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You didn't really think that the Bills were going to pull off the stunner of the century and beat New England on Sunday night, did you? Seriously – how long has it been since good fortune smiled upon the Bills? Sure, there was The Comeback, but that was in 1993 – almost 15 years ago. Since then the Bills have been on the short end of many exciting events, which, for the sake of my audience I will not mention here. Nope – it wasn't going to happen and if you've watched the team recently you knew that, too.
I take no joy in the latest Bills defeat, merely a sense of the expected coming to pass. Playing the best the team in the league, well rested and coming off their bye week, you had to know the Bills were a massive underdog at home for a reason.
A loss is a loss, and even when you expect it, it hurts. It hurts worse when it comes at the hands of a team you desperately want to beat – a team who has owned your team for years – a team nobody will stop talking about. It hurts worse when you live in New England and have to deal with jubilant locals who consider themselves "huge Pats fans" yet can't tell you much about the team prior to 2000, name the current starting left guard, or tell you which side of the line moved based solely on when the whistle blew.
To give the Patriots their due, they have assembled an amazing team. While I am sick of the media and the fans heaping adulation on the team, there may be merit to the talk about the team being the best in the history of the NFL. Defensively the team is a powerhouse, keeping all challengers in check. Offensively the team is awe-inspiring – their production is ready to shatter a number of all time team records including points per game and points in a season. In game after game Tom Brady leads a pass-happy attack to touchdown after touchdown with lightning quick reads and surgical precision. Even those who dislike the Patriots are conceding rare greatness.
But there's a difference in winning and winning with class. The 2007 New England Patriots have shown a tremendous amount of talent at the same time they have shown a tremendous lack of class.
I like being an un-credentialed amateur sportswriter – it allows me to make statements like the one I just made. There's nobody to take away access to the team and players, nobody to force me to present the other side, nobody to tell me to not rock the boat. I can talk about things you won't hear in the regular media. Tonight I want to talk about the ugly side of America's Team.
We all know about the spygate scandal and how the Patriots were found to have violated NFL rules by secretly videotaping opponents' signals, an infraction for which they were fined and docked a draft pick. The taping came after the league expressly communicated the rule to all teams in light of previous, unproven complaints. The league compelled the Patriots to turn over any and all incriminating tapes and reviewed them before destroying them all – nobody will ever know the full extent of the cheating as league brass just wanted to make it go away.
Beyond Jets, lies and videotape, the Patriots have shown a disdain for other league rules. Have you ever seen the weekly Patriots injury report? If you have you'll notice two things: a)With rare exception, all players are listed as questionable, meaning they have a 50-50 chance to play and b)Tom Brady is on the injury list every week. It seems that the Patriots dislike having to reveal their injuries in a league-mandated list, so they thumb their nose at everyone by not actually reporting anything. While other teams dutifully report their injuries, the Patriots seem to feel that this is proprietary information that would be detrimental to the team if revealed. The situation is eerily similar to Dick Cheney's attempt to keep documents secret by classifying them as "treat as secret", an unofficial classification he himself created.
You've heard plenty about the Patriots' performance on Sunday, but what you probably didn't read much about was they way they ran up the score on the Bills and they way they have run up the score on previous opponents. Up 35-7 in the third quarter, the Patriots, faced with a 4th and 1 from the Buffalo 3, declined to go for the easy field goal and opted instead to go for the touchdown by having Brady throw to Ben Watson (it worked). As if that wasn't enough, on their very next possession, up by 32 points, the Patriots again declined an easy field goal on 4th and 1 and ran the ball to convert in their drive for their seventh touchdown. I don't care who you are or how you want to try and justify the situation, but that's running up the score, folks. Not only is it running up the score, it's cheap, it's petty and it's poor sportsmanship.
You can argue all you want that such actions are a part of the game – that it's a tough game and if you don't like it you need to do something to stop it – that's a tremendous load of you know what. There are some unwritten rules in the game, and unnecessarily running up the score is one of them – it's completely unnecessary and takes away from the game. Yes, it's a tough game played by large, hyper aggressive and violent men, but that doesn't mean the ends always justify the means. Defeat your opponent, but don't disrespect them and humiliate them – there's no place for that. When that type of thing starts happening can payback, cheap shots and hockey fights be far behind? Where does it end?
The big question surrounding the Patriots antics is why. Why would such a great team resort to such classless actions? Undoubtedly the success enjoyed by New England is not a result of videotape, deceptive injury reporting and beating up on lesser opponents, but rather the result of superior talent, good coaching and hard work. The Patriots could easily dominate their competition without resorting to tactics that would have people wondering if they are ethically challenged. One can only speculate whether the parallels between Bill Belichick and Richard Nixon, two brilliant men with deep insecurities and flaws, are accurate and explain the situation. Perhaps it's just the same evolution that impacts everything from corporate profits to personal vanity – there's no such thing as too much and you deserve all the fruits of your success regardless of how they were obtained.
Sadly, questions are left unanswered in the quest to portray New England as the story of the year – America's Team showing absolute perfection. It wouldn't be the first time the facts have been ignored or whitewashed by the media so a myth could be perpetuated. When everyone loved the Cowboys, Michael Irvin was doing cocaine with hookers and stabbing guys in the neck with scissors over haircuts, yet we see him on TV every week as an analyst. When the Packers were America's Team Brett Favre was addicted to prescription painkillers and his star tight end, Mark Chmura, was inappropriately propositioning high school girls in the hot tub after the prom. Sure, these things get reported, but they get spun and explained away – nobody is ever held accountable because it ruins the image. The Patriots are just the latest to be in the position and get a pass for their actions.
So go ahead, admire the Patriots for what they are – a great team with a real chance to make history. But hold them accountable for their actions and call them out when they show a lack of class – it's the least we can do as fans of the game.


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The business administration major supplements traditional learning with valuable community work. Below are some recent activities that gave our students practical experience in the real world.
- Gave away a café in Sherburn, Minnesota. The students promoted a contest, worked with the city, previous owners, and interviewed local people. The students then collected the applications, reviewed them and invited four in for interviews. From there the students made a recommendation to the previous owner on which applicant to select. The students also worked closely with the Regional Center for Entrepreneurial Center (RCEF) on this project.
- Planned, promoted, and hosted a seminar on trade with Russia. Two people from Russia, as well as three business professionals from the Twin Cities, spoke on trade and IP issues.
- Planned and hosted the first hall of fame banquet for the local softball association. Also created a silent auction that raised more than $1,000.
- Worked with the Minnesota Vikings to help with setup of the 2013 Draft Party as well as coordinate autograph sessions and other activities.
- Planned and conducted an event at the Minnesota Vikings Family Football Day in which they shot video of participants announcing a broadcast for a Vikings game.
- Worked with the Mankato School District, The Entrepreneurial Center, and Frozen Yogurt Creations to promote Bethany Lutheran College, video production, and entrepreneurship at a career fair for junior high students.
- Worked with Minnesota Valley Action Council to conduct projects in support of the non-profit mission: a clothing drive, a fundraiser with Pizza Ranch, selling apple pies at Hy-Vee, and a marketing drive with a local radio station.
- Individually completed a 10-15-page Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of a business by interviewing a company owner or executive.
- Created short marketing videos in the production studio with Bethany media students and students from East High School. Projects included marketing and research on local businesses: Angie's Kettlecorn, Lucky's Popcorn Dressing, and Bent River Outfitters.

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Elements of the JAG Corps — career government military lawyers — exert, in my view, an undue amount of influence on how this country will fight the war on terrorism. And not for the good. Along with their former JAG colleague and current mouthpiece in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, they have spearheaded the movement to provide gold-plated process to terrorists who are hell-bent on killing as many Americans and other Westerners as humanly possible. Any rational effort to stop such terrorists would focus on learning, through aggressive interrogation tactics, all that they know. But, as liberal ex-JAG John Hutson has admitted to Lindsey Graham (who did not disagree), the conferring rights on terrorists comes at a cost to our ability to obtain needed information. For more on the threat posed by the terrorist rights campaign see this editorial from today's Washington Times and this one in yesterday's Wall Street Journal which explains why, if the liberal JAGs and Lindsey Graham have their way, "we may not break the next Khalid Sheikh Mohammad."
Until reading this piece in today's Washington Times by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, I assumed that the JAGs in question view matters as they do for parochial but substantive reasons. As lawyers, the JAGs care deeply about process, and should. Unfortunately, their belief in process appears to have crowded out, fetish-like, any serious focus on competing concerns. In place of such a focus they probably just assume, as one of their members has pronounced, that we cannot lose the war on terrorism as long as we provide lots of process to detainees.
This sort of "substantive parochialism" is not a good thing. However, it's not unique to JAG lawyers. Those in the intelligence community probably tend to focus with tunnel-vision on the thing they care about — obtaining information. So too with State Department bureaucrats, who obsess over how our actions are viewed by diplomats from other nations. It's up to our leaders, and particularly the president, to mediate the competing obsessions. Unfortunately, owing to the balance of power in the Senate, the process-obsessed Lindsey Graham is able to play a disproportionate role. In addition, the Supreme Court — another collection of lawyers who haven't been elected — has not been bashful about interposing its preferences, which include lots of process.
But if Gertz and Scarborough are correct, the JAG leadership is driven not just by substantive parochialism, but also by an ignoble desire to grow their bureaucracy and receive promotion. According to Gertz and Scarborough,
The war on terrorism has been exploited by the military judge advocates general (JAGs) to increase their numbers. The proliferation of military lawyers is at an all-time high, with Army JAG strength 10 percent larger than it was at the end of the Cold War.
The three senior JAGs for the Army, Navy and Air Force, known as TJAGs, want three-star rank similar to the surgeons general of the services. But they need a larger corps of military lawyers to justify the boost in rank, we are told. Legislation to increase the three-star rank was proposed this year but failed from lack of Pentagon support.
According to officials familiar with the debate, TJAGs were part of recent interagency meetings along with officials from the Defense, Justice and State departments on proposed legislation, and all parties reached "total agreement" on the legislation. The TJAGs had complained in the past that they had been left out of decision-making on interrogation, which is not true, so they were made full participants.
But after agreement was reached, the TJAGs publicly denounced in congressional testimony the legislation their representatives had accepted in the interagency debate, we are told.
As one participant told us, "National security was subordinated to TJAGs self-interest. Gaining an increase in JAG strength and three-star rank is more important than defeating the transnational terrorist threat."
I have no way of knowing whether the substance of this report is accurate, and the fact that some ex-JAGs with no interest in a promotion support much of what their successors are doing suggests (as I explained above) that there is much more than self-interest at work here. Let's hope that, contrary to the Gertz-Scarborough report, self-interest is no factor at all.


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Von Miller's brash corruption warranted stiffer NFL action
Are you kidding me?
Denver Broncos pass rusher Von Miller allegedly corrupted one of the NFL's drug testing collectors and utilized their relationship to beat the system, albeit temporarily, and he only received a six game suspension from the NFL? That is ludicrous and disturbing on many levels.
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We've known about the suspension for weeks. We'd originally been told that it involved a diluted sample as well as a spilled sample, which is both weird and gross but that's another story for another day. What we never knew up until an ESPN report on Sunday is exactly why Miller's suspension was two games more than the league mandated four-game ban for a positive test under the league's Substances of Abuse policy. It didn't make any sense that Miller would get two more games than what had been collectively bargained between the NFL and the NFLPA.
Now we know exactly what Miller got busted for and it makes even less sense.
Only two extra games of punishment for allegedly being in cahoots with the tester and both cheating and beating the system? If you think about it strictly from a risk/reward ratio, it's worth it! Well worth it, in fact, if you consider the money that is at stake.
That's why I am so surprised the NFL didn't come down on Miller harder. I think it sends a horrible message to NFL players everywhere. I can just imagine some NFL players who are in "the program," having already already tested positive for a "substance of abuse" once and are one more strike away from a suspension, wondering why they didn't think of what Miller is alleged to have pulled off for a while.
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Maybe they'll think they can pull it off better than Miller and will give it a try, especially if they slipped up and ingested a banned substance in the days leading up to a test.
I understand on some level why the NFL didn't come down harder. They are scared. Scared of litigation, scared of potential fallout, and scared of a reversal of their punishment in the wake of what went down with former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and the Saints Bounty Scandal. The NFL didn't want another long, drawn out case to take the attention away from the football on the field and didn't want to risk another black eye.
But what about the risk of setting an awful precedent and opening Pandora's Box in terms of NFL players coercing or bribing drug testing collectors?
The drug testing collectors are not exactly highly paid employees. Far from it, as you might imagine. This entire episode makes me wonder how many other players have ever tried such an arrangement? My guess is at least a few have, and probably successfully.
I was never tested for performance-enhancing drugs anywhere except at the team facility during my seven years in the league. The drug testing collectors live within driving distance of that facility. There exists a possibility, maybe a strong one, that they are fans of the team. Who's to say I couldn't have worked out a deal whereby the collector would use some clean urine instead of mine so that I could enhance my performance pharmaceutically? Heck, maybe if the guy is a big enough fan, someone at the team level could work something out with them so that none of the players ever test positive for PED's and thus would be able to have a team of juiced up players.
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The possibilities are endless and scary and the NFL didn't do nearly enough to deter the possibility of this behavior going forward. There are reports that the league will look to certain technology involving finger prints in order to attempt to prevent this, but as long as the testing collectors are a part of the process, my guess is some enterprising player and collector will be able to figure out a way to circumvent the system.
As for Miller, he's clearly not the person whom many believed him to be when he first came into the league. He is smart, well-spoken, dominant on the field and business conscious off of it. He had a wonderful opportunity to be one of the faces of the league moving forward, but that ship has sailed. The league, and the Denver Broncos, simply cannot trust him.
That said, given the punishment that he has received, it is hard to blame him for trying what he did. I'm not condoning drug use. Far from it. The fact that a guy with the world as his oyster can't stay clean is mind-boggling, but clearly Miller has an issue. It's almost as if he decided at some point that he wasn't going to be able to do what it takes to pass the drug tests fair and square, so he needed to find another solution.
Based on the extremely lenient punishment of just two extra games handed down by the NFL, I'd say the risk was worth the potential reward.


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Father John Hotze of the Catholic Diocese of Wichita has confirmed an Associated Press report that a Vatican official, Italian lawyer Andrea Ambrosi, will return to Kansas on Saturday to finalize an investigation into possible miracles that may determine whether Chaplain Emil Kapaun will become a saint.
The recovery of Avery Gerleman, now a student at Hutchinson Community College, is one case being investigated by the Vatican.
When Gerleman was 12 years old, she was stricken with an autoimmune disorder and wasn't expected to recover. Her family and friends began praying for Kapaun's intercession. She has since recovered.
Chase Kear of Colwich is the other case that has been investigated. He recovered from a pole-vaulting injury after family and friends prayed to Kapaun for his intercession.
Ambrosi was in Kansas earlier and interviewed many people, including Gerleman and Kear. After Ambrosi's visit, the case will be handed over to the Vatican.
According to Amy Pavlacka, a spokeswoman for the Wichita Diocese, it still could be a long while before any decision is made.
"First he must be named a servant of God, and beatified," Pavlacka said. Kapaun was designated a "servant of God" in 1993.
If one miracle is confirmed, he will be given the title of blessed. Then, if there were proof of a second miracle, he would be canonized as a saint. But if the search determines Kapaun is a martyr, he will automatically be beatified, requiring only one miracle for sainthood.


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And Happy New Year to All of You!
Have you ever thought about the significance of something as simple as a bell? Not only were church bells of old used to announce the time to anyone within hearing distance, bells in general have been used since the earliest of times as a type of alarm, warning those nearby of things that were about to happen, things that were both "good" and some things that were "not so good." The tolling of a bell, even today, may serve as an announcement that a child has been born, a couple has just been married, or that a death has occurred. During medieval times, the simple ringing of a bell was believed to have kept evil spirits away, and it was a common practice to ring a bell at the bedside of the deceased prior to burial. In modern times, bells of all sizes, types and sounds have been used in churches, schools, and other public places. Even our doorbells and the bell that ding-dings in our cars when we don't buckle up have evolved from these early uses of bells as warning or announcement devices.
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GQ's Glee photoshoot was even skeevier than what made it to the page. In a newly-released video, Lea Michele plays up the porny schoolgirl shtick, rips off Dianna Agron's top, and gets sprayed down with silly string by Terry Richardson.
Michele, who asks coyly, "Can anyone find me a book on sex education?" seems the most enthusiastic about the opportunity to show off her sexyface. Unlike Agron, who's said, "At the time, it wasn't my favorite idea, but I did not walk away," Michele has never denounced the photos.
Michel did remark, "I don't know how they got me to do half the stuff I did," and we still don't know either. The video is edited so all we hear is the soundtrack to their super-sexy fun, not Uncle Terry urging her to spreading her legs a little further or seductively twirl her lollipop.
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Every time something major is set to launch in the land of the Xbox 360 you can almost guarantee a super sweet special edition console will arrive with it. Gears of War 3 is no exception and with the launch just over a week away, Pocket-lint has been lucky enough to get its grubby mits on one of the pimped up consoles.
Until now the Kinect Star Wars console has reigned supreme in our cool books, closely followed by the yet to be released Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360. It looks, however, like this is all about to change with this blood red Gears of War Xbox special.
Open up the console box and you are immediately greeted with a red and black matte finished 320GB Xbox 360, complete with blood splattered COG symbol and Gears of War logo on the front. This was cool enough, but what catapulted things into the stratosphere was the special GOW startup sound and audio played when opening and closing the disc tray.
The included pair of 360 controllers keep up the splattered aesthetic, following the same matte crimson colour scheme as the console. Short of the special colour scheme there isn't much else to say about the controllers, they are the same Xbox setup that you will likely be used to playing with.
Also inside is a bundled copy of the new Gears of War 3 game and a special download code which grants you five bonus weapon skins and Adam Fenix as a playable character in multiplayer. A standard black Xbox 360 headset is also thrown in for good measure.
For £269, this 320GB console, with pair of controllers and game is pretty decent value for money, let alone a deal sweetener for Gears of War fans. If you don't fancy shelling out any of your own hard-earned pennies/dollars/yen or whatever currency you choose to enjoy, you could always enter our very special Tweet based competition, which will see one lucky winner take home a console.
We like the special edition approach that Microsoft has started taking with its Xbox console, it definitely makes things more exciting than the standard shiny or matte approach.
The included copy of Gears of War 3 has us seriously distracted right now, with the special startup noise gearing us up... ahem... for a major Locust bashing session.
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President Obama is in a bind. He knows that the economic recovery is fragile and dependent on continued fiscal stimulus—hence the bipartisan deal on further tax breaks he brokered in December. But he also knows that the tolerance in Washington for deficits of close to 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product is running out. In the short term, the politics of the new Congress will not allow them; and in the long term, the President's own National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has warned against them.
The President's dilemma was on open display in his State of the Union address in January. It is, he said, deficit spending by government that has "broken the back of this recession"; and government-supported investment in innovation, education, and infrastructure that is needed to "win the future." But while sending to Congress a budget that he promised will produce "countless new jobs," the President at the same time proposed to cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade.
Overall investment and spending must be maintained by the government in order to support the economy at a time when unemployment remains at unprecedented postwar levels and a quarter of home owners owe more on their mortgages than the value of their property. The Federal Reserve has tried to stimulate the economy through a loose monetary policy, keeping interest rates very low and purchasing $600 billion in Treasury notes from big banks in an effort to make more money available to the banking system—a measure called quantitative easing. But the deficit must also be cut in order to preserve the nation's creditworthiness.
This is the urgent challenge the President knows America is facing. Is there a way to square the circle? Part of the solution, we believe, lies in the creation of a National Investment Bank that will produce more jobs while not seriously increasing the deficit. Behind this lies solid economic theory.
The theory is Keynesian. John Maynard Keynes did not deny that market economies recovered "naturally" from slumps. He argued that their natural recovery mechanisms were too weak to bring them back to "full employment" within a "reasonable time" (say, three or four years). When private business confidence has been crushed and private investors' appetite for risk has been curtailed by the painful experience of a recession, private spending will remain in the doldrums for a prolonged period even though output is well below capacity, resources lie idle, and people are unemployed. This is what occurred during the Great Depression, when the American economy took eight years after 1929 to regain its pre-crash peak output, and unemployment remained over 10 percent for more than a decade.
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ABC News reported the disappearance of the missiles from unguarded warehouses has raised concerns al-Qaida, which is active in Libya, could get hold of them.
"Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that's our worst nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, first warned about the weapons being taken after a trip to Libya six months ago. A few weeks ago, ABC News said, he photographed pickup trucks hauling missiles away.
"I myself could have removed several hundred if I wanted to, and people can literally drive up with pickup trucks or even 18-wheelers and take away whatever they want," Bouckaert said.
He said officials are concerned "some of these missiles could end up in the wrong hands."
"I think the probability of al-Qaida being able to smuggle some of the stinger-like missiles out of Libya is probably pretty high," said Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism adviser who is now consultant to ABC News.
The missiles are 4 to 6 feet long and can weigh 55 pounds each with a launcher. They work by targeting the heat generated by an aircraft's engine and and can be fired from a vehicle or shoulder and are accurate from more than 2 miles away, ABC said.
The State Department says more than 40 civilian planes worldwide have been hit by surface-to-air missiles since the 1970s.
Boxer called for Congress to give wide-bodied passenger jets that fly overseas the same protection from the missiles military aircraft have. It would cost about about $1 million per plane to do so, she said.
"For us to sit idly by and not do anything when we could protect 2 billion passengers over the next 20 years (with) a relatively small amount of money (from) the Department of Defense, I think that's malfeasance," Boxer said.
Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said five specialists have been sent to Libya to help the interim government, the Transitional National Council, recover and destroy surface-to-air missiles. A State Department expert is helping the Libyans develop a "control-and-destruction program" for the missiles, Vietor said.


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101 West Mitchell Street, Milwaukee WI 53204 (map); 414-763-0438; transfermke.com
Pizza style: A little bit of this, a little bit of that...
Oven type: Bakers Pride gas-fired oven
The skinny: In a town that may be known more for thin yet hearty thin-crust pizzas, Transfer's Vasyl Lemberskyy forges his own path
Price: Small pies, $8 to $13; large, $14 to $19
In a comment from the end of November, Slice'r napplegate all but triple-dog-dared me to visit Transfer Pizzeria Café in Milwaukee.
I'm glad he did. See, I already knew Milwaukee could do the kind of thin-crust yet hearty Midwestern pizzas that seem straight outta 1957 and I wanted to try something 21st-century instead this trip.
Transfer, which opened in 2008 on an otherwise dreary block, gives pizzamaker Vasyl Lemberskyy a venue for creative pizzas that are, as he says on the menu, "not Italian, not American but ... my vision of cooking." Which makes sense for a guy whose bio indicates that he first fell in love with pizza in the Ukraine after itinerant Italian pizzaioli showed up at a festival and started doing their thing and who then moved to Italy to learn the trade before moving to the U.S. and ending up in Milwaukee.
That sort of ramblin' man ethos is reflected on the menu with its 44 different pizzas divided into five sections — Garlic Pizzas, Traditional, Veggie, Seafood Pizzas, and Special Pizzas.
Our waitress, in her self-described "spiel" (which was indeed as long as the menu — yet charming) sold me on a garlic pizza, noting that they're sort of what Transfer was known for. I went with a small La Bella, with its garlic sauce, cheese, artichokes, and onion ($11).
And, because I wanted to taste a more standard tomato-sauced pie, I also ordered a S.M.O., with its cheese, tomato sauce, sausage, mushroom, and onion ($11).
My companion ordered a Workweek Lunch Special — a small one-topping pizza (she chose pepperoni) and a 16-ounce drink for $6.95. That is an unbelievably great price for the size of pizza you get.
The crust on this pizza is thicker and more bready than the thin-crust pizzas I normally order when in Milwaukee. The only easy-to-grasp standard reference that might work for all of us is that this is what a "hand-tossed" chain-pizza crust might be like if it were actually good. It's pleasingly puffy, with a middling amount of density, but is not overly soft and gummy. There's some crispness to it, and the upskirt shows some nice browning:
I could have asked for just a tiny bit more flavor in the dough, but with the generous amount of toppage that goes on here — lots of cheese and many inventive flavor combinations — you won't notice this until you get to the end crust, which, I will admit, is not an insignificant percentage of a small slice here.
Of the three we tried, my favorites were the garlic-artichoke-onion pizza (artichoke is always hard to beat in my book), and the pepperoni, which was smokey and funky.
While Transfer has not replaced Maria's as my fave Milwaukee pizza haunt (nostalgia runs deep), I'm happy napplegate nudged me here. It's nice to have an option as good as Transfer in this part of Bay View.
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Abstract: This article contributes to the emerging body of work in organisational theory that seeks to include materiality in conceptualising processes of organizing (e.g. Law, 1994; Doolin, 2003; Czarniawska and Gustavsson, 2004; Dale, 2005). Using the four largest multinational oil companies' green transition towards renewable energies as a case the article integrates material aspects into the theory on the narration of organisational identities. Following Czarniawska (1997) the concept of organisational identity is viewed as an evolving organisational narrative. Following Law (1994) this organisational narrative is then conceptualised as a socio-technical narrative. The article describes how oil related technologies and their accompanying symbolic meaning and technical oil related standards can be conceptualised as part of the enduring aspects in oil companies' organisational identities. The article concludes to that end that both social and material aspects add to the endurance of organisational identities. Key words. Identity narration; materiality; greening of oil companies; climate change. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6701
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Abstract: In this article I contribute to descriptive green business research on how processes of eco-effective greening business unfold in the practical reality. I look into the case of the increasing interaction between the multinational oil company Shell and the world's largest wind turbine company Vestas. I draw on descriptive organisational sense-making theory and analyse to this end Shell and Vestas' shared green sense-making on off-shore wind energy business. The article concludes that greening companies such as Shell – that are not born green – might be considerably advanced, if these companies strengthen their relationships with companies such as Vestas – that are born green. This is so, since companies that are born green have strong green ecocentric business beliefs that can function as important engines in shared green sense-making with companies that are not born green and have more hesitant green beliefs. KEY WORDS: Sustainable business, sense-making, climate change, oil and wind turbine companies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6710
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With its multidisciplinary mix of movies, music and technology, the South by Southwest festival has a reputation as a hip, forward-looking affair. But one of the unofficial themes to emerge at this year's SXSW Film Festival, which kicked off Friday, is revisiting roots. Here are four movies — and one famous actor — making the old-school new again.
"Chef" undercooked? Jon Favreau's new culinary comedy "Chef" marks a return to indie filmmaking for the writer, director and actor, who first made a name for himself with "Swingers" in 1996 but in recent years has turned out large, effects-driven Hollywood movies such as "Iron Man," "Iron Man 2" and "Cowboys & Aliens."
"Chef" screened Friday, and many reviewers have noted the seemingly autobiographical elements of the story, about a dissatisfied chef (Favreau) who chafes at turning out safe, predictable food at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant and is panned by a prominent online critic, prompting him to get back to basics with a new food truck.
Early reviews have been mixed. The Guardian's Henry Barnes writes, "'Chef' is made with affection, plated up with real care and presented with pride. ... By taking a step back from the catch-all requirements of blockbuster cinema he's serving us a home-cooked meal rather than a Big Mac. You appreciate the effort."
On the other hand, Indiewire's Drew Taylor panned the film as "an overlong, unfunny, largely insufferable bore" and added, "If you want to see a self indulgent, hubris-driven car crash where the filmmaker uses his latest narrative as a thinly-veiled defense of his past career transgression, this is the movie for you."
Back on the case with "Veronica Mars." Seven years after the cancellation of the cult-favorite teen TV series "Veronica Mars," creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell are back with a Kickstarter-funded feature film, which screened Saturday. According to early reviews, it should satisfy fans of the original series.
Variety's Justin Chang says the filmmakers "have effectively given us a very special reunion episode, so crammed with familiar faces that it plays less like a meaty mystery than an extended thank-you to the fans who breathed it into existence. Still, it's smooth and engaging enough on its own compromised terms, clearly informed by Thomas' genre-savvy storytelling and unpretentious craftsmanship, and not without a certain self-deprecating sense of humor about its own immodest origins."
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix agrees that writer-director Thomas and co-writer Diane Ruggiero "have found a way to make a movie that the fans will love without straight-up pandering to them."
Lionsgate catches Bigfoot. Marking the first acquisition out of SXSW, Lionsgate purchased the North American distribution rights to "Exists," a new found-footage horror movie about five friends on a camping trip in Texas who run afoul of the legendary Sasquatch.
The film is directed by Eduardo Sanchez, who scored a massive hit with "The Blair Witch Project" in 1999 and inspired a wave of found-footage followers and imitators, including the "Paranormal Activity" franchise, the sci-fi movie "Chronicle" and the party pic "Project X." "Exists" could prove a bellwether for audiences' appetite, or lack thereof, for more found-footage films.
Good "Neighbors." Director Nicholas Stoller's new comedy "Neighbors," starring Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron, pits a pair of young parents — the kind you might find in a movie like Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up," which also starred Rogen and had an auspicious start at SXSW — against an "Animal House"-style fraternity.
"Knocked Up" would seem the ideal template for "Neighbors": When it premiered at SXSW in 2007, it drew hugely positive reviews and word of mouth, and went on to make $148 million at the domestic box office. So far, critics are similarly praising "Neighbors."
The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore writes, "Very funny at the outset and escalating steadily for most of its brisk running time, the film represents a big win for neophyte screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, and should return Stoller to the commercial peak of his debut 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.'"
Variety's Andrew Barker says, "Lewder, weirder, louder, leaner, meaner and more winningly stupid than anything its director Nicholas Stoller and star Seth Rogen have ever been involved with before, frat comedy 'Neighbors' boasts an almost oppressive volume of outrageous gags, and provided that audiences don't mind the lack of anything resembling a coherent story arc, its commercial potential ought to be enormous."
20 years of Kevin Bacon. Two decades ago, before the rise of social networking, the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon became a cultural phenomenon by highlighting a seemingly random actor's web of interpersonal connections. At a panel at SXSW on Saturday, Bacon revealed that he was not initially a fan of the game, which involves linking celebrities to the actor through movies they've worked on together.
"I was horrified by it. I thought it was a giant joke at my expense," Bacon said. "I appreciate it now. But I was very resistant to it (at first)."
As he learned more about the game and got used to it, Bacon eventually warmed to it, and even started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org, which connects celebrities to fundraising causes.
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The day before the war started was a weird, stressful, god awful day. I was so glad to finally go to bed. When I woke up my son, Noah, was staring at me and I realized I had tears running across my face. Weird. That never happened before? I started talking to him and everything that came out was nothing but blabber. After the kids took a bath and get dressed they were looking at me like I was an alien. They were 4 and 6 years old. We went outside waiting for the bus for Noah, I thought "I'm not talking to them. I'll just nod and smile." When the bus rolled out with Noah, I took Dylan to school. I just nodded and smiled and finally they were gone! I could finally think.This must be a flashback from taking drugs in highschool. Must be. What else could it be! Alright, I'm going to my Mom's. Mom was working so I started dialing her workphone. I couldn't remember the phone number. After maybe 15 minutes I figured it out. When the receptionist got the phone and I started talking to her (blabbering) I hung up. Wow. This is not happening.I decided to drive to the hospital. I ran all the lights (by mistake). I was drooling and snotting uncontrollably. Never even thinking of calling the hospital for an ambulance? I get there and I was ushered in a room for 8 hours. By this time, my mom got the kids after school. I still couldn't talk. Finally, the doctor decided I had a nervous breakdown and took me to the 6th floor (loony bin floor).For 2 weeks they gave me tons and tons of drugs. I not remember anything except biting a nurse. Oops! The doctor told my Mom that I was still not talking and order a MRI. (duh!!) Later on that afternoon I was diagnosed with a major freakin stroke. What? No way. I'm 28.After the drugs wore out I suddenly realized where is my kids! Oh no! I couldn't communicate to anyone. After many hours the nurses figured out what my problem was. Withen a half hour my kids and their Dad was visiting me. I hugged and hugged and cried and cried. I forget about them. So terrible.2 weeks later I'm living with my Mother. Gawd, why me?! For 6 months I had a home nurse twice a day and a home speech patholigist for therapy once a day. The hardest thing ever. I was back in Kindergarten. Very humbling, to say the least. 6 months was up. I was on my own. No more therapy because the insurance wouldn't cover it. For 3 years I learned how to read and write on my own. I look backed now and say to myself that sucked bad but I did it!! The pride I feel is still intense after 20 years later. I still have asphasia (of course) but I learned to accept it years ago. Some days are worse some days are better. Now, I want to go to school and be successful but I'm scared to death. I wish I still had a guiding hand but I know I can do it. The next chapter is coming!
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Bookmakers say there are five MLB teams with worse chances at winning the World Series.
Hey, last year, there were only four teams considered more of a long shot than the Astros.
Yeah, baby! That's progress. Like passing somebody in the welfare line.
I do like the over on Pence's home runs and Bourn's steals.
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Philadelphia Phillies 13/4
Boston Red Sox 9/2
New York Yankees 7/1
San Francisco Giants 12/1
Milwaukee Brewers 16/1
St. Louis Cardinals 20/1
Texas Rangers 20/1
Chicago White Sox 20/1
Minnesota Twins 20/1
Tampa Bay Rays 25/1
Atlanta Braves 25/1
Cincinnati Reds 25/1
Colorado Rockies 25/1
Detroit Tigers 25/1
Los Angeles Angels 25/1
Oakland Athletics 30/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 35/1
Chicago Cubs 35/1
Florida Marlins 40/1
New York Mets 40/1
Toronto Blue Jays 50/1
San Diego Padres 55/1
Baltimore Orioles 75/1
Houston Astros 80/1
Washington Nationals 80/1
Seattle Mariners 100/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 100/1
Cleveland Indians 125/1
Kansas City Royals 150/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 200/1
Odds to win the 2011 NL Pennant
Philadelphia Phillies 8/5
San Francisco Giants 13/2
Milwaukee Brewers 9/1
Atlanta Braves 11/1
Cincinnati Reds 11/1
Colorado Rockies 11/1
St. Louis Cardinals 12/1
Chicago Cubs 16/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 16/1
Florida Marlins 20/1
New York Mets 22/1
San Diego Padres 25/1
Houston Astros 40/1
Washington Nationals 40/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 45/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 100/1
Odds to win the 2011 NL Central
Milwaukee Brewers 9/5
Cincinnati Reds 2/1
St. Louis Cardinals 3/1
Chicago Cubs 9/2
Houston Astros 25/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 40/1
Over/Under Total HR's in the 2011 Regular Season
Hunter Pence 25.5
Carlos Lee 22.5
Carlos Lee – Total RBI's in the 2011 Regular Season
Over/Under 89.5
Michael Bourn – Total Stolen Bases in the 2011 Regular Season
Over/Under 54.5
Over/Under Total Wins in the 2011 Regular Season
Brett Myers 13
Wandy Rodriguez 11
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Pillow fight: Danger! Danger! Danger!
This Texans-Cowboys "battle" is hilarious.
Why silly Texans fans even entertain discussions with obnoxious Cowboys fans is beyond me.
I love it that people are fanatics, but come on. Who cares?
Worse yet, the Cowboys came to Houston and beat the Texans 27-13 at Reliant Stadium last season. Until the Texans post a better record, go farther in the playoffs or beat the Cowboys when the two meet on the field again in a few years, there is little Texans fans can say about Dallas.
It is really kind of sad that y'all let Cowboys fans get under your skin so easily.
It is April, people, at least save your madness for September.


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If life were a movie, this is the part where the hero and heroine realize their worst nightmare is coming true: The entire earth is being threatened with disaster.
Some time ago, scientists changed the name of the phenomenon of �global warming� to �climate change� as a more accurate description of what is happening because of man-made damage to the ozone layer. Some areas are getting hotter, with more severe droughts and forest fires as glaciers melt, but some areas are getting colder, with increasingly extreme and damaging weather patterns, hurricanes and tornadoes.
The latest news is an international body of several hundred top scientists has determined that sea levels could rise by more than three feet if carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels continue at current rates.
In other words, if you still believe climate change is not a serious danger to humanity, you�re denying reality.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and the Republican chairman of the House environmental subcommittee don�t know what they�re talking about when they insist the United States has no responsibility to do something about climate change.
Recently, four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, all of whom served under Republican presidents, pleaded for action in The New York Times: �The United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change at home and internationally. There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: Our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth�s atmosphere.�
Perhaps this was their most chilling statement: �The only uncertainty about our warming world is how bad the changes will get, and how soon. What is most clear is that there is no time to waste.�
In June, President Barack Obama gave an impassioned speech urgently laying out the scope of the problem. He begged Congress for action. He said he�ll use his executive powers to try to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and reduce dangerous levels of hydrofluorocarbons, which warm the atmosphere. The Republican leadership in Congress scoffed.
One cringe-inducing argument made on the floor of the House holds that since humans breathe out carbon dioxide, it must be good for the climate and is nothing to worry about. And we used to be known for our interest in science.
Some Republicans argue that God made the planet and won�t permit an apocalypse. Such arguments ignore man�s creation, and use, of nuclear weapons. Man created chemical weapons and is using them today, in the 21st century, to kill hundreds of innocent men, women and children.
One of Obama�s proposals is a carbon tax, which would offset years of billions of dollars in subsidies to energy companies that have increased carbon dioxide levels by massive amounts. But such a tax is not remotely possible in today�s poisonous atmosphere in Washington.
Future generations, living in increasing fear and jeopardy from extreme climate conditions, will pull their hair in frustration and anger � the United States knew of the danger for decades and did nothing. Those generations will marvel at our years of pointless debates as we ignored mountains of evidence that the earth was in danger.
The argument against action many Republican leaders in Congress make is that this is a global problem. Thus, if countries such as China and India, trying to catch up with the U.S. economically, don�t curtail their emissions, why should we? This is such a weak, immoral, sophomoric position � everybody else is doing it � that one shudders at the stupidity.
The four former EPA administrators � William Ruckelshaus, Christine Todd Whitman, Lee Thomas and William Reilly � wrote: �We can have both a strong economy and a livable climate. All parties know that we need both. The rest of the discussion is either detail, which we can resolve, or purposeful delay, which we should not tolerate.�
Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters has covered the White House and national politics since 1986. Send email to email@example.com.


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County health fair will be first in several years
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When the Marion County Health Fair opens March 29 at the sports and aquatic center in Marion, it will be the culmination of most of a year of preparation.
Last year the county health department and St. Luke and Hillsboro Community hospitals conducted a community health needs assessment, and the No. 1 need the survey identified was more promotion of health, wellness, and chronic disease prevention, St. Luke director of nursing Jeremy Ensey said.
Ensey said it had been long enough since the last health fair in the county that the organizers weren't sure how long it had been, so the county and hospitals decided to partner to have a health fair.
A committee of organizers has been meeting every month since October and more frequently for the past month. Organizers will also meet after the health fair to evaluate whether it was successful.
The fair will feature more than 40 exhibitors who offer health services in the county, many of which will offer some services at the fair. For example, the health department will offer vaccines for tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough for $40, although insurance will not be taken. The vaccine usually costs $72.
Ensey said the county ambulance department is planning a CPR demonstration, and people who teach exercise classes will have demonstrations during the fair, as well. Door prizes will be awarded every 30 minutes beginning at 8:30 a.m.
County health department administrator Diedre Serene said organizers wanted to get all health service providers in the county involved in the fair, so they aren't charging exhibitors to participate. Any potential exhibitors can contact Ensey at (620) 382-2177, Serene at (620) 382-2550, or Ken Johnson at (620) 947-1460.
The health fair will be from 8 a.m. to noon March 29 at USD 408 Sports and Aquatic Center, 104 N. Thorp St., Marion.


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White House sources outlining President Obama's State of the Union speech tonight said he will call for "a new era for American energy strategy, fueled by home-grown and alternative energy…."
Despite the huge black eye the administration got on a half-billion-dollar taxpayer loss on the bankrupt Fremont solar manufacturer Solyndra, now a household word defined as "failed industrial policy," Obama will be promising more investments in green energy as part of his "built to last" theme of home-grown manufacturing jobs.
The State of the Union will essentially be an outline of Obama's re-election platform, focusing on Rooseveltian themes of everybody getting "a fair shot, fair shake and a fair share."
Obama may lean away from multi-billion-dollar fliers on private-sector companies, in favor of regulatory shifts to speed development of "green fuels," heavier buying of such fuels by the Pentagon and biofuel projects by the Agriculture Department. He may also promote extension of wind tax credits, lobbyists said.
Delivering the GOP response tonight will be Indiana Gov. and former Bush budget chief Mitch Daniels, one of the top-tier would-be presidential hopefuls who bowed out early, citing concern about media scrutiny of his family. He and his wife Cheri have an unusual history, having divorced and remarried, with Daniels taking care of their children in the interim.


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Higgins family has Christmas reunion
The Boyd and Hazel Higgins family had its Christmas gathering Dec. 9 at Marion Senior Center. Family members had a meal and visited.
Attending were Gail and Sandra Dody and Kristy; Brad Dody and friend Misti and Brad's daughters, Katie, Kara, and Elizabeth of Wichita; Ralph and Charlene Janzen of Hillsboro; Dick and Susie Mueller of Mentor; Virginia Higgins, Jack and Patti Higgins, and Karen Smith of Hutchinson; Georgia Higgins of El Dorado; Tom Higgins of Emporia; and Charles Stinchcomb, Howard and Beth Collett, and Shirley Bowers of Marion.
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DOVER — The Merrimack County Superior Court has rejected the request to reconsider the motion filed by the Great Bay Municipal Coalition in November, but the coalition may request an appeal to this.
The coalition communities, comprised of Rochester, Dover, Portsmouth, Newmarket and Exeter, filed a motion in the fall for a reconsideration after a judge's ruling declined to determine if the state Department of Environmental Services was required to follow the New Hampshire Administrative Rulemaking procedures in developing and imposing nutrient criteria for the Great Bay Estuary.
On Tuesday night, Dover City Manager Michael Joyal alerted the public of this decision in an email. The decision was made on Jan. 23.
"The court has effectively indicated that it will not make a determination of whether the State DES violated the Administrative Rulemaking Procedures Act by not submitting the 2009 Nutrient Criteria Documents for rulemaking," Joyal wrote.
In the objection to the reconsideration, it states the court declined to issue a declaratory ruling and granted the state's motion to dismiss because no order would "conclusively establish the rights between [the State and the Petitioners]."
Earlier this year, the coalition filed suit in Merrimack Country Superior Court, saying DES failed to put the Numeric Nutrient Criteria for the Great Bay Estuary document, commonly known as the "2009 Criteria," into effect in June 2009, setting the water quality criteria for the nitrogen in the water.
The motion for reconsideration, filed Nov. 16, states, "Petitioners (the Great Bay Municipal Coalition communities) have shown that the 2009 Criteria area de facto rule which threaten to interfere or impair their legal rights and privileges to discharge into the Great Bay Estuary. Since the Court has already determined that the Petitioners have standing, they are entitled to a decision from the Court."
The coalition said once the document was created, DES declared the Great Bay Estuary had too much nitrogen, currently operating with 15 to 20 milligrams of nitrogen per liter. The coalition claims DES had too stringent of water quality standards, which are being followed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA is suggesting in their permits that the communities must limit the nitrogen in the estuary to 3 milligrams per liter. To update the facilities to lower the amount of nitrogen in the estuary, the coalition communities would have to spend tens of millions of dollars, with upward of $40 million just in Dover alone.
Newmarket and Exeter have received their permits, and the remaining communities are expecting their permits within the next two years.
The court's decision, before the motion for reconsideration was filed, said this was a federal issue and that the EPA is the organization that would make the ultimate decision to harm the coalition and force them to pay for the costly updates to their water treatment facilities.
In the court's notice of decision issued last week, they list a number of reasons why they are declining the reconsideration. They state they are declining to determine whether the 2009 Criteria constituted illegal rulemaking and whether the 2009 Criteria modified the state's water quality standards.
The court said NHDES considers the 2009 Criteria to be "non-binding guidance" used solely to "assist DES staff in determining which parts of the Great Bay estuary are meeting [water quality standards] with respect to nutrients."
They also state that even if the coalition was to overturn the state's discharge permit on appeal, "the identical conditions and restrictions in the federal NPDES permit would remain enforceable by EPA."
According to Joyal, "The ruling appears to reaffirm that the court does not believe there is a need to address the question of whether the numeric nutrient criteria developed by DES is or is not a rule under state law."
When the coalition originally filed for reconsideration, its hope was to determine whether the NHDES nutrient criteria was a state rule and if it was, to require it to be subject to the rulemaking procedure required by state law.
"The issue remains that NHDES has and will continue to issue its own state permits based on the regulatory criteria it created outside of the rulemaking process," Joyal said. "The DES regulations and state issued permits issued pursuant to those regulations are separate and distinct from the EPA permits issued under federal law. Not only does the EPA issue the Wastewater Treatment Plant permits, but the state DES must also issue its own permit based upon state regulations that are established in accordance with state law."
Joyal wrote that as a result of the court's decision to decline the motion for reconsideration, "the bypassing of a legally required forum for the public review and legislative oversight of a State agency's regulatory rule making is apparently being allowed to occur."
He does state, however, that the Coalition communities of Dover, Portsmouth and Rochester are considering making a request for an appeal to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Although all five original communities still make up the coalition, Exeter and Newmarket felt it inappropriate to take part in considering the request for an appeal and were also not involved in the federal lawsuit against the EPA filed last month.
"The coalition communities, like many other stakeholders, continue to have united interests in ensuring the protection of Great Bay and the prudent expenditure of public funds based upon sound science to achieve the intended results," Joyal said. "The need for Newmarket and Exeter to agree to enter into consent orders for their Wastewater Treatment Plant operations does not change that common interest."


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Militant group Islamic State has ordered all girls and women in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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