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As a youngster I often looked on in wonderment at the FA Cup. The possibility of the underdog, the big boy finals and stories which resonate with you for the rest of your life.
I dreamt I would hold up the FA Cup not the Premier League. On 11th May 2013 I looked on with disgust. Where did the oldest and greatest footballing competition go wrong?
It can be best answered with a few short sentences: Corporate Sponsorship, Adrian Chiles and ITV, semi-finals at Wembley and finally the late kick-off.
As a passionate footballing fan, the FA Cup always served up a story beyond the realms of belief. The under-dog conquering the hot favourite, Wimbledon or the better known Crazy Gang defeated freshly crowned champions Liverpool in 1988. Sunderland were heavily tipped to be brushed aside by high-flying Leeds back in 1973 however this was not the case. More recently, Wigan conquered Manchester City to the disbelief of footballing fans across the country but as they lifted the trophy, something did not seem right.
It was the age old trophy draped in sponsorship. Budweiser wrapped the trophy and has compromised the very heart of the competition. As Gary Caldwell and Emerson Boyce lifted the trophy it did not retain the magic of years passed.
What felt even more wrong was that not every Wigan fan stayed to witness perhaps the greatest moment in the clubs history. It wasn't out of disgust or that they left early because they couldn't bear to see the end. It was to catch the last train back up north from London due to the lateness of kick-off.
The all-northern final was scheduled to kick off at 5:15pm. Had it gone to extra-time and penalties the final train for Wigan and Manchester City fans may have well passed. It's an example of how the FA is now prioritising revenue over the fans; with the FA Cup suffering.
Yes, it's still a fantastic honour to play at Wembley for your club. However playing there twice in one season does not retain that shock factor that captures both the players and the fans hearts. Playing semi-finals at Wembley have further compromised the integrity of the occasion.
The semi-final between Wigan and Millwall demonstrates this. Had they been played at both teams grounds, the atmosphere would have been electric and we would have seen exciting cup football which serves up football which is unparalleled. This was not the case. Wigan had failed to sell out their allocation thus it was opened up to neutrals. Another example of trying to gain revenue at the cost of the heart of the event
Finally you have Adrian Chiles and ITV. Every footballing fans nightmare. Adrian Chiles tactless attempts at humour and to serve up an 'insight' into the fans point of view are poor and at best laboured. Throughout Social Media you could see the detest for Chiles and his boring team of 'experts' so much so that if they kept it on ITV they muted it and listened to TalkSport instead. What's even worse is the 10 second coverage followed by endless adverts which never seem to end.It's unbearable, infuriating and ultimately killing the cup.
The FA Cup seems to be following in the League Cups deterioration and there seems to be no saving it. Another footballing tradition falls at the hands of business and now English Football has lost its soul.
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) have intensified their cooperation in the field of Air Traffic Management (ATM). Today, a common legal entity called AT-One EEIG (AT-One European Economic Interest Grouping) has been established.
In the European ATM research area, a big step in international cooperation and harmonisation has been the foundation of the Single European Sky initiative. AT-One EEIG fully recognises the need for independent and extensive research, new technology and concepts as well as complex system validation and innovation.
The AT-One EEIG alliance combines the power of the two largest organisations for ATM research in Europe. It is an essential step to face the challenges of air transport operations in the future, such as the doubling of the number of flights in the next decade. As the number of flights increase, maintaining and increasing the level of safety in more crowded airspace will be a challenge. Also environmental issues, such as emissions and noise around airports are growing concerns.
Together, the specialists of NLR and DLR have the expertise and tools needed to help the air transport industry to achieve these ambitious goals.
Bundling the scientific expertises and research facilities between locations in Amsterdam and Braunschweig enhances the ability to tackle air traffic management research topics and their validation.

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6 things you didn't know about me
Nashville's very own WordPress rock star and new daddy, Mitch Canter (AKA: Studionashvegas) has tagged me to participate in a meme. My job is to post six random things that people didn't know about me.
1. I grew up listening to loads of punk rock music. My first concert was Circle Jerks and 7 Seconds at the Siboney Club in Kensington Market, Toronto. I think it was around 1986.
2. I was a huge horror movie fan when I was a kid. I attended Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors where my friend and I met Bruce Campbell, Tom Savini and H.G. Lewis, the god father of gore. My buddy and I use to have fishing tackle boxes filled with horror makeup. We would get together and create really nasty wounds and freak out our friends, parents and strangers.
3. I met Blues legend Albert Collins, who invited me backstage with my friends at a show. After the show we all hung out and he invited me on the road to his next gig as a roadie. I almost dropped out of college to become a permanent roadie for him. Leave me a comment if you want to "hear" that story.
4. I climbed Europe's most active volcano, Stromboli. My wife and I made the six hour hike during dusk, so we would be at the top in time for night fall to watch it erupt into the Aeolian Sea below.
5. I rubbed shoulders with Francis Ford Coppolla, literally. I was attending a movie premiere at the Toronto Film Festival when I spotted Coppolla sitting a few aisles down. After the movie, as the crowd began to enter the aisles I made my way toward him. Just as he stepped out into the aisle I intentionally, gently, rubbed my right shoulder across his. Why did I do this? So that I can honestly tell people that I rubbed shoulders with Francis Ford Coppolla of course!
6. I was punished for misbehaving in Grade 1 or 2, my role in the school play had been demoted. I was suppose to play the lumberjack in Little Red Riding Hood, but was re-cast to play "the tree". Dressed in brown cords and a green turtle neck, my job was to stand still with my arms spread out. When Little Red yelled for help, as the lumberjack was chopping me, I was suppose to tilt my arms in one direction. The fantastic effect would make it look as if I had been cut. In the last second I decided to improvise a little.
When the lumberjack swung his axe and hit me, I remained standing tall and still. Then, I slowly fell forward crashing on the stage below. The only person not laughing in the room (including my parents) was my teacher. I stole the show. :-)
Years later I studied improv comedy with Second City in Toronto. When I moved to Galway, Ireland I started a troupe called "Da Ladds", we performed every Thursday night for a little over a year. I miss performing comedy.
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It's no surprise that one of the most successful franchises in Major League Soccer, has also had success putting players on their respective national teams. Brian Ching, Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden were all staples of the U.S. men's national team as it advanced through the previous World Cup qualifying tournament and into the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
This year is no different. On Wednesday, the final round of CONCACAF's World Cup qualifying tournament kicks off and four Dynamo players will represent three teams. Brad Davis was named to the U.S. roster, Boniek Garcia will suit up for Honduras and Jermaine Taylor and Je-Vaughn Watson will head to Estadio Azteca for Jamaica's match against Mexico.
If Davis and Garcia both see time in Wednesday's match, it will not be the first time that Dynamo players (or former Dynamo players) have lined up against each other on the national scene. Here are some of the previous matchups and how each player fared:
- In 2006, the United States, featuring Brian Ching, and Canada, featuring former Dynamo players Dwayne De Rosario and Adrian Serioux, squared off in a friendly in San Diego, Calif. All three players started, but none were able to find the scoresheet as the game ended scoreless.
- There was lots of orange at the 2007 Gold Cup, as Brian Ching and Ricard Clark (USA) took on Dwayne De Rosario and Pat Onstad (Canada) in the semifinal round of the biennial tournament. Ching did not feature in the match and Clark came on in the second as a sub. Both Onstad and De Rosario started and picked up yellow cards as the United States won 2-1, before defeated Mexico 2-1 to win the tournament.
- In the 2011 Gold Cup, a Honduran team featuring former Dynamo forward Carlo Costly and current Dynamo midfielder Boniek Garcia lost 1-0 to a Jamaican squad featuring Dynamo defender Jermaine Taylor and midfielder Je-Vaughn Watson. The Jamaicans won their group but lost to the United States in the quarterfinals. Honduras advanced to the semifinals before losing 2-0 to eventual champion Mexico.
- 0-0 appears to be a familiar scoreline for U.S. / Canada matches as the two squads played to a scoreless tie on June 3, 2012 in Toronto. Former Dynamo defender Geoff Cameron was on the bench for the United States but did not feature. Former Dynamo defender Andre Hainault started and played 90 minutes in the match.
- In front of a raucous crowd, a Jamaican squad with Jermaine Taylor and Je-Vaughn Watson defeated a U.S. squad with former Dynamo defender Geoff Cameron in a World cup qualifying match in Kingston on Sept. 7, 2012.
- The United States returned the favor four days later when Cameron's U.S. squad defeated Taylor and Watson's Jamaican squad 1-0 at Columbus Crew Stadium. Cameron and Taylor played full time in both matches. Watson played 90 minutes in the first match and 75 in the second.


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True story: I didn't know crap about politics until 2004. During the 2000 election, I was a newly minted high school sophomore strictly focused on football and getting laid as soon as possible. Buckling down on the political coverage, I found myself completely bored and/or overwhelmed by the whole thing, especially the debates.
Now, there might be some of you out there that are currently in the same boat I was back then. Listen, this stuff isn't easy, but it is important. I'm not going to talk down and scold you for not being aware of the political climate in this country. My guess is you've been either busy trying to make ends meet or have been distracted by reality show judges with weaves that cost more than my rent check. Here's a Game Genie for watching presidential debates that'll have you sounding like the wonkiest wonk that has ever wonked. (We really have to address how porn-y that word sounds at a later point, by the way)
Treat the whole thing like NBA League Pass:
If you've never experienced the joy of League Pass or just don't follow the NBA (I weep for you), it's a cable add-on that allows you to watch games from teams that are from all over the country on their home channels. You can see the Houston Rockets score, then see a commercial for a fast food place in Houston that you'll never eat at. Applying this to the debate format, try to flip between channels catering to the political ideology of each candidate after the debate. This is easier if you have more than one TV at your disposal. Start on CNN, then flip to MSNBC, then to Fox News, then back. You'll immediately notice the differences, not just in what the talking heads are spouting off on, but the phrases and debate points that are attacked and/or ignored. It's fun to point out. Offense vs. Defense.
Don't go on Facebook at any point during the debate:
Seriously. We know elections turn the bottom 10 percent of our high school class into Rhodes Scholars well-versed in whatever ideology-via-email their Aunt Kathy sent them. Avoid it and make your own choices. Also, you'll be WAY less annoyed.
Stats, stats, stats!
Like going out for a long night, it's smart to have a solid base before you get started. Take the time to do a quick Google search of things like the current unemployment rate, the amount of the defecit and things of that nature. These key stats will give you a bunch of insight that you wouldn't have watching with no background. It also makes you feel smarter. Feeling smart is good.
Now, if this sounds like too much, guess what? Tough s#@t. It's not Organic Chemistry. This is stuff that directly affects you and ignoring it might come back to bite you in the ass. Hell, if all else fails ...
Two words: Drinking game.
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Mark Klion, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and
sports medicine specialist. After receiving a bachelor's degree from St.
Lawrence University in upstate New York, he earned his medical degree
from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He completed
his residency in orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. He then
completed a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Chicago.
During his fellowship he specialized in arthroscopic surgery and
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sports medicine service. He serves as an educator for the medical school
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Troy Jacobson has been a leader in the field of triathlon
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In 1996 Tri-Fed became USA Triathlon, and Jacobson became a member of
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U.S. finisher, Joanna Zeiger. He is an official Ironman coach and also
serves as head multisport coach at Life Time Fitness, a publicly traded
national health club chain.
Jacobson has been a competitive triathlete since 1988 and continues to
compete at the elite masters level. In the 1990s he became a
professional triathlete, winning several USA Triathlon Long Course
National Championships and placing as high as 20th overall at the
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Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily sacked. Unable to deal with this disaster--unable even to tell his own wife--Mr. Phillips rises at his usual hour and prepares himself for the job he no longer has. As he wanders the streets of London, what he sees triggers memories. Gradually a picture develops of a decent man who, only days before, knew exactly who and what he was--husband, home-owner, father, valued employee--and on this day wonders who and what he can become.
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Matthew Steven Timney died peacefully at home March 9, 2012, after a courageous journey with cancer. He was born December 27, 1980, inTownsend, Delaware, to Joseph and the late Catherine (Dunlap) Timney.
Matthew Steven Timney died peacefully at home March 9, 2012, after a courageous journey with cancer. He was born December 27, 1980, in Townsend, Delaware, to Joseph and the late Catherine (Dunlap) Timney.
Matthew graduated from Middletown High School, Class of 1998. He attended the University of Delaware, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Upon graduation he moved to Maine, his favorite place to vacation as a child. In addition to giving Matthew wonderful opportunities to fish and hike, moving to Maine also brought him to his loving wife Erin Hews, whom he married in 2009.
Over the years, Matthew had fond memories of the friendships he made, including those with various coworkers, most notably at Ocean Pro Shop in Townsend, Delaware, BerryDunn in Bangor, Maine, and the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, where he was the current Director of Finance. He will be remembered for his cheerful spirit, caring heart, and love for fishing and almost every type of candy imaginable, especially Swedish Fish.
In addition to his wife, Erin (Hews) Timney, Matthew is survived by his father, Joseph J. Timney, Jr, and his wife, Donna Timney, of Townsend, Delaware, sister Heather Timney of Asheville, North Carolina, sister Kathryn Timney of Wilmington, Delaware, father-in-law and mother-in-law Ray and Suzanne Hews of Presque Isle, Maine, sister-in-law and brother-in-law Libby and Paul Stuit of Grand Rapids, Michigan, nephew Gabriel Stuit, and many many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Please join us for a Celebration of Life to honor Matthew on April 1, hours are from 5 to 7p.m. at M.O.T. Senior Center, 300 S. Scott St., Middletown, DE 19734.
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The Mindy Project Enlists Seth Rogen
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Seth Rogen will guest-star on The Mindy Project, Fox announced today. He'll appear on the February 19 episode as Sam, Mindy's childhood sweetheart from Jewish summer camp, with whom she shared her first kiss. Rogen's just one among many, many guest stars who'll be on the second half of Mindy's season: Mark Duplass is scheduled to return as the midwife dude, B.J. Novak and Eva Amurri are set to appear, and Girls' Allison Williams will play a love interest for Chris Messina's Danny. Why, that's almost enough guest stars to make us forget that the show is having a tough time finding its footing.


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Confirmed: 2013 is the year of movie amnesia. "Fast and Furious 6" marks the third time in fewer than three months (following "Upside Down" and "Trance") a film has incorporated that soap-opera staple, and the plot point ain't improving with age.
Neither is the "Fast" series, which perhaps assumes viewers also have amnesia and thus includes quick snippets from the past five films (which saw an increase in fun with 2011's "Fast Five") during the opening credits of "F&F; 6." Those new to the franchise will see that there have been some car crashes and explosions and kisses and surely feel all caught up.
Like the rest of the series, plot is largely beside the point in "Fast and Furious 6," which finds Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian's (Paul Walker) ever-expanding crew of ex-criminals now working with agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to track a bland baddie (Luke Evans) who wants to steal some generically powerful device or something. Much of "F&F6;" feels arbitrary; Roman (Tyrese Gibson, funny) notes that the enemy gang is like a copy of their own—imagine if both factions of the "Bizarro Jerry" episode of "Seinfeld" bulked up and chased each other through London—and there is minimal reason to root for one crew over the other.
Common sense (there isn't any) and terrible performances (there are tons) hardly matter in this franchise when the action delivers, but director Justin Lin, strolling away before the series' next installment rather than leaving it in a blaze of glory, helms the repetitive, overly chatty Part 6 with pure indifference. The climactic action sequence is so under-lit I was glad when a plane blew up so I could see what was happening. The dialogue includes numerous references to "sons of bitches" and this gem from (amnesia sufferer) Letty (Michele Rodriguez), a character given far more respect than she has earned: "Aren't you team muscle? Don't make me go over there and make you team [bleep]."
Hobbs gleefully roughs up one suspect and makes a rude car salesman disrobe, so we know how Hobbs feels about advanced interrogation techniques. There's never been anything subtle about this series, but straightforward and dumb don't always equal mindless fun. Offering scant tension and little concern for its frequently invincible characters, "Fast 6" works better as comedy than action, and only sometimes on purpose.
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Perrysburg's Maddy Williams (12) breaks a way from Maumee's Brynn Sautter. Williams' two goals in the game helped pace the Yellow Jackets to the NLL Championship.
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Juggernaut Perrysburg girls soccer continues to pile up goals, and it accomplished a major one Wednesday night against their rivals.
Perrysburg captured a third straight Northern Lakes League title by knocking off Maumee 3-0, but the Panthers put up a strong stand on their home field.
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Perrysburg (15-0-0, 7-0-0 NLL) has been ranked No. 1 in the Division I state poll from the start of the season. The Yellow Jackets have now outscored their opponents 74-4 overall and 40-2 in league play. They also have received recognition in national polls.
Maumee (11-2-3, 4-1-2), which entered the game ranked No. 5 in the Division II poll, kept it close for 60 minutes. But Perrysburg's prolific goal scorer, forward Maddy Williams, then tallied two goals just 41 seconds apart around the 20-minute mark of the second half to break it open.
Williams added to her school-record goal total with her 36th and 37th goals of the season. Williams, who has scored in every game, said she knew she had to step up with Perrysburg clinging to the one-goal lead.
"We knew this would be a tough game, and Maumee played hard," Williams said. "It was shaky at first. But we kept our intensity up. It's nice to accomplish this goal, but we've just started."
Perrysburg junior Lucy Walton got the Yellow Jackets going with a goal near the midpoint of the first half.
"I'm very happy for the girls because they accomplished one of our goals," Perrysburg co-coach Jorge Diaz said. "The second goal is to go undefeated. We are happy the way we are playing going into the tournament. It was an exciting game. Maumee played very good defensive soccer."
Walton's shot from near the left sideline traveled about 25 yards. The ball sailed over the head of Maumee goalie Jacq Korsog and into the corner of the goal. Korsog, who was solid throughout, then made a good save on Courtney Clody to keep it a one-goal game near the 20-minute mark of the first half.
"That is one heck of a team, and for 60 minutes we gave ourselves a chance," Maumee coach Steve Kikolski said. "We're disappointed in the results, but we played well, and we need to carry that into the postseason."
Williams scored her first goal on a penalty kick from point-blank range. Williams was awarded the free kick after it appeared she had slipped, but the official called the Maumee defender for a penalty. Kikolski said the penalty kick was "a decent call."
"It could have gone either way," he said. "It was the turning point in the game."
Williams added another just 41 seconds later when she broke free and rolled the ball in to make it 3-0 with 19:30 left. Perrysburg goalie Chloe Buehler made a great save on Maumee's Brynn Sautter to maintain the shutout with 15:52 remaining. Perrysburg opens postseason play Oct. 18 against Waite. Maumee plays Rossford on Monday.
"This is a tribute to all the work they've put in," co-head coach Margaret Bernard said. "Each game we've been playing better, and ultimately that has us moving towards our goal of going all the way."
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San Francisco's public pension system took a beating during the recession, which has left it carrying a hefty unfunded liability for its 26,000 current and 28,000 retired employees. The city's pension obligation is growing by $100 million a year, leaving less funding for police and fire protection, park maintenance and health services for the needy.
Unable to keep up, San Francisco is among several California cities asking voters to help tackle the public pension problem - which is now one of the biggest causes of municipal budget shortfalls.
In San Diego, city leaders and reform advocates recently submitted more than enough signatures to qualify an initiative to change the city's charter on pension calculations. If it qualifies, it would appear on the June ballot.
And San Jose's mayor has set a goal of placing retirement reform before voters in a March special election; labor groups are offering a compromise plan.
Local governments are increasingly turning to voters for help to rein in the cost of public pensions as the state continues to wrestle with the issue. Talks stalled earlier this year between Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and Republican lawmakers after they failed to reach a compromise on tax extensions. Brown failed to generate support for his proposed changes and is now offering a plan to raise the retirement age to align with Social Security and move new state workers to a hybrid system where guaranteed benefits are combined with a 401(k)-style plan.
Pension reformers say voters support efforts to roll back enhanced retirement benefits that were handed out during economic boom years. It was a time when pension funds appeared so flush that some cities stopped asking employees to pay into their retirement programs.
As pension costs shoot up, taxpayers have been asking why they are on the hook to pay guaranteed lifetime pension and health care benefits for public employees as defined-benefit pensions have all but disappeared from the private sector, replaced by 401(k) plans that have tanked in value.
"When you look at the math, you realize there's no way that cities and counties can keep up with the escalating pension costs," said San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who has made pension reform his campaign centerpiece for mayor.
But any proposal to change retirement benefits for current and retired public employees will almost certainly invite legal challenges from unions that represent police officers, firefighters, librarians and city hall workers.
Robert Bezemek, an Oakland union attorney who represents retired public employees, says less generous benefits are easy to negotiate for new hires but the courts have been fairly consistent about maintaining existing retirement contracts because employees have vested rights. He said an employer, whether it's a city or state government, must prove financial hardship and the courts often recommend replacing benefits with something of similar value.
"When a promise has been made, it has to be kept," Bezemek said.
For example, the California Supreme Court this month declined to hear a challenge from Orange County, which lost its effort to roll back enhanced pension benefits for sheriff's deputies.
But how clear do those promises have to be? Local governments struggling with unfunded pension liabilities are closely watching another case the state's high court heard out of Orange County.
The county argues that it was within its right to lower health care costs by separating retirees from current employees, which increased retirees' premiums. The Retired Employees Association of Orange County argues retired employees have a contract right to be pooled with current employees, which lowers their costs because they are pooled with younger and healthier workers.
The state requires public employers to negotiate in good faith with their employees under the Meyers-Milias Brown Act. Even if a union agrees to concessions, cities often have charters that dictate how retirement benefits are accrued and handed out. Those kinds of changes require voters to weigh in, driving a string of local ballot measures.
Voters in Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo and Redding recently approved measures aimed at containing their pension costs. This November, San Francisco voters will have their pick between two pension proposals.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and a broad coalition of labor and business groups have put forth Proposition C, which could save the city as much as $1.3 billion over 10 years. Adachi, the public defender, collected enough signatures for Proposition D, which is estimated to save as much as $1.7 billion over that same period.
While there are many differences between the competing measures, both share a similar goal: They require current city workers to contribute a larger portion of their salaries now to pay for their golden years.
Lee said unlike most measures, labor backed Proposition C knowing that it could serve as a model for sustaining public pensions without bankrupting municipal governments.
"We had to come to consensus here very quickly because the cost increases on the pension and health care side was going to hurt the very employees we were negotiating with - and they knew that," the mayor said.
San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio, a mayoral candidate who is making that city's initiative his campaign centerpiece, has crafted one of the most aggressive plans in the state. His initiative not only would transition new hires to defined contribution, or 401(k), plans, but also "picks the lock" of existing pensions by increasing the amount city employees must contribute to their own plans and freezing the salaries used to calculate their pension benefits for five years, possibly longer.
"You see it happening up and down California," DeMaio said. "The reality has sunk in that government, lifelong guaranteed pensions are not sustainable."
Advocates for pension reform, such as San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, have warned that without more concessions from current employees, city services will continue to be devastated. Without savings, the city would have to fill the deficit by closing all branch libraries and community centers, making further cuts to police and firefighters, and eliminating park rangers. Reed says San Jose would not be able to continue its senior nutrition program or maintain traffic signs and street lights.
Several bargaining groups representing San Jose police officers, firefighters, architects and engineers, middle managers and maintenance supervisors submitted pension reform plans they said would net the city $467 million in pension savings. They are hoping a compromise will keep the mayor from heading to the ballot in 2012 but Reed is seeking $882 million in savings by increasing employee contributions, reducing benefits and raising the retirement age.
George Beattie, a 51-year-old San Jose police lieutenant who is close to retirement after 23 years of service, says he worries Reed is contemplating severe rollbacks, such as raising the retirement age for working police officers to age 60, which will violate workers' rights and invite costly legal challenges. He said the police association already has agreed to concessions such as higher pension and health care contributions.
Beattie, who estimated he is on track to earn 70 percent of his $155,000 annual salary in retirement, said voters and elected officials might be worried about the bottom line, but if city officials don't negotiate with employees, they will ultimately drive away qualified men and women, jeopardizing the city's safety and well-being.
"You're going to make a bad situation worse," he said.
The San Jose city council has until early December to vote whether to place the mayor's proposed charter change on the March ballot.


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A Winder man has been charged with the murder of his wife, Tonya Faye Lynn, who has been missing since Wednesday, according to Winder Police, who have already notified the family.
James Morris "Jim" Lynn, 42, is in custody at the Barrow County Detention Center and is awaiting his first court appearance. Winder Police brought Lynn in for investigation on charges of obstruction Friday morning. The GBI and Barrow County Sheriff's Office assisted in determining that the information Lynn gave police was false. In the midst of the investigation, authorities were led to a body by Jim Lynn, according to authorities.
The body was found in a well off Etheridge Road in Auburn around 4 p.m. and it is suspect the body is of Tonya Lynn's. It will be taken to the Georgia Crime Lab for identification and autopsy.
Authorities received leads after Tonya Lynn's relative received an early morning text message from her cell phone. The message requested that the relative take care of Lynn's children. The phone was turned off when the relative tried to call back immediately after receiving the text. Tonya Lynn's Chevrolet Tahoe was located at a nearby library from her house a few hours later and that is when the relative reported her missing.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Mrs. Lynn's family," said Winder Police Chief Dennis Dorsey. "This has been a long couple of days."
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One of the most common mistakes in database and software design is thinking and testing too small. Either the database isn't designed to accommodate any more data than exists at the time of deployment or the initial testing uses minimal and unrealistic data sets. In some ways, this problem is a lot like trying on your old clothes from high school. They fit fine back in the day, but now they're too tight. Trying to fit into your old wardrobe (which hasn't quite come back into fashion) doesn't usually have significant consequences. But trying to shoehorn data into a database that wasn't designed for that amount of data isn't good for your enterprise applications.
These "little" design issues can lead to massive implementation problems. When an application's data outgrows its design, your applications can experience performance degradation and operational difficulties. Planning for growth in the design phase is at least 10 times easier than needing to change the schema of a production database later. Schema changes that you make before implementation might affect applications, but they don't affect production data. Even in the best circumstances, changes that you make after you have live data almost always require downtime.
The "little database" problem is also a common cause of setbacks during initial deployment. We've all seen applications that seem to test fine but quickly break down after they go live. This breakdown is especially common for Web applications, which typically require a high degree of scalability. In many cases, you can trace the problem back to tiny-database testing. In these scenarios, testers loaded the database with just enough data to make it workable—but never tested the database under stress with a realistic data set. And this little bit of testing masked many potential performance problems. Every SELECT and JOIN might work great over a 100-row table, but the same code running over a 1 millionrow table could easily produce different results—results you want to know about before you deploy the application.
Don't make the "little database" mistake. Thinking big when you design and test your SQL Server database applications will help you avoid unpleasant and unnecessary application rollout problems. When you start designing a new database, plan for growth from the very beginning, considering both the performance impact and the recoverability impact of growth. In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, decision makers recognize information's strategic value and have elevated data to a corporate asset, collecting all the data they can. And as companies grow, so will their data banks. The best time to accommodate this growth is before deploying the database. Likewise, development groups need to perform usability and stress testing by using data sets that truly represent the live environment. Problems that you uncover before the application goes live aren't problems at all.


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Meeting Minutes - 9/22/09
In attendance: Tetsu, Fishtank, Mack, Josh, Indy, Brian, Mike
8:17PM - Meeting called to order - Collected dues :23 - Opened discussion of space at Seminole Business and Storage - Discussed collection of dues - Agreed that dues will be collected mid month :33 - Called vote on the two spaces, agreed on the furnished space :34 - Incorporating: when, who, how much? - $70 filing fees for incorporation - $300 for federal NFP - accounting fees - Agreed to wait on advice from business types :40 - Field trip to Gainesville civic center mentioned :41 - Talk of assigning official duties, board members, etc. - Tetsu will be treasurer for now :44 - Week 1: We move int - Moving couches, other large items in - Figure out where we need power, other wiring - Should be picky about what we bring in the limited space :48 - Public meeting, when is our first one? - Have a pot luck? - Workshop - How soon? Will have to be established first :49 - LAN Party! Duke Nukem! - Tables :54 - Giant whiteboard a must :56 - Need to be watching Freecycle - NFP status comes in handy here :59 - Flooring - Existing carpet is pretty ragged - Garage/lab flooring comes in rolls from Sam's Club 9:00 - Aiming to move in Oct 1st! :01 - First things first, getting the NOC up - Can share internet with Brian at first, radio link - Would have to get business class service from Brighthouse (per Brian) :03 - Opened discussion on meetings, how often do we have them? - Weekly so far (see Tuesday Pattern) - Keep weekly meeting for informal stuff - Monthly all hands meeting for any official business (requiring votes from all) - Monthly meeting mid month (to collect dues) :06 - Security in the space - All members get a key - Video cams - Homebrew security system a fun first project - RFID, USB key? :11 - Opened discussion on promoting the space - How soon? - Everyone bring a friend to the next meeting - Some graphics for flyers, website - Insurance - Liability policy ASAP - Property insurance from property management? - First aid kit, fire extinguishers, eye protection - Waivers, get boilerplate :18 - Opened discussion on floor plans - Lots of ideas here - Define "rooms"? - Meeting room - Tables for laptops (banquet tables) - Media room - Running out of room already - "Blinkenfloor"? :23 - The consensus, we'll figure it out as we go along, that's why we're month to month :25 - Open discussion - Need more money, bring people - Are we sure we don't want to start promoting now? :35 - Books-a-million closing soon, meeting adjourned


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Since I found Louis abandoned in the desert in Nevada, with a raging ear infection-obliterated ear canal.
Well, its a year later, and he is doing great! I couldn't have asked for a better dog than Louis!
Louis and his best buddy/housemate Finnigan
Louis has gone from desert dog to East Coast beach bum!
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Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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Awesome! I totally remember when you first found him and posted on here. I love the picture of you two on the beach together.
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SWEEEEET!! Louis looks great. The beach photo is beautiful.
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Thanks! Louis and Finnigan both love the beach, and although Louis doesn't swim yet, he does brave the waves like the brave trooper that he is, to fetch sticks out of the water. He is awesome, and the boys really do like each other which is nice since Finnigan lost his Angie girl to cancer.
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Congrats! They all look like such happy campers!
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By Alistair Scrutton
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Sweden next week points up the role of a pro-free trade European ally on the edge of a rapidly changing Arctic in a region where Russia is seeking more influence.
The first bilateral visit by a U.S. leader to Sweden may be overshadowed by the Syria crisis, but it is timely.
Obama will meet other Nordic leaders there who are keen to show the importance of Europe's northern rim as new Arctic sea routes open and China and Russia explore for resources.
The U.S. president, who will visit Stockholm on September 4-5 on his way to a G20 summit in St. Petersburg, has canceled a trip to Moscow in retaliation for Russia's decision to grant asylum to fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Along with fellow-Nordic EU members Finland and Denmark, Sweden is pushing for a landmark EU-U.S. free trade deal.
"This will be my main interest," Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said this month. "We are on the side of being pro-free trade in a Europe where you sometimes can find more calls for protectionism."
Sweden, a middle-weight EU nation once famed for its image of cosy welfare and liberal social policies has moved closer to Washington after seven years of Reinfeldt's center-right rule.
The EU's seventh largest economy now has a name for free trade, innovation and fiscal prudence. It has a big financial center and a finance minister with influence in Europe.
Sweden has moved closer to NATO, criticized Russian "soft power" in the region and tried to ensure its role as a regional powerbroker in the Arctic and former Soviet Baltic states. A row erupted this year when Russian bombers were reported to have flown near Sweden's borders, catching air defenses off guard.
Sweden's importance to Washington is growing, said Jan Joel Andersson, a senior research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, citing shared interests like free trade.
Mike Winnerstig, a security policy analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, said: "There is a clear uplift in American interest in the Baltic Sea region, and it has a lot to do with Russia - which is flexing its muscles more."
Obama meets Baltic leaders in the White House on Friday.
His visit to Sweden is an about-turn from when then-Prime Minister Olof Palme in the 1970s likened U.S. bombings of Hanoi to the killing of Jews in Treblinka during World War Two, prompting a freeze in U.S.-Swedish diplomatic relations.
For some in the United States, Sweden may appear socialist. But Reinfeldt has cut taxes and trimmed welfare. Many young Swedes speak English with American accents and are keener to get jobs in dynamic technology startups than in the civil service.
A poll in 2012 by the Meridian International Center and Gallup said 36 percent of Swedes approved of U.S. leadership in the world, up from only 13 percent in 2007.
Sweden has also begun finding itself more at odds with core euro zone members, with some ministers, like Finance Minister Anders Borg, arguing Sweden must look beyond Europe for growth.
Obama's visit is seen as a coup for Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who was described in a 2009 U.S. embassy cable published by Wikileaks as "a medium-size dog with a big dog attitude".
The cable highlighted Sweden's intelligence cooperation with Washington over Russia, and its concern that the former Soviet Baltic states do not slip back under Russian influence.
It was little surprise that when Snowden sought refuge, Nordic nations like Norway and Iceland were named as possible asylum destinations, while Sweden was seen as a non-starter.
Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange say Stockholm would extradite Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to the United States if he went to Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.
(Additional reporting by Mia Shanley; Editing by Alistair Lyon)


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Based on their calls with victim's family members the Mesothelioma Victims Center is convinced each year hundreds of US families walk away from what could be hundreds of thousands, or over a million dollars in compensation for victim of mesothelioma
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The Mesothelioma Victims Center fears many families do not know what to do, or who to call, and they end up doing nothing when it comes to a mesothelioma financial compensation claim. Based on their calls with victim's family members the Mesothelioma Victims Center is convinced each year hundreds of US families walk away from what could be hundreds of thousands, or over a million dollars in compensation for victim of mesothelioma. The Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "While there is nothing we can do without an actual mesothelioma diagnosis, we will still do everything possible for a family dealing with a loss from this rare form of cancer, provided it's been within the last few years. Everything possible includes the names and specific contacts of the most skilled mesothelioma attorneys, or mesothelioma law firms in the nation." No other group in the nation offers anything like this service when it comes to a family dealing with a loss from mesothelioma. Family members dealing with a loss of a loved one from a rare form of cancer called mesothelioma are always welcome to call the Mesothelioma Victims Center anytime at 866-714-6466. http://MesotheliomaVictimsCenter.Com
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Aside from US Navy Veterans, other high risk groups for mesothelioma cancer include shipyard, power plant, or oil refinery workers, plumbers, electricians, county, chemical plant, or city municipal water district workers, miners, demolition construction contractors, railroad workers, or auto brake technicians. The Mesothelioma Victims Center says, "Typically the average US mesothelioma victim is in their late 60's, or 70's. More often than not mesothelioma is diagnosed three, four, or even five decades after the exposure to asbestos. Regrettably mesothelioma frequently appears out of the blue. Almost all US mesothelioma victims are retired. Again, we fear hundreds of families dealing with a mesothelioma death, never even bother to call a top notch mesothelioma law firm, in order to see what rights they might have. We are here to help, and families of mesothelioma victims can call us anytime at 866-714-6466." http://MesotheliomaVictimsCenter.Com


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The Michael Lewis factor
Talking heads on CNBC for days scoff that worries over high-speed trading are old news and overblown.
Reporters on the beat are defensive on Twitter.
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And Attorney General Eric Holder is telling Congress not to worry — the Justice Department is already looking into high-speed traders.
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Add it up: Michael Lewis has another hit on his hands.
Before there was enough time for anyone in Washington or on Wall Street to finish reading Lewis's latest — "Flash Boys," a takedown of the high-speed trading industry published on Monday — the uproar was already flooding in from all corners of the money, politics and regulatory establishment.
"Shame on both of you for falsely accusing literally thousands of people and possibly scaring millions of investors in an effort to promote a business model," BATS Global Markets President William O'Brien told Lewis and the protagonist of his book, IEX exchange CEO Brad Katsuyama, during a heated CNBC interview Tuesday.
When cable news is on fire, beat reporters are defensive and the industry in question is vigorously defending itself — that means a longtime phenomenon is showing itself: The Michael Lewis Effect.
Lewis has built a wildly successful career out of taking complex topics and translating them in a way that appeals to a mass audience by wrapping them in a "Can you believe this!" narrative. The books aren't filled with scoops, rather they throw an issue followed mostly by a group of insiders or die-hards into the spotlight.
It's not a comfortable place to be for those playing the villain role.
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Following the publication of "Flash Boys," some Wall Street players have been beside themselves trying to explain that Lewis got it all wrong: High-frequency traders are good for investors and his charge that markets are "rigged," which kicked off a "60 Minutes" segment on the book, is b.s.
"Lumping all behavior together and labeling it as all bad does a disservice to the end investor and is too simplistic a take on a complex topic," said Peter Nabicht of Modern Markets, a group that advocates on behalf of high-frequency traders.
The book focuses on speedy traders whose profits rely on computerized systems and fast connections to send large numbers of rapid buy and sell orders to exchanges.
The part of the book, and the interviews he has done, that has drawn the most attention is Lewis's contention that stock markets are "rigged." For instance, he argues high-speed traders are able to profit by anticipating big trades, then quickly buying up shares and selling them to investors at a higher price — or what he calls legal front-running. High-speed traders win while investors, including pension and 401(k) funds lose.
"The result is higher prices for investors in those shares," he told Bloomberg Businessweek. "That's rigged."
The hero of "Flash Boys" is Katsuyama, an employee of the Royal Bank of Canada who moves to Wall Street and alongside his colleagues finds the system of electronic stock trading to be unfair and endeavors to find a way to blunt the impact of speedy traders. In the end, Katsuyama founds a new exchange he says will provide a safe haven from high-speed firms.
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Despite all the attention, the question is whether this latest book will mean real changes or if it'll just be a thorn in the side of traders.
The SEC, well before the publication of "Flash Boys," had pledged a broad review of whether the structure of markets is shaky and what role high-speed traders play.
"This book could be a wonderful catalyst for our equity market structure review," SEC Commissioner Dan Gallagher said Thursday.
Law-enforcement officials this week made sure everyone knew they had already been looking into the issue.
"The [Justice] Department is committed to ensuring the integrity of our financial markets — and we are determined to follow this investigation wherever the facts and the law may lead," Holder told a House Appropriations hearing on Friday.
Some critics of Wall Street note the industry isn't united in favor of high-speed trading and that could force change.
"This is going to be more Wall Street saying this is bad stuff, what's going on, and then Washington moving," said former Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.).
This is the second time in recent years that the Lewis Effect has hit Wall Street and Washington.


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Mondi wrote: As for the analogy of people eating meat and wearing leather? It breaks down immediately unless Booth caught this animal for subsistence purposes.
Hunting is a lot more humane then typical food production practices, and on a guided tour the meat would almost always be eaten. If the hunter doesn't want it the guide will take it and sell it (probably for a ton of money).
And yeah put me in the "who cares" category.
It's no different. I'm fine with it insofar as it was lawful.
But I can still disagree with hunting/fishing for sport as a hobby.
And even with license, it does not make hunting your right. Hunting, like driving, is a privilege granted by the state
So you're either a vegan or a hypocrite then (smile)


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Tim Whitmire, of the Associated Press, reports the campaign of Democratic congressional hopeful and former NFL QB Heath Shuler has filed a financial disclosure statement, more than six months late. Campaign spokesman Andrew Whalen said the campaign has paid a $200 fine for filing the paperwork late and noted that the campaign changed managers at the start of the year.
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|NFL | Shuler to Run for Congress
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The Asheville Citizen-Times reports former NFL QB Heath Shuler announced today that he will run for the United States House of Representatives 11th Congressional district in North Carolina, a post currently held by long-time Republican Congressman Charles Taylor. Shuler filed paperwork this morning with the Federal Election Commission, according to a news release.
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|NFL | Shuler Hanging it Up
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:35:00 -0700
The AP, citing WNOX radio in Knoxville, has reported QB Heath Shuler is going to retire from football due to his injured foot which has been bothering him for almost two years. He was released by the Oakland Raiders yesterday.
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The Oakland Raiders have released QB Heath Shuler, whom they signed earlier this spring.
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|NFL | Shuler Update
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 19:40:00 -0800
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that QB Heath Shuler, who as reported earlier, probably won't sign with the Bears is now expected to visit with the Raiders on Monday along with a few other teams next week. He has passed physicals with the Saints and Bears.
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|Bears | Shuler Not a Likely Choice
Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:10:00 -0800
The Chicago Tribune reports the Bears met with Free Agent QB Heath Shuler earlier today but he does not appear to be in their future plans. The Bears are expected to draft a QB early in the upcoming draft and Shuler feels that's a situation he does not want to get into. "If a team's in a situation where they say, "We're definitely going to go after our quarterback of the future," then that's certainly not a place I want to be," Shuler said. The Bears remain "interested" in Tony Banks (StL) and Glenn Foley (NYJ) although not much is taking place on those fronts. Reportedly the Jets will potentially shop LB James Farrior since they have come to an agreement with LB Roman Phifer, and the Bears would have some interest in Farrior if he is shopped.
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|Saints | Shuler Officially Released
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:10:00 -0800
As expected, the Saints officially terminated the contract of QB Heath Shuler this afternoon.
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ESPNews reports the Saints are scheduled to released QB Heath Shuler shortly. The release is expected to happen later this afternoon.
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Sun, 21 Feb 1999 12:55:00 -0800
The San Jose Mercury News reports the Bears, who are in or out of the Detmer trade picture (depending on the story of the day), are said to be interested in bringing in Gus Frerotte (WAS) and Heath Shuler (if he's released by New Orleans) over the next two weeks for visits and they do not want to part with a draft pick in the first four rounds.
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Brew NH celebrated to get more people interested in beer, tourismBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
January 07. 2014 10:03PM
HAMPTON — Gov. Maggie Hassan paid a visit Tuesday to Smuttynose Brewing Company's new Towle Farm Road facility to help celebrate the launch of Brew NH, a partnership among the newly formed Granite State Brewers Association, Beer Distributors of New Hampshire and the state in an effort to promote the local beer industry and beer tourism.
So far, 24 breweries and businesses representing nearly every region of the state have joined the effort, and are featured on a digital tour map available at the new website, www.nhbeer.org.
Peter Egelston, founder and president of Smuttynose, said the beer companies are very competitive with each other in the marketplace, but understand when there is a need to come together.
He said the private-public partnership will benefit everyone involved, not least of all consumers and visitors to New Hampshire.
In the early 1990s, beer tourism in the state consisted of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Merrimack and Egelston's original brewpub, the Portsmouth Brewery downtown.
"Now you can really plan a whole vacation around visiting breweries," Egelston said.
This includes a recent number of nano-breweries that have cropped up in no small part due to favorable legislation recently passed and supported by Hassan.
Hassan said the industry is one the Legislature has been paying a great deal of attention to because it is fast-growing, creates jobs and attracts visitors to the state. She said it also brings together the manufacturing and tourism sectors the state continuously tries to promote.
"This is a really terrific project and partnership because it brings attention to a high-quality, locally made New Hampshire product," Hassan said.Jeff Rose, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, said the project will help ensure New Hampshire is well-poised to build on the momentum being seen in the craft brewing industry in the state and nationwide.
Rose said more than 1,000 jobs in the state are associated with the craft brewing industry representing a $350 million impact to the state.
According to an analysis released by the national Brewers Association in December, small and independent craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the United States economy in 2012.
Rose said local breweries and brewpubs are often points of pride and congregation in a community, and the Brew NH effort raises the awareness level beyond that.
The groups also hope to get more New Hampshire residents to drink New Hampshire beer. J.T. Thompson, minister of propaganda for Smuttynose, said only 1.3 percent of beer purchased in New Hampshire was made by New-Hampshire owned breweries, a significantly smaller percentage than in the adjacent states of Massachusetts and Vermont.
"Having this association and this community of everybody sharing for the greater good is good for all of us," Nate Sephton, owner and brewer with 7th Settlement Brewery of Dover said. "We challenge each other to make better beer and increase local sales."
Thompson said being involved in the NH Beer project is partly self-serving. With the new facility nearing completion, Smuttynose wants everyone to visit.
"If our brand grows, we can help other brands grows and vice versa," Thompson said. "We've been in the industry in the state for a long time, and we feel we have the opportunity to be a leader and help things grow."He said he thinks the effort can also help grow a stronger sense of pride around New Hampshire.
Bill Herlicka, founder of White Birch Brewing Co. of Hooksett and president of the newly formed Granite State Brewers Association, said they are currently planning several events for 2014, and will continually add information to the website to continue attracting beer drinkers from around the world to the Granite State.


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The Duchess of Cornwall is to follow in the footsteps of the Queen Mother as she becomes the patron of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Camilla will work with the orchestra, taking on the role that the late Queen Mother held for over 50 years.
"National Youth Orchestra is such an inspiring organisation. It's brilliant to think that a member of the Royal Family thinks so too. I can't wait to play for The Duchess," revealed excited cellist Sarah Hughes.
Last year, the National Youth Orchestra won the Queen's medal for music, becoming the first ever organisation to win the prestigious award.
In recent years, Camilla has increased her royal workload and in May the Duchess undertook her first solo tour as she visited France for several days.
One of the tour's highlights was Camilla's first French speech. Before the speech, Camilla admitted she was incredibly nervous.
"I hope you will forgive my rather rusty French but it is fifty years since I was a student at the Institut Britannique in Paris," the wife of Prince Charles joked.
After receiving an applause from the audience, the 65-year-old royal revealed she was relieved she had made it to the end.
"I was so terrified. That really has taken years off my life," she said. "I'm just thankful it's over."
Camilla, like the rest of the Royal Family and the world, is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child.
"We are very excited, immensely looking forward to it and waiting for that call," the Duchess revealed to reporters earlier this week, as she attended the preview day of the Coronation Festival.
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GoGGBridge app (free; iOS and Android)
What it is: An entertaining and trip-planning app created for the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which opened May 27, 1937.
How it works: With a tap or swipe of your finger, you can plan a visit or absorb history.
Why it's great: This app puts bridge facts in your pocket, plus details on where to shop, hike, grab grub, catch a bus or find a toilet.
Why you might hesitate: The maps aren't integrated with Google maps. But the app's assets outweigh this limitation.
National Geographic National Parks app (free; iOS)
What it is: An app with comprehensive guides to 20 of America's most visited National Parks, including Arches, Bryce Canyon and Zion in Utah; the Grand Canyon in Arizona; Acadia in Maine and Everglades in Florida. More parks will be added.
How it works: You can use the free basic guide or pay 99 cents to $1.99 for an expanded guide. Your first expanded guide is free (I chose Yosemite).
The free basic guide includes general park information, how and when to go, entrance fees, park rules, advisories and detailed maps that you can filter by activity or season. The expanded guides provide more photos along with Photo Tips from pros, Park Secrets, What to See and What to Do. National Geographic spokeswoman Stephanie Montgomery says the expanded guides for Yellowstone, Grand Canyon and Zion are the most downloaded. Each costs 99 cents.
Why it's great: I love many of the basic guide's features, including being able to dial a phone number by tapping it in the app. The option of filtering sights on the map by activity or season is also sweet. However, I preferred planning a visit to Yosemite by using What to Do and What to See.
Why you might hesitate: I wish clicking on a Point of Interest in the map would launch Google Maps for directions.
Fotopedia National Parks app (free; iOS)
What it is: A photo driven app that's loaded with 3,000 spectacular images shot by professional photographer QT Luong of the 58 U.S. National Parks from Acadia in Maine to Zion in Utah.
How it works: You can view images by choosing Stories, Alaska or Slideshow. For example, in the Stories category, you can scroll through images of clouds under Hawaiian Clouds or browse wildlife photos under Florida Wildlife.
Why it's great: The images are breathtaking, and the app can help you choose which National Park has your favorite eye candy, whether it be glaciers or wildlife. If you love rock formations, images of Garden of the Gods in Utah's Arches National Park, Hoodoos in Utah's Bryce Canyon and the boulders in Texas' Big Bend National Park may help you choose where to explore.
Why you might hesitate: The descriptions aren't well-written, and there are fewer trip planning tools. But the app's photos rock.


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- The beauty, and sometimes catch, of the American court system is that a guilty verdict doesn't always mean the end. That's designed to help the wrongly convicted. But today, a judge ruled former Rhinelander police officer Greg DeRosier had a fair trial."Yeah we talked about it, and I was upset," says Greg DeRosier on the witness stand at his motion for a new trial. A jury convicted the 63-year-old in 2011 of third degree sexual assault and intimidating a witness in the case. Today he asked a judge to grant him a new trial.DeRosier's trial attorney was current Oneida County District Attorney Mike Schiek. DeRosier's new attorney argued Schiek should have objected to hearsay statements witnesses made."This is, was the trial fair? We have rules of hearsay to ensure a fair trial," says new Defense Attorney Peter Heyne.But Schiek said he allowed the hearsay because it played into his defense strategy. The witnesses testified about what the victim SAID happened to her, but some gave different versions of the story.Ultimately DeRosier was found guilty in 2011. Today Judge John Yackel shot down the claim DeRosier's defense was ineffective and denied his request for a new trial."The Court finds the strategy utilized by trial council does not fall outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance," says Judge Yackel.DeRosier's fight doesn't necessarily end here. His next step would be to apply for an appeal in Wausau. For now, he'll head back to prison.
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In case you haven't realized it, there is nothing at all in this universe that can be proved with absolute certainty. Doesn't matter whether you've tested it or not, and it doesn't matter whether someone else has for that matter - you cannot be absolutely perfectly certain that it isn't wrong. But it's extremely ridiculous to then say, "well, I can't be absolutely sure, even though it's almost completely sure, so hey, it's a belief that I have faith in".


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WASHINGTON (AP) — An American imprisoned in Cuba for nearly three years is suing his former Maryland employer and the United States government for $60 million, saying they didn't adequately train him or disclose risks he was undertaking by doing development work on the Communist island.
Alan Gross and his wife Judy sued Friday in federal court in Washington. The lawsuit alleges that the economic development company Gross was working for in Cuba and the U.S. government, with which the company had a contract, failed to provide Gross "with the education and training that was necessary to minimize the risk of harm to him."
Gross, 63, was arrested in December 2009 while on his fifth trip to Cuba. The trip was part of a project to increase the availability of Internet access in the country, particularly to the island's small Jewish community. Gross was working on the effort as a subcontractor for Development Alternatives Inc., an economic development company based in Bethesda, Md.
The company, known as DAI, was a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government agency that provides economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide. USAID has been criticized by Cuba for seeking to promote democratic change on the island, and Cuba says its programs are a veiled attempt by Washington to undermine the government.
The lawsuit alleges that Gross expressed concern about his project several times but was pressured by DAI to "finish the project or to find someone else who would." When the U.S. government learned of Gross' concerns, officials also did nothing, the lawsuit says.
DAI said in a statement Friday that the company had "numerous disagreements" with the lawsuit's content. The statement did not specify those disagreements but said the company is confident it will "have a chance to tell DAI's side of this story in due course." State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday she was not aware of the lawsuit and had no immediate comment.
"This is very risky business in no uncertain terms," Gross wrote in a report to DAI after a third trip to the island in 2009, the lawsuit says.
He repeated the same sentiment in a report after his fourth trip, writing essentially the same sentence in bold.
Gross' wife Judy, who now lives in Washington, has previously said that her husband feels he was misled by DAI. Judy Gross said in a 2011 interview with The Associated Press that her husband wanted reassurance that what he was doing was legal, but the company refused to contact Cuban officials and refused to let him contact anyone either.
The Cuban government tightly controls access to the Internet in the country. Most access is dial-up and goes to an island intranet, rather than the full worldwide web. According to government statistics, only 2.9 percent of islanders had direct Internet access last year. The true figure is probably between 5 and 10 percent considering under-the-table sales of dial-up minutes.
Gross was tried in a Cuban court on charges of crimes against the state and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2011. In previously released testimony from the trial Gross called himself a "trusting fool."
"I was duped. I was used. And my family and I have paid dearly for this," he said.
Diplomatic efforts to win Gross' release have so far failed.
"At this time, there are no indications that Mr. Gross will return to his family within the next decade," the lawsuit says.
Gross' health has also declined in prison. He has lost more than 100 pounds, and earlier this year he developed a mass behind his right shoulder that an American doctor has said should be assumed to be cancerous unless proven harmless.
Gross' lead lawyer in the lawsuit, Scott Gilbert, said in a telephone interview that his client is a "well-intentioned, idealistic guy," not a "trained covert operative." Gross repeatedly noted risks, Gilbert said, but didn't know what to do about them. Gilbert said the government and DAI had fundamental duties to Gross that they failed to fulfill including properly briefing and debriefing him. He said the work Gross was doing should have been done by someone fully aware of the risks, not someone like Gross, who didn't even speak Spanish.
Also on Friday, Gross and his wife filed an approximately $10 million lawsuit in federal court in Maryland against the New Jersey-based Federal Insurance Company. DAI had purchased an insurance policy from the company that included a "wrongful detention policy" that covers Gross' imprisonment in Cuba.
The lawsuit says the company breached its contract by failing to pay expenses of the Gross family that are covered by the policy including legal fees and medical expenses. The lawsuit also says the insurance company has paid $2.3 million of the $5 million policy limit, some of it to DAI.
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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker and Matthew Lee in Washington and Peter Orsi in Havana contributed to this report.


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Vanessa Hudgens Steps Out for Beverly Hills Meeting
Vanessa Hudgens steps out in a two-toned peach colored dress while heading to an office building for a meeting on Thursday afternoon (September 19) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
This is the first sighting of the 24-year-old actress since news broke that her ex-boyfriend Zac Efron had completed a stint in rehab, and possibly a second one as well.
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March 18. 2014 10:02PM
Rail study: Three stations for Nashua
By KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
Control of 18-mile stretch of track could affect commuter rail's return to NH
— Preliminary findings from a new rail study indicate the possibility of three train stations in Nashua if commuter rail makes its way back to New Hampshire.
The Capitol Corridor rail study, which is still under way, has already identified potential train stops at the Pheasant Lane Mall, Crown Street and perhaps a layover station at the former WR Grace Organic Chemical site on Spit Brook Road, according to Tom Mahon, chairman of the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority.
Mahon shared some of the initial findings with the aldermanic Planning and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday.In addition to the three possible train stations in Nashua, the study also includes potential stops in Bedford, Manchester and Concord. A less serious idea includes a train station in Merrimack as well, Mahon said.
The ridership is estimated at about 3,100 one-way trips per day, said Mahon. There has been a rough cost projection of about $190 million to construct the Capitol Corridor from Lowell, Mass., to Concord, although he stressed that was not a formal price-tag. He said there are other variables and cost mitigating measures such as support from the MBTA that could alter the cost.
"They haven't given me any numbers yet," he said of the estimated finances, which he expects won't be available until next year.
Mahon said the communities of Nashua, Manchester and Concord all have fairly well-developed plans on how to implement rail in their own cities, adding Merrimack also has significant vacant land available along an existing rail line.
"It is another transportation alternative for residents, and encourages development of commerce and industry along the corridor," Mahon said of passenger rail. Train ridership has the possibility of alleviating traffic congestion while simultaneously promoting high tech jobs by enabling development in multiple communities, according to Mahon.
Estimated weekday train miles for each city range from 1,500 miles to more than 2,000 miles on weekdays, he said. Furthermore, Nashua could expect to see about 16 trains per day, added Mahon.
Alderman-at-Large Dan Moriarty addressed the possible Spit Brook Road train station site, noting this could possibly enable a quick travel route from Exit 2 off the turnpike to the train stop.
Moriarty also questioned Mahon on the NHRTA's media policy after plans to have Dan Kelly, the mayor's designee on the rail board, update officials came to a confusing halt last month.
Moriarty quoted the policy, which stated "each board member has the right to update their town" about ongoing NHRTA efforts. Kelly was scheduled to discuss rail with the committee last month, but at the last minute removed his presentation from the agenda.
Mahon said Kelly has only been on the board since November, and Mahon didn't feel that Kelly "had the depth of knowledge" to provide aldermen with the most accurate picture. In addition, Mahon said Kelly is a designee of Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, and that Kelly has every right to update the mayor and subsequently update other city officials if Lozeau feels it is warranted.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Rory McIlroy is getting exactly what he wanted out of his trip to Tennessee with the chance to play on the weekend. Now the man from Northern Ireland has his sights set on trying to finish off the St. Jude Classic with a win.
McIlroy snapped his skid of three straight missed cuts in style Friday, shooting a 5-under 65 that gave him the lead after 36 holes and put him into the final pairing Saturday.
"I saw a lot of positive signs with my ball striking. Hit a lot of good iron shots and drivers. So that was something that I was really working on the last couple of weeks and feels like it's coming together for me. So excited to be in this position for the weekend. This is really what I wanted heading into next week,'' McIlroy said.
"For the time being, my mind is focused on trying to win this golf tournament.''
No one has ever won a PGA Tour event, then followed up the next week by winning the U.S. Open. McIlroy will be heading to The Olympic Club in San Francisco looking to defend his championship next week.
First, he is trying to squeeze in as much competitive golf in Memphis as possible after playing only two rounds each at The Players Championship, the BMW PGA Championship in England and then the Memorial last week. Missing the cuts prompted him to add this event, sponsored by FedEx, to his schedule.
McIlroy really clicked Friday down the stretch as he birdied three of his final four holes and finished with an eagle, five birdies and two bogeys to match his lowest round this year on the PGA Tour. With a birdie on No. 18, McIlroy broke out of a four-way tie for the lead with a 133 total.
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"It's nice to see my name on that part of the leaderboard,'' McIlroy said. "It's not nice when you're struggling to make the cut on a Friday afternoon. It was great. It's nice to be through to the weekend obviously. It's obviously even nicer to be leading and have a great chance.''
Jeff Maggert, tied for the first-round lead with John Merrick, shot a 68 to match J.B. Holmes (64) and Kevin Stadler (65) at 6 under. Merrick had a 69 to join Chad Campbell (67) and Kevin Kisner (66) at 5 under.
Davis Love III, the Americans' Ryder Cup captain, had a 68 and was tied with Padraig Harrington (68) at 4 under. John Daly birdied his first three holes on his back nine to get to 5 under but finished with a 69 and was at tied at 3 under – making his fourth cut in five events.
McIlroy certainly has his driver working very well. Even when his caddie suggested a 3-wood off the tee at No. 18, McIlroy stuck with his driver and drove the ball 329 yards. That left him 115 yards to the pin, and he hit his approach to 5 feet for the final birdie and the lead.
He started four strokes back of Holmes, who took advantage of a morning tee time to take the clubhouse lead at 6 under. McIlroy was happy with his play Thursday with the exception of a bogey on the par-5 third. He made up for that with an eagle Friday, sticking an 8-iron to 9 feet.
Then he parred his way around the rest of the front nine, making the turn at 5 under and a stroke off the lead. McIlroy moved into a three-way tie atop the leaderboard with his second birdie of the round on the par-3 11th. He stuck his tee shot 5 feet from the hole and rolled the putt in for birdie to reach 6 under.
He bogeyed Nos. 12 and 13 to fall back. McIlroy said he wasn't happy that he had a wedge in his hand in the fairway on No. 13 from 127 yards only to hit into the rough turning a birdie chance into a bogey.
McIlroy turned it around on the par-5 16th, hitting his second shot to 4 feet. The ball hit the left edge and curled right, leaving McIlroy to tap in for birdie and a share of the lead. He had a nice par save on No. 17 after hitting his drive behind a tree and his second into a greenside bunker before getting up and down with a 4-footer for par and the final birdie.
"To finish strong the way I did was great, and it gives me momentum going into tomorrow,'' McIlroy said.
Holmes had his low round of the year as he works his way back from brain surgery last September. He had seven birdies and a bogey, putting himself into strong position.
"I wasn't knocking pins down, but I hit them in there pretty close,'' Holmes said. "Made a couple 6-footers, but I putted well. I was hitting it 15, 20 feet and making some putts.''
Maggert was the first to get to 7 under when he birdied No. 16, but he gave back the stroke with his lone bogey on No. 17 that left him pretty happy with only one with the TPC Southwind course playing tough.
"There's probably 30, 40 guys still in the tournament,'' said Maggert, who won the 2006 title.
Divots: Friday was McIlroy's 150th round on the PGA Tour. He has never had two eagles in the same round, and Aaron Watkins was the last to do that here in Memphis when he eagled No. 5 and 15 in 2009. … Defending champion Harrison Frazar was among 80 missing the cut at 2 over. He was 11 over. David Toms, a two-time champ here, also missed the cut (9 over) along with 2010 U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell (8 over). … The second-round lead of 7 under is the highest at this event since Tommy Armour III lead at 3 under.


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Satnav mishap misery cure promised at confab
Govt will bang heads together to push latest maps to drivers
Ever get that sinking feeling after your satnav misdirects your car into a ditch? Relax, the government is wading in to help stressed-out drivers get more accurate information from the road-mapping devices.
A summit will kick off in March ahead of local authorities being given more powers to have a bigger say about how their roads appear on satnavs and maps. According to the Department for Transport, part of the problem for drivers is that map updates take many months to filter through from local councils to satnavs.
That means motorists sometimes end up on the wrong road, and local residents get "inappropriate traffic on their doorsteps", the DfT added.
Meanwhile, many drivers apparently fail to update their satnavs to gain access to the latest road-mapping data. Local transport minister Norman Baker is calling on highway authorities, mapping providers and satnav vendors to work more closely together.
"Out of date directions mean misdirected traffic – a scourge of local communities. It is vital highway authorities, mapping companies and satnav manufacturers work more closely together to provide drivers with accurate, up-to-date information on traffic restrictions such as narrow roads or low bridges," said Baker.
"This will help prevent huge lorries from being sent down inappropriate roads and ensure motorists are given the best possible directions.
"The summit is timely because from April we are allowing local authorities to reclassify roads - ensuring A roads are placed where they want traffic to run and lowering the category of road in places they want traffic to avoid - rather than having to come to Whitehall for approval. These powers will help councils make sure that drivers are using suitable routes."
The government is hoping that the power handed to local authorities will help prevent "misery" for lorry drivers who follow satnav directions and end up stuck in narrow roads.
Quite a few unfortunates, guided only by their satnavs and presumably no commonsense whatsoever, have fallen victim to satnav blindness. These include a student who totalled her car on a level crossing, a woman who plunged a £96k Mercedes into a river, and a Doncaster man who very nearly drove himself off a cliff. Ouch! ®


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Thai chicken cakes with sweet chilli sauce
Ready in 20-25 minutes
A light and healthy supper that's a great variation on the chicken theme
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving for two
- kcal306
- fat13g
- saturates2g
- carbs4g
- sugars0g
- fibre1g
- protein43g
- salt0.28g
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- 2 large boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 175g/6oz each), cubed
- 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped
- small piece fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 small onion, roughly chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 4 tbsp fresh coriander, plus a few sprigs to garnish
- 1 green chilli, seeded and roughly chopped
Part of the capsicum family, chillies come in scores of varieties and colours (from green…
- 2 tbsp olive oil
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Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- sweet chilli sauce, lime wedges, shredded spring onion and red chilli, to serve
Toss the chicken, garlic, ginger, onion, coriander and chilli into a food processor and season well. Blitz until the chicken is finely ground and everything is well mixed. Use your hands to shape six small cakes.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, then fry the cakes over a medium heat for about 6-8 minutes, turning once. Serve hot, with sweet chilli sauce, lime wedges, coriander, shredded spring onion and red chilli.
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With saladServe with a green salad made of Chinese leaves, mizuna, watercress and rocket.
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Comments, questions and tips
9th Sep, 2017
I used 500g minced turkey breast. I only have a stick blender into which I put the onion, ginger and garlic plus a few drops of tabasco in place of the chilli, it minced them well. It made 12 cakes and I have frozen half, they were good and stuck together when cooking fine. Served with noodles, veg and sweet chilli sauce.
7th Feb, 2015
I made these for a Christmas Day canape (with smaller portions) and they were absolutely amazing. So easy, so fresh and so fragrant everyone absolutely loved them. I used chicken thighs instead of breasts, and I added all the ingredients EXCEPT the thighs first and gave them a quick pulse as I'd read that some people thought they were a bit mushy. I also didn't have any green chilli, but instead used a squirt of sriracha which was lovely. Thanks very much!