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Shiraz is indeed Australia's most celebrated and widely planted variety, typically producing bold, supple reds with sweet, jammy fruit and performing best in the Barossa and Hunter Valleys. Cabernet Sauvignon is often blended with Shiraz, and also shines on its own particularly in Coonawarra and Margaret River. Grenache and Mourvèdre (often locally referred to as Mataro) are also popular, both on their own and alongside Shiraz in Rhône blends. Chardonnay is common throughout the country and made in a wide range of styles. Sauvignon Blanc has recently surged in popularity to compete with New Zealand's distinctive version, and Semillon is often utilized as its blending partner, or in the Hunter Valley, on its own to make complex, age-worthy whites. Riesling thrives in the cool-climate Clare and Eden Valleys. Sticky-sweet fortified wine Rutherglen Muscat is a beloved regional specialty of Victoria. Thanks to the country's relatively agreeable climate throughout and the openness of its people, experimentation is common and ongoing, and there are a vast array of intriguing varieties to be found.
Marked by unmistakable aromatics, a savory palate, and an elegant texture, Syrah is capable of producing fascinatingly complex and long-lived wines with a stunning purple hue. Native to the Northern Rhône, Syrah's best examples are found in Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie. It is also an important component of the GSM blends of the Southern Rhône and beyond, alongside Grenache and Mourvèdre. Both varietal Syrah and GSM blends are common in Australia and California and are gaining popularity in Washington State. In Australia, Syrah is known by the synonym Shiraz, which tends to indicate a bolder, fruit-driven style of wine, and is occasionally blended with Cabernet Sauvignon for added depth and structure.
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At its best, Syrah shows aromas and flavors of purple fruits, fragrant violets, baking spice, white pepper, smoke, and even bacon fat. Many examples from California aim to recreate this savory style, while others focus more on concentrated fruit flavors. In Australia, under the name Shiraz, it shines as that country's unofficial signature red grape, producing deep, dark, intense, and often jammy reds.
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Miracle recovery for New Boston toddler after fall from chair drove pencil into her brainBy Simón Ríos
Union Leader Correspondent
January 23. 2013 11:09PM
Two Sundays ago, 21-month-old Olivia Smith fell from her chair, lodging a colored pencil through her eye socket that penetrated about 5 1/2 inches into her brain, nearly reaching the back of the skull.
But a freak accident that could have ended in the worst way has resulted in what some are calling a miracle. Olivia was released from the hospital Wednesday morning, and according to her family, she's likely to fully recover.
"These things don't happen," said New Boston Fire Chief Dan MacDonald, who was first to respond to the call. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."
Olivia has suffered three separate strokes, affecting her right side and potentially her long-term cognitive processing. But mother Susie Smith, 30, who has three girls and a son on the way, said because of Olivia's young age, doctors think it's possible she will overcome the damage.
"She is so strong," Smith said during a gathering at her home with the emergency responders who arrived to help the day of the accident. "She's a fighter. If she wants to do something. she's going to do it. She's amazing."
When first responders arrived at the rural New Boston home on 57 Pine Road Jan. 6, Smith was shocked by what had happened and felt ill. A second ambulance took her to Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, where Olivia was also transported.
Smith, who's 20 weeks pregnant, turned out to be fine, but 30 minutes later Olivia was flown by helicopter to Boston Children's Hospital. An X-ray showed the pencil had deeply penetrated the brain.
Doctors didn't remove the pencil for several hours, mapping out a plan. When they finally took out the pencil, without the need for surgery, they realized what had happened was a unique case.
"The neurosurgeon said if you were to sit down and map out a way you would want a pencil to go through the brain, that's what you would have happen, because it missed everything," Smith said.
The pencil managed to miss not only the eyeball but also several of the brain's vital areas, including the optic nerve and the major arteries.
After eight days, Olivia was transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Though doctors said she might be there for six weeks, she ended up staying just one week.
What culminated in a miracle began as a nightmare; Olivia's parents first feared they could lose their youngest child. Then they were left wondering to what extent the accident would affect her.
Olivia's father, Tyler Smith, said the first two days were the worst.
"For two days she didn't really have any progress. She was opening her eyes but she wasn't talking or responding or smiling or anything," he said.
But by Friday night, he said, everything started to change.
"She started to crack a bit of a smile, very small, only on that one side, then a little later I got her to laugh and she said, 'Daddy,' which was an amazing moment."
Although Olivia is acting like her old self, a long road of preventive care and visits to specialists lies ahead.
Chief Dan MacDonald kept repeating the mantra: "It's actually a miracle story."
"With all the other stuff we have going on, I think everyone can use a miracle story every once in a while," he said.
MacDonald said one of the difficulties of small-town emergency response is that everybody knows each other. He coached Susie Smith in basketball when she was 12 years old.
"In a small town I think it's a much more stressful situation because of the fact that you tend to know the people," he said. "You go there, then you may drive the wife or the mom to the hospital, (and) you may stay there with them because you know they don't have anybody else."
Doug Lewis, a firefighter in Hopkinton, Mass., and a neighbor of the Smith family, said Olivia's father asked him to pray for the girl.
"So I did recite the rosary, actually several times," Smith said. "I asked the Blessed Mother and Jesus to heal the child, and I think it was that night, (Tyler Smith) gave me a call and told me about the rest of their day."
Lewis said as a firefighter he encounters tragic incidents on a regular basis. Thankfully, this one turned out differently.
"Anybody in the fire service is always going to run into situations like this," Lewis said. "As tough as some of the people in this world are, things like this are going to hurt you."
Lewis has established the Olivia Cecilia Smith Benefit Fund to help the family shoulder the financial burden of Olivia's treatment.
"I didn't want to see them go broke," Lewis said. "They're a young couple, they're in a fairly new house, they've got bills just like everyone else, so I just wanted to do my part."
The account is at Citizens Bank in Goffstown. Those who wish to contribute by mail can send checks to:
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Brooklyn Decker is easily one of the hottest bikini models in the press lately. She's been featured in Sports Illustrated, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour as well as major blockbuster hits such as "Just Go With It" and "Battleship". On top of all of that, she's married to tennis star Andy Roddick, easily making them one of the hottest celebrity couples. So, who wouldn't want to be like Brooklyn? We figured we would pay homage to Ms. Decker (who turns 26 today) by featuring some of our favorite bikini shots of hers as well as show you how to get the Lady Lux luxury swimwear look from them.
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When the Republican governor of Nebraska raised objections last fall to the Keystone XL pipeline because it crossed the Ogallala Aquifer – that state's major source of fresh water for drinking and agriculture – you'd think it might have blunted talk that President Obama was a job-killer who hated the internal combustion engine and the fuel that makes it go.
"The White House wants the price of gas to go as high as possible," intoned a sage on a Beaumont radio news program one morning this week. Why? Because "Obama hates Texas" and "Obama hates the oil and gas industry."
His co-host agreed and groused that it cost him $11 worth of gas to make some trip in the area. These comments were offered after they played a statement by Congressman Kevin Brady urging the president to approve the Keystone Pipeline "immediately" and to stop "slow walking" oil drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico.
Brady is one of a number of Republicans in the House who have blocked any meaningful consideration of administration initiatives to create jobs and get our economy moving, preferring to prolong the pain in the dubious hope that voters will somehow reward their obstructionism in the next election.
Another strategy employed by Brady and company is inane attempts to embarrass Obama by pointless gestures like imposing an artificial 60-day deadline on the Keystone decision they tacked onto the bill to preserve the reduction in the payroll tax. This "deadline" wasn't enough for Brady, however. The environmental concerns of his fellow Republicans in Nebraska don't matter to this congressman – not when he has another chance to bash Obama, much to the delight of the radio guys.
This political gamesmanship might be great sport for people looking for easy scapegoats – and who aren't concerned with the truth. Like when Obama the Job Killer turned the Environmental Protection Agency loose to challenge the way Texas issues air quality permits under the Clean Air Act. Except that EPA action took place more than two years before Obama became president. So wait – that means George W. Bush was a job-killer who hated Texas? Facts are stubborn things.
The fact is political dialogue has grown so shrill and coarse in this country that truth has become a secondary consideration – and that hurts us all.
The Examiner supports construction of the Keystone XL pipeline because it will reduce our dependence on oil from dangerous parts of the world and create jobs here at home. The responsible production of fossil fuel is a reality that will be with us throughout our lifetimes even with advances in alternative energy – which we also support.But the bluster, braggadocio and false representations that characterize so much of the current political dialogue are pointless and counter-productive. And it needs to stop.


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I just got off the phone with David White, the San Francisco Chronicle reporter who posted a couple hours ago, saying Brian Dawkins had agreed to terms with the Denver Broncos.
Here's the deal: White is not reporting that Dawkins has signed a contract with the Broncos. He actually never reported that. White is told by a source that Dawkins has "agreed to terms" on a deal. Many of us took this to mean a deal had been finalized, but there is obviously a major difference if you look at the wording closely.
As of right now, no one (that I've found) has reported that Dawkins has signed a deal. And White is still the only reporter I've found that says Dawkins has agreed to terms. The bottom line is that it appears nothing has been finalized, although White sticks by his source that a deal is in place.
White said I'm the only person from Philadelphia who hasn't cursed at him today, and I appreciate him taking the time to get in touch with me after I sent him an initial e-mail.
He ends his most recent blog post with:
And please, Brian Dawkins, sign the deal with the Broncos and don't go Bart Scott on me.
So, to clarify White's report one last time: Dawkins has agreed to terms, but he still has the option to change his mind.
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If Ava is one of "those" Jeromes, could it be possible that she was aiming for Sonny? That would be an interesting twist. LOL I do admit that I like the idea of her going after Frodd as she wants him away from Kiki.
Love love love Ava and Frodd scheming to take over ELQ. At the moment I don't see how they could succeed but I'm sure they have something up their sleeves.
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Measuring the quality of a recorded disc is a delicate and complicated procedure.
Physical characteristics of a disc and the HF signals which are the output of the photo diode sensor in the play-back head, are specified by the industry in the form of standards. These standards among other things, also set down maximum and minimum levels to ensure correct operation, and it is from these limits that we can then ascertain the condition of a disc.
In order to evaluate the quality of a recorded disc, you need to examine all
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measuring equipment should be accurate enough to maintain measuring consistency as well as reliability.
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CDRInfo presents the results of a test that started a couple of months ago.
We chose some of the most popular PC burners on the market, and used them
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Radisson Hotel claims excessive assessments by city of NashuaBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
March 04. 2013 7:12PM
NASHUA - A local hotel is claiming the City of Nashua issued excessive and disproportionate assessments for its hotel facility, maintaining it is entitled to three years worth of tax abatements.
A superior court judge is reviewing a civil suit filed against the city by Radisson hotel owner AFP 105 Corp. and Southern New Hampshire Hospitality LLC.
An assessing expert representing the Radisson Hotel, Wesley Reeks, previously testified that the city's assessment of the property from 2009-2011, averaging between $9.6 million and $12.2 million, should have been closer to an assessed value of $4.9 to $6.7 million, according to court documents on file at Hillsborough County Superior Court.
"Despite the undisputed changes in market conditions caused by the recession and other forces, and the challenges faced by this hotel, the city failed to either adjust its assessments . or issue abatements in response to the requests for abatement made by both the prior owner and then AFP," say court records filed by Attorney Margaret Nelson of Sulloway and Hollis. " . The city presented no evidence to explain or support its assessments of the hotel."?The two entities went to trial last month on the hotel's petition for tax abatement. Judge Jacalyn Colburn has taken the matter under advisement and is expected to issue a decision in the coming weeks or months.
Attorneys representing the hotel maintain the fair market value set by the city in 2011 - $10.2 million - is nearly double what the property is actually worth, according to court documents. Three years of assessments - 2009 to 2011 - are being challenged in court. Nelson is asking the court to rule that the city's assessments for tax years 2009 to 2011 were excessive and disproportionate, and that the Radisson is entitled to abatements based on Reeks' market value estimates.
Reeks' appraisal of the property is estimated at $6.7 million for 2009, $4.9 million for 2010 and $5.8 million for 2011. The city's assessments for those same years are $12.2 million for 2009, $9.6 for 2010 and $10.2 million for 2011, according to court records. A supplemental trial memo filed by the city's attorney, John Ratigan, argues that the hotel failed to adequately calculate the assessments.
"Mr. Reeks has provided an appraisal report that fails to inform or explain to the reader how or why he has made an adjustment to rooms' expense against total revenue that results in an approximate reduction in the fair market value of the property of $6 million," states the memo.
Ratigan goes on to say that the Radisson failed to carry its burden and prove through evidence that it has been disproportionately assessed.
According to the hotel's property taxes posted on the city's website, the Radisson paid about $320,000 in taxes in 2009, nearly $330,000 in property taxes in 2010, and about $336,000 in 2011 based on the city's assessed values of the hotel.
At the end of 2011, the landmark hotel was sold at a foreclosure auction to Attilio Petrocelli, president and CEO of United Capital Corp. in New York, for $5.5 million.
At the time, Petrocelli described the winning bid as a "very modest price," announcing the hotel will receive upwards of $6 million in renovations as the new owners plan to revitalize the castle-like facility. The 336-room, seven-story hotel that was originally built in 1981 sits on 17-acres off exit one of the F.E. Everette Turnpike.
"Our plans are to bring it up to its former glory," Petrocelli said following the auction, adding he is optimistic that the elegant landmark can once again become a destination place for events, proms and weddings.
Following a longstanding court dispute between the property's former owner and the mortgage note holder, a settlement was reached allowing the hotel to move forward with the foreclosure process in 2011.
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CHAMPAIGN -- I'm not sure the more talented team won the Big Ten basketball opener Tuesday afternoon at State Farm Center. Actually, I'm pretty sure it didn't.
But Illinois is 1-0 in Big Ten play, and Indiana is 0-1, because the Illini played tougher.
Indiana coach Tom Crean was proud of his team and how hard his guys played. But he seemed darn near mesmerized by Illinois.
"What they do," Crean said of the Illini, "as well as any team we've watched all year, and it's something we preach all the time, you've got to get 70 percent of the 50-50 balls. We fought like crazy, but they got just a few more."
Indiana's emphasis on winning those 50-50 balls — rebounds, loose balls on the floor — was reinforced by Crean's fleet of assistant coaches reciting it throughout the game, like they were selling magic raffle tickets. "Fifty-fifty!" they bellowed whenever the ball popped loose. "Fifty-fifty!" they hollered some more, pumping their fists each time the Hoosiers corralled one for themselves.
The Hoosiers got a nice share of those 50-50s. But they didn't get the biggest ones.
Those came in the final minute of overtime. Illinois got them all and won the game, 83-80.
First came a missed 3-pointer by Illinois' Rayvonte Rice, with 36 seconds left and the shot clock about to expire. As the ball bounced off the rim, teammate Joseph Bertrand materialized in the middle of the lane, seemingly propelled by rockets in his shoes, to rip the rebound out of the sky. When he returned to Earth, Bertrand was fouled and made the first ensuing free throw to extend the Illini lead to three points.
The second came after Bertrand missed his next free throw and Indiana's Noah Vonleh thought he had secured the rebound. That's when Illinois' Jon Ekey poked the ball out of Vonleh's hands, went to the floor to grab it for himself and called time out before any of the Hoosiers jumping on top of him could tie him up. Although Illinois would fail to score, Indiana lost precious time before regaining possession.
When Indiana's Yogi Ferrell missed a drive, Illini freshman Kendrick Nunn won the scrum for the rebound and got the ball to Tracy Abrams, who was fouled with eight seconds left. Abrams' free throw put the game out of the reach of Ferrell's 3-point shot five seconds later.
"I'm a fan of watching our guys play," Illinois coach John Groce said, "because they play so tough."
In Year Two of Groce's tenure at Illinois, toughness is becoming the program's trademark. "It's the first priority," Groce said. "We're trying to build that culture."
Groce elaborated: "The mindset is, you come here to play, everyone is expected to defend and rebound and have responsibilities in those two areas. No one gets a free pass. It doesn't matter how good you are on offense." He explained how one generation of players passes that mindset on to the next and it becomes what former NFL coach Tony Dungy calls "regenerative leadership."
Illinois has some talented parts, but it is not a team of stars by any stretch of imagination.
Rice, a hometown kid from Centennial High, was overlooked by the previous Illini coaching staff and signed with Drake. After two seasons there and a coaching change here, he transferred home, sat out last year and now is the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week. All he did Saturday was supplement his 29 points with eight rebounds, three steals, two assists and a blocked shot in 42 minutes. But Rice is no lock for first-team all-conference in the Big Ten.
"His best quality," Groce said, "is he's a tough, tough guy. But he's not the only one like that. We got a lot of them."
Toughness is a critical part of Groce's recruiting philosophy. It was part of the attraction with Rice, just as it was with Ekey, a forward who transferred from Illinois State and, according to Groce, leads the team in "mental plays."
"Obviously, both those guys are A-plus in terms of the mental piece and the physical piece," Groce said. "But we look for (toughness) in recruiting. We always ask ourselves, 'How tough is the kid? Where do his mental and physical toughness lie? A lot of times, toughness can override deficiencies for an individual or a team."
The Illini this season are as prime an example as you will find.
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CHAMPAIGN -- I'm not sure the more talented team won the Big Ten basketball opener Tuesday afternoon at State Farm Center. Actually, I'm pretty sure it didn't.


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- Astronomy
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- My brother was in Azerbaijan for a few years, so I wanted to know a bit about the place.
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- Cathouse
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- The Goon Show
- An amazing BBC comedy show of the '50's--predecessor of Monty Python' Flying Circus
- Bruce Jackson
- Sceptical Sources, Civil liberties, Freethought, Progressive, Fun, Bicycling,
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- Link to various sites dealing with languages.
- The Simpsons
- Bart, Homer, Marge, etc... not that other one!
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- Berlioz, Ducks, Science Fiction, Liberal Politcs
- The Spot
- WWW Soap Opera.
- Victorianism
- The Victorian Web
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As exclusively revealed by Goal.com on Friday, Adkins has been relieved of his duties with the club concerned about a lack of activity in the transfer market.
The Saints are currently 15th in the table following a good run of form that has seen them lose just twice in their last 12 games, but that has not been enough to keep Adkins at St Mary's.
|Southampton are 7/4 to be relegated with bet365
"This decision has been made with the long-term ambitions of Southampton Football Club in mind. Whilst we acknowledge the contribution Nigel has made during the past two years, for the Club to progress and achieve our long-term targets a change was needed," said Southampton executive chairman Nicola Cortese.
"Mauricio is a well-respected coach of substantial quality who has gained a reputation as an astute tactician and excellent man manager. I have every confidence that he will inspire our talented squad of players to perform at the highest possible level.
"He also shares my belief that the most successful clubs are built by nurturing young players through a development system that provides a clear path to the First Team, thereby creating a culture that keeps them at the Club for the long term. This is an approach he has employed with great success in the past and I look forward to him bringing that experience and expertise to Southampton."
Pochettino, a former Argentina international who has previously managed Espanyol, has spoken of his delight at taking the job at St Mary's.
"This is the kind of opportunity that any coach would relish. Southampton is a club with great heritage, and an even more exciting future," he said.
"There is a clear vision to take the Club to a new era of sustained success in the Premier League, and beyond, which I'm delighted to be part of."


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Pipsqueak hijacks the Globes too
This motherf-cker...
I guess it makes sense. There are trailers for movie trailers these days. So of course. OF COURSE he would hijack Oscar nomination day, promising an announcement only to announce that something else is happening in 3 days...
Which just happens to be when the Golden Globe Awards are taking place.
Also, he thinks he's Brad Pitt in a Chanel ad now:
So, to sum up, here's what we learned today:
Justin Timberlake is "ready" to return to music.
We should all praise Jesus for it.
We will be praising Jesus in another 3 days when he gives us something else to be thankful for.
If you are 20, can I just ask you...?
This sh-t works? It doesn't piss you off?


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Zak Podmores disappointment that the Durango Public Library was closed Sunday evaporated with the epiphany that he could still access the Internet from the buildings Wi-Fi.
He plugged in his laptop to an exterior outlet and planned a summer rafting trip down the Colorado River.
I realized I could do it right here, said Podmore, who was sitting outside the library on a ledge.
On another Sunday, Aaron Van Sickle sat on the same shaded ledge by the front door and sent emails to his brother in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
This is a great free resource, said Van Sickle, 23, a landscaper. I had a few hours, and I needed to get some Internetting done. Im selling some stuff on Craigslist too.
Andy White, director of Durango Public Library, said, Wi-Fi makes a library more versatile and able to accommodate more computer users. There are people who choose not to come into the building at all.
Tourists, for example, often seek out the library for the free Internet.
They will pull up in their camper, use the Wi-Fi and then go down the road, White said. In the summer, the height of the tourist season, the library averages between 36 and 63 Wi-Fi users on Sundays when the building is closed.
But the library is not the only place to procure free Wi-Fi access.
Cathy Metz, director of parks and recreation for the city of Durango, said, We have seen an increase in people using computers around the (Durango Community) Recreation Center, primarily in our seating areas, and it has not caused any problems from our perspective.
Fort Lewis College is blanketed with a Wi-Fi that emanates from the buildings, but users not affiliated with the college have to register to use the service.
This deters someone from abusing the system, said Matt McClamery, the colleges director of information technology.
The librarys Wi-Fi users are not asked to register. The library averages between 1,700 to 1,900 Wi-Fi users a month, said Deb Denious, systems analyst for the library.
Those are in addition to the patrons who use the librarys 35 hard-wired Internet terminals. Last year, patrons accumulated 110,000 hours of Internet sessions on the terminals.
With Wi-Fi, the library does not have strict limits on how much a single user can download, but there is a threshold if too many users are on at the same time, particularly if users are downloading large files or playing video games, Denious said.
When the bandwidth threshold is reached, new users might not be able to connect to the Wi-Fi until somebody else disconnects, Denious said.
The library can accommodate a maximum of 50 Wi-Fi users at any one time, which is limiting because the library gets about a 1,000 visitors a day.
Many patrons come in with smartphones, which are often programmed to seek out free sources of Wi-Fi. If patrons get an error message telling them theyre offline, they come to the desk.
Well say, keep trying, White said.
Its an unanticipated problem because no one realized the impact of the smartphone when the library opened in December 2008, White said.
Hotels can accommodate only so many customers smartphones at a time, too, said White, noting many patrons like to watch streaming movies on their smartphones.
In the fast evolution of technology, some library patrons think paper books are passé. The library has 40 electronic readers because some people only want to read from a Nook, White said.
To save on manpower, the library has gone to an automated system for filing newly returned books and other checked-out materials. Books are sorted by a conveyor belt that looks like a newspaper press.
One common glitch, however, is that the system often cannot read the code on a returned book if it has become too faded. So it must go through the manual filing system.
The library seems to confront a new technical issue every day, White said. He could have never anticipated the changes he has seen in his career, he said.
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The Onion – "America's Finest News Source" – is one of the few outlets around that delivers consistently brilliant and scathing satire. But sometimes even the Onion hits just a little too close to home with its humor. Case in point, this piece posted yesterday, titled 2nd-Grade Teacher Can't Believe How Much Fatter They Keep Getting – which manages to be both hilarious and utterly depressing because it rings true.
WASHINGTON, PA—With the 2012-2013 academic year beginning this week, longtime James G. Blaine Elementary School teacher Suzanne Pomponio, 39, expressed her astonishment Wednesday at how much fatter her second-graders keep getting.
"I honestly didn't think it was possible for this year's kids to be any fatter than last year's, but boy, was I wrong," Pomponio told reporters, explaining that her students have grown noticeably chunkier in each of her 15 years as an educator. "When they all came in on Monday morning, I really couldn't believe how huge they were. The first thing I thought was, wow, each student must be 8 to 10 pounds heavier than anyone in my 2011 class. And everyone in that class was pretty fat, too."
"The short ones are fat, the tall ones are fat—they're all just so fat," she added. "I didn't even know 7-year-olds could get that big."
While the Onion piece hits some fairly funny notes – the "teacher" in the article describes the smell in her classroom as "a mixture of sweat and meat of some kind" – this is pretty dark stuff. It is, in fact, almost indistinguishable from reality.
Plus: Antibiotics May Increase Infants' Risk for Obesity
Childhood obesity is a scourge that has more than tripled in the past 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of children between 6 and 11 in the United States shot up from 7 percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008. The percentage of obese adolescents between 12 and 19 increased from 5 percent to 18 percent over the same period.
What do you make of the Onion article? Spot-on satire, or no laughing matter? Leave a comment.


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Post-Newtown political comity breaks down with today's dueling news conferences
The spirit of public comity that followed last week's mass murder of first-graders in Newtown, Conn., ended today with a pair of dueling news conferences by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner in Washington.
While both men had previously said the national trauma of seeing 26 people gunned down in the Sandy Hook Elementary School was enough to put politics in its place, each quickly fell back into the type of political rhetoric that preceded the shooting.
Obama tip-toed up to the line during his speech Sunday in Newtown during an interfaith vigil called to remember the victims.
"Can we honestly say that we're doing enough to keep our children – all of them – safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we're all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return? Can we say that we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?'' the president asked. "I've been reflecting on this the last few days, and if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We're not doing enough. And we will have to change.''
Obama remained generic as he threw down the challenge to Congress, even though he had avoided pushing any sort of gun control measure himself during his first term.
"In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens – from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators – in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this,'' he said. "Because what choice do we have? We can't accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?''
Today, the president began to add some meat to those bare bones, saying he was putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of a task force to address gun control, educational, and mental health questions raised by the Newtown killings. He said he wanted recommendations in a month, and for the House and Senate to vote on them promptly.
"The good news is there's already a growing consensus for us to build from,'' Obama said as he spoke from the White House Briefing Room, named for James Brady, the press secretary who was wounded by gunshots in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan.
The president even ticked off a list.
"A majority of Americans support banning the sale of military-style assault weapons. A majority of Americans support banning the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips. A majority of Americans support laws requiring background checks before all gun purchases, so that criminals can't take advantage of legal loopholes to buy a gun from somebody who won't take the responsibility of doing a background check at all,'' he said.
But then Obama made his first overtly political comment of the post-Newtown period.
"I urge the new Congress to hold votes on these measures next year in a timely manner. And considering Congress hasn't confirmed a director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in six years – the agency that works most closely with state and local law enforcement to keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals – I'd suggest that they make this a priority early in the year,'' he said.
The nature – and tone – of the comment surely won't endear him to opponents already uncomfortable after being cornered by growing gun control fervor.
The president's statement was followed by an unusual period of question-taking, during which the subject immediately pivoted to another hot topic: his "fiscal-cliff'' negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner.
Considering that Obama usually dashes away from reporters after such statements – the purpose being to keep the focus on what he said to them and not whatever they may ask him – the decision to allow questions indicated that the president also wanted to talk about the subject he surely knew would come up.
And in his answers that followed, Obama took on a House Republican caucus he only moments earlier had been courting to pass gun control legislation.
His comments came a day after he ceded the public airwaves to Boehner, who announced he was going to have the House vote on a "Plan B'' proposal that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for everyone earning less than $1 million a year.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney labeled the deal a nonstarter on Tuesday, noting it could not pass the Democratically controlled Senate.
"At some point, there's got to be I think a recognition on the part of my Republican friends that – take the deal,'' the president said today. "They will be able to claim that they have worked with me over the last two years to reduce the deficit more than any other deficit reduction package; that we will have stabilized it for 10 years. That is a significant achievement for them. They should be proud of it. But they keep on finding ways to say no, as opposed to finding ways to say yes.''
Obama then laid bare a suspicion harbored by many of his supporters and previously enunciated not by him, but surrogates such as Governor Deval Patrick.
"I don't know how much of that just has to do with – it is very hard for them to say yes to me,'' the president declared. "But at some point, they've got to take me out of it and think about their voters, and think about what's best for the country. And if they do that – if they're not worried about who's winning and who's losing, did they score a point on the president, did they extract that last little concession, did they force him to do something he really doesn't want to do just for the heck of it – and they focus on actually what's good for the country, I actually think we can get this done.''
Such comments, though, did not sit well with Boehner.
He assembled reporters in the Capitol several hours later and delivered a 50-second rejoinder.
The speaker explained that Plan B would ensure a tax cut for "99.81 percent of the American people,'' as opposed to the 100-percent of people who would be affected by tax hikes and government spending cuts that will automatically take effect on Jan. 1 if he and Obama don't strike a deal.
The speaker said that once the House completes its work on Thursday, "the president will have a decision to make: He can call on Senate Democrats to pass that bill, or he can be responsible for the largest tax increase in history.''
Boehner then walked out of the room without taking questions, intent on keeping the focus on what he said and not whatever else the press corps may have wanted to ask him.


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Rayman 2 is an app that has been available on the iPhone for quite some time, so why are we doing it now? Simple really, Gameloft has gone slightly mad and started shifting a whole selection of its best apps for 69p. This means you can pick up the likes of Driver and Rainbow Six for less than a pound and of course Rayman 2, which is arguably the best of the bunch.
A console classic, Rayman 2 sees the legless and armless Ubisoft mascot adventuring in 3D for the first time. All the great platforming is still there, only this time it is in three dimensions and now with retro feeling N64 graphics. So is the app worth it? Or is the budget price tag not even enough to justify a mobile adventure with Rayman?
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
- Format
- iPhone
- Price
- £0.69
- Where
- iTunes
Rayman 2 is an easy game to pick up. This is good for two very simple reasons: first it can be easily dived in and out of on your phone and second, the simple controls don't cause issues with touchscreens. Gameloft has made a big effort making sure that Rayman doesn't control sluggishly, which could quickly ruin a game.
Graphically Rayman isn't quite so good. The art style has stood the test of time quite nicely, the textures however suffer out of their age. Most objects are either muddy or soft and feature the odd pixelation. Still all is forgiven for the overall feel of Rayman 2, and the fact that it is running on a smartphone screen, helps a lot.
Short of just jumping and firing, there isn't actually that much else to Rayman's gameplay. Its simplicity definitely reflects its age. Again though, just as how its art style keeps the game entertaining, innovative context sensitive scenes save the gameplay. You get to do things like jump up between gaps or climb around ledges, it reminds us slightly of things like Uncharted, minus the awesome set pieces.
For 69p it is a definite iPhone must have, giving you a lot to get your teeth stuck into. Watch out for the odd bit of slow down on anything less than an iPhone 4 but other than that, things run near perfect. No bugs or save issues mean you get a smooth pick up and play Rayman experience, exactly how it should be.
To find out more about Gameloft's sale click here.
What do you think of Rayman 2? Let us know in the comments below ...


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Michael J. Fox, who became famous playing Alex P. Keaton in the '80s sitcom "Family Ties," accepts the TV show's Fan Favorite Award. Michael Gross, who played Fox's character's father, Steven Keaton, on the show, stands at right while one of the show's writers, Michael Weithorn, is at left.
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somebody rip this now
somebody rip this now
i dig the new tune... i wish she would dive back into her really orchestral weird side... but this sounds better than Volta.
Can someone send me a PM on where I can download this, please?
Awwww, not in da group? Bummer.
Uh, this song is all kinds of win.
EDIT: Thx.
wow, very very very awesome! i hope she's on the field next year, first headliner I ever saw at Coachella and she blew my mind
It's funny how everything was roses when we held on to the guns.
Certainly better than Volta, yes. Reminds me a bit of the Vespertine B-Sides, specifically It's In Our Hands.
Whoa what just happened.
It's like Richard D. James came over to Bjork's house for tea.
Bingo was his name.
Sounds excellent! Cant wait to hear it live....reminds me of All is full of love/Pagan Poetry/volta ending...love it.
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Definitely literally choked on my beer when the Aphex ending kicked in.
Great Track...but I need someone to get a Bjork Signal to alert me when this things happen. Almost 12 hours before I knew the new track leaked...
This track kills. Possible new show opener? Think it would work nicely.
All the "crystallines" being posted by Bjork's fb page today are really tripping me out.
5/22 - The Cure - Hollywood Bowl
5/31 - Brian Jonestown Massacre - Teragram (?)
6/07 - Chelsea Wolfe - Teragram (?)
6/14 - Silver Apples - Troubadour
6/16 - John Carpenter - Orpheum
last.fm, if you care
Twitter, if you dare
Thank you kindly, Coachella Message Board.
It's lovely but... a tad underwhelming? I kind of agree that it sounds like a Vespertine B-side with the obvious exception of those last 20 secs or so. I guess it's a bit much to expect her to reinvent her sound on every release. New Bjork is always a reason to celebrate.
i <3 it!
The new track is a quality jam.
Oh wow. I want to hear more.
This is promising...
I had a dream with Bjork in it last night, we discussed her new single and I asked about the "Aphex ending". I wish I remember more of it, but it was neat!
Oh man, now I can't stop listening to this track.
Last night's set list. Lots of new songs. Surprised that she closed with Declare Independence (although that's my favorite song of that LP). One Day! (wonder if there was a flute player again):
Dark Matter
Hidden Place
Mouth's Cradle
It's Not Up to You
Mutual Core
Where is the Line*
All is Full of Love
One Day
Declare Independence
*I might have had to take a pee break for this one...this song freaks me the fuck out.
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I predict this will be like every other Bethesda game since Morrowind.
It will be very pretty, wow console players, and get great reviews. Once you get past the eye candy you will see the gameplay and story are fairly generic genre tropes. After there is about a year's worth of community mods, bugfixes, and content patches the game will enter the "fun" or "finished" category. The initial interface will be unusable on the PC because Bethesda (and every other developer) does not consider that playing a game with keyboard and mouse at 18 inches is completely different than playing at 10 feet with a gamepad.
However to Bethesda's credit they do release all the tools the community needs to fix their game, unlike GSC not supporting STALKER modders at all.
Expect a bunch of really bland DLC shoehorned into the game in the months following release. And while the DLC will be lame by itself the assets will be effectively used by modders.
Maybe 6 months after the last DLC is released integrated "overhaul" mods will show up that transform the game from a pretty engine into an actual immersive substantial gaming experience. By then most of the people who care have moved on or were burned out on the buggy, unfinished vanilla release and will never experience the fruition of the great potential the game had.
Spellmaking has been in the series two times now (I believe, I haven't played the first two games), so I don't think it's going away. Skyrim doesn't really look like other RPGs except maybe that it has trees and grass. It has a distinct Conan the Barbarian feel.
... I'm not quite sure what you mean by "great houses," but it sounds like pure opinion to me, so I'll leave it at that.
When was it confirmed that Skyrim would not be moddable?
I believe this is appropriate;
Holy shit indeed!
im already predicting that this game will cost my a letter grade in college and much of my social life if im not careful. im so excited!
Well, it's not just the menus. The wording that comes up when you, for example, find a new location looks and behaves the exact same way that it does in New Vegas. It comes up the same way, fades out the same way, and uses the same typeface. If you play New Vegas for any length f time, that visual cue becomes ingrained in your head, so when you see it again, you think of New Vegas, which can briefly pull you out of the Skyrim mindset. It all depends on the kind of player you are. Some people won't even notice it,but others are definitely going to be a little bit thrown.
Fortunately, I'll be at my Girlfriends house during the holiday season, so no games for those 2 weeks. However, when I get back...going to be a straight week of Skyrim! =D
And then the Spring semester starts...
Though the game looks gorgeous, I'm still skeptic to one aspect, that has always bothered me about the Elder Scrolls games.
The elves always looks ugly as shit.
This bothers me more than it should, but as my avatar implies, I have a thing about elves. One of the coolest things in DA2 was the re visitation of the elves, giving them an unearthly feel.
Whatever problems there may be, that includes font choice, can and will be fixed by the modding community. Can't wait till I get my hand on the new Creation Kit.
But I don't think that Skyrim is going to be a bad game - I just think that we can clearly see some ways Morrowind is almost certainly going to be better. That's not a huge problem, because there are ways that Morrowind is better than most games. Skyrim will also be better than Morrowind in many ways - the melee system, obviously, and likely the spellcasting system.
Does picture 3 remind anyone else of Edoras from lord of the rings (where king Theoden lives)?
Btw, there's a typo on the main page title for this article. It says "Edler Scrolls."
I'm pretty sure I feel like parents do when their offspring grows to become successfull in a line of work completely alien to the old folks. I am happy and proud for the Elder Scrolls franchise for where it've gotten, but I can't help the feeling that it ain't the son I loved back when he called himself Morrowind. Of course, I love The Elder Scrolls no matter what, so even though I realize there's no hope he'll be like he was back in the day, I'll stick with him no matter what he desides to do with his life.
Sigh... Can't help a slight tint of melancholia though.
That's unfortunate. I was hoping for some real world confirmation of game stability. Given how Oblivion and the two Fallout games turned out. Still, thank you for answering.
You and me both. I have been saying stuff like this since Skyrim was first announced. It does seem like the games come off more as lazy PC ports than anything else. Its kinda funny that the games only really become playable after the modding community puts in all the features Bethesda promised would be there at launch.
It's like Bethesda don't want me to have a life. :(
Yeah, It's bare bones, but that's so you get in, get out, and get on with it. I'd rather have a modern clean font than an over-elaborate muddling font any day.
If they were going to rip off the menus from New Vegas could they at least rip off the leveling system. Swinging a sword at enemies four hundred times doesn't suddenly make me better at it. Okay, so maybe it does, but I prefer the system of getting XP for things I kill and then getting a set amount of points every level to distribute how I wish. That just runs cleaner for me.
Other than that, no complaints. Looking forward to November.
Why do I feel this game is gonna cause me to make a hit-list for dragons like I did with legendary animals in Fallout New Vegas?
OT:This seems like something to get excited for.The graphics are absolutely outstanding and I can't wait for all the crazy encounters with dragons.Bethdesa,you've got yourself a fan.
The title on the front page is misspelled 'Edler'
Besides that, this game looks so sweet you can bet your ass I'll be there on release date.
Don't let the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia blind you. Yes, Morrowind was a good game, a great game even, but it had some serious flaws. Swinging a sword a billion times at an enemy two feet away just to hit it, a UI that made me want to cry sometimes, and about a billion skills that you will never ever use because Long Blade and Spear were the only skills needed to destroy the game (because they had all of the best weapons), get pretty annoying after awhile. Morrowind's big strength was its high level of immersion and appropriate alien feel.
I think that Oblivion had some major improvements over Morrowind. The thing that people seem quick to forget is that it was released in 2006. I didn't get it until 2008, and it was still one of the best-looking games I'd ever seen. People like to bitch about the bugginess, but Morrowind was a billion times buggier than Oblivion ever was. Oblivion also featured a much better interface, and vastly improved melee and magic combat.
I don't have a problem with making the game more streamlined. There's a difference between streamlining a game and dumbing it down. The features that they are cutting are non-essential, and it improves the game tenfold.
I think that Skyrim will be superior to Oblivion, and that Oblivion was, except for immersion, superior to Morrowind. Feel free to disagree, but please keep it civil.
Yeah, I don't disagree that Skyrim may (on balance) be better than Morrowind, and will certainly have things it does better than Morrowind did. I was mostly just responding to this one guy's request for "5 ways Morrowind is better than Skyrim" for fun haha. Ofc, for all we know Skyrim will have awesome and flexible spellmaking, steller voice acting, and Telvanni. Really, we should withhold judgement on it until it actually comes out.
On the Oblivion vs. Morrowind thing, I actually played Morrowind first, then Oblivion, then went back to Morrowind with enough graphics mods to make my laptop cry, and ended up liking Morrowind a lot better on balance. There's just more stuff to do, and the NPCs are a few steps further away from the uncanny valley. IMHO, Oblivion was a step forward on graphics and melee, and a step back on aesthetics, setting, magic, and everything else. But I definitely think there's room for difference of opinion on this issue :)
I love The Elder Scrolls but this looks like console port garbage. I'm not excited one bit.
I wasn't too fussed on the shouts, but then they tie in with the main plot (don't they?) and I'm probably going to play this the same way I played Oblivion - totally ignore the main questline and run around the world finding dungeons, doing quest chains I stumble across, and just generally exploring and making up my own story as I go along. I still haven't got around to trying to finish Oblivion's main plot.
Although, it looks like melee combat still sucks. I wish they'd totally changed the way melee works, maybe used something like the system in The Witcher 2. Swordplay in the Elder Scrolls has always been exceptionally bland and this doesn't look much different.
Nitpicks aside, I'm still very excited for Skyrim, it's easily going to be my own personal Game of the Year.
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Hah, it sounds like Peter Monlyneux has had a bit of influence here! Having played Fable 2 and 3 I actually have come to miss the glittering trail at times when playing other games. Yes there's a degree of hand holding that comes with it, but there's also quite a lot of frustration saved. Glad to know that won't be a problem here.
Challenge accepted.
*Much larger variety of weapons including spears, crossbows, halberds, throwing knives and staffs being capable of melee.
OT: Still no pictures of Argonians?
Sounds like I'll absolutely love this game, like I had expected.
Though I have to say... It almost seems like there was a main art "Style" but different artists working on it. (I understand the need, but like, artists with differing visions) For instance, the mountains just don't seem to mesh very well with the skies.
Also, extremely glad that they fixed the female shoulder thing, though the faces still almost look masculine.
I get the feeling I'll be restricted to the Nord race. That's fine, but at the same time I liked having the choice of race, as it exemplified my character.
More != Better,
The ending to Oblivion didn't 'take all your glory away', you simply weren't the only hero of the story.
Who cares about clothes being able to be worn under armor? I mean, okay, it took away a lot of slots for you to put oodles of enchantments on your gear so you're stupidly overpowered. A tragedy, I know.
Having a ton of guilds likewise didn't make Morrowind a great game. Don't get me wrong, I like Morrowind, but let's at least praise it for things that actually make it better, not 'It had more of X'. A guild is just a quest chain, and Oblivion had plenty of non-guild related Quest chains.
I'll give you the fast travel, though. I don't like Oblivion's fast travel system.
its made for consoles.... thus the UI with big, BIG bars so it can be played on the smallest of TVs -_-
This is my issue. They shouldn't be making it for the lowest denominator. That is the worst design philosophy, it leads to no advancement and making the game worse over all. DICE have a good design philosophy for BF3. They are making it for PC and taking it down, making it a more polished product for everybody.
More developers should be like Eidos. They are making Dues Ex for PC and making a Console version separate from it. This will lead to the best possible product they could make, and from what I have heard from the beta, the new one rivals the first one.
Whelp, time to beef up the gaming rig before this comes out. Second 6870, here I come! Here's to hoping that the game actually utilizes Graphics Cards in xFire (I'm looking at you The Witcher 2)
Did the landscapes look generic or did you feel that you needed to explore every nook and cranny? I know this is hard to say from a hands-off demo.
Im putting all my money on the fact that this is gonna be the greatest game ever made.
Am I the only one wondering why this is seen as a good thing? I don't want my sequels to simply be prettier versions of what already exists, especially since I was massively underwhelmed by Oblivion. To each their own though, I will leave this where I pre-emptively placed it, in the "meh, don't really care" pile.
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Shea-Porter announces she won't seek House re-election
Rep. CAROL SHEA-PORTER, D-N.H.
Bernie Sanders' son eyeing run for seat being vacated by Shea-Porter in New Hampshire
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Shea-Porter's decision to not run again sends heads spinning
MANCHESTER — Carol Shea-Porter, the Rochester social worker who became the darling of New Hampshire's liberal activist corps 12 years ago, stunned the political elite again with shocking news that in 2018 she won't seek a fifth term representing the First Congressional District.
Shea-Porter, a grandmother recently for the first time, turns 65 this December.
She said in a brief, heartfelt statement Friday that family ties were behind this unexpected decision.
"I felt the tug of family at our reunion on Independence Day, and I have continued to feel it," Shea-Porter said in a statement a few hours after she told her surprised staff. "My family has said repeatedly that they would support any decision I made, and I am grateful to them for that and for all of their love and support through the years."
Shea-Porter's move throws wide open what already was shaping up as one of the dozen most competitive, U.S. House seats in the country in next year's midterm elections.
"It's a total surprise, nobody saw this coming," said Kathy Sullivan of Manchester, who was Democratic Party chairman when Shea-Porter's first upset win in 2006 capped off a historic sweep for Democrats up and down the ballot.
"She always surprised people. She surprised people when she won and she surprises people on her way out. Carol always marched to her own drummer and it worked."
Back in that race, Shea-Porter was the activist who went to then-Congressman Frank Guinta's town halls as a critic and helped form a group that wore T-shirts to President George W. Bush rallies that said, "Turn Your Back on Bush" in symbolic protest of the Iraq War.
The Democratic Party establishment handpicked as its 2006 candidate State Rep. Jim Craig, at the time minority leader in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Shea-Porter went on to crush Craig and then unseat two-term Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley in this district that makes up the eastern half of New Hampshire from Conway to Seabrook.
"I first won in 2006 without a single paid staffer because of their hard work," Shea-Porter said. "I also thank Republican and independent voters for their confidence, and I have listened to their concerns as well. Coming from a Republican family, I know that we need to hear each other, even if we don't always agree on policy."
Democrats expected to take a serious look at running are Executive Councilor Chris Pappas of Manchester, former Portsmouth City Councilor Stefany Shaheen, State Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester and former AFL-CIO President and Manchester State Rep. Mark MacKenzie.
State Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, and former, state liquor agency law enforcement chief Eddie Edwards of Dover are already mounting GOP campaigns and many think ex-Vice Chairman Matt Mayberry of Dover is edging towards his own bid.
Earlier this week, former two-time candidate John Stephen of Manchester cited his family and business demands in ruling out a 2018 run.
Other Republicans who could give this race a renewed look include former hopefuls Dan Innis, a New Castle state senator, Portsmouth businessman Sean Mahoney and Bradley.
"First I would like to thank Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter for her years of public service," Sanborn said in a statement.
"While we had differences of opinion about the future of our county there is no doubt that in her years of service she always did what she thought was best for the people of New Hampshire."
"I made the decision to run for Congress because I wanted to see serious change in Washington and I know that I am still the best candidate to fulfill that vision."
Edwards also wished Shea-Porter well.
"It has become apparent to me as I travel across this district that the voters are hungry for something other than just another politician," Edwards said. "They yearn for honesty and integrity, and they are begging for results."
Shea-Porter had four showdowns with former Congressman Frank Guinta, losing the seat in 2010 and 2014, winning it back in 2012 and 2016.
Guinta has already said he won't run again, Shea-Porter stressed she'll stay politically involved after next year.
"I have great faith in our ability to overcome challenges and to come together again, and I will continue to speak out," Shea-Porter concluded.
"As Granny D, New Hampshire's champion for campaign finance reform, said, 'Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do.' And as I always add, it will go away if we don't "do" democracy by engaging on the issues and voting. I am greatly encouraged by the heightened civic engagement I am seeing."


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What to do about Japanese beetles
Sightings of adult Japanese beetles began in mid-June. Since then they have been seen munching on roses, crabapples, lindens, raspberries, apple trees, basil and much more. Feeding on plants generally lasts from mid-June until mid-August.
The Japanese beetle, Popilia japonica Newman, is approximately 1/2 inch long and is metallic green with coppery wing covers. The beetles chew the leaf tissue between the veins, leaving a skeletonized leaf. Adults most actively feed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on warm, sunny days. Normally they start feeding on the upper portions of plants and work downward. Japanese beetles prefer plants exposed to direct sunlight.
Damage to trees and shrubs is considered to be primarily aesthetic. However, there are several control options for Japanese beetles.
Adult beetles change to a new plant host about every three days. They prefer to feed on foliage previously damaged by other Japanese beetles. It is essential to control early damage to plants. Hand-removal of beetles is effective on smaller plants such as roses, basil and raspberries. In the late afternoon and evening, disturbed beetles fold their legs and drop to the ground. By holding a container of rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) or soapy water under beetles and poking at them, one can easily collect a pint or so in less than an hour. If this is done every day or two for the first couple of weeks after the beetles emerge, subsequent damage through the summer is reduced.
Netting is used to provide complete protection. Rosarians protect prize individual buds and blooms or even entire plants with netting. Backyard blueberry growers use netting as well. Shadecloth with a high light transmittance, spun-bound polyester row covers, netting sold in fabric stores, window screening and other meshes all work well.
Insecticides provide effective control of adult Japanese beetles. Heavily attacked plants can be sprayed with carbaryl (Sevin), cyfluthrin and other labeled pyrethroid insecticides. Always read and follow label directions for safe use of pesticides. Sevin is toxic to bees and other beneficial insects and should be sprayed in the evening. Protect natural enemies such as birds and predator insects by keeping the use of conventional pesticides to a minimum. Spray only plants where damage is very noticeable or food crops that are under attack. Plants in less obvious parts of the landscape and large trees can go untreated.
Imidacloprid (Merit, Bayer Advanced Garden Tree and Shrub Insect Control) moves systemically through the tree to provide control. Soil applications require two months to move through the tree and so are not practical for this year's infestation. Once in the tree, the imidacloprid should be effective for at least a year.
Traps are available that contain a pheromone (externally produced hormonelike chemical) attractive to male Japanese beetles and a floral lure attractive to female beetles. The pheromone traps are useful for detecting beetle emergence, but not recommended as a control. Research shows that beetles are attracted from a considerable distance to areas near the traps but then switch their seeking behavior to food plants, resulting in heavier plant damage near traps. Even though the traps catch large numbers of beetles, their use is not recommended.
Jennifer Fishburn is horticulture educator with the University of Illinois Extension, Sangamon-Menard Unit. Contact her at email@example.com.


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