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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial in Fergus Falls, Minn. on Wednesday.
He is Cpl. John O. Strom of Fergus Falls, Minn.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1950, Stroms unit, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, came under attack by Chinese communist forces near the village of Unsan in North Korea. His battalion sought to escape the larger Chinese unit, and evacuated along a route well documented in U.S. records.
The fighting raged on for several days, and by Nov. 4, those men able to escape withdrew to friendly lines south of the Kuryong River, though more than 380 soldiers of the 8th Cavalry Regiment were unaccounted for.
In July and August 2002, a joint team of U.S. and North Korean specialists investigated a site near Unsan where a villager had reportedly reburied remains believed to be those of a U.S. serviceman from another location. The team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated both sites and found human remains as well as a few pieces of non-biological evidence. The team was also given Stroms military identification tag found by the villager.
Laboratory analysis of the remains by forensic scientists at JPAC led to Stroms identification. Comparisons of mitochondrial DNA results were key factors in their finding.
Of the 88,000 Americans who are missing from all conflicts, approximately 8,100 are from the Korean War. More than 1,800 remain unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, 126 from the Cold War, and 78,000 from World War II. Remains believed to be those of more than 220 American servicemen have been recovered in joint operations in North Korea.
For additional information on the Defense Departments mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169 .


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The Department of Philosophy at Florida State University was organized in September 1965, following the dissolution of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies into two distinct academic programs, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Religion. Effective that same year, the Department of Philosophy implemented its bachelor's and master's degree programs, and instituted for the first time in the state of Florida a doctoral degree program in Philosophy.
The Department of Philosophy at Florida State University, with its wide assortment of courses and variety of scholarly activities, provides a thorough and rigorous graduate training in philosophy. In addition, teaching assistantships available for graduate students provide valuable experience to assist their passage into the professional community.
Each year the department hosts the Werkmeister Conference (recent topics include Cosmopolitanism, Form & Function in Biology, and Folk Concepts), the Conference of the Society for Women's Advancement in Philosophy, the Florida State University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, and a Colloquium Series. In addition, the department features the Bayles Ethics Lectures and various Departmental Workshops. It also publishes Social Theory and Practice, a leading journal in social and political philosophy founded by the department in 1970. And the department's members serve the university and the wider community. For example, Maria Morales volunteers as a state-certified domestic and sexual violence advocate, and David McNaughton is a member of both the Patient and Family Cancer Advisory Council and the Pastoral Care Advisory Council at a local hospital.
The department is committed to maintaining an exceptionally strong faculty, and new appointments are made regularly. The faculty has a diverse set of interests, with special strengths in ancient and modern philosophy, ethics, logic, action theory, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of biology.
Alfred R. Mele (Ph.D., Michigan), the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, is internationally recognized in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of mind and action - particularly for his contributions on free will, motivation, weakness of will, and self-deception. He has authored six significant books (most recently Free Will and Luck), edited or co-edited four others, received numerous fellowships, and given invited lectures in seventeen countries. Randolph Clarke (Ph.D., Princeton) specializes in intentional action, free will, and moral responsibility. He has published a book (Libertarian Accounts of Free Will) and many articles on these topics.
In his Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview and several papers, Justin Leiber (Ph.D., Chicago; B. Phil., Oxford) gives a definitive assessment of Chomsky's work in linguistics and its implications for cognitive science and philosophy. In further books (including a series of novels) and some fifty papers, Leiber probes these same and related issues about mind and its place in the natural world. Piers Rawling (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is an authority on decision theory and the philosophy of Donald Davidson (a key figure in contemporary philosophy of mind and action). Rawling has published several articles on these topics; and Mele and he are co-editors of The Oxford Handbook of Rationality.
Randolph Clarke has written on the relation between free will and moral responsibility. David McNaughton's (B.Phil., Oxford) book, Moral Vision, is a classic in the field. It is still in print twenty years after publication, and extracts have been anthologized in several collections. He is the author, with Piers Rawling, of a lengthy series of articles articulating and defending a novel form of one of the standard ethical views (deontology). They are developing these ideas into a book. McNaughton is the founder of the British Society for Ethical Theory, and Vice-President of the Florida Philosophical Association. He also has interests in aesthetics.
Marie Fleming (Ph.D., London School of Economics) has published extensively on German Critical Theory, particularly the work of Habermas and its intersection with feminist critique – as in her Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity. She is the recipient of numerous major research grants. Maria H. Morales (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) specializes in the thought of John Stuart Mill. She has authored a book on Mill (Perfect Equality: John Stuart Mill on Well-Constituted Communities), edited another, and written a series of articles on his feminism. She is now writing a book that ties Mill's thought to contemporary feminist philosophy. Her other interests include philosophy of law, critical race theory, and Latin American philosophy.
Michael Ruse (Ph.D., Bristol, U.K.), the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, is a leading international authority on the history and philosophy of biology. He has authored numerous books in this area (most recently Darwinism and its Discontents), and has edited many others. He founded the journal Biology and Philosophy, and is the editor of the Cambridge University Series in the Philosophy of Biology. He lectures globally on evolutionary issues and is a renowned debater of Creationists. James Justus (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) has authored and edited many articles in the areas of philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and environmental philosophy. He has a special interest in environmental ethics, and his other interests include the areas of logic, formal epistemology, and the history of analytic philosophy. Justus has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and participated in several workshops and panels. Michael Bishop's (Ph.D., U.C. San Diego) research (which has been cited in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times) focuses on the nature of good reasoning in science and in everyday life. In addition to writing on observation and theory in science, Bishop has explored (in Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment with J.D. Trout) how we might improve our reasoning. Bishop is the recipient of a NSF Research grant and six teaching awards. Piers Rawling has wide-ranging interests in the philosophy of science. He has written on quantum logic, probability theory, and the philosophy of psychology.
Russell Dancy (Ph.D., Harvard) is an authority on ancient philosophy. His most recent book, Plato's Introduction of Forms, has been characterized as a study from which future scholarship in the area must take its start. Dancy's interest in the history of philosophy ranges up through the twentieth century. And he teaches a unique course in the philosophy of music. Alfred Mele has written several articles on Aristotle. John Roberts (Ph.D., U.N.C. Chapel Hill) is the author of A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley, and is a specialist in seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy. He is currently exploring theories from this period concerning the relationship between agency and causation. He has also written on psychopathology. David McNaughton rounds out the department's strength in seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, as an authority on Shaftesbury, Butler, Hume, and Price. Maria Morales, as we have seen, is an expert on John Stuart Mill – particularly his feminism. Marie Fleming's historical interests range from ancient philosophy through Kant to the twentieth century. Her particular specialty is twentieth century continental philosophy. She also has an interest in aesthetics.


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The last issue is, should thresholds vary across population groups? Yes, is Ziliak's answer, but then the real question is how and for whom. Cunningham presented important trends in financial burden across the presence and the number of chronic conditions. Claxton presented interesting trends based on firm size and ownership, looking more at family versus single type firms. If the measure of medical care risk is to be prospective, then it suggests that a model is going to need to incorporate something about chronic conditions, firm size, and perhaps self-employment status, to address what type of economic risk an individual is going to face.
Ziliak then spoke about some work that he has contributed to in the last few years, which is the literature called the value of statistical life, which is designed to try to quantify the money-risk trade-off that individuals face. Sometimes people ask questions such as, How much are you willing to pay in order to avoid a 1 in 10,000 increase in the probability of a fatal injury on the job? That is a classic example of the value of statistical life. It suggests that in thinking about risks and what people face and thinking about thresholds and prospective medical care risks, employment status might be a key demographic variable for breaking out the population, because individuals face substantially different risks of on-the-job injury and fatality, depending on their industry and occupation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects these data, the Census of Fatal Occupations in Industries. It is broken down by detailed industry and occupation. It could be easily merged into a data set like the CPS, which also collects industry and occupation.
One of the challenges in thinking about the number of thresholds is to know the optimal number one wants to construct for a medical care index. So if one breaks down by employment versus nonemployment and chronic condition versus no chronic condition, guidance is needed, especially for three or more chronic conditions. Perhaps three or more chronic conditions could be an important criterion on which to split. In the context of Claxton's presentation, he said, firm size seems to be potentially important in terms of demographic groups. However, the CPS does not collect data on chronic conditions.
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Renada Davis Named ACC Freshman of the Year
The Tomball, Texas native set the Wolfpack single-season batting average record
Softball Readies for ACC Tournament
The Pack has wrapped up the 2012 regular season
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The Pack returns to action in Lexington, Ky., next week
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Ninth Season at NC State
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Overall Record: 609-330-1
Record at NC State: 273-196
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Lisa Navas had the honor of building the first women's fastpitch softball team at NC State, and the program has shown consistent improvement and success in its brief history under her leadership.
With an overall career record of 609-330-1 in 18 years of filling out the lineup card, Navas has built the Wolfpack program into a force to be reckoned with, both in Atlantic Coast Conference play and on the national scene. In just nine years Navas has built the NC State softball program from the ground up, taken it to the NCAA Tournament twice and collected both ACC regular-season and tournament titles.
With those achievements in mind, it's not difficult to see why she is such a highly regarded coach. A 21-year veteran of the coaching ranks, Navas brings a plethora of softball knowledge to the plate.
Prior to her appointment with the Wolfpack, Navas spent two years at neighboring North Carolina, where in 2001 she helped the team to a 38-19 record, the school's first and only ACC championship and NCAA regional appearance. In 2002, the Tar Heels finished second in the conference while compiling an overall record of 34-30, after setting the school's home run record.
Navas spent nine years as head coach at Barry University, a program that she guided to an overall record of 335-134-1. Under her direction, Barry won two conference championships, while placing second on six occasions and reached regional play five times in six years. As head coach, Navas led her squads to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Tournament in 1994 and a berth in the national championship finals in 1998.
Before working with the Buccaneers, Navas assisted at Missouri. Her one-year stint resulted in a fifth-place finish at the 1991 Women's College World Series.
The roots of Navas' passion for the sport stem from her playing days at Oklahoma City University. As a shortstop for the perennially ranked Lady Chiefs, Navas guided the school to a second-place finish at the NAIA National Tournament in 1986. For her efforts, Navas was named to the all-tournament team. In her final season she was an NAIA all-district selection and qualified for the trials of the 1987 United States Pan-American Games.She was inducted into the OCU Hall of Fame in 2003 for her achievements in the game of softball.
Navas is an active member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). She held a two-year stint on the association's Board of Directors as the NCAA Division II representative, and served three years on the head coaches committee for Division I. Navas also campaigned as chairperson of the NCAA Softball Championship Committee for Division II for two years and spent time on the committee for three years. She currently serves as the chairperson of the NFCA All-America committee.
Navas earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Oklahoma City University in 1987. During her time at Barry she earned a master's degree in sports management. She resides in Apex, N.C.


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MSSU defines Dual Credit and Dual Enrollment as such:
Dual Credit – Dual credit enables qualified high school students to take college-level courses taught by qualified high school instructors. Students simultaneously receive academic credit for the course from both the high school and MSSU.
Dual Enrollment – Dual enrollment enables qualified high school students to take college-level courses that are taught by an MSSU Faculty member while simultaneously enrolled in the high school and MSSU. Credit is typically only awarded at the university level; however, students may be eligible to earn high school credit for such courses with approval from the high school district. Dual enrollment opportunities at MSSU will likely be delivered to the student through a distance learning delivery mode (online).
For more definitions related to the program, check the Dual Credit/Dual Enrollment Handbook.
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The tuition rate for dual credit and dual enrollment courses is $50/credit hour. Dual credit/dual enrollment students do not incur any special course fees or incidental fees. However, students are required to pay for textbooks for each course in which they are enrolled. Click here for more information.
Courses offered through the program are mainly geared towards the General Education Requirements, which is the equivalent of "college core courses" required for all four-year degrees. Check out specific course information by clicking here.
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Textbook arrangements can vary by school. If your course is being taught at the high school by a high school instructor, check with your high school instructor or coordinator for further details. If your course is being taught by MSSU, you will pick up your books in the same manner as all other MSSU students at the MSSU Bookstore. Make sure to identify yourself as a dual credit student at the bookstore if you have yet not been issued a Lion Card. Additional textbook information can be found by clicking here.
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Please refer to the Course Drop/Withdrawal & Refunds Calendar for important dates related to dropping a class and the refund of fees. Policies and procedures related to refunds can be found in Student Tuition & Fees section of the Dual Credit/Dual Enrollment Handbook.
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As a dual credit/dual enrollment student, you are considered an MSSU student and are bound to policies that affect all students. Policies can be found in the Dual Credit/Dual Enrollment Handbook, the University Catalog, as well as the Student Handbook.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), as amended (also referred to as the Buckley Amendment), is a federal law regarding the privacy of student educational records and the access provided to these records. Any educational institution that receives funds under any program administered by the U.S. Secretary of Education is bound by FERPA requirements. Click here to find out more detailed information about how this affects you as a dual credit/dual enrollment student. If you'd like to allow your parents access to your MSSU educational records, you can fill out this release form and turn it in to the Office of Academic Outreach.
Yes, subject to the other institution's guidelines for transfer credit. We recommend you check with the institution to which you wish to transfer credit, prior to completing the course. Some information is available from our Registrar's Office about transferability of courses – click here for the online Transfer Guide.
Upon the request of the student, MSSU will send transcripts of work completed in the dual credit/dual enrollment program to other colleges and universities for purposes of transfer. As in all other transfer situations, final determination of the credit awarded will be at the discretion of the receiving institution. Transcript requests may be completed online. Transcripts will not be furnished for any student with an outstanding balance. The cost for an official transcript is $10.
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Noxid was rather preoccupied as he strolled alone down the mountain path that led back to his home. He usually avoided taking this route home, because there was an oddly sloped section, and he was terrified of slipping off of it and falling to his death in the canyon below. Today, however, there had been a group of women blocking his usual path. Noxid, of course, knew all about the dangers of females. Nothing was more strongly emphasized by the village Elders than the selfish, cruel, and sadistic nature of women. So when he saw a group of them in his way, he jumped in fright and hurried off to find another way home, hoping none of them had seen him.
It wasn't until he was a good way along the mountain path that he remembered why he usually avoided it. Too late now, he thought. Wouldn't it be just great if, by trying to avoid the perceived danger of the women, he put himself in greater danger by falling off the path? After all, he knew for certain that the mountain path was dangerous; he had seen people fall off of it with his own eyes three times in his life, but, as for the women, all he knew about them was what the Elders had taught him. What was to say that the Elders weren't wrong? But no, the Elders were very wise and learned men, and surely they knew what was best.
Just as he thought this, however, something nagged at the back of Noxid's mind. There had been times in the past when he had been given reason to believe that the Elders might not be as wise as they seemed to be. In particular, there was one time when he had become curious about a peculiarity he noticed in the population of the villagers. At the time, Noxid had been 12 years old, and yet, of the 150 or so other villagers, only one was younger than him, by a little over a year. There were occasionally deaths in the village, typically 2 or 3 each year, but it had been over 10 years since anyone had been born. The village population was slowly dwindling, and, if the pattern continued, the village would eventually die entirely. When he had raised his concerns with one of the Elders, the Elder became very angry with him, had him publicly whipped for his insolence, and strictly forbade him from any further "meddling". Why would they be so angry about something as innocuous as wondering about the lack of birth in the village? Were they hiding something?
Suddenly, Noxid was jolted back to the present as the silence was split by a terrified scream. As he rounded the corner, he was horrified to see that there was a girl of about his own age dangling off the edge of the path, just barely managing to cling to a protruding rock. She seemed to have slipped off the very part of the path that Noxid himself was so afraid of falling off of. Noxid hesitated. Part of him wanted to rush to the girl's aid and save her, yet another part of him held him back. He could hear the voices of the village Elders in his mind. Never trust women under any circumstance. They will deceive you, gain your trust, all the while plotting against you. Your suffering is their pleasure. For all he knew, the girl could just be trying to lure him into saving her, only to throw him off the mountain instead, then go home and boast to her friends about it afterward. But no, this girl had never wronged him, while the Elders were secretive tyrants who suppressed even the most innocent questions, and yet he was willing to trust them over the girl? Suddenly, disgusted with himself for having considered letting her die, Noxid ran to the edge of the path, grabbed the girl's hands, and heaved her up to safety with a strength he didn't know he had.
She stared, open-mouthed, at him with an expression of mingled shock, fear, and confusion.
"You... you saved me..." she whispered. Noxid said nothing. "But... you're... a boy, and... you saved me?"
There was a few seconds' silence. Then, suddenly, she broke down in tears and threw her arms around him, choking out the words, "Thank you... I never imagined... thought I was dead... I just... you... oh..." between sobs. Noxid wasn't quite sure what reaction he had expected from her, but it certainly wasn't this. He also hadn't expected the brief spasm of excited joy that went through him at the feel of her embrace. As she released him, he felt as confused as she had looked a few moments prior, as his mind struggled to accept what his senses were telling him.
"You... you mean that... you're actually, erm... grateful?" he said, suddenly aware of how silly this probably sounded to her.
She stopped crying and furrowed her brow. "Grateful?" she said, "You just saved my life; of course I'm grateful! Why wouldn't I be grateful?"
"Well... um... it's just that..."
"What is it?"
He looked at her sheepishly. "I've been taught my whole life that women are evil, soulless savages. That they are cruel and deceitful and incapable of compassion. And yet, here you are before me, so sweet and sincere, and just so... human. A huge amount of everything I know has just been completely overturned in less than a minute," but as he was saying it, a nasty thought occurred to him. Had what he knew, or thought he knew, really been completely overturned? The Elders had taught him that, although women were many bad things, one thing they were not was stupid. They were capable of concocting elaborate schemes to torment their male victims even after earning their trust completely. Was it not possible that, even now, after that passionate display of gratitude, the girl was secretly plotting against him?
"Really?" she said. "Funny, that sounds almost exactly like what I've been taught about men by the Seers of my village."
"Interesting..." said Noxid, his concerns slowly being overtaken by curiosity. If the girl was to be trusted, then she would seem to be in a situation similar to his. Now that he thought about it, Noxid realized that the few women he'd encountered seemed surprisingly bashful, given their alleged zealous hostility toward men. In fact, this was the first time in his life that he had held a conversation with one. If the Elders were right, wouldn't it make more sense for the women to be constantly trying to attack him or lure him into some trap, rather than avoiding him? His worries were not completely assuaged, but the truth of the Elders' teachings seemed to him to be getting less and less likely.
"I don't think I've introduced myself," he said to her, relaxing a bit. "I'm Noxid. What's your name?"
He held out his hand to shake hers, but she didn't seem to understand the gesture.
"What are you doing?" she said, frowning at him.
Now his curiosity was really going into overdrive. It suddenly struck him how silly he had been in assuming that all societies of the world must abide by the same customs and norms as his own. As Ryuuoutan sat there looking at him, he realized there was a whole different world out there just waiting to be discovered - her world.
"It's a handshake," he said. "It's how we greet each other in my village."
Hesitating, she imitated his gesture, closing her hand around his at the same time he did, and smiling faintly when he shook it.
"I don't know how I can ever thank you for saving me," she said.
"Well... it just occurred to me how much I don't know about you and the other women. Maybe you could... I dunno, show me how you live and stuff?"
"I'd love to, but that's an awfully broad request. I'm not sure I'd know where to begin."
"Hmmm..." he thought for a moment, "I guess you could maybe show me what you do with your friends for fun. Like, in my village, my friends and I play games like four-square, dodge ball, and soccer. Do you play any games like that?"
"I've never heard of any of those games - maybe you can show me some later - but yes, we do play games."
"Great! We can play some soccer after you show me your games; it's tons of fun. But first, let's get off this blasted mountain."
"You don't have to tell me twice!" she said, shuddering slightly.
She led him back the way he had come along the mountain pass. As he followed in silence, he realized that, in his perpetual fear of women, he had never taken the time to look at a woman properly, but this one, at least, was quite a sight to see. She walked with a strange lightness - a slight bounce and lilt that was just enough to exude a sense of carefree happiness, but not so much as to seem unnatural or silly. Her dark brown hair shone in the sunlight as it danced around her neck and shoulders.
"Noxid?" she said.
"Sorry if this is a weird question, but I was just wondering... why did you save me? Given everything you'd been told your whole life about women being evil, I mean."
"Well... to tell you the truth, I almost didn't," he said, "but in that moment when you were hanging off the edge of the path, you were just so helpless and scared and alone... it seemed absurd to think that you could be plotting something malicious against me, especially when the village Elders - the people who taught me to hate women - are, well... let's just say they're not exactly great role models of goodness and kindness."
"That's still kind of amazing though. In that moment, just like that, you decided to go against what your culture had taught you."
"I guess I've always sort of hoped that the Elders might be wrong about women. Even though I didn't believe they were wrong, a part of me desperately wanted them to be wrong. I'm awfully glad I did save you. It seems as though, in your case at least, they were wrong."
She smiled sweetly at him, and he was once again struck by her beauty. Her deep blue eyes sparkled and seemed to pour warmth into his very soul. "I'm glad you saved me too," she said playfully.
They had arrived at a large field. Ryuuoutan paused to think for a moment before speaking. "Well, let's see... there was this game I played with some friends a few days ago where we taught each other to do magic and then-"
"Wait, hold up," said Noxid, "are you telling me women are capable of doing MAGIC!?"
"Well, of course we don't actually do magic. It's just pretend - just part of the game."
Noxid wasn't quite sure what to make of this, so he remained silent, trusting that she would explain more fully what she meant.
"So anyway, we learned to do magic and then we... well, I don't want to give too much away; that ruins the fun!"
This only confused Noxid further. "I still don't quite understand. What's the object of this game?"
"The object?" she said, frowning slightly. "How do you mean?"
"Well, like, what are we trying to accomplish while playing?"
She shrugged. "We make it up as we go along; that's part of the fun. Now, let me teach you some magic."
Noxid still wasn't even sure what she meant by this, but decided there was no use arguing and to let her lead on. She then took on a very tall posture, turned her head up sightly, looked around with expression of the utmost haughtiness on her face, and spoke in a deliberate, dignified, and gutteral voice quite unlike her own, saying, "So, young master Noxid, you wish to begin a study of the most noble discipline - the magical arts."
There was a brief awkward silence before Noxid realized she was asking him a question, and said hastily, "I... um, yes, I suppose I do... right."
She narrowed her eyes. "One must not approach this subject without sincerity. As my apprentice, you will be faced with perils to terrify the noblest of warriors. See that you are prepared."
Noxid was beginning to doubt whether this was a game he really wanted to play, but Ryuuoutan took no notice of his nervousness, and continued to speak.
"The first ability you must master is the ability to channel the various energies of the world through your body. We shall begin with the energy of healing. Imagine a feeling of wholeness and completeness in your body - a sort of general vitality and well-being." She paused for a moment to let him do this. "Once you've let that feeling fill your entire body, gather it all together and push it all to the tips of your fingers."
Noxid concentrated very hard trying to do this for several seconds as Ryuuoutan occasionally murmured words of encouragement. Eventually, she excitedly pointed at his hands and said, "Aha, you've done it, young master! Behold the pulsating pink glow at your fingertips!"
Noxid looked down at his hands, which were, as far he could tell, quite as devoid of a pulsating pink glow as they had ever been. "I don't see anything," he said.
Ryuuoutan dropped her mystical airs and said in a voice of forced patience, "Noxid, it's a game. I told you we're not actually doing magic. You have to use your imagination. Make up the story as you go. That's what makes it fun!"
This was a rather odd concept for him, but he thought he was beginning to understand. Ryuuoutan resumed her haughty, mystical character and said, "So! Let us now see how well you put this power to use!" and with that, she drew an imaginary knife from somewhere on her person and made a slashing motion across his arm, startling him.
"Use the power!" she said. "Bring the energy to your fingers as you did before!"
Noxid repeated the act of trying to draw vital energy to his fingertips, and drew them across the place on his arm where she had made the slashing motion. He put a look of amazement on his face and said, "The wound! It's healing!"
Ryuuoutan laughed, and said, in her normal voice, "Now you're getting the hang of it! Just gotta use your imagination."
Noxid gradually became more and more at ease with this imaginative game playing method. It was quite unlike any game he had ever played before, and yet he enjoyed it tremendously. Together they wove an elaborate mystical adventure for themselves, delving into the deepest and most dangerous realms of the supernatural. They were comrades in arms - slaying monsters, overthrowing tyrants, discovering new secrets of the magical arts, and selflessly risking their lives to rescue each other from the clutches of evil. They worked together to forge an empire of peace and prosperity, having to fight and conquer the very essence of evil itself in the end. When it was all over, there were once again just two young friends laughing and playing and enjoying each other's company.
"See?" said Ryuuoutan, "you do have an imagination, and quite an amazing one at that! You just needed to learn how to let it out."
Noxid laughed. "Wow, I can't remember the last time I had that much fun with a game!"
"Well, now it's your turn to show me how to have fun," she said. "What was that game you mentioned earlier called? Soccer or something?"
"Yep, it's called soccer, but it's probably going to seem really anticlimactic after all that."
Ryuuoutan just smiled expectantly at him.
"Well, okay, I'll show how it's done," he said, and picked a grapefruit off a nearby tree on the edge of the field.
"This will be our ball," he said. "I try to get it to go between those two trees on that end of the field, and you try to get it to go between those two trees on the opposite end of the field. The only rule is that you can't touch it with your hands."
It took Ryuuoutan a while to get used to the idea that they were competing against each other, rather than working together, but, once she got the hang of it, she was a fierce competitor. They played for a long time - at least as long as they had played Ryuuoutan's fantasy game. The sun was starting to set, they were both sweaty and tired, but neither of them wanted to stop. Eventually, Noxid was running to make a goal with Ryuuoutan in hot pursuit, and she tackled him to the ground. They were too tired to get up, so they just lay there on the ground, breathing heavily and gazing into each other's smiling faces. Noxid felt once again that inexplicable rush of joy at the feel of her body against his own. They lay there for a long time before Ryuuoutan got up and said, "It's getting late - I should be going home now."
"Yeah, me too," said Noxid.
"I said so much fun today, Noxid. We need to do this again!"
"Definitely! Tomorrow, same place?"
"Tomorrow, same place," she agreed.
They held each other's gaze for a few more moments. Then she ran toward him and they embraced tightly, holding each other for what felt like hours. Noxid savored the feeling of the gradual rise and fall of her back under his hands as she breathed, whispering his name every once in a while. When they finally came apart, still holding each other's hands, she said softly, "Thanks again for saving me," and turned and walked off into the sunset.
Noxid went back home, feeling happier than he could ever remember feeling. Not only had he been almost entirely liberated from his culturally engrained fear and hatred of women, but he had formed a deeper and closer friendship with one than he ever would have dared to hope. He had only known Ryuuoutan for a day, and yet he already felt more tightly knit to her than to any of his male friends in the village. The rest of the evening passed in a blur, his mind filled with fleeting images and sensations - the warmth of Ryuuoutan's body against his own, her pure, joyful smile as she lay on top of him, the way her deep blue eyes sparkled in the sunlight.
He lay awake in bed that night, unable to sleep, staring at the ceiling, but not really seeing it. All he could see was that heavenly pair of eyes, perfectly framed in Ryuuoutan's face, gazing down at him with such profound tenderness. He so yearned to be with her again. He wanted it more than anything in the world, and yet the Elders were so strict about curfew, he didn't want to risk getting in trouble. Besides, he wasn't even sure where she lived, and he would see her again tomorrow. This thought didn't comfort him as much as he thought it should have, and he lay awake for more than an hour, never able to fully master the desire to go out and look for her. Eventually, he decided he had no choice but to try. Even getting caught or being unable to find her would be preferable to just lying there, consumed by hopeless longing.
Having made up his mind, Noxid quietly got out of bed, slipped out of his house, and left the village undetected. It had been a long time since he'd been outdoors this late, and he'd forgotten what it was like to stand in the profound stillness of the night. The trees, bushes, and flowers, diminished in brightness but not in beauty, were illuminated entirely differently by the full moon than by the daytime sun, causing the world to be transformed, but still familiar, just as Noxid's life was by meeting Ryuuoutan. As he walked onward, the soft yet unwavering glow of the moon seemed to whisper her name to him, as though it - indeed, as though the very cosmos - yearned to bring the two of them closer together.
After several minutes, he arrived at what could only be the women's village. His heart quickened. She was surely very close now, and yet it would be difficult to find which of the many houses was hers without disturbing anyone else. Silent as a shadow, he crept up to the nearest house and peeked over the windowsill. Someone was inside, but it was not Ryuuoutan. He did this with several more houses, but with no success. Some of the houses were too dark to see into at all. He was beginning to get discouraged, when a sign of movement a ways down the river that ran next to the village caught his eye. Curiously, he approached this disturbance. As he got nearer, he saw a pile of clothes near the river, and a person with her back to him bathing in the river.
His heart stopped. Could it be her? He was too far away to tell for sure, but this person was certainly beautiful enough to be Ryuuoutan. Her shoulders had the same smoothly carved shape, even more wonderfully highlighted in the moonlight, and her hair the same dark brown shine. If it really was Ryuuoutan, he somehow felt that, if she were naked, it would only be appropriate for him to be as well, so that they would be equals. To his surprise, he found that he was not at all abashed as he stepped out of his own clothes and slowly walked nearer to the river. He was close enough now to realize that it really was Ryuuoutan. Just as he realized this, she spoke, her voice like a symphony to him, saying, "Hello, Noxid. I've been thinking about you. I knew you would come."
Then, very slowly, she turned to face him, and at last Noxid looked into those eyes that he'd been so longing for, seeing in them a look of such fierce joy and adoration that his knees weakened, and he fell to the ground, gasping for breath but never taking his eyes off hers. She reached out a hand to him, and he crawled closer, lowering his face gently into her waiting hand. He closed his eyes, enjoying the simple sweetness of her touch, moving ever so slowly closer to her. He put a hand on her neck and met her eyes. They seemed to draw him in with a kind of mystical gravity. When their faces were as close as they could be without touching, they both spoke at the same time, saying, "I love you."
Noxid saw his feeling of joyful surprise mirrored in her face. They looked at each other in wonder for a long time before a mischievious grin crossed Ryuuoutan's face, and she turned and dove into the water. He could see the outline of her supple form beneath the surface. Then, suddenly, she shot upwards, bursting from the surface in front of him, showering him with water, and, for the first time, giving him a clear view of her bare torso. For a brief moment, he marveled at the splendor of her body - its exquisite curvature, the rippling muscles, the plump, ripe breasts - before she threw her arms around him, locked her mouth on to his, and pulled him underwater with her.
The few seconds they spent underwater felt like an eternity. Noxid was both unsure of what was happening and overwhelmed with love and joy, and yet his mind felt strangely clear, as though he knew exactly what to do. Indeed, his body seemed to be acting almost of its own accord. His hands grasped her waist, they both drew each other nearer, and his legs intertwined with hers. When they broke the surface, she had him pinned against the bank of the river, and was looking at him with a ferocity that both terrified and exhilarated him. Their bodies flowed over each other in a pattern of movements both revoltingly rugged and magnificently elegant - a pulse so visceral, Noxid now thought he understood why it had seemed to him earlier that the very cosmos had been urging him together with the girl he loved so dearly. They were its heartbeat. This dance of love they were performing was the heartbeat, the life force, of the universe itself. Was this why the Elders and Seers worked so hard to turn men and women against each other? To deprive them - to deprive the world - of this great joy?
Their movements became faster and more intricate - rolling, twisting, squeezing. Moans and screams escaped their mouths. Surely there was no greater happiness than this - the highest and most beautiful of all art forms - to share such an intimate bond with another human being and to know that you were bringing them the same joy - to momentarily become the heartbeat of all creation. Noxid felt vast waves of love for Ryuuoutan washing over him as tears dripped from both pairs of eyes, merging on their faces and flowing to join the river. As their pulse became gradually faster and faster, Noxid felt Ryuuoutan's muscles tensing, as well as his own. The speed and intensity of their rhythm increased together, as though they were one being, neither outdoing the other. Eventually, when they could go no further, their bodies convulsed wildly, and Noxid's head fell back against the riverbank, a profound relaxation and release coming over him. He felt Ryuuoutan's muscles slacken under his touch as her body collapsed against his.
For a long time, they gazed into each others eyes, breathing heavily but not speaking, for no words could express the love they both felt now. They had found in each other the great secret so jealously guarded by the Elders and Seers. The seeds of unity had finally been sown in their divided world.
A World Divided - the award-winning novel by JJ "Wedge of Cheese" Treadway
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#1 15 February 2012 - 03:36 AM
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That was beautiful. I am being serious here. You're a great writer.
I hope it becomes a major motion picture in the foreseeable future.
I hope it becomes a major motion picture in the foreseeable future.
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.... *blinks*
.... *reads again*
.... Noxid?
.... Wasn't there a Stargate SG1 episode like this?
.... *reads again*
.... *saves copy... for later*
.... *reads again*
.... Noxid?
.... Wasn't there a Stargate SG1 episode like this?
.... *reads again*
.... *saves copy... for later*
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why cheese
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Really good ^_^
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Ok, I'm not the only one getting 2nd degree burn on my eyes from reading this... phew.
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#7 15 February 2012 - 02:17 PM
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Ok, I'm not the only one getting 2nd degree burn on my eyes from reading this... phew.
Pfft, you can't complain, you don't know who Ryuuoutan is. Or do you?
Also, fab, your avatar is quite fitting of your response.
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I didnt read the last bit though because i guessed what was in it
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I stabbied his FACE and his CHULDER and his EYESES and his LIPSES and his CKULL and his LEFT FOOD and then his RIGHT FOOD and then STOMAK and then his HAIR and then his ARMS and finally his DROOPY HEART.
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No, but I certainly know that there's no Ryuuoutan in Cave story.
Pfft, you can't complain, you don't know who Ryuuoutan is. Or do you?
Also, fab, your avatar is quite fitting of your response.
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Men's Swimming Welcomes Three for 2013-14
Jan. 14, 2013
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Joining the Penn State men's swimming and diving team in 2013-14, head coach John Hargis welcome's three new members to the Nittany Lion program. Hargis and the Penn State coaching staff announced the additions of Bob Bantley (Maple Glen, Pa.), Andy Schuehler (Collingswood, N.J.) and Matt Stasiunas (Avondale, Pa.) during the early signing period.
"The incoming class as a whole is not a big class," said Hargis. "We only lose two seniors, so there were not a lot of definite needs just in terms of what you're losing. There are always places to grow and I think we covered those with the kids coming in. It's a very talented class and the help that they're going to bring immediately is going to be pretty phenomenal, and we're looking forward to getting them on campus.
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Step 1: Materials and tools
- The cooker body is made from a 500g fruit tin. This can is 3 1/4" in diameter.
- Tin-snips, pliers and a skewer are required for construction of the cooker.
- The cooker is powered by two tea-lights/tea candles.
- Cooking a pancake requires nothing more than a spoon and slice.
Step 2: Construction of the mini cooker
Then create a ring of air-holes around the top of the cooker. These are vital, they allow air to flow upwards through the cooker. To make the holes simply pierce the tin with the skewer, taking care not to stab yourself, leave a 1/2" gap between each hole.
Cut a square access hole in the front of the cooker. This allows air in for combustion, and also where you light the candles from. Use the tin-snips to cut a square from the open end of the tin. If you wish to make the access hole safer, you can use pliers to turn the edges over as shown in the picture.
For best results, the candles should be no more than 4" from the cooking surface, so some cutting down of the can may be nessasary. Make sure that the cooker is stable before attempting to use it.
Step 3: The Batter - English pancake recipe
1 medium egg
2 ounces of plain flour
150 ml (5/8 cup) milk
1/2 tea spoon salt
For best results:
Sieve the flour into a bowl and create a dip in the middle.
Crack the egg into the dip and add the salt.
Whisk the flour and egg while also adding milk until. Mix until smooth and lump free.
How brilliant is this???
I will add this to the woodgas-stove i have as a simple addon. The batter can be brought in a sealed bag...
Mmmmm... Pancakes on the hike. Thanks for that idea! :)
Did it a long time ago.
errr but it is a real job to burn off the coatings cus when you don't as you ae making sauce the house will fill with plastic stink.
very good idea though. If outside lids aren't coated and you torch it with sticks / coal before making , then, this is really swift idea.
NOTE: at least some cans are lined with a plastic coating contain BPA http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/bpa-danger-from-cans.php . So I think a warning to at least "burn the stink off" is in order. As far as the exterior, it is anyone's guess...if I were super health conscious I wouldn't use it at all but if you do at least first get the cooking surface so hot it changes color...outdoors of course, perhaps with an alcohol pepsi can stove or a propane torch.
ta for that ;)
One of the listeners contacted the show to say she was making mini pancakes with her children. A very proud moment :-)


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The efforts to which many of the sharing economy companies are going to in order to have maximum profit and zero liability is rather insulting for both its employees/contractors and its customers.
Lyft is seeking to combat questions about insurance and liability today, with the introduction of a new Peer-to-Peer Rideshare Insurance Coalition, as well as the announcement that it will be providing additional insurance to drivers on its platform.
… Part of that is due to an incident that occurred on New Year's Eve, in which a driver who works for Uber was involved in a traffic fatality.
But that type of accident wouldn't be covered under the new insurance policies, a Lyft spokesperson confirmed to me. That's because the driver involved in the accident was not on duty at the time of the accident. The excess liability policy would cover only drivers when they're in the middle of a Lyft ride.


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Tiger Woods was making his move Friday at the Masters. He was at five-under par for the tournament through 14 holes and ready to take command of the 2013 Masters.
He pushed his drive at the par-5 No. 15 right into the pine straw and in the trees. Woods could not risk attacking the green and was forced to lay-up short of Rae's Creek.
Playing his short third shot to the green his ball hit the pin and ricocheted back into the water protecting the front of the green.
If his ball would not have hit the pin, it most certainly would have finished close to the hole and given him an excellent chance for a birdie to get to five-under par.
Woods was forced to take a drop. At this point, he had three options from a yellow staked hazard.
Under the rules, he could use the drop zone, he could take a drop along a line where the ball last entered the hazard or he could Woods mentioned in his post-round interview that he took his drop two yards behind his previous divot. Video review shows that the drop was clearly two-three feet behind the previous spot. Is that as near as possible? Did that create an advantage for Woods?
Augusta National Headquarters released the following statement regarding the Tiger Woods drop at No. 15 during the second round on Friday.
"Yesterday afternoon, the Rules Committee was made aware of a possible rules violation that involved a drop by Tiger Woods on the 15th hole.
In preparation for his fifth shot, the player dropped his ball in close proximity where he played his third shot in apparent conformance with Rule 26a.
After being prompted by a television viewer, the Rules Committee reviewed a video of the shot while he was playing the 18th hole. At that moment and based on that evidence, the Committee determined he had complied with the Rules.
After he signed his scorecard, and in a television interview subsequent to the round, the player stated that he played further from the point than where he had played his third shot. Such action would constitute playing from the wrong place.
The subsequent information provided by the player's interview after he had completed play warranted further review and discussion with him this morning. After meeting with the player, it was determined that he had violated Rule 26, and he was assessed a two-stroke penalty.
The penalty of disqualification was waived by the Committee under Rule 33 as the Committee had previously reviewed the information and made its initial determination prior to the finish of the player's round."
In this statement, the Masters Rules Committee was alerted to a possible rules violation prior to the conclusion of Woods' round. They determined that he had complied with the rules and no violation had occurred.
The statement also mentions that Woods said in his post-round interview that he dropped the ball two yards behind his previous start.
Woods was allowed to sign his card for his one-under par 71 which would have put him at T-7. The subsequent two-stroke penalty changes his score to 73 and drops him to T-19 and five shots behind the leader Jason Day.
This is a comedy of errors and places Woods in a very uncomfortable situation.
Many fans and media are calling for Woods disqualification. The fact that the Masters only assessed a two-stroke penalty does not seem to conform to the rule of disqualification for signing an incorrect scorecard.
If Woods should continue to play and win this week, his win would be forever tarnished. He is chasing Jack Nicklaus and running out of time. He was in perfect position to collect his 15th major title.
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On Wednesday, Eric Parker, right, filed a motion to dismiss his attorney, Donna Bolton, less than one week from his scheduled trial. (Becky Campbell/Johnson City Press)
A man charged with attempted first-degree murder in the Valentine's Day 2012 shooting of a Johnson City woman got what he asked for from a judge Wednesday morning, but it came with a twist.
Eric Parker, 49, represented by attorney Donna Bolton since May 2013, had requested Bolton file a motion she be relieved from the case.
Bolton did as her client requested and Criminal Court Judge Robert Cupp ruled on, and granted, the motion Wednesday. He also chastised Parker, calling the motion a delay tactic.
"I'm not going to continue this case. You're going to trial just as it's scheduled," Cupp said. "You did this last time the same way. We got right at the trial time and all of a sudden your lawyer just didn't fit your, whatever you want to call it."
Parker asked to speak. Cupp started to allow it, but changed his mind.
"You can have (Bolton) with you or you can do it by yourself, but we're going to trial next week," he said.
Parker responded by saying, "I'll do it my own self."
With that, Cupp took Bolton off the case.
Prior to Bolton's appointment in May 2013, Parker was represented by the public defender's office. He asked that Assistant Public Defender Bill Donaldson be taken off the case, claiming he had "issues and concerns" Donaldson was not addressing.
Parker was arrested hours after police found the victim lying in the parking lot of the Lions Club, 817 Country Club Court, while on routine patrol.
The woman had several gunshot wounds, and investigators said she had a belt and a phone charger cord around her neck. Parker was arrested later the same day after investigators determined he and the victim were seen leaving a bar at the same time. Police also said they found a loaded handgun in Parker's vehicle with bullets that matched shell casings found at the scene. The victim's cell phone was also located in the car, police said.
Investigators initially thought the woman had been raped, but DNA tests of evidence collected at the scene were not a conclusive match to Parker. That led prosecutors to drop three aggravated rape charges originally lodged against Parker.
The trial is set to begin April 29.
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