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April 20,2013《Spring rian nad Umbrellas》 It's rainy today. From this early morning it started and it has been drizzling for a whole day. The temperature fell[dropped) and I felt chilly.
It seems that it's really not easy to face the real spring. When I saw them through my car's window glass that moment, their various colors and shapes of umbrellas were so cute and pretty to me.When I saw them through my car window glass that moment, their various colors and shapes of umbrellas were so cute and pretty with me.
So I immediately stopped my car on the side of the street, and took a few pictures with my phone as freely.Because of the rain drops on my car's window glass,that moment views was like a scene in a fairy tale with me.A moment of meeting by accident like this, can give me a small and unlooked-for happiness.I think, something be unlooked/unexpected/ in short moment /for one fleeting moment/ also is one of main cause that give me a happiness and pleasure as well.Good night!Have a good rest, and sweet dreams tonight!

April 20,2013《Spring Rain and Boys》
These are pictures that I took this morning.Out of the window, the boys were playing soccer in the school playgound.
They were completely soaked with the spring rain, however the boys were fully immersed in playing ball.Although it is Spring the weather is still cold, I feel chilly often.After it has finished raining, most of the cherry blossoms will have fallen to the ground.However on the other hands, the rain will cause all kind of plants and tress to begin to bud, and they will open their cute yellow-green eyes.

In the first photo, I'm coming out of the police station. In the second one, I'm following a dangerous gangster. Ah ! This is me and my friend Bobby in the third photo. We're getting into the police van. The fourth photo is a good one : I'm arresting Public Enemy Number 1.

China quake: Rescuers battle to reach survivors

Chinese rescue teams are struggling to reach survivors of a powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake in remote hill villages in Sichuan province.

Emergency workers dressed in bright orange uniforms were making their way to remote areas on foot after roads were blocked by landslides.

Soldiers worked all night to search villages and treat the injured, while local people slept in shelters or cars.

The quake killed 203 and injured some 11,500, state media said.

Among the injured were 960 people who were seriously wounded.

Premier Li Keqiang is overseeing relief efforts, and told reporters the rescue effort was "our first duty".

Mr Li, who arrived on Saturday afternoon by helicopter to direct rescue efforts, visited hospitals and tents, and climbed on a pile of rubble to view the devastation.

Villages close to the epicentre in Lushan county were left in ruins.

A number of aftershocks followed the quake, which struck at 08:02 local time (00:02 GMT) on Saturday.

"It was as if the mountain was alive," a 68-year-old woman with a broken arm, who had lost her home, told AFP news agency.

China has received offers of help from countries including Japan, which is currently embroiled in a territorial dispute with Beijing over an island grouping in the East China Sea.

Beijing said overseas help was not needed at the moment, but added that it would contact Tokyo if that changed.

Chen Yong, the vice-director of the Ya'an city government earthquake response office, said the death toll may not rise much more.

"We understand the situation in most areas. Most of the casualties have been reported," he said.

"In some remote mountain areas, it is possible that we don't fully understand the situation."
Boulders dynamited

Ambulances, fire engines and military lorries piled high with supplies were waiting in long lines along blocked roads in the province on Sunday.

Correspondents say the hill villages, where farmers grow rice, vegetables and corn on terraced plots, were hit the hardest.

Kevin Xia of the Red Cross said: "Supplies have had difficulty getting into the region because of the traffic jams. Most of our supplies are still on the way."

In Longmen village in Baoxing county nearly all the buildings were destroyed, officials said.

Rescuers were forced to dynamite boulders that had fallen across some roads, while overnight rain slowed rescue work.

A military vehicle carrying 17 soldiers came off the road, killing one soldier and injuring others.

Tens of thousands of people spent the night in tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back because of the aftershocks.

Sichuan province was devastated by a massive quake five years ago. Tens of thousands of people were killed and five million lost their homes.

Many of the collapsed buildings were schools and nurseries, leading to widespread criticism of local government's planning policies.

But Mr Chen said that this had not happened this time.

"The Chinese government has put a lot of money into building schools and hospitals. I can guarantee that no schools collapsed," he said.

That fresh "new car smell" comes from chemicals emitted from things like the steering wheel, dashboard, and seats.
A study identified more than 275 chemicals. They included chromium and lead, as well as volatile organic compounds. So if you have a new car, make sure to open your windows!

Let's discuss how much knowledge we have about organ transplants. Organ transplants involve moving a body part from one person into another. This could be from a dead patient or from someone who's dying. Other forms of transplants involve a healthy person donating a lung or a kidney to an unhealthy person. What may be shocking to some people is the talk of giving someone a whole new body. Doctors say that only the mind is not replaceable, and everything from the neck-down is replaceable. I'm sure you've all seen some form of science fiction or action movies where this has happened. Science is becoming so advanced that total body transplants aren't too far ahead.

Gen 2:1 Heaven and Earth were finished, down to the last detail.
Gen 2:2 By the seventh day God had finished his work. On the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Gen 2:3 God blessed the seventh day. He made it a Holy Day Because on that day he rested from his work, all the creating God had done.
Gen 2:4 This is the story of how it all started, of Heaven and Earth when they were created.
Gen 2:5 At the time GOD made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground--GOD hadn't yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground
Gen 2:6 (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)--
Gen 2:7 GOD formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive--a living soul!
Gen 2:8 Then GOD planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it.
Gen 2:9 GOD made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
Gen 2:10 A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers.
Gen 2:11 The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold.
Gen 2:12 The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone.
Gen 2:13 The second river is named Gihon; it flows through the land of Cush.
Gen 2:14 The third river is named Hiddekel and flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Gen 2:15 GOD took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.
Gen 2:16 GOD commanded the Man, "You can eat from any tree in the garden,
Gen 2:17 except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead."
Gen 2:18 GOD said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion."
Gen 2:19 So GOD formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name.
Gen 2:20 The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suitable companion.
Gen 2:21 GOD put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept he removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh.
Gen 2:22 GOD then used the rib that he had taken from the Man to make Woman and presented her to the Man.
Gen 2:23 The Man said, "Finally! Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh! Name her Woman for she was made from Man."
Gen 2:24 Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh.
Gen 2:25 The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame.

Gen 1:1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth--all you see, all you don't see.
Gen 1:2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Gen 1:3 God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared.
Gen 1:4 God saw that light was good and separated light from dark.
Gen 1:5 God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning-- Day One.
Gen 1:6 God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!"
Gen 1:7 God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was:
Gen 1:8 he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning-- Day Two.
Gen 1:9 God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was.
Gen 1:10 God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:11 God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was.
Gen 1:12 Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:13 It was evening, it was morning-- Day Three.
Gen 1:14 God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years,
Gen 1:15 Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
Gen 1:16 God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars.
Gen 1:17 God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth
Gen 1:18 And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:19 It was evening, it was morning-- Day Four.
Gen 1:20 God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!"
Gen 1:21 God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!"
Gen 1:23 It was evening, it was morning-- Day Five.
Gen 1:24 God spoke: "Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind: cattle and reptiles and wild animals--all kinds." And there it was:
Gen 1:25 wild animals of every kind, Cattle of all kinds, every sort of reptile and bug. God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth."
Gen 1:27 God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
Gen 1:29 Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food.
Gen 1:30 To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food." And there it was.
Gen 1:31 God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning-- Day Six.

London means of transport

Buses and coaches

There are two main kinds of buses in London: the single decker and the double decker buses used in the urban area, but there are also coaches used to travel longer distances or for going on school outings.

The red double decker buses are famous all over the world. There are loads of them in London!
Bus routes and main places are identified by a number and sometimes by placenames, for example: the 139 runs to West Hampstead through Abbey Road and Oxford Circus.

You must buy a ticket before boarding the buses in London, there are ticket machines at many bus stops. Buses are boarded from the front, so the conductor can check single fare tickets, travelcards or oyster cards.

Travelcards and Oyster card are used by more and more people to save time and money because they are cheaper than single fares!

Taxis

Motorised hackney cabs in the UK, traditionally all black in London, are traditionally known as black cabs (which they were), although they are now produced in a variety of colours.
The black cabs are the only taxis you can hail from the street. If the ‘for hire’ sign is lit, the driver is obliged to stop.

The Tube

London was the first city in the world to have an underground railway, called the 'tube'. The first line was built in 1863.

The system is famous because its network covers the largest area of any underground system: it serves 270 stations and has 402km (250mi) of track.

It is the arterial system at the heart of central and greater London connecting all mainline stations.

Trains

Britain has one of the most extensive rail networks in Europe with over 17,500km (11,000mi) of line, around 2,500 stations and around 1,500 trains a day.
The major stations in London are: Charing Cross, Euston, StPancras, Victoria

London
London is made up of two ancient cities which are now joined together.

They are:
the City of London (or 'the City') the business and financial heart of the United Kingdom. It is also known as the Square Mile (2.59 sq km/1 sq mi). It was the original Roman settlement (Londinium), it is the oldest part of London.

the City of Westminster, where Parliament and most of the government offices are located. Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the Queen and the Royal family are located there, too.

Together they all make up a region known as Greater London.

London: a city of extremes

London is the biggest city in Britain and in Europe.

London Metropolitan Area has a population of around 15,000,000 (2011)

London has the highest population density; in Britain, with 5,206/km2 (13,466/sq mi) people per square kilometre (13,466 per square mile);

London has the tallest building in Europe: the Shard;

London was the first city in the world to have an underground railway, known as the ‘Tube’;

London has the largest area of underground system;

London has a diverse range of peoples and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries;

London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe.