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I was hanging out at the academy and he suddenly came near me and said "what are you doing?" while stroking my hair T_T My heart was fluttering so much since then so I can't think of anything else ㅋㅋㅋ let's share out heart fluttering stories with our male friends
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- Our school made a soccer league and they usually hold tournaments during class time or lunch time. There's this guy I'm close with since my choding days and he's in the same class as me. He's also really good at basketball (T/N: the guy plays soccer and basketball), he's around 186 cm tall and he's also good at school. He's your typical "mother's friend's kid". But the thing is that he's really quiet so he doesn't have any female friends. Anyways I find people who are quiet more comfortableㅇㅇI watched him playing soccer from the windows and wasn't paying attention to the classㅋㅋㅋㅋ While I was watching guys, the rain just started pouring and I thought "ah looks like they can't play anymore, what a shame" but as they continued to play, I couldn't see their faces well since the guys were really far away, but them playing soccer in drenched clothes made them look so coolㅋㅋㅌㅌㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ And then the bells rang and he was going up the stairs towards our floor, he had his towel around his neck and was stroking his hair back, and seeing him like that made my heart flutter so muchㅋㅋㅋㅋ So I asked him "yah, did you win?" and he smirked and said "of course". And then, he put his arm around my shoulder and wanted us to go back to our class together but since his arm was super wet due to the rain, I said "yah, my uniform is getting wet, get off ㅡㅡ" and then, he strengthened up his hand and said "Not gonna (T/N: andwae)" and then we went in our class together. He sat in front of the fan and was drying his hair with his towel ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He was so cool so I was staring at him and was blanking out and he put his towel on my head and said "yah, don't look at me like that, it's tiring" and then I said "ok" and was gonna walk away and as I was getting up, he said "yah, I saw you watching me from afar when it was raining and I scored twice" and then during lunch time, he grabbed my wrist and was dragging me to watch him play basketball and when lunch time was over, he held unto my wrist again. Seriously, everyone, guys and girls cannot be friends
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- Seriously, I don't even have any guy friends and the guy at the convenience store even told me to leave and was standing near the door while holding it opened...//
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- ㅇㄱㄹㅇ |2016.08.01 12:42
- There's a cabin in front of our school and every day during lunch time, my friends and I bring our blankets and go play there. We were eating ramyeon and bought ice creams too. We were laying on the ground and since it had wooden floors, my head was hurting so much ㅠㅠ My body was fine since I had my blanket on, so I asked "ah my head hurt so much, can anyone lend me their pillow..?" and then my guy friend lifted my head and put it over his thighs. I got seriously shy but I pretended that it didn't affect me at all. He was stroking my hair the whole time (I couldn't look at him because I would be too embarrassed) ..
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- ㅇㅇ |2016.08.01 21:11
- I don't have any guy friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said that I don't have any!!!!!!!!!!!!!!f*ck!!!!!!!!!!!. f*ck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEART FLUTTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STORIES!!!!!! IF!!!!! I !!!!!!!!! HAD!!!!!! A!!! GUY!!!! FRIEND!!!!!
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California has the worst ratio of school library media specialists to students in the United
States-so poor, in fact, that the gap between California and the 49th state is greater than the gap
between the 49th state and the 1st (Everhart, 2003). With just one library media specialist (LMS)
for every 5,965 students, staffing ratios are almost 7 times below the national average ("Statistics
about California School Libraries," 2007). After a 4-year period of unprecedented state funding
for school library collections ended in 2001, collection budgets and per pupil expenditures on
library programs in California are again among the lowest in the country (National Center for
Education Statistics [NCES], 2007).
Ironically, during an era in which school officials scramble for ways to increase student
achievement, funding for school library media programs has not gained favor (NCES, 2007), in
spite of dozens of studies in the past two decades that have documented correlations between
school library media programs and student achievement. Among these, the first Colorado study
(Lance, Welborn & Hamilton-Pennell, 1993) established a methodology that has been replicated
or adapted in at least 16 states (National Commission on Libraries and Information Science,
2006). While correlations vary from state to state, taken as a whole, these studies make a strong
case for the positive influence of school library media programs on student achievement at the
elementary, middle school and high school levels (Lance & Loertscher, 2005).
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methodology in substantial ways and found few significant correlations between school library
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pipi911 (10-08-2012)
Just as the thread title states: Post pictures of both great and fail cosplays.
Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure?), short for "costume play",[1] is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Favorite sources include manga and anime, comic books, video games and films. (But just to keep it OT, please post Anime-related cosplays only)
I guess i'll start:
Here's a pretty amazing Kakashi & Obito cosplay:
And here's an itachi one.
pipi911 (10-08-2012)
Ironically enough, I'm not that big of a fan of cosplay. :S Anything I would post in this thread would probably be off the first page when you Google "best Naruto cosplay". "S
Eh, here in america I tend to avoid events that involve cosplay. They usually have like 90% big 3 cosplay and maybe 10% video game.
Naruto cosplay is horrible for the most part(imagine fat + any naruto character), one piece is generally just open shirt jean shorts, and bleach is usually for the dedicated since they tend to go for the sword as well.
Personally I'm not that into cosplay. The only ones that i can remember are some evangelion asuka's and some jokish mgs references.
there are some DEDICATED people in japan though. I mean life-like you name it, its probably been done.
(oh and there is a giant gundam statue).
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On that note here's an American cosplayer who goes by the name of "Living Ichigo" ( I have him as a friend on Facebook / )
(still a question mark if i'd cosplay next year... but yeah if i would cosplay for say (i know its overrated) L ... i dont have to wear makeup or walk abit odd as i've those irl.)
but yeah i have seen quite some swell cosplay though. but atleast 30-40% wouldnt even fit the typ to cosplay that specific character he/she has had chosen. like last animecon, some mentally ill guy in a wheelchair was dressed as a pink fairy ... or those that have to thight fitting clothing e_____e , glad they had a movie area.
(if would be saying about the L thing .. i really have eyebags that are as black as the night and my back has been destablized ever since i came back from the therapist 10 years ago (was walking X legged ... still do only now i spread my feed like some frog to keep my knees facing forward)).
before i forget what about ero-cosplay. :3
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nice cosplay, I just want to see what they look like in real life
Ero cosplay is usually alright, but not really interesting as the cosplay itself is usually incredibly low effort.
Okabe Rintaro easy mode.
One of goals is to cosplay as Coyote Starrk. (#1 Espada from Bleach)
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New York Yankees (47-46) at Baltimore Orioles (51-42)
MLB Baseball: Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 8:05 pm (Camden Yards)
Pitcher Chase Whitley () (4-2) (4.94) vs. Kevin Gausman (R) (3-2) (3.510)
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The Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees face off on Sunday on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball as they play the final game before the All Star Break.
The Baltimore Orioles started their series against the Yankees with an extra innings win on Friday but they were unable to follow it up as they lost on Saturday. Nick Markakis had two hits and Manny Machado and Steve Pearce each had hits as the Orioles failed to score on five hits. Starting pitcher Chris Tillman allowed seven hits and three runs while striking out four over 6.2 innings to take the loss and fall to 7-5 for the season. For Sunday's game the Orioles start Kevin Gausman who has a loss and a no decision in his last two starts. For the season Gausman has allowed 31 hits and 13 earned runs while striking out 24 over 33.1 innings for a 3-2 record and a 3.51 ERA.
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The New York Yankees are hanging around in the AL East race and they gained a full game on the division leading Orioles by beating them at Camden Yards on Saturday. Brian McCann had three hits, Derek Jeter had two hits, and Jacoby Ellsbury and Mark Teixeira each had hits as the Yankees scored three runs on nine hits. Starting pitcher Shane Greene allowed four hits and struck out nine over 7.1 scoreless innings to get the win to go to 2-0 for the season and David Robertson earned his 23rd save. For Sunday's game the Yankees start Chase Whitley who worked out of the bullpen in his last appearance earning the win in Cleveland. For the season Whitely has allowed 64 hits and 28 earned runs while striking out 36 over 51 innings for a 4-2 record and a 4.94 ERA.
Baltimore is 9-4 in their last 13 games, 8-1 in game three of a series, and 4-1 in Gausman's last five starts. New York is 8-3 against a right-handed starter, 2-6 against the AL East, and 7-3 in Whitley's last 10 starts. New York is 5-1 in their last six meetings in Baltimore.
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Cell phones with camera capabilities can expose your organization to legal problems: privacy claims, trade-secret vulnerabilities, employee theft and more.
Used inappropriately, camera phones can violate employee and customer privacy. Examples: employees taking photos of co-workers changing clothes; a dishonest cashier photographing credit cards; an employee taking a photo of a "secret" client meeting.
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Published: Friday 1st May 2015 by The News Editor
Quarterback Jameis Winston is the number one pick in the 2015 NFL draft after he was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Chicago.
Winston who is set to earn upwards of $20million during his first contract led Florida State to 26 wins and one loss during his college career.
The 21-year-old who was expected to be chosen first, decided to remain at his home in Alabama rather than attend the draft at the Auditorium Theatre.
Winston, the first quarterback to be selected as the overall number one pick since Andrew Luck in 2012, won the Heisman Trophy in 2013 and will be charged to lead the Bucs to the play-offs for the first time in seven years next season.
The Tennessee Titans elected to choose another quarterback, Marcus Mariota with the second pick.
There had been intense speculation leading up to the draft that the likes of the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Jets were going to try and trade up to sign the 2014 Heisman Trophy winner, but with no standout quarterback in place, the Titans moved for the Oregon quarterback.
Winston speaking to the NFL network said: "(This is) very special. I am blessed with the opportunity and am thankful my family is here.
"I'm going to Tampa Bay, it is so surreal. Shout out to the Tampa Bay nation and I look forward to earning the spot and earning some wins.
"I am going to embrace this opportunity to be a Buc now."
Defensive end Dante Fowler, who attended the event wearing gold shoes, was chosen by the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the Oakland Raiders, needing weapons for talented quarterback Derek Carr, selected wide receiver Amari Cooper of Alabama.
In the first surprise of the draft, the Washington Redskins picked versatile tackle Brandon Scherff from Iowa, while the New York Jets further boosted their already stacked offensive line after they brought in Leonard Williams of USC.
Kevin White was the second wide receiver to be drafted and he received a standing ovation from the Chicago crowd after he was selected by the Bears.
The Atlanta Falcons picked Clemson defensive end Vic Beasley, while tackle Ereck Flowers was selected by the New York Giants.
Todd Gurley became the first running back to be drafted in the first round for three years after he was selected at 10 by the St Louis Rams.
Trae Waynes was the first cornerback selected in this year's draft and will play for the Minnesota Vikings, while the Cleveland Browns, with their first of two first round picks went for defensive tackle Danny Shelton.
Another tackle, Andrus Peat went to the New Orleans Saints, while the Miami Dolphins chose wide receiver Devante Parker.
In a draft expected to be littered with trades it took until pick 15, when the San Diego Chargers moved up two places, ahead of the San Francisco 49ers, to bring in running back Melvin Gordon.
The Chargers gave up a fourth round pick in this years draft and fifth in next years to San Francisco to move up.
Cornerback Kevin Johnson went to the Houston Texans, defensive end Arik Armstead was selected by the San Francisco 49ers and Marcus Peters, who was kicked off his Washington college team, was chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs.
Guard Cameron Erving joined the Cleveland Browns, wide receiver Nelson Agholor the Philadelphia Eagles and Cedric Ogbuehi the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Pittsburgh Steelers chose linebacker Bud Dupree, the Denver Broncos defensive end Shane Ray and the Arizona Cardinals tackle DJ Humphries.
Linebacker Shaq Thompson was selected by the Washington Redskins, wide receiver Breshad Perriman by the Baltimore Ravens and defensive back Byron Jones by the Dallas Cowboys.
The Detroit Tigers brought in guard Laken Tomlinson, Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Phillip Dorsett and Green Bay Packers defensive back Damarious Randall.
The New Orleans Saints used the pick they got for trading Jimmy Graham to the Seattle Seahawks by bringing in linebacker Stephone Anthony, while last season's Super Bowl winners the New England Patriots added defensive tackle Malcolm Brown to their roster.
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Wisconsin holds it primary next Tuesday. It's an open primary, where voters can choose from either party.
NPR's Linda Wertheimer is in northwestern Wisconsin, talking to voters. She sampled Wisconsinites' views of the presidential race at the Main Street Cafe in Bloomer.
LINDA WERTHEIMER: The sign on the door of the Main Street Cafe says got pie - and they do. More than 50 varieties come out of their pie shop and travel across mid-Wisconsin, from Hudson to Warsaw. But the cafe is also a gathering place for Bloomer, something you see right across the Midwest, a pine-paneled front room filled with men drinking coffee.
Unidentified Man #1: You get a good deal for me so far.
BLOCK: I see that, right?
WERTHEIMER: We also found a euchre game that goes on every morning, because one player has to go to work and another sits down. The Harings family gets the card table going at 6 a.m.
Jeff Harings own the solar, wind and energy business.
JEFF HARINGS: I'd go with Clinton only because Bill did a pretty good job.
WERTHEIMER: Good job at what?
HARINGS: The whole thing, when he came in. And the whole respected us, wasn't afraid of us. Now, we got the rest of the world doesn't really care about us. They think we're the troublemakers even though we're trying to good. So something really got screwed up there.
WERTHEIMER: Brother Kevin owns an excavation company. Until now, he's always voted Republican.
KEVIN HARINGS: I don't think I will be voting for Hillary, but as it progresses I may change my mind.
WERTHEIMER: So that leaves Obama.
HARINGS: Yes, it does. Just like my brother said, the Republicans have pretty much messed this world up.
WERTHEIMER: So even though you are - you consider yourself a Republican or a leaning Republican, you're going to just walk in and poll a Democratic ballot?
HARINGS: Yes, I am. You know, I think I'm going to do it this year, but don't tell too many people.
WERTHEIMER: Their dad, Leon Harings, is a retired trucker who grew up in an era when today's candidate choices would have been unimaginable.
LEON HARINGS: I've changed my mind every other day. You know, I'm leaning towards a black boy now. I am, just a little bit, yeah. But you might see that later. Like I said, I don't know for sure until I get there. Seems like he's got it up here, you know? Somebody that could straightened this, I hope, this big mess. It is a big mess, the biggest mess we've ever been in as long as I live.
WERTHEIMER: The women of Bloomer come in after mass at St. Paul's for their coffee in the other dining room. Louise Eastland(ph) says she has retired from housework. She, too, is surprised to find herself supporting an African- American.
LOUISE EASTLAND: Well, I'm not going to vote for Mrs. Clinton, so I have to go to Obama or whatever his name is, I don't know. I don't want another Republican, I don't. I'll go with a Democrat. I don't care what they are.
WERTHEIMER: Does that mean if Hillary Clinton should get the nomination, you would vote for her?
EASTLAND: Oh, I would vote for her if I had to.
WERTHEIMER: Just back at the dining room, we stepped into the sweet-smelling pie kitchen.
LINDA ZWIEFELHOFER: (Unintelligible) going three left now in the bottom oven.
WERTHEIMER: Baker Linda Zwiefelhofer rolled out a pie crust, tossed it in a pan and crimped the edge while we talked.
ZWIEFELHOFER: Our dough is homemade dough, made with lard, flour and milk. Our special catch is that they're good.
WERTHEIMER: Zwiefelhofer is leaning Obama, but is not sure he's as practical as Clinton.
ZWIEFELHOFER: She's got lot of good points too. I don't know. With her husband, you know, being there, I cannot think it's going to be him kind of wanting to run it too, and, you know - I don't know. Is that going to work?
WERTHEIMER: Jenny Reischel poured brown sugar, oatmeal and butter into a giant mixer, cream pie topping. She's voting for Clinton.
JENNY REISCHEL: I don't know much about Obama to say if I do like him or if I don't like him. You know, I mean, I don't know him very well. I just heard him when he stood to come out in the presidency. (Unintelligible) Hillary we have no fears with her husband.
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Danny Stewik(ph) owns the place, so we'll give him the last word.
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WERTHEIMER: So do you consider yourself a Democrat?
STEWIK: No, absolutely not. I'm Republican.
WERTHEIMER: There seems to be a lot of that happening. And in the traditional Wisconsin open primary, it's perfectly okay.
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BLOCK: Nine days after Super Tuesday, we now know which Democrat won in New Mexico. The state Democratic chairman announced today that a count of some 17,000 provisional ballots shows that Hillary Clinton is the winner. She gets the one remaining delegate who is still at stake.
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December 23rd, 2012 (3:26 PM). Edited December 23rd, 2012 by Cyclone.
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Ah, let's see if this is the right place to ask this.
This isn't really a team help question, it's an "analyzing what I'm reading regarding one specimen" type of question.
I have picked up two Emolgas in my travels and am trying to decide which is the better one to keep (as I'm going to do an in-game trade using the other for a Gigalith). I'm currently training on Route 7, where a bird breeder always challenges you in B2/W2, getting ready to face the new Mistralton Gym. I am going to level up the Emolga to take part in the battle with Skyla with my other Electric types; I have six total, and all of Skyla's trainers (and her own birds) are weak to Electric with no immunities, so I may just go in with a single game plan unlike other Gyms. Further usage I haven't decided yet, but the Levitate ability makes it immune to Ground attacks, something I love (and the same type of reason I like Marshtomp/Swampert so much, being immune to Electric with Ground typing).
I decided to toy around with the Action Replay code for viewing IVs and EVs (naturally, EVs for both are all 0 right now), and here's what I learned about them:
1) Lv.22, EVs are 24/18/25/31/02/02 (yes, 2 in special defense and 2 in speed, but an impressive 31 for special attack)
2) Lv.31, EVs are 12/19/27/09/26/16 (special attack is now the lowest, but this one's defenses are up there near the best).
My analysis:
1) Provided I don't stick it against something it's weak to, it's an excellent special attacker and could likely take out a foe with a OHKO frequently, even if underleveled. Its HP is higher than average as well. Attack is about average, defense above average.
2) Defensively, it's a wall; however, special attack is nowhere near as good as (1) and it has lower HP, while basic attack is about the same.
I'm debating trying to capture a few more by inducing them into battle with Electric types leading the party, and then go to check their IVs as well. My question is this: what would be an ideal (minimal) IV set for a Pokémon like Emolga? Keep in mind my way of building a team is covering weaknesses, and I like having a Pokémon that has moves that will cripple its opponent; thus, having a good attack or special attack is probably more important than defense, though in certain matchups my defense might be more of importance.
(Think I just answered my own question, as I found and successfully captured a 19/13/30/30/26/19; I'll load it up with special attacks so the lower Attack stat. isn't an issue.)
"Y'know...my Emolga really wants to shock your Dedenne."
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I want to start by acknowledging some tremendous
assistance that I've gotten from Heritage in preparing a broader,
faster, more ambitious tax relief package. Your help has been
instrumental in being able to bring this legislation to introduction as quickly as we have. Most important, we've been able to quantify what we want to do. So I really want to thank you for that help.
You know, if we look back, it was over a year ago that then-Candidate George W. Bush proposed using about $1.6 trillion of the then-projected $3.1 trillion tax surplus to provide tax relief for all taxpayers. It seems to me two big things have changed since George Bush made that first proposal. First, the surplus is much, much larger now. In fact, the size of the surplus has been revised upward in every estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) since the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. And now the consensus estimate, amongst CBO anyway, is that the 10-year projected surplus is $5.6 trillion.
The other thing that's happened, clearly, is the economy is much weaker today than it looked over a year ago. This shows that we cannot take economic expansion and robust growth for granted. We need prudent government policy to enable that to occur. There's no question the economy is much weaker--Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has said that he believes the economy has stopped growing, we have much lower consumer confidence, energy prices are very high, the NASDAQ's off by more than 60 percent, and unemployment seems to be edging up.
When you look at these facts, we need more tax relief now than ever, and we can afford more than ever before. With $5.6 trillion over the next 10 years, we've got enough money to leave the Social Security and Medicare surpluses entirely untouched, to pay off all the available national debt over the next 10 years, to accommodate a trillion dollars in additional spending, and still have more than enough money left over for the President's tax relief plan.
So my view is that the President's plan is a great start. But it should be just that--a start. We need to do more. We need a bigger, faster, broader, deeper tax relief package than the President proposed over a year ago.
And I'm introducing just such a bill. In a few days, I'll be introducing a bill with more than 30 colleagues as original cosponsors. It's fully supported by the Republican Study Committee in the House of Representatives. It's got the support of numerous taxpayer groups, including the Club for Growth.
I want to tell you a little bit about this plan. It differs from the President's plan in two broad ways. First, it expands and accelerates the President's plan: It takes what the President does and does it faster. So, for instance, with income tax rate reductions, we start them all retroactively: January 1 of this year. We do the reduction, almost all of it, all at once rather than the gradual step-down in the President's plan. And we end up with cuts that are deeper, with lower rates in the end. We repeal the death tax faster than the President does. And we take the marriage penalty and we eliminate it entirely, rather than just reducing it, as the President does.
Second, we've added things that the President doesn't have in his plan. For example, we completely phase out the individual alternative minimum tax. When you think about what the alternative minimum tax is all about, it is a confession of the stupidity of our tax code. We phase that out completely.
We increase the amount of money that people are able to put into IRA and 401(k) plans. We take the capital gains rates and we drop them by 25 percent, retroactively to January 1 of this year. The capital gains tax is one of the most irrational taxes we have in our entire code. We repeal President Clinton's 1993 Social Security tax increase. We eliminate the Spanish-American War tax on phones. We make health insurance fully deductible for the self-employed. We have a number of other things that we do as quickly as we can.
And you know, the fact is it still leaves us with a very affordable and responsible plan. In the crazy world of government, where you do what they call "static scoring," which is estimating--you pretend that despite enormous changes in incentives, people's behavior won't change. The fact is people's behavior will change. But in that world that we have to operate in, our plan ends up costing a little over $2 trillion. It's very, very affordable.
Like the President's plan, our plan doesn't touch a dime of the Social Security or Medicare surplus, it still allows us to pay down all the available debt in 10 years, and it still accommodates a trillion dollars in new spending. The difference is that our plan takes the rest and uses it for tax relief. And my question is, why wouldn't you do that? What else would you want to do with it?
Our plan returns just seven cents of every dollar that's scheduled to go to Washington to the taxpayers who earn it. And when you compare it to the size of our economy, it's modest in relation to historical tax cuts. It's less than half the size of the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s. My plan is smaller even than President Kennedy's plan in the 1960s. I apologize for that. But it's really, in a historical sense, a very reasonable, even modest, plan. It uses only 37 percent of the combined surpluses to lower the tax burden that Americans are paying.
One of the things we have to keep in mind is that major tax relief--substantial, across-the-board tax relief, of the kind that the President is talking about, and the kind that I would like to see expanded--is going to help our economy in the medium and long term very, very substantially. It always has.
You know, in the last century, every time we had a major tax relief package, the economy responded with robust growth. The Mellon tax cuts in the '20s, the Kennedy tax cuts in the '60s, and the Reagan tax cuts in '80s fueled an average annual economic growth of about 5 percent a year, lasting, on average, about six years. Greater economic growth means more jobs, higher wages, higher productivity gains, and rising standards of living for everybody.
And I'd like to take this moment to salute Heritage for another thing that you've done. Working with The Wall Street Journal, you've developed the Index of Economic Freedom, an annual statistical analysis where you demonstrate with empirical evidence the irrefutable fact that lower taxes and economic freedom leads to greater prosperity and opportunity. It's correlated incredibly well around the world. Everywhere you look, the freest countries in the world are the most prosperous, and the people have the highest standard of living. And the least free countries in the world have the lowest standard of living, the fewest opportunities, and the least prosperity. It's true everywhere on the spectrum, and it's true in America. If we lower this tax burden, we will, over time, have greater prosperity.
I'd like to also mention that when you have greater prosperity, of course, it ends up generating more tax revenue, and hence the folly of the static-scoring model that we're required to use. And speaking of federal revenue, I'd like to just put to rest the nonsense about the Reagan tax cuts causing deficits. The fact is that the 1980s tax cuts didn't cause the deficits; it was uncontrolled federal spending that caused those deficits. The tax cuts, in fact, caused our economy to boom, as I mentioned earlier. Between 1981 and 1989, federal tax revenue nearly doubled after Ronald Reagan and the Congress lowered taxes. The problem was that spending tripled over that period of time. So clearly, it wasn't a lack of revenue to the federal government that caused those deficits, it was uncontrolled spending.
Another issue that always comes up in this conversation is debt reduction. And you know I'm concerned about the $3.4 trillion or so of the national debt we have. It's funny when I hear former Clinton Administration folks talk about this issue; sometimes, they suggest that their fiscal discipline--in fact, the courage they had to raise taxes--is the reason we have surpluses today. I would suggest that's a little like King George III taking credit for the American Revolution. The truth is that in the last Congress, President Clinton vetoed all of our bills that would have provided significant individual tax relief, and that was done so they could spend more money.
And in the three years since taxpayers started producing a surplus, that's exactly what's happened--in the absence of tax relief, we've seen a huge increase in spending. Before we had surpluses, and the few years prior, spending grew about 2 percent a year. In the couple of years since we've had surpluses, spending has grown over 6 percent a year.
Now, despite all that spending, we have, fortunately, managed to retire some debt, about $350 billion in debt reduction over the past two years. I think most of that is because it caught us by surprise. We woke up one morning and the money was sitting there--we couldn't spend it fast enough, and we didn't have an opportunity to pass a spending bill quickly enough. So, fortunately, we did manage to pay down some debt. And that's great. But it's important to keep in mind that both the President's plan and my plan allow us to do what we need to do with our national debt: It allows us to pay off all the available national debt over 10 years.
It's simply not possible to pay off every last bit of national debt immediately. First of all, the debt, as you know, is held in the form of bonds. Bonds are held by individuals and institutions around the world, and they have no obligation to sell them to us. These are not callable securities. They are the private property of other people. So if we want to get it back, we've got two choices: We can wait till it comes due and pay off the principal, which we ought to do, or we can pay some exorbitant premium; namely, whatever price the bond holder chooses to charge if we want to take it back sooner. I think we ought to pay off the debt as it matures. And if we do that, we can pay off $2.5 trillion over the course of the next 10 years. And if you look at what we'll be left with, the debt service will be insignificant. In terms of total federal spending, in terms of the size of our economy, by any reasonable measure, we will have diminished the national debt to the point of insignificance.
I think that's enough. And I think that we have to remember that the alternative to tax relief, therefore, is not more debt reduction--we're going to retire debt as fast as we can--it's one of two things. One of them Alan Greenspan is very worried about, which is the accumulation of private assets by the federal government--more commonly known as socialization, or socialism--and there's no possible justification for the federal government to go out and buy private stocks and bonds. The more likely alternative is just massive new government spending. And as you know, there is no limit to the creativity of members of Congress to launch new spending programs. There's one truth about spending programs which we should all remember: They always end up costing more than anyone ever said they would originally. That kind of approach, taking the surplus and dedicating it to new spending programs, is the surest way to return us to deficit spending.
On this note, some have suggested triggers. Maybe we should make the tax-relief package contingent on the surplus actually materializing. Let me warn you, many who advocate the use of triggers are doing so because they don't want tax relief at all. Think about it. The trigger gives the first call on the money to the politicians. It says, You get to spend it first, and if you choose not to, then we can have tax relief. I would suggest this is not a very good policy to pursue.
Not only that, the inherent uncertainty that a trigger introduces into the idea of tax relief means we'll never get the kind of economic stimulus that we could have if people knew with certainty that they could plan on having more money in their paycheck every week.
So, I think we ought to be very leery about triggers--with one exception. There's a trigger that I could support, I think, and that would be if we failed to pay down a predetermined amount of debt. We might want to consider an automatic across-the-board spending reduction. You know, I don't understand why that's not part of this discussion. If we're going to have a trigger, I think that would be one that we should consider quite seriously.
And I do think we need to acknowledge the surplus is a forecast. It's an economic projection. And we can't with certainty know exactly how many dollars and cents it's going to be. In fact, CBO is probably going to revise it upward yet again within a few months.
But the fact is, we've got to make the best decisions we can with the best information we have available, and by all accounts, we have huge surpluses coming in. Many economists believe it's going to be larger than what the Congressional Budget Office is currently projecting. In fact, CBO is below the consensus of the Blue Chip economists' forecast. There are some conservative assumptions built into CBO's forecast--like the assumption that, contrary to recent history, revenue will not grow more quickly than the overall economy. And of course, there is the assumption that I mentioned earlier, the assumption that despite everything else being equal, tax relief will not generate greater economic output and there will be no robust growth in corresponding federal revenue feedback, and we know that's simply not true. It's also worth noting that even if we have a recession on the magnitude, say, of the recession we had in the early '90s--the projected surplus would be diminished by only about 2.5 percent. Again, we've got to remember that the alternative to tax relief is big spending programs. And that's a sure way to lead us back to deficits.
There's also been a fair amount of demagoguery that I think we've all heard about tax relief--the predictable old standby from the left: This is a tax cut for the rich. But let's deal with some facts. First of all, it's hard to cut taxes for people who don't pay taxes, although the Democrats are determined to find a way. But the fact is, under either the President's proposal or my proposal, the benefits of the tax relief go disproportionately to lower-income workers. That's a fundamental fact that I think should not be overlooked. Today, the top 50 percent of wage earners pay about 96 percent of all federal income taxes. The bottom 50 percent pay about 4 percent. Under the President's plan or my plan, a greater percentage of that burden would be borne by the top 50 percent of wage earners. It's hard to explain how that's unfair to the wage earners at the lower end of the spectrum.
In addition, it's the lowest-income families that receive the greatest percentage benefit. A family of four making $50,000 a year would get to keep half of what they currently send to Washington in taxes. That's a 50 percent tax cut. And families earning $35,000 and less would pay no federal income tax at all--a 100 percent rate reduction. It's hard for me to understand how that's unfair to that family.
Let me wrap up with this: You know, at the end of the day, all the arguments that we make about the economic benefits of tax relief are important, and they're valid. And the arguments about the distribution of the tax tables are important to think about. But they miss the central point that we should be making about tax relief; because, I think cutting taxes ought to be a permanent, ongoing goal of government. I think every member of Congress ought to wake up every morning and ask how he or she can lower the tax burden today. And the reason that I believe that is because lowering taxes is all about increasing personal freedom and economic freedom--the right to your private property and that includes your income that you earn. In my mind, that has got to be every bit as fundamental as the right to free speech, to practice religion, the right to vote. These freedoms are all inextricably linked. They're all part of the same continuum of personal freedom. And, therefore, the tax burden is a measure of our lost freedom, that which we've foregone and given to government. And if we can't cut taxes now, with record high spending, record high taxes, and unprecedented record high surpluses, I don't know how we'd ever cut taxes.
I think that the budget resolution that the House passes later this month must reflect the intent to at least accommodate a larger tax relief package. If it doesn't spell out exactly what it will be, it needs to at least say that this extra surplus on top of everything else is available to be used for tax reduction.
That would enable us to go back and do more--do more even this year, or do more next year. That's one thing, and that's one battle we're going to wage to make sure that the budget resolution has that. And then we need to engage every time a new tax relief package comes to the floor or even, really, before that--when it gets to the committee. For instance, those of us who believe in a bigger, faster, deeper tax relief package had a modest victory with the bill that we're going to vote on tomorrow, in the sense that the bill that the President proposed had all the rates dropping in one percentage per year increments.
The bill we're going to vote on tomorrow goes from 15 percent automatically to 12 percent, and it does it retroactively. So we've got, you know, a modest victory there. I would like to shoot for more ambitious victories on the subsequent bills that come through.
I am confident that Congress and the President will find a way to get meaningful tax relief for all taxpayers this year. I hope it will be soon enough and significant enough that everybody feels this benefit, sees what's happening, and that this economy has an opportunity to respond. And I'll be working as hard as I can to do that. I want to thank you for all your help in trying to expand what is a terrific start in tax relief in this Congress.
Representative Pat Toomey, a Republican, represents the 15th District of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.


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NEW YORK, NY (ATS Consultants) - One of the best rivalries in baseball will be renewed tonight in the Bronx when the Yankees host the Red Sox at 8:00PM ET.
ODDS: According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Yankees are -113 money line favorites over the Red Sox, who are +104 on the ML. The total, meanwhile, is currently sitting at 8 runs as Clay Buchholz will take on Hiroki Kuroda.
LINE MOVEMENT: The Yankees opened as -115 money line favorites but their odds have dropped to -113 on the ML, while the Red Sox's odds have gone from +106 down to +104. Boston is 34-23 overall and 17-11 on the road, while New York is 31-24 overall and 16-12 at home.
PUBLIC BETTING: Of the current wagers placed on tonight's game, 55% of the betting public currently favors Boston. This information is subject to change, however, so make sure you click on the link provided for the most updated numbers.
MLB FREE PICK: Take New York. According to latest MLB trends, the Yankees are 10-4 in their last 14 games versus an American League East and 9-4 in their last 13 games after scoring two runs or less in their previous contest.
The Yankees are looking to bounce back from a terrible performance on Saturday from Hughes and the bullpen. Even though they went a combined 1-for-7 on Saturday, Kevin Youkilis and Mark Teixeiraare back healthy for the Yankees, while Boston is playing with Jackie Bradley Jr. in centerfield because Jacoby Ellsbury has a strained groin. While both teams have their injury issues, the Yankees are getting healthier. They are also sending their most consistent pitcher to the mound in Hirkoki Kuroda. The Japanese right-hander has allowed just eight run in his last four starts against the Red Sox. He is 6-3 with a 2.39 ERA this year and shut out the Mets in seven innings in his last start on May 28, though he got a no-decision as the Mets won 2-1. Clay Buchholz is 7-0 this year but hasn't pitched since May 22. He was scratched due to a shoulder issue and is expected to start. He has allowed 14 runs in his last three starts against the Yankees, including eight on October 1 of 2012. Expect the Yankees to rebound from Saturday's performance with a win on Sunday night.
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Have you attempted to open a business on your own if you are a business student? Have you attempted to apply for a grant from a higher authority or organization to study for free? Have you made it? Many people did not make it happen. They felt they will not be able to compete with others; they thought they will not get any chance into that. They worried that they will be more frustrated when people found out that they failed the course, business, scholarship competition or whatever intensive task. They concern about this and that; they worry about this and that. And finally, they gave up even before they start the project.
And when they try it just one time they would say it is because such a difficult work that fail them while the others blame the outside situation such as the sun, sky or the environment that stands as the major obstacles stopping them from successfully completing their tasks. This type of people will give just one and one chance to themselves and when they can't make it happen they will feel inferior and promise not to do it again. Such a cowardice mind.
In fact, most of the time nothing is going to fail us but we ourselves will do it directly. We did not believe in ourselves; we are not sure if we can do it and how can we make it happen if so. Most often people in this category are a plan-failure. Or they may have a plan but their plan is to fail themselves, not the opposite. As such, before doing anything try to make up our mind - what we want the most; what are the goal, objective and portable missions. Draw everything in a clear picture of your mind and also in paper before you put it into practice. Remember one famous quote always if you do not believe in this text. The quote is: "If you fail to plan then you plan to fail."
In fact, nothing can stop us from doing what you want except your heart/mind. We must begin with our heart, head and soul. We must work on the plan with our heart, head and soul. Believe or not we will succeed everything task if we stick to this principle. As shown in the picture, this house is full of energy. She can drag and throws that chair away easy but why she is still for her master? It is because she sets a programme in her mind that she can't do it; she will not be able to do it; she will be beaten or frustrated if she can make it happen successfully. The same thing applies to our every mindset. Most often we set our mind in a very low point. We don't believe that we can anything than just simple stuffs like cooking, cleaning, and looking after children etc. Actually, we set it to this level.
Look at those famous people that they have achieved the maximum in their life. Are they different from us? Are they human being? They are the same like us; they are all human being. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jesus Christ or even Buddha is all human beings. They reach the top not because of luck, not because of accidently happen, not because of somebody corruptly help them, but they reach the top because they set themselves that they will make it and they go it.
Now, let leave up burden from yourselves, free yourselves and always work for extra mile. Make your new, productive mind for new and healthy result. Remember one quote from Brian Tracy: "Don't expect something different if you keep do the same things." And also change your mind will automatically change your life as well. Brian Tracy.


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Horus mentions another good phrasing to use, near the end of the same podcast that was linked in the preceding article:
I ask them an iron question: "So you agree with the anti-white proposition."
[Imagined anti-white]:
"What's the anti-white proposition?"
"There can be no all-white countries anywhere, and there can be no all-white areas within the confines of those formerly all-white countries. Do you agree with that extreme proposition?"
And that is White Genocide.
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Oculus founders: Facebook lets us bring the best VR experience to a billion people
Oculus VR co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe had a vision for their company: to bring virtual reality to as many people as possible, in the best way possible, at the lowest possible price. And, according to the duo, selling the company to Facebook is the best way to reach those goals. "This is the best thing for us to do," Luckey told us in a post-announcement interview. "It leaves us in the same position we've always been in, doing the same things we wanted to do."
The surprise deal, according to Iribe, came together after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asked for an Oculus Rift demo. "The initial expectation wasn't that he was coming down to acquire us," Iribe said. "He just wanted to see what we were up to." It quickly became clear, he said, that the two companies had a lot in common, and that being acquired by Facebook wouldn't require Oculus to sacrifice any of its independence. "We looked at other companies and thought, if we're partnering with them, they're going to turn us into their own brand and product and they'll change our emails and we'll be wearing different hoodies. We're proud of who we are."
Iribe confirmed that the entire Oculus team will be making the move, and said that being part of Facebook will allow them to "accelerate hiring and build out a team with a focus of getting the best and brightest in the industry."
"[Another company might] change our emails and we'll be wearing different hoodies. We're proud of who we are."
In Zuckerberg's announcement earlier today, he said that the company wasn't concerned with making an immediate profit selling the Oculus Rift hardware, and Iribe confirmed that. "We don't know what we'll price this at," he said. The goal is to "get this out at the most affordable price possible." Zuckerberg, according to Iribe, offered Oculus the chance to "reduce or eliminate the hardware margin and just get this out there." The Facebook CEO told Iribe he wants to help "connect a billion people with VR."
For Luckey, who began work on the first Rift prototype while he was still in college, the fact that Facebook isn't a gaming company is actually a good thing. "Almost anyone in a gaming place would want us to do it based on their vision," he said. "We already had a vision for the company. Facebook is going to let us do it, but with their resources behind it."
"We have zero interest in doing what someone else thinks is the right thing," he added.
How PS4 will power Project Morpheus
Sony grabbed a lot of people's attention when the company announced plans at last week's Game Developers Conference to enter the virtual reality space with Project Morpheus. The peripheral is currently in its prototype stage, but creator Richard Marks took some time to discuss how the product will ultimately work with PS4 to deliver an optimal virtual reality experience.
"PlayStation 4 is one of the reasons that we can actually do this now, because the graphics horsepower it takes to drive a virtual reality kind of experience is pretty significant," creator Richard Marks told GamerHub TV. "It would have been hard to do earlier and, also, we needed the tracking technology and display technology to be at a certain point. So PlayStation 4 is the graphics driver."
Marks goes on to describe Morpheus as it's currently constituted, which includes gyroscopes and accelerometers within the unit. It also includes a camera to help track the LEDs on the front of the unit to help monitor movement. Combining the camera's trackers with Morpheus' internal sensors allow for the PS4 to create a tracking experience.
For more on Project Morpheus, including how PlayStation Move controllers work with the headset, check out the full video below.
New bill would outlaw online gambling, heads to Congress this week
The US government may have opposed extensive net neutrality laws and regulation of ISPs in the past, but when it comes to online gambling, several politicians are calling for the ban hammer. If Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Jason Chaffetz have their way, it will soon be illegal to play slots on your smartphone. Today, the two introduced legislation to outlaw internet betting — excluding fantasy sports and horse racing — asserting that the activity is a potential national security threat, among other things. Gambling sites, co-sponsor Senator Dianne Feinstein claims, often don't screen for underage players. Supports of the legislation also cite the lack of oversight for criminal acts such as identity theft and money-laundering, and they naturally invoke gambling addiction as well. Notably, Las Vegas Sands titan Sheldon Adelson is supporting the bill.
Online gambling is currently legal, in one form or another, in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's home state of California is currently considering legalizing it as well. Online betting only became legal in certain states in 2011, after the Justice Department's reversal of interpretation of the Wire Act. Chaffetz and Graham's bill would reinstate the original interpretation of the act, effectively banning internet gambling throughout the country. The bill will be introduced in Congress this week. Meanwhile, you can enjoy this PSA from the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling.
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Aaron: Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel using a looper app on iPad.
Record Store Day.
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I did my write-up as to the conclusion of my WiFi connected doorbell saga:
I find IOT (internet of things) devices such as these two, have a lot of promise, but the execution leaves you wanting for someone's execution — literally — you want to find the developer who wrote this and strangle them. I love home automation, and programming, and do not claim to write bug free code, but sometimes when something just plum doesn't work — there is really no excuse for it. Some people are willing to grow with the growing pains of a product. I live with a pebble, and I see how that can be, but the version 1.0 of anything has to deliver on some basic functionality. It has to work. It should not require calls to support, emails which go un-answered for days, and replacements of poorly made hardware. It is frustrating, and if a bleeding edge geek like me find it so, the world of IOT will drown before it can learn to swim.
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Don't Do This If You Want Your Kids to Eat Nutritious Foods!
Have you ever tried to talk your young kids into eating something that's good for them by telling them how "healthy" it is? If so, you may already know what researchers are discovering. This strategy may actually have the opposite effect you're looking for. Instead of inspiring your pre-schooler to eat up all that nutritious food, telling them how healthy it is could lead to some pretty serious consequences, including: Tantrums


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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's northern army accused the South's forces on Friday of attacking a convoy in the contested Abyei region, and threatened to retaliate, escalating a dispute that looms over plans for the South's independence.
The South's SPLA army denied responsibility for the attack, which the United Nations said had taken place on a convoy of northern troops escorted by U.N. peacekeepers under a deal for both sides to withdraw forces from the disputed territory.
The overnight attack and the North's threat to retaliate raises the prospect of more violence in Abyei, an oil-producing border region claimed by both sides, which has emerged as the main source of dispute before the South's independence.
South Sudan is due to become independent on July 9 after a vote in January but tensions have risen in Abyei where both sides have built up forces, according to the United Nations.
"Abyei is now a war zone," said Sadiq Amer, deputy head of northern intelligence and security forces, adding that at least 22 soldiers had been killed in what he called an "aggression" of southern forces against a convoy of around ten vehicles.
"The troops were ambushed without any warning," he told reporters in the capital Khartoum, adding the army was ready to retaliate if ordered to do so.
The United Nations did not identify the attackers but said the ambush took place in Dokura, an area it said was controlled by southern police forces.
A spokeswoman for the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) did not confirm the northern death toll, saying only two Sudanese soldiers and one peacekeeper had been injured.
"We are still investigating," she said.
Under a deal to ease tension, the North and South agreed to withdraw all of their forces from Abyei except for a special joint force made up of units from both sides. The pullout was supposed to be completed this week.
The South's SPLA said confusion between the joint force and the convoy may have been responsible for the shooting.
"It is not true that SPLA attacked. That situation needs a proper investigation," said SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer. "We have reports there was confusion between JIU (the joint force) and the convoy and it is not clear who shot first.
"The only SPLA in the area are part of the JIU. One SPLA commander was even in the convoy," he added.
The mainly Muslim North and the South, where most people are Christian or practice traditional beliefs, fought for decades in a civil war that killed an estimated 2 million people.
The war was ended by a 2005 peace deal that led to the referendum on southern independence, but the sides continue to clash over Abyei, which also contains fertile grazing land.
Earlier this month, at least 14 people were killed in clashes between northern and southern forces in Abyei. Both sides blamed each other for starting the violence.
The SPLA's Aguer said that three SPLA soldiers were killed by northern forces on May 15 as they were leaving the area under the withdrawal agreement.
Last month, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said he would not recognize the South's independence unless it gave up a claim on Abyei, made in the south's draft constitution.
Abyei residents were also supposed to have a referendum in January over whether to join the north or south. Disputes over who could vote derailed that ballot and talks over the status of the region have stalled.
Additional reporting by Jeremy Clarke in Juba, Sudan; Writing by Dina Zayed in Cairo and Ulf Laessing in Khartoum; Editing by Peter Graff