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Last night I was on two shows to talk about the debt ceiling debate in Washington. Ultimately, I am bearish that the GOP will take the right approach, or that the Democrats will think about this in the right either for that matter. In a perfect world we would initiate deep cuts in the budget and halt unnecessary programs so that we wouldn't need to increase the debt ceiling. From a political perspective, it is almost guaranteed that the GOP and Dems come together on some grand compromise, so the question is what will that be.
I've argued before that if you can't get entitlement reform, or tax code reform, then the next best thing would be to sunset Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac so that we begin the process of removing a $6.5 trillion liability from hanging over the head of the American taxpayer.
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This Saturday John Thompson's progressive young filly Pretty Pins will take her next step towards a start in the lucrative Queensland Oaks during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival when she takes on a quality field in 2012 Gold Coast Bracelet.
The Pins three-year-old goes into the $125,000 Listed Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m), running as the Gold Coast Race 6 at 2:35pm on Saturday, second-up for the season after a credible fifth finishing two and a half lengths off the winner Morning Captain in the Listed National Jockey Celebration QLD Day Handicap (1350m) at Doomben on April 14.
"It was only her first run back and it was a good run," Thompson said of Pretty Pin's last start effort.
"She's done well since and she should run a big race again."
A winner of four of her eight career starts to date Pretty Pins officially sees her home Gold Coast track under race conditions for the first time in the Bracelet drawing barrier 10 in the bumper 14 starter plus five emergency field.
With all the emergencies coming out Pretty Pins will move into barrier seven, Michael Cahill riding her for the first time.
Cahill returns to his home track at the Gold Coast this week after a successful stint riding in Mauritius, and will join South African hoop Jeff Lloyd as one of the primary jockeys for Nathan Tinkler's goliath racing operation – Patinack Farm.
For her most recent rides Pretty Pins was ridden by crack apprentice Timothy Bell, however Bell was sacked this week as main Queensland stable rider for Patinack Farm.
"Tim has had several warnings after missing a lot of trackwork lately since he moved off the farm (at Canungra) three months ago to live on the Gold Coast," Thompson said of the sacking.
"He'll be better off with a master who can keep an eye on him.
"I specifically asked him to turn up for trackwork last Sunday after the Eagle Farm meeting was washed out but he failed to show.
"I wanted him to ride Pretty Pins who is in at the Gold Coast on Saturday; as far as I'm concerned that's blatant disrespect."
During December Pretty Pins won back-to-back Doomben races over 1600m and 2020m respectively, both on Slow – Heavy ground, and so the 1800-metres on Saturday with the Gold Coast currently rated a Slow (7) looks ideal for her.
Pretty Pins main aim for the season is of course the $400,000 Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm on June 2, a race the bulk of the Gold Coast Bracelet field is heading towards.
Peter Snowden's Sydney visitor Divorces won the Gold Coast Bracelet last year going on to run third in the Group 3 The Roses (2020m) and fourth in the Queensland Oaks, beaten both times by Kiwi filly Scarlet Lady.
This year's The Doomben Roses runs on May 19 and is the logical next step for Pretty Pins and her fellow Queensland Oaks-bound rivals following Saturday's GC Bracelet.
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We want to tell Najib and Anwar that politics is no longer about who gets what.
Who will get your vote? Najib Tun Razak or Anwar Ibrahim? Will your political affiliation decide your choice or would quality of leadership matters? Honesty, compassion, integrity, confidence and flexibility are all qualities impossible to find in abundance in either of them when political leaders should have all of these qualities – and more.
Najib is at best mediocre. He plods around bemused and befuddled by the unfamiliar situation he now finds around him – Rosmah Mansor, the cut and thrust of Umno and Barisan Nasional politics and his own inadequacies swirl around him in ever concentric eddies that threaten to whirl him away to places unknown.
Anwar does trip the light fantastic at times. A charming chameleon who can make himself to be the person we want him to be with just that hint of sincerity that allows us to think that maybe, just maybe that is the real Anwar. And yet the next day he goes off at a tangent because the political expediency needed in juggling Pakatan Rakyat gives him no other option but to do so.
Will our choices be based on what is good and right and in the best interest of the nation as a whole? Perish that thought. We are humans and as humans, we reserve the right and the privilege of choosing a leader we think will do good to us.
And there my friends lies the confidence and bravado that Najib and Anwar have in their belief that the Malaysian people might choose either of them as prime minister. Surely those right-thinking people among us (of which… ahem… this writer thinks himself as one) would have consigned either of them to that heap where the "not to be resuscitated" sign should tell us that they are both past their use-by-date. But we humans are not creatures of rationality.
But this is Malaysia. We have no others. So Najib or Anwar it is.
Defining our political future
If it was a matter of choosing between Najib and Anwar, then I say that Najib is the lesser of the two men. But the lesser of the two men is now the prime minister of our nation.
Those of you who do not want Barisan Nasional say you are tired of the corruption, the abuse of executive power for political and personal financial gain and the total lack of good governance displayed by BN leaders.
Those who do not wish to see Pakatan in government talks about the impossibility and improbability of having three diametrically opposed political entities (now together within the Pakatan coalition for political gain) working in tandem for the common good of the nation and its people.
How could these three once opposing political organisation be held together just because of their hatred for Umno?
We are moving towards the 13th general election and toward our future with all these dilemmas unresolved – not the best of situations but that is all that we have. The pity of it all is that it will still be with us whether we vote for Najib or Anwar. So what are we to do? What should we do? What must we do? What can we "janji" to do?
We need to move towards good governance. And the bottom line to good governance is a vibrant democracy. Only then will we have sustainable and equitable economic growth and political stability. This we will not have with the present crop of political leaders now in power and even among those waiting to gain or seize political power.
We need to define the culture of our political future. We do not want leaders who seek to gain or remain in power by the manipulations of ethnic or religious sentiments.
There are not just Malays and the "others" in Malaysia. We are all one people. Let us no longer talk about Ketuanan Melayu, the institution of royalty, about educating our children in schools that accentuate their ethnicity while ignoring the realities of a society that now demand equality in opportunities and the personal freedom to decide and express their voice in politics, education and in everything that affects their life and the life of their family and the nation they live in.
We already have independence. We already have national integration a long time ago. Now we want the freedom to go on with our life the best way we can – and the function of government is to facilitate that demand. We want and we will choose a government that can do that.
We will not allow Najib or Anwar to lead us elsewhere. If the two of them want their political kingdom, then their political kingdom must conform to our aspiration of what we want. Who your father is, who you are, what race you belong to, what language you speak, what your religion is and where you are coming from politically no longer matters to us – what matters is that we will have our Malaysia. You ignore these demands at your own peril.
And if either of them are fearful of what these changes will mean to the Malays or to the "others" in terms of the potential for racial and religious conflicts, then I want to tell them both that these changes have already happened and are happening today.
And we the people are comfortable with it and we are living with the realities of a multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious society without conflict and in harmony.
We want to tell Najib and Anwar that politics is no longer about "who gets what". The economic, social and political integration of the people of this country started many years ago no thanks to BN or Pakatan. The political culture of our future is 1Malaysia. Any attempts by anyone to change this will be met with their dismissal from office through the electoral process.
Paying lip-service to what we want and then proceeding to do as you want will not be tolerated.
The rakyat is ready
Putrajaya will no longer control the economy just so it could bring about national integration and "equitable" distribution of our nation's wealth. We are wise to these lies.
Malaysia is a case of the people overtaking their own government in intellect, in thoughts and in deeds. We are already building a Malaysia we all aspire to. Where the state should lead by example they lag behind and now the people are demanding they catch up.
Umno busies itself with retaining political power to the detriment of everything else. It neither has time nor the interest to serve the people or the country. We see Malay politicians within Umno moving from their former state and rural base and into Putrajaya and KL to reap the rewards of office.
The state of politics in our country has so deteriorated that Umno now needs political oppression, ethnic and religious strife, and economic problems (manufactured or otherwise) as an excuse and the reason that it be given the mandate to stay in power – because it claims that it needs another term in office to finish its work in government and because only Umno can do that job.
There is in our society a need for continuity in that the Malays want political power to stay with them and yet at the same time we all, the Malays included, want change – especially in the equitable distribution of wealth and opportunities.
We want democracy, free election and the end of autocratic government. The incoming government must try to deal with these nuances that colour the politics of our nation.
Democracy in the Malaysian context means multi-party elections, representative legislatures, a free press, and an independent judiciary. It means the right of people to elect their own government.
Only a democratic system can guarantee the full exercise of fundamental human rights now judged to be universal and applicable to all individuals without distinction as to age, gender, descent, religion, ethnicity, or race.
Today our political leaders, Najib more so than Anwar, lag behind in their inability to understand the changes that their own people are demanding. Najib and the BN government are playing catch-up with an impatient society.
Nothing more personified this demand than Bersih. Where the people are already translating their thoughts and aspirations for change by channelling them through Bersih, this BN government does all it can to curtail, prevent and physically intimidate and prevent their own people from doing just that.
The tide has turned
Najib and Anwar are poles apart in their understanding as to why Malaysians are resorting to activism to express their need for change. They each use the situation to their own political advantage.
Whatever Najib or Anwar's vested interests are and however they choose to harness the positive or negative aspect of these new-found public need to express their support or otherwise, what is obvious is this: The tide has turned.
We have passed the tipping point and it is now time to take stock of what the masses are demanding – if nothing more than for the fact that Najib and Anwar will need their votes to take or retain power come the 13th general election.
There will not be enough money to buy their votes. Not enough promises, transformation programmes and economic initiatives can be made to sway the masses into voting for either of them because the people are now wise to the ways of these politicians.
Promises to do away with prisons, taxes on imported cars and lowering of the price of petrol will be taken for what they are – just promises that may not see the light of day.
Of the two, we know Anwar is at a disadvantage because Najib as the incumbent will do and has done, all that an incumbent can do through the use of executive powers vested in him as the prime minister of our nation.
What he has not done, he has no compunction to promise that he will do. Promise and be damned seems to be Najib's mantra.
Anwar has to win the hearts and minds of the people – hard to do when all he has going for him now is his ability to convince us to give him the opportunity to do good for us. That is all he wants… just the opportunity.
Of course, if what Pakatan has done in the states it manages is any indication of what is to come under a Pakatan government, then we have reason to believe that Anwar may make good his promise of good governance and an open, responsible and accountable government under his leadership. But that is still a maybe.
Peas from the same pod
Najib and Anwar are all we have got for now. Two Hobson's choice in as far as most of us are concerned but that will have to be enough for now.
Like Anwar all that we want is the opportunity for change and once given that opportunity, we will run with it – run away from the years of an irresponsible BN government that has left us bereft of any hope for a decent and promising future.
You must remember that it is Najib or Anwar – two individuals impossibly flawed by their years in Umno. Two individuals that are cut from the same cloth by the same self-titled bespoke tailor that was Umno.
Both political animals that understand the "winner takes all" philosophy of politics in Malaysia. Two peas from the same pod.
And yet Anwar has treaded the road less travelled. Anwar knows what it is to have power and what it is to have it taken away from him at a time when the crown jewels were within reach.
Anwar knows how to use power and he has also been at the receiving end of its abuse. Anwar, and not Najib, knows personal humiliation at its very worse.
Now you must ask yourself this: Is Anwar the better for it? As the Malays say: sudah insaf?
The word "insaf" does not indicate just repentance – it asks if one has become a better person for what one has endured. Only Anwar can answer that.
For me given Najib or Anwar …the choice is done. Anwar it is for our future.
CT Ali is a reformist who believes in Pakatan Rakyat's ideologies. He is a FMT columnist.


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Their 14-3-3 made them division champions out of 12 teams from the Pittsburgh area. The division playoffs were held in New Kensington, Pa., March 1-2 at the Valley Sports Complex. The Phantom Bantams defeated the Armstrong Arrows in the semifinals and the Arctic Foxes, 4-1 in the championship game.
The team is made up of 13 and 14 year-olds from Canfield, Boardman, Poland, Austintown, Warren and Columbiana. The Phantoms took championships in three other tournaments this season, including the second annual Phantom Phright Phest held at the Ice Zone in Boardman, the Mount Lebanon Hockey Association Classic, in the A Major Black division and the Charlie Hogan Memorial Hockey tournament in Indiana, Pa.
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Mark Buehrle looked more like his old self. The Chicago White Sox appear to be revisiting the past, too.
They got a solid effort from their starting pitcher, took advantage of Detroit's mistakes, and gained another game on the Tigers in the AL Central with a 4-3 victory yesterday in Chicago.
The Tigers, who have the best record in the majors, allowed four unearned runs and tied a season high with their fourth straight loss, trimming their lead over the White Sox to 6 1/2 games.
``I'm certainly not going to let a four-game losing streak stand in the way or jump ship -- I'm going to be there for them," manager Jim Leyland said.
After tying it with three unearned runs in the fifth, the White Sox went ahead, 4-3, in the seventh, thanks to third baseman Brandon Inge's throwing error and Sandy Alomar's sacrifice fly.
Jermaine Dye hit a leadoff single, and Inge threw wildly to second trying to start a double play on Joe Crede's grounder. Dye then scored the go-ahead run on Alomar's fly to right.
Buehrle lasted six innings, allowing three runs and seven hits while striking out seven and walking none. His last win was June 27. His only major mistakes came in the fifth -- a two-run homer by Sean Casey and an RBI double by Curtis Granderson.
Reliever Mike MacDougal (1-0) pitched 1 1/3 perfect innings for the win. Tigers starter Kenny Rogers (11-6) took the loss despite holding the White Sox to four hits in seven innings.
Yankees 5, Angels 2 -- Jaret Wright had another sweet but relatively short start, and New York rode second-inning home runs by Robinson Cano and Johnny Damon to the home win.
Wright (9-6) walked four for the second straight start but allowed one run for his third outing in a row. He fell behind on Juan Rivera's RBI single in the first, then allowed just one other hit before Scott Proctor relieved with one out in the sixth.
Los Angeles starter Kelvim Escobar (8-10) lost for the first time since June 25, giving up five runs and eight hits in six innings. He walked Alex Rodriguez leading off the second, gave up a single to Jason Giambi, and allowed a one-out, three-run homer to Cano. Damon connected for a two-run homer with two outs.
Proctor allowed Jose Molina's seventh-inning sacrifice fly, Kyle Farnsworth pitched the eighth, and Mariano Rivera wrapped up the four-hitter by reaching the 30-save plateau for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons.
Indians sweep Royals, 5-4, 6-5 -- Travis Hafner singled home the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give Cleveland a victory in the first game of a day-night doubleheader, then doubled home the go-ahead run in the nightcap to reach 100 RBIs for the third straight season.
Rangers 5, Mariners 4 -- Edinson Volquez (1-1) threw seven shutout innings for his first career win and Gary Matthews and Gerald Laird both homered in the fourth straight win for host Texas.
Blue Jays 4, Twins 0 -- Reed Johnson hit a two-run homer and Scott Downs (6-1) made a solid spot start for visiting Toronto.
Dodgers 6, Giants 5 -- Brad Penny (13-5) became the NL's top winner and Wilson Betemit hit a tiebreaking two-run homer to lift host Los Angeles to its 14th win in 15 games.
Padres 6, Astros 3 -- At Houston, Todd Walker, Josh Barfield, and Mike Cameron all homered in the fourth for San Diego and Jake Peavy (6-11) earned only his second win since May 28.
Mets 6, Nationals 4 -- At Washington, Jose Valentin hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth as New York overcame Alfonso Soriano's 37th homer.
Pirates 3, Cardinals 2 -- Ian Snell (10-8) tossed seven effective innings for host Pittsburgh, shaking off Albert Pujols's 35th homer, a two-run shot in the fifth.
Reds 9, Phillies 7 -- Ryan Freel drove in three runs and Edwin Encarnacion supplied the go-ahead RBI single in the ninth to lift Cincinnati in Philadelphia.
Brewers 8, Braves 5 -- Milwaukee's Bill Hall (No. 26) and Prince Fielder (No. 22) homered to back seven strong innings by Ben Sheets (3-4) in Atlanta.
Rockies 8, Cubs 4 -- Matt Holliday homered and drove in four runs in Denver to help Colorado's Josh Fogg (8-7) earn his first win since July 5.


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ATLANTA -- Center fielder Michael Bourn was a late addition to the Braves' lineup Sunday afternoon. When the lineup was first posted, Bourn was not listed. But about 80 minutes before the first pitch, the Braves announced Bourn would start, replacing Jose Constanza.
Bourn has not played since Sept. 22, when he sprained his left thumb diving into second base on a double. He had been listed as day to day for the last week, but with the playoffs starting in less than a week, the Braves were being cautious.
Bourn was hitting .274 with a .346 on-base percentage entering Sunday. He led the National League with 39 stolen bases.


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Yolanda: The Ultimate Challenge
Attention game freaks! So you think you rate as a good games player? Well think again! You're nowhere until you try Yolanda - The fastest and most difficult platform game ever! You take the part of Yolanda, offspring of the mighty Hercules himself, cursed by the death goddess Hera to be shunned by all mankind. Your only hope of lifting the curse is to re-enact the 12 tasks of Hercules - and that's going to take all the speed, strength and reflexes it's possible for a mortal to summon.


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Went on the advanced trek today with my daughter who learns at Mill Farm Riding School. Although we couldn't go through the fields due to boggy conditions, we still had a fantastic ride! Would recommend this to anyone.
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PodCastle 397: In the Woods Behind My House
by Nicolette Barischoff
read by Steve Anderson
A PodCastle Original!
He had never talked about the griffin out loud before. He didn't even think he'd had words to talk about her. She had always been something he'd go into the woods to watch, this silent, padding thing that sometimes stopped to cock her head at him, if he stood still enough, or took something he fed her into her curved black beak.
He had only touched her a handful of times, on the smooth, downy part at the top of her head, and she had watched him every time with hunting gold eyes, her lion's tail lashing patiently. He'd never even tried to bring home any of her old scattered feathers or broken-off claws. He hadn't even known, until he talked about her, if he thought she was real.
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Rated PG-13 for some language.
Nicolette Barischoff got her start in speculative fiction last year with a story in Crossed Genres' anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History. Her work has since appeared in Accessing the Future (The Future Fire), The Journal of Unlikely Academia (Unlikely Story), and Angels of the Meanwhile (forthcoming). She spends a lot of time advocating for body positivity and gender equality. CBS New York has called her activism "public pornography." She has spastic cerebral palsy, and sometimes writes about disability. She blogs at nbarischoff.com, and can be reached on Twitter as @NBarischoff.
Steve Anderson has narrated stories for all three Escape Artists podcasts (including a Parsec Award-winning story for PseudoPod). He narrates audiobooks and produces online videos out of a home studio at SGAcreative.com, and he writes and performs live history programs on tour at GreatTalesLive.com.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average slipped on Tuesday as weak China manufacturing data heightened concerns over global growth, while investors cashed in some of the recent gains after the yen's slide towards 100 to the dollar stalled.
The underlying mood, however, remained positive after Bank of Japan shocked the financial markets on April 4 by promising to inject $1.4 trillion into the world's third-largest economy to revive growth, helping to limit losses on the Nikkei.
The benchmark ended 0.3 percent lower at 13,529.65 after hitting its highest closing level since July 2008 on Monday after the Group of 20 leading economies stopped short of criticising Japan's aggressive monetary expansionary policies, which have significantly weakened the yen.
"Uncertainties over the global economy are making investors reluctant to chase the stocks higher for now," said Shun Maruyama, chief Japan equity strategist at BNP Paribas, referring to weak economic data overseas.
"Many of them are kind of waiting for the fog to clear."
Data showed on Tuesday that growth in China's vast factory sector dipped in April as new export orders shrank. The PMI release adds to the recent run of soft data from China and the United States, signalling that the global economic recovery may have stalled.
The Nikkei China 50 index, which comprises of companies with significant exposure to the world's second largest economy, fell 0.5 percent.
The yen's failure to push to 100 to the dollar gave equity investors the cue to take some profits on the recent stellar gains. The Japanese currency was quoted at 98.76 to the dollar on Tuesday.
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), Daikin Industries (6367.T), Ricoh Co Ltd (7752.T), Toshiba Corp (6502.T) and Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) were down between 0.7 and 1.7 percent.
The broader Topix index eased 0.2 percent to 1,143.78 on Tuesday, with 4.35 billion shares changing hands, down from a one-week high of 4.42 billion hit on Monday.
Investors also pocketed gains in shares of financial and real estate companies, which are expected to benefit the most from Japan's reflationary policy.
The real estate sector dropped 3 percent, while the banking sector lost 1.3 percent, with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T) off 1.5 percent.
Yet, the real estate sector is still up 103 percent since mid-November, when Shinzo Abe, who became prime minister in December, promised bold monetary and fiscal expansionary policies during his election campaign. During the same period, the benchmark Nikkei has rallied 56 percent.
"Both institutional and retail investors are waiting for weakness to increase their positions," said Yasuo Sakuma, portfolio manager at Bayview Asset Management, adding that he has kept his long positions in real estate companies as well as small-cap stocks.
Steelmaker JFE Holdings Inc (5411.T) climbed as much as 4.2 percent after it reported an 52.21 billion yen in earnings before tax and special items in the year to March, beating the average forecast of 50.15 billion in a poll of 17 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.The stock ended the day 0.5 percent higher.
Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd (6703.T) surged 20.5 percent after the Nikkei newspaper said the telecommunication equipment maker's operating profit for this fiscal year through March is expected at 22 billion yen, which is almost double that of the previous year, due to strong ATM sales in China.
According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, Japanese companies' one-month earnings momentum -- analysts' earnings upgrades minus downgrades as a total of estimates -- improved to 9.7 percent this month from 8.7 percent in March. It was minus 7.2 percent in December.
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by InvestorPlace Staff | July 19, 2012 2:24 pm
Shares of drug store chain Walgreen (NYSE:WAG[1]) soared Thursday on news that it finally had come to terms with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX[2]).
WAG shares were up around 11% in early afternoon trading, helping to recover from nearly 30% losses since last June, when the company failed to renew its contract with Express Scripts. ESRX shares were up a much more modest 1.5%.
Meanwhile, Walgreen competitors CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS[3]) and Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD[4]) — who had been benefiting from an exodus of Walgreen's Express Scripts customers — were down 6% and 5%, respectively.
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This plan is not currently offered anymore, which is a shame because it offers:
3 Gb data per month
240 minutes per month
2500 texts per month
1000 pxt (whatever they are) per month
Oh, and I also paid only $200 for the iphone 4 after signing for 24 months.
all for $85 per month.
Nothing else comes close as far as I can see. There was a huge promotion at the time and I'm wondering if there will be a whole bunch of us customers in March next year looking to resign a similar contract?
Who is offering that kind of data and minutes package at around $80 month???


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The long-term strength — or weakness — of any structure begins with its blueprint. A well-designed, sound plan makes it possible to build not only a safe edifice but one that can be expanded and effectively improved in the future.
After months of work, the once-a-decade Charter Review Commission is concluding the process of drafting the latest set of blueprints for governance in Dallas. To some, it may seem like an eyes-glazed-over piece of bureaucratic silliness. But for those who are worried about the efficiency of our local government, about undue influence or unresponsiveness, it's time to pay close attention. This blueprint will either nurture such insidious behavior or begin to correct it.
As such, few parts of the city charter are as important as the section detailing how to select people to draw the future political boundaries for council districts. Redistricting has historically been one of the toughest, most contentious political processes in the charter. The last redistricting effort, put together largely by allies of council members, turned into an unseemly power grab. Little changed in how things were done at City Hall. Not surprisingly, what followed in subsequent years were more scandals and lack of transparency.
This year, the Charter Review Commission seems determined to make changes that could lessen insider influence. The proposal being considered would require each City Council member to appoint one person from a pool of candidates who have been vetted by the city secretary's office to make sure they comply with all requirements. The mayor would appoint a chair, also from that pre-qualified pool. The 15-person group would need to represent all geographical areas of the city and reflect the racial and ethnic makeup of the city.
But almost more important than who can serve on the redistricting commission is who can't: a member of the council, his or her family or associates; lobbyists; anyone appointed to a political office in the last three years; campaign staff; and people with contractual relationships with the city. In effect, anyone with a skin in the political game. Beyond that, whoever serves on the redistricting commission would not be eligible to run for a district seat in the two following elections.
In addition, council members and the mayor would be forbidden from direct or indirect contact with applicants, commissioners or staff members, which was one of the biggest problems in previous redistricting efforts.
These are critical, overdue safeguards. The only potential problem is they are intended to reduce the influence of the council. And who will approve or reject the recommendations? The council.
Therefore, it is important for residents to come out in force and let the council members know that they want these changes. Tuesday, at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall, the Charter Review Commission will hold its last community meeting on the proposed charter before it holds a final vote May 8. The commission will present that recommended charter to the City Council on May 21.
Go to the Tuesday meeting. Speak up. Be part of the blueprint.
Redistricting isn't the only juicy — and needed — change that the Charter Review Commission is addressing.
After Commissioner Mike Northrup pointed out that audio and video tapes of non-City Council meetings, such as those of city commissions and boards, were not being preserved, the charter commission added an item that requires the "permanent retention of all written minutes and electronic recordings of the meetings of the City Council and all city boards and commissions."
And then there's the always provocative topic of pay raises for the council and mayor. The topic is particularly thorny for the charter commission because their recommendations have to be passed by both the council and then voters. So they staked out a middle ground between those who think the current $37,500 is too low to attract working-class candidates, and those who fear turning the position into a full-time job: 32 percent raises for council members and the mayor.
These changes are overdue and deserve passage.


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Unlike the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Calgary Flames, Steve Tambellini did not once say he was sorry. Not once did he apologize.
Instead he walked into his end-of-the-season State-of-the-Oilers session after a 29th-place season, following back-to-back 30th-place seasons, with the big grin still on his face from the night before.
And he proceeded to make himself available for the next 41 minutes and 44 seconds.
The general manager with the 53% approval rating and still no signed contract extension, looked completely comfortable, spoke with unusual confidence, was on occasion surprisingly candid and had a presence he'd seldom exhibited before.
Maybe it was because he'd managed to get lucky the night before at the NHL's bingo palace. But this was a guy who, in winning the NHL Draft Lottery for the third year in a row, for the first time really did look like he'd just won the lottery.
Maybe it was because he knows for sure it's all arrows-up from here. But he wasn't going to be bothered by members of the media trying to push his buttons about leaving coach Tom Renney "blowing in the wind" for a few weeks to decide if he's the man to go forward to the future with here.
Tambellini said two things about his own contract situation. "We'll get it done." And "I'm very comfortable."
He said he loves what he saw from Devan Dubnyk in the last part of the season but "needs to see it for a longer period of time" and "at the start of a season."
He said "nobody has established themselves as a top-two defenceman on a championship team."
There was a lot of content like that.
But most of the 41 minutes and 44 seconds dealt with the big picture and what winning the No. 1 pick in the draft the night before could mean going forward.
While fans were trying to picture a team with No. 1 picks Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Nail Yakupov as well as Jordan Eberle on the first two lines, Tambellini made it more than obvious he was going to be open to moving the No. 1 pick this year.
Indeed, he was almost advertising to that end.
"It presents a lot of options to us. You are able to listen to other teams' ideas. I'm excited. I've been thinking about this for a lot of hours now.
"Managers recognize the type of skill we have on our organizational chart. Managers know if they present something to help us, we have the ability to make a deal.
"It presents just a wonderful opportunity at this time in Oilers history, where we know we're going to add another significant piece or package when we leave the draft.
"With the phase that we're coming into, we can listen to more legitimate options. We've accumulated a good amount of highly skilled individual talents throughout our organization. Most of it is not here yet. It allows us to think about moving down a pick, or down three picks, and adding a solid player and maybe a current player.
"There are a lot of people in the league who look at what we have and they know how excited we are, because they realize it. You can't fast-forward as fast as we want to go, but we're trying to push the accelerator with development and growth as fast as we can. We want the same thing as everybody else.
"I feel more comfortable with the idea of accomplishing both, where I'm getting a solid pick and someone who could help our current club. I have to look at that."
Tambellini went so far as to suggest that Yakupov, everybody's No. 1 pick, was not a Steve Stamkos or Alex Ovechkin, nor a Taylor Hall, with his two Memorial Cup MVPs, either.
"There isn't the player coming out of this draft that who has had that kind of impact."
Getting to know Yakupov is going to be big, going forward.
"I think you have to know where he comes from, what his family background is like, what his coaches think of him, what his teammates think of him …
"We'll know these players and the options inside out by the time we get there."
Tambellini said there's still no plan of going after what he terms "the A+" free agent on July 1.
"We still have to do a terrific job developing this core team first, so that they want to come. Not only that they want to come, but we want them to come at the right time. So the direction has not changed.
"We just feel we have the option of adding an extra piece and accomplishing what we want to do, out of the draft."
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OXFORD (AP) – Oxford Director of Tourism Mary-Kathryn Herrington is stepping down at the end of January to spend more time with her family.
Herrington has been with the tourism department for 10 years and became the director in 2009. Herrington and her husband, Lewis, had a baby girl in the summer.
The Oxford Eagle reports that Mary Allyn Hedges will succeed Herrington as tourism director. Hedges is currently the assistant tourism director.
Kinney Ferris will become assistant tourism director and the city will soon post a job opening to fill Ferris' current position of visitor services.
The food and beverage tax brought in $2.13 million for 2013, an 8 percent increase over 2012 and $229,225 came in from the hotel/motel tax, a 6 percent increase over 2012.


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CONCORDE is an impressive plane. It cruises at 2100 kilometres per hour, more than twice the speed of sound, and at an altitude of 15 kilometres. It travels from London to New York in 3 hours and because of the 5-hour time difference, passengers famously arrive earlier than they left. By comparison, conventional planes crawl along at only 700 kilometres per hour and at an altitude of 10 kilometres. At this speed, the same journey takes as long as 9 hours.
So why hasn't supersonic flight caught on? After all, Concorde is more than 20 years old. The reasons are many. Concorde is so noisy that many airports refuse to allow it to land. It carries only 100 passengers, making seats expensive-around $7000 for a round trip across the Atlantic. Perhaps most important of all, supersonic engines belch out huge quantities of nitrogen oxides (NOX) that destroy the


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A South Texas man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for leading a ring that smuggled marijuana to Houston in a load of charcoal.
A federal judge in McAllen on Tuesday sentenced 59-year-old Eduardo Ramirez of Rio Grande City. A jury convicted Ramirez of conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana.
Investigators say a compartment built into a truck trailer hid nearly 3,500 pounds of marijuana during a 2011 drug run to Houston. Prosecutors say Mexican charcoal in the main part of the trailer helped mask the drug's odor.
Authorities say Ramirez was unaware that the rig's driver was an undercover officer. Part of the drug load was transferred to a van that was later stopped by Houston police for a traffic violation.


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Public Hospitals Will Keep Patient Immigrant Status Private
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) President Alan D. Aviles and Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Fatima Shama this week issued a reassuring message to immigrant New Yorkers who may not be accessing healthcare services for fear of having their immigration status disclosed to federal authorities.
The message, delivered in an open letter, written in 12 different languages, assures immigrants that every patient has a right to healthcare privacy. It also underscores a commitment to keep immigrant status completely confidential and to serve all New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.
"For generations New York has been known as a city of immigrants, and for generations the public hospitals have cared for New York's immigrant populations," said Aviles. "It is important to remind immigrant New Yorkers that they can get quality healthcare in our city without fear."
HHC's promise of privacy reflects Mayor Bloomberg's Executive Order 41, which directs city employees to protect confidential information, including immigration status, belonging to people seeking city services. The Order was issued to ensure that all New Yorkers, including immigrants, can access city services that they need and are entitled to receive.
"A vibrant and healthy immigrant community is key to ensuring New York City continues to thrive and we are committed to providing critical and quality services to all those living in our City," said Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Fatima Shama.
The letter from Aviles and Shama states in part, "We respect you and want to help you. People who work in a public hospital will not tell the Immigration Service or other law enforcement agencies your immigration status…Our public hospitals and health centers have a long and proud history of caring for everyone. That includes immigrants who are not citizens or legal residents and people who do not have money to pay for care. Our commitment is strong. It has not changed."
Chung-wha Hong, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said: "HHC is renewing its promise that its hospitals and health care providers will never share information with immigration authorities. Immigrants need to take this message to heart, and should feel safe getting health care at New York's great public hospitals and clinics."
The letter will be distributed to patients and staff, community and immigrant advocacy organizations, and ethnic community papers across the city. Written in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Urdu, Bengali, Polish, Albanian and Arabic, it urges immigrants not to be afraid to go to an HHC hospital, emergency room or health center, and reconfirms the policy against disclosing patient information.
The open letter has been issued before: in 2006 in the midst of heightened debate concerning immigration laws and again in 2007.
Most children and pregnant women in New York City, regardless of immigration status, are eligible for health insurance. HHC staff helps all uninsured patients apply for insurance programs for which they may be eligible. The public hospitals also help patients who cannot get insurance by providing reduced, affordable rates under the HHC Options Program.
In order to help determine whether uninsured patients are eligible for Medicaid and other available insurance programs, HHC financial counseling staff must ask patients for certain information that may include immigration status, proof of income, home address and date of birth. This information is kept completely confidential. HHC does not compile records or lists of undocumented immigrants nor does it share individual patient information with immigration authorities.
"Despite our present fiscal challenges and the further challenges ahead as healthcare reform unfolds, HHC will continue to serve as the city's primary healthcare safety net, offering needed medical services to all New Yorkers including immigrants and fulfilling an essential role in maintaining the overall public health in our diverse city," Aviles said.
HHC patients speak more than 100 different languages it has a diverse patient population. HHC also has a very diverse staff — more than 80% represent communities of color — and many speak multiple languages.


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YOUNGSTERS turned back time to enjoy a Victorian-themed event as a prize for being the best pupils to walk or cycle to school.
Pupils from Cockton Hill Primary School, in Bishop Auckland, were named the best in the Durham County Council Mega Motion campaign.
The scheme aims to promote a healthier lifestyle amongst youngsters and encourages them to cycle, walk or "scoot" to school.
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Pupils gained points for using sustainable travel to get to school, which they could then cash in for prizes such as themed walks to school.
The Cockton Hill children have been hailed as the Mega Motion champions by staff at the county council.
The pupils picked a Victorian-themed walk to school before the summer holidays and were also given goodie bags as part of the prize.
Councillor Neil Foster, cabinet member for economic regeneration at the council, said: "Huge congratulations to Cockton Hill and all the other schools who have taken part in Mega Motion.
"It is a brilliant scheme, helping our children to stay healthy and it also teaches them all about environmentally friendly ways of travel from a young age."


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A 7-year-old girl was seriously injured after she fell from a sixth-floor window in Brooklyn, and now detectives are investigating her caretakers because she may have signs of past abuse, according to law enforcement officials.
Police found the girl badly injured from the fall Wednesday night at the building on Bayview Avenue in Coney Island.
"She tried to get up three times, but kept falling," said Jimmy Boyd, who was walking by when he saw the girl struggling to stand.
"She was just saying, 'I want to get up, I want to get up,'" said Regina Speller, who was the first person to find her. "I was like, 'No, baby, because I don't know what's hurting you.'"
"I just held the little girl and just started praying until someone came down."
Further examination of the child at the hospital revealed methadone, cannibus and amphetamines in her blood. She also had injuries that may have been caused by past abuse, but could also be from the fall, officials said.
A source familiar with the investigation tells NBC 4 New York the girl was visiting New York City with her stepmother, and is from Florida.
A 1-year-old boy in the apartment was taken into the custody of child welfare authorities.


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Everyone is getting on board with the miniseries nowadays, even NBC! Yeah, pretty much everything NBC puts on the air has a limited run (miss you, Do No Harm), but the network has announced four new projects that are actually supposed to have short lives.
Leading the charge is Hillary, a four-hour miniseries starring Diane Lane (Unfaithful) as former First Lady and recent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The series will follow her life from 1998 to the present, which should cover everything from when her hubby Bill got Lewinsky'd to her run for presidency to the Benghazi debacle. That should bring in the young viewers.
Next up is a four-hour miniseries adaptation of the classic horror book and movie Rosemary's Baby. The story follows a young couple (NBC's version will take place in Paris) who move into a new apartment complex and strike up a relationship with their kooky elderly neighbors. Oh, one more small detail: the elderly people are Satanists.
Stephen King's Under the Dome has done well in ratings, so why not push more King out? NBC is adapting King's 1987 book Tommyknockers for television. In the novel, people in a small Maine town (where else?) think an alien spacecraft has landed near by. NBC offered zero details on how long the series would be, so hold tight.
Finally, NBC is also developing Plymouth, which the network is calling a "limited series." What that means, who knows? Plymouth will detail the rough ride of the Pilgrims as they crossed the Atlantic and settled in New England (and then killed a bunch of indigenous people after stealing their corn, I think it goes). The series is another Mark Burnett joint.
NBC previously announced a follow-up to Burnett's hugely successful History Channel miniseries The Bible called A.D.: After the Bible, in which Jesus and pals go to Thailand for bachelor party, I think.
What do you think of NBC's strategy here? Which series sounds most interesting to you? It's totally okay to say, "None of them."


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Milan Michalek had a goal and an assist, and the Ottawa Senators won their third straight game on a long road trip by beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Thursday night.
Colin Greening, Kaspars Daugavins, Jesse Winchester and Zenon Konopka also scored for the Senators (10-9-1), who have rebounded following a five-game slide. This marked the first time Ottawa has won both games on an Alberta road trip since 2003.
Anton Lander and Ryan Jones scored for the Oilers (9-7-2), who have lost four in a row and five of six following a six-game winning streak.
After some great early chances for the Oilers, the Senators took a 2-0 lead on their first two shots at Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin.
Just 7:30 in, the Senators had a 2-on-1 break. Michalek feathered a past to Greening for his fifth goal of the season.
Only 9 seconds later, Ottawa came flying off the faceoff, and Daugavins fired a shot that beat Khabibulin high to the glove side.
The Senators made it 3-0 with just under a minute to play in the first period as Michalek scored his 12th goal after Jason Spezza won a faceoff.
Devan Dubnyk replaced Khabibulin in the Oilers net to start the second.
Edmonton got back into the game two minutes into the second period on a short-handed break as Lander ripped a wrist shot past Craig Anderson for his first NHL goal.
Ottawa made it 4-1 five minutes later, seconds after Oilers forward Jordan Eberle was hooked down in the Senators zone on a scoring opportunity. Fans howled when no penalty was called. Winchester took the puck up ice and beat Dubnyk high for his first of the season.
Despite the one-sided score, the shots were 11-10 for Edmonton through 40 minutes.
The Oilers, who pulled defenseman Andy Sutton out of the lineup right before the national anthem because of a groin injury, were further hampered when defenseman Corey Potter didn't come out to start the third period because of a right ankle injury.
The Senators took a four-goal lead three minutes into the third when Konopka batted in a backhanded shot in tight.
Edmonton got a goal back on the power play in the final minute when Eric Belanger's shot caromed off a couple of legs, including off of Jones, and into the net.
NOTES: The Senators will play the fifth game of their six-game trip in Vancouver on Sunday. ... Oilers D Cam Barker will have ankle surgery and miss three months. Forward Sam Gagner missed the game with a sore back, and Magnus Paajarvi replaced him in the lineup. ... Matt Carkner (knee), Peter Regin (shoulder) and Chris Neil (ankle) remained out with injuries for the Senators. ... It was the first meeting of the season between the teams, who split two games last season. ... The Senators have won eight of nine in the series and five straight in Edmonton. ... Anderson made his NHL-high 18th start in the Ottawa net.


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Salina Sunday Liquor Sales Delayed
KSAL Staff - August 14, 2013 11:24 am
Sunday liquor sales in Salina are delayed until the fall.
Back in June, the Salina City Commission unanimously passed a law allowing Sunday liquor sales. The law was scheduled to go into effect this month. It goes into effect 61 days after final, or second publication.
But, it was only published once. Now, though, it has been published twice.
The new effective date is now October 22nd. The first Sunday when liquor sales will be legal will be October 27th.
How bad is this city commission? They cannot even keep track if something is published twice. So now all of us are inconvienced once again because of their incompetence.
They rather spend their time going to county commission meetings to cause trouble than to take care of their own business. This city commission should be disbanded and a whole new commission put in place.


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The Encana tower in West Plano could easily house 1,000 workers.
But these days, fewer than 100 folks are employed in the 12-story high-rise.
Last fall, Canada-based Encana Oil & Gas decided to pull out of the new office tower as part of a company consolidation. The building in Legacy business park has pretty much emptied out since then.
In the past, the sudden addition of a big block of empty office space would cause some hair-pulling in the property market. But that's not the case here.
Legacy was one of the country's hottest office markets even before Toyota announced last month that it would relocate its North American headquarters there. Since then, the West Plano office market has caught fire, developers of new buildings and leasing agents say.
"Our momentum is huge," said Greg Biggs, the managing director with commercial real estate firm JLL who's heading efforts to rent the Encana building. "We're averaging three tours of the building a week to potential tenants.
"And we are in lease negotiations for three full floors of office space."
Encana recently decided for the first time to break up the more than 300,000-square-foot office tower for multiple tenants. Biggs said the building will now be available for as small as a single-floor lease.
"Since we decided to do that, the activity really increased," he said.
The area that includes Legacy business park and West Plano already accounts for about 40 percent of Dallas-area office leasing activity, according to a new study by JLL. That's more office leasing than downtown Dallas and Las Colinas combined.
Toyota's move, which starts this summer, is expected to accelerate demand for office space in West Plano and Frisco. The company leased 120,000 square feet of temporary office space on Legacy Drive east of Dallas North Tollway.
Along with the automaker's 4,000 workers, thousands more office employees who work for companies that do business with Toyota are likely to be located in the area.
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Developer Randy Heady is leasing his new office building on Headquarters Drive at the tollway in Legacy, and is already doing a lease with one Toyota vendor moving from California.
He's just done other office deals in the building with brewing company MillerCoors and Baker Corp., an oil production firm.
"Right now we are 71 percent leased and will be out of space in a few months," said Heady, who's pondering construction of another office building.
Several new office developments, the most since before the recession, are opening their doors along the tollway in Plano soon.
Lincoln Property just finished its five-story Lincoln Legacy Two building on the tollway.
"The building is done and ready for tenants," said Lincoln senior vice president Elliot Prieur. "Nothing signed, but we are working a number of prospects."
Developer Trammell Crow Co. is still building its nearby 13-story Legacy Tower. Murchison Oil & Gas Inc. has rented the top floor of the 342,000-square-foot building.
"We're scheduled for completion on Aug. 22 and planning to have a grand opening in early September," said Dennis Barnes, senior vice president with CBRE Group, which is marketing the property.
Real estate brokers say Crow already is looking at plans to build a second office building in Legacy due to the strong demand.
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That's also the case with Granite Properties, which is just finishing its Granite Park IV tower near the southeast corner of the tollway and State Highway 121.
The 12-story, 306,000-square-foot tower will be ready in June.
"We have leased just shy of four floors and have leases out in four more," said Greg Fuller, Granite's chief operating officer. "I would expect several providers to Toyota to eventually need to be close to their new headquarters.
"Some are already here and may need to expand — really a great boon to the D-FW region."
Because of the anticipated growth, Granite Properties is doing design work for another office building in its Granite Park development, Fuller said.
Having a large supply of available office space has made Plano one of the top relocation markets over the years, said Sally Bane, who heads Plano's economic development agency.
"When J.C. Penney announced [in 1987] they were going to move their headquarters from Manhattan to Plano, they occupied three buildings temporarily while they built their campus," Bane said. "You have to have a supply of office space for them to be able to do that."
Bane said Toyota's recent announcements have put Plano in the economic development spotlight.
"It creates an enormous sense of place and is good publicity for the community," she said.
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Adding 300 hours a year to the public school agenda is a noble experiment — I hope it works. I have always been a huge advocate of public education. Anything we can do to improve the results of public education, I support.2 comments on this story
The road blocks to success in public schools are many. The first — the vacuum in cultural morals. The greatest compliment to success in any education system is the influence of the home and family. If there is no help or support, the teachers become helpless and get the majority of the blame.
My advice is to run school from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. so the kids can get some sleep. Do your best to encourage the joy of learning. Don't dumb down the expectations.
If more money is added to the budget, add tutors not more administrators.
Lastly, encourage parents and volunteers to diminish other costs.
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- 09-17-2012
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- Jill Valentine
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- 2012
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- Costume worn at:
- Anime Central 2012
- Anime Central 2009
- Geek.Kon 2012
- OhayoCon 2012
- Otakon 2012
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The pants and boots are the exact same ones I used earlier. Everything above the waist is new.
The shirt was a women's Carhartt shirt I nabbed from Goodwill. I just added the front princess seams and the back middle seam. Took in the sleeves a little as well. I didn't have time to silkscreen on the S.T.A.R.S. lettering on the back, but I will do that next time.
The new shoulder armor is made out of a much sturdier upholstery vinyl. The sides have 1/2" green upholstery foam to pad them out, and the back piece has 5mm foamie piece in it. I did want to put in some foamie inside the collar piece, but I couldn't get it to work. I forgot to bring along some wire with me to the con so that I could put it in the sides in order to keep it from sticking out in the back. So, that will be the first thing I fix. The harness I used is still my old one, but I'm probably going to remake it since it's kinda falling apart.
I did use a wig this time around since my hair is too short right now. It was some random, dark brown wig off of eBay. I may get a better one in the future, but it works.
The gloves are Hatch Reactor gloves from my favorite army/navy surplus seller on eBay. I'm debating just making my next pair from scratch since the Hatch Reactor gloves are only just similar to Jill's.
Beret was from some random seller on eBay. I cut out the weird cotton lining it had, but I didn't get a chance to shape it, so it looks a little wonky on my head.
The S.T.A.R.S. patches are from SciFi Geeks. I didn't have time to attach them properly so I cheated and fashion taped them on for the con.
Old Costume Stuff:
The beret, beret pin, boots, shirt, gloves, watch, gun holster, and BDU pants were all found and bought. The pants were a super lucky find!
The rest of the gear I made using a lot of black nylon webbing/strapping of varying widths and various buckle closures. The shoulder armor is made out of a nice navy blue vinyl with functioning snaps that attached it to the nylon webbing harness I made. All of it was pretty easy to make, actually.
ACen also had pretty new and strict rules on gun props. Rather than take a gun, I opted to use a Playstation controller! It got a couple of laughs.
- Personal Thoughts:
- Jill is one of my favorite characters, and she's by far my most favorite cosplay. I'm glad I got a chance to update this and give it a little more polish. I'm going to keep on making it better though!
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A man suspected of assaulting two U.S. Border Patrol agents with his truck in San Diego County last month has been arrested.
Authorities said Friday that the man - described as a 29-year-old Mexican national in the country illegally - was arrested at a drive-through restaurant in Fallbrook on Thursday.
The man was driving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck on June 18 in Valley Center when Border Patrol agents pulled him over.
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As one of the most prominent officials pushing for tighter safety regulations after the deadly chemical plant explosion in West, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Monday that she was keeping close tabs on the Obama administration's efforts to improve oversight.
"We're keeping in touch to make sure things are moving ahead," said Boxer, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, after a tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
The California Democrat said the committee planned a hearing in November to get a better sense of how coordination has improved among federal agencies that oversee dangerous chemicals.
The senator said she was pleased that the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies sent out new guidelines for handling and storing ammonium nitrate, the chemical involved in the West explosion.
But, she added, "we really need to change some of the rules."
"This is a huge problem," she said. "And if you look at the history, it's a recurring problem. We want to change history."
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A man who robbed a Hillcrest doughnut shop was arrested early Wednesday after officers found him across the street at a sandwich shop.
Police were called to the Donut Star on West Washington Street at Dove Street just after 6 a.m., San Diego police said.
The clerk said the thief acted like he had a weapon and took cash from the store as well as from a customer, police said.
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News International says it has an "open" policy on Twitter—but accounts claiming to be ex-employees are still shut.
It would be a great story for Britain's best-read Sunday tabloid: A handful of former employees of a powerful corporation took to Twitter and threatened to air its secrets.
If only Britain's best-read Sunday tabloid still existed, that is.
The story reads like something from a Fleet Street scandal sheet: A handful of supposed ex-employees of News International, an arm of News Corp. which publishes a number of Britain's largest newspapers, took to Twitter to air the newspaper's dirty laundry last week after the newspaper was shut down following a series of hacking scandals. Since then, most of the accounts have gone silent or disappeared completely.
And no one, including News International, appears to know why.
"(We have) no idea who these guys are," said News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dot. "Fair to say that we have a completely open approach to staff using Twitter and other social networks for personal and business use."
The accounts included @FormerNOTWhack, @ExNOTWjourno2 and @NOTWjourno. The most notable one was @ExNOTWjourno, an account which amassed more than 20,000 followers and promised to release scathing documents about News International.
"Here's the situation. x-Notw journalists +friends going to release Blog on Sat night. Inside story of NOTW. Stories we weren't able to tell," tweeted @ExNOTWjourno Saturday.
But before any information could be leaked, the account disappeared Sunday, the same day the final edition of the newspaper ran.
Since then, most of the accounts have been deleted and only a few remain active. @NOTWjourno's profile declares that it is no longer run by a former NOTW employee and @ExNOTWjourno2 hasn't thrown much mud.
Yet the mystery behind these accounts remains and News International does not have many answers. Dunlop did not comment on whether News International had anything to do with the missing accounts.
Twitter would not comment on the accounts' shutdown or apparent handover because of "privacy reasons," said spokeswoman Carolyn Penner in an email to The Daily Dot.
This ongoing mystery shows, at the very least, that Twitter is hardly a secure place to air dirty laundry — as the recently disbanded hacker group LulzSec learned.
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Hey Friend! I have a new design up for voting called "AFRICA" dedicated to all those who are giving their time and money to benefit the people of countries like Uganda and Ethiopia. It promotes the idea of hope- that one day there can be a permanent solution to the war and poverty there. I have also challenged DBH to consider donating some money towards the cause "Invisible Children" if it wins! Please help to raise awareness and vote! Thanks!
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Hey…i have a new design up. Its a revamped version of my original Endless Night design. Now made with handdrawn elements instead of vector.
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Trick-or-treating is the highlight of Halloween for most kids, but when it comes to scoring the best loot, not all neighborhoods are created equal! Zillow ranked the top 20 cities for intrepid trick-or-treaters based on median home value, walkability, population density, and safety. We're giving a shout-out to the top 10! Did your city make the cut? Keep reading to find out!
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text: Here's a little tease. It's the final words from my new book, The Camper Van Bible. I finished the manuscript and delivered it in September after five months of constant writing, photographing, cooking and camping. It'll be the final tome in my 'camper van' trilogy and it is to be published by publishing giant Bloomsbury. It is due out late next spring. I am currently doing edits so I thought I'd share with you my final word.... apologies in advance for the expletive at the end. But it's well placed and makes the point perfectly. Do you remember when you were a little kid and you had to go to bed when it was still light outside? Or when you had to go home to have your tea at a certain time? If you didn't you were in trouble. I still feel that now, when the kids have to be up for school or meals have to be taken at sensible times. I feel it in the winter too, when teatime turns into telly time and telly time turns into bedtime. Suddenly a wet and windy week has gone by and nothing has been done except for a few episodes of Mock the Week and 40 hours of life draining graft. I feel I am wasting away. That's life sometimes.Everything stops for tea. But it shouldn't. Teatime is a tyranny that holds us back and keeps us from enjoying the best part of the day. We wind down, hit the sofa and before we know it a large part of the day has passed by without the merest hint of an adventure. Often it's the weather that keeps us indoors, but more often it's ourselves. In northern Europe, where the seasons dictate our movements, it's tough to enjoy an evening paseo, a meal under the stars or a promenade before the light fades, for most of the year. We hunker down and wait for summer.There is an internet story about camper vans that does the rounds from time to time in which it says that camper van drivers enjoy the illusion of freedom. Whenever I get it sent to me, again, for the hundredth time, I read it and think yes, it's true, but only to a certain extent. We don't have any more political or social freedom in a camper than in any other vehicle. We are still subject to rules and regulations, the laws of the land and our own – or our religion's – moral compasses. We live within limits.But. And it's a very big but. The camper van – and camping and outdoorsyness in general – gets us off the sofa and out of the house when others are watching soaps and gritty northern dramas while their life slowly drains away. When you are camping, teatime isn't the end of the day. It's the start of the evening. You live with the light, away from the tyranny of teatime. So when we talk about freedom we talk about simple things that mean we get to live a little more, if living is not being confined by TV, tea and bedtime. The freedoms camping brings might be small but they are very real to an awful lot of people, me included.This kind of freedom is bursting out of the house or office when you have finished your work on a Friday night, it's the end to 'school night' restrictions at the beginning of the holidays and it's the opening of a door to adventures, however small they might be. It's the longest day, the smell of summer, the brilliant feeling of being physical, being out of breath, being giddy with excitement, of playing, of having fun.Do you remember that?I'll take your lifetime in front of the box and raise you with one glorious night under the stars, staring into a fire, telling stories and laughing while the kids squawk and scream in the stream, and we all go home feeling grubby and a little bit naughty like we skipped teatime and, honestly, we really don't give a fuck.Make the most of it. You only get one shot.


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I'm on the light side and can definitely tell the difference. I'm a complete convert.
The way I describe the difference to friends who don't know about bolt-through forks is to tell them it's like having power steering on a car.
I'm on the light side and can definitely tell the difference. I'm a complete convert.
The way I describe the difference to friends who don't know about bolt-through forks is to tell them it's like having power steering on a car.
As has been said before I swapped the lowers on my Float 32's for QR15 used same rims, same tyre, same bike, gained massively quicker steering and less deflection over bumps. I'm chuffed
interestingly i went from monster Ts with 20mm to sids ...couldnt get much more of a contrast ...
did i notice much difference ..did i ****
its all in the mind.
How ever going from 2008 sids to 2009 sids what a difference when the legs aint going in different directions !
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Huge difference between 9mm QR floats and 15QR Vanillas but the float is a flexi fork and it could just be moving to Vanillas as much as 15QR...
Gary please explain? Vanillas and Floats are pretty much the same fork (assuming comparing QR with QR), just the springing medium is different, so how would this affect flex?
Yeah, but isn't Gary comparing Floats with 9mm q/r dropouts to Vanillas with the new 15mm q/r thru-axle, in which case I'd expect the Vans to be stiffer. Apologies if I've read that wrong.
Just try some totems with a 1.5 steerer and then try arguing that fork stiffness is all in the mind.
Bolt through axles, bigger stanchions, wider steerers all make a difference and ultimately feel better on the trail.
only if your mind thinks you need bigger ....
ive had monster Ts (arguably the stiffest forks ever made....triple clamps with the same size stantions as your totems ....)
and i now run 80mm rebas and sids ... i cant think of a time where ive thought i need stiffer forks .....longer yes stiffer no .... my front wheel always goes where i want it through good route planning ....
anyone can plough a big travel bike through anything and claim its skill ...ive been there and done that. the real good guys are the ones who ride nothing down stuff people struggle with on big bikes like kern a guy who almost got scoffed at for wanting to ride the black route at laggan on his azonic steelhead with kinesis maxlight rigid forks and about 10cms of spacers under his stem....ugly inapropriate bike ....still showed us a thing or too down the black route and embarased a few of the 6 inch travel boys ...or raggedonair on here who took his turner down kilbopath faster than most of the dh guys i used to ride with could !
of course the above doesnt apply if you ride a rigid steel singlespeed just to be alternative !
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i suspect that it's more down to wheel/tyre stiffness rather than fork stiffness
I disagree. I ran an 04 Talas with a QR and Pro2 up front, then swapped to an 08 Pike with the Pro2 20mm conversion kit, and the difference was astounding. The front didn't feel jittery and the tyre felt really planted and unlikely to roll off the surfaces I was riding along.
I went from a 2000 SID XC to some 08 454 pikes (20 mm) boy did i notice the difference one was made of cooked pasta and would flex while trackstanding the other tracks perfectly over head size boulders
anyone can plough a big travel bike through anything and claim its skill
Yeah Steve Peat is rubbish really isn't he, why doesn't he ride a rigid singlespeed?
peat doesnt plough .... i can assure you peats lines are calculated unless he misses one of them ...
I agree that there is a difference in stiffness what i disagree is that other than psychologically it makes little difference in a non race situation where you are unlikely to take really risky lines....
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The Outhouse advises anyone looking forward to Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy to start on a two month bender as soon as possible so they can reap maximum possible enjoyment from the comic.
Source: Press Release
According to an Image Comics press release sent out today:
Nick Sax isn't what you'd call a "winner." The anti-hero of the new Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson comic mini-series HAPPY! has been fired from the police force, turned on by his own employees in his murder-for-hire business (well, what would you expect?), is constantly drunk, and is waging a hopeless battle against the agonies of eczema. Sax seems beyond redemption, but saviors often take strange forms, and, in his case, it's the form of a tiny blue, feathered pony named Happy.
So we can see that this new project from derange writer Grant Morrison is at least semi-autobiographical, but we can also guess that Morrison, a practicing wizard whose work in comics is only slightly less difficult to comprehend than his predecessor, Aleister Crowley, took what scientists describe as "a whole shitload of drugs" in order to write Happy. As a result, readers should probably take a shitload of drugs if they want to read it. The press release continues:
"HAPPY! is a story I've wanted to write since hit-man Nick Sax and his 'partner' Happy the Horse appeared fully-formed in my head two years ago," said Morrison. In an interview at Newsarama, he described the impetus of its development: "I wanted to do a classic Christmas story – like A Christmas Carol or It's A Wonderful Life – but with all the junkies, killers and pedophiles which make our modern world so colorful!"
So Morrison, who believes that fully formed men and horses appear magically inside his head, believes that the only thing missing from the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol was junkies, killers, and pedophiles, and he is correcting this mistake with his own holiday tale, due out in comic shops on September 26th. You can pre-order the book now, but there is no guarantee that the printed pages will be soaked in liquid LSD before shipping, so it is probably safest to just get a bunch of your own and start taking it right away.
[Editor's Note: The Outhouse does not condone the use of psycadelic drugs or wizardry to enhance the enjoyment of comics without the advice of a qualified doctor or magician.]
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