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Season 3 ends with Caroline helping Max earn her high-school diploma and reconnect with her estranged mother.
Caroline's love for horse racing gets out of hand when she and Max go to a racetrack as guests of Sophie's new bookie boyfriend.
Max and Caroline are forced to find the original tenant of their apartment when the lease expires and convince him to re-sign or else they will face eviction.
Max and Caroline agree to make a wedding cake for a bride who can't decide on what style of cake she wants, or much of anything else.
When the pastry school closes Deke has an idea of purchasing it, so he invites Caroline and Max to meet his parents, Max is tongue-tied until his mother confides in her about her secret past.
It's St. Patrick's Day and Caroline unwittingly goes with Max and the dinner gang for the parade. But she longs to practice her former holiday traditions by going to Plaza Hotel.
When Nicolas tells Caroline that he is going to leave his wife for her, she goes out of control.
For her dinner date at Nicholas' loft, Caroline asks Max and Deke to join them so she can control herself to not doing anything wrong.
Han installs an ATM at the diner. Max decides to break up with Deke now that she knows about him being rich, he then in return gives her 1 million dollars.
Deke invites Max's friends over for a gathering at his dumpster, Caroline quickly learns an enormous secret about his financial background.
Max is surprised when she finds out where Deke's lives after their first date. Meanwhile, Caroline is concerned about a shady car in front of their apartment building.
Max falls for her pastry school partner, Deke and Caroline could not resist herself to married teacher Chef Nicholas.
Caroline finds out something about Chef Nicholas, after a hot make-out session with him.
Max accompanies Caroline who attends her former nanny's funeral, but quickly finds out they have no idea who she is.
Max wants to make a good impression on her first day of pastry school, but the class clown distracts her. Caroline dresses to impress Max's handsome teacher.
Max applies to the Manhattan School of Pastry and bakes a tart for her entrance exam.
Caroline is stood up by her date, so she and Max take advantage and go to the restaurant together.
Han begs Max and Caroline to help by getting a stripper to play his girlfriend after learning that his mother arrives from Korea for a visit.
Caroline splurges on hair extensions and buys Max some new sheets. But Caroline doesn't realize when she throws away the old set that Max's old pillowcase has sentimental value.
Max and Caroline invent cake fries in order to boost business when the cronut craze threatens their bottom line.
Max and Caroline take jobs as baristas only to figure out how to use the new cappuccino maker they got for their cupcake shop.
When Max becomes obsessed with the stray cat hanging around their apartment, Caroline tries to convince her that the cat would be better off if they found it a good home.
Caroline uses an online fundraising site when she needs money for an expensive pair of pants. Caroline and Max have issues when Max gets a new smartphone.
Rumor about an incident concerning a rock star increases business for Max and Caroline's cupcake walk-up window.


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|2009-07-29, 10:54
|Link #261
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Here's something very unusual.... technically, it exists at the edge of rap but weaves a big-band-ska-retrojazz scheme into the lyrics. Amazingly, these guys are from Sweden.
Consider this the antidote to Sweden's reputation as ABBA-land. MOVITS!
|2009-07-30, 11:51
|Link #262
Graphic Designer
This guy named Kevin rudolf got one of his songs as bestseller on itunes. He worked with Lil Wayne to make this album. It just a mixture of Rock and Rap but well composed in my opinion.
|2009-07-30, 19:55
|Link #263
Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
Listening to a lot of People Under The Stairs lately.
Kanye - Needs to stop riding his own nuts so hard, seriously, Lupe pissed on you when he made Conflict Diamonds and Mohammad Walks.
Eminem - Back in Infinite and Slim Shady LP, I loved this guy. With the direction he's taking his music nowadays, no dice.
Jay-Z - Honestly, I've always thought this guy was hella overrated. Using up to 3 or 4 minutes of word for word Biggie lyrics and passing it off as a tribute is BS, nothing anyone can say will ever change my opinion on that matter. I mean jeez, 3 or 4 minutes worth of Biggie lyrics as tribute? At that point, it's either a) biting his rhymes and using a cheap cop-out card, or b) practically borderline dickriding.
This is not to say that Jay-Z doesn't have talent on his own, but christ, it just seems like he half-assed some random verses and got lazy.
|2009-07-30, 21:22
|Link #264
Jag föstår
Does anyone else here listen to Tommy Tee, Warlocks, and/or T.P. Allstars?
They are Norwegian Hip-Hop artists. This is probably their most well-known track:
Also, whoever uploaded this to Youtube tagged it wrong. It's actually this:
Tommy Tee - Takin Ova (feat. N-Light-N, Diaz, Warlocks, Opaque & Father Blanco)
|2009-08-07, 04:33
|Link #265
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Do you have ever heard Rap FR ? Here one of my fav
Keny Arkana - La mere des enfants perdus
And here :
La Rage with subtitles english .
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|2009-08-07, 18:43
|Link #267
Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
Friend of Foe 98 (Jay-Z)
"Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC"
Unbelievable (Biggie)
"Get ready to die, tell God I said hi
And throw down some ice, for the nicest MC"
So that's a bite I guess.. except... let me post the next line after Jay-Z's "bite"
"Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo tell Big he's Unbelievable"
So not only does he mention Big he also throws in the song name while describing Big.. yeah what a bite! Anyone who thinks Friend or Foe 98 is a bite is a moron if they actually listen to the song.
I cbf doing more but his worse bite was
Biggie - "The World Is Filled"
"When the Remi's in the system, ain't no tellin
Will I fukk em will I diss em, that's what these h0es yellin
I'm a pimp by blood, not relation
Y'all still chase on, I'll replace on, punks
Drunk of Dom"
Jay-Z - "Give It 2 Me"
"When the Remi's in the system, ain't no tellin
Will I fukk 'em will I diss 'em, that's what they be yellin
I'm a pimp by blood, not relation
Y'all be chasin, I replace them, huh?
Drunk off Crist"
Except you see C.Wallace in the writing credits which means he payed to use those lyrics which means Big's mother got money for that.. and considering that Give It 2 Me was one of the biggest hiphop tracks that year and really got the Neptunes phase off and running..
Also quoting lines and using them for choruses has been going on forever.
He did bit some lines though without doing any of the above stuff.. but that 3-4 mins is more like 1 when you look at it really.. and considering he's done over 1000 songs... yeah I guess he is lazy.
|2009-08-08, 03:30
|Link #268
Dryad of death
I am not much of a fan of rap or hip hop.I do like a few songs however I am still what one might call an outsider.I mean no offense to anyone but to me rap seems to be saying the same things over and over.It gets a tad tiresome.
I do like 2-Pac though.I have for quite awhile.
|2009-08-08, 06:25
|Link #269
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
It "seems" but not really if you read the lyrics for differents countries is not the same .
See :
Rap US is more "Money" "Drug" "Sex"
Rap FR is more "Anti-faschist" "Anti-racism" "Ghetto" "Poor people" if you listen to the 2 video music i posted above you'll see what i means .
|2009-08-14, 11:08
|Link #271
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Michigan
Sadly that's true of most worthy rappers these days. I grew up when rap was first starting out so it's sad to see it in the state it's in today. Honestly I've let go for the most part. I'd definitely consider picking something from groups I know are good like Outkast or Tribe if they ever came back.
|2009-08-22, 09:07
|Link #272
She's a Genius I swear it
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Far away from Hinamizawa
|2009-08-22, 10:58
|Link #273
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
|2009-08-27, 07:10
|Link #275
Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
Somewhere during the last few pages of this thread I either turned into a backpacker or made a steady transition towards the backpacker crowd.
This would probably explain my strong bias against Jay-Z and strong preference for Lupe Fiasco.....or that could just be me.
@boomersooner: Eminem sucks. Period. Avoid the radio. The radio tends to play a ratio of 50 garbage rap songs for every decent one, and 150 garbage rap songs for every excellent one.
|2009-08-30, 00:10
|Link #276
Go Big Red!
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Heart of Liberion
Age: 27
|2009-09-05, 05:59
|Link #277
Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
Actually, I'm pretty sure the general consensus amongst hip-hop heads and probably most of the people posting in this thread is that Eminem ranges from suck to mediocre at best.
So in this case, what I feel is relatively the same as what everyone else does
|2009-09-08, 18:42
|Link #278
Let it Rain
See if you guys like that song right there.
|2009-09-08, 19:37
|Link #279
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
You better watch what the fuck flies outta ya mouth
Or I'ma hijack a plane and fly it into your house
Burn your apartment with your family tied to the couch
And slit your throat, so when you scream, only blood comes out. . .
Fuck you, human race!
Don't worry rainydaiis, I'm not trying to pick on you, since almost everyone(me included) is the same way for the most part. It just makes me laugh how our media morals work sometime.
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|2009-09-08, 21:32
|Link #280
The players president
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Annandale, Virginia
Age: 29
I don't like the new Rap Hip-Hop, but I do love the old school Rap Hip-Hop. Some of the best are Biggie, 2pac, Jay-Z, Bone Thugs, Dr. Dre, Big L, Big Pun, Wu-Tang Clan and my personal favorite Nas. Nas has some of the best lyrics, his lyrics can get really deep from time to time.
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Forums : MFLS Central Forum Thread : If U.S. Loses.......?
from KNIGHTMARE
on Tue 10/6 19:15 ET
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*Do you think Klinsman should be fired if the U. S. Loses to
Mexico on Saturday?
I have not felt Jurgen has done anything exceptional.
Average outcome in last WC. (Nothing we haven't done
Poor/Horrible showing in Gold Cup. (Nothing we haven't done
Mexico seems to be all over the place, and if we lose,
Especially if we get smoked, then I agree with Donovan and
say he is not performing any better than another coach and
let's start looking slash dumping.
Even if we just squeak out a win, I am not sold on him being a
great coach. Just haven't seen anything extraordinary that
another coach couldn't have accomplished.
He was good enough, but perhaps it's time to move on!
I don't want Bradley back but he accomplished much more
than Klinsey ever did.
ps I never liked the guy-gotta be honest.
from Stormin Union
on Tue 10/6 21:08 ET
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I think he should be fired if we lose the game, his coaching
decisions during the gold cup were lousy and I think we will
struggle during qualifying if he is still coach (actually we
struggled during the last qualifying cycle as well). When Arena
and Bradley were at the helm we didn't have much trouble
getting through qualifying but now we do, and we shouldn't.
Just because someone was a great player doesn't mean that
they will be a great or even a good coach. An example was
South Korea's coach Bo in the last World Cup, great player but
not a good coach as their results showed. I think Klinsmann is
the same, great player but not a good coach. Hoping the
players can still make it happen in this game though and we
get the victory, I think they can do it. Have a great time Jeff
and Ben at the game, sold out rose bowl atmosphere should
be awesome.
from FC Byrd Turgler
on Tue 10/6 22:11 ET
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So here's my two cents.
Pros: Expanded the talent pool greatly...particularly with dual-nationals of german extraction (some more helpful than others) Won the last Gold Cup. Finished top of group in CONCACAf WC qualifying last section. Got the team out of the group of death in Brazil. Would have gone to the QF (and beyond?) if Wondo score the sitter against Belgium. Which brings me to...
Cons: Brought Wondo to the World Cup instead of Landon Donovan. Or Brad Davis for LD. Or Julian Green for LD. Or whatever. Taken a step further, his roster selection is consistently maddening. He had a year to develop some replacements with his deeper pool, and yet, there's still a solid chance we see a diminishing Beckerman starting on Saturday. And that isn't even the worst of it.
If Tim Ream starts at left back on Saturday, I'll probably jump off of the top of the Rose Bowl. If you want to play him in the middle, fine, I guess. At best, he's #8 in the centerback pecking order, but if you think you can afford the luxury of Ream's ball skills at the expense of his lead feet (hello Brad Evans!), you're the boss.
But if you want to play him at leftback for a repeat of one of the 5 worst performances at the position in USMNT history (and I remember some lousy ones), then you're fired. You're fired for playing someone out of position whose ceiling out of position will still get you beat by an inferior performance. No speed, no quickness, no attacking threat to mention- chants of 'puto' raining down on you after you've spotted 3 to el Tri whilst the golf claps cheer you on to retirement. Quirky selection is a sign of ego. Win and you're a genius. Lose and you're heckled. Ream and you get reamed, and you probably deserve worse.
from FC Byrd Turgler
on Tue 10/6 22:30 ET
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And for the Ream fan boys, do you realize that Bolton finished worse every year that he was there? Fulham, currently 13th, finished 17th last year, so maybe this will finally be the year his team in England finishes higher than the year before.
All of this isn't just to say I can't believe Ream is on the team (although, I really can't). It's more about players like Feilhaber, Hedges, etc who can't get a sniff while Klinsmann feels good about running this stiff out at left back. I have no argument for JK's drunken dartboard roster selections. If the results are poor this weekend, then fire his ass now.
from FC Byrd Turgler
on Tue 10/6 23:05 ET
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Then again, Jordan Morris...he's been really, really good. Anybody familiar with Bink from the Piers Anthony books? from KNIGHTMARE
on Tue 10/6 23:09 ET
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I don't understand the constant tinkering? When will a team be
finally chosen? And his ego is bigger than TRUMP'S! That
may be good when your winning but horrible when it goes
Not having Donovan on that WC team was BS, totally
personal. Don't tell me he was a liability?
Will Howard start? Oh wait, he needed time off.
I believe we have plenty of talent, we are no longer a
wasteland of skills. So with that thought, I believe the "pros" of
Klinsman would have happened with any competent coach.
from Newport FC
on Tue 10/6 23:11 ET
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I agree that he should be canned if we lose.
While it's easy to blame Wondo for missing that
goal, it was Howard that kept us in the game to
begin with...not any exceptional coaching. In
fact, I think we played much too defensively when
you consider how we played the first three group
I also think a new coach should come in for every
WC cycle just to keep things fresh. Even Arena
ended up taking too many of the "old band" in his
second trip.
I'd like to see Brek Shea get healthy again and be
a solid left attacking back for us.
from KNIGHTMARE
on Tue 10/6 23:20 ET
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I don't understand the constant tinkering? When will a team be
finally chosen? And his ego is bigger than TRUMP'S! That
may be good when your winning but horrible when it goes
Not having Donovan on that WC team was BS, totally
personal. Don't tell me he was a liability?
Will Howard start? Oh wait, he needed time off.
I believe we have plenty of talent, we are no longer a
wasteland of skills. So with that thought, I believe the "pros" of
Klinsman would have happened with any competent coach.
from FC Byrd Turgler
on Tue 10/6 23:33 ET
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Here's another reason I'd fire JK. Keeps bringing in Ream. Via Twitter:
@MLSTransfers Hedges had a Canadian grandmother and is looking to make the switch even though he played a friendly for USA in Feb.2015
from Arrows SC
on Wed 10/7 5:04 ET
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I've been disappointed. It appears now that his success with the German team was more due to his assistant, Joachim L�w, as the technician, leaving Klinsmann to be the cheerleader.
I particularly don't like it that he'll go to the ends of the earth (starting with the ends of Germany) looking for dual-nationals, while overlooking much of what MLS-grown US talent has to offer.
I think it's time to move on.
from Dynamo Salem
on Wed 10/7 15:37 ET
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When you consider his salary and the advantages he has had over the previous three American coaches of the US national team, Klinsmann as far as the coaching part goes has been a complete disaster. from FC Byrd Turgler
on Thu 10/8 14:30 ET
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And yet, he's never lost to Mexico. I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't know or had forgotten that fact. That's a pretty big check in the 'Pro' column. Think Mack Brown would still be coach at Texas if he had a winning record against OU? from Mohawks
on Thu 10/8 17:21 ET
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Not saying Klinsy is amazing or terrible, but rather I'm annoyed at media, soccer sites, etc being so fickle with him. When he left LD off the roster he was brutally criticized (and I do disagree it was wrong looking back). When we got out of the group everyone praised him. When we beat both Germany and Netherlands (I don't care that they were friendlies) we all praised him. When we bombed at the Gold Cup we all hated him. When we got a result in Azteca we all praised him. Outside of the Gold Cup result, I don't see a significant reason to blame him for anything bad. We were 1st in WCQ in the hex, we haven't ever lost to Mexico as FCBT mentioned, we are getting results in Europe, our youth program has seemed to develop, we got out of the group of death at the World Cup and at least had an entertaining match against Belgium who are incredible, and so on. Is he a legend or great? No. But I think firing a coach over one summer (and this game) is a bad decision too. Once again, I'm not a fan of his necessarily but I just don't agree completely this game is everything for his career and that he's this terrible coach. from Mohawks
on Thu 10/8 18:53 ET
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I will say that for the money were paying him, that's a different
from Weirder Bremen
on Thu 10/8 22:06 ET
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The money they're paying him might not be a big
issue. They're going to take in a pretty nice
chunk of change this weekend.
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As the weather warms, this is the perfect time to think about the time-honored tradition of summer camp. From swimming and hiking, to singing songs around a campfire and newer challenges including a high ropes course, camp is the place to make memories that last a lifetime.
Girls in grades one through 12 from the Spencer County area can build these kinds of memories this summer. Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana will be holding summer camps at two locations on multiple dates from June through July.
Kassidy Pulliam was recently selected to be a legislative page for Rep. Brad Montell at the Kentucky State Capitol on Feb. 27. Kassidy is a sixth-grader at Spencer County Middle School, and she is the daughter of David and Melinda Pulliam.
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Taylorsville Masonic Lodge 210 will host an all-you-can-eat country ham breakfast from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. Saturday. The breakfast is $7 per person. Carry-out is available. Everyone is welcome.
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The Spencer County Public Library is seeking help from the community to plan for its future.
Visit the library's website at spencercountylibrary.us to fill out a brief survey.
Motorcycle road skills testing will resume beginning Thursday, April 11, and continue until Oct. 10. Testing will be on the second Thursday of each month at 10:30 a.m. if weather permits.
If on the day of testing, interested parties are unsure about the testing due to weather conditions, the examiner will have made a decision by 9:30 a.m. Call the Circuit Clerk's office at 502-477-3220 to find out his decision.
The location for the testing has been moved to Waterford Park on Ky. 44, five miles west of Taylorsville.
Ridgeview Baptist Church is launching two new ministries aimed to help teens and young children who may be dealing with difficult issues at home.
The church is hosting a kickoff party at 4 p.m. Saturday to celebrate the expansion of Celebration Recovery, which helps adults deal with drug and alcohol dependency, addiction, domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse and other issues. The Landing is a new program for teenagers and Celebration Station will focus on children and pre-teens, said Lola Shelburne, the church's ministry leader.
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The show will feature young, adult western, gaited pleasure and contest classes.
For more information, contact Leslie Smitha, 502-321-8166; Sharon Gilbert, 502-738-9741; Chasidy Hawkins, 502-680-0497; or Brooke Gilbert 502-902-1754. Or you can visit www.mtedensaddleclub.weebly.com
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The Spencer County Middle School Dance Team competed at Jamfest Nationals on March 23-24. The team took first place in their division and are now national champions. The team members, in no particular order, are Ilona Kovacs, Meredith Barnett, Allie Thomas, Hallie Helton, Beth Hill, Kaylee Smith, Mckenzie Potts, Lily Mitchell, Ali Henderson, Allison Dunbar, Lindsey Miller, Lindsey Bush, Molly Marlow, Jena Ellis, Kassidy Pulliam, Rikki Urquhart, Peyton Forberger, Morgan Forkey, Cayla Perkins, Cate Jarboe and Lydia Rowe.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Kentucky leads the way in blanketing our Commonwealth in blue and silver pinwheels. The blue and silver pinwheel is a symbol of childhood and forms the cornerstone of the national Pinwheels for Prevention child abuse awareness campaign being conducted throughout the nation. Kentucky's campaign hopes to be the largest in the nation. The campaign, which last year was the second largest in the nation, is being coordinated through Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky.
Still-smoking, charred remnants of a barn are the horrible aftermath of a blaze in which dozens of prize dairy goats died Wednesday morning, their terrified bleating echoing through the darkness when the structure went up in flames.
"It was so pitiful. You should have seen them. It was a nightmare, just a nightmare," said Joann Shelburne in a trembling voice as she looked out at the ruins where half of her prize-winning Alpine dairy goats perished in the predawn hours.
She said 25 goats died, and five more had to be put down.
Judge-Executive Bill Karrer, front and center, signed a proclamation last week declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Spencer County. Pictured with Karrer are representatives from the Taylorsville Police Department, the Department for Community Based Services, the Family Resource and Youth Service Centers, the North Central District Health Department, the Spencer County Cooperative Extension, Court-Appointed Special Advocates and other community agencies.
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Unicum?? Don't wanna know what's that, but I'm guessing it has something to do with unicorns and babies...
I had to do the Google on that one. It's a liqueur from Hungary.
Am I the only one who had the image of Milla Jovovich saying "Multicum" as an initial reaction?
I'm glad you're still posting these toy study exercises, I thought they were all over. Here's my attempt :-)
I made two drawings of the beast.
I drew them completly by eye, though I used the eraser a lot. Anytime I looked at the pictures, I saw mistakes, so I corrected them as much as I could without redrawing the whole picture. Any tips? Advice?
I changed the settings on the blog so you should be able to comment without a problem. Though tell me if there is, because I'm kind of new to this stuff.
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Here's a link to my blog I really need your help John
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Shereef, we're honored you're coming to Atlanta for the first Tennis Congress! Thanks for helping get the word out. P.J.
Thanks for the great idea PJ! See you in Atlanta.
YO BRO you coming to my Town? we need to Hook it up. Take some lessons from me. while you are here.
Hey V, I'll be at peachtree city which looks right next to atlanta. I'll be there for the 4 days of the Tennis Congress events but hopefully there will be time to get in a coaching session with you as well.
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Google around > for "disk reliability" though and you'll find some real horror > stories about disk failure rates in, for instance, > SCSI -> ATA RAID arrays. unfortunately, anecdotal evidence is nearly useless outside of sociology ;) > Generally yes, we do want that disk to still be working at 5 years. interesting. I don't mind if things survive past 3 years, but don't generally plan to use them, at least not in their original purpose. there's just too much to be gained by upgrading after 3 years. > My personal experience with ATA disks in servers has been limited. hah! this *is* the only really reliable part of anecdotal evidence - the demographic of respondents ;) > help a lot to have some objective measure of that. When Seagate > starts selling 5 year SATA disks I'll consider buying them. http://info.seagate.com/mk/get/AMER_WARRANTY_0704_JUMP > There's also a school of thought that RAID arrays should be > "disk scrubbed" frequently (all blocks on all disks read) > to force hardware failures and block remapping to occur early > enough so that the redundant information present > in the array can rebuild from what's left. As opposed to a worst > case where the data is written once, not touched for a year, > and then fails unrecoverably when a read hits multiple bad blocks. it's all about what failure modes you're expecting, with what probability. if you want scrubbing, it means you're expecting some sort of silent media degredation. that's not unreasonable, and it might even be sane to expect that more on commodity disks rather than premium ones. (IMO mainly because commodity densities are so much higher, and premium disks are clearly designed to trade poor density for higher robustness.) but maybe you should scrub premium disks as well, since if you really haven't touched some part of the disk, you really don't have any data on the particular disks's reliability. it would be quite interesting if one could obtain some sort of quality measure from the disk while in use. I notice that ATA supports a read-long command, for instance, which claims to actually give you the raw block *and* the ecc associated. SMART also provides some numbers (as well as self-tests) that might be useful here. but silently crumbling media is not the only failure mode! I'm not even sure it's a common one. I see more temperature and vibration-related troubles, for instance. > On the Sun Oracle server, much more so. out of curiosity, is the machine otherwise well-configured? for instance, does it have a sane amount of ram (1GB/cpu is surely minimal these days, and for a DB, lots more is often a good idea.) or is the DB actually quite small, but incredibly update-heavy? > > under what circumstances will you have a 100% duty cycle? > > Probably never? 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It's as if this year filmmakers remembered why God made movies. In a world of nonstop data where most of the static is gossip in 140 soul-destroying words or less, cinema has had a transcendent 12 months — a visual renaissance that has burned past convention.
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Sometimes films screamed for attention with their sheer size and how well they wore it. Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises" was glorious in its scope, frames dense with detail, and Peter Jackson's 48 frames-per-second "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was nearly blinding in its clarity, which added a sense of wonder to Middle-earth. Tom Hooper's "Les Misérables" pulled Victor Hugo's masterpiece out of the mud and muck with incredible theatricality.
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There is too much to rant about these sort of genres. If you're an experienced anime fan like me, you would probably hate this sort of genre too. I used to like harem, but probably because I was new to anime before and the whole "guy being surrounded by hot babes" just engaged me. Maybe I just wanted that to happen to me as well! OK! Besides from that, harem anime is stupid. Why? I'll tell you why.
For most harem anime, the main character (who obviously has to be a person with a penis) is a sissy boy. Most of us would hate the main character because he is not interesting at all and he doesn't act cool. He's just this typical generic nice guy who gets all nervous and crap when he see's a girl naked or anything ecchi. I'm not saying all main characters of harem anime are like this. But most of them are. Like 95% of it! Probably some of you know the anime "Hidan No Aria" and hated it. But I liked it because the main character is pretty darn cool. And it's about harem as well. Yay. It's rare to see a cool main character in an anime. Because to engage a person in an anime is to actually make the main character likable. But no...harem genres usually throw one of the crappiest and pathetic protagonist at us!
Generic ecchi bullshit. To be honest, anime has to realize that if I wanted to see an animated girl naked, I would be watching hentai by now. So why throw this crap it? Big breast, cleavage, upskirt, nude scenes...they have it. Except for they don't show the nipples or vagina because it would be considered hentai instead and won't be shown on television. The anime provides so much of this that it's not even that fun watching anymore. I just wanna see the plot progressing. Oh wait I forgot, there is no plot. It's all about a bunch of girls who wants to sit on the main character's dick. Yeah. Such a generic plot.
The scenes are way too cliche. It was so typical on what's going to happen. I'm gonna tell you what usually happens in a harem anime.
Girl and boy about to kiss? Gets interrupted.
Girl is nude or "private parts" are exposed for some stupid reason and the protagonist is just there to see it.
Girl falls on top of the guy. Happens way too much in all harem...
Girl gets angry at protagonist for doing something sexual with another girl.
All girls fall for the main character.
I can list hundreds of these. But I'm way too lazy. Moving on.
Plot is pretty damn stupid and doesn't even try hard enough because their main focus is to show us anything ecchi. Maid scenes. Shower scenes. Loli scenes. All this bullshit. They do their best to set up anything that would lead to something sexual. For freak sake, if I wanted to see something sexual I would be watching hentai by now. You kiddin me!?
And last...the characters. Harem genres do their best to provide some of the characters that meet up to a pervert's fetishes. For example, the character with gigantic breast that weighs heavier than truck. These sort of characters are usually thes one rubbing their breast on the protagonist's face. Next we have the tsunderes. I hate these characters because they appear in so much in anime. It's pretty much the girl who gets easily angry over something so stupid and can't express their feelings for the main character properly. Screw tsundere's, they're not even interesting. Then we have the emotionless girl. Usually these sort of girls don't even care if the protagonist does anything sexual with them and provides us with sarcastic jokes.
These are just some examples. There is more to it.
So yeah...harem anime is too damn generic and repetitive. I might as well watch a normal romance anime between ONE boy and ONE girl. At least some scenes are non-generic and actually interesting.
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I agree. harem is boring and so incredibly generic.
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I find love polygons are generally more interesting and entertaining than harems. I don't mind harem shows every now and then, though. I should clarify that I own several of both types, and have enjoyed each for different reasons. Meh, it's all a matter of personal taste anyway, and no anime can ever please everyone. Enjoy what you love, and don't try too hard to shit on everyone else's fun.
I'd agree, harem shows are less than what it's actually worth, but hey:
Nothin' wrong with a little fantasy.
It sure doesn't fit our tastes, but it fits others'.
It seems we have a difference of opinions. I like most harem animes and find them very interesting. While I do love them, I'm well aware of its flaws. The main characters are usually weak and act as if they're afraid of girls, but, as you said, not all of them are like that. It's also true that most, but again not all, are ecchi (which is a bonus point for me, but not for others, as you have shown). Harem, like all genres, has it's flaws and can be generic. Honestly, most anime series could be considered generic and cliche. It's depends on the writers and staff to make generic stuff interesting. That's how I see it at least.
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I respectfully disagree.
it's still nice to watch sometimes
i might have pica
i understand your point of view but i like the happy endings where everyone is happy. i hate drama where the main characters end up dead or not together so each person has their likes and dislikes but i would like to see at least 2 romcoms with harems each season there are plenty of despressing ass animes out there so watch those and stop bitching about my harems. ty
If you go into a harem expecting an Evangelion or Madoka you're gonna be disappointed.
But if you see it for what it is, a playful romp with slapstick jokes and egregious fanservice they are somewhat enjoyable.
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I'm just saying~
^^^^^^ What Dark Flame Master said. I don't love the genre, but I can enjoy some of those series.
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Using ethos right off the bat *smirking as I type this* anyways moving on...
More of a rant like my predecessors have mentioned, I did however read the post.
I must say that if Rito2Ru sees this thread he would make an effort in commenting this thread(don't make me look bad Harem King).
Let me try this tactic, If you're as experienced in anime as I am, you would know there are various factors to the Harem THEME like with all anime; if a person can see through the boobs, shower scenes etc... you would actually get to know what the anime is trying to convey.
Effective??? >.>
EDIT: adding fan service to a story doesn't mean the whole thing sucks, it gives you something to look at, guess some people just don't like boobs, sad day...
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Uuugh so many typos(you are using words that mean other things lol xD one word would be "brag" stupid)
I mean it just seems like you think the words have a different meaning>.> nvm that.
But that said, I agree it's all the same, a Harem series is always based around those things, there are exceptions, but no company tries to avoid being just a harem, because the logic that those company's have is "harem, popular, fast money without putting too much effort into it" and that's basically it. The genre is the same, in almost every series, but this isn't because it's a harem, then it needs to be like that, the only thing to do is change the personality of the main character, but this is a huge risk for the company's, so no one does it.
Though its repetitive and almost always the same, I do not really care, I'm more of a "if the plot is decent, then I don't give two shits about anything else, unless its something huge"
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I got married at 25. My husband is 11 years older than me. We have been married for 8 1/2 years, but we lived together and dated for 2 years prior to marrying, and I knew him and worked with him for a couple years before we dated...
I don't think age has anything to do with the "when" to get married. I think it has more to do with your compatibility with the person you are with.
I wouldn't have married my husband if I hadn't been sure that I really wanted to be with him - the fact is, I think I was imagining our retirement and what/where/how we would spend our old age before we even got married.
If you can't see yourself at 70 hanging out with your lover, then you probably shouldn't marry them.
Me, I think we will have an RV and be one of those traveling couples who are the camp hosts at the camp grounds; we will be the ones to come and tell the kids partying in the woods to quiet down after 10pm and come clean up the camp sites after they leave. And the bathrooms - but that would be why we can stay in the campground for free...
He will still be taking his scenery pictures and actually have his website up and running to sell them. And I will at least have two cats that live in the RV with us.
My new goal is for us to document all the covered bridges left in the US - we started this for our New Year's resolution (hehe):
Of course this picture is crappy - my husband is much more talented. That and his camera is much more impressive than my little 3.2 mexapixel cell phone camera...
Officially a home owner!
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I think anyone has the right to marry at any age ^.^... just live with the consequences afterwards~
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Its different for everybody because people learn who their are and grow up at different times in their lives. Some people just refuse grow up at all, and marriage should never come into consideration. There certainly is an age at which marriage is far too early to bring into consideration, and that age is any age before they actually know who they are.
For me, I was 21 when I got married and I already knew who I was since I was 18.
I met my wife when I was 18. My wife was 26 at the time, and she married me at the age of 29. Think about that. What the hell does a women at the prime of her mid 20s have to do with an 18 year old? We've been married for 7 years now and we have a beautiful 1 year old daughter.
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Who cares about marriage, it's about the relationship.
I've been with my bf for 8 years, I'm 20 now (yes we've been together since we were 12) and we plan to get married after we graduate from college, which is in 2 years Lol.
So I'd say 22-25 is a good age, since I wouldn't want to have kids when I'm in my 30's.
Frage alles , beantworten keine
Jason and I just had our 2nd anniversary. I was 18 and my husband was 31. I think for the "right time" of marriage is when you know and feel confident that the other is the person you want to live with for the rest of your life.
Other than that, I suggest praying about if the other person is someone you should get serious with or just keep fishing around.
I'm waiting until I'm a older. I don't want to rush into marriage now. I love my boyfriend, but we just aren't ready for that kind of commitment. I've had this discussion with him, and we both completely understand. We still love each other, but, based on what I know and experienced, young marriages are very much more likely too get divorces.
I honestly think the best age for getting married would be 24+, but that's just my opinion.
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Studies have shown that ppl who live together before marriage (if they ever get around to it) have a higher chance of divorcing.
Isn't that funny? Whenever a couple lives together, sharing property, responsibilities, and even children, but are not married, then there is a good reason why they aren't married. A friend of mine is a divorce lawyer (I know, I know) and she told me once that people get married for trivial reasons, but they never get divorced for trivial reasons. She is so smart.
Arranged marriages also have a higher success rate than marriages "for love". I think it's because the couple in the arranged marriage don't expect their spouses to make them happy, so they aren't as disappointed when their spouses aren't perfect.
I think marriages work out because the ppl in them are more realistic in what marriage is, more respectful of it and their spouse, the act of marriage & their vows they took actually had meaning to them, they discussed their expectations BEFORE they married, they are willing to compromise & to forgive (at least the small stuff).
Dated for 3yrs, married at 21, he was 22..... 5 years later, we started having kids (have 4 now). Together for 24 years, married for 21 and counting.
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
Depends on yourself.
For myself, I'm 18 years old going on 19. I'm currently taking Bach Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I will be finish in 4 years. I will then be 22. I can either get a job or continue studying. My goal was to go into Business Administration as well. If I decide to go into both that will be a total of 8 years of studying. At 26 I will finish school. If I work for 4 years, and get paid roughly 70,000 - 90,000 a year, I will want to marry around 30.
My girlfriend wants to go into medicine, with her straight A's and volunteer work and recommendations, it's possible. 8 years studying, she will be 26 when she finishes. Making me 28. 2 years of her salary with 4 years of mine. I think I would be happy at that spot.
Message me if you guys need help
We got married last friday. We're both 20 and are expecting our first child
16? Oh wait, in this country, you can get married at that age. =_= I don't see who would want to get married at 16.
the youngest age allowed for marriage is too young
I'm up for a NAFTA
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16? Oh wait, in this country, you can get married at that age. =_= I don't see who would want to get married at 16.
My mom got married when she was 16. Thing is my dad was 36. 20 years apart and a lot of people were against it. My parents love to much. TO MUCH!
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Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler Review
Noctua is an Austrian company that combines industrial experience and knowledge of cooling products with scientific research in fan technology. This is a recipe for high performance cooling, but with the least amount of noise, something Noctua continues to prove possible with each new product.
Noctua's newest entry into the CPU cooling arena is the NH-U12P. It continues the design of the NH-U series. It boasts four dual heatpipes and comes bundled with a Noctua NF-P12 premium fan and Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste.
So, doesn't this heatsink look familiar? Perhaps like the Thermalright Ultra 120? That's what I first thought when I saw it, and naturally my mind wondered how they compared. They both are vertical heatsinks with four dual heatpipes, so I think it's appropriate that the Noctua NH-U12P be compared and tested against the Thermalright Ultra 120. A tough challenge? Of course!
Closer Look:
Ok, so I went to sign for the delivery and got this MASSIVE box, man it looked like Noctua had decided to use one of Shaquille O'Neal's shoeboxes! I thought, "how big IS this heatsink?!" and took a photo of the box with a standard 3.5" hard drive next to it to give you an idea of the size.
Those kind people at Noctua had made a hamster house for the NH-U12P to live in during its journey to me. Haha, joking aside though, I like how Noctua use paper/card for almost all their packaging, those inflatable plastic bags and packing peanuts annoy the hell outta me!
You can't really see much through the little window on the front of the box. You can see the fan, a few of the heatsink fins, and if you're lucky you might see a hamster! The front of the packaging bullet-points the key features, which are explained on the back of the box.
The side of the box shows a technical drawing of the heatsink and the mounting hardware. This is the first time you see what the heatsink actually looks like. The other side just has a few different language versions of the feature explanations.
Finally, on the top of the box you get all the technical specifications of the Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler and the fan.


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For the third time in six years Onslow County Crime Stoppers has been recognized as the best program in the state.
For the third time in six years Onslow County Crime Stoppers has been recognized as the best program in the state.
The N.C. State Crime Stoppers Association made the announcement at its annual training conference held recently in Shelby.
In 2011, Crime Stoppers received 475 calls with 370 tips to the hotline resulting in 44 arrests or apprehensions, including 10 students. The number of tips is the most received in one year in the history of program.
Those hotline tips lead directly to the most ever felony convictions and record payouts. Cases solved with the help of Crime Stoppers included a $500,000 copper wire theft aboard Camp Lejeune, multiple armed robberies and the apprehension of several fugitives. Tips also led to the arrest of several drug dealers including a major distribution point at a local middle school.
The effort of board members and contributions from supporters was deeply appreciated, said local Crime Stoppers Chairman Joe Yannessa.
�This was a direct reflection on the varied activities of the program, support provided by board members, enthusiastic response of the community and the overall success of the program in generating anonymous tips in support of local law enforcement and support for the Campus Crime Stoppers in our schools,� said Yannessa, who attended the conference, which includes various classes and law enforcement presentations.
The state organization recognized that Onslow County Crime Stoppers recorded its most active and successful year in the history of the program measured by civilian board member participation, community feedback and response and hotline tips leading to arrests. The board conducted initiatives to plan and conduct multiple annual events, enhance community awareness through advertising to include all local Marine Corps installations, provide county and Marine Corps Base Schools and their Resource Officers with increased campus program support, provide Coastal Carolina Community College with unique promotional support, maximize fund raising efforts and oversee coordination and communications with nine separate law enforcement agencies.
The program set new standards of achievement and attained the highest level of participation in its dozen years of operation.
Fundraising efforts in 2011 included a successful barbecue event that sold nearly 2,000 meals and a letter appealing to local businesses that resulted in donations in excess of $13,000.
The program awarded two $1,000 Crime Stoppers College Scholarships to high school seniors pursuing Criminal Justice majors and two $500 awards to basic law enforcement trainees.
Crime Stoppers spent more than $9,000 on promotional items distributed by board members during National Night Out and provided to Onslow County and Marine Corps Base Schools. The program also implemented a billboard advertising campaign in 2011.
The superior results achieved were a direct reflection on the dedication, enthusiasm and inspiring personal efforts and commitment of the 20 elected members of the Board of Directors and 17 Member Auxiliary Board of Advisers, Yannessa said.
Since the 2000 inception of the local program, Onslow County Crime Stoppers has received more than 2,800 tips resulting in approximately 375 arrests or apprehensions, according to statistics recorded by the program.
The program was selected as program of the year out of 85 active programs in North Carolina.
The local Crime Stoppers program offers rewards up to $2,500 for information leading to arrest or apprehension in local crimes.
Anyone with information concerning unsolved local crimes can contact Onslow County Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273. Callers do not have to reveal their identities to receive cash rewards.
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Before the advent of sophisticated digital and online technologies, tracking of marketing campaigns was easier. Television, newspapers, magazines and radio were primary media channels and when consumers came directly to a store or ordered from a catalogue, it was simple to trace their purchase path. With a proliferation of technologies, customers now reach sellers through a myriad of sources – organic search, PPC, social media, email campaigns, media partner sites, QR codes, TV ads, group buying sites and display ads. In this era, therefore, attribution reporting is used by marketers to comprehend the miscellaneous touch points that customers have with their brand.
Instead of focusing on the last click – the click that brings conversions, such as a customer signing up for newsletters or finalizing a shopping cart purchase – attribution reporting assigns partial values to various and overlapping marketing touch points that customers interact with during the sales process as they move from awareness through to conversion. While statistics show that paid search advertising and search engine optimization still have a major share of online marketing budgets, customers also get influenced by a combination of social mentions, display ads, offline marketing, promo codes and traditional marketing channels, such as TV and Radio.
Last click attribution unfairly credits the last referral for conversion while completely ignoring other channels that may be a part of the sales chain. Perhaps a TV ad that initially introduced a product to some customers instigated them to check for more information online and eventually purchase the product. The advertisement on TV then also deserves some credit. Comprehensive attribution reporting gives you a better view idea of the entire purchase process and reveals how your customers are influenced by a combination of channels and marketing messages. Organizations with a sound attribution reporting have seen 18% to 26% increase in return on investment (ROI) on their marketing spend. Ironically though, only 24 per cent of companies and digital marketers have adopted attribution reporting.
The low adoption rate for this system is primarily due to a complex marketplace and a shortage of skilled personnel for advanced tracking and analytics.
The Process of Attribution Reporting
The chain of process to a final sale or conversion is long and complex – the customer experiences multiple ad impressions, direct marketing influences, offers and specific level of brand recall before he or she is ready to pull out the wallet and commit to a sales or conversion. Employing sophisticated tracking technologies and a system of attribution modeling (assigning weighted values to each media touch point) attribution reporting checks the clicks and traces your customer's entire movement through the sales process. This may involve using a unique tracking value in print ads that can be further used to locate the referral source for a particular customer as they enter into the sales chain. For the next step, you can trace the different keywords the customer uses to find your company through Google. The banner ads seen across different sites can then be traced along with promo code distributed across social media. You can finally measure the influence of the email offer that involves the click leading to conversion.
With attribution reporting, the aim is to factor in every marketing tactic that you employ in offline and online media, and to precisely check your highest yielding channels, as also as the interaction and partial values of each channel. Once you know your highest performing channels, you can tweak the ineffective ones and re-allocate your media spend to the channels that help in driving conversion.
The Actual Working of Attribution Reporting
Scope and strategies for marketing in the online world have advanced beyond search engine optimization. For those who feel that social media and display ads prove to be low converting channels, attribution reporting has revealed a different anecdote.
A study by Atlas Institute revealed that 44 percent of sponsored search clickers get exposed to display ads prior to the click. The study also revealed that 71 percent of the sponsored clicks are navigational in nature. As conventional last click web analytics are focused on clicks and conversions, marketers require more robust reporting to see the complete customer journey from awareness to action (conversion).
The attribution process should start by coming up with key questions that you need answers for through an attribution model. These could be:
• How many times does your advertising interact with users prior to their response?
• Which channels or sources influence their response?
• Can you determine if there is a quantitative value of a tactic that aids in conversion but is not last click?
Once your attribution model is established, you need some time to let all of your activities run and be evaluated before beginning to analyze your comparative data.
The Challenges
Using a conversion attribution model for optimization of your marketing strategies and investment is just one aspect of looking holistically at the touch points that lead to a conversion. But there are very few who have the creative budget, the time and the resources to plan media and creativity together along every point in the process, across all channels.
Another major challenge is that there is no magic formula, or best practice, to come up with an ideal combination of media events. Customers do not travel along the same purchase path—and there are complex factors that vary from industry to industry and company to company. With such complexities, creating an attribution model is more or less an educated guess.
The Conclusion
Utilizing an appropriate technology and reporting the right metric from the right channel to a person with specific knowledge of that domain, at the right time is the most effective way to show value and get the increase in spend that you deserve. You may feel that in the end the only metrics that really matter are sales (or equivalent) and the cost of achieving those. But to check which channels for marketing give maximum returns on investment, it is important to measure and track how SEO and its converged media partners can become more accountable in that sales process.


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The bank selected as your primary bank appears first on the bank information list and in the drop-down boxes throughout TreasuryDirect. To designate a different bank listed in your existing bank information as the primary bank, e-mail us by clicking the Contact Us link in your TreasuryDirect account.
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The British Fashion Council is delighted to announce that on 14th June 2012, HRH The Prince of Wales will host a reception at St James's Palace to celebrate the launch of London Collections: Men - a brand new showcase of British menswear, style and culture that will run until Sunday 17th June.
The reception will provide a unique opportunity for international and UK media, retailers and style influencers to network with London's menswear designers and businesses in magnificent and uniquely British surroundings.
London Collections: Men will promote the breadth of British menswear design to a global audience embracing heritage brands, iconic designers and emerging talent as well as championing British craft, skills, textiles and HRH's campaign for Wool. Spearheaded by Dylan Jones, editor of GQ, a Fashion 2012 Menswear Committee spanning British style and culture is curating the three day event to celebrate the worldwide impact of British talent in menswear. The event will combine shows, presentations, exhibitions, events and digital programming for a global trade and consumer audience.
Harold Tillman CBE, Chair of the British Fashion Council, said "It is a great honour to have the support of HRH the Prince of Wales to launch London Collections: Men and champion British menswear and culture."
The Hospital Club will become the central hub for London Collections: Men. Located in the heart of Covent Garden, the venue will provide a space for presentations, events, screenings and lounges across the three day showcase. UK and International media and buyers will be given access to the on-site facilities including lounges and meeting spaces.
Sue Walter, CEO, The Hospital Club, says, "The Hospital Club prides itself on being the essential hub for London's creative industries, and I'm thrilled that we are hosting this exciting new event in 2012. I believe London Collections will entertain, inspire and stimulate our members and the wider community, and endorse the Club's position as London's most dynamic space for creative collaboration."
Over 55 designers have been confirmed to participate in London Collections: Men include iconic British designers Margaret Howell and Paul Smith, heritage brands such as Aquascutum and Savile Row tailors including Richard James and E. Tautz. Paul Smith and Tom Ford will host events during this period. London's emerging designers will be showcasing including MAN and NEWGEN MEN designers, both of which are sponsored by TOPMAN. The TOPMAN Design show, Fashion East and Fashion Forward designers will also showcase.
London Collections: Men will form part of Fashion 2012, a central platform under which the industry is able to showcase and celebrate British fashion. It will provide a core focus for the industry and a calendar of the major fashion events and activities throughout London's Olympic year. For further information on Fashion 2012, please visit www.fashion2012.co.uk. The Fashion 2012 Menswear Committee includes Alex Bilmes, Esquire; Christopher Bailey; Dan Stevens; David Furnish; David Gandy; David Walker-Smith, Selfridges; David Walliams; Elizabeth Saltzman; Evgeny Lebedev; Gordon Richardson, TOPMAN; Harold Tillman CBE; Imran Amed, Business of Fashion; Jeremy Langmead, MR PORTER; Jo Levin, GQ; Lulu Kennedy, Fashion East; Marigay McKee, Harrods; Richard James; Simon Fuller; Stephen Ayres, Liberty; Tim Blanks; Tinie Tempah; Tom Ford and The Mayors Office.
London Collections: Men will take place 15th-17th June 2012 at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, WC2H 9HQ.
For regular updates on the London Collections: Men programme visit: www.londoncollections.co.uk/men
Designer wishing to participate in London Collections: Men please contact:
Katie Bain at the British Fashion Council
+44(0)20 7759 1978
For more information contact:
Gemma Ebelis at the British Fashion Council
+44 (0) 20 7759 1986
Image: J.W. Anderson AW12 at London Fashion Week February 2012


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£Free App Store
Flicklist feels a bit like a secret club right now as it's currently invite only – though you can request an early invite on the website. Once you're in, Flicklist is a great source for discovering new movies to watch. You can curate your own lists of films, develop a Watchlist from recommendations and the lists of others, and rate and review films for others to see. A movie buff's dream.
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Ever been at a loose end on a night out, not sure where to go or what's going on where? Swarmly aims to change that, by presenting you with a map of the bars, clubs and restaurants in your surrounding area, with real-time buzz on what people are saying about them.
Of course, you can add to that buzz with your own message or hashtag, and venues themselves can add special offers to their "Swarm" for customers to take advantage of.
£Free App Store
The App Store may be bulging with photo-editing apps, but Starmatic is one that deserves a second look. Based on the look and feel of the classic Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera from the 1950s, the app offers 16 standard filters for free with the ability to buy more in-app.
Not only is the interface stunning, it solves the frustrations some users feel with Instagram. For example, you don't have to square off your images or share them with the Starmatic community, if you don't want to. Of course, that is part of the fun, with the ability to follow friends and users whose photos you like, as well as discover new people through the trending topics tab.
Indie Shuffle
£Free, App Store
Indie Shuffle uses the SoundCloud platform to create smart playlists based on your taste in music. Choose your first song, by browsing genres, what's popular or the latest tracks added, and Indie Shuffle does the rest of the legwork for you – with no ads, no subscription and no listening limit. When you find songs you like, add them to your favourites to create a playlist, or keep shuffling to discover even more new music.
Cosmic Bump
£0.69p, App Store
With cute appeal to rival that of Cut the Rope, Cosmic Bump sees you helping a spaceship filled with tiny aliens trying to get back to their planet after crash landing on earth. Your job is to help them collect the energy to repair the ship, which is scattered around various obstacle-ridden levels over six stages. Another winning mobile game from Chillingo.
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/* This program accepts two strings from the user, counts the number of * * characters in each string, and returns a pointer to the longer string*/ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int result = 0; int compare(char *, char *); int main (void) { char first[50], second[50]; /* Takes two strings from the user */ system("clear"); printf("Please enter two names.\n"); printf("After each string, press enter.\n"); scanf("%s", first); scanf("%s", second); //Troubleshooting line printf("\nThe first name you entere is %s\n", first); printf("\nThe second name you entered is: %s\n", second); //End troubleshooting result = compare(first, second); if (result == 1) {printf("\nThe longer name is: %s\n", first);} if (result == 2) {printf("\nThe longer name is %s\n", second);} return 0; } int compare(char * first, char * second) { //Troubleshooting line printf("\nComing into the function, the first name is: %s\n", first); printf("\nComing into the function, the second name is: %s\n", second); //End troubleshooting char *p, *p2; int one=0, two=0, count = 0; int result = 0; do { *p = first[count]; count++; one++; } while ( *p != '\0'); /* Troubleshooting; checking variables */ printf("\nAfter the first while loop, first is %s", first); printf("\nAfter the first while loop, second is %s", second); count = 0; printf("\nThe counter has been reset to %d", count); /* End Troubleshooting check */ do { *p2 = second[count]; count++; two++; } while (*p2 != '\0'); //Troubleshooting printf("\nAfter the second while loop, first is %s", first); printf("\nAfter the second while loop, second is %s", second); printf("\nThe first name is: %s", first); printf("\nThe second name is: %s", second); printf("\nThe variables one & two are %d & %d", one, two); //End troubleshooting if (one > two); { result = 1; return result; } if (one < two); { result = 2; return result; } }
I link the entire program only because I don't know where this error is. The troubleshooting checks isolate the error to the second do/while loop in the compare function, however. Before the loop, the string 'second' is correct; afterwards the output of 'second' is garbage.
The error, hopefully, is something glaringly obvious. I want to understand why this change is happening; please help?


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BURBANK, Calif., May 9 (UPI) -- Actress Amanda Bynes has been placed on three years of probation after pleading no contest to driving with a suspended license, officials in California said.
TMZ reported Bynes' lawyer, Rich Hutton, agreed to the plea deal on her behalf in a Burbank court Thursday.
The judge overseeing the case warned Bynes not to drive without a valid license and insurance, and ordered her to pay a $300 fine, the celebrity news website said.
Charges were filed against the "Hairspray" and "What a Girl Wants" actress in September after she was pulled over in Burbank, Calif., and police discovered her license was suspended.
Bynes lost her license because of two hit-and-run charges that were filed against her. Those charges were ultimately dismissed.


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This Is Too Sexy Hot For The Pumpkin Patch To Handle
Speaking of shit that should be banned from the world, that burning sensation taking over your eyeballs that feels like the tips of your lashes are growing genital warts and your retinas are wrinkling into the fetal position could only mean one thing: it's a Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison post!
If this precious picture of the 17-year-old reptile bride and her creepy serial killer-looking husband posing with the Lohan family (who are looking less orange and bloated than usual) makes you want to cover the eyes of innocent chirruns everywhere, then you're not alone. Before this picture was taken, The Tales of the Crypt's answer to Heidi and Spencer were kicked out of a pumpkin patch in the Santa Clarita Valley for acting like two nasty, inappropriate, pumpkin-fucking whores of destruction. Yup, that's them!
Radar says that mothers who wanted to spend their afternoon picking out a pumpkin with their families instead had to soothe the faces of their crying children and close the mouths of their husbands after Courtney sashayed by in a pair of coochie-killing coochie cutters and white dick-picking-up boots (and it's after Labor Day)! After the pumpkin patch received complaint after complaint, Courtney and Dog (typo and it stays) were shown the exit. Courtney, being the good Christian girl she is, responded to this injustice by quoting the bible on Twitter:
Have a beautifully blessed Sunday! 🙂 "Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment." John 7:24
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If there was Internet access in heaven and Jesus could rewrite John 7:24 he'd change it to: "Do not judge by appearances, but do judge a nightmare creature for spreading several layers of snatch slime on a bunch of pumpkins in the Santa Clarity Valley."
But in all seriousness, Courtney getting kicked out of the pumpkin patch was an act of pure jealousy. How can anyone be prejudiced toward a naturally beautiful sunflower whose eyes were kissed by heaven's clouds (aka Bonne Bell frosted eyeshadow), whose lips are covered in sparkling unicorn semen (aka Vaseline mixed with Bonne Bell frosted eyeshadow) and whose clothes were made for her by the finest French couture house (aka one of those stripper stores on Hollywood Blvd.). Those hating families wish having a sense of dignity didn't stop them from being this classy and demure.
For more pictures of the walking Blumpkin that is Courtney and Doug, go to The Superficial and view at your own risk. Below are pictures of Courtney's obvious idol, The Empress of Lucite, turning pumpkins into lucite chariots at a pumpkin patch over the weekend. Note to Courtney: If you don't want to be kicked out of the pumpkin patch, trade your hooker boots, denim panties and creepy husband for exquisite heels, the finest dress that a handjob can buy and an ambiguously gay boy toy imported from Eastern Europe.