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The West Virginia Legislature hits the session's mid-point, and much important business remains. However, we are pleased that things have not been so busy that a resolution introduced by Delegate Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer, seems to be moving forward. Mercer would like to see John Denver's iconic "Take Me Home, Country Roads" become an official state song. The resolution passed the House of Delegates Friday, and moved to the West Virginia Senate's Government Organization Committee.
If passed, "Country Roads" would become the fourth official state song, joining "The West Virginia Hills," "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home" and "This Is My West Virginia."
While the other three anthems are somewhat well-known, "Country Roads," written in 1970, by Denver, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, has been an unofficial state anthem for years. Even though critics say the two most prominent geographical features mentioned in the song - the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains - only touch the state at one point, the song has resonated in the heart of every West Virginian since it appeared on Denver's 1971 album, "Poems, Prayers and Promises." The song's opening chords can stop a conversation, and the beautiful lyrics and melody are as much a part of the state's heritage as coal mining, Seneca Rocks, or a pepperoni roll.
The song is played at the beginning of every West Virginia University football game, and it is a moving scene to hear the crowd, arm-in-arm, and swaying with the rhythm, singing it following a Mountaineer victory.
It also is recognized by people outside of the state, as Michael Lipton, founder and director of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame noted. Even though Lipton says the honor should go to West Virginia native Hazel Dickens' song "West Virginia, My Home, he concedes the Denver anthem is the more-recognized song, not only here, but around the world. "My wife and I were in western China," he said in published reports. "We were at a wedding. There's a tradition where you get up and sing. We sang 'Country Roads' and people got up and sang. It was pretty crazy."
Hazel Dickens, who died in 2011, was a West Virginia native and an absolute musical treasure. Her "West Virginia, My Home" was probably her most requested song, and is certainly as deserving of this honor as is the Denver anthem. However, it is difficult to think of one song that is so associated with a state as "Country Roads" is with West Virginia.
There are important issues to discuss in Charleston in the coming weeks. But by passing this resolution, the Legislature would be officially recognizing what West Virginians have unofficially recognized for the past 40-plus years.


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Eiffel Tower with Trees marks the beginning of Delaunay's "destructive" phase: the solid form in his earlier works becomes fragmented and begins to crumble, though, unlike the objects of the Cubists' investigations, the tower here still remains distinguishable from the surrounding space. This works shows the beginnings of the artist's use of light to permeate and fracture solid form, splintering his subject into a kaleidoscope of shattered elements. As Delaunay's study of the energy and immateriality of light became more intense, his works began to express more clearly the artist's belief that light is the essence of all being—"the only reality"—and our perception of it the path to harmony.
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Elad Peled (born 1927) is a former Israeli general. He commanded the 36th Division, which operated in the West Bank during the Six-Day War.[1] In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a squad commander in the Palmach.[2] He was also later involved in the Yom Kippur War.[3]
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- ^ Herzog, Chaim; Shlomo Gazit (2005). The Arab-Israeli wars: war and peace in the Middle East from the 1948 War of Independence to the present. Random House, Inc. p. 177. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
- ^ a b S. Liebman, Charles; Eliʻezer Don-Yiḥya (1983). Civil religion in Israel: traditional Judaism and political culture in the Jewish state. University of California Press. p. 170. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
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I thought we might be finished, I thought Republicans might retreat from some from their extremist anti-womyn, anti-contraception, anti-human medieval belief that females are chattle. Did they, nope, they doubled down dug themselves a trench of quicksand. It is unbelievable what these dudes are willing to do to destroy their party with their public jihad against womyn. In their massive opposition to prescription drug coverage for womyn they remind me of the old story of Bison following each other mindlessly off a cliff, this cliff being the cliff of fair and equal access to prescription drug coverage for womyn.
Yesterday began with Daryl Issa's, Chairman of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, holding a hearing hilariously and ironically titled: "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?" It was great because of course Congressman Issa had no womyn on his original panel of dudes he called to testify on behalf of Issa's conclusion which came long before he called this hearing, It is obvious that for Issa and his pals in congress that hearing on contraceptive coverage was held to find a way to get to no, using whatever possible including banning womyn who are pro-choice from testifying at the hearing.
That is how the day began, but as we moved quickly into afternoon we heard Rick Santorums SuperPac guy Mr. Foster Friese. Friese stunned Andrea Mitchell when he made the statement that womyn in his era used and asprin between their legs as their form of contraception, which I guess explains all those teenagers getting married in the 1950's and early 60's. He was doing what all those old guys do, he was inferring that womyn who use contraception are sluts. Yikes, and all Santorum's staff can say, is that Friese doesn't work for the campaign. Umm, Okay.
Overreach is the word of the day, Republicans are carrying on in Newt's footsteps, they love overreach, although they don't see it as overreach. Issa and his crew make excuses, THIS ISN'T ABOUT CONTRACEPTION, they scream, no, no, this is about RELIGIOUS FREEDUMB. You stick with that dudes, and you will see your party shrink enough for us to drown it in the bathtub, to quote your leader Grover Norquist.
This is part and parcel of what Julian Sanchez , David Frum, Jon Chait were discussing all last year, the Epistemic Closure of the Republican Party. It isn't only the case that Republicans are purging some of their best thinkers from their club, David Frum from the American Enterprise Institute or Andrew Sullivan a man who was once considered a "good conservative" and Bruce Bartlett, who was fired by a right wing think tank called the National Center for Policy Analysis in 2005 for writing a book critical of George W. Bush's policies, who has written that he even lost a great many friends and been shunned by conservative society in Washington, DC after his book came out, sacrilege!
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"is in a state of collapse -- over 50 percent of voters give the Republican Party a cool, negative rating. The presidential race and the congressional battles are interacting with each other to drive down their lead candidate, the party, and perceptions of the congressional Republicans."
According to that survey those voters who gave Democrats victories in 2006 and 2008 are back, in a big way, in particular among unmarried womyn. Their direct assault on our rights is going to kill off their chances in the fall, it will mostly likely affect those running down ticket as well, this issue alone will relegate Republicans to a smaller and smaller slice of the electorate. And they don't seem to care one bit.
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The single funniest video I have seen this year occured when Babwa Walters responded WHAT? to Herman Cain's hope of being Secretary of Defense someday.
But the SECOND funniest video involved Andrea Mitchell responding with a gasp to the Bayer Aspirin quip.
And I think this has something to do with phonemes (bare ass); but it really was the reaction of Andrea. I mean with her new commercials out on MSNBC and with her thirty or forty years of journalistic meanderings across the world this woman has heard everything as has Barbara.
Andrea followed up on this gasp on her show and MSNBC has been guesting a lot of women in the past couple of days.
This all male panel has been put up on the cable screen scores of times.
Issa looks so bad on all this.
And I have been reading blogs and articles on this perspective at Huffpo and Dailybeast and Slate and Think Progress and the repubs are coming out in droves attempting to defend themselves with some 1st Amendment crap.
And it is falling flat everywhere except FOX and who the hell cares about FOX--just 30% of Americans who really hate America.
Let the repubs dance this hokey-pokey.
If they end up with 30% of the female vote in this country, I will be amazed.
Good follow-up Mac!
Thanks Dick. I am glad to see women finally getting their voice about this issue.
Like the venomous insect in the tale about the scorpion and the frog, the GOP's nature is to destroy their enemies even if the GOP destroys itself in the process. They openly make sexist and racist comments to feed red meat to the GOP base. At some point, even GOP women have to break ranks with this nonsense.
I think Independent women are the ones mostly affected by this, I don't know so much about Republican women. And for sure it is Independent women Republicans need to attract if they want to win this election. And it seems they don't want to win at all.
Can someone help me on this? I'm having trouble understanding what religious freedom is being assaulted and / or trampled upon. Since when do Protestant religions cheer on anything that involves the Catholic church imposing their beliefs on non-Catholics? I am obviously missing something here. Either that or the spinning has gotten me so dizzy my mind can't focus on the obvious answer. The other day, a Facebook friend recommended I read an article in the National Review, which was so over-the-top insane, I could barely get through it. It was a rant about the Obama administration and their conspiracy to destroy the separation of church and state, blah, blah, blah.
When this whole thing started, I thought the issue seemed simple; if a religious organization chooses to work in the public sector, why should they be allowed to make adherence to their religious beliefs, a condition of receiving that service? If the Catholic church provides non-religious services, and receive grants and other support from the government, don't they have to perform services in a manner which is consistent with the laws of the land, as opposed to the laws of the Catholic church? And if they hire people in the open market, and not through their religious organization, how do they justify forcing their beliefs on their employees? And now here's where my mind continues to be boggled; how do the Right wingers make a case that it's Obama destroying the separation of church and state? Isn't giving the Catholic church special dispensation from compliance with the law doing that? I understand Catholics not wanting to go against their own teachings. But then, don't choose to work amongst non-believers with the expectation that you can tell them what THEY should believe. I keep thinking this harkens back to the 19th century missionaries in Africa, when Catholics brought medicine to the natives with the provision they first convert to believing in Jesus.
Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm focused on other things right now, maybe I'm an idiot, but I just don't understand. To me, it's like a weird nightmare where logic doesn't exist and elephants sh*t baloney and sell it as gold.
Oooh Mr. Smith good points!
I love your last paragraph, I don't get it either. I am a woman and I don't get it, it is as if Republicans are in total meltdown mode, but since Americans support the actions of the Administration you'd think they'd pull back from all of this, but no, they've doubled down, not sure why, but they did! Maybe they want to lose the house too.
Thanks Momoe!
Thanks for your post. This thing about Freiss has been bothering me a lot.
It's hard to believe a guy like Freiss would make the aspirin statement un-premeditated. On the one hand I have known so many guys like him who talk exactly like that, the wives demurring---oh, that's just the way Foster talks, etc.
What bothers me is that the media has now reacted, predictably, and where are we? Santorum is rallying his base and is on the national media bring up issues like---Reverend Wright.
It might have been off the cuff, and it might just have been well thought out. Just sayin'.
Weird thing is Oxy, I've met people like Mr. Friess too, no doubt about it, but I didn't realize that if you had tons of money you could basically get on TV to say whatever you want no thinking required! He didn't seem to realize his audience wasn't CPAC where they laughed at his dumb joke. That is the deal I think, he didn't realize there would be lots of folks in the country, okay women, who wouldn't laugh at that at all.
I don't care though, for me it was a laugh, b/c it does continue to make Republicans seems like Neanderthals, and for me that works just fine. I'd like to see the Republicans lose the house over this, and they would once and for all recognize that politicizing our health issues will hurt their efforts to Talibanize our government.
I can't dream right!
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Sorry to say this TMC, but you just listed all the badges of courage GOPers are proud to wear when out in the public square. They take pride in them there badges and the more fun you poke at them, them more important they become to their cause. In other words, you can't shame them simply because shame is self is on such a high level above them, they can't reach out and grab it to save themselves when all else fails.
Yeah your probably right Beetle.
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After watching the guys run drills, a few major things stuck with me. Jeff Taylor is becoming more confident, Zeller is legitimately good at shooting, Ewing is really going to help Biz use his length offensively, and MKG's jumper will be much better this season.
It's not just going to be because of good plays drawn up for him to hit wide open shots, it's because he's releasing the ball quicker. He hasn't done much to change the mechanics, but the hitch is less noticeable and he gets the ball off much quicker than he did last season. It still isn't pretty, but it's coming along nicely, and it's going to become a valuable weapon in his arsenal to keep defenders honest. Defenders will expect him to slash to the basket off the dribble, but he's going to have a much higher ability to pull back for a jumper this season.
Don't know who's responsible for the improving jumper... MKG working on it during the offseason, Mark Price working with him, or what, but it's coming along really well. I don't know if he's ever going to get that hitch out, or the weird shooting arm in front of his face, but release and accuracy is all that matters. The hitch is becoming quicker and it looks like he's making a real effort to get rid of it, and it's easy to see his jumper becoming more consistent and quicker off the release.
The other things were fairly expected... Biz impressed me quite a bit shooting as well. Showed the ability to hit jumpers consistently out past 16 feet. Zeller will be about as close to a seven foot point guard as a seven footer can become, and he's meshing really well with this team. And we need to keep JT. Based off of workouts, I'd say he should be ahead of Gordon on the depth chart at SG. We all know he simply lacked confidence last year, and while he wasn't bad, he didn't transition all that well. Year 2 looks to be much better for him.
That's all. The main point of the topic is MKG's jumper. Pretty sure Charlotte posted some videos from the workouts of MKG taking jumpers, so have a look for yourselves. Glad to see he's improving as much as he is.
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I just watched the practice highlights and he is still shooting with that hitch and on the way down.
I just dont understand what is so hard about imitating someone with proper form.
JT and Biz are looking good. Zeller is just freakishly skilled for someone his size.
You are making all your judgements from an edited highlight video. You can talk about changes in form but there's no way you can see it's reliability improving or tell that it's "coming along nicely" there is simply no way to tell
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I'm interested to watch MKG in summer league because I think a lot of these guys can work and work and work on their shot and until its in flow in a game it might not be real. Summer League isn't real either though. I've watched Plumlee beast up in the NC pro am for a couple years and he looked the same in the nets first game in Orlando. Doesn't mean much. Still...good news. Plow...don't hate.
i was assuming the guy went to practice or watched it through the windows or something. I don't think Jeff was even shooting in any of the videos, or Biz shooting 16 footers
Hard to tell from the brief clip, but it looks like MKG has reduced the hitch on set shots but still can't kick the habit shooting on the move. Baby steps, I guess.
Btw, for those who question why he can't just alter his shot, it's much easier said than done. Go to the local Y or the backyard and try to radically alter your jump shot. Shot from a set position and then try to shot off the bounce. Odds are, any shot off the bounce from beyond 10 FT is an air ball or a stupendous brick.
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How do you get rid of a partner who no longer sees the needs of the company
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I have a business with 2 partners and they have failed exponentially at making the business successfull and im looking for a way to cut them out
teamextension | Contributor | 6/18/2010 - 11:07 am
Follow the rules in your partnership agreement regarding partners exiting the business. I hope you have one.
NicoleD | Former Moderator | 6/18/2010 - 4:49 pm
Read more about partnerships and operating agreements on Business.gov
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BizResearcher | Window Shopper | 6/22/2010 - 1:53 pm
If you didn't have an attorney create a partnership agreement when you started the business, you may have to buy them out. You may need to talk to an attorney about your options and let him/her handle the negotiations.
CarlLakeside | Creator | 6/23/2010 - 12:11 am
There really isn't a good way to cut out your 2 partners that's why when you have partners, its' important to find good ones.
This really depends on how your business was setup. I would consult an attorney. Most likely, you'll need to buy out your other 2 partner's shares.
If that's the case, the 3 of you will need to determine the value of the company and if it was an equal partnership, you'll need to pay them 2/3 of the company's valuation.
You can negotiate since I'm guessing that you do all the heavy lifting and probably without you, the business will probably fail. But your partners will probably want something as they may have put in some time and money.
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Hire a good business lawyer and ask for sound legal advise.
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fleur9586 | Creator | 6/24/2010 - 8:57 pm
talk to him/her and open up your issues with that person. and tell him/her to help you cuz if not you will make some dicisions that will separate and end the partnership.
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- First of all - the Fox rental location is not at the Las Vegas airport. It took us forever to figure this out. We drove to the airport rental car location and couldn't see a sign for Fox anywhere. We eventually found an address and realized that it's miles from the airport. When you book online, you choose the Las Vegas airport as the only location.
We finally figured out where to go and arrived at the counter and had to wait (which is normal) quite a while. There were employees helping other people and when they left, so did the employee. We were stuck with one old guy while all the other employees stood around and chatted. The man who helped us was incredibly slow. We were with him for over an hour (which we'll never get back). We were told that the vehicle we had booked was not available (shocker).
Coming from another country means that we are not used to driving the massive vehicle that we were given. When we originally booked online the price we were quoted was $600 less than what we ended up being charged. The gentleman at the counter did try to find us discounts where he could, but in the end we paid so much more than what we thought we would. We ordered an infant seat and a child seat. After the longest hour of our lives we were brought to our car and given the seats. We were told that because of liability they couldn't help us install the seats. This was understandable, however they could not give us any information to help us. It was after 11pm at this time and after an hour wait we felt that this type of dismissal was unacceptable.
We had 2 children with their mother outside in the heat this entire time. The car seats in the US are different than the car seats in our country. Eventually when I got upset with an employee for not helping us at all he went and got a women who came out and told us what to do. She didn't show us - she just told us. We asked how the infant seat would go backwards because we were having trouble with it and she said, "oh, none of our seats go backwards. Once the child is 3 months it can face forward." I'd like to point out that it is Nevada state law that the child must face backwards until 1 year. If we had been in an accident with the child facing forward - this post would look a little different. How the hell does a rental car employee not know the laws that govern the state he/she works in. This alone should be cause for a complaint.
We also closely inspected the car seat the next day after some sleep and saw that it was a rear facing seat. The man who had originally found this woman to help us watched her telling us and then said, "Oh, I knew that." Are you kidding me? We finally got everyone in the vehicle and were so happy to be leaving because we had now been at that god forsaken location for about an hour and a half. As we got to the exit gate, the young man scanned our paperwork and VIN and declared that we had to go back to the office. The vehicle we had been given needed an oil change and he couldn't let us leave. I told him under no circumstances was I going back up there and that he needed to call the guys up there. He tried calling twice and he said his managers weren't answering.
Reluctantly we drove back up. I found 2 gentleman dressed differently to the rest of the staff, both standing out the front. I asked them if one of them could go and get a manager because I didn't want to go back inside and wait in line again (and there was a much longer line at this point). They asked me why and I explained that we had been here for over an hour an a half, it was well after 11pm and we were given a vehicle we hadn't asked for only to have it need an oil change. The guy got totally defensive. "What do you want me to do about it?" he said. "I need to see a manager or I am going to lose it!" I said. Guess what he said? "I'm the manager." "You can take this vehicle or I can get you a new one." I reiterated that we had already been given a vehicle we hadn't asked for and that we had been on site for a very long time and were very tired and would like to leave. "Ok, what do you want me to do?" and the way he said it was totally confrontational and dickish.
I said, "tell me that we can take this vehicle and the guy at the gate will let us leave." I was very frustrated at this time and I was completely shocked that the manager would not own this problem and try to help in any way. My boyfriend almost came over and beat the sh*t out of him for the way he was talking to me (take note, Fox Rent-A-Car Las Vegas manager - next time the guy may not have as much self control).
We finally got to leave. We called the Fox Rent-A-Car main line before we had to drop off our vehicle to make sure there wasn't anything we needed to know about at drop off (ie would we be stuck there again for another hour and a half and be late for our flight). The woman on the phone said, "I don't know, I don't work in one of the offices." She didn't offer to give our local office a call or to help us out in any way. Not everyone visiting the States has access to the internet to look up numbers for everything.
The car was dirty btw. When we were flipping the car seat the next day, so that a child wouldn't die when its spine was internally decapitated because baby's spines aren't fully developed when they're months old, there was all kinds of disgusting crap between the seats and around the seat-belt area.
Finally, we just emailed the Fox Rent-A-Car live chat to get a mailing address for their corporate offices. Corresponding with 'Brittaney' was more frustrating than it should have been and at one point she actually typed to me, "No, I never said that. You said....." when all the text was clearly visible as we were in an online chat. She told me there was no address and that I could call the office directly (even after I explained that I would like to have the office who oversees the Las Vegas office). She gave me an email address. I said again that I would like a mailing address. She gave me the manager of the Las Vegas location's phone number. Apparently she wasn't getting it. I should have written it like she was 5. Why would I want to write a letter of complaint to the person who treated us badly? Obviously he doesn't give a crap or else he would have helped us and his staff would be better at what they do. Every single point of customer service with this company was absolutely terrible.
When you're getting a quote online it will not be correct as all the options are not available online. The staff (apparently all of them) are completely awful and unhelpful. The manager should not be a manager -he acted like a defensive child.
Do not rent from this company. It is NOT worth the hassle.
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The reviews for Fox are horrible. I would never use them.
Threats of violence aren't the way to solve anything, except for possibly a street fight. Take note - if your bffe beats someone up, he will go to jail.
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With the Broncos taking on the Bengals, wide receiver A.J. Green found a little success against Bailey, including a touchdown. But with Cincinnati driving to possibly take the lead, Bailey made up for the touchdown and grabbed an Andy Dalton pass in front of Green for an interception. The turnover allowed Denver to take a 31-20 lead late in the fourth quarter.
9: Mike Adams' Carolina safety
The defensive performance in Carolina was arguably the Broncos' best all season. When Adams sacked Cam Newton in the end zone for a safety, it marked the team's seventh sack and was the second defensive score of the game.
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