, this- what, you're saying that this is Valencia?"
Eevee nodded his head with wet exasperation, giving the blue skin another affirmative prod.
Ron felt a shiver go down his back. Even with foreign animals, a nod was a universally affirmative sign, though there was obviously some misunderstanding. "No, that's not Val. This looks nothing like-" as he looked down at the gently closed eyes and the slender forelegs, Ron's mind was soaked in a chilling wave of familiarity.
The more he denied that the blue fish creature could possibly be his friend, the more he began to imagine it was possible. Clinging to the belief that she was alright began to drag him into accepting Eevee's testimony, as ridiculous as it seemed. His face was flushed white with the realization that the idea made somewhat poetic sense, but only somewhat. Valencia had always dreamt about what it would be like to be one of the fantastic creatures she constantly talked about. She was the one that went into the lake to rescue Eevee, and this creature came out of the water holding Eevee by his mane.
Ron's head shook painfully. He felt his thoughts dancing to insanity's lullaby as the logic began to sink in, as he began to accept the impossible notion. He had no idea what to do but stand aloof and watch Eevee cuddle on top of the motionless being.
"Impossible, impossible, no..." he kept mumbling. "Val? Oh, my god..." his breathing took off. He held his chest tightly, worried he might collapse with the others. "What the hell... oh god, Val..." He continued ruminating on the facts and, as he began to conclude, the creature before him could only be Valencia.
He tore his gaze from the chaotic enigma of the two creatures and looked across the lake at the green, wooded mountains in the distance. He looked up at the serene mountainous towers that eclipsed the sun. He began calming down, slowly starting to become accustomed to his incredible situation.
"What do I do..." he pondered as paced over to the rock his jacket was still drying on. "That hotel allows animals, right?" Eevee looked up at Ron and chirped affirmatively. He reluctantly ripped himself off of the stand-in Valencia figure and crawled up Ron's leg to sit next to his head on the rock. He gave him a friendly lick to the temple before shaking out his matted fur.
"Thanks," Ron retorted, getting his face sprayed with water. He wiped it off and reached for his jacket. In one of the pockets he felt for his phone, quickly wiping away the water from the screen and turning it on. He hastily reached into his wet pants pocket and also took out a flimsy card that had a number on it. He tried his best to read it, pounded the numbers into his phone, and called. While the phone rang he rummaged through Valencia's bag and grabbed a couple of bright-colored beach towels. He gently placed one over Valencia's limp blue body and wrapped her up snugly. He picked up the bundle and gently laid it across the rock slab. A hefty voice sounded on his cell phone.
"Hello, Don? It's Ron. I need a cab over at the lake. Now."
Aged trees loomed formidably overhead as the golden-haired figure sneaked down the worn dirt path. On each side of the path, lush grass reached out desperately to touch him but fell short at the dirt's edge as he rushed past. He almost expected to hear wolves howling in the distance and fog springing up around him to block his path, forever encasing him in the isolated jungle. Despite the fear that he was running through some fantastic dreamscape, Eric pushed on, stopping every few minutes to aim his camera and take a picture of a cluster of fungus or a fallen tree blanketed in dewy moss. Looking ahead, he faintly made out the outline of an old wooden bridge. The river was close, and he was dying to capture some water shots. He stopped and paused a moment to listen for any eavesdropping voices and made a dash for the bridge, careful not to step on any crisp leaves or trip over any outcropping roots.
The old wooden boards creaked under his steps as Eric walked onto the bridge, with aging burgundy paint chipping and peeling away, revealing rusted screws. The wood was damp, as was the misty air above the river. On either side of him a sloshing stream passed beneath, gurgling its way down to the expansive Lake Windbell below. The hydrology of the park was particularly interesting in that a natural spring halfway up the slope supplied the stream with very cool underground water. Eric dipped a cupped hand into the incoming water and tasted it, remarking at the straight-from-the-bottle flavor.
He wiped his hand gently on his pants and began quickly snapping several shots in both directions of the stream. Letting the abstractist inside him get carried away, he leaned over the bridge railing to get a straight-down shot of the water, hoping to focus on his minimalist reflection. He mused at the last picture on his screen before a perplexed frown crept across his face.
"What the hell is that?" he muttered to himself in silent confusion. Glancing at the bottom of the screen, he noted a slender whitish streak that resembled an old root, or perhaps some discarded trash which was ruining his pristine picture. He pursed his lips at the thought. With the press of a button his camera image zoomed towards the odd object strewn across the dark bank.
"What is that?" His whisper was swallowed by the stoic, indifferent stream below. As he leaned further over the railing and squinted, trying to peer under the bridge, he recoiled at the sight he saw. A small, panicked shriek broke out and interrupted the peaceful setting around him. His shaky hands tried to seize his camera, which spun out of his grasp and fell to the grassy bank below. He stood frozen on the bridge, with his face bleached white. He spun around and heard shouting and knew that the patrols had heard the yelp, and were going to be headed his way soon, stacking his anxiety against him quickly like a small rock in a flooding river. Faced with the prospect of being caught sneaking around in a crime scene he had no choice but to jump over the railing, into the scene he hoped to never see again. With a grunt he hurled himself over and landed with a quiet splash in the water, trying hard not to make a sound. He scrambled for his camera and, jumping backwards, sat curled up under the bridge.
Eric wished he was somewhere, anywhere else. The peaceful forest he thought he knew was suddenly unmasked and reality splashed in his face like the icy cold water soaking his ankles. His breathing ran away from him, exhausted from his stunt and from fear. He could hear heavy footsteps approaching from further down the path. He sat still and quiet, eyeing and cursing the thing that startled him and sent him to his watery grave in the first place. Across the stream from him lay the bleached-white figure of what used to be a young woman, motionlessly staring at him from her crude grave.
The poor soul was sprawled across the bank laying on her side underneath the bridge. Her knee and hand were carelessly resting in the icy mountain water which flowed freely between her bloated fingers. She had on old, ragged jeans and a loose-fitting coat that covered up most of her body like a blanket, her only comfort. The only thing that brought humanity back into Eric's mind was the small camera that she held in one of her waxy hands. The eyes, pale yet deep brown, were buried in her white head which rested on a rock and stared intently across the flowing water at Eric's camera.
Her calm gaze made her look contrite, as though she was tucked away under the ancient bridge by choice. Not one part of her appearance suggested any violent end; there were no bloodstains- in fact, her body looked completely untouched. Another look at her camera, still clenched tightly in one of her hands, ripped all sense of security from his quivering soul. What made her different from any other wandering photographer, such as himself? It could have been him in her place. A chilling sympathy made him wish he could take her place. A wind rushed by and he shivered fiercely under her steady, unblinking gaze. His mind raced, trying hard to think of a plan. All of his pondering was broken by the abrupt, thundering sound of slowing footsteps over the bridge.
"It was right around here."
"Get ready, he might pop out of anywhere."
Eric heard the two men above him fingering unseen weapons, allowing the metal pieces to clink menacingly, sending shivers down his already-freezing spine. A glance back at his unenthusiastic companion did not give him the consolation he hoped for. Eric shifted around in crucial stealth and held his breath as the light shining through the boards was broken by the two officers. Each was stern-eyed and clad in light-brown with a small, gleaming gun held at a formidable ready position.
Eric heaved a delicate sigh of relief as he heard the footsteps fade into the sound of the wind behind him. If he was spotted by the authorities in a closed park- a crime scene- with a dead woman... his thoughts trailed off into a million scenarios where he was desperately trying to deny being a killer. When he could no longer hear the officers mumbling between themselves, he slowly poked his head out of the shadows of the bridge-crypt to look around. No movement caught his eyes, nor was there any sign of the light-brown-clad officers to be seen. Grateful for their speedy departure, he carefully got back onto his feet to leave, but he paused as he stared back at the pale, innocent body. The nameless woman held her camera close to her chest, as if coveting it more than her own life. Curious, Eric mouthed the words "Excuse me," as he reached forward and snatched the camera, which only had a faint smell to its worn plastic casing.
With a press of a small, dirt-ridden button, he stepped into the eyes of the recently deceased. It was a proper camera, he admitted, for the environment she was surveying, and he envied it only slightly. Lightweight, with a decent lens, and the color was subtle and attractive. The old, slightly-cracked screen flickered on, and in a few moments Eric had opened up the memory to look at the last pictures the owner had taken, the last glimpses of the world. Remarkably, and many were like the ones that he had taken; landscapes, greenery, a fallen tree, the bridge above them.
One picture in particular called his attention: a small hand holding a bundle of bright green leaves, with nothing else really standing out, except for the calm simplicity of the photo. He lifted a knowing eye towards the woman, who he could only guess shared his nature aesthetic. Underneath the warm, life-imbued hand which held the leaves was a autumnal ground covered in vivid, red-brown leaves and small smooth pebbles peppering the ground. This picture was the most recent, according to the timestamp, and he was relieved to not see any evidence of a violent death captured in the digital memory. Eric reflected on the curious picture in silent awe, contemplating the picture's meaning in sympathetic vain. Perhaps she was simply collecting all the green leaves in the area? He began to feel like he was digging too deep into the picture, which may have not had any intended statement whatsoever. Come on, Eric, his head mumbled, you're not an art major, are you?
With hesitation, he turned off the camera and walked back towards the body to return the treasure he borrowed. The temptation to steal the camera's memory card was mounting, as the mystery of the last picture was still stinging in his mind like a mosquito's bite. The fact that his fingerprints were now all over the instrument only made the stinging burn more intensely. At the same time, however, the thought of depriving the woman of her only possession didn't feel right at all, and with a mute grunt, he returned the camera to her daisy-white arms. A dim smile seemed to lighten up the face, though Eric swore it must have been like that the whole time.
The afternoon sun lit up his hair as he carefully stepped into the stream and stepped out from under the bridge's cool shelter. Feeling watched, he turned around to face the scene again and decided to snap a shot of the woman from a distance, in case the law caught up with him and he was questioned about the incident. He could always claim to be the guy who reported seeing the body in the first place, if nobody else was going to claim knowledge.
With one last look at the cold woman's bony fingers, he turned and continued deeper into the park, cautiously avoiding the patrolling officers who were apparently already alert. He tried to calm himself down by insisting he had never met the deceased at the bridge, and assuring himself that the police had left and it was okay to be there, doing what he was doing. Everything he said was immediately refuted by his anxious heart as it beat against his chest faster than his walking pace. He broke into a nervous sweat and picked up his pace to a controlled jog, though not avoiding a creeping lightheadedness. Paranoid, he kept looking frantically back over his shoulder to make sure he wasn't being followed, though he constantly felt like he was being trailed closely by some unseen shadowy presence.
As his jog evolved into a careful sprint, he stumbled into another fork in the road and froze stiff, panting as bullets of sweat dropped to his feet. His memory of the park's layout escaped him, and on top of that he was certain someone had heard him by now. He began frantically scanning the area for a sign to tell him how to escape the forest, still keeping his ears out for any voices as he tried to decide what to do. Both paths looked exactly alike, as the rest of the park was beginning to look. The light was starting to fade as well, not aiding his vision in the slightest. His foot set down on the left path, before the sound of footsteps in the distance seized him. His head turned, wide-eyed, to see the outlines of the officers he saw before. One of them looked up and did a double-take ahead with surprise.
"Stop! Freeze!" the other shouted, as if Eric wasn't already. He saw them charge forward in tandem, weapons drawn. His mouth gaped open and, not thinking, bolted down the left path without a clue as to where it would take him. Behind him shouts rang out telling him to stop and to freeze, but none of these warnings could be heard over the clash of his feet and the wind rushing past. All he could think about was thrusting one foot out in front of the other in rapid succession, doing anything to escape the nightmare he had gotten himself into. He found himself blindly running down winding paths without thinking about where they led or what could be down them; it was a miracle he had not already run right back into them.
His golden hair whipped against his face as he looked up at the trees passing over him at a steady pace. The shouts were slowly getting softer behind him, and he felt some of his overwhelming rush of fear melt away like a breaking fever. His only hope was that he would be able to make it out without any problems. After all, he only wanted some pictures. His heart thumped painfully as it struggled just to keep him on his feet. All he could hear was the wind howling past his ears and his feet slamming into the hard ground in front of him. A grin finally surfaced on his face: he had finally escaped, and his pace slowed down to a more comfortable jog, before a piercing shock wave pierced the calm forest air, echoing and ringing in his ears.
Fractions of a second passed before he felt something like fire biting at his leg. Suddenly he lost all feeling below his knee and he tripped over an unseen root. He flew and tumbled a couple feet, still going very fast, and he heard a loud crack as his face hit the ground. Feeling light-headed, he tried to get up, with no success. His leg felt distant, as though an enormous rock had fallen on it, pinning him down. He strained to look down at the leg, which was hardly discernible from the red-brown leaves he landed on. His eyes widened and his heart skipped a beat as he realized the large dark smudge on his pant leg was not dirt, but was being covered in a thick liquid that was profusely welling from deep within. He blinked in disbelief and his head dropped to the ground. All depth perception was lost to him, and soon all colors were lost to obscurity. He felt dead, or close to it, though he could still hear the footsteps of the two men that ran over to him. He cringed as his racing heart continued to bloody up his leg.
"No! Dammit, what the hell?!"
"I-I, he was running-"
"He's just a kid! An unarmed kid! You don't shoot if they don't have a gun!"
Eric lied there, hoping that he looked dead enough to be argued over.
"I- I'm- sorry."
"Tell him that, dumbass!"
The second officer stuttered more and knelt down beside Eric, overwhelmed. Eric could feel him staring at the crater left in his right calf. He silently begged the officer to not vomit, as he tried his best to deeply bury the intense pain. "W-what do we do now?"
The first officer cursed under his breath, then calmly paused in careful thought. "We came because there was a murder reported here." There was a pause as he scanned Eric's motionless body. "Let the investigators handle this."
Eric's eyes flashed open as the men holstered their guns and walked away, their footsteps crunching through the thick layer of dead leaves in the distance. He was left alone, possibly for dead, in the hazy silence. He continued to grit his teeth, which he swore must have been pushed halfway into his gums.
In his twisted logic he decided to remain motionless until he was sure that no one else was around. He waited several minutes for his attackers to leave, staring lazily at the forestry around him with eyes half-closed. His head was still spinning and his vision crept in and out of focus. The wind that was blowing over him felt refreshing, and as the coolness of the early evening wrapped around him, he could no longer feel any pain in his leg. He carefully moved his head around to look, but it was still covered in the impossible red fluid that made his stomach churn uneasily on sight. If it had only been a patient's blood... his mind drifted about in a daze.
With his good arm- the one that hadn't braced his fall, he struggled to roll himself onto his back. Avoiding a few anguished screams, he made his way into a full sitting position. His leg was still entirely numb, and his entire leg was covered in dark splotches and bits of leaves. He could feel the blood rushing from his head, and he desperately wanted to fall backwards.
With his neck he swiveled his head around to gaze up at the dim pink-orange sky above. The brightest stars were starting to show themselves as the large sun was starting to dip past the horizon. The black trees swayed gently and their branches knocked crisply with the mild wind which shook a few leaves towards him. The serenity melted the pain in his leg, and he was able to shut it out. Reaching over, he grabbed his camera from his pocket and pulled it out with quivering hands. Finally giving in, he fell onto his back, enjoying the sound of the soft crunch beneath him. With one hand he gripped the black box a good distance above his head. A strong wind passed through the clearing and the upper branches of the trees opened wide. A flash of light from the setting sun poured over him as he took the picture. His hair flew wildly and he reveled in exhilaration.
His hands fell to the ground around him, and a weak chuckle broke the silence. "Well," he muttered, in a hoarse voice, "if I'm gonna die, what better place?" He laughed calmly, hoping the police could hear him. Then, he sighed as he calmed down, the sun caressing his arm delicately.
Gradually, he smiled at the idea, and he sat up with strange enthusiasm. He reached over with his weak arm and picked up a handful of light-brown and red leaves, eying them and soaking them in. The sunlight fell perfectly over the leaves in his palm and he smiled, but the serene sight soon lent to curiosity as the edges of the dead leaves began to radiate in the sun with a brilliant green light. Eric blinked in disbelief as the glow traveled up the leafy veins and spread to the crisp surfaces around them, rejuvenating them. Soon he was holding a handful of healthy, green oak leaves, and he laughed in amazement, not at all put off by the impossible sight. He picked up another pile of dead foliage, and sure enough they were painted green with life in his hands. With his reddened finger he poked through the pile, turning the pieces over. His eyes glowed when he recalled the photos from the dead woman's camera. He felt obliged to record the strange anomaly on his own, trying diligently to get a good picture of the green leaves in his hand.
He threw himself back onto the ground and rolled around like a child in the warm light, not caring if anyone saw him. The leaves under him cracked and popped, before becoming a lush green carpet at his touch. He began picking up huge piles of leaves, and felt a warm feeling inside as they all did the same for him. Again he fell onto the ground and covered himself in piles of the leaves.
"Is this it then? Am I slipping away?" He softly spoke to the blanket of leaves, as a tingling wrapped over him. A fantastic sensation awoke his leg, which no longer felt limp. He removed the green leaves covering his leg and saw that all the caked blood was gone, and the hole where the officer's bullet had entered was completely healed over. Beneath the healed skin, a grassy glow was slowly fading from view. Eric swept a hand through his clean, blond hair as he relaxed, basking in the sinking sun. Crickets joined him for his moment of rapture. He felt happier than he ever had before, and his eyes shined with a peaceful golden hue.
Eevee TF Series Part 4-III by ChristopherF10Watch
©2010-2016 ChristopherF10
(Updated 6/3/15)
Part 4
Chapter 3
True to my word, there was a tf on Day 3, so you can put away your pitchforks and breathe a sigh of relief.
Sorry about the week-and-a-half or so wait, but I spent a huge amount of time implementing details and editing stuff. It's torture, but it works in the longrun.
Hope you liked it! Thank you, readers, for your generous support. It helps SO much!
Pokémon, Eevee, Vaporeon are (c) Nintendo
Ron, Don, and unnamed characters are (c)
Valencia is (c)
Eric is (c)
Corbyn is (c)
Crystal is (c)
Victoria is (c)
Next: 4-IV
Part 4
Chapter 3
True to my word, there was a tf on Day 3, so you can put away your pitchforks and breathe a sigh of relief.
Sorry about the week-and-a-half or so wait, but I spent a huge amount of time implementing details and editing stuff. It's torture, but it works in the longrun.
Hope you liked it! Thank you, readers, for your generous support. It helps SO much!
Pokémon, Eevee, Vaporeon are (c) Nintendo
Ron, Don, and unnamed characters are (c)
Valencia is (c)
Eric is (c)
Corbyn is (c)
Crystal is (c)
Victoria is (c)
Next: 4-IV
Sine:"*pawing the screen* VEE VEE VEE!"
Creep:"Ikr? It's always nice reading this! xD"
Creep:"Ikr? It's always nice reading this! xD"
I can already see Eric turning into a Leafeon XD
Hah! Reading this again! Still the greatest TF story I've ever read. It's got a lot of characters, all well developed, ridiculous amounts of plot development, and it's set in a real world setting with eeveelution TFs. What's not to like?
.. mind blown
I've been robbed! No TF sequence?!? BULL SH*T!!!....................................but im still going to keep reading cuse this is probably the best TF series ever written!
Yeah funny story actually xD In my own opinion while reading other TF sequences, they tend to get kinda cliche when it's the same basic construction story after story.. so I tried to mix things up a bit.. don't worry there will be more sequences (hopefully... tentatively) but they will be written avoiding the normalcy of other transformations :3
awww..... weak!
*drops torch and pitchfork, and crosses arms in a huff*
you suck. I was hoping to set you ablaze.
*drops torch and pitchfork, and crosses arms in a huff*
you suck. I was hoping to set you ablaze.
hehe yay a TF lol
Yeah, they'll hopefully get a bit more descriptive as the story progresses (rather than the action being entirely unseen)...
But, Yay! A TF! XD
But, Yay! A TF! XD
Wonderful. I am so grateful you have been so kind as to keep writing such beautiful pieces of art. Thank you for this series, I will keep watching and reading. My brother's birthday is today, and this feels like a birthday present for me. I wish you well in the rest of your works!
But your brother's
evil mean!
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Courses for Certified Nursing Assistants
As with any other course of study, classes for Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) usually cost a lot of money and can in fact be as much as a couple of thousand dollars. However, in New York State at least, you can obtain totally free cna training. There are of course other places that can offer financial assistance for the courses like the government or the military, perhaps even some hospitals but with them, you may still have to pay something. There are a number of courses available either in community colleges or hospitals and each course of training will require approximately 140 hours of teaching, mainly in a classroom but usually finishing off in a laboratory or hospital. Even if you do find that you have to pay the full cost of the course, many people feel like it is a good investment, especially in this day and age where good jobs are hard to come by. Why these people think that these courses are a good investment is because there always seems to be vacancies in many of the medical fields but rarely ever, as many as there are for CNAs. As many people use their CNA certifications just as a stepping stone to better things like a Registered Nurse, there is a high turn-over of people in this area, affording a CNA opportunity to work in several locations.
Usually people that enrol on CNA courses are already compassionate people and that is a great help as, often the job itself is not too glamorous, perhaps having to clean and sanitize areas used by patients although they do also do other work like changing dressings under supervision and making reports on a patient's behaviour or noting any of their complaints. Because of some of these tasks, some people often think that nursing assistants are the same as orderlies but they are not, even though they may sometimes share similar tasks. The difference between the two is in the certification and so although often doing the same work as orderlies, they are also able to shoulder bigger responsibilities and so of course get paid more.
A CNA, with their training, need not necessarily have to work in a hospital; they could also work at the homes of some needy adults or even a nursing home. Where ever they do work though, they gain experience that may help them if they decide to go online or attain a more regular course to become a Registered Nurse which will of course afford them a higher wage.
With the job market being what it is today, it is often hard to find vacancies, except perhaps in the health care industry or within medical facilities and so this type of certification can prove to be priceless. When this certification is perhaps most useful, is when you are considering a move, perhaps to join your partner as they change jobs or even if just because you want a change in direction or location.


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If I create a background gallery where the images have a width of 1500px and my browser window is 1800, the background image result left aligned and a blank space results (of course) on the right.
See this temporary site: http://wip.thiellaconsulting.com/cap-juluca/
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San Jose State Alums Beat Out Elite School Grads For Tech JobsSan Jose State University has a new stat to boast. Spartan grads are beating out grads from other top schools, including UC Berkeley and Stanford, when it comes to landing tech jobs.
San Francisco CMO Suggests A Career In Supply Chain ManagementGreg Johnsen is the CMO of GT Nexus, an industry leading Bay Area company that manages a cloud supply chain platform and hosts of one of the top supply chain events in the country.
San Francisco CEO Suggests Gaining Hands On ExperienceThe recent cyber attack against the federal government is yet another indication that the need for talented information security experts is greater than ever before.
Executive Suggests Tech Students Find A Company They're Passionate About A successful business needs operations, marketing, strategy and happy people working there. If you're smart and hungry, startups are the perfect place to bring non-technical value.
CEO Suggests Information Security Students Should Intern In IndustryIdan Tendler is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Fortscale, a recent winner of the Cyber Defense Award for the Most Innovative Enterprise Security Solution
San Francisco VP Advises Business Students To Set The Bar HighUris Dacosta is the VP of Design for Bay Area-based PayPal, one of the world's largest online payments systems.
CEO Encourages Information Security Students To Pursue An Internship In The FieldRehan Jalil is the president of and CEO of Bay Area cloud access security broker and cloud apps security provider Elastica.
CEO Advises Information Security Students To Follow The ExpertsWith companies more reliant than ever to protect their intellectual property, the potential growth of new jobs may exceed those estimates.
Cryptographer Advises Students To Learn Tools, Skills Outside Traditional CourseworkPaul Kocher is the co-author of the widely used SSL 3.0 standard, designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
San Francisco Executive Advises Business Majors To Be Open To Critical FeedbackThe sector with the largest increase was professional and business services, representing nearly half of all new jobs created over the past year.
Qualitative Expansion Of Opportunities Is New Feature For San Francisco JobsAn emerging new pattern in the Bay Area is the qualitative expansion of the opportunities themselves. More and more, employees are being given the chance to write their own job description.
San Francisco CTO Says Tech Students Should Never Stop Learning"To succeed, you need to be willing to never stop learning and enjoy working under pressure," said Steve Grobman is the Chief Technology Officer of Intel Security Group at Intel Corporation.


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The new campaign-finance law is an attack on the average citizen's right to participate in the democratic process.
This law restricts spending and communications of citizens and citizens groups, in effect silencing these groups, while the wealthiest citizens, candidates and large liberal media conglomerates such as Viacom, Disney Corp. and General Electric can continue unfettered.
Besides its attacks on free-speech rights, this law will impede severely the right of free association, which also is broadly protected under the First Amendment. The First Amendment does not allow Congress to make laws that deny us the right to free speech, the right to assemble or the right to petition our government.
We depend on citizens groups to provide us with voting records and information compiled from the morass of bills and their verbose, confusing language. These groups constantly monitor lawmakers and alert us to issues that might be of concern, thus allowing us to more effectively participate in the democratic process.
Why do the Democrats want the average citizen silenced? Why do they want us kept in the dark?
Sen. Paul Wellstone said on the floor of the Senate during the campaign-finance debate that it was his intention to silence the National Rifle Association. Sens. John McCain, Russ Feingold and Tom Daschle; Rep. Dick Gephardt; and Democrats spearheaded this legislation. This bill was voted mostly along party lines. Republicans, including Sens. Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison, voted against; Democrats voted for.
To my great disappointment, President Bush signed this bill despite his acknowledgement that it had problems and would face legal challenges.
This law unfairly silences the average citizen, is unconstitutional and should be reversed by the federal courts.
Ken Morris
Politicians are nothing more than liars, charlatans, cowards
John Kanelis praises the Idaho state legislature for "courageously" rescinding voter-approved term limits. There probably was more self-interest and desperation here than courage.
My knowledge of Idaho politics is limited, but from my observations of national politics, the typical professional politician is a dissembler, a thief, a liar, a charlatan, an opportunist, a wastrel and a coward.
He has corrupted our democracy and created a national government that is unconstitutional, incompetent and corrupt, which in turn has corrupted much of the citizenry.
My representative, Larry Combest, seems a good man. My only real problem with this career politician is that he obviously is owned and operated by the powerful farm lobby and pushes on the rest of us expensive, wasteful, unnecessary farm subsidies.
We taxpayers send money to millionaire farmers like basketball star Scottie Pippen, liberal media star Sam Donaldson and billionaire media mogul Ted Turner.
Even politician farmers are feeding at the public trough. Rep. Marion Berry, between 1996 and 2001, collected $750,000 in subsidies and sent out a "peer colleague" letter to fellow politicians, urging this largesse be continued and increased. There are others, like Rep. Cal Dooley, $307,000; Rep. Tom Latham, $287,000; and Sen. Charles Grassley, $111,000.
Add this to the nice pensions these politicians have legislated for themselves for when they finally do retire, and ... well, Thomas Jefferson defined corruption as legislators legislating for their own self-interest.
Certainly term limits would not be the total solution to political corruption at any government level, but they are, I believe, essential for honest, good governance. I hope Idaho voters throw out the rascals.
James Fluegel
Pretending doesn't make it so
David Allen stated in a guest column last month that "evolution is mathematically impossible."
What Allen fails to tell us, or might not know himself, is that the statistical methods used by creationists are fundamentally flawed.
But instead of going into the details of the flaws, it's easier just to give an example of how statistical probabilities are manipulated by creationists.
From a statistical standpoint, what are the odds a person named Tony Tackitt (11 letters in the name) would respond in the Amarillo Globe-News to a guest column written by a guy named David Allen (exactly one letter less than in my name)?
Those odds alone are astronomical!
In addition, our names share exactly twice as many vowels as consonants - two and one, respectively.
Additionally, the second letter of my last name matches the second letter of his first name.
What are the odds of that?
Also, Allen's column was published on March 2 (3/2/02). My letter was written March 4 (3/4/02). Each number is identical, except the second number, representing the day, is one number less than the number representing the month in Allen's column, while it is precisely one number greater than the number representing the month of my letter. And that same number matches the last number of the year in Allen's column, while it is exactly double the year number in my letter.
Ladies and gentlemen, write this day down on your calendar. This letter represents a mathematically impossibility.
This letter can't exist!
Do you get the picture?
Using creationist statistics, any and every sequence of events can be seen as statistically impossible.
Creationists, using the statistical argument, can pretend this letter doesn't exist, even though it's right under their noses.
But, as with evolution, pretending does nothing to alter reality.
Tony Tackitt
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THE PROJECTION ROOM: Towards a Nomad Cinema
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With over 2,000 online visitors every month, The Projection Room at The Unstitute offers a virtual environment for creative experiments and self-empowerment over archaic creative institutions.
The Projection Room at The Unstitute is a strategic step towards altering the relationship between artist and audience via the medium of the Website. We began by creating a pseudo-space for showing experimental videos; works are selected on the basis of their ability to provoke interesting reactions or engagements with the viewer, whether in a positive or negative fashion. Along with The Cutting Room, (a project space for curators to present works produced by the Department of Fictions) The Projection Room forms part of the visual landscape of The Unstitute.
[sub]missions to The Projection Room are free, inclusive and co-operative.
Depending on the smooth operation of our machinery, you will be contacted within two weeks with the outcome of your [sub]mission.
Selected works will be screened for one month at The Projection Room. Your video/s will be promoted via our internal mailing list, on social media, and also via Rhizome.org and Arts Council UK, etc. After your screening has ended, your video will moved to the Archive to show the evolution of The Projection Room.
Highly sensitive machines are used by technicians at The Unstitute for selecting videos. These machines almost always disregard videos that stand on technical merit alone, or which deploy conventional standards and attitudes. The Projection Room is a place of difference.
Unfortunately, many videos [sub]mitted to The Projection Room are rejected due to the limitations of the schedule. Sometimes, these [sub]missions coagulate and form new outgrowths of their own in the [dis]Corporate Bodies project, although sometimes they do not go anywhere and are rejected altogether. You will be contacted in either case to let you know the outcome of your [sub]mission.
The Projection Room itself is an outgrowth of The Unstitute architectures which as a whole constitute an Evolving Interactive Environment (EIE). This is reflected in the various 'states' of change through which it passes, towards no particular end point. Your [sub]missions influence both the growth or decay of The Unstitute.
First state of The Projection Room, A Nomad Cinema 2014
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Today's lesson, courtesy of those responsible for overseeing athletic competition between institutions of higher learning: Cashing in on the marketability of your football prowess is off-limits if you're a player, but shredding traditions and hanging your fellow schools out to dry while attempting to capitalize on our country's football obsession is perfectly acceptable for universities and conferences.
Thanks for clearing that up, NCAA.
We haven't heard a peep from the NCAA while the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences attempt to poach schools as they please, drastically altering the college sports landscape, a silence that is either a tacit condoning of the practice or an admission by the NCAA that they are powerless to do anything about it.
And yet the NCAA swings the sledgehammer on USC, punishing current players who weren't there and a coach who wasn't in charge at the time Reggie Bush was living an agent-funded lifestyle.
The Big Ten and Pac-10, the University of Nebraska and University of Colorado, are all putting their own financial interests first, and in doing so may help bring about the demise of the Big 12 conference. Are their actions so different than those of Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo during their time at USC? In each case, aren't the principals leveraging their assets for a profit, consequences notwithstanding?
I have a hard time generating outrage over players seeking extra benefits, and I take no joy in seeing programs punished for the actions of players who do; not as long as the players are going unpaid by a system that reaps huge financial gains from their efforts, while all the while schools and conferences are able to pursue profits unchecked.
The penalties imposed Thursday on USC were severe. The football program will have to forfeit victories for games in which Bush participated, including the BCS championship game in January 2005. The Trojans will lose 30 scholarships over the next three years.
Paul Dee, chair of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, began an explanatory conference call Thursday by saying, "This case strikes at the heart of the principles of amateurism in the NCAA." He went on to issue a scolding reminder that college athletics "should be motivated primarily by education and its benefits, and not otherwise."
I have to ask: Does anyone believe these recent efforts toward conference realignment are motivated by education? How about educating us on the "Pacific" qualities of Colorado, Mr. Dee? Or on the mathematical logic of a 12-team Big Ten Conference?
We all know better. This week's realignments are strictly about putting together groups of football teams that will be able to command the most compensation for television rights packages, or to strengthen a conference's own television network.
There are those who believe scholarships are all the payment a college athlete should ever need. But even if you convince yourself six-figure scholarship packages are adequate compensation for enabling television deals worth billions of dollars, you'll soon have to confront the other problem: the NCAA is incapable of uniformly enforcing the rules.
It's not as if the stuff at USC isn't happening on campuses all across the country. The only difference is that, with both Bush and Mayo, people who were tossed off the money train when it was time for the athletes to go pro got upset about it and complained to reporters.
The NCAA infractions report acknowledges that players with great professional potential will attract more agents and marketers attempting to ply them with gifts to get an edge when it's time to choose a representative. It chided USC for having a skimpy, two-person compliance staff to prevent it.
"Heightened scrutiny is required," the report said. "NCAA members, including USC, invest substantial resources to compete in athletics competition at the highest levels, particularly in football and men's basketball. They must commit comparable resources to detect violations and monitor conduct with a realistic understanding and appraisal of what that effort entails, and what it will cost."
In other words, schools should spend more money to keep the players from getting money. These are the contorted positions the NCAA continues to place itself in by maintaining the charade that players shouldn't be paid, and pretending that they aren't getting paid already.
And yet it doesn't even try to offer an explanation for why it's OK for conferences to make a money grab.
One last chuckle came on the conference call Thursday, when Dee waffled between the English and metric systems in his description of the paperwork involved in the case, saying it stood, "A yard tall. Maybe a meter, give or take an inch."
Mixed measurement units -- mixed messages. That's the NCAA for you, and never more so than this week.


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Books Reading Tonight
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Poetry Slam and three other events going on today, including a discussion about religion and politics, which is sure to end well.
First, at Elliott Bay Book Company, Jeff Gordiner is reading from his book X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft and Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking. I just got an e-mail from Stranger critic Travis Nichols assuring me that, even though this is a book about Generation X, it is "interesting and witty." Travis has done some great work for us, and I hope that he'll do more work for the books section in the very near future, so I will refrain from the public drubbing I was going to give this book based on its subject matter and its use of 'Generation X.'
David Domke and Mark Smith are giving the aforementioned lecture at the UW about the intersection of religion and politics. My dream would be to have all the religious people on one side of the aisle and all the religious people on the other and have the whole thing turn into a brawl, but this will probably be an intelligent discussion about issues, which is almost as good.
And up at Third Place Books, Sloane Crosley is reading from her book I Was Told There'd Be Cake. This is my pick for the reading of the evening, because I just recently read Cake, and it was the funniest book of essays I've read in a very long time—perhaps I can even utter the name Sedaris in comparison and actually mean it. Crosley will be reading at Elliott Bay within the next week, too, so there's no reason to miss her. She's one of the few writers today who can actually write both funny and beautiful sentences, at the same time.
Any further questions about upcoming readings can be directed toward the complete readings calendar.
Also, if you haven't already, you should check out the nifty, brand-new books page, which has a ton more reviews and a mini-blog revue of the last week's books-themed Slog posts, over here.


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SINGAPORE/TOKYO Iran's crude exports to its biggest customer, Asia, fell by a quarter in 2012 and shipments this year are expected to drop by at least 12 percent under U.S. sanctions pressure, but ample alternative supplies will keep refiners flush with oil.
Asia's main oil buyers cut imports from Iran to an average of 1.09 million barrels per day in 2012, government and industry data shows, and planned cuts in term contracts for 2013 point to further reductions of at least 135,000 bpd.
However, experts say overall cuts would have to be deeper to secure further waivers from the U.S. sanctions that are aimed at forcing Iran to halt its nuclear programme and which have made shipping and paying for Iranian oil difficult, cutting overall exports by more than half in 2012.
From Asia, Iran lost $14 billion worth of oil exports for the year, according to Reuters calculations. Exports will remain under pressure this year as well as the United States lobbies Asian countries to further reduce purchases, even though Iranian exports last month rose to their highest since the EU imposed sanctions in July.
An abundance of alternative supplies, mainly from the Middle East, of oil that is of similar quality to what Iran exports and stable prices mean Asian buyers will be able to easily make up for the loss in shipments from Iran.
"Thanks to the efforts of Saudi Arabia, growth of production in Iraq and the United States, I do not expect any major difficulty in terms of meeting global oil demand this year," said Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency which advises industrialised nations on energy policies.
The drop in Iranian exports "will not affect the market in a negative sense", he told reporters in Tokyo.
Almost all of Iran's exports flow to Asia.
Most Asian refiners have so far been unaffected by the lack of Iranian oil as they have complex processing facilities that allow them to switch from one type of crude to another. Only Sri Lanka was forced to shut its sole Iran oil-specific refinery.
A further reduction in Iranian exports may drive up costs if more and more buyers go after the same alternative crude, but that scenario is so far unlikely because of plentiful supplies.
The top beneficiaries of Iran's reduced exports last year were Saudi Arabia, Angola, Iraq, Venezuela and Russia as these countries ramped up shipments to plug the shortfall from Iran.
Top exporter Saudi Arabia cut production by 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the final two months of 2012, partly because of the weak global demand outlook. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' latest report indicated world supply will comfortably outstrip demand in the first half of 2013.
"The reduction in Iranian supplies so far has not affected any of the major refiners in Asia," said Victor Shum, senior partner at IHS Purvin & Gertz in Singapore.
"Supplies are plentiful and, directionally, OPEC spare capacity is actually increasing because of the Saudi cutbacks to replace any Iranian supplies."
Iran's biggest oil customer, China, reduced imports by 21 percent to 438,448 barrels per day (bpd) in 2012, while the deepest reduction was made by Japan, which cut 40 percent of imports to 189,076 bpd.
South Korea slashed imports by 36 percent to 153,400 bpd and India reduced purchases by 1.7 percent to 315,200 bpd.
Japan's oil imports from Iran may be about 15 percent lower this year, capped roughly at 160,000 bpd, and may possibly be cut further, said Yasushi Kimura, the chairman of JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp (5020.T), the country's top refiner.
China may reduce its purchases from Iran by a further 5 to 10 percent in 2013, industry sources said, which would amount to a reduction of 20,000-40,000 bpd.
India plans to cut oil imports from Iran by 10 to 15 percent in the next fiscal year, while South Korean refiners will cut imports of Iranian crude during the six months to May by about a fifth from a year earlier.
"If you ask me, can we cut more, yes we can cut more," said a senior official at a Japanese refiner who declined to be named because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
"And I believe Japanese refineries are configured to process other grades without cutting runs. As to why Asians import Iranian crude, it is because they are competitive."
(Additional reporting by Ramya Venugopal, Florence Tan and Randy Fabi in Singapore, Risa Maeda in Tokyo, Meeyoung Cho in Seoul, Aizhu Chen and Judy Hua in Beijing, Nidhi Verma in New Delhi; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
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This is a loose powder foundation with sunscreen that's best for oily, sensitive skin. It contains high amounts of the sunscreen actives titanium dioxide and zinc oxide (this likely provides more protection than SPF 45, but as with any powder you'd really have to apply a lot to get the stated amount of protection) while the base formula has a light, smooth, and dry texture without a obvious shine.
This sheer powder is dispensed from a cylindrical component onto a built-in powder brush. The brush isn't the softest, but works to apply this loose powder evenly while minimizing mess. The powder goes on sheer and translucent, and does a good job of keeping oily shine at bay. It's a good way to add to your daily sun protection, even if you're just touching up to tone down shine.
As for the peptides and antioxidants this contains, they're a nice touch but it's questionable as to how stable they'll be in a powder base. They're not bad additions to this product and in fact they may offer anti-aging benefits (the sunscreen does that for sure) but just how much is up for debate.
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Comments about Peter Thomas Roth Anti-Aging Instant Mineral SPF 45:
It's THE product I was waiting for !!! I use sunscreen on a daily basis from march to october, but I still haven't found the perfect one ; always too oily, too white, or too pore blocking (even the non oily ones)... I have ordered the PC Clear liquid sunscreen, and waiting with impatience to try it, but, this is a transparent powder to re-apply on top of make up, so, there's NO EQUIVALENT.
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Works immediately to block out the sun's harmful UVA/UVB infrared rays to help prevent sunburn, skin damage, freckling & uneven discoloration.
Active: Titanium Dioxide (20.50%), Zinc Oxide (19.75%) Other: Corn (Zea Mays) Starch, Silica, Maltodextrin, Glycerin, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Acetyl Octapeptide-3, Dipeptide Diaminobutyroyl Benzylamide Diacetate, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Stearic Acid, Aluminum Hydroxide, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Polymethyl Silsequioxane, Glycolic Acid, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7, Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A), Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), Ascorbyl Palmitate (Vitamin C), Water, Butylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propyparaben, Isobutylparaben May Contain: Titaniumdioxide, Iron Oxides
Peter Thomas Roth At-A-Glance
Strengths: Provides complete ingredient lists on Web site; most products are fragrance-free; very good AHA products; wide selection of water-soluble cleansers and scrubs; some excellent sunscreens, benzoyl peroxide products, and many antioxidant-rich formulas.
Weaknesses: Can be pricey; some products contain irritants; jar packaging for several products that contain air and light sensitive ingredients.
Unique in the world of spa and salon specialty lines, Peter Thomas Roth is a large but straightforward line with mostly uncomplicated formulations that, for the most part, are quite good and state-of-the-art. Unlike many product lines, most of the acne, AHA, BHA, sunscreen, and moisturizing products contain what they should to be effective and helpful for skin.
A novel aspect of this line is that there are few (if any) nonsense ingredients. Roth products conspicuously lack the exotic, potentially irritating, sensitizing, and often unnecessary plant extracts and the irritating, fragrant plant oils that show up in most pricey skin-care lines, especially spa lines. Many of these are fragrance free, and lack the long lists of complicated ingredients—all great qualities for any skincare brand.
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EDGWARE, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 05: Neymar of Brazil in action during a Brazil training session at The Hive football centre on February 5, 2013 in Edgware, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Klopp played three positions in Liverpool staff team's draw with Stanford
From the Endearing Jurgen Klopp Tales file, the Liverpool manager reportedly starred in defense, midfield and attack for a squad full of Reds coaches against Stanford on Sunday.
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Liverpool, who have based themselves on the sunny, warm Stanford University campus as part of their preparations for the 2016-17 Premier League, took on the collegiate side and played the youngsters to a 1-1 draw.
Klopp failed to get his name on the scoresheet, though the former Mainz striker had one golden chance turned away by Stanford's goalkeeper. The same couldn't be said for physiotherapist Ruben Pons, who scored from beyond the halfway line on a mishit long ball over the top.
With all the goodwill Klopp has banked with Reds fans in his first nine months at the club, he's now only a PL title away from securing his place as an eternal Liverpool legend.
Liverpool will take on Chelsea in each side's first International Champions Cup fixture Wednesday night (11 p.m. ET) in Pasadena, Calif.
Former Fergie assistant Phelan wants Hull job — "I want to be a manager"
Following Steve Bruce's sudden and unexpected resignation this week, Hull City find themselves without a first-team manager 20 days before the 2016-17 Premier League opener, which will pit the PL newcomers (again) against the reigning PL champions (not again) Leicester City on Aug. 13.
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The man presently in charge of the club, Mike Phelan, who served as Sir Alex Ferguson's no. 2 for a number of years at Manchester United, has essentially no first-team managerial experience, but he's eager to cut his teeth and wants the job anyway — quotes from the Hull Daily Mail:
"I want to be a manager. I don't really see why I shouldn't want to be a manager. Time will tell. That decision doesn't sometimes come down to you.
"I've had a small chat and I was asked if I would carry on being in charge for now. We have games, we have preparations, we've still got three weeks to go.
"My job is no different to what it has been except now I'm stood on the touchline in games doing my bit. We just have to do our job, there's nothing else we can do until the powers that be make their decisions."
Here's why it's (obviously) crazy for the club to delay a final decision any longer than absolutely necessary: with every passing day, important preparations for a PL season, a campaign in which the Tigers will almost certainly be fighting for their top-division status, are being undertaken by an interim boss who, based upon the daily whims of an outgoing owner, may or may not be the man to lead Hull into that 38-game battle.
Phelan previously served as interim manager for Norwich City in 2015, for a period totaling four days.
Int'l Champions Cup: Aurier scores twice as PSG throttle Inter Milan
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Serge Aurier scored twice and Paris Saint-Germain beat Inter Milan 3-1 on Sunday at the University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium.
Layvin Kurzawa also scored for PSG on a free kick in the 61st minute in the International Champions Cup match. Stevan Jovetic scored for Inter Milan on a penalty kick in stoppage time following the first half.
Autzen Stadium, the home football field of the Oregon Ducks, hosted the match, part of the International Champions Cup. Real grass was laid down on the artificial turf field, obscuring the yellow `O' at midfield.
The International Champions Cup is an exhibition tournament involving 17 teams playing on four different continents. It serves a tuneup for the regular season.
Inter Milan was coming off a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake earlier in the week in Utah. Striker Mauro Icardi played in that match, and was given the day off against PSG.
Paris Saint-Germain, which beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 its last time out on July 14 in Austria, is embarking on its first season under Unai Emery, who took over for Laurnet Blanc. In addition to the new manager, PSG will also need to adjust to the departure of enigmatic forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who signed with Manchester United earlier this month.
Ibrahimovic had 38 goals in 31 French league games last season, helping PSG to a fourth successive title. On Sunday midfielder Javier Pastore wore No. 10.
Angel Di Maria, Edinson Cavani and Thomas Meunier entered as subs for Paris Saint-Germain in the second half.
Di Maria had just returned to his club team earlier in the week after taking some time off following the Copa America tournament. He played for his native Argentina in the final, which Chile won on penalty kicks.
David Luiz apparently did not make the trip to Eugene from Los Angeles, where PSG was training.
Aurier, who played in the 2014 World Cup for his native Ivory Coast, left-footed the rebound of a free kick off goalkeeper Samir Handanovic into the bottom left corner.
Inter Milan evened it on Jovetic's penalty kick into the top right corner in extra time following the first half. The penalty was awarded when Lucas Moura was called for a handball.
Aurier had a good chance in the 57th minute but his shot hit the crossbar. A few minutes later, Kurzawa struck a perfectly placed free kick that Handanovic couldn't reach that put PSG in front.
Aurier's second goal was a header off a cross from Alec Georgen in the 87th minute.
Is MLS MVP a three-horse race at the All-Star "break"?
With the 2016 MLS All-Star Game set to be played Thursday night (versus Arsenal, at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Calif.), it got me thinking about the race for this year's Most Valuable Player award. (If MLS is going to continue holding the All-Star Game every year — and they are — it should include an actual break, as is the case in all other America sports.)
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While the field is a small one at this point of the campaign, it's also much closer than it was last year, when Sebastian Giovinco took home the honor in an absolute landslide of a vote.
Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto FC
The reigning MVP is on pace for something of a come-down in his second season in MLS, but when you put up 22 goals and 16 assists in your debut campaign, can you really expect to replicate that kind of production from one year to the next? Still, 11 goals (on the most shots in the league – 124) and 7 assists through 20 games (Giovinco has played in 19) has him on pace for 18 goals and 12 assists. Of course, when you consider he snapped a skid of eight games without a goal with a hat trick Saturday night, and that he's unlikely to endure such a slump through the final 14 games, 18 and 12 should be considered the proverbial floor.
TFC have scored just 25 goals this season, and Giovinco has scored or assisted 18 of them (72 percent).
As for TFC's present standing and how that impacts Giovinco's MVP candidacy, fifth place through 20 games is a disappointment considering this was to be "the year" where they were less of a collection of talent, and more a functional team. Of course, injuries (and national team call-ups) have robbed the Reds of Michael Bradley, Jozy Altidore and Will Johnson for lengthy periods already. That TFC find themselves presently a playoff team, and a measly six points back of the Eastern Conference's top spot with two games in hand, should benefit Giovinco's case more than hurt it.
David Villa, New York City FC
This one's pretty simple: NYCFC weren't supposed to be anywhere near the top spot of the East this season, yet that's where they find themselves at the break, and Villa has spearheaded their unlikely run by scoring 13 goals (most in MLS – on 117 shots – 46 more than the next-closest player) and one assist through 22 games (Villa has played in 21). The question is this, though: will Patrick Vieira's side still be there come the end of the season? So much of Villa's claim to MVP is that he's been the best player on one of the best (and certainly most surprising) teams in MLS this year.
If they're to fall back into the pack (they're just two points clear of the New York Red Bulls following Sunday's 4-1 derby disaster, and only four points from fourth), Villa will quickly fall from MVP candidate to "the best best player on a subpar team."
Ignacio Piatti, Montreal Impact
The Impact have, for my money, the most complete roster in the Eastern Conference. Didier Drogba is arguably the most dominant goal-scoring force MLS has ever seen (8 goals in 12 appearances this season; 11 in 11 last year), and the depth in midfield and defense is unparalleled, yet Piatti has been the unrivaled star through the first 20 games of the season (he has played in 18). His 12 goals and 5 assists are rivaled only by Giovinco's numbers, and he's been a far more consistent contributor than the Italian (never more than three games without a goal, while playing as a non-forward, unlike Giovinco).
The knock on Piatti has always been his inability to stay healthy and approach a pace of 30 appearances in a single season. Finally consistently healthy in 2016, he's taken his short-term production and replicated that same kind of output over 90 percent of his team's games this season. If he can reach 30 games played this year, Piatti has the best chance of stopping Giovinco from becoming the first back-to-back MVP winner in league history.
On the fringe, with a chance to catch the leaders: Sacha Kljestan (New York Red Bulls – 5 goals, 12 assists), Diego Valeri (Portland Timbers – 9 goals, 5 assists)


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Comment from: gratefulpatient, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: December 29
I suffered severe trauma to my TMJ in an accident over 30 years ago. It left me with fractures and multiple fractures of almost all of my posterior teeth. I have suffered enormously for the past 30 years and have an incredible wealth of experiential knowledge to pass along to anyone who has TMJ. Resultant from the accident is subsequent dental complications that arise from the death of natural teeth and their limited root life post endodontics. I am thankful and grateful to the some of the finest dental post-grad students and their professors and supervising dentists for the treatment at Tufts NE Dental School. I recommend anyone with TMJ to be seen there in the prosthodontics department .
Comment from: 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: December 29
I fractured my skull when I was 5 years old. When I was 9 a dentist removed the molar next to my "eye" tooth because the back broke off of the tooth. He didn't put any kind of bridge or whatever they would use to keep my teeth from shifting. When I was 12 I broke my tail bone during a cheerleading practice. When I was 13 I was punched in the jaw by an 18 year old man. When I was 14 I ran into a girl's head with my nose (playing basketball) and was knocked out. My nose was broken. When I was 15 I was hit in the same place on my skull that had been fractured when I was 5. It was another concussion. I had several children and my tail bone was involved. When I was 28 I had a snow blower shoot out from under me and I landed on my chin on the sidewalk. Another concussion. In the last 10 years I've been attacked by 2 dogs while on my roller blades and landed on my (very fragile) tailbone both times. It now sits at an angle that causes pain if I sit too long in one position, like driving a car. Bear with me here. I told you all this because I believe my TMJ was caused by all these accidents put together. If you all think back you might remember a head or back trauma that you'd forgotten about.
Comment from: arleen, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: December 29
hola.. mi nombre es arleen tengo 30 años y soy assintente dental pero tuve la mala suerte de por ser assistente dental queria lucir unos dientes no perfectos pero bonitos por aquello de dar el ejemplo.estoy en tratamiento de ortodoncia y eso me a causado el sindrme de tmj.mis sintoma son mareos,dolor en la articulacion y mucha molestia dolor de cabeza aveces tengo dificultad al tragar por los espasmos q esta condicion causa . mi pregunta es y si alguie me podria ayudar es que si algun dia voy a sentir alivio porque la realidad es q esto me esta desesperando mi correo es email@example.com ,le estaria muy agradecida gracias
Comment from: 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: December 16
My experience with TMJ has been that I have had a loud popping of the jaw. I am also unable to open my mouth all the way, and my bite is slightly off.
Comment from: 65-74 Female Published: December 15
My only symptom was a blinding headache on the right side of my head at the eyebrow bone. Even breathing made it worse. Years before my dentist had warned me I was a good candidate for TMJ. My orthodontist removed three bridges and put braces on my teeth. The bridges had held my teeth solid while the other teeth shifted to the point my jaw had shifted a quarter of an inch to the left through the years. The last bridge was the final straw that brought on the pain in the head. After surgery, that realigned the lower jaw bone, cutting through the bone and screwing it in place. The surgery relieved all the pain and now when I go the dentist they place a block in my mouth so that I can rest my teeth on it and not have to tense my jaw to hold it open. They do this while giving me brief periods of rest. Exercises are also very helpful.
Comment from: 4treasures4me, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: November 30
I am 32, and have had TMJ symptoms for more than 10 years. Before braces, my jaw was stiff- sometimes I had to work it to be able to open it enough to eat and after braces, it hurts �" a lot. The intensity comes and goes and gets worse with stress, and my allergy symptoms. I have pain that radiates into my ear, neck, head; all on the left side. I have struggled with dizziness for nearly 2 years. I wear a retainer at night to keep my teeth straight, but I have had a constant headache for 4 days even with painkillers, which usually work. Chiropractic care used to work, but the last few months the muscles are so inflamed it will not allow the adjustment.
Comment from: Duke, 25-34 Male (Caregiver) Published: November 09
My boyfriend was just diagnosed with TMJ. I have rheumatoid arthritis; I work at a hospital and an urgent care clinic so I had heard of this but not real familiar. His pain came on all of the sudden and he swore that either his upper wisdom teeth were coming in or that he had some type of tooth decay/infection. I took him to the dentist despite the fact he only has medical insurance and no dental insurance. This is how sure he was that it was a tooth. The dentist did 2 x-rays and tapped, poked, and prodded every tooth in his mouth. The dentist suggested he may have a severe sinus infection or ear infection and insisted we go to a doctor right away. We went straight to the urgent care clinic who then diagnosed him with TMJ. So I was shocked when I did research on TMJ and found that a lot of patients were diagnosed by their dentist. Needless to say we both have our fingers crossed that the prescriptions he got work and quickly.
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Time for Bed by Mem Fox
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"It's time for bed, little cat, little cat / So snuggle in tight, that's right, like that." This 1993 bedtime favorite from the Australian author Mem Fox and the illustrator Jane Dyer is now available in this small, square board book edition. Even the most reluctant snoozers will find themselves lulled by the repetitive rhythms, as the parent sheep, cat, snake, and fish implore their babies to get some shuteye: "It's time for bed, little sheep, little sheep, / The whole wide world is going to sleep." Dyer's watercolor illustrations are bucolic and beautiful. A sweet, soothing lullaby.
Sweet bedtime story for the littlest of sleepyheads. A rhyming bedtime book with a variety of cute animals and their babies.
I am both indulgent and capricious when rating kids' books, but this one is sweet. Every baby animal is going to bed, and a curlyheaded child is a baby animal too.
Good to use at bedtime and to teach about different animals
This story talks about each animal going to sleep at night. This would not be a book I would read to my classroom in the future, but it is a good book for parents to read to their young children before bedtime. It also introduces a few different animals while rhyming at the end of each sentence.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0152010661, Board book)All the sleepy-eyed creatures in Mem Fox and Jane Dyer's sweet picture book, Time for Bed, may be inspiration enough for young readers to nod off to dreamland. But just in case, this charming gift set includes, in addition to a board-book edition of the popular book, a soothing ceramic nightlight depicting Mama and Baby sheep. ("It's time for bed, little sheep, little sheep, / The whole wide world is going to sleep.") Here is the perfect gift for a newborn, who will start out life in the coziest surroundings possible. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter
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