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Malacoplakia of the urinary tract
Malacoplakia of the urinary tract is an uncommon chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease of the bladder wall. Malakoplakia (meaning "soft plaque") can affect any organ, but the urinary bladder is the commonest location.
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Malacoplakia has a peak incidence in middle age, and has a female-to-male ratio of 4:1 1. The disease is more common in patients who are immunocompromised or those with diabetes mellitus.
Clinical presentation
Presenting symptoms include gross hematuria and signs of urinary tract infection, with Escherichia coli infection being very commonly found to coexist.
Although infection with E. coli is very commonly observed but impaired host defence and defective phagocytosis is considered important part of the pathogenesis 1.
Michaelis-Gutmann bodies are histologic hallmark which are intracellular inclusions in the large histiocytes containing calcium 2.
Within the urinary tract, the bladder is the most frequently affected organ (40% of patients with malacoplakia).
Radiographic features
Imaging characteristics of malacoplakia are varied, and most commonly observed within the bladder, although plaques may also occur in the ureters.
Malacoplakia may present as multiple, polypoid, vascular, solid masses or as circumferential wall thickening, associated with vesicoureteral reflux and dilatation of the upper urinary tract. These masses vary in size from a few millimeters to several centimeters. Occasionally, malacoplakias can be locally aggressive and invades surrounding structures even causing bone erosions 1.
Treatment and prognosis
Although malacoplakia may be extremely aggressive, invading the perivesical space, and it can even cause bone destruction, non-surgical medical management is the mainstay of treatment, and as such biopsy for accurate diagnosis is essential.
Treatment regimens include antibiotics, ascorbic acid, and a cholinergic agonist 1.
History and etymology
The term derives from "μαλακία" (malakia: "soft") and "μαλακία" (plakia: "slab/plaque").
The terms "malaco"plakia and "malako"plakia are used interchangeably as latinisations of "μαλακία".
The term was first used by Von Hansseman, but the condition was first described by Michaelis and Gutmann in 1902 1.
- 1. Michaelis L & Gutmann D. Ueber Einschlüsse in Blasentumoren. Zeitschrift für klinische Medizin 1902;47:208
- 2.Wong-you-cheong JJ, Woodward PJ, Manning MA et-al. From the archives of the AFIP: Inflammatory and nonneoplastic bladder masses: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 26 (6): 1847-68. doi:10.1148/rg.266065126 - Pubmed citation
- 3. Haaga JR, Boll D. CT and MRI of the whole body. Mosby. (2009) ISBN:0323053750. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 4. Dasgupta P, Womack C, Turner AG et-al. Malacoplakia: von Hansemann's disease. BJU Int. 1999;84 (4): 464-9. Pubmed citation


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Well, I don't think he'll join right away. He's "interested", as in he wants to check it out.
But yeah, it's two ways for me. If what is keeping Ging from going to outside is the V5, he either: join Beyond and go outside; or not and just wait for his requirements to be fulfilled. Because if it's just going out there, Ging could have just made his way there long time ago, but he didn't. There's something in V5 that Ging wants to know. But we know Beyond is giving a way out by ignoring V5, and possibly knows what Ging wanted to know to get to Outside, so Ging might actually take advantage of this.
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|2012-03-15, 10:17
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^Yeah, that's pretty much how I'd interpret Ging's situation, as well. I mean, that person with the glasses in Beyond's group had even detailed the entire procedure necessary in order to gain W5's permission to go to the "dark continent". At least joining Beyond provides a better opportunity than going through years of tedious paperwork just for the possibility of being granted approval to travel to the outside world.....
|2012-03-15, 11:40
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Hiatus, yet again. I thought he was well enough to actually consistently draw now, but I guess my hopes were too high. Maybe I should be happy that I can expect a nice arc when it does comes back...
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|2012-03-15, 18:02
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My money's on him being a Netero clone, or a shapeshifting creature that Netero met in the outside world. Beyond Netero's desire might be to take these hunters to the outside world where they get coerced or converted into working for whoever lives there, and starting a war on the regular world.
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It has been repeated many times in the story that Ging is a very powerful person, with influence that rivals the head of a state. Beyond Netero's group basically breaks the rules upheld my the entire world. With such a sudden change of situation, I can see Ging able to wield his influence and create an opportunity for himself.
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I dunno if joining Beyond is taking the easy way out in a disappointing way. While Ging is selfish, he is also opportunist; he is someone I can say that will grab opportunity if it arises. I don't think he's not into cooperation either (his past works are thanks to people contributing to the same effort). Joining also does not mean he becomes a "subordinate". We all know Pariston is still his own man even if you put him anywhere; Ging, his rival, should not be that different. Also, this is also a way for him to keep a close watch on Pariston. Ging's someone who, I imagine, is not going to limit his options and keep himself out of something so important.
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^thing is, ging is not motivated enough. he already said two chapters ago that he's enjoying his journey and is in no rush. so if he goes out of his way to join beyond (even at the risk of fighting the zodiac), it'll be contradicting what he said.
i think ging will play some role in this, but not to join netero.
|2012-03-16, 08:50
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From what it looks like, the V5's restriction is keeping Ging's progress at bay. If a slow procedure is the only close option for Ging at the time, there's no doubt he couldn't force some progress that much. If Beyond is providing an option, it still worth checking out.
|2012-03-16, 13:06
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Since the author has announced a hiatus (I hope it's only one week, and not five months, or even a year.)
After this chapter,
Pariston's ambition is to take over the world by using the technologies and those aliens such as the Ants, and the sole reason for joining Beyond Netero's group is to achieve something that Ging already accomplished. It seems the X day that Ging mentioned to Cheadle several chapters ago would have something to do with it.
I bet Ging already went there before and luckily came out alive and gained something there which he probably used to make the Greed Island possible.
The Zodiacs would probably recruit some Hunters like Gon that would journey to that place to stop Beyond Netero.
How Togashi would add the Phantom Troupe and Kurapica in this new "One Piece-like" arc?
Hoping for the best.
|2012-03-16, 14:12
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Considering how long all the previous hiatuses were, I wouldn't even hold my breath hoping for one as short short as a week. I'd nail down about 5/6 months being the minimum amount of time to wait before Togashi gets his rear back in gear.....
Anyhow, I'm kinda surprised nobody else brought up the possibility of Kurapica joining the zodiacs. I mean, I'd say they're the next-best people to go to outside of the mafia for leads on the whereabouts of his clan's eyes and the Ryodan (I mean, Mizaistom alone is specifically titled a crime hunter, is he not?). Undoubtedly the conditions to join with them would be high indeed, but I'd think the benefits would be worth all the obstacles that need to be cleared in order to join their ranks.....
Oh, and I forgot to mention it before, but I found it highly amusing that the tiger dude was unaware of the lost continent, despite being a world-class hunter. I mean, I knew he was already implied to be dim during the election arc, but I guess being a muscle-head was pretty much the sole reason he became a zodiac at all, huh?
|2012-03-17, 10:02
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It's a day late, but...
Isn't the zodiacs netero's personal doing? I dunno if they can recruit someone into zodiacs if the one who made it out of personal reasons is dead. But then again, the zodiacs are holding on to their titles from the looks of it, so they might?
Also, about Kurapica. I dunno if the zodiacs will accept him open arms. The guy is in underground business. His shady background will make it hard for him to get the acceptance from the other zodiacs. I also dunno if he'll get any easy access to his clan's eyes if the owners have huge backing from the higher authorities. In the underground, he can pull some strings from the shadows, but in the zodiacs, one suspicious move can work against you; we see how the zodiacs check on each other and it is possible they can turn against each other. That's one additional mess Kurapica wouldn't want to be in.
|2012-03-17, 12:49
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BTW, concerning the hiatus, this was what Togashi said in the author comments for this chapter. Credit goes to Bomber D. Rufi from Mangahelpers for translation:
Amusing that even Togashi apparently hopes for a short hiatus, but for those of us who have been following the series for a long time now should know, it's pretty much best to take those words with a grain of salt by this point.
Oh well, I still look forward to seeing the zodiacs finally getting into action once the break is over....
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Piraeus, Port of Athens
Piraeus has been a major port even since the Golden Age of Greece. The city was planned by Hippodamus, an accomplished architect. Further development took place during the times of the Persian War, when Piraeus was integral to the defense of Athens, as the linking corridor between the city and port was strengthened by stone walls.
Later, during the Renaissance era, Piraeus was named 'Porto Leone', due to the beautiful marble lion standing over the harbor. Unfortunately, the lion was stolen and moved to Venice, where it still stands.
Today Piraeus is the biggest port in Greece, and one of most important in the Mediterranean Sea.
Cruises from Piraeus leave for a multitude of destinations in the Greek Islands and beyond. Most cruise passengers arrive by air, and it's an easy transfer from Athens airport to the port.
Note that the Greek spelling of Piraeus is Pireas, and all signs show the Greek name.
Piraeus Port
The Port of Piraeus is on the southern edge of the city, on the Saronic Gulf coastline (part of the Aegean Sea). The port is first and foremost a ferry terminus, serving the Greek Islands. Greece has many islands, so ferries are essential and sail in and out of Piraeus 24 hours a day.
The cruise ship berths are on the quays to the southern side of the port. Cruise ships moor at Cruise Terminal A or Cruise Terminal B.
Cruise Terminal A (Miaoulis), approached by entrance E11, is located in the middle of the harbor between the Mioulis and Xaveris docks.
Cruise Terminal B (Themistocles), approached by gate E12, sits at the entrance of the harbor, inside the Termistokleous breakwater. Terminal B is often closed, and all passenger facilities are handled by Terminal A. In this case a shuttle bus links the ship(s) docked at Terminal B to Terminal A.
Cruises from Piraeus
There's a wide selection of cruises from Piraeus, including the Aegean sea and its marvelous Greek Islands, mighty Istanbul towering over the Dardanelles, the fascinating Ukrainian ports of the Black Sea or southwards to the archaeologist's dream Egypt.
Travelling to Piraeus Cruise Terminals
Travelling from Athens Airport to Piraeus Port
If you're boarding one of the cruises from Piraeus, you'll probably arrive at Athens airport. You have 2 options for the transfer, Metro Line, or Taxi. The latter is obviously easiest if you have a lot of luggage.
Metro Train
Blue Line 3 joins the airport to Monastiraki where you switch to Line 1, taking you to Piraeus. The journey time between the airport and Piraeus is approximately 75 minutes. On arriving at Piraeus do not be tempted to try walking to the cruise port as it's around one mile from the rail station to Cruise Terminal A, and around a mile and a half to Cruise Terminal B. Instead walk over the main road via the new bridge for pedestrians. Catch a bus to the cruise terminal. (Terminal A numbers 832, 833, 843 or 859, Terminal B numbers 843 or 859)
A surcharge is added for trips from the airport, luggage costs more per item and the journey takes more than one hour (it's 30 km between the airport and Piraeus port) so the cab fare can come to 50 euros or even more.
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By Bus
The X80 bus service runs every 1/2 hour between Athens center and the cruise port. In Athens center there are two stops, Syntagma and Akropoli, and at the cruise terminals there are also two stops, OLP (cruise terminal A) and Afteria (cruise terminal B).
Metro Rail Line
Another method of travelling from Athens to Piraeus Port is via the metro railway. ISAP Line number one (green, Kifissia - Piraeus) links Athens directly to Piraeus Port. The trip takes about 45 minutes. Continue to the cruise port by bus.
Cab fares are generally low in Greece, but dishonest taxi drivers are not uncommon, so it might be best to use the service recommended by your hotel. You will be charged more for baggage, and extra for entrance to the port. The trip between Athens' center and Piraeus takes around 40 minutes, but can be a lot longer in times of busy traffic.
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nilla this is the truth that most men on here won't admit to but it's 100% true.
sex for a guy and girl is much different. I'm not talking about the emotional aspect, throw that out if we are simply discussing "good in bed".
Men are stimulated visually, so women like Kym Kardashian, while a dirty slut, is fine as hell and they can't deny that. So as much trash as they talk about her, the second she wanted to have sex 99% of men in here would hit it without hesitation and it doesn't matter how "good" she is in bed, just looking at that ass would make most men pop early.
Now, there are some pro's out there though I can't lie. What I mean by pro's isn't hookers, but chicks that can suck and fuk like champs. Sucking is essential, if a chick can suk a good D, like G.I Joe said, that's half the fukin battle right there.
Pu$$y is basically pu$$Y unless you run into some chick that has the grand canyon down there but most girls are pretty much the same.
Most guys like a live chick in bed, talking, moaning, screamers. It does more for our ego than really anything else.
Yup, can't disagree with that. And at the end of the day, you know what a good **** is when you're having it.
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Chapter Nine: The Bane of Gregor Samsa
Striaton, unlike Accumula, let you know it was coming. It didn't suddenly rear up out of the woods like a spooked horse; it built up slowly, the forests giving way to fields that, in turn, gave way to suburbs. It was a city, not a little backwater village, and as I breathed in the familiar scent of petrochemical fumes, I sighed with relief. I felt like I was coming home.
Candy coughed on my shoulder. I barely noticed; here were the trappings of civilisation again, the tarmac and concrete and cars, and what could possibly be finer than that?
It had taken us the better part of the day to reach this blessed metropolis, and it was four o'clock by the time we'd got into the city proper and were somewhere near a Pokémon Centre. I was exhausted, and looking forward to sitting down – but Cheren, it seemed, had other ideas, and headed off immediately in search of the Trainer's School in the north quarter. Bianca chose not to follow him; like me, she was tired, and still a little dispirited from her failures the day before, and so she came with Halley and me to the nearest Pokémon Centre.
"Well," I said, when we'd arrived. "It looks like someone's, uh, kind of desperate."
The broad windows of the Centre were covered almost entirely by plastered notices, screaming out the same message over and over, the wording more and more despairing from poster to poster.
the first few read,
By the end, though, the flyers were somewhat less grandiose:
"What school of graphic design did this moron graduate from?" said Halley acidly. "Big and bold is all very well, but this guy's crossed a line – and then pissed on it."
"I wonder what it is," mused Bianca, staring. "It must be important..."
"I guess so," I agreed. "Maybe the receptionist will know."
"How're you going to talk to them?" asked Halley. "You're a cardless Trainer from Sweden, remember?"
I scratched my head. Damn. We didn't have Cheren to convince them.
"Uh... We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
"We're standing on the f*cking riverbank, Jared, we're not going to get much closer—"
"Shut up and pretend to be a normal cat," I snapped, pushing open the doors and walking into the Centre.
On my shoulder, Candy perked up suddenly, extending her neck to feel the warmth of the central heating on her scaly head; fleetingly, N's words flickered through my mind, but like most people, I'm pretty good at not thinking about uncomfortable truths and let the thought slip from my mind like an eel through a noose.
"Hi," said the receptionist as we approached. "Welcome to the southern Striaton Pokémon Centre."
I frowned. Was it a uniform requirement for all Centre workers, or was it just a coincidence that both she and the one from Accumula had the same dyed-pink hair?
"Hi!" said Bianca bouncily – so much so, in fact, that her voice seemed to rebound off the walls with its sheer perkiness. Halley and I winced in unison. "What're those posters in the window about?"
Her directness caught the receptionist off-guard for a moment.
"Eh? Oh,
," she said, with a dismissive wave of her hand. "Some scientist from Sotwell—"
"Sotwell?" I asked.
She made a clicking noise of annoyance at herself; she'd forgotten we weren't Striaton natives.
"East of the city centre," she explained swiftly. "She's looking for Trainers to go and get something from the ruined Sytec factory – something to do with Musharna. No one wants to go deep enough into the factory to find a Musharna, though – it's really not a safe place."
Sytec. Everyone in Unova – and probably the world – was familiar with
particular disaster. The only reason Striaton wasn't totally uninhabitable now was because the army had jettisoned most of the waste north into Patzkova (where, conspiracy theorists claimed, it had given rise to a brutal mutant variant of Druddigon) - and what was left had, according to the books, turned the old factory into a twisted maze of semi-sentient psychic fields. I had no idea what that meant, but it sounded like something any sensible person would want to avoid.
"What about a Munna?" asked Bianca, pointing to the pink ball floating above her head. "Would a Munna be able to help?"
The receptionist shrugged.
"No idea. If you want to know, I'd ask the scientist herself."
Bianca's eyes lit up, and I sighed.
"Do we have to?" I asked her.
"But I might be able to help!" she said eagerly. "And that might make up for – for yesterday..." She trailed off quietly, and I knew I didn't have the heart to resist her. She wanted to make amends, was that it? To prove that she could still be a decent Trainer, even after not spotting the Purrloin and then almost killing it? Fair enough, I thought; I wasn't going to take that away from her.
"I don't know," I muttered, stalling for time – trying to delay having to accept her proposal.
"And I don't think Teiresias will be able to follow us there, either," Bianca went on. "It won't be able to see us, right?"
I paused, and glanced down at Halley, who looked back up at me. Teiresias' psychic eye was blinded by Munny's mental radiation; if we entered the Sytec plant, it might well do the same.
"It won't be able to see us," Halley whispered, so quietly I almost didn't hear.
"Is that a wildcat?" asked the receptionist, confused. "Who has a pet wildcat?"
"Uh... me," I replied. "I also have a parrot." I scratched Candy's neck and she crowed with pleasure. The receptionist stared.
"Is that an Arch—?"
"All right then!" I said swiftly. "Come on, Bianca. Let's go find this scientist."
Esé damn it
, I thought sourly as we walked out.
How the f*ck does everyone know?
12C Beetwax Street was a good half an hour away by subway, as it turned out, and when we arrived I wasn't entirely sure it was worth the trip. The whole area looked like it had been spat out by a dog that had decided it wasn't worth the effort of chewing, and number 12 looked like it had been right between the molars. Its upper floor, where the landlady informed us 12C was to be found, was more the sort of place I expected to find a yolk kitchen than a laboratory. I supposed that pure science didn't pay too well.
"This... doesn't exactly look like what I thought it might," Bianca said cautiously, looking at the scratched wooden door. The '2' was missing from its sign, and had been for so long that there wasn't even a patch of lighter wood to show where it had been. "It's... um..."
"A sh*thole," said Halley concisely. "A bloody sh*thole. Huh. Gone are the days of the gentleman-scientist, I guess."
I said nothing, but knocked at the door; it swung open at my touch, revealing a cramped tangle of machinery and desks, and a young, haggard-looking woman leaning against the wall and smoking furiously.
"...Woden hang them all," she was muttering. "Theirs is the generation that grew up with
, for Frige's sake! How can they not want to help test for science...?"
She did not seem to notice us, wrapped up as she was in her ranting monologue and cigarette smoke, so I said hesitantly:
"Hello? We're, uh, here about the adverts?"
I could've sworn an electric shock ran through her. She shot bolt upright, almost inhaling her cigarette, and hastily tossed it into an ashtray, eyes locking onto us with a fervour that made me doubt her sanity.
"Really?" she beamed, regarding us hungrily. "You're here to – ah, a
" One of her hands curled reflexively into a fist and started wiggling in excitement, and she paused for a moment to calm herself. After a deep breath, she stepped forwards. "Good afternoon," she said brightly, holding out her hand. "My name is Dr. Regan Fennel, and I'm
glad to see you two. My research is almost at a standstill, and without a decent quantity of the dust, I'm not altogether sure the psychoanalytic engines will— but I'm getting ahead of myself," she said, shaking her head. "Please, come in."
Somewhat cautiously, Bianca and I followed her through a maze of abstruse mechanisms, stacked high to the ceiling; they wound about the room in a tangle of wires, of cables, of electrodes and pistons, sprouting monitors and keyboards like curiously geometric fungal growths, clicking and whirring and flashing the occasional light like the eyes of phosphorescent fish in the benthic depths. All the while, Fennel kept up a steady stream of scientific technobabble.
"I'm investigating dream potentiality," she told us. "The hidden energy and possibilities within dream states. Musharna – I know this must seem unrelated, but bear with me, it'll become clear – communicate using psychochemical mists, composed of psychically-charged esters – chemicals that carry a scent and a tagged emotion. In the minds of other Musharna, this triggers a sympathetic psychic response that conveys the original Musharna's meaning. It's a unique system: no other Pokémon uses that combination of smell and psionics. It's why they're so bad at pure psychic communication, why they can only vaguely hint at what they mean when they attempt to 'talk' to humans.
"But that's beside the point. Psychochemicals have so much more potential than simple communication, if there are enough of them – and in the Dreamyard, the Sytec plant, where there are an estimated five hundred Musharna all emitting the sprays at once, and where the roving psychic fields left by the explosion keep warping them..." Fennel paused in excitement. "The sprays
dry out
," she said, as if this was meant to mean something to us. "They dry out and become powder – and without the water saturating them, their chemical structure alters just slightly: they become able to cross the pulmonary alveoli. Humans can breathe them in, and they affect us.
"Winds blow them all over Unova from Striaton," she went on, as I started to wonder how this long, long labyrinth of machines could fit into the tiny upper floor of 21C Beetwax Street. "We breathe them in, and we feel them unconsciously, and we dream dreams like no one else in the world." Fennel grinned. "We dream the Dream World."
It seemed she wanted a response to that, and she got one. I had been doing more than my fair share of wondering about the Dream World recently, what with Halley's claims about the switching over of reality and Lauren White, and I actually gasped as she said it.
"Are you sure?" I asked. "That's what causes it? Dried-out Musharna spit, or whatever that is?"
Fennel looked pained.
"I see the subtleties of the science elude you," she said, "but essentially, yes. I do believe that." We had stopped, and she gestured for us to go on. "Come on. There's more."
"More?" I asked. "What more can there be?"
I was actually kind of excited now, despite myself. I wasn't usually interested in the abstruse science of psionics – or any science, really – but when the Dream World and Unova's strange dual reality was involved... I was pretty sure this was relevant to me. (Bianca looked lost rather than interested, but then, she had done ever since Fennel had uttered her first polysyllabic word.)
"Much, much more," Fennel said, pressing a button on a nearby panel and waiting for a series of massive gears to grind slowly out of our way. (How much longer could we walk for? It felt like we had gone miles already.) "You see, there's another possibility. Even if the mist doesn't generate the Dream World specifically, it may be able to do something else."
Fennel led us around a corner, and waved her arm at the space beyond – space that, I was truly and utterly certain, was about thirty feet too long to fit into 12C Beetwax Street.
"You see, that's the thing about Dream Mist," Fennel told us. "It makes dreams into reality."
"... and left a kidney there on the way," finished Smythe gloomily. "So yes. Same old, same old."
Niamh smiled. Eight years had passed since the incident on the
had driven each to give the other up for dead, but nothing had changed. Portland Smythe – adventurer, flautist, demigod – was still among the unluckiest men on the planet. His wyrd danced over the shears with every stitch of the tapestry, but was never quite severed.
"Your flute?"
Smythe sighed.
"Gone," he said hollowly. "You know what Dragons are like. They love shiny objects. I had to get away somehow, and that was the only shiny thing I had to distract it with." He shook his head and drunk deeply of his coffee. "I hope that bastard Haxorus enjoys it."
It was not a normal Haxorus he spoke of, Niamh knew. It was the Patzkovan variant – bigger, meaner and with an inexplicable fondness for alliterative verse, three traits it shared with much of the northern country's wildlife. It had to be, for though he made little of it, the route he described would have dropped him much too far north for him to have arrived in Opelucid without a lengthy trek south-east through the untamed Hallowveldt.
"I'm sorry," she said at length. "Did you ever... replace it?"
Smythe shook his head.
"No," he replied. "It can't be replaced. No one could make another."
Niamh had thought as much. She had never seen a flute like Smythe's before, and she was pretty sure she never would again.
"Anyway," he said, brightening. "How have you been? Still in the monster-slaying business?"
Niamh smiled, grateful for the lifeline – as anyone was who got drawn into the depths of Smythe's life story would have been.
"Yeah," she replied. "I landed a contract with International Genetics – cleaning up some of their mess. Dinosaurs, monsters – sh*t like that."
Smythe nodded.
"I see," he said. "They're based in Nacrene, right?I guess you're on a job right now?"
"Yes. I'm after an escaped Archen – a little half-bird, half-dinosaur thing. It was meant to be destroyed but someone let it out, and some kid picked it up." Niamh shrugged. "Should be fairly easy to deal with." She frowned. "What's up?"
Smythe was staring, and his heart was racing. Half bird, half dinosaur...
he knew that damn bird.
With a strange giddy feeling, he realised that he and Niamh were after the same target.
And with a horrible chill feeling, he realised that he could not possibly tell her.
Teiresias was not visible – it had flickered out of conventional space as soon as Niamh had greeted him in the park, and had remained out of sight throughout their trip to the coffee-house – but Smythe knew it was watching him, and that revealing any Party business, even to as old and trusted a friend as Niamh, would result in it taking swift and deadly action.
And so, though he would dearly have liked to share his burden, and though Niamh was probably the most qualified person he could think of to deal with the fiend, Smythe kept silent.
"I saw it," he said, desperately trying to think of a way to help Niamh out without compromising the Party. "I saw that thing... it's with a group of Trainers, isn't it? Heading north to Striaton."
Niamh's eyes widened. This was an unexpected windfall of information.
"You're sure?"
"Yeah. They were at Harmonia's speech the other day; I was there on Party business, and got bitten by the damn bird."
Niamh nodded.
"Trainers... They'll take the Trail rather than the roads. I guess I could try and head them off in Striaton; I could get there before them." She looked up at Smythe as if just realising he was there. "Sorry. Got distracted." She waved a hand. "Doesn't matter. I'll find them easily enough. Thanks for the information, though."
"It's nothing," said Smythe, pleased to have been helpful. "You'd do the same for me, I know."
Niamh smiled.
"What is it that you're doing, anyway? I can see that that 'quiet job' you have with the Green Party obviously isn't as quiet as you'd like."
Smythe sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"It isn't," he said. "It was when I started – I thought maybe I'd finally managed to leave all those misunderstandings, those hurried escapes, the lies – all of that behind me. But Harmonia found out, assumed I was a master criminal, and sent me on a quest." He paused, calculating how much he could say without calling down Teiresias' wrath on his head. "I'm tracking some thieves who stole something of value from the Party," he said at length. "There's an eldritch abomination mixed up in this, too. Christ," he said, voice suddenly passionate, "I wish I'd never left Mossdeep..."
It was Halley who'd gasped, but thankfully Fennel didn't seem to notice – she probably thought it was Bianca or me, and who could blame her? We certainly had reason to gasp: The room bulged out in a great swelling oval, the walls that looked square from outside round in here; I could even see the window with the red curtains that I'd seen from the street, and I knew that this room was completely, totally impossible...
"Dream logic," said Fennel proudly. "This was my first successful experiment. Using the powder from dried Musharna chemicals and a few little scientific tricks, I partially actualised my dream of a better laboratory." She waved a hand at the space before us. "The room works in the way only dreams can work: bigger on the inside than the outside."
I was still staring. There was nothing too special in there – more machines, computers, a bed connected to a web of electrodes – but still, it was so wrong, so
to the reality I knew that I couldn't tear my eyes away.
"How... If you can do this," I asked, "how come you're still here? How come you're not rich and famous already?"
Fennel shifted uncomfortably.
"Well... there's the thing," she admitted. "You don't need all this machinery to bend space like this. You can manipulate reality by blending certain Pokémon moves – Trick Room, Magic Room, Wonder Room – which, when combined, can do any of a great number of things to space as we know it." She sighed. "This research isn't fundable. It doesn't prove anything – doesn't
I can use Musharna chemicals to turn dreams into real, solid things. Of course, there's a chance I might not be able to do that – the chemicals might have more to do with the Dream World, or maybe something else entirely that I haven't thought of and which could also give these results – but I've built prototypes of the machines that can do it. If I got some more Musharna chemicals, I could conduct the first experiments to find out if I can do it. And then, with a little more funding, I could probably build machines to bring dreams to life, or even record and share dreams between people without the need for Psychic-type Pokémon." She spread her arms. "All it takes is the chemical dust, and money."
"Speaking of which," came an unfamiliar voice, "we've just got a £750,000 grant."
I thought Fennel might explode. She spun around to face the speaker so fast her long black hair swatted me in the face, and cried out:
The speaker – a younger, less cigarette-haggard version of Fennel, who appeared to have come from somewhere in the dream-space – held out a letter.
"From Mr. Harmonia of the Green Party," she said, voice hollow with amazement. "He thought our work was very interesting."
A chill ran through me, and my eyes involuntarily slipped over to Bianca's. I could tell she was every bit as shocked as I was.
Could it be a coincidence? The political party that was pursuing us wanted to fund Fennel's extraordinary research... I couldn't see a connection, but then, there was still a lot I didn't understand. I remembered I'd forgotten to take the opportunity earlier to research the Green party and Teiresias, and resolved to do it as soon as I could. We couldn't run away forever, I was sure of that; sooner or later, we had to stand and fight, and while I knew I was capable of it – Regenschein's was an eminently suitable training ground for battle – I had to know my enemy better if I wanted to win. Teiresias was a foe I couldn't beat just by hitting with a metal pipe – and while Harmonia probably
, I needed to know whether he really was at the top of this conspiracy before I went around beating him up.
"This is— give me that!" Fennel snatched the letter from her colleague and read it voraciously, devouring it with her eyes at a speed that would have done credit to Cordelia (who read with the speed of lightning and the implacable inertia of a runaway freight train). It wasn't even a minute later that she lowered it. "Incredible," she said, voice trembling. "Incredible..." Abruptly, she swept her assistant into a bone-crushing hug. "Ammie! This is it! With this, we can finish – can prove it – can – can—"
"OK, calm down Regan," said the assistant – Ammie? – disentangling herself with some difficulty and leading Fennel over to a chair. "Sit down for a minute." She flashed a shy smile at us, and with a start I realised she couldn't be more than a year older than I was – if she was older at all. "Sorry," she said. "We kind of didn't expect this to happen. Like... ever, really." She left Fennel breathing into a paper bag and came back over to us. "I'm Amanita," she said. "Regan's sister. I help with her research."
Bianca cocked her head on one side.
"You're... pretty young," she pointed out uncertainly. "Are you a genius or something?"
Amanita took the question better than I expected.
"Depends," she replied with a shrug. "According to Terman's definition, yes – I have an IQ of 146, based on the Stanford-Binet test, which places me within the top 0.5% of the Unovan population. However, if you use Hollingworth's definition, which requires an IQ of 180, then no, I'm not a genius. Other than that, 'genius' is a pretty vague label, with many different philosophical definitions, and I'm not sure it can ever be applied to someone other than retrospectively."
"That's enough of a 'yes' for me," said Bianca frankly, which made Amanita smile.
"Anyway," she said, "you two are here about the Dream Mist, right?"
"Dream Mist?" I asked. "Is that the Musharna chemical stuff?"
"Yep," she said brightly. "If you could get some from the Munna or Musharna that live in the Dreamyard, that'd be great. It's all we want you to do."
"I thought maybe my Munna could help?" asked Bianca, pointing it out.
Amanita shook her head.
"Sorry, no. The Mist only desiccates in the Dreamyard; your Munna will stop any wild Munna or Musharna attacking you for invading their territory, but unless it's in the Dreamyard, its chemical sprays dissipate in the air. The psychic fields kind of bake it, in a weird sort of way."
"Cark," squawked Candy, looking at me. I knew what she wanted and shook my head.
"Not baking cakes or biscuits," I told her. "Baking mist."
Candy tried to make sense of that, failed, and decided to go to sleep before her brain melted. Amanita watched with interest.
"Hey, is that an Archen?"
I bit off a curse.
"Yes, she is," I sighed. "Just... don't ask. Please."
"All right," said Amanita, "but it is pretty weird for something so dead to be riding around on someone's shoulder. People will ask questions. Just so you know."
"Yeah, I got that much," I said sourly. "Everyone seems to realise."
"Right," interrupted Fennel, who had glided back over to us without me noticing. "Munna and Musharna are less active in the dark, so you'll probably want to head over to the Dreamyard pretty soon, to get there around dusk. Hopefully, that'll be before the Purrloin and the wildcats wake up – they hunt at night, you see. You want to avoid dealing with them."
"Dealing with them?" Bianca asked. "They usually run away, don't they?"
Fennel hesitated.
"There aren't very many of them, you understand," she said. "Really, there aren't. They die pretty soon after they enter the factory – no food, you see—"
"What are you hinting at?" I asked, unease mounting in my stomach.
"Well... the Purrloin and the wildcats in the Dreamyard..." Fennel looked helplessly at Amanita, who shrugged; Fennel was on her own here, she seemed to say. "They're... they're kind of
There were no houses for a mile around the Sytec plant; it was a long walk from the nearest bus stop. As the city retreated from the scar of the disaster, nature had marched forwards again, trees and grass springing up around the shell of the factory and swallowing it up as if it had never been. Once, long ago, the whole of Unova had been a colossal forest. Long after civilisation collapsed, I thought with a shiver, it would be one again; the trees would stalk in, one by silent one, and devour the cities in a low rustle of leaves and roots.
"Are you feeling OK?" Bianca asked me. There was a strange edge to her voice.
"Uh... yeah," I replied. "Just had a weird thought." I stared at the forest, pressing up against the edge of the suburbs as if it was waiting for us to look away before striking. "It feels weird, even here."
Bianca nodded.
"I'm impressed," said Halley. "Out of the five of us, you two are the least sensitive, and you managed to feel it even from here. That's pretty good going, guys."
I would've tried to think of some kind of scathing reply, but I didn't think I could come up with one right now. I felt... weird.
"Should we put on the helmets?" I asked.
"Fennel said not til we get there," Bianca replied. "I don't think they'll do anything except look stupid if we put them on before."
I sighed.
"All right," I said, resigned, and stepped cautiously off the road and into the forest.
There were signs along the way – not many, but enough that we didn't lose the trail. They said things like 'Sytec factory ½ mile', 'Sytec factory this way', and, more ominously, 'Turn back – Danger of death'.
"They sure know how to cheer a girl up, don't they?" remarked Halley, when we stumbled across the last one. "It's actually almost funny, if you think about it. To escape Teiresias, we need to flee to one of the few places in Unova that's probably
dangerous than wherever Teiresias is."
"That's not funny," I told her.
"I know. I'm trying to lighten the mood."
"It's not working," Bianca said.
"I know. But at least I'm f*cking
No one answered her. We walked on in silence after that.
It didn't take long. A tall chain-link fence, topped with rusting razor wire and collapsing in as many places as it still stood; warning signs in red and yellow and bold black drooped as if dying from the steel and partially obscured the crumbling network of concrete buildings beyond. Trees punctuated the asphalt of the car park beyond, punching through tarmac as if it were nothing. I saw creepers and bushes, flowers and brambles, much less dense than outside the fence but still present, and definitely in the process of taking over.
And rising above them all, just visible through the crushing vegetation – the spire, the lonely tower that was the root of all the trouble.
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Shown in the Images:
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• a tree light by Brothers Dressler, who were also featured in the Toronto Interior Design Show's (IDS11) Sibling Revelry Exhibition.
• Installation artist and sculptor Bruno Billio has been a resident artist of the Gladstone Hotel. His room displayed the remnants of a wild dinner with a spinning table and mess of food.
• this very lonely room by Jana Macalik, John Peterson and Diana Watters presented a typical Parkdale rooming house decor filled with the possessions of a single man. The installation was enclosed by glass and meant to engage the viewer in thinking about what possessions are value and make a place "home."
• Images #4 and 5 show Amanda McCavour's thread installation drawings that form a replica in thread of her previous living room. In making such work, she felt required to revisit, remember and recreate a space that she once called home but is no longer hers.
• Escapes iii by Jen Spinner are miniature fire escapes made of paper.
• these light fixtures in primary colors are made out of sunglasses. Film and video artist Christina Zeidler is also the developer and president of the Gladstone Hotel and Deanne Lehtinen is a furniture designer and builder.
• Images #9 and 10 show a Chair Project by University of Waterloo Architecture students Zak Fish and Harry Wei who were inspired by artist Sol LeWitt's wall drawings. The two chairs can fit together to make a bench/coffee table or storage. See more of this project: Sol LeWitt Chairs.
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Wrap and Turn or Short Row
I bet for seasoned knitters this will be an easy one so here it goes. I have started the Fall Rainbow sweater from mag knits and I am stuck on the wrap and turn or short row. I believe I understand the process but where I'm confused is what to do after the wrap and turn. Am I continuing to the end of that row by just knitting it or purling it depending. After I have turned the yarn back to the side I started on. Whats next? The instructions don't say so I guess its one of those things I am expected to know.
Thanks in advance for the help!
There's a short row with wraps video here on this site that might help answer your questions- scroll down and you'll find it.
The TURN of W&T means turn and go back the other way. Your instructions should tell you what to do next and how often to W&T.
Hi Jan, thanks for your input, but I don't understand the pattern. I am still fairly unseasoned as that is the reason for the question. I am knitting the fall rainbow coat and it does say...
Row 1: K16, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k11, w&t.
Row 2: P25, w&t.
Row 3: K11, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k9, w&t.
Row 4: P21, w&t.
Row 5: K10, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k7, w&t.
Row 6: P17, w&t.
Row 7: K8, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k5, w&t.
Row 8: P13, w&t.
Row 9: K6, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k3, w&t.
Row 10: P9, w&t.
Row 11: K4, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k1, w&t.
Row 12: P5, w&t.
Row 13: K2, m1, sl marker, k1, m1, k22, picking up and knitting all wraps together with the wrapped sts.
Row 14: P all sts, picking up and knitting all wraps together with the wrapped sts.
The question is for example on row 1 after I have completed the instructions for w&t what is next. After the w&t is completed there are still stitches left on the needle. Do I continue to the end either knitting or purling or do I start with row 2 somehow even though I dont have an empty needle. Also, I did watch the video, but I am still confused.
So follow the instructions and do your W&T, then simply turn your work by switching the left needle (with the unworked stitches) to your right hand and the right needle to your left. Now start working according to your directions as if you had just set your work down in the middle of a row and were just picking it up again.
It may seem a little awkward, but give it a try and I think you'll get the hang of it.
Sounds like you answered my question pretty effortlessly which means you are probably a genius-or a really good knitter.
I'll give it a shot and I think it'll work out.
Thanks for taking the time to help!!!
I'm sorry I misunderstood. Glad you got it figured out! :thumbsup:
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