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September 21. 2013 11:05PM
Manchester bishop says Pope's interview misread
By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
The interview: 'A Big Heart Open to God'
Click here to read the interview with Pope Francis.
Those who think Pope Francis' remarks about abortion, gay marriage and contraception last week signaled a radical departure from the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church are missing the point, Manchester's bishop said Saturday.
Bishop Peter Libasci, spiritual head of the Diocese of Manchester, said people need to read the entirety of the Pope's interview published in "America," a weekly Jesuit magazine, to truly understand the pontiff's message about mercy, forgiveness and salvation.
"What the Holy Father is doing in this interview, he's handing on traditional doctrine but in a way that may be more understood," Libasci said. "Unfortunately, some of it is misunderstood."
Short excerpts reported in the media last week paraphrased the Pope as saying the Catholic Church is "obsessed" with abortion, gay marriage and contraception and needs to find "a new balance."
And some reports left out this comment: "The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time."
What Pope Francis said, in the wide-ranging and in-depth interview, was far more complex than what was widely reported, Libasci said.
"When we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in context," he said. "And that context is a comprehensive dignity of human life."
And while such issues are important and church doctrine is unchanging, Libasci said, the Pope also wants to talk about poverty and other social ills.
Indeed, Pope Francis likened the Catholic church to a field hospital after battle: "I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity," he said.
"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all."
Bishop Libasci attended a New Hampshire Catholic Charities event on Friday, where some Catholics were reacting with alarm to news reports of what the Pope was supposed to have said. Libasci told them what he hopes pastors across New Hampshire will tell churchgoers today: "Read the entire article."
"Because it is a very, very important teaching about the mercy of God to be found in the church as a community."
The Rev. John "Don" Keegan, S.J., pastor at St. Patrick Parish in Milford, said on Friday he had only seen snippets of the interview, but planned to do more research and will be discussing the Pope's message during his weekend homily.
"Yes, I think I will be, because a lot of people will be wondering what's happening," he said.
Keegan, too, said he hopes the faithful will read the Pope's entire interview.
"Each one reads everything through our own prism, and I think the faithful will probably do the same, and some will be happy and some will misread what the Holy Father said," he said.
"He's saying look at the whole picture," he said. "The church, church people and church bishops need to be less focused on the three issues (abortion, gay marriage and contraception) he brought up ... and more focused on a universal acceptance of people."
The Pope was urging people to focus more on the mission of Jesus Christ and the church, Keegan said: "We will be united with the Lord and that He is the one who teaches us and guides us in every area of our lives."
Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said on Friday, "I think it's wishful thinking from the abortion lobby that someday there's going to be a Pope who backtracks on abortion."
"I think it is very, very clear that the church is staying committed to an issue that is always central. It's just that he wants to underscore to the world at large that the Number 1 message of the church is grace," she said. "That's his job as the pastor of a worldwide flock."
Ashley Pratte, executive director of Cornerstone Policy Research & Cornerstone Action, also commented on the buzz generated by the interview.
"While I appreciate the attention that the media is paying to Pope Francis' remarks, few are taking the time to understand what he actually said," Pratte said in a statement. "I agree with the Holy Father that the church needs to be a more vocal voice of love and compassion in a broken world, while remaining true to the values that it holds so dear."
The Pope did not say the church would turn away from its views on life or marriage, and nor will we," she said.
In the "America" interview, Pope Francis also talked about the proper role of bishops: "The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. The bishops, particularly, must be able to support the movements of God among their people with patience so that no one is left behind."
"I think what we're supposed to is what so many of us have tried to do, and that is to be indeed with our people," Bishop Libasci said.
The Manchester bishop has taken that message to heart; he blessed ATVs - and even rode one - during Berlin's Jericho ATV Festival in July and was planning to attend Glendi in Manchester on Saturday.
"We have to be among the flock," Libasci said.To read the interview,
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email@example.com. Staff Reporter Michael Cousineau contributed to this story.


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A Durango woman was in critical condition Thursday after being run over by a pickup near the entrance of Office Depot in Bodo Industrial Park.
The crash occurred at 10:31 a.m. near the north entrance of Centennial Center.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Richards, 51, was riding a road bike southbound on West Frontage Road when a northbound Toyota Tundra pickup driven by Linda Wagner, 64, of Bayfield, turned left from the Frontage Road into the parking lot without seeing the bicyclist, according to a witness and the Durango Police Department.
The pickup hit the cyclist and caused her to be pushed onto the hood, the witness said. Richards then fell to the pavement and was run over by both tires on the driver's side, said Lt. Ray Shupe, with the Durango Police Department.
"She's in very serious condition," he said Thursday afternoon.
Richards was airlifted to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood and Thursday evening was in the Intensive Care Unit.
She appeared unconscious and had labored breathing moments after the accident, according to a witness who declined to be identified.
"I'd say the legs were pretty mangled, from my observation," the witness said. "I just pray to God she survives."
Richards raised both her hands as a reflex moments before the impact, the witness said: "She knew it was coming, I know that, because I could hear her scream."
The bicycle was dragged under the truck about 40 feet, and Richards was dragged about 20 feet, Shupe said.
The bike remained wedged under the truck after the vehicle came to a stop, and the truck also sustained damage.
Richards is a frequent cyclist and member of the Durango Wheel Club, her friend, Richard Bagienski, said. She has competed successfully in events ranging from the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic to cyclocross competitions. According to the USA Cycling website, her most recent first in her age bracket came during a New Mexico Cyclocross Series event Sept. 23.
"She doesn't use a car unless she has to," Bagienski said. "Last year, she took a solo trip from New Mexico to Florida on her bike."
Richards recently founded Bucket List Bicycle Tours, and the first trip she led tracked the USA Pro Cycling Challenge 2012 with the group riding part of the route, Bagienski said.
Richards and her husband, Joel, have two daughters, who also are avid cyclists. Lucy Richards rode to Washington, D.C. to advocate for meaningful legislation on alternative fuels and climate change in 2009, and the Richards' younger daughter, Nora, is on the University of Colorado cycling team and hopes to race professionally.
Charges against Wagner are pending, Shupe said. Police are waiting to see if Richards survives before determining whether to cite the driver with careless driving causing serious bodily injury or vehicular homicide, he said.
Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Officer Rob Haukeness at 375-4737.
"We want to send out all our best to the victim and hope for a quick recovery," Shupe said.

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== Mass Spec ==
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* Machine we use: Agilent 5975 GCMS
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* Injection to injection time is 1 hour.
* Injection to injection time is 1 hour.
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== References ==
== References ==
Revision as of 17:59, 20 November 2012
Back to Protocols
- 1 Mass Spec Reservation
- 2 Cell Prep
- 3 Hydrolysis of Amino Acids
- 4 Derivitization of Amino Acids w/ TBDMS
- 5 Mass Spec
- 6 Supplies
- 7 References
Mass Spec Reservation
- link. It is $25/hour.
Cell Prep
- Grow 1.5 mL of OD550 0.8 - 1.5 (approximately 0.3 - 0.8 mg) of cell culture
- Swirl 30-40 seconds in ethanol dry ice bath or liquid N2 (don't freeze sample with liquid N2)
- Centrifuge 5 min at 13,500 g, 4oC
- Discard supernatant
- Wash pellet with 0.9% 1 mL of sodium chloride at 4oC, pellet for 5 min at 13,500 g, 4oC
- Repeat last step
- Optional: store pellet at -40 to -80oC
Hydrolysis of Amino Acids
- Turn on the heating block and equilibrate it to 105 - 110oC
- Note: equilibrate the temperature with the hood at the level you intend to leave it at overnight. If you equilibrate it with the hood open, then close it, the temperature will rise due to reduced convection. Since we don't want to exceed 110oC, this can be bad.
All steps in this section should be done in the fume hood across from the GC:
- Suspend cell pellets in 1 mL of 6N HCl
- Transfer resuspended cells into 2 mL GC-MS autosampler vials
- Seal tubes with screw caps to prevent evaporation of HCl
- Bake the well-sealed 2 mL tubes for 12-24 hours in a heating block set to 105 - 110 (not hotter)oC
- Hotter temps will may destroy some amino acids
- ?? what criteria should we apply when deciding how long?
- Yanfen says that when she uses 1 mL of culture and 1 mL of HCl, she does 24 hours.
- Note: you can pause at this point by storing the samples at -20oC. Yanfen says there should be no problem storing them this way for 1-2 days. Janet wonders if longer is fine, too.
- Dry the hydrolysate at 95oC with constant air flow (or N2) gas flow in the fume hood until the sample is completely dry.
- Use the "nitrogen tree": Turn heat on high. Set pressure regulator on tank to 2-4 psi. Flow gauge should read 8 L/min for two samples. Clean capillary tips with ethanol, unscrew white plastic, move metal shaft down (may need to wipe with ethanol to allow this), insert capillary tip into glass sample vial (close to liquid but not touching), screw plastic threading back to lock the metal shaft in place. Leave heating block on. Move sample vial up hourly as liquid evaporates.
- Bake the dried samples at 105oC for another 10 minutes to ensure no moisture is left.
- Note: you can pause at this point by storing the samples at -20oC. Use new septum for cap if you do.
Derivitization of Amino Acids w/ TBDMS
Reagent Locations
- Internal standard: (???)
- pyridine:
Remove Ash
- Add 100 uL nanopure water to reconstitute the dried sample (if using 1 mL of OD600 = 0.6 culture)
- Add the volume of water to the vial with the dried sample, pipet to mix, transfer entire volume to a eppendorf tube and vortex.
- This is enough for technical replicates.
- Centrifuge at 13,500 g for another 1 - 2 minutes to remove ash
- Use a filter centrifuge tube if sampling a large fraction of this volume
- If using a very small volume (~ 10 uL) you can pellet without a filter and sample from the top of the supernatant. Centrifuge longer (10 min) if using this approach.
Add IS, dry, & derivatize
- Transfer aliquot into clean GC-MS vial with insert
- Yanfen uses 10 uL; we should use 20 uL
- Add 10 uL of internal standard to 20 uL of sample
- Internal standard is 13C 14N serine: has mass shift m + 4. Yanfen makes a mix that we used: 45 ul of the mixture includes 10 ul of 13CN15 serine. So, 45 ul per sample. I am thinking you should add 45 ul no matter how much your sample signal will be, since we would like have decent internal standards signal.
- We can prepare 40 uL + samples to use if the signal from 20 uL is too low
- Repeat drying step with nitrogen tree as done above or speed-vac
- If using speed-vac: 35oC for 1-2 hours until dry. Hold vials in 15 mL tubes.
- 2012/11/14: Yanfen recommended speed vac
- May need to switch rotor.
- Program 9. Check after 1 hr. Appox. Every 30 min after. Put vials in empty 15 ml centrifuge tubes. Balance rotor. Close lid. Press start. Stay with it to make sure it's actually going. Pump will be really noisy at first then will quiet.
- Check speed vac every 20 min to make sure it's still running.
- Optional freeze @ -20oC to pause
- If using speed-vac: 35oC for 1-2 hours until dry. Hold vials in 15 mL tubes.
- Turn on heater closest to the RNA room door. Maximum temperature.
- Prepare pyridine:
- Add one layer of molecular sieve to scintillation vial
- Add 1 mL pyridine per sample: found in Hackett lab cabinet under fume hood next to FPLC fridge.
- Let sit for 5 min. No agitation.
For each sample:
- Add 20 uL of molecular-sieve treated pyridine to the dried sample using a syringe (would dissolve pipette tip)
- The solvent may turn slightly brown
- Add another 20 uL of Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid tert-butyldimethylsilyl ester (TBDMS) and seal well
- use the same blue screw-cap but replace the septum
- Rinse syringe in leftover pyridine
- Repeat for all samples
- Incubate for 1 hour in the heater closest to the RNA room door. Use the maximum temperature setting. Turn heater off after use. (should be 65oC, but was only 45oC on 11/19/2012)
Mass Spec
- Machine we use: Agilent 5975 GCMS
- Injection to injection time is 1 hour.
- Before you run your samples, run ___ then a blank. (Blank must have an empty GCMS vial.)
- Sample are ionized (positively charged) as they pass through an electron cloud. Charged particles have different spectral peaks as they are unstable and degrade. This is useful for identifying the compound.
Operation Information
- Carrier gas = He
- splitless injection (higher sensitivity than split-mode injection)
- needle is washed in hexane
- more is available in room next door. Discard what is left in the HPlC waste jar, then refill bottle. Crack lid on squeeze tube so liquid doesn't get pushed out.
- quadrupole is ceramic (??)
Instructions for Use
- Check that there is enough gas. Want at least 40-50 psi.
- Check method (name = (?) ORGACD-TBDMS)
- valves: don't set anything
- Inlets: septum purge flow: wash out that volume
- Columns: flow is constant at 1 mL/min. Since temperature increases and He becomes more viscous at higher temps, the pressure ramps up, too. It is held high at the end to bake off anything that stuck.
- Aux heater: don't want matter to condense before entering mass spec
- Events: Counts # of injections. Helps you decide when to replace septum.
- Solvent delay: most of the sample is solvent. Let it run through.
- Gain Factor: Set to 1.00
- 1. 4 scans/seciond --> enough data to draw a smooth curve
- Time windo: how big the white window in the back looks
- Zones: shows temps in mass spec. Don't want condensation
- HiVac gauge: broke over weekend.
- Turbo Speed = 100 is desired.
- Load samples into rectangular rack. (count up as you go toward the back)
- Create file for sample run: will include the vial position and other useful info. (??)
- You can have it call your method from here. This will reduce the probability that other people will edit your method.
- Set path to method and where you want to store data
- Enter sample names.
- Start by ___.
Helfpul Info
- Each sample gets it's own folder. There is a text file in each of these folders that tells the method used.
- About our method:
- solvent washing: wash in A & B. Both are hexane. There are also options to wash the needle with your sample or pump liquid in and out of the needle (this is a contamination risk.)
- Air shows up in mass spec.
- Can look for the air peaks to make sure it isn't leaking. M/Z is between 20 & 40.
- The machine can be calibrated with ___ that is held inside the machine. We can run these tests if we want, but Martin does somewhat regularly.
TBDMS (Sigma #: 375934)
- The first compound listed (called MTBSTFA) reacts to form a TBDMS derivative. The 2nd reagent (TBDMSCl) is ...?
[ pyridine] (Sigma #: )
[ serine internal standard] (13C 14N serine. mass shift = m + 4.; Sigma #: )
EMD Molecular Sieve Type 3A 8-12 (MX1583D-1)
Pyridine Sigma ACS Reagent (360570-500mL)
Agilent Screw Caps with Red PTFE/white silicone Septa 100 pk (5182-723)
Agilent Extra Septa Red PTFE/white silicone 500 pk (5182-730)
Agilent Vial Glass Small Volume Inserts (5183-2085)
Agilent Glass Vial 2 mL with write on spot (5182-0715)
Costar spinX Centrifuge tubne filter, 0.22 um cellulose acetate in 2.0 mL polypropylene tube sterile, RNAse, DNAse free. 24/pack, 96/case, 8160.
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June 30. 2013 11:40PM
Residential customers of Public Service of New Hampshire will pay 5.3 percent less for electricity beginning today, the result of a series of decisions by state regulators late last week.
A user of 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month will now pay $87.75 per month, a reduction of $4.68.
The four rate-setting decisions were released Thursday by the state Public Utilities Commission.
Public Service will reduce its energy service rate by 9.6 percent,. from 9.54 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) to 8.62 cents, and take a .61 cent reduction in its "stranded cost recovery" fee, which represents some of the costs brought on by the restructuring of the electric energy to promote competition.
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One part of the higher distribution costs paid by consumers will be an increase in charges to consumers for expenses associated with major storms.
PSNH will increase the money it sets aside for major storms every year by $5 million to $12 million annually.
Those costs are part of the company's distribution charge. PSNH said it asked for the increase because of the magnitude and number of major storms in recent years.
During its review of two lengthy mass power outages in the state, the severe ice storm of December 2008 and the Halloween snowstorm in 2011, the PUC recommended that the utility "pre-stage" by bringing in crews and equipment from elsewhere in the country in advance of major storms. In its decision, the commission noted that the company did just that prior to four big storms last winter.
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MANCHESTER — Three men were charged with disorderly conduct after police responded to a fight involving an estimated 20 people inside the McDonald's restaurant at 196 S, Willow St. shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.
Police are continuing their investigation into the incident that included throwing furniture inside the restaurant and firing gunfire outside in the parking lot, where police recovered two .40 caliber Smith and Wesson casings.
Police said the incident apparently began with a dispute between two men and escalated until two large groups were fighting.
The groups were dispersing when police arrived, but police sought to detain several possible participants, who police said were uncooperative and repeatedly shouted obscenities.
Three men were arrested for disorderly conduct: Osman Sesay, 21, of 579 Amory St.; Abednego Butoyi, 22, of 429 Hanover St., and Momodu Bah, 20, of 100 Ahern St. Bah also was charged with resisting arrest.
Police said the man with the gun was described as black, 25 to 28 years old, about 5-foot-9, 220 pounds, with short dark hair and a chin strap beard. He was wearing a blue and white checked shirt, dark colored pants and sneakers and left the area in a black four-door vehicle that rode low to the ground.
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The current structure makes ground beef and other select grade beef products much less competitive with other animal proteins, Rabobank states in its new report: Ground Beef Nation, released last week.
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First, the cost structure is critical. The gap is widening between beef and other animal proteins, such as pork and chicken. Second, the industry is still in a model of producing a full array of muscle cuts, such as bottom round and chuck roast, that consumers don't necessarily want, he said.
"We need to streamline to supply more of the items consumers want," Close said.
Top of the list is ground beef, whose popularity has grown due to cost, convenience and consumers' lack of cooking skills when it comes to certain cuts.
The majority of consumers have no idea what they're going to have for dinner at 4:30 in the afternoon. They want something they can cook in a narrow window of time. Busy lifestyles also make a case for ground beef, he said.
Demand for high-end steaks is still there at a price, but only 20 percent of consumption is rib and loin. Around 9 percent of consumption is sirloin, brisket, flank and short ribs, with the remaining 9 percent in some form on non middle meat cuts, which often end up being sold as ground product, Rabobank reported.
Retailers offer such cuts as bottom round and chuck roast, but the majority are taken out of the meat case before the sell date, ground and sold at a discount, he said.
The production model requires most of these animals to be fed expensive ration that aims to perfect the quality of, at best, 30 percent of the carcass, Rabobank reported.
"Essentially, the industry is producing an extraordinarily high-grade product for consumers who wish to purchase a commodity," the economists stated.
In the current model, beef is expensive to produce and is becoming increasingly uncompetitive in the meat case, Close said.
In order to be more efficient and competitive, the end use of cattle should be determined as early as possible and the animals managed for the end goal. Between one-third and half of U.S. cattle should be raised primarily for ground beef, he said.
The rib and loin will still be pulled from those animals to sell as popular cuts, but there would be more select-grade cuts at retail at somewhat lower quality, he said.
"They're not going to be as good (as choice) but will eat well," he said.
The industry would still produce high-end carcasses from high-end animals to meet the demand for high-end cuts, but it could be more efficient in raising more of the cattle for ground beef, he said.
The share of the calf crop not selected for choice or prime would be fed and managed differently, left on some type of natural forage for a longer period of time, reducing the cost of gain. It would result in a savings in time, efficiency and food resources previously used to make the animal better and fatter, he said.
As a result, the industry would not be pushing lower-grade cattle – incurring extra grain costs and energy days on feed – to make the animals grade higher than they would realistically or efficiently be able to accomplish, he said.
Changing the model would be a huge process and involve widespread application, but per capital consumption will continue to erode further without it. The cattle industry is in a time of stabilization and transition, making efforts to rebuild the herd, and now would be the time to begin a transition to a more efficient model, he said.
If everyone were on board today, breakneck speed for a new model would be three to five years out. A more likely, practical timeline would be five to 10 years, he said.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Most thieves would balk at stealing on the NYPD baseball team, but the squad has been forced to cancel a tournament championship game after someone made off with its jerseys, gloves and bats.
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Brothers step in, thwart bank stickupBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 26. 2013 10:06PM
MANCHESTER - Angel Rivera already had quite a 'to do' list Friday. The last thing he needed was to help his brother pin an alleged bank robber to a wall until police arrived.
"I saw him push the guy at the counter and the money going into a bag, and then we just went at him," said Rivera. "I wasn't scared until it was over. After I thought about what happened, I headed to the liquor store, grabbed some nips, had 'em and laid down in bed."
Rivera, 59, and his brother Luis Quinones, 47, both of Manchester, tackled an alleged bank robber David Roberts on Friday morning, holding him against a wall until police arrived at the Citizens Bank branch at 1550 Elm St.
David Roberts, 64, of 420 Maple St., was arrested and charged with robbery. After further investigation, police said this was the second time Roberts robbed the bank and charged him with the Nov. 21, 2012, robbery of the bank.
Friday morning, police responded to the bank shortly after 11 a.m. and learned a man wearing a surgical mask and clear plastic gloves had approached a teller and announced he was robbing the bank.
After the robber refused the teller's request to remove the mask, the teller put cash on the counter and the robber put it into a plastic bag he had pulled from his pocket. The man then headed for the door, where another employee, who saw what was happening, tried to stall him, asking if he needed help.
Police said the robber pushed past the woman and was through the interior doors, starting out the exterior doors when Rivera and Quinones, who had been in the waiting area and had seen what was happening, tackled him.
"That's my bank," said Quinones, of 41 Pennacook St. "We're there every day. We don't need people like that in the neighborhood."
"We were waiting, and we saw this guy come in," said Rivera. "He was wearing a mask, and I said to my brother that he looked like a robber. Then I saw the young guy that works there putting money in a bag. When he pushed a lady that works there that I know, that's when we jump on him."
Quinones grabbed one of the man's hands and put it behind his neck, while Rivera said he grabbed the man's other hand and pinned it behind the man's back. The duo held Roberts against a wall in the bank foyer until police arrived.
"He was fighting us, but I was holding him and yelling at him, 'Give me the damn money' and he gave it to me," said Rivera. "Then I was holding the bag in one hand, and holding him there with the other. Then I dropped the bag on the floor. It was full of $100 bills."
Rivera, a 40-year resident of the Queen City, said it's not the first time jumped into action in a dangerous situation. He said as a teen living in Philadelphia, he saw two guys beating up an old man.
"I jumped in and knocked them off him, and they ran away," said Rivera "I didn't know him, but that could have been my father. People can't pull that crap."
"I didn't think about if he had a weapon," said Quinones. "It happened so fast, I had no time."
"Everything went up - my blood pressure, I was sweating," said Rivera. "After the liquor store I just lay right down for a rest. I got my daughter's baby shower (today)."
Police said witnesses identified Roberts as the man who had robbed the bank Friday and he was placed under arrest.
Based on additional investigation after Roberts' arrest Friday, he was charged with a second count of robbery for a robbery reported at the same bank on Nov. 21, 2012.
On that date, a man with a similar physical description, also wearing a surgical mask and gloves, entered the bank and demanded cash in a similar fashion. Manchester detectives were able to develop information that identified Roberts as the suspect in that robbery as well.
Quinones said he believes he and Quinones were there that day, too.
"We were at the bank that day, and when we got there the cops were everywhere," said Quinones. "We couldn't get in. I guess we just missed him."
"I know all the people that work there," said Rivera. "I got so mad seeing him do that. That's my bank. All the ladies there, they were kissing me after. I never had so many kisses in my life."
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Julie McBroom said her dog's recent trek onto an ice-covered lake turned into "quite an ordeal" when the canine couldn't be coaxed off the ice.
Julie McBroom said her dog's recent trek onto an ice-covered lake turned into "quite an ordeal" when the canine couldn't be coaxed off the ice.
Firefighters ultimately were called to rescue the dog named Tucker. And the canine ended up in the water with one of the firefighters.
"He had an adventure that's for sure," McBroom said.
She said Tucker was fine after the ordeal. The dog even had a roll in the snow after he was rescued from the lake.
The incident happened Feb. 1 in the area of 163rd Street and Dana Lane.
Jeff Simpson, who is a captain with Leavenworth Fire District No. 1, said he wasn't scared when he crawled onto the thin ice.
Simpson said he has practiced ice rescues. And he'd previously used that training to help rescue animals.
Simpson and Lt. Dave Asmus both went onto the ice to perform the rescue. Simpson ended up breaking through the ice but he kept warm inside what is called a dry suit.
Rick Huhn, chief of Fire District No. 1, estimated the ice over the lake, which is near Lansing, was between a quarter and half of an inch thick.
Fire District No. 1 provides service to the city of Lansing and the Delaware and High Prairie townships.
McBroom said Tucker, who's a golden retriever and border collie mix, apparently had gone onto the ice with a neighbor's dog. The other dog finally was coaxed off the ice.
"My dog just wouldn't come off," McBroom said.
McBroom said she was working at the time but received a call from a neighbor. She arrived at the lake as the firefighters were headed out to get her dog.
"He'd been out there three, four hours," she said.
Simpson said he wore a dry suit rather than an ice suit because firefighters initially planned to use a boat to reach the dog.
"We ended up scratching that idea," he said.
Firefighters had rope tethers as they went onto the ice.
When he first stepped on the ice, it began to crack, Simpson said.
"We knew it was thin," he said.
He tried to spread out his body as he made his way across the ice rather than walking.
"You don't walk out because that puts more pressure on the ice," Simpson said.
He initially crawled on the ice. As the ice began "popping," he laid on his belly and continued to move across the ice.
Simpson estimated the dog was between 75 and 100 feet from the edge of the lake. The firefighter said he'd probably traveled between 40 and 50 feet across the ice before he broke through.
Simpson said he knew he eventually was going to fall through the ice, so he intentionally broke through it so he could make a controlled entry into the water.
As Simpson made his way through the water, there were a couple of spots where his feet kicked something. But he was told the body of water reached a depth of eight feet.
When Simpson was about 10 to 12 feet from the dog, the animal walked over to him on the ice.
"I couldn't get him to walk the rest of the way in," Simpson said.
He said he ended up having to pull the dog into the water with him so he could carry the animal.
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While Simpson stayed warm in the dry suit, he admitted his hands became cold, but he is OK.
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McBroom said the dog was toweled off and taken home after the rescue.
She said it was a good thing the firefighters responded because she doesn't think the dog would have ever come off the ice.
McBroom said she's since learned a lot of dogs get stuck on ice.
While Simpson's been involved in rescuing animals, he has not been called upon to save a person from an icy body of water.


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March 23. 2013 3:02AM
Another View -- Susie Hackler and Rick Russman: The raiding of NH's dedicated funds continues
SUSIE HACKLER and RICK RUSSMAN
We are in the thick of budget season in New Hampshire, and as in years past, the governor and Legislature face tough choices. Whether it's health care, social services or the environment, only one issue really matters right now to pretty much everyone at the State House, and that's finding money to balance the general fund budget.
The struggle to balance the budget is nothing new, but unfortunately neither is the solution: Once again, the governor and our legislators plan to dip into dedicated funds to balance the books. It's hardly a winning strategy.
Dedicated funds are those fees paid by users, or participants in certain activities, that are "dedicated" because they are designed to fund or cover costs associated with those specific activities. In state government, there are hundreds of such fees, established over time to fund specific purposes.
The Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) is a dedicated fund. Since 2007, New Hampshire citizens have paid a $25 fee on mortgage transactions to fund land and historic conservation. When you pay the fee, you assume the money actually goes to conservation. But it doesn't. Over the last five years, almost two-thirds of LCHIP fees have been "swept" into the state's general fund to help balance the budget (in fiscal years 2012 and 2013, all the monies went to this budget-balancing act). So while fee-payers are told they're supporting a conservation account, they are, in fact, supporting general government operations, making the LCHIP fee, in reality, a mortgage tax.
Gov. Maggie Hassan has proposed fully funding LCHIP in the second year of her budget, yet legislative budget writers are preparing to once again dip into LCHIP's dedicated fund, taking half the money in the second year of the budget for the general fund.
And the governor's budget proposal goes one step further. Buried in House Bill 2 is a provision authorizing the governor - without legislative oversight - to use "an amount of dedicated funds for transfer to the general fund, sufficient to cover the budget shortfall."
This broadly worded provision would allow the governor to use millions of dollars in dedicated user fees - collected for purposes ranging from transportation improvements and environmental protection to energy development and public safety - to fill the hole everyone knows exists in the current year's budget. And all without public hearings, legislative oversight, or any input from Granite Staters who pay these dedicated fees.
We understand that the state is having a difficult time balancing its operating budget, but when citizens pay a fee for one specific purpose, let's use it for that purpose or at least be given the courtesy of being told why it can't be used for that purpose.
If the budget situation demands redirecting those fees, say so, out in the open, through a public process instead of through a provision buried in the depths of a budget bill.
And while LCHIP is just one example among hundreds of dedicated funds, it is one whose impact is felt across the Granite State. If there are no funds to protect our land and community heritage, we need to know that. If New Hampshire residents are getting slapped with a new mortgage tax, we need to know that, too, and hold our elected officials accountable.
Susie Hackler is the executive director of Conservation New Hampshire. Rick Russman is a former Republican state senator from Kingston.


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Senate rejects series of tougher gun-control measuresBy DAVID LIGHTMAN and CURTIS TATE
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April 17. 2013 9:48PM
WASHINGTON - Gun control advocates led by President Barack Obama suffered a huge setback Wednesday as the Senate defeated a delicately crafted compromise aimed at strengthening background checks for gun buyers - and then proceeded to reject a ban on certain weapons and limits on ammunition clips.
The votes were a bitter reminder that winning even the most gentle of gun control measures faces a near-impossible path to winning congressional approval.
"All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," a clearly irritated Obama said after the background check vote.
Victims of gun violence from Newtown, Tucson, Colorado and other sites of recent violence watched the votes from the galleries. "Shame on you!" Patricia Maisch, a survivor of the January 2011 Tucson shopping center shootings, shouted as the Senate vote to reject the background check compromise was announced.
At the White House after the vote, Mark Barden, the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook, recalled how "we met with dozens of Democrats and Republicans, and shared with them pictures of our children, our spouses, our parents who lost their lives on Dec. 14. Expanded background checks wouldn't have saved our loved ones, but still we came to support a bipartisan proposal from two senators."
The disappointment and anger were clear. Obama had a personal lobbying effort unlike any seen by a president since the Clinton administration. After the background check defeat, he went to the Rose Garden, flanked by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden, and put the blame for the defeat squarely on the gun lobby. Giffords was severely wounded in the Tucson incident.
"All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that lets dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check," Obama said.
"Instead of supporting this compromise," he said, "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. They claimed that it would create some sort of 'big brother' gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite."
In vote after vote Wednesday afternoon, gun control backers came up short of the 60 needed for passage.
The background check compromise got 54 votes. The ban on certain types of weapons got 40, even after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pleaded with colleagues to "show some guts." The effort to put curbs on ammunition clips got 46 votes.
Senators from more rural, more conservative states sided with gun rights advocates. Senators with more urban constituencies backed gun control.
Gun rights supporters tried to get some changes to the bill, and those too failed. A bid to expand concealed-carry laws got 57 votes. An alternative to the background check compromise got 52.
Many had thought the tortured memory of Newtown would finally help win at least the background check effort.
"If tragedy strikes again _ if innocents are gunned down in a classroom or a theater or a restaurant _ I could not live with myself as a father, as a husband, as a grandfather or as a friend knowing that I didn't do everything in my power to prevent it," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
But conscience meant different things to different senators.
Reid's Nevada colleague, Republican Sen. Dean Heller, was seen as a potential swing vote for the background check compromise. He voted no.
"The onerous paperwork and expansion of federal power mandated in this legislation are too great of a concern," he explained in a statement. "I believe that this legislation could lead to the creation of a national gun registry and puts additional burdens on law-abiding citizens."
That was the opponents' chief complaint. The background check provision was viewed as a mild form of gun control. Crafted by gun rights backers Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., it would extend background checks to gun shows and online sales but would exempt private transactions.
Manchin, a National Rifle Association member, pleaded with colleagues to back the measure and said on the Senate floor that the NRA had lied about the measure's reach.
"There is not a universal background check," he said, answering critics. "There is nothing in this bill that basically says that you're living in a neighborhood, and you want to sell your neighbor your gun, you can do it. No background checks are required."
Other opponents argued that the Manchin-Toomey approach simply wouldn't work.
"We should not further strain the existing broken system by expanding the use of an incomplete database to more transactions," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. "We should fix the existing system."
Grassley and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, offered an alternative that would increase the number of mental health records entered into the federal background check database.
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Timberlane hockey team leaves game in second period, forfeitsBy MARK QUIRK
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 13. 2013 10:08PM
Kurt Mithoefer has seen a lot during his career as both a hockey player and coach, but what happened in his game at West Side Arena on Wednesday shocked him.
With his Merrimack High School team beating Timberlane Regional of Plaistow 8-1 and about 2:30 left in the second period, the Owls and their entire coaching staff left the rink and didn't return.
"I was completely blown away when I saw that," Mithoefer said.
It all happened shortly after a scrum in front of the net during which some jousting took place and words were exchanged between players. That's when the Timberlane coach left the bench and his players followed suit by skating off the ice.
Mithoefer said some of the Owls tried to "bait" his kids while they were leaving the ice but his players didn't bite.
"Not during my playing days and the couple of years I've been coaching.," Mithoefer said when asked if he had ever seen anything like that. "I don't know exactly what (the Timberlane coach) was complaining about."
The Timberlane coach and athletic director could not be reached for comment.
Mithoefer said the coach was vocal for most of the game about the officiating and the fact one of his players was hurt. At one point in the second period the Timberlane coach leaned over the boards separating the team benches and told Mithoefer he wasn't coming back to the ice after the second intermission.
They didn't even wait that long.
The Tomahawks had only two penalties in the game up to that point and the Owls had seven. The score was 4-1 after one period and the lead got up to 8-1 before things boiled over. The Tomahawks are enjoying an undefeated season and stand atop the Division II standings at 14-0, while Timberlane has struggled this year and is now 1-13.
Some coaches spoken to about the situation said they believe the punishment for such actions would be a one-year suspension.
NHIAA Executive Director Pat Corbin could not be reached for comment either.


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Nashua alderman says boards need more womenBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 14. 2013 11:22PM
NASHUA - There are significantly more men than women seeking positions on various city boards and committees, a shift that has at least one alderman raising a red flag.
This week, several individuals were appointed to committees, with the majority of those people representing the male gender.
The new appointments mean that two major city boards - the city planning board and the zoning board of adjustment - will be filled with all men, with the exception of one female aldermanic liaison.
"The balance of these boards is not reflective of the community," Alderman-at-large Barbara Pressly said this week, saying the exclusion of women sets the city back by decades.
Pressly said more women need to be sought for various committees, especially important land-use committees such as planning, zoning and conservation boards.
Of the six appointments confirmed Tuesday by the board of aldermen, five of the positions are being filled by men.
"I think this does not represent our citizens," said Pressly, who added that it is important to get a female perspective when dealing with city issues.
Although Pressly supported the appointments, Pressly said that in the future, she will think twice about voting in the affirmative unless more women are being recommended for committee roles.
Mayor Donnalee Lozeau said Thursday that women are not being excluded from the positions but rather there are fewer ladies showing an interest in the vacant seats.
"I don't think there have ever been an equal amount of women compared to men (on city boards)," said Lozeau. "But I am definitely not discriminating. I can't think of any women that I have turned down."
Lozeau described herself as a strong woman who respects other independent and powerful females.
However, the mayor said she will appreciate whatever help she can get from volunteers - regardless of their gender, race, income or housing.
"We are so fortunate to have so many volunteers," said Lozeau, adding she has appointed about 300 people to various committees since she was elected mayor.
"Sometimes they are women, and sometimes they are not," she said.
In Nashua, there are several boards that have all-male committees, including the airport authority, police commission and fire commission, with the exception of women liaisons to two of those committees.
The housing authority has just one woman and five men appointed, while the downtown improvement committee has just one woman and seven men appointed, not including female aldermanic liaisons.
The conservation commission has three women on the seven-member board, which includes one female alderman, and the board of public works has two women on the seven-member board, which includes Lozeau.
The arts commission has four women representatives. Six out of the 15 aldermen are women, and three females sit on the board of education. Some of the above boards, however, are elected positions and not appointed by the mayor for their terms.
Pressly said it is vitally important to have women sitting on some of these smaller committees, specifically because they often propel females into larger political careers down the road.
Lozeau said the city frequently advertises for various openings on committees and boards, and that she tries to make announcements seeking out potential applicants - male and female.
"I look at them, and I am grateful they are willing to volunteer," she added.


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Snacking throughout the day can be good for one's overall health.
As I've gotten older my eating habits have changed, hopefully for the better. I was always told breakfast was the most important part of the day. It wasn't until my adult years that I understood a morning meal is what jump starts your metabolism. After that it's best to eat something every three hours. I try to follow this pattern by starting with oatmeal or pancakes in the morning. Around 10:00 a.m. I eat a banana or orange.
My noontime meal consists of a sandwich, soup or salad. By 3:00 p.m. my stomach rumbles and it's time for another snack, often a yogurt or granola bar. I definitely notice my body slowing down during the late afternoon hours so nutritious snack is important to rejuvenate my body. At 6:30 p.m. I eat a full balanced meal with my family and then might follow up with a snack around 8:00 p.m.
What I've discovered with this pattern of eating is that it's okay to consume foods throughout the day. It's key to keep those snacks healthy and complement them with lots of water and moderate excercise.


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Hampton man killed with sledge hammer; roommate charged with murderBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
October 07. 2013 12:27PM
HAMPTON - Police charged a 70-year-old roommate of Robert Roderick with second-degree murder Monday for allegedly beating Roderick to death with a sledge hammer inside his rented beach house last Thursday.
Peter Bartoloni was incarcerated on an unrelated Hampton charge of failure to register as a sex offender when police arrested him Monday morning on the murder charge, according to assistant attorney general Peter Hinckley and court records.
Bartoloni and Roderick, 56, were roommates "for a brief time" at the beach house Roderick rented at 19 M St., Hinckley said.
They were roommates at the time of the murder, the prosecutor said.
Roderick's body was discovered on the living room couch by a third roommate Thursday night.
An autopsy revealed cause of death to be blunt impact injuries to the head.
In an unrelated case, Bartoloni was arraigned in the 10th Circuit Court in Seabrook Monday morning on a charge alleging he failed to report his status as a sex offender to the Hampton Police Department after moving into the beach house with Roderick.
Police arrested Bartoloni on the failure-to-report charge Friday while investigating Roderick's murder.
"During our investigation we became aware of this individual who had not reported," Hampton Police Chief Jamie Sullivan said.
According to a police affidavit, Bartoloni was convicted of rape in Massachusetts in 1990.
"When running a query on Mr. Bartoloni, he also shows to be a Commonwealth of Massachusetts sexual offender for a sexual offense occurring on 1980-12-22. Based upon this information, it appears likely that he has multiple convictions or prosecution for sexual offenses," Hampton police Detective Christopher Gilroy wrote in the affidavit.
When police contacted the Massachusetts Sexual Offender Registry Board, they were told that Bartoloni last registered as an offender in Lowell, Mass., and never indicated that he had moved or planned to relocate to Hampton as required by law, the affidavit said.
In an interview, Bartoloni told police that he has been living on Hampton Beach for "five months" and that he is aware that he's a registered sex offender, the affidavit said.
Bartoloni also told police that he was considering a move to New Mexico.
Bartoloni will be arraigned Tuesday on the murder charge in the 10h Circuit Court in Seabrook.
Meanwhile, the manager of the Westport Motel on Ashworth Avenue confirmed that Bartoloni had checked into the motel Thursday night. The manager said Bartoloni was "in and out" of the motel that night.
Scott Anderson, who had been staying with Roderick a few days last week and found Roderick's body, described Bartoloni as a "gentle, older guy."
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Mexico seventh grade girls basketball team traveled to Kirksville on Nov. 20 for their season opener.
The final score was 20-33. Even though we lost, we had sparks of energy that will only get better with more games and playing time for each player," stated MMS coach Stephanie Schutte.
The leading scorer was Adria Costley with 14 points.
Next action for MMS will be Nov. 29 at Warren County.


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Hayes Martens, of Chillicothe, is sharing his time and talents to create a piece of artwork that is being auctioned online Wednesday to benefit a Kentucky boy with leukemia. As of 11 a.m. today (Monday), the bidding for this particular piece had reached $9,000. It's not any piece of art. Created with pastels and colored pencils, it is a drawing of Texas Tornado, a "fluffy cow" that has become an internet sensation. As its name depicts, the cow (actually, a bull) has thick, fluffy hair. Texas Tornado is owned by Matt Lautner Cattle, of Adel, Iowa. Photographs of Lautner's fluffy cows have gone viral on the internet and now are trending on Twitter with the hashtag #fluffycow. Martens, 43, became friends with Matt Lautner through Trans Ova, where Martens' wife, Kelly, is an embryologist. Lautner had asked Martens, who works for Direct Freight Services, of Chillicothe, to do a drawing for him and then donate it to the auction. Martens' artwork shows Texas Tornado and identifies the cuts of beef. The piece of art is being auctioned through the Cowboy Up for a Cure benefit auction taking place this Wednesday. There are other lots in this auction, ranging from bull semen, fans, and other livestock related items. The benefit auction is for Drew Shryock and is being conducted on www.showstockplanet.com. All proceeds go to help offset the medical expenses for Shryock, a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in July 2012. The boy's family lives on a small farm where they have cows, dogs and cats. They grow corn and cut hay. The family has a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CowboyUpForACure. Drew's young and he loves livestock, especially cattle. Lautner is the owner of MattLautnerCattle.com, which is primarily a club calf operation. He has numerous club calf bulls that he markets the semen for throughout the United States. His sires dominate many of the local, state and national livestock shows across the country; including county and state fairs as well as much larger shows like the American Royal, Western National in Denver and the North America International Livestock Exposition in Louisville. His bulls are highly sought after and he is considered one of the best marketers in the industry. Martens had drawn some in the past and just recently broke away from a 13-year disconnect from art. This past March, after a large snow storm and a few days afterward, Martens said he wanted to see what St. Columban Church looked like with the red brick building blanketed with that much snow. "I really liked how it looked so I snapped a couple pictures with my cell phone," he recalled. "A few days later I was looking at those pictures thinking I should draw that. I did a watercolor painting of the church many years ago, before the steeple was replaced. Now with the new steeple and this heavy snowfall I decided to give it a try." He completed an 18" x 24" colored pencil drawing of the church and decided with their dinner/auction approaching, he should make prints and donate No. 1 of 5 Artist's Proofs to the benefit auction. Mike and Marti Miller purchased the print at auction for $900. Martens said he was honored to have been asked to be a part of the benefit and is pleased that funds raised through his artwork will benefit a child with cancer.


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Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee are suing Council Bluffs and two retired police investigators for more than $100 million. The men were sent to prison for life for the shotgun killing of John Schweer, a retired police captain who was working as a security guard for local car dealerships. Harrington and McGhee were freed in 2003 after 25 years in prison after the Iowa Supreme Court found prosecutors committed misconduct.
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Oh, there she was: Shaheen's vote for going nuclear
July 21. 2013 3:40PM
So now we know where U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was last Monday during a mandatory Senate meeting on changing the chamber's rules regarding the filibuster. Her office admitted on Friday that she skipped the meeting to attend her own campaign's fundraiser in New York City. Priorities, priorities.
Shaheen's office says she didn't really miss anything.
"That meeting was designed to allow senators to express their opinions on filibuster reform, and Sen. Shaheen's position is well-known by her colleagues on this issue. In the past, she has signed multiple letters supporting filibuster reform, wrote and distributed an article on the subject and has attended dozens of meetings and has had numerous discussions with senators from both parties over the years on this issue," Shaheen spokesman Shripal Shah told our senior political reporter John DiStaso last week.
Fair enough. But that makes Shaheen's absence worse, not better.
Senate rules allow the filibustering of executive branch nominees. There are people on both sides who think that should change. The meeting Shaheen missed, though, was not to settle that question. It was to decide whether the majority party would do so by violating long-standing Senate rules that protect the minority party.
Senate rules require a two-thirds vote for any rule change. The meeting was to decide whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should allow the filibuster rules to be changed by a simple majority vote, as opposed to the required two-thirds vote. This was too much for even some Democrats, who realize the precedent that would set. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said it would amount to running the Senate by fiat.
By skipping the meeting because her support for "rule reform" (her words) was well-known, Shaheen essentially cast an absentee vote for trampling the rules that protect the rights of the minority party. That, not simply skipping the meeting, is why her constituents should be upset. And should Republicans win the Senate in 2014, it will be interesting to see if Shaheen suddenly decides that "rule reform" is not such a great idea after all.


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Even though the draft is still about seven weeks away, the Robert Griffin III rumors can come to an end.
That's because the Redskins will acquire the No. 2 pick from the Rams, according to Jay Glazer of FoxSports.com. St. Louis will receive three first-rounders from Washington - the No. 6 pick this year, along with picks in 2013 and 2014. And the Rams will also get the Redskins' second-round pick in 2012, per ESPN's Adam Schefter.
In addition to Eli Manning and Tony Romo, the Eagles can now expect to face Griffin twice a year for the foreseeable future.
The Redskins are paying a high price, but the truth is, if Griffin's a franchise quarterback, no one in D.C. will care that they gave up so much. Remember, this is a franchise that started Rex Grossman and John Beck for 16 games last season.
According to Glazer, the Redskins wanted to make a play for Peyton Manning, but he did not want to play for them. That's when they decided to aggressively move to land the second pick.
The challenge now for the Redskins will be surrounding Griffin with enough talent without those first-round picks.
The Rams, meanwhile, make out great. Jeff Fisher moves down four spots in this year's draft and will have additional first-rounders going forward. St. Louis is in great position to surround Sam Bradford with talent on the offensive side of the ball.
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Firefighter, police officer hurt saving historic home, but barn destroyedBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Sunday News
February 02. 2013 8:33PM
A four-alarm fire in Durham destroyed a barn and left two first-responders injured, but firefighters spared most of the home from the fire, authorities said.
"It was a hell of a save," Durham Fire Chief Corey Landry said.
Firefighters from more than a dozen communities - including many who fought a fire in Portsmouth only hours before - protected the historic home at 4 Smith Park Lane. The fire destroyed a barn and a large breezeway or addition connected to the home, the chief said.
Landry said a police officer suffered a leg muscle injury that could keep him out of work for weeks.
A firefighter slipped and fell, suffering a back injury and a concussion.
"I think the helmet saved him," said Landry, who expects the firefighter back to work by midweek.
The injured were taken to the hospital and later released.
Landry said one wall of the home was damaged. Landry didn't have a dollar estimate for the damage. He said antiques were stored in the barn, but wasn't aware of any animals that lived there.
Durham firefighters were at another fire scene at 20 Main St., when the call came in about 3:30 p.m. for the barn fire. Firefighters heard exploding propane tanks in the barn, which collapsed in the fire.
The state Fire Marshal's Office and local authorities were working to determine the fire's cause.
The Durham Community Church opened its doors to provide bathrooms and warmth for emergency responders.
Durham and University of New Hampshire police helped with traffic and crowd control.
Fire apparatus and manpower from Dover, Lee, Madbury, Exeter, Portsmouth, Pease, Nottingham, North Hampton, Stratham, Newington, Somersworth, Rochester, Newmarket, Barrington and Rollinsford. South Berwick, Maine, helped with station coverage.