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Service industries in the U.S. expanded in January at about the same pace as the prior month, showing the biggest part of the economy is holding up in the face of federal government budget battles.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index cooled to 55.2 last month from a 10-month high of 55.7 in December, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. Economists projected the gauge would ease to 55, according to the Bloomberg survey median. Readings above 50 signal expansion.
Sustained consumer spending and a rebound in housing will probably keep benefiting companies such as MasterCard Inc. and PulteGroup Inc., helping propel service industries that account for almost 90% of the economy. A measure of services employment climbed to an almost seven-year high, underscoring a job market that will provide households the wherewithal to manage a two percentage-point increase payroll taxes.
"There's not really any evidence that we're seeing a slowing," said Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC in Boulder, Colorado, who correctly projected the figure. "The biggest takeaway is how strong the employment component is."
Stocks advanced as corporate earnings exceeded analyst forecasts. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 0.9% to 1,509.36 at 10:53 a.m. in New York.
Estimates in the Bloomberg survey of 76 economists ranged from 53 to 57.5. The index, which includes industries ranging from utilities and retail to health care, housing and finance, has averaged 53.5 since the recession ended in June 2009.
Eight non-manufacturing industries, including construction, finance and real estate, reported growth in January, while nine said business contracted.
Services Hiring
The ISM's employment gauge jumped to 57.5, the highest since February 2006, from 55.3 in the prior month, today's report showed. The measure of new orders decreased to 54.4, the lowest since April 2012, from 58.3. The gauge of business activity dropped to 56.4 from 60.8.
In China, service industries may be on the mend. They expanded last month at the fastest pace since August as gains in retailing and construction helped drive a recovery. The non- manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index was 56.2 in January after 56.1 a month earlier, the Beijing-based National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing said in a statement Feb. 3.
U.S. service industries are poised to benefit from manufacturing that's starting to emerge from a slump in the second half of 2012. The Institute for Supply Management's factory gauge advanced to a nine-month high of 53.1 in January, the group reported last week.
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My phone rang at about 7 p.m. on a Friday evening in late February 2009.
On the line was a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle, David White. Hours earlier, he reported that Brian Dawkins and the Denver Broncos had agreed to terms on a new contract.
It seemed strange for a San Francisco reporter to be breaking news that mostly involved the Broncos and Eagles, but White, who couldn't have been nicer, explained to me that he had a rock-solid source. He said he had been receiving angry e-mails from Eagles fans, who were in disbelief that the franchise was letting one of its all-time greats get away.
There have been plenty of memorable moments during the last four years, but that night when I left my then-girlfriend (now-wife) waiting in a Center City restaurant for over an hour while I tracked down the Dawkins reports really stands out.
When I first started back in 2008, in my introductory post, I tried to lay out exactly what this blog would be about. But the truth is, I really had no clue. And that was part of the fun.
I guess that's a long way of getting to the point here: This will be my final post on MTC.
The Eagles have been a lot of things over the last four years, but boring is not one of them.
There was the final Sunday of the regular season back in 2008 when the Bucs, a 12.5-point favorite, somehow fell to the Raiders to keep the Eagles' playoff hopes alive.
Easter Sunday, when the Birds dealt Donovan McNabb within their division to the Redskins and moved on to the Kevin Kolb era.
Andy Reid surprising everyone by first signing Michael Vick and then handing him the starting job over Kolb a year later.
And of course, last summer's spending spree.
There are countless others that have made this job such a blast.
Bill Walsh is known to have said that no football coach should stay in the same place for more than 10 years.
I don't know what the proper expiration date is for a blogger, but it's been a great run. I want to thank everyone who has read, commented, e-mailed, Tweeted, etc. You let me know when I was off-base and when I had stumbled upon something worthwhile.
I also have to thank my great colleagues at Philly.com. I was an avid reader of the site before I started working here, and that will continue now that I'm moving on.
So, keep in touch, get ready for training camp, and remember: Never call a run-pass option down by the goal line.

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BUCKEYE (AP) Brown stalks of corn sliced off a few inches above the ground stretch across a field at Ackerman Farms north of Fort Collins, where Eldon Ackermans family has farmed since 1928.
For Ackerman, its decision time.
He planted silage corn in the field last year. But as the drought has continued, Ackerman has decided to let the field sit fallow unplanted amid a drought that is ravaging Northern Colorado agriculture unlike anything farmers have seen in decades.
Another decision: Ive had to lay off three employees because we just dont have the water, Ackerman said. The city of Fort Collins let us know in November they werent going to rent water to us for ag use.
The water Ackerman Farms was entitled to was sold off years ago, and recently, Ackerman has had to rely on Fort Collins excess water to keep his fields wet.
With Colorados mountain snowpack still starved of water, Fort Collins isnt sending its excess water to farmers this year.
Im going to be 70 percent short of water, he said. Im going to have to make some drastic decisions. Its going to be a disaster, really.
Ackermans decision: Let 70 percent of his land sit there, cropless.
The final word about how much water many farmers will be able to draw from the regions reservoirs comes in April, but region agricultural producers are bracing for bad news as they make decisions about what and how much to plant because there isnt as much water in the reservoirs as last year.
Let me tell you, we havent made those decisions yet, but its looking like we will be fallowing some land, said Richard Seaworth, who farms near Wellington. Right now, it looks pretty bleak for us.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has no estimate for how many acres across the state are expected to remain fallow over the coming growing season, said Ron Carleton, deputy Colorado agriculture commissioner.
The short-term impact might not be devastating statewide, but if the drought wears on much longer, fallowed land may become unproductive because itll simply be too dry to farm, he said.
Drought is forcing farmers close to the foothills to fallow their land because they rely more on reservoir water and snowpack runoff than well water, said Colorado State University agricultural and resource economist James Pritchett. Farmers in far eastern Colorado rely on the Ogalalla Aquifer, preventing them from having to fallow their land.
There are 350,000 fewer acre feet of water sloshing around in the areas lakes and reservoirs than there was a year ago enough water to fill two reservoirs the size of Horsetooth Reservoir. And, the water locked up in the snow destined to drain into the Poudre and South Platte rivers is 29 percent below the normal level for this time of year.
For Ackerman, that means a major hit to his 2013 cash flow because of the land he cant farm.
The revenue is going to be way down, he said. Thats why I started back in November trying to figure out which employees to let go.
Ackermans story is common among Northern Colorado farmers as they try to figure out how much of their land they can farm with a water shortage imminent.
Do we lay people off? Seaworth said. I just dont know.
Waverly farmer George Wallace said his bottom line wont be hurt quite as much by the drought as other farmers because he has other sources of income, but hes having to make tough decisions about what to plant and how to manage those crops.
It may be that I only take two cuttings of alfalfa hay, he said. Its fairly water intensive. I may allow it to go dormant after the second cutting.
One of the biggest reasons northern Larimer County farmers will be stuck with a water shortage this year is that Fort Collins isnt allowing them to rent its water because the citys water supply is taking a hit from both the drought and the effects of the High Park Fire.
Heres how water renting works: Fort Collins, which gets half of its water supply from the High Park Fire-ravaged Poudre River and half from the Colorado-Big Thompson Projects Horsetooth Reservoir, typically has the right to use more water than it consumes.
So, Fort Collins rents the right to use its excess Horsetooth Reservoir water to nearby farms while the city takes most of its water supply from the Poudre River. Renting water usually generates about $500,000 in revenue for the city, which will lose most of that income this year.
After the High Park Fire destroyed the quality of water flowing down the Poudre, the city started taking nearly its entire water supply from Horsetooth Reservoir. Last year, the city was able to take about the full amount of water it is allowed to take from the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, or C-BT.
The Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District will decide in April how much C-BT water Fort Collins will be allowed to receive this year. Because of the drought and the weak snowpack, Fort Collins is likely be allotted between 50-60 percent of its allowable share of water, Northern Water spokesman Brian Werner said.
That means there just isnt enough water for the city to rent to the nearly 125 farmers who normally rely on it, said Fort Collins water resources manager Donnie Dustin.
The city struck a deal with farmers to lessen their pain this year by giving them the water contaminated by High Park Fire runoff.
Were doing a swap this year, Dustin said.
The city will use the clean Horsetooth Reservoir water the farmers usually get, and the farmers will be given up to twice as much water from the ash and silt-laden Poudre River, which can cause problems for farmers irrigation systems.
Weve had an overwhelming response, Dustin said.
But thats still not enough to keep cropland green because there wont enough of the dirty water coming down the Poudre this year.
Theres just no snowpack, said Troy Seaworth, Richard Seaworths son. Were looking at half the water we usually get. All the water we get is from snowpack, and right now, we just dont have any.
Numerous questions about the upcoming spring and summer are facing farmers at the most critical time of the year for planning what crops to plant and if they can obtain affordable feed for their cattle.
With the snowpack down, are we going to be able to get precipitation in the spring? Carleton said. How hot are temperatures going to be? Right now, things are fairly serious.
Even if Northern Colorado has a wetter-than-normal spring, all that water wont be enough to make up for more than a year of drought, and it wont be enough moisture for the plains to weather the normal late-spring dry season, said Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken.
It takes more than one year to recover from a drought, he said, and the region is still in the midst of a severe one that is likely to continue.
If the rains dont come, it could be too much for Larimer Countys farmers to bear.
The reality is, were kind of becoming extinct, Richard Seaworth said. Were an endangered species, and this may be the silver bullet that takes us all out.


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January 18. 2013 12:22AM
Another View -- Jeanie Holt: A public health response to Newtown and gun violence
Like the rest of the nation, we at the New Hampshire Public Health Association are horrified by the deaths of school children and their caregivers in Newtown. We are reminded that gun violence occurs too frequently in our country, where more than 112 children under age 10 and 11,073 people of all ages die each year due to firearm homicides; more than twice that number die by suicide. Addressing gun violence and finding ways to assure public safety won't be simple. They will require a comprehensive public health approach and firm resolve over many years.
Change is possible, as past successes in addressing public health and safety have shown. Drunk driving is an example. Thirty years ago, drinking and driving were an accepted part of American culture and drunk drivers were responsible for about 60 percent of all traffic fatalities. By 2010, drunk drivers represented less than a third of traffic fatalities. How were we successful? We enacted laws to raise the drinking age and lower the legal blood alcohol content. We strengthened enforcement and penalties. We put strict advertising guidelines in place. We turned to "designated drivers" and adopted the attitude that "Friends don't let friends drive drunk." Over time, all of these policy and cultural changes helped lower alcohol-related fatalities.
It is time to apply the same comprehensive approach to reduce if not end the gun-related violence that we all agree is killing our families and friends and making us feel unsafe. We already know some of the contributing factors:
-- A cultural acceptance of violence in our society, with active promotion of it in entertainment and the news media;
-- Firearm policies that undermine public safety, including inconsistent and weak requirements for permitting and safety training, broad access to firearms including guns and magazines designed for military use, and laws allowing guns in public spaces such as bars, legislatures, parks and school campuses;
-- A popular interpretation of the Second Amendment as absolutely prohibiting any regulation of firearms;
-- The social stigma attached to mental illness and substance abuse coupled with a lack of effective prevention, treatment and support services;
-- A decline in funding for research to better understand the relationships between guns, mental health and violence, and establish evidence for addressing gun violence as a public health problem.
It's true that "guns don't kill people, people kill people," but people with guns can kill people - including themselves - more effectively. We know that states with low gun ownership rates and strong gun laws (New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts) have the lowest rates of firearm-related deaths, and that states with higher rates of gun ownership and weak gun laws (Louisiana, Wyoming, Mississippi) rank first in the nation for gun deaths.
We urge policymakers, gun owners, gun safety advocates and all citizens to join together to seek effective solutions to end gun violence. We need to recognize that guns are weapons, and unrestricted access to them undermines public safety. We also need to recognize that a tiny minority of people are responsible for the vast majority of gun violence, and so we must seek realistic ways to reduce access to firearms for those at risk of harming themselves or others. We must provide appropriate mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services. Finally, we need to recognize that the current violence and suffering are largely preventable. With sustained effort, we can shape our policies to better balance individual rights with our collective interest in public safety.
While making these and other changes will not be easy or quick, we have addressed difficult public health problems in the past and can do so again. We must make our communities safer and healthier for all of us.
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The corned beef and cabbage dinner will be served up at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 14 in the Fort auditorium, but you'll want to get there an hour earlier for the social hour at 5 p.m.
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City man popped doing 134 mph down I-293By TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 07. 2013 10:55PM
BEDFORD - A Manchester man clocked driving 134 mph on Interstate 293 was arrested Tuesday by New Hampshire State Police troopers who found drugs, cash and guns in his car, Lt. Chris Wagner said.
Wagner said Daniel Pirok, 34, was inebriated when police began a chase near the Mall of New Hampshire about 2 a.m. Thursday that didn't end until Pirok was in Bedford. He was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance.
Wagner said police obtained a search warrant and found a loaded handgun, cocaine, a "large sum of money," an AK-47 rifle and an AR-15 rifle.
He said Pirok had a permit to carry the handgun. He said Pirok had two high-capacity clips for the rifles. The clips were filled with bullets, but not loaded into the weapons, he said.
Wagner said police obtained a warrant to search Pirok's home, where police found scales, plastic bags, a small amount of cocaine, 30 unidentified pills and $6,000 in cash.
Pirok was being held Thursday at Valley Street jail in Manchester.


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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Friday court hearing is set on the latest effort to stop a Roswell plant from resuming domestic horse slaughter.
State District Judge Matthew Wilson in Santa Fe will hear New Mexico Attorney General Gary King's request for a temporary restraining order to block Valley Meat Co. from opening its doors in the coming days.
King's suit says Valley Meat stands to violate state laws related to food safety, water quality and unfair business practices.
An attorney for Valley Meat calls the lawsuit frivolous.
It's the latest in a series of legal challenges to the plant, which has been trying for nearly two years to open its doors.
Valley and a company in Missouri have won Department of Agriculture permits to become the first horse slaughterhouses to operate in the U.S. since 2007.


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State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, rolled out a proposal Monday to fundamentally alter the way Colorado funds education. It could be the opening of a critical battle over one of the most important things Colorado does.
It could also be a multi-faceted fight. Still in draft form, Johnston's proposal was immediately attacked by state Treasurer Walker Stapleton for not including reforms to the Public Employees Retirement Association. And all concerned are waiting for the state Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the current school funding system.
Johnston has a history of backing school reforms, including ending seniority-based job protection for teachers. Central to his thinking is the principle that real reforms and a better funding mechanism go hand in hand. With that, he would take a two-pronged approach: legislative reforms backed by a vote of the people for a tax increase to boost funding.
The idea is to get broad agreement on major changes rather than to squabble over piecemeal reforms one at a time. It would be Colorado's first major change to school funding in 20 years.
Getting it done could be tough, though. Colorado voters rejected a 2011 effort to raise taxes for education by a 2-1 margin - although some critics think that measure failed in part because it was limited.
Johnston is thinking bigger. "We see this as a once-in-a-generation chance to get this right," he said.
Among the changes Johnston would enact would be to eliminate the feature of the current system that keeps property tax rates low in the richest districts, while still giving them state money. It would also do away with cost-of-living payments to places such as Aspen and Telluride.
He would also shift more of burden of paying for schools back to local districts, which have historically been supportive of schools. Colorado used to fund schools with roughly one-third state money, but over time that reversed to where the state now supplies about two-thirds of the funds.
Johnston figures restoring the money recently cut from the state's school budget will take $750 million to $1.1 billion.
Stapleton's objection is that nothing in Johnston's plan speaks to PERA, which he says has a $26 billion unfunded liability. And with that the retirement fund is making school districts increase their contributions. The treasurer says he does not want to see "money that is supposed to go to our kids get used to subsidize an underfunded pension." That, he says, is what happened in California.
It is unclear whether Stapleton would kill Johnston's plan or if his concern for PERA's issues reflects an opportunity for an additional reform that would allow him to sign on to better school funding. Either way, the point deserves a look.
All of this will depend on what the state Supreme Court says. A lower court ruled that the present school funding system violates the state constitution's provision mandating a "thorough and uniform" education for every child. If that is upheld, the Legislature will have to enact reform.
The fate of the legislative component of Johnston's plan should play out in the coming weeks. However that turns out, it is heartening to see our lawmakers engaged with a topic clearly so important.


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The Laurie burden: Rights are not optional
October 22. 2013 8:15PM
County attorneys say it is too time consuming to make sure criminal defendants know when an officer who testifies against them has a credibility or brutality issue in his or her background. Funny, the Constitution does not say that a citizen's rights are to be secured if it's not too much trouble.
Prosecutors are required to disclose exculpatory evidence to criminal defendants. That evidence includes a testifying officer's past discipline for lying, stealing, police brutality or similar infractions that could call his testimony into question.
This has been the policy of the New Hampshire Attorney General's office since 2004, when then-Attorney General Peter Heed instructed county attorneys to inform local prosecutors when a testifying officer had such an issue, called a "Laurie" issue after Carl Laurie, who had his first-degree murder conviction overturned by the state Supreme Court because he was not told that the officer in his case had a credibility problem. It also is the law.
Last year legislators amended the statute governing police personnel files to include this sentence: "Exculpatory evidence in a police personnel file of a police officer who is serving as a witness in any criminal case shall be disclosed to the defendant."
But county attorneys are not doing that with consistency. "That's not a policy I've ever followed," Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi told our reporter Nancy West. Velardi says prosecutors at the district court level will have to call him and ask about each officer in each case. He knows that would be so burdensome that most prosecutors won't bother.
Disclosing this information is not optional. Attorney General Joe Foster needs to remind all county attorneys of this fact.


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Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is absolutely correct in his assessment that campaign finance reform in the state is not working well. In fact, as he put it, the effort to control money in politics has, failed just failed by its own terms.
The problem, though, extends well beyond Colorados borders and, as such, stands little chance of being rectified until the national campaign finance landscape changes something unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.
Colorado voters in 2002 approved an amendment limiting the amount individuals can contribute to candidates for office to $400. Meanwhile, in the infamous Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found that there can be unlimited contributions to political causes from individuals and corporations, provided those causes do not coordinate directly with candidates.
There is plenty of wiggle room in what coordinate means, but as was evident with the $6 billion spent leading up to the Nov. 6 election, the decision has dramatically increased the cost of running for office this years price tag was $700 million above the next most costly election. That total does not account for shadow money that is not required to be reported to the Federal Election Commission a number that is large, influential and, ultimately, unknowable.
With that as the national backdrop, it is a bit laughable to restrict contributions to candidates in Colorado. Throwing good money after bad by eliminating restrictions altogether is not necessarily any better a scenario, though. Ultimately, the issue must be addressed nationally so that massive, untraceable infusions of cash into the political process somehow can be curtailed. Limiting the power of individual donors while delivering carte blanche to corporate or interest group contributors does not positively influence elections, nor bring out the best in candidates.
The University of Denver convened a panel to consider two critical questions: To what degree, if any, should campaign finance be regulated? and If regulation is desirable, what form should it take? A third question might be, How would Colorado or Congress go about enacting such regulation? That, after all, is likely to be the highest hurdle any campaign finance reform would face.
In the meantime, finding ways to encourage individual participation in the political process defined in this case as contributing to candidates election bids is perhaps an important focus for Colorado lawmakers. Voters increasingly feel as though their voices, let alone votes, do not make a difference. Under the current system, it seems as though their dollars do not, either.
While limiting the influence of money in politics is a worthy and critical undertaking, doing so requires action at all levels of contribution so those who contribute in the light of day and their more shadowy counterparts are held to the same standards of transparency.


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July 30. 2013 10:08PM
Shot in the face in Manchester, he misses the Bronx
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
Victim to police: I was shot by gun I had sold; Mass. man arraigned in Manchester shooting
MANCHESTER — When an acquaintance ended up pointing a handgun at Terrence "Big" Jackson, the 20-year-old visitor to Manchester charged at his shooter and took a bullet in the face, but stayed alive, he said.
Jackson, who said his jaw was shattered in three places, was shot Friday morning in an apartment at the corner of Orange and Union streets. He spoke via telephone Tuesday from his bed at the Elliot Hospital.
"My life was in danger, that's all I knew," Jackson said. "If I didn't charge at him, he probably would have shot me in the head or chest."
Manchester police have said little about the case, other than it happened just before 6:30 a.m. Friday at an Orange Street residence. Police said they could not initially speak to Jackson because a breathing tube was in his throat.
Much of the early information about the shooting came from neighbors, who say the north downtown neighborhood is riddled with crime and drugs. They said they saw the bleeding, 300-pound Jackson stumble from his apartment before he collapsed.
Some said Jackson was shot when he opened the front door to his apartment early Friday.
But Jackson's account differs. He said he let his shooter into the apartment. Jackson said he met the man at a friend's house and he seemed like a "cool guy." He would not name him and urged a reporter to contact police. The New Hampshire Union Leader was unable Tuesday to reach a detective involved in the case.
Jackson said he and the unnamed man shared a few beers at times, and Jackson eventually ended up owing him a couple hundred dollars. Jackson said he repaid all but $20. Several weeks ago, a violent fight took place between the two over the money.
Jackson said he got the best of the man.
"He felt violated as a man," Jackson said.
But when the man showed up at his apartment, Jackson let him in.
"We started talking. Once I told him I got nothing for him, he started to get a little rowdy," Jackson said.
The man wouldn't let Jackson leave. A woman in the apartment left via a window, and in 20 minutes a ride appeared for the man. Another woman came by the apartment; she was sent away.
Then the man lifted the gun, which Jackson thinks was a .38-caliber handgun.
"He said, 'Take this.' Once he pointed the gun, I charged him," Jackson said.
Jackson said it's the second time he's been shot. About a year ago, he was shot in the stomach in the Bronx.
Jackson said he was in Manchester visiting a friend and was watching over his apartment while the friend was on vacation. Now he is in the hospital on a liquid diet and has to wait six weeks before he can eat normal food.
"I'm going to go back home (to the Bronx)," he said, "and probably never come back."


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The New York Post has an exclusive report detailing Dan Marino's supposed affair with a CBS employee.
The married gridiron great — a pregame analyst for CBS since 2003 who will be doing this Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast — sired a love child with a network underling and then paid her millions to keep quiet, sources have exclusively told The Post.
At the time, Donna Savattere was a 35-year-old production assistant at the CBS Sports studio in Manhattan. She and Marino began an affair and, in 2005, Savattere gave birth to Marino's daughter, Chloe. Marino came clean about the affair on Wednesday.
Marino yesterday admitted to his dalliance.
"This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then," he told The Post in a written statement. "We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved." [NY Post]


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Coraid is an Ethernet SAN vendor whose Coraid EtherDrive competes with vendors such as Network Appliance and EMC, says Carl Wright, VP of sales for the Redwood City, Calif., company. The company's Ethernet-based storage products are faster than similar storage products that use Fibre Channel technology and cheaper than the iSCSI interface that some other products use, he says.
In comparison, Arista Networks is an Ethernet infrastructure vendor that has built 10-gig racks and 24- and 48-port products and is introducing data center switching products, says Douglas Gourlay, VP of marketing for the Santa Clara, Calif., company. It has also brought out a modular platform and is introducing data center switching products, he says.
The advantage of merging the two companies' architectures is that users will be able to leverage an already-built Ethernet infrastructure, meaning that storage would be reduced to largely an operational expense, Gourlay says. In addition, the combination of the two companies' systems results in a level of performance that pushes 10Bytes per second--a speed that typically breaks users' infrastructure if it was simply a network intended to support e-mail, he says. The real-time requirements of storage, as well as its use of large file sizes, offers the potential to drive change.
"Coraid and Arista share a perspective on where data centers are heading--and it will be a highly virtualized, flexible, dynamic and low-unit-cost world," says Mark Peters, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group "Much of this has been delivered, as far as the compute platforms and applications go, but there's plenty of room for improvement in networking and storage. In this partnership, Coraid brings a new approach to simplified yet powerful storage, while Arista is the fast, fluid connectivity that meshes that together. Today, this combination represents a sneak preview into the sort of infrastructure that will be the main feature."


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Boom truck, remote-control helicopter to shoot exteriors. It's not known if DiCaprio will be here
Los Angeles County may not be too anxious to use Taft's Empty Correctional Facility but Hollywood apparently is.
The empty CCF is going to be used to shoot a couple of exterior scenes for an upcoming movie next week, and there could be more productions coming.
Chief of Police Ed Whiting told the Taft City Council Tuesday night that a producer for "Wolf of Wall Street" met with him to firm up a proposal to shoot at the CCF on Feb. 27, weather permitting.
Earlier in the day, he had been in Los Angeles where the L.A. County Board of Supervisors tabled – for the fifth time – a vote on using Taft's CCF.
Whiting said he didn't know at the time if Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of the movie, would be involved.
The chief said scenes would be shot using a remote-controlled helicopter and a boom truck. The production teams needs calm wind to use the remote-controlled helicopter, Whiting said.
During his talks for "Wolf of Wall Street," Whiting said, the producer expressed interest in possibly using the CCF for other movies, too.
"He said 'We've got some other movies that need prison scenes shot right away,' " Whiting said.
The "Wolf of Wall Street" will be the third production in Taft this month.
Shooting has wrapped up locally for "A Girl Walks at Home Alone in the Dark" and for a commercial for the Dodge Viper.


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March 28. 2013 10:09PM
Will this be the year for Wildcats?
By ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
Maxim Gaudreault (14) puts a shot on goaltender Casey DeSmith during UNH's NCAA hockey practice Thursday at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. (Thomas Roy/Union Leader)
MANCHESTER - Maybe, the University of New Hampshire hockey team hopes, the fifth time will be the charm.
Four times the school has played host to the NCAA Northeast Regional at the Verizon Wireless Arena and four times the Wildcats have watched another team win the thing and move on to the Frozen Four.
"We've had some good teams in the past and we've had some good regionals here," said coach Dick Umile on Thursday. "Maybe we didn't get quite the bounces that we needed whether it was against Boston University or it was against Notre Dame, but they competed hard. We like the venue and hopefully that will change this regional."
Denver, UMass Lowell and Wisconsin all plan to have their own say in that.
UMass Lowell, the No. 1 seed, and Wisconsin, the No. 4, get things going this afternoon at 4:30. No. 2 New Hampshire and No. 3 Denver are slated to begin at 8 p.m.
The winners play at 6:30 on Saturday for the regional title and a ticket to the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh on April 11-13.
The regional, considered by many to be the toughest of the four in the country, brings a mixed bag of contenders.
UMass Lowell and Wisconsin each had a great second half of the season and they are two of the hottest teams in the land, coming off impressive showings in winning their league tournaments.
UNH and Denver had super starts to the season and each lost early in its league tournament and has not played since March 17.
Denver and Wisconsin have 13 NCAA hockey championships between them. Denver has won seven and is the most recent team to win consecutive titles with triumphs in 2004 and 2005. The 2005 win included a 4-2 decision over UNH in the regional final in Amherst, Mass.
Neither UNH nor Lowell has won the NCAA Div. I title.
Lowell has never been to the Frozen Four and New Hampshire, which is in the tournament for the 11th time in the last 12 years, last advanced to the final round in 2003. After losing in the first round of the regional the first two years in Manchester in 2004 and 2007, the Wildcats won their first game and played in the regional final in 2009 and 2011.
Lowell and Wisconsin have not played each other since 1988 and the Badgers won then, 3-2, and hold a 7-1-1 edge in the series.
UNH and the Pioneers last played in Denver on Nov. 2. Just to add a little more intrigue, players from both sides are looking for a little revenge after that one.
The Pioneers want it as a team. They owned a 3-0 lead halfway through the first period, still led 4-2 going into the third and lost the game, 6-4.
"We ended up blowing it," said Pioneer junior forward and leading scorer Nick Shore.
"We didn't play the way you need to play when you have a three-goal and a two-goal lead," said Denver assistant coach David Lassonde, a native of Rochester who spent 17 years as an assistant at UNH. "We were a little too risky. But that's kind of the nature of the way we play. We're hoping we got that out of our system with the understanding that if we play that way at this time of the year, there will be no next night."
UNH goalie Casey DeSmith, a sophomore from Rochester, is looking for a little payback of his own.
He started the November game, but was pulled and relieved by junior Jeff Wyer after giving up the three goals on eight shots in just over nine minutes.
"I feel like I have something to prove after a rough game," DeSmith said.
Umile and DeSmith said the team is ready to go.
"I don't think we're coming into the game feeling like an underdog," DeSmith said. "I think we come into the game feeling confident. We know how we can play and we know why we've had success this year and we're just going to have to try to replicate it."
UNH officials hope that UMass Lowell and a pair of attractive matchups lead to a crowd of at least 8,000.
Denver coach George Gwozdecky is all for a rocking Verizon, even if it's full of fans cheering for another team.
"I think that any team that goes to the NCAA tournament wants to play in an atmosphere that's energized," he said. "We've played in neutral buildings, even last year in Green Bay. There's no atmosphere. I mean, it's awful. Whether it's UNH fans or a combination, I just think any athlete wants to play in a building where there's that national tournament atmosphere."


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After all the sweets, rich meals and over-indulgences of the past couple of weeks, I am ready for a little fasting.
But, as you probably know, that is difficult with kids, because they are always hungry.
We needed to get through some of the leftovers in the fridge from all of this Christmas eating. I had part of a cooked chicken and roasted vegetables, so I decided on pot pies after a long day of playing in the snow.
I made a quick sauce while Emma, 11, chopped the leftover meat and veggies. She added frozen peas and dried herbs then we combined that with the sauce.
Molly, 9, helped make dough, which is very easy, especially if you are OK with using hands rather than utensils for mixing.
Emma distributed the pot pie filling among six ramekins. Clay, 8, cut out six large circles of dough, large enough to hang over the edge of the ramekins to adhere the dough to the top of vessels.
After we painted the tops of the pot pies with a little egg wash, they went into the oven for about 20 minutes. We let them cool slightly after taking them out of the oven because they were extremely hot.
With a simple green salad, these pot pies make a perfect, comforting dinner. If you do not have leftovers like we did, use rotisserie chicken and saute some vegetables, because it is well worth the effort.
It is rare for all of my kids to like the same meal, but everyone finished off their pot pies, which pleased me immensely.
email@example.com. Margery Reed Poitras is a former professional chef who now cooks for her kids and occasionally for the more mature palate.


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Common Core education plan returns to Manchester stageBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 13. 2013 11:04PM
MANCHESTER — Common Core will once again take center stage in the Queen City, when the Board of School Committee is expected to take up the controversial education standards.
The school board is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall.
After some school board members publicly voiced concerns, the board's Curriculum and Instruction Committee voted Sept. 24 to send the Common Core state standards back to the full school board without a recommendation. No formal approval has been granted.
Approximately 50 people attended the September session, reiterating objections to the Common Core standards made at school board meetings over the summer.
The committee is being asked to sign off on curriculum guides developed during the summer break by city teachers to align teaching in the district with Common Core. School officials have said that Manchester is behind other districts in adopting the standards. State education officials have also indicated the city could be at risk for losing state and federal aid if the district does not agree to institute an assessment test derived from the standards.
Critics charge Common Core is an attempt by the Obama administration to impose a rigid educational system that relies on unsound principles and undermines local control. Supporters say its goal is to establish nationwide learning benchmarks and to prepare U.S. students to compete in the global economy.
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Debra Livingston said in August that $21 million in federal funding could be lost if the district didn't adopt Common Core.
Also on the agenda for Wednesday's session is a presentation on plans to audit and develop reading and language arts standards for students in kindergarten through grade five.
The cost of the audit is pegged at $28,500.
The plan calls for a total of 30 classroom teachers to audit the current K-5 math, reading and language arts standards. The group will meet once a month, for a total of five days from December to April, then meet after school for two hours on two days in April and May to finalize the revisions.
The cost to the district of using 30 substitutes per day for five days at $75 a day, plus two teachers running two, two-hour sessions at $25 an hour, comes to $14,250 for both reviews, for a total of $28,500.
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Lawrence Technological University alumna Nina Ahmad is one of 14 members of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders created by President Barack Obama in April.
Ahmad earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Lawrence Tech in 1983 and a PhD in biological chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.
Obama charged the new commission with working to improve the quality of life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) through increased participation in and access to federal programs. The commission members will advise the President on innovative ways to engage AAPIs across the country and to improve their health, education, environment and well-being.
Ahmad is co-owner and executive vice president of government affairs for JNA Capital, Inc., a real estate finance and development company based in Philadelphia that she helped found in 1994. She also serves as the administrator of Global City Regional Center, LLC.
From 1992 to 2005, Ahmad served as Bower Research Fellow and then held a joint assistant professorship at Wills Eye Hospital and at the Ophthalmology Department of Jefferson Medical College. Ahmad also served as director of molecular biology for the Research Department of Wills Eye Hospital.
In 2009, she was appointed chair of the Philadelphia Commission on Asian American Affairs. In 2011, Ahmad joined the Philadelphia Foundation's Board of Managers.


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Thanks Omen, hubby is really pushing hard for me to read it, in exchange he has agreed to read one book of my choosing. Still not sure which one I'll select for him since there are so many good ones. I know that the hard stuff like Dawkins is out for him, Dennet is a little better, and it can't be too deep or he'll tune out. I may not wish to read such negativism as his book but I may have to. I'm open to read the other side but not if it is a rally for attacks from them.
screwtape,Yes, he's read the bible, he's reading it again now. But he has his god-goggles on while doing it. When I ask him about the atrocities in the OT, he has a reason of why it was okay! He is definitely blinded by faith.You suggested "the interpreters bible." I assume it is a critic of the bible. Is that it's title? who is the author? Ruth Green's Born Again Skeptic Guide to the Bible is a really good critic of both OT and NT defining such things as the "hand under the thigh swear." I'm always on the lookout for another factual and good book.
Oh! Oh! You might enjoy the Devil in Dover!
Oh?! Do Tell! What is it about? Is it fiction of non-fiction? I take it that it is about the the Trial in Dover. Who's the author?
Parenting Beyond Belief on Raising Ethical Caring Kids without Religion by McGowan
OMFG!!!I just finished D'Souza's book, "What's so great about god." What drivel!!!! He is definitely full of himself catering to the christian side of things on every topic. He is nothing more that a Yes-Man to the christians. He is counting on his audience to not have read the references he used. He tries to BS the reading into thinking that he is sooo smart. He misquotes others left and right, using half-truths, and in many cases just flat out lying! He is stating his opinion as if it were truth and fact, opinion is not fact buddy. But hey, his book is/was on the best sellers list, he is writing what the religious want to read and hear. He is not in the business of truth, fact, or even reason but in the business fame and making money. The christians are a gullible lot and will buy into this kind of crap. My husband has!!!!! :'(


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University board freezes tuition for next two yearsBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
June 29. 2013 11:14PM
University System of New Hampshire students and their parents will not have to dig a little deeper for the next two years to pay tuition bills.
The system's board of trustees voted unanimously Friday to freeze tuition at current levels, which vary from campus to campus, after lawmakers agreed to boost state aid that was cut in half two years ago.
The tuition freeze is the first in 25 years. The past two years, in-state tuition rose 9 and 6 percent because of the cut in state aid.
"I applaud the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees for taking this important step to make higher education more affordable for our families and students," said Gov. Maggie Hassan, who as governor is a member of the board. "I know that the drastic cuts made in the last budget to our universities have made it more difficult to build a highly skilled work force and to keep New Hampshire's promising young people here in our state."
On Thursday, the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Community College System voted to freeze tuition across that system for the next two years.
Under the 2014-15 budget, which Hassan signed Friday, the University System of New Hampshire will receive $153 million over the biennium. Hassan had proposed the system receive $165 million, but lawmakers reduced her request. For the current biennium, which ends June 30, the university system received about $100 million.
"We are grateful for Gov. Maggie Hassan's early and strong support for public higher education in the Granite State," said Richard Galway, chairman of the USNH board. "Her commitment and leadership in restoring a majority of the previous Legislature's budget cuts to public higher education never wavered. We would also like to thank both the House and Senate for their support of moving towards full restoration of the USNH budget."
Along with the in-state tuition freeze, the restored state money will provide additional scholarships for the state's neediest and highest-achieving students. The tuition freeze does not affect fees or room and board.
Todd Leach, recently named chancellor of the university system and president of Granite State College, said every dollar of the additional state aid will go to New Hampshire students and families.
"We look forward to partnering with our elected officials to attract New Hampshire's most able students and prepare them for the state's work force," Leach said.
Said Hassan: "With the budget process now complete and funds for the university system substantially restored, freezing tuition for over 22,000 New Hampshire students will make a real difference for families and help us build a stronger work force that will attract innovative companies."
Leach's appointment
The USNH board of trustees voted unanimously to name Leach chancellor at its quarterly business meeting on Friday. Leach has been serving as interim chancellor since March 2, when former Chancellor Ed MacKay retired.
"Having watched Dr. Leach serve as interim chancellor, the board became convinced he was the best choice to lead the University System of New Hampshire,'' said Galway. "Dr. Leach demonstrated an incredible vision and work ethic. He's an innovator and will continue the great work being done for our state at the university system."
In addition to being president of Granite State College, Leach serves on the USNH board of trustees and is one of new Hampshire's commissioners of higher education. He is also a member of the boards of the New Hampshire College and University Council and the New Hampshire Forum on the Future. He has addressed many national and international conferences regarding the subjects of distance learning and professional education.
"Todd Leach brings to the chancellorship a keen understanding of education in the 21st century and the importance of a relevant education to a strong economy. As president of Granite State College, he has led it to stunning growth and national rankings. As interim chancellor of the entire university system, he has won respect from state leaders for his informed and personal approach on key issues facing USNH. We are fortunate that he will now continue that leadership as the full-time chancellor of the most important state asset," said Fred Kocher, president off New Hampshire's High Technology Council.
Under Leach's leadership, Granite State College has achieved the highest enrollment levels in its 40-year history and in 2013 celebrated its largest graduating class. He also pioneered the development of the college's first-ever master's level programming degree and created the Office of Graduate Studies. Most recently, U.S. News & World Report ranked Granite State College No. 27 in the nation for its online bachelor's programs.
Leach holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University and an MBA from Bentley University, and he has more than two decades of experience as an academic leader and faculty member. He earned an associate's degree at Mass. Bay Community College and a bachelor's degree from Worcester State College. The institutions each honored him, in 2011 and 2012, respectively, with Distinguished Alumni Awards.
"The University System of New Hampshire must be an integral part of the solution to our emerging work force challenges. I am honored to serve as chancellor during the significant time of change and look forward to working with the board, the presidents, policymakers, staff, business leaders and New Hampshire citizens to develop new partnerships amid the work force and college access challenges we face," Leach said.


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HILLSDALE ��Bowing as they walked through the door, students of the Anderson Institute of Tae Park Tae Kwon Do entered the gym Thursday night. After changing into their simple white uniforms with a Tae Park patch on the sleeves and their designated colored belts around their waists,�they began warming up for their nightly lesson. Students were put through their paces in preparation for Sunday�s testing for those looking to raise through the degrees of colored belts. Senior Master Brian Anderson said the art of Tae park Tae Kwon Do is about more than self-defense. �It is about discipline, self motivation and self confidence,� he said. It is respect that Anderson demands from all his students the minute they walk through the gym�doors. �Brian is a great instructor and great leader. It transfers over to the kids at home,� said Mike Jenkins, whose daughter Lauren has been taking lessons for the past year. Lauren. a third-grader, has advanced through the ranks and is currently a blue belt. She looks to move up after testing. She became involved after coming to a practice with a friend. �It has taught her honor, loyalty and discipline,� Jenkins said. Jenkins said learning the discipline is also good for Lauren for safety aspects later in life. He said he has seen a big change in Lauren�s attitude since beginning with instructor Anderson. Lauren was one of several students under the instruction of Anderson that competed at the Tae Park World Class Tae Kwon Do Championships at Grand Rapids Community College. She won a silver medal for form and a bronze for sparring. Marshall Burlew, 23, a graduate of Reading High School, came to Anderson for training as he looks to his future. Burlew is a student at Trine University�and wants�to pursue a career in criminal justice as a trooper with the Michigan State Police. After a year in the program, he is a green belt. �It has helped me to develop the self-defense skills for my future profession,� he said. �I am now capable of protecting myself.�
Burlew is a former athlete said it is also�a good way to keep that mind set. �I have also picked up a lot of discipline which will definitely help me in the future,� he said. Anderson has been an instructor for the last 37 years after beginning Tae Park Tae Kwon Do his freshman year at Hillsdale College. Anderson said becoming an instructor wasn�t something he was planning; rather, �it was something which was bestowed on him as a red belt. �I enjoy it though,� he said. Anderson became a black belt in 1999. He has graduated over 300 black belts over his years. He has taught at Hillsdale College since 1977. Four of Anderson�s students are currently being looked at by the United States Olympic Committee to represent the United States. Jared Moore, 11, a red belt, won a gold and a�bronze medal at the Michigan State Games earlier this summer. He also won two silvers at the championships. He said he enjoys taking lessons because he likes to figure out how to protect himself. For more information about the Anderson Institute of Tae Park Tae Kwon Do contact Anderson at 439-8656 or 437-2838. Students earning awards at the recent championships included white belts Kristen Carl (two golds), Emily Dahlberg (two golds), Holly Frankfurt (silver, gold), Grace Thomson (silver, gold), Bryan Trone (two golds), Jack Wiseman (two golds) and Katie Keane (two silvers); yellow belts Morgan Landel (gold, silver) and Paul Rahe (gold, silver); green belts Sam Beach (two silvers), Kiralyn Brakel (silver, gold), Caleb Eatough (silver, bronze), Peter Kalthoff (gold, bronze), Dominic Pestritto (gold, bronze), Chloe Stuchell (gold, silver) and Olivia Stuchell (gold, bronze); blue belts Lauren Jenkins (silver, bronze) and Garrett Rogers (gold); red belts Katherine Chandler (gold, silver), Mark Carscadden (two silvers), Logan Coy (two golds), Carson Loader (silver, bronze), Jared Moore (two silvers), Hanna Ritchey (silver) and Samuel Stoneburner (silver); black belts Nathaniel Birzer (silver, bronze), Ian Blodger (two bronze), Daniel Chandler (two bronze), Travis Korn (two silver), Gregory Moreno (silver), Alexi Noble (silver, bronze), Angelo Pestritto (Silver), Carmelina Pestritto (silver), Sabastian Pestritto (silver, bronze), Jacob Pitts (silver), Francesca Rahe (gold, silver), Tristen Strodtman (silver, bronze), Brian Vear (silver, gold) and Katherine Helmick (gold, silver).
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text: firstname.lastname@example.com � The Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities will recommend the City of Hillsdale contract to buy the output of two hydro electric dams across the Menominee River, the state line with Wisconsin."At $49 (a megawatt) this is a no brainer," HBPU Board Chairman Jack Bierl stated.HBPU manager Rick Rose said the price of 4.9 cents per kilowatt hour (Kwh) "is too cheap to pass up." With all costs included, HBPU currently pays about 8 cents per Kwh for power.Board member Craig Connor questioned the deal."It seems too good to be true," he said.Rose explained in 1995 North American Hydro purchased�nine generators on the two dams built in the 1920s to power paper mills."They are not big enough for the big players to mess with," he said.The deal offered to members of the Michigan South Central Power Agency gives them all the output of nearly 6 megawatts for 20 years at the fixed price. Because of varying water levels of the river, the dams should produce power about 60 percent of the time.North American Hydro will be responsible for all operations, maintenance and licenses.Rose pointed out where the power is put onto the Midwest Independent System Operators power grid prices are higher than where MSCPA takes power off the grid. The difference would be profit for the MSCPA members. HBPU would receive about 25 percent of the capacity from the purchase agreement.Rose also noted since hydro is renewable Hillsdale would receive state credit or could sell the REC�s (renewable energy credits) for its ownership.MSCPA is also looking at the possible�purchase of the output of another smaller hydro plant in the same area.


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Gabrielle Giffords urges a push for 'courage' in NH visitBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 05. 2013 8:46PM
MANCHESTER — Shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, gathered support Friday from some in law enforcement to pass a law requiring expanded background checks for gun sales.
"Stopping gun violence takes courage, the courage to do what's right, the courage of new ideas," Giffords, a former Arizona congresswoman shot in the head in 2011, said during a news conference at the Millyard Museum.
Among those standing behind the couple was Steven Maloney, president of the 168-member Manchester Patrolman's Association.
He said after the event that the association's board voted last week to support Giffords' organization, Americans for Responsible Solutions.
"We feel as a police patrolmen's association that background checks are something that will keep us safer, the community safer," Maloney said. "Most of us are gun owners, so we do believe in the Second Amendment."
Kelly, a retired astronaut, said he and his wife had hoped to meet in New Hampshire with U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H, who opposed a bill this spring to expand background checks for sales at gun shows and over the Internet, "but this is a complicated time of year for everybody, the Fourth of July."
Kelly said he talked with Ayotte about a week ago. "It's a private conversation, but it was a good conversation about where we were going and what we were doing," he said.
According to Ayotte spokesman Jeff Grappone, "Senator Ayotte had prior family plans, so she called Mark Kelly last week to talk."
As for Ayotte opposing the bill to expand background checks, Grappone said: "Senator Ayotte respects Congresswoman Giffords and her brave recovery. Based on her experience as a murder prosecutor, Senator Ayotte voted for legislation she believed would effectively keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill by fixing the current broken background check system, increasing prosecutions of gun-related crimes and improving our mental health system."
Outside the news conference, about a half-dozen people protested Giffords' appearance.
"I'd like to tell her to go home," said Dennis Hamel of Henniker. His sign read: "Register Lunatics, Not Guns."
Another protestor, Adam Orcutt of Concord, came with a handgun strapped to his hip and an AR-15 rifle slung over his shoulder. He also held a "Don't Tread on Me" flag.
"Defend liberty and freedom," Orcutt said.
"The type of background checks she wants requires registration," he said. "There's only two reasons for registration: to tax and take."
Kelly said the Senate bill expressly forbid setting up a registry.
During the news conference, Bill Barry, a police officer in Auburn, said he has seen what guns in the hands of criminals and the dangerously mental ill have done.
"We also know, all of us who are gun owners here, that expanding background checks doesn't limit our rights to own guns or use guns," Barry said.
Kelly said he visited a gun store and shot on a rifle range Friday as part of a North Country trip to the Whitefield area. He said he talked with a few people who disagreed on expanded background checks.
"You listen to the person first and you let them talk and you try to find some common ground," he said. "I think we both understand each other a little bit better. I would hope there'd be more of that in our nation's capital."
Kelly, asked about criticism that a victim of gun violence doesn't make that person an expert, said: "Gabby was a member of Congress before she was a victim of an assassination attempt and neither of us professes to be an authority on the subject. We're just two people, a lot like gun owners here in New Hampshire, but what I think we do add to the debate is we're both gun owners."
Giffords, who still has difficulty talking, urged people from all political parties to come together to help curb gun violence.
"We must never stop fighting. Fight. Fight. Fight. Be bold. Be courageous," she said. "The nation is counting on you."
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Here's a roundup of what the national media are saying about the Eagles this week:
Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com lists Jason Babin's contract as one of the best 11 in the NFL:
Criticize the Eagles and their Dream Team all you like, but everyone except for Nnamdi was signed to very cap-friendly and team-friendly deals. Defensive line coach Jim Washburn knew Babin well from his days at the Titans, and all this guy did was go out and challenge the NFL's single-season sack mark in his first year in Philly. The deal remains very cap-friendly and even in the event of injury, the cap prorations are set up so that the Eagles are protected and the team's cap is in great shape moving forward. Some of those moves from a year ago didn't work so well on the field, but this one certainly did (and Cullen Jenkins' deal is set up similarly as well, and Vince Young was only there for a year, and clearly trading Kevin Kolb made sense, too).
Russ Lande of The Sporting News is hearing good things about Eagles rookie Brandon Boykin:
Throughout organized team activities, Boykin displayed the ability to close fast on passes and the ball skills to break them up. Boykin, a former Georgia cornerback, has high-end speed to run with any receiver, which allows him to play at a high level despite his height. Sources tell us Boykin's performance so far has him entering training camp as the Eagles' primary kick returner and leading in a battle to be their nickel cornerback.
Excellent feature on Eagles undrafted free agent wide receiver Elvis Akpla by Les Carpenter of Yahoo Sports. Akpla got noticed with one great catch at Montana State and plans to become a doctor if football doesn't work out:
Can a highlight really make an NFL career? The Eagles didn't sign Akpla because of a highlight; they seemed to fall in love with him when they scouted him and called about his workouts. Several teams asked Akpla to interview and work out for them before the draft, but only Philadelphia sent Akpla a letter before the draft saying that if he wasn't picked, the Eagles would love to sign him.
Gary Horton of Scouts, Inc. lists Trent Cole and Babin as the No. 2 dynamic duo in the NFC, behind only 49ers linebackers Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman:
These guys really flourished in the Eagles' wide-9 defense in 2011, combining for a staggering 29 sacks from their edge rush positions. The Eagles' defense really stretches the offensive blockers, which leads to good matchups in space where they can simply out-quick the O-line. Both Cole and Babin are relentless rushers, with speed and quickness, and because they are part of a deep defensive-line rotation, they are able to stay fresh. They also can hold up against the run, making both edges of Philadelphia's defense strong.
Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com lists what each team needs to do to make the Super Bowl:
They will be in the Super Bowl if ... quarterback Mike Vick can play more like he did in 2010 and less like he did in 2011. One more if: if any player says the phrase "Dream Team" fine them $50,000.
Marc Sessler of NFL.com thinks linebacker Mychal Kendricks could shine as a rookie.
According to Brian McIntyre of NFL.com, the Eagles have $15,879,570 in cap space, sixth-most overall and most in the NFC.
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The Taft High varsity boys' tennis team beat the Arvin Bears, 8-1, on Wednesday and the McFarland Cougars, 9-0, on Tuesday. Taft's JV shut out Arvin, 9-0. McFarland did not field a JV team.
In the Arvin match, the Bear's No. 1 player, who was the second-best player in the league last year, Mario Cabaloza, beat Rafa Arreguin, 6-0, 6-2. It was all Taft after that. Chuy Gutierrez beat Julio Moreno, 6-3, 6-4. Matua Iakopo beat Nicho Hernandez, 6-2, 6-0. Cameron Bunch shut out Miguel Lopez, 6-0, 6-0. Cristo Miranda shut out Daniel Dominguez, 6-0, 6-0. And, Brayan Herrera shut out Erik Moreno, 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles, Iakopo and Bunch beat Cabaloza and Hernandez, 8-2, in a pro set. Herrera and Kyler Fields beat Moreno and Lopez, 8-2. And, Oscar Martinez and Pastor Magana skunked Ahmad Ikram and Rafael De La Cruz, 8-0.
Arvin dropped to 6-3 overall and 1-2 in the South Sequoia League.
In McFarland, Taft won every set, 6-0, 6-0, the first time that has happened in the past 15 seasons, coach Jim Carnal said.
With the wins, Taft improved to 8-1 overall and 3-0 in league. McFarland is 0-2 overall and 0-2 in the SSL.
In Taft's JV match against Arvin, Isaiah Sharp beat Christian Vargas, 8-0. Brian Ortega beat Jose Martinez, 8-2. Sam Kendrick beat Alex Watson, 8-2, Justin Covington beat Luis Aceves, 8-0. Phuc Nguyen beat Abel Fuentis, 8-0. Elver Zavala beat Brian Isias, 8-0.
Sharp and Sergio Robles beat Martinez and Watson, 8-0. Kendrick and Zavala beat Vargas and Oswaldo Rosales, 8-2. And, Kaleb Harlan and George Hartley beat Oscar Mendez and Johnathan Pinele, 8-0.


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Judge says video showed sadistic sideBy DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 07. 2013 10:59PM
MANCHESTER - Hillsborough County Superior Court North Judge Gillian Abramson said Ishmael Bangs' iPod video of his torturing a 15-year-old boy showed "a profound level of sadism."
On Thursday, Abramson sentenced Bangs - who pleaded guilty in mid-trial to kidnapping, first-degree assault, criminal threatening and witness-tampering - to a minimum of 17 years in prison.
Bangs and his co-defendant, Yvens Luclaise, 26, lured the teen to Bangs' apartment July 14, 2011, made him strip naked, burned him on the arms with a knife heated over a lighter, dripped hot melted rubber from a glove on his abdomen, stuffed paper up his nostrils and lighted it, glued his lips together and threatened him with a meat cleaver.
It was payback for being "a snitch," which required the return of shoplifted items to a mall store. Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Karen Gorham said Bangs told the teen "this is ruining my swag."
She said Bangs intended to make the victim "pay." On the video, she said, the victim looks at the camera and asks: "Is he trying to kill me?"
As the torture continued, she said: "The music would get louder and louder when (the victim) screamed." After repeatedly turning up the music, Bangs' eventual solution was to glue the victim's lips together to mute the screaming.
Gorham dismissed the defense report by a doctor who did a psychological evaluation of Bangs. Gorham said the doctor watched the torture video, but described it only as a "defendant engaged in negative behavior."
Defense attorney Roger Chadwick acknowledged the video "riles up our emotions," but sought to downplay the seriousness of the victim's injuries, saying he was discharged from the hospital after his lips were unglued.
"The only thing he walked away with were the burns," said Chadwick, who said an eight-year sentence was appropriate.
Abramson refused Chadwick's request to present a clip of the "Blood Diamonds" movie, to show what life was like in war-torn Sierra Leone, where Bangs and his mother and baby sister fled from Liberia. They came to the United States as refugees in June 2004.
Bangs' mother testified about her efforts to survive the Sierra Leone fighting, with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and 3-year-old Ishmael holding her hand as they sought to escape the violence. She said her son suffered a leg wound as they tried to make their way to safety.
"My son is not a bad person," she said in the testimony punctuated by tears and sobs. "Kids just make bad decisions."
Gorham questioned her about Bangs' problems in school, starting five months after his arrival in this country.
Gorham said there were 212 times that Bangs was cited for breaking rules, using vulgar language, punching holes in school bus seats, causing damage and other issues that brought his mother to school frequently as the school system sought to teach Bangs how to follow the rules.
Chadwick said what Bangs saw and experienced in Sierra Leone affected his behavior.
"He couldn't see through his filter that it was inappropriate," said Chadwick.
Bangs himself asked Abramson for "a second chance."
He said: "I don't think there's anybody more disappointed in me than myself ... I'd like to see my daughter grow up."
Abramson said that when people come to this country from places where violence is normal, we hold them to the same laws and behaviors that we expect of ourselves. Otherwise, she said, the United States would become like the countries the refugees flee.
Abramson told Bangs that in addition to the torture victim, he has hurt his mother, who had high hopes for him. "She is also your victim," said Abramson.
The torture victim and his family did not appear at the sentencing, sending a text message read by Gorham that said the family is moving on with their lives.
Bangs was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years for kidnapping, consecutive sentences of 3 1/2 to seven years on each of three criminal threatening charges, a concurrent 3 1/2 to seven years for witness tampering, and a consecutive 3 1/2 to 15 years for first degree assault. A six-month sentence on a probation violation is concurrent. Bangs, who has been held since his arrest, is given credit for 574 days of pre-trial credit.
Bangs' co-defendant, Luclaise, 26, was convicted a year ago and is serving a minimum of 10 1/2 years in prison for his part in the July 14, 2011, kidnap and torture.
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