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'Problematic': The virtue of the city tax capEDITORIAL
February 10. 2013 12:43AM
Manchester Finance Director Bill Sanders says the city's tax and spending cap makes it harder to increase city spending. Well. We can't have that, can we?
Speaking at last Wednesday's meeting of the city Charter Commission, Sanders said, "This dual cap and revenue equation, which is so hard and arcane, will be a challenge in the future, a very serious challenge."
He continued: "As long as state funding stays flat and expenses keep going up, if we can't raise property taxes - if the aldermen don't have the option to do that, or don't have the political will - there will have to be a cost reduction in other areas."
To sum up: The cap, twice approved by voters, limits both tax and spending increases. That, says Sanders, will result in "a cost reduction" if "aldermen don't have the option" or "the political will" to override the cap. To this, one might add, "Yes, and?"
Before Frank Guinta was elected mayor, Manchester taxpayers endured six straight years of tax increases.
In just the four years from 2001-2005, Manchester's tax rate rose by 20.5 percent. Angered by the arrogance of a city government that asserted without apology that spending, and the taxes to fund it, simply had to rise every year, voters approved a tax and spending cap. A coalition of unions and pro-spending activists got the cap struck down in court, and voters quickly approved another one. This in a city dominated politically by Democrats.
The cap does allow spending and taxes to exceed the rate of inflation and population growth - but only by the vote of 10 aldermen. Voters installed that emergency release valve for ... emergencies. Sanders suggested dropping the required supermajority from 10 to 8, thus loosening the valve. In a city that routinely elects more than eight members of one political party to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, this would change the cap from a restraint to a suggestion.
The voters put the cap in place - twice - to do exactly what Sanders complains it will do: force city officials to cut the budget so the people don't have to cut theirs.
The tax cap is "problematic" for city officials by design - because without it, constant tax increases are problematic for everyone else.


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Wow! That was exciting! The sun finally came out in Breckenridge, and with it the hammers. Hopefully you got a chance to see the entire Superpipe finals broadcast live on NBC between the football games and the golf. Really though, it was an epic battle royal with perfect conditions--it was just rider vs. rider--gloves off.
The last person in recent memory to beat Shaun White was Kevin Pearce at last year's European Open. But it happened again. Friday's qualifiers ended with Shaun in first, Danny Davis in second, and Kass in third. At the start of the finals comp, twelfth place finisher Scotty Lago bumrushed into the lead on the first run of the event, and he held onto it almost to the end. Lago charged the first hit with a front 10 and then threw the most stylish front 9 nosegrab further down scoring a 90. Others tried to overtake him, but the whole first round was uncharacteristically filled with harrowing wrecks (one courtesy of Greg Bretz who was riding with a cast fresh out of wrist surgery) and random slideouts. In fact, not until the last two riders dropped in on the final round did Lago get toppled. Danny Davis didn't break under the pressure, comboing a front 9 and a massive front 10 nosegrab with massive amplitude which landed him four points ahead of Lago in first ... but Shaun was next to drop, and he's made a career of not breaking under pressure (remember the Olympic qualifiers?). But it didn't happen, which isn't to say that he didn't rule it and put on a hell of a show as always.
This win was especially significant for Danny Davis who hasn't seen the pipe podium since 2006 when he won both the Nippon Open and the Breck Grand Prix Superpipe, two years worth of injuries have kept him off the podium sicne then. But now--he's back.
The women's field was a real nail biter, too. The final six women included a new name, open qualifier Holly Crawford from Australia who held her own within the stacked field. Kelly Clark took first last weekend at the inaugural Grand Prix at Copper--was she going to hold onto it? Almost, but Gretchen wasn't going to make a habit of losing this winter. With Kelly, Elena, and Hannah in place for the podium, Gretchen dropped in and threw a front nine on the first hit and kept the momentum going down the line including her crowd-pleasing crippler.
The next stop of the Winter Dew Tour is January 8-11 at Mount Snow, Vermont. You can bet Shaun's going to come back fighting. It's on!
Women's Superpipe Results:
1. Gretchen Bleiler, 90
2. Kelly Clark, 86
3. Elena Hight, 82
4. Hannah Teter, 78
5. Holly Crawford, 75
6. Kjersti Buaas, 58
7. Rebecca Sinclair, 60
Men's Superpipe Results:
1. Danny Davis, 94
2. Shaun White, 93
3. Scotty Lago, 90
4. Elijah Teter, 84
5. Louie Vito, 81
6. Antti Autti, 80
7. Greg Bretz, 80
8. Danny Kass, 79
9. Brad Martin, 63
10. Janne Korpi, 61
Click here for Dew Tour rail jam results and Pics.
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Roland Molineux
Roland Burnham Molineux was a chemist and social climber from Brooklyn. He was charged with first degree murder for having caused the death of Katherine J. Adams by poisoning on December 28, 1898. It was alleged that Molineux had a feud with the director of his local athletic club, Harry Cornish, and had mailed a bottle of Bromo-Seltzer laced with cynide to Cornish.
Katherine Adams was providing lodging to Cornish and came across the bottle. She drank the contents in an attempt to cure a headache and died within minutes, in the presence of Cornish who had been the intended target. Molineux was arrested and his trial lasted from November 1899 to February 1900, making the People v. Molineux the longest and one of the most expensive trials in New York history to that date. Molineux was convicted but appealed the verdict. The New York State Court of Appeals, eventually granted him a new trial. At the original trial, the prosecution had entered evidence to suggest that Molineux had been responsible for an earlier murder, that of a Henry C Barnett, with the aim of showing that he had a propensity to murder. However, Molineux had never been convicted for the murder of Barnett. The Appeals Court ruled that using 'evidence' of an unproven previous act of murder against the defendant in a subsequent unrelated trial violated the basic tenet of presumption of innocence, and, therefore, such evidence was inadmissible. The decision was notable in its impact on the rules of admissibility of evidence. Molineux was acquitted at his subsequent retrial. A few months after his release, he was divorced by his wife on the grounds of mental cruelty. In his later years, he developed syphilitic dementia, and died in 1917.
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Insanity is a common theme in my cartoons, as I said in my last post. Here's a whole lineup dedicated to the insane, with the main feature another Mighty Mouse brought to you by Ralph Bakshi.
Night On Bald Pate
This is the first time I ever got to do a cartoon about an insane character. When Ralph read the script he rejected it. (He rejected 2 out of every 3 stories we wrote, I think just to keep us on our toes. I said let me record the voices first. After he heard the cassette of Patrick Pinney playing a chemically deranged Petey Pate, Ralph said "I get it now. Make the Goddamn cahtoon. You're f*****in' crazy Johnny. You'll get us all fired. I love ya"
Ren's Beginnings
Here's a clip of a movie that was a huge influence on Ren.
The Looniest Duck By The Looniest Cartoonist
The Raven
Hey, don't forget to comment, as I am pitching this format for new shows!
Mighty Mouse episode 1 - NIGHT OF THE BAT BAT
Mighty Mouse episode 2 - MIGHTY'S BENEFIT PLAN
Mighty Mouse episode 3 - THE LITTLEST TRAMP
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However, there is a growing movement to take a more granular approach to more fully capture the complex array of functions through which HDL may confer cardiovascular protection. These functions include cholesterol efflux from peripheral cells, reverse cholesterol transport (RCT), anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, anti-thrombotic, and pro-endothelial actions. 4–6 Recent epidemiological work supports efforts to look beyond HDL-C, showing limited value of HDL-C for predicting vascular risk in CHD patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting 7 or cardiovascular mortality in the setting of stable or unstable CHD. 8
By ultracentrifugation, one can isolate HDL 2 -C and HDL 3 -C, or 'large, buoyant' and 'small, dense' HDL, respectively, and these variations in density of HDL are related to its functionality. 5 , 6 , 9 It is often suggested that HDL 2 is the 'protective' form of HDL, however, epidemiological data are conflicting with some studies showing that higher HDL 2 -C 10 , 11 but others suggesting that higher HDL 3 -C 12–15 levels are most strongly associated with lower risk. These studies varied in design, adjustment for confounders, and methods for HDL subclass separation and quantification.
To better understand the associations of HDL 2 -C and HDL 3 -C with clinical outcomes, we collaboratively analysed data from two complementary, prospective cohorts of secondary prevention patients in whom HDL-C was subclassified by a common method of ultracentrifugation: (i) the Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in acute Myocardial infarction Patient's Health status (TRIUMPH) study and (ii) the Intermountain Heart Collaborative Study (IHCS) of patients undergoing coronary angiography.
The TRIUMPH 16 and IHCS 17 prospective cohort studies each enrolled patients 18 years of age or older. The TRIUMPH study enrolled between 11 April 2005 and 31 December 2008 at 24 centres in the USA, while the IHCS study enrolled between 1 March 1999 and 5 November 2007 within the Intermountain Healthcare System (LDS Hospital: Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, USA; and McKay Dee Hospital, Ogden, UT, USA). TRIUMPH participants were included on the basis of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and IHCS participants on the basis of coronary angiography for MI, unstable angina, or stable angina. Of eligible patients approached for participation, 74% of TRIUMPH and >95% of IHCS patients provided informed consent. All patients in this study provided informed consent and each enrolling site obtained Institutional Review Board approval.
In TRIUMPH, MI was defined as clinical features of ischaemia (e.g. prolonged ischaemic signs/symptoms, ST-segment changes in ≥2 contiguous leads on electrocardiogram) combined with cardiac biomarker elevation (troponin per local laboratory cutpoints) outside the setting of elective coronary revascularization. In IHCS, MI was defined similarly, and additionally, stable angina was defined as stable exertional symptoms only, and unstable angina as progressive symptoms or symptoms at rest only.
Global iron deficiency anemia therapy marketis expected to register a CAGR of 7.2% during the forecast period, 2018 to 2023. Iron deficiency anemia is caused due to the lack of iron, which is one of the most common types of anemia. In case of women, in the child bearing age, iron loss in the blood is due to heavy menstruation or pregnancy. Certain intestinal diseases and poor diet can also cause anemia.
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Rising Cases of Haemodilution in Pregnancy
Haemodilution is a condition in which there is decreased concentration of cells and solids in the blood. It is caused due to Plasma Volume Expansion (PVE). The PVE is dependent on various factors, like weight of the mother, BMI, hormonal state of the mother during pregnancy, etc. The cases of haemodilution are rising due to changes in lifestyles, such as lack of exercise, fast food, smoking, etc. These lifestyle changes are more in developed and developing countries, which is resulting in irregular BMI, increase in abnormal weight, and also hormonal imbalance. Such factors result in disturbed physiology of a pregnant woman. As per the statistics of American Heart Association, around 44 million women are affected by cardiovascular disease in the United States, and 90% of the women have one or more risk factors associated with heart disease. Therefore, rising cases of haemodilution is fueling the iron-deficiency anemia therapy market, globally. The other factors, such as high prevalence of anemia are also driving the iron deficiency anemia therapy market to grow.
Stringent Regulatory Guidelines
Anemia is a highly prevalent disease, for which the need for drugs has grown. However, due to strict regulatory guidelines, there are some drugs that are unable to enter the market. The approval of iron-deficiency drugs, which are highly important in the market, is time consuming, moreover, the process involved is stringent. There are some cases where a drug is approved but, due to side effects or ethical issues related to its use, the market for the same does not grow because of strict regulations of regulatory authorities. Also, the fee for approval and investment in RD are quite high for these drugs. United States FDA has increased the fee for Abbreviated New Drug Approval (ANDA), by over USD 100,000 to USD 170,000 for FY 2018. The hike was approved as per the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2017 (GDUFA II). This increase in approval fees is expected to restrain the iron-deficiency anemia therapy market. The other factors, such as side effects of drugs or supplements are also hindering the growth of the market.


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LeBron James signed a contract to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers during the offseason, announcing his decision via a personal letter to fans on SI.com.
The contract, however, is only for two years, with an opt-out clause coming after the first season. That left Cavaliers fans, who were initially ecstatic to hear that The King was coming home, a bit uneasy. They felt like he could leave again, as he famously did four years ago.
James alleviated those worries on Friday, saying he's not planning on leaving the Cavs any time soon.
"My No. 1 goal is to win a championship here; it'd be the greatest achievement in my life," James said before his annual charity event, via ESPN's Brian Windhorst. "I don't plan on going nowhere. I don't have the energy to do it again."
James signed the two-year deal with Cleveland for $42 million with the belief that changes to the NBA salary cap could allow him to significantly increase his salary. The salary cap and max-contract level could increase in a big way after new television deals are signed in 2016.
"At the end of the day, I'm a businessman as well," James said. "I know what is going on in the league."
James added that he's excited to be playing with the current team in place in Cleveland. He even acknowledged the possibility of adding Kevin Love, which is reportedly all but finalized.
"Even with the veterans we've brought in, even if we're able to acquire Kevin Love two weeks from now, it's still going to be a process," James said. "I know that firsthand. It was a process when I was in Cleveland. It was a process in Miami. It's going to be a challenge."
It looks like Cavs fans can sleep soundly at night, and dream of winning a title in Cleveland.
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Temperatures in Cortez on Tuesday hit a record low for Jan. 15, according to a local meteorologist.
Meteorologist Jim Andrus said the temperature reached minus 12 degrees on Tuesday beating the old record low for the day by one degree.
The wind chill factor made the weather feel more like minus 35 degrees.
Andrus said a light northwest wind coupled with the already cold weather made things even more miserable.
"It was extremely cold this morning," Andrus said on Tuesday.
A few local businesses have been busy because of the cold weather and some residents are feeling the effects in their pocketbooks, too.
Bucky Sparks, owner of Sparks Heating and Plumbing Inc., said his business has been heating up since the cold spell hit about three weeks ago with water pipes breaking or springing leaks after freezing temperatures moved into the area.
"We can't catch up with our calls right now," he said.
He said the business has been receiving 50 to 60 calls a day for about three weeks now.
"One after another as fast as we can," he said, explaining how his employees are dealing with the increased workload.
He said his company does not go to houses or businesses to warm up frozen pipes in most instances, since there are more serious problems where their services are required.
"We only fix them after they are broken," he said. "They can be (repaired) in one hour to a few days."
Sparks remembered one instance where it took two weeks to repair and fix the broken water pipes at a home.
Carpet cleaning and restoration businesses have also been busy taking care of the clean-up jobs after the pipes break.
While minus 12 set a new record for Jan. 15, it was not even close to the all-time low in the city of Cortez. On Feb. 8, 1933, temperatures bottomed out at a jaw dropping minus 31 degrees. That was the temperature without any wind chill factored in.
"We still have a long way to go to beat that," Andrus said.
He also said sub-zero temperatures are pretty rare in Cortez and Montezuma County with the typical year seeing one to two days when temperatures dip below zero.
"It has been extra cold this year," he said, mentioning that in the first 15 days of January, there were eight days with temperatures below zero degrees.
The normal high for this time of year is 42 degrees, while the low is 16.
"We are a good 15 to 20 degrees below normal," he said. "We are definitely in the deep freeze."
Part of the reason for the colder than normal temperatures is the snow on the ground that is not melting.
Andrus said he is still measuring four inches of snow on the ground and the white stuff is one reason for the bitter weather.
The snowstorm that brought almost eight inches of snow to Cortez in the middle of December has not melted much, and subsequent snowstorms added to the amount that was already on the ground.
"It's been one solid month," he said of snow being on the ground.
He said the colder air is being reinforced by the cold air coming in from Canada.
Andrus also said six water pipe leaks have recently occurred at the apartment complex where he works, a direct correlation to the prolonged freezing temperatures.
Andrus said the forecast is calling for temperatures to warm up later this week, though the lows will be in the single digits in the morning.
On Friday, temperatures were a little higher but the wind chill factor was still well below zero in the early morning. The extreme cold weather is expected to be moving out for the weekend with temperatures for Saturday ranging from single digits overnight to highs in the mid-30s. Sunday is expected to be a little warmer than Saturday.


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Clean Barrier Steps
An infection can pass to you through surfaces or be carried from patient to patient by healthcare workers. This can lead to an illness that has nothing to do with your original reason for going to the hospital. For most, the best step to protect against infection is hand washing. Your hospital may have alcohol-based cleansers available near the entrance of your room or a sink with soap in your room.
- Make sure you or anyone who has contact with you washes their hands and washes them often. This includes your family or friends and any hospital staff.
- Good hand washing by hospital staff is one of the most important aspects of infection prevention. If you do not see hospital staff, including your doctor, washing their hands, remind them to do so before coming in contact with you.
- If the staff says they washed their hands before coming into your room, feel free to speak up and ask them to wash their hands again in front of you.
- If you have a roommate, the staff should wash their hands when alternating between you and your roommate.
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The staff's goal is to help you stay healthy. A reminder to wash their hands can help them do that.
If there are any specific prevention steps needed in your care, the hospital will post special instructions by your room. Instructions may include wearing a mask, gloves, or special gown. Again, feel free to remind medical staff to follow the posted instructions if they are not doing so. If you are concerned about a technique to prevent infection, speak up. Ask your doctor about how they will prevent infection.
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The U.S. Marshals Service District of New Hampshire/Joint Fugitive Task Force has named Jacob Joseph Tremblay as New Hampshire's fugitive of the week.
Tremblay, 20, is wanted on warrants from Rockingham County for probation violations stemming from convictions and sentencing on charges of assault, criminal threatening and intimidation (stalking). Tremblay is described as 6-feet-1, 159 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. He has tattoos on his chest, both hands and arms, and his fingers. He also has ear piercings with gauges. He was last known to be living in the Rochester area, but his current whereabouts is unknown.
The U.S. Marshals Service advises the public not to attempt to apprehend a fugitive, who should be considered armed and dangerous. Instead, report any information to the U.S. Marshals Service's Concord office at 225-1632 or call 1-877-WANTED-2 or text "NHTIP" with any information to TIP411.
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Lawyer who made porn videos of teenage daughter gets 40 years in jail
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
— A judge sentenced a Manchester attorney to 40 years in federal prison Thursday for using her teenage daughter to lure young men for her own sexual gratification and making pornographic videos of the girl.
"She was willing to use her daughter as an object to achieve sexual gratification for herself....and left her daughter feeling guilty for her own victimization," U.S. District Court Judge Paul J. Barbadoro said when sentencing Lisa A. Biron, 43.
Biron's 14-year-old daughter — in a videotaped victim impact statement played in U.S. District Court — pleaded for leniency, saying her mother "made some mistakes" but deserved "a second chance."
"My mother is not the monster she has been made out to be," the 14-year-old said during the more than two-hour sentencing hearing.
A federal jury convicted Biron in January on an eight-count indictment that charged Biron with taking her daughter, then 13, to Canada to make videos of the girl having sex with a young man, video recording the girl having sex with another man and video recording herself with her daughter.
Biron was convicted of illegal sexual conduct, sexual exploitation of a child, and possession of child pornography.
Biron, a heavy-set woman with cropped hair, glasses and wearing light-green prison scrubs, told the judge "my life fell apart and my world crashed" in July 2011.
"Being separated from my daughter is the greatest pain I ever felt. Baby, I am so sorry," Biron apologized in open court.
Unimpressed, Barbadoro said there was little in Biron's background that warranted leniency.
In a nod to daughter's appeal for leniency, the judge did not impose the 100-year life sentence the government sought because "I want her to know that I heard her. I think that will be helpful to her rehabilitation."
"In time," he added, "I hope she will come to see the truth, and that is her mother is the victimizer."
"I think the damage you have done to your daughter is incalculable," the judge told Biron.
U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire, John P. Kacavas, said he was "very satisfied" with the sentence.
"It effectively is a life sentence. It effectively removes her from society and eliminates the threat she poses to minors and adolescents," Kacavas said.
Kacavas said federal prison counselors will determine if Biron's daughter will have contact with her mother after she turns 18.
Court-appointed defense attorney James H. Moir sought a 15-year sentence.
He said Biron's conduct followed a period of high stress after her husband abandoned her. Biron turned to alcohol, then "started going down the rabbit hole."
Moir asked for a 15-year prison term and supervised letter writing between mother and daughter.
The lawyer stressed that Biron never distributed the videos over the Internet nor did she try to sell the videos she made of her daughter having sex.
"It was done as sort of a warped memento," Moir said.
Moir said he would appeal, but had no other comment.
Manchester police began investigating Biron in September 2012 after an 18-year-old man told them he met Biron through a Craigslist personal ad she placed.
The man said he smoked marijuana and had sex with Biron.
Later, he said Biron introduced him to her "18-year-old roommate" and encouraged him to have sex with her while Biron video recorded them.
The "roommate" was Biron's daughter, then 13.


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Updated: NH House defies Hassan, kills casino bill by 35-vote marginBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
May 22. 2013 9:57PM
CONCORD -- The House Wednesday killed Gov. Maggie Hassan's pet proposal to bring casino gambling to New Hampshire and with it an estimated $80 million in revenue in the next two years and $130 million in gaming taxes in ensuing years.
After 15 years of trying and failing, gambling interests believed as late as Wednesday morning this was the year they would finally break through and pass the bill, which had been passed by the Senate and had been believed to be fueled by concern about Massachusetts moving toward licensing casinos .
But the House, sticking to its long tradition, slapped down the bill, 199-164, with 107 Republicans and 92 Democrats voting to kill the bill and 112 Democrats and 52 Republicans in favor of keeping it alive for further debate and possible amendments.
The House then voted against reconsideration, 212-152, meaning the bill cannot be resurrected in the current two-year session.
The 35-vote margin of the initial vote also means it is highly unlikely gambling will be resurrected through another legislative vehicle, such as the budget, during the current session.
Establishment of single "high-end, highly regulated casino" had been a key component of Hassan's successful campaign for governor. And she backed up her desire in her budget, which assumed $80 million in revenue from casino licensing fees.
She lobbied hard -- including throwing a last minute lunch for lawmakers funded by her inaugural campaign -- for passage of Senate Bill 152.
Gambling proponents had more than a dozen amendments ready, including several key ones that they said would have strengthened the regulatory aspects of the bill.
But the House never got that far. It upheld the 23-22 vote of a "supercommittee" of 45 key House members last week recommending that the bill be rendered "inexpedient to legislate."
Hassan said in a statement after the vote she was disappointed the House broke from "the New Hampshire tradition of open and thorough debate on key issues by voting against moving forward with full consideration of SB 152 and the thoughtful, bipartisan amendments offered by members.
She added in a news conference, "They didn't listen to the people of New Hampshire and the priorities they support and the way to fund those priorities."
But she said she remains "committed to working with the Legislature to finalize a balanced budget that restores the priorities that the people of New Hampshire support: job creation, higher education, economic development, strengthening our mental health system and protecting the health and well-being of our communities."
Without gambling, she said, "the path will be more difficult, but the people of New Hampshire expect us to do difficult things."
Top gambling foe Jim Rubens of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Expanded Gambling said the casino bill died "in spite of the most intense lobbying and arm-twisting operation ever for a gambling bill.
"It's time for the Legislature and the governor to find a new and better approach the budget making," Rubens said.
Top Senate co-sponsor and 15-year gambling champion Lou D'Allesandro. D-Manchester, said, "We brought a piece of legislation forward in a bipartisan manner to provide an economic recovery and a job creation package. It would have created 1,000 jobs and bring private capital into the state. We knew we needed the money for the budget, now its up to the House to make up the difference."
The bill would have allowed 1,500 slot machines and 500 table games at a single location in southern New Hampshire. It would have created a commission to study the possibility of future gambling sites.
Millennium Gaming of Las Vegas, which holds an option to purchase Rockingham Park, proposed a $600 million investment to bring a casino to the site of the former racetrack on the Massachusetts border. After the vote, a spokesman said the company remains it committed to Salem and the former racetrack.
"Well, I'm a little bit depressed," state Rep. Robert Elliot, R-Salem, said Wednesday night after the vote. "I'm sure that if this bill had passed, it could have meant a lot to my constituents if Salem had been the selected site."
Elliot said he was frustrated that the bill was killed by such a large margin and that no amendments were considered.
"All that hard work, all the hours and hours and hours ... all for nothing," he said. "They threw it all out."
Elliot, a Republican, said he'd congratulated Hassan, a Democrat, on her courage for putting the issue forward and including the revenue in her budget.
"I feel bad for the governor. Where are we going to get all of this revenue?" he said.
"I don't drink, so I can't even drown my sorrows," he said. "I've got to laugh or I'll just end up crying."
The Greenmeadow Country Club in Hudson said it had an arrangement with a casino company to bring a casino and hotel to the site.
The New Hampshire Motor Speedway also wanted a piece of the action, although its officials have said it would be unrealistic for them to build a facility that meets the bill's minimum investment requirement of $425 million.
Intense debate
House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, remained neutral on the bill, while other members of her leadership team opposed it.
In the more than two-hour House debate, House Finance Committee Chairman Mary Jane Wallner, D-Concord, said the supercommittee spent more than a month "uncovering problems and inadequacies in the bill that the majority of the members feel they were not able to fix."
The bill, she said, "is not right for New Hampshire and would have long-term, unpredictable consequences for our state."
But Rep. Stephen Spratt, D-Greenville, said the bill would create "thousands of jobs" and cited the needs of "family, friends and community members who need our help, but because of revenue constraints will often be left to themselves."
"If we do nothing, where will the money come from to address these costs in an already revenue-strained environment?" asked Spratt.
Spratt said arguments that gambling will hurt the state's wholesome "branding," or image, are also false.
"The New Hampshire brand has remained strong over the decades" despite liquor stores on highways and a lottery and charitable gaming, Spratt said.
Rep. Patricia Lovejoy, D-Stratham, a key foe, said that although the bill called for only one casino, "Proliferation is a given."
Lovejoy also argued the bill has regulatory "deficiencies" and an "arbitrary and unrealistic time line."
She said most new jobs would go to Massachusetts residents and the casino would not produce as much revenue as the proponents had promised.
Lovejoy also said that if gambling is legalized, the casino ownership will have "considerable influence on future legislatures," and she also warned that the bill would create thousands of new problem gamblers and "pathological gamers" that, together with "abuse costs," could cost as much as $100 million annually.
Booze, butts, bets
But Rep. Frank Sapareto, R-Derry, said New Hampshire already raises its money from "booze, butts and bets" through the state liquor sales, a cigarette tax and a lottery.
Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Manchester, called the bill "a real bargain," but for Millennium Gaming, not for New Hampshire taxpayers.
He called it "a corrupt bargain drafted by the greediest of the greedy," gambling lobbyists.
Rep. Leon Rideout, R-Lancaster, warned his region may not see the targeted money promised in the bill.
Gambling foe Rep. Bob Backus, D-Manchester, warned a casino will hurt entertainment businesses in his city and others.
Rep. Warren Groen, R-Rochester, a self-described "refugee" from New Jersey, said Atlantic City was once predicted to be a "jewel," but has turned out to be a "glitzy strip" surrounded by a "giant slum."
The lottery agency, she said, "knows marketing but they don't know regulation and they don't know enforcement."
Top gambling proponent Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, warned of the "very high price of doing nothing" and said "legal gambling currently exists in New Hampshire on a massive scale."
Campbell said a vote against gambling would crate "a giant funnel that will over time divert billions of dollars into the Massachusetts budget coffers," which he said, "defies common sense."
Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, a key opponent, after the vote complimented "courageous" Democrats who "had the commitment to go against a very popular Democratic governor and do the right thing."
Revenues and costs
When Hassan placed $80 million in gambling licensing fees in her proposed budget even though it had not yet become law, it opened her to criticism from opponents, and the $80 million was removed by the House in its proposed budget that was sent to the Senate.
The GOP-controlled Senate Finance Committee is now expected to propose major cuts to the House-passed budget, setting up a confrontation with the Democratic-controlled House on taxes and spending as the legislative session heads into its final month.
Gambling supporters said with the bill being killed, the state will lose out on that licensing money as well as future revenue of $130 million per year once a casino is up and running. They say the state will also lose $24 million annually in reduced rooms and meals tax and lottery sales, as Granite Staters will go to Massachusetts to gamble.
Massachusetts is moving toward licensing three casinos and a slot machines parlor, and the nonpartisan New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies concluded that without gambling in New Hampshire, the Granite State will lose $75 million a year in rooms and meals and lottery revenue as well as expenditures to deal with the "social costs" of gambling.
Click here to view the roll call vote.
Editor's Note : The vote was to rule the bill inexpedient to legislate, so a "Yea" vote is a vote to kill the bill.
New Hampshire Union Leader Reporters Garry Rayno and Tim Buckland contributed to this report.


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SALINA, Kan. — Within the next five years, farmers and ag engineering specialists expect big advances in wireless data capture and communication that could help improve on-farm efficiency by providing the tools for better management and decision-making.
Smart-phone based car insurance that allows drivers to potentially save on premiums by automatically downloading data about daily driving behavior or high-tech truck fleet management programs that maintain automated driver logs are common examples of something called telematics, which holds promise for farm and ranch applications as well.
Two experts on technology and economics who have been studying seamless communication syncing and wireless real-time monitoring on farms spoke recently about their findings.
"Telematics can help us rethink our assumptions" about things like loading and unloading procedures, optimal operating speeds or equipment sizing and internal and external field routing, said Terry Kastens, a private consultant and Kansas State University ag economics professor emeritus, speaking to the Kansas Agricultural Research and Technology Association.
Room still exists for a lot of what he calls "duh" advances. That includes more seamless communication sharing between on-farm equipment, including readings on combine fill levels or field application coverage.
Automating data collection is an important component of making full use of modern technology. "A lot of useful data is cumbersome without an effortless way to collect that data," Kastens pointed out.
One key to countering the lack of reliability by some rural wireless services is separating data that needs to be available instantaneously from lower-priority data that needs to simply be captured and stored for post-analysis. Instant communication can help with employee training and remote management as well as long distance troubleshooting for machinery repairs.
By contrast, farmers can go back to stored data to study workflow patterns and look for ways to improve harvest protocols or other farming operations.
Ag economist Kevin Dhuyvetter, who is currently on a one-year sabbatical from K-State providing consulting services to John Deere, said farm business management research shows that being in the top third of farmers in technology adoption translates to roughly $14.30 in additional per acre profit.
"There's huge differences across the style of management of custom harvesting crews, for example, and that affects their profits in significant ways," he said.
Information capture associated with Global Positioning Systems is already standard on all new equipment and that will continue, he said.
"I will contend that's not where you are going to make money. I think it is going to be in knowing what to do with that data. You won't be able to just push a button, and the answer will come out," he said.
The two experts expect to see farmers increasingly subscribe to information analysis services costing a few thousand dollars a year. "You're all going to be doing this," Kastens told the audience of farmers and crop advisors.
Dietrick Kastens, who farms in Northwest Kansas near Atwood and is the association's founding president, said "wall-to-wall network connectivity" is the next frontier in ag technology. He added that 3G and 4G telecommunication networks have greatly improved wireless capabilities in rural areas. (He and Terry Kastens, his father, are partners in a family farming enterprise and collaborate closely with K-State on research projects.)
"Technology is part of every farm today," he said during a conference break. "We're all precision farming today. Those who aren't are last generation farmers."
A lot of valuable wisdom has been passed down through the generations, he said, but today's technology allows farmers an objective means to re-evaluate what they do.
"The data is giving us an advantage over just relying on gut instinct," he said, offering a variation on the popular adage that you can't manage what you can't measure. "People tend to get hung up chasing pennies when dollars are falling out of their pockets."
Roger Brining, another innovative farmer from Great Bend, gave the example of automatic shutoff sensors on sprayers and corn-planting equipment. Research done several years ago showed that a farmer growing five pivots of corn could benefit enough from input savings and yield improvements to pay for the automation in just seven years.
But finding meaningful applications for the increasing overload of data most farmers have at their fingertips remains a huge challenge, he added. He said it was time for ag tech to get back to the basics.
"The technology is out there," he said. "Now we have the capability, but very few people are utilizing that to its full potential."
Putting data in context was a primary theme at the conference, which was originally started by K-State's ag engineering department before evolving into a farmer-run organization with K-State in an advisory role two years ago. The goal of organizers is to create an interactive environment where speaking sessions are relatively informal and no speakers are placed on a pedestal too high for vigorous questioning.
"The more we learn, the more questions it raises," Brining said.
While many farmers look to technology as a way to get ahead, Dhuyvetter cautioned that it might instead make the general business climate increasingly fast-paced. Farmers who plan on using the efficiencies they gain to spend more time at family activities or to go fishing might be disappointed.
"If you use it to farm less, you won't be competitive," he said. "You'll always have someone who will say 'I'm going to farm more than I am now, and I'm going to make more money.' In that sense, it will lead to bigger farms."


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The Southeast Asia Collection highlights the regional wars from the 1970s to the 1980s, including a series on Southeast Asian refugees in America, along with materials on regional economic development, especially in the Mekong River Basin. The collection contains hundreds of reports on agricultural and industrial projects in the region, examining everything from the impact of electrification on village life in Thailand to a description of a Soviet-built hospital in Cambodia in 1961, to an assessment of herbicide in Vietnam in 1971.
Collected primarily by Joel Halpern and James Hafner, the collection includes background, field, and situation reports by U.S. Operations Missions and U.S. Agency for International Development; reports, publications, statistics, and background information from other U.S. government agencies, governments of Laos and Thailand, and the United Nations; correspondence, reports, and reference materials of nongovernmental organizations; reports and essays by individuals about Southeast Asia; news releases and newspapers; published and unpublished bibliographies; and interviews with U.S. military personnel. Most material comes from governmental and organizational sources, but there are papers by, and debriefs of, numerous individuals.
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Alire, 47, left the humble confines of Towaoc - population 1,087 - and suddenly found herself surrounded by throngs of cheering onlookers at President Obama's inauguration parade Monday.
Alire and nine others marched in the parade as part of Native American Women Warriors, formed several years ago for female veterans of Native American descent. Its 36 members travel the country to participate in Color Guard ceremonies and raise awareness of an overlooked subgroup.
Founder Mitchelene Bigman is a 22-year retired Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq. She created the Pueblo-based group to "help bring recognition to these women," said Alire, who joined NAWW in November after an invitation from Bigman.
"We want to honor the ones who served in the past, who are currently serving, and any future Native American woman who wants to be part of the military," she added.
Being selected for the inaugural parade made NAWW part of an elite company. Of the roughly 2,800 groups that applied, only 60 made the final cut. Ballet Folklórico de la Raza, a Mexican heritage dance troupe out of Colorado Springs, also represented the Centennial State.
Diversity was on full display in the prestigious parade.
"We followed the (Lesbian and Gay Band Association of St. Louis), and behind us was a high school band from Arkansas," Alire said.
With musical instruments echoing and loudspeakers bellowing out the names of participating groups, decibel volumes were off the chart. The noise made it difficult for Alire and her comrades to hear Julia Kelly, a former Army drill sergeant who was "calling cadence" and trying to keep them in sync. "We were listening hard and hoping she wouldn't lose her voice."
Alire has done Color Guard ceremonies before, but this one was special.
"I'd never done anything of this magnitude and with all women," she said.
An estimated 800,000 plus people - more than 30 times the population of Montezuma County - crowded onto the National Mall to watch Obama take the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts. Many of those spectators lined Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and U.S. Capitol to watch the parade.
Alire called the raucous atmosphere, far removed from quiet Towaoc, "overwhelming."
"We were excited. People went nuts, screaming and yelling. There were Marines along the route. You could hear their heels click together as they saluted the flag," she said. "The roar of the crowd was unreal."
While in Washington, NAWW also took part in the American Indian Society Inaugural Ball and Powwow.
"I've never posed for so many pictures or smiled so much," Alire said.
During the festivities, the women wore jingle dresses made of blue fabric and adorned with 200 tiny metal cones. Alire said the dress signifies healing.
Putting the ensemble together was a team effort that took five days. Several friends helped sew the dress. Another made moccasins. Her cousin made a decorative belt. Someone's daughter gave a beaded medallion covered in a red rose pattern. Spiritual leader Terry Knight presented Alire with eagle feathers, and natural resources director Jerald Peabody supplied traditional face paint to wear near her eyes.
The blending of Native regalia with precise, military-style marching drew some attention, and Alire said countless people stopped her to inquire what the group was. They were even featured on a CBS News segment.
The other nine women came from tribes scattered across the country - North Carolina, Florida, North Dakota, Ohio. Even so, Alire said they formed an instant bond.
"We all got along," she said. "There was camaraderie because of common backgrounds and experiences."
Some of those experiences come from the battle for legitimacy, as minorities both in gender and race.
"You have to work harder (to prove yourself) as a Native American woman. Even today women in the military can struggle with acceptance. It may have gotten a little better since my time, but it's still a factor," she said.
Alire's own stint in the service was fairly brief.
Near the end of high school in Buena Vista in 1984, she felt unprepared and unmotivated for college. So she took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test to see if her skills fit with the military. They did.
After basic and advanced individual training at Fort Jackson, S.C., Alire spent a year as an administrative specialist at Alabama's Fort Rucker. Later she was stationed at the Army garrison in Giessen, West Germany. She returned to civilian life in Oct. 1986 and has lived in Towaoc for the last 19 years.
The pageantry of inauguration weekend was not something she'll soon forget.


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Ted Siefer's City Hall: Old-school Beaudry on losing side of vote to go paperlessTED SIEFER
June 16. 2013 12:12AM
WITH THE PROFUSION of iPads, e-books and smartphones, it's not hard to imagine a time in the not-too-distant future when paper will be a relic.
Until that time, however, there are plenty of people who have a special affection for the tangibility and texture of the printed page. And then there's Ward 9 school board member Art Beaudry, whose attachment to parchment, as we learned at Monday's meeting, is especially fierce.
It began with a simple and novel motion, from Ward 8 board member Erika Connors, to have the board "go paperless." In other words, to have the "packets" - the stacks of materials the board reviews and votes on - only be available online, in downloadable form. Members could still pick up hard copies at the district office.
In short order, Beaudry: accused other board members of singling him out; called one member "mister benefits man"; and prompted Mayor Ted Gatsas to bring down his gavel and threaten to declare Beaudry out of order.
As is well-known, Beaudry doesn't "do email," as he's often put it. He doesn't like to spend a lot of time in front of a computer. He prefers returning phone calls, and that he often does, as his constituents would probably attest. He is one of the more engaged - and passionate - members of the school board, sometimes to the chagrin of his colleagues.
And yes, maybe the supreme irony is that Beaudry is the chairman of the Information Technology Committee.
Connors is a relative newcomer to the school board and one of its younger members. She was irked to learn, given the district's financial woes, that its employees were driving around to deliver the packets to school board members. In the case of the Food Services department, the director himself sometimes makes the rounds.
"I think it's a waste of resources ... to drive around the city to deliver packets," Connors said during Monday's meeting.
Other members of the board were clearly receptive to the idea of going paperless.
Ward 11's Jason Cooper put the question to Superintendent Thomas Brennan whether he thought the reams of paper devoted to packets for the 14 school board members couldn't be better used.
"I think there's a better way to allocate those resources," Brennan said.
"In other words, in a way that's best for the children," Cooper said.
It was then that Beaudry brought up the "B word."
"There are a lot benefits that I don't take that others take. Maybe we should bring that up again," he said.
Beaudry was referring not so delicately to the fact he is one of the few members of the school board who opts not to take the district's health and dental coverage. Both Cooper and Connors receive the benefits. Collectively, covering the school board members costs the district upwards of $100,000 a year.
Cooper interrupted Beaudry to say, "Move the question."
And Beaudry angrily responded, "No, we're not moving the questions. I have the floor, mister benefits man."
Hopefully that nickname won't stick.
With Gatsas gaveling the meeting back to order, the question was moved, and the motion was passed overwhelmingly, with only Beaudry and his ally Debra Gagnon Langton voting against it.
Later in the week, Beaudry was still rankled by the vote. "The amount of work I do for the district, it seems to me another slap in the face," he said. "We've got board members who haven't shown up for committee assignments in a year, but nobody says anything about that."
Connors said she had no intention of singling out Beaudry, nor did she anticipate he would have such a strong reaction. "This was not a personal issue by any means. It's about what's best for the school district, not individual board members," she said. She echoed a suggestion from at-large board member Kathy Staub, who proposed that the packets be delivered via inter-office mail to the school that's closest to Beaudry.
Connors also noted that Nashua is considering a similar move. An alderman there has proposed a paperless policy for all its elected officials.
How does Gatsas feel about this Brave New World? After all, he's both a strong proponent of technology in the classroom and personally partial to old-school communication methods, e.g. paper, phone and face to face.
"It is what it is," he said. "The new members think paperless is good, and I can't disagree with them."
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The paperless debate Monday was a discordant coda to what was otherwise an exceptionally productive and harmonious school board meeting.
The board made quick work of several motions, including one that would call on principals to produce class schedules at the end of the school year, rather than just before school starts again in the fall. A cloud had lifted on the board a couple of days earlier, when it voted unanimously to select Debra Livingston as the district's new superintendent - with only a couple of weeks to spare before Brennan walked.
The comity at Monday's meeting was enough to prompt Brennan to ask, "Where the heck has this been?"
Gatsas was also unusually buoyant.
"What'd you have for breakfast this morning?" Dave Gelinas, the board's vice chairman, asked the mayor.
"If we can go down the same path, I'm happy to lead," Gatsas replied.
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Gatsas was troubled by one matter that came up early in the evening. It turns out that the additional $1 million the aldermen managed, after much deliberation and calculation, to send over to the district would only result in the hiring of four additional teachers, once retirements and vacancies were filled, according to estimates from district Business Administrator Karen DeFrancis.
This didn't jive with Gatsas' calculations.
It was perhaps a sober reminder that the final $156.7 million school budget was still nearly $3 million less than the budget Brennan said was necessary to hire enough teachers to ensure that all classes were below the state minimum standard of 30 students per class.
Other board members also wanted to take a closer look at the new budget picture, but wanted to see the figures in black and white.
"I love budget discussions as much as the next guy, but I like to have numbers in front of me," said Ward 3 board member Christopher Stewart.
Gatsas, for his part, said he intends to examine the numbers more closely with DeFrancis.
"I have a lot of respect for her, but I want to go over those numbers again," he said.
Ted Siefer may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @tbsreporter.


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When scouting cottages for HGTV's Summer Home, my team and I coined the term "the trifecta of ugly." As soon as we walked through the door, we knew that if we were greeted by an angled wood-burning stove, it meant that a faux-wood fan and an amber stained-glass dome pendant light were sure to follow. I realize this doesn't sound so unattractive, but let me break it down for you.
Most wood-burning stoves I've come across in the woods are on an angle, which makes furniture placement challenging. In addition to the angle issue, the stove is always set against a backdrop of red fauxbrick veneer and elevated on a stage of ceramic tile (like dirty mustard) that's in complete contrast to the colour of the floor.
The second part of the trio is a giant fan covered in faux-wood veneer and accented with gold plumber's pull chains. Sometimes these fans even come with large frosted floral glass shades that allow you to read the wattage of your bulb. Dark brown fans like this are usually found in the middle of a white ceiling above the sofa, so that when you stand up, the chains graze your head.
Last of the threesome is the amber glass dome pendant, also known as the Pizza Parlor Pendant. If you went to a birthday party at Mother's Pizza between 1972 and 1992, you'll know this dinner light well.
Sarcasm aside, the trio drives cottage owners crazy. Collectively or independently, each part of the trio is a serenity buster. They're not top-of-the-list repairs, they're just unsightly. If you've recently purchased a summer home or perhaps inherited your grandparents' cottage and want to deal with the existing triad now, don't fret. You don't have to spend a bundle.
When it comes to the woodburning stove, the obvious option is to remove and replace it with a fireplace that's centred on the wall. Many people like the nostalgia of a wood-burning stove. I've also developed an admiration for the wood-burning stove since spending so much time in cottage country. The key is to integrate the stove with your decor. Remove the standout tile and have your contactor lower the stage, meaning you don't need to put your stove on a three-inch platform. Stoves generally require 18 inches in front and six inches on the back and sides of non-combustible area beneath the stove.
Replace the contrasting tile with one that's close to the colour of your existing floors and then paint that faux-brick the same colour as the walls. You can straighten the wood-burning stove. In the above photo, we ignored the angle and arranged the furniture on a grid as though the stove was invisible.
You have a couple options when it comes to the fan. If your fan is hung high enough so that the pull chains don't touch anyone's head, you can spray paint it. Rustoleum's Painter's Touch in Heirloom White is fast drying and will give you a smooth finish. If your walls are white, your giant fan should disappear. The better option, however, is to replace it. White fans work well in rooms with white ceilings and walls. Similarly, wood or copper finishes look great in cedar cottages. We chose a stainless steel fan because it camouflaged well against our painted grey-blue ceiling. For the latest in fans try The Northern Fan (northernfan.com) and The Modern Fan Company (modernfan.com)
Light fixtures that look like they belong outside always look great inside the cottage. Think large clear glass lanterns, rustic iron orbs and vintage barn pendants. Second-hand shops in cottage country are fantastic lighting sources, but even hardware stores and big box stores will have a good selection of outdoor lights that you can use in your living and dining rooms. These days, I'm loving the cottage lighting selection at Restoration Hardware (restorationhardware.com). Sorry, there's simply no facelift or disguise for the Pizza Parlor Pendant. You'll need to replace it, unless the look you're trying to create is '70s spaghetti house.


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If there is one month that defines summer it is July. Long days full of bright sunshine, heat, humidity and packed full of summer activities.
If there is one month that defines summer it is July. Long days full of bright sunshine, heat, humidity and packed full of summer activities.
One of those activities people do in summer months is the picnic.
Whether it's a picnic with friends, family, colleagues or special someones in your life, picnics are a nice way to pass an afternoon or evening.
It makes sense that July, which is a month that has a lot of them is National Picnic Month.
Perhaps we suffer from too many slickster marketing types all too ready to proclaim a month the national month of this or that thing.
My point is that July is also National Ice Month, National Blueberry Month, National Hot Dog Month and National Pickle Month.
Seeing that list it's surprising that the marketing types haven't proclaimed July National Pepto Bismol Month!
July is a month for summer activities like the picnic and all the fixings that goes with a picnic. The St. James grocery, gas stations, other merchants and ice cream stores can supply the fixings that make a picnic special.
The question then is where to have a picnic. The marketing types have another suggestion for you because July is also Park and Recreation Month.
If you're going to have a picnic one of the best places to lay that blanket on the ground, or find a picnic table, or a grill sets at one of the local parks.
The National Recreation and Parks Association is tooting the horn of our community parks, "This July have your community share what they love about parks and recreation!
"July is a great time to highlight all the many valuable benefits you bring to your neighborhood – from health and wellness to nature to community spirit and social equity.
"During Park and Recreation Month, let's get everyone talking about the positive role parks and recreation has on our lives!"
The citizens of St. James and Watonwan County benefit from having a wonderful park system to have those picnics with the ice cream, hot dogs, pickles, blueberries and Pepto Bismol.
Our parks enhance a sense of community and tie the citizens closer together. People just seem to be friendlier when you pass them by at a park.
St. James has that wonderful, tranquil jewel of a small town park known to us as Memorial Park on the southwest side of town.
Up against St. James Lake, Memorial Park's grounds are well maintained and stylishly done. The park has antique lamp posts along the lake shore that provides a nice touch. There are bike and walking/running paths along the lake shore and adequate parking.
Memorial Park has great facilities for the picnic. There are two shelters, one on the north end and one on the south end, where larger get togethers can gather. The community band shell on the north end allows people to have a picnic and listen to the community sponsored concerts that are held throughout the summer.
St. James City Manager Joe McCabe says that St. James has, "Well rounded park facilities with lots of forms of activities available."
People who are picnicking can, "Play volleyball, disc golf and there are playgrounds for the kids," McCabe said.
In addition to the two shelters McCabe noted that there are picnic tables and grill sets scattered through out the park and the St. James park system.
The city website lists the following parks in St. James: Deer Park, Downtown City Park, Jaycee Park, Malmrose Park, Meadowlark Prairie Nature Center, Memorial Park, South Side Park, St. James Lake, Tiell Park and Campground, Toddler Town Park, West Side Park.
Watonwan County also has a nice park system. Parks that have facilities for picnics include Eagle's Nest Park, which is northeast of the golf course; Long Lake Park; and Kansas Lake Park.
A great picnic opportunity is coming August 1, when St. James holds its 'block party' that evening. It is a great way to get out and meet new friends and say hello to your old ones. The picnic tables on the north end of Memorial Park will be full that night, so get there early and enjoy a picnic.
McCabe says, "There are a lot of really neat things planned this year."
July - picnics, parks, ice cream, hot dogs, lots of other food and pepto bismol - ain't that America!
I've got just one other suggestion for the marketers when it comes to July, and that is July should also be National Bug Spray Month!