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If you're looking for a reason to believe Tech has a chance Saturday, I've got a couple. At the risk of being Lucy with the football…
I think Tech will give a far better effort against Clemson than it has the past two weeks, particularly defensively. I think having Jeremiah Attaochu and Louis Young will help, and not only from a talent consideration.
"They come out there with a lot of energy every day," linebacker Brandon Watts said. "They get everybody going during the game. They're two of our playmakers. You can never have enough playmakers on the field."
As best I can gather, I think the Middle Tennessee State loss, rather than fragment the team, got players' attention and served as something of a slap in the face. Also, Tech will be the more desperate team Saturday, and I think that means something. It certainly did last Saturday. This team seems to handle itself well when it gets counted out.
"We will get their 'A' game," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "We'll get the best they've got, and our guys know that."
Attempts at mind-reading aside, consider this. Clemson averages 3.0 points per possession. Tech averages 2.97. (Even if the Presbyterian game is removed, the number is still 2.8.) Clemson's defense has given up 1.96 points per possession. Tech's number is 1.94. (The number does jump to 2.47 without the Presbyterian game. That said, Clemson's numbers might be a little skewed having played Ball State and Furman.)
Clemson has produced 28 plays of 20 yards or more but given up 32. Tech has 27 for and 22 against. Boston College put up almost as many points on Clemson (31) as it did against Maine (32). Clemson's defense is talented but young.
That said, as Paul Johnson put it Tuesday, "You can take numbers and make them look any way you want, twist them around any way you wanted to twist them. You guys understand that, I think." (The second comment was classic Johnson.)
Of course, it wouldn't take me long to build a convincing statistical case that Tech will get its doors blown off Saturday. I'd probably start with 91 points and 1,119 yards of offense allowed in the past two games. I might also mention that the 31-17 win last year at Bobby Dodd Stadium was built on the backs of four Clemson turnovers, the most costly being a fourth-quarter interception in the Tech end zone on what looked like a miscommunication between quarterback Tajh Boyd and wide receiver Sammy Watkins. A touchdown would have made the score 31-24 in Tech's favor.
All that to say, I think the number of possessions and the speed of the game will go a long way towards determining the outcome. Tech's best chance is for something akin to last season's game.
Clemson had 12 possessions (the last when the game was out of reach), ran 65 plays and held the ball for 21:00. The Tigers have averaged 13.4 possessions this season, maxing out at 15 last week. They've averaged 80 plays per game. Clemson thrives on big plays, obviously, but also volume.
"You got to try to get some turnovers, force them to continue to execute," coach Paul Johnson said. "If you don't give it to them all in one or two plays, make them have to grind it out. They can do that. Clearly, if you watch, they can. But that's a far better chance of trying to stop them than the other when you give it up in one or two plays."
October 6th, 2012
8:29 am
Tech almost has to have a coach like Johnson. It is hypocrisy to put us on NCAA probation our academic requirements along has us and many more like us in the ACC on self implemented probation. Not a bad thing but the NCAA has bigger fish to fry than us; I wish we were the problem they thought we were. It would be fun to see some real football at Tech, but as long as we have only 13 scholarships, this year, to give because everybody stayed in school compared to 30 for Georgia, Johnson is our only hope to win football games.
The one thing that bothers me is there is no way to digest a FSC school beating us. That is not talent that is coaching. The team was not ready, looked like the mob had paid them to lay down, especially on defense. Johnson is like a Cy Young pitcher with a ERA less that 1 that can't win a game because the other eight guys. He leaves and we will be back to the Lewis days. What ya going to do. Thank God for the Falcons.
October 6th, 2012
8:43 am
Are they giving Holton a medical redhirt? I thought that he and Young were going to be the two studs of the backfield and neither has played — either at all or at full strength.
October 6th, 2012
9:03 am
GT…the Fridge is avail…would a big step up in class from Johnson
October 6th, 2012
9:07 am
Nesbitt wouldn't have done any better with a supporting cast like TW has.
October 6th, 2012
9:18 am
Yeah, good luck with "slowing the pace" Clemson plays…


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Thaw - [Adventure Time]
A/N: This fic was inspired almost in its entirety by an idea of Yamino's, and therefore this is for her.
I hope y'all enjoy it!
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She has just wedged herself firmly into her favorite couch cushion, her dinner tray in one hand and her television remote in the other, when the rightmost wall of her living room shivers and explodes.
Instantly she is engulfed in a needle-prick cloud of frost. Frozen shards pepper her from shoulder to shin—her belongings spray everywhere. The penguin sampler she so lovingly crafted and hung above her mantle goes sailing over her head into the kitchen; her shelves full of videotapes and books crash to the floor and scatter. Plastic cracks, crunches and she opens her mouth to screech her outrage, jerking to her feet, but two chapped, scabby knees slam into her ribs not a second later and she is bowled backward over her couch's arm, upending her dinner tray, losing too her remote.
Her assailant rides her mercilessly down to the floor and pins her there, digging elbows into her shoulders, throwing weight onto her chest such that she gasps and flails, wheezing for breath. With a mournfully metallic tink-tink-tink her tiara skitters away and then one of those same knees from before, glob, shifts to thrust itself high between her legs. Twisting in her hair next, fingers wrench her head aloft and heat washes over her cheeks as Fionna the Human snarls furiously into her face, "Where is he, Ice Queen?"
Fine little flecks of hot, summer-smelling spit alight on the monarch's nose. On her lips.
"Where is who?" manages the Ice Queen. She adds next, strangled, "You wretched girl, get off me!" She tries kicking her legs but Fionna is heavy, sturdy, and without her tiara the queen lacks her usual measure of supernatural strength. "You are crushing my—"
"Where," revisits the smaller woman, "is Gumball?" Like chips of ice, Fionna's eyes glitter in glacial regard down at the trapped monarch. Her scowl would stand a chance at being foreboding if her teeth weren't chattering behind it. The bridge of her nose is an angry, windbitten red and there is snow in the kink of her hair that peeks from beneath her cap's fringe, tiny half-melting flakes that soak the blond color down to a duller, flatter yellow. "Where is he?" she demands. "I know you have him!"
Shunk! Fionna's sword, all rust and nicks, buries its point in the floorboards nearby the Ice Queen's ear.
"You don't know anything," the monarch shoots back. "He isn't here—"
"You're lying!" growls Fionna. She leans forward over her nemesis. Her knee slides higher; her palm furls in a star over the Ice Queen's shoulder and she gives the older woman a shake that could, the monarch notes, be firmer. More vehement. Fionna's just not cut out to be menacing. "You always lie!"
The Ice Queen can't help gifting the girl an exasperated smirk. "And you always overreact, my dear."
"Don't be nasty, lady. I'm not your dear." Fionna's eyes cut sideways. Presumably she's examining the queen's lair for clues as to the whereabouts of her precious prince. Her weight shifts the slightest bit and the Ice Queen, with a momentous wriggle, drives a knee up into the girl's stomach. As Fionna huffs out a wounded, "Nngh!" and slumps, the Ice Queen kicks out from beneath her. Rolling onto her belly, she arches up onto her elbows and scrambles for her tiara. She stretches her hand out to seize it—
"No way!" barks Fionna breathlessly. The Ice Queen is forced down to the floor again as the shivering little home invader pounces on her, landing squarely in the small of her spine. Fionna snatches up the tiara. Fabric rasps—she shoves it into her rucksack, writhing around atop the indignant monarch like a trout. "Tell me where Gumball is, Ice Queen," she insists, "or you're never getting this back!"
"I don't know where he is, you ignorant little thief—"
"You're lying again!" Fionna drops her chest down against the Ice Queen's shoulder. The cold, wet tendril of her hair tickles the older woman's eartip. She smells like cotton, like marshmallows, like fresh fuzzy socks and maybe even faintly of cats. "You wouldn't be trying to fight me if you didn't have him!"
"I beg to differ!" Working one arm from beneath herself, the Ice Queen thrashes, tips onto her side, and shoves at her adversary. Her thumb catches Fionna's cheek—the scrape of her nail leaves a white streak across the chapped flesh. "You just broke into my house! Literally! Why wouldn't I fight you?" She finishes, pushing with all the force she can muster, "Get off!"
Fionna slides unwillingly backward off the monarch. The Ice Queen lurches to her feet—Fionna mirrors the motion. They face one another there in the ruins of the Ice Queen's living room, snow howling in through the gaping hole in the wall, the mangled corpses of tapes strewn around them. Fionna's fingers inch toward her sword, still notched in the floor: the Ice Queen takes up the nearest threatening object she can find and brandishes it at the human. It turns out to be a ceramic mug shaped like two polar bears hugging each other.
There is a moment of tense consideration. Fionna's eyes dart from the television to the Ice Queen—to the kitchen, the mouth of the hallway, the fallen bookshelf. Back to the Ice Queen again. "Gumball!" she calls. Cocking her head, she listens—tries a second time, "Peeg, c'mon! Get out here, man!"
"He," the Ice Queen reminds her visitor, "is not in residence."
Fionna's fingertips find her sword's hilt. She palms the weapon—sweeps it aside, glaring at the monarch. "You just want me to believe that," she mutters accusingly. "You're hiding him. You've got him tied up somewhere, gagged—"
"Spare me your indulgent fantasies, brat. He isn't here," the Ice Queen repeats, and amends, "I would never gag him besides. I love to hear him scream."
"Yeah, well, that's sick." But Fionna has begun to look unsure. A frown curls her mouth. She's got a dimple, the Ice Queen notices—just one, low in the crook of her right cheek. How curious. "I don't believe you," the human says, except it actually sounds like hmm, yeah, she just might be toying with the idea. "I don't," she insists, and goes on, "you've hidden him, I can feel it—"
"I think there's a cream for that."
Fionna's frown deepens. "Hey, yeah. Uhm. Speaking of cream… what's that crud all over your face?"
The Ice Queen blinks. She reaches up with her free hand to brush her fingers over her jaw. They come away smeared with a green, filmy substance and she swallows, the first vestiges of an embarrassed flush kindling at her collar. "Oh—ah. Uhm. This, er." Until Fionna's mention of it, she'd forgotten about it entirely. "This is an evening face mask."
"It looks like snot," Fionna determines. "Thick, caked snot," she adds, making a gagging noise.
The monarch snaps back, "It is nothing of the sort! It's avocado—honey, yogurt—"
"Gross old lady garbage," singsongs the human teasingly. She lowers her sword: hesitates. Resheathing the blade next, she ventures, "Why're you wearing that junk anyway, dude?"
The Ice Queen shakes her polar bear mug at the girl. "It is absolutely not junk. It helps to keep my skin healthy and smooth."
Squinting at the monarch, Fionna shrugs and supplies, "But your skin usually looks fine." The compliment is so freely given and unexpected that the Ice Queen stiffens to hear it. Rare heat climbs her throat and Fionna, rocking on her moccasined feet, drops her gaze curiously down her enemy's form to observe, "You're dressed kinda funny, y'know."
The Ice Queen looks down at herself. She is garbed in an aqua negligee and a pair of pale pink bunny slippers—she feels vulnerable, yes, but not as though she is wearing anything unreasonable. "How is this funny?" she growls.
A floorboard creaks. She glances up and finds Fionna ducking under the mug. Fearlessly the girl reaches to pluck at the nightgown's hem, rubbing the fabric between her coarse thumb and index finger. She smiles. Her large, rounded foreteeth pucker the flesh of her lip as she admits, "I dunno. It's just… shimmery. And soft. I guess I'm used to seeing you in your big floofy dress—"
"My dress is not floofy," the Ice Queen defends. "It is magnificent."
"Floofy," Fionna maintains. "It usually makes you look like you have a really huge—"
Her gaze descends still more: widens next. The human chokes on her breath, her expression suddenly a mix of awe and surprise, and the Ice Queen cocks her hip and nudges, "A really huge what, pray tell?" She adjoins, "See something you like? Tsk-tsk. Manners, Fionna—my eyes are up here." She snaps her fingers before her enemy's blazing red nose.
"Oh c'mon," groans the younger woman. But she does look up again, muttering, "Freakazoid butt," under her breath. She huffs, "You've got squid hair too."
"Curlers," the Ice Queen corrects tersely. "Part of my nightly regimen. Now if you're quite finished criticizing what I wear in the privacy of my own home," she retorts as Fionna opens her mouth to speak again, "I'll take my tiara back, thank you." She thrusts her hand expectantly into the space between them, the palm up, wiggling her fingers.
Fionna curls an arm protectively about her rucksack. "I dunno, man. You could still be hiding Gumball. Maybe you froze him again. Or—or something." And then, "I need to check the rest of your house."
The Ice Queen's free hand hooks into an instinctive claw. "Reconsider, girl. You need to remove yourself from my property before I—" She makes to swing her mug at the human.
In response and quick as a blink, Fionna has the monarch's tiara out of her rucksack and stretched aside at arm's length. Whipping her sword to the fore again, she touches the edge of the blade to the glittering headpiece and announces, "I don't like it any more than you do, geez! But if he's here I have to save him, and I don't feel like I can trust your word that you aren't hiding him, so either show me the rest of your place and prove your freakin' innocence or I'll break this, Ice Queen. I really will." Even as she issues this threat she manages to both look and sound vaguely apologetic.
The Ice Queen fumes.
"Use what brief measure of brainpower you possess," she hisses, "and think about this for a moment, will you? I am in my nightclothes. I was about to eat dinner." She gestures—with no small degree of lament—to the array of still-frozen chicken nuggets littered amidst the wreckage of her living room's floor. She likes them crunchy. "I even had a movie picked out to watch. Do you sincerely believe that I would be engaging in all these mundane rituals—that I would be entertaining myself with a film I've seen countless times already—if I had a prince here to play with?"
Fionna gives the monarch a look that is equal parts contrite and stern. "I didn't sincerely believe you would dress up as Prince Gumball and spend an entire day hanging out with me, not to mention invite me to a party as your date," she murmurs, "but all that stuff totally happened, so yeah." Flicking her sword's tip such that it tings against the tiara's rim, she urges simply, "Don't think I won't destroy it, Ice Queen," and edges toward the hallway. She drops the tiara back into her rucksack.
Essentially powerless to stop her, the Ice Queen follows Fionna down the short corridor. She watches as the girl peers into her bathroom—grimaces too in seeing her ferret her dirty, nailbitten hand through the linen closet, turning over freshly folded towels and washcloths.
The worst moment of the night so far, though, occurs when Fionna, easing the door open with her foot, steps into the Ice Queen's bedroom.
No other person aside from the Ice Queen herself has ever been into the bedroom. The monarch isn't at all pleased to have her rival shatter that tradition. "This is a heinous invasion of privacy," she mutters darkly. "You should be ashamed of yourself—"
"So should you!" Fionna grins, turning her head to survey the chamber. "You spend your time creepin' on princes, sheez." Thoughtfully she considers the Ice Queen's sky-colored comforter: the pewter sconces on the walls, flickering now with vanilla candles halfway burned down their wicks. The room's small, stacked fireplace and its embers, glowing like orange eyes in the grate. "Hey," the girl nudges curiously, "why d'you have a fire in here, Ice Queen? Do you, uh… do you get cold?"
Fionna herself is shivering faintly, notes the monarch. Her white rabbit's hat is soaked, the felt ears drooping and sodden; dark splotches on the human's sweater mark where snow landed first and melted next. Her bare knees, red as holly berries beneath her skirt, knock together for the chill and her breath is making clouds in the air, wavering, nebulous things spun of silver.
Pursing her lips, the Ice Queen stalks past her enemy and moves to the fireside. She puts down her mug—picks up the poker leaning beneath the mantle.
Fionna tenses. "Hey, watch it—"
With the poker the queen stirs the embers in the grate. They snicker as they fall, spitting slivers of flame. A wave of heat washes across the chamber. Fionna gasps: hard, startled gooseflesh ripples up her legs. Pretending not to see how her aggressor twitches closer to the fire, the monarch admits, "Mostly it's for atmosphere."
"A-atmosphere?" Fionna's teeth are chattering.
"Mmn. The crackling sound—the scent of the wood burning." Setting the poker aside again, the Ice Queen allows, "I no longer remember exactly what it's like to be cold. Or warm."
"Oh." Rolling her sword into the lee of her hip, Fionna shamelessly turns her rear toward the fireplace. She rubs it: said rear, not said fireplace. Her skirt bunches under her fingers and the Ice Queen wonders—not quite idly—how old the girl is now, to have evolved curves like the ones under the pleated, snow-drenched fabric. "Well," Fionna resumes, "take it from me. It's flippin' freezing in here."
"Might I remind you that you contributed to the temperature by knocking a huge hole in my house?"
The smaller woman sticks her tongue out at the Ice Queen. Her eyes squinch shut and it would be so easy, the monarch reflects, yes—so easy to take up the poker again, to lunge for her and smash the cold steel rod into her temple. But Fionna's smiling too, a sweet little smear of a smirk that's not mocking so much as it's playful, and the Ice Queen's hand stills before it really even starts toward the potential weapon. When was the last time someone fearlessly, freely smiled at her?
"What was I supposed to do?" asks Fionna. "All up and just knock on your door? Oh hiiii, Prince Kidnapper Extraordinaire—how are you this fine evening?" She pitches her voice deep—it rumbles in her chest, curling with a flicker of laughter there. "Have you seen my dear friend Gumball? He appears to be missing!"
"He's probably with the Vampire King, you know," sighs the Ice Queen, "not wanting to be found in the first place."
Fionna's smile fades a bit. Her sword drops such that the tip of it hits the bearskin carpet stretched out before the fireplace. "What do you mean, not wanting to be found?" The girl's brow furrows. "Peeg and Marshall are my best buds, man. If they're together they'd definitely want me to find them—"
"Into voyeurism, are they?" pursues the monarch keenly. "Can't say I'm terribly surprised—that vampire is an exhibitionist in every way and the sweet little Candy Prince has to wind down somehow too, I'd imagine…"
She trails off when Fionna blinks at her blankly: once. Twice. Three times. A fresh flush railroads suddenly into the girl's cheeks and she squawks, "Oh man, no! No way! They aren't—" But she stops, eyes widening; the fingers hooked about her sword's hilt slip. "They aren't," she tries a second time, strangled. "They—"
For a moment she struggles. Watching her, the Ice Queen feels a sense of typical vindication—and a pang of something else too, something far more fleeting. Sympathy? Pity? Whatever it is, it stifles her urge to immediately bait Fionna. She offers a mere, "They aren't what, dear?"
Fionna's head snaps aright and her sword with it. A stormy scowl erupts over her features. "Don't mess with me, Ice Queen," she huffs. Turning on her heel, she sweeps across the room to the closet door—catches the knob. Yanks it open. Not an instant later she has plunged into the smaller chamber, throwing aside clothing and accessories like confetti. A hanger boomerangs from the depths of the closet too, nearly clipping the Ice Queen's chin.
"Hey!" she yelps. "Those are my things! Show some courtesy!"
The shruppppp of shredding fabric is Fionna's reply, followed by a chagrined, "Oops," and the next query of, "geez, what is this stuff?"
Fionna emerges from the closet with a scarf caught on her hat's ears and a ruined garment clutched in the hand not holding her sword. Shaking said garment at the Ice Queen, she demands, "Is this a miniature costume of me?"
Checking it, the Ice Queen is unable to disagree. Uncertain whether to feel ashamed, defensive, or a combination of both, she snipes, "I like to sew, okay?" and snatches the costume from Fionna. "And look at this—look at what you've done! You've ruined it. This took ages—"
"Dude! Why"—Fionna throws up her palm—"do you have a little costume of me in your closet?" Her mouth twitches and she turns to rifle through the aforementioned closet again. Hangers rattle, clack. "And a little costume of Gumball!" she realizes. "Oh my glob, you've even got one of Lumpy Space Prince…"
"I like to sew," repeats the Ice Queen stubbornly. She continues, "It's a harmless hobby!"
"A hobby," echoes Fionna. She sounds skeptical about the harmless part. Stepping close to the monarch, she reaches to tweak the ripped sleeve of what the Ice Queen privately thinks of as The Adventuress Outfit. "What do you do with them?" she manages. "These don't look like the one you made of Peeg that time—they're too small for you to wear yourself."
"That's none of your business," the Ice Queen snarls.
As though by cue, one of the monarch's beloved penguins waddles past the bedchamber's threshold bedecked in an ensemble reminiscent of the same vampire king they discussed not moments prior. Complete with tiny plush axe-bass.
"…wow," Fionna observes at length. "Uh. …yeah. I really just… don't know how to respond to that. Seriously." And then, "Nice craftsmanship, though. Solid."
"Thank you oh so much," the Ice Queen grates miserably. She shoves her face into her palms and scrubs her hands down her cheeks. "Are you satisfied now? Have you humiliated me thoroughly enough or do you still have another ace up your—"
Something in the closet shifts, falls. From the chamber and out between Fionna's ankles rolls a soft, rounded object. It drops flat over the human's feet. It's a cat bed, purple, obviously handmade. Along its edge, lovingly embroidered, is the name CAKE in delicate lavender filigree.
The little fire in the grate snaps.
Closing her eyes, the Ice Queen straightens and turns away from her enemy. She folds her arms: cups her hand over her mouth too, drawing her thumb harshly down the line of her lips, feeling the points of her teeth prick her flesh.
"I should go," Fionna admits quietly.
"Yes." The Ice Queen doesn't bother looking back at the girl's face. "Yes, you should."
There is a pause, and the monarch gets the distinct idea that maybe Fionna wants to say something else—that maybe the human is reaching for her, a hand gingerly extended as a bridge into the small space between them. Fabric rustles. The Ice Queen remains, as ever, frozen.
Footsteps, finally: pattering away across the room and down the hall, fading into nothing. For several minutes the Ice Queen does nothing but stare into the flames of her bedchamber's fireplace. At length she stirs, though, to neaten the room: she picks up the cat bed, tucks it gently back into its cranny in the closet alongside an assortment of dusty felt mice and jingle-balls. She replaces the costumes on their hangers, smoothing their creases, tidying their buttons and clasps. Last she banks the fire again, gripping the poker so tightly it leaves a white comma on the blue scape of her palm.
She pauses on her journey back down her hallway to wash off her face in the bathroom—to ease free her hair's curlers too. Her locks feather down around her face like wisps of pulled cotton. Heaving a silent sigh, she sweeps them back under her hand's heel, clips them there, and proceeds into her living room.
Already an inch of snow has accumulated over the floorboards, heaped in a slushy pile nearby the collapsed bookshelf especially. Disappearing footprints mark the path of Fionna's departure, and hanging on a shard of the fractured wall is the Ice Queen's tiara. It lists slowly to and fro in the wind, its gems frosted, its crest aglimmer in the frail moonlight of the blizzardry night.
Picking her way through the wreckage in her slippers, the Ice Queen takes up the tiara: spins it in her hands and settles it atop her head where it belongs. She shivers at its familiar pulse of power—at the way it fits in such perfection on her skull's slow slope. Flexing her fingers next, she sends all the snow in her living room sailing out through the hole in her wall. She mends that afterward too.
She has just begun to collect her tapes and books when there comes a knock at her door.
Straightening, the Ice Queen frowns toward her kitchen. She misheard, surely—or perhaps it was a load of snow falling from her roof. A log rolling off her woodpile.
But no! It happens a second time and then a third, a stringent, insistently peppery sound that can only signify a fist hitting the barrier.
Briefly the Ice Queen considers not answering it. Just as briefly she crosses the kitchen and jerks open the door, sending a spray of icicles from the jamb straight into Fionna's face.
Brushing those icicles from her jumper, Fionna looks up at the Ice Queen through her lashes. She's chewing her lip with those little rabbit teeth of hers; snow specks her cheeks and her throat is cherry for the relentless push of the wind on it. She opens her mouth and the Ice Queen expects her to suddenly start spewing a ridiculous apology, but instead Fionna says, "Yeah, uh." Her tongue darts out, wets her lips—they're chapped horribly and only getting worse. "So," she resumes. "What movie were you gonna watch?"
The Ice Queen sneers. "Save your pity," she retorts, "and get out of here before I turn you into a meat popsicle, girl." She proceeds to slam the door.
Or she tries. Fionna thrusts her foot into the jamb and the door jounces against it. Its panes rattle. Another spray of icicles showers down from the gutter above and the human, looking aside, blurts out, "I think you're right about Peeg and Marshall." Her teeth chatter—her chin wobbles. Maybe she's cold, but maybe she's something else too and she confesses, "And Cake's hangin' out with Lord Monochromicorn tonight and what lumpin' movie were you gonna watch, Ice Queen, huh?" Dropping her rucksack down into her elbow, she opens it, digs through it: ultimately unearths a flat, shimmery package. "Look," she insists. "I, uhm. I even have some popcorn." She squints into the glow of the monarch's kitchen. "You do have a microwave, don't you?"
"What kind of question is that?" barks the Ice Queen. "Of course I have a microwave, you foolish—"
"Great!" The girl lunges past the queen back into the kitchen, her moccasins squeaking on the tile. "Get a bowl then, 'kay? And hey, where's the salt? We can't," she maintains, "have popcorn without salt. That's just unnatural."
Unnatural: two sworn enemies standing together in a kitchen, plotting snackage for a movie night.
The Ice Queen sweeps to Fionna, knocking her back against the countertop. Their knees jangle—the human swings a hand up defensively and the monarch catches it, clutching the chilled, slippery knuckles in her palm's crease. Between them the sachet of popcorn crackles.
Lowering her head, the monarch leers into Fionna's cheek. "We," she hisses, "will have salt and a caramel drizzle. Otherwise the popcorn would be criminally lacking and I cannot"—she scrapes her nails deftly over Fionna's hand—"allow that."
Fionna glares up at the Ice Queen—or pretends to glare. A smile's shadow flirts with her mouth's corner. "Fine," she grunts. And then, persistent, "What movie are we watching? Because I also have a copy of Heat Signature and it freakin' rules—I mean, if you want something new—"
"We are watching Titanic," the Ice Queen provides. She leaves off Fionna and turns to look through the nearest cabinet for a bowl. "The salt's in the spice rack. Careful of the microwave—it's old and the door doesn't catch well."
"Cool, yeah. Sure. Okay." The plastic wrapper crinkles. "Titanic? Aw dude, that's not a chick flick, is it? Full of slobbery kisses and romance junk—"
For the second time this night the Ice Queen cuts in, "It is magnificent." Encountering a bowl that should be suitable for the popcorn once it's finished, she drags it down from its shelf. She turns to place it next to the microwave and runs into Fionna with it instead, nearly knocking free the girl's hat. The fabric ears of the thing are dripping. "Take that off," the monarch snaps before she can stop herself. "You'll catch your death in it."
Fionna grins. "Whatever," she says, but she tugs off the cap and tosses it aside. It lands on the monarch's table amidst envelopes and a baking apron. "Hey, Ice Queen?"
"Yes?" acknowledges the taller woman stiffly.
Leaning around the queen, her hair all golden cowlicks, the human reaches for the microwave door and prods, "This isn't gonna be a sad story, is it?" Her eyes flicker aloft and maybe, realizes the monarch, she's not just asking about the film. "I hate sad stories."
The microwave's door sticks as usual. Furling her fingers over Fionna's, the Ice Queen helps her to pull it open. She determines, "Wait and see."


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The fully electric, futuristic motorcycle, complete with blue lights and a siren, resembles motorcycles featured in the 2010 film, "Tron Legacy."
The one-of-a-kind vehicle, which is valued at more than $50,000 and is capable of exceeding speeds of 100 mph, will be used locally to initiate conversations between deputy sheriff's officers and youth about a variety of public safety issues.
"We are blessed as a community that Parker Brothers Concepts decided to relocate to Brevard County," said Brevard County Sheriff Jack Parker, in a press release. "One of the very few things they did after opening their new building was to start finding ways to benefit the Brevard community."
Brothers Marc and Shanon Parker started Parker Brothers Choppers - now known as Parker Brothers Concepts - more than three years ago, after creating their version of the "Batpod," Batman's futuristic vehicle seen in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy."
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The Battle for Rubber in Benin
AbstractAt the start of the Second World War, British policies restricted rubber planting in Nigeria's Benin region. After Japan occupied Southeast Asia, Britain encouraged maximum production of rubber in Benin. Late in the war, officials struggled with the planting boom that had occurred. The war was a period of both continuity and change. Producers gained experience and capital. Forestry policies restricting planting survived, and output quality continued to occupy officials after the war. The colonial state was hindered by a lack of knowledge and resources, and by its pursuit of conflicting objectives in giving incentives to both producers and traders.�
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Yeah...that's a no.
I understand that when you're in a relationship, you obviously can't spend your entire amount of freetime in Azeroth, but where I draw the line is having to NEGOTIATE for the time that I'm "allowed" to play?
I'm extremely lucky to have an SO that is just as addicted to the game as I am, but if I were ever in a relationship with another person that required me to basically ask permission before I can play WoW? It's not a relationship that is going to last long. It goes beyond WoW. Yes, we're living together. Yes, we've entered into a relationship "for better or worse", etc, but that doesn't mean we need to spend every waking second together. Having to "negotiate" out my free time with my SO just seems like the crest of a slippery hill. I love my boyfriend to death, and really want to spend the rest of my life with him, and I guess I'm lucky in that he knows I like an hour or two of "me-time" a day, whether it's in WoW or in a book, or a long walk, or whatever I want to do by myself that day.
Agreed. If he was neglecting her, spending all of his time on WoW, etc, that would be one thing. But I always want to tell guys like this to get the pair out of whatever jar she's keeping them in and reattach them. In a healthy relationship it shouldn't be any big deal to play 2 or 3 nights a week. That doesn't mean from the second he gets home to the second he sleeps.... have dinner with her, etc. And make sure your relationship is still a priority - that you're not suddenly taking her for granted because, well, you're married.
This, and frankly, that goes for any cherished hobby. I refuse to date non-fannish/geek types for this very reason. I've had too many friends of both genders needing to drop out of weekly P&P roleplaying sessions because their SO wanted them to "knock that ish out". Too many people have dropped out of my life because someone they were dating couldn't stand their gaming/comics collecting/anime fandom/etc. This is a basic respect thing, and to me speaks volumes about a person's character. No, you don't always have to share the same interests as your SO--but dammit, have some respect. My GF makes jewelry for a living and is a very crafty sort. I'm decidedly not, aside from cosplay projects. But I don't down her for squeeing at the bead store. Because, you know, I love her and that's something she enjoys doing even if I don't necessarily get the appeal of it.
I just don't get how people fail at something this basic.
Oh, exactly that. EXACTLY THAT.
My boyfriend is a car nut, a mechanical engineering major, and more than once he has tried to explain some breakthrough in his chosen field that has gone so far over my head it might have been mistaken for a UFO.
But I don't chide him for that, just as he doesn't laugh at me for my giggling girlishness over my books. We have things in common, we have interests that separate, and I think that recognizing that you can't be in your SO's life every waking second of the day is one of the foundations of a healthy long-term relationship.


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In the YouTube video a young boy, Gavin, is given the news from his father that he will "no longer be able to cheer for Steve Smith." At first anger, then comes the tantrum.
The boy's sister handled the news much better, happily saying that she would cheer for other players like Luke Kuechly and Cam Newton.
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Andy Carpenter isn't sure what to think when he gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. He certainly isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene. But that's exactly where he arrives—at the house where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. And that, Andy discovers, is why he and Laurie were called to the scene—Pete wants them to take care of the boy and the dog so they won't get thrown into the "system." This is already asking a lot, but soon Pete needs another big favor from Andy. Pete himself has come under suspicion for Danny's murder, and he needs defense attorney Andy to represent him…and to find out what really happened in Danny's house that day.
David Rosenfelt has done it again. Told with his characteristic humor and wit, Hounded is at once a heartfelt story about family and a page-turning legal thriller.
Pete Stanton figured he was the poorest person in the room.
Of course, it was always possible that he was wrong. Maybe the servants had been allowed to attend, since it was their boss who was being eulogized. Having had no experience with servants, Pete was not in a position to venture an educated guess about that. And if he asked the guys at the precinct, chances are they wouldn't know either.
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"David Rosenfelt deftly works in wry humor, a love of dogs and New Jersey gangsters in Hounded, his highly entertaining 12th legal thriller featuring attorney Andy Carpenter."—Associated Press
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Pierre Despereaux trilogy that isn't actually done yet! This show doesn't really do arcs so much.. Basically the only other one is the Yin Yang thing.
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I don't understand how Curtis continues to get the same comments on how he needs to do better when Dorian is the one who has actually been improving ever week. They made the wrong decision tonight & it truly broke my heart. Every word I write and send to Dorian makes me cry harder. So proud of him.
I AM ACTUALLY CRYING SO HARD OVER THE JUDGE'S CHOICES IN ELIMINATING DORIAN TONIGHT. IM NOT EVEN JOKING WHEN I SAY IM CRYING I AM IN SO MUCH TESRS. How can you eliminate the most funny, sweet, unique, talented, and popular dancer on the entire competition?? Truly so proud of how far Blu has come….
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My favorite dancer is gone. Now I have no reason to finish the season. So done with this show. I love you, Dorian & am sooo proud of you. You have no idea how much I love you even though I literally tweet you like 100x every week. Such an inspiration, I was in SOOO much tears tonight. Every word I write about him brings more and more tears.
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Hip Slide To Stay Behind The Ball
You've probably read a lot of golf instruction that tells you that you to stay behind the ball at impact, or at least keep you head behind it. Have you tried to do this, but found it nearly impossible? Here's a magic move, if you're not already doing it, that will dramatically improve your contact, consistency and distance and who couldn't use some of that.
Try this without a club; stand in your address posture and clasp your hands behind your back (we don't want any distractions). Now rotate towards the target (no backswing coil yet) and pay attention to your head and your right hip. The best you can do like this is to keep your head over the ball and not behind it. Many of you will find your head chasing forward. Now focus on your right hip, it moves outward towards the ball from the get-go. Imagine how easy it would be to come over the top with this type of motion and/or to 'chase after the ball'.
Now let's try something a little different. Assume the same position. This time 'bump' or laterally slide your hips forward first (parallel with the target line) and then rotate. Make sure you keep your head where it started when you 'do the bump'. If you do this correctly your spine tilts slightly backwards. This makes sense if your hips go forward (bottom of the spine) and the head stays where it started (top of the spine) The Ben Hogan swing sequence above shows the lateral hip slide very clearly.
Here's where it gets interesting. What happens to your right hip and head as you rotate after you've done the lateral slide? Your left hip has to move away from the ball as you start to rotate or you'll fall forward. The right hip moves forward and then rotates, which means it doesn't move towards the ball very much, if at all, and you'll feel how it's no problem to keep your head behind the ball at impact. This move allows you to open up a big space to attack the ball from the inside on your downswing. It also starts the critical weight shift to your front foot.
When you do the lateral slide and create a natural backward lean of the spine, you'll begin to feel how this move automatically moves the club down and into the slot. Once it's there rotate and you'll create a downswing that comes from the inside – right where you want it. You'll also be able to drive forward off the back leg as you move toward contact. In fact, it starts to happen automatically as soon as you start the lateral shift.
Play around with this at home. First alternate both moves so you can feel where the differences are. Do it at slow speed. After awhile you can add some backswing coil, still without a club in your hands. Now's the time to start learning this move so it that will be automatic by the time the season starts. You're going to love the results!
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"This time 'bump' or laterally slide your hips forward first (parallel with the target line) and then rotate"
What do you mean by "and then rotate"? Is this hips or torso?
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Grahame, if you have properly coiled in your backswing, you have turned your shoulders more than your hips. As you 'bump' out your hip and drop the shaft of the club as your first move on the downswing, you maintain or even increase the difference between the shoulder and hip turns. This keeps your big torso muscles coiled or twisted and this is where real power comes from. This also gets the hips out of the way or 'cleared' so you have room to attack the ball from an inside path with your club. If you maintain the coil and the wrist cock until you get the club into the slot, then you can just rotate everything through impact. The club should stay in front of your breastbone into impact. Don't forget to drive your rear shoulder down and through at impact ala Dustin Johnson or Lee Trevino. Hope this helps. John
While i agree that there indeed needs to be a bump, it's not as much as these pictures indicate. Don't forget in the first image, his right hip has rotated to the right and so his is not facing the camera. In the last image, has rotated and is facing the camera, and so his left hip has to be more forward. A better representation would be if the first picture was at address and you drew the lines then. The secret is that all the bump is, is "3 inches" — how do I know this, because Mr. Hogan always said that the bottom of your divot should be 3 inches in front of the ball, bump = 3 inches. That's a pearl right there.
I also like Hogan's observation that the ELBOWS must stay connected with the torso.
Great article,
This is something that I have been working on recently. It helps create more of a draw ball flight and eliminates the push/slice golf shot. It also helps create a much more solid ball contact for all your shots.
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Jaymi Heimbuch Treehugger.comThere's no more apt description for biodiversity than "web of life." The complex ways in which plants, animals and organisms are linked can be mind-boggling, and we often don't realize the importance of one species to the survival of another until after that balance has been disrupted.
When there are a wide range of plants an animals in a habitat, it is less disruptive if one of them dies out for whatever reason. The remaning species can adapt to the loss and focus on another species for food, shelter, and so on. Imagine if there is only one plant, one herbivore, and one carnivore existing in an ecosystem and one of them were wiped out. If it's the predator, the herbivores would go nuts on the plant and kill it off. If it's the plant, then the herbivores starve and so to do the predators. If it's the herbivore, then the plants go nuts (possibly to the point of self-destruction) and the predators starve. But when there is a wide range of species thriving in an ecosystem, the loss of one is not so dramatic.
Additionally, different species perform different tasks for an ecosystem. Some are the "garbage workers" that clean off sick or injured prey animals -- this actually helps to keep that prey species healthy so that only the best genes are passed on. Other species are the pollinators, such as birds, bats, bees and other insects -- but it is important to note that some species will pollinate certain types of plants but not others. In order for all the plant species to survive, there needs to be a great diversity in pollinators. Having a significant biodiversity in a habitat ensures it functions at tip-top shape.
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A new report advises that babies and toddlers should remain in rear-facing car seats as long as possible
Infant carriers and car seats for older infants
According to UK car seat law, babies and children must be placed in a special infant carrier, child car seat or booster seat until they are aged 12 or taller than 1.35m.
All babies must travel in an infant carrier when travelling in a vehicle and when you are leaving hospital for the first time, the midwife team will not let you leave by car if you do not have a carrier.
Carriers can be placed (usually) in the front or back seat of your car and are positioned rear-facing. The exception may be if the front seat has an activated airbag, in which case the carrier must be placed in a back seat.
However, seats beyond infant carriers – ones referred to as Group 1 car seats – are used for babies once they grow out of infant carriers. Often this range of car seat (sometimes combined as a Group 1, 2, 3 seat which can be adjusted as your child grows) can be used as a forward- or rear-facing seat, and many parents opt to place their child forward-facing because it is more interesting for their toddler to see where they are going.
As we have advised on ThinkBaby before, and as this report suggests, where possible this is a preferable option for as long as possible.
What should you do to keep your child safe?
A representative from RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) has pointed out that all standard car seats sold in the UK which meet EU safety standards are safe for use, so parents should not be overly alarmed. However, this might be a good to time to look at any infant car seats you have, and to check they are in good condition and that you are fitting them properly each time you travel. It's also worth looking at the website www.childcarseats.org.uk for useful tips and advice.
If you are buying a car seat now, think about options like the Recaro Polaric which are designed with rear-facing safety in mind. Ideally buy a car seat in a store rather than online, so that a shop assistant can check for you that the car seat you want fits your kind of car. Shops like Mothercare will do this for you.
Although the report claims that children up to 4 years would benefit from travelling rear-facing, this is not always an easy option. Once your child's legs hang over the edge of the seat, there will not be enough room for them to sit easily in a rear-facing position. Indeed, if we all travelled backwards on aeroplanes it would be safer too, but we do not do this because it does not feel like an enjoyable experience.
However, where possible, do keep your baby in a rear-facing seat as long as possible if your seat is designed to be fitted that way. Older babies and toddlers might find travelling backwards boring. In this case it's good to have an adult in the back with your baby to keep him amused. Or buy a stimulating baby travel toy which he can play with safely as you drive along.
the only problem i can see is the seats fitting in the cars! the Recaro Polaric sits further back than a normal rear facing and we have enough trouble with our Britax first class taking up so much room in the back resulting in the front passenger sitting quite far forward, its not good when the adults in our family are both over 5'10!!!
my son is only 3 months old and already would prefer to face forward, of course we havent allowed this we just have to persevere with holding his hand or sitting in the back with him until he reaches the weight criteria. he wants to know whats going on! we tried everything from car toys to singing he's just far too nosey.
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In Sweden or Norway children have to sit facing backwards until they are 4.5 years old, they are also the safest nations in europe for road safety.
Let's face it if a child is in a forward facing seat they can't see very much, how many times as an adult can we see much of what's going on if we are sat in the back. How uncomfortable does the front passenger have to be before it's worth a child's life to make them more comfortable?
I would recommend looking at the Britax website, they recommend only moving up to the next seat category when the child exceeds the weight or physically grows out of the seat. http://www.britax.co.uk/safety-centre/how-to-choose/
Sorry but I fit seats as part of my job and I see so many bad decisions when it comes to choosing child car seats for all the wrong reasons and it's too late once you are involved in a crash.
Good luck with entertaining your little one.
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Nike Lunar Force 1 "White Ice"
March 27th, 2013 by Brendan Dunne | 2 comments
Nike Sportswear's got something special planned for the upcoming Easter weekend with respect to the Nike Lunar Force 1 (More info here). The pair shown here, the Nike Lunar Force 1 'White Ice', will play a part in the Easter egg hunt style rollout, and looks to be the sort of base model amongst the super-limited, numbered pairs floating around out there. The sneaker comes with a pearlized finish and an icy, translucent treatment down below. Get a look at the beautiful Nike Lunar Force 1 'White Ice' below and watch for them to release at your local NSW account on Saturday, March 30th.
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