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Alexandra: Sunlight
As my brother received a few final words from the Queen, I followed Sebastian's orders to prepare to leave without fussing, as did the rest of our group. I knew there was no point in making a fuss about leaving. The Queen had told me we all must go, it wasn't anything against me.
When it came to leave I embraced Katrina, feeling like another small part of me was being torn from me. She was a sister to me. We had both taken the same risks leaving our homes to come to Handrin and now we were going to be parted again.
"We'll see you again soon," I promised as I hugged her tightly. "Take care of yourself."
"I will," she responded, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. As Katrina moved over to embrace her father once more I turned to Jon.
"I want to see you both home safe," I said. "And that's not a request."
"Then you look after yourself and the others," he replied. "Your journey home is going to be just as dangerous as us remaining here, and I don't want to hear any bad news from you until this war is over. I got you into this and I'm going to see you out of it."
"Don't flatter yourself," I laughed. "We both know it's my fault that I'm here. I was the one that persuaded you having female spies was a good idea."
"All the same. Get home safely."
"I will," I said, unsure whether to embrace him in the same way I had Katrina. Just like Eliza, Nellie and Katrina were like sisters to me, Jon was becoming a brother. He was one of the few people I was beginning to trust. After a moment's hesitation I threw caution to the wind, opened my arms and embraced Jon. "Good luck," I breathed as I drew away and went to collect my things.
As I turned to catch my final glimpse of the people I was leaving behind I saw Jon and Katrina standing together, their hands clasped tightly together. They'll be alright, I thought. And if they aren't then someone is going to have to watch out.
We trudged on through the darkness, following Sebastian's lead. Angel Hurst was walking at his right hand. I had a strange feeling in my chest as I watched the two men walking together up ahead. Jealousy? At any road, I wasn't going to let Hurst think because I had been decommissioned I was going to take a back seat on this mission.
"Sebastian," I called, leaving Nellie's side and running to catch up with my brother.
"What's wrong Alex?"
"Nothing is wrong. I just wanted to ask what your plans were?"
"I know what I'm doing Alex. I don't need your help to organise this mission."
"Unless you've forgotten already, the Queen entrusted this mission to both of us," I pointed out. "I should know what is happening."
"I am handling this Alexandra," Sebastian said sternly, trying to put some authority into his voice. "And I would appreciate it if you wouldn't try to undermine me by assuming I don't know what I'm doing."
I was taken aback by Sebastian's sudden need for complete control. It wasn't like him at all and I wasn't quite sure how to react to him.
"We should reach the end of the caves soon," Hurst interjected. "And then we'll have to avoid the main southern road-"
"So you'll tell him what you're planning but not your own sister?" I exclaimed.
"Mr. Hurst is guiding us safely home, it would be foolish of me not to tell him my plans."
"I don't want to cause any friction," Hurst began.
"If you don't mind," I said pointedly, "I'd rather have this conversation with my brother. Alone."
"Of course-"
"Don't take this out on him Alex," Sebastian protested. "I make the decisions about who I share information with and just because you feel left out doesn't mean that you can demand to be told everything."
"Fine," I snapped. "If that's the way you want to play it then that's fine by me." I stormed off ahead, ignoring Sebastian's shouts for me to calm down and be reasonable. Being stuck underground for so long had made me unwilling to behave like a normal person and the sooner I got outside the better.
After another immeasurable period of time I saw light up ahead and broke into a run.
"Alex, wait!"
I felt so exhilarated as I emerged into the sunlight, drinking it in through every pore of my body. It felt so good.
"What possessed you to do that?" Sebastian said, emerging from the cave with the rest of the group hot on his heels. "What if there had been someone here waiting for us?"
"But there wasn't," I retorted. "And I was sick of being stuck inside that city and in those tunnels. It's suffocating!"
"Just be more careful next time," Hurst said, putting a hand on Sebastian's arm to stop him from saying any more. "We both know how dangerous this is."
"But you know what? I'm sick of being the responsible one. If I'm not worthy enough to be told my own brother's plans then why should I behave like I am?"
"Right now I am not your brother," Sebastian interjected forcefully. "I am your commander and you will do as I say. I will not tolerate these childish tantrums."
"Then stop treating me like a child!"
"Stop fighting," Nellie shouted, stunning us all into silence. "Just stop it. It's not going to get us anywhere." She clearly looked distressed by our fighting and I immediately felt guilty that I had been acting so selfishly.
"I'm sorry," I said. "I don't know what's wrong with me. It's probably stress or nerves or something. I didn't mean it. Now can we get moving before someone hears us?"


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Re: Adventurers Unite! [iamkathybrown13]Mature
This is the beginning of a story called Radio I have been thinking of doing, but didn't know where to start. Enjoy!
Daniel folded his arms and shook his head in disappointment. He began to wonder whether he had imagined putting up all of those posters at school. Had no one read them, or had they been dismissed as a bad joke? Today was Saturday, and only two people had come.
One was Gabrielle Simmons, the goalie of the girl's soccer team. She had been his friend up until the fourth grade, where they had slowly grown apart. It was their second year of middle school now, and they hadn't spoken to each other since then. Now here she was, chomping an apple and shifting her weight from coffee colored leg to coffee colored leg.
The other person was someone Daniel didn't know all that well. She was a new student, and her golden tresses spilled over the book she was reading.
He sighed. He might as well get on with it. Daniel cleared his throat loudly, causing the blond to jump and drop her book.
"Ladies and... well, just ladies. You two have been the only ones curious enough, courageous enough..."
"Yawn." Daniel glared at Gabby and continued.
"...To come this faithful day on which I promised to show you, for a measly five dollars, something that no one has laid eyes on before: a time machine!"
The new girl snorted. "A time machine? Do you really expect us to believe that?"
Daniel raised his brows. "If you don't believe it, than why did you come?"
The girl turned red. "I-I just wanted to see what trick you are up to, that's all."
Daniel smirked. "Listen..."
"Emma. Why don't I give you a demonstration?"
The girls shrugged, and he lead them up the driveway to his garage door. Daniel held aloft a tiny remote.
"Behold! The time machine!" The door rattled to life and slowly lifted away. The girl began to laugh.
"That's a car!" Gabby guffawed.
"And an old one at that!" Emma giggled.
Daniel rolled his eyes.
"That is not the true time machine. It is simply the body it must inhabit. This," He threw open the door and the girls ventured closer. "This is the time machine!"
Gabby gave Daniel a look.
"A radio. The 'time machine' is a car radio."
Daniel shook his head.
"Oh ye of little faith," he said getting behind the wheel, "Why dost thou doubt me?"
"Hey!" Emma shouted, "You're too young to drive!"
Daniel started the engine and fiddled with the radio. "I'm not driving."
There was a flash of multicolored light and the car disappeared. Emma screamed.
"What happened?!?"
Gabby shrugged. "I don't know." Both girl began looking around for the car, even walked through the place where the car had been to check and see if it was somehow invisible, which was much more believable. But to know avail.
Gabby turned to Emma. "Maybe we should..." Just then, the car reappeared and Daniel stepped out of it. He smiled at the girls' surprised faces.
"Well, who wants to time travel?"
Emma and Gabby raced each other to the time machine.


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Idaho Medicaid stabilizes, but changes coming
Tue., Jan. 15, 2013, 3:22 p.m.
BOISE – After years of relentless growth, Idaho lawmakers received a budget request for the state's Medicaid program Tuesday that's nearly flat in state funds, and just a 7.6 percent increase overall - even though the program is expected to add roughly 70,000 new recipients next year due to changes in federal laws.
"I think you will find that we are not asking for anything we don't need," state Health and Welfare Director Dick Armstrong told the Idaho Legislature's joint budget committee.
The slower growth is mainly because Idaho's caseload numbers in the health care program for the poor and disabled have stopped climbing so quickly as the state's come out of the recession; it's also because federal funds are up, meaning the state can spend less. Idaho's federal matching rate for next year is going up, to the tune of $11.8 million.
It also in part reflects an overfunding of the program last year, when more growth was anticipated than actually came through. That prompted the program to turn back $46 million to the state general fund unused; officials say a new claims system is now allowing more accurate forecasts.
Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, vice-chair of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, welcomed the slowing in the program's growth, but cautioned, "The devil's always in the details." She said, "My focus tends to be less on the numbers, and more on the delivery of services to those who need it."
Keough said lawmakers are just beginning the journey of deciding how to fund the mammoth program next year; after Tuesday's budget hearing, they'll work on proposed spending plans and won't set the agency's budget until at least mid-February.
Idaho's Medicaid program adds up to a total of $2.06 billion, between state and federal funds, Medicaid division administrator Paul Leary told legislative budget writers Tuesday morning. It takes up 81.4 percent of the Department of Health and Welfare budget, the state's largest department.
But 96.4 percent of the total Medicaid budget goes to payments to health care providers. "These are services provided to our participants by community providers," Leary said. Only 0.7 percent of the total goes to personnel, and 2.9 percent to operating expenses.
For next year, Gov. Butch Otter is recommending $476.7 million in state general funds for Medicaid, which is nearly flat - just a 0.5 percent increase from this year. Total funds, at $2.0667 billion, reflect a 7.6 percent increase, largely because of increased federal funds.
Like all states, Idaho has the option of expanding its Medicaid program to serve more of the state's uninsured, largely at federal expense, but for now, Otter has recommended holding off for a year and studying how to improve the program first.
However, even without that expansion, the federal health care reform law requires a series of changes next year that will add tens of thousands to Idaho's program – and bring a 30 percent increase in case load.
"We are now gearing up, we are all hands on deck, to prepare for this huge increase of medically eligible participants," Armstrong said, now estimated at about 70,000 Idahoans.
That'll happen for two reasons. First, there's a new MAGI, or Modified Adjusted Gross Income, calculation for determining eligibility. That alone will result in about 25,000 more Idahoans qualifying for Medicaid next year. Another 10,000 children who are now on the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, also will become eligible for Medicaid, and will be switched over.
JFAC Co-Chair Rep. Maxine Bell, R-Jerome, commented acidly, "I'm a little troubled by the acronym MAGI - I don't exactly see the gold in there or the gifting of it."
The second boost to Idaho's Medicaid enrollment numbers is expected to come from what federal officials call the "woodwork" effect: Once all Americans are required to purchase health insurance, and they go online to exchanges to see which subsidies or benefits they might qualify for, many will discover they actually already are qualified to receive Medicaid, but have never signed up.
Idaho's expecting to get about 35,000 more signups for Medicaid from that "woodwork" effect.
Idaho's Medicaid program currently serves about 233,000 people; 63 percent of them are children, but they account for only 19 percent of the costs. Smaller numbers of patients who are disabled or seriously ill account for most of the program's costs. In 2002, just under 142,000 Idahoans were on the program.
Keough, who chaired the Legislature's economic outlook committee this year, said she's hopeful that the drop in Medicaid growth signals the same thing business representatives who testified to that panel reported: "That the economy might be trending up."


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"Fun Nights"
When we were kids we used to have what we called 'fun nights'. All of us siblings would meet up downstairs in the basement after bedtime, usually in my oldest brothers room, it was usually him that thought these things up. We usually managed to sneak some sort of snack from the kitchen - nothing great - just raisins or marshmallows, if we were lucky there was something better, like left over dessert. Fun nights were mostly about moving the furniture around, jumping on and sliding down mattresses while screaming and bickering.
When it got too loud Dad would come down to end our fun.
Lights still on, food strewn across the room, beds pulled apart – every last one of us would drop exactly where we were and pretend to start snoring.
I have always wondered how long they let us play before they came down, enough time to have a couple beer, or what? How hard was it to not laugh at us - and to look stern, so we would hightail it to bed?


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Control Room- Part 11
"Come on now, Mister Malfoy, let's not waste the day away!"
Draco Malfoy twitched in his sleep, the shrill voice piercing through the foggy haze of his dreams, but not yet jerking him into consciousness. He groaned softly, rolling over onto his stomach and tugging the knobby white bed sheet above his head. All he wanted was a few more moments... just a few more moments of blissful nothingness. He felt the comforting wave of deep slumber washing over him, caressing his mind with nonsensical fantasies. He was so close to submitting himself to sleep's domineering hand, to allow himself to be tied down by blankets and smothered by non-reality, when,
The curtains to his room were ripped open, sunlight flooding through, destroying the darkness. Madame Pomfrey swooped into the room, like a great, ferocious bird, ripping at everything in her path, including tearing back the sheet which covered Draco's pale face.
Well, damn. No chance for sleep now...
"Honestly, boy. Do you have any intention of waking at all today?"
" Why?" Draco groaned, squeezing his eyes tightly against the sun, his slender hands fumbling around blindly for the blanket that had been stolen away from him, desperate to hide himself away, once again, from the world outside. "It's not like I'm doing anything... lying in a bed and trying not to bleed out, how exciting."
"Well, you've never been known to spare the drama, have you? Guess I shouldn't be surprised, you foolish boy, don't you remember? You're to be released today!" Madame Pomfrey clicked her tongue impatiently as she continued her whirlwind attack on the room, flicking her wand to create a sense of order in the disarray that had been brought by Draco's extended stay. He had been there for the better part of 2 weeks, with nothing else to do but toss the room to shambles.
"Oh..." he mumbled, pulling himself to a sitting position, "But... uh... what about the, uh, the wounds? They haven't healed completely...?"
Madame Pomfrey turned her stern eyes onto Malfoy, concerned at his sudden distaste for being discharged. Malfoy's ears burned a bit at the intensity of her gaze... It wasn't that he didn't want to leave, god only knew that he'd had enough of the sterile white room... but it was the nagging sensation of, at least he wasn't out there. He had no idea what to expect in the halls of Hogwarts anymore... His life had become such a tangle of secrets and lies, he hardly knew what to constitute as reality. All he knew with any certainty was that his problems had probably not managed to pull a disappearing act...
"No, not completely, but they've healed well enough," Madame Pomfrey dragged Draco from his bed, to a standing position, flicking at his hospital gown and bandages with her wand, making them vanish. Draco shuddered from the sudden chill due to his lack of clothing, feeling more exposed than he would have wished, with only his briefs to cover him. "Of course, you'll have to stop in twice a week for bandage changes, but you should fare well enough. Seems a waste to keep you trapped in here, when you've got your stud-"
Madame Pomfrey's lecture was interrupted by a high-pitched squeal from the doorway.
"Oh good lord," the healer muttered, as she was pushed brusquely aside by a willowy brunette.
"Dray! I'm so happy, you'll be back today, you've no idea how much I've missed yo-...oh," Pansy Parkinson blushed deeply, a furious red flooding her face as she realized that Draco was nowhere near dressed; and seeing his injury exposed for the first time. Draco shifted awkwardly, having nothing to cover himself since Madame Pomfrey had done away with all his blankets. He wasn't sure what embarrassed him the most... his lack of clothing, or the horrific streak of jagged scars which marred his snowy flesh. There was nothing he could do to hide away the angry red lesions that tattooed his skin... he hated it. He felt flawed, untouchable, like the ugliest human alive...
"Miss Parkinson, perhaps now you can understand why we have a waiting area?" Madame Pomfrey turned her fierce gaze onto Pansy, who was shrinking against the wall. Draco was met with the strong feeling that the healer had developed a deep disliking for the flighty girl in the past week. He couldn't say he blamed her... Pansy could be a bit overwhelming. She meant well, but her well meaning was often expressed with a lot of...well... excitement. And excitement seemed to be about the most offensive thing in the world to Madame Pomfrey. "Might I suggest that you find your way there? Or perhaps I could find your head of house, since you seem so keen to ignore my instructions."
"N-n-no, no, I... I-" Pansy stammered, shrinking away from the angry healer, and staring at Draco's scars as though they made him some kind of monstrosity, "I'll go... I... I'll... I'll see you later, Draco." and she tore from the room, clearly terrified from all that she had encountered. Draco's stomach dropped like a rock. He knew it was more than just the healer's harsh words that had driven Pansy away... the look in her eyes had said it all. She hadn't run away from Madame Pomfrey... she had run away from him.
"Well then," the middle-aged woman bustled to the curtains, yanking them back to a close, foregoing the use of her wand, then turning back to face Draco. Her brows furrowed as she saw that he had returned to sitting on his bed, his face buried in his hands, his spidery fingers twisting into his platinum locks.
"Mister Malfoy...?"
Draco sat frozen in his seated position for a moment longer, the only movement being his fingers tightening into his hair. Finally he sat up, slowly. Madame Pomfrey was startled to notice that his eyes had a burning red glow, as though he were fighting the urge to cry.
"I'm always going to look like this," Draco hissed, his teeth clenched together, his hands still clutching at his hair, " They're never going to go away, are they? I'll always look like... like some repulsive freak,"
Madame Pomfrey looked taken aback by Draco's sad statements. She wasn't used to dealing with the emotional aspects of healing... usually things such as sorrow and worry were taken care of by the insolent visitors who disrupted her work. It seemed especially strange that someone with as much prominence as the Malfoy boy would even display an outward emotion. Yet there he sat, his fingers tearing apprehensively at his hair, as his grievous eyes stared numbly into hers; clearly he was awaiting a response.
"Well, Mister Malfoy..." she began, softly, "They are curse wounds. Given enough time, the essence of dittany should completely cauterize the openings, and they should cease to bleed. Already we've seen progress on that..." she trailed off, knowing that she was simply providing her medical opinion, and not expressing the comfort that the boy sought out. This was all so strange to her... "Perhaps in time we can find a solution to fade the damages... who knows? Healers are always creating new potions, I've seen amazing things at work. And besides, it isn't really anything to worry about. The scars really aren't that ba-"
"Don't. Just don't," Draco said, raising his pale hand as a gesture of silence.
Madame Pomfrey's brows knit together in concern, but she simply nodded, resigning herself to silence. She knew there was nothing that could be said to appease the distressing thoughts racing through Malfoy's mind. Nothing but cheap white lies, which he clearly wasn't interested in hearing. She couldn't blame him.
Gently, she lifted him off the bed, and took to daubing his wounds with the essence of dittany. She pretended not to notice his gentle hissing as the oil seared at his flesh, allowing him to have some sort of dignity. Once more, the white bandages were wrapped tightly around his rib cage, tighter than usual to make accommodations for the shirts and pants he would be dressing in, rather than the spacious hospital gown. Draco dressed in silence, as Madame Pomfrey gathered his belongings, folding them neatly, and setting them in a small stack at the foot of the cot. Draco gathered them quickly, nodding a brief farewell to Madame Pomfrey, half-heartedly agreeing to her reminders that he had to stop in twice a week, before dashing out to the waiting area.
Pansy wasn't there.
In his heart, he knew he hadn't expected her to be. It was just a hope... But that was just it. Hope. Hope, which was nothing more than a master of deceit, a devil which filled the mind with pointless illusions, only to crush the heart when they proved to be empty lies.
Hope was a bitch.
He clenched his teeth together, grinding them in frustration. He should have known something like this would have happened. Pansy had always been shallow, he knew that more than anything else. It was the thing that he hated the most about her, what had always caused him to push her away... but for the first time in his life... he'd needed someone. And she had been there. Part of him had grown to truly care for her...the fact that she trusted him, that she could love so fiercely, so instantaneously. Funny that her love should leave just as fast...
Draco forced himself to stand with the stance of a proper Malfoy, his back perfectly straight, chest thrown out and head held high. His elongated posture tugged at his injuries, stretching the seared flesh uncomfortably tight, threatening to tear it apart, but he refused to let himself fall. He took to his arrogant, purposeful stride through the castle, his breath hitching in his chest with every step, as he clutched his belongings close to his side. Nearly two weeks of immobility had left his muscles stiff, aching with exhaustion due to misuse. But still, he forced himself onward.
Everywhere Draco turned, he felt the eyes of the students of Hogwarts gaping at him, whispers trailing him like an unwelcome shadow. He shot daggers from his own steely blue eyes at a group of particularly chatty group of first years.
"I heard he did it to himself... he wanted to die!"
"That isn't true you prat! It was his girlfriend, she caught him cheating and wanted revenge!"
"I heard he still bleeds... maybe he was attacked by a were-"
" Excuse me," Draco snapped finally, rounding on the small children with a vengeance, " But have you something to say to my face?"
The first years jumped at Malfoy's words, their faces draining of color as they wordlessly stammered.
"I thought not," Draco snarled, shoving them aside, roughly, with his free arm.
He kept his composure, his supercilious stride taking him to the edge of the hall, before he sharply turned the corner, breaking into a panicky sprint. Pain seared up his sides as he ran, but he refused to stop until he finally found sanctuary from prying eyes in the Slytherin common room. he glanced nervously around the room, thanking the fates that it appeared to be empty. He fell back against the door, his eyes squeezing shut as he struggled to catch his breath, his muscles screaming in protest at their forced use. Finally, he willed himself to slowly make his way to the fireplace, slumping unceremoniously into the throne-like armchair which stood before it, tossing his belongings to the floor.
His icy eyes trained themselves to the flickering flames which danced in the fire place. It stuck him, quite suddenly, how dark the Slytherin house was, even midmorning. He glanced towards the window, wondering if he had somehow been blind to the sunlight, but saw nothing but the hazy green light which always seeped in. Did everything here have to be so dark and grim? It seemed to him that the Slytherin stereotype had become forced upon, rather than earned by the house's inhabitants. Hard to be anything but sullen, when you never saw the sun...
What was becoming of his life, of him? Had he really been reduced to running away from a few bullying words like some simpering coward? It wasn't as if he was used to being gossiped about... he was a Malfoy for gods sake, if he wasn't being talked about, he was doing something wrong. No, it was more than just simplistic words... it was this constant unease. The sickening feeling of always being where you don't belong...
Usually he just ignored it.
But it's rather hard to ignore when you don't even belong in your own mind.
He sank lower in to the chair, careful not to tear at his already wounded skin. His head was throbbing, he noticed, probably from his sudden exhaustion.
'Because, why not?' he thought, grimly, rubbing his temple firmly with his calloused fingers. His eyes began to squeeze themselves shut, willing him to submit to slumber, when he caught sight of a shadow dancing down the corner corridor. He peeked cautiously over the edge of the chair, with much of the demeanor of a small child, trying not to reveal himself while catching a glimpse at the stranger in the room. Relief flooded through him when he saw the tall willowy figure of a girl, dark hair swaying though there was no breeze. He stood with a start, wincing at the pain in his sides, but still keeping his composure.
"Pansy," he said hesitantly, as if daring himself to speak. The brunette turned sharply in his direction, her violet, doe-like eyes wide with shock as they met his own icy blues. Her face flushed, as she stumbled backwards, her back hitting the wall.
"Pansy," he repeated himself, "You, uh... you left so suddenly this morning. Is everything okay?"
He felt foolish asking her, of course everything was not okay. She had run away in terror from him in the hospital wing, and here she was now, cowering into a corner at the mere sight of him. It sickened him, it truly sickened him, being stared at like his was some kind of monstrosity.
"Pansy," Draco whispered, his inner distress breaking through his voice. He sounded as if her were begging her to respond to him, yet she stood still. She wasn't even looking at him anymore, her amethyst eyes would look only at the floor, shielded from him by her thick, dark lashes. Her cowardice at his presence struck him suddenly, with a fierce wave of anger.
" SAY SOMETHING!" he finally screamed at her, his face burning red and his hands balling into fists at his side.
Pansy finally looked up, slowly, her long hair sweeping gently off her angelic face, as she turned to face Draco. Her eyes burned red with tears, making the purple irises look like a startling maroon.
"And what is it that I am supposed to say?" she asked, her soft voice shaking with anger. It was Malfoy's turn to remain silent, as he stared at Pansy.
"WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME SAY?" she shrieked, the tears flying wildly from her maroon eyes as she tore herself away from the wall.
"I-I.. I don't know," Draco stuttered, alarmed at her response, "I don't know, I jus-"
"You don't get it, do you?" she spat, "You can be so self-centered, consumed with your own glory."
Draco chocked over words he couldn't find. Pansy rarely spoke out of turn, and never had anything to say to him but praise... now her words were so harsh, laced with a venom that he couldn't understand. She went on, bursting with an unceasing spark of anger.
"I have stood by your side for six years now, Draco Malfoy. SIX YEARS. I have watched you parade around this castle, acting like you were some kind of god, spitting on everyone that you thought was less than you. And do you want to know the worst part? I joined in. I wanted to impress you so damn bad that I tried acting just like you. The funny thing is, I always knew that I still wasn't good enough for you. Good enough to be seen next to you, but not good enough to be with you. Just a show piece. I nearly gave up. I was so close to walking away, but then I saw something in you. I don't know if it was fear, or sorrow, or what; but it was human. And for once, I thought you might actually need me. And things seemed almost okay..."
"Pans, I-" Draco started.
"I'm not finished," Pansy cut him off briskly, "Please. Just let me finish."
Draco nodded, granting her his silence.
"I really did think that things were going to be okay, that I had a chance at being a part of your life... and then you started pulling away again. You wouldn't look me in the eye. You started sending me off... I thought I was lucky then, because if you were sending me off, it at least meant that you had noticed I'd been there at all. And then I found you in that bathroom, dying in a pool of your own blood. And you wouldn't tell me what happened. I've spent two weeks in the hospital wing, at your side, trying to make you feel safe. Instead, you just kept pulling further away from me... and then this morning, I finally saw what you had been hiding from me. You standing there with your chest torn to shreds, looking like you'd just been attacked this morning! And I couldn't handle it... I ran. I ran from you, from your secrets, from all of this. So, you asked me if everything was okay? No Draco, it isn't. It isn't okay."
Draco stared at her, his eyes searching her face for some sign of forgiveness . But he saw none. The Pansy that stood before him was not the simple girl that he had so often shooed away from him. She could not be bought over by white lies and petty compliments. The Pansy that stood before him was strong, she could hold her own, and she hadn't forgotten the way she had been treated.
"What can I do?" Draco asked, softly, "What can I do to make you trust me again?"
Pansy looked deep into his icy blues, searching his soul.
"Tell me the truth," she said, "Tell me the truth about what happened in the lavatory."
Not once did she blink, as she stared at him. He looked right back into her own violet eyes, though not with the same strength that she had. After some time, he turned his back to her, his hand grasping the back of the chair, his head bowed down in shame.
"I can't," he said simply, "I'm sorry... but I can't."
Though he wasn't looking at her, Pansy nodded. Her eyes filled with a deep understanding.
"I know," she replied, lifelessly, "Draco, I can't do this anymore. I don't know who or what it is you're trying to hide from... but I can't keep trying to find you. I just can't..."
Draco did not turn to face her, and instead listened to the sound of her footsteps as she walked away. He heard the portrait door slam shut, and knew that he was once again, alone.
Always alone.
And it was always his fault.
There was only one thing that he felt he had the power left to do. He lost it. He began screaming in anger, yelling about anything and everything he felt. He threw the armchair to the floor, then kicked the footstool to it's side. he grabbed the saucers and mugs that had been left on the side table, throwing them one after the other to the wall, the chimes of the broken glass harmonizing with his antagonized screams. He screamed and shouted and ravaged everything in his path, until there was nothing left. Nothing, but a broken boy, standing in the wake of destruction. And only then was there silence...
He stood there for what felt like an eternity, feeling numb. He looked around at the chaos he had created...
Was that all he was good for? Creating chaos? Was he so doomed, to always live in a world of anarchy?
He couldn't take it anymore. The walls of the common room felt as though they were closing in on him, suffocating him in his own uncertainty.
Once more, he tore from the room, racing down the halls of Hogwarts in search of the one thing he so desperately desired... the one thing he needed, like he needed the air in his lungs to live...
He needed to be in control.
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Honestly, I don't think anyone will consider this a successful season unless the Sooners get to the national championship game. That's unfortunate. But when you're a blue-chip program and a preseason Top-5 team that was preseason No. 1 last year, that's the expectation.
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A national championship. Some programs play to improve their national prestige, others play for conference championships, but at Oklahoma the Sooners play for national championships, it's just that simple. Even if the Sooners make the national championship game and come up short, there will be more talk about OU's struggles to win BCS title games than how successful the season was, particularly when you began the season with a fifth-year quarterback who has started 37 games in three seasons.
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The receiving corps has been gutted, highlighted by the loss of Ryan Broyles, the FBS career leader in receptions. The defense lost the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year in Frank Alexander, and four-year starter Travis Lewis at linebacker. Streaky defensive end Ronnell Lewis left for the NFL, too.
Oklahoma's a good team with the potential to win a national title, but is it fair to expect one from this team? My vote is no, especially considering the depth and quality of the Big 12 this season.
The Sooners might be in the preseason top five, but after last season's disappointment, winning a Big 12 title and taking home another BCS bowl win (over an actual opponent this time, not Connecticut) would qualify as a successful season in my book. It's not ideal. It's not the best or the dream scenario, but I'd still consider it a "success."
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Paris - Day 4
... canals and alleys of walking paths. The gardens are so big that there is a tram to take people around or golf carts to rent! We opted for a leisurely stroll and walked all the way over to the much smaller palace called le Grand Trianon, a sort of getaway for the royal family when court life got too busy. This palace is also very grand, with its own beautiful flowers gardens, canals and statuary. Another 10 minute walk away is a ...
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... I got to practice a heck of a lot of French there.
We started the trip on these boats, specially made to simulate boats from like, the 15th century (maybe older, maybe younger...) We had to traverse the Loire river to get to a spot where we were planning on picnicking. (A quick side note, in Paris metros, you can buy pretty good tasting fruit. I brought metro donut peaches (which is a lot better than say, US grocery store sushi,) and ate all ...
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Ann Marie and Tom were leaving today, so we made sure that other than eating our croissants this morning, that we made sure we were able to say good bye and let them know how much fun we had spending time with them here in Paris. Ann-Marie let me know that they would be keeping the lock that I painted for them (she couldn't bare to part with it). I was flattered ...


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Goldfish Island
Inside me lives a child, and that child likes to show me what he sees.
I'm not sure what they call this place, what the atlas has named it, but I call it Goldfish Island. Why, you ask? I laugh my childish laugh, mocking your maturity.
Because it's an island with goldfish.
You'll probably ask next how the goldfish got here, to this island surrounded by a salty sea. You'll probably roll your eyes when I spout that same laugh again, warning you of the answer even before I've answered.
They swam here and jumped into the pond.
I know how you're going to respond, too. You're going to smile that adult smile of yours and shake your head, revelling in my childish ignorance. But the sea is salty, son, you'll say. And goldfish can't live in a salty sea.
People can't fly, either, but that has never stopped us from trying. Trying and succeeding.
This shuts you up, but it doesn't remove the smile from your face. You know I'm a child, you know that my innocence restricts me from understanding your real world. And frankly, I don't want to.
I like my world where the goldfish can swim where they want, and jump over the beach onto this island that I call theirs. I like my world where the atlas and encyclopaedia aren't law, and I can see things for what they are and for what they are to me.
Behind me a goldfish swims in circles, chasing its flowing ribbon of a tail. It is orange, not gold, though even the adults don't call it an orangefish. I guess they still have a child inside, an ignorant and innocent soul that wants to see the sun sparkle gold off the scales of the most common pet-store fish.
And so I ask you, you with all your adult wisdom: Why is the goldfish orange?
I know you have no answer, and you don't disappoint me by providing one.
The goldfish behind me has finished chasing its tail, and instead floats contently in the pool of water. I want it to leap, to fly from the water in a display of freedom and glee. But it just floats there; mouth moving slowly and fins tossed by the barely-there current.
You're gone, or at least not watching, so I lean down over the pool and try to cup the orange fish in my hands. It paddles away quickly, disturbed by the ripples my fingers make across the glassy surface.
It doesn't want to be caught, so it won't be, in just the same way it wanted to swim across the salty sea to rest here. In just the same way that it made us think it was gold.
It's unreal, this Goldfish Island. But it's also the most real thing I know.


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Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches
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- Piccinini, G. & Craver, C. Synthese (2011) 183: 283. doi:10.1007/s11229-011-9898-4
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We sketch a framework for building a unified science of cognition. This unification is achieved by showing how functional analyses of cognitive capacities can be integrated with the multilevel mechanistic explanations of neural systems. The core idea is that functional analyses are sketches of mechanisms, in which some structural aspects of a mechanistic explanation are omitted. Once the missing aspects are filled in, a functional analysis turns into a full-blown mechanistic explanation. By this process, functional analyses are seamlessly integrated with multilevel mechanistic explanations.
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Getting to the Center
Just 8 miles (12 km) from the Honolulu International Airport, at the gateway to Waikiki and within 1.5 miles of 28,000 hotel rooms and an array of shopping, dining, and entertainment, the Hawaii Convention Center truly stands at the heart of Honolulu.
Hawaii Convention Center Address
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A Simple Letter
Bishop's eyes scanned the letter over and over again; he had received it last night. It was a curious letter, written in a beautifully penned script. He almost didn't want to believe that it was true, and the teacher who had written it. Ivory Illusion, the name sounded mysterious as though hiding in a thick veil of mist. With a soft sigh he placed the paper back on the coffee table his feet rested upon. His shoulders sank a bit and he laid back in the smooth leather chair. Do I go? To this school of Illusions...then again what did illusion truly mean? False or misleading. I only have an hour to decide before the coach arrives.
He chuckled at the seeming parody as his eyes returned to the innocent letter. A shadow fell over his face and his eyes seemed far away, trapped in thoughts. He sat that way, the hood from his jacket draw over his face, for a half an hour. When the large golden clock that hung near the mantel piece, chimed the hour, he had made up his mind. I will go to this school of Illusions and meet this Ivory Illusion. What else do I have to do but read and rot away in my classes? Yes and if it is all a joke, I will chuckle and drag myself back to the confines of this place. I will be all the wiser.
Bishop stood and placed his hood back on his shoulders, his feet carrying his lean frame to his tiny room. The only furnishings to fill the dark green room were a cot and a neat cherry wood desk. For three pitiful years he had called this tiny hovel a home. No longer. His nose picked up the ever present smell of pine and sawdust hanging in the air when he entered. All his clothes already rested his leather pack, set for any occasion he needed to leave unexpectedly. His uncle had taught him that. Expect the unexpected and never be caught unaware. Bishop nodded, words of golden wisdom. As for essentials, those rested on a small white sill nested close to the window.
His steel colored eyes scanned the outside, it was a depressing view but he had come to like it and if there were something to miss about this place it would be the disheartening view. Placing his essentials in his bag, Bishop moved calmly to his desk and retrieved all of his papers, notes, pens, and pencils. Lastly his hand rested on a deer skin journal that his uncle had sent him. The cover was decorated in gold and silver leaf, shaped and weaved into the shape of a majestic horse galloping across the plains. This would never leave him on his journeys.
A buzz from his pocket reminded Bishop of his cell phone, pulling it out he notice the alarm. 10 minutes till the couch arrived. His face was still as he replaced the device in his pocket and traveled down the four flights of stairs to reach the ground floor. Sure he could have taken the elevator, but he felt as though that was cheating. He had to make his own way and blaze his own trail.
He stepped outside and leaned against the aging brick building, listening. A small whine echoed from an engine as it neared the sidewalk's curb. And so it begins, leaving nothing but the winds at my back. Bishop sighed and blinked a few more times, he was stepping off into the unknown but he felt it was fitting.
"I'm always up for a challenge," he whispered stepping onto the couch, taking a seat at the far back.


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From rock to Riesling: Tool frontman on a different kind of tour
Maynard Keenan, famous for his loud lyrics with the legendary metal band Tool, is a man of varied tastes. And right now, he's singing a different tune.
Co-owner of Arizona Stronghold Vineyards, Keenan and partner Eric Glomski are off on a wine-bottle signing tour. At Whole Foods. You can wipe the mascara out of your eyes and put your tattoo needles down, Tool fans, because you read that right: a wine bottle-signing tour at Whole Foods, which will land them at the Whole Foods at 7400 East Hampden Avenue from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on February 26 and 27.
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@Pablo_El_Diablo's 5 Round Review
UFC on FOX 7 went down as one of the better UFC cards of 2013 thus far. Unofficially called "UFC vs Strikeforce", the two promotions (Strikeforce of which no longer exists) split the fights 2 to 2 on the main card. In the Welterweight division, Matt Brown defeated Jordan Mein via TKO at 1:00 of round two. Lightweight Josh Thomson became the first person to stop Nate Diaz. Thomson won via TKO at 3:44 of round two. In the Heavyweight division Daniel Cormier won a unanimous decision over Frank Mir. In the main event of the evening, Lightweight champion Benson Henderson won a split decision victory over Gilbert Melendez to defend his title.It was announced that Shinya Aoki, The ONE FC Lightweight champion, will compete against Kron Gracie at Metamoris 2. The jiu-jitsu competition will take place on June 9.The Legacy FC 21 fight card is set with two title fights taking place. William Bush will fight Larry Crowe for the vacant Middleweight title and Matt Hobar will fight Angel Huerta for the vacant Bantamweight title. Former UFC fighter Matt Riddle will also make his Legacy FC debut on that fight card.
Jon Jones and Nike released shoes and shirts that went on sale this past Friday.
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Officers testify in trial of 3 men accused of stabbing Steelers' Adams
PITTSBURGH - The trial for three men accused of stabbing Pittsburgh Steeler Mike Adams continued Friday.
Two officers who responded to the incident testified Adams appeared disoriented, nervous and had to be convinced that he needed to go the hospital.
Michael Paranay, Dquay Means and Jerrell Whitlock are charged with counts ranging from conspiracy to attempted homicide.
Veteran Detective Robert Shaw testified that both Adams and one of the co-defendants identified Dquay Means as the person who initiated the South Side assault in a robbery attempt.
The defense team has tried to discredit those accounts by suggesting Adams provoked the incident following an argument.
Adams told the jury that Means threatened to shoot him in face if he didn't give up his car. After that, he said he was punched and then stabbed by the two co-defendants.


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Fellow Russian Aleksandra Soldatova picked up three silver medals, finishing second behind Mamun in Hoop, Ball and Ribbon. In Clubs, Soldatova finished in sixth place.
Belorussian gymnast Katsiaryna Halkina won the silver medal on Clubs and bronze on Ball and Ribbon.
Uzbekistan's Anastasiya Serdyukova took the bronze on Clubs while Korean Son Yeon-Jae won bronze on the Hoop.


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I really don't know. I just felt like... doing it.
When I first saw you
My heart jumped with glee
You made me fall for you
I did things for free
Then meeting you
You made me feel like I'm the luckiest girl alive
Seeing you
Makes me survive
Then, find me if you want
I'll be within your heart
I'll forever haunt
Because I wanted you to be my sweetheart!
It made me feel so sad inside
When you said you didn't love me,
It broke my heart and it died,
You made me feel crappy!


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Dai Sekt is a Sim living in Twinbrook. He's a scientist who visits Sims whose homes are invaded by ghosts or insects. He is the male counterpart of Mollie Kewell.
Like his female counterpart, Dai has only four traits.
- His name is a play on the word Dissect.


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Home Entertainment 10 Celebrity Couples We Wish Were Dating in Real Life
10 Celebrity Couples We Wish Were Dating in Real Life
There are times when celebrities look so scintillating on-screen that we the viewers only dream of having to see more of them all the time. So, we wish of the possibility of having them date in real life too and see more of them in reel life. Here is a list of 10 celebrity couples we really wish were dating in their real life too.
Ranbir Kapoor & Deepika Padukone: Yeah, we know they both have parted ways but you have got to agree that you cannot ever get enough of this amazing couple. Their undying chemistry and the love for each other in their eyes is so perfect.
Ayushmaan Khurana & Yami Gautam: The Punjabi-lad and the elegant oh-so-delicate girl who sizzled on screen in Vicky Donor are best example of cuteness overloaded. Both being dimpled and extra sweet are a perfect jodi to see together.
Alia Bhatt & Varun Dhawan: Remember that scene in SOTY when Varun looks at Alia with dreamy eyes and winks at her. We fell in love at the same time with both of them and wanted to always see so much more of them.
Kajol & ShahRukh Khan: The King of romance and his ethereal queen forever is a couple we can not ever forget. Their beautiful bond of friendship and how both of them put silver screen on fire is the best way to tell that they should be dating forever.
Aishwarya Rai & Hritik Roshan: Two of the hottest people in the industry and the brilliance in their chemistry in Dhoom 2 and Jodha Akbar is a sign enough that these two belong together. I mean that greek God face and the Miss World winner, they are everything one can dream off.
Abhishek Bacchan & Rani Mukherjee: The rumours about these two dating were the happiest moments in the bollywood industry. They were happy and delivering amazing hits like Bunty Aur Babli and Yuva while we were day-dreaming about their soon-on-the-cards wedding.
Akshay Kumar & Priyanka Chopra: Think of the hot scenes of Aitraaz and then the cute sweet romance of Waqt, both the times this couple was picture perfect and we imagined a heart shaped bubble around them. No matter how he is married, we want more of both of them.
Shraddha Kapoor & Aditya Roy Kapoor: The brilliant chemistry of the biggest romantic blockbuster of the year, Aashiqui 2 gave us the beautiful pairing of these 2 gorgeous actors. And the song Tum Hi Ho became the romantic anthem of the country.
Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh: Their pairing first in Band Baaja Baraat and the epicness of Bitoo and Shruti set this couple stand out from the rest. I mean there is no doubt we love Anushka and Virat together but we wish sometimes that Ranveer was in his place.
Amitabh Bacchan and Rekha: The biggest rumoured couple of the Indian Cinema and the perfect aura of these two celebrities can not be put in to words. We just could fall in the dreamy land of Silsala's set and hope for them to be staying together forever.
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Erotica/Erotic Romance Anthology
Includes my story, In the Frame.
Featuring 22 erotic stories from authors across the globe, An Intimate Education spans a range of sexualities, genders and desires. The stories show the diversity of erotica, taking in romantic sex, kinky sex, paranormal sex and a lot more besides. All stories show that safe can be sexy.
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Quite a few users have complained about chipcrusher's peculiar 'dry' frequency response compared to what they get with other common decimator plugins. This post hopefully will explain a few things.
Lets say we bypass the bit reduction, distortion and post filtering and only concentrate on the task of downsampling the plugin's input signal. which would be say at 96kHz. and that chipcrusher's re-sampler would be at 44.1kHz, its internal maximum.
There are two important aspects to consider:
1)Typical results achievable using a vintage sampler is very different from 'your typical Bitcrusher VST'.
99% of bitcrushers/decimator plugin out there use the same tired algorithm that was posted more than 10 years ago on musicdsp.org. This method does NOT band limit the input signal prior to the downsampling, it just sample and holds using a counter... any sample!
This is not what classic samplers did. Any engineer with half a brain at least tried to filter analog audio signal so it wouldn't contain harmonics over the Nyquist frequency of the target sample rate!. If you skip this pass, you will get extra aliasing all over the spectrum.
2)Not all lowpass filters are created equal.
All versions of chipcrusher prior to v1.005(available soon) used a CPU friendly downsampling setting which - in retrospect - might not have suited everyone's taste since it was not steep enough for high frequency content.
You can see chipcrusher's default precision somewhere in this animation made using 96kHz -> 44.1kHz with a white noise as source. All the other settings will be available. We have added a new 'Precision' parameter to set the steepness/cpu use ratio you desire. BTW The first picture in the lot is from a "do not pre filter" setting, we offer 6 such settings, from 6 point spline to truncation. Aliases like crazy, but to each is own.


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The Bursa Free Trade Zone is a large Free Trade Zone in the Gemlik District, close to Istanbul, located on the Bursa-Yalova Highway with access to the ports of Borusan, Gemport, Yilfert and Roda. The Bursa free trade zone is operated by Bursa Serbest Bölge Kurucu ve İşletici A.Ş (BUSEB A.Ş.). The operator founded the zone and owns the land so firms can purchase land within the Zone and maintain business activities on the land they purchase.
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Flashback October 19, 2013: Goodbye to New York City and hello to the Chicago of the East!
For those residents of New York City who plan to vote in the upcoming mayoral election AND who plan to vote for Bill de Blasio, do yourself and the City a favor by at the very least educating yourself on the candidate before you do!
Why do I say that? Don't all voters educate themselves on the issues before making a decision as important as who to vote for as the chief executive of whatever country, city or town that they live in?
If two terms of Barack Obama shows us anything the answer to that question is an emphatic NO!
Now to the present! Hey all you NYC liberals out there! Didn't you learn your lesson with Barack Obama?
Apparently not or apparently you are happy with the state of the union under what can only be described as a socialist regime. And now you want to put New York City through the same ordeal.
This is possible due only to the nature of liberals who will likely sweep Bill de Blasio into the position of Mayor of New York.
It's a frightening prospect but one that will become a reality unless a great many voters come to their senses. Why?
Besides the voters being more concerned with the engagement of Kim Kardashian than they are with a decision that will have a direct affect on their quality of life now and into the future, there are other factors at play that will lead to a majority vote for de Blasio.
The rich liberals will vote for de Blasio because they want to assuage their guilt over being rich. And, to be honest, the likely increase in crime under a de Blasio regime will simply be a boon for the limo businesses as the wealthy choose to stay out of the subways and have the ability to pay for the finer ways to travel.
Higher taxes? The rich will muddle through that hardship as well.
For the liberals on the lower end of the economic spectrum a vote for de Blasio will simply mean saying yes to an administration that believes in a redistribution of wealth that will be to their benefit although, they too will feel the pain of the inevitable increase in crime.
The real losers if and when de Blasio is elected? The middle class who will be forced to bear the brunt of the tax increases while at the same time dealing with the rise in crime, potential hit to property values and outflow of jobs as the cost of doing business in NYC becomes to much of a burden and companies flee.
Bottom Line? Caveat Emptor NYC voters! Caveat Emptor!
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One 4Her, plenty of entries
Lexy Wilson has a sauce, a dresser and also a cake
For Lexy Wilson, being in 4H is more like a family tradition.
"My mom was involved in 4H before me or my brother was even born," Wilson said.
As a result, Lexy has grown up inside 4H. She officially joined 4H at 7, the minimum age.
For the past two years, Lexy has been working on a BBQ sauce that she hopes to eventually market and sell.
She said the basic ingredients to all BBQ sauces are the same, but how it is spiced can be changed. She likes sweet BBQ sauce more than hot BBQ sauce.
Last year she was awarded reserve champion for her BBQ sauce, and decided to take it to state. But it was not judged because she didn't know the sauce needed to be pH tested for food safety.
So, she spent the past year working with professors and researchers at Kansas State University in the food production department to make her sauce safe to can and preserve. She said this year's sauce will pass the pH test, and she hopes to take it to state again.
In addition to making BBQ sauce all summer, Lexy raised two pigs, Si and Sadie, to enter into the fair. She said she named them after "Duck Dynasty" characters, and the pigs have lived up to their name's sake. Si, a Duroc, is one crazy pig. Sadie, a cross-breed, is the tiniest.
Lexy said she likes raising Durocs, which are red pigs, but when her family went to the auction to buy the feeder pigs to raise, only one Duroc caught her eye.
Lexy also entered the 4H fashion show. She said 4H'ers can make a set of clothes, make a set of wool clothes or buy a set of clothes. She doesn't have the patience to sew, so she always buys her clothes for the show. At 15 years old, Lexy said this was her first year in the senior division. Although most first-years don't typically place, Lexy took home second alternate, which is the equivalent of 4th place.
She has also found time to build a woodworking project and bake a cake. She has almost finished building a dresser before Thursday, when all the 4H projects have to be done and moved to the fair. She said she is making a chocolate cake for the fair, but the trick to baking a prize-winning cake is more about texture than taste.
Lexy said she would have entered more things, but this year she got to travel to Washington D.C. with 4H. Between the trip and summer camp, she didn't really have the time to work on more projects.
Lexy said she has known for some time what she wants to do when she grows up.
She said she wants to attend K-State and major in food science with a minor in grain science. From there, she wants to open a restaurant where she makes her own malt liquor and her own BBQ sauce. Although her family is here in Manhattan, she said she wants to move further south, but thinks she will have to be closer to home if she ever gets married and has kids.


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"Nobody, and I mean nobody, can talk a junkie out of usin'. You can talk to them for years, but sooner or later they're gonna get ahold of somethin'. Maybe it's not dope. Maybe it's booze. Maybe it's glue. Maybe it's gasoline. Maybe it's a gunshot in the head. But somethin'... Somethin' to relieve the pressures of everyday life, like having to tie their shoes."
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This Guy Turned Making Weird GIFs Into a Lucrative Job
Gregory Alan Bolcer stashed this in All the world's a stage
Stashed in: Tumblr!, Instagram!, Starbucks, About GIFs
He's living the dream!
The photographer's GIFs provided a break from his commercial work, but caught the eye of clients ranging from Starbucks to L'Oreal. His first big GIF gig was shooting for Hermès. Though doing commercial work, everyone embraced his signature quirkiness. "There was a great deal of respect of my artistic point of view," he says.
That POV comes through loud and clear. His Starbucks campaign features levitating Frappuccinos spinning circles around the subject. An image from the L'Oréal fashion show features a model forever being doused with hairspray.
His process hasn't changed much. Laurent films the scene with a Canon 5D Mark III. Later, he picks a still image from the video and carefully layers animated elements over it in After Effects. After making sure everything lines up and moves seamlessly, Laurent brings the piece into Photoshop for a bit of color correction. He's refined his technique over the years and is a lot faster. "I don't have a general guideline for how I do things, but know I know my style," he says.
With 40,000 followers on Tumblr and 4,600 on Instagram, he finds the feedback nice but not entirely necessary.


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