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In addition, Alabama should not apologize for the fact that car-company employees were detained for not having their papers available on request. It is the car companies that should be apologizing.
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Trevor Mbakwe
Source: University of Minnesota Athletics
June 18, 2013
TweetSchool: Oklahoma
Position: Power Forward
Height: 6'8"
Weight: 245 lbs
Class: Senior
Points Per Game: 10.0
Rebounds Per Game: 8.7
Assists Per Game: 1.1
Steals Per Game: 0.7
Blocks Per Game: 1.4
Turnovers Per Game: 2.1
Milestones: Finished 10th on the Gophers' All-Time Rebounding Average list with a career average of 9.5 rpg...Finished 13th on the Gophers' All-Time Blocks list with 106...Finished just outside the Gophers' All-Time Scoring Average list with a career average of 12.1 ppg...Led the Big Ten Conference in rebounding as a senior at 8.7 and as a junior at 10.5 rpg...His 327 rebounds as a junior were the third-most in a single-season at Minnesota and the most since Jim Brewer collected 331 rebounds during the 1970-71 season...He averaged a double-double (13.9 pts & 10.5 rbs) as a junior, making him the first Gopher player to accomplish that since Kris Humphries did so during the 2003-04 season (22.1 pts & 10.0 rbs)...He was also first Gopher to lead the Big Ten in rebounding since Humphries...He is only one of four Gophers to finish a season as the conference's leading rebounder (Mychal Thompson: 1975-76 & 1977-78; Richard Coffey: 1987-88; Humphries: 2003-04)...Collected his 100th career block against Iowa (2/3/13)..Pulled down his 700th career rebound against UCLA (3/22/13)...Scored his 800th career point at Ohio State (2/20/13)...Collected his 600th career Gopher rebound against Northwestern (1/6/13) - finished with 23 rebounds as a freshman at Marquette
2012-13 | Senior Season: Named to the Preseason Lute Olson All-America Team...played 14 minutes off the bench in his first game since Nov. 27, 2011...grabbed seven rebounds and scored six points in 14 minutes off the bench against Toledo (11/12)...played a season-high 27 minutes off the bench against Richmond (11/18) and tallied a game-high 12 rebounds to go along with nine points...grabbed a game-high eight rebounds and scored five points against Memphis (11/23)...collected his 24th career double-double with a team-high 19 points & 12 rebounds against Stanford (11/24)...scored 11 points, grabbed six rebounds and blocked three shots in 11 minutes off the bench against North Florida (12/01)...finished with eight points and a game-high 10 rebounds in 14 minutes against South Dakota State (12/4)...finished with 12 points, four rebounds, three assists and two blocks at USC (12/8)...collected a career-high 18 rebounds and scored 14 points to secure his 25th career double-double against North Dakota State (12/11)...finished with 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds against Michigan State (12/31), his 26th career double-double...collected a game-high 11 rebounds against Northwestern (1/6), his sixth double-digit rebound game of the season...secured his 27th career double-double with 19 points & 11 rebounds at Illinois (1/9)...contributed 13 points & 10 rebounds against Indiana (1/12), his 28th career double-double...contributed 13 points & 10 rebounds against Michigan (1/17), his 29th career double-double...scored 14 points, grabbed a game-high 16 rebounds - his 30th career double-double - and recorded three blocks at Northwestern (1/23)...contributed nine points and a game-high 14 rebounds against Michigan State (2/6)...collected his 8th double-double of the season & 31st of his career with 13 points & 10 rebounds against Illinois (2/10)...collected his 9th double-double of the season & 32nd of his career with 21 points & 12 rebounds against Indiana (2/26)...collected his 10th double-double of the season & 33rd of his career with 13 points & 13 rebounds against Penn State (3/2)...contributed nine points and a game-high 12 rebounds against UCLA in the NCAA Second Round (3/22)...finished with 11 points and six rebounds in the season-ending loss to Florida (3/24) in the third round of the NCAA Tournament...named Third Team All-Big Ten by coaches and Second Team All-Big Ten by the media...named Second Team NABC All-District.
2011-12: Contributed his 23rd career double-double, and fourth of the season, with 16 points & 12 rebounds against DePaul (11/24)...suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during the second half against Dayton (11/27)...underwent successful surgery on Dec. 30...missed the remainder of the season.
2010-11 | Junior Season: Named Second Team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media...Made Gopher debut against Wofford (11/12)...Pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds against Siena (11/15)...Started his Gopher career with three straight double-doubles...Named Most Outstanding Player at Puerto Rico Tip-Off...Averaged 15.3 ppg and 8.7 rpg...Secured his fourth double-double of the season (18 pts, 10 rbs) vs. Virginia...Also blocked a career-high five shots against the Cavaliers (11/29)...Collected his fifth double-double of the season against Cornell (12/4)...Pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds to go with 12 points...Tied a team record with 20 free throw attempts against Cornell...Tied a career-high with 16 rebounds at St. Joseph's (12/8). It was his second consecutive 16 rebound game...Collected his eighth double-double of the season with 11 points and 11 rebounds at Wisconsin (12/28)...Scored a team-high 17 points and grabbed nine boards at Michigan State (12/31)...Secured his third 16-rebound game of the season and scored 11 points against Indiana (1/4) for his conference-leading ninth double-double of the season...Scored a team-high 16 points and grabbed 12 rebounds at Ohio State (1/9), his 10th double-double of the season...Came off the bench to score seven points, block two shots and grab 10 rebounds against Purdue (1/13)...Came off the bench to collect his 11th double-double of the season with 16 points and 12 rebounds against Iowa (1/16)...Collected his 12th double-double with a career-high tying 18 points and 14 rebounds against Northwestern (1/26)...Collected his 13th double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds at Purdue (1/29)...Collected his 14th double-double with 17 points and 16 rebounds against Illinois (2/10)...Led the Gophers with a career-high 24 points, including 22 in the second half, at Iowa (2/13)...Collected his 15th double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds at Penn State (2/17)...Collected his 16th double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds vs. Michigan State (2/22)...Scored 18 points, grabbed nine rebounds and dished out a career-high four assists vs. Michigan (2/26)...Collected his 17th double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds at Northwestern (3/2)...Collected his 18th double-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds against Penn State (3/6)...Collected his 19th double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds against Northwestern in the Big Ten Tournament (3/10)...letterwinner
Personal: Born January 24, 1989...son of Ana Davis and Marc Mbakwe...enrolled in graduate school (Master of Education - Applied Kinesiology)...holds an undergraduate degree in recreation, parks and leisure studies...has three older siblings, Shane, Cecilia and Sparkle...has a son, Makhi Mbakwe.
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text: Tuning was fine between the two this expac. Was it harder at certain points in 10 or 25? Yeah sure. But tuning for the most part was fine. They've spent more time nerfing the ever loving shit out of LFR than turning normal or HC modes this expac. So I have no idea why people are believing this BS,


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Liner Note Author: Burnin' Mike Vernon.
Illustrator: Mike Vernon.
In the late '60s, outstanding veteran Los Angeles guitarist Jerry Cole was the main force behind several budget psychedelic albums. Mostly instrumental, mostly comprised of Cole originals, and mostly released on the Custom label, these were perhaps more pseudo-psychedelic than psychedelically psychedelic. Attributed to different studio-only bands, they highlighted Cole's versatile ability to emulate various guitar styles heard on late-'60s psychedelic (or at least psychedically influenced) rock and soul records. This 24-track compilation collects cuts from four such Custom albums: the Projection Company's Give Me Some Lovin', T. Swift & the Electric Bag's Are You Experienced?, the Generation Gap's Up Up and Away, and the Stone Canyon Rock Group's MacArthur Park. The fine packaging and annotation can't disguise that these were, when you get down to it, psychedelic exploitation records that weren't nearly as creative as the real thing, as enjoyable as they might be to some collectors of psychedelic ephemera. Cole was adept at devising distorted, buzzy-twangy psychedelic-style riffs, but the songs were more vehicles for getting them done and into the marketplace quickly than they were memorable compositions in their own right. Truth to tell, much of this sounds like adequate background music to drug-taking or party scenes in psychsploitation B-movies, Cole sometimes sounding more like a mildly psychedelicized surf guitarist than a trippy experimentalist. That might serve as a recommendation to listeners with certain tastes, and Cole does ably simulate Roger McGuinn's Byrds 12-string psychedelic riffs on "What's Your Bag?," as well as getting into a competent (if not terribly psychedelic) Wes Montgomery bag on "Tune Out of Place" and copping the Yardbirds' "The Nazz Are Blue" on "Boil the Kettle." On the other hand, the rather dreadful cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" has incredibly lame vocals, and the version of "MacArthur Park" (with an unknown vocalist) is not as entertainingly bad as the liner notes might lead you to believe. ~ Richie Unterberger


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5:23 sunrise
22:30 sunset
I know that I live in a northerly place. I know we have the potential for frost into mid-June sometime. I know that last year we had snow for one day in May and two summers ago it snowed in June. I don't care. I am not impressed. This was my backyard last night after work. There has been snow on the ground for three days now. Three. If we are lucky, today it will melt since it's going up to a balmy 7C.
I could bitch about how the snow on the trails is compromising my ability to train for the Pisgah Mountain Bike Stage Race but let's be honest - I'm unlikely to win the blogger contest. It's straight up who gets the most votes, top 2 get in. I'm currently in 4th place and have been for awhile. That may not sound so bad but I am 240 votes behind third place, never mind second.
I won't throw in the towel just yet, but I am in desperate need of some votes. Maybe it's a good thing - the guys ahead of me all seem to do this bike thing on a pretty serious basis. I, on the other hand, would offer a potentially last place finish, some estrogen on the trails, and entertaining blog posts with lots and lots of photos. Oh - and I'd bring snacks on the course. I'm good at that. Trifle anyone? Leftover reuben sandwich? Sierra taught me how to be bonk-free while riding. So, if having me at Pisgah sounds as cool to you as it does to me - please, go here and vote. And get your friends to vote too. You need a facebook account, but that's it. I've got until the end of the month to try and figure out how to win this thing.


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Benicar (olmesartan): Ongoing Safety Review
Audience: Cardiology, Internal Medicine
[UPDATED 04/14/2011] After reviewing the results of the ROADMAP and ORIENT trials, FDA has determined that the benefits of Benicar continue to outweigh its potential risks when used for the treatment of patients with high blood pressure according to the drug label. Benicar is not recommended as a treatment to delay or prevent protein in the urine (microalbuminuria) in diabetic patients.
Patients should consult their healthcare professional if they have any questions or concerns about taking Benicar.
Daiichi Sankyo, the makers of Benicar, have agreed to work with the FDA to perform additional studies, as well as conduct additional analyses of completed clinical studies, to obtain more complete information about the cardiovascular risks or benefits of Benicar in various clinical settings. FDA will update the public when new information is available.
[Posted 06/11/2010]
ISSUE: FDA is evaluating data from two clinical trials in which patients with type 2 diabetes taking the blood pressure medication, Benicar (olmesartan), an angiotensin II receptor blocker, had a higher rate of death from a cardiovascular cause compared to patients taking a placebo. FDA's review is ongoing and the Agency has not concluded that Benicar increases the risk of death. FDA currently believes that the benefits of Benicar in patients with high blood pressure continue to outweigh its potential risks.
BACKGROUND: The Agency plans to review the primary data from the two studies of concern, ROADMAP and ORIENT, and is considering additional ways to assess the cardiovascular effects of Benicar. ROADMAP and ORIENT are both long-term clinical trials. In both trials, patients with type 2 diabetes were given either Benicar or placebo to determine if treatment with Benicar would slow the progression of kidney disease. An unexpected finding observed in both trials was a greater number of deaths from a cardiovascular cause (heart attack, sudden death, or stroke) in the Benicar-treated patients compared to placebo.
RECOMMENDATION: Follow the recommendations in the drug label when prescribing Benicar. Additional Information for Patients, for Healthcare Professionals and a Data Summary are provided in the Drug Safety Communication below. Additional information about ROADMAP and ORIENT can be found at clinicaltrials.gov.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
- Phone: 1-800-332-1088
- Mail: return the postage-paid FDA form 3500, which may be downloaded from the MedWatch "Download Forms" page, to address on the pre-addressed form
- Fax: 1-800-FDA-0178
[04/14/2011 - Drug Safety Communication - FDA]
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Subject: | Re: Origin of the name Boykin |
Author: | Miss Claire (Authenticated as Miss Claire) |
Date: | August 23, 2005 at 6:37:20 AM |
Reply to: | Re: Origin of the name Boykin by reza |
Beylka, Bailka and Paika exist.
The first two are a pet form of Beila / Baila (Yiddish forms of Bella), and Paika is a Yiddish pet form of Puah. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=593&letter=P&search=puahI also found Boyez & Boyas, Yiddish forms of Boaz, and Boym, a (weird) form of Bunim (Yiddish male name, from the French "bon homme", "good man").
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My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and JulyThis message was edited by the author on August 23, 2005 at 6:42:48 AM
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text: Yup, Crackdown 2 Will Have A DemoLuke Plunkett1/20/10 8:00amFiled to: CrackdownCrackdown 2Xbox 360Ruffian GamesNews73EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThe first Crackdown had one of the best demos of all time. So it stands to reason that its sequel will also let players get their hands on it prior to the full game's release.Advertisement"You can definitely expect a demo to hit Live before the game is out but I can't say when that will be... yet", producer James Cope told IGN. "The Crackdown demo was fantastic and we want to carry on in that form."Fantastic is an understatement. You'd be hard-pressed finding a demo that did more to win over the public than Crackdown's. All those orbs, and super powers...for a lot of people it turned Crackdown from what had looked like an "eh" kind of game into a "here's my money" kind of game.AdvertisementCrackdown 2: The Secret of Skills [IGN]Reply73 repliesLeave a reply


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Which Version of 'Wagon Wheel' Do You Like Better? Darius Rucker or Old Crow Medicine Show? [VIDEO + POLL]
Country star Darius Rucker is enjoying huge success with his latest single, "Wagon Wheel." As of today, the song is sitting at No. 10 on the Mediabase country charts. The song was first recorded by the group Old Crow Medicine Show. Old Crow Medicine Show got its start performing on street corners in New York and Canada, quickly gaining popularity with audiences because of their talent, and spirit. The group got the attention of folk icon Don Watson while performing in front of a pharmacy in Boone, N.C. Don asked the band to play at his MerleFest, helping to launch their career. Not long after, the band headed to Nashville, and began playing between shows at the Grand Ole Opry.
That was 15 years ago, and now the band travels the world performing. In November of 2011, Old Crow's single, "Wagon Wheel," picked up the RIAA's Gold certification for selling more than 500,000 copies.
Old Crow Medicine Show: 'Wagon Wheel'
As most of you know, Darius Rucker joined the country scene just a few years ago, coming from the pop music world. Darius was the lead singer of the very popular band Hootie and The Blowfish.
With Darius' rich and bluesy vocals, Hootie & The Blowfish sold more than 25 million records worldwide in 1994 with hits such as "Hold My Hand," "Let Her Cry" and "Only Wanna Be With You."
The groups album, "Cracked Rear View," won them two Grammy's — Best New Artist and Song of the Year by duo or group for "Let Her Cry." They also took home an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for "Hold My Hand," a Billboard Music Award for album of the year, a People's Choice Award for Album of the Year and a People's Choice Award for Best Selling Artist, which they repeated in 1998.
Since becoming a country artist, Rucker has had an awesome few years. In 2008, he released Learn to Live, and the album's first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It," made him the first African-American with a No. 1 country song since Charley Pride in 1983. It was followed by two more singles that topped the chart — "It Won't Be Like This For Long" and "Alright." Rucker earned the New Artist award from the Country Music Association. His 2010 album, Charleston, SC 1966, included two more Nos. 1, "Come Back Song" and "This." His biggest accomplishment, being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
The song is phenomenal, and personally I love both versions, but for different reasons. I really enjoy the folksy, quirky style of the Old Crow Medicine show, but the country version from Darius makes me smile! What about you guys?
Darius Rucker: 'Wagon Wheel'


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Alexander R. Bentley is Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK.
Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes—and explains—most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt or gather or reproduce; our decisions are based on more than "nudges" exploiting individual cognitive quirks.


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text: Facebook for Android Gets a Speed Boost, Plus Notification and Interface TweaksAdam Dachis12/07/11 12:15pmFiled to: FacebookAndroid downloadsDownloadsUpdatesSocial NetworksSocialAndroid30EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkAndroid: Facebook's official Android app received an update today bringing a major speed boost, making it twice as fast as the previous version. It also adopts many of the user interface enhancements recently seen in the iOS upgrade, pushing much of the app's navigation to the sidebar. Additionally, notifications can now be accessed from a bar up top. This update is available now in the Android Market for free.


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The Valor Games Midwest is an introductory adaptive sports competition for veterans and service members with physical and visual disabilities.
First hosted by World Sport Chicago in 2011, the inaugural event was a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Chicago Park District and U.S. Paralympics to promote healthy, active lifestyles as a part of successful community reintegration and overall life satisfaction of veterans and service members with any disability rating from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Valor Games Midwest has expanded to become part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Events.
Starting in 2016, the Valor Games Midwest will be transitioned and integrated into the year-long Veteran programming of the Chicago Park District. The Chicago Park District's Special Recreation programs for people with disabilities offers year-round programs and services for Veterans at parks throughout Chicago and coordinates with disability sports organizations and special recreation associations to provide regional services.
2016 Valor Games Midwest
Hosted by the Chicago Park District, the 2016 event will take place August 23-24 and is open to any individual with a disability rating from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs including amputation, spinal cord injuries, visual impairment, traumatic brain injury, permanent orthopedic injuries, and those with post-traumatic stress disorder. The Valor Games Midwest will only be open to residents from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Listen to a NBC University Theater episode by clicking on a link below:
Farewell To Arms – August 6, 1948 – 61 Minutes
The full title of this series was actually, "NBC University of the Air". The show was rather unusual as college students could actually get college credit by listening to the episodes (which were all classics) as part of correspondent courses. Many people may believe that college by correspondence is a late 20th century invention, but that's not true! After World War II, there were millions of men with educational benefits who also had jobs and families. Correspondence courses were one way they could further their education!
First Episode: July 30, 1948
Last Episode: February 14, 1951
Number of Episodes: 122
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My friend and I were talking in class and we began to ponder what would everything be like after death.
He proposed this question: "Do you remember what it was like before you were born"
"Obviously not" I said
"That's what it is going to be like after death"
I have a theory that you are in a hazy, dream like state after you die.
What are your thoughts?
I think that when you die, there is nothing. You don't feel, you don't hear, you don't see, you don't smell, and you certainly don't think. Death is your brain and body ceasing to function. What is death like for a squirrel? Or a fish? And why would/should it be any different for us? The fact that some of us think we are a special species does not make us one.
We die. That is all.
Funny, when I was a christian, I used to think that animals went to heaven too. When I was "corrected" about this, I began to wonder what made us feel so special from the rest of creation to say that humans got to have a soul but animals didn't.
Among many other things, that's one of the ideas that made me the atheist
I am today.
Its kind of like next July. You simply have to not think about it, its irrelevant. Its gonna come eventually but there is nothing you can do about it.
I'm interested in the process of brain death and the possible idea of some sort of relative lucid death dream (since a dream lasts around 3 seconds synaptically but in your head seems to last for hours.. There is evidence of it kinda I guess with near death experiences) But after the synapses drain.. I would guess that would be lights out... The last great experiment right?
what do I think there is after death? Not a damned thing (yes, pun intended)
I would agree with your friend. It is like before you were born.
Well, best case scenario, in my own opinion, is that you get reincarnated an keep on living as someone or something else...worst case? You A: Burn in some horrible Hell for all Eternity, or B) Stop exiting. You won't care whether or not you're still there.
We can come up with all sort of scenarios of what happens after death, assuming that something happens at all. It's a nice thought experiment, but until there's any proof, it's just speculation, so anything goes... that is, as long as we don't start killing each other about who's right about it.
Me, I still haven't made up my mind. Perhaps those final seconds our brain is active become an eternity inside our minds, until we finally come to terms with our current state and decide to switch off, or perhaps something else happens.
"What do you think there is after death?"
If you by death mean "end of life" then there will obviously be no more life. You have to survive your own death!
If by life you mean "the physical entity that is 'I' " then obviously there will be no more life after the end of "the physical entity that is 'I' ".
If, on the other hand, you by 'I' mean a dualistic view and that 'I' is a separate immaterial part in the physical entity then we have to solve the Cartesian Mind Body problem.
But to hold it simple.
What if…
In a very near future we have solved the problem with body parts and donor organs with stem cells – we grow new parts and organs. And just for the fun of it, let's take a future Darwin Award nominee and save him after the "Big Crash" and we replace all his damaged organs and limbs and … you know – Everything! Except the brain that caused him all his problem and now for his final act!
He heard about ECT (electro convulsion therapy) and in his last wisdom wondered if a reboot would help him from not being a future candidate for the Darwin's Award.
Luckily, we now have an empty physical entity that will take you out of your total paralyzed state, by transferring your brains content to the Darwin nominee.
When you once again are shovelling pizza in your face, think about this – am 'I' (your soul) in your old body or in your new?
Did your soul become "a hazy, dream like state" because your old body "died" or is it "clear, and awake" in your "new physical entity".
For you? You're gone. Completely.
Don't try to "understand" death, because we understand things in light of our experiences.
But death isn't an experience. DYING is an experience for all who aren't killed instantaneously. There is no experience after death because there is nothing going on after death to have an experience.
The closest we can get is to experience the dying of others, noticing that when they are gone, they are completely gone, except for the after effects of their life, by which I mean the good and bad they caused, their children, and so on.
But death is the end of the universe...for you.
In my view, there is no 'after death' in a phenomenal sense unless you include the process of dying in the definition. After all, there is no centre in the brain, no Cartesian Theatre, as it were. Therefore, there is no self to remain after life has run out of the last cell – particularly the brain – in your body.
Do I know for sure? No. Do I fear death as the end of life? No. On the contrary, I hope so. I do not want to live for ever.
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I loved this episode, my only complaint is Rudolf's duel and that Kyrie didn't mention X, but aside from that I don't have anything to say. This is the perfect example of how you can cut things but still make them look natural and good. Also there's more time for the next two episodes, which I hope they won't let me down. Still, they could've done Vrgilia's talk after the 2nd twilight, but I won't say a thing because moe Beato compensates for everything.
Also I loved Belphegor's voice, just like I imagined it and we got some time of Levi, she sounded sexy. Yandere Kyrie was the best and both Siestas were good. BUt 45 was better in her clumsyness, but they kept some of the stupid 410 remarks about what they can do, that always make me smile Last edited by Leinne; 2009-10-14 at 17:48. |
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I liked how this episode went. Gave it a 9/10. I wish Rudolf's duel was kept intact though, but then it was slow in terms of the pace, so I guess the modification is necessary.
Maybe it's just me, but Siesta 410's voice was how exactly I imagined it, so I don't mind. It's a different case from Asmo where I didn't expect the high-pitched tone.
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I am on the didn't like Siesta's voice badnwagon. I think that if the voice actor had done it more like her Eve voice is closer to how I imagine 410 sounding.
I'm rather mixed about the episode. There were parts that I felt were done well and parts that I didn't. As with most people, I'm dissappointed at the taking out Rudolph's pinning Belphegor. |
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Siestas: Done great.
Stakes: Not so much. I have to agree that EVA popping up between the guy with the gun and the girl he's shooting is a level of stupidity way worse than the novel. Also, it's pretty obvious in that situation that Belphagor gave her life to save EVA. In the VN, EVA was at least a significant distance away and had a stake between her and the gun. Belphagor died because she didn't move (at least not far), not because she sidestepped around Eva to take the bullet. On the other hand, the Siestas were done very well, though not exactly what I was expecting. Interesting that they left the line about reading books and meteorites
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Actually what happened, in chess terms, is that EVA put herself in check by going in front of Rudolf like that But otherwise, yes it is a skewer. Although skewers are normally stupid moves in general, since you're literally putting a better piece in danger to protect the weaker piece (like a queen going in between a bishop and a pawn)
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Uhm no a skewer is when the opponent threatens one of your important pieces but you can't move them to safety because by doing so you would expose an important piece (usually the king).
The analogy was perfect in the novel, too bad they changed it. Oh well...
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If it was a skewer then Eva-Beato would have been in front in the first place, and then dodged the shot, leaving Belphe to take the hit. Which would have been kind of hilarious, but didn't happen. |
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Never mind I'm stupid, that's a pin indeed. And it is a pin what Rudolf did in the novel.
Skewers are when you check an important piece (usually a king or a queen) and force them to move, but by doing so they open the path for another unprotected minor piece
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Skewers and pins don't necassarily have to be with the king though.
For example, a bishop attacking two rooks, one is on the diagonal behind the other rook, is a skewer(Even if one rook moves, the bishop can catch the other one). Or a bishop attacking a knight, with a queen diagonally behind it is a pin(If the knight moves, than the bishop will take the powerful queen). What happened to Belphegor in the anime is neither, though. A better comparision would be a sacrifice. Every possible square the king can move to is checked, so the only way to avoid it would be to put a piece infront of the opposing piece that is currently checking the king. In the visual novel, it was a pin. Belphegor couldn't move or else the king would be in check. Last edited by crazysjd89; 2009-10-14 at 22:27. |
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Tonight, the chefs tackle Mexican cuisine, welcoming executive chefs John Sedlar and Thomas Ortega as guest judges. Who will come out on top? Can the Blue Team manage another completed service? Or will the Red Team overcome their pettiness and overshadow the men?
"I'm Blue now, man!" yells Roshni to one of her former team members. It seems that each team is responsible for fetching their own ashtrays now. Roshni is better off anyways because the women are still mumbling under their breath about Robyn or Barbie or whoever is next on their hit list.
In the dining room, Chef Ramsay presents the cheftestants with a large pinata, brought out by Chef Scott. This week is Mexican cuisine ... get it?
Challenge: Each team must retrieve balls which drop from the pinata. Each ball has an ingredient inscribed on it. In 35 minutes, the chefs scurry around the dining room, picking up multicolored balls. Now, the chefs must each cook a dish, using their found ingredients.
Brian is cooking something "sexy" while Danielle has never cooked Mexican food in her life.
Executive chefs Thomas Ortega and John Sedlar walk in to help with judging each dish alongside Ramsay. It comes down to Roshni of the Blue Team and Dana of the Red Team. Ramsay will choose the winner after a split vote.
Challenge Winner: Red Team
Even though Patrick was sending mental messages -- "Blue, Blue, Blue..." -- to Ramsay.
The winners are being sent to John Sedlar's restaurant, Rivera, while the losers will be prepping all night. Brian is upset, saying that the team would have won had his dish been judged.
Chef Scott serves up some tripe and bell peppers to the Blue Team, while the Red Team wine and dine and learn to salsa dance.
Fast forward to the dormitories: Tiffany and Danielle listen to Royce claim that Kimmie won her match without authentic tortillas. In her overly inebriated state, Tiffany relays the information to Kimmie and Robyn, yet Royce has been replaced by three members of her own team: Danielle, Dana and Barbie. The next morning, all hell breaks loose when Kimmie jumps on Dana for badmouthing her. I'm sure this will be one interesting dining service.
The site is a complete 180 image of that in the Blue Team where the men are walking about the kitchen like gentlemen. "There's a lady present," says Clemenza. Who else is posing a surprising vision tonight? James. He's wearing a sombrero just for the occasion.
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This Mexican fiesta has quickly turned into a killing spree!
Barbie starts her team off on a bad foot, having to recook mussels. Meanwhile, Guy's tuna starts off troublesome but soon flies out of the kitchen. The Red Team soon bounces back and now both teams are neck and neck ... until ... Kimmie is on the meat station and Dana offer to take her meat and fish up to the pass. Kimmie tells her to put both on the same tray. Chef Ramsay is not having it and no one will confess!
Kimmie finally takes the blame, but fumes over what's happened as she tries cooking the meat again. Back with the Blue, Patrick is having to put Guy on the right track after he messes up on his meat station. But wait, there's more! Danielle serves up raw pork! "It'll be one more minute, Chef," says Patrick in the Blue kitchen. The steak station is proving to be too much for both Patrick and Guy. They're both thrown out of their kitchen. Danielle soon follows after serving MORE raw pork!
"Don't put out the pork!" pleads Clemenza to Justin. "It's not cooked!" Pork also sends Clemenza and Justin to the dorms. Barbie uses a thermometer to check the chicken breasts and gets kicked out. Tiffany burns mashed potatoes and follows. Royce leaves the Blue kitchen for something burnt and crispy tasting. THEY'RE DROPPING LIKE FLIES!
Two hours into dinner service, Chef Ramsay has sent eight cheftestants to the dorms. There are now only two members, Brian and Roshni, in the Blue kitchen. In the Red kitchen, Dana, Kimmie, Christina and Robyn pull together. Both teams complete their services, regardless.
The meat/fish tray drama comes up in front of Ramsay as Kimmie puts blame back on Dana. As for Patrick, he only has these words: "I'm sick of you." Both teams lose and are sent to nominate two members for elimination.
The Blue Team nominates Patrick for failing at cooking steak and Guy for starting things off horribly with raw tuna. The Red Team nominates Danielle for her inability to cook pork and Barbie because ... well, they just don't like Barbie.
Patrick is "nowhere near beat." Guy looks Ramsay in the eye and says, "I'm not in over my head." Danielle says she'll never serve a raw porkchop again. Barbe doesn't think she deserves to be on the line and Ramsay agrees. Barbie is safe.
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What? This has to be the most ridiculous part of the episode. I sat through all of that drama only to have to see who, out of Danielle, Patrick and Guy, leaves tomorrow night? And it looks as though the drama will hit an all-time high tomorrow when everyone is at war.
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I am extremely grateful that I was able to be Guidon for Golf Company this semester. My 4/c are exceptionally hard working and disciplined, which has allowed me to step into more of a guidance role instead of an enforcer one. I've enjoyed developing them as followers, and feel confident that they are all ready to take the next step as role models. They will all be great representatives during their upcoming summer in the fleet as well, and I look forward to working with them next year.
For this summer, I will be doing six weeks aboard Eagle, and then five weeks in Sitka, Alaska aboard the CGC Maple. I'm very excited for both of these phases, as Eagle is a great way to prepare for the Maple, and an awesome way to master the subjects I have been learning in NautSci this year. I've also never been to Alaska, and cannot wait to experience what it is like in the summer while I'm aboard the Maple (a 225' seagoing buoy tender). This summer, I will also be treated as more of a junior officer at my assignments, so I will be able to get a look into life after I graduate. Summers at the Academy are where cadets truly learn and develop, and I cannot wait to get started.
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A zombie chomped on Mom, then Mom ate Dad. At that point, Louis decided it was time to leave home.
Zombies had already ate most of the kids in Key West High School, but that thought didn't bother Louis so much, since most of them were assholes. They made fun of Louis a lot, just because Louis was different. Louis never dated or talked in class or did homework or played sports. Louis was pretty confused about who he was, and spent a lot of time thinking about it. Was he gay? He didn't think so. Was he insane? He seemed sane enough.
Worst of all, Louis was seventeen years old, and never seemed to get a purposeful erection. Sometimes he had normal morning wood, but nothing he ever saw, in magazines, at school, around the town, ever made him feel all hot and sexy. That was just plain wrong. Every other boy in high school was a walking boner. He remembered the time he went under the bleachers and looked up under the cheerleader's skirts, desperate to make the blood pump, but nothing happened. Louis continued to wonder what was going on in life, even after normal life ended in a worldwide chomp-fest.
It was hard out in the big wide world, without Mom and Dad. Even more so, now that everyone was a zombie. Louis learned to stay hidden most of the time, and to move quickly when he had to go out. Sometimes he had as many as thirty zombies chasing after him. Some were the reanimated corpses of old men, some of little kids, a few times the shuffling undead bodies of kids he went to high school with. Louis ran and ran and ran, and hid and hid and hid.
One day he went up into the lighthouse that all the tourists liked to come visit, before they all turned into zombies. He looked down at all of them, wandering around, grunting and growling. One zombie started cars and drove down White Street, until running over other zombies and smashing into parked cars. Then he would start another car and do it all over again. A different zombie was on the street corner trying to paint a landscape. Some zombies held hands with their former lovers. Old habits die hard.
That's when Louis figured out zombies are not very smart. Not smart at all.
Louis went down to the bottom of the lighthouse and grabbed up a partially eaten arm, then smeared the gore all over him. He walked out into the street.
The zombies ignored him.
"A-ha!" Louis thought. He shuffled his feet and sometimes he let out an ominous undead moan, and suddenly he was an accepted member of society.
That went on for a while. But while the zombies around him hung out in the Winn Dixie parking lot, hoping to catch a starving living person making a desperate run for food, Louis snuck in, all zombie fashion, and pilfered a can of Spam or two. He was getting along pretty good.
One day he decided to live in one of the big old Key West houses that the whole world used to think was so spectacular. He found a nice one on United Street, three stories tall, with lots of living space. He zombie shuffled his way around back, and then climbed in through an open window.
"Brain the fucker!" A woman shouted, and Louis ducked just before a pickaxe smacked into the wall where his head used to be.
"Wait, wait!" Louis said, "I'm alive! I'm not a zombie!"
"Holy crap!" The man holding the pickaxe said "Are you alright kid? Do you have any food?"
"Yeah, sure. Here." Louis held out a can of Spam, which the man and woman split in half and ate. Louis thought it was kind of rude, not offering him any. Not that he was hungry. He climbed in the window as they chewed their block of Spam.
"We were starving." The man said. "We ran out of food a week ago. I went out once in my truck, trying to get us some food, but the zombies just kept coming. I thought they were going to turn my truck over. One of them had a gun and started shooting at me through the glass."
"They figured out to stay near the grocery stores." Louis said. "That's where the people always go. They're kind of smart about some things, but real dumb about others."
"I'm Brian." The guy said. "This is Rita." They shook hands. Rita was pretty.
"How old are you?" Rita asked.
"Seventeen." Louis said. "How about you?"
"Twenty-two." Rita said, "And Brian is twenty-four. We came down to Key West to get married. It never happened though. Things went all to Hell and the zombies showed up. Who did this? Who made everyone turn into a zombie? Did you hear on the news how it started in Virginia? Do you think the CIA or the FBI or something was involved in this?"
She went on like this for some time, asking lots of questions and not really interested in the answers.
"Why do you have that goop all over you?" Brian asked. He was back to holding the pickaxe. Louis admitted it was probably a pretty good zombie weapon. One on one, that is.
"The zombies can't figure out you're alive if you look like a zombie." Louis said.
Brian and Rita looked stunned. They obviously had never thought of that.
"We can go get some food and water!" Brian said, and started moving, probably looking for some goop.
"You still gotta be careful, you know." Louis said. "Some of the zombies are cannibals. They are liable to take a bite out of you whether they think you are alive or not. Also, you can't let any of them bump into you. They're cold and we are not. You also need to watch out for…"
"Got it." Brian said. "You two stay here, I am going out to get us some food and water. Rita, take care of this poor kid, he is probably in shock, after all that has happened."
"I feel alright." Louis said. "Maybe I should go. You really got to be careful about…"
"No way kid. It's too dangerous." Brian said. He gave Rita the pickaxe, and then gave her a dramatic kiss.
"Take care, my love. You are the most important thing in the world to me." He said, and unbolted the back door. He ripped some meat off the side of a dead chicken and smeared it all over his arms and shirt and pants. But he didn't put any goop on his face. Louis guessed he just didn't have the courage to smear chicken guts on his face.
"He's not going to make it." Louis said.
"What?" Rita asked, and then she got stupid too. "Brian! Brian!" She started yelling out the window. "Come back! The kid says you aren't going to make it!" Her voice was really loud. Brian made hand signs to her to be quiet, and then made an OK sign. He was so dead.
Rita's voice must have attracted zombies from all over the island. As they started coming toward the house, some running, some shuffling, some hobbling on shattered ankles, Brian tried to act like a zombie.
It didn't work for a second. They dove on him with mouths open. The usual sounds of screaming wound down into the usual sounds of zombies moaning and eating.
"Oh my God!" Rita screamed, hysterical. That was not smart. Three zombies broke into the house and tackled her.
"Woooaaaaaaa." Louis said, from back in the corner. He had his head tilted way off to the right, as if the muscles in his neck had given out. His hands dangled down at his sides. As the three fed, he shuffled up the stairs, slowly, to avoid their attention. It was easy; they were busy eating.
The biggest problem with a stuffed zombie is they get lazy. The zombies stayed downstairs for three days, before finally moving on. Louis spent the whole time reading some of Rita's magazines (he guessed they were Rita's, they didn't get to know each other very well). He learned all about how to apply mascara and what diets worked best to stay slim over the summer. He stared at the models in bikinis, hoping to stir some part of his sexuality to life. Nothing happened. It was even more depressing than a world full of brain eating zombies.
Eventually Louis shuffled down the stairs, after he thought he was safe. He was all out of Spam, and had only one bottle of water left, stuffed in the side pocket of his trousers. An observant zombie would have noticed he was the only zombie on the hot southern island wearing long pants and a backpack. Lots of storage space is important, when you live on the move.
Rita was still down there, only partially eaten. Most of her arms and her left leg were gone, but that was about it.
Rita stared off into dead space, unmoving, her mouth frozen in a rictus of terror. It was a pretty terrible way to die, Louis supposed. Her blouse was pulled partially off, and one breast, small and blue, pointed toward the heavens.
POW! There it was, a brickbat of a boner. After a woozy moment or two, Louis undid the few remaining buttons on her blouse and opened it up. Both breasts, small, blue and frozen in rigormortis, swam in his vision. Louis's chest hurt. He couldn't breath. He had a hell of a teepee going on in his underwear, and he wondered if it would explode.
Louis wasn't sure how long he stood there, staring at those black nipples. His erection, long missing from his life, raged like a hurricane. When Rita began to twitch a bit it only made the dizziness worse, but safety was important. Louis shuffled out the door.
Outside, he saw what was left of Brian. They really worked him over. He was missing both arms and legs entirely. His guts were pulled out and his crotch chewed off. Part of his face was missing. Some zombie had cracked open the top of his head, digging out the brains. That was an old zombie trick, passed on through observation. There was almost always one zombie in the crowd who carried a tire iron or hammer to break open the skull. For being so stupid, zombies were pretty efficient when it came to eating people. It was a good thing. Those who didn't get their brains eaten, like Rita, became zombies themselves.
Staring at Brian's chewed up corpse, Louis's erection went away. "At least I'm not a gay necrophiliac." He thought.
He walked down the evening streets of old Key West in a true zombie daze. Why did he suddenly get a hard on over Rita? He had seen lots of breasts before. Heck, summertime in Key West, prior to the zombie invasion, had been like a melon parade. Was it because she was only twitching? Was it because she was blue?
Was it because she was dead? Louis stopped walking. He stared at his toes, lost in concentration.
Yes, he decided. That was it. Dead chicks rock the house.
He went to Albertson's Grocery and picked up some beef jerky, bottled water, candy corn, and eight cans of Spam. Out in the parking lot he saw a Jeep making a break for it. The driver was trying the old battering ram method, which never worked. Zombies threw themselves into the path of the oncoming vehicle, one managed to jump through the windshield. Four people came running out of the Jeep, wearing helmets and firing shotguns and pistols. They got gang tackled. Yelling. Screaming. Chewing. Nice try. They made such a commotion that Louis didn't have to walk slowly and moan. All the zombies were at the buffet.
When Louis got back to the big house on United Street, Rita was rolled over onto her stomach. The bones of her arms flapped against the hard wood floor. Sooner or later she would figure out a way to get up and walk around. They always did. Louis didn't want her to go.
Now that Louis had an object of desire, he asked the world's oldest teenage question, "How can I get some nooky?"
In a shed out back, Louis found an orange electrical cord about thirty feet long. He made a noose in it, and got it around Rita's feet before she turned on him. She was feisty, still mostly fresh and driven by the strength of insane hunger. Up and down the stairs they went, Louis running, Rita on knees and the stubs of her elbows. Louis realized she wasn't going to get tired. On the next lap through the upstairs bedroom, into the bathroom, and then back into the hall, he grabbed a hold of her trailing electrical cord and tied it around the banister. Not too smart about some things, she never thought of untying her feet, but Louis knew she would work her way free sooner or later. And she would never forget that Louis was alive. Once revealed as an imposter, a zombie never forgot he was alive. He considered braining her – a nail driven through a two by four always worked well – but something made him decide against it. He wanted her alive. Or undead. Whatever.
Outside he found a tarp and another electrical cord. He went back up the stairs and found Rita chewing on the electrical cord around her feet. That was pretty smart, for a zombie. He threw the tarp over her and jumped on. It was tricky. She was pretty strong, but he eventually got her rolled up in the tarp. He then rolled her over and over to wind the electrical cord tight, and tied it off at both ends with a nice square knot.
With Rita completely wrapped up in the tarp, Louis considered how stupid he was acting. He was risking his life, fighting with a zombie, and for what? But emotions defy logic, and Louis realized he had no choice in this issue.
Now he had to figure out how to secure her without all that wrapping. He wanted to see those breasts again.
It took four dangerous trips to Scotty's hardware store to get enough lumber, rope, nails and glue. Some zombies, either mistaking Scotty's for a grocery store, or cleverly covering another living being watering hole, were guarding the entrance. He had to climb the chain link fence at the side and gather his materials that way. Walking home, with boards over his shoulder, shuffling and moaning in the Key West summertime sun, was hard work. He passed a zombie trying to get a dial tone from a pay phone. Another zombie crashed a Porsche into a wall just twenty feet away from him. It was a dangerous world.
Louis was afraid the banging hammer would attract zombies, so he built his zombie sex machine two houses down, constantly stopping to scout for uninvited guests. Finally he got the boards nailed together, reinforced with wood glue and wraps of rope. It was in the shape of a stick figure, arms and legs spread in a Y. He even had a cushion at the top, for Rita to rest her undead, zombie head against.
Getting the zombie love machine back home was hard work. It had to be turned sideways to make it out the door, and he had to carry it, partially dragging, on his back like a cross. By the time he got home, tired and hot, he heard Rita thumping around upstairs. He went up, and saw she had chewed away most of the tarp near her head. One arm, broken off at a sharp bit of bone above the elbow, had stabbed through the tarp and waved frantically. When she saw him, her pretty zombie mouth began to gnash in hunger.
"Eat…your…brains!" She said.
"Take care, my love." Louis said. He thought he sounded much better than Brian had, when he said it.
It was more close, dangerous work, but Louis strapped her down. First the head, with those biting teeth, was secured around the neck with three loops of rope. She almost got him with a sudden snap, but Louis was lucky. Next he bound the stub of a right arm, still sticking out of the tarp. She was wiggling like mad. He cut a slit in the other side of the tarp and helped her pull out her left arm. It was also mostly devoured, and easy to strap down. Her legs were another story. They were still strong. But Louis was determined, and finally got her spread eagle and tied down. Then he cut loose the tarp and electrical cord around her middle, and cut off her blouse and pants. She lay there in stained panties, and Louis's erection grew to Godzilla size, becoming the center of the universe.
"Be cool." Louis thought, "Be cool. Let's make this a night to remember."
Water still came from the bathtub faucet, surprisingly, so Louis took a bath and washed off the sticky dried blood and guts that he had been wearing for months. He toweled off slowly, humming to himself, and put on some cologne he found in the medicine cabinet. He combed his hair, parting it carefully down the side. "You are the most important thing in the world to me." He said.
Downstairs, Rita was calm, cool, inviting. Her head swiveled on her bound neck, following his every move. Her breasts, perky, peppered with splinters, proudly black at the tips, poked toward the ceiling. Louis ran a hand down the smooth expanse of her stomach, cool and placid as a moonlit lake, and rested his fingers over her still growing pubic hair. Her smell was intoxicating.
"This is what I have been waiting for." Louis said, and then he climbed on her, and became a modern day man.
It was during their third bout of lovemaking that Louis got careless. Spent and exhausted, he rested his head on her still shoulder, and she suddenly jerked and took a chunk out of him.
"This is bad." Louis thought. "How could I have been so stupid?" He wasn't the first teenage boy to have regrets after sex, and he wouldn't be the last.
They never made love again.
Louis began to turn that night. He was wracked with pain. He put a dishtowel in his mouth to keep from howling and attracting other zombies. He wasn't sure whether they would eat him at this point or not.
Two days later, the transformation was complete. He left Rita strapped to the sex machine without another thought.
Being mostly whole, and considerably fresher than the competition, Louis ruled the island for a while. He was smart too. He knew to go into quiet homes in the early morning hours to find sleeping meat. He carried a claw hammer in his right trouser pocket, perfect for getting through the hard skull. He spent the hot summer days at Winn Dixie parking lot, more for company than anything else. Whenever the meat showed up he got the best parts.
There were lots of female zombies around. One of them was a cheerleader he went to school with. She still didn't interest him.
One early morning, hungry, Louis slipped into the back window of a dark, seemingly deserted townhouse near the ocean. The low moon was full and reflected beautifully off the water, shining in through the glass and exposing a woman sleeping on a mattress lying on the floor. Candles had burnt themselves out beside her, and an empty can of corn lay nearby. He closed in for the kill, when the covers slipped down, exposing a full, beautiful breast in the moonlight. Her heart beating beneath her breast made it jiggle slightly.
Louis felt a strange, undead emotion, and an uncomfortable pressure between his legs. He stared at her in silence for a long time. He then asked the worlds oldest teenage question, "How can I get some nooky?"
Unlucky in love, Louis made too much noise dragging a torn up tarp through the window, and the woman awoke and expertly put a shish kabob sticker through his eye and into his brain. Louis never felt a thing, and died peacefully, for a change. As the sun began to rise over the quiet island, the woman left Louis hanging in the windowsill, his romantic intentions ultimately rejected, as she walked out the door to bravely face the post-apocalyptic world.
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Dancer Finalist Q&A: Didi
How long have you been dancing?
I have been dancing for the Denver Nuggets for three years, but dancing in total probably about five years, but I was always a cheerleader before so I've been performing for about 13 years.
Why did you want to be on the Denver Nuggets Dancers?
I originally wanted to be on the Denver Nuggets Dance Team because I went to a game and I loved the energy from the game and the rush of the fans and I performing for incredible fans. When I was at the game, I was watching the girls and just wanted to be down there on the court so bad. I had to try three years before I finally made it, but once I made it, it was the best feeling ever to rush out on the court.
Do you remember your first game?
My first game obviously was preseason and I remember the first time we ran out onto the court and Amy Jo looked back at us and we were all waiting in the vom and she was like, "Go, go, go! You're on!" and the veterans started running out there and it was just such a rush, and I'll never forget that.
What do you think you bring to the Dancers?
I think I bring kind of a zany energy to the group. I'm kind of the science nerd of the group, and kind of sarcastic compared to the other girls. So whenever there's kind of a hectic practice and we're frustrated with each other and it's halfway through the season in January with four games in one week, I'll throw in a little sarcastic comment and people will kind of giggle. I'll be the comedic relief every once in a while. I think that keeps us all sane in the middle of the season.
What's your favorite dance style?
My favorite dance style is hip-hop.
What's your favorite part of being on the team?
My favorite part of being on the team is being a part of a group of women that all share a common passion and a common goal, and working together as a group to accomplish that goal.
What is something interesting nobody knows about you?
Something interesting that no one knows about me is that my favorite animal is an octopus.


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13 Aug 2011
USA Today, By Byron Acohido
Some 8 million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors.
That's the latest development in a new style of hacking sweeping across the Web, according to research by website security firm Armorize.
"The misuse of numerous small sites is making the Internet a much more dangerous place," says Alena Varkockova, lab analyst at antivirus firm Avast. "Even the unimportant sites can do big harm when misused."
A single criminal gang using computer servers located in the Ukraine is responsible for the latest twist in converting legit web sites into delivery mechanisms for "driveby downloads," according to Wayne Huang, chief technical officer at Armorize.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is shifting more military muscle, including another aircraft carrier, to the Pacific to protect the status quo in a region facing China's growing clout, the Pentagon's second-ranking official said on Thursday.
In coming years, 60 percent of U.S. Navy ships will be in the Pacific, up from 52 percent now, including a net increase of one carrier to six, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told an industry conference hosted by Credit Suisse and McAleese and Associates, a consultancy.
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are also working on stepped-up rotations, "so they'll be seeing more of the U.S. Army in the Asia Pacific region not less," Carter said.
Elaborating on military priorities that President Barack Obama announced in January, Carter said U.S. forces had played a crucial role in preventing conflict in the Pacific region for roughly the last 60 years.
"We don't want that to change. We want to continue to have that role and that's really what our investments are aimed at," Carter said when asked whether the goal was to pre-empt, deter or hedge against China.
Navy Secretary Raymond Mabus, speaking to the conference after Carter, said the Navy planned to achieve the buildup using new ships as they roll out of shipyards.
Beijing in recent years has asserted territorial claims in the South China Sea and East China Sea more aggressively.
In response, the United States is laying the groundwork for a more widely distributed footprint in Asia through strengthened alliances and partnerships, including with Australia, Singapore and the Philippines.
Carter cited a range of upgrades and new programs that he said were directed to the region, including radar sets, antisubmarine warfare improvements and development of a new long-range, nuclear-capable bomber. The programs were largely outlined in a five-year spending request that Obama sent to Congress last month.
The United States also is moving to protect fixed bases in the region, he said. Such installations are increasingly vulnerable to Chinese ballistic missiles, according to the Pentagon.
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