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While listening to the chilling words on tape of a murder defendant describe how he killed a college student in Asher, the victim's father stood and interrupted the court hearing Friday, prompting deputies to escort the father out of the courtroom.
While listening to the chilling words on tape of a murder defendant describe how he killed a college student in Asher, the victim's father stood and interrupted the court hearing Friday, prompting deputies to escort the father out of the courtroom.
The incident unfolded in the Pottawatomie County courthouse, where Jerrod Murray, 18, of Asher, appeared for his preliminary hearing to determine if there's sufficient evidence for the first-degree murder case to proceed to trial.
Murray, who was handcuffed and wearing jail oranges, is accused in the December shooting death of Generro Sanchez, 18. Both Murray and Sanchez were freshmen at East Central University in Ada.
Prosecutors, who are seeking the death penalty in this case, played an interrogation video recorded while Undersheriff Travis Palmer questioned Murray just hours after the homicide.
Murray, quiet and stoic in the courtroom, looked forward or down to a notepad as Special District Judge David Cawthon viewed the video on a laptop, with the audio on speaker for the entire courtroom to hear.
The video revealed Palmer's questioning of Murray about the statements he allegedly made when Palmer arrested him on the side of the road about 3:12 a.m. the morning of Dec. 6, with the taped interview occurring about 6 a.m.
"In summation that I'm guilty of murder," Murray responded on that video, with his polite responses followed by "sir" for Palmer's questions, with him revealing what happened to Sanchez that morning.
"I shot him in the head twice," Murray said. "Three shots were fired…one missed."
Faint echoes of sobbing could be heard in the courtroom gallery as the victim's family sat on one side and Murray's on the other.
Speaking matter-of-factly, Murray, on the tape, described where the incident occurred in Asher and explained how he knew Sanchez "only by his first name."
Murray, on the tape, explained to Palmer that he and the victim lived in the dorms at ECU in Ada and they met in the room of a mutual friend, where they played video games.
The tape revealed details of how Murray offered Sanchez $20 gas money for a ride from the dorms to the Walmart in Ada, which Murray said was 1.7 miles from the college campus.
When they pulled into the parking lot, Murray explained he pulled a gun on Sanchez and forced him to drive to Asher, with Palmer asking, "Why Asher?"
There was silence and a long pause before Murray answered.
"Because I was planning to take him out into the country and kill him," Murray responded.
"Had he done something to you?" Palmer asked.
"No, sir."
The shooting occurred on Substation Road, prompting the pickup to crash into a tree. The victim's body was found in a ditch along that road, which is located south of U.S. 177 and SH 59. As deputies worked that scene, Palmer, also responding to the overnight call, found Murray walking in the area of U.S. 177 near Sing Road.
According to testimony, he allegedly told Palmer he didn't have a gun and said, "I'm the one you're trying to find…I'm the one who shot a guy and put him in a ditch on Substation Road," Palmer testified.
The tape further revealed that Murray had made a plan three weeks beforehand to kill someone, and that he had attempted to kill Sanchez two days earlier, but Sanchez wasn't in his dorm room.
The victim's relatives, some wearing photo buttons with his picture on their shirts, appeared to be struggling with what they were hearing.
Two deputies in the back of the courtroom moved and stood closer to the front, and as the tape continued and Murray claimed during the interview he chose to kill Sanchez because he didn't have many friends, there was a reaction by one of those in attendance.
A man sitting in the front row, later identified as the victim's father, stood up during the hearing, stared at Murray and mumbled something toward him. Deputies, who were standing nearby and one beside him, immediately escorted the father out of the courtroom and the courthouse and Smothermon stopped the video.
Judge Cawthon, who reminded those attending that they were in a court of law, told them there are rules that would be enforced, as he asked anyone who couldn't handle the hearing to go ahead and leave.
One person did.
Smothermon restarted the video, where the discussion resumed with Murray telling Palmer he tried to calm Sanchez during the drive from Ada to Asher by telling him he wasn't going to kill him.
"The entire time was conversation," Murray said.
With more sobs heard in the courtroom, Smothermon, while the video continued to play for the judge, walked to the front row in the gallery to console Sanchez's mother. The taped interview got to a point where Murray was telling Palmer he pulled Sanchez from the pickup after he shot him but still heard Sanchez "gurgling."
"I shot him again and pushed him in the ditch," Murray's words from that interview revealed.
Smothermon then approached the laptop, stopped the video and told the judge, "I believe we have met the burden of probable cause."
Palmer took the witness stand for a few questions from Murray's defense attorneys, where Palmer said Murray's responses were "cold, callous," and to the point, adding, "He has no emotion whatsoever."
The full tape, although not played, was admitted into evidence, along with the medical examiner's report. Pathologists revealed Sanchez's cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head, with manner of death ruled homicide.
Judge Cawthon ruled Murray should be bound over for trial on the first-degree murder count and set his arraignment for June 12. Prosecutors have filed a Bill of Particulars seeking the death penalty as punishment in this case.
Murray, who was escorted back to the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, remains jailed without bond.
Persons attending, whether they were there on behalf of Murray or were related to Sanchez, declined to comment about the case following the court hearing. Sanchez, who was from Stuart, Okla., was studying engineering at ECU at the time of his death.
Smothermon, who afterwards addressed the issue of the father having a reaction at the hearing and being escorted out of the courthouse, said while Friday's hearing was emotional, at this point, the father may not be allowed inside future court proceedings.
"It was very emotional and difficult for them to hear from the defendant's own mouth the moments leading up to their child's death," Smothermon said.
Murray, last month, initially waived his right for a preliminary hearing, but Friday's hearing was required after District Judge John Canavan remanded the case back because of the death penalty being sought in this case.
Murray is being represented by his attorney of record, Gary Henry. Attorneys Bobby Lewis and Shay Smith also appeared on his behalf for Friday's hearing.
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Officers tied to 2010 Strange Brew incident ask to be removed from 'Laurie list'By NANCY WEST
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September 14. 2013 11:19PM
Three Manchester patrolmen whose discipline for off-duty excessive force was overturned in connection with beating a man outside the Strange Brew Tavern three years ago want their names removed from a highly secretive "Laurie list" of law enforcement officers with credibility problems.
Jonathan Duchesne, Matthew Jajuga and Michael Buckley have asked Hillsborough Superior Court Judge David Garfunkel to order the county attorney to take their names off the list in connection with the March 3, 2010, beating of Christopher Micklovich.
The three officers were disciplined soon after the highly publicized incident, but an arbitrator later determined Manchester "did not have just cause" and ordered all related records removed from their personnel files.
Former Attorney General Michael Delaney ruled the officers didn't commit a crime, but made no determination as to whether they used excessive force.
In court records filed by their attorney, John Krupski, the officers argued the excessive force allegations were "determined to be incorrect and any and all discipline in which they were subject was reversed...."
"The (officers) claim that their inclusion on the Laurie list for the acts on this occasion is improper and is an abuse of discretion by (County Attorney Patricia LaFrance)," Krupski wrote.
A court hearing Sept. 5 provided a glimpse into the workings of the Laurie list process, according to a recording of the hearing obtained Friday. Before the officers filed for court relief, it was not known their names were on the list.
Awaiting ruling
Judge Garfunkel, who raised questions about the Laurie process during the hearing, has yet to rule on their request, which also seeks attorney fees.
"I need a more complete description of the Laurie list. Is there a document that exists in which officers' names appear statewide ...?" Garfunkel asked.
As a judge, he said, he is asked to review the personnel files of police officers with Laurie issues under seal to determine whether details should be allowed into evidence to possibly impeach an officer's testimony.
Garfunkel has one such request pending and still conceded he was unsure how the process works.
Prosecutors are constitutionally required to disclose all evidence that may be helpful to the defendant - including dishonesty issues involving officers who are to testify - or risk having the conviction overturned.
A 2004 memo by former Attorney General Peter Heed said Laurie issues could include officers lying under oath, being convicted of fraud or theft, manufacturing evidence or other dishonest behavior. Heed's memo said excessive force could be considered Laurie material, as well.
The court overturned the murder conviction of Carl Laurie in 1995 because prosecutors failed to tell the defense one of the lead investigators was known to be dishonest.
Associate Attorney General Jane Young offered comment at the recent hearing involving the Manchester officers, although her office is not a party to the case.
Some police chiefs and county attorneys send names of officers with potential Laurie issues to her office, she said.
No centralized list
"Is there this magical list somewhere? No. There's certainly not a statewide comprehensive list," Young said. "We hope that each county attorney has a sort of ongoing list of their own."
Several of the arguments were based on the Heed memo, including those by Carolyn Kirby, representing the county.
Young said her supervisors might not be thrilled to hear it, "but we pretty much discount that (Heed) memo," adding her office has undertaken a comprehensive review of Laurie policies.
Garfunkel pressed Krupski on whether police chiefs would be able to tell prosecutors of the excessive-force allegations against Duchesne, Jajuga and Buckley if Garfunkel issued the order Krupski is seeking.
Krupski said they would not be able to disclose it. There is nothing in their personnel files to disclose, Krupski said.
Young told the court it wouldn't matter what he ordered relative to the three officers.
"No disrespect, but even if you say they have to come off the list, I know it, and I'm going to turn it over every time until the Supreme Court tells me differently," Young said.
Should remain
Young said the names should remain on the Laurie list. Prosecutors at least have to notify the courts in such cases and leave it to judges to decide whether the officer's credibility issue can be used at trial. It's a two-step process, she said. The state may disclose Laurie material, then argue that it shouldn't be allowed at trial.
"I don't want to be five years down the road - and I'm sure these officers and their departments don't want to be five years down the road - and see somebody who committed a heinous crime walk out the door because this little factor wasn't known, and we didn't have the ability to try to fight to keep it out," Young said.
"We just want there to be an even playing field, and we want to make sure our convictions are sustained and not overturned because we didn't turn something over...," Young said.
Said Krupski: "I strongly urge the court to think of stigma attached to Laurie issues.... It is a stigma that follows you. People think you are a liar."
No set procedure
The three officers had no due process, he said. Some police officers are fired because of Laurie issues and others have trouble transferring to other police departments because the designation follows them, Krupski said.
"These people are on the list, and there is nothing in their personnel file, and they can't get off," Krupski told the judge. "There's been no finding of excessive force that has been sustained, and as a result, they don't belong on the Laurie list."
Young told Garfunkel that being on the Laurie list and disclosing to a judge in each case in which the officer is to testify isn't as bad as it sounds.
"Just because you have a letter issued that's a Laurie matter doesn't mean you are wholesale dead on this job," Young said.
The officers in the Strange Brew matter were all cooperative, Young said. Young said she wouldn't hesitate to call them to testify.
"I don't see this as a career-ending matter," Young said.


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The University uses non-audio closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras on campus, in and around Unipol, and in residential colleges to take care of both property and people.
CCTV footage is kept for 30 days then overwritten. CCTV footage can be used to help track down lost and stolen property, and help catch offenders. CCTV cameras are overseen by the Proctor's Office. The University's Privacy Officer ensures individuals' privacy is protected and investigates complaints if breaches of the Privacy Act 1993 occur.
In October 2017 the University announced that it would go ahead with installing a number of CCTV cameras in public streets around campus. This is in response to upward trends in crime reported to the Proctor's Office over the past few years and increases in non-student offenders targeting students. Cameras do not record sound and software has functionality built into it to black out private property.
Read the University's CCTV media release dated 12 October 2017
The proposal to install cameras in 60 locations on public streets in 2 stages was initially considered by Council in April 2017. Council agreed to the proposal starting with consulting with students to get their feedback to it. In mid-2017 a formal consultation process was undertaken, and based on student feedback the number of locations and number of cameras were reduced, the CCTV policy and rules were tightened, and it was decided that the evaluation of the cameras' effectiveness would be undertaken by an independent party.
98 students or groups of students provided feedback, 57 supporting, 34 opposing, and 7 neutral or with no position stated. The main themes of students' feedback were:
A University policy explains how CCTV cameras can be used and protects the legal privacy rights of individuals. Other University policies like the Ethical Behaviour Policy also apply. Students were asked for feedback on a draft of the policy as part of the CCTV student consultation.
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This latest update on the ballot isn't a surprise as Judge was the third-best outfielder in voting last week as well. He remains in that slot this week with 2,021,348 votes, and Mookie Betts and Mike Trout ahead of him.
Gleyber Torres, Giancarlo Stanton, and Gary Sanchez also remain in second place for their respective positions, while Miguel Andujar fell to third in third bas voting as Astros' Alex Bregman took the runner-up position. Didi Gregorius also fell from third to fourth in the shortstop list.
With the international free agent signing period opening up on Monday, the Yankees are expecting to land several prospects including RHP Osiel Rodriguez and C Antonio Gomez.
The Cuban Rodriguez is the No. 5 ranked international prospect, according to Baseball America. At just 16 years old, Rodriguez' arsenal on the mound includes an overpowering fastball that has clocked at 96 mph.
Rodriguez is not allowed to sign until after July 2 when he turns 16...
Aaron Hicks made history in Sunday's 11-1 win by becoming the third Yankee ever to hit three home runs in a game against the Red Sox.
Hicks homered in the second and fourth innings off David Price, and added his third home run of the game off Hector Velazquez in the eighth inning as New York moved back into a first-place tie atop the AL East.
After the Red Sox crushed Yankees pitching on Saturday night, manager Aaron Boone was hoping his ace would flip the script in the rubber match on Sunday. Luis Severino was up for the challenge
Severino won his league-leading 13th game of the season on Sunday with an 11-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. He struck out six batters in 6 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just two hits and leaving five Boston hitters stranded on the basepaths as he won his fourth straight start.
This outing was the exact opposite of his first start against the Sox this season, where he allowed five runs over five innings. His second outing was much better with 11 strikeouts and only two runs crossing the plate on his watch.
Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka is expected to make his first rehab start on Wednesday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and could return from the disabled list before the All-Star break, according to MLB.com's Bryan Hoch .
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In three weeks and two days, Charlie Manuel will stroll along the diamonds at the Carpenter Complex as pitchers and catchers take part in their first workouts of the spring.
But Manuel has already made a trip to Clearwater to get first-hand progress reports on a few of the Phillies most important players. Shortly after getting inducted into the All Sports Museum of Southern New Jersey in Bridgeton on Monday, Manuel gave his personal scouting reports on Roy Halladay, Ryan Howard and Chase Utley.
Manuel was in Clearwater just a week ago.
"(Halladay) looks real good. He looks strong," Manuel said of his two-time Cy Young Award winner, who missed almost two months last summer to a right shoulder injury. "I could tell he's been doing some work with his upper body, his back and shoulders. He looked a little bigger and stronger. ... Halladay of course has thrown a lot of bullets. But at the same time, too, I think the time he's had off and the conditioning program he's been on, if anybody can bounce back and do it, I think it's Halladay.
Manuel also saw Howard taking live batting practice, something that the first baseman did sparingly while coming off Achilles' surgery last spring.
"I saw him hit," Manuel said. "He said his Achilles' doesn't hurt him and he said his ankle is much better."
Utley, who hasn't played a game in either of the last two spring trainings, was not in Clearwater when Manuel visited. But head athletic trainer Scott Sheridan happened to be working out with Utley in Northern California last week and he sent Charlie a DVD of one of Utley's workouts.
"He looked good," Manuel said. "It showed him exercising, jumping and grasping at this bar, things like that, and he really looked like he was in good shape. He emailed me at Christmas and said, "You're going to have a healthy second baseman." Knowing him, that's means a whole lot."
One other interesting tidbit came from Manuel's comments on Monday.
Manuel has pretty much been married to three spots in his lineup when he has had a healthy lineup: Jimmy Rollins at leadoff, Utley third and Howard fourth. But on Monday he at least opened up the conversation to using new third baseman Micheal Young to split Utley and Howard.
"I've always looked at Utley as a third hole hitter, but it depends on how good (we are) or how we set up," Manuel said. "I could hit Utley second and Young third, but at the same time I don't know. I like Young second or third."


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Ā HONESDALE- Friendship House has announced the opening of a new center for early learning in Honesdale. The center for early learning, named ōGrowing by Leaps and Boundsö, is a full day Pre- K program and day care center for boys and girls, ages 6 weeks through 12 years.?The program is expected to open and be ready to accept enrollments in Spring 2013.?The Friendship House center for early learning, Growing by Leaps and Bounds, features research-based education, and social, emotional, behavioral curricula, including Opening the World of Learning (OWL) and The Incredible Years.?Growing by Leaps and Bounds is an expansion of early learning services first made available in Scranton in 2012 with the development of the East Mountain Center for Early Learning (EMCEL), and Growing by Leaps and Bounds near Hawley at Lake Wallenpaupack, opening this Spring.
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Friendship House has provided Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization services for the past seven years at this location and will be discontinuing this program in March 2013. While the utilization of center-based Partial Hospitalization program services has diminished, the opportunity to serve children through new and innovative ways has emerged.?Friendship House has responded to this change with the development of centers for early learning. As Justine Fraser, Child Care Center Manager/Lead Teacher of EMCEL explains, ōÆOur Centers for Early LearningÆ are inclusive centers with a structured educational program in addition to the daycare portion of the day. With the help of a social and emotional program and a research-based curriculum, we will be teaching typically developing children as well as children with mild physical and developmental disabilities to learn and grow together.ö?Outpatient Services are still available on site. Connections: Child and Family Counseling Services continues to provide a combination of services for children ages two to 21 and their families and features an evidence-based, positive parenting, live coaching program entitled ōParent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)ö.
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The Friendship House Center for Early Learning and Outpatient Services is located at 190 Delaware Street in Honesdale, across from BoldÆs Floral & Garden Center on Route 6.?Hours of Operation:?Daycare: Monday to Friday- 6:30am to6:00pm?Pre-K: Monday to Friday- 9:00am to 3:00pm with extended day care hours available?Before and After School Care available?Outpatient: Weekday hours available with evening and weekend hours based upon request and availability?Private and subsidized child care payments accepted?The Friendship House Center for Early Learning is a Pre- K program and day care center designed to help all children reach their potential. They rely on more than 140 years of experience in the field of child care. Change has been a regular, integral part in the evolution of programs and services over Friendship HouseÆs 142 year history.


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Recently, the Forest Service released an updated comprehensive multi-use plan for Boggy-Glade area of the Dolores Ranger District. The new proposal - "Modified Alternative D" - calls for 379 miles of forest roads and 42 miles of newly designated OHV trails. It eliminates 70 miles of old roads, 20 fewer than the original plan.
As Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla pointed out, "There are too many roads and not enough secluded spaces to separate themselves from human presence. Without (those spaces), the elk move elsewhere, which nobody wants." As hunters and anglers know from boots-on-the-ground experience, more roads and OHV trails mean elk migrations are hindered, mule deer populations suffer, and trout spawning habitat is negatively impacted. That means less hunting and fishing opportunity.
The Boggy-Glade plan should err on the side of closing more roads and trails, and ban exceptions for motorize game retrieval. If you are unable to figure out how to get an elk or deer out of the woods without putting it on a vehicle, then you have no business hunting for one. Most forests in Colorado, appropriately, disallow off-route motorized game retrieval.
As Traditional Bowhunter magazine editor T.J. Conrads said, "The use of ATV/ORVs on federal lands is not a right: it is a privilege, one that has been abused ... causing detrimental effects on the land, wildlife habitat, and other users of the land." As long as hunters have roamed Colorado, they have had the responsibility of planning ahead and getting their game out.
For decades, this has been done on foot or with stock. Game carts are an appropriate tool for this, in many cases, but if we allow the habitat to be overrun with vehicles for the lazy and unprepared, we will find neither the game nor the solitude we seek. Yes, you might have to walk. You might have to sweat under a pack-frame or behind a game cart. But that is the point. If you want easy food, try the supermarket.
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Mayor Ted Gatsas was back in the saddle again on Tuesday. Over the course of the aldermen's meeting - his first since he underwent heart-bypass surgery just a month ago - it was clear that he was still Mayor Gatsas. Maybe more so. The meeting was lengthy and at times contentious, but Gatsas took it all in stride and kept things moving at a steady clip.
At the end of the meeting, Alderman-at-large Joe Kelly Levasseur pointed out that a pretty remarkable recovery had taken place.
"The fact that you're here four weeks later ... I know we make your blood pump pretty well," Levasseur said - a sentiment that probably applies best to himself.
"Guess what? It's even stronger now," Gatsas replied, presumably referring to his ticker.
Gatsas is not one for sentimentality, but he took the moment to express his gratitude.
"First, let me say thank you to the board for your work over the last four weeks, and to ChairmanO'Neil for stepping up, and the department heads for stepping up," he said before turning to the care he received at Catholic Medical Center. "I can't say enough good things about that hospital. I know people tell you 'Go down to Boston.' I can tell you the care I received was second to none."
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Tuesday's meeting was a long one, partly because the aldermen took the unusual step of immediately going into a lengthy nonpublic session. The purpose was to get the latest on discussions with Public Service of New Hampshire over the rate it wants to charge municipalities that use efficient LED streetlights.
LEDs would use less electricity, but the savings would be offset by a tariff, or special rate, PSNH is seeking to charge municipalities to power and maintain the lights.
You may recall that late last year the aldermen hurriedly authorized spending up to $25,000 to hire a lawyer after city officials learned that state regulators were prepared to rule on PSNH's proposed rate, which they felt would shortchange the city.
With nearly 9,000 streetlights, the city is by far PSNH's largest municipal customer, and its electric bill is about $1.4 million annually. Converting to efficient LED lights could lead to big savings, but the amount would depend on how much the city has to pay PSNH to power and maintain the fixtures.
Since the Public Utilities Commission first allowed the city to intervene in the review process, PSNH and city officials have been dealing with each other directly.
Gatsas said he couldn't go into detail on what was discussed during the closed-door session, but he said he hoped that the parties could reach an agreement soon.
"We're still talking," he said. "I think it's something that could impact the budget over time and reduce our costs."
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It doesn't seem likely that pay-as-you-throw will be coming to Manchester anytime soon, and it remains to be seen whether the aldermen will manage to finally approve new parking regulations that could net up to $500,000 in new revenue. But the board has steadily given its stamp of approval to new and higher fees that will affect particular constituencies, if not the general population.
Among the items approved by the board Tuesday without much debate were a 70 to 100 percent hike in building permit fees and an increase in the amount the Fire Department charges fire alarm box owners. The board also voted to tighten property tax exemptions for disabled people - and this one did generate a bit of discussion.
The change lowers the income limit to qualify for a disabled exemption to $37,000 for a single person and $50,000 for a married couple; the new asset limit is $90,000 for a single and $115,000 for a couple.
Alderman Bill Barry called Manchester's current disability exemption (the change doesn't take effect until the next tax year) "mind-boggling."
"There are 600 people in Manchester getting the disability exemption. In the rest of the state, there's about 500. Something must be going on in Manchester. Obviously, it's not the water, but they're all moving to Manchester," he said.
Alderman Keith Hirschmann, a Republican, countered the view of Barry, a Democrat.
"On behalf of those who are disabled, we have the three best medical facilities in the state. Disabled people tend to congregate where they get health care," Hirschmann said. "I just want to go on record saying the disabled people I know, they're disabled, and they deserve this."
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The aldermen's Human Resources Committee has given the green light to a proposal from Mayor Gatsas to eliminate an ordinance that requires supervisors to make more than their underlings.
"A person taking a supervising position should be happy with a 10 percent increase. (Their) pay shouldn't have anything to do with who the people being supervised are," Gatsas told the committee on Monday.
Gatsas was referring to the fact an employee promoted to supervisor is awarded with a 10 percent raise. Under the current ordinance, if the supervisor's pay after the raise is still lower than the base salary of his or her highest-paid subordinate, the supervisor's pay would be raised above that point.
There was some pushback. Alderman-at-Large Dan O'Neil questioned how common such a situation is.
Human Resources Director Jane Gile said it's not frequent, but it does happen.
"I can't give a number off the top of my head. I'd say a handful of times," she said. Of course, Gatsas knows what it's like to be a supervisor and get paid less than his charges. At $68,000 a year, Gatsas makes less than nearly all of his department heads as well as a good number of rank-and-file workers.
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It appears a plan to hand over the operation of the city's West Side Ice Arena to local business partners won't slide into place as quickly as it appeared a couple of weeks ago. The plan was supposed to have been back before the aldermen on Tuesday, after a review by city officials.
But the city's finance and legal team is clearly taking a longer, harder look at the deal, as Gatsas has urged. And at least one important critic came forward at Tuesday's meeting: Alderman Ron Ludwig, the former longtime parks director who holds the city's ice arenas - the JFK Memorial Coliseum and the West Side arena - close to his heart.
"JFK is a jewel; the West Side is a jewel," he said. "We shouldn't be leasing it, we should be retaining it."
Ted Siefer is the City Hall reporter for the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and followed on Twitter @tbsreporter.


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You've seen them. The collapsing warehouses. The debris-strewn fields. The empty M&M Truck Stop straight out of some apocalyptic Stephen King novel.
The city outskirts are marred by a handful of unsightly properties that, whatever their previous use, have fallen into neglect and disrepair.
Together with the Colorado Brownfields Foundation, the city of Cortez and Montezuma County are trying to put some of those sites to better use.
In January, CBF project director Mark Walker created an inventory of 25 potential properties outside city limits. Now the County Planning and Zoning Commission has narrowed it to six.
The Cortez City Council is working on a list of its own.
The goal is to make the gateways into Cortez - maybe Dolores too - more attractive for economic development by demolishing abandoned structures and minimizing visual blight. Refurbishing the sites can take anywhere from six months to three years, depending on the presence of toxic materials.
"It's taking sites that are languishing out there and making them ready and safe for use again," said County Administrator Ashton Harrison.
The six planning commission board members each suggested their own preferred sites, and after some debate condensed them into a single, high-priority list.
The top choice was unanimous: the M&M Truck Stop and adjacent properties near the intersection of Highway 160/491 and County Road G.
The board combined four separate parcels into one site because they are contiguous: the truck stop, a vacant pink building north of the truck stop, the mostly vacant G-Whil-Liquors gas station complex (the liquor store moved to a bigger location up the road in November), and Baxstrom Pawn Shop. Together they comprise almost 30 acres.
Elsewhere, the board recommended the former Novotny junkyard on Highway 491 near County Road N (62 acres); the Mesa Oasis RV Campground on 491 near the airport (5 acres); the Sinclair gas station complex toward Mancos on Highway 160 (4 acres); the old Dolores Town Dump on Highway 184 entering Dolores (41 acres), possibly adding the adjacent Western Slope Holding Co. warehouse on Highway 145 (6.25 acres); and the drilling equipment yard on Highway 491 just north of city limits (0.10 acre).
Some of the larger tracts were chosen because only a small portion of their total acreage is being used productively.
Planning director Susan Carver will present the sites to the Montezuma County Board of Commissioners this week. If they approve, Carver can start reaching out to property owners. All the sites being considered are privately held, and the county cannot force owners to participate.
Carver hopes available grant money will be an incentive for them to get on board. Grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, among others, are available to pay cleanup costs. If a landowner plays their cards right, she said, they may not have to put up any money at all.
To be eligible for grants, property owners would need to craft a redevelopment plan with the county - detailing a future commercial or industrial use - before any cleanup could begin.
Owners have the option to be involved in redevelopment work, but if they prefer to sell and a developer is interested, Walker said a title transfer can take place.
Board chairman Dennis Atwater was frustrated that letting workable properties go to the weeds has become commonplace in Montezuma County.
"I think a precedent has been set in this county of not taking care of stuff," he said, adding that he was wary of imposing regulations and costs on landowners.
Unless a neglected property is a public health or safety hazard, county planners have little authority to address it, even if it brings down the value of neighboring properties.
When the Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1997, Carver said, two clauses to regulate "junk, trash and visual blight" on private land were rejected on the grounds that "one man's junk is another man's treasure."
"There was a fear of overzealous enforcement," she said.
Farmers were concerned, for example, that old tractors kept for salvaging spare parts would be hauled away.
"Something might be an eyesore to neighbors or the traveling public, but it's money to (the owner)," Carver said.
So instead of coercion, the county will try to offer cleanup incentives such as waiving landfill disposal fees and possibly road access fees when a property is redeveloped. Board members also floated the idea of asking local businesses and civic groups to donate time and equipment to the cause.
Carver emphasized that she wanted to approach the whole process slowly and deliberately, focusing on cooperation with interested owners.


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In a bizarre twist of fate, the Seattle Seahawks trade Matt Flynn for Darelle Revis, forming the deepest (and most unnecessary) trio of cornerbacks the league has ever seen. Revis and Richard Sherman are forced to put their Twitter differences aside as they work with Brandon Browner to shut down every passing attack they face. The Seahawks defense from 2012 becomes even more suffocating, and they set new records for points and yards allowed en route to a Super Bowl victory over Tom Brady and the Patriots. This time, however, Revis joins Sherman in trash-talking Brady after the game, and the two complete the most anticipated bro-hug the world has ever seen after hoisting the Lombardi trophy together, no longer enemies, but friends. Cue the awwws.
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With Heber Springs leading 6-3 after four innings, Vilonia scored two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth to rally past the Panthers 7-6 on Tuesday in a non-conference game at Panther Field.
With Heber Springs leading 6-3 after four innings, Vilonia scored two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth to rally past the Panthers 7-6 on Tuesday in a non-conference game at Panther Field. "We have made a lot of progress and that is why I am most upset," said Heber Coach B.J. Greene. "We should have won that game. We left the bases loaded twice, left a runner at third base four times. We struck out looking four times and swinging six times. The thing I am frustrated about right now is our team has gotten much better since Week 1, but we are still leaving runners out there." Paden Flippin led the Panthers (3-6), finishing 2-for-3 with a double, single and 3 RBI, while also swiping two bases and scoring one run. Brooks Morgan (1-for-3) added two runs and two stolen bases, while Judson Smith went 1-for-3 with one stolen base and one run scored. Colby Allen (1-for-2) and Dillion Moore (1-for-1) each registered a base hit and scored a run. "We put a couple of guys on and they had a couple of guys put it in play," said Greene. "Today was more of a day to let all of our pitchers get in some work. They did what we didn't do and that was timely hitting. They scored runs when they needed them and had good execution on a squeeze play." Allen got the start on the mound and tossed two innings, limiting Vilonia to three hits and one earned run. Morgan relieved Allen in the third and pitched 2 1/3, giving up three runs on two hits. Moore finished out the game, allowing three runs on two hits. Heber opens 2-4A Conference play today against Lonoke, which returns several starters from last season's state runner-up team. "Lonoke is a good team," said Greene. "They bring back everybody but two kids off that state runner-up team. We are going to have to put the ball in play because they are going to have some kids that can throw the ball. "We've got a tall task at hand, but nobody expects us to do anything in conference so we have some things on our side and I think we can sneak up on some people and Lonoke is one of them if we can put the ball in play."


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SHASTA LAKE, Calif. — Winter is likely to offer little relief for parched California, as even normal amounts of rain and snow wouldn't be enough to pull the state out of its persistent drought, a top U.S. climate official asserts.
A long-range weather outlook shows equal chances of above- or below-average precipitation in the Golden State over the next three months, noted Mike Halpert, acting director of the federal Climate Prediction Center.
"Given the drought that's currently there, even with near-average precipitation you'll still have persistent drought," Halpert said Nov. 21 during a conference call with reporters. "So there's a two-thirds chance the drought is not going away in California this winter."
The forecast comes as drought has been an ongoing concern across parts of the Southwest and Texas for nearly three years. Though conditions in those regions have improved in the last few months, they may face another dry spell this winter, Halpert said.
Sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific have been near average since spring of 2012, and forecasters expect that to continue, possibly into next summer. That means neither El Nino or La Nina is expected to influence weather patterns over the next few months, federal officials explained.
Dry ground and depleted reservoirs have already prompted the California Department of Water Resources to announce an initial allocation of 5 percent of requested deliveries to State Water Project contractors in 2014.
"We hope things improve with this winter's storms, but there is no guarantee that 2014 won't be our third consecutive dry year," DWR director Mark Cowin said in a statement.
Storage levels in California's major reservoirs largely determine the initial allocation. Lake Oroville, the state project's principal reservoir, is at 41 percent of capacity, while Shasta Lake – the Central Valley Project's largest reservoir – is at 37 percent. The San Luis Reservoir, a vital Central California supply pool for both federal and state contractors, is at 25 percent.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation won't start estimating its water deliveries to contractors until late February, said Pete Lucero, an agency spokesman in Sacramento.
"All I can tell you is 2013 has been one of the driest – if not the driest – years on record for California," he said. "We go through those cycles now and then, so there's no telling … where we're going to be in the future."
California received only its second major weather system of the fall Nov. 18-20, when 1.72 inches of rain fell on Redding, 1.17 inches registered in Red Bluff and 0.71 inches was recorded in Sacramento. Many communities have already fallen well below their seasonal averages for precipitation.
Computer models show a series of storms lining up for California in December, said Kathy Hoxsie, a National Weather Service warning coordinator in Oxnard, Calif. AccuWeather goes as far as to predict two straight weeks of clouds or rain in the northern Sacramento Valley at the beginning of the month.
"The big key is if it can tap into moisture," Hoxsie said. "There's no question that weather systems will come through. We're going to get some winds out of it.
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California rainfall
Here are the season-to-date rainfall totals and comparisons to normal for selected California cities, according to the National Weather Service. Totals are as of Nov. 21:
Redding: 3.12 inches (normal 5.67 inches)
Eureka: 4.56 inches (normal 6.69 inches)
Sacramento: 1.3 inches (normal 2.54 inches)
Modesto: 1.23 inches (normal 1.81 inches)
Salinas: 0.73 inches (normal 1.62 inches)
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BROOKLYN � Jon Marino won two matches by pinfall as the Hillsdale High School wrestling team earned a split at Wednesday's Lenawee County Athletic Association quad meet at Brooklyn Columbia Central.
The Hornets stormed to a 60-12 victory over the Erie Mason Eagles in the opening dual, then fell 67-12 to the Dundee Vikings.
Hillsdale was never threatened by the shorthanded Eagles in the first dual. Marino scored a pinfall in 1:49 against Derek Raymond in the 140-pound match. The Hornets also got a pin from Joe Munger, who defeated Bobby Livernois in the 215-pound bout in 5:57.
Against Dundee, which entered the night ranked No. 1 in the state's Division 3 poll, the Hornets split the first four matches with the Vikings. Aaron Smith won his match at 125 pounds, then Marino (140) scored a pinfall in 3:04 against Eddie Edmonds. However, the Vikings would win the remaining 10 matches to take the victory.
The Hornets will compete Saturday in the Hudson Super 16 Individual Tournament.
Reading at Concord
The Reading High School wrestling team stormed to a pair of victories in Wednesday's tri-match. The Rangers defeated Big Eight Conference foe Concord 69-12, then beat Hanover-Horton by the exact same score.
Both Concord and Hanover-Horton were shorthanded. The Rangers collected half their wins on the night by voids.
Trent Schafer (135) recorded a pinfall against Concord, while Jeremy Stewart (125) won his match 7-4.
Reading had five pinfall victories against Hanover-Horton. Ryan Hiller (130), Dale Holmes (140), Austin Bolenbaugh (145), Micah Watson (160) and Alex Ely (285) each won by pin. Schafer scored a 9-5 decision victory in the 135-pound match.
The Rangers will wrestle Saturday in the Comstock Tournament.
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Gambling bill scuttled, 'Now it is going to be really tough' for budgetBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
May 22. 2013 11:27PM
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Editor's Note : The vote was to rule the bill inexpedient to legislate, so a "Yea" vote is a vote to kill the bill.
The defeat of casino gambling in the House Wednesday will make budget negotiations between the House and Senate much more difficult, several key lawmakers say.
"The budget was always going to be tough," said Senate Bill 152's prime sponsor and Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, "but now it is going to be really tough."
Gov. Maggie Hassan included $80 million in her proposed budget from licensing fees from a casino. The House did not include the money in its budget and the Senate, which is currently crafting its version of the two-year operating plan, has not included the money either, but would have if the House had passed the bill.
Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, said: "We weren't planning to put (the money) in the budget and that still stands."
He said the Senate budget will not include any tax or fee increases and he does not foresee any other revenue sources being considered.
"We look to live within our means and we will live with that," Bragdon said.
Hassan lobbied House members for SB 152 leading up to the vote, including giving a 15-minute speech in Wednesday's Democratic caucus before the House session.
After the vote she said she was disappointed the House did not listen to the people of the state who support casino gambling but would continue to work with both the Senate and House and with both parties to find a way to fund her budget priorities.
"I remain committed to working with the legislature to finalize a balanced budget that restores the priorities that the people of New Hampshire support: job creation, higher education, economic development, strengthening our mental health system and protecting the health and well-being of our communities," Hassan said.
Restoring funding
House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, said after the vote that while the House and governor disagree on SB 152, they do agree on the need to restore funding for "investments slashed in the O'Brien budget."
The Senate is discussing heavy-handed cuts to the responsible budget the House sent them, Norelli said.
"The House budget restores investments in higher education, mental health, developmental disabilities services, and fixing our crumbling roads and bridges, creating jobs and growing our economy," she said. "We need those investments restored to ensure long-term prosperity for our communities and our state."
Norelli was not alone in saying money is needed to restore spending slashed in the last two-year budget developed by the Republican-controlled House and Senate.
"We knew we needed the money for the budget; now it's up to the House to make up the difference," said D'Allesandro. "My prediction is it's going to be a long budget process now."
Taxes rejected
On Tuesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman and SB 152 sponsor Sen. Chuck Morse, R-Salem, released a list of potential reductions from House-adopted spending on Medicaid expansion, community health centers, the developmentally disabled wait-list for services and in the mental health system, among others.
The Senate Tuesday rejected about $53 million in House-approved tax increases by a 4-2 vote down party lines. The committee rejected a 20-cent-a-pack increase in the tobacco tax, which would produce $40 million during the biennium and a two-year delay in business tax credits that would save the state $13 million.
By the same vote, the committee rejected a 12-cent increase in the gasoline tax over three years that was included in the House-passed budget and a tax on tips earned by restaurant and other hospitality employees.
The $80 million in revenue from a casino would have allowed the Senate to restore money they had planned to cut.
Bragdon noted the Senate would have made some adjustments in its proposed budget if the bill had passed, but noted the Senate had already agreed to the House level of funding for the University System of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Community College System and a number of other programs.
The Senate is expected to finalize its budget plan next and then vote on it June 6.
Then House and Senate negotiators will try to reach a compromise on the operating budget before the next fiscal year begins July 1.


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By Madeline Lloyd
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
An athlete requires both a healthy body and a strong-willed mind to succeed. When physical strength deteriorates, it is mental toughness that causes one to either push forward or quit.
Baylor power forward Mariah "Miracle" Chandler demonstrates that the power of a strong, unrestricted mind can carry one farther than the strengths of a healthy body.
The Atlanta, Ga., redshirt junior was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW) at the age of seven. WPW is a disorder of the heart caused by the presence of an abnormal accessory electrical conduction pathway located between the atria and the ventricles. Electrical signals travelling down this pathway may stimulate the ventricles to contract prematurely, resulting in a disruption of the heart's normal rhythm.
"I've had 6 heart surgeries to correct the problem," Chandler said. "It is not fully healed. Yes, I play basketball, but my heart does not limit me in any kind of way. The doctors say the electrical pathway can come back at any time, but people can die at any moment so why limit myself?"
Chandler has possessed this unyielding toughness since birth. After her first heart surgery, doctors pronounced her dead. Her heart stopped beating for about a minute, but resumed after her mother began to pray. She was deemed a miracle baby, and the nickname has stuck with her ever since.
Although Chandler doesn't allow WPW to control her life now, it did have a major influence on her adolescent years. Symptoms of her medication caused her to develop a deep voice and to grow rapidly at a young age. A 5'2 second grader is bound to attract a great deal of attention.
"As a kid I would see other kids playing around outside and with their family," Changler said. "I really couldn't do anything. I had to wear a heart monitor every day to school. I had to get looked at all the time. The medicine I had to take caused me to be different. I grew faster than the average kid, my voice was deeper and I was walking around with a big heart monitor on the side of me. Kids would just look at me."
Once Chandler began to play basketball, however, she learned to view her differences as blessings. Children her age accepted her as a unique individual with unparalleled talent.
Just as Chandler learned to accept her condition and live without boundaries, she's learned to live a healthy, yet competitive life now.
"I have never seen Mariah's heart condition limit her," Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey said. "She is one of the hardest workers on the team and a very vocal person on the court. Also, when she redshirted last season, she was our biggest cheerleader. She is a very inspiring person."
Although Chandler doesn't broadcast her story, the Baylor women's basketball team is aware of her condition and possesses a great deal of respect for her commitment and sacrifice.
"Mariah is one of the biggest cheerleaders and one of our most vocal leaders on the team," Baylor senior forward Destiny Williams said. "She is really uplifting to all of us."
Chandler has been playing with Baylor stars such as Williams, Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims since her freshman year.
"We're a big group of kids, we like to have fun," Chandler said. "We enjoy each other's company. We can have fun off the court and on the court, but on the court we take care of business."
Although she redshirted last year, Chandler is working hard to rebuild her presence on the court.
"After sitting out last season, Mariah continues to improve on the court," Williams said. "She's just now getting back into the flow of things. She will just continue to get better and better, mainly because she's such a hard worker."
Chandler is considered a hard worker off the court as well. Besides basketball, her passion is making movies. She has operated a camera at selected Baylor volleyball contests in order to gain experience as a film and digital media major. Miracle aspires to open her own movie production company after graduation, already referring to it as Miracle Productions.
Although being a producer is a big aspiration, there is little doubt Chandler will succeed. She has proved her mental toughness and capabilities time and time again.
"A few of my teachers have told me to continue to be motivated," Chandler said. "Be hungry for anything. Remember that God has brought you here for a reason and only He knows that reason. So don't let anyone stop you from reaching His goal."
Chandler will continue reaching her goals while living a life unlimited by her condition. Her life story already is a miracle and she still has many blank pages to fill.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better job getting uninsured people covered, the states or the feds?
The nation is about evenly split between states that decided by Friday's deadline they want a say in running new insurance markets and states that are defaulting to federal control because they don't want to participate in "Obamacare." That choice was left to state governments under the law: Establish the market or Washington will.
With some exceptions, states led by Democrats opted to set up their own markets, called exchanges, and Republican-led states declined.
Only months from the official launch, exchanges are supposed to make the mind-boggling task of buying health insurance more like shopping on Amazon.com or Travelocity. Millions of people who don't have employer coverage will flock to the new markets. Middle-class consumers will be able to buy private insurance, with government help to pay the premiums in most cases. Low-income people will be steered to safety net programs like Medicaid.
"It's an experiment between the feds and the states, and among the states themselves," said Robert Krughoff, president of Consumers' Checkbook, a nonprofit ratings group that has devised an online tool used by many federal workers to pick their health plans. Krughoff is skeptical that either the feds or the states have solved the technological challenge of making the purchase of health insurance as easy as selecting a travel-and-hotel package.
Whether or not the bugs get worked out, consumers will be able to start signing up Oct. 1 for coverage that takes effect Jan. 1. That's also when two other major provisions of the law kick in: the mandate that almost all Americans carry health insurance, and the rule that says insurers can no longer turn away people in poor health.
Barring last-minute switches that may not be revealed until next week, 23 states plus Washington, D.C., have opted to run their own markets or partner with the Obama administration to do so.
Twenty-six states are defaulting to the feds. But in several of those, Republican governors are trying to carve out some kind of role by negotiating with federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Utah's status is unclear. It received initial federal approval to run its own market, but appears to be reconsidering.
"It's healthy for the states to have various choices," said Ben Nelson, CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. "And there's no barrier to taking somebody else's ideas and making them work in your situation." A former U.S. senator from Nebraska, Nelson was one of several conservative Democrats who provided crucial votes to pass the overhaul.
States setting up their own exchanges are already taking different paths. Some will operate their markets much like major employers run their health plans, as "active purchasers" offering a limited choice of insurance carriers to drive better bargains. Others will open their markets to all insurers that meet basic standards, and let consumers decide.
Obama's Affordable Care Act remains politically divisive, but state insurance exchanges enjoy broad public support. Setting up a new market was central to former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's health care overhaul as governor of Massachusetts. There, it's known as the Health Connector.
A recent AP poll found that Americans prefer to have states run the new markets by 63 percent to 32 percent. Among conservatives the margin was nearly 4-1 in favor of state control. But with some exceptions, including Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico, Republican-led states are maintaining a hands-off posture, meaning the federal government will step in.
"There is a sense of irony that it's the more conservative states" yielding to federal control, said Sandy Praeger, the Republican insurance commissioner in Kansas, a state declining to run its own exchange. First, she said, the law's opponents "put their money on the Supreme Court, then on the election. Now that it's a reality, we may see some movement."
They're not budging in Austin. "Texas is not interested in being a subcontractor to Obamacare," said Lucy Nashed, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, who remains opposed to mandates in the law.
In Kansas, Praeger supported a state-run exchange, but lost the political struggle to Gov. Sam Brownback. She says Kansans will be closely watching what happens in neighboring Colorado, where the state will run the market. She doubts that consumers in her state would relish dealing with a call center on the other side of the country. The federal exchange may have some local window-dressing but it's expected to function as a national program.
Christine Ferguson, director of the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange, says she expects to see a big shift to state control in the next few years. "Many of the states have just run out of time for a variety of reasons," said Ferguson. "I'd be surprised if in the longer run every state didn't want to have its own approach."
In some ways, the federal government has a head start on the states. It already operates the Medicare Plan Finder for health insurance and prescription plans that serve seniors, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Both have many of the features of the new insurance markets.
Administration officials are keeping mum about what the new federal exchange will look like, except that it will open on time and people in all 50 states will have the coverage they're entitled to by law.
Joel Ario, who oversaw planning for the health exchanges in the Obama administration, says "there's a rich dialogue going on" as to what the online shopping experience should look like. "To create a website like Amazon is a very complicated exercise," said Ario, now a consultant with Manatt Health Solutions.
He thinks consumers should be able to get one dollar figure for each plan that totals up all their expected costs for the year, including premiums, deductibles and copayments. Otherwise, scrolling through pages of insurance jargon online will be a sure turn-off.


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WASHINGTON — Less than a month after a horrific elementary school shooting, the White House is fighting to keep the momentum for new gun legislation amid signs it's losing ground in Congress to other pressing issues.
Vice President Joe Biden has invited the National Rifle Association and other gun-owner groups for talks at the White House on Thursday. On Wednesday, the vice president will meet with victims' organizations and representatives from the video game and entertainment industries. The administration's goal is to forge consensus over proposals to curb gun violence.
President Barack Obama wants Biden to report back to him with policy proposals by the end of January. Obama has vowed to move swiftly on the recommendations, a package expected to include both legislative proposals and executive action.
"He is mindful of the need to act," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday.
But as the shock and sorrow over the Newtown, Conn., shooting fades, the tough fight facing the White House and gun-control backers is growing clearer. Gun-rights advocates, including the powerful NRA, are digging in against tighter legislation, conservative groups are launching pro-gun initiatives and the Senate's top Republican has warned it could be spring before Capitol Hill begins considering any gun legislation.
"The biggest problem we have at the moment is spending and debt," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on Sunday. "That's going to dominate the Congress between now and the end of March. None of these issues will have the kind of priority as spending and debt over the next two or three months."
Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the Tucson, Ariz., attack that killed six people and critically injured former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Following that shooting, Obama called for a national dialogue on gun violence. But his words were followed by little action.
Giffords took a prominent role in the gun debate on Tuesday's anniversary. She and husband Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, wrote in an op-ed published in USA Today that their Americans for Responsible Solutions initiative would help raise money to support greater gun control efforts "to balance the influence of the gun lobby." Kelly has indicated that he and Giffords want to become a prominent voice for gun control and hope to start a national conversation about gun violence.
There was also little national progress on curbing gun bloodshed following shootings at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, a Texas Army base or a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, all of which occurred during Obama's first term.
Still, the killing of 6- and 7-year-olds at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 did appear to stir a deeper reaction from the White House and Capitol Hill. Obama pushed gun control to the top of his domestic agenda for the first time and pledged to put the full weight of his presidency behind the issue. And some Republican and conservative lawmakers with strong gun rights records also took the extraordinary step of calling for a discussion on new measures.
But other gun-rights advocates have shown less flexibility. The NRA has rejected stricter gun legislation and suggested instead that the government put armed guards in every school in America as a way to curb violence. A coalition of conservative groups is also organizing a "gun appreciation day" later this month, to coincide with Obama's inauguration.
The president hopes to announce his administration's next steps to tackle gun violence shortly after he is sworn in for a second term on Jan. 21.
Obama wants Congress to reinstate a ban on military-style assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyers to skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity magazines.
Other recommendations to the Biden group include making gun trafficking a felony, getting the Justice Department to prosecute people caught lying on gun background-check forms and ordering federal agencies to send data to the National Gun Background Check Database.
Some of those steps could be taken through executive action, without the approval of Congress. White House officials say Obama will not finalize any actions until receiving Biden's recommendations.
Gun-rights lawmakers and outside groups have also insisted that any policy response to the Newtown shooting also include an examination of mental health policies and the impact of violent movies and video games. To those people, the White House has pledged a comprehensive response.
"It is not a problem that can be solved by any specific action or single action that the government might take," Carney said. "It's a problem that encompasses issues of mental health, of education, as well as access to guns."
In addition to Biden's meetings this week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with parent and teacher groups, while Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will meet with mental health and disability advocates.
The White House said other meetings are also scheduled with community organizations, business owners and religious leaders.
Associated Press writer Philip Elliott contributed to this report.


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Back rubs earn Hooksett substitute teacher a walk out the doorBy BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 04. 2013 1:48PM
HOOKSETT - A substitute teacher at Hooksett's Cawley Middle School was "permanently removed" from the building after allegedly being "too familiar" in physical contact with students.
The seventh-grade substitute teacher at Hooksett's Cawley Middle School was walked out of the building Jan. 31 after touching students in "too familiar" a manner, according to district officials. School officials did not identify the teacher or say if it was a man or a woman.
The school's principal, Matthew Benson, called the reported behavior "not acceptable" in a letter sent home to parents Feb. 1, adding that it was "inconsistent with the behavior we expect from adults in a school environment."
The letter did not otherwise elaborate on the nature of the incident, but according to a parent who spoke off the record, the substitute had been approaching students from behind while they were studying and giving them back and shoulder rubs.
The substitute teacher was immediately and permanently removed from the building once school officials were notified of the incident.
Superintendent Dr. Charles P. Littlefield and the Hooksett Police Department were also notified immediately.
A Safe Schools report was filed with the department on Feb. 1.
It does not appear that any charges will be pressed, though no official word has been offered on the matter. Hooksett Police have not issued a press release on the incident, and inquiries on the incident made to the department were deferred to School Resource Officer Gary Blanchette, who did not return calls.
The letter from Benson did note, however, that he had spoken with all parents and students involved in the incident, and he believed that school officials had "brought closure to the matter."
Benson declined to comment on the issue, deferring to the SAU office. Littlefield was not available for comment.


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Just keep on shooting.
The Burroughs boys basketball team trailed for most of its game against Tehachapi and was down by as many as 13 points in the middle of the third quarter, but started hitting deep shots late in the ball game.
The biggest shot of the game came from Burroughs forward Jon Kauppi to beat Tehachapi 57-55 Tuesday in the Burroughs Barn.
RIDGECREST — Just keep on shooting.
The Burroughs boys basketball team trailed for most of its game against Tehachapi and was down by as many as 13 points in the middle of the third quarter, but started hitting deep shots late in the ball game.
The biggest shot of the game came from Burroughs forward Jon Kauppi to beat Tehachapi 57-55 Tuesday in the Burroughs Barn.
The 3-pointer, which was one of 11 on the night by the team, came with 8 seconds left in the ball game. It was the first time Kauppi had been off the bench since the 5-minute mark of the third quarter. Although Kauppi had been sitting, BHS Coach Doug Hayes said he had total faith in Kauppi during that situation.
"That doesn't concern me with him," Hayes said of his senior forward's lack of time on the floor in the second half. "We did that all of last year. We threw him in there and he came through."
It wasn't an easy win for the Burros by any means. Burroughs held a 7-6 lead early in the first quarter, and didn't hold a lead again until the fourth quarter. The Burros withstood an 18-2 run from the Warriors between the first and second quarters and trailed by double digits for most of the game, but found a way to pick themselves up when it mattered.
Caleb Felix, Justin Aichlmayr, Calvin Martin and Jeremy Smith put the team on their backs late in the game, while Matt Polman was deadly accurate from 3-point range as the Burros started crawling their way back into the ball game.
"Caleb Felix, Justin and Jeremy came off the bench and did a great job for us," Hayes said. "We rode those guys for the last quarter and a half."
Smith didn't score any points, but was tough on the defensive side of the floor. Aichlmayr hit a few shots for the Burros and also made sure he was back quickly on defense for every Tehachapi possession. Aichlmayr played passing lanes well on the defensive side of the ball in getting three steals on the night. Felix hit plenty of big shots in leading the Burros back and was solid at the point guard position.
All of those players followed Polman as the Burros started to make their comeback push. Polman had 14 points in the third quarter and had six of the 11 points in an 11-2 run that got Burroughs back in the game.
Felix hit a 3 and Martin added a basket as the Burros pulled within four at 44-40, by the end of the third frame.
"We were down by a lot in the third quarter," Hayes said. "That says a lot about a team. We weren't playing good basketball, yet we were able to fight back and win that game. That's something to really be proud of. We got it together when we needed to and went out and got a W."
The Burros opened the final period of play by getting two 3s — one by Polman and the other by Felix. Martin added a basket as well in starting the final frame on an 8-0 run to grab the Burros' first lead since the opening quarter.
For the rest of the game, neither team held more than a two-point advantage. The lead switched hands five times in the final minutes, before Kauppi came up with the game winner.
"We came from behind and won," Hayes said. "We are better than what we showed tonight, so it's frustrating. The big part about tonight's game was that we were down by 11 or 12 points at least and came back to win."
Polman finished as the team's leading scorer with 19 points and hit 5-of-9 from 3-point range. Martin had 12 points and 12 rebounds. Aichlmayr had eight points and three steals, while Felix added eight points as well.
The Burros move on to face Oak Hills at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Oak Hills.


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My hope would be that as immortals we would not need natural resources for sustainance.
Quote from: screwtape on March 06, 2012, 04:02:55 PMyou've just repeated yourself. For you to say how it makes sense would require you to explain something. I did explain it. In the very first post I made regarding that issue. Then I quoted myself in response to your question. And now I will do it again.
you've just repeated yourself. For you to say how it makes sense would require you to explain something.
Eventually you will have done everything that can be done. You will achieve everything that can be achieved. Your life will be empty.
Hey man, it was your analogy. I said it was a poor one.
You are doing the same thing over and over and for some reason expecting different results. Why is that?
But in an infinite period of time and infinite number of things could happen. So in fact, you could not achieve everything. But that is beside the point.
While that may explain why putting a time limit on life may make it less boring, it does not explain how without it life lacks meaning.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
If it were not analogous in a manner that would make my explanation incorrect, you'd be right. However, my explanation was not about whether death is 20% life or whatever.
I had assumed that you had simply ignored my statement, which is not uncommon.
Actually, that's exactly the point...
It was always my understanding that one gave their life meaning by setting certain goals (help a lot of people, donate a lot of money, conquer the world, et cetera). If you have achieved everything that can be achieved, you can't set any goals. You've already done everything.
The problem was, I could not tell what you were saying by using that analogy.
I get that. But when you are asked to explain, maybe the better, more generous assumption is that it was not ignored.
What about goals that are unattainable or ongoing? For example, can a person achieve perfection?
Why? It was used with my claim that life without death is meaningless.
My experience tells me otherwise. I've often had "misunderstandings" because whomever it was simply did not read my posts.
...who was really at fault there?
What's it matter why?
So have I. I usually refer people to my previous post, ask if they've read it and then let them know if they have further questions I will explain more.
I also take into consideration to whom I am speaking.<snip>
Why does it matter whether you or I are "at fault"? Why do either of us have to be "at fault"?
Hatter and I both missed your point. Be a pal and help us out.
Just quoting yourself comes off kind of arrogant and does not show a lot of respect.
I simply quote it, as I think it's enough.
I treat every PoV and every claim the same way, regardless of who's speaking.
It was a reference to the -1 you[1] gave me a while back, which basically said that I was the one to blame for the misunderstandings. 1. IIRC
I did it in a manner consistent with the assumption that you had simply not read my post completely, and for that I apologize.
Arrogant? Maybe. Lack of respect? Not even close.
As the guy on the other end of it, it isn't enough.
Why? Not everyone is the same.
That may not be how you intended to sound, but that is how it sounded to me. You might ask Hatter his opinion on it. Just because you think you would have treated anyone that way does not mean it was not disrespectful.
But every PoV must be treated in the same manner, if we are to arrive at the most likely conclusion, correct?
I'm guessing that that's because you think that respect means one should be exempt from the natural reactions of another.
Yes, but that is not what I am talking about. We certainly should be skeptical of everyone's ideas and question them. But the manner in which we do it need not be the same.<snip>
Look, I am not trying to beat you up or have an argument.
I am trying to give you some information about yourself so that hopefully you will reflect on it and grow from it.
You don't have to believe me. You don't have to agree with me.
And I am not going to spend much more time trying to convince you.
When I said you should ask Hatter his opinion, it was not rhetorical. I think you really should ask Hatter his opinion.
It is not an easy thing to accept criticism of one's self. But it is often the only way to progress.
I know maybe one or two people here[1]. The rest are complete strangers, as far as I'm concerned. 1. By which I mean I know more than just their usernames.
From our interactions through posting and our time on the forum, we most certainly begin to get a feel for personalities and other things that are no different than becoming friends in person.
If you call me a complete stranger, and that's what you truly believe, then you are effectively saying that the relationship is inconsequential to whatever you may have decided about who I am as an online personality.
That flies in the face of the type of social connections that human beings are generally predisposed for, IMO.
I think you should consider that the attitude portrayed in your "complete stranger" comment, may be considered by those who know you well, as rude or inconsiderate.
The Answer is God is not healing today. The Answer is Mid Acts Dispensational Right Division.
The Answer is God is not healing today.
The Answer is Mid Acts Dispensational Right Division.
That also forces some pretty stiff conclusions about a supposed omnimax god. I have never heard of "Mid Acts Dispensational Right Division", so maybe you could explain that a bit?
You could have googled it.
I was hoping a human could explain it better.
Quote from: Tate on March 16, 2012, 10:09:19 PMThe Answer is God is not healing today.I've heard this response before. Is there any support for it in the bible? (I'm not being snarky, here, I'm actually asking.)QuoteThe Answer is Mid Acts Dispensational Right Division.I'm not aware of anything in this doctrine that supports Cessationism. Can you advise?
...the why God doesn't heal them is that they are being punished for their deeds in their past life. It could be that.