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DENVER Legislators have introduced the first set of bills responding to mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, but they are not what gun-control advocates want.
Out of five gun-related bills, four are from Republicans who seek to expand the right to carry or use guns.
Gun-control advocates mostly Democrats have yet to introduce their major proposals.
Gov. John Hickenlooper asked legislators to consider universal background checks during his State of the State address, even for private sales, and President Barack Obama made a similar proposal just days ago.
But the first set of proposals points to a culture clash in the Legislature between people who want more gun restrictions and those who think more guns lead to more safety.
A pair of Senate bills seek to allow more guns in schools and private businesses. Senate Bill 9 would allow people with concealed-weapons permits to bring handguns into a school, subject to approval by the local school board.
And SB 62 exposes businesses to liability if they forbid guns and dont provide at least one armed guard per 50 people.
Sen. Kent Lambert, sponsor of SB 62, said his bill is a response to the massacre at the Aurora movie theater, where a no-guns policy was in place.
James Holmes stalked this place, said Lambert, R-Colorado Springs. Any terrorist is going to find the softest target he can.
Several victims and bereaved family members are suing the theater for inadequate security. Lambert said his bill would put other business owners at ease by holding them liable for shootings only if they banned guns and had lax security.
But the senator whose district includes the theater doesnt think much of Lamberts bill.
I think the idea is absurd, to be honest, said Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora. The fact that you would force a business to be armed frankly violates private-property rights.
It could also increase costs by forcing businesses to hire guards, she said. And not everyone wants to be surrounded by guns while shopping, Carroll said.
In the House, an old bill that has failed several times before is back. House Bill 1048, the so-called Make My Day Better bill, would allow business owners or employees to use deadly force against intruders. Colorado already has a Make My Day law that allows people to kill intruders in their homes.
Gun-control advocates are still researching their proposals and probably will introduce bills in a few weeks, Carroll said.
Were so heavily in research. Were trying to be really intelligent about what were doing, she said.
The lone Democratic bill so far comes from freshman Rep. Mike Foote of Lafayette. Foote, a former prosecutor in Durango, wants to expand the definition of deadly weapon to include unloaded guns.


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June 28. 2013 2:36PM
Hassan lauds $800M bipartisan budget hike as investment in state's economic future
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
University System of New Hampshire names Todd Leach chancellor
CONCORD – A $10.8 billion, two-year operating budget with wide bipartisan support was signed by Gov. Maggie Hassan Friday and will go into effect Monday.
"We have begun to reverse many of the deep cuts made in the last biennium and set the foundation for a more innovative economic future," Hassan said after signing the budget. "The budget invests in higher education, improves technical assistance to businesses, and strengthens economic development efforts in order to support the business community's work to create good jobs that can sustain a strong middle class."
The compromise budget had overwhelming support in the House and Senate Wednesday after several contentious days of negotiations between House and Senate budget writers last week.
The budget spends a total of $10.8 billion over the next two years, including $2.8 million in state general funds. Over the biennium the state would spend $800 million more than in the current biennial which ends Sunday.
"Like all budgets, this plan required compromise and difficult decisions," Hassan said. "But the overwhelming, bipartisan support for the priorities in this budget – job creation, public safety, education, caring for our most vulnerable citizens, and preserving our natural resources – demonstrates that our shared values as Granite Staters are far more significant than our differences."
The biggest point of contention between the House and Senate was Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which would add about 58,000 people to the rolls of the state and federal health insurance program. The Senate wants more time to study expansion, while Hassan and the House want expansion to begin Jan. 1.
A commission will study Medicaid expansion with an Oct. 15 deadline for recommendations. Hassan said she will ask the Executive Council to call lawmakers back into session to address the commission's recommendation if House and Senate leaders do not.
The budget includes a $25 million reduction in personnel costs, but appropriates $17 million for new state employee labor contracts with a 6 percent raise over two years, paid for through changes to health insurance plans including deductibles for the first time.
The budget includes $100 million more for higher education in return for the university and community college systems freezing tuition for the next two years, $28 million more for the mental health system, eliminates the developmentally disabled wait list for services and reinstates the school building aid program.
There is $3.4 million for four new charter schools. The UNIQUE scholarship program is reinstated as is another program helping nursing homes.
"With our budget now in place, we have been able to make true and meaningful progress on the priorities that matter to the people of New Hampshire," Hassan said. "We must continue working together in the spirit of bipartisanship to keep our state moving forward toward a stronger, more innovative economic future."
The compromise budget has drawn praise from Republicans and Democrats and across the political spectrum.
"With the Governor's signature, New Hampshire now has a state budget that doesn't increase taxes and doesn't include the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion," said Greg Moore, Americans for Prosperity-NH State Director. "This fiscally responsible budget is now law, and our citizens can rest easy that they will not feel the sting of the many tax and fee hikes that were proposed throughout this year. That's a win for our economy and for the New Hampshire Advantage."
The new fiscal year begins July 1.

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Gun clubs grow: NH responds to a threat
March 27. 2013 5:46PM
How many dumb, redneck gun nuts can there be?
Oh, relax. We don't mean it. We were just wondering what the anti-gun zealots must have thought after reading our Wednesday story on the explosion in New Hampshire gun-club membership.
Four years ago the Chester Rod and Gun Club had fewer than 500 members. Today it has more than 1,300. A rise in applications this winter has resulted in a waiting list so long that if you sign up now you might become a member by August. Clubs in Canterbury, Goffstown, Hudson and Nashua are at capacity.
What gives? Club officials say most of the new applicants are not experienced gun owners. They are newbies not entrenched in gun culture.
That must frighten the gunophobes something awful. They're losing "normal" people to the gun nuts!
We wonder if they will ever realize that most gun owners are normal folks and that the most effective method of increasing gun ownership is for the government to suggest that access to guns is about to be restricted.
Bill Hovanasian, board member of the Chester Rod and Gun Club, said "for now Mr. Obama has probably been the best gun salesman there ever was." The reason for that is easy to grasp. It is not that crazies are buying up all the guns. It's that perfectly normal Americans value their right to keep and bear arms, and they want to make sure they retain it.


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The 120 members of Stockton-based Bravo Company of the California Army National Guard's 1-126th Aviation Battalion returned home to their families on July 23, surviving completely intact an almost yearlong deployment to Afghanistan. Brother and sister Spc. Chris Schumacher and Staff Sgt. Sarah Schumacher returned along with friend Spc. Scott Aksland.
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Ayotte's availability: She is remarkably accessible
September 12. 2013 5:34PM
Disagree with her positions all you want, but one thing you cannot truthfully say about U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte is that she hides from her constituents. Of course, that is not stopping one left-wing activist organization from saying it.
Granite State Progress, a leftist front group funded by out-of-state donors, specializes in creating false impressions. In a Sept. 3 press release, executive director Zandra Rice Hawkins alleged, "The Senator has refused meeting requests and open town halls ever since she faced backlash over her vote against criminal background checks..."
Not only did Ayotte hold three town hall meetings immediately after her vote against the Obama administration's gun-control bill (when opposition to her vote was at its peak), but Hawkins organized disruptions at each of them and personally heckled Ayotte at least one. (Also, Ayotte did not vote against background checks — another distortion.)
Since Ayotte took office in January of 2011, she has held 23 town-hall meetings, by her office's tally. In Washington she holds a constituent coffee every Thursday when the Senate is in session. She spent the month of August touring New Hampshire, making nearly 50 visits to local businesses, civic organizations, public officials, etc. If Granite State Progress wonders why no one outside of the far, far left takes it seriously, well, this kind of amateurish disinformation campaign is exactly why.


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Wow, what got into the Missouri Tigers? They put on a basketball clinic last night against the Arkansas Razorbacks and controlled every aspect of the game from start to finish. Going into the game I had hopes that playing at home coupled with the tough loss at Fayetteville a couple of weeks ago would give the Tigers the edge they needed to pull out a victory. I fully expected the game to once again go down to the final buzzer which shows you what I know. The Tigers were a team on a mission who used last night's game to make a statement and Arkansas never knew what happened. Welcome back to Mizzou Arena Mike Anderson! The Tigers wrap up their regular season on Saturday with a game at Tennessee which is very winnable in my opinion.
Being a Missouri Tigers fan has been interesting this year as the Tigers are somewhat of an enigma. There is the Tigers team who gave a very good Arkansas Razorbacks team a basketball clinic last night, who beat an Illinois team that quite honestly I didn't expect them to beat, and who barely lost to Louisville in a game where Louisville played as close to perfect as you can get. Then there is the Missouri Tigers team who has had two games this year where their shooting percentage has been in the high 20's and appeared to be going through the motions for almost three weeks during the month of January. You never know for sure which team is going to show up and when the other team will make an appearance. Sometimes you get both teams in the same game with them either building up a huge lead only to lose it and either barely hang on or lose the lead entirely and never get it back. This same team will sometimes dig a massive hole for themselves before the other team shows up to try and mount a comeback. Sometimes they are successful and sometimes they aren't. You just never know what you are going to get with this team. One interesting dynamic that isn't talked about much is the fact that the Missouri Tigers basketball team is made up in large part with transfers. If you look at the team roster you can see that many of the players and most of the starters transferred from other schools and the team as a whole has only been playing together since the start of the season. In many ways it is remarkable that the Tigers are where they are right now given that it takes time to build team chemistry and the current group of players have had very little time to do that. I have criticized them several times this season for not playing together as a team and when that happens is when their shooting percentage goes way down and their turnovers go way up. When they are focused and play together as a cohesive unit like they did last night that's when you can tell how good and how talented this team clearly is.
The Truman State women's basketball team were victorious in the first round of the MIAA playoffs as they beat a pesky Southwest Baptist team last night at Pershing Arena. This sets up a second round rematch with Emporia State who knocked Truman State out of last year's playoffs in a heartbreaking loss that I'm sure the Bulldogs still remember clearly. This weekends tournament in Kansas City will be the Bulldogs last chance to make a statement in the MIAA before departing for the Great Lakes Valley conference next year.
The Truman Sate men's basketball team wasn't quite as fortunate as they lost a tough one on the road at Pittsburg State on Monday night. The Bulldogs had a lead at one point but simply wasn't able to hang on to it. Although the season wasn't what they had hoped for it is very obvious they made tremendous strides from last year and that coach Matt Woodley has the team headed in the right direction.
The Kirksville High School Lady Tigers play in the first round of the playoffs tonight as they travel to Troy to take on St. Dominic who apparently came out of nowhere to win their district title. Teams like that are always dangerous but if the Lady Tigers play like they are capable of playing they can beat anybody. Last year's experience in playing in these types of games should go a long way in helping them deal with the pressure that comes from the high expectations that come with playing at this level. I fully expect a victory tonight.
The St. Louis Cardinals bats have cooled off considerably from last week as the overly long spring training continues. It's hard to believe that spring training will go on for another three weeks. The future of shortstop Rafael Furcal is in doubt as he has experienced more problems with his elbow. At this point it looks like he will be missing a considerable amount of time and if surgery is required he will most likely miss the entire year which will be a huge blow to a team that seems to be faced with more and more questions as spring training progresses. The Cardinals certainly have players on their roster who can fill the void at shortstop but certainly not anyone of Furcal's caliber. Only time will tell how this all plays out.
The Kansas City Royals have been red hot this spring as it would certainly appear that the off season moves made by the Royals front office have given this team a sense of confidence it didn't have before. Obviously we are still very early in the spring and spring training games don't count but the Royals are definitely putting up some impressive numbers right now.
We'll be back on Friday with a look ahead to all the weekend's sports action and hopefully a look back at a Lady Tigers victory tonight. Please take the time to check out the other blogs on this site and thanks as always for supporting this one.
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A 16-year-old male student arrested on suspicion of placing an explosive device at Lafayette's Centaurus High faces the possibility of multiple felony charges and could be prosecuted as an adult, officials said Tuesday.
The teen -- who has not been identified because he is a minor -- was arrested Monday night at his parents' house, where further evidence linked him to the explosive device discovered in the school that morning, according to Lafayette police Chief Rick Bashor.
"Lafayette police, along with FBI and ATF, worked through the night to solve this case," Bashor said.
The suspect could face charges including two counts of possession of incendiary materials, felony menacing and interfering with an educational institution.
The teen is being held in juvenile detention and is scheduled to appear in juvenile court Wednesday.
Bashor did not comment on any possible motive, but he did say he believes the school is no longer at risk.
"The evidence we found indicates the students are safe and the teachers are safe," he said.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said his office is reviewing the case to see whether the suspect should be charged as an adult and if the charges are appropriate.
"Anything involving the threat of violence or explosives at a school building or involving schoolchildren will always be a top priority for my office," Garnett said. "We're going to ask for extra time to review the charges, and one of the reasons is we want to know who this young man is and what happened and what the factors may have been."
Garnett did not give a timeline for when a decision on charges would be made.
"In a case like this, we want to be very deliberate," he said. "We have one of the best juvenile prosecution units in the country, led by Peggy Jessel, and we take juvenile cases very seriously."
Attempts to reach the suspect's family were unsuccessful Tuesday.
Daltton McCune, a student at Centaurus who said he knows the suspect, described him as a smart kid who got along with teachers.
"I don't understand why he would do this," McCune said. "He was a pretty cool guy."
McCune said the suspect has some unusual interests and "sometimes he would get into weird debates in class."
Centaurus junior Annie Nagel said although the incident Monday was scary, she felt it was safe to return to school Tuesday.
"I know police were here for a long time and swept the area," she said. "I trust the people in charge."
But for some of the students returning to school Tuesday morning, there were still some lingering concerns.
"I don't think we should have had school today," said freshman Destiny Johnstone. "What if it happens again? I think it's too soon."
Added sophomore Wilson Hattendorf, "I didn't really have too many worries, but I know a few people who stayed home because of the bomb."
The explosive device, which police described as being "very similar to a pipe bomb," was found Monday morning by a teacher inside Centaurus High School, forcing the evacuation of the school and the closure of South Boulder Road for several hours.
Lafayette Cmdr. Gene McCausey said the device had a 9-volt battery and could have hurt those in close proximity had it exploded.
The device was detonated by the Boulder County bomb squad away from the school.
Chief Bashor said although police don't encourage people to handle explosives, the unidentified teacher acted on his or her instincts.
"They thought it was the best thing for the students," Bashor said.
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Seven boxes, wrapped in tape and postage stickers instead of ribbons and bows, sat on the floor of Dot Case's history classroom at North Henderson High last week.
Seven boxes, wrapped in tape and postage stickers instead of ribbons and bows, sat on the floor of Dot Case's history classroom at North Henderson High last week.
Instead of a Christmas card that extends the merry tidings of a joyous season, there's a simple letter attached to each that says, "You are greatly appreciated."
It may not look like much, but to the troops who will receive these gifts from home it means the world, Case said. A soldier, back on leave, dropped by to thank her one year, and it reminded her why she does it.
"He said it was so nice to get something from home," she recalled, sitting at one of the desks in her room. "It's about taking care of our own. It's always special."
In what has become a holiday tradition, North Henderson High is shipping "soldier boxes" to seven servicemen and women, all with ties to the school and serving in the Middle East and beyond. On Monday, the boxes will go to the post office, their first stop in a journey across the world.
A little over four years ago, Case noticed there were a lot of North graduates serving overseas.
"I'm always looking for projects to do with the student council," she said.
And then it came to her. "If you were by yourself for Christmas and you wouldn't get to come home, just getting something from home would be great," said the 2009 Henderson County Teacher of the Year.
Case brought the challenge to the student council and the teens took up the mission. Operation: Soldier Box is now in full swing. Teachers, students and parents have donated bags of treats from basic hygiene necessities, batteries and playing cards to coffee, hot chocolate, candy-filled ornaments and beef jerky.
"They can get some of these items on base, but it's nice to get it from home," Case said.
And tucked inside the boxes stuffed with the comforts of home are trinkets from the servicemen and women's alma mater. This year, it's Knight hats.
"We try to put something in from North for them to hold on to," Case said.
Seventeen-year-old Isaac Dalton, a senior and student body president, wrote a letter to accompany each box:
"We wanted to send you a small token of our appreciation. Nothing that we can give you would be sufficient to correctly repay you for the service you provide North Henderson, North Carolina and the United States of America," he wrote. "Hope that you will be home next Christmas!"
"I wanted to let them know that we think about them all the time, not just on the holidays or Veterans Day," Dalton said. "It's always good to help others, especially those who are fighting for us."
North student Olivia Wright brought in two bags full of items for the boxes. It's a good cause, she said.
Case estimates the school has shipped about 20 to 25 boxes to troops since the mission began.
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Friday, July 01, 2011
Maison Blanc UK
37 comments:
Fabulous, Carol! You did a great job on those--they must love 'em! Congratulations.ReplyDelete
WOWZA! Quelle Stunning!ReplyDelete
I love the very Frenchie look you brought to their menu - very fem and pretty.
Well done PB
It was a bit of a long haul being in the US - not in the UK to bite into actual petits fours.ReplyDelete
Research by transatlantic imagination & too much search and destroy on home shores.
The jeans are tighter for sure.
Have a great weekend!
Exquisite illustrations and paintings, Carol!ReplyDelete
Love the sampler, delicious temptations.
You made me put Maison Blanc on the places to visit in London. ;-)
(I noticed you were digging into a Sacherschnitte. *smile*)
This is worth scheduling a trip to get my hands on that beautiful menu!ReplyDelete
So pretty! So tantalizing!ReplyDelete
Just love, love, love the menu, Carol!
So sad that you had such demanding research for this project. Hmm.... perhaps someone someday will ask for assistance with a survey of lemon tarts. tee hee
Divine illustrations CarolG. I've bookmarked Maison Blanc and will visit next time in London, wish it wasn't 20,000kms away! Love their Arc en Ciel macaron wedding tower - worth getting married for! he he heeReplyDelete
These look so delicious! The next time I'm in the UK I'll have to go for a taste!ReplyDelete
OH my goodness those look so delicious! I miss Paris!ReplyDelete
You are so talented.ReplyDelete
This is a beauty
Hi Carole .. when I am back on my feet (have broken ankle and in plaster) I will have to go into Oxford , we have a shop there . How brilliant for you :-)ReplyDelete
I hate you, hate you, hate you, hate you, but only in the most loving way. I broke my computer screen trying to grab that last tempting morsel of chocolate heaven with the raspberry on top! Oh well. I've been leafing through the pages of my macaron book (thank you for the suggestion - the book looks perfect) to build up the courage to try baking the ultimate of culinary perfection. It's been a long time since I've done any actual baking, but I think the French blood in me will soon conquer any fear I have.ReplyDelete
Billizetti has asked me to invite you over to our blog for a little surprise. http://wjcsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
Carol, it's brilliant! I love the menu and all the paintings. Happy birthday to you!ReplyDelete
You are so incredibly talented, Carol. Love how you just have to do the tastings to create such amazing paintings. Bravo - Maison Blanc are so lucky to have you!ReplyDelete
Not at all Monsieur S. Sport.ReplyDelete
MAISON BLANC is named after French chef Raymond BLANC
It is in the text of the post...ahem
I was so excited to see your sketches on a poster for Maison Blanc in London the other day.ReplyDelete
i recognized your beautiful work right away.
(Now why is it Maison Blanc and not Maison Blanche, I wonder?)
Great job--they were lucky to have you as their illustrator!
Superb Posting ! That's Delicious LookReplyDelete
- Barbara in Dublin7:39 AM
Took your advice and dropped in (more than once!) to Maison Blanc in Oxford when visiting there this week. Had a lovely breakfast and one of the (as recommended by you) wonderful deserts.ReplyDelete
Yum is all I can say.
As a follower of yours was really tickled pink to see your watercolour paintings on the menu. Felt as proud as if I had done them myself!


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Another one of my favorite holiday treats are nanaimo bars. Nanaimo bars are another Canadian dessert and they consist of a chocolate and coconut wafer layer topped by a a layer custard butter icing and a layer chocolate. I really like the chocolate, coconut and custard combo and these chilled treats are always welcome. I had not had a nanaimo bar in a long time and I thought that it would be great to make my own this year. Since this was my first time making nanaimo bars I decided to stick with the standard recipe that seems to be everywhere on the web. As I was making the bars I was thinking that it would be nice to try tweaking the flavours in the different layers and I was thinking about mint in particular; though I will save that for another time. Because there are three layers that each required time to chill before the next layer can be added these bars take a bit of time to make. Despite the time needed they are super easy to make and well worth the effort. The nanaimo bars turned out great, just like I remembered them. I like to eat the nanaimo bars chilled, directly from the fridge but, they are also really good at room temperature. These bars also freeze well so you can make them ahead of time and store them until needed. I like to keep them in the freezer and pull one out at a time to snack on whenever I feel like one.
Nanaimo Bars
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 egg (lightly beaten)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup walnuts (chopped)
- Melt the butter in a sauce pan.
- Stir in the sugar and cocoa powder until smooth.
- Whisk in the egg and vanilla extract and remove from heat.
- Stir in the graham cracker crumbs, coconut and walnuts.
- Press into a greased 8 inch square pan and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
Custard Filling
- 1/3 cup butter (room temperature)
- 3 tablespoon custard powder (or vanilla pudding powder)
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 cups icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- Cream the butter.
- Beat in the custard powder and milk.
- Beat in the sugar slowly.
- Spread over the the base layer and chill in the fridge until it sets.
Chocolate Topping
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 2 tablespoon butter
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a pan and stir until smooth.
- Spread over the filling layer and chill in a fridge until the chocolate begins to harden.
- Score the chocolate where you will cut it into bars and chill in the fridge.
- Before the chocolate hardens, cut into bars. (Use an hot knife and wipe clean after each cut.
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Compassion abounds for Plaistow boy in abuse caseBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
December 06. 2012 1:01AM
PLAISTOW - Christmas gifts for 3-year-old James Nicholson are piling up inside the Plaistow Police Department as the community rallies around the boy at the center of an abuse case who a few weeks ago was left hospitalized with burns and a life-threatening head injury.
"There's been a very large outpouring of support for the little boy," Plaistow Detective Patrick Schiavone said as people continued to drop off gifts for the child on Wednesday afternoon.
As reported on UnionLeader.com Tuesday night, James is now out of the hospital and continuing to recover while living with his maternal grandmother in Kingston. It's a home where he spent a lot of his time when he wasn't with his mother, Jessica Linscott, 23, and her boyfriend, Roland Dow, 27, at their Plaistow residence.
Linscott and Dow remain behind bars at the Rockingham County jail after they were arrested last week at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., on charges stemming from an investigation launched Nov. 14 when James was brought to Exeter Hospital with bruises over much of his body, burns on his wrist and fingers, and a head injury that resulted in a traumatic brain injury, authorities said.
The case grabbed headlines when Linscott and Dow fled after bringing James to the hospital. Linscott told hospital workers that the injuries were self-inflicted, but they suspected they were the result of abuse and notified police.
Linscott and Dow disappeared after learning that Plaistow police planned to arrest them, and after a nationwide search that lasted nearly two weeks, the pair was cuffed moments after watching a parade at Universal Studios.
Dow faces first- and second-degree assault charges for allegedly striking James in the head, causing a brain injury that left him temporarily blind, and burning him.
He and Linscott also face several counts of endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly failing to seek medical care when James suffered seizures and other health problems on several occasions.
With Christmas just around the corner, people like Dave Drislane have been stopping by the police station with presents to brighten the boy's holiday.
A father of three children, Drislane, 38, of Danville, arrived Wednesday afternoon carrying a race car kit and set of miniature dinosaurs.
Drislane said it was a "miracle" that James recovered enough to leave the hospital.
"Hopefully he has a good Christmas and is in a safe home. He's with his grandparents now. Evil has been locked up, hopefully for a long time," he said.
At a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Schiavone provided an update on the boy's condition.
"On behalf of James' family, they are extremely grateful for the outpouring of support and toys that James has received during his recovery," he said.
Schiavone asked the media to respect the family's privacy "so that James can receive the care and attention he needs to continue in his recuperation. Part of his recuperation will be to maintain a normal daily routine with his caretakers."
Toy donations may continue to be dropped off at the police department. A fund is also being established to accept monetary donations.
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Sickness after eating take-out postpones opening of Pembroke drama club show
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
The Pembroke Academy drama club has had to postpone opening night of its "Midsummer Night's Dream" performance tonight, after about a dozen children fell sick after eating take-out food Wednesday evening, the drama club coach said.
A top state health official said an investigation has started, but it is too early to blame a particular food item or food source. Jose Montero, New Hampshire director of public health, said the assumption is norovirus is involved.
"We have seen already six outbreaks this month," he said. The virus can be transmitted both through foods and improper sanitary habits, he said.
Peter Mehegan said the students started throwing up about a half-hour after eating the take-out food, which a father had purchased at Olive Garden restaurant in Concord and brought in for the cast Wednesday night.
A spokesman for Olive Garden's corporate office said the health of its customers is the company's number-one priority, and its total-quality team has launched an investigation.
"We believe this was an isolated incident, since we have had no other complaints from any other guests," said spokesman Mike Bernstein.
Mehegan said almost 30 students are part of the production of the Shakespearean comedy. He said between 10 and 12 fell sick. Some were taken to Concord Hospital for treatment, he said.
He said a stomach bug is not going through the school, and the students appeared healthy before eating.
In fact, when cast members started telling him that fellow students were in the bathroom throwing up, he thought they were acting out a prank.
One mother, who didn't want her name used, said her 11th grade daughter was in Concord Hospital until midnight and was suffering from a fever and nausea on Thursday.
"They worked so hard for this play. For something like this to happen ..." she said.
A spokesman at Concord Hospital, Jennifer Dearborn, said she spoke with the emergency department and was unable to confirm that several teenagers showed up at the hospital Wednesday night.
Montero said school officials gave investigators the names of the sick children; they will be interviewed, and a stool sample will be sought, he said.
Investigators will also want to know if Pembroke Academy students unassociated with the drama club have been sick, which would point the problem away from the restaurant. It could possibly be that an infected person served the food at the school, he said.
"We may have a big investigation on our hands (Friday), depending on what our (initial) investigation finds," Montero said.
He said it is unusual, but not unheard of, for someone to be sickened right away from tainted food.
Mehegan said the food was steaming when it arrived, and students started eating it quickly. The food involved two main dishes, salad and bread sticks. He said he ate portions of each but did not get sick.
He said he enjoys the Olive Garden and doesn't hold any ill will toward the restaurant.
The head of the school, Mike Reardon, said a decision will be made Friday on whether the production will be held this weekend.
Mehegan said the play will open as soon as the students are healthy.
"We're good, and when we're ready we'll kick the doors down," he said.


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Many farmers want their farms to be located close to a city - especially organic farmers who'd like to sell their produce at big urban farmers markets. But the price of land within range of a big city is sky high and only getting higher.
Most small farmers buy their land, but some are now looking to lease in suburban or exurban areas. And to do that, they're using something straight out of Fiddler On The Roof: A matchmaker.
Marilyn Anthony is one such matchmaker. "When we started this program," she says, "we did sort of jokingly refer to it as 'eFarmony.'"
Anthony is with the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. She's trying to match owners of underutilized land outside Philadelphia and people who want to farm. In this case, the match would take the form of a lease.
While leasing is common among big factory farms of corn or soybeans, Anthony says many small farmers are cool to the idea. And she says the landowners aren't too crazy about it either.
"No matter who we spoke with, whether it was aspiring farmers or landowners, the notion of leasing land ... seemed uncomfortable," she says.
Many organic farmers put in years of labor improving the soil they farm, and no one wants to see all that labor go to waste if their landlord decides not to renew the lease.
But even among farmers who do decide the risks of leasing are worth it, setting up that kind of arrangement can be difficult on their own.
T.J. Costa, an aspiring farmer, says he and his partner did their own search for space two years ago to expand what was, at that point, a giant organic vegetable garden.
"Originally we drafted a letter that we were going to drop in mailboxes," he says. "There's a number of big open fields that, just driving around, didn't look well utilized. ... Let's drop a note in – here's who we are, here's what we're looking for – would you be interested?"
The phone never rang.
That's where Anthony comes in. Her job is to convince skeptical landowners that organic farming would be a good way to utilize their land, and to convince skeptical organic farmers that leasing is the most affordable way to expand their business.
She hosts events where landowners and aspiring farmers can meet each other - kind of like speed dating, but for agriculture.
Anthony's program is based in southeastern Pennsylvania, but she says there are other programs similar to hers in Ohio and in New York's Hudson Valley.
Eventually, Costa found some land to lease through the sustainable agriculture program. He was able to create a farm-share program that allows city dwellers to purchase a percentage of his farm's produce and stop by each week to pick it up.
"No matter what happens and what the weather is," Costa says, "that's a really huge avenue for support and encouragement and excitement. And so it really does make the hard work worth it."
Other farmers out here are still looking. Got some space you're not using? Give them a call.
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
There's a crop of new farmers springing up in the U.S. They're looking to farm organically and maybe drive their produce into an urban farmers market on the weekend. But there's a big obstacle in their way: the high price of land within range of many cities. Emma Jacobs of member station WHYY reports on one program around Philadelphia that's trying to help.
EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE: Marilyn Anthony is the yenta of the farmers of southeastern Pennsylvania. Anthony works for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, helping new growers find land.
MARILYN ANTHONY: When we started this program, we did sort of jokingly refer to it as eFarmony.
JACOBS: She's trying to make matches between these two groups: landowners outside Philadelphia with people who want to farm. And in this case, the match would take the form of a lease.
ANTHONY: No matter who we spoke with, whether it was aspiring farmers or landowners, the notion of leasing land, however, seemed uncomfortable.
JACOBS: Leasing is common for big fields of corn or soybeans, but a little veggie farmer wants to be closer to town and set down roots. Still, leasing is the most affordable solution for wannabe farmers like Wendy Tyson and Ben Pickarski. Right now, they grow produce on their standard suburban lot.
BEN PICKARSKI: You know, house with trimmed lawn, house with trimmed lawn, house with trimmed lawn, house with great trellises and vegetables all over the place.
JACOBS: They want to make the transition to farming full time, and for that, they're going to need more space. And buying is out.
WENDY TYSON: In our area, just finding it would be difficult enough. And then you're probably looking at - I don't even know. I mean, the price is just outrageously high.
PICKARSKI: Yeah. If anybody's selling a big enough piece of property to be used for farming, the only thing they have in their mind is, you know, where are you going to put the road and how many houses are you going to put on it?
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JACOBS: So here they are on a farm 50 minutes outside Philadelphia to see a lease in action. It's a speed-dating event for farmers and landowners and a tour of a successful farm on rented land. The farmers are Chris and TJ Costa.
TJ COSTA: One thing for everybody involved here, it is a little chilly, you know, brisk, and that is definitely part of farming. Sometimes we hear like, oh, yeah, the weather is part of it. But, no, the weather is really part of it.
JACOBS: TJ Costa says they did their own search for space two years ago to expand what was, at that point, a giant organic vegetable garden.
COSTA: Originally, we drafted a letter that we were going to drop in mailboxes. So there's a number of big open fields that, you know, driving around just didn't look well utilized. And, hey, let's drop a, you know, note in, say, here's who we are. Here's what we're looking for. Would you be interested?
JACOBS: The phone never rang. Eventually, they would meet their partners in this farm through the sustainable agriculture program. They formed a CSA, where their customers buy a share of the produce and visit every week to pick it up and just to get a little taste of farm life.
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COSTA: They're...
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JACOBS: The new farmers say leasing this land has let them grow their farm and that loyal community.
COSTA: You know, sort of no matter what happens and no matter what the weather is, and for us, that's a really huge avenue for support and encouragement and excitement. And so it does really make the hard work worth it.
JACOBS: Other farmers out here are still looking. Got some space you're not using? Give them a call. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Philadelphia.
You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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For many years, students in speech and mass communications classes learned about "the bullet theory of communication" (later renamed "the hypodermic needle theory"). The idea was that the message was contained entirely in a tidy packet that lodged in the recipient, changing perception and influencing behavior in ways that were beyond that person's power to resist, and affecting every recipient in exactly the same way.
The theory was easy to disprove simply because recipients do not react uniformly. Instead, the information delivered to them interacts with information they already possess.
For example, news of a shooting in a Connecticut school horrifies everyone, but it affects the parent of a child in that school differently than it affects a childless person in Colorado. The difference is not a flaw in the message, nor is it the "fault" of the diverse recipients. It's just the way communication works.
Flags are powerful symbols, culturally loaded not only with information but with sentiment. That's why burning a flag is perceived as such a strong protest, and that's why the current flag flap in Dolores still has so many people worked up.
The American flag brings tears to the eyes of Americans who associate it with patriotism and pride. It doesn't create love for this country; it just interacts with the love and loyalty that citizens already possess, so citizens of other countries are not moved in the same way by the sight of an American flag. To some it's a provocation; to others, it's meant rescue; to many, it may mean very little. A leader who unfurls a foreign flag and cries, "Do you want to see this flying over your nation's capital, your city, your children's school?" inspires outrage and action.
And a flag flown at the front of an advancing military force means something different to those massed behind it than to the enemy confronted with it. A battle flag is supposed to unite those faithful to the cause, whatever that cause might be, and strike terror in the enemy heart.
It's fair for a person who waves a flag, displays another symbol or uses a word to define what it means to him or her.
But because others incorporate their own experiences into their understanding, it's impossible to require that they adopt the same meaning. One of the most basic rights of American citizens is that no one is allowed to tell them, "You aren't allowed to believe that." No one logically can declare, "I didn't intend to hurt you so I hereby decree that you aren't hurt." (That reality may be why the theory no longer includes the word "bullet.")
Anyone who wants to promote an ideal - for instance, love of country music and rural values, which are positive standards - might be well advised to design a new flag, one not yet battered and bloodied. Fly whatever flag you want. That's a First Amendment right, as is burning one - certainly not a protest to be undertaken lightly. However, it's disingenuous to disavow knowledge of what that flag means to others - in the case of the Confederate flag, many others - and what it has been used to accomplish in the past. That claim of ignorance is not the mark of a well-educated person.
If you're going to adopt a symbol, own the consequences of the message. Don't pretend that it has no meaning other than what you choose to invest in it. Don't be dismissive of the rights of others to hold opinions and feel emotions at least as strong as yours. Say what you mean, and face up to the response. That's the American way, and it was the Confederate way too.


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FireOptimizer belongs to the category of Potentially Unwanted Programs, also known as PUPs.
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The evaluation criteria of PUPs are based on the proposals suggested by the Anti-Spyware Coalition, organization of which Panda Security is a member.
FireOptimizer does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.


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Congratulations, C1 is a very exotic female lineage! It is more closely associated with maternal lineages found in wolves, foxes,and jackals than with other dog lineages. So it seems dogs in this group have a common male dog ancestor who, many thousands of years ago, mated with a female wolf!
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When we have had extinction events on Earth before, the events usually affect the evaporation of water in some fashion from the surface of lakes and oceans. It also affects the transpiration of the forest trees, plants, and flowers and this change cool the air. You must understand how climatology works here; liquid water needs to absorb a lot of latent heat to in order to evaporate, so it sucks energy from the atmosphere to make this energy transfer. This loss of energy from the atmosphere directly cools the planet and this preserves the charge on life's inner mitochondrial membrane and in the nanotubes present in our cells that contain water. This is how life lives long in the cold.
Those people don't realize this because they do not live in this pathway for the majority of their life, and few studies have been done to say otherwise. The link above is recently added to this blog post. It seems science is now proving me correct in my theories of extinction events.
Few live in it commonly. And for those who do not live in it, well, no one believes it is possible. Everything about this pathway in the human brain is about optimal mammalian functioning. It is as good, as good gets.My entire life now consists of living within the confines of this pathway.Not everyone will choose too, but when they do get a taste of it,they are just bowled over.The more we induce it, the more beneficial it will be to our health and to our longevity especially when our environment is altered.
Welcome to the leptin-melanocortin pathway of eutherian mammals.Modern life allows us tolive outside your biology and this pathway and this pathway brings you inside your optimal self.Itis that simple.Optimal is for everyone who wants it. From today on, optimal is now a choice and not a mystery to humans.
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Step 1. The metabolic trap door to the ancient pathway is found in our eye.The first step in the process is the normal high dietary carbohydrate intakes in summer months when the SCN is entrained to high light levels.During this time many mammals will mate and begin the process of getting ready for winter. So carbohydrates are very good for us in the season with high light cycles.This is when they are quite safe.When do they hurt us?Step 1.
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The Optimal temperature is around 10 degrees Celsius which is around 50 degrees F. This is exactly where my cold thermogenesis protocol should put you.
So, What's the tradeoffs? Obviously, some third-party React component/library couldn't work properly in Nerv. But which one? To be honest I don't know. I'm glad to be heard that Next.js next-news worked on first try., but in the meantime, Benchmark tabs don't work in Firefox (fixed) —— All of this, We wouldn't know if we don't go public.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Nerv is not perfect, no library is, particularly in early stage, maybe there still tons of bug we don't know. Therefore we decided to open source, to go public, we need the community's help, we need your help.
NX is the work of Bertalan Miklos, JavaScript engineer at RisingStack. From the documentation:
NX is a modular front-end framework - built with ES6 and Web Components. The building blocks of NX are the core, the middlewares, the components and the utilities. These are all hosted in separate GitHub repos and npm packages.
The NX core is a tiny library, responsible for one thing only. It allows you to create dumb components and to augment them with middlewares. A component executes its middlewares when it is attached to the DOM and it gains all the extra functionalities from them. NX comes with some core middlewares out of the box, which you can find listed below.
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Originally created for use on the Guardian website, Ractive is a reactive, template-driven UI library:
Unlike other frameworks, Ractive works for you, not the other way around. It doesn't have an opinion about the other tools you want to use with it. It also adapts to the approach you want to take. You're not locked-in to a framework-specific way of thinking. Should you hate one of your tools for some reason, you can easily swap it out for another and move on with life.
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Growing up, Christopher loved basketball. He reached the peak of his career as a player in high school, which eventually gave way to his career as a coach during summer when he was in college. With his terrific team of talented players, he was put on the map with high-end coaches wishing to recruit his flock.
"It almost happened by chance that I realized that I loved coaching the kids and I loved connecting with them." - Christopher Wirth
This love for coaching athletes spilled over into his next career. Business, life, and sports, it seems, have a lot of parallelisms that Christopher realized throughout the years.Accountability is a Staple
It takes two to tango. A coach holds a player accountable for failure by increasing their laps. But a coach, and an employer, must hold themselves in an even higher level of accountability than anybody else to establish trust within a team.
"That's the biggest thing we've seen. The overlap is the accountability." - Christopher Wirth
This accountability should jive with a coach or an employer's efforts to make sure that their teams understand the reason as to ultimate why they're working together. At the end of the day, this level of awareness determines just how successful a company can be.
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March 31. 2013 3:25PM
Protect the Advantage: Ayotte leads, with Shaheen following
On March 22, the U.S. Senate gave the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act a test run. That is the legislation that would allow states to make businesses in other states collect and remit sales taxes on Internet purchases. Alarmingly, 26 Republican senators voted for this.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte has been one of the Senate's leading voices against this terrible legislation, which would turn New Hampshire businesses into tax collectors for every high-tax state in the Union and threaten the New Hampshire Advantage. Our low overall tax burden helps New Hampshire businesses keep prices low, which can provide a competitive advantage online. More importantly, if Washington allows states to reach across their borders to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, it will embolden states to do the same for all purchases. Poof, there goes the New Hampshire Advantage.
The seriousness of this threat is why Ayotte has taken it upon herself to lead the fight in Washington against this legislation. To her credit, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen joined Ayotte in voting against this on March 22. She was one of only five Democrats to vote "no."
Alas, Shaheen, New Hampshire's senior senator, has stayed relatively quiet and let Ayotte lead on this issue of enormous importance to the Granite State. This past Thursday, while Ayotte rallied business owners in Portsmouth against the legislation, Shaheen was nearby at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - "highlighting the importance of" women entering careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
New Hampshire needs all the Washington firepower it can get to fight this legislation, which passed 75-24 in a non-binding vote. Shaheen needs to join Ayotte in working her colleagues in Washington to oppose this bill before it comes up for a real vote. Simply voting against it will not be enough. We need leadership on this.


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Coming off a long, emotional weekend during the Ottawa Invitational, the McPherson High School volleyball team wasn't playing at 100 percent, but that didn't stop them from coming away from a triangular in El Dorado Tuesday with a pair of wins.
Coming off a long, emotional weekend during the Ottawa Invitational, the McPherson High School volleyball team wasn't playing at 100 percent, but that didn't stop them from coming away from a triangular in El Dorado Tuesday with a pair of wins.
The Lady Bullpups, who finished second at Ottawa, defeated Mulvane handily in the first set of the night 25-4, but then slogged their way through a 25-18 win in set two. MHS then defeated El Dorado 25-17, 25-19.
"Apparently the weekend in Ottawa wore us down more than I anticipated," MHS coach Christy Doile said. "It shouldn't surprise me, as we've seen this happen before. However, playing in a big tournament on the road, is still no excuse for not being mentally prepared for two league matches."
While Doile was unhappy with the overall performance, she was pleased with the effort in the first set against Mulvane.
"Our intensity level was where it needed to be," Doile said. "Unfortunately on the evening we posted some of the worst statistical #'s on the season. Mentally we struggled to maintain all seven kids' intensity level through the evening. Lack of mental toughness and discipline to maintain a high intensity level, resulted in below average physical results for us."
The MHS JV squad also swept the triangular, defeating El Dorado (25-16, 25-13) and Mulvane (25-7, 29-27).
"We had a little trouble staying focused and finishing off Mulvane," JV coach Diane Marshall said. "They played a much better set two, but we need to be more disciplined in finishing."
The JV squad moves to 19-5 and is off until Tuesday, when they go to Buhler for a triangular that also includes Winfield.
The varsity Pups (26-2), meanwhile have a few days to recoop and prepare for the McPherson Invitational, which will be held Saturday at the MHS Roundhouse.
The Pups, who are ranked No. 1 in the latests KVA poll released Wednesday, will be the top seed in Saturdya's seven team tournament.
Other teams will be Bishop Carroll (15-5), Salina Central (20-8), Nickerson (12-15), Arkansas City (5-22), Salina South (5-23) and Goddard (4-19).
Pool play begins at 8 a.m., with the Pups opening up with Goddard in the Roundhouse. They will also play Salina Central, Salina South and Nickerson. Courts will be also be set up in the MHS Auxilary Gym.
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Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound.
Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound.
Helmeted officers decked out in tan fatigues, camouflage and body armor, many carrying long guns, rumbled in rented cargo trucks to and from the property in southeastern Alabama where Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, and his captive were hunkered down in a roughly 6-by-8-foot hand-dug bunker with only one small hatch for an entryway.
Two Humvees belonging to the Dale County Sheriff's Department and a tan, military-style personnel carrier were parked in a field beside the bunker throughout much of the ordeal, along with sport-utility vehicles. Officers dressed in combat-style gear could be seen watching the bunker from an opening in the roof of the tan personnel vehicle.
And as the standoff stretched into days, drones flew large, lazy circles high above the scene at night.
In many ways, the scene resembled more of a war-time situation than a domestic crime scene as civilian law enforcement relied heavily on military tactics and equipment to end the six-day ordeal.
No military combat personnel were at the scene, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
But authorities' decision to rely on every tool at their disposal paid off: Dykes had planted an explosive device in a ventilation pipe he'd told negotiators to use to communicate with him on his property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City. He had placed another explosive device inside the bunker, the FBI said in a statement late Tuesday.
Dykes appears to have "reinforced the bunker against any attempted entry by law enforcement," FBI agent Jason Pack said in the statement.
The raid was carried out by the FBI's hostage response team, which serves as the agency's full-time counterterrorism unit, Pack said Wednesday. Trained in military tactics and outfitted with combat-style gear and weapons, the group was formed 30 years ago in preparation for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Composed of FBI agents, some of whom have prior military experience, the team is deployed quickly to trouble spots and provides assistance to local FBI offices during hostage situations. It has participated in hostage situations more than 800 times in the U.S. and elsewhere since 1983, the FBI said.
"As an elite counterterrorism tactical team for law enforcement, the HRT is one of the best, if not the best, in the United States," Sean Joyce, deputy FBI director, said in a statement released during the Alabama standoff.
In addition to employing its counterterrorism unit, the FBI brought out a full array of military-style equipment, including armored personnel carriers and combat rifles. Many were visible at the scene during the standoff.
According to a U.S. official, about a dozen active-duty Navy Seabees — sailors who belong to special naval construction units — helped law-enforcement authorities build a mock-up of the bunker that was used to plan the FBI assault. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the rescue effort, spoke on condition of anonymity.
"This was a classic, textbook situation," said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI negotiator who worked with the hostage rescue team repeatedly before retiring in 1995.
Building a replica of Dykes' bunker, practicing an assault, negotiating Dykes into a sense of security and even sneaking a camera into the shelter are all part of the agency's tools, said Van Zandt. He saw nothing unusual in the agency's tactics or the methods it used in ending the standoff.
"I don't want to say this was routine, but this is what negotiators and team members train to do all the time," added Van Zandt, president of Van Zandt Associates, Inc., a
Virginia-based company that profiles and assesses threats for corporate clients.
"To me, there was nothing unique in this other than it played out in front of the world."
FBI and other officials said the team exchanged gunfire with Dykes and killed him before rescuing the little boy, whom law enforcement officials have identified only by his first name, Ethan.
As law-enforcement officers continued to sweep the 100-acre property Wednesday for more explosive devices, Dykes' body remained in the bunker, said Dale County Coroner Woodrow Hilboldt.
Hilboldt said it could be today before he would be allowed in to pronounce Dykes dead and take the body to Montgomery for an autopsy at the state forensic laboratory.
Hundreds of miles away, a woman who knows all too well what Ethan may have gone through expressed thanks Wednesday for the boy's safety.
Katie Beers, who was kidnapped as a 9-year-old in 1992 and kept in an underground bunker in suburban New York for 17 days before her captor surrendered to police and showed them where she was hidden, said she was "ecstatic" that Ethan was rescued safely.
"He's so young that hopefully he won't remember a lot," said Beers, who now lives in Pennsylvania, adding that it was likely that Ethan would need counseling, as would his family, so they could help him through the ordeal.


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Center Conway men hurt in snowmobile crash on Conway railroad trestle
March 21. 2013 12:30AM
CONWAY - Two Center Conway men were injured Wednesday when their snowmobile crashed on a railroad trestle spanning the Saco River, according to Fish and Game officials.
Joshua Wiggin, 31, was heading east about 30 mph on the rail trail when one of the sled's skis hit an exposed rail, causing him to lose control, Sgt. Brian Abrams said in a news release. Wiggin and his passenger, James Gould, 21, were thrown from the snowmobile, the release said.
Abrams said rescuers used snowmobiles and a tracked ATV to transport the injured riders to the waiting ambulances. Wiggin and Gould were taken to Conway Memorial Hospital, where they were treated and released.


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Manchester government warned to plan for Cadillac tax on healthcareBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 01. 2013 10:28PM
MANCHESTER — The Affordable Care Act will cost the city nearly $200,000 in the current fiscal year, and could result in a $1.2 million levy in 2018, when a tax for so-called "Cadillac plans" is set to kick in, according to a report presented Tuesday.
The report by Workplace Benefit Solutions, which oversees the city's benefit plans, was conducted to assess how the health care law, commonly known as Obamacare, would affect city finances.
The most immediate fiscal impact of the health care law is a $196,800 "transitional reinsurance fee" in 2014, the current fiscal year; it's not known what the charge will be in subsequent years. There will also be a $1 per-member charge that will total $3,120 in 2014 (and double this amount the next year). These costs were factored into the current year's budget, according to the report.
The "Cadillac tax," an excise tax on the value of generous health plans, would go into effect in 2018. Tom DeLacey, a principal consultant with Workplace Benefit Solutions, told the aldermen that projecting ahead with the city's current health plans, the city could face a $1.2 million tax.
The health care plans offered by the city are considered generous in terms of the coverage provided and low premiums borne by employees.
Under the "Cadillac tax," plans that have a value over $10,200 for single coverage and $27,500 for family, would be taxed at 40 percent of the dollar amount above those limits.
DeLacey said the pending Cadillac tax should be a subject in contract negotiations with city and school district employees.
"These are costs that will have to be shared by the employee and employers," he told the committee. "I would think everyone would want to mitigate the impact of that cost, and you'll want to do that sooner than later."
DeLacey said that between the city and the school district, the Cadillac tax could cost the city $3 million in 2018.
The consultant was asked why the government would tax more generous health plans. "In my opinion it was to find dollars (for the program)," he said. "Under reconciliation, this had to be revenue-neutral; for every dollar spent there had to be revenue."
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Scientists are increasingly appreciating estrogen's role in brain health. Now for the first time, production of estrogen in the brain has been directly linked to the presence of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
DHA is found in abundance in fish oils and is also synthesized from alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid found in some vegetable-based oils.
The latest research from Hiroshima University connecting DHA synthesis to estrogen production, and consequentially brain health, backs up further the old adage that a daily intake of fish oil is good for you.
Assistant Professor Yasuhiro Ishihara, from HU's Laboratory of Molecular Brain Science, keenly aware of both the growing understanding of estrogen's role in brain health – and also DHA's ability to reduce epileptic seizures , wanted to determine if there was any link between the two phenomenon.DHA's ability to reduce epileptic seizures
His research, recently published in Scientific Reports , and involving collaborators from Japan and USA, investigated how three groups of mice fed on different oil based diets reacted to induced seizures.
One group was fed a diet consisting of soybean oil, another on cottonseed oil, and a third on cottonseed oil in addition to DHA supplements.
These two oils used were chosen due to the differing yields of DHA obtained from them, i.e. the body produces more DHA from soybean oil than cottonseed oil. The third group were also fed on cottonseed oil, but also crucially along with DHA supplements.
After 28 days on these diets, the three groups were exposed to seizure inducing drugs. The group fed on soybean oil took longer to exhibit seizures, and when they did occur they were of a shorter duration than those fed on cottonseed oil. However, the mice fed on cottonseed oil with DHA supplementation, took far longer for seizures to take hold – proving that dietary sourced DHA was a key contributing factor.
When the researchers examined the brains of these mice they found that the soybean oil fed ones had over twice the concentration of estrogen present as those fed solely on cottonseed oil. The mice fed on cottonseed with DHA supplementation had even higher levels of the hormone, suggesting that estrogen production affects seizures, and that this is directly connected to DHA's presence.
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UPDATED: Nearly 3 dozen have overdosed on fake pot in Manchester since MondayBY PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 13. 2014 2:19PM
MANCHESTER — The number of people who have overdosed on synthetic marijuana – sold in corner stores across the city – since Monday has climbed to 34, and Manchester police say there could have been more.
Sgt. Brian O'Keefe explained because of the confidentiality concerning medical records, police do not know about all drug overdoses, even if it involves heroin or cocaine.
But since the overdoses began happening on Monday, O'Keefe said they've learned of 34 cases where people overdosed on the synthetic marijuana known as "Spice" or "K2."
The city declared a public health hazard on Tuesday and the same day O'Keefe said officers went to all of the city's 55 convenience stores to ensure the drug, packaged in brightly colored packets called "Smacked," was off the shelves.
The synthetic marijuana is marketed as potpourri, labeled "not for human consumption" and sells for $10 a packet.
O'Keefe said police found only one store with the drug called "Smacked" and the owner readily turned the packets over to officers.
O'Keefe said 42 packets, which come in bubblegum, lemon lime and blueberry flavors, were recovered from that store; 13 were bubblegum flavored.
He said investigators determined the bubblegum-flavored Spice was the one responsible for the overdoses.
Spice is a legal product that is sold as a form of incense, but is not intended for human consumption.
The designer drug began showing up in Manchester in 2011. It became illegal in New Hampshire on Aug. 18, 2012, but continues to be sold because the chemical content is constantly changed by the manufacturers, many in China, so that it falls within legal limits, O'Keefe explained.
The series of overdoses began at 11:30 a.m. Monday when three unconscious individuals were found near the basketball courts at Pulaski Park, 125 Bridge St. All were in medical distress, unresponsive and very lethargic.
They immediately were taken to the hospital for treatment of apparent overdoses.
Later, about 4 p.m. another person was found in Victory Park suffering from similar symptoms and was transported to the hospital.
A fifth person was found about 6:30 p.m. in Bronstein Park. The woman was unresponsive and information gathered at the scene indicated she may have ingested Spice, resulting in her overdosing.
Ultimately, investigators learned from AMR ambulance that at least 15 or more people were taken to area hospitals in the previous 24 hours for treatment of overdoses believed related to Spice.
Calls for help continued through Tuesday, according to police.
Spice is a mixture of herbs and spices that is typically sprayed with a synthetic compound, chemically similar to THC, according to O'Keefe. However, law enforcement said people commonly smoke it as a way to get high.
Police asked convenience store owners to clear the product from shelves and then officers were sent out to ensure it was not still being sold.
This is not the first time the city has dealt with "Spice" overdoses. In October 2012, five ambulances were sent to Manchester Central High School where teens had overdosed on it.