That's because, like the110-year-old Nebraska man who attributes his longevity to a daily can of beer, Spagnola has a similar secret to staying alive for as long as possible: "a fair amount of booze," is what she apparently told WNEP.
(Pauline was arrested later that Saturday evening for running naked through the neighborhood!)
Read more: http://www.wwnc.com/articles/weird-news-104673/woman-gives-blunt-answer-on-how-13675772#ixzz3d8mqTljF
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona Coyotes fan got to take out her frustration on the mayor behind the decision to send the hockey team packing.
KPNX-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1FSCfwn) that disgruntled fan Ronda Pearson used a stun gun on Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers on Saturday as part of a charity pledge.
Weiers volunteered to be stunned with a Taser at the mall event if a $10,000 donation was made to an Arizona charity that supports first-responders.
Folks, even though firefighters determined Weiers was not injured, stun guns have been known to KILL, and shouldn't be used as toys!
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/10K-donation-nets-hockey-fan-chance-to-use-Taser-6325762.php
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'I Pity the Fool' Who Hasn't Seen Mr. T Do the Hula!
------------------------------------------ Well kids, the article might be a bit long, but it would be worth your while to read it:
There's little more than a weeded-over parking lot outside the former Freightliner truck factory (And the giant Ford assembly plant!) in St. Thomas, a small town about a 30-minute drive south of London, Ont.
Not long ago, the site was a hive of busy autoworkers. But in 2008, German automaker Daimler closed the shop and moved production offshore, part of a $600-million cost-cutting plan that saw 1,400 people thrown out of work. A plumbing component maker has since taken over part of the old Freightliner space, but together with the shuttering of the nearby Ford plant and its 1,600 jobs, St. Thomas's days as a major hub of Canada's automotive industry are over as carmakers move production to greener pastures elsewhere.
Cellina Villareal, the economic development officer for the state of Nuevo Leon, bristles at the suggestion that Mexico is little more than a bargain bin for workers.
"Mexico is not cheap labour anymore. We're giving added value to the processes," says Villareal.
Hammond says his Mexican workers make about 10 per cent of what corresponding workers in Canada would. Although San Martin says it's not enough to live on — his wife still has to work, he laments — he's grateful for that relative pittance.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/carmakers-say-adios-to-canada-as-mexico-shifts-into-higher-gear-1.3108148?cmp=rss
- Amanda Lang: How Mexico beat the odds to win car manufacturing war
- ANALYSIS: Why Southern Ontario's manufacturing rebound is missing in action
Investment is flowing
Freightliner aren't the only ones to have moved to Monterrey. A stone's throw west of the Freightliner plant is a Chrysler facility. Just north of the city, ground has broken on a massive Kia plant, the biggest construction project in a part of Mexico that's already booming. While Mexico was once a bottom feeder on the car industry food chain known mainly for cheap labour, the country is moving up in the world. "At the beginning, we were just doing assembly," says Diba Iluna, who runs Canadian component maker Magna's powertrain plant in Ramos, about 40 kilometres west of Monterrery. "Now we do assembly and machining of components. We do some very complex components here that seven years ago we thought we would never [do]."- Toyota moving Corolla production out of Ontario and into Mexico
- GM delays decision on Oshawa plant until 2016, after Camaro is done
'The quality levels are as good as they are out of the United States or Canada'- Bill HammondCompanies are rushing to set up shop in part because of labour costs as much as 10 times less than those in Canada, but also because the country's workforce is being trained to do more and more. Productivity at plants there is skyrocketing, which means higher profits for companies — even as wages march higher. "On average in productivity we gain between six and eight per cent per year," Iluna says. "Due to the attitude of the people, the flexibility of the people, they accept [trying] new things and we can do this... and then gain productivity."
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