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… Now that Christopher Hitchens is focused mainly on managing his declining health, the debate about God’s existence has taken a decidedly lowbrow turn, in the form of dueling bus ads in Fort Worth. 
• Austin’s new regional intelligence center opened on Wednesday, and downtown Austin is well on its way to getting 23 surveillance cameras. Before you get all “Ack! Black helicopters!,” remember that cameras are useless without a paid staff to monitor them, and the same goes for an intelligence center—meaning that the federal government is likely to collapse due to overwhelming debt long before the U.S. ever becomes a police state.
• Meanwhile, the real threat of a dystopian future is already happening in Houston, where the city council has voted to charge strippers a dramatically higher fee to dance. If The Man takes away our freedom to dance—specifically topless and in gigantic heels—then the tree of liberty will have died for good.

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On the other side of the hall, aisles of new artists and comic writers made themselves known. Not everyone with a booth at the Con is famous, yet.
Paper faces on parade
At the end of the night, people gathered to see what they’d all been waiting to see: each other. Wizard Con hosted a costume contest for everyone who was not famous but dressed like they were.
There were plenty of Batmen and a few Jokers: but the night became less predictable by the minute. After them came Zombie Wolverine. Two girls even came as their own World of Warcraft characters, proving that they do look like this offline.
The folks watching the show were just as colorful: girls dressed as Doctor Who and the Tardus were among the audience.
And, of course, every Con has a Darth Vader. This one had a Pimp Vader complete with cane, suit and gold helmet.

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Man gets life sentence in strangulation murder of Valley woman turned prostitute
December 16, 2010 2:57 PM
An Austin man received a life sentence Tuesday for the May 2009 strangulation murder of Amy Dickey,  a McAllen High School graduate turned prostitute.
Jurors convicted Nathaniel Briscoe, 30, of murder and tampering with evidence Tuesday in Travis County state District Court.
Austin police arrested Briscoe in May 2009 for his connection to the murder of Dickey, a 28-year-old who graduated from McAllen High School in 1999.
A landscaping crew discovered Dickey’s body buried in a wooded area in southwest Austin the morning of May 21, 2009. The crew told Austin police investigators they noticed her hand poking out from beneath a pile of debris.
Dickey’s fingerprints linked her to a burglary earlier that month, and the other suspect in the case said she had been working as a prostitute. Call records from Dickey’s cell phone led detectives to Briscoe, who was arrested on suspicion of her murder.

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It’s this PSH component that has some Eastside neighbors and property owners nervous. Their objections invariably return to Marshall’s proximity to 12th and Chicon – “a long-time haven for open and obvious drug sales, vagrancy, and prostitution,” as described in a Robertson Hill neighborhood memo opposing the project – and con­versely, its proximity to schools. Despite Caritas’ assurances about the project – that residents could be ejected for not following the program guidelines, that openings would be paired with fitting participants (for example, a vacant three- or four-bedroom unit would go to a family in the PSH program), and more – the proposal has garnered a decidedly mixed reception, ranging from lukewarm to downright hostile, with the Robertson Hill and Swede Hill neighborhood associations having voted against it.
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In council chambers Dec. 9, there was plenty of support for and opposition to the Mar­shall proposal (and not nearly as much attention paid to two other proposals on the agenda: PSH and low-income housing initiatives in both Sou …

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An Austin man received a life sentence Tuesday for the May 2009 strangling of a McAllen High School graduate.
Jurors convicted Nathaniel Briscoe, 30, of murder and tampering with evidence Tuesday in Travis County state District Court.
Austin police arrested Briscoe in May 2009 for his connection to the murder of Amy Dickey, a 28-year-old who graduated from McAllen High School in 1999.
A landscaping crew discovered Dickey’s body buried in a wooded area in southwest Austin the morning of May 21, 2009. The crew told Austin police investigators they noticed her hand poking out from beneath a pile of debris.
Dickey’s fingerprints linked her to a burglary earlier that month, and the other suspect in the case said she had been working as a prostitute. Call records from Dickey’s cell phone led detectives to Briscoe, who was arrested on suspicion of her murder.

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For killing a woman he hired as a prostitute last year, a Travis County jury today sentenced Nathaniel Briscoe to life in prison.
Briscoe, a 30-year-old former Austin head shop worker, had no discernible reaction when state District Judge Julie Kocurek read the verdict. He received a life term for murdering Amy Dickey, 28, and a 25-year sentence for tampering with evidence by dumping her body in a wooded area near West William Cannon Drive and MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1).
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Dickey, a crack cocaine user who advertised her services as a prostitute on Craigslist, had no chance at redemption in her life because of Briscoe, prosecutors Steven Brand and Brandon Grunewald argued.
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A Travis County jury yesterday found Briscoe guilty of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2009 killing of Amy Elizabeth Dickey, a former medical assistant who had been working as a prostitute.
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A Travis County jury on Monday found Briscoe guilty of murder and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the death last year of a former medical assistant working as a prostitute.

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With at least three and perhaps four signees from the nation’s top 100 seniors, Seth Greenberg is bringing in arguably the best recruiting class in Virginia Tech’s hoop history, and he still has one available scholarship to give in the spring, perhaps to a quality big man such as 6-8 NJ BF/C Ryan Rhoomes. The well-balanced quartet of signees consists of aggressive 6-8 BF C.J. Barksdale (a possible top 50 talent), very quick 6-1 PG Marquis Rankin (who outplayed Quinn Cook in a November matchup), tough 6-7 WF Dorian Finney-Smith and better than reputed Robert Brown, a 6-5 WG who scored 29 points versus Oak Hill Academy and is improving rapidly. A good crop of recruits was needed, and this group fits the bill for the Hokies.
FLORIDA STATE: B
The Seminoles have used all of their available scholarships, and they have used them wisely by landing an athletic foursome consisting of versatile 6-7 combo forward Antwan Space, 6-3 WG net-stripper Terry Whisnant, strong 6-5 swingma …

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Simpson, 87, was a former FBI agent who moved to Galveston County and ran for district attorney in 1954 on a pledge of enforcing laws against gambling and prostitution. He lost.
Three years later, Texas Attorney General Will Wilson named Simpson a special assistant attorney general to tackle the gambling dens that built Galveston into a nationally recognized resort and tourist destination. One of the most opulent was the Balinese Room, which attracted top entertainers — including Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington and Bob Hope — to the ballroom, just a short walk through the swinging doors from the casino.
Local law enforcement turned a blind eye to the moneymaking enterprises in what became known as the “Free State of Galveston,” so Simpson employed a new weapon: civil injunctions for gambling, prostitution and liquor violations.

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From the conversation that takes place over this final Season One hour, we learn that Reichen’s song is actually going to be released to the yawning public, that Rodiney’s calendar has already sold 10,000 copies (and when you go to RodineySantiago.com, you also learn that professional photographer Mike didn’t shoot one frame of it), that Reichen thinks Austin has a drinking problem, that Austin thinks Rodiney is a prostitute (Rodiney’s defense: “WHO IS YOU TO BLAME MY RELATIONSHEEP?”) and, weirdest of all, that Rodiney and Reichen do, in fact, have threeways and everyone else is scandalized by that. That’s right, people who scream “I HOPE YOU GET CANCER, BITCH!” at each other are fainting over a threeway. Welcome to New York City’s fast lane, where provincial sex attitudes are how the new generation rolls. Unless you’re at Rodiney and Reichen’s on-again-off-again lover’s nest.

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When the video premiered on MTV in 1992, it was an event, and at 8 minutes and 57 seconds, it was the longest song ever to make the Top 10 of the Billboard 100. “I used to watch MTV and just sit and wait unlit the video came on,” says Winkler. “I was just mesmerized by it: the soft piano, the orchestra, the same drums over the whole song, Axl Rose’s nasty, raunchy voice, Slash’s solo outside the little wooden church, when inside it was this this huge cathedral. It’s so cheesy but it works.” 
With a budget of $1.5 million, a rarity at the time and certainly so today, the clip, which starred Rose’s then girlfriend Stephanie Seymour as his bride-to-be, used multiple locations to tell the story, including one smoky party scene at The Rainbow, the famed Sunset Strip bar that hosted countless rock stars in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. “The first time we went to …

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