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Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Posted by news intern Jocelyn Macdonald
Groundhog Day Is Today: I don't know about you but I'm just starting to get really into winter, so not sure where I stand re:shadow.
US Embassy Bombing Is Announced as an Act of Terror: Although no one's claiming it, it's been linked to a left-wing militant group.
Killer Mistakenly Freed: A man convicted of murder in Indiana travelled to Illinois to stand for a trial that had been dismissed, and then the Chicago Police released him. Authorities on both sides of the state line think it was the other department's fault, or computers, or the prisoner. "It's our fault but we move 100,000 people a day and it's all done with paper," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. This is at least the third time that the Chicago police have mistakenly lost a prisoner.
Now That's a Tall Order: Modelo, Corona Extra, Tsingtao, would be in the Budweiser family if Anheuser Busch and Grupo Modelo merge successfully in spite of an antitrust suit filed by the Justice Department.
State of the NFL: Still not interested in concussions.
Economy Still Shitty: Joblessness is up by just a hair. The annual benchmark update released by the Labor Department showed 424,000 added jobs in the last year, fewer than needed to demonstrate substantial recovery since the "end of the recession" in 2009.
Laser Beams, Cyclopses, Computer Gnomes: The technicians and engineers responsible for clearing the way for the Highway 99 Tunnel are using some crazy technology to keep the buildings downtown upright.
Four Alleged Robbers, Four Different Stories: A bunch of people holding obscene amounts of cash in an Olympia bus station are accused of a string of bank robberies across the South Sound. Each of the alleged robbers claims to have come by the money honestly—for instance, Douglas Smith, who said he found $3,825 in cash lying in the street.
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The rest of Goodell's points include:
-- The league will keep pursuing escalating suspensions to discipline players who violate player-safety rules meant to prevent such actions as hits to the head. "Suspensions get through to the players," Goodell said.
-- The No. 1 issue in the game, according to Goodell, is taking the head out of tackles. He said progress has been made in the past couple of years toward eliminating helmet-to-helmet hits, but that players need to get back to using shoulders and arms properly and aiming for a tackle strike zone on a player.
-- The NFL will have neurosurgeons on the sidelines at games.
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The Turkish communist parties may be weird but suicide bombings are plain unheard of.
A suicide bombing is a specific method that is beyond the very religious something completely shunned since there are no ideals that support them. A bomb? Sure. But suicide as a part of a mission - not at all.
Being arrested is fine, even risking a certain death penalty but this is just absurd as a method.
Sounds like bullshit to me. Specially since the group hasn't taken responsibility for it - which unlike suicide-as-a-method would be the very first thing they did.
Curtis Smith, 22, said he came to Washington to sell information on how to make methamphetamine and the $2,487 he was carrying was payment for the drug deal.
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I mourn the multi-stage corruption of Bass Ale. It was my standard IPA, and a fair representation of what you might find on one of the "bitter" taps in an English pub. But, several years back Coors bought the brewery so they could sell their product in the EU and stopped bottling Bass in Burton-on-Trent. With the move of the bottling to Luton, something horribly fucked happened to the flavor, and I stopped drinking it. These days, they're making it somewhere upstate in New York, probably in an old lager factory in the Genesee Valley. (It's not any less horrible, but it's fizzier.)
Lately, InBev/Anheuser decided that a very decent German lager could be made just as well in St. Louis. To which I respond, no, it doesn't seem like it could. Beck's is now unrecognizable.
I'm not a big fan of Mexican lagers. I find them a little too light, but I pity their fans if this merger goes through.
As for me, I'm still looking for a decent IPA that's not too sweet and not too overly hopped. The American microbrew approach to the style is that if a little is good, more much be better. It isn't.
My main objection to American beers, though, is the permissive regulation coupled with a complete lack of labeling requirements. There are 300 "standard ingredients" that are permitted by the U.S. FDA. Almost all of those would get you jailed in Bavaria. I'm allergic to some of them, too, especially certain preservatives and colorants.
Luckily, I'm versatile in my drinking habits. As long as I can get the French stuff cheap, I like a good glass of wine. Again, it's the labelling and ingredients issue. There's a bunch of shit that Americans and others put in their wine that will get you jailed if you did that in France, including one ingredient that leaves me gasping for air and turning blue.
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