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Senior Florida tailback Mike Gillislee has had a special season, becoming the first Gator since 2004 to eclipse 1,000 yards rushing. But as good as he's been, Gillislee said the UF offense won't really miss him next season.
NEW ORLEANS — Senior Florida tailback Mike Gillislee has had a special season, becoming the first Gator since 2004 to eclipse 1,000 yards rushing. But as good as he's been, Gillislee said the UF offense won't really miss him next season.
He said his two backups — true freshman Matt Jones and sophomore Mack Brown — are just as good as he is.
"Those two are great backs," Gillislee said Sunday. "I feel like me leaving, they're not losing nothing at that position. Those two are are just as good as me.
"Both of them are humble guys. Both of them go out every day and get better. Both are competing every day."
Both, apparently, have gotten better during bowl preparation over the past two-plus weeks.
Offensive coordinator Brent Pease said Jones and Brown have gotten extra reps in practice and he's hoping to get them carries in Wednesday's Sugar Bowl.
Quarterback Jeff Driskel said he's got a lot of confidence in Jones and Brown.
"They're both good players," Driskel said. "They both can make anybody miss and they both run very hard. I think in bowl practice they've done a lot better in pass protection, which is key at the running back position. They've improved a lot.
"I expect them to get some touches and when they get them I expect them to make them count."
Driskel on Brissett
Driskel said Sunday he hopes No. 2 quarterback Jacoby Brissett, a close friend, stays at Florida. There is much speculation that Brissett will move on to another school now that Driskel is the clear starter — for now and the foreseeable future.
"He's handled it the best way he could," Driskel said. "He's a good friend and a good teammate. He's helped me out. He's on the sideline looking for stuff and he's encouraging and he's battling.
"He doesn't go out there and hang his head, which would be easy to do in his situation. He's worked all season long and I really respect him for that."
Driskel would not speculate on whether he thought Brissett might leave.
"I'm not going to comment on that," he said. "I hope that he doesn't (leave). That's up to him."
Driskel another Tebow?
Like Louisville head coach Charlie Strong, Cardinals' secondary coach Vance Bedford is familiar with some of the Florida players.
UF's secondary coach from 2009-09, Bedford helped recruit Gillislee to Florida and was involved in the early recruitment of Driskel.
"Jeff was the No. 1 quarterback in the country at the time," Bedford said. "You could see a version of Tim Tebow in him. He's big. He's strong. He's fast. He's athletic. How many quarterbacks across the country can run a 4.5 flat (40-yard dash)?
"He's a concern. When he gets back there in the pocket, it breaks down, he's a guy that can break out, find a receiver downfield or take off and run 50, 60 yards. It's going to be hard to tackle him in open space. We have a concern containing Jeff."
Bedford said he's not surprised Gillislee has had a breakout season in his senior year, rushing for more than 1,000 yards.
"This is a guy out of high school running 10.5 (seconds) in the 100 meters," Bedford said. "When he puts his foot in the ground, he can get vertical. In the last three years, you can see his body changed. They're running an offense that suits him. That's why he has over a thousand yards,
"You look at the big plays he's had in the open field, he can do a lot of things. He can catch the football. He can cut back. One thing we can't allow him to do is cut back on us. If he does, he's probably going to take it the distance."
Bedford also knows a little bit about junior UF tight end Jordan Reed, who has been Driskel's go-to receiver.
"I tell you what, I remember Jordan Reed from this. We used to do one-on-one (at UF). He took one of our defensive ends as a true freshman and put him on his back," Bedford said. "That's what I remember about him.
"He's an outstanding player. Athletic. He can run. He has excellent ball skills. He has size. He's a matchup problem for us. We're concerned about that."
Getting on board with Charlie
Being close to Urban Meyer, Bedford said he had a tough decision to make when Strong took the UL job and offered him the defensive coordinator's position at Louisville. Bedford and running backs coach Kenny Carter both ended up leaving Meyer to join Strong's staff.
"I knew Urban when he was a wide receiver coach at Colorado State with Earle Bruce," Bedford said. "We go way back. (UL) was an opportunity and a chance for me to go out and do different things. I told Charlie, 'You've been an outstanding defensive coordinator for a long time. For me to come and work for you, I'm going to lean on you and trust you.'
"He's been there the entire time with us. That's one of the reasons we're playing great defense. He's a guy I can go to. We rode together, we're on the same page. Because of that, we're sitting here today."


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March 07. 2013 11:25AM
House committee approves medical marijuana bill
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
Lawmakers' strong positions on marijuana evolving
Medical marijuana hearing draws passionate testimony
Battle begins over medical marijuana in New Hampshire
CONCORD - One member of the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee told of his wife's struggle with cancer and how marijuana helped relieve her pain.
But, said Rep. Patrick Culbert, R-Pelham, his wife was afraid of being arrested and never took marijuana again - even though he begged her to.
She died a horrible death in great pain, vomiting all the time during the last six weeks, he said.
"People like Judy should not have to die like that," Culbert told his colleagues on the committee before they voted on a bill to allow medical marijuana or "therapeutic cannabis." "She should have died with dignity, but she did not."
Culbert was one of 14 members of the 15-member committee to vote for a revised bill,
House Bill 573
, allowing a small group of terminally and chronically ill patients or those with debilitating conditions to use marijuana to help relieve their conditions if other medications do not.
The proposed legislation lists a number of illnesses that qualify, including cancer, glaucoma, AIDS and hepatitis C, as well as conditions such as significant weight loss, severe pain or wasting syndrome.
Patients would have to have both the illness and accompanying symptoms. State Health and Human Services officials, who would administer the program, could add illnesses and conditions to the list on a case-by-case basis.
The bill would allow a person who qualifies for the drug to grow up to three marijuana plants and 12 seedlings, which Gov. Maggie Hassan opposes, although she has said she supports the use of medical marijuana.
Patients whose doctors determine they meet the criteria for medical marijuana treatment would be able to possess up to six ounces of the drug without arrest by state or local law enforcement.
But the bill does not protect patients who drive under the influence of the drug, committee members were told, nor does it protect anyone from prosecution under federal law.
Rep. Stephen Schmidt, R-Wolfeboro, who chaired a sub-committee on the bill, said the proposal addresses problems other states have experienced.
"This would be one of the most tightly controlled medical marijuana (programs) in the nation," Schmidt said.
The program would serve only New Hampshire residents. Visitors who qualify for medical marijuana in other states would not be able to obtain the drug while here.
Someone would have to be a doctor's patient for 90 days before he or she could qualify. That would end the doctor-shopping other states have experienced, Schmidt said.
The bill also establishes an advisory committee - including several opponents of the bill such as the attorney general and law enforcement officials - to "ensure the law as passed does no more and no less than it was intended to do," Schmidt said.
The committee would also make a recommendation to the legislature if the program should continue after five years.
Several committee members were concerned the bill was too restrictive.
"You have to be almost dead before using medical marijuana," Rep. Richard Meaney, R-Goffstown, said. "I would prefer a person be able to use marijuana as part of their treatment."
After the committee voted for the bill, Matt Simon, a legislative analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project, said he was pleased with the overwhelming support on the committee.
The "legislative support provides great relief to many seriously ill patients and their families, who have been waiting years for medical marijuana to become legal in New Hampshire," said Simon. "Patients whose doctors recommend they use marijuana to treat their conditions should not have to live in fear of arrest in the 'Live Free or Die' state."
If House Bill 573 passes the House, it will go to the Senate for action.
A similar bill passed the House and Senate last year, but was vetoed by former Gov. John Lynch.

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ESPN's basketball experts/analysts made their predictions for what will happen in the NCAA Tournament's four regions this weekend. Here's what they've got for the South:
Eamonn Brennan: Florida over Michigan
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John Gasaway: Kansas over Florida
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Former Manchester officer gets a year for crashStaff report
October 18. 2013 11:03AM
MANCHESTER — Former Manchester Police Officer David Connare, convicted of reckless conduct for crashing his car at high speed into the rear of a Hudson woman's car on Interstate 93 a year ago, was sentenced Thursday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North to a year in the Hillsborough County House of Corrections, with six months suspended for good behavior.
Judge Kenneth Brown also recommended work release and administrative home confinement for the 47-year-old Connare, which means he may spend little time in jail.
A jury in August found Connare innocent of second-degree assault and vehicular assault. Brown ruled the prosecution had not proved a misdemeanor drunken driving charge.
On Thursday, Brown told Connare, "You should have known better." The judge also said a loss of license would be appropriate but that was not in his control.
Connare's attorney, Eric Wilson, had sought a complete deferral of a one-year sentence to be followed by suspension for two years. Wilson said: "He's never shied away from responsibility."
Connare, who resigned as a police officer and head of the patrolmen's union after the Oct. 16, 2012, incident, was ordered to report to the House of Corrections at 9 a.m. Friday, but Assistant Merrimack County Attorney George Waldron said Connare could be approved for work release and back home the same day.
Waldron, the special prosecutor appointed to avoid any conflict of interest, had recommended a one-year sentence.
Connare was originally charged with drunken driving and assault in connection with the high-speed crash that sent Heather O'Regan's car off the road and into a bridge abutment.
The judge said the issue of restitution still has not be settled, although O'Regan said she did receive a check in June that enabled her to purchase a new vehicle.
Connare said he had wanted to apologize to O'Regan immediately but couldn't.
"She was angry, and I understand that," he said.
"I am truly sorry," he said, adding that normally he wants and tries to help people. "That's the kind of person I am."
"I deserve to be punished," he said, but added that he "lost a career that I love."
"I lost everything," he said.
A 21-year police veteran, Connare is eligible to draw a pension estimated at nearly $37,000 a year.
After the sentencing, O'Regan said she was appreciative of the work done by the prosecution and the court. She also said, "I'll be checking my rearview mirror more often."
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Another View -- William Saletan: Rethinking gun controlWILLIAM SALETAN
July 06. 2013 1:08AM
Background checks are back. Last month, Vice President Joe Biden said that five U.S. senators - enough to change the outcome - have told him they're looking for a way to switch their votes and pass legislation requiring a criminal background check for the purchase of a firearm. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who led the fight for the bill, is firing back at the National Rifle Association with a new TV ad. The White House, emboldened by polls that indicate damage to senators who voted against the bill, is pushing Congress to reconsider it.
The gun control debate is certainly worth reopening. But if we're going to reopen it, let's not just rethink the politics. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess the existing research on gun violence and recommend future studies. That report, prepared by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, is now complete. Its findings won't entirely please the Obama administration or the NRA, but all of us should consider them. Here's a list of the 10 most salient or surprising takeaways.
1. The United States has an indisputable gun violence problem. According to the report, "the U.S. rate of firearm-related homicide is higher than that of any other industrialized country: 19.5 times higher than the rates in other high-income countries."
2. Most indices of crime and gun violence are getting better, not worse. "Overall crime rates have declined in the past decade, and violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past five years," the report notes. "Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of firearm-related violent victimizations remained generally stable."
3. We have 300 million firearms, but only 100 million are handguns. According to the report, "In 2007, one estimate placed the total number of firearms in the country at 294 million: '106 million handguns, 105 million rifles, and 83 million shotguns.'" This translates to nearly nine guns for every 10 people, a per capita ownership rate nearly 50 percent higher than the next most armed country. But American gun ownership is concentrated, not universal: In a December 2012 Gallup poll, "43 percent of those surveyed reported having a gun in the home."
4. Handguns are the problem. Despite being outnumbered by long guns, "Handguns are used in more than 87 percent of violent crimes," the report notes. In 2011, "handguns comprised 72.5 percent of the firearms used in murder and non-negligent manslaughter incidents."
5. Mass shootings aren't the problem. "The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths," says the report. "Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which four or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in one day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons."
6. Gun suicide is a bigger killer than gun homicide. From 2000 to 2010, "firearm-related suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearm-related violence in the United States," says the report.
7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. "Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year . in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008," says the report. The 3 million figure is probably high, "based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys." But a much lower estimate of 108,000 also seems fishy, "because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use."
8. Carrying guns for self-defense is an arms race. The prevalence of firearm violence near "drug markets . could be a consequence of drug dealers carrying guns for self-defense against thieves or other adversaries who are likely to be armed," says the report. In these communities, "individuals not involved in the drug markets have similar incentives for possessing guns." According to a Pew Foundation report, "the vast majority of gun owners say that having a gun makes them feel safer."
9. Denying guns to people under restraining orders saves lives. "Two-thirds of homicides of ex- and current spouses were committed (with) firearms," the report observes. "In locations where individuals under restraining orders to stay away from current or ex-partners are prohibited from access to firearms, female partner homicide is reduced by 7 percent."
10. It isn't true that most gun acquisitions by criminals can be blamed on a few bad dealers. The report concedes that in 1998, "1,020 of 83,272 federally licensed retailers (1.2 percent) accounted for 57.4 percent of all guns traced by the ATF."
However, "Gun sales are also relatively concentrated; approximately 15 percent of retailers request 80 percent of background checks on gun buyers conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System." These conclusions don't line up perfectly with either side's agenda. That's a good reason to take them seriously - and to fund additional data collection and research which have been blocked by Congress over politics. Yes, the facts will surprise you. That's why you should embrace them.
William Saletan covers science, technology and politics for Slate.
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LONGMONT -- A Longmont couple are due in Boulder County Court on Wednesday for filing of charges in a case in which they are accused of stealing thousands of dollars of merchandise from Walmart stores in Longmont, Loveland and Lafayette.
Police report that Ricky Woodall and Christina Rogers-Woodall shoplifted thousands of dollars worth of video games, DVDs, toys and household goods from Walmart stores by using the "push out" method. Shoplifters place items into shopping baskets, sometimes bagging them, and walk out of the store.
"They are really bold and brazen," said Officer Dan Kilian of the Longmont Gang Crime and Suppression Unit.
According to police reports, the couple would visit stores and conceal items in baskets or with the help of their children, ages 9, 12 and 17. Police investigating the shoplifting stopped Rogers-Woodall's vehicle on Dec. 21 and found $1,295 worth of stolen Walmart merchandise in the SUV. Police placed Rogers-Woodall and Woodall under surveillance in January and watched as they visited Walmarts in Longmont, Loveland and Lafayette. Officers worked with the stores' loss prevention officers to collect video of the visits to the stores, including tapes of the couple taking items.
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Kilian said a stolen Razor scooter had been given to one of the couple's children for Christmas, and the child told an officer as it was confiscated that Santa had given it to him.
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Fight over Manchester towing heads to top courtBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 28. 2013 11:26PM
The U.S. Supreme Court is to hear a dispute March 20 involving a car towed in Manchester six years ago.
The lawsuit was brought against a Queen City company that towed and traded a car belonging to a seriously ill man. Robert Pelkey sued his landlord, Colonial Village on West Clarke Street, and Dan's City Auto Body after they towed his 2004 Honda Civic from a parking lot outside the rental apartment complex in 2007 after a snowstorm.
"We were very surprised that the court agreed to hear the case," said attorney Kate Strickland, who represents Dan's City. "They probably receive thousands of requests to hear cases a year, and I think about one half of one percent they actually agree to hear."
The justices are being asked to determine whether state or federal regulations should have dictated what happened to the car after it was towed - in effect, whether federal trucking laws pre-empt state consumer protection statutes. If federal law supersedes state law, car owners can't sue a towing company. Under state law, they can.
Pelkey had a heart attack while undergoing a foot amputation, and ended up in the hospital for two months. When he was discharged, he discovered his car had been towed.
Court filings show the car sat at a lot owned by Dan's City for two months. Dan's employees believed the vehicle was abandoned. After inquiring about the car's location, Pelkey's attorney, Brian Shaughnessy of Kazan, Shaughnessy, Kasten and McDonald in Manchester, was told Dan's City had scheduled the vehicle to be sold at auction in two days.
Shaughnessy says in court briefs that he informed Dan's City staff that Pelkey wanted to get his car back, but Dan's went ahead with the auction. Shaughnessy claims no one bid on the car, so it remained in Dan's City's possession, but that when he made inquiries about reacquiring the car, he was told the car had been sold.
According to court documents, Dan's City eventually did trade the car to a third party, without compensating Pelkey.
Pelkey sued under the Consumer Protection Act. A Superior Court judge granted Dan's City a summary judgment, after finding that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 pre-empts state laws "related to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier ... with respect to the transportation of property." The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed that decision in April 2012, saying the federal law "does not preempt state laws pertaining to the manner in which a towing company disposes of vehicles in its custody to collect towing and storage charges secured by a lien."
Kate Strickland, attorney for Dan's City, appealed.
"We argued that the New Hampshire Supreme Court reached a different conclusion than two other courts, despite looking at an essentially identical fact pattern," she said.
Calls to Shaughnessy for comment were not returned.
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On concealed carry: For once, follow Vermont
March 26. 2013 6:48PM
In the "Live free or die" state, the local government has the power to decide whether the citizen has "any proper purpose" for carrying a concealed handgun. It is a power we, the people, gave the state, which delegated it to local officials. It is a power we ought to take back.
Vermont, where people generally are less free than they are here, trumps New Hampshire when it comes to gun rights. Just over the Connecticut River, a gun owner can holster his weapon, throw on a coat, and go about his business without having to receive permission from the government. That sounds really bad to too many New Hampshire legislators.
House Bill 451, up for a vote today, would repeal the law requiring a permit to carry concealed. According to the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, which opposes the bill, "(t)he present system ensures that local police departments do not issue licenses to persons that should not have them."
Actually, the law states that licenses shall be issued for hunting, target shooting or self-defense. It essentially orders licenses to be issued except for good cause. But chiefs have been known to abuse the authority the law grants them and deny or delay license approvals at will.
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Better Medicaid: It obviously is needed
May 07. 2013 5:26PM
How good is Medicaid at improving the most basic health outcomes for the poor? Not very good, a new study of Oregon's Medicaid system shows. And that should give everyone pause about expanding this deeply flawed program.
In a nutshell, the Oregon experiment followed thousands of people who enrolled in Medicaid in 2008, and thousands who chose not to enroll. Results recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that Medicaid enrollees consumed a lot more health care services, but showed no better outcomes on the three objective health measures studied: blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. They were less depressed, which makes sense, given that they had basic health insurance.
The nation spends about $450 billion a year on Medicaid, and Obamacare is set to spend $750 billion more over the next decade by expanding it. That was a foolish move when Obamcare was passed, and it is even more obviously foolish now.
If the goal is to keep the poor from getting poorer, or to help them pay for basic health insurance, there are far better ways to do both. The current method is deeply wasteful. We could help the poor for less and get better outcomes. But say that and you will be labeled anti-poor. Such is politics today.


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A combination of local and regional police departments and state police stations cover Monroe County.
The Stroud Area Regional Police Department (421-6800) covers Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg and Stroud Township.
The Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department (839-7676) covers Coolbaugh, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock townships and Mount Pocono.
Both regional departments have commissions that hold monthly public meetings where residents can voice any concerns about their police coverage.
The two full-time, non-regionalized police departments are Barrett Township (595-3476) and Pocono Township (629-7323).
Delaware Water Gap has the county's only part-time police department (421-2323).
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Ranger Station's number is (908) 841-9520.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Department number is 420-3683.
Three Pennsylvania State Police stations share coverage of Monroe County.
The Swiftwater station (839-7701 or 866-403-2946) covers Hamilton, Middle Smithfield, Smithfield, Paradise and Price townships.
Swiftwater also patrols Interstate 80, from the New Jersey border to the Interstate 380 split, and from I-380 to the Wayne County line.
The Fern Ridge station (646-2271) covers Chestnuthill and Jackson townships and patrols I-80, from the I-380 split to the Carbon County line.
The Lehighton station (610-377-4270 or 866-400-8084) covers Eldred, Polk and Ross townships.
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Spring is always an interesting time. It is that time of the year when I get to find all of my missing tools and other surprises that appear as the snow melts away.
As the snow quickly retreats under the warm days of spring, I have found the time to begin thinking of green grass and baby lambs. We are still a month until the first lambs of the year will be born, but the grass is beginning to poke its blades up through the moist soil.
As a raiser of livestock, my main job is a grower of grass. It is this lush green grass that I spend most of my time caring for that really is the key to growing my lambs. From early spring until late fall, the better care I give my pastures, the more grass and lambs I will grow.
It is important for anyone who keeps horses or other livestock to know how to take care of pastures, as it will determine the forage you will produce for your animals. As you travel around the area, you can see the beginning of the first blades of grass beginning to poke up. You also see in too many pastures horses and other livestock working hard to get that first inch of grass. This early spring, grazing is one of the hardest things on your grass and will result in greatly decreased growth later in the summer. With the drought conditions we are still experiencing, it can ultimately result in the death of your pasture.
If we look at what is happening with our grass, maybe it will help us understand the need to allow the grass to grow before turning out our stock to graze.
Last summer and fall, the grass plants worked hard with limited moisture to produce energy; they stored that energy in their roots to survive through the winter. As spring comes around, those grass plants have very limited energy still stored in their roots to begin to grow for this year.
Those first blades of grass that begin to reach for sunlight are the first chance for the plant to produce new energy and to grow for this year. When they are eaten so soon, that opportunity is lost, and the plants will need to use up their remaining stored energy to try and grow new green blades and to again start to make energy to survive.
While you may feel you are saving hay by starting to graze now, the amount of grass that will not be produced later will offset any hay saved now. Take some time and allow your pastures to grow and become several inches tall before you allow your stock to graze very much. Your grass will do better and so will your livestock. Take care of your pastures and they can help take better care of your livestock.
Doug Ramsey has farmed in La Plata County for more than 30 years. He can be reached at 385-4375.


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Major bombshell, and sorry, but this certainly requires a breaking tag as well: HP has announced it is discontinuing operations for webOS devices - effective immediately. Just like that... The TouchPad and Pre 3 are dead. Eh. Raise your hands if this brings back those painful memories of that infamous 'Focus Shift'. In addition, the company also announced its intention to sell its personal computer business.
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The Flyers did not practice Friday, but had a team meeting. Goalie coach Jeff Reese had a long one-on-one with Bryzgalov.
"He felt great today. He came in with his swagger and it's important that his teammates saw him come in like that," Reese said. "He was joking around and laughing and I think that was very important. He's going to turn this around, no question."
In a roundabout way, Reese said Bryzgalov will be back in the nets on Saturday.
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For the first time in the franchise's history, the Flyers scored eight goals in a LOSING effort.
It happened Thursday in a wild, pond-like game in which they lost to the Winnipeg Jets, 9-8, before a stunned crowd at the Wels Fargo Center.
The franchise's previous high for goals scored in a loss was seven _ 9-7 at Hartford in 1984, and 8-7 vs. visiting Tampa Bay last year.
Incredibly, the Flyers fired 84 shots (48 on net, 19 blocked, 17 missed) and still lost. Winnipeg fired 43 shots (25 on net, 11 blocked, seven missed).
Afterward, goalie Ilya Bryzgalov blamed himself for the loss. Bryzgalov was awful in a relief role (four goals on 10 shots), but his timid defense was even worse, repeatedly failing to clear the front of the net.
"You win as a team, you lose as a team," said winger James van Riemsdyk, who scored two goals and took 14 shots, including nine on goal. "You can't ever put it on just one guy. We have to be better in front of him. There were a lot of tips and point-blank chances that we have to cut down and make his job a little easier."
That's similar to what the players were saying after Wednesday's 5-1 loss in Montreal.
In his last four appearances, Bryzgalov has a 5.05 GAA and .802 save percentage.
"I'm lost in the woods," Bryzgalov said, calling it the worst stretch in his career and apologizing to the fans and his teammates. "I have zero confidence in myself now. I am terrible."
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Maybe the fact he cleared the air will allow Bryzgalov to relax, regain his focus and start to resemble the elite goalie who played in Phoenix.
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Other courthouses in the state are implementing similar security measures, though Archuleta and Montezuma counties continue to have metal detectors only at the entrance to county courtrooms, not the entire courthouse.
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The district has about $1- to $1.4-million deficit. Moving forward it will continue to grow without new revenue, he said.
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With the continued defeat of the levy, Bidlack said cuts will have to take place for the 2014-15 school year. Administrators are in the process of reviewing the budget, he said.
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Waterford — When he was 2, Bill Berloni's mother asked him whether he'd like a brother or a sister.
"And I said, 'A dog,'" he told an audience at the Waterford Public Library Saturday afternoon.
It was a moment of foreshadowing for Berloni, who received a Tony award in 2011 as the honor recipient for Excellence in the Theatre for his long career making stars out of strays.
Several dozen gathered in the basement of the library Saturday to hear Berloni tell the tale of how he became the first theatrical dog trainer — the world's only one, in fact, at least in name.
"That's because I made it up," he said.
It was back in the 1970s at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, where a little-known musical called "Annie" debuted to terrible reviews before proceeding to Broadway success and musical canonization.
Working 70 unpaid hours a week behind the scenes in the summer of 1976, Berloni hoped that one day he would land a role in one of the shows. So when the director called then-19-year-old Berloni into his office, he thought his day had come.
The director had realized they would need to cast and train a dog — unheard of in stage musicals until then. For $35 — and the promise of a stage role — Berloni agreed to do it himself.
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So Berloni was sent to shelters around Connecticut with a Polaroid camera and a van on a casting mission: to find a mutt to play Sandy, Annie's beloved canine companion. It was on this trip that Berloni finally saw for himself the plight of so many abandoned animals who live in kill shelters, their days numbered when they arrive, often living in squalid conditions.
"To me, dogs came from good places," he said.
The dog who would become the original Sandy was set to be euthanized the next day. For $7, Berloni rescued him, put him in his van, bought him a 19-cent hamburger from McDonald's, and brought the bedraggled, antisocial pup back to the theater, to the director's dismay.
But through careful rehabilitation, rewarding with treats and bonding with the cast, Berloni slowly trained him not only how to be a stage dog, but how to trust people again. "Annie" debuted later in the summer, and the dog did well, Berloni said — though the show itself was panned by critics.
Berloni eventually moved to New York to study acting, taking the original Sandy with him to live in a tiny fifth-floor walkup in Greenwich Village. When producer Mike Nichols brought "Annie" to Broadway, the show took off — and so did Berloni's career: At age 20, he became a world-famous animal trainer and quit acting in favor of his newly cultivated talent.
Since 1977, he has since trained animals for 24 Broadway shows as well as for movies, TV shows and commercials, all of them rescues from animal shelters. And he owns 23 rescue dogs of his own at home, fulfilling the promise he made to himself after that first fateful shelter trip in 1976 always to adopt rescues.
With him on Saturday were Chico, who played Bruiser in the Broadway version of "Legally Blonde," and Casey, who is training with Berloni as an understudy for Sandy in the current run of "Annie" on Broadway. Both are rescues — Chico from Newark, N.J., and Casey from Nashville, Tenn.
Saturday, Berloni went through the traditional trainer's moves with them — heel, stay, sit, lie down — before rewarding them repeatedly with treats.
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As a wholesome mental factor, sati is consistently explained in the same way as in the quotation from Vism XIV 141 (with the forms saranti, sarati, saraṇa, simply cognates of sati). So I don't have any new definition of sati to offer. But I hope that I can explain how sati, as "bare attention," can function as a wholesome mental factor. When I use the word "awareness" or "attention" to render upaṭṭhāna, as representing sati in this role (which is just my hypothesis), this awareness is quite different from ordinary consciousness (viññāṇa), and this attention is different from manasikāra, the mental factor that performs the function of adverting to an object or selecting features of the objective field for closer focus. Sati, as bare attention, is never completely bare. When practiced in the full context of the noble eightfold path (even the path-practice of a worldling) it is, or should be, embraced by other factors of the path, most notably by right view, right motivation, and right effort (factors 1, 2, and 6); it is already supported by the three morality factors (3, 4, 5). As Ven. Nyanaponika first used the expression, sati is "bare" in that it is shorn of our usual emotional reactions, evaluations, judgments, conceptual overlays, etc., and is intended to lay bare the experienced object as clearly as possible.
We should remember that sati, in the context of satipaṭṭhāna practice, is always practiced as part of an'anupassanā,' and this word helps to bring out the role of sati. We usually translate 'anupassanā' as "contemplation," thus 'kāyānupassanā' as "contemplation of the body," but this might be somewhat misleading. It might be more accurate, and more literal, to translate it as "observation." The word is made up of a prefix 'anu' which suggests repetition, and 'passanā', which means "seeing, viewing." So sati is part of a
process that involves a close, repetitive observation of the object.
Several factors enter into anupassanā. According to the "satipaṭṭhāna refrain," these are energy (ātāpī, "ardent"), clear comprehension (sampajāno), and mindfulness (satimā). Energy contributes the strength to fulfill the practice, but it is mindfulness that brings the object into the field of observation, and in many exercises (though not all) it does so simply through the act of attending to the object over and over, as simply as possible, and of attending to each object that presents itself on the successive occasions of experience. Mindfulness, as bare attention, is thus a key element in the process of adopting an "observational stance" towards one's own experience.
Mindfulness, as bare attention, however, isn't just floating loosely in a void. In a meditative situation it will be anchored in a primary object, such as in-breathing and outbreathing, or the rise and fall of the abdomen. But whenever some other phenomenon arises and floats into the field of awareness, the meditator is advised to simply note it, without reacting to it, and then to bring the mind back to the primary object. If any reactions take place, such as enjoying the distracting object or feeling irritated by it, one should note the enjoyment or irritation, and again return to the primary object.
Thus, if you have trouble seeing mindfulness–as bare attention–as a wholesome mental factor because it isn't remembering one's wholesome qualities or attending to bodhipakkhiya dhammas, the same problem could be posed in terms of mindfulness of breathing. A skeptic might say: "Yeah, I can see loving-kindness meditation, or compassion meditation, as a wholesome state, but mindfulness of breathing, why, you're doing nothing but following your breath in and out. What could be especially 'wholesome' about that?"
In the practice of bare attention, as used in the "dry insight" system of vipassanā, mindfulness is used to note whatever is occurring on successive occasions of experience. As this is practiced continuously, over extended periods of time, the mindfulness builds up momentum. By means of this momentum, it is able to bring the "field of experience" into increasingly finer focus, until one can tune into the precise factors constituting any occasion of experience and distinguish them according to their place among the five aggregates. In this way, mindfulness paves the way for the discriminative understanding of the "constituted nature" of experience, allowing paññā to move in and discern the threads that make up the complex experiential occasion. Then because one is attending to the unfolding of experience sequentially across occasions of experience, the characteristic comes into sharp focus. One can see how each event occurs and vanishes, followed by the next event, which occurs and vanishes, followed by the next event, which occurs and vanishes. As concentration grows stronger, this ability to focus upon the arising and passing of events becomes more refined, so that it seems one is perceiving the arising and passing of cognitive events in terms of nanoseconds. Again, this uncovers, even more starkly, the characteristic of impermanence, and from there one can move on to the characteristics of dukkha and anatta.
Of course, one who gains the jhānas, and then uses the concentration of the jhāna to focus on the procession of experience, has even more powerful resources for gaining direct perception of the radical truth of impermanence. But even this must begin with some degree of "bare attention" to immediate experience.
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"Sati, as bare attention, is never completely bare. When practiced in the full context of the noble eightfold path (even the path-practice of a worldling) it is, or should be, embraced by other factors of the path, most notably by right view, right motivation, and right effort (factors 1, 2, and 6); it is already supported by the three morality factors (3, 4, 5)."
You were worried that I had missed out on right thought, and further on in your letter you expressed concern about the need for proper motivation; but the factor often translated as right thought, sammā saṅkappa, is what I have here translated "right motivation" (it is elsewhere translated "right intention"). I'm not sure how the Tibetan translations render the second path factor, but the Pāli term suggests the purposive, motivational element in thought, rather than the cognitive, which is covered by right view. In my understanding, without right view or right intention, one could be practicing "bare mindfulness," and yet that "bare mindfulness" is unlikely to develop into sammā sati, right mindfulness. Similarly, one could be practicing mindfulness of breathing, or contemplation of bodily sensations, or loving-kindness meditation, or perhaps even reflective meditation on the Four Noble Truths and dependent origination as applicable to this present life alone (no trespassing into unverifiable past and future lives), and these practices, while being "wholesome," would still be deficient as Dharma practices.


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Minor Cycle (Short-term trend lasting days to a few weeks) Negative
Intermediate Cycle (Medium trend lasting weeks to several months) Neutral
Major Cycle (Long-term trend lasting several months to years) Positive / Neutral
Nope. After nearly 3 ½ months of trying and despite a decent rally from the mid-November lows (1343.35—S&P 500) that brought the S&P within a few percentage points of its September 14 intermediate high (1474.51), and the best level since the lows of March 2009, the stock market remains as uncommitted as it was in early fall. While it's true the Value Line index rallied to a new all-time high (3187.27) on December 20, that level was only a little over 1% better than the VAY high (3149.52) reached during the first week of May 2011. That is significant, because on a relative basis and despite the fact it has yet to make a new all-time high, the S&P 500 has outperformed VAY to the extent the S&P was last 2.3% above its May 2011 peak while the VAY had slipped back to a loss of 1.4% compared to May 2011.
Market Overview – What We Know:
- On noticeably lighter holiday activity, major indexes pulled back modestly last week.
- Market volume diminished 58% as compared to previous week.
- Short-term trend turned negative and S&P 500 must now rally back above upper edge of 10-Day Price Channel (1439.28 through December 31) to suggest reversal of near-term trend back to positive. Intermediate Cycle remains negative until S&P 500 rallies above upper edge of 10-Week Price Channel (1426.37 through January 4)).
- Strength above September 14 S&P 500 intraday high at 1474.51 would be required to re-assert bull market begun in March 2009.
- Daily MAAD has continued to move lower since peaking on December 20. Daily and Weekly MAAD Ratios were last near "Neutral"(.88 and .96, respectively).
- CPFL was negative by 2.5 to 1 last week on sharply lower options volume. Weekly CPFL Ratio was "Oversold" at .72.
- Cumulative Volume (CV) in both S&P 500 and S&P Emini has continued to under perform relative to S&P 500 pricing since November 16 short-term low.
From our point-of-view, not only has the broad market been struggling to gain traction on the upside since May 2011 when all of our key indicators peaked, but despite at least three attempts on the intermediate cycle (October 2011, June 2012, and most recently in November 2012), investors who have based their decisions on movement in the major indexes have continued to see little net improvement in portfolio valuations for the better part of the past two years. Of course there have been exceptions to that rule. Apple (AAPL) nearly doubled in the same time frame before pulling back nearly 200 points and 30% after the September 2012 highs. But on the flip side, Netflix (NFLX) sank more than 80%.
Market Overview – What We Think:
- While short-term trend has quickly corrected back toward "Neutral" levels over past several sessions, what is important about reversal of recent short-term rally begun after November 16 lows (1343.35—S&P 500), is that S&P 500 has been unable for past 3 ½ months to better high (1474.51) made back on September 14.
- Because long-term trend remains intact to extent uptrend remains positive, nothing but strength above that September 14 S&P high (1474.51) will re-assert bull trend that is about to its fourth year.
- If a presumption is made that new highs will follow, given fact Value Line index made new all-time high on December 20, then why have NONE of our key indicators that have reliable long-term records not been prescient enough to also predict new highs?
- And why, if this bull market is so healthy, have ALL of the major indexes been limited for the better part of the past two years to percentage gains that could have been exceeded by holding far less risky investments?
- Quite simply, another failure on the upside will only underscore notion that strength over past two years has been increasingly driven by weaker and weaker hands. In that vein, we continue to wonder how much longer this market will be able to shake off negative indicator divergences.


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Keene sues six parking meter 'Robin Hoods' who put money in expired metersBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
May 13. 2013 9:47PM
An activist feeds change into a meter to save a motorist a parking ticket in downtown Keene.
'Robin Hooders' are confronted on the street by an unidentified man.
KEENE - The city has filed a lawsuit against six citizens, part of a group dubbed Robin Hood of Keene that patrols downtown armed with video cameras and pockets full of change to fill expired parking meters.
Also known as Robin Hooders, the six are associated with the Free Keene group.
"They say video recording or talking to them is harassing them, but I don't agree with that," "Robin Hooder" James Cleaveland said of parking enforcement officers. "So they want to establish a safety zone of fifty feet."
Members of the group place cards under windshield wipers that read, "Your meter expired; however, we saved you from the king's tariffs, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Please consider paying it forward," and includes an address where donations can be sent.
The group says the suit was filed because the city is losing revenue from parking tickets. The city says the activists are harassing its employees.
In the case filed May 2, the city asks the court to prohibit residents Kate Ager, Ian Bernard aka Ian Freeman, James Cleaveland, Graham Colson, Garrett Ean and Peter Eyre from coming within 50 feet of the city's three parking enforcement officers "during the performance of their employment duties for the city."
According to the suit, the residents "regularly, repeatedly and intentionally taunted, interfered with, harassed, and intimidated" the officers starting last December, "surrounding, touching or nearly touching, and otherwise taunting and harassing" the officers.
Cleaveland said the group has prevented the officers from issuing about 4,000 tickets.
In the filing, parking enforcement officer Linda Desruisseaux said, "Besides following me, crowding around me, making video recordings of my activities, and placing coins in expired meters to prevent me from writing tickets, these individuals repeatedly taunt and harass me, asking why I am stealing peoples' money and telling me to get another job ... In particular, Graham Colson likes to taunt me by saying, 'Linda, guess what you're not going to do today - write tickets.' ... The taunting and harassment tends to get worse when there is a group, as they try to one-up each other at my expense."
The lawsuit does not deny group members' right to videotape and takes no issue with them filling expired parking meters, but said there is a concern that the three parking enforcement officers will quit. The suit states the city would suffer financially from having to hire and train new employees, and might have difficulty filling the positions.
According to parking enforcement officer Alan E. Givetz in the suit, the "constant harassment" has made him "feel very stressed and anxious."
"In addition, I have begun to suffer physical effects due to the stress, including coming home from work with a red face, feeling heart palpitations, and having dreams related to this activity."
Cleaveland and Garrett said they were served with the suit Thursday and have 30 days to answer the complaint.
"I basically feel like it's slander. I did not harass or intimidate anyone," Garrett said.
Cleaveland said he speaks to the officers less than 90 percent of the time, and when he does, he is not harassing or intimidating.
He said the Robin Hooders try to be about 20 feet ahead of the officer, but the officers cross the street, zigzag, or hide behind buildings if they see a Robin Hooder.
"If they see us in front of them, they will try to alter their path," Cleaveland said.
The two said the video recordings of their "Robin Hooding" will vindicate them in court.


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More than half of businesses are late on Manchester loan paymentsBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 14. 2013 10:32PM
MANCHESTER — City officials have been struggling to obtain regular payments from half of the businesses that have received money from the Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) over the last five years.
Of the 21 small businesses that received low-interest loans from the city, 11 have fallen behind on payments. Together, they owe more than $350,000.
Several municipalities in the state operate revolving loan funds, which typically lend to small businesses, with the goal of creating or preserving a certain number of jobs, or supporting development projects deemed in the public interest.
The owners of five Queen City businesses are now facing legal action by the city solicitor after repeated attempts to collect on the loans.
The businesses include JW Hill's, the downtown restaurant and bar, and several shops and restaurants that have gone out of business: Pattie Shack; Lazy Nick's, a cafe on the east side; and Maax Inc., a hat and clothing embroidery company that had been in the Millyard.
The company received the largest single RLF loan, $210,000, on which it owes a $109,250 balance.
The other businesses that had fallen behind on payments have in recent weeks had their loans restructured on favorable terms for the borrowers.
For example, Mary's Closet, a costume shop, has had its payments on a $60,000 loan reduced from $1,130 a month to $200 for at least the next six months.
Two of the businesses declared bankruptcy, and the aldermen voted earlier this year to write off both of the loans, totalling $55,000.
Ten of 21 businesses are in good standing on their loans, including Firefly American Bistro, which owes $1,300 on a $70,000 loan it received in 2008, and Image 4, a marketing company that owes $1,800 on a $100,000 loan.
The Revolving Loan Fund had been promoted and administered by the Manchester Economic Development Office as a way to spur the creation of small businesses and jobs. The interest rate on the loans is typically around 5 percent.
In November, the director of the office resigned, and a subsequent city audit singled out the RLF as poorly managed. It noted there was a lack of documentation; fees weren't being assessed for late payments; and minutes were not kept at meetings of the RLF committee responsible for reviewing and approving the loans.
Since then, the city's Finance Department has been working to organize the accounts and collect on those that are past-due. The office has made steady progress in collecting at least partial payment from some of the borrowers.
"When the loans came to the finance office, probably half weren't in good standing," said Sharon Wickens, the assistant director of the office. "Everyone worked very hard, and now more than half are in good standing, but with a plan. Everyone has a different situation. Some problems the committee felt were reasonable, and for others we're taking legal means."
The aldermen's Committee on Accounts receives regular updates on the loan portfolio, with the latest one to occur at its meeting this evening. The committee recently insisted that the borrowers be identified in the documents it received.
Businesses that do not respond to the efforts of the Finance Department are referred to the Office of the City Solicitor, the city's legal department.
Deputy solicitor Tom Arnold said the office will send demand letters to the businesses, as was the case with JW Hill's, which owes $25,200 on a $75,000 loan. The office has filed a lawsuit against Maax Inc., the now-defunct embroidery company. Efforts to reach the owner of Lazy Nick's were unsuccessful, according to a letter from the office, and it intends to file suit against Richard's Bistro, another restaurant that has gone out of business.
Arnold said that his office will also seek liens against businesses or owners to recoup the city's money.
Unlike banks and other creditors, the city cannot report nonpayment of loans to credit agencies, according to Arnold. He noted that the RLF program supported businesses that might otherwise have trouble securing a bank loan. "In the interest of job creation and preservation, and other interests, the city has the fund to make loans in appropriate circumstances," Arnold said, adding, "this probably makes them more risky."
The city has not originated any new loans in more than a year.
Wickens, from the Finance Office, said she believed this was a good thing. "We really wanted to get a handle on it, with the way the economy has been," she said. firstname.lastname@example.com


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CCHS members honor Heaton for service
During the Cooper County Historical Society's (CCHS) Annual Christmas Party at Pleasant Green on Sunday, CCHS retiring President Jeanette Heaton was given a poinsettia and $100 for the New Lebanon Preservation Society by board members. Heaton has served as the CCHS president for 12 years and another 10 years as a member. "The past 22 years has been very gratifying to have been associated with the accomplishments of CCHS and working with the many members, some no longer with us. My memories of them will be forever with me," Heaton stated. During the party, new board members were inducted which include President Phillip Bechtold; Vice President Annick Streck; Treasurer, Betty Stegner and Secretary Mary Goode. New board members include: Lewis Odneal and Jeanette Heaton, who is now serving as a member rather than officer. Vicki McCarrell, Barbara Dahl, Charles Goode and Wanda Phillips remain members.


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A fireworks 'nightmare' recalled one year laterBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
June 29. 2013 10:28PM
It was the eve of Independence Day and Pelham Fire Chief James Midgley was getting ready for his town's fireworks display when the first reports came in of a fireworks explosion at a residence. The house was on fire, and there were multiple burn injuries.
Heading up Route 38 to the scene, Midgley saw it: "A large mushroom cloud."
It was evidence of what experts call a "rapid exothermic reaction," Midgley said: "a very powerful release of energy over a very short period of time." And he knew something terrible had happened.
Thirteen people - five of them children - suffered burns and puncture injuries last year when a "spinner" went awry and ignited hundreds of reloadable mortar shells that had been stored on a back deck.
The accident occurred at the Dodge Road home of Pelham Selectman Edmund Gleason's daughter and son-in-law, Jeannie and Chris Pappathan.
"These aren't the typical devices from years ago, firecrackers and bottle rockets, things we grew up with," Midgley said. "These are large explosives, almost like grenades, and they pack a heckuva punch."
The porch where the fireworks were stored was filled with people, he said. "You had these devices ... going sideways, hitting the house, going into the porch, going into the kitchen, hitting people, burning into them....
"That's what caused a lot of the critical injuries, is once they contacted the person, they continued to burn into them."
The most seriously injured was the Pappathans' grandson, 3-year-old Ben Bertini.
"He literally had a hole in his chest from where one of the devices had burned into him," Midgley said.
Gleason recounted the call from his daughter the night of the explosion. "She said, 'I've just had the worst night of my life. My nightmare has come true.'"
One of the other children who was burned, 8-month-old Olivia Foy, escaped even more serious injuries because her mother, Marci Foy, shielded her in her arms as she fled the deck, the chief said. "Her mother actually took the brunt of the hit and protected her."
The Foys talk about their ordeal in a fireworks safety video posted on the website of the National Fire Protection Association (nfpa.org).
The Foys and Pappathans could not be reached for comment last week.
The Pelham accident prompted Gleason and Midgley to push for a ban on the types of fireworks that ignited that night.
Rep. Charlene Takesian, R-Pelham, agreed to sponsor such a measure in the last session, but it was retained in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee for further study.
House Bill 336 would ban retail sales of helicopters, aerial spinners, reloadable shells and parachute devices. And it would require retailers to provide consumers a pamphlet approved by the state Department of Safety, detailing "the appropriate and safe use" of the fireworks.
"There's got to be better education relative to the dangers and the precautions that have to be taken," Gleason said. "Fireworks are gunpowder. They have the potential to be lethal, and they certainly have the potential to be maiming."
Reloadable aerial shells were banned in New Hampshire until two years ago. Midgley said lobbyists for the fireworks industry persuaded lawmakers to repeal the ban in 2011 by arguing there were no New Hampshire data that proved such devices were not safe.
"Well, I think now we have a track record that they're unsafe," Midgley said. "What are you waiting for? How much more damage has to occur before action is taken?"
According to the state Fire Marshal's Office, there were 19 injuries from fireworks reported voluntarily to the state in 2012.
Fire Marshal J. William Degnan said he favors making it mandatory for health care providers to report fireworks injuries, just as they do gunshot or knife wounds and dog bites. And he wants to see the ban reinstated on certain kinds of fireworks.
Degnan said consumers mistakenly assume anything on a store shelf is safe. "That is the mind set of people: that if it's allowed to be sold, they're safe," he said. "They don't understand the lobbying that goes on behind it by the industries."
He noted the state's permissible fireworks advisory committee, made up of industry and public safety officials, used to test all consumer fireworks and make recommendations about which could be sold here. That, too, changed with the 2011 legislation.
Rep. Lars Christiansen, R-Hudson, was the sponsor of the 2011 bill. He said he had no second thoughts after what happened in Pelham, which he said was an accident caused by human error.
"It was just a tragic mistake of the people who actually were doing that," he said.
Richard Bouley is a lobbyist for Atlas PyroVision Productions of Jaffrey, the state's largest and oldest fireworks company, renowned for its professional displays.
Atlas also has five retail locations in New Hampshire and one in Maine that sell some of the items Takesian's legislation would ban.
Bouley said Atlas does not favor House Bill 336 as introduced, but supports efforts to make the industry safer.
"There may be some items out there that need to be looked at, that maybe shouldn't be on the counter," he said, "but we don't believe that the Legislature is the one that should decide which items should or should not be."
Instead, he favors giving that responsibility back to the fireworks advisory commission. "We want a solution that's going to be long term, and I think you do that by having experts ... make recommendations on a regular basis to the (safety) commissioner."
Bouley also supports the call for mandatory safety information to be given out by retailers. But he said consumers share responsibility for using fireworks safely.
Midgley said he's not out to ban all fireworks, just those that caused such havoc in his town a year ago. "Not all fireworks are created equal," he said. "Just because you can get it doesn't mean it's safe."
And he doesn't have any patience for industry arguments that such a ban would cost them money. He noted the huge medical costs of those who were injured last July and the costs to his town for the emergency response.
Then, he said, "Let's talk about the impacts we can't measure. Let's talk about the social impacts to these people who were seriously injured. We can't even fathom ... the life of this child who was severely burned and scarred at such a young age."
This Fourth of July, Gleason's family plans to celebrate without fireworks.
"We'll have games and a bouncy house and a dunk-tank," Gleason said. "That's adequate."
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WEC Colombia teams up with universities to showcase smart grid innovation
Colombia's efforts to be at the forefront of smart grid innovation were showcased at a recent seminar hosted by the WEC Colombian committee (COCME) and several universities. COCME co-hosted its third technical seminar, "Opportunities and Barriers for the Implementation of Smart Grids in Colombia", on 7 June in Medellín to look at how such intelligent […]
Posted on 5 August 2013
Energy efficiency makes business sense, WEC Colombia event heard
Colombian energy experts and business leaders highlighted how energy efficiency can help boost business competitiveness and cost savings at a recent event organised by COCME, the WEC's Colombian member committee. At the seminar "Energy efficiency: business vision and competitiveness", senior Colombian figures told more than 200 representatives from industry, businesses, and academia that technology choice, […]
Posted on 15 April 2013
WEC Colombia hosts discussion on critical energy issues
The WEC's recently published study on world energy issues was showcased at a seminar organised by COCME, the WEC's Colombian member committee. At the seminar "Regional and Global Energy Panorama" (21 February, Bogotá), José Antonio Vargas Lleras, Chair of COCME and WEC Vice-Chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), presented the 2013 World Energy […]
Posted on 4 April 2013


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