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Major Opinion on Major HIV/AIDS Crisis
By Elizabeth Lombino
May 16, 2011
In a breath of fresh air, The New York Times Op/Ed writer Charles M. Blow provides a well-rounded, well-researched, and thought-provoking commentary on the need for our government to pay more attention to the ADAP Crisis.
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) provide financial assistance to low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in paying for their critical and life-saving medications. As HIV meds continue to be incredibly expensive, more and more people are seeking financial assistance. Unfortunately, states across the country continue to cut funding to this valuable program, thereby denying these crucial medications to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS.
HIV medications are necessary to treat and manage HIV/AIDS and to prevent disease progression. These medications are necessary to keep a person living with HIV/AIDS alive. Indeed, they are the very reason HIV is now a chronic disease, and not acutely life-threatening. Yet with cuts in funding, and other limitations to access to the medications, many HIV-positive people will no doubt experience a sharp decline in their health. HIV/AIDS will become a seriously life-threatening disease.
This is all unnecessary and preventable. As The New York Times article makes clear from the start, "treatment as prevention." The piece highlights recent research that found that HIV-positive individuals who were on antiretroviral medications from the time of their diagnosis (early treatment) were 96 percent less likely to pass on the disease than those who were not on early treatment. This is huge news in the world of HIV/AIDS for two reasons:
As ADAPs across the country cut their funding and change their criteria for eligibility, this research shows that to continue to cut funding to ADAPs is doing a huge disservice to those living with HIV/AIDS and to HIV prevention efforts.
This is an issue close to my heart. I've been writing and advocating around the ADAP Crisis for months now. States continue to underfund their programs and enact longer waiting lists. Some states are revamping the criteria for eligibility for the program (including indicating that a person's immune system needs to be further compromised before financial assistance can be provided, shifting the income level that would indicate a person's need for assistance, and other program cost-containment strategies) thereby cutting more and more people from the program altogether.
In addition, pharmaceutical companies almost universally ignore the pleas to lower the cost of these insanely expensive medications. Here's a striking example of the cost disparity for HIV/AIDS medications: one newer medication by Merck, called Isentress, can cost over $13,000 a year. By comparison, the popular cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor costs around $2 per day, or $730 a year. Seriously?
For The New York Times to publish an Op/Ed on this issue is huge. Blow clearly did his research and highlights many of the bleak statistics and outcomes of underfunding ADAPs. He is firm and persuasive in his writing. Exactly the type of commentary needed to raise awareness. In the 30-year history of HIV/AIDS, there have been incredible advancements in treatments. Now, HIV is a chronic disease. People can live long, healthy lives with HIV... when they are on a consistent, specific and life-long medication regimen. People can still die from complications related to HIV disease progression if they are not on a medication regimen.
Blow's point that many of those who need assistance are those who are some of our most disenfranchised members of society cannot be glossed over. Many of the HIV-positive patients who are cut from ADAPs are those with little to no political power or financial resources. Our nation's financial climate is not improving and as such, many of the most vulnerable residents are the ones who will suffer the consequences. In addition, many of these people are stigmatized and disenfranchised for multiple reasons: for being HIV positive, for living in poverty, for being a person of color, for being gay. Historically, these are the populations most often ignored and marginalized by our nation. The ADAP Crisis encompasses this and as such, it too has been ignored.
Blow writes: "Not only is it morally reprehensible to restrict or deny life-saving drugs to those who need them (talk about death panels), it is a colossal miscalculation of public health policy, not to mention fiscally irresponsible."
If our nation continues to treat people living with HIV/AIDS in this way, we will no doubt repeat the mistakes of the epidemic early on. We will see a resurgence in the spread of HIV. People will not seek testing as they will fear the implications of a positive result. There is already intense fear and stigma attached to an HIV-positive diagnosis. When we add lack of support, financial burden, lack of treatment, further stigma and discrimination, HIV/AIDS will become silent once again. As we all learned from the early years of the epidemic: silence = death.
We all need to do our part to ensure HIV/AIDS does not go silent again. Let's hope Congress is listening.
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May 30, 2012 -- On Saturday, May 26, over 30 young anglers converged at Myrtle Grove Marina for the first annual Louisiana Saltwater Series youth tournament. The tournament gave these young anglers the opportunity to watch their catch get tagged and released, thus becoming part of the ongoing Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Cooperative Sport Fish Tagging Program.
Recreational anglers are increasingly conscious of the need to conserve the fish they love to pursue. More and more tournaments are adopting an all-release format, including the Louisiana Saltwater Series, which was founded on conservation-based principles. One of the primary goals of the youth tournament is to pass this mentality along to the next generation.
Thirty-seven fish were tagged and released by the young anglers, including redfish, spotted seatrout, black drum and sheepshead.
"It's fun for the kids to get out and fish," said LDWF Program Manager Danica Williams. "There are so many tournaments out there for adults, but not many hands-on opportunities for kids, especially with regard to tag and release fishing. This is one way to get kids out fishing and learning a lifelong skill."
The event drew in more than 30 kids, ages 4 to 13. Participants received a t-shirt plus lots of fishing goodies to take home.
"This is the first time we've hosted a youth tournament, so any number of entrants was a record for us," explained Williams. "However, the number of kids pre-registered for our next youth tournament already exceeds this weekend's total."
Winners include: Michael Schieble, 1st place overall and redfish; Caleb Hooter, 1st place trout; Campbell Barcelona, 1st place black drum; and Trevor Logrande, 1st place sheepshead.
The LASS plans to host another youth tournament in conjunction with Free Fishing Weekend on Saturday, June 9 at Elmer's Island from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, visit www.lasaltwaterseries.com.
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is charged with managing and protecting Louisiana's abundant natural resources. For more information, visit us at www.wlf.louisiana.gov on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ldwffb or follow us on Twitter @LDWF.
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Rihanna & Katy Perry: Philippe Festive
Rihanna and her BFF, fellow singer Katy Perry, grab dinner together at upscale Chinese restaurant Philippe Chow on the Upper East Side of New York City on Friday night (July 24).
Katy has a concert on Tuesday in the city at Hammerstein Ballroom. Pop punk band Cobra Starship is opening the show, which is completely sold out!
Today, Katy is performing with Brooklyn band Boy Crisis at Agganis Arena in Boston, Mass. Tomorrow, Katy performs with Canadian bands The New Cities and Stereos at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, Canada.


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Bjork's a true original: ever since we first listened to Debut, we've had a soft spot for the Icelandic weirdo with the once-in-a-lifetime voice. She's known for recording more than a few modern classics, her unforgettable videos, oddball collaborations, forays outside music, robot makeouts and, of course… the way she dresses. But it's not all swan suits and baby buns, people: Bjork's eccentric style is just as striking as her sound.
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When I began to write these weekly lyrical devotional musings I was aware of the power of music to stir the soul. But when I became intentional about finding the sacred in all music I was stunned by how often I am impacted by a phrase or thought from a song. Writer Aldous Huxley wrote these words.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
I am going through a season of trying to process and express the inexpressible. Being in community with others means you share in their joys and their sorrows. Sometimes the sorrows come in tsunami waves and all you can do is care, pray and be present. A faithful Christian servant faces a deadly illness. A selfish man betrays his marriage vows and deeply wounds his trusting family. Good and decent people deal with financial, emotional and physical suffering.
A song called "The Hurt and the Healer" by MercyMe resonated when I first heard it but now that same song ministers much deeper in my soul.
The question that is never far away
The healing doesn't come from the explained
Jesus please don't let this go in vain
That is such a powerful statement. I can't explain why things happen. Sometimes it is sin. Sometimes it is simply life. I have learned in my years of following Jesus that He does not let suffering go in vain. I have seen over and over how God redeems sadness and tragedy. He does bring beauty out of ashes. When I cannot see how any good can come out of a trial I trust my Abba Father in faith. Believe me I don't "feel" that but I can move forward in faith. God has never let me down. And He never will.
Sometimes I feel it's all that I can do
Pain so deep that I can hardly move
Just keep my eyes completely fixed on You
Lord take hold and pull me through
Most of us have been there at some point. If not, you will be someday. Peter talked about the inevitability of suffering in a passage that we usually leave out of the brochure when we tell others about our faith. All of us who follow Jesus are going to suffer.
Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world. (1 Peter 4, NLT)
Count me among the brethren who tried to dance around this truth for as long as I could. Be very glad? Seriously? But when you have nowhere else to turn but to Christ you find out that you should have turned to Him first all along.
So here I am
What's left of me
Where glory meets my suffering
I'm alive
Even though a part of me has died
You take my heart and breathe it back to life
I've fallen into your arms open wide
When the hurt and the healer collide
Jesus meets you there and not in theory. He suffered. He agonized with God the Father. He knows the human condition. He has already been where you are. When the hurt and the Healer collide something amazing happens. The pain does not go away but peace and hope begin to slowly heal the pain. Peter did not end his writing on suffering with the buzz kill of Chapter 4. He wrapped it in a bow of incredible hope in the next chapter.
In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, He will restore, support, and strengthen you, and He will place you on a firm foundation. (1 Peter 5, NLT)
That is a promise that we can hold on to in times of sorrow and suffering. Trust it.


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International Trade Law
von Holger Langer, LL.M.
Dokumente und Übersichten zum Internationalen Handelsrecht, u. a. Harmonisierung des Handelsrechts, ein Lösungsschema für typische UN-Kaufrechtsfälle, englische fob & cif etc.SS 2000
Lex Mercatoria
A. Introduction
B. General principles of law
C. History of lex mercatoria
D. The different approaches taken towards a new lex mercatoria
Harmonisation of International Trade Law
A. Development
B. Objectives of Harmonisation – why is it done?
C. Key issues – what has to be kept in mind?
D. The object of harmonisation – which field is being harmonised?
E. Instruments of Harmonisation – how is it done?
The contract method
F. Scope of the harmonizing measure – what is being harmonised?
G. The role of conflict of laws
Summary – Advantages of Harmonisation
- the harmonising measure
Sources of International Trade Law
International Law
National Law
Lex Mercatoria
The Concept of Good Faith
A. The concept of good faith in English Law
B. The concept of good faith in international uniform laws
Solution pattern for typical Vienna Convention cases
A. Introduction of Issues (as the case may be)
B. Applicability of CISG
C. Breach of Contract by the seller
D. Remedies
Duties of the Seller
Duties of the Buyer
Duties of the seller
Five primary obligations (Biddell Bros v Clemens Horst Co, see also Johnson v Taylor Bros)
Passing of property
Statutory variation – s.32(3) SGA
"unless otherwise agreed, where goods are sent by the seller to the buyer by a route involving sea transit, under circumstances in which it is usual to insure them during their sea transit, and, if the seller fails to do so, the goods shall be deemed to be at his risk during such sea transit"
Delivery by Instalments
Dematerialisation of Bills of Lading
A. Difficulties with Electronic B/L
B. The framework for electronic Bills of Lading
C. The CMI Model
Transfer procedure under the CMI Model
D. Necessary modification of the CMI Model
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text: Li discusses social business strategy at BtoB awards luncheon By Kate Maddox. Published on September 20, 2013. San Francisco—Charlene Li, managing partner of research company Altimeter Group, discussed how to create a successful social business in a keynote address at BtoB's Top Digital Marketers Awards Luncheon here Thursday. "You need to have deep integration of social media and social methodologies throughout your organization to drive business impact," Li said. "Unless you have a clear idea of what those business results are, your business strategy is not going anywhere." According to an Altimeter study, "The Evolution of Social Business," only 52% of respondents said their top executives are informed, engaged and aligned with their company's social strategy. Also, only 29% of companies measured the financial impact of their social media efforts, Li said. (The study was based on an online survey of 698 executives and social media strategists conducted in the fourth quarter of 2012.) "Our research found some bright, shining stars," Li said, pointing to companies that are creative and successful social businesses. She cited seven success factors common among these leaders. They: Establish business goals; define a long-term vision; get executive support; create a strategy-initiative roadmap; establish governance and guidelines; get the right people; and invest in technology that supports social business objectives. "I love shiny new objects, but resist significant investments until you better understand how social technology optimizes your strategy," Li said. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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NH ties strong for MIT officer killed after Hub terror strikeBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
April 12. 2014 9:29PM
Before he became a police officer, before he gave his life in the line of duty, Sean Collier spent much of his childhood camping, hiking and racing go-karts in New Hampshire.
Collier, a 27-year-old campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was killed on April 18, 2013, in the middle of the terror spree that began with the Boston Marathon bombing and ended with a shootout and capture in Watertown, Mass.
Collier was the second-youngest of six siblings in a close-knit, blended family in Wilmington, Mass., where his mother and stepfather, Kelley and Joseph Rogers, still live.
Growing up, he and his younger brother Andrew spent nearly every weekend with their father, Allen, in New Hampshire.
They went hiking and camping in the White Mountains, raced slot cars at Queen City Speedway in Manchester and then moved up to go-karts at Sugar Hill Speedway in Weare.
"We both raced, but Sean was always the much better driver," Andrew Collier recalls. "I had always been interested in the mechanical side of things. He was more the adrenaline junkie."
So the brothers made a deal, he said: "I'll work on it and I'll do all the adjustments, and you stay out of that. You drive, and I'll stay out of that."
And Sean won plenty of races at Sugar Hill that way, he said. "For whatever reason, he just figured out how to hit the marks perfectly and get a lot of speed out of the kart."
Archie Archambault, former owner of Sugar Hill Speedway, remembers the Collier boys and their dad were regulars at his track.
"Sean took to it real quick," he said.
He was a nice, polite kid, too, Archambault said. "He was friendly with everybody. He was just a good, clean racer."
When Archambault and his wife heard about Collier's death, "we were just devastated by that whole thing," he said. "Sad news."
It was Andrew Collier who moved on to the world of professional racing; he's a machinist at Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina, where he and his fiancee now live.
But Sean had always wanted to be a police officer, his brother said. "They tell stories about him being in his car seat, saluting the American flag. He always had a real passion for it."
The family did worry when Sean decided to pursue his passion. "I don't think anyone really wanted him to become a cop," Andrew said. "We knew the dangers of it."
Sean became an auxiliary police officer in Somerville, Mass., the youngest sergeant on the auxiliary force. With a gift for computers, he took a position in the department's IT office while attending the police academy.
It was the Somerville chief who recommended him for the position on MIT's campus police force, Andrew said, and Sean threw himself into the job, joining the school's Outing Club and talking with students about their studies and projects.
"We definitely thought he's a lot safer being there than being at Somerville," Collier said. "At least he's not going to be dealing with anything crazy."
Three nights after the Boston Marathon bombings, which had killed three and severely wounded many others, Collier was watching over the MIT campus in his cruiser. He was ambushed and shot to death, allegedly by the two brothers who had planted the bombs.
In the ensuing chaos, the pair hijacked a car and led police on a chase that ended in a shootout on the streets of nearby Watertown, Mass. The older suspect was killed, the younger one injured and later captured after a massive door-to-door manhunt by officers from many law enforcement agencies, including Manchester, Nashua and New Hampshire State Police.
The phone call that changed Andrew Collier's world forever came in the early morning hours of April 19, 2013. It was his sister, telling him that Sean had been shot and killed.
In the year since, Collier, 26, has devoted himself to pushing for a national day of recognition for first responders. "These people really do put their lives on the line and are running towards danger when most people are running away."
Like the military service members who are honored on patriotic holidays, he said, "our first responders are protecting us and serving us in our communities.''
"So to me, there's not a huge difference. At the end of the day, they're both protecting us, they're both serving us, and they're doing stuff that a lot of us are too afraid to do or are unwilling to do.
"Ultimately, I would like it to be like all the other major holidays, like Fourth of July and Memorial Day," he said.
On Feb. 27, H.R. 4019 was introduced in Congress to direct the President to designate a National First Responders Day. U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster, both Democrats from New Hampshire, are co-sponsors.
On the anniversary of the shooting, Sean Collier's family will be at MIT, attending a groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial to him.
Three days later, two of Collier's other siblings, Jenn and Rob, will run the Boston Marathon as part of Team Collier. The family has also started a scholarship fund for candidates to the police academy.
Nate Martell of Charlestown used to race go-karts with Sean Collier when they were teens. He'd been out of racing for nine years when he heard about Collier's death; he called Archambault that day and told him, 'I need a kart.'"
"I knew you'd be calling," Archambault replied.
Last year, Martell raced at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, dedicating the season - and winning the championship - in Collier's memory. "I raced his number and his initials," he said.
Andrew Collier is getting married this fall; Sean would have been his best man. He tries not to dwell on the painful what-ifs.
"You have to try to enjoy your life," he said. "I'm going to do everything I can to enjoy it to the fullest."
He's pretty sure that's what Sean would say: "He would tell me to stop being an idiot and have fun."
Dying for a cause
Collier takes comfort in his conviction that Sean "died for a cause."
"If it wasn't for the attack on my brother, then these guys were probably going to go somewhere else and cause more destruction and more devastation.
"After he was shot, it started the manhunt that ultimately captured these guys and prevented them from possibly going to another city or causing another attack. These guys were stopped that night."
It's a sacrifice he believes his big brother would have made gladly.
After the Sandy Hook school massacre, Sean said he wished he had been a first responder that day. "He wanted to be there to help people in these times of need and crisis."
It was the same after the marathon bombings. Hours before his death, Sean had posted the photos police released of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
"To me, if you said to Sean, 'Listen, if you lay down your life and that means that we're going to capture these guys that set off these bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line' . he would have absolutely done it without hesitation."
After Sean's death, his family started hearing stories from strangers he had helped during his brief time in public service.
One young mother told them about the night she called 911 during a blizzard after her newborn baby started struggling to breathe. Sean Collier was first on the scene.
"When the paramedics arrived, he was laying on the bed with the baby, giving that baby oxygen and trying to comfort the baby," Andrew said. A few days later, Officer Collier emailed the family to check on baby girl.
And the MIT police chief told the family Sean had asked whether he could join the board at a local homeless shelter "because part of their job is to shoo away the homeless on campus," he said. Sean told his chief "he wanted to try to help these guys so he didn't have to shoo them away."
The outpouring of love and support from strangers - they've heard from police departments as far away as Ireland - has helped the family get through the past year, Collier said. "It meant that when he died, it meant something to people.
"He won't be forgotten because of that, and that does help quite a bit."
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UPDATED: AG nominee Foster says he'll recuse himself when necessary
By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
CONCORD - Nashua attorney and former state Sen. Joe Foster, the governor's nominee to be the next state attorney general, said at a public hearing Wednesday he will recuse himself from any matter involving his current law firm's clients "for a period of time" if he is confirmed as the state's chief law enforcement official.
Foster, 53, was praised by current and former legal and political colleagues at the two-hour hearing but also faced questioning on how he will distance himself from the clients of the McLane Graf law firm, which describes itself as the largest firm in the state.
Foster is a managing partner of the Manchester-based firm.
The five-member Executive Council has authority over confirming or rejecting gubernatorial nominees for department heads, and none of the five expressed concerns grave enough to prompt doubt that he will be confirmed when a vote is taken next Wednesday.
But Foster's ability to remain free of conflict as attorney general in matters concerning his clients at McLane Graf was questioned by Executive Councilor Chris Sununu, R-Newfields, and separately by a representative of the New Hampshire Sierra Club, which is battling Public Service of New Hampshire, a McLane client, over the Northern Pass project.
An advocate for the rehabilitation, rather than prolonged incarceration, of criminal offenders, criticized as too harsh legislation Foster authored as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that invoked tough minimum sentences for convicted child molesters.
Sununu also pressed Foster to explain how he would handle the criminal justice side of the job given that he has no experience as a prosecutor or defense attorney.
Gov. Maggie Hassan, in nominating Foster earlier this month, called him the "ideal candidate" to follow Michael Delaney as attorney general.
'Humbled and honored'
Foster, a husband and father of two daughters who has been with the McLane firm for nearly 29 years, said he was "humbled and honored" to be considered for the same post as the late Sen. Warren Rudman, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter and Sen. Kelly Ayotte. He said he realizes he would have "big shoes to fill."
A graduate of Tufts University and the George Washington School of Law, and a former member of the New Hampshire House and Senate, Democrat Foster would be among few attorneys general with no experience in criminal justice. His background in private practice has been mostly in bankruptcy and corporate law.
One attorney general who came to the job with no experience in criminal law was Steve Merrill, who later went on to become governor.
Foster told Sununu that to make up for his lack of "prosecutorial" experience he would work with the chiefs of all the bureaus in the Department of Justice - "of course," he said, including the criminal justice bureau.
Gambling position
While former attorneys general have been adamantly against expanded gambling, Foster's position is not definitive.
He said Wednesday he could not recall that as a state senator in 2005, he voted against a bill that would have allowed video slot machines at racetracks and in the North Country. Foster's votes have been reported by the news media, both recently and in 2009, and he did not dispute the reports Wednesday.
Foster was vice chairman of a commission appointed by former Gov. John Lynch in 2009 to study gambling.
The commission did not explicitly oppose gambling in its 2010 report but warned of dire social costs and urged tough regulations be adopted before a gambling is legalized.
Foster said Wednesday the report was "reflective of my views."
Executive Councilor Raymond Burton, R-Bath, voiced concern to Foster that the Attorney General's Office lacks adequate funding to pursue "cold" criminal cases, such as the murder of 11-year-old Celina Cass of West Stewartstown in 2011.
Foster told councilor Colin Van Ostern, D-Concord, he would like to see the establishment of a financial fraud unit in the Attorney General's Office and said fraud cases, such as the FRM Mortgage scandal, "ought to be pursued."
Will recuse himself
Sununu asked Foster how he will avoid conflicts of interest with many of his corporate clients.
The nominee said he must, under state requirements, recuse himself from matters he "personally or substantially" worked on at the law firm, "and I would do that."
He said he would take the further step of recusing himself from any matter involving a client of the firm, even if he was not personally involved in the representation.
He said the recusal practice will continue "for a period of time," which he did not specify. At some point, he said, the need for recusal on some matters involving McLane Graf "will wear off."
But, he said, "I want to be sure that the reality and the perception are clear that everything is being treated fairly."
Foster said he would also call on attorneys general from other states who came to their offices from similar situations for advice on how they handled potential conflicts.
He said although the McLane firm represents PSNH, he was not personally involved in the Northern Pass project.
Catherine Corkery of the New Hampshire Sierra Club said the group backs Foster but is concerned about his firm's representation of PSNH because of the Northern Pass issue and because the group has been in litigation with the utility regarding emissions from its fossil fuel plants.
She said the attorney general plays a major role in working with both the Department of Environmental Services and the Site Evaluation Committee, which reviews and decides the siting of utility transmission and generating projects.
Regarding Northern Pass, Corkery said, "There cannot be any hint of bias and favoritism."
Chris Dornin of Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform, cited Foster's role in writing "very bad pieces of legislation" on Internet predators and imposing 25-year mandatory sentences on child molesters, while allowing those sentences to be extended beyond the maximum.
That child molester statute, later watered down by the House, according to Dornin, "violated civil liberties" and, was he said, "a power grab by the legislative branch over the judiciary.
"We oppose all mandatory minimum sentences," Dornin said.
But Amanda Sexton Grady of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence said that when Foster chaired the judiciary panel, the state passed "some of the nation's most progressive and toughest laws against child sexual predators and worked to strengthen domestic violence statutes."
Praise from colleagues
Among those who praised Foster were neighbors, fellow Nashuans and Senate colleagues.
Former Senate Majority Leader Robert Clegg, a Republican, said the GOP leadership named Foster chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee "because he did not let politics become involved" in his work on legislation.
Attorney and former state Senate legal counsel Rick Lehmann said Foster often recused himself from votes despite being advised that it was not necessary.
Lehmann said Foster is equipped to ensure that the Department of Justice will represent "the people of New Hampshire, and not the governor or government of New Hampshire."
Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, said Foster has "a rare ability to bring people together, while state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, said he "brings a special quality and that is the ability to create relationships and those relationships command respect."
Attorney Ralph Holmes of McLane Graf called Foster "a modest man" with an excellent legal mind, while Bill Barry of Nashua cited his "high morals and intelligence."
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In their fourth season of trials with dried-on-the-vine (DOV) plots, University of California researchers remain confident the practice can increase yields and cut costs significantly to help revive the state's depressed raisin industry.
Although other variations of DOV exist and trials with them continue, attention is now focused on what has become known as "the within-row, alternate bearing, DOV system."
With it, just prior to bloom, six to eight shoots that will become fruiting canes are positioned on the wire to one side of each vine, within the row, and renewal spurs are left on the other side.
The fruiting canes are cut when the fruit reaches 19 to 20 degrees Brix, ideally in mid-August, to initiate drying. As the fruit dries, the vineyard shows a curious checkerboard pattern of green and dried foliage.
The raisins are harvested and those canes are removed at pruning time, leaving the spurs of vine's opposite side to become fruiting canes for the next crop.
Other DOV systems depend on new vines and expensive, overhead trellises ranging in cost from $2,000 to $4,000 per acre. This system, however, is easily adapted to existing, head-trained, Thompson Seedless vines having traditional, single-wire trellising.
Another major economy for the within-row configuration is use of standard, wine-grape mechanical harvesters. When the raisins are ready to be harvested, most wine grapes have been picked and there is plenty of equipment available.
As the crop dries on the vine, it is free from the hazards of fall rains on traditional trays. And drying is accomplished without coping with terracing of middles, sand in the fruit, dust that attracts mites, and disposal of trays after the raisins are picked up.
The Selma Pete variety, released in 2001, has performed well in the UC experiments. It has quality similar to Thompson but matures about two weeks earlier.
Some 100 growers came to the Kearney Research and Education Center at Parlier recently to hear the latest reports on the trials.
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In describing the work, Bill Peacock, Tulare County farm advisor and one of the principal researchers, said, "When sugar reaches 19 to 20 Brix, you can cut fruiting canes and make a quality raisin. However, to successfully dry on the vine, fruiting canes should not be cut any later than the end of August or a dehydrator will be required to finish drying."
Cutting canes during the week of Aug. 15, he added, has a probability of 90 percent for successful drying, although by the end of August, the chances are less than 50-50. Once dried to 14 percent moisture or less, the fruit is harvested.
Peacock said costs of the vine preparation and harvesting will vary with vineyard age and condition of the trellising. He figures average costs, including five steps, at $375 per acre, which is close to the costs for conventional, tray-dried production.
The per-acre costs for each step are: shoot selection and positioning in the spring, $75; cane severance in the summer, $100; hanging green clusters on the wire, $75; mechanical harvesting, $125; and trellis repair after mechanical harvesting, $50. Also calculated is a $50 credit against traditional winter pruning costs because of the cane severance during the summer.
If the production were two tons to the acre, the cost would drop to $187.50 per ton, and for a three-ton yield it would be $125 per ton, he said.
Peacock is collaborating with Steve Vasquez, Fresno County farm advisor; Matthew Fidelibus, UCCE viticulturist at KREC; and Fred Swanson, superintendent at KREC.
New research
Enthused with the progress of the past four seasons, Peacock said the viticulture team is exploring new directions of research.
In a cross-arm project begun last year, they found that production was increased 8 percent for each foot of cross-arm width. "Raisins dried more uniformly with wide cross-arm systems and also more quickly. We estimate the cross-arm reduced drying time by about a week under normal circumstances," he said.
They also grafted Selma Pete onto mature Thompsons at KREC this spring and got a 95 percent stand. Peacock reported the vines, trained to a split head, are strong and the first crop will be harvested this fall. Fruit will be evaluated against Thompson for yields and raisin quality.
With an interest in mechanization and high-density plantings, they also planted 2.5 acres to Selma Pete on Freedom this spring. The vines will be trained to a bilateral cordon trunk this year for the within-row system. Methods for mechanically severing canes at harvest will be developed.
"Our aim," Peacock said, "is to produce four to five tons per acre of high-quality raisins using high-density. We hope to reduce the harvesting cost to less than $75 per ton and reduce the pruning cost to less than $100 per acre."
Fidelibus, completing his first season as UCCE viticulturist at KREC, is monitoring the physiological effects of harvest pruning or HP, the basis of mechanical harvesting component of the within-row system.
Effects of HP
In a report compiled with David Smart, a UC, Davis plant physiologist specializing in roots, Fidelibus noted that the physiological effects of HP are mostly unknown." The two will be investigating effects of HP on leaf area, fruit, and roots.
Considering the grower's point of view, Fidelibus said vineyards are best managed as a long-term investment and vine health and capacity need to be maintained for high yields.
"The fact that HP may reduce a vine's capacity on some training and trellis systems suggests that the capacity of vines subjected to HP could potentially be increased by management practices that limit negative effects of HP."
The results of the study, he added, "may be used to help manage DOV systems, and vines subjected to HP may serve as a model system to determine the role of the canopy, postharvest, on the productivity of vines in warm climates."


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Cowboy Jack Clement, who died in 2013 at age 82, was a prolific producer, songwriter, arranger, and talent scout. He brought Jerry Lee Lewis to Sun Records, helped nurture the career of one of the few black country stars, Charley Pride, and worked on important albums for artists as various as Waylon Jennings and U2.
Jack Clement only made three albums of his own, the last of which is the new For Once and For All. Executive produced by T Bone Burnett, it features Clement performing many of his best-known compositions with help from guest stars including Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and John Prine. Fresh Air rock critic Ken Tucker has a review.
This is FRESH AIR. Cowboy Jack Clement, who died last year at age 82, was a prolific producer, songwriter, arranger and talent scout. He brought Jerry Lee Lewis to Sun Records, helped nurture the career of one of the few black country stars, Charley Pride, and worked on important albums for artists as various as Waylon Jennings and U2.
Jack Clement only made three albums of his own, the last of which is the new "For Once And For All." Executive produced by T Bone Burnett, it features Clement performing many of his best-known compositions with help from guest stars, including Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell and John Prine.
Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review.
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT: (Singing) She don't hold and kiss me like she did one time. I think my sweet baby's got leaving on her mind. Longer I know her, the more I can tell. My darling's not happy with me. Longer I know that I know her too well, less love in her eyes I see.
KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Cowboy Jack Clement - the cowboy nickname was always something of a joke; he once said, cowboy boots make my feet hurt - was a colorful character, as well as a first-rate songwriter and producer. Clement told music historian Peter Guralnick that Shakespeare and P.G. Woodhouse were influences on him as significant as any country or rock 'n roll artist. And since he wrote tunes for Johnny Cash called "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" and "Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart," I'm inclined to believe him. He also wrote some of the finest pure country songs ever, such as this one.
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT: (Singing) So I feel so blue sometimes I want to die. And so I've got a broken heart so what? They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men. And I know that someday I'll forget and love again. But just between you and me, I got my doubts about it. Just between you and me, you're too much to forget.
TUCKER: That's "Just Between You And Me," a hit for Charley Pride in 1966, sung here by its author.
As a producer, Jack Clement was never much of a singer, but I think that's a good example of how to deliver the maximum emotion and ideas in a song, with minimal technical equipment. There's a fine documentary about Clement called "Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan" that I highly recommend. You can come away from that film and after hearing much of Clement's work with the impression that he rarely dwelt on the dark side. Then you hear a song of his such as "Let The Chips Fall."
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT: (Singing) I'm finding that I'm spending most of my time wondering where she goes the rest the time. But tonight I will find out for once and for all. Tonight I will follow her and let the chips fall. So let the chips fall.
TUCKER: "Let The Chips Fall" is essentially a murder ballad sung in the voice of a husband who's setting out to prove his wife has been unfaithful to him. And recording it in his 80s, near months before his death, Clement gave that song its proper chill of mortality.
There's another kind of beautiful starkness to be heard on "Baby Is Gone" with backing on guitar by this album's executive producer, T Bone Burnett.
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT: (Singing) The world goes around and the young men get old. The people next door are all down with the cold. The stars are in the heavens, that's where they belong. They don't shine in my world since baby is gone. If I were a writer, I'd write me a song but all I could say is, my baby is gone.
TUCKER: Clement worked as Sam Phillips' chief engineer in the early days of Sun Records in Memphis and convinced the owner to sign a wild man from Mississippi, Jerry Lee Lewis. Clement was good buddies with Johnny Cash, whose own wild behavior at various stages of Cash's career was the sort of restless anarchy Clement instinctively understood. Given Clement's genre-bending gadfly instincts, you could make an argument that he helped invent the kind of hybrid music that is now the radio format called Americana. Two stalwarts of that genre, Rodney Crowell and Marty Stuart, sing harmony on the course of one of Clement's most gorgeous, heart-broken lover ballads, "I Know One."
COWBOY JACK CLEMENT: (Singing) When all your loves have ended when all your friends have flown, who will be around to want you when all your loves have gone? Only a fool would do it after the way you done, but how many fools would have you? I know one. This fool keeps wondering why you fell in love at all. But you might need this fool around, in case you fall.
TUCKER: The legacy of Cowboy Jack Clement isn't going to rest on this album. He'll remain best remembered in versions of his songs sung by Johnny Cash, Charley Pride and Waylon Jennings. But as a farewell tip of the hat, this album called "For Once And For All" offers a goodbye that's at once jaunty and contemplative - just the sort of mixed message Jack Clement liked to send out into the world.
GROSS: Ken Tucker reviewed Jack Clement's final album "For Once And For All," which was released today.
FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. I'm Terry Gross. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Emotion shows at Way of the Cross throughout suburbs
Mundelein's Santa Maria del Popolo Catholic Church observed Good Friday with a Latino tradition meant to create a more personal experience for worshippers.
Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, drew a standing-room-only crowd to the church for the Spanish-language drama, which illustrated the passion and death of Jesus Christ. About 40 volunteer actors participated under the direction of Santa Maria del Popolo parishioner Luis Montes.
Montes said the crew practiced about two months before Friday's performance. Via Crucis has been performed at Santa Maria del Popolo since 2000.
"When you see something like here, it's more emotional," Montes said.
Parishioner Miguel Angel Correa of Mundelein had the lead role as Jesus. Correa's wife, Mayela, was Jesus' mother, Mary.
At one point in the drama, guards whipped Jesus as he carried a cross down the church's middle aisle and fell three times. Correa said he began experiencing the emotion of playing Jesus when he started rehearsing for Via Crucis.
"It's very hard to transmit it to people in person, so you really have to feel the emotions inside your heart and feel the love, that God actually sent his son to die for us," Correa said. "There are no words that can describe that."
Correa's teenage daughter, also named Mayela, was one of the angels in the nearly two-hour "Living Stations of the Cross." She said she immersed herself in the character, who let Jesus know he should not worry about dying on the cross.
"It's nice being able to spend time with your family and be able to live the life that Jesus went through and be able to tell these people, in the play, what happened," she said.
Cast members prayed after the performance, then received polite applause from worshippers.
Similar Good Friday observances were held elsewhere in the suburbs and in Chicago.
Participants gathered just before noon at St. Thomas of Villanova in Palatine for a short procession to Mision San Diego in Arlington Heights.
In Chicago, the ninth-annual Way of the Cross started about 9 a.m. at Daley Plaza with brief reflection by Cardinal Francis George and ended three hours later in time for Good Friday Mass at Holy Name Cathedral.


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WARNER _ A bridge in central New Hampshire has been washed away by waters running near flood stage because of heavy rains.
Police say officers have just arrived on the scene at Bartlett Loop bridge over Willow Brook. It was one of six bridges presented to the Board of Selectmen as on the state Department of Transportation's "red list."
Police said around 9 p.m. that the rain had stopped, but local creeks and streams were still running high because of the repeated storms passing through New Hampshire.


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Dennis started working with astronomical CCDs in 1990, and he did pioneering work in tricolor imaging. He was the principal force behind the creation of Sky Publishing's quarterly CCD Astronomy and served as its Senior Editor until the publication was folded into Sky & Telescope in early 1997.
He lives with his wife and daughter less than 20 miles from the heart of Boston where he probes the sky from a backyard observatory and has recorded stars approaching 24th magnitude with a 16-inch telescope. Because of his brief, but successful, hunt for asteroids during the mid-1990s, the observatory is ranked among the world's top 100 discovery sites. In 1989 the International Astronomical Union honored him by naming asteroid 3841 Dicicco.
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Staff and board members from Dairy Management Inc, which manages a major portion of the dairy checkoff funding, were in Madison, Wis., last week at the World Dairy Expo to share the successes of the checkoff program with dairymen.
The program's mission is to up the sales of dairy products and encompasses a wide range of activities in promotion, research and education.
Dairymen board members, however, were focused on telling other producers of the gains the checkoff has made through its strategic partnerships with well-known, quick-serve restaurants and food brands, said Brad Scott, a DMI board member and San Jacinto, Calif., dairyman.
Back in 2006, DMI changed its strategic plan from mainly generic advertising to the public to a business-to-business model to directly increase dairy sales at the point of sale, said David Pelzer, DMI's senior vice president of industry image and relations.
Those strategic partners include McDonald's, Domino's, Taco Bell and Quaker in an effort to get more products containing dairy on the menu and increase the use of dairy in the home.
The partnerships are steeped in communication, information, innovation and technical support, even so far as embedding DMI dairy scientists and nutritional advisors at the partners' headquarters, Pelzer said.
The partnership plan began with McDonald's and single-serve, resealable plastic containers of milk. The success of those sales led to the development of coffee drinks, smoothies, yogurt and ice cream offerings and expanded cheese options on sandwiches — all utilizing more dairy.
The partnership with McDonald's — which embedded four dairy scientists, a dietitian and a marketer at the company's headquarters — resulted in additional sales of 1.7 billion pounds of milk from 2009 to 2012.
Having DMI experts there every day helps McDonald's develop more menu items that include dairy. That helps the company's sales and increases the dairy industry's sales of dairy products, Pelzer said.
McDonald's success in boosting its sales with dairy has a ripple effect, both in its own menu development and the menu development of its competitors. And dairymen's checkoff dollars are reaping a larger benefit above and beyond McDonald's, he said.
DMI's partnerships with Domino's and Taco Bell, both passionate and innovative companies, has resulted in menu items that use a lot more cheese, which makes the items tastier and more appealing to their customers, Scott said.
Taco Bell is the largest Mexican quick-serve chain in the country and has a lot of influence and exposure. Not only is the company promoting items with more cheese, it wants to expand its menu to include desserts, beverages and breakfast items that use dairy products, he said.
Domino's has reinvented itself based on pizzas with more and more cheese and is developing a pizza product for schools, he said.
DMI has also partnered with Quaker in its "Make it with Milk" campaign, promoting using milk to make oatmeal. In a pilot test of the promotion in 1,300 Safeway grocery stores, Safeway saw its sales of fluid milk increase 5 percent, he said.
In all the partnerships, the dairy checkoff has allowed milk producers to be involved and have a seat at the table of those companies' research and development efforts, Scott said.
And dairymen are getting the benefit of those companies' advertising dollars promoting menu items that include dairy without having to fund it, Pelzer said.
The success of the strategic partnerships illustrates the benefits of DMI's change in direction, providing a roadmap for moving forward, Scott said.


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Raising livestock & 4-Her's
Larry Peterson inducted into county cattlemen's hall of fame
Livestock and 4-H to Larry Peterson are synonymous.
Larry, a third-generation livestock producer and farmer, has raised plenty of cattle, hogs and grain.
The 72- year-old also nurtured plenty of 4-H'ers including his own children and grandchildren.
Inducted into the Dawson County Cattlemen's Hall of Fame Saturday night in Lexington, Larry's roots in the cattle industry can be traced back to Peter Robert Peterson.
His grandfather, Peter, bought a quarter section of land eight miles northwest of Gothenburg in 1898.
Family members said Peter and his wife, Amanda, moved to the plains from Illinois where they had grown tired of the rain and mud and sought higher and dryer land in Nebraska.
Their youngest son, Alton, was Larry's father. Alton and his bride, Anna Stevens, settled on the family farm in 1930 and implemented mechanical practices less dependent on horse labor.
Along with grain, the Petersons raised Hereford cattle. Given a bucket calf when he was 6, Larry later traded the steer for a heifer he named "Mamie" after the wife of soon-to-be President Dwight Eisenhower.
Mamie's offspring led to a herd of Herefords that Larry raised on the family farm.
In 1963, he married Carolyn France of Gothenburg and the couple ended up on the Peterson farm four years later where they raised livestock, grain and four children—Stephanie, Crystal, Page and Paul.
Described by his children and other family members as a thinker "outside the box," Larry made many improvements to increase the efficiency of the agricultural operation including the installation of more miles of underground natural gas lines to make irrigation and grain-drying costs more reasonable and center pivot irrigation.
Sometime in the early 1990s, Larry implemented no-till irrigation on the family's irrigated and dry-land corn that led to less wind and soil erosion and conserved soil moisture
Although Larry got out of the cattle business for a few years, the Petersons returned to that livelihood after his two sons graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
PR Partnership, derived from Peter Robert Peterson's name and cattle brand, was formed. Today, the family uses the nearby Sandhills to pasture their black Angus herd and other acres to raise food-grade corn, corn for livestock feed and wheat.
Larry said the cow-calf operation retains ownership from conception to shipping the animals to harvest from the farm site.
Sharing family values has always been important to Larry, he said, as is opening the doors of agriculture production for younger generations.
With prodding from former Dawson County Extension educator Dave Stenberg, Larry and local cattle producer Doug Keiser—who was 17 at the time—started a new 4-H club in 1977.
Named the Tail Twisters by Doug's mother, Donna Keiser, during a meeting in her basement, Larry said the only requirement for membership was that kids had a sheep, pig or calf for a project.
What started out with seven members eventually grew to about 40 youngsters in the "hey day" of the club in the mid 1980s.
In fact, the club was so large Larry said they divided into a Farm Club for younger members and the Tail Twisters for older kids.
In addition to showing their animals at the county and state fairs, the leaders and parents would cram kids into an old Peterson van to participate in livestock and meat judging events.
For several years, Larry said local agricultural producer Ross Bartlett loaded a semi-trailer truck with cattle, sheep and pigs and equipment and hauled the 4-H projects to the state fair in Lincoln.
Club members were also encouraged to participate in the 4-H speech contest.
These days, Larry and Carolyn's grandchildren are part of the Tail Twister legacy started by their grandparents and continued by their parents.
The children of Page and Karen Peterson and Paul and Shannon Peterson belong to Tail Twisters in Dawson County while Larry's daughter Stephanie Ross's children are in a 4-H club with the same name in Custer County.
Daughter Crystal Fangmeier's youngsters are involved in 4-H in Thayer County.
Family members say there's not a bigger fan of beef and hog shows at 4-H fairs than Larry.
"My eyeballs sweat a bit," he said about watching his grandchildren enter the show ring with their animals.
Although Larry is semi-retired, he was helping to move the partnership's pregnant cows and heifers closer to home this past week.
With calving expected to start the first week of March, "they need booster shots," he said.
Larry, according to family members, is a booster—both figuratively and literally—for future generations of livestock producers.
Upon induction into the cattlemen's hall of fame, he said he was surprised and humbled, noting that he thinks his involvement with the Tail Twisters 4-H Club was a big factor.
"It's not what you do, it's what you give," Larry said. "I think that's what they were looking at."
Sid Andersen of Lexington was also inducted into the hall of fame.
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Raynham Selectmen Chairman Joseph Pacheco has thrown his hat in the ring in the race for state Representative in the 8th Plymouth — and he's come out swinging.
Pacheco said incumbent Angelo D'Emilia didn't do enough to support Raynham Park's bid for the state's sole slots license. On Feb. 28, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded the license to the Plainville applicant.
"He was silent when it came to weighing in on one of the most important issues of our time," said Pacheco of D'Emilia, a Bridgewater Republican.
The 8th Plymouth District is made up of Bridgewater and Raynham.
But D'Emilia said he was far from silent on the slots issue.
He said he rose to speak in favor of the Raynham proposal at the Gaming Commission's public hearing on slots at Raynham Middle School on Dec. 5 and even made his maiden speech in the legislature four years ago in support of expanded gaming in Massachusetts — helping to pave the way for the opportunity to pursue slots in Raynham.
But Pacheco, a Democrat who announced his candidacy for the seat on Friday, said D'Emilia could have fought a lot harder for Raynham slots.
Prior to the slots decision Raynham Park asked D'Emilia to send a letter of support to the Gaming Commission but D'Emilia declined to do so, Pacheco said.
And D'Emilia never called Raynham selectmen to offer his assistance with the project, despite the fact that Raynham town officials and voters had expressed overwhelming support for slots, Pacheco said.
"What he could have done is what other legislators did. He could have been there on election day, not just in Raynham but elsewhere. He could have written a letter to the Gaming Commission, he could have called to see if there was any way he could help," Pacheco said.
Pacheco said, in contrast, State Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D. Taunton, who also represents Raynham and Bridgewater, wrote a "phenomenal" letter of support to the Gaming Commission and called Raynham selectmen early on in the process to offer his assistance.
But, D'Emilia said, the slots decision was not his to make. It was the Gaming Commission's call.
"Unfortunately, he doesn't understand how the process works. The state representative doesn't get to decide who will be awarded the slots license," D'Emilia said.
D'Emilia said he had "no particular reason" for not sending the letter but that in no way indicated a lack of support for the proposal. In fact, he was in touch with the Carney family and expressed his full support, he said.
But Joseph Pacheco said D'Emilia's input might have made a difference. One of the factors the Gaming Commission considered was local support — "which includes support from your local legislator," Pacheco said.
"But our current representative was nowhere to be found when it came to carrying the ball in state government," Pacheco said.
The Raynham project came in third of three applicants and generally scored lower in a variety of categories than the other two — Leominster and Plainville.
However, the one bright spot for Raynham was, in fact, local support. Gaming Commission Chairman Steve Crosby made a point of praising Raynham Park and owner George Carney in that one area — and only that area.
After panning the Raynham Park application overall, Crosby said, "The singular strength of the Raynham/PR (Parx Raynham) proposal is the distinguished business record of Mr. Carney and the virtually unanimous and genuine support he has in Raynham and nearby communities."
Pacheco said Raynham isn't the only community that lost out when the slots proposal went belly up. Bridgewater would also have benefitted from the infusion of cash and hundreds of new jobs. Raynham Park had inked a surrounding community agreement with Bridgewater that called for the developer to pay Bridgewater $150,000 a year in mitigation money if the slots parlor had opened.
Pacheco announced a couple of weeks ago that he was considering a run for state representative.
He said he decided to take the plunge after receiving "overwhelming and bipartisan support from residents from both communities" over the past month.
"In four years, Angelo's never once been to a selectmen's meeting in Raynham. You've got to be accessible. One of the reasons I think I've been successful is people know I'm accessible," Pacheco said.
But D'Emilia said in those four years Raynham selectmen never invited him to attend, a fact he chalked up to political ambitions on Pacheco's part. He said he is in regular contact with the Raynham town manager and devotes a great deal of effort and energy to working on issues important to Raynham residents.
He said he has supported expanded highway money, school aid and town aid and mosquito mitigation funding in the wake of the death of Raynham resident Martin Newfield from Eastern equine encephalitis in 2011.
"I guess this is how it will go. He's going to go negative. Joe's a young kid. He's got a lot to learn. I don't think the people of Bridgewater and Raynham will appreciate a negative campaign and I'm not going to run a negative campaign. I'm going to continue to focus on working hard on the issues the people of Bridgewater and Raynham care about," D'Emilia said.
For his part, Pacheco said he has helped "craft conservative municipal budgets that have preserved core services and invested in town and school infrastructure" and worked hard to "attract and spur enhanced business growth in Paramount Park and along the Route 44 business corridor."
"We need a representative who delivers and puts the needs of our families and communities first. We need a representative who will fight for jobs and economic development, for business growth and prosperity, for stronger educational opportunities and the health and safety of every resident. I'm running for state representative because we can do better and because this is the work that I've always been proud to do," Pacheco said.


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Boy Meets World: Disney Sequel in the Works!
The Disney Channel is in the early stages of development for a Boy Meets World sequel series called Girl Meets World, according to TVLine.
For the sequel series, the network is looking to bring back Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel to reprise their famous roles as Cory and Topanga, who tied the knot before their hit show ended. The new series would revolve around their preteen daughter.
"I met a woman who named her daughter Topanga," Danielle recently told EW for the reunion issue of her famous on-screen name. "I had one of the most awesome character names in TV history."
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - With a new version of the flu vaccine that protects against four virus strains coming out this fall, in addition to the usual three-strain formula, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids should get either one.
"We don't have a preference," Dr. Michael Brady, chairperson of the AAP's Committee on Infectious Diseases, said.
But while the new four-strain vaccine is rolling out, if supplies are limited in some areas, parents should not delay getting their kids immunized to hold out for one version of the vaccine or another, the committee emphasized.
Currently, both the AAP and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that everyone six months old and older get vaccinated against the flu.
The CDC estimates that about 20,000 children younger than five years old are hospitalized every year because of complications from the flu.
Last flu season, 158 children's deaths were tied to the virus.
Previously, flu vaccines only protected against three strains of the flu - two strains of influenza A, which usually causes more cases of flu and more severe illness each year, and one strain of influenza B, which is less common but also circulates in multiple versions.
This year, some vaccines will include protection against a second strain of influenza B.
Still, the AAP doesn't recommend that parents wait for the four-strain vaccine to become available in their area.
"What we were concerned with was that people wouldn't get their children immunized if the doctor only had the trivalent or three-strain vaccine," Brady, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said.
"Vaccination should not be delayed to obtain a specific product for either dose," the committee writes in the journal Pediatrics.
"As soon as your provider says they have it, people should start getting it," Brady said.
Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the four-strain vaccine may offer more protection, but availability is currently an issue.
"It's that interim time before these companies make enough quadrivalent (or four-strain) vaccines to cover the number of people who use it in the U.S. and around the world," Offit said.
For the upcoming flu season, which typically runs from October to May, both the three- and four-strain vaccines will be available for injection.
Vaccines made for nasal delivery, such as Flu Mist, will protect against all four strains and are approved for use by anyone between 2 and 49 years old, though not for pregnant women.
Offit told Reuters Health that he expects only four-strain vaccines will be available within two years.
This year, there are also two flu vaccines that are manufactured without using eggs, which may offer protection to people with severe egg allergies. Those, however, are only available to people 18 years old and older.
"For the severely egg allergic, they could consider these vaccines," Offit said.
Brady reiterated that it's important to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
"We're trying to immunize 150 million or more peopleâ¦trying to get all those people vaccinated at one time is challenging. So as soon as people get the vaccine available⦠they should get it and shouldn't wait," he said.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (November 10, 2011) – The ETSU volleyball team returns home to host Lipscomb and Belmont in the final regular season matches of the year as the Bucs will celebrate Senior Weekend inside Brooks Gym.
The Bucs will take on the reigning back to back Atlantic Sun champion, Lipscomb, on Friday at 7 p.m., before closing out the regular season against Belmont on Saturday at 3 p.m. for Senior Day.
ETSU enters the weekend with a 13-14 overall record and a 6-5 mark in A-Sun play, after winning its last two matches. The Bucs defeated Kennesaw State on the road two weeks ago, before knocking off USC Upstate last weekend.
The Bucs can clinch a spot in next week's Atlantic Sun Championship with at least a win this weekend. ETSU can also earn a spot if North Florida or Jacksonville loses a match this weekend. If ETSU, Jacksonville and North Florida finished tied in the standings, Atlantic Sun tiebreaker rules will be used to determine the final two tournament spots.
Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) continues to lead the team in kills at 4.16 per set, while ranking second in the Atlantic Sun. In addition, Devine ranks 30th in the country in kills per set. She is also on pace to break the ETSU single season record for most kills per set. The current record is 4.08, set by Jennifer Sartor in 2006.
Senior Jamie Stancliff (Advance, N.C.) remains the league leader in blocks at 1.12 per set. As a team, ETSU continues to lead the league in blocks at 2.12 per set.
The match on Friday is tabbed as Club Volleyball/Middle School Night – kids aged 12 and under receive free admission. Friday is also "Facebook Friday" – be sure to print off the coupon on the ETSU Buccaneer Athletics Facebook page.
Saturday's match will be the last home contest for three ETSU seniors. Stancliff, McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) and Kiley Tamblyn (Torrance, Calif.) will be recognized before the match against Belmont.
Scouting the Opponents
Lipscomb enters Friday's match with a 17-8 overall record on the season, including a conference leading 10-1 mark in A-Sun play. The Bisons are coming off a sweep of Kennesaw State over the weekend in their final home contest. Lipscomb is led by senior Katie Rose as she leads the A-Sun with a .350 hitting percentage. She also leads the team in kills, blocks and points. Meanwhile, Lipscomb leads the league in hitting percentage, assists and kills. Lipscomb defeated ETSU, 3-0, in Nashville back on October 1.
Belmont heads into the weekend with a 18-8 overall record on the season, including a 9-2 mark in A-Sun play. The Bruins are riding a three-match winning streak after most recently defeating Kennesaw State over the weekend. Belmont is led by senior Maggie Johnson. Johnson leads the league and ranks ninth in the country in kills at 4.68 per set. Setter Hannah Miranda leads the league in assists at 10.83 per set, while Jamie Lundstrum leads the league in digs and Jen Myer leads the country in service aces at 0.83 per set. Belmont leads the league in opponent's hitting percentage, service aces and digs. Belmont defeated ETSU, 3-1, in Nashville back on September 30.
For those unable to attend this weekend's matches, live stats will be available at ETSUBucs.com. In addition, live video via ASun.TV will be available for Saturday's match against Belmont.
For more information on ETSU volleyball please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the volleyball link.


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Hi all,
I have programming for some time now PHP mainly and moved to C++ about six months ago for game programming. I am currently at university in Coventry. The problem I am having is when attempting to assign a value of type int to another int. I know! its crazy as we do this all the time, so why wont my code work as it should??
The code will be used in Ogre3D as part of a multiplayer lobby, but my problem is more C++ I think. It's not that a value isn't being assigned it is (sometimes 11, and sometimes 31) but certainly not what I expect which should be maximum 18 depending on what button was pressed 0-18. I can assure you that other than setting it to zero in the constructor, no other code alters the "lastClick" attribute, and there are no other classes using the same name (not as if that should matter). So why on earth wont the "lastClick" attribute accept the current value of the for loop. Where is it getting 11 or 31 from, is there some significance to these numbers?
I have provided the header file "PlayerBoard.h" and the method where I am experiencing the problem in a hope that someone can advise me, its driving me crazy and I really have to move on. I have two assignments to do and an exam to revise for, poor me
The method with the problem from "PlayerBoard.cpp":Code:#pragma once #include "GuiWidget1.h" #include "GuiTrayListener1.h" #include <iostream> #include <string.h> static int MAXPLAYERS = 16; class PlayerBoard : public GuiWidget { public: int pressed[16]; ///imageButton(const Ogre::String& name, const Ogre::DisplayString& caption, Ogre::Real width); Ogre::StringVector mPlayersList; void updatePlayers(Ogre::StringVector players); //We need to pass in an string vector with connected players PlayerBoard(const Ogre::String& name); //// int lastClick; int lastClickB; int lastOver; int testerClicked; Ogre::String mMaterialUsed; OgreBites::ButtonState mState; OgreBites::ButtonState mStateB; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP2; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP3; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP4; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP5; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP6; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBP7; Ogre::BorderPanelOverlayElement* mBPs[20]; //first 16 are players next are used by logic for buttons Ogre::TextAreaOverlayElement* mTextArea; Ogre::TextAreaOverlayElement* mTextAreas[20]; Ogre::TextAreaOverlayElement* mTexts[16]; bool mFitToContents; const Ogre::DisplayString& getCaption(); void setCaption(const Ogre::DisplayString& caption, int captionNum ); const OgreBites::ButtonState& getState() { return mState; } void _cursorPressed(const Ogre::Vector2& cursorPos); void _cursorReleased(const Ogre::Vector2& cursorPos); void _cursorMoved(const Ogre::Vector2& cursorPos); void _focusLost(); // void setState(const OgreBites::ButtonState& bs, int bn); ~PlayerBoard() {} };
The bit in red is the problem but if you look further up the same code (lastClickB = i; doesn't work either?Code:void PlayerBoard::_cursorPressed(const Ogre::Vector2& cursorPos) { for(int i=0; i<MAXPLAYERS+3; i++) { if (isCursorOver(mBPs[i], cursorPos, 4)) { if( i >= MAXPLAYERS) { // Set the last pressed button for this section back to UP setState(OgreBites::BS_UP, lastClickB); for(int j = MAXPLAYERS; j < MAXPLAYERS+3; j++) { pressed[j] = 0; } setState(OgreBites::BS_DOWN, i); lastClickB = i; if (mListener) mListener->playerButtonHit(i); switch(pressed[i]){ case 0: pressed[i] = 1; break; case 1: pressed[i] = 0; break; } } else { // Set the last pressed button for this section back to UP setState(OgreBites::BS_UP, lastClick); for(int j=0; j < MAXPLAYERS; j++) { pressed[j] = 0; } setState(OgreBites::BS_DOWN, i); lastClick = i; ///Neither of these work???? testerClicked = i; ///Neither of these work???? if (mListener) mListener->playerButtonHit(i); switch(pressed[i]){ case 0: pressed[i] = 1; break; case 1: pressed[i] = 0; break; } } } } }
I should probably mention that the "PlayerBoard" class inherits from another class "GuiWidget", which then inherits from another (Ogre3D) "SdkTrayMgr". The problematic method is assigned as "virtual" in the grandparent class and then I inherit to use when the cursor is over a button. All I want to do is remeber the button number and store it so I can change states after each click. If you need more code just say!
Please go easy on me this is my first ever post anywhere on the web and I am still learning!


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The Dow climbed past the 16000 mark for the first time ever Monday, but the blue-chip average pulled back in afternoon action.
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As of 3:17 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 9.2 points, or 0.06%, to 15971, the S&P 500 declined 6.6 points, or 0.37%, to 1792 and the Nasdaq Composite edged dropped 35 points, or 0.88%, to 3951.
In a sign of the strength of the recent rally, the blue-chip average closed above the 15000 mark for the first time just 136 trading days ago. It marks the sixth-fastest time the Dow has added 1000 points.
The Federal Reserve was expected to stay in focus this week, with several prominent officials speaking and minutes from the last FOMC meeting out Wednesday.
New York Fed chief William Dudley said the economy appears to be strengthening despite fiscal headwinds. The remarks sparked worries that the central bank could begin paring back its bond-buying program as soon as December.
Also on the economic front, the National Association of Home Builders reveals its latest reading on homebuilder sentiment at 10 a.m. ET. The housing sector, which was pummeled during the financial crisis, has been a centerpiece of the recovery. However, higher mortgage rates have put some pressure of the segment recently.
In corporate news, Boeing (NYSE:BA) shares rallied after the aerospace giant revealed $95 billion in orders for its 777X plane -- representing the largest commercial jet launch in history by dollar value, according to the company. Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) posted quarterly profits that narrowly beat analysts' expectatins.
Elsewhere, U.S. crude oil prices fell 36 cents, or 0.38%, to $93.48 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline slid 1.1% to $2.628 a gallon. Gold dipped $8.80, or 0.69%, to $1,279 a troy ounce.


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U.S. stocks are rising for the fourth day in a row. Major indexes shifted higher following the Federal Reserve's latest policy announcement. The central bank said it would cut another $10 billion from its monthly bond purchases, citing an improving U.S. job market.
KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 10 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,952 as of 3:34 p.m. Eastern Time. That's one point above its previous record high. The Dow Jones industrial average added 73 points, or 0.4 percent, to 16,885. The Nasdaq composite gained 16 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,353.
FED SPEAKS: Following a two-day meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers, the central bank sharply cut its forecast for U.S. growth this year, citing a shrinking economy last quarter caused mostly by harsh weather. At the same time, the Fed barely increased its estimate of inflation despite signs that consumer price increases are picking up. Its benign inflation outlook suggests that the Fed doesn't feel rising pressure to raise short-term interest rates.
THE QUOTE: "The important thing is that the Federal Reserve has acknowledged that the unemployment rate seems to be coming down just a little bit faster than they expected," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds. "And they seem to be acknowledging some degree of inflation pressure."
BONDS: The Fed statement also appeared to whet investors' appetite for bonds. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.60 percent from 2.65 late Tuesday.
SECTOR VIEW: The 10 sectors in the S&P 500 notched gains, with utilities rising the most.
SHIP SHAPE: FedEx gained $8.38, or 6 percent, to $148.69 after the company reported that its quarterly profit rose as growth in online shopping gave its ground-shipping business a lift. Earnings and revenue both topped Wall Street's expectations.
BIDDING FOR BOTOX: Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals has teamed up with Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management to mount a cash-and-stock bid for Allergan that values the Botox-maker at around $53 billion. Allergan says the latest takeover bid from the two companies is still too low. Allergan shares rose $1.67, or 1 percent, to $162.20. Valeant fell 29 cents to $128.81.
NEW BOSS: Air Products & Chemicals surged $8.82, or about 7.3 percent, to $130.46 after the specialty gas company announced it hired Rockwood's Seifi Ghasemi as its new chairman and CEO to replace its retiring chief executive.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency says four people have been killed in fighting in the Lebanese city of Tripoli between gunmen loyal to opposite sides in Syria's civil war.
The state-run National News Agency says 12 others were wounded in the clashes Sunday. Tripoli has been the scene of frequent sectarian clashes during the Syria civil war.
The fighting has sometimes spilled across Syria's borders, raising concerns of a regional war.
Last week the Lebanese army sent additional troops to Tripoli to try to prevent clashes that followed reports of 17 Lebanese men killed after entering Syria to fight alongside the mostly Sunni rebels. The Syrian rebels are trying to topple President Bashar Assad, whose regime is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot Shiite group.
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MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 1, 2013) - CML HealthCare Inc. (TSX:CLC) (the "Company" or "CML"), a leading medical diagnostic services provider in Canada, is pleased to announce that its Newmarket diagnostic imaging clinic located at 17215 Leslie Street has been granted an Ontario Breast Screening Program ("OBSP") affiliation by Cancer Care Ontario. OBSP is a provincial screening program that offers important advantages to women. Their mission is to reduce deaths from breast cancer by delivering high quality breast screening to women in Ontario. Women aged 30 to 69 at high risk for breast cancer and women aged 50 to 74, with or without a family physician, can enroll themselves into the program and be screened for breast cancer. Women can book their own appointments and will receive a reminder in the mail when they are due for their next mammogram.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Ontario women. In 2012, it was estimated that 9,100 Ontario women would be diagnosed with breast cancer and 2,000 would die from the disease. In Ontario, it is recommended that women aged 50 and older have a screening mammogram, generally every two years.
"CML is proud to have yet another one of our diagnostic imaging locations selected as an OBSP affiliate. Including our Newmarket location, CML has 14 clinics with OBSP designation across Ontario. The designation of our Newmarket location will help improve OBSP access to women in the Newmarket-Barrie-Aurora area where wait times are currently anywhere from three to twelve weeks," said Thomas Wellner, President and Chief Executive Officer of CML. "Screening mammography is the most reliable method of finding breast cancer available to women today. By detecting cancer early, women will have more treatment options available to them. I encourage all women to follow the screening guidelines recommended by Cancer Care Ontario and enroll themselves in the OBSP program."
OBSP Open House at 17215 Leslie Street, Newmarket
CML's Newmarket diagnostic imaging clinic will be taking OBSP patients as of Monday, February 4, 2013. To educate women on the OBSP program and CML's services, there will be an open house on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 17215 Leslie Street, Newmarket, between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Patients will be provided with an educational package on breast cancer and the OBSP program, as well as a site tour of CML's mammography room. Certified OBSP technologists will be on hand to answer any questions on the procedure or the program.
CML's Newmarket clinic is conveniently located along a bus route and has free parking on site. For more information on the OBSP open house, please contact Andrew Lawson at 416-455-9196 or email@example.com.
About CML HealthCare Inc.
Based in Mississauga, Ontario, CML HealthCare Inc. is Canada's leading community-based, medical diagnostic services provider operating 140 patient service centres in Ontario, 83 imaging centres in Ontario and British Columbia, and a reference laboratory in Ontario focused on specialized coagulation testing for customers worldwide. CML is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "CLC" and has approximately 89.8 million common shares outstanding. For more information, please visit www.cmlhealthcare.com and follow us on Twitter @cmlhealthcare.
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what happened to Wave 2? Why would they skip over that entirely to show a few random selections from a later wave?
I kind of shudder at the thought of ANOTHER Fisto jamming the pegs though. I hope this guy sells better than the previous incarnation.
Has there been numerous reports of this wave hitting yet? I'm always wary to spend any time hunting when just one or two third person reports are posted.
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