[PALMBEACHPOST] A woman who made a late-night stop Saturday at a Loxahatchee Groves nudist colony told police she was stabbed early Sunday by a young man.
Police had no motive, no witnesses and no suspect Sunday afternoon.
The woman, who has not been identified, told Sunsport Gardens manager Morley Schloss from the hospital Sunday that her wounds were not severe.
"We're very happy that she's OK," Schloss told The Palm Beach Post. "I've been living here for 17 years and we're never had anything like this."
The woman, 18, arrived at the resort on North Road late Saturday by bicycle for a pit stop on her journey from Georgia to the Keys. Thinking she had found a campground, Schloss said it pleased her to to find out she had stumbled upon a nudist resort. She enjoyed dancing to music played by a live band Saturday night.
In the morning, wanting to explore the resort's 40 acres, the woman went out on the nature trail. A person described by the woman to Schloss as "young" confronted and stabbed her about 9:30 a.m. It is unknown whether the assailant resided at the resort.
When the woman emerged from the trail, walking, two Sunsport guests saw her and called for help, Schloss said. Authorities flew her to a hospital, although they didn't say which one.
Sunsport, in the tiny, rural town west of Royal Palm Beach, had space in 2010 for 133 trailers and tents.
Dogs aided by a sheriff's helicopter searched the area, Schloss said. The heavy law-enforcement presence eased his mind. Still, he said, he's trying to understand what happened.
"It's really scary. It's not anything we've ever had before," he said. "It's not anything we'd ever expect to happen again."
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Ummm...."stabbed" with what? and where?
and do you still need to pitch a tent at a nudist resort?
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I think she was stabbed "on the nature trail", Frank.
Ted found himself in the Pukchin POW camp, also known as "Death Valley," and later at Pyoktong, along with hundreds of Americans, Turks, and others. The camps were at first run by the North Koreans, then by the Chinese, whom Ted said treated them slightly better. Nevertheless, life was nightmarish for the prisoners. They were cold and hungry, and disease was rampant. "Healthy men became like babies, helpless," Ted said. "Everything was stink, death, it was terrible, terrible." Thirty to forty a day were dying. "It was hardest on the Americans who were not used to this," Ted said. "But I had a heck of a basic training from the Germans."
Ted used all the experience he had gained as a Holocaust survivor in helping keep himself and other prisoners alive. "I did it because I was an American," Ted told me, "and because it was a mitzvah. Regardless of color or nationality, they were my brothers." Food was vital for survival, so he began to steal rations from the enemy, who had little enough themselves. Fellow POW Sergeant Carl McClendon stated, "every day, when it got dark, and we went to sleep, Rubin was on his way, crawling on his stomach, jumping over fences, breaking in supply houses, while the guns were looking down on him. He tied the bottom of his fatigue pants and filled up anything he could get ahold of. He crawled back and distributed the food that he had stolen and risked his life."
He had learned desperate arts in the Nazi concentration camp, such as how to use maggots to stop the spread of gangrene, [biographer Daniel M.] Cohen said. Cohen said Rubin told him that the POW camp was "a cakewalk" compared with Mauthausen.
Decades later, when the writer reached one of his camp mates on the phone, "the first words out of his mouth were, 'Rubin saved my life,'" Cohen said.
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In those days those who'd escaped were grateful for the opportunity to put on a uniform and fight against the evil overtaking the world -- all my mother's male cousins and her (future) first husband did the same after they'd got their families out, though none were also concentration camp survivors. This is one reason I have no patience with the current wave of migrants -- they have no intention of helping defend the society they've fled to against what they've fled, even the ones who sincerely want to work hard and do well in a democratic, secular society.
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TW, thanks to your relatives for serving their chosen country. Today, it is not just immigrants who don't put on the uniform, many born-here citizens don't either. In fact, these days, it a very small percentage of Americans who have volunteer to serve in the military.
Trimmed headline You have not seen anything stupid yet in your life until you read about the goings on in the Great Paris Climate Change Conference of 2013. What can you say? Article from the Daily Mail.
The Paris climate change deal spells the beginning of the end for cooking and heating with gas, experts claimed yesterday.
Within 15 years, British families may have to start phasing out gas cookers, fires and boilers if the UK is to meet new tougher targets aimed at halting rises in global temperature.
The United Nations agreement to stop global warming, approved by 195 countries at a summit in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations, commits nations to reducing greenhouse gases from 2020 onwards to halt climate change.
It was hailed as historic by politicians. David Cameron said: âThis global deal now means that the whole world has signed to play its part in halting climate change.'
But Britain's energy plans will now have to be revised as our already stringent targets to reduce greenhouse gases are based on limiting global warming to a rise of 2C.
The new agreement is more ambitious, aimed at limiting warming to âwell below' 2C by the century's end.
The UK is âabsolutely committed' to the deal and will be âmaking sure we deliver on it', Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said yesterday.
Experts predict the stricter targets will mean the familiar sights of gas hobs and ovens and gas-fired boilers will become a thing of the past.
Jim Watson, professor of energy policy at Sussex University, said: âThis will affect the power sector first, but as we move through to the 2030s and beyond we'll have to find new ways of heating our homes and cooking our food.'
The French foreign minister, pictured waving, revealed the 'historic' legally binding agreement, which aims to limit global temperature rises, to more than 190 officials in Paris
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The French foreign minister, pictured waving, revealed the 'historic' legally binding agreement, which aims to limit global temperature rises, to more than 190 officials in Paris
The Government's Committee on Climate Change is pressing for alternatives to boilers such as heat pumps â devices which extract warmth from the ground or air.
It wants four million homes to be heated by such devices by 2030, despite each costing ÂŁ12,000, with installations accelerating after that until gas plays a minimal role in heating and cooking in homes by 2050.
All gas-fired power stations must also close by the mid-2030s unless they strip CO2 from emissions.
Professor Watson added: âGas has served us very well since the 1970s. Whatever we move to next, people will be moving to similar levels of comfort and controllability, which engineers need to get on with.'
Around 23 million British homes use gas, with a third of natural gas used in Britain burnt by domestic boilers, cookers or heaters.
UK LOBBIED FOR EXTRA POLLUTION ALLOWANCES FOR CAR INDUSTRY
The UK pushed for a weakening of air pollution limits after lobbying from the motor industry, papers reveal.
The Government urged the EU for car makers to be allowed to exceed limits of nitrogen oxide emissions until 2021, and to be allowed to go 40 per cent over the current limit after that.
The revelation came before a meeting of the European Parliament's environment committee later today. A Whitehall spokesman said: âThe Government is committed to taking action on emissions testing.'
Britain is already committed to phasing out coal fired power stations by 2025.
But gas power stations will have to be phased out next, unless a way is found of capturing the CO2 they create â known as carbon capture and storage.
Gas, although cleaner than coal, is our biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions â generating 169million tons of CO2 in 2014.
Bob Ward, who is policy director at the Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change, said that to meet Britain's commitments the days of cooking with gas were numbered.
He said: âThe only possible use of fossil fuels that will continue is if they are used to generate electricity, but this will only happen if the carbon dioxide they create is captured and stored.
âGas cookers will be phased out, probably as soon as possible. I suspect manufacturers will simply stop making them.'
He added that in years to come some form of carbon tax putting up the cost of gas is inevitable â which will make electric cookers much cheaper than their gas rivals. And, pray tell, how are we going to generate electricity in the scale that will be needed without thermal plants?
CCC chief executive Matthew Bell said: âFor something like heating, by 2050 gas will be playing a much more limited role and a range of other technologies will have taken its place, meaning low-carbon sources of warmth â heat pumps and so on.'
What a load of rubbish! ROSS CLARK on how the lavish green summit in Paris created a mountain of waste and pollution
To adapt Winston Churchill, never before in the history of climate summits have so many people expended so many of the Earth's resources in the cause of so little.
In spite of world leaders at the Paris Climate Summit making the grandiose gesture of saying they want to limit the rise in the Earth's temperature to 1.5 Celsius instead of 2 Celsius, they have so far committed themselves to precious little practical action.
That's not to say that the implications aren't extraordinary. It has already been suggested that developed nations will together have to pay $100billion a year to smaller nations to help them combat climate change, so dire have been the predictions about the future during the endless Parisian discussions.
Greenpeace protesters tried to draw a yellow sun around the Arc de Triomphe during the talks that culminated in a historic deal on Saturday, but the ÂŁ130million conference has already cost the Earth, says Ross Clark
Greenpeace protesters tried to draw a yellow sun around the Arc de Triomphe during the talks that culminated in a historic deal on Saturday, but the ÂŁ130million conference has already cost the Earth, says Ross Clark
But how much have the 40,000 delegates who have attended the ÂŁ130million Paris summit already cost the Earth?
According to the French government, the carbon footprint of the ten-day summit will have been 21,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
That is itself as much as is emitted by 1,000 typical British families over the course of a year â taking into account running their home, their cars, their foreign holidays, the food and everything else they consume.
Air travel will have added an extra 40,000 tonnes of carbon emissions to the Paris total
Yet cheekily, the French government figure only included CO2 emissions created at the site of the conference. It excluded emissions from hotel stays and those generated by delegates travelling to and from Paris.
As many of the delegates will have traveled to Paris by air, this will have added a huge extra footprint to the event.
At least five world leaders â those of the US, China, India, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait â travel around in their own private jumbo jets.
According to Kornelis Blok, of Dutch environmental consultancy Ecofys, air travel will have added an extra 40,000 tonnes of carbon emissions to the Paris total.
As for carbon emissions from hotels, luxury hotels are voracious users of energy. A single room can consume almost twice as much energy as the average UK household, electricity and heating combined.
Taking everything into account, and on the assumption that the average delegate will have run up 9,000 air miles traveling to and from the event, the US technology magazine Wired calculates that emissions spewed out could reach 300,000 tonnes â the equivalent emitted in a whole year by a town the size of Aylesbury (population: 58,740). Laughably, the organizers of the summit based their carbon footprint figure on the assumption that delegates would arrive by bike or take up the offer of free passes for public transport â passes which cost French taxpayers ÂŁ56million.
It was fanciful, though, to imagine that the grandees of the climate change lobby would stoop to the level of using public transport. On the second day of the summit a bicycle rack for 50 cycles at Le Bourget was reported to have just two bikes in it, while footage showed world leaders arriving in their usual limousines.
SO WHAT'S IN THE AGREEMENT?
The draft agreement sets a global goal of peaking greenhouse gas emissions 'as soon as possible'.
Its key points include:
Limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an eye to making it more like 1.5C
Introducing a five-year review system to increase ambition on cutting emissions
Funding for poorer countries
It also calls for achieving a balance between man-made emissions and the Earth's ability to absorb them by the second half of this century.
A previous draft included a section on 'loss and damage' - an issue pushed by small island nations and vulnerable countries who wanted the deal to recognise there are some impacts of climate change they cannot adapt to.
However, an adjoining decision linked to the agreement in the final draft said the loss and damage article 'does not involve or provide a basis for any liability or compensation'.
Wealthy nations will, however, need to continue to provide financial support for poor nations to cope with climate change, the report said.
Saving the environment isn't just about cutting carbon emissions, of course. Housing the conference cost a small forest. Rather than using existing buildings, the French government built a small city of pavilions at Le Bourget for the conference, seven miles north of the centre of Paris.
A total of 50 contractors worked for 40 days, knocking up 80,000 square metres of temporary buildings and fitting them out.
The centrepiece, a âplenary room' to seat 2,000 delegates, was supposed to be a model of environmentally-friendliness. Yet it alone required 900 trees to be sawn down. The organisers say they have replaced every one with a new tree â overlooking the fact that the new trees are saplings while the 900 sawn down were mature trees. While the delegates were trying to persuade each other to invest in renewable energy, the buildings were heated by a gas-fired boiler. Unbelievably, the organisers said this âhelps reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent' because they could have used an oil boiler, but didn't.
The Paris Conference made great claims that it would create âzero waste'. That was assuming the buildings, to be taken down after the event, could be used again. They might just struggle, though, to find many people in need of a 2,000-seater plenary room.
The organisers said that reusable coffee cups did away with the need for two million disposable plastic cups. Yet reusable cups are not nearly as environmentally friendly as the organisers would have us believe as washing them consumes a lot of energy. According to environmental consultancy Carbon Clear, a ceramic coffee cup would have to be used 354 times before it has used less energy than a plastic cup.
Hotel guests are particularly heavy generators of rubbish, what with all the little shampoo bottles, bars of soap, and uneaten croissants which are thrown out.
Over the ten-day summit, the 40,000 delegates would have produced 920 tonnes of rubbish. That is as much as is produced by 900 UK households in an entire year â so much for a âwaste-free summit'.
Many delegates would have headed home from Paris with a warm glow of satisfaction, thinking they had helped save the planet. Yet the truth is the environmental impact they caused will be many times that of the vast majority of the Earth's population.
For all the grand talk of âzero waste' and low-carbon buildings, the Paris summit has been a prime example of what wasteful lives the green lobby lead.
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The Paris climate change deal spells the beginning of the end for cooking and heating with gas, experts claimed yesterday.
Gas? For crying out loud--what idiocy. These people are pushing such things hard don't get out much. Around East Tennessee, out in the country, there are many people who still cook and heat with firewood. In an adjacent county, the county cuts down deadfall from across the roads and turns it into firewood and give it to poor people for heating and cooking. It is a compassionate thing to do. We still have a fireplace and burn wood when necessary--when the power goes out due to a power outage. It doesn't happen very often but it happens. The people making decisions for others really don't understand that there are a great number of middle class and poor people who rely on gas, coal and firewood. So STFU John Kerry, Obozo and your ilk.
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That was assuming the buildings, to be taken down after the event, could be used again. They might just struggle, though, to find many people in need of a 2,000-seater plenary room.
Could always turn it into a Clinton Happy Camp for those who do not agree with The Greens. Burn some books for cooking heat.
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I prefer to heat with environmentalists....they whine a bit when you shove them into the firebox but since they only tell lies, how can you trust them that they're actually alive.
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Universal "No Carbon/Fossil Fuels" which I presum would also include natural wood which in turn will wipe out most or all of the Earth's remaining forests.
More bad news for Saudi Arabia - first an on-going worldwide oil glut, now may not be a "Gas-led Energy Superpower" as projected by Perts.
ALso, NO GLOBAL CONSENSUS BY GOVTS-PERTS ON WHETHER "PEAK OIL" [Peak Resources] IS REAL OR NOT, HENCE THE RISK OR SCENARIO IS THERE THAT BY CONTINUING TO INCREASE ITS OIL PRODUCTION THE SAUDIS + OPEC ARE JUST USING UP IN SHORT TIME WHAT "CHEAP OIL" [Reserves] THE WORLD HAS LEFT.
IOW, WE'RE [STILL] ALL NUKIES NOW - by extension, any + all Single-Family Residences, Housing Blocs are to eventually be integrated + heavily or completely remotely monitored???
D *** NG IT, YOUR INTERACTIVE VHD FAMILY + GROUP QUARTERS/BLOC MICROWAVE OVEN IS WATCHING ALL OF YOU.
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Insanity. What is the alternative to gas ranges? Electric? That's coal, and it's only 30% efficient as a heat source end to end, compared to 95% for gas.
Nuclear is the only final solution, assuming a solution is needed, and nuclear is anathema to the greens.
How about blankies and raw food? How about drippy caves?
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The best part of Spaceballs is how they mocked the marketing of the Star Wars franchise. If anyone thought Lucas was shameless in the marketing just watch what Disney can do.
[Guardian] Bodies discovered aboard drifting vessels believed to be those of soldiers turned fishermen, as Japanese authorities concede puzzle may never be solved. Long article at the link. But the bottom line is speculation that Pudgy's army is so desperate for food that inexperienced soldiers are being ordered to risk their lives in rickety old fishing boats on stormy seas.
One hopes not in the bankrupt sense, or sea of blue voters sense.
Texas state and city officials for years have touted the state's more business-friendly environment, citing its fewer business regulations and lower labor costs, partly because Texas is a right to work state.California, on the other hand, is one of the costliest states in which to do business, with expenses 20 percent to 35 percent higher than other states.
1,510 companies moved all or some of their operations out of California from 2008 through 2014, taking with them valuable jobs, investment dollars and tax revenue. Texas was at the receiving end of 219 of those moves, or about 15 percent, more than any other state. Many are household brands like Apple, eBay and Restoration Hardware that moved their headquarters or opened or expanded other operations.
Texas' most recent big deal was Toyota Motor Corp.'s decision to relocate its North American headquarters in Plano, generating roughly 4,000 jobs and $350 million in investments. 3,000 of those jobs will come from California. And buckets of new traffic for the Dallas North Tollway and the Sam Rayburn Tollway, not to mention city streets, and not a few liberal surfer dudes.
This report echoes what businesses that relocate to Texas continue to say â they are sick and tired of being over-taxed and over-regulated and are making the economically sensible choice to move to Texas," said the deputy press secretary for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Office.
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Texas will never be the new California because it is filled with Texans that have a certain decency that is missing in California.
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The scenic views of the Pacific coast are somewhat lacking in Texas to draw the destructive parasite that environment promotes. While I'm sure Texans will try to defend the 'raw' beauty of some of its landscape, that rawness by its very nature is inhospitable to large infestations of the California family of limousine socialist which you don't find in places much beyond the coast.
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...that rawness by its very nature is inhospitable to large infestations of the California family of limousine socialist which you don't find in places much beyond the coast.
And our weather sucks too! This is a no good terrible place for Liberals. You LibTards won't like it here...stay in California.
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Many Californians have moved to the Austin area. They have driven up housing prices to the point where they are becoming unaffordable to the middle-class.
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Don't forget the illegal aliens from Mexico. Face it, Texas, you too could go blue. I hope you don't. One thing I've noticed about Californians who move to Texas is that it doesn't take them very long at all to acquire that Texas accent. But I'm not sure that means they're turning conservative.
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For many years your deeds to property in Texas had these three words "Protect and Defend" that property against all hardships. YOU (and God). Not 911, not the government. Texas is a different state of mind.
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[AnNahar] Greece sells 14 airports in privatization drive
Greece said Monday it agreed to sell 14 regional airports to a German operator, the first major privatization move for the country's left-wing government.
The Greek privatization agency said it was selling the airports to German airport operator Fraport for 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion).
The deal includes the airports of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-biggest city, and those of island tourist hotspots Mykonos, Santorini and Corfu, the agency said in a statement.
The deal showed that Greece is "regaining the markets' confidence step by step and re-embarking on the path of growth," agency chief Stergios Pitsiorlas said.
Greece in July accepted a three-year, 86-billion-euro ($93-billion) EU bailout that saved it from crashing out of the eurozone, but the deal came with strict conditions.
They include an ambitious privatization program, featuring the planned sale of ports, airports and other state assets.
Parliament is to vote on Tuesday on the modalities of a partial privatization of the Admie electricity utility, 49 percent of which is to go into private hands.
[WashingtonTimes] Immigrant rights activists have vowed to sign up 1 million immigrants -- mostly Mexicans -- for citizenship and then quickly register them to vote in time to punish Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans at the polls in November for their harsh rhetoric.
With nearly 9 million legal immigrants already eligible to become citizens, the 1 million goal is not far-fetched. The activists say they are counting on energizing another 2 million Hispanic citizens who have turned 18 since 2012 and who they believe will turn out to vote to defend fellow Dreamers, or young undocumented Democrats, against Republican calls for their deportation.
The effort is funded in part by the Open Society Foundation, the project of liberal billionaire George Soros.
Hispanic immigrants, however, have shown a lower propensity to naturalize in the U.S. and have lower turnout rates overall than other demographic groups, challenging the community's leaders to get them more motivated.
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Voter fraud should be an automatic death penalty. Why? Voter fraud is nothing less than an attempt to overthrow our government and should be treated as such.
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Oh, golly gee whiz, another banana republic with fake votes and ballot stuffing. Except these peasants are armed to the teeth and quickly running out of patience with its ruling caste already. Yes, lets throw gas on that smoldering pile. If the fire does break out, those who you claim concern for will either be running for the border as fast as their feet or wheels will carry them or be thrust into the very front lines as cannon fodder by you little commissars. Guess what, they've already been there and have seen it. They chose the former already.
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mmigrant rights activists have vowed to sign up 1 million immigrants -- mostly Mexicans -- for citizenship and then quickly register them to vote in time to punish Donald Trump and GOP How exactly do the radicalized activists propose to speed up the citizenship process and register these Democrats to vote? This stuff makes me livid. The Donks are about punishing everyone who doesn't go along with them. We have seen this with this administration when it used the IRS to punish conservatives. We have seen it with Gibson Guitar. Now, every time there is a shooting they try find a way to keep people from buying guns. Now, they are trying to keep people who are on the no-fly list from buying firearms. The fear of conservatives is that the left will punish its enemies by putting them on the no-fly list and then denying them 2nd Amendment rights. Conservatives have opposed this because they don't trust the left. The left tries to go around through the back-door on everything they can't achieve through legitimate means.
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Nothing new here. That's been the plan all along. Only one thing to do: Since most of the Mexican immigrants I've met seem to prefer working over accepting welfare, somebody with exceptional communication skills (like Trump) might explain to them they will have far more opportunities for good jobs and prosperity if they dump the donks.
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Hispanic activists vow to do what everyone expected them to do, surprising nobody, except the 1 million Mexicans who will lose their job because they voted for the party who wants to bring in 1 million Levantines.
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Ah yes, the TrackingPoint! You can also get a pair of glasses that talk to the scope and see what the scope sees. This means you can shoot by holding it around a corner or over a wall without exposing yourself. Have a look at their site.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PALMBEACHPOST] A woman who made a late-night stop Saturday at a Loxahatchee Groves nudist colony told police she was stabbed early Sunday by a young man.
1,510 companies moved all or some of their operations out of California from 2008 through 2014, taking with them valuable jobs, investment dollars and tax revenue. Texas was at the receiving end of 219 of those moves, or about 15 percent, more than any other state. Many are household brands like Apple, eBay and Restoration Hardware that moved their headquarters or opened or expanded other operations.
