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Malaysia Airports Well on Its Way in Helping Government Enhance Bumiputera Participation in Entrepreneurship and Commerce
18 June 2014
Kuala Lumpur, 18 June 2014 – In view of some recent news reports stating that Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (Malaysia Airports) is lagging in its role to help enhance bumiputera participation in entrepreneurship and commerce especially with regards to klia2, we are pleased to provide our track record and existing successes.
Bumiputera participation among retail outlets at klia2 Terminal currently stands at 35%. By the end of 2014, this number will increase further to 38%. This increase will come from the designated corporate responsibility (CR) lots as well as from dedicated bumiputera lots. When compared to other popular retail complexes within the Klang Valley, these figures are among the highest as other malls only register on average, between 5 to 10% participation.
There are 17 corporate responsibility outlets where five have been awarded to Bread & Batter, The Dough, Batik Hub, Mollydookers Coffee Bar and Eat at Joe. All of which are new bumiputera entrepreneurs.
Another six will be awarded under the Bumiputera Entrepreneur Development Programme, a collaborative effort with the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Participants under this programme are still under evaluation and the selected proposals will be tabled for Board approval in July 2014.
This program is geared towards ensuring that a competitive and equal platform is provided for participants and only the best few who submitted sound and sustainable business plans are selected from the many aspiring Bumiputera entrepreneurs. As this is a collaborative effort, Malaysia Airports ensures that MITI is fully apprised of each stage of the evaluation process.
In answering the government's call for Malaysia's top 20 government-linked companies (GLCs) to participate in the Bumiputera Economic Empowerment Plan, Malaysia Airports work hand in hand with Unit Peneraju Agenda Bumiputera or TERAJU.
According to Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah, Chairman of Malaysia Airports, "We are proud that we have answered the government's call to participate to help enhance bumiputera entrepreneurship and commerce. In developing klia2 as a commercial space, we have put in place a plan that was aimed at helping bumiputera companies increase their participation in the retail business. This plan spans over five years and we are exactly on target right now. By 2018, we expect to have at least 54% participation, if not more from bumiputera companies."
klia2 has allowed bumiputera companies to benefit not only in terms of business opportunities and growth, but also in building invaluable experience and track record for developing and operating a world-class mega terminal. As a public listed company, Malaysia Airports is objective in ensuring that we act in the best interest of the company to remain competitive and continue to enhance stakeholders' value.


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Tastes differ, therefore we offer more choice. In addition to our standard meals, you can enjoy 5 delightful à la carte meals in Economy Class. Available on most intercontinental KLM flights departing from Amsterdam, except for flights to Aruba, Bonaire, Entebbe, Hongkong, Houston, Kigali, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver.
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Discover the cockpit's à la carte favourites. Start your meal with a delicate salmon millefeuille, dill cream and green asparagus.
Next, savour a main course of braised veal with a suave horseradish sauce. On the side, we'll serve some tasty cumin potatoes and a healthy dose of spinach, carrots and onions.
Eventually you can indulge your senses with our famous chocolate-coconut mousse. With your coffee and tea we will spoil you with extra sweets.
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Treat yourself to sheer luxury, including a small bottle of champagne and extra sweets with your coffee and tea. As an appetizer with your glass of champagne, enjoy herring caviar with Pommes Tzarine – fluffy mashed potatoes with sour cream and chives.
Your salad with lightly smoked tuna with a sesame crust is served on roman lettuce with a traditional Caesar dressing and sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
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You start your meal with the Japanese delicacy of sushi, a wakame seaweed salad and lightly smoked salmon with wasabi mayonnaise.
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You then enjoy pasta carbonara with pancetta and cheese sauce topped with pine nuts as the main course.
As a side dish, we serve a traditional Caprese salad with mozzarella, tomato and pesto and tiramisu for dessert.
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An Indonesian rice table with its many highly flavoured dishes is a favourite culinary tradition among the Dutch. Savour the flavours of this famous legacy!
Your Indonesian rice table starts with a kohodo salad with sweet potato, coconut and lemongrass-marinated shrimp and an Asian fruit salad with sweet soy sauce.
The main dish is a Beef Rendang, a slightly spicy Indonesian beef stew with basmati rice and sliced green beans with a side of spicy sambal sauce.
As a side dish, you can enjoy a ketoprak salad with thin noodles and vegetables and, for dessert, we serve spekkoek.
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Auburn board makes quick work of budget questionsBy BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 04. 2013 10:41PM
AUBURN - After just a few questions and comments among officials, the Auburn School District's Deliberative Session was closed and three articles were approved for the school district ballot virtually untouched.
One school board member quipped that the 17 minutes it took to conduct the meeting might be "a record."
The first article up for debate was the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Auburn School Board and the Auburn Education Association. The agreement provides three salary and benefit increases over the next three years: $82,270 increase for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, $111,433 increase for 2014-2015, and an $85,245 increase for 2015-2016.
Resident Gilbert Oriol inquired on the reason for the spike in the second year of the agreement.
He was answered by board member Alan Villeneuve, who said that while the second- and third-year raises were both 1.75 percent, there are changes in the health insurance burden which account for the discrepancy.
"In the third year, the health insurance percentages change," said Villeneuve. "The teachers pay an additional 2.5 percent health benefit, so that's why the number goes down.
The district's proposed operating budget followed. The budget comes in at $11,609,192, with the default budget falling at $11,437,610. Kathleen Porter, the board's representative on the Auburn Budget Committee, opened the discussion by thanking the Budget Committee.
"It's a lot of work," she said. "We actually do have a very good working relationship. We actually have fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. It's another successful year, and we bring forward our budget."
Resident and Planning Board Chairman Stoney Worster questioned school officials on several details of the budget.
One was an increase in student transportation cost: For the current school year, $558,730 was raised and appropriated. The transportation line in the proposed budget 2013-2014 school budget calls for $683,405. Kathleen Porter answered that the increase was due to the district's high school students currently being split between Memorial High School in Manchester and Pinkerton Academy in Derry. Two buses are being added to the district's transportation schedule.
The only change made to the warrant was a minor grammatical correction.
The final warrant article, which would take $25,000 from an undesignated fund surplus and place it into the School Construction Expendable Trust Fund, received no discussion. The fund finances construction, renovation, and expansion projects on school buildings and grounds.
The session's relative quiet may in part have been due to sparse attendance. Not counting school officials, only 14 people were present.
Porter used the opportunity to recognize several school officials who were present. Becky McCarthy, district clerk, District Moderator James Andrus, and School Board member Nancy Pelton were presented granite sculptures carved in the shape of the state.
The Auburn School District ballot will be presented alongside the town ballot at the Auburn Town Election March 12 at Auburn Village School, 11 Eaton Road. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.


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Empire Electric Association, together with a coalition of other electric cooperatives and large industrial clients, filed a formal complaint Monday with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission over Tri-State Generation and Transmission's new rate restructuring.
In a statement, Empire Electric General Manager Neal Stephens called the rate structure "unreasonable, preferential and discriminatory."
Two other Colorado utility co-ops - Durango-based La Plata Electric Association, and White River Electric Association, in the Meeker area - also signed on. Together, the three serve approximately 46,000 member-customers in 10 Colorado counties, according to the complaint.
The grievance is two-fold. First, that Tri-State eliminated the incentives that formerly encouraged cutting back on energy use during peak hours. And second, that heavy users - like Walmart, Southwest Memorial Hospital, the Ute Mountain Casino, and oil and gas companies - have been disproportionately hit by the changes. Stephens said such "high-load customers" could see a cumulative cost increase of 10-18 percent this year.
"These are (customers) that turn the power switch on and don't turn it off, the ones who consume consistent power around the clock," he said in an interview Monday.
Barry Spear, LPEA's attorney, told The Durango Herald that Tri-State has 20 days, from the Monday filing, to respond, but only 14 days to file a motion to dismiss the complaint if it feels the PUC doesn't have jurisdiction.
Starting in January, Tri-State hiked wholesale electricity rates by 4.9 percent, while also implementing the new rate structure. Stephens said Empire tried to minimize the impact on customers by trimming its internal labor and overhead costs so the co-op absorbed about half that increase.
Even so, some residents have complained that their bills have gone up. The "facilities charge," or base rate assessed to households regardless of electricity use, rose from $19.50 to $30.73 on Jan. 1. Meanwhile the kilowatt per hour energy charge decreased by 15 percent. Based on information provided by Empire, charges should stay constant with 2012 levels for customers with a monthly consumption of 672 kilowatt hours. Use less than that threshold, and your bill will be higher than last year. Use more, and it will be lower.
Industrial giants, including BP, Encana Corp., Enterprise Products Operating LLC, ExxonMobil Power and Gas Services, and Kinder Morgan, have joined forces with Empire and the other two co-ops in filing the complaint.
Stephens said intensive discussions over the past year and a half with Tri-State, protesting the pending changes, were to no avail. He called appealing to the PUC a "last resort."
"This action was very difficult for our board (of directors). We are supportive of the cooperative model and rate structure. We want that model to continue," he said. "We hope that (sentiment) is recognized, that we are still supportive of Tri-State, all in all. We understand why they have to raise rates. It's just the way the restructuring happened."
Stephens traveled to Denver on Tuesday to attend Tri-State's two-day board meeting.
In an email Wednesday, Stephens said the issue was only discussed in a closed-door executive session, not during committee meetings, so he didn't have a good handle on Tri-State's reaction.
"In Tri-State's defense, they probably only had time to read the filing and did not have time to develop a response to it (yet)," he said.
It's not the first time Tri-State has faced such accusations. The power supplier is currently embroiled in a separate legal battle involving three New Mexico electric co-ops. Tri-State filed a lawsuit arguing that, because its business involves interstate commerce, the January rate changes were outside the purview of state regulators, The Taos News reported last month. That case is ongoing.
In all, Tri-State supplies wholesale electricity to 44 rural co-ops in Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska and Wyoming.
For every dollar on an Empire customer's monthly bill, about three-quarters gets passed along from Empire to Tri-State to pay for the generated electricity.
Empire is obligated, under contract, to purchase 95 percent of its power from Tri-State until Dec. 31, 2050.


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text: As Surroundings Art Gallery enters its 29th season, we would like to welcome you to this wonderful area nestled between Lake Winnipesaukee, Squam Lake and the base of the White Mountains. Our gallery specializes in original fine art produced by extremely talented locally connected artists. You will see works in a variety of mediums (oil, watercolor. pastels, acrylics, glass, wood, etc.). We have beautiful folk art painted on many backgrounds: canvas, barrel staves, sap buckets, furniture and other objects. On the "Artists and Art" pages, you can take a tour of the artists' work.


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Starting today, hospitals around the nation will have their 30-day readmission rate count toward penalties from Medicare as laid out in the Affordable Care Act, but New Jersey medical centers are ready, according to one Garden State expert.
Kerry McKean Kelly, vice president of communications for the New Jersey Hospital Association, said today is rather "anticlimactic," as the state's hospitals have been implementing more proactive tools for three years in order to reduce the chance of penalty. However, NJHA does have concerns with the way Medicare calculates readmission rates because it does not distinguish between avoidable and unavoidable readmissions, Kelly said.
Under the new approach, hospitals that have too high a readmission rate for Medicare patients admitted for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia will pay Medicare back 1 percent of their annual reimbursement.
Kelly said that research produced by a 50-hospital collaborative identified readmission rates were driven largely by community factors, access to timely follow-up appointments with primary care physicians, access to healthy foods, and medication affordability and adherence.
"Some of the actual and practical strategies hospitals are using now to reduce readmissions are, for example, telephonic follow up with patients," Kelly said. "Some hospitals have hired advanced practice nurses to follow up specifically on patients. Some have begun to use more telemedicine equipment so they can remotely monitor vital statistics of the discharged patients."
Those strategies have been working in New Jersey although the decline has been slow here, said Dr. Andrew Miller, medical director for Healthcare Quality Strategies Inc., the firm contracted by Medicare to measure readmissions in New Jersey. According to HQSI, the state has reduced its average Medicare patient readmission rate from 21.8 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to 20.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
New Jersey continues to rank among the bottom of states for controlling hospital readmissions; Miller said anywhere from the low 40s to 50th in a study that ranked 53 entities—the states, plus Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands.
Miller said increased awareness and education in palliative care, hospice and other support services have helped hospitals work collaboratively with other providers to reduce hospital readmissions. Miller said hospitals have traditionally seen their job as what happens inside the facility walls, and the attitude was "it's not the hospital's problem if the patient can't get to their drug store to pick up the medications they need, or can't afford to pay for those medicines, or can't remember how to take them."
A collaboration that has reduced readmissions is the Trenton Health Team – an accountable care organization made up of providers in the six Trenton zip codes. Between July 2010 and June 2012, Trenton Health Team member St. Francis Medical Center reduced readmissions to its own facility more than 27 percent, from 177 to 129, according to Christy Stephenson, executive vice president of strategic and clinical transformation for St. Francis. But, when looking at readmissions of St. Francis patients to other facilities, only an 18.6 percent reduction was seen over the two-year period, she said.


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Cops & crime: Manchester's election-year problemEDITORIAL
October 16. 2013 10:57PM
Crime in Manchester (as in most cities) spikes every summer. It's as predictable as kids lining up at Cremeland, bikers returning to Laconia, and guys showing off their tattoos at Hampton Beach. Just as predictable: in a municipal election year, someone will present the recurrence of this annual pattern as a sudden and unexpected rise in crime that requires an immediate remedy.
Positioning themselves for next month's election, aldermen on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution stating that "city officials should be pursuing every opportunity to hire additional police officers, including applying for grants and funding through COPS or other applicable government programs."
And here we go. The question, as always, is not whether Manchester could benefit from more officers on the beat. It could. The question is whether the city can fund those positions. It cannot. Applying for federal grants is no solution. As a condition of receiving the short-term grants, the city typically must promise to continue funding the positions for a specified period of time after the grants end. Such terms put the city in the position of having to raise taxes.
Tuesday's resolution was proposed by Aldermen Dan O'Neil and Patrick Arnold, naturally. O'Neil never misses an opportunity to swell city union ranks, regardless of the cost, and Arnold is a candidate for mayor desperately in search of a message. Amazingly, he has settled on crime. He pretends that this summer's seasonal spike represents an "epidemic" of violence. Or worse, he is an alderman who doesn't know that crime swells in the summer and drops in the fall.


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Local Government Center case: $2.2 million in taxpayer dollars used to stop return of $53 million in taxpayer dollarsBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 27. 2013 7:38PM
CONCORD - The New Hampshire Local Government Center has spent $2.2 million in taxpayer funds contesting a Secretary of State order to return $53 million to members of its public insurance risk pools.
Interim Executive Director George Bald said he is attempting to slow the legal fight, which has resulted in an appeal to the state Supreme Court, and stop the flow of money to lawyers.
"When it comes up to more than $2 million, it's an awful lot of money," he said. "Certainly, I'm saddened we've had to spend that amount of money.
"I clearly understand that it's taxpayer money," he said.
By comparison, Primex, which is LGC's main competitor in the market for public workers' compensation coverage in New Hampshire, paid $31,799 in legal fees, said Primex CEO Ty Gagne. The company opted to settle with BSR, he said.
"We chose to reach an agreement because we find the dialogue with the bureau to be open, transparent and reasonable," Gagne said. "We were able to work with them to achieve a methodology that still protected the pool."
David Lang, president of the New Hampshire Professional Fire Fighters, who has led a decade-long battle to force LGC to become more transparent about how it was using member money, said the amount LGC spent to fight the BSR order was inappropriate.
"One has to look at the premise behind the fight," said Lang. "The hearings were about returning taxpayer active and retiree money back to those parties. It was basically giving them their own money back.
"Whether it was $2 or $2.2 million, in my estimation the premise was wrong," he said. "To use over $2 million of other people's money to prevent them from getting their own money back makes no sense to me."
Bald said he did not know why former LGC executive directors John Andrews and Maura Carroll chose to contest the BSR rather than settle.
"I can't speculate as to why the people who made those decisions did what they did," Bald said. "The leaders who made those decisions are not here anymore."
Bald said one reason the amount was as high as it is was because numerous parties and individuals were named in the hearing officer's order. He said each person named in the order required legal representation. In addition to LGC and the individual insurance programs, Carroll, Andrews and 11 other individuals were named, according to the order.
"Certainly, it would have been less expensive if there hadn't been so many people involved," he said. "My hope is that I can move us out of the legal arena so we're not spending so much money in legal defense."
After a hearing last year, LGC's Property and Liability Trust and its health insurance provider, HealthTrust, were ordered to repay $3 million and $33 million, respectively, from cash reserves that the state deemed to be too high.
Additionally, Property and Liability Trust, which is the parent of LGC's workers' compensation program, has been ordered to repay more than $17 million that the state deemed was illegally transferred from other programs to the workers' compensation program. LGC officials are struggling with how to pay the money back, given that the workers' compensation program has no cash reserves and the Property and Liability Trust program does not have enough cash reserves to cover both orders.
The workers' compensation program has annually lost as much as $4 million and is afloat only because it has been subsidized by LGC's other programs. LGC officials have said the program could collapse if the order is not altered or reversed.


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By Nancy Hastings
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JONESVILLE�� With the holiday season comes the opportunity to view angels all around � something a local outreach is providing the chance for people�to see.
Grounded in Grace Coffee House, 360 E. Chicago, has several upcoming events to show how others perceive angels. During the month of December, the coffee house will be hosting an art gallery with the theme �Angels Among Us.�
�We are inviting members and friends of the community to submit artwork that portrays where and how they perceive God�s presence among us in the form of traditional and not so traditional angels,� the Rev. Cathy Johnson said. �This can be something you create for this occasion or something you created in the past.�
Artwork can vary from paintings, drawings, photographs, poems, sculptures and more, Johnson said.
The coffee house, next door to the Jonesville First Presbyterian Church, was the former Grace Episcopal Church. It was purchased by several church elders and started as an outreach that has hosted numerous concerts and now, various events that tie together during the month of December.
In addition to the art gallery, the annual Knit Wits Christmas Bazaar and a Christmas concert and sing-a-long is coming up the first full weekend in December. The bazaar is from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 7, and �Songs of the Season: Christmas Carols and Special Music� begins at 5 p.m. Dec. 8.
�During the bazaar, there will be vendors at the coffee house featuring knitted and hand-made items, gently used Christmas items, the Knit Wits� famous pickles and lunch for sale,� Johnson said. �The concert the next day includes concert pianist Sandy Collins at the Jonesville First Presbyterian Church, followed by a Christmas After-Glow and Angels Among Us Art Gallery.�
Johnson said the Christmas events all tie together as a free-will offering will support the angel tree project at Williams Elementary School in Jonesville.
Johnson credits organizer John Ciaravino as the person who �puts in all in place�� he offers the vision,� she said.
Ciaravino is part of the executive committee overseeing the project, who is quick to note the mission�s vision wasn�t his alone.
�My job is to interpret other people�s vision and help them put it into action,� Ciaravino said. �It ties back to the integral belief of serving the needy.�
He notes that others, like Mary Jean Dulmage, better known as �MJ,� are instrumental in using their talents and ideas to further the mission�s cause.
�MJ has great connections with other people and helpful skills,� Ciaravino said. �As part of our marketing staff, she has ties with Sauk Theater and is creating a Web site for Grounded in Grace.�
As an artist, Ciaravino came up with the art gallery idea, noting it�s where the committee �is going - so people can come somewhere they don�t feel churched.� With so many ways to interpret what angels are, people can share their talents in a way that makes them comfortable, he said.
Johnson said numerous entries are beginning to trickle in with one from a couple who attended a reenactment in Gettysburg recently.
�They took a picture without realizing there was a rainbow and in the configuration of clouds, there is what looks like an angel,� Johnson said. �What�s also neat is that the guy�s son was recently cured of cancer.�
An art teacher in Jonesville plans to include her classroom in the project by choosing 10 artistic endeavors from a classroom assignment to be included at the gallery.
Dulmage hopes to do a clay sculpture with her 11 year-old niece, while Ciaravino is currently finishing up a stained-glass project to submit in the gallery. Johnson has a poem with a collage of images.
�Hopefully the words will flow and convey a message,� Johnson said.
The committee originally set Nov. 25 as a deadline for submitting items, but will accept the art up until the beginning of December, noting they don�t want to discourage anyone from bringing in things to display.
�At Grounded in Grace Coffee House angels are among us giving their gifts,� Johnson said.
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Epsom man says he was taken for a $2,600 ride at carnival in ManchesterBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 28. 2013 9:22PM
MANCHESTER - An Epsom man says all he wanted to do was win his kids a prize at a carnival on Saturday. Instead, he ended up embarrassed, angry and out $2,600.
"You hear about stuff like this, but you don't expect it at a carnival like this," said Henry Gribohm of Epsom. "The two guys at that game knew what they were doing, and they were very good. I know I fell for it. I was feeling good and I never recognized what was happening, but you just don't think about that at something like a carnival like this."
Gribohm attended a Kids Carnival, operated by Fiesta Shows, at the JFK Coliseum on Beech Street Saturday afternoon, when he decided to try to win his kids a prize at a $5 game called "Tubs of Fun." The goal is to toss two softballs into a large tub - also known as the Bushel Basket Toss. Gribohm said he came close to winning a prize, but fell just short. That's when he started receiving encouragement from the two carnival workers to keep playing.
"They said they would double my money if I could get 10 balls in the bucket," said Gribohm. "I was loud and into it, and they said I was helping to draw a crowd over to the booth. They said I would win my kids an X-Box Kinect, which are like $400 I think. So I gave it a try."
Before long, he said he had racked up $2,600 in charges.
Gribohm said he returned to the carnival Sunday and complained to management. He said a manager gave him $600 and an oversized, dread-locked stuffed banana for his troubles, but was told that was "all they could do" for him.
On Sunday night, a woman working the guest services booth at the carnival who gave her name as "Chrissy" said she was aware of the claim, but that the workers involved were not there. She attempted to reach a manager, Dan Delisle, who oversees the game booths, but he did not answer his cell phone.
"He's already broken down a few rides and games, and is probably headed off to the next spot," said Chrissy. The Fiesta Shows schedule has carnivals in both Sharon, Mass., and Derry later this week.
A call to Fiesta Shows' New Hampshire Sunday night seeking comment was not returned.
Gribohm filed a report with Manchester police.
"It will be assigned to the detective division, but where it goes from here is uncertain right now," said Manchester police Lt. Mike Hurley. "It may be difficult to track the people down, because I believe they may be from out of state, but the detectives will get started on it this week. We'll see how it plays out."
Gribohm said he hopes by getting his story out there, he may help someone avoid being swindled.
"Since Saturday, I've seen stories on the internet about this," said Gribohm. "It's happened to a lot of people."
In the book "Carnival Fraud 101," author Bill Howard writes that the "Tubs of Fun" game features plastic "muck" buckets from home improvement stores so that the ball gets extra bounce.
"From inside the booth, the worker tosses a softball and from his vantage point, it stays inside the tub," writes Howard. "Then he gives you the second softball for a practice throw - and it stays in for a win."
Why? The first ball remains inside the tub to deaden it and prevent your toss from bouncing out. But once you hand over your money, the worker removes both balls and hands them to you. Without a deadening ball, your first toss bounces out.
"You might as well throw your second ball across the midway because no way it will stay inside the tub, either," writes Howard.
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Since the inception of representative government and the universal installation and respect for a one-representative/one-vote system of ethics, the rule by majority has made way for a political system of fairness within which majority rules. For many years, there merely existed an option of each senator or representative to simply vote (thumbs) up or (thumbs) down. The notion of a single vote being cast which would override many other votes had been, in the Western world of democracy, unknown until relatively recently.
While the above one-representative/one-vote system is a cherished principle, it is no longer the case in the U. S. Senate. Today, one member of this legislative body has the ability to completely freeze the intentions of a very solid majority. This phenomenon of undemocratic government has come to be known as "the filibuster." In order for one senator to stall a piece of legislation, he may merely rise to the floor, and in effect, monopolize it through reading a phone book in order to successfully shut down a piece of legislation. Senators can and have invoked filibusters at whim. Today, no one even needs to read a phone book. A 40 percent minority can bring a piece of legislation to a screeching halt.
Yet, this can be altered. There exists a narrow window of opportunity for Americans, through their designated representatives, to reinvent democracy between now and January 22. The reform of the filibuster which has destructively been paralyzing America's political process now stands as a distinct possibility: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will have the opportunity on Jan. 22 to change the filibuster's "silent form." He will, however, need strong support from the rest of the senate.
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Ceylonthelphusa diva
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Ceylonthelphusa diva Bahir & Ng, 2005
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This species was formerly included in the Parathelphusidae but has recently been reassigned to the Gecarcinucidae; Parathelphusidae is now regarded as a junior synonym of Gecarcinucidae (Klause et al. in press).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Bahir, M.M., Ng Kee Lin, P., Crandall, K.A., Pethiyagoda, R. & Cumberlidge, N.
|Darwall, W.R.T., Pollock, C.M. & McIvor, A.
Listed as Endangered because its extent of occurrence and area of occupancy are about 10 km², all individuals are in two locations and although they are found in locally strong populations there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat from human-induced disturbance and pollution. Currently the range area for this species is not protected and habitat is subject to degradation because of direct human impacts.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Sri Lanka: Endemic to Sri Lanka. This species was recorded from two localities in the northern part of the Knuckles Mountains: Rangini Estate, near Gammaduwa, and near Midlands Estate (Bahir and Ng, 2005). Its range is about 10 km².
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Sri Lanka
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|This species is locally abundant.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species was collected from under stones in wet soil (<5 cm deep) next to a stream which runs through a small marshy area. Occurs in freshwater aquatic habitats in the wet zone area of Sri Lanka.
|Major Threat(s):
Sri Lanka's aquatic habitats are threatened by invasive alien species (>90 percent of the freshwater-fish biomass comprises exotics: Pethiyagoda 1994) and pollution, while its forests are threatened by encroachment and illegal produce extraction. The greater threats to the island's remaining wet zone habitats are perceived to be from indirect sources exacerbated by 'island effects' resulting from fragmentation— invasive species, pesticide influx, edge effects, local climate change and rainwater acidification.
Pesticides are a serious concern given that these substances are freely and widely used in Sri Lanka. Regulation presently addresses only human safety issues, and not impacts on other non-target organisms or the environment in general (Anon. 1980). Given that 24 of Sri Lanka's 49 freshwater crab species are restricted to montane and sub-montane habitats, poor sloping-land management and unwise land-use change in the highlands continues to be a serious problem (Hewawasam et al. 2003). An estimated 292 MT ha-1 yr-1 of topsoil is lost to erosion from these lands, degrading habitats and increasing silt loads in streams and rivers (ADB 2003).
Even species with wide ranges and apparent tolerance of land-use changes could suffer catastrophic declines as a result of changes, for example, in land developments, hydrology or pesticide-use regimes. For example, the populations of two species of widely-distributed freshwater fishes (Labeo lankae and Macrognathus aral) assessed in 1980 as "common" (Senanayake 1980) crashed within a decade, without warning, for reasons still unknown— they are now presumed extinct (Pethiyagoda 1994).
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation Measures: The long-term security of Sri Lanka's biodiversity will depend on minimizing fragmentation impacts through effective land-use planning and restoration initiatives while maximizing habitat connectivity between forest sites. Such goals can be met only through a policy framework built on sound scientific data, implemented through sustained, long-term financing mechanisms. Planning on such a scale is not imminent in Sri Lanka, and in the mean time, it is best that conservation activities be aimed primarily at preserving the integrity of sites and habitats while at the same time closely monitoring key populations.
The conservation of freshwater crabs hinges almost entirely on preserving patches of natural forest large enough to maintain the good water quality of the original streams. Many parathelphusids are extremely sensitive to polluted or silted waters, and will not survive when exposed to these factors.
|Bahir, M.M., Ng Kee Lin, P., Crandall, K.A., Pethiyagoda, R. & Cumberlidge, N. 2008. Ceylonthelphusa diva. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T61694A12527794. . Downloaded on 15 October 2018.
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February 13. 2013 11:46PM
Manchester school calendar may be shortened
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - A key school board committee has signed off on a plan that would shorten the school year, while having students spend more time in class each day.
However, the calendar, which would go into effect next fall, is drawing strong opposition from the city teachers union, which says it violates provisions in its contract concerning changes in work conditions.
The Coordination Committee voted Tuesday to approve a 175-day calendar, versus the current schedule of 180 days.
The change was prompted partly by the realization the district can meet the state mandates for minimum instruction based on days or hours. The required 990 hours for high school and middle school instruction would be compressed into 175 days, with the school year ending about a week earlier than it would under the 180-day calendar.
The proposed calendar would also make Dec. 23 a no-school day. For the 2013-2014 year, the last day of school would be June 12 for students and June 13 for staff.
Under the proposal, the additional class time would be incorporated into the school day by cutting the lunch period in the high schools, currently about 50 minutes, in half.
Mayor Ted Gatsas, a strong proponent of the change, said this would bring the lunch times in the high schools in line with those at the elementary and middle schools.
"Parents say their kids don't have enough education time," he said. "This would give them more of that."
However, Ben Dick, president of the Manchester Education Association, said the move violated a condition of the contract concerning changes in work conditions, since it would add to the work load of teachers.
"To accommodate the extra work hour, this would take away part of the lunch period and add to the work period," he said.
Dick said a memorandum of understanding with the district already prohibited any changes in the start and stop times for work - the beginning and end of the school day.
He also noted that the union had made it clear to the subcommittee that it considered any unilateral changes to the school day a violation of its contract.
"We've come to the conclusion that we need to handle this within the bargaining process," Dick said. "We've been preparing our members for this topic of discussion for some time."
The teachers contract expires at the end of this school year, but if no agreement is reached on the new contract, the current one will remain in force. Negotiations on the new contract are just getting under way.
Only two members of the Coordination Committee voted against the change to the calendar, Art Beaudry and Debra Gagnon Langton. The policy is expected to be voted on at the full board meeting next month.
Enrollment cap
The Coordination Committee voted Tuesday to send another potentially controversial policy to the full board: establishing a maximum and minimum enrollment for high school classes.
The policy would set a maximum class size of 30 students and a minimum of 15, below which the class would be cancelled.
The committee approved an exception to the minimum clause, in response to concerns raised by some school board members, as well as officials in Hooksett, which sends its high school students to the city and is locked in a dispute with the district over school conditions.
The revised policy states that "specific course extensions may be granted by the superintendent or his/her designee."
Board member John Avard had objected to the minimum enrollment component of the policy over concerns that it could lead to the cancellation of advanced and specialized courses, such as music, that tend to have fewer students.
"I think there needs to be more flexibility for special circumstances. I believe principals know when there is a special case, for example if there are only nine students in an Advanced Placement history class," he said.
Avard had proposed the amendment to the policy, and he ended up voting for the revised version.
The only vote against the policy came from board member Beaudry.
The policy proposal was prompted in large part by the outcry from Hooksett parents and education officials over crowded classes in the Manchester high schools. Hooksett has begun the formal process of ending its contract with the city over the conditions.
In a letter to the city school board sent prior to Tuesday's meeting, Hooksett Superintendent Charles Littlefield said the 30-student limit "is consistent with school approval requirements."
The town school board, however, had concerns about a 15-student minimum.
"It is the board's sense that many of these classes meet the unique needs of individual students and could have a negative impact on the overall breadth and depth of their high school experience," Littlefield wrote.


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Spader won't contest life sentence for brutal Mont Vernon killingBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 22. 2013 10:12PM
MANCHESTER - The state portrayed Steven Spader Monday as the psychopathic ringleader of the 2009 Mont Vernon home invasion murder who regards remorse as "weak" and "unnecessary" and likely would commit more crimes if freed.
Spader did not appear at his resentencing hearing and waived his right to argue for a lesser sentence. Yet, he said he accepts "responsibility for his actions" and - for the first time - apologized to his victims in a statement he instructed his attorneys to read to the court.
"Through my impulsive actions, I have harmed numerous individuals, both physically and mentally. I have torn apart families and ruined lives," defense attorney Jonathan Cohen read the statement aloud in Hillsborough County Superior Court.
"But still, I must beg forgiveness from everyone I have harmed. To the Cates family, I know my words hold no meaning. But I am truly sorry for the pain that I have caused you," Cohen continued reading from the hand-written letter as David Cates and his daughter, Jaimie, 14, listened from their seat in the front row of the gallery, surrounded by friends.
A jury convicted Spader, 21, in 2010 of first-degree murder and related charges for hacking Cates' wife, Kimberly, 42, to death and maiming then 11-year-old Jaimie in an early morning bedside ambush. He later bragged that he "broke up a family" and vowed to commit more crimes, the state argued.
"This isn't someone who is going to grow out of his problems. His problem is he is a psychopath. That is what he is. It isn't a phase," Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin told Judge Gillian L. Abramson.
Abramson said she will issue a new sentencing order Friday.
Strelzin dismissed the letter as "clearly disingenuous," noting Spader in December told mental health experts he felt no remorse for his crimes.
"It was hard for David and Jaimie and his friends to listen to it. David actually said it was insulting," Strelzin said afterward.
Monday's resentencing hearing was triggered by a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that essentially voided Spader's initial sentence.
"We were prepared to come in and put evidence before the court and make an argument on behalf of our client. We have been instructed to do neither," Cohen said.
In Miller v. Alabama, the court ruled mandatory life sentences without chance of parole unconstitutional for those who were under 18 years when they committed their crimes. The court said such sentencing schemes violate constitutional guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.
Spader was sentenced in 2010 to life in prison without chance of parole for the first-degree murder of Kimberly Cates, plus 76 years for the attempted murder of her daughter and other charges. His case is still pending direct appeal before the state Supreme Court.
The new ruling requires the court to hold a sentencing hearing to consider aggravating and mitigating factors related to Spader's maturity, recklessness, ability to appreciate consequences and risks, home life, susceptibility to peer pressure and capacity for rehabilitation.
The court can still impose a mandatory life sentence without chance of parole.
Strelzin said Spader tested "very high" in psychopathic tendencies and told the state's forensic psychiatrist: "I never felt remorse. I think it is weak -- not so much weak, as unnecessary."
A month shy of his 18th birthday when the Oct. 4, 2009, home invasion occurred, Spader showed a high level of sophistication and competency, Strelzin said.
Spader not only recruited a crew of four young male accomplices, he methodically planned the break-in and cover-up, targeted a house at random to throw off police, and participated in his own plea discussions.
He ultimately broke down because of what the state speculated was Spader's fear of prison payback if he pleaded guilty to hacking an 11-year-old girl and leaving her for dead.
Strelzin claimed Spader was not amenable to rehabilitation, citing as examples his "reveling" in the Mont Vernon killing and attempts to create a "criminal enterprise" in prison whereby he would enlist people who could help him escape prison.
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Hurricane Sandy has begun to make Kent County and the rest of Delaware feel her wrath with significant flooding that closed several roads in Kent County.
Significant flooding caused by the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy closed several roads in Kent County Monday, Kent County Levy Court Public Information Officer Kia Evans said.
The flooding was consistent with earlier flood warnings given by the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, N.J. National meteorologists in the Garden State had said Hurricane Sandy would continue to produce record coast flooding along the coast of Delaware and inland Kent County.
National Weather Service forecasters said Sandy would continue to produce "life threatening conditions" as it moved toward the New Jersey coast this evening. The eye of the storm would pass the central or southern New Jersey beaches this evening before moving inland.
Meanwhile, coastal flooding warnings would remain in effect until at least midnight tonight, officials said.
Evans, of Kent County, said the following roads were currently closed in Kent County due to significant flooding:
• North Market Street, Frederica
• Fast Landing Road, East of Bridge, Leipsick
• Port Mahon Road at Boat ramp, Little Creek
• Ponderosa and Plain dealing at Ponderosa and Nicolas Lane, Magnolia
• Cypress Branch, at the bridge, Magnolia
• Eagles Nest Landing Road East of Paddock Road, Smyrna
• Route 9 East of Flemings Land Road bridge, Smyrna
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July 30. 2014 11:35PM
Drew Cline: Home is where the really competent governing is done
In politics, Washington is considered the big leagues, with states the minor leagues and local governments rookie ball at best. Politicians are said to work their way up from school board to federal office, as if only the best of the best make it to the drained swamp along the Potomac. I have always been suspicious of this view, and after covering politics for two decades I have come to dismiss it as a Washington conceit.
States and municipalities have their share of elected cranks, fools, charlatans and incompetents. We see them in the news all the time. And yet these supposedly lower levels of government, where the supposedly less capable and less serious politicians toil, are the ones that balance their budgets, pay their bills, keep their roads paved, and generally return decent value to the taxpayers.
Among the hot topics in Washington this week are impeachment, scandals at the VA and the FBI, and the latest list of Washington's 50 "most beautiful people." If a New Hampshire publication tried to rate the sexual attractiveness of the state's political players, it would be ridiculed as deeply unserious. But this is an annual ritual in Washington.
In baseball, the greatest players never choose to stay in AA. They all aspire to the big leagues. In politics, many of the smartest, most capable people serve at the local or state level for a few years, then return to their private lives. They chair town councils, run legislative committees, serve on zoning boards and governors' commissions. I think the odds are pretty good that wherever you live, your local budget committee chairman is probably smarter and more serious about public service than your member of Congress.
One of the greatest politicians I ever saw was a North Carolina state senator named Hamilton Horton. He was brilliant, kind and wise. When he spoke, everyone listened. He would have been a tremendous governor (his grandfather was one) or U.S. senator. But he did not covet that life.
I have interviewed many governors, senators and presidential candidates, and I have yet to meet one who could match the wit or charm of Ham Horton a one-time state senator who will never be famous. I have interviewed too many government officials, both elected and appointed, to count. And some of the sharpest, most helpful, most competent ones were local clerks, mayors and board members.
P.J. O'Rourke (a Granite Stater who attends his town meeting) famously called Congress a parliament of whores. The institution, once the great hope of the republic, is less popular than cockroaches, according to honest-to-goodness polls. It probably would poll worse than Ebola today.
I think few Americans, and certainly few Granite Staters, would say they like cockroaches more than their local or state government. The reason for that should be pretty obvious. For the most part, people who run for local and state office are serious-minded people trying to improve life in the places where they actually live. Some people like that also run for Congress. But the lure of the TV cameras and the big salaries and the ability to tell strangers far away how to live their lives often attracts a different kind of candidate.
When people advocate sending more money and power to Washington, I cringe not only because handing control over your money and your life to strangers in a distant national capital is about as smart as doing your online banking over an open wifi connection in Serbia. I cringe because the people right here at home have shown themselves to be a lot more capable when it comes to handling money and power. If budgets were batting averages, it would be obvious that Washington is not home to most of the major league talent.
Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His column runs on Thursdays. You can follow him on Twitter @Drewhampshire.


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January 31. 2013 8:24PM
Derry hazard mitigation plan to be updated
By ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
DERRY - The planning, public works and emergency management departments will soon begin updating the town's hazard mitigation plan.
The town will work with the Southern New Hampshire Planning Council to update the plan, according to Fire Chief George Klauber.
"The hazard mitigation plan is done every three to four years and looks at the entire property of the town," said Klauber. "It looks at any areas that need to be mitigated, and that could be wetlands or it could be slope areas."
Hazard mitigation planning is a relatively new field of planning spearheaded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the 1990s, according to the town's plan, which was adopted in 2004 and last updated in 2009.
Any areas that are determined to need mitigation are forwarded to the Southern New Hampshire Planning Council for inclusion in a long-term plan for the town.
Klauber said it also helps the public works, emergency management and fire departments budget for future mitigation projects.
Over the next several months, Klauber said representatives from those departments will be working with the planning department to update the hazard mitigation plan.
"Once the plan is written and accepted, we will forward that to FEMA," said Klauber. "The plan then allows us to apply for federal funds, which may be available to mitigate some of the areas."
The town's hazard mitigation plan was adopted in 2004 and last updated in 2009.
FEMA began the call for hazard mitigation planning in the 1990s following Hurricane Andrew, which caused more than $20 billion in damage across a number of southern states and resulted in 54 deaths.
The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 was intended to help communities and states prepare for and deal with similar disasters.
The 2009 plan addresses natural hazards including flooding, wind, wildfire, ice and snow events, and earthquakes. It also identifies critical facilities, a list of emergency equipment or areas that need to respond at the time of a natural disaster, and equipment or areas that could be threatened if a natural disaster occurs.


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Ayers and Boston: Yes, there is equivalence
May 06. 2013 7:29PM
Domestic terrorism is domestic terrorism, except when liberal activists undertake it. At least that is the way Bill Ayers, former left-wing terrorist and friend (excuse us, "neighbor") of Barack Obama, would have us view the world.
Ayers was a founder of the terrorist organization the Weather Underground. In the 1970s, he and his cohorts bombed dozens of American targets, including the State Department, the U.S. Capitol, and the New York City Police headquarters. Ayers says they engaged only in "property damage." But that was because their initial plan to commit mass murder - by bombing a U.S. Army dance hall - failed when three of the bomb-makers accidentally blew themselves up.
On Saturday, Ayers gave a speech at Kent State University to commemorate the shooting of four students there by National Guard troops in 1970. (A one-time terrorist speaking on a college campus? No biggie. Ayers spent his post-terror career as a professor of education.) He said the Boston bombers had no noble motives, but he did because he wanted to end the Vietnam War, which was killing 6,000 people a week.
"To conflate a group of fundamentalist people [in Boston] who are nihilistic in some way with a group of people who spent their lives trying to oppose the murder of 6,000 people a week. And still the killing went on. And still the killing went on. What would you have done? There's no equivalence [with Boston]. Property damage. That's what we did."
Actually, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the captured Boston bomber, said he and his brother were motivated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were not nihilists; they were Islamist protesters, to use the language of the '60s. Both the Tsarnaevs and the Weather Underground engaged in terrorism to protest U.S. wars, or so they claimed.
The difference is not the death toll, which was a matter of sheer luck in both cases. It is that the left openly embraced, forgave and rehabilitated Ayers and his fellow terrorists. Ayers hosted a fund-raiser for state Senate candidate Barack Obama in 1995, which Obama attended before serving on boards with professor Ayers and accepting campaign donations from him. What a difference it makes when your guiding philosophy is communism rather than Islamism.


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Concord police stun, arrest gun rights protester after officer touched on shoulderBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 18. 2013 9:13PM
In the video above, an angry crowd hectors Concord police, some shouting obscenities, as Daniel Musso is stunned and handcuffed.
WMUR captured the moment Daniel Musso, 52, of Brentwood, touched a Concord officer on the shoulder in this YouTube video.
CONCORD — A man was arrested and two people, including a Concord police officer, were allegedly assaulted during a rally Tuesday in a clash between a gun control group and gun rights supporters.
The event had people supporting the Mayors Against Illegal Guns movement, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, reading the names of those "killed with guns" since the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary outside their "No More Names" bus.
Several witnesses said that a man approached and shouted at John Cantin of Manchester, whose daughter, Missy Charbonneau, was shot and killed in 2009 by her husband.
Witnesses said Daniel Musso, 52, of Brentwood was asked by police to move. He placed his hand on an officer, was tasered and arrested.
Police said Musso was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and two counts of simple assault.
Cantin shrugged off the altercation.
"They just weakened their cause and strengthened ours," he said.
Cantin said he was at the event mostly because of what happened to his daughter and partly because of a recent vote by U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., on the Manchin-Toomey bill.
"Senator Ayotte voted for an amendment that would not increase gun safety," he said.
Jeff Grappone, Ayotte's spokesman, said well-heeled out-of-state groups have gone on the attack against the Republican.
"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's special interest group has spent millions on false attacks against Senator Ayotte," he said. "Senator Ayotte has voted for legislation that had bipartisan support to fix the current broken background check system, increase the prosecution of those who illegally seek to obtain firearms, and provide additional resources for school safety, while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."
The presence of the national gun control group in front of the state Capitol Tuesday night prompted numerous shouts from gun rights supporters. While there were about 40 No More Names supporters, there were at least 60 gun rights supporters at the rally.
"I think this is a joke," said Tony Mayfield of Hillsborough, who brought his AR-15 rifle and Sig Sauer T39 handgun to the rally. "We have, for all intents and purposes, a corporation from out of state doing this little publicity stunt here."
Rally organizers, whose bus had Texas license plates, refused to speak to a New Hampshire Union Leader reporter and referred him to the organization's national headquarters.
Some of the loudest shouts came when a reader spoke the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was killed by police during a gunfight.
"He's a terrorist," several protesters shouted.
Eileen Ehlers of Hooksett said she turned toward a man earlier in the evening who "was being loud and obnoxious" and showed him her "No More Names" sign. She said he grabbed the sign and threw it to the ground. When he did, she said, she pulled out a camera to take his photo.
"He told me he was going to smash my camera and me if I didn't back off," she said. "So I did. I'm shaken by how quickly a difference of opinion becomes violence."
Mayfield said he was disappointed that any altercations happened.
"I like to holler and I like to make my voice heard," he said. "But there's no reason for violence. That's not our idea here."
Not all the discourse involved shouting. For several minutes, Mitch Kopacz, president of the Gun Owners of New Hampshire group, debated gun control with state Rep. Sylvia Gale, D-N.H. Neither raised their voice and they shook hands after talking, with Gale calling Kopacz "respectful."


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It's amazing how much an analyst can set himself apart when he does his homework and takes pride in his job.
That's the case with Cris Collinsworth, who in my opinion, is one of the best in the business.
Collinsworth, who calls Sunday Night Football on NBC, joined ESPN.com's Bill Simmons for a recent podcast to promote his new Web site, FootballProsLive.com.
The departure of Donovan McNabb will undoubtedly be one of the most talked-about topics nationally as networks and publications preview the 2010 season. And it was one of the topics Collinsworth discussed during the podcast. Count him among those who think McNabb's impact in D.C. could be huge.
"I thought that was one of the great additions to a team I've ever seen," Collinsworth said. "I mean, the Redskins were really in sort of disarray. No matter what anybody else says, they were just swimming out there. They really were. And then they bring in [Mike] Shanahan. And you bring in McNabb. People are going to always talk about McNabb and his accuracy, and I don't disagree with that. I don't think that he's a typical west coast kind of quarterback, and when you look at what it's going to mean for Philadelphia with Kevin Kolb, I think they'll get back to more of a classic west coast kind of offense. But now you're going to get in Shanahan's offense a big, strong, powerful guy that's going to bring a little fun, that's going to bring a little laughter back to the huddle, that is a dynamic personality."
Interesting how one of the things McNabb was criticized for so often here - smiling and laughing in the huddle - is one of the things Collinsworth expects to be an asset for him in Washington.
"It sounds weird to say that a quarterback's charisma can make a difference," Collinsworth continued. "But the Redskins just have been so beaten down for so long, and this whole thing with [Albert] Haynesworth and all the junk that's going on with him. I just think that you're going to see a different personality come out of the Washington Redskins and they've got a great coach now. They could very easily surprise a lot of people because their defense is pretty good."
Collinsworth really caught me off-guard later in the podcast when discussing the New England Patriots.
Guess which player departure he believes has had a huge impact on the Patriots the last two seasons: Asante Samuel.
"How much do the Patriots miss Asante Samuel?" he asked. "Asante Samuel was one of those X-factor guys. He was Troy Polamalu to me. No matter how much Bill Belichick may have coached that guy, nobody really knew what he was going to do on a play. He might take a chance and give up a big touchdown, and who knows, maybe he's not the greatest tackler in the world. But I'm telling ya, nobody knew what he was going to do on a play, and that included Peyton Manning a lot. He made a lot of mistakes to Asante Samuel over the years because he was just a little... I'm going to call him creative. I'm going to give him a euphemism. He was creative back there in the back end, and he creates problems. And there just hasn't been quite the same mystery to the Patriots' defense since he left."
Revealing nuggets there. I think Sean McDermott could probably relate to the part about how no matter how much he coaches Samuel, he doesn't know what he's going to do. That's a good thing when Samuel jumps a route, picks off a pass and takes it to the house. That's a bad thing when the Eagles are getting killed by wide receiver screens and Samuel doesn't play press coverage.
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NH Democrats rip into Republicans' alternative plan to expanding MedicaidBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
September 12. 2013 10:49PM
CONCORD — Democrats Thursday blasted an alternative plan to expanding Medicaid, saying it will cost the state more money, cover fewer people and provide inadequate coverage.
Republicans responded by saying the proposal needs more work and Democrats are using the scant details of the plan to scare people instead of trying to reach compromise.
"This isn't really a plan at all," said Senate Minority Leader Sylvia Larsen, D-Concord. "It would cost our state almost $3 billion more, only covers one quarter of the uninsured people that Medicaid includes, would give very poor coverage to those people, and that poor coverage would cost these folks more than half of their annual income so they could never afford it anyway."
Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, who proposed the plan, told the Medicaid expansion study commission Tuesday that for $46 million a year, the state can provide an alternative to Medicaid expansion.
The state would provide catastrophic insurance to about 23,000 adults who would be eligible under Medicaid expansion, and set up a primary physician network that would be paid $100 a month per patient for basic health care and preventative services.
The plan would require co-payments and would have a $6,000 deductible, some of which would be subsidized through health savings accounts.
Larsen said that plan "makes no sense."
But Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, who Tuesday called the plan a real opportunity for a New Hampshire solution, said Thursday the proposal was a different option to be discussed although work remains to be done.
"But no plan exists yet, and claims of unrealistically high deductibles and co-payments are nothing but scare tactics being used by an opposition party unwilling to consider any alternatives to their government run health care plan," Morse said.
He said both Republicans and Democrats want the same thing: increasing access to health care for the state's low-income population, but the two parties disagree on how to do that.
Republicans want to explore using private insurance to cover some of those eligible under expansion.
"I expect the bipartisan Medicaid Commission will give a private insurance alternative equal treatment in their deliberations over the coming week," Morse said. "Those conversations will help us understand if this is an option that will work for New Hampshire patients, providers, and taxpayers."
But Morse said he would like Democrats to tone down their rhetoric so there is an open and honest discussion of the complex issue.
Democrats said the Roy plan puts too high a burden on the state's poor, requiring those earning $12,000 a year to spend more than half of their salary on health care before they receive basic services.
"These are working people. They are people with low incomes. These are wait staff, janitors, school bus drivers, hairstylists, teachers' aides, grocery store clerks, construction workers, and landscapers," said House Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Concord. "These are taxpayers. They are playing by the rules and they deserve access to high quality, comprehensive coverage that they can actually afford."
Tess Stack Kuenning, Bi-State Primary Care Association President and CEO, said the proposal leaves a huge gap between serious catastrophic coverage and basic coverage. The proposal does not cover medications, day surgery, treatment for chronic conditions or mental health services, she said.
The coverage would be far worse than private insurance or Medicaid or Medicare, Kuenning said.
Larsen said Democrats are willing to compromise and have already, agreeing to a managed care program for Medicaid.
She said Democrats are willing to talk about expanding the existing Health Insurance Premium Program, which pays the premium for existing private employer provided coverage.
But she said the Roy proposal is not acceptable and she hopes to convince several Republicans to join the Democrats and defeat the plan if it comes to a vote.
She said the state will lose $1 million a day in federal Medicaid money after Jan. 1 if the state rejects expansion.
Larsen said she believes Morse wants to find a compromise that will work.
"We look forward to continuing to work with them to find the right approach to bringing in these federal funds, helping our state economy, growing jobs, and giving people access to affordable, high-quality coverage," Larsen said.
The Medicaid Expansion Commission meets twice next week to begin discussions on expanding the program under the Affordable Care Act.


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Andy Dalton threw for 280 yards and a touchdown as the Bengals picked up a 20-10 win over the Steelers at Paul Brown Stadium.
Dalton hit rookie Giovani Bernard on a 27-yard TD strike midway through the third and the defense stifled Pittsburgh from there.
Bernard also ran for 38 yards and a score while Benjarvus Green-Ellis totaled 75 yards on the ground.
The Bengals bounced back from a season-opening loss in Chicago to improve to 1-and-1.
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 251 yards with a touchdown and interception in defeat.
Felix Jones had 37 of the Steelers' 44 total rushing yards.
Pittsburgh is 0-and-2 for the first time since 2002.
By: Mike Plourde for Great Lakes Radio Sports


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July 26. 2013 3:50PM
Man shot Friday morning on Orange Street in Manchester
Manchester victim 'fair' after being shot in the face
MANCHESTER - City police are investigating a shooting about 6:30 a.m. Friday morning on Orange Street.
According to police, a man, 20, suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound at a residence and has been taken to the hospital.
No other details are available at this time, police are at the scene and an investigation is under way.


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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo Book 03, ch. 08: The Death of a Horse
Les Miserables, Volume 1 (Audio book) by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850-1928) This is volume 1 of 5. -- An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray.


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Stop throwing out your aluminum pie tins, toilet paper rolls and clam-shell containers for take-out salads.
All can be picked up curbside when the citys new system of single stream recycling begins the week of Feb. 4.
Because change is never easy, here are some things to know before the single stream begins to flow.
The biggest advantage of single stream is that residents will no longer have to sort out their plastics, aluminum and cardboard for curb-side pickup. It can all be stuffed randomly into one 60 or 90 gallon container, colored blue to distinguish it from the trash container. Officials still want the plastics and tin cans to be rinsed out, of course.
At public hearings, there has been skepticism about whether residents will produce enough recyclables to fill the containers every week, but the collection of plastics will be expanded from the current collection of types 1 and 2 only to types 1 through 7, which includes many kinds of plastic packaging but still excludes plastic bags and plastic wrap.
The city will also begin accepting paperboard such as cereal boxes, egg containers, toilet paper rolls and 6-pack holders.
As recycling becomes more convenient and comprehensive, city officials expect collections to grow by 30 percent this year to about 4,500 tons of recycled material. Its equivalent to the amount of trash that 5,500 average Americans will dispose of annually, said Mary Beth Miles, the citys sustainability director.
In more controversial changes, glass cannot be included in the mix for weekly curbside pickup. Instead, it must be taken separately to community collection sites, expected to be the same as the current drop-off sites for recycling behind Wagonwheel Liquors, north City Market and the Recycling Center on Tech Drive.
The city is also planning more glass collections sites near major retailers such as Star Liquors or Walmart later this spring as the system gets underway. The containers are supposed to take all kinds of glass brown, green and clear so residents will not have to sort their bottles.
As part of the changes, residents must also get used to different collection days for trash and recycling. This is for reasons of space because the automated grippers on the trucks need four feet of clearance to pick up the containers. Trying to pick up both trash and recycling containers on the same street might get too crowded.
The only exception to the different day pickup schedule is Alley Wednesday when the city will pick up trash in the alley as usual while the recycling will be picked up in front of the house at the curb.
County residents and those who take their recyclables directly to the Recycling Center on Tech Drive may encounter $1 fees by late spring to help offset costs of the new system.
City residents will be billed an extra $3 a month beginning in March to offset the costs for single-stream recycling. To get the new containers delivered to the house, residents must call 375-5004 or register online at durangorecycles.com.
The city began with 2,000 containers to give away. As of Thursday, the city was down to 800 containers left to distribute. If the city runs out, residents might have to wait for a second round of distribution later this year.
City officials are most often asked about the segregation of glass from the single-stream container, which is to prevent crushed glass from contaminating the compacted bales of recycled material and preserving its value as a commodity.
The contamination of glass can diminish the value of a ton of recycling from $40 down to $10 or $5, Miles said.
When glass is handled separately, the likelihood of a bottle getting recycled increases from 30 percent to 90 percent, Miles said.
Some complain, however, that other cities manage to include glass in their single-stream recycling. Roy Peterson, the director of operations, responds that larger cities do not have to ship their recycled materials as far for sorting and sale as a commodity.
As an isolated small town, Durango will have to ship its recycling to a regional receiving center, going to whichever place offers the best price each month. Prices can range from $40 to $120 per ton depending on the market.
The segregation of glass is also about helping a Colorado market since Durango ships its glass to a MillerCoors recycling facility in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge.
Because the single stream wont start until the week of Feb. 4, residents are asked to continue to use their old, hand-sorted containers until then.


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Riot at Horizonte High School leads to 3 teen arrests
03/27/2014 6:58amPolice say it was a scary situation at Horizonte High School on Tuesday where Tasers were deployed on two people after an officer was punched in the head.
Science 'rock star' wows crowd at sold-out U. lecture
03/27/2014 7:19amNeil deGrasse Tyson lectured on the importance of science at the University of Utah on Wednesday.
5 of the best places for pancakes in Salt Lake City
03/27/2014 8:04amIn and around Utah's capital city, pancake seekers have a bevy of choices for some seriously good eating.
Orem officials call PacSun display inappropriate, objectionable
03/27/2014 8:27amOrem's city attorney won't press charges against PacSun for allegedly displaying sexually charged T-shirts, but the mayor and City Council want to make sure the company knows they thought the display was inappropriate.
2 injured after spring storm causes car to roll into backyard
03/27/2014 9:32amThe Utah Highway Patrol is warning drivers to be extra cautious after a spring storm contributed to a life-threatening accident when a car rolled from I-15 into a backyard.
Ask a Chef: Savory steak sandwiches
03/27/2014 10:05amHow to make succulent steak sandwiches in a few easy steps.
New 3-D printer at U. library now available to any student, faculty
03/27/2014 10:28amOfficials at the University of Utah say their new 3-D printer that is now available to any student, faculty or staff is getting more and more popular, and the reasons for its use are expanding into surprising fields.
Rep. Chaffetz looks to ban online gambling
03/27/2014 10:39amRep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C, introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit online gambling and reverse an Obama administration decision that opened the door for states to explore Internet gaming.
Charges considered in case of boy shooting 9-year-old cousin
03/27/2014 10:45amThe Sevier County Attorney's Office is considering whether to charge the owner of a gun used by an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot his 9-year-old cousin.
Marketing software can't replace personal interactions, expert says
03/27/2014 11:29amMarketers are using new kinds of software to attempt to understand what their customers are really trying to say online, but some analysts say they shouldn't put too much weight behind what the software can do.
Local filmmakers investigate '3 Cups of Tea' charity scandal
03/27/2014 11:32amTwo Utah filmmakers look into the allegations made against Greg Mortenson, author of the book "Three Cups of Tea," in their new documentary.
Leaner people natually burn calories faster, study shows
03/27/2014 11:44amThe complexity of losing weight and staying thin may have more to do with how bodies burn calories than previously thought, a new study suggests.
State lawyers preparing for same-sex marriage appeal with mock trials
03/27/2014 1:46pmWith two weeks to go before oral arguments in Utah's same-sex marriage ban appeal, attorneys from both sides are preparing their arguments and plotting strategies.
Injured crossing guard felt 'watched over'
03/27/2014 5:08pmAn 80-year-old crossing guard hit while helping children across the street in front of Orchard Elementary in Orem Wednesday was hoping to go home from the hospital on Thursday.
Cat that survived arrow shot adopted in St. George
03/27/2014 6:35pmA southern Utah cat that survived being shot through the face and body with an arrow now has a new family.
K-9 Training Facility named after deputies Wride and Sherwood
03/27/2014 6:39pmFamily members of deputies Cory Wride and Greg Sherwood participated in the groundbreaking of the Wride Sherwood K-9 Training Facility Wednesday, named after Wride, who was shot and killed, and Sherwood, who was injured in the same crime spree.
Firefighters keep two-alarm fire from spreading in Salt Lake City
03/27/2014 6:42pmSalt Lake firefighters called in a second alarm to battle an apartment fire Thursday morning at 53 S. 300 East.
Man unearths human bones in backyard, police say
03/27/2014 6:58pmA man uncovered what investigators believe may be human bones while digging in his backyard Wednesday.
New harness helps children with disabilities walk
03/27/2014 7:04pmAn Israeli mother living in Ireland invented a harness to help her son walk. She's now sharing the device with parents all over the world.
Police offer reward for info about suspected bank robber
03/27/2014 7:16pmPolice are asking the public to be on the lookout for a man who they believe is connected to five bank robberies.
Gov. Herbert optimistic about Medicaid expansion
03/27/2014 7:35pmGov. Gary Herbert said Thursday he is "cautiously optimistic" his plan for Medicaid expansion will be accepted by the federal government and he hopes to resolve the issue by this summer.
Clinic opens thanks to Affordable Care Act funds
03/27/2014 7:55pmA new health clinic in Midvale, co-located with Salt Lake County's first recreation center, aims to bring much-needed health services closer to residents.
Ann Romney to speak at SUU commencement
03/27/2014 7:56pmFormer Massachusetts first lady Ann Romney will give the keynote address during commencement ceremonies for Southern Utah University on May 2.
SUU, Utah Shakespeare Festival break ground on new arts center
03/27/2014 8:14pmAfter decades of raising funds, the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival is one step closer to having a new performing and visual arts complex.
Japanese artist creates intricate art with salt
03/27/2014 8:55pmMotoi Yamamoto came from Japan to put some of his unique "salt art" at Weber State University and Westminster College.
New Army uniform guidelines limit tattoos for soldiers
03/27/2014 9:35pmThe updated Army Regulation 670-1 was approved by Army Secretary John McHugh on March 6th and the new regulations were published on March 18 via Facebook.
South Weber councilman charged with embezzling funds
03/27/2014 10:01pmA South Weber city councilman has been charged with embezzling more than $200,000 from an assisted living center in Bountiful that he used to manage.
Utah man airlifted from cruise ship during honeymoon
03/27/2014 10:24pmA Utah man is recovering after he was airlifted from a cruise ship for a medical emergency while on his honeymoon.
Utahns must sign up for health care before window closes
03/27/2014 10:29pmNegotiating the ins and outs of the Affordable Care Act and Healthcare.gov is still causing headaches for people. But there is help available in these final days before the doors close to sign up for health care.
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