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In something that sounded like a scene straight out of Watergate, Freeholder Bill O'Dea lashed out at PSE&G about what the company knew before Superstorm Sandy and why the power company did not warn public officials about the severity of the power impacts.
Seeking answers and proposing a resolution that would hold power companies to 24-hour restoration timeline or face increased penalties, the freeholders questioned Richard Dwyer, PSE&G public affairs manager, about what caused the outages that crippled portions of the Hudson County for nearly nine days and why PSE&G had not restored power sooner.
"Was there a particular substation that caused this?" asked Freeholder Chairman Eliu Rivera.
"The main cause of the outage was Superstorm Sandy," Dwyer replied, "and the surge that came up the Hackensack River, the Hudson River through the Kill Van Kull."
Dwyer said storms over the last two years had significant impact on the company's customers, starting with a storm in 2010 that had blacked out more than 400,000 customers, the most significant impact in the company's 100-year-plus history.
"A year later with Hurricane Irene, over 800,000 customers lost power," Dwyer said.
But Superstorm Sandy dwarfed even that, with more than 1.7 million customers losing power.
"But even with that many customers losing power, we restored over a million in three days," Dwyer said, noting that in anticipation of the storm, PSE&G brought in crews three days in advance to react to the outages when they occurred. The company had estimated about 700,000 outages that would likely take seven to 10 days to restore.
Freeholder Bill O'Dea, however, questioned the company, asking that why, if PSE&G had anticipated these outages, hadn't it notified local officials so that cities and the county were better prepared.
"We could have brought in more food or generators, and might have evacuated some of our seniors," O'Dea said.
Dwyer argued that the storm was no secret and that news stations had informed the public and public officials that the storm was going to have significant impacts.
O'Dea then asked why PSE&G had not turned off some of the power stations the way New York City had in order to restore power more quickly.
Dwyer said PSE&G had powered down some of the stations, something O'Dea disputed.
In a statement issued later, Dwyer said, "Restoration plans following outages are designed to get power back on to the most people in the shortest time. Crews rely on a process recognized as an industry-standard best to get power back on as quickly as possible. Hospitals, police departments, fire stations and other public health and safety facilities are priority number one. After critical facilities are restored, the order in which repairs are made follows the path that electricity takes as it comes from the power plants to the customer. In summary, restoration crews begin with primary lines that can restore power to perhaps thousands of people. Then they move to lateral lines that can affect hundreds; secondary lines that affect dozens; and finally to service drops at individual homes. This is why homes in the same neighborhoods can be restored at different times."
"But even with that many customers losing power, we restored over a million in three days." – Richard Dwyer
Early reports under estimated the financial impact of the damage to the county where vehicles, buildings and other facilities was a total of about $7.7 million. The Hudson County Corrections facility had about $1.2 million in damage and the proposed headquarters of the Office of Emergency Management had about $2.4 million in damages.
Power was an issue countywide. The county had sought to obtain as many as 26 generators for use in Hoboken and Jersey City, but not all 26 were provided, the freeholders were told in a report. The army corps of engineers evaluated a building, and then called back, often causing a delay in getting the generators to a building. Hoboken got about five generators from the county.
During the height of the storm, Hudson County had 16 shelters open in nine municipalities housing more than 987 people. Three mobile kitchens operated, one each in Hoboken, Bayonne and Jersey City. Mandatory evacuations were ordered in four municipalities: Jersey City, Hoboken, Guttenberg and West New York. Three FEMA centers opened, one each in Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne. There were daily briefings with mayors and other officials via conference calls to provide updates.
Harold Demeiller, director of the county department of roads and public property, said his department started to prepare for the storm the Friday before it hit by holding a staff meeting then and again on Sunday. The department discussed procedures for Transcend, the transportation service overhead company, and other buses.
"Our first effort was to move the Transcend operation and buses up to Brennan Court House because we thought that was the highest point available to us, so that Transcend could continue to operate during the event," he said. "Transcend operated into Monday helping to move people to shelters where requests were made. We pulled Transcend off the road around 4 p.m. on Monday when the winds had reached 40 miles an hour at sustained peak. At that point the [Hudson County] Improvement Authority took over transportation."
But after the storm on Tuesday, Transcend resumed its operations, and all dialysis, chemotherapy and radiation appointments were kept for people who sought transportation to doctor's appointments.
Other business
The first in a series of properties the county was seeking to purchase was snapped up by a private company in a sheriff's foreclosure sale before the county made an offer, raising questions as to why the freeholders were not notified about the sale.
The property is on Newark Avenue along a narrow alley, and the county hoped to widen the alley to extend Central Avenue from where it currently ends to two blocks north. It was purchased for the bargain price of $350,000 just as the county was getting an assessment that said the property – with a dilapidated four story building the county proposed to knock down – was valued at $650,000.
Freeholders learned that the property would be valued significantly higher if the building was in better condition.
In what some other freeholders thought might have been a mistake, O'Dea pushed to have the purchase put off, saying that with the county's proposed expenditures to deal with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the county needed the money elsewhere.
"Once we start purchasing these properties, we won't be able to stop," O'Dea said.
While the freeholders had proposed to purchase the property for the road extension, Superior Court Judge Maurice Gallipoli has requested the property be purchased for use as parking lot to accommodate jurors who currently have few options to park in that area.


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What: Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee holds public hearings on proposed real estate transactions, including the purchase of conservation easements that would restrict future development on 81 acres of farm land north of Longmont.
When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Boulder County Courthouse's third-floor hearing room, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder.
BOULDER -- Boulder County would pay $750,000 to restrict any future development on 81 acres of privately owned irrigated farm land north of Longmont, under a proposal up for consideration by the county's Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee on Thursday night.
That panel is scheduled to hold a public hearing and make its own recommendation on whether the Board of County Commissioners should buy conservation easements over the land south of Vermillion Road that's owned by Oscar and Bernice Carlson.
The land is surrounded by about 700 acres of county-owned open space, including a 76-acre parcel southwest of North 115th Street and Vermillion Road that Boulder County paid $1 million to buy from the Carlsons in November 2001, according to Parks and Open Space Department real estate specialist Mel Stonebraker.
Under the proposal up for consideration on Thursday, the 81 acres west and southwest of that 2001 county open-space purchase would remain in private ownership.
But the county's acquisition of conservation easements over that 81 acres would eliminate any possibility that the land might someday be annexed to Longmont and become the site of future urban-scale development that's expected to take place along the north side of Colorado Highway 66, Stonebraker said.
The conservation easements would restrict the size of a current residence that's now on part of the Carlsons' property -- or any future residence that might be built on that lot -- to 3,000 square feet above grade, including any garage. Another home could be built elsewhere on the property, just north of the existing residence, but it also would have to be 3,000 square feet or smaller.
The conservation easements would allow construction of 5,000 feet of agricultural accessory buildings on the 81-acre property.
The $750,000 price tag for the conservation easements would include $110,000 worth of Highland Ditch Company water-rights rights shares the county would acquire in the transaction.
Also on the advisory committee's Thursday night agenda is a report from Janis Whisman, the Parks and Open Space Department's Real Estate Division manager, about the nearly $6.7 million Boulder County spent last year to preserve 937 acres of land and acquire water rights associated with that land, along with another $532,676 the county spent in 2012 on option payments on properties it's schedule to buy in future years.
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LACMTA adopts FY14 budgetWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) Board of Directors have adopted a balanced $5.075-billion budget for Fiscal Year 2013-14 that begins on July 1, 2013.
The spending plan keeps fares at current levels, however, CEO Art Leahy has urged directors to begin discussing fare restructuring for future years. He notes LACMTA fares are among the lowest of any major transit agency in the world, and riders only pay 26 percent of what it costs to operate their buses and trains.
In FY14, additional late night service will be added on the Expo and Gold Lines and there also will be more weekend service on all rail lines.
LACMTA will spend $261 million in the next fiscal year on deferred maintenance for bus and rail vehicles and facilities and another $37 million on capital improvements for safety and security, including $20 million for gates and other safety enhancements on the Blue Line.
The budget altogether includes $165 million for safety and security, a major focus of Los Angeles County Supervisor and LACMTA Board Chair Michael Antonovich. The sum includes paying for law enforcement on the LACMTA system in addition to capital improvements and various passenger safety and security measures. This will be a $13-million increase over the current fiscal year.
Gates in the subway and many of the light-rail stations will be latched, a phased in approach that will start June 19 just before the start of the new fiscal year. Next year, LACMTA also plans on unveiling a master plan for Union Station that will address how the historic facility will accommodate transit system expansion.
Fulfilling the voter mandate for Measure R that is greatly expanding transit options for Angelenos, in FY14, LACMTA will advance design and early construction for the Purple Line subway extension, the Regional Connector rail line that will connect the Gold, Blue and Expo lines to eliminate transfers and the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor light-rail line, among other transit projects and programs. Construction is well underway for the Expo light-rail segment from Culver City to Santa Monica and the Gold Line Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa and will continue in FY14.
LACMTA's FY14 budget is $500 million or 11 percent more than the agency's current $4.575 billion budget. LACMTA funding comes largely from local transportation sales tax revenue, along with transit assistance and grants from the state and federal governments, farebox revenue and other revenue sources such as advertising, land leases and commercial filming.


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|Correspondence from Jane Smith Washington to William L. Washington, December 18, 1864
|Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In the account she tells how Federal troops in several instances robbed neighbors, shot her husband, destroyed the interior of their house, and set much of their farm ablaze. Her life was ultimately spared by the actions of another Union soldier.
|1864 December 18
|Washington, Jane Smith, 1830-1894
|Springfield (Tenn.)
|[Page 1] "Do not think of coming home, unless I write for you, you could do us no good here, your presence would only add to our cares. All our friends are as kind as they can be and I hope in a few weeks to be able to tell you that everything is satisfactorily arranged. Till then be hopeful and cheerful, and study as hard as you can. Your letters of 5th, and 10th, have been received Good bye God bless you my dear boy. My dear Son. I suppose you have received Mr. Andersons letter containing an account of the occurrences at home last Wednesday and Thursday week. Friday morning (9th) was bitter cold and in coming up very early in the buggy with Dr. Dunn, my fingers were frost bitten and I was not able to hold a pen or even dress myself for nearly a week, and so asked Mr. A to write to you, which he very kindly did. I will try to give you a faithful history of a scene which God willing I hope never to witness again. But first in order to give you a clear insight into the causes which prompted the act I must review some occurrences which took place in our immediate" [Page 2] "neighborhood only two days previously. On Monday the 5th four men dressed partly in federal uniforms had robbed in open day Traughber, Red Burns, Squire Ayres, Ledbetter, Jim Morrow and several others. Dr. Dunn called by that afternoon and told us of it. The next day those same men robbed old Stroud Buck Darden and took Lon Polks horse. That night about 9 o'clock Dr. Dunn again stopped at the gate and told us to look out that those men were in the neighborhood and would pay us a visit. The next morning old Dick reported that they had been seen in the Vanhook field. All these things naturally put us on the qui vive, and we were looking every moment for the robbers. We and not a neighbor in five miles had ever heard that there was a horse presser in the country. We were all expecting robbers, but had no idea there was a federal in the country. Your Father had been at the Tobacco" [Page 3] "barn all day and about half past three, he came to the house with Joe and eat his dinner. He had just risen from the table when Joe and Irene came rushing in saying two robbers were at the stable trying to steal Ball. Your Father seized his gun and rushed out, saw one of the men leading Ball off from the stable door and fired upon him instantly. So rapidly did the thing transpire that before I could run to the wall, the shot was fired and the mans companion was galloping with all his might down towards the mill. Your Father and Granville mounted to go in pursuit of the fellow, who had jumped the Orchard fence and was making rapidly for the Chestnut lot Granville went through the Peach Orchard your Pa started rounding by the pond, and at the grannary came in sight of a squad who fired on him several times. He" [Page 4] "at once returned to the house, had Granville called in and prepared for defence expecting every moment to be attacked by the gang of robbers as we thought them to be. In the mean time the gang rode off in the direction of the Cedar Hill were gone nearly and hour, when they returned, rode to the stable where I had had the man locked up, and then turned and again went towards Cedar Hill. I had the stable door locked when the man staggered into it, because I thought he was only wounded and perhaps some one might be able to identify him and thus discover who composed the gang. He had on federal pants his other cloths were those of a citizen. While the men were still round the place, I wrote to Dr. Dunn to get some friends and come to our assistance and sent to Col. Downey for a guard. In less than an hour after Foster returned from Turnersville, Dr. Dunn came over with a Co from the 7th Ohio," [Page 5] "Col Garrard, the whole command 160 men encamped there that night and saw the man, and heard the circumstances, and the Col remarked that your Pa was doing good border service, that he saw no evidence of the fellow having belonged to either army, and applauded you Father for his act. Col. Downey sent down a squad but finding us amply guarded by Col. Garrards forces they returned to Springfield. The next morning not fifteen minutes after Col. G. left the house, about twenty men of the 8 Michigan under Lieut. Crowley came dashing up to the house like demons and in an instant were swarming all over it calling for your Father with the most blasphemous oaths and abusive epithets, threatening to shoot him on sight. I took Lieut. Crowley to the room where your Father was, he abused him for every thing under the sun, but your Father never answered him a word except that he was not conscious of having done wrong, but that before a" [Page 6] "proper tribunal he would answer any questions. His calmness only enraged them more, I saw they would murder him if they took him from the house, and I and your Grandmother in tears and on our knees besought that man to send him under guard to Springfield, he scoffed at our prayers and drove us from him with oaths. They finally took your Father and started off with him but had not got to the top of Jinneys hill before they were overtaken by a squad of the 14th Illinois under Lieut. Evans and your Father was brought back again. Crowleys command returned also, and then began a scene which I shudder to recall. I stood by your Father all the time, feeling that his safety even for a moment depended upon me. The officers incited the men to greater fury than even then possessed them and after talking to them in a way to rouse their bad passions even higher left them without control to vent their fury at will. For two mortal hours," [Page 7] "threats, curses, jeers and taunts as to his fate were heaped upon him and I, pistols were snapped in his face, and shaken over his head, my prayers and tears were made a scoff and jest, a band of indians could not have taken more devilish delight in tormenting a prisoner. Your Father stood confronting them calmly and fearlessly, steadily looking into their eyes, and they quailed before the steady gaze of an unarmed prisoner like cowards as they were. I felt the end was drawing near and taking my arms from around him, I started to seek an officer leaving the three little girls standing round his feet. I had not left him a second when I heard a shot and turning saw your Father staggering from the shock, but in one instant he had recovered himself and was grappling the pistol with both hands. I rushed in between them and clasping my darling round the neck placed my body between him and" [Page 8] "the man, who cocking his pistol would have shot again through me, had not a comrade caught his hand with the remark "you have done enough" I shrieked murder with all my power. Your Father stood as calmly defiant as ever. The children screaming round our knees, and those demons gloating over our misery. In twenty minutes or longer Lieut. Doyle of 8th Michigan came to us, and through his influence we were allowed to go to the house, where he helped me bind up the wound until the arrival of Dr. Dunn. One of the men who had most strongly threatened your Fathers life, came with us to the house, our self appointed guard and remained in the room with his gun all the time. While this had been transpiring the house had been pillaged from ground to cellar trunks broken open & rifled, furniture chopped to pieces with axes, doors burst down , and your Grandma cursed and told if she did not give them 500." [Page 9] "dollars they would burn the house over her d_nd old head. They robbed Granville of everything he had. Now let me tell you how wonderfully God worked for our salvation, while these scenes were being enacted here, a man who had gone to Springfield to get a reciept for his horse, overheard the threats of those men and going to Col. Downey told him, to go down and save us if he could. Boyd heard the same rumors, Col. Wiley Woodard also heard them & reported them to the Col. who at their suggestion and from the noble instincts of his own heart jumped into the saddle and with Boyd and an escort of 12 men, came under whip and spur through the near way to our rescue. Not one moment too early did he come, their plundering almost done, the next act would have been murder and fire as was proved by their firing the straw in the cellar, just after Col. Downey came." [Page 10] "He saw the Lieut. And I do not know how he accomplished it but by asserting his authority as commandant of this post to hold prisoners charged with any crime he got your Father out of their hands and into his. Then I felt his life was measurably safe, but Col. Downey had but 12 men while they were 50 strong, and we feared that after night they might over power his guard and still work their will. To guard against any difficulty the Col. sent back to Springfield for reinforcements and after their arrival, left us a guard of fifteen men, and with the others brought your Father here. While Col. Downey was waiting for his reinforcements, the men of Crowleys & Evans commands, began to burn the outbuildings Col. D. had only men enough to guard the house and we had to let them burn. The Woods, barn with the whole Tobacco crop was first consumed, then the shuck pens and corn cribs, then the large" [Page 11] "barn where the hay was kept. (you remember the barn and stable below the house) That set some of the negro cabins on fire but they were extinguished, then they burned the Rocky barn in which was stored, wagons farming implements, threshing machine shingles enough to cover the house, and many other valuable things. The fencing caught from this fire, and but for the prompt exertions of Seargent Jackson (a negro) the whole place would have been consumed. I can never forget Col. Downey and noble Col. himself, to the privates in the ranks, deserve our warmest gratitude, you are indebted to them, through God's good providence for your Fathers life. My children shall remember Col. Downey as their greatest benefactor. The case has been laid before Gen. Rassean, and Gen. Thomas, and they approve Col. D's conduct throughout. We are staying with Gen. Garner, and he, his most excellent Wife and all" [Page 12] "his family vie with each other in kindness. Your Father is held subject to farther orders none of our friends anticipate any trouble. Most probably when the excitement subsides about Nashville his case will recieve attention. The bullet passed entirely through his arm above the elbow, but missed the bone, it is healing as well as we could desire. Boyd remained with your Grandma until day before yesterday, he will return there again. When our future movements have been determined on I will write you fully. For the next few weeks we remain in Springfield either here or at Aunt Susans. Grandma and the children are well. I hear from them every day. I wonder she did not die under this great distress but God has upheld her as He has done us all. Blessed be His name for ever more. My heart says Amen, in the fulness of gratitude to Him and the instruments he used to show His power. Your devoted Mother, Jane Washington"
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Recap: Syracuse Crunch @ Americans, 10.12.2012
"Don't take for granted what you've got, honey – rock it, honey." (NEEDTOBREATH, Solomon's Ashes)
I've been struggling with where to start for the Amerks home opener. By that, I meant that I'm not sure what my favorite part was. I'm pretty sure it was watching them give up four unanswered goals before tying the game, only to win in a shootout, though. THe more things change, the more they stay the same …
The Amerks kicked off the season in style (although less style and fanfare than last season, but who's paying attention), with a red carpet event hosted by long-time play-by-play man Don Stevens. It was a rather low-key, but nice event, with lots of player interviews, smiling, and autograph signing. As we anxiously awaited warmups, conversation centered on the notion that this Syracuse Crunch team would not be the team that we have played the last several seasons. Due to an affiliation flip-flop, the 2011-12 Syracuse Crunch are now the Norfolk Admirals, and the defending 2011-12 Calder Cup Champion Norfolk Admirals are now the 2012-13 "nobody" Syracuse Crunch. What I anticipated was a good battle, maybe less chippy than previous years, but a good game none the less.
What I did not anticipate was Corey Tropp scoring off of a Cody Hodgson pass twenty-four seconds into the game. Five minutes and four seconds later, we had a tie game, as Syracuse's Mark Barberio tied the game at one on the power play. Not to hold off on an age-old rivalry, Mike Angelidis went after Nick Tarnasky on a shift change. Tarnasky made quick work of Angelidis, however, and both spent some time in the box. When one goal is not enough, it does tend to make for good hockey, and Tropptastic netted his second of the night, from Luke Adam and Drew Schiestel, near the fifteen minute mark. Not to be outdone, Marcus Foligno netted one (for my niece, because it was her birthday), with captain Kevin Porter and Mark Mancari getting the helpers. I had been under the impression that Syracuse's new affiliate is the Tampa Bay Lightning, but it would appear that, based on the amount of diving that came out the Crunch during this game, the Sedin twins were at training camp. In the last minute of play of the first, Marcus Foligno was called on a tripping minor. This led to quite the melee, leaving not only Foligno with a penalty, but Mancari and Syracuse's Pierre-Cedric Labrie with roughing minors and Joe Finley and Radko Gudas with fighting majors. The period would close with the Crunch on the power play and the Amerks up 3-1.
Goal-wise, the second period appeared to be highly uneventful. Mark Pysyk got into the fray, scoring his first of the season at 3:22, with assists to Evan Rankin and Phil Varone. I wish I had seen it, but my stomach was rumbling and I was waiting in line for food. It felt like the Amerks were on the penalty kill the WHOLE SECOND PERIOD. They actually were not, however – both teams had three power plays in the second period. New season in the AHL, new rules … or rules I've never heard of that have been around forever and no one's ever enforced them. At 14:21, Marcus Foligno and Vlad Namestnikov were both assessed minor penalties for grabbing the face mask. I have never, ever, in MANY years of hockey heard of anyone getting a face mask penalty in hockey. Foligno was assessed an additional two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct, as well. What should have happened, at this point, was not what actually happened and confused the hell out of me (and many other fans, I'm sure). Foligno and Namestnikov went to their respective boxes, and play continued. At the end of the first Foligno penalty, when he was not released from the box (as he should not have been), Coach Rolston sent (I believe) Mark Mancari onto the ice. A bench minor was called on Rochester for an illegal substitution, and the Crunch continued on the power play. From what I can gather, TWO Amerks should have been sent to serve for Foligno's two minor penalties, so that when the coincidental minors expired, someone from the Rochester club could reenter the ice. Because that's not how it went down, Mancari served the bench minor. Syracuse would score to come within two at the end of the second, as Angelidis buried a pass from Wyman.
If last season was the season of the second period breakdown, I sincerely hope that last night was not an indication of things to come for this team. AHL MVP Cory Conacher scored a goal and tallied two assists, and Tyler Johnson added two more to give the Crunch a 5-4 lead over Rochester. As Syracuse served a bench minor for delay of game, Mancari stepped it up, and tied the game at 12:42, with assists going to TJ Brennan and Foligno. The teams would skate though a scoreless bonus period and head into the shootout. In the AHL, we don't believe in ties (unlike our NHL brothers), and the shootout goes five rounds OR until a winner is decided. While another fifteen-rounder would have been one hell of a way to end the home opener, Amerks fans wouldn't have to wait that long. Mark Mancari was the fifth shooter, and scored the lone shootout goal, giving the Amerks the win over the Syracuse Crunch. Welcome back to Rochester, Mr. Mancari!
Game Notes: Although the officiating seemed obscenely one-sided, twenty-four total penalties were called (twelve aside). Rochester went 1-for-7 on the PP; Syracuse was 2-for-7. Each team was assessed thirty minutes in penalties … Syracuse dominated the second period in shots, racking up 12 to Rochester's 3. They ended the evening with 34 shots (10-12-10-2-0) to Rochester's 25 (10-3-10-1-1) … The three stars of the night were 1. Mark Mancari (ROC), 2. Cory Conacher (SYR), 3. COrey Tropp (ROC) .. Speaking of Tropptastic, he got slammed into the boards by Crunch D-man Radko Gudas late in the third. ALthough he could barely move following the hit, he still managed to get deep into the slot on that PP. He had a REALLY hard time getting to the bench (as no one was available to help him), and did not return to the game. He was seen leaving the arena on crutches, but Coach Rolston did not comment on the injury during post-game … All of the Amerks ended even or higher, except for Mark Mancari, TJ Brennan, and Kevin Porter, who finished a minus-1.
The Amerks head north next, to take on North Division rivals (and Calder Cup runners-up) Toronto Marlies, for the Marlies home opener on Saturday. Rochester returns home on Tuesday to meet the Binghamton Senators. Rochester went 6-2-0 against Binghamton last season. However, Bingo has also received roster bolster the lockout has provided, and likely will not look like the sad, tired squad there were last season. As always, I'll be there, here, and on Twitter. See you at the game!


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Wow, what a week! I've just travelled from the south of England to Scotland, visiting great gardens on the way; from the iconic Sissinghurst and Great Dixter in the south to Chatsworth, Haddon Hall and Alnwick in the north. It has been a blur of beauty from beginning to end.
Today, I am back in my own garden, sorting out what has been getting out of hand over the last month while I led a garden tour from Amsterdam to Bruges to London and on to Edinburgh and Glasgow, visiting classic garden after garden all the way. It has been a brilliant experience.
I have returned with more insights than I can put down in words here today, but I will be drawing on the wealth of images and ideas I collected for months to come.
Starting out in the south of England this week, I took my group to the garden county of Kent, where the hops are grown. We started out by visiting two of the most famous gardens in the world - Vita Sackville West's beautiful multi-roomed castle garden at Sissinghurst and Christopher Lloyd's romantic hall-house garden with its fabulous sunken garden and immaculately clipped yews.
Was it too ambitious to see both gardens in a single day?
Yes, of course. I concede it was a little disrespectful. But it is what we had to do. It was made possible with a stopover for lunch at the beautiful village of Tenterden.
What a magnificent garden Sissinghurst is. Sackville-West really understood how to target the emotions by framing views between clipped hedges and positioning statues in strategic places guar-anteed to evoke a rapturous response.
The garden is the definition of elegance and refinement. Colours have been carefully separated into key areas and combined with artistic precision. The overwhelming feeling through the gar-den is one of style and sophistication.
The same could be said of Great Dixter, although the garden is far less formal. I adored the casual, intelligent planting where many plants had been allowed to freely seed themselves and later edited to perfection.
When Lloyd's father, who made his fortune from printing, bought the 15th century hall-house, he was told by his good friend, architect Edwin Lutyens, that he had taken on more than he could handle.
Lutyens helped make the house a liv-able place. Before leaving he asked: "Is there anything else I can do for you?" To which, Lloyd's father said, "A garden would be nice." Which is how the garden ended up with such superb stone landscaping.
From Kent, I popped into the 300-acre Kew Botanical Garden on the outskirts of London. After looking around the historic glass houses, I wandered through the charming bluebell woods, walked the magnificent Syon Vista and into the fabulous alpine garden and plant family borders. It was exhausting to see it all, so I was grateful for a yummy cream tea in the Orangery at the end.
From Oxford, I went to Hatfield House, the place where Queen Elizabeth I was sitting under a tree when she was told she had become queen.
I was thrilled by the fabulous free-flowing meadow gardens with simple mowed paths. And the graceful formal gardens, full of clipped boxwood and perennials, were a knockout.
In Oxford, after a visit to Christ Church, I stopped in at my famous haunt, the Bird and Baby pub, for a pint in the spot where my favourite authors, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, sat as part of the Inklings reading their works to one another.
Out of Oxford, I trotted up to Rousham to see the classic 18th century landscape designed by William Kent. The flower borders were beautiful, but I most enjoyed the countryside gardens with the rustic water-rills running through them. It was like stepping back into the 1700s. This is a landscape that has influenced students of garden design for years. It was exciting to experience it for myself.
At nearby Upton House, it was another pleasure to see the bank of giant cedars of Lebanon, which were planted in the 1700s by someone who knew he would never see them at maturity.
It was an equally thrilling to walk down the central lawn and suddenly see the terrace gardens drop down in front of me out of nowhere as if by magic. And, then, just as inspiring to see the house, large and imposing as it is, totally disappear from view as I slowly descend through the terraces to the lake below.
From Oxford, I moved up through the counties of Warwickshire and Staffordshire into Derbyshire to visit two exceptional gardens at Haddon Hall and Chatsworth House.
Chatsworth House, one of England's most famous stately homes, has a sprawling, formal garden covering more than 100 acres. It was originally conceived as the English challenge to Versailles.
Today, the massive formal layout still exists and is just as impressive as it was back in the 18th century when Lancelot "Capability" Brown reworked the park areas.
The Cascade, a series of waterfalls running down a hillside near the house, is still one of the most impressive features. The Emperor fountain, which throws a jet of water more than 150 feet into the air, is another amazing sight along with the gigantic rock garden and superb Serpentine hedge walk.
Haddon Hall was a totally different experience. Smaller and much more intimate, Haddon has some of the most exquisite wall-plantings I have ever seen, particularly old-garden roses trained to hug weathered stone walls below medieval windows.
From York, I went to the Royal Horticultural Society's northern test garden at Harlow Carr, which turned out to be a charming woodland full of giant rhododendrons and mass plantings of shade perennials, such as rogersia, candelabra primulas, blue poppies and confident drifts of petasites.
From York, I moved farther north to Alnwick to see the garden created by the Duchess of Northumberland. Designed by Belgian father-and-son team Jacques and Peter Wirtz, the garden was massively upgraded in the 1990s to create a new, contemporary landscape that would attract tourists and generate revenue for the local economy.
When it officially opened in 2001, it was predicted that the garden would probably attract about 67,000 people and create full-time employment for 20 people. It has far exceeded expectations, drawing more than 800,000 people a year and creating employment for more than 100 people and pumping more than $70 million a year into the local economy. Today it draws more tourists than any other garden in England, with the exception of Kew and Wisley.
On the way to Alnwick, I stopped and walked along stretch of Hadrian's Wall, which is surprisingly not along the Scottish border, but clearly quite a few miles south.
The first thing you see on entering Aln-wick is a spectacular Grand Cascade, a massive water feature with shooting water and a series of waterfalls that tumble evenly down the steep slope opposite. Running up the hill either side are beautiful tunnels of hornbeam with windows framing the spouting water.
It was Wirtz's idea to use water as a connecting element to unite all the key areas of the site, such as the cherry orchard and popular Poison Garden, which features a wide range of poisonous plants.
From Alnwick, I crossed the border into Scotland to visit Dawyck Garden, the arboretum wing of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
To reach it, I travelled through an extraordinarily picturesque landscape of green hills dotted with sheep and criss-crossed the River Tweed a few times. Dawyck felt like a lost paradise of trees, a place that one day we may all beg to walk around to know what an ancient woodland world felt like.
From Dawyck, I finally made it into Edinburgh, where I got to visit for the first time the botanical garden that I had heard so much about for years. It came as no surprise to find in the heart of the garden a plea for a greater awareness for environmental sensitivity, not to mention an amazing display of blue poppies and a garden celebrating diversity by planting of a vast range of plants, both common and rare.
All these memories I will now carry with me as inspiration for garden stories for the coming years.


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Hell yeah!! I would definatly buy 2. Hope it does happen
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seeing that they said that they "will see how battlecat does first"...I just hope Battle cat dont cost like 50$
SWEET!!!! I would definitely pay more cash for a big 'ole Granymyr!!! And based on the mini comic means he'd be light blue instead of red, right? That's ok with me... I kinda' like the light blue better.
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Nice to hear that. I know there was some confusion surrounding him for awhile.
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Alright!! I've been wanting a Granamyr since I was 5.
Since Battlecat is gonna do amazingly well,lets cross our fingers that Granamyr is the next large item in line.
Yeah even before Tytus or Megator.
Before everyone gets too spun up on old G, I can tell you he is not in the cards anytime soon. Yes, he does fall into that "do-able" category as far as rights go, but due to his size and unique tooling, this dragon is not a figure that will be available anytime soon.
But, hey, anything is possible one day! At the moment, legally speaking, he is more likely than Shadoweaver, but due to the expense of doing him right, he isn't exactly high up on the release calendar.
He would move a lot of units Mattel, I'm just saying.
A Four Hoursemen Granymyr would be such total coolness.
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I thought we already knew this one. Isn't anyone from the mini-comics do-able?
At any rate, I would buy Granymyr in a heartbeat. If Battle Cat and Panthor do well at whatever price-point they are at, we may need some other items to fit that price point, right Mattel?
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Nice to hear this! Eventually getting a Granymyr would be pretty cool!
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I just know Battle Cat's going to do EXTREMELY well, so I feel like this is great news, but yes, let's still keep our excitement in check.
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Yesss!!! I've been waiting for official news on Granamyr for a while and I'm pleased as punch that he's doable. I love Granamyr and would totally buy him. I pretty much knew that if they ever did him he'd be a long way off but it's great that he's a possibility, it's also great to hear that Cornboy likes him because it's always good to have the sculptors on your side.
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I'd love to see Granymyr being made
I'm sure Battlecat will be a huge success
I wonder if they do a figure whether it'll have to be green (comic colours) not red (cartoon colours)?
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I'd so buy Granamyr! As long as he isn't too expensive. Though maybe he could make a great BAF. Have parts sold with the MOTUC figures for a year. And perhaps to help the line even more have the parts be packed in exclusively with the subscription figures and not the standard ones just sold on Mattycollector.
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Okay, actually the green one is a lot lot less exciting, though I think a red variant would be cool (though probably not possible). I'm not sure how this would look in MOTUC. If it were 200X, I'd hope for them to go all Vermithrax Pajorative/MacFarlane Dragons on him, but Classics has a different aesthetic. I'd buy a $50 Battlecat or Granamyr, but I suspect they'd be closer to $35 or $40.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – No. 7 Florida State scored two runs in the first and never looked back, defeating the Duke baseball team 16-2 in the series opener Friday evening at Dick Howser Stadium. The Seminoles totaled 16 hits in the game with four FSU players going 3-for-4 at the plate.
The Blue Devils (21-15, 8-8 ACC) were unable to slow the Seminole offense as FSU scored a pair in the first and scored at least two runs in each of the final five frames. Right fielder Brett Knief, left fielder Marcus Davis, third baseman Jose Brizuela and second baseman John Sansone registered three hits each. The quartet combined to score nine runs and drive in 10 RBI.
The Seminoles (28-6, 11-5 ACC) wasted little time putting runs on the board, scoring a pair of runs on three hits in the bottom of the first. Knief and center fielder DJ Stewart both singled and Davis drove in the first run of the series with a base hit up the middle. Catcher Reed Anthes threw out Davis attempting to steal second, but Stewart was able to score on the play.
Trailing 2-0, redshirt sophomore Chris Marconcini launched his third home run in as many games to cut Florida State's lead to 2-1. The homer was Marconcini's eighth of the season and the first allowed by FSU starter Luke Weaver in the 2013 campaign. Junior Mark Lumpa also extended his hit streak to seven games with a base hit in the inning.
Duke had a chance to take the lead in the third as senior Jeff Kremer and sophomore Grant McCabe recorded back-to-back two-out singles to place runners at the corners. McCabe was able to steal second, but Weaver got the strikeout to end the inning.
A hit batter ignited an FSU rally in the fourth as the Seminoles scored four runs in the inning. Brizuela singled and first baseman John Nogowski drew a walk to load the bases with one out. Sansone knocked in two runs with a base hit. A Knief sacrifice fly and Stewart single accounted for the final runs of the frame.
The Seminoles registered four runs on four hits in the fifth with RBI singles from Brizuela and Nogowski before a two-run Davis homer in the sixth made it 12-1 in Florida State's favor. The Seminoles plated two runs in both the seventh and eighth innings to close out the game.
Duke added its final run of the game on an RBI single off the bat of Kremer in the top of the eighth. Duke's right fielder was 3-for-4 on the night to lead the Blue Devils.
Weaver (5-0) earned the victory, giving up just the one run on Marconcini's solo home run in the second. Weaver tossed seven innings and scattered six hits, striking out six without issuing a walk.
Duke left-hander Trent Swart (4-2) suffered the loss, allowing a season-high nine runs – eight earned - on 10 hits in 4.1 innings of work. Swart walked three, struck out three and hit one batter.
Duke and Florida State are set for a doubleheader Saturday, starting at 4 p.m. at Dick Howser Stadium.


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Giovanni Sollima, cellist and composer, was born in Palermo in 1962 in a family of musicians. He obtained a diploma in playing the cello and composition from the Conservatory in his home town and completed his studies at Salzburg and Stuttgart. At an extremely early age he started a brilliant international career as a cellist along with Franco Ferrara, Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Jorg Demus and Martha Argerich. Sollima's inimitable style was born on the basis of extensive classical training and in his creations he makes use of Western and Eastern acoustic instruments, electric and electronic instruments and other instruments he has invented (the aquilarco, the d-touch, the body-cello....) or which he has reconstructed, like in the tenor violin depicted in Caravaggio's pictures. He lives between the cities of Palermo, Berlin and New York. His career unfolds in prestigious venues and alternative scenes: Brooklyn Academy of Music and Merkin Hall, New York, Wigmore Hall, London, Kunstfest, Weimar, Kronberg Festival, Frankfurt, Munsterhof, Strasbourg, Kuopio Festival, Finland, International Music Festival, Istanbul.
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A single vehicle crash and law enforcement investigation has closed Lafayette Highway about two miles south of Highway 18, the Oregon Department of Transportation reports.
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Planning to line up to shop on Black Friday? That's so 2012.
Breaking with tradition, Target plans to put "almost all" of its Black Friday deals online — more than 12 hours before its doors open at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night.
To analysts, it's a sign of the times; a sign of a cutthroat shopping season; a sign of a generational shift; and a sign that the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving holiday retail fest is quickly migrating from a cold line outdoors to a warm couch and laptop inside.
"Black Friday started years and years ago, before online retailing really started," said Best Buy spokeswoman Amy Von Walter. "The game has completely changed. Now it's all about multichannel retailing."
These days, clever retailers try to reach consumers in as many ways as possible, not just in stores. With an estimated 40 percent of Black Friday weekend business now online, the hunger to add Internet sales is growing stronger than the fear of reducing Black Friday crowds.
"Normally, we tend to see online-only deals, in order to make sure they're not eroding in-store shopping," said Pam Goodfellow, a consumer specialist with Prosper Insights, a retail analytics firm.
"But it's going to be hyper-competitive next weekend, so I think retailers are really trying their best to get shoppers wherever they can," Goodfellow said. "If that means Target is going to offer deals before the stores open, well, anything that helps get shoppers to the site and buying."
Analysts agree that this will take a bite out of Black Friday rituals, such as camping out early, or late on Thanksgiving night, to nab a great deal.
"There's only a segment of the consumer world that does the Black Friday thing," said Jim McComb, a Minnesota-based retail analyst. "Some of it is almost cultural now. It's become a tradition."
Target is hardly the only retailer unveiling never-before-seen Black Friday come-ons.
Electronics giant Best Buy already was matching competitors' prices year round. But on Thursday it went further, promising to match prices not just when you buy something, but even weeks afterward, until Dec. 24. (The offer excludes Black Friday weekend.)
"Consumers win this holiday," said Von Walter, the spokeswoman at Richfield-based Best Buy. "Everyone's matching prices, right? So given that there's going to be price parity from retailer to retailer, they can choose to shop based on assortment, convenience, service — and all of those are areas where we think Best Buy excels."
And Walmart, earlier this week, said it would match some of its rivals' Black Friday deals a full week in advance. Walmart singled out Target, Best Buy and other major chains in its announcement. Those deals started this weekend.
Target is rolling out 15 online-only daily deals starting Sunday. Then on Thanksgiving Day, Target will offer hundreds of Black Friday deals online "in the early morning hours."
"By offering advance access to deals at Target.com and opening our stores earlier, we are making it easier to guests to build a Black Friday ritual that works for them," Kathee Tesija, Minneapolis-based Target's executive vice president for merchandising, said in a statement.
There's also a generational shift. Younger consumers are far more apt to shop online — and that's a prime demographic group for Target.
"They're very heavy in Generation X shoppers," Goodfellow said of Target.
At the website Definitive Deals.com, they've noted a shift in Black Friday bargains, as well.
In previous years, deals followed shoppers, who went both in stores and online. But increasingly, "more people are going to shop online only ... which is a huge shift," said Rob Gough, the site's president.
"In the past, there have been better deals in store than online," he added. Now, retailers have "kind of adjusted their traditional ways."
Despite the changing rhythms, the social side of Black Friday still lives.
"Black Friday weekend is still a big deal and still a tradition to a lot of shoppers, getting together with family and friends," Goodfellow said.
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What may be a relief for municipal and not-for-profit organizations working to create parks or preserve historical landmarks, the Hudson County Freeholders voted in their September meeting to extend old grants to allow projects to continue.
The freeholders had been considering taking back money that had not been used for projects that had been funded years ago that had not been completed.
Freeholder Bill O'Dea had raised concerns that more than $6 million in funds from the Hudson County Open Space Trust Fund had not been used, and that some of these projects were asking for extensions. His idea was to take back the money and give it to projects that were better able to advance.
Three such projects involving connected parks in West New York came under particularly close scrutiny, partly because costs had jumped from an estimated $1.5 million in 2009 to more than $4.5 million for a project still not completed in 2013.
Local officials said that while some money had been shifted to make improvements to Veterans Park, problems with nearby Donnelly Park were more serious than first thought. The project was designed to rebuild a retention wall that would keep soil and parts of the park from falling over the palisades and into the town pool or on top of the town firehouse.
A review by the county and a second hearing with the third engineering firm hired by West New York confirmed may of the claims officials made during a July hearing.
"We talked to their engineers, and what they said made sense," said Freeholder Chairman Anthony Romano.
Three grants of $350,000 each were extended until next year so that West New York could move ahead with its own bonding to cover the additional costs associated with the project.
While O'Dea questioned the tight timeline for the bonding approval, bidding, and start of construction, he and the board voted to approve the extension of all three loans until Feb. 1, 2014.
The approval included extensions of two grants for Bayonne—$45,000 for a neighborhood parks study extended to June 1, 2014, and $240,000 for the Bayonne Community Museum extended to March 1, 2014.
The city of Hoboken had grants for four projects extended—$100,000 for the Downtown Boathouse until July 31, 2014; $300,000 for 1600 Park Avenue Development until Dec. 31, 2013; $700,000 for Southwest Park until June 1, 2014; and $350,000 for Hoboken Cove Park Development until Dec. 31, 2013.
Two grants to Secaucus were extended: $3,100 for waterfront property acquisition—Farm Road and Oak Lane until Aug. 1, 2014, and $1.6 million for improvements to Buchmuller Park until March 1, 2014.
Friends of the Loew's Inc received two extensions, for a total of $780,000 until June 15, 2014.
Jersey City Parks Coalition received three extensions for a total of $360,000 for work in Speer Cemetery, Van Vorst Park, and renovation of the First Street Park.
The City of Jersey City received extensions for $240,000 for work on the Apple Tree House and Boyd McGuiness Park.
The Township of Weehawken received extensions of $912,000 on three projects that include its Water Tower Park project and multi-use waterfront pavilion.
Overtime issues
What some freeholders see as outrageous overtime for several key nurses at the county's psychiatric facility in Secaucus has yet to be resolved despite nearly a year of questioning.
The Hudson County Freeholders said not enough has been done to resolve overtime that has equaled or surpassed individual annual salaries.
The freeholders have been pushing for new hiring to reduce overtime costs since the problem first became known during 2012 budget hearings.
Freeholders learned there were massive overtime costs at the Meadowview Hospital facility in Secaucus, where entry-level employees were showing overtime payments equal to or more than their annual salaries. One worker with a $40,000 annual salary incurred $44,305 in overtime during that pay period, and a number of other similar cases for entry-level employees showed consistent overtime rates.
Romano said that while the hospital explained significant overtime rates for nurses, the overtime rates for other workers were just as high.
One nurse had an annual salary of $71,000 but overtime payments for $85,000, Romano said. He was also concerned about overtime costs in the sheriff's department, because the county had instituted a new patrol program last year designed to bring down these costs.
"They still haven't done what we asked them to do," Romano said. "We need them to resolve this."
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Donald Duane "Don" Holman, 81, of Plattsmouth died Nov. 30, 2012 at Bellevue Medical Center in Bellevue, Neb. He was born Feb. 17, 1931 in Hamburg to Oscar and Leta (Leckenby) Holman.
Donald Duane "Don" Holman, 81, of Plattsmouth died Nov. 30, 2012 at Bellevue Medical Center in Bellevue, Neb. He was born Feb. 17, 1931 in Hamburg to Oscar and Leta (Leckenby) Holman.
He graduated from Hamburg High School in 1949. He married Elizabeth "Liz" Matney in Farragut on March 24, 1951. He worked as a pipeline construction project superintendent. He later was street superintendent for the City of Plattsmouth, Neb. He and Liz owned and operated the Avenue Bar.
Don was an avid baseball fan and played in Hamburg city leagues as a young man. He once batted against Satchel Page in an exhibition game. He enjoyed watching sports, reading, hunting, fishing, billiards and golf.
He was a member of Plattsmouth Lodge #6 A.F.&A.M. and the Plattsmouth Eagles Club FOE #365. Don's greatest joy was the time he spent with his grandchildren.
He is survived by wife Liz Holman of Plattsmouth; daughters Sandy (Jim) McKnight of Plattsmouth, Linda (Rob) Brown of Elkhorn, Neb., and Teresa Hobbs of Lincoln, Neb.; seven grandchildren and their spouses: Debra McKnight, Heather Hobbs, Nancy (Jenkins) Kirk, Doug McKnight, Michelle Hobbs, Dan Jenkins, Greg McKnight; 11 great-grandchildren; sister Helen Courtney of Hamburg; sister-in-law Marlene Matney of Omaha; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
He was preceded by brothers Robert and Leonard Holman and sister Ruth Briley.
Funeral service was Dec. 4 at Harvey Funeral Home Chapel in Plattsmouth with Rev. Michael Patzloff and Rev. Debra McKnight officiating.
Music was by Mark Kurtz.
Pallbearers were Heath Hobbs, Nancy Kirk, Doug McKnight, Michelle Hobbs, Dan Jenkins and Greg McKnight.
Honorary pallbearers were Charlie Kerns, Terry Kerns, Len Holman, Kevin Wagner, Richard Hurd and Rod Jenkins.
Interment was at Oak Hill Cemetery in Plattsmouth.
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Research, development tax credits vital to NH businesses, Rep. Kuster saysBy NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent
July 15. 2013 9:17PM
MILFORD — Companies that make products in New Hampshire and export them for sale overseas are exactly what the United States needs more of, and research and development tax credits can give businesses an opportunity to make that happen, Rep. Annie Kuster, D-NH, said during a tour of Airmar Technologies on Monday.
The family-run business, started 30 years ago by Stephen Boucher, manufactures high-tech products, including the portable Airmar WeatherStation used in the fishing and agriculture industries, and other ultrasonic sensors that do everything from detecting lightning to finding fish.
Boucher, CEO of the company, said that some of the projects, including a cooperative effort between Airmar and students at Plymouth State University to create a lightning detector, wouldn't happen without the research and development tax credit that takes out some of the financial bite of creating new technology.
Last year, President and Chief Operating Officer Matt Boucher, Stephen's son, estimated the R&D tax credits saved the company $200,000 — enough to fund a medium-sized project.
But because the fate of the tax credit is perennially in question, companies like Airmar can't rely on it, said Kuster, and that uncertainty prevents businesses from investing in research and development, and also keeps them from hiring employees.
"The R&D tax credit expires at the end of the year," Kuster said. "But I'm working in Congress to make sure we extend it and make it permanent."
By allowing companies to grow through new developments in technology and increases in the manufacturing base, the United States can compete with countries like China. Airmar is currently producing equipment to be used by China's fishing fleet, bucking the trend by exporting to emerging markets, Boucher said.
"We want to see more products being made right here in New Hampshire and shipped overseas to China, Norway and Japan," Kuster said.
Her push for a permanent tax credit is part of an economic agenda called "Make it in America" that Kuster and other members of Congress are promoting. The four key strategies of the agenda are to establish a strategy for increasing manufacturing on a national level, promoting the export of goods made in America, encouraging businesses to bring jobs back from overseas, and training the American workforce to handle the challenges of the high tech world.
"This is a local family creating innovative products that around going around the world," Kuster said of the Bouchers and Airmar. "This kind of business is an important part of our quality of life and our economy."


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Tequila, oh how we love you. But did you know that in order to be called "tequila," a drink must meet certain characteristics – by law?! Yep, it's true. But that's not the only thing you never knew about tequila. Here are six facts about the Mexican liquor that you never knew:
1. Caballito glass
How to Really Drink Tequila
The traditional way to drink tequila is to use a tall, narrow shot glass called a caballito, which means little horse, or pony, also called a tequilito.
2. tequila shot
You're Probably Experiencing It All Wrong
To truly experience tequila, use the four senses:
Sight: Look at the tequila you are drinking through the glass. Note the color. The color suggests the amount of wood imparted by barreling, and hints of its complexity.
Smell: The sense of smell is a vital part of the enjoyment of tequila. Hold the glass an inch or so form the nose. There are three distinct places in the glass to sniff: bottom, center and top.
Taste: is a limited sense, since it can only perceive five sensations: sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami earthiness.
Touch: perception of touch is experienced in the mouth. When tequila is harsh, it produces a bite or a sensation of warmth; when smooth, the tongue feels a velvety softness.
3. White oak barrels
How It Gets Its Taste
The taste of tequila from the Jalisco lowlands is determined not only by its aging time in white oak barrels, but also its acquired taste from the volcanic soil of the region, which imparts a spicier and earthier quality.
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Nope, It Doesn't Cause Hangovers
Tequila does not equal a hangover. If you mix tequila with sugar mixers it will increase the likelihood of a hangover, but enjoying the purity of 100% blue agave tequila will leave you clear-headed the next morning. (You and your aspirin bottle need a break anyway.)
5. Blue agave plant
It Doesn't Come From a Cactus
Tequila comes from the blue agave plant. Not from a cactus as many believe to be true. A blue agave plant can take about 8 years to mature and weigh more than 100 pounds!
6. Tequila
It Has To Meet Requirements By Law
By law, tequila must meet a certain criteria. They are:
1. It must be made from blue Weber agave grown and harvested only in the Mexican state of Jalisco, and designated areas of the states of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit or Tamaulipas.
2. It must be produced with no less than 35% alcohol by volume
3. The label must read 'hecho en México' (made in México)
Try: Herradura, a tequila that comes from one of the last tequila-producing haciendas on the planet, Casa Herradura. Salud!


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Bill Beck
As the new year got under way, copper, iron ore and aluminummainstays of the minerals and metals segment of the North American economyall seemed to be going their separate ways.
Copper was buoyed by reports that China had ended 2011 with record monthly imports of the red metal. The story was somewhat similar for iron ore, which opened 2012 strong on news that China, the worlds biggest iron ore purchaser, had imported 686 million tonnes in 2011, up 11 percent from 618 million tonnes the previous year. Iron ore has enjoyed an unprecedented price rise during the past eight years, climbing to as high as $220 per tonne in 2011, more than six times the $33 per tonne that iron ore fetched on world markets as recently as 2003.
Aluminum producers, meanwhile, have been evaluating significant capacity cuts in an attempt to stem the steady slide in prices after reaching record levels in May 2011. In January, Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc., one of the larger world producers, announced a fourth-quarter net lossits first quarterly loss since 2009as aluminum prices dropped 11 percent in the quarter. Alcoa subsequently announced plans to decommission nearly 300,000 tonnes of annual smelting capacity in Tennessee and Texas and idle an additional 224,000 tonnes of smelter capacity in Europe.
Another major producer, Montreal-based Rio Tinto Alcan, announced plans in late 2011 to balance inventory and demand by shutting down or divesting significant amounts of smelting capacity in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
And because of the need to divert electric power to residential users, Chinese provincial governments are moving to eliminate subsidies to aluminum producers. Alcoa recently estimated that as much as 1 million tonnes of Chinese aluminum smelting capacity could be curtailed in 2012.
But Fitch Ratings Ltd., which provides credit ratings for the base metals industry, estimated that even with the curtailments, approximately 3.4 million tonnes of new production will be added this year, with almost 90 percent of the total coming from China. New projects may add 2.8 million tonnes more to global production in 2013.
Still, Wall Street was bullish on aluminum after Alcoa bit the bullet and announced plans to decommission and curtail smelter production in North America and abroad. Since most analysts believe that non-productive capacity is behind the plummeting prices in aluminum since last spring, action by the worlds second-largest producer to shut down capacity that cant be made profitable at depressed price levels was viewed as a positive.
The news that Chinese copper imports had climbed to record levels in the final two months of last year took the wind out of the sails of money managers, who had been betting for most of the final quarter of 2011 that copper prices would fall. Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, for example, believes copper prices will fall about 15 percent in 2012 to $8,375 per tonne on fears that the European debt crisis will spark a recession on the continent. The bank also expects demand for copper in China to wane as that countrys economy contracts in 2012, although its December import numbers belied that prediction.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Phoenix, the worlds largest publicly traded copper company, recently reached terms with union officials in Indonesia, where it has endured a lengthy labor stoppage and civil unrest. The strike in Indonesia contributed to a drop in Freeports fourth-quarter copper production, which had been expected to total as much as 915 million pounds but which now looks to reach barely 800 million pounds.
Freeport is one of the major producers in Arizona, where some 60 percent of all U.S. copper is produced. The company owns six of the nine major mines in the state, including the Safford Mine, the first new large-scale copper mining project in Arizona in 30 years when it went into full production in 2008. The Arizona Mining Association said recently that the copper mining industry has a $12.1-billion economic impact in the state, including $3.6 billion in wages and personal income, $7.9 billion in business sales and $600 million in state and local government taxes and revenue. The industry employed 10,400 people in the state in 2010, the latest year for which figures are available.
Iron ore in North America has enjoyed a strong recovery since production plummeted during the Great Recession of 2008-09. With a capacity of about 52 million tons in Minnesota and Michigans Upper Peninsula, the U.S. industry has benefited from strong order books at domestic steelmakers. Minnesota and Michigan pellet plants ran at near-full capacity in 2011, fueled by North American automotive production that reached nearly 13 million vehicles for the year, up about 1 million from the previous year.
There has even been talk of iron ore going from the Great Lakes to world markets, said Peter Kakela, a professor of natural resources development at Michigan State University in East Lansing and one of the nations pre-eminent authorities on iron ore pricing and production. He thinks the industry will expand in North America in the years ahead due to strong global demand.
That has already begun to occur. In 2011, Iron Ore Co. of Canada Ltd., the largest manufacturer of iron ore pellets in Canada, announced plans to increase production of concentrates at its Labrador facility to more than 23 million tonnes per year, up from 18 million tonnes five years earlier, and said it was studying a further expansion to 26 million tonnes.
AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, announced during the fourth quarter that it would partner with Nashwauk, Minn.-based ore processor Magnetation Inc. to build a new taconite pellet plant on the states iron rich Mesabi Range. Its another example of integrated steelmakers trying to get their own resources under control, Kakela said. ArcelorMittal (SA) wants to be 75 percent self-sufficient in iron ore. They are buying iron ore properties worldwide.
Gogebic Taconite LLC, a development-stage iron ore mining company in Wisconsin, is seeking federal and state permits to mine, concentrate and pelletize taconite on the states long-abandoned Gogebic Iron Range. The company estimates that taconite production in the states rural northern counties could have an economic benefit of $600 million per year.
Alternative iron products also are undergoing a boom in North America. Production at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Steel Dynamics Inc.s Mesabi Nugget project in Minnesota doubled in 2011 and is expected to double again in 2012. The almost-pure iron nuggets will be used to supplement pig iron and prime scrap.
In Louisiana, Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N,C., broke ground in March on a new direct-reduced iron manufacturing plant in St. James Parish that will have an annual capacity of 2.5 million tons of DRI per year when it comes online.
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on a side note I have told... EVERYONE that the army will be there in mass
dont make me a liar
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I'll be there with at least two others, but probably more.
I'm in for sure. Trying to get a few buddies to join us.
registered, paint paid for, hotel booked. guess im there.
I will be there.
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I'm there
Well I'm new to the AO Army but I'll be there to enjoy my first living legends
Welcome to my screwed up brain child.
Definitely in along with a couple other Tuna Ball vets
Me, and perhaps one or two others.
Wife and I are coming.
Tentative maybe. Still waiting to see how fundage works.
I am new to the AO community and I'm currently working on my first mag and build and I am for sure planning on going.. Joliet is within a 2hr drive for me so I don't have any excuses really not to go. I want to experience the craziness that I've heard about firsthand.
I'm in
I'm new to the AO community as well. I've got hotel paid for and am working on airline tickets. Bringing my son too. Just a little nervous taking markers and tanks as checked baggage. I've been down the lost bags road before. Would be depressed if my gear got lost. Anyone have experience taking this type of gear on an airline?
As for the tanks, you need to degas and remove the regulator on the bottle. Once that's done, you're in pretty good shape.
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I'd print out both of those 2 TSA pages and keep them with the paintball equipment as well.
What Dayspring said.
Also, TSA locks are your friend. As is paying for extra insurance
ups them to your hotel.
I'm going, and so is Ochsy. I still need to register and put in my paint order though. Procrastination... this week though.
Thanks for all the info.
To everyone flying... To those who haven't much experience in these matters, you can always ship your guns and tanks to the hotel you are staying at and then ship them back home. I have done this myself with just my tanks numerous times in the past. Just call the hotel ahead of time and let them know what the story is and ask them if it's ok to have them hold the package for you untill you get there.. I've never had a hotel say no.
registered, me and my friend will be there.
As of TODAY the team at legends is 25
that's all that have registered?
Under the AO Army... Yes
I am sure there will be more than 25. Alot of people wait until later to register. Even so, if 25 are grouped up on the field at the same time it is quite a good number to come up against if working together.


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Stone Crabs are popular in the Southeast U.S. and supplied predominantly by the Florida crab fishery.
Fishers use traps or pots to catch Stone Crab, which result is minimal catches of non-target species. The fishers take one or both of the claws of the Stone Crabs and then return the crab to the water alive. The crabs can regenerate their claws overtime, though the survival rate of declawed crabs is uncertain. Abundance of Stone Crabs is likely stable.
Fishers for Stone Crabs have been advocates for strong management; they urged regulators to adopt a program to reduce the number of traps allowed in the fishery.