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When Ricky Skaggs started to become popular in Nashville more than two decades ago, he was seen as the newcomer of country music. And while he was certainly popular in the format, it wasn't the genre that gave him the greatest satisfaction. In the last decade or so, Skaggs has made the adjustment from country to his staple of bluegrass slowly but surely. Perhaps his career came full circle in some respects during the summer of 2000 as he opened up arena shows for bluegrass-cum-country-cum-bluegrass darlings Dixie Chicks. Now well entrenched and still picking up Grammys, Skaggs and his legendary backing band Kentucky Thunder have recorded a small but mighty sample of how powerful this "lean in" (to the microphone) music can be.
Recorded over two nights in South Carolina, Skaggs wastes little time with introductions and dives head, er, mandolin first with "Black Eyed Suzie", a traditional tune arranged by Skaggs and featuring some brief harmonies and manic banjo plucking courtesy of Jim Mills. And from there, well, the rest of the album's tempo is pretty much set. The audience gets into nearly as quickly, adding handclaps on "How Mountain Girls Can Love". The track sounds like it might have a few overdubs on it, particularly during the bridge, but it still has a great flow to it. Perhaps the only annoyance with some of the tracks is how the two nights are obviously mixed and melded into each other, not giving off a sound of concert continuity one show would. Nonetheless, "On a Lonesome Night" is a slower and melodic trip back in time.
Ricky Skaggs
Live at the Charleston Music Hall
(Skaggs Family)
US: 25 Mar 2003
UK: Available as import
"I named this after my first daughter, I wanted to call her Amanda Lynn," Skaggs quips with the pun intended prior to "Amanda Jewell". Here most of Kentucky Thunder showcase their wares with brief but nimble solo spots including the legendary fiddler Bobby Hicks. Another aspect that makes this album work is that there's a definite spontaneity to the tracks. Over half have never been recorded previously by Skaggs, so they still possess that fresh creative spark older songs tend to lack. One perfect example is Skaggs scanning the lyrics to "A Simple Life", a Harley Allen tune he started playing ten days prior to the concerts. And it's one by far one of the album's early highlights.
The middle portion of the album has a few weaker tracks, including the Celtic overtones on "Goin' to the Ceili", a mid-tempo instrumental resembling country instrumentalist Mark O'Connor in places. "The Old Home Place" makes use of Skaggs and his vocal prowess for such heartfelt, "mountain music" songs. "Crossville", the songs Skaggs said fell from the sky, relies more on its tempo and groove than on its energy. It's a temporary shift away from speed or death bluegrass. "Somewhere Nice Forever", despite including "leukemia" in its lyrics, is one of the heartfelt songs among the 15 presented. Skaggs fumbles for words here as it's dedicated to both his deceased mother and mother-in-law. But the tune takes an unforeseen and surprising turn halfway through.
Of course, Skaggs wouldn't be doing what he continues to do without his mentor Bill Monroe. Having been a long-standing apprentice supporting Monroe in his early years, Skaggs pays tribute to him with the first of two covers, the rousing "Uncle Pen". After performing Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle", Skaggs ends the album with a marathon and jaw-dropping rendition of "Get Up John". The two minutes plus most bluegrass songs clock in at is just a primer here, for the song just hits it stride by this time. Six minutes in, they haven't lost a step although Skaggs takes it down for a moment with a mandolin solo. It's one of the more amazing tracks you'll hear simply for its duration and frenetic style. As my mother would probably say in adoration, "Play it, you bastards!" Play it indeed.
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Call center fills empty downtown building with new jobs
EUGENE, Ore. -- A Florida-based call center company is looking for hundreds of workers to fill its new location in downtown Eugene by next month.
"Sykes Enterprises" announced it will move in at the 44,000-square-foot building that used to be occupied by Enterprise Rent-A-Car at Charnelton and W. Broadway.
Sykes Enterprises handles customer service calls for other companies.
Officials with the business said they expect to fill those jobs, as the unemployment rate in Eugene and Springfield hovers at around 8 percent.
Jack Roberts, the director at Lane Metro Partnership, said the new call center would bring over 400 new jobs starting at around $10 an hour to the Eugene/Springfield area.
"For any community, having this workforce is a good addition to the mix of people that you have," said Roberts.
The Lane Metro Partnership helped bring the company to the area. Roberts said there were several things that drew Sykes Enterprises to Eugene.
"It's ready to go. That was the they call it plug-and-play. You just come in, get set up," Roberts said.
He added that Sykes saw the opportunities that the downtown area provided for their business. Once considered a problem, Eugene's downtown district is on the upswing with dozens of businesses taking advantage of the recent upswing.
Signs are up for the Portland-based pizza company - Sizzle Pie - which is set to open in April.
The Bijou Metro Theatre is under construction, alongside other new businesses that have already opened shop.
Adam Becker, who works in the downtown area, said it's a welcome change.
"I've been here for 20 years, and downtown was totally dead - back then with the pedestrian mall and all the businesses," Becker said. "So its great that they're finally coming back and having a lively downtown again."
"I think a lot of the holes and empty businesses have been here too long," said downtown employee Becky Thomas.
Sykes Enterprises said they plan on moving in April, and filling the 400+ jobs within the first 18 months. Applications can be submitted on their website.


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"Having your period is such a pain!" I wrote in my diary, when I was in Year 6. I was lying. Or at least, I wasn't speaking from experience. I was ten years old and I was exercising almost twenty hours a week, and like most ten-year-old gymnasts, I had not gotten my period yet. But I desperately wanted to. Once, when I was seven, I tried to fashion myself a makeshift pad out of tissues and elastic bands. I really wanted my period.
If you'd asked me why at the time, I couldn't have told you. In hindsight, I think I wanted it to hurry up and arrive because having your period made you a grown up and it made you special. It made you part of a cool, clandestine club, a club whose members bemoaned bloating and cramps and inflexible pads, but who also got to do fun things like shopping with friends and running on the beach. I was young, and clearly, I had absorbed a fair bit of advertising messaging about periods. I was lucky that I came of age in a culture where periods were made to seem cool, if a little inconvenient, and not shameful and dirty. Still, the result was that I lied to my own diary about menarche, perhaps hoping that writing it would make it so.
It did finally arrive, when I was twelve, on a ferry. I was on the way home from school when I was hit with a kind of stomach ache I'd never felt before. Concerned, I went downstairs to the bathroom on the ferry (this should give you a sense of how worried I was; those bathrooms are horrid), and lo and behold, the long awaited moment had arrived. I went home and immediately went shopping with my friends, then for a run on the beach. Just kidding. I went home and curled up in a ball, beginning to understand why club inductees might complain about cramps.
A few years later, I went to my GP and got a prescription for the birth control pill. I wasn't sexually active yet, but I was competing in a lot of dance eisteddfods, and I could imagine nothing worse than unexpectedly getting my period on a day when I had to wear a skin-tight unitard or a white skirt in front of a theatre full of people (well, these were local jazz eisteddfods, so "full" might be stretching it a bit). So I went on the pill to regulate my cycle. Over the next decade, I got used to the new reality of my body, to the weird biological fact that my body had decided that it was ready for pregnancy and birth. It always astonished me – still does – that I have inside me all the machinery and almost all the material required to make a new human. I also got used to the banal reality of having your period, which was not nearly as special and exciting as I had been led to believe it would be. Except for the secret society of strangers who kindly hand tampons under the doors of public bathroom stalls, there was no club. Once I started having intercourse, I began to associate those first stirrings of cramping with a sense of relief. I'd high-five myself, or my boyfriend, if he was around – "Yes! Not pregnant this month!" – and then groan as I remembered that this fertility message is brought to you by five days of bleeding and blergh. As my 10-year-old self had predicted, what a pain.
Then, a few months after my twenty-third birthday, my period disappeared. It wasn't a surprise to me that it had stopped showing up: that's what happens when you don't eat nearly enough and you exercise way too much. For two-and-a-half years, it kept not showing up. I wasn't particularly worried about it; like a lot of eating disordered people, I took it as a sign that I was doing something right.
Of course, it was a sign of completely the opposite. If a female's biological, evolutionary purpose is to conceive and bear children (I'm talking biology here, not culture; if you tell me that my purpose on earth as a woman is to conceive and bear children, I will smack you upside the head), then I was failing miserably at fulfilling that purpose. My period disappeared because I wasn't healthy enough to sustain a pregnancy, and my body knew it.
Our bodies are smarter than we give them credit for. Often, they're smarter than we are. When it comes to weight, they know what shape, and what size, they're meant to be. We can fight them on that, we can try to thwart genetic destiny, but our bodies usually win in the end. You can starve yourself thin, but your body will adapt: it will take every morsel of food, every ounce of nutrient, and convert it into the fat it knows you need to survive. And it will hold on to that fat for fear that it might one day starve again. We might live in a world of diets and cleanses, but our bodies are relics of another time, when food was scarce and fat was valuable. During those years, my body thought I was living through a famine, when in fact, food was abundant. I just wasn't eating it.
And then, a few months ago, I stopped starving myself. I stopped punishing myself on the treadmill. I started taking care of myself. And a few months after that, my period returned.
It was like being twelve all over again. I had forgotten what that very distinctive pain felt like, like someone is grabbing at your insides and twisting them. I had forgotten the breakouts, the bloating, the crankiness that you know is probably hormonally exaggerated but that still feels one hundred percent real. In that sense, I wasn't thrilled to be menstruating again.
On the other hand, I thought about what it meant for my period to arrive the first time, on that ferry. It was my body deciding it was ready for motherhood, even if the rest of me wasn't. It was my body declaring, "I can take care of another small human life now!"
I stopped getting my period because I stopped taking care of myself. No way in hell was I ready to take care of a fetus or a child. My body knew that, and it acted accordingly. No shedding of the uterine lining for you, lady, until you give me what I need.
I have no interest in getting pregnant, or staying pregnant, or being a mother, at this moment in my life. Right now, I'm re-learning how to take care of myself. And as much as I groan about it when my time of the month rolls around, as bitterly as I complain, there's a sweetness there, too. It's my body's way of telling that I'm on the right track, that I'm giving it what it needs. I'm getting healthy.
Ten-year-old me was right: having your period is a pain, but there's also something really cool about it. That time of the month means something different to everyone, but to me, it does feel like I'm a special, secret club. My body and I are in it together, and we're friends again. And that's really great. But now, please leave me alone while I curl up on the couch and give my body what it needs: a pot of tea and half a pack of Tim Tams.


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ADRIAN MORLEY is a rugby league legend.
The only English player to win Grand Finals in Super League and Australia's
NRL, he boasts a fearsome global reputation.
Here SunSport continue our series of exclusive extracts as the Warrington star
decides to tell all in his autobiography, Moz: My Story.
I'LL never forget the words that changed my life forever. "Moz, I think
Terry has hanged himself."
My mind was overloaded, overwhelmed. What the hell was going on?
Then the severity of what Brian Carney told me crept into my mind. Please, no.
Not Terry Newton.
I only spoke to him 24 hours earlier. I was in Magaluf with some of the
Warrington boys when Tez called. "How you doin' you d***head," I said.
He told me he was going to have a family day at his pub in Wigan but when I
flew back home I just wanted to chill out at home and see the kids.
I was driving and my partner Clare's phone rang. She told me: "Brian sounds
We were only a few minutes from Clare's parents' home, so she said I would
ring back soon.
I thought he was calling about a rumour some of the Warrington lads had landed
themselves in trouble in Magaluf.
I said: "Brian, I know why you're ringing. It's not true. Me and the lads were
all good as gold."
He replied: "Let me stop you there, Moz. I think Terry's hanged himself. I
don't know the full story. I'll call you back when I know anything."
I just sat there — numb. Then a text came through. It was Brian: 'Moz it's
true. I'm sorry.'
That's when it hit me. I started to cry. I couldn't stop. I couldn't get my
head around the fact my best friend was dead at 31.
I went to see Terry's wife Stacey. We cried every five minutes. We held each
other for what seemed like a lifetime.
Terry was a great character and I'll always try to remember the good times we
Once when we were at Leeds together we were heading home along the M62 after
training. "Fancy a pint?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question — Tez always
fancied a pint.
So we went into Manchester for one. Then one turned into two, two turned into
a few, and the next thing we stumbled into my place in Salford at 2am.
In the morning we headed back for training. "You know what'll cure your
hangover, don't you?" I said. "A couple of beers."
By the time we reached the training ground, we had polished off a few bottles.
"Right mate," I said, "Have a good 'un. My back's still not right, so I'm
just having a deep massage today."
His expression said, 'You absolute w*****'. I had my massage and I could see
Tez training while he was leathered!
I've thought a lot about Terry in the two years since he died. I've retraced
conversations and events, asking myself if I could have done more to help
Maybe if I had gone to his pub that day, I would have stayed with him and
things would have been different.
But maybe not. I don't know.
MOZ: My Story by Adrian Morley, with a foreword by Ryan Giggs, is published by
Vision Sports Publishing and is available from Monday, November 12, priced
BEATING the Aussies is always special — to do it in their backyard at my old
home stadium made it even more special.
That 23-12 win at Aussie Stadium in Sydney in 2006 is in my top five from the
400-plus games I've played in.
But we lost 34-4 to New Zealand a week later. That meant we had to beat the
Aussies to reach the Tri-Nations Final.
A few senior England players — Jamie Peacock, Sean Long, Terry Newton and I —
agreed we needed to do everything right. No drinking, no short-cuts.
When we got to the airport next day, Longy went straight to Duty Free, bought
a bottle of Bailey's and poured it into his protein shaker.
Longy carried on during the trip to Sydney, acting like a prick. At the hotel
next day I found out he was going home.
He claimed he was missing his missus and kids but I'm convinced he spat out
his dummy after being b******ed for getting p***ed on the flight.
Walking out on your team is unacceptable.
I WAS in Lanzarote on Warrington's 2008 pre-season training camp.
Matt King and Michael Monaghan had just joined so on our designated drinking
night, we had a few scoops and carried on in nearby Puerto del Carmen.
We were asked to leave the first bar. Someone suggested we do what we were
told before the police arrested us. That planted the seed in my drunken
'Imagine us in a Mexican stand-off. The Warrington players and a group of us
against a few bushy-tached coppers.'
I spotted a parked car, rolled across the bonnet and shot up, clutching an
imag,inary gun and telling the lads to put their hands up.
When a taxi driver started mouthing Spanish obscenities at me, it only made
them laugh even more. A few minutes later, I saw him coming down the street
— with two policemen. We legged it.
The following day, our coach Paul Cullen asked me, Jon Clarke, Monners and
Kingy for a chat.
He said: "The police are on their way. It seems there was an incident last
night. I know it won't be any of you but someone has messed up."
"Cull," I interrupted. "It was me who screwed up."
He looked crushed. A week earlier he'd asked me to be captain. How had I
repaid him? By kicking him in the balls.
The cell was freezing and damp and someone had written on the ceiling. It
dawned on me the mud on the ceiling must be a previous occupant's own s***.
The morning after, the lead policeman said I needed to pay 800 euros to repair
the car. "Right, no problems. I'll pay it," I said.
"There's also a fine for criminal damage — 40 euros," he said. "It's 40 euros
a day, for 30 days. 1,200 euros and you must pay before you can leave the
I trained with the lads that afternoon. Beforehand, I gathered them together.
"What I did was unacceptable," I said. "I'm going to make it up to you."
A few started giggling. Then someone threw a black-and-white-striped top —
like a convict's uniform — in my direction.
GOING back to Leeds would have been the dream scenario when I returned from
Australia in 2007.
I phoned chief executive Gary Hetherington to see whether they would be
interested. "You're not the player you once were," he said.
I told him my manager was getting four-year offers. "Four years. I don't think
you've got four years left in you," he said. I came off the phone feeling so
Eventually I chose Warrington but I had to play in Canberra on the Sunday
before flying home from Australia in the evening.
I flew out of Australia on the Sunday night, arrived Monday night in England
and played 24 hours later for Great Britain in a Tuesday Test against New
It was a pretty tiring schedule but at least I can say I played in two games
in two different hemispheres in the space of three days.
I bring that up every time I hear a player moaning about the congestion of
fixtures over Easter.


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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by hensonlf, Apr 13, 2012.
Has anyone been able to root this phone yet?
no one has tried
Dang...hopefully the phone will gain some popularity and someone will give it shot. I would attempt but have no idea where to start.
we offered to try and root the phone, we asked a bunch of times for testers. everyone ignored us so we went on to other devices.
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The Covenant Ministerium
The Covenant Ministerium consists of all who hold ministerial credentials through the Evangelical Covenant Church. These people are ordained, licensed, commissioned, or consecrated as a minister or missionary. The Covenant Ministerium:
- Considers and acts upon the licensure, ordination, commissioning, consecration, and discipline of ministers and missionaries in accordance with the Rules for the Ordered Ministry and the Constitution and Bylaws of the Evangelical Covenant Church
- Seeks to raise the spiritual, ethical, and professional standards of the Ministerium
- Strengthens the bonds of Christian fellowship among the members of the Ministerium
- Renders help to members of the Ministerium in times of special physical, personal, or spiritual need
- Assists in the recruiting and selection of candidates for the Christian ministry and to work with North Park Theological Seminary in the matriculation of students
The Elements of Good Standing
To maintain good standing, a credentialed Covenant minister must do the following:
- Pay annual dues to the treasurer of the conference in which the minister serves. Status can be checked by contacting ones conference ministerium treasurer. Military Chaplains should contact the Ministeriums Executive Committee treasurer; missionaries should contact World Mission.
- Complete a current profile on CovConnect. The profile should be updated every 3 years in order to qualify as current.
- Complete the Vocational Growth Tool (VGT) each year. The VGT is found under the resources tab within CovConnect.
- Maintain regular healthy connections with ECC ministerial colleagues. This can be achieved in a number of creative ways from attendance at retreats and Midwinter to regular phone or Skype conversations.
Executive Board of the Ministerium
- Catherine Gilliard, president – trailblazing(at)comcast.net
- TBD, vice president
- Jennifer Zerby,secretary, jenniferzerby(at)gmail.com
- Daniel Springer, vice secretary – dspringr(at)huntel.net
- John E. Peterson, treasurer, jpeters(at)radiks.net
Conference Chairs
- Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska | Max Lopez-Cepero – maxlopezcepero(at)gmail.com
- Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada | Gary Gilkinson – gpgilk(at)sasktel.net
- Central Conference | Phil Staurseth – pstaurseth(at)gmail.com
- East Coast Conference | Jim Stanley-Erickson – pastorjim(at)christ-covenant.org
- Great Lakes Conference | Johnny Aho – johnnyaho(at)live.com
- Midsouth Conference | Ed Lee – ed(at)mosaicpeople.org
- Midwest Conference | Wes Gibson – wesg(at)fccsalina.com
- Northwest Conference | Herb Frost – revhhf(at)gmail.com
- Pacific Northwest Conference | Sharon Anderson – sharona(at)plcc.org
- Pacific Southwest Conference – Laurie Cornell – revmomladc(at)gmail.com
- Southeast Conference | Jesse Adams – pastor_jesse(at)gulftel.com


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California Genealogy and History Archives
San Bernardino County and Riverside County
JAMES W. MEE is a native son of this section of California, and his career since early manhood has been identified with railroading. He is freight agent of the Pacific Electric at Riverside, and one of Riverside's most popular citizens.
He was born in San Bernardino August 1, 1882, member of an old and prominent pioneer family. His father, William H. Mee, was a native of England and left that country in 1850 and in 1852 came to California by ox team over the plains. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was member of a party of eleven families on the trip to California. The caravan was raided by Indians, and he and his family escaped the general massacre that followed, due to the fact that the Indians feared smallpox, a disease with which the Mees were then stricken. William H. Mee arrived at San Bernardino in 1856, and lived in that city continuously until his death in 1911. For thirty-six years he was in business as a blacksmith, with shop at 436 D Street. He was well known in fraternal circles, being a member of a number of lodges. William H. Mee married Sarah J. West, who is still living, and has showed her devotion by lifelong care to her children. She has two daughters, Lida and Addie. Lida is the wife of I. H. Curtis. Their son, Merritt B. Curtis, was born in San Bernardino, spent four years in the academic department of the University of California and three years in the law school, and is now a captain of the United States Marines on the Island of Haiti.
James W. Mee received his high school education in San Bernardino and afterward took a course in the Los Angeles Business College. Since 1905, with the exception of about a year, he has been railroading, chiefly as an agent for the Pacific Electric, and is president of the Pacific Electric Agents Association. From August, 1914, to June, 1915, he conducted a commission warehouse at San Bernardino.
Mr. Mee is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Native Sons of the Golden West, the Woodmen of the World and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Business Men's Association of Riverside. He was a member of the Arrowhead Club of San Bernardino for five years, until that organization was disbanded with the death of its leading spirit, H. L. Dreso, president of the Farmers Exchange Bank.
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(MAKHACHKALA, Dagestan) — A team from the U.S. embassy in Moscow is in Dagestan Tuesday to interview the parents of two brothers suspected of planting bombs at last week's Boston Marathon, ABC News has learned.
Still, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, thie suspects' mother, said on Tuesday that her sons were only guilty of being Muslim.
According to an embassy official, the Russian government is cooperating with the FBI's investigation.
This confirms what the suspects' mother told ABC News in a phone interview on Monday — that she and her husband expected to be interviewed by American and Russian officials soon. She suggested that might delay their plans to travel to the United States.
On Friday, President Obama spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and they agreed to continue counterterrorism cooperation.
Investigators want to know what Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the eldest brother, did in Dagestan, a restive region in southern Russia that is home to an Islamist insurgency, during a six month visit in 2012. Specifically they want to know if the 26-year-old, who began linking to Islamic extremist web videos on YouTube after the trip, met any radicals or militants during his visit.
The head of Russia's Interpol branch said on Monday they were not searching for anyone new in connection with the Boston bombing.
"We are not searching for anyone, we have received no tip-offs," he said, according to RIA Novosti.
RIA Novosti also reported investigators in Dagestan saying they had no indication the suspects had ties to militants there.
"If this young man had indeed been mixed up in something, and if his activities undermined the country's security, he would not have left the country," an official was quoted saying.
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text: Tennant tackles flood insurance dilemma By Rusty Marks February 26, 2014 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Secretary of State Natalie Tennant is meeting with homeowners, realtors and lenders in an effort to come up with solutions to massive flood insurance rate hikes threatened by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Act.The act, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, was intended to clamp down on homeowners who knowingly build in floodplains or other risky areas by ending federal subsidies on flood insurance. But lawmakers soon discovered the legislation could mean astronomical increases in flood insurance rates."They're trying to make [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] solvent, but they're doing it on the backs of West Virginians," Tennant said. "West Virginians should not be paying the same as someone who has beachfront property that's in the path of a hurricane."Tennant is about 13 counties into a tour of all 55 West Virginia counties as part of her U.S. Senate election campaign. Tennant, a Democrat, and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., are running for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.Tennant said the issue of flood insurance keeps coming up. At a recent meeting, she talked with Jeremy and Sarah Shepherd of Wheeling, whose insurance rates are going from $2,500 a year to $7,600 a year under the provisions of the Biggert-Waters act."They're a young couple who came back to West Virginia, started a family and started a business, and now they're faced with these big insurance rates," Tennant said.At a meeting in Beckley, Tennant talked with 79-year-old Betty Giles, who is faced with massive insurance rates even though the house she has lived in for 55 years has never flooded.Tennant held a roundtable discussion at the South Charleston Public Library on Wednesday to talk about problems with the flood insurance act and discuss possible remedies. Tennant pointed out that Capito was one of the original sponsors of the Biggert-Waters act, and promoted the bill's passage on the floor of the House. Although Capito has since acknowledged flaws in the bill and has also met with state residents to help come up with solutions, Tennant said little is being done to help those affected by the act."[Capito] doesn't get a pat on the back for passing legislation that hurts West Virginians," Tennant said. "She doesn't get a pass on that."Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate passed a bill delaying implementation of Biggert-Waters for four years, to allow lawmakers time to come up with a solution to the problems created by the act and create a viable flood insurance system. But Tennant said a similar bill - which Capito says she supports - is stalled in the House.In the meantime, homeowners are stuck not knowing if they will be able to sell their homes or whether they can afford to pay their flood insurance bills, Tennant said."The real issue here is how can this happen," she said."This is just unconscionable that Washington would cause this problem and then not come together for people who are fearing losing their homes."Tennant proposes stopping the rate hikes created under the Biggert-Waters act, paying back anyone who has already been hit by the hikes and returning to the drawing board to come up with a risk-based flood insurance rate system that makes more sense than Biggert-Waters. Reach Rusty Marks at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1215. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 Richwood mayor on leave amid investigation of purchases 4 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 5 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme Feds to probe evidence handling in Mingo case Previous Story Environmental remediation specialist exam set Next Story


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We're now smack dab in the middle of winter, the time of year that is notoriously difficult for healthy people. Poor outdoor exercising conditions and holiday eating rampages are largely to blame. But the reality is that it is still possible to sustain healthy habits during the winter months. Here are a few of the ways you can ensure that you continue to boost your health and maintain a healthy regimen through the New Year:
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You can also supplement jogs with interspersed workouts like pushups, sit-ups, and stretches. You can do this while enjoying the fresh wind, the thundering clouds, and the drenching rain for a boosted workout. This improves mental stamina, physical endurance, and motivation for when the warm weather returns. Take advantage of nature's obstacles to really up your endurance.
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In the human body, there are a number of different processes that have to go on regularly in order to live a healthy lifestyle. Exercise is one of these. Sleep is another. Our sleep/wake cycles determine to a large extent how well we manage stress and how we interact with colleagues and friends. In other words, poor sleeping habits can ruin what would be an otherwise healthy individual.
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An expectant mum due to give birth on European Parliament election day missed out on voting because her postal vote failed to arrive.
Burnham couple Mandi and Ben Deakin, who have never missed casting their votes, had asked for a postal ballot because their daughter was due to be born on Thursday.
Mrs Deakin, who actually gave birth to Honey the following morning, even called Maldon District Council on election day while in the early stages of labour to find out if she could still vote.
She said they filled in the necessary forms for the postal vote but heard nothing back.
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A HIGH-SPEED train link that shuttles passengers between Sydney and Canberra in as little as 50 minutes could turn the national capital's airport into a viable second airport for Sydney, its backers say.
Canberra Airport yesterday made public its 2009 preliminary draft master plan, which outlines its plans over the next 20 years.
The airport says it is better placed than any other to provide a secondary hub to Sydney Airport, which is expected to be at or close to capacity within the next two decades.
"Using current technologies, a high-speed train could take less than 50 minutes from Sydney railway station via Sydney Airport and then non-stop via a new rail corridor to Canberra Airport," the plan says.
The prospect of a very fast train linking Sydney, Canberra and possibly Melbourne was boosted in December when Infrastructure Australia included the idea on its shortlist of projects warranting further analysis.
The managing director of Canberra Airport, Stephen Byron, estimated the Sydney-to-Canberra link would cost $8 billion to $10 billion.
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Melissa Saunders was the youngest competitor in the Young Kennel Club Groomer of the Year contest for clipping dogs at Crufts on Thursday last week (March 6).
The youngster, who lives in Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire, arrived at the competition with the odds stacked against her - she had arrived at The NEC in Birmingham nearly an hour and a half after the contest had begun and was working with a large poodle unused to the crowds and noise of the busy contest.
Her grandmother, Judith Raper, said her granddaughter had also picked a breed of dog that was particularly difficult to groom; requiring large amounts of coat to be cut and clipped.
But despite all this the youngster kept her composure and narrowly missed out on winning the young groomer of the year - open to competitors up to the age of 24 - and was named runner-up.
"We got there late because of road works and they'd been working on the dogs for an hour and a quarter when she got there. My daughter was in bits but Melissa wasn't fazed, she just got on with it," said Mrs Raper.
"She was the only one that wasn't a professional groomer; all the rest worked in grooming salons and were all aged over 18, so she did very, very well. It's the first time she's done a competition involving dog grooming."
Her proud grandmother said Melissa, who attends Barnard Castle School, picked up the skill by watching her mother, Michelle Saunders, and herself, working in the family dog grooming parlour, Alermann Grooming Salons near Leeming Bar.


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Toyota's big move from California to Texas may also bring a big return for Plano, Texas over the next decade, to the tune of $7.2 billion of economic activity.
Bloomberg reports an analysis by Chicago-based Grant Thornton LLP claims the $7.2 billion includes $4.2 billion from payroll taxes, as well as direct and indirect payments, and revenues from sales and property taxes. The analysis was issued on the same day Plano approved a large incentive deal for Toyota, including $6.75 billion in grants and property tax discounts. The state government also approved an incentive package, totaling $40 million.
The report also notes the move and consolidation of Toyota's operations in the United States to Plano from California, Kentucky and New York, announced last month, is expected to bring as many as 3,650 full-time employees with an average salary of $104,000 by 2018.
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63 Comments on "Analysis: Toyota Could Bring $7.2 Billion To Texas Over Next Decade..."
alsorlMay 16th, 2014 at 7:20 am
Great move for Toyoda to move to Texas. For the tax incentives and marketing. It increases the perception that it's an American company. Seems like its a win win on all levels.
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May 16th, 2014 at 8:49 am
It's a win for low-taxation/ pro-business Republicanism and a LOSS for welfare states like California who raise taxes to pay for welfare for illegals.
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AprilMay 16th, 2014 at 2:24 pm
Because anti-capitalism corporate welfare is so much better…
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May 16th, 2014 at 3:48 pm
I never said corporate welfare is good. It's not.
But one thing I should argue:
Illegal-immigrant welfare moms have created FAR FEWER JOBS than Lockheed, GM, Or AIG.
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AprilMay 16th, 2014 at 8:59 pm
Sorry to ruin your stereotype but the majority of people on assistance are white.
KenmoreMay 16th, 2014 at 9:10 pm
True dat, although their offspring are often a rainbow.
But it's manifestly true that rot has no favorites.
JD23May 17th, 2014 at 10:33 am
Whites also comprise 65% of the population, so that statistic alone is worthless to anyone who understands fractions.
KenmoreMay 17th, 2014 at 11:02 am
If I don't understand fractions I do understand wholes. And that's still a whole lot of whites on welfare whose grandparents would've shot themselves before accepting a handout. No one's immune.
JD23May 17th, 2014 at 11:16 am
My response wasn't directed towards you, but it is impossible to determine that with WordPress. Anyway, I agree that it is pointlessly divisive and counterproductive to analyze societal problems primarily as a function of race.
KenmoreMay 17th, 2014 at 11:25 am
Agreed and thanks for your reply.
stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 10:38 pm
"Illegal-immigrant welfare moms have created FAR FEWER JOBS than Lockheed, GM, Or AIG."
Are you sure about that? The only growth sectors around these days, aside from sucking of the Fed's teet, are federal bureaucracy jobs in welfare agencies and such.
That aside, "creating jobs" for the specific purpose of destroying as much of the value others have worked to create as possible, isn't really something to laud. At least "illegal immigrant welfare moms" produce one thing of some value, children. Unlike their native born sisters, who's main preoccupation over the past few decades is ballyhooing how good and liberated they are at killing theirs.
alsorlMay 17th, 2014 at 11:56 pm
Stuki. It sounds like your stuki in a glen beck/hannity bubble.
billfrombuckheadMay 17th, 2014 at 12:17 am
Texas is 51st in citizens with a high school diploma of higher.
In quality of life issues Texas does poorly in survey after survey even compared to third world nations.
Texas is America's "ace in the hole" in the race to the bottom.
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alsorlMay 17th, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Bill. You pointed out the exact reason why Republican's worship Texas. Keep them stupid and you have control. You know the home school crowd. Not to say home school is terrible. It can't be any worse then public school in Florida.
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CJinSDMay 17th, 2014 at 3:12 pm
I'm surprised you can spell stupid. Texas' preponderance of uneducated residents is due to the open border. The treason stains you support are the ones trying to turn Texas into another failure-prone blue state by packing it with illegal immigrants that can be reformed into low-information voters like you.
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alsorlMay 18th, 2014 at 12:04 am
Those illegal immigrants are not counted in the 51% without a high school diploma. They are illegal therefore they are not counted in that census of the uneducated. If you added in those illegals it would probably be closer to 65% or higher without a high school diploma. The homeschooled bring a different level of stupid for many. Yet some home schooled can fit very well in society without just breading as a form of career.
CJinSDMay 18th, 2014 at 4:16 am
51%? Nice reading comprehension. You should open the link, because you're confusing a ranking with a percentage. Anchor babies count in every sense. Many of them are born to parents that can't read and write in Spanish, let alone English. Their prospects for success have a way of dragging down the average. It happens here in California too. Your attacks on the home-schooled make you look like a caricature of the sort of indoctrinated non-thinkers people worry about the public daycare centers producing. Just a thought.
stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Shows you how much a high school diploma from some indoctrination institution is really worth.
Many third world nations ain't so bad, as far as government oppression is concerned. Some are, in fact, at the absolute leading edge. It's the first world ones that are in a freefall. Texas for sure, California even more so apparently. Aside from the weather, and lane splitting (lack of) laws.
I've consulted at enough companies that have moved from Cali to Texas to feel fairly certain I have a pretty good read on the quality of life of the employees that make the move before or after. The executives, top management, counsel etc. tend to be bummed out. And many of them do return to Cali and a different job, after the novelty of having a 16000 ft^2 ranch versus a merely 4000 ft^2 home in Cali wears off. But for by far most in the below $150-200K pay bracket, the move is the best thing that ever happened to them, in their own words. And not just because of the money, but also because in corporate enclaves in Texas, like Dallas/ft Worth/Plano, the culture to a large extent revolves around the "salaryman."
While in coastal Cali, corporate workers are treated like just another breed of cattle, to be experimented on by all manners of social climbing "social engineers" viewing and treating them solely as a source of inputs, to be redistributed, regulated (and then ridiculed) by those whose granddaddy happened to move west early enough to get in on the Cali real estate rocketship back when a tract home closer than 3 hours by car from a city with zoning for productive use was less than $5mill to purchase. And who subsequently used part of his gains to sponsor his kid into some nonsensical social science study at Stanford, where he learned all about manufacturing irrelevant "surveys" "proving" to the naive and indoctrinated how much better progressive Dystopias really are.
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alsorlMay 18th, 2014 at 12:06 am
Yes those third world countries are brilliant. That's why we don't have an illegal immigrant issue.
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JD23May 18th, 2014 at 11:17 am
I now live in the Dallas suburbs, but spent most of my life in paradises like NJ, Illinois and Vermont. Your depiction of the entire state of Texas as some sort of dystopia compared to the rest of the country is far from accurate. For the middle to upper-middle class in the $100-250k income range, it is possible to live in a desirable area of Texas with well-maintained neighborhoods, relatively low crime, and good schools, without becoming a mortgage slave. It is understandable that the coasts are more appealing to those wealthy enough to enjoy their benefits, but better opportunities may be found elsewhere for much of the middle class.
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xtoyotaMay 16th, 2014 at 7:34 am
Who is the winner know :=)
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highdesertcatMay 16th, 2014 at 9:01 pm
I was tickled to see this. I don't live in TX but I like to see this happen for TX.
I hope more businesses and people leave California. The migration sure has been good for the real-estate business in adjoining states.
California is bankrupt. Sadly, it is the working taxpayers of California who have to carry this burden, among them several of my family members.
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billfrombuckheadMay 17th, 2014 at 7:44 am
California is NOT bankrupt! Why tell tell this untruth? Catapulting the propaganda are we?
Y'all's beloved Japan has a far higher debt per capita than California.
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Big Al from OzMay 17th, 2014 at 8:19 am
California's debt is $2.3 trillion. This includes state and local authorities, ie, county/city.
What isn't included is the percentage of the US Federal Government debt should be included.
If California has 40 million people and this means California should accept 12.5% of the Federal Governments debt of $17.5 trillion or another $2.2 trillion.
So now we are looking at Californians are responsible for approximately $4.5 trillion divided by how many productive workers, ie, not civil servants.
10 million? That's a lot of dosh for so few to cough up.
California might not be broke, but some poor slob who doesn't work for the government is going to have to pay.
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CJinSDMay 17th, 2014 at 3:08 pm
I resemble that remark. You can see why some people are so invested in pretending nothing's wrong though. Government employees are cleaning up. With cradle to grave benefits that turn all their income into discretionary spending, they live better than people making twice as much. They also retire twenty years sooner.
billfrombuckheadMay 17th, 2014 at 10:38 pm
Japan owes 99k per person, the highest in the world and it mostly goes to JapanInc, pick on them first. California is at least creative and not bailing out mature industries like flat screen, arguably a more mature industry than the more creative and volatile car business
The citizens of Texas pay with their lives with worse healthcare and education per capita than Cuba! There's no free lunch but that cuts both ways. Texas is a vampire stealing jobs but creating few.
highdesertcatMay 17th, 2014 at 11:17 pm
billfrombuckhead, a couple of years ago my son-in-law was working for a CA manufacturer as a corporate attorney, when that company decided to move production to Mexico and set up their corporate offices just across the border from the plant, in TX.
Long story short, my now former son-in-law, is still unemployed living with his mother in LA, and has no incentive to seek employment because the state of CA keeps sending him money to live on.
Most of the other people that were laid-off when he was are also still unemployed.
My daughter who was married to this turkey moved from the LA area to El Paso, TX, and is doing very well in her new job at the University as a teacher of teachers.
The point here is, people, companies, corporations, thrive where the condition and climate nurture productivity and foster growth.
Given a chance, I hope more people and businesses wise up and leave the state of CA to reach their full potential. Many already have.
dahammerMay 16th, 2014 at 8:43 am
That's $6.7 Million in grants and property tax discounts. But, a Bullion here, a Billion there, pretty soon we're talking about serious money.
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fredtalMay 16th, 2014 at 9:04 am
We don't have income tax here so what is this 4.2 bill payroll tax they are talking about?
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dahammerMay 16th, 2014 at 9:42 am
From Bloomberg: The figure includes $4.2 billion from payroll, along with direct and indirect spending, and sales and property tax revenue "
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fredtalMay 16th, 2014 at 9:52 am
TTAC: "the $7.2 billion includes $4.2 billion from payroll taxes" No matter, not all that 4.2b will go to Texas, so that's a bit misleading, but I'm sure our politicians will take credit for all it.
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Pch101May 16th, 2014 at 9:59 am
TTAC made an error by misquoting the source article. It's overall payroll, not the payroll taxes.
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DevilsRotary86May 16th, 2014 at 10:36 am
We don't have a personal income tax, but when it comes to taxes on businesses it does get a bit murky in Texas. There are corporate taxes. However, I know that as part of the deal to move here we agreed to waive certain taxes on Toyota so I also don't know what they are talking about exactly.
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LorenzoMay 16th, 2014 at 1:49 pm
I hope this analysis isn't from the same people who calculate the bonanzas cities get from building sports palaces, and the so-called financial boost from hosting the Super Bowl. Those numbers are, um, questionable.
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jim brewerMay 16th, 2014 at 8:50 pm
I dialed up the Grant Thornton report as best I can tell, its a series of slides that simply assert all these things will happen. they assume the average job will pay $100K.
It looks like at Texas will pay at least $52K per job. Experience teaches that a lot of the subsidies aren't well publicized, nor are the clawbacks (if any) if the company doesn't come through.
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thornmarkMay 16th, 2014 at 2:22 pm
Nissan sales have soared since they left CA. Contrary to predictions.
The Autoextremist guy thinks both Nissan and Toyota made bad decisions, but he lives in MI.
Anyway, CA is in LT decline. No competent government would outright lie to its citizens and build not very high-speed rail up the central valley.
Unless they are controlled by special interests.
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fredtalMay 16th, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Yea not like our high speed rail or the Trans Texas Corridor proposals. /sarcasim
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LorenzoMay 17th, 2014 at 3:11 pm
The politicians in California government ARE the special interests. Their special interest is a social ideology that vilifies all business/money-making. The OTHER special interests want insider business dealings with no regulation or restraints. California was successful only when neither extreme held the upper hand.
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stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:30 pm
Moneymaking is not at all vilified in California, as long as "the right people" make the money. California is just a few steps further down the Progressive drain than most of the country. Hence, who shall earn what, like all else in Progressive Dystopias, should be determined by "policy." Meaning, in practice, for those of us of above average indoctrination resistance at least, that it should be determined by the ruling caste.
It's much more of a pull up the ladder scheme than an outright rejection of making money. Hollywood starlets making money is a-ok, as long as they are dumb enough to believe they are better off being a Cuban when they get cancer than a Texan with a corporate job at Toyota. Heck, even people making millions off of building weapons are just fine, as long as the weapons are reserved for oppressive governments, rather than regular citizens.
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AprilMay 16th, 2014 at 2:35 pm
I worry about the legally married same gendered couples who live in California and New York that will need to relocate to the anti equality state of Texas.
Welcome to the state of second class citizenship.
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Steve65May 16th, 2014 at 9:58 pm
No worries. They'll probably be fired and their jobs given to people who will work for less anyway.
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JD23May 16th, 2014 at 10:07 pm
I'd rather have an additional $10k per year in my pocket by avoiding state income tax. Actually, I'd probably pay an extra $10k to not be married.
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AprilMay 17th, 2014 at 4:46 am
For some people marriage is not about the $$$.
Lesbian and Gay folk have been fighting for universal (all 50 states) marriage equality for years. Something straights take for granted. As it stands now LGBT married couples taking what amounts to a mandatory transfer to Texas will lose many legal rights and protections. At no fault of their own.
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Big Al from OzMay 17th, 2014 at 7:08 am
Is LGBT a sandwich or something like land based game fishing?
KenmoreMay 17th, 2014 at 7:42 am
It never ceases to flabbergast me that people who consider themselves Conservative could wage a jihad against *people who work but don't breed*.
They are the exact polar opposite of the plague that's bankrupting us. Crazy christian crackers are killing the Right.
highdesertcatMay 17th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Kenmore, I believe you are reading this wrong.
No one gives a shit about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own space.
What rubs most normal (straight) people the wrong way is this "in-your-face" acclamation that a society MUST accept deviant and unnatural behavior as normal.
What's next? Will the government mandate that we accept pedophiles as normal? How about NAMBLA? That's "love" too. How about a man marrying his ewe or his dog?
Hey, I'm a straight dude. Been married to the same gal a for 48 years. I love getting kinky with her! Have done so on many occasions. But I have no need to declare myself to the world the way that homosexuals do.
This legality crap is just crap. Civil unions would do that trick without the drama, and have done so for decades.
There's nothing happy about being homosexual. It is their ever-present need for respectability that drives their agenda for recognition as being different.
They may be hard working, pay their taxes, but that isn't enough for them. They want to be recognized as being better, and have more rights than everyone else.
Hence the intrusion on websites, like ttac, that have nothing to do with homosexuality.
highdesertcatMay 17th, 2014 at 3:52 pm
kenmore, my comment is awaiting moderation. I think you are reading this all wrong.
KenmoreMay 17th, 2014 at 11:50 pm
It won't be a real long time, as societies are measured, before your notions about gays and mine about race are six feet under along with the rest of us.
Then the kids will find something else to fight about.
highdesertcatMay 18th, 2014 at 12:10 am
Kenmore, to me these are non-issues. I don't judge anyone because of the color of their skin, or what their sexual preferences are.
What I resent is having these issues constantly rubbed in my face! And now on ttac of all places!
America being the melting pot that it is, there is room for everyone. But let's not give groups differential treatment because of their agenda.
My dad was very dark complected being a Portuguese fisherman and was often mistaken on the US East Coast as a half-breed negro (which he was not). My mom was German and very, very fair complected with rich blonde hair.
When they moved West to CA, the whole skin-color thing became a non-issue.
And so was homosexuality, a non-issue. In school we knew who they were and we left them alone, and they left us jocks and surfers alone. No big deal.
In ANY society there are bigots and racists. And there are laws to deal with them when they break the law. Pushing ANY agenda only results in alienating more people and causes resentment against those with the agenda.
My #2 son and his wife own a couple of beauty shops in the San Diego, CA, area and many of their male stylists are homosexual. It never was an issue for anyone there, and it still isn't today.
Still, why would anyone bring up the homosexual agenda on a site like ttac? I've noticed intrusions on other sites, money sites, as well.
KenmoreMay 18th, 2014 at 12:29 am
She just brought it up, meekly and only once, because it's an unarguable consequence of Toyota employees being forced to move to TX.
And she didn't identify herself as gay; she could be merely empathetic to gays as I am.
Because since the 3rd grade I felt *funny* around girls and since the 6th grade all I've wanted to do was dive down cleavages.
I am a roaring hetero.
But what if someone is wired the other way, and I do believe it is purely an involuntary neuro-hormonal thing, and they have to spend an entire lifetime hiding that kind of passion? No matter how exemplary a citizen they may otherwise be?
highdesertcatMay 18th, 2014 at 12:56 am
Kenmore, traditionally, as well as in societies, birds of a feather have flocked together.
And I do not believe that anyone is being forced to move anywhere.
I remember during my days in the military, interracial marriage was never an issue within the military. But assigning interracial couples to certain states within the union was a no-no.
So we, the military, worked around it. The interracial couples didn't flaunt it, didn't demand special acceptance, and the military made assignment concessions if a black man, married to a white European woman, asked not to be assigned to progressive Democrat states of the Southern US of A. I had several black munitions loaders working for me who brought back a white German girl as their wife, and we, the senior NCOs made sure we addressed the ramifications with our subordinates.
While in the military, just like now, we had a fair number of homosexuals. Never an issue. We judged them solely by the performance of their work, just like anyone else.
But in this day and age, many military people, as well as civilians, resent the special treatment that homosexuals demand because they view themselves as different, and this causes all sorts of issues, like when a cop makes an arrest and the person declares themselves to be a homosexual. Man, it's hands off when that happens! Really scary for cops because they can get hit with all sorts of claims of discrimination.
The list goes on and on, and I can understand the concern that homosexuals have about the discrimination against them, but I can't help but wonder how we got here, today, with all those homosexuals in our society, before they started demanding special rights and recognition.
It seems to be an issue now, where it never was in the past. Back then, a homosexual couple drew up a Power of Attorney, recorded it without drama, and the world went on turning.
When I got married, there wasn't near the fanfare there is around same-sex marriages these days. This is an agenda.
And I bet it won't be an issue for the Toyota move, unless the homosexual community raises the issue and makes it an issue.
stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:32 pm
Now ain't that just the greatest problem the world faces as of now….. At least in Texas, they can carry a decent pistol, to defend themselves when all those mean gay bashers come to Gitt'im…
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thelaineMay 17th, 2014 at 7:11 am
It's damn near impossible to destroy a beautiful, wealthy state like California. The left is kind of making a project out of it.
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Steve65May 17th, 2014 at 11:40 am
Right. Because it's people on "the left" who see things like the water in a river actually making it to the ocean as "wasteful".
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LorenzoMay 17th, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Absolutely! The ocean doesn't need any more water, especially the unsalted variety that's ideal for swimming pools and toilets. The Oceans get 3/4 of all the rainfall, let them be satisfied with that. If you think that's crazy, you're probably a left brain righty; we lefties are the only ones in our right minds.
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stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:33 pm
Pools are nicer with salt water….
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CJinSDMay 17th, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Parasites thrive on the fattest hosts thelaine. They'll make California into a sunny Detroit. Give them time.
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highdesertcatMay 17th, 2014 at 3:32 pm
thelaine, I was born in Huntington Beach, CA. Went back there recently, and it is a dump! It resembles a Mexican Barrio these days where the Community Reinvestment Act has not dared to tread.
My parental home in Palos Verde where one of my brothers now lives, is worth over a million bucks today, but it is still a house that was built in 1959, when my parents bought it. And the rest of the neighborhood there is just as old, and it shows.
My #2 son lives in San Diego, in the Clairemont suburb, on Waco. A house built in 1953 and since upgraded and updated to where it is worth at least $350,000 these days. That's a far cry from the $12,500 his wife's parents paid for it in 1953.
My grandson and his wife live in Fallbrook, CA, in the house given to his wife by her parents.
There's no way he could afford to live there on GS-9 pay and his wife's Deputy Sheriff's pay, if they had to pay the taxes on that house. Her parents still do that although they live in a Motorhome and travel all over America, Canada and Mexico, all year long.
They all have one thing in common. Stifling taxes, exorbitant cost of living, and the desire to leave bankrupt California for anywhere else but California.
Quite a number of people have already cashed out of California, and left the state. This has been exceedingly good for the real estate business in adjoining states. Even for us in New Mexico, and in Texas.
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stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:52 pm
The real etate bonanza you are referring to, is at the root of lots of Calis dysfunctionalities. It has to a large extent severed almost all correlation between who works, and who has. randomly buying a shoddily slapped together shack that wouldn't last a single winter in the Dakotas back in the 50s, have ever since resulted in wealth gains far beyond what most people could amass by saving. So, you end up with a caste of people who's only goal is to preserve the only way they know how to stay ahead of the other Joneses, which is to try to maximize the advantage of being a "home owner." tax the heck out of work? Why not? We don't do that anyway, but instead just live off of home appreciation. Support any amount of money printing for Goldman Sachs? Again, heck yeah, as long as some of it finds it way into lower mortgage rates, so people can bid up the price of my shack…. Create zoning laws to make sure noone else gets to build anything nice enough to compete with my shack in other neighborhoods? heck yeah, it's called "preserving the communities." Ban all productive work within 30 miles of me, since factories and stuff are smelly, and working people don't look posh enough to drive up my home price? Of course! They don't need to work. Much better if they're on welfare, so I can feel good about being all liberal and taking care of them….
And on and on it goes. Unless someone with an above pea sized brain manages to turn the Fed around, the idiocy will probably continue to go on for awhile, but when it crashes, it is incredibly far from where homes are priced today, to where they can be supported by earned income. Like, an 80% drop or something….
The weather is nice, and the nature is stunning (Huntington Beach ain't that bad. Go to Gallup….), so there will always be takers. But the complete disconnect between the short term interest of the landed-by-historic-accident and those needed to produce something, does not bode well for Cali's near and intermediate future.
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highdesertcatMay 18th, 2014 at 12:31 am
Stuki, the Californians cashing out and moving out of state have been a boon for real estate in Nevada, Arizona, and even New Mexico and West Texas.
El Paso, TX, is doing a booming business in building new houses of pretty decent quality and price. No housing slump here. We bought a house in West El Paso for my daughter when she moved here from LA. At $172K, 4600 sq ft, all white brick, three car garage, downright palacial!
I live in Southcentral New Mexico and we have seen a fair share of people from California move to this area as well. Even sold a couple of homes to them Californians.
I'm sure there are people who move to CA every single day for all sorts of reasons, but for CA natives like myself, things have changed. Where I remember the Huntington Beach of my youth, I now see the Barrio of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez in its place and that makes the wide-open spaces of Gallup seem like the Garden of Eden.
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TOTitanMay 18th, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Do you really think El Paso is nice? The climate is horrid and they are out of water. They are facing a bleak future. Regarding Texas being such great place to go, here's a article from an El Paso newspaper that tells it like it is….no water, and crumbling infrastructure so bad they have torn up some paved roads and turned them into gravel roads due to lack of revenue.
stukiMay 17th, 2014 at 11:36 pm
California will be fine, just like the earth will. The people living there may or may not, but it's not like the sunshine cares.
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jimbob457May 18th, 2014 at 5:03 am
The attraction of Plano is that is a new upper middle class suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. It's schools are good. It has a low cost of living, housing is cheap, no state income tax, and it is a 3-4 hour plane ride to Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Atlanta or Mexico City. London, Tokyo, Sydney and Rio are doable non-stop within one day.
The bad news is that it is in the middle of the hot and flat. The locals make do fairly well in spite of that. My daughter, who was raised in the suburb next door to Plano, now lives in El Lay and loves it. California has a huge advantage in its climate and access to the ocean and the mountains. You can now buy an In 'N Out burger in either place. It all depends on what you like.
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Mascarenhas given ban for Twitter rant
Hampshire's Dmitri Mascarenhas will miss the first two weeks of next season after he was banned and fined by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The ECB slapped a £500 fine on the all-rounder, who has already been hit with a £1,000 county fine for his Twitter rant about selector Geoff Miller .
Mascarenhas called Miller "a p***k" and "a complete k**b" on the Twitter page attributed to him earlier this month.
The two seperate Tweets were deleted shortly afterwards, but not before they had been sent to his 1,300 followers.
In his first Tweet, 32-year-old Mascarenhas – who has not played for England since September 2009 – criticised Miller for failing to acknowledge him on a recent scouting trip to watch Hants take on Lancashire.
The all-rounder said: "Chairman of selectors came and didn't even come and say hi.. What a p***k.. Doesn't take much to say hello does it?"
In a second Tweet, he added: "Geoff Miller is a complete k**b.. He had no clue what he is doing.. Fing p***k."
The incident followed a similar PR disaster for current England international Kevin Pietersen, who was forced to apologise after posting a message on the social networking site describing his being dropped from the Twenty20 and one-day squads as "a f*** up".


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LONDON (Jan. 25)
A statement of policy, calling for strengthening of the United Nations truce supervision machinery in Palestine, inclusion of the Soviet Union in a Great Power attempt to keep the Middle East from erupting into warfare and shoring up of the Tripartite Agreement as an "absolutely indispensable instrument" for peace in the region, was issued here today by the British Labor Party.
The statement came on the heels of yesterday's heated debate in Commons over Britain's Middle East policy and in connection with Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's sailing for the United States to confer with President Eisenhower. Expressing the gravest concern over the threat of war in the Middle East and hitting the British Government for its "weakness, confusion and vacillation" as well as its failure to "put forward a bold and comprehensive program, the national executive of the Labor Party proposed that at the forthcoming Washington conference the British Government:
1. Press for immediate strengthening of the UN supervisory organization, suggesting the formation of a small international force to assist the UN truce unit in preventing further bloodshed and tension.
2. Insist that the Tripartite Declaration remain an absolutely indispensible instrument for preventing war and that the three signatories–United States. France and Britain–make clear that they would immediately, and with all necessary forces, come to the aid of the attacked party.
3. Secure an arms balance between Israel and the Arab states and maintain it according to a strict interpretation of the obligations to be observed by the signatory powers.
4. Propose that the three powers formally and publicly request the Soviet Union join them in maintaining peace between Israel and the Arab states and in maintaining a balance of weapons.
5. Stress the urgent need for a real settlement of the Israel-Arab dispute, which must include border rectifications by both sides, recognition of Israel by the Arab states as well as their ending the economic blockade of Israel, and resettlement of the Arab refugees with assistance from without.
6. Propose setting up of a comprehensive plan for Middle East aid under UN auspices in order to provide funds needed for large-scale economic development and early settlement of the refugees, this aid to be available to all states willing to cooperate peacefully for the benefit of the region as a whole.
The Labor Party's insistence on an appeal to the USSR to help keep the peace in the Middle East was rejected last night by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd who, in the midst of the debate, replied to a similar point raised by Labor Party chairman Hugh Gaitskell. The British Government appealed to the USSR a number of times, on different levels, to halt the shipment of arms into the Middle East, but was brushed off, Mr. Lloyd stated as he turned down Mr. Gaitskell's demand.


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Four-time Oscar winner Woody Allen made a rare visit to Chicago over the weekend to help boost his upcoming "Magic in the Moonlight," opening Friday.
While he walked the red carpet at the AMC River East multiplex Saturday night — prior to a private screening for the friends of the movie's executive producer Ron Chez — Allen admitted Chicago would appeal to him as a potential filming site.
Now that Illinois has improved the tax incentives for filmmakers and Allen has a major investor (Chez), I asked the writer and director about shooting here.
"I would not hesitate," said Allen. "The problem of finding venues to make a movie is to find a place where me and my family can live in for a few months without it getting boring or being uncomfortable. So I picked very good cities in the past," added Allen, noting the locations of his recent non-New York movies such as "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Midnight in Paris," "To Rome With Love," and "Blue Jasmine" (San Francisco, as well as New York).
"Chicago is a great city for that. It's not boring. It's full of excitement. It's full of good restaurants and museums and bookstores. It's a great place. I had a lot of good years in Chicago in the past."
Reminded of him once telling me Chicago is the best city in America to find good Greek restaurants ("The one ethnic food we really don't have properly represented in New York."), Allen joked Saturday, "I used to look for good places for ribs here when I was younger. But I'm too scared to eat them now at my age!)
†Also walking the red carpet Saturday was Chez and his banker, Michael Rose, the CEO or Metropolitan Bankcorp. Chez revealed he not only was involved in "Magic in the Moonlight," but was committed to executive producing three more Allen movies, including the one that just began filming in Rhode Island with Emma Stone (who stars in "Magic in the Moonlight") and Joaquin Phoenix. Chez described it as "a murder mystery, set on a college campus."
Not only was "Magic in the Moonlight" Chez's first involvement in the filmmaking world, but he joked about having a cameo in the movie. "Unfortunately, the entire scene was cut. … I just hope that doesn't happen with a scene I'm supposed to be in the next movie!"
†Asked about his leading man in "Magic in the Moonlight," Allen told me, "When I wrote the movie, I told our casting director Juliet Taylor, 'There's one person who's perfect for this — Colin Firth. He's got elegance. He's good looking. He's great poise. He'd be perfect for this.'
"But it turned out he was not available. And then we were looking for other people. And everyone was such a disappointment, compared to Colin. Then — at the last minute — just when we were thinking of hiring someone else, he became available. It was like magic! His other movie was postponed and I got him."
†Asked about him acting again in one of his films [he does not appear in "Magic in the Moonlight"], Allen said, "I'd love to act again if I can come up with a part that I'd want to play. It's hard, because I can't play the romantic lead anymore — and If I can't play the romantic lead, I don't want to be left playing 'Gramps' or the backstage doorman who looks at the chorus girls.
"I want to be the guy who sits opposite Scarlett Johansson or Charlize Theron — and grabs her across the table. It's hard to do that now. I'm too old."


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Lightning to face Oilers in preseason in Winnipeg
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True North Sports & Entertainment Limited is pleased to once again welcome the National Hockey League back to MTS Centre for an exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Edmonton Oilers on Sept. 24. Game time will be 8:30 p.m. eastern time.
"The Tampa Bay Lightning are excited about the opportunity to play an NHL game in Manitoba against the Edmonton Oilers as Winnipeg has a strong history with the National Hockey League," said Executive Vice-President and General Manager Brian Lawton. "Our players love playing in Canada and MTS Centre is such a great facility, they are looking forward to the game already."
This will be the sixth time Winnipeg has hosted an NHL exhibition game since 1997. Last year, the Coyotes fell 3-2 to the Oilers' provincial rivals, the Calgary Flames, before 12,621. Then on September 11 th , 2003, the Minnesota Wild beat the Canucks 1-0 in front of 10,214. On September 19 th , 2007, the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Coyotes 3-2 before 13,147 fans.
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Imprisoned O.J. SIMPSON has a secret plan to keep his Miami home, which is being sold off at a foreclosure auction.
He's got a well-heeled buddy who's promised to outbid all other bidders who want to live where O.J. lived – and then allow the disgraced gridiron great to live in the home.
Simpson owes more than $890,000 on the home, but sources say his businessman pal – who idolizes O.J. – is determined to make the winning bid at the Oct. 29 online auction.
"O.J. can't believe his luck – when he heard what his pal was doing for him, he broke down in tears," a source told The ENQUIRER.
The man owns property in Miami and often partied with Simpson before he was jailed five years ago. His identity is being kept secret because he doesn't want to generate negative publicity for his business.
"He got together with a few close O.J. pals who are prepared to put some money into the venture. But this guy is carrying the lion's share of the investment.
"O.J. has called him from prison and told him how touched he is. His pal said that if the auction doesn't work he will set O.J. up in an oceanfront condo he owns. O.J. was overwhelmed with emotion and, said, 'Thanks man, I really appreciate it.'"
But the pal knows O.J. is "sick" over the prospect of losing his house.
"He's prepared to pay whatever it takes to keep the property for O.J. and his family," added the insider.
Simpson – now incarcerated at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada for the theft of his own memorabilia during a whacky Las Vegas robbery – is awaiting a ruling on a request for a new trial.
He bought the four-bedroom, four-bath hacienda-style home, which is currently valued at $478,000, in 2000, living there with his eldest daughter Arnelle and then-girlfriend Christie Prody until December 2008. That's when he got up to 33 years behind bars for the Vegas robbery.
Arnelle remained in the house, but quit making mortgage payments in March 2010. According to foreclosure documents, Simpson owes JPMorgan Chase bank $892,283.11, including principal, fees and court costs, on the property. As The ENQUIRER has reported, Simpson recently spiraled into a deep depression after doctors told him that due to his diabetes and high blood pressure, he could be dead in three months.
"But now that someone has shown that they care enough to think about his future, O.J. is rallying," said the source. "He's on a strict vegetarian diet and exercising to slim down." If Simpson doesn't win his freedom and passes away in prison, Arnelle plans to turn the home into a shrine to his memory, said the source.
"Arnelle envisions the house as a kind of museum, like Elvis Presley's Graceland, filled with the football and acting memorabilia that O.J. still owns," said the source.
"O.J. never wanted to lose that house, and he's fortunate to have pals still looking out for him on the outside."


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Nominees for the Bartlesville Public School District 2014 Teacher of the Year and Rising Star Teacher have been announced.
Nominees for the Bartlesville Public School District 2014 Teacher of the Year and Rising Star Teacher have been announced.
The newly created Rising Star Teacher Award recognizes educators that have demonstrated excellence in teaching during their first years in the profession. The eleven candidates for each award were selected prior to the winter break. The candidates come from each of the 10 school sites and also the Will Rogers Complex. The WRC houses a variety of programs and services including adult education, Operation Eagle, child nutrition and homeless services.
The 2014 Teacher of the Year ceremony is scheduled to take place on Feb. 18 in the Fine Arts Center on the campus of Bartlesville High School. At the event, the 2014 TOY will be revealed along with the 2014 Rising Star Teacher and the 2014 Kurt Schmoldt Award winner.
The reigning 2013 Teacher of the Year is Therese Rawlinson, Jane Phillips Elementary School fifth-grade teacher. Rawlinson was also a State Teacher of the Year finalist for 2013.
The 2014 TOY nominees include Tracy Powers (Instructional Coach at Hoover), Angela Gerber (Library Media Specialist at Jane Phillips), Julie Jennings (third-grade teacher at Kane), Joyce Nickels (kindergarten teacher at Ranch Heights), Heather Boyle (kindergarten teacher at Wayside), Kris Zorn (fourth-grade teacher at Wilson), Jennifer McCauley (pre-algebra teacher at Central), Brent Massey (sixth-grade social students teacher at Madison), Stacey Wosel (math teacher at Bartlesville Mid-High School), Susan Staats (Intro to Psychology and AP Psychology teacher at Bartlesville High School), and Chris Cooper (adult education at Will Rogers).
The 2014 RST nominees include Amy Hodges (fourth-grade teacher at Hoover), Bonnie Riner (first-grade teacher at Jane Phillips), ValAnn Pell (first-grade teacher at Kane), Jennifer England (fourth-grade teacher at Ranch Heights), Lindsay Swartzwelder (second-grade teacher at Wayside), Chanda Myers (third-grade teachers at Wilson), Allison Ebert (counselor at Central), Michael Lawson (eighth-grade social studies at Madison), Haley Johnson (language arts at Bartlesville Mid-High School), Stephen Walden (U.S. history teacher at Bartlesville High School) and Amanda Hendrix (Homeless Coordinator at Will Rogers).