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NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- Police charged a school bus driver after the bus she was driving overturned at Thole Street and Tidewater Drive Tuesday morning.
Officers issued citations to Callie Goodwyn, 71, for Reckless Driving and Failure to Maintain Control of Vehicle.
The bus was on its way to Norfolk Technical Vocational Center with a group of students from Granby High School around 7:30 a.m. The crash happened when it hit a jersey wall as it was accessing the on-ramp to Interstate 64.
Norfolk police said about 24 students were on board. The driver and about nine of the students were taken to either Sentara Norfolk General Hospital or Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center as a precaution and for evaluation/treatment for minor injuries. No one else on the bus was hurt.
By late Tuesday afternoon all patients had been released.
Norfolk Public Schools spokeswoman Karen Rose-Tanner said the incident is under investigation and that she could not comment about the status of the Goodwyn's employment because it was a personnel matter.
Two students told 13News Now they helped other students off the bus after it overturned.
"The next thing I knew, all I could see was the ground, the window had shattered. So my friend Sean fell on top of me and that's about it, and I was just trying to help people out," said Brian Roper.
"Lots of people were just going crazy, screaming, crying and we just helped everybody off," added Semaj Haynes.
They said it seemed that the bus had been going too fast as it got onto the on ramp.
One students says people were screaming, one complaining of leg pain @13NewsNow— Elise Brown (@13EliseDBrown) November 15, 2016"
Investigators said the bus was the only vehicle involved in the wreck. They would not confirm if speed was a factor, but told 13News Now Goodwyn told them she had been blinded by the sunlight.
Photos from the scene sent by a 13News Now viewer showed the bus on its side, and students standing outside of the vehicle.
Norfolk Police closed Tidewater Drive and Thole Street for a time, but reopened it at about 8:45 a.m. VDOT cameras showed the exit ramp on I-64 had been blocked off.
You can see the bus is on its side @13NewsNow pic.twitter.com/XtDPWWaHkr— Elise Brown (@13EliseDBrown) November 15, 2016
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Some parents raised a number of concerns when they spoke to 13News Now, including the fact that the school bus did not have seat belts.
Federal guidelines from the United States Department of Transportation do not require large school buses such as the one involved in the wreck Tuesday to have safety belts. Among the reasons why they don't: the weight of the buses and the compartmental design of the buses.
Small school buses with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less must have lap and/or lap/shoulder belts at all designated seating positions.
Mark R. Rosekind, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration hopes to change that.
During an address at the National Association for Pupil Transportation's annual summit in Richmond in 2015, he said the position of NHTSA is that "...seat belts save lives. That is true whether in a passenger car or in a big yellow bus." He added the group's goal is to have a "three-point belt for every child on every bus."
Rosekind told attendees that NHTSA will use many approaches to achieve that goal.
Mark Rose Kind Remarks by 13News Now on Scribd
Kathryn Henry, a spokeswoman for NHTSA, told 13News Now Tuesday that there are many promising discussions taking place across the country since the agency came out strongly in support of seat belts on school buses.
Henry explained the regulatory challenge is that deaths and serious injuries in school buses are extremely rare. The school bus remains, by far, the safest way to get children to and from school.
While Henry said there are real concerns about the cost of equipping all buses with belts, NHTSA is working with states that mandate seat belts on school buses to learn ways to address costs and other factors. She, as Rosekind did last year, emphasized that seat belts save lives, adding, "It's as simple as that."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Web site provides a vast amount of information about school bus safety and the findings of tests and studies involving seat belts.
The following is an excerpt addressing some questions NHTSA frequently receives:
We have seat belts in passenger cars. Why don't we have them on school buses?
Seat belts have been required on passenger cars since 1968. Forty-nine States and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring the wearing of seat belts in passenger cars and light trucks. There is no question that seat belts play an important role in keeping occupants safe in theses vehicles, however school buses are different by design and use a different kind of safety restraint system that works extremely well.
Large school buses are heavier and distribute crash forces differently than do passenger cars and light trucks. Because of these differences, the crash forces experienced by occupants of buses are much less than that experienced by occupants of passenger cars, light trucks or vans. NHTSA decided that the best way to provide crash protection to passengers of large school buses is through a concept called "compartmentalization." This requires that the interior of large buses provide occupant protection such that children are protected without the need to buckle-up. Through compartmentalization, occupant crash protection is provided by a protective envelope consisting of strong, closely-spaced seats that have energy-absorbing seat backs.
Small school buses (with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less) must be equipped with lap and/or lap/shoulder belts at all designated seating positions. Since the sizes and weights of small school buses are closer to those of passenger cars and trucks, seat belts in those vehicles are necessary to provide occupant protection.
School bus crash data show that compartmentalization has been effective at protecting school bus passengers. NHTSA's 2002 Report to Congress[1] found that the addition of lap belts did not improve occupant protection for the severe frontal impacts that were studied for that report.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) have come to similar conclusions. The NTSB concluded in a 1987 study of school bus crashes that most fatalities and injuries occurred because the occupant seating positions were in direct line with the crash forces.[2 NTSB stated that seat belts would not have prevented most of the serious injuries and fatalities from occurring in school bus crashes. In 1989, the NAS completed a study of ways to improve school bus safety and concluded that the overall potential benefits of requiring seat belts on large school buses were insufficient to justify a Federal mandate for installation.[3] NAS also stated that the funds used to purchase and maintain seat belts might be better spent on other school bus safety programs and devices that could save more lives and reduce more injuries.
Can States or school districts purchase large school buses that have seat belts?
States or school districts are not prohibited by the federal government from purchasing seat belts at any passenger seating position in large public school buses. Over the past 30 years, some States have required new large school buses to come equipped with seat belts. There have been no documented injuries or fatalities resulting from use of the seat belts on school buses.[4] However, States should take into consideration the increased capital costs, reduced seating capacities, and other unintended consequences associated with seat belts that could result in more children seeking alternative means of traveling to and from school or school-related events. These alternative modes of travel could put children at greater risk because they are not nearly as safe as school buses. If seat belts are to be beneficial, States that require them on school buses should ensure that the belts are worn properly by all school bus passengers.


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Avocado gazpacho
Serves 4
Traditional Spanish gazpacho was once the food of field workers made on the spot with bread, olive oil, vinegar, garlic, and water. It has evolved and now there are numerous versions. This one, without the bread, is at once refreshing from crisp cucumber and bell pepper, creamy from avocado, sweet and crunchy with corn, and tangy from vinegar, lime, and cilantro. It also makes good use of leftover corn on the cob. You can stir a few ice cubes into the soup to thin or chill it just before serving. Remove them before you ladle the soup into bowls.
|large, ripe summer tomatoes (about 2 pounds), cored and cut in 1-inch chunks
|large cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch chunks
|large yellow, red, or green pepper, seeded and cut in 1-inch chunks
|red onion, coarsely chopped
|cups tomato juice or vegetable juice
|tablespoons red wine vinegar
|Salt and black pepper, to taste
|Dash of hot sauce, or to taste
|Kernels from 2 ears of cooked corn on the cob
|avocados, peeled and cut in 1/4-inch dice
|Several sprigs fresh cilantro, leaves only
|limes, quartered (for garnish)
2. Stir in the tomato or vegetable juice, vinegar, and a generous sprinkle of salt, black pepper, and hot sauce. Taste for seasoning and add more salt or hot sauce, if you like.
3. Stir in the corn and avocado. Cover the container and refrigerate for 3 hours or until thoroughly chilled.
4. If the soup has thickened or is not cold enough, add ice cubes before serving (do not serve the cubes). Taste and adjust the seasoning again. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with cilantro leaves. Serve with lime.

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This is the regularly scheduled monthly meeting of the Carlisle Public Library Board of Trustees.
The Board meets on the second Thursday or each month. The current Library Trustees are Marilyn Goodhue (President), Melody Kirk (Vice President), Ann Mowery (Secretary), Arthur Hill, Dave Kozak, Scott Mavin, Carol Murphy, Sherry Amos and Duane Johnson.
Members of the public are most welcome to attend.


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This was Sylvia & I's second time attending Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on behalf of Chictopia.com for the Spring/Summer 2013 season of fashion shows. Like February, we opted to road trip down to New York City from Toronto. This time around our ten hour drive wasn't too bad in comparison to our drive through absolutely awful weather in the middle of winter. Mother nature was a lot more kind this time around!
The outfit that I'm wearing here was chosen as a versatile outfit that would look good on the streets of New York as well feel comfortable during a 10 hour road trip in a car. But I must mention that my shoes were flats during the trip and I hadn't changed into heels until we started heading out to the Lincoln Center.
Our 7am departure from Toronto was a chilly one and my chosen outfit was not fit for the weather. I had a sweatshirt & leggings that I wore until the weather warmed up. Our 5pm arrival into the city was a rushed one but we made it on time to our first show to kick off our 5-days in New York City!
This photo was taken right before attending the Timo Weiland SS/13 Show. To check out our review of the show Click Here!


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WESTWOOD -- A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase that ended in a standoff outside the Federal Building.
This is a non-story is why its not been picked up. If he's off his meds nothing he does can be considered "legit".
He's just nuts. No conspiracy.
According to these reports, Joseph Moshe Bar is one of Israel's top bio-weapons scientists who while under the "control" of the Mossad was "placed" in Los Angeles to "monitor" a swine flu vaccine "experiment" being carried out in that city by US scientists upon their poorest citizens under the guise of giving to them free medical care.
These reports state that the venue for these experiments upon America's poorest citizens was the Los Angeles Sports Center where the alleged to be CIA financed Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corporation, for the first time in its history, was conducting a "clinic" in the United States.
Upon Moshe's attempt to reach the Israeli Consulate building in Los Angeles, these reports continue, he received "information" from the Mossad that he was being "targeted" for "immediate assassination" by the CIA, whereupon he drove his vehicle at "high speed" to the US Federal Building (a few city blocks from the Israeli Consulate, both being on Wilshire Blvd.) where Israeli officials were able to put him the "spotlight" of their American media "contacts" and thwart the death threat against him.


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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Havana real estate market
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- Pozos Real Estate said...
It was nice to read your post.and nice to know about Cuban and your real estate as well.I am sure other readers will also like it
- April 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
Allowing people to rent, buy and sell property at freely negotiated prices was a step forward that eased the severe housing shortage but a rapid solution will not occur since the real estate market is rudimentary at best.
In a fully developed real estate market private individuals would be allowed to:
1- Own land and the buildings constructed on it.
2- Buy, sell or rent their land and space in the buildings at freely negotiated market prices.
3- Make contracts with private construction companies to build their buildings for them at freely negotiated market prices.
4- Buy and sell construction materials in unlimited quantities without unnecessary waiting time at freely negotiated market prices.
5- Produce and import construction materials and sell them at freely negotiated market prices.
Since non of these conditions exist in Cuba, the reform measures are incomplete and will only ease partially the existing housing shortage because there is no feedback.
In other words the supply of housing is rigid and is not influenced by its scarcity as measured in the market value of houses and rents.
This happens because the production of construction materials and housing are set through planning and not through the possibility of making profits due to high housing prices, the scarcity can never be solved since the market never increases the supply of construction materials and housing.
Housing shortages are a natural part of centrally planned economies since:
1- Rents are set below the price levels necessary to equal the effective demand to available supply.
2- The enterprises in the construction sector cannot raise prices and set their production goals and therefore cannot attempt to maximize their profits.
Talk of a "real estate market: under Cuban conditions is an oxymoron!
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Pakistani to deliver series' inaugural speech
Safida Ayub, a public education official from northern Pakistan, will deliver Kansas University's Office of International Programs' inaugural Visiting International Scholar Lecture, "Education is Everything: A Woman's Journey in Pakistan," at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
An acquaintance of Lawrence banker Wint Winter Jr., Ayub arrived in Lawrence in early September. She has spent the past two months studying teacher training programs at KU. She will return to Pakistan in late November.
Ayub and Winter met several years ago when Winter and his father toured Ayub's school while on a hiking trip in the Himalayas.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 864-6161.
Coaches, players team for Bert Nash
The third annual benefit for Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will feature former Kansas University men's basketball coach Ted Owens.
"An Evening with Ted Owens and Friends" will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Lawrence Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
In addition to Owens, other speakers will be KU men's basketball coach Bill Self, former Missouri men's basketball coach Norm Stewart, former KU football coach Don Fambrough, and former basketball players Jo Jo White, Bud Stallworth, Roger Morningstar and many more. Tom Hedrick will be the master of ceremonies.
Tickets for the event are $125 per person. It includes a social hour with an open bar, dinner and program. Tickets can be ordered by calling Marilyn Sell at Bert Nash, 830-1795.
All proceeds from the benefit will go to the Bert Nash Endowment Trust Fund.
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No Educator Left Behind is a series providing answers from the U.S. Department of Education to questions about the federal No Child Left Behind Act and how it will affect educators. If you have a question about No Child Left Behind, send an e-mail to Ellen Delisio, and we will submit your question to the Department of Education.
How will requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act affect students who are not fluent in English?
U.S. Department of Education:
English language learners -- like all students -- will be tested in reading and mathematics every year from third through eighth grade. Students who enter a school in grade 3 or above can be tested in their native language for the first three years they attend that school; after that, assessment tests must be given in English.
Under No Child Left Behind, for the first time, English language learners must be tested annually on their progress in learning English, to determine if they need additional support. States and schools will be held accountable for the results of those tests.
The new law does not dictate a particular method of instruction for teaching students English or other academic content; however, in addition to providing quality instruction in reading and math, states and local education agencies must establish English proficiency standards and provide quality language instruction that is based on scientific research.
States and local education agencies also are required to place highly qualified teachers in all classrooms in which there are English language learners.
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Difference between therapy and advice
Very often clients meet with a therapist in a confused state of mind. They meet the therapist with an inherent feeling of instability of their own minds.
But this feeling has to be experienced and sorted out by the same mind which makes up the confused state.
They feel that their experience of pain and confusion are genuine. They look up to the therapist for comfort and help for which they have visited him/her.
But giving advice is not part of therapy. Advice is mostly superficial and therapist is to explore it more deeply.
Therapy is actually a place to explore the feelings of the client about themselves. It is a place of self discovery.
The therapist can at best help the client to find out how he has become tangled up so that an attempt at untangling can be carried out together.
The therapy is successful only if the client gets a better understanding of his inner world and his relationship.
Many a time it takes time and reflection to see the inner pattern because of the client's reluctance to open up in full.
Very often the therapist has to acknowledge the pain and confusion of the client and wait patiently till the inner problem is sorted out by the client themselves.
This doesn't mean that information has to be withheld from the client. Many a time, speaking up directly with the client is the best possible way.
Sometimes CBT has to be integrated into the therapy when patients need symptomatic relief or when they are trying to break habits.
The most extreme that can happen is when the person is having suicidal tendencies or aggressive habits. In such cases, a list of people from their family circle or friends circle has to be made, to fetch immediate medical help.
Mindfulness meditation, relaxation techniques like JPMR, guided imagery, etc can be employed in simple cases.
Communication techniques and relation building exercises can be employed in cases regarding close family relationships.
But a therapist has to be careful not to advice patients with major life decisions.
The therapist can give hints to help him reach the decisions. A therapist can always point to what is the right decision in a given environment rather than telling what to do.
Some patients insist to specifically advise them what to do. But this may be because he can distance himself from responsibility if things don't work as planned.
Friends and family members can be dependent on giving advice and counselling.
For e.g. – If a person asks his best friend for an advice regarding his failing relationship with his spouse because of spouses infidelity, the friend might ask him to get a divorce and move on. But a therapist will respond using a solution focused response saying something like "What can you do about your spouse's infidelity?" The difference here is that a friend or family member gives advice by answering your question whereas a therapist always helps you to find the answer for your own questions.
A psycho therapist should always avoid giving advice because then it no longer is part of psycho therapy.
If the client finds the therapist fill the time with advice, suggestions or anecdotes about their life, it could indicate that he has some difficulty for the therapeutic process to unfold.
Better search for someone else who creates the space for the process of becoming conscious oneself.
This doesn't mean that opinions should not be shared. The therapist has to be cautious about giving advice because the client is usually visiting him only to get advice.
But such advice is not going to help in the long run. Encourage the client to share his experiences; but don't indulge in giving council.
If you have a compulsive habit to give advices, the following questionnaire is going to help.
- What are my motivations for giving advice? Is it to boost the ego and hence make myself feel important?
- How often am I giving advices?
- How to ensure that my advice is going to help the client?
- Am I crossing the limits? Am I blocking the client from taking decisions by filling him with details?
- Would I take my own advice if I were a client?
Remember that when the therapist imposes specific suggestions, he is blocking the client in taking decision. This is counterproductive. But when the therapist teaches their client to solve their problem themselves, they are actually helping the client to develop an insight into the problem all by himself.


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And that's what was great about KZ. It wasn't about enrage timers (which should be all removed from raids altogether unless it is purely patchwerk fight), wasn't about 20-page booklets per boss you must read. It was about layout, atmosphere and having fun with friends.
That's why that raid became so memorable.
Alas, with current developers, we will never ever see anything like Karazhan again. Best they can do is to make million of difficulties and millions of subtiers, which makes raiding even less appealing, whlie trying to keep catering to people, who shouldn't ever touch RPGs in first place.


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Azealia Banks and Sia feud over chicken sacrifice
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Azealia Banks has blasted Sia as a "pompous white bitch".
The controversial rapper was furious when the 'Cheap Thrills' singer slammed her for sharing footage of a blood covered closet which she claimed to use for sacrificing chickens for witchcraft.
Sia tweeted: "Sacrificing animals for your gain is the wackest s**t I've ever heard. Get ahead by being awesome, kind and working hard (sic)."
However, Azealia posted Sia's tweet on Instagram and wrote: "And your ugly pasty dry white lady winter skin face is the ugliest fave I've ever seen that must be why you hide it all the time.
"HAVE SOME F*****G RESPECT FOR MY F*****G TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION YOU POMPOUS WHITE B*TCH (sic)."
She then declared: "this is your first warning".
However, the posts have since been removed and replaced with one message which read: "Stop apologizing. No more explanations (sic)."
She then added a picture of herself and captioned it: "Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch-Witch-witch (sic)."
Sia took to Twitter after Azealia shared videos of herself cleaning out the bloodstained closet on her Instagram story.
Azealia said: "The amount of crap that's about to come off my floor right now, guys, oh my god. Three years' worth of brujería. Yes, you know, I gotta scrape all this s**t up.
"Real witches do real things. Blood stains the wall (sic)."
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Friday, January 06, 2012
Texas Adopts IA Custody Rule and Amendments to Written Exam Rules
A safekeeping rule for investment advisers with custody of their clients' funds or securities was adopted by the Texas Securities Board, together with amendments to the written examination rules for dealer principals, agents, investment advisers and investment adviser representatives. The "solicitor" definition was clarified. NOTE: A rule on advisory performance based fees remains proposed.
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Friends or Solo?Visitor's Question from a 21-30 year old Male
Hello. I'm a 23 year-old guy. I've never had a girlfriend before, just one night stands, so I guess I'm behind the curve when it comes to dating. Anyway, I sit next to this girl in one of my classes. I wasn't all that interested at first, but the more we talked, the more I started liking her. I bumped into her at a club one night and told her how I felt (with the help of some liquid courage). She said she's "kind of" seeing someone, but it isn't serious. Then, she gave me her number. Two days later, I still haven't called her. I don't know if it would seem too pushy, epescially considering I'm going to see her in class 2 times this week. So, I guess I have two problems. Number one, should I back off until the class is over? We have assigned seats, so things could be really awkward if they don't work out. It even crossed my mind that could be why she gave me her number, to avoid awkwardness in class. Number two, the bigger of the two problems, if and when I set up these "dates" would it be alright if we go out with the company of friends for a while. I'm really shy and would prefer to do things that way, but I'm not in high school anymore. So, I don't know if that would seem weird or not. Thanks for the help
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My feeling is that it is critical for you to have a girlfriend before long.
If you put it off, you may get into the habit and end up alone for the rest of your life. Being alone may be right for you, so don't take what I say as the gospel. But, you should find out soon one way or the other.
Since she gave you her phone number, you should call her as soon as possible. She is expecting to hear from you and if you don't call she may be cold to you in class. If things don't work out in the long run, just consider her a friend.
Going out on dates is how you get to know someone better. So maybe two dates could include other people, but then you need to go out just you and her. Yes, it is weird.
Good luck, George
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Baldwin and Guy Return
Pat Baldwin has returned to the U's squad, for Saturday's East Anglian Derby clash with Norwich City.
Jamie Guy also returns, but Captain Karl Dudguid is ruled out.
The U's squad is as follows: Gerken, Bankole, Ifil, White, Heath, Baldwin, Virgo, Wordsworth, Elito, Izzet, Jackson, Hammond, Lisbie, Platt, Vernon, Guy.
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Armenia star Henrikh Mkhitaryan set for Liverpool medical
LIVERPOOL are on the verge of finalising a £20m deal for Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The Armenia international has a £20m release clause in his contract that Liverpool are willing to meet.
Mkhitaryan, 24, is due to travel to England in the next two days for a medical, according to Russian media reports.
Liverpool will then unveil their new signing by the end of the week.
"Juventus and Borussia Dortmund were also interested in his services"
Mkhitaryan netted 25 league goals last season and has been named Armenian footballer of the year in three of the last four years.
Juventus and Borussia Dortmund were also interested in his services - but Liverpool appear to have won the race to sign him.
Liverpool are planning on selling Andy Carroll to West Ham for £15m to help fund the move.


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It happened on the 11th of October 1991. Swaggart was pulled over by the California Police Patrol in the town of Indio. He and his Jaguar had attracted attention for driving erratically on the wrong side of the road.
Swaggart, the self-appointed judge of America's televangelists was caught with Rosemary Garcia, an admitted pr0stitute.
Swaggart let the car drift when he saw the officers, according to Garcia. He even tried to stuff girlie magazines under the seat, she said.
This is not the first time that the evangelist was caught having an intimate affair other than his wife. Back in 1988, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries center in Baton Rouge was swept by shock, when he admitted to an encounter with a New Orleans pr0stitute (Debra Murphree).
See People's The Fall of Jimmy Swaggart to know more.


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Epos are a high quality loudspeaker manufacturer, originally founded by Robin Marshall and later sold to Michael Creek, who had worked with Robin for a number of years. This was a productive move for both aspects of the product, as it became apparent to Michael Creek early on that Epos and Creek componentry forms a strong and obvious alliance, complimenting each other perfectly.
The K-Series marks the start of an entirely new era for Epos loudspeakers. Designed by Luke Creek, the K Series utilises the same level of pure audio dedication and meticulous attention to detail as any audiophile constructed by Creek or Epos in the past. The K-2 is the first floorstanding model in the series, and features a unique yet innovative front-firing slot port, dispersing bass in a dynamic and controlled manner.
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POWER HANDLING 150 Watts unclipped speech and music FREQUENCY RANGE 41Hz – 30KHz IMPEDANCE 4 Ohm SENSITIVITY 90dB – 2.83v @ 1m TWEETER 25mm soft dome,
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Keystone Politics :: Pennsylvania Politics, PA Government, Harrisburg Gossip Preliminary calculations put the price tag at $33.8 billion during the next 30 years -- a figure larger than the Pennsylvania government's entire budget for the current year.Here comes an advance thought. New idea alert.
Every retired municipal employee and benefit holder who lives outside of Pennsylvania should have checks cut by 90-percent until this issue is resolved.
A retired teacher, firefighter, policeman, lawmaker -- whatever -- who worked in PA and gets a PA pension but now lives in Florida, or anywhere outside PA, should get notice that the amount is going to be cut by 90% by next year. Else, move back to Pennsylvania.
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Miltank was way too overpowered. Of course Ash had no chance; even in real life if a cow falls on you it will nearly kill you.
Miltank was way too overpowered. Of course Ash had no chance; even in real life if a cow falls on you it will nearly kill you.
I really like reading your and Angel's posts in these episode threads. But it's logical, because she, you and me are OS fans.
My fanfics:
Aquatic Passion (multi-chaptered fic)
Misty, The Mysterious Mermaid (oneshot)
Working On A Dream (multi-chaptered fic)
Changes (multi-chaptered fic)
The Prettiest Star (multi-chaptered fic)
The Strange Adventure of Bayleef and the Yellow Balloon (oneshot)
The Melody of Love (oneshot)
Love Of My Life (oneshot)
A good and funny episode. Seeing Whitney and Misty talking was cute. Whitney was so clueless, which was very hilarious.
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Wow, Whitney's Miltank obliterated Ash. The episode itself was both hilarious and interesting-wise because of that battle between Ash and Whitney. I loved how clumsy Whitney was at the beginning and that moment when Clefairy was using Splash was extremely hilarious.
It's funny, Ash had a hard time against Whitney and people in the real world do too against her. I didn't like that Ash didn't want to recall Cyndaquil though.
Whitney was hilarious... Crashing into those doors thinking they were automatic... xDD
I remember the first time watching that episode, I was amazed that her Miltank was so strong, after watching her crashing into those doors, I guess you start to doubt a person. xD
I thought this was a great episode. There were so many comical moments, especially these ones IMO: Meowth's "There's a Clefairy in produce!", Pikachu just walking along the rails as Team Rocket tried to get away very slowly, and Ash asking Whitney if she was the Gym's cleaning lady. I also loved how Whitney was so ditzy and didn't know her way around Goldenrod that well.
Whitney using Nidorina on her team was a bit of an odd choice IMO, but it didn't bother me that much since I like that Pokemon. I did not really like how Clefairy forfeited the battle, though I did like its epic Splash attack.
Lastly, I'll admit that back when I saw this episode for the first time, I was slightly surprised at Miltank's strength. I did not think that Ash was going to have an easy time taking the Gym Leader's best Pokemon down, but I was not expecting it to decimate Ash's Pokemon like it did because of how weak Whitney's other Pokemon were. Also, the first time I saw this was before I heard about how other people had so much trouble against Miltank in the games (I never had that hard a time against Whitney in the games).
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The best part of this episode was the magnet train at Kogane city in reference as the games. I was surprised that Satoshi lost this gym battle because Miltank was stronger than expected. Satoshi does not have any Fighting Pokémon so it would be a tough battle. If he has an Okorizaru then the battle will be much easier.
I personally loved that Whitney was kind of an airhead to be honest; previous Johto Gym Leaders in the anime just seemed so bland, but Whitney was fun. Anyway, seeing Whitney's Clefairy and Nidorina lose to Ash's Cyndaquil was such a bad omen. I just knew that Whitney's Miltank would beat Ash, but at least Ash got a taste of humble pie.
I loved that Miltank was as strong as it was in the games. Too bad she creamed Ash though.
Whitney was the best Johto leader personality wise
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Best Wishes Rewrite - Ferris Wheel shipping story, Team Rocket vs Team Plasma action (Disclaimer: No Iris)
Sun/Moon Rewrite - A standalone story with a new lead. (Coming soon)
Wow Whitney was so cute and I liked how she guided Ash's group through Goldenrod city and how they got lost. Whitney's Clefairy and Nidorina were so weak tho, but her Miltank helped compensate for that. ^^
Lmao at TR in the market eating all the food on display. I felt both amused and bad for them. Whitney was a ditz, though.
Good episode. Whitney's lousy sense of direction was hilarious and I liked seeing the Magnet Train and I wonder why she had a Nidorina.
"Ash is right! Gym badges come before hamburgers and girls!"-Brock
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I loved Whitney. She was extremely clumsy and clueless when she was leading Ash through Goldenrod. Clefairy running from the battle was very unexpected, and Miltank was really strong.
Kogane City seemed like a huge maze as seen when Akane gave Satoshi's friends a tour of the place, so it was at least consistent with its in-game counterpart. I liked that the Rocket-dan went on an eating spree, as well as how they stole Akane's Pippi. However, Satoshi losing to Akane's Miltank was vexing.
I thought it was funny how Brock hit himself on the head to get a kiss from Whitney. I also laughed at how James didn't understand the concept of "free sample." I'm happy that Whitney beat Ash in this one. It gave his Johto battling pattern a bit more variation if, every now and then, he got creamed upon his first attempt. Nonetheless, I would have liked to have seen Clefairy to kick a little butt before going down.
Good episode. I used to have trouble with Whitney as well back then. Whitney lets you off easy at first, but then she turns things around when her deadly Miltank starts her Rollout attack.
Other moments in the episode were funny, such as Brock banging his head, Clefairy pulling off a Splash attack, and a tour around Goldenrod City.
The best part of this episode was brock hitting his head just trying to get a kiss from whitney. That moment was simply gold.
Favourite Characters- Ash, Serena, Lillie, Dawn, Gladion, Cilan, Brock, Cynthia, Kiawe, Lana, Lance, Alain, Steven Stone
Favourite Pokemon- Charizard, Venasaur, Blastoise, Gengar, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Sceptile, Greninja, Garachomp, Infernape, Gliscor, Salamence, Arceus
Watching pokemon for 17 years, grown up while watching this show. Also liked the different characters form different sagas. I hate genwunners.


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Has something happened to some of the mirrors? I have this for my /etc/apt/sources.list: # Germany deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64 sid main and I'm getting Err http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Release Err http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Sources 404 Not Found Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main ReleaseFailed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/pure64/dists/sid/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not FoundReading Package Lists... DoneW: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian-amd64_pure64_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problemsE: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.when I try to use apt-get update.The thing is ..... I now have quite a few packages on my system which have gone out-of-date. Where is a good UK or European mirror to get them from?
perhabs you should try:deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64 unstable main contrib non-free


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Learn to make cold pressed soap infused with wild plants
MAKING SOAP WITH WILD PLANTS- May 20-21
Learn how to make cold processed soap infused with the plants growing in your garden
Soap making is an age-old skill that anyone can learn. Join wild plants expert Diego Bonetto and soap-maker extraordinaire Lisa Norris for two days on an empowering experience: learn how to safely recognise common medicinal plants growing in your garden and use them in soap!
Diego is an edible weeds advocate renown for his offering of urban foraging workshops. Building on the knowledge acquired while growing up on a farm in Italy, Diego introduce people to the ever-present food and medicine plants that surround us. He collaborates extensively with chefs, herbalists, environmentalists and cultural workers promoting new understanding of what the environment has to offer.
Lisa has been making soap for over 7 years and since 2012 is presenting her creations as Kangaroo Apple Studio. Her love for natural products have pushed her to experiment while thoroughly enjoying the process. She has a wealth of information and is a great teacher. Kangaroo Apple Soap Studio has won a number of international soap challenges and was recently awarded first prize in the Collaboration Challenge of the international Soap Challenge Club.
Day one Saturday 20 May 9:30am-2pm
During the first day you will learn how a cold process batch of soap is made, using natural vegetable oils and prepared plant infused oils. You will then participate in making soap under supervision. You will do this in groups of three, so that everyone will have an hands-on experience of the process. We will have a lunch break and plenty of time to answer all of your questions. We will then put the soap to bed and leave it to saponify overnight.
Day two Sunday 21 May 10am-2pm
We will start the day with a walk when we will discover and learn how to positively identify the most common medicinal plants living in anyone's garden. We will learn about dandelion, chickweed, plantain, dock, castor oil plant and more. We will then show you how to infuse them into oils for use in a new batch of soap.
After a lunch break we will unmould our soap made the previous day, cut the bars and share the results.
– how to safely handle ingredients including lye (sodium hydroxide)
– what equipment is needed
– what can be used as moulds
– about some oils commonly used in soap making and their properties
– how to use a lye calculator to formulate your own soap recipes
This workshop will empower you with the confidence to make more soap at home, experimenting with different ingredients, fragrances, exfoliants and colours. Soap making can be very addictive, with endless possibilities for creativity!
THE COSTS: $160 for two days of five hours each of information packed workshop with notes and soap bars that you make to take home. We will provide coffee and tea facilities but please bring your own lunch. There is also a discount for pensioner and underemployed and a two-for-one ticket so that you can come along with your friend in soap!
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Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease characterized by muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash. Many physicians treating dermatomyositis (DM) focus on the weakness and the resulting physical dysfunction as the most disabling features. The skin disease is often regarded as a less severe manifestation of illness; therefore, its therapy is not prioritized. Because the skin disease of DM can be as debilitating as the muscle disease, and because it significantly impacts the outcome of this illness, rapid and effective therapy must be identified.
Most of the previous studies of JDM concentrated on cells, including dendritic cells, of the immune system that recognize and respond to invaders, such as microbes. Mast cells, a pivotal component in the allergy system, had not been considered. The laboratory of Lauren Pachman and colleagues investigated the distribution of both mast cells and dendritic cell subsets.Paired muscle and skin that either had the inflammatory rash of JDM, or skin that appeared to be normal from untreated children with JDM were analyzed. Inflamed as well as normal appearing JDM skin contained many more mast cells than skin from pediatric controls, but no difference was seen in number of mast cells in muscle. Both JDM muscle and skin showed more mature plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), which play a critical role in the induction of autoimmune disease and other skin diseases. This identification of mast cells in JDM skin indicates that they have a specific function in JDM skin pathophysiology and that they appear to work with the pDCs to initiate the inflammatory cascade. The authors believe that a further understanding of these pathways will shed light on the often drug-resistant cutaneous inflammation and disease state, leading to more effective treatments.
The first author of the study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism is Sheela Shrestha, MS. The article is also the subject of an editorial in the issue, whose authors commented: "Shrestha and colleagues describe several novel findings related to the pathogenesis of the skin disease of patients with juvenile DM, and extend observations on the type I interferon pathway, in a carefully conducted study that not only controls for disease state and treatment, but also pairs skin and muscle tissue in simultaneous examinations."
Lauren Pachman, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School; attending physician in the Division of Rheumatology at Children's Memorial; director of the Chicago City-wide FOCIS Center of Excellence in Clinical Immunology; and director of the Cure JM Program of Excellence in Myositis Research of the research center.
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So many examples of poor decisions can be traced GroupThink. From Nazi Germany to the Bay of Pigs to the Challenger disaster- each one could have been avoided if special attention was devoted to preventing GroupThink.
The theory of GroupThink was developed by Irving Janis, and is defined as "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity overrides their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action."
Many managers work hard to create group cohesiveness and find people with similar backgrounds and personality types in order to reduce conflict. The unfortunate side effect of that effort is that GroupThink will impede the ability to explore alternatives, examine thought processes, challenge assumptions, question power, and be open to new ideas.
According to Janis, GroupThink results in the following:
- Incomplete survey of alternatives
- Incomplete survey of objectives
- Failure to examine risks of preferred choice
- Failure to reevaluate previously rejected alternatives
- Poor information search
- Selection bias in collecting information
- Failure to work out contingency plans.
However, GroupThink can be avoided with these 7 steps (also developed by Irving Janis):
- Leaders should assign each member the role of "critical evaluator". This allows each member to freely air objections and doubts.
- Higher-ups should not express an opinion when assigning a task to a group.
- The organization should set up several independent groups, working on the same problem.
- All effective alternatives should be examined.
- Each member should discuss the group's ideas with trusted people outside of the group.
- The group should invite outside experts into meetings. Group members should be allowed to discuss with and question the outside experts.
- At least one group member should be assigned the role of Devil's advocate. This should be a different person for each meeting.
What other steps can be taken to avoid GroupThink in highly cohesive groups?
Editor's Note: Breanne Harris is the Solutions Architect for Pearson TalentLens. She works with customers to design selection and development plans that incorporate critical thinking assessments and training. She has a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology and has experience in recruiting, training, and HR consulting. She is the chief blogger for Critical Thinkers and occasionally posts at ThinkWatson. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter for more of her thoughts.


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In July 2012, the City launched its upgraded Financial System and added several new modules to its suite. This complex project effectively reengineered several core City business processes. One of the most visible impacts was the initiation of automated bidding and contracting processes, including the introduction of an online supplier portal for vendors. It is our expectation that the supplier portal will encourage competition and transparency; thereby reducing the cost of the goods and services the City procures across the enterprise. Governance structures built into the application also ensure that the City of Boston remains compliant with federal, state and local procurement laws.
The upgrade automated and streamlined day-to-day processes. Implementing eProcurement streamlines the procurement process, especially through Direct Connect, which supports online ordering trough the vendor's website. Strategic Sourcing provides for the sourcing of goods and services through online bidding. Supplier Contracts manages the entire supplier contract lifecycle online; from authoring, collaboration, execution, and status tracking. The improved Financials ERP allows the City to achieve the goals of the upgrade: leverage state of the art technology to improve operational efficiency and eliminate unnecessary paper.
In the last year the City of Boston implemented an online form framework that has allowed the City to replace paper forms with electronic, work flowed forms which seamlessly update the HCM ERP application once the appropriate approvals are obtained. The introduction of e-Forms has improved The City's operational efficiency and effectiveness by eliminating manually intensive paper processes, significantly reducing data entry errors, enforcing the standardization, and eliminating delays due to the manual routing of paper documents for approval. The current e-Forms are in place for hiring employees, effecting job changes, and managing positions. The coming year we will be adding new online forms to facilitate the processing of several employee initiated payroll transactions.
As the City moved aggressively to upgrade its financial systems environment, it also accelerated transition of citywide permit and license activity onto an enterprise permitting environment. Boston Fire Department, Transportation Department, and Public Works were moved to permitting system with its self-service functionality, the city also implemented a new cash management (iNovah) system to streamline collection functions. All these services were supported by Microsoft BizTalk enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types across city departments. This holistic perspective will allow us to see all of our assets, as well as identify all of the untapped potential within them. The City will gain the knowledge and control needed to closely align its organization's goals with the overall goals of its business. To help maximize return on assets, EAM will enable us to develop comprehensive programs for preventive, predictive, routine and unplanned maintenance. The City hopes to realize the following advantages from deployment of EAM across the Enterprise:
EAM has been implemented in the Boston Fire Department (BFD) and the Street Lighting Division of the Public Works Department (PWD). A spatial component will also be implemented to provide integration between the City's GIS and EAM. This will help PWD plan, schedule and perform work more effectively. Currently we are working on tagging each street light captured in the flyover data last year to the appropriate streetlamp number used by PWD so there will be a one to one relationship between the spatial asset and the asset in EAM. An interface to CRM was also included to leverage the existing capacity of CRM to receive external service requests for street light related issues. This is a two way interface to ensure that the public have a continuous feedback loop and know the current status of the service request they submitted. In recent months we have implemented a mobile solution for PWD Street Light supervisors who can now receive Work Orders in the field and can enter and track actual hours worked and materials used in the field.
Early this summer EAM was implemented at the School Department (BPS), Community Centers (BCYF) and Property and Construction Management Division (PCMD). A portal was built to allow secretaries and principals to submit service requests for their school facilities directly into EAM. An interface was built with our financial system so that a Work Order with an associated request for services could have that Purchase Requisition sent directly to the financial system for processing. Similarly a final dispatched Purchase Order in the financial system could be pushed back to the EAM so a record of the actual cost associated with the Work Order, and ultimately the asset could be maintained.
Today's student assignment system was created in 1988. In the generation since, our city has changed and school quality has improved. This school choice model is hard for parents to navigate and ripe for review. BPS is working to improve school choice and student assignment. One step of this process is the development of school choice 'models.' The models represent several ideas for how to improve choice, equity and opportunity while strengthening our community's ability to support all public schools.
One of the challenges BPS faced was how to allow parents and constituents the ability to investigate and compare these models as well as provide feedback to decision makers. We needed a model to help display progress as the conversation changed from model development to full policy implementation. A combination of GIS map tools and surveys was deployed to gather feedback from parents and constituents.
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City Worker, an in-house, internal mobile application, helps employees manage real-time constituent requests for basic city services, as well as create new cases in the City's work order management (WOM) system for internally-identified problems. By implementing this platform we have provided service-oriented departments the tools they need to address critical constituent needs in a more cost effective, efficient, and timely manner. This change in approach leads to improved performance and accountability, real taxpayer savings, and helps build citizen confidence in our services. So far, city workers have logged 2,900 requests since we launched the application. This high adoption rate by city workers shows internal buy-in has been successful; the application also has increased worker productivity and improved service delivery targets.
We increasingly find our Enterprise Web CMS is no longer a catch-all solution when it comes to supporting City initiatives online. We heard the various departments' problems: the City site was not design appropriate, the CMS was complicated or didn't offer enough dynamic functionality or they wanted a standalone web presence separate from CityofBoston.gov, especially when non-City agencies were involved with the initiative. WordPress would become the candidate to power these microsites. With numerous themes and plugins, WordPress offered the ability to build microsites rapidly and reliably, with extra functionality when needed.
We have deployed a Wordpress environment (one web server and one database server) so departments would not have to go outside the institution to find a web host. By hosting City-sponsored Wordpress sites in-house, DoIT is able to manage and oversee Wordpress site development and cost-savings result from departments not having to pay for hosting. To quickly install a Wordpress site, we utilize A PERL script that automates the installation process. It allows the Web Team to bring up a site in mere minutes. We then hand off to the department for content and site maintenance. This process has been very well received. The environment now hosts about 20 Wordpress sites, with a variety of different themes, widgets, and purposes.
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Though he would go on to have a profound influence on rock-and-roll and country before passing away in 2003, Johnny Cash considered himself first and foremost a gospel singer. That was how he first pitched himself — unsuccessfully — to Sun Records impresario Sam Phillips.
So it was fitting that, no matter how far away from his gospel roots his music may have ultimately taken him, it was in a church that Cash played his first gig, a church in Cooper-Young.
Johnny Cash was better known as J.R. Cash in 1954. Twenty-two years old he was just out of the Air Force when he relocated to Memphis, a short bus ride from his native Dyess, Arkansas. His brother Roy was already here and offered to help Cash get set up with a job.
Also there to meet him when he stepped off the plane was Vivian Liberto, the young beauty Cash had met three years earlier when he was based for a few weeks in San Antonio. Though they had spent less than a month together in three years, Cash was determined to marry Vivian and on August 7th, barely a month after Cash's discharge they were wed.
By December, Vivian was pregnant. On Summer Avenue, not far from the duplex the newlyweds shared on Tutwiler, Cash worked as an appliance salesman, though if anyone asked he would admit he really wanted to be a singer. Almost as soon as he arrived in Memphis, he hooked up with guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant. The three started out sitting around Grant's living room picking old gospel songs, but it soon became apparent that Cash, who emerged naturally as the leader of the trio, had larger ambitions.
While all of this was going on Cash had also started making phone calls to Phillips. The Alabama radio man — whose story is recounted in Peter Guralnick's expansively titled Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock n' Roll — How One Man Discovered Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, and How His Tiny Label, Sun Records of Memphis, Revolutionized the World! out this month from Little, Brown and Company — had made a name for himself recording blues, including "Rocket 88," a single credited to Jackie Brenston that is considered by some to be the first rock-and-roll record.
By 1954, however, Phillips had found his long sought golden goose, a white man who could sing like a black man. Elvis Presley had catapulted Phillips Sun Records label into the stratosphere. It ultimately proved too much for Phillips' small operation; in 1955 he would sell Presley contract. But in 1954 he was running himself ragged trying to promote Presley and find new talent to feed the appetite for rock records his discovery had created.
Understandably, it took several calls and visits for Cash to reach Phillips, but when he did the producer with the golden ears liked what he heard. That fall, Cash, Perkins, and Grant auditioned for Phillips, who readily agreed to work with them. All that remained now was for the busy producer to find the time.
Ultimately it would be summer of 1955 before the Tennessee Three, as Cash and his bandmates had taken to calling themselves, would record and release their first Sun single. While they waited, Cash toiled on a body of songs that would become American classics and make him a star.
But in the meantime, he needed to eat. So when a neighbor offered him a gig, the group's first, that December, Cash jumped on it. The show before a ladies group in the basement of Cooper-Young's Galloway United Methodist Church didn't actually pay anything, but the guys were eager to get out and play before an audience, any audience.
In his 2006 memoir I Was There When It Happened, Grant, who died in 2011, misremembers the date — he ascribes the gig to 1955, after the release of Cash's first single, "Hey Porter" b/w "Cry, Cry, Cry" — but otherwise nails the details, including the inauspicious layout of the Galloway church's basement.
"We drove to the church and entered the building through a door on the southwest side that led to a sort of basement that contained half a dozen small rooms," he writes. "We went in, and Luther plugged in his little amplifier. We didn't have a microphone or a public address system or any other equipment. There were about eight or ten women in the room, and by the time we three crowded in there it was completely full."
According to Cash, even at this very first performance, he was already the Man in Black of legend.
"None of us had any clothes a 'real' band would wear, Cash wrote in his own memoir, Cash: Autobiography. "I didn't own a suit, or even a tie — but each of us did have a black shirt and a pair of blue jeans. So that became our band outfit, and since the folks at the church seemed to like us and musicians are deeply superstitious — if they tell you otherwise, don't believe them — I suggested we stick with the black."
It was a short gig before a group of older church ladies, almost the exact opposite of the throngs of teenage girls that were mobbing Cash's label mate Presley. The trio ran through a number of gospel numbers, naturally, and, in Grant's telling, even their soon to be hit singles "Hey Porter" and "Cry, Cry, Cry." After about 20 minutes the show was over. As they packed up, the men chatted with the women.
"It was just a small church group," writes Grant. "That's all it was, but that was the very first public appearance by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two."


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FAIRBANKS -- Citing the opinion of his attorney general, Gov. Tony Knowles told the University of Alaska Board of Regents he will not implement a quarter-million-acre land grant the Legislature approved over his veto in April.
Sen. Mike Miller said Wednesday the Republican-led Legislature will sue the governor.
Miller, a North Pole Republican, chairs the Legislative Council, which handles legislative matters when the Legislature is not in session.
The two sides are at odds about whether the Legislature needed 40 votes or 45 votes to override Knowles' veto of Senate Bill 7.
Lawmakers need 40 votes -- a two-thirds majority -- to overturn most vetoes. They voted 41-19 on April 21 to overturn the veto on the university lands bill.
But in a letter to regent Chairman Mike Burns, Knowles said Attorney General Bruce Botelho clearly concludes the Legislature needed 45 votes -- a three-fourths majority -- because the bill is an appropriations measure.
``We will fight that,'' Miller said. ``We will sue because we think he's really stretching the appropriations argument. And he based it on the attorney general's opinion, when the attorney general is his employee,'' Miller told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Robin Taylor, a Wrangell Republican, would give the university system 250,000 acres of state land to develop as a revenue source over time. The university currently has 112,000 acres in its land endowment -- second smallest among land grant universities.
Knowles bitterly opposed the bill and vetoed similar measures twice in previous years. He said the bill was an inefficient and unsuccessful way to secure reliable funding for the university that would complicate state management, contribute to significant land use conflicts and lead to years of litigation.
The bill was a major lobbying target of Alaska Conservation Voters, which contends the university would choose land that could be developed at the expense of environmental concerns.
The latest version had safeguards that proponents hoped would ease those fears. The Department of Natural Resources commissioner would have the authority to block any selection deemed not in the state's best interests. Municipalities could veto any university selections within their boundaries.
Miller and Taylor said the bill is not an appropriation because the Legislature and the administration would have to approve land the university chooses.
``The only reason we're going to litigation is because Tony Knowles can't read the constitution,'' Taylor said. ``He's got an attorney general that will say `black is white' if the governor tells him to.''
Miller said the case could reach the Alaska Supreme Court in about a year.
Burns said the regents and university now would try to package some lands for consideration during the next session. The university likely would leave litigation to the politicians, he said.
``We are going to try to move ahead in a constructive fashion rather than a litigious fashion,'' Burns said.
``We think from the university's viewpoint that if we could accomplish an agreed-upon package, it could bring value to the university almost decades faster than any kind of litigated, protracted (process),'' he said.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Now we want to bring you the first in a series of reports we're calling MAIN STREET USA . Tom Brokaw 's been talking to folks across this country about the issues, what will drive people to the polls starting tonight in places like Iowa . Tonight Tom's with us from Des Moines . Hey, Tom , good evening. How's it look this year?
TOM BROKAW reporting: Good evening. Well, Brian , it's worth remembering that four years ago, President Barack Obama carried the state easily, but this fall Iowa is expected to be a major battleground state . And on Main Street here, we're already hearing the concerns of that fall campaign. Why is that? Iowa is doing much better than most states, unemployment is under 6 percent. Corn and cattle prices are paying handsome returns. Iowa farmland is going for record amounts. So why are Iowans upset?
Mr. TONY SWEET (Perry, Iowa Resident): They lost trust in a lot of the government, particularly in Congress and our current president.
BROKAW: Main Street in the heartland of America . This is Perry , Iowa . Seventy-seven hundred people live in this historic railroad town northwest of Des Moines , and this elegantly restored hotel is a popular stopping place for the Republican candidates, all promising they can do better. In the same hotel, I met four Perry Republicans who had many shared feelings about foreign policy, faith and the future. In the last week, national security has emerged as a more important issue; that could continue into the fall. Retired teacher Phil Stone on the president.
Mr. PHIL STONE: I think he's had opportunities to stand up for America and has passed on those occasions.
Ms. LIN JACOBSON (Perry, Iowa Resident): We want somebody that we feel confident has a direction, a moral direction as well as a military direction.
BROKAW: Morality and faith are major considerations for these conservative Christians . They have issues with the president and also Mitt Romney . You think that President Obama 's a man of faith?
Mr. SWEET: No.
BROKAW: Why not?
Mr. SWEET: I cannot imagine a man sitting in Jeremiah Wright 's church being a man of true faith , being a true Christian.
Ms. JUDY GARDINER: We have unique traits, preferences, gifts and quirks.
BROKAW: Judy Gardiner is a leader in the local Baptist church and Mitt Romney 's faith is a big issue. Are you comfortable with Mormonism ?
Ms. GARDINER: No, I'm not.
BROKAW: Does that keep you from moving toward Mitt Romney ?
Ms. GARDINER: Yes, it does.
BROKAW: Were you accepted right away by the community? Those are not the only voices in Perry . Eddie Diaz is a Perry high school teacher, part of a growing Hispanic population attracted by jobs at the local Tyson plant. His family came here from California in '95. Eddie served as a Marine sergeant in the Iraq war before returning to Perry .
Mr. EDDIE DIAZ: Why would you choose to punish these kids?
BROKAW: Recently he challenged Michele Bachmann for her hard line on immigration. Explaining...
Mr. DIAZ: Because every election cycle the immigration's used as a punching bag, and it's just so easy to demonize people.
BROKAW: Eddie could go elsewhere but he likes Perry , which he says is more moderate politically and culturally than the candidates realize. Mayor Jay Pattee , a Democrat and lifelong resident, agrees. He thinks once the candidates leave Iowa life will go on.
Mayor Jay PATTEE: I was at a meeting last night where there were two people. The wife was Democrat and the husband was Republican. They're both active in their parties and I think they've been married for 25 years and look forward to many more years of the same.
BROKAW: And, Brian , late today the city council in Perry had to have a difficult meeting about coming budget problems. The mayor said they were Democrats and Republicans alike, they were going to come to an agreement. When I asked if President Obama was getting any credit in town he laughed and said, well, a point of civic pride now is a new community college built with local funds but mostly with stimulus money from the federal government and from President Obama . This is just the beginning of a very long


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And it was done in some style. A couple of the scores will go down as contenders for Try of the Season, while the icing on the cake was a powerful pushover try for Ben Morgan with the game in its final moments.
The win delighted the hordes of travelling supporters, who may have been outnumbered, but who were certainly not outdone in terms of volume. They provided great backing throughout.
It wasn't all one way traffic. Perpignan, predictably, played some good stuff in front of their own supporters and were very much in the game with 15 or minutes or so left to play.
However, when nerves could have crept in, Freddie Burns dropped a crucial goal while Gloucester's tactical kicking was spot on, driving the home side back deep in to their own 22. Morgan's late contribution sealed the deal.
Overall, it was a thoroughly deserved win. The forwards took on their counterparts up front, scrummaging powerfully up front. Meanwhile, the backs looked dangerous whenever they had ball in hand.
It's a big win in the context of Gloucester's season, and a huge boost for everyone concerned with the club.
Gloucester came into the game knowing that nothing less than a bonus point win would keep them in the hunt for an Amlin Challenge Cup quarter final spot - no easy task at the Stade Aime Giral.
The game got underway with Gloucester wearing their change strip, and a brass brand lasting out the tunes in a stadium that could have been little more than half full.
Gloucester's discipline came under scrutiny in the opening exchanges, one penalty at the breakdown conceding territory, the next giving Tom Ecochard a chance to go for the posts, and the scrum half made no mistake.
It was a fast and open first few minutes of the game, Perpignan even having the courage to run the ball from behind their own line through Votu when seemingly under pressure.
Nigel Davies' side looked up for playing a similarly open style of rugby but were coming off second best when it came to refereeing decisions.
However, the 14th minute saw a moment of magic from Jonny May. Piukala spilled the ball on the Gloucester 10 metre line, and May was off, dodging and weaving. Two Perpignan defenders collided as they spun trying to keep up, and May crossed for a superb score.
The home side were quickly back in front though, with Piukala making up for his earlier error. The forwards came close, but swift hands across the backline saw Piukala straighten beautifully, slice through and dive over untouched. Ecochard converted for 10-5.
Freddie Burns was starting to boss the game nicely, but he turned down a kickable penalty on the half hour and it led to Gloucester's second try.
The catch and drive was repelled, and Matt Cox almost spun out of a tackle to make the line. But Gloucester stayed patient, moved the ball left and Shane Monahan broke a tackle to score. Burns added a magnificent touchline conversion to edge his team into a 10-12 lead.
An incredible phase of play then followed. Ecochard hit the post with a penalty and Gloucester went for it from their own 22.
Gareth Evans did superbly, a dummy sending him clear down the right before the number eight passed inside unselfishly to Charlie Sharples for the third try. Burns converted again.
Echchard was wide with an ambitious penalty attempt from out wide as half time approached, and there was an injury scare for James Hudson but Gloucester went into half time with a decent 19-10 lead.
It had been a pulsating half of rugby, which had flown by. Both teams were moving the ball around with abandon but Gloucester had shown a welcome cutting edge to shade the first half.
There was still a huge amount to play for, and Perpignan were certainly not going to simply roll over in the second half. They'd shown enough danger to make their threat abundantly clear.
But Gloucester were going well. One more try and, of course, securing the win would be enough to keep Europe alive. A long way to go, though.
The second half got off to a bad start. James Hudson took the restart but was penalised for holding on in the tackle. Ecochard's penalty was head on to the posts and he made no mistake.
Gloucester proceeded to spend the next few minutes deep in the Perpignan 22, as they worked the corner looking for the bonus point try.
The forwards went close, softening up the defence round the fringes, before Robson spun the ball out to Shane Monahan who powered over. There was a nervous moment as the TMO looked at a possible knock on in the build up, but the try was awarded. Burns converted for 13-26.
As news came through from Ireland that Munster were winning well against Edinburgh, things looked set fair. But Perpignan weren't done just yet.
With Luke Narraway leading the way against his former club, the home side started to get their offloading game going, and replacement scrum half Nicolas Durand put Karl Chateau over for a 63rd minute try to narrow the gap to 18-26.
It could have been a tense last 15 minutes, but Gloucester played it just right. Astute tactical kicking kept Perpignan pinned back, forcing them to play from deep.
The pressure told as Freddie Burns dropped a goal to extend the lead, before a frustrated Perpignan side finally lost their cool as replacement prop Georgi Jgenti was yellow carded for punching.
Minus a man in the scrum, the home side, who had been creaking up front in any case, were now outgunned and Morgan controlled the ball superbly from a 5 metre to close the game out.
|Perpignan Score Card
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|Gloucester Rugby Score Card
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Bob Jackson is best choice for Largo mayor
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published February 23, 2003
Rambunctious City Commission meetings, a new citizens group that represents a vocal minority, several progressive but expensive city projects, and challengers who have lots of complaints about city government have made this year's campaign season in Largo more interesting than usual.
It remains to be seen whether all of that will have any impact on Largo's traditionally rock-bottom voter turnout. But residents willing to make the trip to the polls on March 4 will have real choices among candidates with very different styles and agendas.
Voters will select a mayor and two commissioners to serve three-year terms on the seven-member City Commission.
For mayor, incumbent Robert E. "Bob" Jackson, a 69-year-old retired school principal, is seeking re-election to a second term. He is being challenged by Marty Shelby, 45, who was serving his third term as a commissioner when he resigned in January to run for mayor. Shelby is an attorney who has taken time off to stay home with his 12-year-old daughter.
Seat 3 on the City Commission, now held by Pat Gerard, is being sought by challenger Tom Robbins. Challenger Ernie Bach is campaigning for incumbent Jean Halvorsen's Seat 4.
The Times makes editorial recommendations in all Largo elections. To prepare for making those recommendations, the Times conducts an extensive interview with each candidate, attends candidate forums, researches the candidates' backgrounds and seeks input from people who know the candidates.
Today we focus on our recommendation in the mayor's race. Recommendations in the Seat 3 and Seat 4 races will be printed later this week. The Times urges all Largo residents to go to the polls March 4 and make their own choices.
Bob Jackson for mayor
Bob Jackson has been an open book -- even when it didn't necessarily benefit him -- during his almost 30 years as a commissioner and mayor. Blunt, sometimes unpolished, even a little cranky, Jackson voted his convictions, did his homework, answered questions and never changed his spots. A couple of weeks ago Jackson sat for a long interview with Times editors, answered even difficult questions and supplied additional information as requested
Marty Shelby, on the other hand, declined the Times' invitation to be interviewed, did not fill out a questionnaire completed by other political candidates in North Pinellas cities this year and refused to return a Times reporter's phone calls for months. What does Shelby stand for? For an answer, we must rely on press releases and his statements at campaign appearances.
Shelby used to say Jackson was his mentor, but he turned against him and other members of the City Commission last year over the issue of building a new public library.
Largo officials had talked for almost four years about the need to do something about the jammed, 30,000-square-foot library. Two years ago the city hired a library space consultant who told them the city would need a 93,000-square-foot library by 2009. The City Commission, including Shelby, voted unanimously to build a new library in Largo Central Park and to spend more than $20-million to make it a signature building. ". . . If we are going to do it, let's do it right," Shelby said at the time. The commission, including Shelby, hired an architect and unveiled a design to the public.
Then Shelby not only changed his position on the library, he called for the city to halt the project and conduct a public referendum on whether it should be built. Despite the years of discussion and votes in public meetings, he called the library plan a "stealth bomber" that came in "under the radar." He packed a City Commission meeting with more than 100 people who apparently believed his comments and joined his cause. He alienated his commission colleagues by implying they had done something nefarious by making the decision to build a much-needed library -- a decision he also made.
Whether Shelby's eleventh-hour concern was genuine or he was making a play for support in the coming election, we don't know. But Shelby worked to get a tide of discontent flowing and painted Largo city government -- the government he was part of until just weeks ago -- as a government uninterested in residents' views, that has turned into "a vinegar factory" and is "arrogant and insensitive."
Yet Shelby the Mayoral Candidate, when describing himself in campaign appearances, says he will "work in harmony" with other local governments, "work together constructively" with other members of the City Commission, and that the professionals in city government have "shown great leadership."
No one has to wonder about Mayor Bob Jackson's motives. He has spent almost 30 years of his life in dedicated work on behalf of the city. As a commissioner he was known for his independent votes and his fiscal conservatism. As mayor, he has become a civic booster and speaks with pride of the city's accomplishments under his watch.
And there are many. The city moved into a new city hall, opened a new family aquatic center, built Largo Nature Park as an expansion of Largo Central Park, opened a new tennis complex, got planning for the new library under way, began an aggressive annexation program to expand the city's tax base and help keep taxes low, created citizen academies so residents can take classes to learn more about city government, made progress on downtown redevelopment, started a strategic planning process for the future, and kept the tax rate at the same number it was three years ago.
By virtue of his position as mayor, Jackson also fulfilled a role outside of the city in organizations that work to plan for the future of Pinellas County. He is vice chairman of the Pinellas Planning Council, where he has been an active, contributing member, and participated in the Pinellas Assembly and the countywide redevelopment summit.
Does all this mean that Jackson has been the perfect mayor and that everything is peachy in city government? No. The City Commission and city staff have made some mistakes in the past year that indicate they need to be more thorough and more accountable.
Jackson has had difficulty finding his footing as mayor, especially following in the wake of former mayor Thom Feaster, a strong leader. This newspaper has criticized him for letting debate continue long after it stopped being productive, for his reluctance to properly control the audience at commission meetings, and for not articulating a clear vision for the community. At times Jackson went off on independent tangents, to the irritation of fellow commissioners; other times, he wouldn't lead the commission to a firm decision on issues.
But those have been failings of personality, not heart. Bob Jackson wants the best for Largo, and he has given untold hours trying to achieve it. He doesn't seek to divide the community, but tries to keep it moving forward in progressive ways. He has apologized for his shortcomings and vowed to work to be a better communicator.
We recommend a vote for Bob Jackson for mayor of Largo.
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