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It's one of the original Pokémon, Starmie
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It's one of the original Pokémon, Starmie
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Ah Starmie, definitely one of my favorite Pokemon, and arguably the most reliable spinner in the game. Before XY, Starmie was known as one of only two Pokemon that has remained in OU since the very beginning of Gen 1 (the other and current sole record holder being Gengar). Sadly, the Defog and Knock Off buffs severely hurt Starmie, as it is no longer the most reliable way to remove hazards, and Dark type coverage has become much more common than it used to be. It did drop to UU for a while in XY/ORAS. That being said, Starmie still has a huge niche over Defog users in that Rapid Spin only removes hazards on your side of the field, allowing you to keep some pressure on things like Talonflame and Mega Charizard Y while still clearing hazards for your own team.
Starmie also boasts a fantastic Speed tier, respectable Special Attack, a gargantuan movepool full of coverage and support options, and a choice of two pretty solid abilities.
Starmie @ Life Orb
Timid - Natural Cure
252 Speed, 252 Sp. Atk, 4 Defence
-Hydro Pump
-Ice Beam
-Rapid Spin
This has been Starmie's flagship set for generations. It's pretty simple, but yet effective. Hydro Pump serves as a strong STAB attack for when Starmie needs to put out a bit of damage. Coming off of Starmie's usable 100 base Sp. Atk, it certainly leaves dents in things that don't resist it. BoltBeam offers the best coverage it can get, scoring solid hits on Dragons, Waters, Grasses, etc. Other options are available such as its Psychic STAB (Psyshock or Psychic), Recover, Grass Knot, Thunder Wave, and Signal Beam, but on an offensive spinning set like this BoltBeam is generally the way to go. Rapid Spin allows Starmie to remove Stealth Rock, Spikes, Sticky Web, and Toxic Spikes from its side of the field, and being the fastest user of the move with a respectable offensive presence to boot, Starmie is generally the go-to user of Rapid Spin for most team archetypes.
I also find Starmie to be a star player (sue me) on Gravity teams, taking a more offensive approach than Rapid Spin or utility sets. Gravity in general is a gimmick, but it has just enough utility to be a workable gimmick. Gravity Starmie runs this set.
Starmie @ Life Orb
Timid - Natural Cure
252 Speed, 252 Sp. Atk, 4 Defence
-Hydro Pump
As one of the few users of both Thunder and Blizzard, and having access to Gravity and STAB Hydro Pump to boot, Starmie is a natural choice for Gravity teams. It plays remarkably similar to the offensive spinner set, although it trades Thunderbolt and Ice Beam for the much more powerful Thunder and Blizzard, given perfect accuracy by Gravity. It also swaps the ability to remove hazards for the ability to set its own Gravity, which must be considered when choosing teammates for Gravity Starmie. Natural Cure should always be used over Analytic on this set, as he will usually be taking advantage of switches to set Gravity instead of attacking.
Last edited by Divine Retribution; 11th September 2016 at 2:04 PM.
However, the excellent 115 speed and massive movepool remain, though 100 special attack isn't too impressive these days, but Starmie can run a dual screens set with Scald.
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Last edited by Divine Retribution; 11th September 2016 at 2:11 PM.
Countering Starmie
I thinks it's awesome that Starmie has managed to remain a strong part of OU throughout the years and while I do like Water-types a lot (like Misty the Starmie using gym-leader), here I'm talking about some reliable ways to take it out. Being a Psychic-type, it is vulnerable to being pursuit trapped or Sucker Punched, which, though it can be fixed a little with Reflect Type, uses a moveslot Starmie could be using for extra offensive pressure and will likely lose its STAB boost. Utility variants are most likely going to carry Scald, Rapid Spin, and MAYBE Psyshock if they do not carry Reflect Type for damaging moves. A Pokemon I would suggest for this type of Starmie would be Mega Sableye, which is a good Spinblocker and is immune to Psyshock. Mega Sableye can also KO with Shadow Ball. Other good options include bulky Water-types like Slowking, Manaphy, Jellicent, Azumarill, and Mega Gyarados. Grass types can really hinder Starmie too, like Ferrothorn, Celebi, and Assault Vest Tangrowth. Be wary of utility Starmie though, as it does have a passable amount of health, with reliable recovery in Recover and Leftovers and the ability to change its type. While it can't really touch you, it can passively hinder you with hazard removals and Scald burns. It even has Natural Cure to heal itself of status. As for the offensive variant, switching in on this is a DANGEROUS decision, with Analytic boosting the power of anything that dares to switch in. While they may carry Recover, the moveslot could also carry Rapid Spin. Offensive variants can chose from their decent movepool moves like Hydro Pump, Thunderbolt, Psychic, Psyshock, Ice Beam, or Hidden Power Fire. They also get Flash Cannon, Signal Beam, Dazzling Gleam, and Grass Knot, but they typically aren't as usable. Variants not carrying Psyshock can be dealt with with Chansey, variants not carrying HP Fire can be defeated with bulky Jirachi, and Mew and Calm Mind Clefable don't really mind anything a mainstream offensive Starmie throws at it, but though it's rarely seen, Starmie has access to Signal Beam and Flash Cannon as stated above, respectively. Also, typically things that outspeed offensive Starmie can usually check it without much of a problem due to Starmie's low bulk and typical lack of a Focus Sash, like Mega Manectric, Mega Sceptile, Weavile (which can also Pursuit Trap), Mega Lopunny, Scarfed Landorus-T, Scarfed Kyurem-B, Tornadus-T, Hawlucha, Mega Pidgeot, Mega Sharpedo (after a speed boost), Scarfed Hydreigon, and Gale Wings Talonflame, though if for whatever reason the offensive Starmie can live it, they are in critical danger of a Life Orb, Analytic, and (potentially) Super-effective and/or STAB attack coming their way. Starmie also HATES Pursuit-trappers like Weavile, Bisharp, Scizor, and Tyrannitar, as well as Sucker Punch from Nidoking (a definitely weird option but not out of the picture) and Bisharp. A lot of things nowadays can carry Knock Off, which doesn't help Starmie much either. Just focus on the low bulk while being wary of the drawbacks of not taking it out in one hit or not switching very carefully.
252 SpA Life Orb Analytic Starmie Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Ferrothorn: 48-57 (26.5 - 31.4%) -- guaranteed 4HKO
This is the most bulky Ferrothorn for special attackers, so normal Ferrothorn sets would take at least a clean 33% from a predicted Ice Beam
Analytic is surprisingly good for Starmie, for offensive ones at least
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Starmie@Life Orb
Timid nature
Natural Cure/Analytic
252 Sp. Atk/252 Speed/4 HP
~Hydro Pump
~Power Gem/Thunderbolt
~Dazzling Gleam/Ice Beam
Starmie is a classic. Hydro Pump and Psychic are your primary attacking moves, though Psyshock is a very welcome alternative to the latter. Power Gem and Dazzling Gleam are for coverage, though it must be said that Ice Beam is a better option against many Dragon-types, and Thunderbolt pairs well with it. Basically your call there. Mix and match to suit your needs.
Item powers up Starmie. Ability is up to you.
Other options:
*Besides Hydro Pump, Starmie gets a number of other powerful yet inaccurate moves such as Blizzard and Thunder, and can also learn Gravity, so there's that.
*Scald is always an option if you don't mind losing a little power in favor of that burn chance. Could be useful for an unexpected defensive Starmie, along with things like Cosmic Power, Substitute, and Recover. Certainly not the best use of Starmie out there, but I've faced a few defensive Starmie before. They always come as a surprise, and can be tricky to deal with.
*Starmie also gets Rapid Spin if your team is in need of something like that. Fits easily into any Starmie set, though it comes at the cost of some coverage.
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*Natural Cure: Heh heh... whoo... OK, yeah, but seriously, Natural Cure- when Starmie switches out, it gets healed of all status conditions. Always useful, beats the crap out of Analytic and... pffft... Illuminate.
*Analytic: Starmie's Hidden Ability. Starmie's moves are 30% more powerful on turns during which the opponent has already done something. Why they felt the need to give this to one of the fastest Pokémon out there is beyond me. Odds are it'll only activate when an opponent switches. That said, though, I suppose the boosted power to hit switch-ins harder isn't that bad an option, especially if your opponent mispredicts and switches in something that doesn't resist your chosen move. Alright, maybe this is worth more consideration than I originally thought, but I think one thing we can all agree on is that Illuminate is completely useless.
If you're using Starmie for Rapid Spin, it's good to use on teams that set up any entry hazards- Rapid Spin, unlike Defog, doesn't clear out your own hazards as well, after all. And if you're not running Psyshock, something that can deal with special walls wouldn't go amiss.
Special walls in general are a safe switch-in, though Chansey and Blissey must always beware of Psyshock. Florges can take hits from Starmie rather well and hit back with super effective Grass moves, whereas the only super effective option Starmie has against Florges is Flash Cannon, which... I somehow doubt will see use on it. Greninja's a safe bet, resisting both of Starmie's STABs, outspeeding, and OHKOing with Dark Pulse, but it's gotta be wary of switching in on a Thunderbolt or Dazzling Gleam.
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Power Gem and Dazzling Gleam hit nothing of relevance. People here also need to stop slapping DG on things that get it, especially since Starmie can already beat Mega Sableye with Hydro Pump.
Florges is bad in OU and should not be your Starmie answer. Pretty sure it dies with Rocks up if it gets hit by an Analytic-boosted Hydro or Psyshock.
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but HP Fire is a legit move to use if you need Ferrothorn gone.
Originally Posted by mtndrew24
Not sure how useful this could be but ever consider using a Toxic Orb Starmie? With its fast speed and Trick, it can cripple things like Chansey severely. Should Starmie be forced to get poisoned, it can cure itself with Natural Cure. This seems rather niche to me (mie lol) but it does have its uses and i figured bringing it up since well we're talking about Starmie. Any thoughts? Perhaps this is better with choice scarf or something but yanno I figured bringing it up
252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Dazzling Gleam vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Mega Sableye: 169-200 (55.5 - 65.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Hydro Pump vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Mega Sableye: 173-204 (56.9 - 67.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Power Gem vs. 72 HP / 0 SpD Volcarona: 364-432 (110.6 - 131.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Hydro Pump vs. 72 HP / 0 SpD Volcarona: 374-445 (113.6 - 135.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
The one interesting thing I noticed is that Power Gem OHKOs Mega Charizard Y, something Hydro Pump and Thunderbolt fail to do in the sun. I guess it has some tiny niche in that regard but that alone generally isn't worth giving up a moveslot for.
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Like Starmie, Staryu is a unique and powerful hazard remover. Unlike anorith and stunky, Staryu hits that stellar base 19 speed with a timid nature, allowing it to outspeed gastly, anorith and ponyta. Staryu is unique as a rapid spinner as it can threaten rock types better than anorith or even drilbur, paralyse spinblockers like gastly and frillish with thunder wave and just generally be a problem to predict. In particular wallbreakers that appreciate not being slowed down by webs or having defeatist set off by rocks really benefit from staryu. Basically, imagine if starmie didn't have to worry about weavile or getting OHKOd by sucker punch, that's what you've got in staryu.
Staryu @ Life Orb
Ability: Analytic
Level: 5
EVs: 196 SpA / 76 SpD / 236 Spe
Timid Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam /HP Fire
- Substitute
Hydro pump gets more guaranteed OHKOs on threats such as bulky anorith compared to scald so I'd recommend it on life orb and other offensive sets. Ice beam helps deal with grass types but sometimes staryu needs HP Fire to hit ferroseed harder, and HP fire is also able to take out fully offensive magnemites even if they've only barely had their sturdy broken. 236 speed will max out staryu's speed and 196 special attack will give it the best chance to break bulky pokemon. The last 76 can either go in defence or sp.def depending on what your team has trouble with, but I'd recommend sp.def because there are more special scarfed pokemon. Recover is usually recommended on offensive sets, but I've had better results with substutute as lots of ghosts like to try and paralyse or burn staryu to stop it recovering, and it allows you to deal with situations where your opponent may or may not switch more safely. On ther other hand recover isn't ideal as staryu only has base 30 hp, so offensive variants can't take hits from anything really dangerous like abra and take life orb damage so recover doesn't help much.
Other options
Psychic for fighting types that are relatively frail psychic can still do decent damage even without stab, but Staryu's 4 moveslot syndrome usually means it drops psychic for a better coverage move
Dazzling Gleam hits axew and timburr, but like psychic it usually just doesn't hit hard enough to earn a moveslot
Thunder wave checks incoming sweepers, but not the ground types setting up rocks against you or the electics types switching in to stop you like chinchou or scarf magnemite
thunderbolt deals with flying types and other bulky waters, but ice beam does the former and most LC bulky waters can't do much back to starmie
Recover as I said, is probably better on the bulky variants than life orb sweepers, as staryu is generally the kind of pokemon that kills or is killed quickly when its an offensive spinner
Checks and Counters
Chinchou eats up almost anything staryu can do pretty easily and take it out with a volt switch. Staryu can also be played around with by other pokemon with volt switch such as scarf magnemite . If its not running thunderbolt Staryu can also be walled by frillish or slowpoke. Meanwhile ferroseed can deal with many staryus pretty well, but if a staryu switches into your ferroseed, that probably means its about to hit hp fire and try to do about 80% to your best wall.
Might try out some defensive staryu sets later as it gets so many fantastic moves that are great for defence and it can use them so quickly. But defensive staryu is almost like a totally different pokemon.
Last edited by Aduro; 14th September 2016 at 10:50 PM.
Anything can be a mixed attacker if you're brave enough.
Honestly, TrickSpecs or TrickScarf has some merit because Starmie can actually use the Specs or Scarf itself if it has to. Toxic/Flame Orbs only cripple you in matchups where you can't feasibly Trick them away.
(Also, I don't want to be derailing this discussion. My belated apologies for dragging on about something that's probably not worth mentioning in the actual POTW.)
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Anything can be a mixed attacker if you're brave enough.
As a VGC player, I noticed Starmie has a niche on the top three legendary pairs teams with a perfectly accurate Thunder with Primordial Sea on RayOgre and Double Primal teams as well as Icy Wind, Thunder Wave, AND Trick Room for Speed control (some teams like using fast Trick Room users). Plus with Trick Room, Starmie undersped quite a lot so it got the Analytic boost. And as if evasiveness boost from Smeargle's Moody weren't frustrating, non-Gravity and Trick Room carrying sets could use Minimize. And it has Grass Knot for opposing Primals. And Scald because Scald. And Ice Beam for the Flying-types. And Skill Swap to reset weather and stuff. And it had a rather gimmicky Dream Eater when paired with Dark Void Smeargle. And Psych Up when paired with Xerneas. Not saying any of this is Yes it has the 4-slot syndrome, but it is a rather versatile Pokémon to different teams. AND WHO COULD FORGET ITS GODLY (not really) ABILITY ILLUMINATE MY GOSH!!! All joking aside, it did some work with its other two abilities. The ones I faced were typically carrying LO or Focus Sash. It does warrant some merit, right?
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Skill Swap and Gravity are useful in more situations, but again there's much better options in Pokemon to use.
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People keep mentioning Psyshock to muscle past Chansey, but this is silly. You're completely underestimating just how bulky Chansey is, even on the physical side.
252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Psyshock vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 187-222 (26.5 - 31.5%) -- guaranteed 4HKO
With an Analytic boost you 3HKO, meaning if it's packing Wish or Softboiled, you're not killing it. Slapping Psyshock on a Pokemon does not allow you to beat Chansey, unless it's significantly weakened first. In this case Psyshock is used beat CM Keldeo, as well as scoring solid hits on Mega Venusuar, Gengar, and less titanic special walls like Sylveon.
Blissey is nearly 100% outclassed by Chansey and should never be used in OU. Even on Sand teams Chansey's noticeably better ability to take hits means it takes less damage in the long run. Blissey is only viable in Ubers due to the ability to hold a Shed Shell and escape from Mega Gengar, as well as threatening a few threats with 4x effective Ice Beams or Flamethrowers.
Last edited by Divine Retribution; 16th September 2016 at 9:01 PM.
You have to look at the bigger picture. Psyshock with Analytic and Stealth Rock down will do 47 - 53.5% to 252/252+ Chansey and 50.3 - 57.5% to 4/252+ variants. Now Chansey is under a lot of pressure. If it intended to come in and set Stealth Rock, use Heal Bell, or poison/paralyze something, it's going to be taking a huge risk. Starmie can now 2HKO with Psyshock if it doesn't heal up immediately, and the Starmie user gets a free switch to whatever other offensive threat he/she wants if it does heal. Not only that, but a second Psyshock added onto the earlier calculations makes it 73.5 - 85% vs 252/252+ sets and 79.4 - 92% vs 4/252+ sets. Just a little prior damage and Chansey can't even switch consistently into Starmie. It's the basic concept behind Charizard Y + Tyranitar/Bisharp cores. Charizard Y struggles mightily to get past Chansey on its own, but everyone knows that Chansey is still far from a guaranteed answer to Charizard Y because all it takes is one Pursuit (and maybe a little Stealth Rock damage to boot) for it to no longer be a counter.
On a side note, Blissey can run an ADV-esque CM set on certain bulky teams that need a better answer to TG + RD Manaphy, but that set is pretty niche and rarely used anyway.
No, there's a massive difference between the two, and what you've just said confirms that, although maybe you don't realize that. Not only does Chansey need to have some prior damage on it, but Stealth Rock needs to be up, you need to predict the switch and use Psyshock (which has rather poor coverage and is easier to switch other threats into than Charizard's spammable Drought boosted Fire Blasts), and you need two consecutive high rolls in order to beat it. If those stars all line up, then yes, you can get past Chansey, but packing Psyshock for that alone is a waste of a moveslot.
As I already said, Psyshock on Starmie is not primarily for Chansey. It allows him to beat Calm Mind Keldeo, who can 1v1 him otherwise, and also allows him to OHKO Gengar who try to spinblock him and deal solid damage to Mega Venusaur, who fears nothing else in his movepool. These all make Psyshock worthy of consideration, but I maintain to say that simply slapping Psyshock on your Starmie does not mean that your team no longer has issues with Chansey, and nothing you just said has convinced me otherwise.
Chansey can also instead of healing, just opt to launch Thunder Wave once it's in. If it paralyses analytic Starmie, Starmie is crippled and Chansey can then heal up as it's faster than paralysed Starmie. Staying in is a huge risk for Starmie. Only if that second Psyshock crits it's going to be a possible KO, otherwise Starmie'll end up paralysed, and then Chansey is guaranteed to heal back up with Softboiled on the next turn, regardless of whether or not Starmie switches.
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252 SpA Life Orb Starmie Psyshock vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Eviolite Chansey: 187-222 (26.5 - 31.5%) -- guaranteed 4HKO
252 SpA Mega Charizard Y Fire Blast vs. 4 HP / 252 SpD Eviolite Chansey in Sun: 160-190 (24.9 - 29.5%) -- 100% chance to 4HKO
252 SpA Mega Charizard Y Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Eviolite Chansey in Sun: 202-238 (28.6 - 33.8%) -- 0.7% chance to 3HKO
Looks like a good comparison to me. What's the problem here?
You're making a lot of irrelevant points here. Who cares that you have to predict with Psyshock? What does that have to do with Psyshock being strong enough to muscle past Chansey (which you called "silly")? No one is trying to say that Starmie is as powerful as Charizard Y or that Psyshock is as spammable as Fire Blast, so I'm not sure why you keep bringing that up. The point is that Charizard Y can muscle past Chansey with a little prior damage and/or Pursuit support, and by extension, Starmie can as well when its Psyshock is doing about as much damage.No, there's a massive difference between the two, and what you've just said confirms that, although maybe you don't realize that. Not only does Chansey need to have some prior damage on it, but Stealth Rock needs to be up, you need to predict the switch and use Psyshock (which has rather poor coverage and is easier to switch other threats into than Charizard's spammable Drought boosted Fire Blasts), and you need two consecutive high rolls in order to beat it. If those stars all line up, then yes, you can get past Chansey, but packing Psyshock for that alone is a waste of a moveslot.
What? Who said that putting Psyshock means your team won't have any more issues with Chansey? Psyshock gives Starmie an option to pressure it, plain and simple. You need to stop talking theorymon and think about this in a real battle scenario. In practice, Chansey is not always going to be at full health. It's used to counter a lot of stuff. It's going to be taking hits, and without Leftovers, random passive damage is going to impact it a lot. The moment that it decides to do something other than heal during its one free turn, Starmie starts being able to pressure it with Psyshock. That is the difference between paper and practice, so no, it is not "silly" to suggest that Starmie can use Psyshock to get past Chansey.As I already said, Psyshock on Starmie is not primarily for Chansey. It allows him to beat Calm Mind Keldeo, who can 1v1 him otherwise, and also allows him to OHKO Gengar who try to spinblock him and deal solid damage to Mega Venusaur, who fears nothing else in his movepool. These all make Psyshock worthy of consideration, but I maintain to say that simply slapping Psyshock on your Starmie does not mean that your team no longer has issues with Chansey, and nothing you just said has convinced me otherwise.
But yes, Chansey is not the only reason you run Psyshock. It's just one of them. The things you mentioned (along with AV Tornadus-T, especially if you're not packing Ice Beam or Thunderbolt) are also reasons to run it.
(Psychic is legit btw since it hits some stuff like Rotom-W harder.)
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While most westerners have heard of Singapore, Hong Kong, and maybe even Penang and Macau, very few have heard of Malacca (also spelled Melaka). However, that doesn't mean that it was any less important to trade in Asia.
In fact, at one point Malacca was one of the most important cities in Asia because it controlled the Straight of Malacca, a strategic shipping lane for passage between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
Because of its strategic location, the city was highly coveted, and was eventually controlled by the Dutch, Portuguese, British, and the Japanese.
Today, life in Malacca is much less chaotic, though it's still an important city for worldwide shipping. It's also a popular city for travelers because of its beautiful Chinatown.
Inscribed as a UNESCO World-Heritage Site in 2008 (along with the Northern Malaysian city of Georgetown), Malacca's Chinatown combines colonial British, Dutch, and Portuguese architecture with a bit of Chinese flair to create one of the most diverse looking cities in Asia.
When I visited Malacca in 2012, I had the opportunity to explore the city's Chinatown. As my first stop in Malaysia, I was really amazed by how well the colonial architecture fit into the melting pot of Malaysian culture.
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Author's Note: This fic may make you hungry. I'm sorry. It makes me hungry, too.
Light opened his eyes.
God, it was cold in here. Surely an abode so distinctly un-humble as this one could afford central heating. Shivering, Light sat up and poked at L's shoulder, which, swathed in red flannel pajama fabric, was quite visible amongst the white sheets—and quite warm.
"Ryuzaki," he prompted, "wake up. It's Christmas."
A tousled head lifted from the pillow, and bleary gray eyes regarded him as though he was a slightly hostile alien life form.
Light was fairly certain that if anyone here was an alien, it was L.
"Christmas, Light-kun?" L mumbled groggily.
"It's a relatively widely-observed holiday," Light confirmed.
L blinked and peered at him. "Justice does not observe holidays," he decided. "If someone was to be violently murdered on Christmas—"
Light hit him in the face with a pillow.
Um, gently.
"It's Christmas," he repeated. "Take a break."
"If," L continued, undaunted, as he fought the pillow away, "a suspected serial killer went about walloping esteemed detectives with pillows on Christmas—"
Rolling his eyes and abandoning the quest to rearrange L's face by way of down feathers, Light slid to the end of the bed, chain clinking like jingle bells, and hopped off, kneeling to rummage underneath. Before L could ask, he'd found the box he was looking for.
He proffered the shining, red-paper-wrapped gift to the pale hands, which rose shyly to accept it.
"Light-kun did not have to—" their owner began sheepishly.
"I wanted to," Light insisted, grinning. "Open it."
L shook the present gently, suspending it at the ends of splayed white fingers.
"But I do not have anything for Light-kun in return," he demurred ruefully, trying to push the gift at Light. "I had forgotten the day and its significance. I am temporally disinclined…"
Light raised an eyebrow, firmly pushing the box back at L. "You lose track of days, do you mean?" he hazarded.
L's syntax was, on some occasions, a thing to behold.
L nodded confirmation, but Light didn't relent.
"That's fine," Light assured him. "I don't care. It's about giving and not receiving anyway."
He realized as he uttered the words that he actually… believed them. He honestly didn't mind coming away empty-handed—he just wanted to see the look on L's face when the damned stubborn detective discovered the contents of the box.
"Ideally, shouldn't all things entail a reciprocal relationship?" L murmured, but he set the gift in his lap, contemplated it a moment, and then clasped the silver ribbon between two fingers to tug at it uncertainly. The bow gave, and he applied his elegant fingers to the gleaming red wrapping paper instead. Soon enough, that barrier, too, succumbed to his tentative wheedling, peeled open, and revealed the plain cardboard box within. L prised off the packing tape and drew the flaps apart.
For a long moment, he just gazed mutely into the box. Then, softly, he whispered, "Oh, Light-kun."
Light had found a website that allowed an enterprising gift-giver to assemble as many selections of different kinds of candy as one wanted, which it would send, smartly arranged, in an unmarked box for ideal Santa-sanctioned surreptitiousness. In L's erstwhile-unsuspecting lap there lay a tower of truffles, a pyramid of pastilles, mints and malt balls and chocolate-covered cherries, tiny strawberries similarly dipped, and a huge bouquet of fruit-flavored candy canes encircled by a red silk ribbon.
"Merry Christmas, Ryuzaki," Light said, grinning.
L extended a finger unsteadily towards a chocolate molded into a detailed reindeer shape, then withdrew his hand as if the confection might shatter at a touch.
"This is unbelievable, Light-kun," he said softly.
Light tried not to squirm with glee and mostly succeeded. "Believe it," he suggested. "Try something, if you like."
L vacillated again, his thumb straying to his lip momentarily before he cautiously—and quite predictably—selected one of the chocolate-drizzled strawberries. The chocolate shell fragmented as he attempted to bite into the fruit, and dark shards sprinkled into his lap.
Light idly followed their trajectory and then realized where he had unthinkingly directed his eyes.
Some hasty mental backpedaling ensued, and in the meantime, L cupped his free hand under his prize before taking the next bite.
Light meticulously made sure not to notice when, once he'd finished the strawberry, L picked the pieces of wayward chocolate off of his pajamas and licked them from his fingertips.
In the interest of not getting interested, Light slipped off of the bed and stretched luxuriously. "Well, Ryuzaki?" he remarked. "Other than eating the entire box in one sitting, what would you like to do with your Christmas Day?"
L blinked at him blankly. "Does Light-kun mean that I am not permitted to eat the entire box in one sitting?" he inquired. He didn't give Light time to figure out whether or not he was serious before moving along: "And I suppose that, since it is Christmas, it would be dutiful of me to purchase Watari a new fedora to show my appreciation for his assistance."
Pausing in the ritual itching of his lower back, Light frowned. Temporally disinclined indeed.
"That isn't going to work very well, Ryuzaki," he responded. "Everything's closed on Christmas."
L set his box of candy carefully on the nightstand and climbed out of bed, the chain swinging over the rumpled sheets between them.
"What about gun shops?" he asked. "Are those closed?"
Light didn't even want to know.
"Probably," he concluded. "A whole lot more visiting relatives would get shot annually if they weren't."
L tilted his head and then shrugged, apparently conceding the point. "In that case," he announced, "I would like to go for a walk, please."
It was Light's turn to shrug, so, in the Christmas spirit of giving and goodwill, he obliged. "That could be really nice," he realized. He made a point of glancing over L's current raiment. "As much as I like those pajamas, however," he amended, "you might want to put some real clothes on."
Somewhat distractedly, L looked down at himself. "It is my belief that pajamas should be acceptable attire," was the verdict. "I am not alone in this conviction."
There wasn't an opportunity to ask what that was supposed to mean, because L ducked to the task of unbuttoning his pajama top, and Light accordingly hastened over to the window in order to become too preoccupied with what lay outside to remark upon his companion's state of dishabille.
He drew the drapes aside and then stopped to stare.
"It's snowing," he said dumbly. "Ryuzaki, it's snowing."
Flannel ceased rustling for a moment as L presumably paused. "I believe that Tokyo is situated in such a climate zone that this weather pattern is not too rare," he murmured.
"Yes, but…" Light pressed a hand to the glass, the absorbed chill nipping earnestly at his fingertips, and watched white flakes like wisps of cotton sailing towards the street. Some of them were driven wildly into the window, where they splattered their fragile momentary chill against the glass and were gone. "It's snowing on Christmas… Isn't that kind of… magical?"
At the silence, he glanced over at L, who was all the way into his jeans and slightly tangled in his tee-shirt. The chain dipped between them, and the wordless quiet danced along its links.
"What?" Light prompted, slightly defensively, sending the ballerina silence reeling tiara over toe-shoes.
"Light-kun's belief in a supernatural power is somewhat unexpe—"
"Oh, shut up," Light muttered, facing the windowpane again. "I don't mean magical-magical."
"What kind of magical do you mean?" L inquired politely. "Spiritual-magical? Merlin-magical? Disney-magical? That sort involves a great deal of fairy dust, which I have always suspected is really just glorified glit—"
Light turned again, putting his hands in his pockets more for the stability and less for the warmth.
"Haven't you ever found something inexplicable, Ryuzaki?" he asked. "Haven't you ever seen anything that you didn't even want to understand?"
L paused. "Can Light-kun offer an example?"
Light raised his shoulders. "Lightning," he supplied. "Fireworks. Fireflies."
"But all of these phenomenon have perfectly legitimate scientific explanations," L countered, pursing his lips, thumb brushing the bottom one again. "In addition, Light-kun is not properly dressed, if his theory of public pajama-wearing is to be trusted."
Light scowled and looked at him. "You're just trying to get me to take my clothes off."
He paused.
Had he really said that?
He attempted to ignore both his absurd stupidity and L's somewhat bewildered amusement and went in search of something to wear.
Or was that admitting that L was right?
Forget it. He was cold anyway, though he was about to get even colder before he got warm.
The premonition was vindicated as he dropped his pajama pants, stepped out of them, and went hunting through his things for a pair of jeans. Usually he favored khakis, but any warmth he could contrive to retain today would be welcome, even if it came in the form of denim's roughness. Threading a plain belt through the loops, he sorted through his folded clothes and also donned a tee-shirt, a familiar white button-up shirt, his softest gray cashmere sweater, his black scarf, and a windbreaker. Sitting on the edge of the bed permitted him to pull on his warmest socks, and then he wiggled his toes happily, slid his feet into his shoes, tied the laces neatly, stood, and folded his navy wool pea coat over his arm.
"I'm ready," he declared.
L was frowning at him—or, more specifically, at his feet.
"I fail to understand Light-kun's obsession with socks," he commented.
Light looked pointedly at L's bare feet, which shifted under his scrutiny.
"I prefer not to get frostbite on my appendages," he noted. "Is that a crime?"
L gazed at him, eyes wide, thumb hovering at his lips, and nodded solemnly.
Light stared back for as long as he could without feeling a laugh tickle at his throat.
"All right, Ryuzaki," he sighed. "Let's go on your walk."
L apparently wasn't too fond of frostbite, as he very quietly and unobtrusively jammed his feet into a familiar pair of ratty sneakers before moving towards the door.
Light didn't move, and L reached the end of the chain, tugged, and then turned.
"What is it this time, Light-kun?" he inquired, a hint of impatience coloring his voice now.
"On second thought," Light told him, "you are not going out in the snow like that."
There was a long pause during which L resolutely refused to say "Like what?"
Light frowned, gave the dogmatic detective a scolding look that would have made Watari proud, and then moved to the dresser again. He retrieved from its depths his favorite red sweater, which he held out to L.
Predictably, L didn't take it.
"You're going to freeze," Light informed him.
"Light-kun's clothing belongs to Light-kun," L retorted stubbornly.
"I'm lending it to you in the interest of your survival."
"That's terribly charitable of you, Light-kun."
"Will you just take it?"
L glared intently at the floor. "I'm not a charity case, Light-kun," he muttered.
"There's something wrong with your wardrobe," Light shot back, "if you've been mistaken for a homeless person more than twice."
L's glare focused on him, and it was positively mutinous. "The third time," he gritted out, "absolutely did not count."
Light scoffed. "It completely c—"
"That woman's glasses were at least a quarter-inch thick," L snapped.
Light took a deep breath to rejoin, opened his mouth, and… stopped.
"It's Christmas, Ryuzaki," he said, mustering a lopsided smile and holding the soft red fabric out to L. "Humor me?"
L made a huffing noise, plucked the sweater from Light's hands, and regarded it suspiciously for a moment before struggling to draw it over his head. It caught on his bony elbows and his prominent shoulders, and his hair was even fluffier than usual by the time he'd fought the mess of cashmere and limbs into a recognizable garment.
Light, for his part, managed not to laugh. Covering a chuckle with a slightly obvious cough, he leaned forward and brushed an imaginary piece of lint from L's right sleeve.
"Aren't you warmer now?" he asked.
L mumbled something about nefarious plans into his wrists as he fought with the collar. He mumbled something else about impeded motion and basic disadvantages and returned to the box on the nightstand to retrieve one of the candy canes.
"You know that'll turn your mouth blue," Light told him, meeting L with a slate gray coat that he attempted to push into the other man's arms.
L frowned, redirecting the momentum of Light's burden safely to the left. "Good," he said. "I doubt many homeless people have blue mouths."
Considering, Light kept his own, normally-hued mouth shut for a moment—unprecedented, he knew.
That done, he swung the coat around behind L's back to drape it over his victim's shoulders, where he smoothed it unnecessarily.
"They're probably blue all over," he answered, "if they get cold enough. It's snowing. Does that mean anything to you, Ryuzaki?"
L plugged the end of the candy cane into his mouth and started for the door again. "It snows in England all the time, Light-kun," he rejoined. "And I have never lost a phalange."
Unable to keep a bit of a saunter out of his step, Light followed. "Watari makes you bundle up, doesn't he?"
"It would be terribly unfortunate," L muttered, "if someone were to push poor Light-kun into a snowdrift when he least expects it."
Light raised his hand and jingled the chain merrily. "It would be terribly unfortunate," he replied, "if Ryuzaki would indubitably be coming with me."
There weren't many people on the streets, which Light supposed was quite reasonably, given that it was just after nine AM on Christmas morning. Ice slicked the sidewalks, and the snow didn't fall so much as wander, whispering through the brittle air to splatter on the rooftops, on the pavement, on its melting brethren where little hills of them gathered together, trying not to melt.
"Mostly," Light said, attempting to ignore the frigid steel of the handcuff against his wrist and the wide eyes it coaxed out of passersby, "when I ran across that site, I had to get you a box full. It was just so perfect."
There were other things that were perfect, too, but the snow wouldn't listen, and L wouldn't understand.
"It would have been impossible to purchase a present without the luxuries of the internet," L murmured in agreement. "I might have thought of that."
Light was a bit surprised he hadn't, but he wasn't overly concerned. And even if he had been, L's blue lips would likely have proved sufficiently distracting to make him forget it.
After all that work, people were still going to think L was freezing to death.
Light watched L's hands as the thin, pale fingers manipulated the candy cane against the tongue it was currently dyeing elaborately. L's free hand was curled inside the overhang of his sleeve—since he had fed his arms through them after all once they'd emerged onto the street, a detail that Light had nobly pretended not to notice—and there was an unusual, maybe even unprecedented tinge of color in his white cheeks, his nose pink as well.
Jingle all the way from the giggling chain, and then Light found his own fingers dappling against that exquisite elfin face.
He must have been breathing, because mist was dissipating in his eyes. L's were wide as they regarded him, but not accusing—and that was why he couldn't act like this had never happened.
"You're cold," he said stupidly, because the silence was pressing.
"It is snowing," L answered slowly.
It was; it was; it was; tiny crystals touched down in the incorrigible web of dark hair before him, and he felt them on his faintly-tremulous hand.
"Ryuzaki," he said.
"Yes," L replied—not a prompt, but a confirmation.
Light drew in a prickling silver breath, leaned forward, inclined his head just slightly rightward, and let his eyes slip shut.
Lightning, fireworks, and fireflies.
Something was different when they returned, Light clutching L's hand more tightly than he probably ought to—though in his defense, first of all, it was very cold; and second, he half-feared L might pull it away—and it took Light a moment of staring to figure out what the anomaly was.
Then Matsuda giggled and jammed his finger gleefully down on a key, and Light realized that all of the computers were completely new—newer even than the pretty-damn-new models the team had been using yesterday.
Not to mention draped with gold and silver tinsel, the monitors adorned with evergreen garlands and massive red bows.
"You…" Light managed dumbly as they stood at the door, L pushing a thumb against those candy-cane-colored lips as their corners curled mischievously upward. "…lied…"
"I didn't lie, Light-kun," L replied contentedly. "I deliberately misled, particularly with some creative usage of the conditional tense."
Matsuda turned at the intrusion, beaming. "These are awes…" He blinked. "Light, your mouth is blue."
"It's really cold…" he supplied.
"Not cold-blue," Matsuda said slowly; "more like… candy-blue…"
"Light-kun has not seen his real present," L cut in, a wicked grin darting across his face at Matsuda's incredulity.
"Haven't I?" Light asked, slightly dazedly.
Right on cue, Watari arrived, bearing a thin white box adorned with a red satin ribbon tied in a bow. Light smiled uncertainly and accepted it, tugging the knot loose and opening it to discover…
…the nicest cashmere sweater he had ever seen in his life.
Expecting it to disappear when his grimy fingers touched it, he ran one hand reverently over the fabric, which was, of course, the color of ripe strawberries in summer.
"Light-kun looks particularly striking in red," L remarked innocently. "And particularly appetizing."
Light met gleaming gray eyes and grinned so hard his defrosting cheeks hurt. "Merry Christmas, Ryuzaki," he said.
Slender fingers curled in his hair and pulled him closer. "Merry Christmas, Light-kun," L murmured, breathing candy-blue against Light's lips.
The tingling in his extremities was probably not entirely due to the fact that Light was still adjusting to the temperature change. L, it seemed, had a magic all his own.
Though it didn't hurt that he had Watari for his Christmas elf.
"Oh, my," Matsuda said, sounding delighted.
"Oh, my God," Light's father corrected.
"Merry Christmas," Watari told them brightly.


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Pistons Mailbag - Thursday, August 2, 2012
We reserve the right to edit your question for the sake of brevity or clarity.
Master (Grand Rapids, Mich.): I keep hearing chatter about the 1992 Dream Team vs. the current group of Olympians. I can't believe there's any discussion at all. In fact, I would be willing to bet you could make a team of players from 1992 who weren't on the Dream Team and still beat this current group. I'd start with the likes of Isiah, Rodman, Olajuwon and Shaq. Thoughts?
Langlois: You raise an excellent point, Master, about the talent that didn't make the Dream Team. Throw Joe Dumars into the mix, too. (And Dominique Wilkins, James Worthy, Tim Hardaway, Glen Rice, Derrick Coleman, Dan Majerle, Kevin Johnson, Larry Johnson, Reggie Miller, Chris Webber, Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, et al.) Olajuwon, though, did not become a United States citizen until 1993, so he wouldn't have been eligible to compete for a Dream Team berth in 1992. I'd take the Dream Team in a seven-game series, for certain, but beyond that, it's just too hard to compare given the changes that have taken place in the game and the way the rest of the world has caught up to the United States over the past two decades. To be sure, the gap between the current Olympians and the Dream Team isn't the real story; the real story is how much the rest of the world has closed the gap. The Dream Team would have been challenged – not defeated, but pushed harder – by the current crop of Olympic opponents just as the 2012 team will be. But, yeah, in a winner-take-all game, I'd pick the Dream Team by eight to 12 points.
Matt (Marion, N.Y.): You've talked about the potential for the Pistons to be involved in a three-team trade or in the market for a starting-caliber free agent next year. Any thoughts on a player or position the Pistons could target?
Langlois: That process will evolve over the course of the 2012-13 season, Matt. I'm sure Joe Dumars and his staff have scanned the list of NBA players who will be free agents next summer, and they probably have a loose list of players in mind they like and believe would be good fits. They also will have studied with great interest the salary-cap situations of every team, particularly those teams with pending free agents that interest them. But that situation is so very fluid, much depending on how the seasons of the prospective free agents' own teams unfold and what moves they make between now and then. The front office will monitor all of it, of course, and everything they learn and conclude as the season plays out will help inform their decisions as July 1, 2013 draws near.
Sam (Ann Arbor, Mich.): I used to love the Pistons. I remember when we got Rasheed and won the championship. Then the NBA changed the rules on how teams could defend because the Pistons were too good. Realistically, how long before we win a playoff series? I'm a fair-weather fan. How long before I buy cable again and start going to games and paying $60 for nose-bleed tickets?
Langlois: Your question inspired a blog, Sam. But you really need to check out ticket prices. You can get a full season-ticket package in The Palace's lower bowl for $999 – that's $25 a game for a seat that won't cause any nasal distress.
Darrell (Detroit): Given the tremendous amount of depth at each position, could the Pistons gain a strategic advantage by using all 12 players to run a full-court press to bolster their already improving defensive play and tire out opposing teams with less depth and athleticism?
Langlois: Teams apply pressure strategically in the NBA, Darrell. Unlike college basketball, where a team might have only a few really adept ballhandlers on the floor, most NBA teams will dice up full-court pressure if it's overused. In spots, it can be tremendously effective. A coach who finds a comfort level with a 10- or 11-man rotation would be more open to extending pressure upcourt more consistently than a coach with an eight- or nine-man rotation would be. When Hubie Brown was in Memphis, for example, he did a great deal of pressing and trapping because he routinely went deep into his bench. I think Lawrence Frank would follow a similar course if he develops sufficient trust in enough players to employ such a system. I think for the Pistons to go that route this season, though, they would really need to add one more tough, versatile defensive-minded guard with the size to play both backcourt spots. As of today, the Pistons only have Will Bynum at point guard and Kim English at shooting guard behind Brandon Knight and Rodney Stuckey. If they had to steal minutes from other players at guard, you'd be talking about Austin Daye, Corey Maggette, Khris Middleton or perhaps Tayshaun Prince. None of those players would be likely candidates to be pressing upcourt.
Gary (Dallas): No matter how Andre Drummond develops this year, is there any way you see the Pistons trying to bring in Bill Laimbeer to coach the big guys or would they be more likely to bring in Patrick Ewing if they get the chance to do so? I've wondered if Laimbeer not being involved with the organization had something to do with Joe D – not suggesting a feud, but because he might be too familiar with Laimbeer.
Langlois: Two issues here, Gary. Lawrence Frank has the largest coaching staff in Pistons history. He has a history with Roy Rogers, whom he hired out of the D-League to his staff in New Jersey and steered to Boston two seasons ago when Frank landed there with Doc Rivers. Rogers is the primary Pistons big man coach, a role Frank wanted to fill so he'd have someone on staff who could be a true hands-on coach of big men. I've watched Rogers every day so far this week working with Drummond, and Rogers is putting his body on Drummond as Drummond receives passes in the low post and works on a few specific moves they've focused on so far. Rogers also has Charles Klask, who spent tons of time working with Vernon Macklin last year and helped him tremendously, working alongside him. And Brian Hill, longtime NBA head coach and assistant, is also involved in working with big men. It doesn't mean they're opposed to all outside influences – the Pistons will send three of their players to longtime NBA assistant coach Tim Grgurich's camp in Las Vegas next week – but it's not necessarily a more-the-merrier mentality when it comes to instruction. You can assume Frank and Rogers have consulted on the agenda for how to best groom Drummond. Rogers and Drummond have already established a relationship. Bringing in another voice now – never mind what it might do to undermine that relationship – runs the real risk of sending conflicting messages or overloading Drummond with too much too soon. As for the Dumars-Laimbeer relationship, Dumars has profound respect for Laimbeer. It was Dumars who made Laimbeer a legitimate candidate for the Pistons job last summer, when he interviewed twice along with the other finalists for the position. This is me speculating: After hiring two first-time coaches (Michael Curry, John Kuester) most recently, Dumars leaned toward the track record of Frank, who by all accounts presented himself extremely well during the interview process that included Pistons ownership.
Ryan (Ypsilanti, Mich.): I hear Patrick Ewing is looking for another job. Could the Pistons give him one? I think he did a great job with Dwight Howard. Maybe he could do the same with Andre Drummond.
Langlois: See above. I received similar questions about Hakeem Olajuwon. There's nothing wrong with seeking help outside the organization if it fits a certain need. But right now, my view is it's important Pistons coaches work as closely with their own newcomers as possible to establish a trust with them and indoctrinate them into the Frank way of conducting their business and soaking up the daily messages he delivers about what it means to be a Piston. If there is refinement down the road that they feel is best served by bringing in an outsider for specific skills instruction, great.
And one more …
Eric (Phenix City, Ala.): If Ben Wallace retires, do you see the Pistons hiring him as an assistant coach?
Langlois: The first necessary ingredient would be Wallace expressing an interest in coaching. To date, he has been pretty clear that he doesn't see that in his future. He wouldn't be the first to say so and then change his mind, of course. Current Pistons assistant Roy Rogers planned to go into real estate after his playing days were finished. Sitting in a class one day, he had an epiphany: He wanted to stay in the game and decided coaching was his destiny. Ben Wallace has talked about his desire to go to law school. Maybe sitting in a classroom will have a similar effect on him. We'll see.
Clark (Santa Cruz, Calif.): David Aldridge wrote about Tim Grgurich's camp in a recent column on NBA.com. He mentioned some Pistons players likely would be attending. Do you know which players went?
Langlois: The camp is next week, Clark. Greg Monroe, Brandon Knight and Andre Drummond all will be attending. My guess is Lawrence Frank, who is scheduled to be an instructor and has long participated, was instrumental in landing three spots to the coveted Grgurich camp, which usually has about 30 or so players in attendance. It's unique among the NBA player experience. Many NBA coaches and assistants participate, without pay, and players receive intense and focused instruction in morning station work and then during afternoon and evening scrimmages. The players have to cover their own travel and lodging expenses and no media or agents are permitted to observe. I'll catch up to the three players after the camp to see how they felt they benefitted from attending.
Jason (Detroit): Can an unrestricted free agent sign a one-year deal with a luxury taxpaying team of his choice and subsequently sign a maximum contract the following year? Essentially, the player would sacrifice a year of market-level salary to ensure he plays with the team of his choosing. Is this legal under the current CBA?
Langlois: No. It was never intended to be, either, but Portland and Phoenix exploited the loophole years ago after the NBA came up with the so-called "Bird rights" that allowed Boston to go over the cap to retain Larry Bird – the rule that enables teams to retain their own star players by signing them to contracts regardless of their cap situation. Portland signed Chris Dudley in 1993 to such a below-market deal and Phoenix did the same in 1994 with Danny Manning, both then using their "Bird rights" a year later to allow their teams to go over the cap to retain them. The NBA closed the loophole in the 1995 collective bargaining agreement, requiring a player to be with a team for three years to have full Bird rights and two years for "early Bird rights." If a player is traded to a team, his Bird rights accompany him. (The Pistons, for example, had Rasheed Wallace's Bird rights in the summer of 2004 when he became a free agent after acquiring him that February.) But it is no longer permissible for a team to sign a free agent to a one-year deal and then go over the cap by using "Bird rights" to retain him without regard to the cap the following year.
Edd (Waldport, Oregon): Any chance the Pistons haven't signed Middleton yet because they are considering encouraging him to play in Europe, a la Kyle Singler?
Langlois: Nothing's changed, from all appearances, Edd. Pistons management has maintained since draft night that it is their intention to have Middleton on the 2012-13 roster. There isn't a lot of wiggle room in negotiations for second-rounders, barring unusual circumstances that don't apply in the Middleton case, so there is no reason to believe there is a negotiations impasse, either. About the only issue that ever comes up in second-round negotiations is the amount of guaranteed money. Typically, the first year is fully guaranteed and the second either isn't, is partially guaranteed, or contains an off-season date at which time the team must either commit or not commit to a guaranteed second year. Middleton is due to arrive into Auburn Hills soon to begin working out at the team's practice facility.


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Publication Name: Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Unit Number: Unit A5.2
DOI: 10.1002/0471142719.mia0502s03
Online Posting Date: February, 2002
Benefiting from superior tissue contrast, multi‐planar capability and lack of bone artifact, MRI readily depicts complex anatomy in and about the pituitary gland. This unit presents three basic protocols for common indications relating to pathology of the sella and parasellar region. The protocols differ in emphasis more than in concept, and share a basic theme of thin slice high‐resolution imaging including the use of gadolinium. With the possible exception of dynamic imaging, all protocols may be readily performed on any MR scanner.
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|Davis, W.L., Lee, J.N., King, B.D., and Harnsberger, H.R. 1994. Dynamic contrast‐enhanced MR imaging of the pituitary gland with fast spin‐echo technique. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 4:509‐511.
|Elster, A.D. 1993. Modern imaging of the pituitary. Radiology 187:1‐14.
|Elster, A.D. 1994. High‐resolution, dynamic pituitary MR imaging: Standard of care or academic pastime? [comment]. Am. J. Roentgenol. 163:680‐682.
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Vanilla Sky
October 29, 2010
Wikipedia | David Aames (Tom Cruise) becomes the heir of his deceased father's New York City publishing company, and he enjoys the lifestyle of a wealthy bachelor in New York City. He has a casual, on-off relationship with Julianna (Cameron Diaz), but during a party in his home he is introduced to Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz) by his best friend Brian Shelby (Jason Lee). David and Sofia spend a romantic, though not sexual, night together in her apartment; David feels he may have found his soulmate. However, Julianna, after seeing David and Sofia leave together, is consumed by jealousy. Julianna waits for David outside Sophia's apartment the next morning, and offers David a ride when he leaves. She then drives them off a bridge on purpose and crashes into a brick wall. Julianna is killed on the spot, but David survives though unconscious. David wakes up to find that he has a face shattered so badly that he has to wear a custom-made mask to hide the disfigurement. He tries to continue seeing Sofia, but she finds his resentment and bitterness about the accident difficult to deal with. After he gets drunk at a bar and falls asleep in a puddle in the street outside, Sofia walks away, leaving with Brian.
The next day, David wakes up in the street to find Sofia bending over him, anxious to help. They continue to date and grow closer, and David has successful cosmetic surgery to restore his face. Despite the perfect life, David starts to notice oddities in his perception of the world; at times, it appears that his face has reverted to the disfigured state, and he encounters a strange man (Noah Taylor) at a bar who tells him he has the power to change the world. One day, at Sofia's apartment, he finds that Sofia, and every image he knew of her, has been replaced by Julianna, and in a bout of madness, suffocates her. He is arrested and assigned a court psychologist, Dr. Curtis McCabe (Kurt Russell), who tries to determine the cause of David's insanity. After recollection from an advertisement on television for a service called "Life Extension", David and Dr. McCabe visit the Life Extension office in a skyscraper. They learn that they offer to put clinically-dead patients into cryonic suspension to be awakened in the future when cures may be available; the patients are given the option of a "lucid dream" to keep their mind occupied over the years. David recognizes the term, and escapes from Dr. McCabe's control, shouting for the lucid dream's "tech support". Arriving in the now-empty lobby, David is met by the man from the bar, his tech support.
As the two ride an elevator up to impossibly tall heights, the man explains that David is a patient of Life Extension, and is experiencing his own lucid dream. David opted for the process after the accident, when he found his face could not be repaired, having said his farewells to Brian and Sofia and passing control of the company to a trusted adviser. David chose to start the lucid dream the morning after he passed out in the street outside the bar, under the "vanilla sky" from his mother's original Monet paintings and reunited with Sofia. However, over the 150 years he has been in cryonic suspension, his lucid dream malfunctioned, turning into a nightmare and reintroducing Julianna and other unpredictable elements from David's subconscious such as Dr. McCabe as a father-figure. As David and the man exit the elevator atop the huge skyscraper, the man offers David two choices: to be reinserted into the rectified lucid dream, or to wake up, the latter requiring David to take a leap of faith off the top of the building. The final choice is supposedly a subconscious one: David has always been terrified of heights, and this skyscraping, high-flying decision is his last. David opts to wake up, and takes a moment to say goodbye to the lucid dream versions of Brian, Dr. McCabe, and Sofia that have appeared on the roof. David jumps over the side, his memories flashing before his eyes, and wakes up moments before he hits the ground; the screen goes to gray and a woman's voice tells David to open his eyes. The film ends with an extreme closeup of an eye opening up.
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Ted Kooser: American life in poetry Jan. 20, 2013
Here's a lovely poem for the caregivers among us, by Terri Kirby Erickson, who lives in North Carolina.
Sponge Bath
Draped in towels,
my grandmother sits in a hard-backed
chair, a white bowl
of soapy water on the floor.
She lifts her frail arm, then rests it,
gratefully, in her daughter's palm.
Gliding a wet
washcloth, my mother's hand
becomes a cloud, and every bruise, a rain-
drenched flower.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It also is supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright 2011 by Erickson from her most recent book of poems, "In the Palms of Angels," Press 53, 2011. Poem reprinted by permission of Erickson and the publisher.
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Journal: Nature Genetics. 2007 May 13; E-publication ahead of print.
Authors and affililation: Martin MP, Qi Y, Gao X, Yamada E, Martin JN, Pereyra F, Colombo S, Brown EE, Shupert WL, Phair J, Goedert JJ, Buchbinder S, Kirk GD, Telenti A, Connors M, O'brien SJ, Walker BD, Parham P, Deeks SG, McVicar DW, Carrington M. Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Science Applications International Corporation-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Allotypes of the natural killer (NK) cell receptor KIR3DL1 vary in both NK cell expression patterns and inhibitory capacity upon binding to their ligands, HLA-B Bw4 molecules, present on target cells. [Allotypes are different DNA codings that may occupy a given position on a chromosome.]
Using a sample size of over 1,500 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)(+) individuals, we show that various distinct allelic combinations of the KIR3DL1 and HLA-B loci significantly and strongly influence both AIDS progression and plasma HIV RNA abundance in a consistent manner.
These genetic data correlate very well with previously defined functional differences that distinguish KIR3DL1 allotypes.
The various epistatic effects observed here for common, distinct KIR3DL1 and HLA-B Bw4 combinations are unprecedented with regard to any pair of genetic loci in human disease, and indicate that NK cells may have a critical role in the natural history of HIV infection.


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09/12/2013 10:02amHouse Speaker John Boehner says Republicans will insist on curbing spending in the fight over the debt limit.
Boehner says he was insulted by Putin comments
09/12/2013 10:19amHouse Speaker John Boehner says he feels insulted by an opinion piece written by Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO'-tihn).
House passes bill to delay health care subsidies
09/12/2013 11:19amThe House passed a bill Thursday to ban new subsidies to help people buy health insurance until the Obama administration enacts a new verification system to ensure benefits go only to those who are eligible.
Lawyer: No charges for Utah AG in bribery probe
09/12/2013 4:16pmA federal bribery investigation of Utah Attorney General John Swallow ended Thursday without charges, enabling him to shrug off at least some of the allegations that have dogged him since taking office in January.
Senate panel Oks measure defining a journalist
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Grace, Not Works
A former shaman in Vanuatu was sent out as a missionary—before he really understood the gospel. What did he tell people? "You have to work hard to get into heaven." Then he joined a Bible translation team. After working on Galatians, he finally understood: "There's nothing we can do to be saved. [We're saved through] the blood of Jesus."
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Latest News From My Home Move - the UK's leading conveyancerBack to all news articles
myhomemove participated in the 10 Peaks Challenge
22 May 2013
Energetic members of the UK's largest conveyancing company myhomemove, participated in the 10 Peaks Challenge last weekend (18th May 2013) to raise money for their 3 adopted charities. 20 people from the Leicester-based firm took to the mountains despite adverse weather conditions and climbed the 10 peaks (a total of 14 miles!) in just over 10 hours. A great result considering the tough terrain facing some of the more novice walkers.
Rob Gurney, Head of Legal Practice at myhomemove and organiser of the event said "Visibility was incredibly poor up on the mountains, but each and every one of my brave myhomemove colleagues battled on regardless - spurred on by the thought of how our 3 adopted charities will benefit from the sponsorship money being raised. I am so proud to be a part of the myhomemove team".
Sponsorship pledged by family and friends will raise over £2000 which will go towards supporting 3 charities which includes The Bridge - a local charity working to develop sustainable housing solutions for the homeless throughout Leicestershire. Last year myhomemove raised £1200 to help support The Bridge's Christmas programme providing the homeless with food, drink and sleeping bags.
Money raised will also go to the Peristera Orphanage in Sri Lanka and the Snehalaya Children's Home in India. myhomemove's donations help to give stability to these vulnerable children, as well as provide them with basic essentials such as electricity and running water.
Doug Crawford, Chief Executive said "it's great to see the dedication from people at myhomemove and the commitment they give to help not just the local community, but the orphanages we support. We have all witnessed the difference our donations can make."
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Two occupants and five of six horses managed to free themselves from a burning stable Saturday night in Repentigny.
The stable, which was located near Roger Street and Chemin de la Presqu'île, burned to the ground and one horse died in the fire.
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Only Billy Wilder could pull off a film about a man who lends his apartment out for illicit liaisons in order to climb the corporate ladder that's funny, sad, romantic and only mildly sordid. After all, Baxter (played marvelously by Lemmon) is helping his co-workers cheat on their wives, encouraging behavior that society certainly frowned upon at the time...and still does. Yet, Lemmon makes Baxter endearingly sweet and hopelessly helpful. He never planned on his apartment becoming the office love nest. It just snowballs, leaving this yes-man with literally no place to go. All he wants, besides his own office, is the love of Ms. Kubilik (MacClaine), the perky elevator operator who works in the same building. This being Wilder, the road to romance and a key to the executive restroom is anything but easy and entirely entertaining.
The film opens with C.C. "Bud" Baxter attempting to move up into middle management of the insurance company he works for. Since there are almost 32,000 employees, it's kind of hard to get noticed. He believes his star is on the rise after being recommended for promotion to the head of personnel, Mr. Sheldrake (MacMurray), by four different managers. Baxter secured the high praise for working hard...and allowing the gentlemen to hold "private meetings" in his apartment. He doesn't exactly approve of their behavior, but what they do behind their wives' backs is really none of his business. Their antics do occasionally put him in a tight spot and cause complaints from his neighbors, but for the most part it works. If it makes everyone happy, why should he complain about a little inconvenience. He even hopes to use the apartment for a bit of loving himself one day. He has a crush on Ms. Kubilik, but she doesn't reciprocate his feelings. She likes Baxter, he's one of the few true gentlemen who ride her elevator each day, but she doesn't date people from the building. Lord knows, they've all tried.
"I used to live like Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked among 8 million people but one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were."


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A SIZZLING atmosphere to match the hours of wonderful warm weather – that was the story of a stunning 2014 Carluke Gala Day.
Thousands of people lined the streets to see the colourful procession of floats and bands head from Sandy Road into the town centre for the 12.15pm crowning of Gala Queen Claire-Jayne Rae in Market Square.
The family of Queen Claire-Jayne, an 11-year-old Crawforddyke Primary School pupil, looked on with immense pride as the youngster was given her coronation by crowning lady Linda Johnson.
Claire's mum Elaine Allan said: "It was an amazing day; absolutely brilliant."
And freelance photographer Roberto Cavieres was on hand to capture all the action for the Gazette, featured here in our slideshow created for your viewing pleasure by Gazette editor Julie Currie.
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