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Suicide bombs kill 22 in Iraq's Shiite south
DIWANIYAH, Iraq
The blasts took place near a government compound about 80 miles outside Baghdad. Nearly 40 others were wounded in the explosions in the Shiite heartland.
The attacks took place while security forces were changing shifts. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but Iraqi officials are blaming al Qaeda.
Provincial Gov. Salim Hussein Alwan said he was leaving his house when a suicide bomber rammed into a police checkpoint nearby.
Like most government buildings in Iraq, the governor's house and office are surrounded by walls, and visitors must pass through checkpoints manned by security forces to get inside.
"I had no idea what happened," one security personnel told state television from his bed at the hospital. "I heard only an explosion, flew into the air and went back to the ground," he added as his neck and abdomen were bandaged.
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said U.S. forces, including an explosives ordinance team, were dispatched to assist Iraqis.
The attack comes as Iraq's top political factions began talks on whether to ask U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 withdrawal date because of the security situation.
While violence is well below what it was during the years that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, militants are still able to launch deadly attacks. The ongoing violence has led to concerns about what happens when the 47,000 remaining U.S. troops are withdrawn.
The Associated Press contributed to this story


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Class Outer
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   Class Inner
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then I can't use MyBase because it's not derived and I can't pass the instance of the parent to Inner's constructor because Test is shared... I also cannot refer to it as Outer.Index because Outer doesn't yet exist at the time Inner is getting compiled, and of course, in a simple reference the referenced field would be that defined in Inner... so how do I do it?

A: After re-reading your question, I have removed my previous answer.
I just tested the following class in VS2010:
Class Outer
    Public Shared Index As Integer
    Class Inner
        Private Index As Integer
        Public Shared Sub Test()
            Debug.WriteLine(Outer.Index)
        End Sub
    End Class
End Class

I then added the following code to test:
    Outer.Index = 1
    Outer.Inner.Test()

When I execute this code, "1" is printed in the Immediate window.

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The top government lawyers in 35 states signed a letter asking insurers to make coverage of non-opioid treatments such as physical therapy and massage a priority
By Geoff Mulvihill and John Raby	• Published September 18, 2017 • Updated on November 8, 2017 at 9:57 am
Attorneys general representing the majority of states asked health insurers Monday to encourage pain treatment through means other than prescriptions for opioid painkillers, which are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths a year in the U.S.
The top government lawyers in 35 states signed a letter to the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans. The group, which also includes attorneys general for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, asked insurers to make coverage of non-opioid treatments such as physical therapy and massage a priority.
"The status quo, in which there may be financial incentives to prescribe opioids for pain which they are ill-suited to treat, is unacceptable," the attorneys general wrote.
The letter targets prescribing powerful drugs for chronic pain, a practice several studies have found is not effective.
The insurers group did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Opioid-related overdoses have hit especially hard in the Appalachian states. On Monday, the attorney generals from two of them, Kentucky and West Virginia, held a joint news conference to highlight the pressure on the health insurance industry.
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Flights to operate under 'bilateral agreement'
Posted: Aug 10, 2020 05:53 PM (IST)
An airplane of German carrier Lufthansa takes off from Munich International Airport. Reuters
Mumbai, August 10
German carrier Lufthansa on Monday announced the commencement of its flight services to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru from Frankfurt from August 13, under a "bilateral agreement" between the governments.
The company will also run flight services on the Munich-Delhi route.
The European carrier is already operating flights out of India to its two hubs—Frankfurt and Munich—for the past several months, according to a release.
"Following a bilateral agreement between India and Germany, inbound passenger flights to India will be reinstated from August 13," Lufthansa said in the release.
With the operations of flights from Germany into India, Lufthansa will be able to help people return to India and enable business travel as the world gradually begins to open up, said George Ettiyil, Lufthansa Group's senior director for South Asia sales.
Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since late March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, various evacuation and chartered flights are being currently operated to fly back stranded Indians in various countries and also transport foreign nationals, who are stuck in India, to their countries.
Lufthansa in the release said since July it has made available PCR coronavirus test facility to the Indian customers at Frankfurt and Munich airports.
"Both coronavirus test centres at our hubs in Frankfurt and Munich provide customers the opportunity to avoid being quarantined when arriving in Germany, with a negative coronavirus test in their hand," said Ettiyil.
India had last month announced the establishment of individual bilateral bubbles with France and the US that will allow airlines of each country in the pact to operate international flights and had said a similar arrangement with Germany and the UK was also in the offing.
An air travel bubble is a bilateral arrangement with a set of regulations and restrictions in which the airlines of the two countries can operate international flights. — PTI


Oakland coach Greg Kampe thinks the new regulations are "great," but Western Michigan coach Steve Hawkins isn't quite as sold. The reforms went into effect Wednesday.
Last spring, as college basketball was capping off a season clouded by an FBI investigation into corruption in recruiting, a commission led by former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was making its recommendations on how to clean up the game.
On Wednesday, the NCAA announced it was adopting many of the reforms proposed by the commission, including allowing players to return to school if they are not selected in the NBA Draft and permitting more access to players from agents.
The NCAA's board of governors and Division I board of directors also voted to introduce more rigorous certification requirements for summer amateur basketball events; impose longer postseason bans, suspensions and increased recruiting restrictions for coaches who break rules; and require schools to provide tuition, fees and books assistance to players who left early and wanted to return to school within 10 years.
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Agents would be allowed to cover some expenses such as meals and transportation tied to meetings or workouts with pro teams. The agent would no longer be permitted to work on the player's behalf if the player returned to school.
Kampe thinks the rule makes sense.
Western Michigan head coach Steve Hawkins isn't so sure.
Hawkins said he believes the rule change intended to give the player better information about his NBA prospects would, in fact, do the opposite.
"What I worry about there is they come on campus and say, 'If you sign with me I can get you on the Lakers. I got a contact kind-of-thing,' and that's just not the way it works," Hawkins said. "The way we're been doing it right now, which is the kid can declare for the draft then gauge from an NBA team, go to workouts with different teams and get feedback and I think that's a good thing. I think it has worked.
Hawkins also wonders about the push away from the AAU model of summer basketball. Now, camps run by the NCAA and USA Basketball will be the focus as well as the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 Camp in mid-June.
It might work fine for the elite players and the top programs in the nation, but for other players and mid-major programs it could have a negative effect.
"We have kids at mid-majors — Oakland, Eastern, Central, Detroit — that we have seen that would not be on our team without playing on some of these AAU teams, if you're not invited to the top workouts," Hawkins said. "These are kids we have seen and not to mention a couple hundred Division II programs out there that all have 10 scholarships, you're limiting them as well.
"I just don't think it's in the best interest of the kids, and over a few bad actors. What we're trying to do is legislate integrity and you can't do that. It just can't be done. If there's bad out there bad is gonna find bad to do. That's one of the big issues.


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Carter is no stranger to making even the improbable possible; in her days as a student at Hampton University, she created a costume-design curriculum for herself after finding that there was nothing available to foster her budding talent. After graduation and a few opera-company internships, her HBCU experience and ingenuity came in handy when a chance meeting with director Spike Lee led to her first film, the now classic School Daze. It was the first of 14 films they'd make together.
I always felt a responsibility to be authentic and real with depicting the culture. They're your relatives, they're your family. There was never one that I felt wasn't important for us to learn from.
I used to say all the time: I'm not the first girl they think of when they have Jennifer Lawrence or Gwyneth Paltrow as a lead in their film. I'm, like, 25th on the list. But when they want to do a biopic about Martin Luther King, I'm one or two. You know, that's just, I think, the way Hollywood thinks, and I don't think that there's going to be change in that unless we all think of things differently.
But you know what? I don't need it to change, to be honest with you. I'm happy re-creating black media, black film, black stories. I'm happy with that. I'm proud of that. So, you know, just give me more. I'm good.


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Reading in the NICU: Annette's Choice
Like Sarah, who kindly shared her World Book Day recommendation yesterday, Annette Russell from Glasgow also knows how reading can help parents whose baby needs to stay in hospital for additional care. Annette's son Nathan was born at 31 weeks gestation and required special care on the neonatal unit at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.
In this short interview, Annette tells how reading helped her and her family emotionally and mentally whilst Nathan was in hospital.
vCreate: When Nathan was in the neonatal unit, what was your favourite book?
Annette: The book was Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney.
vCreate: Why was this book your favourite?
Annette: This was my daughter's favourite book and our favourite family saying comes from the book, "I love you to the moon and back." Nathan's twin brother, Owen Francis sadly passed away as a result of twin to twin transfusion syndrome, and a smaller version of this book was gifted to us in a memory box from Bliss and was buried with him so all our children have a copy of the book.
vCreate: If you were going to recommend any book to new parents (preemie or otherwise), what would it be?
Annette: This book obviously because we love it, but anything that means something to them personally...a favourite from their childhood perhaps?
vCreate: Did Nathan's older sister enjoy reading to him? If so, what was her favourite book to read?
Annette: Again, the same book she read on each visit. It was her job, and she only let the nurses have a turn when she wasn't there. I'm glad I could help answer these questions...it really did help...and on the days when you could do nothing and you were just sat there on your own with the monitors beeping it was a way to connect with your baby... they got to hear something nice instead of your voice breaking and praying they made it through.
Nathan's big sister and chief book reader, Sarah, is pictured above on one of her visits. You can read more about Nathan's NICU journey here.


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370Z is Gone
Discussion Starter · #1 · May 5, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)
I believe Nissan drastically reduced production on these final years, or they're being snatched up by Z fans and BaT hopefuls. I searched here in the US, none. Anyone here bought one of the final 2020 models? Were there any Nismos at all?
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If you were looking to score a cheap Nissan 370Z from dealer closeouts, it appears you already missed out.
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Nissan Has Only "A Few" 370Zs In Its U.S. Inventory
Nissan Has Only "A Few" 370Zs In Its U.S. Inventory | Carscoops
Evidently, a few are left, but not many, and not likely any additional forthcoming.
At least the tried and trued platform carries on...
Here's Why The 2022 Nissan Z Is Better Than You Think
The 2022 Nissan Z shares a lot with the 370Z and that's actually a great thing
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I tried search on Nissan's website and others like Cars.com and I couldn't find anything. So if Nissan does have some left I guess you have to go through a dealer or know someone.
S30R32 said:
Nice try by Topspeed but that doesn't amount to much.
Agreed on the "tried" but not so much on the "true". Sure, some key basics are there in the 370 with the all-aluminum suspension and especially the use of front double-wishbones rather than MacPherson struts. But Nissan just failed to put together a convincing sportscar with the 370Z (at least as judged by current standards), according to the more honest reviewers out there. Take Savagegeese's recent review of the Nismo, in which both he and his co-reviewer blasted the Z for feeling like it had "50 pounds of rubber" in the manual shift linkage and the steering, and loathed its artificial engine noise.
It's going to take a lot of work on Nissan's part to get the new car right, unless all they plan to do is give us an updated Japanese musclecar. If we find they have stayed with that sub-par viscous LSD, we probably have our answer....
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You're right about all those, I was keying more in the areas of brake fade issues and CSC. Nissan had homework to correct and hope it will reflect on the new Z. It has to keep up, chassis wise, with the other RWD platforms out there like GR86, Supra, Miata, even Camaro and Mustang. It certainly will have enough power whether good sounding or not; aftermarket exhaust will easily resolve that part though.
The power will be nice - I have taken the data from the Red Sport's dynos and given a 370Z in Assetto Corso that engine, and it's fun to drive even virtually.
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How did you do that? With a simulator?
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Assetto Corsa is a driving/racing sim. You can find a car editor for it which allows you to unpack an encrypted car data file from the sim and modify it. I made a copy of the sim's 370Z and input the red sport engine values (torque at rpm) in the relevant file. I also edited the transmission to a 9 spd paddle shift.
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These takes on the 370Z absolutely kill me.
When we say failed to put together a convincing sports car, failed how? Sales? Performance? Performance for dollar?
On sales - the 370Z launched during a severe economic downtown (one of the largest financial crises in history), and it was based largely upon a winning formula in the 350Z that launched during an economic boom and a sports car resurgence, and sold very well. The business case for the 370Z was to make some small tweaks to the 350Z formula and keep riding the wave, but the design and implementation of the car were set in stone in the 18 months before the bottom fell out. So the launch was not good, resulting sales were not good, and by the time people started buying toy cars again, it was already 4-6 years old. Sales numbers alone for the 370Z are not good, but looking at the car as a failed sports car based on that isn't good.
On performance - closer to what was stated here based on the platform and packaging - "at least as judged by current standards". This take is silly. By that same logic, we're saying the Nintendo Entertainment System just wasn't a convincing video game platform compared to today's standard of PlayStation. Things have changed significantly in 12 years. When the 370Z launched, pony cars were only cracking 350hp with their V8s. When the 350Z launched, it was making V8 power with a V6 and it could take a corner. Today's pony cars have evolved in response to things like that - they make monster power and can handle exceptionally well... at least the ones that have had a platform redesign since 2009 anyway (I'm looking at you, Challenger). Today's definition of sports car has clearly changed - there's more concessions in what makes a sports car a sports car, and the takes on that are more subjective than ever. Some people consider a FWD hatchback a sports car while others consider two seat rear drive cars only to be sports cars and nothing else. Is a Leaf a sports car because it can outrun a Subaru BRZ 0-60? I'm not sure a BRZ is a convincing sports car if an electric hippopotamus on four wheels can rip it on the 1/4 mile.
Finally - what are today's standards? Not having simulated engine noise in the cabin? BMW M cars, Ford Mustangs, and VW GTIs all do this. 50 pounds of rubber in the shifting linkage? There's a $200 aftermarket part for that if you don't like the way it feels. Each of the aforementioned cars (that even offer a manual transmission anymore!) have upgrades available to shifters to enhance the feel based on preference. Because the feel of something like that is preference. I never had a problem with how my Z shifted, but some like to nitpick it. I'm not saying it was the best (one of the best shifting cars I ever drove was a Honda S2000), but I have absolutely driven worse (Chevy Camaro).
It's NOT going to take a lot of work to get this car right. Right in a sports car is so subjective these days - any of the people out there nitpicking stuff aren't buying anything because what's for sale isn't what they've got in their garage. Auto "enthusiasts" have become the worst form of hipster in the world today. In 10 years, the same group that panned the 370Z as a sports car failure will miss the "character of the Z's organic shifting feel", the "old school rear differential that has a soul to it that torque vectoring motors just don't" and "the direct feel of a hydraulic power-steering system on a rack and pinion setup" while wondering why cars like the Z no longer exist.
What is right is that they're building this car in the face of wildly changing world economic conditions and increasingly restrictive environmental standards while being cash strapped as a company and severely impeded with supply chain issues amidst a global pandemic. It's got 2 seats. It's got a pair of turbos. It's going to make more power than the last Z. It's putting power out of the rear wheels. It's not going to be severely heavy. It brings modern technology into a package that acknowledges today's standards for a sports car while paying tribute to every single version of the Z that came before it (which by the way, is the longest running sports car nameplate in the world not named Corvette - maybe there's something right about it?) at an appropriate price point for the kind of sports car it brings to the table.
Stupid take. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Wow, someone's buttons got pushed.
Nissan did next to nothing over the last 10+ years to keep the car competitive as a sports car. Don't take my word for it, or that of 370 fans, read/watch the more objective reviews. For example, take the recent critiques the 370Z gets from two respected reviewers, Chris Harris and Savagegeese, which make its limitations very clear. My point was that for the new car to be competitive in 2022 Nissan must address the widely acknowledged weaknesses in the 370's handling, steering response, and transmission and fix its very dated interior. Whether they can do so under the constraint of staying with basically the same chassis and suspension used in the 370 remains to be seen. I hope they can, I'd love to get one if they succeed.
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Good points from both of you @Devon and @RicerX. My gauge of performance success is what I see on track/race events where there are still plenty of 350Zs, actually more than 370Zs, being competitive out there with proper upgrades. The platform is good even if the technology is not keeping up over the years. After all, the Z is targeted for basic sports car design - RWD, wishbone control arms, LSD, etc. I'm glad it's not going the direction of the R35 GT-R. Must keep driver involvement up and foremost. I see the new Z being an improvement over the existing platform, not much more beyond that, which is good. Don't overwhelm it with too much driver assists and complicated electronics impacting reliability. This also lets the aftermarket able to access the Z more for upgrades.
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Nissan did next to nothing in the last 10+ years to keep the car competitive as a sports car. Don't take my word for it, read the reviews. For example the critiques it gets from two respected reviewers, Chris Harris and Savagegeese, make its limitations very clear. My point was that for the new car to be competitive it must address the known weaknesses in the 370's handling, steering feel, and transmission and fix its very dated interior. Whether it can do so while saying with basically the same chassis and suspension used in the 370 remains to be seen.
Eh not really buttons pushed. Just annoyed at trends that kill cars like the Z and that will eventually send us into an oblivion of electrified enclosed laptops that drive us places.
I never argued the car hadn't been updated in over 10 years, but there's a whole different set of reasons for that, and those have little to do with your original statement. The original statement you made was that they failed to make a convincing sports car, at least by today's standards. What does that even mean? Because Chris Harris says it had limitations? Limitations compared to what? A $70k Cayman? A $25k BRZ? All cars have limitations. With any purchase of anything, a consumer strives to find which set of limitations best fit his use case and ergo are worthy of his money. Are the 370Zs limitations so... limited... they leave you unconvinced the car serves as a sports car? Give me a break. While I appreciate Chris Harris' technical input, I'm sure it's easy to find glaringly obvious shortcomings in a $40k 370Z right after spending most of your seat time daily driving 911s - all of it is in perspective. Guys like that give opinions on things that the average sports car buyer on a $30k budget would never even get to on their own without help from a dude with a lot of experience in race car driving, a lot of technical skill, and finally, bias towards his own preferences.
I see people pontificate on what this car needs to do "to be competitive" when they don't understand where the car actually competes, what's realistically attainable from a performance standpoint within the confines of what the market deems to be an acceptable price point, and after critiquing and setting the internet ablaze with their wisdom, buy a $20k used BRZ because they could never afford a $40k performance car in the first place, and follow up with "well I bought a BRZ because it's better". It's not better, it was just a better fit for them. And those buyers don't drive car markets. Buyers of new cars do.
Chris Harris never owned a BRZ or a 370Z because he can afford Porsches. That's not an indictment on the Z, that's an indictment on his personal preference based on his personal budget. I think the Z is a great car for what it does, but if I decide my sports car budget in September is $70k instead of $40k? I'm probably buying a GT-R. Doesn't mean the Z isn't a good sports car, it's what I wanted to do with my money. Some might say "but if it was truly great you'd buy it before you bought the GT-R". Not an opinion based on reality for two reasons. 1) sports cars are a vanity purchase. Whether consciously or subconsciously, you're considering the image that comes with owning a certain type of cool car. If you can afford more, that's coming into your decision-making process one way or another, and a Porsche carries more clout than a Nissan. 2) If everyone could build something and sell it for half the price of its "competition" with twice the performance capability, half the carmakers in the world would be out of business. I don't compare used cars to new cars either, because when you do that, you're down to your personal budget dictating your purchase parameters and preferences. Yeah, you can get a Z06 Corvette for less than a Z. You can get a used Ferrari for less than a new Z too. Does it make the Z a poor sports car?
Chris Harris' personal car buying budget and preferences are largely irrelevant here, his comparison between the 370Z and the GT86 stands on its own. He's a very skilled and experienced driver with a racing license who does a great job describing how cars respond on the road. And the simple fact is that he (and others like Savagegeese) find the handling of the less-expensive Toyobaru twins to be substantially better when pushed hard than that of the Z.
It's self-evident that many considerations beyond a car's handling and road feel feed into most enthusiasts' purchasing decisions. But handling, road feel, and agility are all major factors in generating a high-level sports car experience, and IMO Nissan really needs to step it up in these areas to have a strong position in the market, now that even 4 cylinder pony cars can be optioned with performance and track packages that give them impressive handling, and a few hot hatches like the CTR have largely overcome the handling limitations of FWD.
Your consistency in evasion is admirable.
Completely disagree that his personal preferences are irrelevant. No one conducting reviews on anything does so without his own preference coming into the picture. Not you, not me, not Chris Harris. If that's the case, then enjoy his YouTube catalog before Google AI takes his job. If no one had their own preferences in play, there wouldn't be 5 million car reviewers on YouTube. Some are better bringing educated opinions to the table than others because they can utilize their technical background and experience with the subject matter. Some just regurgitate what they've already seen from other people.
It's self-evident that many considerations beyond a car's handling and road feel feed into most enthusiasts' purchasing decisions. But handling, road feel, and agility are all major factors in generating a high-level sports car experience, and IMO Nissan really needs to step it up in these areas to have a strong position in the market, now that even 4 cylinder pony cars can be optioned with handling and track packages that give them impressive handling.
So what's the Z's market? Is it someone looking for a sports car on a budget, or is it someone that wants to go fast for $35k? Those may be the same thing for you, but they're not the same thing. And if handling is the only key factor in the sports car experience, why is there anything even on the market past the Miata?
Is a Z meant to provide a "high-level sports car experience"? Is a 4-cylinder pony car supposed to do that? Better yet, does it? How much road feel is in an Ecoboost Mustang with EPS? Is it better than a Z? Does the Z target an Ecoboost Mustang as its benchmark in pricing, or does it simply "cost almost the same amount of money". As far as "high-level sports car experiences" go, I would consider a 911 Turbo a high-level experience. Corvette Z06. BMW M4 Competition.
You keep bringing up hot hatches. Hot hatches are a sum of compromises from any other type of car. Always have been. They have extra doors, extra seats, and extra storage to accommodate daily, practical use while also being fun to drive, providing an element from each type of vehicle out there that is the best at each attribute they possess. Not as practical as a truck/SUV, not as bleeding edge in performance as a pure sports car. They have gotten immensely better over the past decade and are extremely compelling options if you want a car that does it all. They're extremely popular because they allow people to have a piece of each pie without having to buy multiple pies. If you're cross-shopping that, it's because you can't do one of each and need both, and you're not the buyer Nissan is targeting with the Z. You yourself may cross-shop because of your intended use case, and when you decide which of those attributes is truly required in your car, you will purchase the one that fulfills that need. The Z is a pure sports car that some may justify having as a daily driver.
Let's ditch the arbitrary and make a stance - if you have $35k to buy a new sports car for the purpose of obtaining a pure sports car experience, what do you buy and why? What are your options for that money that is a pure sports car? I'm asking because you say Nissan needs to do better, better than what? To be considered a success... better than what? We can all do better for improvement's sake. What does the Z need to be better than?
As I've heard, "there's an ass for every seat".
Not easy to view this but at least in this spin roll the Z's structure is solid, albeit a 350Z. 370Z and future Z should carry over this passenger protection.
How Did Anyone Survive This Horrific Nissan 350Z Barrel-Roll Smash? | Carscoops
Nissan driver's attempts to fit through gap that wasn't there plays out like a Fast & Furious stunt
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Just went on the Nissan website and when you click on the 370Z it says sold out and leads you to the pre-owned inventory.
RicerX said:
I'm not sure a [insert any] is a convincing sports car if an electric hippopotamus on four wheels can rip it on the 1/4 mile.
I think I am going to refer to that one later.
Both funny, and both capable and not condemning of long-form commentary... I think I may have found a home.
Ricer X and Devon both make good points.
I often wonder, and try to discern for myself how wide the margins of comparisons are... hyperbole and hyper-focus tend to lose sight of the forest for an up close examination and evaluation of a few trees.
Whether you watch Chris Harris, Savagegeese, Doug DeMuro, JayEmm, Shmee150, Matt Farah, or any number of people, on any number of topics, it can be challenging to parse their opinions, due to the context.
It may be subconscious, it may be unintentional, or may be it is intentional... but what you've driven before informs what you think about what you are driving now. Experience informs critical thinking.
Not only that, but the nature of presenting information to people depends on keeping attention and interest, which fosters and motivates drawing comparisons clearly, even if the relative margin of the differences may be smaller than they are portrayed.
But I also don't think most reviewers are trying to be intentionally misleading, and are trying to get real information out there. They highlight differences because that is what makes the difference between appeal and not.
Bringing that back to 370, fundamentally, it was not a bad car. Good layout, good floorplan, good suspension format, good pricetag.
But that isn't the whole story... it was a bad aesthetic move. There are aspects of the suspension, engine, and other tuning aspects as stock that aren't necessarily ideal, and show cost cutting and lack of Nissan's interest in keeping the car competitive. A basic interior is one thing... an interior that doesn't look or feel good enough for the car's cost is a small degree of change, that makes a big difference in demand, just like controversial or poorly received aesthetics.
Letting something stagnate, especially something that wasn't cutting edge in the first place, when 370 succeeded 350, is further problematic. It led Doug DeMuro to say that the 370Z had no business being sold as a new car last year, because a fully depreciated used car 10 model years older is functionally no different other than having been used.
The flip side is why Z35 Nissan Z can be a success, even based on an evolution of 350 and 370Z before it... because relatively minor and acheivable differences can be made without re-invention, just a bit more care and tuning the product attributes that are already there, and an eye for aesthetics and appeal.
The things that make BRZ and 86 affordable, but yet good handling, can be implemented with Z's better suspension design. More power will make Z the better road car overall as well, by not having to drive it like Ricky Bobby all the time to make it perform. Maybe the CoG won't be quite as low, but the suspension is a better, more geometrically advantageous design. If Nissan doesn't perfect it, the aftermarket can.
The new interior with the gauge screen, and dash design, and 10 year advancements in materials can help the interior.
We can already see that the exterior design is immediately better looking, and even Z35's slightly debateable front end is still better than most angles of the 370Z's appearance and proportions, even based on the same chassis hardpoint dimensions.
It isn't going to be a Porsche. It isn't going to be a muscle-car like a Mustang V8, or even the same as a Mustang minus the V8... It isn't a BRZ, either.
But hopefully it will be a great return to what has made Nissan Z appealing in the past... a great mix of style, substance, and attainability for a 2-seat sports car that isn't the same thing as everything else on the market.
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Troublesome...
I appreciate your well thought out reasoning.
It makes me appreciate my Z32 all the more. 🥰
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Although they achieved relative success
through their first two albums Chasing Lights (2008) and Wordshaker
(2009), British girl group The Saturdays
have yet to reach the heights of their predecessors Girls Aloud, whom they
supported on tour in 2008. With Cheryl Tweedy and co. on hiatus, the world is now
theirs to conquer.
Headlines! is not the way to go about getting
themselves noticed. Of the eight tracks, three have been originally released on
Wordshaker. Why re-release them, you ask? No one knows.
'Ego' and 'Forever is Over' stand out,
having done so on their previous album. The fact that the record's best songs
have already been released makes this whole mini-album futile. The rest of the
tracks are no better than b-sides.
Most of the acclaim that the quintet has
received over the last few years has been based on their eclectic blend of
styles. Formed in London in 2007, the group consists of Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and
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Headlines! does
little to enhance their stock; as the new tracks exhibit little more than
overlapping cliché pop and limp dance music. Powerful vocals that would
traditionally fit a ballad are worked over pseudo-dance beats, which presents
nothing new or different.
Rumours are flying that the next album is
due to be recorded in the USA–
with a big-name American producer, no doubt. It would appear that this is no
more than a stopgap until then.
Unfortunately, the old adage of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'
does not work in modern pop music. At some point, we need to see some new and
improved material.
It isn't all bad; the heavy-handed
R&B beat on 'Puppets' will have you nodding your head, and 'Karma' has a pleasant, slightly
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CHENEY, Wash. – In 2013, Damion Jeanpiere Jr. caught the first touchdown pass Chase Fourcade ever threw in a varsity football game on a short bubble screen for Archbishop Rummel.
On Saturday, Fourcade once again hit his near-lifelong teammate for another piece of personal history.
With a 16-yard pass to Jeanpiere in the second quarter of the second round of the FCS playoffs, Fourcade became the all-time leading passer at Nicholls State University with career yard No. 7,671.
He broke the record previously held by former Nicholls quarterback Doug Hudson who quarterbacked the Colonels only team to win a postseason game in 1986 until Fourcade did so last week.
Unfortunately, Fourcade will not remember Saturday night fondly with Nicholls' season ending in a 42-21 loss at No. 3 Eastern Washington.
But at least it was one final moment with his No. 1 receiver.
"Playing with him for six years, even in high school and coming here for college, he's a great player," Fourcade said of Jeanpiere. "He buys into what the coaches say and when I tell him what to do. But he's a great player off the field, too. He's a great person around the campus. He does everything right and everybody loves him.
"I appreciate everything he's done for me and I know we're going to stay in touch."
Fourcade said he didn't care about the record after the game in the wake of the devastating loss.
Never one to tout his own accomplishments, Fourcade cared little about the fact he finished his junior season with 7,728 career yards or that he previously set the school record for completions earlier this season.
But Fourcade may not be done scratching out Hudson's name in the record books, though.
He'll start his senior year five passing touchdowns shy of tying Hudson's record of 58.
Hudson and Fourcade had the opportunity to meet after Nicholls' first-round playoff game against the University of San Diego on Nov. 24. Hudson previously said he was happy to see Fourcade break his record and that records were made to be broken.
"I'm pumped for Chase and expect him to play for a long time," Hudson wrote in a text from his home in west Tennessee.
While it may not have been his best game statistically, Fourcade still managed to put Eastern Washington on its heels at times.
In a score that ultimately held no significance in the outcome of the game, Fourcade ran in his second rushing touchdown of the night late in the fourth quarter, tying the single-season school record of 13 in the process. He had two such scores against the Eagles and tied a career high of 89 rush yards.
Fourcade finished Saturday night with 146 yards through the air on a 17-of-30 clip. He entered the game 88 yards shy of tying Hudson.
"He's an absolute competitor. We saw it on the field and then saw it in person," Eastern Washington coach Aaron Best said. "He can throw it. He can spin it. Our guys were doing what they could."


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Constellations: Dean Baker
Avalon Records in conjunction with Oskar Productions is very pleased and proud to announce the release of 'Constellations' the first ever solo album from Dean Baker who also happens to be the main writer and arranger for the established UK 'Prog' band Galahad.
You could say that 'Constellations' is an accidental album borne out of personal tragedy. Dean's good friend Ray succumbed to Cancer in 2018 and Dean subsequently inherited a rather large CD collection and began listening to some of the gems contained within what was, in fact, more of a music library, including albums by iconic keyboard visionaries such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream to name but a few.
After having listened to a lot of music by the above artists Dean was massively inspired to write some music in a similar vein over the course of the Summer of 2018 and before he knew it he had over twenty new tracks to work on! These were then distilled and whittled down to the ten tracks which appear on the final version of this album.
Dean also called upon a few fellow cohorts to contribute including Lee Abraham and Stu from Galahad on guitars and vocals respectively as well Anastasia Coburg from Coburg on vocals.
You could say that the resulting album is paying homage to some of the pioneering synthesizer artists of the 1970s but it is also still very much a Dean Baker vision incorporating modern production values and Dean's very own musical slant on modern electronic music.
'Constellations' is dedicated to music lover Ray Chiles (1959 -2018)
Le Chat Qui Pêche (9.14)
Off the Shoulder of Orion (4.33)
Here and Now (4.39) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)
Modular Seasons (3.50)
Clouded Hills (5.56)
New Horizons (5.41) (Vocals - Anastasia Coburg)
Nuda Veritas (4.08) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)
Engelbrecht (3.37) (Guitar - Lee Abraham)
Constellations (4.24) (Vocals - Stu Nicholson)
Impression No.8 (9.01)
'Constellations' will be available on CD and Download.


There are pieces in your wardrobe that you don't wear. They are out of fashion, they are torn or they simply don't fit anymore (and you can't face the fact that they never again will). Throw them out. Make yourself happy. Simplify your life. There are tons of self-help-happy-wardrobe authors who will nod enthusiastically now. It's easy, just keep what makes you happy and give the rest away. Keeping what makes me happy…..there we go….it's not as easy as it might seem. My wedding dress. Once worn, never again (hopefully), makes me happy everytime I look at it. My 5 inches blue suede pumps, much too high for me (although with a little bit of practice…), I put them on every once in a while and walk up and down in my living room – so enjoyable.
Or a torn pair of jeans, super skinny, stretch, hidden all the way back in the wardrobe of an 18 year old who can hardly squeeze into it, let alone close the button. But he can't throw them out. Because those were the pants he wore when he was 14 and sang at the blind auditions for 'The Voice kids'. Those were the pants the judges saw when their chairs turned around and all three of them begged him to join their team. It was a crucial moment for this 14 year old boy with the braces and the big voice. He didn't win the contest, but it definitely changed something. He tasted fame and being desired and he knows what it feels like to ALMOST get there. It might not have been the start of stardom but it certainly triggered a deeper desire to become a serious artist. And not least it marked an irreversable step away from childhood into adulthood. That's why he cannot throw away those pants.
This is my second collaboration with Alex from 'Story of my Shirt'.
For more pictures and full interview with Tim and the story behind those black pants visit her beautiful blog!
Tim wears customized Jeans by Tally Weill and a jacket from a second hand store in New York.
Danke für die schöne Kollaboration, es war mir eine Ehre!
Er ist einfach so toll! Ich liebe seinen Geschmack und seine Frisur. Die ist mein nächstes Frisurenvorbild.


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U.S. Army prepares to receive first brigade of M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams battle tanks
Photo by AMY E. VOIGT from THE BLADE
The U.S. Army prepares for receiving of the first M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams battle tanks brigade, according to Mackenzi Klemann from The Lima News.
According to media reports in recent weeks, the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio is ramping up to deliver the service's first full brigade of the latest variant of Abrams tanks to the U.S. Army.
"We're in the throes of getting that together," said Plant manager Hank Kenned pointing that the "first brigade is critical because we need to get (them) into the soldiers' hands so they can get trained on it and everything else."
The Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, which is government-owned but operated by defense giant General Dynamics, got a huge boost earlier this year when the U.S. Army said it would spend $714 million to upgrade the M1A1 Abrams, the main battle tank used by the country's armed forces.
With the bases version of Abrams tank, the latest M1A2 SEPv3 is now being mass produced at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima.
The newest version of the M1 Abrams tank is considered the most technologically advanced digital tank in the world with superior firepower, protection and mobility, Army's officials said.
In a 2017 report, Maj. Gen. David Bassett, program executive officer for Ground Combat Systems said: "These vehicles are not just about assuring our allies, or deterring or coercing potential adversaries. They are about compelling our enemies and winning the multi-domain battle."
The M1A2 SEPv3 will be equipped Trophy APS that eliminates enemy threats, such as rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles.
The SEPv3 measures 9.7m-long, 3.7m-wide and 2.4m-high, and is manned by a crew of four, including a driver, a commander, a loader and a gunner.


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On Tuesday, Huawei held a media launch to unveil the Huawei Watch GT for the Indian market at The Lalit, New Delhi and announced the availability and pricing details of the product on March 12, 2019. The Huawei Watch GT is Huawei's first premium smartwatch with its custom software named Lite OS. It has Huawei's custom processor with 'double chipset' architecture for better performance and higher power efficiency. Huawei also announced the Band 3 Pro, an activity tracker with a built-in GPS tracker and an IR-based heart rate monitor.
Vibgyor was given the mandate to conceptualize and manage all aspects of the India launch event after a multi-agency pitch. Right from the Hotel booking, coordination, MICE, invites, registration, product presentation, event set-up, demo zones and giveaways, all aspects of the event were managed flawlessly by Vibgyor. The event began with a product presentation by Mr. Anupam Yadav, Product Expert Huawei. The smartwatches were then unveiled via a stunning demo zone, that displayed each unique feature of the products through interactive walls along with demo tables for a hands-on experience of the products.
The demo zone had one wall that focused on wellness features of the smartwatch, highlighting Huawei TruSleep feature that monitors sleep and recognises 5 types of sleep problems. The other wall focused on the fitness features, highlighting the various activities that the watch can track like training, cycling, running and swimming. The center wall highlighted the major features of the watch with an LFD for content and product videos.
Huawei launched its brand new Watch GT on March 12, 2019, at The Lalit New Delhi, the brand launch was curated by Vibgyor.


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Q: Reactive Variables for Server Side RESTful Route with iron:router For the first time in my Meteor career, I'm deploying a production application that handles RESTful routes in response to webhooks.
I've noticed that in production, variables will don't reset, they just keep adding new data ontop of themselves.
I would like to leverage reactive variables on the server to accomplish this goal.
How can I use iron:router to it's full potential with reactivity? I need to process requests dynamically as they come in, assign certain fields to variables, then make a POST request with new values.
My code looks like this...
Router.route('/webhooks/shopify', { where: 'server' })
  .post(function() {
    // CANT USE var since it's not reactive

    // var order = this.request.body;

    // call this method with the proper ID and FIELDS variable

    // Meteor.call('updateOrder', id, fields, function(error, result) {
    //   if (!error) {
    //     console.log('successfully updated!', result);
    //   }
    // });
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Jerrod Niemann - What Do You Want
Music video by Jerrod Niemann performing What Do You Want. (C) 2010 Sony Music Entertainment
2010 10s Jerrod Niemann Country
Artist: Jerrod Niemann
Video title: What Do You Want


If the 1960s "changed modern history," one year —1968—stands out. In this year, anti-imperialist and anti-establishment forces took to the streets of major cities around the globe, challenging, and even hoping to dismantle, the post-1945 power structure. With the rise of national liberation movements on almost every continent, the Civil Rights and Feminist movements in the U.S., anti-Vietnam demonstrations in the U.S. and around the world, and decolonization in Africa, 1968 pulsed with a new sense of optimism. It heralded new forms of art, music, thinking, and debate. But in 1968 conservative governments came to power in France, Britain, and the U.S; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated; the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia and Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution was met with intensifying violence. In short, on multiple fronts 1968 symbolized the quest for, and intense opposition to, dramatic change in the status quo—an ever-evolving dynamic that continues to date.
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Translator Cornelius Hell receives Austrian state award Added2019.07.02
On 30 June at the Vienna House of Literature, the Federal Chancellery of Austria awarded the state award in a solemn ceremony to the Austrian journalist, writer, radio presenter, translator, and a great friend of Lithuania Cornelius Hell for translating contemporary Lithuanian writers and poets into the German language.
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Lithuania co-sponsors event on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration Added2019.06.26
On 25 June the Permanent Missions of Austria, Germany and Lithuania in Geneva together with the UN Women and OHCHR organised a side event in the margins of the 41st session of the Human Rights Council in order to discuss how to adequately address trafficking in women and girls and their exploitation in the context of global migration, to end prevailing impunity of perpetrators, and to ensure rehabilitation and social inclusion of victims.
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Lithuanian representative elected as Chair of Meeting of States Parties to Convention for Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Added2019.06.26
On 25 June, the Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the United Nations, Ambassador Audra Plepytė was elected as Chair of the fifth Meeting of States parties to the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. A. Plepytė is the first representative of the Eastern European Group to chair the meeting of the States Parties to the Convention after its entry into force in 2010.
Director of Japan-Lithuania Exchange Centre receives Lithuania's Diplomacy Star Added2019.06.19
On 18 June, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Japan Gediminas Varvuolis conferred the award of honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Lithuania's Diplomacy Star – on the Director of the Japan-Lithuania Exchange Centre (JLEC) Kenjiro Tamaki. The Mayor of Toyohashi Koichi Sahara and delegation members, the former Japanese Ambassador to Lithuania Kazuko Shiraishi, many JLEC members, and other friends of Lithuania attended the awards ceremony.
Ambassador G. Varvuolis takes part in meetings in Singapore Added2019.06.14
From June 12 to 16, the Ambassador Gediminas Varvuolis is visiting Singapore, where he takes part in ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation, https://www.asef.org/) Board of Governors meeting and other bilateral meetings. In his speech, the Ambassador underlined the importance of increasing visibility of the Foundation, particularly among the youth, and thanked ASEF for presentation of ASEF programs to Lithuanian artists, who are looking for support to their projects in Asian countries. During the meeting, attention was also paid to the reform of the Foundation and current issues.
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Lithuania opens its fifth Honorary Consulate in Japan Added2019.05.24
On 24 May, Lithuania opened its fifth Honorary Consulate in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Takeshi Okawara, Head of JC Comsa Corporation, was appointed as the Honorary Consul of Lithuania.
Lithuania's Honorary Consulate resumes its activities in Sapporo Added2019.05.23
On 23 May, Lithuania opened its Honorary Consulate in Sapporo after a year-long pause. Masahiro Fujii was appointed as the Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Hokkaido, Japan's largest prefecture. The Ambassador Gediminas Varvuolis presented him a consular patent.
Ambassador L. Viltrakienė presents her letters of credence to OECD Added2019.05.21
On 20 May, the Ambassador of Lithuania to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Lina Viltrakienė presented her letters of credence to the Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría. After the ceremony, the Ambassador and the Secretary-General discussed important issues related to and perspectives of Lithuania's OECD membership.
Lithuania hands a note to Russian representative over security of staff of its representation in Moscow Added2019.04.12
On 12 April, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania summoned a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Lithuania and handed a note over threats posed to the employees of the Lithuanian representation in the Russian Federation and their family members.
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Lithuania's Ambassador presents his letters of credence to the President of Bangladesh Added2019.04.11
On 10 April, the Ambassador of Lithuania Julius Pranevičius presented his letters of credence to the President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid.
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Edvilas Raudonikis assumes duties as Lithuania's Ambassador to Switzerland Added2019.04.11
On 9 April, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Switzerland Edvilas Raudonikis presented his letters of credence to the President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer.
ITU publishes correct start dates of Baltic States' membership Added2019.03.29
On 29 March, in response to the joint demarche of the Permanent Representatives of three Baltic States and on the basis of historic documents, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) published the real dates of the start of membership of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia in its public communication. All three Baltic States joined the ITU in the beginning of 1920ies and will soon mark centenaries of their ITU membership. Lithuania acceded to the ITU on 1 July 1923.
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Lithuania opens its new Honorary Consulate in Finland Added2019.03.28
On 27 March, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Darius Skusevičius opened the new Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Tampere, Finland. From now on, five Honorary Consuls of Lithuania operate in Finland.
Ambassador D. Kušlys presents his letters of credence to the President of Slovenia Added2019.03.15
On 14 March, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Austria Donatas Kušlys presented his letters of credence to the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor.
Lithuania's Ambassador presents her letters of credence to the President of Croatia Added2019.03.04
On 4 March in Zagreb, the Ambassador of Lithuania to Croatia Jūratė Raguckienė presented her letters of credence to the President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
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Aight, peeps, let's see if I can fit the rest of my Tampa Bay Comic-Con favs into one last post. This... will be a challenge.
"Are you telling me you made a Transformer... out of a Delorean??"
Yes, someone did. AND IT IS GLORIOUS.
Seriously, check out that pose! Perfection!
It doesn't show well in the photo since the 'saber lights up, but it was a really nifty effect.
Fallout has especially cool helmets.
Please note the inflatable dinos are wearing wings, so they can be Daenerys' "dragons." BWAHAHA!!
I made him wait 'til after I took his photo, but I don't think he minded too much.
I see a lot of Soras - so much so that I almost tune them out - but this one radiated perfection, down to the last detail. I was so happy when I found out she won!
He's "walking" Zero! And you rarely see the Mayor cosplayed.
If only we could all paint on abs so well, amirite?
An aerial stunt & parkour show. And not only that, it was all Borderlands themed!
My pics are kinda useless (too far back), but this was a surprisingly well done show, with a full script, costumed characters, plenty of laughs, and some impressive acrobatics put on by the Shinobi School and CRH. They played to a fully packed house, so I'm hoping this encourages more cons to book shows like this!
Which is creepier: Ghost Pikachu Mimicyu or Jason Voorhees?
It's this guy from Five Nights at Freddy's.
I have LOTS more photos, though, so if you want to see the rest head over to my Flickr album.
I always love your photo round-ups and commentary! There are so many wonderful things and so many creative people who love them!
Not Gabrielle with Xena- a pretty badass Callisto!
The creativity is overwhelming! Love it all. Thank you for taking so many amazing shots!
PS - I think that's Xena and Calypso v. Gabrielle.
The "ghost Pikachu" is actually a new Pokemon called Mimicyu!
I LOVE YOUR PICTURES!!! There are plenty of characters I don't know, but I still love looking/oogling at them! Thanks for your commentary! It's both hilarious and heartwarming :) Just like all your writing!
Ahh, we missed that, so thank you! Love it.
Jen, it shouldn't be too hard to photoshop that shield the right way around. That costume is perfection!
Jen, you're spot on about Kylo's lightsaber. A combination of saran wrap, hot glue and translucent red paint gives a standard saber that unstable effect. Cheap and easy - my kind of mod! See you at DragonCon!
SO proud of myself! i totally got without reading that he was Sailor Freddy Mercury!
The inflatable T-Rex costumes are pretty much the best thing ever!
Love the Crystal Gem costumes. Been thinking about putting together a Rose Quartz costume for myself. Alas, there are no upcoming cons near me. Maybe next year.
Woo hoo! Who's a 2 time EPBOT feature? This girl! 😄 I practically knocked the DeLorean Transformer over to get the photo with her! She even had it signed by both Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson!
LOL @ Sailor Mercury and Dany's dragons. I love the creativity some people put into their costumes. Also, that little Joker is adorable.
I'm amused by the rapid fire Mimikyu cosplay, though its pokedex entry is kind of sadly sweet.
"The rising popularity of Pikachu-styled merchandise around 20 years ago is the reason that Mimikyu makes itself look like Pikachu. In fact, this Pokémon is dreadfully lonely, and it thought it would be able to make friends with humans if only it looked like Pikachu."
Love all the pics, especially the "dragons". But the little Wonder Woman is my fav! Thanks so much for all the photos and terrific commentary.
That sweet little WW made my day. The kids are all so freakin' adorable!
How do I tell Blogspot that this person is plagiarizing http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com ?
I always enjoy your cosplay posts so much. I SCREAMED at the Five Nights at Freddy's cosplay - in a good way. :D I love that they even attached the little Freddles! AHH!


These simple arrangements make this favorite piece of the season accessible to all ages and levels of experience.
Six movements are included, with recordings that demonstrate how they sound with different combinations of instruments. One set is with flute, two clarinets, bass clarinet, cello, or bass, and the other is with clarinet quartet for three of the movements.
The total playing time for all movements if played without pause is nine to ten minutes. Enjoy the versatility!


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Homeowner shot, 1 found dead, 3 arrested in Lewiston home invasion
WBFO-FM 88.7 | By Associated Press
Published March 2, 2020 at 6:29 AM EST
Police say a homeowner exchanged gunfire during a home invasion and one suspect was later found dead. Chief Frank Previte of Lewiston Police said the shootout happened early Sunday morning on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Niagara County.
The homeowner told police he exchanged gunfire with three armed people who entered his home, and they fled in a car. The vehicle was stopped after a high-speed chase with police.
Acting Niagara County Sheriff Michael Filicetti said three suspects were taken into custody and a fourth was found dead in the car. The homeowner was treated for gunshot wounds.
Names have not been released.
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