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Jeff Mietus is one of the top golf instructors in Western New York. His wife doesn't play. But if she did, Mietus says he would never think of giving her lessons. He has been around long enough to know that teaching your significant other is one of the game's great natural hazards.
"All clubs have a Mr. and Mrs. event," said Mietus, director of player development at Transit Valley Country Club. "The big joke in the business is that the divorce attorneys are waiting by the 18th green."
It's no joke, however, that golf is hurting for customers. The number of golfers declined in the U.S. during the recent economic downturn. According to Golfweek magazine, half a million people quit the sport every year and the number of annual rounds played has fallen from 518 million to 475 million.
So the golf industry has made a concerted effort to recruit a large and under-represented constituency: women. Only 19 percent of all golfers in this country are females. It figures that if golf wants to increase participation, it should reach out to women – and the men who love them.
"The big push now is women and couples," said Mietus, the new head coach at Niagara. "It's one of the targets for a PGA professional on the macroeconomic level. We're targeting couples now."
Well, you can count us in. My wife, Melinda, took up golf a couple of years ago and has become a total golf nut. She works on her swing in the house. She watches golf videos. I caught her reading Ben Hogan's "Five Lessons" at breakfast the other day. She dreams of living on a golf course some day.
Last year, we must have played 50 rounds at the Audubon par-3 course in Amherst. It was our fond retreat, our Augusta National. We both get pangs of longing driving past it in the winter. Later, Melinda took on more daunting challenges, like Oakwood and even Terry Hills, my favorite course.
Melinda had hated the idea of golf for years, same as I did. Then, she opened her heart and let the game in. A silly idea became an infatuation.
"My whole family played," Melinda told me. "My grandfather was club champion at Audubon. My mother's brother played. It was always on TV at my grandparents' house. They would tell us kids, 'Why don't you take up golf?' In those days, golf wasn't cool. It was seen as nerdy, for old people.
"I would say, 'No, I don't think so.' It seemed like a slow, boring game. I think if I had gone out with my grandfather, I would have liked it."
Golf was a four-letter word early in our relationship. Golf was something that took me away for hours or even days at a time, a rival for my affection. I told her I had duties as a low-level golf celebrity. She didn't buy it.
One day, she came across an application for volunteers at the U.S. Open. If I was going, she would too. She filled out the forms. I laughed and told her the USGA didn't want volunteers who didn't know a birdie from a Cornish hen. A month or so later, she was accepted. I figured they liked schoolteachers.
Melinda worked as a U.S. Open volunteer at Oakmont in 2007, and again at Bethpage in '09. She worked the hospitality trailer and the concessions tent. She got Chi Chi Rodriguez's autograph and caught a glimpse of me following Tiger Woods inside the ropes. This was pretty cool, after all. Why not play?
The early days are a blur. Like any dutiful man, I tried to help her. I'm no David Leadbetter, as you're probably aware. It's a good thing we weren't married at the time, or we would have used those divorce lawyers.
Look, I mean well. But giving your woman golf lessons is a horrible idea. It's like giving driving lessons to your kids. There's too much emotion in the way.
"It's just not a very good idea," said Marlene Davis, who has been my instructor for five years. "It's a matter of credibility. If you've ever been wrong before, why should she believe you now?"
Davis got a good laugh out of that. Wrong? I'm wrong all the time with Melinda. I can't fix things. I blurt out the wrong answers on Jeopardy. I say things in the heat of the moment, like Ralph Kramden, and admit later that my wife is smarter than I am.
Plus, I have enough problems on the golf course. I'm going to tell someone else what to do? At some point in every round, I try to impart some bit of golfing wisdom and then realize it took me seven years to figure it out.
"It's like you always give me the little laundry list before I hit the ball," Melinda said. "So I'm already freaked out, and you freak me out more. Maybe it's just that the person means too much to you. You're trying to please them. That makes it even more stressful."
Tension is the enemy in golf. There's enough stress in daily life. Golf is a great way to relax and enjoy time out in nature. Who needs a man adding to the stress level? I'm sure it's no fun for Melinda when I remind her that the irons are intended to actually elevate the golf ball.
I'm not sure exactly when she got hooked for good. I like to think it was the day we went over to the Audubon restaraunt after a round and saw the display of the club champions. Melinda had told me her grandfather was a past champion. We went to the wall and I looked to the upper left, figuring it had to be a long time ago.
There it was: Charles Sist, club champion at Audubon in 1936. Melinda was close to tears. So was I. It was as if finding her grandfather Charlie's name had affirmed her as the scion of a local golfing dynasty, bound to uphold the noble family tradition.
She went to Gary Battistoni for lessons around that time. I remember how excited she would be when she came home. She was hitting her shots long and straight. I had to see it. Then we would go to hit balls in the dome and she would fail to reproduce her swing magic.
But Melinda has gotten a lot better. She makes her share of pars and bogeys at the par-3. She's upgraded her clubs and her outfits. She doesn't always get the ball in the air, but she's straight and has a nice touch around the greens. I call her "Little Miss Two Putt" and tell her the men would be envious.
I've learned to choose my words more wisely. It's hard, but I heed her advice when she tells me not to say anything at all. Mainly, I encourage her.
"I buy duct tape," said Miller, who was voted the nation's 14th-best women's teacher last year by Golf Digest. "I'm going to duct tape your mouth. She only needs the teacher's voice in her head. She doesn't need your voice. I call other people the 'committee of they.' Everybody is good at telling people what they do wrong, but they don't know how to tell them how to fix it."
If the man insists on speaking, he should tell his female partner to stick with the lessons and, above all, keep practicing. Pam Gray says her husband Jack, a very good player, never tried to teach her. Lessons, he'd say. Lessons.
"I have no athletic ability," Pam said. "Basically, I played with dolls all my life. I never roller skated. I think I was 13 when I learned to ride a two-wheel bike. Sometimes, it's better when you're not an athlete."
Pam struggled at first, like most golfers. She took lessons from Ed Pfister, Miller and Battistoni. She now shoots in the high 80s. Her advice to Melinda: If you're persistent and work at it, this maddening sport eventually gets easier.
"I like it because it's just you and the ball," Melinda said, "a singular test of your own abilities. I wasn't a big team player, where you have to be good for everybody else. Golf, it was like 'Wait a minute, I like this.' You learn something every time you play it, like how to calm down and be thoughtful, or make little adjustments. I can do it by myself.
"Now, when we play with other people, that kind of stresses me out more. It's another aspect I have to get past. You need to get over your fear, not be intimidated."
Last summer, we played Terry Hills with our friends Steve and Judy Burley, both retired teachers and administrators. It was Melinda's first time on a big course, and she was nervous. It helped considerably when she hit the straightest drive on the first hole.
We had a great day. But I won't lie, feelings did get frayed. There were times when I felt we were holding up the course. After awhile, Melinda was no longer talking with me. Judy and Steve were at odds, too. He's a guy, after all, and prone to giving too much patronizing advice.
"He's not that great, either," Judy said from Florida, where she and Steve have a winter retreat. "It's like, 'Who gives you the right to give me direction? But it's all part of the fun. You still want to play together, but it's more fun to play with couples."
I've wondered if it's tougher for women who have been teachers for a living. I'm not going to suggest they're know-it-alls, but they're accustomed to giving the instruction, not taking it.
"Absolutely," Judy said. "I think teachers are the toughest ones at taking direction, at learning something new."
I guess it's a matter of finding the right balance. Melinda and I talk longingly about playing together when we're older. I like my outings with the Voorhees Avenue gang, but I love the idea of having my wife as a golf buddy.
It's exciting to see her become a golfer. Melinda keeps her clubs and shoes in the trunk, just in case. I remember what it was like when I started. I've seen her mutter about wanting to quit when things went bad, then smiled as she made one of those marvelous shots that keeps drawing you back to the game.
Melinda has become "one of those people" who dream of owning a little patio home next to a golf course, where you can slip out to play a few holes after breakfast. She's hooked and determined to get better.
I'm considering putting duct tape over my mouth, and looking forward to the day when my wife can teach me.
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NILES - Some city officials did not cooperate with state auditors trying to conduct financial and performance audits, according to records obtained by the Tribune Chronicle.
The lack of cooperation from Treasurer Robert Swauger and Auditor Chuck Nader set off a series of terse emails from Mayor Ralph Infante and City Council President Robert Marino, who were responding to state auditors expressing their frustration.
Infante sent the following email, reprinted verbatim here, to ''council members and officials'' on Nov. 15:
''To All Listed, On October 24, 2013 I Forwarded This e Mail To All Of You Listed. Erik Holesko From The State Auditors Office Still Has 3 Issues That Need To Be Addressed, The Only One That Has Responded Is Terry Dull. Please Get These Issues Addressed As Soon As Possible Or I Will Take Further Action.''
A day earlier, Marino sent the following email, also reprinted verbatim here, to auditors of state, whom he refers to as AOS:
''Recognizing that you are still awaiting information and because I am not aware of any legal mechanism available to city council relative to compelling other city-wide elected officials to comply with your request, I encourage you to utilize:
''I am certain, they like me are and displeased that the AOS has repeatedly had to request these records to no avail.''
Frustration on the part of state auditors has continued into 2014, as evidenced by comments made last week by Niles Councilman at-large and Finance Committee Chairman Steve Papalas to the Tribune Chronicle.
''There were a couple of instances that really got under my craw,'' Papalas said. ''The state auditors had set up a meeting between the auditors, Mr. Nader and Mr. Swauger. The preparations were all made, and Mr. Swauger and Mr. Nader never showed up.''
The meeting Papalas referred to took place on Feb. 4, when audit manager April Strickland from the state auditor's office came to the city to review financial records for April, May and June of 2012.
In an email to city officials on Feb. 5, senior audit manager Erik Holesko from the state auditor's office noted that ''yesterday's review of records did not clarify the situation, since Bob Swauger and Chuck were not there to answer questions.''
Papalas sternly addressed Swauger and Nader in front of City Council later in February.
''One of the department heads (Swauger) stated he had a reason for not being (at the meeting),'' Papalas said. ''I think maybe out of courtesy, that person could have contacted the auditors ahead of time. The other person (Nader) did not respond at all, and I think that is embarrassing.
''I think it is going to be extensive if we keep having meetings with the auditors and the appropriate people from the city don't show up, and I think it's unprofessional. This has to stop, and when City Council needs work provided by department heads so that we can show our results and we don't get that, that's embarrassing and unprofessional, and I really don't appreciate it.''
Papalas' comments did not seem to spark change in the city's auditor and treasurer departments, as evidenced by an email conversation between Strickland and Nader on March 14 about beginning the city's 2013 financial audit. In the conversation, Nader said ''once again, I want you to hold off coming on site until the middle of April. I am sorry about this, but that is what I want.''
Hours later, Marino sent a followup email to Strickland, inquiring about the unusual nature of Nader's request to delay a financial audit. Strickland replied to Marino quickly in an email that ''(the state) typically like to get started on our December 31, audits in late January so starting in March is later than we like already.''
According to Assistant Public Affairs Director and Press Secretary Carrie Bartunek of the state auditor's office, the 2013 financial audit officially began March 21, 2014. The 2012 financial audit officially began March 26, 2013.
In an interview on Thursday, Nader said that his reluctance to invite the state auditors to his office stemmed from a lack of information he felt he could provide.
''We always have a third party company prepare the information for (the state auditors) and they handle all our conversions from cash records to an accrual basis,'' Nader said, noting that the deadline to file their information was May 30. ''Their work was not done yet at that point, and I was telling them that if they held off coming to my office, then they would have a lot more information to use.''
Marino noted on Wednesday that he never received an explanation from Nader.
An April 1 email correspondence between Strickland and Marino demonstrates more unfulfilled requests for financial information:
''We are having some trouble getting the December 31, 2013 bank reconciliations,'' Strickland wrote. ''It is now April, there should be no reason we cannot get the December 2013 bank records to view. We were told early last week that (Swauger) would be in to see us and that did not happen.''
When asked why he had not delivered the requested information to Strickland, Swauger said that the ongoing investigation into his office prevented him from delivering accurate information.
''I'm not going to flub a reconciliation and tell the state auditors that our books are in balance,'' Swauger said.
In an interview with the Tribune Chronicle, Marino expressed frustration with his lack of power as it pertains to assisting the state auditors.
''We told (the state auditors) multiple times that they need to go get the records they need (from city officials) and use all the power they have,'' Marino said. ''We can't force (Nader and Swauger) to cooperate; we can't tell them what to do. They're elected officials, and they are supposed to be responsible for what goes on in their departments.''
At the direction of state auditors, the city began digitizing its financial operations. Currently, the city tracks its finances using a paper system, which Swauger, Marino and Papalas all agreed is ''antiquated.''
Nader said that his office has not modernized its operation partly because of the city's decision to upgrade its utility systems in the mid-2000s.
''Maybe we should have done this sooner, but we wanted to make sure that (the utility department) was straight before worrying about the next department,'' Nader said.
In an interview on Thursday, Infante said, ''Chuck needs to worry about (the auditor's office), and Bob needs to worry about (the treasurer's office), because look what has happened now.''
Papalas noted in an interview on Wednesday that the treasurer has not made himself available to the city's information technology department.
In an April 23 email conversation, Marino told city officials that he expected ''the specs (from the treasurer's office for its needs) will be verified by the Treasurer no later (than April 25). The project will move forward with an agreed upon completion date (no later than) July 15.''
Swauger still has not delivered those specs, according to Papalas.
When reached for comment Friday, Swauger said that he wished the digitizing process could be further along, but noted that he wants the best possible fit for the city.
"I believe that (the city) had a system in place, but then upon further review, we decided to go back and make sure that we're building a system that will be viable into the future," Swauger said. "We're spending taxpayers' money here, so we want to do it wisely and make sure that we're doing our due dilligence here."

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By the numbers: Where tea partyers, liberals agree
Which is the more important goal for the government: Protecting the rights and freedoms of U.S. citizens or making sure that U.S. citizens are safe from being harmed by terrorists?
Percentage who say protecting rights is more important:
- Tea party supporters: 69 percent
- Liberals: 67 percent
- U.S. overall: 61 percent
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the NSA is handling its intelligence-gathering mission?
Percentage who disapprove:
- Tea party supporters: 67 percent
- Liberals: 57 percent
- U.S. overall: 54 percent
Did former NSA contractor Edward Snowden do the right thing or the wrong thing in revealing classified information?
Percentage who say he did the right thing:
- Tea party supporters: 52 percent
- Liberals: 49 percent
- U.S. overall: 40 percent
Do you approve or disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling the NSA's surveillance policies?
Percentage who disapprove:
- Tea party supporters: 82 percent
- Liberals: 52 percent
- U.S. overall: 59 percent
SOURCE: Associated Press-GfK poll about NSA surveillance


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I found this humorous. Someone has a Craigslist ad that is willing to negotiate their Lady Gaga tickets for a show at the Ford Center July 20, for a pair of Thunder playoff tickets for Friday's Game 6 against the Lakers.
Tickets for Lady Gaga range from $49.50 to $175 (face value of course). For Game 6, they range from $12 to $375. On StubHub, Game 6 tickets are going for $239 to over $2,000 for a pair of floor seats. For Gaga you're looking at between $90 and $1,500.
The ESPN Trade Machine accepts this deal, but OKC needed to toss in some cash considerations and a conditional 2013 second round pick.
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A Ewing Township animal control officer, called to a residence early Wednesday where a woman had been stowing a cow in her garage, ended up purchasing the animal on the spot to save it from potential slaughter, according to a report in The Times of Trenton.
The deal went down for $250.
Animal Control Officer Matthew Barber split the purchase price with a Burlington County woman who took the 150-pound male calf to her horse farm to live out its life.


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Today's ATV find of the day isn't actually for sale, anymore, but you may not see another like it anytime soon. While it's not a tracked ATV in the rip-saw sense it does look mighty fun and worthy of going trail riding. The Cushman trackster tracked ATV came with a removable windshield and padded bench seat.
What I like most about it, besides its gnarly old look, is that it is truly a go anywhere vehicle meant for sand or snow and that it has a zero-turn radius meaning it can spin on the spot. You can see it here or watch it in action in the video below.


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- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 pound tuna steaks, cut into 16 cubes
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 16 pickled ginger slices
- 1 bunch watercress, optional
- 1/2 cup wasabi mayonnaise
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine soy sauce and vinegar; add the tuna. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Drain tuna and pat dry; discard marinade. Sprinkle tuna with sesame seeds and pepper. In a large skillet, brown tuna on all sides until medium rare or slightly pink in the center; remove from skillet.
- On each of 16 wooden appetizer skewers, thread one ginger slice and one tuna cube. Arrange on a serving platter lined with watercress if desired. Serve with wasabi mayonnaise. Yield: 16 kabobs.
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Five people were rescued early Wednesday evening after the sailboat they were traveling in sank in Buffalo's outer harbor near the U.S. Coast Guard station, Coast Guard officials reported.
The incident occurred at 6:49 p.m. That's when Coast Guard officials received reports from three separate sources that the sailboat capsized, reported coast Guard Petty Officer Third-Class Christopher Yaw, based out of the Ninth District Public Affairs Office in Cleveland.
Four passengers were rescued by a Coast Guard response boat and a fifth by a commercial salvage vessel, Yaw said.
All five were evaluated at the Coast Guard's Buffalo station by emergency medical personnel and determined not to have serious injury, said Yaw.
About two feet of the mast of the sailboat remained poking above the surface of the water. Salvage plans were being arranged late Wednesday for the vessel.
All five victims were wearing life jackets, the Coast Guard said.
Authorities were investigating what caused the sailboat to capsize.
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… And it's still OKAY!
It's okay that…
- I haven't blogged in a week… I'm not inspired, but I know something will come.
I have postpartum hair loss. It has to stop eventually. Right? RIGHT???
We still don't have a sitter for James. We've been talking to a few people and my mom is here for 2 weeks so we can focus on finding one!
James is growing up.😉 I know, this one really isn't a problem, but he's getting SO BIG!
Our pediatrician is leaving and we have to find another. There's another.
My paycheck will be much lighter this time around. The time with James was worth it.
I haven't done my eyebrows in a month. My husband still thinks I'm smokin' hott!😉 (and I plan on doing them soon!)
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For 21-year-old Kevin Woyjeck, the fire station was always a second home. With a father who was a veteran firefighter, Woyjeck set his eyes on the same profession and did some of his training at Camp 9 in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Woyjeck and 18 other firefighters, including three others from California, were members of the Arizona Hotshot crew that was wiped out in seconds when they were trapped in the face of an uncontrolled wildfire near the town of Yarnell, Arizona, on Sunday.
Keith Mora, an inspector with L.A. County fire, said Kevin often accompanied his dad to the station and on ride-alongs, and always intended to follow in his footsteps.
"He wanted to become a firefighter like his dad and hopefully work hand-in-hand," Mora said Monday outside the Seal Beach home where Kevin Woyjeck's family lives.
"Kevin was a former member of Explorer Post 9," said Capt. Pat Sprengel at county fire's Camp 9 on the ridge between the Santa Clarita and Santa Clarita Valleys.
"That program was a stepping stone to getting into the fire department," Sprengel said. "It's a volunteer group and provides training."
The deaths of the Granite Mountain Hotshots based in Prescott, Ariz., marked the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years. Only one member of the 20-person crew survived, and that was because he was moving the unit's truck at the time.
Flags were ordered at half-staff in Arizona and also in Los Angeles County to honor Woyjeck and others.
Other California victims included 30-year old Chris MacKenzie from Hemet, Sean Misner, 26, from Santa Barbara County, and Billy Warneke, 25, also form Hemet.
It was unclear exactly how the firefighters became trapped.
With no way out, crew members did what they were trained to do: They unfurled their foil-lined, heat-resistant tarps and rushed to cover themselves.
But that last, desperate line of defense couldn't save them.
The fire shelters are around 6 feet long and 3 feet wide, maybe a foot-and-half tall, said L.A. County Fire Inspector Tony Akins.
The fire shelters take roughly a minute or two to deploy on level ground in calm wind, Akins said. Sometimes, there just isn't enough time.
He recalled a similar situation in 1993 when a wildfire overran firefighters above Altadena.
"The entire event took place in 72 seconds," Akins said. "By the time they realized they were in trouble, it was probably over."
Two firefighters were killed there, he said.
Akins said there's nothing in world of technology or physics that can survive a 1,200-degree flaming front while also designed to be portable — to be carried by a hiking firefighter.
Despite their knowledge of the flimsiness of their protection, news of the deaths hit particularly hard Monday, Akins said.
"Any time you see any number it's heartbreaking — but an entire crews is a kick in the gut," he said. "You get sick to your stomach."


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Titus Turner
|Titus Turner
May 1, 1933
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|September 13, 1984
(aged 51)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|R&B, East Coast blues, jump blues, soul blues[1]
|Singer, songwriter
|Years active
|Various, including Okeh, Jamie, King
Titus Turner (May 1, 1933 – September 13, 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter.[1] His best remembered recordings were "We Told You Not To Marry" and "Sound-Off," plus he wrote "Leave My Kitten Alone," and "Tell Me Why."[2]
Born in Atlanta, Georgia,[2] Turner's debut single release in 1950 was "Where Are You" on Aladdin Records, billed as Mr. T and his Band. In 1951 his follow-up "Stop Trying to Make a Fool Of Me" appeared on Regal Records.[3] He followed this a year later on Okeh, issuing eight tracks including "Got So Much Trouble." He had a spell with Mercury Records's imprint, Wing, but was not commercially successful until 1955, when Little Willie John recorded Turner's "All Around the World". The track, re-titled "Grits Ain't Groceries," was covered by Little Milton.[1]
Turner and John then co-wrote "Leave My Kitten Alone", later covered by Johnny Preston, The Beatles and Elvis Costello. In 1959 the King label issued Turner's first hit single, "The Return of Stagolee," an answer song to Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee". He repeated the trick with his next release, "We Told You Not To Marry," an antidote to Price's "I'm Gonna Get Married." In 1960, Ray Charles recorded the Turner song, "Sticks and Stones", which has also seen many cover versions over the years. By 1961 Turner had his biggest solo success with "Sound-Off," which came from the only album he ever released.[1] The track was described by Joel Whitburn in Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 as a "popular US Army marching drill chant," which was originally a no. 3 hit for Vaughn Monroe in 1951.[4]
Later singles failed to find a market, and Turner recorded for a plethora of labels throughout the 1960s without further tangible success.[1] These included "Eye to Eye" (Okeh, 1966).[5] In 1969 his self-penned track "His Funeral, My Trial" was his final release.[1]
Turner died in Atlanta in 1984.[1]
Notable songwriting credits[edit]
- "All Around the World" - also known as "Grits Ain't Groceries" (Turner)
- "Big John" (Turner)
- "Get on the Right Track Baby" (Turner)
- "Hey Doll Baby" (Traditional/Turner)
- "Hold Your Loving" (Bernice Snelson, Turner)
- "If It's Good" (Julia Lee/Turner)
- "Leave My Kitten Alone" (Little Willie John/James McDougal/Turner)
- "Little Girl Lost" (Luther Dixon/Lou Harrison/Turner)
- "Living in Misery" (Turner)
- "Lotus Blossom" (Julia Lee/Turner)
- "People Sure Act Funny" (Bobby Robinson/Turner)
- "Soulville" (Henry Glover/Morris Levy/Dinah Washington/Turner)
- "Sticks and Stones" (Turner)
- "Stop The Pain" (Turner)
- "Tell It Like It Is" (Turner)
- "Tell Me Why" (Turner)[6]
Compilation albums[edit]
- Soulville: Golden Classics (1990) - Collectables Records
- Sound Off: The Jamie Masters (1994) - Bear Family
- Titans of R&B (1998) - Red Lightnin' (UK)
- 1949-1954 (2005) - Classics R&B[7]
Chart singles[edit]
- "Return of Stagolee" (King 5186) (April 1959) - US R&B no. 29
- "We Told You Not To Marry" (Glover 201) (December 1959) - US Pop no. 83
- "Sound-Off" (Jamie 1174) (March 1961) - US Pop no. 77[4]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Jason Ankeny. "Titus Turner | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ a b Doc Rock. "The 1980s". The Dead Rock Stars Club. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ "WangDangDula.com". Koti.mbnet.fi. 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel. Top Pop Singles 1955-2002. Billboard. ISBN 0-89820-155-1.
- ^ "Okeh Singles Listing From 1963-1970". ska2soul.net. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ "Titus Turner | Songs". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
- ^ a b "Titus Turner | Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
External links[edit]
- 1933 births
- 1984 deaths
- American blues singers
- American male singers
- American rhythm and blues musicians
- American rhythm and blues singers
- Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)
- East Coast blues musicians
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- Musicians from Atlanta, Georgia
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- 20th-century American singers


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Despite three assassination attempts and repeated warnings he'd be killed, jailed mobster Gaetano "Tommy Horsehead" Scafidi hoped he could come back to his mob life in Philadelphia.
"I wanted to do my time as a man, go home and resume my life in the mob," said Scafidi, now a government witness in his second day of spellbinding testimony at the federal mob racketeering trial yesterday.
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NEWARK — Low-bid contracts between airlines and companies that provide baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and other service workers at Newark Liberty, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports do little to enhance economic growth or quality of service, said a union-funded report from New York University.
The contracts result in pay averaging $8 an hour, or $16,640 a year, for more than 16,000 skycaps, janitors, ticket checkers, wheelchair attendants and others at the airports, according to the report, titled, "Above Board," and produced by the Women of Color Policy Network at NYU's Robert F. Wagner School Graduate School of Public Service.
That's well below the federal poverty level for a family of four, and barely a quarter the dollars necessary for that same family to cover basic necessities in the New York Metropolitan area.
The report was commissioned by Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, which last fall launched a campaign to organize service workers at the airports.
"The current low-bid contracting system that the airlines employ at LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark Liberty Airports suppresses regional growth by stifling worker wages and passing the costs of bad business practices on to taxpayers," stated the report, which was presented during a conference in Manhattan this afternoon. "Both data and anecdotal evidence suggest the system has failed to produce the best value for workers and the public. Instead, it has encouraged private contractors to cut costs, often at the expense of workers and service quality."
The report found that the majority of airport service workers are members of minority groups who live in economically depressed areas surrounding the airports.
The airline industry was hit hard by the recent recession, and industry analysts say the contracting out of service work is one way carriers have cut costs.
The report recommended that standards be put in place for airport wages and working conditions, citing a program adopted in 2009 by the San Francisco Airport Commission. The authors said the program had improved service by establishing a minimum airport wage of $9 and mandating 12 days of paid leave per year.
The conference was attended by Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airports. His father was an SEIU member, and Foye told attendees that he went to college on a union scholarship. He said he would direct the agency's staff to review the report.
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Phyllis and Melvin Bradley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception Saturday, Jan. 12, at Paramount Terrace Christian Church.
Hosts for the event were the couple's son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Jan Bradley, and their grandson.
Bradley married the former Phyllis Lemmons on Jan. 11, 1952, in the home of the bride's grandmother in Clovis, N.M. The couple previously resided in Tulia, Gruver, Anson and Spearman. They have lived in Amarillo for 61/2 years.
Bradley is retired from Farm Bureau Insurance. Mrs. Bradley is retired from Northern Natural Gas Co. The couple belong to Paramount Terrace Christian Church.
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Better get him in for surgery tomorrow then.
Now, this is /thread. :up:
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I point out something that's already common knowledge and is happening as we type and I'm a troll?
Love the denial going on with Seattle fans :laugh:.
Man, I wish we had a real franchise QB like Matty Ice. It's only a matter of time before he wins a SB.
He's just talking out of his butt. Why would the Falcons, a team on the cusp of going to the SB, go after a guy who was recently out of the league, in which they'll have to teach him the defense?
I warned you...and the season hasn't even started yet.
Having Harvin on your team is the equivalent of driving a Ferrari with a nail in it's tire...it's fast as heck until it catches a flat.
Didn't get an opportunity to play? How can that be? Don't you find it peculiar that the guy couldn't beat out first year rookie players for playing time? Sounds to me as if he wasn't seen in a good...
Tony G comes back...
You guys sign SJax...
Get funding for a new stadium...
Then you get 4 compensatory picks?!?
The rich get richer.
From what I understand the guy got beat out by 7th rounders?
Julio Jones is a freakin' BEAST. He was a good as a rookie and played hurt. Made the Pro Bowl his second year.
My God. I hate to go against that guy twice a year.
Seattle: This year's Eagles.
It looks like the Seahawks paid retail for an item with a pre-existant crack. Harvin has played in all 16 of Minnesota's games just once in four seasons.
If he pans out for you guys, then great,...
Be careful of what you wish for.
Atlanta is a better team than most think. Don't allow ESPN to tell you any different. You guys are not going to just run over them.
Kapernick isn't a better QB...
You guys made two mistakes...
1. Leaving anytime on the clock for Matt Ryan. The guy is CLUTCH, especially if you leave him anytime at all on the clock. I can't explain him. He'll make a mistake,...
How? Matt Ryan is how.
Speaking from experience, if time is still on the clock, that guy is clutch. Sorry you guys had to experience it like you did.
Falcons 27
Seahawks 17
Keep banking on that "hasn't won a playoff game" schtick. That guy is definitely due for his first playoff win.
Plus, it wasn't entirely his fault that they lost those playoff games. Dude doesn't...
You guys are banking that a rookie DE who backed up your best DE is gonna be fine against an Atlanta offense that likes to air it out more often than they run?
Keep dreaming.
Take it from...
LOL @ signing Ray Edwards to help you guys on what the Falcons offense is doing.
Dude plays defense AND he was cut by them for him underperforming.
Yeah, he's going to help you out. /sarcasm...
Good for you guys. That dude was a pitiful waste of cap space.
On the bright side, you didn't overpay for Charles Johnson.
What happened to that guy (Turner)? He can't hit the hole for squat. It's not all on your o-line. That's on Turner. All that good living in the ATL has made him fat and slow.
That guy has been nonexistent for them. I'm not surprised they cut him at all.
Man, it was plain to see that the Eagles gave up in that game. Clear indication that the coach has no respect from his players or themselves. Just pitiful.
FYI: Roddy White is now the all-time leader in receptions in Falcons history, He accomplished that last night vs your defense, but man, you'd never know it since Collinsworthless never announced it....
LOL! That was hilarious! :clap:
And that "thug" makes more money than you and your daddy put together.
I really like Travian Robertson. I wished we would have landed that guy. He's a potential beast.


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In this Hall, on December 10, 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette became the first foreign dignitary to address the House of Representatives. A hero of the American Revolution, Lafayette visited all 24 states in the Union during his triumphal return in 1824–1825. Everywhere he went, he was greeted with parades and ceremonies, in recognition for his important contributions to the Revolution, which included work with George Washington as a strategist in the battle of Yorktown, and his successful diplomatic efforts in gaining the support of the French governments.
In his address, Lafayette stated:
"Sir, I have been allowed, forty years ago, before a Committee of a Congress of thirteen states to express the fond wishes of an American heart. On this day I have the honor, and enjoy the delight, to congratulate the Representatives of the Union, so vastly enlarged, on the realization of those wishes, even beyond every human expectation, and upon the almost infinite prospects we can with certainty anticipate."
The portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette by French artist Ary Scheffer was presented to the House of Representatives as a gift commemorating the 1824 visit. A pendant portrait of George Washington, painted by American artist George Vanderlyn, was acquired soon thereafter. Both portraits hung in the old Hall of the House and were moved with the Congress to the new Chamber in 1858.
In addition to the business of lawmaking, the old Hall of the House was used for joint meetings with the Senate, ceremonies, funerals and public lectures. Today, the room is still used for ceremonies honoring foreign dignitaries and events traditionally held in Statuary Hall, such as the presidential inaugural luncheon. Six presidential inaugurations, those of James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore, were held in Statuary Hall.
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Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor," which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. All others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.
From Inwood:
I want to thank whoever put flags on the veterans' graves at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Cemetery for Memorial Day. They put out approximately 100 flags. Thanks again, to whoever put these flags out.
From Martinsburg:
Adding that vote gain resulting from the birth certificate conspiracy debate will favor the Obama camp. Those who believe the conspiracists would not consider voting for Obama under any circumstance. Others, recognizing how far-out and ridiculous it is, may be swayed to vote Democrat.
From Inwood:
I just wondered how long the Berkeley County council signs are going to stay up Pitzers Chapel Road. I believe the election was the first part of May, and I believe those signs should come down pretty soon.
From Falling Waters:
I am so proud of my son for helping people in the trailer fire on Caplinger Drive. He helped three elderly people out of the fire, and I'm sure there would have been a worse outcome if he wouldn't have been there.
From Hedgesville:
In response to the Inwood caller, who asks, "What is so heroic about getting shot down and captured?": I say to you: Why don't you enlist, and go get shot down and captured, and come back and let us know.
From Berkeley County:
The $5,000 given by Waste Management to the Berkeley County Council to plant native trees is misguided, even if well-intentioned. Bradford Pear is a smelly, invasive tree. And Kwanzan Cherry is a lovely, oriental import. Our parks, buildings and town could do better.
From Berkeley County:
I wanted to say bravo to The Journal. I just finished reading the 101 Things To Do insert in the paper today, and it was just awesome. I lived here for 11 years and had no idea half of this stuff was here. So, I know what to do this summer, and thank you, Journal, this is really excellent work.
From Hedgesville:
You know, I'm getting a little sick and tired of hearing you Democrats bad-mouth the Republicans... You don't have to write to say what we think or what we do, so just keep your mouths shut. Why, I could start naming things about the Democrats too, especially the one you have in the White House now. He's not fit to be there, and I pray he's voted out.
From Martinsburg:
I get very low income, and the state pays my premiums if I don't have any more than $15,00 of burial insurance. Does anyone out there know who I can call to see about that? Because you know it takes more than $1,500 to bury someone.
From Charles Town:
The lack of any intelligence just keep showing up whenever Obama speaks as referenced by this comment by the Polish Foreign Minister following remarks by Mr. Clueless when he was awarding the Freedom Medals; "It's a shame that such a momentous ceremony has been overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence."
From Martinsburg:
Congratulations to City Hospital on receiving certification for their hip and knee program. I know this took a lot of work and it is a team effort as one area could not do it alone. We have some awesome orthopedic surgeons in our area and getting this certification is a testament to that. Great job, everyone!
From Jefferson County:
To the complainer from Kearneysville: I participated in the Ranson car show, and it was a real nice one. The staff and judges were very nice. They went overboard giving out all those trophies in the different classes, (and) not everyone can win a trophy. Suck it up and stop complaining... Enjoy the car show and the people around it.
From Hedgesville:
I worked in a closed union shop for years. We had to join and pay our dues. The union didn't have to do anything for the workers or the working conditions. Unless it's a closed shop, I'll never belong to another union.
From Jefferson County:
Don't forget to attend a great event with your dog this Saturday, at the Jefferson Memorial Park. The Animal Welfare Society Bark in the Park will be presenting a day of fun, games and information, for you and your dogs a great day.
From Inwood:
Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), who is running for the Senate, told a tea party town hall last month that the federal government should establish an official committee to review presidential candidates' birth certificates. And I thought that conservative Republicans were in favor of small and limited government. I'm so old that I remember when Republicans weren't blithering idiots.
From Shepherdstown:
Fear not the ignorant and the sexually repressed, the homophobic and the religiously paranoid. There will always be conservatives fighting and pulling against change, pushing back against the inevitable, thinking things would be somehow so much better if we could just go back to a more God-fearing, well-armed, heterosexual time that never actually existed.
From Inwood:
White power Republican outside groups looking to influence elections across the country are on track to spend a record-breaking $1 billion this year, Politico reports. So how many lies can you get for a billion dollars?
From Berkeley Springs:
Mitt Romney's constant re-positioning on the issues reminds me of the head-spinning scene from "The Exorcist."
From Leetown:
No truer words said: "Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things that government does for others as socialism." - Chief Justice Earl Warren, April 1952.
From Hedgesville:
West Virginia has been under Democrat and union control for a hundred years, yet we rank nearly last in everything good. Maybe Democrats and unions are not all good... maybe there should be more balance.
From Bunker Hill:
Who are the job creators? Bloomberg business reports says that in the 23 years that Democrats have occupied the White House since JFK, non-government jobs have increased by 42 million compared with 24 million jobs created under 28 years under Republican presidents. Facts are just terrible things for the Republican party when they claim to be the job creators.
From Berkeley Springs:
Responding to my Berkeley Springs neighbor, you claim that average income doubled between 1950 and 1980 thanks to unions, However, you fail to consider that in 1950, I could buy a cup of coffee and a donut for a quarter. In 1980 it was four times as much. Where is the gain? The decline of the unions came about because a combination of government regulations and union demands resulted in steel mills and other industries being unable to compete with foreign markets; today, mainly due to greed, the cup of coffee alone is more than a dollar.
From Berkeley Springs:
Open Arms Ministries will be having a "Youth For Christ" fun day on Saturday, June 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Food, drinks, games and music. Everything is free. Come help us celebrate. Church is located on Route 9 West of Hedgesville.
From Harpers Ferry:
Not very "professional" to imply that many West Virginia students and their parents are clueless and uneducated! Members of the Board of Education are elected by the citizens of Jefferson County, most of which are or have been parents (and former students)! Without parents and their children, a BOE would not be needed nor would teachers. Bring on those state-mandated evaluations! No wonder there are so many children in Jefferson County who are home-schooled!
From Leetown:
For all of my conservative friends: "Just remember... it's not a lie if you believe it." - George Costanza.
From Jefferson County:
Thank you to Mr. Guth and all who were involved with the Jefferson High School Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, May 27. It was a lovely and touching event. A shining example of what can happen when you have a caring and involved principal, caring and involved teachers and caring and involved parents. The 2012 graduating class is to be acknowledged and congratulated for being hard-working, motivated, intelligent, ambitious and driven to succeed. What an exceptional group of graduates and an exceptional graduation day!
From Falling Waters:
You're looking for a reason why not to vote for Mitt Romney? "I find it hard to disagree with Rush Limbaugh on topics." - Mitt Romney, March 8, 2010. Stop looking.
From Ranson:
Why are the (obviously) Democrats criticizing and denigrating Sen. John McCain all of a sudden? Hello - it's 2012 not 2008 and John McCain is not a candidate for president! This is just more diversionary commentary to hide the fact that President Obama is an abject failure in leading this country in a positive direction!
From Charles Town:
Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico, the son of a man who fled Utah with his multiple wives when the federal government outlawed polygamy. So Mitt was born in this country to a man born in a foreign country to a polygamist father, does that make him an anchor baby?
From Shepherdstown:
Forbes Magazine, not a left-wing rag, has ranked West Virginia dead last in its listing of most and least environmentally friendly states. When we can no longer breathe the air, drink the water, eat the fish and wildlife, or cultivate the land, then will our bought-and-paid-for politicians admit that government must regulate polluters and protect the people? Or will they still try to distract us with their imaginary "war on coal?" Let them eat coal ash!
From Berkeley Springs:
What I find so obscene is the "moral" Right to Life group is fanatically obsessed with the potential life of an embryo and want it to have the legal rights of a citizen. Yet the life of full grown women, who are already citizens, many of whom are already mothers with other children depending on them, is meaningless to them. And they have no qualms about stripping women of their rights, health and even their lives. Where is the morality in that? There is no compassion, no Christian love, no ability to walk in another's shoes in that group...
From Bunker Hill:
If there is such a thing as Christmas in the summer: Dear Santa and DOH, could you please bring a stoplight to Bunker Hill. What a wonderful present and lifesaver it would be.
From Martinsburg:
Those who do not want to cut government spending are either not reading the world news regarding the collapse of the welfare states, or they just prefer to keep their heads in the sand and live for today. Welfare states always teeter and collapse after all of a nation's wealth is spent.


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Primetime Debate
Harry McGee
For an anorak, it was all your showers raining down at you at once.
The 90 minute debate was an absorbing battle, given an extra dimension because it was triangular.
It took a while for it to get to an involved tempo. When it did, the exchanges were bloody and bruising and it was interesting to see leaders gang up with each other to score a point against the other guy, if they both broadly agreed on a point.
It was Eamon Gilmore's best debate. He was Mr Consistency. He had the best opening line and wsa never seriously back-footed. He got in a couple of good digs at Micheal Martin on health (and was also able to name a tax that Labour would reverse when challenged by Martin – aspects of the universal social charge).
On a major point of disagreement with Kenny – on Fine Gael's plans to cut 30,000 from the public service – I though he came out best
He said if you exclude people in the front line, you were not talking about taking out one in ten. You were talking one in five. He told Kenny if he didn't proceed with compulsory redundancies his figures didn't add up.
Was he the best of the three? That's a more difficult question because Micheal Martin mixed mediocrity at the start with some brilliance in the second half. For the altar boy , the level of aggression was surprising. Perhaps a bit too much. He really dominated, scored some points, but there was definitely overkill.
He really hammered Kenny on detail, especially on tax and the €6.5 billion in cuts. His parody of Kenny parroting the same line – 14 years in power, five-point plan, and let's get working – was devastating. Kenny underlined it moments later by repeating exactly the same lines.
Kenny was not the winner and will not have persuaded any new voters. But he was very good in the first half, came out with some very good lines, looked relaxed and presidential.
His strategy of completely ignoring Martin's hectoring and probing worked very effectively.
One such line, on Martin:
"He was a central member of the Government which could not tell the truth of the IMF being here. It tok the Governor of Central Bank to tell us in a phone call."
But Martin was persistent and when he finally got Kenny to engage he really scored some big points.
(I know I'm straying into boxing parlance – I just can't help it… it was a 15-rounder!)
As the debate wore on Kenny flagged and really struggled when pounded with detail.
It didn't look great when he didn't come back when Gilmore and Martin rebutted his claim the ESB and Bord Gais customer networks were not strategic State assets.
There were a couple of new details that came out tonight.
An admission by Martin that the banks will need further capital.
Fine Gael's plans for NAMA are to allow several private interests to take over the running of it. Included in small print of party manifesto. Kenny argued that NAMA, as it is, is a secret society and this move will bring competence and competition.
Disclosure that a medical journal in Holland has expressed some doubt about the costs and efficacy of the Dutch universal health insurance model, which has provided the template for the Fine Gael plan.
I think Martin set out to expose that both of the opposition parties were not acknowledging the pain that their policies would entail.
In that he succeeded. His persistence nd strong command of detail paid off. But he was too aggressive, too disruptive. That does not go down well with some voters. But he was addressing the FF core and may have persuaded some of them not to stray.
Will it make any difference? Not too much. Kenny has had a great campaign. This has been his biggest setback but I doubt it will affect his party's inexorable march to power – and a coalition with Labour.
BTW I think Miriam O'Callaghan was great. It was like she had them all on those extendible leashes you see dog owners use. She'd let them at it, give them the impression they were unleashed, but when they strayed too far off the point or when it was time to move on, she yanked them all back into line.


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With my collection of handset type, Linotype and Ludlow typecasting equipment and platen and cylinder presses and my in-house book binding service, together we can take your dream from manuscript to finished book all under one roof. Contact me if you would like to receive more information about the letterpress options available and how we can work together to craft the book you've always dreamed of publishing.
What some say about their letterpress books
Some of the authors who have had their books typeset, printed and bound by me shared their observations with me and you may find their comments useful. So have a look at what they wrote before deciding whether letterpress printing makes sense for you.
Please contact me if you would like more information about the letterpress options available and about how we can work together to craft the book you always dreamed of publishing. You can be an independent publisher and enjoy the satisfaction of seeing your book(s) become reality. When working with me so you don't sign away your rights, you enjoy total control over every aspect of marketing and you keep all your profits. That's just part of the streamlined process I have created to make letterpress books affordable.