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The timezone in Copan Wildlife Management Area is America/Rankin_Inlet
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- stream;
- a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Cotton Creek (3.3km)
- Cotton Creek (3.3km)
- Little Caney River (3.7km)
- Pooler Creek (4.5km)
- Mud Creek (4.8km)
- Mud Creek (4.9km)
- North Fork Cotton Creek (7.2km)
- North Fork Cotton Creek (7.2km)
- Cheyenne Creek (8.2km)
- Lost Creek (10.5km)
- Coon Creek (11.4km)
- Opossum Creek (11.6km)
- Lake Creek (11.8km)
- Hafer Run (11.9km)
- Birch Creek (12.7km)
- Bee Creek (12.9km)
- Mission Creek (13.3km)
- reservoir(s);
- an artificial pond or lake.
- Oknoname 113003 Reservoir (5.8km)
- Oknoname 113008 Reservoir (6.1km)
- Cotton-Coon-Mission Creek Site 5 Reservoir (7.7km)
- Oknoname 113011 Reservoir (9.2km)
- Oknoname 113010 Reservoir (9.7km)
- Copan Lake (10.4km)
- Copan Lake (10.5km)
- Oknoname 113009 Reservoir (10.5km)
- Cotton-Coon-Mission Creek Site 4 Reservoir (10.8km)
- Oknoname 113006 Reservoir (11.9km)
- Oknoname 113005 Reservoir (12km)
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Oknoname 113003 Dam (5.8km)
- Oknoname 113008 Dam (6.1km)
- Cotton-Coon-Mission Creek Site 5 Dam (7.7km)
- Oknoname 113011 Dam (9.2km)
- Oknoname 113010 Dam (9.7km)
- Oknoname 113009 Dam (10.5km)
- Copan Lake Dam (10.6km)
- Cotton-Coon-Mission Creek Site 4 Dam (10.8km)
- Oknoname 113006 Dam (11.9km)
- Oknoname 113005 Dam (12km)
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Caney High School (7.8km)
- Copan Elementary School (9.6km)
- Pleasant Hill School (12.7km)
- Stony Point School (historical) (12.9km)
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- Deadmans Rock (7.3km)
- Cascade (historical) (7.4km)
- administrative division;
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- Caney, City of (8km)
- Jefferson Township (12.1km)
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- Niotaze Oil Field (12.9km)
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- Caney Airpark (8km)
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- Sundown Hill (12.5km)
- cemetery;
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MICHAEL Byrne was regarded by gardai as the most significant drug trafficker supplying the west Dublin market.
His arrest followed a major operation by detectives from the garda national drugs unit.
Byrne, who lived in a council house in Clondalkin, provided the Dublin "connection" for an international drugs gang, operating out of Manchester.
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Byrne acted as a wholesaler and split up the shipments to be handed out to street traffickers, who then diluted the drugs before selling them.
He graduated into the drugs racket after being a member of the M50 gang, who carried out late night rallying in stolen cars.
Byrne was linked to the garda seizure of 18kg of heroin, with a street value of £4.5m, as it was being brought in through Dun Laoghaire port in a rented car in 1998. But he was never charged.
The investigation into the find uncovered how the gang were smuggling in the drugs.
The heroin was concealed in door panels in the rented vehicles. The panels were then stripped out and after the drugs had been removed the vehicles were sent back to the UK.
Inquiries into car rental records showed that Byrne had organised 10 previous drug "runs" involving rented vehicles.
The heroin was being brought from Afghanistan to Pakistan, through Turkey and the UK and into this country.
But in 2003 he was arrested and charged following the seizure of 8kg of heroin, as it was being handed over, outside a pub in west Dublin.
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Comerford, meanwhile, was caught in Manchester and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
Byrne was regarded as a hands-on operator who did not trust his associates and was directly involved in the shipments. After his arrest, leading to yesterday's sentencing, gardai seized €60,000 in cash and three cars, including a BMW X5. This is currently under investigation by the drug unit's financial section.
Byrne again broke down in tears during the current trial. But this time his crying did not influence the jury and he was convicted.
Speaking outside of the court yesterday, Detective Sergeant Gregory Sheehan of the Garda National Drugs Unit said he hoped that Judge Frank O'Donnell's sentence would send out a "salutary" lesson to high-end drug dealers to "desist" their operations.
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By Charles Laurence
The right wing King of Talk Radio is in danger of martyring himself at the altar of America's new hero, says
It looks like Rush Limbaugh can teach us all a thing or two about re-branding to survive a slump. The growling voice of diehard conservatism, the King of Talk Radio, sang the only sour note on America's day of euphoria when Barack Obama was sworn in as President and Dubya Bush packed off to Texas. "I hope he fails," he said. "Somebody's gotta say it," he added.
For once it looked as if the blowhard of the airwaves, the fat man with the cigar who is credited with single-handedly reviving the dying medium of AM talk radio, once as American as apple pie, had overstepped the mark.
The nation was in love with its new barrier-busting First Family, and had giddily pinned its hopes of surviving its credit card bills on his calm, cool presence in the Oval Office. And this overpaid buffoon wants Obama to fail? The putz wants millions of Americans to lose their jobs, homes, health care and futures? Just to make things clear, Limbaugh went on: "What is unfair about my saying I hope Liberalism fails? Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here."
It is possible, given the scandal over Limbaugh's addiction to prescription opiates, scored through bent doctors, that the Bush years of illiberalism passed him by. But even so, it looked for a day or two that the Limbaugh rant might finally die of its own irrelevance.
The newly installed President himself could not resist a coup-de-grace: inviting Republican leaders to the White House for one of his cross-party sessions, he said: "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." Touche!
He says Obama meets the old American fantasy of 'the Magic Negro'
Or maybe not. Limbaugh is a very odd man, as all three of his wives seem to have discovered before hasty departures. He has been mono-maniacally obsessed with radio since he was a boy, and began working at a radio station when he was 16. His mother noted that he couldn't be bothered with school, failed at university, and even flunked a class called Modern Ballroom Dance.
He has written a couple of opinionated bestsellers on the back of his celebrity, and once tried TV, but it is only in his little glass box with a microphone that he comes alive. He was a DJ and a sports commentator before President Reagan repealed the Fairness Act in broadcasting, allowing partisan spite to flow unchecked over the airwaves, and Limbaugh found his form. He got away, for instance, with saying that Obama's strength as a presidential candidate was no more than his meeting the old American fantasy of "the Magic Negro".
In his own way, Limbaugh has a genius for the form. That, at bottom, is why he has 13.4 million daily listeners, and beats even the TV anchors in terms of earnings, having signed a $50m a year contract for the next eight years.
It might be no coincidence that by his own admission he is "100 per cent totally deaf": it helps not to hear too much rational discourse. It is certainly no coincidence that he was born to a long line of lawyers and judges in small-town Missouri. He began in Jim Crow segregation, and grew up amid white fury at the progress of the Civil Rights era.
He is only 58, although he has always looked older. While his audience imagines him hobnobbing with the high and mighty, he actually lives an almost entirely isolated existence.
He works most of his waking hours, shuttling between his Florida mansion, where he lives alone but for the help, to his own studio building, with occasional forays to the golf course.
The conservative magazine the National Review anointed him 'The Leader of Conservative Principles' in a cover story in 1993. That was the year Bill Clinton took office, already tarred with extra-marital dalliances, and indeed it was Limbaugh's moment. However, that was then and this is now, and all but the cranks and the nitwits are rallying behind the new administration.
But it might not quite be the end of Rush Limbaugh. While he faces a slump in national demand for right-wing rant, the wily showman has come up with a ploy. He is complaining that President 'O' is trying to "marginalise" him so that he can shore up his dangerous regime of liberals and faint-heart conservatives.
Limbaugh pictures himself cast into the wilderness, a martyred prophet leading his dwindling band of faithful, who will one day say, to quote his own book-title: "I told you so."
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What OS and file system are you using,NTFS,FAT 32.
If you are on XP or above and on NTFS I would check your settings.Right click folder and see what groups have acces to it via security tab.You also may have to adjust your local group policies. Allow administrator to take ownership of folders.This could be the problem.
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F Chris Webber and 76ers Coach Jim O'Brien met yesterday to clear the air about Webber's lack of playing time two days earlier against Atlanta.
Webber, recently acquired from Sacramento, played 28 minutes in Philadelphia's 98-97 win over Atlanta. He came out with 3 minutes 38 seconds left in the third quarter, returned with 3:43 left in the fourth and scored four late points to help the 76ers pull out the win.
"Chris has a lot of confidence in himself. He knows what he can bring to the table," O'Brien said. "I have a number of reasons why I do what I do from the standpoint of playing guys a certain amount of minutes. . . . I didn't know it was going to be an issue. It bothered him. So I dealt with it."
Webber averaged 33 minutes in his first five games with Philadelphia; he played an average of 36.3 minutes in 46 games for the Kings earlier this season.
DEPLETED DALLAS: F Dirk Nowitzki missed the Mavericks' game against Toronto last night because of a bruised left knee, and the team also was without F Michael Finley, G Jerry Stackhouse and C Erick Dampier.
MOVES: The Bucks signed G Anthony Goldwire and placed C Daniel Santiago on the injured list.
Goldwire, who was signed for the rest of the season, played one game for Milwaukee this season after the team signed him Nov. 2 and then waived him at the end of that month.
He most recently played for the Pistons, averaging two points in nine games. Detroit released him on Jan. 25.
Santiago went on the injured list for an abrasion on his eye that has been bothering him since late November.
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|Top of the morning to ya, laddies! My name is Jacksepticeye and welcome to Five Nights at Freddy's, a game that I feel like I don't even have to explain anymore because every single person on the planet is playing this game right now, except me!
Five Nights at Freddy's is an RPG point-click indie horror game, made by Scott Cawthon, published in late 2014. The game has been a big hit ever since Markiplier played the game. The game takes place in a haunted pizzeria, known as "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza". Jacksepticeye has done a total of 28 videos on his youtube channel regarding the Five Nights at Freddy's game series.
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Five Nights at Freddy's (1) Edit
|Hello, Hello? Um, I wanted to record a message for you, to help you get settled down on your first night. I actually worked in that office before, spending my last week as a matter of fact, so I'm here to tell you, there's nothing to worry about.
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In Five Nights at Freddy's, the first game, you have to look through the cameras to check on spooky animatronics, (known as Freddy, Bonnie and Chica) and a pirate fox in the corner (known as Foxy). If you can't spot any animatronics in your camera system, you must check the door light. If an animatronic figure is there, you must close the door. You have a limited supply of power, and if you check the cameras too often, keep the lights on, or keep the doors closed for a long period of time, the power will eventually go out. When the power is out, Freddy plays a song while flashing his eyes in a dead stare. Then, things become dead silent, and then he kills the night guard.
The goal of the game is that you must hit 6AM (same with the other four games). Each night, the animatronics become more aggressive.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Edit
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a prequel to the first game. In the second game, the rules are much different. Instead of doors and power, you are given a Freddy Fazbear head. There seem to be eleven animatronics instead of four, in the first game. There are replacement models of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy, as they are known as the "Toys". There is also an extra character known as the Marionette, who will kill you if you fail to wind up the music box in the prize corner in time. The same goal is to hit 6AM.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 also seems to have many hallucinations compared to the other games.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Edit
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is a lot different from the fist two as you have to survive from ONE animatronic name Springtrap. There are other enemies, but they are only phantoms. The phantoms seem to distract you, giving Springtrap a better chance to come and get you.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 Edit
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 is the most unique of the other three games, as there are no cameras nor a pizzeria. Instead, this game takes place in a nightmare house. The animatronics are the FNAF1 animatronics, except they look a ton more menacing with huge, sharp teeth. Golden Freddy is also in the game, known as "Fredbear". Thee is also a new animatronic known as "Nightmare," an all-black animatronic bear who hunts down the player aggressively, making it very complicated for the player. Constantly, Nightmare teleports around the house, and sometimes the bed behind the player and the closet in front.
The way you play is much different, as you must walk to certain part of the room, to check for breathing, or to defend yourself from Nightmare Foxy or Nightmare Freddy.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Halloween Edition Edit
Somewhere around October or November, Scott released a Halloween Edition of Five Nights at Freddy's 4. The animatronics, such as Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Chica seem to have different looks, Halloween style. Nightmare Foxy is replaced by Nightmare Mangle, and Nightmare is replaced by the Nightmare Marionette.
Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Chica are renamed Jack-o-Bonnie and Jack-o-Chica.
Five Nights at Freddy's World Edit
Five Nights at Freddy's World is the latest installment of Scott Cawthon, and however is only available on Gamejolt rather than Steam, unlike the other four games. FNAF World is not considered to be an installment of the franchise, as it has a much, much different plot from the others.
In FNAF World, the FNAF characters are more kid-friendly, and is not scary. You have to save the village of Animatronica (or something, they're still working on a name according to fredbear) from enemies that seem to jumpscare the citizens.
All of the animatronics, including the phantoms and JJ, are in the game, and each have their own power-up to defeat the enemies.
History Edit
Scott Cawthon, creator of Five Nights at Freddy's started out as an unknown game developer, as he made low quality animations, such as "The Pilgrim's Progress". There were six parts to the series, and Scott's developments were mainly for little kids, which is the opposite of him today. He also made other games, and the well known ones are "Chipper and Sons: Lumber Co." and "There is No Pause Button". The Chipper and Sons game is one of the reason why FNAF exists.
People complained about the way that the characters in Chipper and Sons looked like animatronics. That's when Scott was sad, and thought he would never be a successful game developer.
He then had the idea of Five Nights at Freddy's. During game development, Bonnie, a character in the game, frightened Scott. He once had a nightmare about him. Ever since that nightmare, he put Bonnie as the main character in the FNAF1 trailer (also in later FNAF2 and FNAF4 trailers).
He then released the game, and to his luck, it was a true success. The game was even much bigger when Markiplier played the game. Soon after that, the whole internet bursted with FNAF gameplays.
To Scott's pride, he confirmed a second one, and everyone was hyped up for it.
Trivia Edit
- Jacksepticeye's most viewed video features Five Nights at Freddy's.
- There are many mysteries throughout the game that is still unknown.
- Gamer Markiplier was one of the first gamers to play the game.
- Scott makes money off Five Nights at Freddy's to support St. Jude's Research Hospital.
- Chipper and Sons: Lumber Co. has some secret FNAF sound effects throughout the game.
- Jack's favorite animatronic is Withered Bonnie.


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So, as if scrapbooking wasn't a big enough hobby to keep me busy, I've taken on the task of creating custom-made diaper cakes!
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We can't move LGBT rights foes to our side with purely logical arguments
I watched dumfounded recently as Charles Moran, a Trump delegate from California, was on TV extolling the virtues of the GOP when it comes to LGBTQ issues. He saw the candidacy of Donald Trump as being consistently supportive of LGBTQ rights.
This is a stance that even the Log Cabin Republicans don't share.
How could this man see Trump as an LGBTQ ally when Trump has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn marriage equality? When he chose as his running mate Indiana's rabidly anti-LGBTQ governor, Mike Pence?
It is the same kind of logical disconnect that allows low-income white voters to see Trump as the man who will stop their jobs from leaving the country for China and Mexico, despite the fact that Trump has shipped the manufacture of his products overseas and bought boatloads of Chinese steel and aluminum for his buildings.
The same illogic reasoning that has unemployed garment workers in the U.S. wearing Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats that were made in China.
It is a case of "confirmation bias" and it's something I have been guilty of as well.
It's the tendency to hear only information that confirms an already-held belief. For example, if I strongly believe that Trump is utterly and completely anti-LGBTQ, I ignore the statements he made about making sure "LGBT citizens" were free from persecution (though that sentiment appears nowhere at all in the GOP platform.)
So the folks who are already strongly biased against LGBTQ rights will rally behind Trump, believing he shares their hatred. They already believe he shares their racial bias, because he questioned President Obama's birth certificate, and he wants all Muslims to be banned from entering the country. They believe he is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, even though he agreed with Democrat Hillary Clinton that people on the "no-fly" list should not be able to obtain firearms.
That confirmation bias works against Hillary Clinton, as well. The trope that Clinton is a liar has little or no basis in fact, but if her statements are carefully "cherry-picked," you can find enough examples to support that belief.
In fact, watching one woman in a CNN focus group vehemently insist that all the politicians are liars except for Trump, because she just "know[s] they are lying to my face," just drove the point home. She was more willing to believe a man with a proven track record of deceit and deception in his business dealings than to believe a politician deemed by fact-checkers to be one of the most candidates in a long time, because she "believes" politicians are all liars.
How do you reason with people like this? How can you sway their opinion?
Well, I don't think you do it by giving them a litany of facts. Facts are not what motivates them, feelings are.
If progressives are ever going to successfully make a case that can convince people like many Trump supporters, it will have to be made in terms that resonate with them. That means we have to start framing our arguments in more emotional language while not losing track of the facts.
We have to start making our case in ways that draw at the gut and the heart and know that the mind will follow.
For LGBTQ Americans, this means finding ways to let people know how deeply discrimination affects not just us but our families and friends. If we speak to the heart of the matter, that hatred and bigotry are doing real emotional damage to our community, we might have better results than trying to educate folks on the Constitution.
We must make the case that young people are committing suicide, not because they are LGBTQ, but because of the way their families, friends and fellow Americans treat them. We must make the case that denying services to a woman strictly because of who she loves harms not just her but her children and family.
We must make the case that humiliating a transgender woman by refusing her access to bathroom facilities says more about our lack of common decency than trans women's morals. We must make the case that firing a highly-qualified and beloved teacher strictly because he is married to a man harms his students and the community at large.
We must make the case that publicly humiliating a member of a church congregation by shunning him because of who he loves reflects on the church's lack of compassion and puts the entire Gospel of Jesus in a bad light.
We have to start talking to people's hearts and guts and their minds will follow.
Hardy Haberman is a longtime local LGBT activist and a board member of the Woodhull Freedom Alliance. His blog is at DungeonDiary.blogspot.com.
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Conor McGregor will fight in Croke Park if he beats Aldo, UFC confirm
Conor McGregor will fight in front of 80,000 people at Croke Park - but only if he beats Jose Aldo in his upcoming bout, UFC president Dana White revealed last night.
White was speaking on Australia sports programme NRL Footy Show when he strongly hinted at a Croker date.
"If he beats Jose Aldo in Las Vegas in December, the next fight will be at Croke Park.
"We told him he could defend his title at Croke Park," the head of UFC confirmed.
McGregor's desire to fight in the north Dublin venue is extremely strong.
"The stadium show in Dublin will happen ... make no mistake about that," McGregor previously said.
However, Mr White previously raised issues about the venue's curfew and the difficulty with selling the event to pay-per-view audiences in the States given the time difference.
"I believe that we can do anything we wanna do. If we're determined enough to get it on ... we'll get it done," White said previously.
"I've told you guys many times that Croke Park is tough. It's a tough place to pull off, but we're determined to do it.
"If you've ever been to the fight in Ireland ... there's only 9,000 of them and it sounds like 90,000. There's places that you go ... Brazil, the UK, but there is nothing louder than the Irish."
McGregor is set to take on Jose Aldo in UFC 194, which takes place on December 12 at Las Begas' MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The pair were due to fight in July in one of the biggest dates in UFC history, but Aldo withdrew due to injuries he sustained in training.
McGregor was ultimately victorious against Chad Mendes, who replaced Aldo in an interim title matchup.
In recent days McGregor has revealed his approach to training, with a preference for light-contact sparring drills, as it replicates a real fight.
"MMA gloves, gum shields, T-shirts off … and that's it," he said.
"No shin pads, no nothing. I think this type of training right now that we're going to do is something that we should do the most.
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Turban disrespect: Punjab government seeks reportMarch 31st, 2011 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 31 (IANS) After ordering the suspension of two police officers and a magisterial inquiry into the incident of a Sikh man's turban being removed, the Punjab government Thursday asked the state chief secretary to submit a preliminary enquiry report into the incident within two days.
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal directed Chief Secretary S.C. Agarwal that the enquiry against two police officers, involved in showing disrespect to the turban of a protesting pharmacist, be completed and the report submitted within 48 hours to ensure prompt and exemplary punishment to the guilty.
The Punjab government had Wednesday ordered immediate suspension of two police officers for allegedly removing the turban of a Sikh man during a protest in Mohali town, 10 km from here, on Monday.
Those suspended included a superintendent of police (SP) and a station house officer (SHO) in Mohali.
A magisterial inquiry was also ordered into the incident.
Badal, who is also Punjab's home minister, also directed that utmost vigil be taken against recurrence of any such incidents. He said that any government officer or official found guilty of showing disrespect to the turban or any religious symbol of any community would be dealt with sternly.
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California auto buyers favor Toyota Prius; rest of U.S. prefers trucks
Toyota's Prius ranked as the top-selling vehicle in California for the second straight year in 2013. Nationally, Ford's F-series truck has outsold all other autos for more than three decades.
By Jerry Hirsch
February 15, 2014, 5:00 a.m.
America loves trucks. California? The Prius hybrid.
Toyota's Prius was the best-selling vehicle in the state for the second consecutive year in 2013, highlighting California's radically different taste in automobiles. Nationally, Ford's F-Series truck has been the bestselling vehicle for more than three decades.
The Prius ranked 16th in sales nationally.
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For drivers in such places as Texas, Montana and much of the Midwest, trucks are practical — but also a lifestyle statement. That's why Ford slathers on the leather and chrome in the Limited F-150 pickup with a sticker price that creeps into the mid-$50,000 range.
"The nation of California is very different," said Jake Fisher, the automotive test director for Consumer Reports.
California looks more like a cross between what people drive in Europe — with its pollution and fuel price concerns — and the rest of the United States, he said.
"California also has been much more open to imports historically," Fisher said, in part because the major Asian brands — Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Hyundai and Kia — all have their U.S. headquarters in the state.
Drivers in the state don't share the "buy American" outlook of the nation's heartland, he said, because California is so far from the industrial Midwest, the cradle of the U.S. auto industry.
Japanese brands made up eight of the top 10 cars sold in California last year. The only domestic vehicle was the Ford truck, and it ranked sixth.
Californians purchased 69,728 Prius hybrids last year. The Honda Civic compact sedan was a close second, with sales of 66,982. Passenger cars, including the Honda Accord and Toyota's Camry and Corolla rounded out the top five, according to the California New Car Dealers Assn.
Trucks, by comparison, dominated three of the top five sales spots nationally last year. Ford sold an eye-popping 763,402 F-Series pickups last year. That was nearly 280,000 more than the second bestselling vehicle — the Chevrolet Silverado pickup. (For comparison, that huge gap was about equal to all the vehicles Mazda sells in the U.S. annually.)
The Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and Ram pickup rounded out the top five nationally. All of the top five sellers in California are comfortable, fuel-efficient commuter cars, a reflection of the traffic Californians put up with daily.
The little Prius is the "statement" car in California, said Karl Brauer, an analyst with auto information company Kelley Blue Book.
It says "green" because of its impressive fuel economy, and it says "prudent" because the car is practical — the liftback and wagon versions have ample cargo space and are inexpensive to operate.
The Prius sells in a variety of models and price levels. The tiny C starts at $19,080 while the plug-in version of the Prius liftback with the fanciest trim and options can approach $40,000.
The average transaction price of the Prius is higher than what the other passenger cars at the top of California's list cost, Brauer said.
"People are buying the most expensive, the most political and the car with the most identifiable image," he said. "It makes a stronger statement than the other four even though functionally they are all similar."
The typical Prius sells for $26,000 to $28,000 depending on whether it is the hatchback model or the station wagon, while the average Camry goes for about $24,000 and the typical Accord for about $25,400, according to Kelley Blue Book.
Prius owners also have a hankering for the expensive Tesla Model S electric sports sedan, according to registration data from IHS automotive. The Prius is the car most often traded in for a Tesla, the automotive research firm said.
So it's no surprise that California plays a vital role in the success of the Palo Alto electric car company. Californians purchased 8,347 Teslas last year — accounting for 37% of Tesla's global sales.
"The Tesla is the rich man's Prius," Brauer said. "It is the newer, cooler, sleeker and hipper way to make the same statement the Prius has made for the last 12 years."
Those sales also have generated thousands of special California environmental credits that Tesla was able to sell to other automakers for at least $129 million through just part of last year. It could turn out to be more when Tesla reports its financial results for the entire year next week.
Seven models make both lists of the top 10 selling cars nationally and in California, though the order of the vehicles is scrambled.
Two vehicles are on the California list but don't come close to cracking a roster of top sellers nationally: Toyota's mid-size Tacoma pickup truck and the BMW 3-Series sports sedan.
The Tacoma, which scored eighth on the California list, is popular with landscapers, construction workers and others in service industries, especially among Latino small business owners, said Jesse Toprak, an analyst with car shopping website Cars.com.
"They are durable and cheap to maintain, so it is probably a monetary decision compounded by word of mouth," Toprak said.
It also is one of just two mid-size pickup trucks for sale by automakers. Its standing could change this year or next because General Motors is about to launch two competitors, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon.
BMW just edges on to the California list as the 10th most popular car, primarily because it is an image play.
"We are also a bit shallow, and we like to buy image," said Toprak, who works from an office in Santa Monica. "That's why you see little old ladies in the suburbs driving a fancy Mercedes-Benz S-Class, even though they don't know what 90% of the buttons in the car do."
This group of image-oriented California buyers tends to turn up their noses at domestic brands, especially when it comes to luxury cars.
"That's a big obstacle for Cadillac and Lincoln here in California," Toprak said.
BMW plays into that by offering aggressive lease deals on its 3-Series models and recently launched the BMW 320, a stripped-down, less powerful model that sells for about 10% less than where the 3-Series previously started.
"You see twenty- and thirtysomethings here in California looking at a Camry lease and deciding to move into a BMW for a payment of maybe $50 or $60 more," Toprak said.
"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves." G Washington July 2, 1776
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Reading that article makes my head spin. Nothing about the fact 2 of the 3 major American auto builders failed.
Californians saw the crap Detroit foisted on an undiscriminating nation, and opted for better quality and economy starting in the 70s.
For people that know vehicles, hybrid is an excellent technology to improve mileage. The technology is tested, thanks to a big investment by Toyota--a business management decision completely opposed to the short term views which bankrupted the American former "big 3."
California has led the way to where American auto buyer tastes will go in the future. While GM killed off their Oldsmobile, then Pontiac, Saturn, Toyota was introducing Lexus then Scion, and of course the Prius.
So the theme of the article could very well be that California embraces the future. BMW has a fairly secret design development center near Ventura California. Almost all auto manufacturers have major design facilities in SoCal. Toyota has operated Calty Research, their North American design studio, since 1973 in Newport Beach CA.
My wife and I had a Chevrolet pickup for nearly 10 years and it was great. However our last Chevrolet sedan was crap. We are on our 3rd BMW, dating to about 1986. Own and drive each about 10 years and over 100,000 miles.
A really big seller in California is the Mini--a British legend which BMW bought, redesigned the body and engines, and sells like hotcakes. Young style, economy minded younger people love them.
Clue: America's auto headquarters is and remains Detroit. If I was President considering assistance to US auto makers, the first thing I'd say is for them to vacate Detroit, leave. Go to California.
There are winners, and losers. Fisker was a loser. Tesla is a winner. Last week I saw the new BMW I-3, their first volume electric vehicle.
Hybrid uses the best attributes of BOTH liquid hydrocarbon fuels, and electric power. And hybrid auto technology is now a mature technology.
In the last 15 years, GM has not been in the largest firms list, by market capitalization, but Toyota has.
Staying locked to a past killed GM. Big gas hogs, poor quality, lack of innovation, crooked unions, etc.
What the article says is that California embraces a different future, while the rest of the nation is locked tight to a failed past model.
Conservatism should embrace a free, high tech, innovative future, not cling to a rusty failed, corrupt past.
"God must love the common man, he made so many of them." Abe Lincoln
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In my experience here, if there is someone on the road obstructing traffic by being either unable or unwilling to drive the speed limit, inevitably they are driving a Prius.
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Unfamiliar View
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From Lookout Mountain Mt. Hood looks quite different than it does from the more frequently visited west and south sides.
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Lookout Mountain (Mountain/Rock)
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Lat/Lon: 45.34250°N / 121.5231°W
Object Title: Unfamiliar View
Image Type(s): Hiking