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To mark the 75th anniversary of the NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament, Sports Illustrated picked the 75 greatest college basketball players of all time.
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They all stopped in the tall grass, listening carefully as the first rays of the sun crested the horizon and shone on them. There was silence for almost two whole minutes before they all made note of the low grumbling sound that was reverberating in their chests.
"Sounds like fast air." Alain said.
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Mathew's gaze shot up to the sky. "There!" He pointed.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2669?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12497016 ] Mamta A. Satoor commented on DERBY-2669: ---------------------------------------- Laura had following comment on this issue on derby-dev You seem to be selecting from a system table. Yet the documentation says "The collation attribute applies only to user-defined tables. The system tables use the Unicode codepoint collation." Am I missing something? > If no territory attribute is not specified at create database time, then we should ignore the collation attribute if specified. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-2669 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2669 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0 > Reporter: Mamta A. Satoor > > If a user specifies a create database url like following > jdbc:derby:abcDB;create=true;collation=TERRITORY_BASED > we should ignore the collation attribute because no territory attribute has been specified. The current Derby 10.3 code does not do that. Once this is fixed, we should add a test case for it in CollationTest.java -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Lightweight bout: 155 pounds
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Grant stops Maynard in the 3rd after a competitive first two rounds.
Grant's a good fighter but I think Maynard will be a little to strong for him and will control a lot more of the fight with his wrestling and also land the more damaging shots while standing up. I see Gray winning all three rounds, Grant will put up a fight though.
Bad matchup for Grant, the guy is good but Maynard will knock him out or win a UD.
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They left the next day, each carrying their own additions to clothes and other items. Sylver had declined the offer of Dawn's heavy sword so the angel happily kept it strapped to his belt beside the small dagger. Gabriel shifted his pack slightly the thick bandaging making it sit uncomfortably.
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"I'm not sure" Sylver said
"I'm positive" Gabriel said
"Gabriel no" Sylver frowned "we don't have a map of it and a tunnel could lead anywhere"
"That's what makes it fun" Gabriel smiled.
"What have you done with my brother?" Sylver growled Gabriel glared at him. "I thought you didn't like enclosed spaces?"
"I don't but I like the cold even less" Gabriel admitted.
"Gabriel" Sylver sighed "is it really worth getting ourselves lost?"
"The Rannin's source is in the mountain" Gabriel said then he tilted his head his mouth moving as if he was silently talking to someone.
"Gabriel?" Dawn said the prince put a finger to his lips and then looking at them pointed up the hill to a large boulder.
"Move" he mouthed "quickly" he led them into the rocky outskirts of the mountains and the four of them climbed a small hill and ducked down behind the massive boulder. Gabriel looked around the edge of the rock and further down the hill a group of cloaked angels moved in the dim twilight.
"What do we do?" Marcus asked.
"We stay put" Gabriel whispered his eyes never leaving the dark shapes that stayed in the shadows of the sparse trees and numerous rocks.
"But they know we're here" Sylver said.
"No they know we're here somewhere but not our exact location." The sound of whispers met Gabriel and Sylver's sensitive ears. Behind them Dawn gripped his staff tightly. Gabriel slowly drew his sword as the dark figures approached.
"I count ten" the prince said.
"Eleven" Sylver said spotting one who had stopped at the base of the hill.
"He's a magick user" Gabriel said, Sylver growled.
"I'll take him" he said, Gabriel nodded and saw Sylver's hands begin to glow Marcus got a nod from Sylver and his own hands began to glow with a deep blue light.
"Marcus aim for the group" Gabriel said "let Sylver deal with the mage."
"Wait" one of the shadows said. Gabriel held his hands up indicating for Sylver and Marcus to hold there fire. The leader of the dark figures waited until his group were near him.
"Where did they go?" one of the figures said in a deep but clearly female voice.
"They're here somewhere" another voice spat. Gabriel waved a hand and Sylver pulled his magick back telling Marcus quietly to do the same.
"What now?" the female voice said "we'll never find them in the dark"
"Then we wait until daybreak and follow them over the mountain it's the only way they could go."
"What about the pass?" the woman said.
"The prince isn't stupid enough to go through there" the leader snapped "it isn't even charted."
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"Shut up" the leader hissed.
"Reehan?" Gabriel mouthed then he swore "come on this way and be quiet."
"Wait" Sylver whispered holding up his hands.
"What?" he hissed. Sylver held up a finger to his mouth then cupped his hands and whispered something into them. Gabriel looked around the rock again the mage was just joining the small group. Gabriel flinched as he felt something brush past his ear then saw a small ball of darkness float down the hill, one by one the figures dropped to the floor. The mage fell last his protective barrier trying to fight Sylver magick.
"What was that?" Marcus asked quietly.
"They're asleep" Sylver said.
"Then lets go" Gabriel said the urgency apparent in his voice.
"Which way?" Sylver asked not really wanting to know the answer.
"The pass" Gabriel said
"But they said it hasn't been charted"
"I know" Gabriel sighed "and that means they wont follow us, people have gone though before and come out the other side."
"You hope" Sylver sighed.


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Samuel Bruce 'Sam' Snider Sr., 90, of Virginia Beach, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was born on January 12, 1926, to the late Rufus and late Lillie Seagraves Snider in Jerusalem, N.C.
After high school, he served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Following his service, he worked diligently as a plumber serving the Hampton Roads Area. In his free time, he pursued extensive hobbies, including beekeeping, fishing and gardening. He specialized in growing tomatoes, green beans, squash and zucchini, just to name a few of his crops. Sam was a member of Tidewater Primitive Baptist Church of Norfolk.
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At the end of the Fair today Michael asked me if I wanted to go to a Masquerade Ball. It was to take place on Thursday, two weeks from now. Since that's two weeks before we leave I hesitated. He told me that he could introduce me to some people he just knew I'd like. So I mumbled something about not knowing what to wear and all my costumes having been shipped to Europe. He told me I shouldn't worry about that because he'd buy my costume if he had to. That really made me look at him, no one's ever offered to buy me anything. Even Sarah stopped getting me gifts after my 13th birthday. Michael looked so eager to have me go I had to smile. I told him I'd have to ask Aunt Agatha and he told me he'd already got her permission. I think I stared at him too long because he mumbled something about, that being how it was done, and kind of walked away. So I followed him and asked him what kind of Masquerade Ball it was. That puzzled him a little till I started describing some of the costumes I could wear. Turns out the costumes will be 13th century and I'll need a mask.
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Learning from the mussel, scientists create a biologically active titanium surface
|The work began from earlier discoveries that mussels can attach to smooth surfaces so effectively thanks to a protein, L-DOPA, which is known to be able to bind very strongly to smooth surfaces such as rocks, ceramics, or metals. Interestingly, the same protein functions in humans as a precursor to dopamine, and is used as a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
|According to Chen Zhang of the RIKEN Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory, the first author of the paper published in Angewandte Chemie ("A Bioorthogonal Approach for the Preparation of a Titanium-Binding Insulin-like Growth-Factor-1 Derivative by using Tyrosinase"), "We thought it would be interesting to try to use various techniques to attach a biologically active protein--in our case we chose insulin-like growth factor-1, a promoter of cell proliferation--to a titanium surface like those used in implants".
|Using a combination of recombinant DNA technology and treatment with tyrosinase, they were able to create a hybrid protein that contained active parts of both the growth factor and L-DOPA. Tests showed that the proteins were able to fold normally, and further experiments in cell cultures demonstrated that the IGF-1 was still functioning normally. Thanks to the incorporation of the L-DOPA, the team was able to confirm that the proteins bound strongly to the titanium surface, and remained attached even when the metal was washed with phosphate-buffered saline, a water-based solution. Zhang says, "This is similar to the powerful properties of mussel adhesive, which can remain fixed to metallic materials even underwater."
|According to Yoshihiro Ito, Team Leader of the Emergent Bioengineering Research Team of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, "We are very excited by this finding, because the modification process is a universal one that could be used with other proteins. It could allow us to prepare new cell-growth enhancing materials, with potential applications in cell culture systems and regenerative medicine. And it is particularly interesting that this is an example of biomimetics, where nature can teach us new ways to do things. The mussel has given us insights that could be used to allow us to live healthier lives."
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Helping Victims of Violence Against Women - Like My Mother
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Kristian Foster shares her own story - and describes how World Vision's work is helping change the stories of women and girls around the world.
I first experienced male violence when I was 12 years old. My mother's boyfriend grabbed me by my arms and yelled at me for touching his beard. Little did I know it at the time, but he was schizophrenic. I wasn't really the cause of his anger. Still, my bruises were more than skin deep. I would never touch another man's face.
In university, my gender relations professor asked us to interview someone about their history with violence. I decided to interview my mom. This was the first time I learned that, before I was even born, she had been kidnapped and raped.
Thankfully, my mom had escaped after four days. She made life as normal as possible for me and my brothers in the years ahead. I don't know how, but she somehow buried the experience deep down inside, and hid it from the three of us until we were adults. She worked hard to be a wonderful mom, in spite of what she'd been through.
I feel so fortunate now to serve with World Vision, an organization that helps women and girls all over the world. While my mom went through something too brutal to imagine, there was no question that, after her escape, she'd be able to return to our house. I've learned that in some countries, many rape victims don't even have that option.
A weapon of war
Women and girls all over the world are potential targets of violence, whether by family members, boyfriends or strangers. Rape is often used as a weapon of war. The Democratic Republic of Congo has some of the worst rape statistics in the world. In North Kivu during the first half of 2012, it was recorded that 2,517 people, overwhelmingly women, had survived rape.
Safi* is one of those survivors. She was raped by soldiers two years ago while she, her mother-in-law and other women were coming back from the market where they were selling vegetable oil.
"After I was raped, my husband denied me," she says. "I was rejected. It was so painful to get separated from my children. It was unfair because it was not my fault."
Safi was raped by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and blamed by her husband.
Fortunately, Safi met a fellow survivor, Florence, who leads an organization supported by World Vision to provide help to victims of sexual violence.
The journey home
After their recovery, the women are welcomed into a community of other survivors: women and girls who understand what they're been through. When a woman is ready, the organization reaches out to her family on her behalf, helping them understand that the rape was beyond her control. This begins a reconciliation process with the families, and helps the women start the next chapters of their lives.
In Safi's case, the process is working. She is back in her community with her family, and now runs her own business. The proceeds have helped the family build a sturdier shelter than they had before. It seems that, as with my mom, rape has not got the better of her.
"I am happy today," says Safi. "I have all my children with me. My husband also accepted to take me back. I have built a house where (we) can stay. I feel so grateful. Other women like me are still living in huts and under plastic sheets. Others are still being raped or taken hostage in the bush. I can't forget them, I pray that God's hands reach and help them just like me."
A way to help
Many countries have grassroots programs for women and girls who are victims of violence. They offer things like medical care, counselling, and places to live as the victims heal. Like Safi, many rape victims are blamed by their friends and even families. They need advocates as they ease back into normal life. As part of its ongoing work against poverty and injustice, World Vision provides support to many of these grassroots programs.
Safi is living proof that there is hope, even in the darkest conditions. If you are looking for a way to help women, you can donate to the Women and Girls in Crisis Fund through World Vision Gifts. This fund supports programs all around the world to help survivors of violence against women.
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The BluePay team strives for excellence in everything we do, providing merchants with the highest levels of payment processing solutions, credit card security and customer service. Our customers can count on BluePay to help them achieve their business goals, through advanced payment technology and PCI compliant processes that improve the way they do business. Below are awards and recognitions that BluePay is proud to have received for our commitment to growth, innovation and unmatched customer service.
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BluePay is only one of two companies in the 2016 CNP Awards to win Customer Choice honors in two categories. The second Customer Choice award recognizes BluePay's Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system for the Best Call Center Solution. This PCI-compliant pay-by-phone option reduces the liability risks for merchants by removing sensitive payment data from their phone system, while creating a safe and convenient way for merchants' customers to make payments or check account balances. Details about The 5th Annual CNP Awards and the list of 2016 winners are available at http://www.cnpawards.com/Past-Winners/.
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With over 3400 nominations from companies of all sizes in all markets, BluePay is proud to be recognized by The 14th Annual American Business Awards as a Bronze Stevie® Award winner in the Customer Service Department of the Year (Financial Services) category. BluePay's exceptional customer service department was recognized for its investment in, and commitment to, the client and partner experience. The department's ongoing support and customer service deliver focused personal attention to their clients' and partners' financial welfare and data security. Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2016 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
BluePay has received a great honor from Best of Category Reviews by being named a Merchant Service Provider Award Winner in three categories – E-commerce, Mobile, and MOTO. This website provides merchants with the tools and resources needed to form educated decisions when it comes to choosing a merchant service provider for their business. Awards were based on honors, past awards, referrals, recommendations, and industry standards such as products and services, rates and fees, security and EMV, and customer service and technical support. The reviews were presented by unbiased, third party organizations that performed extensive research on each individual company. BluePay is proud to be honored as one of the best merchant service providers recognized on BestofCategoryReviews.com.
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The burdens of war have been heavy for the past 12 years, but they have not been carried widely.
Fewer than 1 percent of the nationŌĆÖs population ŌĆö more than 2.5 million men and women ŌĆō has served in the post-9/11 wars. And save for a few dramatic moments, such as the surge in Iraq or the aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the nation has never fully immersed itself in these conflicts. Our limping economy, the government shutdown or celebrity news are far more likely to occupy news broadcasts or dinner conversations than Iraq or Afghanistan. This estrangement of the nation from its armed forces manifests itself throughout The Washington PostŌĆÖs veterans survey.
The most consequential answers relate to the wars themselves, and whether Iraq and Afghanistan veterans think they were worth fighting. Just 44 percent and 53 percent of the veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, believe they were. The veterans polled support their wars more than civilians do, suggesting a true civilian-military divide on whether the post-9/11 wars were worth the costs in spirit, blood and treasure.
But the veteransŌĆÖ answers may reveal something deeper: a profound ambivalence about these wars, even years after coming home, and a lingering sense that our leaders deployed us to fight wars the nation did not believe in.


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DJIB noted last February how banks such as Barclays would have to work very hard to make an economic profit in a world of rapidly rising capital levels. One year on, the position has worsened, and that's why CEO Bob Diamond this week left no one in doubt about the tough decisions Barclays faces, especially at investment banking arm Barclays Capital.
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Who is Septimus Heap? A lost child? An ordinary hero? A powerful wizard? The Magyk begins here.
The first book in this enthralling new series by Angie Sage leads listeners on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters and magykal charms, potions, and spells. Magyk is an original story of lost and rediscovered identities, rich with humor and heart.
Want the complete series? Download Flyte: Septimus Heap, Book Two and Physik: Septimus Heap, Book Three.
©2005 Angie Sage (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
"Deliciously spellbinding." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Most enjoyable"
I found the author's ability to tell a tightly plotted and logical story in a fantasy milieu with well-drawn characters to be impressive. Sage is deserving of more popular attention than she has.
"watch out J K Rawling...."
This is one of the most satisfying children's fantasy books I've read and listened to I can remember. The characters are vivid and the mythology is clear and believable. As the first book in a series, I can hardly wait for the following instalments to the story! This is a series to keep your eye on. The audible version is
read incredibly well and kept us up all night listening.
"Fun, Silly, and Interesting"
Magyk was a great book! It was a light hearted read that I extremely enjoyed. Some parts of it were extremely funny and I found myself laughing often (especially at the expense of the main villain and that pesky hat of his.)
The storyline of this book is extremely easy to follow. There isn't any epic battles or stressful situations that leave you on the edge of your seat. Instead it's fun, whimsical, and interesting. The characters are all developed well without going over board leaving plenty of time to get to know them all without feeling overwhelmed. I loved their personalities, the imagery the author creates, and the overall feeling of the book.
I don't usually rush out for all the "best sellers", but give each intriguing book/author a look. I have found many diamonds in the rough.
"Fortuitous Septimus"
This story jumps right in from the first page and keeps up a fast moving pace throughout, with ever changing, imaginative characters that were quite and altogether colorful. I was happy to hear that the film rights have been picked up by Warner Brothers and that they have announced that it will be a live action movie, with incorporated computer animated effects. I for one could definitely see all of these wonderful figures come to life. The clever humor sprinkled throughout lightened the feel of the adventure which sets it just a bit apart from the more serious Harry Potter Series. A great, clean read that has an interesting enough plot to keep children as well as adults entertained and I am looking forward to the rest of the Magykal (Septimus), series.
I am a book junkie that can't read in moving vehicles with an hour long commute (public transit). Audiobooks save my life!
"Might be for kids but this adult loves it too!"
I love this book! Harry Potter has been number one on my favorite list for a long time. It has been hard to top the Harry Potter books because those are so great, but this one is just as good!
I loved all of the characters in this book. They are all so unique and the other does well connecting them. The plot is great.
He does great voices; it was so fun to listen to.
"Makes you wish even more for the movie version..."
Absolutely, positively magical!
When the truth was revealed in the pond.
He truly brings the world of Septimus Heap alive.
Yes and yes. I loved reading this book. I loved listening to it even more.
This is truly a wonderful series. If you loved Harry Potter, you will love Septimus Heap.
Tell us about yourself!
"Good book"
This is a good book. I had never heard of this series before and decided to take a chance. It was worth the gamble. This is definately a good family-oriented fantasy series. Children of all ages will be entertained by this story and Allan Corduner does a fine job at telling it.
I had this book in my library for a few years and sometimes I would start to listen but it didn't grab me. Somehow, I ended up with another book in the series and really enjoyed it. Since then, I've gone back and listened to them all.
There are some books that I like to listen to over and over and keep in the background of the house at almost all times. I am so happy to have six more books to add to this collection because Good Omens, Nightside, Dresden Files and Thursday Next need a break. (If they were records, they would've been scratched through by now.)
I'm an adult and I listen to non-fiction, thrillers, and the other adult "stuff" but it's the lighter stuff that gets played again and again in the tripple digits.
Great piece of work! I marvel at how the story keeps interesting and unstoppable throughout the whole episode without a pause. Would be great if it goes on to more than fifth volume.
"Loved this book"
My kids and I loved this book. I have to admit that we picked it because of the narrator (loved him from the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix), but even another narrator would be wonderful in this book. We're on the second book in the series now and have determined that this is an author who leaves no loose ends. Be on the lookout for any character mentioned in even the smallest of ways. My kids (13 & 9) love watching out for that and guessing who is coming into the story next. It's really a great book - wonderful fun.
This book had me hooked the whole way through! I would recommend this book to children from 10-15
Loved this story.
"Highly recommend this book"
Loved this book so much, can't wait to start on the next one. Fab author and narrator.
"Great story for boys interested in magical adventu"
Kept our boys aged 7 and 9.5 interested for hours in the car. Went on a little too long for Dad. Excellent reading - superb voices
"Great book for kids and adults alike "
My 8 year old son and I bothed LOVED this book. It was exciting from the very first chapter to the last. At 12 hours it was much longer than any other book my son had listened to so i was worried he might not stay engaged that long, but i needn't have been. He even took my phone and hid in his room to listen to the last 2 hours in peace. I was very annoyed as it meant i missed the ending so had to stay up later to listen to it myself!!
"Loved this book!"
The narration was superb, the story gripping from start to finish :)
Harry Potter or Discworld Books.
I can't tell you as it will spoil the end!
Yes - all of us did (age from 7 to 44!)
The whole family thoroughly enjoyed this book and we are now hooked. We listened to Book 2 almost immediately and have bought the books too. Cannot recommend highly enough!
"A Good listen for me to colour and knit too."
Found Marcia ' s voice a bit irritating, but other than that really enjoyed it.
"Great Re-read"
Read this as a kid and really enjoyed the series, now as a bored 20yr. old decided to return to it... no regrets, was a fantastic time.
"Not brilliant"
As a young adult I found this book confusing and for that reason I would not recommend this book to a younger generation than me.
It wasn't the narrators fault it was just the book had too much description on one thing
"Undeniably charming story"
Though there were parts of the story that I felt were over-described and under-described respectively, this first book of the Septimus Heap series had an utter charm that was difficult to criticize. Kids will adore the book for sure, and adults who appreciate whimsy and wry humour will forgive the predictable storyline and fall into the journey. The narrator's voices are pleasantly rural for the most part, making for a distinctive and interesting narrative. Overall, an easy and enjoyable indulgence of a book.
"Great for 10 - 13 year olds the"
Friends with children would love this book, easy to listen to for all the family on car journeys
Characters and lots of twists in the story yet easy to keep up.
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Deadly Experience
Surprisingly I wake up again, covered by my thick bloody jacket. Thoughts of relief fill my head and I begin to get myself up again. The darkness had lifted and my vision was clear again. Will I make it home?
I got myself up and moved my bloody jacket away from my neck. I noticed that the bleeding had slowed. I was still in pain and my head had started to hurt again, I turned to look back at my mum's grave and there she was. She pointed at the gates and demanded that I leave and go home right away.
My headache faded and so did my mum's spirit, so I started to head to the gates, when I got to the gates my neck began to sting immensely. The pain was like being stabbed constantly in the back, it caused me to drop to the floor in the gateway. I looked up into the air and shouted, "YOU CAN'T KEEP ME HERE! I'M GONNA LEAVE AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" I got up to my feet and started to run to escape the area. The pain kept getting worse, but I just ignored it.
As I got closer to home my neck began to bleed more, it was like something was trying to keep me in the graveyard. I wouldn't let it control me. This was the stupidest thing I had ever done. When I finally made it inside my door my legs gave way and I collapsed to the floor like a sack of potatoes. I had no strength and my neck was bleeding heavily.
The thoughts of death run through my head as I lay bleeding to death once more on the floor. Oscar is scratching at the door to get out to me but it's too late, I can't get up again, it's over now. As I lay dying I hear my mum's soothing voice whispering in my ear, "It's not your time yet! It's not your time!" I couldn't understand how I was meant to escape death when I couldn't move an inch.
"Please mum tell me what to do to escape death!" I whispered softly to myself. Then my eyes began to water and darkness fell over my body once again.


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A/N: I wrote this weeks before the finale but I'm submitting now because it seems like the perfect time. This takes place a couple years after the premiere, so keep that in mind.
Summary: The only time he knew the true meaning of predator was when he looked in the mirror. He was a stalking, predatory, feral animal. But if there existed something that was his match in every way, it was her. Even now.
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me. All the glory is GG. Thanks to comewhatmay.x, my beloved beta.
The only time he knew the true meaning of predator was when he looked in the mirror. He was a stalking, predatory, feral animal.
But if there existed something that was his match in every way, it was her. Even now.
Even as the air turned dry and static crackled through the atmosphere. That was the way it always was with her. She was the only one who ever made him hot and cold at the same time—or at all. With everyone else it was just urges. Urges to be good, urges to dominate. But she made his body physically change. And because of that, he knew that along with respect, she created a touch of fear within him. Because he was her prey, and she had him in her sights.
She looked at him expectantly. He hated how he was never busy enough, never smooth enough when she approached him as a last resort.
At least on the outside. She had been waiting the entire night for him to make social pleasantries, but he was so far past that. He was past dignity and his bravado. He needed to avoid her because she had always been and always would be his only kryptonite.
It was getting shorter. She used to be able wait until the night was over to corner him and humiliate him into raising his temperature involuntarily for her.
It wasn't so anymore. Now she could barely wait hours to be in his proximity again—to force him into facing his undying and unwavering affection for her. He pretended that he was strong enough to stay away from her. Now he was sure she could smell the fear on him.
She spoke volumes without saying a word. He was very conscious of how close her hand was to his on the bartop.
He should be busier than this, being the owner of several hotels. He should be good enough to at least pretend that he didn't want to have time for her.
She wanted him to speak first.
He hated that expectant look.
This was the one night when he would not cave to her demands.
"I almost forgot how well you did this."
"No, you didn't."
"I haven't been to one of your parties in awhile."
"That was your choice."
"Remind me again why that was."
"If I could remember that, then I could at the very least remember how to avoid you properly."
Blair smiled victoriously.
"So you admit it now."
"I never denied it," Chuck answered.
"No," she agreed. "You never had time. You were too preoccupied with avoiding me."
Her hand was warm on his and he wished that he didn't miss that electric shock he knew was traveling up both their arms at just a mere touch between the two of them.
He pulled away.
"I hate it when you do that." He wished her voice were more hurt than vaguely amused. "What's your excuse this time? Is it still too painful for you to be near me because you love me so much?"
"You're going to mock me?" Chuck retorted. He felt the triumphant return of his former self. The one that was her match. The one that hated pushing her away because he had to and only took what he wanted. The one that hurt her because she hurt him first.
"Don't make me call you that word," she warned. "You know the word."
"I know the word," Chuck answered. "And it won't affect me now the way it did in high school."
"You're not going to grab me and shake all the bad feelings away?" She sounded disappointed. He missed this girl out for blood.
That was bad.
"I don't think you're a coward," Blair answered his silence. "You're just more cautious than I remember."
"People grow."
"You only do it to protect yourself."
"Is that so strange?"
"I know what's really beneath." Her hand slid up his shirtfront and he really did wish he was that seventeen year old that could shake her when she told him exactly what he hated to hear. "You pretend to be cautious. But you don't really want to be. You want what you want."
"I wish that had changed in the last half of a decade."
"No, you don't," she said. He remembered how victory tasted on her lips. They were breathing the same air and her hands were too adventurous.
He pined for the days when it was him sabotaging her relationships while she dwelt in denial.
His former monster breathed life to his core.
He was sure she could feel it.
"What are you doing here, Blair?"
"Do you have to ask?"
"I thought you had me out of your system."
"We never put it that way before."
"Maybe we should have."
"I've missed you."
Her hand was with his hand in an impossible intertwining of extremities and he wished he could remember how to extricate himself from her. She always clouded his judgment.
"Get out."
"That's all you have for me?" Blair asked condescendingly. She still wasn't letting go. "You're just going to throw me out to avoid the situation?"
"There is no situation," he said just as cruelly. "You aren't supposed to be here. You aren't supposed to be near me. You aren't supposed to be coming back."
He never remembered her this forceful before. That was probably due to the fact that she never had to be before. He always did that for her.
He twisted her wrist in his grasp, pulling her closer to whisper savagely in her ear.
"You don't want to involve yourself with me."
He wished he could pretend he didn't feel her tremor. He hated how everything he did just put him in a worse position. Even now, when all he was trying to do was the right thing, it only brought her closer. When it came to Blair Waldorf, she did the exact opposite of what he wanted.
She was the only one who ever did.
She saw right through him.
He pushed her away. She was still staring, still seeing. All he could do was wish she could just forget everything. He wished she could forget how he worked, how they worked.
He wished all of this could just stop.
"I thought you'd stopped being a coward," she said softly.
She said it. The word that she hadn't uttered since they found themselves in the back room of a graduation party. He felt it all rising up again. He felt the urge to grab her and shake her.
He felt her want him to do it.
He settled for pushing her away. He knew his animalistic tendencies always reached sadistic proportions, but he just needed her to get away. He needed her to stop caring. He needed her to stop wanting. He needed to make her stop making all of this so difficult.
He stepped away from her.
He should have known it would always take more than that.
Walking away from her was never an option. When she wanted to, she could cling to him so hard and so painfully that it was good. She would sink her claws into him the time that he couldn't want it.
He wanted the both of them to stop wanting so much.
She wasn't telling go.
"Just say it."
She was following him.
"Just tell me that you're too much of a coward to actually let me-"
"You don't get it," Chuck snapped, turning around to face her, "do you?"
Her eyes were as steely as his, and he knew that this was something that they would always be matched at.
"It's so easy," he said with his cool detachment. "It's so easy for you, Blair. You take men and you leave them as you please. You act happy," he continued, refusing to break. "But I never know if you are. You are a complete mystery but I know you better than anyone. You're an oxymoron and I'll love you until the day I die. Probably even after," he said determinedly. "But you can't let me in again. It's too hard to see you flit from man to man. Every time I feel as though I'm immune to you it just gets worse."
"I love you."
She was bright eyed. He couldn't understand how she still possessed that innocence about her. Even through all of the manipulation and deception, she still had that romanticism to her. Even when it came to him.
He had to break it.
"That's the whole problem," he replied. "Just stop. Stop loving me. Stop paying attention to me."
"I can't."
For once, he wished she could make this easy. He knew what she was trying to do—telling him the truth in hopes that it would catch him off guard.
The club might as well have been empty. They were always alone together, no matter where they were. To a degree where he found himself pulling her into seclusion.
"I want you so badly. I want to split you from the inside," he breathed against her.
He pulled away.
"But I can't."
She pulled him back.
"Maybe you can," she said in that breathy way that she knew taunted him excruciatingly. He tried to twist away.
"Stop torturing me," he said tersely.
"Stop blaming this on me," she accused. She could see through him so exquisitely and it was more than clear that this was just another excuse. They had just gone back to their eighteen year old selves, finding every reason not to be together.
They couldn't keep going in these circles. They couldn't keep hurting and pulling away and letting go and loving too hard to ever let go.
He wished it wasn't so worth it. He wished he could actually lie to her face, the way he used to, pushing her away for his benefit.
"If I don't then I might realize that being with you is the only option."
Her eyes sparkled with hope and he couldn't fathom how it had gotten to this point. He thought he was done. The only reason he thought severing ties with her so completely was the best course of action was because it would be the last. The last painful note in their tragic ballad. But he was starting to think that this wasn't a tragedy anymore. He was starting to think that everything wasn't always perfect, not just them. Things were hard. They were hard. Being perfect was just a mirage.
"Don't you want it to be?" she asked softly.
He couldn't lie anymore.
"More than anything."
He didn't want to.
"But we'll just crumble again."
"We crumbled because you wanted us to," Blair said. "You thought it would be easier. Less painful."
"You wanted that too."
"I did," she admitted. "I thought I did, at least. But it wasn't just about me. It never is when it's us. So tell me. Tell me what you want."
It was so simple. It was incomprehensible that she couldn't see it.
But she knew. They were selfish beings. She knew what this was about. It was about her. It was about him. It was about not needing to compromise anymore.
"Then stop making this so complicated," she said earnestly. "It's so simple. It can be so simple. We want each other. That's it. There is no other option."
"You have other choices."
"Not choices," she said. "Detours."
"Is that what you like to call it?"
"What do you call it?" she asked.
His breath was hot on her face and she had to wonder at how isolated they had become. They had ignored the crowds to return to something so intimate, that all it could be called was love.
"Admit it," he dared her. "You take immense satisfaction out of torturing me."
"You can be very stubborn."
"Blair Waldorf," he said strategically.
She opened her mouth to answer just as formally. She tried her back was hard against something she couldn't see and the notion escaped her. Nothing made sense and nothing mattered.
"I'm going to make you scream."
"Please," she panted.
It wasn't necessary. No barriers were removed, they were just breathing and loving on each other. But nothing was simple when it came to them. She knew he was testing her. He wanted her to run. He wanted her to save herself so he wouldn't have to take the blame for another crack in her heart.
She still said it.
"You let me in," he warned, "and there won't be any turning back."
"I wouldn't have stripped for you if I didn't know that without a doubt."
He tried to warn her. He tried to tell her. She always had to make things so difficult for him. She always had to be so beautiful, so innocent, and so evil. He loved her ways. He loved her. But he shouldn't. He should have let go of it all. That was the whole point.
Instead, there was this. There was always this. And he couldn't find anything wrong with it anymore.
He tried so hard to demean himself. He was always so good at self-deprecation and he could push her away and make her believe that they were actually wrong. Wrong and ugly.
Seeing her here, like this, he didn't think that anymore. And he couldn't remember how he ever could.
Her fingernails dug into his hand, dragging it up her thigh. Everything was distorted. He felt dizzy and breathless.
Everything was right.
"Don't laugh."
"I'm not."
Her lips were on his too much for him to even try.
"That look."
"You're smug."
He pulled away. He hadn't laughed. But she was so loving and here with him that he couldn't help himself. He couldn't help his smirk.
"I missed you."
"You didn't act like it."
"I'm a liar."
"I love you."
He pulled away again. But looking down on her, he knew that without a doubt, she had never said that to anyone else. Not like she did with him.
He knew it was the truth.
He opened his mouth to proclaim his own truth.
She stopped him. They were wrapped so tightly around each other and her breath was so hot in his ear that he couldn't remember. He could only feel.
"I've been so empty."
He stilled momentarily above her.
"Chuck," she said. "I feel empty without you."
Her face was buried in his bare neck. He could feel her need, need just as palpable as his.
"You are empty without me," he smirked.
Dark eyes glinted in the night, daring his audacity. But they soon rolled up with her moan as he made them nonempty again.
They were stripped before each other. Vulnerability bled through their pores, and yet again, he couldn't help himself. They were sweating and feeling and contracting around each other and he couldn't help himself.
It wasn't the first time that he had expressed urges within his heart unwillingly to her during such intimate intercourses. She did something to him. The way she grasped his hair, the way her voice crooned in his ear, rendered him unable to control himself. It wasn't who he was. That wasn't what he did. If anyone knew the need for control, it was the woman writhing beneath him. But she was always the anomaly. It was always her.
He should have had some semblance of self-restraint.
But that dissipated the night he dared her to rid herself of everything for him.
"What do you do to me?"
She couldn't help the coy smile.
Until the next thing came from his mouth.
"I could really..." he rasped, "impregnate you right now."
He felt her still just the way she had when three words slipped from his lips that he never intended on bequeathing to her again.
He thought she hadn't felt the same way at the time.
He wasn't sure if this moment was any different than that.
This time, however, she wasn't moved. Her eyelashes batted but she was looking at him in a way he had seen before. But he didn't know why this warranted her somberness.
"Chuck," she breathed, turning her head away from him. She wasn't being polite. She wasn't pretending that she didn't hear. "Don't."
But instead of pushing him away, her nails bit into his shoulders and he contracted beneath her touch.
"Why?" he whispered in her ear. "Because I already did?"
She was slowing this time. Her expression was conflicted, but she grasped the bed rail and all he couldn't see anything any longer. He wasn't sure if she had done it on purpose to avoid the conversation he hadn't even meant to start, but still couldn't stop.
She didn't pull away. She laid her head on his ribs and he hated that he couldn't see her eyes anymore. Even if trying to deduce her state of mind was near impossible.
He could apologize. But he wasn't sure what he did wrong.
"Why did you say that?"
Her voice was quiet in the darkness, but her breath was warm, and it was the only thing that was grounding him.
"Because it was true," he answered honestly. She looked up from her position. Her eyes narrowed and he knew it wasn't enough. She didn't have to say it. She never had to say those words anymore. He knew he wasn't giving her enough again. But he was trying his hardest to do so.
She crawled gracefully up the bed and he found himself in a paralysis of something he couldn't name. She caged him, bringing her hand to his face the way she did when she wanted the utter and complete truth from him.
Even if he had been putting in all of his effort into doing so to begin with.
"You don't want that," Chuck assumed.
"I always want too much when it comes to you."
"What does that mean?" he asked.
She was settling against him and for some reason, tranquility washed over him. She was looking at him like they were just beginning. She was looking at him and he couldn't look away.
"I want too much too," Chuck finally said, filling the silence.
"I could never take it back," she said.
"Neither can I."
Her eyes were fluttering closed and he knew that this was right.
"Tell me this is okay," he said quietly. It was more for his own peace of mind, not even caring if she didn't hear him.
But she did.
"Everything is."
She always heard him.


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This salt is fantastic on beef and has such a unique taste. I love it!
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Especially as they are reuseable for at least one refill. I like the smoked salt - though I wouldn't add it just anything, it is an interesting and tasty salt.
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I love this salt. Every time I order from Iherb (which is A LOT) I buy one because I end up giving them away like crazy. Every time someone comes over, they try it and want it. I pretty much put it on everything. Its great on eggs and chicken. This is one of the most amazing culinary inventions ever, IMO.
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