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As gas prices rise, retooled supermarket programs offering savings at the pump may seem more appealing. But consumers could find that the discounts don't offer much added mileage.
Supermarkets and convenience stores are offering shoppers bigger discounts on gasoline, in an effort to draw in business. On Feb. 13, Giant Eagle will begin offering loyalty-club members a discount of 3 cents per gallon at Giant Eagle and GetGo (a Giant Eagle brand) stations. Members already earn discounts of 10 cents per gallon on one fill-up for every $50 in grocery spending. In a new Safeway and Exxon Mobil partnership, Safeway shoppers in Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. can earn up to $1 off per gallon for a single fill-up at participating stations, based on their grocery spending in a given month. Cumberland Farms, a chain of convenience stores and gas stations in 11 states, also launched a payment app last month that offers customers discounts of 5 to 10 cents per gallon. "It's our own form of being a mobile wallet," says Kate Ngo, senior manager of brand strategy of Cumberland Farms.
The discounts come as gas prices have crept up. According to AAA, the national average is currently $3.56 per gallon, up from $3.30 a month ago. It's the start of the seasonal spring price increase, as refineries slow production for maintenance and to switch over to summer-blend gasoline, says Michael Green, a spokesman for AAA. "Gas prices always rise this time of year," he says. Assuming the economy holds steady, prices should fall again by early summer, and then rise again in September. If the economy picks up, however, increased demand for gasoline and other petroleum products could keep prices on an upswing into the summer, Green says.
Even at current prices, if the grocery programs happen to be at a store a shopper already frequents, the savings could be valuable. In 2011, the average household spent $3,838 per year, or $320 per month, on "food at home," according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Depending on the program, that's enough to trigger a 30-cent-per-gallon discount on one fuel-up in Winn-Dixie's program (which offers 5 cents off for every $50 spent each month), or 10 cents off per gallon for three fill-ups via Safeway. Think of the savings as something extra, though, and not a reason to switch supermarkets, says Teri Gault, founder of TheGroceryGame.com. "You save a whole lot more on groceries than what the gas rewards come out to, if you're taking advantage of sales," she says. Points often expire at the end of the month if you haven't reached the reward threshold, making the programs a wash for shoppers who divide their trips among several chains.
In most programs, shoppers can only redeem rewards to fill up one vehicle, and the number of discounted gallons per transaction is typically capped — at 25 gallons in Safeway's program, for example, and 30 in Giant Eagle's. (The exception: Cumberland Farms' discount is offered on every transaction. Ngo says that's part of the business model, reflecting less expensive fees to process debit cards, rather than credit cards.)
Consumers should assess their gas options before concentrating grocery spending, says Jason Toews, co-founder of comparison site GasBuddy.com. In a given city, the gap between the highest and lowest prices is usually more significant than supermarket savings -- in Denver, for example, it's currently 60 cents – and there's no telling where the participating stations will fall in the price range. "You can save more by shopping around," he says. Some stations also regularly offer a discount of roughly 10 cents per gallon for drivers who pay with cash. Plus, location can play a factor, Gault says. "It can be tough to use your credits, because the [participating] gas stations aren't always nearby," she says.
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And they drove up from Virginia and North Carolina.
JoSapalooza 1, held on Tuesday, July 28, was a resounding success. Yes, Jonathan Papelbon blew a three-run save in the ninth and the Red Sox lost in 11 innings to the A's, but I was far more worried about a rainout than a possible loss. (Laura posted a short recap of our trip.)
We met at Lir for dinner beforehand. Laura and I had wanted to have some type of gift/souvenir of the evening. After nixing t-shirts as (unfortunately) too pricey, we hit on the idea of a program. I designed it with everyone's name and avatar on the back and a scorecard inside. I also brought 10 pencils, though I think only Amy and Ish's dad kept score.
Inside the program was a crossword puzzle that westcoastsox created.(You can download the puzzle here.)
Several attendees took pictures. Here are a few:
run out of luck that morning) - Lynn & John (Tim's aunt/uncle)
I also arranged a scoreboard greeting:
(Photos: Thanks to LJCohen (3, 4, 6, 7, 12-14), Amy (8, 9), Nick (10, 11), SoSHer Rice4HoF (15); I took 1, 2, 5.)
JoS2? There are two possibilities. (1) A game in Toronto, with everyone staying over and possibly watching (via BuffyVision) a second game at our house. (2) L and I will be in California for a wedding in September 2010, though it's unlikely that the Red Sox will be playing west coast games that month.


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Every North Carolinian�s education � whether you were born here or dropped in later in life � should include occasional readings of our state constitution.
I�ve never sat down and tackled it in one reading, but over the years, I�ve taken time to digest various sections, some of them repeatedly.
I was called back to the document again this week, when the N.C. Association of Educators and the N.C. Justice Center filed suit to block a new law that would pay up to $4,200 a year in tuition for low-income students in private schools. It�s the �school voucher� system that�s popular with conservatives and hated by liberals.
The educators may not qualify as liberals, but they certainly aren�t fans of what the Republican majority in the General Assembly has done to them and the institutions they serve. Hard to blame them, since some of this year�s �reforms� were clearly meant to punish the teachers for even having an association, even though any resemblance of the association to a real union is purely coincidental.
The Justice Center, however, leaves no doubt that it stands well to the left of the center line.
This makes for a predictable initial reaction to the lawsuit: Well, of course � it�s all about left vs. right, Democrat vs. Republican.
Until you read the relevant section of the constitution. This is an issue a strict constitutionalist or a libertarian could love, too.
Turns out the constitution is clear about education funding. Article IX, Section 6: Money for school funding, it says, �shall be faithfully appropriated and used exclusively for establishing and maintaining a uniform system of free public schools.� �Exclusively.� That doesn�t leave a whole lot of wiggle room.
In that context, I can�t imagine the courts looking at a program to give public money to private schools and concluding that it�s anything but unconstitutional.
And given the way the General Assembly has given school funding short shrift, it will be a good thing if education funding isn�t further compromised. In the past decade, per-pupil funding and teacher pay here have fallen from somewhere near the national midpoint to very close to the bottom of the barrel. Money isn�t everything, but lack of it makes it hard to hold together that sound education the constitution guarantees.
That said, I�m sorry there�s no constitutional way to implement a voucher system. Because the fact is, our people may be created equal (which the state constitution recognizes in Article I, Section 1), but our schools aren�t. And the public schools that serve our poorest residents are often the worst in any school system. The people in well-to-do neighborhoods tend to have political clout. They can pick up the phone and call members of the school board - to whom they probably made campaign contributions. But poor folk? They can�t make contributions. Most don�t believe they have access. They�re likely right.
So if the mother of a youngster in one of those lousy schools sees her child doing poorly and wants to do something about it, what are her options? There may be a decent private school around the corner, but there�s no way she can pay the tuition. So another little failure will prematurely exit our schools on his or her 16th birthday and before long become an expensive responsibility of the state, whether it�s through welfare or the prison system.
Florida has a voucher system. I�ve talked with educators and journalists there, and they tell me the system is working surprisingly well. According to one nonpartisan study, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program saves taxpayers about $1.50 for every dollar they spend.
So if we can�t have vouchers, how do we give a decent education to those children of poor families who are stuck in bad schools? The answer should be that we improve our public schools so there aren�t any bad ones. But I don�t see that coming anytime soon. Do you? I see a long fight to make North Carolina�s K-12 schools anything but a bottom-feeder system.
That doesn�t bode well for North Carolina�s future.
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Someone damn well better translate that novel. I am DYING to see how it stacks up against its AMAZING TV counterpart.
BTW, I know making a game from TV or movies is risky business, but which of these ideas of mine would you say is the least likely to fail?
- RPG retelling the anime, using the Planescape Torment engine
- RPG after the anime with both new and returning characters (I've even thought of some myself), using an updated Betrayal at Krondor engine with a hint of Disgaea
- sword fighting game, using the Samurai Shodown 5 engine
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Mcdonalds, I didn't think it was exactly "too perfect" an ending. I think it was more of one that needed to be explained more. It was too rushed. If they would have taken an extra 2 episodes and streached out a few of the sections in the story and cut a few scenes in there that I considered to be just filler fat (why do anime makers always gotta add worthless fat to their shows. sheesh) they could have ended it quite a bit better. Because in my book the ending was good, but underexplained in many areas.
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Yea, i agree with the ending was way too rushed, although you can kind of get the gist of how it ended e.g. chris and winia are wedded and pacifica lead a normal life. However, maybe they intended to do that to leave it open ended? so that it allows it to open up another series if they wanted it or to allow the viewer to 'create' their own ending. Most likely not. What i meant by that it was a little to perfect is that how pacifica and forcis are given their lives back, everyone lives happily ever after and that everything is happy. I'm not saying that its a bad series, not even saying it was a good series, i thought its one of the best ones i've seen. However, i don't think every anime is perfect and i was just giving an opinion on how i interpreted it and how I THOUGHT it COULD have been improved.
Edit: how did you think of the relationship between cz/sim and shannon/pacifica/raquel, i thought it would have been expanded upon especially with the earrings and this was one of the character/relationship development that had disappointed me.
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Actually, after watching it a few times, the guy you see in the stable is actually Shannon, not Forcis. I thought it was Forcis at first as well, but upon closer examination it's actually Shannon.
As far as the charecter development goes, they did a good job, but at the same time they could have done a lot more.
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SP was great but the ending was a bit of a let down for me, pacifica should have stayed dead, i mean she came back with little explaination which just created the feeling that she's invincible and so what's all that protecting her in all the previous eps.? but good story and animation too
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Has anybody seen this anime? The story is very good and the animation itself is good too. The DVD cost 19.99 (U.S Dollars of course) at Best Buy. So far, I have all 5 volumes and waiting for the last one which will come out this month. Anyway, what do you guys think of this anime?
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I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to start a new thread for this, but it didn't seem likely that I would receive a response had I posted at the end of a long-dead discussion topic.
Ever since disc 1 was released, I've been trying to find information on retail and review sites about whether the limited edition of disc 1 comes with an artbox to hold the other discs in the series. I know it comes with a figure in a box, but that's not what I'm interested in.
If anyone here has the limited edition version of disc 1, could you tell me whether it came in a box with space to hold the other five DVDs?
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I think you all are in the wrong track; the fact is that you guy are kind of confuse about the relationships of the characters. what I mean is the fact is that pacifica alway like her big brother( shannon); remember the first volume of the anime when pacifica said something to shannon. On the other hand fulle are just a replacement at the time; know this why his look and attitude are like shannon. and the fact that they are not relate by blood, childhood memory are how relationship are develop in most animes. As for Leo, he seen to be inaffective in the story line.
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Garneau, Shaffer lead the way in rout of Javelinas
It would be hard to imagine a more complete performance than the one the Salt River Rafters put together Saturday afternoon against the Peoria Javelinas.View Full Game Coverage
Salt River tallied 17 hits and rolled on to a 20-0 victory. Dustin Garneau hit two homers, the second a grand slam, Rockies prospect Cristhian Adames went 4-for-5 with a homer and Rays prospect Richie Shaffer went 3-for-4 with five runs scored, two doubles, two RBIs and a run-scoring walk.
While Salt River's lineup was piling on the hits and drawing nine walks, the Rafters' pitching staff combined for an absolute gem. Bo Schultz, Henry Garcia, Mike Montgomery, Dean Kiekhefer and Cole White held Peoria to five hits and one walk while striking out 10.
"It was pretty awesome. The whole team was kind of clicking on all cylinders," said Shaffer, the Rays' No. 9 prospect. "The pitching was lights-out. Guys were getting on base. Everyone was having great at-bats. Everyone was kind of feeding off each other. It was pretty awesome."
Adames, the Rockies' No. 15 prospect, finished a triple shy of the cycle, drew a walk and scored four runs. But Garneau, a 26-year-old catcher in the Rockies' farm system, was responsible for Salt River's biggest hits.
Garneau's two-run homer off Jason Adam put the Rafters ahead, 6-0, in the fourth inning. And his seventh-inning grand slam off Carson Smith was the knockout punch, giving Salt River a 13-0 lead.
"Going up there, the guy that was throwing, I faced him all year at Double-A so I had an idea what he had," Garneau said of his first homer. "I was just going up there hacking. I'm trying to hit the fastball every time. It was really high so I didn't know if it was going to go over the fence. I sprinted to first and then I saw the umpire signaling. That's when I knew."
Shaffer had plenty to be pleased about as well. Coming off a year where he hit .254/.308/.399 with 11 homers in 122 games for Class A Advanced Charlotte, the 25th overall pick in the 2012 Draft said he came to the Arizona Fall League to "compete and just continue to polish my game." Having a game like Saturday, when he was seemingly in the middle of every Salt River rally, was exactly what he was hoping for.
Shaffer singled in the second inning, moved to second on a wild pitch that scored Andy Burns and came home on Mike Freeman's RBI double to left. He knocked an RBI double of his own to left in Salt River's three-run fourth inning and hit a ground-rule double to center in the sixth. He came to the plate in the seventh with the bases loaded and drew a walk, setting up Garneau's slam two batters later.
"It was probably the best game individually I've had. I've had to make a couple adjustments here and there and get comfortable," Shaffer said. "I was feeding off the runs we put up early. It was just one of those days where the hitting was contagious and everyone was feeling good and relaxed. It just kept going."
That was especially true for the bottom half of Salt River's lineup. While the Rafters' first three hitters managed just one hit -- Nick Ahmed's solo homer in the third -- their four through nine hitters combined to go 16-for-30 with six walks.
"It was a fun game and something that we'll remember forever," Shaffer said. "Hopefully, this will give us some momentum and we'll keep playing good baseball."
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As if playing on a division one women's basketball team, earning a college degree at an academically challenging school, as well as leading a personal life with friends and family isn't enough, Candace Gibson still has one responsibility above the rest. A mother to son Javon, Gibson hails as the only Lady Bucs basketball player to add the role of mother to her daily priority list.
Thus far in 2004-05, Gibson ranks as the Lady Bucs block leader with 37 for the year, while her 7.3 rebounds per game are a team-second best and her 7.6 points per game ranks third on the squad. Gibson has started 21 games this season for the Bucs, including starts against Atlantic-10-powerhouse Temple, a then undefeated Charlotte 49'ers team as well as Mississippi State from the Southeastern Conference in late December. Hitting career-best marks in '04-'05, including an 18 point showing versus Georgia Southern, 11 rebounds versus Furman, and four blocks on three different occasions this season, Gibson plays an important role for the Lady Bucs success.
Gibson hails from Warner Robins, Ga. where she was one of six Gibson children. The first child to earn any type of academic or athletic scholarship, Candace earned four letters at Warner Robins High School competing for coach Tom Mobley, while also being honored with a place on the Georgia Dream Team during her high school career. Gibson garnered all-county player of the year honors following her junior and senior years at Warner Robins and began to prepare herself for a college career at East Tennessee State.
With each step on the court Gibson gives her all. She fights underneath the basket for offensive and defensive rebounds, grabs the loose ball and hits a tough lay-up with three defenders aiming for the block, and at one point in her collegiate basketball career - she thought it was all over.
After a freshman campaign at ETSU with 28 appearances, averaging 3.9 points per game, and 2.7 rebounds per game, Gibson began to look forward to her sophomore year ahead. Learning she was pregnant with Javon in November 2002 just before her sophomore season began, Gibson was faced with a tough task, telling Lady Bucs head coach Karen Kemp the news.
"Being a member of this basketball team means the world to me. Besides God, my family and Javon, basketball is my life," Gibson said. "When I told coach Kemp I was pregnant, she didn't have to give me a second chance, a second chance to play or the opportunity to continue school. That second chance has given me the ability to provide a better life for my son, and I am so thankful for that."
So Candace began to prepare for the road ahead. Continuing school, preparing for a newborn, and staying an important member of the Lady Bucs team. Gibson traveled to away games, helped out with practice, gave advice to players and made sure she would be ready to return to the team the following season.
Gibson's parents have been the core of her support system throughout her life. "Before Javon, my father was the biggest inspiration in my life. My father has made it through many obstacles in his life, but he always found time for our family," Gibson said. "When I have a problem, a worry or just need advice, my father is the one person I can depend on to always be there for me."
After the birth of Javon in 2003, Gibson began to train and prepare herself to rejoin the women's basketball team full time. Continuing a full class load so she would be academically able to participate, she quickly found the need to prioritize her life. "Javon will always be my first priority. I am so thankful to have basketball still play such a large role in my life, but after the birth of my son, I know what is most important," Gibson said.
A typical day for Gibson begins at 6:30 a.m. when she shuts off the alarm and begins to prepare herself for the busy day ahead. After getting all of Javon's necessities together, Candace makes breakfast and at 7:50 a.m. takes Javon to daycare. A full morning of class from 8:15 a.m.-12:35 p.m., Gibson heads straight home, grabs lunch, does some laundry and cleans the house before picking Javon up from daycare at 2:00 p.m. By 2:30 Gibson is in the locker room preparing herself for afternoon practice. After she has all of her practice gear on, a quick trip to the training room and Gibson hits the court from 4:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Home for dinner, spending some quality time with Javon and taking care of the house once more, Gibson puts Javon to bed around 9:00 p.m. and then begins her homework for the following day. Finally, when Gibson feels she is prepared for the next day, she heads to bed.
A physical education major, Gibson has big plans for her post-basketball and post-graduate career. "After college I would like to move back to Georgia and teach physical education either at the middle or high school level," she said. "Ten years down the road, I could really see myself raising my family, teaching and coaching basketball."
With the departure of senior Tiffani Mayes (Sumter, S.C.) following the conclusion of this season, Gibson and fellow junior B.J. Banjo (Baltimore, Md.) take rank as the two senior leaders for the Lady Bucs team. Gibson knows how important the role she and Banjo will play to the younger members of the squad, "Knowing that next year will be my last year of basketball, both at ETSU and probably my career, I am very excited and willing to take on the challenge of being a leader on this team."
Lady Bucs head coach Kemp has also played a very important role in the support system for Candace. Giving her the opportunity to continue to compete on the court and receive an education from ETSU gave Gibson another reason to succeed. "Candace is an outstanding young lady who is really committed to her academic and athletic success. She has had a great year both on and off the court, and can handle not only the demands of class, the demands of a division one athlete, but also those of raising a young son," Kemp said. "This is a schedule that I'm not sure how she handles, but she really has her life under control. Having the support of her coaches, her teammates and her family have made what some would have thought to be an impossible situation, be one that has brought her happiness and success in her life both on and off the basketball court."
While her class schedule and responsibilities with practice, travel and game preparation take up the majority of her day, Gibson will be the first to tell you her son is the bright spot. "Being a mother means the world to me, Javon is my inspiration and I would not change one thing about my life," Gibson said. "I feel so blessed with all my opportunities; having my son, getting my education, while being able to continue basketball at ETSU."
So the final question, will Javon grow up to be an NBA All-Star? "No! He is going to be an NFL All-Star!"


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*At 38, Ron had been with enough women to fill twelve issues of Essence.
He had loved a few, but mostly, he had either hurt them or had been hurt by them.
At this stage in his life, he wanted something more.
Ron wanted more than just the sexual conquests that most of the women had been.
And he wanted more than just the few months of happiness most of his relationships had been.
Older and wiser, he knew that in order to have something different, he had to be something different.
So, he spent time alone after the last failed relationship. Instead of seeking more sexual conquests, he sought resolution for his emotional turmoil and unrequited desires for love.
Instead of dating more women, he dated himself, taking time to process where he had been, where he was and where he wanted to go. Some of that time was spent alone, some was spent in church and some was spent on the couch of his therapist.
After two years, he felt ready to venture out into the world of dating again, with a new mission to find something better than he had before.
At 36, Leslie had allowed more than forty men inside of her. Some had been inside of her heart, some only inside of her bed, but all of them had been inside of her body.
And now that she was focused on finding someone to have and to hold for the rest of her life, she had all of the men in her life inside of her mind.
Leslie wanted something different, but the thought had not occurred to her that she should be something different.
When she was out with the girls, they all talked about how men were dogs and that since you couldn't beat them, you needed to join them. And so, just like they imagined men were doing, Leslie and her girls were on a mission each weekend to find cute guys who could keep their beds warm for a while and take them to nice places.
Not that Leslie didn't believe in love.
She had been in love a few times and had actually loved the last man she had spent time with. But the two of them had been unable to find a way to keep the music playing, so she simply turned it off.
And she thought she had turned everything off, but the heartache was still playing, even as she pretended that it would only take the "right" man to break through her icy exterior and warm her heart.
Ron walked into a bar one Friday night and right into the peripheral vision of Leslie, who began staring while her friends began chiding her.
"Don't just stare at him, girl," said Linda, who believed in being aggressive to get whatever she wanted out of life. "Go get that tall, fine man. He's here by himself, so he is single and you are ready to mingle."
"I ain't chasing no man," Leslie replied. "I'll just wait until he notices me and he'll come to me."
And, Ron did notice her.
Sitting at the bar, he had a direct view of Leslie and noticed that she was looking his way, so he decided to make a move on her.
A few quick words and Ron was walking away with Leslie's number.
The following weekend, they went out to dinner, followed by drinks and another date the next day. Their conversations were filled with what each wanted out of life and love.
Ron made it clear that he was looking for a woman to be his girl and much more.
Leslie said that she wanted to be someone's girl and to be in love.
On the third day, Ron invited Leslie over for dinner. He cooked a gourmet meal of steamed salmon, scalloped potatoes and asparagus spears.
Leslie brought a bottle of wine that the two enjoyed before and during the meal.
Intoxicated with food, wine and the newness of dating, the two kissed and explored and touched and rubbed.
Ron had already decided that since he liked Leslie, he wasn't going to press her to have sex with him. He wanted to take his time and really get to know her.
But Leslie had already decided that since she liked Ron, she was going to have sex with him. She wanted to get naked with this man, not even thinking about any other portion of the relationship she talked about wanting.
So, she made her move and made an announcement.
"Let's do this," she said. "But I want to be clear—I don't want any strings attached to what we're about to do. It's just sex and it doesn't have to be bigger than that."
Ron was stunned. To him, Leslie sounded like the player he used to be. He had expected and wanted so much more, but he knew from her words that there was only so much to expect now.
And so they did the deed.
Two whores whoring. One reformed whore falling back into old habits and one consistent whore, claiming to want more, yet unable to shake the habits of finding less.
Neither called the other after the tryst.
Ron didn't call because he wanted to go back to his plan to be more and find more. What he had with Leslie was more of what he no longer wanted.
Leslie didn't call again because she actually did like Ron. But because she was afraid that he would only use her for sex, she had decided to beat him to the punch. Yet, she still hoped that someday…
Ron remained consistent and met a beautiful woman who refused to get overly physical until they had dated for a while and had a mutual understanding of what they were trying to build. They both wanted the same thing and had each worked hard to be the thing they wanted.
Leslie went out to the bar with her girls the following weekend.
They talked about how all men were dogs, but Leslie couldn't help thinking that for all of their talk, she and her girls had been barking themselves.
Someone once said that you can't turn a whore into a housewife, and while that may not always be true, what is true is the simple fact that the whore has to first acknowledge being a whore…
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The programming process: Calculator example
EXAMPLE: Calculator
A calculator is a program that allows the user to perform simple arithmetic operations with the help of a computer.
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Please download the programming examples from the contributions page.C++ Programming Examples I
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Japandroids' second album is framed by the sound of cheap firecrackers, the kind you ignite in the back alley with your fellow juvenile delinquents at 3 a.m. before scattering into the night. It's an appropriate image for this duo, which embraces the hugeness of stadium rock – pyro included – against all odds. With just guitar and drums, they rock like Thin Lizzy. "Don't we have anything to live for?" they shout. "Well, of course, we do!"
One anthem follows another on the aptly titled "Celebration Rock" (Polyvinyl): The wordless backing vocals that lift "Fire's Highway," the furious drum fill (solo?) that crashes through "Evil's Sway," the guitar swarm that engulfs a cover of the Gun Club's "For the Love of Ivy." Brian King's guitar and David Prowse's drums roar like race cars constantly swapping the lead in the last lap.
The pace is even more breathless than the 2009 debut, "Post-Nothing," which was supposed to be the going-nowhere Vancouver duo's swan song. Instead it gave Prowse and King new life, and "Celebration Rock" is the sound of two guys shouting like convicts on emancipation day. Yet what makes this album so powerful and moving is the way that innocence erodes in its second half.
A hint of melancholy underlines many of the songs, a lurking sense that this glorious moment will pass, and then what? "It's a lifeless life with no fixed address to give," they declare as the smoke briefly clears on "The House that Heaven Built," their anxiety rubbing shoulders with strutting power chords. "Continuous Thunder" closes the album with the narrator walking the passage from adolescence into adulthood; ideals fade and relationships come with compromises. The fireworks pop again in the distance, fading in the rearview.


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(Kansas City, Kan., March 6, 2012) - EPA Region 7 will join state health agencies from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST), to host the Sixth Annual Region 7 Radon Stakeholders' Meeting on March 14 in Nebraska City, Neb.
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Statements and Testimony - 2003
- November 14, 2003 - ASM Letter to Medicare Conferees
The ASM sent a letter to House and Senate Medicare Conferees urging them to oppose cuts that would adversely affect clinical laboratories, such as co-payments for laboratory testing, a freeze on cost of living adjustments to Medicare payments laboratory services, and/or further reductions in the reimbursement of laboratory tests covered by Medicare.
- October 23, 2003 - ASM Letter on the Implementation of the Select Agent Rule
The ASM sent a letter to Ann Veneman, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture regarding implementation of the Interim Final Rule 7 CFR Part 331; 9 CFR Part 121 Possession, Use and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins.
- October 13, 2003 - ASM Letter Regarding Increasing Funding for the EPA Research Programs
The ASM sent a letter to Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), ranking member recommending increased funding for EPA research programs in the FY 2004 appropriations bill. ASM sent a similar letter to the House Subcommittee Chair, Representative James Walsh (R-NY) and Ranking member Representative Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV).
- August 29, 2003 - ASM Responds to CMS/CDC Request Regarding Quality Controls for Antigen Tests
PSAB's Committee on Professional Affairs responded to a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding ASM's position on the current CLIA regulations that require quality control testing of microbial antigen detection tests that include an extraction step in their procedures.
- August 14, 2003 - ASM Assists CLIAC with Information on DTM Culture Media
PSAB's Committee on Laboratory Practices responded to a request from the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Advisory Committee (CLIAC) regarding ASM's position on exempting dermatophyte culture media (DTM) from end-user quality control (QC) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations.
- August 1, 2003 - ASM Comments on 2003 Clinical Lab Fee Schedule
The ASM submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding Transmittal AB-02-163, 2003 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule and Laboratory Services Subject to Reasonable Charge Payment Method.
- July 28, 2003 - Payment Determinations for Calendar Year 2004 for New Clinical Laboratory Tests
Alice Weissfeld, Chair of PSAB's Committee on Professional Affairs provided recommendations to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding payment methodology for new laboratory tests to be included in the 2004 Medicare Laboratory Fee Schedule.
- June 30, 2003 - ASM Sends Letter to Powell Regarding Visa Issues
On June 30, 2003 the ASM wrote to Secretary Colin Powell to ask the Department of State develop procedures and allocate resources necessary to assure prompt and appropriate action on visa requests for students and researchers seeking to study the microbiological sciences within the United States.
- April 11, 2003 - ASM Comments on QC/Laboratory Director Draft Guidelines
PSAB's Committee on Professional Affairs submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on itsdraft copy of the revised Interpretive Guidelines, Appendix C of the State OperationsManual, which applies to the CLIA regulations on quality control and laboratory director requirements that were published in the Federal Registeron January 24, 2003.
- March 11, 2003 - ASM Letter to House and Senate Budget Committees on Support of Increased Funding for FY 2004 Budget Requests for Federal R&D Agencies
The ASM sent a letter to members of the House and Senate Budget Committees supporting increased funding above the budget requests for of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- February 15, 2003 - Statement of Journal Editors and Authors Group on Scientific Publishing and Security
- January 31, 2003 - ASM Comments to the CDC on the Interim Final Rule on the Possession, Use and Transfer of Select Agents and Toxins
- January 22, 2003 - FDA Guidance Document on CJD/vCJD
The ASM's Committee on Laboratory Practices submitted comments on the Food and Drug Administration's Draft "Guidance Document for Industry: Preventive Measures to Reduce the Possible Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) by Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (HCT/Ps)."


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Hey, girl. Be careful that your beautiful body isn't crushed by that speeding taxi, so I can continue to worship every last one of your curves. OMG, you guys, Laurie Penny is the luckiest girl on earth—not only was she saved from getting flattened by a taxi at a busy New York intersection yesterday, she was saved by RYAN GOSLING.
It's SO weird because I totally had a dream once that Ryan Gosling saved me from getting hit by a car. Only in my dream he was naked. And the car was made out of chocolate. Also, Alexander Skarsgård was waiting in the wings just in case Gosling, you know, needed a break or anything.
You may have seen British writer Laurie Penny's post on Twitter yesterday, because it seems like it was retweeted about a jillion times. I mean, of COURSE it was, because how awesome is this?
More from The Stir: Ryan Gosling Stops Street Fight and Leaves Us Breathless (VIDEO)
As her story goes, Gosling stopped her from walking into opposing traffic on Tuesday evening, which she had started to do because she briefly forgot that New Yorkers drive on the right side of the road. Penny went on to say,
I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi. He did not say 'hey, girl.' He said 'hey, watch out!' Identity of no-idea-if-actually-a-manarchist-but-definitely-a-decent-sort Ryan Gosling confirmed by girl near me, who said 'you lucky bitch.'
Lucky bitch indeed. I'd be dining out on that story for, like, the rest of my life. ("Hey, did I ever tell you about the time that—" "YES. SHUT UP ABOUT RYAN GOSLING AND THE TAXI, OH MY GOD.")
The crazy thing is this isn't even the first time Gosling has been Manhattan's hottest and most sensitive superhero. Last August he was captured on video breaking up a street fight between a street vendor and customer, and if by chance you haven't seen the clip, it's well worth BICEPS taking a DELTOIDS look:
Boy, it's almost as if Gosling is on some sort of mission to make People magazine really regret that whole Bradley Cooper thing, because excuse me, when's the last time Cooper saved a woman's life or broke up a fistfight? Bradley may be able to grow a disturbingly porny moustache, but I'm pretty sure Ryan Gosling is definitively the Sexiest Man Alive. Or at the very least, the Sexiest Crossing Guard Alive.
Does this story only deepen your love for the undeniable magic that is Ryan Gosling?
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Boston's TD Garden, home to the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins, will play host to it's first-ever sled hockey event for disabled youth on Monday, February 28. In part sponsored by World T.E.A.M. Sports, the afternoon event will provide 24 children with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the growing sport of sled hockey.
Steven Berube, the program director for Massachusetts's Unified Sports Program, is passionate about the independent athletics program that brings together children with disabilities with non-disabled children. "We want these kids to enjoy playing sports together," said Berube, who created the program in 2007. Winner of the 2008 New England Patriots Community MVP Award, the Unified Sports Program offers Massachusetts children with any disability to participate in sports such as bowling, baseball, rock climbing, swimming and sled hockey.
Players compete in sled hockey by using sleds to travel across the ice. Shortened hockey sticks with a metal edge allow the player to push the sled to compete. Players unable to propel their sleds on their own use adult volunteers to push their sleds from behind. In addition to pushing the sleds, the hockey sticks are also used to control and shoot the puck. The result is an often fast-moving game with plenty of excitement for the players.
Despite the growth of sled hockey nationally with state and regional associations such as the Northeast Sled Hockey League, many ice arenas are still unaware of the sport. Berube explains that in the Boston area, ice time is a major consideration in arranging practice and game time for Unified Sports Program participants. In January 2010, Unified Sports Program, World T.E.A.M. Sports and the Boston Bruins hosted a sled hockey clinic and game at the Steriti Memorial Rink in Boston's North End as part of the NHL's "Hockey is for Everyone" initiative. The event included several Bruins alumni and inactive defenseman Andrew Ference, who tried his hand at sled hockey. "It was very, very difficult and I felt very, very vulnerable," Ference told Bruins media relations specialist Samantha Wood.
For the 2011 TD Garden event, selected Bruins alumni will again participate. World T.E.A.M. Sports is supplying special branded hockey jerseys for the participants in red, white and blue for the three squads of eight. Northeast Passage, affiliated with the University of New Hampshire's College of Health and Human Services, is participating with student athletes and is providing sleds.
Berube believes athletic events such as sled hockey help participating children "look at themselves as nothing but kids." Unified Sports Program events treat all participants equally, whether they are disabled or non-disabled. That makes a difference, as World T.E.A.M. Sports follows the same philosophy with its sports events.


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Equality and Diversity Policy: Appendix 3
Practical support for a diverse workforce
Job design
The Library recognises the need to consider flexible working patterns such as job share and part-time working where a member of staff has a desire to change his/her working hours. These methods of working will be fully considered by line managers, in consultation with HR where appropriate; business needs and/or resources will also be a relevant consideration. Appeals against a manager's decision can be made using the Library's grievance procedures.
Provisions for disabled employees during employment
Where an employee becomes disabled, whether through accident, illness or injury, every reasonable and practicable consideration will be given to ensuring that he/she may remain in employment.
Examples of steps the Library should take are:
- making reasonable adjustments to premises;
- allocating some of the disabled employee's duties to another person;
- transfer to an appropriate alternative position;
- alteration of working hours;
- transfer to a different location/place of work;
- time off during working hours for rehabilitation, assessment or treatment;
- training and/or re-skilling;
- modification or purchase of appropriate equipment;
- modification to instruction and/or reference manuals and literature;
- modification to testing and/or assessment procedures;
- provision of a reader or interpreter;
- provision of supervision and assistance.
If, after a full exploration of reasonable adjustments to the individual's current role, the adjustments have been unsuccessful, then consideration should be given to finding an alternative post. The redeployment process detailed in sections 3 to 8 only of Appendix 4 of the Restructuring, Redeployment & Redundancy Policy will be followed.
The individual for whom redeployment is being sought will be required to complete a Biographical Questionnaire. These staff will be considered alongside displaced staff for job matching. Provided, after any reasonable adjustments have been made, the individual has the required skills and is a suitable match for the role following paper matching and redeployment interview they will be offered a trial period in preference to other matched non disabled staff.
Advice should be provided for the member of staff concerned. In addition, line managers should obtain guidance from the Human Resources Directorate and/or the Health and Safety Office. Advice may also be sought from Occupational Health Advisors or other external specialist organisations as appropriate.
Appendix I gives guidance relating to the provisions that may be made. Further guidance on dealing with disability issues can be found on the Internet, for example on the government's website http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/.


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Want some substantial evidence that Google will be releasing a Nexus 7 equipped with 3G next Monday? Look no further than a trusty FCC filing detailing the device.
Labeled as the ME370TG (the WiFi only Nexus 7 was labeled ME370T), the Nexus 7 with 3G radios has just passed through the FCC, tagged with a certification date of October 29, the date of Google's Android event in New York City.
We've been expecting Google to unveil a 3G enabled Nexus 7 at its Android event for quite some time now. This filing with the FCC all but finally confirms the device's existence. Of course it's not official until it's official, but we throughly expect the Nexus 7 3G to be real. Only four more days until we know for sure.


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Recipe: Flødeboller mallow fluff cakes
February 12, 2015 | 1 Comment
A recipe for 'Flødeboller' mallow fluff cakes at home.
Ahhh… Do you like snowballs and mallow tea cakes? Soft, mallow with chocolate coating? Then you'll like these.
In Scandinavia, usually called 'Flødeboller' or 'Gammeldags kokosbollar', these are often made with or without a base, with light or dark chocolate, and various flavoured fillings. In recent years, a lot of konditors have started making gourmet versions – and people have followed suit at home, coming up with great creations.
Okay, so it probably isn't the easiest thing to make at home. It's also a bit messy. However, it is fun and it is really worth it.
We recommend you do use a base for these. Some people like to use small round wafers, others simply use store bought round short bread type biscuits (look for something approx. 5cm in diameter or smaller). I quite like the ones with a soft baked marzipan cake base, as long as they are baked quite fine and these are the ones in this recipe. But by all means, skip the base-step and buy whatever you prefer – tuiles and round wafers work particularly well.
Do make sure you have both liquid glucose as well as a digital thermometer for the filling, as you need an accurate temperature check. Also, you can't do this by hand: you need a mixer with a whisk attachment.
Homemade 'Flødeboller' mallow tea cakes
- Bases
- 200g packet of 'Mandelmassa' marzipan 50%
- 50g icing sugar
- 40g egg white (approx. one egg white from a large egg – if using smaller eggs, weigh them)
- Mallow filling
- 75g liquid glucose
- 150g sugar
- 50ml water
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Seeds from one vanilla pod
- 100g egg white (3 and a bit egg whites – but do weigh them)
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Chocolate coating
- 200g tempered chocolate of choice (I use 70% Valrhona, but a milk chocolate will also give a lovely and lighter result and is preferred by little people).
- Optional: 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Bases:
- In a mixer, blend marzipan, icing sugar and egg white until you have a smooth mass.
- Turn the oven to 180 degrees and line a baking tray with parchment.
- You can either pipe out 16-18 dollops of marzipan and flatten them into round even discs using some icing sugar to ensure it doesn't stick to your fingers – or you can use icing sugar and roll them, then flatten them into shape. Make sure the discs are even and not too thick (they will puff up slightly during baking).
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until golden. Leave to cool completely. These will remain slightly soft in the middle.
- Mallow:
- In a saucepan, bring sugar, glucose, water, lemon and vanilla to the boil. Using a thermometer, keep boiling until you reach 117-118 degrees. Be aware any less than this and your syrup will not set the right way and it will affect the result as the water will not have evaporated properly.
- Meanwhile, get your mixer ready and lightly whisk the egg white with salt until they start to combine, then add sugar and keep whisking. Increase speed to high and start adding the syrup in a very, very thin stream. Once combined, leave the mixer on high for 8-10 minutes. It does take this long to get the thick, peaky mallow.
- Prepare a piping bag with a star nozzle. Add the mallow filling and carefully pipe out mallow on each base, taking care to leave a bit of 'edge' free and they may sink slightly. Aim to have a good high top on each mallow. Leave the set for 5-6 hours or speed up the process by popping them in the fridge.
- Chocolate coating
- Tempering chocolate: If you are a dab hand at tempering chocolate, prepare it in your usual manner. If you are not sure about tempering, melt half the chocolate and then as soon as you have a hot liquid, add the other half and take off the heat and stir until completely melted.
- You can also simply melt a chocolate covering or cheaper chocolate, although it might discolour slightly and not dry properly. It will still taste nice, so don't panic if you are not sure how to temper chocolate. Top tip: Add a small bit of vegetable oil to the hot chocolate if you wish a thinner coating of chocolate on your mallow buns.
- Place a mallow bun on a baking grid, just over a bowl. Using a spoon, pour over chocolate until coated, then move with a spatula to a different tray to dry. Repeat until done. You may have to pour excess chocolate back from drip bowl.
- Decorate with freeze dried raspberries or sprinkles – or maybe add desiccated coconut for that snowball effect.


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Well I joined this forum for the Life After Fundamentalism group and am glad for the opportunity to connect with other people who've gone through similar experiences as myself. I am still dealing with the fallout of Christian fundamentalism and the effect it has had on me and my family. I grew up in South Mississippi. My mother was a converted Jehovah's Witness, and my dad was Southern Baptist, but not active. They had a huge amount of conflict because of my mother's adoption of the Witness's faith, which further added to their already stressed marrriage.
I think you may understand how it feels if you read Mr. Phelps' speech or watched his videos, about the mind control attempts that are a part of the everyday experience of religious fundamentalism. I was actively taught from an early age that being gay is a sin, that being friends with other non-Witnesses is wrong, that even wearing pants if you're a female is wrong. I have seen so much hypocrisy in my life I am quite bitter about it. I count myself fortunate that all the indoctrination just failed to stick. I didn't believe a word of it even as a child. I saw a Witness's bible study book (with pictures) of two men embracing. I couldn't tell what was wrong with it. I was told men cannot love each other, and the same for women. I just couldn't understand it. How could love be wrong?
I was told that all others who were non-Witnesses were doomed to hell. My mother would tell me my father would be in hell after the resurrection because he didn't believe. He does believe in the Bible, ironically, he just doesn't like church. And he hated the Witnesses. He would spray shaving cream on my mother's clothes to make her late for the Kingdom Hall. Neither of them could be described as normal or stable.
During their divorce, he was very spiteful about many things, but his crowning achievement was getting her disfellowshipped from her own faith. He went to the elders of her Kingdom Hall and told them she'd had an affair. They kicked her out, no questions asked, on the word of someone who wasn't even a member.
I was so glad, because I hated the Witnesses and I hated going. I hated being judged all the time and found wanting, and I just didn't agree, even at age 10. It was then when my older brother, suffering from a lack of guidance and attention from my distant parents, really hit bottom and became addicted to drugs. He would throw me around and generally abuse me while we were alone, he being 16 at the time and mean. I remember sitting on the floor and praying to god, crying my eyes out after being slammed around by him and asking god why was he allowing this to happen to me, and of course no answer came. So I realized even then I was on my own in this world.
I tried going to a Methodist church and foolishly brought my Jehovah's Witnesses version of the scriptures, which is almost identical to King James and I don't know why they made a big deal about it, but the pastor told me not to bring that book back and they quickly gave me the KJV. I suppose it has to do with "OUR" book is the only book... etc. Well they thought I was crazy. I was a girl, I had short hair, and OMG, a tail. They told me I couldn't participate in their vacation bible school because my tail was the devil. I remember the pastor praying over me at Easter when he called people to come down to the front if we didn't know Jesus, so I did. I felt nothing. That Methodist church was as spiritually empty as a seashell. When I made a friend who was black, I asked if I could bring her with me to church. The pastor's wife told me no, and that was it. I was done with them.
I haven't even mentioned how much of a misfit I feel I am, because I went from a farm in the woods with no children about to grade school where we were held apart, different, not allowed to participate. I was invited to parties and such at first, but I was forced by my mother to tell them I couldn't come and to not invite me. So no Christmas, NO Halloween which is just straight devil worship in their opinion, and no birthdays. The birthdays and all holidays are still extremely difficult for me. I don't know what to do with myself. I am over 30 and I still cry sometimes if my birthday is forgotten by my friends. I realize I've tried to supplant my real family with an adoptive one of friends.
In the past 5 years, our family had some setbacks. Hurricane Katrina destroyed my mother and stepfather's house. It impacted everyone I know. My mother, who I had grown to have an okay relationship with, has started to lose it. The stress of rebuilding their house and the whole situation really got to her. Then two years ago, my older sister died. The turn of events has led to a complete estrangement from my mother. The year my sister died, my mother informed us that she would no longer be celebrating the holidays. Now I had nowhere to go for Christmas as we had fallen into the customs of my stepdad who did celebrate. With my sister gone, and my mother out, I felt like our family was destroyed, such as it was.
In this time, I had gone to college, gotten a degree in Cultural Anthropology which focused on religions, mythology, the uses of magic and medicine. I had become an atheist/pagan, which I now consider myself to be a naturalist. I go back and forth about whether I believe in a divine force or not, and it doesn't really bother me. However, my mother went back to the Kingdom Hall and was re-fellowshipped. I understand her motivation, because she went through so much stress and she really believed all the bull crap they fed her. I despise how weak minded and in denial she can be at times. She knew I was not Christian, if not exactly pagan, and we'd talked about all types of things in the years she was out of the Witnesses. Well here she goes back again, and the pushy forced fellowshipping begins anew... she's causing problems in our family by proselytizing and pushing her faith on us. Those who are religious are just regular baptist or whatever. But she's being pressured to convert us.
I was so furious with her for going back to them. You would only have to embarass and shame me by kicking me out once. I would never have gone back. She actually called me on the phone to apologize to me for, of all things, not doing a good enough job teaching me about Jehovah. (She says this to someone who can describe the religions of almost all the cultures on the planet). I told her she could let herself off the hook, because I remember all the crap they fed us and just didn't swallow it. Needless to say she's gotten less and less enthusiastic about talking to me about it, because I challenge her and she can't back up anything they say. I don't live there anymore, so all our communication is by phone. This year my birthday came and went again with out her calling me for my birthday and I just decided to stop trying to talk to her altogether. I can't change her, and I can't get her to accept me. I can't get her to respect my beliefs or lack thereof, so I am rejecting hers. This may not be the right thing to do, and I may regret it one day, but I can't deal with the fact that she is willing to put her "mind control social club" (which is how I really see all religions), ahead of the feelings of those she is supposed to care about. And until that day when she cares as much about how I feel as she does about her faith, then I plan to avoid her.
Looking back on everything I've written, I'm sure you must be thinking wow. But there it all is, what I could put together at this time. That's where I'm coming from and I am actually pretty happy with who I am. I am a strong willed person who is not afraid to think for myself. I don't think I would be here otherwise.
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'The Carrie Diaries' fills fashion's pop-culture void
Costume designer Eric Daman "pre-creates" Bradshaw's look for 'Sex and the City' fans and their daughters.
How do you re-create the world-renowned wardrobe of one of pop culture's most famous fashionistas, Carrie Bradshaw, for a new audience and a new era?
You don't. You "pre-create" it.
That's how Eric Daman, costume designer for The Carrie Diaries, characterizes his challenge. After all, the Carrie embodied by AnnaSophia Robb in the new CW show is a high school junior in 1980s suburban Connecticut, not a thirtysomething writer in early '00s Manhattan.
So comparing their closets is really apples and oranges — or Manolos and Mias. As a teen, Carrie's quirky yet sophisticated style has not yet fully developed, so she isn't strutting around in stilettos and wearing hot pants to a barbecue. Or "having her bra strap show off with a Fendi baguette on her shoulder," says Daman, who has deep knowledge of TV's seminal singleton: He assisted costume designer Patricia Field on Seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Sex and the City.
Still, the task of tricking out a teenage Carrie was intimidating, even for someone with experience — and success — clothing trendy TV high schoolers (Daman was the material maestro behind the outfits for Blair et al on Gossip Girl). "There was an enormous amount of pressure," he says. "I really wanted to give homage to an icon we know, but I feel exhilarated and honored that the fashion torch has been passed on to me."
So far, so stylish, fashion editors say. "Now that Gossip Girl is off, everyone's looking for this to fill the void, especially on the fashion front," says Seventeen fashion director Gina Kelly. Daman "did such a great job of nailing all the nuances of how we dressed in the '80s without it looking too costume-y." (Kelly grew up during the decade — in Connecticut, no less.)
Does the series have the potential to make an impact on the closets of girls — and even women? "For sure," Kelly says.
For one thing, young Carrie's preppy, floral printed pants and two-toned oxfords have seen a real-world renaissance of late. "There are '80s influences that are still exciting and fun," says Lucky fashion director Anne Keane. "In that way, it's a happy coincidence."
Keane's concern is the very nature of The Carrie Diaries: looking backward. "What was so fun about watching (Sex and the City) is that you'd see these trends that were so of-the-moment," she says. "It's going to be hard to capture the same sort of feeling."
"They definitely have some challenges, but that's not to say they're not going to be able to do it," Keane adds.
Indeed, clothes define Carrie so much that part of the fun of the show will be watching her wardrobe evolve as she grows up and establishes her idiosyncratic identity, Daman says. "The more she goes to New York, the more we see her style bloom" — quite literally, as that mini flower she pinned to her lime leopard cardigan in the Diaries premiere pops into the dinner-plate-sized posy we remember from Sex. "We watch her adapt and become the Carrie Bradshaw we expect her to be."
So Daman has built in fashion foreshadowing, laying little "Easter eggs," as he calls them, that will eventually hatch into Carrie's sartorial signatures: The simple gold C pendant she wears in Diaries is, of course, a precursor to the flashy nameplate necklace she — and flocks of her fans — brandished during Sex's reign. As Diaries progresses, "we'll see, in a very nuanced way, that New York is seeping into her Connecticut life."
Her customized Mark Cross handbag is a gateway to the luxury lines she covets in Sex. At first, "I wanted it to be a big label that had monetary value, like Chanel. I came around to thinking it shouldn't be something so ostentatious," Daman. So he chose a bag with "quiet lineage," carried once upon a time by the likes of Grace Kelly.
Other "aha-there's-Carrie-Bradshaw" moments in the pilot: Opting for her mom's Jackie O. shades vs. her classmates' era-obvious Ray-Bans. "She's already making a fashion statement," Daman says. Prancing confidently in that pink-and-black Scaasi party dress. Nonetheless, Daman was conscious of his character's youth and fashion naivete. "We didn't want the dress to be wearing her," so he had it completely recut for Robb's body.
Alex Woo, a New York-based jeweler who designed teen Carrie's C necklace and had pieces featured in every season of Gossip Girl, won't be surprised if retailers knockoff that vintage Scaasi frock. Still, she thinks the Diaries' style influence will be less literal and more inspirational, more about mixing modern and vintage. "This is a real girl you can identify with," she says.
That said, it seems some viewers are already taking away bits and pieces of young Carrie's look. To wit: Hours after Diaries' premiere ended, Woo sold a gold C necklace to someone in Oklahoma — named Carrie.


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CIU Alumnus to Lead International Nonprofit
Columbia International University alumnus David Emerson is the new president of Enactus, an international nonprofit organization with headquarters in Springfield, Mo. Enactus brings together student, academic and business leaders who are committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need.
Emerson, who earned a master's degree in Missions from CIU in 2000, has over 20 years of business management executive experience, most recently with the American Red Cross.
Read more about David Emerson in the News-Leader newspaper of Springfield, Mo. at http://www.news-leader.com/article/20130716/BUSINESS01/307160045/business-awards-and-achievers-Enactus-Branson.


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Touhou Nekokayou #126 (4koma): Shikienanigans: Round 3
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This is the last "see things in black and white" gag, I swear! Originally, I was going to drag it out longer (and have it alternate between black and white as she zoomed in more and more or whatever), but I was starting to feel tired, and I felt that it would draw the punchline out too long with no, uh, punch at the end. I suppose Kisume's line in the last panel, which is my favorite part of the comic, would've worked best, but OH WELL.
I was originally going to introduce Kisume's "bucket-teleportation" here, but couldn't fit it in. Komachi must've been playing reverse-whack-a-mole (Whackisume?) for a while there.
I'd also toyed with the idea of having the color-caption in the last panel be a completely different color, like "SAFFRON!" or something, but that would just be silly.
Also, Blue And Orange Morality (Warning, link leads to TVTropes. Muffin will not be held responsible for hours of time lost as a result of following it.But see also this disclaimer).
- (Komachi is confronting Kisume by the side of the Sanzu River. There are a couple of other buckets lying around.)
Komachi: Quit whacking me!!
Kisume: Whee, the spirits have and/or have not spoken!!
- (Komachi charges forward at Kisume; her bucket falls empty, and she pops out of one of the other buckets.)
Komachi: RARG!
Shikieiki: (leaning in from off-panel) Komachi, why have you not -- oh.
Kisume: Too slow!
- Narration Box: One too-awesome-to-depict fight scene later ...
(Kisume's forehead is bandaged, and one of the buckets is upended. Shikieiki approaches Kisume with her Rod of Remorse, while Komachi hovers behind them.)
Shiki: And how's *your* Karma? Let's have a look!
Kisume: Search me, boss, but there's nobody here but us chickens! Crazy chickens, even!
Spell Card: 「Power To See Things In Black And White」
- (The coloration is mauve. Green "Insane Clown Posse" faces are hovering behind Kisume. The karma-meter is the wrong color and has fallen against the side of the panel, and the arrow is pointing the wrong way.)
Kisume: Karma? I 'ardly know 'ah!
Shikieiki: ... oh, you're pleading insanity.
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John Evans
That is an excellent "I hardly know her" joke. Well done!
So I'm guessing Kisume is either rather hard to read, or she's protected my some kind of insanity barrier here.
Also, nice work as always.
Huh. Mauve. Thats got be like opening the fruit drawer and finding a stapler.
Also, I now want to see Gamzee and Kisume hang out.
Wow, Kisume is an amazing troll, what with the Insane Clown Posse behind the mauve aura and all.
Copycat Zero
Yeah, you're right: Kisume's responses in the third and fourth panels would probably have worked better switched. But, as you said, oh well.
Aya Syameimeru [GNN]
Well, that's how you take out the judge I guess.
... ok, I laughed harder than I probably should have at the last panel. Pretty damn funny man. Loved it!
And Whackisume, sounds like a hit!
Just noticed the Insane Clown Posse.
IDE/Theory: Gamzee is Muffin's favorite troll (and possibly favorite Homestuck character).
Dizzy H. Muffin
Nah, I just wanted to involve "some notation of insanity," and the meme which is currently infecting my brain is "fucken magnets how do they work." Homestuck had nothing to do with it. :P
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Result: Nobody here but us chickens !
..Ok. Sorry about this one...
Dizzy H. Muffin
Hah. I'd be flattered, but no. Create.swf stuff would get UNAPPROVED-IN-THREE DAYS'd into oblivion.
@Muffin: Not so, there's a walfas tag for anything that's made using (or references) create.swf (there's even one fanart that came from Pixiv that had Kaguya and Mokou fighting over the Twuck).
Anyway, I wanted to say something about the comic, but I forgot.
Any Muffin comic with Kisume is made instantly better by her inclusion. By logical extension, this is instantly one of the best Muffin comics of all time.
Except that of course, logic coming in contact with Kisume would probably cause something catastrophically weird to happen, like Gensokyo becoming real and reality becoming fictional. Let's not go there.
Well, if we want to get philosophical, Gensokyo is semireal as a fictional construct. Or it could really be real and life is indeed the fiction. Or life could not exist and everything is the mad, fitful sleep of dead gods. Or a small child.
Really, if we're speaking of the physical possibility of a Gensokyo-like plane's existence, you should note how *flawlessly* you can mesh Touhou with pretty much any other series, and all inconsistencies (if any actually arise (note: they probably won't)) can be explained by a stock phrase ("DAMMIT YUKARI", if you didn't know- this is why you should always have a reality warper on your payroll). Throw in the fact that by definition, magic doesn't follow muggle-reality's rules (and thus cannot be disproved by them), and suddenly, POOF! Gensokyo fits into reality quite well.
Stick that into your SAN role and smoke it!
That, and isn't Reality Unrealistic?