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We South Carolinians might proudly rejoice in a pattern of no new taxes, but the reality persists that with roads and bridges, we pretty much get what we pay for.
And what do we have? The most dangerous highways in America, according to two national surveys last year.
And we clearly have a public policy problem now morphing toward crisis — a crummy road system, too many people dying on those roads; and the funding necessary to fix the problem is caught in the mantra that there will be no new taxes anytime for anything, not even for severely pressing public safety imperatives.
It's a public policy dilemma that demands once-and-for-all solutions befitting a state that sells itself in the global marketplace as progressive and business friendly.
Last year, S.C. Department of Transportation engineers published a report card for state bridges and roads. Their grade was a hard "F." Transportation Secretary Robert St. Onge promptly disagreed, saying the grade should be a "D." That's a distinction without a difference, but Secretary St. Onge later defined the problem in a stream of candor: "What my job is right now, given the resources, is to manage the decline of the state highway system."
South Carolina needs about a billion dollars a year just to get control of long-deferred maintenance and the incremental needs of the nation's fourth largest state roads system. The current 16 cents per gallon levy is among the nation's lowest and hasn't been increased since 1986, when Carroll Campbell — hardly a tax-and-spend leader — was governor. It generates $550 million annually, but only $450 million of that is dedicated to roads and bridges.
The General Assembly increased the fuel tax three times in the '80s. And in 1986, the 16-cent fee was about 11.4 percent of the average cost of gasoline. Today, it's a mere 4.5 percent. The difference is pretty much the system deterioration Secretary St. Onge manages.
Gov. Nikki Haley wants to dedicate $100 million in projected new revenues to road and bridge projects. House Speaker Bobby Harrell is the lead sponsor of a bill that would direct sales taxes from vehicle purchases to road improvements. Their plans would generate nearly $200 million, but clearly the governor and the speaker are each tacking around the "no new taxes" dogma.
And Rep. Tommy Stringer, R-Greenville, believes that's the problem. "You can't adequately fund DOT needs without adjusting the gas tax," he told GreenvilleOnline.com. last week. "You can say you can divert funding streams for other agencies, but not to the level that is needed at DOT."
Rep. Stringer introduced legislation last week to increase the motor vehicles fuel fees a nickel to 21 cents a gallon and then index it to inflation.
If public safety is not enough to prompt long-term solutions, then how about the credibility of our state's economic development initiatives? The Commerce Department touts South Carolina's infrastructure — five interstate highways, enhanced by another 41,000 miles of state-maintained highways. We brag about $25 billion of exports, a true "who's who" of big-name global operators creating jobs all over our state, and the giant container ships that call Charleston Harbor.
It's sort of like keeping a family secret. South Carolina is a proud, progressive and ambitious state. We have road and bridge infrastructure crumbling before our eyes, and hope nobody notices. The Port of Charleston's long- range planning might make that point. State Ports Authority CEO Jim Newsome has skillfully navigated the port's future to the deepening of Charleston Harbor.
With 50-foot channels, Charleston will have what Savannah won't — navigation capacities to serve larger ships using the expanded Panama Canal. Today, more than 70 per cent of "intermodal" containers arrive and depart by truck, most via Interstate 26. Newsome's strategy could produce a doubling of current port related truck traffic in seven to 12 years.
Can I-26 handle that? Ask the folks who know it best — the truckers who connect the dots of the state's economy.
North Charleston's Patrick T. Barber is chairman of the S.C. Trucking Association. He and his statewide colleagues have declared for decades that the state's interstate system, especially I-26, is woefully deficient. "We're talking about pavement qualities, lane capacities, inadequate and unsafe bridges and overpasses, and general safety features, like guard rails," he says.
The S.C. Trucking Association advocates increased funding, including increased motor vehicle fuel fees.
"The state did a great job getting Charleston Harbor eight miles of 50-foot harbor channels," Barber notes, "but the term 'intermodal' is a port- planning reality. Let's do an equally good job with the 221 miles of Interstate 26."
We can readily conclude that this long-evolving problem is now a public safety imperative — and a practical economic development issue. Most of all, it's a challenge to us South Carolinians to understand that in many ways it defines who we are — progressive or backward?
Both ways won't work. We can do better — and now we must!
Ron Brinson, a former associate editor of this newspaper, was president/CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities from 1979-86 and president/CEO of the Port of New Orleans 1986-2002. A North Charleston city councilman, he can be reached at email@example.com.


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Will block cheese hit $2.20 again?
Will block cheese hit $2.20 again?
On a pound-for-pound basis, we are more than $1 over the world market.
by Amanda Smith, Hoard's Dairyman Associate Editor
When push comes to shove, U.S. consumers are more willing to give up milk as prices rise than any other beverage on the market, noted Mike North a senior hedge consultant with First Capitol Ag, at the ABA National Agricultural Bankers Conference. And once they remove it from their diets, chances are slim that they will resume consumption when prices lower.
A key watch point for dairy is the length and strength of the holiday purchasing period. It typically won't last an extended period of time and is coming toward an end now. As this happens, markets often move lower. Cheese stocks have tightened since last year, but there are still plenty available though, as this purchasing season comes to a close.
Product drives milk price and monthly block Cheddar is near a record high. To get a high milk price, we need a high cheese price. In 2008, with a robust economy, block Cheddar prices ran around $2.20. North questions whether or not we can do it now. He believes it is questionable. When he gave his talk in early November, we sat near $2.11.
Cheddar around the world is close to $1, which breaks down to $0.80 plus freight. U.S. exports in this category have been quiet the last three to four months. "What happens if it backs into our inventory 2, 3 or even 4 percent?" questioned North. On a pound-for-pound basis, we are more than $1 over the market.
Generally, highs and lows are in a similar price range. "We have some vulnerability," said North. To see high prices, we have to work it out; we have to work through product inventory. Currently, world prices are lower than ours. The world market is only at $1.60 for blocks; they don't want to buy beyond that point. We are able to separate ourselves out because we are moving into the biggest buying season, but do we have enough domestic support to outpace the world?
If a realization of product shortfalls worldwide occurs, there may be a willingness of world product buyers to "pay up." Regardless, these values likely will not go to $2. More likely, we will meet them in the middle at $1.60. The inherent problem with this is that $16 milk cannot pay the bills. North asked, "Can we afford to give up $3 of the market?"
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE - The annual date for the Chinese New Year varies and is derived from a complex combination of lunar phases and solar solstices and equinoxes. Translation: It falls sometime in February (this year on February 10) lasts for 15 days and (heads up!) gives you a second chance to revisited those New Year's resolutions you have been ignoring since January 1, 2013.
And you will be in good company. Chinese New Year is one of (if the not the most) widely celebrated holidays in the world and 2013 heralds in The Year of the Water Snake. Gee, good thing it's not exactly lake weather right now. Maybe I'll have forgotten about the 2013 water snake by July...
Actually, people born under this Chinese zodiac sign have several redeeming qualities. They are said to be intelligent, graceful, analytical, hard working and diligent. On the flip side, snakes are materialistic, scheming, easily stressed, easily bored (Duh. I would be bored if I were a snake) jealous and obsessive. So are you a snake? Only if you were born in the following months/years:
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The truth about fast foodPosted Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 9:15 AM
This is just one of many disgusting things about fast food. Let's not forget about the high sugar, fat and sodium contents of these toxins...not food...toxins. You have been warned. You have been made aware. If you decide to eat them now, don't get all sue happy and go hire some attorney to represent you because you think you got cancer from fast food or because fast food made you bigger than a house. And if one is doing it, most likely they all are so there you go. The doors on all fast food joints should state, "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK."
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Everyone knows not to eat too much fast food. If they don't do that, that's their choice. But I don't get concerned over "warnings" from the FDA and their corporatist oligarchs. They've been wrong on literally half their approvals throughout their history.
I'll take my chances with the big Mac.
-- Posted by jlees on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 11:38 PM
Leah, I don't think we should go out and panic about acrylamide in foods. Acrylamide is a naturally occuring product formed when starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures (an amino acid combines with a sugar). Although acrylamide was first found in foods in 2002, one could easily assume that it has always been present in starchy foods cooked at high temperatures (i.e., its presence in food is nothing new). And I realize that this information does not fit your agenda, but acrylamide is also found in coffee, bread (there's a starchy food baked at high temperatures), black olives, and prunes just to name a few. Are there reasons to limit the consumption of fast food? Absolutely. Is acrylamide in the french fries such a reason? Probably not.
-- Posted by DaveMunson on Fri, Feb 3, 2012, at 4:52 PM
While I would think most people of sense would realize that McDonalds should not be daily fare, I don't actually know from acrylamide and pink slime as far as its harm in small, irregular doses. I'd be interested in a study of whether McDonalds fries contain crack. Because I can think of no rational reason to believe they actually taste that good, compared with what I could prepare at home (or the tasty goodness of the home made steak fries at Terrazzo Coffeehouse, for example) there are times I have an overwhelming craving for them.
Here is a better reason to eschew the Big Mac, Filet of Fish, Quarter Pounder and French fries:
Of all the points on this information sheet, robbing the poor is something on which I'd be interested to know more facts. Do they pay money to the citizens in these countries who would be growing food on it for their own subsistence, or is McDonalds truly stripping the third world of the resources it has so we in the superpowers can be fatter?
It does seem like something McDonalds, or most any American conglomerate, would do -- strip the fields of poor countries for its own profits, then scold the citizens of those nations for being unable to be self-sufficient.
-- Posted by AmyPeterson on Sat, Feb 4, 2012, at 10:47 AM
Amy, the point is that whether you buy fries at McD's, BK, or the homemade steak fries at Terrazzo, they would all contain acrylamide since it is a natural byproduct of cooking starchy foods at high temperature (not to mention that the coffee at the coffeehouse also contains acrylamide). I was merely putting the facts out without hype.
-- Posted by DaveMunson on Sat, Feb 4, 2012, at 11:36 AM
Fair enough, Dave Munson. On perhaps another tangent, next time I go to a fast food drive through, I think I will do something like this:
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-- Posted by Leah Cauthron on Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 9:23 AM
It has also been reported that ingesting a lot of char from grilled meats can be linked to cancer. Yet, grilling is one of the healthier ways to cook meat. You can also cook starchy foods (in this case, potatoes) at high temps at home. This is not isolated to the fast food industry; I fail to see the hype, here. Also, is there a reason this post was written to sound like an end-times cryer on a street corner?
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William G. "Billy" Houck Jr., 52, of Tiffin, passed away Wednesday morning, Dec. 5, 2012, Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo.
He was born Jan. 7, 1960, in Tiffin, to William G. and Bernadine A. (Roe) Houck Sr. He married Barbara Marker Feb. 14, 1996, and she survives.
Survivors also include a son, Brad (Amanda) Marker of Republic; daughter, Kelly (Carl Prenzlin) Marker of Tiffin; brother, Andrew (Carolyn) Houck of Tiffin; sister, Nelene (Lanny) Keckler of Tiffin; and six grandchildren, Brittain A. Marker, Brooklynn R. Marker, Alyvia M. Roth, Aydin B. Marker, Brayden J. Prenzlin and Baylee C. Prenzlin.
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Billy graduated in 1978 from Tiffin Columbian High School and in 1985 from Terra Technical College. He was a member of Tiffin First Church of the Nazarene and worked at Black Hawk Automotive, Upper Sandusky. He was a Cleveland Indians fan and enjoyed playing cards with his family. Billy loved his dog, Daisy, and his fish and birds. Most of all, Billy enjoyed spending time with his family and friends.
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With 26 years in the Air Force Security Forces, an Associate's in Criminal Justice, a Bachelor's in Workforce Education, a Masters in higher Education and 19 years with the Summerville Police Department, 63-year-old Lt. Ron L. Thomason of Summerville has done a lot with his life.
He grew up in Detroit and joined the Air Force after high school. He received his degrees from Northern Michigan, Maryland and Southern Illinois universities.
Retiring from the Air Force in 1994, after two tours of duty in Viet Nam, he came to SPD and has been here ever since, he says.
In addition to his police academy training, he has completed detective school, training in police photography, narcotics surveillance, elder and child abuse and traffic school.
He started in patrol, then became a detective, then a School Resource Officer, then back to patrol and, finally, traffic.
"They were all good," he says, "but I like traffic best…you get out more."
Thomason says he enjoyed being a detective because you get to see cases to the end.
His next step up the career ladder would be captain, he says. "If I get promoted, great - I just do the best job I can."
He does note, however, that he's "done just about everything [he] could do in law enforcement."
"I've decided I'd like to teach in law enforcement," he says. "I did all the instructor's schools in the Air Force."
His worst case, he says, as a police officer was the homicide of an elderly woman. "She didn't do anything, she didn't deserve to die." He tells of the killer - who was caught - being high on crack and needing money. "He didn't have to kill her."
His best experience, he smiles, came after he was an SRO.
"One of my old partners came and got me and showed me a young man in the Air Force. I didn't recognize him until he reminded me of an experience at school and told me he was in the Air Force because of what my partner Officer S. Williams and I did for him. He was constantly in trouble [in school] and one day was ready to fight and we calmed him down…it could have turned in another direction."
Thomason and his wife, Sharon, who is the after school coordinator at Northwood Academy, are the parents of two boys - Ray, 41 and Rodney, 39 - and grandparents of three - William, 9, Lindsey, 8, and Marcus, 7. Oh, and two schnauzers - Max and Calvin.
In his off time, he is a professional photographer. "I'm good," he says. "We are a team," referring to his wife. They shoot weddings and senior portraits and participate in the Operation Love program - a national organization that takes photos of families to send to service members overseas, free of charge.
He is a substitute teacher at Northwood Academy.
He and his wife also enjoy cooking and are creating new recipes to compile into a family cookbook to pass on.
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"I am always into sports," he chuckles, " and a fan of baseball - the Detroit Tigers of course.
He likes to read and his favorite reading material is the Bible.
Once he and his wife retire, they plan to travel. They want to return to Colonial Williamsburg and go to Alaska.
Thomason has already traveled the rest of the world while in the Air Force including Europe, Japan, Thailand, Guam, the Philippines and Kenya.
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quote: Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes.In a recent report by the Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 26 of 30 Fortune 500 companies examined had negative income tax rates on profits made in the U.S. between 2008 and 2011 (h/t Think Progress).
quote: The report issued by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy paints the corporate tax code as wildly inefficient, filled with loopholes and subject to the influence of lobbyists who carve out special provisions for the companies they represent.The study looked at 280 companies in the Fortune 500 that were profitable for all three years between 2008 and 2010.The results: 111 companies paid effective tax rates of less than 17.5% over the three-year period; 98 paid a rate between 17.5% and 30%; and 71 paid more than 30%.The average rate? 18.5%.
quote: 30 Companies average less than zero tax bill in the last three Years, 78 had at least one no-tax year.
quote: the United States actually has the lowest corporate tax burden of any of the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
quote: quote: Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes. - Huff&Puff
quote: The average rate? 18.5%. -CNN
quote: quote: the United States actually has the lowest corporate tax burden of any of the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. - CTJ
quote: Individual taxpayers in the "99 percent category" typically pay 25-30+ percent.
quote: Oh poor corporations, how sad of them having to pay a minor fraction of their massive profits compared to what their smaller competitors and individuals pay. Yes, how unfair.
quote: Don't cry when your job get shipped overseas, praise the glorious corporate machine.
quote: Well yeah, because our government is so fiscally responsible with its money and has regulations like corporations to deal with in fiscal responsibility.
quote: And taxing them at what, 40%, 50%, will bring jobs back? What's the number Jason? What's the magic corporate tax rate that will make things "happen" again?
quote: Well it's all in the perspective:http://www.businessinsider.com/ireland-bound-eaton...Keep raising them taxes and watch those jobs come right back!
quote: Half of those "99%" pay next to nothing after tax breaks like the EIC while the top 25% pays nearly 90%:http://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.ht...
quote: "Profits" are different than profit margins, which is what counts on the books in quarterly earnings reports.
quote: Yep, because government is so great at fiscal responsibility with the money others, and other entities, create.Seriously, man?
quote: But enough with the Obama Talking Points, okay?
quote: As for a flat tax, I'm with you on that one. But you can see how easy it will be for legislators to start out with a flat tax and then do carve-outs and breaks, in some cases because they are beholden to donors and in other cases simply because they believe certain things should be promoted (such as charitable donations, or --gasp!-- investing in industry).
quote: (1) You are NOT being "taxed at 30+ percent." That's the MARGINAL rate; your overall rate is probably 15%. Divide the amount of tax you paid last year by your income last year.(2) You just hate the fact that those fat cats are taxed at just 15%. You do understand, don't you, that those are capital gains, which the government has for a very long time should be taxed at a lower rate in order to encourage investment. Tell you what: you make a crapload of money at your regular job, then after paying regular income tax you take the net proceeds and buy a crapload of stock. Wait a year, then quit your regular job and sell a little stock at a time. Guess what? You too will be paying just 15%!
quote: http: //economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/are-t... quote: the United States actually has the lowest corporate tax burden of any of the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
quote: Jason, that's a common trick I see to try to make it look like U.S. corporations aren't paying their fair share of taxes. Frequently it's coupled with an argument that U.S. corporate tax rates need to be increased (even though they're already the highest in the OECD).Looking at corporate tax receipts as a percent of GDP fails to take into account that the U.S. has a substantially lower overall tax burden than most OECD countries. In other words, it is not a valid data point for the question: "Are corporations paying their fair share of taxes?" (ignoring for this post that the difference between corporate and personal taxes is irrelevant)The U.S. typically sits at 25%-28% tax revenue as percent of GDP, while the OECD average is around 35%.http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/table/2075851...http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/taxation/taxes-on-cor...If you take the average of the 2003-2009 data from the above two tables, you find that:- U.S. tax revenue is 26.4% of GDP- OECD tax revenue is 34.7% of GDP- OECD tax revenue is 1.315x higher than the U.S.- U.S. corporate tax revenue is 2.56% of GDP, 9.70% of total- OECD corporate tax revenue is 3.41% of GDP, 9.85% of total- OECD corporate tax revenue is 1.335x than the U.S.In other words, corporations aren't being favored in the U.S. The ratio of corporate tax receipts to overall tax revenue for the U.S. and the OECD average are virtually identical. By OECD standards, U.S. corporations are paying their fair share of taxes. The lower tax revenue from corporations in the U.S. is almost exactly explained by the lower overall tax burden in the U.S.(The difference isn't quite so close. Ideally, you should subtract the U.S. from the OECD average before comparing. But it's late, I need to get to sleep, and the U.S. represents just 1/34th of the average so the error is going to be very small.)


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Where can you find our students when they're not in class? The library, of course! But on the off chance that they're not hitting the books, students are probably enjoying many of the restaurants, shopping centers, parks and other cool hang-outs within a short distance of campus. Check out these links for more info about the Sugar House neighborhood.
The SLC music scene ranges from rock and emo to blues and punk, with a variety of clubs and coffeehouses featuring local artists. Comedy is always on tap with the Laughing Stock, Utah's longest-running improv group. And of course, there are lots of great restaurants and movie theatres.
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Between being a quarter Irish myself and my mom marrying into an Irish family, we never need an excuse to, ahem, have a good time.
But for the rest of the population that doesn't have a drop of Irish in them, there's always a ready-made excuse in St. Patrick's Day.
While many see it as an excuse to wear green, drink beer, and dig into a plate of corned beef and cabbage, March 17 has a bit more back history.
The day marks the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland.
The saint's religious feast day has been observed as a religious holiday in Ireland for more than 1,000 years.
And as St. Patrick's Day falls during the Christian season of Lent, it traditionally has been a day to set aside Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat in favor of dancing, drinking and feasting.
In a nod to my heritage and family, and in honor of St. Patrick, I've decide to forego my typical format to dedicate my space to a listing of local events that will have you partying like the Irish.
St. Paddy's Day Block Party & Parade
What: The 11th annual St. Paddy's Day Block Party & Parade claims to be the biggest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the Lowcountry. The family-friendly event will feature live music across three stages, bagpipe music, a mechanical bull, food vendors and trucks, a kids' zone with jump castles, face-painting and more. Live music will be performed by the Charleston Hot Shots, The V-Tones, High Gravity Jazz Band, Lizzy Pitch, Folkgrass, The Three Dudes, The Ryan Perry Band, Karl Byrne, Don Merckle & the Blacksmiths and Wadata.
When: Noon-7 p.m. Saturday; road closures begin at 9 a.m.
Where: Olde Village of North Charleston (East Montague Avenue near Park Circle)
Price: Free
More info: www.madraruapub.com
St. Patrick's Celebration
What: The annual celebration in downtown Charleston will start off with a traditional Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on St. Philip's Street, a parade down King and Broad streets, a raising of the Irish flag over City Hall, and conclude with Irish meals and entertainment at local pubs. During the 16th annual parade, expect to see vintage cars, hear live music, see a sea of green and more.
When: 8 a.m. Mass, 10 a.m. parade, 11:30 a.m. flag raising, noon entertainment Monday
Where: King Street
Price: Free
More Info: 709-0732
Folly Beach St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl
What: Eleven Folly Beach bars and restaurants will be participating in the annual St. Patrick's Day Pub Crawl. Each location will have food and drink specials, contest and games. Prizes will be awarded to event-goers after the crawl at Loggerhead's on West Ashley Avenue. Participants in this year's crawl are Loggerhead's, Woody's, Folly Brew Pub, Drop-In Deli, Planet Follywood, Crab Shack, The Grill and Island Bar, Surfbar, Blu, Rita's Seaside Grille and Snapper Jack's. Proceeds from the event will benefit Folly Beach charities.
When: Noon-5 p.m. Saturday
Where: Center Street, Folly Beach
More info: VisitFolly.com
St. Patrick's Bar Crawl
What: More than 40 local bars and pubs will participate in this special two-day St. Patrick's bar crawl.
When: 11 a.m. Saturday and Monday
Where: Mercury Bar, 547 King St.
Price: $10 per day
More Info: www.barcrawls.com/charleston/stpatricksday
St. Patrick's Weekend
What: Blu Restaurant and Bar will host a weekend-long St. Patrick's Day celebration with live Irish music, a special menu and more.
When: 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Where: Blu Restaurant and Bar, 1 Center St., Folly Beach
Price: Free
More Info: 588-6658 or www.blufollybeach.com
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
What: Acoustic guitarist Walter McDonough will play Irish favorites, with bagpipers and Irish dancers.
when: 1 p.m. Saturday and Monday
where: Dunleavy's Pub, 2213-A Middle St., Sullivan's Island
more info: 883-9646
St. Patrick's Celebration
What: This concert of traditional Celtic music will include an Irish buffet, beverages and more.
When: 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Lance Hall, Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting St.
Price: $30
More Info: 577-6400 or www.taylormusicgroup.net
St. Patrick's Lunch
What: Jasmine Porch will offer a special Irish-themed St. Patrick's Day lunch menu.
When: 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday
Where: Jasmine Porch, 1 Sanctuary Beach Drive, Kiawah Island
Price: $17
More Info: 768-6253 or www.kiawahdining.com


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FAU Presents Three Different Plays, a Big Band Concert and a Piano Gala Extravaganza this Summer
BOCA RATON, Fla. (April 30, 2013) – Florida Atlantic University's Department of Theatre and Dance in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters will present an expanded Festival Repertory Theatre for 2013 with the musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum;" a comedy in three acts titled "The Man Who Came to Dinner;" the musical revue "Side by Side by Sondheim;" as well as two big band concerts titled "Hits of the Swing Era" and a four-piano extravaganza. The three plays are on a rotating schedule with afternoon and evening performances from Friday, June 21 through Sunday, July 21. The concerts take place from Friday, July 26 through Sunday, July 28. All shows are at the University Theatre and Studio One Theatre at 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," which runs from Friday, June 28 through Sunday, July 21, is based on a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical tells the lewd tale of Pseudolus, a Roman slave who strives to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The farcical plot twists and turns with slapstick humor, cases of mistaken identity and social satire. The musical won several Tony Awards including "Best Musical" and "Best Book."
"The Man Who Came to Dinner," which runs from Saturday, July 13 through Saturday, July 20, is a comedy set in the 1930s. Radio personality Sheridan Whiteside, who is invited to dine at the house of a prominent Ohio family, slips on a patch of ice outside the front door and injures his leg. Following doctor's orders, Whiteside is to remain confined to quarters, whereupon he delights in meddling with the lives of everyone in the household.
"Side by Side by Sondheim" features the music and lyrics of Steven Sondheim. The revue, which runs from Saturday, June 22 through Sunday, July 7, thematically ties together many of the famous composer and lyricist's best known songs. A narrator reveals insight into the background, motivation and musical styles Sondheim used in the development of his work. Featured songs include "Comedy Tonight," "Love is in the Air," "Send in the Clowns," "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" and "Side by Side by Side."
Finally, Festival Repertory Theatre will close out the summer with a four-piano extravaganza on Friday, July 26 and "Hits of the Swing Era" big band concerts on Saturday, July 27 and Sunday, July 28.
"Festival Rep," now in its 15th year, will once again feature professional equity actors working alongside FAU's finest graduate students in their last production before they graduate and enter the world of professional theatre. Tickets range from $12 to $20 with package tickets and group tickets available. For tickets, call 800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com. For a full schedule of performances, visit www.fau.edu/festivalrep.
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Ponder this: The rock star cameos and tails of music industry excess that populate Marc Spitz's "Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s" are the least interesting thing about it.
That's not to say hearing about Spitz's email relationship with Courtney during his Spin magazine days ("Don't do heroin," she advised the author. "It's passé. I killed it. It's over baby. Stop it right now.") or his nerves around Smiths icon Morrissey ("I haplessly stuck paper towels to my forehead to blot the sweat," Spitz writes), is not fascinating.
But "Poseur" moves beyond mere industry gossip, into somewhere infinitely more satisfying. It is a truly moving study of a disappeared New York, of a Bukowski-obsessed Long Island kid's desperate desire to immerse himself in its romantic ideals, and where that longing took him.
Music critic memoir? Yes, it's that, too. But it's so much more.
Spitz is the author of biographies of Mick Jagger and David Bowie, along with studies of L.A.'s punk scene, novels and plays. He's also contributed to Spin, Rolling Stone, New York magazine and the New York Times.
But above all else, he is a needle-sharp, self-deprecating writer with pop culture coursing through his veins. These references are his lifeblood; they're part of how and why he became who he is.
This is a memoir, then, where names from the last 20 or so years of music come rushing back — not just Nirvana, Wu-Tang Clan and Sonic Youth, but Urge Overkill, Toadies and Seven Mary Three, too — and movies, icons and song titles are as ubiquitous as sunshine.
Spitz drops in "Goodfellas" references; on his father's nose-dive into the white stuff: "And with the mid-seventies and the invention of coke culture, we were soon in the second act of 'Goodfellas' (jail, blow, 'Monkey Man,' and Carbone in the meat truck)."
He speaks of "Kids," Larry Clark's controversial tale of "virgin surgeon" Telly and his teenage friends, as a cautionary tale for a mid-'90s heroin addict like himself: " 'Kids' was like being trapped in a room with your younger, stupider self (if your younger, stupid self was a white b-boy skater). It made me want to get an AIDS test and go home to Long Island forever."
And he equates his style of dancing to Hughes-ian Reagan-era cinema: "We pushed past the sweaty bodies onto the floor and did the white kid new wave movie hop, which I could do pretty well. You basically dance like they do in the montages in 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Valley Girl,' 'Hot Dog: The Movie,' or any number of eighties flicks."
Indeed, it's hard for me not to swoon over a writer who speaks of "stopping everything to watch 'The Godfather' and 'The Godfather Part II,' " or had a romance "scored to Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Elastica, Pulp."
And as someone who makes his living as a writer and editor, and actually began as a (quasi) music critic, I found myself feeling intimately connected to Spitz, his style and his journey. His description of dating (sort of) and loving the actress Julie Bowen, for example, is the kind of wistful, adoring thing that perhaps only a skinny former pop-obsessive could truly identify with:
"I thought of kissing her, of how she tasted like watermelon and salt, and how necking with someone so beautiful felt like a small victory for every awkward kid who ever lived."
That prettiness alternates with casual sex at South by Southwest, the intrusion of sudden pregnancy and abortion, think pieces on Jeff Buckley and a then still-MIA Axl Rose, and a melancholy feeling that a certain era of music journalism and NYC life itself is now gone. Spitz was there for the dying days.
But "Poseur" is no death march. Its first chunk, especially, is coming-of-age bliss, never more so than when young Spitz moved to the elegantly wasted confines of the Chelsea Hotel, that mythical rest stop for everyone from Kerouac and Burroughs to Sid Vicious and Edie Sedgwick.
Spitz, on waking up after the scary first night at 222 W. 23rd St.:
"I woke up, and it was a Chelsea morning, and I was still alive. That very fact made me bold. I might have only slept an hour and a half. It was still early, but I sensed that was the most important hour and a half in my life."
This is criticism and memory merged, and it's funny, beautiful and wise.
In the end, long after that night at the Chelsea, Spitz points to a Patti Smith quote that perhaps indicates his romantic quest for New York life, while worth it in this case, may not be the path to greatness today: "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling," said the punk poetess. "But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."
That is the book's real victory. It makes the reader – any reader, really – feel that the youthful aspiration to "find your city" is not a shallow, silly pursuit but a wholly necessary one. It's essential reading for any burgeoning or even veteran writer, especially one who ever dreamed of dating Chloe Sevigny or sipping tea with Morrissey.
It is the music memoir as art, and it just might make some mp3-hording music-journo-wannabe teenager in Westchester County (or West Falls) think of Spitz the way he once thought of Charles Bukowski. And that's strong praise.
Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s
By Marc Spitz; Da Capo Press, 336 pages, $15.99 (paper)
Christopher Schobert is a staff editor at Buffalo Spree and a frequent Buffalo News contributing critic.


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quote: -Much like corporations lay off the older employees (because they cost too much to insure, etc etc) Mitt Romney wanted to stop taking care of them.
quote: -Much like corporations discriminate against women (because they cost more to insure, the 'inconvenience' of working arount maternity, etc etc) Mitt Romney had pretty vocal views on how he planned to restrict their rights.
quote: Much like corporations discriminate against minorities (I don't go into details, they are pretty obvious if you've worked in a multiracial environment) Mitt Romney planned on dismantling affirmative action, cut funding to social services such as food stamps (one of the few good social services programs I approve of) and raise the price of education by cutting grants.
quote: Self reliant, responsible, productive people who don't live to see what else they can get from the government and just want to be left alone. How horrible of people those like me are.
quote: How about the billions cut from Medicare payments under Obamacare? Yeah that won't impact the elderly at all.
quote: Why should a less deserving black/hispanic person get a job or into college vs a more deserving white person simply because there is an "unbalance"?
quote: Tell me, if you decided to start a nascar team TODAY would you be able to IMMEDIATELY compete with say... the #2 or the #48??? NO?? Why not? Oh yeah! THEY HAVE HAD A HEAD START AND HAVE AN ADVANTAGE!!
quote: My Congressman would be offended by your statement. He is black, grew up in a single parent home, in a poor part of town, in a public school, and he now is a private business owner and a US Congressman. Why? Because he was taught self responsibility and to work hard.
quote: Tell that to Toyota. Nearly all the cars are the same to begin with. It comes down to the driver. If you could hire away a good driver from another team, you'd absolutely be competitive soon.
quote: So future generations have to pay for the sins of their forefathers into eternity?
quote: I would only wish that the sons of the fathers who committed these terrible acts would seek forgiveness for their father's actions and do everything they can to make a wrong right - NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES.
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As children we are enthralled by the stories that we hear. Stories teach us and fire our imaginations to what is possible in this world. And as adults, we're not much different. It's one thing to hear about a process, product or idea, but hearing the story of the trials and triumphs that accompanied the implementation of that process, product or idea is what sticks with us and gives our imagination flight as to the possibilities within our own situation.
Case studies are like stories and there are a whole host of them that Microsoft has put together on a variety of technologies and solutions. There are 79 just on private cloud implementations and a number on Windows Azure have been highlighted on the Windows Azure site. However, there is nothing quite like hearing the story right from the author, or in this case, right from one of the people in the story.
In July, Mary Jo Foley was on the show and talked about Microsoft's cloud offerings from an industry perspective. For our next show, we thought it would be interesting to talk to a few folks who have actually been working on cloud solutions using Microsoft technologies either internally or for their customers. Hosts Jonathan Rozenblit and Ruth Morton chat with Bruce Johnson and John White about public and private cloud implementations they've done for their companies and for their clients. They also share stories of the barriers they had to overcome and the successes they enjoyed.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
I just finished reading an article describing a horrendous fire in Myrtle Beach, where more than 100 condominium homes were destroyed in minutes. Comments included "flames burned in the rafters" and ""the way buildings are constructed these days, they burn hot and fast."
As I reread these statements, especially the last one, all I can say is, "Huh?"
I do not know how these buildings were constructed, but all I could see, when reading this story, was the very large multi-story apartment buildings being constructed on Coleman Boulevard in Mount Pleasant, standing there as a monumental tribute to what 100 percent wood can actually be used for.
Please tell me that there are firewalls in the attic space and please tell me that there are sprinklers in the apartment units. Please do not tell me that smoke alarms are the answer; they are too little and too late.
The idea that the Horry County Fire Chief can say that this recent "hot and fast" fire in Myrtle Beach is because of "the way buildings are constructed these days" is upsetting, and a shameful indictment on the South Carolina building codes.
Everyone who has watched these apartment buildings being built and looks at these very large buildings, wholly made of wood up to several stories high, always has the same question: What if there is a fire?
Well Mount Pleasant and Beach Company: What if there is a fire?
Seymour Rosenthal
Mount Pleasant
Picture this: It's summer. It's hot, and your children are home from school. They want to go outside. They want to play with their friends and they want to go to the swimming pool. Because you live in 2013, they can and they do. But it hasn't always been that way. Some folks can remember summers in the late 1940s. It was hot and kids had just as much energy, if not more. But you wouldn't dream of letting them go swimming, or even out of the house, because there was a highly contagious disease going around out there that could cause paralysis and even death. It was called polio.
The healthy world that our kids grow up in today is made possible, in part, by the March of Dimes. Created in 1938 by President Franklin Roosevelt, who had polio himself, the March of Dimes funded research for the vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin that would effectively end the polio epidemic in the United States, setting countless parents' minds at ease. There hasn't been a single new case of polio here in more than three decades.
For the March of Dimes, the polio vaccine was only the beginning of its work to help make kids and babies healthier. Flash forward with me now to the 1960s: You're expecting your first child when you develop a fever, swollen lymph nodes and a strange rash. You have rubella, commonly known as German measles. This isn't terribly surprising, as epidemics take place every six to nine years, but because you're pregnant, if you pass the disease to your unborn child, she could be born with severe birth defects.
In 1969, Dr. Virginia Apgar and the March of Dimes led a rubella immunization program, with the goal of eradicating congenital rubella syndrome.
Today, the U.S. can boast that it hasn't had a case of congenital rubella syndrome in 30 years.
The 1960s also bring a new president. John F. Kennedy is an inspiration to a generation. But there is a sadness in the Kennedy family. A baby son, born too soon and weighing only five pounds, dies from breathing problems. The world is left to wonder to this day what might have been if Patrick Bouvier Kennedy had lived.
Death was a tragic but common outcome of preterm births before the 1970s, when the March of Dimes called for a regionalized system of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to care for very sick babies all across the U.S. The breathing problems that claimed the Kennedy's son remained a challenge until the 1980s, when March of Dimes grantee T. Allen Merritt of the University of California San Diego Medical Center developed "surfactant therapy" to help the immature lungs of babies born too small or too soon. This treatment is now used in hospitals every day, and has saved the lives of tens of thousands of babies.
Advancements continued, and in 1993 March of Dimes launched the National Folic Acid Campaign to raise awareness of the importance of this B-vitamin in preventing serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs), and to increase the number of childbearing-age women who consume a daily multivitamin with folic acid as part of a healthy diet.
The foundation also lobbied the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add folic acid to the grain food supply, which was mandated in 1998. NTDs have declined by about one-third since food fortification.
Will all these accomplishments, it's no exaggeration to say that the March of Dimes touches the life of every baby in some way.
As the organization enters its 75th year in 2013, funds are being allocated to research new treatments to prevent or halt preterm labor. And in communities across the country, more women are getting essential services and education to have the healthiest possible pregnancy.
Why the history lesson today? Because as parents in 2013, we're lucky. Our children will likely be healthier than any other from previous generations.
And while most of the country is familiar with the name March of Dimes, few know the full scope of what this remarkable, uniquely American institution organization has done and is doing to create a healthier future for our children and our grandchildren.
Just look how far they have come.
I hope you will support the March of Dimes this year by making a donation or participating in March for Babies in honor of their 75th birthday. To find out more, please contact 843-571-1776 or email email@example.com or visit www.marchforbabies.org
Oliver H. Mathewes
Board Chairman, March of Dimes
I was disturbed and disgusted to learn that our veterans had to wait for two years to receive their benefits. The VA is not being managed properly and the director should be fired for incompetence. Fix the problem, now.
Our volunteer veterans didn't wait two years to serve our country. They answered the call. Please call your congressmen and senators and demand action on this important issue. Also, let the president know that he needs to act to solve the problem.
Phil Siegrist
Mount Pleasant
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Ever since she went to school in the south of France, Blake Lively has been dreaming of how she'll one day create her perfect kitchen.
"My kitchen is the most important part of my home," the actress, 25, tells Elle Decor. "I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook."
Now that she's married to Ryan Reynolds and living in a $2 million home in Bedford, N.Y., the star is ready to start making those kitchen dreams a reality.
While studying abroad, she learned about La Cornue, a high-end manufacturer of kitchen ranges. "I was on a road trip, stuck in traffic, when I looked to my left saw the most beautiful ranges I've ever seen in my life. I left my car there and jumped out to run to the window. Everybody was honking at me. I took a picture of the window and I thought: One day I'm going to have that!
Lively, it seems, is a young Martha Stewart in the making: One of the reasons the couple chose their home? "We loved the kitchen," she says. "It's really the family room."
She plans to outfit her kitchen with the range she loves, and will now have to compete with another chef in the family to use it.
"I'll have to fight my mom for it," jokes the star. "She is an amazing chef." The family is full of them, it seems. "We've got a big family, and we're very close," adds Lively. "My brothers are great at pies, and the girls usually do the savory things."
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A portion of ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS' recent performance Amsterdam's La Carre Theatre has recently surface at the Web site Uitzending Gemist HERE. The clip features Antony performing a new song titled "Salt, Silver, Oxygen."
Having recently wrapped a proper tour of Europe, ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS has embarked on their Summer Symphony Tour, with dates in Europe and UK and two band shows in Madrid on July 7th and Paris on July 9th. Antony's appearance at the Manchester International Festival on July 3 and 4 will include staging designed in a collaboration with artists Paul Normandale, Chris Levine and Carl Robertshaw. And during his concert during Paris Couture Week, Antony will perform in a costume created in a collaboration with Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci.
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I read the Art of War for pleasure
And I like reading about strategic legends like this one
Borrowing of arrows with straw boats
Prior to the Battle of Red Cliffs, Zhuge Liang visited Sun Quan's camp to assist Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang's talent and felt that Zhuge would become a threat to his lord in future. He assigned Zhuge Liang the task of making 100,000 arrows in ten days or face execution for failure in duties under military law. Zhuge Liang promised that he could complete the mission in three days. With help from Lu Su, Zhuge Liang prepared 20 large boats, each manned by a few soldiers and filled with human-like figures made of straw and hay.
At dawn, when there was a great fog, Zhuge Liang deployed the boats and they sailed towards Cao Cao's camp across the river. He ordered the troops to beat war drums loudly and shout orders to imitate the noise of an attack. Upon hearing the noise, Cao Cao's troops rushed out to engage the enemy, but they were unsure of the enemy's strength, because their vision was obscured by the fog. They fired volleys of arrows towards the sound of the drums and the arrows became stuck in the straw figures. In the meantime, Zhuge Liang was enjoying wine with Lu Su inside the cabin and they returned to camp when the fog cleared. Zhuge Liang acquired more than 100,000 arrows with his plan and Zhou Yu had no choice but to let him off.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3giFgB...ngmachine.htm/ these are hilarious answering machine messages
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MikeDBloke - PSN
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@D_Bloke - My inane prattle
Homewrecker on pyro, where have I heard that before? Oh wait thats right, I run my own self made one all day. Nothing like Crit homewreckering another pyro across the face TBCFH.


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Ok GM wanna bees, it's that time of the year. No, we are not going to get a top six FA forward that is big and tough because there are none available. Cleary will be re-signed. Flip will go. Bert will stay, Cola will be bought out. Sammy will not be bought out because he will claim to be injured. We will trade for a mediocre player and that will be it.
I'm not saying this as a Holland critic, I am saying that that is realitically what will happen. There are no superstars available and the really good trades are to expensive.
Remeber the trade deadline - Iginla, Jagr, Morrow. None of them worked out. Jagr got to the finals but didn't score a single goal in the playoffs. And don't forget Nash last year.
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he is such a twonkie..he said that 2+2=3
Audrey: haha she loves to do stunts that will be dagerous. she will break something.
Zui: yeah she is such a twonkie lol
Audrey: haha she loves to do stunts that will be dagerous. she will break something.
Zui: yeah she is such a twonkie lol
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A ripoff of the delicious snack made of 60% air. Twonkies cost less and are usually purchased by low income households.
"I admit it, that was no twinkie....
my mother buys twonkies!"
(goes off into a corner to cry)
my mother buys twonkies!"
(goes off into a corner to cry)
by Mightyted June 08, 2003
Slang term for a Caucasian person in an African American community.
"Man, look at this white-ass twonkie walkin' through the streets."
by A Type of Juice June 20, 2014
A cat from Puerto Rico. The cat survived many death threats and currently lives with a well off owner. It was once decided that the cat would be thrown out of a 14th floor building with a parachute on. A rip chord would be strapped to its leg so that while falling it would freak out and save its own life by pulling the chord. See "Total Badass" for more information.
"Dude, lets throw Twonkie out the window!"
"Not without a fucking parachute!"
"Not without a fucking parachute!"
by Twonks September 10, 2014
an overweight female, whose major interests usually include chocolates, television and laying around.
damm lets get the hell out of this bar, it is full of twonkies
by n.bishop November 18, 2006
stands for twilight junkie
Jess is such a twonkie. Her profile picture is of her wearing a twilight shirt and holding an apple.
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one who gets twonked
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Top Definition
The act of tweeting whilst going #2.
"That chick in the last stall is twooping".
автор: dragginphly 6 июня 2009
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The art of Tweeting while Pooping via any mobile device while in the bathroom.
DUDE: (Knocking madly at door): "Hey dude I need to use the Bathroom, it's an emergency!"
OTHER DUDE: "I'm almost done Twooping, it's this damn Spell Check holding me up!"
OTHER DUDE: "I'm almost done Twooping, it's this damn Spell Check holding me up!"
автор: PirateSteve27 23 сентября 2011
An art form involving the contraction of the rectum combined with the rapid shaking of the ass. To simplify, the act of twerking and taking a shit simultaneously. Results include whiplash and shit being eternally plastered to the walls.
We went clubbing and some drunk bitch started twooping. My clothes are eternally fucked.
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a free downloading service online
I am not so sure about Blobb, but Kazaa gave me many troubles. Once my computer recovers, perhaps I will look into this blobb.com service.
I wonder if it has spyware.
I wonder if it has spyware.
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1.) a snake(someone who ganks your stuff). 2.) a sloppy diry person. 3.) A loser/conartist.
Someone who takes your stuff(money, clothing, ect.) and lies to your face when you confront them about doing these things when you know they did it. A Hell-doggy also doesnt have a heart.
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When No. 13 Oklahoma and No. 15 Texas clash on Saturday at the Cotton Bowl, one of college football's most colorful rivalries becomes a struggle for Big 12 survival.
For the first time since 1999, neither team is ranked in the top 10. It's just the second time in 15 years that both teams will arrive in the festive atmosphere at the State Fair of Texas already carrying a conference loss.
Even if all that was at stake was the Golden Hat trophy, the stakes would still seem high for the players involved. But it could also be an elimination game in the Big 12 championship chase.
The Sooners (3-1, 1-1 Big 12) have won the last two games, after Texas (4-1, 1-1) claimed four of the previous five.


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SHEPHERDSTOWN - An extremely well-attended political rally Monday for West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, featuring U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was ostensibly to unveil Tennant's education plank in her campaign platform.
But several topics were covered contrasting Democrats and Republicans, summed up by the often repeated slogan "Vote for Main Street, not Wall Street."
Held at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Shepherdstown, an estimated 400 people from the Eastern Panhandle and beyond attended the rally.
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West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, left, Democratic candidate for Senate, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at the conclusion of a campaign rally for Tennant at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Shepherdstown, Monday.
Tennant easily won the Democratic primary in May to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who is not seeking re-election.
Tennant will face U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., in the general election. Capito handily won her party's nomination in the primary.
Warren was elected to the Senate in 2012, defeating Republican Scott Brown, to become Massachusetts' first female senator. She has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2016.
Warren has introduced several pieces of legislation in the Senate to reduce the interest on federal student loans.
Ashley Hawkins of Harpers Ferry introduced Tennant and Warren. She is in her third year of law school at West Virginia University.
"I had to take a loan for law school and I'm $73,000 in debt," she told the crowd. "I'll be $108,000 in debt by the time I graduate. Those loans earn $11.53 in interest every day. I don't expect handouts, but students deserve lower interest rates on their student loans. We need a strong voice in the U.S. Senate. That's why we need Natalie Tennant."
In her remarks, Tennant defined the difference between Democrats and Republicans in the upcoming election.
"This race is not about me - it's about you and it's about students like Ashley," Tennant said. "We need to invest in our greatest resource: people. I support Sen. Warren's bill to lower interest rates on student loans. Today's students are tomorrow's workers and they must have the best tools to achieve success."
Warren said that she and Tennant do not agree on every issue.
"But on the core issues, we agree," Warren said during her remarks. "Our job is to fight for the families of America. I like Natalie. She's strong and she's ready to fight."
Warren has supported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's and the Obama administration's strict limitations on the amount of carbon that coal-fired power plants can discharge. Critics say the new limits will seriously hurt the coal industry of West Virginia. Tennant has criticized of the EPA's and administration's policies on carbon reductions.
Warren's bill that would have reduced the interest on student loans made by the federal government has stalled in the Senate.
"We've told students they need to have an education beyond high school, but the cost has skyrocketed, so the government will lend students money to go to school," she said. "There's a little hook in the government lending money. The American government is charging young people a high enough interest on their loans to pay for all the costs and to make tens of billions of dollars in profit - $66 billion in profits."
Warren said the profits are built into future federal budgets.
"To replace that money, all we need to do is stitch up the tax loopholes so that millionaires and billionaires pay the same tax rate as you," she said. "Republicans say it's more important to protect tax loopholes for millionaires than to protect our kids. They say it's more important to stand up for Wall Street than for families."
Warren asked the audience to spend part of each day until the general election in November working for Tennant's election.
"She has stepped up to the plate - we need to step up to the plate with her," Warren said. "What's at stake is Wall Street or families of West Virginia."
- Staff writer John McVey can be reached at 304-263-3381, ext. 128.