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Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown criticised after details of second earnings were brought to light
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By Shaun Dix
12:00pm Monday 27th January 2014
By Shaun Dix
THE MP for the Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, has been accused of being out of touch with his constituents after details of his second earnings were brought to light.
An anonymous document, which was sent to the Standard, showed that Mr Clifton-Brown earned more than £120,000 for working less than 80 days between August 2011 and November 2013.
Mr Clifton-Brown, 60, who earns £66,396 as a Member of Parliament, receives a second income through his work as a partner in the East Peckham partnership, an arable farming business in Norfolk.
He said: "My business arrangements have been the same for the entire 21 years that I have been the Member of Parliament for this area. A few years ago the House of Commons changed the rules so that all taxable earnings and hours spent have to be declared.
"This was a welcome change in transparency and something that I am happy to comply with."
The document, which contains a detailed breakdown of the MP's earnings, shows that in July 2012 Mr Clifton Brown made a total of £31,852.57 for 35 hours of work, or the equivalent of 5.83 working days.
Other months were less lucrative with the Cotswold MP taking only £157.52 in September 2013 despite working 25 hours, or the equivalent of 4.17 working days.
It is also understood that Mr Clifton-Brown has another income through letting properties in London, details of which were not included in the anonymous letter.
Paul Hodgkinson, Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for the Cotswolds, said that many of Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's electors would be surprised by the figures.
He said: "There is this aura that the Cotswolds is the playground of the wealthy but it's not. The average salary in the Cotswolds is around £20,000, less than the national average.
"I think most of his constituents would be really grateful to receive his salary. In fact, it's what most people can only dream about.
"I've got nothing against high earnings but this is someone who has been elected to be a full time MP. He should be concentrating on this and nothing else."
Cllr Hodgkinson told the Standard that, should he be elected to Parliament in 2015, he would call time on his own executive coaching business.
Responding to Cllr Hodgkinson, Mr Clifton-Brown said: "I would like to assure my constituents that my commitment to this constituency is just as great as it always has been.
"It is a constituency that is one of the largest in the South of England and it also has a very diverse mix of issues that have to be dealt with.
"I always think that I do a week's work in London and a week's worth of work in the constituency at the weekend.
"My constituency surgery advice dates are fixed a year in advance and I spend one weekend a month away from the constituency. I also take some holidays away from the constituency."
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Consultants recommend closure of Manilla school building
Irwin school would become junior high
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Jeff Blum, utilities supervisor in Manning, challenged the consultants' estimate to keep the Manilla building open, citing the $975,000 figure as "overinflated."
Sam Harding, one of the consultants who analyzed the IKM-Manning school district, addressed a crowd of about 250 people in the high school auditorium Thursday night. The pair recommended that the school board close the Manilla building and convert Irwin from an elementary to a junior high school.
February 14, 2014
Consultants officially recommended Thursday night that the IKM-Manning board of education close the Manilla building to most efficiently consolidate the district and cut costs.
In the scenario proposed by Sam Harding and Duane Van Hemert of Iowa Schoolhouse Construction and Planning Services, which could save the district more than $4.5 million over the next decade, the current Irwin elementary building would become a junior high school.
IKM-Manning superintendent Tom Ward estimates that about 250 people were in attendance in the high school auditorium in Manning. Some Manilla residents voiced skepticism of the financial information included in the presentation. Others cited disappointment tempered by a sense of inevitability.
"It's like they're saying, 'We want your kids and we want your tax money, but we don't want your community'," said Manilla mayor Pat Wuestewald after the meeting.
The consultants were hired in September to offer an "unbiased opinion" on which, if any, of the district's three buildings should be closed. The discussion has been ongoing for nearly a year as the district, which already has empty space in all three buildings, faces continued declining enrollment and further cuts in state funding.
The Irwin building currently houses prekindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grades. Manilla houses fifth through eighth grades and the central office. Manning houses a section of prekindergarten and kindergarten, third and fourth grades and the high school students.
Harding and Van Hemert reviewed the structures themselves, enrollment and funding trends and community feedback. They recommend that the kindergarten, first- and second-grade students be moved from Irwin to Manning; the fifth and sixth grades moved from Manilla to Manning; the seventh and eighth grades moved from Manilla to Irwin; and the central office moved from Manilla to Irwin. The Manilla building and classroom wings would be closed and the gym kept as an optional athletic facility and potential transportation hub.
The scenario would cost about $280,000 because science and consumer science rooms would need to be renovated in Irwin, and lockers and other miscellaneous items would need to be moved from Manilla.
The benefits include avoiding nearly $1 million in deferred renovation costs that would be required if the Manilla building was kept open - according to Harding the heating and cooling system is inefficient, the pipe and duct work would need to be replaced and the mixture of new and old electrical wiring would need to be updated in the next decade - the elementary students and teachers would be in one building and therefore able to collaborate and the district would save a little more than $400,000 a year through staff and utility reductions.
The consultants rejected a scenario that kept parts of all three buildings open and a second scenario that made Manning a combined junior high and high school and Irwin an elementary school. In the latter, a room would need to be added at Irwin to accommodate all the elementary classes and a gym would eventually need to be added at Manning to accommodate both the junior high and high school physical education classes and sports teams.
In the recommended scenario, the gym at Manning is sufficient to accommodate physical-education classes for all the high school and elementary students, said Harding - a curtain could divide the gym to accommodate multiple elementary classes, and the junior high would not need to share practice time with the high school because it would have its own gym at Irwin.
However, if the current enrollment trend continues, the district will have to close Irwin in 10 to 12 years, at which point a gym will need to be added at Manning, said Van Hemert. The estimated cost for a gym addition is $750,000 to $1 million.
IKM-Manning's enrollment has been declining at an average rate of 2.4 percent for the last 14 years, Van Hemert explained. If that trend continues, the district will lose another 100 students, representing more than $600,000 in state funding, by 2018.
"Your current spending levels are not sustainable," he said. "You're going into a hole."
Even if the district were to start growing by 1 percent each year, the total number of students will still decrease by 2018 because the graduating classes are larger than the incoming kindergarten classes, Van Hemert added.
"The problem won't go away," he said, acknowledging that the decision to close a school building is difficult. "If you don't do something now ... within a year or two your reserves are going to be gone. If you just hope (the problem) goes away, it won't, and you'll end up losing your district."
According to Harding, the district has enough physical plant and equipment levy and local-option sales-tax money to pursue either scenario that closes Manilla - these funds can only be used for infrastructure expenses. In either scenario, the district could save the general fund - which can only be used for staff and utility costs - a total of $4 million over the next 10 years by reducing support staff, teachers and administrators and utility costs, as well as save an estimated $975,000 in repairs to Manilla that would not need to be made, said Van Hemert.
Jeff Blum, utilities supervisor in Manilla, said the estimate to keep the Manilla building open was "overinflated." Blum also said the boiler at Manilla is newer and claimed that the true utilities cost for the building is lower than the figures the consultants used and lower than that of the Irwin building.
Harding said Irwin has two boilers that are able to be rotated and heat only a part of the building. This allows a more-efficient heating and cooling system to be used for the rest of the building.
Wuestewald agreed with Blum's characterization of the estimated costs.
"Some of those repairs would never be done because the district would move to one building before they were needed," he said.
"We don't like (the decision), but we knew it was heading that way."
One attendee asked why the district didn't just consolidate to one building right now if it was inevitable. Harding said there is not enough space in Manning for the current student population, and there is no point in building an addition that will be empty in a decade.
Board members declined to comment on Thursday night's recommendation. They will hold a meeting next Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium at the high school to hear public feedback on the consultants' proposal.
"Five, seven years ago when we started this merger project, everybody knew this day was coming when one of our buildings was going to have to be closed," said John Halbur, who lives north of Manning. "The school board needs to be shown a little respect, or sympathy maybe, for having to make this tough decision."
The board will vote on a decision at its March 6 meeting.
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OTTAWA — New hearings to determine whether Manitoba Justice Lori Douglas is fit to sit on the bench have been scheduled for the fall, the Canadian Judicial Council announced Tuesday.
The hearings come four years after Douglas was first accused of sexual harassment by a former client of her husband, lawyer Jack King, and two years after the first hearings were scrapped under accusations of bias against Douglas by the panel of judges and lawyers deciding her fate.
They also come under a cloud of confusion as to how exactly the case can proceed now that King has died and the accuser, Alexander Chapman, has moved to Trinidad.
CJC director Norman Sabourin said lawyers for Douglas are working with the new panel and the independent council to figure out how to handle King's testimony. He testified in the first hearings but died in April of cancer. Sabourin said if the various parties can't agree how to handle that situation, it will be dealt with in preliminary hearings scheduled for October.
The inquiry has been dragging under the weight of numerous court challenges, resignations and ill will between various parties. Douglas's lawyers wanted the whole thing quashed by a federal court. The original independent lawyer hired to present the case quit in 2012. In letters released recently, the lawyer's resignation came because he felt he was not being allowed to operate independently.
The five-member panel also resigned.
A new independent council was appointed, as well as a new, three-member panel to hear the case.
Douglas has been on paid leave from the bench since August 2010.
The accusations in question stem from an incident in 2004 in which King attempted to get Chapman to have sex with Douglas, including sending Chapman nude photos of her. King's law firm paid Chapman a $25,000 settlement for the matter. King was chastised by the Manitoba Law Society for it in 2011.
Douglas was appointed to the bench in 2006 and testimony at the first hearings said she disclosed the matter to the committee reviewing her application for the bench.


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Mayor Coleman breaks ground on the Penfield
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Mayor Chris Coleman broke ground on the Penfield Project today, a long-awaited mixed-use redevelopment which is set to bring a full-service Lunds grocery store to downtown residents, set beneath 254 market-rate apartments.
"I am thrilled that the first tangible step in providing our downtown residents with a full-service grocery store is finally underway," Mayor Chris Coleman said. "Projects like this help fulfill the needs of our downtown population and they help drive future investment. This project is catalytic for downtown Saint Paul. It drives vitality near the Central Corridor and contributes to the city's economic stability. After a long wait, this project is becoming a reality."
Plans for the Penfield have been in progress for more than 8 years. Following the 2008 economic recession, the Saint Paul HRA took the project over, and construction is now underway.
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Corn futures followed the soybean market higher early Tuesday morning, but reversed sharply in the wake of the weekly Export Inspections report from the USDA. The news that the latest weekly total reached just 9.5 million bushels apparently disappointed CBOT traders, since the nearby contracts turned decisively lower from that point. This also seems to set a weak tone for Friday's Export Sales report. March corn had fallen 5.25 cents to $6.935/bushel by late Tuesday morning, while December tumbled 5.50 cents to $5.575.
Soybean futures rallied strongly Monday night and Tuesday morning in response to news that recent rainfall over dry Argentine fields had proven rather sparse. Moreover, forthcoming rainfall seems likely to improve little, which implies increasing damage to their second-quarter harvest. The weekly Export Inspections report was also supportive of bullish positions, since the 40.4 million bushel result topped expectations in the 29-35 million bushel range. March beans had spiked 39.5 cents to $14.64 around midsession Tuesday, while March soyoil surged 0.60 cents to 52.22 cents/pound, and March meal gained $14.4 to $423.8/ton.
Wheat futures turned downward despite a supportive result on the weekly USDA Export Inspections report. That is, traders were reportedly looking for a weekly total in the 15-20 million bushel range, while the actual result came in just over 30 million. We suspect bulls found no backing for an upward surge and sold aggressively. On the other hand, the market may simply be reacting to forecasts for strong precipitation later this week and again next Monday-Tuesday. Whatever the cause, the mid-morning breakdown seemingly bodes ill for the short-term wheat outlook. March CBOT wheat futures dove 13.75 cents to $7.285/bushel late Tuesday morning, while March KCBT wheat dropped 11.75 cents to $7.6575, and March MGE futures plunged 11.75 cents to $8.1175.
Cattle traders probably began this week expecting a bullish follow-through to the bounce posted late last week. However, that was not the case Tuesday morning. We tend to blame pessimism about short-term wholesale prospects, since grocers traditionally tend to curtail their beef purchases during the second half of most months [since they have (hypothetically) already met their needs early the month following]. This seemingly bodes rather ill for short-term cattle market prospects. April cattle sank 0.80 cents to 129.65 cents/pound in late-morning activity, while August declined 0.47 cents to 126.25. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle dropped 0.57 cents to 142.80 cents/pound, and August had fallen 0.90 cents to 156.00.
Hog futures also proved quite weak to start the holiday-shortened week. We suspect general anticipation of a seasonal through late February and March played a role in the drop, but traders may also have been reacting to talk of cash and wholesale weakness. Neither the concurrent drop in fed cattle futures, nor the bearish technical situation could have been particularly encouraging either. April hogs plummeted 1.07 cents to 83.17 cents/pound Tuesday morning, while June dipped 0.70 cents to 92.25.


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Title: Seducing Mr. Knightly
Series: The Writing Girls, Book 4
Author: Maya Rodale
Genre: Historical Romance
Sensuality Rating: Steamy
Source: Avon Addict
Published: October 2012 by Avon
He's the only man she's ever loved…
For ages it seems advice columnist Annabelle Swift has loved Derek Knightly, editor-owner of The London Weekly from a distance. Determined to finally attract her employer's attention, she seeks advice from her loyal readers—who offer Annabelle myriad suggestions…from lower-cut bodices (success!) and sultry gazes (disaster!) to a surprise midnight rendezvous (wicked!).
She's the only woman he never noticed…
Derek never really took note of his shy, wallflower lady writer. But suddenly she's exquisite…and he can't get Annabelle out of his mind! She must be pursuing someone, but who? For some inexplicable reason, the thought of her with another man makes Knightly insanely jealous.
Will Dear Annabelle find her happy ending?
But Knightly's scandalous periodical has been targeted for destruction by a vengeful Lord Marsden, and the beleaguered editor now faces a devastating choice: either marry Marsden's sister to save his beloved newspaper…or follow his heart and wed his Writing Girl.
Reviewed By: J9
In a Nutshell: Light, funny and over-the-top historical romance.
The Set Up: Annabelle is one of the four female newspaper writers in Victorian London and she's hopelessly in love with the newspaper's owner, Derek Knightly. Annabelle is tired of Derek not noticing her so she asks her reading public how to get a man to notice her. The suggestions make for a new Annabelle that Derek notices but he's nearly engaged to a woman who can gain him entry into the ton that has been denied him by his half-brother.
Why I Read this Book: I'm an Avon Addict!
What I Liked: This book doesn't take itself too seriously. It's light and humorous and it doesn't pretend to be weighty or life changing. I like this romp as Annabelle enacts humorous reader suggestions like learning to pout or faint. Derek's initial obliviousness makes Annabelle's struggles even more humorous. I also like the silly titling of adventures like "Awful Incidences". The humor is carried through the book as Derek has to turn the tables on Annabelle and make her notice him. This book doesn't have deep characters, an outstanding plot or emotional intensity but it does have humor.
What I Also Liked: All the characters, from Annabelle to Derek to all their friends, are likable and just fun. Annabelle's attempts at taking charge of her life are relatable and will have any reader rooting for her. Derek's single minded focus on his newspaper and his entry into the ton make for an entertaining romp when he's foiled by the bumbling Annabelle. Annabelle's fellow "girl writers" and Derek's other employees are great secondary characters who play into the charade. This is book four in the Writing Girls series with Annabelle's fellow writers as the heroines and they promise to be entertaining heroines as well.
What I Didn't Like: Annabelle's unrequited love and how she allowed it to diminish her self-worth was a little hard to read. She excuses Derek's callous behavior multiple times, much to the horror of her friends and I was with them! She needed to call Derek out but she never did and I wanted that. True, Derek has to turn the tables on her but not because Annabelle called out his bad behavior. Up to the very end Annabelle is a martyr to her love for Derek and that stunk.
IMO: So long as readers are looking for a light little adventure, this is a good read.
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After rooting around in a Leicester car park, a group of academics have found a scoliosis-racked body with battle wounds. They think it might be Richard III: DNA tests await. If it is him, what do you do with him? On the one hand, he was a king. A long time ago, yes. But a king's a king, right? And he has something of a following.
On the other hand, he is rather implicated in child-murder – and he was killed by his successor. If we think the suspected murder victims were legitimate kings and his successor, Henry VII, was as well, how do we treat Richard III? These are not straightforward problems. Perhaps we should ask the family. Read more


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James Dean and Paul Newman try out for East of Eden (1955)
Elia Kazan directs this rather amazing screen test with Paul Newman and James Dean, both young, relaxed, and obviously at ease in front of the camera, despite Elia Kazan's offscreen hectoring. Dean, toying with a switchblade knife through much of this test, which is in two sections, got the part, his first major screen role; Newman didn't make the cut, for one reason or another.
My favorite exchange: Dean to Newman: "Kiss me." Newman: "Can't here."


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This article was published 20/5/2013 (1553 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Jowita Bydlowska gets defensive early on in our telephone interview.
"It sounds like you've already written your story," she snaps when I ask her if she feels guilty that she drank to oblivion during the first year of her son's life. You wrote a book called Drunk Mother, I reply. You opened the door. I walked through.
Bydlowska, 35, did more than open the door. She flung it open to expose her booze-filled, milk-engorged breasts to the reading public. She expressed milk at night so baby Frankie wouldn't drink something that would put him over the legal limit. She hit the Internet to determine how many hours must pass before her milk is clean. She was clever in that crafty, bargaining, alcoholic way.
Baby got formula when mommy got tanked.
Bydlowska will speak at McNally Robinson at 7 p.m. this evening, part of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival.
A recovering alcoholic, she waved farewell to three years of sobriety when she grabbed a glass of wine at a party celebrating her son's birth. Anyone who has walked the narrow, hurricane-prone tightrope of sobriety knows one drink leads inevitably to another and the hundreds after that.
'I'm a writer. I tell stories. I wanted to give insight into the mind of the addict'-- Jowita Bydlowska, author of Drunk Mom
Bydlowska's full-blown return to destructive drinking was easy as tipping over a canoe in a rushing, rock-filled river. It takes no time before she's spreading her visits between liquor stores, a sort of internal GPS telling her where they're located as she takes her son out in his stroller. She feels the guilt of the active alcoholic, hiding her booze under her son's diaper bags and taking surreptitious sips while they're off for a stroll. She buys sparkling wine and Sprite, replacing the pop with booze for easy public sipping.
Bydlowska is cursed with a double diagnosis. She has bipolar disorder as well as being an alcoholic. It's a one-two punch that defines much of her life, the mental illness uncontrollable when she drinks.
She says she wrote the book, in part, to take away the stigma of her disorders. It's unlikely anyone will read Drunk Mother and want to hug an addict.
"I wanted to tell the story," she says during our call. "I'm a writer. I tell stories. I wanted to give insight into the mind of the addict."
And what of her son, who will read someday that his mother woke up in a Montreal hotel, black bra sodden with breast milk, panties gone, no idea if she'd had sex with the two strangers she'd met the night before? About the blackouts that left her bruised and unknowing?
"I'm hoping he grows up in a world where we don't stigmatize addiction and mental illness so much," she said. "I'm hoping he will understand this is a form of public apology."
Her partner, Globe and Mail columnist Russell Smith, read the book in draft form. "It was difficult, but he's always been very supportive."
But wasn't it hard for him to read her blackouts were "pure temporary death" and that, really, anything could have happened?
"It certainly hasn't been easy. How could it be?" she says. "We survived it. Some of the things that happened, some of the criticism has brought us closer together."
Addiction and mental-illness memoirs are not new. Bydlowksa's memoir adds a baby and all our preconceptions of motherhood to the mix. She writes of waking up from a blackout, stretched out on the floor of her son's nursery.
Smith is speaking to her.
"His voice sounds calm," she writes. "That probably means that he doesn't know yet that the baby is dead, or he knows and has gone mad.
"Or the baby is not dead.
"Maybe I didn't kill the baby?"
She says she hopes the book will help other new mothers realize all of us struggle to be adequate mothers.
"I wanted to tell it in the hope it will help some people," she said, "I don't know if it will be a help to other people."
She's been sober for three years. Frankie is four.
"I guess I'm not a very sympathetic person in the book," she says. "Right now I'm a completely different person than I was in the book."
She relaxes her early combative stance.
"I totally feel like I've let him (her son) down. I feel guilty all the time."


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – The Texas Rangers have agreed to terms on a minor league contract with infielder Alex Cora.
The team made the announcement before tonight's game at Tampa Bay.
Cora, 34, is expected to join Triple-A Oklahoma City tomorrow. He appeared in 62 games for the New York Mets this season, hitting .207 with 20 RBIs.
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A WORCESTERSHIRE MP has hailed the news that a new railway station is finally heading to the county - declaring victory after 25 years of campaigning.
Sir Peter Luff, who was first elected to parliament in 1992, says he's been lobbying for Worcestershire Parkway to be built at Norton before he even became a politician.
The veteran Conservative, who represents Mid-Worcestershire, the constituency where the new station will be based, says seeing it come to fruition will be a fitting legacy once he retires next year at the general election.
As your Worcester News revealed on Tuesday, the Government has awarded Worcestershire a £47 million cash injection which includes £7.5 million for the parkway site.
Worcestershire County Council's leadership says a planning application will be submitted in the first half of next year, and is trying to take ownership of the land ahead of an opening target of the 2016/17 financial year.
The Government says it will hand over the £7.5 million for parkway in April 2016, with the Department for Transport planning talks with operators over using the site.
Mr Luff said: "I have been making the case for a Worcestershire Parkway station for my whole time as a Member of Parliament and before that as a candidate, so this news proves that persistence pays.
"Worcestershire County Council has also been working hard on making the case and pushing forward with the plans for this station, for which I thank them warmly.
"The station will revolutionise rail travel for local people by providing a hub to connect north and south services between Birmingham and Bristol, and east and west services between Worcester and Oxford and London. "Crucially it will have plenty of parking for people to leave their cars. "The money arrives just when it's needed in mid-2016 when construction is likely to begin.
"There a few more obstacles to be overcome, but we are firmly on the downhill slope to success now and I could not be more delighted."
The £47 million Government cash has come from a national pot called the Growth Fund, which all 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships across the country were competing for.
Of that cash, £13 million is being handed over in 2015/16 and the rest will be drip fed across during the following four years.


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Columbus Gov. John Kasich is standing firm on his proposal to expand Medicaid eligibility, but hes also not looking to pick a public fight with another Republican statewide officeholder who opposes the move.
Kasich told audiences in Columbus this week that providing medical, mental health and other services to additional needy Ohioans is the right decision to make, particularly since the bulk of the initial costs will be covered by the federal government.
The stance is different than the position held by state Treasurer Josh Mandel, who this week sent a letter to Statehouse Republicans urging them to abandon Kasichs plan.
Though the federal government is promising to pay for most of the expansion in the near term, it is currently borrowing approximately 40 cents of every dollar it spends, Mandel wrote. I am concerned that expanding Medicaid in Ohio will overwhelm an already broken system and place an unbearable burden on generations of Ohioans.
He added, There is no free money. While expanding Medicaid may direct more federal dollars to Ohio in the next few years, in the long term Ohioans will have to repay the debt that is funding the federal government spending.
Kasich told reporters that his biennial budget proposal includes an exit clause allowing the state to reverse course should the federal government change its funding levels.
Im not going to get into a battle with Josh here, the governor told reporters following a speech at the Ohio Newspaper Association annual conference. He has an opinion about his concern, I think fundamentally about Medicaid. I havent read the letter, but I think its about the overall health long-term of Medicaid.
He added, Is that program going to need to be reformed in the next decade? Yes. But we have an issue today. Thats why we have in our proposal that if the federal government starts changing all the rules, we wont continue to be in the program.
Kasichs two-year spending plan would expand Medicaid eligibility to Ohioans earning up to 138 percent of federal poverty level (about $15,400 per person or $23,050 for a family of four).
The administration has estimated that the expansion will leverage billions in federal Medicaid dollars, save the state more than $400 million in general revenue funds and ensure 275,000-plus additional low-income Ohioans will have coverage.
But Kasichs proposal has drawn criticism from conservative groups and concern from some GOP lawmakers, who view it as a support of federal health care mandates and out-of-control spending.
During the Ohio Houses finance committee hearing Feb. 14, which focused on the Medicaid portion of the budget, Rep. Robert Sprague, a Republican from Findlay, echoed Mandels concerns, asking whether the expansion was fiscally responsible.
The reality is that each one of us in this room is an American as well as a citizen of the state of Ohio, Sprague said. And the federal government cant afford to pay for the entitlement programs that it already has implemented, so the federal government will be borrowing that $2.4 billion in order to fund this program. We as Americans will eventually have to pay the money back Clearly this is an unsustainable position for the federal government, and there will be a day of reckoning.
Greg Moody, who heads the states Office of Health Transformation, acknowledged the concerns about federal spending and debt.
Were faced with this kind of pragmatic, difficult choice, he said. Would I rather we take the money and not spend it and draw down the federal debt? Absolutely, but that is not within my range of ability and not within the range of the governors ability to do. If we dont spend it, it is not as if that money is going to be somehow saved. We are still paying that in our federal taxes. The question is it coming back to Ohio or is it going somewhere else?
Marc Kovac is the Dix Capital Bureau Chief. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.
In this video, Gov. John Kasich talks about his biennial budget plan and defends school funding reform, sales tax broadening and other provisions. With an introduction by David Dix, publisher of The Record Courier and ONA president.


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Alternative formsEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːn.sə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.sɚ/
- (æ-tensing, rhotic) IPA(key): [ˈeən.sɚ]
- (æ-tensing, non-rhotic) IPA(key): [ˈeən.sə]
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- Rhymes: -ɑːnsə(ɹ), -ænsə(ɹ)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English answere, andsware, from Old English andswaru ("answer"), from Proto-Germanic *andaswarō ("answer"), equivalent to and- + swear. Cognate with Old Frisian ondser ("answer"), Old Saxon andswōr ("answer"), Danish and Swedish ansvar ("liability, responsibility, answer"), Icelandic andsvar ("answer, response"). Compare also Old English andwyrde ("answer") (cognate to Dutch antwoord, German Antwort), Old English andcwiss ("reply"), German Schwur ("oath, vow").
answer (plural answers)
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
- A solution to a problem.
- There is no simple answer to corruption.
- (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English answeren, andswaren, from Old English andswarian ("to answer, respond, give an answer"), from Proto-Germanic *and- ("back, in return") + *swarō ("oath"), from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną ("to speak, swear"), equivalent to and- + swear. Cognate with Old Frisian ondswera ("to answer"), Danish ansvare ("to answer, account for"), Swedish ansvara ("to answer, account for"), Icelandic andsvara ("to answer, reply").
answer (third-person singular simple present answers, present participle answering, simple past and past participle answered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 26
- There was no voice, nor any that answered.
- Shakespeare
- She answers him as if she knew his mind.
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- "Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." ¶ "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
He answered the question.
- Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 26
- (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- to answer a charge or accusation
- (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
She answered the door.
- Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
- (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- Alexander Ellis
- Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer, but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 41, in The Way of All Flesh:
- Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.
It answers the need.
- Alexander Ellis
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.
- He has a lot to answer for.
- Shakespeare
- Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
- (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Act 2, Scene 2
- I wish she had answered her picture as well.
- B. Edwards
- The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
- 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Act 2, Scene 2
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- Gilpin
- The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them.
- Gilpin
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- Jonathan Swift
- Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
- Shakespeare
- That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
- Shakespeare
- If this but answer to my just belief, / I'll remember you.
- Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 19
- As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
- Jonathan Swift
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
- Bible, Matt. xxii. 46
- No man was able to answer him a word.
- Milton
- These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
- Macaulay
- The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
- Bible, Matt. xxii. 46
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- He answered my claim upon him.
- The servant answered the bell.
- Shakespeare
- This proud king […] studies day and night / To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
- (obsolete) To render account to or for.
- Shakespeare
- I will […] send him to answer thee.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
- Shakespeare
- And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
- Bible, Eccles. x. 19
- Money answereth all things.
- Bible, Eccles. x. 19
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.


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Delicious, juicy roast: Not just for Sunday dinner
By Jane Lawson
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January 13, 2014
There's nothing that smells like home more than a roast that's simmering in its own juices. Usually a roast is something that's reserved for company or a Sunday dinner with your family, but as long as you plan ahead, you can have roast any day of week.
Typically I plan to have roast during the week when I know I will be pressed for time. I love walking in the house after a good workout at the gym and dinner is ready in the crock pot. All I have to do is add a side salad and bread and dinner is done.
I also like to prepare roasts because leftovers are guaranteed. I try to plan dinners that I know will make enough for more than one meal and maybe even a lunch or two to take to work.
Slow Cooker Pork Roast
My husband, Danny, has asked me before why I don't make pork roasts very often. I explained to him that after work I just don't have enough time to cook one in the oven.
Recently I picked up a pork roast at the store and decided to prepare it in almost the same way I prepare a super simple beef roast. It was a weekend day so I had plenty of time to peel the potatoes and brown the roast, two steps I often skip during the week. I also added apple juice, something a mother of two boys usually has in the refrigerator.
This easy pork roast was a success. The meat was perfectly tender. It was very flavorful from the apple juice and the carrots and potatoes were a tasty and readymade side dish.
1 (2-3 lb) pork loin roast
2-3 large baking potatoes, cut into chunks
2 cups baby carrots
1 small onion, cut into chunks
1 can cream of mushroom with roasted garlic condensed soup
1 packet onion soup mix
½ cup apple juice
Cookies brand flavor enhancer
2 tablespoons olive oil
Liberally season both sides of the meat with Cookies flavor enhancer. In a large skillet over medium heat brown roast in olive oil for 3-4 minutes per side. Combine potatoes, carrots, soup, and apple juice in slow cooker. Place roast on top of veggies. Cook with lid on for 8 hours. If you are home, at the four hour mark, spoon a bit of the sauce onto the top of the meat and stir the veggies a bit. At the seven hour mark, spoon more sauce on top and try to settle meat down into the sauce and veggies. When ready to serve, remove meat, let cool slightly and slice on cutting board.
Roast Beef with Slow-Cooked Tomatoes and Garlic
Real Simple has an easy spin on a traditional beef roast. It requires one hour of cooking, which is doable on a weekday for some or you can save it for an impressive weekend dinner.
2 lb boneless rump or rib roast
Kosher salt and pepper
1 pint grape tomatoes
1 head garlic, cloves peeled
8 sprigs fresh thyme
3 tablespoons olive oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Season the beef with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and place in a large roasting pan.
In a bowl, combine the tomatoes, garlic, thyme, oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Scatter the tomato mixture around the meat and roast to the desired doneness, about 1 hour for medium-rare (internal temperature 125 degrees).
Transfer the beef to a cutting board and let rest at least 10 minutes before slicing. Divide among individual plates and serve with the tomatoes and garlic.
Perfect Roast Chicken
Several years ago I learned how to roast a whole chicken from watching Ina Garten on The Food Network.
In my experience the three keys are to a perfect roast chicken are 1) thoroughly dry the chicken, inside and out, 2) don't skimp on the butter rub, and 3) be sure to tuck the wings under the body of the chicken so they don't burn.
1 (5 to 6 lb) roasting chicken
Kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 large bunch fresh thyme, plus 20 sprigs
1 lemon, halved
1 head garlic, cut in half crosswise
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, melted
1 large yellow onion, thickly sliced
4 carrots cut into 2-inch chunks
1 bulb of fennel, tops removed, and cut into wedges
olive oil
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out. Remove any excess fat and leftover pin feathers and pat the outside dry. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Stuff the cavity with the bunch of thyme, both halves of lemon, and all the garlic. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken. Place the onions, carrots, and fennel in a roasting pan. Toss with salt, pepper, 20 sprigs of thyme, and olive oil. Spread around the bottom of the roasting pan and place the chicken on top.
Roast the chicken for 1-1/2 hours, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove the chicken and vegetables to a platter and cover with aluminum foil for about 20 minutes. Slice the chicken onto a platter and serve it with the vegetables.
1 Cup of Coffee Pork Roast
At our Christmas luncheon at school, a long-term substitute associate brought pulled pork for sandwiches. When I tasted the pork, I knew there had to be a secret ingredient. I asked him later that day, and he said he often adds coffee to his pork roasts to give it added flavor.
3 lb pork roast, trimmed of fat
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 cup coffee
2 bay leaves
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon oregano
2 onions, sliced
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In a large skillet add oil and heat until hot. Place roast in skillet and sear on both sides.
Using a large roasting pan add one onion and remaining ingredients. Transfer browned roast to roasting pan and top with the second onion.
Cover and bake for 3-1/2 to 4 hours basting the roast every hour with juices. If liquids begin to boil away add more coffee or soy sauce as needed. Pan juices can be used to make gravy but do not add salt.
Chipotle Shredded Beef
If your family is a fan of Tex-Mex, try a recipe from Taste of Home with a bit of warmth. The chipotle peppers in adobo sauce don't add much heat; instead they add a smoky flavor to the beef.
The beef can be served as a main dish alongside rice and corn or it can be shredded and rolled up inside flour tortillas.
1 small onion, chopped
1 teaspoon canola oil
1 can (28 oz) diced tomatoes, undrained
1/4 cup cider vinegar
6 garlic cloves, minced
2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped (found in the Hispanic food aisle)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons adobo sauce
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 boneless beef chuck roast (2 1/2 lbs)
shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese and reduced-fat sour cream, optional
In a large skillet coated with cooking spray, saute onion in oil until tender. Stir in the tomatoes, vinegar, garlic, peppers, brown sugar, bay leaves, adobo sauce and seasonings. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 4-6 minutes or until thickened.
Place roast in a 5-qt slow cooker; add tomato mixture. Cover and cook on low heat for 8-9 hours or until meat is tender.
Discard bay leaves. Remove meat and shred with two forks. Skim fat from juices; return meat to slow cooker. Using a slotted spoon, serve meat with rice. Top with cheese and sour cream if desired.
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Between the book tour + wedding planning, I was glad to find a wee bit of time to schedule a dinner party with some of my besties. My task was to try a twist on the classic "crusted chicken" recipe as part of the Hellman's Chicken Change-Up! So I made mini Italian chicken strips in individual Caesar cups! They were a HIT and a cinch to make!
I know how it is when hosting a dinner party…there are candles to light, guests to greet, drinks to pour. The last thing you need is dinner to be a complete and total nightmare. Good thing this recipe is totally fool-proof. The Caesar Cups (or commonly known as parmesan cups) take less than 10 minutes! Really! Think of all the yummies you could serve in these (caprese salad, shrimp cocktail, etc).
So make these CHICKEN CAESAR CUPS the next time you're looking for an easy + impressive dinner party recipe!
- 1/2 cup Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese + 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese for Caesar cups
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (about 1-1/4 lbs.), cut into small strips
- 4 tsp. Italian seasoned dry bread crumbs (I used Italian Panko crumbs – yum!)
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- On a nonstick baking sheet or baking sheet covered with silpat, drop 4 piles of 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Spread out into a 5-to-6 inch circle. Bake for 6-to-8 minutes or until lightly golden. Working quickly, use a spatula to carefully peel up the parmesan layers and lay across a jumbo muffin tin (or regular sized muffin tin). Use a cup to gently push down the center of the parmesan layer. Let cool for 5 minutes. Remove your cups and set aside.
- Adjust oven to 425°.
- Combine Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise with cheese in medium bowl. Arrange chicken on baking sheet. Evenly top with mayonnaise mixture, then sprinkle with bread crumbs.
- Bake 15-20 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.
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Who's going to watch the Golden Globes on Sunday? We are now officially in award season and that means lots of gifting suites. I was invited to the L'Oreal Paris beauty suite inside the HBO Luxury Lounge at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. It was a day of pampering, which I really needed. And I got to hang out with my friend Lisann, who's in town for the weekend.
L'Oreal Paris is celebrating 40 years of beauty, so it only seemed fit that the room was designed with gold touches everywhere! My makeup was done by celebrity makeup artist April. She gave me some helpful tips while using some of L'Oreal's hottest products. Connie gave me one of the best manicures I've had in a long time…Thank goodness! This is my first time trying out their nail polish, and so far so good with their new line Colour Riche. Then the funny and talented Romero styled my hair. He had us cracking up! He gave me a very Bridget Bardot-inspired hair style.
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I like the idea but know nothing about home-birth. Where can I go to find out more?
I like the idea but know nothing about home-birth. Where can I go to find out more?
Hi Annie,
One of the best places to start learning about homebirth is to take a look at the articles and videos on this homebirth page.
The homebirth forum also has a lot of good information.
I've known a number of women who had a hospital birth and then decided to have a homebirth. Their homebirths were so much better than their hospital births.
Here's a good thread where another mum asked "Is homebirthing a good choice?" I think you'll learn a lot just from that one thread.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Warm Regards,
Hi Kate,
Thanks for this info. I'm learning a lot!
Here is another page with information about homebirth. I would definitely take a peak at the statistics and safety portion of this site. 99.8% of homebirths in Australia last year were born healthy and there were no maternal losses reported from homebirths. Pretty amazing stats. There are some great, qualified midwives and homebirth is an amazing, beneficial option for many women.
I think it is a personal choice - so for some women home birth is not right for them, however, for other women a home birth is absolutely the right choice.


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Summer Fest: Corn 5 Waysby Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, August 4, 2010
Each year, when corn season arrives, I take my kids to the local market to pick up some fresh ears. I love watching my kids gobble down what they picked out — our favorite is eating fresh corn straight off the cob. I could give you an earful (pun intended) of ways to prepare it, but here are 5 of my favorite ways to enjoy this nutritional powerhouse.
We're teaming up with other food and garden bloggers to host Summer Fest 2010, a season-long garden party. Each week we'll feature favorite garden-to-table recipes and tips to help you enjoy the bounty, whether you're harvesting your own goodies or buying them fresh from the market. To join in, check out awaytogarden.com.
Grilled On the Cob
Eating corn on the cob is pretty much an essential rite of summer, but throw yours on the grill with some smoked paprika and you'll have everyone coming back for seconds (or thirds?).
RECIPE: Smoky Corn on the Cob (pictured)
One of my all-time favorite soups, creamy corn helps warm me up on a rainy afternoon or cool summer night. Cook up a double batch and freeze half for another time.
RECIPE: Creamy Corn and Vegetable Soup
Raw Corn Salad
Peak season corn is sweet enough to eat raw, without the starchiness of off-season cobs. The fresh corn, tomatoes, mozzarella and basil in this salad create a perfect summer side that's overflowing with vitamins and minerals, and, of course, flavor.
RECIPE: Fresh Corn and Tomato Salad
In Salsa
Looking for a new taco topper? This yummy salsa will do the trick. Salsa also makes a fantastic dip for tortillas or a flavorful topper for omelets (my fave), chicken or fish.
RECIPE: Grilled Corn Salsa
Yes, candied — it's the side-dish equivalent of caramel corn! Best of all, this sweet-and-savory candied corn takes 10 minutes to prep.
RECIPE: Candied Corn
More Peak-Season Corn Recipes From Friends and Family:
- Nicole at Pinch My Salt: Creamed Corn with Bacon and Rosemary
- Margaret at A Way to Garden: Vintage corn Americana slideshow, and no-frills creamed corn
- The FN Dish: Creamed Corn-Off: Battle of the Southern Cooks
- Alison at Food2: Freezing Corn
- Toby at Healthy Eats: Candied Corn and 4 other recipes
- Michelle at Cooking Channel: Browsing Corn Porn
- Judy/Tuscan Diva: Fried Polenta Crostini with Porcini Ragu
- Jennifer of Gilded Fork: Corn: Sweet Versatility (history, uses & recipes from cocktails to cornbread
- Chef Mark: Gettin' Corny! (Musings from childhood, tips & fresh-corn recipes)
- Caron of SanDiegoFoodstuff: Chino Corn Risotto with Chanterelles and Burrata
- Caroline at The Wright Recipes: Pickled Corn with Summer Onion and Basil
- White on Rice Couple: BBQ Chicken and Corn Pizza
- Shauna at Gluten Free Girl: a sweet corn risotto (and how to make corn stock with husks and mirepoix)
- Tigress in a Jam: Cream Corn Scones (the perfect way to use up left over roasted or boiled corn):
- Alana at Eating from the Ground Up: Corn on the Kabob (invented by her artist husband):
- Cate O'Malley at Sweetnicks: Corn and Spinach Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Caps
- Kelly at Just a Taste: Caramel Corn (plus pics of corn in its various popping stages)
- Paige Orloff of The Sister Project: Life-Changing Corn Pancakes
- Tara at Tea and Cookies: Farro Corn Salad with Tomatoes and Herbs
- Food Network UK blog: Talking Corn
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
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A WIRRAL model has launched a fundraising campaign to help a young boy being treated for a rare form of cancer.
Charlotte Thomas from Upton is holding various events in order to raise funds for seven-year-old Dean Puplett, who has neuroblastoma cancer.
Around 90 children are diagnosed with neuroblastoma each year in the UK.
Dean, from Mold, was diagnosed with the cancer when he was three-and-a-half years old.
Charlotte is taking part in the North West Crown and Glory pageant semi-final in Ellesmere Port, where all money received from the event will go to the appeal.
She was featured in the Globe last year, asking for sponsors in order to enter "Miss Upcoming Model Girl UK.
Charlotte said: "I have been overwhelmed with the response and generosity that I have received so far, and I would love to see even more people entering to help this brilliant cause.
"Every little bit of money raised will go a long way for Dean, and it has been great seeing people getting involved and having fun.
"We have fantastic prizes to be won including sashes and beautiful tiaras kindly donated by Ivory and Co Tiaras, as well as a photoshoot by Photography By Rowlands.
If you would like more information or would like to take part in any of Charlotte's competitions, call her on 0151 677 4134.


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BAYTOWN, Texas - Two men robbed a Baytown jewelry store at gunpoint and threatened a customer on Wednesday.
Baytown police said Shay's Jewelry and Gifts, 4515 Garth Road, was held up about 11:20 a.m.
Detectives said one of the robbers went into the store and asked about a payment plan. He was given a credit application. A short time later, the second robber came in and walked toward the back of the store.
The first man then pulled out a gun, pointed it at a customer and demanded she get on the ground, investigators said. He then forced the storeowner to hand over the keys for the jewelry cases, police said.
Investigators said the first man jumped over the counter and tried to open the cases, but he couldn't. He then gave the keys back to the storeowner and demanded her to open them, which she did, detectives said.
While the first robber was taking the jewelry, the second one held two employees at gunpoint and handcuffed them with zip ties, officials said.
Police said the men got away with an undetermined amount of jewelry.
The first robber was described as black with a light complexion, about 5 feet 11 inches tall with a thin build, a fade haircut and he was clean-shaven. He was last seen wearing a beige long-sleeved shirt with a tie and brown pants.
The second robber was described as black with a dark complexion, about 6 feet tall with a muscular build, a medium-style haircut and he was unshaven. He was last seen wearing a pullover, mustard-colored with green strips, long-sleeved "South Pole" shirt and dark-colored jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call Baytown Crime Stoppers at 281-427-TIPS.
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Aramis, Braun homer as Brewers rout Padres
Bats back Lohse as Crew keeps Cards out of striking distance
SAN DIEGO -- For a month and a half now, every time the Brewers appear poised to fall from the top of the National League Central, they've found a way to stay.
The pattern continued on Monday night in a 10-1 rout of the Padres at Petco Park, with a healthy Kyle Lohse rejoining the rotation and a red-hot Aramis Ramirez continuing a torrid August for a Brewers team that appears unwilling to let go of first place in the NL's tightest division.
Leaders of the Central every day since April 5, the Brewers needed the win to remain 1 1/2 games ahead of the surging Cardinals, who won earlier in the day for the ninth time in 12 games. St. Louis pulled to within one-half game over the weekend before Milwaukee scored back-to-back victories against Pittsburgh and San Diego.
"I think there's times that guys know games are important to win," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said Monday afternoon. "It's not like you try any harder, but I think when we have a couple sloppy games they know, 'Hey, let's go. We're not that type of team.'"
If that was the statement they intended to make, the Brewers did so loudly against a Padres pitcher -- left-hander Eric Stults -- who had not lost in August. Against Stults and three relievers, the Brewers had at least one hit in eight of nine innings, and scored a run in six frames.
Ramirez, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, drove in three runs, as did outfielder Gerardo Parra, who didn't enter the game until the seventh inning. Ramirez and Ryan Braun each homered, as six Brewers batters drove in at least one run, eight players scored at least one run, and every starting position player but .302 hitter Jonathan Lucroy collected at least one hit, and he walked twice and scored a run.
"It's a lineup where you've got to execute pitches, and if you don't, they're going to do damage," Stults said.
The Brewers, with 16, collected at least that many hits for the fifth time this season, and they scored double-digit runs for the first time since an 11-2 win over the Cardinals in the final game before the All-Star break.
All of that offense benefitted Lohse, who scattered four hits and four walks but surrendered only one run in six hard-fought innings. It was Lohse's first start since Aug. 13, when he was forced from an outing at Wrigley Field by a right ankle injury suffered three starts earlier in St. Louis that had been affecting his delivery.
The opposite happened on Monday, when Lohse said he felt too strong for his own good.
"I'm not used to having almost two weeks off late in the season," he said. "Everything else has been feeling really good, I just needed that little break to get ahead of the ankle soreness. Once I got out there and kept missing with the fastball, it was a little frustrating, but I knew what I was doing wrong. It was a matter of staying back and not trying to force the fastball in there."
Lohse showed some signs of that frustration. He exclaimed loudly after issuing the second of two walks in the first inning, but escaped in part by picking off Will Venable at second base. In the Padres' one-run second inning, Lohse made a smooth defensive play for an out at the plate that would stand as called after a review, then he struck out Venable with the bases loaded to preserve what was a 1-1 tie.
From there, Brewers hitters reclaimed a lead and Lohse settled in. He retired the side in order in the third, fourth and fifth innings, then worked a scoreless sixth with help from catcher Martin Maldonado's pickoff of Seth Smith at second base.
"That's huge for us," Braun said of Lohse's return. "He's been so consistent at the top of our rotation really the last two years and having him back is just a huge boost, I think, to the whole team and certainly to the starting rotation."
"I was happy to see him get back in that rhythm again," Roenicke said. "When he's good, you can see the rhythm he is in."
The same could be said for Ramirez, who went 3-for-5 and boosted his August batting average to a Major League-best .427 (33-for-82).
"We were talking about it -- I don't think there's been a ball he hasn't squared up for a while," Lohse said. "He's seeing the ball really well. It's fun to watch, because he's been doing it for a while. That's the guy that I used to face that I hated facing. Usually I'd just walk him, get the next guy."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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USD head coach Bill Grier has a big problem. The Toreros big men just aren't playing very big early in the brand new season.
One of them, Chris Manresa, was out with a sore back and didn't play at all in the first three games in the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation Challenge that features five teams and USD playing four games in five days. Minus Manresa and his 6-foot-9, 245-pound presence, and without much help from any of the other post players, USD fell short again Friday night to Tulsa, 63-51, at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. USD (2-2) takes Saturday off and concludes its tournament play Sunday against Siena at 1 p.m. Tulsa (now 3-0) and Cal State Northridge play at 5 Saturday, followed by Northern Kentucky against Siena at 7:30 p.m.
USD's Dennis Kramer, a 6-11 forward, got into early foul trouble Friday. He contributed 11 points despite it, but had just two rebounds. The Toreros other big men, Ken Rancifer (no points, two rebounds), Simi Fajemisin (one point, five rebounds), John Sinis (three points, two rebounds) and Jito Kok (no points, two rebounds) weren't factors.
"I told them in the locker room that I wish we had Chris Manresa worse than anybody," Grier said. "But Chris Manresa isn't going to put a Superman cape on and come out here and all of a sudden we're going to play like we're supposed to play. We need somebody who can score. "
USD only trailed 25-24 at the half, but Tulsa pulled away in the second half as USD struggled and shot just 34 percent (16 of 47 shots) for the game from the field. The Toreros also were out-rebounded for the second straight game, this time 39-26. Tulsa led by as many as 14 in the second half and USD never clawed closer than 10 points in the blowout loss.
Grier saw some positives. Unfortunately they were all in the first half before Tulsa blew it open.
"I was really pleased with their approach to the game and the way they flew around defensively was fantastic . . . in the first half," Grier said. "We forced 21 turnovers and had 14 steals and all we get out of that is 51 points. Comes a point when you're playing that hard defensively, if you go empty on the other end it starts wearing on you. On the offensive end, we're so impatient. I love our two guards, but they're trying to do way too much. They have to let things come to them. There are too many one-pass shots."
It got so bad on the glass in this tournament that the team's shortest player, 5-foot-7 point guard Chris Anderson, led them in rebounding with six in the loss to Cal State Northridge Thursday. Anderson also tied a school record Friday night with seven steals. His backcourt mate Johnny Dee led all scorers with 17 points. Head coach Danny Manning's Tulsa Golden Hurricane was led by D'Andre Wright's 14 points.


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PEOPLE are being asked to help find a Malvern man who has gone missing.
Christopher Matthews left his home in Albion Road in Malvern to go to work in Birmingham on Thursday, May 8, but never arrived.
The 44-year-old is described as 6ft tall, with long greying brown hair and has a dragon tattoo on his upper left arm plus a scar on his elbow.
He was last seen wearing black boots, black jeans, a black T-shirt and a black jumper.
PC Max Digger said: "We are concerned for Mr Matthew's welfare and his partner is very worried about him.
"He has been missing for a week and has not responded to his mobile phone messages. Mr Matthews is a stage manager in the music industry - based at offices in the Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham - but travels the country for work.
"However, it is completely out of character for him to disappear without warning and fail to respond to messages.
"I am appealing to Mr Matthews directly to contact the police, his partner or work colleagues. They are very concerned about your disappearance and all they want is to know that you are safe and well."
Anyone with information should call 101 quoting incident number 303s 100514 or contact the charity Missing People on 116 000.


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