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Foster's reporters are at the polls this morning throughout the Tri-City and Seacoast region. They are filing reports to let readers know what's happening.
4:15 p.m. Somersworth — Paul Chabot, 81-year-old retired Somersworth resident, voted for Obama. "We're moving in the right direction, slowly, but still in the right direction," Chabot said. "Romney can't produce what he says he's going to produce."
4:05 p.m., Farmington — Maria Schloesser, 44, who co-owns a concrete construction company, voted for President Barack Obama. She says, "Because we're a small business. We own two and we're also middle class and we feel that we're not getting our fair share and I think he'd do the best for us."
4 p.m., Dover Foster's web editor, Janine Mitchell, reports lines out the door at Ward 2. Says she though she waited 45 minutes, she got there "just in time."
3:31 p.m., Durham — Voters were brought in by the bus-full to Oyster River High School where a line of student voters reached nearly around the entire building as they awaited their turn to register to vote in the town.
"We've been very busy today," Town Administrator, Todd Selig said.
He said by early afternoon there were already over 1,500 same-day registrants.
University of New Hampshire students waited patiently outdoors a officials worked the polls inside the gymnasium and new voters registered in the multi-purpose room.
Town Clerk Lorrie Pratt said things were going smoothly all morning and, though they still were after lunch time, there was a burst of voters looking to cast their ballot all of a sudden.
She was getting ready to make her way back to the Town Offices to get more cards for new registrants.
"It's been very steady," she said.
An additional table was set up to accommodate the number of new voters who needed to register.
By about 2 p.m. there were 3,454 ballots cast, which she said was a very high number at about halfway through the day and on their way to the anticipated 8,000 votes by the end of the day.
"No matter how much you plan, it just gets busy, busy," she said. — Foster's reporter, Andrea Bulfinch
3 p.m., Dover — Lee Skinner, Dover's Ward 4 moderator, said lines were long at 8 a.m. but they calmed down by 10 a.m.
"I'm sure by 4, the drum beat will start again," he sa id.
As for voter identification, Skinner said there had not been any problems.
"Most people have an ID. The few that don't, we are being careful right up front in saying, 'If you don't have an ID, don't leave.' Some other places seem to have misinformation. Not here. We've done a few voter affidavits. We've had no confrontations, nothing dramatic," he said.
Outside of the Elk's Lodge on Durham Road, campaigners were holding signs, hoping to get their last word into voters before they headed inside to cast a ballot. Skinner said everyone was behaving.
"I try to go outside every hour and look for bloody noses, bruises and signs abandoned," he joked about checking the sign holders outside of Elk's Lodge. "But no, they are all behaving. Now and then there will be someone running for something who is a contentious person to begin with … Most of the time, the campaigners out there are good natured, good willing. The urban legend is that sometimes one holds the other one's sign so they can run in and go to the bathroom or take a break or something. I don't know if it is true, but as you can see, they are getting along fine," he said.
Skinner had high hopes this afternoon of getting home early tonight.
"The polls close at 7. If we haven't processed all the absentee ballots, which we start processing around 1 o'clock or whenever they arrive, we'll start processing them as soon as we can. Ideally they're done by 7 o'clock in the evening. Then, we count up the write-ins. The machine gives us the tally of the non-write-in votes. Then we do book keeping," he said. "The thing is, if parking lot is crowded and you are looking to park to come in and vote at 7 p.m., I have to figure out who is already in the parking lot or not, and those who were already here can come in and vote," Skinner said.
"I would hope to be home by 9:30. I'm optimistic," Skinner said. " This is my first presidential election as a moderator. We'll see how it goes."
— Foster's reporter, Michelle Kingston
2:25 p.m., Dover — Aaron Wensley, moderator at Ward 5, said he's had at least 10 times more absentee ballots today than during the primary
2:20 p.m., Dover — Gary Gilmore, moderator at Ward 3, said it has been so busy that he expects turnout to be larger than 2008.
1:50 p.m., Dover — Michael Weeden, running for reelection for State Rep, outside Ward 6 this morning said he had no problem showing his ID.. "I have to show it everywhere else, why not at the polls, too?"
Lee Skinner, moderator at Ward 4 said this is his first time moderating a presidential election, but said he expects tonight to run smoothly and to be home at 9:30.
1:20 p.m., Somersworth and Rollinsford — Several Somersworth moderators were reporting steady streams of voters just before noon Tuesday.
"This is the most people we've seen in a long time," said Joanne Demers, moderator for Ward 5 in Somersworth. Slightly over 250 Ward 5 voters had cast ballots at the Romeo J. Messier building by 11:15 a.m., Demers said.
Marty Dumont, moderator for Ward 3 in Somersworth, was also saying attendance was high Tuesday morning. "We're seeing about 110 voters every hour," he said at the ward's voting center on Bartlett Avenue. "Over 400 people have voted so far — the turnout is pretty high."
Rollinsford was also seeing a high volume of voters. "We're now over 500 voters and getting close to 600," town clerk Charisse Baker said at 11:30 a.m. "This is currently very high for us." A steady stream of voters could be seen milling in and out of the American Legion building on Foundry Street to cast ballots just before noon.
— From Foster's reporter Oliver Jenkins
1:05 p.m., Newmarket — A slew of voters continued to arrive at the high school shortly after noon Tuesday.
Democratic candidates Michael Cahill and William Hudson Connery III, and Republican state Rep. Adam Schroadter, who are competing for House seats in Newmarket, were all on hand holding sign posts outside the door to the gymnasium.
Among the veterans of New Hampshire politics who were on hand was Abby the golden retriever. The 14-year-old dog was adorned in a neon green sign advertising a slate of Democratic candidates.
Owner Joan DeYoreo said her dog is a "Democratic party animal," which has been an election day fixture for the past two presidential cycles. Abby was a "Dog for Dean" during the 2004 primary, before transferring allegiance to the eventual Democratic nominee, Sen. John Kerry. Abby was briefly a "Canine for Kucinich" in 2008, but ultimately "barked for Barack" that year. DeYoreo said campaigning with a dog helps ease the tension during conversations with other voters.
"I think it sort of makes them laugh a little bit, and it's sort of a less harsh way to get your point across, I think."
Democrat Martha Fuller Clark, who is running for election to the state Senate in District 21, stopped to greet Abby while making the rounds at the polls. Fuller Clark, a former lawmaker and stalwart member of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, said she'll be keeping an eye on the voting results in Rochester after the polls close. She predicted the Lilac City vote totals will be a bellwether for the races for governor, executive council and the state House and Senate.
"I would think that we would know before nine o'clock what has happened, unless it's just really close," she said.
1 p.m., Newmarket — Newmarket officials report that 2,100 voters have gone through the polls by 1 p.m. today. The town has more than 6,000 registered voters total. — From Foster's reporter Liz Markhlevskaya.
12:56 p.m., Newmarket — Around lunchtime, the Newmarket High School saw no lines at the polls, despite a busy morning when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
"It was incredibly busy with the before-work crowd, and I'm sure the after-work crowd will be busy as well," said Town Council Chairman Phil Nazzaro around noontime. He said he plans on being at the polls throughout the day.
After exiting the polling booth, Newmarket resident Ralph Atkins, 66, said he voted Republican when it came to candidates for president, Congress, and governor.
"They can't do worse than the Democrats did," said Atkins. — From Foster's reporter Liz Markhlevskaya.
12:55 p.m., Dover — Foster's photographer Julian Russell captured video late this morning of political advocates singing Kumbaya at the polls. Here's the link if you want to have a listen: http://youtu.be/o_D60Y6n6IQ
12:37 p.m., Madbury — Foster's photographer John Huff reports the polls as very busy. http://youtu.be/znD31al_f1E 12 p.m., Madbury — Town Moderator, Dick Houghton, said around noon time on Tuesday that things were running smoothly at the Madbury polls. Having opened their doors for the first time this year at 7 a.m., the Town Hall was welcoming a steady stream of voters, but seeing it's first lull of the day around lunch time, he said. While there were a few objections to the new Voter ID law, he said residents who did object were willing to sogn the affidavit officials had ready at the polls. "We had everything in place, so it didn't disrupt anything," he said. — Foster's reporter, Andrea Bulfinch 11:47 a.m., Dover — City Clerk Karen Lavertu said Wards 1 & 2 had very long lines due to new voters needing to register early this morning. Other than that, all machines are working and moderators and volunteers are working hard! — From Foster's reporter Michelle Kingston. 11:43 a.m., Exeter — The Exeter Police Department tweeted at that as of 11a.m., 2,229 voters had come out to the Exeter polls. 11:03, Newmarket — From Foster's reporter Jim Haddadin: Voter turnout was heavy in Newmarket this morning, with some people waiting up to 22 minutes to cast ballots, according to Town Clerk Becki Benvenuti. The polling is being held inside the gymnasium at Newmarket Junior/Senior High School, where a team if 50 election volunteers are offering their assistance. "I drove in at 5:30 this morning and a voter met me in the driveway and asked when the polls open," Benvenuti said. Benvenuti predicted the turnout will be higher in Newmarket this year than in 2008, during the last presidential election. Election officials are dealing with a few changes this year, the biggest of which is the state's new voter identification requirement. Voters are being asked to present a valid I.D. with a photograph or alternatively, to sign a statement attesting to their identity. "There have been a few people that gave made, you know, kind of inappropriate comments about it," Benvenuti said, "but for the most part, really, the vast majority have been excellent about having it ready and showing their I.D." As of 10:30 a.m., about 1,500 people had cast ballots in Newmarket. Of that number, approximately 20 voters were required to sign voter affidavits. "That's a really, really small percentage," Benvenuti said. "Smaller than the primary." 10:43 a.m., Rochester — Don't try to vote in the wrong location! Foster's reporter Liz Markhlevskaya said there was some confusion about polling places in Rochester today. The City Clerk says Lilac Estates is the polling place for Ward 3, not the fire station. Another new polling location is Home Depot, for Ward 4. http://www.fosters.com/2012_polling_locations 10:39 a.m., Farmington — Town clerk says voters are coming in "fast and furious," only four signed voter I.D. affidavits so far. 10:39 a.m., Kittery, Maine — Foster's IT manager Simeon Broughton was at the polls in Kittery, Maine, early this morning and reported very heavy turnout. "It was mobbed," he said. 10:38 a.m., Somersworth — Foster's photographer John Huff reports heavy voting in Somersworth's Ward 1 with "lines out the door." 10:13 a.m., Farmington — Farmington man tells Rochester reporter Samantha Allen he "felt uncomfortable" showing voter I.D. today. "It's like they didn't trust me." http://youtu.be/1iUuQB4iwi4
9:42 a.m., Farmington — Rochester reporter Samantha Allen reports busy polling in Farmington with advocates outside the Old Town Hall. 8:13 a.m., Dover's Ward 2 — Rochester Times and Foster's Daily Democrat reporter Conor Makem went to vote this morning in Dover's Ward 2 and saw longer lines than in the presidential election in 2008 "Probably a 30-minute wait to vote," Conor wrote. http://youtu.be/mhE2iuMiiKo
8 a.m., New Durham — Sharon Doherty, wife of Foster's Executive Editor Rod Doherty, said the parking lot in and around the New Durham School was full when polls opened at 8 a.m. and since that time, there has been a steady stream of voters.
8 a.m., Rochester — Foster's V.P. Wayne Chick voted in Ward 2 in Rochester when the polls opened. He and his wife, Rachel said there were 150 people in line. Within 45 minutes, the line went down to 10 to 15 people. They had a table set up for new voters, a table for affidavits. "It was really amazing how efficiently they had things set up this morning," Chick said. Based on what he saw. Chick said the new voter I.D. law was not an issue.
7 a.m., Newmarket — According to Buzz Dietterle, editor of the Foster's editorial pages, Newmarket's polling station at the high school had more than 200 people waiting in line when the polls opened at 7 a.m. The line stretched more than 150 yards from the gymnasium door out onto Main Street. Four years ago, the line was not nearly as long and voting went more quickly. Once inside the polls this morning, voters without I.D.s were separated and provided with affidavits before getting in line to vote. Voting was delayed because of the new voter I.D. verification process. Voters had to present their I.D.s and say their name loudly enough for polling observers to hear.
7 a.m., Scarborough, Maine — Foster's Assistant Sunday and Business Editor Jerry Turner say long lines at the polls. People were actually waiting in line for the polls to open at 7. Some had to leave without voting because they had to get to work, but said they would come back.


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Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham — one of the most famous practitioners of his dangerous craft — died of cancer on Oct. 25 at age 82. We'll listen back to a conversation with Needham from Feb. 7, 2011, when he had just published a memoir, called Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life.
Hal Needham spent most of the 1950s and '60s falling off horses, wrecking stagecoach wagons and falling from really, really high places.
A Hollywood stuntman for more than four decades, he worked on more than 90 films, including some of the biggest Westerns of the 20th century: The Undefeated, Little Big Man, Stagecoach, How the West Was Won and Shenandoah. He recounts his experiences filling in for Jimmy Stewart, Dustin Hoffman and Burt Reynolds in a memoir, Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life.
In an interview on Fresh Air, Needham tells Terry Gross about one death-defying leap he made on the set of the TV series Have Gun, Will Travel. He was supposed to jump from a 30-foot rock onto a moving stagecoach, without protection or padding. But things didn't exactly work out as planned.
"[The coach] really looked small. It looked like a postage stamp," he says. "They brought the coach, and I hit it right in the center. But I broke through the top right up to my armpits, and that kind of shocked the folks inside the coach."
There were basic safeguards on set even back then, Needham says — but they were about as rudimentary as it gets.
"When I started, they would take sawhorses — like carpenters use — and put pine 1-by-12's across the top, put some cardboard boxes on top [of those], and put a mattress or two underneath," he says. "And that's what saved you from being killed."
The boards, Needham explains, would bend about 6 inches before they broke, absorbing some of impact of the fall.
"Believe me, 45 or 50 feet into those was about all you could handle," he says.
Needham explains that it was he who introduced the now-standard airbag into the stunt industry after seeing them used at a pole-vaulting match. The bags — typically inflated with helium — allowed stuntmen to leap from higher distances. Needham, who also coordinated stunts and directed several movies, used the bags frequently in his own films.
"I [once] had a stuntman do a 250-foot-high fall off the strut of a helicopter," he says. "And they go higher than that nowadays."
Horse Play
When Needham wasn't free-falling onto wooden boards, he recalls, he was often performing dangerous stunts with horses. One of the most dangerous stunts he ever did, he explains, was on the set of Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, when he jumped from one moving horse onto the back of another — and then repeated the stunt.
"We did that three times, but we did the whole scene 13 times," Needham says. "Here's what's really hard to believe: We had to do a standing broad jump from the back of one horse to the back of the next one over 14 feet [away]. There's no athlete, I think, that can do that standing still."
Had Needham failed, he would have been trampled, he says — and not just by the horses, but by a 4,000-pound stagecoach.
"You couldn't fail," he says. "If you messed up, you were going to be in big trouble."
There was an upside, though: Every time Needham redid a stunt, he got paid again. And that could add up.
"Sometimes, if you had a good friend who was a camera operator, he'd say, 'Damn, I missed that,' " he says. "And then he'd come over and say, 'How's that, Hal?' And I'd say, 'That's fine by me.' "
Car Talk
In 1975, Needham transitioned from Western movies and entered the world of car stunts. He took lessons on turning over cars and going into skids. In the 1973 Burt Reynolds film White Lightning, it was Needham who jumped a car from a riverbank onto a floating barge.
But during one rehearsal, an error on the barge captain's part had left the target farther away than Needham had stipulated in practice. Needham knew immediately that something was wrong.
"When I was in the air, I said, 'This ain't going to be pretty,' " Needham says. "I hit the back of the barge with the front of my car, and it just stood it up in the air, and it just balanced right on the end. [Then] the back wheels were in the water. I was out of that thing in a heartbeat. ... Had that car fallen into the river — the river was muddy, deep and swift — I would have been down in Louisiana before they found me."
Still, he says, he never lost the confidence to perform a stunt again.
"I said, 'I have to rethink this situation and make sure I don't make that mistake again,' " he says. "But my confidence didn't wane from that. ... You just have to look it all over and clear up your mistakes and say, 'Lets go.' "
Interview Highlights
On his stunt horse Hondo, who lost his life performing a stunt on the set of Little Big Man
I played the Indian who jumped from my horse to the horse pulling the coach. The director wanted a shot of me coming off the hillside prior to that shot. So he said come as fast as you can. It was fall, and the hillside grass was all dead. ... So here I come just as fast as Hondo could run, and in a blink of an eye, I was sailing through the air. He had stepped in a gopher hole and broke his leg. And I looked back and I could see he was trying to get up. So I went back and ... I held him down.
We were way out in the country. ... They said if you don't get a vet out here and verify that he had a broken leg, then you can't collect the insurance on him. And I said, it's going to take two hours to get a vet out here. I don't want that horse to lay there suffering. Get me a gun. So anyway, we wound up shooting him, and don't tell me a big man don't cry.
On what he always carried with him on set (don't try this at home)
Percodan. Carried a bottle with me all the time. When a stuntman got hurt, they'd call Hal and tell him to bring his Percodan. When I'd go on location — maybe Mexico or something like that — hell, I'd take 100 with me. Because I know I'd be the only one who had them. So I could pass them out when the guys got hurt. You work a lot when you're hurt when you're a good stuntman, because you're going to be hurt quite a bit. And you can't let a sore leg or a bruise or something stop you, so you just take a Percodan and go to work.
On how he got started in the stunt business
By accident. Before I went in the military, I was a treetopper. [He pruned trees.] When I went in the military, I was a paratrooper. I got out, I moved to Orange County, and I went back into the tree business and broke my ankle. And while I was healing up, there was a little root-beer stand close by and I'd go over and have some. There, I met a guy who was an ex-paratrooper, who was trying to break into Hollywood. And he got us a job on the show called You Asked for It. It was a request program, and he wrote the request and we did the stunt. He was on horseback in a full gallop and I was sitting out on the wheel of a 150 Cessna, and as we flew over, I jumped out of the Cessna and knocked him off the horse. That's how I got my first job. He got me my second job, which was The Spirit of St. Louis starring Jimmy Stewart. My job was to either stand on the top of the wing of an old biplane as they were doing loops ... or hang on a rope ladder, hanging by my ankles, and then transfer from the top of one wing to the bottom of another one. And that was my second job and I said, 'Wow. Look at all of the money I made — I think I will change jobs.' And that's how I decided to be a stuntman.
On current special effects in movies
I hate it! ... A guy jumps off of a 250-foot dam, and it cuts to the water and he bobs up, like he's a duck. And you go, 'Wait a minute. Give me a break. A guy would kill himself doing that. There's no way he could do it.' And it just — with cars and motorcycles and all kinds of things. To me, it takes all of the reality out of the show. I just can't stand it. Even as a director, I never did that stuff. We did it for real. I can look at it onscreen and go, 'That's B.S. That don't work. You can't do that.' And so I lose all interest in the film.
His is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham, one of the most famous practitioners of his dangerous craft, died of cancer last week at age 82. Throughout his career, he did the kind of stunts that would end either with a spectacular shot or an ambulance. As we'll hear, one stunt with a four-door Chevy left him with a broken back, six broken ribs, a punctured lung and three missing teeth.
Hal Needham got his start in Westerns, in TV shows like "Laramie," "Laredo" and "Have Gun, Will Travel," on which he was Richard Boone's stunt double and the show's stunt coordinator. After many years of jumping on horses and stagecoaches and falling from great heights after being shot, he became renowned for car stunts, especially his work in action movies starring Burt Reynolds.
Needham was the stunt coordinator in "Gator" and "White Lightning" and directed "Cannonball Run," "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hooper." His credits include 4,500 episodes of TV and 310 feature films. Terry Gross spoke to Hal Needham in 2011, when he had just published a memoir called "Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life."
Hal Needham, welcome to FRESH AIR. Now, what were some of the standard western stunts of the '50s and '60s, when you were making the westerns?
HAL NEEDHAM: Well, it had mostly to do with what we call a saddle fall, where you get shot and fall off the horse. We did horse falls, rearing falls, wagon wrecks, buggies and so on and so - a thing called a bulldog, where the bad guy's trying to get away, the good guy comes up behind him, jumps from his horse and then knocks the guy off the horse, and it normally winds up in a big fight. And we did high falls and some roping stuff and pretty well covers the major of them, anyway.
GROSS: Yeah. Now, one of your early stunts was for "Have Gun, Will Travel," and you were jumping from a rock about 30-foot high onto a stagecoach that was moving by.
NEEDHAM: Oh, yeah. Yes.
GROSS: And you're supposed to land on the top of the stagecoach as it rides by. Tell us what happened.
NEEDHAM: Well, first of all, that was my second stunt on "Have Gun, Will Travel." I got out there, and they said: Can you jump from that rock to the top of a coach as it's going by, as it's passing? I said: I think so. So anyway, the rock was 30-feet high, and the top of a coach is six feet long and four feet wide. They said: You want to see a rehearsal? I said why not?
They brought that thing under me, and I thought: I might have left my alligator mouth overload my (unintelligible) back end again because it really looked small. It looked like a postage stamp.
Anyway, they brought the coach through, and I hit it right in the center. As a matter of fact, I broke through the top right up to my armpits, and that kind of shocked the folks inside the coach.
And when they got us stopped, Boone came over and offered me the job of being the stunt coordinator, as well as his double on "Have Gun, Will Travel."
GROSS: So let me ask you, when you're jumping off a 30-foot-high rock onto a moving stagecoach, the top of which looks like a postage stamp because it's so relatively small from the height that you're at, what kind of mental calculation do you do to figure out when to jump?
NEEDHAM: You know, you can't say all right, when the coach get there, to that mark, I'm going to jump. You just have to look at it because you don't know how fast those horses are going to be running, anything else. It's just a thing that it's a clock inside of you that you say now, and you go. There's no way to set a mark or anything like that to leave the rock.
GROSS: Now on that stunt, was there protection for you? Like, if you missed the coach, was there padding on the ground?
NEEDHAM: Nothing.
GROSS: Nothing.
NEEDHAM: Nothing. It would be impossible - first of all, they'd have to pad the road in front and behind, and the horses can't go through that, and over the side, they'd have to camouflage it. No, it's just too much of a problem. And if you say you can do it, they expect you to do it.
GROSS: I say this with the greatest of respect: I think you have to be crazy to be a stuntman like you.
NEEDHAM: I won't argue that point.
GROSS: OK. So one of the standard shots that you'd have to do is, like, you're the bad guy, and you're being shot, and you have to fall.
NEEDHAM: Uh-huh. You mean fall off the horse or fall off of what?
GROSS: Fall of a balcony, fall off a horse, fall off a rock. You've fallen off all of them. So say, like, you're falling, you're shot, you're falling off from a height. So when you started making Westerns, what protection was there for you to fall onto?
NEEDHAM: Well, when I started, and that's a long time ago, they would take sawhorses, you know, like carpenters use. They'd take those, and they'd put one-by-12, pine one-by-12s across the top, put some cardboard boxes underneath it and put a mattress or two on top of it, and that's what saved you from being killed because the boards would bend about six inches, and then they'd all break, and then the boxes would catch you. So that's what you had, and believe me, 45 or 50 feet off of that, into those, about all you could handle.
GROSS: It sounds so makeshift.
NEEDHAM: Oh, it definitely was. But, you know, that's all they could come up with at the time, and I'm going to be really braggadocios here. I'm the one that brought airbags into the stunt world.
GROSS: What's the highest jump you've done?
NEEDHAM: Hundred feet.
GROSS: You're saying one of the most dangerous stunts in Westerns - and if you've seen a western, you've seen this one - it's the stirrup drag, where a guy falls off his horse, but his leg is still in the stirrup, and the horse keeps galloping, dragging the cowboy across the ground, over rocks and brush and who knows what else. Why is that the most dangerous Western stunt?
NEEDHAM: Well, there's a couple of things. As a matter of fact, I saw one of our stuntmen get killed during a stirrup drag.
GROSS: Wow.
He had to go through the gate, the entrance to a ranch, and when he fell off the horse - you rehearse them so they'll go where you want them to go. Well, this horse didn't follow where he was supposed to go, and when he came to the gate, he swung around, the horse did, and it flung the guy way out to the side, and he hit his head on the post, a fence post, and killed him.
NEEDHAM: So that's the reason it's so dangerous, one reason. The other is when you fall off the horse and hit the ground, you're tied to the horse with a cable, to the stirrup, and when you hit the end of that cable, it flings you back under the horse's feet, his back feet, and so you've got to put one foot up against the horse's belly to keep yourself from being stepped on by his back feet. It's pretty dangerous.
Now, the way we get released, you have a release on your foot to the cable, and you just put a little wire up to your belt, and you pull that, and that's supposed to release you. If that doesn't work, you have a second release on, hooked with a cable, something back, way back by the camera, and that releases the whole saddle.
And if that doesn't work, you put two or three what you hope are your buddies on the fastest horses you can find, and they're called pick-up men. They get out there, and if they see you're in trouble, they're supposed to come in, stop the horse and get you loose. It's really, really dangerous.
GROSS: Were you ever hurt doing one of those yourself?
NEEDHAM: Thank God no, I never was. I have now done quite a few of them, and I just got lucky.
GROSS: So if you're just joining us, my guest is Hal Needham, and he is probably the most famous stuntman in Hollywood.
NEEDHAM: Can I say something?
GROSS: Yes.
NEEDHAM: Highest paid.
GROSS: And highest paid. That means a lot to you.
I was the highest paid stuntman in the world.
GROSS: I know that means a lot to you. And while we're on the subject, every time you have to redo a stunt because they didn't get the take they wanted, or the camera wasn't in the right place, you get paid again, right?
NEEDHAM: Ching-ching, ring it up.
NEEDHAM: And you know what? Sometimes cameramen, if you had a good friend that was an operator, camera operator, he'd say: Damn, I missed that. He'd come over. And then he'd come over and say: How's that, Hal? And I'd say: That's fine by me, you know.
GROSS: That's great. You wouldn't have felt that way about the most difficult stunts, though, right?
NEEDHAM: No, no, I was happy to see those gone.
GROSS: Right, all right. One of your most dangerous was for a Western, "Little Big Man," about Custer's last stand.
NEEDHAM: Right.
GROSS: And so describe the stunt that you had to do here.
NEEDHAM: Dustin Hoffman and his wife are heading West, and they're in a stagecoach that's got a six-up horse hooked to it. They get attacked by the Indians. The shotgun guard gets shot off the coach. The driver turns chicken, and he's up there huddling in the boot of the coach, hiding. So the horses run away.
A stuntman doubling Dusty got out of the coach, climbed up on the seat and jumped to the closest horse to the coach. I as an Indian came up on the outside and transferred from my horse to the one right next to him. Then he stands up and jumps from that horse to the back of the one ahead of him, and I follow him. Then he does it again off to the leader, and I followed him out there.
So we did that three times, but we did the whole scene 13 times. And here's what's really hard to believe: We had to do a standing broad jump from the back of one horse to the back of the next one of 14 feet. And I'll tell you what: There's no athlete, I think, that can do that standing still.
GROSS: These are horses that are in motion. They're galloping, yeah.
NEEDHAM: Oh, they're runaway, runaway, yeah. A coach running away. When we training the horses to accept us jumping on their back and everything, the way we found we could jump the furthest was to get in motion, get in synch with the horse. So when he pushed off his back feet, we would use his momentum to get us that extra two or three feet so we could get to the next horse. It was the toughest physical stunt I ever did in my life, the toughest.
GROSS: Now, I hate to bring this up, but had you failed, you would have been trampled by the horse then.
NEEDHAM: Oh, well...
GROSS: Or run over by the coach, depending where you were.
NEEDHAM: You'd have had two, four or six horses run over you, plus a 4,000-pound coach, yeah. You couldn't fail. If you messed up, you was going to be in big trouble.
GROSS: So you worked with a lot of horses doing Westerns. You owned horses. You trained horses. Two of your most beloved horses were named Hondo and Alamo. And Hondo lost his life as a result of a stunt. He broke his leg doing a stunt.
NEEDHAM: Yep. That's right.
GROSS: What happened?
NEEDHAM: Well, you know, as a matter of fact, it was on "Little Big Man." I played the Indian that came down and jumped from my horse to the horse pulling the coach. The director wanted a shot of me coming off the hillside prior to that shot, prior to me transferring. So he said come as fast as you can. I said all right.
And it was fall, and the hillside, the grass was all dead and everything. So here I come up-field just as fast as Hondo could run, and in a blink of an eye, I was sailing through the air. He had stepped in a gopher hole and broke his leg. And so he slid a long way, so do I. And I looked back, and I could see he was trying to get up, and I realized he had broken his leg. So I held him down.
Here's the part that I think is - shows how much I love the horse. We were way out in the country, and I said: Has anybody got a gun? When a horse breaks a leg, unless he's a thoroughbred or something, you destroy him, you put him out. So anyway, I said: Anybody got a gun? And the prop man said: No, I don't have one. And my buddy said, well, he had one in the car. So I said: Go get it.
And he came back and handed me that gun. You know, I could not shoot that horse, and the reason I had to shoot him, or somebody had to shoot him, they said: If you don't get a vet out here and verify that he had a broken leg before you kill him, you can't collect the insurance.
I said: Well, hell, it's going to take an hour and a half, two hours to get a vet out here. I don't want that horse to lay there suffering. Get me a gun, you know. So anyway, we wound up shooting him, and don't tell me a big man don't cry because I did.
GROSS: Did it change how attached you allowed yourself to become to your stunt horses?
NEEDHAM: No, you know, I made so much money with them, and I was such buddies with them, I'll tell you two stories if you'll let me. One was I had one of them, and I was just practicing a little bit, and a fell, and I came up, and I was in my backyard, and my wife is out there.
And I fell off this, and I was sitting there, I sat up on my butt, and I was just sitting on the ground, and he came up, and he put his head over my shoulder, and I scratched his chin, under his chin. My wife said: If you did that to me, we'd get along a hell of a lot better, you know.
NEEDHAM: So that's how - but also I have a thing in my book about when a horse - if I got two together, I kept those two together all the time so they'd become buddies. When you take one away, the other one would just pace back and forth in the corral until they worked up a sweat. Or sometimes if they're ill, a little ill, they've got a stomach ache or something, they'll do the same thing.
I've been known to go out in the corral, go out in the barn, take some hay and make myself a bed and get a tarp and just cover up and sleep with them, out there in the barn with them. When I do, they calm down immediately, you know, and they'll come over and sniff me, eventually they'll start eating the hay I'm laying on and things like that. You've got to have that rapport with them to understand them.
BIANCULLI: Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham, speaking to Terry Gross in 2011. More after a break, this is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross, back with more of Terry's 2011 interview with Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham. He died last week of cancer at age 82. She spoke with him when he published his memoirs, titled "Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life."
GROSS: So you did so many Westerns. You did so may horse stunts. But later in your career, you became really famous for your car stunts. So let's talk about one of your stunts. This is one from "White Lightning," where you had to jump a car from land onto...
NEEDHAM: A barge.
GROSS: ...a floating barge. How far away was the barge from where you were?
NEEDHAM: That barge was supposed to be - because it was up against a bank, and then he was to be backing out into the water, and it's a long story. So I'll just cut it real short and say: I had him do it a couple times in practice, and I thought: OK, I want him about 75 feet out so when I hit my ramp, I would be doing about 70 miles an hour and knew I could hit this big barge, and everything would be good.
But what I didn't know is when we got ready to shoot it, I said: Captain, are you ready? And he said: Yeah. I said: OK, and when I say go, firewall that thing. And that means the throttle, put it all the way to the firewall.
Well, he did, and he was about 85 feet out. And so when I went out, when I was in the air, I said: This ain't going to be pretty. I hit the back of the barge with the front of my car, and it just stood it up in the air, and it balanced right on the back end. The back wheels were in the water. I was out of that thing in a heartbeat.
I mean, had that thing fallen into the river, first of all the river would be muddy, deep and swift. I had a couple of stunt guys out there with SCUBA gear on. I'd have been down in Louisiana before they found me. When I got on the barge where I was safe, I said: Oh, hell. I just fell down, laid down. But it didn't hurt me. It didn't hurt me.
GROSS: Now what kind of painkillers were used in the '50s and '60s when you were at the peak of your stuntman career?
NEEDHAM: Percodan. Carried a bottle with me all the time. When a stuntman got hurt they'd call Hal and tell him to bring his Percodan.
NEEDHAM: When I'd go on location like maybe go down to Mexico or somewhere like that, we're doing three or four months down there, hell, I'd take a hundred with me because I knew I'd be the only one that had them so I could pass them out when the guys got hurt, and you work a lot when you're hurt if you're a good stuntman because you're going to be hurt quite a bit. And you can't let a sore leg or a bruise or something like that stop you so you just take a Percodan and go to work.
GROSS: But that dulls your senses, doesn't it?
NEEDHAM: No. You know what? Now, I say no. I'm not a doctor but I tell you what, it didn't bother my timing and everything, not one iota. I could do the same things after taking Percodan than I could before I took them. It didn't bother me.
GROSS: I must interrupt here and say: do not try this at home.
NEEDHAM: No. No.
GROSS: No. Did you have an addiction problem to painkillers?
NEEDHAM: No. You see, I knew, my doctor told me, he said Hal, these things are addictive. He said don't get hooked on these. And I said OK. And my hand to God, and I never took a Percodan unless I was really hurting, and the minute I got over the hurt I quit taking Percodan. I had enough sense, I think, to realize that I didn't want to be an addict, so I just made damn sure I never took them. Even though I had them all the time, I never took them unless I absolutely had to. And I mean had to.
I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet, go ahead and do it. And if it were something that I couldn't perform unless I had the use of this leg or an arm or something like that that was really sore and hurting, then I'd take one.
GROSS: Now among the things to your credit are some inventions that have helped you and other stuntmen do your job, you know, effectively. For example, you came up with a way of people being blown into the air on the battlefield.
NEEDHAM: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: Yeah. Tell us about the old way versus your way.
NEEDHAM: OK. The old way, special effects would dig a little hole in the ground, put a charge in it. Stuntman runs by, you set the charge off the stuntman and fling his body as far as it could, get all out of shape and everything. You can only fling your body so far. So I came up with an apparatus. It's only about three and a half inches high and about 14 inches square.
It's got a plate on top that's air activated. So when you step on that plate it triggers this activation of the air of the rim, and that top piece will throw you through the air. And the more pressure you put on it, the higher it'll throw you. That thing will put you 30 feet in the air if you want to go that high and if you can go that high.
So what you do is you hook the explosion on to that air rim so that when it activates the plate that throws you, it also sets off the charge. And believe me, it looks effective, and you look like you really got blown up.
GROSS: And what about landing on the way down?
NEEDHAM: That's your problem.
GROSS: Well, it's like working off of a trampoline or something. You learn to control your body. And the best way to do it is when you see a ground come up it's do what you call a tuck and roll. I always land with my right hand. I use it as a gauge. When it touch a ground I just tucked it under real tight, go right to my shoulder. Hell, I could just roll out and come right up on my feet.
NEEDHAM: Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham, speaking to Terry Gross in 2011. He died last week at age 82. More in the second half of the show. I'm David Bianculli, and this is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross.
Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham died last week of cancer at age 82. We're listening back to an interview Terry conducted with him in 2011, when he published his memoirs called "Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life."
GROSS: So as a stuntman, you've doubled a lot of people, including Burt Reynolds...
NEEDHAM: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: ...who became a very good friend. You met him on the TV series "Riverboat."
NEEDHAM: That's right.
GROSS: Went on to be his stunt double and good friend. You lived in the carriage house of his house for many years.
NEEDHAM: I lived there 12 years in his guest house.
GROSS: So, in order to double somebody, whether it's Burt Reynolds or Richard Boone, the star of "Paladin," who you doubled for a long time, how close do you have to be to their size and to their figure?
NEEDHAM: Well, the closer you are the closer the camera can work to you. So for instance, James Arness on "Gunsmoke" was like 6'4, probably 230 pounds. And as a joke Andy McLaglen, the director who loved to put me on the spot and thing, said Hal, tomorrow I want you to double Jim Arness. I said get out, Andy. He said no. He wore a - he meaning Jim Arness - wore a hat that had a seven, eight inch brim on it. When I put that thing on I looked like a flying saucer with legs, you know what I mean?
NEEDHAM: But they put the camera way back so it could've been a trained chimpanzee out there and they would've known the difference.
GROSS: So before you became a stuntman did you see many movies with a lot of stunts in them? Like your parents were sharecroppers.
NEEDHAM: Yeah.
GROSS: You grew up, you know, in a rural area, probably weren't like...
NEEDHAM: Rural? Rural? That ain't even the right word.
NEEDHAM: I mean I was so far back in the mountains you had to pump sunshine to us.
NEEDHAM: Go ahead. I'm sorry.
GROSS: So there probably weren't a lot of movie theaters around.
NEEDHAM: I never saw a movie until I was 10.
GROSS: Mm-hmm.
NEEDHAM: No, you know, we had no electricity, no plumbing - indoor plumbing, nothing. I mean you couldn't get a - a model A Ford couldn't drive any closer than about three miles to our house because of big ruts and rocks and things. We were poor, I mean poor.
GROSS: So how did you break into Hollywood?
NEEDHAM: Quite by accident. First of all, I was, before I went into the military I was a tree topper. When I went into the military I was a paratrooper. When I got out...
GROSS: A tree topper, meaning you could climb to the top of trees and prune them or do whatever.
NEEDHAM: Yeah. Right. Tree topper, a climber, a tree climber, a tree topper. And then I got in the - I joined the military. I volunteered for the paratroops. I got out. I moved to Orange County. I met a guy there who was an ex-paratrooper who was trying to break into Hollywood. The first thing I did was with him. He got us a job. It was on a show called "You Asked For It." It was a request program and he wrote the request and we did the stunt.
And what it was, he was on horseback at a full gallop, obviously, and I was sitting out on a wheel of a 150 Cessna, and as we flew over I jumped out of the Cessna and knock him off the horse. That's where I got my first job. He got me my second job, which was "The Spirit of St. Louis," the story of Lindbergh's life, starred Jimmy Stewart. His and my job were to either stand on the top of the wing, an old biplane, double-wing planes, as they were doing loops and turns and things, or hanging - be on rope ladder, hanging that was me upside hanging by my ankles on a rope ladder, and then transfer from the top of one wing to the bottom of another one. And that was my second job and I said, wow. Look at all of the money I made - I think I'll change jobs.
GROSS: So when you see special effects now that are using computer-generated graphics...
NEEDHAM: I hate it.
GROSS: Yeah. OK.
GROSS: I thought you might say that.
NEEDHAM: I hate it. You know what? I've seen film - and one particular comes to mind, a guy jumps off of a 250 foot dam and hits the water and they cut to the water and he bobs up like he's a duck or something, you know, and you go wait a minute. Give me a break. A guy would kill himself doing that. There's no way you could do that. And they - and just with cars and motorcycles and all kinds of things. And to me it takes all the reality out of the show. I just can't stand it. Because I grew up and even as a director, we never used that stuff. We did it for real.
And I can look at it on screen and say that's BS. That don't work. You can't do that.
GROSS: OK. Well, one more thing, it's still easy to see your work on television, because a lot of your western TV shows are being rerun, western movies are sometimes are on TV, your movies with Burt Reynolds. So when you turn on the TV and one of your films or TV shows is on and there you are risking your life doing a stunt, what goes through your mind?
NEEDHAM: I got a residual coming.
NEEDHAM: Boy, the more they show them the better I like them. As a matter of fact, "Smokey and the Bandit," you can't or I don't know where you live and - but in California and L.A., you can't go through the TV Guide one week without seeing that thing on.
NEEDHAM: I mean it runs all the time and every time I do I go oh, honey, we got another check coming, you know? So it's kind of nice. And not only that, being a little braggadocios, but I also own a percentage of the profits so that don't hurt either.
GROSS: Well, Hal Needham, it has been really great to talk with you. Thank you so much and thanks for all those great stunts you've done over the years.
NEEDHAM: Hey, listen, I appreciate it, lady, very much. And thanks for having me on.
BIANCULLI: Hollywood stuntman, Hal Needham speaking to Terry Gross in 2011; he died last week at age 82.
Coming up, children's author and illustrator, Tomi Ungerer. This is FRESH AIR.
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Three Husker gymnasts, Arndt Donovan, Mark Ringle and Eric Schryver were among the 55 student-athletes who received their diplomas during spring commencement on Saturday, May 10 at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
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Ronald (Ron) Ferguson of Wellington, Ks. passed away Thursday, October 31, 2013 at his residence in Wellington, KS at the age of 73.
Ronald (Ron) Ferguson of Wellington, Ks. passed away Thursday, October 31, 2013 at his residence in Wellington, KS at the age of 73.
Ron was born the son of Bunny (Allen) Young on October 29, 1940 in Wichita, Ks. He was adopted by Lucille and Arthur Ferguson.
Ron married Marlene Manuel in 1958, to this union were born Lorie Applegate, Ronnie Ferguson, William Ferguson and Doris Downum. In 1972 he married Ronalda (Roni) Edelman along with her daughters, Tonia (Russell) Sturm and Peggy (Dallas) Gilmore. Together they celebrated 41 years of marriage.
He leaves behind a sister Dixie (Roger) Metzinger, mother-in-law Marjorie (Edelman) Schmidt, 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren to morn his memory.
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There was a recent incident that made the blogosphere go nuts, a slip during a talk (35 min through the talk).
As always, Matt Zimmerman had a very useful and thought through post.
Where to go from there ? Maybe read this (stole the article title for this blog post), or that and the ongoing discussion (thanks Jan).
So, Mark, why remain silent? Is commenting/apologising/moving on with it for the whole community not worth it? How many additional incidents will be needed for the Ubuntu community collective unconscious to take note that even under 3 % of the FLOSS population is not expandable ?
/me will patiently wait. Cheers :)


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We have three copies of this book, which we will give away to three random commenters at the end of Friday, September 25, 2009.*
What kind of school did you grow up learning in? During those formative years, did you have the opportunity to learn in a sustainable and architecturally significant environment? Think back to those days when your mind wandered. Would you ponder the exposed woodwork? Or the expansive windows? Or the structural steel? Like many students, maybe you didn't have the opportunity to learn in a green school or anything of the sort, and that's where the Green School Primer comes in. The Green School Primer is a new book that's been written to educate anyone — whether a board member, teacher, student, or parent – about the benefits of green schools.


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Saturday, December 8 was the 2nd Annual Colonial Chestertown Day and Christmas House Tour. Wandering around the historic district was like stepping back in time. Costumed interpreters, carriage rides, and carolers were to be spotted in and around the beautifully decorated 18th century homes. Several Starr Center student associates and members of the Washington College History Society joined in the festive day.


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Reframing a rubbish day in positive R.A. termsOctober 5, 2009 at 9:32 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 7 Comments
Tags: arthritis, blood test, cats, GP, methotrexate, MTX, nurse, RA, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), stress
I have had a bad day … but a good R.A. day!
Here's how the day's gone:
1. I had completely forgotten I had a blood test this morning, went sailing off to work, got there, realised that I should be going to the GP, turned around, and the red petrol light came on. Mad dash to fill up with petrol from my spare can before the appointment, because I KNEW that otherwise I'd forget.
Positive R.A. stuff:
- All results from the previous test were fine – in spite of a recent increase in MTX.
- The nurse only had to have one go at getting my blood instead of the usual Penguin is a pincushion routine.
- I got the top of the petrol can and it didn't hurt!
2. For some reason the red light wouldn't go out, so I decided to go and buy some petrol. Just as I'd driven PAST work on my way to the petrol station, the petrol needle readjusted and the light went off!! Aargh. Decided to get some petrol anyway and fill up the can. Filled up the can, put some more in the car, went in and joined the queue. There was a man in front of me but I didn't take much notice of him, as you don't. When I got to the front the conversation went something like this:
Penguin: Pump 2 please
Assistant: Wha'?
Penguin: Number 2 … please.
Assistant: Huh?
Penguin: Pump … number … 2 … please?
Assistant: Ohmegawd, ohmegawd, ohshite, ohmegawd, stop Mr Pratt … Mr Pratt, Mr Pratt!* oh no he's gone. Lydia, Lydia, shite, heeeeeelp.
As you may or may not have guessed, the aforementioned Mr Pratt had told her that he was on pump 2 and she hadn't checked. It was obviously not deliberate as he had an account with them so it can be changed on that, but it caused havoc as far as me paying went, and added about ten minutes to my already delayed start at work.
Positive R.A. stuff:
- I worked the petrol pump and it didn't hurt at all! (This is not usual at all for me.)
- Standing about patiently (and then mildly irritably, and then impatiently) while the assistant sorted herself out didn't hurt either. My feet were fine.
3. I get to work, tell 'the boss' what kind of morning I've had and firmly announce that from now on the day is GOING TO GET BETTER! I am determined that this will be so. I am thinking positively. NOTHING ELSE is going to go wrong.
Then, at about 10:33 I realise I'm supposed to be in the cafe down the road meeting a friend for coffee …at 10:30. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh. I tell the lass that works for me (a.k.a. the boss) that if my friend phones, say I'm on my way (she's a good lass, she could have worked this out for herself, but I'm panicking at this stage), throw my coat on and run (well, jog … well OK, walk fairly fast) down the road.
I've only gone a couple of hundred yards when a horrible realisation dawns. I phone the boss and ask her to check my calendar. Sure enough it's NEXT Monday I'm meeting my friend for coffee. Another few minutes wasted out of a busy day!
Positive R.A. stuff:
- Racing down the road and my knee didn't even twinge!
4. Had to take middle-sized cat to the v-e-t this evening. Hubby rang at about 4:30 to say there's no way he'd be home in time. 'That's fine,' says I, 'I thought you wouldn't be.' I wondered why he was sounding so bothered about it. Then I got home, put MS cat in the box, picked it up and thought, 'AH! That's why hubby's worried.' I'd forgotten that MSC weights a tonne (approx.)
Positive R.A. stuff:
- OK … it hurt, I can't deny it … but it didn't hurt anything LIKE as much as it has done in the past!
So hurrah – what a great day – what a lot of signs that the MTX might be doing its job properly at last!
* Names have been changed to protect the idiot.
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I laughed out loud reading about your petrol station experience.
I used to have my GP (who is also my uncle, which is a bit odd) do all my bloodwork, and it was always a trial involving several pokes and lots of fishing around for a vein that apparently "rolled". One day I had to have blood drawn in a hospital lab, and discovered that the technicians there can always get a vein – it's what they do all day! Now I always go to a lab instead of the doctor's office. Much better!
I'm glad you had a good RA day even though the rest of the day was not so pleasant.
Comment by Helen— October 5, 2009 #
ROFL!! Penguin in a flap sort of day then?!
Comment by Maggie— October 6, 2009 #
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At least three of the Democrats' signature gun bills are in danger of dying when they are debated on the Senate floor Friday.
It comes down to simple math: 20 - 3 = Fail.
Democrats have a 20-15 majority over Republicans and know they can't afford to lose more than two members on any bill. The dynamic has led to an intensive lobbying effort.
"The math is not a secret to anyone, and we are a planning a historical, monumental effort to make a sound case against these proposals," said Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs.
The three gun bills Democrats have expressed the most concern about are measures that limit ammunition magazine rounds; ban concealed-carry weapons on campus; and assign liability for assault-style weapon damages to manufacturers and sellers.
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Democrats Cheri Jahn of Wheat Ridge and Lois Tochtrop of Thornton, are opposed to all three. If another senator votes "no," those bills are dead.
Several Democratic senators who were polled by The Denver Post said they are undecided. Others said Friday's debate could change their minds on proposals that they are currently supporting or opposing.
"There's only one bill I've made up my mind to support, and that's universal background checks," said Sen. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, who has a tough re-election in 2014. "I'll be listening to the debate on all the others."
Senate President John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat who is sponsoring the liability measure, said he believes all seven bills will pass, but, "We'll wait and see."
The nation is watching.
Colorado, a battleground state in the 2012 presidential election, is now a battleground state in the national debate over gun control. Witnesses for and against the gun bills under consideration have invoked two of the nation's gun tragedies that happened in Colorado: the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and the Aurora movie theater shooting in July.
Proof of just how high stakes the battle has become: Vice President Joe Biden called four lawmakers on the House floor on Feb. 15 during a debate on four gun measures, outraging Republicans who argue Democrats are getting their marching orders from the White House and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
The Colorado Senate on Friday will consider the four bills that have already passed the House, plus three Senate measures introduced last week. All seven bills passed two Senate committees this week on party-line votes with hundreds of witnesses hanging out in hallways and hearing rooms and opponents honking their horns for hours outside the Capitol.
Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, chaired one of those committees and voted for the three measures before it: universal background checks, charging gun customers for their background checks and banning concealed-carry weapons on campus. She said she is studying the other bills and is undecided.
She has been slammed on homemade billboards erected in Pueblo and had to bring in volunteers to sort through the more than 9,000 e-mails she received to figure out which ones came from her district.
"I've met with some really great people from Pueblo who have tried to help educate me on the issue," Giron said. "I went out shooting for the first time in my life. I went to a gun show for the first time in our life."
Jahn said she is more influenced by what happened after the 1993 "Summer of Violence" than she is by the thousands of e-mails and phone calls flooding her office. The legislature in a special session that year cracked down on juvenile offenders, making it easier to try to them as adults and lock them up for longer periods of time. Since then, various legislators, including Jahn, have worked to change those restrictions.
"There were huge, unintended consequences," she said.
Of the current gun bills, Jahn said some are flawed.
"I don't think you can enforce them," she said.
Tochtrop said she supports only two gun bills, her proposal banning online training for concealed-carry holders and a measure charging gun customers for their background checks.
"I have always been a Second Amendment proponent. I carried the concealed-carry bill in 2002, although it didn't pass," she said. "I have looked at these bills very carefully, and we are not addressing the root of the problem, and that is mental health."
Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, represents a swing district with borders located 1 mile from Columbine and 1 mile from the movie theater. She said she is "struggling" with the liability bill and especially the measure banning guns on campus because of her background in helping battered and abused victims. That experience, she said, makes her empathic with women wishing to protect themselves.
"Our house was literally a backup for safe houses. My children grew up with people coming in and living with us for a few weeks to get back on their feet," Newell said. "One the other hand, I'm getting feedback from people saying, 'Wait a minute, these are college campuses. This is when there is a lot of alcohol, there is a lot of suicide potential, when mental illnesss starts to set in. We don't want guns near us.' "
Among those who were lobbying senators on the gun bills Wednesday was Christine Scanlan, a legislative lobbyist for Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
The governor is on the record supporting three gun bills: universal background checks, requiring gun customers to pay for their checks and limiting magazine limits. His office said he is studying the other bills.
Among the lawmakers who aren't subject to any lobbying is Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, who has made it clear she supports all seven gun measures. A medical doctor, she said most people in that profession support tighter gun restrictions.
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Senate to debate seven gun bills
Senate Bill 197: Restricts firearms for domestic violence offenders
House Bill 1224: Limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds
Senate Bill 196: Assesses liability for assault weapons
Senate Bill 195: Bans online training for concealed handgun permits
House Bill 1229: Requires universal background checks for gun sales and transfers
House Bill 1228: Requires gun customers to pay the costs of their background checks
House Bill 1226: Outlaws concealed-weapon permit holders from carrying on campus


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$16 million MHS project progresses while the sun shines...
The impressive entrance to Moberly High School, "The Spartan's Way" leads to the newly completed administrative section on the south, past the all new cafenasium and mirrored kitchen on the north, and past MHS's original gymnasium. Floors to this spacious entry are easy to clean polished concrete.
Superintendent Gena McCluskey met with On-Site Supervisor Chuck Ludlam and Senior Project Engineer Joe Grassmuck for a quick update on the $16 million dollar high school renovation project passed in 2012 by local residents.
Classes began this fall at MHS with students meeting in completed rooms not intended for that particular subject, but with creative thinking all is working out quite well. Administration, teachers, and students are being flexible until specific classroom are completed.
Administrative offices are now complete as well as classrooms for Family and Consumer Science, Art, Graphic Design, Media, Library, Computer Labs, and Professional Development.
The use of natural light is an important issue. Two "pop-up" areas featuring large windows surround two specific activity areas and provide natural light from four sides, which allows light to shine from above. Long rectangular windows will provide light into classrooms that surrounding the pop-ups.
Forty skylights throughout the building will also provide natural light.
Currently focus is on phase 7 and phase 4. "We're good on this phase," says On-site Superintendent Ludlam. He contributes the progress to the mild winter and feels in all things are "clicking"! Phase 7 consists of three new math classrooms, an additional 3,187 sq. ft., attached to, but located west of the original building. Today those are divided by steel beams, which give the distinct impression of what is to come.
Phase 4 included five Science classrooms, two Special Education classrooms and a SPED kitchen. The activity area featuring the windowed "pop-up" is also surrounded by classrooms for Speech/Debate, Foreign Language, two Chemistry Labs and a Physics Lab.
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Due to the approaching blizzard, Pine Village has cancelled its Lunch and Learn scheduled for Monday, February 25 featuring Dr. Gretchen Dickson, MD, from the KU Medical Center talking about "Heart Health & Knowing Your Numbers."
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McPherson Museum Dream Lecture series that was scheduled for tonight has been canceled.
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NEW YORK - Columbia University Athletics has named Scott Alwin as its new Head Coach of Heavyweight Rowing/Director of Rowing, Dr. M. Dianne Murphy, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education announced today.
Alwin, who led the Columbia Lightweight Rowing program to a bronze-medal finish at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships and a berth in the Henley Royal Regatta this past season, has been at Columbia since 2007.
"We are excited for Scott to assume the reins of our Heavyweight Rowing program, one of the oldest and most storied athletics teams at Columbia," remarked Dr. Murphy. "Over the past year, Scott led our lightweights to an outstanding season against top competition. We are confident that he will build our heavyweight program into a championship contender as he did our lightweights."
In 2013, Alwin was named the Intercollegiate Rowing Association's Lightweight Coach of the Year after leading the Lions to victories in two challenge cup races (Geiger Cup and Subin Cup) during the regular season, and a third place finish at the National Championships in Sacramento, California in May.
Scott is a 2002 alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, where he competed on the Badgers' heavyweight crew.
Prior to coming to Columbia, Alwin worked at Princeton University. Alwin's freshman eight won the gold medal at the 2006 Eastern Sprints, and took silver medals in both 2005 and 2007. The eights won 21 of 25 regular-season spring races. He coached the Tigers' Open Four to a silver medal at the 2007 IRA Regatta.
"We are thrilled for the future of Columbia Rowing under Scott's leadership – I am sure that our student-athletes, alumni, parents and friends will provide him with all the support he needs to build a championship program." Dr. Murphy said. "Columbia Rowing has always produced one of the strongest and most vibrant alumni communities, and we are thrilled to have the support of all the men and women who participated in our rowing program over the years."
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At least one of the baseball fields slated to be built on the corner of Ninth and Warren Barrett won't go unnamed.
Hannibal Parks and Recreation plans to name one of the fields after Hannibal's lone hall of famer, legendary first baseman Jake Beckley.
At least one of the baseball fields slated to be built on the corner of Ninth and Warren Barrett won't go unnamed.
Hannibal Parks and Recreation plans to name one of the fields after Hannibal's lone hall of famer, legendary first baseman Jake Beckley.
In a letter to the Hannibal City Council dated March 27, Hannibal Parks and Recreation Department Director Andy Dorian wrote that the regulation-sized baseball field will be named Beckley Field in honor of Major League Baseball's career first base putouts leader. The Beckley Monument, once located along Main Street, will be moved to the field as well.
According to Dorian's letter, the parks department has budgeted $30,000 for the site.
It's not clear how many fields will be at the new baseball complex or whom, if anyone, the complex will be named after.
When will work begin? When can baseball games start?
"No comment," Dorian said.
Hannibal Mayor Roy Hark was able to lend some insight.
"I think it's going to be a complex," Hark explained. "Not just one field, they're going to have four or five fields."
The news is getting mixed reviews however.
Some folks say there's more to Hannibal than Mark Twain and something honoring Beckley needs to be along Historic Main Street to honor him. Others say if it's in the right spot and takes visitors throughout town, that's a plus.
"The thing of it is, we got a baseball field down here, and who's it named after, Samuel Clamens. It's not named after Jake Beckley. Clemens spent 13, 14 years of his life here. He was not born here, he's not buried here. Beckley was born here, Beckley is buried here. He is the true son of Hannibal," Ken Barnes, who owns Picture Perfect at Broadway and Main Street with his wife, Judy, said Monday. "Dorian said they've never had an issue that brought up more negative comment than this. What he was not clear on is they don't want to spend money on that city parking lot spot or they don't want to spend money on a (new) Jake Beckley memorial. The things he talked about (at the Historic Hannibal Marketing Council meeting), they were going to put a kiosk and landscaping, they're going to put a watering system underground to keep it watered. It's going to cost who knows what. It's probably going to cost more than what the Beckley thing would cost."
Judy Barnes is also in favor of Beckley on Main Street.
"Down there, you got kids and families going down there a couple months a year, the rest of the year you've got vandals. Up here, it's not likely to be vandalized," she said. "I would much prefer the Beckley monument be back here. It doesn't have to be either or, you can still name (the field), you can still have information about him down there."
But maybe taking Beckley out of Main Street and forcing folks to go beyond the historic downtown borders is something Hannibal needs. At least Ken and Lisa Marks, who own and operate the Hannibal History Museum, see it that way.
"It makes sense to be down at the ballpark and I have always been an advocate of, especially visitors to town, seeing that there's so much more to Hannibal then just Main Street," Lisa Marks said. "As long as it can be well-publicized, that there is a memorial to a hall of fame baseball player from Hannibal, and that people have access to go and visit it, then I think we need to make sure that not everything is focused on Main Street."
"It would be a shame if there was nothing up about Jake anywhere," Ken Marks added. "If it's going to go to a place that will help draw people there and help draw attention to him. It's not on Main Street, that's okay, as long it helps keep the history intact and remind people of heritage."
In a Feb. 15 email to the Courier-Post, Dorian said an information center may be in the works for Main Street.
"The storyboard would include pictures, stats, a biography and mention (Jake Beckley's) gravesite location. In addition to this storyboard we are looking at a second storyboard which would tell the story of some of our other famous Hannibalians who do not always get the recognition they deserve. In addition we are looking into the possibility of an informational kiosk at this site with information on downtown businesses, restaurants and events. We are also looking at including a couple of benches and possible ground flowers or potted flowers," Dorian wrote.
That idea seems to have common ground with Judy Barnes.
"That would be okay as long as that's kept up," she said. "But there's a difference between a kiosk and a story board."
According to Dorian's Feb. 15 email those plans were not set in stone.
By now they could've changed, however, Dorian said, "no comment."
In his letter to the Hannibal City Council, Dorian wrote his department is working with the Hannibal Cavemen to install something at Clemens Field that will grab fan attention to Jake Beckley.
Cavemen Owner Bob Hemond could not be reached for comment on Monday.


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KIRKSVILLE – The late winter weather has benn tough on the KHS golf team as they try and prepare for their upcoming season. The boys have been trying to make the best of it as they have held indoor practices and as many practices on the course as possible. With all of the uncertainty and a young team this season could be interesting.
"This year we have quite a few freshmen who have been playing junior golf so it will interesting to see how they turn out. It's also important that we get out and play whenever we can," said Kirksville head coach Tom Nothdurft.
The district meet will take place at Heritage Hills a course that the Tigers are and will become familiar with.
"We see the district course quite a few times so we will be able to become familiar with it. Based off last season if things go our way we should have a good shot at getting out of districts," said Nothdurft.
Among the freshmen that Nothdurft is expecting things from are: Trent Haltertmen, Chance Edwards, and Zach Mayer.
"Getting over being shell shocked is the biggest thing for freshmen, especially if they haven't had any tournament experience before high school. I hope that they can get a positive experience from playing this year and learn from our veteran players," said Nothdurft.
There is a battle at the top to see who will be the Tigers No. 1 golfer this season. Collin Kuntz and Tyler Howerton are the top two returning players from last season's team. Howerton made it to sectional play last season.
"I expect to do at least as well as I did last year and hopefully go farther. I will have more confidence in my game this season since it will be my second year. We should be able to win our conference and then hopefully make it out of districts," said Howerton.
Even though they haven't had much time on the course expectations are still rather high.
"I hope to make it past districts and as a team we should be able to win some tournaments," said Kuntz.
With a mix of both young and new players, this season has the potential to be up and down.
"We lost some good players from last season and I think we are almost in a rebuilding stage right now. However, I think that if these guys play the way I think they can play we can do very well at districts and in conference," said Nothdurft.
The Tigers were scheduled to open their season on March 25, however that tournament was canceled to due weather conditions. Their next scheduled event is on April 1 at the Columbia Golf Classic, pending weather and course conditions. KHS is scheduled to host Hallsville on April 3 at 4 p.m.