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Enjoy my dears! And please read the description! (warning for insulting Lovi-chan)
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"Why the heck do I have to come with you bastards?" Said an angry Lovino.
You, Ludwig, Gilbert, Feliciano and Antonio had just invited the Italian to a little "party" at your place, nothing big, just six friends eating together, playing games and watching movies, no biggie. But your hotheaded friend just couldn't stand the German brothers Ludwig and Gilbert for some reason. You understood that he didn't like Gilbert, but Ludwig was just to sweet to not like. His brother annoyed him too for some odd reason, well he was kinda an air head, but still cute. He didn't mind Antonio too much, but at times he would get really pissed at him too. But that's the thing about him, he gets pissed at anything for any reason! Still, you just could hate him.
"But fratello! Please come and we can all make pasta together!" Said Lovinos brother Feliciano.
"Fuck no!" Lovino spat back.
"Whatever let him be forever alone in all him unawsomeness!" said Gilbert while rolling his blood red eyes.
"Ja... there is no one forcing you." Ludwig said while starting to walk away, the others not to far behind.
"Whatever! Not like I care anyways...." He mumbled the rest in Italian.
"Lovi... please come with us. I really want you to be there too!" You tried to explain to him.
"What difference does it make that I'm there? Can't you just be with my 'oh so much better brother'! And where the fuck is that Spanish bastard?"
He was rambling again. This tended to happen sometimes, when he was in an emotionally battle with himself. You didn't know it, but he wanted to go because of you, but was to stubborn do it because of the others. And where was Antonio? He would usually stand and tease Lovino.
"LOVINO!" You interrupted his rambling.
"I want you to come because your my friend and I don't see how your brother, that is not better than you by the way, could ever replace you? And I don't know where the heck that crazy man went! So will you come?!" You almost screamed at the Italian man that was now, silent.
"Fine! Fine. Just, don't yell at me..." He said walking over to the others.
You just sighted in relief that he had calmed down and agreed to come. Lovino walked slowly to the others thinking of what you said. 'My stupid brother could not replace me in her eyes, how long has it been since I felt equal to him?' He thought silently to himself as he failed to notice the blush that forced itself upon his face.
"Eh Lovi! You look you have to small tomatoes on your cheeks! That's so cute!" Antonio screamed as he jumped out from some bushes. 'So there was where he was' you thought as you saw Lovinos expression change and he opens his moth to give the Spaniard a piece of his mind... again!
"Here we go again..." You huffed.
~ * Just a little time skip * ~
"Ve ~! Me and fratello will make some pasta!" Feliciano yelled to everyone.
"Umm... Feli, do you think we could have pizza instead?" You said, careful not to hurt his feelings.
Feliciano was a little sensitive when it came to pasta, and he would make hell for all of you, well mostly Ludwig if he got upset and started to cry and beg. His little face lost its smile, as he looked over at his brother. Lovino smirked. He knew how to make pizza better than anyone! And it made him so happy that you liked pizza better than pasta.
"Well bella! Of course we can have pizza. Oi, stupid fratello! Come on!" He said, still with a smirk on his lips as he left to make pizza with his brother.
"Awesome! Pizza! Pizza! Awesome pizza!" Gilbert sang as he danced around.
"Come on ______! Dance with ze awesome me!" Gilbert said while dragging you with him.
"Yay! Me too!" Said Antonio and joined the singing and dancing.
You didn't usually dance, but you just had to. All of you started to sing higher and started to dance around Ludwig. The blonde German looked like he was in hell and that was just hilarious! Ludwig sighted and walked over to a char, sat down and took to reading the newspaper, while the rest of you continued the dancing. After some more dancing, Gilbert sat down, breathing heavily, but he had an evil smirk on his face.
"Hey ______ come here and give me a lap dance!" Gilbert yelled over at you.
"Wha." You were interrupted by Antonio.
"No! She can't! Because she is dancing tango with me now!" and just after he said that he pulled a rose out of nowhere, put it in his mouth and took your hands. You where so surprised that you just had to move along. The so called awesome Gilbert didn't even have anything to say for what he saw and Ludwig didn't seem to care at all. Antonio made you fall back, and he bended over you, face coming closer and closer until-
"HEY! Tomato bastard! Get your filthy hands of her and the fucking pizza is ready!" Yelled Lovino.
Antonio dropped you on the floor and just stared at his close friend, but his surprised expression quickly turned into a smirk as he understood what was going on.
"Why? Are you jealous that I got to be so close to your _______? hmmm?"
"No! I just don't like you touching her, or anyone at all! Now hurry up" Lovino said as he walked back into the kitchen.
~ * Yet another time skip * ~
The pizza was delicious, in fact to good that during dinner you just had to tell Lovino how good it was. Lovino blushed like a tomato and as usual Antonio had to comment it and as one thing led to another Lovino got so angry that he walked away and right into some random room in your house.
"Ve... fratello got really angry, did you see how red his face was?" Commented Feliciano right after Lovino had left and slammed a door on the second floor.
"J-ja, maybe he should consider anger management lessons?" Ludwig thought out loud.
"Totally not awsome..." Gilbert said, shaking his head.
"Yeah..." You sighted.
"Hey _______?" Antonio suddenly asked and for some weird reason he was smiling.
"Hmm?" You turned your attention to him.
"Maybe you should go after him? He seems to calm down when its you." He said.
"O-okey I guess" you said with a slight blush on your face as you walked after Lovino.
You slowly walked up the stairs and you soon heard muttering from the storage room. The storage room? You opened the door slowly and in the middle of the room was the angry Italian on the floor. You just could help but think that he looked cute with his angry pout and flustered face.
"Lovino?" You asked sweetly.
"What the hell do you want?" He growled back.
You walked over to him and sat down. His face was red from all the anger, or so you thought. You touched his shoulder and felt him tense up a little. You too tensed a little as you felt your heartbeat fasten up and for some reason it was really hot in the room.
"I wanted to see if you were okay?"
"I'm fine! Now go back to my brother! You probably like him much better anyway..." he said looking sad.
"No! How many times do I have to say that your brother isn't any better than you and for your information I like you better than him!" you blurted out, not thinking at all.
"W-what? Is it really true? Do you like me better than Feliciano?" He asked wide eyed.
"Y-yes. In fact... I like you better than anyone else...." You mumbled looking away and blushing all kinds of new shades.
"Bella..." he whispered.
"W-well not that it matters or anthing, but I like you better thank anyone else too and anything... even better than... than our friendship. I guess what I'm trying to say is T-ti amo _______."
Your eyes widen at his words. Did he love you? Was he jealous when Antonio danced with you and now him? Suddenly all the pieces fell into place and you saw the whole picture of who Lovino was. Your hands were shaking and your heart felt like it was going to jump right out of your chest!
"I-i love you too Lovi. I really do!" You said now looking at him, right into his eyes.
Lovino smiled as he jumped up, took you in his arms and pulled you down to the floor with him and hugged you close. You could feel his heartbeat, it was running crazy as well. You smiled as you lifted your head up a little, just enough to look at his face.
"______, You are so beautiful and I get so jealous and angry when other men touches you, friend or not... I just want to ask an angel to watch over you, but that wouldn't work, since angels don't watch over other angels." He said while looking deep into your (e/c) and letting his hand go through your (h/c) hair.
"That's so sweet Lovi, but I wouldn't need an angel, since I already got one right here" you said looking at him, bending your head down and making your lips brush over his.
Lovino tilted his head up a little to make the kiss firmer and you both closed your eyes, savouring this wonderful moment. Your lips fit together perfectly as they moved in sync. Lovino took one of your hands in his and gave it a lovingly squeeze as you supported more of your weight on his chest. Just as soon as it happened, it ended. Your lips parted but you still stayed close to his face just staring into his beautiful eyes that showed emotions that you had never seen in him. Lovino then suddenly slung both of his arms over your neck and pulled you down into a tight hug. Your arms found the way around his torso and you both lie there on the floor hugging eachother, feeling eachother breathing, heart beating and the warmth of the others body.
"I freaking love you, you pissy bastard." you said, burying your head into hos chest.
You felt his grip around you tighten and his face press closer as he whispers-
"Ti amo bella. Ti amo."
With that you both fell asleep on the floor together, in the store room forgetting everything around you. You could sleep anywhere as long as you were in his arms. He would keep you safe and love you forever. You smiled in your sleep, and as did Lovino.
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"Where ze hell is ______? She still have to give me that lap dance!" Gilbert groaned.
"Ve ~ Whats a lap dance Gilbert?" Asked a confused Feliciano.
Ludwig had fallen asleep in the chair and Antonio was on a secret mission to spy on the two of you. He walked up the stairs and saw a door that was slightly open. He stepped closer, opened the door, but being careful not to make a noise. There you laid in the arms of Lovino, both sleeping peacefully. Antonio smiled sweetly at the sight.
"Fusosos! I've got to take a picture of this." Antonio squeaked to himself, careful not to wake you two up. The next day the picture had nearly fifty likes on Facebook, but strangely enough wasn't Lovino angry about it.
The end.


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British go medieval over ticket scalping
August, 9, 2012
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Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesGetting Olympic tickets can be a dicey proposition because of a law passed specifically for the Games.
LONDON -- As you may have heard, there are surface-to-air anti-missile weapons placed on some of the rooftops near Olympic Park. This is not, however, to prevent terrorism. This is to keep people from scalping tickets.
The attitude here toward ticket scalping –- what the Brits call touting -- is extraordinary. And baffling.
"Touting has been a problem at all major events for many years," the Metropolitan Police told USA Today. "The Olympics have been no exception."
My wife and another man were holding up their fingers for tickets near the gymnastics venue last week when a worker responsible for directing pedestrian traffic noticed and was so offended that he immediately alerted police. "There's someone [scalping]!" he shouted, pointing to my wife. "And there's another one there!"
The omnipresent police quickly swooped in and told my wife that not only is scalping illegal under a law passed specifically for the Olympics, you can be arrested for offering a ticket to someone for free.
He wasn't kidding. Police arrested a Canadian who offered to sell two tickets at face value –- about $75 -- to a tennis match. They jailed him for two nights. I'm not kidding. Two nights in jail for trying to re-sell a ticket at face value! Sheesh, in that case, a ticketing website "service charge" should be grounds for a lifetime sentence.
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I know scalpers are generally regarded somewhere among lawyers, journalists and the people who call you in the middle of dinner to offer you a credit card with an 18.5 percent introductory interest rate. I've never understood this. Scalpers provide a valuable service. Why shouldn't people be allowed to re-sell tickets for whatever the market will bear? Imagine if you couldn't sell stock or your house at a profit (admittedly, the latter is fairly easy to imagine in some states). Our entire economy would collapse.
But the scalping attitude here is incomprehensible. The way the Olympic committee rigs the ticket system toward federations and sponsors, the surest way (and sometimes the only way) to get a ticket at the Games is to go through scalpers. That's never been an issue at the previous nine Games I've attended. When I didn't have a credential at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, I still was able to cover the events because tickets were consistently available for half-price or less. My wife often has gotten tickets for well below face value by hitting up the official sponsor groups as they get off the bus at a competition. There is usually an available ticket because someone was a no-show.
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You can't even buy tickets at a venue. There are no box offices, and the few available tickets must be purchased online ahead of time. When fans go to the site, they might see tickets are available for a competition -- but by the time you click to purchase, the website always says nothing is available. Waiting to buy a ticket this way is like waiting to move up the list for Packers season tickets.
Fortunately, there is one back-door avenue to get tickets. Each national federation receives an allotment of tickets, and some sell their unused ones at their official team houses. This is allowed even though the houses charge a commission as high as 30 percent. Still, it's about the only way to get tickets. Thank God the Czechs have embraced capitalism since the Iron Curtain fell, because the British apparently are above such things.
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Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - Deron Williams scored 13 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter, helping Utah erase a double-digit deficit in the final frame en route to an emphatic 116-108 decision over the Suns.
Williams also doled out nine assists, and Mehmet Okur scored 24 points for the Jazz, who moved within a game of the Northwest Division-leading Nuggets despite alternating wins and losses over the last seven contests.
Carlos Boozer chipped in 15 points and 15 rebounds, and C.J. Miles netted 13 points -- 11 in the fourth -- off the bench for the victors.
Amare Stoudemire ended with a game-high 30 points to go with seven rebounds, but Phoenix blew an 11-point lead in the final stanza to fall for just the second time in its last nine games.
Steve Nash handed out 15 assists in addition to scoring 14 points, while Jason Richardson added 22 points and seven boards in the loss.
Williams made consecutive three-pointers to start the fourth, cutting Utah's deficit to 86-81.
"My three-point shot was feeling good today and I just kept shooting them," Williams said.
The Suns built their lead back up to double-digits and led 98-88 on a Richardson tip-in with seven minutes left. Utah, however, responded with 10 straight, tying things at 98 on an Okur three-ball with 4:25 showing.
Miles' three-point play shortly thereafter gave the Jazz their first lead, 103-102, since 2-0.
Williams broke a 106-106 game with another make from behind the arc, and after Hill hit a jumper, Okur beat the shot clock with a deep three for a 112-108 lead with 58.9 seconds on the clock.
Channing Frye then missed a three from the corner. Richardson tried to save the ball from going out of bounds but passed it directly to Williams.
Andrei Kirilenko went 1-of-2 from the line for a five-point game, and Nash's missed layup cemented the loss for the hosts.
"They did a great job of executing down stretch, and we struggled a little bit of getting the ball in the basket and making plays," Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said. "You have to give them all the credit, it's not so much what we didn't do, it's more so what they did do."
Okur opened the game's scoring with a jumper, but Phoenix scored the next 11 points -- six coming from Lopez and took a 34-24 edge into the second quarter.
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New analysis from Frost & Sullivan ( http://www.environmental.frost.com), Market for Membrane Technologies Used in Water and Wastewater Treatment in Japan and South Korea , finds that the market earned revenues of US$325.4 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach US$639.4 million in 2017. Intense economic activities boost the demand for WWWT.
"Limited space availability for infrastructure is the primary factor determining the choice of technology for WWWT facilities," said Frost & Sullivan Research Associate Janice Wung. "With membrane technologies enabling the use of decentralised water and wastewater treatment systems that offer the benefits of smaller footprint, ease of operation, and automation, the market for membrane technologies looks promising."
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Crown Princess Mary had a busy day yesterday, October 25th. Firstly, the pregnant Princess attended a 'KreaNord' conference, held by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Speaking at the event, which had the theme 'Potential of Creative Industries in the Nordic Region', Princess Mary used her patronage of Designer's Nest – a segment of the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair – to illustrate the importance of rewarding creativity and nurturing it. "In addition to exposing upcoming young Danish and Nordic designers, the Designers Nest initiative serves to enhance and expand Denmark's position as a key nation in the area of fashion and design," Mary said after explaining the role of Designer's Nest.
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String of losses have pressed England to make drastic changes to their Test side, but not all of them have yielded desired results. Among the non-performers in their current side is all-rounder, Ben Stokes, who has had a terrible run after an impressive Ashes Down Under. Devarchit Varma says it will be a daft move by England, if they sack Stokes without giving him a long rope to prove himself.
Remember Boyd Rankin, the Irishman who made his debut in the final Test match of The Ashes series in Australia in 2013-14 and hasn't played since then? Remember Scott Borthwick, who too made his debut in the same series and has never donned the whites again for England? Let's not go far away, look at Nick Compton, a fine opening batsman, who was axed from the England side after an ordinary show, nine Test matches after his debut. What do these three cricketers have in common? They are on the same page in England selectors' book which should ideally be titled 'dropped without being giving enough chances'. If these three cricketers were poor enough to be dropped after only a couple of games from the England Test side, why were they selected in first place?
The 23-year-old Durham all-rounder Ben Stokes is flirting with danger, if one has to go with the English selectors' philosophy. They have roped him in as someone who is capable to bat for longer duration despite perhaps not being good enough for a spot in the top or the middle-order, and someone who is smart enough to send down a few quick ones in order to sustain the pressure created by their frontline pacers in Test cricket. Unfortunately for England and Stokes, he isn't in good form as a batsman, and they all find themselves lost in a desert which has no way out.
England can always take the obvious decision to get rid of the non-performers, but will that help? Is that helping them at the moment? Can English cricket find a good all-rounder in place of Stokes in the vast resources of county cricket? They still might be able to rope in yet another promising young player or bring in an experienced campaigner who was dropped a couple of seasons ago. But will that solve all their worries? Not really.
Among hundreds of players, a certain lucky one gets a chance to play for his country. Stokes is one among them. Will he turn out to be an excellent player for England or an ordinary one, only time will tell. But England need to do their bit in order to preserve players likes Stokes, and many others who were axed unceremoniously, without solid reasons, from the England Test squad.
Any player who gets dropped from any side sees his confidence going down, be it an experienced player or a new one. The experienced ones are those who have learnt how to cope up with pressures, failures and criticism. But those who are new, those who remain startled with the fact that they belong to that lucky batch of cricketers who have had the opportunity of representing their nation, cannot cope with axing as well as criticism. The likes of Stokes, Simon Kerrigan, Rankin, Borthwick and many others before them came into the side when England's struggles had just begun. If the senior players are not performing at the levels they are expected to, how can the inexperienced ones do well? Stokes, just like Rankin, Kerrigan and Borthwick came into the side when England started plummeting and right now, they are headed to new lows which isn't easily addressable.
England selectors would certainly be wrong if Stokes is not allowed to continue any further. Not that he is a gifted player, but the fact that if he gets axed now, he won't get the long rope that every cricketer deserves to prove himself. After all, the century at one of the most challenging grounds in cricket world — at Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground in Perth — wasn't a fluke. It's not an easy task for any cricketer to score century in that part of the world. Stokes can also be a good support system for the faltering frontline England pacers, and he can easily carry out the job of batting lower down the order and keeping the opposition frustrated as long as he can. He only needs a couple of performances to get back in to the rhythm.
One also has to keep in mind that if at a tender age of 23 a player gets axed, his confidence takes a big hit. England are in desperate need of cricketers who can stop their decline, and unfortunately, nothing is going in their favour at the moment. But that doesn't imply that dropping the non-performers would be an ideal solution. After all, everything has an end to it and such will be the case with faltering England and its non-performing cricketers.
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Children who are teased on a school bus, in class, or during recess often don't want to go to school. Unfortunately, teasing can occur anywhere, and it is difficult to prevent--despite the best efforts of parents, teachers, and school administrators to create a more cooperative atmosphere (Ross, 1996). Most young children become upset automatically if they are called a name or ridiculed in any way. Parents cannot always protect children from these hurtful situations, but they can teach their children useful strategies to help them deal with teasing. Young children who learn these coping skills at an early age may be better prepared for more significant social challenges and conflicts in their preteen and teen years. This Digest discusses different types of teasing, why children tease other children, and strategies for both parents and children to help them deal with teasing.
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Not all teasing is harmful--playful teasing can be fun and constructive. Teasing and being the target of teasing can help young children develop social skills that they will need in adolescence and adulthood (Ross, 1996).
Playful or good-humored teasing occurs when it causes everyone to smile or laugh, including the person who is being teased. In contrast, hurtful teasing includes ridicule, name-calling, put-downs, and saying or doing annoying things. Unlike playful teasing, hurtful teasing may cause the person being teased to feel sad, hurt, or angry. More hostile teasing, which may include tormenting or harassing, may require ongoing intervention by a parent, caregiver, teacher, or school administrator.
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Children tease for a number of different reasons:
- Attention. Teasing is a good way of receiving negative attention, and, unfortunately, for many children, negative attention is better than no attention.
- Imitation. Some children model or mimic what is happening to them at home by acting the same way to others at school or in the neighborhood. These teasers are children who may be teased by siblings or who experience aggressive or harsh parenting.
- Feelings of Superiority or Power. Many teasers feel superior when they put others down, or they may feel powerful when teasing upsets others (Olweus, 1993).
- Peer Acceptance. It is not uncommon to see children engage in teasing behavior because they may perceive it as being the "cool" thing to do. It may help them feel part of a group. The need to belong may be so strong that a child may tease others to be accepted by the "popular" children.
- Misunderstanding Differences. A lack of understanding of "differences" may be the underlying factor in some teasing. Many children are not familiar with or do not understand cultural or ethnic differences. In some instances, a child with a physical or a learning disability may be the target of teasing because she is different. Some children criticize anyone who is different instead of trying to learn or understand what makes others special.
- Media Influence. One cannot discuss the reasons children tease without acknowledging the powerful influence of the media. Our children are frequently exposed to teasing, put-downs, sarcasm, and a lack of respect in many of the television programs geared toward children.
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Urban Meyer, one of the Big Ten's--delicious irony, no?--great generals, might be heard muttering afterwards, 'This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years...'
As to your first question, because World War I is--and as an academic (which necessarily makes me something of a history snob, as opposed to the interests of a buff, and I'm not trying to denigrate people who are simply interested in history) I believe this--a much richer subject than World War II. On the ACC and Asia, that is a very interesting thought, certainly, and I think one that has a lot of merit. I chose Italy because I think the comparison is cogent and because I think Asia--really, Japan is the only power who actively intervenes--is kind of tangential to the causes and the progress of the First World War. I say this not only as a European historian, but in some ways the terms of the game are set up in the same way as the board game Diplomacy, which only includes Europe.
I only included the United States because the jokes were too irresistible. Returning to your suggestion, Japan is a rising power, but is not intimately involved in either the diplomatic environment which leads the war--the Russo-Japanese War notwithstanding--or a power which contributes and suffers greatly in the course of the war. Italy, on the other hand, intervenes in the war with catastrophic results but ends up on a post-war trajectory that is similar to Japan's. Now, if you change it to Asia as a whole, that complicates the situation, because of British imperial holdings there, and I don't think that we can say, at the present time, that the influence of Notre Dame in the ACC is that profound or imperial. Yet. If I can make a hypothesis, in addition to the fact that your observation has plenty of merit, as to why you see it this way, it is that you live on the West Coast and I grew up in the east--areas of the country that, generally speaking, tend to believe Asia and Europe are more important, respectively.
I was thinking of the ACC as Asia (as a whole) because of the history of big powers coming and going, a small number of real powers at this point and the untapped potential that could lead to many changes over the coming decades. The ACC has been about basketball for so long that football is way down the list of priorities. The point about European holdings gave me pause, but I went with it anyway.
Maybe we could ask the Big East to stand in for Italy (used to be second rate, headed downward at this point but ready for a Mussolini type character in about a decade)? Unlike the ACC which doesn't seem ready to go to war, the Big East will do anything for news.
I'd heard of the game of Diplomacy but have never played it. Interesting board. Persia is there but Northern Africa is largely missing.
Your observation about my worldview bias is pretty good I think. Living on the left coast for so long after growing up and going to school in the east has certainly helped broaden my perspective.
I respectfully disagree with this assessment. Apart from the Big Ten's recent acquisition of Maryland, I can't really remember a member school of the ACC being poached. South Carolina left in the early '70s, though not immediately for the SEC but for independent status first (also, that's reaching a long, long way back; I was trying to place things that happened more or less in '90s and on as setting, since I was thinking of college football as the world of Belle Epoque or Fin de Siècle Europe; though, as you can see, I play fast and loose with my own chronology, occasionally, or at least I make everything before the 1850s or so a bit flat). More often and more recently, the ACC has been poacher than poached, adding Miami, Virginia Tech, and BC. I think we could make this akin to the Risorgimento, or Italian Unification in the 1860s, though unfortunately it comes at the expense of my Ottoman character than my Austrian, so it is an imperfect analogy there, although that was kind of hot mess by then--everyone, from Spain to France to Germany to Turkey, had their hands in Italy from the fifteenth century through the mid-nineteenth (at varying points, anyway), which is when my project here truly begins. I also think that, like Italy, many people respect certain things about the ACC--that they have many fine universities, their prominence in basketball, and so on--just as people respected Italian art and architecture, literature, and history (consider its prominent, historic place on the Grand Tour). Though Italy had some major industrial centers--Milan, for instance, for Florida State--but much of the country lived in abject poverty--your Dukes, Wakes, and other basketball schools.I was thinking of the ACC as Asia (as a whole) because of the history of big powers coming and going, a small number of real powers at this point and the untapped potential that could lead to many changes over the coming decades. The ACC has been about basketball for so long that football is way down the list of priorities. The point about European holdings gave me pause, but I went with it anyway.
Here, I see the Big East as the most frequently poached, but also as a conference propped up over the last few years because its destruction or its replacement by another (say, the Mountain West) was dangerous to the monopoly the other large conferences had in the BCS. This was more or less the case with the Ottomans throughout much of the nineteenth century, when they came to be known colloquially as the Sick Man of Europe. I'm also thinking of Miami's moment and identification of the Big East (though they only join in 1991), when they were thought of as the terror of college football, making them something like the once fearsome Jannisary Corps, in the late '80s and early '90s, although that maybe doesn't play as well with my timeline. I think it stands well enough on the basis of the constant grabbing of the schools and the commitment of the other conferences to keeping them in the system in order to preserve it. The 'decline' of the Ottoman Empire is very long (and sometimes poorly conceived by scholars, similar to the case of Spain), but the best example of the type of interaction I'm talking about can be found here, in the discussion of the reaction of the Treaty of San Stefano.
It's a great game, actually, but one that can seriously jeopardize friendships. I do not kid. The board is beautifully balanced, honestly, but you are absolutely correct that it is a historical oversight that it doesn't include Egypt (or grant England easy entrée into the Mediterranean).
Geography counts for a lot in terms of cultural connections and what we value as significant. I'm immersed in Europe, so that certainly affects how I framed this. There's more than one way to skin this cat, naturally, but of your proposed alterations I think the ACC-Asia typology is better than Big East-Italy.
Thanks, Trumpet and Kaba. I'm glad this made sense, because I indulge in some extremely long, convoluted sentences here.
Also, I am ashamed that I did not think to include that Congress would create a plan for the resolution of the war called The Fourteen Points, thinking the total of two touchdowns would make for a successful and cogent metaphor.
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RAYMOND — Jennelle Thompson said it was just like any other game, but coach Andrew Morse knew better.
With two on and one out, Raymond (9-5) took a 1-0 lead when Alex Cole's grounder was mishandled up the middle and Sabrina Sweeney scored from second. Danyel McNicholas followed with a base hit that kicked off the third-base bag 15 feet into the air to score Mckenna West-Coates, also from second, for the 2-0 lead. "She was hitting her spots and missing her spots," coach Morse said. "I think the 500 (strikeouts) was a little bit of pressure. I think she wanted to get it out of the way. I think we all did. We wanted to get back to reality — playing softball with one less thing on our plate. She fought through it, but we just couldn't put a run across the plate." After whiffing one batter in the first to get to 499, Thompson hit the 500 mark when she struck out the first Raymond batter in the bottom of the second, Makayla Makepeace, the Rams' starting pitcher.
"I didn't know what was going on at first when everyone ran out," Thompson said. "But then I remembered." Farmington was its own worst enemy on the bases. The Tigers had nine hits, but a runner was thrown out on the bases in each of the first four innings. "We had some bad breaks on the bases," said coach Morse. "We hit the ball and had baserunners today. We couldn't get them in." The most damaging baserunning out and the one that bothered Morse the most, came in the third. Patrina Krewson singled past third, but was doubled off first after Emily Cantwell lined out to third. Thompson then drew a two-out walk, stole second and tried to score on Moody's single to left, but was out at the plate in a bang-bang play. Morse felt catcher obstruction should have been called. Farmington also put the lead-off runner on base in the fifth and sixth, but to no avail.
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