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When they moved into their Fanning Bridge Road home from quiet Edneyville nine years ago, Gary and Patty Youngblood expected to hear more road noise, living so close to the busy thoroughfare.
FLETCHER — When they moved into their Fanning Bridge Road home from quiet Edneyville nine years ago, Gary and Patty Youngblood expected to hear more road noise, living so close to the busy thoroughfare. Still, nothing prepared them for the aural onslaught they now face nightly.
"It literally shakes the house," said Patty Youngblood, describing the impact of big diesel trucks using their "jake brakes," or compression release engine brakes, as they pass their home across from the Windsor Forest subdivision.
"Sometimes it goes all night," she said, referring to the machine-gun-like chatter made by the braking. "Sometimes it starts at 2 or 3 in the morning and doesn't quit until about 7 o'clock. They've got these noise meters, and I would love for someone to set one up in our yard. It is so loud."
Neighbors along this residential stretch of Fanning Bridge Road say speeding, noisy truck traffic is jeopardizing their sleep and safety, rattling their windows and waking their children. It's been a problem that seems to be getting worse, they say, as some truckers use Fanning Bridge as a cut-through to bypass scales on I-26.
Jessica Bartlett said the trucks used to wake her 5-month-old daughter, Jaileigh, just as she finally fell asleep in the home she and her husband, Christopher, rent on Fanning Bridge. The couple had to buy a Homedics sound machine to play rain and ocean noises so the truck brakes wouldn't jar their infant awake.
"The whole house shakes," said Bartlett. "It's insane."
Fletcher officials are meeting with the N.C. Department of Transportation today at 10 a.m. to brainstorm possible solutions to the noise and safety issues. But town officials say the problems are intractable, since Fanning Bridge is a state road with a host of commercial and industrial users.
"It's a tough nut to crack," admitted Mayor Pro Tem Eddie Henderson, who has lived on Fanning Bridge since 1978 and regularly fields complaints from citizens about speeding and noisy trucks. "There's just not a whole lot you can do. You just can't tell these truckers they can't come through here."
Henderson said the truckers he's seen causing the problems aren't those driving to the Oldecastle Industrial Minerals quarry on Fanning Bridge, or delivering trailers with well-known fleet names that can be traced.
"These are plain-Jane white trailers," he said, describing how the trucks often cross yellow lines in curves.
Last week, the sleep-deprived Youngbloods stood before town council members and asked them to look into erecting a sign prohibiting the use of jake brakes, or perhaps passing an ordinance restricting their use during nighttime hours.
Henderson said he's looked into that possibility, and the DOT is concerned it might create safety issues by discouraging truckers from using their brakes. He questioned that view, since "a jake brake is not effective below 40 mph and it's 35 (mph) all through there."
Former trucker Stanley Harkins agreed, advising council members, "You could make it a town ordinance (not to use jake brakes). It'd be very simple because they're not necessary. You have a toggle switch on the dash. Flip that off and it doesn't work. You'll never hear it."
Nonetheless, Henderson conceded the legal thorniness of banning compression braking on a road that already suffers from its fair share of accidents. He hopes that some truckers can be rerouted, or at least educated not to use their compression brakes when coming through the predominantly residential area.
Councilman Bob Davy suggested that enforcing speed limits might be the most effective solution, since the trucks wouldn't need to use jake brakes at lower speeds.
Fletcher Police Chief Erik Summey told council his officers had clocked speeders along Fanning Bridge and "the average speed was maybe 40 mph."
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One of the most important equipment in the house is your vacuum cleaner. From removing dirt, dust and allergens, the vacuum cleaner is an essential tool to have in the house that you use from day to day. To keep them in good shape, you need to make sure you have them repaired as soon as they get damaged. Getting vacuum repair is not a challenge as such, getting a good contractor is the biggest problem. There are a lot of people in the market who offer these services, but not all of them are worth spending money on. With a good service, the vacuum cleaner can help you for a number of years, as long as you have it maintained properly.
The type of damage is one of the key factors that determine the cost of Grapevine vacuum repair services. There are some damages that can be handled through a simple cleaning or oiling of some parts. These are basic damages and should not cost you a lot. In case there is extensive damage, you might need to get a professional to buy replacement parts for the vacuum cleaner. In this case, your spending will be higher, given the additional costs. If you are using an old or a unique vacuum cleaner whose spares might not be in the market anymore, or might be available but difficult to find, you will also spend higher to get those.
For vacuum repair in Grapevine, you can expect costs of between $50 and $822. Not all vacuum cleaners are similar. The higher the degree of sophistication in its design, the more it will cost you to have them repaired. There are some vacuum cleaners that are supposed to be repaired by manufacturer-certified contractors. In such a case, it might be a bit more expensive to have these repaired, but when you think of the benefits in terms of easy access to original spares, it is a worthy investment.
For reference it may be helpful to compare the costs from surrounding towns as well:
If you are looking to get the best results for your vacuum repair in Grapevine, reputation is of utmost importance. Look for a company that has been repairing vacuum cleaners for clients for years. Such a company should have a good reputation given that it is a prerequisite to be in operation for so many years. Other than that, this is probably a company that has lots of clients whose needs their professionals have met without any challenges. Such businesses go through a lot to get the authentic spares where necessary, and in the long run make sure that the vacuum cleaner is in a good condition and can serve you longer.
Before you hire someone for Grapevine vacuum repair services, you need to assess their technical capacity to help you. Not all the repair stores you will come across have contractors with the technical capacity to repair all types of vacuum cleaners. It is always wise to choose a company that can handle the specific cleaner you own. If possible, find out from the manufacturer whether they have approved repair centers for their vacuum cleaners. This would be an ideal way for you to get the best results.
Getting a company that operates on flexible hours is a good idea. The good thing about this is that in most cases, you will not find an amateur company offering emergency vacuum repair in Grapevine. The only companies that can do this are professionals and they are fully licensed and insured. If you bring your vacuum cleaner to them, you can look forward to incredible results.


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Hurricane Sandy has quickly left the front pages of newspapers around the United States, but East Coast residents still are struggling even as power slowly is being restored and some communities begin their recovery.
The needs are far from over as people continue to clean out their homes and struggle with housing issues.
The American Red Cross is continuing to provide help to area residents and will remain on the ground into the foreseeable future. We know people in the affected areas have being living in tough conditions for an extended period and are frustrated and discouraged. The Red Cross is doing everything possible to meet their needs during this difficult time.
Shelters are remaining open for people unable to return home. Currently, there are 2,700 people staying in 20 shelters in the New York and New Jersey area.
In conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention, we have served more than 5.6 million meals and snacks. We have 300 Red Cross feeding trucks as well as rental cars and vans, going into neighborhoods and handing out water, food and relief supplies.
The response to Sandy likely will be the biggest Red Cross response in the last five years, and we have mobilized the full resources of our organization, including more than 5,800 Red Cross volunteers, to get help to these people. We believe the cost of this operation will be at least $100 million and could go higher depending on the needs of the community.
Because we do not receive funding from the federal government, the cost of this operation is being paid for by the generosity of the American people. We have had generous donors from our community give online or send checks in to the local chapter. The money that has been earmarked for Sandy will be used to support the ongoing response to this massive storm.
While Southwest Colorado is not prone to large-scale disasters such as hurricanes, we are vulnerable to wildfires, winter storms and other natural disasters. The Red Cross provided shelters, food and emotional support during this summers wildfire season. Several weeks ago, we provided assistance to the Dolores/Cortez community during the Roatcap Fire by opening a shelter and feeding emergency responders.
House fires, wildfires and other disaster incidents do not take a break during the holiday season. Our volunteers are on duty 365 days a year providing services to the community. In addition, some volunteers have gone on two-week deployments to help storm victims on the East Coast.
We are proud of the services we provide ask that you think of us during the holiday giving season. We rely on your donations to keep providing services here in Southwest Colorado and across the country. We are thankful for each and every one of you.
Cindi Shank is executive director of the Southwest Colorado chapter of the American Red Cross.


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"In smartphones, it's not all about Apple and Samsung anymore. For several years, these two companies have dominated the mobile phone-making business, successively one-upping each other with ever sleeker, more technologically sophisticated iPhones and Galaxy handsets that left would-be rivals grasping. But now the competition is stirring, and consumers are giving another look to brands they once ignored." Not only is Samsung now more profitable in mobile than Apple (next goalpost please), smaller Android manufacturers, such as LG, ZTE, and Lenovo, are making huge inroads, and are raking in growing profits - in fact, these three now belong to the top 5 mobile device makers. The common parlance that only Samsung is making a profit off Android is simply no longer true.


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The Greencastle-Antrim girls basketball team lost some starpower, but the two returning players with varsity experience — starter Chloe Hoover and Katie Gelsinger — helped their younger teammates fit right in to the varsity scene Friday night.
WAYNESBORO — The Greencastle-Antrim girls basketball team lost some starpower, but the two returning players with varsity experience — starter Chloe Hoover and Katie Gelsinger — helped their younger teammates fit right in to the varsity scene Friday night.
Hoover scored 17 points and Gelsinger added 16 to lead the Blue Devils past Waynesboro 51-17 in the first round of the Franklin County Tip-Off Tournament hosted by Waynesboro. Newcomer Hannah Crist, who as a freshman started at point guard, added 10 points.
G-A will play Chambersburg in the girls championship game today at approximately 7 p.m. Waynesboro will face James Buchanan in the consolation game at 4.
"We've got all those young kids on the team," said G-A head coach Mike Rhine. "They held it together pretty well. We missed a lot of shots. Both teams were trying. Even Chloe and Katie were a little jittery. They got it together."
Boy, did they get it together.
If you pushed a rapid rewind button and then fast forwarded it, you'd think you were watching two different games. The Maidens forged a 7-5 lead through the first five minutes of the game and led 9-7 with a minute to play in the first period.
Senior center Dori Kozain, who led the Maidens with eight points, drained a shot after Gelsinger made two free throws in the early going. Then, Sam Nichols dished to Lauren Wagaman, who finished off the play with a layup and a 4-2 Waynesboro advantage. Mallory Patterson followed with three straight points, including a follow up shot for a 7-5 lead. Kozain drained a jump shot from the foul line to make it 9-7.
But, in the waning seconds of the opening period, G-A turned the vice grip with a suffocating press defense that forced turnover after turnover. Gelsinger and Hoover converted on back-to-back turnovers to take an 11-9 lead after the first quarter, one the Blue Devils (1-0) would not relinquish the rest of the game.
"The first quarter I thought we played well. We were competitive, very aggressive defensively," said Waynesboro head coach Doug Stuart. "The game got out of hand when our starting guard (Sam Nichols) got into foul trouble and then she got hurt. We had some freshmen come in and play hard for us.
"We struggled. The initial pass off the press gave us fits."
Waynesboro's scoring woes carried over to the final three periods. The Maidens were shut out in the second quarter, 17-0 and trailed 28-9 at halftime. Hoover made the first basket of the second half to make the score 30-9 before Waynesboro ended the drought with a bucket from Kozain.


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Barbara Baekeland
On November 17, 1972, wealthy socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony, in her London penthouse. When police arrived at the scene, Antony was calmly placing a telephone order for Chinese food. Antony's great-grandfather, Leo Baekeland, acquired his family's fortune with the creation of Bakelite, an early plastic product.
Though financially successful, the family was far from stable. Leo's son Brooks was a decadent adventurer and a self-described writer who rarely put pen to paper. Brooks' wife Barbara, a model and would-be Hollywood starlet, had her own problems: she attempted suicide several times and was reportedly so deeply distressed by her son Antony's homosexuality that she attempted to seduce him as a "cure." Though Antony displayed signs of schizophrenia, his father called psychiatry "professionally amoral" and refused to pay for treatment. Barbara and Antony's tempestuous mother-son relationship worried her friends. Indeed, Antony's erratic behavior was cause for concern, and over the years the two had several threatening arguments involving knives. After the murder, Antony was institutionalized at Broadmoor until a bureaucratic mistake resulted in his release in July 1980. He then relocated to New York City, where he lived with his grandmother for a short time until he beat and stabbed her in 1980; she survived. Antony was sent to Riker's Island, where he committed suicide by suffocating himself on March 21, 1981.
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Hooksett man wants blood tests thrown out in boating fatalBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
September 06. 2013 9:30PM
BRENTWOOD — A Hooksett man charged with negligent homicide for allegedly causing his friend to fall out of his boat and die in Northwood Lake testified on Friday that investigators coerced him into providing a blood sample to test his blood-alcohol level.
Eric Cable, 34, took the witness stand in Rockingham County Superior Court at the end of a hearing where he challenged the legality of evidence collected by state Marine Patrol officers.
He is headed to trial in December on two counts of negligent homicide for allegedly causing the death of Brendan Yerry, 28, of Hudson.
Yerry died after being struck by the boat's propeller July 14, 2012, investigators said.
Judge Marguerite Wageling will decide whether Cable's statements to investigators and blood-alcohol tests, which included a breath test and blood samples, can be used by prosecutors. Cable told a judge on Friday afternoon that a Marine Patrol sergeant who took him into custody for boating while intoxicated never advised him that he had the right to refuse the blood test.
"The only thing he said to me was you didn't have the right to refuse," Cable testified. "If you do, we will physically take it from you."
His claims drew sharp questioning by county prosecutors, who said that investigators twice asked Cable if he would volunteer a blood sample before he allowed it.
"Does that make sense to you? That someone asks for consent then tells you they are going to take it from you?" Assistant County Attorney Jerome Blanchard said.
"I'm just telling you what happened," Cable replied.
Cable also suggested during his testimony that he underwent field-sobriety tests on ground that made him appear unstable or intoxicated.
"They were conducted on top of a rocky hill," he testified.
Blanchard said that Cable asked a Marine Patrol officer if he would let him go on the night of his arrest, saying that he wanted to kill himself and feared losing his girlfriend because of Yerry's death.
"You asked for a break as soon as you were arrested," Blanchard said.
Cable denied that he asked to be let go.
His sworn statements in court Friday ran counter to testimony provided moments earlier by Marine Patrol Officer Seth Alie and Sgt. Joshua Dirth.
Defense lawyer Peter Anderson argued that Alie solicited statements from Cable while driving him to Concord Hospital for a blood-draw test. Anderson argued that Alie should have first read him his Miranda rights.
"You knew any statements made by the defendant would go into your report, correct? And you engaged him in conversation. In fact, you initiated that conversation," Anderson said.
Alie testified that he only asked Cable how he was doing once he was in custody because he appeared to be suicidal.
A breath-test done at the lake's shore just before 9 p.m. concluded that Cable had a blood-alcohol level of .11, according to court testimony.
Blood tests taken hours later at the Concord Police Department placed Cable's blood-alcohol at .08 around 11:45 p.m.
Cable's blood-alcohol level then dipped to .04 at 1:30 a.m., and to .02 around 2:30 a.m., according to Anderson.
Dirth testified that Cable offered both a blood sample and his boat after being told that search warrants were being obtained for their investigation.
"His exact words were something to effect (of) take my boat and do whatever you want with it," Dirth testified.
Fish & Game Lt. James Juneau testified that Cable waived his Miranda rights early in the night and provided a written statement when the case was being treated as a search for Yerry, who had disappeared in the water.
Cable initialed a form saying that he understood his Miranda rights and chose to waive them and speak with investigators, according to Juneau.


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Raymond school board finalizedBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
March 20. 2013 11:24PM
RAYMOND - John Harmon was elected chairman of the school board by a 3-2 vote on Wednesday night. Kelly Lehman was voted in as vice-chairman with one abstention and newly elected school board member Daniel Chouinard was elected secretary after Tina Thomas declined a nomination for the position.
Among the new board's first order of business was choosing the high school graduation date, which has been made more challenging by a build-up of snow days.
Graduation is scheduled for Friday, June 14, the day after seniors take their last final exams.
Lehman asked that high school Principal Kirk Beitler come back to the board with a possible back-up plan should there be any more snow days.
Harmon said in the past the district has been reluctant to have the last day of senior finals be the last day before graduation because of the amount of work high school administration has to turn around in a short timeframe.
Beitler said they have managed it before to get the seniors graduated prior to the last day of school.
In other business, Harmon also noticed the board that the elementary school building committee will soon be coming back before them to discuss possible future sites for a new school.
The committee was initially charged with coming up with a plan to rehabilitate and add on to the current school, but learned late in the process that a town ordinance would require the entire building to be raised 18-inches above the floodplain on which it sits. The prospect has prompted the committee to consider other options.
Harmon said the committee has discussed several possible sites in town and will make a presentation to the board on May 1, before holding a community input session on May 7.


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The Anchors and Reporters of News 12 The Bronx
A behind-the-scenes look at the anchors and reporters of News 12 The Bronx
Magdalena Doris reporting from Parkchester.
News 12 Meteorologist Darryl Green reports from the weather center.
Kena Vernon discusses a drug bust in Bay Ridge.
Anchor and reporter Alisha Laventure reports from the newsroom.
Pat O'Keefe reporting on sports.
Amy Yensi reports from Granada Place.
News 12's Katie Lusso reporting live.
News 12 Meteorologist Mike Favetta talks temperatures at the desk
News 12 Reporter Alisha Laventure interviews someone on the scene
News 12 Meteorologist Stacy-Ann Gooden in front of the cameras
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Police detonate possible pipe bomb in Manchester
March 28. 2013 7:59AM
MANCHESTER - Maryland Avenue in Manchester is open again after police received a report of a suspicious-looking device on the ground around 7 this morning.
Members of the New Hampshire State Police bomb squad were called after a resident putting out trash saw what appeared to be a cylindrical-shaped object, capped at one end and containing what appeared to be a fuse. The resident said he did not see the device last night.
Manchester Police Lt. Maureen Tessier said homes in the area of 245 Maryland Ave. were evacuated after police were called just before 7 a.m. Some residents chose to stay indoors during the incident.
Streets in the immediate area were closed until just after 9 a.m., and an area 100 yards around the scene was evacuated.
State police were able to use a disruption tool to neutralize the suspicious object by breaking it apart. They have since collected the pieces of the device and will conduct further analysis of those remnants to identify if the object did in fact pose an explosive threat, was a possible hoax device or merely an innocuous item that shared similar characteristics of a "pipe bomb."
Shortly before 9 a.m., Tessier told reporters at the scene there was "nothing to worry about." Shortly after she said that, a muffled explosion was heard in the vicinity.


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December 11. 2013 6:43PM
Carol's Obamacare: What Shea-Porter supported
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who voted for Obamacare and has championed it ever since, is trying this week to distance herself from the wrenching insurance changes it is forcing on Granite Staters. How cute.
The N.H. Republican Party has put out a radio ad that depicts a man losing his doctor because his insurer, Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield, narrowed its provider network because of Obamacare. Though Anthem did this, Shea-Porter says the ad is "false" because people can keep their insurance and their doctors thanks to delays announced in November. Well, well, well.
In October, Anthem, the only health insurer participating in New Hampshire's exchange, issued cancellation notices to more than 22,000 Granite Staters on the individual market. The Affordable Care Act gave these people until Nov. 15 to renew their plans or be forcibly upgraded to more extensive, generally more costly Obama-approved plans. Shea-Porter knew this day was coming. In 2010 she said on WMUR-TV that if you like your
plan, you can keep it. (Obamacare is forcing people off of their employer-provided plans, too, which Shea-Porter appears not to have known.)
In a series of delays announced last month, the Nov. 15 deadline was pushed back to Dec. 1, then to Dec. 16 — next week. So although people did receive cancellation notices, they have a brief window in which they can renew their old plan.
But those delays are extralegal administration decrees that actually violate the law that Shea-Porter voted for. So is President Obama's announcement that insurers could keep offering the old plans (ones made illegal under Obamacare) for another year if they chose to (Anthem is not). The law Shea-Porter helped pass kicked millions of people off of their insurance in November. Only after those cancellation notices went out did she suddenly support letting people keep their current plans for just a few weeks longer. In Christianity, that is called a conversion of convenience.


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Ted Siefer's City Hall: AMR ambulance service makes mind-boggling recoveryTED SIEFER
June 22. 2013 2:31AM
Just call American Medical Response the comeback kid.
Less than a year ago, the city launched an audit of AMR, its designated emergency ambulance provider, following a deluge of complaints over large bills and aggressive collection practices. On Monday, the fire chief and members of the aldermen's Committee on Administration recommended that AMR be given a new 5½-year contract.
The decision was all the more puzzling because, as Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy noted during the meeting, the other department heads on the committee that reviewed the proposals all lined up behind the other finalist, American Ambulance of New England.
Later in the week, Roy, who was also on the review committee, provided a draft version of the minutes from a meeting a couple of weeks ago when the final proposals were presented. They show that, in contrast to what Fire Chief James Burkush told the aldermen - that there was no clear consensus for one company or the other - American was favored, 6-3, by those who voted at the meeting. In addition, in a table that ranked the companies in a range of categories from customer service to legal performance, American outscored AMR, 52-43.
"It boggles the mind," as Roy told me.
Perhaps what was most mind-boggling was the change of heart by Alderman At-Large Dan O'Neil, who had been strident in his criticism of AMR, citing his wife's experience wrestling with a large bill from the company.
Just a few months ago, O'Neil said at a committee meeting that AMR "caused a lot of heartache for a lot of people, and we'll never know unless we get the attorney general involved how much money was actually overbilled and paid by our consumers."
A cynical reaction would be that it's a union thing. AMR is unionized and American Ambulance Service is not. And O'Neil has a reputation for being friendly to unions.
The suggestion by some that the firefighters union had thrown its weight behind AMR was not contradicted by the appearance, at the review committee meeting of a letter from the president of the International Association of Fire Fighters. It accused American Ambulance Service of trying to "manipulate" the bid process by suggesting in a letter filed with its proposal that American had IAFF support "where none exists."
In fact, no such letter was included in the bid, and the American letter cited by the firefighters union was meant to counter claims that American's parent company, Falck, based in Denmark, wanted to go into the business of private firefighting. The letter, according to American's Brendan McNiff, was sent to verify that the company "had never entered the realm of fire suppression."
It bears mentioning there were actually three finalists for the ambulance contract. Burkush said the third, the New Hampshire-based CarePlus, didn't have the financial resources to take on emergency services for a city the size of Manchester. (An executive with the company was gracious about the decision.)
In the side-by-side scoring of the companies, AMR took its biggest hit in the legal performance category, receiving a zero for not disclosing "administrative or judicial proceedings being filed against the proposer."
As has been reported in these pages, there have been legal moves taken against AMR. The biggest case came in 2011, when AMR settled with the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, paying a $2.7 million fine and signing a "Corporate Integrity Agreement."
Mayor Ted Gatsas appears to have come around to AMR's side after it agreed to enter a provider agreement with Anthem, the city's largest insurer, and it set up a local billing office.
Gatsas noted it's been months since "he's heard any complaints."
In the end, Burkush made it clear that it was up to him which company he would recommend, as is the case with any contract the department is considering.
"The ultimate recommendation is the fire chief, and the ultimate decision comes from the Board of Mayor and Aldermen," he said.
We'll see how they vote when the contract comes up at the July 2 meeting.
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You know things aren't going so well in contract negotiations when the opposing parties spend more time talking to the media than to each other.
Ward 10 school board member John Avard, the chairman of the board's negotiations committee, sent an email last week to several media types providing a fairly detailed analysis of the proposal that the teachers union had rejected.
If the teachers had switched to the proposed Health Savings Account plan proposed by the negotiators, they would face additional health care costs of $582,614 in the first year, which would be offset by proposed raises that total $1,470,214.
The union's "refusal to sign a contract," Avard wrote, "is costing the bargaining unit" more than $950,000.Ben Dick, president of the Manchester Education Association, responded with numbers of his own. He noted that the HSA, which has a lower premium but higher deductible than the other HMO and Point of Service plans available to the teachers, has proved unattractive to members. It's been offered for several years, and only around 11 of the district's 1,100 teachers have signed on, Dick said.
For most teachers, the proposed contract would mean their premium rates would jump 20 percent, a cost that would eclipse the proposed raise and result in a net loss of $2,000 a year, according to Dick.
Along with the salary increase, the school board committee has proposed hiking the premium rates for the HSA from 7 to 15 percent, and for both the HMO, which now has a 7 percent rate, and the POS, which has a 14.5 percent rate, to 20 percent.
The teachers union proposed the HSA rate go to 9 percent, the H.M.O. to 11 percent, and the POS to 18.5 percent, according to Dick.
Dick said the difference between what the union and the district proposed was separated by only $1.2 million. And he noted that this was nearly the amount the aldermen sent to the district as part of its final budget.
Of course, the aldermen expected this money would go toward hiring more teachers, not to make the health plans of the current teachers more palatable.
"It's not the employees' job to pay for more employees," Dick said. "I don't think a guy at the convenience store says to his boss, 'Let me give you a couple bucks so you can hire another guy,'" he said.
Ted Siefer may be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @tbsreporter.


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Social anxiety disorder may cause the following symptoms during social interactions:
- Blushing
- Excessive sweating
- Trembling
- Dry throat and mouth
- Muscle twitches
- Intense anxiety
- Lightheadedness
- Rapid heart beat
These visible symptoms can heighten the fear of disapproval and the symptoms themselves can become an additional focus of fear. Fear of symptoms can create a vicious cycle: you may worry about having these symptoms, which makes you more likely to actually experience them.
Any public situation, familiar or unfamiliar, formal or informal, can lead to symptoms of social anxiety disorder. Common examples include:
- Being teased or criticized
- Being the center of attention
- Meeting new people
- Interacting with authority figures
- Interacting with members of the opposite sex
- Eating, writing, or speaking in public
- Using public toilets
Social anxiety disorder can be broken into two categories.
- The specific or performance type—Limited to only one type of situation, such as a fear of speaking in formal or informal situations, or eating or drinking in front of others.
- The most severe form (the generalized type of social anxiety disorder)—The presence of other people may cause symptoms.
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I absolutely adore the English lifestyle, in fact I love it.
Several months have passed since I started my relationship with the Gazette, and I must say that I have so enjoyed visiting with you every Saturday. I believe you have gotten to know me a bit as a designer—and, hopefully, a little bit as a person. One aspect of who I am may not have become apparent during my visits with you: I absolutely adore the English lifestyle, in fact I love it. I have told many dear friends and now I share this with you my readers. In my former life, I must have been English! I'm sure I lived in the English countryside, had horses and probably some chickens and called a cottage my home. This is more likely a dream, not really another life, but it's a clear indication of strong connections to the English lifestyle. My Grandmother Robinson's maiden name was Trowbridge, so very English. Perhaps that, along with my maiden name of Robinson, led to my English lifestyle appreciation. God Save the Queen!
Let me share with you the reason for my romance with the English way of life and maybe you might join me in my affection for it. I've observed that the English have two distinct sides to their lives: a properness and love for decorum balanced with such a relaxed yet beautiful way of everyday life in their homes. There is, most definitely, a recognizable trait to their country homes, including collections of heirlooms that blend beautifully with purchases made recently. Their homes aren't rigid as some of our American homes can be. Color palettes are much easier and less demanding—meaning every red in the room does not match exactly and combinations of florals, stripes, plaids and detailed prints reside happily side by side. No complaining, just easily comingling together to create such a harmoniously pretty room. The English have a way of so effortlessly pulling rooms together—rooms without an ounce of contrived appearance. You'll find no model home exactness to their homes, but you will see very old, stately pieces mixing so easily with one another. Perhaps a weathered sign from a bygone egg market hangs above a chintz sofa. Gentle, historical and, yes, pretty—oh so pretty! This is not a word we use to describe rooms as much anymore. And yes, like beauty, pretty is in the eye of the beholder.
So what items lovingly live in an English cottage and would allow our homes to say "Cheerio old chap!" Here is a list of my favorite English assets!
Staffordshire dogs (always a left and right, bought in pairs) and porcelain flatbacks from the Victorian period. Flatback figurines, as they are known, were made without decoration on the back because they were usually placed against a wall or the fireplace mantel wall in Victorian houses.
Hunting scenes in either oil or print. These depict horses and their riders in their lavish hunt wear gear, red jackets and all, dogs and foxes.
Chintzes. Yes, the lacquered fabrics of the 1980s are showing a rather shy return to home interiors.
Garden roses. Large, lovely garden roses in fabric design, wallpaper, needlepoint pillows and indeed fresh from the garden in a bouquet placed in crystal vases or any appropriate container.
English transferware, in tea services, chargers, pitchers, and of course dinner ware from companies like Spode. Pictorial and charming, so British!
Painted furniture. Think white-washed ivories and creams or soft pastel painted pieces with the translucent feel of water color.
Stained finishes in mahogany and cherry, classic 18th-century furniture, pieces that have stood the test of time. For some reason, these remarkable pieces seem to be more accepted along the East Coast and into the South. I really don't know the reason for this preference.
Silver pieces, including trays, tea services, compotes and bud vases. Almost anything silver, with a tarnished patina or polished to a mirror like finish, says England.
Polished brass, yes polished brass, bold and beautiful and reappearing. With some new finishes making an appearance, dull and worn. I am telling you it is coming back just wait and see chum!
Needlepoint pillows or "cushions" as our friends across the pond call them! As detailed as a painting.
Slip-covered chairs and sofas along with upholstered headboards, which too may be slip-covered. Slip-covers that are fabricated from a lovely light and airy linen or well laundered cotton. Delightfully casual and yet elegant, it is the English way of doing things.
In addition to these items, what English home would dare be without a selection of teas and china cups for your afternoon beverage. The attention to detail and, yes, the time the English allow themselves to enjoy a wonderful cup of tea and some sweets. I have borrowed the following instructions from an Englishwoman on the art of preparing a proper cup of tea according to authentic English standards. Enjoy!
What you need:
A kettle (no microwaves, please).
A proper teapot (with more than one hole inside the spout!).
A tea cozy to keep the teapot warm (which can also warm your hands on a cold day).
Loose tea or loose tea bags (round tea bags with no tags, string, outer wrappings or staples).
A tea strainer if you use loose tea.
What to do:
1. Bring a freshly drawn kettle of water to a boil. THE WATER MUST BE BOILING!
2. Pour a small amount of the boiling water from the kettle into your proper teapot and swirl around.
3. Empty out the hot water from the teapot. This is called "warming the pot" and is absolutely essential. According to my expert you cannot make a nice cup of tea in a cold pot.
4. Return the kettle to the stovetop.
5. Bring the water in the kettle back to a boil. Our English expert could not emphasize enough the importance of having the water ABSOLUTELY BOILING before pouring on the tea in the pot—but beware of steam burns!
6. Place the tea bags (or loose tea leaves) in the warmed teapot. The number of bags or spoons full of tea will depend on the size of the teapot. (My English expert's rule of thumb is one tea bag or spoonful per cup of tea required. She added a bit more, as she enjoyed a strong cup of tea!)
7. With the tea bags/leaves in the pot, take the teapot to the kettle (not the other way round). Make sure the water is still boiling and pour it in the teapot. Replace the lid and immediately cover the teapot with the tea cozy.
8. Let the tea in the teapot stand for a few minutes for the tea to brew. The tea cozy will keep the tea warm for a long time.
9. Get out your teacup and saucer (preferably of the finest English bone china), pour a little milk (milk only never cream) into the cup (milk in first, please!) and then fill with the clear, hot, amber liquid of life! If using loose tea don't forget the tea strainer. Add sugar to taste and there you are! A nice cup of tea—all ready to drink!
The proper English preparation! Cheers!
I firmly believe that Ralph Lauren, a true blue American from the Bronx in New York, has captured the English way of living as skillfully as any U.K. resident. I thank Mr. Lauren for guiding us along the path of admiration for this way of life. A tiny tidbit for you: Mr. Lauren's name is pronounced just like Lauren Hutton. Lots of people try very hard to French it up and say "La-RENN," but it is not the correct pronunciation. Mr. Lauren's birth name is "Lifschitz," but his father changed their last name when Ralph was 15.
Regardless of the name and its pronunciation, this genius of fashion and home furnishings has invited us into the quintessential life of the English with his designs. Above all, Ralph Lauren has shown us how to blend and combine fabrics and patterns with the ease I believe he borrowed from the English (purely my observation!). Mr. Lauren has guided the American shopper toward home fashions that are not only timeless, but easy to live with. He is a gifted designer whom I believe has shown us that an English wool windowpane suiting plaid can live wonderfully on a wicker chair and be positioned next to a velvet sofa. Being thoughtful as well as daring with fabrics and prints—so English and so charming. My admiration for Mr. Lauren began in the mid 1970s and I have followed his brilliance to this day. My advice to you is quite simple: If you are as captivated as I am with the allure of the English way of life, look to Mr. Lauren for inspiration. His website will send you off shopping with a proper English accent!
I hope you take a bit of time and consider the beauty of the English-style home. I think you will find it blissfully content! Now, put the kettle on, pull out Grandmother's china cup and saucer, and brew yourself some English delight. I leave you with some thoughts on the ritual of tea!
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
HYPERLINK "http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/159.Henry_James"Henry James, HYPERLINK "http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1434368"The Portrait of a Lady
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C0892 OBD-II Diagnostic Chassis (C) Trouble Code DescriptionC0892 engine trouble code is about Glow Plug/Heater Circuit 'A' Malfunction.
Main reason For C0892 CodeThe reason of C0892 OBD-II Engine Trouble Code is Engine Oil Temperature Sensor Malfunction.
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Students write letters to understand homelessness
"It's really my goal to get them to cultivate their own opinions," said McDermott, who teaches an Advanced Placement language and composition class at Goffstown High School. "It's one thing to have a classroom discussion about it, but it's another thing to create a product that they have to share with the rest of the world."
That product came in the form of letters to the editor that each of McDermott's students had to write and send to the New Hampshire Union Leader. The result of the class project was 18 letters to the editor, all signed and all espousing an opinion about homelessness.
In one case, a student took to satire along the lines of "A Modest Proposal," the 1729 essay written by "Gulliver's Travels" author Jonathan Swift, in which he suggests that Ireland's poor could escape poverty by selling their children to the rich as food.
"The first step is to gather the homeless in large quantities, whether it is at a fake soup kitchen or somewhere that they can find shelter. Once they have swarmed together, we simply bring them into the basement or back of these places and clean them up," wrote Rachel Breckinridge. "Once cleaned, they will be put into simple, easy to produce clothing, where they will be tagged with a price sticker." Once tagged, "we ship them off to local pet stores."
Just in case a reader failed to recognize the satirical tone of her proposal, Breckenridge attached a hand-written note to her letter. "Please note this essay is 100 percent satirical and should not be taken seriously or personally," Breckenridge explained.
According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, there were 2,576 homeless people living in the state as of Jan. 23 – an increase of 6 percent over last year. Statewide, 1,243 were living in shelters, 442 unsheltered and 891 were temporarily living with family members or friends. In Hillsborough County, 312 individuals were living in shelters, 139 unsheltered and 213 living temporarily with friends or family.
"I was unsure at first about a lot of the facts of homelessness," said Henry Seidel, a junior and a student in McDermott's class. "The numbers themselves were kind of surprising."
What surprised Seidel most was that a larger-than-expected percentage of homeless are veterans.
"That kind of surprised me because I thought we had taken care of our veterans," he said.
For some students in McDermott's class, the results of their research found their way into their letters, while others took a more direct approach to the topic, relying more on their observations.
Laura King made her observations while on a family vacation in the Bahamas recently.
"I thought I would go with an emotional appeal in my letter," she said. "I wanted it to get to a larger audience." In her letter, King wrote, "As my first time leaving the States, it was quite a culture shock. Once we ventured out of the tourist trap of Nassau, it seemed that what we would consider to be lower-class housing filled the island. Their National Art Museum was nothing but a repurposed house. People sold their artwork out of stalls, or offered tours of their island for income."
King's experience with Third World living conditions gave her a fresh perspective on her own circumstances.
"I realized just how lucky I was," she said.
Hadley White, 17, a student of McDermott's from Goffs-town, had a similar experience to King's, except hers was closer to home. On a trip to Newport, R.I., a seaside city considered a playground for the rich, also has a large homeless population.
"It's interesting that you go down the side streets and see people begging," White said. "The contrast, it impacts you – it's weird."
For White, the problem is a multifaceted one.
"It's no sense trying to solve homelessness by taking it out all as one, under some umbrella program that focuses on the big picture," she wrote. "Rather, we should attack the smaller facets. Homelessness is much more manageable when one zooms in on, say, the homeless who suffer from mental disease. Yet if this group is treated just like those who are homeless due to gambling addiction or drug dependency, the true potential of any help offered is lost amongst a jumble of good intentions …"
As a teacher, McDermott found satisfaction in the effort his students put in to the project. "I told them when we started that you guys are putting your names on this, so it's up to you to start developing your own thoughts, and to think critically about the issue," he said.


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Centrifugal French
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Carol, you are so funny. I think my eyes crossed when I started reading that physics lesson...but then it ended in pastry, of course. I adore reading your blogs and have shared them with all my watercolor students here in FL.ReplyDelete
We all wish you'd teach a mini journaling workshop there!
Just love the connections you make here! We have those twirl rides at Maine autumn county fairs. I thought I'd die on my 1st ()& last ride...) I put some new refrigerator art up yesterday, thought of you...yes, French quotes...ReplyDelete
Yes that Paris brolly is so pretty..ReplyDelete
Not like the ones that line the streets here..Knock offs of famous artists works..(I have one...they break after the firt rainy season..)
All I can say is I am glad your middle name isn't Wikipedia..I stop paying attention when J gets technical..or definitions are too much like my calculus classes in college:)
Thank goodness I knew about la force centrifuge.
Used to love SCARY rides..would tremble at the thought now.
Un beau chou..
and an even cuter cupcake sketch.
Just love this centrifugal post!!!ReplyDelete
Just add that I'm not even french...but more then 35 years living in France get me very...centrifugal!ReplyDelete
Never thought about the French being twirly! Hadn't noticed people twirling umbrellies either. As for that ride in the Jardin d'Acclimatation, I've never had the guts to go on it. Much prefer the boat rides that twirl in the wee lake.ReplyDeleteReplies
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- Anonymous11:35 AM
Wow thanks for such a lovely real world description of physics in everyday life! I am a physicist and a woman, and I see the principles of physics in everyday life all the time and marvel...but what a treat to see you do this for your readers! This is magnificent! I wish more people would see physics in everyday life...to see how it pops up in so many different situations. Merci!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I had no idea that's what i was doing
And i was never any good at science!
- Anonymous2:27 PM
Again, brilliant! I often say that I fall into a pastry...with my eyes. This post is, simply put, delightful. So tell me. Is everything we are seeing your incredible photography, too?ReplyDelete
Of course they're my pictures..but one is of an ad on the wallDelete
- Anonymous2:30 PM
Those desserts look wonderful. Did you get one of each? I never made it up all the way up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, so I would never dream of going up in those.ReplyDelete
What a great post, Carol. I can't even take on the playground swings with our kids, so I'll twirl away with one Pierre Herme's box of macarons...or perhaps two. x KatieReplyDelete
Carol, loved the twirls! Do you recall what shop has the white chou ? I would love to buy one all white. I dont see them here.I will be in Paris soon maybe I can go to that shop and see if still there.ReplyDeleteReplies
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It was on rue St Honore near rue Cambon
How delightful! A new way to look at things....ReplyDelete
Maybe even life...
Pure genius! I love these posts so much where you bring so many disparate things together. Parfait. But I do love that Tuileries airswing.... I was devastated when it was being repaired on our last day and couldn't go for one final swing. Gosh, I miss tarts like those, although last week I found an absolutely divine lemon meringue tarte here- there is hope for us in Australia!ReplyDelete
Carol, this was fun! Of course, Paris itself has that twirly thing going on with its arrondisements.ReplyDelete
Exactly..the snail!Delete
The "tarte citron" for me! (I checked the address.) :-)ReplyDelete
You make me laugh. Genius connections:-))ReplyDelete
Love the photos. Great post!
What an excellent observation!ReplyDelete
How clever you are!
such happy posts lately! (love the swirled/twirled creme chantilly). your new life is clearly suiting you!!!! (not really a surprise!)ReplyDelete


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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a shooting rampage in Arizona in 2011, will visit New Hampshire July 5 with her husband Mark Kelly.
The advocacy group/political action committee co-founded and co-chaired by Giffords and Kelly announced the visit Monday as part of a nationwide "Rights and Responsibilities" Tour to rally gun control supporters. In New Hampshire they are expected to continue their attempt to pressure U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte to change her controversial April vote against the Manchin-Toomey amendment, which would have expended background checks for gun sales to gun shows and the Internet.
Details of the visit have yet to be announced. They will also visit Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio.
The group released a poll conducted in late May by the Democratic pollster, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. According to the pollster, it showed 84 percent of New Hampshire voters support expanded background checks, with support crossing party lines. Eight-two percent of gun owners also support expanded background checks, the pollster said.
The poll also showed that 75 percent believe it is "fully possible to both protect Second Amendment rights and strengthen laws to keep guns out of the wrong hands," Americans for Responsible Solutions said, explaining another poll result.
The poll also said that 57 percent of New Hampshire voters believe Ayotte should change her vote on background checks, including 57 percent of independents, 56 percent of gun owners and 39 percent of Republicans.
According to the poll, 44 percent are less likely to vote for Ayotte because of her opposition to expanded background checks, while 18 percent said they are more likely to support her based on that vote.
The poll said that "at least 37 percent"of Granite Staters own a gun.
Ayotte spokesman Jeff Grappone dismissed the poll as a "biased poll (which) comes from an out of state special interest group that recently launched false attacks against Senator Ayotte. She stands by her votes to fix the current broken background check system, enhance prosecutions, and strengthen the mental health system."
Americans for Responsible Solutions aired radio ads criticizing Ayotte's vote in the spring.


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Square wooden shrine with Yakushi Nyorai figure inside, Japan 1801-1900
Inside this highly decorated Japanese shrine is the Buddhist deity Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of healing and medicine. He is seen here holding his right hand in the gesture (known as mundra) for granting wishes. He traditionally held a flask of medicine in his left hand. However, this is missing. Offerings were possibly left in its place because there is a tiny circular wire within which to place them. This shrine may have been placed in a wealthy family home or monastery. It may have been used in ceremonial rituals with offerings to ensure healing and protection.
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A belief system or religion originally from India and based on the teachings of Siddharta Guatama, known as 'The Buddha', who died about 400 BCE. It requires ethical and unselfish behaviour.
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Originally a container, usually made of precious materials, used especially for a relic and often a cult image. Today it has come to mean a holy or sacred place that is visited by believers.


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Senate leaders worked feverishly behind closed doors Saturday to avert the most painful parts of a looming fiscal crisis, debating which taxpayers could or should pay more as part of a deal that would ward off looming tax increases for everyone.
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders worked feverishly behind closed doors Saturday to avert the most painful parts of a looming fiscal crisis, debating which taxpayers could or should pay more as part of a deal that would ward off looming tax increases for everyone.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., were racing to forge a deal in time for votes Sunday night by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Their aides met privately in a nearly deserted Capitol.
Lawmakers expected to be briefed by Sunday afternoon, though some were skeptical a compromise could be reached. Most lawmakers were absent Saturday, awaiting word from their leaders.
Failure to reach agreement by the end of the year Monday evening would mean that all Bush-era tax cuts would expire for all taxpayers, an Obama cut in the payroll tax for Social Security would expire, jobless benefits would dry up for 2 million unemployed, the alternative minimum tax would hit more taxpayers, Medicare payments to doctors would be cut, and $109 billion in federal government spending cuts would start, the first installment toward $1.2 trillion in cuts.
At the center of the private talks Saturday was the question of which Bush-era tax cuts to extend, with Democrats pushing to extend only those on individual income below $200,000 and family income below $250,000, which would mean a tax increase for all income above that. Republicans had been pushing to extend all of the tax cuts, but people close to the talks said they would be open to taxing top wage earners, perhaps those making $400,000 or above - as Obama had offered as part of an earlier compromise offer.
Negotiators were discussing four other issues as part of a possible scaled-back package - unemployment benefits, the alternative minimum tax, Medicare payments to doctors and the extension of tax breaks offered to companies and individuals, according to a congressional aide familiar with the talks but not authorized to speak publicly.
But some of the painful measures were increasingly likely to take effect, at least temporarily.
No one was known to be pushing to extend the cut in the payroll tax, enacted as a temporary measure to put more cash in people's pockets in hopes of stimulating the economy. If the cut expires Monday night, every taxpayer would see his paycheck shrink as that tax goes back to 6.2 percent from 4.2 percent.
And a final deal was not expected to include changes to Social Security or Medicare, even though Democrats and Republicans had at one point agreed to apply a less-generous measure of inflation to the government programs to lower cost-of-living adjustments or an increase in the debt limit, which will be reached Monday.
The automatic cuts to spending would also likely go forward after House Republicans signaled that they would not agree to stop them unless or until they could forge a deal for long-term spending cuts.
If Reid and McConnell fail to reach any agreement, Obama will ask Congress to vote on his original proposal to raise taxes on individual income above $200,000 and family income above $250,000, and also to extend jobless benefits for 2 million unemployed workers.
"I believe such a proposal could pass both houses with bipartisan majorities - as long as these leaders allow it to come to a vote," he said in his weekly radio address Saturday "If they still want to vote no, and let this tax hike hit the middle class, that's their prerogative - but they should let everyone vote. That's the way this is supposed to work."
As the talks commenced, Obama and Republicans went to the airways to restate their public positions one more time, either aiming to run up public pressure, or to lay the groundwork to blame the other party.
"It's a balanced plan - one that would protect the middle class, cut spending in a responsible way, and ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "And I'll keep working with anybody who's serious about getting a comprehensive plan like this done - because it's the right thing to do for our economic growth."
Republicans, in their radio address rebuttal, said they agree with Obama about sparing millions of Americans from economic hardship. They just disagree with some of the ways to do it.
"The president's proposal to raise taxes on the top 2 percent of Americans won't even pay one-third of the annual interest that's now owed on this massive $16 trillion debt," Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference, said in his party's radio message. "We still can avoid going over the fiscal cliff if the president and the Democrat-controlled Senate step forward this week and work with Republicans to solve this problem and solve it now."
Blunt suggested that Senate negotiators already have a blueprint to work with to avoid the fiscal cliff in legislation passed earlier this year by the Republican-controlled House, including an August vote to extend President George W. Bush-era tax cuts for all incomes for one year.
"The House has already passed bills to protect all Americans from burdensome tax increases," Blunt said. "But instead of working across the aisle and considering the House-passed plan to protect taxpayers, Senate Democrats have spent months drawing partisan lines in the sand."
To keep pressure on Congress, Obama will sit for an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." It is his 11th appearance on the show but only his second as president. His last appearance was in September 2009 during the battle over revamping the nation's health-care system.


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NH wrestler, coach consider ties to younger bombing suspectBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 20. 2013 3:11AM
MANCHESTER - Central High School wrestling coach Jason Cumming and state champion wrestler Azalkhan Sarvalov - like many in the varsity wrestling community - were fascinated by a photo making the rounds on the Internet Friday afternoon.
It showed a Milford wrestler in a 2011 match with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old Chechen immigrant suspected in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. Tsarnaev was named a Greater Boston League Winter All-Star wrestler that year.
For Sarvalov, the Boston violence hits close to home. He is a Russian immigrant, a Muslim and a wrestler - characteristics he shares with Tsarnaev. But any comparison stops there.
The slender, dark-haired, soft-spoken Sarvalov is concerned about a backlash. "They will look at me different now, if I go somewhere and they know I am from Russia," he said, although nothing like that has happened so far.
"As far as Aza goes, he has become one of the more popular kids in the school for positive reasons," said Cumming. "He has been a very positive representative of that culture, so everyone whose had the pleasure of knowing him at Central is not going to judge him, because they know what he's about."
Sarvalov, a junior who speaks English, Russian and Turkish, is an honors student hoping for a wrestling scholarship to college. He was 10 when his family emigrated from a southern part of Russia near Chechnya, and has since become a U.S. citizen.
He feels fortunate to have lived in a more peaceful part of the Russian Republic, unlike strife-torn Chechnya. "It can change you if you see someone killed in front of your eyes," he said.
The lack of freedom and a desire for a better way of life drove his father and stepmother to immigrate in 2005 to Manchester, where his uncle had already settled.
"My aunt still lives in Russia," he said, "and says it's not much different since the end of the Soviet Union."
Sarvalov is a Sunni Muslim, while most Muslims in Chechnya are Sufi, a small sect within the broader religion.
He said wrestling and weight-lifting are popular in Russia, which may be why he has such a natural affinity for the sport. His friend, Mansur Vasibov, another Russian immigrant, convinced him to join the Central High wrestling team as a freshman.
After winning the Division 1 state championship in February as a junior, Sarvalov dedicated the title to his uncle, a world-class wrestler while in Russia. "He once won a national championship, and I want to do the same for him," he said.
Crime, law and justice Public Safety Politics Religion Social issues War Manchester NHIAA


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June 11, 2008
Volume 1, Issue 1
OneNet User Guide
An administrator's guide from everything to setting up
OneNet's email and web services to helpful troubleshooting
hints and more.
Table of Contents
Basic Troubleshooting ................................................................... 1
Virus Troubleshooting ................................................................... 3
Mailing Lists ................................................................................... 4
Registering Domain Names .......................................................... 7
DNS Information ............................................................................ 9
Publishing Instructions ................................................................ 10
Email Client Set-up ...................................................................... 13
Outside Technicians .................................................................... 15
H.323 Basics ............................................................................... 16
Video Security Tips ..................................................................... 20
OneNet Outage Information ........................................................ 21
Basic Troubleshooting
Connectivity issues? Before calling the helpdesk have you tried
these things?
• Have you power cycled your router and/or CSU/DSU?
• Are the cables used to connect the router tightly connected?
• Do you have power going to your equipment?
• Have you power cycled your server, proxy or firewall if you have
• Can you ping your internal gateway?
If you have answered yes to all of these questions, please call the
helpdesk so that they can check your circuit.
Is your internet running slow?
• Try power cycling your router and DSU/CSU.
Sometimes clearing the cache can improve the speed.
• Is everyone having a problem? If not, usually the problem lies in
the settings on an individual email client.
• Have you tried to access your mail using webmail? If you can
send and receive using webmail, the problem may be internal.
You can access webmail by entering
Basic Troubleshooting Cont.
https://webmail.your.domain and then enter your entire email address as
your user name and the applicable password.
• Are you trying to use the OneNet servers to send mail from a
machine that is not on the OneNet network? Onenet does not allow
relaying of mail so you must use a machine that is on OneNet's
Web publishing problems?
• Are you trying to FTP after requesting FrontPage® extensions?
OneNet does not allow FTP and FrontPage® publishing at the same
time. You must choose one or the other.
• Are you trying to publish with FrontPage® without having had the
extensions installed? FrontPage® will not work without extensions.
You will need to call the helpdesk and have them install the
extensions for you.
• Are you using the correct username and password? Your email
administrator can verify your username and password and it is case
• Are you receiving a "Forbidden" message? This indicates that you
do not have an index page. You must have an index file and publish
it to the WWW folder.
• If you are using FrontPage® and XP have you applied the latest
service packs? Service packs can be found at
https://www.Microsoft.com and without them the two programs will
not work together.
Virus Troubleshooting
Virus Information: The latest virus information and information
regarding system vulnerabilities can be found at:
Scanning Tools: These tools can be used to scan your computer when
you suspect that it has a virus:
Windows Updates: If you require an update for your version of
Windows, please go to the following link. Once there, scan your PC and
download any necessary updates.
For Window's OS: http://4v.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
For Windows operating systems that utilize some form of Microsoft office:
*OneOnet highly recommends following the security steps found at:
**Additionally, we recommend turning on the Automatic Update feature
on your Windows operating systems.
Mailing Lists
What is a mailing list?
Mailing lists make it easy for a group of people to have discussions via
email. You send the message to an email address that identifies the
mailing list, instead of each participant having to send the mail message
to each person that wants to have the discussion. The message is then
redistributed to everyone who subscribes to the list. Reading a list, then,
is a matter of reading your email or a web page.
Once set up, a mailing list can distribute email with very little human
intervention. The only tasks for the list owner are handling basic list
maintenance (such as answering questions from new users) and acting
on error messages generated by the mailing list's users/subscribers.
Having a mailing list might at first sound confusing and perhaps
daunting, but it's quite simple once you sit down and actually send email
to one to get a feel for how it works.
There are several different kinds of mailing list server programs. OneNet
uses a Unix mailing list server program officially called Mailman mailing
list manager, but for the purposes of this document we will refer to it
simply as "Mailman" or the "mailing list manager".
Each mail list has one or more associated owner. The owner of the
mailing list manages his/her list via web pages. Owners can add/remove
subscribers, moderate the mailing list and receive various error
messages related to it. If a list is owner-moderated, all mail posted to the
mailing list will be sent to the owner for approval. If a mailing list is
closed-subscription, the owner must approve all subscription requests
before the communication is posted.
Mailing Lists Cont.
Mailing list terms:
Mailing list--an email address you use for sending messages to the
mailing list's subscribers. Messages sent to the mailing list are
redistributed to people who subscribe to it.
Mailman List Manager--software that controls a list. To subscribe to a
list, people send email to the listserv program, not he list. The person
who maintains a list also sends maintenance commands to the listserv.
All commands and requests for OneNet lists are sent to
firstname.lastname@example.com (you can also use the mail alias
email@example.com ).
Mailing list owner--person who maintains a mailing list. (A list can have
more than one owner, but one person must be designated as the primary
Subscriber--a person who receives a mailing list's messages
Moderator--a person to whom a mailing list's messages are sent for
clearance before being sent to the mailing list's subscribers. All mailing
lists must have a mailing list owner, but moderators are optional.
Posts--another name for sending email messages to a mailing list.
Archive-- electronic storage of posts
Digest—a file compilation of messages sent to a list. For some mailing
lists, (those that are "digestible"), subscribers can get periodic digests
instead of individual messages.
Mailing Lists Cont.
Kinds of mailing lists:
Open/closed/owner-subscriptions: On an open mailing list, anyone
who sends a subscribe message for the mailing list is added to the list
automatically. A closed list does not accept any subscriptions requests.
On a mailing list configured for owner-subscriptions, requests to
subscribe must be approved by the owner.
Public mailing lists: If a mailing list is public, anyone can post
messages to it, not just the subscribers. However, only subscribers
receive the mailing list's messages.
Moderated/Unmoderated mailing lists:
Moderated mailing list, all messages sent to the mailing list first go to the
primary mailing list owner, who in turn accepts them (and forwards them
to the mailing list) or rejects them (and deletes them). Moderating a
mailing list keeps the discussion on track (irrelevant postings can be
rejected and the poster notified), might reduce the amount of traffic on a
mailing list, and it can also eliminate flame wars (when two or more
subscribers' postings become pointlessly argumentative). On an
unmoderated mailing list, all messages sent to the mailing list are
automatically sent to all mailing list subscribers. The noise level
(discussions considered irrelevant to most of the mailing list's
subscribers) can be high on unmoderated mailing lists.
Archived mailing lists:
The mailing list manager software can keep old postings in an archive. If
a list is archived, subscribers can send a command to the mailing list
manager to get former postings or view the archives on the archive web.
Registering a Domain Name
A domain name is used to set up email and web services. Without a
domain name you will not be able to utilize these services.
You will be responsible for registering your own domain name but you
will need some information from OneNet in order to complete the
registration form unless you are planning on hosting your own email and
web services.
OneNet has control over certain domains and if you fit the criteria you
can use these domains for free. The domains are as follows:
CC.OK.US (for community and junior colleges)
K12.OK.US (for K12 grade public and private schools)
LIB.OK.US (for public and private libraries)
MUS.OK.US (for museums)
TEC.OK.US (for technical/vocational schools and colleges)
ARDMORE.OK.US (for city of Ardmore)
CLEVELAND.OK.US (for city of Cleveland)
LINDSAY.OK.US (for city of Lindsay)
SEMINOLE.OK.US (for city of Seminole)
TULSA.OK.US (for city and county of Tulsa)
OTNNET.NET (for Oklahoma Telemedicine Network)
You can register one of these domains at
http://domreg.onenet.net/template.html or contact the helpdesk for
assistance at 888.566.2638 opt. 2 (to obtain an email or web ip address
you will need to speak to a helpdesk agent at this same number)
If you do not fit one of the above criteria or you want to register a .com,
.org, or .net address you will need to register your address with another
service. You will need to get the following information from the Onenet
Registering a Domain Name Cont.
1. Your email and web IP addresses
2. The primary and secondary server names and ip addresses.
3. The technical contact's name.
4. The technical contact's company.
5. The technical contact's address.
6. The technical contact's phone number.
7. The technical contact's fax number.
8. The technical contact's email address.
Once you receive confirmation of the registration you will need to forward
a copy to email@example.com
• If OneNet is going to host your email or web services, we must be
listed as the technical contact when registering your domain.
DNS Information
For .net, .org, .com, and .edu
Primary: dns.onenet.net 126.96.36.199
Secondary: terra.osrhe.edu 22.214.171.124
For .us
Primary: ns2.onenet.net 22.214.171.124
Secondary: ns3.onenet.net 126.96.36.199
*If registering with Network Solutions use the NIC Handle of OD724-
ORG as the technical contact.
If registering with another registration service, use the following
CONTACT: OneNet Domain Administrator
COMPANY: OneNet
ADDRESS: 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
EMAIL: email@example.com
Web Publishing Instructions
Web Publishing Information:
Unix pathname:
/onenet/username/orgname/1st letter of username/username/www
OneNet does not allow personal CGI or ASP scripts. We do allow PHP.
Saving your file with a .php ending will make the server recognize that it
is a PHP script.
MySQL®: Customers must first request the database before it is set up.
Customers can currently have one database. The database name will be
the customer's org name and the username and password will be the
same as their www-org username. There is currently no charge for this
service, but OneNet reserves the right to change that at anytime.
Web Publishing Using FTP:
• Open a web browser
• In the address bar on the browser type the following
Web Publishing Instructions Cont.
• To down load a file or folder, right click the item on the page
and then click "Copy to Folder".
• To delete FTP files enter the following at a DOS prompt:
o ftp www.yourdomainname
o username
o password
o cd www
o dir
WEB TIP: "mdelete *.*" will delete all files
"Help" shows the different commands
If your system uses a CERN proxy server, you will only be able to
download and view files. Check with your administrator to see whether
you can bypass the proxy server or whether a full-service FTP proxy
server is available.
Web Publishing Instructions Cont.
Web Publishing Using Frontpage®:
Open your Frontpage® client to the files you wish to publish
Click on "File" and select "publish web" from the drop-down menu and
enter the appropriate information as follows…
Location: http://www.yourdomainname
Username: the username assigned to you
Password: The corresponding password
*When publishing a single file, select "publish" instead of "publish web".
**In order to publish with Frontpage® there must be extensions loaded to
the website. To request the extensions be loaded to your site contact
the helpdesk at 888.566.2628 opt. 2 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
and we will install them at no charge.
It is important to remember, however, that once FrontPage® extensions
have been added to your site, you will no longer have the ability to FTP.
Email Client Setup Instructions
Type in your name as you wish it to be know on the Net. It will be placed
on all your correspondence. (John Doe)
Type in the name of your organization. (Triton ElementarySchool)
Your Email:
Type in your email address, username@yourdomainname. Your
username is assigned by your site administrator. (email@example.com)
Email Address:
This should be the same as your email address.
(username@yourdomainname or firstname.lastname@example.com)
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Servers:
Mailhost.yourdomainname (e.g. mailhost.triton.k12.ok.us)
Incoming Mail (POP3) Servers:
Mailhost.yourdomainname (e.g. mailhost.triton.k12.ok.us)
Email Client Setup Instructions Cont.
POP3 Account:
• username (jdoe)
• password (assigned by your administrator)
*Password will be displayed in asterisks
*Clients can use IMAP instead of POP3 but mail will be opened on
the server.
Do You Need Outside Assistance?
The following list contains names and phone numbers of technicians that
have worked with OneNet on behalf of some of our customers. OneNet
is in no way affiliated with nor do we accept any responsibility or credit
for any of the companies listed below.
This is simply a tool to help our customers find a technician in their area
in a time of need. If you know of any technicians that wish to be added
to the list, please have them contact the OneNet Helpdesk Coordinator
at 888.566.3638 opt. 2.
Chickasaw Telecom 405.749.1390 Statewide
Connecting Point 888.687.3701 E. of I35 & S of 66
HSC Computers 918.647.3800 E. of I35 & S of I40
Industry Systems 405.224.2682 Central and SW OK
ISC Computers 580.924.5999 Anything E of I35
Quality PC 918.647.6995 E of Yukon, N of OKC
SBC 877.792.5670 Nationwide
United Systems 405.523.2162 Statewide
H.323 Basics
Your local Area Network (LAN)
• Switched-not- shared
o The portion of your network between the H.323 endpoint
and router should be switched, not shared. This
requires the use of Ethernet Switches rather than the
use of Ethernet hubs.
• Broadcast Protocols
o Your network should be scrutinized for broadcast
protocols. These network protocols send messages to
all other devices on the network. This chatter can
reduce video quality, sometimes significantly. Examples
include: NetBEUI (Microsoft), IPX (Novell), DEC
(Digital), AppleTalk (Apple) and others.
• Firewalls
o A firewall is a computer, router or other communications
device that looks at every packet and makes decisions
about whether the packet should be allowed or enter or
leave the network. If you think that your network is using
a firewall, please contact the OneNet Video Helpdesk.
H.323 Basics cont.
Setting up Your H.323 Endpoint
• Ip Information
o Your H.323 endpoint should be assigned a Public IP
Address and setup with the appropriate subnet mask
and Ethernet gateway information. A public IP address
differs from a private IP address in that it can be
accessed from anywhere on the internet.
Typical OneNet Public IP Addresses begin with
164.58.xxx.xxx or 156.110.xxx.xxx
A typical Private IP Address begins with
10.xxx.xxx.xxx, 172.16.xxx.xxx, 192.168.xxx.xxx
(see RFC1918)
• Gatekeeper
o A Gatekeeper can provide several services that affect
the ability to place a call, the quality of service (QoS)
during a call and the ability to dial an alias. OneNet
currently makes use of only the alias dialing function.
Your endpoint will need to be configured to register itself
with the OneNet statewide Gatekeeper. This setup
The IP address of he Gatekeeper
H.323 Basics cont.
The H.3232 Alphabetic Alias of your endpoint. **
The e.164 Numeric Alias of your endpoint. **
• **OneNet offers Guidelines in
developing your endpoint aliases.
What's the difference between a Gatekeeper, a Gateway and a TCP?IP
1. The function of a Gatekeeper is described above.
2. a Gateway provides translation between two differing
standards. For instance, a Gateway might provide
translation between H.323 IP based video and H.320
ISDN based video.
3. A TCP/IP Gateway is the IP address of your router,
which is used to send packets from your LAN to the
Multiport Conferencing:
Many H.323 Endpoints can only accommodate Point to Point
connections. An MCU must be used in order to connect more than two
H.323 Endpoints.
H.323 Basics Cont.
OneNet provides basic MCU service for no additional charge to OneNet
customers. See the OneNet Operations Website to schedule your
conference (http://www.onenet.net/ops).
Your Distance Learning Classroom:
o It is helpful to post information about your H.323 conferences
and H.323 Endpoint in the room where the unit is installed.
Some important information includes:
The ip address of the Endpoint
The alias of the Endpoint
The dates, times and dialing information for
each of your conferences.
If Questions arrive, please feel free to contact the video helpdesk,
Mark Bryan, OneNet H.323 Project Administrator
Randy Bishop, OneNet Video Support Technician
Roger Holder, OneNet Video Support Technician
Phone: 405.225.9444 - Toll Free: 888.5OneNet
Video Desk: 405.225.9331 - Fax: 405.225.9250
Tips on Video Unit Security:
Please setup you Polycom or Tanberg unti for the OneNet network
before setting a password.
Before starting the password setup procedure, decide what your
password will be. Consider these password selection guidelines:
1. If you wish to enter the password from the remote
control, numbers are easier than letters.
2. The longer the password (more numbers and
characters) the more secure the password will be.
3. Passwords ARE case sensitive.
Please make certain that your personnel know the password before
calling OneNet for technical support.
OneNet Video may need access to your Polycom or Tanberg unit in
order to assist you with troubleshooting issues. Keeping this in mind,
please assign a password that can be shared with OneNet Video if
Please reference your system's manual for password setup.
1. Choosing opt. 1 when calling into the OneNet offices.
2. Signing up for OneNet News Updates to be sent via email or
alpha pagers. This can be done on the OneNet web site at
a. Just click on "Technical Updates" on our homepage and
then add your email address at the bottom of the page.
By signing up for OneNet New's Pros you will receive advance
notice of any maintenance scheduled that may interrupt your
In addition, you will also receive emails advising you of any
OneNet Network Outages and giving an explanation of the
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Phone (405) 225.9444
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