Sailor sentenced for helping Navy chief commit suicide

By Rebecca Ruiz, NBC News

Paul Stephen Bricker, a 27-year-old sailor, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for fatally stabbing Navy Chief Gerard Curran on July 30, 2009, in Virginia Beach, Va.

The stabbing was part of a plan developed by Curran to die by suicide, but make it appear as though he had been murdered to ensure his family would receive government benefits, according to a statement released by Harvey L. Bryant, the Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Virginia Beach.


Bricker worked under Curran and "looked up to the chief," according to court documents. Bricker told police that Curran wanted his help to make the death look like a robbery. In April 2009, Curran had stabbed himself in the chest and claimed that an intruder had attacked him, but an investigation found the wound was self-inflicted.

In July 2009, the two agreed to meet in a local park, where Curran choked himself with a rubber physical therapy band until passing out. After a few minutes, Bricker stabbed Curran once in the chest and then left with the knife and rubber band.

"The defendant said that he had stabbed Mr. Curran because Mr. Curran had asked him to help him," the court document said. "The investigation revealed no benefit, pecuniary or otherwise, to the defendant for his role in the victim?s death."

Curran was eventually found in the park after his estranged wife, Dawn Curran, reported him missing. Bricker became a suspect in the case after he told a friend, and the confession was eventually shared by another party with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Macie Pridgen, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, told NBC News.

The case, which did not go to trial, was investigated by both the NCIS as well as local police. Bricker pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in April; Circuit Court judge Thomas Padrick suspended five years of the term upon sentencing Bricker on Monday.

?You allowed the chief to do what he did, and then you stabbed him. No one has the right to take another?s life," Padrick told Bricker prior to the sentencing.

?Bricker did not seek help for Curran or report his suicidal thoughts, according to Bryant's statement.

In a statement read in court on Monday, Dawn Curran said Bricker should have told someone that her husband had planned to die.

"That's what a real friend would do," the Virginian-Pilot reported her as saying. "I find assisted suicide the equivalent to murder."

Bricker apologized prior to the sentencing. "I am deeply sorry," he said. "And I wish I could take it all back."

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Exclusive: Avago nears $1 billion Schneider unit buy - sources

NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - Avago Technologies Ltd is close to buying Schneider Electric SA's U.S.-based sensors subsidiary, according to three people familiar with the matter, a deal that could fetch around $1 billion for the French conglomerate.

Avago, a chip maker that began as Hewlett-Packard Co's components division in the 1960s, is in exclusive talks to buy Schneider's Custom Sensors & Technologies unit after beating out a private equity consortium comprising Carlyle Group and PAI Partners in the auction, the people said.

Avago, jointly headquartered in San Jose, California, and Singapore, was spun off from Agilent Technologies Inc in 2005, which itself had been carved out of HP in 1999.

The company, with a market capitalization of roughly $9 billion, makes semiconductors used in mobile phones, consumer appliances, power generation and renewable energy systems as well as factory automation.

The Schneider subsidiary is valued at around $1 billion, one of the people close to the deal said on Monday. Other people previously said the unit could be worth more than $1 billion.

A Schneider spokeswoman declined to comment, while Avago did not return calls for comment. All the sources asked not to be identified because the matter is not public.

Schneider hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to sell the Moorpark, California-based unit last year and initially planned to start an auction around August 2011, sources told Reuters at the time. But the process was delayed as volatile financing markets made it harder and more expensive for private equity buyers to complete deals, the sources said.

As financing for leveraged buyouts has become more readily available this year, the unit has gone on the auction block this summer, according to people familiar with the matter.

The auction's revival underscores the eagerness of some European companies to tap a recovering U.S. merger market, either to expand through acquisitions or refocus their strategy and raise cash by divesting U.S. assets.

The Schneider subsidiary makes sensors for the automotive, aeronautics, transportation, energy and infrastructure industries. The business has about 4,700 employees worldwide and posted 2011 sales of $660 million, according to the company's website.

Schneider, the world's biggest maker of low- and mid-voltage electrical equipment such as transformers and circuit breakers, is looking to shift business away from the supply of products used in construction, which have become commoditized.

In February, it announced a strategic plan for the next three years to drive growth from its service business, which provides infrastructure and IT support in addition to equipment and accounts for more than a third of Schneider's total business.

As part of the plan, Schneider is targeting cost cuts of 900 million euros to 1.1 billion euros by 2014 from acquisition synergies as well as streamlined supply chains and purchasing.

(Reporting by Soyoung Kim in New York, Christian Plumb in Paris and Simon Meads in London; Editing by Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)

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Astoria gets its own craft beer brewery | Queens NYC

Queens, the neighborhood of Astoria specifically, is home to some of the most sophisticated palates in the world ? connoisseurs of gogigui, seekers of aged cheeses and organic beef, devotees of the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden. ??Additionally, Western Queens, which includes Long Island City, has so much existing manufacturing infrastructure. ?Why is it, then, with all of this interest and resources, that Queens does not have any craft breweries?

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In fact, there used to be numerous breweries in Queens, located primarily in Ridgewood, but Prohibition wiped them out. ?Now, a few are coming back as the market for craft beers remains strong, there are so many distributions points throughout the Tri-State Area, and entrepreneurs are recognizing Queens as a place for innovation and community.?

Case in point: ?Rich Buceta is launching SingleCut Beersmiths, a 5,000 square foot brewery that will bravely serve the fastidious and opinionated craft beer patron with carefully calibrated and lovingly made beers. ?The focus of SingleCut?s products will be lagers ? Buceta sees an opportunity in the marketplace for them ? and his creations will be hops-forward.

Rich Buceta grew up in Jamaica, Queens and attended Queens College. ?His earliest associations of beer are of reward and refreshment ? his parents would give him a cold beer in exchange for cutting the lawn. ?Following societal expectations, he did the grind for ten years in advertising, all the while expanding his knowledge of global beers and experimenting with home brewing. ?When he saw that he would not be happy in the competitive environment of the upper echelons of agency life, he turned to what had been his passion all along, tasting, drinking and brewing beer.

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He quit his advertising job, perfectly willing to learn the ropes from the bottom, and was hired by Greenpoint Beerworks/Kelso of Brooklyn, commuting from his home on the Upper East Side. ??I went from a corner office to cleaning kegs,? Buceta recalls. ?Within eight months the brewer had quit, presenting an opportunity for him to learn and run all operational aspects of the brewery. ?After a stint with Greenpoint, he decided to start his own shop and, after successfully undergoing some tenacious fundraising in a very challenging fiscal climate, he founded SingleCut.

Buceta is deeply inspired by the Belgian beer standards, those well established and time-honored traditions carefully implemented to uphold quality. ?He cites Sierra Nevada of California as an operation he admires, and acknowledges there are outstanding breweries in Vermont, Oregon and Pennsylvania. ?However, he feels that on a local level, there are too many so-called artisanal beers that are less than exceptional, and he hopes to prevail in the long run as a leader amongst New York City craft beer brewers.

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SingleCut Beersmiths plans to begin production and distribution of beers mid-September and open its doors to visitors as a tasting and take-out venue mid-October. ?Five varieties will initially be offered: ?a premium pilsner titled ?1933,? the year Prohibition was lifted; a hoppy lager with a unique profile featuring spices; two IPAs at two strengths ? 5% and a more robust 6.6%; and a mahogany ale. ?He also plans to produce seasonals throughout the year, a good reason to come back throughout the year to taste.

Buceta has signed a ten-year lease on his warehouse in Astoria and construction is well underway. ?SingleCut is at 19-33 37th Street, near the Steinway & Sons piano factory, about seven blocks from the subway Astoria ? Ditmars Boulevard stop on the N or Q. ?Come fall, visitors will be able to sample beers, buy beer to take home and listen to live music, another passion of the owner?s.

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SingleCut Beersmiths is not alone on the Queens craft beer scene. ?Also new is the Rockaway Brewing Company in Hunter?s Point, established by two residents of Far Rockaway, which is mostly concentrating on ales.

Note: This is a follow up to our previous post?SingleCut brewery plans to open in Astoria this fall

Source: http://queensnyc.com/2012/08/astoria-gets-its-own-craft-beer-brewery-singlecut-beersmiths/

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Manila's Aquino crosses one hurdle in pushing contraceptive bill

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Monday successfully threw his weight behind a health bill promoting state-funded contraception, stepping out of his mother's shadow as he pushes reforms widely opposed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Aquino's late mother, Corazon, a pillar of democracy in the Philippines, was put in power in 1986 in a popular revolt strongly supported by the Church.

The Philippines, with a rapidly growing population of around 95 million, is the only predominantly Catholic country in the region apart from East Timor.

Benigno Aquino addressed a multi-party group of at least 180 lawmakers at the presidential palace, saying debates that have delayed the reform over the last 17 months needed to end.

Lawmakers agreed and said they would move on to discussing content.

"This is not a morality issue, this is a social issue that is closer to the hearts of most ordinary Filipinos," Earl Parreno of the Institute of Political and Electoral Reforms, told Reuters.

"I don't see any risk for the president. I think this will even push his popularity higher."

Discussions will centre on four issues -- state funding for contraceptives, mandatory sex education in schools, abortion, and the distribution of contraceptives that could induce abortions.

The bill, as it stands, requires governments down to the village level to provide free or low-cost reproductive health services. The law will not promote abortion, which is illegal.

In his state of the nation address last month, Aquino stressed his government could not end decades of shortages in accommodation and books in schools without responsible parenthood.

That statement was Aquino's strongest message yet on controlling population growth estimated at around 2 percent annually, part of his poll campaign program in 2010.

Aquino's allies in the lower house of Congress assured him of the passage of the bill within the month. Analysts say Aquino also has enough allies in the upper house to push the bill through.

Opponents of the bill, led by the bishops, warned they would campaign against the re-election in 2013 of lawmakers who supported it.

On Saturday, at least 7,000 people braved monsoon rains to attend a rally organized by the bishops, but the crowds were much smaller than church leaders' earlier estimate of 50,000.

(Reporting By Manuel Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco and Nick Macfie)

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 28, 2012

The commercial real estate technology and education firm Dawn Technologies, Inc. today announced the launch of its latest software tool for commercial real estate professionals. The software application is designed to provide real estate brokers and agents who specialize in commercial property sales with an easy to use platform for creating high quality new business proposals and marketing packages. The company is primarily focused on small to mid-sized brokerages that do not have access to the types of technological tools & training available to the larger firms.

The average commercial real estate agent is always looking for new tools that will make them more efficient and allow them to compete more effectively with the national firms, said Dan Colachicco, President of Dawn Technologies and a 30 year veteran of the commercial real estate industry.

The Commercial Real Estate Edge Proposal Generator gives these agents a user friendly tool that will help them save time, build a more professional brand and win more business by delivering an impressive listing proposal and marketing package.

Built on the Software as a Service platform, users can create, edit and store their new business proposals and marketing packages in the cloud so that they are accessible from any device with an internet connection. Finished packages can be saved and printed in PDF format on any computer.

Our company is in business to help individual agents and boutique brokerages who are smaller or just building their presence in the industry. We want to help elevate these individuals and companies to a level playing field with some of the major firms. Thats why we keep our products and services affordable and easy to use, Colachicco added.

The program includes a New Proposal Checklist to help agents gather a complete set of data for creating the proposal and each section of the program includes a Help video tab that explains how that section should be created. Each package is professionally branded with the agents company logo and integrated marketing materials. Each proposal can be converted to an Offering Memorandum, Executive Summary or Marketing Flyer with a single click.

The Commercial Real Estate Edge Proposal Generator is available through the companys website at http://www.CommercialEdge.com. Please visit the site or email the companys president at DColachicco(at)CommercialEdge(dot)com to learn more.

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Lyoto Machida, Chad Mendes, Matt Hamill: The Morning News Roundup ? 8.4.12

It's fight day!? Which means while you and I are gathering provisions for tonight's UFC on FOX 4 ? you know, things like avocados for fresh guacamole, cases of TAB soda and Kleenex for the tears that are sure to come ? there are twenty fighters in a hotel in Los Angeles milling about with butterflies in their stomachs, anxious to punch each other in the face.? Hooray!? But despite the violence that's impending on Fuel TV (the preliminary bouts start at 5:00 p.m. EST) and FOX (main card at 8:00 p.m. EST), the news cycle trudges on.? Here, then, are some headlines.

  • Although he's fighting in the 205-pound weight class tonight in the co-main event, the simple fact that former UFC light-heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida stepped on the scale at 201 pounds has got people speculating he could move down to the 185-pound division.? My personal policy is to never fix something that isn't broke, but hey, what do I know.

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  • When last we saw UFC featherweight contender Chad Mendes, he was squashing Cody McKenzie like a bug at UFC 148.? When the police last saw Mendes, he was fleeing a 40-person bar fight.? Yikes.? A 40-person bar fight?? See, this is why I only hang out at Chuck E. Cheese.? When little kids brawl, it's harmless.

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  • Fellow scribe Kevin Iole reported yesterday that UFC light-heavyweight Matt Hamill has decided to fight again.? Awesome.? And let's not forget, Hamill is the only person to ever defeat UFC champ Jon Jones, so be excited for that future match-up.

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That's all for now.? I'll be tweeting my observations of the fights tonight as they happen.? Follow along if you want.? A word of caution, though: as a devout Native American, I'll be undertaking a cleansing ritual at the same time (they're wheeling a TV into the sweat lodge) ? but I'll try to keep the hallucinatory stuff under control.

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