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Said senior center Brendan Moore: "He can make some people miss, man. That guy, he can get a little sauce on people. It's pretty crazy if he gets a linebacker or a safety squared up. It's going to be hard to take him down."
Still, based on what Johnson has done in leading the Terps in rushing the past two seasons and what Harrison demonstrated early in his freshman year before being suspended, as well as in spurts last season, McFarland is going to have to be patient.
It is not something new to him.
DeMatha coach Elijah Brooks recalled Thursday how he told McFarland the same thing when he was coming out of middle school. At the time, the Stags had three Division I prospects at running back in seniors Taiwan Deal and Mark Allen, as well as Harrison, a sophomore.
"At the time, Anthony knew the obstacles he would face, but he chose DeMatha because it was the most realistic situation to what college is going to be," Brooks said. "He knew that he was going to be an All-American [in high school] and he was going to be courted by all the top universities around the country and no matter you go, they have talent."
It didn't faze McFarland, then or now.
Nor does he come into his first healthy college season big-headed.
Jalen Brooks never allowed his career as a college football player at Maryland to get in the way of his lifelong pursuit of traveling abroad. Brooks, a linebacker who finished his eligibility last season, is taking the same approach to a potential pro career.
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"Ever since I was a kid, I was used to playing against players just as good as me … so I never want people to think I'm coming in thinking I want to be that guy. I just want to make plays and help my team win football games," McFarland said. "It's one of the big reasons I came here."
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Sign swiping: Enough, already
March 10. 2013 5:21PM
It happens every election season in New Hampshire. It happens in races for every office from selectman to President. Someone removes political signs that belong to someone else. The Attorney General's Office needs to curb it.
The latest episode - caught on video, as so many are these days - comes from Candia, where an activist named Eric Shifflett caught Selectman Fred Kelley parked near some political signs while several belonging to Shifflett sat in Kelley's truck. Kelley admitted taking the signs and said he legally could because the signs were illegal.
The law, however, spells out exactly who has the authority to remove illegal signs. Selectmen are not on the list.
These juvenile shenanigans are penny ante stuff, as far as political misdeeds go. But in small, local races it is possible that sign swiping can affect the outcome.
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May 14. 2013 10:34PM
President Obama is right about one thing. The Benghazi affair is about politics. It was about the politics of ignoring and muddying the facts of the attack to protect his reelection chances last year; and now it is about the politics of deflecting responsibility for the lives lost and the lies told.
Ignoring or deflecting responsibility is the hallmark of this administration. The President now says he only learns of these blunders when he reads of them in the news. The IRS' Gestapo-like tactics in going after conservative groups? Obama is shocked.
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, Leonard Cohen held a press conference at the Canadian consulate in Los Angeles. Dapper in a dark suit, seeking support in his seat from a cane, the 82-year-old fielded questions. With a wit and candor and gentleness and wisdom that felt extraterrestrial, he spoke as though he'd traveled here from a civilization more advanced than our own to offer us a few gifts that could ensure the survival of our species. Near the end, there was a kind of apotheosis. A Japanese reporter asked Cohen about one of the lyrics from the new record's title song, "You Want It Darker," in which Cohen sing-speaks, "Hineni, hineni, I'm ready my Lord."
A Hebrew word that appears in the Old Testament, — הנני : "Here I am" — is said by Moses and Abraham and Isaiah when God appears to ask something of each of them. It's a declaration not of location but of disposition, of willingness. The reporter wanted to know from Cohen about the moment that inspired the line. "I don't really know the genesis, the origin," Cohen began. "That 'hineni,' that declaration of readiness no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul. We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are willing to serve. So, this is just a part of my nature, and I think everybody else's nature, to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only when the emergency becomes articulate that we can locate that willingness to serve."
The response was a kind of koan, and I should admit some reluctance in offering up my little parse of it here: The main point of sharing it now is so that it might find a home in you as it has in me. Even so, here's how I hear it: Asked about the inspiration for a particular line for a particular song, Cohen answered, instead, with the most persuasive explanation I've encountered of what artistic inspiration might actually involve. At critical moments, from our depths, out of an impulse not for glory, not for wealth, not for fame, not for power, but out of an appetite to serve — serve something larger than ourselves, however one might define it — the emergency inside us finally speaks. Like all emergencies, this one, which I understand Cohen to be saying is a crisis of feeling, could result in casualties. Instead, worded and heard, it becomes a moment when lives might be saved, starting with our own. In Cohen's vision of inspiration, these moments of articulation aren't instances of the artist-as-god swooping in from on high. Rather, they are offerings that arise from below, things given from one person experiencing a state of emergency to another, at the critical moment.
As a delivery device for moments of inner emergency, no art form can approach the immediacy of popular song. A novel cannot assault you while you wait in line at the supermarket; a painting cannot reach out and turn your head as you walk on by; a poem's feet cannot chase you down the street; a movie cannot screen itself. A song, though, can steal upon you in the dark, on a road, far from home, blow out your tires and leave you sobbing, in gratitude, at the wheel. All other art lives and dies in a medium that mandates we engage if we are to receive its gifts. Songs live in the air. Ears don't have lids that can keep the songs there.Continue reading the main story
At 67, Tom Waits, author of 20 albums and some 300 songs; at 46, Beck Hansen, author of 11 albums and more than 250 songs; at 29, Kendrick Lamar, author of six albums, about 130 songs and a complicatedly calculated number — something around 200 — of collaborative songs with other artists: These three American songwriters of three different generations — all, as it happens, natives of Los Angeles — are masters of engaging with our susceptibility to the power of the form, the mysterious way that a few minutes of recorded time can communicate, as nothing else can, with the force and depth and suddenness of a blow.
"These data have been around since the early '70s. We're not too sure of all the reasons, but we do know that when you're disliking something, you have a higher stress level. And believe it or not, the biochemistry of theear changes, and it makes you slightly more susceptible to hearing loss. It's called glutamate ototoxicity.
"Classical musicians not only play more hours a week than a rock 'n' roller, but many classical musicians play in an environment that is not ideal. Usually they have no choice over the selection of the music. Depending on the environment they're in, there may be some labor relations difficulties. You may turn around and complain to the trumpet section, and in some cases, it's not unheard of that the trumpet section may play louder just because they're pissed off at you. In a rock 'n' roll band, you usually play the music that you would like to play, so you're happy about it. So the whole labor relations issue and the stress that goes on in a classical venue is much much more dominant and poorer than in a rock 'n' roll environment."
On how he helps musicianscope with hearing loss
"Well, there are many, many things that you can do, and it all starts when they're 14 years old, when they're in the youth orchestras. And you educate them about hearing loss being very slow and gradual and painless. You educate them that a damaging or potentially damaging noise is not all that loud. For example, a dial tone on a telephone is 85 decibels. Nobody in their right mind would think that a dial tone was loud, but it is. It's loud enough such that if you listen to it long enough, it would cause a permanent hearing loss from that sound. Since 1988, there are flat hearing protectors — that is, ear plugs that a musician can use — where it treats the bass note — the left hand side of the piano keyboard — identically like right side of the piano keyboard — the treble notes — such that music still sounds like music. They can hear all the subtleties they need to hear, but it's taken from a damaging to a nondamaging level. In fact. I've done some work with a Canadian national youth orchestra for many, many years where we supply them with hearing protection."
This segment aired on April 30, 2018.
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Envisioning a more beautiful bypass
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
WINDHAM - With spring on the way, officials are planning ahead when it comes to keeping the town-owned island on the Route 111 bypass landscaped and maintained.
During the March 18 meeting of the Board of Selectmen, the question of who would be responsible for maintaining the landscaped byway was discussed in detail among board members.
During the recent budget process, the board agreed to meet with the town's existing contractors to figure out who would be responsible for the site's ongoing maintenance.
Town Administrator David Sullivan said he met with project officials earlier this month and during this week's meeting shared further details of the project's scope and anticipated bid process.
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"This year we're proposing the bypass be maintained four times per year," Sullivan said.
He said that in order to stay within the budget, the work should go to Boyden's Landscaping, a Pelham-based company that already does similar projects in town.
Sullivan said he expects the project to cost about $5,000 a year.
The budget allocates $16,000 for the sole purpose of landscaping various town-owned sites.
"We have to do something this year because that whole area looks horrible," Selectman Kathleen DiFruschia said of the bypass. "But I'd like to give (Boyden) the chance to remove the weeds and make the area look better."
Sullivan said this week's snowstorm would probably mean a later start for this year's beautifying, as April 1 was initially targeted as the project's starting point for the season.
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NH GOP star shines for national media after her candidacy greeted with 'sexist smear'By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
December 02. 2013 8:52PM
Republican congressional hopeful state Rep. Marilinda Garcia, R-Salem, received national conservative media attention Monday after a Democratic state lawmaker last week disparagingly compared her to reality television star Kim Kardashian.
Manchester Democratic Rep. Peter Sullivan's Twitter posts critical of the latest GOP 2nd District U.S. House candidate resulted in an opinion piece Monday titled "The War on Conservative Minorities" by columnist John Fund on National Review Online.
Shortly after Garcia announced her candidacy on Nov. 25, Sullivan posted on Twitter, referencing conservative state Reps. Al Baldasaro of Londonderry and William O'Brien of Mont Vernon, the former New Hampshire House speaker:
"She's Al Baldassaro (sic) in stiletto heels, a lightweight and O'Brien clone."
"Bill O'Brien + Kim Kardashian = Marilinda Garcia"
"She is a right-wing, homophobic, anti-worker shill for the Koch Brothers."
He later wrote, "After careful consideration, I want to apologize to Kim Kardashian for comparing her to a right-wing extremist like Marilinda Garcia."
The posts began a partisan war of words for a brief time on Twitter, and Garcia said in a statement, "To me, the most unfortunate byproducts of such personal attacks, negativity and vitriol are that they discourage good people from getting involved in politics, cause citizens to be disgusted at the political process, and tarnish the reputations of all elected officials just by virtue of association."
Fund's opinion piece Monday brought national attention to Garcia, a 30-year-old four-term state representative.
Garcia is a Boston native of Italian/Hispanic descent who has lived in Salem since childhood.
Fund wrote that what he called Sullivan's "sexist smear" of Garcia received "virtually no" media attention in New Hampshire, "much less nationally." He compared it to the large amount of coverage some media outlets gave to Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio taking a sip of water while delivering the GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union address last January.
"Progressives often reserve their deepest hostility for conservative minorities such as Garcia because they are a threat to the notion that minorities should only think and vote only like leftists," Fund wrote.
"As former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas, and former representative J. C. Watts can attest, people on the left reserve their harshest and most personal attacks for minorities who have the audacity to wander off the ideological plantation."
Sullivan, responding to the Fund piece, wrote on his Facebook page:
"I was just attacked by the National Review. My life is truly complete."
He wrote that Fund "is smitten with Miss Marilinda, and is butthurt that the mainstream media hasn't sufficiently hounded me."
Earlier Monday, Sullivan stood by his previous posts, writing on his Facebook page:
"Yeah, I said it, and I stand by it. The comparison is accurate. Garcia is a creepy pseudo-Christian right-wing extremist who gets a free pass because she doesn't look the part."


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GOFFSTOWN – Mountain View Middle School Principal Jim Hunt, openly criticized last fall for a lack of academic rigor and poor culture and climate in the regional middle school that houses about 890 students from Goffstown, New Boston and Dunbarton, has resigned effective today.
His resignation comes a day before Dunbarton School District's annual meeting on Saturday when residents will vote on whether to take steps to remove Dunbarton's students from Goffstown and send them to Bow instead. Such a move would cost Goffstown an estimated $2 million in annual revenue.
After school board members and parents from sending towns, including Dunbarton, complained about the middle school, the school district commissioned a study to identify and fix the problems. They hired Learning Innovations at West Ed of Woburn, Mass., at a cost of $35,500. Despite the expense, Hunt did not participate in the study.
SAU 19 Superintendent Stacy Buckley, who is also leaving for a new job in another school district, confirmed Hunt's resignation and said an interim principal will be put in place for the remainder of the school year, and that plans for Hunt's permanent replacement will begin immediately.
In a statement, Hunt, who did not participate in the West Ed study, said he was proud of his accomplishments at MVMS, notably the implementation of increased math rigor and the NEASC Accreditation in 2009.
School Board Chairman Philip Pancoast wished Hunt well. "We appreciated all that Mr. Hunt has done over the past seven years, and we wish him the best in his future," he said.
School Board member Keith Allard spoke on his own behalf regarding Hunt's departure.
"This is going to usher in an opportunity for change," he said.


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By Zach Berman
It has now been nearly a week since the Eagles coaching search officially commenced, and the week has been marked by rumors, spin, whirlwind flights, interviews, and a lot of waiting.
Here is a quick tip sheet to catch you up...
- Chip Kelly has been at the top, or near the top, the entire time, as The Inquirer reported on Tuesday. Kelly coached Thursday's Fiesta Bowl, and said after the game he would listen to overtures from the NFL. That set off a competition for Kelly's services between the Eagles and Browns -- or, better said, Jeffrey Lurie/Howie Roseman vs. Joe Banner.
The Browns looked like the front-runner after a Friday meeting. However, the Eagles still flew to Arizona on Saturday to meet with Kelly. Lunch turned into dinner, and a marathon meeting enhanced the Eagles chances of landing the innovative college coach. Now, it appears Kelly is choosing between the Eagles and staying with the Ducks. Of course, if the past 72 hours revealed anything, it's that coaching situations are fluid. But the Eagles are in considerably better position for their top choice than it once seemed.
- As interested as the Eagles are in Kelly, they were also interested in Penn State coach Bill O'Brien. The Eagles even traveled to Massachusetts to interview O'Brien while O'Brien was on vacation. However, O'Brien ultimately elected to stay with at Penn State, and milked a nice raise out in the process.
- Those two weren't the only college coaches that excited the Eagles. They also liked Syracuse's Doug Marrone, and were scheduled to meet with Marrone this weekend. That never took place, though, because Marrone reached a deal with the Buffalo Bills early Sunday morning.
- Although the college coaches received the bulk of attention, the Eagles also confirmed interviews with NFL coaches. The first group of coaches that the Eagles interviewed were Atlanta Falcons special teams coordinator Keith Armstrong (a Temple product) and defensive coordinator Mike Nolan. They also wanted to meet with offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, but he signed a contract extension to stay with the Falcons.
They are meeting Sunday with Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy, an intriguing candidate who has won with both Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning the past two seasons. Pay attention to McCoy if Kelly decides to stay at Oregon, although the Eagles might need to wait until the Broncos' postseason run concludes.
Speaking of concluded postseason runs, the Eagles have requested to meet with Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden. The Bengals lost on Saturday in the wild card round, but the Bengals stll have not granted permission to the Eagles. Gruden is the younger brother of former Eagles offensive coordinator Jon Gruden. He has impressed with his work with young Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton.
The Eagles will also have their eyes on two Sunday games. They were granted permission to meet next week with Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, a former Temple coach who was 9-3 as the Colts interim head coach this season. However, Arians is hospitalized for Sunday's game with nausea and headaches. Arians, 60, has worked with Andrew Luck this season and Ben Roethlisberger in recent seasons, and is the oldest coach the Eagles have considered.
They will also watch Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, an intriguing name who is well thought of in NFL circles. Bradley, 46, oversees the top scoring defense in the NFL. Seattle plays in Washington on Sunday, and his defense will be on display against Robert Griffin III. Besides Nolan, he is the only defensive coach the Eagles have considered.
- That's the state of the search for now. The object of the Eagles' affection has been Kelly, according to league sources, and it appears the Eagles have the best chance if Kelly elects to go to the NFL. Beyond Kelly, pay attention to McCoy and Bradley.
The key thing to understand with coaching search is the situation is very fluid, and interest in the coach does not necessarily mean the coach is interested. There are dynamics with every candidate, and those dynamics are even more complicated with a coordinator on a playoff team.
Keep following The Inquirer and philly.com for more information. Birds' Eye View will have daily looks at the status of the search, too.


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Ayotte 'more troubled' by Benghazi response after meeting with U.N. Ambassador Rice, CIABy JOHN DiSTASO
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November 27. 2012 9:46PM
U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte said Tuesday she was "more troubled" about the Obama administration's mixed explanations of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya after meeting with United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and acting CIA Director Mike Morell.
Ayotte met with the officials along with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. They had criticized Rice for saying five days after the Benghazi attack, which claimed four American lives, that it was a spontaneous reaction to an offensive video.
The three senators have promised to block Rice should she be nominated as secretary of state to succeed the outgoing Hillary Clinton. Under Senate rules, any senator can block a motion from reaching the Senate floor through a "hold."
Rice had sought the face-to-face meeting with the three senators, but apparently, it backfired.
After the meeting, freshman New Hampshire Republican Ayotte told reporters, "I want to say that I'm more troubled today knowing, having met with the acting director of the CIA and Ambassador Rice. Because it's certainly clear from the beginning that we knew that those with ties to al-Qaida were involved in the attack on the embassy. And clearly the impression that was given of the information given to the American people was wrong. In fact, Ambassador Rice said today, absolutely, it was wrong."
Ayotte also said, "I have many more questions that need to be answered."
In an interview, Ayotte told the New Hampshire Union Leader Rice "was asked to go on the (Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 16) by the White House and, during the initial part of our meeting, she said the story she had given about the protest and the video being connected was wrong information."
Ayotte said Rice told her that by Sept. 22, "the CIA had fully confirmed that there was no protest and no reaction to the video, so I'm surprised she didn't come out sooner and say it was wrong."
Ayotte said that while Rice has said she relied on unclassified talking points to assert that the attack was a demonstration related to the video, "that's actually not the case. As part of her responsibility, she receives daily intelligence briefings, including classified briefings it's been reported that the classified talking points said that individuals with ties to al-Qaida were involved in the attack.
"She told us she had already reviewed the classified briefings when she went on the air on Sept. 16," Ayotte said.
Ayotte said that while she is not pre-judging whether she would place a hold on Rice's nomination if she were nominated as secretary of state, "If we were in the position that we are today, with substantial questions unanswered, then I'd place a hold on it. If it were brought forward tomorrow, there would surely be a hold until we get some additional answers."
McCain said after the meeting, "We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get concerning evidence that was overwhelming leading up to the attack on the consulate."
Graham said, "The concerns I have today are greater than before, and we're not even close to getting the basic answers."
"Before anybody can make an intelligent decision about promoting someone involved in Benghazi, we need to do a lot more," Graham said. "To this date, we don't have the FBI interviews of the survivors conducted one or two days after the attack. We don't have the basic information about what was said the night of the attack."
Ayotte said, "As the ambassador to the United Nations, you go well beyond the unclassified talking points in your daily preparation and responsibility for that job, and that's troubling to me as well."
At the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney said Rice's critics have "focused on this for what appear to be political reasons when the issue that matters is what happened to those four Americans and who was responsible and what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again."


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A Superior Court judge granted Henderson County's request Monday to use an additional $150,326 in bond money toward fixing erosion problems at the defunct Seven Falls development in Etowah.
A Superior Court judge granted Henderson County's request Monday to use an additional $150,326 in bond money toward fixing erosion problems at the defunct Seven Falls development in Etowah.
Judge W. Erwin Spainhour approved an order allowing the county to use up to $410,686 from $6 million in bond proceeds set aside for installation of roads, water and sewer within Seven Falls.
In early May, another Superior Court judge had given the county permission to use up to $260,360 in bond proceeds to perform remediation work at the idled golfing community. Judge Zoro Guice's order required the county to return July 15 for a status update and to request more funding if necessary.
Since then, surveys by the county's consulting engineer, William Lapsley, expanded the scope of work necessary at Seven Falls. Lapsley told contractors at a meeting July 3 that he thought work to re-grade roads, clean out clogged sediment basins and install new silt traps and fences would run around $475,000.
On July 10, the county received a low bid of $346,881 from contractor Thunder Disaster Services Inc. of Waynesville. The company primarily does contract work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency following major disasters, County Attorney Russ Burrell told Spainhour.
"But in between major disasters, they do little disasters," Burrell said. "And when they want to buy a bid low, they can. We're not upset about this fact."
County commissioners are expected to approve the company's low bid Wednesday, which was $191,734 less than the next nearest bidder's, Miller Brothers Inc. Seven contractors bid on the site stabilization at Seven Falls, with an average bid of $839,158.
Besides $134,071 in additional funds for erosion fixes at Seven Falls, the county's request to Spainhour included $6,469 more in contingency funds and $8,031 more in engineering costs than originally proposed. Mapping fees in the amount of $13,500 did not change from the original motion in May.
Among its recent projects, Thunder Disaster Services lists on its website work such as tornado clean-up in Joplin, Mo., flood debris removal in North Dakota and remediation in the aftermath of 2011's Hurricane Irene in Virginia and North Carolina.
Normally, Burrell told Spainhour, "Henderson County's own soil and erosion program would permit this, but we can't permit ourselves." So instead, Burrell said the N.C. Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources will permit the site stabilization work, at a cost of $1,755.
Even though the construction work will be bonded, Burrell said roughly $27,700 in contingency is built into the project because of potential costs of maintaining sediment traps and basins until grass is established on bare soil.
"When the grass is growing, the erosion problem basically stops," Burrell said. "But if we have a season like we have where perhaps there's excess rain... Obviously, if the (contingency) money is not needed for that, it will not be spent and it will be available for the rest of this project as we go forward."
Developer Keith Vinson told Spainhour that his company, Seven Falls LLC, "100 percent concurs with what the county has put forth. We have worked with Mr. Burrell through the process and have given them the ability to access the needed property to accomplish this work. And we hope the court would approve this today so they can move forward."
After commissioners choose a contractor Wednesday, Burrell said he'll send out letters to all Seven Falls lot owners, advising them of upcoming construction.
With erosion hopefully under control by fall, Burrell said that buys the county some time to address the second part of their lawsuit against Seven Falls developers, lot owners and lien holders. He plans to give defendants in the case until late winter to persuade a court to follow whatever course of action they think will address infrastructure needs at Seven Falls.
Burrell said whatever is proposed must "to every reasonable extent, treat lot owners alike," obtain proper permitting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and N.C. DENR, and address the required infrastructure covered by the original bond: roads, water, sewer and other utilities promised to buyers by developers.
"If they persuade the court, great," Burrell said. "The county's perspective has never been to impose a solution on these folks. This is a chance for them to advocate their best solution before the court. If there's not one by the end of winter, we'll devise a plan (to spend $5.5 million in remaining bond proceeds) that probably no one will like."
A judge would have to sign off on whatever plan is proposed, whether the county's or property owners', Burrell said.
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"Dr Teo has now confirmed that this third party, AIM, is "fully-owned" by the PAP. In other words, the PAP-managed Town Councils saw it fit to sell away their ownership of the systems, developed with public funds, to a political party, which presumably could act in its own interests when exercising its rights to terminate the contracts". - Sylvia Lim, WP Statement
Professor Teo Ho Pin's 26 paragraph explanation does not address this conflict of interest issue which was the main point brought up by Sylvia Lim. I really you suggest you read his statement in full to understand what he is saying[Why the PAP town council entered into transaction with AIM]. I challenge you to find the logic in his statements that can explain that no conflict of interest has occurred.
In skirting the central issue, Teo Ho Pin's 26 paragraphs detailing PAP's Town Councils rationale and timeline for the sale really gives us an insight on how a PAP elite thinks and make decisions. I would like to share my thoughts as I run through his 26 paragraphs. As usual, here is a summary:
In 2003, PAP town councils wanted to "harmonise" their computer systems and jointly called an open tender for a computer system based on a common platform.
It is strange that these systems are stove-piped and harmonisation is done on hindsight. The head of PAP town councils didn't have the foresight to achieve cost savings and cost sharing by getting the town councils to work together?
NCS was chosen to provide this system from Aug 1, 2003 to Oct 31, 2010, with an option to extend the contract for one year.
In 2010, PAP town councils jointly appointed Deloitte and Touche Enterprise Risk Services (D&T) to advise on the review of the computer system.
After a comprehensive review, D&T identified various deficiencies and gaps in the system which was becoming "obsolete and unmaintainable".
D&T suggested the option of having a third party own the computer system, including the software, with the town councils paying a service fee for regular maintenance.
After serious consideration, the PAP town councils decided to call for a tender under which only the intellectual property in the old software would be sold. The ownership of the physical computer systems remained with the PAP town councils.
Teo H P says that shared ownership of IP (Intellectual Property) is "cumbersome". Why? The PAP Town Council has been sharing the IP for 7 years before they tried to sell it off.
According to Teo HP, D&T recommended that the "unmaintainable" software ownership be moved to a third party to own and "provide regular maintenance". Somehow AIM, a $2 company without a permanent office is able to maintain an "unmaintainable" software. It turned out AIM did this by signing up NCS to do the maintenance. The town councils engage NCS through AIM rather than directly and that is more efficient?
On June 30, 2010, PAP town councils advertised the tender in the Straits Times. Five companies collected the tender documents: CSC Technologies Services, Hutcabb Consulting, NCS, NEC Asia and Action Information Management (AIM).
On July 20, 2010, AIM submitted a bid which was the only one received by the town councils.
After assessing that AIM's proposal was in the PAP town councils' best interests, the tender was awarded to AIM.
Teo H P explained that the Town Council saved $8000 in the leaseback without the considering the loss of intellectual property with the potential of reuse in a new development. Teo does not tell us the cost of developing the original software. He does not tell us how much it pays consultants for what looks like trivial findings and simple decisions. ....but I'm still glad he took the trouble to write his 26 paragraphs. It tells us the PAP Town Councils are not very good at saving costs for residents and residents have to pay more and more each year for the same services. Reading the 26 paragraphs tells us cost cutting and keeping expenses low for residents does not seem feature in their thought processes.


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September 11. 2013 11:50PM
Mark Hayward's City Matters: No surprise, city columnist likes ManchVegas schools
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
A tight-skirted Pinkerton Academy has batted her education eyelashes at Hooksett, and the town is ready to abandon a solid, decades-long relationship with Manchester — the city that educates her high school students — for this upstart from Derry.
Wanting to prevent this break up, I visited Mayor Ted Gatsas and suggested he handle it the way most couples do who divorce — make them pay. Build a tollbooth, I said, on Bypass-28 just south of the Massabesic traffic circle, and get Hooksett kids on their way to Pinkerton.
He said the city can't do that legally. For four years, Gatsas said, he's been trying to convince Hooksett to stay with a good thing — Central and West high schools.
Well it appears the mayor's wooings haven't worked, so allow me.
At first glance Pinkerton Academy looks impressive. She has new and old brick buildings, spacious parking lots and an auditorium with impeccable acoustics. I think I'm at a community college.
But Hooksett is not just selecting a school, it's selecting a community partner.
Hooksett and Derry will be sharing football games and school concerts. Parents will mingle at PTO meetings and booster clubs. Hooksett teenagers will be dating, even falling in love and marrying, people from Derry.
So to be blunt, are you crazy, Hooksett? You are going to terminate a committed relationship with the city that is the business, social, sports and entertainment capital of New Hampshire? For Derry?
Before you dump Manchester, consider these side-by-side, totally objective comparisons of the two communities.
Getting there:
No highway runs through Derry. You have to get off the interstate and drive a few miles on crowded roads to reach the middle of town. And that's the easy way. Most Hooksett parents are going to schlep their kids along the endless Bypass 28 (perhaps through my toll booth?) to get to Pinkerton.
Manchester has three highways that bisect it: I-293 through the middle of the city, I-93 on the eastern end of town, and Route 101 along the southern underbelly. Now that's a city on the move.
Manchester has Gen. John Stark, the Revolutionary War hero who saved Massachusetts at Bunker Hill, beat back the British in Vermont and coined our state's motto: Live Free or Die.
Derry lays claim to Matthew Thornton, a doctor, judge and politician who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Derry's guy signed his name to a 1,328-word paper, which he didn't write, that declared himself free and independent. Stark fought — rather brilliantly — for that freedom. And he used four words to pretty much sum up all the fancy language Thornton put his name to.
(Both were born in portions of what was then known as Londonderry. Thornton's area of town eventually became Derry; he left at an early age and never came back. Stark left Londonderry and ended up living and dying in portions of the town of Derryfield that eventually became Manchester.)
High art:
America's most celebrated poet, Robert Frost, lived in Derry from 1900 to 1911 while teaching English at Pinkerton and raising chickens. His farm is a historical landmark. (You can find it on Rockingham Road, right across from the Frost Resident Cooperative mobile home park.) Frost moved away and eventually settled in Vermont. (Do I sense a trend here, people leaving Derry?)
Manchester has Grace Metalious, America's tawdry author of the 1950s. She grew up in Manchester, but wrote the then scandalous and best-selling "Peyton Place" at her new home in Gilmanton. Her later novels were based in a Manchester-like milltown. Of course her native city commemmorates Metalious in many ways — um, ahh, yeah. OK, forget about that.
Derry can't forget Robert Frost; Manchester won't remember Metalious.
The criminal mind:
Manchester has its share of grisly crime. And over the past two decades, two criminals come to mind. The murders by Vaclav Plch and Chris Bernard were the kind of gruesome, bloody killings (beheading, torture) that keep CSI teams busy for weeks.
Derry murderers are much neater. Pam Smart seduced a high school student to kill her husband in their Derry condo. Jay Brooks is a Derry native and millionaire who hired a hitman to off someone he had a grudge against.
Now that's outsourcing for you.
Derry was the boyhood home of Alan Shepard, the first American in space. (Now that's getting away from your hometown.) After his quick roundtrip, Shepard ended up settling in Houston and Pebble Beach, Calif.
Dean Kamen is the inventor who created insulin pumps, water purifiers and the totally overhyped Segway. He was born in Long Island and now lives in Bedford. But his signature endeavors, DEKA Research and FIRST, make their home in the Manchester millyard.
Manchester's downtown thrives on drugs — the legal kind that is. Downtown coffee shops are outnumbered only by restaurants, bars and nightclubs where alcohol flows. Squeezed among the coffee shops and bars are firms in the fields of law, finance and communication; a bank headquarters; music stores; cigar shops; jewelers and a few pawn shops.
Derry's downtown doesn't dispense drugs, it needs them. In particular, it needs a cure for its schizophrenia, because Derry downtown doesn't know what it wants to be. It has five guy-oriented barber shops within a five-minute walk. Its two-story feed store is within site of an Apple computer lounge. A Cumberland Farms in all its cinder-block beauty sits right on the main drag. There are down-home restaurants ($4.99 for an Angus burger, one advertises) and an American Legion post. The First Baptist Church is catty-corner from a D'Angelos. One block has six empty storefronts, but the biggest sign of economic distress is parking meters — there aren't any.
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He lives in Manchester, and his children appear happy at Central High School.


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Another View -- Dan Itse: Who will defend the NH Constitution if we do not?DAN ITSE
May 02. 2013 9:06PM
The authors of the Union Leader's April 16 editorial ("Gun rights") and Chuck Douglas' April 19 op-ed ("In NH, the attack of the constitutional illiterates") would have done well to read the article on the Honor Your Oath Rally printed in the April 14 Sunday News. That article was factual, it was based upon attending the rally and listening to the speakers. It included actual quotations; imagine that. The Union Leader editorial and Chuck Douglas' column criticizing the rally were not based upon actual knowledge, but what the writers wanted the readers to believe. They were asking the reader to believe things that simply aren't true.
The readers were led to believe that this was a Second Amendment rally; it was not. It was a rally calling the legislators to honor their oath of office. As a speaker, I did not mention the Second Amendment once. The readers were led to believe that the Constitution of Virginia is somehow relevant to our laws. However, we do not live in Virginia; this is New Hampshire. The laws of this state are restrained or empowered only by the constitution of this state and the Constitution for the United States.
The readers were led to believe that Jack Kimball and Rep. John Hikel somehow rely upon Part 1, Article 38 of the constitution of the State of New Hampshire to justify the lawsuit and the petitions. That simply isn't true. Douglas called Article 38 precatory, implying that it holds no actual power, but is only advisory.
Article 38 was originally the last Article in our Bill of Rights, the capstone, to tie it all together. It puts the people firmly in charge of enforcing the Constitution upon those in government. The first two phrases could be considered precatory, though I would suggest hortatory (another arcane word meaning an exhortation):
"A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the Constitution, and a constant adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry, frugality, and all the social virtues, are indispensably necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and good government; the people ought, therefore, to have a particular regard to all those principles in the choice of their officers and Representatives."
The people are called to know their constitution and to use it as the measure of whom they send to work for them in government. The last phrase is anything but advisory: "And they (the people) have a right to require of their lawgivers and magistrates, an exact and constant observance of them (those principles), in the formation and execution of the laws necessary for the good administration of government." This phrase means the people have the right to require the legislators, governor and bureaucrats, and judges to strictly obey the constitution.
The right to submit petitions is codified in Part 1, Article 32, which gives the people (individually or collectively) the right to petition the Legislature when the government injures them. Are the petitioners aggrieved by the passage of an unconstitutional law? The justification to enter the law suit is provided by federal statutes on conspiracy and racketeering.
The editorial and column take the position that because the law was considered constitutional when it was adopted in 1977, it must be constitutional now, making it a mere policy decision. As we stated at the rally, this ignores two substantive and relevant changes that have occurred in the interim.
In 1982, the people adopted Part 1, Article 2-a of the New Hampshire Constitution, which strengthens and makes explicit the people's right to defend their life, liberty and property with arms. In 2005, the Supreme Court of the United State, in Castle Rock v. Gonzalas, recognized that the police have no duty to protect any person against an assault. Specifically, absent a statute requiring that person be protected, and the funding to carry that statute into practice the police could not be required to protect a person from assault.
Part 1, Article 3 states that the Legislature is required to recognize that the failure to provide a protection promised in order to secure a surrender of a right makes the surrender void. Therefore, the Legislature must also recognize that a proposal to require a surrender of rights based upon a protection that cannot be provided for any reasonable cost, must be unconstitutional. This is especially true when the right to be surrendered is explicitly recognized.
Knowing that the police can never protect every person from assault all the time, the Legislature has no power to require any person to surrender their right of self-defense. While giving rhetorical lip service to "stand your ground," this paper's editorial and column writers undermine the very rights that justify it.
Dan Itse is a Republican state representative from Fremont.


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STOCKTON - The city today will ask the judge overseeing its bankruptcy to help navigate three lawsuits, including one filed by former Fire Chief Ron Hittle, who wishes to take his case to trial despite an obstacle created by Stockton's Chapter 9.
STOCKTON - The city today will ask the judge overseeing its bankruptcy to help navigate three lawsuits, including one filed by former Fire Chief Ron Hittle, who wishes to take his case to trial despite an obstacle created by Stockton's Chapter 9.
A man suing the city after befalling a serious motorcycle accident also wants his trial, while the city wishes to settle a third lawsuit by paying $55,000 to a man who accused police of needlessly roughing him up on a street corner notorious for drug sales.
The common thread in two of these cases is a provision of the federal bankruptcy code, which puts a halt to certain lawsuits, giving the debtor - in this case the city of Stockton - breathing space to restructure its finances.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein will hear these cases in his Sacramento courtroom. The hearing comes as Stockton and its major Wall Street creditors gear up for a trial early next year in a fight over the city's eligibility to seek Chapter 9 protection.
City officials have said they believe Stockton's well-planned bankruptcy should be dispensed within a year or two. Less optimistic voices fear the precedent-setting and complicated bankruptcy fight could drag out much longer.
Hittle's attorneys fear the latter and want the judge to lift a stay on his case.
"During that extensive delay, valuable documentary evidence and witness testimony ... will almost certainly be lost," Stockton attorney Mark Adams argues in court papers. Denying Hittle a trial will also deprive him of his constitutional right to a trial, Adams said.
Hittle, 49, early this year lost his fight in the San Joaquin County Superior Court to gain back his job, arguing City Manager Bob Deis didn't have the authority to fire him. The city accused Hittle of attending a Christian leadership conference on the city's time and going soft on discipline.
He next filed suit in federal court, seeking an unspecified amount of money for religious discrimination, retaliation and breach of contract. The city on June 28 filed Chapter 9, putting the suit on hold.
The city has already paid $14,446 to fight Hittle in federal court, and attorneys estimate it could cost up to $400,000, Stockton's lead bankruptcy attorney Marc Levinson said in court papers.
Like Hittle, Salvador Benavides, 26, wants the judge to lift a stay on his lawsuit. On April 12, 2011, Benavides was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle east along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at Sutter Street when the driver of a Toyota Camry turned in front of him.
The intersection - designed and maintained by the city - was known for being dangerous, his Oakland attorney, Lewis Van Blois, argued in court papers, which makes Stockton liable.
The injuries left Benavides with severe brain damage and the maturity of a 12-year-old child. His medical bills have so far risen to more than $750,000. He will need lifelong care but receives a $784 disability check each month, court papers say.
In a third case, the city wishes to settle a lawsuit and be done with it to save the city money. Creditors with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in Stockton's bankruptcy don't think that is fair to them.
In the settlement, Stockton wishes to pay Christopher Hallon $55,000, and he will agree to drop his suit. It stems from his arrest on Jan. 15, 2010, when two Stockton police officers stopped Hallon, then 29, and a friend while walking near Sutter and Church streets.
Police said Hallon fought them on the corner notorious for drug trafficking.
The officers used a baton and stun gun, drawing accusations of excessive use of force. Hallon, who maintains he was not armed or holding drugs, sued alleging battery, false arrest and the infliction of emotional distress.
The city agreed to settle, figuring it was the cheaper route, drawing complaints from the creditors, including National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, Assured Guaranty and Wells Fargo.
The creditors wish for the settlement first to be approved by the judge in court, where they can have their say.
"The capital market creditors are owed hundreds of millions of dollars by the city," attorneys for the creditors argue in court documents. "Yet the city seeks blanket authority to enter into settlements with ... creditors of its choosing outside the Chapter 9 process."
Contact reporter Scott Smith at (209) 546-8296. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/smithblog.


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STOCKTON - With funding stalled, San Joaquin County officials are looking at alternatives to expanding the county jail.
STOCKTON - With funding stalled, San Joaquin County officials are looking at alternatives to expanding the county jail.
"We absolutely do need jail beds," said Sheriff Steve Moore at a recent town hall meeting Thursday at University of the Pacific, where he and other law enforcement officials addressed public safety concerns.
Four years ago the county officials were told the county would receive the money for a facility that would double jail capacity. There is money to build a 1,280-bed facility but construction has been stalled by a lack of funding to operate the facility.
Moore said he plans to present some options to county supervisors on moving forward with the project.
"We are looking for alternatives," he said. And they may include a downsized or modified version of the original plan or the possible creation of a day reporting center for inmates released under supervision.
Moore said he is not making his ideas public until his report goes to county supervisors. Supervisors are expected to hear the report before the end of the year.
Officials say the expansion is needed more now than ever because realignment law AB109 - the new law that transferred responsibility of certain low-level felony offenders from state prisons to county jails in a move to relieve prison overcrowding - has led to a population explosion at the county jail.
Assistant Sheriff John Huber said there are at least three options to expansion with a possible fourth, including abandoning the entire idea.
"We kind of need the board to decide (whether) we move forward with the project," Huber said.
The county is to receive $80 million from the state for construction, and it has set aside $25 million of its own money for the expansion.
From law enforcement's prospective, the expansion is critical.
Realignment has added about 400 more inmates who otherwise would have been in state prison, and since the law went into effect one year ago, the jail population surpasses capacity of 1,411 on any given day compared with 1,200 or less before realignment.
The jail only is staffed to handle 1,213 inmates, Moore said.
Because of the drastic rise, more inmates are serving their time through alternative measures, such as electronic monitoring or work programs.
The state parolees released to county probation under realignment also are flooding the jail on technical violations, creating a revolving door. Some have been booked 11 times since October, 2011.
"That's once a month and they've all been on technical violations," Huber said.
An increased number of inmates - including the parolees - also are released to meet an existing court order that caps the jail population.
"Today, we released 30 inmates," Moore said at the town hall meeting.
Authorities' said anecdotal evidence shows criminals are taking advantage of the limitations in the local corrections system.
Assistant District Attorney Edward Busuttil said prosecutors have noticed once prison is taken off the table "a lot less defendants are inclined to plead guilty."
And as a result, more cases are going to trial as a result.
Busuttil supports a plan to add jail beds.
Douglass Wilhoit, Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce chief executive officer, said jail expansion has been talked about since he was a county supervisor in the late 1980s.
He expressed frustration over ongoing hurdles in realizing the project.
Wilhoit said voters rejected a local half-cent sales tax in 1989 that would have funded construction and jail operations through 2010.
Even though state lawmakers approved construction dollars for San Joaquin County in 2007, he said, "now that time has changed where there is no (operation) money."
"The jail is very important because we need to get the people off of the street," Wilhoit said. "If they're not going to state prison, there has to be a place for them to go."
Contact reporter Jennie Rodriguez-Moore at (209) 943-8564 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit her blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.


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Sen. Ayotte says nation's financial situation is direBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
April 04. 2013 9:04PM
WINDHAM - Addressing a small crowd of local business leaders, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, spoke of some tough days ahead while sharing the latest news from Washington.
Ayotte was the featured speaker during Thursday's luncheon hosted by the New England Council at the Castleton Conference Center in Windham.
During her half-hour speech, the Republican senator said the situation is dire, as the nation remains nearly $17 trillion in debt.
Emphasizing the need for a large fiscal deal to address the problem, Ayotte said she felt a solution would be hard to come by because "the two sides (Democrats and Republicans) are pretty far apart in terms of their vision for this country."
During a recent Senate budget exercise, Democrats passed a non-binding budget that Ayotte said she "simply couldn't support" as it included $1 trillion in tax increases.
"It wasn't in the parameters of what I could support," Ayotte added.
She voiced her distaste of sequestration and her disapproval of taxes on medical devices.
Ayotte said the proposed 2.3 percent tax on such devices was intended to help fund the Affordable Care Act, but ultimately "taxes innovation and entrepreneurship."
"Sequestration doesn't deal with mandatory spending, and overall huge parts of our spending are left off the table," she added.
The senator warned that if nothing changes, Social Security would be bankrupt by 2033, with Medicare facing bankruptcy as soon as 2024.
"It's simple," she said. "If we don't make responsible changes now, those programs aren't going to be what they are today. Many people rely on those programs and this future isn't all that far away."
The numbers just don't add up, Ayotte further noted. On average, an American family puts approximately $119,000 into the Medicare system over the course of their lifetime, and takes out $357,000.
One solution she's in favor of, Ayotte said, would be to raise the retirement age over time.
"There's a finite number of ideas we should be exploring," she added. "So for all of you who are business leaders, you need to share your opinions. It's my hope we get there sooner rather than later.
"We need to make sure America remains the best place to do business," Ayotte continued. "A big piece of this puzzle is in all of you. To get ourselves out of debt, we need to put ourselves on the right fiscal path and grow our economy."


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NH, get used to a world of more heightened securityBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 16. 2013 10:11PM
CONCORD - State police have increased their presence in and around the State House and nearby government buildings as a precautionary measure in response to the bombings in Boston and a threatening phone call received over the weekend.
"On Saturday, someone called in a threat to the State House that we received, along with Concord police," said Maj. Russell Conte of the New Hampshire State Police. "So we responded with an increased presence there, but thankfully nothing happened. Right now we are not connecting it with anything that happened in Boston yesterday (Monday)."
After a weekend of heightened security, state police were about to return to standard protocol at the State House on Monday when news of the Boston explosions broke. "After the bombings, we increased our presence again," Conte said.
A state police explosive ordnance unit conducted screenings at the State House and surrounding buildings on Monday, but turned up nothing of concern.
"This morning (Tuesday) we still had a few more people than usual just to make sure business got under way, keeping an eye on the grounds, making sure there was nothing suspicious."
Conte said visitors to the State House and government buildings may notice an increased police presence, but are not likely to be subject to searches of purses or backpacks. "We're not putting any emphasis on checking packages or anything like that right now," he said.
Gov. Maggie Hassan's spokesman, Marc Goldberg, said the governor is urging vigilance among New Hampshire residents. "As a precaution, New Hampshire's State Police have increased their presence at the State House and adjacent buildings, and our public safety officials are in touch with local communities to ensure open communication and to encourage vigilance and awareness," he said. "The governor continues to encourage all Granite Staters to say something if they see something suspicious and let their local law enforcement officials know as soon as possible."
Conte said many of the same rules that people have become accustomed to in airports should now apply on the street. Suspicious packages or abandoned automobiles should be reported immediately, he said.
Airport security
Brian O'Neill, deputy director at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, said he could not discuss any of the details regarding security.
"But I can tell you that the airport remains at the highest level of security, and all employees are ever-vigilant to report anything that looks suspicious."
A suspicious looking package triggered an evacuation at a portion of LaGuardia Airport in New York for less than a half-hour on Tuesday, while at Logan International in Boston, a U.S. Airways flight was remotely parked at the airfield while a bag on board was examined in "an abundance of caution," according to a Massport statement.
Large crowds
Security at events attracting large crowds is likely to be heightened, at least in the near future, according to Conte. "I would think, based on events in Boston, that police are going to be taking a close look at security for any large event in New Hampshire or anywhere in New England. Security is usually very tight at these events to begin with, but there is no doubt that it will be heightened. We'll take each one as it comes, but people can expect we will be very vigilant, looking at the crowds and planning for any situation where there are going to be people in large numbers."
Lt. Maureen Tessier, head of the community policing division in Manchester, also declined to provide specific details on increased security, not wanting to tip off would-be perpetrators.
"Like every other law enforcement agency in the country right now, we are sensitive to what's happened in Boston, and will take the necessary steps to ensure the safety of our community," she said. "Lines of communication between local, state and federal law enforcement are open; information is being shared; and we would make appropriate adjustments if information we received dictated that."


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Malawi is a small landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa, bordering Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. It covers an area of 118,500 km2 and has an estimated population of 14 million. The country is defined as low-income and ranks 171 out of 187 countries in the 2011 UNDP Human Development Index. Over 40 percent of the population live on less than US$1 per day (2010 Government of Malawi MDG Report). Landholdings are generally small, particularly in the densely populated south, leading to the over-use of marginally productive agricultural land, causing soil erosion and nutrient depletion. More than 40 percent of rural households cultivate less than half a hectare, mainly devoted to maize production.
Large parts of Malawi are expected to suffer from food insecurity this year. Agricultural production estimates for the 2012 harvest season show a decrease in maize production by as much as 40 percent in some areas, following poor onset and erratic distribution of rains in the country. Combined with the impact of high food prices, the Famine and Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET) suggests that a food emergency could start as early as July 2012 and last for 9 months. These problems, in combination with other structural causes of food insecurity in Malawi, have exacerbated vulnerability in rural and urban areas. Roughly one million people could require emergency assistance to meet basic food needs.
In April 2012, Joyce Banda became Malawi's first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa. In May 2012, the Malawi kwacha was devalued by 49 percent. The devaluation, coupled with soaring inflation of 12.4 percent (as of May 2012), has produced precipitous increases in the price of basic goods and services. A report from the Centre for Social Concern indicates that the cost of living in urban areas has increased by nearly 50 percent from January 2011 to January 2012. Retail prices for the staple, maize, were higher in March than last year and the 5-year average by 40 percent.
The stunting rate for children under 5 is 47 percent, while the wasting rate is 4 percent (Malawi Demographic Health Survey, 2010). An estimated 27,000 people in the country are infected with TB.
Since 1990, Malawi has hosted an average of 14,000 refugees, mainly from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Rwanda at Dzaleka refugee camp.
Malawi faces a host of food-related challenges. These include chronic food insecurity among poor and vulnerable households, some of them refugees; recurrence of natural disasters such as drought and floods; high cost of living; high prevalence of chronic malnutrition and widespread micronutrient deficiencies; high rates of dropping out, repetition and absenteeism among primary school children from food-insecure households; and low income for smallholder farmers due to poor agricultural market structures and policies.
Read more on WFP Malawi Operations Brief (2009).


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Garage fire battled in Nashua
January 30. 2013 12:51PM
NASHUA - Firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze Wednesday morning in a 1 1/2-story, two-bay detached garage at 24 Bolic St.
The fire broke out just before 10 a.m. and was reported by David Creed, the owner of the property. His home, about 20 feet from the garage, was not damaged.
Heavy flames were coming from the bays and had extended to a second-floor storage area when the first firefighters arrived on the scene.
Fire crews from the Lake Street station put the blaze out in about 25 minutes.
Dense fog made it difficult for the arriving firefighters to size up the blaze because the building was set back from the main road and because of various flammable liquids and vehicles stored inside, according to a news release. The scene also was icy due to the weather.
Flames compromised the floor joists, making the second floor unstable. The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the city's Fire Marshal's Office.


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