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Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Fic In A Box 2021
too nice for a jacket (i'm yours)
susiecarter
Bruce and Clark are sleeping together, but it doesn't mean anything in particular. Bruce has started—giving Clark things, too. But that doesn't mean anything either.
(Or: five things Bruce gives Clark, and the feelings Clark has about them.)
For Impala_Chick.
I hope you enjoy this mishmash of friends with benefits who've caught feelings, Bruce getting Clark expensive things and Clark learning exactly how much Bruce likes seeing him wear them (eventually), and getting dressed up fancy, Impala_Chick, and happy FIAB! :D
Title borrowed from "In My Head" by Maisie Peters.
one: cologne.
It's good, with Bruce.
It always is—that's why they started doing this in the first place, and it's also why they haven't stopped. It's good, it works, and it hasn't changed anything. Bruce probably wouldn't have gone along with it otherwise.
Which is great, because Clark doesn't know what he'd do without it.
Not the sex, or at least not just the sex, even if he's not exactly complaining. The—the relief of it, really. The way it lets him get out of his head, the way it anchors him right where he is; the way there's nothing but Bruce's hands on him, how they make him feel, and putting his hands on Bruce in return.
And it means something, too. The time he gets to spend around Bruce, in Bruce's space. It's hard to imagine he'd ever have gotten to see Bruce's bedroom in the lake house, if Bruce weren't fucking him in it a couple times a week—not because Bruce would have been trying to keep him out, just because there wouldn't have been a reason to.
(Or—he could've seen it, if he'd wanted to, just by hovering over the water and looking through the wall. But that wouldn't have been the same as Bruce letting him in.)
In Bruce's space, with Bruce's things. Not Batman's equipment, not the Batmobile or the Knightcrawler or the Flying Fox. Everyday stuff, stuff Bruce probably doesn't even think about. Getting to see the color of Bruce's bathroom towels, the flavor of his toothpaste, the brand of his razor.
Or, in this particular instance, his frankly ridiculous collection of colognes.
Clark leans closer, runs a fingertip lightly along the row of gleaming glass bottles, a dozen different shapes and colors and labels. He only came in here for a glass of water, throat dry with gasping after Bruce just spent almost forty-five minutes riding him with relentless precision—stopping, whenever he could tell Clark was too close for his taste, waiting Clark out, and then starting again. Clark had used the speed to get in here, hadn't wanted to leave that bed any longer than he had to, but—
But he can never resist a chance to learn a little more about what Bruce likes, what he has. What he chooses to keep.
He goes down the line of them, picking up one bottle at a time and drawing it close to breathe it in; he does it carefully, obviously, because if he opens up the senses too far, gets the full blast of all of them at once, he's probably going to make himself sick.
And he's concentrating hard enough that he doesn't realize Bruce is there until he hears the huff of breath—half a laugh, through Bruce's nose.
He turns around, sheepish, still clutching an ink-black bottle of Clive Christian something-or-other that smells like chopped wood and spices. He'd been stuck on it, pretty sure he'd smelled it on Bruce before, trying to remember exactly when.
Bruce doesn't look pissed, at least. He looks amused, if anything, a warmth to the shape of his mouth and the light in his eyes that Clark hardly ever catches on him except at times like this: after they've fucked, when Bruce is tired for good reasons instead of bad ones, the closest he ever comes to relaxed.
"I was starting to wonder whether you'd gotten lost," he murmurs, tone bland.
He's leaning into the bathroom, a hand on the doorframe, and he's—Clark glances through the wall to check—yep, still naked.
Clark clears his throat. He'd yanked his own briefs back on haphazardly, on the off chance Alfred was still somewhere in the house, but now he's starting to wish he hadn't. He could probably get Bruce in the shower, though, let the briefs get soaked through; Bruce might like that, actually.
"No, I," he says, and then realizes he's still holding the cologne. "I was just, um. Looking."
Bruce gives the bottle in Clark's hand a cursory glance. "You like that one?"
I remember you smelling like this. A few months ago, I think. We'd only just started doing this, I still didn't know how to ask you whether you wanted to keep going, and I wanted to press my face into the side of your throat and breathe you in, but we were in the middle of a publicity tour; you weren't even looking at me, you'd turned away to take a question—
He can't say that. He can't say any of that.
"It's—nice."
Bruce makes a considering face. "Not bad," he allows, and then looks past Clark at the shelf, leans a little closer, narrows his eyes. "Mm, here," he adds, and extends a hand, reaches past Clark; screw cologne, he smells like the sheets on his bed, like sweat, like come, like Clark—
The maneuver's smooth enough that Clark only just glances down in time to catch it happening, sleight of hand: the Clive Christian bottle's gone, and in its place, between Clark's fingers, Bruce has deposited a different one, brushed pale gold.
"That one."
"This one," Clark repeats blankly.
Bruce makes a loose gesture with one bare shoulder, not quite a shrug. "Keep it."
"Keep—are you kidding me?"
"Clark, I've got a hundred of those things, I can't even keep track anymore," and that's a brass-balled lie, Clark thinks, because Bruce never met a detail he couldn't keep track of; because he'd leaned over like that and looked for this, picked it out.
"I," Clark says. "Bruce, I can't—I didn't mean—"
Bruce's mouth softens. "You weren't asking, I know," he agrees, and then, strange, soft, "You never do." He reaches out and closes his hand around Clark's, around the gold bottle in it. "Keep it. And come on, unless you were planning to tap out before round two?"
Clark wets his lips—without even thinking about it, just reflex, except he sees Bruce's gaze track it, Bruce's eyes hot and dark. "No," he admits, and lets Bruce draw him closer, into a filthy kiss and back out the bathroom door at the same time, stumbling through together, hands all over each other.
Clark loses track of the bottle, somewhere between the bathroom and Bruce's bed. Which is fine with him; he'd been planning to sneak back later, put the bottle back on the shelf where it belongs.
It takes three days for him to notice, standing in his apartment and going through the pockets of all his pants before he does his laundry—he doesn't know what it is at first, doesn't recognize the shape, and then realizes what it must be just as he's pulling it out.
Jesus. He laughs and shakes his head. He can't imagine when Bruce managed to find the time to put it in there, how he'd done it without Clark noticing that he was.
But it's the same bottle, pale gold, so shiny Clark feels a little bad about getting his fingerprints all over it. It wasn't one he'd gotten to yet, when he was working his way down the line and smelling them. He holds it up, untwists the lid just a quarter turn, and breathes it in.
Citrus, he thinks. Citrus, and something warm-spicy-salty; it smells like ocean, like hard work, like an orange grove in sunlight.
He wonders if that's what it smells like to Bruce. If that's why Bruce picked it for him.
He closes his eyes, and rubs a thumb over the smooth glossy curve of the bottle. He should give it back. Knowing Bruce—knowing Bruce Wayne—it's, jesus, hundreds of dollars, too much. Nothing Bruce should be trying to hand off to him on the spur of the moment. He should give it back.
But he doesn't want to.
It's wrong of him, selfish, and he knows it is. But he wants to keep it. This thing, this thing that belongs to Bruce, and Bruce gave it to him; and he can have it, keep it, even after—
Even after this thing is over. Even after Bruce has run out of reasons to keep sleeping with Clark, and Clark has lost him, there will still be one thing Clark has left of him.
What a stupid thing to think. What a ridiculous amount of weight to give a tiny gold bottle.
But Clark goes and puts it in his bathroom, next to the sink, and doesn't give it back.
two: dress shoes.
"If I could just speak to Mr. Wayne for a few minutes, please?"
The guy at the door continues to look deeply skeptical.
"I have an appointment," Clark tries. "Or, um. I had one," and he carefully leaves off before he blew it off, but imagines the guy can probably hear it anyway. "I had one of his assistants call him, he knows I'm coming—"
"Oh, hey, Kent! Is that you?"
Thank god. Clark doesn't know what the hell Bruce was thinking, forcing him to track Bruce down at whatever Metropolis high-street—bespoke shoemaker is responsible for all Bruce Wayne's dress shoes. Jesus.
He gets shown into the back, where Bruce is seated comfortably, one arm hitched up on the back of his chair and the other dangling absently across his thigh, socked toes twiddling idly. It's been months now, and Clark still hasn't gotten used to that: to walking into a room with Bruce, and finding himself facing Bruce Wayne instead.
"Kent," Bruce repeats, genial, at a conversational volume this time instead of the shout he'd let out before. "Hey, hi, sorry, you know how it is—last pair was practically giving me calluses, my pedicurist was tearing his hair out. When they said they could fit me in today and do some adjustments, I had to jump on it."
"Of course, Mr. Wayne," Clark says, and it's a little harder to make Clark Kent sound irritated than it probably ought to be.
Bruce grins at him. "Come on, come on, sit down. You wanted to talk to me about something, right?"
"Yes, Mr. Wayne, I'm looking for a statement from you regarding Wayne Enterprises R&D and your recent investment in exploring new ways to store and manage the power generated by solar—"
"Wow, that sounds boring," Bruce observes. "Take your shoes off."
Clark blinks. "Mr. Wayne, I don't. I—take my shoes off?"
"Yeah," Bruce says. "Who wants to be the only guy in the room with no shoes on?"
"I'm not taking my shoes off, Mr. Wayne," Clark says firmly.
"No, listen, you might as well get something out of spending an hour chasing me down, Kent," Bruce says, all Bruce Wayne's toothless amiability, and then he turns his head and shouts, "Can we get Maurice out here for a minute? Get some measurements, set up a last for my friend Mr. Kent?"
Oh, jesus.
"I appreciate the thought, but that really isn't appropriate—"
Bruce turns back toward him, and for a second it's—it's Bruce, deliberately so, the wry awareness in the gaze and the angle of the pointedly raised eyebrow.
Clark's voice dies in his throat.
Because, technically speaking, Bruce isn't wrong. Shoes or no shoes, this is already wildly inappropriate on about half a dozen different levels. They're Batman and Superman, they're habitually lying to everyone around them, they're sleeping together—take your pick. Bruce is hardly going to be able to suborn Clark Kent's good opinion with a pair of custom hand-fitted dress shoes, if he hasn't got it already.
"Bruce, I don't need shoes," Clark hisses, last-ditch. "I can float—"
"You're only saying that because you've never had shoes like these," Bruce murmurs imperturbably. "All they need to do is take your measurements, make some notes. A couple of weeks, a preliminary fitting, and they'll deliver the finished pair right to your doorstep."
There's one chair separating them; Clark chose to seat himself with a polite buffer in between them. Bruce shifts over, closes that reasonable distance, and Clark hopes distantly that Maurice is really, really busy, wherever he is, because the last thing Clark needs right now is someone walking in and seeing Bruce Wayne's hand skim coaxingly down into the small of Clark Kent's back.
Clark swallows. "Bruce—"
"Here," Bruce says, and Clark blinks and glances down: with one socked toe, Bruce snagged the right shoe of the pair he'd come here in, brought it with him when he moved toward Clark, and he's sliding it another six inches across the dark sleek wood of the floor, until it bumps Clark's shoe. "Take your shoes off."
Jesus. This is ridiculous.
"One shoe," Clark compromises, and he catches the heel of his right shoe against the arch of his left, pops it off. Clark Kent wears cheap, comfortable shoes, unremarkable brown, scuffed and starting to wear through in a couple conspicuous places—nothing like Bruce Wayne's hand-tooled polished leather dress shoes. Them in a nutshell, Clark thinks, looking down at the wild mismatch. "I can't believe I'm doing this," he adds, and sticks his foot in Bruce's shoe.
Bruce does have a shoe size on him, maybe a size and a half. It's not like he can't get his foot in there, and it's not like it's uncomfortable.
But Clark, sitting there, hot-faced, finds himself with a dim suspicion that most of his assessment of Bruce's shoe has more to do with the sensation of leftover warmth, the awareness that it's Bruce's, Bruce's thigh pressed as if absently along the length of Clark's, Bruce's hand low and open on his back, than Clark having developed the ability to appreciate a bespoke shoe properly in the last two seconds.
"Okay," he hears himself say.
Bruce is watching him, intent, too close. "You'll take the shoes," he presses, voice low.
"I'll—take the shoes," Clark agrees helplessly.
And however gleefully Bruce Wayne shouts for Maurice to hurry up and take care of his friend Mr. Kent, the slant of Bruce's mouth and the spark in his eyes right then, in the moment Clark says yes, are all Bruce.
three: sock garters.
Looking back, it feels like more of a surprise that it hadn't happened a lot sooner. But for all that Clark loves looking at Bruce in Bruce Wayne's business suits, he hasn't actually gotten to peel Bruce out of them very often. Most of the time, when they end up fucking, it's at the end of a long day, Bruce already dressed down to work on something in the Cave or at the Hall—or after a mission, urgent with adrenaline, only half out of their uniforms. On a weekend, now and then, when Bruce gives Clark a call to see whether he's got an hour or two to spare, and is already ready for him by the time he arrives, no matter how fast he moves.
Clark isn't even looking, at first. He's got Bruce up against a wall, has pinned him there at the hips with one forearm, because the way Bruce looks at him when he does things like that hasn't escaped his notice. He's busy working Bruce's slacks down his thighs with the other hand, pressing his mouth to Bruce's cock through Bruce's briefs and listening to the ragged noises Bruce is trapping in the back of his throat—
And then his urgent, clumsy fingertips catch on something where he wasn't expecting anything to be. He frowns just a little, startled, and drags Bruce's slacks down a few inches further, leans away just far enough to look down and see the stark black circle rounding Bruce's calf, the slim neat straps and discreet flattened clips.
Jesus, it shouldn't be hot. It should be ridiculous. But Clark already had maybe a few too many opinions about Bruce's legs—the cut of muscle at his hips, the sheer mouthwatering definition in his thighs—and apparently his calves are no exception. The black band of the garter just emphasizes the shape of them, and slim dark straps drawn taut over pretty much any part of Bruce's body are never going to make Clark less relentlessly hard for him.
"Clark?" Bruce's voice is remarkably even, for somebody who just had a mouth on his cock suddenly disappear.
"You've got to be kidding me," Clark manages, sliding a finger around the top of the garter, dipping a fingertip under the edge.
He makes himself look up, past the beautiful straining shape of Bruce's cock in his briefs, and catches the tail end of comprehension stealing over Bruce's face, a soft wicked slant angling Bruce's mouth.
"Oh, I see," Bruce murmurs, and adopts a considering expression. "Is it just the garters, or is it more of a leg thing in general? How do you feel about fishnets?"
Clark chokes on a laugh, and it's half at Bruce, how deliberately outrageous he's being, but it's half at himself—because he can feel the heat in his face at the picture that puts in his head.
And after a second, Bruce must be able to see that heat for himself. The look on his face changes to something else, something gentle and serious and intent; he drops a hand to Clark's cheek, touches the apple of it where it must be going steadily red.
"That looks like a check mark for fishnets," he says quietly. "Duly noted."
"Bruce," Clark manages. "You don't—you don't have to—"
"Clark," Bruce says in his turn, softer still. "If I've somehow given you the impression that I need my arm twisted here, let me correct it."
Clark doesn't get to finish sucking Bruce off against the wall; they fuck on the floor instead. The socks, and the garters, don't come off. It shouldn't be as good as it is.
But then it's always so goddamn good, with Bruce.
The week after that, Clark finds a package in his room at the Hall.
He doesn't get to stop by, really spend time there, as often as he'd like; he can't say for sure how long it might have been there. He stares at it for a second, just lying there innocently on the edge of the perfectly-made bed in his quarters—but it must be fine. Right? It could never have gotten this far inside the Hall if there were something dangerous inside it. And—
And he doesn't want to look through the packaging if he doesn't have to. He's always kind of treasured safe opportunities to let himself be surprised.
He shakes himself, blowing out a breath, and reaches for it. A small box, that's all. Printed with a logo that's not unfamiliar, but Clark can't place it until he actually opens the box.
Then the brand rings a bell. It's some clothes store. Personal clothing and accessories, something like that.
Because the box is holding half a dozen pairs of men's sock garters, and—Clark digs two fingers in past them, finds what feels like a wide cardboard tab and pulls it out.
Fishnet stockings. Of course.
He grins, snorts and runs his fingers over the thick crisscross pattern. Bruce hadn't said he had a thing for fishnets; then again, buying these and leaving them on Clark's bed isn't exactly subtle of him.
The garters are going to be a hell of a lot easier to try on, though.
Clark sits down on the edge of the bed, lets the box drop to the covers next to him and picks one of the garters free of the mass. Not that jeans are the right pants to wear them with, but hell, nobody's looking.
He tugs one leg of his jeans up, and, well, it's just practical—his sock's already sliding down anyway.
There isn't anything particularly hot about the feeling of pulling it on. It's just a neat thick band of elastic, soft enough that he can hardly feel it once he's got it up over the meat of his calf, but strong enough that he can buy it could keep a sock right where it's supposed to be.
He runs a thumb along the line of it, flicks one of the straps with its little clip over his fingers and then back again.
If he's wearing them, next time—will Bruce think they're hot, too? Will Bruce get too distracted to take them off him? Or—or even use them, drag Clark's legs up around his waist and leave a thumb hooked in one of them—
(Will Bruce want to hold onto him, then? Will Bruce want to keep him?)
four: cufflinks.
When Bruce pulls Clark aside into a discreetly curtained alcove at the Metropolis-Gotham Charity Ball, a jewelry box isn't the last thing Clark's expecting him to draw out of the inside pocket of his suit.
But it's pretty close.
Clark blinks down at it. "Bruce, what—?"
"Please, Clark," Bruce says, in a warm undertone. "I know you've got an image to keep up, but that doesn't mean you can't have any standards."
He raises an eyebrow, and pops the box open. Clark had almost managed to convince himself there was going to be an earpiece, a selection of bugs Bruce wanted Clark to install around the ballroom, a blow dart. So it's a surprise all over again when it's just—actual jewelry.
Except it's not just actual jewelry, because it's Bruce. Cufflinks; and they're understated, it's not like there are six-carat diamonds staring up at Clark from the middle of the dark velvet backing, but Clark doesn't even want to imagine how much they must've cost. They look like silver, or maybe white gold, inset with brillant blue that Clark decides to believe is lapis, because if Bruce dragged him over here to give him sapphire cufflinks, he's starting to think he might pass out.
"You've got to be kidding me," he breathes, and takes a nice long step away, shaking his head helplessly. "You've got to be kidding me—I can't take those. You know I can't take those."
He's already turning away, ready to shove back out past the curtains and get to the other side of the ballroom as fast as he can, find a dark corner of his own where he can try to catch his breath—but Bruce has him by the wrist before he can do it.
Clark shuts his eyes, and goes still.
He should leave. He could leave. He's Superman; there's no way Bruce can possibly stop him.
"Borrow them, then," Bruce says, low, and tugs, just a little. Clark yields, because he always will, because he can't do anything else when it's Bruce asking, and Bruce draws him back around, gentle, an inch at a time. "Borrow them for the evening."
Clark bites down on the inside of his cheek, and doesn't open his eyes. "Bruce, there's no way I can possibly pretend I just happen to own—"
"Sterling silver with a lapis inset?" Bruce murmurs blandly.
Okay, so it's definitely not lapis. Jesus.
Clark swallows.
But he doesn't manage to pull his hands away. Bruce lets him go for a second, instead—pulls the cufflinks out, that must be it, and slides the empty box back in his pocket, and then he takes one of Clark's wrists, turns it so the inside is facing up, and slips two fingers inside Clark's cuff.
Just drawing it out, that's all. Clark Kent owns nothing but crappy suits, wore the darkest and least-wrinkled one to this event, but he does his raised-right Kansas-boy best when he starches and irons his dress shirts. Bruce coaxes the crisp sleeve to the right length, catches the edge alongside the buttonhole between his thumb and forefinger, and fastens one cufflink in place.
The second one is—is even worse. The cuff's caught, on that side, and Bruce's hand is warm, long gentle fingers sliding up the inside of Clark's wrist to catch it, Jesus fucking Christ. Clark can't breathe, so lucky for him he doesn't need to.
And then it's over. Bruce doesn't move.
Clark opens his eyes.
Bruce is standing impossibly close, not touching Clark anywhere except his fingertips lingering against Clark's wrist; he was looking down, at the cufflink now neatly fastened in Clark's sleeve, but then his eyes come up, a single excruciating sweep of eyelashes, and Clark can't look away from him.
Bruce lifts his other hand, touches Clark's cheek—his temple, almost, just at the outside of his eye, as if—
His eyes. His eyes are blue.
Bruce had planned this. He had to have planned this. He hadn't just happened to be carrying around a pair of cufflinks almost literally in his back pocket, cufflinks that worked with Clark Kent's least terrible suit and matched—and matched his—
"There," Bruce says, so artificially light Clark almost flinches from it. "Now at least you won't look quite so underdressed. You're welcome, Mr. Kent."
Clark can't equal his effort, and doesn't bother to try. He doesn't want to, anyway. He doesn't try to smile, doesn't make his face do anything except what it wants to do, and he doesn't look away from Bruce.
"Thank you," he says quietly. "They're beautiful. Thank you, Bruce," and then he takes Bruce's face in his hand and kisses him.
It's fine; they're hidden. Bruce wouldn't have done any of this if they were visible to anyone else, in either the hallway or the ballroom beyond it.
But Bruce doesn't kiss him back as if it's fine. Bruce sways into him, grips his wrist with sudden intensity, for an instant utterly overwhelming and surrounding. And then he jerks away, sucks in a sharp breath and turns on his heel and steps out of the alcove without a backward glance.
For a long, stunned second, standing there alone in the dimness, Clark's almost worried there's something wrong—that he's angry, somehow, or that Clark made a mistake.
But he gets himself together, pastes Clark Kent's harmless expression onto his face, and steps out into the hallway, back to the ballroom; and the entire rest of the night, every time he turns around, he catches Bruce's eyes on him, over and over again. The cufflinks feel heavy, a solid reassuring weight, drawing the cuffs of his sleeves into a gentle clasp around his wrist—as if Bruce is still holding him there, even from across the room.
five: a suit.
Bruce shows up with the suit on a Saturday afternoon.
Clark's not expecting it. He'd thought maybe Bruce might call, the way he did sometimes on weekends, and if he did, Clark could just speed his way through throwing something on and head right over. The knock on the door is a surprise, and then he looks through the door and sees Bruce, and reflexively says, "Come in," even though it can't possibly be an emergency, something mission-critical for the League, or Bruce would've found a quicker way to get in touch—
And then there he is, sitting openmouthed on his couch in an old t-shirt and ragged cut-offs, when Bruce steps through the door.
"Uh. Hey," Clark hears himself say.
"Hey," Bruce echoes, bland, but one corner of his mouth is halfway to a smile.
Clark registers the garment bag hanging from Bruce's hand in the same moment that Bruce raises it illustratively.
Oh, god. Clark bites his lip.
It can't be worse than the cufflinks, he tells himself, and stands. "What's this?"
"A suit," Bruce says.
"Why?"
Bruce looks at him. Bruce's face, his eyes, shutter briefly, unreadable, opaque. He just stands there. And then he eases back into motion with a tilt of his head, a businesslike crisp tone, and says, "I'll be conducting surveillance at Aragawa next week. It would be for the best if you were able to get inside on short notice without drawing too much attention—"
Clark closes the distance, reaches out and closes a hand around Bruce's, around the hanger of the garment bag. "Why?" he says again, softer, without looking away.
Bruce's throat moves. He's gone still again, searching Clark's face. "That was the good reason," he murmurs.
"Okay," Clark says. "What's the other reason?"
And Bruce is silent for a long stretching moment, before he says, so steadily and evenly that it's almost conversational, "Because I want to see you in it."
Clark can feel the rush of heat to his face, the eager idiotic kick of his heart behind his ribs.
It's not everything he wants from Bruce. But it's pretty goddamn close.
"All right," he says, and he takes the garment bag from Bruce's hand, lifts it away, and goes and shuts himself in the bedroom.
He lays the garment bag out across his bed. It's a nice day; the room is sunny, bright, and it feels almost unreal. His heart is pounding.
He unzips the garment bag, and looks down at the suit inside of it. He knows what he wants to do. He doesn't know whether it's the right decision, but
(—Because I want to see you in it. The sound of Bruce's voice, the shape his mouth had made around the words, the look in his eyes as he'd said it—)
maybe it isn't the wrong one.
Bruce had been right about the shoes. They'd been delivered a couple weeks ago, the bill discreetly marked as already paid. Clark had put them on, one time, just to feel them, and they were the most comfortable shoes he'd ever worn—but Clark Kent couldn't show up to an event in dress shoes that looked like those, and he'd put them away.
He pulls them out now. Strips out of his t-shirt, the cut-off shorts, fast enough that he hears a seam give somewhere, but it's not like it matters. Socks first, and he's drawing them up his shins, smoothing them down, when he remembers—fumbles in his bedside table, digs around, and comes up with the garters. They go on as easily as they did the first time, and he fastens the clips carefully, lining them up, making sure the straps lie flat and taut against the sides of his calves.
Slacks next. Wherever Bruce got his measurements from—and isn't that an unnerving thought to ponder—they were accurate. The fit is perfect, good enough that it's almost embarrassing, a fresh wave of heat under Clark's skin, imagining Bruce relaying the exact dimensions of Clark's ass to some poor beleaguered tailor.
Then, at last, he can slip the shoes on.
Dress shirt, and the suit is three-piece; waistcoat, then jacket. And of course, of course, Bruce had thought this through just as carefully as he ever does: it's black, but it's got tiny pinstripes, pale, almost exactly the same color as the white gold in the goddamn cufflinks.
Clark shuts his eyes, swallowing hard.
He hadn't known what the hell to do with them. Borrow them for the evening, Bruce had said, and then he'd conspicuously failed to come anywhere near Clark for the rest of the night, hadn't offered Clark a single opportunity to return them. Clark should've done it anyway, days ago—he should've used the superspeed, blitzed his way into the lake house and left them resting on Bruce's pillow.
But he hadn't. They're sitting by the sink in the bathroom, ten times as valuable as anything else in the apartment, lying there gleaming next to Clark Kent's half-squeezed toothpaste and cheap floss.
Clark opens the bathroom door, reaches out and picks them up. His own breath is loud in his ears, as he watches himself put them in—one, and then the other, and in every movement of his hands, his fingers, is the ghost of Bruce's, the way it had felt to stand there and have Bruce touch him like that.
And then the cologne, in its delicate gleaming bottle. Not too much, Clark tells himself, because jesus, he feels unsteady on his feet, half an inch from spilling the whole thing on himself; but his hands don't shake after all, as he applies a dab to either side of his throat, to the insides of his wrists. Just enough that he can smell it himself, sucking in a shaking breath after he's done. Just enough that Bruce will be able to smell it, if he leans in close—
Clark closes his eyes, digs his teeth into his lip, opens them again. He can't tell how he looks, what Bruce might see. He just sees himself, himself in the things Bruce bought for him, the things Bruce gave him, as if he's Bruce's to provide for, to dress up, to please. As if he's Bruce's.
He steps away from the mirror, and goes back out.
Bruce is waiting for him quietly, standing perfectly still, patient and unbothered. He hears Clark's footsteps, he must, because as Clark comes back out into the main room, his head comes up, and his eyes find Clark.
Clark can see it, can map his progress almost to the second: his gaze dropping to Clark's shoulders, one and across to the other, and a drop down to the hips, one side and then the other there, too, cataloging the suit, assessing its fit.
The hips—Clark let his hands settle at his sides. That's when Bruce's gaze catches on the cufflinks.
One, and then the other, and then a leap back, confirming, before his glance cuts upward, sharp, back to Clark's face. A drop again, all the way down to the shoes, and whatever it is Bruce is able to recognize, the quality of the leather or the pattern of the stitching—he knows which shoes these are. He has to.
Clark hears the breath catch in Bruce's throat; checks, helpless, unable to stop himself.
Bruce's heart is pounding.
"Clark," Bruce says, very low, strange and tentative, and steps forward—crosses the room, and his hand finds the nape of Clark's neck, and for a moment they're practically cheek-to-cheek, a shivering fraction of an inch holding them apart everywhere except Bruce's palm against the back of Clark's neck.
He doesn't do anything obvious, then. He just inhales, long and slow. But that's enough, it must be.
"Why?" he murmurs into Clark's ear.
Clark shuts his eyes. "I don't have a good reason," he whispers, hoarse.
"Then give me the other reason," Bruce says softly.
"I like to," Clark says. "I like it when you give me things. I like to wear them for you. Because when I do, I almost think—" He stops, and swallows. It doesn't help. "When I do, you look at me like—"
Bruce makes a hard, raw sound in the back of his throat, and suddenly his thumb is against Clark's jaw, his face turned into Clark's, his mouth, and they're kissing.
It's deep, slow and intent and overwhelming, and by the time it's over Clark's eyes are hot, his throat aching. Bruce doesn't leave him there after, doesn't walk away; he stays right where he is, face tipped against Clark's, pressed together at the temples, breathing each other's air.
"I like to give you things," Bruce says quietly. "But you need to tell me if it's—if it's more than you want to accept from me."
Clark can't help it; he snorts half a laugh through his nose. "Bruce, the cologne was more than I wanted to accept from you. You'd passed more than I wanted to accept from you a few thousand dollars before the goddamn cufflinks." He shakes his head, just a little, just enough to brush his cheek against Bruce's and feel the rasp of Bruce's stubble. "But I took them anyway. Because it meant something to me, to have these things you'd wanted me to have, to think I was going to get to keep them."
And Bruce draws away from him then, just enough to meet his eyes.
"You can," Bruce says. "You can keep them. You can keep—" He stops. His throat works. "You can keep everything, if you want to."
Jesus. Of course he can't just say it. They're both so terrible at this, they almost deserve each other.
"Okay," Clark says, and pulls him in again.
Because he's Clark's; and Clark's not giving him back.
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State Education Department Announces Proposed Changes to Every Student Succeeds Act Regulations
Changes to be Presented to Board of Regents at September Meeting
Proposed Changes Relate to State Assessment Participation Rate Provisions
30-Day Public Comment Period Slated to Begin October 3
Update: Public comments will be accepted through November 2, 2018
The New York State Education Department proposed changes to regulations to implement the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today. The proposed changes reflect stakeholder input and public feedback and will be presented to the Board of Regents at Monday's meeting. If the Board acts on the proposed changes at its September meeting, the public comment period on the proposed changes will begin October 3.
"The Regents and I greatly appreciate the thoughtful feedback we received from the public and the education community on the State's ESSA plan," Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said. "We are working to ensure success for all New York's children regardless of where they live or where they go to school. These proposed changes are an important step toward full implementation of ESSA in New York, but the work doesn't stop there. We will continue to seek feedback and refine the plan to best meet the needs of all students."
"Paramount to any good public policy is engagement with stakeholders," Commissioner Elia said. "Following a thoughtful and productive discussion and considering the comments received, I am confident these changes will benefit students across the state. ESSA fosters educational equity by providing support to districts and schools as they work to ensure that every student succeeds. When paired with the work we have already put in, these amendments will move us even closer to meeting that goal."
In May, NYSED proposed regulations for implementing New York's approved ESSA plan and accepted public comment through August 2018. The Department received approximately 1,900 comments in response to the draft regulations. A majority of the comments received focused on the requirements in the proposed regulations related to student participation in the state assessments.
Based on this input, NYSED made changes to the proposed regulations. Among the changes, NYSED proposes to:
Remove the provision that the Commissioner could require districts to set aside a portion of their Title I funds to improve grades 3-8 English language arts and mathematics assessment participation rates in schools after five years of consistently low participation.
Clarify that if a school is implementing a participation rate improvement plan and has made progress in regard to meeting the 95% participation rate requirement, the school need only update its participation rate plan and does not need to create a new plan each year.
Revise the criteria used to determine whether a school must develop and implement a participation rate improvement plan. Currently, a participation rate improvement plan is required when an accountability group for two consecutive years fails to meet the 95% participation requirement in either ELA or math and does not show improvement in participation rate between the current and prior school year. An additional criterion has been added that further limits the requirement for development of a participation rate improvement plan to those instances in which an accountability group has a Weighted Average Achievement Index that is below the state average (Level 1 or 2).
Revise the exit criteria for Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools (CSI) and Targeted Support and Improvement Schools (TSI) as it relates to participation rate. As a result of this change, a school implementing a participation rate improvement plan will be eligible for removal from CSI or TSI status so long as the accountability group(s) for which a plan is required are not performing at Level 1 on the Weighed Academic Achievement Index.
Remove the provision that the Commissioner may direct a district to submit a plan to convert a school to a charter school if that school is in Receivership or under Registration Review and is not improving.
Additional changes to the regulations are proposed in several areas including the N size for subgroups, school improvement plans, supports for school leaders and parent engagement. A full text of all proposed changes and response to public comments can be found in the on NYSED's website.
The Department anticipates that the amendments will be presented for permanent adoption at the December 2018 Board of Regents meeting after publication of a Notice of Emergency Adoption and Revised Rulemaking in the State Register on October 3, 2018 and expiration of the 30-day public comment period for revised rulemakings. If adopted at the December 2018 Regents meeting, the proposed amendment will be effective as a permanent rule on December 26, 2018.
As the new ESSA accountability system is implemented, the Department will continue to consider additional changes based on public feedback, lessons learned from their implementation, and the ability of the Department to put in place new indicators as valid and reliable data becomes available regarding elements of teaching and learning that are of importance to stakeholders.
Comments on the proposed changes will be accepted through November 2, 2018 and can be submitted by email to: ESSAREGCOMMENTS@nysed.gov.
Additional information on the Department's ESSA Plan is available on NYSED's website.
Public Comment Period
A Notice of Proposed Rule Making was published in the State Register on October 3, 2018. NYSED will accept comments on the proposed changes through November 2, 2018. Please email comments to ESSAREGCOMMENT@nysed.gov.
Proposed changes are available here

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Ammonitoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass that lived during the latter part of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Europe and the transcaspian region. Ammonitoceras was named by Dumas, 1876, the type-species: Ammonitoceras ucetiae.

Although the description doesn't mention a hook, as in Ancyloceras or Acrioceras, Ammonitoceras is included in the Ancyloceratidae.  However neither do Australiceras or Tropaeum, which are also included.

References

Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Geological Society of America and University of Kansas press.

Early Cretaceous ammonites of Europe
Ancyloceratoidea
Ammonitida genera

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On March 29-31, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, minister of state attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, will be visiting Yerevan, where he will be hosted by President Serge Sargsyan and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
This visit takes place at a time when Armenia is preparing to host the 17th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, on October 11-12. The minister will applaud the commitment of the Armenian authorities to the values of La Francophonie and will discuss summit preparations with his interlocutors.
Mr. Lemoyne will assure the Armenian authorities of France's commitment, as co-chair of the Minsk Group, to reaching a negotiated solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He will assure them of our support for the process of rapprochement between Armenia and the EU in the framework of the partnership agreement signed November 24, 2017.
During his visit, Mr. Lemoyne will also work on strengthening our cooperation with Armenia. Our bilateral relationship is rich and rooted in history. The political dialogue between our two countries is very dense, as reflected by President Serge Sargsyan's visit to Paris on January 23. France is a leading investor in Armenia, especially in agrifoods, water, and banking services. Mr. Lemoyne will discuss with his interlocutors the means of developing this potential and expanding trade between our two countries, which reached nearly €50 million in 2017. He will also visit the French school, the Alliance française, and the French university in Armenia, which has educated several thousand Armenian students over the past 20 years.


The counter-battery radar 1L220UK, which has successfully passed the tests, will accurately determine the location of the enemy and destroy it, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has reported on Twitter.
"Ukrainian defenders will determine at a distance of tens of kilometers the exact location of enemy guns, mortars, air defense missile systems and tactical missiles. This was made possible thanks to the counter-battery radar 1L220UK, which has successfully passed field trials," the head of state wrote.
The press service of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, in turn, reported that the radar had been developed by Iskra Scientific and Production Complex, part of the concern.
The tests, which took place at an artillery site in Ukraine, helped confirm the tactical and technical characteristics of the 1L220UK, which significantly exceeds in this regard the counter-battery radars currently used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.


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It's true. The IL's final tiebreaker for deciding the wildcard representative is a flip of the coin from president Randy Mobley. No word on whether he uses a silver dollar or just a good ol' penny.
The Wings are currently two games behind the PawSox and a half-game behind Buffalo for the lone wildcard spot. They can put Buffalo in their rear-view mirror with wins against the Bisons tonight and Saturday.
But let's say the Wings sweep Buffalo and IL North leader Syracuse sweeps Pawtucket, both very possible scenarios. And then let's say the Wings and PawSox split their two-game series at McCoy Stadium.
It will be Tiebreaker Central.
Here's why: The IL does not offer a one-game playoff for teams that tie for the wildcard, mainly because of the potential travel expense (it could be Rochester vs. Charlotte, for example). So the first tiebreaker is head-to-head play. The Wings and PawSox are 7-7 against each other. If they split Sunday and Monday, the season series would end 8-8.
On to the second tiebreaker, which is record against the IL North. Pawtucket currently is 40-36 and Rochester is 38-38. But if the Wings sweep Buffalo and if Syracuse sweeps Pawtucket, both the Wings and PawSox will be 40-38 in divisional play.
On to the third tiebreaker: Head-to-head play against the other two divisional winners. In this case, that's Columbus and Durham. Amazingly, the Wings and PawSox each went 9-7 against those teams. Both went 4-4 against Columbus and 5-3 against Durham.
On to the fourth tiebreaker: Run differential. Right now, Pawtucket has a 13-run lead over Rochester. That sounds insurmountable, but it's not. Let's say Rochester beats Buffalo 9-2 tonight and Syracuse beats Pawtucket 7-1. Suddenly, the Wings and PawSox would be tied for run differential.
It would be amazing if they finished the season tied in run differential, but if they did, we would go to the fifth and final tiebreaker: Mobley flips a coin. Film at 11.
No one-game playoff, even though the Red Wings already would be in Pawtucket and Tuesday is an off day.
I understand the IL not wanting to get into a situation where minor-league teams are scrambling to book 30 airline tickets from Rochester to Charlotte just hours before takeoff. But perhaps there should be an amendment to the rules that state there will be a one-game playoff if the wildcard teams that are tied lie in the same division.
Buckle your seatbelts. This is going to be an interesting holiday weekend, folks.


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Jason Isbell has been outspoken about COVID safety.Photo via Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.
Jason Isbell, Positive For COVID, Is Rescheduling His Louisville Shows
By Danielle Grady
This story has been updated.
Jason Isbell has tested positive for COVID-19 and with it, has rescheduled his two Louisville shows that were supposed to take place at the Palace Theatre this weekend.
"Got myself a breakthrough case of Covid- feeling fine but we'll have to cancel the next few shows (Asheville, Louisville, Columbus, Wilkes-Barre, and Wilmington)," Isbell wrote on Twitter.
Isbell and his band, the 400 Unit, were supposed to perform at the Palace on Friday and Saturday. Now, he'll be playing two weeks later on Jan. 28 and 29. Tickets for this week's canceled show will be honored on the new date. Ticket-holders can also get refunds from their point of purchase.
Isbell has been outspoken online about COVID safety, and his cautiousness has carried over to how he's handled his shows during the pandemic: He requires concertgoers to provide proof of vaccination.
Isbell said on Twitter that he is experiencing minor symptoms, including drainage and muscle aches. He said that his daughter is negative with no symptoms and that his wife, fellow musician Amanda Shires, did not accompany him on tour.
Published under Music | Tags: covid cancellation, Jason isbell, Louisville Palace


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Q: Eclipse device not showing in device chooser I am trying to run hello world program as specified here -
Creating an Android Project
However my Sony ericson xperia does not show up in run configuration or on the android device choser
It shows up in the DDMS so i don't know why it doesn't work
My phone also shows up when i type adb devices in command prompt
I have downloaded sony pc companion and set USB Debugging on on my phone
Yet it still does not show up

A: To codeMagic - yeah that did it thanks as soon as i unplugged my cable and put it back in it worked!!!

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Knight Rider Comic Book Updates! →
Knight Rider to Return as Comic Book!
Posted on July 2, 2013 by Paul Nuthall
Knight Rider is to return as a new comic book, thanks to a deal between NBC Universal and Lion Forge Comics! The St. Louis-based publishers also have the rights to produce digital comics based on Airwolf, Miami Vice, Punky Brewster and Saved By The Bell.
"Partnering with the team at Lion Forge to bring classic TV properties to life in graphic novel format was a natural step for us as we continue to identify new ways to entertain our fans in the digital space," explains Chris Lucero, director of Global Consumer Products Licensing for NBC Universal Television. "We're excited to give fans a chance to revisit some of their favorite shows and characters in a completely new way."
"From hugely popular characters such as Crockett and Tubbs, Zack Morris and Punky Brewster to highly stylized music and clothing choices, these TV franchises have had a significant impact on pop culture," Lion Forge CEO David Steward said in a statement. The company's goal is to extend "that influence by creating visually appealing and entertaining experiences on mobile devices for a whole new generation of fans."
The writers currently signed to work on the projects are Joelle Sellner (Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures), Jonathan London (Geekscape), Geoffrey Thorne (Leverage, Ben 10) and David Gorden (Catalyst Prime). Artists include Jason Johnson (Wetworks), Carl Reed and Lorenzo Lizana.
The comics are scheduled to debut later this year and will be available through the Amazon Kindle Bookstore, Apple's iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook Book Store and Kobo.
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Humor....I need Humor!
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DEAR MADAM:
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AirScorp
Haha! Already said that one today!
It's all Greek to me!
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Quote from: FlyboyGil on December 02, 2007, 04:45:44 PM
Microsoft Errors
Re PEBKAC-- we used to actually use that in the help desk logs! The campus upgraded the help desk software to a system where users could log in and see what we had written about their tickets, and thus we couldn't be blatantly honest as we had been previously when only the help desk staff was able to view the tickets. We started using this acronym to explain the really stupid calls.
"Do not read this signature under penalty of law."
FlyboyGil
AW, CRAP!!!
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor.
Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel."
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.
After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.
When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?"
"It was Bob the next door neighbor," she replies.
"Great!" the husband says, "Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?"
IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE, YOU'RE PROBABLY AT THE ICE CAPADES
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Wolf Creek Pass, by CW McCall
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Considered that Xmas is approaching........
As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research
help from that renowned scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990)
--here is the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species
of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are
insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer
which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT
since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and
Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378
million according to the Population Reference Reference Bureau. At an
average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million
homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different
time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west
(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is
to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has
1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney,
fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat
whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the
sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8
millions stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course,
we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will
accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of
75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at
least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000
times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made
vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per
second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming
that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds),
the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably
described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more
than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could
pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even
nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even
counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for
comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air
resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as
spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer
will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In
short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the
reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The
entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times
greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)
would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's
dead now. Merry X-mas.
I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richter scale.
WELL THEN, WHO EATS THE COOKIES I PUT OUT ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Quote from: airtac on December 05, 2007, 04:05:54 PM
The stalker who takes pictures of you when you don't know it, and puts them on internet.
I'm asking myself the same question. I presume this year I will check! I'll let you know! :-)
That fat, bald, naked old man sitting on the toilet is NOT me............
A father asked his 10-year old son if he knew about the birds and the bees.
"I don't want to know," the child said, bursting into tears. "Promise me you won't tell me."
Confused, the father asked what was wrong.
The boy sobbed, "When I was six, I got the 'There's no Easter Bunny' speech. At seven, I got the 'There's no Tooth Fairy' speech. When I was eight, you hit me with the 'There's no Santa' speech. If you're going to tell me that grown-ups don't really get laid, I'll have nothing else left to live for."
You mean they do? ??
Quote from: AirScorp on December 07, 2007, 09:17:31 PM
Only sometimes, Nick... Only sometimes...


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Everyone Wants To Beat QPR - Aron
Last updated : 21 January 2011 By Covsupport News Service
Coventry City midfielder Aron Gunnarsson has said that everybody wants to beat the league leaders Queens Park Rangers.
Only Watford have won a league game at Loftus Road this season and the Sky Blues travel to West London for Sunday's Championship fixture which kicks off at 1.15pm thanks to it being shown live on Sky, not having lost in their last four visits.
"They are at the top of the league where everyone wants to be and everyone wants to beat them," Gunnarsson said about the game to the CT.
"We have to be up for the game because they are a really good team with a good midfield and forwards.
"We know all about them because the gaffer told us before the last game and he will obviously do the same again this time to help prepare us.
"It will be a good test and even though we go there as underdogs we will be up for it."


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+ As multipotent cells, most adult stem cell types can generate cells of several different types.  However, because they are already epigenetically programmed to favor a particular fate, they generally cannot generate cell types outside of their lineage without genetic manipulation.
+ Identifying and characterizing stem cells within all adult tissues is an area of much intense ongoing research.  Understanding the mechanisms underlying the regulation of these stem cells has led to many recent breakthroughs in the field of cancer biology.  A recent paradigm-shift in cancer biology was the discovery that cancer is a disease resulting from dysregulation of adult stem cells.  The clinical implications of this concept are still being explored.  Obviously, there is still much in this field that remains unknown.
+ Functionally, adult stem cells are very different from embryonic stem cells.  Whereas embryonic stem cells are omnipotent, and may be coaxed with growth factors into producing any known cell type, adult stem cells are already partially committed to a particular fate and, without genetic manipulation, will only generate a limited number of cell types.  As stated above, this is currently an intensive area of research, but at the present the two are not practically equivalent.
+ [[Induced pluripotent stem cells]] are fully differentiated somatic cells that have been manipulated, either genetically or with growth factors (often a combination of the two), to become pluripotent stem cells.  These cells still retain some [[epigenetics|epigenetic]] imprinting of their original type--even with the most current techniques.  Mouse models have demonstrated that these cells have a significantly higher tumorigenic potential than transplanted embryonic stem cells.  As such, therapies involving induced pluripotent stem cells are primarily being studied only as options of last resort.  As scientists in the field devise better ways to generate these cells (new techniques are a current area of much research--there have been at least 40 published since 2009), they may become more clinically useful.  Until that happens, induced pluripotent cells cannot substitute for adult or embryonic stem cells in clinical medicine or research.


KALISPELL, Mont., Nov. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Lower dentures have finally been stabilized! Stabil-Dent® Inc. has patented an acrylic stabilizer that attaches to lower dentures solving the age-old problem of a loose/unstable lower denture. These denture stabilizers are proven to be the greatest advancement in denture technology in over 65 years.
This breakthrough product offers a huge savings to seniors and those on fixed budgets, costing only $54.95. They stop the costly, endless trips to the dentist for denture adjustments, that never solve the problem. Additionally, messy and ineffective denture adhesives can be either eliminated or reduced significantly. Stabil-Dent® even offers the denture wearer an alternative to the very expensive and invasive surgical procedures of dental implants; at no risk and at a fraction of the cost.
The theory behind the stabilizers is simple: The acrylic stabilizers attach to the rear, tongue side of the lower denture; which enables the muscles at the back of the tongue to rest on the stabilizers. The downward pressure of those muscles in-turn stabilizes the denture. Simple and extremely effective.
Lower dentures have presented problems in looseness and functionality since people started wearing artificial teeth because lower dentures have no natural area to create suction to help hold them in. Although there have been countless attempts to rectify this problem with various inventions, techniques and educational programs, none have cured the problems, until now. Designed and developed by a Doctor of Medical Denturitry [D.D.M.]; Brent Kandarian, a denture specialist, with over 50 years of clinical-denture experience. The Stabil-Dent Lower Denture Stabilizer offers a unique solution to this problem that affects over 90 million Americans.
This innovative product is available direct to the consumer in a do it yourself kit, at https://stabildent.com. There is also the option to have the stabilizers installed professionally by Stabil-Dent through our mail in service. Plans to make the product available nationwide through dental offices that are Stabil-Dent Certified are currently underway.
Stabil-Dent, Inc., a Montana corporation located in Kalispell, Montana was awarded a patent by the United States Patent Office for the stabilizers design, function and features. United States Patent: #9,566,139.


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Bill Posey on Energy & Oil
Immediately open ANWR and our coasts for oil exploration
Q: Do you support drilling off the coast of Florida and elsewhere?
A: I support immediately opening ANWR and our coasts for oil exploration as well as the development of new refineries, expansion of nuclear power plants, diversification of alternate energy sources and incentives for conservation. I am particularly interested in advancing solar energy technologies and improving battery technology. As a matter of national security, we must lessen our dependency on other countries for our energy needs. Source: TCPalm.com (Scripps Press/Journal) "Ask The Candidates" , Nov 4, 2008
Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling.
Congressional Summary:
Makes available for leasing, in the 2012-2017 five-year oil and gas leasing program, outer Continental Shelf areas that are estimated to contain more than 2.5 billion barrels of oil; or are estimated to contain more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Makes the production goal for the 2012-2017 five-year oil and gas leasing program an increase by 2027 in daily production of at least 3 million barrels of oil, and 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:
[Rep. Young, R-AK]: The Americans suffering from $4 a gallon gas today must feel like they're experiencing a sense of deja vu. In 2008, when gasoline prices reached a record high of $4.11 per gallon, the public outcry forced Congress to act. That fall, Congress lifted the offshore drilling ban that had been in place for decades. Three years later, most Americans would likely be shocked to learn that no energy development has happened in these new areas.
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Rep. Markey, D-MA]. In the first 3 months of this year, Exxon-Mobil made $10 billion off of the American consumer; Shell made $8 billion; BP made $7 billion. So what are these companies asking for? These companies are now asking that we open up the beaches of California, Florida & New England to drill for oil. People who live near those beaches don't want oil coming in the way it did in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, those oil companies are centered down in the Gulf of Mexico. People are concerned because those companies have blocked any new safety reforms that would protect against another catastrophic spill. We have to oppose this bill because, first of all, they already have 60 million acres of American land that they haven't drilled on yet, which has about 11 billion barrels of oil underneath it and an equivalent amount of natural gas. This bill is just a giveaway to Exxon-Mobil and Shell. Reference: Reversing Pres. Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act; Bill H.1231 ; vote number 11-HV320 on May 12, 2011
Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
Congressional Summary:Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promulgating any regulation the emission of a greenhouse gas (GHG) to address climate change.
Excludes GHGs from the definition of "air pollutant" for purposes of addressing climate change.
Exempts from such prohibition existing regulations on fuel efficiency, research, or CO2 monitoring.
Repeals and makes ineffective other rules and actions concerning GHGs.
[Rep. Upton, R-MI]: This legislation will remove the biggest regulatory threat to the American economy. This is a threat imposed not by Congress, but entirely by the Obama EPA. This administration wanted a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases, but Congress said no. So beginning in early 2009, EPA began putting together a house of cards to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide. The agency began with automobiles, declaring that their emissions endangered public health. That single endangerment finding has since been used by EPA to launch an unparalleled onslaught. The result, two years later, is a series of regulations that will ultimately affect every citizen, every industry, really every aspect of our economy and way of life.
[Rep. Waxman, D-CA]: This bill is a direct assault on the Clean Air Act. Its premise is that climate change is a hoax and carbon pollution does not endanger health and welfare. But climate change is real. It is caused by pollution, and it is a serious threat to our health and welfare. We need to confront these realities. American families count on the EPA to keep our air and water clean. But this bill has politicians overruling the experts at EPA, and it exempts our biggest polluters from regulation. If this bill is enacted, the EPA's ability to control dangerous carbon pollution will be gutted. Reference: Energy Tax Prevention Act; Bill H.910 ; vote number 11-HV249 on Apr 7, 2011
Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution.
Congressional Summary:Requires utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their demand from a combination of energy efficiency savings and renewable energy (6% in 2012, 9.5% in 2014, 13% in 2016, 16.5% in 2018, and 20% in 2021). Provides for:
issuing, trading, and verifying renewable electricity credits; and
prescribing standards to define and measure electricity savings from energy efficiency and energy conservation measures.
Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to set forth a national strategy to address barriers to the commercial-scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. ED MARKEY (D, MA-7): For the first time in the history of our country, we will put enforceable limits on global warming pollution. At its core, however, this is a jobs bill. It will create millions of new, clean-energy jobs in whole new industries with incentives to drive competition in the energy marketplace. It sets ambitious and achievable standards for energy efficiency and renewable energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass so that by 2020, 20% of America's energy will be clean.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. BOB GOODLATTE (R, VA-6): I agree that this bill has very important consequences, but those consequences are devastating for the future of the economy of this country. It's a fantasy that this legislation will turn down the thermostat of the world by reducing CO2 gas emissions when China & India & other nations are pumping more CO2 gas into the atmosphere all the time. We would be far better served with legislation that devotes itself to developing new technologies before we slam the door on our traditional sources of energy like coal and oil and and nuclear power. We support the effort for energy efficiency. We do not support this kind of suicide for the American economy. Unfortunately, cap and trade legislation would only further cripple our economy. Reference: American Clean Energy and Security Act; Bill H.R.2454 ; vote number 2009-H477 on Jun 26, 2009
Bar greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act rules.
Posey signed H.R.391
Amends the Clean Air Act to:
exclude from the definition of the term "air pollutant" carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride; and
declare that nothing in the Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.
Source: Clean Air Act Amendment 09-HR391 on Jan 9, 2009
Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by AFP.
Posey signed the No Climate Tax Pledge
No Climate Tax Pledge: "I pledge to the taxpayers of my state, and to the American people, that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue."
Sponsoring organizations: Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEU); National Taxpayers Union (NTU); Institute for Liberty Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen-leaders committed to advancing every individual's right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and intrusiveness of government is the best way to promote individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. Source: AFP website 10-AFP on Nov 2, 2010
Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures.
Posey signed the Contract From America
The Contract from America, clause 2. Reject Cap & Trade:
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. Source: The Contract From America 10-CFA02 on Jul 8, 2010
Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low.
The Contract from America, clause 8. Pass an 'All-of-the-Above' Energy Policy:
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers, [to keep energy prices low]. Source: The Contract From America 10-CFA08 on Jul 8, 2010
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Venus Williams vs Carla Suarez Navarro, Wuhan R3 Preview
Wuhan R3: Venus Williams vs (7) Carla Suarez Navarro
Venus Williams and Carla Suarez Navarro will renew hostilities on Wednesday when they go head-to-head in the third round at the Wuhan Open. Venus Williams has been impressive on route to the third round with two commanding straight set victories whilst Carla Suarez Navarro stumbled into the third round and will need a much better performance if she is to trouble the American.
Despite her recent poor form, including a run of 8 consecutive losses, Carla Suarez Navarro still remains a chance to qualify for her first WTA Finals campaign, she is currently ranked 8th in the race to Singapore standings. Suarez Navarro broke a long string of losses last week in Tokyo when she defeated Kateryna Bondarenko but she would succumb to Dominika Cibulkova in the next round. The Spaniard received a bye into the second round in Wuhan before defeating 5-7 6-3 6-4 in an extremely hard-fought encounter. Suarez Navarro looked extremely fatigued throughout the match but fought gallantly to advance to the next round and set up a clash with Venus Williams.
Venus Williams has started her Asian campaign in style, recording straight set victories over Agnieszka Radwanska and Julia Goerges to advance to the third round in Wuhan. The American's 6-1 7-6 victory over Tokyo champion Agnieszka Radwanska was quite impressive, Venus rocketed 51 winners past the Pole in a commanding performance. Venus backed up that victory with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Julia Goerges, serving exceptionally well to always stay in control. The American's second round victory over Goerges was her 700th career victory, a major milestone.
Carla Suarez Navarro holds a 3-2 head-to-head record over Venus Williams, the two have traded victories over their 5 previous encounters. The most recent encounter between the pair took place in Montreal last year, Carla made a miraculous recovery to record a 0-6 6-1 7-5 victory over Venus Williams.
I suspect Venus Williams will be too strong for Carla on this occasion, the Spaniard is still lacking confidence and seemed to really be struggling physically throughout her second round win over Niculescu. Whilst Venus has looked very confident this week and should be too powerful for the Spaniard.
Prediction: Venus Williams to defeat Carla Suarez Navarro in 2 sets
Posted in 2015, Asian Swing, Carla Suarez Navarro, Match Predictions, Match Previews, Venus Williams, Wuhan
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import { Router, Route, IndexRedirect } from 'react-router';
import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
import MuiThemeProvider from 'material-ui/styles/MuiThemeProvider';
// import withMaterialUI from './decorators/withMaterialUI';
import AppContainer from './containers/AppContainer';
import ViewOrderContainer from './containers/ViewOrderContainer';
import ViewSales from './views/sales';

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export default class Root extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    store: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    history: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
  }

  render() {
    const { store, history } = this.props;
    return (
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        <Provider store={store}>
          <Router history={history}>
            <Route path="/react" component={AppContainer}>
              <IndexRedirect to="/react/order" />
              <Route path="order" component={ViewOrderContainer} />
              <Route path="sales" component={ViewSales} />
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        </Provider>
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    );
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Please see attached demo for useage description.
Images included are for demonstration purposes only and are not to be reused.
It is not designed to follow the view, because some people use other ways to do their camera systems and I can't predict that!
I have however provided you with the functions to be able to do this yourself, depending on your set up.


Ian Glennie is a qualified Blue Badge guide of London. He had a naval and business career before becoming a tour guide. If you are looking for someone who can deliver WWII and military history in UK, Ian is your guide. He leads walking tours such as farm tours, castle and palace tours, church tours, and cathedral tours. As an enthusiastic guide, Ian looks forward into guiding you around the majestic city!


Mercurial's hg diff command supports a --reverse option which shows the regular diff output except it reverses the sense of the comparison — i.e., it goes from the "destination" to the "source" (git diff supports this action too, but as the flag "-R"). Most of the time you want the ordinary "forward" sense, but occasionally the reverse sense comes in handy, and that's why that option's there. On rare occasion, I'll even want to do this to files not under version control, but the regular system diff doesn't support this feature.
So, after hitting this deficiency again recently, I decided to write up my own reverse-diff command which would swap its last two arguments and call diff. I started with the shell, as dealing with command arguments and calling programs is its forte. But it turned out to be surprisingly difficult to do stuff like copy the argument list or mess around with the end and near-end of the argument list, which I thought would be dead-simple operations. After futzing around with shell variables and parameters and the various options for variable/parameter expansion for something like 25 minutes, I came to my senses and did it in something like two minutes using C, where nothing's going to interpret any kind of data as anything unless you explicitly request it to, and array manipulation is built in with clean syntax. All I had to do was swap argv[argc-1] and argv[argc-2] then execvp("diff", argv), easy peasy.
I could probably omit the check for ≥2 arguments, as the system diff doesn't support the convention that a missing file argument means to use stdin (instead, it treats a filename of - (single hyphen) as representing stdin), but perhaps it'll be used by somebody who's installed an enhanced diff program.
I'm also amused that each of my "twitcodes" has been in a different language: shell, perl, python, and now C.
Once upon a time, people's interactions with computers (those few people who got to interact with computers directly) was mostly through a teletype: a combination of a keyboard where they could type instructions to the computer and a printer where it gave the responses back to them. This model is tenaciously clung to by a handful of still-active projects such as gdb, but the bulk of its use nowadays is from command shells (bash, zsh, cmd.exe) because command-response interaction is much easier to specify, record, automate, examine, modify, and perform remotely in a teletype-style than a GUI-style.
I've been thinking about the fragile base class problem lately. (Yes, I know it's almost Christmas. My mind works mysteriously.) I started thinking by analogy to APIs, which the interface a superclass gives a subclass in fact is, even if it's not called that. So, the superclass's API changes, breaking the subclass, just like a regular API's change can break a client. How do we deal with this with regular APIs? If we are to make a compatibility-breaking change (which introducing any member into a superclass potentially is), we version the API so that a client requesting version 1 semantics gets them while only clients written against the newer semantics will request version 2. We could do the same kind of thing with class inheritance if we mark everything with revision numbers, which we reference when inheriting.
Here's our classic case of a fragile base class. child subclassed base and defined the new method idle(), then later base was extended with its own method idle(). Normally, this would cause a problem — the new stop() implementation might call idle() perhaps, and child's idle() won't be written with overriding a then-nonexistent base::idle() in mind. But with these revision markings, we say that child only overrides methods marked as being in revision 1 of base. So, when stop() calls idle(), it gets base::idle, not child::idle, and when park() calls idle(), the call resolution goes the other way.
The problem I see with this though, is that when going to an indirect superclass, it can be unclear which revision that should be.
Uh-oh. Should child's method() override grandparent's? If parent@1 extended grandparent@2, then yes. But if it extended grandparent@1, then no. So do we need to list the parent class revisions of every revision of the child class? I'd hope there'd be a better way. Perhaps we'd be relying on an IDE to handle the revision numbers for us, keeping them updated is just a dumb task, so in that case the IDE could maintain the manifest of parent revisions too.
Java NIO's Selector class is surprisingly difficult to use with multiple threads. Everyone that tries it encounters mysterious blocking, much of which is due to it sharing a lock with SelectableChannel.register. So, if you happen to try to register a channel in a thread other than the selector thread, it blocks that thread until the select is done. Boo.
So, this is a NIO rite of passage of sorts, finding this misfeature and then looking up how to work around it. The usual answer is to keep a ConcurrentQueue of pending registrations, and have your select loop process that queue between select calls. Uggggleeee. It occurred to me that using a synchronization lock, we can do better.
If the loop is before or after when our registration block takes the registerLock, we're fine, as having the registerLock prevents the loop from reaching select until we've registered and released the lock. If the loop is inside select(), then the wakeup() will cause it to exit select, and it won't re-enter because we hold the registerLock, so we're fine.
The tricky case is when the loop has the registerLock or is between releasing the registerLock and entering select(). In these cases, the registration block takes the registerLock and races with the loop over select() and wakeup(). Fortunately, the NIO designers anticipated that programmers would have a desire to ensure a Selector wasn't selecting, even if the wakeup was called in the window between checking it was okay to enter select and actually entering it. Selector.select() returns immediately if wakeup() had been called after that Selector's prior select(). So, our race doesn't matter, the select() always exits, and we're safe.
This is so much simpler than building up a queue of registrations and processing them in the select loop, and we get the SelectionKey right away, I wonder if I'm missing something. Why is the textbook technique to use a ConcurrentQueue, instead of a synchronization lock like this?


SEATTLE (AP) -- Denard Span came to the plate in the eighth inning, knowing the situation was why the Seattle Mariners traded for him three weeks ago.
The veteran outfielder kept his cool and stroked a pinch-hit double that scored two runs, leading the Mariners to a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.
Span, batting for Guillermo Heredia with one out, hit a liner to the right-field corner off Matt Barnes (0-2) after Ryon Healy walked and Ben Gamel singled to left.
"I just tried to stay calm as possible," Span said. "Kind of a calm angry. This is huge for me. I'm the new guy around here and I just want to help these guys as much as I can and feel like I'm one of them."
The Mariners acquired Span and reliever Alex Colome from Tampa Bay on May 25.
"He's a huge addition to our club," said Seattle manager Scott Servais. "He has so much experience in those situations, so he understands how to slow things down. We're going to have a lot more situations like that this season."
Ryan Cook (1-0) got the win with a scoreless eighth inning and Edwin Diaz earned his major league-leading 26th save by working the ninth.
But Rob Whalen, who was recalled from Triple-A Tacoma on Thursday, was the difference, pitching four scoreless innings of relief.
It was the 20th time this season the Mariners have come from behind to win. Seattle is 22-10 in one-run games.
Xander Bogaerts hit a three-run homer as part of a six-run third inning that gave Boston a 6-3 lead, but a spectacular defensive play by Seattle second baseman Dee Gordon on a hard-hit ball up the middle by Bogaerts that ended the sixth inning kept the Red Sox from adding another run.
The Mariners led 3-0 when Boston sent 11 men to the plate and had six hits and walk to chase starter James Paxton. The Mariners also committed two errors in the inning.
Paxton entered the game with a 0.39 ERA and 2-0 record in three previous starts against the Red Sox. Five of the six runs against Paxton were earned. He also threw two wild pitches.
"Pax had good stuff tonight, we just didn't help him," Servais said. "The defense was shaky early. Paxton has carried us this year, so it was nice to get him off the hook."
Boston tied the game at 3 on four singles and an error by third basemen Kyle Seager, before Bogaerts hit his 11th home run.
"We had a good inning and got a lot of runs," Bogaerts said. "But that one big hit, seems like Span always does that against us. I remember when he did it at Tampa early on in the year. Same thing down the same line."
Jean Segura gave the Mariners a 1-0 lead in the first inning when he launched Rick Porcello's fastball over the scoreboard in left field, a 420-foot shot. Seattle made it 3-0 in the second.
Mike Zunino knocked in two runs, including his 11th home run of the season to start the bottom of the seventh and cut it to 6-5 before Span came through one inning later.
"With him, you have to attack," Boston manager Alex Cora said of Span. "He keeps working the count. He's a veteran guy. If you're ahead, you have to bury him and we didn't."
Red Sox: LHP Drew Pomeranz (left biceps tendinitis) made some throws in the outfield Friday for the first time since going on the 10-day DL on June 5, retroactive to June 2.
Mariners: RHP Juan Nicasio (knee swelling) threw in the bullpen Friday and is expected to throw live batting practice Saturday. Servais said it's possible Nicasio could come off the 10-day DL on Tuesday in New York when the Mariners start a three-game series with the Yankees. "He just needs to get that inflammation out of his knee," Servais said. ... RHP Nick Vincent (groin strain) will throw in the bullpen Saturday.
FILIA RETURNS: The Red Sox returned minor league OF Eric Filia to the Mariners Friday after Filia failed his physical. Filia was the player to be named in the deal that sent LHP Roenis Elias to the Mariners on April 23. The Mariners completed the trade with cash considerations.
Red Sox: RHP Steven Wright (2-0, 1.21) will take the longest active scoreless streak in baseball into Saturday's game against the Mariners. Wright has thrown 22 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, including back-to-back scoreless starts when he went seven innings in a win against Detroit and 6 2/3 innings in a no-decision at Baltimore.
Mariners: Wade Leblanc (7-3, 4.26) will make his ninth start of the season Saturday. Leblanc has allowed only 11 earned runs in his previous eight starts for a 2.45 ERA. The Mariners are 6-2 in those games.


This Middle School Course Planning Guide has been developed for the students and parents in the Park Hill School District to present important information about programs and courses offered at our middle school campuses. Students and parents should be able to combine the information in this guidebook with advice received from teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to make decisions about courses that will provide students with the education they need for their future plans. Students and parents are encouraged to use this guide as a reference to use throughout the school year.


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Q: Image pops out container on hover On a website I'm working on I got images inside a container that need to zoom on hover. This works smooth BUT..
Whenever an image zooms in or out (when transition is kicking in) the image get's out of the container for the time of the duration.
I've adde overflow:hidden but it doesn't seem to work.
You can find the webpage in action over here: http://avdj.mtdev.be/drukwerk/

A: There is a known bug in Webkit-based browsers - see #62363.
add opacity: 0.99; to wpb_content_element to workaround this issue.


stamping lightly: Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop!
Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop!
I am back with Newton's Nook Designs today celebrating the "Deck the Halls with Inky Paws" Blog Hop!
I have another card to share featuring The Nutcracker Squeak stamp set. This time, I am focusing on the adorable ballerina and Nutcracker prince mice.
I used Distress Oxide inks to create the background and spattered it with water lifting the excess ink with a paper towel. I adhered several tiny sequins to the background to mimic the look of snowflakes softly falling onto the scene below. I stamped and colored the images with Copic markers and arranged them onto a snow drift of glitter cardstock that I free-hand cut with scissors. I added clear glitter Stickles to the ballerina tutus to add some additional sparkle. My final step was to stamp the sentiment with black ink.
We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Sunday, December 9th at 9 pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 10th.
Big thanks to Jen and Jeff from Newton's Nook for inviting me to join in the fun!
Love this beautiful and sweet card with a bit of magic, sparkle and holiday cheer!!!
Love the soft glitter cardstock you've used below the images, it pairs perfectly with your pink background and ballerinas!
ohh that shimmer! it is such a pretty and festive card! I love the little gems too!
What an adorable card! Love all of the sparkle!
I can't stand how cute this is.
The soft colors go wonderfully with the cute ballerinas. Lovely card!
Wow! What a beautiful card!!! Amazing colouring!!!
Such a pink dreamy card! Loving it! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
This is so sweet! I love the cute little mice in white and silver with the pink sky behind them! Adorable!
Very soft & pretty - I especially like the look the tiny sequins add to the card - I thought they were little crystals! Hope you and your loved ones are having a wonderful holiday season!
cute characters and love the background and the sparkle.
Great design - very fun and sweet!
Like the cute Nutcracker scene you created. Like the coloring.
These are soooooo cute! I love the little ballerinas and the scene you created with the sparkles!
Dance of the sugar plum fairies.
This is adorable! I love the Nutcracker...so sweet! Cheers.
Your card is awesome! It makes me smile!
Your thoughts mean so much to me. Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know you stopped by!
Hi! I am Katie. By day, I am a working mom of 2 awesome girls, and by night, I am a paper engineer, DIY enthusiast and all around crafty gal. I love to try new things and strive to do something creative each and every day.
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Frutos Secos are very healthy and contribute to decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases. We roast the walnuts and almonds from Douro Valley and then they are caramelized in thin sugar syrup, less sweet than regular sugar. The result? Is brilliant, literally.


Masterclock, Inc. In the News — Masterclock, Inc.
November 26, 2017 - Tucked in a small shopping center in St. Charles, near pizza shops, a tire store and a grocery store, Masterclock hardly looks like a manufacturer with a worldwide reach.
The business doesn't provide that service but instead manufactures clocks and timing equipment for some of the most recognizable organizations in the world, including NASA and CBS Sports.
Some of Masterclock's high-profile installations include multiple NASA facilities, the Vatican and the Estadio Do Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, host of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Locally, Masterclock equipment is installed at KMOX Radio, St. Louis Lambert International Airport and the St. Louis Science Center.
November 22, 2017 - The rapidly evolving nature of threats in today's cyber landscape has prompted St. Charles-based Masterclock, Inc. to partner with the Midwest Cyber Center to better position the company for future success in understanding and adopting best practices in cyber activity and security.
November 22, 2016 - Masterclock, a manufacturer of precise timing systems, announced today that the company was honored with a Gold award from Military and Aerospace Electronics Magazine for their development and implementation of the timing and countdown system at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's rocket launch headquarters. The annual Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards program looks to celebrate the most innovative applications of aerospace and defense electronics technology, products, and systems.
When responding to a request for quotation for the existing timing system at the center, Masterclock engineers identified an opportunity to modernize the distribution system by integrating Ethernet-based technologies into the workflow, allowing more dynamic switching and monitoring of the signals. The resulting product met the requirements of legacy deployment while also offering additional capabilities and delivering future possibilities for more efficient integration.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker presents CEO John Clark and Mary Clark of Masterclock with President's "E" Award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2016.
May 19, 2016 - On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker presented Masterclock, Inc. with the President's "E" Award for Exports at a ceremony in Washington, DC. The President's "E" Award is the highest recognition any U.S. entity can receive for making a significant contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports. The company was previously recognized as the 2014 Missouri Exporter of the Year by Governor Jay Nixon.
Masterclock Partners with EXIM Bank of the U.S.
March 11, 2016 - Masterclock President and CEO John Clark joined Missouri Representative Lacy Clay, EXIM Bank President Fred P. Hochberg, EXIM Bank Regional Director Mark Klein, and others for a Small Business Exporter Forum on increasing exports with assistance from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. With the assistance of the EXIM Bank, Masterclock is able to extend favorable credit terms to foreign buyers.
Meeting the demands of an interconnected world requires ever-higher levels of accuracy and traceability, according to Masterclock, manufacturer and provider of precise timing applications, which is discussing its portfolio of products here at IBC.
Masterclock, which has recently undergone a rebranding, is providing the timing equipment for this year's IBC Hack-a-thon and other presentation areas using its RC600 countdown controller combined with various digital displays.
At Masterclock in St. Charles, Gov. Nixon announced he will lead a delegation of Missouri government and business leaders on a trade mission to Italy, Germany and Spain from March 20 to March 28, 2015.
Mayor Sally Faith bestowed Employer of the Year honors on four St. Charles area businesses on May 7, 2013.