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One-Shot: You've Now Reached Your Destination (You Were There All Along)
Title: You've Now Reached Your Destination (You Were There All Along)
Pairing: Brittana romance, glee club friendship
Word Count: ~5,300
Summary: "The truth is that the glee kids are super lame, but they're also surprisingly decent… They're always kind of just around, being okay to people."
Author's Note: This story is for my bestie Han, in honor of her birthday, which was yesterday. Han is my favourite human. I wish her happiness, success, and all sorts of fictional lesbian storylines to watch in the upcoming year. I love you, bb!
This story is set during the summer between Seasons Two and Three.
Somehow, Santana didn't even realize that Mike Chang had a birthday, much less that he would have a birthday party, and especially not a birthday party that she could potentially be invited to.
And, okay, so maybe Santana and Brittany have gone to the same school as Mike since kindergarten or something, but it's not as if Santana has ever said more than two words to the kid, really, so why should she know anything about him at all, let alone when in the hell he was born?
Besides, as it turns out, Mike's birthday is in the middle of June, which is usually when Santana and Brittany drop off the radar, as far as hanging out with people from school goes. They like to have the last part of June and all of July to themselves, and the beginning of August, too—you know, just so they can fit in a break before all the "Last Chance Summer Bash" parties start up or whatever.
It's not a big deal and Santana's not a total jackass. She just didn't know that Mike Chang had a birthday. She has her reasons.
So sue.
"Just because you didn't know about Mike's birthday doesn't mean you don't have to go to his party," Brittany singsongs, walking her fingertips along Santana's spine as she and Santana lay sprawled in Santana's bed.
"But, Britt," Santana whines, "what about… stuff?"
Santana knows what she means by stuff and Brittany does, too, but neither one of them has talked about it yet and Santana thinks that if they start now, she might pass out or something, even though she's already lying down.
They don't start talking about it.
Instead, Brittany just looks at Santana, dead serious. "It'll be fun," Brittany assures her. "And Tina specifically said I should bring you."
Santana sits up slightly off the bed, leaning on her elbows. She quirks an eyebrow. "She did?"
Brittany just nods and dances her fingers over Santana's camisole. "Duh," she says, "'cause, like, she knows that if Puck's not coming, you and I are the only ones who can help this party meet its cool quota."
Santana can't help it, she smiles big. "She said those exact words, huh?" She rolls onto her side and reaches up to tickle Brittany's ribs. "We're going to have to 'help this party meet its cool quota'?"
Brittany shrieks and starts to laugh in that perfect way she has—happiness brimming over from her, like she feels too much of it to keep in. "Maybe I paraphrased," Brittany admits, giggling and squirming away.
Santana just tickles her harder.
Santana could have been okay with going to Mike Chang's birthday party in and of itself, but she has no patience for this whole "helping Tina Cohen-Chang plan the world's lamest surprise party" part of things, and especially not as it involves meeting up with other will-be partygoers like a week before the actual shindig happens.
No, not just meeting with them—being seen in public with them—and, like, being seen in public with them before she and Brittany have even figured out all their stuff.
Just thinking about all the variables puts Santana on edge before she and Brittany even step inside the Lima Bean, and especially because she's about one-hundred percent sure that nobody even really wants her at this meeting aside from Brittany anyway.
After all, it's not like Tina invited the whole glee club—just certain people.
Puck, Kurt, and Lauren Zizes weren't invited and Finn only was on Rachel's account. Thankfully, Finn won't be able to make it to either the meeting or the party because Burt Hummel has him scheduled to work in the tire shop from like now until he dies. Artie can't come because his family is on vacation in Columbus or something.
Santana fidgets as Brittany pulls the car into an open space outside the Lima Bean. She mutters something about how maybe she could just wait out here while Brittany goes inside.
"But, honey," Brittany says and Santana melts a little, "Tina specifically told me that you were invited. She wants you here." Brittany rubs her hand over Santana's knee and Santana wishes she could soften to the touch, but she can't.
Not yet.
"But she's probably like the only one who does," Santana mumbles, checking in the rearview and side mirrors, just to make sure that nobody is creeping on her and Brittany in the car together or anything weird like that.
"She's not, though," Brittany says. "Like, Quinn will be way happy you're here. And Sam will be happy to see you, too. And Mike's gonna like having you at his party next week so, so much. Everybody's gonna like it, I swear. And if they don't, I'll leave in protest."
"You will not," Santana says, only now she definitely softens a little.
"Come on," Brittany says, taking her hand away from Santana's kneecap to unbutton her own safety belt. She kills the car engine. "If you come peacefully, I'll buy you an iced tiramisu mocha with double whipped cream and a shot of vanilla."
Santana hesitates for a second, even with the promise of Brittany buying her God's gift to frozen coffee to spur her on.
She and Brittany still have a lot of stuff to talk about and she kind of wishes they could talk about it before socializing with the glee losers, or with anyone, really. See, she and Brittany have kind of been hanging out a lot since they got back from New York, which isn't unusual for them, Santana guesses. It's just that this summer their hanging out feels kind of different than it used to, and, well, Brittany knows how Santana feels about stuff and Brittany said she feels the same way and then Brittany keeps doing things like calling Santana "honey" and offering to buy Santana mochas in front of other people.
It's enough to make Santana dizzy.
Brittany pauses before she gets out of the car. She fixes Santana with a look. "I will buy you the world's biggest iced tiramisu mocha with double whipped cream and a shot of vanilla," she says seriously. "It'll be so big they don't even have the size on the menu—like how do you say 'seventy' in Spanish?"
"I will guy you a setenta tiramisu mocha with double whipped cream and a shot of vanilla," Brittany promises. "All you have to do is get out of this car and come into the Lima Bean to help me and Tina and everybody else plan a totally awesome birthday party for Mike."
And, okay, so maybe Santana caves after that, but only because Brittany is like pretty much perfect or whatever and frozen coffee is awesome.
They can talk about stuff later, after Santana has had a setenta-sized frozen coffee.
The glee kids probably won't even notice stuff at all because, hello, when do they ever pay positive attention to Santana and Brittany anyway?
So the glee kids notice stuff right away and Santana's pretty sure that her heart is going to explode from too much freaking pressure or something because of it.
It's, like, physics.
Really, Santana has to hand it to them: the glee kids are nothing if not chronically lame, which is probably why they think it's normal human behavior to wave at people you know when you see them standing in line ordering their drinks as if everything is all retro and 1950s or something.
"Oh god," Santana groans.
Brittany just shrugs, "They're glad to see us."
The truth is that Santana wouldn't actually mind the waving—maybe—if it didn't mean that the glee kids then sat around and watched while Brittany paid for her iced tiramisu mocha with double whipped cream and a shot of vanilla.
"Santana, they can probably hear you, you know."
If they can hear her, nobody says anything of it. They just smile as Santana and Brittany slide into their booth, giant-ass frozen coffees in hand.
"Cool," Sam says, squishing in to make room for them. "Bri-ana Lo-pierce are here. Now we can start planning."
Mercedes sits beside Sam in the booth. She laughs and smacks him on the shoulder. "That's not how you'd mash up their names," she corrects him.
And, okay, so maybe Santana kind of freezes, but only for a second.
The thing is that Santana would totally be lying if she said she hadn't thought up what hers and Brittany's couple name should be because, duh, all of the couples in glee have them, and, well.
But she would also totally be lying if she said it didn't make her just the slightest bit faint to hear Sam trying out a couple name on her and Brittany before they even have any of their stuff sorted out.
In fact, she's pretty sure that this is what having a coronary feels like.
Santana knows that sometimes the best of glee club friends, like Hummelberry and Artcedes, go by mash up names, just like the couples do, and maybe that's what Sam meant. After all, Sam is harmless and she and Brittany have done the whole "She's my best friend" thing to death ever since they joined glee club.
It's just that Santana isn't sure if that's what she wants Sam to mean or not.
Like, sometimes she thinks it would just be easier if people did just assume certain stuff.
Santana glances over at Brittany, just to see if what Sam said is maybe even just a teensy bit okay by her. Brittany just smiles and reaches for Sam's sugar packets, stealing a pink one. "We weren't even late, Sam," she says placidly, tearing open a corner and dumping all the contents into her coffee without ceremony.
Santana can't help but notice that Brittany doesn't scold Sam for using a couple name, which, yeah, okay, there's that.
She just wishes that figuring everything out didn't have to be so hard.
Santana still isn't sure what she's doing at this meeting. She has nothing to contribute—or at least nothing that anyone really wants to hear anyway.
Snark is her thing. Helpful suggestions? Not so much.
Tina goes on and on about how eighteen is a big birthday and how she wants Mike to remember it forever. She even gets a little bit teary, which isn't surprising at this point, just obnoxious. She wants to surprise Mike, but she needs help figuring out how to do it.
"We can't have his party at my house," she explains, "because my parents will want to supervise. We can't have it at Mike's house—"
"—because his dad is even more uptight than Judy," Quinn says knowingly.
Tina nods. "I'm not asking anyone to offer up their houses," she says quickly. "I was just wondering if any of you guys had an idea about where we could go. I was thinking maybe we could have a bonfire somewhere."
"What about at the Lima Reservoir?" Sam suggests. He wags his eyebrows, "We could go swimming and then finish out the night on the beach."
Everyone makes noises of agreement and a smile blooms over Tina's face. Even Santana has to admit that Sam's idea sounds decidedly less than sucky.
"Good," she says, reaching for her purse and starting to get to her feet. Thank god for short meetings, right?
Except it isn't a short meeting.
Brittany sets a hand on Santana's leg, keeping Santana in her chair. "So who's bringing what?" she asks the group.
Apparently, there's more to talk about.
Quinn offers to bring chips and Tina decides that she'll make sandwiches. Sam says he can pitch in a few pizzas from his job later in the evening and Rachel volunteers to bring a badminton set, which, god—Santana isn't even going to touch that one, okay? Sometimes Rachel just makes things too easy.
As everyone else divvies up assignments, Santana feels herself starting to retreat inside her own head. It isn't that she hates the glee kids or whatever. It's just that she was right—there is absolutely no reason for her to be at this lameass meeting aside from the fact that Brittany wanted her here. Nobody else cares that she's around at all.
"Be right back," Brittany whispers in her ear. "Restroom."
She slides over Santana and out of the booth and Santana immediately feels lonely without her. "Okay," she says helplessly, willing Brittany to return soon. She watches Brittany walk away and then watches the door to the bathroom, waiting.
She's not pathetic or anything.
"What're you and Brittany going to bring, Santana?"
Tina's voice snaps Santana out of her reverie.
Tina repeats herself, "Everybody else's signed up to bring something. What are you and Brittany bringing?"
And there's that whole "exploding heart" feeling again.
"Who says we're bringing something together?" Santana snaps, which, oops.
She doesn't mean to bite people's heads off whenever they ask things about her and Brittany, okay? It's just that she's had years of practice snapping at people whenever they get too close to the truth and it's kind of hard to break the habit now after all this time. She means to be more easygoing, but it's hard when everyone keeps looking at her like they know some secret that she doesn't.
She and Brittany haven't even talked about stuff yet so there's nothing to know.
Is there?
Tina recoils, as does everyone else around the table. "You don't have to bring something together," Tina says quickly. "I just thought that maybe you might want to."
And, okay, so maybe Santana relaxes a little bit at that, but only because Tina seems so incredibly genuine. Tina's got that whole retro 1950s thing going on again. Everybody at the booth does. They're all looking at Santana wearing these concerned, weirdly earnest expressions, like they can't imagine what Tina might have said wrong.
They're just so damn sincere.
"We can maybe bring something together," Santana mumbles, "if Britt wants to."
"Okay," Tina says happily, typing something in on her iPhone.
She doesn't push Santana to say exactly what it is that she and Brittany will bring, which, whatever. In hindsight, maybe the lack of specificity could be a problem, but, at the moment, Santana is just glad that Tina knows when to back the hell off.
"Did I miss anything?" Brittany asks, returning to the table just as everyone starts to pack up for realsies, set with a plan to meet at the reservoir at two o'clock next Friday afternoon.
Santana just shrugs.
Somehow, she kind of thinks that Brittany did miss something, but she's not sure what.
When Tina waves goodbye to her and Brittany in the parking lot, Santana waves back, but only because it's the polite thing to do or whatever, or it would have been the polite thing to do way back when the Andy Griffith Show was still on the air and dinosaurs roamed the earth, which is apparently when all the glee losers learned their freaking manners.
"I told them we'd bring something," Santana blurts out as soon as she and Brittany slide into Brittany's car. "Like, I told them we'd bring something to the party together, if that's okay with you."
Brittany just grins at Santana in the rearview mirror and slips on her sunglasses. "Cool," she says. "What'd you tell them we'd bring?"
Santana shrugs. "I didn't tell them we'd bring something specific," she admits.
Brittany's whole face lights up. "So you mean we get to bring a surprise to Mike's surprise party?" she gasps.
And, okay, so maybe the whole lame meeting was just a little bit worth it to see that look on Brittany's face—not that Santana would ever say so out loud to any of the glee kids or anything.
Santana had kind of imagined that she and Brittany would show up to the party with a couple of six-packs and a bottle of something harder and count that as their big contribution to helping Mike on his way to having many happy returns on his special day.
No such luck, though.
On Tuesday, Rachel sends out a mass text about how she read an article in the Lima News detailing a sheriff's department crackdown on "teen shenanigans" at the reservoir this summer and suddenly no one wants to drink anymore.
So on Wednesday? Brittany and Santana end up in the toy aisle at Wal-Mart, surrounded by screaming children and mothers who look like the end of summer vacation can't come quickly enough.
Normally, Santana would be complaining like crazy about a) being around so many kids, and, b) being in a Wal-Mart, but today she can't help but be quietly in awe of her gir—well, of Brittany—who has had what is probably the single most genius idea about what she and Santana should bring to Mike's party in the history of ideas, pretty much.
"Should we get one foam noodle and one water gun for everyone, or limit it to five of each so that not everyone can be both armed and protected at once?" Brittany asks seriously, examining a pink plastic pistol on the one hand and a purple tube on the other.
"You know that Sam and Mike are going to turn this into some geeky zombie-hunting game, don't you?" Santana asks, only she can't help but sound more amused than annoyed.
"Don't worry. I'll protect you," Brittany promises, tossing both the water pistol and the foam noodle into the cart at once, which, that's not what Santana was worried about, but okay. Santana's not going to refuse Brittany holding on tight to her while they're both wearing bikinis because duh.
"Holy shit! Brittany, it's Mike!" Santana says, pointing down to the end of the aisle, where, sure enough, none other than the birthday-boy-to-be has appeared from around the corner.
Brittany gasps and steps in front of the cart, but it's too late.
Mike sees.
"Brittany? Santana? What are you guys doing here?" he asks, scrunching up his face.
He glances at the sign at the top of the aisle—Toys 12: Seasonal, Party Favors, Misc.—and then at Brittany and Santana, hovering around their cart. Santana doesn't think she has ever seen Mike look more thoroughly bewildered about anything, including Finn Hudson's almost supernaturally bad dance moves.
She takes his confusion for her advantage.
"We're babysitting," she says quickly. "We were supposed to be watching Britt's little sister, but the pipsqueak ran off once we hit the toy section. You haven't seen her, have you?"
Mike shakes his head. "No," he says earnestly, which, god, what is it with these glee kids? "Do you want me to help you look for her?"
Brittany shakes her head. "Nah," she says. "She's probably just in the doll aisle talking to Ken about how it's not fair of him to use Midge as a rebound now that he and Barbie have broken up. We'll find her in a second." She pauses. "What are you doing in the toy aisle, Mike?"
Now it's Mike's turn to squirm.
"I, uh… I was looking at the Legos," he says sheepishly, staring at the toes of his sneakers.
"Don't tell me they made a Step Up II kit," Santana deadpans.
Mike laughs, amiable as always. "Just good old fashioned Star Wars, actually," he says. He shoves his hands into his pockets and gives an apologetic shrug. "I guess I was just feeling nostalgic about growing up."
And, okay, way to wax weirdly philosophical in the toy aisle at Wal-Mart, Boy Chang.
Santana should probably say something snarky to him.
"It's so weird that we're all graduating this year," she says, realizing for the first time that she's known Mike since they were like five and that if he's old everyone else is too.
It's like the lyrics to the song she sang to Brittany last year and all that.
"It is," Mike agrees. He glances between Santana and Brittany, but doesn't say anything about them, even though he seems like he maybe wants to. Instead, he just smiles. "I should probably go find my mom. I left her waiting at the pharmacy," he says. "I'll see you guys around."
And, okay, so maybe Mike is kind of a decent guy and maybe it's oddly comforting to Santana that she's known Mike for forever and that he's always just been that way.
He's reliable or something.
"Do you think he noticed the water guns?" Brittany asks.
Santana shakes her head. "Not a chance," she says, pleased with hers and Brittany's work.
Of all the parties that Santana and Brittany have gone to together over the years, they've never actually gone to a party together before, and Santana may or may not be freaking out a little bit right now because this could really be it—it could be their first together-together party—and it's going to involve pool floaties and glee kids, which, well.
The good news is that the WebMD smartphone app features a really accurate description of what heart palpitations feel like.
"You know that they like you, right?" Brittany says, turning onto Highway 81. She checks Santana in the rearview.
"They like you," Santana says because it's true.
The glee kids like Brittany a lot, and, duh, who wouldn't? Brittany is nice and sociable and easily the best human being in this or any century. Sometimes it actually amazes Santana that everyone in the world isn't in love with Brittany in the same way she is.
"And they like you as much as you let them like you," Brittany says simply.
Santana just fidgets where she sits because what the hell is that even supposed to mean, though? It's not like she doesn't want the glee kids to like her. In fact, it's pretty much the exact opposite of that—not that she'd ever say so out loud.
The truth is that the glee kids are super lame, but they're also surprisingly decent.
Sure, they were weird with Quinn when she got herself knocked up, but they also saved her seat in the choir room all the way through her first, second, and third trimesters and then went to see her in the hospital after she popped the brat out. And when Kurt Hummel surprised absolutely no one by announcing that he was gay? They treated him pretty much the same as usual afterwards.
They're always kind of just around, being okay to people.
It's just that sometimes Santana wonders if they'll always save a seat for her once they know her deal, too.
Like, will they treat her differently? Because she isn't Quinn, who went from bitchy to sorry to just plain sad during the whole Beth trauma before finally settling somewhere around hopeless in the aftermath, and she isn't Kurt Hummel, either, because her secret is still mostly a secret—or at least she's pretty sure that it is.
The glee kids will accept anyone, even Rachel Berry who has the world's worst personality.
It would just kind of really suck if they couldn't accept Santana—like if their decency stopped just short of reaching her. She hasn't been very nice to them over the years.
She's not like Brittany.
"I can't promise I won't make mouth jokes about Sam," Santana mumbles, shifting in the passenger seat. "And I'll probably tell Rachel to shut up like at least once tonight."
"Everyone would probably be upset if you didn't," Brittany says honestly, shifting onto the frontage road that will take them to the reservoir.
When Brittany's car trundle up the dirt path to the beach and they find everyone but Mike and Tina there waiting for them, waving from the parking lot, Santana just groans.
"I still think we should have brought booze."
The surprise part of the party goes off without a hitch.
Everyone helps to set up the badminton net and the picnic on the beach and then hides in the woods until Tina shows up with Mike. When they jump out to yell "Surprise!," Mike looks—just for a second—like the little boy Santana remembers from kindergarten, with his eyes wide and his face bright. He lets out a delighted whoop and rushes over to tackle Sam to the ground.
When he thanks everyone for coming, he sounds impossibly earnest, to the point where Santana can almost maybe believe that he's happy see her when he tells her he is.
"I'm glad you could make it," he says, shaking her hand like he's straight out of Leave It to Beaver or something.
Santana shrugs. "Somebody had to bring the water guns," she says, feeling weirdly wanted.
Mike's whole face lights up again. "There are water guns?"
Did Santana mention the part where her gir—well, where Brittany is brilliant?
Santana isn't sure quite how she ended up sitting on Brittany's shoulders, a foam noodle in one hand, a water gun in the other, and Sam Evans using both Rachel Berry and Mercedes Jones as human shields in front of him as he slow-motion runs through the water, trying desperately to reach his own discarded foam noodle before the tide takes it away.
She is sure that she has probably never laughed so hard in her life, though.
Like, she can't even breathe, let alone snark.
"Jesus, Trouty," she laughs, trying and failing to aim her water gun at him before he escapes her range.
"Jesus could walk on water, though," Brittany interjects, taking slow, careful steps through the water in comparison to Sam's haphazard ones.
It's almost too easy to overtake Sam, whose swimsuit keeps threatening to slide down his ass. Mercedes smacks his arm and jerks away. Rachel protests that it's not fair of him, taking hostages to delay the inevitable.
"Listen to Berry, Trouty!" Santana calls, taking aim at him with her water gun.
Everyone on the beach cheers for her and for a second she feels a swell of something that's almost like what she feels whenever she's with Brittany, except without all the I want to kiss you and hold you and marry you and have your babies stuff attached to it.
Mercedes moves out of the way to let Santana and Brittany through to Sam, and, at the last second, Rachel dodges out of Sam's hold, just as he snatches up his foam noodle. Mike, Tina, and Quinn boo him from the beachfront.
Sam puts on what he obviously thinks is an awesome Sean Connery accent.
"So we meet again, San-tany Piercepez," he says, brandishing his foam noodle like a shield.
Santana just rolls her eyes from atop Brittany's shoulders and tries to keep her balance as she lowers her water gun into firing position.
"You did not just use your big-ass clown lips to compare me and my—me and Brittany to a Bond villain, fish face," she threatens.
Sam just grins. "It wasn't Bond," he assures her.
She quirks an eyebrow. "I swear to god, Trouty, if that was Dragonheart, I am going to cry due to your extreme lameness."
"It was Dragonheart."
"Oh my god, just soak him, Santana!" Mercedes calls from the shallows.
Rachel cheers, "Hear! Hear!"
Santana just smirks and motions to her adoring public to quiet down so she can shoot. Brittany grips more tightly to Santana's legs, holding her steady for the shot. "Say your prayers, Trouty," she warns.
Sam lets up a girlie scream that someone should record to use as future blackmail.
Santana just smiles.
She's totally got this.
Somewhere in-between the water war and nightfall, they get to telling embarrassing stories from elementary school—or trying to do that anyway.
"Mike Chang has no embarrassing stories," Santana says, exasperated. "Like, he didn't start talking until last year, I'm pretty sure, and he's always been like this model freaking citizen."
"Our kindergarten teacher wanted to adopt him, I think," Brittany agrees, smiling a bit when Mike blushes.
Tina leans back against Mike's legs. "Wow," she says, "it's so cool that you guys have all known each other for so long."
And, okay, so maybe it is, but just a little bit.
"Santana and Brittany once made me cry because they wouldn't let me play house with them during free time," Rachel announces, pleased with herself for contributing to the conversation.
Santana just rolls her eyes. "That's not even how this game works," Santana says. "You're not supposed to volunteer embarrassing facts about yourself."
Rachel falters, but only for a second. "Well, after I started crying, Brittany worried that I might tell the teacher on you two for being mean and she started crying," she offers. "And then you told me I could be the family dog, Santana."
And, oh god, that just made things awkward.
Everyone laughs and heat rises to Santana's cheeks, but, surprisingly, Santana doesn't feel like she's having a heart attack. Instead, she just feels a normal kind of embarrassment—the kind that's just part of the game.
Mercedes laughs. "Now that's embarrassing! Even at age five?" she says, miming a whip crack.
Santana glances at Brittany, just to check if everything's still cool.
Brittany shrugs and makes a guilty face, like Well, what can I say?
And, all right, usually Santana would kill Rachel for telling a story like that one and deny the whole whipped thing with every ounce of fight in her body, but she's trying to work on the whole "copping to how she feels about Brittany" deal, and, well.
"Yeah, yeah, you got me," she admits, rolling her eyes again.
Everyone just laughs harder.
Brittany actually beams.
And, okay, so maybe Santana and Brittany still haven't talked about stuff yet and maybe it's not like the glee kids think that Santana is the best person in the world or anything, but as everyone sits on the beachfront around a bonfire of Rachel's making—somehow she has more wilderness survival knowledge than former Boy Scouts Mike and Sam do combined—Santana can't help but feel strangely contented.
She likes hanging out with her friends.
You heard her.
See, for as lame as the glee kids are about waving and handshakes and movie references, they're actually pretty chill about all the big things in life, which is probably why Santana feels comfortable resting her head on Brittany's shoulder while she waits for their marshmallows to roast.
"Did you have a good time tonight?" Brittany asks her, low enough that only she can hear.
Santana just nods because, yeah, she really did.
"Do you think I could get Sam's trouty head mounted on a plaque?" she asks. "I need a trophy commemorating my awesome victory today."
If Brittany rolls her eyes, Santana can't see her do it. "No," she says placidly, "but I could buy you one of those singing bass things from Wal-Mart."
"No more Wal-Mart," Santana mumbles.
"No more Wal-Mart," Brittany agrees.
Later on, Rachel leads everyone in a four part rendition of the birthday song and Tina produces an elaborately decorated cake from the back of her car. Mike blows out all his candles in one shot because dancing as hard as he does makes for awesome lung capacity.
Afterwards, Quinn struggles to prop up her iPhone on the picnic table to take a timed picture of the whole group standing in front of the bonfire, Sam and Mike kneeling in the sand and the girls all in back, huddled together.
Santana didn't know that Mike Chang had a birthday before, but she doesn't mind knowing that he has a birthday now.
"Okay, on the count of three," Quinn warns, squeezing in between Santana and Brittany.
"One!" the glee kids count. "Two! Three!"
When the camera flashes, Santana's smile isn't even fake or forced at all.
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She started singing soul and popular music at a very early age. She studied jazz at the conservatory of Amsterdam, from where she successfully gratuated. She took lessons with great Dutch and International Jazz Singers such as Greetje Kauffeld and Dianne Reeves. She has been the lead vocalist of various musical groups singing different styles, from pop and jazz, to latin-spanish.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, learned to play different guitar styles during his life in his mother country and later on in Brazil, Spain and Holland, where he study at the Conservatory and graduate as a guitar teacher specialized in Pop, Latin and Musical Improvisation. He has been the guitarist of various musical groups playing different styles, from pop and jazz, to latin-spanish.
Marlies and Claudio united their musical knowledge and their rich experience as performers.
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May 11 Phil Mickelson becomes the first player to win back-to-back years at The Players Championship. He calls for a tour vote to make The Players a major, but the vote against is 241-2. Mickelson and Love cast the only votes in favor.
June 12 The first round of the U.S. Open is postponed because of fog.
June 13 Half the field doesn't start the first round of the U.S. Open, which again is delayed by fog.
June 14 Vijay Singh is disqualified from the U.S. Open after getting stuck in traffic and missing his tee time.
June 18 The U.S. Open concludes on Wednesday when Woods beats Steve Stricker by 15 shots in an 18-hole playoff.
July 6 Rory Sabbatini wins the AT&T National at Congressional, then announces he is donating the $1.08 million winner's check to help build the new Tiger Woods Learning Center.
July 8 Sabbatini is the first player tested for drugs.
July 19 Woods is in the second-to-last group in the third round at Royal Birkdale when a vicious wind off the Irish Sea turns the British Open upside down. He birdies the last hole to break 80.
July 20 Woods closes with 62 to win the British Open by one shot over Stricker, setting a major championship scoring record and winning from behind for the first time in a major.
Aug. 3 Fifty columnists change travel plans from Beijing to Detroit to cover Woods' bid for the Grand Slam.
Aug. 7 Mickelson, who already has won a career-high five times on tour, is disqualified from the PGA Championship when he shows up Thursday on the first tee of the other course at Oakland Hills.
Aug. 10 Woods birdies the last four holes, but finishes one shot behind Stricker in the PGA Championship.
Aug. 21 The PGA Tour Playoffs begins at The Barclays. Woods decides to take that week off.
Sept. 21 Motivated by the Americans having four captain's picks, Europe wins the Ryder Cup, 18 1/2-9 1/2.
Sept. 28 Woods wins the FedEx Cup in a finalround duel over Stricker. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem again reminds Woods that the cup has never been kissed. And it still isn't.
Sept. 29 Finchem is tested for drugs.
Oct. 14 Stricker wins the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda against three alternates when Woods declines to play.
Nov. 11 Fred Couples is named Ryder Cup captain and announces Michael Jordan and Robin Williams as his assistants.
Nov. 30 Having missed the last six months with a sore back, Couples recovers and wins the Skins Game.
Dec. 16 Stricker finishes the year at No. 2 in the world and is voted comeback player of the year for the third straight time.


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Recently a reporter asked me how it felt to be returning to the original ground of Woodstock for Mysteryland festival. It caught me off guard a bit and I had to take a moment to think about it.
Electronic Music is having a moment. And we are living in it.
THIS is why it's so exciting to be…
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Another of AT&T's big metal cable boxes placed on people's lawns has exploded. The system's lithium-metal-polymer batteries are the culprit, prompting AT&T to replace 17,000 of them. Four of the U-Verse cabinets have exploded since the program began.
Fourth AT&T Cable Box Explodes, Darn You, Lithium-Ion Batteries!
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Yesterday evening I forgot which toothbrush was mine because I was too busy thinking about Instagram (I used the orange one and am still not convinced the choice was right (sorry Terry)). Instagram interests and terrifies me. I went on a bit of a rant on it a few days ago, and accompanied the hysterical text with a picture of my shoe. I have taken several similar shots since. To be succinct, and to be lazy without much realisation from the reader, my rant is pasted below (for your convenience):
If we always take photographs of the things worth capturing, we create a facade which will define a generation; posing and filters atop existence, historically void and characteristically uninteresting. I DO IT TOO. All the time. Because I can, and because it's easy. Angle a camera and I'm award-winning, at least in my head for five seconds. Do something remotely satisfactory with my hair and the whole fucking world needs to revel in it. But who's capturing life? Who gives a shit? Is most of the day even worth capturing? Well, no. And that's exactly the point. Here's a picture I took waiting for my shift to start, because I didn't quite dare take one on the train. Does that make it interesting? No. Is it worth me sharing that with other people? Oh God no. So why have I posted it? Because I'm eating Jaffa Cakes right now. Because it's maybe, possibly just as uninteresting as everything else. It exists. Fin. I don't know. It exists.


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Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel is a musical genuis who sing, plays, and writes her own music. Zooey Deschanel recently married Ben Gibbard. Zooey Deschanel was in Tom Carey "Yes Man" and starred in the upcoming "500 Days Of Summer" movie.
Looking to stay in shape during the dog days of summer, Zooey Deschanel attended a Pilates class in West Hollywood yesterday (July 5).
The "New Girl" actress seemed pretty cool and calm as she sipped on a bottle of water while returning to her car and driving off.
After filing for divorce from her husband last December, it looks like Zooey Deschanel is on her way to finding love again!
The 32-year-old recently hit up the "Magic Mike" premiere after party in Hollywood, where she was holding hands and canoodling with a lucky special someone.
For the second year in a row, the small-screen's biggest stars hit the red carpet for the Critics' Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, CA on Monday night (June 18).
Gathering together at at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, the adorable Zooey Deschanel was radiant in red as she mingled with "Modern Family" cast members Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell - with the hit ABC comedy also represented by Sarah Hyland, Julie Bowen and Ariel Winter.
With her TV show "New Girl" having recently been picked up for a second season, Zooey Deschanel continues to be a favorite as she was selected to cover the July 2012 issue of Cosmopolitan UK magazine.
The 32-year-old looks flirty fabulous for the front page shot while chatting about topics including how she feels like an outsider and is all about supporting her fellow ladies.
Showing off her unique, sexy style, Zooey Deschanel looked amazing at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards tonight (May 20) in Las Vegas.
Making the most of her silver Moschino dress teamed with Miu Miu heels, the "New Girl" actress gave the paparazzi a perky pout as she worked the white carpet.
Out showing support for the home of her newest series, Zooey Deschanel was spotted working the black carpet at the 2012 Fox Upfronts event in New York City on Monday (May 14).
The "New Girl" beauty looked chic in a black skirt, white top with a cleavage-bearing cutout and a bright red lip while she posed for awaiting photographers during the star-studded evening.
Readying to tackle a new gig, Zooey Deschanel looks to have landed herself an exciting new role on Broadway according to an exiting announcement told during her stop at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday (May 10).
The "Adorkable" actress took the stage with Loretta to reveal that the country legend had chosen the "New Girl" to portray her in the upcoming Broadway production centered on her life, "Coal Miner's Daughter".
Supporting her hit FOX show, Zooey Deschanel was spotted at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' screening of 'New Girl' at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood on Monday night (May 7).
Making a ponytail look glamorous, the "Elf" actress traversed about the red carpet in a blue polka-dot dress that she matched up with a strappy red belt, blue tights, black heels and a small gold necklace.
Always one of the more well-attended events of the year, the stars were in the nation's capital for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night (April 28).
Held at the Washington Hilton, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle welcomed a who's who of Hollywood guest list including George Clooney, Lindsay Lohan, Charlize Theron, Kim Kardashian, Sofia Vergara, Eva Longoria and Kate Hudson.
She has always displayed a unique style and likable persona, and now Zooey Deschanel has been named the new celebrity ambassador for Pantene haircare products.
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NVDAILY.COM | Re-Employment Tips
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Seminar offers tips about marketing yourself on linkedin.com
Learn the importance of having an online presence using linkedin.com.
The Virginia Employment Commission has partnered with Lord Fairfax Community College to host a seminar/open lab session to help individuals learn more about linkedin.com as well as hands-on computer time to work on completing your profile on this professional social media networking website.
Staff will be available for questions and help navigate through the website.
This workshop can benefit those who may already be registered on linkedin.com but have an incomplete profile or not using linkedin.com to it fullest potential. You will need to have proficient computer skills for this workshop.
Subject matter: learn the importance of marketing yourself in 2012, prepare a basic linkedIn.com strategy, craft a strong profile, build a network, learn how to effectively and efficiently expand your network, plus hands on computer time!
Important! Bring your flash drive, a professional photo of yourself and your resume! Please RSVP as soon as possible as seating is limited!
Please call Samantha Greenfield/Virginia Employment Commission 540-722-3415 firstname.lastname@example.com for additional details.
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Converse Japan – December 2010 Releases
November 30th, 2010 by Aaron Hope | 1 comment
Converse Japan continues to delight with premium takes on the One Star heritage models, this month focusing almost entirely on themed Chuck Taylor All Stars. The Chuck once again proves how versatile its deceptively simple design can be, starting with the varsity jacket joints that all at once evoke the All Star's 1950s heyday and seem well-timed with a variety of letterman jackets available from a bevy of brands this season. Next up is another style we've seen more frequently of late: the Chelsea boot-style elastic gusset, which comes in your typical Chuck Taylor Hi and one that goes a few eyelets further. Check out all these, plus a couple deluxe leather One Star Los after the jump and check for them at select Converse Japan retailers.


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12 Reasons We HATE the PS4 with Evil Craig
Sony's new console has been announced... and Evil Craig hates it.
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I knew this guy since the 60's.
Good Seller. :thumbup:
Type: Posts; User: cis8vgti
I knew this guy since the 60's.
Good Seller. :thumbup:
She deserves better than this...:(
I have some clean black door shells from a 1992-1994 Audi 90 sedan.
I parted one out years ago. These doors are left. I do not see many of these cars around. I feel these cars were good runners...
This dude has been lockin' posts since forever. OP better get a price in. :thumbup:
Good seller with great deals. Wish you were on the east coast. :thumbup:
GOT DAMMIT CHARLIE! :mad:
Thanks. :thumbup:
Thanks for everyone input.
First off, I need new glasses.
The wheels are 18x9.5, not 18x8.5. The etched 9 on the wheels looks like an 8 but when I used my trusty measuring tape, the wheel is...
Little kid from AT&T commercial...
Hmm, I did not think about that. :o
LOL! Thanks. :thumbup:
Thanks guy! Last question is how can I find out what the bolt pattern is?
I guess my last option is trying to fit a wheel on each car I see.
I have some OZ wheels I am trying to ID. I think they are 5x120 but I cannot tell.
Wheels have the following stamps on them:
Oz Racing
26 85 9 205
8.5 Jx18 H2E13
I received a deposit on this car so it should be sold.
Hopefully, when all of this cold and bad weather in the NE subsides, they buyer will come pick up the shell.
I'll update this post if...
No other parts are missing. I am going to post pone the sale of this car until I return from Chicago and take updated pics.
No Engine
No Transmission
No Shift Cable
No ECU
No Engine Harness
No Wheels
Was a roller unless right rear tire came off when being towed. Buddy forgot to tighten lugs. Needs new rear hub to...
Engine is ancient with spun bearing.
Trans worked when taken off the road.
No interior, No Door Cards
No Digi-2 Harness or ECU
Minimal Rust.
Clear NJ Title
Bring 4 wheels.
I have a...
I have two Continental Conti Pro Contact Tires
Tire A: 4.25 to 5.25/32nds Tread Remaining
Tire B: 4.5 to 4.75/32nds Tread Remaining
$50 Picked Up.
I have two Continental Conti Pro Contact tires:
Tire A: 4.25 to 5.25/32nds Tread Remaining
Tire B: 4.5 to 4.75/32nds Tread Remaining
$50 picked up.
I'm just looking for something different and hoping someone had info on the Saab 2.0t/2/3t swap.
My current daily is a 900 SE. I'm thinking this would be a good swap into a VW. Saabs are...
I seen pictures of this swap into a MK2. A B3 cannot be too far off.
Does anyone have info on his swap?
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Its Celebrities on the red carpet day! Ya know, because they weren't singled out enough by being on the red carpet. A couple of them, Robert Downey Jr. in particular, look like they are in some weird Lego like suspended animation.
It's PAINTINGS DAY! Paintings by people way more talented than I am. AI thought a tribute of sorts to a few of the pieces that stuck out in my mind would be good.
Today is MUPPET DAY! Plenty of puppets out there but you can always tell when it's a Muppet, there is just something special about them.
I'm a little late with today's post (dad's birthday and associated activities)but it's VIDEO GAME DAY! These are just a precious few of my favorites.
It's….STAR WARS DAY! (I wish I had done this on May 4th.) I thought placing a significant logo associated with each character would be cool. I think it turned out well!
It's STAR TREK DAY! Kirk, Spock, Picard, and Wesley and his sweater.
It's PET DAY for brick pictures! The three dogs are at my house, while the cat is a friends. Incidentally the original image of the Delain (the cat) is copyrighted to RJ Photography! Below is a link to his Redbubble site!http://www.redbubble.com/people/happyhead64
SCI-FI SHOW DAY! Starting with one of my favorites, FIREFLY!
It's WEBCOMICS DAY! Well, a few of the ones I read every day anyway.
BRICK PICTURES! YAY! The two comic property pictures were what I WANTED to do yesterday, but I encountered problems getting it done. There was supposed to be a whole theme, iconic symbols etc etc.


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Design Instruct – New Quality Tutorials And Tips Website
I received a letter from Jacob Gube few days ago where he informed me about new resource and tutorials website DesignInstruct he started with his brother. Of course I immediately headed to their new site and did my own research, evaluated design and it was worth it – layout is professionally designed, starting team is already working and first two tutorials are extremely beautiful!
It's not easy to stand out from overflowed crowd even with quality website and original idea, I am curious how blogosphere will change in future actually.
Ok, but I am sure this project will be a big success, just look what Jacob Gube alone has done with his website Sixrevisions, which is one of the most popular web design blogs over the world if you are not sure!
Best luck with it!
OK..let's research further..a little bit more about this new project –
"Design Instruct is a web magazine that aims to teach designers and digital artists useful techniques by way of detailed and step-by-step tutorials. We also occasionally post articles covering design topics for inspiration, information, and learning. We also share free and downloadable resources (see our Freebies section)." from DesignInstruct about section.
As we all know tutorials and resources bring the most value because you create something from nothing, share knowledge. Of course you need also high level of expertise to do that, but check out the first two tutorials DesignInstruct currently has, I think they will handle it.
How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop
How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop
I am not used to creating this type or articles, but really I just wanted to give some heads up and my best wishes to this new project! Head to their Welcome article to find out more!
Dainis Graveris
Dainis is 25 years young man, who struggled for 3 years while studying in design academy and working for local design agency, because of ignorant teachers and agency boss. He couldn't believe this is all life could offer to him! And then he discovered true Internet possibilities, he was lucky to find his passion early in life and take advantage of this beautiful Information (Internet) Age! Now he is committed to help others succeed, to help others take charge of their life and follow their passion! His goal is to open Your eyes and help unveil Your true potential!
Matthew Heidenreich
Friday, January 29th, 2010 20:581
I'll probably be contributing there soon. Looks like it will be a great site, nice of you to post about it!
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 05:253
love it.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 05:253
love it.
Matthew Heidenreich
Friday, January 29th, 2010 20:581
I'll probably be contributing there soon. Looks like it will be a great site, nice of you to post about it!


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I have a question for the Pippen Peoples out there. Have you felt like you know an event is about to happen but deep down you hope something would happen to stop it. Well that is how I felt about the Carlos Boozer amnesty situation. Oh I knew it was coming.
I knew it was coming when the Bulls lost in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
I knew it was coming in the press conference when Boozer's name was never mentioned.
I knew it was coming when the Bulls tried to do a sign and trade for Carmelo Anthony. New York or anyone for that matter was going to take that contract.
I held out hope but it was officially over in my mind when Pau Gasol had agreed to terms over the weekend.
Believe me Pippen Peoples, I was watching the calendar. Today was the deadline to amnesty Carlos Boozer. On Thursday if it hadn't been done, the Legion Of Booz would be back in business. Think about it. A full year of Chicago Bulls fans fighting over Boozer's play. The comments back and forth. The debates. It would have been wonderful.
Now…it's all over.
The Chicago Bulls have done an absolute overhaul of their frontline over the weekend. When Carmelo said no. They just went straight to "Plan B" which should have been the original plan in the first place.
They brought in Pau Gasol for three years and approximately 22 million dollars.
They brought in Nikola Mirotic from overseas for three years at 17 million. When I found out the Bulls could stretch out the payments. That was basically handing Mirotic a plane ticket. Think about this. The Bulls are STILL paying Rip Hamilton over stretched out payments. By the time the Bulls pay off Real Madrid, my grandkids will have kids…and I don't have grandkids yet.
Couple these moves and Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson having their own parking spaces in the Bulls frontline starting lineup, Carlos Boozer and his contract had to go. Declining stats (some of it not his fault) and that albatross $16.8 million dollar contract made Boozer expendable. So the Bulls convinced Jerry Reinsdorf to pony up the money without having it count against their salary cap.
After the Bulls made the official announcement that they had used the amnesty clause to remove Carlos Boozer from the roster, he now enters a bidding process and can be picked up by the highest bidding team that has cap space. If a team DOES NOT have cap space, they are not eligible.
Here's how the bidding process works.
Any team that wants to bid for Boozer's services will need to have roughly 1.5 million dollars to join the party. Teams submit their bids without knowing what the others are offering. Whoever has the highest bid gets Carlos Boozer's rights and pays that amount next season.
For example, let's say the Charlotte Hornets (one of the teams that are reportedly interested) has a winning bid of two million dollars. The Hornets would pay two million dollars next year of the $16.8 million and the Bulls would be on the hook for the rest.
If nobody ends up bidding on Boozer, which I sincerely doubt, he'll become an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any team. If that happens, look for Miami as a possible destination.
As the final order of business as the Executive Advocate of the Legion of Booz, I will start with a quote from the Chicago Bulls General Manager Gar Forman.
" Carlos (Boozer) epitomized professionalism in everything he did for the Bulls both on the court, and in the community, during his time in Chicago. Over the last four seasons, Carlos' productivity helped elevate our team to another level. I have nothing but respect for Carlos, and certainly wish him the best moving forward."
Normally I would have a snide comment for a rubber stamped statement that is used for all employees that are leaving but he did sign the dude to a 75 million dollar deal after LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, me, you, them and everybody else turned the Bulls down in 2010.
I fully realize that some fans are down at city hall right now trying to obtain a parade permit. But before you do, all of those that hated on Carlos Boozer (and there were a ton of you) think about this for a minute.
Derrick Rose was the key to Carlos Boozer's success.
Carlos Boozer was never a number one option. The Chicago Bulls just gave him first option money. He wasn't the number one option in Utah when the Bulls signed the guy in the first place. Deron Williams was the first option. Plus Utah ran the famous Jerry Sloan pick and roll offense. When Derrick Rose went down with knee injuries…again, the Bulls offense ran a system that consisted of let me see…hopes, dreams and prayers. Carlos Boozer suffered offensively because of this.
Look I'll be the first to admit that Booz did look kinda stupid after it was announced that he broke his right wrist "tripping over a bag at his house." Not a good way of paying off a 75 million dollar investment the Bulls dropped at your feet, but Boozer did show up to play every night. He didn't always play as much. But he did show up to play an average of 28 minutes a night. It's just he always on the bench in the fourth quarter when the street lights came on.
Tom Thibodeau basically put his minutes on skid row when Boozer complained about his minutes (or lack thereof) in the fourth quarter around the trade deadline. After that Boozer had sealed his fate for next year. Thibodeau does not liked be called out in the media. Let me put it this way, in the deciding game in the first round of the playoffs, you noticed that Carlos Boozer got in the game AFTER Taj Gibson was carried off the floor. Trust me, Gibson probably almost broke his ankle. Because that was the only reason Boozer would ever get in the game in the first place.
The Legion of Booz was a success for Pippen Ain"t Easy because Carlos Boozer was a polarizing figure around Chicago. But the way he was criticized opens a lot of questions.
Everyone was ready to welcome Carmelo Anthony into the fold even though defense to Melo is taking the ball out after the opposing team scores. Everyone looked at his 27 points and would have been willing to overlook all of his defensive liabilities. Pau Gasol is definitely an upgrade over Boozer. No doubt about that. But if you are looking for staunch defense, I can come up with a renegade fan club for him too. He wasn't the greatest defender when he was younger. Now at 34? Please.
What about Carlos Boozer?
We all know that Carlos Boozer's line of defensive strategy went along the lines of "HELP JO! HELP!" But what is the difference? Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson's back line of defense is so dominant that they collectively can clean up the mistakes of a lot of players. Kirk Hinrich anyone? They were so good that Boozer looked bad. Real bad. But that doesn't mean that he didn't bring assets to the table that the Bulls could have used better.
I want to give a shout out to Leroy Boyd. This couldn't have worked without someone on the other side of a debate feeling just as passionate. This era of Pippen Ain't Easy was a definite success and it was a lot of fun. I love to debate. This was an arena that brought a lot of opinions from a lot of people. That's what this website is all about.
A moment of silence please…
R.I.P. Legion of Booz
July 15th, 2014.
Tags: Carlos Boozer Chicago Bulls Gar Forman Joakim Noah NBA Free Agency Nikola Mirotic Pau Gasol Taj Gibson Tom Thibodeau


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Lyndsey Lupe
In collaboration with Barbican's Rams Place Fashion Market, i-D casts the coolest girls and guys on London's streets while Olivia Rose shoots them, straight up.
What's your nickname?
What do you do?
Freelance banshee.
Where are you from?
The womb of a majestic creature that resides near the banks of the Mersey.
What's your summer jam?
Anything that dilates the pupils...
What's your look?
Somewhere between Tank Girl and an out of work children's TV presenter in rehab.
What is London to you?
A bi-polar Babylon. A cruel and tempestuous mistress. My home.
What is next for fashion?
Mad Max vibes in time for the apocalypse. Viva la revolution baby.
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As the 44th pick inched closer, Rams GM Les Snead and head coach Jeff Fisher eyed their prospect board. One name written on a small piece of paper in permanent marker stood out above the rest: Lamarcus Joyner CB, Florida State. Just a few picks before the Rams brass were slotted to pick, their man was still available. Snead didn't rest on his laurels though, as both he and Fisher believed the Eagles or Giants would pick Joyner before the Rams picked at number 44 overall. Snead got on the phone and worked out a trade with Buffalo, catapulting them to number 41 – ahead of Philadelphia and New York.
Once in position, the Rams did not hesitate when calling in their pick. The physical cornerback-safety hybrid should give a bit of a spark to the secondary, while also providing defensive coordinator Gregg Williams versatility in coverage and blitz packages. In the post-draft press conference, Fisher said Joyner will step in and play nickel corner, where he believes the Florida State product will thrive. While with the 'Noles, he played both safety positions, cornerback and also nickel corner. In fact, Joyner started 27 straight games at safety before moving to corner as a senior.
No matter the position, the 5-foot-8-inch spark plug brings effort and physicality. Joyner isn't particularly fast (4.55 40-yd dash) or strong (14 bench reps) but he plays fast and is an adept blitzer. As a senior he recorded 5.5 sacks for Florida State, which was most among NCAA defensive backs in 2013. From what we know about Williams and his defensive schemes, he loves to bring pressure from the secondary, something that the Rams had mixed success with the past two seasons with Cortland Finnegan. Joyner can be a joker in Williams' defense, lining up at safety or in the slot with potential to attack the quarterback on any given play.
Joyner was a leader for the 'Noles, and his attitude, toughness and ability to always be around the ball will surely make him a favorite among the coaching staff and his teammates. He joins Trumaine Johnson and Janoris Jenkins in a secondary group that is very young and talented. Pair that with a defensive line that will consistently get pressure on the quarterback and force hurried throws, and Joyner, along with the rest of the secondary will be in put in great positions to make plays.


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Ecova Launches Regulatory Reporting Service
Energy and sustainability management company Ecova has launched a regulatory reporting service to help large enterprises meet the complex and varied reporting needs arising across the US.
Specifically, Ecova's new service aims to help multi-site clients keep up with the new and changing regulations, maintain compliance and avoid fines in cities including Austin; Boston; Minneapolis; New York; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Seattle and Washington DC; and the entire states of California and Washington.
In the past year, eight cities and two states have been impacted by new legislation that requires energy reporting for buildings that meet certain qualifications. In an effort to drive down energy consumption and promote sustainability, new legislation requires reporting through Energy Star.
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A tribute to Sassy magazine and all of its contents, including but not limited to: cute bands, Lynda Barry, zits as beauty marks, insulting Tiffani Amber Thiessen, giving you free R.E.M. vinyl, love advice from Thurston Moore, feminism, 'zines, Evan Dando's disembodied head, quizzes, bitchin 90s fashion, unrequited love for Keanu Reeves, and the importance of being sassy.
For a certain type of girl wending her way through adolescence in the mid 1990s, the bible was a paperback novel with a hot pink spine. It was Blake Nelson's debut and it was called, aptly, Girl. The cover bore a blurry black-and-white portrait of a girl in motion: in peasant blouse and pendant, she was flipping her dark hair over her shoulder in something between a head-bang and a shrug.
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On the Fox Sports Ohio broadcast Friday night, discussed was the dilemma that many young superstar high school players face: capitalize on their draft stock and turn pro, or head towards college? There are glaring positives and negatives to both sides.
Turning Pro:
Baseball has shown time and time again, that once a player is selected in the first round, he is given countless opportunities to succeed. Not to mention, going from making part-time job money as a high school student, to a signing bonus on a Major League contract can be quite the salary jump.
Where things get dicey with that decision, is if it does not pan out. Baseball is a ruthless game where not all those who should make it, do make it based on a variety of factors. While the signing bonus and initial contract can seem eternal in the moment, many have wished they could go back and obtain their college degree.
Heading to College:
Most that attended can attest to the fact that it is the best four years of your life. Hypothetically, if you had the level of talent to be taken early in the First-Year Draft, it is safe to assume you could have the pick of where you wanted to attend school. Not only could you play baseball at the collegiate level in pristine weather conditions amongst an elite-level of camaraderie, but a degree can be earned simultaneously.
Turning down a guaranteed contract from a Major League Baseball team has to be the most difficult thing a youngster can ever do at that point in his life. A whole list of things can go wrong in college that can compromise the future of a player, from injury, to off-the-field incidents.
With that being said, if it were you, in what direction would you be headed?
Personally, being an Arizona State Sun Devil, I could not imagine how overjoyed I would be to have the opportunity to wear that uniform. Turning down a contract from a Major League team to join their farm system would be gut-wrenching, but if given the opportunity, I would go and get my degree.


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two japanese men walk into a bar. the first japanese man says "i am japanese!" the second japanese man says "i am also japanese!" the bartender then says "well, hey. i'm japanese too".
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Survey: What's Your Favorite Home Office Desk?
We like to keep our's simple, and typically favor the big open workspace over a complicated desk with nooks and crannys and places to stash cords. But lately, we're not loving our large workspace, and are considering downsizing to a smaller desk. There's always the ubiquitous office corner workspace, with a spot for everything, but in our house, this usually ends up looking like a tower of clutter. So, we're wondering, what kind of desk do you prefer? If you have a favorite, please elaborate in the comments.
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my ultimate desk would be the large dordoni from DWR
Love you desktop, both on your computer and on your desk!
i too love that screensaver – any idea where it comes from?
My desk is an armoire in my bedroom. I used to have an open desktop but I hated having all that work sitting out in plain sight while I was trying to go to sleep. Now I just close the doors and its out of sight.
The screensaver you so desire is called Fliqlo and is available from here
My desk is an old sewing table, tucked away in the corner.
i am saving up for an armoire so that all my work and files can all be closed up. if i had the space to have an open field/inspirational desk, i'd do what you have, but i'd still want mostly closed storage.
The old school flip clock screen saver is pretty cool, but just be aware that it may cause burn-in on your LCD (yes it is possible).
I discovered this, to my dismay, and have since ceased using this screensaver.
I have a vintage sewing desj, although I don't sew. It's the kind where the sewing machine rolls inside/underneath and disappears (yes, it works; maybe someday I'll learn to use it). When folded up, it's tiny, just big enough for a lamp and a laptop, which is all I need most of the time. If I need more space - usually if I'm referring to papers while working on my laptop, I just fold out the leaf and get an extra 2 feet. It's perfect.


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between those POWs and a comparable group of WW II veteran controls (Goulston et al., 1985); psychiatric findings were much more prominent (Tennant et al., 1986; Dent et al., 1987). Beebe's earlier (1975) study, however, identified a number of conditions with significantly higher hospitalization rates among POWs; more generally, he also found that PWP illness rates were slightly higher than PWK rates and much higher than PWE rates. Thus, question C focused broadly on levels of illness, generally specified, and the main thrust of the question was directed toward determining whether Beebe's earlier findings (1975) on illness differentials still held.
Question D was in the broadest sense a holdover from the 1984–1985 follow-up. At the time of the follow-up, there were nagging questions about the quality of the self-reported data on illnesses, and it was decided that their analysis should be postponed until the more solid examination data were available for comparison. Thus, question D was formulated to emphasize the comparison of self-reported and examination data, and the data presented on question D generally support the original reluctance to analyze the self-reported data alone.
Question E, like others already discussed, was framed with findings from the 1984–1985 follow-up in mind, which had shown that malnourished WW II prisoners of the European theater had significantly elevated depressive symptoms compared with other European prisoners. The malnourished group, however, had not been included in Beebe's 1967 follow-up; consequently, less was known about their physical health in detail. Question E was thus formulated to study broadly the physical health of malnourished PWE.
Before turning to each of the above questions, some discussion of statistical testing is necessary. As was the case in Chapter 4, a useful examination of the descriptive data on POW and control lifetime prevalence rates requires some knowledge of the stability or, conversely, variability of these rates. Statistical tests are customarily used to compare such rates because a statistical test takes into account not only the magnitude of differences in rates but also the variability of the rates based on the size of the sample. Given the low response rates (see Chapter 3), however, the customary use of statistical tests would be inappropriate here. As in Chapter 4, statistical tests will nonetheless be used as indicators of whether a given difference in prevalence rates is ''noteworthy" or "appreciable." In doing this, it is recognized that a statistical test done in this setting has no valid inferential use but is instead merely a way of marking such noteworthy or appreciable differences. The additional comments made in Chapter 4 on the limitations of these tests all apply here as well; that is, the tests only mark a difference as noteworthy or not, without gradation; they may conclude that a difference is "not noteworthy" simply because sample sizes are small ("low pow-


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This chart, courtesy of The Atlantic, shows how rapidly natural gas has grown as a share of the United States' energy system.
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Until now. Honest Buildings, which launches today in beta, aims to fill that gap and simultaneously encourage building owners to make greener choices. Search an address in one of 5,570 cities, and ratings on the building's walkability, energy use, and LEED compliance shed light on its green performance. Join the network, and you can review, comment on, or add photos of a building. Members who design, build, and repair buildings can showcase particular projects and link them to the building's profile page.
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SOLarchitect, a New Orleans-based startup, has proposed a potential solution to the problem, creating an online service to let people easily design their own solar system for free and figure out how much energy they'll be able to produce. "Assessing your home's solar potential now becomes as easy as ordering a pizza online," says co-founder Alex Landau, an architect at a local solar company who started the project on the side. The service will allow users to look at an image of their home (for example, the Playboy Mansion above), drag and drop solar panels onto the roof, and determine the tax credit and potential energy savings based on the home's location. When the estimate is completed, SOLArchitect will bring in bids from up to three contractors in the area (for a commission) who could install the system.
I'm wary, and have concerns about the environmental impacts of fracking and other methods, but this would be quite a remarkable story if it happened:
"This is really the classic success of American entrepreneurs," he says. "These were people who saw this coming, managed to assemble the capital and go ahead."
Small energy companies using such controversial techniques as hydraulic fracturing, along with horizontal drilling, are unlocking vast oil and natural gas deposits trapped in shale in places like Pennsylvania, North Dakota and Texas. North Dakota, for instance, now produces a half-million barrels a day of crude oil, and production is rising.
Much of what McClendon says is misleading – wind power is as cheap as gas in some places and falling fast, and cutting back on gas doesn't have to mean burning more coal. But his plan is clear. He's not going to back off until every last square foot of shale rock in America is drilled and fracked and sucked clean of gas. McClendon may rely on sophisticated new drilling technologies, but at heart, he's driven by the same dream of endless extraction that has gripped oil barons and coal companies since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. In the end, all his talk of energy independence and a cleaner, brighter future boils down to a single demand, as simple as it is disastrous: Drill, baby, drill.
"We'll look back on 2012," Byron King goes on, "as the best year for the energy business in Pennsylvania since Col. Drake drilled his first well before the Civil War."
Full disclosure: We're still skeptical about some of the big claims Byron makes. Can a domestic energy boom really overcome decades of debt racked up at the local, state and federal levels? As with any functioning relationship, we keep an open mind.
Examine the evidence. After 20 years of sinking deeper and deeper into dependence on foreign oil, the United States reversed that trend last year.


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Red-hot Ronaldo becomes hero as Portugal qualify for WC at the cost of Sweden
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Cristiano Ronaldo is the player that football loves back. The energetic Real Madrid star gave history another excuse to remember its name after scoring a hat-trick in Portugal's 3-2 victory over Sweden on Tuesday night at the Friends Arena in Stockholm.
Portugal and Sweden locked horns after a first-leg in Lisbon, which provided Paulo Bento's side a narrow 1-0 lead. Ronaldo, who scored the crucial home goal back then, was in deadly form in the second-leg as well.
Ronaldo was unleashed at the Swedish defense with Joao Moutinho aiding him as his side-kick. By the end of the night Ronaldo had ripped apart the Swedes (although Zlatan Ibrahimovic came up with two impressive goals) and equaled Pauleta's all-time goalscoring record (47) for Portugal.
After the game Ronaldo told Publico that he didn't "have to prove anything to anyone". Ronaldo, who is currently the favorite to win the Ballon d'Or, is the sole reason behind Portugal's qualification for the World Cup.
"Records are there to be beaten. It was not a priority," Ronaldo said. "I knew that Portugal needed me. I do not have to prove anything to anyone. I try to do my work and give answers on the pitch.
"I did my job for my team. It is the team who have to be congratulated. We suffered for sure but that is how great teams win things. We retreated a little [when Sweden scored], but then we were better and we played better."
The match was also under the spotlight because of electrifying battle between Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo. The former Manchester United forward insists he didn't compete with Ibrahimovic, although he admitted him as a "fantastic player".
"I do not compete against Zlatan," Ronaldo told TV4. "He is a fantastic player and [the] biggest star in Sweden, but I do not compete against him. I play for my team."
Ibrahimovic was extremely disappointed with Sweden's exit from the World Cup. The world-class forward believes the World Cup will be a dull affair without him playing in it.
"It was probably the last attempt to reach the World Cup with the national team for me. One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup," Ibrahimovic was said to his app Zlatan unplugged.
"Congratulations to Portugal, but both teams deserved to get to the World Cup. The disappointment of course is great now that the World Cup in Brazil will remain a dream for the Swedish national team."


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Try Tripwire. We used it to provide the audit requirement for our Windows
PCI environment. I believe there is a free version, we used the Enterprise
version. Passed compliance the first go round.
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Subject: File Integrity Software - PCI
I imagine some other people out there are going through PCI Compliance
issues as well right now. If that includes you, I could use your help. I'm
trying to find a good file integrity software choice that allows for all the
necessities needed for PCI compliance. I was trying to get our network team
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